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We English have a habit of saying something without actually saying it and the word sorry is a prime example of this. For instance when someone is walking and texting and they bump in to you and you turn round and say 'oh I'm sorry' you're not apologising to them for being in their way what you are actually saying is "Oy!! watch where you're going you idiot!". So in conclusion when we say sorry we don't always mean that we're sorry, but some times when we do say sorry we are genuinely sorry and I'm sorry to tell you this, but there are no hard and fast rules to this you just have learn when sorry means sorry and when sorry doesn't mean sorry or as we say in Sheffield sozzard or soz which is sorry but sometimes not sorry... Sorry if that doesn't make any sense - or am I...
It's a common misnomer, but the English invented the word 'soccer' and we marketed it to the US as such; it's derived from 'Association Football', which we used to differentiate from 'Rugby Football', which the English called 'rugger'. Look at any magazine or football book from back in 1966, when England won the World Cup, and you'll find everyone in the UK called it soccer, even the top professional players like Bobby Charlton, Bobby Moore and Jimmy Greaves. The Americans only use the word we gave them, and they use it in the same way, to differentiate it from American Football, which they traditionally call 'football' and 'gridiron'.
@@hariseldon2577 The word 'rugger' is (or was) often in public schools, though maybe not so much today. I doubt you'd even hear it in an American high school.
Rugby League Football, Rugby Union Football, Austrailian Rules Football, Gaeilic Football, Canadian Rules Football, National League Football And err … Association Soccer
You forgot the universal greeting for anyone you happen to meet in your day - "Alright" Plus it's great when you bump into someone you haven't seen for ages and have now forgotten their name, a quick "Alright mate" and you're sorted !
I am from Cheshire but have lived in Cincinnati OH for Twenty years., no in the US they never offer you anything, its just there culture, my ex lived in the UK for Fourteen years took Five to teach her that you must offer guests or trades people in your house a drink and yes biscuits.
Brit heating technician living in Canada, 95% of house calls in England you are offered at least a drink , sometimes food, in Canada not at all, people will drink right in front of you and not offer.
@@timwendland4122- my wife is also Japanese, and when I'm over in Japan to see the in-laws, I see guests being treated to a drink and snack automatically.
No, tea is used all over England for the evening meal; it's not regional, it's class based. I think it's used in the rest of the UK too but not sure. Historically the working classes speak this way but generally not middle classes and certainly not upper classes.
Sanity TV I think you’re right, I always used to say tea for the evening meal but my wife insists on saying dinner, and she is quite a bit posher than me.
I agree. I was born and grew up in and near London. My family are working class but we eat dinner and drink tea. A meal that's called tea is sandwiches and cakes.
Ye tea is nation wide not based on area. Also i think thats why people (americans) think we drink tea a lot or we all drink it, because they hear us say tea but they think its just the drink.
Some people warm plates, some don't! It's a tradition that stems from when the family meal would be made and the working man's food would be kept warm until he came home later by keeping the plate of food in the oven or on a hot-plate.
My mum still does it and I've picked up the habit. When it was chippy tea night she'd say pop some plates in the oven to warm up for 10minutes before I nip out to the chip shop.
breakfast, dinner and tea. dinner you eat at lunchtime, tea you eat at dinner time.. lol.. Welsh and that was always the way in my family. And sometimes it would be, breakfast, dinner, teas & supper in that order so supper you would eat as kids maybe at 8pm a light snack before bedtime
@Kandy Kandy and if you see my statement it reads "and that was always the way in my family" in no way did I say it still is, was is past tense. I did not mislead anyone, maybe just the ones like you that cannot read properly. I stated a fact.
I live in the midlands, we have 'tea' at 6.30 pm, we don't always warm the plates, but do offer tea etc straight away, not steep it too long or it's mashed and nasty.
Oh this did make me smile! I'm a 60 year old Yorkshire woman living in France and YES football comes before everything! My dad used to take me to see Leeds play in the 70s in the glory (infamous my Derby County supporting husband would say!!) days of Billy Bremner, Peter Lorimer and Allan Clarke to name a few. What great memories - thank you for reminding me of them. Go Leeds!!
Yeah, pre heat the cup, brew for 2 minutes, add milk. That's the proper way for me. If you've got multiple guests then bring out the pot which is a whole other ruleset. :D
@@jschro124 if you like ricky gervais, you should watch other stuff he's done - his netflix specials like science and humanity. And afterlife. And also, extras (his show after the office - way better than the office in my opinion!)
Try tea this way it serves 4. Get a pan and put in say 5 cups water. Make sure there's good 2-3 inches between the water make and the top of the pan. Throw 2-3 tea bags in there and if you want to, add 2 cardamoms, dry bay leaves, and cinnamon stick let it come to boil and then add evaporated milk. Once the tea reaches a caramel colour, its ready to serve. You can add sugar for further taste. Best served with cake rusks (ask Indian shops for those), if not butter biscuits ( cookies)
@@carolynhigginbotham1882 Knife crime is supposed to be symbol of murder in UK, yet stabbing rates are still higher in US. And also, your statement is not right. If you don't allow people to be evil, then they can't. Buying machine guns without a permit is legal in US, unlike UK. In addition, in UK, you aren't allowed to carry something too sharp with you in large communities - for example, scissors, which are very useful in school, are not allowed in it.
The plate warming thing is new to me. Sounds good and if I wasn't so lazy then I'd start doing that. Haven't seen the Office yet but loved the US Office.
My grandma used to put a plate on the bottom shelf of the oven to warm up, does keep your food nice and hot so you can take your time eating and enjoy being warm at the same time :) Glad you mentioned it.
