Joe: From calorie count to portion sizes,
we wanted to find out all the differences
between Domino's in India and the US.
This is "Food Wars."
Here in India, our Domino's pizzas come in three sizes.
Our Domino's pizza comes in four sizes.
Nikhil: The small, 8 inches with four slices.
Joe: The small, 10-inch, which is six slices.
The medium, 10 inches with six slices.
Joe: The medium, 12 inches, which is eight slices.
And the large, 12 inches with eight slices.
Joe: The large, 14-inch, which is,
I don't know, four, eight, nine,
16 slices, 'cause I don't know why they cut it this way.
I didn't ask them to, so.
And the extra large,
16 inches, or six slices.
Unfortunately, our large margherita pizza
only comes in one crust option, which is the hand-tossed.
You don't get it in pan
or in cheese burst or any other kind.
So I am going to weigh one slice
of large margherita hand-tossed pizza
to see how much it weighs.
93 grams.
And I will weigh a slice of our hand-tossed
and our pan to compare the weight.
Please note that our mediums
are the same size as their larges.
That's pretty insane.
Yeah, I'm not surprised by that at all, buddy.
Hand-tossed.
One random slice is
79 grams.
A slice of pan,
same surface size, we'll say,
but obviously a lot thicker,
like, way, I mean, come on.
Ha!
139 grams.
So that's a little less than double.
This is a large Domino's margherita pizza.
It's also known as a plain or cheese in the US.
This is 12 inches long.
It costs 419 rupees, or $5.55
at current conversion rates.
So the total surface area of this pizza
is 729.7 centimeters squared,
which means it costs 0.76 cents
per square centimeter of this pizza.
Take our large 14-inch pizza,
which is $13.99, or 1,056 Indian rupee,
with an area of 993.1 squared centimeters.
Just like these slices are squared.
I totally did that on purpose.
That's 1.4 cents per square centimeter.
That means the Indian pizza is 45% cheaper
than the American version.
This is everything you'll get on a menu at Domino's India
that you will not get in America.
Little skyscrapers.
You guys have actual skyscrapers.
We have Domino's-pizza-box skyscrapers.
Here's everything at the US Domino's
you can't get in India.
We have five --
that's 10.
We have five different crust options.
We have pan.
Then you have wheat thin crust,
cheese burst.
Is there supposed to be cheese in here?
Oh!
There is cheese in here, for sure.
Then we have hand-tossed,
and we have something called new hand-tossed.
Maybe somebody else's hands were used to make this one.
In the US, our Domino's has five crust options.
This one right here, gluten-free.
But you can only get that as a small pizza.
Next, over here, hand-tossed.
Over here, the much thicker pan.
That's medium only.
This guy in the middle here is the crunchy thin,
which I just found out five seconds ago
they also cut in squares.
Didn't know that.
Last and certainly not least, this is the Brooklyn style.
They're thin slices, but you can only get this
as the large and the extra large.
Hell yeah, that looks so good.
Just by looking at them,
I can tell that the hand-tossed is slightly thinner.
Mm.
New hand-tossed.
It's a little firmer as a crust.
I would opt for the regular hand-tossed pizza.
Finally, just for fun,
the cheese burst.
That is such a guilty pleasure.
So, I thought this was cheese burst
in the sense that just the outer ring of crust had cheese.
The entire pizza base is cheese burst.
All right, here is our range of vegetarian pizzas.
Here in India, to keep with the religious sentiments
of both Hindus and Muslims,
who are a majority in our country,
we avoid using beef and pork in most fast-food restaurants.
But what that means is that we get
a lot of delicious vegetarian options.
No. 1, Mexican Green Wave.
I will say the colors on this pizza
definitely look like the Mexican flag.
Jalapeños, some tomatoes, onion, cheese.
Next up, we have veggie paradise.
Wow.
Imagine calling an entire pizza a paradise.
Red peppers, capsicum, olives, corn, and cheese.
You guys in the comments, let me know,
does this look like paradise to you?
