TRYING AMERICAN FOOD! | Thanksgiving ft. MyNamesChai & NIkiNSammy
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- 4 British guys trying American Thanksgiving food, as suggested by YOU! Candied Yams, Green Bean Casserole, Pumpkin Pie Mousse mmm...
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You should try cornbread dressing, giblet gravy, and cranberry sauce next. Hey why not just visit us for the Holiday😊
50 stars for the 50 STATES and 13 stripes for the 13 colonies
technically that would be one of the early iterations of the flag, anyways that's in the past, our past does not determine our future
Green bean casserole has to be topped with fried onions or it no good..
And never use cheese that is against the rules.
acegh0st I was just about to say that!! eww cheese the fuck is dat!
Green bean casserole has to be tossed in the trash for Thanksgiving to be good. :P
50 States, 48 in the continental US and then Alaska and Hawaii.
46 states and 4 commonwealths.
This is great we should do more... more food made for me... and I eat it... yay!
You're cooking next time ;)
+MyNamesChai i ll cook new zealand stuff
chaiii ilyy
I do candied yams with the yams, one green/granny smith apple sliced in
it, a cup of chopped walnuts or pecans, a little butter, brown sugar to
taste, throw in a few marshmallows, bake: then cover the top with mini
marshmallows then under the broiler for a minute or so. The tart green
apples balance the sweet, and the nuts give it some crunchy to balance
out the soft of the yams :) And you need crunchy on top of your green bean casserole :)
Hey, what's cooking, good looking? 😉
I've honestly never heard of pumpkin mousse. I call the candied yams "sweet potato casserole". Nevertheless, Happy Thanksgiving!
SAME! Also they're is usually French's onions on the green bean casserole
Yams and sweet potatoes are different I just found that out recently.
***** Yeah, and we use sweet potatoes.
sweet potato casserole is my absolute favoriteeeee
What's funny is I'm an American, and I've only ever heard of and had green bean casserole! Candied yams? Wow! Our staples at Thanksgiving are : Turkey, mashed potatoes and gravy, green bean casserole, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and sweet bread rolls. With a dessert of pumping pie and apple pie, of course!
Depends on the region then. I grew up in NYC and my grandmother always made the yams on Thanksgiving, though not with marshmallows, which I was okay with because it's a bit TOO sweet. I've had with and without marshmallows. I prefer without.
Abigail Cunningham it depends on the region.
Wait you don't have candied yams/sweet potato casserole at your Thanksgiving?
50 states, but we may have 51 if Puerto Rico decides to become a state (which may happen soon).
Puerto Rico has been petitioning to become a state for decades. I doubt things will suddenly change now.
This is actually one of the best videos on people from other countries trying Thanksgiving food. Americans don't quite make these dishes this way but you did an excellent job. I think the pumpkin mousse is served in restaurants here in the States, not during the traditional home dinner. Yams and sweet potatoes are not the same, but we generally cook sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving. The USA has 50 states so there are 50 stars on the flag. Again, good job.
Sweet potatoes and yams are not the same thing, although they are similar. Also most people don't put marshmallows on top of candied yams, they usually either have mashed yams/sweet potatoes without the syrup and stuff but with the toasted marshmallows on top, or just candied yams.
+Ricky Ricardo if you do a little research, Americans call orange sweet potato "yam" even though it is not.
Reeni: lol....no, we call yams, "yams" and sweet potatoes, "sweet potatoes". The yams are big and shaped with long tapered ends, and are slightly softer, therefore better for mashing. Sweet potatoes have a purplish peel, are potato shaped, and are a bit firmer....better for fries (sorry, "chips").
Shut ur uncultured swine mouth
Carol Gage That is completely inaccurate. Yams are an African and Asian vegetable that is completely unrelated to sweet potatoes. They are larger and hairy. What we call "yams" in the USA are just sweet potatoes that African slaves used to call yams because that was the most similar thing that they were familiar with. So yams as you think of them are just a type of sweet potato.
GarrusN7 you are correct
Was this like the British version of Thanksgiving food? I've never seen these dishes made this way and I've never even heard of pumpkin pie mousse or whatever that is lol You should do another one with more dishes but maybe cook them like the traditional American style because I know that English and American cooking styles are a lot different usually.
