American Reacts to British Things I Had Never Seen Before Moving to The UK!
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- Girl Gone London shares the uniquely British things she encountered for the first time after moving to the UK. From quirky traditions to everyday items, see what surprises, fascinates, and confounds her as she navigates life across the pond!
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Crumpets and English muffins are very different. Crumpets are unlike anything else, you'd have to try one
1, No. Windows have handles that you can lock if you want to. Otherwise, you don't use the key. I would only lock the windows if I was going away. Or to stop a child opening the win
Exactly!
Thankfully my mum would leave the living room window on the latch without locking it, so it was easy to use my spoon (from yoghurt in packed lunch) to force the window open if I forgot my keys.
I lock mine when on the latch now but leave the key in. It takes seconds to do it
I work in the glazing industry. it's to do with government regulations. Basically due to the way glass breaks, it's deemed unreasonable that someone can break the glass in the window and climb into the building (without becoming shredded pork) but it is reasonable that someone would break the glass, stick their hand in and open it from the handle. Having a locking window handle is essentially a way to get past this without including toughened/laminated glass (which is alot more expensive than a locking handle)
I always lock mine! You must live somewhere really nice!
Precisely.
You lock the windows when you are out for some period. Otherwise you would leave a window unlocked at nearly every location.
Every British person saying you have no idea what your talking about when you say a crumpet is the same as an English Muffin 😂
Sure, but for someone who doesn't have crumpets what would you prefer they get compared to, Yorkshire Pudding? A pancake isn't the same thing as a crêpe, either, but you can understand why they are compared to each other.
@@cmlemmus494 Pancakes are practically the same thing. Muffins and crumpets are very different products.
@@cmlemmus494 Crumpets are made from a batter, not a dough, so they kind of do have more in common with a Yorkshire pudding, a pancake, or a crepe.
She's a barm cake
crumpets are a carefully crafted butter delivery system
Rhubarb crumble with custard is delicious.
with clotted cream
@@DavidRea2710 Tough choices!
Now you’ll have to explain to dummies what a ‘crumble’ is! 😁🤭
I'm not into custard, but love rhubarb crumble with vanilla icecream instead.
rhubarb and ginger crumble - nom nom nom 🙂
keys on our windows are for security, can stop kids opening them and falling out, and stop Criminals forcing the latch open.
Give a big shoutout for Hedgehog Crisps! (Those who remember them.)
Nice, you beat me to it. First one I thought of. :)
Haven't had them since tuck shop in primary school back in the 80s 😅
Yum! I remember them. 👍
@@Varksterable never tried them but sausage and tomato was my favourite back in the 80’s
I was thinking of the Haggis crisps by Smiths or Golden Wonder, in the 1970s.
Double glazed windows are difficult to break.
Not if you hit the corner of the window. Back when double glazed windows were first introduced to Uk, there were public information adverts about how to break dg windows as a few people died in fires not being able to get out. This was when they were one big pane with no openings
@@barrywalker4295correct you can break a double glazed window if the pressure to break the window is applied to a corner, but please give the full information, the pressure needs to be applied with a very small pointed object, for example a nail/pin punch, look up the old adverts to see what I mean.
@@Tony-c7z9t it can be done with a hammer as well. Was not my intention to misinform. I’ve also broken double glazed patio doors and windows with stones being thrown up by strimmers (weed wackers) and stump grinders.
It would be a chicken and sweetcorn pizza. Often with the BBQ sauce topping instead of tomato
yeah sweetcorn as a pizza toping is a pretty basic option here :)
The British keyboard is different because it has an extra key which unlocks the handle to let you open your window
Brilliant
Sash windows. Closed with a latch.
Windows with a key, you normally keep the key in the lock and remove the key when you go out
as sash windows... nearly , nearly draft-proof, but not quite
Crumpets & English Muffins ARE NOT the same thing, JJ!!! Completely different textures and you can't slice a crumpet (into 2 slices).
you can't slice a crumpet (into 2 slices)
Your knives must be blunt. 🤣
He said it looked the same so maybe that's just what they call them 🤔
@@timtim00- no, what the Americans call and English Muffin is what we would call an oven bottom muffin/barm, which has a soft white bread consistency. Absolutely nothing like a crumpet or a pikelet.
Freshly baked rhubarb and apple pie with hot custard (i.e. not soft American ice cream - alright, with ice cream 👍)
The windows are "locked" from the inside without using the key (i.e., they cannot be opened from the outside, even if they have not been locked with the key). As such, most people don't use the key. The main reason for using they key is if the window needs to be locked for safety reasons (e.g., to stop kids opening the window from the inside).
