What British staple would you miss if you moved abroad?
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- I was surprised a bit by the top comment, but fair play about the food!
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The cup of tea... it’s become such a comforting thing and I didn’t get it at first. I am the child of a British mum but grew up in France. When my uncle died (he was the best, love you uncle Bill
In the US you have to specifically say "hot tea" or they assume you want iced/herbal/etc. If your standard temperature for tea isn't hot then you're doing it wrong.
True. I lost my Mum recently. The nurses offered tea, and so did many other people afterwards. It helped in some mysterious way. A hot, strong, sweet mug of tea is the thing in a stressful or emotional situation, and I say that as a drinker of all kinds of coffee.
Tea, without doubt. I've never found a "proper" cup of tea anywhere abroad (Ireland excepted, of course). Obviously I've had wonderful tea in China and Japan, but it's not the same.
Yes, in any form of crisis the first thing offered is a cup of tea. If you watch British television you'll see it time and again.
I was once unable to sleep at night while in hospital and the duty nurse noticed and asked me whether I would like a sleeping pill. I said no but I would like a cup of tea. She obligingly made one for me and I was soon sleeping soundly.
Old Brit here. Butter is kept in the fridge as the cats cannot open our fridge door yet. We use a cheese slicer which produces very thin rectangles of butter which are easy to spread on the warm things we like to eat it on.
Can't you put it in a cupboard
@@sie4431 they can be opened by cats...
"yet"
Here in Sweden, a lot of people still put up with the inconvenience of butter, but most have moved on to a spread that has butter mixed with rapeseed/canola oil, making it softer straight out of the fridge, and in recent years more variants have been introduced, with more oil and even some water mixed in, to both make it easier to spread and lower the fat content. Still tastes like butter.
Ever heard of a butter dish? It comes with a lid so you don't have to worry about the cats breaking in.
Thanks for bringing Kim back. She adds so much knowledge/ perspective.
Specifically if I had to leave Scotland, the gloriousness of the tap water would be the first thing I miss, nothing better than winter cold tap water to cure the hangover and/or any ailment, it's honestly a peeve of mine whenever I go to europe and the tap water is no good.
Also the classic banger sausage, as well as Lorne's if we're being scottish still, they're hard to come by abroad
I can confirm - I do miss the delicious and chilly tap water!
I’m Scottish living in Germany and you are so right. Scottish water makes everything taste delicious, diluting juices and coffee and it’s fantastic in the shower, makes the shampoo so foamy and the hair feels so clean. I miss tattie scones. I have made them homemade a few times but not the same. I miss scones in bakeries so much too and I miss self raising flour. I miss chip shops. I miss Ribena. I miss Greggs and cheese and onion pasties. I miss Cadbury’s chocolate 😢I miss tartan carpet and cosy pubs and a good chat in English 😢
The tap water in New York City is excellent (seriously!), but we pay a whole bundle of money a month in rent, groceries, transport and utilities to drink it!
@@nicolalagonigro1155 I'd say that it was actually really quite good in NYC and we were pleasantly surprised but that the ridiculous population density does mean any failures are pretty catastrophic compared to in Scotland. Although saying that we have had failures in Scotland too actually. But yes, the necessitation of being tight on controls with tap water does mean NYC was pretty damn good when we were there. Definitely better than other parts of America although there were some Eastern Seaboard states that had excellent tap water too. And some with absolutely atrocious tap water! Or bottled water that tastes horrible too. I think Florida was the absolute worst for tap water actually.
Rain. I once was for one month in Tunisia. Sunshine and blue skyes for the whole month. When I arrived in Brussels Airport, the grey drizzle and specific smell of rain, made my heart jump with joy. Gosh it made me sooo happy. Greetings from Belgium.
😂 who would miss rain! I guess we miss what we are used to! I miss high blue skies. I swear no sky is like the sky in my country. And it makes absolutely no sense but even in the same ocean by the sea, other skies seem oppressive with clouds very on top of you… I am sure it is just my personal feel of it and has no base in reality! 😊
I didn't miss the rain but I missed the result. Months in southern Spain and the landscape just looked thirsty to my Scottish eye.
@@RoseRodent oh yes! Dreamy fairy tale like Scottland!
Same. I've been to countries where it doesn't rain for weeks even months... I feel like a mummy slowly drying up.
It's been raining all day today and my little one said "mummy I love rain", and after thinking about it for a second I said that I love rain too, and I really do. Sunny days are lovely but cosy, rainy days when you can stay home and chill or walk in the woods and get muddy are days I'm grateful to have.
