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European vs American FANTA Comparison & Taste Test *Shocking Quality DIFFERENCE
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_Drinks european Fanta_
"This tastes like orange juice!"
And here I am thinking, Orange juice in the US must really suck aswell, lol
That's 3% orange juice with soda water.. Fanta is not really bad. Fanta zero would be nice. Pepsi/coke suck
@Knightfire66 WOW 3%? u know rest of it is sugar right? and Zero mean the sugar is replaced with other chemicals. nothing good about it.
Orange juice in the US is fine, you can't really get that much different when it comes to 100% juice. Tropicana is great and especially in the south, you can often get freshly squeezed texas orange OJ from the grocery stores. It's so good.
I mean I get what you mean but for information (European) Fanta tastes 99.9% like 1 week fermented (European) Clementine juice I discovered that by accident lol that’s amazing
Man I feel sorry for the US, any of these sodas are extremely sweet to me and he said it seemed much more healthy than theirs, mind blowing.
The blue US Fanta looks like the liquid we put in our cars to clean the windshield.
Those kinds of colorings are used in those chemicals so you can tell them apart, which is hilarious.
@frankenstein6677tbh I dont even think the actual drink is blue. When looking closely when he's drinking it I think the bottle is blue (look at the grass shining through it)... the drink itself could be a pale yellow or something like Lemon and lime usually looks like here..
Fanta Shokata isn't blue, just the bottle.
Liquid is more white-ish, and cloudy.
@littleDutchie92 Maybe but the actual blue Fanta (the US one which isn't in this video) is straight blue. We're talking about the US version in this comment section and the picture was shown in the video. I think I've had it before at some point because I used to love Fanta and tried all the colors/flavors I could.
@vigilant_1934 ahh sorry i missed that detail!
Just to rub salt in the wound, what is known as bread in USA cannot be legally sold as bread in EU
Please explain this😭 I’m in the UK and can’t fathom how they also made bread so unhealthy?? What’s in their bread?
@saltyfroots9 UK is not part of EU anymore, not sure what they have in their bread
@saltyfroots9 a lot of sugar and additives. I've bought some american branded bread from Lidl and in terms of sugar content it was closer to pastries
Nah, the relabelling US bread as cake is from Iceland and Iceland isn't in the EU.
@saltyfroots9 American bread contains a huge amount of sugar, making it unhealthy!
European orange soda: named after the ingredient.
American orange soda: named after the colour.
Absolutely: THIS😉
funnily enough even the colour is named after the fruit. the name orange for that colour is derived from the fruits name and naranga. before that we didnt call the colour orange in europe. i believe somewhen in the 16 houndreds
I never saw US Fanta before but that label with "Contains no juice" on it really cracked me up. 🤣 That's so freaking sad.
And then they call it Fanta, colored chemicals sold as orange juice - that's cheating the customer.
It even has the colour of liquid soap for a washing machine. Or some kind of universal cleaner before being watered down.
@jamescheddar4896 Only what is used in the USA is absolutely forbidden in Europe, that is the serious difference, not only in food but also in drinks.
"Malk" - Now with vitamin R.
@NormanTheDormantDoormat There's very little meat in these gym mats.
Now i am wondering what your orange juice tastes like lol.
you can get real orange juice in the US, but you'll spend half a month's salary on it.
I've got a feeling the lobbyists are currently trying to get orange growers to change the taste of oranges to match the taste of Fanta. You know, rather than the other way round.
Most of it is like 20 percent juice and the rest water colour artificial flavour and sugar.not like europe where juice is at most been concentrated, pasteurised and vitamin c added
I guess Sunny Delight is the closest in Europe for classic american orange juice (in France at least).
@WooShell 100% dircet orange juice is around 2,50-3,50€ per litre in Germany ... even so it's just made from oranges it still only gets a nutri-score "C" for ~9g/100ml of sugar ^^
American: Wow this European Fanta tastes like real Orange Juice
European: Sir, your Orange Juice must taste like arse
It seems to be the conclusion one has to come to saw another youtuber do the taste test between USA and Europe Fanta and said the same thing..
I was like USA citizen " That tastes more like juice!" Most people outside the USA " WTF is in your juice then ?" 😆
That makes sense. I tried eating American oranges...it sucked.
Now go figure why Europeans ban American products. Tariffs will not change this!!!
You can buy Hershey bars in supermarkets if you really want to, no-one wants to touch them though, I wonder why...
those chemical wastes would be too much of a strain on our nice free healthcare here lol
and it's not just for food and drinks, cars too, they have to meet parameters that America doesn't...
Even the American products we have here is not truly American. Coca Cola is produced domestically, and the ingredients for McDonalds is made here as well. We basically just rent the recipe :)
@soupdragon151I wonder how Trump, a so-called businessman, uses tariffs to make the EU buy US foods, instead of trying to make the goods like the EU wants them. Make the products fit the market. We in the EU are working on getting electric cars, so why would we buy cars from the US that are running on gas? Just to take just one example.
If the ‘healthy’ option has 46 grams of sugar. You’re in trouble
High fructose corn syrup is way worse than sugar
@Og-Judy it's the same chemically. It's composed of glucose and fructose - just like regular sugar, or cane sugar, or brown sugar, or coconut sugar -- or any other sugar. Your body reacts the same way to it and processes it the same way.
@Xia-hu Except its not the same.
Coke cans in Spain now have 10,6 g of sugar, one third than a handful of years ago
normal orange jouice already has 18g so 46 is still ok.
73 grams of sugar? Per 100ml? I'm surprised it's still liquid at that point.
This is for the whole bottle but it is still crazy high!
That is basically 5 tablespoons of sugar or 15 teaspoons!!!
For a 500 ml bottle this means 14.6 grams of sugar per 100 ml
The European Fanta has 46 grams of sugar in total.
For a 500 ml bottle this means 9.2 grams of sugar per 100 ml
The US Fanta has 37% more sugar
Assuming the bottle is 500ml
No wonder he felt like drinking syrup
The biggest problem is that the printing make no sense at all :
1g of sugar is 4calories
so 73g is 292calories
this soda have 73g of sugar but only 270calories; it's just not possible
so it's hard to take what is is written for true
For the mexican fanta we have something more relevant:
total carbs 43g calories 160
Base on the thing that we don't see the proportion on sugar in the carbs it can be coherent
@axxa2821 - 1g of sugar is actually slightly under 4 calories (the exact value depends on how refined it is, but at most it'll be 3.87).
How is fanta orange juice 😂 there are better fantas of other brands then coke company. Even european fanta has sweetner :/
The cap on the European one was so hard to remove because it's not supposed to be removed 😅
it that because of a child proof cap? The ones where you have to squeeze the side of the cap to open, but you can put the cap on easily?
