8 American Things Britain Doesn't Even Have a Word For | PART 4
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America is pretty divided about candy corn and we love to fight about it every year.
1% tolerate it, 99% know it sucks.
I despise candy corn, but if you look at it like an annual tradition/debate, it's kind of fun
If you eat a few pieces of candy corn with some dry roasted peanuts, it tastes like Payday Bar...and that's the only way I will ever eat candy corn.
Like Peeps!
@@80sGamerLady ugh. Peeps.
To most of the US, a "bayou" means a "Lousiana swamp." It's a word that conjures up not just a natural feature but implies a connection to Cajun/Creole culture.
It's kind of like the word "loch" being used in English to mean "Scottish Lake." For both words, it's not so much any ecologically unique property of the body of water itself, but the implied cultural connontations.
Alabama and northwest florida also have bayous. I think the key is the tidal connection.
@@kilngoddess424 Yeah. "Bayou" means large creek that goes tidal here in Texas.
@@kilngoddess424 Mississippi, which of course is between Louisiana and Alabama, also has bayous. Years ago I worked in a building in Jackson, Mississippi, that actually had a bayou out back. We used to see an alligator in that bayou.
Great explanation, anyone who has ever seen the bayous of America, would never mistake them for the lochs of Scotland, the names themselves are evocative, of what you expect to see.
We have a bayous in Texas too. Mainly the east part of Texas, but we have them.
Folks love to hate candy corn… and I say, “More for me!”. But: the deep dive here are Mellowcremes (made by good old Brach’s) which are basically pumpkin shaped candy corn (or made from the same stuff). I will admit, I love them so much I buy them up when they are in season and hoard them. I just finished off the last of the batch from 2020 a month or so ago ;-)
Doesnt it get stale? Eww? There's nothing like fresh candy corn. I can find it year-round.
I love those mellowcreme pumpkins!
@@kathy2trips Not if you keep it in a sealed jar ;-)
Candy corn mixed with salted blanched peanuts, YUM.
Pumpkin 🎃 candy is the best. After eating all the chocolate varieties. Something weird about enjoying the candy corn and mallow pumpkins at the end of the candy
Hummers were originally military vehicles, probably still are. They are (were?) called hum v's in that context. My dad was Air Force and I grew up seeing them around the bases we lived. I think they peaked for the public in the early 2000s. I graduated highschool in 2005 and remember a few at my school and a friend whose dad had one. I rode in it once, I felt like I was in a van lol And then when gas prices doubled in 2008 people were like yeah no thank you.
High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWV) or "Humvees" are ubiquitous on many U.S. military installations, though they have been largely supplanted by the more robust Mine-Resistant Ambush Protected (MRAP) vehicles like Oshkosh's MRAP All Terrain Vehicle (M-ATV).
I'm in Michigan and still see them around a lot. I can understand how Lawrence doesn't see then in Chicago and used to in Indiana. I lived in Chicago from 2005 to 2011 and don't think I ever saw one. Did see lots of mini coupers back then!
@@poppyshock Mine "resistant", I like the honesty in that. It's unusual to find.
@@BrainSqueezeYT I'm in NC and never see them, except the actual military ones in military towns lol Definitely wouldn't work in bigger/older cities very well. Would be a nightmare to street park!
Humvees as detailed by Rowan Blaze are the military vehicles; Hummers are the civilian version
I loved candy corn as a kid, mainly for the fact that I could eat it layer by layer. It was replaced with M&Ms that I could sort by color and eat them systematically until there was an even number of each color and so on....lol, yep, no OCD tendencies there.
🤣🤣 I have.done that, at times...
Yay someone else does it too. I'll even bet you do that with Skittles too!
@@xStarlicax lol... Can I plea the 5th on that? 😊
Guilty of both here as well.
Wait doesn’t everybody sort the M&Ms by color and eat them until you’ve got even numbers of each color? I thought that was the way you’re supposed to do it.
The Pumpkin Chunkin contests I've been to were basically engineering contests, because each contestant had to build the contraption. Some of these contraptions were HUGE!
GO BIG OR GO HOME!
The big contest is in Delaware I believe. It’s definitely an engineering challenge at the heart of it. There used to be a show on TV about it.
I believe the record distance was 2.5 mi. It hit a car and busted the front windshield.
It was fun until someone was killed.
There's a huge one up in western NH as well
I will look for this on YT. Sounds like loads of fun!
Candy corn is shaped like corn kernels. When you stack them, they form an ear of corn. The candy was first marketed to people in primarily agricultural areas and was initially named "Chicken Feed".
I'm a candy corn fan. There's something called "autumn mix" that has mallow pumpkins, chocolate and regular candy corn in the same package... I have to pace myself. 😁
Thank you for this video, I love to learn and chuckle at the same time, I'm so happy my friend referred me to your channel! 👍
If you can control yourself around Autumn Mix, you are a far better person than I.
