The important thing about sassafras trees is, the bark of their roots can be used to make tasty things such as sassafras tea, and more importantly root beer.
My brothers used to collect sassafras roots and make root beer when I was a kid. Fond childhood memories tromping through the woods while they scouted out the right trees.
It actually ISN'T used to make Root Beer because a chemical in the root was discovered to be carcinogenic As such, until they figured out how to isolate and remove the chemical, use of the root was ILLEGAL for several decades
@@stevew8513 I have file in my pantry! Was married to a Cajun for 33 years. I can make a mean gumbo, jambalaya, crayfish etouffe, shrimp creole, king’s cake, beignets, etc!
i'm an american and i've never heard of either a wyoming king or an alaskan king mattress. my wife's first reaction when i showed her this was 'who makes sheets for those things?'
I had to look up a size chart. The last time I even bothered checking the California King was referred to as "orgy sized." I guess I can understand if a whole family is sharing a bed, but it seems like a lot of wasted space for one or two people.
Exactly. If it's cereal based, it's not candy. Candy can incorporate cereal (e.g. rice crispies), but if cereal forms the basis of the treat, it can't be rightfully considered candy.
I grew up calling it "puppy chow" (in Minnesota). I always assumed "Muddy Buddies" was the marketing department's name for it when Chex started selling that flavor of the mix in stores, because someone thought that "puppy chow" wouldn't sell as well.
Ohio here: We call that sweet Chex mix puppy chow. A "color guard" is a flag line, and the rifles are made entirely of wood. Sassafras root are used to make tea ad candy, and was the original flavoring for Root Beer.
Here in Michigan it's also called Puppy Chow. I've heard of "Reindeer Chow" served during children's Christmas parties. Couldn't tell you if it tasted any different because just looking at that stuff can give me sugar shock.
Italians may not have "Italian Dressing," but my grandmother makes a vinaigrette that her mother used to make living in Naples and it's basically just better tasting Italian dressing. She even puts it on her antipasto salads.
Do you know the recipe and if so could you share please? I've never liked "Italian" dressing, but a dressing from an actual Neapolitan great-grannie sounds much more appealing. :)
I heard the Chex based food called Puppy Chow in Missouri. Also, in Missouri, a doggie bag is one term used for the container for leftovers from a restaurant meal.
a "sweet" in the UK would include candy and extra things like cupcakes or really anything with high sugar content or a frosting. So it's not a one-to-one match for just using "candy" wherever "sweet" would be used. Muddy Buddies would likely be classified as a "sweet" in the UK and then by replacing that with "candy" the error occurred. In the US it would be known as "health food"/"trail mix" because it has peanut butter which is what athletes consume.
The root of the sassafras tree used to be used to flavor root beer. It was banned in 1960 because the main flavor component, a chemical called "safrole," was found to be carcinogenic. Since then, the original flavor has been approximated by a combination of other flavors, including wintergreen and anise. Powdered sassafras leaf (called "filé powder) is still used as a seasoning and thickener in a type of gumbo. Filé gumbo usually contains chicken and sausage. The other main type of gumbo, which uses okra instead of filé powder, is usually made with seafood. Other Cajun and creole food words include jambalaya and tasso (a type of cured pork similar to ham). The word lagniappe means "a little something extra," which in a restaurant might be a dish the chef sends to your table for free without you asking for it.
I'm not sure why, but for some reason, hearing "muddy buddies" described as "candy" just sounds weird to me. I don't know what I'd classify them as, other than just a snack, but to me, I wouldn't call them candy (even though they undoubtedly have a lot in common with some candies!)
I was thinking exactly the same thing when I was watching the video! I wouldn't call puppy chow (term used in my home state and by my family) candy. I would call it a snack or treat, or possibly a dessert, but "candy" just sounds wrong.
the problem is we lack good terminology for this kind of thing. A real dessert connoisseur at least mentally checks off "sweet and starchy things" to include cereals, cereal-based snacks, granola, oatmeal, cookies, and cakes... whereas cream pies, cheesecakes, and ice cream fall under 'creamy sweet things' and then fruit pies and fruit snacks and such are just 'heavily sugared fruits' whereas candy is primarily-sugar things, cooked in various ways, generally fruity thanks to trends but not necessarily.. and we sometimes lump chocolate and its friends in there, but those ought to be considered 'fat-based confections' basically within each category, if you don't have one thing, another will do. but you'd never have one when you really crave the other. candy and FRUIT and fruit juice are pretty interchangeable, same deal.. it's just some sugar and flavors.
Sassafras trees are known for having three different shapes to its leaves (the three-lobed leaf, the oval-shaped leaf, and the mitten shaped leaf). My dad loves to quiz me on tree names on our hikes 😅
The root bark is used for tea, and also was the original root beer flavoring. The leaves are ground into a powder and used in gumbo. The sassafras powder is called file' which turns gumbo into file' gumbo.
Of course Italians in Italy wouldn't call their own vinaigrette dressing "Italian" dressing 🤣 But my great grandma was an old straight-off-the-boat Italian immigrant & made a delicious dressing for her salads, which was basically "Italian" dressing but without the additional processing.
@Hellheart because that's not the norm? When you go to the grocery store, do you see "American mayonnaise" with "American pickles" and "American bread" to go with your "American hamburger meat?" Is every item in a store identified by its country? No. You can pretend the exception proves the rule, but it's not the rule. When you go to foreign countries do you expect all their food to be labeled with their country's name? That makes no sense
Sassafras trees are actually one of the few trees out there that has multiple differently shaped leaves. On a single Sassafras tree, you can usually find leaves with 1, 2, OR 3 lobes to them. And when they turn colors in Autumn, you can sometimes have all the fall colors on one single leaf in sort of a blotchy patchwork pattern. One of my favorite trees next to Birch. I actually managed to get one of them to grow in my front yard (just across the sidewalk from my birch-stand) despite them being notoriously difficult to transplant. I'm kind of proud of that.
We had a house in the mountains of the Shenandoah Valley of Va. and there were a number of Sassafras trees in the woods of our property. We were careful to never cut them down. My grandmother always said Sassafras tea was good to drink if you had a cold.
@@janew4609 I've heard both teas and root-beers-ish can can be made from them. While I love the tree, I don't particularly know a lot of details of how to use it though.
@@1WolfFan I don’t know how to make anything from the tree, either, but do remember my mother making Sassafras tea.Just don’t know how she did it.I wish I had paid attention, but when I was a teenager, didn’t, unfortunately.
I had no idea there was any bed (other than custom made with custom made sheets) that was larger than a California King. My eyes are opened. Thanks for a great video.
Your dog is so cute! I just watched your intro video. I subscribed to your channel and will watch more as I have time. I hope you and Rowley are safe and well.
@@recycleonwednesdays Thank you for watching and subbing to my channel. Rowley is a great dog and loving too. I'll let him know you thought he was cute.
@Archie Pieplow I thought that as well, but I just found this interesting tidbit out there on the interwebs: "Sarsaparilla and Root Beer were founded by the Native Americans before arriving in Europe. Both beverages are named after their distinct differences in ingredients when they were first made. Sarsaparilla was made from the Sarsaparilla vine, while Root Beer, roots of the sassafras tree. These days, Root Beer recipes do not include sassafras as the plant has been found to cause serious health issues. The vine was banned by the American Food and Drug Administration for commercial food production in 1960."
Sassafras has been used for its roots, which when boiled, were used to make a tonic tea. The leaves are dried and ground to a powder to make an herbal additive to gumbo, added in the serving bowl.
Saw the thumbnail and yes muddy buddies are the best thing ever. It’s probably the only snack my parents had to hide. Edit: so apparently muddy buddies is a Chex recipe while puppy chow is made with Crispix. Apparently the recipes for these were on the back of the box when I was a kid and these two cereals were in direct competition with each other. So they had to call it two different things. I’ve had both and they are an equal PB & chocolate delivery system.
My sister brought home "Puppy Chow" from college one year at Christmas. it was always Chex. You can buy Chex Muddy Buddies in the snack aisle of the grocery store. I've never seen or heard of using Crispix, but I'm sure it would be the same.