@colonelfustercluck486 no 😊 the EU had enough of caps everywhere. So it became a new directive to ease recycling and reduce waste ♻️. And it has spread to non EU countries in Europe too. I personally really like it
@colonelfustercluck486no it’s only to avoid littering - but GER is so against itself in so many ways so that it’s actually contradicting the standards for trash sorting and separating which says the cap needs to be thrown away separately BUT all this is not even relevant since our bottles have a 25cent ‘pfand‘ on it which is paid when buying the bottle and will be paid back when you handle it in an the next best cornerstone or super market.
But anyways this is Germany and the handlers which collect the bottles and recycle them to be reused have to delegate the cap from the bottle aswell and they are very very fkkd up about that since they have absolutely no business with germanys bipolar regulations 😂
@barbaraz.5396 OK. In New Zealand the plastic bottles are recycled.... but they will not be accepted for recycling with the cap !!
@barbaraz.5396 Honestly it's kinda annoying sometimes, but good thing we won't be able to lose the cap anymore 😂
Italian Fanta have 12% orange juice, and due to that, it’s simply labeled as "Fanta soda" because it doesn’t meet the criteria to be called "orange soda," which requires a minimum of 20% orange juice. If you're looking to try something a bit different, I highly recommend checking out Italian San Pellegrino orange soda in a glass bottle. It really is a delightful experience! French Orangina is another fantastic option to explore. Also, it's interesting to note that the calorie counts for sodas may vary between the US and EU, largely due to the use of high fructose corn syrup in American beverages.
Yes to this. My fave is the blood orange one
As far as I know, Fanta in Greece has an orange content of 20%.
@higo631 as far as you have read on the internet*
Yes Orangina is really good. But for me Lemon Soda is the best soda. The fact that lemon juice is the second ingredient listed tells a lot. Just like orangina it's water and 12% juice.
Sometimes as an European citizen i feel worried about my American friends.
I'm not crazy for Fanta but when i really want to drink acidulated juice i always go for Schweppes - mandarin..
Iam not they have choices just like us. And even 8n our country it is §ĥïťzooi
Sometimes...?
Its actually quite depressing...
En vooral voor de jeugd van tegenwoordig (pun intended)
Norwegian guy here. (Nordic) It kind of scares me that you think our Fanta tastes like your orange juice. Because we dont.. Real orange juice taste like orange juice. And that is what we usually have in the morning.. Not from concentrate. Sugar is thought to be so bad, that in Norway and several other countrys in the EU have strict rules on how much sugar there can be in any product. Soda and other drinks and foods that contain sugar are taxed much higher than other foods and beverages.
Hallo i luka! Sitter tilfeldigvis å drikker ferskpresset appelsin juice, og det smaker definitivt ikke som Fanta. Ha en fin uke! Hilsner fra Ålesund.
It's very funny to have the Fanta called like orange juice, because to us Norwegians it's of course much more sweetened than Solo, which is still a lot sweeter than actual orange juice.
Même chose en France, le Fanta n'est pas considéré comme du jus d'orange, car ça contient TROP de sucre !
Yeah, in Spain it´s the same that in your country. Fanta is definitely not orange taste XD.
So, I don´t want to know how taste US Fanta now XD.
Regards.
Well there are different degrees in hell…
If European Fanta tastes like orange juices than your orange juice is just fucked honestly. I mean I like our Fanta, but it obviously tastes nothing like actual fresh orange juice.
That's what I was thinking.
Yeah, Fanta somewhat goes for that flavour, but it really can't be confused with 100% orange juice or even a 1/1 mixture of the latter with carbonated water.
You probably haven't tried the USA version of fanta, so you don't get what he means. The USA version tastes like artificial orange sweets/Candy. Compared to that our fanta tastes a lot like orange juice, although I agree that it's easy to tell them apart.
I was about to comment the same.. for me fanta is sunny delight with gas
Friends have told me that US Coke is also very sweet compared to European Coke when drunk without the mountain of ice to dilute it. I'll definitely be keeping US Coke out of my Rum 'n' Coke, without ice.
In Bosnia and the Balkans in general, this Fanta Shokota in the blue bottle is often drunk. It tastes of elderflower and lemon.
"Why do all the crap in this?"
Because it is cheaper and more addictive.
Like everything in North America.
It is also way easier to store and prolong the shelf life, meaning less controled temperatures, less wasted merchandise because it went bad etc. And as a pro tip: more spices and more colorant in food and drink usually means that something fishy that spoils very quickly might be in there.
Especially more addictive for kids. That kind of taste can be unpleasant to some adults.
Because Diabetes sells.
its the same with cola:american coca cola uses corn syrup as sweetener iirc bc its supposed to be healthier but in truth is just cheap af, whole european fancy coca cola known as mexican cola in the USA uses actual sugar
@21380Quite, when you have "for profit" health care you get paid to make food stuffs make as many people as possible ill, one hand washes the other.
EU = Banned until proven safe
US = Allowed until proven unsafe.
Yeah. And of course, in the US companies can fight tooth and nail to ensure that ingredients are not proven unhealthy for a long time.
@Macvombat And of course, in the US, the right wing conservatives constantly vote for politicians that are against REGULATIONS.
High hospital bills and loans to pay them are good for the GDP, as are cheap ingredients and no sick leave.
...in much the same way my economics teacher warned us of GDP as a measurement, because car accidents are good, creating work for mechanics and doctors.
Well I kinda diagree with this. For ingredients which are directly on food it's true. But for other product like pesticide, herbicide or fertilizer it's wrong.
Even if it is unsafe, it is usually not forbidden, just a sticker is attached ...
Oh man as a European who had no idea how American Fanta looked like it looks like it's radioactive. And I thought our Fanta was bad before...
Same.. Being French, I guess I never realized it because i don’t drink soda so when I travel to the US I never walk past in the juice/soda isles in supermarkets 😅😅😅
I'm cuming 😭
Now i want to se mountain dew😂😂here its mostly just green bottle but in US... That must look like Simpsons nuclear stick
@lawrien.7701 doing French? What?
@timurkral3781??
when illness is a business there you have the answer...
European: it melts my teeth out of sugar
American: Like sparkling orange juice in the morning
any European cringes when they taste how sweet Fanta is, he drinks that Fanta like it's water lol
yeah fanta is way too sweet for me and this guy is like, it's basically orange juice lol
@daanw6270 Most US Orange juice has added sugar. Don't ask me why, but you have to look for "sugar free" version if you want the regular taste
They really have destroyed American taste buds 😂
@Killbayne I love Fanta and go out of my way to try different varities of it, but the US stuff tastes like orange sherbet to me. It's almost like drinking a sugar sludge rather than a liquid. I happen to *like* that, but as a once in a while treat rather than it being my only option.
