10 British Things Americans Have ZERO Clue About (feck, Irn Bru, censorship, teabags) | r/AskReddit
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- What UK things confuse Americans? From teabags to "feckless," Irn Bru to censorship, here is a list of the top 10 British things that confuse Americans (courtesy of r/AskReddit).
Are you an American? Which British things confuse you? Or, if you're British, what normal, everyday things do you find that Americans are confused by? Share your British culture insight with us down in the comments!
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I'm seriously considering becoming a Patron to get Eric a new shirt, how many videos feature that one. Apart from a literal cup of tea, tea time for me is the evening meal. I occasionally have beans on toast for brunch (an early lunch, mostly because I don't eat breakfast). Eric, we all know the sport where you throw the ball is called Rugby :P
I have just become a Patron, I hope we can soon buy Eric a new fecking shirt ;-)
Hero of the day, right here! 😆🎉👕
Thank you, Mark!
I cannot imagine what that shirt is like at end of the week, it must reek.
@@admiralsquatbar127 The secret is going about naked until it's time to shoot a video.
@@WanderingRavens That wasn't on my list of things that I needed to know.
@daro2096 😂😂
Grace: I leave the teabag in
Eric: I’m a coffee biscuit dunker
The whole of the U.K: *SO YOU HAVE CHOSEN DEATH*
Best comment, the Star Wars reference and everything
I’m British and yes, it’s pretty much illegal to leave the teabag in
(Most tea bags don’t have the little string attached to them to help you fish it out, we have to use a spoon to fish it out, and squeeze the teabags on the side of the cup. It’s annoying)
The thought of salad cream in a fruit salad turns my stomach xD
With all the different accents from around Britain(Irish/Scottish/English etc...) emigrating to the New World, they created a New Dialect, which in turn created even More regional accents.
Look at how different We are compared to the rest of Europe.
You don't use it in a fruit salad, you use it in a leafy salad, on greens like lettuce, or often in a sandwich. They were actually going to change the name to 'Sandwich Cream' but the country revolted so they changed it back 😂
The thought of Salad Cream on anything turns my stomach haha
Salad cream is nasty 🤢🤮
CarouselExperiment It is lush
Heinz tried to stop producing salad cream. There was a huge outcry against this.
What seems to confuse Americans is remembering to drive on the lefthand side of the road. when they leave a Northamptonshire Air Base, thus killing a young motorcyclist, then leaving the UK quickly, to avoid prosecution
hmm, harsh to tar all Americans with that brush, clearly she was in breach of the law though anyone else would be doing time.
Salad Cream is the most amazing dressing, and part of being British! My fridge always has a bottle of salad cream for sandwiches, dipping chips in etc.
Salad cream is disgusting. Rather have mayo or any other dressing on my salad
Fridge?
Get out. Sauce should never be refrigerated.
@@stingersplash Dude, salad cream (like mayo) is egg-based. You keep that shit in a refrigerator once opened (y'know, like it literally tells you to under the storage section of the label).
@@ffyrestarr Mayo USA Crap
@@smockboy - it’s got not one but *three* preservatives - potassium sorbate, spirit vinegar, and sugar. *And* it’s pasteurised. 😂 I’ll think you’ll live with it out of the fridge.
Irn Bru doesn't taste like bubblegum. However I couldn't tell you what it tastes like other than Irn Bru!
Stagnant horse piss?
Irn Bru as any Scots know is made from girders!
I haven't had Irn-Bru for a few years but from what I remember it's kinda of similar to Lucozade
Romanticising Irn-Bru isn't funny. My brother-in-law drinks 3 2litre bottles of it each and every day. He has a demanding job and says the sugar gives him energy throughout the day. Think Popeye,and the caffeine keeps him from falling asleep on the job.
Irn Bru is definitely not bubble gum flavour haha. It is so good thoughhh ;)
There is a difference between drinking your tea strong, and letting it steep so long in the cup that it is starting to develop cognitive abilities.
Depends on the brand of tea. At work we only have Liptons Yellow Label which needs 2 bags left in the cup to even remotely start to taste like tea just as you get to the end and doesn't quite acquire amoeba status let alone cognitive abilities.
Tea to me would mean the evening meal around 6pm
This has been discussed before. Tea, described as a meal, is very working class.
It isn't working class in the slightest. It WAS working class. It's now just common use in the North of England, regardless of class.