Londoner. Have dinner. Don’t warm plates but my mum does. At least 7 cups of tea a day. Agree with the “would you like a drink” thing. Say sorry..a lot, can’t stop myself 😂
Can relate to this in some way. My mum and sister lives in England for some 10 years now. Couple weeks ago sister visited me in Riga for a vacation, the way she was speaking and doing things, so British 😂 I guess, the more time you spend in certain culture, the more you become like them. And marriage with person from different backgrounds is the fastest way to adapt new habits, and even don't noticing that so much ourselves 😊
Personal observation; Your main meal is dinner, whether you have at noon or in the evening. If you have it in the evening, then midday meal is lunch. If you have it midday then evening meal is tea, or maybe supper for the extra posh.
Is anybody familiar with this routine, I had this in school...there were 4 meals when l was in school...breakfast (before 8am), tea (10-11am), lunch (12-2pm), tea (3:30-4:30pm) and finally dinner( after 6pm - with perhaps another tea after 8pm!) Maybe the presence of so much tea led to a general reference to meals as tea.
I'm a Londoner living in Yorkshire. This dinner/tea thing is so wrong. You make a cup of tea & drink a cup of tea. Breakfast in the morning, lunch (luncheon) around 12:30- 13:00 and dinner anytime after 18:00. Oh I ain't posh, just a cockney. All my family from ever since I can remember has done this and I'm nrarly 68.
People in the north have breakfast in the morning, dinner (the main meal) around 12.30 and light meal in the evening which we call tea about 6.00 p.m . People in the south have breackfast in the morning, lunch (a light meal), around 12.30 and dinner (the main meal) at about 7.00 or 8.00 p.m Where ever you live the meals served in school at lunch time are called school dinners and the ladies who prepare them are dinner ladies.
I'm going to add a bit to the confusion here...we need an expert to help us..tea can also refer to a break between breakfast and lunch. I've never known lunch to be called tea. Also, cream tea is not chicken with cream of some sort...it's tea and scones! There used to be 4 meals when l was in school...breakfast (before 8am), tea (10-11am), lunch (12-2pm), tea (3:30-4:30pm) and finally dinner( after 6pm - with perhaps another tea after 8pm!)
I’m curious, if he’s from Bradford, would he ask “do you want a cup of tea?” Or... “Do you not want a cup of tea?” It’s very regional, to the area in West Yorkshire. It might also be worth specifying West Yorkshire, rather than just Yorkshire. It’s incredibly varied for a single county. There are differences in dialect and habits, from town to town...
I grew up in a working class area and we had dinner at mid day and tea in the evening. Then I went to university and became middle class. Now I have lunch at mid day and dinner in the evening. High tea a drink plus a cake at about 3:30 pm. My wife grew up on a farm where they had supper at 8:30 pm ish.
When I worked I had lunch at 12 noon cos the canteen was open between 12 and 1:30 pm. My wife was an optician and worked in the high street , where traditionally shops close between 1 and 2 pm. So she had lunch at 1 pm. This gave us problems and weekends, when we had lunch together.
When I was under 10 we had elevenses at 11 am on a Saturday morning. This comprised camp coffee plus a digestive biscuit. It was before freeze dried coffee had been invented.
To me,dinner or lunch is just a snack,sandwich or sausage roll,the main meal of the day is teatime ,5-7pm,many call this evening meal,and if we're still hungry later on we have supper,a while before bedtime,but rarely for me
When i was a kid our cooker had an eye level grill (broiler) and either side was a rack to put your plates to warm them while you cook. UK Birmingham here
The use of "sorry" to also mean, "excuse me", amd "what" is also very similar to Japan, where words of apology can be ised even more widely, such as when expressing thanks.
There are subtleties though. In my childhood (in the 1970s) the main meal of the day was at 1pm and called dinner. Tea was about 5.30 or 6 and usually had a cooked element (usually fried) but was taken with a pot of tea and bread and butter/ homebakes etc. Hotels used to call this "High Tea", as distinct from "Afternoon Tea" which was served earlier and was just tea and cakes (do hotels still do that, by the way?). If my parents didn't have anything cooked, they said they were having "a plain tea". Dinner was always a more substantial meal, usually three courses: soup, meat or fish and potatoes (always called "tatties"), and pudding. I remember my mother saying of one of her friends, who had married a professional man: "They have their dinner at night"!
English usage and regional differences are due to peoples that have settled there in the passed . In the case of the north of England. Many of this words are from old Danish from the time the Vikings were there . Such as ale for beer , etc, etc .
The whole dinner lunch thing originates with the Victorians, it starts with breakfast then brunch then lunch then dinner then tea and finally supper. In the families with money tea would have been taken in a separate room after dinner, usually with cakes or biscuits. Supper traditionally would have been soup, before bed. But because those in the working class areas couldn't afford to have so many meals they cut some out, so lunch became dinner and dinner became tea.
I’m surprised that offering a drink to your guests when they first arrive is on this list. What’s the custom in America? Is it more common for the guest to request a beverage if they want one?
The tea - dinner thing. Dinner is looked on as the main meal by every one, it just a question of when you have it. A lot of places have it at evening time, but there are places in the UK that it's taken about midday, hence the reason why there seems a mix up. I have my main meal at around middday, so that's dinner time to me, I also have something about 5pm, but that will be a light meal, which is tea time. But most people have a light meal at 12 but a heavier meal at 5-7 pm, which they call dinner. I hope that helps you in some way. There is a famous quote that was said by a football manager,that sums up football to some "Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that". One of the reasons why we give people a cuppa when they 1st come in to your home, is that tea helps relax you and make you feel better, as it releases endorphins.
