US vs UK Ikea | Food Wars | Insider Food
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- From exclusive items to portion sizes, we wanted to find all the differences between IKEA food in the US and the UK. This is Food Wars.
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tf i thought they were comparing tables and desks 😭😭
It’s called *Food* Wars not *Furniture* Wars
🙄🤦🏻♂️
@@AlantoniumTry Guys chime in: It’s called EAT THE FURNITURE
@@AlantoniumSounds like a good series for Michel Lotito. Which has better taste and is easier to digest. Lol
No 😂 ikea has food too
Norwegian here. Gravlax is not the same as smoked salmon. Graving is a completely different way of preserving and flavoring fish. Graving is packing the salmon tightly with a weight on top, with a mixture of herbs, sugar, and salt.
Smoked Salmon or Lox is salted and smoked, Gravlax is cured in a saltwater brine, other spices are subjective to region and style
i am from too norway
@@IronMouseAndyI am from Norway as well
@@xu. nice
I got to visit IKEA Slependen last week as part of my job, you guys really do have a good menu over there. I am jealous that Napoleon Cake is a common dessert there!
In case people don’t know - the Daim Cake is available in the frozen section of a lot of UK supermarkets! It’s also totally gluten free! ❤️
And probs crap.
My mother and sister have celiac, so there would be Daim cake at every single family gathering as an easy way to accommodate them 😂
@@LinariaFreezesame as me! 😂
it looks nice
But it’s gone from £3 to £4 bloody inflation 😂
Sadly, what was left out of the video was the nutritional difference between the US and UK Blahaj Shark and Djungelskog Bear plushies. I feel like that's something pretty important to note
I think the blahaj on the table was a baby blahaj. I'm from the UK and own an adult blahaj and a djungelskog, and they're much more similar in size. Rest assured, British blahajes are not malnourished.
@@o_khalri_nasaiBlåhaj is a word created by IKEA 😂
Blåval = (blue) whale
Haj = shark
I guess that makes it a Whaleshark? ...and therefore the confusion about the size 🤷🏻♀️🤷🏻♀️
Ps. Djungelskog is just as confusing:
Djungel = jungle
Skog = forrest
🤷🏻♀️🤦🏻♀️
The fish and chips is actually not a localisation to the UK market, it's a staple at Swedish IKEAs and served exactly the same way! Breaded fish is a bit of a classic everyday dish here actually, though usually served with boiled potatoes.
Don’t forget the “kall sås.”
Often remoulade
Interesting!! Not shocking though, it's northern Europe, it's cold and we've got lots of coastline- we'll eat fish in as many ways as possible lol. We (Brits) actually eat a lot of breaded fish at home - classic childhood dinner is fish fingers (breaded), potato smiley faces (basically chips cut into smiley faces instead) and baked beans or spaghetti hoops. But when you buy 'fish and chips' in the UK it's usually battered unless stated otherwise
We love meat and jam too haha
As a Swede I felt like crying when Joe called Lingonberry, cranberry. This video makes me wanna cry!
Every British person spitting out their tea when Joe said "they start dogging". 😅
i read your comment before i got to that part of the video. i’m even more confused than i thought i would be…still not google it to find out what american dogging is !
@@onemorechrisjust don’t go there! The term ‘dogging’ definitely has different connotations in the UK.
Same
What does it mean in British
@@freshrosemarypublic sex
The "fish & chips" is really a swedish variant of it. We love breaded fish with potatoes and remoulade sauce and have that on the swedish IKEA menu.
Remouladsås, you're sure about that? Not bea?? 👀
@@AA-qg6to bea with fish? no way
@@AA-qg6to är du dum eller, vem äter fisk med bea?
@@bogiesmigforl1 det finns många här där jag bor som gör det 🤷 finns även i restaurangen på jobbet
I love battered fish like at the local chippy 😅
As a heads up… in the uk/Europe at least, IKEA have joined many other retailers from Sweden in stopping purchasing from Mondelez (owners of Cadbury/daim) because they are still profiting significantly from their operations in Russia - so Daim chocolates and Daim cake will be something you won’t find soon…
There are alternatives on their way soon to replace the Mondelez products.
The cake is an exception as it's not actually made by Mondelez.
Daim cake is made by an obscured sweden company or something afaik.
