American Reacts to The World's Oldest Border
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That is a Mars Bar and... a deep-fried Mars Bar. It's a bit of a national stereotype that Scots will deep-fry anything, and the deep fried Mars Bar is a bit of a joke on that - but a joke we the Scots have made terrifyingly real.
Deliciously real, you mean; deep-fried Mars Bars are amazing! I have a friend who originally comes from a little town near Aberdeen whose main claim to fame is that it was apparently the place where the deep-fried Mars Bar was invented.
English people can't afford food.
The stereotype is so prevalent that in Avengers: Infinity War, while in Scotland, Wanda and Vision pass a takeaway with a sign in the window that says "we will deep fry your kebab" 🤣
I went to a chippy in Malaig where they managed to batter and deep fry the mushy peas. Playing up to stereotypes? Yes! A little bit of culinary genius? Also yes!
They didn't mind taking our fried chicken to the America's so it's not all bad, I guess.
You literally heard how to say Berwick, and within 2 seconds reverted to the American version.😂 Its "berrick" ❤
I actually had to go back and check Jay didnt mispronounce it.
3:42 Buddy that is not a Roman Aquaduct, its a Victorian era railway viaduct.
It's also a bridge as it crosses the River Tweed.
It's the Royal Border Bridge, though it is not actually on the border! The Anglo-Scottish border was the river there until 1482.
You miss the Sailsbury reference. A former Russian spy that was poisoned there by the Russians
JJ would definitely enjoy some research into this story. Horrible and also bizarre.
@@MsClaudz even back before the war with Ukraine russia was threatening us with nukes for dare trying to accuse russia of using a nerve agent novichok when its was actually proven in the test results
Totally accidental, they just travelled thousands of miles to visit the cathedral.
@@dyent I hear the steeple is 123 meters high 🧐
Also Portadown is down the road😂
Berwick- pronounced Berrick.
You really do add even more value to the already brilliant Map Men videos with your on-the-spot research and commets.
I remember school geography lessons where the teacher rather poetically described the Caledonian Orogeny (the bit that made the mountains) as resulting in mountains older than starlight. It made me look with different eyes when walking in the highlands.
The visit Salisbury reference / joke you never noticed was because a few years ago Putin sent 2 of his agents to Salisbury to kill an ex Russian spy and his daughter who lives there. The father and daughter were the Skripals. Putin tried to poison them with Novachok, a chemical nerve agent weapon. I ended up in Salisbury Hospital the same time as them! Someone else died from it. The whole medieval city was sealed off by police and troops, and experts from the nearby Porton Down Chemical Weapons Establishment scoured the city wearing Hazmat suits. It caused worldwide outrage, and the UK and our allies expelled Russian diplomats from our countries. Our biggest ally America kicked out the most!! There is an excellent BBC drama made about it called "The Salisbury Poisonings", and various documentaries on TH-cam. The Skripals and myself survived, others were not so lucky. Nothing in the UK is named after Nova Scotia for the simple fact that after UK pilgrims travelled to the New World of America and settled, Nova Scotia was named after Scotland. Nova Scotia means 'New Scotland' in Canada, and of course in the US you have New England!
your not the police sgt (retired ) ?
@@highpath4776 No I am not that poor guy.
Wick on the end of a name was originally ViK - which was a clue to Viking settlement or renaming of an existing settlement
Vik means bay in old Norse.
Fun fact: When a town has "on..(something)" in the title, it means it is on the (something) River. So Berwick-on-Tweed is situated on the Tweed River.
Fun fact 2: in Britain, we normally say River X, not X River, with (of course) one or two exceptions. So it is the River Tweed, or possibly just the Tweed.
@@AnnabelSmythWhat were the exceptions you were thinking of or were you just covering yourself?😊 I can't think of any.
Some smaller rivers use the words "water", "beck" or "burn" after the name e.g. Teviot Water, Blackadder Water, Pandon Burn.
The form "upon" is used in the formal names of some towns and cities e.g. Newcastle-upon-Tyne" (the same with Berwick too).
@@MrBulky992 I was thinking of London River.
