34 British Food Truths That Only Make Sense To Brits 🇬🇧🍴
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- From the unsettling truth that you WILL drink tea out of a Sports Direct mug at some point in your life, to the controversial BUT TRUE belief that pies that are served in a dish are just glorified casseroles, today we're introducing you to 34 undeniable food truths that only make sense to Brits!
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Visitor comes into my home
Me - "Would you like a cup of tea"
Visitor - "Do you have herbal or fruit tea?"
Me - "Get out of my house and never come back"
The correct response is, of course, “never known to refuse”!
@@ianpark1805 nah the correct answer is "Can i have it in a sports direct mug?"
@@MrTrilbe I was taking that as a given.
😂😂
@@MrTrilbe I'll tuck this response in my back pocket 😂
Never turn down tea if its offered, its impolite and that's how wars start - 8th doctor
Two old chaps were sitting on a bench at the seaside.
“I’d like a ..... thingy” one of them said. “Do you mean an ice cream? enquired his mate. “That’s it! An ice cream. In a ....thingy.” “You mean a cornet?” “Yes! With a chocolate thingy!” “Flake?” “Yes. An ice cream cornet with a Flake and lots of those sprinkly things”
“Ok” said the other chap. “I’ll get you an ice cream cornet, with a Flake and hundreds and thousands.
Off he went. Two hours later, he returned with a meat pie.
“You stupid, absent-minded, old fool” shouted his friend. “You’ve forgotten the chips!”
Grace was right! A fry up is just another term for a full English breakfast :)
Yes!!!! 😂
@@WanderingRavens Next time you are in the UK you should head up to Scotland and try a full Scottish Breakfast. If you find the right place you might even get haggis as part of it. You will however get square sausage. Nothing is better for a hangover than square sausages on a roll with fried onion and HP sauce washed down with builders tea.
@@skiveman Sounds delicious! Thank you for the recommendation!
skiveman “Square sausage”. “Pink slime” mechanically recovered meat mixed with rusk, not the ultimate Scottish entry to the world’s greatest cuisine.
@@SvenTviking From a supermarket, yes. From a local butcher that makes it fresh, then no. You get what you pay for or put the effort into finding.
In Ireland you don't get asked if you want tea, you just get given tea.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
So true! My family just plonk a mug in front you whether you want it or not!
Just like Mrs Doyle in Father Ted! "Ah, gwan!"
In that case, it’s impossible to refuse! Wouldn’t want to offend by not eating or drinking what’s already set before you. But I wouldn’t be opposed, thankfully, as I have huge boxes of irish breakfast tea here in my house and also Bewley’s coffee.
Im a first aid instructor, our awarding body had to re-write our lesson plans when sugar tax came in because lucozade lowered its sugar content and it is part of our curriculum to perscribe it for hypoglycemia.
Thats how engrained it is into British culture to use when people are ill.
I remember as a kid the Dr proscribing Lucozade. Always had it when I was ill
As someone who is both a first aider for a youth club and a hypoglycemia sufferer, the sugar tax hit me HARD! But jelly babies are my go to!
I think that Lucozade is what the American's call Gatorade (not sure about the spelling).
My mum bought me 3 bottles of lucozade into the hospital when I'd had my first son. I hated the stuff and still do...reminds me of sickly sweet medicine. Needless to say I never touched a drop and donated them to another young lady opposite me in the baby ward before I left. 😁
I tried lucozade and it tasted like flat lemonade
‘We don’t have Pizza express in the states”
Prince Andrew: sweats nervously
Excellent!
Underrated joke just laughed out load at this
But remember tho he doesn’t sweat 😅😅😂😂😂
Hilarious!
😂 Takes his daughters to the one in Windsor often.....In between non-sweaty stints on private islands baby sitting. What a trooper!
Pancake day happens on shrove Tuesday, which is right before lent. Traditionally it’s when u would make pancakes to use up sugar and flour etc before giving them up for lent... even though now a days everyone seems to give up chocolate etc we still love pancake day haha
I keep giving up giving up for lent for lent, so far i'm probably one of the few people who can say they did manage their lent thing
Other countries before Lent have a famous festival like Carnival or Mardi Gras. More prosaically, we have Pancake Day.
@@MrTrilbe i forgot it was a thing 10 years ago
A lot of churches have shrove Tuesday pancake suppers in the States
sugar is a new food item , honey would have been the sweet part
"Do you want a cup of tea?"
"Is the Pope a Catholic?"
And here's a truth only known to the British: chips taste best if eaten out of a newspaper.
Yeah, it's just "I'll put the kettle on", it's not a question.
I always though that was "Does the Pope shit in the woods?"
I think it might be dangerous, for ink and other things
@@leosperini9312 We were tougher in those days.
@Drew Peacock no, it's not. It's a statement. I am telling you that I will put the kettle on, no question about it.
Eric: "It's something we will continue, with our children, should we ever have them."
Grace: *_nervous laughing intensifies_*
😂😂
Fry up = a full English are breakfast. Well done Grace.
Yayyy! *happy dances* 😂
or full Scottish breakfast
@@ljd6711
Square sausage!
Mmmmmm!
Yes and potato scons
A Wetherspoons breakfast is a fry-up with a beer! (I’m actually serious here.)
Workers in the wholesale meat market in Convent Garden would go for "lunch" in the middle of the night, and pubs in that area were allowed to stay open all night, traditionally, one drinks Porter with a Full English, not "beer".
