we wanted to find out all the differences

between Pringles in the UK and the US.

This is "Food Wars."

In the UK, our smallest Pringle size

is a 40-gram tube.

These come as a single tube,

as a box of 12,

or, around the holidays,

we can get a Pringles Christmas cracker,

which comes with four 40-gram tubes.

In the US, the smallest portion of Pringles you can get

is this, a snack stack.

This 19-gram snack stack comes in units of

12, 18,

this is super weird, 27,

and

[grunts]

48 snack stacks.

Our next size is a 70-gram tube.

We also have Pringles in this grab-and-go size,

which is 2.5 ounces, or 71 grams.

You can get them in single, obviously,

or in packs of 15.

This isn't even the biggest grab-and-go size, apparently.

They have a size that's even bigger,

that's 74 grams, or 2.5 ounces.

Uh, I ate that on the way here.

I'm sorry.

And then from there we go to a full-sized tube,

which is 200 grams.

All flavors weigh the same amount in the UK.

In the US, our regular tubes are actually small.

You get about 5.5 ounces per tube,

but the flavor actually adds to the weight.

Here's an original Pringles,

and this is only 5.2 ounces. Huh.

0.3.

0.3 more for the flavor.

But the UK stops at the regular.

Not here in the US.

Check it out.

The party tube. [laughs]

6.8 ounces of chip right there.

Seeing as the weights are so similar,

we're going to count how many Pringles

are in a UK regular tube

versus a US party-stack tube to see who's getting more.

All right, let's do it.

Oh, yeah.

Harry: Yeah, definitely gonna need a bigger tray.

I might have to go onto the table.

This is going to be boring.

Pringles, they don't break as easily.

Oh!

I have regularly eaten

a whole tube of Pringles by myself.

Ah!

Quack.

What, where? Here?

Conner: A little down. Joe: This one?

I'm going to eat them all

instead of putting them back in the tube.

Joe: It's taking all my willpower

not to snack on these as I'm doing it.

Laura: Most people can't then swallow the whole thing.

Most people aren't me.

[laughs]

I'm not most people, Laura.

Party stack holds roughly 104 Pringles.

So, it looks like a regular tube in the UK

contains around 92 Pringles.

How many can I get in my mouth at once?

That's what I want to know.

Without, like, crunching them all up and breaking them.

I'm gonna see if I can do 10.

9.

10 Pringles.

I'm going for 13. Lucky 13!

Ah, ah, ah, ah!

Uh-uh.

I'm gonna take two off.

[production crew laughing]

I do not have the mouth for Pringles, apparently.

My proverbial hat off to you.

The crown is yours.

This right here is roughly 100 grams

of original salted Pringles chips.

In the US, it contains the following:

535 calories,

32.13 grams of fat,

535.5 milligrams of sodium,

and 57.12 grams of carbs.

I know you can't tell,

but this is, like, two-thirds of the tube, right?

And it contains almost half

of your fat allowance for the day.

100 grams of original Pringles

in the UK contains the following:

514 calories,

33 grams of fat,

520 milligrams of sodium,

and 51 grams of carbs.

That means our Pringles have slightly more fat

than the US version,

but almost half the saturated fat.

In the US, a majority of the Pringle flavors

have the same number of calories as the original flavor,

but there are some changes

to some of the other numbers when you branch out.

Our saltiest Pringle is actually the salt and vinegar.

100 grams of UK salt and vinegar

is 40% of your daily allowance of sodium.

The saltiest Pringles in the US

are the Buffalo ranch.

100 grams of them contain 999.6 milligrams of sodium.

Avoid! Avoid!

What in the good God?!

Oh, man!

I can't believe the flavor in these things.

I gotta try that again.

Oh, my God.

These are so disgusting.

This might be the worst thing I've tasted on this show.

All the salt for all the Buffalo ranch in the factory

got condensed into one container on accident,

and we bought it.

This is so gross.

In the UK, original Pringles contain the following:

dehydrated potatoes,

vegetable oils (sunflower and corn),

rice flour, wheat starch, corn flour,

emulsifier (E471), maltodextrin,

salt, yeast extract,

yeast powder, and color (annatto).

Original Pringles in the US contain

dried potatoes; vegetable oil,

which is corn, cottonseed,

high oleic soybean oil and/or sunflower oil;

degerminated yellow corn flour; cornstarch;

rice flour; maltodextrin;

mono- and diglycerides; salt; and wheat starch.