I've heard of pumpkin mousse before, but we never have them during Thanksgiving, it's usually some kind of punch with ice cream in it, that's our drink. For dessert it's the essentials, pumpkin pie, apple pie etc.
We call sweet potatoes "sweet potatoes" not "yams"... And there are 50 states.
That's great that you do but most Americans refer to them yams www.ncsweetpotatoes.com/sweet-potatoes-101/difference-between-yam-and-sweet-potato/
'candied yams' = sweet potatoes
+Doug Armstrong Ahhh... Makes sense. Thanks :)
+Doug Armstrong actually yams and sweet potatoes are different, but related tubers.
+Clarissa Scidmore lol there the same.
Theirs sweet potatoes and then theirs candied yams their not the same thing most people get that wrong.
niki & sammy should make a cooking video about the pumpkin mousse! would be funny to watch😂
My mom tops makes candied yams with LOTS of butter in them.
Then she tops them off with a mixture of brown sugar and pecans. It's SO GOOD
Doug, you should get yourself a restaurant and I promise you'd make some bank haha
Everything you cook looks SO GOOD! :D
Looks like you guys had so much fun at your Thanksgiving Dinner party. 😀. We've got some american exchange students in our flat and they are making Thanksgiving food for us this week, can't wait to try the food!
+Harriet Messenger that's so awesome you're gonna love it :D
I do a great candied yam recipe basically mash the yams with the butter and spices a bit of maple syrup and then put mini marshmallows on top and bake it until the marshmallows are golden brown. I have never tried mixing the marshmallows in with the butter and syrup might need to try that - great idea Doug thank you!
50 stars on the flag 50 states
Doug that food looked really good. Definitely the Bean Casserole. Not much of a Yams person myself. You clearly know how to cook.
52 States? Nailed it.
Also, have you not seen Shrek The Halls? "Marshmallows. Sweet potatoes are nothing without marshmallows!"
+Joshua George There are 50
I can't wait for thanksgiving. I pig out so hard on that day. x)
You are truly an inspiration Doug! You should have your own cook show tbh :D
No turkey? +Doug Armstrong, that's where Thanksgiving dinner begins!
Definitely going to make this! Thanks Doug. ☺️☺️
I liked this video, not only because you tried new things, but also because it was funny :)
Great job! we have all three of these and more on Thanksgiving also pumpkin pie, pecan pie, cranberry /orange sauce, mashed potatoes, turkey, stuffing and gravy. Next day its turkey green chile enchiladas with sour cream and cheese, but that is more of a Southwest, California kind of thing. TG is a food orgy! btw yams and sweet potatoes are biologically 2 different species. You were brave to take on these American foods! Glad you liked them!
how could you not have pumpkin pie
Timmothy McCandless or stuffing?!?!?
When I first saw the green bean casserole, I was like oh no where did Doug get that recipe?!! Our Casserole is not as soupy and has a layer of French fried onions on top. Glad you liked it though. Also I have had candied yams(More a South American tuber), but my mom always fixed sweet potatoes cause that's what we grew on our farm in southern Illinois..
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There are fifty states in all, but we have two states not part of mainland America. One is Hawaii which is an island, and the other is Alaska on the north western border of Canada
I guarantee he knows Hawaii is an island
50 states!! And hey I saw my name up there! You should try some holiday food for christmas!
Cook the sweet potatoes and add butter and a little nutmeg and cinnamon. Then mash them up a little and put the marshmallows on top then bake it in the oven. You get the taste of the toasted marshmallow with it.
Love the video, keep making them please. Next try pumpkin soup, pumpkin bread and pumpkin cookies with cream cheese frosting. 😊
Sweet potatoes and yams are not the same thing. People say they are the same because they are often prepared the same way.
im so glad you were able to make them well doug to give them all a good impression of those. I love and have them at our thanksgiving...and im from the usa and I call them sweet potatos :)
I wish we celebrated thanks giving in the UK 😩😩
This video is the cutest thing ever. Love the accents! 😜
My family has a few things that I know are common for Thanksgiving. We have a tradition of having deviled eggs and stuffed celery, typically as snacks or a sort of appetizer before the turkey's done. I've heard of celery stuffed with peanut butter, but stuffing it with cream cheese is really good as well, and it's the filling of choice around my house.
