it is mindblowing to me that you guys praise our fanta like something great and healthy but it is still considered sugary artifical crap here in europe :D
That colored sugar water that in my childhood was not a drink for every day, but only consumed on special occasions (like birthdays) ... Everyday drinks were water and fruit juices.
@@tobyk.4911 Fruit juices are in truth just as bad if not worse, maybe slightly less sugar content, but the acidity of the fruits makes up for it and then some. Go ask your dentist.
@@Megalomaniakaal Yes, fruit is not for childern. It's for people that work hard. They need the sugar for energy. Otherwise they need to eat mutch more. People that do not move should not eat to mutch fruit. They should stick to granes and other fibers. In the old days fruit was also bigger and considered a meal for poor people after the war. Totally different times. When all our soils are depleted we can eat fruit again. Now, we still can grow more healty stuff like beans and cabage.
@@RogerKeulenfruit JUICE is the problem, fruits are good for kids. A whole apple has fiber and thus is pretty filling. Juice has no fiber, it has relatively empty calories. This is why nuance is important. Sugars aren't bad per se, we dont have to avoid it all together. An apple will always be a better snack for kids than something with refind sugars
They praise it like it's the Water of Life or something like this... They have that 100% orange juice from Tropicana and other brands that is very good, better than any soda.
It does have an orange-esque flavour to it, I don't know what are you on about. It's obviously not a 100% juice, but it does have a nice amount of it in a bottle.
I honestly feel bad for them, they seem mindblown about European Fanta and it's npt healthy either. Though I thought American Fanta was same as European so I'm kind of mindblown too.
Europe: Banned until proven safe for human consumption US: Allowed until proven unsafe for human consumption PS: If the European Fanta tastes like orange juice to you, I’m scared of whatever you guys’ orange juice contains and tastes like.😬
Yeah. :D Tho a few days ago i tried fanta orange again, and it was pretty good, i felt it way less sweet than before. Tho still a far cry from being orange juice.
Why does it feel like I have seen this exact comment on another video with the exact same premise, where some guy stands outside and compares fantas like this (including one that's blue)?
I live in the EU. In most countries over here everyone drinks fresh squeezed orange juice. The supermarkets carry it. I'd don't recall ever seeing anyone drink a bottle of orange juice that was not fresh squeezed; people probably do, but I've never seen it.
Since Ian said the same in his video, I have to believe that what they mean is the difference of natural orange flavour and artificial oange flavour. You can tell that the orange in European Fanta is natural. Even if it doesn't taste like juice, it doesn't taste fundamentally different from juice. You can tell it's from the same origin. With artificial orange flavour, tthat's different. It does not taste like it has anything to do with actual oranges.
@@HHog similar to American chocolate has to be labeled as chocolate flavoured coating in Europe as it isnt classed as chocolate cos of the low cocoa percentage and all the other crap in it
with orange you *maybe* could do the trick, arguing orange is referring to the color but yeah, aside of that specific case where that could be used, with other stuff like lemon or whatever other thing, it has to have it
As a european, when i hear "Fanta" i think of a sparkly orange lemonade thats considered a soda. ofcourse it tastes more sophisticated. the US one looks so toxic that it looks like it would glow in the dark. 😂
@@electricheartpony There are a lot of people, including those who are autistic, and others who are neurodiverse that that's simply the way they think. It's not a choice they make. I'm someone who is Dyslexic, (and likely is Autistic and ADHD, undiagnosed currently) so I get it. However I'm not as profoundly affected as some are. So I do understand non-literal descriptions. The thing is there are many people who think literally and it's not a question of choosing to think that way, that's just the way they think. But they also can see past all the waffle that others can use. Kinda like here. If something says it's orange flavoured it should taste like oranges.
@@barbarusbloodshed6347 Yeah pretty much so. I had the same with Japanese import ramen. We had all the south east Asian noodles for years and those run circles around anything sold in the EU but even those pale in comparison to the Japanese ones.
Reminds me of the joke where two kids - one British, one American - sitting on the tailgate of a jeep. The American asks the Brit "Do you pray before your meals?" "No, no need - we have food standards"
I heard something similar where the American kid asked the British one "Do you pray before brushing your teeth" Something something not even god could fix those teeth.
Woah, i need to remember that and reuse it in real life - in my town in Germany we have tons of americans, students and soldier families alike. And they all have eaten enough food here to not even try to argue that.
The real scary part here is that I can guarantee you that no European would say Fanta tastes like orange juice to them. Fanta is one of the most artificial tasting sodas (at least from the mainstream ones) in EU.
They sell us this crap because of republicanism, Donald Trump and their efforts to deregulate the economy. Apparently, aacording to their bs, the free market will solve everything.
In EU, the Fanta Orange manufacturer indicates producing nine recipes depending on the country. The first ingredient is still sparkling water. In France, the second is of the concentrate of orange juice, as in Spain and Italy; But otherwise there is sugar or, worse, fructose-glucose syrup in several central European countries (Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia). In addition, the additives are very variable from one country to another; Thus, the fantas sold in France contains a curator (potassium sorbate) and synthetic sweeteners, also used in the Hungarian, Spanish and Dutch fantas. The ANPC has discovered differences in the composition of certain Fanta products sold in different European countries - the concentration of orange juice varies between less than 5% and 20%.
Worst thing is that people assume a synthetic dye is toxic and the natural stuff is safe despite synth generally not being biologically active, you need far less and it passes unchanged where as natural dye generally contains the same funky nitrogen compounds, you need far more to get a strong color and god knows what its binding too inside the body because no real studies get done. People reallly dont understand chemistry in the slightest.
That's a bottle you put in the fridge and use for multiple days or actually probably weeks. We have 0,5 liter bottle for on the go but honestly most people won't drink that in one go, more like in one day.
@@AlexanderVonMalachi yes, me for example. Such drinks are a rare addition for the evening like wine to me, clearly too unhealthy to drink it more regularly. 😊
I mean, it is not like our stuff is juice. wasnt it like 8%? to me the wild thing is drinking european fanta and saying it almost tastes like orange juice! I always thought fanta was just fanta tho, and that the one in the US was the same, since here it is still basically crap.
The fact that you were so mindblown by the very STRANGE concept of orange soda that actually contains orange juice is hilarious, but also kinda sad....
Why is juice so important? It's also mainly just sugar and water. And do 3% of orange juice in the European Fanta really make the difference?! The reason even the European Fanta taste like Orange is not the 5 drops of orange juice but that it also is flavored with aroma made by bacteria or from other sources which are not oranges. Oh yeah but 3% juice!! SO natural!!!
@@vomm Actually quite easy to respond. Real orange juice contains complex natural aromas like limonene, citral, and other esters and aldehydes that give orange its smell and taste. Even 3% juice can contribute, making the flavor feel more "real" and nuanced. Also, Juice has a natural balance of sugars and acids that artificial flavoring often struggles to match. Even a small amount of real juice can influence this balance, providing a more natural sweetness and acidity that makes the drink taste closer to fresh orange juice (also by using real juice, producers have more close contact and exact values of what makes it taste real). In the case of European Fanta, the added juice contributes subtle but essential elements that bring the flavor closer to what people expect from a natural orange taste. While it might not drastically change the nutritional value, it does impact how we perceive the flavor, aroma, enhancing the overall experience. (Either way, fanta is considered as bad as cola in europe. Better options would be to drink Orangina or other orange lemonades. Also, Drinking straight orange juice is not that much healthier because of high amounts of concentrated fructose)
@@GoldenCrow320 lol sure thing! If you feel superior because of 5 drops of juice in your Fanta, then go for it 😂 Most people wouldn't even be able to taste 5 drops of orange juice in a glass of water but sure - You taste their complex and nuanced real flavors in a can full of aromatized Fanta, who am I to not believe you. Must be your superior European taste buds.
Now I understand why Americans are amazed by the juice machines in supermarkets in Spain. If they think that European Fanta tastes like orange juice, they have never seen or tasted a real orange.
I agree. As an European who has been in the USA, I was in San Fran and I got a bottle of Fanta because I was thirsty and DUDE... the moment my lips touched that liquid... it.. was.. HORRIBLE! It tasted like sugar loaded orange medicine that I would get from the pharmacy. Fair to say I didn't even drink the whole thing 😅
The proportion of orange juice in Fanta varies from country to country in Europe: 3% in Germany, Turkey and Ukraine 5% in Great Britain, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe 8% in Spain and Portugal 12% in France and Italy 20% in Greece (0% in the USA)
As a European, specifically from Spain, I remember two cases, one with lemon Fanta and another with orange Fanta, that caught my attention.Regarding the orange Fanta, a Mexican friend who came with her family told me two things, which she was really surprised about: The first was how delicious a local brand of milk with cocoa was and the second was the huge difference between the Mexican Fanta and the Spanish one, which at least the one from my country tasted like orange. Regarding the lemon Fanta, I saw a video of an indignant American who had written to the Fanta company about why the lemon Fanta from Spain was much tastier than the one they sold in the USA.
