Kobie Jordan, who posts on TikTok via his @kjordyyy account is no stranger to posting the ways in which the UK differs to the US.
But now, he’s given us five things to think about when we next take a trip to the supermarket.
Jordan noted the difference in eggs (Getty Stock Images)
Unrefrigerated eggs
The first thing that made him pause was our unrefrigerated eggs.
If you didn’t know, the US put their eggs right in the fridge to keep fresh, whereas we don’t need to do that here.
He noted: “One of the first things that threw me off: the eggs are not refrigerated.
“Funny enough, I found the eggs last way longer than when I used to refrigerate them. For me, I put them on top of the microwave.”
Our food is smaller (Getty Stock Images)
Portion sizes
It’s no surprise to us that the US has bigger portions than us as any Brit who ventures across the pond will comment on the super-sized meals and products.
For Jordan, he shared: “The UK, you shop way more often, but you buy in smaller quantities.
“You can’t really buy things in bulk. Here, you can’t buy ketchup the size of compact cars.”
It expires faster (Getty Stock Images)
Fresh food expires quicker
He then went on to share that our fresh produce has a shorted expiration date than food in the US, because the produce over there ‘is pumped with so much preservatives.’
At the time of his filming it was 7 August, but the dates in the fresh food aisle were showing anywhere between the 8th and the 11th, making the window for eating the foods very small.
Good luck bulking (Getty Stock Images)
No bulk buying
The next thing Jordan noticed that in the UK, you ‘can’t really buy things in bulk’ as our shelves do not contain as much produce, nor are the containers as big.
However, he joked that our baked beans have ‘no shortages’ and ‘was ironically the item that had the most stock.’