FANTA was originally created in Germany, many Americans thinks it American from the start, but the company of Coca Cola bought the right for it and changed the recipe but to be able to sell it in Europe the company had to stick to the European version for Europe.
Fanta was introduced by the german branch of Coca cola in 1941 due to the american trade embargo of nazi germany which affected the coca cola ingredients.
Fanta, currently produced in Europe, is of Neapolitan origin, southern Italy, the German one had a different recipe.
@massimomare2575 correct. Name and original recipe are from Coca Cola Germany, current recipe os from Napoli and was rolled out in the sixties
Fanta was created by the nazis, because they had no Coke and being at war with the US and all... It was the nazi alternative to Coca-Cola. After the war, the Americans stolen almost every thing and they took Fanta as well.
During the Second World War, Cola was no longer delivered to Germany. So the young people no longer had soft drinks in the disco. Then Fanta = Fantastisch was invented by a German. Since it was very popular after the war, it was taken over by Coca Cola. do you have MezzoMix?
You struggled with removing the cap on the European one because it's designed not to be removed - so the cap stays with the bottle for recycling.
It is called sustainability and it is ridiculous 80mio Ger-moneys know this, but 333mio Äy-muricans dont.. we are so fuuukt..
TBF I saw enough europeans trying to rip it off until I said them it's meant as a cap retainer for when you're on the go.
It's annoying
@dominikdobrotic8298 Except when I'm in the car and don;t want to lose the cap. Then it's real handy!
That would be annoying if you are drinking it from the bottle
Bro every European has ripped that cap off the first time they got their hands on the new bottles hahaha
i for sure did! Now it's just a handy feature not to lose the cap/forget to put it on while i take sips from the bottle
BS! Most people keep it on...
As a Hungarian we sure did rip the cap off for the first few months out of pure rage and spite. There were a few times when we spilled juice because of the cap or just couldn't take it off at all (mostly me). We got used to it eventually but it was really inconvenient for a while.
The cap on the eu fanta is supossed to stay on, that is why it was harder to remove it.
my heart stopped beating when i saw him removing it 😂 .... Greetings from Germany and a have a nice weekend
@bardioc Greetings from Romania, have a nice weekend.
Yeah they made the new cap for stupid people that keep losing them, cause without it in my country you cant return the bottle and get your "15 cents" back, my guess is this man aint stupid so he'll be fine, not to mention they probably dont pay plastic tax for its return😂😂
@Roggen45 I am not a fan of it either, but it has a purpose. The ides is to recycle the whole bottle and not lose the caps. The problem is that on some bottles it is pretty hard to close them with it attached.
Ever since those annoying "stay together to recycle together" bottle caps became a thing (sometime in 2022?) I always remove them. They get in the way, and they also look ridiculous while drinking (I saw Spencer from Embrace the Suck 21 drinking one with it still attached in one of his UK trip videos, seemingly without him even thinking anything of it for some reason, and it looked absolutely stupid with the cap at a 45-degree angle).
I am flabbergasted that Americans aren't putting more pressure on government and companies concerning standard health issues in food and beverages.
they have to hike the cost even more.
Their corruption runs deep, where do you start?
Keep your expectations low, have you seen their new president?
@DanielEdwards- New president? Old president. Maybe the oldest ever, if can stay in office 4 years.
@DanielEdwards- expectations actually increased since there will be a person who will actually hold the FDA accountable for such.
From a European perspective it’s really scary to see what you guys consume without knowing what you’re consuming and how bad it can affect your health.
medicine is big business over there. for a reason I guess.
@jansund1650 if being healthy is a pay to win game that’s what happens.
Glad i was born and live in Germany. Our allowed ingredients are sometimes affecting the taste, but on the other hand we stay "healthier" . I´m so sorry for all americans. Would not trust any food other there.
That sugar amount difference is really scary stuff. No wonder there's so much obesity.
@jansund1650 yeah, I definitely believe that is on purpose for maintain the private HC with very high profits. Incredible.
Regards.
I love how it says “does not contain juice”or something like what it’s orange flavor so why is there no juice lol
If the european Fanta Tastes Like Orange juice to you, i am worried what they pass off as OJ to you people!😂😅
exactly not even European Fanta you could say it's safe or healthy, to me doesn't realy taste like carbonated orange juice it still tastes like something synthetic, imagine how the US ones taste like😂
It has some orange flavor, but I would never compare it with drinking carbonated orange juice. For that, it's too sweet. But most orange juices sold in the US have added sugar. I know some juices are "natural," but they add artificial orange flavor extracted from the orange peel, so they can technically claim it's 100% orange juice. Still, it's not exactly what you would get by squeezing oranges yourself.
@what_in_the_heck_is_going_on I drink freshly squeezed orange juice all the time and the EU Fanta tastes nothing like orange juice. Here in Finland we have a local orange flavored soda called Jaffa and it tastes way less fake than Fanta.
I was thinking that. Fanta doesn't taste chemically but doesn't taste like orange juice to me. More like a closer approximant. Maybe like a concentrate orange juice rather than a fresh orange juice. The only drink I have had that's closer to fresh orange juice is maybe Orangina - but it's hard to get in UK. Only some shops stock it.
I thought exactly the same, to me European Fanta tastes nothing like fresh orange juice, like not even close. To us in Europe the US stuff must be like drinking toxic waste.
“Two weeks later”
Hello guys, I’m addicted to European Fanta.
"Nothing in nature looks like that" .. i think you just inflicted an existential crisis to all carrots who were watching this video.
Well, that part of carrots is hidden underground in nature, and even then the skin has a darker brownish shade. They're only bright on the inside.
No thanks for changing the color of carrots, so you could say this.
Theyre supposed to be purple 🤫
As a carrot, I didn’t have an existential crisis, but thx for the concern
There are oranges that looks like there is blood inside of them, in sweden they are called blod apelsin that means blood orange. They are basically that colour on the outside.
I almost never buy carbonated drinks. My student asked me what I drink and I said 'water'. He replied 'yuk'.
"It's very thick, coats your teeth and your throat - the kind my wife will know what I'm talking about" - IWrocker, 2024
😂😂
:D
Yeah I was like lol what are you saying 😂
I laughed at that bit too 😂
Did he really mean what we're thinking??? I doubt it lol :))
Fanta varies a lot even in Europe. I think typically it contains 5% orange juice, but in some countries like Italy and maybe Greece it's 10-12%.
Yea.. i would call that tiny bit of orange juice virtue signaling. Its just there to push the suggar lable down to 3:rd place
In Greece there's Loux, which is a lot better than Fanta, it has like 20% natural orange juice
Yep in Spain it is also 10%, double the amount of juice they put in in Germany and The Netherlands.
Don't know about the rest, but its 8% here in Spain
If you think that fanta taste as orange juice is because you never are taste real orange juice.