Putting the handbrake on in a manual car (most of them in the UK) isn't really about being kind to brakes. It's more about you not wanting to find your car 100 yards down the road embedded in a bus shelter.
Bin there,done that, embedded in a car further down the hill lol
You should always use the parking brake, especially in a car with automatic transmission, the reason is that putting the transmission in park , is holding the car with a tiny metal pawl, these will fail and then your car is rolling down the road
I leave mine in gear as well. First for facing uphill, reverse for facing downhill.
@@mehallica666 you can as an extra precaution, turn the wheels so that the car will turn into the curb
What the fuck is confusing about a key on a window? You've got one for the door.
Because you need to lock a door when you're out, from the outside, so that people can't get in. If you can lock a window from the inside with a locking mechanism _(without a key)_ then what is the purpose of a key?
What is the purpose of locking a door from the inside then? What's the purpose of double locking doors then?
@@peterbabicki8252 mostly safety reasons, such as stopping children from opening and leaving
@@dale897 Well in many cases if you don't lock a door from the inside people can just walk in. That isn't the case with most windows, because there is no opening mechanism on the outside.
I'm someone who lives in the UK, and I have these keys one my windows, but they're pointless and I never use them. When I want to close the window I lock them with the handle, I don't turn the key afterwards.
I'm with the Americans on this one. The key is pointless.
@@wyterabitt2149 He's saying he locks them with the handle. The key mechanism is like an extra lock. We have the same, never used the key to lock them, it's so excessive.
One more time: English muffins (which are neither English nor muffins) are a kind of bread that originated in New York. Crumpets are made from batter, like a pancake. They are not even remotely similar. A crumpet is basically a sponge that soaks up butter. It is delicious.
Exactly, we have them here in Australia. The bottom is usually smooth and brown from the factory cooking process...during that process bubbles form in the batter and rise to the top where they pop and make lots deep holes where butter eventually fills after toasting mmmm.
The only other food that's similar is a pancake...like you said...but nothing like it at the same time.
@@stevenbalekic5683you are wrong muffins are English( first know recipe dates from 1747) and what you know as an English muffin( we are not talking about American muffins, totally different) was first invented in America by an English man from Plymouth by using a crumpet very thinly sliced, crumpets are also not a muffin in England
Crumpets are not a sponge, made from batter and cooked on a griddle.
There’s a sing song nursery rhyme that goes back easily for two hundred years. “Have you seen the muffin man that comes down Drury Lane?”
@@funkyblu6662
I think you have replied to the wrong person...I have not mentioned anything about muffins.
As kids we would take a stick of rhubarb and dip it in a bowl of sugar and eat it,lovely.
Oh wow! That's very American of you! You know, the sugar ☺️
@@JJLAReacts Oh you poor sweet summer child JJ - Rhubarb is to fruits as Toxic Waste is to candy. In other words Rhubarb is tart and somewhat astringent, the sugar is a necessity.
Crumpets are nothing like English Muffins except that they’re both round. Muffins are baked and are the same on both sides so when you split them open, they have a firm bread texture. However crumpets are made from batter and are cooked in crumpet rings (larger than poached egg rings) either in a skillet or on a cast iron hot plate. While they are cooking, air bubbles begin to rise through the batter and as the batter cooks, the air bubbles form holes all over the top. Once that’s happened, you flip them for one minute to finish cooking the top, lift them out and set them aside to cool. Once all the batter has been used up, you can toast a crumpet and apply a generous amount of cold butter, which melts and falls into the holes. From there you can add anything you like, usually some kind of spread - Peanut butter, jam, Nutella, Marmite, etc. Eat it over a plate because the buttery goodness will drip from underneath! Way more delicious than an English Muffin! Google crumpets and see for yourself! Make some!
21:50 Rhubarb Crumble with Custard, awesome. Also the Crawford Press drinks company makes a fizzy Rhubarb flavoured drink that's amazing fridge cold on a hot day.
Chicken, Sweetcorn and Mushroom is one of the most popular pizzas in the UK. I can confirm sweetcorn on pizzas is not just real, but very common.
Also very delicious.
Good luck.punching a Double glazed window.....ffs
You keep the keys in the porcelain plant pot, or tea cup on the wall unit... of course! :)
careful you never know who is watching.