@@michaelregan352 It is still working class in middle class circles. You would not go into a restaurant in the evening and ask for the 'tea' menu. Sandwiches and cakes have finished by then. It goes back to industrial workers (more in the North) and it shows your class.
So what you are saying is all Northern English are working class right? And i'll think you'll find up North you will find plenty of menus that include a tea menu (and befire you try some sort of pedentry, I clearly mean the meal tea, not the drink).
@@michaelregan352 I did not say that all people up north were working class, obviously not but middle class people do not call a hot meal in the evening 'tea'. I have never seen a menu in a restaurant with a tea menu in the evening in my life and I am elderly so I have had lots of experiences in my lifetime.
Salad cream is essentially mayonnaise with a different mix in volume of ingredients. There's more vinegar in Salad cream and less in Mayo more oil in mayo and less in salad cream. We use it for salads hence the name. It's sort of similar to ranch or salad dressing, just in a creamier, saucier form. Hope this helps 😊
This helps! Thank you! Salad cream actually sounds pretty good :D
@@WanderingRavens Imagine Mayonnaise but with much more 'tang'.
@@WanderingRavens try it on chips (sorry, fries) instead of ketchup. Awesome.
God created salad cream :)
Salad cream was the only accompaniment for salads when I was growing up in the 60s and 70s. There was no such thing as mayo or 'dressing' then!
Lunch vs tea vs dinner vs supper is an absolute minefield and definitely varies with location and class.
Thanks for the heads up :D
Err no. Tea is dinner. Supper is an evening snack. That's the standard.
@@JohnnyZenith think about other areas. At school we had dinner nannies. So for us we had dinner at school. Tea at home. But yes supper is standard.
There’s also a theory about “lunch” vs. “dinner” for the midday meal that those who brought their own packed lunch from home call their midday meal “lunch”, whereas those who had school dinners provided by the canteen call their midday meal “dinner”. This may have a knock-on effect on the use of “tea” or “dinner” for the evening meal.
For swearing on TV - watch 'The thick of it' - best swearing ever
Totally agree mate. Especially the "Caledonian Mafia" them 2 have me in fucking stitches :-D
Malcolm Tucker is a fucking legend.
best use of swearing in complex and funny metaphors ever....FFS...
- My pal Ian worked as the swearing consultant on TTOI (what a job!) And he also worked on The Death Of Stalin with Armando. 😬
@@221b-Maker-Street That is probably the best job ever. And what a great thing to put on your CV.
"Knock up" can also have the same meaning in the UK, i.e. made pregnant!
isn't it "Knocked up"?
@@wembley636 yes, it is, though "knock up" can be used, depending on the sentence. I think "knocked up" would be heard more often. Personally, I don't use either.
Fooling around means intimacy in uk
I think that's another regional one
Yes the modern usage of the word feck may have come from Father Ted, however feckless is entirely unrelated and has been around since the 16th century when feck meant effect.
Feckless can also mean being reckless with your things or wealth xx which means giving it away without a care for the consequences xx
“feckless”, as opposed to “feck”, is quite an old word meaning lacking in initiative or strength of character, first used around 1585.
how can anyone eat a load of foliage without putting salad cream on them
I'm from Manchester, and we call our evening meal tea, and our mid-day meal dinner. So we have breakfast, dinner and tea. Hope that helps!
That is working class. You should not confuse the Americans
@@valeriedavidson2785 Haha! How do you mean?
@@ChrisBetton What I mean is that the standard mealtimes are breakfast, lunch, dinner. Some working class call dinner "tea". Goodness knows why.
@@valeriedavidson2785 What class are you?
@@ChrisBetton I'm with you on this one Chris. I'm from Staffordshire, and it is breakfast, dinner, tea here too. Working class my ass!
i live in scotland and can confirm that irn bru is not bubblegum flavoured, it’s basically just chemical flavoured
Having tried it when I visited Scotland last year, I would place the flavour somewhere between bubblegum and orange. But then again, what people think of as bubblegum flavour, is quite artificial itself. I quite liked the irn bru, though, and I could see myself substituting coke for it (if it was available where I live, that is)
I don't like the flavour normally but it's my go to drink after a night out 😂
You mean it’s not made from girders??....oh man..blown my mind 🤯 🤣🤣
@@baumgrt I live in scotland, and Irn Bru, does not taste like bubblegum for me, I agree with the original, it taste like chemicals.
I look forward to the video in which Eric reveals that he has a wardrobe containing twenty identical shirts and he's simply been trolling us all along. ^.^
Shhhhhh ;)
That British guy who replied that feckless means without feck is doing a bloody brilliant job of representing british culture around the world. Perfect british response.