@@AnnabelSmythI have never heard of "London River". I googled it and it came up with the name of a female performer in films of an erotic nature!😂
The river which flows through London, UK, is the River Thames, if that is what you had in mind.
Is there a river of this name elsewhere in the UK?
Loving the fact that the Map Men knew what was going on with the water in England back then. If only the water companies in England had watched this video
Love your reactions JJ, and your UK knowledge in increasing at a pace!
Just subbed after watching a few of your vids. I like that you look up something mentioned in videos - so many reactors don’t do that, and it bugs me … it even bugs the bugs that bug me, which bugs me even more. You don’t bug me, so I thought I’d bug you with this explanation 😊
You missed the Salisbury joke 🤣
It has a very tall spire
Hadrian's Wall never ever formed the border between England and Scotland, neither of which existed when it was built. It was also built to be defended from both sides and was a choke point not a border.
True. It was used to control foot traffic in the north of england and the south of Scotland.
Except that it wasn't Scotland because the Scots did not invade Caledonia and the Angles, Saxons and Jutes settle in what became England until after the Romans had left. It was just a geographical convenience to put the wall there, making use of the Great Whin Sill, the River Tyne and the Solway Firth.
It was formed as a cut off point to what is now known as England and Scotland.
@@union310It's when we start using names like "England" and "Scotland" in this context that people get the wrong idea. Angle invaders/settlers from across the North Sea and Scoti from Ireland did not arrive for another 3 or more centuries and, when they did, this was not their border at any time in history.
I wish we could simply say that Hadrian's Wall was there to divide the northern and south parts of the island of Great Britain rather than bringing in anachronous elements from later ages.
@@MrBulky992 But you would still be wrong as the centre of Britain is Haltwhistle and that is away from the border wall.
The w in Berwick is silent so it's pronounced Berrick, the Scottish food next to the Mars bar is a deep fried Mars Bar.
Geordie is the oldest english accent in the world. Spoken by people in Newcastle.
'There is a video called where does newcastles geordie dialect come from?'
Definitely worth a watch
You know what, I saw this video in the feed and decided to wait for you to react to it, as I've previously seen all the ones you've reacted to. I wanted us to both react to it. I enjoyed it, worth it, your analysis is fantastic.
The Scottish Mars Bar was deep fried 😂 oh and battered..
The Salisbury reference is about a ex kgb double-agent being offed in hit
08:31 my god I love your humor and timing 😂😂 Possible the best reaction channel... for so many reasons.
Lol.. Come visit sometime, especially Salisbury! Check Russia/Salisbury poisoning! 😂
Scotland wouldn't become independent from England, they would become independent from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Indeed! And anyway, people seem to forget that it was the Scottish King James VI who took the English throne and not the other way around. He was also the architect of Great Britain, although it was his great-granddaughter who finally completed his planned union.
@ffotograffydd James VI didn't take the English throne he was asked to become the king as Elizabeth I died childless and had no heir and it was done to prevent a civil war from breaking out over the throne. It did become the UK for another 104 years
A geordie is someone from Newcastle upon Tyne or on the Bank of the River Tyne
There is another wall called The Antonine Wall in Scotland.There is another Berwick in Scotland.
The Antonine wall was covered in JJLAs Hadrian's wall video.
I love the way you research things, that's why you're so intelligent x
love your channel
Hey Jay, loving the google tangents. Wrong Station Cafe though....
... 23 Staplehurst Rd, London SE13 5ND
Northern Ireland did have an official flag called the Ulster Banner which is still used today as an unofficial flag at sporting events. It’s official use ended when the parliament dissolved in 1973
Seeing as it’s nearly Christmas .. can you pls react to probably the best
Christmas song ever…. The Pogues ( Fairytale of New York).
Not just roads. Many buildings also used the stone from The Wall. Not Ber-Wick but Berrick, the W is not pronounced in most place names, e.g. Warwick - pronounced Worrick. There is also a North Berwick further North on the East coast of Scotland. When I visited Berwick-upon-Tweed I drove across that Roman viaduct, (an aqueduct carries water along the top, a viaduct carries a road). I'm English, but descended from two Border clans (both were Reiver clans i.e. 'bandit raiders') and have lived and worked in Scotland and can tell you that we all get on pretty well and the 'animosity' is just an example of that UK banter where you greet friends with an insult😛.
