It's always amazing to me that Brits will only define gravy as being brown. We have brown gravy made with beef stock, but we also have white gravy and chicken gravy, etc. If you open up their sausage rolls, the filling looks about like sausage gravy that they all seem to gag at.
A lot of what we call Spaghetti sauce is also considered gravy in Italy, The first gravy recipes are from France and cover a very broad category of sauces. And cream cheese is used in many desserts .
It's better. The Brits always think biscuits and gravy seem, or look nasty, but they have no idea just how delicious it really is. I have a local restaurant here in New Jersey, where the owner brought his southern recipe with him....my gosh....heaven on Earth.
Lol I see British people (not y'all of course 💕) turn up their noses for white sausage gravy since they haven't had it but turn around and eat blood pudding for breakfast. Hearing the ingredients in both options I will choose the white sausage gravy anytime.
@@kathleenchilcote9127 aye in their defense beans on toast is decent but it’s bland as hell lmao I remember a joke about how Britain took over India for spices but they never thought to use it in their food 😂
For real. I lived in England for two years, and believe me, the food is nothing to write home about unless you go to the ethnic neighborhoods for takeaway. About the only British food that I miss is their fish and chips, nothing else.
Gravy comes in many different styles and flavors. There is chicken gravy, turkey gravy, beef gravy, red gravy, and many more. Each gravy goes with a different meat or other foods.
Jolly did Southern food. When Josh saw the baked beans he said, “ these don’t look like the beans we have in England, they’re brown”. The chef they were with responded” That’s called flavor” 😂
I like how disgusted Aidan gets just by the word "cornbread". 😂 If he ever had proper made southern cornbread with a bowl of chili, he might change his mind.
There are so many kinds of cornbread--sweet, not sweet, with onions, not with onions, white corn, yellow corn. It's hard to say you don't like it until you've tried them all.
I notice a lot of Brits seem to instantly dislike many foods, without even giving them a try! I always look at foods I've never had with some hope that I'd like it, and it's been rare that I've truly disliked a food- liver and onions, as well as oysters are my Kryptonite! If people go in assuming they're going to hate it, they probably will, so miss out on enjoying a great variety of amazing foods!
I never liked cornbread cuz there is a specific flavor that tastes like a chemical to me. Either just the bread or corn dogs. But grits & sausage & gravy yum.
I have a bunch of family that lives in Scotland. They came over to the United States for the Holidays last year. None of them had ever had Southern Comfort food. Which we here in the south call "Soul Food." They were skeptical about a bunch of it. Once they had it they were hooked. my immediate family constantly get messages, and pictures of them making the Soul Food back in Scotland. Sometimes they make tweaks to the recipes and they call it "Scottish Soul Food." Its the classic "don't judge a book by its cover," situation.
I would be more offended but, then I remember that your standard is British food! Things like kidney pie, beans on toast and blood sausage are regarded as creme in the UK food world. 😂
Them gagging at biscuits and gravy and cornbread hurts my head. I know they’ve probably never had it cooked right like mamaw used to but it’s so foreign to me. Absolutely delicious!
Okay let me address to you about the biscuits and gravy. In no way should biscuits and gravy have that much meat let alone little gravy. No true southerner should cook it like that. A TRUE southern dish of biscuits and gravy contains moderately thick gravy poured with SOME chunks of sausage equally with love on top of your biscuits. I love biscuits and gravy, but that looked like straight throw up. That person who made that needs a whooping. SO sorry for you to witness that, Sophie.
As a Kentuckian I’m sooooo glad our home food got a shout out! It’s true that Southerners add spices and fry EVERYTHING. It’s either sweet or spicy no in between. Most early Southerners didn’t have much of a “variety” of food and were often MUCH poorer then people from the North, so they used ALL of what the good Lord gave them and we still carry on those traditions today 😊
She was deliberately talking about the consistency It's not really bread. It's not really a cake. The closest consistency she could describe was a muffin, that is very accurate I'm from the deep south and I grew up eating cornbread Grandma made in a cast iron pan
I was deciding whether or not to be offended, but then I realized you guys eat beans on toast..... I kid! Biscuits and gravy and grits are two of my favorites,My dad used to bring back fried chicken hearts for me when he came back from the deli, and my mom must have made Brunswick Stew at least 5 times a month when I was growing up.
White sausage gravy is a treasure...it is soooo good. Dumplings I grew up with were just the dumplings in a chicken broth with chopped chicken, no veggies. We also use ham instead of chicken sometimes. Served with cornbread. Grits, some like it others don't....but done and seasoned right with plenty of butter with fried eggs are great. Never ever liked boiled peanuts...but many love the spicy ones.
Grits is made from corn. It can be made to be salty and you can add it as a side dish to a regular meal, or add meat to it and make it your entire meal, or.... you can make it sweet and eat it like cereal. I like mine with butter, sugar, and crumbled up bacon in it.
Why do I always get the impression that Aiden has spent his entire life sitting in a room by himself staring at a blank wall... and being perfectly happy about it.
the peanut shells have oil in them which helps the wood floors; this is the first time I have ever seen cheese in biscuits and gravy, and there is more gravy than shown in the picture. Southern sausage is flavored with sage.
My favorite hangover food use to be 2 biscuits splayed open then topped with a sausage patty and egg on each half of course then gravy and the shredded sharp cheddar cheese occassionally I would throw some hash browns on top as well before the gravy and cheese. I had a place a couple of miles down the road that would make it for me every Sunday morning. Eat that then go back and sleep and watch tv all day. I haven't drank in 20 years but occassionally I'll still make it myself at home.