Also, they have these french-fried onions that are kind of like crisps but made out of onions that usually go on top of the green bean casserole like a breading or crust on top. Makes it a whole lot better, imho.
Also, we do have another dessert that's pretty common in the vein of candied yams, which is sweet potato casserole. It's kind of got the texture of a pumpkin pie, but a bit lighter and with a few other flavors, usually with a sweet topping that you might normally find on a pie, and cranberries. I've heard of using marshmallows on the casserole, but my family doesn't use it; we just use brown sugar for sweetening, when necessary.
Sweet Potato Casserole and Candied Yams are the same thing, this guy just made it slightly different
Stuffed Celery? Who the Hell come up with that? Lol!
"I just really like sweet things" - Me too Niki, me too....
"maple sirup" LOL
PUMPKIN MOOSE GET IN ME
+TheReelCorner Mousse, a pumpkin moose would be a different thing entirely! :D
It’s like if someone from the future read an American Thanksgiving cookbook that was missing every other page or word. Pumpkin moose but not pumpkin pie because the page with the crust recipe was torn out. Sweet potatoes without the marshmallows and green bean casserole without the crispy onions on top...
Some people confuse Yams and Sweet Potatoes for the same thing. They are meant to be different things, but sometimes Americans use them interchangeably.
My favorite is green bean casserole!!
Love this! Great channel. Also- 50 states - and we call them sweet potatoes (some regions call them yams - like 80 years ago)
There are 50 states in the United States. There are other island nations that are protectorates/commonwealths of the United States such as Guam, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands. Doug, I love your cooking segments. This one was of particular interest to me as we celebrate Thanksgiving this Thursday. The sides you prepared, although chiefly associated with this time of year, are made at different times throughout the year. Most of us would have baked sweet potato casserole with cinnamon, cloves and allspice and pecans. Other sides are baked dressing or stuffing, cranberry sauce or relish, mashed potatoes and turkey gravy, yeast rolls, oyster dressing, crudites with celery, gherkins (sweet pickles), Spanish olives, green onions or scallions and pickled peaches. The meats vary region to region but baked turkey predominates with baked ham coming in a close second. Desserts would include the perennial pumpkin pie, pecan pie, minced meat fruit pie, and in some circles New York-style cheesecake. BTW: Sweet Potatoes are predominately bright orange tubers grown in the US. Yams are not indigenous to the US, but rather come from the Caribbean islands and are white tubers. Fun Fact: After a meal like this most Americans who have eaten turkey will fall asleep due to the L-tryptophan that is naturally occurring in the turkey!
the perfect combination of people! and I met you all st sitc this year! :)
Enjoyed your video ! I think you are a great cook. Here in America I don't think we make those foods as rich and tasty as you did. The cheese and other additions to the green bean casserole made it a star attraction. The sweet potatoes were super-sweet-rich. I'm glad however, since your augmentations obviously enhanced your American Thanksgiving experience.
sweet potatoes with pecans on top are my favorite. Candied yams are too sweet for me and I'm American.
They should try a southern thanksgiving dinner. Which I am sure shares many of the same food items as other regional celebrations. But if you've never had the experience it would blow your mind. Cornbread stuffing (made with cornbread, chicken broth, sage, celery, baked in the pan, never stuffed in a turkey) with 'giblet gravy' (cream of chicken soup with bits of chicken and cut up boiled eggs, traditionally made with all the left over parts of the chicken like liver and heart and kidneys, but we never used those parts), Turkey or Ham OR both(we always had both because some people don't like turkey), cranberry sauce on the side(
We usually put french onions on top of the casserole and brown them. 50 states btw. There are five territories, but they dont get stars.
I'm an American. Green bean casserole, yes. Candy yams, yes. What in the Thanksgiving hell is pumpkin mouse???!