ENGLAND was conected to France many many years ago
Don't tell Reform UK! They'll go apeshit.
JJ ... @10m 40s that Scottish thing is a Deep Fried Mars Bar.
9:32
It's an English thing, like stabbing English kids.
Is there anything English people won't lie about.
The Queen was, and Royal Family are, more closely of Scottish descent than English. There's never been an English family on the throne of England.
Yes, there has. Plenty of them.
Yes there has - the Anglo Saxons.
Not true. They're descendents of the anglo saxons who invaded England in the 5th century and the Normans who invaded England in the 11th..
Eventually some of them married into the Scottish royal family, but after they reigned over England for centuries. They're English with a little bit of Scottish in them. It's kind of like how they are in real life. Charlie lives in England. And then comes to Scotland for a couple of weeks in the summer, and wears his little kilt and tries to look Scottish, then he flees for England again by September.
To say there's never been an English royal family on the throne. It depends what you mean. The saxons and normans formed England as a unified country. Before that, certain regions were ruled by various chiefs but they weren't really "English", except to say they lived in what we now consider England.
@@jackdubz4247
No, there hasn't. The Saxons and then the Normans were not from England. Henry VIII was a descendant of Celt Normans.
The "English" monarchy died out in 1603. The English Crown and Royal Jewels were melted down and destroyed by Cromwell.
"England" takes its name from the Angles. There was no "England" before the Angles, even as an idea. The Venerable Bede wrote "An Ecclesiastical History of the *English* Church and People" in the early 8th century so, by that time, the concept of English, referring to Angles, Saxons and Jutes, as evidenced by the contebts of Bede's book had become established.
If we accept the view of history which says the indigenois Brythonic people of the area were slaughtered or chased out toWales, Cornwall, Brittany etc., the invaders/settlers of Germanic invaders remaining were the English. If you believe the Celtic people were absorbed by the Anglo-Saxons through intermarriage and peaceful coexistence, they too became English by adopting the customs of the English.
The Kingdom of England came into existence in 927 and was ruled by English kings from the dynasty of the former rulers of Wessex until 1015 when there was a Danish invasion. Every king after the restoration of the English line in 1042, with the exception of except William the Conqueror, had English blood. Henry II's ancestors included Edmund II Ironside, Aethelred II the Unready, Edgar the Peaceful (crowned in 973) and Edmund, brother of the first King of England, Aethelstan. Henry VIII's grandmother, Elizabeth Woodville, was English as was the mother of Mary II and Queen Anne.
Is the cement mixer a reference to Roman Concrete ?
Berwick is pronounced: bear-ick
9:31 Not haggis, that's another Scottish delicacy, the deep fried mars bar!😀
More like Berrick, for pronunciation
Deep fried Mars Bar is English, not Scottish. If you want a few English stereotypes I would pick their enjoyment of stabbing kids while snacking on jellied eels. Also, Haggis was found in England before Scotland. It's a variation of a middle Eastern dish, brought back from England's colonisations and trade endeavours.
haggis originated in England not Scotland
LOL the Salisbury comment was a brilliant dig :-)
Thanks JJ , you do make me laugh
The tap water in the part of Scotland I was brought up in was brown, but also better for you. And the battered turd looking thing was a battered mars bar, you can get battered haggis as well though.
Jeezo what part Scotland were you brought up in?
@@jmillar71110 Not far from Aberfeldy. In central Scotland near Loch Tay.
@@irene3196 Whisky gets its colour from the Oak barrels it is matured in. Distilled whisky is actually clear before going into the barrels. (Highlander here.)
@@daveffs1935 I'm in Fife right on the coast and only ever had brown water if there was a burst pipe lol
I say brown, but it was pretty clear,, just had a light sort of tan colour to it. Loch Tay has the same colour water so it might have been from there, I have no clue TBH@@jmillar71110
You should react to Jay's old songs as well. But maybe do a whole bunch at once, they're rather short.