I'm not in the comments, but I'll tell you right now,
it absolutely does not.
It's funny. Their veggie paradise
is my pizza hell.
Next up, deluxe veggie.
Mushrooms, paneer, corn, capsicum, and onion.
I typically don't like when there's too much on my pizza,
but the things here really complement each other.
Pretty good. But, again, there's so much going on in this.
It's truly a deluxe pizza.
Next up, we have Peppy Paneer. How fun!
Red peppers, capsicum, and paneer.
If you are wondering what paneer is,
it's basically cottage cheese,
and we love our paneer.
OK, next up we have paneer makhani.
If you're wondering what makhani means,
it's a paneer version of butter chicken.
If you're wondering what butter chicken is,
friend, you need a culinary education.
Hm.
Would I ever want paneer makhani on a pizza?
Maybe not. I don't like it.
Next up, we have cheese and corn.
It's got cheese, it's got corn.
And finally, Indi paneer tandoori pizza.
Tandoor is basically an oven we use here.
It's cylindrical. We use wood fire and coal in it
to sort of give the meat and bread some char to it.
And Indi, well, this pizza has just not hit mainstream yet.
Oh, that is spicy and a half.
If you can't take heat, avoid this one.
My favorite so far,
none of them. I will order a non-veg pizza.
Wow, India has a lot more vegetarian options
than we do, and good for them.
I personally don't want any of that.
We do have two of our own exclusive veggie options.
This here is the Pacific veggie.
And over here we have the spinach and feta.
I don't want to try either of these.
Do I have to?
It's wasting valuable stomach space, you know?
Like, it's only so big.
All this awesome Domino's food here,
you think I want any of this in my stomach? Who cares?
All right, fine.
What's it got, like, feta cheese on it?
This isn't so bad.
Nonvegetarian pizzas.
No. 1, we have the pepper barbecue.
Doesn't look like it has any vegetables,
just a bunch of chicken pieces
and with a nice smoky barbecue flavor.
But you can choose a pepper barbecue chicken with onion.
That is a great combination.
Chicken sausage. Quite sausage-y, for sure.
The next pizza is what I believe to be
the best pizza you can order from Domino's India.
The Chicken Golden Delight.
What a delightful name.
This is one of the oldest pizzas that's been there
on the Domino's India menu.
It's got nice sweet corn,
it's got some jalapeños in there,
and some delicious, delightful chicken.
Next, we have the Dominator, which seems to have
every single meat-topping option on the menu.
My God.
Consider me dominated.
I don't think he knows what that means.
Wow. We're learning a lot about Nikhil today, aren't we?
Whatever you're into, my man.
And next we have chicken fiesta.
It's got some tandoori chicken pieces,
some capsicum, onion. Nice, simple flavors.
You can't go wrong with this one.
And finally, Indi chicken tikka,
which is just the chicken version
of that paneer pizza I had.
And that one just burned my lips,
so steer clear of this one if you can't handle spice,
but if you do, this is the one you should get.
Actually, some of those look pretty good.
I'm very impressed.
Now, here in the US,
every pizza that has beef on it is an exclusive.
And we also got some chicken ones.
Let's do this. I am starving.
All the way over here,
this is the ExtravaganZZa, which looks to have
bunch of veggies, mushrooms, and pepperoni.
Yeah.
This is the MeatZZa. That's with two capital Z's.
I'm seeing pepperoni, ham, sausage, possibly hamburger.
All the meats.
Hell, yeah. Let's go.
Mm.
I can maybe do one bite of that.
My neck's starting to sweat.
Next, we got the Hawaiian pizza.
Mm.
A-plus on this one. I f--- with this one.
Definitely. Very good.
Cali chicken bacon ranch.
And you see, it looks like it has sun-dried tomatoes,
bacon, I'm assuming, and chicken, white sauce.
Little flimsy guy. This is the Brooklyn style,
so I don't know why it's California.
Oh, yeah.