I see it way more often now especially in newer style brunch restaurants. I thought it would be weird, but I honestly really like it. Wouldn't be much different than if you just had a breakfast biscuit with cheese and gravy on that.
😛 What’s wrong with bangers and mash? I remember having the American version in the grade school cafeteria - they were called ‘flying saucers’. A big ice cream scoop of mashed potatoes on what I remember as fried bologna. We loved ‘em as 7-8 year olds.
@@pacmanc8103 nothings wrong with it. I just think it’s funny comparing bangers and mash to biscuits and gravy. I just think bangers and mash is a weird thing to call food😊and don’t think biscuits and gravy sounds weird. That’s it🤷♂️
@@thekegster92 I guess if you think bangers and mash is a weird name you would think "spotted dick" was totally bizarre! And, it's a dessert, lol. I just always imagine someone in the royal family requesting that for dessert with their very proper, posh accents. Makes me laugh.
I love hot bread pudding with bourbon cooked in it. When you put hot bread pudding in your mouth and then breath in through your mouth the flavor of the bourbon fills your mouth. It's sooooo good.
Gizzards, also known as a crop, are an muscular organ that pre-grinds their food before they try to digest it. Not the stomach. You will see chicken (and other birds) eating small pebbles. These are retained in the gizzard, and with muscle contraction grind up the food. I really like to eat them, just fried with onions. Brown mustard goes good, and so does HR.
Yes, that confused me when he looked it up and got 'stomach'. I guess maybe some people call it the stomach because humans don't have gizzards but our stomachs are a muscle that moves and smushes things around a bit.. so it plays a similar role in preparing for digestion? Human stomachs don't grind down hard stuff like gizzards do though.
There is a vlog called "JOLLIE" where two British guys feed biscuits and gravy to English school boys. You need to see the reaction after tasting on first seeing their reactions was like yours.
Every foreigner seems to have fits about grits like it's unthinkable that people like them. I think most people like corn and that's what grits are. Just treated and ground up with butter and salt on top. Yum.
Fried rabbit and fried squirrel are both good here in Texas! But so is deer, wild hog and alligator. A chicken gizzard is best deep fried and served with ketchup. Cornbread is best hot with butter and honey.
My grandparents grew up during the Great Depression and we had chicken and dumplings a lot but my grandmother would make potato and dumplings which she said came from “hard times” and they couldn’t afford the use chicken. I guess the eggs were more valuable. Potato and dumplings are actually my favorite over chicken ones.
So many comfort foods came out of hard times. Look at Black soul food. Collard greens, chitterlings, pig feet, fried chicken, sweet potatoes . . . these were the scraps that the slave owners didn't want so they let us have them. And we made 'em gooooood!
The gravy in the picture isn't right. Fry crumbled breakfast sausage, after cooked throw in handful of flour, cup of milk and cup of water. Stir vigorously for less than a minute, turn off and remove from heat. Salt and pepper to taste, pour over rolls or flaky "biscuits" (not cookies). Gravy gets thick quickly so get your fire off fast.
I love when you all do food reviews. For the record, Aidan, I don't like quite a few of these foods either. Of course, I was raised by a Greek father and American mother, and so my comfort foods are a bit different. I was like you when I saw the Fried Chicken appear. After much that I didn't like, finally something I did. Gaynor, I love it when you share your recipe tips.Cheers.
Many of these recipes have corn because we have lots of it over here. Cornbread is a quick bread. Goes in the pan as a batter, comes out delicious. Crumbly and sweet
Sweet is more traditional, but you can mix in some spiciness (like adding some jalapenos) which gives it a bit of different flavor profile, but still just as delicious.
Throwing peanut shells on the floor is a good thing. At the end of the day, when they are swept up, it actually polishes the floor. Especially wooden floors. Squirrel actually tastes good, it's a little gamier than rabbit. In the fall, when I shoot two of three of them, I like to make Pot Pie with mixed veggies, taters, and a Float Crust.
One of my favorite comfort foods is flight or pinto beans cooked with a little bit of meat to give it some good flavor and then crumble up my cornbread and to the beach.
Peanut shells on the floor actually has a purpose. I worked somewhere we did that too, it's for hardwood flooring, the peanut oil is good for the floor.
As a Southerner myself, I grew up on most of this stuff. 6:54 Those were probably roasted peanuts which are different from boiled peanuts. We always get boiled peanuts from a local farm every year. As for drinking sweet tea with them. Sweet tea is my go-to drink since I'm not a huge Coke (soda) fan. I'll drink probably 5 sweet teas per week 😂
I'm from Alabama and the idea of cheese between the biscuits and the sausage gravy offends my very soul. (BTW, would it help if, instead of "white gravy," we said "bechamel sauce?" Because that's what it is, with the bacon or sausage fat taking the place of the butter. It becomes sausage gravy when you mix the sort-of-bechamel with crumbled sausage meat.)
GRITS is similar to porridge, but made from corn hominy (crushed pulverized corn). Usually included with a pat of butter on top &/or a little pepper sprinkled on top. Many in the US South enjoy shrimp & grits in the same bowl.
That version of the gravy does look sickening, but it is pretty great. And that version must be amazing. Usually, they're not that thick and dry looking, but it's amazing.
