Easter egg. Photographic manipulation on a computer. Interesting to see your list. Try cider vinegar it's what they use in most chip shops, now I've just got to find out the type of salt 😀😉
Placing your knife and fork together on the plate at the end of a meal is something most British children are taught to do from an early age. It has become so automatic with me that I always do it at home, even when I'm dining alone.
Oh if you didn’t put them together, you certainly heard about it from your parents, about how bad your manners are. Is that an aeroplane? No, then why has it got wings? Put your knife and fork together…
One thing they never do in British restaurants (which they do in the US) is take your plate away when you've finished eating before everyone else has finished. They only clear all the plates at the same time when everyone's finished. It's considered very impolite to take your plate away the way it's done in the US.
Regarding polite dining..... DON'T say "fork and knife": in the UK we say "knife and fork" ! If you say to a British waitress...."Where's my fork and knife?" it could be misconstrued as something very impolite indeed!! lol
Fun to watch this woman who grew up drinking orange juice under a parasol beside a pool in Florida, surprisingly kalyn chose Britain, our gain such a fun happy woman, much love kalyn ❤️✌️🇬🇧
Even after 6 months i still find this woman watchable on her channel, her flair for informal gossip and culture is fun, being American who migrated makes her interesting and gives her a different view much love kalyn ❤️✌️🇬🇧 pleased to see you navigated the citizenship endurance test successfully!😘
With the knife and fork etiquette after placing them together you should also leave part of the handles about an inch off the edge of the plate. This makes it easier for the person clearing up to gather the cutlery and keep their hands clean.
I have just had one week of unbroken sunshine visiting family near Prague then came home to another ten days of warm sunny weather in the UK. Seems like a bonus for this time of the year and it is really appreciated. What you should realise (with the long winter nights and the long summer days in the UK) is that Florida is about the same latitude as North Africa and if you draw a line from Seattle to Anchorage the UK would be about the same latitude as the halfway point along that line. That is why we try to make the best use of the sun when it shines down on us.
Many cakes and confectioneries in the UK couldn’t be eaten in a napkin, they require a plate and cake fork. Only certain types of cake can be eaten without 👍 🎂
Related to the sun thing is the short days in winter. I do know an American who told me he had just arrived in the UK midwinter, got on a train in London to go up north just before four in the afternoon. Still a bit jet lagged he dozed off. He woke up only about half an hour later and it was dark. He nearly crapped himself because he thought he'd been asleep for hours and probably missed his stop. He was still pretty confused when he looked at his watch. My skill related answer is Ancient Greece. I am a linguist and enjoy learning new languages but recently thought I need a new different challenge. I visited the British library recently and enjoyed looking at the Ancient Greek stuff but realised I know very little about it having forgotten everything I did in school. So I've been reading about Ancient Greece ever since!
I really enjoyed that video. I haven't particularly got something new I want to learn because I was furloughed in 2020 for 7 months and during that time I tried a few new things; cross stitching, felting and knitting. Then in November 2021 I bought a clarinet and have been learning that ever since. My sister bought a guitar at the same time and we have been really enjoying our new interests. We are both ladies in our 60s x
I thought the same thing… I thought it was like “world etiquette “ and nearly all cultures did it.. never knew it was a British thing. I do it even when eating at home alone
Always place your knife and fork together at the end of the meal, and never ever cut your food up first then shovel it in with the fork, it's OK for infants but infantile for adults.
I enjoy your presentations greatly. So, many thanks. The principal reason for the easy access to open country in the UK - as in almost all of Europe - is the strict zoning (planning) regulation. In most of the US, suburban strawl is much less controlled, and things like huge billboards are omnipresent. As an example, in the 90s, when I lived in Loudoun Co in VA, I could walk out my door and stroll along country roads to Middleburg with nary a house in sight. When I visited just before Covid, the road from Falls Creek to Leesburg was one continuous semi-urban sprawl.
Also, parts of the actual rural countryside can have addition protected status as SSSI, (Sites of Special Scientific Interest). So not only no building but no anything that will disturb that part of the environment
We Brits tend to use our knives and forks differently to those from the US. In some US restaurants I would do the Brit thing and place the cutlery lined up on the plate when I was done but the waiter would then chuck them back on the table indicating you use the same cutlery for the next course! They would also take away your plate before your partner had finished eating which was supposed to look like attentive service but just looked rude to me. On your final question - I think a language or new technical skills would be good.
Combining 2 items from your list, we quite often have bacon, beans and chips as a quick and easy evening meal, and I always douse the whole lot in malt vinegar.
Real afficionados will tell you that crown green bowling is the pinnacle of achievement. The green is raised at its centre, so the bowler has to make allowance for the gradient and the angle at which the bowl crosses it to bowl an accurate length. Before they were turned into car parks a great many pubs used to have a bowling green round the back, and they're still a feature of most municipal parks, though there are numerous private bowling clubs.
When I was a waitress I took an American customer’s barely eaten food away because he’d ‘set his knife and fork at six o clock ‘ and he wasn’t very happy , now I know why . Didn’t know they didn’t do that
I love cold baked beans straight out of the can! I get weird looks at lunchtime at work 😂 I've always wanted to crochet, I've tried so many times but always forget how to do the stitches.
Its a Bowling Green. I lived as a British expat in Asia for 10 years & languages are definitely what fascinate me, I'm a keen amateur photographer as well, so these are the subjects I like to study, even if for one of them you really need to live in the countries where those languages are spoken. I'm always interested in the cultural & linguistic differences between various places, especially countries that are supposed to speak the "same" language. I'm still amazed at how much of my tastes are still influenced by time out in the orient even though I returned to the UK almost 9 years ago. Never liked malt vinegar not even from a chippy.
Yep I`m here to the end . PS vinegar is used on fish and chip for the same reason you put lemon on fish . The acid breaks down any oil in fish to make the fish easier to digest . Back in the "old days " it was hard to keep fresh fruit fresh so hence a different type of acid VINEGAR was used .
