Bleachers have been a feature in major league baseball stadiums for decades. You can also find them in high school gymnasium's. They usually pull out from the wall to convert the room into and assembly area
And it's a classic trope in American high schools to engage in shenanigans under the bleachers - specifically snogging - because it's mostly dark and hidden.
Chex mix began as a home-made party food. I remember my parents prepping for house parties and making a large batch of Chex mix from scratch. The recipe came on the cereal box. This was the late 60s, early 70s.
Pretty much. I encountered it as "puppy chow" and only at family gatherings, especially since there's a lot of cousins in the family, so it was a quick and easy thing to keep a ton of little kids happy at someone's birthday party or something.
It seems a lot like "Nuts and Bolts", an Australian snack food containing the popular cereal Nutrigrain. The recipe appeared on the cereal boxes for a while in the 80s and 90s.
I was born in the early 70s. When I was growing up, the only way you could get Chex mix was if you made it from the recipe in the cereal box. Freshly prepared Chex mix was unbelievably delicious. (We mostly had it during the holiday season in my family).
@@skeeterinnewjersey5256 I'm from South Carolina . Gumbo isn't a traditional dish here , but fried okra is . My great grandma grew okra in her garden and batter fried it for Sunday dinners . Yum !
I may be wrong , but the name of the dish Gumbo comes from a West African language word gombo meaning okra . Okra is a typical Southern US vegetable used in many styles of cuisine inspired by African influences. My great grandma grew okra in her garden , and she usually served it cut and batter fried . Carolina born and bred .
When I was a kid Chex Mix was made at home, using the recipe found on the Chex cereal boxes. It still seems odd to see it for sale ready made. What's the fun in that? Well, it might be nice to not have to clean up all those bowls and baking pans afterwards...
He didn't mention "puppy chow." It sounds like a variation of Chex Mix, but I never heard of of it when I lived in Chicago. (I left the state in '94---maybe it's something new).
Lawrence, your lovely wife taught you how to make a PB&J let her teach you how to make Chex-Mix. The stuff in the bag is NOT the same. The real stuff does involve having to buy three whole boxes of cereal and baking it in the oven. I am not ashamed to admit even into my thirties when I visit the family for Christmas and my mom asks what I would like it is pretty much the one and only thing I request because making a batch as a single person is kind of insane. There are tons of vintage recipe blogs that have the original recipe and yeah...it's a lot but for a big holiday gathering it is worth it.
Gumbo is a staple of Cajun & Creole cuisine. It's actually a modified version of the French Bouillabaisse. Which makes sense when you remember the word "Cajun" came about after the Akadian people moved to Louisiana from Canada, where they spoke French. Akadian eventually became Cajun, which is why a good number of the people speak a French/Creole dialect.
@@pmbluemoon we North Americans are kinda the only people that have pep rallies. My friends in London didn't actually believe me that they happened and thought it was just a made up for movies and TV thing LOL. They also thought the same about Solo cups
70% of American high-schoolers either loose their virginity or at least have their first makeout while hiding under the football field bleachers. Most times, while there is a game going on and the bleachers are loaded (helps keep anyone noticing the sounds). That's here in the south, anyway... Also, far as drunk games: washers > cornhole.
@@hardeehat4972 I think they’re slightly different. Crumpets look like them but are much more thicker in texture and probably have a bit more flavor. I forget the ingredients now but it is made differently.
Here in NM, you might find a javalina or dos near an arroyo. BTW, There’s a cute children’s book called “The Three Little Javelinas” if anyone is interested. 🙂
Bleacher seating is usually in any place where sports event are played. They are located in elementary schools on up to Major sports League game stadiums. They can also be found in playgrounds/parks, sometimes found in personal homes and churches too. Cornhole is popular in the South also. I was born and raised here in the states and I had never heard of the javelina and that storm before, so thanks for the info!😊🙂
Yeah same. It’s cool to find out stuff about your own country that you didn’t know. I’m American but from the North East- we mostly just have hurricanes, snow storms, and humidity. 💜😋🌀🌨
In no part of the South that I've ever been in has "beanbags" ever been called "cornhole". And that's because "cornhole" refers to what the Brits would call the "arsehole". That's right, "a game of cornhole" is another way of saying "anal intercourse".
I’m an American teaching in England, and my school has what I would call really posh bleachers in the gym where we have assemblies (well, pre-covid). They are padded and have backs but also pull out of the wall like gym bleachers in the US. However, whenever I call them bleachers, no one knows what I’m talking about! So this made a lot of sense to me, but then, what do you call them?
Being Australian, I kinda feel left out. Tho I have noticed that Australia sits in the middle. We have a lot of the U.S phrases, words, as well as British🙂👍✌️
Australians have the best accent though! Diffenetley better than any American accent. We have many. People in the Southern States sound a lot different from the people in New York for instance!
back in the days before toilet paper was widespread, especially in the country, outhouses would be stocked with dried corn cobs to accomplish the task. Hence the reason cornhole has a different meaning for some folks.
Makes sense. As a westerner, I've never played "cornhole" or any equivalent game, and I'm proud of it. Horseshoes is the best of those type of games, IMO.
@@cuttwice3905 Beanbag toss is the same thing as cornhole. Cornhole is just the Midwestern name for it. You essentially place the boards about 25' away from each other, and you want to land the bags on the board to score points. If you get the bag on the board you get 1 point, and in the hole it's 3 points. Some other variations have a colored circle around the whole where you can get 2 points if the bag is touching the circle but not in the hole. The game gets really frustrating when people have boards that are super slippery and almost any throw/toss will send your bag flying off the board.
I would be very surprised if there are many words used in the UK that we don't already know about. Why? British literature is huge here. I know...I know...Our TV & movies? But, our TV & movies are mostly centered around California & NY. One has to be familiar with the culture of New Mexico to hear about Javelinas, and our movies & TV don't.
Chased by Javelina? When I lived in Tucson, AZ in the 1990's, I left my porch door open overnight, and a whole heard of the things- some 20 wild Javelina in all, ran-sacked my house at 1 in the morning. They made a huge mess, made lots of noise, did lots of damage, and yet never gave me the courtesy of leaving behind some wild bacon.
Where my aunt and uncle used to live in the northeastern part of N.M. closer to Texas where its more like grassland than desert I've never seen nor heard of them. There was a herd of domesticated bison though. My mom saw a roadrunner.
I'd make an Asian-inspired version with soy sauce, peanut oil instead of butter, slivered almonds, no bagel chips, and adding rice crackers and/ or those crispy chow mein noodles. No microwave needed, either. When I was married (20 years ago) this Asian version of Chex Mix was an unexpected, but tasty, snack to serve friends for Board Game Night or while having a few cocktails.
Lawrence, it’s thought that the November Gale that the SS Edmund Fitzgerald was caught up in Lake Superior and broke apart was actually what we would categorize as a Great Lakes Nor’easter. The first this we learned as MI children was to stay out of any water, water craft after mid October, even if it wasn’t snowing yet, or the water hadn’t frozen over. The inland lakes were I grew up in the metro Detroit area have their own weather system in bad weather, which of course March tornado season and November storms count towards.
I grew up in Michigan and have lived in several different parts of the US. I'm still surprised when someone doesn't understand how big the Great Lakes are and how dangerous they can be. Lakes
Airboats are also used on wide shallow rivers such as our Platte River (a mile wide and an inch deep) here in Nebraska. (They also work running over wet grass.) These things can go like a bat out of hell and they have no brakes.The best airboat operators are young guys with no fear because one can get into situations where the "pucker factor" is quite high.
as an American who is fascinated and obsessed with all things British it makes me very happy that you really enjoy many of the unique things we have to offer
But in cases like Super Storm Sandy that hit NYC, it can combine with a low tropical pressure or tropical storm. It’s also what happened in the story “A Perfect Storm”.