😂😂 im literally stood here making a cheese onion & salad cream sandwich while watching this!!
I mean leaving the bag in your tea doesn’t offend me, it just makes me feel sad for you
😂😂
IKR over brewed tea ruins the experience.
@@WanderingRavens you take the bloody bag out before you put milk in it.
I agree with Fiona Gregory. Also, my mum puts milk in before water and it annoys me so much.
crazy cat lover that is something I have never understood. I see it sometimes when people add the milk to the water while they are trying to brew the tea. But wouldn’t the milk cool down the water and deter brewing?
“Feckless” is a much older word than Father Ted.
Simon Robbins It can be a good source of local words and expressions that might never make it into a dictionary. For example, my elderly aunts and their immediate neighbours used to say "I'll malevoke you" if they were really angry with someone. The meaning is obvious but I haven't come across it anywhere else.
Feckless means to lack loyalty, so feck is loyalty but is never used on it's own. A bit like ruthless but never ruth. Odd isn't it?
@@stevenmay1449 No. Feckless means 'lacking in effect': to do nothing, to be useless. Northern English or maybe Scottish.
Feck and feckless are different. The first was made up for Father Ted the second is an old word.
Aldo Zilli My father used the word "feck" (as did other adults) when I was a child and I assure you that was a long, long time ago...when Dermot Morgan (Father Ted) was still a child. 😂🤣😂
Salad Cream is a Victorian concoction of "hard-boiled eggs puréed with cream, mustard, salt and vinegar." When Heinz started producing their version of it, it was their first product developed specifically for the British market.
Fun fact: Baked beans are an American invention that was one of the first canned products to be imported into Britain. They were seen as 'exotic' and Heinz Baked Beans were introduced at Fortnum & Mason in London.
When brits say tea(not the tea you drink) it means time around 5pm til around 6.30-7 teatime means not breakfast or lunch, it means around 5pm-ish
you guys being confused about salad cream has made my day
😂😂
I fool around with my two dogs and last week i knocked up a set of shelves in my living room.
😂😂😂
Mark Richardson Was there a pregnant pause after your DIY job?
Enjoying the content. Always good to see someone take an interest in a different country.
I actually did scream when I saw the tea bags in the cups!!
The easiest way to define "innit?" to Americans is just think of it the same way you think of the Candian "eh?"
There are some subtle differences but you'll get the gist.
Tea for me is the evening meal. So here we say Breakfast (morning) -> Dinner (Afternoon) -> Tea (Evening)
Salad cream is a condiment just like ketchup, mayo, mustard. It is aaaaamazing with a cheese and ham toastie
A "Knocker-upper" was a man employed to go around waking workers, usually by tapping on bedroom windows with a very long stick.
With regards to struggling to place the time frame of British Tv shows, you have to remember most of our buildings are older than the U.S is as a whole, everything looks old over here
You're right Eric, mutton is mature sheep meat, lamb is immature, like veal vs beef
Yes this is true but mutton is also used for goat just to confuse matters.
Lamb is under 1 year old (but must not yet have its incisor teeth), Mutton is over 2 years old (but best at around 4) and hogget is anything else in-between.
Mutton dressed as lamb however refers to a more mature woman wearing clothes or make up appropriate for someone decades younger.
@@neilpickup237 yup.😘
In Gloucestershire, we refer to tea as a hot drink. ‘Do you want a cup of tea?’. Our meals are referred to as Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner. Whereas family in Wales will refer to their meals as Breakfast, Dinner (12) and Tea (6pm).
@almightlord pretty much covered what I wanted to say so I'll just say, thanks for handling this content so respectfully even that parts of our culture you don't personally like and it is refreshing to hear people say "we we're wrong/the information we gave out was incorrect." So, props to you.
Imagine a wandering ravens and evan edinger collab.....iconic!
Once we have similar-sized channels, we'll see if we can arrange that for you ;D
And endless adventure!
@@WanderingRavens That be amazing :D
That would be so cool
@@paulmoore4223 We love them!
Leaving the tea bag in the cup - sacrilege !! I'm from the south in the UK , always associated tea time as being the evening meal.
Thank you for answering our Tea question! And sorry about the teabag 😂
I disagree , I keep my teabag in coz I like strong tea , and teatime for me and everyone I know means somewhere between 4 and 6 pm , but hey viva la difference .
