This is the last video that I recorded with the "stash" so you guys don't have to cringe in future videos. Also, I want to say a special thank you to Eileen and Lionel for sending these treats and for making this video possible. Make sure to comment below which you like better, British or French sweets?
The selection box with the different biscuits in it are available in various supermarkets in the UK not just Waitrose so course the packaging will be a bit different depending where you buy them from, so it will have asda on the box if they're from asda or tesco if they're from tesco etc.
Haha "Let me try the Grape" did I hear you say on the Jelly Tots. Ok so this is super common one that I hear a lot and have had to explain to many American friends of mine, but Purple in the UK is normally Blackcurrant. I believe that blackcurrants are or were illegal to farm in the states for the past century so you have likely never tasted this as a flavour or berry. I think the only grape flavour I know besides eating an actual grape, would be Fanta which has a grape flavoured soda. Also green sweets are normally Lime but can also be Apple and I know most green candy is associated with Apple stateside.
It's also worth noting that Blackcurrant is so beloved in the UK that several products sell "Blacks and Reds", with just Blackcurrant and Strawberry in them. The citrus flavours don't get anywhere near the attention. But Americans tend not to like it, for some reason.
A good family video. Your son is adorable and so accepting of the foods he has tried in this and the other video. The purple in the Jelly Tots is blackcurrant, we don't tend to have grape flavoured things in the UK and the green is probably lime. The Mikado chocolate sticks are good to put on top of a dessert.
Mikado is the European name for Pocky, the Japanese sweet that have been made by Gilco since the 1960s. Chocolate is the most common but there are dozens of flavours.
@@midwestamericans3806 we have grape flavourings too but blackcurrant seems to be the go to purple. As I've mentioned in an earlier comment for those of us who dislike Ribena Vimto cordial has mostly grape flavour.
@@ticketyboo2456 makes sense personally I try and not have caffeine drinks most of time but if am going out it will either be squash,juice,flavoured water or if am up my great aunts j20
in the UK we don't tend to have grape flavour. Also many setts use natural fruit flavourings rather than artificial which can give a very different flavour. Jelly Tots come in 5 flavours - blackcurrant, strawberry, lemon, lime and orange.
Mikado - have them in the UK too. Everyone I know pronounces it Mick-ah-dough as in the Opera. Edit: Not criticising... Just wondering which is right. Curious now.
American madeleines are usually made with flour but French ones are made with almond flour and meal which makes them denser but with more flavour than the American one.
I used to work in Rowntree's factory in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and at the time Jelly Tots were made there. The factory is going to close this year though the first thing I was told was that I wouldn't work there for long as "they're closing the factory soon", this was in 1969 and I worked there for 7 years.
European chocolate including French is made to EU minimum standards which has made it taste better than english made product for years. The best place to get European chocolate in the uk is from the German owned discount supermarkets that operate in the uk
I don’t think it is anymore, but up until very recently it was illegal to grow blackcurrent in the US so you don’t really get it as a flavour there. The plants apparently encourage a fungus that is very harmful to some Native American trees. We don’t really get grape flavour in the UK but the few things I have tried have just tasted of sugar rather than any fruit flavour.
In Canada we have something like Petit Écolier cookies, but they're called Célébration and feature the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City. The base is not Graham Cracker, it's a butter cookie.
We need to send them some Percy Pigs. When a Marks and Spencer Food outlet opened at my local hospital, I saw clinical staff actually pushing each other out of the way to get to them. They are basically crack in confectionery form.
When they have a box bigger than the product it's usually called shrinkage. When they want to put up the cost but people aren't likely to pay more they reduce the number in the box. E.g. box of 6 crisps or snacks becomes a 5 pack. With packs of 4 chocolate bars they make them gradually a little smaller for each bar.