Bowls is known in the US as lawn bowling, or more accurately it evolved into lawn bowling. You play both games on a bowling green, which is where the city of Bowling Green, Ohio, and the university of the same name, get said name from.
It's a bowling green, my friend. Remember, the woods have a bias, so cannot be rolled straight. Also, from the North Midland and Mid Wales, north, the greens are crown greens, so have the added challenge of being slightly raised at the centre, so one has to allow for the bias of the wood, plus the bias of the green. Have you ever tried broad beans? I never saw them whilst in the US.
@@gillcawthorn7572 I'm a 66yo old Brit and I detest, and have for my entire life, broadbeans. I love runner beans, and fine beans, butterbeans also, but the broadys...nope!
Beans on toast, with a perfectly fried runny egg on top, is a yummy snack, and a full meal at teatime for a child. And a staple when I was a student, cheap, quick, easy and filling.
I was told that putting your knife and fork together was a sign that you had finished - to whoever is clearing plates. It also means the cutlery doesn’t fall off when picked up.
Hey Kalyn, Bowling green is what you bowl on! Funny I was finishing some cold baked beans while watching your video! 😁 It's not always sunny in Orlando though is it? I went a few years as a kid in August and the torrential down pour at like 4pm each day arrived!! I'm trying to learn about NFT's so I can use with my online training course.
I LOOOOVE French Boules or "Petanque", as it's called Provence. Basically he same as Lawn Bowling, but more like Bocce on a dirt pitch and with silver balls that have different markings. The marker ball/jack is called the cochonette (piglet) and you have to stand in one spot with your feet together and toss the ball upwards using an underhand motion. It lands and rolls a little, but the final goal is the same as Lawn Bowling, Bocce and even Curling. I think it's super fun and I want to build a pitch in our yard. 🤣 When we travel around Vancouver BC, most parks have bowling greens and we often see people dressed all in white playing. There's still a big British influence in BC, especially Victoria. (I also want to study more about linguistics and accents, so Skillshare? 😉)
Bowling green. And there are two types, a regular green and crown green. Crown green - as the name suggests, has a bit of a hump towards the centre of the playing area
Ok you’ll do. I guess we’ll have to adopt you now. It’s good to hear how Americans actually view us and our habits, typically most struggle to get their head around our wealth of history. And our taste for ceremonial historical events ( think changing the guards or trooping the colour) which does tend to bring our patriotism to the fore. Another very BRITISH thing is Last night of the Proms, it’s on all week and very difficult to get tickets for but the Last night is when our typical British stuffiness is somewhat relaxed, and everyone from the orchestra conductor down lets their hair down and has a fun time. You should check out some of the videos here on the subject … very patriotic music and audience singing, usually fills the Royal Albert Hall and most of Hyde Park …
Lovely to tune in to your channel ,as a Brit ive been lucky enough to have visited most countries ,and just to say in parts of aussie they have bake bean sandwiches ,cold of course !!!
I wish I could play the fiddle. A bowling green is the name you're after and you can have either a crown green or a flat green. Thanks for the videos, they're always very interesting.
Talking about malt vinegar...do you eat pickled onions? I mean proper UK pickled onions, I found out from my American friends that here it is sliced onion in vinegar (...NOT the same thing!). I am an expat and pickled onions are a real pain to get over here, not to mention eye wateringly expensive (BTW, I recommend Garner's if you do want to try some). Which comes back to the malt vinegar - it is really hard to get over here in the US, especially in bulk which I need so I can make some pickled onions at home. That leads to the dearth of pickling size onions to be found over here too, though I finally found a source, I just hope it lasts. This is one of the things I miss over here as I love decent pickled onions with a decent bit of cheddar, but that's not as bad as it used to be, I'm hoping for more British cheese to be imported after a recent agreement :-)
I just wanted to let you know that I was having a bad day today and nothing seemed to work to cheer me up, until I watched some of your videos! Thanks I love what you do :)
Bowling Green not Pitch . There is bowling greens in Canada and I am sure in some US states. The bowl has a natural bias so you have to calculate the width or the grass you have to give it on the green for it to meet the jack.
You asked about the skills and I thought languages and that was your first suggestion. I always respect people who can speak other languages but it’s something I’ve struggled with personally.
I grew up playing Bowls with my Grandfather on the Bowling Green in our local park. He was part of a regular team, which I joined when I was old enough. I'd be interested in improving my brush work when doing painting on canvas.
Lawn Bowls or Crown green bowls, two types. A bowling green is a finely laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of turf for playing the game of bowls. Before 1830, when Edwin Beard Budding of Thrupp, near Stroud, UK, invented the lawnmower, lawns were often kept cropped by grazing sheep on them. The world's oldest surviving bowling green is the Southampton Old Bowling Green, which was first used in 1299.
Photography and languages (always watch til the end). The cutlery etiquette is an interesting one that I never realised was unique to the UK. I do it instinctively but must have been taught as a kid that it’s just good table manners 🤷🏻♂️
The UK has microclimates. The weather in one part won’t be the same elsewhere, and the further south you go, the better the weather, especially in say Cornwall which is very close to the Gulf Stream and is generally much milder than the rest of the country.
Yes I made it to the end! Well done on the knife and fork; putting them side by side is like closing stage curtains or double doors. You have closed your plate off from being topped up. Also, in your other vid, nerds are called anoraks because of the fascination some Brits had with collecting train numbers at stations. They would wait on platforms for hours in typical Brit weather to get a number they hadn't already got, and you can guess what they would wear. I have had a full life and can do a lot of things, but I'd love to learn Latin.
A fruit cake requires no napkin or utensils. By fruit cake I mean a fairly dense cake filled with dried fruit and peel, a rich fruit cake is much darker and is usually fortified with a spirit (whisky or brandy). "Chip shop" vinegar is not actually malt but legally a "non brewed condiment"
It is claimed, that Sir Francis Drake was enjoying a game of bowls when the Spanish Armada was spotted approaching the south coast. He decided he had time to finish his game first before taking on the Spanish.
