This is one of the weirdest celebrity evolution so far, a well regarded car show presenter has found his own internet niche, making pre-Thatcher era foodstuffs... nice
To be fair, he also had a show assembling things, and an Amazon show about Japan. So basically just anything mildly interesting, and it fits him perfectly
He did some similar vibes shows when he was at the BBC I think, with far fewer viewers I imagine. There was one where assembeled a 70s lawnmower whilst saying it was ridiculous that anybody was watching.
@@allothernamesbutthis yes, they should make it on youtube. They already have drivetribe as their channel, it should be easy for them to make it. If they have conversation segment regularly on drivetribe, they could help gain views and allows them to bring guests like old top gear
James May is my favorite presenter. I love these videos, but every time a new one comes out, I cry a little. I grew up with the trio, the original show got me through many many rough days. Then when they went on Amazon, I was so happy and hoped it will continue for many more years. I saw them getting older, got a bit older myself, and now watching these, I am reminded of those wonderful moments. When Jeremy cried on that last episode, I just couldn't help myself to follow suit. Just want to thank you James for many great years. Such an awesome journey!
"I'm sure this isn't particularly interesting if you're a viewer- I'm not sure why food programming is interesting..." James the reason most of us are watching this isn't that it's food programming, it's that you're in it.
James May could just sit in a chair and read a book in silence for 2 hours and you can bet all the chips in my Wooden Chest of Magic™, that i will watch every page turning action filled second of it!!!
When I was a poor student I remember my favourite meal was cheap oven chips with a bread and butter to make sandwiches and a tin of beans with those little pork sausages. It was perfect stodge.
This video inspired me to give this a try, as an american, i never thought of this growing up, and i'm 25 now. Edit: I used what we have, white bread, generic butter, and salt and vinegar lays, made a crisp sandwich, and honestly... its amazing. new fave simple snack for me.
I made a grilled cheese but with Doritos and tomato soup, I’m Canadian. I used whole grain bread, cheddar cheese, whole butter and Doritos nacho cheese. You could also replace the Doritos with cheezies and it’d work well, but they only sell it in Canada
I'm a decade older than James, in the early sixties my dad did some work for the owner of a crisp factory so got a lot of free crisps. When we went out for a Sunday day out,a picnic was always a part of the day, crisps always were included and we all liked to add the crisps to the sandwiches, an easy way to make a sarnie more interesting. Salad cream also goes well with crisps in a sarnie.
Not gonna lie, I was skeptical before watching this, on whether I can actually finish the whole thing. I can honestly say that this was a very fast 13 minutes.
As an apprentice in the late 70s, after a hard, cold morning on site I would buy a buttered Belfast bap (a fat crusty roll about 7" in diameter), a portion of chips, a packet of Tayto cheese 'n' onion (indubitably the King of Crisps), cheese slices and a carton of vending machine chicken soup. All the solid comestibles that would fit were stuffed into the bap, making a healthy-sized meal for a growing lad. For lubrication, the bap was dunked in the soup. I've yet to eat anything else to match it for sheer gastronomic delight.
Imma have to try this. I tried tatyo in Belfast a couple years ago but I’ve got a tin of condensed soup in the cupboard. Looking forward to it. Cheers 👍🏻
The older 22 blokes we would train with whenever we made the trip to the UK, would have something similar to this. Only differences were corned beef instead of cheese slices and the soup would come from the shops rather than a vending machine
I can literally watch James paint a wall and find it entertaining. He's just amazingly entertaining even when he's not trying. And he has a great taste in watches-- I see that Grand Seiko.
@@matthackett83 Looks about right. Either way I have read that he's got a 1976 Omega chrono-quartz, which is a super interesting piece. Early quartz is often overlooked by collectors and it's cool that James has a serious watch nerd's kind of watch.
From an Australian; whether it's "fries" or "crisps", its all just chips. It's about context. You could either have a packet of chips, or, some hot chips, often with chicken salt (the best thing ever). We also love chip sandwiches, except ours wouldn't usually have Lurpak spreadable butter (invented in 1903). Most takeaway shops or convenience stores will have at least hot chips, a loaf of bread, and some little tomato sauce packets. Then you would walk to the park and feast on this unbeatable tucka.
I would have something saucy on it, just to keep the chips from falling out. There is already the soft bread and crispy chips, so something juicy can't be wrong.