'English Muffins' and crumpets are two totally unrelated items cooked/prepared in two totally different ways and are not served the same. crumpets are warmed up with butter melted onto them and then sometimes cheese/jam. 'English muffins' are a bread like object that are treated.... well, like... bread. you don't eat crumpets cold.
meanwhile, elsewhere, rhubarb is amazing!! I've always loved it. best served with apple in a crumble served in a bowl and liberally drenched in hot custard.
but, if you're an absolute psychopath, you can clean and eat rhubarb raw (the more sour it is, the better imo, but some of you dip it in sugar first... smh...🙄)
You don't lock the windows if you are in the house. The good reason is your house insurance will be cheaper.
In Europe black currents are probably of greater commercial value than white pine which is regarded as a poor quality timber, whereas black current is probably the most popular flavour here - everyone loves it!
Raw black currents and rhubarb are quite sharp so they're best when sweetened. Rhubarb is often combined with apple in pies and crumbles and served with either custard, cream or icecream, depending on taste and time of year
Fun facts:
1) Rhubarb leaves are poisonous😮🤢. The stalks are the edible bit. but also mild laxatives so help keep you regular, like prunes!💩😀
2) There is even a Rhubarb triangle. Rumour has it that this is a place where rhubarb pickers mysteriously disappear😱
Or they could have just nipped into the garden shed for a cuppa and to escape the kids and missus!😁
I live in the rhubarb triangle. We don't believe in rhubarb consent. We force it, whether it wants to or not. Hi.
The best rhubarb is known as 'forced' from the Yorkshire triangle.
It's grown in the dark . It grows so rapidly, you can actually hear it growing . Rhubarb was originally imported from China.
we briefly had hedgehog flavoured crisps here
Rhubarb crumble and custard! Mmm, yummy!
Crumpets are not like English Muffins, texture etc is very different, although English Muffins were invented by someone attempting to make crumpets in the US
English muffins are much more like bread, Americans often think they look the same which is odd as they look very different
A manual car doesn't have a "Park" gear like an automatic does. When you stop a manual (stickshift) you leave it in neutral, which means it can roll freely, and probably down a hill, into something, and ruin your day. You 'could' leave it in 1st or reverse, depending on the slope of the road you're on, but to be fair, it's just easier to pull a handle and put the brake on. Most manuals now have an automatic electronic parking brake, which applies when the car is stationary, and releases when you apply gas. Even in an automatic, it's a good backup option, just in case something happens to your gearbox/transmission.
I drive an automatic in the UK (they're very common now that they've improved recently) and leaving my car in Park feels super sketchy, it's nowhere near as secure, and can rock a little, it's just makes my inner engineer freak out.
Things have changed . I just bought a new Kia. It has so many electronic assisted brake options that I really don't know which button or buttons to push/pull when stopping, moving off on a hill or parking...
And the manual is utterly useless. The words are English but that's as far as it goes. I'm astonished at their ability to use words without conveying any meaning. They even managed to do it in TH-cam videos.
@@qwadratix I drive a Kia stinger. You want to enable the "auto hold" and it'll pretty much take care of the handbrake
@@stuartcollins82 I can't figure out if it's enabled by default when starting or not. I haven't had much time to look at that issue since I've been occupied with things like how to turn off such 'helpful' features as the 'driver attention warning' and the thing that tries to steer you into opposing traffic when it thinks you're out of your lane on a single track road.
It took me three days just to work out how to turn off the radio.
@@qwadratix yeah, the lane assist is awful. In mine it's enabled every time you turn the engine on, unfortunately. It doesn't feel like it's designed for narrow roads. For the auto hold, I think there's usually a green bit of text in your cluster that says something like auto hold, I'll make a note next time I'm in the car.
@@stuartcollins82 There's just so much of this s**t, and it's all accessed by the most frustrating series of menus in two different ways. Especially since my wife and I share it as drivers 1.2. I'm nearly 80 ffs. I don't need this!
Parking brake is used to mainly stop shunting if a car hits you!
No. On Manual cars, you know the ones found most commonly throughout Europe; they are to stop the car rolling on any kind of slope in the road and also because, when you put a car into Neutral, when stopped and the engine is off (I know about putting it into a gear on a sharp hill), there's nothing stopping the wind or someone leaning on the car, from pushing your vehicle into motion. The Handbrake (as we commonly call it in the UK) is to stop any movement of the vehicle. It doesn't prevent rocking motions from other causes though.
There are no hills, where you live?