@@WanderingRavens I am also (originally) from the South and I too leave the teabag in. No apology needed.
@@joolzessam1824 Good to know we're not alone! :D
When most people say this, they're talking English breakfast tea. It takes no time to make s strong cuppa and it can stew if left too long, which tastes nasty.
If you're talking about fruit tea, or maybe more specialist teas, go to town!
I say tea instead of dinner. ♥ (unless it's Sunday dinner)
Or Christmas dinner
My nan came from West Hartlepool so I say breakfast dinner & tea, confuses my husband at times 🤣🤣🤣
I'm from Hartlepool (Monkey hanger) - your nan was spot on!
Same but I'm from newport in south wales
Year 1: lamb. Year 2: hogget. Sheep over 2 years old: mutton.
Thank you!
Oooffft check you out being all sensible for once !!! 😜
Lorraine Quinn I pressed Send before the nuttiness burst through.😆
@@Clodaghbob I was getting worried about you there!!! I thought who is this imposter 🧐😆
I am a very old English person and I am just learning the word hogget today, so I'm going to go ahead and say it's not a common word. I'm not sure mutton is even eaten any more, is it? I don't think I've ever seen it on a menu.
Your cups of tea genuinely made me gag 😂😂😂
I burst out laughing when Grace said "What the feck is salad cream?"...because I was born and raised in the UK and while I understand what it is, I absolutely positively don't understand WHY it is.
It's basically a sort of...mayo-adjacent (if mayo was possessed), runny, tart dressing that you can add (if you're demented) to sandwiches, salads or anything else you wish to comprehensively ruin.
I'm moving to the US later this year and my husband is already there most of the time. When he's here in Scotland, he always gets an egg, tomato and salad cream sandwich from M&S. And when he's there, he sometimes craves the stuff. He told me yesterday that he woke with a sudden hankering for a roast beef and salad cream sandwich.
It's a good job I love that man.
No to salad cream. Just no. It's a concentrated source of evil and ruination in the world.
Father Ted is from the 90's, it was filmed between about 1995 and 1998. It's definitely worth a watch
If you leave the tea bags in the cup then it can only be a fruit tea.
Edinburgh: tea means dinner 🏴🏴
Brilliant! Thanks for answering our question!
Cardiff the same
Yes. Same in Derbyshire. Tea the drink is referred to as a cuppa (as in cuppa tea - slang of cup of tea). Tea is dinner. It goes breakfast, lunch, tea and supper...
Yeap. From Edinburgh too and Tea is dinner in the evening. Not as dinner in the south of England which is lunch 🤷♂️
@@KellyAnnLockwood You say 'lunch' in Yorkshire?
I feel like the 'tea' question is related to the class question from a few weeks back. In my experience the three meals of the day:
Working class: breakfast, dinner, tea
Middle class: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Upper class: breakfast, luncheon, high tea (mid-afternoon tea and cake), supper
You've nailed it
The vicar discovered that the church had been flooded by the rain storm in the night. So he rushed round the parish and quickly knocked all up the church cleaners.
- Salad Cream - think a sharp tangy mayonnaise
I love it already
@@WanderingRavens It's actually made by Heinz......which I think might just be a USA manufacturer :-/
With cooked egg !!
If you want strong tea I’m more than happy putting multiple tea bags in but never leave it in and never let the tea bag touch milk.
Good to know! Thanks for explaining the sequence for us, Paul!
3 tea bags in a pint mug?
@@WanderingRavens make it whichever way you prefer and ignore the tea nazis.
Salad cream is salad dressing you guessed it🙌🏼😂😂
Tea time for me was my evening meal, I’m from Manchester.
Salad cream is delicious, it goes on an actual salad, but also tastes nice with chips, not an actual cream, more like a vinegar-y mayo! 😋!
You are right about tea, tea time and dinner. They are regional. I’m from Manchester and tea is an evening meal. In some places dinner is a meal you have at mid day.
Thanks for verifying that for us :D
Always had this 'argument' with my dad...I'd say, "Well why do you call it a lunch box and not a dinner box?" and he'd counter with, "the school dinner lady serves you dinner". I guess the debate rages on...😂
@@alexlivesey6821 Interesting point. I suppose if you are having sandwiches (or another filled bread product) people don't tend to call it dinner. I've never heard anyone talk about school lunch ladies.
"tea" for most people in Yorkshire means dinner for Americans k think. So like your evening or third meal
Ah! Thank you for answering that question for us!!