He was one of England's famous saliors during the Elizabethan age .Definitely one of Plymouth's famous sons there is a very big statue of him on Plymouth's Hoe (promonade) looking out towards the bay from where the Spanish Armada was on It's way in 1588. Lol I'm from Plymouth.
I’ve put vinegar on fries (I’m a Yank, obviously) ever since I was a kid. Likely because I was raised in a Scottish/Irish household (despite my surname). Love beans on toast, too😉 I’d like to learn how to use some of the popular graphic design software.
You're not related to Ronnie, are you? I know it's a slightly different spelling, but Ronnie played a handful of Rugby Union games for Scotland in the early 90's. You might be related.
I am British and live in London. There are commons and heaths scattered around the city, if you want a walk. I worked for a few weeks in Stillwater Minnesota. At the weekend, I tried to walk out to the countryside but the town centre is surrounded by a thin ring of suburbs that are so pedestrian hostile that it was a really unpleasant experience getting there. PS Bowls Green
I never buy malt vinegar these days but we had it a lot when I was a child. Fish and chips, sprinkled on salad , slices of cucumber soaked in it (my wife says her family did this as well) and on special occasions tinned salmon soaked in it (no,I don’t know why either).
You forgot the most important use of malt vinegar, added to bottled mint sauce to serve with roast lamb.... Bottled mint sauce is thick, it needs loosening, which you do with malt vinegar and then a little sugar to balance the flavour.
Actually 47% of Greater London is green belt land so you're never that far away from a park or an open space. I'm not just talking about the royal parks (St. James Park) etc but there's other places like Hampstead Heath, Clapham Common, Wimbledon Common, Wanstead Flats. And there are many many parks in the suburbs that are accessible by foot or a short drive.
I think I might take up bird watching, I enjoy hearing birdsong and identifying the type of bird it is. I've got a couple of books on the subject but haven't actively pursued it. I've never been crazy about malt vinegar, a little spritz is ok, but more than that overwhelms the other flavours and makes the chips too soggy! 😂
Its a Bowling Green or a Crown Green (they are different), can also be played inside. Glad you're enjoying Beans and malt vinegar (not together?) . Being able to walk to nature is great. Not sure what I want to learn next.
Lawn Bowls has been a demonstration event at the Summer Olympics( Seoul 1988) and is a perennial at the Commonwealth Games (and Para- games) It will possibly be in the Brisbane Games 2032 along with Rugby League, Cricket and Netball and in the Para Olympics.
There is two different type of bowls dependent on the pitch. Flat green bowling and crown green bowling. Vegetarian Baked Beans is the closest in America you can get to British Baked Beans.
I can remember, as a child, not being allowed to leave the table until I had lined up my knife and fork correctly on the plate. I had honestly never thought that this was not a custom in other countries. See, this is why I like the internet. We learn stuff about other countries.
I would love a video on the differences between the American & British beach/seaside experience, piers, arcades, the food and of course swimming in freezing water at the first glimpse of sun. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇬🇧
2 types of bowling: flat green, which you had in the photo; in the north it's crown green where the bowling green is like an upturned saucer. In a chip shop, you are also highly likely to get something called "non-brewed condiment" often referred to as chip-shop vinegar, which is diluted acetic acid with brown food dye. Looks like malt vinegar, but isn't. If it's in an unlabelled bottle, that's probably what it is.
Whether the weather be to fine Or whether the weather be not Whether the weather be cold Or whether the weather be hot We'll weather the weather Whatever the weather Whether we like it or not. poem I learned when I was ten. 🖖💜🇱🇷🇬🇧
my Floridian pal sent me day after day after day of her walking her dog in 80 degrees... I thanked her appropriately, with heavy sarcasm and foul language!
Pizza and beans is a definite. Although I have never met anyone else that does it. Sprinkle the malt vinegar on firstly then add the salt. The salt will stick on the food and not fall off onto the plate. I'd like to learn Crown Green bowls. 😉I think it's called the bowling green. Great video. Good to hear the differences not generally mentioned on other channels. 👍🙂
How about riding on the top deck of a bus? Not many double-deckers in the US so I bet your first time was in the UK. 🐣 What would I like to learn? To play the piano. 🐣
Vinegar. In some other European countries ie Spain they will have lemon juice on chips rather than vinegar, similar, just another type of acidic condiment.
I knit and find it hard to find a yarn shop that I can get my yarn at, some close because the people retired, some because the people who ran them have died, others because the person has decided to move away, now I spin my own yarn both on a drop spindle, or on a spinning wheel, I also dye it the colour that I want
Ha.. I used to work in an indoor bowls centre, where, back in the day, one of our wheelchair members got herself chosen for the British Paralympic team in Atlanta. The problem she had was that they had no bowling green in the States and had decided to repurpose an AstroTurf pitch. She really struggled to find somewhere she could train, as all indoor greens in the UK (and I believe some outdoor greens in Oz) are ‘carpet’ which is more like a very heavy duty cloth. Following my teasing her that she was just in it for a trip to Disney world, she did bring me back a Goofy soft toy, which I still have :-)
"Bowling green". Flat in the south, but in the north then a green with a raised centre is used for crown green bowling. I have nothing in particular I want to learn. When I discover that I need to know something, then I just go and find out.
I got to the end of the video - always do! I really want to learn a language but I struggle. My wife speaks three fluently including English., so puts me to shame. However, during lockdown, I went through a lot of the lecture series on the Yale University TH-cam channel. It's a limited selection but each one is a complete series as delivered to students, so like a free course at undergrad level. Especially good if you like history.
Bowling Green! There are two types I think, Lane Bowling as on your video and Crown Green Bowling. Lane Bowling is where a load of people bowl down a set line of the set out lawn / Green whatever bowlers call it. A chosen player first bowl the Jack down the Lane and as you’d expect try and get more of your bowls closer to the Jack ( obviously more rules than this but that’s about it) the bowls are weighted on one side so your skill is to know which way to allow your bowl to fall. This is the more formal game in the UK. Note the white “uniform”. The Green is immaculately laid out and Crown Green similar aims as Lane Bowling but because it is normally played on a bowling Green round the back of a pub. The Green is not micrometer perfectly laid out and has a rising and falling non flat surface much like a crown as apposed to a circlet. The bowls are similarly biased but the Green itself has an effect on the rolling ball. Much like a golf course. You play on the Green that’s available, so more skill is involved but usually looked down upon by he other game players. My Dad played it every week in Summer while I was a child.