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Turkey Twizzlers were twisted strips of fried turkey served to children eating school dinners. They were not considered good food.
@@avrilbowler8755 Oh my! Definitely not a school dinner food!
@@WanderingRavens One of our favourite chefs, Jamie Oliver, fought, a few years ago, to improve school dinners. The first thing he did was to get Turkey Twizzlers off the menu. They've probably crept back in since, though.
The ultimate British problem is responding to "Would you like a cup of tea?" with "No thank you " and then immediately regretting your decision.
😂😂
And then you're stuck with waiting until a few hours have passed before its offered again.
Oh go on, go on, go on, go on, go on...
@@andyonions7864 It's got cocaine in it
Yeah, but so many people make it wrong. They put milk in with the bag. They let the water go off the boil. They don’t stir and squeeze the bag. These people are a drain on society. Being presented with weak insipid tea is so bad. It’s why I always ask for coffee.
Freddo is a small chocolate treat. It's been going for years. Your memory of how much it costs is a good indicator of your age.
Good to know!! So how much did it used to cost?
@@WanderingRavens .15p.
5p
Now 25p if you find them in your local 24 hour shops
I think its 30p now
To our subscribers, we're sorry for the lower effort video today. After our ordeal at the hospital yesterday and how that kept us out past 3am, we didn't have the time (or sadly, the energy) to add the usual effects, titles, and pictures that we usually do 😭😭 We'll be back and poppin' on Tuesday!
I hope you're ok. Don't worry about effects.
@@violetskies14 Thank you! We're okay. Story video will be posted right away!
As long as you both ok, that's the important thing. So you've been trying out the German health services, there's another topic 😁❤👌 (BTW I don't have Facebook)
Hope you are well? There was a problem?? I enjoyed it 👍 ps gravy and chips Mmmmm
as long as your ok be safe
Try a Beef Wellington some time. The ultimate way of eating something wrapped in pastry.
Actually gasped when you said you'd never had a Yorkshire pud 😂😱
We intend to right this great wrong next time we're in the UK 😂
@@WanderingRavens you must try Yorkshire pudding god your missing out its served with a sunday roast with gravy
@@WanderingRavens
Have you had a Dutch Baby Pancake? It's a bit like a savoury version of that.
@@WanderingRavens google recipe and stream or record making a full Sunday lunch/dinner of your own, ok maybe not the making of it, it can take a few hours, just your reaction to it
Filled up with Gravy ......oh my...♡♡♡
You can imagine our excitement when Bernard Matthews announced this week that they are relaunching Turkey Twizzlers in the UK. It was genuinely trending number 1 on Twitter a couple of days ago.
This is the ONLY channel that I actually read the comments of!!! You guys are great! Thank you for making these videos!
Regardless of whether you know a large amount of English culture you two are really funny and are the first Americans I've seen put an effort into understanding another culture 👏 🙌👍
I have 9 types of tea I drink in a day 😅 but I give other people strong English breakfast if they say yes...its never a no 😂
@@MagentaOtterTravels dont worry I don't blanket bomb people I judge the person not their heritage, lineage or anything else of the sort 😌
Alana, from Adventures and Naps channel, is a Canadian who has lived/worked in Kent, England for the past 4 years. She documents her experience learning about more particular English culture but also other areas. She’s still learning too, though maybe she has an advantage working with locals. At any rate no non-Brit knows everything about Brit foods so I applaud Eric and Grace for their channel experience!
@@larrybothe8246 I think I've heard of her, if its the person I'm thinking of then she's very nice aswell as funny. To be honest no one can know everything about a culture that's just impossible. I give credit to those who branch out to learn and appreciate other cultures too
Thank you for the kind words, Lauren!! We're so glad you enjoy our videos. We appreciate you too! x
@@MagentaOtterTravels Aww, thank you!!
The only answer to, "Would you like a cup of tea?" Is, "Ooh lovely!"
Agreed! ☕
But... I don't really care for tea. :( I like iced tea though!
@@alexshkoditch4593 That's just an offensive comment!
@@alexshkoditch4593 be gone, weirdo!
@@alexshkoditch4593 isn't that a rapper? 🤣
Turkey twizzler=school dinner favourite
Nandos= peri peri chicken chain restaurant . Judged if you get anything milder than medium
I absolutely loved it when you read off "a roast is not a roast without Yorkshire puddings" I absolutely agree with that sentiment. A roast without Yorkshires is like potato free chips with your fish and chips.
In the UK Bacon sold uncooked in rashers. Is from the back, sides and belly. Belly usually called streaky. Can also be smoked. Usually Oak or Hickory.
Gammon bottom piece of a side. Sold uncooked as Joints or Steak's.
Ham usually thigh sold cured and cooked. Mostly in slices, or as a joint.
The correct response to the tea question is "milk, no sugar".
Also, Branston beans are superior to Heinz.
Lidls and Tesco own brand beans are better than Heinz these days, they've taken all the flavour out of them. And they're bloody expensive for what they are.
Boy those are fighting word's
@@michaelsterckx4120 yeah, heinz have gone down the shitter
Anything is better than American baked beans xD
I second Branston beans over Heinz as well as the Asda Smart Price baked beans and sausages over the Heinz equivalent.