One of my earliest memories is at lunchtime in my primary school...We sat on the floor of the gymnasium for some reason to eat our packed lunch. Upon opening my Ghostbusters lunchbox and subsequently opening my sandwich, I found it buttered but without any filling. Being 5 I proceeded to cry and internally curse my mother internally to damnation. The janitor came over on seeing my immense and confusing plight and put my packet of crisps in said empty sandwich...Revelations were had. I'm now a personal chef for Billionaires and still like a crisp sandwich, either my mum was a genius or just a bit busy that morning. Dunno, might phone her and ask.
I went to a Walmart, bought a tube of salt and vinegar Lay's Stax, and made myself this sandwich, which I've never tried; neither a chip sandwich (american here) nor the chip flavor. It changed my life, as James said.
In Australia, we call chips "hot chips", to differentiate them from chips, which you call "crisps". They are only called "fries" at a couple of those imported American franchises. Although sometimes, if the hot chips are cut very thin, we may call them fries as well. And yes, I've had both chip sandwiches (salt and vinegar is my favourite), and hot chip sandwiches, with and without tomato sauce. I have yet to try them combined, which sounds like heaven.
Why does he have to mention that so much? It’s like 3 times that he says the same thing. Also why are the film crew referred to by their full names? I don’t get why he always has to say “Lucy Brown, have you ever had a chip butty” or something else. Like why tho just use first names otherwise it’s kinda irritating to hear. And for the record I like James May so don’t say I’m saying this cos I don’t like him :)
@@philgreen736 Well the whole Lurpak thing is a running gag on the channel cause he keeps mentioning it for no reason and the crew members started making fun of him for it. The whole full name thing may just be James trying to be polite since he may not know the crew very well.
Aussie here. “Chips” are chips and “crisps” are chips too. We’d prefer to be confused than be associated with the Yanks and their “French Fry” nonsense
American here, I'd like to say we don't usually say French fry, we mostly just say fries. I don't know where the French part came from but fries are deep fried potato wedges so fries does just fine. I also say papitas but thats for my Spanish speakers ✌🏼
@@aredub1847 I mean horizontally and vertically don't really apply when it comes to sandwiches. There's only the shapes- rectangular and triangular/ diagonal
Don't laugh, for many of us young poor kids in the 60s and 70s it was. Plus, sugar butties, lard butties, corned beef butties, banana butties, strawberry jam butties...And they were all delicious 🙈😀
Do a collaboration with Hammond and Clarkson. Make a sandwich challenge or something. (By the way, if James reads this, what does he think of georgia?)
As an Aussie I want to clarify that yes, we call potato chips "chips" probably because that's what they are called on the packet, but we also call fried potatos chips as well. No distinction here, we love our chips. Fries are the provenance of fast food "joints" and as I was a child of the 70's I thought I should clarify that from an Aussie standpoint.
I'm an Australian and I think calling crisps, chips is silly. Chips is hot chips, crisps is much more logical for the bagged variety. I go with the Poms more often than not though
I always put vinegar on first. The theory being that if you put salt on to dry chips it will just fall to the bottom of the container. Vinegar makes it stick. Can you please do a comparison of old school chippy chips wrapped in old school paper (newspaper would be amazing but plain will suffice) and left to sweat, compared to chips in horrible polystyrene containers. Old school are better.
I am 23 grown adult male sitting in pyjama at 8:17 pm on saturday and watching other grown adult male eating a sandwich with chips. What a time to be alive!!!! PS: There is a thing called chips like Lays and french fries a thing that we eat with burgers.
@@fraserenglish6226 Only really if one needs to distinguish between the two. Perfectly normal to say "pass the / have some chips" etc when referring to either.
Because it's odd! It's putting carbs on carbs. In some cafés you get a fancy tosti with doritos or a sandwich witch crisp on the side. However all of them (even Lucy) liking it I am curious now
Things I did not anticipate to see today: Sandwiches of the seventies. A suitably James May-ish subject. Just goes to show we will watch May talk about anything and enjoy ourselves.
Is it just me or could anyone else watch James May do literally anything and be entertained?
Exactly
He can just stand there n breathe for 5 mins explaining how breathing works n id still be entertained! 😂
Correct
So true
The least most uninteresting man, in the world!
Today on bottom gear, James provokes physical violence from Gordon Ramsay.
this comment is so under rated
@@soapybawlz9160 youre underrated
You are now aware Gordon Ramsay has a fish fingers and chip butty video here on TH-cam, and he gets QUITE excited about the chip butty with ketchup.
lol
no man is above a quality chip butty.
This is one of the weirdest celebrity evolution so far, a well regarded car show presenter has found his own internet niche, making pre-Thatcher era foodstuffs... nice
To be fair, he also had a show assembling things, and an Amazon show about Japan. So basically just anything mildly interesting, and it fits him perfectly
@@sirhenk5910 Or take things that seem mundane and boring add in James May and Presto it become interesting.