Love family vids :) There is an British family who became famous for singing parodies of popular songs during the pandemic lockdown marsh family one day more - TH-cam over the lockdown we got to see how quickly the kids grew in stature and confidence. Another one in New Zealand called 'How to dad' which started out with a vid of his first daughter called 'how to hold a baby'. We are now on daughter number 3. I think you have a budding star there.
the second from last is actually a Spanish thing turron I always get some when i go to Spain my Mum and I really like it particually the soft version which is what I think you guys had in this video.
I never had Mikado but I loved eating Pocky sticks which are probably the same. I'd have banana ones and I would leave it in a small glass of milk and it would transfer the taste.
In the UK you won't find sweets in Grape flavour, the purple jelly tot is black currant. Your little boy is so cute, definitely enjoys the sweet stuff, was like that when I was a kid loved my sweets lol.
The T shirt looks great on him. I’m jealous of the French for their 2 stars. Us English only have 1 star from our only World Cup win in 1966 Edit: the Duchy is Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales and Duchy of Cornwall, where I live
There was a certain chocolate bar here, in the UK, I used to absolutely love; it was in the form of squares filled with syrup. There was a strawberry syrup one and a toffee syrup one (and, probably others). Can't remember the name though 😌
I know that you are from Kentucky, and that education systems vary across the US based on states. I notice you don't have French, so is Spanish more commonly taught in KY, or is it German. During the six years I lived & worked in Northern VA, my two oldest children attended two schools in DC (one all girls, the other only boys). There they continued the Spanish they began before we moved, but whereas Geneviéve also did French, Daryl did French, Latin, and Japanese.
After these kind of snack taste tests, a good fibber rich salad. Like a cabbage salad with roasted seeds and maybe some raisins in it, to help with the stomach.
Lovely family - Most, if not all the French chocolates and treats are Europe wide and originate from Germany, especially the Bears and Mikado, we buy them in Aldi or Lidl in the UK, which is are German Companies. I lived in Germany for many years and got a taste for them when I lived there, so I was delighted to find an Aldi when I moved back home.
@Karina Bailey. Although I commented once before on this channel in favour of German food quality, the thing I liked best in Frankfurt was Turkish naan. Getting naan is no problem in UK, but the fresh Turkish one was as delicious as Katherine Tate's nan is funny.
@@TheGarryq I thought that myself - they always appeared to originate from Japan - further investigation has also proven that Barney Bear is actually made by Cadburys in the UK and owned by Mondelez international, which is a company based in Chicago. It's mind-boggling why companies don't market and sell their products in their countries.
I thinks it's safe to say that your son seems to be one happy chappy! I have to say that I prefer sweets from the UK because it's what I'm used to. However, when I do travel to France I especially love going to a pâtisserie along with other places to try new and different things. Just a very short clip from a TV programme in the UK called QI, which stands for quite interesting, explaining why American and European chocolate tends to taste so different. m.th-cam.com/video/6qWl9Dlts5g/w-d-xo.html
sneaky little French guy. cote d'or is Belgium Chocolate. (yes the name is French but half of Belgium also speaks French. I know we're neighbours and it's also a compliment. but you already stole french fries (Belgian), and now chocolate? we'll be expecting some quality champagne from you guys as compensation for this.
@@scmtuk3662 We don't have grape in the UK, I cant think of anything other than grapes themselves that taste of grape... Its usually liquorice or blackcurrant...
@@daveofyorkshire301 Grape-flavoured sweets are more common in the US, but some US brands are imported in the UK, and you can get "The Original GrapeHead Grape Candy" in the UK if you know where to look.
Bizarrely, I am a Brit that lives in France ( they have 200 sorts of cheese and a bottle of wins for less than 2 Euros, so why wouldn't you,?) and as you know British chocolate is different to American chocolate but French chocolate is different again from British chocolate.
Jelly Tots are a common thing, but the rest was just off brand budget stuff from the supermarket rather than an actual known product. Waitrose is the name of a supermarket, not a chocolate company.