On the British beer, it's the cask ales I'm not aware of anywhere else which sells them. And they are absolutely amazing
Yes, it is definitely one of the main things I miss. Lager is far too gassy for me so I hardly ever drink beer in mainland Europe.
Beer in a cask? Yuk! Not something Australians do, but each to their own!🙂
@@helenbartoszek243
With out doubt real ales are the best. 😃. 🏴 🇬🇧
absolutely, i miss proper ales so much!
Creme eggs used to be better before Cadbury was bought by Kraft. They used to use the same dairy milk chocolate for everything, now they just use a cheaper version unless it specifically says "Dairy Milk". I'm pretty sure they messed with the filling too. They're just not how I remember them being.
Also Oreos are mid. I don't get the obsession with them. Bourbon Creams are superior!
On the Greggs thing, I'm always amazed how few there are in London, and they always seem to be next to a KFC. It's just Pret everywhere. They're better up north! They're always hot, you don't have to specifically ask. Often too hot so they burn your mouth lol.
Do you mean central London?
For Creme eggs in Aus/NZ, they used to be made in the Dunedin Cadbury factory, then they "restructured", and stopped making them there, and now import them from the UK. Compared to what they used to be, they are crap, chocolate not as good, the filling is now very grainy where it used to be smooth. Tellingly, sales of them tanked after this change.
Hell, most people in NZ won't buy Cadbury if they can get away with it, as the quality of their chocolate is so much worse than what it was, we stick to Whittakers.
Cadbury is owned by Mondelez, not Kraft (also owned by Mondelez). Mondelez are the masters of producing utter shite disguised as food (closely followed by PepsiCo).
American Snickers bars are a disappointment. I think they wave a peanut over the chocolate as it passes down the conveyer belt. UK snickers… PEANUTS!
What? COLD GREGGS?!?! 💀
How on earth did that one guy miss black pudding in Germany, as if we didn't have like 12 different kinds of Blood Sausage for every single region of the country. From the Oechener Puttes to the Nürnberger Blutpressack I'd even go so far as to say that we have probably an even bigger variety of Blood sausages than England.
I have tasted german and british black pudding and I felt they were different... I do hate black pudding though since they always are dry
I'm in Poland at the moment. They also have lots of different types of blood sausage. Haven't found one that either tastes or has the consistency of UK black pudding.
I think plack pudding is most similar to westphalian "wurstebrot".
Because they taste different 🫤
@@AtheistDD is that a special kind of wurstbrot? Because that term describes bascially any kind of sausage on bread, it's literally in the name.
15:36 Canadian/American popping in here. Genuinely thought she was talking about the country Iceland and was confused. Evan saying "I've never lived near an Iceland" clued me in that this is a store where you buy (primarily? Only?) frozen food.
Yep, it's a supermarket where most of the produce is frozen. You'll also get milk, cereals, bread, household cleaning materials plus a range of other non-frozen items.
I felt the same! Was rather confused!
Does anyone remember when ‘Iceland’ was called ‘Bejams’ ? They used to sell freezers and ‘fridges too.
@@user-fq8rs7rz3i Yes, I remember the name Bejam but I don't recall I ever encountered one. To be honest I didn't make the connection between it and Iceland, where I have shopped on occasion.
@@user-fq8rs7rz3i I remember Iceland selling fridges and freezers. I've just looked it up and Bejams and Iceland merged in 1989
Great to see Kim back on the channel again after so long
I actually love blackcurrant lol, it's my absolute favourite. Honestly it's hard to exactly put a finger on what you miss for me but a couple of my top ones when I've been abroad are:
People opening doors for me and making sure to let me pass, and just generally being helpful, I'm disabled and use a wheelchair and depending on the country I have sometimes felt like I don't exist and it made life a lot harder. Struggling to open a heavy door only to have people push in front of me happened multiple times in one place.
How green it is, I spent a bit of time in Spain one summer and it hadn't rained in two months so it was all brown and coming home to the explosion of green everywhere was amazing. I've never taken it for granted since.
Ease of access to vegetarian food, some countries have way less choice and it can be super hard to find it.
Regional one but being called duck, "Alright duck?" feels like a warm hug when you haven't heard it in a while.
Earl Grey tea, British biscuits, and mushroom and halloumi burgers. Oh also the ease of access to Indian food.
Blackcurrant cheesecake is the best cheesecake.