@@SonOfTheDawn515 Actually, Sassparilla is a vine, and sassafras is a tree. The original root beer was made with ground up Sassafras root, then later on Sasparilla was added as a new flavor. They both contain Safrole, which was determined to be carcinogenic back in the 60's and that's why today it's illegal to produce either in their original forms.
@@Aussiesuede They are different drinks, and have a different flavor, though quite similar. From the interwebs: "Sarsaparilla and Root Beer were founded by the Native Americans before arriving in Europe. Both beverages are named after their distinct differences in ingredients when they were first made. Sarsaparilla was made from the Sarsaparilla vine, while Root Beer, roots of the sassafras tree. These days, Root Beer recipes do not include sassafras as the plant has been found to cause serious health issues. The vine was banned by the American Food and Drug Administration for commercial food production in 1960."
6:50 Also Sassafras trees are the main natural source of saffrole, a primary precursor for the synthesis of MDMA (or Ecstasy). Many (older) people of the South Eastern US still enjoy tea made from sassafras, which give a pleasurable body feel and aids in conflict resolution.
The Chex Mix brand is called Muddy Buddies the Pre-made stuff and on their box recipe. Puppy Chow is a homemade version of the same thing. There are 100's of alternative recipes of the Puppy Chow on the internet by different families.
Yes, this. I've heard it referred to as "puppy chow" more than anything else. I think I heard it referred to as something else once, but it wasn't muddy buddies.
Back story to the confusion. When Chex Cereal first created the snack, they used the term Puppy Chow for the recipe because it did indeed look like Puppy Cow dog food. Back then, the dog food version was coated with powdered milk. Purina was not amused at Chex copying their trademark term and, as American as apple pie, sued the Chex company to stop its use. Purina won the lawsuit so Chex changed the name to Muddy Puppies. By then, though, Puppy Chow was already stuck in our language banks.
Wintergreen oil is used to flavor some rootbeer since it's easier to produce. When you drink it, think of wintergreen. And if you eat a wintergreen candy, try and think of rootbeer.
@@smokeydoke100 Sarsaparilla is a different drink! made from Sarsaparilla. Harder to find these days unless you're in one of the northern cowboy states.
You do have Color Guard in Britain! You have a professional competing team called Mayflower. They've been finalists (top 15) in international competition hosted by WGI (Winter Guatd International). There are competing teams from 6-7 countries mostly representing the US and Canada but also from as far away as Japan. Also, the yearly, week-long World Championships are held in Dayton, OH (with some performances taking place in Cincinnati) the first week of April.
@@jamesslick4790 I'm sorry, but the difference is rectangles have opposite sides of different lengths than squares, squares have all four sides the same with 90 degree angles. Close, but not the same. Thanks for the reply.
@@Colorado_Native a rectangle is a closed shape with interior angles of 90 degrees. All squares are rectangles, even if not all rectangles are squares. This is the geometric definition, if not the vernacular one. Just Google "are squares considered rectangles".
@@jamesslick4790 very true indeed. He did say in the video that he “may have to rephrase that”….I guess he caught his mistake once it came out of his mouth?
My US son in law told me to look in the powder bath for something. Guest restroom. Alaskan King? When we got back home to UK and looked at our 4'6" bed, we wondered how we've managed to sleep so closely for 43 years. It reminded me of an old saying "when we were young we could have made our bed on a knife edge, now we are old, the biggest bed ever is not big enough" Good stuff. Keep educating
I've heard of California King but never Wyoming king or even Alaskan king. All I can think about with those is how much of a hassle it would be to make the bed. You'd have to have the patience of a saint tucking in all of that fabric.
I cannot fathom why any normal couple would need more than a king, maybe California king if both are tall and overweight. How fucking huge do you have to be to basically need the entire room to fit just 2 people in a bed.
@@evil1by1 Cal King for us is needed because my husband is 6'3". So the extra length is enjoyed by him while we can both enjoy having more room side-by-side to sleep!
Sassafras tree leaves also can have left and right hand mitten shapes on the same limb and branch, but come to think of it, I have also seen sassafras leaves with no lobes at all.. Sassafras tea is made from the roots. You dig up the saplings, then skin the bark off of the roots. Cut and split the roots into managable pieces and steep them in hot water as you would for any tea. Its brilliant red colour(sp) is very inviting. The aroma of sassafras root was said to be a combination of star anise, cinnamon, citrus, and vanilla. For a few decades I have kept a small piece of sassafras root in my pencil cupright here on my desk. I also have a walking cane made from a crooked sassafras sappling that grew in my back yard. Here in the Southern mountains, the Cherokee Native Americans utilized sassafras tea to purify blood and for a variety of ailments, including skin diseases, rheumatism, and ague. Sassafras root was an early export from North America, as early as 1609. Since we are on the subject you can also make Sumac Lemonade brewed from foraged sumac berries and cool water that tastes like lemonade without any lemons. That's staghorn sumac not poison sumac.
I was in color guard in high school, and then an instructor for years after that. Some refer to it as the auxiliary, at least they did during the years I was involved. The rifles I used in school were similar in style to those used in the military, just wood with silver embellishments. During my time as an instructor, they advanced a bit. They became sleek with a little less weight, much easier to get big air time when tossing. Cool to hear you talk about it!
I probably have a very similar story to yours having participated in guard in school then instructing and designing for some years after. If he is living in Indianapolis it does make some sense that he would get exposed to the marching arts as DCI championships and BOA nationals marching band competitions are held at Lucas oil stadium. To add to the list of names color guard goes by, Often color guard is labeled “pageantry” or “pageantry corps” Edit: the UK does have some color guards the one I remember was/is called “mayflower performance ensemble” and fielded a color guard and a winter percussion ensemble
Just wave the danged flags and quit trying to be jugglers, will ya?!!! Haha! I kid !! When watching my band-child, I always marveled at how the Visual impact of the CGs could make the performance so much better.
Interesting. When I was in high school, during the 12th century, the color guard unit was supplied by the the school ROTC battalion. It consisted of 2 armed escorts carrying 1903 Springfield rifles and 2 flag bearers holding the state and national flags. The girls spinning the flags were aptly named "the Flag Corps". The rest of us in the band were there to make noise and to assemble into amusing formations. We performed during half time shows and parades (Happy Mardi Gras!).
I was in marching band and I always loved going to the winter guard competitions after marching season was over. I wanted to do both but I couldn't. The sabers were always the coolest thing to see them toss in the air.
@@WCM1945 wasn't in ROTC but in my youth days the military style pre-JROTC programs used full-scale reproductions. They could fire blanks for salutes but I believe they were modified to not be able to take live rounds. We were called color guard platoons or honor guard squadron (depending if we were preceding infantry or 'calvary').
@@raynitaylor1912 I meant "JrROTC" since you mention it. M1s and Eisenhower jackets (later we got "Modern Army Greens". Still all wool and hottern hell). The Navy took me over from there :D
In my JROTC we had M1s that had modified filled in Barrels for practice and Modified M1’s that could shoot blanks for salutes unfortunately I never got to shoot one as I got removed from JROTC for getting into a fight with a higher rank who thought goosing my GF was okey. Fun fact he did not know I loved her more then I liked JROTC
We had a British visitor over the summer. The only time we had a language miscommunication was when she asked if we had "Bali Cup." I had never heard of it, but to please our visitor, I search very hard for this apparent Indonesian island treat. Could not find it despite my very best efforts. Come to find out, she meant "Barley Cup." Found it, bought it, tried it ... I know why it is not popular in U.S.
I’m British and this is the first I’ve heard of it, so I would’ve been equally confused! It sounds a bit like Ovaltine now that I’ve looked it up though.
We used to call that Alaskan king a sultan size.. and in the 80s, if you looked hard enough you could find a water bed that size... such fun on the second floor if it sprung a leak
Sassafras: That wonderful southern tree is a botanists delight! There are three distinct shapes of leaves on each tree (1)Single, (2)Two lobes that look like a mitten, & (3) Three lobes. The leaves are dried, powdered, and used in Louisiana Cajun dishes (like Etouffée and Gumbo). It's used as a fragrant thickener for these dishes, and in Cajun French is called Filé Gumbo. And the bark of the roots of the Sassafras tree can be boiled to produce the principle flavor of Root Beer. Also, you can chew the leaf petioles for the awesomely refreshing flavor they impart.