Yep - breakfast, dinner, tea. the southerners dispute this, but as with most other things, they are wrong
@@RhodesMusicYorkshire 😂😂 We have a lot to learn about the North v South divide
Aye and you are proper Yorkshire you have a cup of Yorkshire tea with your tea 😉
I'm in Essex (the 'south') yet I've always called it tea, my mum always called it that and she was born and raised in London
So this is the "soft southerner" breakdown of food times.
Breakfast - Morning meal or the first food you have before heading to work.
Elevenses - A couple of biscuits had with a cup of tea usually around 11 o'clock.
Lunch - The meal had around the middle of the day. Can be either a light or full meal.
Tea - An early evening meal, typically around 5ish, usually light in nature and often for the kids who had a main meal at school.
Dinner - A hearty evening meal had if your lunch was a light one, usually had around 7 or 8 pm.
Supper - A late evening snack, maybe a slice of toast, often had close to bedtime.
Now if you thought all that was odd enough you ain't seen nothing yet!
Wedding Breakfast - The main meal served at a formal wedding. (because it is the first meal after you have married)
Sunday dinner - Happens at lunchtime on a Sunday and is the big roast dinner. Also usually accompanied with a nice pudding too.
Sunday tea - Again on a Sunday, a light meal usually just some toast and a piece of cake had early to mid evening.
Afternoon tea - a semi-formal mid afternoon meal consisting of things like scones, cakes and little sandwiches. Usually had at a posh cafe or hotel between just 2 or maybe 3 people.
High tea - Another semi-formal mid-afternoon meal again mixing savoury and sweet items but for a larger group, usually for an occasion like a birthday or anniversary, and generally served buffet style.
Second breakfast - Only exists in The Shire.
1:38 this triggered me so much, I nearly spilled my tea
For a while there, I was wondering where you'd seen this programme, 'Dairy Girls'. :-D
Knock up comes from olden times, a few hundred years ago, before people had alarm clocks. Workers who tended to live close to their factory or workplace were woken by a "knocker up". An employee who would go up and down local streets of workers houses, knock on their doors to wake them up for work often a rich employer would build streets of houses for their employees, close to their factory, mill, mine etc. If you look up the history of Cadbury Chocolate, the whole town of Bournville was built around the business..
...and after the workers had gone to work, the knocker up made a second round, waking up their wives. Hence the name heheheheheheheheheh ok ok I'm stupid :D
My great grandad was a "knocker upper" in Manchester . I'm not descended from aristocracy 😂
The question is, who knocked the knocker up up?
Only discovered you guys a couple of weeks ago, and 'feck me' I'm hooked. Sparky, intelligent and a bit 'rum'. I'm from Lancashire...... I was neglecting my own humble little channel, but you inspired me to get back onto it.
Love you guys, from an old English guy.
I believe feckless means ineffectual as in ‘he’s a feckless manager, he couldn’t organise a piss-up in a brewery!’
British TV language, certain words aren’t allowed until after the ‘watershed’ about 21.00 or 21.30, after that you can say many more fruity words.
9:10 in the uk how much censorship you see on tv does vary depending on what time of day you are watching
Definitely. In the UK we have a “watershed” which is basically a divide in the TV schedule between family friendly content and more mature content. Here it’s at 9PM but it’s at different times in different countries.
Also, the rules are different for terrestrial TV and satellite/cable.
After 3pm in cove it’s between brunch and dinner
tea is dinner, the 3rd meal of the day. I’m from somerset (the south-west)
I was born in Taunton and lived in Creech St. Michael. I was taught the full roster of meals is as follows:
1. Breakfast (when you get up)
2. Elevenses (11 am or so)
3. Lunch (noonish)
4. Tea (about 4 pm)
5. Dinner (6 pm or so)
6. Supper (11 pm)
Expectations may vary! My family may have been a bit pretentious...
me too!!!!weton-super-mare!!!
from West dorset near bridport so close to u lol
@@shaunpcoleman I'm for Portsmouth and it's the same for me.
However you would not eat all those meals in one day.
Mostly people I know would use breakfast for the first meal of the day, lunch for the second meal, tea or dinner become inter changeable and supper is a snack before bed.
@@vixen1143 My nan would eat all the meals. I never did, usually going with breakfast, lunch and dinner (occasional supper). After we emigrated to Canada I found people referring to the noon time meal as dinner which just seemed so wrong!