I miss manlab
He did some similar vibes shows when he was at the BBC I think, with far fewer viewers I imagine. There was one where assembeled a 70s lawnmower whilst saying it was ridiculous that anybody was watching.
Man of the people
I love how absolutely proud James looks whenever he gets the response from the crew members. So wholesome.
one Grand Tour episode cost: £2.5 million + medical therapy for Hammond after all the crashes
one FoodTribe video cost: £10 at Tesco
they need to do some regular conversation corner, news and bants, cheap to produce too.
@@allothernamesbutthis yes, they should make it on youtube. They already have drivetribe as their channel, it should be easy for them to make it. If they have conversation segment regularly on drivetribe, they could help gain views and allows them to bring guests like old top gear
@@w4397 And share great news about the Dacia Sandero!
I'm sure he's paying the camera staff £50 each for an hour's work
that's so funny
James May becoming a semi-ironic TH-camr is somehow the best thing to have ever happened
Yes to this
Love it when he says like, comment, subscribe whenever there is a gap!
@@faisalleeds 😂😂
I literally need at least two episodes of just James may per week, better yet I need a cooking show exclusive by James
@@tipedeal2349 he's making one for amazon
The world is burning and james may is just here making crisp sandwiches.
What else is there to do ?
I do this all the time
We should follow him
Now that's a man with his priorities in order!
Chip sandwiches*
James May is my favorite presenter. I love these videos, but every time a new one comes out, I cry a little.
I grew up with the trio, the original show got me through many many rough days.
Then when they went on Amazon, I was so happy and hoped it will continue for many more years.
I saw them getting older, got a bit older myself, and now watching these, I am reminded of those wonderful moments.
When Jeremy cried on that last episode, I just couldn't help myself to follow suit.
Just want to thank you James for many great years. Such an awesome journey!
There's dry humor then there's British dry humor AND then there's James May dry humor
Dessicated humor
humour, humour and humour
@@FaustoTheBoozehound dehydrated humor
No, that's just typical English dry humour.
@@safcforme3475 @
Here I am watching a 58 year old man making the same two kind of sandwiches over and over for 13 minutes. And somehow I want more
"I'm sure this isn't particularly interesting if you're a viewer- I'm not sure why food programming is interesting..." James the reason most of us are watching this isn't that it's food programming, it's that you're in it.
Idk, James May is one of my favourite people but I am very passionate about both the "chip", "crips", "fry" debate and crisp sandwiches.
70s food.
So true same when clarksons farm show will finally be available. I don't care about farming but love watching him, hammond and james
James May could just sit in a chair and read a book in silence for 2 hours and you can bet all the chips in my Wooden Chest of Magic™, that i will watch every page turning action filled second of it!!!
Let's be honest, if we're looking for food programming, this probably ISN'T the go to.
When I was a poor student I remember my favourite meal was cheap oven chips with a bread and butter to make sandwiches and a tin of beans with those little pork sausages. It was perfect stodge.
James May is literally the embodiment of that sandwich. Boring but interesting.
I think you mean simple but entertaining.
COTD!!!
So... an oxymoron?
* those?
@@netweed09 that* I was specifically referring to the crisps one, the one he was making when I was watching. Thanks for playing though.
The most English thing ever when your mouth is watering at a smushed loaf of bread and fried potatoes.
You comment killed me
All nonces come out the woodwork when Mays about
'ery naice
@@turbochargedfilms k ill have a whiff
Over here some of the kids add Poutine to them.
Imagine someone who doesn't know of James May and just stumbled on this video.
That's me. Not too sure what I watched
@@hentaidude666 please devote some of your time to get to know James may, Richard Hammond and Jeremy Clarkson
Youre welcome
Clarkson, may and hammond are the perfect trio. Especialy in oooold top gear
@@polaraxis6686 yes the 2008 top gear was peak
😯
As a German, I can very much relate to James‘ friends being appalled at the thought of putting vinegar on chips. On crisps however, it’s brilliant
@Flicks I have actually tried it
@@schalkerleiden I don't believe you
Do you squeeze the lemon on your schnitzel?
@@schalkerleiden Must be a deficiency of the germans again.
Vinegar on crisps?!?!
Man, top gear really missed a beat by leaving out the many instances of James May doing basic tasks incredibly slow and leisurely 😂
The BBC made an absolutely terrible mistake by firing Jeremy Clarkson, now they are incredibly popular lol
@@agirlfromcambridge4517 theyre better without the BBC
@@bobcostas6272 Yeah, now they can do a much wider variety of stuff like this
He did everything slow and leisurely, he just wasn't supposed to!😂
boys want more grand tour episodes
*men want a james may full analysis on lurpak spreadable butter invented in 1903*
like comment subscribe
But real men want old top gear back
It's 1901
Why not both?
