we wanted to find out all the differences between

Mountain Dew in the UK and the US.

This is "Food Wars."

In the UK, Mountain Dew comes in three portion sizes.

Firstly, we have this 330-milliliter can.

Then we have a 500-milliliter bottle.

Then we have our largest size,

which is a 1-liter bottle.

In the US, Mountain Dew comes in six portion sizes.

The smallest is this 7.5-ounce mini can.

Then we have our standard 12-ounce can,

then a 16-ounce,

or 1-pint, can.

Then we go to bottles.

We have a 16.9, or 500-milliliter, bottle.

Jump up to the 20-ounce bottle,

and our largest size,

the 2-liter bottle.

As you can see, I don't currently have a 1-liter bottle,

as it was surprisingly hard to track down.

I finally thought I'd found some on Amazon

and ordered a six-pack.

Then this showed up.

They helpfully sent me 12 500-milliliter bottles,

which is the same as six times 1 liter.

However, not really what we were going for. Thanks, guys.

Ha! Our largest size is double the size of the UK's,

and we don't even stop there.

In the US, our largest single Mountain Dew item is this.

[cheering]

24-pack of 12-ounce cans.

That's 8.52 liters of Mountain Dew,

or 2.25 gallons.

It's a little unclear what our largest single item is.

On the UK website, there is a multipack listed,

but it doesn't say how many cans are in one,

and I also couldn't find one anywhere.

So I called Britvic, who manufacture Mountain Dew

here in the UK on behalf of PepsiCo,

and an employee for them told me that

the multipack actually doesn't exist.

The largest item that the company had

on their own records that they produce is this.

A 24-pack of cans.

However, this is technically marketed at retailers

rather than consumers, as you can see

by the fact that they have prices on the cans.

We don't usually count wholesale on this show,

so technically a 1-liter bottle is our largest size,

if you can find one.

Joe: That makes the US's largest item

752% larger than the UK's.

It's also worth pointing out the difference in price

between Mountain Dew in the two countries.

Sugary sodas in the UK get hit with a sugar tax,

which raises their price

in an effort to stop people from drinking them.

If you buy a 500-milliliter Mountain Dew

from a Sainsbury's in the UK, for example,

it will cost you 1 pound 25 pence,

which was around $1.69

at the time of recording this.

Nice.

The closest thing at that price point in the US

is this 2-liter.

According to Target, this is listed as $1.98.

You must be joking.

This isn't even $2?

Look at this.

That is alarmingly cheap.

For every milliliter in the UK bottle,

you're paying 0.338 cents.

Every milliliter of this 2-liter

costs 0.0995 cents.

That's 70% cheaper than the UK price.

Hang on.

Don't you feel like when you go to a bodega or something,

this is, like, a dollar?

So not only is Mountain Dew super cheap,

but then when you get it at a sandwich shop

or something, you're getting gouged!

Oof!

Here are all the Mountain Dew products in the UK

that you won't find in the US.

Here are all the Mountain Dew products

you can find in the US you will not find in the UK.

[groans]

Show this video to the paramedics.

We can actually only get

three Mountain Dew products in the UK,

one of which I couldn't even find today.

I guess you could sort of call

our standard Mountain Dew in the UK an exclusive,

because here it's marketed as Mountain Dew Citrus Blast,

while in the US, it's just Mountain Dew.

This also comes in a diet version,

which is the thing that I couldn't find today.

The only other thing we can get in the UK is this,

which is a SodaStream Mountain Dew syrup.

For those of you who don't know,

SodaStream is a device which lets you

carbonate your own drinks at home.

PepsiCo owns both Mountain Dew and SodaStream,

so I guess it made sense for them to just

mash their products together.

Now, I love sparkling water,

so I actually own my own SodaStream,

and we can use it to make our own Mountain Dew.

Take one of your little SodaStream water bottles,

fill it with water, screw it into the machine.

Once it's nice and secure, press the magic button.

SodaStream, if you want to sponsor me,

you know where to find me.

And bang. You have fizzy water.

Ta-da.

Nice splash of the syrup.

That is a strange color on that.

I don't think that's what I was expecting it to look like.

So, I think our homemade stuff actually

might look slightly more appealing.

You could kind of pass this off as more of a fruity soda

rather than Mountain Dew from the bottle,

which is a bit more translucent,

just a bit more pallid and weak,

and not really sure what's going on there.

That's actually not bad.

That's actually not bad. It's quite a mild flavor.

It's not actually aggressively sweet.