Turkey twizzlers were spirals of processed turkey meat that were just the absolute bomb as kids, but then Jamie Oliver went on a healthy-eating-in-schools crusade and got loads of our favourites taken away from us. Turkey Twizzlers is kind of the emblem of Oliver's attack on our food preferences.
Nando's isn't fast food. It's a restaurant chain that specialises in chicken and they popularised the Piri-piri flavourings that we all know today. People take the judgement over how spicy they can handle it so seriously, that on dates men have been known to order the mildest option but put the spiciest flag in it to appear macho (they have little flags on toothpicks in them to indicate the flavour your ordered in case someone on your table fancied a bit of yours but might get their face melted off).
Freddo chocolate bars are little chocolate bars shaped like Freddo the Frog that used to be 10p, now they've managed to slowly creep up to like a quid or something, so it's a bit of an outrage for those of us who used to be able to buy ten for the current price of one.
A 99 is just a regular ice cream in a cone with a flake from the ice cream van. They're no where near that cheap anymore.
Grace is right, a fry up is a Full English. No one here calls them a Full English (that's more a marketing name for tourists!), we call them a fry up.
Whoever said that about bacon 'sandwiches' must not be English, because we would never EVER call it anything other than a bacon butty!
Roasties that have gone cold are terrific.
Ribena is pronounced RYE-BEAN-AH. And it is delicious hot, but not as good as Vimto.
Gravy on your chips is the same as gravy on your roast.
My favourite thing to eat on toast is banana and cheese. Don't knock it 'til you've tried it.
There's no point going to Pizza Express at all. Don't bother.
Custard Creams are the ultimate biscuit.
The pie in a dish isn't encased in pastry, it just has it on top, which is a con if you ask me!
I don't like American pancakes, too thick.
Gammon with one pineapple ring and one egg is the supreme option.
LOO-CA-ZADE - energy drink, no where near as good since they changed the recipe.
Never go to Wetherspoons. The owner is super immoral, constantly breaking labour laws and exploiting his position to proliferate far-right politics.
Cadbury's Flake is just like the kind of flake you get in your ice cream from the ice cream van.
YES short crust pastry all around is the only true pie.
Beans means Heinz.
Quite some time ago I was in the US and I entered a Starbucks and asked for "a tea" and was a little taken aback when the server said "what kind?" and "have a look at the selection below". There was then a moment of panic when I thought "What if I can't find any 'normal' tea??" But thankfully I did.
That would be a scary experience! Out of curiosity, which kinds would you consider "normal tea"? :D
Normal tea would be what you call English breakfast tea
@@chappers-eh2ms was it palatable?
I found that in the States even their breakfast tea is not very nice. I take a pack of Yorkshire tea with me if I go abroad
@@michaeltreend3567 well any tea is average compared to Yorkshire Tea. Took my american gf home to meet my family and my Gran (who lived in Wetherby) got her hooked on it. It's the only tea my gf drinks now. We get aid parcels sent from God's own county
14:31 soldiers are basically strips of buttered toast
Good to know!
The custard cream thing( best biscuit in the world) is definitely true.
We'll have to give them a try!
Wallace and Gromit were custard cream fans. When they weren't eating smashing cheese of course.
@@WanderingRavens Either eat them after dunking in tea or eat the top side of biscuit then the filling and then finally the bottom layer. You get bonus points if you also dunk the deconstructed biscuit.
@@WanderingRavens best dunked in milk
Bourbon choclate biscuit
I love your videos☺️ showing love from Northampton UK❤️
The weirdest part of this is biscuits and gravy. Who the hell dunks their digestives in gravy?
Curry Sauce on Chips is awesome.
And Bearnaise sauce
In England is it Curry chips or Curry on chips?
Cuz in NI it's just called a 'Curry Chip'
I think Gravy on chips is more of a Northern thing. Our local Chippy only does Curry Sauce not Gravy.
@@dominadors4795 tbh i prefer gravy chips but each to their own
@@madmettlepants7454 I call it Curry Sauce on Chips :)
Never eat toblerone unless somebody I know flies anywhere and they buy one from the airport.
I would never buy a box containing 50% air, even fresh Swiss Alpine air.
thats true toblerone is one of those chocolates you never buy for yourself but always get as a gift
Toblerones were the present I'd buy my mum for her birthday as a kid, because they were her second favourite (after maltesers) but they were always super rare when I was a kid.
I love discovering channels like yours while in lockdown. Love from 🇨🇦
When I went to America I asked for tea and she asked me "what kind?" I just stared at her and said " tea! " I had no idea that normal tea was specifically English Breakfast.
When I was asked this in America my reply was "builders". She didn't know what it was
Beginning to wonder if Eric and Grace have actually been to the UK.
At the very least, apparently we haven't been down the snack isle at the grocery store 🤣
Yeah, Sunday roast, dead giveaway.
The weirdest thing I’ve had on toast was peach yogurt, chips and cucumber. Surprisingly, not my biggest regret when it comes to putting things on toast.
8;34 when you came back looking as you did , your explaination for looking as you did wasnt what I imagined !
When I was in primary school my mum would cook me toast in the morning and let it cool down and I would have cold buttered toast in my lunch box🤣
Take a sip of tea every time Grace nods her head 😂 No hate, I love you guys
🤣🤣 The raven drinking game!
The best thing about the UK (ok, one of them) is that there is no rabies.