That white sauce.
Buffalo chicken pizza.
I mean, they drizzled it on there, right?
You see that? It's just drizzled.
This one's surprisingly very good.
The ultimate pepperoni.
Not just any pepperoni pizza.
The ultimate pepperoni.
Oh, yeah.
It's covered in pepperoni.
"Ooh" is right!
Mm!
Oh, yeah, put me in a pepperoni coma.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, the deluxe.
Deluxe is just that, little bit of everything.
Black olives, sausage, peppers, ham, probably bacon.
You put black olives on anything,
it just tastes like black olives.
Ooh, Memphis barbecue.
I am pro barbecue sauce on pizza.
And it looks like they got chicken here too.
Yeah. Onions.
Mm.
Yeah. Oh, man.
That barbecue sauce. That's really nice.
Wisconsin six cheese.
There's no way there's six cheeses here.
I don't think I can name six cheeses.
We have mozzarella, cheddar, Asiago,
does American count as cheese?
Did I say cheddar yet?
Blue, I don't know.
Next up, if all of those non-veg pizzas
aren't enough for you,
they have an entire section called chicken lovers,
and they have these four pizzas that look absolutely insane.
They're more topping than pizza at this point.
This one is called the chicken five feast.
So they have chicken, pepperoni, chicken tikka,
chicken meatballs.
There is so much going on over there.
I like it, but it feels like a drug, a pizza drug.
Next up, we have the spicy double chicken.
It has two different types of chicken,
pepper chicken and tandoori chicken.
And I assume it will be spicy,
and I'm going to take Domino's word for it.
And then we have Chicken Maximus,
which sounds like a Roman emperor who was also a coward.
They have chicken sausage, chicken tikka,
just a lot of chicken. Just a lot of chicken.
That's what this has.
Like, oh, my God, can I just weigh this?
It feels like a small baby.
I'm holding a small baby.
545 grams for a medium pizza.
And finally, we have what appears to be the king
of all of these chicken-lover pizzas.
It's an Indo fusion max.
Sounds like, I don't know,
some sort of detergent.
But, dude, you can't even tell what,
like, what number of ingredients is on this?
I can't even see the pizza at this point.
Oh, my God.
I feel like a new man.
You have to order this once in your life.
It gives me deep displeasure to announce
that Domino's India has decided to create
these monstrosities called pizza burgers.
Look at this. [knocking]
Is a burger supposed to make this noise?
In Bengaluru, where I'm from,
if something bad happens to you,
your friend will say you got a bun.
And this is the bun they're talking about.
They have three flavors, classic veg,
premium veg, and classic non-veg.
Ah! Oh, man!
No!
It's just veggies and sauce. Is that cheese?
No! No, no, no, no, no.
[sighs]
You know what?
I thought this would be bad.
And it's worse.
It's much worse. It's not a burger.
Nothing about this is a burger except for the bun.
This might be the worst thing I've eaten
on "Food Wars" so far.
OK. We did kind of the same thing,
only we call them sandwiches.
I've never gotten one of these outside of "Food Wars."
I'm just going to pick this one right here.
It looks like it is a chicken habanero.
Everyone want to get bummed out? Aw.
Philly cheesesteak. Listen up, Philadelphia.
Domino's wants to make you guys proud.
Philadelphia, why are you not rioting right now
at the Domino's headquarters, wherever it is?
Because this is just insulting.
Oh, no.
Remember the Mediterranean veggie?
Here it is in sandwich form.
Oh, this one has banana peppers on it.
Ooh, here we go.
Chicken bacon ranch.
Love that combination.
Oh, no. Yuelei, look at this.
Look at this!
This is just too much.
This one I just labeled "sandwich."
I didn't know which one it was.
What the f---? Look at this. What is this?
Is this the Buffalo chicken?
No on this one, guys.
Buffalo, let us know in the chat
how insulted you are by this.
Both residents of Buffalo and Buffalo the animals.
Uh, Italian.