Comfortably sleeps 4? Tell that to the dogs who will shove you awake to move so they can take your warm spot. Or the cats that insist on sleeping on your chest.
The pronghorn is actually even weirder than that. They're the world's third-fastest mammal, they can be lured with a rag on a stick, and their closest living relative is the giraffe.
As an American who lived in Germany for over 20 years, I can identify quite easily with the situation of finding yourself searching for terms in your own language/dialect to describe things unknown to your native peers. Nice. You have a new subscriber.
Good evening, Laurence, from rainy, cold southcentral Kentucky! Thank you for another fun video! If it would fit in our bedroom, DH&I would happily upgrade our bed from California King to the Wyoming King. DH is 6foot6inches tall (198 cm)
In the early 90's, I had my first introduction to muddy buddies, but we used an entirely different name for it, too: edible trash. A teacher showed us how to make it in class one day (I forget the occasion). She melted the peanut butter and chocolate chips while we mixed up the chex, pretzels, m&m's, and peanuts in GARBAGE BAGS. Yeah. Your standard, white trash can liner. When the choco/pb mix was ready (melted but not too hot), she poured it into each of our bags and had us mix it all up (just by tossing it around in the bag or folding the contents around gently). When that was done, she poured powdered sugar in our bags, and we shook them up. Boom: edible trash. I'd never even heard the term "muddy buddy" until Chex themselves started selling it a few years ago. Homemade is so much better, though. haha
Where I live (Vancouver BC, which is on the "wet coast" of Canada) a "muddy buddy" is a type of outerwear that small children wear to play outside in wet weather (in other words, pretty much all the time). It's like a one piece snowsuit without insulated lining and goes over the clothing.
Here's something that people outside of the US & Canada have probably never heard of, a "Chinese fire drill", it is a slang term for a situation that is chaotic and or confusing. Most people in the US & Canada who know what it is know that it refers to a prank in which people get out of a car (while it is stopped at a stop sign or red light) and run around it to change seats. The term goes back to the early 1900s and is alleged to have originated when a ship run by British officers and a Chinese crew practiced a fire drill for a fire in the engine room.
Hello! I do professional color guard! It’s called Drum Corp International. I March with Carolina Crown. Basically it’s like Marching band’s version of the NFL! The rifles are indeed fake and made out of wood. We also use sabres which are basically actual fencing sabres just super dulled out and taped with electrical tape. If anyone has any question I can help out!!
Low-Level Chef here... Just so you know, a "Roux" Is the base for most Mother Sauces or "Gravies" it is a mixture of a fat such as butter or oil, and flour. The Etouffee would be quite disgusting if it were covered in a Roux. What it most likely is, is a roux-based sauce, which means that we can determine the sauce is not based in either the Tomato or Espagnole mother sauces.
Italian dressing or its components are found on italian hoagies in the philly area, sassafras roots make a kind of root beer or it did until the fda said it might be dangerous in large quantities to specially bred mice and rats and made it illegal to use with out distilling out a certain chemical
which is why sarsaparilla will always be better, Barq's being the only significant representative of it left. Sassafrass is also what they make _file_ powder out of, the stuff that thickens gumbo and such. thankfully the leaves don't have much safrole.
Also, Russian dressing was actually invented in San Francisco. (It only got that name because it originally contained caviar.) I'm not sure about French dressing, though. I'll have to Google that one!
I love your videos! So funny 😂 I've always called them "Muddy Buddies." I've never heard of them referred to as "puppy chow." Can't wait for the next video!
I remember going on a family camping trip with my grandparents once, and my grandma dug up some sassafras roots and boiled them in water to make sassafras tea.
Laurence,you should mention that sassafras is eaten& drunk in all of south Louisiana. The leaves in powdered form are added to gumbo which is a thickener& also gives its unique depth of flavor&taste wonderful&also the roots are used to make root beer which is the best you will ever taste!
Those color guards are a bit like the Heralds, from medieval times when they would have Tournaments. And each Knight's Herald would join the others and put on a show for the crowds before the Tournaments began. Using the banners of their masters with his coat of arms on it.
Sassafras tea I’ve had and it’s popular in the South…my mother used to make it for us when I was growing up and the tea is made from the bark of the Sassafras tree (which I never saw since I was in Illinois) and the bark was for sale in the grocery stores in my neighborhood…very tasty tea.
Special sizes are tough. I have an Olympic queen in my guest room, and it’s either eBay or Amazon for sheets and mattress covers. With blankets and comforters, forget it. You have to use king size, which works out great if sleeping with a blanket hog.
You need to chapterize this video! 1) 0:47 Italian dressing 2) 1:27 muddy buddies 3) 2:30 Greek life 4) 3:35 color guard 4:38 Anglotopia ad 5) 5:13 etouffee 6) 6:14 sassafras trees 7) 6:58 pronghorn antelope 8) 7:54 Alaskan king mattress You're getting pretty obscure, even for Americans. I'm 68, I've lived most of my life in or near NY, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake City, and I've never before heard of muddy buddies, etouffee, or Alaskan king mattress.
obscure for you. west coasters never understand they were among the last to join the union and dont define it. gotta concede the chex mix was obscure to me too. hate the texture of that cereal with a passion, i usually reserve my loathing for vegetables and beans . my breakfast is bacon and biscuits or oatmeal and raisins .
Another fun fact about Sassafras trees is that, if you burn their leaves when they're still green (such as when camping) they release an aroma similar to Fruit Loops!
I got so excited when you talked about Cajun food in Indianapolis. Talked to my hubby about it and he says it's bland. Please go to New Orleans! Amazing, amazing city. Also, hello from Chicago expats in Indianapolis!
@@raetimothy935 We have a lot of really great ethnic restaurants here, but none that are strictly Indian. We have some ok Indian restaurants and a couple very good Himalayan restaurants, which is awesome. Really the food scene here is pretty great and is one reason I love living here. It is no Chicago, and we don't have nearly as much fine dining, but we have a lot of great places with cool concepts and authentic fare. Just not Indian so far, haha! I am hoping to visit Indi soon to visit a friend, so I will definitely be on the lookout for restaurant recs!
grew up with them being called "puppy chow" when you make them from home but used to the sold kind being "muddy buddy" and never heard the other names.
Lawrence, the proper spelling is étoufée and French influence is also felt in Massachusetts. My family history goes through Massachusetts as my grandfather's brother was born there as well as his father.
To my understanding the New England area was quite popular with fur trappers from French Canada. French influence can be also be found and traced through the Midwest along the Great Lakes and down the major rivers all the way to the Cajuns of the South. Before we made the Louisiana Purchase much of this land was French territory.
@@waynewalters426 It was a dumping ground for the poorest of the Acadians during the British colonization of the maritime provinces of Canada. The richer you were, the farther away you landed until you hit Louisiana.
Yats is THE BEST! We stop there every time we are near Indy. I have to admit I was surprised to hear you refer to puppy chow as candy. I can see why you would call it that, but I always thought of it as a sweet snack mix. Makes you feel better about consuming it in large quantities!
In most (maybe all) American high schools, the rifles used by the colorguard are not real. Ours were chunks of wood cut to look like a rifle from a distance
6:04 - There is a Yats in Bloomington too _(though they had to rename themselves "Dats" when they sold to new owners I think)_ The chili-cheese etouffee is still just as delicious though!
Love muddie buddies! I seriously messed them up when I tried to make them this year. 😭😭😭 I see pronghorn almost daily! They live everywhere around me, sometimes they are right near the side of the road. I had a small "argument" with my dad about their name recently. Lol He too thought they were antelope.
Never heard of Muddy Buddy nor and of it's alternates! And I LOVE candy😳. When/where ever I have traveled in the US, I always search out 2 items. .different chips and candies, so my sweets education is lacking!? I have to find out where I can get some version. Thanks, as always😊
I'm surprised it's not in other states. I've lived in the midwest my entire life and it's always been here. My family used the recipe on the back of Chex to make it when I was a kid in the 80's and early 90's, but as a adult I just buy Muddy Buddies at the grocery store. It's in the same aisle as Chex Mix.