Fun Fact, Fanta was invented in Germany during WW2 due to ingredient shortage for Coca-Cola.
The name derives from the German word Fantasie = Imagination
Any reason you went for imagination rather than fantasy?
Was it not some sly shit Coca Cola did?
@PlushyPlayz1 Originated in Germany as a Coca-Cola alternative in 1941 due to the American trade embargo of Nazi Germany, which affected the availability of Coca-Cola ingredients.
And also very interesting, they used whey as sour citric ingredient since they obviously didn't have access to citrus fruits back then. I once tried a remake of the original recipe - it was surprisingly good
The current formulation with orange of Fanta is Italian, the Fanta you are talking about didn't have anything to do with the current Fanta
6:35 Bro fr tried to rip the cap off 💀
Hello from France, you must taste Orangina in glass bottle, 12 ingredients carbonated water, orange juice and other citrus fruits from concentrates 12% (orange 10%, lemon, mandarin, grapefruit), sugar, pulp 2% (orange, mandarin), orange peel extract, natural orange flavor
I used to drink Orangina as a little kid in Italy... I think it was around 1999-2002 or so. I don't think I have seen it for ages now. That unlocked some memories, I'd like to try it again sometime
The origin of ORANGINA is Spain. The original formula of 'Orangina' was created in 1936 by the Spanish Doctor Trigo, who named it 'Naranjina'. Later Léon Beton bought the concept, changed the name to 'Orangina' and launched it in Algeria with great success. When Algeria gained its independence in 1962, production moved to France.
@RickZanardi you guys have Chinotto, no need to worry about Orangina😋
Yes, Orangina is superior
I realy like Orangina. They still sell it in Germany. You can not get it everywhere though.
By banning just three ingredients American food standards would be raised massively. Those being high fructose corn syrup, red 40 and yellow 6. The USA has the worst food standards of any developed nation simply because the FDA and other agencies seem to consider it more important to protect profits over citizens lives.
and possibly destroy the biggest corn syrup producing industry on the planet worth $5.8 billion, having the backing of the sugar lobby, the single most powerful food lobby there is so... not going to happen.
That's why corporate lobbying politicians and currently heavily dependent on Dems winning as they are all keeping them in business.
The Corn Syrup industry is worth $5.8billion and has the backing of the sugar lobby, the singlemost powerful food lobby there is, so not going to happen. They have build up their power base over the last 50 years, getting them to agree on anything is close to impossible, especially in a political climate where the two only parties are, in economic matters, barely have any actually relevant differences, there is more fighting about economic matters going on in chinas only party than between those two, which is just sad. so the corn syrup is there to stay.
If you wanna charge millions of dollars for medical care, you gotta make people sick. It’s just good old capitalism.
i like to add a 4th one whatever the heck they are adding to make white sandwich bread last for a month
In Europe, Fanta is still considered as unhealthy thrash and it is no where close to real orange juice. And when i was in the US i was shocked that you guys add sugar to your "fresh" orange juice. I was not able to drink it 🤣
What ? 😯 That's mad.
That reminds me the one time I travelled to England as a kid, went to eat a sandwich and my mother ordered a freshly pressed orange juice. The people taking the order were really nice and kind, they even prepared minute "crisps" for me as a gift.
When the orange juice arrived, it was loaded with grenadine syrup 😅.
I am horrified by the US products aha
@benmarki I experienced it the same way 😂
Actually, we ven know that fruit juices are not healthy at all. It's already naturally overcharge in sugar.
They do what? Why should someone add sugar to orange juice? 😮
Socata is a drink most often prepared in homes in Eastern Europe. It is made from the flowers of a shrub - "Sambuсus nigra" and lemon. Absolutely amazing, very refreshing (especially when home made)
"This just tastes like orangejuice"???
This man never drank real orange juice before...😂
It does taste like orange 🍊 juicy even is not natural
He’s comparing the different between the American Fanta and the eu version. In comparison, it _does_ taste like OJ
"Shokata" is actually a wordplay (Socată + Shock). Socată is a Romanian word for an elderflower-based drink. It’s a mix of elderflower, lemon, and sugar that’s popular in Eastern Europe. Greetings from Romania!
greetings from the Czech Republic, I noticed that the bottle is from Bosnia
Ah, so that's what and where it's from.
I had to check in the dictionary what "edelflower" was. It turns out to be "sauco" tree in Spanish.
We don't have anything with that flavour in our market, not even the natural berries are being sold, because ripe fuits are poisonous: they contain high levels of cyanogen
@BlackHoleSpain Elderflower, not edel! The tree is sambucus.
@fmunzar24 now days this "shokata" drink is made in several east-european countries.In RO the drink of "socata" is traditional drink (somewhat with a similar taste to this Coca-Cola product) .No idea if this “Socata” (the traditional drink) is also known/made in the neighboring countries of Romania
The Euro 'blue' Fanta isn't blue. It's only looking that way due to the colour of the bottle. If you pour it into a glass it looks like the colour of traditional cloudy lemonade.
Just to add to this, the bleu one is probebly lemon/lime taste aswell.
@tribesnr42its actually lemon mixed with elderflower, it tastes like a sweeter lemon
Fanta shokata is made of Elderflowers
The lid on the EU bottle is not meant to be removed, it's purposely made hard to remove to not have plastic caps thrown everywhere.
I like the intention, but it can be so annoying to close.
This is the main, and perhaps only reason the EU should be dissolved.
I hate these stupid lids so damn much...
it makes no sense, especially with bottles containing dairy
I rip the cap off everytime cause its annoying. But I never throw them away! When I‘m bringing my bottle back I want a clean bag and not every little bit of drink in the bag 😂
As a European this kind of makes me wonder how yucky orange juice in the US might be
My thought exactly. I am in South Africa and our orange juice does not come close to Fanta.
Most is sold here as 100% orange juice. So it's just orange juice 😅.
the have thes big canisters that contain an "orange juice" with very high viscosity, extremely sweet.
European here with experience in American orange juice. So regular cartons are usually just juice like, or concentrate plus water same as here. However what you often see in the US are these giant bottles of OJ, probably 1 gallon, and that's different. It thinner, more watery and much sweeter. It's definetly in between EU Fanta and regular orange juice taste wise, so I can see why Americans would say EU Fabta tastes like (cheap) US prange juice, just not carbonated. It also has a slightly artificial taste to it. As a fat kid I loved it but now I much prefer normal juice. That stuff from the big bottles also never has anything suspended, it's like filtered liquid, while regular juice even without pulp will have very fine pulp and a certain texture to it, a little thicker than water, while the cliché US cheap orange juice has the density of water. I think if you take OJ run it through a coffee filter, add say 50% water and a bunch of sugar plus a pinch of artificial sweetener you will get very close to ruining a perfectly good juice and also to what cheap US orange juice tastes like.
