the reason British chocolate/candy tastes different from US chocolate/candy, is because the US uses corn syrup to sweeten things and the UK uses refined cane sugar
@@kaico9585 In addition, it is suspected that Hershey's use Butyric Ai in their chocolate to stop it melting. Butyric Acid is what gives the smell and taste to human vomit (sorry)! It is banned in European foodstuffs and is on the European list of dangerous substances! Mushy Peas are not normally eaten on toast (no reason they can't be!). Normally, they are had with Fish and Chips, Shepherds Pie or other pie dish. Did you heat the Mushy Peas? You are meant to. Dandelion and Burdock is an acquired taste but I love it and have drunk it for decades. When I was a child, many years ago now, we would be given Lucozade original when we ere sick in bed (same for Ribena). It was expensive even then, hence we would only get it when ill. Most of what you had today I was eating and drinking sixty years ago!
down the rabbit hole of watchign americans try british foods and snacks, props for being the only ones I have seen to try pickled onions. Lucozade is basically carbonated gatorade, its a sports drink, and the reason we have so much blackcurrent purple stuff compared to the grape stuff you guys have is basically the climate in the uk sucks for growing gapes, like we get them in supermarkets in the fruit isle but most of our grape flavoured stuff is imported because we cant make enough of them to supply the confectionary industries and the supermarkets
"pass-tills" is how you would write the actual pronunciation.... there is no "tul" sound. People always get confused when writing pronunciations... just literally write how you would pronounce it - which in this case is "pass-tills"...
Chocolate orange is really popular here in England. Theres lots of chocolate bars that have a orange twin. Like twix and twix orange. Jaffa cake are small cakes that look like chocolate biscuits (cookies) ho my God ! Don't drink ribena neat. You add water to it.
The Peas are normally eaten hot with Fried Fish and Chips. (Fries) drowning in salt and vinegar. The Vegemite is usually eaten as a thin smear on hot, fresh buttered toast. it makes all the difference.
We were given Lucozade (original) in the sixties and seventies to replace electrolytes after an illness. It tasted foul, lol. The orange one is a lot better. 🇬🇧🇱🇷🖖👍
Before Coke and Pepsi were available in the UK Vimto and Tizer dominated the softy drink market. Lucozade on the other hand was considered a drink if you did not feel well and was available at the pharmacy not general stores. .
Shandy is simply beer with added lemonade, can be either Bitter or lager. Also, as a Brit. I totally agree on the pickled onions, just the smell is enough to make you gag.
Dandelion and Burdock is apparently similar to what Americans call root beer, although I've never tried American root beer so I can't compare. Dr Pepper also initially tried to get the recipe from Dandelion and Burdock to produce its own variation. I love it!
@@kaico9585 ~ you're welcome, IrnBru outsells Coca-Cola here as it's a big part of Scotland's identity and we can very quick to defend it. Tizer is made by the same company Barrs, same factory, but nobody drinks it much. You hardly see people drink it, everyone drinks IrnBru.
Alcohol laws are much more relaxed here in the UK, for England and i guess most of if not all of the UK it's 18 to buy alcohol in shops and at clubs and pubs etc as well as to drink in premises such as pubs and clubs, with an exception that if you're 16 or 17 an adult can buy you a beer, glass of wine or a cider as long as it's with a cooked meal. But the most crazy thing is that if you're at home, or any other private premises you can drink from the age of 5 years old, but it's obviously not encouraged or advised, but it does mean for example that it would be perfectly legal for Charlie or Charley (not sure how she spells it) to drink alcohol at home or yours/parents or whatever if living here :)
Bit of useless trivia for you. Mary queen of Scots was looked after by French maids. When she was ill they would say "Mam et malady" which is French for madam is ill. They would fetch an orange compote, for the vitamin C. This got changed to marmalade. 🇬🇧🇱🇷☺💜
The only way you can describe what Tizer tastes like is to say Tizer. It has it's own unique taste. The advertising slogan is 'you can tell it's Tizer when your eyes are shut' Jaffa cake nibbles taste nothing lie jaffa cakes
The openings of the drinks (soda) cans are designed so you can turn them around once opened and put a straw in them and it stops the straw floating to the top
Dandelion and burdock is today a soft drink that has long been popular in the United Kingdom, which has its origins in hedgerow mead commonly drunk in the mediæval period.[13] Burdock is believed to be a galactagogue, a substance that increases lactation, but it is sometimes recommended to be avoided during pregnancy based on animal studies that show components of burdock to cause uterus stimulation.[14] In Europe, burdock root was used as a bittering agent in beer before the widespread adoption of hops for this purpose.