I’d like both
James need to cover the old faithful: Fish Finger Butty
With custard.
Mm. With ketchup.
I remember Tom Scott's excellent Citation Needed series once mentioning a samosa butty. I feel that James May needs to make and review this.
@@fadedjem "HOW NORTHERN IS THAT SENTENCE?!"
@but ton no brown sauce! Only red works.
Whats amazing to me is that the things that we take for granted, James May finds extremely interesting!
"Would you like some carbs with your carbs with a side of carbs?"
In Indonesia, we eat rice with a side of instant ramen.
Always one
@@nickabbooo Koreans’ favorite hangover cure, too.
Carbs on carbs is the essence of poverty food, you just try to make something vaguely interesting out of dirt cheap ingredients.
@@nickabbooo isnt that meal common throughout Malaysia,Indonesia,Singapore,and Brunei?
James' crisp and chip sandwiches, Lucy's idea to combine and Tom's addition of the ketchup. This is the teamwork we love to see
I've just tried their combination, and it truly is magical...
Nothing say 70s English cuisine like a carbohydrates sandwich.
WIGAN KEBAB
Would you like some carbohydrates on your carbohydrates?
@@ElvenMans smack barm pey wet
@@allgonoemo4217 The almighty Wigan kebab
Spread with animal fat.
This video inspired me to give this a try, as an american, i never thought of this growing up, and i'm 25 now.
Edit: I used what we have, white bread, generic butter, and salt and vinegar lays, made a crisp sandwich, and honestly... its amazing. new fave simple snack for me.
you did it wrong bud, rye bread, cheese wiz, and original lays potato chips. trust me
@@drangstveitmark that... is a great idea. it may be a bit, but will try!
I made a grilled cheese but with Doritos and tomato soup, I’m Canadian. I used whole grain bread, cheddar cheese, whole butter and Doritos nacho cheese. You could also replace the Doritos with cheezies and it’d work well, but they only sell it in Canada
Haha nice. As a Brit, I’m glad someone is getting something from our bad food traditions.
@@chriscotonou7765 Well, you know how it goes. Junk food makes the world grow round.
"what was the other thing you mentioned earlier you don't like"
"Vinegar"
*Look of disgust*
It is uncannily youthful, and certainly more than slightly annoying.
Imagine using vinegar for anything other than cleaning windows
Malt vinegar for windows? Wobble your head, thats not what its for
Tom: “I’ve never had a crisp sandwich”. James: Brings out the knife
i was really shocked too! how had he never had one before!!
Same here, never had
Never heard of it before this video, never had chips to anything other then on their own
In Australia we call chips and crisps “chips” we all just somehow know which type of chip we’re referring too
In Germany, we say "Fritten" or "Pommes" to chips/fries, and say "Chips" to crisps
@@drsherifff and the muricans say fries
@@drsherifff Ironically, pommes sounds identical to poms I believe, which is Australian slang for the English
@@ghazghkullthraka9714 Pommes actually comes from pomme de Terre, which means apples from the earth (earth from the ground)
Ryno, mate, Ozzies originate from us Brits, you should be ashamed of yourselves lol !
I absolutely love how there is really no line between cast and crew. Everyone is part of the show. I am waiting for the episode featuring the mailman.
I feel like the entirety of Food Tribe was made so that James could relive his 70s lunch time memories
at this point of the show i think you're correct 😅
Alternate title: James May consumes half a billion carbohydrates in 13 minutes.
they didn't have carbs in the 70s.....
@@SimonWoodburyForget what about the ketchup, vinegar and salt?
@tyvek05 Cool story bro
@@drdeath1971 They just don’t make carbs like they used to.
In australia, crisps are chips
Chips are also chips.
We live a confusing life.
In Germany, crisps are Chips and Chips are Pommmes.
Corona Virus 19 if you call crisps chips in the UK it’s only you doing it
In NZ both are chips as well
yeah but we've got chicken salt
I thought you call them chups @@jacobraji2442.... 🤣
This is the power James May has.
In any other world, this video is just someone making sandwiches, but because it’s James May, you’re hooked!
I'm a decade older than James, in the early sixties my dad did some work for the owner of a crisp factory so got a lot of free crisps. When we went out for a Sunday day out,a picnic was always a part of the day, crisps always were included and we all liked to add the crisps to the sandwiches, an easy way to make a sarnie more interesting. Salad cream also goes well with crisps in a sarnie.
salad cream i choose over butter usually
chris osh salad cream is evil.....try Mayo!