Gizzards: the mechanical stomach (how chickens grind food since they don’t have teeth) Okra: a vegetable that can thicken gumbo. The sticky stuff is Mucilage… it acts like a roux. You can use that or Filė (North American ground sassafras leaves) but DO NOT USE both or you’ll end up over thickening. Typically Louisiana foods start with a variation of mirepoix called the Trinity: onion, celery, bell pepper instead of carrot.
Texas Roadhouse and some other steakhouses serve whole peanuts and encourage the guests to throw the shells on the floor. The reason is peanut shells contain a natural oil that's good for the wood floors. People throwing shells on the floor and walking on them all day (they get swept up daily) are actually helping maintain the establishment by keeping the floor well oiled.
If I were offered the choice between a piece of freshly baked cornbread or a freshly baked yeast dinner roll, I know which I would prefer hands-down. And it has a nicely-browned top crust.
I didn't see banana pudding on this list! Ya'll should definently react to some of Jolly's content. They have some good videos of them trying southern food!
One suggestion is that when you do food reactions from other countries you come into it with a open mind. Because this is the third video I've watched where you guys look absolutely disgusted b4 the video even starts. You won't grow your channel that way. Complaining about the looks of something just because it's doesn't look like the food you're used too,well that's the point. To get out of your comfort zone especially the guy in the middle. I scroll past the suggestion video whenever I see his face because I know he's going to be ultra negative about everything.
Pinto beans & corn bead. You can make different varieties of corn bread,. Mexican corn bread is a little spicy but I like sweet corn bread. I'm surprised Jiffy corn muffin mix hasn't made it over there yet. And yes I never heard of ambrosia (fruit salad) made with anything but whipped topping (Cool Whip/whipped Cream)
All right y'all that is not what good biscuits and gravy looks like!! I don't know where Mashed got that video clip from but nobody in the South or in Texas would make gravy like that. If that was served to me in a restaurant I would send it back
Gravy is a thickening of the juices from a meat, primarily consists of the various forms of fats from the meats. Sausage gravy (the white gravy from the biscuits) is made from the dripping of breakfast sausages and is usually thickened with flower and a dairy product (typically milk or cream or half and half) hence why the gravy is whitish. Now the initial gravy shown is unusually thick, it is more runny than that in typical southern cuisines.
The fact that they turned their faces up at chitterlings 🤮. What do you think your sausages are cased in.....if it's all natural it's usually hog intestines. So it's likely you're already eating it!
Biscuits and gravy with scrambled eggs and toast is MAGICAL…. Grits are nasty I agree. Also, there is way too much sausage in that image they showed you.
I love the office blokes...butttt yeah...the UK doesn't have anything on the USA when it comes to food and definitely Southern food. I really can't imagine UK food being flavorful.
Y’all really need to try some of this stuff done right. Grits, cornbread, and boiled peanuts are delicious. I’ll pass on the chicken gizzards and chitterlings, though.
A good rule of thumb is white gravy for a chicken fried steak or brown gravy for a country fried steak. Or rather... it used to be. Nowadays, though, it is often called chicken fried if deep-fried or country fried if pan fried.
Hi guys! I grew up with most of these dishes. Chow chow, which I've never heard of, reminds me of relish. My favorites are gumbo, fried catfish, beignets, fried green tomatoes, and homemade apple pie. I really don't like mac and cheese, but I love different types of chili. My favorite stew is homemade beef stew. My mom's, may she rest in peace, was biscuits and gravy. On New Year's Day, she would make us a ham and bean stew with the leftover ham bone from Christmas, a certain kind of bean, and malt vinegar. We would eat it with cornbread. It was supposed to give us good luck for the New Year. It's cool that you all are interested in different goods and cultures. Keep the videos coming. By the way, I highly recommend that Gaynor watch the movie "Fried Green Tomatoes" with Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Mary Louise Parker. It is one of my favorites. It is based on the book,"Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe," by Fannie Flagg.
That sausage and biscuit representation was not very accurate. The gravy really resembles what you saw on the chicken fried steak but a bit thicker with chunks of breakfast sausage in it. I have been eating it all my life and never have I seen it like how it was presented in this video.
The gravy in the biscuits and gravy is made with white gravy and breakfast sausage. They need more gravy with the sausage so it actually looks like gravy instead of vomit. Never seen it with cheese before in my 52 years of life lol The only way I will eat grits is with lots of cheese and lots of grilled shrimp. It's really good that way. Boiled peanuts are pretty good. You wouldn't think so but they are. I grow my own crawfish in the small bayou on my land. I eat them regularly in all kinds of dishes. They're so good.
the things with peanuts is if you look at the floors they are all wood and the peanut shelss you throw down and step on has oil in them and that goes into the floor to preserve them and make them shine
We had a lady fall after she had stepped on peanuts still in the shell thrown on the floor at our Texas Roadhouse so they did away with the peanuts. I would imagine they would bring in mice and cockroaches too.
Essentially, chicken gizzards are the stomach of a chicken (or any other fowl-and surprisingly all reptiles!). Since birds don’t have teeth, they need a way to grind up food before it enters their digestive tract. This is where the gizzard comes in. As birds peck at the ground in search of bugs, seeds, and other food, they also pick up tiny bits of grit, gravel, and pebbles. All of this food and debris moves through the esophagus, gets stored in the crop (a storage compartment), and eventually ends up in the gizzard. Along with salvia and enzymes, the gizzard’s powerful muscle contractions and the grit acts as little teeth to help pulverize the food so it can be digested. Without a gizzard, birds wouldn’t be able to process their food (much like our teeth mash our food before we can digest it).
