I'm a Yorkshireman so I totally love this video.. While you were eating your Sunday roast and finding it dry I suddenly found myself shouting at the screen.. Drown the the whole thing in gravy.. Then when you did I felt a balance return to the universe Thanks for your fabulous videos
Nothing screams a British afternoon like afternoon tea and some bloke sniffing coke off a key in the corner. Glad you saw the funny side of it though :)
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It sums up the British people perfectly. Polite, respectful, reserved, and thoughtful by day. Loutish, loud, boisterous, off the wall ethanol fiends by night. Trust me, I'm a Englishman, the stark contrast is still a lot for me to take in at times, doesn't stop me from joining in though.
To be fair in a culture with such nuanced and rigid customs and a set way of what is and isn't done hammered into your psyche, for some the best way to let go is to remove your inhibitions by drinking alcohol.
I like that your videos aren't overproduced.. It gives a better sense of your travel adventures than the usual videos. No need to try to entertain the viewer like its a music video. Great job.
Absolutely. The two of you have an energy that's really nice. Your opinions are honest. If you don't particularly like something, you share is as a travel tip, just like any seasoned traveler might do. There's none of this "Look at me!" quality to your videos. It's great. Btw, when you are traveling spontaneously, its a good idea to plan ahead for lodging in some of the bigger towns, even in off season. In Spain, for example, even if going to Pamplona, it's best to try to book ahead because even people from the local communities will come to the bigger town to spend the weekend.
9:15 Spiral staircases were made to be "wobbly". Every so many steps was made higher or lower, a so called "trip step" to put attacking soldiers off balance and even cause them to fall. Castles are full of such traps and tricks.
@@andyderbyshire519 The spiral is always clockwise (going up) so the defender fighting down the staircase using a sword in the right hand (as most people are right handed) would have an advantage over an attacker coming up wielding a sword.
I live in York so this was great to see! Such a surprise to see you in my town. It was painful waiting for you to put gravy on that roast, a dry roast would be awful haha!
moon_raker Right ? One of the fun things about videos like these is discovering the small things we just do as a matter of course that turn out to be much less universal than we think - gravy in/over the pud is so expected I felt like a low key tension waiting for it to happen ;).
I have not had yorkshire pudding before but that was so wanting gravy and definitely roast needs gravy. Kyde said that was sweet potato in the veggies, was it really? I would of guessed parsnip since it was white (sweet potato that I am use to is orange), elongated cuts like carrot, and be a more traditional veggie for England.
8:30 Funny you mention it being awkward going upstairs with a sword. Staircases were intentionally narrow and clockwise so defenders in the stairway had an advantage. Most people are right handed and attacking down a stairway in that direction lends itself to right arm thrusts and swings. An attacker would have to use his left.
LOL, I just wrote the same thing, then deleted it when I saw your comment. :D Sometimes they do go anti-clockwise - it depends where the staircase is in the castle from a defence perspective - for example staircases that lead downward or underground - because attackers would come in from ground level. The principle is always the same though, the staircases were built to give the incumbent defenders the right hand sword/crossbow/spear advantage. They would choose clockwise or anti-clockwise depending on whether you were defending upwards, or defending downwards.
An interesting fact I learned at my local castle (Warwick) is that the English/Anglosphere tradition of driving on the left originated in castle etiquette. Men-at-arms would wear their swords on their left side (as most were right handed) and therefore it was polite to always walk on the left to avoid hitting others with your sword in confined castle spaces!
Don't want to sound like a posh d!ck but you are also meant to take you jacket and hat of when inside, especially when eating Sunday dinner, I'm surprised it's not universal etiquette. Lucky not hung drawn and quartered for it, which would be a terrible shame as I love your videos !
Agreed: that is worth the wait. A bonus if someone is opening up the taps on the main organ or the choir is practicing or you attend a service. Then there’s the tower, crypt and foundations. The last of these is essential for anyone with the remotest interest in history: stand in the probable location in the buried Roman basilica where Constantine the Great was declared Emperor.
The toy at 57:49 is called a Golliwog. It stems from a fictional character from the late 19th century, mainly written for children. Nowadays, it is considered as racist by most people, and you rarely see them. Here's more about it's history - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golliwog
Robinson's jam used the Golly as a mascot. They retired the Golly years ago but they originate from Enid Blighton's stories. Robinson's used Golly for decades as it's mascot and in their advertising and over the years they also used his likeness on merchandise like soft toys, badges, tea towels, fridge magnates ect... Although Golly's image is now considered as racist he was and in many circles still is an extremely popular character. There is a huge collectors market for merchandise with Golly's likeness especially now as new merchandise is rarely produced and If it is new stuff it's not licensed or endorsed by Robinson's Jam.....
TheMaestro AE Just been down an interesting rabbit hole about false memory because of your post so ta ;). (I sort of remembered Robinson's jam too so had to check but it's actually _Robertson's_ and we're far from alone - there're people advertising "Robinson's Gollies" on eBay and even more extreme, people that think the Robinson's/Robertson's cognitive dissonance/misremembering is evidence of multiple realities !)
I'm from Colombia and I would love going to York. Thanks for showing me this beautiful place. And of course in the same time, I'm practicing my listening in English!! Thanks!
Thought you might be interested to know regarding the scaffolding on the Minster - there's a story that King Henry VIII promised to return the cathedral to the Catholic church (it's a Protestant building) when the construction was finally finished, and the minster has deliberately been under 'renovation' and never fully complete ever since. It's really, really probably not true but a cool legend nonetheless.
You have to have a fork of Yorkshire pudding with beef at the same time. Horse radish and mustard for beef aswell. Apple sauce and stuffing with pork. I love Sunday roasts 👍👍👍
Seeing you struggle up that tower with a sword reminds me of a bit of trivia that may interest you. Spiral stairs tend to go anti-clockwise in castles and towers as most people wield a sword right handed so any attacker going up the stairs will struggle with their sword due to the limited space and mobility while the defenders have room to swing theirs about. This is also relates to why we drive on the left in the UK as when mounted your right hand would be to the middle of the road allowing you to defend yourself from oncoming attackers, similar to how the riders ride on the left when jousting. I should really finish watching the vid before commenting, Gargoyles (Water Spouts) and Grotesques (Statues) Are the ugly faces and forms you see on older buildings, their purpose is as a spiritual defence. It was believed that they would scare off evil or ill intentioned spirits and protect the property they are mounted on. Similar to how you carve pumpkins at Halloween to ward off evil spirits.
I really, really should finish watching the vid before commenting but I'll never learn. For the most part (there are exceptions) a pudding is anything that is boiled, steamed, baked, fried or roasted that starts life as a batter. It later became associated with dessert and became an ubiquitous term for desserts as well due to the number of sweet puddings such as spotted dick, sticky toffee pudding and jam rolly polly.
I'm so glad you went to York. It is one of my favourite cities to visit. I feel connected to the city even though I'm a Cheshire girl and not a Yorkshire lass. You should have done a ghost walk. They are good fun and an interesting way to see the city at night. Just drown the Sunday roast in gravy. It works wonders. You had my salivating at the Patisserie Valerie section. That shop is decadent and scrummy. Also, the toy is called a Golliwog. My brother has one, but I assume most people wouldn't. Safe travels.
Sorry for all the comments! I have lived in Hong Kong for 20 years and seeing you visit London and Yorkshire is fantastic. I lived just outside Harrogate for 3 years and loved the Dales in particular. Thank you for the fun video's, I really enjoy your positive approach to visiting new places.
I stayed at a hotel on Walmgate for a week. It was without a doubt the worst hotel I've ever stayed at, but it was central, and I love that city. Fortunately, I wear hearing aids that I remove at night, so the carousing in the bar downstairs became almost inaudible. The "gate" suffix on a lot of the streets is from the Danish word meaning "street". That was from the Vikings. The name York came from the Danish Jorvik.