The original Chex mix was a recipe created in the 1960's, I believe. It was a homemade snack mix called "Nuts and Bolts". It contained a least two of the Chex cereals and the cereal Cheerios, pretzel sticks, and peanuts or mixed nuts. However, when the recipe went commercial, Cheerios was left out of the mix... so were the nuts!. The cereals originally had been made by competitive companies, and that might be the reason why there were no Cheerios. The homemade recipe is the best, because with the addition of nuts, it really make it good!! It is a buttery delicious snack, made with Worcestershire sauce and sprinkled with garlic salt.
Nicely browned but not burnt roux, okra, NO TOMATOES, and plenty of file! Served over fluffy but not sticky rice so that it soaks up all that amazing juice
Love Cajun cuisine! I was living in Ohio when the Cajun Craze hit in the mid-1980s, and from that point on, there was no looking back. Got some Cajun cookbooks, mixed up my own blend of spices based off a bunch of other recipes. Marvellous stuff! One day, I hope to make it down to Louisiana . . . .
One has to love what Justin Wilson started and Chef Paul and Emeril continued. There was another guy but we will not mention him. Several others are as good if not better but not as well known - Austin Leslie and Leah Chase come to mind as the base and simple foundation of great Creole food. Tony Chachere for different reasons.
Chex mix was originally a home made cocktail snack from the 3 cereals. Commercial Chex mix(in the bag) is a fairly recent(last 20years) product full of fillers.
My British hubby had never played corn hole when he was invited to participate at a gathering of friends. He told our friends he’d never tried, but he’d give it a go. He dominated as he does in any activity that requires good eye hand coordination. The other guys were gob smacked and accused me of sending in a ringer! 😂
That's not so old, I remember when there was no such thing as ranch dressing in a bottle. You had to buy the dried ranch mix from Hidden Valley, then mix it with milk and mayonnaise The first time you bought it, you bought a little kit that included the mix, and a plastic, martini shaker looking container. You put the mix, milk, and mayo in the shaker, put the lid on and shook the shit out of it to mix it all together.
@@avshockey6633 LOL. I was just thinking about this. I remember when ranch dressing was called _buttermilk_ dressing, and it was the fifth most common salad dressing, after: thousand island, blue/roquefort cheese, italian, and french. But yeah I remember the mix from when I was a kid. I suppose they still make it.
Oh man the Iowa/Chicago derecho last year was so intense - I'd never heard of it either before that! My coworker's lobby skylight in Lakeview crashed in - luckily there weren't any injuries!
One thing I really appreciate about LITP is the accuracy when covering rather specific small details involved in the subject matter. Ie; the reference to the Holy Trinity in Gumbo in this video. I’ve noticed some other things over the past years that are very tiny but truly represent the effort put forth in these videos. Thank you sir.
Yes! Laurence does a phenomenal amount of research then puts his witty spin on things in his dry sense of humor and it is so incredibly funny! Very entertaining! He should be doing this on some national TV show....the 'Brit Minute' or some such title on either a news show or morning show or something. He is such a funny but informational/informative guy!
@@marybethduke3263 My appreciation for his work came quickly because it’s evident that Lawrence truly does love this great country. Which I found very refreshing in these last few years.
Cornhole is pretty popular around where I live in the south as a fun outdoor game..it's replaced horseshoes since..well..throwing iron or even plastic horseshoes around kids and adults alike is a dangerous prospect...especially after a few beers.
@@rdhunkins Ah..Old fashioned Lawn Darts..I've only heard of those. I was born in the mid 80's so by the time I was old enough to even think of playing with something like that they were already gone from my area. Personally I'd still love to play a good game of horseshoes like I did with my grandparents and mom..it's not hard to get ahold of the very simple materials needed..especially in the south..but I don't really have anyone but myself to play with unless my friends come over and they would prefer to play games inside during the summer due to the heat..it was 102f today. We play tabletop games mostly, sure I got video games galore but I've been hosting game name with different tabletop games like Munchkin or various other dice and card games so we don't get in a rut and just sit around staring at phones while waiting for our turn to fight each other in the video game. We had some grand times before covid hit and made everyone get wary of being around other people outside their family. I'm trying to get game night going again..might pick up the stuff for horseshoes and play it during the fall when it's cooler.
I appreciate the way he aspirates "whether" vs. "weather". A born Ohioan, I never learned the difference until I went to grad school in Canada. Still drives me crazy: wHat, wHere, wHy. My friends in the US still think I am affected in speech (maybe they are right).
We don't have Nor'easters in the UK, but we do have Sou'westers, which are extremely wet winds from the south-west, usually over Devon and Cornwall. They gave rise to the fisherman's oilskin Sou'wester Hat, which has an elongated rear to stop the rain running down your neck. That said, I don't think I've heard a UK TV Weatherman refer to a 'Sou'wester' for a very long time.
I live in the US north east. Most of the a nor'easter is nothing more than some strong wind gusts and rain or snow. But sometimes, usually no more than once a year, we get a strong one that can cause flooding and bring down trees. We get them from October to April. Of course we get tropical storms and hurricanes usually June through October. We really experience all 4 seasons to the max.
I remember that derecho from last year. It was right after we'd gotten our fourth cat (yes, we're nuts), and I was caught walking into my final job of the day when it hit. The customer canceled because her power went out, so I set out for home, dodging tree limbs, debris, patio furniture, and garbage cans the whole way. Our power went out right after I got home, and stayed out for three days. On the plus side, the whole experience really brought the cats together, so at least there's that. One thing is certain, I won't soon forget that experience.
I never heard of a derecho, but I instantly recognized it as the Spanish word for “right hand” as opposed to izquierda ( left hand). I never heard the term javalina but it turns out to be the same thing as a peccary.
The Taste of Chicago always used to have someone selling alligator on a stick when I was younger. Apparently Pierogi Fest in Indiana used to have it as well though I didn't see anyone selling it this year. So it definitely exists in Chicagoland. I'm sure Laurence could probably find some at a fair or other event with lots of unhealthy street foods.
Hah! My mom made me some gumbo and had my dad drive it over not 3 hours ago. I sit and start chowing down and what do I see? Gumbo on a Lost in the Pond thumbnail lol!
I live in Massachusetts- we get Nor'Easters fairly regularly. They usually last 3 days of bad weather.We also get Sou'Westers- a storm that travels from South West to North East.
4:23 This. Today I learned a new term for straight line winds. I grew up in Nebraska, where straight line winds are a thing, along with thunderstorms, tornadoes, and anvil clouds. Not once, in my recollection, did any of the lovely weather people ever say “Derecho.” Which is weird. Derecho is a much simpler thing to say! The more you know! 🌈⭐️
@@NoPrefect Well, in Spanish, letters are basically always pronounced the same. The “E” is pronounced “ay,” is in “hay.” And in Spanish, “derecho” has the emphasis on the middle syllable.
@@mikespangler98 Now I'm curious, because that's a german word. 'Graupel' is what we call it when you get - well, it's like hail, but small and softer, or like really tiny snowballs. Never heard that 'graupel' is used in english, too.
I accidentally run across these and wish I had time to watch more. In this update the advert (see what I did there) was (dare I say) almost more interesting than the podcast. Keep up the good work.