"Marmite" in the UK, "Vegemite" in Australia. It is yeast extract and high in vitamins and minerals. During the war it was used as a food additive as well as a flavouring (umami) in recipes such as "Woolton Pie".
You've probably already been told this in the comments but you don't drink Ribena neat. It's a concentrate - what we call a cordial or squash - so you're meant to put a small amount in a glass and add water. Oh, and after I post this you read the label!!! 😂
haha, that dandelion and burdock was probably made in the refreshco drinks factory in my town, there are only two factories in the UK that make Ben Shaws drinks and they are both called refreshco
When you were checking out Tizer online, I suspect you read past one article and into another, when you came out with "it's the best selling soft drink in Scotland" because Tizer, though popular throughout the UK, certainly isn't the most popular soft drink in Scotland: that title is indisputedly held by "Barrs Irn Bru".
Marmite or Vegemite only needs the tiniest amount on toast but even then people either love it or hate it. And nobody knows what Tizer is supposed to be.
Jaffa name comes from the seedless orange called the Jaffa orange, hence jaffa cakes. I love Tizer, it's got a slight hint of ginger that gives it that warming sensation. They did a limited run of Tizer with ginger that had a much stronger hit of ginger. Barr, the makers of Tizer also do a Red Kola that is fantastic. I think the closest to Dandelion & Burdock is sarsaparilla. Mushy peas are best with fish and chips or a roast ham dinner.
@@kaico9585 No worries. I thought sarsaparilla was a particularly North American drink. I just saw your introduction video. As someone whose had depression since I was 12 and self harmed, it's good to see more people talking and being done about mental health. For me, I just try to keep busy but there are times I really have to catch myself. With this pandemic going on, people worrying all the time, being told and having to stay home, etc... it in itself is going to cause a lot of mental health issues when one day, hopefully soon, we can all go back to some sort of pre-pandemic normality. Keep doing what your doing. Keep safe.
FYI You DON'T put mushy peas on muffins or toast, you have them with fried fish and chips (fries) Marmite is supposed to be a condiment, like vinegar or brown sauce, it's nice if you make toast, spread a THIN layer on it, then put a nice sharp cheese, like cheddar, and melt it under the grill.
There is a candy bar in Canada (I can't remember what it's called, but it looked similar) that had a spongey texture and because that's the only reference we had I thought it was going to be like that. We were wrong but it was still good! 😊
Watching your video I see you made the classic mistake of spreading the vegemite far too thickly. I like spead marmite (our equivalent yeast extract) very thinly on buttered toast. I can also say that as a Brit (born in Wales, living in England) I rarely seen vegemite on sale here. We'd probably have to search it out as you would those Jammy Dodgers. Marmite is a different kettle of fish, that's made in Staffordshire and available in most grocery stores. One thing to try with Marmite/ Vegemite is adding it to a beef stock it really does enhance the flavour. We also have something similar called Bovril which is used to make a drink by mixing the bovril with really hot ( usually boiled) water. Sounds disgusting right? But, believe me, as someone who has spent far too much time in football (soccer) stadia on cold winter nights watching Hull City (my local team) play there's nothing better than a cup of hot bovril in a disposable cup to warm your hands as you drink it down. It really does help fight those chills. As for those carbonated drinks, the can of shandy you had, being so low in alcohol, can legally be bought and drunk by children here. In most circumstances you have to be over 18 to legally buy and drink alcohol on licenced premises but if you are having a meal then a younger person can legally drink something like a small glass of wine to accompany it provided they have appropriate adult supervison. Having said that, I know it happens but everytime I've been out with family for a meal the children usually get fruit juice or soft drinks. If they do get alcohol it's usually just a sip of an adults drink or may be a small amount of beer poured into a glass of lemonade to make a shandy in similar fashion to the can you had. Of course (current pandemic aside) we Brits have a far bigger pub culture than you do in tthe USA. While we have bars where the clientele are more of the "set 'em up Joe" drinkers, there are many more premises with a far more family friendly atmosphere. So much so that quite a few actually have specially designed childrens play areas! It's also common for venues to have a cut-off point in the evening for children being allowed on the premises to try and protect them from the worst excesses of our pub culture. Pickled onions, are an aquired taste and probably not the best to try when you've been eating sweet stuff beforehand. Being savoury, IMO they go down better you have them alongside a sandwich/roll with a hard cheese filling. BTW in a similar vein, we can also buy jars of pickled eggs!