It's also worth bearing in mind that Americans often think that some words translate directly and that therefore pub and bar can be used interchangeably and programme and show can be used interchangeably and so on. In the UK a bar is inside a pub, although admittedly certain styles of drinking establishment would not be called a pub, such as a wine bar. Regarding a show well that is something that you go and see at a theatre in the UK, so you cannot see a show on TV strictly speaking. Of course some people talk that way, particularly young people, but that is different to (not from) traditional English.
The only tea to get is Yorkshire and possibly Earl Grey and tea time is 5pm to 6pm with warmed plates for hot meals , sorry but up in the North East meals cool down quicker
Keith Cornish more of a class thing? I'm from the Home Counties, and am definitely Middle Class and I have breakfast, lunch and dinner, possibly supper last thing.
Tea as a meal is a light snack of sandwiches cake and tea taken in the afternoon after a big lunch. Dinner is the largest meal of the day so can be at lunchtime or in the evening if you don't have a big lunch. Southerners do warm plates. We have baths in our bathrooms.
A pub in England is like a home from home, not like bar at all,some pub's in England are older than the USA, a place to drink, eat ,wind down, meet with mates,take the piss and generally have a laugh and talj
An American Workplace is completely different from The Office. It doesn't have the mockumentary filming style, and the humour is more obvious. Incidentally, my friend Julie played Brenda in season two of The Office.
Aw this is cool Jess. Very fun to watch. It does sound like you're recording it in a bathroom though. Like Bjork did with a song on an early album of hers. I'm a Yorkshireman btw.
Well youtube recommends another little gem haha What a nice fun girl embracing the English way of life...ps i am Not being sarcastic lol Good luck to you and your man!
Whaaaaaat! I've lived my whole life and never realised that warming plates before serving hot food wasn't a universal thing! I just assumed everybody in the whole world must do it, it seems so obvious, but there again I was born in Leeds !
I suppose that living at the end of a block of flats in London, with the wind blowing up the Thames straight at the end of the block, bleedin' freezin' throughout, that putting the plates under the grill/in the oven to warm, kept the food warmer for a time and that was in the summer!
So glad you mentioned Yorkshire Tea. When you started with Twinings English Breakfast tea I was getting worried, and thinking is he really a Yorkshireman or what!!! The apologising all the time is so true, even when it isn't your fault. Have you not started saying cheers when someone holds the door open for you or does something nice for you, rather than thank you? That's an English thing I got commented on when over in the States!!!
Gotta admit I never realised about the “whenever anyone comes over you offer them a drink” ... I always do.. second nature didn’t even know I was doing it
I was born in York and lived there until I was 10 and i still call it tea as does my mum and dad who are from ireland and wales - and they still do it!! Leeds united - no football played there!! I used to support them when i was in Yorkshire
Oh, my family call the evening meal tea, I’m in the south-east of England and it’s not used much here, but, my Grandad is from Yorkshire even though he had lost the accent. My dad warm plates up in the oven lol just don’t forget about them 🙈 I love our dry sense of humour, I do it a lot lol it’s great, some Americans just don’t get it and take it seriously.
@@ChrisPage68 Interesting that Jess has rewarded his thinly veiled racist rhetoric with a heart. I won't be visiting this channel again (except, as in this case, if I get notifications of a reply and don't know which comment it concerns)
@PageMonster: Get a life! Calling people "racist" is the first sign of dementia (or seeing too much of the BBC or Guardian). A man who grew up in England is, or SHOULD BE, able to comment on the change of population since he was a kid. Being PC is a sign of letting others tell you what to think, and it rots the brain.
Oh, the little realm of English footy - it's like Alabama, Georgia, or Florida, where team is virtually a religion! And it's properly a _match_ not a game, as you've already been taught. Seems tea in the Dales is more substantial than the tea biscuits and crisps they put out elsewhere - sounds right to me
Say British not ‘english’ Up here in Scotland we -are obsessed with football -drink tea -are drunk -have dark hummer So do welsh and Northern Ireland people too
In fairness she was talking about her English husband, his English family and friends. I'm sure if she was married to a Scot you wouldn't be demanding she say British.
Yeah well, my family always put food on cold plates, and I never muck about eating. Its on the plate and its gone. If you see me taking a long time with food its coz I am ill.
when I was a kid the working class had breakfast, dinner and tea , If you were posh the it was Breakfast, 1100 O'clock it was tiffin lol then lunch, afternoon tea, the in the evening it was Dinner, and later it was Supper.
I have only just recently started to go to Bradford (I am from Halifax), it was never a place most people went to, even if you lived there you went to other places to enjoy yourself, and they still fight on Friday nights there! When I was little we went to the Alhambra to watch a panto every year. I stay in the Midland hotel now when I am visiting as my family lives in York, Halifax, and Huddersfield.
The reason that so many folks from the US love English humour is because, unlike America, we have always retained the priceless ability to laugh at ourselves. Other nations tend to take themselves FAR too seriously. BTW. you're quite right, the first words an English toddler speaks are usually "Mummy", "Daddy" and "Sorry"!. Thanks for so many great vlogs...…………......…......the old man by the sea.
"Tea" is a real thing you know,? It's not just a random, regional variation. Tea is short for high tea. As opposed to afternoon tea, cream tea etc. High tea is sandwiches and snacks etc at the dinner table whereas afternoon tea is at a low table, casual setting in the parlour or smthng. ;)
You need!!! Tv series called: RED DWARF very popular comedy, start with the first series it’s a slow start but the comedy gets better and better. Also Blackadder tv series. One thing I think you missed is queuing on uk.
On getting scores stories. Back in 92/93 England were playing the world cup (cricket) semi final in Australia. Me and my fiancé had to go to church to have our bands read. So after the service when the vicar came to talk to us i said i needed to pop back to the car to find out the score it was late in the game to. I got away with it to as the vicar was a big fan to.