Not strictly true @Tom Dyer. The UK has airborne rabies affecting a couple of species of bat. Thankfully no terrestrial carriers🏳️🌈🇬🇧🏴❤️
The only answer to "Would you like a cup of tea?" is "Yes"
loved the video, can’t believe the interesting turn of events in the middle there😂 I have a list of some points, i know it’s really long, but thank you for your videos, and i hope this adds to some of the culture knowledge you already have!
1 - Turkey Twizzlers were a staple part of lunch for british school children. Jamie Oliver came in and got them taken out because they were unhealthy
2 - Nando’s is a restaurant that serves chicken and they have 5 spice levels: extra mild, mild, medium, hot, extra hot. They gained popularity after the term ‘cheeky nando’s’ went viral in the uk.
3 - Freddo’s are a small childhood chocolate bar that costed 10p in mid 2000’s and now costs an extortionate 30-50p depending on the shop.
4 - If you want a cuppa, or a brew here in the north, you just say yes and say how many sugars or milk. It’s not too common for people to actually have any other kind of tea
5 - Yes, a fry up is a full english breakfast, and i’d agree saying they’re the best hangover cure.
6 - With the Sports Direct mug, i think it’s just because everyone’s dad in the uk drinks tea from a huge ass mug😂
7 - Hot Ribena, or hot vimto is soo good and i do recommend
8 - Next time you’re in the uk, go to the local chippy and get something! you won’t be disappointed
9 - Yes, anything can go on toast! But also, anything can go on a sandwich. you haven’t lived until you’ve eaten a Pot Noodle Butty
10 - Ah, i have found superior beans. Corale beans are way better, i’ll go into Aldi just so i can get them.
11 - Eggs and Soliders is soft boiled eggs with the tops cut off, places in egg cups, with toast that is cut into long strips, which you dip in the eggs.
if you managed to read this far, thank you😂
Chips and gravy is generally a northern thing. Being from the south i've never had it. Sounds nice though. Chips and curry sauce is a favourite of mine.
But gravy is different from the states. I believe gravy and biscuits is a white sauce. Gravy in the uk and ireland Is a brown sauce made from Beef, Chicken or Lamb Stock usually poured over a roast dinner.
When you next here get yourself a roast dinner with yorkshire pudding cover in gravy....so good.
Happy Yorkshire Day.
Yes to the Yorkshire puddings.
Happy Yorkshire Day!
Aye, lad. Happy Yorkshire Day to you, an all.
Plusnet you're a bit Yorkshire 😅👍
Cue 1000 replies on the correct method to cook and eat a yorkshire
YORKSHIRE! YORKSHIRE! YORKSHIRE!!!
Amazing video about food Wandering Ravens. I hope you guys are doing well.
Thank you, Isaac! Glad you enjoyed the video :D
Love your videos, very funny. Best wishes from the UK 😊😊👍👍🇬🇧
Oh I was all happy and then I remembered there are no more turkey twizzlers and now I'm sad :(
I'm sorry that what we intended for good has inadvertently saddened your day 😂
They're back on sale at Iceland
Chips and ice cream. That's just insane!!
Absolute troopers. Kudos to you. The video still turned out great.
Thank you very much! x
yeah a flake bar is basically a chocolate bar that has thin layers of chocolate folded over and back on itself, and looks a bit like a piece of wood, they come in yellow wrappers and are often stuck into ice cream you'd get from the ice cream vans as a little extra treat.
Once you have tasted Branston beans you will never go back to heinz
We'll give them a try!
Branston beans are disgusting. Beanz Meanz Heinz ;)
I buy lidls or the likes and season them and the taste i aim for is...... branston lol
The weirdest thing I’ve had on toast is a pot noodle 😫 please don’t judge me I was 18 years old
No judgement! In fact, we may try that sometime haha
im definitely going to try that
Was it dry or did you add the boiling water first?
When younger I used to like eating curry flavour pot noodle poured over Chippy Chips. A banquet fit for a King. Haha
Add water like normal then take the noodles out have them on toast and drink the contents of the pot noodle cup like a cup of soup 😂😂😂 I was a starving student at the time but hey man it filled you up
Fascinating set of Vids on Our differing Cultures.. Ever tries cold boiled potatoes...? very tasty... I will have to try cold roasted oned too !
I love cold boiled potatoes! (Eric doesn't though 😟)
Bah 2nd today. Love your vids and Gace's expressions are mesmerising :) and cold roast potatoes, temperature wise, can taste amazing.
So glad you enjoy our videos!! :D
On the subject of dunking soldiers, Grace's "war crimey" comment is hilarious!
I'm glad you appreciated that 😂
“What’s ur answer to, do u want a cup a tea?” Sure 1 sugar 2 sweeteners
Yes please, milk and 3 sweeteners
Twizzlers and freddos, that's some childhood nostalgia right there 😍
'would you like a cuppa'? I'd reply with yes please (and milk + 1 sugar if the person doesn't know how I like it).
Lucozade is a fizzy glucose drink, far less acidic and tastier than flat coke that's sometimes suggested when feeling crappy.
A flake is a flaky chocolate bar, usually stuck in a 99p ice cream. Mmm
Also, a paupers dessert for me is rice pudding with a dollop (or two) of jam.
Ooo noo I love salt & vinegar with tomato sauce (Ketchup) on my chip shop chips, OR occasionally I will have chip shop curry sauce on them, yum!