Tip.... go for food to the busy places, so you know it will be good. The place here for roast dinner was empty. English pubs do fantastic roasts! Also go to busy places for full English breakfast. If a cafe or tea room is quiet, especially in York it might not be the best place to eat! Great video! Have fun!
I dont know whats going on as I am English and live in England, and have done my whole life, and in London for the past 9 years and yet I have spent like the last two hours watching you guys in England. I am transfixed. Thanks a lot for sharing. Its nice too see how things I take for granted are strange to you... equally things which no one really cares about (the fork up or down dilemma) are things I would never notice or worry about and yet seems to have taken on high levels of importance. Excellent.
Haha, if you look through comments on some videos it's very apparent a lot of people do quite care about how we use our forks, hahaha. Glad you are enjoying the videos, I understand what you mean, when people visit us where we live seeing our daily world through their eyes is fascinating and it gives a different appreciation for things we may find mundane. -E
York is fantastic, we go at least once a year. We stay at a Staycity which is close enough to the centre to easily walk there but far enough away from the 'festivities' on a night to get a good night's sleep. It's been good to see it from a fresh perspective.
When someone was hanged drawn and quartered they were hanged almost to the point of death then tortured and quartered. No point doing all that barbaric stuff to a dead body. I live in York, nice to see my home city from a tourist's perspective.
I like how you embrace the English culture and our names, pronunciations for all your experiences with food etc. And not just call them by your "American" English, eg. French fries, Hot Chocolate etc. Its refreshing to see. Your now one of my "new" favourite vloggers. :) Subscribed.
@@kydeanderic Ha, I wouldn't dare. People are too quick to correct others. I remember when I was in the US of A (Florida) having the breakfast buffet and happily choosing "Biscuits" and spreading a mass of butter & jam on them. I received some peculiar stares. Looked like scones to me. Being told "I should eat them with gravy" I kindly gave them back a peculiar stare :/
Terry Love The closest thing Americans get to a roast dinner is Thanksgiving Dinner (essentially our Christmas dinner level of food). Pretty much like with our Christmas dinner, you feel full afterwards and just doze off in front of the tv.
For the Roast the gravy goes on the plate to make it less dry. It's usually poured over the meat. The English Mustard is for Roast Beef and the Apple Sauce is for Roast Pork.
Hello again! I was in York yesterday and overheard a tour guide saying that what's outside the walls dates back to the Civil War here, because York *was* a lot bigger than its wall long before then but pretty much everything outside the walls got destroyed in the 1644 siege.
If youn ever go to France, you'll need to know not only what a Patisserie is but also the meanings of Charcuterie, Boulangerie, Epicerie, Fromagerie, Boucherie, Confiserie, Cremerie, Poissonerie, Blanchisserie, Quincaillerie and one everyone knows, Pharmacie. So far, only Patisserie has made it across the pond, although I'm sure there are quite a few Boulangeries in London and here in Los Angeles.
It's heartwarming and reassuring to know that there are still some British establishments that have no concept whatsoever of customer service or satisfaction.
The Shambles is a historic street in York, England, featuring preserved medieval buildings, some dating back as far as the 14th century. The street is narrow, with many timber-framed buildings with jettied floors that overhang the street by several feet.
Hope you enjoyed York! We have videos from all around the world, but if you want more from England here's a list! Here's all of our British Isles Videos So Far! ► th-cam.com/play/PLrvJJu2Pt1jhvCgfwKedV1f5-7zzjpCbN.html
It's a motte and Bailey only the tower part (the castle) is still here also the bar/gate thing I'm pretty sure is a York thing ^.^ the renovation work on the minster is always going on hope you enjoyed your time here :)
'Bar' meaning gate comes from the word 'Barbican' which is a type of fortification that the gates used to have. The barbican has been removed (not recently) on all but 1 of the gates, Walmgate bar, which you would have seen on your walk around the walls! It could also come from the fact that the gates were used as places to tax goods coming into and out of the city, known as a 'Toll Bar'. Both seem plausible to me! It's a shame you didn't have time to go around the minster as it is really is amazing! and the catacombs are very interesting too!
really enjoyed your commentary/tour of York...been there many times,i come from the north of england....but to listen to your good self...exploring york,and telling us about it history,is excellent...living here,and having all the history around us...is an every day thing,maybe we take it for granted...but to get your view...is so nice to here....thank you for uploading a great video....
I am English and have seen all the places you are visiting, but I just love watching how you guys are exploring as tourists, really enjoying your enthusiasm, I have recouped by pride and love of my country through you!
That's ok, comments on our videos make youtube drive more traffic to us! Maybe we do things wrong on purpose! Hahahahaha. (I wish we were that clever.)
Don't know if anyone has already commented on it, but the Shambles in York dates back to Elizabethan times. That's why the buildings look the way they do. There is also a permanent preservation order on those buildings, so they have to maintained as is - oak beams and all.
"I mean, it's not coke but it's pretty good." You two are hilarious. I love these videos. I've been on the fence about York because I feel like if we spend a week in London a good day trip would be to a more rural area, but everyone talks up York and I have tracked ancestors there. Maybe we'll do York. I love drop cookies. Cocoa House. Ok. That settles it. My fiance loves hot chocolate and it will be our honeymoon. Have to go to a Cocoa House.
Don't spend a week in London. The UK has 65 million people spread over 100, 000 sq miles. London is 8 million people spread over a tiny area. There's a whole lot of the UK to see without focusing on London. Base yourself in a different city (big cities like Manchester, or a small historic city like York) and visit the wild and rural areas of the UK from there. So much more to the UK than London. Ironically, London is the least British place in the UK (in terms of where you would find British people and British culture).
I hear you. I do. My favorite part of our last trip was a day trip to Eastbourne to walk part of the South Downs Way. Even with train problems and coming down with a cold that day. We're staying in London and take day trips because it's cheapest to fly into and out of London. I'm flying out of Charlotte, North Carolina and not New York or Boston, so my flights are pretty expensive. Travelocity flight + hotel packages are the only way I can afford to get to England. With those you have to stay in one place the whole time. My fiance doesn't make enough money to travel, so I have to save enough for the both of us. It takes about 2 years to save enough for a one week trip (we aren't campers and he refuses to try airbnb). I'd love to be able to drive to the rural areas. It's my favorite part, but we stick to public transportation because figuring out how to safely drive on the other side of the road seems like it would be stressful. I go on vacation to de-stress.