Rain check is also used to give someone a deal later on something that is on sale that they have run out of . The raincheck lets you get the product at the sale price later on, once it is restocked.
That's just coastal New England. Ever been to Vermont? They sound more like Canadians or Midwesterners than they sound like Bostonians or fishermen from Maine.
I attended an American school near London. We had most everything you'd find in the US, including bleachers in our gym, but not an American football team. We also imported anything else we couldn't find locally but could bring over. I even know people that imported their cars and pick-up trucks from the US. There's a lot of America in the UK.
When I was younger, in the UK, you could soon tell that you were near a US Air Base because you would start to see some fairly mundane American cars. Some British enthusiasts owned American cars but they tended to be things like Mustangs and Corvettes rather than 'sedans' and 'minivans' to use US terms.
That derecho hit Linn County, Iowa on August 10. In Cedar Rapids, it took down over 250,000 trees and left one in four buildings with roof damage. Power was out everywhere, in some cases for a month. Two of the cable companies were hit so bad, they had to start over from scratch. Sustained winds topped 140 MPH.
@@timmmahhhhI called it beanbags as a small kid, then moved away to Arizona where it’s not commonly played, then back to Minnesota in 2010 when everyone had apparently renamed it cornhole without asking me! Strangely, the beanbags of my childhood were full of field corn or plastic pellets, but never called cornhole
Hi Lawrence. I live in North Central Illinois and we call the game you mentioned Bags. Not very original, I admit. It is fun, especially when you're a klutz like me and hit the dog, birds, squirrels, etc. Now the animals run when I start playing!🤣
Bleachers also have the connotation of "cheap" and "distant". I have used it in regards to being the last to know of company plans, for instance -- "I musta been in the bleachers".
I'm in Canada, 45 minutes north of the US border, and aside from Nor-easter and "bleacher", the only words I recognize were "gumbo", which means thick mud here, and 'cornhole" which means.....ummm butthole here....
It has that connotation here in the States as well. I have no idea how long some version of the game cornhole has been around so it is hard to say what came first.
The original Chex Mix was a recipe that you made at home. It did not have bagel chips. It had Cheerios & mixed nuts instead. Of course it had Corn, Rice & Wheat Chex. It also has Worcestershire Sauce. It can have celery salt & garlic salt or seasoned salt, celery powder ^& garlic powder.
We have Haboob's here in the southwest. It's a dust storm, of a specific variety.....characterized by a wall of dust that generally extends miles high and usually tens of miles wide. To be fair though, even though we lived with 'em for hundreds of years we borrowed the Arabic word for the storms.
That's okay, we've also known about tsunamis and their link to earthquakes for thousands of years. But it's only recently that we borrowed the Japanese word for such waves and made it universal.
@@AtarahDerek It's recent with these too...like, within the last 15-20 years. We just grew up knowing it was a dust storm, and if you pay attention because of the size you can see them quite a ways off so you know they're coming.
If I remember right, you live in the suburbs of Chicago. I'm due west and heard the term derecho for the first time in my life last year. You probably got a whiff of that one too. I went outside to experience it more while it was in progress, my house is made of block and it blocked the wind for me. It was amazing to feel and see the power of the wind.
Showing off my meteorological skills.. it was 112° F today if you factor in the 309% humidity in South Carolina... But yes the "Real Feel" temp was 112° in my corner of the woods... And don't give me it was 115° in Phoenix... You got no humidity which makes it even more insufferable!
@@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER yup.. as one who has lived 90% of my life in SC, NC or Ga... Humidity will ruin you.. you can't breathe because of the moisture in the air, you walk to the mailbox and you are drenched and exhausted... SE heat is hells gate
@@chefbubbaclemson3701 Yes, definitely! heard there are some people who have adapted to the humidity. But I think they have gills. I've heard there are natives of New Orleans who have drowned in air, because they accidentally flopped up out of Louisiana, and landed somewhere up north, on dry land...and they strangled to death on the lack of water in the air, lol.
I learned what a deracho was in '98 when one ripped through Michigan and left us without power for a week. People still talk about that one. We don't get hurricanes here, and the rare tornado we get is usually just a little one. Nothing like the monsters out on the great plains. So we were TOTALLY unprepared for a natural disaster of that kind.
Does Britain have a word for when it's raining and sunny at the same time? Most of the US does not, though in the Northeast they call it a "sun shower" which is lovely and totally in opposition to the deep south where people will unfortunately say "The devil is beating his wife."
We had a derecho in the Mountain West in July last year. Our power was out for a week, due to several large downed trees. All the parks had numerous huge trees that had been uprooted.
At least in the past, in America "cornhole" was a particular unnatural sexual act. I have no idea, why people use that as the name of a game? Perhaps some marketing people were oblivious to cornhole's common use?
Its a basic description of what the game is. you toss bags of corn (that is what the bags are traditionally filled with though some store bought bags use other fillings I have been told) into a hole. I guess since it is a Midwest game they wanted the name to tell you what the game actually is about?
@@MADELYNN1234 I understand that, but "cornhole" is a long used common slang term for anal sex, so it might be better to use one of the previous common names for the game. That is my point.
Yes, I had no idea the word was anything other than, as a noun, slang for the anus, or as a verb, slang for engaging in anal.sex. And I'm still not sure I believe it is used by anyone in the US as to refer to anything other than the above. I'm from the Midwest and have never heard it used as the name of a game. If anything, he game he's referring to seems to be some sort of beanbag toss.
Oh, Man…..gumbo is SOOOOO much more than your description!! Everything from the reaux to the seasonings to the choice of meats/seafoods to whether you make it creole or file’ and everything in between makes a gumbo delicious.
Warthogs are a much more terrifying animal. Javelinas are just wild pigs. The same cute little pink pig you see in farms basically pulls a Pokemon move and "evolves" into a wild boar if it gets loose. Javelinas are the descendents of escaped pigs. They are genetically very different from warhogs and are less agressive. If you manage to steal one of their babies and feed it well and provide shelter it will be a domestic pig in about 2 generations. If you steal a warthog baby it will probably just try to kill you asap.
@@elmikeomysterio5496 Javelinas and wild (feral) pigs are not the same animal. Javelinas are peccaries, which are in the same family as pigs, but not the same animal.
In Canada we have largely adopted the US term "bleachers". Once we just called them "stands". If everyone sits on deck chairs or in the mud how do you see over the heads of people in front of you? In North America bleacher style seating is also used at all sorts of mass audience events that use non-permanent sites- essentially, anywhere there is not a permanent stadium with fixed seating. Even auto racing. Does the UK have no equivalents at all? If they do, what do they call those seats? Benches?
Laurence, I'm WONDERING what the title of the music that plays after this and many of your other videos is... I've asked this question before but never received an answer! I totally love and enjoy your videos! Because I am enamored with all things British, you are one of my top favorites on TH-cam... keep up the great work!
@@HermanVonPetri The French had colonized Louisiana in 1682. Even though some ports were established all throughout the coast of Africa around the same time there wasn't any significant interactions with the tribes inland at the time. France didn't start colonizing and "Frenchifising" West Africa until 1830 (18 years after Louisiana became an official State). Sadly, Gumbo would have entered the Louisiana French vocabulary via slavery. One of the most popular theories is that it derives from the Angolan word kingombo (okra), especially since the largest part of the slave population in Southern Louisiana was from Angola (hence why the State Prison is the namesake). Gumbo itself is supposed to be a poor man's soup made from okra but has evolved with the unique cultural blends of southern Louisiana.