Bowling green, it never occurred to me that it was a "British thing" but yeah almost every town has a bowling green and the lawns are always so lush and pretty.
Weird thing about fish and chips and vinegar... Most chip shops will actually use something called "non-brewed condiment" even though everyone calls it vinegar, it's not made the same way.
Lawn bowls it’s called, General pensions play it, short Mat bowls kids are starting to get in to, I used to watch my friend play & I played it a few time short Mat bowls that is.
I'm thinking about taking pottery classes, just really want to make some ugly pottery, I usually finish your videos if I start them as I find the differences interesting, and your easy to listen to. Anyway Iv had my American cousins over to stay for a couple of weeks and now they have all gone back to Michigan addicted to extra mature cheddar cheese, they had fish and chips a lot as well while here, weird but my two English born cousins loved vinegar, pickled onions, they also had pie and mash, they loved baked beans too, my cousins wife who is American didn't take so well to all the typical English food. Though she loved scones and clotted cream and jam. Oh we also took them to Brick Lane for real Bagels. Honestly it was two weeks of eating.
Some years ago as an adult I studied a formal Geography course and one of the things that I learned is that the weather in the centre of any large continent is more extreme in everything i.e. heat ,cold ( in the appropriate season) tornados ,dust storms etc. Our weather is largely influenced by the temperatures affected by the bodies of water surrounding us , so more temperate than another landlocked country on the same latitude. American visitors should take the trouble to see how far North the UK is.
@@GirlGoneLondonofficial And of course ,we have the benefit of the warmer Gulf Stream. .If that should stop or change direction drastically ,it would be a very different matter ,we would all be rushing to emigrate to Florida!
I would like to learn how to forge banknotes. On another subject entirely, i thought my son was the only person in the world who said Fork and Knife rather than Knife and Fork, now i know there are two of you.
To learn how to cast a fly-line, my younger brother has introduced me to fly fishing ( I've been sea-fishing all my life ) but fly fishing is a completely different kettle of fish. ( no pun intended )
Malt vinegar is not fish and chip vinegar. So let me explain malt and white vinegar's are refined and also fermented so they are more astringent however the chip shop stuff is actually a little sweet, taste it you'll understand, because it is not fermented.Unlike many vinegar's around the world it has such a different flavour to ordinary vinegar. You can buy this vinegar now off the shelf in deli's and butchers who sell other stuff. It makes such a difference to chips from the ordinary clear and brown vinegar...:-)
Beans and sausages (Which come all together in the tin) on toast is a meal fit for any king or Queen!!! I love my food, and do go out for meals etc etc, Thai, Italian, Indian, Chinese and all that jazz... But when I sit down with a plate of beans on toast, well... I'm in heaven... I love that little meal me! :D hehehe
Don't forget that the first 1,000 people to use my link will get a 1 month free trial of Skillshare: skl.sh/girlgonelondon03221
The British bird watching class is fantastic for all of my outdoor enthusiasts!
@@GirlGoneLondonofficial the thing ur finkin of is a Bowling Green
Easter egg. Photographic manipulation on a computer.
Interesting to see your list.
Try cider vinegar it's what they use in most chip shops, now I've just got to find out the type of salt 😀😉
@@dave_h_8742 I've never had cider vinegar from a chippie - not ever.
@@dave_h_8742 you can use it in diets , 3 spoons full in a glass of hot water , be careful with the water being too hot
Placing your knife and fork together on the plate at the end of a meal is something most British children are taught to do from an early age. It has become so automatic with me that I always do it at home, even when I'm dining alone.
Indeed if they are together you have finished apart and you just having a rest whilst half way through
Same. How else we you know you had finished 😂
Oh if you didn’t put them together, you certainly heard about it from your parents, about how bad your manners are. Is that an aeroplane? No, then why has it got wings? Put your knife and fork together…
I thought it was common knowledge throughout the world
You can walk into the countryside in a few hours from anywhere thats on the doorstep
One thing they never do in British restaurants (which they do in the US) is take your plate away when you've finished eating before everyone else has finished. They only clear all the plates at the same time when everyone's finished. It's considered very impolite to take your plate away the way it's done in the US.
Many restaurants do do that in the UK and it drives me nuts. Forces the other person to feel rushed and makes it uncomfortable.
@@DamnDealDone Never seen it done in the UK
@@fenman7147 guess you've been to every restaurant. You must be a busy person.
Regarding polite dining..... DON'T say "fork and knife": in the UK we say "knife and fork" !
If you say to a British waitress...."Where's my fork and knife?" it could be misconstrued as something very impolite indeed!! lol
She might reply "it's next to your fork and plate"
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Exactly the waiter may reply"fork-off"
Because the knife was the first utensil they pre date forks
Ditto funny, kids love testing parents with that one
Fun to watch this woman who grew up drinking orange juice under a parasol beside a pool in Florida, surprisingly kalyn chose Britain, our gain such a fun happy woman, much love kalyn ❤️✌️🇬🇧
Even after 6 months i still find this woman watchable on her channel, her flair for informal gossip and culture is fun, being American who migrated makes her interesting and gives her a different view much love kalyn ❤️✌️🇬🇧 pleased to see you navigated the citizenship endurance test successfully!😘
Bowling green
With the knife and fork etiquette after placing them together you should also leave part of the handles about an inch off the edge of the plate. This makes it easier for the person clearing up to gather the cutlery and keep their hands clean.