You had me when you said you were married to a Yorkshireman. First time viewer . I can hear that your'e starting to sound a bit Yorkshire with the hard U as in up and luv. Enjoyed it. I'd better go 'cos it's teetime
Sorry Jess but I have to totally disagree with your view on the office. The British one is done in a mockumentary style and it's things like the little timed glances at the camera and the complete way that the Brits are able to take the micky out of themselves. I didn't think that it translated very well at all in the USA but like people say each to their own. Do you not watch any soap opera's? Eastenders(rubbish) Coronation Street(my fave) and Emmerdale(A close second) they are national institutions. Oh and tell your husband he supports Leeds but he'll get over it :-) From a very staunch Liverpool supporter.
Coronation Street is now thoroughly boring, too claustrophobic. Prefer Eastenders and Emmerdale. The Office UK or US, are rubbish, how that became so big, is beyond me. The American versions always tend to be rubbish, they even tried a version of "Porridge" lol.
You said that you are never going back. To where? Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is an impossibility in the States. I say that as a 60 year old Londoner!!
A Yorkshire man who is now an American??? On the other hand I was recently in a UK hospital and one of my nurses I thought was Canadian, however when I asked her which part of Canada she was from she said she was American and she recognised how she had lost the 'edge' of her accent. I asked how on earth she was working in a UK hospital and she said 'I must be one of the few American women who had married an Englishman who would not move to the States' and walked off. And I thought you don't know how lucky you and we are!!!
I'm English & I Have never ever put a plane in a oven or microwave to warm it up b4 putting food on it, i take it straight from the cupboard, I also don't drink Tea just coffee, my Football team is Liverpool, Leeds are ok, you Obviously haven't been to London as people in London are always bumping into you and never apologises
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what your husband think about Latvian beer? that would be interesting to hear which local beers are English-mans favorites. and which are not.
LOVES it, especially Mezpils.
We English have a habit of saying something without actually saying it and the word sorry is a prime example of this. For instance when someone is walking and texting and they bump in to you and you turn round and say 'oh I'm sorry' you're not apologising to them for being in their way what you are actually saying is "Oy!! watch where you're going you idiot!". So in conclusion when we say sorry we don't always mean that we're sorry, but some times when we do say sorry we are genuinely sorry and I'm sorry to tell you this, but there are no hard and fast rules to this you just have learn when sorry means sorry and when sorry doesn't mean sorry or as we say in Sheffield sozzard or soz which is sorry but sometimes not sorry... Sorry if that doesn't make any sense - or am I...
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Don't forget that England is only 1 part of the UK. There is also Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland...
there is nothing more rare than an american who pronounces "yorkshire" correctly
@charlie cheeseface Aye, aye - or as we Yanks say the first part of 'yon-der'. Or as most of you would say the first part of 'father', right?
@charlie cheeseface Likewise the sounds of 'saw', 'know' and 'sure' are all similar, aye?
How about Leicestershire?
A Bradford lad that supports Leeds must be even rarer
York shuh.
Even though I am not a fan of the sport, I still liked the fact that you said football and not "soccer".
It's a common misnomer, but the English invented the word 'soccer' and we marketed it to the US as such; it's derived from 'Association Football', which we used to differentiate from 'Rugby Football', which the English called 'rugger'. Look at any magazine or football book from back in 1966, when England won the World Cup, and you'll find everyone in the UK called it soccer, even the top professional players like Bobby Charlton, Bobby Moore and Jimmy Greaves. The Americans only use the word we gave them, and they use it in the same way, to differentiate it from American Football, which they traditionally call 'football' and 'gridiron'.
@@LennyJohnson5 Rugger? really?
Rugger sounds SO public school, as in private school in America. Never, well hardly ever heard it called 'rugger' in my high school.
@@hariseldon2577 The word 'rugger' is (or was) often in public schools, though maybe not so much today. I doubt you'd even hear it in an American high school.
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Growing up in the north of England; dinner was around 12pm, tea was around 5pm
Same down South (Kent) - dinner is lunchtime and tea is the evening meal.
Ghastly it's luncheon midday and dinner early evening
Barry Flintoff same here in Durham
Francis fake, when you was at school did you have dinner tickets and dinner ladies or luncheon tickets and luncheon ladies? Luncheon meat or spam?
@@alibongomagician8851 uh
Your observation of our sarcastic and dry humour is spot on. Some Americans don’t understand it but it’s nice to hear you love it!
You forgot the universal greeting for anyone you happen to meet in your day - "Alright"
Plus it's great when you bump into someone you haven't seen for ages and have now forgotten their name, a quick "Alright mate" and you're sorted !
I'm sure that offering a guest a drink on arrival is good manners anywhere in the world.
This is true!
No, in Japan it's not good manners. My wife is Japanese and finds it really weird that British peopole offer drinks to people on arrival.
I am from Cheshire but have lived in Cincinnati OH for Twenty years., no in the US they never offer you anything, its just there culture, my ex lived in the UK for Fourteen years took Five to teach her that you must offer guests or trades people in your house a drink and yes biscuits.
Brit heating technician living in Canada, 95% of house calls in England you are offered at least a drink , sometimes food, in Canada not at all, people will drink right in front of you and not offer.
@@timwendland4122- my wife is also Japanese, and when I'm over in Japan to see the in-laws, I see guests being treated to a drink and snack automatically.
No, tea is used all over England for the evening meal; it's not regional, it's class based. I think it's used in the rest of the UK too but not sure. Historically the working classes speak this way but generally not middle classes and certainly not upper classes.
Sanity TV I think you’re right, I always used to say tea for the evening meal but my wife insists on saying dinner, and she is quite a bit posher than me.
I say dinner for food midday and tea around six seven clock
I agree. I was born and grew up in and near London. My family are working class but we eat dinner and drink tea. A meal that's called tea is sandwiches and cakes.