Gumbo comes from ki ngombo, the word for okra. A variant of that is still used in Puerto Rico and Cuba. The Dominican Republic uses a different word (they were pulling slaves from a different part of Africa)
Gumbo is an archaic word for okra (bindi if you are from India). A creole stew with okra in started with a black reux and a sweet white wine is a "Gumbo Soup" which over the years was shortened to just "Gumbo". Seafood gumbo is more common near the coast but some of the best eats in my life was venison gumbo.
I am now 76. When I was a young teen-age boy "cornhole" had a very obscene sexual connotation. I just can NOT get accustomed to hearing that term used for beanbag toss, or anything else for that matter, in polite conversation. Polite conversation? I don't believe that exists anymore in America.
When I was a little kid it was called beanbag, even when the bags were full of corn, I don’t know when they started calling it cornhole, and I’m only 25!
Gumbo can be 3 left overs made into 1 meal. My favorite is Thanks Giving Gumbo. Pulled turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing and gravy. I think it's better then Thanks giving dinner.
Cedar Rapids Iowa resident here : we didn’t know about derechos either until we had it happen August 10th last year - it was like a hurricane went through and it leveled so many trees!! It was insane
Bleachers have been a feature in major league baseball stadiums for decades. You can also find them in high school gymnasium's. They usually pull out from the wall to convert the room into and assembly area
Chicago Cubs has the Bleacher Bums. Great way to turn crap seats into a great time.
High school fball stadiums all over America use nothing but bleacher seating.
bleachers are basically low budget stadium seating.
And it's a classic trope in American high schools to engage in shenanigans under the bleachers - specifically snogging - because it's mostly dark and hidden.
@@jessicabowen98 In UK schools, the cliched place for such things is in or behind the bikesheds (or at least it used to be).
Chex mix began as a home-made party food. I remember my parents prepping for house parties and making a large batch of Chex mix from scratch. The recipe came on the cereal box. This was the late 60s, early 70s.
Pretty much. I encountered it as "puppy chow" and only at family gatherings, especially since there's a lot of cousins in the family, so it was a quick and easy thing to keep a ton of little kids happy at someone's birthday party or something.
It seems a lot like "Nuts and Bolts", an Australian snack food containing the popular cereal Nutrigrain. The recipe appeared on the cereal boxes for a while in the 80s and 90s.
And the homemade version is way better than the store bought version. Tara should mix up a batch for Christmas. Same with Puppy Chow.
My grandma used to call it beer bait
Yes, I believe the recipe was printed on the box of Chex cereal. But, not sure
I was born in the early 70s. When I was growing up, the only way you could get Chex mix was if you made it from the recipe in the cereal box. Freshly prepared Chex mix was unbelievably delicious. (We mostly had it during the holiday season in my family).
Me too, and it was much better to make it in a conventional oven rather that a microwave oven.
Like Rice Krispy Treats
Homemade Chex Mix is definitely far superior to store bought. Although I do like the multiple flavors of store bought Chex Mix.
You should do a top ten video on distinctly American things you can no longer live without.
I second this motion!
Gumbo is so good. The 2 main types are “chicken and sausage” and seafood. I always get the chicken and sausage gumbo.
I live in Louisiana and we eat a ton of gumbo
Never had anything as good as my mum's okra gumbo.
Me too...I don't like seafood so Chicken gumbo is my choice.
@@skeeterinnewjersey5256 I'm from South Carolina . Gumbo isn't a traditional dish here , but fried okra is . My great grandma grew okra in her garden and batter fried it for Sunday dinners . Yum !
I am making some andouille and chicken gumbo tomorrow! Yum!
To go along with "gumbo":
Boudain (boo-dan)
Etoufee (eh-too-fey)
Jambalaya (jumba-lie-ah)
Beignettes (ben-yeh's)
Welcome to French based food names!
Beignets
🙂
You're making me hungry.
@@LindaC616 Always stand upwind of beignets.
Oh yes....Crawfish Boudain!!!
Boudin
The first time I heard "cornhole" used as the name of a game I had to laugh. The term has a very different meaning to a lot of people.
Oh my! Indeed, it does! LOL
Ya. and what about corn hauler?
HA HA HA HA HA HA Just the sound of it hurts...
“I am the great Cornholio! Are you threatening me?!”
I only know about the game. What is the other definition? LOL
I may be wrong , but the name of the dish Gumbo comes from a West African language word gombo meaning okra . Okra is a typical Southern US vegetable used in many styles of cuisine inspired by African influences. My great grandma grew okra in her garden , and she usually served it cut and batter fried . Carolina born and bred .
You're right
I'm sure you are right.
Goober is also a West African word, still in use in West Africa and in many parts of the Southern US.
And if the dish does not contain okra, it isn't gumbo!
@@nomadicroadrat i didn't know that one!
When I was a kid Chex Mix was made at home, using the recipe found on the Chex cereal boxes. It still seems odd to see it for sale ready made. What's the fun in that? Well, it might be nice to not have to clean up all those bowls and baking pans afterwards...
I think they started selling pre-made Chex Mix and Rice Krispie Treats in stores around the same time. Coincidence?
Yeah, it was a 70s thing, something even kids could make if they were having a slumber party. The version my family made was pretty spicy.
@@maruka1716 A year or 2 ago I found a recipe with ranch dressing powder in envelopes. It wasn't too bad
He didn't mention "puppy chow." It sounds like a variation of Chex Mix, but I never heard of of it when I lived in Chicago. (I left the state in '94---maybe it's something new).
Home made Chex Mix is so much more yummy than the bag stuff!
Lawrence, your lovely wife taught you how to make a PB&J let her teach you how to make Chex-Mix. The stuff in the bag is NOT the same. The real stuff does involve having to buy three whole boxes of cereal and baking it in the oven. I am not ashamed to admit even into my thirties when I visit the family for Christmas and my mom asks what I would like it is pretty much the one and only thing I request because making a batch as a single person is kind of insane. There are tons of vintage recipe blogs that have the original recipe and yeah...it's a lot but for a big holiday gathering it is worth it.
Gumbo is a staple of Cajun & Creole cuisine. It's actually a modified version of the French Bouillabaisse. Which makes sense when you remember the word "Cajun" came about after the Akadian people moved to Louisiana from Canada, where they spoke French. Akadian eventually became Cajun, which is why a good number of the people speak a French/Creole dialect.
Bleachers aren’t only at college sports… they’re at every sports field
Also in most gymnasiums in schools for sports and pep rallies.
And also Lambeau Field. We don't need no seats. Also it's easier to dig out (of snow) . Go Pack!
@@pmbluemoon we North Americans are kinda the only people that have pep rallies. My friends in London didn't actually believe me that they happened and thought it was just a made up for movies and TV thing LOL. They also thought the same about Solo cups
70% of American high-schoolers either loose their virginity or at least have their first makeout while hiding under the football field bleachers. Most times, while there is a game going on and the bleachers are loaded (helps keep anyone noticing the sounds). That's here in the south, anyway...
Also, far as drunk games: washers > cornhole.
@@andrewthezeppo lol! It's so neat to learn about different ways people do things, and the difference in how we celebrate things 🥳✨🎉🤩👍
It would be wonderful to hear about the flip side of the coin. What British words are not known or used in the States?
Tv license
Crumpets is one...I still don't know what crumpets are.
@@daddams100 Crumpets are just our English muffins.
@@hardeehat4972 I think they’re slightly different. Crumpets look like them but are much more thicker in texture and probably have a bit more flavor. I forget the ingredients now but it is made differently.
@pisswobble
English muffins aren’t muffins.
Here in NM, you might find a javalina or dos near an arroyo.