Its so mindblowing how in Europe you always get told how unhealthy drinks like fanta are with the sugar, additives, using concentrates instead of juice and whatnot - and then americans are like: "How is this so healthy and has such good ingredients" ...
We're not getting told!we read the label!we also know that everything artificial is bad,nobody has to tell that!I don't drink fanta ,it has a strange taste!
Yes, but they're not so nice (soda style) because they have artifical sweeteners instead. Maybe you are talking about real juices rather than soda drinks. The American's must be familiar with that because Tropicana orange juice has no added sugar and that's where it comes from!
Fanta was invented in Europe (Germany). It's called Fanta because it's "Fantastisch" (Fantastic). It was bought by the Coca Cola Company, so it's an American company now, but Fanta is originally from Europe.
It's correct, but.. Fanta concept originally was invented in Germany. Because with the war, US wasn't providing Coca Cola anymore. But the drink was based on some sort of apple cider. Orange Fanta as we know today, was invented in Naples, Italy.
Fanta was "invented" and sold by the German subsidiary of the Coca Cola company in 1940 because they couldn't produce and sell the original Coca Cola any longer. So Fanta wasn't bought by Coca Cola. And yes, it was originally made from apples and whey, in 1955 Coca Cola Italy came up with the version relying on oranges which has become the standard Fanta nowadays at least in Europe.
@@mauriziocobalto5770 Correct invented in Germany but the Fanta like we know now first was made in Italy . At least another thing Italians and Germans have in common besides making great cars and fascism . Lol, lol . Mi dispiace ! Ryan is a very nice sympathetic guy I love watching his videos there's no BS in them unlike a lot of Americans .
The European lid standard was added to avoid caps being thrown away separately from the bottle and to help reduce waste. They're horrendous and can be really annoying, but they're for a good cause. I guess. Do note that until a few years back they were not the standard and we had normal grown people lids as well. Unfortunately grown people are in short supply around the world these days so they moved to the current abominations we have to endure as a general standard. I will admit that it has really helped since I haven't been seeing caps thrown away haphazardly for the past few years, if only because doing it would require additional effort to rip it off. So basically the attached caps can F right off, but also they're a good idea. It's a painful dissonance to endure.
4 glasses, sure. 6 glasses? No way. Like small glass is 250ml. There is no way 1l would divide into 6 glasses. It would be less than 200ml per glass. And regular glass is 330ml iirc? So 1l = 3 portions realistically.
@@Netsuki I see it a little differently than you. 330 ml glasses? They're way too big, who's supposed to drink so much at once? In our 5-person household we use 200 ml glasses. This is the usual size here in Germany. And we don't always fill it up, we often only take half a glass. If we ever have something as unhealthy as Fanta, a 1 liter bottle is enough for the whole family. Therefore the information about the portions is correct :-).
@@michalhrncir9561 Uhm the law influences the people and the people influence the law, even the US isn't just a complete banana republic, well at least not until Agent Orange somehow becomes president a second time while actually being a convicted criminal now.
Actually the American one is the historically correct one (as there was an embargo in Germany after WWII when they invented it there-CocaCola Germany) still to drink orange flavour without orange. it was Fanta(sy) drink! Now we Europeans destroyed our cultural heritage 😂with the orange juice in it.
I am european, and I hate that kind of lids we have. It was not like that a few years ago, it was "normal" like your lids. Now, it gets in the way when we drink in the bottle, and I find it harder to properly close and seal the bottle. So yeah, I usually rip them off.
*_IF_* there would be such thing, it would have to be called " with xxx flavor/taste" which should raise big red flags for consumers, just like it's done with real "vanille icecream" vs "icecream (vanil taste)" and similar names.
Most relevant part at 7:50 “This actually tastes like oranges” - that’s the benefit of of having legally enforced high food standards - you don’t normalise fake rubbish - you can’t call an orange drink an orange drink without it actually having some oranges in it 🤣
If we consider european junk drinks to be extremely bad, I guess american ones will give us instant disabetes and make us radioactive or speedrun the death of our taste buds 💀
That's something that I've noticed about Americans, they treat their kids like they are garbage. I just saw a video of an American family that lives in Romania and they visited a cereal breakfast specialized shop, and they ordered some healthy musli and fruits for them and then ordered "something for the kids" and choose some crappy coloured 80% sugar cereals.
@@mick20075 Its called the chef-effect or boss-effect; politicians get some thing explained in a certain way and then decide total bullshit beleaving they did something smart ... cause they were told that way and never got hte side effects explained to them.
Let me tell you a trick about the lid, so it doesn’t get on your way when you are drinking. If you push the lid a little bit harder it does a “click” sound and stays flat horizontally. At least in my country that’s how it works, so I suppose all Europe follows the same logic.
Yup, that's how it's supposed to work here as well. However that isn't common knowledge here either. I know many people who didn't know until I showed them.
I hate this new type of lids. Have problems with enclosing it again, and sometimes I accidentally tear one side so it’s sharp and hurts my fingers, therefors I rather cut them down from the bottle. 😅 Problem solved. 🎉
I just love your videos. You are so entertaining while being your authentic self. I think that you are really talented for this type of content! I hope you keep it up for a long time! Always happy to see your videos :D
I love the excitement about our fixed lid. It's been so annoying to use in the first months, but I personally got used to it and even find it funny that folks from other countries call it the "European lid" now. 😄
As a Spaniard I would never have said that Fanta tastes like orange juice. What kind of oranges do you have in the U.S.? 😂 I don't dare taste the American version of Fanta...
If you pull the lid a bit further down it will "snap" in place so it won't touch your nose. You can also try to fold it over the opening and then the flat top part of the lid will be facing you while you drink.
Pretty sure IWRocker was the first, neither the last. But yes it's kinda funny he picks it this shortly after. But I guess you have to forget while the iron is hot.
@@Drescher1984 I assume you meant to say "wasn't the first, or the last" and "forge while the iron is hot" cause otherwise very confusing statements...
It was amusing watching Ryan went from "I love orange soda" to "This artificial crap." I'm not saying which one is better, just the reaction is funny to watch.
The current version sold in Italy is 12% orange juice. The UK version is 3.7% orange juice from concentrate, according to its recipe. Greek Orange Fanta is 20% juice from concentrate.
Yeah, so many reaction channels rip each other off. Found one that copied Ryan 1:1 the other day. It's refreshing to see one actually credit their inspiration.
@@Michael_from_EU_Germany If you consider that you shouldn't drink that much of the stuff anyway, the price isn't soooo exaggerated. After all, it's not a staple food. Think of it as a treat that you sometimes enjoy even though you're harming your body, but at least it's better quality than the cheap stuff. Sweets and soda should only be sold at high prices and in high quality under fair production conditions anyway, but healthy food must become more affordable.
I was an exchange student for 3 months in the US, from Italy. First week I got severe belly and stomach pains. My exchange family actually ordered pizza and what they thought were Italian meals but it was actually fastfood overloaded with sugar, nothing came even close to what we eat in Italy. I realised they actually did it with the best intentions but I asked them if I could prepare us all fresh Italian meals. It’s strange to say but even veggies taste completely different in the US. I made fresh lasagna’s, pizza’s,.. with their kids, who were my age. They were amazed that it tasted so great but I was amazed it tasted nothing like in Italy while we always use my Nonna’s recipe. I don’t really like sweets or soda’s. I was happy that I found my favorite Italian cookies in the US, and hugely disappointed they tasted nothing like in Italy. I ate those in Spain, Belgium, Germany,… they tasted exactly like in Italy. In the US you taste that they added much more sugar to them. I was wondering why they did this? I am not even amazed that a lot of Americans have a sugar addiction. Even coffee taste like sugar. When my exchange family came to visit us last summer, they were totally amazed about everything but especially our food. They said that they felt in heaven. I am one of the few people who really don’t like fastfood.
Yup same... I'm Irish... and I food it very difficult to feed myself in the U.S. EVERYTHING made me sick! and The chocolate and cheese smells and taste straight up like vomit. No joke! No exaggerating! There is a taste of vomit from the chocolate.
@Megalomaniakaal No the difference is they add shit their food that should be in it. In the case of chocolate they add butyric acid to it which is also in stomach bile. With cheese its something similar!