Just melt one cup of chocolate chips and stir in one cup of peanut butter. Add six or seven cups of Chex cereal stirring it so the chocolate/ peanut butter mixture coats the cereal and then, after it cools to about room temperature, toss it with powdered sugar. That's all there is to it. 🙃
Chex is the most common brand, usually a blue bag. They are super easy to make if you have wheat chex! We actually don't consider them a candy in the states, but rather a sweet snack, so it will be over by the chips or crackers generally.
I was shocked to discover that outside of America, Canada included, root beer doesn't exist. Had a friend visit from Australia and got him addicted to the stuff. This is because the flavouring comes from the sassafras trees native to the East Coast.
@@anna9072 yes, I know. I said America, Canada included. I guess I could have said North America, but I honestly don't know about availability of root beer in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, which geographically are also considered North America.
While we don't have marching band and colour guard in British schools, we do still have them in the UK they just aren't as mainstream. Every few years a band will go over to America. The Company Performance Ensemble went over in 2017 to compete in DCI. We had a great time!!
I have never once ever heard "muddy buddies" lol If anything, "puppy chow" just meant chocolately chex mix, and "doggy bag" is what you ask for at a restaurant when you want to take home leftovers. Nowadays you would just say you'd like a to-go box, but people used to say "I'll take a doggy bag"
OK…as a former HS marching band nerd AND a former HS marching band teacher…..The term color guard evolved over years through the youth drum and bugle corps in the northeast and Midwest. As the drum corps were sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), one requirement was to “present” the colors at some point during your competitive marching show. For the sake of show, the corps all embellished the “color guard” to include many flag and rifle carriers, and they started doing lots of cool tricks. Eventually, with the creation of Drum Corps International (DCI), the “official” color guard requirement was dropped, but the term “color guard” came to represent the contingent of flags, rifles, and whatever else the show creator could think of. The shows are really quite spectacular. If you ever get the chance to see a live competition, I think you would be impressed.
I grew up on West coast my whole life and when it comes to the Midwest and East Coast a lot of the stuff is like they live in a different world! Some of the stuff you talk about we don’t even know what the hell it is?
My daughter's friend was in color guard in their high school marching band. Poor kid did give herself a concussion when she accidentally dropped her flag and it landed on her head. If you want to see some super impressive color guards, check out some Drum Corps International performances.
The important thing about sassafras trees is, the bark of their roots can be used to make tasty things such as sassafras tea, and more importantly root beer.
My brothers used to collect sassafras roots and make root beer when I was a kid. Fond childhood memories tromping through the woods while they scouted out the right trees.
It actually ISN'T used to make Root Beer because a chemical in the root was discovered to be carcinogenic
As such, until they figured out how to isolate and remove the chemical, use of the root was ILLEGAL for several decades
Also, sassafras leaves are dried and ground into powder to make filé, a seasoning for gumbo in Louisiana.
@@stevew8513 I have file in my pantry! Was married to a Cajun for 33 years. I can make a mean gumbo, jambalaya, crayfish etouffe, shrimp creole, king’s cake, beignets, etc!
Sassafras is also the flavoring in imitation maple syrup.
i'm an american and i've never heard of either a wyoming king or an alaskan king mattress. my wife's first reaction when i showed her this was 'who makes sheets for those things?'
and holy cow, how much are those sheets?!!!
I had to look up a size chart. The last time I even bothered checking the California King was referred to as "orgy sized." I guess I can understand if a whole family is sharing a bed, but it seems like a lot of wasted space for one or two people.
Don't blame her, it's hard enough to get sheets for Cal Kings. Not every pattern, color is available for cal kings.
Said the same thing about "Muddy Buddies" or whichever name you choose.
I bet Charlie Bucket's grandparents are the main reason why that stupidly huge Alaska King mattress exists.
As someone who used to be a sales rep for three different candy manufacturers, puppy chow is not technically a candy. It is a sweet snack food.
Thank you!
I didn't know you could actually buy it. I thought it was a sweeter version of Chex mix that you can make at home.
Exactly. If it's cereal based, it's not candy. Candy can incorporate cereal (e.g. rice crispies), but if cereal forms the basis of the treat, it can't be rightfully considered candy.
@@marilynmcelroy9634 same! I have seen it served at parties, homemade. Never thought it even had a special cute name really.
@@AtarahDerek I don't anyone who considers Rice Krispie treats as candy. And yes, Krispies is spelled with a K.
I grew up calling it "puppy chow" (in Minnesota). I always assumed "Muddy Buddies" was the marketing department's name for it when Chex started selling that flavor of the mix in stores, because someone thought that "puppy chow" wouldn't sell as well.
Puppy Chow™ was already in use by Purina. (another Minnesotan here.)
@@namelessone3339 Good call! Hadn't thought of that, but you are absolutely right!
I thought it was because of copyright laws so they had to call it something else
It's definitely called puppy chow
@@ejedwards1678 Yep. Always called it puppy chow, only fairly recently have I learned that it has so many names.
Ohio here: We call that sweet Chex mix puppy chow. A "color guard" is a flag line, and the rifles are made entirely of wood. Sassafras root are used to make tea ad candy, and was the original flavoring for Root Beer.
Same in Indiana, for puppy chow. I remember it only because we had a 101 Dalmatians themed party in my kindergarten class.
“Color guard” actually includes both the flag line and the rifle line.
MN/wi is puppy chow too. Usually
Here in Michigan it's also called Puppy Chow. I've heard of "Reindeer Chow" served during children's Christmas parties. Couldn't tell you if it tasted any different because just looking at that stuff can give me sugar shock.
Utah here, via OK and CT. Either I never get invited to the right parties, or this sweet concoction is mostly a mainstream midwestern munchie.
Italians may not have "Italian Dressing," but my grandmother makes a vinaigrette that her mother used to make living in Naples and it's basically just better tasting Italian dressing.
She even puts it on her antipasto salads.
Do you know the recipe and if so could you share please? I've never liked "Italian" dressing, but a dressing from an actual Neapolitan great-grannie sounds much more appealing. :)
Just like a mama used to make.
A doggie bag is something totally different in the PNW. It's a take out box at a restaurant that you put your leftovers in.
I grew up in MI with that usage, and you used to hear it in films and tv all the time
@@LindaC616 Maybe Tara's way of using the term is specific to Indiana? I don't know. 🤷♀️
It's the same in the mid Atlantic area... or at least it was as of the 70's, 80's & 90's
@@heatherpayne1995 I’m from Indiana. We called it Puppy Chow in the North
I heard the Chex based food called Puppy Chow in Missouri. Also, in Missouri, a doggie bag is one term used for the container for leftovers from a restaurant meal.
Technically, muddy buddies is not a candy, but a snackfood - the sweet sister to savory Chex Mix.
I've seen a few of his videos, I think he uses candy as a general term.
@Edward Dore agreed I think it may be because they say sweets and we say candy
a "sweet" in the UK would include candy and extra things like cupcakes or really anything with high sugar content or a frosting. So it's not a one-to-one match for just using "candy" wherever "sweet" would be used. Muddy Buddies would likely be classified as a "sweet" in the UK and then by replacing that with "candy" the error occurred.
In the US it would be known as "health food"/"trail mix" because it has peanut butter which is what athletes consume.
The root of the sassafras tree used to be used to flavor root beer. It was banned in 1960 because the main flavor component, a chemical called "safrole," was found to be carcinogenic. Since then, the original flavor has been approximated by a combination of other flavors, including wintergreen and anise.
Powdered sassafras leaf (called "filé powder) is still used as a seasoning and thickener in a type of gumbo. Filé gumbo usually contains chicken and sausage. The other main type of gumbo, which uses okra instead of filé powder, is usually made with seafood.
Other Cajun and creole food words include jambalaya and tasso (a type of cured pork similar to ham). The word lagniappe means "a little something extra," which in a restaurant might be a dish the chef sends to your table for free without you asking for it.
My last cat was named Sassafras, Sassy for short. I loved the word and had to. She was a long haired tabby that was sooo sassy!
I'm not sure why, but for some reason, hearing "muddy buddies" described as "candy" just sounds weird to me. I don't know what I'd classify them as, other than just a snack, but to me, I wouldn't call them candy (even though they undoubtedly have a lot in common with some candies!)