Have you looked at the prices of *actual* B&B places, rather than airbnb places, around here, compared to London? The difference can be phenomenal. If you land at Heathrow, each terminal has its own station on the Picadilly line of the Underground network. That line also has a station at King's Cross (surface) railway station, which is the arse end of the East Coast Main Line up to Lincoln, York, Newcastle and Edinburgh. York, as shown in this video and many others, has reasons to visit. It also has a bus at half past nine on a Sunday morning that goes out to Grassington in Wharfedale, so you can get up there on public transport and see "God's Own Country," then get the bus back at 1555 the next Sunday. That bus goes within 5 minutes' walk of my house. Let me know in advance and (unless I'm away) I'll meet it and lend you a tent and two roll-mats. Up the Dales, you can pretty much camp anywhere that nobody will notice you are or were there, so it's very cheap indeed if you don't mind not having a shower. Also there are campsites with facilities that aren't too expensive. A few names from around Grassington for you to put into an image search: Malham Cove Janet's Foss Gordale Scar Littondale Oughtershaw Yockenthwaite Kilnsey Crag Coniston Dib Kettlewell Buckden Bolton Abbey Strid Wood Simon's Seat Hebden Just a little further west, accessible by hiking from Malham over Fountains Fell or by train from Leeds, is Horton-in-Ribblesdale, which is the main base town for the Three Peaks hike: Penn-y-Ghent, Ribblehead Viaduct, Whernside, Chapel-le-Dale, Ingleborough Hill and back, 23 km total. I've done it in 9h 50m with photography stops. Just west from there is Ingleton, where one stream from each side of Whernside comes down in a series of falls. You can walk up the River Twiss via Thornton Force (picnic behind the curtain of water in good weather), across the tail of Whernside and down the River Doe, or even use those as entrance and exit routes for the Three Peaks if you're ambitious. In between Malham and Ingleton is Settle, and from there you can get a bus north to Hawes. Hawes has a railway station but it's not in use. There are things to see and do around Hawes: www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attractions-g504001-Activities-Hawes_Yorkshire_Dales_National_Park_North_Yorkshire_England.html One other thing you can do from Hawes is head north to Thwaite and up to Keld and maybe up onto the moor top to visit the Tan Hill Inn, which has some pretty good panoramic views. Downriver from Hawes: Aysgarth Falls and Castle Bolton. Downriver from Thwaite: the Grinton Bridge Hotel is friendly, very reasonably priced, clean, warm, dog-friendly and well-catered, and north of it is Arkengarthdale. I'll just link my own photographs from Arkengarthdale: i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn9/Sableagle/Yorkshire%20Dales/P5160137%20Arkle%20Beck%20sunset_zpsghvhlc1o.jpg i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn9/Sableagle/Yorkshire%20Dales/P5160122%20Arkle%20Beck%20cropped_zps0wdgo2w1.jpg i300.photobucket.com/albums/nn9/Sableagle/Yorkshire%20Dales/P5160010%20Langthwaite_zpscgpn0trd.jpg Just two cautionary notes: 1) It can get cold and wet here at any time of year. Right now? Drought and heatwave and you need to carry sunscreen and plentiful water, but it can snow on you in June. 2) If you do visit Bolton Abbey and Strid Wood, *do not go into the water* up there. It's a pretty little river up at Yockenthwaite and it's still just a river down through Buckden, Kettlewell, Conistone, Grassington, Burnsall and Barden, down to the old stone bridge where the Dales Way crosses it. About 1km below that bridge there's a right-angle bend and from there it's just a river again. Part of that 1km, though, is 100% fatal to anyone who falls in, so don't.
@@kydeanderic I just want to say that we did go to York on a day trip from London on our Honeymoon. I had a bone tumor in my foot which made it a challenge to say the least but we enjoyed it immensely. I got a rose flavored hot chocolate at the Cocoa House that was to die for. We didn't get to Skipton but I have talked my husband into going back in a few years and actually renting a car, so hopefully we can make that happen and see some of the Yorkshire Dales.
If you get time next time you're in the York vicinity you should definitely come and visit Dalby forest and the areas surrounding it. There is tonnes of fantastic walks on the moors and through the forests and the restaurants are great! :)
Gargoyles often serve two functions: 1. To drain water away from the walls and 2. To serve as guardians of the building. So you're not wrong, there is a bit of a defensive purpose!
Started out as a little very upmarket shop in London. Got taken over and turned into a chain/franchise. They're everywhere now and not nearly so special. If you're ever back in London, try Maison Berteaux in Greek Street. The food is amazing (try the cheese and bacon croissants among the savouries but get there early), and as it's run by French people they're rude to their customers as only the French can be! :-D Sadly, someone should have told you about Betty's Tea Rooms in Harrogate and York. If you're in these towns you shouldn't go anywhere else for an afternoon tea.
In medieval times being hung, drawn and quartered was the punishment for treason. You were first hanged but cut down before you were dead. You were then disembowelled and your genitalia cut off whilst still alive. You were then beheaded and your body cut into four quarters. The head was put on a spike normally at the Tower of London and the body parts sent to the four quarters of England. The roast dinner you put gravy over everything and then put mustard or horseradish on the side of the plate. Like most foods you have a bit of everything on your fork, dip it in the M or H and eat. Glorious!!
Ray Jennings - Nothing, just another form of execution. However, this did not always work too well as it is, so I understand, quite difficult to get horses to pull against each other.
From the diary of Samuel Pepys. Saturday 13 October 1660 To my Lord’s in the morning, where I met with Captain Cuttance, but my Lord not being up I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition. He was presently cut down, and his head and heart shown to the people, at which there was great shouts of joy. It is said, that he said that he was sure to come shortly at the right hand of Christ to judge them that now had judged him; and that his wife do expect his coming again.
**George Davie* ~Loved the way you described the whole 'drawing-and-quartering', etc, process...and then launched *directly* into the tutorial on how to properly approach a 'Sunday Roast' [ "...the body parts sent to the four corners of England...the roast dinner you just put gravy over everything..." ({; D ....!!! ]
The Shambles name derives from the Old English word Sćamul, Shembles was also used. These were butcher shops where the animals were slaughtered and the dismembered animals parts displayed on trestles outside the shops. The word shambolic has the same origin.
Stumbled on this video from my suggestions. Hope you're having a great time here! Since you're in Yorkshire, you should come to Beverley- I'd happily give you tour as well ;)
York was the greatest city in Northern Europe in the Dark Ages, after the Romans left it was taken by the Saxons,then the Vikings came and it's name changed from Eoforvic to Jorvik, hence York. Our forefathers traded by the river Ouse out into the North Sea,and then most of the known world..everything was,and can be found or aquired in York...still one of the most enigmatic cities of the world :)
Yorkshire pudding is a batter, it's a little like a pancake, the sort we have on Shrove Tuesday. The mustard is for the beef and the apple sauce is for the pork - traditionally.
I don't think, "hanged, drawn, and quartered," means what you think it means... the definition: "A convicted traitor was fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where he was then hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disemboweled, beheaded, and quartered (chopped into four pieces)."
You're supposed to put the gravy on the Yorkshire pudding too. That's when the magic happens. You make the pudding by making a light batter similar to pancake batter. Pre-heat a muffin tin in the oven with a bit of the fat rendered from the roast you're cooking in each of the wells... (normally a beef roast)... then take that tin out and pour the batter into the still sizzling wells, then shove it back into the oven until they puff up and are cooked through. Then you have the pudding with the gravy. My grandmother would make it all the time, and I learned how to do it myself, although its been awhile. It used to be and still is my favourite part of making & eating a roast of beef.
You never hear it called Blood Pudding, always Black Pudding. And as so many have noted, you need to drown the whole plate with gravy. None of this "on the side" nouvelle cuisine bullshyt, everything on the plate with the gravy on top. Gravy needs to be made with the cooking juices of the meat, not the instant muck made with granules (which is closer to oxtail soup than anything else.) Finally, you really need Hereford or Angus beef to get enough marbleing of fat to make it succulent. Note: I've had to ban my 11 year old from watching you eat, Eric, this swopping the fork from hand to hand could undo years of table manners training..... :D The golly was a traditional kids toy up until about the early 1980's, and was the trademark of a brand of jams and marmalade made by Robinsons.
It is also perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman within the city walls of York to this day as long as it's with a bow and arrow. Trust me. My best friend is Scottish and I have tried ;-)
Me and my Scottish partner took the tour boat. He heard this and was very worried as he has the heritage, the accent and a beard. I said its ok just shut up and dont wear your kilt and you will be fine :P
guy fawkes tried to blow up parliament .we celebrate bonfire night aka guy fawkes night when fire works are let off and kids make a ^guy^ and the collect money by sitting it in the street and asking people for a penny for the guy. at the end of the celebration the guy is placed on the top of a bonfire and burned.
moebius....sadly, I haven't seen a 'guy' for many years now. At first, the guy was on every corner and in a reasonable shape, but then became some sort of lump that had no resemblance to anything human. And then, of course, the penny lost all its value, and was sneered at if it was offered. So it goes. Robert.
The spiral stairs always went clockwise going up. The reason is that most people are right handed and that meant the defenders had room to swing a right handed sword, while attackers were hindered with no room to swing. It always helped to be left handed when attacking castles in medieval times!!