@tihomirrasperic Oh I know... my cousin came to visit in oreland and bit into the burger. just the first bite... and he goes with a full mouth "wait its really beef?" LMAO
In France, Fanta contains: orange juice from concentrate (10%); lemon juice from concentrate (2%) and no "corn syrup" which is prohibited : high risk of obesity, diabetes and other diseases linked to sugar abuse...
@@callum9999correct it isn’t banned in the EU, and even the quotas placed on its use are for the purpose of fair agricultural and economic development and nothing to do with health. However it is banned here in Australia for health reasons - but it can still make its way in via imported products from the U.S. and elsewhere.
Nothing Yeah it's not prohibited, stop spreading old wives tales. "Contrary to common opinion, high fructose corn syrup isn't banned in Europe. Referred to as isoglucose or glucose-fructose syrup in this region, use of high fructose corn syrup is restricted because it's under a production quota"
Another thing to note is that corn syrup in Europe has less fructose (sugar), it is also much less produced and used in general. It's not the same product as the American version. The American version simply does not exist in Europe unless someone wants to import it, which would make it more expensive and there is the downside of not catering to the local market.
"Do you know how many times I've woken up at night wanting a drink, put the bottle to my mouth thinking it was the neck, but it was actually the cap, and ended up pouring it all over my face? Those damn caps." 🤣🤣🤣
@@emycharaa because it's a non issue and they get paid 80000 euros a month to make my life worse. The lid is also harder to screw back on properly and ripping it off just leaves plastic shrapnel sticking in your hand, like a spike dog leash.
@@apokkalyps6 i think a big issue was that people just threw the caps away separately, causing the wild life and nature to suffer with the tiny caps getting to the nature and microplastic getting everywhere. People like to throw trash anywhere but the trashcans for some reason and they cry when companies decide to fix that issue? that's what's scary to me.
No you don't get used to it. It's annoying as fuck. Specially for those of us who didn't throw the lids away in the first place and now have to deal with this bullshit. I cut mines with scissors or it's impossible to drink from the bottle without getting your cheek or your nose wet, or spilling the drink precisely while trying not to get wet, not to mention that it sometimes just closes on its own and ends up spilling the drink anyways. If people were just less filthy we would still have normal lids.
So the American one is the historically correct one (as there was an embargo in Germany after WWII when they launched it) still to drink orange flavour! Wow - it was Fanta(sy) drink! Now Europeans we destroyed our cultural heritage 😂
I'm from Sweden, and while Fanta is still my favourite, I still find it sickly sweet. To me, the big king is always Orangina, that actually tastes of Orange. :-D
Swedish soda is actually much sweeter than in most other countries. For some reason. And yes I don't like soda in general because of that. If I want some orange juice like drink I go for "Mer".
first time I used such cap I thought it was a faulty one and just ripped it off :D after the 3rd or 4th one I started to realize it must be done on purpose... :D
I encourage all Americans to also do the test. Get a european Fanta, compare it to the US-Version and than ask yourself that question: "Why do we get the fake?" When you find the answer to that question than you know what´s going wrong with your country generally.
The lid is to reduce plastic waste. Most of the lids does not get to the recycling center, because people tend to not care about lids, or throw it away.
Most of them, really, MOST OF them? You are on something to be honest. It is still a good idea, but, MOST OF THEM? Are you sure about that? I'm sure you're not because that's just not true.
Most of them is just 100% wrong. Close to none of them get thrown away separately. And those that do, they're the ones also just throwing the bottle away somewhere. The EU again "solved" a non existent problem.
@@samsungtab3977 I think its cause of countries like spain and france where alot people buy bottled water and people use the streets to throw trash rather than the bins.
From Chatgpt: There is a notable difference in the formulation of Fanta between Europe and the USA, particularly regarding the use of real orange juice. The European version of Fanta often contains actual orange juice, while the American version typically does not. Here are a few reasons for this difference: 1. Consumer Preferences and Regulations EU Regulations: In the European Union, there are stricter regulations around food and beverage ingredients. Products labeled as "orange soda" often need to meet certain criteria, like having a minimum percentage of real juice. US Regulations: The US FDA has less stringent requirements for the use of fruit juice in sodas. As a result, the American version focuses more on artificial flavors and sweeteners rather than real juice. 2. Cost and Production Differences Using real orange juice can be more expensive due to sourcing and quality control. For large markets like the USA, using artificial flavors and less juice helps keep costs down. European consumers tend to prefer more natural ingredients, even in sodas, whereas the US market has historically been more accepting of highly processed products. 3. Taste Preferences In Europe, there is a general preference for beverages with a more natural and less sweet taste. This aligns with the inclusion of real juice, giving it a slightly different taste profile compared to the sweeter, more synthetic American version.
The answer is very simple. In Europe, there is public healthcare. Therefore, food regulations are more stringent because the healthier people are, the smaller the burden on the state budget. That is why carcinogenic ingredients are not allowed for general consumption and that is why food in Europe is of better quality. In the USA, medical companies and hospitals care about people getting sick because it is a billion-dollar business. And the caps are attached because it reduces environmental pollution by 10%. You know, a healthy environment means healthier people. In the USA, no one cares about that.
Minute 10:46 - Because, as I said in my previous message, in Italy you can't use a fruit name (or name derivation) or a fruit image if there isn't at least 12% of that fruit juice
In Greece Fanta contains 20% juice but still taste like crap. Lux (another competitor) it's by far the best orange soda in Greece. You should give a try to their products.
@@andij605 I still spill often. Either while ripping off the cap or the liquid in the cap drips on my hand while tilting it to take a sip. I'm very pro EU but this law has me rethinking that. And all because some psychopaths throw the cap away before they're done. Who the hell doesn't keep it to screw it back on before throwing away. That has to be less than 10%. I've never seen anyone in my life open a soda and discard the cap. That's what cans are for. The nice thing about a bottle is that you can close it again, which the tab doesn't help, it needs to be longer.
If you push the lid a little further it will make a clicking sound and stay in place. It shouldn't bother you after that. They could've actually explained this in the first place though because you have to almost accidentally get there just to know this.
i still remember that many many decades ago as a child, we got similarly colored fanta during holidays in italy, and it also had a different taste from the current or german one. but a few decades ago, EU regulations stopped the use of lots of additives and colors.
Riiiight - the lid it's what's important. Pull it down just a little more, and it will snap out of your way permanently (a two stage thing) while still being attached. The point is it will not be descarded and left in nature. If that resonate with you or not, I have no idea. It should, though.
The orange juice content in Fanta varies between European countries. There is 20% orange juice in the Greek Fanta, while in most countries it's up to 5%.
the "lid thing" is to make it stick to the bottle so laying around plastic in the environment is reduced and it is disposed 'in one piece' so the (micro-)plastic in the food chain and in the environment is reduced. They introduced it not too long ago, a year or two, I'd say.
You can twist the lid, which breaks one of the two links and increases the distance of the lid to the bottle. At least with most lids I've seen recently.
it is mindblowing to me that you guys praise our fanta like something great and healthy but it is still considered sugary artifical crap here in europe :D
That colored sugar water that in my childhood was not a drink for every day, but only consumed on special occasions (like birthdays)
... Everyday drinks were water and fruit juices.
@@tobyk.4911 Fruit juices are in truth just as bad if not worse, maybe slightly less sugar content, but the acidity of the fruits makes up for it and then some. Go ask your dentist.
@@Megalomaniakaal Yes, fruit is not for childern. It's for people that work hard. They need the sugar for energy. Otherwise they need to eat mutch more. People that do not move should not eat to mutch fruit. They should stick to granes and other fibers. In the old days fruit was also bigger and considered a meal for poor people after the war. Totally different times. When all our soils are depleted we can eat fruit again. Now, we still can grow more healty stuff like beans and cabage.
@@RogerKeulenfruit JUICE is the problem, fruits are good for kids. A whole apple has fiber and thus is pretty filling. Juice has no fiber, it has relatively empty calories. This is why nuance is important. Sugars aren't bad per se, we dont have to avoid it all together. An apple will always be a better snack for kids than something with refind sugars
They praise it like it's the Water of Life or something like this...
They have that 100% orange juice from Tropicana and other brands that is very good, better than any soda.
The US version looks radioactive.
that's why it gives you more energy
Bro there's definitely plutonium in that XD
Have u seen US Mountain Dew lol ... looks like it will unalive u ...
