we wanted to find out all the differences

between Monster Energy in the UK and the US.

This is "Food Wars."

Officially speaking, classic Monster Energy

only comes in one portion size in the UK,

a 500-milliliter can.

I looked around for other sizes online,

and I thought I'd found some 440-milliliter cans,

but unfortunately the seller just sent me

a bunch more regular cans.

Only on "Food Wars" are we annoyed

when they send you more than you paid for.

Classic US Monster Energy comes in two sizes:

the standard 16-ounce cans

or the mega Monster Energy can, which is 24 ounces.

Good Lord.

That's 710 milliliters,

a 42% increase of the largest UK can.

This is too big.

This looks like the canister of ooze

that fell in the sewer and made the Ninja Turtles.

When you buy other Monster products in the UK, however,

some of them do come in different sizes to the classic can.

For example, an Espresso Monster can in the UK

is just 250 milliliters.

Certain Monster Ultra flavors come in a

553-milliliter mega can.

And if you get a bottle of Monster HydroSport,

it comes in a 650-milliliter bottle.

The type of Monster Energy you drink

also affects the can size in the US.

Java Monster cans come in 15 fluid ounces,

and the Rehab Monsters come in cans

of 15.5 fluid ounces.

16's too much. 15.5? Print it!

What about the largest multipack item by volume?

Well, in the UK, it's a 12-pack of Monster HydroSport,

which totals 9.75 liters of Monster.

That's quite a lot.

That pales in comparison to the US's largest multipack.

That's 24-pack

of 16-ounce cans.

It's a total of 11.365 liters of Monster

and a 16.5% increase of the UK multipack.

I didn't get it, but it is at Target,

so here's a video of me holding it up.

I thought I was taking a picture.

That's me realizing that, oops, it's on video.

Here are all the Monster Energy products you'll find

in the UK, including those that you won't find in the US.

Here are all the Monster Energy products in the US,

including a bunch you won't find in the UK.

Not only are we going to talk through all these,

but we're also going to taste them

and provide some thoughts.

Oh, I'm dead.

I'm dead!

Ugh. I mean, I barely survived

the Mountain Dew episode, so.

[laughs]

If you would've thought by now on "Food Wars"

I would've learned my lesson,

you would think wrong.

Let's start with just the classic Monster Energy drinks.

In the UK, we have two flavors

that you won't find in the US.

We could only get one of them today, and it's this one:

The Lewis Hamilton 44 Monster Energy.

Lewis Hamilton is a Formula 1 driver.

He's one of the best ones of all time.

He's got, I think, seven world championships,

and when he races, he wears his lucky number, which is 44.

So they partnered with Lewis to create this drink.

Let's give it a try.

It just smells like Red Bull, I'll be honest.

It's probably a good time now to say that

I don't actually drink energy drinks.

I barely even drink coffee. I'm very loyal to tea.

So this is gonna be fun.

Cheers.

It's just quite a standard energy-drink flavor.

But yeah, goes down pretty smooth.

I wonder if this would make me faster if I drank it.

The other exclusive UK Monster Energy flavor is VR/46,

which unfortunately I wasn't able to track down today.

The VR/46 can is designed

in collaboration with Valentino Rossi,

who's a very famous MotoGP driver.

I'm sad I couldn't get the can today,

because it gave me enormous "Mario Sunshine" vibes.

Also, I need to stop drinking this,

because I've got a lot more Monsters to try.

We have a few exclusive Monster Energy drinks in the US.

Got the Monster Energy low-carb.

Oh, I hate how that smells.

Like, I instantly have a headache.

This has to be the first time in history

someone has poured Monster Energy drink into a cup

and not drank it straight from the can, right?

Who's ever done this before?

It tastes like electricity.

Next up, we have the Monster Reserve watermelon

and the Reserve white pineapple.

Oh!

It tastes like sparkling juice, I guess.

There's this flavor of, like, static.

We got this one, this is the Monster Import super premium.

What is the -- it's 18.6 fluid ounces.

But look at the top on this one.

Do you understand how to open this?

Oh, here we go.

This to me is like,

maybe don't drink this all in one sitting.

"While in Europe at the Spanish MotoGP,

we saw a cool resealable can

and knew it'd be perfect for Monster.

The can company said, 'only available in Europe.'

We said, 'BS, we gotta have it!'"

Whoa, Monster with the attitude!

"If you can open and close the can with one hand,

you probably dated a lot when you were younger."

I mean, everyone who's drinking this is 12.

[grunts quietly]

How European.

The next category is Juiced Monster.

Well, in the UK, it's "Juiced,"

whereas in the US, it seems to just be "Juice."