I've always used different words for the same meals, but there are 3 meals;
1st meal = "breakfast" or "Breakie"
2nd meal = "lunch" or "dinner". (I would only use "dinner" in this context if I was actually sitting at a table with people eating a meal, if I'm just eating out of a bag then it's "lunch")
3rd meal = "tea" or "dinner".
We would also sometimes have "supper", which is like a snack that comes after the third meal.
In NW England teatime is the evening meal, around 5-7pm.
"Innit" derives from "isn't it?" but functions as an all round exclamation, or emphasis, and is particularly linked to immigrant communities. I think I first heard it in about 1994.
Example: "I'm having beans on toast for my tea, innit."
It's now just slang
My dad says innit every other word
It's linked to chavs not immigrants lol.
@@markatchison5112 - to repeat, I first heard it in 1994 from someone with an immigrant background (probably second generation, if I remember correctly).
A quick search on the internet shows that the modern use of "innit" comes from British Asian communities. It has been adopted by white British youth as part of an overall adoption of "multicultural English".
@@capitalb5889 I'm not disputing where it came from? I'm saying that as of right now it's not just linked to immigrants.
Just FYI, there is a cheap version of IRN BRU called, yep you guessed it, iron brew 😂
When I was younger my tea was dinner time.
There's "afternoon tea" that cafes and restaurants serve, scones small sandwiches cake with a cup of tea and then tea time your evening meal "come inside kids and have y'ur tea"
We have the same problem dating US shows. I thought the original Star Trek was set in the future, then Captain Kirk gets out a flip phone!
😂😂😂
Don't flip phones exist because of Star Trek?
@@alexwright4930
...and tribbles.
@@tonycasey3183 Oh, the Tribbles I've seen...
@@gonzalez5959
Yeah. I mean that IS the trouble with them.
Tea is also a bit class-related. The working rural classes would be up early in the day and would have the main meal, ‘dinner’ in the middle of the day, and a lighter ‘tea’ in the evening.
12:27 , i had to scroll down , so i couldnt see the cups with the ...the....tea bags still * shudders * ...in the mug :( oh dear lord, my eyes, my eyes !
About the censorship thing, I can answer to an extent. So adult programmes on television aren't allowed to be on until past 9pm until (I think) somewhere amount midnight. My grandmother is also somebody who loves watches soaps (as in soap opera) like Coronation Street, and the rest of that jazz, and they do have some sensitive themes in them sometimes, so when they do, they often have a warning, though they never ever show any sexually explicit scenes (no pornos on the tele), normally at the end of the show, they will actually give out helplines should we face any issues similar to what's in it so that's actually good.
I love how I click on your videos and my ear drums dont bleed
Thanks from my ears :)😂
😂😂 We like this change better too! Never realized how American we were being in our previous videos!
In the UK we have a time of day called the 'watershed' which is 9pm, after this time programs that are not deemed family friendly can be shown but most tv programmes are done in a tasteful way if they are slightly more 'risky' and the odd swear word can appear. It does depend on the tv channel broadcaster (network) though.
As for Salad cream it is a savoury dressing for leaf salad that's essentially another version of mayonnaise where you have more vinegar than oil in the recipe, giving you a more sour taste, will taste similar to french dressing but without the peppery kick.
"Irn Bru tastes like bubble gum"... I wanted to cry at that. Irn Bru is a really distinctive taste of its own that's almost impossible to describe. It's also delicious! If you haven't tasted it, you also need to try Vimto - it's a really fruity cordial you can mix with either hot or cold water to make a hot or cold drink. On a cold autumn day, it's heavenly!
The main meal was once primarily at lunchtime and the term tea referred to the late afternoon lighter meal
Good to know! Thank you!
Yes, that is true. All those classy people in the Jane Austen novels had an early afternoon dinner, and then tea, and finally supper, later. As dinner got fashionably later over time, luncheon, initially called nuncheon - the "nun" part meaning noon - started to be eaten late morning or midday.
It was for rich people, miners and farmers and manual took food with them to eat underground or in the fields and factories.
If you can, look up a BBC show called “Back in Time for...” each series is based around either a different social class or aspect of british life through the decades, the last 2 series have been Back in Time for School and Back in Time for the Corner Shop
In terms of censorship, everything has to be child friendly before the "watershed" at 9pm. After that, swearing and nudity is allowed as it is assumed the kids would have went to bed. "Taking the piss" is always allowed as can be seen on a lot of pannel shows. Laws on racism etc apply all the time though, but product placement weirdly enough is much more enforced by the relevant bodies.