I have just had one week of unbroken sunshine visiting family near Prague then came home to another ten days of warm sunny weather in the UK. Seems like a bonus for this time of the year and it is really appreciated. What you should realise (with the long winter nights and the long summer days in the UK) is that Florida is about the same latitude as North Africa and if you draw a line from Seattle to Anchorage the UK would be about the same latitude as the halfway point along that line. That is why we try to make the best use of the sun when it shines down on us.
Many cakes and confectioneries in the UK couldn’t be eaten in a napkin, they require a plate and cake fork. Only certain types of cake can be eaten without 👍 🎂
Related to the sun thing is the short days in winter. I do know an American who told me he had just arrived in the UK midwinter, got on a train in London to go up north just before four in the afternoon. Still a bit jet lagged he dozed off. He woke up only about half an hour later and it was dark. He nearly crapped himself because he thought he'd been asleep for hours and probably missed his stop. He was still pretty confused when he looked at his watch.
My skill related answer is Ancient Greece. I am a linguist and enjoy learning new languages but recently thought I need a new different challenge. I visited the British library recently and enjoyed looking at the Ancient Greek stuff but realised I know very little about it having forgotten everything I did in school. So I've been reading about Ancient Greece ever since!
I really enjoyed that video. I haven't particularly got something new I want to learn because I was furloughed in 2020 for 7 months and during that time I tried a few new things; cross stitching, felting and knitting. Then in November 2021 I bought a clarinet and have been learning that ever since. My sister bought a guitar at the same time and we have been really enjoying our new interests. We are both ladies in our 60s x
I must admit I never knew placing the knife and fork together when you've finished eating wasn't a thing everywhere. Loved the video as usual.
I thought the same thing… I thought it was like “world etiquette “ and nearly all cultures did it.. never knew it was a British thing. I do it even when eating at home alone
Likewise. Australian here and was taught this as "good manners" like saying please and thank you.
Always place your knife and fork together at the end of the meal, and never ever cut your food up first then shovel it in with the fork, it's OK for infants but infantile for adults.
And always lay the knife with cutting edge facing inwards towards the fork.
I enjoy your presentations greatly. So, many thanks. The principal reason for the easy access to open country in the UK - as in almost all of Europe - is the strict zoning (planning) regulation. In most of the US, suburban strawl is much less controlled, and things like huge billboards are omnipresent. As an example, in the 90s, when I lived in Loudoun Co in VA, I could walk out my door and stroll along country roads to Middleburg with nary a house in sight. When I visited just before Covid, the road from Falls Creek to Leesburg was one continuous semi-urban sprawl.
Also, parts of the actual rural countryside can have addition protected status as SSSI, (Sites of Special Scientific Interest). So not only no building but no anything that will disturb that part of the environment
We Brits tend to use our knives and forks differently to those from the US. In some US restaurants I would do the Brit thing and place the cutlery lined up on the plate when I was done but the waiter would then chuck them back on the table indicating you use the same cutlery for the next course! They would also take away your plate before your partner had finished eating which was supposed to look like attentive service but just looked rude to me. On your final question - I think a language or new technical skills would be good.
Combining 2 items from your list, we quite often have bacon, beans and chips as a quick and easy evening meal, and I always douse the whole lot in malt vinegar.
Real afficionados will tell you that crown green bowling is the pinnacle of achievement. The green is raised at its centre, so the bowler has to make allowance for the gradient and the angle at which the bowl crosses it to bowl an accurate length. Before they were turned into car parks a great many pubs used to have a bowling green round the back, and they're still a feature of most municipal parks, though there are numerous private bowling clubs.
If you go to a chippie in the east of Scotland you won't get salt and vinegar, you'll get salt and sauce, usually brown sauce but you can get ketchup.
When I was a waitress I took an American customer’s barely eaten food away because he’d ‘set his knife and fork at six o clock ‘ and he wasn’t very happy , now I know why . Didn’t know they didn’t do that
I love cold baked beans straight out of the can! I get weird looks at lunchtime at work 😂 I've always wanted to crochet, I've tried so many times but always forget how to do the stitches.
cold beans a buttie is great - straight out the can, into buttered bread, and crush them slightly so they all all escape as you bite the buttie
@@stevesoutar3405 cold baked beans and buttered bread is the stuff dreams are made of.
Cold beans with broken up peperami.
Its a Bowling Green. I lived as a British expat in Asia for 10 years & languages are definitely what fascinate me, I'm a keen amateur photographer as well, so these are the subjects I like to study, even if for one of them you really need to live in the countries where those languages are spoken. I'm always interested in the cultural & linguistic differences between various places, especially countries that are supposed to speak the "same" language. I'm still amazed at how much of my tastes are still influenced by time out in the orient even though I returned to the UK almost 9 years ago. Never liked malt vinegar not even from a chippy.
Yep I`m here to the end . PS vinegar is used on fish and chip for the same reason you put lemon on fish . The acid breaks down any oil in fish to make the fish easier to digest . Back in the "old days " it was hard to keep fresh fruit fresh so hence a different type of acid VINEGAR was used .
Bowls is known in the US as lawn bowling, or more accurately it evolved into lawn bowling. You play both games on a bowling green, which is where the city of Bowling Green, Ohio, and the university of the same name, get said name from.
I regularly eat baked beans on crumpets. They're lovely!
It's a bowling green, my friend. Remember, the woods have a bias, so cannot be rolled straight. Also, from the North Midland and Mid Wales, north, the greens are crown greens, so have the added challenge of being slightly raised at the centre, so one has to allow for the bias of the wood, plus the bias of the green. Have you ever tried broad beans? I never saw them whilst in the US.
Adan Kennedy Palfrey, yum , broad beans .
you have heard of them in the usa "I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti.” fava beans are broad beans
@@gillcawthorn7572 I'm a 66yo old Brit and I detest, and have for my entire life, broadbeans.
I love runner beans, and fine beans, butterbeans also, but the broadys...nope!
@@myoldmate What a good thing we are not all alike, then. By the way ,cooked broad beans are better cold than hot.
@@gillcawthorn7572 aaaargh! The thought of it!
You said that purposely to mess with me.