NukaFanta
For me EU Fanta looks more like Nuka Fanta Quantum. :D
as a european it scares me that americans say our Fanta taste "almost" like orange juice 😂
It does have an orange-esque flavour to it, I don't know what are you on about. It's obviously not a 100% juice, but it does have a nice amount of it in a bottle.
Even in Europe there's a difference between the colors of Fanta.
Dutch Fanta is pale and Spanish is more orange..
@@steveterhorst2900And Germany has the original stuff
@@AFFoC obviously it taste like orange lmao thats the whole point 😂 still absolutely not comparable to orange JUICE!
@@steveterhorst2900 correct, and? whats your point?
As a european, i'm genuinely terrified of the american fanta XDD
right!? 😂 looks baaaad!
American Fanta looks like it was made in India 🇮🇳
I honestly feel bad for them, they seem mindblown about European Fanta and it's npt healthy either. Though I thought American Fanta was same as European so I'm kind of mindblown too.
Everything is fake in America, even their own products are knock offs of itself. 🤣🤣🤣
All their food yuck
Europe: Banned until proven safe for human consumption
US: Allowed until proven unsafe for human consumption
PS: If the European Fanta tastes like orange juice to you, I’m scared of whatever you guys’ orange juice contains and tastes like.😬
Yeah. :D Tho a few days ago i tried fanta orange again, and it was pretty good, i felt it way less sweet than before. Tho still a far cry from being orange juice.
They add SUGAR and or CORN SYRUP to the juice in US
Why does it feel like I have seen this exact comment on another video with the exact same premise, where some guy stands outside and compares fantas like this (including one that's blue)?
In Sweden, Fanta is 100% natural aroma with zero preservatives and 6% orange juice. I guarantee everything in the American version is completely fake.
I live in the EU. In most countries over here everyone drinks fresh squeezed orange juice. The supermarkets carry it. I'd don't recall ever seeing anyone drink a bottle of orange juice that was not fresh squeezed; people probably do, but I've never seen it.
I can only imagine how bad American Fanta has to be if he says European Fanta tastes like actual orange juice 😂
i bet it taste like orange flavor medecine
Imagine how bad orange juice is in the US....
Since Ian said the same in his video, I have to believe that what they mean is the difference of natural orange flavour and artificial oange flavour. You can tell that the orange in European Fanta is natural. Even if it doesn't taste like juice, it doesn't taste fundamentally different from juice. You can tell it's from the same origin. With artificial orange flavour, tthat's different. It does not taste like it has anything to do with actual oranges.
@@ezRuruu oh no ewww eeeeewwwwww
I actually make homemade orange syrup (from actual oranges, duh), and if you put that in carbonated water, fanta is not far off really.
Long history short:
In Europe you cannot label something as "Orange" if it doesn't have some minimum percentage of Oranges.
Unless it's a colour.
Well, you can. But you have to name it "type Orange"
Or it has to clearly state it's "Orange Flavor" instead of just "Orange".
@@HHog similar to American chocolate has to be labeled as chocolate flavoured coating in Europe as it isnt classed as chocolate cos of the low cocoa percentage and all the other crap in it
with orange you *maybe* could do the trick, arguing orange is referring to the color
but yeah, aside of that specific case where that could be used, with other stuff like lemon or whatever other thing, it has to have it
As a european,
when i hear "Fanta" i think of a sparkly orange lemonade thats considered a soda. ofcourse it tastes more sophisticated.
the US one looks so toxic that it looks like it would glow in the dark. 😂
I dont know why, but for a second i imagined reactor with american fanta beeing an actual thing.
I think i wasnt too far off
In America, Orange refers to the color. In Europe, Orange refers to the fruit haha
Eh, the colour is named for the fruit, so...
@Llortnerof you don't get jokes, do you?
@@LlortnerofI understand literal thinking. The problem is Americans clearly don't and it would clearly help them if they did. For some things anyway.
@@Loulizabetheh, why be literal?
@@electricheartpony There are a lot of people, including those who are autistic, and others who are neurodiverse that that's simply the way they think. It's not a choice they make. I'm someone who is Dyslexic, (and likely is Autistic and ADHD, undiagnosed currently) so I get it. However I'm not as profoundly affected as some are. So I do understand non-literal descriptions.
The thing is there are many people who think literally and it's not a question of choosing to think that way, that's just the way they think. But they also can see past all the waffle that others can use. Kinda like here. If something says it's orange flavoured it should taste like oranges.
American has existential crisis over European sugary drink is my new favorite type of video on TH-cam.
Sometimes the simplest thing can be an eye-opener.
@@barbarusbloodshed6347 Yeah pretty much so. I had the same with Japanese import ramen. We had all the south east Asian noodles for years and those run circles around anything sold in the EU but even those pale in comparison to the Japanese ones.
Maybe it will help them to invest their money in better products and get the industrials to produce higher quality foods
@gruemoka5314 the issue is regulation alot of American food just stright up would be illegal to sell here
I’m seeing a lot of them today
Reminds me of the joke where two kids - one British, one American - sitting on the tailgate of a jeep. The American asks the Brit "Do you pray before your meals?"
"No, no need - we have food standards"
I heard something similar where the American kid asked the British one "Do you pray before brushing your teeth" Something something not even god could fix those teeth.
Woah, i need to remember that and reuse it in real life - in my town in Germany we have tons of americans, students and soldier families alike. And they all have eaten enough food here to not even try to argue that.
😂😂😂
That's a religious joke 😂😂 Funny how England terrorists always make these jokes but are some of the worst empires ever to exist 😂😂😂😂
Nice 😂
As a European, i would NEVER trust american food
Ryan, the 1L bottle is NOT a portion :) They are made for sharing. In France, a portion is 0.33L
In sweden 250ml. Noticing how both are easily divided from 1L.
In Romania I think they discontinued 330ml bottles. People only ever buy 500ml ones if they want a one person bottle.
Same in the uk
@@JohanHultin never in my 25 years in Sweden have I seen a .25 cl for Fanta..
Same in Germany.
He should have compared this bottle to their 2 liter one. 😜
The real scary part here is that I can guarantee you that no European would say Fanta tastes like orange juice to them.
Fanta is one of the most artificial tasting sodas (at least from the mainstream ones) in EU.
And still, it contains orange juice and its quantity depends on the country(in Hungary we have 5%).
Fanta is still better than most of the knockoff orange sodas which taste even more artificial
@@talos86yep, in Portugal regular Fanta contains 8% juice, Fanta Zero (sugar-free) contains 4%
I never even considered fanta as anything remotely close to orange juice before
5% juice in Slovakia too
Beginning : "i like american fanta"
5mins later : "why do they sell us this crap ?"
Hilarante😆
They sell us this crap because of republicanism, Donald Trump and their efforts to deregulate the economy. Apparently, aacording to their bs, the free market will solve everything.
That's because he didn't know any better 😂
In EU, the Fanta Orange manufacturer indicates producing nine recipes depending on the country. The first ingredient is still sparkling water. In France, the second is of the concentrate of orange juice, as in Spain and Italy; But otherwise there is sugar or, worse, fructose-glucose syrup in several central European countries (Czech Republic, Croatia, Hungary, Slovenia, Slovakia).
In addition, the additives are very variable from one country to another; Thus, the fantas sold in France contains a curator (potassium sorbate) and synthetic sweeteners, also used in the Hungarian, Spanish and Dutch fantas.
The ANPC has discovered differences in the composition of certain Fanta products sold in different European countries - the concentration of orange juice varies between less than 5% and 20%.
8:30 Blown away by the fact that an orange soda contains orange. America is weird man...
exactly my thoughts
not if it refers to the color...
@Tom81dd yea but there's an orange right next to the text so...
both are the same ....
be sure of it.
@@perpetgholl5742 NO, in the US Version is no Orange Juice in the European one you get 8% Juice
Guys, DON'T tell him about Orangina......... he'd be blown away by the taste of it !
Shake the bottle.
Wake the drink.
Orangina!?!
A ranga (redhead, Fanta pants) lady's bits!?!
Oraaangiinaaaaa ! 🍊
Orangina 😍😍😍
Fanta is much better than orangina.
The worst thing is: With a little bit of carrot and beet extract you could easily get that deep orange colour without using toxic dyes.
yeah, but then they would not be saving a penny.
It would cost more.
Then how would the shareholders buy another yacht ?
Is your health worth more than their comfort?
(Sarcasm of course)
Worst thing is that people assume a synthetic dye is toxic and the natural stuff is safe despite synth generally not being biologically active, you need far less and it passes unchanged where as natural dye generally contains the same funky nitrogen compounds, you need far more to get a strong color and god knows what its binding too inside the body because no real studies get done. People reallly dont understand chemistry in the slightest.