As a child in England we used to eat the rhubarb stalks raw, straight from the plant in the garden. A treat was to dip the stalks in sugar. Cooked rhubarb is an amazing desert often served with custard. Apple and rhubarb pies were a staple. BUT be careful as the leaves are very poisonous.
1. The key for the window lives in the lock.
2. Washer dryers suck donkey balls.
What I was going to say but more more succinct and elegant
Mine is great
Washer dry indeed sucks monkey balls. Shame I only have room for a combination machine in my place.
Couldn’t agree more, I could dry my clothes quicker with a hairdryer 🤣
A crumpet and an "English muffin" are nothing alike. An English muffin is a bread, made from a dough. A crumpet is made from a batter. They're about as related as a slice of white bread and a pancake. All they have in common is that they're round.
Oh, I see. Thanks for clarifying that.
My combo washing machine can do a quick wash in 1 hour. Clothes come out perfectly dry and not shrunk. Because the drier cycle condenses the water/steam and flows it out of the normal water outlet, you only need one water connection, the waste connection and the power lead. Very convenient. 👍
Pretty sure all modern washers only have a cold water feed.
16:40 mentions can't see corn yet the Americano has sweetcorn as a topping :)
LOL it's funny that it's called The Americano, but in America we don't have that.
@@JJLAReacts the irony is not lost
It's fun when you go to use a pull cord light in a disabled toilet, and accidentally pull the emergency cord instead and set off the alarm
😅
Most of time people leave windows unlocked and just lock them if going away,etc. As for breaking the window, most windows in the UK are double glazed and are not easy to break even if you have something like a hammer.
Most people in the UK don't have a combo washers/dryer. I'm sure some do but I don't think I've ever even seen one. As far as I know, they kinda suck. Convenient but not great at either washing or drying. Apart from that the sunshine and the wind is free - and your clothes smell nicer dried outdoors.
Very true. I saw a laundry room in a neighbours house once, I thought they were super posh haha.
I’ve had a laundry room for over twenty years and it’s fully fitted with washer dryer fitted cupboard and hand sink just off the kitchen. All new houses mostly have them or big properties. Nothing posh but great as it leads to the back door and keeps the house clean if you have dogs.
@@letitiakearney2423 My dogs have a purpose-built kennel out on the teak floor mezzanine by the tennis courts, near the help's accommodation.
@@Shoomer1988 Alright. You win. I don't have a dog. (Ignore the dog in the Avatar, It followed me into the comments section).
@@Russ_Keith I have no idea who you are or if you have a dog or not. Who said you don't have a dog? It wasn't me.
You keep saying England. You mean the UK.
Par for the course from people like that.
Yes, you're right, sorry 🤦🏻♂️
As a former UPVC installer I can tell you you that ever window fitted on a home comes with a key. All keys and locks are the same, so one key fits every window, you cannot lose every key. and window locks are for security purposes. Everyone's out, holiday ect.
The keys on the windows in our house (new build, 2008) are all different - you can't open a window with a key from another.
2:26 i don’t think anyone locks the windows on a daily basis, only when they go on vacation and stuff
Yes, it's totally normal to have locks on your windows in the UK. You don't need to lock the windows all the time, just when you go on holiday. The handle acts as a way to close up the window properly without having to use the locks.
Crumpets and muffins are completely different. You can buy crumpets in Wholefoods in parts of the USA
I'm intrigued by the crumpet. Whole Foods you say? Hmmmm.... thank you.
Crumpets - you can re-sole your shoes with them. Not a fan of the texture.
Bro. She’s got you doing lots of homework, I bet you didn’t expect that when you sat down to watch a video..😏🤷🏻♂️🏴
Maggie Smith has just died. Maybe a video on her career? (and not just freakin Harry bloody Plopper!!)
Aye! A Private Function sprang to mind for starters.
Oh no...😢
The Lady In The Van.
I’ve never seen a UK keyboard like that one (I’m from UK).
In UK you don't have to lock a window. It is still secure if closed and latched. Generally you would lock the windows if going away to make things more secure. Those US windows are called sash windows in the UK. My grandparents had sash windows. They are generally found in houses built in Victorian times about 150 years ago. Maybe that's why US still uses them - they are so conservative. It is against the law in the UK not to engage the handbrake when parked. It stops the car rolling away on a slope or if struck by another vehicle. Most UK cars are manual gear not automatic.
US kettles take about the same age as the universe to boil water. In uk it is about 2 minutes. Sorry never seen a pizza with corn. Where did she get that ?