Same! It is not a candy! It is a sweet snack. just like caramel popcorn.
I was thinking exactly the same thing when I was watching the video! I wouldn't call puppy chow (term used in my home state and by my family) candy. I would call it a snack or treat, or possibly a dessert, but "candy" just sounds wrong.
Yeah, it's a sweet snack. Or a treat, as Melinda said. Not a candy.
I'd call it a mix. It's a variation on Chex Mix, in fact.
the problem is we lack good terminology for this kind of thing. A real dessert connoisseur at least mentally checks off "sweet and starchy things" to include cereals, cereal-based snacks, granola, oatmeal, cookies, and cakes... whereas cream pies, cheesecakes, and ice cream fall under 'creamy sweet things' and then fruit pies and fruit snacks and such are just 'heavily sugared fruits' whereas candy is primarily-sugar things, cooked in various ways, generally fruity thanks to trends but not necessarily.. and we sometimes lump chocolate and its friends in there, but those ought to be considered 'fat-based confections'
basically within each category, if you don't have one thing, another will do. but you'd never have one when you really crave the other. candy and FRUIT and fruit juice are pretty interchangeable, same deal.. it's just some sugar and flavors.
Loved this show but then I love all you shows. Your sense of humor is the best as well as the looks on your face.
Sassafras trees are known for having three different shapes to its leaves (the three-lobed leaf, the oval-shaped leaf, and the mitten shaped leaf). My dad loves to quiz me on tree names on our hikes 😅
Sassafras tea is a personal favorite. But you need be careful not to drink too much.
Sassafras roots are used to make a hot drink and as a basis for root beer.
You are correct!
The root bark is used for tea, and also was the original root beer flavoring. The leaves are ground into a powder and used in gumbo. The sassafras powder is called file' which turns gumbo into file' gumbo.
The mitten shaped leaf comes in both right hand and left hand versions
Of course Italians in Italy wouldn't call their own vinaigrette dressing "Italian" dressing 🤣
But my great grandma was an old straight-off-the-boat Italian immigrant & made a delicious dressing for her salads, which was basically "Italian" dressing but without the additional processing.
Why wouldn't they call it that in Italy? We call the cheese that we developed "American cheese."
@Hellheart because that's not the norm? When you go to the grocery store, do you see "American mayonnaise" with "American pickles" and "American bread" to go with your "American hamburger meat?"
Is every item in a store identified by its country? No. You can pretend the exception proves the rule, but it's not the rule. When you go to foreign countries do you expect all their food to be labeled with their country's name? That makes no sense
@@corey2232 you're misrepresenting my point. Way to beat a straw man. Jack ass
@@corey2232 German Potato Salad?
Sassafras trees are actually one of the few trees out there that has multiple differently shaped leaves. On a single Sassafras tree, you can usually find leaves with 1, 2, OR 3 lobes to them. And when they turn colors in Autumn, you can sometimes have all the fall colors on one single leaf in sort of a blotchy patchwork pattern. One of my favorite trees next to Birch. I actually managed to get one of them to grow in my front yard (just across the sidewalk from my birch-stand) despite them being notoriously difficult to transplant. I'm kind of proud of that.
We had a house in the mountains of the Shenandoah Valley of Va. and there were a number of Sassafras trees in the woods of our property. We were careful to never cut them down. My grandmother always said Sassafras tea was good to drink if you had a cold.
@@janew4609 I've heard both teas and root-beers-ish can can be made from them. While I love the tree, I don't particularly know a lot of details of how to use it though.
@@1WolfFan the FDA banned the use of Sassaphras unless the saffrole is removed
@@1WolfFan I don’t know how to make anything from the tree, either, but do remember my mother making Sassafras tea.Just don’t know how she did it.I wish I had paid attention, but when I was a teenager, didn’t, unfortunately.
I had no idea there was any bed (other than custom made with custom made sheets) that was larger than a California King. My eyes are opened. Thanks for a great video.
Your dog is so cute! I just watched your intro video. I subscribed to your channel and will watch more as I have time. I hope you and Rowley are safe and well.
@@recycleonwednesdays Thank you for watching and subbing to my channel. Rowley is a great dog and loving too. I'll let him know you thought he was cute.
Sassafras is also the primary ingredient in sassafras tea and the original Root Beer (sassafras Root)
@Archie Pieplow I thought that as well, but I just found this interesting tidbit out there on the interwebs:
"Sarsaparilla and Root Beer were founded by the Native Americans before arriving in Europe. Both beverages are named after their distinct differences in ingredients when they were first made. Sarsaparilla was made from the Sarsaparilla vine, while Root Beer, roots of the sassafras tree. These days, Root Beer recipes do not include sassafras as the plant has been found to cause serious health issues. The vine was banned by the American Food and Drug Administration for commercial food production in 1960."
Holy crap, I make “puppy chow” at least once a month. I’m 40 now but I used “puppy chow” as my recipe for my kindergarten class cookbook.
Sassafras has been used for its roots, which when boiled, were used to make a tonic tea. The leaves are dried and ground to a powder to make an herbal additive to gumbo, added in the serving bowl.
Sassafras tea is AMAZING. It's delicious AND it's a great tonic.
Fun fact sassafras can be burned when wet.
It's also a delicious candy.
The powder is called file (accent over the “e”).
Root beer. !!
Saw the thumbnail and yes muddy buddies are the best thing ever. It’s probably the only snack my parents had to hide.
Edit: so apparently muddy buddies is a Chex recipe while puppy chow is made with Crispix. Apparently the recipes for these were on the back of the box when I was a kid and these two cereals were in direct competition with each other. So they had to call it two different things. I’ve had both and they are an equal PB & chocolate delivery system.
My sister brought home "Puppy Chow" from college one year at Christmas. it was always Chex. You can buy Chex Muddy Buddies in the snack aisle of the grocery store. I've never seen or heard of using Crispix, but I'm sure it would be the same.
I’ve always known it as “Christmas Crack”
Sassafras root was used to make root beer before they started using artificial flavors.
Hence sarsaparilla.
@@SonOfTheDawn515 Actually, Sassparilla is a vine, and sassafras is a tree. The original root beer was made with ground up Sassafras root, then later on Sasparilla was added as a new flavor. They both contain Safrole, which was determined to be carcinogenic back in the 60's and that's why today it's illegal to produce either in their original forms.
@@Aussiesuede Actually it is no longer illegal... IF the safrole is removed, but most companies haven't bothered
@@Aussiesuede They are different drinks, and have a different flavor, though quite similar.
From the interwebs: "Sarsaparilla and Root Beer were founded by the Native Americans before arriving in Europe. Both beverages are named after their distinct differences in ingredients when they were first made. Sarsaparilla was made from the Sarsaparilla vine, while Root Beer, roots of the sassafras tree. These days, Root Beer recipes do not include sassafras as the plant has been found to cause serious health issues. The vine was banned by the American Food and Drug Administration for commercial food production in 1960."
6:50 Also Sassafras trees are the main natural source of saffrole, a primary precursor for the synthesis of MDMA (or Ecstasy). Many (older) people of the South Eastern US still enjoy tea made from sassafras, which give a pleasurable body feel and aids in conflict resolution.
The Chex Mix brand is called Muddy Buddies the Pre-made stuff and on their box recipe. Puppy Chow is a homemade version of the same thing. There are 100's of alternative recipes of the Puppy Chow on the internet by different families.
"Muddy buddies? You mean Powdered Choco Crisps"
Yes, this. I've heard it referred to as "puppy chow" more than anything else. I think I heard it referred to as something else once, but it wasn't muddy buddies.
Back story to the confusion. When Chex Cereal first created the snack, they used the term Puppy Chow for the recipe because it did indeed look like Puppy Cow dog food. Back then, the dog food version was coated with powdered milk. Purina was not amused at Chex copying their trademark term and, as American as apple pie, sued the Chex company to stop its use. Purina won the lawsuit so Chex changed the name to Muddy Puppies. By then, though, Puppy Chow was already stuck in our language banks.
@@kathywiseley4382 That's good to know!! Thanks for the story. Of course they'd get sued over puppy chow. Why not. USA USA USA /s
Wintergreen oil is used to flavor some rootbeer since it's easier to produce. When you drink it, think of wintergreen. And if you eat a wintergreen candy, try and think of rootbeer.