@@kaico9585 thought so that's the problem, most chocolate isn't great when cold, room temperature is great and sometimes we even stick some in the microwave for a few seconds, just to make the centre gooey :)
Jaffa cakes are actually cakes not biscuits. A few decades ago the government introduced new taxes on biscuits but not cakes and tried to make mcvities pay the extra tax because they said they were biscuits. Mcvities went to court and to prove they were cakes, they made giant size Jaffa cakes cooked over a number of days. They won and it was made law that the only difference between a cake and a biscuit is a cake goes hard over time and a biscuit goes soft! We english folk are full of this useless information
@@kaico9585 lucozade is mostly given to people in hospital because the caffeine and sugars perk you up. Go into any hospital over here and you will see cards, flowers, grapes and lucozade. A lot of foods here are tailored for a reason. Fisherman's friends are supposed to sea fishermen warm. Cornish pasties (passtees) are were created by cornish miners wives to be eaten in the dark. That crimp shape are finger grooves. You're supposed to eat it upside down then throw away the crimped bit if you like when you're finished
America. ........ You are meant to dilute Ribena in water ........ What you are doing is basically drinking coke syrup without the sparkling water that makes Coke. Do Not drink concentrates (Squash) neat.......
Most British people prefer our marmite to Australian vegemite. Even though the ingredients are the same, and they have almost the same making process, one goes through one more process to make it different. To some Brits vegemite tastes like burnt cabbage.
Dandelion & Burdock is only so much a popular flavour in the UK. But only so much as to exist in that Fizzy drink/soda. Mostly only seen in Fish & Chip shopS (deep-fried food) Take-aways. Oh! and Iin over-priced trendy/ hipster; but revolting Cider.
Vegimite is Australian, who told you it was British? Marmite is British and far superior, it is stronger. You either love it or hate it, even if you are British. I love it.
Thank you for your feedback. As you probably figured out, we pronounce that word differently in the United States, which is why I pronounced it that way.
The Lion bar was obviously too cold as it should be soft and chewy and sorry to say what you have in those mini Jaffa Cakes are NOT Jaffa cakes Jaffa cakes are the size of aa regular biscuit/cookie and that is the only kind so sorry to say you have not tried a Jaffa cake
@@kaico9585 ~ dunno, it's something we're told as kids, and then we tell our own kids, and so on. The French call them pissinlet... Wet the Beds. There must be something to it.
These are NOT "British Foods", this is British factory made snacks. The ultimate in British fast food is fish and chips freshly cooked at a real traditional fish and chip shop. If you ever come to Britain you must try this, it is the great delicacy of Britain. The British do NOT do restaurant food, restaurants in Britain are all foreign cuisine; Indian, Chinese, Italian etc. Real British food is a tradition of home cooking passed from mother to daughter by the women folk but mostly lost since the 1960s. There is increasing interest in re-learning the lost recipes of the past; hot pot, steak and kidney pudding, all forms of steamed puddings and baking. This food developed for life in a cold, damp climate and is rather stodgy, heavy and full of calories for modern tastes. Most people did not have any kind of central heating in their house until the 1970s, so people needed the calories, and food was valued for being hot (temperature wise). The cup of tea was the universal beverage, coffee steadily became more popular from the 1960s with instant coffee, then it was only really the influx of US-style coffee bars in the 1990s that made coffee as big as tea in the UK.
Thank you for all the facts! We are obviously unable to get fresh fish and chips, hot pot, steak and kidney pudding, etc in the US because they aren't made here, otherwise they would have been included.
@@kaico9585 Just for clarification, I didn't mean you're generally a hater, it's sort of an inside joke. The marketing campaign of Marmite basically revolves around the fact that Marmite is divisive. Their slogan is _You Either Love It Or Hate It'._
RIP Captain Jeremy.
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@@kaico9585 @Kai&Co do you can advise me something ?
Although available in the uk vegemite is more Australian/Pacific area,marmite is definitely british/uk
Oh, thanks for letting us know!
Yup! Vegemite is a British Dominion/ Commonwealth product and not a British one.
Irn bru is Scotlands number 1 soft drink
Cool! Thanks for the information!
Mushy peas aren't meant to be on toast btw... they're just a side with fish and chips
Oh! Thank you for letting us know!
And they are eaten hot as a side with a meal - like regular peas x
Yea its beans we have on toast
pork pie and mushy peas
@@benbeever7753 ????
the reason British chocolate/candy tastes different from US chocolate/candy, is because the US uses corn syrup to sweeten things and the UK uses refined cane sugar
Interesting! Thank you for sharing that!
@@kaico9585 In addition, it is suspected that Hershey's use Butyric Ai in their chocolate to stop it melting. Butyric Acid is what gives the smell and taste to human vomit (sorry)! It is banned in European foodstuffs and is on the European list of dangerous substances!