Beans on toast, with a perfectly fried runny egg on top, is a yummy snack, and a full meal at teatime for a child. And a staple when I was a student, cheap, quick, easy and filling.
I was told that putting your knife and fork together was a sign that you had finished - to whoever is clearing plates. It also means the cutlery doesn’t fall off when picked up.
Hey Kalyn,
Bowling green is what you bowl on!
Funny I was finishing some cold baked beans while watching your video! 😁
It's not always sunny in Orlando though is it? I went a few years as a kid in August and the torrential down pour at like 4pm each day arrived!!
I'm trying to learn about NFT's so I can use with my online training course.
yes ether a lawn green or a crown green
We went twice we I was a kid. First time, it definitely rained every day
I LOOOOVE French Boules or "Petanque", as it's called Provence. Basically he same as Lawn Bowling, but more like Bocce on a dirt pitch and with silver balls that have different markings. The marker ball/jack is called the cochonette (piglet) and you have to stand in one spot with your feet together and toss the ball upwards using an underhand motion. It lands and rolls a little, but the final goal is the same as Lawn Bowling, Bocce and even Curling. I think it's super fun and I want to build a pitch in our yard. 🤣 When we travel around Vancouver BC, most parks have bowling greens and we often see people dressed all in white playing. There's still a big British influence in BC, especially Victoria.
(I also want to study more about linguistics and accents, so Skillshare? 😉)
The best vinegar for me is in the pickled onion jar, get some of that on your chips.
Bowling green. And there are two types, a regular green and crown green. Crown green - as the name suggests, has a bit of a hump towards the centre of the playing area
Ok you’ll do. I guess we’ll have to adopt you now. It’s good to hear how Americans actually view us and our habits, typically most struggle to get their head around our wealth of history. And our taste for ceremonial historical events ( think changing the guards or trooping the colour) which does tend to bring our patriotism to the fore.
Another very BRITISH thing is Last night of the Proms, it’s on all week and very difficult to get tickets for but the Last night is when our typical British stuffiness is somewhat relaxed, and everyone from the orchestra conductor down lets their hair down and has a fun time. You should check out some of the videos here on the subject … very patriotic music and audience singing, usually fills the Royal Albert Hall and most of Hyde Park …
Lovely to tune in to your channel ,as a Brit ive been lucky enough to have visited most countries ,and just to say in parts of aussie they have bake bean sandwiches ,cold of course !!!
I wish I could play the fiddle. A bowling green is the name you're after and you can have either a crown green or a flat green. Thanks for the videos, they're always very interesting.
Beans on toast with an egg. My grandmother's favorite breakfast. Astronomy.
Talking about malt vinegar...do you eat pickled onions? I mean proper UK pickled onions, I found out from my American friends that here it is sliced onion in vinegar (...NOT the same thing!). I am an expat and pickled onions are a real pain to get over here, not to mention eye wateringly expensive (BTW, I recommend Garner's if you do want to try some).
Which comes back to the malt vinegar - it is really hard to get over here in the US, especially in bulk which I need so I can make some pickled onions at home. That leads to the dearth of pickling size onions to be found over here too, though I finally found a source, I just hope it lasts. This is one of the things I miss over here as I love decent pickled onions with a decent bit of cheddar, but that's not as bad as it used to be, I'm hoping for more British cheese to be imported after a recent agreement :-)
I just wanted to let you know that I was having a bad day today and nothing seemed to work to cheer me up, until I watched some of your videos! Thanks I love what you do :)
Aw that's awesome Holly, hope your day is better today and thanks so much for watching!
Bowling Green not Pitch . There is bowling greens in Canada and I am sure in some US states. The bowl has a natural bias so you have to calculate the width or the grass you have to give it on the green for it to meet the jack.
You need vinegar on seafood, whelks, mussels, cockles, prawns etc.
I like vinegar on my French Fries. It’s not a New England thing neither.
Now that would make a great video, Katlyn tries traditional British seafood, cockles, mussels, whelks etc ....
And white pepper with a dash of Tabasco!
I hate vinegar on my chips, and generally I am no fan of malt vinegar. Yuk!!
You asked about the skills and I thought languages and that was your first suggestion. I always respect people who can speak other languages but it’s something I’ve struggled with personally.
I grew up playing Bowls with my Grandfather on the Bowling Green in our local park.
He was part of a regular team, which I joined when I was old enough.
I'd be interested in improving my brush work when doing painting on canvas.
Lawn Bowls or Crown green bowls, two types.
A bowling green is a finely laid, close-mown and rolled stretch of turf for playing the game of bowls.
Before 1830, when Edwin Beard Budding of Thrupp, near Stroud, UK, invented the lawnmower, lawns were often kept cropped by grazing sheep on them. The world's oldest surviving bowling green is the Southampton Old Bowling Green, which was first used in 1299.
Photography and languages (always watch til the end). The cutlery etiquette is an interesting one that I never realised was unique to the UK. I do it instinctively but must have been taught as a kid that it’s just good table manners 🤷🏻♂️
The UK has microclimates. The weather in one part won’t be the same elsewhere, and the further south you go, the better the weather, especially in say Cornwall which is very close to the Gulf Stream and is generally much milder than the rest of the country.
Yes I made it to the end! Well done on the knife and fork; putting them side by side is like closing stage curtains or double doors. You have closed your plate off from being topped up. Also, in your other vid, nerds are called anoraks because of the fascination some Brits had with collecting train numbers at stations. They would wait on platforms for hours in typical Brit weather to get a number they hadn't already got, and you can guess what they would wear. I have had a full life and can do a lot of things, but I'd love to learn Latin.
Always sort of liked the idea of going trainspotting just couldn't see the point of collecting the numbers
A fruit cake requires no napkin or utensils. By fruit cake I mean a fairly dense cake filled with dried fruit and peel, a rich fruit cake is much darker and is usually fortified with a spirit (whisky or brandy). "Chip shop" vinegar is not actually malt but legally a "non brewed condiment"
It is claimed, that Sir Francis Drake was enjoying a game of bowls when the Spanish Armada was spotted approaching the south coast. He decided he had time to finish his game first before taking on the Spanish.