They didn't skimp on the pepperoni,
I gotta give them credit for that one.
The chicken Parm sandwich.
Surprisingly bland.
They're not terrible, but, I mean,
why get this instead of pizza?
Continuing the list of exclusive abominations,
we have a string of pastas,
but also pasta pizzas,
which look, um, fascinating.
Here in Domino's India, we use fusilli pasta,
fusilli being the whole helix DNA strand of pastas.
We have creamy tomato, veg, non-veg,
and we have Moroccan spice, veg and non-veg.
And to accompany these I'm sure delicious pastas,
we have pasta pizzas in the same flavors.
Wow, just really inventive stuff going on over here.
This is the Moroccan spice vegetarian pasta pizza.
Here we go.
Voice-over: They ask you how you are,
and you just have to say that you're fine
when you're not really fine.
It sent a shiver down my spine.
It's so bad.
How many different types of carbs are in this?
My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.
OK, I'm going to try one pasta just in case it's good.
Let's mix it up.
This one has some tomato sauce in it.
This is bad.
We here in the US have our pasta options
that come in penne noodles, these type of noodle guys.
Is that a good shot of a penne noodle?
You can get it in pasta primavera,
chicken carbonara,
chicken Alfredo,
Italian sausage marinara.
Again, I don't know why you're getting pasta
at a pizza place.
I like it just fine.
Is this the best pasta you can get in your neighborhood?
Most certainly not.
Now on to chicken wings.
We have three flavors, tomato chili sauce,
peri-peri, and boneless peri-peri.
I'm going to try the peri-peri wings
just to see how they stack up.
They're all right.
They're just your standard, run-of-the-mill chicken wings.
In a country full of millions of flavors,
I can't believe we're still doing these same
standard flavors like peri-peri, barbecue, and ranch.
Where is my chicken 65, my chicken mughlai,
my chicken ghee roast?
Oh, chicken ghee roast.
Domino's, if you do chicken ghee roast wings,
I think you're going to get a lot more people.
Wings in the US. We got them too.
Here's three flavors that we have here in the US.
Honey barbecue, sweet mango habanero, and garlic Parmesan.
Domino's, if you're watching,
you need to, effective immediately,
stop doing this.
I don't know who in your organization said,
"You know what we should do?
Instead of tossing it in the sauce,
you know, how everyone expects their wings to come,
we'll just put it on here and drizzle."
Look at this. Look at this mess.
Toss it. Toss the wings. Toss it in the sauce.
Toss it in the sauce.
That's how everyone does this, how it's supposed to be done.
Next up, exclusive sides.
No. 1, cheese pops.
Tater tots, as you call them.
We have fries, and they're crinkle-cut. That's unique.
Not a lot of restaurants here in India do this.
They have been flavored with a bunch of stuff, though, so.
I think they've used their oregano
and chili flakes over here.
They have here a veg parcel.
It's like a little puff
with the same paneer pieces over here.
Then they have what they call tacos.
There's a vegetarian version
with some simple veg cutlets,
and they have a nonvegetarian version with
[laughs] a slab of chicken.
I did not expect that.
I am speechless at the level of quality these sides have
compared to the pizzas.
Then you have a chicken parcel.
And finally, they have little meatballs of chicken
with peri-peri dust on top of them.
This is literally just one of their pizza toppings
that they're selling as a side.
Yes, India has breadsticks and stuff with cheesy bread,
but they don't have garlic ones.
We got those.
We also have these Parmesan twists.
Look at these twisty guys.
And for stuffed cheesy bread,
you can get it as spinach and feta
or bacon and jalapeño.
Dips. This, I don't know what,
they just were like,
"How can we give people pizza without bread?"
Behold, this.
It is a dish of cheese and marinara sauce.
They're calling them dips.
Cheesy marinara.
And the five cheese. Come on.
Look at that. Look at that oil.
You see that right there?
Exclusive sauces at the US Domino's.
You know what that means.
Sauce talk.