Hey Lawrence, sassafras root is the "root" in "root beer", as well as the file (fee-lay) powder used in Cajun file gumbo.
Back in the cowboy days, it was called sasparilla.
"Was" It WAS the root in root beer
then the FDA banned it for several decades untill they figured out how to remove the saffrole from it
I prefer file , I dont like okra.
@@smokeydoke100 Sarsaparilla is a different drink! made from Sarsaparilla. Harder to find these days unless you're in one of the northern cowboy states.
I’m a Brit and I bloody love root beer.its hard to get here though 😢😂
You do have Color Guard in Britain!
You have a professional competing team called Mayflower. They've been finalists (top 15) in international competition hosted by WGI (Winter Guatd International). There are competing teams from 6-7 countries mostly representing the US and Canada but also from as far away as Japan. Also, the yearly, week-long World Championships are held in Dayton, OH (with some performances taking place in Cincinnati) the first week of April.
"There goes America, winning at RECTANGLES once again.."😂
Actually, wouldn't those be squares?
@@Colorado_Native I hate sound like a geometry nerd, But squares ARE rectangles.
@@jamesslick4790 I'm sorry, but the difference is rectangles have opposite sides of different lengths than squares, squares have all four sides the same with 90 degree angles. Close, but not the same. Thanks for the reply.
@@Colorado_Native a rectangle is a closed shape with interior angles of 90 degrees. All squares are rectangles, even if not all rectangles are squares. This is the geometric definition, if not the vernacular one. Just Google "are squares considered rectangles".
@@jamesslick4790 very true indeed. He did say in the video that he “may have to rephrase that”….I guess he caught his mistake once it came out of his mouth?
My US son in law told me to look in the powder bath for something. Guest restroom. Alaskan King? When we got back home to UK and looked at our 4'6" bed, we wondered how we've managed to sleep so closely for 43 years. It reminded me of an old saying "when we were young we could have made our bed on a knife edge, now we are old, the biggest bed ever is not big enough"
Good stuff. Keep educating
I've heard of California King but never Wyoming king or even Alaskan king. All I can think about with those is how much of a hassle it would be to make the bed. You'd have to have the patience of a saint tucking in all of that fabric.
I cannot fathom why any normal couple would need more than a king, maybe California king if both are tall and overweight. How fucking huge do you have to be to basically need the entire room to fit just 2 people in a bed.
@@evil1by1 Cal King for us is needed because my husband is 6'3". So the extra length is enjoyed by him while we can both enjoy having more room side-by-side to sleep!
Sassafras also has many culinary applications. Cajun cooking ingredient, candies, and drinks. I've have had the candy and root beer of Sassafras.
I turn to your channel to find serenity from the world's events today. Thank you Lawrence!
Sassafras tree leaves also can have left and right hand mitten shapes on the same limb and branch, but come to think of it, I have also seen sassafras leaves with no lobes at all.. Sassafras tea is made from the roots. You dig up the saplings, then skin the bark off of the roots. Cut and split the roots into managable pieces and steep them in hot water as you would for any tea. Its brilliant red colour(sp) is very inviting. The aroma of sassafras root was said to be a combination of star anise, cinnamon, citrus, and vanilla. For a few decades I have kept a small piece of sassafras root in my pencil cupright here on my desk. I also have a walking cane made from a crooked sassafras sappling that grew in my back yard.
Here in the Southern mountains, the Cherokee Native Americans utilized sassafras tea to purify blood and for a variety of ailments, including skin diseases, rheumatism, and ague. Sassafras root was an early export from North America, as early as 1609.
Since we are on the subject you can also make Sumac Lemonade brewed from foraged sumac berries and cool water that tastes like lemonade without any lemons. That's staghorn sumac not poison sumac.
Thanks for the clarification! 😅
I was in color guard in high school, and then an instructor for years after that. Some refer to it as the auxiliary, at least they did during the years I was involved. The rifles I used in school were similar in style to those used in the military, just wood with silver embellishments. During my time as an instructor, they advanced a bit. They became sleek with a little less weight, much easier to get big air time when tossing. Cool to hear you talk about it!
I probably have a very similar story to yours having participated in guard in school then instructing and designing for some years after. If he is living in Indianapolis it does make some sense that he would get exposed to the marching arts as DCI championships and BOA nationals marching band competitions are held at Lucas oil stadium. To add to the list of names color guard goes by, Often color guard is labeled “pageantry” or “pageantry corps”
Edit: the UK does have some color guards the one I remember was/is called “mayflower performance ensemble” and fielded a color guard and a winter percussion ensemble
Just wave the danged flags and quit trying to be jugglers, will ya?!!! Haha! I kid !! When watching my band-child, I always marveled at how the Visual impact of the CGs could make the performance so much better.
I was also in the Color Guard & rifle drill team in high school ROTC! I remember those heavy wooden rifles (NOT guns 😁).
Interesting. When I was in high school, during the 12th century, the color guard unit was supplied by the the school ROTC battalion. It consisted of 2 armed escorts carrying 1903 Springfield rifles and 2 flag bearers holding the state and national flags. The girls spinning the flags were aptly named "the Flag Corps". The rest of us in the band were there to make noise and to assemble into amusing formations. We performed during half time shows and parades (Happy Mardi Gras!).
I was in marching band and I always loved going to the winter guard competitions after marching season was over. I wanted to do both but I couldn't. The sabers were always the coolest thing to see them toss in the air.
"Once again... America winning at Rectangles!" just about had my evening's warm milk spouting from my nose !!! Good one, sir!!
"Muddy buddies? You mean Powdered Choco Crisps"
Quit laughing! We take our rectangles VERY seriously.
Most of the “rifles” used in color guard are just big sticks carved into rifle shapes with the same weight and balance, not an actual rifle… anymore.
Not in my ROTC days. M1 Garands _sans_ firing pins were the standard, and we were known as "Drill Team".
@@WCM1945 wasn't in ROTC but in my youth days the military style pre-JROTC programs used full-scale reproductions. They could fire blanks for salutes but I believe they were modified to not be able to take live rounds. We were called color guard platoons or honor guard squadron (depending if we were preceding infantry or 'calvary').
@@raynitaylor1912 I meant "JrROTC" since you mention it. M1s and Eisenhower jackets (later we got "Modern Army Greens". Still all wool and hottern hell). The Navy took me over from there :D
In my JROTC we had M1s that had modified filled in Barrels for practice and Modified M1’s that could shoot blanks for salutes unfortunately I never got to shoot one as I got removed from JROTC for getting into a fight with a higher rank who thought goosing my GF was okey. Fun fact he did not know I loved her more then I liked JROTC
My HS used the plastic ones for sure. They look real enough from the stands, but you can definitely tell they're fake up close.
We had a British visitor over the summer. The only time we had a language miscommunication was when she asked if we had "Bali Cup." I had never heard of it, but to please our visitor, I search very hard for this apparent Indonesian island treat. Could not find it despite my very best efforts. Come to find out, she meant "Barley Cup." Found it, bought it, tried it ... I know why it is not popular in U.S.
I’m British and this is the first I’ve heard of it, so I would’ve been equally confused! It sounds a bit like Ovaltine now that I’ve looked it up though.
We used to call that Alaskan king a sultan size.. and in the 80s, if you looked hard enough you could find a water bed that size... such fun on the second floor if it sprung a leak
Former color guard member here. DCUK is a thing. Drum and Bugle Corps in the UK incorporates color guard into their shows.
Sassafras: That wonderful southern tree is a botanists delight! There are three distinct shapes of leaves on each tree (1)Single, (2)Two lobes that look like a mitten, & (3) Three lobes. The leaves are dried, powdered, and used in Louisiana Cajun dishes (like Etouffée and Gumbo). It's used as a fragrant thickener for these dishes, and in Cajun French is called Filé Gumbo. And the bark of the roots of the Sassafras tree can be boiled to produce the principle flavor of Root Beer. Also, you can chew the leaf petioles for the awesomely refreshing flavor they impart.