Absolutely love your videos. You both have so much chemistry and charisma. I love watching your cutesy explorations and thoughts. You should do one of the USA especially having lived in Japan and toured Europe. It would be great to see you explore the USA having already been around the world. Anyway, keep up the amazing videos. I can't get enough :)
They did Sort of do something like that already a little. At the end of their RTW, Round The World trip they did a number of years ago, in between getting back home and moving to Japan, they did a cross-country road trip from Virginia to Oregon. This was still near the beginning of their vlogging careers, so they didn't vlog All of it like they do now, but they Did make a few videos out of it. I believe they're at the very end of the RTW playlist if you want to check it out :)
Little fact for you about the castle. The design is called a "Motte and Bailey" these were originally built in the Norman Conquest. They could be built very quickly and were wooden later replaced with stone. The hill is the Motte (pronounced Mott) and the enclosure is the Bailey. This is one of the ways William the Conqueror managed to subjugate England so effectively. Most major towns and cities have or had one.
netrodoxly: Don't know, and so you will have to ask either James Stuart, Duke of York, or his brother and predecesor Charles II, King of England, Ireland and Scotland because it were he who, in 1664, had appointed his brother proprietor of the former territory of New Amsterdam, which the English had recently seized from the Dutch.
hetrodoxly: Who did you ask? Charles or James? If James then he will have said not named so for him as James but so for him as being Duke of York. However, Jamestown, in Virginia, was named so for Charles' and James' paternal grandfather, King James I of England and Ireland, and VI of Scotland. Incidentally, there's more than one York: a host of them in the United States alone, and one other in England. There's also three places in England named New York.
You realise how different our cultures are when you listen to Americans over here, nearly put my hand through the screen trying to put the gravy on. The Highwayman Dick Turpin was hanged from Cliffords Tower so my teachers told me. Finally a bit of etiquette, take your hat off if your sat eating in a restaurant, not that many people bother anymore.
People are hanged, meat is hung. The guts were drawn and sometimes griddled whilst the victim was alive . The whole process was intended as an object lesson to warn any potential imitators.
Hope you enjoyed York so so much to see,my nephew recently set home there with his girlfriend after finishing Uni .York some were I know so so well . Wishing the very best were ever you are now.
I feel like the North Of England part could be left out. And replaced the U.K. or even the world to be honest. Because let’s not pretend people do coke and get into fights is unique to the north of England.
Hollandaise is a warm sauce made with egg yolks that are cooked over water bath then clarified butter add slowly while beating then flavoured with reduced wine vinegar and shallots
When meat was relatively expensive, Yorkshire Pudding was used as a way of 'padding out' the Beef. We used to do the same with Lamb (Roast potatoes, roasted in the the lamb fat in the same roasting dish) and Sage and Onion stuffing (pushed were the the sun don't shine) with Chicken. This was all done to 'stretch' out the meat.
"~gate" is a street leading out of town. If you look at Leeds city centre, you can see Kirkgate and Eastgate to the east, which were the easterly exit and the exit via the church, Vicar Lane connecting to the vicarage, the Headrow, which was the contouring street across the top of the town, Westgate, the westerly exit, Bishopgate St where presumably the bishop had a place by the river (there's a ruined abbey there) and places beyond them called things like Chorley Lane. That was the country lane leading to the {ley / lei / lee / leigh} waterside meadow of some dude called Chor. Zoom out a little and you'll see Bramley, Burnley and Headingley, the waterside meadows of Bram, Burn and Head's {ing} people.
I have visited and stayed in York quite a few times, and have never been disappointed. However, you need to be aware that it is a bit of a tourist trap and gets VERY busy in the summer and holiday season.
Hollandaise sauce is like mayonnaise made with melted butter instead of oil. An emulsion of melted butter and eggs with a little lemon juice. If you add chopped tarragon, it becomes bearnaise sauce.
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I'm a Yorkshireman so I totally love this video.. While you were eating your Sunday roast and finding it dry I suddenly found myself shouting at the screen.. Drown the the whole thing in gravy.. Then when you did I felt a balance return to the universe Thanks for your fabulous videos
the gravy pulls it together, its' just a bunch of food otherwise.
LOL i was too. just chuck the whole lot on the plate and cover it with gravy . i think he was eating horse radish not mustard . and its apple for pork
I also shouted at the screen when they weren’t putting the gravy on the roast 😂
Haha, exactly the same here! And no beer to wash it down with?!
So true backed out at first when i saw they were doing a yorkshire pudding without gravy.
Yorkshire pudding is essentially roasted pancake batter. It's one of the greatest food inventions in history, you can do practically anything with it.
Nothing screams a British afternoon like afternoon tea and some bloke sniffing coke off a key in the corner. Glad you saw the funny side of it though :)
Maybe it was Snuff?
@@1346crecy nope, coke normally sniff off a key
@@thingyee1118 I was joking mate.
you probably dont care but if you guys are stoned like me during the covid times you can watch pretty much all of the latest movies and series on instaflixxer. Been watching with my girlfriend for the last months =)
@Malcolm Winston yup, been using Instaflixxer for since november myself :)
It sums up the British people perfectly. Polite, respectful, reserved, and thoughtful by day. Loutish, loud, boisterous, off the wall ethanol fiends by night. Trust me, I'm a Englishman, the stark contrast is still a lot for me to take in at times, doesn't stop me from joining in though.
Please speak for your self or for your loutish, boisterous off their heads, ethanol fueled class.
To be fair in a culture with such nuanced and rigid customs and a set way of what is and isn't done hammered into your psyche, for some the best way to let go is to remove your inhibitions by drinking alcohol.
I like that your videos aren't overproduced.. It gives a better sense of your travel adventures than the usual videos. No need to try to entertain the viewer like its a music video.
Great job.
I wish I could super love this comment. So happy you understand why we chose to keep things as clean and simple as possible! Thank you! -E
Absolutely. The two of you have an energy that's really nice. Your opinions are honest. If you don't particularly like something, you share is as a travel tip, just like any seasoned traveler might do. There's none of this "Look at me!" quality to your videos. It's great.
Btw, when you are traveling spontaneously, its a good idea to plan ahead for lodging in some of the bigger towns, even in off season. In Spain, for example, even if going to Pamplona, it's best to try to book ahead because even people from the local communities will come to the bigger town to spend the weekend.
Eric your fork game is poor and boarded line retarded- no offence
9:15 Spiral staircases were made to be "wobbly". Every so many steps was made higher or lower, a so called "trip step" to put attacking soldiers off balance and even cause them to fall. Castles are full of such traps and tricks.
Yeah and the spiral is to make it more difficult for anyone walking up the steps to fight with their sword.
@@andyderbyshire519 The spiral is always clockwise (going up) so the defender fighting down the staircase using a sword in the right hand (as most people are right handed) would have an advantage over an attacker coming up wielding a sword.
@@nevillemason6791 Yes, this is what I was implying with my answer. Thank you for clarifying though.
I live in York so this was great to see! Such a surprise to see you in my town. It was painful waiting for you to put gravy on that roast, a dry roast would be awful haha!
Hahaha, Yea, it was a lot better with the gravy. -E
moon_raker yes, and the Yorkshire pudding 😁
We have Spanish friends coming from Madrid this weekend and one of their requests is a dinner with lots of gravy! 😂
moon_raker Right ? One of the fun things about videos like these is discovering the small things we just do as a matter of course that turn out to be much less universal than we think - gravy in/over the pud is so expected I felt like a low key tension waiting for it to happen ;).
I have not had yorkshire pudding before but that was so wanting gravy and definitely roast needs gravy. Kyde said that was sweet potato in the veggies, was it really? I would of guessed parsnip since it was white (sweet potato that I am use to is orange), elongated cuts like carrot, and be a more traditional veggie for England.
What you call a draw gate is really called a portcullis.
And the old Thru'penny bit..
@shlibber
42:07 & every viewer cried out "POUR THE GRAVY ON FIRST!"