@jomarcentermjm there are more then one factory making these chocolates
The Daim Cake 🤤 impressive how every IKEA looks exactly the same inside
It’s multi manufactured and can be found at every grocery store in Sweden. Tastes the same, and probably is the same, as the Almondy daim cake
Lingonberries are popular throughout Scandinavia, Not just Sweden
Loved this. My son works for IKEA in one of their restaurants (UK). Did you know the staff restaurant is even better, and subsidised. IKEA do look after their staff.
pre-Covid they used to have a midsummer crayfish celebration party. In our local IKEA they used to have an Abba tribute band and all the crayfish, meatballs, salads and dessert you could eat. Great fun!
Yep, 90p for fish and chips on a Friday is a steal! Same with the Salmon. It does depend on which store you work for though.
The crayfish festival never made any sense to me to celebrate a Swedish tradition with Chinese crayfish.
There's an IKEA opening up near me (also in the UK; London specifically), would you mind saying the pros/cons of working there, since I'm considering applying there? Thank you in advance ^_^
@@mathieu51782 Ikea is a fun company to work for. Competitive pay, lots of opportunities for advancement and lots of company perks like 15% store discount and cheap food in the co-worker restaurant.
The only con I can think of is they only hire part time positions. Ikea offers part-time contracts usually between 24, 30, 40, 50 and 60 hours minimum per fortnight. You might be on one of these lower contracts but you'll often pick up more shifts depending which department you are in.
If you do decide to apply for a position, remember that attitude is the key. You may not have the right experience they are looking for, but if you have the right attitude and are a positive person, Ikea will hire and train you.
@@Grievous-what do ypu mean? It's a celebration of the crayfish season, and very much caught in sweden. There's even different kinds depending on what coast you're on!
The 1D reference Was unexpected & I’m so here for it loved this video so much :)
as a Swede, you wonder what a Stockholm salad is. can't even google it so it's probably an American name, but looks like green salad with raw spiced salmon and butler sauce = hovmästarsås. there are several kinds of so-called shrimp salads in Sweden. Skagen batter "Skagenröra" that you have on toast as an entree. then you have a thick, creamy prawn salad that is sold in sausage stands. then shrimp salad, which is green salad, tomato, cucumber, etc., and shrimp, but some additional dressing. much like pizza there are lots of different pizzas. this is just a clarification in case someone goes to Sweden and wants to try the food, it can be so wrong if you don't know what to order. but you should definitely try the toast skagen
A daim bar is a thin solidified caramel bar (also called hard toffee) which has been covered in a milk chocolate coating.
US IKEA food worker here, there are a few things I noticed.
1. It's still called the daim cake at my location
2. They mentioned stuff that was discontinued like the lingonberry ribs. Again, at least at my location.
3. Meatballs are cheaper at my location (though this makes sense to me, as this video was filmed in California)
4. That US pizza was overcooked, you can tell by the burn marks on the bottom.
Just a note, these are my own observations and they do not represent the company as a whole. (I'm only saying this to not have any lawyers coming after me and I will not reveal my exact location.)
Too late I fear. You've given enough away in your comment. I just hope the famously relentless Ikea lawyers are not big Insider Food viewers.
Happy to do a character witness if/when needed.
I need to go into ikea just for the cafeteria but loved the cinnamon rolls and ice cream you get at lower level near the exit.
Yeah I’m from Canada, but the restaurant definitely varies from store to store.
@@affalaffaaSwedes are known for never making a fuss about anything, there's an expression here called "Knyta näven i fickan" ('making a fist in your pocket') i.e even though you're really upset, you won't act upon it...
Another great episode! Glad to have them both doing Food Wars again!
I used to work in the Cardiff, Wales IKEA store when it first opened in 2003. I remember us all getting an email saying we'd sold our 1 MILLIONTH meatball. Yes, they'd been counting them for months!
as any proper business doing market research ought to :D
especially if the leadership is saying the meatballs are the #1 sofa sellers :D
Wow! The selection here in Spain doesn't compare at all to the ones in the US and UK! I actually really like Ikea food! Loved it guys!
Yea in Czechia we have like way less. I think it's Meatballs, veggie balls and the salmon...
But we have something I would never change: Mozzarela sticks
Fun fact, I’ve been to Spain for holidays and having lunch at IKEA. For me it was the novelty, we don’t have it in my country.