@@etienne8110 Its not about cost normally. Its about stability.
@@seditt5146 in the u.s. it is normally profit based. then they decide on the cheapest stability based ingredients regardless of risks apparently 😏
That's a bottle you put in the fridge and use for multiple days or actually probably weeks. We have 0,5 liter bottle for on the go but honestly most people won't drink that in one go, more like in one day.
crap. if you open those little bottles and you keep it a day open the bubbles or how you say it it's gone
Bro nobody uses a 1l bottle "for multiple days or actually probably weeks", what are you on?
Stop this euro propaganda. No one does that. Maybe a 1.5L bottle for a few days if you're really conservative with your soda intake.
@@AlexanderVonMalachi yes, me for example. Such drinks are a rare addition for the evening like wine to me, clearly too unhealthy to drink it more regularly. 😊
@@AlexanderVonMalachithey do tho, I got those bottles on the fridge for whenever I my family wants juice during dinner, usually lasts multiple days
"CONTAINS NO JUICE" on American Fanta is wild
Then tf is it😭
@@turkistan597Water, sugar and artificial stuff.
@turkistan597 they use orange rinds because it allows for a more consistent product
@@turkistan597 Bald eagle milk and cheeseburger grease probably 😂
I mean, it is not like our stuff is juice. wasnt it like 8%? to me the wild thing is drinking european fanta and saying it almost tastes like orange juice! I always thought fanta was just fanta tho, and that the one in the US was the same, since here it is still basically crap.
The fact that you were so mindblown by the very STRANGE concept of orange soda that actually contains orange juice is hilarious, but also kinda sad....
Also, the fact that his first concern was how many calories each one has and not the fact that the US Fanta clearly states that it contains no juice.
Why is juice so important? It's also mainly just sugar and water. And do 3% of orange juice in the European Fanta really make the difference?! The reason even the European Fanta taste like Orange is not the 5 drops of orange juice but that it also is flavored with aroma made by bacteria or from other sources which are not oranges. Oh yeah but 3% juice!! SO natural!!!
@@module79l28don't think it is a main concern, it's just another observation. Spontaneous- after all he's commenting in the moment..
@@vomm Actually quite easy to respond. Real orange juice contains complex natural aromas like limonene, citral, and other esters and aldehydes that give orange its smell and taste. Even 3% juice can contribute, making the flavor feel more "real" and nuanced. Also, Juice has a natural balance of sugars and acids that artificial flavoring often struggles to match. Even a small amount of real juice can influence this balance, providing a more natural sweetness and acidity that makes the drink taste closer to fresh orange juice (also by using real juice, producers have more close contact and exact values of what makes it taste real).
In the case of European Fanta, the added juice contributes subtle but essential elements that bring the flavor closer to what people expect from a natural orange taste. While it might not drastically change the nutritional value, it does impact how we perceive the flavor, aroma, enhancing the overall experience. (Either way, fanta is considered as bad as cola in europe. Better options would be to drink Orangina or other orange lemonades. Also, Drinking straight orange juice is not that much healthier because of high amounts of concentrated fructose)
@@GoldenCrow320 lol sure thing! If you feel superior because of 5 drops of juice in your Fanta, then go for it 😂 Most people wouldn't even be able to taste 5 drops of orange juice in a glass of water but sure - You taste their complex and nuanced real flavors in a can full of aromatized Fanta, who am I to not believe you. Must be your superior European taste buds.
Now I understand why Americans are amazed by the juice machines in supermarkets in Spain. If they think that European Fanta tastes like orange juice, they have never seen or tasted a real orange.
neiter any other unprocessed fruit
tbf... I'm European and when I tried oranges in spain, I also realized I never tasted real oranges before.
These people don't even know what water tastes like.
Cierto.
here in poland i also think fanta tastes like orange juice, so idk
😂 his amazement about the lid 😂😂
The truth is, that we european were also amazed and bothered by this crap 😂
@bvbstrike3658 absolutely 😂 never more brothered than with the "ALPRO" milk lid 🫣
Watching a 17 Minute video about an american getting his mind blown by just Fanta has to be the most hilarious thing I have seen in a while.
Yeah I was laughing my ass off when he said "it tastes... REAL!" 😂😂😂😂
I agree. As an European who has been in the USA, I was in San Fran and I got a bottle of Fanta because I was thirsty and DUDE... the moment my lips touched that liquid... it.. was.. HORRIBLE! It tasted like sugar loaded orange medicine that I would get from the pharmacy. Fair to say I didn't even drink the whole thing 😅
😭😭
Omg I hate that horrible taste since I was a child
I can imagine the taste the american fanta has and honestly I'd probably like it. Especially if it was a bit sour (probably isn't though)
Nothing beats water when you are thirsty. Asking for Fanta was a huge mistake, especially in the US.
The proportion of orange juice in Fanta varies from country to country in Europe:
3% in Germany, Turkey and Ukraine
5% in Great Britain, Scandinavia and Eastern Europe
8% in Spain and Portugal
12% in France and Italy
20% in Greece
(0% in the USA)
TWENTY??? no wonder those guys are broke xd jk
i agree greek fanta is amazing.. but lux is little better
@@Foatizenknechtl Anyone would think they don't grow oranges in Greece...
Croatian Fanta has only 3%
The law in Italy changed in 2014: since 2018 orange sodas must contain at least 20% of orange juice.
As a European, specifically from Spain, I remember two cases, one with lemon Fanta and another with orange Fanta, that caught my attention.Regarding the orange Fanta, a Mexican friend who came with her family told me two things, which she was really surprised about: The first was how delicious a local brand of milk with cocoa was and the second was the huge difference between the Mexican Fanta and the Spanish one, which at least the one from my country tasted like orange. Regarding the lemon Fanta, I saw a video of an indignant American who had written to the Fanta company about why the lemon Fanta from Spain was much tastier than the one they sold in the USA.
12:08 Fanta was actually invented in Germany during WWII, because there wasn't any coke left.
But it's owned by Coca-Cola, same goes for Sprite.
You can say, Fanta is a product originated from Nazi Germany 1942.
Does Fanta means somenthing?
@@Giaduzza89I believe it was an elixir of «whatever works»(various fruits and vegs ) Was named «Fantasia», later «Fanta»
@@Giaduzza89 it means fantasy
@m0rd1c3 🤯🤯🤯
Its so mindblowing how in Europe you always get told how unhealthy drinks like fanta are with the sugar, additives, using concentrates instead of juice and whatnot - and then americans are like: "How is this so healthy and has such good ingredients" ...
Well, comparatively. It's still a sugary soda of course.
sugar still better than that high fructose corn syrup they put into everything in america
We're not getting told!we read the label!we also know that everything artificial is bad,nobody has to tell that!I don't drink fanta ,it has a strange taste!
@@ionetuning6231 Everything artificial is bad? So houses, sight-correcting glasses, modern medicine and surgery tools are bad?
@@Llortnerof hahahaha
Americans drink orange "Color" juice
Europeans drink orange "Fruit" juice.
That European Fanta is not for one person but a few people ,"family size" .
one usual glass size in restaurants is 0.2 liter (200 ml), and
labels on 1 liter bottles sometimes mention "5 servings per bottle" (1000/5=200 ml)
@@Anson_AKB And this was a 1.5 liter bottle, I think
Edit: I was wrong.
@@Anson_AKBlitre
@@gerardflynn7382 Not in American English.
@@futurefox128 Clearly labeled differently to me. Only label I see says "1l"
imagine if he found out we sell juices with no added sugar
Ya and without concentrate too. 😊
Yes, but they're not so nice (soda style) because they have artifical sweeteners instead. Maybe you are talking about real juices rather than soda drinks. The American's must be familiar with that because Tropicana orange juice has no added sugar and that's where it comes from!
@@MrAdopadowe do use sugar in our drinks, it's so weird to see someone call a really unhealthy drink healthy, because their version uses no fruit
@@MrAdopadoFanta Zero is much nicer than the full sugar version
Cap
Shoutout to IWrocker 👌
Absolutely
He does have LOTS of Aussie fans!
Not only Aussies.
That's such a fun journey he's embarked on, I'm in a chokehold
He's gone knee-deep on the drink comparisons, been enjoying it a lot.
American Fanta is made with orange color
European Fanta is made with orange fruit
"You are complaining about american sevice sizes, yet this fanta is so big"
That bottle of fanta, my dear Ryan, is not a serving size.
Fanta was invented in Europe (Germany). It's called Fanta because it's "Fantastisch" (Fantastic). It was bought by the Coca Cola Company, so it's an American company now, but Fanta is originally from Europe.