BTW, There’s a cute children’s book called “The Three Little Javelinas” if anyone is interested. 🙂
Javelinas in the wild or The Phoenix Zoo
I have a family friend who lives in Az she sent me pictures of 2-3 javelinas walking across the street and walking across her backyard.
My drive to work very nearly got derailed by a javelina family just this morning. I'm in southern AZ.
I saw some javelinas at a Texas rest stop once. My first thought was, "What if they attack me?" Fortunately, they just ignored me.
I have that book! A childhood friend of mine (who lives in the southwest) gave it to me for my grandchildren!
Bleacher seating is usually in any place where sports event are played. They are located in elementary schools on up to Major sports League game stadiums. They can also be found in playgrounds/parks, sometimes found in personal homes and churches too. Cornhole is popular in the South also. I was born and raised here in the states and I had never heard of the javelina and that storm before, so thanks for the info!😊🙂
Derecho aren't all that uncommon along the Great Lakes region. All the same we tend to call them straight line winds, because it's easier.
Yeah same. It’s cool to find out stuff about your own country that you didn’t know.
I’m American but from the North East- we mostly just have hurricanes, snow storms, and humidity. 💜😋🌀🌨
In no part of the South that I've ever been in has "beanbags" ever been called "cornhole".
And that's because "cornhole" refers to what the Brits would call the "arsehole".
That's right, "a game of cornhole" is another way of saying "anal intercourse".
i knew about javelinas but i had no idea they were found north of the equator
@@rtyria that's what meteorologists in Kansas and Missouri call them too.
I’m an American teaching in England, and my school has what I would call really posh bleachers in the gym where we have assemblies (well, pre-covid). They are padded and have backs but also pull out of the wall like gym bleachers in the US. However, whenever I call them bleachers, no one knows what I’m talking about! So this made a lot of sense to me, but then, what do you call them?
"Tiered, elevated rows of benches" ?
Although a complete anglophile, I choose to stick with the two syllable American word... 🇬🇧 🇺🇲
Benches 🤷🏽♀️😂
@@juliaw151 😂😂😂 Maybe!
Seats, folding seats, something like that? I know what you are talking about, we had them in our school as well.
I think if we microwave the bag, we can combine "hot potato" with "Cornhole" for a speed version 🤣
Or you could end up with a bag of popcorn. No telling.
I have a sudden desire to try this and I’m not even drinking...
Being Australian, I kinda feel left out. Tho I have noticed that Australia sits in the middle. We have a lot of the U.S phrases, words, as well as British🙂👍✌️
Well both the US and Australia broke free from British rule so we have a lot in common. Except y'all on your own coming up with Maccas 🤣
Australians have the best accent though! Diffenetley better than any American accent. We have many. People in the Southern States sound a lot different from the people in New York for instance!
same for us kIwis
@@samanthab3292 We are still in the Commonwealth. Still feeling the grasp of the UK. Not free yet.
That is because we love y'all.
back in the days before toilet paper was widespread, especially in the country, outhouses would be stocked with dried corn cobs to accomplish the task. Hence the reason cornhole has a different meaning for some folks.
Makes sense. As a westerner, I've never played "cornhole" or any equivalent game, and I'm proud of it. Horseshoes is the best of those type of games, IMO.
@@gregmuon Same here. Most of my life in the Western part of the United States.
The other meaning is what I thought he meant. I've never heard of the game. I have heard of a beanbag toss.
@@cuttwice3905 Beanbag toss is the same thing as cornhole. Cornhole is just the Midwestern name for it. You essentially place the boards about 25' away from each other, and you want to land the bags on the board to score points. If you get the bag on the board you get 1 point, and in the hole it's 3 points. Some other variations have a colored circle around the whole where you can get 2 points if the bag is touching the circle but not in the hole. The game gets really frustrating when people have boards that are super slippery and almost any throw/toss will send your bag flying off the board.
What? EW!!! I did *not* know that...OMG ewww.
Always fun to find out the differences, culturally, technologically, verbally, and zoologically. Thanks for this!
I would be very surprised if there are many words used in the UK that we don't already know about. Why? British literature is huge here. I know...I know...Our TV & movies? But, our TV & movies are mostly centered around California & NY. One has to be familiar with the culture of New Mexico to hear about Javelinas, and our movies & TV don't.
You're too hilariously cute. "I read that on wikipedia" 😂😂😂😂
I also stumbled across Cornhole on ESPN, and I couldn't believe how desperate for content sports networks got during the pandemic.
I agree. I found it also and couldn't understand the appeal of watching it.
I guess there is no close contact 😆
Has Marble League made it to ESPN yet? I might actually watch that.
Not a spectator sport.
I wonder how many cornhole players took a knee before the tournament? 🤔
Chased by Javelina? When I lived in Tucson, AZ in the 1990's, I left my porch door open overnight, and a whole heard of the things- some 20 wild Javelina in all, ran-sacked my house at 1 in the morning. They made a huge mess, made lots of noise, did lots of damage, and yet never gave me the courtesy of leaving behind some wild bacon.
They are supposed to have them in Show Low, but I'm 25 miles north, and never saw one---but lots of coyotes, and even roadrunners. (beep beep)
Where my aunt and uncle used to live in the northeastern part of N.M. closer to Texas where its more like grassland than desert I've never seen nor heard of them. There was a herd of domesticated bison though. My mom saw a roadrunner.
Another name for those "air boats" is "swamp boats."
I heard them also called "fan boats" recently
They work well on shallow rivers too
Also swamp buggies
We've seen the air boats on t.v , and after all it was a Brit who invented the hovercraft.
@@susanorr8348 My understanding is that swamp buggies have wheels and are generally used in a form of motor sport
Best way to eat Chex Mix or Puppy Chow is from a home made batch.
Recipes are on the back of every Chex cereal box.
Consider making Chex Mix at home! You can customize ingredients and seasoning level. 5 Lorenzos!
my family secret is to use the old recipe from the back of the box and add a cup of Cheeze-its and a few tablespoons of siracha
I'd make an Asian-inspired version with soy sauce, peanut oil instead of butter, slivered almonds, no bagel chips, and adding rice crackers and/ or those crispy chow mein noodles. No microwave needed, either. When I was married (20 years ago) this Asian version of Chex Mix was an unexpected, but tasty, snack to serve friends for Board Game Night or while having a few cocktails.
Lawrence, it’s thought that the November Gale that the SS Edmund Fitzgerald was caught up in Lake Superior and broke apart was actually what we would categorize as a Great Lakes Nor’easter. The first this we learned as MI children was to stay out of any water, water craft after mid October, even if it wasn’t snowing yet, or the water hadn’t frozen over. The inland lakes were I grew up in the metro Detroit area have their own weather system in bad weather, which of course March tornado season and November storms count towards.
I grew up in Michigan and have lived in several different parts of the US. I'm still surprised when someone doesn't understand how big the Great Lakes are and how dangerous they can be. Lakes
They're basically inland seas. They do have their own weather systems.
@@samanthab1923 In Europe if you are standing on the shore of a lake and can't see the other side it means it must be foggy or night time!
Airboats are also used on wide shallow rivers such as our Platte River (a mile wide and an inch deep) here in Nebraska. (They also work running over wet grass.) These things can go like a bat out of hell and they have no brakes.The best airboat operators are young guys with no fear because one can get into situations where the "pucker factor" is quite high.
When I was growing up a corn hole was what you used to go poop with. As for the game we always called it Bean bag toss.
as an American who is fascinated and obsessed with all things British it makes me very happy that you really enjoy many of the unique things we have to offer
The best way to explain a noreaster is that it's a winter hurricane. It's a cyclone with a lot of wind and snow.