In the US we have traditional brown beef gravy and white cream gravy. The traditional gravy usually goes on roast and white gravy goes on biscuits or chicken fried steak
Lol the gizzard isn't truly the stomach. It's part of the digestive tract but it's like the first stop after the mouth. The gizzard is basically a muscle that the chickens use to grind corn since they don't have teeth. Chickens will swallow tiny stones that they store in the gizzard. The gizzard flexes causing the stones to grind the corn. It really just tastes like chicken meat but a bit tougher. It does not taste like chicken livers although some people kind of think of the two together.
It's always amazing to me that Brits will only define gravy as being brown. We have brown gravy made with beef stock, but we also have white gravy and chicken gravy, etc. If you open up their sausage rolls, the filling looks about like sausage gravy that they all seem to gag at.
red eye and tomato gravy as well....
And ham gravy (different from red-eye)
@@kimmycook2698 red eye gravy with country ham and biscuit is some serious groceries.
Italians sometimes call their tomato based sauces gravy.
A lot of what we call Spaghetti sauce is also considered gravy in Italy, The first gravy recipes are from France and cover a very broad category of sauces. And cream cheese is used in many desserts .
I would put Biscuits and gravy up against any British breakfast. It's so good.
Absolutely.
I prefer bacon grease gravy over sausage gravy both are amazing
Nah that’s cap. I’m not British but I’d rather have a full English breakfast than gravy over biscuits. 😂😂😂
It's better. The Brits always think biscuits and gravy seem, or look nasty, but they have no idea just how delicious it really is. I have a local restaurant here in New Jersey, where the owner brought his southern recipe with him....my gosh....heaven on Earth.
@@04m6gto it’s not only Brits though who think this, a lot of people do. And to be fair the clips they showed for biscuits and gravy looked abysmal.
Lol I see British people (not y'all of course 💕) turn up their noses for white sausage gravy since they haven't had it but turn around and eat blood pudding for breakfast. Hearing the ingredients in both options I will choose the white sausage gravy anytime.
Watch Jolly feed a bunch of teens biscuits & gravy. Funny!
Exactly 😂
Or beans on toast..lol
@@kathleenchilcote9127 aye in their defense beans on toast is decent but it’s bland as hell lmao I remember a joke about how Britain took over India for spices but they never thought to use it in their food 😂
@@kevinprzy4539 lmaoooooooo
It's hilarious to hear English people (of all people) criticize the cooking in other countries.
Exactly they literally eat beans with their breakfast. That makes no sense imao
@@shaylak9561 What an inconsiderate way to start your day. With a bunch of ass fuel.
@@shaylak9561 On toast, no less. That's what butter and jelly is for. Or egg yolk.
For real. I lived in England for two years, and believe me, the food is nothing to write home about unless you go to the ethnic neighborhoods for takeaway. About the only British food that I miss is their fish and chips, nothing else.
@@shaylak9561I'm not British, but baked beans with breakfast is pretty good.
Gravy comes in many different styles and flavors. There is chicken gravy, turkey gravy, beef gravy, red gravy, and many more. Each gravy goes with a different meat or other foods.
Exactly
Ahh, yes… The British Palate and Cuisine. Conquer half the world’s spice trade and then use none of them.
Jolly did Southern food. When Josh saw the baked beans he said, “ these don’t look like the beans we have in England, they’re brown”. The chef they were with responded” That’s called flavor” 😂
You took the words right out of my mouth 😁
Harsh!... but funny. hehe
😂😂😂
This lol. They judge so many things so hard while eating beans out of a can on toast. 😂
I like how disgusted Aidan gets just by the word "cornbread". 😂
If he ever had proper made southern cornbread with a bowl of chili, he might change his mind.
There are so many kinds of cornbread--sweet, not sweet, with onions, not with onions, white corn, yellow corn. It's hard to say you don't like it until you've tried them all.
I notice a lot of Brits seem to instantly dislike many foods, without even giving them a try! I always look at foods I've never had with some hope that I'd like it, and it's been rare that I've truly disliked a food- liver and onions, as well as oysters are my Kryptonite! If people go in assuming they're going to hate it, they probably will, so miss out on enjoying a great variety of amazing foods!
And don't forget green chile cornbread 😋
@@laydp2760 I like to use bacon fat and a bit of chili powder in mine. Really, cornbread has to be up there among the very top comfort foods!
I never liked cornbread cuz there is a specific flavor that tastes like a chemical to me. Either just the bread or corn dogs. But grits & sausage & gravy yum.
I have a bunch of family that lives in Scotland. They came over to the United States for the Holidays last year. None of them had ever had Southern Comfort food. Which we here in the south call "Soul Food." They were skeptical about a bunch of it. Once they had it they were hooked. my immediate family constantly get messages, and pictures of them making the Soul Food back in Scotland. Sometimes they make tweaks to the recipes and they call it "Scottish Soul Food." Its the classic "don't judge a book by its cover," situation.
Comfort food is food you grew up with that you love and it makes you feel good when you eat it. It is that simple no need to over think it.
Brings back childhood memories.
Well said.👍
Biscuts and gravy is just ❤. The sausage to gravy ratio on that picute is horrible though
The photos are not a good representation of some of these dishes.
I would be more offended but, then I remember that your standard is British food! Things like kidney pie, beans on toast and blood sausage are regarded as creme in the UK food world. 😂
Them gagging at biscuits and gravy and cornbread hurts my head. I know they’ve probably never had it cooked right like mamaw used to but it’s so foreign to me. Absolutely delicious!