People shit on british food, but I do think our diversity of food available is one of my favourite things about this country. Granted, I suppose it's not "ours", but particularly Indian food has had its own twist on it. The one thing I miss when I'm abroad is a proper curry. I've spent a lot of time in Spain, particularly rural Spain, and I don't know how they don't get sick of the same sorts of flavours! I searched all the local supermarkets and not one had curry spices.
As somebody who moved to France this question is easy, Greggs vegan sausage rolls,crumpets, sliced white bread and Yorkshire biscuit tea.
I spent some time in the Charente region during the 80's, the only sliced bread you could get was a third of the size of a loaf, weird mini slices but always felt stale
@@wiganfan3373 I now live in the Charente and 'American' white sliced bread is everywhere.
You can get pain de mie, it’s too sweet. English bread is much better !
How, just how, when French food is so amazing?
@@MegaWilderness Ok, don’t get me wrong. A crusty, fresh baguette from la boulangerie is top tier. But when I want an egg and cress, or a cheese and pickle, I don’t want a baguette. I want trashy sliced white !
When I was 14, my parents sent me to britain to improve my english skills (didn't helped at school grades). I stayed at a lovely english family and had lessons with a bunch of other german teenager.
Each day, when I came "home", I was asked, if I wanted "an other cup of tea". It was so wellcoming, to have this hot drink and telling the mum, what I did this day.
I also loved the variety of crisp flavours. Best were cheese and onion (yes, you can get them here, but they taste different), vinegar and worcester sauce. I even sprinkle some vinegar on my fries at home.
That sounds really cool. Would have loved to have the chance to go live abroad as a kid! Making up for it now as a student while I still have the time.
It was 3 weeks, but I gained so much confidence. In speaking a foreign language and in general as a person. Do it!
Not serious with no mention of Marmite...
It's hard to miss it these days, you can get import vegemite/marmite most places.
You can find that easily on line ! It’s the fresh foods that people can’t get easily.
omg yes, how could I forget! I definitely missed Marmite.
I've found marmite in supermarkets in France and Spain.
Then again, British Marmite isn't a patch on New Zealand Marmite (and that IS hard to find in the UK, since the Kiwi shop, down the way from the NZ embassy, closed down).
A. Yorkshire puddings aren’t hard to make. B. Ribena is awesome I love blackcurrant. C. Definitely ribena, or Sausage rolls.
Yeah, I was surprised they said Yorkshire puds are difficult to make. Having said that, I used to assume they were until a friend told me how to make them. Really easy.
I'm glad you two mentioned how easy it is to make Yorkshire puddings. Best food easily made. Yummy. Plus I like blackcurrant flavours too, to drink, hot or cold, on cheesecakes...yummmmmy!!
It's not hard to make a decent Yorkshire but it is challenging to consistently make prefect ones.
@@dealbreakerc fair enough!
@@dealbreakerceven a badly made home made one will be 10x better than shop ones
Wow! I am so glad to see Kim doing well. She was always one of my favorite guests.
15:38, I think he might be talking about Ale, because the Europeans can do brilliant lagers but English proper Ales are perfect for the climate because they're not hot weather drink unlike Lager.
I don't mind a lager here, but I'm mad for it abroad. So cold and refreshing.
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Growing up in Cornwall, now living in Ireland. Proper Cornish Pasties!
Yes! Although I had a decent one in Mace in Belmullet, Co. Mayo just this week
Yes but i prefer a propper Devon pasty
I lived in the US - L.A and Arizona for 3 years, and missed: real bacon, eggs with bright yellow yolks, bread with taste, breakfast tea made with soft water not filled with chemicals, the ability to have a proper local butcher, Vimto, and Radio 4
Yellow yolks aren’t a flex 💀
what does it mean real bacon? I wonder, to what product are you referring to.
Bacon rashers thickly cut, Canadian bacon to Americans, as opposed to the ubiquitous sliced with a razorblade 'Farmer John'
Also, most bacon in the US contains sugar, that they have a specific product category called “sugar-free bacon”.
Ready meals. (The irritating bait-and-switch tax not included in given price thing is sadly the case in Canada as well. Nowhere outside of North America have I encountered that headache and felt quietly furious about it when living over there - along with that outrageous having to pay for a 'checking' bank account. Urgh.)
The only thing you can say in Welsh is, ‘’Jesu Grist’, (‘Jesus Christ’)? I think I might go for, ‘Chwarae teg’, or, ‘ Da iawn’,
I’d miss proper cheddar cheese. What Americans call cheddar is disgusting. I love black pudding and haggis. Yorkshire puds really aren’t difficult to make. I’d miss supermarket ready meals and toasted tea cakes.