@Idk_thoo And then Americans don't like it, because it has flavour
The reason why the cap from the European bottle is coming off difficultly, is because it is meant to stay attached to the bottle, so that is more easy to get it recycled together with the empty bottle instead of ending up on the side of the road somewhere.
Yeah, the most hated/loved change that EU pet bottles gone through.
I know it has a reason but I actually enjoyed removing the cap. it being stuck means I have to keep pushing it out of the way :(
@skeire1 Not sure if the bottles outside of Sweden are different 🤔 But the ones here are pretty easy to ''lock'' into place tucked out of the way so you can easily drink it without the cap getting in the way.
It does take more poking around compared to the old throw away caps, but once you start getting used to it, it really doesn't feel that much worse.
Yep we also have them in the Scotland too, same as the E.U ones. If they're in U.k and Europe I daresay it won't be long before they hit the U.K I'm not sure what all the fuss is about. Like you say it makes it much easier to recycle and also handy for out and about, no more lids rolling down buses, pavements... insert any other awkward place here...😂.
I just knew you would drink straight out of the bottle ! Now, no one else can drink it.
It's not your soda Steve
@yuhyuh8171 It’s bad manners and unhygienic.
I did not expect to be hooked on a 16 minutes long video of a guy comparing a drink I don’t even drink
The eastern European drink isn't blue at all. it's the bottle! It is also delicious, we get it in the UK every so often. Its called Fanta Shokata, and is elderflower and lemon flavoured.
In Estonia its really blue colour, not the bottle.
Yeah it's fanta shokata, tbh the only flavor of Fanta I can tolerate, but I don't like these carbonated drinks anyway.
Shokata is my favorite also
@merlejanson3759Really? Last time I saw it, it was clear. Shokata has been "Zero" only for some time now, so maybe they changed it?
It tastes like Seifenblasenwasser
it looks like NUKA COLA from Fallout 😂
I was thinking of NUka-Cola Quantum as well.
WOW. Didn't think of that one, but now I can not not see it.
My thought as well.
I don't think this one glows in the dark though... :)
Hello, im from Hungary, i dont know if someone commented this before already, but the blue fanta is supposed be Edelflower flavored.
That was supposed to be a dystopian science fiction, not a marketing template! 😁😁👍👍
That Blue Fanta is not blue, it is lime fanta (lemon color) in blue bottle.
As a European I'm concerned how Americans glorify our Fanta for being natural. It's not natural at all and it's only 3% orange juice and after water the main ingredient is sugar.
yeah exactly, it's concerning if anyone would consider that in the same ballpark as healthy.
In my country Fanta is 8% Orange juice, is not the same across Europe?
Lemon Fanta is 6%
Fanta is a german product (german cocacola bypass during ww2) so the european one is more "natural" in the way of how a fanta is supposed to taste like
Im looking at a dutch bottle fanta zero here next to me and it does say 42% orange juice and sparkling water. And other crap ofc
Relatively.
7:20 "Tastes like orange juice"
How sweet is your orange juice?
was wondering as well, for me Fanta nowhere close to taste like OJ here in EU - feels bad for americans
What type of soil do they use in the US? Sugar canes and plastic?
@VoltTechnocrat Their capitalism doesn’t care about people. So they use whatever is cheap.
As a European, *73 GRAMS OF SUGAR IN ONE SMALL BOTTLE* is absolutely INSANE.
For reference, a grown man at ~80kg should only ingest ~60 grams MAX per day!
Me 50kg eating 4th cake today and 2nd bottle reading it: ohh i see🤣
@Dracos210 Diabetusss is no respector of weight, sadly...
Because you're young, your pancreas can produce the necessary high insulin to cope with the sugar, but as you age your pancreas will be less and less efficient and less able to cope with the sugar. You'll feel utterly shit as well. Take care while you can. 🧡
@Røn-Ayres people still not know that it is a hereditary disease? lmfao
@Dracos210Damn how do you still wheigh 50???
@gren7061 No idea its very hard to gain weight, but i love sweets too...good metabolism i guess?
You can photo this text and show it to Google.
tbh it's insane to me that this kind of thing isn't considered a scam. They're marketed as the same product but they look different, taste different, and share hardly any ingredients with each other.
Hungary tries to start a war with international companies exactly for this (Nutella, Fanta, etc. made in Hungary has slightly different composition, usually lesser amount of healthy components (the newest: Italian Fanta has more orange than the Hungarian one)). These companies say that they aim for the local taste...
@2nolhta As a hungarian I was about to comment this myself, absolutely true
@2nolhta I hope you guys win this.
We learned the hard way about those differences when we imported an iPhone from US for the company (a client required a project to work on device not released in EU yet) and we were unable to get warranty because "US iPhones are using higher quality components than EU ones". Yes, that is exactly what Apple told us.
Coca cola is also like that but no one talks about it.
Even between countries. Spanish coke is better than Portugal's
@hubertnnn AFAIK Samsung does this, too, we get the flagships with South Korean Exynos processors, others get it with US Snapdragon processors. Annoying to get less for the highest price.
The thing is that in the US since the health related structures are private, the government has no reason to keep you healthy, while in the EU they are public so they need to keep you healthy so they don't have to pay.
i just checked my austrian fanta and it has almost 1/3 of the calories of the us fanta. AT 95kcal(250ml) vs US 260kcal(236ml/8oz) per serving. that is an insane amount of sugar
In the U.S. the government has more reason since access is so much more based upon ability to pay.
The reduction in smoking in the US had a lot to do with private health insurance. Of course companies don’t want you to smoke if that makes the insurance more expensive.
@peterfireflylund I think it's more likely that was consumer/consumer protection-led than health insurance. They want to make money and they don't care how.
@baronmeduseUS healthcare is predominantly for profit so keeping people healthy defeats the purpose of it
Fun fact is that Coca-cola adjusts the recipies in every Europian contries.
They always use orange juice made from concentrate. It is in Germany and in Austria 3%, Hungary 5%, Italy and France 12%, Greece 20%.
Not only that but the sugar content is different too: Germany: 7.6g. Austria: 10.3g, Hungary: 10.8g, Italy: 11.8g (the most you can find in Europe), France: 6.5g, Greece: 8.0g. The least sugar has Croatia with 3.8g.
So there is a large variety. They have all differnet color and taste.
I wonder if the Sugar is the different actual sugar content or if its the fruitsugar from the more Orangejuice? I found Italian taste better and less sweet then the German one.
I concur every major drink has usually different recipie in each country or Region (Skandinavia, Balkan,....)CocaCola, Sprite, etc.....