Places like Waitrose and M&S are big enough to have manufacturers go so far as dedicate new production lines to their products. Hardly off-brand or budget
This is the last video that I recorded with the "stash" so you guys don't have to cringe in future videos.
Also, I want to say a special thank you to Eileen and Lionel for sending these treats and for making this video possible.
Make sure to comment below which you like better, British or French sweets?
Your stash wasn't really that big of a deal. I doubt anyone cringed.
lol i didn't even notice the entire video until i just read this at 28:03 and now i can't unsee it
I love Nougat.
Snickers have Nougat in it with peanuts and caramel.
I like both.... trained in classical french cuisine, now work in hospital theatres... Don't ask lol !
The selection box with the different biscuits in it are available in various supermarkets in the UK not just Waitrose so course the packaging will be a bit different depending where you buy them from, so it will have asda on the box if they're from asda or tesco if they're from tesco etc.
Haha "Let me try the Grape" did I hear you say on the Jelly Tots. Ok so this is super common one that I hear a lot and have had to explain to many American friends of mine, but Purple in the UK is normally Blackcurrant. I believe that blackcurrants are or were illegal to farm in the states for the past century so you have likely never tasted this as a flavour or berry.
I think the only grape flavour I know besides eating an actual grape, would be Fanta which has a grape flavoured soda. Also green sweets are normally Lime but can also be Apple and I know most green candy is associated with Apple stateside.
Exactly they probably are not used to blackcurrant flavour.
It's also worth noting that Blackcurrant is so beloved in the UK that several products sell "Blacks and Reds", with just Blackcurrant and Strawberry in them. The citrus flavours don't get anywhere near the attention. But Americans tend not to like it, for some reason.
Also grape us the dominant flavour in the very British cordial Vimto.
In North America green candies are often spearmint while white candies are peppermint.
Your son is adorable, so well behaved and I'm impressed he tried everything! Glad you liked the goodies. Now have massive craving for chocolate!
A good family video. Your son is adorable and so accepting of the foods he has tried in this and the other video. The purple in the Jelly Tots is blackcurrant, we don't tend to have grape flavoured things in the UK and the green is probably lime. The Mikado chocolate sticks are good to put on top of a dessert.
Mikado is the European name for Pocky, the Japanese sweet that have been made by Gilco since the 1960s. Chocolate is the most common but there are dozens of flavours.
I like your boy...he has timing "Did you like every one?" "Yes I did..." made me smile...
Thanks, he is pretty amazing.
This was fun, you guys are great, but your boy is the sweetest thing. He is such a blend of you two. Great video, well done.
Cold chocolate "Hob Nobs" for dunking in Coffee 😁 " Hobnobs are like the marines. You dip a Hobnob and they go, 'Again, again!'" - Peter Kaye
SAS of the biscuit world 🤣🤣
Dip me! dip me! Worth checking out the video
Purple is blackcurrant in the uk. Not grape.
Why is there no grape flavor there?
@@midwestamericans3806 we have grape flavourings too but blackcurrant seems to be the go to purple. As I've mentioned in an earlier comment for those of us who dislike Ribena Vimto cordial has mostly grape flavour.
@@ticketyboo2456 they both good taste but Ribena has caffeine in it Vitmo Squash doesn’t but vitmo fizzy does
@@NicholasJH96 unlike most Brits I personally find Ribena to be unpalatable. I like blackcurrant flavour just not Ribena.
@@ticketyboo2456 makes sense personally I try and not have caffeine drinks most of time but if am going out it will either be squash,juice,flavoured water or if am up my great aunts j20
I'm sure those lulu bears are barney bears in the UK - they look exactly the same. They are handy for school lunchboxes
Your little lad is adorable, i love his little red curls, reminds me of one of my sons when he was that age ☺️
in the UK we don't tend to have grape flavour. Also many setts use natural fruit flavourings rather than artificial which can give a very different flavour. Jelly Tots come in 5 flavours - blackcurrant, strawberry, lemon, lime and orange.