Can confirm its tea in newcastle, breakfast dinner tea
Ye tea is nation wide not based on area. Also i think thats why people (americans) think we drink tea a lot or we all drink it, because they hear us say tea but they think its just the drink.
Some people warm plates, some don't! It's a tradition that stems from when the family meal would be made and the working man's food would be kept warm until he came home later by keeping the plate of food in the oven or on a hot-plate.
Warming a plate is an old fashioned thing that my nana did I never do it now!
Pop it in the microwave for 30 seconds.
My mum still does it and I've picked up the habit.
When it was chippy tea night she'd say pop some plates in the oven to warm up for 10minutes before I nip out to the chip shop.
I do it sometimes if I try cooking Sunday lunch, but don't day to day
I do it bc the food does get cold if you just shove it on a cold plate
Why not? It does make a difference, why do you think restaurants do it?
breakfast, dinner and tea. dinner you eat at lunchtime, tea you eat at dinner time.. lol.. Welsh and that was always the way in my family. And sometimes it would be, breakfast, dinner, teas & supper in that order so supper you would eat as kids maybe at 8pm a light snack before bedtime
@Kandy Kandy and if you see my statement it reads "and that was always the way in my family" in no way did I say it still is, was is past tense. I did not mislead anyone, maybe just the ones like you that cannot read properly. I stated a fact.
I’m English and I say “what’s for tea ? “Only when I’m at home. If your going out I would say “going out for dinner”. Just me
carlo baggio that’s me too 👍🏻
I live in the midlands, we have 'tea' at 6.30 pm, we don't always warm the plates, but do offer tea etc straight away, not steep it too long or it's mashed and nasty.
Oh this did make me smile! I'm a 60 year old Yorkshire woman living in France and YES football comes before everything! My dad used to take me to see Leeds play in the 70s in the glory (infamous my Derby County supporting husband would say!!) days of Billy Bremner, Peter Lorimer and Allan Clarke to name a few. What great memories - thank you for reminding me of them. Go Leeds!!
I’m from halifax next to Bradford and would like to congratulate my fellow Yorkshire man for his wonderful taste in wives...She’s lovely dude..
The offer of a drink thing is spot on, I do the same when I get visitors
Lmao no one follows tea instructions we just know when the brew is brewed 😂
Yeah, pre heat the cup, brew for 2 minutes, add milk. That's the proper way for me. If you've got multiple guests then bring out the pot which is a whole other ruleset. :D
I loved everything you said.. but the moment you said Karl Pilkington.. Congratulations dear, you've earned yourself a citizenship
Hahaha yessss
@@jschro124 if you like ricky gervais, you should watch other stuff he's done - his netflix specials like science and humanity. And afterlife. And also, extras (his show after the office - way better than the office in my opinion!)
You mean Karl Dilkington.
@@simonmitchell60 I mean head like a fucking orange
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Tha can allus tell a Yorkshire man, but tha canna tell 'im much.
Ha ha. Excellent Tha' knos......
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See all, hear all--say nowt. Eat all, sup all--pay nowt. And if ever tha does owt for nowt--allus do it fo' thissen!
Tha carnt du nowt fo thissen these days wi'arrt some clevor bleeder stickin the chuffin knewurse in....
I've heard that no planes leave Leeds-Bradford airport as there's nowhere outside Yorkshire worth going to.
Try tea this way it serves 4. Get a pan and put in say 5 cups water. Make sure there's good 2-3 inches between the water make and the top of the pan. Throw 2-3 tea bags in there and if you want to, add 2 cardamoms, dry bay leaves, and cinnamon stick let it come to boil and then add evaporated milk. Once the tea reaches a caramel colour, its ready to serve. You can add sugar for further taste. Best served with cake rusks (ask Indian shops for those), if not butter biscuits ( cookies)
British people don't tend to shoot you either.
Alana Stone no, but they are big on stabbing, every culture has their bad people and they always find a way to be evil
@@carolynhigginbotham1882 Knife crime is supposed to be symbol of murder in UK, yet stabbing rates are still higher in US.
And also, your statement is not right. If you don't allow people to be evil, then they can't. Buying machine guns without a permit is legal in US, unlike UK. In addition, in UK, you aren't allowed to carry something too sharp with you in large communities - for example, scissors, which are very useful in school, are not allowed in it.
We do worse, we tut.
The plate warming thing is new to me.
Sounds good and if I wasn't so lazy then I'd start doing that.
Haven't seen the Office yet but loved the US Office.
Gambit: Get married mate, no need to do it yourself....lol
@@lokignosis5241 Ha. Maybe I'll stick with cold plates.
My grandma used to put a plate on the bottom shelf of the oven to warm up, does keep your food nice and hot so you can take your time eating and enjoy being warm at the same time :) Glad you mentioned it.
Londoner. Have dinner. Don’t warm plates but my mum does. At least 7 cups of tea a day. Agree with the “would you like a drink” thing. Say sorry..a lot, can’t stop myself 😂
Can relate to this in some way. My mum and sister lives in England for some 10 years now. Couple weeks ago sister visited me in Riga for a vacation, the way she was speaking and doing things, so British 😂 I guess, the more time you spend in certain culture, the more you become like them. And marriage with person from different backgrounds is the fastest way to adapt new habits, and even don't noticing that so much ourselves 😊
Totally agree - you get me ;)
Tha has to adapt to a Yorkshireman, coz 'e'll never change.
Personal observation; Your main meal is dinner, whether you have at noon or in the evening.
If you have it in the evening, then midday meal is lunch.
If you have it midday then evening meal is tea, or maybe supper for the extra posh.