Brit here. Thanks for this interesting information. I had heard the word before but had no clue. 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧
While it WAS the origin of Root Beer the FDA banned its use for several decades because safrole was determined to be a carcinogen.
@@torfrida6663 God bless you!
@@drthmik Correct. I believe that was lifted when FDA finally realized that we humans are not lab rats consuming unreal quantities of the stuff.
Puppy Chow!!!!! I always thought the name came from how easy it is to scarf down
Comfortably sleeps 4? Tell that to the dogs who will shove you awake to move so they can take your warm spot. Or the cats that insist on sleeping on your chest.
The pronghorn is actually even weirder than that. They're the world's third-fastest mammal, they can be lured with a rag on a stick, and their closest living relative is the giraffe.
I have seen your videos almost since you first started making videos keep up the great work it’s entertaining and interesting.
As an American who lived in Germany for over 20 years, I can identify quite easily with the situation of finding yourself searching for terms in your own language/dialect to describe things unknown to your native peers. Nice. You have a new subscriber.
Good evening, Laurence, from rainy, cold southcentral Kentucky!
Thank you for another fun video!
If it would fit in our bedroom, DH&I would happily upgrade our bed from California King to the Wyoming King. DH is 6foot6inches tall (198 cm)
Best Italian Dressing is made by KRAFT. It is their Tuscan House version.
Any plans to go the other way around and do a series of videos about British things that America doesn't even have a word for?
That would be quite lengthy...
That would be neat!
Marmite. Americans have a word for it. Just not one that can be used in a family channel.
@@boredlawyer3382 😆😆😆
I would actually enjoy something like that
I'm 54 and lived in the U.S. my whole life and I've never heard of "muddy buddies" nor any of the other synonyms you mentioned..
Same here.
Lawrence, you’re just what I needed to get my mind off of the doom and gloom that is the reality in Europe.
AMEN TO THAT!
True...I did become a subscriber after first watching the bedroom video, then binge watching a bunch of other ones.
Yes, Yats Chili Cheese Etouffee with crawfish is my favorite...it's fire...love it!
Love Yats! There used to be one in Valparaiso and we'd enjoy it when visiting our daughter at Valpo U. Sadly that one closed in 2019.
In the early 90's, I had my first introduction to muddy buddies, but we used an entirely different name for it, too: edible trash. A teacher showed us how to make it in class one day (I forget the occasion). She melted the peanut butter and chocolate chips while we mixed up the chex, pretzels, m&m's, and peanuts in GARBAGE BAGS. Yeah. Your standard, white trash can liner. When the choco/pb mix was ready (melted but not too hot), she poured it into each of our bags and had us mix it all up (just by tossing it around in the bag or folding the contents around gently). When that was done, she poured powdered sugar in our bags, and we shook them up. Boom: edible trash. I'd never even heard the term "muddy buddy" until Chex themselves started selling it a few years ago. Homemade is so much better, though. haha
I've never had, nor heard of, Muddy Buddies in any of its iterations. And I swear I'm an American!
My mom growing up made it quite often. I'm from Kansas so maybe mid west thing
Me neither. I'm from the west coast. None of those terms he mentioned rang a bell other than Doggie bag. Which is something else entirely.
It's really easy and fun to make and tastes yummy.
Me either. I’ve lived West Coast and South mostly
New to me, but I am Alaskan so there tends to be a lot new to me.
Where I live (Vancouver BC, which is on the "wet coast" of Canada) a "muddy buddy" is a type of outerwear that small children wear to play outside in wet weather (in other words, pretty much all the time). It's like a one piece snowsuit without insulated lining and goes over the clothing.
My sister-in-law makes huge batches of puppy chow every year for Christmas. I always have to take home a tin of them to snack on later.
Have to in she forced it on you. Or you just have to have it. Prefer Chex Mix myself.
Here's something that people outside of the US & Canada have probably never heard of, a "Chinese fire drill", it is a slang term for a situation that is chaotic and or confusing. Most people in the US & Canada who know what it is know that it refers to a prank in which people get out of a car (while it is stopped at a stop sign or red light) and run around it to change seats. The term goes back to the early 1900s and is alleged to have originated when a ship run by British officers and a Chinese crew practiced a fire drill for a fire in the engine room.
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Hello! I do professional color guard! It’s called Drum Corp International. I March with Carolina Crown. Basically it’s like Marching band’s version of the NFL! The rifles are indeed fake and made out of wood. We also use sabres which are basically actual fencing sabres just super dulled out and taped with electrical tape. If anyone has any question I can help out!!
Shout out from a former DCI Mello player!!!
And I do love Carolina Crown's warm up horn circle - thrilling!
@@-Cece omg where’d you march!!!
Spirt '99-'03! Plus another 10 years of WGI!! Hi friends!!!
Growing up, we'd look for sassafras saplings, break off a twig, peel off the bark and chew on it. It has a sweet taste sort of like root beer.
108 inches by 108 inches is 9 feet by 9 feet. Some people's bedrooms are smaller than that.
Low-Level Chef here... Just so you know, a "Roux" Is the base for most Mother Sauces or "Gravies" it is a mixture of a fat such as butter or oil, and flour. The Etouffee would be quite disgusting if it were covered in a Roux. What it most likely is, is a roux-based sauce, which means that we can determine the sauce is not based in either the Tomato or Espagnole mother sauces.
Home cooker, come to it late in life here: having a problem with making a specific roux, would you be interested in offering advice?
@@melodycuthbert4840 Sure!
Italian dressing or its components are found on italian hoagies in the philly area, sassafras roots make a kind of root beer or it did until the fda said it might be dangerous in large quantities to specially bred mice and rats and made it illegal to use with out distilling out a certain chemical
I did not know this. I thought it was still in rootbeer.
Ah, yes, saffrole, right? Luckily, this is one of the occasions that taking the chemical out doesn't harm the taste too much.
which is why sarsaparilla will always be better, Barq's being the only significant representative of it left.
Sassafrass is also what they make _file_ powder out of, the stuff that thickens gumbo and such. thankfully the leaves don't have much safrole.
Also, Russian dressing was actually invented in San Francisco. (It only got that name because it originally contained caviar.)
I'm not sure about French dressing, though. I'll have to Google that one!
We have Italian dressing in the UK
I love your videos! So funny 😂 I've always called them "Muddy Buddies." I've never heard of them referred to as "puppy chow." Can't wait for the next video!
I remember going on a family camping trip with my grandparents once, and my grandma dug up some sassafras roots and boiled them in water to make sassafras tea.
Laurence,you should mention that sassafras is eaten& drunk in all of south Louisiana. The leaves in powdered form are added to gumbo which is a thickener& also gives its unique depth of flavor&taste wonderful&also the roots are used to make root beer which is the best you will ever taste!
Those color guards are a bit like the Heralds, from medieval times when they would have Tournaments. And each Knight's Herald would join the others and put on a show for the crowds before the Tournaments began. Using the banners of their masters with his coat of arms on it.
Sassafras tea I’ve had and it’s popular in the South…my mother used to make it for us when I was growing up and the tea is made from the bark of the Sassafras tree (which I never saw since I was in Illinois) and the bark was for sale in the grocery stores in my neighborhood…very tasty tea.
I wonder where you would even buy sheets for the Alaskan King mattress.
Special sizes are tough. I have an Olympic queen in my guest room, and it’s either eBay or Amazon for sheets and mattress covers. With blankets and comforters, forget it. You have to use king size, which works out great if sleeping with a blanket hog.
Lost my mind laughing when you said "there goes America, winning at rectangles, again". Too funny mate!
You need to chapterize this video!
1) 0:47 Italian dressing
2) 1:27 muddy buddies
3) 2:30 Greek life
4) 3:35 color guard
4:38 Anglotopia ad
5) 5:13 etouffee
6) 6:14 sassafras trees
7) 6:58 pronghorn antelope
8) 7:54 Alaskan king mattress
You're getting pretty obscure, even for Americans. I'm 68, I've lived most of my life in or near NY, Chicago, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake City, and I've never before heard of muddy buddies, etouffee, or Alaskan king mattress.