I found he background music from 'Lemmings' very nostalgic ...
BEH-RICK-upon-Tweed 😊
Love the video! just remember if a place name has a 'W' in the middle 9/10 the 'W' is silent. so Ber-Rick. Weird i know
9:30 Both Mars Bars
Hadrian’s Wall is entirely within England and has never formed the Anglo-Scottish border. There’s also the Antonine Wall which is in Scotland, so Hadrian’s Wall wasn’t even considered the border of the Roman occupation, there were Romans based further north in present day Scotland.
They deep fry battered Mars bars in Scotland.
They deep fry them in England too, mostly because that is where it started.
Niel Armstrong the first man on the moon. His ancestors were border reavers and occupied the site of the Roman fort of Vindolanda. The first man on the moon was a Geordie ✌🏼 have that
I get the fact that it was originally higher and that stones have been taken over the years for other purposes, but why is it such a uniform height remaining along almost the whole length. You’d think more stones would have been removed from the most accessible sections!
I imagine its because people like symmetry so they took it from the top and went down and streamline it for it to look nice as they took it apart **shrug**
Actually English (and indeed the UK in general) tap water is among the cleanest in the world.
The reason Scottish tap water is better, is due to the lack of chalky mineral deposits in the majority of Scotland. Tap Water in the SE of England is particularly bad for this (but still safe to drink).
I've tried tap water in London and it was disgusting and warm, this was in 1990 though, maybe they got their act together idk.
England's tap water is amongst the worst and dirtiest in Europe. Stop lying! Also, England's tap water is not one combined entity. It is several, failing, private operations.
For now, but the way things are going it’s not guaranteed.
Mountains ! Look up the Alps lol
Northern Ireland does have a flag, but it can not be flown from public buildings to keep the Irish happy as the flag contains the Crown.
9:30 England (Mars Bar) Scotland (Deep Fried Mars Bar)
Also, scottish water is a delight to the senses. i have never felt so refreshed. My skin was clear and my hair as thick as a highland cow
A Highland what?
I've never seen a cow anywhere in Scotland.
@@irene3196
Why would I be "kidding."
Scotland's Highlands have coos, not cows. 😉
(Coo is not slang, or the result of an accent, it's the appropriate Scots word)
08:05 *and Wales.
Northern Ireland used to have the red hand of Ulster as a flag before the English took over.
Still does
Berwick is pronounced Berrick.
It's a deep fried Mars bars... yeah, they deep fried them.
Oooooooh! I see. I bet that’s tasty! I wouldn’t have expected fried Mars Bars to be a thing there. I know fried candy bars are a big thing in Texas.
@@JJLAReacts I've never tried them but my brother liked them.
Especially Salisbury 🤣
As the soundtrack of the video you're reacting to illustrates numerous times: Berwick is pronounced "Berrick", though you choose to ignore that and repeatedly pronounce it as "Bear-wick".
He was saying BЯЯЯ-wick.
That's a deep fried Mars Bar.
Come on J, you know we (mostly) don't pronounce the W if it's in the middle of town names, It's now Bur-wick, it's Beh-rick... Ber(w)ick, War(w)ick, South(w)ark, Green(w)ich etc etc
For some strange reason I've found myself playing Lemmings (on Mayhem level!) so strangely odd! :D
7:10
nice video. some mistakes but it was fun to watch. i am from Sunderland and the North is not Manchester.
Hey have you looked into the Antonine wall? Even more brutal footage for you - further North!
I hate correcting people but I guess you would want to know so, Berwick is pronounced Berrick.
Many reactors do the pointy finger thing and nothing happens so don't sweat over putting the links.
kinda ironic that england used to be attached to nova scotia and its now attached to scotland
Hadrian's Wall is not the border
There is an unofficial flag of Northern Ireland, but not an official flag. That's because some people in Northern Ireland (the Irish/Catholic/Republican community) don't agree that Northern Ireland should even exist.
more to do with the fact that the Northern Ireland flag contains the crown
I think it's about time that Americans stopped calling towns cities, and cities towns.