4 of my fav people in a video XD what more could I ask for and food is involve *^*
(:
recent thanksgiving i made a sweet potato gnocchi with a sage maple brown butter sauce, it really came out delicious, lets face it you have to have sweet potatoes on thanksgiving and i thought this would be a little different
Chai was right, there are 50 states 😂
But I've never actually had these dishes before but I know that the casserole and yams are pretty typical thanksgiving dishes, but the pumpkin mousse sounds amazing
Happy Thanksgiving Doug. Great video. x
Do another mug cake.. NOW! xD
Man, I love your show. It's so interesting to see what people in another part of the world think of our more traditional cooking in the USA. Here's a couple tips; for the green bean casserole, use what we call "french fried onions" to top them. You can use the cheese still, or not use the cheese. In my family, green bean casserole is never made with cheese. But here's a link to the toping I am talking about: www.frenchs.com/products/crispy-vegetables/
Also, depending on the part of the USA you come from, has a lot to do with what you call "yams". Since we have different dialects here, it depends. In the south and middle part of the country, no matter whether they are sweet potatoes or yams, they are almost always called sweet potatoes. For the most part, what we consume in the USA, is actually sweet potatoes and not yams.
All my lil faves x
Love the video, glad you like our food!! Not all of us eat candied yams--I don't like them at all. Sweet potato fries are awesome, though.
We have sweet potatoes and yams. Most people use the names interchangeably, but they are, in fact, different. Sweet potato pie doesn't taste like yam pie and vice versa.
I've never had green bean casserole like that before, it looks delicious! My mom mixes the green beans with the mushroom soup and crunches of some fried onions on it.. I'm not sure if they have them in the UK, but they're these really crunchy fried onions that come in a can. They're so good. I'm not a huge fan of sweet potatoes/yams though. My mom makes them with the dinner and they seem more like a dessert to me, even then, I'd rather have cheesecake or something.
What we learned is that Americans know how to make food very well! 🇺🇸
Starting October 31st (Halloween) through January 1st there are no such thing as calories in the United States. All food is converted to good cheer and blessings!
Where is the turkey, stuffing, cranberry sauce, rolls, and pumpkin pie? Call me old fashioned but all of the things i listed are a must for thanksgiving food.
You MUST MUST try persimmon pudding!
It's nothing without the Turkey, stuffing, and cranberry sauce. I am a vegetarian, too, so for me, it's all about the stuffing.
50 states in the United States. There are some 48 star flags floating around from before Alaska and Hawaii were states. There are 16 US territories. Doug is right about the yams. Most are served with marshmallows on the top that are lightly browned in the oven. Mac and cheese and cranberry sauce are also very popular items along with mashed potatoes. You can check the net to find out the difference between a yam and a sweet potato. They are not the same thing. Thanks for the video it was great!
American Samoa
Guam
Northern Mariana Islands
Puerto Rico
U.S. Virgin Islands
Minor Outlying Islands
Bajo Nuevo Bank
Baker Island
Howland Island
Jarvis Island
Johnston Atoll
Kingman Reef
Midway Islands
Navassa Island
Palmyra Atoll
Serranilla Bank
Wake Island
Ok so the guys on the left are twins right? Lol I'm American and we usually put some crunchy strings on top of the green bean casserole
i'm not american, but i googled the states thing because i always thought it was 50, but it seems some people were taught it's 52 growing up, because to some, puerto rico and washington dc are states
I'm and American and DC is kind of funny it depends on who you are talking to and Puerto Rico is a US territory.
Puerto Rico and Guam. 😉
(please don't let me sound like a rude American, please don't let me sound like a rude American...) It's not "kind of funny" DC is the District of Columbia it's not a state because it is the nation's capital. Ask anyone from DC and they'll blow a gasket over "taxation without representation." Most Puerto Ricans are glad they aren't a state, because all of the taxes and such don't apply to them. lol
i am from guam
it's actually Alaska and Hawaii that are the other 2
No one has pumpkin mousse here in Arizona! But looks good
You should try it!
I'm also British and I've never had any of these either!
50 lol loved the video and all of your you together in a video!
Out of all of those I'd have the green bean casserole just because the one my mom makes is soooo good. I've never had those other two though. We eat sweet potato casserole which is really good 😍
+Chloe Miller i'll definitely be making green bean casserole again, so good!
+Doug Armstrong I'm not sure if you have it in the UK, but next time you should add french fried onions on top! It's the best part.