@@jonnycando Mayo is dull and has no bite, like the difference between English mustard and Dijon.
chris osh oh you an American Mayo, can be quite sharp!
Butter and salad cream on both sides of the bread is just like heaven
"french fries, which were invented by the British"
*the entire country of Belgium being triggered*
potato julien was invented in belgium boiled
Ik bent engles en nederlanse lol
I think that was more like: "Well if the French and the Belgians are fighting over it might as well throw our hat in it as well"
@@MrTree421 and then the americans came and won
all countries who claimed "diced potatoes that are fried, but not to the extent they are crispy" are now triggered. especially for the name
Slowly, ever so slowly. James is converting Lucy into the real food world. Nice one Lucy.
That’s why they call him captain slow 😂
This is not the real food world! 🤪😅
He's gonna turn her into a guy eventually.
One of us, one of us 👻
Andrew Sousa looks like one already
American here, and my father taught me to make these back in the 80's...he's a 50's/60's kid. He always had me use mayonnaise.
Ew mayo
@@Goat4459 What’s wrong with mayo?
@@thegreatrobin2329 everything its sour tasting, weird consitancy, an its all wrong. Like Tea and banana
@LostintheWoods You go back in time to the English nobleman that it's named after, chop him into pieces and use him in the sandwich?
@@Goat4459 take a look at salad cream (less fat) and stuff like remoulade (both the french and danish version) and tartar sauce.
Top Gear: trying so hard
James may: Lets talk bout chips and crisps😂😂😂
Saw 15 seconds of top gear for the first time while watching gogglebox, had to leave the room 😂🤦🏼♂️
I’d rather watch this for an hour than BBC’s Current Top Gear.
Not gonna lie, I was skeptical before watching this, on whether I can actually finish the whole thing. I can honestly say that this was a very fast 13 minutes.
True I'd Watch Paint Dry Also
It's not even Top Gear, it's that annoying Keith Lemon tier tribe of comedy infiltrating the show with their painful sense of 'humour'...
Chris Harris is great and knows his stuff but the crass ladishness of the other two just isn’t funny
I already do.
James: "Cut away to something else"
Lucy: inserts clip of James pretending to be a dog in a Japanese cartoon 😂😂😂
Are you writing a script?
@@RG-tm7uq Are you tying to be a critic?
@@cunnerzzz 👍
@@RG-tm7uq Are you trying to be smart?
Tom saying he’d never had a crisp sandwich seemed to fill him with a lot of joy and excitement , just to see James’ surprise and astonishment
As an apprentice in the late 70s, after a hard, cold morning on site I would buy a buttered Belfast bap (a fat crusty roll about 7" in diameter), a portion of chips, a packet of Tayto cheese 'n' onion (indubitably the King of Crisps), cheese slices and a carton of vending machine chicken soup. All the solid comestibles that would fit were stuffed into the bap, making a healthy-sized meal for a growing lad. For lubrication, the bap was dunked in the soup. I've yet to eat anything else to match it for sheer gastronomic delight.
Imma have to try this. I tried tatyo in Belfast a couple years ago but I’ve got a tin of condensed soup in the cupboard. Looking forward to it. Cheers 👍🏻
The older 22 blokes we would train with whenever we made the trip to the UK, would have something similar to this. Only differences were corned beef instead of cheese slices and the soup would come from the shops rather than a vending machine
@@f.wiltshire5962aaaand???
When Tom said 'bit close to lunch, isn't it', I almost died when I saw the sad puppy look in James' eyes as he said 'this isn't lunch?'
I can literally watch James paint a wall and find it entertaining.
He's just amazingly entertaining even when he's not trying.
And he has a great taste in watches-- I see that Grand Seiko.
I don't think that's a GS... Do you have a timestamp of a clear shot of it?
@@aytahnbenavi Looks more like a Datejust to me
EDIT: Oyster Perpetual sans date
@@matthackett83 Looks about right. Either way I have read that he's got a 1976 Omega chrono-quartz, which is a super interesting piece. Early quartz is often overlooked by collectors and it's cool that James has a serious watch nerd's kind of watch.
@@matthackett83 Also I just found the timestamp of a close shot, it's 6:02. It's a white milgauss!
@@aytahnbenavi Milgauss confirmed! Nice
From an Australian; whether it's "fries" or "crisps", its all just chips. It's about context. You could either have a packet of chips, or, some hot chips, often with chicken salt (the best thing ever). We also love chip sandwiches, except ours wouldn't usually have Lurpak spreadable butter (invented in 1903). Most takeaway shops or convenience stores will have at least hot chips, a loaf of bread, and some little tomato sauce packets. Then you would walk to the park and feast on this unbeatable tucka.