You are not allowed to have a normal light switch in a UK bathroom. Wet hands and 230Volts are a bad combo. Muffins are cakes. Crumpets are basically thick pancakes made with yeast and batter (lots of big bubbles).so very different.
You've never seen corn on a pizza? You can get it everywhere. Muffins are dense bread rolls, not cakes.
I would say, ironically its probably most common to put corn on whats percieved in the uk as an american/mexican style pizza. Its wouldnt be on most pizzas.
Ha! That's fascinating. We DO eat a ton of corn over here. We put it in almost everything and I'm surprised we don't put in on our pizza.
There is no park option on a manual transmission, so once you take your foot off the brake pedal and move the gear box to neutral (as you should), without applying the handbrake (emergency/parking brake) the car is in free rolling mode. So if you walk away from a car without applying the handbrake, even if it looks as though you are on a completely flat road. There is a good chance that you’ll return to the car being in a different place and possibly attached to either another vehicle or a wall. If there is a bit of an incline then the build up of speed may well have resulted in a crash.
You’d have found the sweetcorn option on the Pizza Hut website, if you’d have clicked on the picture of the pizza where it said customise.
Crumpets and English Muffins aren’t the same. They have very different textures, where muffins will absorb the butter that melts into it creating a soggy bread cake hybrid and a crumpet creates little pockets of melted butter within a product that has a texture closer to rubbery type of bounce that absorbs without altering its structure.
The locks are there for security but to be honest, they are pretty unnecessary unless you have a child or pet that can reach and unlatch the handle. The glass of the windows that these types of handles/locks are attached to also aren’t quite as easy to smash as the old style of sash windows that still seem to be more prevalent in the US. The windows are double glazed, so they are units that have two layers of strong glass with a gap between the layers to creat an insulating layer of air. I’m not saying they’re unbreakable but they are definitely much harder to break than the windows of my childhood. (There are double glazed sash window units too but they aren’t very common outside of listed buildings or ones that are in a conservation area, as they tend to be more expensive than standard double glazing).
It's also bad for the clutch...well, potentially causes excess wear at least, to sit in gear stationary with the clutch held down. Of course, they mostly drive automatics so that wouldn't be part of their driving at all. Plus it's more tiring holding the clutch all the time in traffic...when you can just put the handbrake on, the car into neutral, and take your feet off the pedals a while waiting for traffic to move again.
I might be the only person who thinks this way but i feel that USA USA chant be a super obnoxious.
He was obviously making fun of it.
Yes..but I think JJ does it comically
@@nolasyeila6261 I agree, but, even so, I still down vote every video with it in.
Aww no,no no no! I’m not having that,these poor Americans making an effort learn how to spell and you’re just disparaging them……😂😂😂
It’s all harmless fun, some folks need to lighten up
Wait til you have a tuna & sweetcorn sandwich 😂
Or jacket potato 🥔 😊
Yuck!. Unfortunately, i do not like either of those, so that's a bad combo for me.
Heat water in the microwave?!?! The horror!!
Americans are always different
The keys STAY on the lock. No Brit would remove the keys from the win dow! It's extra security and American Windows suck.
In the UK, we are taught to apply the handbrake when stopped for any length of time i.e. when the traffic lights have only just changed or when parked. In the US, I have noticed many drivers just NEVER apply the handbrake, because you mostly drive automatics. Sadly, if always applying the brake WAS taught in America, the actor Anton Yelchin _(from the Star Trek films),_ may NOT have died? He was crushed between his Grand Cherokee and a brick pillar gate post _(outside his house in Studio City, Los Angeles)._ The vehicle 'slipped' its clutch while he was in front of the car. When he failed to appear at rehearsals, friends found him pinned between the vehcle and wall. 🙏😥😥😥
The 'BBQ Americano' HAD sweetcorn amongst the ingredients... !!!???
Consider this: My local shop sells Roast Potato flavoured crisps. Yep.
So thin slices of deep fried crispy potato with added 'Roast' flavour...
First time I ever saw a flush button toilet was in the US in 79.....go figure. Don't let my youtube name confuse you, I am Scottish, I just happen to have had V8diesel Chevy Blazers over here.
Regarding keyboards, it isn't true it is just preference. The US layout does not have £ or € which we obviously need in Britain and Ireland. Yet we still also need the $ as it is frequently used in programming. So we can use our layout for many regions, but the US layout cannot without modification.
Also what we call the 'hash' and Americans often call the 'pound' (i.e # ) originates from the same symbol as our pound symbol, which often used to have two lines going through.