Here, you can get these exclusive sauces in the US.
Can't get them in India.
We got hot Buffalo, sweet mango habanero,
honey barbecue, ranch,
ooh, blue cheese, for the wings, right?
And garlic.
Yeah, it says ranch.
They gave us two ranches instead of
a ranch and a garlic.
And marinara.
They were generous with the marinara.
That's a big one.
We have two separate dips over here in Domino's India.
We have a cheesy dip,
and we have a cheesy jalapeño dip.
Cheesy dip.
Ooh.
Oh, that tastes good. OK.
Cheesy jalapeño dip, really yum.
Something about this tastes spoiled.
Is this past its expiry date?
It tastes like curdled milk.
Go with the cheesy jalapeño dip, for sure.
It's time for desserts!
Dessert.
We just have one dessert here in Domino's India,
but it's a banger.
This is a choco lava cake.
You heat it up, and boom,
gooey lava goodness.
Oh, wow.
This fixed everything that was wrong
with the menu of Domino's up until now.
Just eating this is so comforting.
I can feel those memories of the pasta
and the burger and that ridiculousness that they served
slowly disappearing from my head,
like thoughts from Dumbledore's head
when he's near the pensieve.
Hey, India, check out these desserts we got.
You can't have them.
Over here, we have a marbled cookie brownie.
I'd go for a brownie. Right?
What the hell, dude? These are great.
Oh, my God.
It's cookie dough and brownie.
What a great idea!
These dips. I don't know who
in your organization said, "Let's do dips,"
but you need to let that person go.
It's, like, chunky apple sauce and cinnamon twists.
Now it's time for drinks.
Yet again, it's PepsiCo winning.
Over here, we have Pepsi, we have 7Up, and Mirinda.
Unlike a lot of other restaurants,
Domino's is yet to switch from plastic PET bottles
to something like cans or reusable cups.
Drinks you can get in the US, can't get in India.
I almost said the UK. Jesus. I'm cracking up.
Coke, diet Coke,
Fanta orange, the Doctor,
Sprite, Dasani water.
I'm taking the Dr. Pepper.
It's time for calories.
Our large hand-tossed margherita pizza
has 256.4 calories per slice.
So that means the full pizza is 2,051.5 calories,
which is over twice your daily recommended protein intake
and 172.5%
your daily sodium intake.
Yeesh!
Our large cheese pizza is 2,240 calories.
That's a 9.19% increase
from India's cheese pizza.
Look, I screwed up.
I needed a thin crust for the crust section of this video,
and I just randomly made it this large.
Just understand that ...
maybe, Victoria, can you do me a favor
and take this pizza here and just put it right there?
Like, can you just do that in post, please?
Next up, one slice of a large deluxe veg pizza
is 220.5 calories.
And so the entire pizza
is 1,764 calories.
This is our large Pacific veggie veggie pizza,
and it is 310 calories per slice,
which makes the full pizza 2,480 calories.
That's a 40% calorie increase in the US.
And, oof, get a load of that sodium,
over 200% your daily amount.
At Domino's India, our highest calorific pizza
is the chicken dominatrix.
Chicken Dominator!
The chicken Dominator, dominating the calories, I guess.
One slice will cost you 399 calories,
and the entire pizza is a whopping
3,192 calories,
which is 159.6%
of your recommended daily intake.
Please steer clear from eating
an entire chicken Dominator.
Our US Domino's pizza with the most calories is this,
the Cali chicken bacon ranch.
One XL Brooklyn slice of this is 560 calories.
That makes the full pie 3,360 calories.
That's 168% your daily recommended calorie amount.
It's worth it. It's delicious.
Go get a slice.
Tell 'em Joe from "Food Wars" sent you.
They'll have no idea what you're talking about.
All right! Thank you, Domino's India!
That was delicious.
God bless me for eating all of that,
but God bless you for continuing to make
some of India's favorite pizzas.
I am questioning the whole pasta and burger thing, though,
and I hope you do too.