@@tricorvus2673 Some days it's a struggle 🤫😁
Love candy corn though I can't eat candy all that much anymore due to diabetes :(
@@RedRoseSeptember22 That's a bummer, I'll try to vicariously send you the yummy vibes! I hope you are doing well and I wish your diabetes away! (If only we all had magic wants for that huh?)
I love candy corn, but I fully understand that it’s a controversial opinion.
As kids, we would eat all of the candy corn except the white bit, and use them as teeth. This of course works best if you’re actually missing teeth.
As a Child I always love candy corn. Unfortunately if you eat much of it, you are going to get a stomachache. But I never stopped me from doing it again
I love candy corn, and until the internet, I had no idea that there was such hatred for it. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
I don't love it but I don't hate it either. I don't typically eat it
@@Brainhorn I haven't eaten it in many years
Eat enough of it and that probably becomes self-fulfilling prophecy…
I quite like candy corn, especially the caramel version. I also like the mallow crème pumpkins. However, my favorite fall candy is the Reese's Peanut Butter pumpkins.
I always head to the Walgreen’s down the block on November 1 for the clearance Reese’s pumpkins.
I've never understood candy corn until I moved back to Missouri as an adult, and people started bringing it into work mixed with salted, dry-roasted peanuts. It's a Midwestern thing, apparently, and it's amazing!
I hate candy corn but now I am intrigued.
Yes. They're best when eaten as part of a mix.
Hi there! Born and bred Louisianan here! A bayou is literally just "little river." The "little" might be a bit of a misnomer as sometimes bayous can be quite long and wide. They are, however, usually not too deep. It is possible to wade across (do not recomend as snakes, alligators, snapping turtles, and leeches tend to enjoy these places. Not to mention the mosquitoes). It is a slow moving freshwater body of water that drains to either a swamp (mostly stangnat wetland of freshwater), a larger river, or into a marsh (mostly stagnant wetland of brackish water). The closer the bayou is to the coast the more it will change with the tide (just like any other river).
Mix candy corn with dry roasted peanuts and you will be a convert! The sweet/salty combo is like candy crack!!
Tastes like a Payday candy bar... only better!
lol no 🤢 candy corn has got such an awful texture kinda like eating wet powder sugar that peanuts can’t hide it
@@HerQuietLife Aw, you must've gotten some old candy corn... holdovers from one Halloween season to the next.
I thought I was the only one! Peanut and candy corn, a perfect match. Yum!
that sounds good and I like candy corn already, definitely trying that soon
The introduction of candy corn on store shelves for fall and Halloween ushers in candy season which lasts until the last bag of pastel pink and green colored candy corn is removed from the store shelves after Easter.
The Easter colors are pastel yellow and purple. Somebody goofed.
And, by after Easter, you mean sometime mid-June.
You can find Candy Corn year round now. Yum, a combination of sugar and WAX! 😝
Although it may be the same stuff, I could never bring myself to try the yellow and purple Easter variety. Wrong season, too; against nature.
I live literally on a bayou in Michigan and I can describe it as a small inland collection of water, often collected to a wider river to which the collection is larger then a puddle but not big enough for an inland lake, which has a clear shallow border of mud/clay before touching dry and solid land. A swamp is also a bayou but not all bayous are swamps
My favorite candy corn story involves my granddaughter at the age of 5 or six years. Attending an after-show party at our community theatre, she made her selections from a buffet including cold cuts and some candy corn. She proceeded to take slices of ham and wrap them around the candy, eating it that way. Maybe I should have tried it, years too late now.
Having been born and raised in America, my verdict on candy corn is this: I could take it or leave it. Most of the time I'll leave it, unless I'm truly desperate because there's no chocolate. In which case, I at least have some fun trying to eat it section by section.
One of the most relatable statements I’ve ever read.
Same for me, 100%
I've had chocolate candy corn that was surprisingly edible. Now I want some Halloween candy. Hand over the Reeses cups and nobody gets hurt.
Section by section is the only way to eat Candy Corn! I, too, could take it or leave it, but there is a satisfaction in biting off the colors perfectly :)
It's gross. Like Jelly Beans.
Never heard of maple custard pie
In what is known as the “Downriver” area of Southeast Michigan, churches kick off the Lenten season by serving Muskrat Dinner. The story goes that about 200 years ago, the Catholic Church decided that since muskrats live in the water, they can be classified as fish and can be eaten during Lent. And they still do.
Gotta have faith in that logic!
I never heard of them being eaten & can’t imagine what they taste like.
@@chrisk5651 They are often referred to as "Swamp Rabbit."
@@OehlJim Never heard of eating muskrat. I'm cajun Catholic & we eat alligator, which we call "swamp chicken." Not on Fridays, though.
@@OehlJim I know that Elmer Fudd hunted rabbit & the show mentioned rabbit stew but except for the French I don’t know of anyone else eating rabbit either.
Candy corn has now branched out to other holidays. You can buy Reindeer Corn for Christmas (although the red & green colors are off putting). You can also buy Bunny Corn for Easter (comes in a carrot-shaped cello bag). The autumn candy corn formula also comes in pumpkin-shaped candies.