8:30 Funny you mention it being awkward going upstairs with a sword. Staircases were intentionally narrow and clockwise so defenders in the stairway had an advantage. Most people are right handed and attacking down a stairway in that direction lends itself to right arm thrusts and swings. An attacker would have to use his left.
LOL, I just wrote the same thing, then deleted it when I saw your comment. :D
Sometimes they do go anti-clockwise - it depends where the staircase is in the castle from a defence perspective - for example staircases that lead downward or underground - because attackers would come in from ground level. The principle is always the same though, the staircases were built to give the incumbent defenders the right hand sword/crossbow/spear advantage. They would choose clockwise or anti-clockwise depending on whether you were defending upwards, or defending downwards.
and after a few steps they would have one step that was bigger (taller) to trip the attacker up, a trip step.
An interesting fact I learned at my local castle (Warwick) is that the English/Anglosphere tradition of driving on the left originated in castle etiquette. Men-at-arms would wear their swords on their left side (as most were right handed) and therefore it was polite to always walk on the left to avoid hitting others with your sword in confined castle spaces!
I was screaming GRAVY! at the screen for the first half of that roast scene.
Don't want to sound like a posh d!ck but you are also meant to take you jacket and hat of when inside, especially when eating Sunday dinner, I'm surprised it's not universal etiquette. Lucky not hung drawn and quartered for it, which would be a terrible shame as I love your videos !
Shame you never went into York Minster. Perhaps the greatest cathedral in the UK.
It's expensive. It was free when I visited as a child in the late 90's.
Agreed: that is worth the wait. A bonus if someone is opening up the taps on the main organ or the choir is practicing or you attend a service. Then there’s the tower, crypt and foundations. The last of these is essential for anyone with the remotest interest in history: stand in the probable location in the buried Roman basilica where Constantine the Great was declared Emperor.
It took 250 years to build!
The toy at 57:49 is called a Golliwog. It stems from a fictional character from the late 19th century, mainly written for children. Nowadays, it is considered as racist by most people, and you rarely see them. Here's more about it's history - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golliwog
Think it was Robertson's jam that had the Golliwog on the label ? Different times.
Robinson's jam used the Golly as a mascot. They retired the Golly years ago but they originate from Enid Blighton's stories. Robinson's used Golly for decades as it's mascot and in their advertising and over the years they also used his likeness on merchandise like soft toys, badges, tea towels, fridge magnates ect... Although Golly's image is now considered as racist he was and in many circles still is an extremely popular character. There is a huge collectors market for merchandise with Golly's likeness especially now as new merchandise is rarely produced and If it is new stuff it's not licensed or endorsed by Robinson's Jam.....
TheMaestro AE Just been down an interesting rabbit hole about false memory because of your post so ta ;).
(I sort of remembered Robinson's jam too so had to check but it's actually _Robertson's_ and we're far from alone - there're people advertising "Robinson's Gollies" on eBay and even more extreme, people that think the Robinson's/Robertson's cognitive dissonance/misremembering is evidence of multiple realities !)
It was Robertson's, you're right... Robinson's was the orange squash....
if you collected so many of the little paper ones from the label off the jar you could send off for an enamel badge
I don't think you'd have sweet potatoes with an English roast dinner. They look more like parsnips which would be expected.
I'm from Colombia and I would love going to York. Thanks for showing me this beautiful place. And of course in the same time, I'm practicing my listening in English!! Thanks!
Thought you might be interested to know regarding the scaffolding on the Minster - there's a story that King Henry VIII promised to return the cathedral to the Catholic church (it's a Protestant building) when the construction was finally finished, and the minster has deliberately been under 'renovation' and never fully complete ever since.
It's really, really probably not true but a cool legend nonetheless.
Enjoyed the tour and the humor. I woke my husband up, again, by laughing out loud. Thanks for the smiles.
You have to have a fork of Yorkshire pudding with beef at the same time. Horse radish and mustard for beef aswell. Apple sauce and stuffing with pork. I love Sunday roasts 👍👍👍
i cant belive thh was already 5 years ago... still enjoy it, thx.
Seeing you struggle up that tower with a sword reminds me of a bit of trivia that may interest you. Spiral stairs tend to go anti-clockwise in castles and towers as most people wield a sword right handed so any attacker going up the stairs will struggle with their sword due to the limited space and mobility while the defenders have room to swing theirs about. This is also relates to why we drive on the left in the UK as when mounted your right hand would be to the middle of the road allowing you to defend yourself from oncoming attackers, similar to how the riders ride on the left when jousting.
I should really finish watching the vid before commenting, Gargoyles (Water Spouts) and Grotesques (Statues) Are the ugly faces and forms you see on older buildings, their purpose is as a spiritual defence. It was believed that they would scare off evil or ill intentioned spirits and protect the property they are mounted on. Similar to how you carve pumpkins at Halloween to ward off evil spirits.
Makes sense!
I really, really should finish watching the vid before commenting but I'll never learn. For the most part (there are exceptions) a pudding is anything that is boiled, steamed, baked, fried or roasted that starts life as a batter. It later became associated with dessert and became an ubiquitous term for desserts as well due to the number of sweet puddings such as spotted dick, sticky toffee pudding and jam rolly polly.
deaaerts
Cheers
I must admit, we do have an amazing looking country. it's good to see people get outside of London and see proper England.
I'm so glad you went to York. It is one of my favourite cities to visit. I feel connected to the city even though I'm a Cheshire girl and not a Yorkshire lass. You should have done a ghost walk. They are good fun and an interesting way to see the city at night. Just drown the Sunday roast in gravy. It works wonders. You had my salivating at the Patisserie Valerie section. That shop is decadent and scrummy. Also, the toy is called a Golliwog. My brother has one, but I assume most people wouldn't. Safe travels.
Sorry for all the comments! I have lived in Hong Kong for 20 years and seeing you visit London and Yorkshire is fantastic. I lived just outside Harrogate for 3 years and loved the Dales in particular. Thank you for the fun video's, I really enjoy your positive approach to visiting new places.
Thanks! Glad you are enjoying it! We are a bit jealous of your current location though! -E
I stayed at a hotel on Walmgate for a week. It was without a doubt the worst hotel I've ever stayed at, but it was central, and I love that city. Fortunately, I wear hearing aids that I remove at night, so the carousing in the bar downstairs became almost inaudible.
The "gate" suffix on a lot of the streets is from the Danish word meaning "street". That was from the Vikings. The name York came from the Danish Jorvik.
Tip.... go for food to the busy places, so you know it will be good. The place here for roast dinner was empty. English pubs do fantastic roasts! Also go to busy places for full English breakfast. If a cafe or tea room is quiet, especially in York it might not be the best place to eat! Great video! Have fun!
Thanks for taking us with you, quite enjoyable
I dont know whats going on as I am English and live in England, and have done my whole life, and in London for the past 9 years and yet I have spent like the last two hours watching you guys in England. I am transfixed. Thanks a lot for sharing. Its nice too see how things I take for granted are strange to you... equally things which no one really cares about (the fork up or down dilemma) are things I would never notice or worry about and yet seems to have taken on high levels of importance. Excellent.
Haha, if you look through comments on some videos it's very apparent a lot of people do quite care about how we use our forks, hahaha. Glad you are enjoying the videos, I understand what you mean, when people visit us where we live seeing our daily world through their eyes is fascinating and it gives a different appreciation for things we may find mundane. -E
Don't worry about the fork, it would only be a thing in posh places, no one else gives a toss :D
Haha, not according to the comments on all our British videos. -E
York is fantastic, we go at least once a year. We stay at a Staycity which is close enough to the centre to easily walk there but far enough away from the 'festivities' on a night to get a good night's sleep. It's been good to see it from a fresh perspective.
When someone was hanged drawn and quartered they were hanged almost to the point of death then tortured and quartered. No point doing all that barbaric stuff to a dead body. I live in York, nice to see my home city from a tourist's perspective.