I'm confused about the paying for a checking account thing. I have lived in the US my whole life & never had to pay for a checking account. On a similar note I also am able to send money to other people for free through my bank. Why does everyone claim that we have to pay?
Paying for a bank account is like paying for anything else American it’s called greedy profit seeking capitalism.
i'm British and i would definitely not keep proper butter in the fridge, and I hate that yucky margarine stuff
If it's spreadable it's been diluted with oil. Keep it in the fridge and slice it. If it isn't salted, it's not butter
@@MegaWilderness Depends I tend to just have unsalted butter, because its easier when it comes to baking, and I don't want to have multiple blocks of butter on the go. Especially as I just live by myself. I normally just sprinkle some salt on after I've spread the butter.
I'm from Australia and during autumn, winter and spring I keep my butter out of the fridge. But during summer it must be kept in the fridge, otherwise it turns to liquid.
@@helenbartoszek243 The summers in Germany become hotter. With indoor temperatures over 25 degrees, butter become too soft. The best thing were if you have a fridge with 15 degrees to temper the butter right. But this is luxury.
Lived for 5 years in London- miss free museums and brandy butter for Christmas
16:42 In my experience blackcurrant is actually usually the most popular flavour.
For me it is at least. Any forest fruit is way better than the other flavours in general.
I second that Roundtree's fruit pastilles the black one was always everyone's favourite
Same!! Everyone I know would agree with this too
I have just realised how much colonisation left behind. So many of these things are available here in South Africa. Our fish and chips come with chips that flop around, feel like they were just dipped in oil, but they are so good! Especially with lots of salt and vinegar.
Hi, former Greggs employee here...
When you keep food in a warmer to keep it hot, you have to pay VAT on it.
Greggs bake then place in the glass viewer, but it is not heated, which is why they cool down. Its also why they baked little and often. All to avoid the VAT charge.
When I moved to Germany the thing I missed was cheddar and cider (west country moment), non of the cheese in the shops filled the gap and the only cheddar I found was a ridiculous 4 euro for 4 slices of cathedral city in Edeka or an Irish one in Aldi which wasn't very good, needless to say I had friends and family smuggle me over some
Same here in France, the “cheddar” just doesn’t cut it !
Yeah real cider, the scrumpy you buy off the dodgy farmer down the road, is impossible to find anywhere else. It's always some horrible sweet shit. And European cheese is fantastic, but it is strange that we have a load of good European cheeses in our shops but they never have real cheddar or wensleydale or any other good british hard cheese.
I’m American, vegan, and lived in Korea last year. There was one or two breads in the supermarket but mostly you had to go to a bakery to get bread, which was kinda quaint tbh. And the bakery chains are literally everywhere. So that was just fun.
HOWEVER, for no reason at all, all their bread was made with milk. All of it. So I had to find vegan bakeries and go halfway across town to buy bread. Which was also expensive.
So that became a special treat. It FELT like I was going out of my way to buy a fancy cake from a special pastry-shop for a birthday party. But in reality I was hunting down white bread for avocado toast.
Just part of the adventure 😂🤷♀️❤️
"Brits don't know real butter" Extraordinary comment to make. After Christmas I found a pint of double cream at the back of the fridge I had forgotten about. It was a month past the date but looked OK and surprisingly smelled OK. I have a Kilner butter churn and thought it was time to use it. I ended up with about 250g of butter. I had over guessed the amount of salt to add so shoved in garlic as well. Kept it in the fridge and used it to make garlic bread.
I'm normally very stingy on the sorts of food I buy, normally the cheapest shit, but real butter is something I always splash out for. I bought lurpak when the shop was out of the proper stuff and even that just tasted like oil.
3 pin plugs mean you can vacuum without pulling the cable out the wall.
Chip shop chips, a decent curry and a good Chinese meal are hard to find outside the uk. Edit - elsewhere in Europe.
Most UK groceries can be found in the Netherlands - you need to visit multiple stores and it might be 3 times the price, but you can find most things nowadays... even Crunchy Nut Cornflakes.
I'm planning on stashing a few boxes of Special K in a case along with some other bits on my next few NL trips - the prices on cereal are outrageous!
If you're in danger of pulling out the plug when you're vacuuming, perhaps get an extension cord? Anyway, we have schuko (CEE 7) plugs here, and they don't come out unintentionally.
I used to find pretty good Chinese food in ...Hong Kong and Guangzhou...🤣🤣
How short is your vacuum cable that you're in danger of pulling it out of the wall so often?
@@bellshooter Good point, well made meant to write elsewhere in Europe, added an edit.