Yams aren't the same without well toasted marshmallows. I recommend leaving the syrup out next time, cause it might not allow you to ad the marshmallows on top.
wow a chef
My families sweet potatoe casserole is a combination of your mouse & yams.........48 intercontinental + Alaska & Hawaii = 50 states.
where did you get these recipes??? come to florida and ill make you some good american food!
No Turkey= No thanksgiving
try mashed potatoes with ranch dressing, butter, sour cream with salt and white pepper mixed in.
50 stars because of 50 States and you forgot to put the almond silvers in the green bean casserole..and I've had pumpkin mousse before on Thanksgiving or anytime..pumpkin pie is one of my favorite pies though
50 states; I think you're confusing it with a deck of cards;)
Fifty states, fifty stars on the flag, 13 stripes for the original 13 colonies. Almost all "yams" in America are actually different varieties of sweet potatoes. Yams are a vegetable that is white inside, and grows in Western Africa, the slaves from there called American sweet potatoes "yams" and it stuck as a false synonym. Make more videos together. I love handsome Doug, his cooking, and his cute young men friends.
there are 50 states
there are 4 lights!
you need to cook the "yams" until there's a slight texture (caramelized) on the top.....oh never heard of adding syrup being added
Doug, you need to teach me how to cook.
I enjoy all of the recipes you showed, although have only had a pumpkin mousse once.
The green bean casserole I make has French's French Fried Onions on it though, they just add an extra flavour. The candied sweet potatoes I make have a....topping of marshmallows that get all brown, like when you roast marshmallows. I also add pecans to mine
Not to suggest you did it wrong or anything, just different. There are so many ways to make these two dishes. I am going to try making your mousse sometime this week and see how well I can do. (I am Canadian so our Thanksgiving was a month and a half ago)
Yeah I did read that but don't think we have (tinned?) French onions like that in uk! Never seen them before
Also, only yankees cal them yams, hehe. Southerners call them sweet potatoes. Imagine the accent. It makes it better ;)
lol they DESTROYED that Green Bean Casserole
Doug, you could have just looked at one of the flags behind you and counted the stars on it. One for each state. Neither DC or Puerto Rico are states so no stars.
+J Scott we did - they had 55 !! cheap crap haha
+Doug Armstrong wtf omg lol
I've never eaten green bean casserole or pumpkin mousse for Thanksgiving, it depends on your family I guess. Also there's definitely 50 stars on the flag to represent the 50 states aha
you forgot the french fried onions on top of the bean casserole. but i doubt you can get those in the Uk anyhow
50 states and yams I love
Great video but yams and sweet potatoes aren't the same thing (they're similar). Next year you'll have to add cranberry sauce (and turkey) to complete the meal
Anthony Flores they aren’t the same or even similar. Do a quick search on the net.
You’re supposed to completely mash the potatoes in the pan with everything but the marshmallows then cover the top with marshmallows and bake it in there oven until golden brown also where is the French fried onions on the green bean casserole
Also in America or at least South Carolina we say sweet potatoes
Finally where is the homemade sweet potato pie
This just made me even more excited for Thanksgiving dinner.
Also, Niki looked very similar to Peeta Mellark in this video. #IAmHungerGamesTrash
Wow I've never had any of this
there's 50 states I'm 13 and I know that, I'm not even American 😂😂😂
:) :) Our dinners are much LESS gourmet than this, probably because it's already a lot of work with so many sides, or because we follow our families' traditions. But we actually do use PLATES. Southerners serve candied yams but northerners serve regular mashed potatoes or (not candied) sweet potatoes, or brown-and-wild rice. Turkey is notoriously dry, but many Americans know how to make it moister by putting celery, onions and parsley in the stuffing. Otherwise, just use lots of gravy.
Nah, I would say most Americans put the most attention to their dinner on Thanksgiving day. I know for my family we would have a Thanksgiving brunch with bacon, waffles, maple syrup / preserves, buttermilk biscuits, pastries, sausage, fresh fruit, orange / grape juice, chocolate milk, and even cereal! Later in the evening my family would meet together with extended family and have the classic Thanksgiving feast with all the fixings with it. The result? I'd go rolling out of my grandma's house 20lbs heavier in a food coma celebrating or cursing how my football team did! XD. In all honesty though there is nothing quite like it and I am always thankful and feel blessed for what I have.
6:26 These guys.. I swear, they will be the death of me.