Name: US vs UK Cheeseburgers | Food Wars | Insider Food
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We've been comparing fast food cheeseburger chains from the U.S. and U.K. for years.

Today, we're ranking cheeseburgers from all the biggest chains to see which is the best in terms of taste and value.

Every cheeseburger is from a chain we featured on Food Wars.

We're trying classics you can find in both countries, as well as a few exclusives to the U.S. and U.K.

Let's start off by comparing the standard burgers in both countries.

These are 100% pure beef patties and American cheese.

In contrast to the U.S. cheeseburgers, the U.K. versions have cheddar cheese, as well as 100% British and Irish beef.

These classics we're reviewing are, of course, the cheeseburger, the double cheeseburger, the Big Mac, and the Quarter Pounder.

Here we have the cheeseburger, the double cheeseburger, the Big Mac, and the Quarter Pounder with cheese.

Now, of course, we're gonna be giving you the price, and we're gonna be giving you the weight.

But we feel to find the best deal or best bang for your buck, we'll determine every burger's cost per 100 grams.

And if you wanted the double cheeseburger, just look at this.

I know they're kind of fundamentally all the same ingredients, but I think ratios can play a big factor in the overall enjoyment of a food.

It's the burger that launched 1,000 ships.

It is better than the regular cheeseburger.

I've gone a bit crazy with the lettuce on this one.

Trying to bite from the less lettuce-y side.

They've rejigged the recipe in the UK recently.

I mean, this, out of all of them, to me, seems like the cheeseburger.

It looks like the Big Mac is the best value, being the lowest price for a cost per 100 grams.

So, thrifty-wise, I think I'm still gonna learn towards my boy, the Big Mac, because even with the Quarter Pounder with cheese, not the best value, even though cheeseburger-wise, the best taste.

But we are talking, you know, 78 cents here.

So the order we went through them in is actually the same order as the cost per 100 grams, starting with the cheapest and ending with the most expensive.

In 2023, McDonald's did $53.1 billion in sales, making it the number one fast food chain in the US by that metric.

Despite recent reports of the brand losing revenue.

In the UK, in 2022, McDonald's turned over a very respectable 1.6 billion pounds.

However, partly due to rising menu prices over the past couple of years, the chain is seeing a dip in customers.

They boast 100% beef patties, flame-grilled, and, once again, American cheese.

In both countries, you can get the standard cheeseburger, but their Whopper, it's a big sandwich, it is the most sold item at Burger King.

In the US, they sell about 2.1 billion of these every year.

That's an average of 275 every single hour.

Burger King isn't as popular when it comes to fast food here in the UK.

It ranks seventh in number of locations coming behind McDonald's, KFC, and places like Gregg's.

If Gregg's did a burger, it would be game over.

Once again, they use British and Irish beef.

The site doesn't specify which cheese they're using.

To me, just on an eye test, it looks a little bit more on the plasticky side, which leads me to think maybe it's an American cheese rather than just a straight cheddar.

Again, the smaller burger represents better value per 100 grams.

I just feel like this is unofficially for children.

I think it'd be really weird if an adult was like, oh, one cheeseburger, please.

You know, I think this is the first time in this show I've had McDonald's and Burger King right next to each other, and that is a noticeable difference, the flame grilled.

If I'm being honest, I have a couple of problems with the Whopper.

Firstly, tomatoes come as standard on a Whopper.

I don't think tomatoes, particularly fast food, cheap tomatoes, really have a place on a burger.

Also, there's something about the Whopper.

If you love the Whopper, I'm not coming for you personally.

I've always been like, oh, Burger King, but man, it's a tasty sandwich.

A little expensive though, but I'm certain this is not the most expensive burger we will be reviewing today.

There's one coming up later that may or may not involve five gentlemen.

These are all ground beef patties with American cheese again.

Here we have the Junior Bacon Cheeseburger, the Dave's Single, and the Baconator.

They did 12.3 billion in sales in 2023, and they're ranked the fifth biggest restaurant chain in America, and the second biggest burger one.

Wendy's came to the UK a while ago, but closed all its restaurants in 2001.

But it returned 20 years later with its first location being in Reading.

I had to drive there for the first Food Wars episode and bring back lots of cold food.

When we ordered today, we couldn't see the Junior Bacon Cheeseburger on the menu.

So instead, we just have the Dave's Single and the Baconator.

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