Muffins are not the same as crumpets! FACT!
On another level ask young, heterosexual men what they think about crumpet, and I bet they say they love a bit of crumpet! It goes to show just how popular crumpet still is!
I can type "American keyboard" on a British keyboard.
It's not quite the same as typing on an American keyboard, because there are literally extra keys and stuff. But, basically, when you installed MS-DOS back in the day, as Microsoft are an American company then the default was "English (US)", not "English (UK)". You could change this in the software, but it'd be US English layout by default.
And, like, the PCs at college (that's British college, not American college, so I'm talking A levels, not Degree level) - 386s and 486s running MS-DOS - were often not configured properly. You'd use them and find the wrong character appeared - "oh, right. They've not set this up one properly to be UK layout".
This happened often enough that I learnt where the keys were on the US layout and then just mentally switched.
I also worked in Germany a while back, so I also learnt to type on an QWERTZ rather than QWERTY keyboard. Again, a little mental switch in my brain and the fact that "Z" and "Y" are swapped on German keyboard (Z is a common letter in German, while Y is rare - the opposite to English) soon didn't phase me.
I never use the window key because I no longer have small children who could open a bedroom window and fall out. Just because this SAFETY FEATURE is built in does not mean you have to use it. Americans seem to have a problem understanding this - just like the switch on the plug outlet which you also don't have to use every time! I was 2 days short of my 19th birthday when I flew out from England to Libya with a baby and a toddler to join my RAF husband who was posted there in the 60s and despite not speaking the language, knowing the customs or how anything worked I SURVIVED because I used common sense!!! For someone who is supposedly an intelligent lady she was surprised that everything wasn't like it was 'back home'???? You don't have to pull the cord in the bathroom hard to operate the light; obviously you have to pull it but definitely not hard. Electric kettles can bring cold water to boiling point in 60 seconds - which is quicker than a microwave.
Crumpets are nothing like English Muffins, your Muffins are more like our Scones.
So wrong! Crumpet does not equal Engilsh Muffin! Look it up and thanks for your whispering - it's actually helped me get over my hatred of whispering, (ish).
Some people worry about burglars getting in too!!!! 😡
As do insurance companies.
Crumpets and english muffins are completeky different
Crumpets are the best! They’re not like English muffins, they have a different texture.
Only a bell end would lock the window and remove the key :)
😂
You dont have to use a key, its usually to lock when you are away from the property
How can Americans do handbrake turns without a handbrake?
You should check out the old Montego car advert -> Montego 1.6L, doesn't hang about - Russ Swift
The windows with keys are difficult to smash
As opposed to what? Windows without keys are also difficult to smash. In fact whether there is a key or not has no relevance on the difficulty to smash a window now doesn't it?
@@mojojojo11811 the windows with keys tend to be double or triple glazed
@@Chrisjames504 then why didn't you say that instead of leaving it up to interpretation?
@@mojojojo11811the images are clearly double or triple glazed
We have no children so leave the keys in the window locks, they are in the inside.
The parking brake is essential on manual gearbox cars. With an automatic gearbox, you put the car in 'Park' and the wheels will not move. On a manual, you normally come to a halt, then move the gear lever to neutral AFTER applying the parking brake. Otherwise the car may roll, especially on a hill. Until recently, most cars sold in the UK were manuals because A) They were cheaper than automatics and B) Automatic gearboxes were crap. This is no longer the case for A) and B).
Ahhhh, I see. I try not to drive a manual if I can help it 😂
Sweetcorn (corn) is a usual topping for pizza in England. I can't speak for the rest of the UK. But... I think it's gross. But I wouldn't REFUSE a piece if offered 😊
I would. I hate sweetcorn.
Rhubarb is a vegetable. Fruit is the product of a plant. Rhubarb, is THE plant not the fruit of a plant.
The leaves of a Rhubarb are slightly poisonous, only the Stalk is edible.
Sah windows with the latch are my favourite, and I am born and bred English. BUT the need for better protection from the cold led to sash windows dying out, pretty much, and getting replaced with hinged windows, and to add keys and locks to these for added security is so obvious and easy it just happened. Most people never lock them, but hey....
Sash windows can be both secure and weather tight, even double glazed, (I haven't seen triple glazed, but can't see why not), it's just normally they aren't, mainly due to price, which is mainly due to most windows being hinged.
02:00 you can't lose the key to the window, every window has a lock and every lock has a key, you have 20 keys that are all the same. Losing 20 keys isn't unlucky it's stupid.