Weirdly, I had the best IKEA meal I’ve had in Murcia. Some lump of meat on the bone with potato and veg. (TBF, my options are limited because I’m GF, but that was Spain FTW.)
@@alextrevelian it's always a fun fact to hear about random strangers holidays.
@@ImolosSweden does have mozzarella sticks but not at IKEA. We get those at Burger King or McDonald's...
For the Dime Cake, the UK version works out at 16% bigger based on the numbers on the screen (75g vs. 63g), not 77%. Also, for the hot dog, a 52% increase would be easier to visualise than a 34% decrease.
Thank you! I saw that and was like "that doesn't look right".
Math isn't mathing
Thanks! I was really questioning myself there.
Yeah...Ikea dates are popular even in Malaysia. And Ikea in Malaysia is usually connected to a mall (Toppen/MyTown) so it kinda accommodate to anything you need all under one roof.
Mytown and the curve damansara! 😍
Just found your channel on my Roku thing. I love the comparisons between the 2 countries. Keep up the good work.
Wonderful & entertaining as ever😀
These two gracious presenters nail it every time😄
Never forgotten: The Pferdelasange 😂 (Horse Lasanga). 2013 was a great year. Love this episode 😂 especially the last talk!
I used to binge watch this last year, i just randomly thought of it, glad you all are still creating content!
A singaporean here, you should really do an episode with a comparison of USA, UK and Singapore Ikeas. We have different sides for meatballs and we have really a lot of foods that are sometimes given an Asian twist
These clowns have probably never heard of Singapore.
used to live in singapore. the fried chicken in singapore ikea is amazing with tabasco lol
@@Alienman1212 Singapore fried chicken is like a staple for most to order. But tabasco- wow
Daim bars just remind me of one thing. That advert that said “I like armadillos…crunchy on the outside, smooth on the inside. Armadillo’s!
i've been to ikea a lot lately because i recently moved, but only ate there once. it was middle of the morning and i was feeling a bit hungry, so i went into the food court real quick. i got a cinnamon bun. it was my first time eating one, because they're not really a thing in portugal. dear lord it was delicious, best pastry i've ever eaten in my entire life, and i come from the country of pasteis de nata, it's better than those. thank god it's literally on the complete opposite side of the city from where i live or i'd be getting those things regularly, my teeth and waist wouldn't be very pleased
If you like Swedish pastries... Semla season is coming up 😬
@@erikak8665 looking it up, it seems like someone saw a berliner and decided to make a gourmet version of it
When I was younger my mom and her best friend always took us to Ikea every few weeks, I always chose to eat Köttbullar.
Now as an adult, I rarely go to Ikea anymore, only if I really need something. But ill make sure to always stop at the restaurant and eat the salad with shrimp or salmon, whatever is available that day.
However I always make sure to buy so much at (the small grocery shop close to cashiers). Daim, the fishpatee in tubes, chips/crisps. Its all sooo gooood.
(Im from germany)
Love these comparisons 😊
Oh my gosh what a great episode idea!!!!!
The Diam/almond caramel cake is so good!! 💯
The Daim Cake is literally the BEST thing ever. If you havent tried it, PLEASE do! In Denmark(and sweden) you Can even get it in the frozen section at the supermarket
some uk supermarkets sell it too.
My furry lad, Djungelskog! What a hero!
As a Swede, it feels very wrong to serve meatballs with fries. I don't even think they have that option at Swedish IKEAs. Boiled or mashed potatoes is where it's at 🙌
The best dessert is the Princess cake, a iced cream cake with rasberry jam and marizpan. But the best thing is to buy them frozen from the grocery section, and enjoy them when they're semi-frozen. ❤
princess cake has not been available in the USA for years, now. i don't know if it's available in other countries, but the swedish ikea website does not have it for sale (they had other frozen desserts like daim cake and almondy) and I'd assume they would if anyone does.
It’s soo good, whenever I’m in Sweden visiting my family I always get it, the taste and texture are unmatched
Love how here in Canada we have a mix of these menu's hahha. Though I'm almost certain that our fish and chips had battered fish but now I have to check to be sure!
i live literally across the road from the very first ikea store in the UK in warrington and always go just for food because its so cheap!
Ikea.... Yeah. I Would've have never have thought this was gonna be on food wars. Well done.