Mushy Peas are not normally eaten on toast (no reason they can't be!). Normally, they are had with Fish and Chips, Shepherds Pie or other pie dish. Did you heat the Mushy Peas? You are meant to.
Dandelion and Burdock is an acquired taste but I love it and have drunk it for decades.
When I was a child, many years ago now, we would be given Lucozade original when we ere sick in bed (same for Ribena). It was expensive even then, hence we would only get it when ill.
Most of what you had today I was eating and drinking sixty years ago!
Also UK chocolate uses real whole milk and the US uses evaporated milk
You’re supposed to dilute the Ribena with water 🙂
Yeah, hahaha, we realized that halfway through 😂 Tasted much better diluted for sure
@@kaico9585 also better with carbonated water
They do other flavours as well but prefer the blackcurrant, such a great fruit it is nice blackcurrant pie in Summer
@@Chris-pv2ht nah strawberry ribena with sparkling water
It’s also really nice warm
As someone from the UK, mushy peas on an English muffin was hilarious 😆
I'm glad you found it funny! We really weren't sure how to eat them properly 😅
@@kaico9585 Understandable. Its kind of a strange one. Fish and chip places even sell them deep fried in batter 😄 Its called a pea fritter
@@scottbutcher9093 Along with a mars bar in batter
@@jameswilson8820 they are pretty special 😋
@@kaico9585 Hi I want apologize you do is any chance meet you friend ?
down the rabbit hole of watchign americans try british foods and snacks, props for being the only ones I have seen to try pickled onions. Lucozade is basically carbonated gatorade, its a sports drink, and the reason we have so much blackcurrent purple stuff compared to the grape stuff you guys have is basically the climate in the uk sucks for growing gapes, like we get them in supermarkets in the fruit isle but most of our grape flavoured stuff is imported because we cant make enough of them to supply the confectionary industries and the supermarkets
That's really interesting. Thanks for the info!
Plus, grape flavour is shit
British biscuits are usually dry so that we can have them with Tea or Coffee :)
That's really cool! Thank you for sharing!
@@kaico9585 Yes, you need to dunk them in the cup of tea before you eat them!
At last, a US reaction video where the participants actually read the ingredients! Kudos.
Hahaha thanks
Custard creams are the cheapest but also most delicious biscuits in the British Isles
They were really good!
Jaffa cakes are normally much larger and come in a box.
Oh, cool! I figured they couldn't be the original size since they were called 'nibblers.' 😁😂
I Love how nearly all Americans overcomplicate saying the word Pastilles. It's simply Pastuls.
Haha thank you for the clarification
"pass-tills" is how you would write the actual pronunciation.... there is no "tul" sound. People always get confused when writing pronunciations... just literally write how you would pronounce it - which in this case is "pass-tills"...
Chocolate orange is really popular here in England. Theres lots of chocolate bars that have a orange twin. Like twix and twix orange. Jaffa cake are small cakes that look like chocolate biscuits (cookies) ho my God ! Don't drink ribena neat. You add water to it.
I really liked the chocolate orange combination! Yeah haha the ribena definitely tasted better watered down 😆
I love jaffas,, ribena is my fave
The Peas are normally eaten hot with Fried Fish and Chips. (Fries) drowning in salt and vinegar. The Vegemite is usually eaten as a thin smear on hot, fresh buttered toast. it makes all the difference.
Good to know! Thanks!
We were given Lucozade (original) in the sixties and seventies to replace electrolytes after an illness. It tasted foul, lol. The orange one is a lot better. 🇬🇧🇱🇷🖖👍
That sounds like gatorade today in America! Super cool :)
dandilion and burdock is probably our equivellent to root beer
I've heard that! That's super neat :)
I still make it at home. Flavours really vary with commercial products as they rarely use real fresh Dandelion and Burdock root.
Before Coke and Pepsi were available in the UK Vimto and Tizer dominated the softy drink market. Lucozade on the other hand was considered a drink if you did not feel well and was available at the pharmacy not general stores. .
Oh, thank you for the information!
Shandy is simply beer with added lemonade, can be either Bitter or lager.
Also, as a Brit. I totally agree on the pickled onions, just the smell is enough to make you gag.
Thanks for the info! Yeah, it was nasty 🥴
Dandelion and Burdock is apparently similar to what Americans call root beer, although I've never tried American root beer so I can't compare. Dr Pepper also initially tried to get the recipe from Dandelion and Burdock to produce its own variation. I love it!
You definitely have beans on toast confused with mushy peas haha that was hillarious
Haha glad you found it amusing!