He was one of England's famous saliors during the Elizabethan age .Definitely one of Plymouth's famous sons there is a very big statue of him on Plymouth's Hoe (promonade) looking out towards the bay from where the Spanish Armada was on It's way in 1588.
Lol I'm from Plymouth.
Nice you know about that. Genuinely happened. Plymouth also have nice strawberries and cream.
@@alancrane4693 throughout the southwest you won't taste anything better anywhere else plus the pasties as well 👍
@@chrisholland7367 I`m from Northern England, sadly I`ve never managed to visit the S/W but I`ve always been interested in History.
@@alancrane4693 My Dad served in the R.N. from 1927-1949, so that particularly peaked my interest in the History of the Senior Service.
A bowling green is what you were thinking of! Also, you can get 'Boardwalk Fries' in parts of the US that are normal fries, but do have vinegar on.
a lot of fish and chip shops don't use vinegar anymore but a non-brewed condiment.
I’ve put vinegar on fries (I’m a Yank, obviously) ever since I was a kid. Likely because I was raised in a Scottish/Irish household (despite my surname). Love beans on toast, too😉
I’d like to learn how to use some of the popular graphic design software.
You're not related to Ronnie, are you? I know it's a slightly different spelling, but Ronnie played a handful of Rugby Union games for Scotland in the early 90's. You might be related.
I am British and live in London. There are commons and heaths scattered around the city, if you want a walk. I worked for a few weeks in Stillwater Minnesota. At the weekend, I tried to walk out to the countryside but the town centre is surrounded by a thin ring of suburbs that are so pedestrian hostile that it was a really unpleasant experience getting there. PS Bowls Green
I have noticed how green London is compared to other cities around the world
I never buy malt vinegar these days but we had it a lot when I was a child. Fish and chips, sprinkled on salad , slices of cucumber soaked in it (my wife says her family did this as well) and on special occasions tinned salmon soaked in it (no,I don’t know why either).
You forgot the most important use of malt vinegar, added to bottled mint sauce to serve with roast lamb.... Bottled mint sauce is thick, it needs loosening, which you do with malt vinegar and then a little sugar to balance the flavour.
@@paulwood5803 oh yes.
Actually 47% of Greater London is green belt land so you're never that far away from a park or an open space. I'm not just talking about the royal parks (St. James Park) etc but there's other places like Hampstead Heath, Clapham Common, Wimbledon Common, Wanstead Flats. And there are many many parks in the suburbs that are accessible by foot or a short drive.
I think I might take up bird watching, I enjoy hearing birdsong and identifying the type of bird it is. I've got a couple of books on the subject but haven't actively pursued it. I've never been crazy about malt vinegar, a little spritz is ok, but more than that overwhelms the other flavours and makes the chips too soggy! 😂
Malt vinegar goes great with brussel sprouts and cabbage too...
Its a Bowling Green or a Crown Green (they are different), can also be played inside.
Glad you're enjoying Beans and malt vinegar (not together?) .
Being able to walk to nature is great.
Not sure what I want to learn next.
I've done indoor bowls and crown green bowls. Crown green bowling is very nice in the sun.
Lawn Bowls has been a demonstration event at the Summer Olympics( Seoul 1988) and is a perennial at the Commonwealth Games (and Para- games) It will possibly be in the Brisbane Games 2032 along with Rugby League, Cricket and Netball and in the Para Olympics.
I would actually like to know more about photography too!
There is two different type of bowls dependent on the pitch. Flat green bowling and crown green bowling. Vegetarian Baked Beans is the closest in America you can get to British Baked Beans.
Bushcrafting is my new learning thing.
btw ... malt vinegar is a condiment.. try it in soups too!
I can remember, as a child, not being allowed to leave the table until I had lined up my knife and fork correctly on the plate. I had honestly never thought that this was not a custom in other countries. See, this is why I like the internet. We learn stuff about other countries.
I would love a video on the differences between the American & British beach/seaside experience, piers, arcades, the food and of course swimming in freezing water at the first glimpse of sun. 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🇬🇧
Oooh, that's a fantastic idea, thank you!
2 types of bowling: flat green, which you had in the photo; in the north it's crown green where the bowling green is like an upturned saucer.
In a chip shop, you are also highly likely to get something called "non-brewed condiment" often referred to as chip-shop vinegar, which is diluted acetic acid with brown food dye. Looks like malt vinegar, but isn't. If it's in an unlabelled bottle, that's probably what it is.
They will probably still ask if you want vinegar though, and the NBC is what you will get.
Great video Kalyn! Enjoying going thru your back catalogue 😊
I did a year of German at Secondary school and I'd like to pick it up again after more than 30 years.
Bowling Green. There are two types flat and crown green. Crown greens are raised in the centre.
Whether the weather be to fine
Or whether the weather be not
Whether the weather be cold
Or whether the weather be hot
We'll weather the weather
Whatever the weather
Whether we like it or not.
poem I learned when I was ten. 🖖💜🇱🇷🇬🇧
Some people take baths in baked beans. Never had beans on Pizza. Cold beans are delish.
We are proud of you mate...One of Us, One of Us, One of Us!!! 😉
I never thought you adapt our British culture so I am impressed 😎👌
my Floridian pal sent me day after day after day of her walking her dog in 80 degrees... I thanked her appropriately, with heavy sarcasm and foul language!
Pizza and beans is a definite. Although I have never met anyone else that does it.
Sprinkle the malt vinegar on firstly then add the salt. The salt will stick on the food and not fall off onto the plate.
I'd like to learn Crown Green bowls. 😉I think it's called the bowling green.
Great video. Good to hear the differences not generally mentioned on other channels. 👍🙂
How about riding on the top deck of a bus? Not many double-deckers in the US so I bet your first time was in the UK.
🐣 What would I like to learn? To play the piano. 🐣
Vinegar. In some other European countries ie Spain they will have lemon juice on chips rather than vinegar, similar, just another type of acidic condiment.