These are actually very similar.

The E471 in the UK is actually the same

as the mono- and diglycerides used in the US,

just used by a different name.

The only other notable changes

are the yeast used in the UK

and the fact that the UK colors its Pringles

with annatto, an orange-red food color.

But how much different is the color?

OK.

The longest ingredient list for a classic Pringles flavor

in the UK is prawn cocktail.

It contains 28 main ingredients,

likely with a lot more

because some of them aren't fully disclosed,

like the flavorings and the spices.

Now, from what I can tell,

the longest ingredients list for a classic US flavor

is the cheddar and sour cream.

They contain 32 main ingredients.

Along with a bunch of subingredients,

takes the total to 40.

I'm not reading this out loud.

On that list you'll see, of course,

a couple of ingredients that you won't find

in the UK Pringles,

namely Yellow No. 5 and Yellow No. 6.

I'm wearing Yellow No. 7.

It's always with the yellow stuff.

These are also referred to as

tartrazine and Sunset Yellow.

They were two chemicals highlighted

by a study back in 2007

into links between hyperactivity and food additives.

The initial results suggested that

there was indeed a link

between these chemicals and hyperactivity.

However, since then, the European Food Safety Authority

has backtracked and said that might not be the case.

Also in that study was Red 40, aka Allura Red,

which appears in the ingredients list

for the Memphis barbecue Pringles

and these, the pizza Pringles.

Foods using these chemicals in the UK

must still bear a warning to say that

they "May have an adverse effect

on activity and attention in children,"

which means that most manufacturers

will just avoid using them.

Wait, has he always been bald?

Yeah, he's bald. Thought he had hair.

Conner: I always thought he wore a top hat,

for whatever reason.

No, you're thinking of the guy from the Monopoly thing.

No, wait, look! Yeah! Hair.

What the hell?

Hair and no hair.

Julius Pringle!

What's going on, dude?

Is this weird? This is weird, right?

Hairgate 2021.

Why does he have hair in some and not on the other ones?

Here are all the Pringles you'll find in the UK,

but not the US.

These are most of the US-exclusive Pringles.

Cheddar and sour cream, jalapeño, pizza,

honey mustard, which sounds weird.

Ugh.

No, no, no.

Oh, those taste like a mistake.

Someone screwed up on those.

That might be the worst one.

The Buffalo one was just too salty,

but that is the worst flavor.

I mean, this stuff is made

for 13-year-old gamers.

This is just made to sit and consume

while you're staring at a flashing screen.

Stimulus, stimulus, stimulus.

Like, I'm in awe of how intense these are.

[grunts]

Hey, Joe, can I try one of those ranch Pringles?

It's quite, quite splintered.

Didn't survive the journey.

I like that. That's a good Pringle.

Need to get these over here.

Oh, God.

Buff – was it Buffalo ranch?

Yeah, I'm not eating these.

I'll skip those.

Hey, it's the Screamin' Dill Pickle!

Arr!

What is going, what is going on on this label?

Chip is wearing goggles and a snorkel?

It would have been better if the chip was just like

[yells]

You know when you go and get a burger and the fries

and they put that wedge of pickle on the side

and the pickle's touching some of the fries

and then those fries taste like pickles?

This is a whole flavor of that.

Who wants that?

Over here we've got prawn cocktail.

Now, this is really popular in the UK.

For those who aren't familiar with prawn cocktail,

there is no prawn in here.

What this is, is the sauce that you would normally serve

with a prawn cocktail.

It's just a kind of tangy, tomatoey Pringle.

And, personally, I'm a big fan.

Then we're moving on to this one,

which is paprika flavor.

In this menacing-looking black, fiery can,

we have hot and spicy Pringles,

but they're basically just Pringles

flavored with some jalapeño extract

along with some other peppers as well.

They don't smell too spicy.

Cheers.

I'm getting, like, a little bit of garlic,

little bit of tomato.

Not getting any heat though.

People insist on calling things hot and spicy

and then make things that really aren't that hot and spicy.

Next up we've got smokey bacon Pringles.

Personally, I love these, but I will say if you eat one

they stay on your breath for about two weeks,

regardless of how many times you brush your teeth.

Then we've got some peri-peri Pringles.

Now, if you've seen the Nando's episode,

you'll know that, as a country,