Is anybody familiar with this routine, I had this in school...there were 4 meals when l was in school...breakfast (before 8am), tea (10-11am), lunch (12-2pm), tea (3:30-4:30pm) and finally dinner( after 6pm - with perhaps another tea after 8pm!)
Maybe the presence of so much tea led to a general reference to meals as tea.
I'm a Londoner living in Yorkshire. This dinner/tea thing is so wrong. You make a cup of tea & drink a cup of tea. Breakfast in the morning, lunch (luncheon) around 12:30- 13:00 and dinner anytime after 18:00. Oh I ain't posh, just a cockney. All my family from ever since I can remember has done this and I'm nrarly 68.
People in the north have breakfast in the morning, dinner (the main meal) around 12.30 and light meal in the evening which we call tea about 6.00 p.m
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People in the south have breackfast in the morning, lunch (a light meal), around 12.30 and dinner (the main meal) at about 7.00 or 8.00 p.m
Where ever you live the meals served in school at lunch time are called school dinners and the ladies who prepare them are dinner ladies.
I'm going to add a bit to the confusion here...we need an expert to help us..tea can also refer to a break between breakfast and lunch. I've never known lunch to be called tea.
Also, cream tea is not chicken with cream of some sort...it's tea and scones! There used to be 4 meals when l was in school...breakfast (before 8am), tea (10-11am), lunch (12-2pm), tea (3:30-4:30pm) and finally dinner( after 6pm - with perhaps another tea after 8pm!)
I’m curious, if he’s from Bradford, would he ask “do you want a cup of tea?” Or... “Do you not want a cup of tea?” It’s very regional, to the area in West Yorkshire.
It might also be worth specifying West Yorkshire, rather than just Yorkshire. It’s incredibly varied for a single county. There are differences in dialect and habits, from town to town...
I grew up in a working class area and we had dinner at mid day and tea in the evening. Then I went to university and became middle class. Now I have lunch at mid day and dinner in the evening. High tea a drink plus a cake at about 3:30 pm. My wife grew up on a farm where they had supper at 8:30 pm ish.
Me it's, 12 noon dinner, 4/5pm tea, 8/9pm supper. I don't think there's anything set in stone really.
High tea, not for me, breakfast, if I can be arsed really 🤭
When I worked I had lunch at 12 noon cos the canteen was open between 12 and 1:30 pm. My wife was an optician and worked in the high street , where traditionally shops close between 1 and 2 pm. So she had lunch at 1 pm. This gave us problems and weekends, when we had lunch together.
When I was under 10 we had elevenses at 11 am on a Saturday morning. This comprised camp coffee plus a digestive biscuit. It was before freeze dried coffee had been invented.
@@pe51ter Camp, liquid coffee, still available.
To me,dinner or lunch is just a snack,sandwich or sausage roll,the main meal of the day is teatime ,5-7pm,many call this evening meal,and if we're still hungry later on we have supper,a while before bedtime,but rarely for me
I'm British, my wife is American. She loved English things even before we met. Nice to see others who are in the same situation as us.
Leeds United?! Please take him back to America and leave him there lol
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All Leeds aren't we.
Their not famous any more! The most time wasting, diving team in the championship.
When i was a kid our cooker had an eye level grill (broiler) and either side was a rack to put your plates to warm them while you cook. UK Birmingham here
The use of "sorry" to also mean, "excuse me", amd "what" is also very similar to Japan, where words of apology can be ised even more widely, such as when expressing thanks.
People in Scotland also call dinner tea
Willie Bauld even in the south some say tea only posh people call it dinner
every afternoon meal except Sunday was tea only Sunday is it dinner less you be a posh git or hobbo.
There are subtleties though. In my childhood (in the 1970s) the main meal of the day was at 1pm and called dinner. Tea was about 5.30 or 6 and usually had a cooked element (usually fried) but was taken with a pot of tea and bread and butter/ homebakes etc. Hotels used to call this "High Tea", as distinct from "Afternoon Tea" which was served earlier and was just tea and cakes (do hotels still do that, by the way?). If my parents didn't have anything cooked, they said they were having "a plain tea". Dinner was always a more substantial meal, usually three courses: soup, meat or fish and potatoes (always called "tatties"), and pudding. I remember my mother saying of one of her friends, who had married a professional man: "They have their dinner at night"!
If they are sober enough to find the kitchen
In Birmingham, we say “dinner “ to mean “lunch”, and “tea” to mean “evening dinner”.
English usage and regional differences are due to peoples that have settled there in the passed . In the case of the north of England. Many of this words are from old Danish from the time the Vikings were there . Such as ale for beer , etc, etc .
The whole dinner lunch thing originates with the Victorians, it starts with breakfast then brunch then lunch then dinner then tea and finally supper. In the families with money tea would have been taken in a separate room after dinner, usually with cakes or biscuits. Supper traditionally would have been soup, before bed. But because those in the working class areas couldn't afford to have so many meals they cut some out, so lunch became dinner and dinner became tea.
The football thing isn't just a football thing. I don't follow football really, but do exactly the same with rugby, other people do it with cricket.
I’m surprised that offering a drink to your guests when they first arrive is on this list. What’s the custom in America? Is it more common for the guest to request a beverage if they want one?
The tea - dinner thing. Dinner is looked on as the main meal by every one, it just a question of when you have it. A lot of places have it at evening time, but there are places in the UK that it's taken about midday, hence the reason why there seems a mix up. I have my main meal at around middday, so that's dinner time to me, I also have something about 5pm, but that will be a light meal, which is tea time. But most people have a light meal at 12 but a heavier meal at 5-7 pm, which they call dinner. I hope that helps you in some way.
There is a famous quote that was said by a football manager,that sums up football to some "Some people think football is a matter of life and death. I assure you, it's much more serious than that".