Also not too bubbly. I guess you have a bit more

control over the bubble level with the SodaStream.

Despite the difference in the color,

they actually taste really similar.

That's actually a pretty accurate recreation.

[exhales]

Jesus Christ.

That's one of the sweetest things

I've ever tasted in my entire life.

God.

It's like they've crammed more sugar

than there is space into that. Ugh.

I am guaranteeing, Yuelei,

I'm going to throw up in the middle of this.

In the US, we have something you can't get in the UK,

and it's Mountain Dew zero sugar.

Apparently even diet Mountain Dew

still has some sugar in it.

I'm not surprised at all.

Let's see what we got.

Regular.

Zero sugar.

Wow, that's, like, really close.

I don't mean to do the

Mountain Dew zero sugar commercial here,

but it tastes exactly like regular Mountain Dew.

Mountain Dew Frost Bite.

I have no clue what this is.

Oh, that's terrible. I don't even know what that is.

This is an Avella classic.

I'm not playing. I love Mountain Dew Code Red.

It tastes like — what's that drink that you give kids

when they want alcohol?

Shirley Temple?

Right? What is that?

That's just Sprite and cherry grenadine, right?

That's exactly what this tastes like.

Oh, man.

It's back, baby. Mountain Dew Snap'd.

It's the gingerbread Mountain Dew.

I mean, it still even has Christmas shit on it, so.

It smells just like gingerbread cookies.

It's good. It's really good.

Mountain Dew Voltage.

"Dew charged with raspberry, citrus flavor, and ginseng."

It says "charged," guys.

Look at this. This is like Windex!

Oh, no.

Yeah, it has, like, a melted-popsicle flavor.

It's a really strong flavor.

It's Mountain Dew Spark.

"Dew with a blast of raspberry lemonade." OK.

I've already hit a wall.

Oh, God.

It's like if you tasked a child

to make Kool-Aid.

It's, I can't believe how strong this stuff is.

Mountain Dew Major Melon.

Watermelon Mountain Dew.

Look what's on here. Look at what they put on here.

Do you see this?

Like, look at the nightmare that's on here.

Oh, it smells exactly like a Jolly Rancher.

I like Jolly Ranchers, but in liquid form?

No. Oh, this is really bad.

It's the most artificial-tasting thing we've had so far.

To save me from getting too bored in this section,

Joe was kind enough to send me

some Mountain Dew from America

as well as some Mountain Dew Code Red.

Let's do a little side by side

of British and American Mountain Dews.

Getting a rare taste of yellow 5 in the UK.

Chin, chin.

Whoa.

What was that?

You know in the film "Limitless" when he takes that pill

and it just completely rewires his brain?

I think that's what yellow 5 now does to British people.

I've had, like, two sips of this,

and I feel like I could fight God.

Now that I've tried the American version,

the British version kind of just tastes like sadness.

There's basically no flavor to it other than sugar,

whereas at least I think with this,

you get obviously a lot of sugar,

but then there's a bit more citrus as well.

This has even more illegal food colorings in it.

We have red 40 and blue 1,

which, again, hard to come by in the UK.

OK, OK.

I think I actually might just prefer

classic American Mountain Dew.

This one felt like a religious experience,

whereas this one just felt OK.

So I'll stick to the classic Dew for now.

If that wasn't enough, we also have a range of

Kickstart Mountain Dews.

These are cans of Dew mixed with fruit juice and caffeine.

Imagine that. Caffeine.

Black cherry.

Now that it said juice in there,

I really taste the juice here.

Ooh, and electrolytes. It's like Gatorade.

Fruit punch. Love fruit punch.

Oh, no. That's very bad.

Full disclosure, pineapple orange mango,

I had to get a case of these

just to get the one for the video, so,

been working on these all week.

This one's pretty good.

Oh, man. Caffeine meter is just exploding.

Orange citrus.

Yeah, it's not bad.

Grape.

[burps]

That's the grapiest-tasting grape thing, yeah.

The flavors aren't as harsh,

'cause they cut it with juice.

So, yeah, I kind of like the Kickstarts.

Is that everything? 'Cause I'm getting

a bit bored over here.

I might just go and make a cup of tea.

Sorry, Harry, we have even more options.

We have Mountain Dew Amp energy drink.

More caffeine, I'm assuming.

This is the original. You can also get it in Cherry Blast.

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Oh, man, that's really weird.

Whoa.

[inhales]

[exhales]

[kettle boiling]

Ha ha, if that wasn't enough,

we also have Mountain Dew Energy.

Why?