Okay let me address to you about the biscuits and gravy. In no way should biscuits and gravy have that much meat let alone little gravy. No true southerner should cook it like that. A TRUE southern dish of biscuits and gravy contains moderately thick gravy poured with SOME chunks of sausage equally with love on top of your biscuits. I love biscuits and gravy, but that looked like straight throw up. That person who made that needs a whooping. SO sorry for you to witness that, Sophie.
It did look revolting. My sausage gravy looks nothing like that and it's delicious.
Kept waiting for them to pour on gravy! That looked disgusting!
I actually quite like a thicker-meatier gravy like that (pause). What grossed me out was those slices of cheese.
Or, no sausage chunks at all just the drippings....
lol. so true!
As a Kentuckian I’m sooooo glad our home food got a shout out! It’s true that Southerners add spices and fry EVERYTHING. It’s either sweet or spicy no in between. Most early Southerners didn’t have much of a “variety” of food and were often MUCH poorer then people from the North, so they used ALL of what the good Lord gave them and we still carry on those traditions today 😊
Cornbread is like a muffin? I wonder if she ate a jiffy mix version of cornbread. Because traditional cornbread isn't like a breakfast muffin.
They lived in the Houston area and here in Texas we often put sugar or even honey in our cornbread.
She was deliberately talking about the consistency
It's not really bread. It's not really a cake. The closest consistency she could describe was a muffin, that is very accurate
I'm from the deep south and I grew up eating cornbread Grandma made in a cast iron pan
@@christianoliver3572
Sugar on cornbread?
So everyone in your town is suffering from obesity?
Just some soft room temperature butter for me.
Cornbread is like a muffin tho. It's like cake batter made of corn
To be fair I don't think they really have anything comparable
I was deciding whether or not to be offended, but then I realized you guys eat beans on toast..... I kid! Biscuits and gravy and grits are two of my favorites,My dad used to bring back fried chicken hearts for me when he came back from the deli, and my mom must have made Brunswick Stew at least 5 times a month when I was growing up.
Not to mention they eat blood pudding for breakfast...
White sausage gravy is a treasure...it is soooo good. Dumplings I grew up with were just the dumplings in a chicken broth with chopped chicken, no veggies. We also use ham instead of chicken sometimes. Served with cornbread. Grits, some like it others don't....but done and seasoned right with plenty of butter with fried eggs are great. Never ever liked boiled peanuts...but many love the spicy ones.
that is sos shown in the video
Aiden: don't close yourself off from expanding your food choices! You will miss out on so many amazing tastes!!!
I've eaten boiled peanuts for breakfast, lunch, and dinner more than once. The greatest snack ever made.
You must have an iron gut! I love boiled peanuts but they don't love me 😂
Sunflower seeds!
Grits is made from corn. It can be made to be salty and you can add it as a side dish to a regular meal, or add meat to it and make it your entire meal, or.... you can make it sweet and eat it like cereal. I like mine with butter, sugar, and crumbled up bacon in it.
Yeah, but you have to know how to cook grits right, grits is real easy to mess up and when you do it can easily be revolting.
Baked cheese grits are the best.
@@nerofl89 Yeah usually people over cook or under cooks them, that's why they gross. lol
Hominy specifically. Basically “hominy” and “grits” are short for “hominy corn” and “hominy grits”, respectively.
No self-respecting southerner eats instant grits, lol.
Why do I always get the impression that Aiden has spent his entire life sitting in a room by himself staring at a blank wall... and being perfectly happy about it.
😂 so bland also
Absolutely 💯
Reminds me of a spoiled brat who will only eat chicken nuggets.
omg Aiden, just try something before you say "I wouldnt like that " GEEZ you Brits
the peanut shells have oil in them which helps the wood floors; this is the first time I have ever seen cheese in biscuits and gravy, and there is more gravy than shown in the picture. Southern sausage is flavored with sage.
My favorite hangover food use to be 2 biscuits splayed open then topped with a sausage patty and egg on each half of course then gravy and the shredded sharp cheddar cheese occassionally I would throw some hash browns on top as well before the gravy and cheese. I had a place a couple of miles down the road that would make it for me every Sunday morning. Eat that then go back and sleep and watch tv all day. I haven't drank in 20 years but occassionally I'll still make it myself at home.
@@charlessarver8350 Damn, that sounds good.
@@prettybullet7728 Oh it's awesome but one of those things you should do in moderation lol
No sage in mine. Yuck
Don't forget about deer sausage. I grew up with it and loved it. Now, not so much.
Bless their hearts. I'm less than 2 minutes in and they're salivating over eggs.
I’ve never seen biscuits and gravy with cheese on it. That would totally ruin a fantastic dish. My favorite breakfast dish.
I see it way more often now especially in newer style brunch restaurants. I thought it would be weird, but I honestly really like it. Wouldn't be much different than if you just had a breakfast biscuit with cheese and gravy on that.
SAME.... That gravy, was just a massive blob as well.... For sure not biscuits and gravy.
Agreed
I feel like that dish as shown was like.. some kind of weird fusion between poutine and biscuits & gravy
It always amazes me how you guys can judge us but you have things called blood pudding, haggis, bangers and mash etc.
😛 What’s wrong with bangers and mash? I remember having the American version in the grade school cafeteria - they were called ‘flying saucers’. A big ice cream scoop of mashed potatoes on what I remember as fried bologna. We loved ‘em as 7-8 year olds.