Yes my mum always used to tell me to drink Lucozade when I was feeling ill. It's basically a sugary fizzy drink with distinct flavour. Love the original :)
Toblerone owners Mondolez, to cut costs made the gaps between the triangles longer, thus using less chocolate, but the outcry over that has been so great that they have agreed to go back to Toblerones original size..
Q: what kind of tea would you like?
A: Strong coffee please.. Absolutely not Costa or Starbucks. Both are just an alternative to used dishwater, and bear no resemblance to coffee. I'm a coffee snob as I've lived abroad and can't abide poor coffee..
Hobnobs are the Chuck Norris of biscuits..
Bubble and squeak with a fried egg on top and crispy bacon is the king of morning after breakfasts if I'm too hungover to make Crepes.
Tragic about Toblerones ☹️
Absolutely agree with you on Starbucks! 😣
Have yet to try Hobnobs
Bubble and squeak sounds heavenly 🤤
If anyone offers me a cup of tea my response is always: no thanks
Me too . Can't stand it.
Your last video genuinely put me in the mood to make a fry-up. Lol
Pot noodle on toast is epic, Hot Corned Beef Pastie in a Buttered roll....gorgeous!
Slightly surprised this one got left out: you either love or hate Marmite. There is no halfway house.
Oh my goodness! I'm super surprised that one didn't make the list! Adding it to our list now though 😏
This.
I had to write up my own reply outlining some of the products... including the fact that it's now not limited to food items, lol.
Apologies, but I am that person. I don't mind marmite, it's only ok
I stand corrected! You’re definitely unusual though ... :)
Mmmmm marmite!! And the only thing BETTER than marmite is peanut butter marmite
OMG!! 😍😍😋😋😋😋😋
hot squash is good if you have a sore throat
Good to know! As a kid I would always have warm lemon, ginger, and honey water 😋
Hot Ribena is wonderful if you have a cold.
Absolutely, or even just if you're feeling a bit ill with a cold. You can always tell if I've got a cold as it's the only time I really drink hot squash!
(Hot juice works too - fruit juice with hot water added, and maybe a bit of honey. But that's harder to make in the office than hot squash!)
Agree with it for colds. We also had it as a winter drink. Cold squash in the summer and hot in the winter ❤️👍
In the cold months you can buy winter spice ribena that’s meant to be a hot drink, still get a couple of bottles from last year 🤪
Love you two. Re: toast. Hot buttered doorstep (v. thick) spread with mashed sardines, cover with grated cheese.back u der the grill to melt while you retrieve your poached, runny yolk egg from the saucepan & plonk it on the top. S & P to taste or dash of ketchup, Wor chestershire or soy sauce, or... or... etc. And English Breakfast Tea of course, or Yorkshire Tea or your own preference {perky coffee?) great way to start your day, but not for an hour at least.
Scottish fry up - bacon, sausage, Lorne sausage, egg, tattyscone, beans, tomato, black pudding, mushrooms, toast and a pot of tea 🤤🤤
When you try Yorkshire puddings, DO NOT buy them premade from a supermarket. They are very easy to make at home and shop bought ones inevitably taste of cardboard.
Thanks for letting us know! Any recipe you'd recommend?
The bbc good food website "Best Yorkshire Puddings" recipe is really easy and never ever goes wrong :)
I disagree - “aunt bessies” are fine and better than the “Yorkshire poppadoms” I make!!!
@@WanderingRavens or... Find yourself any decent pub on a Sunday and have a pub roast! Bonus points if you head outside of London, pub roasts are much bigger outside of London!
@@WanderingRavens The BBC recipe @StarryUp suggests is a good one.
The key thing is to have a very hot oven.
When you go past passport control you’re then on international time and so no matter the time of day a weatherspoons fry-up and pint of beer is a must 😂
best hangover cure , hair of the dog, driking a pint of water ever you had the night before
LMAO also saw ur intros and how u guys tried church bellringing, cooooool imma church bellringer in London and I think America should also have it cos its epic!!!!!!!!!!
It is epic!! We had such a great time up in the bell tower! :D
@@WanderingRavens watch out for them bats😉
Chips and gravy generally is a good indicator of if someone is northern. Its not as common to get gravy in the south.
Hiya. Talking of tea(s), I miss the days when you asked for coffee in America and the only question you were asked was "Black or White?" Stay safe. All the best to you.
They were simpler times! All the best to you too, Andy x
It makes me ridiculously upset when I order a black coffee and the server says "do you want milk with that". No, if I wanted milk I would have asked for white.
Yes a fry up is the full English breakfast. Well done Grace.
Yay!! One point for me 😏😂
In regards to some of the foods mentioned;
1. Turkey twizzlers are pieces of turkey meat that have been formed into almost curly fry shapes, they were generally served for school dinners in the early 2000's (my primary school never served them but then again my ps was very middle class) until Jamie Oliver campaigned to make sds' healthier and they were taken off the menu.
2. Nandos', a. Is a restaurant chain serving (currently most of the locations are order online and collect/ home delivery but usually sit down is an option (and is in select locations again)) mainly grilled chicken in varying levels of spicy sauce, and b. Water (both liquid and ice) and soft drinks at said rc are free which in the UK is rare.
3. Freddos' are a frog shaped milk chocolate made by Cadbury and it is many people's first pocket money treat because they are the cheapest chocolate sold in most shops.