It's correct, but.. Fanta concept originally was invented in Germany. Because with the war, US wasn't providing Coca Cola anymore. But the drink was based on some sort of apple cider. Orange Fanta as we know today, was invented in Naples, Italy.
Fanta was "invented" and sold by the German subsidiary of the Coca Cola company in 1940 because they couldn't produce and sell the original Coca Cola any longer. So Fanta wasn't bought by Coca Cola. And yes, it was originally made from apples and whey, in 1955 Coca Cola Italy came up with the version relying on oranges which has become the standard Fanta nowadays at least in Europe.
Fanta is from Germany, from the good old times.... sort of (if you know you know)
Fanta in Europe and UK doe contain orange juice concentrate.
@@mauriziocobalto5770 Correct invented in Germany but the Fanta like we know now first was made in Italy .
At least another thing Italians and Germans have in common besides making great cars and fascism .
Lol, lol .
Mi dispiace !
Ryan is a very nice sympathetic guy I love watching his videos there's no BS in them unlike a lot of Americans .
I am surprised that the US Fanta is allowed to put pictures of orange slices on the packaging if it does not contain orange juice?
Remember the US is the country where ketchup is considered to be a vegetable 🤯
@@juwen7908 real ketchup is xD its tomato no meat
The European lid standard was added to avoid caps being thrown away separately from the bottle and to help reduce waste. They're horrendous and can be really annoying, but they're for a good cause. I guess.
Do note that until a few years back they were not the standard and we had normal grown people lids as well. Unfortunately grown people are in short supply around the world these days so they moved to the current abominations we have to endure as a general standard. I will admit that it has really helped since I haven't been seeing caps thrown away haphazardly for the past few years, if only because doing it would require additional effort to rip it off.
So basically the attached caps can F right off, but also they're a good idea. It's a painful dissonance to endure.
The fact that you compared a family portion that is made to last from 4-6 glasses to one person American portion is just crazy
4 glasses, sure. 6 glasses? No way. Like small glass is 250ml. There is no way 1l would divide into 6 glasses. It would be less than 200ml per glass. And regular glass is 330ml iirc? So 1l = 3 portions realistically.
@@Netsuki I see it a little differently than you. 330 ml glasses? They're way too big, who's supposed to drink so much at once? In our 5-person household we use 200 ml glasses. This is the usual size here in Germany. And we don't always fill it up, we often only take half a glass. If we ever have something as unhealthy as Fanta, a 1 liter bottle is enough for the whole family. Therefore the information about the portions is correct :-).
Guys it's 5 glass
@@ultra244200ml per glass is 5 glasses...
@@Netsuki 330ml glass is way too much for one person bro
After trying these, give ORANGINA a try, this will finally open your mind. 😉
That, or Sanpellegrino. I prefer their blood organge.
Funny name for a drink with orange juice, lemon juice and tangerine juice in it.
Given his anger at normal Fanta, Orangina is gonna send him into apoplectic rage.😂😂😂
I LOVE ORANGINA
True orangina Red is the thing
The answer to your rhetorical question is: Because companies can do it in America.
And the people themselves don't care
More likely they know people will still buy, cause they don't care. It's not about the laws, but about the people... like everything.
@@michalhrncir9561 Uhm the law influences the people and the people influence the law, even the US isn't just a complete banana republic, well at least not until Agent Orange somehow becomes president a second time while actually being a convicted criminal now.
Actually the American one is the historically correct one (as there was an embargo in Germany after WWII when they invented it there-CocaCola Germany) still to drink orange flavour without orange. it was Fanta(sy) drink! Now we Europeans destroyed our cultural heritage 😂with the orange juice in it.
@@agnesbeck171Fantastich, not fantasty
I am european, and I hate that kind of lids we have. It was not like that a few years ago, it was "normal" like your lids. Now, it gets in the way when we drink in the bottle, and I find it harder to properly close and seal the bottle. So yeah, I usually rip them off.
The truth is that a totally artificial Fanta would not be sold in Europe. It probably wouldn't even meet European standards.
It wouldn't
*_IF_* there would be such thing, it would have to be called " with xxx flavor/taste" which should raise big red flags for consumers, just like it's done with real "vanille icecream" vs "icecream (vanil taste)" and similar names.
I believe people here in EU would buy even the american version, but it would have to be 1/3 of price of european Fanta. 😄
The difference is that if it could be sold here, people wouldn't buy it... and people in the us just don't care.
@@davidpelc It would be probably illegal to be frank.
Most relevant part at 7:50 “This actually tastes like oranges” - that’s the benefit of of having legally enforced high food standards - you don’t normalise fake rubbish - you can’t call an orange drink an orange drink without it actually having some oranges in it 🤣
And i was here thinking our fanta tasted like chemicals.
If we consider european junk drinks to be extremely bad, I guess american ones will give us instant disabetes and make us radioactive or speedrun the death of our taste buds 💀
Our energy drinks though
Exaactly, I hate it, it's so fake
Yeah it does have a weird aftertaste I still like it though. Not as much as Coke and Sprite though
I hate this juice. Is like mineral water with alot of sugar and a little bit of orange powder
Great video man! Keep it up!
If something tastes like it's just for kids, don't give it to kids!
Haha, I like that.
That's something that I've noticed about Americans, they treat their kids like they are garbage. I just saw a video of an American family that lives in Romania and they visited a cereal breakfast specialized shop, and they ordered some healthy musli and fruits for them and then ordered "something for the kids" and choose some crappy coloured 80% sugar cereals.
@@RaduRadonysI think some made a 180 where anything sweet is just for the kids and anything healthy for the adults 😂
So no candy or junk food? how are they ever going to make friends.
But you can use it to poison people?
His excitement because the bottle had one of the new caps!!!!🤣🤣🤣
Yes, because thus he knows this is an original European drink.
I stopped the video after that to look for reactions in comments on his reaction. It's a chain reaction.
Man I don't like them. As if I was incapable of putting a lid back on myself. Annoying as heck.
Also eco friendly people no plastic but love these lids 😂😂
@@mick20075 Its called the chef-effect or boss-effect; politicians get some thing explained in a certain way and then decide total bullshit beleaving they did something smart ... cause they were told that way and never got hte side effects explained to them.
Let me tell you a trick about the lid, so it doesn’t get on your way when you are drinking.
If you push the lid a little bit harder it does a “click” sound and stays flat horizontally. At least in my country that’s how it works, so I suppose all Europe follows the same logic.
Yup, that's how it's supposed to work here as well. However that isn't common knowledge here either. I know many people who didn't know until I showed them.
I hate this new type of lids. Have problems with enclosing it again, and sometimes I accidentally tear one side so it’s sharp and hurts my fingers, therefors I rather cut them down from the bottle. 😅 Problem solved. 🎉
I always just rip them Off completely 😂
@@h0mo3rectus69same lmao
Me too, I just rip it off and this goes to show you, what a useless invention it is. @@h0mo3rectus69
I just love your videos. You are so entertaining while being your authentic self. I think that you are really talented for this type of content! I hope you keep it up for a long time! Always happy to see your videos :D
"Why are they selling us this fake crap?" That's easy, they know they can get away with it!
More likely they know people will still buy, cause they don't care. It's not about the laws, but about the people... like everything.
Germany vinvented Fanta. We can tell the original from Fake, so nobody would buy it here .
It’s cheaper and no one is stopping them from selling it. And Americans love getting fucked by companies. Freedumb, baby.
Probably also the fact that artificial chemical flavouring is cheaper to produce compared to real orange juice = higher profit.
I love the excitement about our fixed lid. It's been so annoying to use in the first months, but I personally got used to it and even find it funny that folks from other countries call it the "European lid" now. 😄
For real. We are becoming unexpectedly famous. “Let’s go on vacation to fixed lid land”
It's only annoying until you realise you can just crack the lid and it hangs to the side of the bottle
@@TheJuup dude. people are tooooo dumb to not toss the cap in to the naturre. You really think they are intelligent enough for this?
I always snap 1 of the 2 strings so it just loosely hangs there 🤣
I'm sorry you feel that way, but the fixed lid is the strongest argument for breaking up the EU.
IWrocker and Ryan are breaking out of the American Matrix right before our eyes
Follow the white 🐇
They indeed are
A glitch in the lid
You’re following the white rabbit 🐇 soon you’ll break out of the Matrix
The Americans will come to take our jobs, our ladies...And now our Fanta as well.
The first time I see American Fanta, and I'm like: "That's what my American friends ARE DRINKING??"
