US vs UK Movie Theater Food (AMC vs Odeon) | Food Wars | Insider Food

Harry: From calorie counts to portion sizes, we wanted to discover all the differences between the

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s in the UK and the US. This is "Food Wars." It might seem like Odeon and AMC are different chains. However, they are actually from the same company, so let's compare. Popcorn at a UK Odeon cinema comes in four sizes. There are children, regular, medium and large. Classic popcorn at a US AMC comes in three sizes: small, regular, large, and of course if you want to get a grab-and-go option, they have the AMC mega bag.

Boom! That's three times the size of the standard large model. Harry: Let's weigh a large salted popcorn in both countries to see which is larger. So, I think our large salted popcorn weighs 204 grams, which is about 30 grams more than we were supposed to receive. Joe: 194 grams of popcorn. "Avatar." I haven't seen it. And for my own curiosity, well, I'm going to weigh it in my bag. I don't know, it only subtracts like 2 grams. How much could the bag weigh? This. 620 grams. Drinks at an AMC

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in the US come in three sizes. Small, 20 fluid ounces; regular, 32 fluid ounces; and a large, 44 fluid ounce "Avatar." Harry: Now, surprisingly, our drinks in the UK are, for once, as big as those in the US.

I think cinemas are the only place in the UK where you can have a drink of this size. The idea of ​​getting one of these in a fast

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place in the UK is absolutely unheard of. Let's measure big in both countries to see if we are getting as much as we were promised. Joe: Wow, that's pretty close. What was it supposed to be? 44? By my calculations, they've pretty much nailed the 40-ounce line, so you may not get as much as they promised you. Admittedly, we lost a little bit in transit and also a little bit of splatter on the table, so maybe you could round it up generously to 41, 42, which, honestly, even if it's a little less than what you're promised, I think we can forgive them .

We certainly can't blame James Cameron for this. We certainly can't blame the Na'vi of Pandora. We also have frozen drinks, which are Tango's iconic ice explosions. We have them in three sizes, regular, medium and large. Tango ice explosions are amazing. They have something of a cult following in the UK. I think moviegoers here really love them. You can generally get them in two flavors, which are red and blue. I don't know exactly what they're supposed to taste like. Anyway, it's some kind of spicy food coloring. They're not supposed to look like that. As you can probably see, these have been on display under the studio lights for a while.

This is how they are supposed to look. You can also get frozen drinks at AMC in the US, mostly in Icee form, and they usually come in three sizes, but not at the AMC we went to. They only had regular. It should be small, 20 fluid ounces. The regular Na'vi-colored drink from "Avatar: Way of the Water" here is 32 fluid ounces, and of course the large one is 44 fluid ounces. I think it's exactly the same size as the soda we just drank. I would like to ask, I don't know how difficult it will be, if Yuelei and the rest of the post-production team can make it look like I'm in the underwater "Avatar." With me just swimming with the Na'vi?

Good? Wow, I'm in the movie! How difficult could it be? Can you do it in 3D too? That's pretty easy, right? Can you have it ready by the end of the day Friday? Yuelei: 4DX? when I'm swimming with Jake Sully. Here you'll find everything you'll find in a UK Odeon cinema that you won't find in an AMC. Here you will find everything that in an AMC in the USA you will not find in an Odeon. We will start with the classic, which is popcorn. In the UK, it comes in two flavours, savory or sweet. You can also ask them to mix them for you.

Salty and sweet, excellent contrast. You won't find buttered popcorn anywhere on the UK menu. The fact that they are putting melted butter on the popcorn is extremely strange to us. Stop doing that. In America, our popcorn obviously comes plain or salted, but we also have buttered popcorn, and yes, Harry, we like to put melted butter on our popcorn. Two things I want to know. First, it's almost always referred to as "butter-flavored dressing," presumably because they can't legally call it butter, or maybe it just contains other crap and isn't officially butter. In America there are some people who are crazy about butter.

AMC now has a thing (I don't know if this is to go or you get it at the theater) where they give you, no joke, this butter thing on the side for you to take to the theater with you, because there's a lot of it. butter flavored drama in the US, AMC said, take this and make it yourself. Oh. Wow, look at that. You see it? You see it? Oh yeah. I want you to pay attention. Now imagine I'm eating this in the dark. "Ooh, I really like my butter. Mwah." Watch this! Look at my hands!