I really loved visiting York! What an amazing city!
It's really cool! -E
if you love castles come to Wales we have the most castles in Europe and the best
I like how you embrace the English culture and our names, pronunciations for all your experiences with food etc. And not just call them by your "American" English, eg. French fries, Hot Chocolate etc. Its refreshing to see. Your now one of my "new" favourite vloggers. :) Subscribed.
Haha, thanks! Don't get mad at us when you hear how we unknowingly pronounced The Thames River. hahahah. -E
@@kydeanderic Ha, I wouldn't dare. People are too quick to correct others. I remember when I was in the US of A (Florida) having the breakfast buffet and happily choosing "Biscuits" and spreading a mass of butter & jam on them. I received some peculiar stares. Looked like scones to me. Being told "I should eat them with gravy" I kindly gave them back a peculiar stare :/
After a Sunday roast, why do you think people collapse in front of the TV to watch old films, sports, or whatever is on, and fall asleep :-)
Terry Love The closest thing Americans get to a roast dinner is Thanksgiving Dinner (essentially our Christmas dinner level of food). Pretty much like with our Christmas dinner, you feel full afterwards and just doze off in front of the tv.
For the Roast the gravy goes on the plate to make it less dry. It's usually poured over the meat. The English Mustard is for Roast Beef and the Apple Sauce is for Roast Pork.
Dude I literally laughed out loud so hard when you showed your cutaway of being up at 3am in the hostel
Yes he looked like he was being assaulted (which he was,poor bloke).
Hello again!
I was in York yesterday and overheard a tour guide saying that what's outside the walls dates back to the Civil War here, because York *was* a lot bigger than its wall long before then but pretty much everything outside the walls got destroyed in the 1644 siege.
If youn ever go to France, you'll need to know not only what a Patisserie is but also the meanings of Charcuterie, Boulangerie, Epicerie, Fromagerie, Boucherie, Confiserie, Cremerie, Poissonerie, Blanchisserie, Quincaillerie and one everyone knows, Pharmacie. So far, only Patisserie has made it across the pond, although I'm sure there are quite a few Boulangeries in London and here in Los Angeles.
Ah bah, ouais; t'as raison quoi ({; D ...!
It's heartwarming and reassuring to know that there are still some British establishments that have no concept whatsoever of customer service or satisfaction.
Haha
I am one of those yobs who enjoys a key if coke round the corner.
The Shambles is a historic street in York, England, featuring preserved medieval buildings, some dating back as far as the 14th century. The street is narrow, with many timber-framed buildings with jettied floors that overhang the street by several feet.
Hope you enjoyed York! We have videos from all around the world, but if you want more from England here's a list!
Here's all of our British Isles Videos So Far! ► th-cam.com/play/PLrvJJu2Pt1jhvCgfwKedV1f5-7zzjpCbN.html
If your still there you should try and stop at the national railway museum based in york
Draw gate = portcullis and the faces are gargoyles to scare of evil spirits
Kyde and Eric wait so where are you guys from??
It's a motte and Bailey only the tower part (the castle) is still here also the bar/gate thing I'm pretty sure is a York thing ^.^ the renovation work on the minster is always going on hope you enjoyed your time here :)
'Bar' meaning gate comes from the word 'Barbican' which is a type of fortification that the gates used to have. The barbican has been removed (not recently) on all but 1 of the gates, Walmgate bar, which you would have seen on your walk around the walls! It could also come from the fact that the gates were used as places to tax goods coming into and out of the city, known as a 'Toll Bar'. Both seem plausible to me! It's a shame you didn't have time to go around the minster as it is really is amazing! and the catacombs are very interesting too!
really enjoyed your commentary/tour of York...been there many times,i come from the north of england....but to listen to your good self...exploring york,and telling us about it history,is excellent...living here,and having all the history around us...is an every day thing,maybe we take it for granted...but to get your view...is so nice to here....thank you for uploading a great video....
"Draw gate" = Portcullis
I know.
Bless.
Thanks for posting...I’m York born and bred...LOVE York and was great to see it through your eyes :)
Eric's face expression when tasting the drinking chocolate made me happy for some reson. Also I want to try that now.
I am English and have seen all the places you are visiting, but I just love watching how you guys are exploring as tourists, really enjoying your enthusiasm, I have recouped by pride and love of my country through you!
Next time go right inside and look at York Minster its incredible.It blew me away.
I enjoy your videos best because of all the food you always show. Really gives a sense of being there.
You're supposed to put jam on the fruit scone then the cream. You're going to get 100s of comments saying the same.
That's ok, comments on our videos make youtube drive more traffic to us! Maybe we do things wrong on purpose! Hahahahaha. (I wish we were that clever.)
The queen puts cream first then the jam i believe that is a southern thing. Us northerners go jam then cream lol
skot wallage no its a Devon vs Cornwall thing. I just asked the Queen.
Somehow I knew this would turn into a debate among the English in some way, hahahahaha. -E
Lol debating, queuing, eating cholesterol any are fine haha
Did you have mint, it's mint leaves chopped up with vinegar, you have it with a roast.
You can also buy it in small jars.
Thanks for the Pig & Pastry mention. Appreciate you going outta your way from town to see us x
shame about the toilets
Great you have done this . Well presented , you both did a great bit of filming . Enjoy your travels .
Everything is better with gravy!
Don't know if anyone has already commented on it, but the Shambles in York dates back to Elizabethan times. That's why the buildings look the way they do. There is also a permanent preservation order on those buildings, so they have to maintained as is - oak beams and all.
it's great to watch people see my city for the first time and be so amazed by it :) i even spotted my friend working in the P&P ahah
Haha, nice!
I live in York as well.. Weird how we both got this on our recommended haha.
what a wonderful culture and people, thank you for sharing your journey!
"I mean, it's not coke but it's pretty good." You two are hilarious. I love these videos. I've been on the fence about York because I feel like if we spend a week in London a good day trip would be to a more rural area, but everyone talks up York and I have tracked ancestors there. Maybe we'll do York. I love drop cookies. Cocoa House. Ok. That settles it. My fiance loves hot chocolate and it will be our honeymoon. Have to go to a Cocoa House.
Nice!!! Enjoy your trip, congrats on the marriage!
Don't spend a week in London. The UK has 65 million people spread over 100, 000 sq miles. London is 8 million people spread over a tiny area. There's a whole lot of the UK to see without focusing on London. Base yourself in a different city (big cities like Manchester, or a small historic city like York) and visit the wild and rural areas of the UK from there. So much more to the UK than London. Ironically, London is the least British place in the UK (in terms of where you would find British people and British culture).
I hear you. I do. My favorite part of our last trip was a day trip to Eastbourne to walk part of the South Downs Way. Even with train problems and coming down with a cold that day. We're staying in London and take day trips because it's cheapest to fly into and out of London. I'm flying out of Charlotte, North Carolina and not New York or Boston, so my flights are pretty expensive. Travelocity flight + hotel packages are the only way I can afford to get to England. With those you have to stay in one place the whole time. My fiance doesn't make enough money to travel, so I have to save enough for the both of us. It takes about 2 years to save enough for a one week trip (we aren't campers and he refuses to try airbnb). I'd love to be able to drive to the rural areas. It's my favorite part, but we stick to public transportation because figuring out how to safely drive on the other side of the road seems like it would be stressful. I go on vacation to de-stress.
Have you looked at the prices of *actual* B&B places, rather than airbnb places, around here, compared to London? The difference can be phenomenal.
If you land at Heathrow, each terminal has its own station on the Picadilly line of the Underground network. That line also has a station at King's Cross (surface) railway station, which is the arse end of the East Coast Main Line up to Lincoln, York, Newcastle and Edinburgh. York, as shown in this video and many others, has reasons to visit. It also has a bus at half past nine on a Sunday morning that goes out to Grassington in Wharfedale, so you can get up there on public transport and see "God's Own Country," then get the bus back at 1555 the next Sunday.