No. Tizer is not the highest seller in Scotland. That mantle belongs to IrnBru. If you would like a laugh look up IrnBru adverts on TH-cam.
Thanks for the correction and the suggestion!
@@kaico9585 ~ you're welcome, IrnBru outsells Coca-Cola here as it's a big part of Scotland's identity and we can very quick to defend it. Tizer is made by the same company Barrs, same factory, but nobody drinks it much. You hardly see people drink it, everyone drinks IrnBru.
Alcohol laws are much more relaxed here in the UK, for England and i guess most of if not all of the UK it's 18 to buy alcohol in shops and at clubs and pubs etc as well as to drink in premises such as pubs and clubs, with an exception that if you're 16 or 17 an adult can buy you a beer, glass of wine or a cider as long as it's with a cooked meal.
But the most crazy thing is that if you're at home, or any other private premises you can drink from the age of 5 years old, but it's obviously not encouraged or advised, but it does mean for example that it would be perfectly legal for Charlie or Charley (not sure how she spells it) to drink alcohol at home or yours/parents or whatever if living here :)
Yeah, America is very strict about smoking and drinking laws!
Ungotta dunk custard creams in tea... They are ment for tea
Good to know!
Bit of useless trivia for you. Mary queen of Scots was looked after by French maids. When she was ill they would say "Mam et malady" which is French for madam is ill. They would fetch an orange compote, for the vitamin C. This got changed to marmalade. 🇬🇧🇱🇷☺💜
Woah! That's super neat! Thank you for sharing 😄
The only way you can describe what Tizer tastes like is to say Tizer. It has it's own unique taste. The advertising slogan is 'you can tell it's Tizer when your eyes are shut'
Jaffa cake nibbles taste nothing lie jaffa cakes
That's a funny slogan! I'd love to try actual Jaffa cakes.
The openings of the drinks (soda) cans are designed so you can turn them around once opened and put a straw in them and it stops the straw floating to the top
That's a really neat bit of information! Thanks for sharing!
But it’s not though. It can be used for that but it’s not the reason why it is the way it is. I suggest you google it.
Flake is typically eaten shoved into a soft-serve ice cream cone, which is then called a 99. It was first made in 1920 in Bournville (Birmingham).
That sounds really good!
In the UK, we put short flakes in an vanilla ice cream cornet and call them 99's..
That sounds so good!
Yeah they are lovely too, we consume ice cream even in middle of winter outside if we go on a walk
Mark h add along with nuts and strawberry sauce
We put a Cadbury's Flake into a soft serve ice cream cone from an ice stem truck. It's called a 99 ice cream. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/99_Flake
That's super cool! Thanks for sharing :)
Vegemite is Australian and just about all kids here grow up eating Vegemite on bread or toast...Most Aussies love their Vegemite.
Thank you for the information!
Thanks for the shout out and admitting I was right. 🤣
You're welcome hahaha 😝 Love you mom ❤️
Dandelion and burdock is today a soft drink that has long been popular in the United Kingdom, which has its origins in hedgerow mead commonly drunk in the mediæval period.[13] Burdock is believed to be a galactagogue, a substance that increases lactation, but it is sometimes recommended to be avoided during pregnancy based on animal studies that show components of burdock to cause uterus stimulation.[14]
In Europe, burdock root was used as a bittering agent in beer before the widespread adoption of hops for this purpose.
That's really fascinating information! Thank you for sharing!!
The UK has very strict food regulations so we use more natural flavours, colours and preservatives and far less sugar 😀
"Marmite" in the UK, "Vegemite" in Australia. It is yeast extract and high in vitamins and minerals. During the war it was used as a food additive as well as a flavouring (umami) in recipes such as "Woolton Pie".
Interesting!
You've probably already been told this in the comments but you don't drink Ribena neat. It's a concentrate - what we call a cordial or squash - so you're meant to put a small amount in a glass and add water.
Oh, and after I post this you read the label!!! 😂
Haha, yeah we figured that out. Thank you for the information!
The custard creams are best dunked in tea or coffee.
So I've heard! Thank you :)
Pickled onions after chocolate brave
Hahahha 😂
haha, that dandelion and burdock was probably made in the refreshco drinks factory in my town, there are only two factories in the UK that make Ben Shaws drinks and they are both called refreshco
That's really cool!!
Dandelion and Burdock is the best drink ever
It was pretty good!
When you were checking out Tizer online, I suspect you read past one article and into another, when you came out with "it's the best selling soft drink in Scotland" because Tizer, though popular throughout the UK, certainly isn't the most popular soft drink in Scotland: that title is indisputedly held by "Barrs Irn Bru".