Used because they cut through greases and fats, so make fried foodstuffs more digestible...
I knit and find it hard to find a yarn shop that I can get my yarn at, some close because the people retired, some because the people who ran them have died, others because the person has decided to move away, now I spin my own yarn both on a drop spindle, or on a spinning wheel, I also dye it the colour that I want
Pie and beans is one of my favourites too
It’s called a bowling GREEN.especially in Scotland.
Ha.. I used to work in an indoor bowls centre, where, back in the day, one of our wheelchair members got herself chosen for the British Paralympic team in Atlanta. The problem she had was that they had no bowling green in the States and had decided to repurpose an AstroTurf pitch. She really struggled to find somewhere she could train, as all indoor greens in the UK (and I believe some outdoor greens in Oz) are ‘carpet’ which is more like a very heavy duty cloth. Following my teasing her that she was just in it for a trip to Disney world, she did bring me back a Goofy soft toy, which I still have :-)
"Bowling green". Flat in the south, but in the north then a green with a raised centre is used for crown green bowling.
I have nothing in particular I want to learn. When I discover that I need to know something, then I just go and find out.
We do have fries in this country (McDonald's serves fries) and we have chips. Two different beasts.
I got to the end of the video - always do! I really want to learn a language but I struggle. My wife speaks three fluently including English., so puts me to shame. However, during lockdown, I went through a lot of the lecture series on the Yale University TH-cam channel. It's a limited selection but each one is a complete series as delivered to students, so like a free course at undergrad level. Especially good if you like history.
Bowling Green!
There are two types I think, Lane Bowling as on your video and Crown Green Bowling.
Lane Bowling is where a load of people bowl down a set line of the set out lawn / Green whatever bowlers call it. A chosen player first bowl the Jack down the Lane and as you’d expect try and get more of your bowls closer to the Jack ( obviously more rules than this but that’s about it) the bowls are weighted on one side so your skill is to know which way to allow your bowl to fall. This is the more formal game in the UK. Note the white “uniform”. The Green is immaculately laid out and
Crown Green similar aims as Lane Bowling but because it is normally played on a bowling Green round the back of a pub. The Green is not micrometer perfectly laid out and has a rising and falling non flat surface much like a crown as apposed to a circlet. The bowls are similarly biased but the Green itself has an effect on the rolling ball. Much like a golf course. You play on the Green that’s available, so more skill is involved but usually looked down upon by he other game players. My Dad played it every week in Summer while I was a child.
Always make it to the end your interesting, learning all the time
Bowling green, it never occurred to me that it was a "British thing" but yeah almost every town has a bowling green and the lawns are always so lush and pretty.
Way bigger in Australia and NZ. Uk, seen as for the retired.
@@BlueTangWebSystems is there a sport that isn't done better down under? In our defence we have less sunny weather to practise in. 😊
You are truly British now! I would like to learn more about photography. Keep producing the excellent videos.
Weird thing about fish and chips and vinegar... Most chip shops will actually use something called "non-brewed condiment" even though everyone calls it vinegar, it's not made the same way.
Lawn bowls it’s called, General pensions play it, short Mat bowls kids are starting to get in to, I used to watch my friend play & I played it a few time short Mat bowls that is.
I'm thinking about taking pottery classes, just really want to make some ugly pottery, I usually finish your videos if I start them as I find the differences interesting, and your easy to listen to. Anyway Iv had my American cousins over to stay for a couple of weeks and now they have all gone back to Michigan addicted to extra mature cheddar cheese, they had fish and chips a lot as well while here, weird but my two English born cousins loved vinegar, pickled onions, they also had pie and mash, they loved baked beans too, my cousins wife who is American didn't take so well to all the typical English food. Though she loved scones and clotted cream and jam. Oh we also took them to Brick Lane for real Bagels. Honestly it was two weeks of eating.
Another thing about etiquette in the UK is that the knife and fork are held like a snooker(pool) cue - NOT like a pen!!
Of course we're proud of you!
Some years ago as an adult I studied a formal Geography course and one of the things that I learned is that the weather in the centre of any large continent is more extreme in everything i.e. heat ,cold ( in the appropriate season) tornados ,dust storms etc.
Our weather is largely influenced by the temperatures affected by the bodies of water surrounding us , so more temperate than another landlocked country on the same latitude.
American visitors should take the trouble to see how far North the UK is.
This is fascinating, thanks for sharing!
@@GirlGoneLondonofficial And of course ,we have the benefit of the warmer Gulf Stream. .If that should stop or change direction drastically ,it would be a very different matter ,we would all be rushing to emigrate to Florida!
They do play lawn bowls in the US and you play on a bowling green.
I would like to learn how to forge banknotes. On another subject entirely, i thought my son was the only person in the world who said Fork and Knife rather than Knife and Fork, now i know there are two of you.
Haha! Had no idea that was strange - glad to be a member of this very small club with your son!
SUN, THREE DAYS IN A ROW! Cat's and dogs tomorrow!
To learn how to cast a fly-line, my younger brother has introduced me to fly fishing ( I've been sea-fishing all my life ) but fly fishing is a completely different kettle of fish. ( no pun intended )
I always wondered why you never had a sponser as far as i'm concerned you're as good as any youtuber out there! I'm glad you finally have one!
Malt vinegar is not fish and chip vinegar. So let me explain malt and white vinegar's are refined and also fermented so they are more astringent however the chip shop stuff is actually a little sweet, taste it you'll understand, because it is not fermented.Unlike many vinegar's around the world it has such a different flavour to ordinary vinegar. You can buy this vinegar now off the shelf in deli's and butchers who sell other stuff. It makes such a difference to chips from the ordinary clear and brown vinegar...:-)
Beans and sausages (Which come all together in the tin) on toast is a meal fit for any king or Queen!!!
I love my food, and do go out for meals etc etc, Thai, Italian, Indian, Chinese and all that jazz... But when I sit down with a plate of beans on toast, well... I'm in heaven... I love that little meal me! :D hehehe