Personally I feel like you don't even need the sugar with Fanta. I exclusively drink sugar free soda now, but orange got a sour sweet taste as it is, so I really can't tell much difference between sugar free Fanta and regular Fanta. Both are really sweet compared to other sodas.
U mean Fanta, not Coca-Cola, right?
@Loogiii You do realize sugar free fanta has other sweetners right?
@Pachi89 Coca Cola is the company. Fanta is one of their products. He is talking about how much sugar and juice the company puts into Fanta.
El tapón tienes que dejarlo a un lado por sin romperlo lo hacen para que el tapón no se pierda.
If something seems to not make sense the answer is usually MONEY.
I now understand, why the few import stores we have around here ALWAYS sell American Fanta in cans… noone would buy this vibrant colored soda in Germany
*in Europe
How do import stores get around the illegal US Fanta?
@Liggliluff As of 2013, there are no such restrictions in the EU.
@Liggliluff pretty sure it’s just production restrictions and not restrictions on selling it.
weird cause a quick google search for german soda shows a green fanta just as artificial looking as this
By the way, if you can get your hands on French "Orangina", compare that to the European Fanta. It tastes even more like orange juice than EU Fanta does. Whenever Orangina is available, I definitely do prefer that over Fanta.
Still exists?? In Spain It was suer popular in the sixties and seventies..
I haven't seen one since the eighties.
And It was originally invented by a spaniard from Valencia (land of good oranges)
Now our national Fanta is kas
Orangina is definitely top tier, they add a pinch of orange purée. I also like the container shape.
And if you got a weak stomach, Orangina will diguest YOU.
San Pellegrino has a nice blood orange soda too, like the Orangina way more flavor then Fanta. (They sell both Orangina and San Pellegrino here in NL)
@nekane6168We also have KAS in southern France, it was very popular in the 90' (and maybe still is, but I don't drink soda anymore lol)
In Italy the labes says, as ingredients:"Water, Orange juice (12%), sugar, bla bla bla". per 100 ml it has 11,8g of sugar. It's not healty but you can still drink it sometimes xD
The european soda looked like the juice, the american one looks like the peel
If your pee is that color you really need to drink more water
@skorne7682 Peel, not pee.
🤣🤣🤣 u can't be serious right?@skorne7682
American looks like a traffic cone.
Im spanish. Actually european Fanta tastes like peel for me too, with too much sugar...
The European “blue” Fanta isn’t actually blue, it’s just the bottle.
There is a Fanta version on the market that actually contains blue liquid. it's called "What the fanta"
@orangutanklaus9285 what the fanta was iridescent purple where I live, but I was talking about the elderberry one they tried in the video. The liquid inside is like a hazy white-ish something, almost like lemon juice.
@Gumimacikiller06the mystery fantas changed across the years like in 2022 it was apple, then early 2023 it was blueberry then the purple one idk but i didn't like it
@boulangerielaroyaltine5624 haha the purple one was apple pie i think, i kind of liked it. however i never noticed the what the fanta before last year, or maybe they didn’t have it here (hungary) before.
@Gumimacikiller06what the - who makes a pie flavored soda (france)
FYI: The "European" one, has a ton of difference depending of what country its from. The ingredients differ based on regulations per country, as well as water quality. There is a huge difference from a Spanish Fanta vs a Norwegian Fanta for example.
Amerians always generalize and say european and dont realize that it's like calling for example venezuelan shit american
Yeah, Fanta is vastly different in color and taste in Europe. Not sure this is solely based on (pre-EU) regulation difference but that's at least reason for some, Italian "orange lemonade" required 12% juice and so theirs has that. Greece has apparently 20% juice, Germany has only 3%
Can confirm. Between Portuguese and Spanish Fanta, I rather have the Spanish one...
In Bulgaria Fanta is good, so is Coca-Cola(taste wise, stil not healthy, lol) but I've had the chance to try Romanian Coca-Cola, Ukrainian and Turkish Coca-Cola, yeah, not a big fan of theirs :D But man... the US equivalents look vile in comparison, ngl
All EU countries have the same food regulations which Norway also adheres to.
We also have FANTA in glass in Europe
Europe now has a standard plastic caps security system . So the cap stays attached to the bottle or milk pack to not be lost tossed away and ends up in the sea or rivers. It is a way of keeping the package together when recycling. In Portugal you can buy fanta in glass bottles
thats one of the shittiest EU updates we got so far
@blondinho2483 Agreed. It means the lid doesn't naturally go back on straight. It's a bad design. Many number of fridge clean-ups will attest to that.
Phillip.
@philliptemple9841 thats true and it is also simply extremely annoying
@blondinho2483 I honestly love the new design. It’s perfect for drinking and driving (not alcohol of course!) because it’s so much easier to put the cap back on and not lose the cap - which happened a lot before and was super annoying. I don’t really get the hate at all - and for things like bigger milk, juice and yogurt packages you have in your fridge, you just take the plastic off to make pouting easier. It takes 1 second.
@S33SAW33 idk, its extremely hard to put it back as some guy replied to me
Even within Europe the sugar content and color of Fanta differs between countries. German Fanta is usually more yellow than Czech or Polish Fanta. Also Czech Fanta has about 10g/100ml of sugar, and Polish Fanta only 4. Germany is between taht with about 6g/100ml.
I was thinking that as well. I've been to the Coca Cola museum in Atlanta, where they have all the different Fanta versions lined up.
I'm Serbian and this blue Fanta is very popular here actually. The flavor is lemon and elderflower, this is because in Balkans it's pretty popular to make a syrup/juice out of elderflower in summer and then dilute it with some water and drink it like that. It's very sweet and smells summery, a classic Balkan summer drink you would get from your grandma. This soda, however, just makes it carbonated and adds lemon on top so it will be even more refreshing in summer heat. :) And you pronounced the name perfectly haha!
It's not even blue too, when you pour it out, it's white 😊
@nAcolz Exactly, only the bottle is blue
fläderblom is very popular in sweden too, remember the summers at home mom making fläderblomsaft.
We make elderflower syrup here in Sweden, too.
we also make elderflower syrup here in austria. love it!
The caps are supposed to stay attached to the bottle for recycling
I love how he's struggling to get the cap off like the rest of us before we realised the cap stays on 😂
Cap should stay attached so it doesn’t cause plastic pollution if it doesn’t make it into recycling bin.
@timstradling7764 Yes, because we are all idiots separating caps from bottles and throwing the caps all alone to the regular waste all the time...
@timstradling7764 how Many kids Will not be receiving recycling money in Spain, because you cannot collect bags of caps now, to take care or they sicness......
@salvador_mano4x4Kids will find a way to take them off. It annoys them here in Serbia, but it doesn't stop them from collecting.