I would have something saucy on it, just to keep the chips from falling out. There is already the soft bread and crispy chips, so something juicy can't be wrong.
One of my earliest memories is at lunchtime in my primary school...We sat on the floor of the gymnasium for some reason to eat our packed lunch.
Upon opening my Ghostbusters lunchbox and subsequently opening my sandwich, I found it buttered but without any filling.
Being 5 I proceeded to cry and internally curse my mother internally to damnation.
The janitor came over on seeing my immense and confusing plight and put my packet of crisps in said empty sandwich...Revelations were had.
I'm now a personal chef for Billionaires and still like a crisp sandwich, either my mum was a genius or just a bit busy that morning.
Dunno, might phone her and ask.
That janitor was the real hero of the day.
What a lifestory
@@averagecoloniser4586 thanks
Did you call her? What is she say?
So?
British cuisine, ladies and gentlemen.
This is some fine dining right here
How about a Steak and |kidney Pie butty? Student fare from the seventies.
And it looks delicious
it actually tastes great
The crisps are irish I won't stand for anything else
Lucy brown "I'm not sure of this one because of the vinegar" after taking a large bite out of a salt and vinegar crisp sandwich
Yeah, i was expecting James to catch up on it, maybe he let it slide, or wasn't paying attention.
I went to a Walmart, bought a tube of salt and vinegar Lay's Stax, and made myself this sandwich, which I've never tried; neither a chip sandwich (american here) nor the chip flavor. It changed my life, as James said.
I Remember James's mother from an old TG episode, him mentioning his mother really brought a smile to my face
To be clear, Australians call “crisps” chips AND “fries” chips. Because all things are chips and we appreciate chip related chaos.
If it has potato, it’s chips. Shepherds pie? Chips and mince. Mashed potatoes? Broken chips.
I wish you all English speakers had some kind of agreement about certain nouns. Chips and biscuits are two very confusing words
And yet we always know the difference.
@@senzubean31 it’s a requirement that you be able to tell the difference without context in order to get a Cert II in hospitality
Chips & Hot chips
James in Australia, we name them both, *CHIPS* one is just 'hot' chips which is the deep fried ones
Battered chips!?
Yeah I've only called really thin hot chips french fries. Like the Maccas ones.
Derryn Jones only chips that I call French fries are the ones you get in that red packet and are called French fries
@@mx_nana_banana chips are chips and chips are also chips except for this chips those are french fries
Pommes, ihr Lappen 🤗🤪
This is pure gold! It is so bad, it is amazing! Keep them coming! I can't not watch this.
Here in Australia they’re all chips. Hot chips, crunchy chips... choc chip... all the same.
His face when he squashed the sandwich.
*looks left and right suspiciously*
“Sounds great”
"Creative snack ideas for broke potheads."
I feel attacked
@@bencarter9901 just tried this recipe with doritos, so I didn't need cheese.
So pintrest or 5 min crafts but more food?
@@tigerbalmespresso nah mate, you need the Walkers.
@@tigerbalmespresso make it with chilli heatwave doritos and grated cheese
In Australia, we call chips "hot chips", to differentiate them from chips, which you call "crisps". They are only called "fries" at a couple of those imported American franchises. Although sometimes, if the hot chips are cut very thin, we may call them fries as well. And yes, I've had both chip sandwiches (salt and vinegar is my favourite), and hot chip sandwiches, with and without tomato sauce. I have yet to try them combined, which sounds like heaven.
I love James May’s series on Lurpak spreadable butter invented 1903 like and subscribe.
1901
You missed comment and bretherns
@Stimpy&Ren It is though?
Why does he have to mention that so much? It’s like 3 times that he says the same thing. Also why are the film crew referred to by their full names? I don’t get why he always has to say “Lucy Brown, have you ever had a chip butty” or something else. Like why tho just use first names otherwise it’s kinda irritating to hear. And for the record I like James May so don’t say I’m saying this cos I don’t like him :)
@@philgreen736 Well the whole Lurpak thing is a running gag on the channel cause he keeps mentioning it for no reason and the crew members started making fun of him for it. The whole full name thing may just be James trying to be polite since he may not know the crew very well.
"What you would call French fries - which were invented by the British"
*Angry Belgian noises*
Wait until you hear what we call sprouts...