@@pacmanc8103 nothings wrong with it. I just think it’s funny comparing bangers and mash to biscuits and gravy. I just think bangers and mash is a weird thing to call food😊and don’t think biscuits and gravy sounds weird. That’s it🤷♂️
@@thekegster92 I guess if you think bangers and mash is a weird name you would think "spotted dick" was totally bizarre! And, it's a dessert, lol.
I just always imagine someone in the royal family requesting that for dessert with their very proper, posh accents. Makes me laugh.
@@thekegster92I’m with you.
I love hot bread pudding with bourbon cooked in it. When you put hot bread pudding in your mouth and then breath in through your mouth the flavor of the bourbon fills your mouth. It's sooooo good.
Gizzards, also known as a crop, are an muscular organ that pre-grinds their food before they try to digest it. Not the stomach. You will see chicken (and other birds) eating small pebbles. These are retained in the gizzard, and with muscle contraction grind up the food. I really like to eat them, just fried with onions. Brown mustard goes good, and so does HR.
Yes, that confused me when he looked it up and got 'stomach'. I guess maybe some people call it the stomach because humans don't have gizzards but our stomachs are a muscle that moves and smushes things around a bit.. so it plays a similar role in preparing for digestion? Human stomachs don't grind down hard stuff like gizzards do though.
"Tomah-toes are green before they are red?", has to be a city boy all his life. I never laughed so hard, thanks.
Don't knock sausage gravy until you try it.. it's absolutely awesome..there are more kinds of gravy than English brown gravy
I could only think of the stereotype that british conquered the world for spices to never use them in their cooking and southern food is so good!
There is a vlog called "JOLLIE" where two British guys feed biscuits and gravy to English school boys. You need to see the reaction after tasting on first seeing their reactions was like yours.
Every foreigner seems to have fits about grits like it's unthinkable that people like them. I think most people like corn and that's what grits are. Just treated and ground up with butter and salt on top. Yum.
Fried rabbit and fried squirrel are both good here in Texas! But so is deer, wild hog and alligator. A chicken gizzard is best deep fried and served with ketchup. Cornbread is best hot with butter and honey.
I like my cornbread by itself with butter, with chili, potlikker, and butter and ketchup! I also like Mexican cornbread.
Aidan thought chicken gizzards were the chicken's testicles!! LOL
Have y'all ever seen British High schoolers try Biscuits and Gravy for the first time! by JOLLY?
My grandparents grew up during the Great Depression and we had chicken and dumplings a lot but my grandmother would make potato and dumplings which she said came from “hard times” and they couldn’t afford the use chicken. I guess the eggs were more valuable. Potato and dumplings are actually my favorite over chicken ones.
My grandma used to make "potato and whatever shit I can find" soup. It was literally potatoes and whatever shit they could find in their cellar. 🤣
So many comfort foods came out of hard times. Look at Black soul food. Collard greens, chitterlings, pig feet, fried chicken, sweet potatoes . . . these were the scraps that the slave owners didn't want so they let us have them. And we made 'em gooooood!
The gravy in the picture isn't right. Fry crumbled breakfast sausage, after cooked throw in handful of flour, cup of milk and cup of water. Stir vigorously for less than a minute, turn off and remove from heat. Salt and pepper to taste, pour over rolls or flaky "biscuits" (not cookies). Gravy gets thick quickly so get your fire off fast.
Yes, very poor representation of white gravy!!!
"kinda like a carbonara"
Everyone in chat: If my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike.
I love when you all do food reviews. For the record, Aidan, I don't like quite a few of these foods either. Of course, I was raised by a Greek father and American mother, and so my comfort foods are a bit different. I was like you when I saw the Fried Chicken appear. After much that I didn't like, finally something I did. Gaynor, I love it when you share your recipe tips.Cheers.
As a Texan, that was a HORRIBLE example of biscuits and gravy
As a Californian, that was a HORRIBLE example of biscuits and gravy. lol.
As an Illinoisan that was a horrible example of biscuits and gravy.
Many of these recipes have corn because we have lots of it over here. Cornbread is a quick bread. Goes in the pan as a batter, comes out delicious. Crumbly and sweet
Sweet is more traditional, but you can mix in some spiciness (like adding some jalapenos) which gives it a bit of different flavor profile, but still just as delicious.
I make cornbread for me and my dad all the time. Its absolutely delicious.
Pecan trees are native to the southern US.
Throwing peanut shells on the floor is a good thing. At the end of the day, when they are swept up, it actually polishes the floor. Especially wooden floors. Squirrel actually tastes good, it's a little gamier than rabbit. In the fall, when I shoot two of three of them, I like to make Pot Pie with mixed veggies, taters, and a Float Crust.
If we were still in our hunter/gatherer phase of humanity, Aiden would definitely starve.
I guess the Good Lord knows where to place us in life.
comfort food = something you want when you're missing home, sick, or just need a culinary hug
If you havent had Fried Green Tomatoes...you havent lived...its like heaven...I can eat them until i literally get anymore into my body...wonderful
That gravy is to thick. There’s sausage pieces in the gravy. I’ve never seen cheese In biscuits and gravy.
crumble the biscuits or sausage biscuit with gravy inside
I don’t do gizzards or ambrosia salad
Ya that cheese looked so off putting
@@plnkfloydian7814 ya I’m 50 and have had biscuits/gravy my whole life and have never seen anyone put cheese in it
@@mellycook you’ve missed out for 50 years that’s crazy
Cornbread was always made at our house when we had ham and navy beans....and my mom always added a little sugar to the cornbread...wonderful
One of my favorite comfort foods is flight or pinto beans cooked with a little bit of meat to give it some good flavor and then crumble up my cornbread and to the beach.