One of the reasons why we give people a cuppa when they 1st come in to your home, is that tea helps relax you and make you feel better, as it releases endorphins.
ur posh if u wants a warm plate, most of us plebs make do with a cold plate. its tradition.
My mum always warmed the plates before plating up and we're council estate trash lol
My dad does it but I never realised it was weird till now.
Always warm a plate or bowl, I can’t imagine not doing.
@@leonie49 Was it cold in your council flat? Ours was bleedin' freezin' and could be the reason?
It's also worth bearing in mind that Americans often think that some words translate directly and that therefore pub and bar can be used interchangeably and programme and show can be used interchangeably and so on. In the UK a bar is inside a pub, although admittedly certain styles of drinking establishment would not be called a pub, such as a wine bar. Regarding a show well that is something that you go and see at a theatre in the UK, so you cannot see a show on TV strictly speaking. Of course some people talk that way, particularly young people, but that is different to (not from) traditional English.
The only tea to get is Yorkshire and possibly Earl Grey and tea time is 5pm to 6pm with warmed plates for hot meals , sorry but up in the North East meals cool down quicker
English breakfast?
"In the North East....", yeah right lol.
Doing so well until The Office comment.
As a Brit loved the vid great to have our strange ways reflected back to us
I pop my cup in the micro-wave before making a cuppa especially in the winter!
I'm english and I dont know anyone who warms up plates, except one of my grandparents, so we do it at Christmas when she's there.
I’m 68 and ever since childhood near Dudley in the Midlands daily meals are Breakfast, Dinner and Tea in that order.
Completely fascinated by your amazing eyebrows!
I live in the south and its breakfast, dinner, tea and supper. So, its not just a northern thing
Keith Cornish more of a class thing? I'm from the Home Counties, and am definitely Middle Class and I have breakfast, lunch and dinner, possibly supper last thing.
It's definitely a class thing
You are wrong: breakfast, lunch, dinner, supper.
Clem Fandango it's not wrong, just different.
Nah!......breakfast, dinner, tea and supper..... always has been, always will be
The Office was a masterpiece, a work of satirical genius. The American version was a bog standard sitcom.
Tea as a meal is a light snack of sandwiches cake and tea taken in the afternoon after a big lunch. Dinner is the largest meal of the day so can be at lunchtime or in the evening if you don't have a big lunch. Southerners do warm plates. We have baths in our bathrooms.
It's every English persons birthright when it comes to drinking tea.
I agree!
A pub in England is like a home from home, not like bar at all,some pub's in England are older than the USA, a place to drink, eat ,wind down, meet with mates,take the piss and generally have a laugh and talj
Anyway great video
Northern thing dinner =lunch tea = dinner. The the American office NO just no.
An American Workplace is completely different from The Office. It doesn't have the mockumentary filming style, and the humour is more obvious. Incidentally, my friend Julie played Brenda in season two of The Office.
Yep, definitely some major differences.
Aw this is cool Jess. Very fun to watch. It does sound like you're recording it in a bathroom though. Like Bjork did with a song on an early album of hers. I'm a Yorkshireman btw.
Well youtube recommends another little gem haha
What a nice fun girl embracing the English way of life...ps i am Not being sarcastic lol
Good luck to you and your man!
Whaaaaaat! I've lived my whole life and never realised that warming plates before serving hot food wasn't a universal thing! I just assumed everybody in the whole world must do it, it seems so obvious, but there again I was born in Leeds !
I suppose that living at the end of a block of flats in London, with the wind blowing up the Thames straight at the end of the block, bleedin' freezin' throughout, that putting the plates under the grill/in the oven to warm, kept the food warmer for a time and that was in the summer!
So glad you mentioned Yorkshire Tea. When you started with Twinings English Breakfast tea I was getting worried, and thinking is he really a Yorkshireman or what!!! The apologising all the time is so true, even when it isn't your fault. Have you not started saying cheers when someone holds the door open for you or does something nice for you, rather than thank you? That's an English thing I got commented on when over in the States!!!
Gotta admit I never realised about the “whenever anyone comes over you offer them a drink” ... I always do.. second nature didn’t even know I was doing it
And the reply is always over-enthusiastic. "That'd be fantastic!" As if no one had ever offered you a cup of tea before.
I never realised it but I do both as well.
I'm not bloody stopping now.
He’s a lucky Yorkshire man
I was completely unaware that people warm their plates, I've never done that and I don't know anyone who does haha
Ella: I do, rather my wife does for me! So that my food is still hot!
It's pretty common, and yes, it makes the food much better as it doesn't instantly cool as soon as it hits the plate.
Great that ur husband is a Leeds United fan because all Yorkshiremen are Leeds United fans really! Lovely video
My mom has always done this with the cold plates. Birmingham
I was born in York and lived there until I was 10 and i still call it tea as does my mum and dad who are from ireland and wales - and they still do it!! Leeds united - no football played there!! I used to support them when i was in Yorkshire
Presumably you know this but in England English Breakfast Tea is just called "tea".
Tea that you drink regardless of the time is just tea. Food times are breakfast dinner tea. Or breakfast lunch tea.
I worked in a hotel kitchen and all the plates were kept in a heater so they were warm.I used to get burned all the time by hot plates.
It's always good having an American around. They save us from our sarcastic grumpiness.
Oh, my family call the evening meal tea, I’m in the south-east of England and it’s not used much here, but, my Grandad is from Yorkshire even though he had lost the accent.
My dad warm plates up in the oven lol just don’t forget about them 🙈
I love our dry sense of humour, I do it a lot lol it’s great, some Americans just don’t get it and take it seriously.
Are there any Englishmen left In Bradford?
yes
Obviously!