@@johnturner4400 I am fairly certain sprouts are not from brussels
Hahahahaha brilliant, I’m Belgian and I was about to rant about that 😂
@@betci148 allee zotteke
Belgium was invented by the British
I’m convinced James smokes a joint before doing TH-cam
Spliff. He's British.
A Rizla, baccy and some filthy hard hash. A classic English spliff.
@@LMvdB02 ah yes. That just hit the spot and that's an evening cap for me.
@@takafumiarisawa70 im british and everyone calls them joints from where im from
@@smokeymcgee7585 I was under the impression a spliff was a cannabis-tobbacco mixture.
These video's just appeared in my feed one day. I never knew they existed before. Having watched a few now, I love them. Subscribed!
Aussie here. “Chips” are chips and “crisps” are chips too. We’d prefer to be confused than be associated with the Yanks and their “French Fry” nonsense
French Fries > Vegemite.
Yeah how do people find chips and chips confusing
@@TheGecko26 Chips dipped in Vegemite
Spot on mate
American here, I'd like to say we don't usually say French fry, we mostly just say fries. I don't know where the French part came from but fries are deep fried potato wedges so fries does just fine. I also say papitas but thats for my Spanish speakers ✌🏼
interestingly here in America, fish and chips are still called “fish and chips”-malt vinegar on the “chips” ( ;) ) is amazing
ceerw buty I think you meant to put this in the main thread 😂
ceerw buty I’ve never seen anyone cut a sandwich vertically in my life.
@@deanloveridge2534 thats the correct way though. symmetry.
@@aredub1847 I mean horizontally and vertically don't really apply when it comes to sandwiches. There's only the shapes- rectangular and triangular/ diagonal
@@deanloveridge2534 You need to live more dangerously, try it
“when we were young, crisps were the entire meal” 😂😂
For my great grandmother it was ww2 😂
Don't laugh, for many of us young poor kids in the 60s and 70s it was. Plus, sugar butties, lard butties, corned beef butties, banana butties, strawberry jam butties...And they were all delicious 🙈😀
@@johnnyyen3007 the lack of taste in any of these foods is disturbing my Middle Eastern pallet, our food is basically half spice half the actual dish
@@zbady4595 yh not the poor middle easteners so stop being snobby
Why can’t I stop watching this
Britain: Crisps, Chips
Australia: Chips, Chips
America: Chips, Fries
Netherlands: Chips, Patat
Pommes Frites (fried potatos)
Britain ClrIuthSpths, chips
Germany: Chips, Pommes Frites (or Pommes or Fritten)
Spain has it easy: they use Patatas Fritas for both chips/crisps.
Do a collaboration with Hammond and Clarkson. Make a sandwich challenge or something. (By the way, if James reads this, what does he think of georgia?)
Jeremy will make a hotdog during a sandwich challenge
Oh oh! Awesome idea! A fat juicy steak sandwich for Jeremy without the steak. I'd guess he'll punch you in the face because you're the "producer."
Clarkson will somehow make soup, and Hammond will complain about it not being organic
@Bob Jo And Hammond will some how crash it.
Georgia is on his mind
Most British sentence ever ...--- ""Well, it's a bit near lunch time isn't it?"" 10:42
A sandwich is very lunch-ish isn’t it? 😝
As a brit I approve
@@cynthiamolenaar770 It's rather jentacular isn't it
I love James's reaction to Lucy never having had a chip butty. I was exactly the same.
Cheese and crisps together are better than just crisps, but I’m definitely going to try the crisp & chip double decker.
Fast forward a few years and all the hipsters will be ordering Lucy Brown Sandwichs instead of the Smashed Avo Sangas like they do now.
"French fries invented by the British"
*Angry Belgian noises in the distance*
they where invented in England by William kitchner
Sounds a bit like something Wikipedia would say
Well we did make the chunky ones but not the thin long ones
@@hotsince0550 Those are potato chips, not french fries. May had it mixed up with all the crisp-chip talk
Technically the first french fry was fried fish sticks in 1680 (according to my research)
Lets us not forget ol' faithful, beans on toast.
The rest of the world are appalled at Brits having beans on toast, and beans at breakfast time too
I could go for some of that right about now. Where’s Hammond when he’s needed?
YES
@Michael Davis not sure about that on beans on toast, cheese on toast though oh yes
Enough beans to cover 1 round of dry toast perfectly. With 1 buttered round of toast adjacent.
I'm a child of the 70's.... I've never had a crisp sandwich because my parents loved me.
May's disappointment everytime Lucy says she hasn't tried something sends me 😂😂😂
James’s been shocked more times in this episode than usual.