Candy corn is made of the same stuff as fondant icing, which explains why it's so divisive. So it's fondant icing, which for the record, I find artistically useful and beautiful, but utterly disgusting to actually eat
Tastes sweet but has waxy texture. Attractive in the same way of those wax bottles that held a hint of syrup in them except you don't swallow the wax... mostly.
Best description of fondant ever! Long live buttercream frosting!
@@cheryljackson5659 I definitely like buttercream way more than fondant (you know, since buttercream is actually edible), but cream cheese frosting is where it's at :D
You may have just cured me of my addictipn to candycorn! 😧😟😢
I thought it was made of wax!
Lewes, Delaware, is still the heart and the source of pumpkin chunkin.' Even if the original field is no longer being used.
Yeah, we did it first. One of the few Delaware claims to fame.
"Moose" is the plural of "Moose."
Candy corn is vile. I love it.
@Joséf from TX On Candid Camera, Alan Funt pulled a stunt where he pretended the state of Delaware was closed for the weekend.
People believed him.
Well, Delaware is the first state, after all. Er, before all....
Only thing I know about Lewes is it's where I end up when I take the ferry from Cape May. Never knew it had such an Americana claim to fame.
@@loviatar9 yeah, ballistic gourds are pretty much their biggest thing.
@@lairdcummings9092 .35 or .44? 😛
So you know why candy corn is shaped and colored like it is, right? It's like you plucked a kernel of corn out from the root of the kernel. I've even seen photos on the internet where people recreated a cob of corn using a bunch of candy corns. And I love it
I finally consumed all of your videos regarding word differences! … Maybe, I'm actually unsure. Well, I don't remember seeing "sherbet" come up in either this series of videos, or the ones about different uses of words between the US and UK, so I'll bring up this topic here.
I'm not certain how to define the British definition of sherbet, but I'm sure I don't have to define it to you. To American viewers, British people consider our American "Smarties" candies (not to be confused with British "Smarties" chocolate candies, which I think are made by a different company and are essentially M&Ms) as being made out of sherbet. To Americans, "sherbet" refers to a cold dessert similar to ice cream, but usually skews more fruity in flavors; often citrus. I've heard British people think, "Oh, we have that! You mean sorbet!" No, sorbet does not contain any dairy products, whereas American "sherbet" does, making American "sherbet" quite similar to ice cream to everyone other than ice cream connoisseurs and people in the industry who need to be pedantic about definitions.
Australian here, it sounds like American sherbet is what I would call Gelato. Though I kinda use that as a broader term incorporating sorbet and italian ice so, I dunno, I'm probably making things worse.
@@beatrixwickson8477 NOOOOOOOO it is not Gelato we also have Gelato, Gelato is closer to frozen custard only softer and without bits of candy or fruit. Sherbert is a very tart or sour frozen dessert usually lemon, lime, orange or raspberry, it has a bit of cream added to it but it's more icy but not as icy as shaved ice. We always say the flavor before sherbert. I thought England had it because Dumbledore's secret passage was Sherbert Lemon which I also thought was a play on words but discoverd that's how it said in the UK, sherbert first followed by the flavor.
@@lennybuttz2162 gotcha. That makes sense. Though just to throw a curve ball, I think Dumbledore is referring the boiled lolly (like rock candy filled with sherbet).
@@beatrixwickson8477 I've just figured this out recently that sherbet in the UK and NZ more about a flavor. It makes me wonder if they even have the frozen sherbet that we have in the U.S.? I just realized when spellcheck told me I was spelling it wrong I grew up hearing sherbert, not sherbet?
Sophomore="Sophisticated Moron". ;-)
Regarding bayous, I was taught that a bayou has brackish water--part fresh, part salt water. Otherwise, it's just a swamp. 😃
regarding moose/meese, there is a Red Dwarf episode involving a moose, a Swedish driver, and lateral thinking (oh, and Rimmer's perennial pursuit of oficerhood). Quite humorous...
You had me at “there is a Red Dwarf episode”!
Sophomore means "wise fool", you think you are wise, but you are a fool
@@alexo5861 Me too
@@RebbetzenRebecca Ergo, sophisticated (worldly wisdom) moron (fool).
Everyone who has ever watched a Mr. Jinks cartoon knows "meece" is the plural for "mice". "Mice", of course, is the plural for "mouse", but if you really have a lot of "mice" you have "meece".
I love candy corn. I've bought two bags already this year for the house. And they're already gone. Pure sugar and/or corn syrup, I may as well apply it directly to my hips, since that's where it ends up anyway. 🤷♀️
Amen.
I enjoy watching these. I would also love to see videos about words that Britains use that Americans don’t have a word for. Please and thank you 😊
My grandfather was a furrier in Chicago he made himself a Muskrat coat. Very soft fur lowest in quality among Alaskan Seal, beaver and otter. He wore it with purple leather pants he made. He lived on the South Side.
If you ever want to take a look at things that inspire cultural arguments in the US, "duck duck grey duck vs duck duck goose" and "hot dish vs casserole" are great starters
I'm pretty old, and never head of "duck, duck, goose" until I watched it on The Simpsons.