That bus goes within 5 minutes' walk of my house. Let me know in advance and (unless I'm away) I'll meet it and lend you a tent and two roll-mats. Up the Dales, you can pretty much camp anywhere that nobody will notice you are or were there, so it's very cheap indeed if you don't mind not having a shower. Also there are campsites with facilities that aren't too expensive.
A few names from around Grassington for you to put into an image search:
Malham Cove
Janet's Foss
Gordale Scar
Littondale
Oughtershaw
Yockenthwaite
Kilnsey Crag
Coniston Dib
Kettlewell
Buckden
Bolton Abbey
Strid Wood
Simon's Seat
Hebden
Just a little further west, accessible by hiking from Malham over Fountains Fell or by train from Leeds, is Horton-in-Ribblesdale, which is the main base town for the Three Peaks hike: Penn-y-Ghent, Ribblehead Viaduct, Whernside, Chapel-le-Dale, Ingleborough Hill and back, 23 km total. I've done it in 9h 50m with photography stops. Just west from there is Ingleton, where one stream from each side of Whernside comes down in a series of falls. You can walk up the River Twiss via Thornton Force (picnic behind the curtain of water in good weather), across the tail of Whernside and down the River Doe, or even use those as entrance and exit routes for the Three Peaks if you're ambitious.
In between Malham and Ingleton is Settle, and from there you can get a bus north to Hawes. Hawes has a railway station but it's not in use. There are things to see and do around Hawes:
www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Attractions-g504001-Activities-Hawes_Yorkshire_Dales_National_Park_North_Yorkshire_England.html
One other thing you can do from Hawes is head north to Thwaite and up to Keld and maybe up onto the moor top to visit the Tan Hill Inn, which has some pretty good panoramic views.
Downriver from Hawes: Aysgarth Falls and Castle Bolton.
Downriver from Thwaite: the Grinton Bridge Hotel is friendly, very reasonably priced, clean, warm, dog-friendly and well-catered, and north of it is Arkengarthdale. I'll just link my own photographs from Arkengarthdale:
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Just two cautionary notes:
1) It can get cold and wet here at any time of year. Right now? Drought and heatwave and you need to carry sunscreen and plentiful water, but it can snow on you in June.
2) If you do visit Bolton Abbey and Strid Wood, *do not go into the water* up there. It's a pretty little river up at Yockenthwaite and it's still just a river down through Buckden, Kettlewell, Conistone, Grassington, Burnsall and Barden, down to the old stone bridge where the Dales Way crosses it. About 1km below that bridge there's a right-angle bend and from there it's just a river again. Part of that 1km, though, is 100% fatal to anyone who falls in, so don't.
@@kydeanderic I just want to say that we did go to York on a day trip from London on our Honeymoon. I had a bone tumor in my foot which made it a challenge to say the least but we enjoyed it immensely. I got a rose flavored hot chocolate at the Cocoa House that was to die for. We didn't get to Skipton but I have talked my husband into going back in a few years and actually renting a car, so hopefully we can make that happen and see some of the Yorkshire Dales.
You two are the best , I had a smile on my face from start to finish
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed! -E
If you get time next time you're in the York vicinity you should definitely come and visit Dalby forest and the areas surrounding it. There is tonnes of fantastic walks on the moors and through the forests and the restaurants are great! :)
Gargoyles often serve two functions: 1. To drain water away from the walls and 2. To serve as guardians of the building. So you're not wrong, there is a bit of a defensive purpose!
The first word of the cafe was French "Pa tis er rie" A shop that sells cakes.
Yeah, the whole thing says "Valerie's pastry shop". In French.
Started out as a little very upmarket shop in London. Got taken over and turned into a chain/franchise. They're everywhere now and not nearly so special. If you're ever back in London, try Maison Berteaux in Greek Street. The food is amazing (try the cheese and bacon croissants among the savouries but get there early), and as it's run by French people they're rude to their customers as only the French can be! :-D Sadly, someone should have told you about Betty's Tea Rooms in Harrogate and York. If you're in these towns you shouldn't go anywhere else for an afternoon tea.
@@halcroj Bet you didn't see that coming lol
Hollandaise sauce is mustard and mayonnaise mixed I'm sure .
You need to soak the Sunday roast in gravy . The loaf is stuffing.
In medieval times being hung, drawn and quartered was the punishment for treason. You were first hanged but cut down before you were dead. You were then disembowelled and your genitalia cut off whilst still alive. You were then beheaded and your body cut into four quarters. The head was put on a spike normally at the Tower of London and the body parts sent to the four quarters of England. The roast dinner you put gravy over everything and then put mustard or horseradish on the side of the plate. Like most foods you have a bit of everything on your fork, dip it in the M or H and eat. Glorious!!
Yes they never mention having their bits cut off and put by their face ( i have often wounded if the hanging it to make it erect first )
Ray Jennings - Nothing, just another form of execution. However, this did not always work too well as it is, so I understand, quite difficult to get horses to pull against each other.
From the diary of Samuel Pepys.
Saturday 13 October 1660
To my Lord’s in the morning, where I met with Captain Cuttance, but my Lord not being up I went out to Charing Cross, to see Major-general Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could do in that condition. He was presently cut down, and his head and heart shown to the people, at which there was great shouts of joy. It is said, that he said that he was sure to come shortly at the right hand of Christ to judge them that now had judged him; and that his wife do expect his coming again.
**George Davie* ~Loved the way you described the whole 'drawing-and-quartering', etc, process...and then launched *directly* into the tutorial on how to properly approach a 'Sunday Roast' [ "...the body parts sent to the four corners of England...the roast dinner you just put gravy over everything..." ({; D ....!!! ]
The Shambles name derives from the Old English word Sćamul, Shembles was also used. These were butcher shops where the animals were slaughtered and the dismembered animals parts displayed on trestles outside the shops. The word shambolic has the same origin.
Stumbled on this video from my suggestions. Hope you're having a great time here! Since you're in Yorkshire, you should come to Beverley- I'd happily give you tour as well ;)
Wish we could take you up, unfortunately we are already back at home! -E
Kyde and Eric ahhh nws! Hope you had a great time travelling. I’ll be watching the rest of your visit :)
So glad you enjoyed your visit to my hometown
Loving your videos, cracking! Missed off Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate, love York and its wobbly bits 😘
So glad that you had some afternoon tea. It's arguably the best thing about the UK. Patisserie Valerie has the delicious cake!
My friend Sophie owns York Cocoa House. Was hoping you'd get to visit!
York was the greatest city in Northern Europe in the Dark Ages, after the Romans left it was taken by the Saxons,then the Vikings came and it's name changed from Eoforvic to Jorvik, hence York. Our forefathers traded by the river Ouse out into the North Sea,and then most of the known world..everything was,and can be found or aquired in York...still one of the most enigmatic cities of the world :)
i enjoyed the tour
Yorkshire pudding is a batter, it's a little like a pancake, the sort we have on Shrove Tuesday. The mustard is for the beef and the apple sauce is for the pork - traditionally.
I don't think, "hanged, drawn, and quartered," means what you think it means... the definition: "A convicted traitor was fastened to a hurdle, or wooden panel, and drawn by horse to the place of execution, where he was then hanged (almost to the point of death), emasculated, disemboweled, beheaded, and quartered (chopped into four pieces)."
Ah; *such* a lovely afternoon, that doth make for ({; D ...!
You're supposed to put the gravy on the Yorkshire pudding too. That's when the magic happens.
You make the pudding by making a light batter similar to pancake batter. Pre-heat a muffin tin in the oven with a bit of the fat rendered from the roast you're cooking in each of the wells... (normally a beef roast)... then take that tin out and pour the batter into the still sizzling wells, then shove it back into the oven until they puff up and are cooked through. Then you have the pudding with the gravy.