They’re American remember 😂
I’m English. I have separate washer and dryer. I can dry one load whilst drying another.
same here
I recommend Atomic Shrimp for the crumpet and muffin difference. There is a video on it.
One of my favourite You Tube channels.
We in Australia use a key for security on the window frame though it’s dying out now with cheaper security . WE ALSO HAVE SWITCHES IN THE BATHROOM AND POWER POINT’S AND HAVE ABSOLUTELY NO MISHAPS WE ALSO HAVE FANS WHILST SHOWERING , AND WE HAVE CRUMPETS GALORE IN DIFFERENT SHAPES 🤣ROUND AND SQUARE ALONG WITH RHUBARB VERY ACCESSIBLE BUT SEASONAL thank you for an interesting video 👌👏🤷♀️
as nice as this girl is, she can be a bit vacant at times.
The ban on growing blackcurrants in the USA has been lifted, but some states maintain the ban.
We generally call a parking brake, the handbrake.
Most modern windows have lever locks, and are double glazed.
Older homes will have sash windows with a window latch.
Usually single glazed.
Sometimes a bolt is added to prevent the window opening fully for security.
And the bolt is locked or unlocked with a key
If you asked for Corn on your Pizza in the UK they would look at you strange. You need to ask for "Sweet Corn" on your Pizza. I was born in the a tiny part of the UK known as "The Rhubarb Triangle" so we used to eat a lot of Rhubarb as kids (including raw fresh cut dipping it into sugar or honey). Keys in windows are extra security. You can lock the side window to stop kids falling out for example. You can also lock these windows open a small fraction to allow secure ventilation. Like all keys you don't have to use them.
Combination washer dryer’s are the exception not the rule and are generally only used in small spaces where having separate machines isn’t possible
Locking windows are widely used but it isn’t compulsory to use the lock and we only lock them if we are going away
Don’t eat pizza as I can’t stand it so can’t comment on the corn but have never heard of it
NO English muffins ARE NOT crumpets plus American English muffins aren’t what we would call muffins
She kept getting confused between blackcurrants and blackberries. They are very different.
I live in the UK and have never used a keyboard like the one she called a UK keyboard. Although I never got on with the keys on my Mac book. Went back to android phones, tablets etc
The British keyboard is commonly known as the “Qwerty” keyboard.
I've never seen a gun,I must be weird.
nor have we
1)It's called the handbrake, not the parking brake!
2) Chicken sweetcorn is as much a standard pizza as meat feast or pepperoni
You will never smash a British window with a a chair or a fist or a wrench, our windows are double glazed in a PVC frame, and near indestructible. Most Brits leave the window key in the lock typically, unless going on holiday/vacation....
British cars are mostly manual transmission, therefore if you don't use the handbrake, and you are out of gear, the car will roll backwards on a hill, until it crashes into something/someone....
Re the keyboard layouts; in Poland there is a Polish keyboard layout and... virtualy nobody uses it 😁
There is also something called Polish (programmer) keyboard layout and that's the one everyone has. It's just the US layout with allowances made for keyboard shortcuts for Polish specific characters ( like right alt + c is ć, + a is ą etc.)
You don't have to lock the windows (but if you get burgled your insurance may use it as an excuse😂) most people dont keep them locked. Washer-dryers - don't do it they don't dry as well plus you can't have the washer on if you're using it as a dryer! Kettles they're not for the purpose of boiling water for cooking quicker (unless you're in a hurry) i would think most people bring a pan of water to the boil but you need them for tea 😂
You can get a key lock for sash windows too. why would you not want locking windows? Watch some Charlie Chan movies villains always creeping through windows in America.
Yes sweet corn on pizza is very normal in England, its my favourite topping along with mushrooms and chicken
Wow, I have to try it, thanks!
Several comments have said 'in England', as if it wasn't just as common in Scotland or Wales. Can't people say Britain any more?
@@Thurgosh_OG Well I don't live in Scotland or Wales so I wouldn't like to speak for them.
Washer dryers are quite frankly useless as they are very inefficient and take ages to actually dry anything. Anyone with the space usually choose to have seperate machines. Combo machines are usually used as a space saving option
Combo washer/dryers are bobbins. We've had a few...they don't t last long.
It depends how much you use them. Mine (still going) is the third in exactly 40 years but I live on my own and not everything I wash needs to or can go through the dryer cycle. Do they last less long than the separate machines, I wonder? I clean mine once a month, mainly to get rid of limescale in a hard water area.