I've never heard of grey duck
Duck duck goose, casserole.
Candy Corn is certainly “god’s gift” to dentistry.
I cannot argue there but some people don't get cavities from candy. My sister is one of them.
Nope. That would be the candy called "Now and Later" -- an extremely sticky taffy-like sweet in highly artificial fruity flavors. If your child has a loose baby tooth, these will make short work of getting them out!
@@skyydancer67 A blessed soul to be sure! ;-)
@@debbystasinopoulou4696 lol!
Oh, THAT hummer. For a second I thought you were going in a completely different direction!
I'm from New England and never heard of Maple Custard Pie. Sounds good though. I love anything Maple.
I was thinking the same, and I live in the heart of maple sugar land. I might have to seek one out come Feb-Mar.
Yeah, I was like "Maple custa-who with the what now?"
Maybe it's regional?
@@skyydancer67 Right, but the point is, the three of us live in the region it's supposed to be from and none of us have heard of it.
@@skyydancer67 I am as regional as I can get. I live close to the Vermont border, which is also a huge producer of maple products. We have sugar houses galore, everyone knows someone who runs one or, like me, has family in the business. It is a way of life here come sugaring season. Still, have never heard of Maple Custard Pie.
The only way to eat candy corn: mixed with dry roasted salted peanuts (reminiscent of a Payday candy bar).
Or you could just eat a Payday 😉
Oooooo. Will try.
Love that as well. Try them with pecans too. Tasty!
My favorite way to eat them! People look at me funny when I tell them about it, then thank me profusely once they try it.
have you tried it with the sesame sticks (the little, short ones)? Same mix of salty, sweet, and nutty flavor
In Houston, we use bayous to help fight flooding. Large canals are dug to help drain water from populated areas. You'll find them near downtown and throughout suburban neighborhoods.
Bayou is pretty much exclusive to Louisiana and Mississippi, it's basically a swamp with big bodies of water in it (as in, there's no clear point where river or ocean ends and swamp/marsh starts)
Bienvenue from the bayou! Punkin' Chunkin' is what this ol' boy did the first and only time I tried Starbuck's Pumpkin Spice Latte. 🤮
A US friend sent me some candy corn once, I found it very salty and very sweet. But they were hard to leave alone. I emigrated from UK to NZ.
Pumpkin chucking is often associated with Midwest pumpkin patch venues. You can ride a wagon out to a field and choose your fall time pumpkin out in the field. Walk a corn maze, eat carmel apples, drink cider. All fall time / Halloween activities.
"candy corn tastes nothing like sweet corn" ... UK's just as silly, you can't floss your teeth with Candy Floss
I love candy corn and the mellowcreme pumpkins. Some people hate them but I love them and think they’re underrated and I will die on this hill.
I will die on that hill with you!
THANK YOU for not forgetting the pumpkins! Best part of the bunch!
I'm not a fan of the pumpkins, but I love candy corn! Brach's is the best.
@@GlamourNNail Agreed. The pumpkins are just Tooo much sugar, but the candy corn is just right.
Me too Kelsey Myers!
Laurence: "candy corn is universally loved across the US."
Me: 🤮🤮 No thank you!
I like it.
i love it
Yeah . Overly sweet. May as well eat super cubes.
No...unless eaten with peanuts.
@@lunatune3714 Interesting! I'll have to try that.
My ELL classes just finished writing an opinion piece on what three candy corn flavors they would like to try. After researching extensively we found nearly fifty different kinds of candy corn. Most are made by Brachs, but other brands are included too. Here they are Candy Corn flavors: Classic, Blackberry, Apple Pie, Grape Soda, Candy Apple, Carmel Apple, Chocolate, Pumpkin Pie, Blackberry Cobbler, Turkey Dinner: Green Beans, Roasted Turkey, Cranberry Sauce, Stuffing, Apple pie, and coffee; Raspberry, Cherry Cola, Red Velvet, S’mores, Jelly Belly Cupid: strawberry crème, Dragon’s Teeth: chocolate/strawberry, Unicorn Horns: peach, orange, lemon, raspberry, strawberry, Patriotic: Strawberry, vanilla and blueberry, Easter: Classic, Christmas: vanilla and peppermint, Carmel Macchiato, Vanilla Latte, Espresso, Cinnamon, Valentine: Classic, Brunch Favorites: French toast, strawberry waffles, and chocolate-chip pancakes; Caramel, Birthday Cake: chocolate cake with vanilla frosting; Indian Corn: chocolate with classic, Sea Salt Chocolate, Apple Mix: Green apple, apple pie, and caramel apple, Peanut Butter Cup, Carrot Cake, Egg Nog, Strawberry Shortcake, Candy Cane: peppermint, and last but not least, Gingerbread. Some thing for everyone!
I love belonging to this club where we throw English words at each other and get confused.
The comedy writes itself!