Correction! The wall was 15 feet tall!
In all English names, the suffix WICK is pronounced ICK. All? Well .. all but one. I leave this as an exercise for the reader.
I think the one you're thinking of is plane to see ...
I can think of at least three.
Prestwick ,Lerwick, Wick ,Herdwick ( sheep).
@@auldfouter8661They're not all English, though, are they?
@@MrBulky992 They're English language place names.
Regarding Berwick-Upon-Tweed, as these guys have pointed out before in their vids, when a British placename has "wick" at the end, following a consonant, you don't pronounce the "w". So "Berrick" is the pronunciation. Think actor "Warwick Davis", pronounced Warrick.
Unfortunately _(and I appreciate what you are trying to explain),_ but mentioning Warwick Davis, _(a very British actor who probably means nothing to an American - even if he was in Star Wars)_ it doesn't actually mean anything _(especially if they don't know how it's really pronounced and get it wrong anyway!)_ - Just saying! 🤔
It has more to do with the stones and minerals than the visible formations
A huge number of English people would be very happy for Scotland to have independence if they want it. If Norway has independence, why not Scotland?
Scotland is politically very different from England.
Google "Berwick upon tweed declaration of peace with the USSR" :) There is a QI clip on here also where Stephen Fry talks about it!
I can’t believe QI spouted that nonsense. It’s apocryphal about Berwick being officially at war with Russia until the 1960s.
It's pronounced berick the w is silent, it just one of the weird things about place names over here
It's not Berwick, it is pronounced Berrick.
100% definite friction between Scotland and England.
Bear-ick please
You've already forgotten the rules from the "how to pronounce British place names" video, haven't you?
It's a silent "w" in any "-wick". So it's said "ber-ick", even if spelt "ber-wick".
Whilst Northern Ireland doesn’t have a flag, England does not have a national anthem. They use the British national anthem “ God save the King/Queen”
The others all have their own anthems.
Officially we all have 'God save the King/Queen' as our UK anthem but at certain events, mainly in sports, each country uses its 'local' anthem to differentiate between countries in the same nation.
I read that the UK has no official national anthem. Are any of the others official? I think there has to be a law passed to make things official e.g. the union jack is the official flag of the UK because there is a law to say so. "Flower of Scotland" is fairly recent. When I was young, it was either "Scotland the Brave" (used at the Commonwealth Games) or "Scots wha' hae wi' Wallace bled". Does Northern Ireland have an official national anthem? Surely not "Danny Boy"?
Scotland doesn't have a national anthem. It has a variation of tunes that Scots support being used in place of an official one. Flower Of Scotland being the most popular.
no, NI does not have a national anthem but they do use the English song Danny Boy at sporting events@@MrBulky992
Northern Ireland does have a flag but it can not be flown from public buildings to keep the Irish happy, it can be and is flown from private buildings in its tens of thousands all year round.
Note: Berwick is pronounced Berrick
1:37 it's because we scots are too strong and beat the romans
Do you do voice over on tik tok. Feel like ive heard your voice before
PS berwick is pronounced Berrick
NOZINS.
Scottish independence is rather dead in the water at the moment, thanks to financial irregularities and dodgy goings on within the SNP, the political party that campaigns for independence. The problem is that the SNP forms a personality cult behind it's leader, but the last two leaders have left their post because they did dodgy/sleazy things. It will be 5-10 years before any movement gets going again, because the current leader isn't that remarkable.
The Scotland/England border is the best border in the world. I just wish it was a hard border, just to stop the English from settling in Scotland. By the way, I am sure that there are plenty English people who would say a similar thing, but the other way around.
There are plenty more of us Scots and English who are happy with the way things are with the Union, as shown in the vote a few years ago.
as someone from Newcastle, i have to put up with the scots and the southern english...its a pain
@@Thurgosh_OG
No, there isn't. There were more Scots happy with Scotland's EU situation.
@@darkwave9345
Is Newcastle a real place?