You guys are such a lovely family, I'm glad you are all on the show now
Mikado - have them in the UK too. Everyone I know pronounces it Mick-ah-dough as in the Opera.
Edit: Not criticising... Just wondering which is right. Curious now.
Thank you for doing these your son is really patient waiting for you.
Genuinely lovely family, glad the #support the wife campaign won and the tash is gone dude.
remember there is no grape in uk sweets...if it looks grape its blackcurrant.
American madeleines are usually made with flour but French ones are made with almond flour and meal which makes them denser but with more flavour than the American one.
Nope. No, french madeleine are made of wheat flour. But you can add some almond flour if you want. Depends on the recipe you chose...
I used to work in Rowntree's factory in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and at the time Jelly Tots were made there. The factory is going to close this year though the first thing I was told was that I wouldn't work there for long as "they're closing the factory soon", this was in 1969 and I worked there for 7 years.
European chocolate including French is made to EU minimum standards which has made it taste better than english made product for years. The best place to get European chocolate in the uk is from the German owned discount supermarkets that operate in the uk
Waitrose is a higher end supermarket.
Great family video👍 your son has to be one of the most well behaved little ones around all those treats😂polite lad good job.✌️🇬🇧✌️🇺🇸
Well done with the Bittermints.. They're like the hardcore chili challenge of chocolates. Love em.
LU chocolate teddy's individually wrapped in a box of 5 is meant for a week supply in the daily snack sac for French school kids, logical eh !
I don’t think it is anymore, but up until very recently it was illegal to grow blackcurrent in the US so you don’t really get it as a flavour there. The plants apparently encourage a fungus that is very harmful to some Native American trees. We don’t really get grape flavour in the UK but the few things I have tried have just tasted of sugar rather than any fruit flavour.
Those French biscuits with the jam on that snapped off in you tea , they looked like biscuit minges
In Canada we have something like Petit Écolier cookies, but they're called Célébration and feature the Chateau Frontenac in Quebec City. The base is not Graham Cracker, it's a butter cookie.
ooohh the chocolate biscuits and the jelly tots just the best, one biscuit is not enough. love the wee mmmmmmm from the cutie. 🥰
We need to send them some Percy Pigs. When a Marks and Spencer Food outlet opened at my local hospital, I saw clinical staff actually pushing each other out of the way to get to them. They are basically crack in confectionery form.
When they have a box bigger than the product it's usually called shrinkage. When they want to put up the cost but people aren't likely to pay more they reduce the number in the box. E.g. box of 6 crisps or snacks becomes a 5 pack. With packs of 4 chocolate bars they make them gradually a little smaller for each bar.
Ace selection, kiddo loves those bears and Mikardo is always a firm fave here too xx
First 👍 Love the video, keep making family ones!
Waitrose is a higher end supermarket/store so the chocolates and biscuits were store branded not its own separate entity like Cadburys
"Bendicks of Mayfair" used to be made in Winnall, Winchester, had a neighbour and several friends who worked there. Moved to Germany 2011 ish. :¬(
Love British and French sweets. Were lucky we get French goodies in British supermarkets!
Love family vids :) There is an British family who became famous for singing parodies of popular songs during the pandemic lockdown marsh family one day more - TH-cam over the lockdown we got to see how quickly the kids grew in stature and confidence. Another one in New Zealand called 'How to dad' which started out with a vid of his first daughter called 'how to hold a baby'. We are now on daughter number 3. I think you have a budding star there.
The green jelly tots are lime flavoured, we don’t generally have grape flavoured sweets.😊
Jelly tots much better eaten by the handful 🇬🇧🌹
Hi, your son has a nice voice and very well behaved. Stay safe from Covid-19 to you three and your loved ones.
Thank you.
I've bought store-brand white cooking chocolate (UK) and it was as good as the non-cooking type-and a hella lot cheaper!
the second from last is actually a Spanish thing turron I always get some when i go to Spain my Mum and I really like it particually the soft version which is what I think you guys had in this video.