But in cases like Super Storm Sandy that hit NYC, it can combine with a low tropical pressure or tropical storm. It’s also what happened in the story “A Perfect Storm”.
The original Chex mix was a recipe created in the 1960's, I believe. It was a homemade snack mix called "Nuts and Bolts". It contained a least two of the Chex cereals and the cereal Cheerios, pretzel sticks, and peanuts or mixed nuts. However, when the recipe went commercial, Cheerios was left out of the mix... so were the nuts!. The cereals originally had been made by competitive companies, and that might be the reason why there were no Cheerios. The homemade recipe is the best, because with the addition of nuts, it really make it good!! It is a buttery delicious snack, made with Worcestershire sauce and sprinkled with garlic salt.
I tried gumbo for the first time about a year ago and it's one of my new favorite foods. If done right (I've had some bad ones) it's truly delicious.
Nicely browned but not burnt roux, okra, NO TOMATOES, and plenty of file! Served over fluffy but not sticky rice so that it soaks up all that amazing juice
Love Cajun cuisine! I was living in Ohio when the Cajun Craze hit in the mid-1980s, and from that point on, there was no looking back. Got some Cajun cookbooks, mixed up my own blend of spices based off a bunch of other recipes. Marvellous stuff! One day, I hope to make it down to Louisiana . . . .
One has to love what Justin Wilson started and Chef Paul and Emeril continued. There was another guy but we will not mention him. Several others are as good if not better but not as well known - Austin Leslie and Leah Chase come to mind as the base and simple foundation of great Creole food. Tony Chachere for different reasons.
@@larrylawson5172 now you have me curious 🤔 about "the other guy", 😆
I live in Louisiana and the Cajun food is really much better than anywhere else
John folse?
@@larrylawson5172 Pecan Pralines are to die for. BTW, was that unmentionable "frugal?"
As always I enjoyed your content. It's been a throughly rotten week and some humor is called for.
Chex mix was originally a home made cocktail snack from the 3 cereals. Commercial Chex mix(in the bag) is a fairly recent(last 20years) product full of fillers.
My British hubby had never played corn hole when he was invited to participate at a gathering of friends. He told our friends he’d never tried, but he’d give it a go. He dominated as he does in any activity that requires good eye hand coordination. The other guys were gob smacked and accused me of sending in a ringer! 😂
I remember when you had to make your own chex mix from the recipe on the box. I guess I'm old. 🤔
Yes....sigh....we are
that is the only way i eat chex mix, i make it myself, the last time i added air popped popcorn
Oh yes, I remember that too. I't better that way.
That's not so old, I remember when there was no such thing as ranch dressing in a bottle. You had to buy the dried ranch mix from Hidden Valley, then mix it with milk and mayonnaise The first time you bought it, you bought a little kit that included the mix, and a plastic, martini shaker looking container. You put the mix, milk, and mayo in the shaker, put the lid on and shook the shit out of it to mix it all together.
@@avshockey6633 LOL. I was just thinking about this. I remember when ranch dressing was called _buttermilk_ dressing, and it was the fifth most common salad dressing, after: thousand island, blue/roquefort cheese, italian, and french. But yeah I remember the mix from when I was a kid. I suppose they still make it.
I discovered gumbo a few years ago, long after discovering jambalaya (another southern food). It's delicious!
Oh man the Iowa/Chicago derecho last year was so intense - I'd never heard of it either before that! My coworker's lobby skylight in Lakeview crashed in - luckily there weren't any injuries!
One thing I really appreciate about LITP is the accuracy when covering rather specific small details involved in the subject matter.
Ie; the reference to the Holy Trinity in Gumbo in this video.
I’ve noticed some other things over the past years that are very tiny but truly represent the effort put forth in these videos.
Thank you sir.
Yes! Laurence does a phenomenal amount of research then puts his witty spin on things in his dry sense of humor and it is so incredibly funny! Very entertaining! He should be doing this on some national TV show....the 'Brit Minute' or some such title on either a news show or morning show or something. He is such a funny but informational/informative guy!
@@marybethduke3263
My appreciation for his work came quickly because it’s evident that Lawrence truly does love this great country. Which I found very refreshing in these last few years.
@@Heavywall70 I'm with you, bro....very refreshing!
Cornhole is pretty popular around where I live in the south as a fun outdoor game..it's replaced horseshoes since..well..throwing iron or even plastic horseshoes around kids and adults alike is a dangerous prospect...especially after a few beers.
We’ve gotten so soft. In my day we threw metal darts up in the air and tried to hit the inside a ring placed on the lawn.
@@rdhunkins Ah..Old fashioned Lawn Darts..I've only heard of those. I was born in the mid 80's so by the time I was old enough to even think of playing with something like that they were already gone from my area. Personally I'd still love to play a good game of horseshoes like I did with my grandparents and mom..it's not hard to get ahold of the very simple materials needed..especially in the south..but I don't really have anyone but myself to play with unless my friends come over and they would prefer to play games inside during the summer due to the heat..it was 102f today. We play tabletop games mostly, sure I got video games galore but I've been hosting game name with different tabletop games like Munchkin or various other dice and card games so we don't get in a rut and just sit around staring at phones while waiting for our turn to fight each other in the video game. We had some grand times before covid hit and made everyone get wary of being around other people outside their family. I'm trying to get game night going again..might pick up the stuff for horseshoes and play it during the fall when it's cooler.
A lot easier to handle when you're hammered.
I could see you doing narrations for nature programs such as Sir Attenborough....
I appreciate the way he aspirates "whether" vs. "weather". A born Ohioan, I never learned the difference until I went to grad school in Canada. Still drives me crazy: wHat, wHere, wHy. My friends in the US still think I am affected in speech (maybe they are right).
Cool whip
I always get annoyed by people who think your and you're sound the same
if you can't tell a bore from a boor, you might be both.
@@LindaC616 That should be cool wHHip.
@@KairuHakubi You might be on to something they're...their...there!
@@61rampy65 wHHat?
"... a badly ironed bear ..." My new favorite animal!!
I have not seen any of those non-piggies on my AZ land yet. They are supposed to be good eatin', but I think you need a permit to hunt them.
Nor’easters are something to fear on the Great Lakes around Michigan
I second this!
We don't have Nor'easters in the UK, but we do have Sou'westers, which are extremely wet winds from the south-west, usually over Devon and Cornwall. They gave rise to the fisherman's oilskin Sou'wester Hat, which has an elongated rear to stop the rain running down your neck. That said, I don't think I've heard a UK TV Weatherman refer to a 'Sou'wester' for a very long time.
As a Brit, the word nor'easter just sounds like a rather cold wind in winter blowing in from Scandinavia and Russia.
I live in the US north east. Most of the a nor'easter is nothing more than some strong wind gusts and rain or snow. But sometimes, usually no more than once a year, we get a strong one that can cause flooding and bring down trees. We get them from October to April. Of course we get tropical storms and hurricanes usually June through October. We really experience all 4 seasons to the max.
I remember that derecho from last year. It was right after we'd gotten our fourth cat (yes, we're nuts), and I was caught walking into my final job of the day when it hit. The customer canceled because her power went out, so I set out for home, dodging tree limbs, debris, patio furniture, and garbage cans the whole way. Our power went out right after I got home, and stayed out for three days.
On the plus side, the whole experience really brought the cats together, so at least there's that. One thing is certain, I won't soon forget that experience.