None sexual nudity is allowed at anytime of the day. The movie Airplane has been aired on tv many times and the tits flash was not edited out and the flash always happens around the 7pm mark. Channel 4 had a movie on some months back in the middle of the afternoon that showed full frontal nudity, boy and girl bathing in a pond.
The movie, the Centipede 2 in its full uncut glory was banned from DVD release and had to be edited but the Horror Channel has got away with showing the full uncut version a few times by putting it on at 10pm.
TV censorship laws are complicated and full of side laws where there are exceptions to every law.
I think 'tea' is dependent on when people eat. In my household we use "what's for tea", when querying the meal timed as arounf 5:30-6:00 pm... However, people who eat later in the evening like 8pm or later may use "evening meal" or "dinner".
For me, tea is a small meal in the evening, usually buttered toast. Sometimes called supper. However, I have friends who call dinner tea. It’s definitely a regional thing.
You can also have 'high tea' or 'afternoon tea', (also called tiffin) this was mainly used as an informal 'snack' of tea, sandwiches and or cake, when people would then have 'dinner' in more formal settings in the evening. Oh and salad cream is also great mixed with grated cheese for cheese on toast or toasted cheese sandwich.
Nobody really has afternoon tea any more though, unless you're going out as a social thing. People don't sit around at home and eat sandwiches in the middle of the afternoon and then have another heavy meal later on.
@@chrisytfc879 True hence I used the terms 'when people' and 'when people would' as in past tenses, and the term 'tiffin' mostly that was used in India by the English went out of fashion when the British Empire fell.
This is what I thought having "tea" was, based most likely on reading British books.
Tiffin is also a euphemism, a regular in carry on films
In my world I drink tea but where I live (in the north of England) everyone says tea as in dinner but I say dinner. Whenever i said tea to my mum as referring to dinner she said NO! to that word being used in the dinner format. 😆 🤣
Thanks for the additional context! 😂
Sounds a bit Hyacinth Bucket 😀
Salad Cream is a salad dressing from the pre refrigerator era. Cooked egg yolks vinegar spices sugar etc. Basically self preserved.
Salad cream is a salad dressing that was invented during the second world war when food was in very short supply as a sort of replacement for mayonnaise people grew attached to it though and it has stuck around it is a bit like spam in that regard.
we don’t have a law saying ‘freedom of speech’ and if you get caught saying something negative or insulting towards a specific minority group you can get sued etc. and our censorship on telly is very strict until the 9 o clock watershed, after that everything flies, pretty much.
Americans don't only have a law it is literally the foundation of our government! I guess the founders didn't feel like they were being heard at the time! We do have slander laws. If you say something that costs someone money then you can get in trouble.
Lamb is a sheep that is under 12 months old and is more expensive, mutton is an older sheep and is a lot cheaper so basically going back to the origin of the slang it was when a butcher was charging you the price for lamb but it was actually an older sheep.
Where I'm from in the UK I've heard tea used for dinner time and others just called it dinner. I have family from the North and some from the South so grew up hearing both.
I’m from Norwich, and my family and I use “tea” for an evening meal. However, there are so many variations around here for an evening meal, I.e. dinner, tea or supper!
Salad Cream is like mayonnaise with added vinegar to give it a tangy flavour, it's great on sandwiches
We'll give it a go!
@@WanderingRavens White bread sandwich, with salad cream, tomato, cucumber and lettuce. Surprisingly good!
It has cooked egg unlike mayonnaise !!
Love salad cream on boiled spuds
Not sure about the South, but up here in the North , tea is the main evening meal of the day. Where as lunch , the mid day meal, is what we call Dinner. How you name these meals can also define your social class.
Good to know! Thank you for answering our question :D
I concur. I was born and raised in the northern city of Newcastle in a working class family. When I was a kid, dinnertime was the mid day meal, teatime was the main evening meal, usually around 5:00 pm - get home from school and have your tea. Having said that, I was also aware that tea time could also mean having a cup of tea and a slice of cake, usually at some point in the afternoon. For example, my own Grandmother sat down to a cup of tea and a light snack at 3:00 pm every single day without fail. Hope this is useful.
Way down south here in formerly-industrial Plymouth, where my dad worked as a coppersmith in the dockyard, I grew up calling the midday meal 'dinner' and the evening meal 'tea'. Just across the river Plym in more genteel Plympton and Plymstock, though, 'lunch' and 'dinner' were the approved terms. Here, at least, it was definitely a marker of social class.