Waitrose is Britain’s most expensive supermarket. A crepe is a thin pancake.
But M&S is better quality
I never had Mikado but I loved eating Pocky sticks which are probably the same. I'd have banana ones and I would leave it in a small glass of milk and it would transfer the taste.
In the UK you won't find sweets in Grape flavour, the purple jelly tot is black currant. Your little boy is so cute, definitely enjoys the sweet stuff, was like that when I was a kid loved my sweets lol.
The T shirt looks great on him. I’m jealous of the French for their 2 stars. Us English only have 1 star from our only World Cup win in 1966
Edit: the Duchy is Prince Charles, the Prince of Wales and Duchy of Cornwall, where I live
Cote D'Or uses chocolate sourced exclusively from the Gold Coast (Ghana) and that might be the taste you got.
A favourite of the French is Belgian chocolate? Gotta love the irony :P
There was a certain chocolate bar here, in the UK, I used to absolutely love; it was in the form of squares filled with syrup. There was a strawberry syrup one and a toffee syrup one (and, probably others). Can't remember the name though 😌
Purple in UK isnt Grape. Its Blackcurrant
Such an adorable family. :)
"Petit Écolier"(-type) biscuits are readily available in the UK.
Ethan, if you like mint, then you must try mushy peas with mint sauce. Also when we eat roast lamb it MUST be accompanied with mint sauce.
I have only thought of mint and sweets very interesting..
Hey. Please don't take offence at this.
Your son looks like a pixar animation of a child.
He's absolutely adorable 😄
lol I will take that as a compliment I guess. Thank you.
A Jaffa cake without the chocolate? Absolute rubbish then
I know that you are from Kentucky, and that education systems vary across the US based on states. I notice you don't have French, so is Spanish more commonly taught in KY, or is it German. During the six years I lived & worked in Northern VA, my two oldest children attended two schools in DC (one all girls, the other only boys). There they continued the Spanish they began before we moved, but whereas Geneviéve also did French, Daryl did French, Latin, and Japanese.
We are actually from Kansas and there is no 2nd language taught its elective but it would be spainish, german, french.
After these kind of snack taste tests, a good fibber rich salad. Like a cabbage salad with roasted seeds and maybe some raisins in it, to help with the stomach.
We eat a lot of greens normally so it does balance these out when we do them.
Jelly tots were originally aimed at young children,they are Fruit pastilles but softer.
Jelly tots , I had those when I was a kid and I’m in my sixties now !
They dont taste like they used to😒
Lovely family - Most, if not all the French chocolates and treats are Europe wide and originate from Germany, especially the Bears and Mikado, we buy them in Aldi or Lidl in the UK, which is are German Companies. I lived in Germany for many years and got a taste for them when I lived there, so I was delighted to find an Aldi when I moved back home.
Mikado are amde in various countries under licence from the Japanese parent Company. They had an advert banned in 2010, although it is on TH-cam
@Karina Bailey. Although I commented once before on this channel in favour of German food quality, the thing I liked best in Frankfurt was Turkish naan. Getting naan is no problem in UK, but the fresh Turkish one was as delicious as Katherine Tate's nan is funny.
@@TheGarryq I thought that myself - they always appeared to originate from Japan - further investigation has also proven that Barney Bear is actually made by Cadburys in the UK and owned by Mondelez international, which is a company based in Chicago. It's mind-boggling why companies don't market and sell their products in their countries.
We have lots of aldis here, I don't know which country you live in currently. I do not remember seeing those there though.
Hi, Your son looks so excited to eat the snacks. How did he leave them alone for the video. I would have eaten them and not do the video.
If your not sure of the French words use Google translator. Also French palate is very much into bitter sweet tastes.
Hiya. Donsuemor Madeleines? French recipe, made in California. Stay safe. All the best to you.