4. 99s is vanilla ice cream (traditionally served in a cone but I think now you can get them in a small cardboard tub) served with one or two flakes (see point 20), since the 1930's when the 99 first became popular it's price has obviously gone. I think around 15 years ago they may have been retailing at around 99p but I think they are now somewhere nearer £1.50, however I could be imagining this as I'm not a fan of vic.
5. Toblerone changed the size of the gap between the pieces a few years ago, the gap size has since returned to what it used to be after people complained. They complained because they could no longer get a clean break from bitting the bar with the wider gaps.
6. Grace is right a 'fry up is just a way of saying a full English breakfast.
7. We do have BLTs' in the UK but in this case the bacon sandwich in question is just several rashers of bacon between buttered bread (either toasted or not).
8. Until fairly recently (last 5-10 years) largish Easter eggs used to come with mugs, the mug acted sort of like an egg cup to keep the ee in place in the box they where sold in. Not 100% sure why they stopped doing it.
9. Roast potatoes, roast potatoes are an important part of roast dinner and are either small pieces of a large potato or whole small potatoes roasted in either oil or fat with seasonings. Unlike baked (or jacket as it is known here in the UK) potatoes which are generally large or medium potatoes only cut half way, partially cooked in the oven, topped with your chosen toppings and then put back in the oven. What this particular entry sounds like is people who come from homes where uneaten rps' aren't removed from the roasting tray and put it a tupperware of some description, I myself am more a fan of cold previously boiled baby new potatoes.
10. Sports direct mug, Sports direct is a sportswear retailer whom were known for giving out SD branded mugs for free whenever they had a sale or you bought over a certain amounts' (£) worth of merchandise from them.
11. Gravy on chips, or gravy on basically anything is a very Northern thing. Also British gravy is darker in colour than American gravy.
12. According to Wikipedia whilst in the UK, Australia and New Zealand fruit crisps and crumbles are one and the same in the US and Canada a distinction is made. According to thekitchen.com however the only difference is how the two desserts are made is that the crisps' topping contains oats where as crumble toppings does not.
13. Pizza Express, Pizza Express is Britain's oldest sit down pizza restaurant. Unlike Nandos' whom in recent years have opened up several restaurants in the USA (mainly on the East Coast I believe) as far as I know Pizza express is only in the UK.
14. Custard cream, you are right as much as like Oreos custard creams are a sandwich biscuits with a milk/ custard creme centre. However that is where the similarities stop as the biscuits that make up 'the bread of' custard cream is made of shortbread. I don't have a view on this matter as I personally don't like ccs, I much prefer bourbons.
15. You don't need to make a roast to have a bubble and squeak, it's just as the entry says traditionall you would use le leftover potatoes and cabbage from the rest to make bas.
16. Pancake day or Shrove Tuesday to give it's proper name is the day before lent begins, traditionally it was preceded collop Monday when all the meat left in the house. Whilst it is true the US doesn't celebrate P'day in New Orleans (and I guess all over Louisiana) they do celebrate Mardi Gras.
17. Gammon, egg and chips (and a pineapple ring) is generally on a pub menu and therefore only eaten for lunch or dinner, also the gammon is usually served as a slab almost steakesque.
18. LU-CO-ZADE is a soft drink similar I guess to gatorade.
19. Wetherspoons is a pub chain, unlike most pubs Wetherspoons opens before 12pm. The are particularly noted for their breakfasts not because said offering is of exceptional quality but more because they are relatively cheap. Also in relation to airport and eating therein, unfortunately since going through puberty I have been unable to eat anything before I fly (mostly due to the fact I generally want to keep my stomach contents I wish to keep inside of me, call me old fashioned). However in recent years (thanks mainly to a pill I shouldn't have access to) if I'm on a early morning, late afternoon or evening flight I'll buy something at an airport coffee shop (usually Starbucks) and eat it once I've landed.
20. Flake (retail type), Eric is right flake is a chocolate made by Cadbury. Due to the way the flake is made it is nearly impossible for you not to make crumbs as you eat on.
In London years ago when we went decimal I was on a school trip (early 1970's). 99's were about 15p? the rip off merchants by the Tower of London charged the tourists 99p
dinger40 absolutely right. Some visiting overseas relatives were conned out of 99p for a 20p ice cream in about 1976.
@@richardsinger01 😂😂
A 99 was never 99p..it is a dole whip type ice cream with the add onof a Cadbury flake and drizzled with strawberry juice... You often found them on Icecreamvans that come around suburban streets playing load tawangy music and then stops on every block... You then having the kids screaming for an ice cream while you frantically search for your shoes and money to run out and get a 99..
99 ice cream get the name from the address of the shop that first put a Cadbury flake in an ice cream cone.
Never used a Sports Direct mug
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I have 2 for my partners coffee I call the pee pots lol
Well I'm an old git and very British....No idea why a sports direct mug is classed as something we have all used? I've never seen one and hopefully never will?....While I'm at it , Nandos is waaaaayyy to modern to be classed as a traditional British thing (I've been once and had some 🐔...nothing special).
Can't remember the other modern things that have no place being mentioned on your list (again I am old!) So I'll get back to them later in a grumpy rant which makes me very happy.
Never had Turkey twizzlers, I'm a weakling cant eat a lot of spice, nando's sell chicken with the best sweet potato mash,
not tried the refill trick.