As an Aussie I want to clarify that yes, we call potato chips "chips" probably because that's what they are called on the packet, but we also call fried potatos chips as well. No distinction here, we love our chips. Fries are the provenance of fast food "joints" and as I was a child of the 70's I thought I should clarify that from an Aussie standpoint.
I respect that consistency.
Australia truly is a land of pure unadulterated chaos.
I'm an Australian and I think calling crisps, chips is silly. Chips is hot chips, crisps is much more logical for the bagged variety. I go with the Poms more often than not though
@@Dazzwidd 🙄 seems like traitor talk
@@nothanks... I still call Petrol, Petrol. I'd Never call it gas 😅
We need more of this please
James: “So Lucy what food do you like to eat”
Lucy: “No”
Miss, negative actually liked something, I am flabagasted.
I always put vinegar on first. The theory being that if you put salt on to dry chips it will just fall to the bottom of the container. Vinegar makes it stick.
Can you please do a comparison of old school chippy chips wrapped in old school paper (newspaper would be amazing but plain will suffice) and left to sweat, compared to chips in horrible polystyrene containers. Old school are better.
all of england eating like WW2 never ended
All of americans eat like they have free healthcare
@@foguhftyuhgiggg8178 ohhhhhhhh SNAP!
@@foguhftyuhgiggg8178 you didn’t have to end his life 😂
"I saw this one on twitter"
@@SavageMrFox the fact u can have carry is bad
"My mother will have rightfully concluded that this is bollocks" 😂😂
If you're dropping crisps then you're not pressing down hard enough.
Watching old men eating chips sandwiches is still better than new Top Gear.
Watching a wall dry is better than the new top gear
watching grass grow is better than the new top gear
looking directly into the sun -still better than new Top Gear.
Covid is better than new Top Gear.
*sandwiches
I am 23 grown adult male sitting in pyjama at 8:17 pm on saturday and watching other grown adult male eating a sandwich with chips. What a time to be alive!!!!
PS:
There is a thing called chips like Lays and french fries a thing that we eat with burgers.
@NightLife UK I think I will not agree on that. 🤣
@NightLife UK what about the Walkers french fries crisps? 😂
I love the way he makes this amusing gotta love may😂
This has got to be the most British thing that I have ever seen.
Herbie Versailles always one
Australians don't say 'fries' we call them both 'chips', just to be confusing.
hot chips is hot chips, bag of chips aka crisps is what its really called.
@@fraserenglish6226 Only really if one needs to distinguish between the two. Perfectly normal to say "pass the / have some chips" etc when referring to either.
But fries are entirely different to chips and crisps. Fries are what McDonald’s serve. Chips are fatter and crisps are crisps
@@handsoffmycactus2958 Australians do call the thin cut hot chips fries sometimes, however the hot chips in this video are 100% not fries.
And we put more salt on our chips so we can drink more .
Lurpak should be paying James May at this point.
7:42 When you are British and someone likes your food
Can we just touch on the point that 2 grown adults haven’t had either a chip butty or a crisp sandwich before... I don’t know what to say
it’s ludicrous claiming they’re english
25 years. Never had to do that.
James has but the camera man hasn’t
@@CommanderSuberox 2 grown adults, referring to Tom and Lucy
Because it's odd! It's putting carbs on carbs. In some cafés you get a fancy tosti with doritos or a sandwich witch crisp on the side. However all of them (even Lucy) liking it I am curious now
He is like a sweet grandma forcefeeding everyone around with archaic food...
I really enjoyed how he treats lucy so wholesome
I can watch James eat sandwiches all day and enjoy it.
Things I did not anticipate to see today: Sandwiches of the seventies. A suitably James May-ish subject. Just goes to show we will watch May talk about anything and enjoy ourselves.
Does anybody know when Lurpak was invented? It's something I've always wondered.
1903 or 1901, one of the two.
Maybe James can answer that in his next video. Or you could do a search on the Internet. But that's not nearly as fun as having James tell us things.
1907
I just wonder how much of it should be used.
2 weeks ago...
Happy to hear Momma May is still alive. She’s just adorable.
Sounds like a brand of syrup
I just ate my first salt and vinegar and lurpak sandwich, thanks to this video convincing me. A bit of cheese would go a huge way, though.
"I'm not sure why this is interesting" Basically sums up every James May vid ever, yet I can't stop watching.
When you realize James May actually beat Gordon Ramsay in cooking.
"I'm disappointed Ramsay" - James May
@@woodenhoe* “You disappoint me Ramsay”
Let's call the crisp-chip double decker sammie the 'Lucy Brown'.
I agree
@@cjtquk I second that!
You need HP sauce for that
I love how James appreciates ASMR