Name: US vs UK French Fries | Food Wars | Insider Food
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We're comparing French fries from all the biggest fast food chains.

To see which are best for taste and value.

McDonald's, you can get their iconic fries in four sizes.

First is the kid size, which only comes in a Happy Meal.

Then you have the small, the medium, and the large.

So what I'm gonna do now is weigh each of these fries and see which one gives us the best bang for our buck.

And this is the amount of fries that is the difference between a medium and a large.

So in this case, the U.K. large was actually worse value per 100 grams when compared to the medium.

If you get McDonald's fries in the U.K. that have sat out of the fryer for a few minutes, or if you try and deliver them to your home, for example, by the time you eat them, they're gonna be really cold, soggy, and sad.

Unlike the U.S., ours are fried in a mixture of rapeseed and sunflower oil.

We have the added ingredient, natural beef flavor, which also contains milk for some reason, so these are definitely not vegan.

In the U.K., the McDonald's fries are vegan because we're not adding any artificial beef flavoring.

Here's a clip of me dying while trying that during the fast food chemistry episode.

Burger King, you get your fries in four sizes, value or kids, small, medium, and large.

In the U.K., Burger King fries come in three sizes, small, regular, and large.

Fans of the show probably saw many years ago during our U.S. versus U.K.

Burger King episode, we found that these two sizes were essentially the same in weight, but not price.

Is that still the case, or did Burger King see our hard-hitting, award-winning journalism and decide, change must happen because we want to do right by our customers?

Ooh, this is gonna be so embarrassing if we catch them again, catch another Frygate.

I will say these do feel like they're different weights this time around.

This one definitely does feel a little bit heavier.

All right, so the value or the kids, whichever one this is, I'll just leave it in the bag.

So you would think, like, less fries in this one, right?

So right now, the difference between this pile and this pile is this.

See, this is why I don't eat at Burger King, because this is ridiculous.

These are like clinging to the bag more than any other fries.

I feel like when we did this before, there was almost no difference in the size of the bags, but maybe they have rectified that, because there is now a sizable overlap.

Now it's the value in the small are the same, and the value is bigger.

Burger King's the first place where it's been noticeably better value to get more fries.

All right, and the large, the biggest one.

Looks like over in the UK, they have more size difference, but our value was bigger than our small, so.

Burger King changed their fry recipe back in 2011.

The newer recipe has less sodium, a thicker texture, and a potato-based coating that's supposed to make it extra crunchy.

Kind of rag on them a little bit, but something about them kind of give me a headache.

I actually feel like Burger King is an underrated fast food fry.

I actually quite like the chips from Burger King.

They're a thicker cut fry when compared to something like a McDonald's, which means that you get like a softer, potato-y chew kind of in the middle.

All in all, BK fries, I do think are pretty good.

A while back, KFC discontinued their potato wedges, but you can still get the secret recipe fries.

They come in two sizes, the individual and the large.

In the UK, they come in two sizes, regular and large.

Fries are actually the go-to side at KFC.

We don't have mashed potato like you guys do in America.

KFC fries in the UK have had a couple of reworks in the past few years.

They had a reputation as being some of the worst fast food fries, so they've actually taken that into account and tried to make adjustments.

They're supposedly now seasoned with the same 11 herbs and spices that the chicken is.

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