I had a smile on my face the moment I saw your new video. Your channel is just plain wonderfully fun and informative ❤️
I lived in Hastings in East Sussex.
And you my friend are great.
I introduced my late husband to candy corn, it cost me a a bomb, but well worth his reaction. He LOVED IT!. Many settled differences between us. That being said I Miss living in England. By the way I live in Cheboygan Michigan. I call it the Tundra.
I don’t think you hit tundra until you cross the Mackinac Bridge.
@Susanna Kilner: Back in the 1980s, Steve Jackson Games sold a small wargame called "The Creature that ate Sheboygan." It was basically a small version of a Godzilla vs Tokyo game. 🦖
Edit: I never owned it or played it, but I remember the advertising and I caught a glimpse of two guys playing it once at a games club a friend and I used to run at the local library. 🤓
I despise candy corn personally, but every year, we buy a small bag of it for my dog. He BEGS for the stuff, and while we normally keep his food super healthy, during spooky season, we indulge him just a bit. At least it stops him begging for the lethal chocolate.
Another reason candy corn might have gotten relegated to Halloween is that, while it’s a nice OCCASIONAL treat, there’s such a thing as too much of a good thing. It gets old fast.
I really don't like candy corn. I can only eat a couple of them and I'm done. But the one candy I really dislike are those spongy orange circus peanuts. They literally make me sick 🤢
It’s always been hard for me to accept that those things are supposed to be edible.
I know I'm in the minority, so send all your circus peanuts to me! They are my absolute favorite.
I avoided a lot of sweets as a kid but those “peanuts” were a savored treat. Makes me nauseous now just thinking about them.
I think it's about time to form a Candy Corn support group. It's so easy to scoff at and mock and yet no one in the office, and I mean NO ONE, walks by the bowl we set out in my section and doesn't grab a few. Oh they may try to hide it, but we know...we know.
"I hate meeces to pieces!"
- Mr Jinx (a cat)
- "Pixie and Dixie".
Talked to a Canadian truck driver once and they mentioned that if they see a deer pop up in their headlights, they don't even tap the brakes, to avoid losing control. If it's a moose, they jam the brakes to avoid crashing into it.
Pumpkin Chucking, while having been around for some years now, is still a fairly new thing.
A bayou is essentially a swamp.
There is good candy corn, and there is not-so-good candy corn. Whether you like it I guess sometimes depends on the quality you get. I forget which is the best brand, but if I had to guess it'd be Brach's.
Yes. Brachs. I think it has honey in it.
In Houston, the bayous are of the slow moving stream variety, as I remember
It's punkin' chunkin'. The "G" is silent. Punkin is sort of slang for pumpkin.
I grew up in the midwest (well, Michigan) and literally have never heard of pumpkin chucking until this video.
I love the candy corn made by Brachs candy company here in the US.
They also make much larger candy pumpkins which I like but it can be too much for some folks.
I think the candy corn and mallow pumpkins are the same thing, the pumpkins just taste softer because they are larger. I could be wrong. I prefer the pumpkins, but I'll gladly eat a few of either one before I get sick 😆
Say hi to mom!
@@jpoliver7 WILL DO!!
@@sandyclaws5247 Yes they're made by the same company of the same stuff.
I think there is more wax or paraffin glaze on the pumpkins and yes I believe their consistency is fluffier.
I think with this kind of thing you have to have grown eating it as a traditional kind of thing.
We buy a bag of each and it takes me & my wife 3 weeks to eat them all.
These kind of old fashioned candies are slowly but surely losing popularity but I'm sure they'll be around for a long time because of tradition!!
I am a lifelong resident of New England, born and raised on the North Shore and now living just outside Boston. To my recollection I have never seen nor heard of of a maple custard pie.
Loving your videos and glad I discovered you. You’re dry sense of humorous vocal delivery is absolutely brilliant. You have a great British wit.
Candy Corn makes great looking false teeth for Trick or Treaters.
Also if you eat enough of it you can get actual false teeth.
Happy Halloween!!!! Candy Corn is frightening. I can eat 3 to 4 pieces...but after that...Regrets!!!!!
I really enjoyed this!😊 Thanks so much for the info ✅ Also, (I hope ur not tired of hearing it,) I love the music 🎶 at the end of ur videos 😌 Please don't change it!
I'm 62 years old and every Halloween I eat some candy corn because I still can't decide if I like it or not. Something in it makes for a very unique flavor.
The “pumpkins” used in the chucking are usually green and white squashes, because they are tougher and can withstand the beating they get from launching (mostly, some still fail if too much pressure is applied, they call those “pie” since it’s about all it’s good for, as the flying bits can’t be measured.)
This is the first I'm hearing of this sport.
Same here.
Maggie says They do a big Pumpkin Chucking thing in DE every year.
If you are not aware. Pumpkin chucking started in the first state Delaware. The festival was held in the month of October. The land that the festival was held on was sold. So the festival was moved. Not sure if the festival is still in production.
I had a neighbor with a pumpkin canon. Trust me, it was horrible to suddenly hear it whooping out a pumpkin when you were least expecting it.