@marciusnhasty it's not about kids, it's because people use to collect them to donate for strange deseases
3:57 lol Americans realizing their country had been the start to consumerism
The blue bottle Fanta Shokata is a word play on the Romanian name for the drink it emulates: socată (soc=elderberry, socată=drink made from elderberry, șoc=shock). When elderberries are in bloom my mum picks a few flowers and puts them in a large transparent glass jar mixed with sugar and lemon juice, then leaves the jar in the warm sun for a few days until it ferments. The drink becomes naturally fizzy due to fermentation.
That sounds delicious
dayum, i've made elderflower lemonade before, but never fermented it. Might try next year, if i remember :P
I didn't get that and I can speak Romanian, sunt prost💀💀💀
I usually grab that fanta when I'm out of Poland, it's a bit harder to find where I live. They sometimes sell it as limited edition. It's very nice, I now know the origin of it so thank you!
My mum used to make ginger beer when we were kids. She had a 'plant' yeast, sugar and powdered ginger. A tsp of demarara sugar and one of ginger added daily then, she did something with water about once a week and put the liquid in old glass pop bottles. (plastic wasnt a thing back then) one lot 'exploded' once showering the kitchen in ginger beer.😂
in South Africa we have the following Fanta
Fanta Orange,
Fanta Orange No Sugar,
Fanta Grape
Fanta Pineapple.
14:30 It's elderflower,and it's not blue, it's white. The bottle has a blue tint
Lemon elderflower
Frenchman here. If you think european fanta tasts like orange juice "in the morning", I suggest you try european "morning juice": get yourself 6 oranges at the store and press them.
That's what we (at least in France) call a "orange juice" (like real juice from a real orange and nothing else in it).
Cheers mate
Not only en france, In spain too, It's so sad someone thinks Fanta's flavour is like real orange juice
@PEonyn-i2p Same here in Niedersachsen.
Same in sweden, and I suppose the entire european continent
Swiss here, can confirm.
As i Greek and follower of common sense, i concur
It’s not even just the amount of sugar it’s the type of sugar
High fructose corn syrup is really bad! Normal sugar (cane sugar or beet sugar) isn't that bad. I mean you can still get fat, but high fructose corn syrup is like a fattening agent.
@highks496 no it isn't
@hackspawn1 Yes it is. Besides getting you fatter faster than cane or beet sugar, is related to type 2 diabetes and liver problems in US. Basically you would be healthier as an alchoholic than drinking US juices.
@JuanSanchezVillalobosRamirez77 ALL SUGAR is related to type 2 diabetes. corn sirup has its bad reputation well deserved, but the other sugar sources arent really better.
@highks496Almost all processed sugars are basically the same, a combination of a fructose molecule and a glucose molecule. They are connected by an oxygen bond. Glucose is bad if you have too much of it, but fructose is really really bad, partly bc it gets metabolized in the liver (similar to alcohol).
Do not take cap of is in Eu law all caps should stick to the ring of bottle and be recycled together. thats why to disconnect cap is almoust impossible
European Fanta is the real Fanta. It was invented in the Coke factory of WW2 Germany, when the US stopped shipping the base syrup for Coke, while having an abundance of orange.
The WW2 version of Fanta was actually based on apples, not oranges. Makes sense, because the German climate is not great for growing oranges.
This is just wrong. The original Fanta was invented in Germany as the German Coca Cola was cut off from the American headquarters due to the trade embargo on Germany. The German Fanta utilized leftovers such as beet root and whey. It wasn't until much later that it first started being produced with Oranges in Italy.
The original Fanta had milk in it
@renedekker9806 As a matter of fact, Germany imported oranges from Spain! Spain was a facist country at that time, ruled by Franco who gladly supported Germany with oranges!
But still, Fanta with Orange taste as, we know it, came after the war.
Only the name Fanta is a leftover from WW 2 (short for Fantastic)...
@ClippyHatesOligarchs True! Original Fanta was made from "leftovers of leftovers", sugar beet, whey (a cheese byproduct), and apple pomace.
3:08 We just googled European 🤦
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOOOOOL
I hope she's joking :/
Hahah .I noticed that too
I never thought I would hear someone say to a Fanta „this is just a clean, tasty drink“.😂
makes you think what garbage they are used to othervise, even their coca cola tastes different, euro coca cola is seen as fancy and called mexican cola in the US due to use of actual sugar over that corn syrup crap
@Genesis23OPB yes the classic coke was the best. Coka Cola messed it up.
you broke the top of the european one the blue top is designed to stay with the bottle for recycling , there is aa larger tab on the side to keep the top with the bottle
Shokata (Socată in Romanian) is a traditional drink in Romania and I think also in the rest of the Balkans / Southeast Europe. It's made from fermenting the flowers of the European elder/elderberry shrub (although it grows as tall as a fruit tree) and it's mixed with lemon or lime and sugar or honey and can be spiced up with mint and other stuff; it can be made into an alcoholic beverage if you add yeast or rice and can be carbonated or non-carbonated depending on the type of fermentation and the duration of it. When my gramps was still alive I would go every early summer with him to gather a few sacks from the places where there were a lot of them and we made tens of liters of it.
Edit: Although rarer, I found some of these shrubs in the UK as well and I can keep enjoying the drink of my childhood.
My favourite Fanta drink
XD
Elderflower is a very traditional english drink. I make it every spring. Also may add a little mint or even a little lemon. I grew up with it, I'm close to 60, and my Gran would bottle enough to last all through summer and as a child pop cats would come once a week, like the milkman selling it. Like many traditional english foods, it's not common now, displaced in the 70's with the high sugar, high fizz drinks.
@TooBarFoo yeah, pretty much nobody that I know even knew you could make a drink from elderflowers till I mentioned it here in the UK, unless they're also from other countries that made it much more often.
I do like the fermented lemonade we make here as well. the store bought stuff tastes like shit though, home made will always be better.
Also on the label... product of Bosnia.
6:45 Hahaha That's true an european one. There is a relatively new european law (2023?) that says you can no longer remove the lids (that easily). So that the lids aren't lying around everywhere.
Lol, I was gonna comment on that, but you already noticed 😂
Dane here. I was SO annoyed by that in the beginning! Now, I just turn it around and rip it off anyway 😂🇩🇰
I actually like it like that, especially when driving, no more worrying what to do with the cap or it falling around
@Corksy well, me too
To us European it still tastes like liquid sugar, nothing like the fresh squeezed orange juice you can get from any shop or bakery in the morning. I'm questioning what orange juice you've been drinking with your breakfast 😅
Exactly, European Fanta is one of the sweetest soda on the market. If you drink an entire bottle of it, it overwhelms you.
They put sugar in the Orange juice in the US. It is totally crazy.
Let's be real orange juice, be in freshly pressed or from concentrate naturally contains A LOT of sugar and is not exactly healthy to you. 100ml a day? No issue. A big glass in the morning and evening? You're in trouble. Better eat to oranges because they're less calorie-dense. One orange gives you only 50-100ml of juice!