There are corn muffins as well.
COOL WHIP is a Whopped topping that you would use on Slices of Pie, Cake or Cups of Ice Cream in he same way you would use Whipped Cream!
Peanut shells on the floor actually has a purpose. I worked somewhere we did that too, it's for hardwood flooring, the peanut oil is good for the floor.
@unklebacon:
And the RATS love it.
Don’t put Mayo or cream cheese in Ambrosia!!!! It’s supposed to be whipped cream!
Or go by Ron Jeremy's famous recipe and use "special sauce."
G you won my heart when you said apple and rubarb crumble. My mom used to make that when i was a kid. I miss it!
As a Southerner myself, I grew up on most of this stuff.
6:54 Those were probably roasted peanuts which are different from boiled peanuts.
We always get boiled peanuts from a local farm every year. As for drinking sweet tea with them. Sweet tea is my go-to drink since I'm not a huge Coke (soda) fan. I'll drink probably 5 sweet teas per week 😂
I can imagine Aiden is going to be the life of the party at a Southern cookout
The fact that banana pudding was not on that list is an absolute sacrilegious. A true Southerner Would have put that on the list
That was the first thing my husband asked, “what about banana pudding?” Lol
Y'all bring a bright side to my day watching your reactions.
I'm from Alabama and the idea of cheese between the biscuits and the sausage gravy offends my very soul. (BTW, would it help if, instead of "white gravy," we said "bechamel sauce?" Because that's what it is, with the bacon or sausage fat taking the place of the butter. It becomes sausage gravy when you mix the sort-of-bechamel with crumbled sausage meat.)
GRITS is similar to porridge, but made from corn hominy (crushed pulverized corn). Usually included with a pat of butter on top &/or a little pepper sprinkled on top. Many in the US South enjoy shrimp & grits in the same bowl.
That version of the gravy does look sickening, but it is pretty great. And that version must be amazing. Usually, they're not that thick and dry looking, but it's amazing.
A comfort food, I believe, is anything you eat that reminds you of home & good times. It brings you comfort.
Gizzards: the mechanical stomach (how chickens grind food since they don’t have teeth)
Okra: a vegetable that can thicken gumbo. The sticky stuff is Mucilage… it acts like a roux. You can use that or Filė (North American ground sassafras leaves) but DO NOT USE both or you’ll end up over thickening.
Typically Louisiana foods start with a variation of mirepoix called the Trinity: onion, celery, bell pepper instead of carrot.
Also, okra is great if your a bit...constipated...okra and tomatoes, you Will go.
Not a fan of file' A lot of people say it doesn't have a flavor. It does to me a flavor I don't care for so I stick with the okra lol.
@@kimmycook2698 okra and tomatoes go perfectly together
I ate gizzards as a little kid, but no thanks now. I LOVE fried okra.
Absolutely love gizzards. I found a local fried chicken place that makes them perfectly, and I've been hooked ever since.
Don’t know how anyone can be a hater of southern food. Southern food is so good.
We have brown gravy. Too Warm biscuits are great they are a flaky , airy bread with touch of sweetness and buttery they melt in your mouth
What you see in this video is not biscuits and gravy lol they showed off some monstrosity like it was normal
Texas Roadhouse and some other steakhouses serve whole peanuts and encourage the guests to throw the shells on the floor. The reason is peanut shells contain a natural oil that's good for the wood floors. People throwing shells on the floor and walking on them all day (they get swept up daily) are actually helping maintain the establishment by keeping the floor well oiled.
I knew this was going to be bad as soon as Aidan scoffed at cornbread.
If I were offered the choice between a piece of freshly baked cornbread or a freshly baked yeast dinner roll, I know which I would prefer hands-down. And it has a nicely-browned top crust.
@@pacmanc8103 I'm laughing because Aidan probably thought cornbread was regular bread with chunks of corn mixed in like blueberries.
Cheese grits preferably POLENTA with butter and cheese is soooooo good😍
We keep boiled eggs in fridge for snacks.
Deviled eggs and egg salad ya'll would love
I didn't see banana pudding on this list! Ya'll should definently react to some of Jolly's content. They have some good videos of them trying southern food!
One suggestion is that when you do food reactions from other countries you come into it with a open mind. Because this is the third video I've watched where you guys look absolutely disgusted b4 the video even starts. You won't grow your channel that way. Complaining about the looks of something just because it's doesn't look like the food you're used too,well that's the point. To get out of your comfort zone especially the guy in the middle. I scroll past the suggestion video whenever I see his face because I know he's going to be ultra negative about everything.
Pinto beans & corn bead. You can make different varieties of corn bread,. Mexican corn bread is a little spicy but I like sweet corn bread. I'm surprised Jiffy corn muffin mix hasn't made it over there yet. And yes I never heard of ambrosia (fruit salad) made with anything but whipped topping (Cool Whip/whipped Cream)
I like how extremely happy he got when he saw chicken and waffles
All right y'all that is not what good biscuits and gravy looks like!!
I don't know where Mashed got that video clip from but nobody in the South or in Texas would make gravy like that.
If that was served to me in a restaurant I would send it back
Gravy is a thickening of the juices from a meat, primarily consists of the various forms of fats from the meats. Sausage gravy (the white gravy from the biscuits) is made from the dripping of breakfast sausages and is usually thickened with flower and a dairy product (typically milk or cream or half and half) hence why the gravy is whitish. Now the initial gravy shown is unusually thick, it is more runny than that in typical southern cuisines.