@@MrBulky992 ..ironically, my dryer door has just broken off.
Most places have keys for the windows, at least anywhere that has modern double glazing. I used to live in a place that had those sash windows she described, the kind that you lift up and have a little latch, but that was a long time ago, like in the 80s. I’ve never lost the keys as I usually leave them in the locks, no one can take them, because they’re on the inside and they can’t open it because it’s locked. My mother once lost her keys in her place, but they’re easy to get replace and not expensive.
Washer/driers are convenient, as you can set it to automatically dry after the wash cycle, so you’re not transferring wet clothes from one machine to another. But they are expensive, not just to buy, but also to maintain, as they can be prone to breaking down more than regular machines, and at least if you have separate machines and your drier breaks, you can still use your washer and hang your clothes to dry.
There’s no big reason why keyboards are different, but it can be annoying. There are some laptops that have US style keyboards, I remember because I had one and kept typing email addresses wrong, because the @ is on a different key, especially with logging into stuff that uses your email address, as it’s one of those “phrases” that you know so well, it’s just muscle memory, but just that one key messes that up.
Why wouldn’t you have a hand break, even if it just had a different name? Wouldn’t your car just roll off your driveway, into traffic when you left it?
Yes, the kettle thing is just crazy. I stayed with an American friend once and in preparation I brought some teabags with me, because of course I would, I’m British. First day, I’m in the kitchen, looking around, confused and I’m like “where’s your kettle?” When she said to use the microwave, I swear I heard several generations of my ancestors turn in their graves. “I do NOT make tea in a microwave!” I ended up heating water on the stove.
Roast dinner flavour crisps are not really a thing, that’s more of a special, one off flavour, that has a limited run (we do have roast beef flavour). Walkers (the U.K. equivalent of Lays) sometimes do these promotions where they release a few unusual flavours and people can vote for their favourite. The winning flavour is continued for a while longer, but usually get discontinued due to lack of internet as the novelty wears off and people go back to their usual flavours, like cheese & onion or salt & vinegar. They only common flavour that we have, that I think would be weird for Americans is prawn cocktail flavour.
IF you looked on the “create your own” option, you would have seen sweetcorn. But I must point out that Pizza Hut is expensive, most people get pizza from local, small takeaways, rather than big chains like Pizza Hut. My local place does a deal with two large pizzas for cheaper than Pizza Hut’s one, at only £25.99.
The flush button is just a water saving device. A small flush, that uses less water, for a number 1, then the big flush for a number 2.
Never seen a bathroom light that wasn’t switched on with a cord. I did once accidentally break a cord as a kid, I got in trouble from my dad, but in my defence it was an old cord and was frayed from being used so much. Another time, a friend of mine, who was disabled, has an emergency alarm in his bathroom (in case he fell) that calls emergency services. It’s activated with a cord. Guess who got drunk and accidentally pulled the wrong cord once? Luckily my friend was able to speak to them before they sent anyone over, to explain the mistake.
Crumpets are not the same as English muffins. The difference being that crumpets are made from batter, rather than dough. I think you’d find them to be closer to a pancake, rather than a muffin. But crumpets are delicious, toasted and buttered. There’s a company, Warburton’s, that even makes extra large ones.
A popular blackcurrant product is Ribena, a brand of juice drink that pretty much every kid lived on. It usually came a a big bottle of concentrate, where you add water, but also come in cartons (like what you call a juice box). The brand has grown to include other flavours and varieties, even a carbonated version. It tastes nothing like grape flavour though.
Rhubarb is really easy to grow, my grandmother used to grew it in her garden and use to make rhubarb crumble, which served with custard was delicious. Also, we have a flavour of boiled sweets (hard candy) that is rhubarb & custard, which are really good.
The window locks are a security device of limited value, most people have them and don't use them. They have a value if you have a window with multiple openers, which is quite common, a small window that no one could get through and a larger one that can be locked so someone couldn't just reach through the small window and open the larger one.
A washer/dryer combo makes sense if you have serious lack of room, but one disadvantage is, you can't start another load of laundry while the dryer runs.
Also, maybe try a peperoni&broccoli pizza, or salmon&spinach ... both quite popular in Germany! 🙂(What shocked me in Italy was fresh rucola/rocket leaves on pizza ...)
I never lock my windows as I find it unnecessary. I only had a washer drier once, it was rubbish. It's actually very dangerous to heat water in the microwave as it superheats without boiling. So when you add something, even a spoon, it can explode in your face. Crumpets are very different to muffins.