Does 'dogging' in the US mean the same as it does here in the UK 🇬🇧 🤔 😂
You've never been dogging in an IKEA?
It’s slang for making fun of
And in the UK it’s slang for exhibitionist sex in a public place… so no, it really doesn’t mean the same! 😂
oh dear
I was looking for this comment, was really unsure where he was going with that point 😂
They also have fish and chips in Canada as well, but it's haddock and it's served with tartar sauce and lemon
Joe: "and also if the person starts, like, dogging.“ I have to wonder how Harry reacted to that as a British person 😂😂😂
"Start dogging on it" definitely means two different things in the UK and the USA 🤣
looking for this
really appreciate the one direction reference thank u
Had no idea that Ikea had any food apart from the Meatballs, this is eye opening
I worked at that Burbank IKEA many years ago. They were a great company to work for and really looked after the employees. At least that store did at the time, but I got the impression it was the company as a whole. One of the best things they did was, during the holidays, they gave employees a line of credit to buy basically anything you needed at the store, and then you could have it taken out of your paycheck in very manageable amounts over time. I also really love lingonberry, and you can still buy lingonberry jam in the Swedish shop in the front of the store.
When christmas is comming close, food wars should be looking at the differences in the ikea christmas buffee(julbord)
The Daim cake is amazing!
this is a really good video :0
Great video!
The video I never thought I needed
I’ve only ever been to IKEA once. We don’t have one in my state. I never knew they had so many food options. I always thought they just had meatballs.
The thorough-ness of these videos is so satisfying
Loved the Djungelskog and Blåhaj shout outs!!
I love the daim cake. It often grab it from the freezer isle of the supermarket
If you go at Christmas, you can get chocolate Orange Diam bites and Apple and Cinnamon pie at the UK ones.
I know, I went just before Christmas last year.
Love u guys, God bless
27:08 omgggg i love ikea dates. It’s so fun to be like ooo look this is what our apartment is gonna look like and to have a nice meal together and to get a plushie. It’s a great place for affordable and chill dates. You don’t have to spend loads of money to have a nice date
Cool video. Now I’m interested to see IKEA Sweden vs USA
I love Ikea's bistro cinnamon rolls, I always buy a pack when I go...except last time they were completely out =( (West Sacramento, California, USA location). Last time I was there, they didn't have half of the options the US guy had at his location.
Back in the day, I used to eat ribs very very delicious ribs at the Ikea in Schaumburg IL... they were amazing, don't know if they still make them
My last bed suddenly broke so i had to go to Ikea last minute to buy a bed, it was kinda expensive but also not super bad i guess? The bed i got was really nice and the mattress is INCREDIBLY nice! Admittedly it is my first time sleeping on a new mattress in a very long time, but i think i have had it for around a year now and it's still great! Softened but great! Although yeah, i am a fan of their hotdogs!
Like Harry i don't live super close to one so Ikea is a trip with intention, but seeing those plushies, man, i really regret not getting the large whale shark and i want it so bad!
They have the coolest plushies. For some reason we acquired various Ikea rats over the years anytime we went for my dog (who we lost in Dec 2022). We still have all these damn little ikea rat plushies, varying in size, all over our house with missing legs, ears, and stuffing 😂. Those plushies were my dogs favourite!
The IKEA Dark lager is legitimately a decent beer. I was there recently and couldn’t believe how good it was for £1.99 (though maybe I just really needed a drink after a day of ikea shopping 😂)
Got to agree with Harry, penne is a low tier pasta shape. They were doing the a meal deal with pasta and a drink (and a slice of garlic bread I think) for a super low price over the summer here in the UK, something like £2.95.
That’s cheaper than a Tesco meal deal wow
You should do a Autumn/fall comparison in the mould of the Christmas videos. Namely, comparing all of the differing restaurants fall products, e.g., PSL.
Don't know why they didn't add sweden's number #1 pastry the non frozen cinnamon bun,the ikea close to me in england has it.