Yes, but the different European countries have different fantas, and the one he got could taste good. I realy like Greek Fanta. Its nothing like italian or french - I don't like those
But he also said, good for what it is
The crazy thing is that in europe we still complain about to much sugar usage in our products.
Note that even between countries, in Europe the taste and composition of Fanta is different. You should try a Spain-Portugal Fanta that is different than that Eastern European (may be Bulgarian?) one and also a German Austrian one vs a scandinavian one. Also the blue Fanta is made from elderflower or elderberry tree´s flowers. We use to put those flowers in water with some sugar, some lemon squeezed and let them in summer for few days to ferment. When there is CO2 bubbles, then the drink is served chilled, is very refreshing and have that elderflower taste with the lemon freshness and CO2 bubbles.
You are correct that they are different, but They are in so many ways more similar than the polymer Fanta in the US, I managed to try US Fanta when there was the US original temporary section in the local supermarket, But I also can say that Western EU and East EU Fantas are very similar, I am yet to try Spanish one but I will have chance in the spring of next year.
THANK YOU!
I just went through many comments trying to explain that "European Fanta" doesn't exist.
The one shown in the video seems to be from Albania (put the words shown on the lable at 0:50 in google translator)
I live in Austria, so central europe, and we have 5% OJ-concentrate instead of the albanian 3% and we have ~2g more sugar per 100ml in it as well. Not completely different, but different enough.
It's absolutely Bulgarian Fanta (Bulgarian here), Bulgarian Fanta tasting like orange juice to them is nuts. We are quite on the low end when it comes to quality in our snacks and sodas compared to the rest of the EU so it's crazy they say our Fanta tastes like fizzy "natural" orange juice.
@yttheb You sure? Cause the lable seems to be written in albanian.
It macedonian fanta. Not bulgarian. Btw, it is made in the same factory, where a few years ago the cocacola company said that the best coca cola in the world is made by their standards. @yttheb
Fun fact: Fanta was made in Germany in 1940 by the Coca Cola company because they couldn’t get the ingredients for Coca Cola anymore due to warfare.
Wasn't it invented by Nazis and then bought by Coca-Cola to go around sanctions on Germany?
Coca Cola never invented Fanta, it was invented by Nazi’s.
Coca Cola supplied both allied and axis troops with Coca Cola, but after the 1941 trade embargo they stopped supplying German troops, so the Nazi’s took over (even though the German director of the company remained the same, since he was a member of the nazi party), producing “Nazi Cola”. When the resources for cola ran out, they invented Fanta.
After the war the factories were ‘reclaimed’ by Coca Cola, including the Fanta recipe.
It is only the name. It was very diffent to the Fanta today.
@Klaus-em3ix It was made from the left-overs of the orange juice production, so you can say, it always tasted like oranges with soda. Of course the taste changed, because the taste of the oranges changed too. Oranges are bigger today and contain more water, like the tomatoes.
@AmadeusHammerer look it up.. it is a very different drink now
Shokata is actually pale yellow. It's only the bottle that's blue. It's mostly sold here in the Balkans where we grow up with homemade elderberry juice and are used to the flavour
Depends which country you live in. 1st shokata that was in Poland im 98% sure it was raspberry.
I've usually found the Elderberry/Shokata one in Sweden, when shopping at the border, I liked it.
@VampyrMygg But you prefer the blood orange one, right?
@stefflus08 I'm not sure if I've had that one.
We do have this in Germany too since a year i would say. And i love it. It tastes so different and refreshing. :)
the european cap is suposed to be united to the bottle in order to facilitate the recycling of all the plastic together .Not need to torn It apart.
In italy also we have SanPellegrino's orange soda which has 20% orange juice in it, instead of the 12% in fanta
They do a lemon one too!. Fantastic.
@cliffcrabtree4359 yeah the lemon one is fucking great, tastes almost like actual lemon Juice. Shame its kinda hard to get and not always available where im from.
You have some really good juices in Italy. I found some here in Vienna and I'm impressed. After a long bike ride nothing's refreshing me better than an italian juice. 👍
I believe it also has a peach version?
@cliffcrabtree4359 Yesssss! The lemon one is my ultimate favourite. I often drink water or sparkling water with just lemon juice in it, and this drink is very close to that, just with some sugar but still sour enough.❤
My fav orange drink is Orangina, very orange juice like, Fanta recently moved towards more natural flavours..
I second that! I especially love the bits of orange pulp in Orangina.
I really hate orangina, its disgusting.
Orangina; in France very popular , nice glass bottle too.
Orangina is amazing. I don't drink it often in France but when I do I love it. The sourness is delicious.
Love it but it has dissapeared from stores around me!
The blue looked like it is the bottle that blue, not the soda.
Yep, the soda is actually white…
@ingegerdandersson6963 yes you are correct. I didn’t notice that until after filming.
@IWrocker you are to late. they ended bright blue fanta years ago. It tasted like artificial blueberry mixed with real blue berry, very strange and nothing like the berry Fanta you can get now.
@IWrockerlooks like Fanta Japanese Citrus. Fanta Japanese Citrus is made from the sweet-tasting iyokan citrus, indigenous to Japan.
You are supposed to leave the cap on 😅
If Fanta tastes like orange juice to you guys, you won't believe what the orange juice in Europe tastes like.
Shokata: Elderberry-Flower (the Berry tastes different) and Lemon. Very popular in the Balkans, especially in Bosnia, because we grew up on selfmade Elderberry-Flower Syrup. Back when it was too expensive to buy it, I would mix Sprite with my moms self-made Elderberry-Flower Syrup. Delicious. 😍
Im from Germany and for me this Fanta Shokata is the BEST its the Juice of the Goods for me
grandma used to make it.. we call it "buzz" in Bulgaria ❤
I love Elderberry-Flower ("Holunder" in German), still have some glases of jelly I made this summer. (From trees right around the corner.)
Probably not as popular here, but still common enough. There's a famous longdrink here with it and we also had that tape of Fanta.
before they renamed it it was better.. fanta madness
they renamed and changed formula
In Romania, the the Elderflower is called "Soc".
The traditional drink, which has been made for centuries, is called "Socată".
So "Soc"...Fanta... "Socata"?
It seems to me the closest and most direct name.😊
And it's not blue at all. Neither the traditional drink nor Fanta. 😅
Romania was the first market where it was produced and distributed.
At the Coca-Cola headquarters in Atlanta, in the presentation area, at that time it was mentioned next to the product, "Only in Romania".
5:02 "My wife'll know what I'm talking about." LMAOOOOO 💀💀💀
I buy Fanta very rarely but when I do it’s exclusively Shokata.