This is the dirtiest snack in the world. I never put butter on popcorn. This is so disgusting. Yeah, it doesn't really taste much like butter. It has a buttery flavor. Yes, it is definitely flavored butter. That's not melted butter. You can also get candy as a topping for your popcorn in the UK. This comes in the form of Cadbury's Dairy Milk buttons such as Smarties, Kit Kats and Rolos. Speaking of popcorn, you can also get cheddar cheese popcorn, I mean, I don't know if this isn't in your theaters or it's really popular in the UK, but it's popcorn mixed with cheese powder.

And also caramel corn, which is popcorn, you guessed it, wrapped in caramel. There are a variety of hot food options at a UK Odeon cinema, including: Firstly, we have the iconic cinema hot dog. Now, obviously you guys have hot dogs in America. However, it is unique because ours is a pork sausage while theirs, I believe, is beef. That seems very sad. Oh no. Oh, hot dog. Hurrah! It's a pretty good sized hot dog, right? Movie theater hot dogs, for some reason, are really good. Did you ever notice that? Movie theaters and ball games, that's where the hot dog is the best.

Next we have two pizza options at Odeon cinemas in the UK. You can get a cheese pizza or a pepperoni pizza. I haven't even opened them and I'm losing my mind because that's how they packaged and presented them to us. What's that? Um, I'm a little speechless. Maybe I'm giving them too much credit here. I think maybe if this was fresh out of the oven, which it obviously isn't, it might actually be okay. But there's a reason pizza boxes exist, for example. Maybe I'll look into that in the future. I imagine any Italian viewer watching this and crying.

You can also get flatbread pizzas. The AMC I went to didn't currently have them because I went there right when they opened. They weren't ready yet. But you can also order a four-cheese pizza, a pepperoni pizza, or a supreme flatbread pizza. You can also get curly fries. Now we are talking. Curly fries, right? Hmm. The impossible nuggets. Oh yeah. For some reason I chose the marinara. Let's do it. Who doesn't want to eat fried fake meat and dip it in red sauce in a dark theater? No. Oh wow. Those are really bad. We have pretzel bites at our AMC.

You can get them unsalted with cheese; salty with cheese, which I bought; garlic parmesan with cheese; everything bagel with cheese; and cinnamon sugar and glaze. They don't taste bad, but they are very chewy. You'll want them fresh out of the oven. Or the microwave. You can also get a Bavarian legend pretzel. The movie theater we went to didn't have them at the time of filming this. At an Odeon in the UK, you can get triple-dip nachos, which are tortilla chips that come with guacamole, salsa and, I think, cheese sauce. That's how it came. What we have is just a bag of tortilla chips and a box labeled "salsas." We have the cheese sauce.

We have a very vibrant guacamole, like someone mixed up Shrek. We have some tomato sauce. Jalapenos. I think maybe it was onion and chive sauce. I feel like I have to try to put them together somehow. I want to do it in a way that I hope you can come along with me on the journey, because it could be interesting. I want to try to put some layers in there if possible. Oh God. Oh no! OK. I thought it all came out as one brick, but there were actually two pots in there. Thank God. Continue. Yes, go.

Look at that cheese. Good, now let's accompany it with a little sauce. Personally I think this has gone sensationally well. This is, this is nachos right here. Some people might say, "Harry, do you want to warm them up?" I'd say, "No. You don't need it. Perfect the way they are." Man, look at the color of this. No. My mom liked nachos. She's not dead, I just haven't been to the movies with her in a while. Yeah? Yeah? León: They actually don't look bad. They don't look terrible, do they? Absolutely embarrassing. I don't know what's going on on that island of yours, but your nachos, thumbs down.

I'd say it's pretty generous with the fries. Not bad, right? These are UK level nachos right here. I don't know who says, "Oh yeah, perfect. This is exactly what I think nachos are." Did they make a mistake? Am I seeing this right? Did they give us some marinara sauce? I guess this marinara was supposed to be sauce. You can imagine? Because you just get this and you go to the cinema, you're in the dark and you're watching a movie. "Oh, man. Man, this salsa sure doesn't have many chunks. Oh, well. Man, I can't wait to eat these nachos.

Oh, I'm really worried about Tree of Life, 'Avatar 2.'" No, fuck. What the hell?! It's so bad that it's strangely attractive. Makes sense? This one is terrible. I'm sorry. I'm going to do everyone a favor and throw this away. Gross! Then we move to the sides. We have a couple of secondary options in the UK that you won't find in the US. Unfortunately, one of them we couldn't find today, which are the crispier fries, which are like very thin slices of potato that are fried. However, we could get these chicken strips, which are actually pretty good.