The idea for a bottle that size is for pouring into a glass, not drink from the bottle. We have smaller bottles here for that and cans of Fanta
As a Spaniard I would never have said that Fanta tastes like orange juice. What kind of oranges do you have in the U.S.? 😂
I don't dare taste the American version of Fanta...
In europe we have something called glasses, which enable us to only drink a small portion of a bottle
Usually in Europe there are 500ml bottles. I've never seen a litre of Fanta, it's either 500ml or 2L
@aligindahouse7777 there are 25cl, 0.5L and 1L
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:D haha goodone mate
@@aligindahouse7777 in germany there are 500ml, 1L, 1,5L and 2L Bottles ^^ and the small cans around 333ml ^^
US: Carbonated piss with sweetener.
Europe: Orange juice
If you pull the lid a bit further down it will "snap" in place so it won't touch your nose. You can also try to fold it over the opening and then the flat top part of the lid will be facing you while you drink.
Thank you. I just wish they would try pushing it. Such delicate flowers
Or San Pellegrino. You can get in different tastes like lemon mint, pomegranate, grapefruit…, natural flavors, not to sweet.
I was thinking the same thing the whole time :] Just pull a little more man, little more, till that snap :]]]
@@bettinapedersen4363San Pellegrino is much better- I agree
Turn it 30 degrees, the lid will not touch your nose that way 😊
First IWRocker, now Ryan Wuzer....the American Fanta Revolutionary War has begun, it seems.....
Pretty sure IWRocker was the first, neither the last. But yes it's kinda funny he picks it this shortly after. But I guess you have to forget while the iron is hot.
He needs to make join live stream with IWrocker tasting something together. Like a real bread...?
@@Drescher1984 I assume you meant to say "wasn't the first, or the last" and "forge while the iron is hot" cause otherwise very confusing statements...
@@luboinchina3013 Define real bread. I don't particularly disagree or anything, just you know, to be clear I mean.
@@luboinchina3013 No. IWrocker is much better and doesn't need to come down to the Wuzer brothers pathetic levels of YTing.
It was amusing watching Ryan went from "I love orange soda" to "This artificial crap." I'm not saying which one is better, just the reaction is funny to watch.
The current version sold in Italy is 12% orange juice. The UK version is 3.7% orange juice from concentrate, according to its recipe. Greek Orange Fanta is 20% juice from concentrate.
thanks for mentioning having the idea by iWrocker :) he is a nice guy.
He's been converted.
Yeah, so many reaction channels rip each other off. Found one that copied Ryan 1:1 the other day. It's refreshing to see one actually credit their inspiration.
You and iWrocker are actually my favourite USA reaction channels.
Keep it up!
Same.
Try reacting to my roots. And The Magic Kingdom, they’ve been to the U.K. 3 times now.
@@bognagruba7653try reacting to my roots .
the same for me: if i want to laugh and entertain about comparisons between europe and US i always check RYan or lWrocker :D
You must taste Orangina. European Fanta is considered fake tasting in Europe.
Orangina is genuine carbonated orange juice.
👍
thats lie what you say
yeah i disagree too - it‘s a nice soda and you taste orange. But it has added sugar and other fruits in it
This and it have more oranges and pulpes.
@@Michael_from_EU_Germany If you consider that you shouldn't drink that much of the stuff anyway, the price isn't soooo exaggerated. After all, it's not a staple food. Think of it as a treat that you sometimes enjoy even though you're harming your body, but at least it's better quality than the cheap stuff. Sweets and soda should only be sold at high prices and in high quality under fair production conditions anyway, but healthy food must become more affordable.
13:26 glad to see he is looking up the history even though it’s not simple enough for him to understand
I think the shock should be the reverse - what do you mean American Fanta Orange doesn’t contain oranges?!
The color of american fanta looks like the kidney waste from someone in dialisis.
@@apokkalyps6yeah.. now that you mention it it really does look what I had in my bag at hospital
I was an exchange student for 3 months in the US, from Italy. First week I got severe belly and stomach pains. My exchange family actually ordered pizza and what they thought were Italian meals but it was actually fastfood overloaded with sugar, nothing came even close to what we eat in Italy. I realised they actually did it with the best intentions but I asked them if I could prepare us all fresh Italian meals. It’s strange to say but even veggies taste completely different in the US. I made fresh lasagna’s, pizza’s,.. with their kids, who were my age. They were amazed that it tasted so great but I was amazed it tasted nothing like in Italy while we always use my Nonna’s recipe. I don’t really like sweets or soda’s. I was happy that I found my favorite Italian cookies in the US, and hugely disappointed they tasted nothing like in Italy. I ate those in Spain, Belgium, Germany,… they tasted exactly like in Italy. In the US you taste that they added much more sugar to them. I was wondering why they did this? I am not even amazed that a lot of Americans have a sugar addiction. Even coffee taste like sugar. When my exchange family came to visit us last summer, they were totally amazed about everything but especially our food. They said that they felt in heaven. I am one of the few people who really don’t like fastfood.
Yup same... I'm Irish... and I food it very difficult to feed myself in the U.S. EVERYTHING made me sick! and The chocolate and cheese smells and taste straight up like vomit. No joke! No exaggerating! There is a taste of vomit from the chocolate.
@@Dracorientalis The difference is the milk in US making also the chocolate and cheese be different. They don't pasteurize the milk.
@Megalomaniakaal No the difference is they add shit their food that should be in it. In the case of chocolate they add butyric acid to it which is also in stomach bile. With cheese its something similar!
Americans who come to Europe for the first time are amazed by McDonald's.
@tihomirrasperic Oh I know... my cousin came to visit in oreland and bit into the burger. just the first bite... and he goes with a full mouth "wait its really beef?" LMAO
In France, Fanta contains: orange juice from concentrate (10%); lemon juice from concentrate (2%) and no "corn syrup" which is prohibited : high risk of obesity, diabetes and other diseases linked to sugar abuse...
Corn syrup is not prohibited in France... Is there absolutely nothing people won't just make up stuff about!?
@@callum9999correct it isn’t banned in the EU, and even the quotas placed on its use are for the purpose of fair agricultural and economic development and nothing to do with health. However it is banned here in Australia for health reasons - but it can still make its way in via imported products from the U.S. and elsewhere.
The Italian version has 12% orange.
Nothing Yeah it's not prohibited, stop spreading old wives tales.
"Contrary to common opinion, high fructose corn syrup isn't banned in Europe. Referred to as isoglucose or glucose-fructose syrup in this region, use of high fructose corn syrup is restricted because it's under a production quota"
Another thing to note is that corn syrup in Europe has less fructose (sugar), it is also much less produced and used in general.
It's not the same product as the American version.
The American version simply does not exist in Europe unless someone wants to import it, which would make it more expensive and there is the downside of not catering to the local market.
6:10 "Does this actually have juice in it?" The most american thing i heard today 😂
"Do you know how many times I've woken up at night wanting a drink, put the bottle to my mouth thinking it was the neck, but it was actually the cap, and ended up pouring it all over my face? Those damn caps." 🤣🤣🤣
0:52 jokes on you .. that is not a portion, there are 5 portions in it ;)
Nah. It's supposed to be 5
4
1:08
Ryan, you are an inquisitive and thoughtful man, I think you should go to Europe in person.
I saw a taste test with French chlldren once and they nearly spit out the American product. Their exact words: it tastes like chemical water!
Do you have a link to that video?
those kids are blessed
The American one tastes so bad
I find it funny that you were so happy about the lid, I despise those lmao
I've never seen someone so enthusiastic and happy about that cap that hangs over😂
I hate them , so annoying and he was so happy😅
I wish the worst fates to the bureaucrats that forced those things on us
@foetusdeletus6313 why is that a bad thing.
@@emycharaa because it's a non issue and they get paid 80000 euros a month to make my life worse.
The lid is also harder to screw back on properly and ripping it off just leaves plastic shrapnel sticking in your hand, like a spike dog leash.
@@emycharaa It's really annoying to screw them back on, which makes drinking during a traffic stop way more difficult than with a normal lid.
Orange soda in US - color
Orange soda in EU - fruit
EXACTLY
The lid in Europe was aweful at beginning, but you get use to it quickly. It's to get more plastic recykled.
It actually speaks about how dumb people are, that they can't even keep the lid with the bottle when recycling
@@apokkalyps6 i think a big issue was that people just threw the caps away separately, causing the wild life and nature to suffer with the tiny caps getting to the nature and microplastic getting everywhere. People like to throw trash anywhere but the trashcans for some reason and they cry when companies decide to fix that issue? that's what's scary to me.