A freddo as a child was 10p now 25p loved them.
When some asks if I want a tea I would say tea, milk and 2 sugars.
Fry up grace is right, yum bacon sandwich.
Yes I collected Easter egg mugs lol.
Yorkshire pudding are the best, and cold roast potatoes are yum.
As I said in another comment sports direct mugs are pee pots lol
Gravy is brown here in uk and on chips is so lush your gravy is our white sauce.
Pastries love pies, cornish pasties, sausage rolls.
Custard creams are 2 buiscuit with cream sandwhiched in the middle.
Love creps (pancakes)
Gammon fried egg and chips yum yum or gammon egg and pasta for dinner.
I grew up drinking lucozade when we had upset stomach it was the first energy drink.
Jelly and icecream is so much of my childhood memories.
Flake chocolate stick, it is thinly folded chocolate it is powder like then melts in your mouth and Cadbury choclate is so heavenly.
Store own beans are better then Heinz hate heinz.
You’ve not lived.
At a certain point adult brits, who were at school in the 70's & 80's (also maybe 90's), will suddenly remember eating chocolate concrete with pink custard and bemoan the fact that they haven't had or seen it since their school days and start looking for a recipe online.
It was basically a slab of something similar to chocolate shortbread, but softer, and served warm with pink custard. Not sure if the custard was flavoured or not, but that 'pudding' was one of the best things about school, period. 😁
I didn't know chocolate concrete was a general school meal, I thought it was just my school
@@stevenjohnson4190 Me too. Until i went looking for a recipe a few years ago. Found loads of grown folks like me looking for the same thing! 😆
As soon as you said Nando’s was a fast food place and they do sandwiches I screamed
Freddo's are around 30p now and increase due to inflation.
They used to be around 10p and were a great treat to buy with your 10p spare change (I hear they were 5p but I wasn't around then).
Those were the days.
*cries internally*
That's so sad 😭😭
They used to be 5p, back when the bus cost 20p each way as a schoolkid. So take your 50p in the morning, get 30p back, buy two freddos after school, then use the last 20p to get home. What a time.
5p freddo was king, back when my mum used to give me 20p to spend in the shop. Three freddos and a taz just to mix things up
Wandering Ravens yes they use to be 5p in chemist up road from me this was around 2004-2006 and they went 10p ok still cheap went up to 15p got slightly annoyed got very annoyed in college when they said 30p and I thought what a rip off but I brought one anything to eat my annoyence.
I remember when 25p used to get me 2 pain au chocolat, a freddo and a taz from my school canteen at break.
Branston make the best baked beans, without a doubt. My family bought them on special offer almost 20 years ago and we've never been able to eat another brand since
You're not British are you?
I prefer them too
@@Si_Vert Were you dropped on your head as a baby? Perhaps you've had tastebudotomy? Most likely though...You are french!
I got a couple of cheap tins of Baked Beans from Lidl the other day. WAY better than Heinz (Which is, after all, an American brand).
@@marcusjohns5166 This is bloody heresy! Heinz make those beans specifically for the British Isles as they understand the British bean taste palat better than any other unprepossessing upstart!....Goodness me! So many bean Philistines!
Pancake day is on Tuesday before Ash Wednesday. In Poland, we celebrate "Fat Thursday" which comes a week prior to Ash Wednesday. On this day we eat a lot of doughnuts (full ones, not the ring ones; they are stuffed with jam, custard, advocate or chocolate).
Weatherspoon is an independent group of pubs.
Lucozade was originally created as a glucose supplement in Hospital, it was originally called Glucose Aid!
You're wrong about 99 costing 99p orginally: I can remember when they were MUCH cheaper than that.
the 99 is the shape number of the cone
They used to be a shilling
@@gloryfan58 And they used to be sixpence.
watch the programe on youtube called Balderdash and Piffle ,it explains where words come from the '99' is Askeys (ice cream cone maker) product number as the best selling cone for ice cream
When you guys come back to the UK you really have to go to Nandos. I was converted to be a Nandos lover about five years ago on my first visit here and it’s absolutely fantastic. It is a South African/Portuguese Piri-Piri chicken place and they serve from very mild to very spicy as you like and some of the best chicken you can get
I am a spicy food lover and I always get the extra hot which is the hottest that they will cook but at the table you can get extra extra hot sauce and Vusa sauce which is even hotter and I normally douse my chicken with it. They have a good variety of side dishes as well but otherwise it’s mostly chicken. I’m actually on my way back to the Airbnb and was already planning to get Nando’s delivery for dinner before you guys brought it up! 😁
Course you do mate... course you do
There's nothing much wrong with the flavours at Nandos. The problem is that you pay a lot of money for very small portions, whether it be the chicken or the sides.
@@stevemoss7793 i think the portions/prices are reasonable. Are you american
No. I'm English. If I'm paying £10+ for a butterflied chicken & two sides, I don't expect still to be hungry afterwards!
@@stevemoss7793 ur nandos must do really small portions. And you should try the chicken thighs theyre much better than butterfly chicken
Still think of a Snickers bar as being a Marathon bar (name changed 1990) . Great video folks :)
Hot Ribena is so good. I love it in the winter after a long cold day
Tinned tomatoes on toast with some Worcester sauce, Sardines on toast, beans on toast...the list is endless (edit: can’t forget spaghetti hoops and sausages on toast)
I stopped eating tinned spaghetti on toast after my mum wormed the puppies!