Technically, the side menu also includes the sauces, so it includes basically everything you would normally find on nachos, including the jalapeño garnish, the salsa, the cheese, the guacamole, and this cream cheese, garlic and herbs. dressing. We have a packaged popcorn option if you don't like the fresh stuff, which is this: Butterkist Caramel Popcorn. I think this is more similar to what you might expect from caramel corn in the US. It's basically popcorn, but with an actual coating of this sugary, syrupy substance. Now, AMC has plenty of snack options that you won't find in the UK, starting with these, known as 'lifestyle snacks'.

I guess they are meant to be a little healthier. Starting here, you have Planters Sweet and Salty Trail Mix. Grass-fed beef jerky, courtesy of Country Archer. I don't know about this. Rhythm Organic White Cheddar Cauliflower Bites. No, thanks. Free chocolate chip cookies at home. You only have 3 grams of sugar for these sweet and smart watermelon bites. Sweet and spicy mango supersnacks. Dried mangoes. And SkinnyDipped Dark Chocolate Almonds. In addition to popcorn, we also have some sweets and chocolates, which I will talk about now. Wine gums. Do they have wine gum in the US? I really like these.

They are a little sweet like those of an older person. I still don't know exactly why they are called wine gums, because I don't think they contain wine. Above the gummies, they will have the name of a wine printed on them and they are different colors. The flavors change depending on the color. Red is always the best, of course. A couple of Cadbury Dairy Milk options. We've got some Cadbury Caramel Dairy Milk Snacks, Giant Dairy Milk Buttons, and Galaxy Minstrels. So in the UK we have Dairy Milk, which is owned by Cadbury, and then Mars Corporation has its own brand of milk chocolate, which is called Galaxy.

And this is basically Galaxy chocolate with a hard shell on the outside. Honestly, these are really good. Cadbury Twist Bites. It's Cadbury Dairy Milk chocolate and it has a sort of strange, swirly texture inside, so it lends itself to being a fairly flaky, almost melt-in-your-mouth chocolate bar. They are pretty good. Aero Mint Bubbles. It has this weird airy texture in the middle, which is basically designed to melt in your mouth when you eat it. Milk bar buttons! I loved Milkybar when he was a kid. It's basically white chocolate, which I loved when I was younger. I think since my palate has evolved as I've gotten older, I don't really tolerate white chocolate like I used to, but these are great.

A little nostalgia. And the last one we found today was Maltesers. I love a Malteser. To be honest,I still don't fully understand what they are. What is the middle part? It's not honeycomb, but it has a crunchy, almost honeycomb texture. Now, it's not a packaged option, but it is a sweet option. We have pick and mix glasses available in the UK. I think picking and mixing is a really iconic British thing. It's basically this notion of: you go to a candy store, or in this case a movie theater, and they have a lot of different jars or tubs of individual candy, and you can walk in with a spoon, take some out, put them in, and create your own mix of them. .

So if there's one in particular that you love, you can have a cup of that, or you can go for some variety, mix it up a little bit, like we've done today. The problem is that when you're layering it, you end up putting one layer at a time. I haven't put this together very well. I couldn't get everything. I just picked up a bunch of stuff that I thought was pretty good. I also think some classics here. Milk failures. Junior Mints, the big box. Mini giggles. Hey. Bowling game. My teeth are already starting to hurt. Butterfingers unwrapped minis.

And the Sour Patch kids. And also the Airhead extremes. This, of course, is just the tip of the iceberg. You can get tons of candy at AMC. These many. You can also order a Ben & Jerry's milkshake. What they do is they allow you to choose three scoops of ice cream of your choice and then pretty much just blend them together to create a shake. Also in the United States we have ice cream that you can't get in the United Kingdom. You can get a Dibs Crunch, a Häagen-Dazs Almond Bar, a Nestlé Toll House Ice Cream Sandwich, and a Nestlé's Drumstick.

The other soda exclusives are actually more geared toward kids. We have some fruit shoots, which come like this one, which is apple and blackcurrant, or like orange. It's just some kind of bottle gourd. And for Americans who may not know what pumpkin is, does cordial help you at all? You get a concentrated juice and then you dilute it with water to basically produce this. As far as I'm concerned, the highlight in terms of drinks are these, which are the alcoholic options. You can get alcohol in UK cinemas. We have a few of the things on offer today, and these include this Rekorderlig Strawberry Lime Cider.