No you don't get used to it. It's annoying as fuck. Specially for those of us who didn't throw the lids away in the first place and now have to deal with this bullshit. I cut mines with scissors or it's impossible to drink from the bottle without getting your cheek or your nose wet, or spilling the drink precisely while trying not to get wet, not to mention that it sometimes just closes on its own and ends up spilling the drink anyways. If people were just less filthy we would still have normal lids.
i always rip that lid off like its sooo annyoing
@@SprzedawcaFotowoltaikiyou can just push it down and it will stay down. Its really not that hard…
What a concept! Soda with orange flavour has actual orange fruit in it
Fun Fact: Fanta was originally produced in Germany 12:23 [ It derived from the german phrase Fantastisch = wonderful ]
It also originally had no Oranges in it.
@@1Kaisermerlin it was made of potatoes if I'm not mistaken
since 1940 🤭😁
Indeed, it was made by Coke Deutschland after the US trade embargoed the country.
So the American one is the historically correct one (as there was an embargo in Germany after WWII when they launched it) still to drink orange flavour! Wow - it was Fanta(sy) drink! Now Europeans we destroyed our cultural heritage 😂
I'm from Sweden, and while Fanta is still my favourite, I still find it sickly sweet. To me, the big king is always Orangina, that actually tastes of Orange. :-D
Swedish soda is actually much sweeter than in most other countries. For some reason. And yes I don't like soda in general because of that. If I want some orange juice like drink I go for "Mer".
Trocadero is the best soda in sweden 😅😅😅
As an Austrian I recommend Frucade. 🙂
@@pdobani Yeah. One of the few I like.
we rip the lid off
11:03 that is exactly how we Europeans (at least everyone I know) reacted the first time we used those caps 😂 we're not so different after all! 🤝
first time I used such cap I thought it was a faulty one and just ripped it off :D after the 3rd or 4th one I started to realize it must be done on purpose... :D
Germany does it better, where it's attached on just 1 side so you can easily put it out of the way whilst still being attached.
@@MLWJ1993 We have both types, depending on brand. I don't like either of them to be honest...
@@interstellar.overdrive I still rip them of at times 😅
The first thing I do is rip it off! 😂
1:25 "Contains no juice."
Welp.
I encourage all Americans to also do the test. Get a european Fanta, compare it to the US-Version and than ask yourself that question: "Why do we get the fake?" When you find the answer to that question than you know what´s going wrong with your country generally.
Orange soda isn't supposed to have juice in it, it's soda pop
@@boscotheman82 Then why call it orange soda in the first place? Also, Orangina would like to know where you live.
That sounds like a stupid excuse to drink chemicals@@boscotheman82
@@boscotheman82 Soda pops are carbonated juice. If they didn't want to be juice, why make it orange and suggest that it actually has orange in it?
"Let's make Fanta oranges again!"
I wonder if the EU version was also more artificial from the start though..
European Fanta tastes nice and refreshing.
American Fanta tastes sickly sweet and artificial.
I live in Europe and everyone I know thinks it tastes sickly sweet and artificial here too.
I really wonder how the American one tastes.
@@uxydra6403 I've tried it when was living in UAE, same color as the yankee one and it tastes basically like sugar with some chemical inside.
@ like chemically modified syrup.
The lid is to reduce plastic waste. Most of the lids does not get to the recycling center, because people tend to not care about lids, or throw it away.
Most of them, really, MOST OF them? You are on something to be honest. It is still a good idea, but, MOST OF THEM? Are you sure about that? I'm sure you're not because that's just not true.
@@Jorgerally35 That is literally the reason the EU did it.
Most of them is just 100% wrong. Close to none of them get thrown away separately. And those that do, they're the ones also just throwing the bottle away somewhere. The EU again "solved" a non existent problem.
I thought they did that because idiots kept losing those lids. How do you even pull off something like that?
"Dammit, I lost the lid again!"
@@samsungtab3977 I think its cause of countries like spain and france where alot people buy bottled water and people use the streets to throw trash rather than the bins.
From Chatgpt:
There is a notable difference in the formulation of Fanta between Europe and the USA, particularly regarding the use of real orange juice. The European version of Fanta often contains actual orange juice, while the American version typically does not. Here are a few reasons for this difference:
1. Consumer Preferences and Regulations
EU Regulations: In the European Union, there are stricter regulations around food and beverage ingredients. Products labeled as "orange soda" often need to meet certain criteria, like having a minimum percentage of real juice.
US Regulations: The US FDA has less stringent requirements for the use of fruit juice in sodas. As a result, the American version focuses more on artificial flavors and sweeteners rather than real juice.
2. Cost and Production Differences
Using real orange juice can be more expensive due to sourcing and quality control. For large markets like the USA, using artificial flavors and less juice helps keep costs down.
European consumers tend to prefer more natural ingredients, even in sodas, whereas the US market has historically been more accepting of highly processed products.
3. Taste Preferences
In Europe, there is a general preference for beverages with a more natural and less sweet taste. This aligns with the inclusion of real juice, giving it a slightly different taste profile compared to the sweeter, more synthetic American version.
The answer is very simple. In Europe, there is public healthcare. Therefore, food regulations are more stringent because the healthier people are, the smaller the burden on the state budget. That is why carcinogenic ingredients are not allowed for general consumption and that is why food in Europe is of better quality. In the USA, medical companies and hospitals care about people getting sick because it is a billion-dollar business. And the caps are attached because it reduces environmental pollution by 10%. You know, a healthy environment means healthier people. In the USA, no one cares about that.
@@kabohuko2041 Yep, in the US only profits and money matter first people second.
Minute 10:46 - Because, as I said in my previous message, in Italy you can't use a fruit name (or name derivation) or a fruit image if there isn't at least 12% of that fruit juice
In Greece is 20% and is still fake
Essentially it's because your government mainly cares for the corporations interests and ours cares for the citizens interests (at least more so)
In Greece Fanta contains 20% juice but still taste like crap. Lux (another competitor) it's by far the best orange soda in Greece. You should give a try to their products.
The lid thing is a fairly new thing in Europe, we are still getting use to it. But you can twist it and break it off, if it annoys you.
Yeah, it took me a few weeks to get used to it. By now I have perfected the angle and can keep the lid on, away from my face. It took a few tries.
@@andij605 I still spill often. Either while ripping off the cap or the liquid in the cap drips on my hand while tilting it to take a sip. I'm very pro EU but this law has me rethinking that. And all because some psychopaths throw the cap away before they're done. Who the hell doesn't keep it to screw it back on before throwing away. That has to be less than 10%. I've never seen anyone in my life open a soda and discard the cap. That's what cans are for. The nice thing about a bottle is that you can close it again, which the tab doesn't help, it needs to be longer.
If you push the lid a little further it will make a clicking sound and stay in place. It shouldn't bother you after that. They could've actually explained this in the first place though because you have to almost accidentally get there just to know this.
@@Iyashikei-t4u THIS!! Im baffled by how many people dont know about it.
I just cut mine off, it's not like I'm going to throw it away and carry round an empty bottle
Colour of American Fanta is quite unappetizing. Euro Fanta isn't a healthy drink, but at least it isn't liquid neon.
i still remember that many many decades ago as a child, we got similarly colored fanta during holidays in italy, and it also had a different taste from the current or german one. but a few decades ago, EU regulations stopped the use of lots of additives and colors.
Looks like poison.😕😕
@@Klaus-em3ixfor me, it looks like the liquid of Knicklichter
it's cool to see you are so happy about this :D really fun to watch
Riiiight - the lid it's what's important. Pull it down just a little more, and it will snap out of your way permanently (a two stage thing) while still being attached. The point is it will not be descarded and left in nature. If that resonate with you or not, I have no idea. It should, though.
1:53 "Contains jo juice" not even the USSR have a red flag that big
That i was gonna comment! Lol
However, China. . .
That was the first thing I noticed as well, apart from the disgusting colour.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 gold comment
The orange juice content in Fanta varies between European countries. There is 20% orange juice in the Greek Fanta, while in most countries it's up to 5%.
❤Greek fanta is just best
yeah we only have 10% in france :(
German has 25%
In Spain has 8%
the "lid thing" is to make it stick to the bottle so laying around plastic in the environment is reduced and it is disposed 'in one piece' so the (micro-)plastic in the food chain and in the environment is reduced. They introduced it not too long ago, a year or two, I'd say.
And everyone hates it XD
You can twist the lid, which breaks one of the two links and increases the distance of the lid to the bottle.
At least with most lids I've seen recently.
Here we have Fanta Shokata (blue bottle), Fanta Tropic, and 8 other different fruit flavors. These Fantas are insanely great!