We do share most of our flavors

with the US in this category,

but we do have one or two which are different.

We'll start over here, with Ripper.

When I first saw the can and the name,

I thought it was, like, based on Australia

because "you little ripper" is a kind of Australian saying,

but then I read the can, and it turns out

it's actually based on Hawaii and surf culture.

Sometimes you gotta just throw a shrimp on the barbie

and say "you little ripper."

Ooh. This one smells nice.

I've sipped, like, two of these,

and I have a headache already,

so this is going well.

Then we have one which seems to be a linguistic difference.

In the UK, you can find Juiced Monarch.

The can is adorned with loads of butterflies,

and monarch is, of course, a type of butterfly.

Whereas in the US, you guys have Papillon,

which is French for butterfly,

so I'm not really sure what they've gone for there.

Obviously the UK has a monarch, so maybe we've just gone

for the kind of royal theme on this one. Who knows?

Ooh, I actually like that one.

Oh, no, this is bad.

I can't like these.

I'm not ready for an energy-drink era.

Our Juice Monster drinks come in two exclusives.

The Juice Monster Papillon,

butterfly-themed, like UK Monarch.

I mean, I don't want to keep drinking this,

but if I had to, I wouldn't be as upset.

Aussie lemonade style.

It's like, I'm surprised these don't have alcohol in them,

because it smells like an alcoholic beverage.

Oof.

Actually, I do like this.

It's not bad. Because it tastes just like lemonade.

Like, I'm drinking it, it doesn't feel like I'm also, like,

getting energized to fight.

Next up, we have some coffee-and-Monster hybrid beverages.

In the UK on the website it shows us Espresso Monster,

and these include espresso and milk Monster,

vanilla Espresso Monster,

and salted caramel Espresso Monster.

However, if you click the buy-now link,

it takes you to a page where it doesn't actually

seem to contain any Espresso Monster,

so I'm not sure if they've been discontinued or not.

I was able to track down the espresso and milk Monster

on the internet.

To be fair, that just tastes like a coffee.

I don't get any kind of Monstery elements from that,

which I think is a good thing.

The pace at which I talk is just going to

increase and increase throughout this episode.

We have the coffee Monster in the US too.

However, over here we call it the Java Monster,

and there's so many flavors.

Got the Java Monster Mean Bean, the Loca Moca,

Kona blend, the Irish blend,

the low-cal vanilla light,

the salted caramel, the Swiss chocolate,

the cold brew latte, the cold brew sweet black,

the farmer's oats vegan coffee,

and the 300 triple-shot mocha

and 300 triple-shot French vanilla.

I, of course, got the 300 triple-shot ...

mocha, aha.

"300 milligrams of natural caffeine."

Oh, go to hell.

"Robust coffee plus cream."

Oh, there's cream in this?

Says "SHAKE IT UP."

So I'm shaking it.

[can fizzing]

Why did it have me shake it up?

Why did it have me shake it up?

If you're at work and you see

any one of your fellow employees walking in

in the morning drinking one of these,

like, it's time to find a new job,

'cause that guy is going to flip out.

Bad. Is there a napkin somewhere?

Next up, we've got Monster HydroSport.

Now, these are a range of noncarbonated energy drinks

which are kind of targeted at athletes,

similarly to a Powerade- or Gatorade-style beverage.

In the UK, they come in three flavors,

Charge, Striker, and Hang Time.

I've only got the Charge flavor today.

You can find the other ones on the internet,

but we're going to give this one a try.

It's got a really strong, slightly chemical smell to it.

But the taste actually isn't that bad.

In the UK, we drink a lot of squash,

which is kind of like a concentrated-juice thing

that then you dilute with water.

It just tastes like a kind of strong squash.

We're making a mess.

All right.

"Monster HydroSport. Energy water for advanced hydration."

OK. They have a bunch of these.

This is the Tropical Thunder.

OK. Oof. Oof!

That looks exactly like Gatorade.

Ugh!

Oh, this is bad.

Blech.

Purple Passion.

Mm!

This one's, like, really bad.

But the second it touched my lips,

I was like, I've made a mistake.

Other hydro flavors include super sport Killer Kiwi,

super sport Macho Mango, super sport Red Dawn,

super sport Blue Streak,

Blue Ice, watermelon,

and hydro zero sugar, aka hydro white.

We have a couple of Monster product ranges

you won't find in the UK,

starting with the Rehab Monsters.

These claim to help you, quote,

"refresh, recover, and revive," end quote,

after a "heavy night."

Yeah. Right.

The two that I was able to get my hands on

are strawberry lemonade and tea lemonade.

The lemonades.