We have a bottle of Heineken beer. We have a few wine options. I have a little bottle of red here. It's really cute. It's literally like they took a full size bottle of red and crushed it and shrunk it down. You can also get white wine and I think rosé wine too. Or, if you feel like celebrating, you can order a small bottle of prosecco. Then we have some pre-mixed cocktail options. Today we have a classic G and T and a Jack and Coke. What about the drinks? In the United States we have many drinks, starting with Coca-Cola Freestyle, the Freestyle machine.

You've seen it before. It has all these flavors. I wasn't getting one of each. You can also get a Gold Peak unsweetened iced tea, which they didn't have, a Gold Peak sweet tea, which they also didn't have, and Minute Maid orange juice and Minute Maid apple juice. Chocolate milk, Dasani water, Smartwater and a Costa coffee. They didn't have that either. I could really go for coffee. I'm told it's interesting that we can get Costa coffee here. It's actually a British coffee chain, but Coca-Cola bought it in 2019 for almost £4 billion and has now started expanding into the United States.

A large salted popcorn at a UK Odeon contains the following: 863 calories; 48.37 grams of fat, of which 37.84 grams are saturated; 92.18 grams of carbohydrates, of which 5.94 grams are sugars; and an unknown amount of sodium. Unfortunately, the website did not have the information on sodium. I contacted them via the live chat feature and the guy said he didn't know what happened. I was going to look into it myself, but I didn't get a response. A regular popcorn made with canola oil has 550 calories, 24 grams of fat, 2 grams of saturated fat, 74 carbohydrates and 1,380 milligrams of sodium. Popcorn of the same size but this time cooked in coconut oil, 540 calories, 24 grams of fat, 17 grams of saturated fat, 74 grams of carbohydrates and 1,380 milligrams of sodium.

Now, there are no statistics for butter-flavored topping, which is a little concerning, but if you add butter and salt to pretzel bites, you add 100 calories and 12 grams of fat, 7 grams of saturated fat and 300 milligrams of sodium. Adding the same amount of butter to this large "Avatar: Way of the Water" popcorn, which is cooked in canola oil, yields 970 calories, 51 grams of fat, 10 grams of saturated fat (popcorn in my throat), 117 carbohydrates. of which 1 gram is sugars, and 2,450 milligrams of sodium. The exact same size popcorn, but this time cooked in coconut oil and the butter topping from before. That's 960 calories, 50 grams of total fat, 35 grams of saturated fat, 117 carbohydrates, of which 1 gram are sugars and sodium, 2,450 milligrams.

People of the Internet, canola oil has a little more calories but a lot less saturated fat. Hurrah! One large sweet popcorn in the UK contains the following: 1790 calories; 73.08 grams of fat, of which 55 grams are saturated; 253 grams of carbohydrates, of which 84.04 grams are sugars; and, again, an unknown amount of sodium. Hmm. I have to be careful with candy corn, Yuelei. This caramel corn in a cube this size has 1,620 calories. 64 grams of fat. 21 of them are saturated fats. 510 grams of carbohydrates, and of those, 404 of those grams are sugar and 3,190 milligrams of sodium. Now, the large cheddar corn, seen here, has 1,620 calories and 144 grams of fat total. 21 of them are saturated. 68 grams of carbohydrates and 2,470 milligrams of sodium.

Yes. What about the highest calorie thing on the UK menu? Well, that would be some big, sweet popcorn with Dairy Milk's jumbo button topping option. This combination would reach a total of 2,004 calories, 85.08 grams of fat, 62.2 grams of saturated fat, 275.8 grams of carbohydrates, of which 106.44 grams are sugars. That's just over 100% of your daily calories, 109% of your daily fat, 311% of your daily saturated fat, and 212% of your daily sugar. My God. In the US, our AMC menus vary. I found a PDF that had a bunch of things listed here. I don't know how common it is at AMCs, but it's the legendary Bavarian pretzel with cheese and mustard cup.

That pretzel, mustard and cheese total is 1,920 calories. Something I wanted to point out is that it has 7,600 milligrams of sodium. That's 330.4% of your daily sodium intake. Hey. Don't eat that pretzel. Here I go. Ready? Are you kidding me? Well, Yuelei will try to put one in my mouth. If she breaks a tooth, she will have to pay for it. Ready, go. Brother.