You mustn't forget about 'dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner batman' - that's how it sounded and he must have been very hungry.
Hello. I enjoy your clips. My Dad lives at the base of the Wrekin in Shropshire. It is lovely and definitely not smelly :-) From the top on a clear day you can see for miles around. Next to it is a smaller hill, the Ercall, pronounced 'arkle'.
Salad cream, it's not mayonnaise but is often on the table when a salad is served. Made from oil in water, egg yolk and spirit vinegar. May also include mustard, salt and spices. It is used as a salad dressing as is mayonnaise (in the UK). Delicious!
I live in the north and I call our meals breakfast, lunch and tea 😂 I never call it dinner, to me dinner is lunch because in primary school we used to have dinner ladies at lunchtime 😂😂 oh and salad cream is a specific thing, it'll be with the mayo and ketchup in supermarkets 😂
Eureka!! I found the origin of the word 'Feic' (I think). Just for you have I travelled to the far reaches of the sitting room and then beyond into the dark shelves in the land of dust, dead moths and Ó Dónaill's Irish-English Dictionary. Feic is indeed the verb 'to see' but there is also an old fashioned noun, also called 'Feic ', which means a spectacle or a sorry sight. It also means 'show' in the derogatory sense of "You're making a right show of yourself". Being called a Feic is not a compliment. Neither is being called a Fecker. 😂😂😂
I'm from NW England (born in Manchester, grew up in Cheshire) - the midday meal is called either "lunch" or "dinner"; the evening meal is only ever called "tea"
Salad cream is a type of mayonnaise salad dressing. Similar to home made mayonnaise, but with the same consistency as Miracel Whip (but tasty). Like mayonnaise, it’s a creamy, pale yellow condiment based on an emulsion of about 25-50 percent oil, emulsified by egg yolk, with vinegar and mustard for flavour. It’s used as a salad dressing and a sandwich spread. A really nice accompaniment to salad, boiled potatoes, and hard boiled eggs.
breakfast dinner and tea that's more of a northern thing also the reason for the difference in lieutenant is unclear but originally it was pronounced "lyeuchtenant" meaning one who stands in place or left in charge from latin (you can see why the British adopted this pronunciation for the tenant of those you are left in charge of). It was originally french and so then adopted like many other military structures by the American army . the British split with their pronunciation when they introduced it for obvious reasons. There are also theories about development from Norman french where the pronunciation "lef tennant" would be more appropriate for the pronunciation of that region and dialect or normandy.
I suspect the British pronunciation harks back to the Latin and medieval letter V representing both U and V sounds. 'Lievtenant' suggests the British pronunciation, which has survived the modification of the spelling.
@@thisisnev this is also a good theory there are quite a few it's hard to tell which is true as the word has in some way or another always meant leader or a position of responsibility and the subtle nuances of languages really doesnt help
@@thisisnev Sort of. The English got the word from the Burgundians (allies in the 100 Years' War). At the time the Burgundy dialect pronounced it more like "leef-" probably (as you say) because U and V were the same letter, V being the consonantal version of U (compare the two Ys in "yesterday"). The loo- pronunciation fairly quickly emerged, though.
Noah Webster is responsible for the American usage of loo-. But the US Army still pronounced it lef- till the 1890s.
I learnt the word "lieutenant" off Star Trek and wasn't aware of the British pronounciation.
I think (maybe a matelot can confirm/deny) that in the Royal Navy, a rank of including the word Lieutenant is pronounced “L’tenant” not with a glottal stop but with a soft, hardly pronounced “oo”. Yes? No?
I really really want you guys to do a reaction video of Jimmy Carr. An absolute legend comic. Honestly I don't think you'll know what hit you 😂
I live in Staffordshire and call our three meals breakfast-dinner-tea. You could also have ‘afternoon’ tea which is a cup of tea and scones, or slice of cake although that wouldn’t be a regular thing.
My three daily meals are Breakfast, dinner (noonish) and tea (6ish) apart from Sundays when we go upmarket and have our dinner around 6ish. At school we didn't have lunch ladies like they do in the US, we had dinner ladies.
Like me, my brother lived in the US and married an American. The first time he brought her back here for Xmas they would go down the pub with all his mates for a daytime sesh, then folks would excuse themselves saying they had to go home for tea but would be back later. She simply couldn't understand this and no one bothered to point out that tea was the evening meal.