Sometimes my partner and I just go to Ikea for the Meal, we walk around beforehand to build up our appetite and then after we eat we walk around
again to get our bodies moving and then end up buying a pack of frozen meatballs 😅
Ikea in Japan! Vegetarian paradise
I thought that Joe would say "DAMN CAKE" at some point in the video. I was left in disappointment 😂😔. I'm Swedish and the Swede in me got so happy/proud when you guys did a video of Swedish stuff/food 😊
Same, me and my family now live in the uk and when my siblings went to ikea and eat the first time in uk ikea, I was disappointed with the picture of the food they sent fish and mashed potatoe with cream and peas😅 but the second visit was different
They should have compared Swedish IKEA to the American one though...
@@erikak8665 Is there a lot of a difference between the Swedish and the US Ikea? Have never been to a Ikea in the US 😬😅
@@jaykob87 Well, according to this video there is 🤷🏻♀️ They seem to have a lot of non-authentic options over there...
IKEA where I live definitely does takeaway.
wow kinda unexpected but great!
2:23 how dose the cake weight 77percent extra with just 8g difference
Hey. Random idea for these videos. Would it be possible to add a price for the items in each country? It would make it easier to compare who gets a better value for their money.
Thankyou Harry Bro for this
6:26 why is eu plug
Not uk plug?
As an IKEA staff member. I get this food really cheap as it’s subsidised in the co-worker restaurant. I love it.
Canal super educativo
Delicious IKEA Food!!!
Nice!
IKEA’S veggie balls are the best and so full of flavour. I buy them frozen, recommend them to any vegetarian.
I used to went to IKEA for the roast beef. It was basically the same as many proper restaurants but cheaper.
I've never been to an Ikea, I always thought it was just someone at a kiosk selling the meatballs haha. This all looks so good!
As a swede I wholeheartedly recommend ikea, totally not biased
same here
Well the hot dogs etc are sold at kiosks after the tills. Going to Ikea is a treat for me. I could spend hours in there it’s just fun 😅. You defo need to visit one!
Where do you buy your furniture? And candles? 😉
nope! ours has a huge atrium/cafeteria, so you get both natural light and temperature control, with a more kid-friendly section nearby so families with kids can eat there. It's honestly a delight to have lunch at Ikea.
Very Nice
I feel like whenever I go to IKEA I turn into a big kid. I remember going there with a friend and playing hide and seek. Then she picked up a toy alien and started going up to strangers & saying “bleep blop bloop blop?” Some people looked very uncomfortable, but a few of them responded in alien talk. I was in my mid 20s, & my friend was in her early 30s & divorced with 2 kids.
At my IKEA location we definitely offer take out but only at the smaller bistro near the checkouts of the store though they don't offer everything that the restaurant does!
We just tried Ikea for the first time at Ikea Qatar!!
In the IKEA in Belfast there are scones, jam and an odd pasteurised clotted cream. I wish this was on offer in IKEA in the south of the UK.
Scones and clotted cream? That's what Swedish people get when they pay £30 to have an exotic English Afternoon Tea 😆
It's really interesting to see IKEA UK and USA have tons of menu compared with in the Indonesia. Curiously, plant based version of Swedish Meatball is available despite of low number of vegetarian in Indonesia.
The daim cake is so daim good. I love it
I like the little market. I buy lingonberry and elderflower concentrate, meatballs, and the chocolate cookies.
i need a massive bag of mini Daim bars now
Is the American hotdog pork or is it beef like a lot of companies use? I made the mistake of getting a hotdog in UK Five Guys and Costco and both were beef
So awesome ikea power
i've had horse meat a few times, it tastes hardly any different from beef. i get the issue being that it was being sold as a different meat and if that's the case then you're also not sure how safe for consumption it might be. but as long as it's fully safe to eat with the only issue being that it's not labelled as horse, it's not that big of a deal. i think it's actually a good source of iron, like ostrich meat
The Daim bar is very similar to the USA Heath or Skor bar.
Ikea in saudi is the best i have so much nostalgia of their first location in riyadh
Most of the stuff in my apartment is from IKEA, however its not a lot of decoration, more funiture and utensils.
However, my most favorite Item is "PJÄTTERYD Picture - peekaboo". My nickname is Teddy (as you could guess by my youtube name) and I love the picture so much.
I’ve had the salmon in an Australian ikea, it’s great.
My Aussie nearest we have a few, n I volunteer (pretty plea mate) as tributes to represent my state and country
good video
you got to love their meatballs!!
In the U.S., you can get the meatballs a la carte for $1.50 each set of 4. You can add unlimited amount to your order as well.