I never heard of a derecho, but I instantly recognized it as the Spanish word for “right hand” as opposed to izquierda ( left hand). I never heard the term javalina but it turns out to be the same thing as a peccary.
Airboat featured in Flipper a favourite show in 5he late 60s
The Taste of Chicago always used to have someone selling alligator on a stick when I was younger. Apparently Pierogi Fest in Indiana used to have it as well though I didn't see anyone selling it this year.
So it definitely exists in Chicagoland. I'm sure Laurence could probably find some at a fair or other event with lots of unhealthy street foods.
It's a ways outside of Chicagoland, but there's a place called Cajun Connection in Utica, IL. That's near Starved Rock State Park.
I’m an American and this is the first time I heard of a javelina. So even I learned something new today.
My city is still recovering from the derecho. Our house repairs are nearly done a year later and we're some of the luckiest ones.
I hadn’t heard of haboobs until I moved to Phoenix. They are crazy sandstorms that come out of nowhere during the monsoon season.
They are a common occurrence in New Mexico and west Texas. But people from other places in the US don’t seem to know what it is.
Hah! My mom made me some gumbo and had my dad drive it over not 3 hours ago. I sit and start chowing down and what do I see? Gumbo on a Lost in the Pond thumbnail lol!
I live in Massachusetts- we get Nor'Easters fairly regularly. They usually last 3 days of bad weather.We also get Sou'Westers- a storm that travels from South West to North East.
Never heard of javelina or a derecho. But we have nor'easters here in New England.
Heard about derecho for first time this week. You beat me to it!
And the mid-Atlantic areas like the tri-state area of the New York metropolitan area.
Never heard of a derecho until one recently flattened much of Iowa. Saw javelinas when I lived in Texas.
I heard javelina the first time when I watched Breaking Bad.
Javelinas are native to Central and South America as well as the Southwest US so it's not likely they'd be in New England
4:23 This. Today I learned a new term for straight line winds.
I grew up in Nebraska, where straight line winds are a thing, along with thunderstorms, tornadoes, and anvil clouds. Not once, in my recollection, did any of the lovely weather people ever say “Derecho.” Which is weird. Derecho is a much simpler thing to say!
The more you know! 🌈⭐️
Never heard of a derecho, aside from its Spanish meaning and pronunciation.
The weather word I had never heard of until recently is graupel.
I would have thought that was pronounced "dare-ick-koh" without the root
@@NoPrefect Well, in Spanish, letters are basically always pronounced the same. The “E” is pronounced “ay,” is in “hay.” And in Spanish, “derecho” has the emphasis on the middle syllable.
Same here! I was like, “what’s a right?” 😂
@@mikespangler98 Now I'm curious, because that's a german word. 'Graupel' is what we call it when you get - well, it's like hail, but small and softer, or like really tiny snowballs. Never heard that 'graupel' is used in english, too.
I accidentally run across these and wish I had time to watch more. In this update the advert (see what I did there) was (dare I say) almost more interesting than the podcast. Keep up the good work.
You must read this classic: “Under the Bleachers” by Seymour Butts.😁
Rain check is also used to give someone a deal later on something that is on sale that they have run out of . The raincheck lets you get the product at the sale price later on, once it is restocked.
Javlina's. Spanish name for what many call a Peccary. Oh BTW, do not approach one without a rifle or shotgun, just some friendly advise.
Those little bastards are mean.
Unnecessary apostrophe
Lawrence, congratulations on looking so much thinner, happier, and healthier!
It's pronounced "Nor'eastah" in the New England states.
Yeah new england doesn't like "er" in their words lol
That's just coastal New England. Ever been to Vermont? They sound more like Canadians or Midwesterners than they sound like Bostonians or fishermen from Maine.
If it happens in wintah, we get a blizzid.
Very fun and informative! Thank you very much 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
I’ve been on several airboats growing up in South Florida. There’s no better way to tour the Everglades. And cornhole is just a modified horseshoes
A lightweight version with less chance of injury since most people are drinking while playing lol
It's more like a golf-meets-horseshoes hybrid, but with the same demographic appeal as bowling.
Howdy from Temple, Texas!
I attended an American school near London. We had most everything you'd find in the US, including bleachers in our gym, but not an American football team. We also imported anything else we couldn't find locally but could bring over. I even know people that imported their cars and pick-up trucks from the US. There's a lot of America in the UK.
When I was younger, in the UK, you could soon tell that you were near a US Air Base because you would start to see some fairly mundane American cars. Some British enthusiasts owned American cars but they tended to be things like Mustangs and Corvettes rather than 'sedans' and 'minivans' to use US terms.
That derecho hit Linn County, Iowa on August 10. In Cedar Rapids, it took down over 250,000 trees and left one in four buildings with roof damage. Power was out everywhere, in some cases for a month. Two of the cable companies were hit so bad, they had to start over from scratch. Sustained winds topped 140 MPH.
Yes, we call it beanbag toss.
Yes! I'm from MI, and we never called it cornhole
I grew up calling it that heard Cornhole maybe 10-12 years ago, the bags have dried corn vs beans.
I'm in NJ. I've heard of it called Cornhole, but I mostly refer to it as bean bag toss. Strangely enough, the bags are filled with sand.
@@timmmahhhhI called it beanbags as a small kid, then moved away to Arizona where it’s not commonly played, then back to Minnesota in 2010 when everyone had apparently renamed it cornhole without asking me! Strangely, the beanbags of my childhood were full of field corn or plastic pellets, but never called cornhole
In NE I've heard both
Hi Lawrence. I live in North Central Illinois and we call the game you mentioned Bags. Not very original, I admit. It is fun, especially when you're a klutz like me and hit the dog, birds, squirrels, etc. Now the animals run when I start playing!🤣
So glad we kept the "u" in soup.
Bleachers also have the connotation of "cheap" and "distant". I have used it in regards to being the last to know of company plans, for instance -- "I musta been in the bleachers".
I'm in Canada, 45 minutes north of the US border, and aside from Nor-easter and "bleacher", the only words I recognize were "gumbo", which means thick mud here, and 'cornhole" which means.....ummm butthole here....
It has that connotation here in the States as well. I have no idea how long some version of the game cornhole has been around so it is hard to say what came first.
The original Chex Mix was a recipe that you made at home. It did not have bagel chips. It had Cheerios & mixed nuts instead. Of course it had Corn, Rice & Wheat Chex. It also has Worcestershire Sauce. It can have celery salt & garlic salt or seasoned salt, celery powder ^& garlic powder.
We have Haboob's here in the southwest. It's a dust storm, of a specific variety.....characterized by a wall of dust that generally extends miles high and usually tens of miles wide. To be fair though, even though we lived with 'em for hundreds of years we borrowed the Arabic word for the storms.
That's okay, we've also known about tsunamis and their link to earthquakes for thousands of years. But it's only recently that we borrowed the Japanese word for such waves and made it universal.
@@AtarahDerek It's recent with these too...like, within the last 15-20 years. We just grew up knowing it was a dust storm, and if you pay attention because of the size you can see them quite a ways off so you know they're coming.
If I remember right, you live in the suburbs of Chicago. I'm due west and heard the term derecho for the first time in my life last year. You probably got a whiff of that one too. I went outside to experience it more while it was in progress, my house is made of block and it blocked the wind for me. It was amazing to feel and see the power of the wind.
I am from Northern Illinois and I had never heard of cornhole in THAT context.
People from the Midwest are very careful in using sexual slang. I never heard such things in Minnesota or even Chicago.
Let me guess; y'all are old?
Looking good, Lawrence! Well done!