I do miss proper pubs in LA. My mum came to visit last September, and it was a mission to find a pub relatively near by to my apartment to have a glass of wine whilst we decided what we wanted for dinner. Also I agree with Kim, proper British pubs you go to the bar and it's nice not having someone trying to serve you at a table all the time.
there is a pub in LA with proper British cask beer. It's glorious
@@nicktankard1244 ooh where is it?
@@sophieirwin3497 ok I just google and apparently it changed owners. It used to be called Yorkshire Square Brewery and it was a British style pub with cask ales and traditional pub food. Won a bunch of awards and stuff. Now it’s called Project Barley Square. I haven’t been to LA in about 5 years. But it seems they kept it the same. It’s in Torrance.
@@nicktankard1244 Thanks for the recommendation! I'm always looking for a bit of home
I did move abroad and I can tell you that Twiglets aside, I missed the history. In Australia brown signs meant nature walks, in the U.K. they mean ancient things. I loved Australia without reservation, still do, but that is what I missed and now I’m home I’m glad for it.
Quick and cheap is i think what describes greggs perfectly. Its really hard to explain to people from other countries why people like greggs so much because its not like incredible. But like i really appreciate being able to get a quick hot lunch thats tasty enough and its actually cheap,
Never understood why they don't keep their food in a warmer, I love steak bakes but refuse to buy them cold, gotta be there just after they come out the oven, which is of course impossible to predict.
@@DomingoDeSantaClara I've only had Greggs cold (well lukewarm) once. Maybe I'm lucky but I swear there are warmers in the glass displays. I don't go there often but in the winter/autumn its so nice having a hot pastry to go
Pound Bakery chads rise up
Cider would be a big one for me, it's my drink of choice at the pub but finding any abroad (excluding obscenely sweet stuff) can be a challenge.
Where was Kate buying paracetamol for €7 in Ireland?!? You can get non-brand in a chemist for like €1-€2 and the name brands are like €3+
Edit: I realise now from the ppl responding to me that it’s possibly about bigger size packs or other factors. My bad. I also agree it’s outrageous, makes the hangover hurt more having to fork over the cash getting the tablets.
To be serious tho while we’re not as bad as the yanks for healthcare and I know the nhs is being gutted by the tories and bad officiating/upper management, irelands 2-tier system makes me yearn for a system even close to the nhs.
That's still quite a lot
I pay all of 20p for paracetamol
@@sie4431 oh yeah totally, but much different to €7😂
It's over €7 in a pharmacy for branded paracetamol, with the same brand costing €2.5 in a supermarket. There are other brands in the pharmacy for slightly less
That's still outrageous.
Most of the butter is kept in the fridge. One stick is left out, in a butter dish, specifically to be used for toast/etc.
That's something I've never understood - a stick of butter. Is it for cooking so you can measure it easily? I've never really noticed myself caring about how much butter I have
@@biscuit715 well a stick of butter is 8oz I think, and most wrappers have a helpful guide on the side to measure
On the Caramel Digestive question, for a while they did a version with coffee flavoured caramel... those were amazing!
Omg!!! Have been watching evan since a long time and watched kim on old vids of evan and love that's she's back
8:15 that was the most loving "yeah" towards a Heinz product I've ever heard in my life :D
How does Kim *always* manage to pop up literally the day after I think "I wonder what Kim's up to now. Been a bit since a video"? Then BOOM! There's Kim! :D
To answer the question, for me, definitely shepherds pie or yorkshire puddings. Like I assume you can get them places, and you can, like Evan said, make your own, but I only make them when people come round, and it's a thing they also all know about and like. Would be nice to introduce that to people if I moved abroad, though :D
Old viewer here. Finally getting back into watching his videos since the haircut video. Feels like the old Evan is back ❤
When I lived abroad I missed custard. I could make an apple crumble from scratch, but my attempts at custard would sometimes turn into scrambled eggs in sweetened milk.
Spices! I recently visited family in Taiwan and as an avid cook was excited to share some of my favourite meals with them, but couldn't find many of the ingredients whilst even more were just prohibitively expensive (especially dairy).
British supermarkets have spice aisles with just about every spice a regular cook will want, and most towns will have a south asian shop with more variety & bulk prices. The spice aisles in Taiwan were mainly different variations of black & white pepper. I realised then that I definitely took the availablility of ingredients for granted back home. Tinned tomatoes were like £2 a tin, butter was like lurpak prices. I gave up!
Other countries also don't seem to drink live ales, I'd miss that too.
Expats who are missing chips, crumpets, & yorkies though should try making them at home, they're super easy & much nicer than store bought anyway!