A “bay” is a small body of water that opens into either the ocean or into a Gulf. A “bayou” is a slightly smaller body of water that opens into the “bay”
@john wallace An airplane company.
@john wallace A strip of land with water on both sides.
Chesapeake Bay ain't exactly small...
@@joerogers9413 more specifically, that strip of land formed from sediment collecting over time at the mouth of the river.
@@alexfarquharson4818 And neither is the Bay of Biscay, or Hudson's Bay.
Your observations just crack me up! Just love your droll delivery!!! I thought you were the same person who narrates Brief Cases. You sound so similar!
Corn-hole has two meanings though....One is a bit dirtier than the other.
1. A fun game for southerners...
2. A fun game for southerners...
I've lived in New England (Massachusetts) for my entire life (45+ years) and I've never heard of Maple Custard Pies. I have to assume it's a Vermont thing (and yes I realize Vermont is actually in New England).
Yes, I am also a life long New Englander and have never heard of maple custard pie. I have had custard pie and I have had maple syrup but never the two combined.
Also, I hate candy corn.
Same here in Rhode Island never heard of maple custard pie. Wouldn't eat it anyway because while I love REAL maple syrup I thoroughly detest custard of any kind
Life long upstate New Yorker, never once have I heard of maple custard pie. And candy corn is neither candy or corn, its just disgusting.
It would help to have lived there 450 years.
I lived in NE for a few years and we had friends all over and it was always surprising to me how very regional items or phrases were. I mean, it seems like such a small area but it is incredibly culturally diverse and yet...kinda homogenous too. If it helps, my family has lived in Indiana over 200 years and no one I have asked has ever had Sugsr Cream Pie even though the internet insists it is a very Indiana dish. Smh
As a Louisiana native, I too am a bit confused about what is and is not a bayou, having said that a bayou is usually a slow flowing, or non flowing body of water that is connected to a bay or a river, such as a former river channel, or Oxbow lake that is still connected or has become reconnected to a river.
We have Bayou St. John which is fresh water. For some good fishing we can go to the marsh connected to Lake Borgne which is brackish/salt. They are both rather stil but thats how I feel they differ.
All I know about the subject is that here in Michigan we have an abundance of lakes, bays, ponds, puddles, and swamps, not to mention rivers; but not a single bayou. I took the cause of this to be not enough Creoles. 😉
@@rtyria - I think you may be onto something there. I'm a Michigan native also, but have lived in SE Texas for many years. I remember asking a native Houstonian what the difference was between Buffalo Bayou, (which runs through Houston) and Oyster Creek, which flows through my neighborhood.
"Not a damn thing," I was told. "But it's c-r-e-e-k: 'crick', not creeeek." 😆
I’m born and raised near Manchaca, in the ponchatoula, Hammond area, and I always understood the bayou to be a collection of marshy waterways that lead into bigger bodies of water. But I feel like it’s never been super clear to me what exact is, or is not the bayou.
I'm from Metairie Louisiana, and I don't think anybody actually knows what a bayou is. We also have Lake Pontchartrain, which isn't even a lake. I think we just have difficulty in figuring out what bodies of water are in Louisiana.
Lawrence, this will blow your mind. My late MIL called candy corn “chicken corn!” We have no idea where that ever came from! Ate it as a child because my mom loved penny candies like that, but not anymore. Too waxy tasting now.
I am from South Louisiana where bayous are everywhere. We even use the phrase “down the bayou” as a term for the areas further away from the main parts of town that follow the bayous to the gulf. Such as in this scenario:
Cajun 1: hey T Ken how’s your mom and dem?
Cajun 2: mais dey doin’ aight, dey all went ‘down da bayou’ to the camp yesterday to do some fishin’
The bayou also often has crocodiles and alligators where marshes and other types of wetlands here do not necessarily have them.
*Only in the southern third of Florida can America's native crocodile be found, whereas the native alligator extends from the southern east coast all the way across the coastal South into Texas.*
lol agreed, I think the presence of alligators may actually be a determining feature.
In Texas bayous generally go tidal, often with a swampy area where they are backed up by the tide. They absolutely have alligators, but this is not a defining feature.
I think crocodiles and alligators make it a swamp, The Florida Everglades are the only place you can find both of those together and we Floridians consider that a swamp. Our Florida lakes and ponds have alligators too. Heck, a baby one was just spotted in my neighborhoods creek last week!
Gators yes, crocs no, except maybe somewhere in Florida. For those you'll have to go to Africa or Australia. Unless they escaped from a zoo or someone's collection, they are not native to American bayous.
You know this means you have to go to a punkin chunkin contest now and make a video for us!
I (as an American) only became aware of Pumpkin Chuckin' when the Discovery Channel did a special on it, and sent the Mythbusters team to host the show. Which I believe was 2012.
The thing about candy corn is that either you find it repulsive, or you like it… for about three minutes, and then you’re done with it for the year.
Candy corn is available in several flavors, including original, chocolate, candy apple, pumpkin spice and maple.