Try dunking your custard creams in British Tea ( with milk) delicious
That sounds so good! I'll have to try that next time!
I'd love to know what you're eating for a sherbert lemon to taste like tyres. They are lemon and sugar with citric acid
Marmite or Vegemite only needs the tiniest amount on toast but even then people either love it or hate it. And nobody knows what Tizer is supposed to be.
Thank you for the information!
british people dont have mushy peas on muffins, usually butter and jam or savoury foods
Thanks for the correction!
Jaffa name comes from the seedless orange called the Jaffa orange, hence jaffa cakes.
I love Tizer, it's got a slight hint of ginger that gives it that warming sensation. They did a limited run of Tizer with ginger that had a much stronger hit of ginger.
Barr, the makers of Tizer also do a Red Kola that is fantastic.
I think the closest to Dandelion & Burdock is sarsaparilla.
Mushy peas are best with fish and chips or a roast ham dinner.
Oh wow! Thank you for all the neat information! We don't really have sarsaparilla as a flavor here either 🤔
@@kaico9585 No worries. I thought sarsaparilla was a particularly North American drink.
I just saw your introduction video.
As someone whose had depression since I was 12 and self harmed, it's good to see more people talking and being done about mental health. For me, I just try to keep busy but there are times I really have to catch myself.
With this pandemic going on, people worrying all the time, being told and having to stay home, etc... it in itself is going to cause a lot of mental health issues when one day, hopefully soon, we can all go back to some sort of pre-pandemic normality.
Keep doing what your doing.
Keep safe.
We never say negative then a number, we say minus whatever the number.
Interesting!
irn bru is the most popular soft drink in scotland
That's really neat!
FYI You DON'T put mushy peas on muffins or toast, you have them with fried fish and chips (fries)
Marmite is supposed to be a condiment, like vinegar or brown sauce, it's nice if you make toast, spread a THIN layer on it, then put a nice sharp cheese, like cheddar, and melt it under the grill.
Good to know! Thanks for sharing!
Most amazing things here Marmite, liquorice toffee!
We loved the liquorice so much!
... ok, so you've just popped up on my TH-cam recommend, as a Brit, I'll say to dunk / dip the biscuits / cookies into a glass of cold milk
Thank you for the recommendation!
You're welcome, so far I'm already enjoying your content
Flake is best stuck in the top of an ice cream cone. In the U.K. it’s called a 99
That sounds super tasty!
Canada’s version of a Crunchie is called Violet Crumble.
Hmmm I don't think that's what I had...it doesn't sound familiar. Thank you though!
Something else we have that's pickled in vinegar is picked eggs they're just picked hard boiled eggs
Yuck 😝
FYI Vegemite is Australian. Its Marmite in the UK
Thanks for the info!
Crunchie bar - "I thought it was going to be spongy" Eh? What?
There is a candy bar in Canada (I can't remember what it's called, but it looked similar) that had a spongey texture and because that's the only reference we had I thought it was going to be like that. We were wrong but it was still good! 😊
Hi Kai&Co I want ask you do you maybe be in Poland or you know somebody from Poland ?
Or another favourite way we British like fish chips is with curry sauce its well good
That sounds tasty!
Red licorice is just a name apparently as it contains no licorice unlike black licorice.
Oh wow. That's so interesting! I didn't know that. Thank you for sharing!
Watching your video I see you made the classic mistake of spreading the vegemite far too thickly. I like spead marmite (our equivalent yeast extract) very thinly on buttered toast. I can also say that as a Brit (born in Wales, living in England) I rarely seen vegemite on sale here. We'd probably have to search it out as you would those Jammy Dodgers. Marmite is a different kettle of fish, that's made in Staffordshire and available in most grocery stores.
One thing to try with Marmite/ Vegemite is adding it to a beef stock it really does enhance the flavour. We also have something similar called Bovril which is used to make a drink by mixing the bovril with really hot ( usually boiled) water. Sounds disgusting right? But, believe me, as someone who has spent far too much time in football (soccer) stadia on cold winter nights watching Hull City (my local team) play there's nothing better than a cup of hot bovril in a disposable cup to warm your hands as you drink it down. It really does help fight those chills.