Kiiiiim! A video on her channel recently and now her on your channel, what a treat. I followed her since the sarcaschicks days
If you live in the Southern US, butter will melt without being refrigerated. What happens in the UK if someone doesn't like link sausage? I'm an American who gets the love of vinegar. I grew up eating both white and malt vinegar on food. The idea of tomato based baked beans doesn't appeal to me. 2 species of nettles are native to North America.
Talk to me about the link sausage question?
Is it flavour or texture related?
Cause flavour- the varieties are extensive and NOTHING like American sausages.
Exactly, butter melts, and it can even melt in the UK on a hot day. Perhaps in Wales its too cold there to melt. Resolidified butter isn't half as nice as its first incarnation. I guess if a Brit doesn't like Linked Sausages then they either cut them apart or not buy them.Its really quite easy.
@@grassfolk I don't like the casing that has to be used when making link sausage. I wish they could just leave it off, so I prefer sausage patties. Maybe the casing is different on UK sausage. I also only eat spicy/hot sausage.
@@nonibbs So, when I mentioned link sausages, I wasn't talking about the fact that the sausages are linked. It's not literally like that in the US unless you buy them from a deli or directly from a butcher. "Link" just means "tube shaped not a flat patty shape".
So nice to see Kim again!!
The color science in this video is beautiful
Pfft have lived in New Zealand 63 years. WE HAVE TEABAGS AND CRISPS
It'd be hard to find loose leaf tea. We don't have 100 flavours of crisps, but we have what we like
Too right we do. Although, I never call them crisps.
It's not hard to find loose leaf tea, but yes tea bags are definitely the more common kind.
That said, finding a close equivalent to Griffin's gingernuts in the UK is a nightmare 😞
@@Alan_Duvalcornish fairings are kinda similar
@@riverAmazonNZ Thanks! I'll keep an eye out.
I love putting malt vinegar on my salad, I've done it since I was little. I love it, can't get enough.
One thing I missed when living in New Zealand was specific-smelling shower gel. In the early noughties in Invercargill (i.e. the back end of beyond - even the national train service said "nup" and wouldn't go there any more), all that was available were super-generic brands which didn't have a particular scent ... just, like, an overly-perfumed chemical pot-pourri of scents which I couldn't stand and gave me instant headaches. My mum had to send me care packages from England containing Original Source shower gel with identifiable smells like mint, lemon, lime or lavender. An Anglophile American friend was hooked on Imperial Leather soap, Typhoo tea and Branston's Pickle.
The things I always when I go on holiday are proper sausages and brown sauce.
I agree with the butter remark and the butter I'm currently using is kept in a butter tray. Although, sometimes I do keep butter in the fridge for baking purposes. Because some recipes call for cold butter.
Loving the chemistry/vibe/best mate thing with Kim!
Crumpets,sausages,bisto,Oxo,pies, pasties, squash, pubs, curries, fish n chips, M& S left Holland 4-5 yrs ago so any UK item costs 2-3x the UK price in EU now. 6 sausages were €6 last weekend!!😮
The theatre, good haberdashery stores and a variety of sweets including Maltesers and Revels are what I miss.
You can get black pudding in Germany, just go to a butcher and ask for “Blutwurst”. I get it all the time 😊
Kim, please make more videos on your channel 😊 they're always amazing 👏
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@@OhItsJustKim I said what I said 😅
Omg Asian toast (Chinese/Korean/Japanese) is the best in the world!! The toast slices are like 1,5cm thick, they get golden crunchy on the outside but still soft and chewy on the inside. And allegedly they add sugar to make them very tasty😂 I always bring back as much as I can fit in my bag and fill my freezer at home😂
When I was abroad for a year the thing I missed the most was Greggs
But now that I've been abroad again, probably the only thing I miss is London in the sun
"But now that I've been abroad again, probably the only thing I miss is London in the sun", umm what's that?
@@eggchipsnbeans exactly 🤣🤣 so I don't miss all that much
Greggs Cheese + Onion Bake is the only one to pick. I was once lucky enough to have one straight out of the oven,it was so piping hot I couldnt eat it for 15 minutes. And it was delicious. The crisps and cheesy biscuits in French supermarkets are SO tasty,ours are bland in comparison. Im told that some of them are made by the one same company but they vary the recipe to suit the national taste.
The British Home store Cheese and onion pasties were superior and always too hot to eat, I Miss BHS!
Aww, how fun! Just like the old days. Really enjoyed this.