A similar product is the mini pumpkin mallow creams and there is a combination AUTUMN MIX.
Last time I ate candy corn, I ate too much and got sick. 🤮 So now I totally avoid it.
This was my least favorite candy on Halloween. I could eat one or two and that was my limit.
The typical candy corn is actually supposed to have a buttery vanilla flavor, and is actually just a dry fondant.
I am not really a fan of the super cheap candy corn, but I once found some high quality gourmet candy corn and it was actually really good.
There’s also a thanksgiving dinner flavor now too. It’s terrible. 😖
@@rev.paull.vasquez4001 I agree! I really cannot stand candy corn. It has no wonderful flavor - just pure sugar . . . Diabetic Suicide Pills!
@@Quarton I could handle sugar taste. There’s some odd flavor overtones that get to me quickly.
We Americans use the term Hummer for something else. I guess in England it would be a Birthday Vauxhall.
He seriously does not seem to know this. 😱
One reverse similar example I can think of is "mains". I've heard British people refer to "mains" electricity a lot, actually. But weirdly, there's no standard common term for that in the US, and we also don't typically even refer to the concept. We often refer to electricity in general or where it directly comes from: the outlet. If you say something can plug into the mains (as opposed to usb), I guess you'd just say it has an outlet plug. If you or an electrician really want to refer to it, there's no standard name. According to Wikipedia, "In the US, mains electric power is referred to by several names including "utility power", "household power", "household electricity", "house current", "powerline", "domestic power", "wall power", "line power", "AC power", "city power", "street power", and "120 (one twenty)"."
Pumpkin chunking came from throwing leftover pumpkins into pastures and pig pens for the livestock to eat. When the pumpkins hit the ground they would break up making it easier for the animals to eat.
The elk in North America should really be called wapitis.
We do actually use that term in archaeological literature.
which is most entertaining when pronounced "whoppity" which is also the sound they make when they run.
@@kenbrown2808 😄😄😄
The wapitis of Europe should be called elk.
@@kenbrown2808 Would have guessed that a ‘Whoppity’ was the hunters’ equivalent of a fisherman's tale. Something like: ‘I had to shoot across two wide canyons. The damned Elk* fell into a hole and was too damned big to be dragged out by all three of the damned horses.’ (*That is Cervus elaphus if the hunter is a lumper over sixty-five, Cervus elaphus canadensis if the hunter is over fifty but under seventy, Cervus wapiti to the young folk. Splitters have an additional myriad of species / subspecies options.)
Candy corn mixed with salted almonds is a great munchy snack.
Interesting! I've only had candy corn with peanuts!
I like them with dry roasted peanuts XD
I was today years old when I heard about eating candy corn with salted peanuts. Supposed to taste like payday bar. Definitely going to try this year.
I love candy corn with cashews
Candy Corn and Autumn Mix. Two reasons to LOVE the Fall. Subtract "Pumpkin Spice" anything, and it drops to LIKE the Fall. Add the leaf colors and the Reese's ads, and we're back to LOVE.
I have to be satisfied I’m roasting seeds and baking a pie - if there is enough flesh but “chunking and toilet paper,” we know we painted our decorative pumpkins in oak forest with acrylic and displayed colored gourds in and around Barrington. Chunking is definitely Billy Corgan and those lead addled parts of town. I have to be satisfied you can at least get the acrylic paint on your decor and the color corns in your mouth through a bulk Amish popcorn.
Lived in the midwest for about 6 years but never heard of punkin chunkin until moving to Delaware. It's a big deal down state.
If you get a good variety of candy corn, it is creamy in texture and very good. But a cheapo bag of the stuff might as well go directly to the garbage.
Ohio here. First heard of pumpkin chunkin about 10 years ago.
I'm in NE PA & when my son was little we took him to a pumpkin patch that had a mechanical monster eating pumpkins! The Beast Feast 🎃
Candy corn should always be eaten mixed with salted peanuts!
I made it every year for my husband, and he was never one for sweets, but he loved that
Yes, because it then tastes like a Payday Bar, lol.
Hmm, halloween is coming up again. I should try that.
Fun fact about the word "sophomore", it's a combination of two Greek words (of course) "sophistes", which means "wise", and "moros" which means "foolish". So a "sophomore" is literally a "wise fool".
Another translation eqautes to 'sophisticated morons' meaning one who is still an idiot but puts on the airs of one who is wise or educated. Considering they are just abover Freshmen and below Juniors, both make perfect sense.
Thank you, I was certain sophomore had an historical meaning but I was too lazy to look it up.
Here's a fun recipe/project for the kids (and by 'kids', I mean adults with a sweet tooth, guiltily blaming it on the kids)! Get a bag of candy corn, and a tube of edible sugar cookie dough ('edible' meaning 'edible whilst uncooked', which is to say, no raw eggs in it). Pillsbury makes a good one. Divide the package of dough into 6 pieces and roll them into little cylinders about twice the diameter of your thumb, or a little thicker.