Jelly and ice-cream IS delicious. But, Jelly and evaporated milk.
Now you’re talking!
Yes carnation on jelly or icecream or both.
1. Turkey Twizzlers were super processed bits of "turkey" in breadcrumbs, in the shape of a spring, back in the 90s. Super unhealthy but super delicious.
2. Nandos is a chicken restaurant.
3. All the drinks in Nandos are unlimited but water is free. What people do is order a water, and then drink it and take their empty glass to the soda machine to get their free refill.
4. A freddo is a small frog shaped chocolate bar, which used to be super cheap in the 90s and people can't seem to let go of the fact that prices increase over the decades. A lot of people think pretending to be sad about Freddo prices is a personality trait xo
8. A fry up is a greasy English breakfast. Sausages, bacon, eggs, fried bread, fried tomatoes, hash browns, black pudding etc. You get the picture.
9. BLTs are literally everywhere lol
10. For some reason branded Easter eggs always had mugs in the box. For example one year I got a Buffy the Vampire themed easter egg with a matching mug. Dunno why.
13. I have a sports direct mug in my kitchen. No idea where it came from.
14. I don't actually know anyone who likes hot ribena and I'm not sure I trust anyone who does.
15. Chips and gravy from the chip shop is amazing. Gravy is different to the one you're talking about. It's thick brown beef stock.
17. A common thing I eat on toast is chocolate spread on one slice, garlic mayo on the other slice, then put together like a sandwich and cut in half diagonally
20. Sorry but no. Pizza express doughballs are bland af.
21. Yeah custard creams are square beige custard flavoured oreos I guess.
interlude: Was it a bat?
25. if someone says pancakes I think of the crepey type.
27. Lucozade is pronounced like "lewka-zade". A fizzy sports energy drink, which some people drink when sick, however it makes me feel even worse ew.
29. Jelly and ice-cream is a traditional dessert that kids usually have at birthday parties.
30. A flake is a flakey stick of Cadbury chocolate. Looks like a tree bark but tastes good. If you stick a flake in a soft serve icecream cone it becomes a "99".
32. Of course it's Heinz, no other can of beans comes close.
33. I've clearly lost count somewhere along the way.
End. WAS IT A BAT?
A custard cream is a type of sandwich biscuit popular in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland filled with a creamy, custard-flavoured centre. Traditionally, the filling was buttercream but nowadays cheaper fats have replaced butter in mass-produced biscuits. The filling tastes of vanilla and as such is more akin to the taste of custard made with custard powder than egg custard. It is believed that the custard cream biscuit originated in Britain in 1908. They usually have an elaborate baroque design stamped onto them, originating in the Victorian era and representing ferns. They are now predominately produced at the McVitie's factory in Carlisle.
Interesting note: 99s were in fact 99p when I was growing up. But it's only my generation that moans about the price because prior to the 80s they were even cheaper. When my dad was younger they were closer to 50p. When they launched in the 1920s they were closer to 1p.
Some Brits, particularly those in my generation (and I include myself) erroneously thought the name came from the price, it doesn't.
We assumed that the name came from the price too! Thanks for setting us straight on that one :D
The name 99 does not have a difinitive origin. The flakes are specificly made by Cadbury for the 99 since 1930. Before that they were cuboid to be inserted into wafer ice creams. Before the soft cone ice cream existed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Flake
Yes, if a 99 had been 99p when I was growing up in the 70s, they wouldn't have sold any! You could get a whole meal in a Wimpy Bar for less than that back then. 😁
@@andybaker2456 off topic but... Wimpy Bar! OMG yes! Do you remember that curved sausage thingy that curved round because they cut notches in it before cooking? McD's killed the ubiquitous high street Wimpy :(
@@webhead66 That sausage thing was called a Bender. They all had names - for some reason the fish burger was a Shanty.
A Cadbury's flake is the thing you put in an ice cream cornet to make a 99.
Thanks for answering that question for us! :D
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Welcome to our little corner of the internet, Barry!
Gravy difference is US gravy made with dairy, so it would be a white sauce in the UK. Gravy in the UK is made with meat stock so a clear meaty sauce.
Apple Crumble is very similar apple crisp.
Is a lasagne toast sandwich unusual?
🤯😮 Can you get that at a deli in the UK? Or is this recipe a family tradition? Never heard of a lasagne toast sandwich before! Sounds good though.
Wandering Ravens I had leftover lasagne and was wanting a snack, so put a portion between two slices of toast, it was amazing!! My sister does something similar, but did not toast and butter the bread.
Unique I'd say. And messy.
I used to eat pizza sandwiches in my younger days when i needed more carbs! 🍕
When will "The Incident" lol be on here I've deleted my facebook, to many arguments lol
I don't have a Facebook account :(
Me too😪
Me too
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@@MagentaOtterTravels Thank you, much appreciated.
Those of us of a certain age will remember the famous advertising campaign that ran for years- "don't forget the pancakes on Jif lemon day". Jif lemon was a household staple, a squeeze yellow plastic lemon with a small green cap, filled with long life lemon juice. By far the most popular pancake topping was plenty of sugar and a big squeeze of Jif lemon.
"Do you want a cuppa?"
Me: Yeah that be grand tar!