I lived in New Zealand for a couple years and thought their crisps were better. Snackachangi vinegar and salt in particular. Vinegar before salt because you've taken off a layer of skin from your tongue by the end of the bag. Perfect for a vinegar loving Brit.
Although I did miss the variety of relatively cheap European food we have in the UK. A proper ball of mozzarella, genuine parmesan, prosciutto, chorzio, actually mature cheddar, good quality olives. You can get all those things in NZ, but not as cheap or readily available.
I was thinking maybe they meant specific brands or flavours, because we also have tea bags here. I've heard brits love shrimp cocktail flavoured crisps, which are usually a limited release flavour here.
Must be love! Happy bonking you two!! 😍🤩😂😎
Glad to see Kim back
Wow, feels like ages since I've seen an Evan Edinger video with Kim in, must have been like some pre-lockdown British vs American video.
A very funny and entertaining video Evan. Please ask Kim back for another video!!
Kim! Now that's a pleasant surprise!
Yay, Kim!!!
Wait! Other places don't have nettles? I never knew that.
We do in the Netherlands. Probably a US specific comment.
@@user-xi6nk4xs4s They are probably in many countries, but I remember getting stung by nettles all the damn time in the UK and the garden would become nothing but nettles if you didn’t constantly weed it. It has never happened to me anywhere else. I don’t think I’ve seen a single one here in Australia.
@@AmyThePuddytat Thank you Amy. I think nettles are common around Europe. I've seen them in many countries and remember the itches from when I was a little boy ;o). Here in the Netherlands we even make soup of them.
@@user-xi6nk4xs4s I worry for the sanity of the first person who grabbed a plant that causes painful inflammation on contact with the skin and thought, ‘Hmm, I think I’ll boil this up and put it in my mouth.’
@@AmyThePuddytat Happened with a lot of the foods in the past. We've not always had the luxury of being able to just buy our food and still many people on our planet haven't. I think tea is not something one would expect to be very popular either. It's just some leaves, which don't look very nutritional.
So nice to see Kim again.
We have got our Yorkshire puddings down to a T now. Never wash the muffin tray and have a really heavy weight one. Put the tray in the very hot oven to get the oil mega hot, then out, pour in the batter as fast as possible and get it back in the oven pronto.
When I moved to the US, I missed proper fish and chips, blackcurrant squash, crumpets, Primula cheese spread, pork pies, and Pukka pies.
Top video guys. Toast and butter after a few months abroad is heaven.
Sat here watching while eating a meal deal and totally agreeing on the Hula Hoops.
Tea bags were one thing in New Zealand I didn't need to miss - NZ brands are decent! We even brought some Bell's home to UK!
I did move abroad (to Japan) and the things I miss the most are baked beans, Yorkshire tea, marmite, crumpets and bourbon biscuits. Also whole grain and seeded breads, pretty much only soft white sandwich bread and baguettes are available here.
Nice to see Kim again! Blackcurrant is the flavour of Britain.
LOL. WTF? We have tea bags and crisps in Aotearoa(New Zealand). Maybe they mean a specific brand or flavour? We do have quite a few brands of tea here though. I'm told Brits quite like Shrimp cocktail flavoured crisps though, and that's usually a limited release flavour here.
Also, the price of paracetamol in continental Europe seems steep. The non name brand paracetamol here is NZD$2 for 20 tabs, which is about 1.10 Euros. (Oops, was it Ireland, and not continental Europe?)
My sister has us ship Yorkshire Tea over to SoCal. She can get it there, but she says it's not the same blend as the UK-market version (and expensive). She also fills half her bag with it when she visits.
If you don’t like squash, have you tried cordial? Lime cordial has been around for at least 65 years. My friend buys me various fruit cordials at Christmas. It’s just concentrated fruit juice. Delicious, dilute it with water Evan!,
I love Greggs because it's cheap. The prices for other fast food is crazy, if I want fast food I want it dirt cheap, don't tell me that a BigMac is a good deal when the meal deal is like £6, give me £3 of pastry and it's far more filling
With Greggs being cold, it's worth noting that it's a bakery, they make food at a certain time and then sell it. So if you get stuff in the morning it's freshly made and it's hot, if you get stuff at lunch they will have prepared stuff for lunch, but in the late afternoon it's been sitting there since lunch. Past 14 you're risking it, but before then it should be fine, past 16 don't get your hopes up you get a choice and it's hot enough
Here in Australia you might find American style baked beans in speciality stores, there's about 4 different companies making baked beans here. Plus one that does regular baked beans, english style, cheesy, ham bbq flavours as well.