I would say it looked the consistency of library paste or putty. The ratio of sausage to the gravy was way too great.
To be fair, that is the chunkiest sausage gravy I’ve seen 😂
For the peanut shells on the floor, you might have been thinking of Texas Roadhouse. I LOVE fried okra, it's one of my favorite things in this world.
The fact that they turned their faces up at chitterlings 🤮. What do you think your sausages are cased in.....if it's all natural it's usually hog intestines. So it's likely you're already eating it!
I've lived in Alabama for 45 years. I hate boiled peanuts. They nasty. But sausage gravy poured over a flaky biscuit is divine.
Biscuits and gravy with scrambled eggs and toast is MAGICAL…. Grits are nasty I agree. Also, there is way too much sausage in that image they showed you.
The restaurant you are talking about I believe is “Texas Road House”
Duck is good… squirrels you best be piss poor and can’t get a deer lol
I love the office blokes...butttt yeah...the UK doesn't have anything on the USA when it comes to food and definitely Southern food. I really can't imagine UK food being flavorful.
Y’all really need to try some of this stuff done right. Grits, cornbread, and boiled peanuts are delicious. I’ll pass on the chicken gizzards and chitterlings, though.
@@sw3783 But you can probably by the movie True Grit.
Good biscuits depend on the right type of flour: ☺️
I'm sure none of these foods they found repulsive can't be as bad as eating haggis.
The chitlins is close.
A good rule of thumb is white gravy for a chicken fried steak or brown gravy for a country fried steak. Or rather... it used to be. Nowadays, though, it is often called chicken fried if deep-fried or country fried if pan fried.
Cornbread and beans!
Hi guys!
I grew up with most of these dishes. Chow chow, which I've never heard of, reminds me of relish. My favorites are gumbo, fried catfish, beignets, fried green tomatoes, and homemade apple pie. I really don't like mac and cheese, but I love different types of chili. My favorite stew is homemade beef stew.
My mom's, may she rest in peace, was biscuits and gravy. On New Year's Day, she would make us a ham and bean stew with the leftover ham bone from Christmas, a certain kind of bean, and malt vinegar. We would eat it with cornbread. It was supposed to give us good luck for the New Year.
It's cool that you all are interested in different goods and cultures. Keep the videos coming. By the way, I highly recommend that Gaynor watch the movie "Fried Green Tomatoes" with Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Mary Louise Parker. It is one of my favorites. It is based on the book,"Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe," by Fannie Flagg.
That sausage and biscuit representation was not very accurate. The gravy really resembles what you saw on the chicken fried steak but a bit thicker with chunks of breakfast sausage in it. I have been eating it all my life and never have I seen it like how it was presented in this video.
Cornbread usually with beans
Yessss. Red beans and rice or chili or a side with collard greens during a bbq.
The gravy in the biscuits and gravy is made with white gravy and breakfast sausage. They need more gravy with the sausage so it actually looks like gravy instead of vomit. Never seen it with cheese before in my 52 years of life lol
The only way I will eat grits is with lots of cheese and lots of grilled shrimp. It's really good that way.
Boiled peanuts are pretty good. You wouldn't think so but they are.
I grow my own crawfish in the small bayou on my land. I eat them regularly in all kinds of dishes. They're so good.
Fried pickles should of been on the list. Those are very popular in the south.
Omg yeeesssss so good!!
Ohhh yes, love fried pickles 😋
the things with peanuts is if you look at the floors they are all wood and the peanut shelss you throw down and step on has oil in them and that goes into the floor to preserve them and make them shine
We had a lady fall after she had stepped on peanuts still in the shell thrown on the floor at our Texas Roadhouse so they did away with the peanuts. I would imagine they would bring in mice and cockroaches too.
I’ll say it again BRITS DONT LIKE FLAVOR. They are boring
Essentially, chicken gizzards are the stomach of a chicken (or any other fowl-and surprisingly all reptiles!). Since birds don’t have teeth, they need a way to grind up food before it enters their digestive tract. This is where the gizzard comes in.
As birds peck at the ground in search of bugs, seeds, and other food, they also pick up tiny bits of grit, gravel, and pebbles. All of this food and debris moves through the esophagus, gets stored in the crop (a storage compartment), and eventually ends up in the gizzard. Along with salvia and enzymes, the gizzard’s powerful muscle contractions and the grit acts as little teeth to help pulverize the food so it can be digested. Without a gizzard, birds wouldn’t be able to process their food (much like our teeth mash our food before we can digest it).
that's the ugliest looking biscuits and gracy i ever did see. but trust me it's amazing.
In the US we have traditional brown beef gravy and white cream gravy. The traditional gravy usually goes on roast and white gravy goes on biscuits or chicken fried steak
Love your channel. Im a recent subscriber, but this isn’t a very good representation of “southern comfort food” soul food in my humble opinion
The foods they chose for the video are pretty good but the visuals they chose were atrocious. 😬
Lol the gizzard isn't truly the stomach. It's part of the digestive tract but it's like the first stop after the mouth. The gizzard is basically a muscle that the chickens use to grind corn since they don't have teeth. Chickens will swallow tiny stones that they store in the gizzard. The gizzard flexes causing the stones to grind the corn. It really just tastes like chicken meat but a bit tougher. It does not taste like chicken livers although some people kind of think of the two together.