As for those carbonated drinks, the can of shandy you had, being so low in alcohol, can legally be bought and drunk by children here. In most circumstances you have to be over 18 to legally buy and drink alcohol on licenced premises but if you are having a meal then a younger person can legally drink something like a small glass of wine to accompany it provided they have appropriate adult supervison. Having said that, I know it happens but everytime I've been out with family for a meal the children usually get fruit juice or soft drinks. If they do get alcohol it's usually just a sip of an adults drink or may be a small amount of beer poured into a glass of lemonade to make a shandy in similar fashion to the can you had. Of course (current pandemic aside) we Brits have a far bigger pub culture than you do in tthe USA. While we have bars where the clientele are more of the "set 'em up Joe" drinkers, there are many more premises with a far more family friendly atmosphere. So much so that quite a few actually have specially designed childrens play areas! It's also common for venues to have a cut-off point in the evening for children being allowed on the premises to try and protect them from the worst excesses of our pub culture.
Pickled onions, are an aquired taste and probably not the best to try when you've been eating sweet stuff beforehand. Being savoury, IMO they go down better you have them alongside a sandwich/roll with a hard cheese filling. BTW in a similar vein, we can also buy jars of pickled eggs!
Wow! Thank you for sharing so much information about your culture! I found it genuinely very interesting and I appreciate it. 😊
Lion bars are nice but I get your point on the stale taste
Yeah, not my thing, but I see why other people might like them!
If you can try picnics,,theyre yummy imo x
Sorry...did I just see mushy peas spread over...muffins??? 😱
Yes, english muffins. We didn't know until afterwards that mushy peas aren't meant to be eaten like that haha.
How can you not like a lion bar they are the best
Just not my cup of tea haha
@@kaico9585 Maybe with a cup of tea?
Orange luco is nice too
I agree!
Holy shitballs ribena straight shots 😂
we didnt know to dilute it 😂
Looks like your chocolate bars (candy bars) were kept too cool, especially the Lion bar
They were cold, yeah.
@@kaico9585 thought so that's the problem, most chocolate isn't great when cold, room temperature is great and sometimes we even stick some in the microwave for a few seconds, just to make the centre gooey :)
Vegemite is Australian, the
Brtish equivalent is Marmite
We've learned that since making this video! Thank you 😊
Twirls are best when you drink ice cold milk through them :)
oh yum!!!
Burdock is a root from the liquorice family
You just invented mushy peas on toast. Literally not a thing in the UK.
We didn't know that, but thank you for the information.
Let's be honest, we have everything else on toast 😂
Jaffa cakes are actually cakes not biscuits. A few decades ago the government introduced new taxes on biscuits but not cakes and tried to make mcvities pay the extra tax because they said they were biscuits. Mcvities went to court and to prove they were cakes, they made giant size Jaffa cakes cooked over a number of days. They won and it was made law that the only difference between a cake and a biscuit is a cake goes hard over time and a biscuit goes soft! We english folk are full of this useless information
You should've tried irn bru (iron brew) instead of tizer, that's very scottish
I don't think it's useless! It's very interesting. And we'll definitely have to try irn bru next time! Thanks for the recommendation 😁
@@kaico9585 lucozade is mostly given to people in hospital because the caffeine and sugars perk you up. Go into any hospital over here and you will see cards, flowers, grapes and lucozade. A lot of foods here are tailored for a reason. Fisherman's friends are supposed to sea fishermen warm. Cornish pasties (passtees) are were created by cornish miners wives to be eaten in the dark. That crimp shape are finger grooves. You're supposed to eat it upside down then throw away the crimped bit if you like when you're finished
Cool facts! Thank you for sharing!
America. ........ You are meant to dilute Ribena in water ........ What you are doing is basically drinking coke syrup without the sparkling water that makes Coke. Do Not drink concentrates (Squash) neat.......
Yes, we did figure that out after tasting it.
I think originally root beer was made of dandelion roots
That's really cool!
Mushy pease r better with fish and chips put salt on the fish and chips then cover it in viniger
We love fish and chips! Very good, although we've never had it with mushy peas.
I want to try a lot of these, and I still want to try vegemite >:)
You should definitely still try it! You might like it 😊
Most British people prefer our marmite to Australian vegemite. Even though the ingredients are the same, and they have almost the same making process, one goes through one more process to make it different. To some Brits vegemite tastes like burnt cabbage.
Marmite is far better, especially with boiled or poached egg on toast, or grilled cheese on toast.
Dandelion and Burdock was originally medicinal. Middle ages homeopathy.
That's so neat!! Thank you so much for sharing that fun little fact 😁
So were Coke, Pepsi and Dr Pepper etc often had cocaine and other drugs in.
Drunk on Suger😂
😂
who cleans the floor after you sweep all the bits off the table?
Me, if anybody hahahaha
Vegemite isn’t British. Marmite is. You need a small amount on hot buttered toast.
Good to know! Thanks.
Tizer flavour is like a special ingredient in Coke.