Brit living in south Florida for 2 years now- can’t believe no one said HP sauce or Bisto! Thankfully I managed to find them at my local Publix, along with lots of other British snacks like the chocolate digestives and frys Turkish delight. We even have a “British shop” here that sells all kinds of British necessities, including freshly baked sausage rolls… doesn’t quite beat Greggs but it does the job. One thing I’ve not been able to find is pies- steak pie, chicken pie, pork pie… they’re a classic that Americans are missing out on
I only lived in England for a few months. I do miss carveries! Also clottes cream (with or without scones), vinager crisps, and shopping at 2am in a giant, nearly empty ASDA. ❤
(Hello from Norway👋🏻)
I adore Kim's shirt!! 😍
It is lovely
It's just a plain check shirt...!!
It's just a plain check shirt...!!
I use to remember fondly my mum and dad making traditional roast dinner on a Sunday afternoon with all the trimmings. Now I live on my own I don’t eat roast dinners as much nowadays but when I meet up with the family on occasions we all go for a Toby Carvery. And you guessed it, I opt for the king size plate with two large bread puddings, and all the trimmings, but I only eat Turkey now. Although, it takes me forever to finish it, and I’m usually the last one to finish. My brother taunts me and says, it’s a case of eyes bigger than your stomach. 😂
As for butter, I remember my mum’s favourite was Lurpak which is a salted butter and not so easily spreadable from the fridge, and it’s pricey too. Whereas I use at the moment Vitalite, diary free, plant base butter and store it in the fridge always to keep the pesky flies away, should they fly through my opened windows. It’s also easily spreadable from the fridge.
Fun fact from an old geezer: Before we commonly had fridges, when I was a lad, we kept our butter, milk and meat, on a stone shelf in the food cupboard. Physicists might be able explain it, but somehow this shelf was colder than the ambient air, and was like a primitive fridge.
When I lived briefly in America (I’m from Northern Ireland, UK) the first thing I missed was good chocolate, and the second thing was a chippy (fish and chip shop). I’ve a friend from home who lives in Canada at the moment and she frequently misses a good Chinese takeaway - which she can’t get where she is.
Great Video.
There's not a lot that I couldn't manage without or would miss when it comes to food (autistic, I eat a few things, most are vegetables and fruits anyway, I'd just find new foods that I can eat over and over) but I would miss British weather horribly
Grey skies and rain make me so happy, I'd hate to live somewhere that isn't so drizzly and gloomy! I'd only be happy if they were replaced by snow all the time
The list is never ending. There are some alternatives available but usually not as good or readily available!!
Watching Evan is like watching a Brit trying things for the first time in a while, honest and what most of us are thinking 😅
The thing that says 'home' when I come back is a decent cup of tea.
It's just not the same anywhere else - even if I make it myself when there.
A avocado with eggs on sourdough toast.
Soda bread is great Evan its from northern Ireland orginally some of my family live over there.
My go to at Greggs is the breakfast baguette deal. sausage and bacon with HP brown sauce and a latte.
Greggs is more likely to be cold (than other places) because they don't have a heated counter. This means the food cools gradually from the moment it's put out. This is part of what allows them to sell it more cheaply than other places. I'm not sure what makes it cheaper - maybe the energy used but I saw somewhere it was to do with having or not having a certain licence.
If you Google why is Greggs food never hot you get results for various articles discussing this.
It's not because they don't want to keep it hot by having to pay for a heated counter, it's because of tax reasons and technically they don't sell 'hot food'.
Kim is a delight 😊 might I suggest the Gregg's vegan sausage rolls? Taste exactly the same but zero hooves, bumholees or lips 👄
Yorkshire puddings are not difficult for four or for one greedy person mix 50 g flour an.egg four tablespoons of milk to batter stock in oven on decently high heat for aprox 20 mins. Job done.
I know what you mean about knowing the trees, Evan, I don’t know any trees or bugs around where I live now and I do miss being able to confidently move around the countryside in the same way 😅
The problem is - at least in Asia, you have M&S.
So you can get reasonable cheese, and tea, and pickle. (You can even get Branston's pickle in other stores - rather than the M&S ploughman's pickle). It's not cheap, like double the price in the UK for some things, but it's available.
I can even get McVities chocolate digestives as well (although they need to be kept in the fridge because of the temperature).
Where you do run into difficulty is things like Irn Bru, black pudding, haggis, macaroni pies. - although I do know where to get Black Pudding in Thailand, and where I can get haggis (if I'm desperate enough) in Hong Kong... Breakfast buffet at the Mandarin Oriental.