@@ChrisPage68 Interesting that Jess has rewarded his thinly veiled racist rhetoric with a heart. I won't be visiting this channel again (except, as in this case, if I get notifications of a reply and don't know which comment it concerns)
@PageMonster: Get a life! Calling people "racist" is the first sign of dementia (or seeing too much of the BBC or Guardian). A man who grew up in England is, or SHOULD BE, able to comment on the change of population since he was a kid. Being PC is a sign of letting others tell you what to think, and it rots the brain.
@@chrismill9896 Yawn. Tell it to your mates at the next rally.
Tea is also the kiwi word for dinner. Strangely it is much less common in Australia.
French is almost the same . We always welcome people warmly and make sure that our guests feel comfortable.
Oh, the little realm of English footy - it's like Alabama, Georgia, or Florida, where team is virtually a religion! And it's properly a _match_ not a game, as you've already been taught.
Seems tea in the Dales is more substantial than the tea biscuits and crisps they put out elsewhere - sounds right to me
Say British not ‘english’
Up here in Scotland we
-are obsessed with football
-drink tea
-are drunk
-have dark hummer
So do welsh and Northern Ireland people too
The Cymri love Rugby. Soccer is popular though, but not the National Sport.
In fairness she was talking about her English husband, his English family and friends.
I'm sure if she was married to a Scot you wouldn't be demanding she say British.
@@Gambit771 Nope, he would demand she said Scots! Jus' sayin' like
Yeah well, my family always put food on cold plates, and I never muck about eating. Its on the plate and its gone. If you see me taking a long time with food its coz I am ill.
when I was a kid the working class had breakfast, dinner and tea , If you were posh the it was Breakfast, 1100 O'clock it was tiffin lol then lunch, afternoon tea, the in the evening it was Dinner, and later it was Supper.
wait what we have to a heated plate before the meal is served? that's a new one to me!
It’s not “up north” it’s “tup north”
Genuinely laughed when you said 'Karl Pilkinton' did nit expect that
I have only just recently started to go to Bradford (I am from Halifax), it was never a place most people went to, even if you lived there you went to other places to enjoy yourself, and they still fight on Friday nights there! When I was little we went to the Alhambra to watch a panto every year. I stay in the Midland hotel now when I am visiting as my family lives in York, Halifax, and Huddersfield.
The reason that so many folks from the US love English humour is because, unlike America, we have always retained the priceless ability
to laugh at ourselves. Other nations tend to take themselves FAR too seriously. BTW. you're quite right, the first words an English toddler
speaks are usually "Mummy", "Daddy" and "Sorry"!. Thanks for so many great vlogs...…………......…......the old man by the sea.
When my doorbell rings i put the kettle on before i open the door
Pretty much the only thing that got me down during the recent lockdown is that I ran out of Yorkshire teabags for 3 days. Not a nice experience!
"Tea" is a real thing you know,? It's not just a random, regional variation.
Tea is short for high tea. As opposed to afternoon tea, cream tea etc.
High tea is sandwiches and snacks etc at the dinner table whereas afternoon tea is at a low table, casual setting in the parlour or smthng. ;)
You need!!! Tv series called: RED DWARF very popular comedy, start with the first series it’s a slow start but the comedy gets better and better. Also Blackadder tv series. One thing I think you missed is queuing on uk.
Don't forget only fools and horses
Ive never came accross anyone in england (i live south england) that warms up their plates, i only ever see it in some restrants ;P
You have now. Me.😀
Breakfast, then dinner, then tea in some parts of Scotland also. Dundee for sure.
That’s so true if your a proper football fan then that’s what comes first no matter what.
On getting scores stories. Back in 92/93 England were playing the world cup (cricket) semi final in Australia. Me and my fiancé had to go to church to have our bands read. So after the service when the vicar came to talk to us i said i needed to pop back to the car to find out the score it was late in the game to. I got away with it to as the vicar was a big fan to.
You had me when you said you were married to a Yorkshireman. First time viewer . I can hear that your'e starting to sound a bit Yorkshire with the hard U as in up and luv. Enjoyed it. I'd better go 'cos it's teetime
Sorry Jess but I have to totally disagree with your view on the office. The British one is done in a mockumentary style and it's things like the little timed glances at the camera and the complete way that the Brits are able to take the micky out of themselves. I didn't think that it translated very well at all in the USA but like people say each to their own. Do you not watch any soap opera's? Eastenders(rubbish) Coronation Street(my fave) and Emmerdale(A close second) they are national institutions. Oh and tell your husband he supports Leeds but he'll get over it :-) From a very staunch Liverpool supporter.
Coronation Street is now thoroughly boring, too claustrophobic. Prefer Eastenders and Emmerdale. The Office UK or US, are rubbish, how that became so big, is beyond me. The American versions always tend to be rubbish, they even tried a version of "Porridge" lol.
Im english never warm plates !! But it does work !!
You said that you are never going back. To where? Roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is an impossibility in the States. I say that as a 60 year old Londoner!!
I'm impressed you actually called it Football!..... am I assuming there were many a tense look if you called it Soccer at the start? Lol
A Yorkshire man who is now an American??? On the other hand I was recently in a UK hospital and one of my nurses I thought was Canadian, however when I asked her which part of Canada she was from she said she was American and she recognised how she had lost the 'edge' of her accent. I asked how on earth she was working in a UK hospital and she said 'I must be one of the few American women who had married an Englishman who would not move to the States' and walked off. And I thought you don't know how lucky you and we are!!!
I'm English & I Have never ever put a plane in a oven or microwave to warm it up b4 putting food on it, i take it straight from the cupboard, I also don't drink Tea just coffee, my Football team is Liverpool, Leeds are ok, you Obviously haven't been to London as people in London are always bumping into you and never apologises
@Mini van they must do it up north as people in London don't do it at all old or young