Never heard of 3 (which turned out is dumber than getting in a wool sack with rats in the summer) 5, or number 8.
obscure for you. west coasters never understand they were among the last to join the union and dont define it.
gotta concede the chex mix was obscure to me too.
hate the texture of that cereal with a passion, i usually reserve my loathing for vegetables and beans .
my breakfast is bacon and biscuits
or oatmeal and raisins .
Another fun fact about Sassafras trees is that, if you burn their leaves when they're still green (such as when camping) they release an aroma similar to Fruit Loops!
I got so excited when you talked about Cajun food in Indianapolis. Talked to my hubby about it and he says it's bland. Please go to New Orleans! Amazing, amazing city. Also, hello from Chicago expats in Indianapolis!
Same think in STL. I have yet to find a really good gumbo, though one of the new places has a decent one.
Same thing with Indian food! Can you guys get it good down there?
@@raetimothy935 We have a lot of really great ethnic restaurants here, but none that are strictly Indian. We have some ok Indian restaurants and a couple very good Himalayan restaurants, which is awesome. Really the food scene here is pretty great and is one reason I love living here. It is no Chicago, and we don't have nearly as much fine dining, but we have a lot of great places with cool concepts and authentic fare. Just not Indian so far, haha! I am hoping to visit Indi soon to visit a friend, so I will definitely be on the lookout for restaurant recs!
Hit me up! I'll try to steer you in the right direction!
And to be annoying, check out Brian Langerstom on the TH-cam. He's a chef in your area and has some awesome tips.
We take sassafras roots and dry them. Steep them to extract the sassafras “flavor” and make Sarsaparilla or Sassafras tea or Root Beer.
I used to have a California King - they fit perfectly in the old waterbed frames.
I used to SELL waterbeds (Hey It WAS the early '80s!) , And Yes "California Kings" are the usual replacement!
grew up with them being called "puppy chow" when you make them from home but used to the sold kind being "muddy buddy" and never heard the other names.
Lawrence, the proper spelling is étoufée and French influence is also felt in Massachusetts. My family history goes through Massachusetts as my grandfather's brother was born there as well as his father.
To my understanding the New England area was quite popular with fur trappers from French Canada. French influence can be also be found and traced through the Midwest along the Great Lakes and down the major rivers all the way to the Cajuns of the South. Before we made the Louisiana Purchase much of this land was French territory.
@@waynewalters426 It was a dumping ground for the poorest of the Acadians during the British colonization of the maritime provinces of Canada. The richer you were, the farther away you landed until you hit Louisiana.
WONDERFUL...As a confirmed Anglophile (American having lived in the UK) I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Thanks
In Italy, salad is dressed with oil and vinegar… so while it’s not exactly the same as Italian dressing, it’s the same principal.
Yats is THE BEST! We stop there every time we are near Indy. I have to admit I was surprised to hear you refer to puppy chow as candy. I can see why you would call it that, but I always thought of it as a sweet snack mix. Makes you feel better about consuming it in large quantities!
I can't believe I have to watch your TH-cam channel to learn about so many American things I've never heard of. LOL
In most (maybe all) American high schools, the rifles used by the colorguard are not real. Ours were chunks of wood cut to look like a rifle from a distance
The first time I ate muddy buddies was also the first time I smoked pot. That was a hell of an experience! I ate the whole bag.
6:04 - There is a Yats in Bloomington too _(though they had to rename themselves "Dats" when they sold to new owners I think)_ The chili-cheese etouffee is still just as delicious though!
Love muddie buddies! I seriously messed them up when I tried to make them this year. 😭😭😭 I see pronghorn almost daily! They live everywhere around me, sometimes they are right near the side of the road. I had a small "argument" with my dad about their name recently. Lol He too thought they were antelope.
Wow, where do you live? (What state?) Also, awesome to see the correct plural of antelope! :)
In Northwest Mississippi, that candy is called, wait for it, 'Trash.'
So at Christmas, you might be asked if you’d like some trash.
Never heard of Muddy Buddy nor and of it's alternates! And I LOVE candy😳. When/where ever I have traveled in the US, I always search out 2 items. .different chips and candies, so my sweets education is lacking!? I have to find out where I can get some version. Thanks, as always😊
I'm surprised it's not in other states. I've lived in the midwest my entire life and it's always been here.
My family used the recipe on the back of Chex to make it when I was a kid in the 80's and early 90's, but
as a adult I just buy Muddy Buddies at the grocery store. It's in the same aisle as Chex Mix.
Just melt one cup of chocolate chips and stir in one cup of peanut butter. Add six or seven cups of Chex cereal stirring it so the chocolate/ peanut butter mixture coats the cereal and then, after it cools to about room temperature, toss it with powdered sugar. That's all there is to it. 🙃
Chex is the most common brand, usually a blue bag. They are super easy to make if you have wheat chex! We actually don't consider them a candy in the states, but rather a sweet snack, so it will be over by the chips or crackers generally.
I love watching your videos Lawrence. Listening to you satisfies my craving for more Alan Partridge ;)
I was shocked to discover that outside of America, Canada included, root beer doesn't exist. Had a friend visit from Australia and got him addicted to the stuff. This is because the flavouring comes from the sassafras trees native to the East Coast.
Sad, isn't it? A "Black Cow" is the ultimate dessert!!!
Don’t know what part of Canada you visited, but I can assure you that at least here in BC, you can get root beer as readily as you can in the US.
@@anna9072 yes, I know. I said America, Canada included. I guess I could have said North America, but I honestly don't know about availability of root beer in Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean, which geographically are also considered North America.
@@gregoryferraro7379 OK, I misunderstood, I thought you were including Canada with the rest of the world, rather than with the US.
While we don't have marching band and colour guard in British schools, we do still have them in the UK they just aren't as mainstream. Every few years a band will go over to America. The Company Performance Ensemble went over in 2017 to compete in DCI. We had a great time!!
Doctor Who Attack of the Sassafras that would be funny!!
I have never once ever heard "muddy buddies" lol
If anything, "puppy chow" just meant chocolately chex mix, and "doggy bag" is what you ask for at a restaurant when you want to take home leftovers. Nowadays you would just say you'd like a to-go box, but people used to say "I'll take a doggy bag"
muddy buddy is not a "candy" it's a snack half way between sweet and savory
YES, I kept saying " it's not candy" here is South Dakota if it's homemade it's called puppy chow.
OK…as a former HS marching band nerd AND a former HS marching band teacher…..The term color guard evolved over years through the youth drum and bugle corps in the northeast and Midwest. As the drum corps were sponsored by the Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW), one requirement was to “present” the colors at some point during your competitive marching show. For the sake of show, the corps all embellished the “color guard” to include many flag and rifle carriers, and they started doing lots of cool tricks. Eventually, with the creation of Drum Corps International (DCI), the “official” color guard requirement was dropped, but the term “color guard” came to represent the contingent of flags, rifles, and whatever else the show creator could think of. The shows are really quite spectacular. If you ever get the chance to see a live competition, I think you would be impressed.
I grew up on West coast my whole life and when it comes to the Midwest and East Coast a lot of the stuff is like they live in a different world!
Some of the stuff you talk about we don’t even know what the hell it is?
Same! I moved from the PNW to TN when I was 10. It was major culture shock!
When you said Frat Lad I lost it. Thank you for being you, keep up the great work.
Muddy buddies/puppy chow isn’t a “candy” it’s just a sweet snack.
My daughter's friend was in color guard in their high school marching band. Poor kid did give herself a concussion when she accidentally dropped her flag and it landed on her head. If you want to see some super impressive color guards, check out some Drum Corps International performances.
Fun fact: Etouffee means choking in french. Appropriate for a spicy dish I guess lol
South Louisiana here...It's not supposed to be spicy, just well seasoned. I'd choke on chili cheese etoufee though. That sounds awful.
My old bedroom in my parents house was only about 10' by 10'. The Alaska king is 9' by 9'. You couldn't fit it in the door. Weird.
I was born in Illinois and I truly feel sorrow for those who call Puppy Chow as: “Muddy Buddies” or anything else.
Seeing as Puppy Chow is (or was) a brand of Purina dog food, I would hesitate to use that term for a human snack food!
@@kurtpena5462 What about Kitty Litter Cake?
i once delivered meat to the commissary at Warren AFB in Wyoming.
they had pronghorn roaming free and wild on the base