That's a helpful comparison!
Can’t believe that you didn’t know that you had to dilute ribinna
In america we don't have concentrated drinks like that so it was a new experience!
Dandelion & Burdock is only so much a popular flavour in the UK. But only so much as to exist in that Fizzy drink/soda. Mostly only seen in Fish & Chip shopS (deep-fried food) Take-aways. Oh! and Iin over-priced trendy/ hipster; but revolting Cider.
Thank you for the information!
Vegimite is Australian, who told you it was British?
Marmite is British and far superior, it is stronger.
You either love it or hate it, even if you are British.
I love it.
Thank you for the information!
Ur supposed to dunk custard creams in tea
Thanks for the information!
Also the jaffa cakes you got as the bites the original bigger ones are better the bite ones are weird to me.
Interesting! Thanks for sharing
Thing the first:
Brits pronounce Depot as Dep-oh
Yes.. I'm right at the beginning of the video.
Expect this to be edited (added to) !!
Thank you for your feedback. As you probably figured out, we pronounce that word differently in the United States, which is why I pronounced it that way.
Then I hope you pronounce it “deep-oh” whenever you’re referring to the states 🙂
bring that coco cakes for me 😂
What are coco cakes?
red fruit flavoured lol - talk about being vague
The Lion bar was obviously too cold as it should be soft and chewy and sorry to say what you have in those mini Jaffa Cakes are NOT Jaffa cakes Jaffa cakes are the size of aa regular biscuit/cookie and that is the only kind so sorry to say you have not tried a Jaffa cake
That's okay! Both of them were still something new and different. Hopefully one day we can try a 'real' Lion bar and Jaffa cake.
@@kaico9585 Try a British Toffee Crisp or Double-Decker to compare with the Lion Bar.
Dandelion in the UK gets called a Pee the Bed.
Why on earth would it be called that? 😂
@@kaico9585 ~ dunno, it's something we're told as kids, and then we tell our own kids, and so on. The French call them pissinlet... Wet the Beds. There must be something to it.
Thats so interesting haha thank you for sharing!
@@kaico9585 Dandelion's contain a diuretic, so they make you want to go to the bathroom. Good for the kidneys ;)
Nearest thing to Dandelion and Burdock is probably Root beer! 🤮
We love rootbeer!
Definitely an acquired taste!
Beans on toast not peas on toast
Right! We found that out afterwards 😅 Thanks!
These are NOT "British Foods", this is British factory made snacks. The ultimate in British fast food is fish and chips freshly cooked at a real traditional fish and chip shop. If you ever come to Britain you must try this, it is the great delicacy of Britain. The British do NOT do restaurant food, restaurants in Britain are all foreign cuisine; Indian, Chinese, Italian etc. Real British food is a tradition of home cooking passed from mother to daughter by the women folk but mostly lost since the 1960s. There is increasing interest in re-learning the lost recipes of the past; hot pot, steak and kidney pudding, all forms of steamed puddings and baking. This food developed for life in a cold, damp climate and is rather stodgy, heavy and full of calories for modern tastes. Most people did not have any kind of central heating in their house until the 1970s, so people needed the calories, and food was valued for being hot (temperature wise). The cup of tea was the universal beverage, coffee steadily became more popular from the 1960s with instant coffee, then it was only really the influx of US-style coffee bars in the 1990s that made coffee as big as tea in the UK.
Thank you for all the facts! We are obviously unable to get fresh fish and chips, hot pot, steak and kidney pudding, etc in the US because they aren't made here, otherwise they would have been included.
Having said that, chicken tikka Masala is actually a British dish
Vegemite is Australian
Thanks for the information.
Really thought you would hated vimpto
Nope! Thought it was really good!
@@kaico9585 nice one
no artificial crap in the uk...
That's good!
Mushy peas is just mashed peas. And there mashed so the they don't roll off your plate/plastic tray when eating fish and chips at the beach.
That's so smart! Thanks for sharing!
They are not mashed peas. Dried Marrowfat Peas, are soaked in water with Sodium Bicarbonate. Then boiled untill they turn to mush.
22:21 Ummm, I think we found a hater!
Only a hater of Vegemite haha
@@kaico9585 Just for clarification, I didn't mean you're generally a hater, it's sort of an inside joke. The marketing campaign of Marmite basically revolves around the fact that Marmite is divisive. Their slogan is _You Either Love It Or Hate It'._
Peas on toast are you mad
Apparently. It tasted good though, you should try it. 😊
VEGEMITE IS AUSTRALIAN
MARMITE IS BRITISH
Yes, thank you for the information.