Showing off my meteorological skills.. it was 112° F today if you factor in the 309% humidity in South Carolina... But yes the "Real Feel" temp was 112° in my corner of the woods... And don't give me it was 115° in Phoenix... You got no humidity which makes it even more insufferable!
The lack of humidity means your sweat works.
Are you KIDDING! More humidity always makes it worse!
@@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER yup.. as one who has lived 90% of my life in SC, NC or Ga... Humidity will ruin you.. you can't breathe because of the moisture in the air, you walk to the mailbox and you are drenched and exhausted... SE heat is hells gate
@@chefbubbaclemson3701 Yes, definitely!
heard there are some people who have adapted to the humidity. But I think they have gills.
I've heard there are natives of New Orleans who have drowned in air, because they accidentally flopped up out of Louisiana, and landed somewhere up north, on dry land...and they strangled to death on the lack of water in the air, lol.
love the music at the end. sounds like something from a show like 60 Minutes. 🌷🎻
Well there are a lot of things on ESPN that shouldn't be on ESPN. If you get it, you get it.
I learned what a deracho was in '98 when one ripped through Michigan and left us without power for a week.
People still talk about that one. We don't get hurricanes here, and the rare tornado we get is usually just a little one. Nothing like the monsters out on the great plains.
So we were TOTALLY unprepared for a natural disaster of that kind.
Does Britain have a word for when it's raining and sunny at the same time? Most of the US does not, though in the Northeast they call it a "sun shower" which is lovely and totally in opposition to the deep south where people will unfortunately say "The devil is beating his wife."
I've heard sun shower used over here
😂
'normal weather'?
The weather forecast would say "sunny showers".
I live in the Pacific NW and I just call it rainbow weather. Never experienced it until I moved up here.
We had a derecho in the Mountain West in July last year. Our power was out for a week, due to several large downed trees. All the parks had numerous huge trees that had been uprooted.
At least in the past, in America "cornhole" was a particular unnatural sexual act. I have no idea, why people use that as the name of a game? Perhaps some marketing people were oblivious to cornhole's common use?
Its a basic description of what the game is. you toss bags of corn (that is what the bags are traditionally filled with though some store bought bags use other fillings I have been told) into a hole. I guess since it is a Midwest game they wanted the name to tell you what the game actually is about?
@@MADELYNN1234 I understand that, but "cornhole" is a long used common slang term for anal sex, so it might be better to use one of the previous common names for the game. That is my point.
Yes, I had no idea the word was anything other than, as a noun, slang for the anus, or as a verb, slang for engaging in anal.sex.
And I'm still not sure I believe it is used by anyone in the US as to refer to anything other than the above. I'm from the Midwest and have never heard it used as the name of a game. If anything, he game he's referring to seems to be some sort of beanbag toss.
It's slang for the anus itself, not a particular act involving it.
Derecho was a new one for me too:) I know we've gotten them up here in the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina:)
I've been on an airboat. It ate my glasses and spit the shards into my back XD
Also, I read "Derecho" as Spanish for the right side instead of the left.
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Oh, Man…..gumbo is SOOOOO much more than your description!! Everything from the reaux to the seasonings to the choice of meats/seafoods to whether you make it creole or file’ and everything in between makes a gumbo delicious.
I have never heard of a javelina. It’s like a warthog. Got it🤣
Nope technically it's a peccary.
Warthogs are a much more terrifying animal. Javelinas are just wild pigs.
The same cute little pink pig you see in farms basically pulls a Pokemon move and "evolves" into a wild boar if it gets loose. Javelinas are the descendents of escaped pigs. They are genetically very different from warhogs and are less agressive. If you manage to steal one of their babies and feed it well and provide shelter it will be a domestic pig in about 2 generations. If you steal a warthog baby it will probably just try to kill you asap.
Javelinas are not related to pigs at all
@@elmikeomysterio5496 Javelinas and wild (feral) pigs are not the same animal. Javelinas are peccaries, which are in the same family as pigs, but not the same animal.
@@elmikeomysterio5496 This information is totally wrong. You can Google it.
In Canada we have largely adopted the US term "bleachers". Once we just called them "stands". If everyone sits on deck chairs or in the mud how do you see over the heads of people in front of you? In North America bleacher style seating is also used at all sorts of mass audience events that use non-permanent sites- essentially, anywhere there is not a permanent stadium with fixed seating. Even auto racing. Does the UK have no equivalents at all? If they do, what do they call those seats? Benches?
Never heard of the word "cornhole",I do know of bean bag toss...and I'm from the Midwest but from Chicago so it must be a regional term.
I'm from MI, I never heard cornhole until I moved to the east coast and a colleague from Kentucky had a really nice board
Im in NE and I've heard both.
It's called cornhole in the burbs and downstate IL, for sure.
Laurence, I'm WONDERING what the title of the music that plays after this and many of your other videos is... I've asked this question before but never received an answer! I totally love and enjoy your videos! Because I am enamored with all things British, you are one of my top favorites on TH-cam... keep up the great work!
Not surprised about gumbo. Remember, Louisiana was settled by the French not the British. 😊
Except Gumbo ain't French in origin. It's West African. But it's still uniquely Louisianan!
@@raynitaylor1912 Was that before or after the French attempted to colonize West Africa?
@@HermanVonPetri Probably before .
@@HermanVonPetri The French had colonized Louisiana in 1682. Even though some ports were established all throughout the coast of Africa around the same time there wasn't any significant interactions with the tribes inland at the time. France didn't start colonizing and "Frenchifising" West Africa until 1830 (18 years after Louisiana became an official State).
Sadly, Gumbo would have entered the Louisiana French vocabulary via slavery. One of the most popular theories is that it derives from the Angolan word kingombo (okra), especially since the largest part of the slave population in Southern Louisiana was from Angola (hence why the State Prison is the namesake).
Gumbo itself is supposed to be a poor man's soup made from okra but has evolved with the unique cultural blends of southern Louisiana.
Gumbo comes from ki ngombo, the word for okra. A variant of that is still used in Puerto Rico and Cuba. The Dominican Republic uses a different word (they were pulling slaves from a different part of Africa)
Gumbo is an archaic word for okra (bindi if you are from India). A creole stew with okra in started with a black reux and a sweet white wine is a "Gumbo Soup" which over the years was shortened to just "Gumbo". Seafood gumbo is more common near the coast but some of the best eats in my life was venison gumbo.
I am now 76. When I was a young teen-age boy "cornhole" had a very obscene sexual connotation. I just can NOT get accustomed to hearing that term used for beanbag toss, or anything else for that matter, in polite conversation. Polite conversation? I don't believe that exists anymore in America.
When I was a little kid it was called beanbag, even when the bags were full of corn, I don’t know when they started calling it cornhole, and I’m only 25!
Cornhole was a very impolite term in my youth as well, Wayne, and I can't get used to my neighborhood having cornhole tournaments.
Cornhole wasn't a term we could use either, growing up. Especially not around your mother. Can't get used to thinking of it as a game.
I agree, cornhole will forever be a bad, bad, *bad* word in my book. I never knew it was associated with a game, only as a vulgar noun or verb!
Any game involving 'tossing' definitely has other connotations.
Gumbo can be 3 left overs made into 1 meal. My favorite is Thanks Giving Gumbo. Pulled turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing and gravy. I think it's better then Thanks giving dinner.
YUM!
I was able to get Chex Mix under the NAME Chex Mix in the Netherlands.
Cedar Rapids Iowa resident here : we didn’t know about derechos either until we had it happen August 10th last year - it was like a hurricane went through and it leveled so many trees!! It was insane