Just love all you💖
midget gems and haribo my uk fav, I need to send you some Scottish Snacks lol
Jelly Tots are really meant for kids
Kids be like, "FEED ME!" 😁
I thinks it's safe to say that your son seems to be one happy chappy!
I have to say that I prefer sweets from the UK because it's what I'm used to. However, when I do travel to France I especially love going to a pâtisserie along with other places to try new and different things.
Just a very short clip from a TV programme in the UK called QI, which stands for quite interesting, explaining why American and European chocolate tends to taste so different.
m.th-cam.com/video/6qWl9Dlts5g/w-d-xo.html
4:47 Oh dear...
12:29 _sighs_ what can I say...the French, always trying to get out of something... 😂
Yea sorry it went out of focus. Hard to catch it all the time.
OK I've noticed French chocolate has a light tobacco like aftertaste, but really interesting and enjoyable for it! 😋
The best part of it all is that it isn't even French chocolate xD It's Belgian chocolate from a Belgian brand :D
It’s white chocolate it’s french vision of milkybar
Mikado is the European name of the Japanese snack POCKY.
In the uk fun size is usually looked on as disappointingly small size.
In the UK those teddies are Barny
Mikado choc sticks: My mate has a rabbit that is addicted to these, unusual for me but it's a true story.
Bittermints are my favorite all time chocolate!!
Waitrose is one of our Supermarket chains
Côte dore is an original Belgium companie. So it was Belgian chocolat you ate
Hello Ethan and sweet family.
Hello to you!
Chocolate covered biscuits are not really tea-dunking biscuits. The chocolate melts off when put in a hot drink.
The minty chocolate is "after eight" ?
Hi, your son had the right idea. After he ate the snack he took a drink of water. To cleanse his paette.
Mikado is is pronounced mic-ard-o just like the Gilbert and Sullivan opera!
ur son is a little star!
Nice sharing friend..greetings from indonesia
Hello, guys, I got some suggestions as to what you ought to try.
Don't keep the British sweets to near the French ones 🇬🇧👍
20 miles apart, at least 😁
Film your friends and family trying your favourites
Waitrose is a supermarket. I work for them.
Nice place to work?
Here in uk often say love you more than jellytots at our family does
Or "Love you lots like Jellytots". Cute either way 😊
i havnt watched this yet but if the french win.....
Waitrose is a supermarket
That's the generic version of After Eights which is a higher quality brand
_Which one did you like?_
_errrrrr....CHOCOLATE!_
😂😂😂😂😂 Ask a silly question right?
sneaky little French guy.
cote d'or is Belgium Chocolate. (yes the name is French but half of Belgium also speaks French.
I know we're neighbours and it's also a compliment.
but you already stole french fries (Belgian), and now chocolate?
we'll be expecting some quality champagne from you guys as compensation for this.
Purple in the UK is not grape, it's probably blackcurrant...
Dark purple is likely blackcurrant, but a lighter purple, maybe closer to mallow or mauve, is probably grape.
@@scmtuk3662 We don't have grape in the UK, I cant think of anything other than grapes themselves that taste of grape... Its usually liquorice or blackcurrant...
@@daveofyorkshire301 Grape-flavoured sweets are more common in the US, but some US brands are imported in the UK, and you can get "The Original GrapeHead Grape Candy" in the UK if you know where to look.
Bizarrely, I am a Brit that lives in France ( they have 200 sorts of cheese and a bottle of wins for less than 2 Euros, so why wouldn't you,?) and as you know British chocolate is different to American chocolate but French chocolate is different again from British chocolate.
Love Love Love mint chocolate.
Jelly Tots are a common thing, but the rest was just off brand budget stuff from the supermarket rather than an actual known product. Waitrose is the name of a supermarket, not a chocolate company.
Bendicks are a brand.
Places like Waitrose and M&S are big enough to have manufacturers go so far as dedicate new production lines to their products. Hardly off-brand or budget
Cote d'Or from BELGIUM
Mikado from JAPAN
St Michel is pronounced san Michelle