My grandmother would make it all the time, and I learned how to do it myself, although its been awhile. It used to be and still is my favourite part of making & eating a roast of beef.
Please try Lincoln. One of the best Cathedrals and the castle, intact unlike York were its just foundations
Really fun to watch and love York! Your honesty with food is great
You never hear it called Blood Pudding, always Black Pudding. And as so many have noted, you need to drown the whole plate with gravy. None of this "on the side" nouvelle cuisine bullshyt, everything on the plate with the gravy on top. Gravy needs to be made with the cooking juices of the meat, not the instant muck made with granules (which is closer to oxtail soup than anything else.)
Finally, you really need Hereford or Angus beef to get enough marbleing of fat to make it succulent.
Note: I've had to ban my 11 year old from watching you eat, Eric, this swopping the fork from hand to hand could undo years of table manners training..... :D
The golly was a traditional kids toy up until about the early 1980's, and was the trademark of a brand of jams and marmalade made by Robinsons.
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When you're in a restaurant do you tell people around you how to eat their food?
Love all your videos! Always looking forward to new ones
It is also perfectly legal to shoot a Scotsman within the city walls of York to this day as long as it's with a bow and arrow. Trust me. My best friend is Scottish and I have tried ;-)
Haha, glad we aren't Scottish! -E
only legal if you are a Freeman of the City of York :)
Me and my Scottish partner took the tour boat. He heard this and was very worried as he has the heritage, the accent and a beard. I said its ok just shut up and dont wear your kilt and you will be fine :P
I lived outside the UK for 20 years and I sorely missed my Sunday lunch in the pub.
Oh my god !!!! The Gravy is to Fill the Yorkshire Pudding !!!!!!!!!!
was no point bothering anyway with that sunday roast. they would of been better off going to a carvery.
this video has 40000 views from only 45000 subscribers, that is so much better than most of the travel bloggers on TH-cam.
That just means no one likes us enough to subscribe, hahahahaaha. -E
guy fawkes tried to blow up parliament .we celebrate bonfire night aka guy fawkes night when fire works are let off and kids make a ^guy^ and the collect money by sitting it in the street and asking people for a penny for the guy. at the end of the celebration the guy is placed on the top of a bonfire and burned.
The only person to enter Parliament with honourable intentions
lol tru dat
moebius....sadly, I haven't seen a 'guy' for many years now. At first, the guy was on every corner and in a reasonable shape, but then became some sort of lump that had no resemblance to anything human. And then, of course, the penny lost all its value, and was sneered at if it was offered. So it goes. Robert.
"Pl-e-e-e-e-e-ease to remember/the 5th of November/gunpowder, treason, and plot.....!"
The spiral stairs always went clockwise going up. The reason is that most people are right handed and that meant the defenders had room to swing a right handed sword, while attackers were hindered with no room to swing. It always helped to be left handed when attacking castles in medieval times!!
Absolutely love your videos. You both have so much chemistry and charisma. I love watching your cutesy explorations and thoughts. You should do one of the USA especially having lived in Japan and toured Europe. It would be great to see you explore the USA having already been around the world. Anyway, keep up the amazing videos. I can't get enough :)
They did Sort of do something like that already a little. At the end of their RTW, Round The World trip they did a number of years ago, in between getting back home and moving to Japan, they did a cross-country road trip from Virginia to Oregon. This was still near the beginning of their vlogging careers, so they didn't vlog All of it like they do now, but they Did make a few videos out of it. I believe they're at the very end of the RTW playlist if you want to check it out :)
But I agree, I would Love to see them do a Big cross-country road trip, vlogging it in the style and to the extent that they do now =D
Little fact for you about the castle.
The design is called a "Motte and Bailey" these were originally built in the Norman Conquest. They could be built very quickly and were wooden later replaced with stone.
The hill is the Motte (pronounced Mott) and the enclosure is the Bailey.
This is one of the ways William the Conqueror managed to subjugate England so effectively.
Most major towns and cities have or had one.
You got to see the original York - that New York was based on!
The OG!
New York name nothing to do with York, named after Duke of York, i used to think what you think, bloody ggogle!
emchardy1: That's right. James Stuart, Duke of York, who became King James II of England and Ireland, and VII of Scotland in 1685.
netrodoxly: Don't know, and so you will have to ask either James Stuart, Duke of York, or his brother and predecesor Charles II, King of England, Ireland and Scotland because it were he who, in 1664, had appointed his brother proprietor of the former territory of New Amsterdam, which the English had recently seized from the Dutch.
hetrodoxly: Who did you ask? Charles or James? If James then he will have said not named so for him as James but so for him as being Duke of York. However, Jamestown, in Virginia, was named so for Charles' and James' paternal grandfather, King James I of England and Ireland, and VI of Scotland. Incidentally, there's more than one York: a host of them in the United States alone, and one other in England. There's also three places in England named New York.
You realise how different our cultures are when you listen to Americans over here, nearly put my hand through the screen trying to put the gravy on. The Highwayman Dick Turpin was hanged from Cliffords Tower so my teachers told me. Finally a bit of etiquette, take your hat off if your sat eating in a restaurant, not that many people bother anymore.
When people were hung, drawn and quartered they only hung them till nearly dead.
That's rude. -E
Kyde and Eric Also the person being executed was the person who paid the executioner and the more you paid the quicker you died.
People are hanged, meat is hung. The guts were drawn and sometimes griddled whilst the victim was alive . The whole process was intended as an object lesson to warn any potential imitators.
Some people are hung, Ooer!
Hope not Hate Hung : VERB past and past participle of hang, my Oxford dictionary must be wrong then. Sorry😈
Hope you enjoyed York so so much to see,my nephew recently set home there with his girlfriend after finishing Uni .York some were I know so so well . Wishing the very best were ever you are now.
Ahhh the lovely North of England. Where people randomly do coke in Public and get in fights.
Hey leave us alone, we are what you may call, an enigma :D
Diet Coke has less calories.
That happens everywhere, not just the north of england
True but down south you are less likely to have fireworks put through your letterbox if you say something wrong to a guy lol.
I feel like the North Of England part could be left out. And replaced the U.K. or even the world to be honest. Because let’s not pretend people do coke and get into fights is unique to the north of England.
Hollandaise is a warm sauce made with egg yolks that are cooked over water bath then clarified butter add slowly while beating then flavoured with reduced wine vinegar and shallots
You guys are way too adorable
Haha, thanks!
When meat was relatively expensive, Yorkshire Pudding was used as a way of 'padding out' the Beef. We used to do the same with Lamb (Roast potatoes, roasted in the the lamb fat in the same roasting dish) and Sage and Onion stuffing (pushed were the the sun don't shine) with Chicken. This was all done to 'stretch' out the meat.
In York Bars are gates and Gates are streets.
"~gate" is a street leading out of town. If you look at Leeds city centre, you can see Kirkgate and Eastgate to the east, which were the easterly exit and the exit via the church, Vicar Lane connecting to the vicarage, the Headrow, which was the contouring street across the top of the town, Westgate, the westerly exit, Bishopgate St where presumably the bishop had a place by the river (there's a ruined abbey there) and places beyond them called things like Chorley Lane. That was the country lane leading to the {ley / lei / lee / leigh} waterside meadow of some dude called Chor. Zoom out a little and you'll see Bramley, Burnley and Headingley, the waterside meadows of Bram, Burn and Head's {ing} people.
In the case of York the term 'Gate' is derived from Old Norse and can mean any old street just as it does today in Scandinavia.
I have visited and stayed in York quite a few times, and have never been disappointed. However, you need to be aware that it is a bit of a tourist trap and gets VERY busy in the summer and holiday season.
You two make the perfect video
Paul Abercrombie that true
Hollandaise sauce is like mayonnaise made with melted butter instead of oil. An emulsion of melted butter and eggs with a little lemon juice. If you add chopped tarragon, it becomes bearnaise sauce.