Aren't you that Northern Town that ran every time Scots marched down to York, which Scotland owned for quite a while.
Or Englands independence from Scotland 😂
If you lived "on" the wall and fell off where you now homeless? 🤔
What are you doing?
I give up with the USA, the more I find out about the USA the less I understand
The tap water reference was a joke, try and understand British humour!
Symptomatic of inherent English arrogance that they show the 'English' Queen and groundskeeper Willie representing Scotland.
In fact, the Queen was Monarch of England and Scotland and her stronger claim to the throne was through her Scottish ancestry, not English.
The English have never gotten over losing all the wars to the much smaller Scotland, and having to give up their sovereignty to prevent Scotland finishing them off with a French alliance.
There hasn’t been a monarch of England or Scotland since the Act of Union, cooked up by James VI & I, and carried out by his great-granddaughter.
@@Mark-HaddowSo James VI fought a war to take the English throne? They’d better rewrite the history books then… oh wait, that’s not what happened at all! 😂
@@ffotograffydd
Yeah, which is why I never made such a gibberish claim, and you did. England lost every war (3) with Scotland. James VI inherited England, and was the last monarch crowned King of England, as he created the Union of Crowns and no longer recognised England as a seperate Kingdom. Likewise with his son, who was the last monarch to wear the crown of England before the English destroyed it. 😆
@@Mark-Haddow Someone is only using the history that suits their argument! 😂😂😂
England and Scotland is still a problem now, not just in the past. We need to separate to stop the nastiness from both sides. Staying together just prolongs it all. Notsaying that i want to separate, just it will always be a thing while we are together
I don't think separating will ever stop the nastiness between the English and Scots... the nastiness you speak off today though, is nothing compared to the nastiness before we became a union...
@@curtiswatts4349 True. The hatred from the English towards the Scots is getting beyond a joke these days.
@@jackdubz4247 that’s not what I was trying to say… but I wouldn’t say it’s the English hating the Scot’s more either. Both have that love/hate relationship.
I agree. I'm a Scot, and most of the problem I have isn't specific to England. Switch our arrangement out with any other country, France, Germany, Russia, Brazil, and I'd feel largely the same. I want our government to represent us. I want it to be accountable to us. I don't want my neighbour's political whims to be what governs my country.
Switch the situation in reverse, hey England, you're now subject to whatever government the people of Scotland choose until 2450. Oh and we'll also control all your media, which will be Scottish focused. So will your tabloids. We'll neglect, ignore, insult you and if you feel offended, we'll ask why you hate us. We'll say that we subsidize you, even though we keep 60 pence out of every pound in tax revenue that you generate. We'll take all your renewable energy and give you it back at the highest energy rates in the UK.Oh, and that oil around your shores? Yeah, we'll keep telling you its running out, but also we'll keep taking it.
@@curtiswatts4349 I do. I'm a Scot, and I'm angry.
But most of the anger is caused by the union, and Scotland being basically held captive in it.
We've been told officially by the UK court and government (predominantly English in both cases) that we're not even allowed to hold a fresh ref, since the fundamental state of the union was changed against the consent of the Scots.
If Scotland was independent and were in charge of our own economy, trade, foreign affairs, etc, and assuming England accepted this without being a thawn in our thumb, I'd hold no further grudges.
But at the moment, I despise people like Starmer and Sunack. I despite the English rags (Mail, Torygraph, Sun, etc). The media, BBC, GBNews, etc) and their TV presenters, Jeremy Kyle, Piers Morgan and anyone else who constantly slag off Scotland, whilst simultaneously saying we don't have a right to leave.
You realise the comparisons are comical?
I'm a Geordie and those Geordie accents are horrible
Pronounce Berrick
Norther Ireland is a Province not a country.
Legally and officially Northern Ireland is a country. News media though, often calls it a province or a region of the UK, which is actually wrong but no one seems to correct any inaccuracies said by mainstream media.
Northern Ireland is part of the old Province of Ulster and most certainly is a country, you are confusing Ulster with NI.
The may know a lot about maps but the know sweet F all about history the racist English gits.