Now start jamming in the candy corn pieces in rows, white tips in toward the center, so that the yellow ends are touching. This part takes some practice, but you'll eventually get the hang of it, and if your cookie dough starts falling apart, just form it back into a cylinder, keeping the candy corns as much aligned in rows as possible, and pop it into the fridge for a few minutes to firm up. Put in the rest of the candy corns row by row, until you have the entire surface of your cookie dough cylinder covered, no gaps, and yellow ends all touching, creating a new yellow surface of the cylinder -- oh, except for the ends of the cylinder, which should show a cross-section, round white circle of dough in the center, with the candy corns at the ends of the rows pointing in toward the center like spokes on a wheel.
This is why it's called 'candy corn', because what you have in your hand is a replica of a short piece of corn on the cob! Enjoy!
I love candy corn! That's even after I learned that candy corn contains shellac (aka 'confectioner's glaze'). Incredible that they turned Lac bug secretions into both varnish for furniture AND candy.
Stop! Stop! You’re both right! It’s a floor wax AND a dessert topping!
I like candies with carnauba wax ... not for the taste, just for knowing what it is. It's used for food and explosives and ...
@@mitchellminer9597 ... gumming up your bodily tissues.
Bug secretions ... a sub~ideal provenance.
@@JudgeJulieLit So is honey. I see no problem here.
You’d be a great English and history teacher. You know about the U.S. than most of us do!
We’re satisfied Candy Corn can be full candy shapes - but it really should be made with better colors. And corn pigment can be used to color things
I was hitch hiking to Alaska, and I saw elk easily 5-6 ft at the shoulder. Tule elk, like in the Smokys, are small, but the more northern elk get HUGE.
I like candy corn. I also like a version of it that's just tiny pumpkins.
Have you tried candy corn and peanuts together? If you haven't you need to.
@@thudthud5423 interesting....will try it
I prefer the pumpkins over candy corn. They are the perfect bite.
While candy corn is not really tasty, you really can’t stop eating it. I like the pumpkin shaped ones better.
Ok nom nom nom
I like the bag thats mixed, pumpkins, candy corn and my fav are the little chocolate bats
@@skyjams11 I have not seen the bats! I will be on the lookout!
A moose isn’t an elk here, but a moose IS an elk there??? Magic! 🤩
I like candy corn! Admittedly, I haven't eaten it since I was a kid, but I did like it then. I also liked Christmas fruitcake, so take my opinion with a grain of salt.
Yes to candy corn. Fruit cake is dependent on what fruits and who makes it!
Bayou in Louisiana is the same kind of thing as a holler in Kentucky
> hollow
Hollers are not filled with water. Hollers are the low areas between mountains.
Candy corn? A British expression that comes to mind on that topic would be, "Bloody Hell".
Comedian Lewis Black said it best:
"Candy corn is the only candy in the history of America that's never been advertised. And there's a reason. All of the candy corn that was ever made was made in 1911. And so, since nobody eats that stuff, every year there's a ton of it left over. And the candy corn company sends the guys to the villages and they collect out of the dumpsters all the candy corn we've thrown away. They wash it! They wash it!"
Don't go blaming the whole country for this thing you're calling pumpkin chucking--I've never even heard of it.
The Science Channel used to show a pumpkin chunking contest on Thanksgiving Day, around 8pm for a couple of years. That’s the only reason I know of it.
Here in Australia - we call English "sweets", "lollies" to be even more confusing.
One would think the term lolly would indicate a lollipop.
@@regsun7947 Thats the English language for you!!!
I was in a bar in Western Australia and they called what we call "urinal cakes" "lollies", but I think it was some kind of in-joke.
In Russia, candy is called "Confetti". Go figure
3:37 Bayous: They are any of those things you mentioned that CHANGE DIRECTION DAILY DUE TO TIDES. Similar to slough and estuary.
One of the funniest things to me is when a British person says, “autumn, or for you Americans, fall.”
. . . We have heard of the word autumn, but thanks.
I mean, elk and moose are fundamentally both just breeds of large deer. Granted, one of them is large int he sense of "wow, that's at least twice the size of a normal deer", and the other is large in the sense of "wow, that's at least twice the size of my pickup truck". But nonetheless, they're both just breeds of large deer.
Also, candy corn is orange, white, and brown. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.
What we understand as being Elk, Europeans would understand as being called Wapiti.
Shih Tzu and Rottweilers are fundamentally both just breeds of the same species: Canis familiaris.
Moose and Elk are different species (Alces alces and Cervus canadensis respectively). I hope this helps.
I agree with the comparison to pickup trucks. I once encountered a moose in a pull off area while driving a Ford Taurus. I swear the moose's belly was even with the roof of my car.
Moose have 'antlers' like steam shovels...elk basically have deer antlers on steroids. Moose are indeed HUGE!!!
@@marybethduke3263 * Meese
I like candy corn mixed with dry roasted peanuts. It tastes like a PayDay bar.
That's a direct and nearly unforgivable insult to Payday bars, my favorite.
@@sherigrow6480 Ha! You might like it!