Americans React to 25 Foods Americans Love That Everyone Else Hates
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In this video we react to 25 foods Americans love that people from other countries think are disgusting. While some of these foods are delicious, others are downright nasty. American food tends to fall along the extremes, either it's amazing or disgusting, there is no in between. From corn dogs and Hot Pockets to Twinkies and Pop-Tarts, let us know in the comments if you've tried any of these foods.
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Getting quite a few questions about the ranch dressing recipe! Here's the one we use :)
Roots Family Homemade Ranch Dressing
2/3 C avocado oil (or LIGHT olive oil--you want a neutral flavor)
1 room temp. egg
2 Tbsp. red wine vinegar
2 Tbsp. full fat unsweetened canned coconut milk
1/2 tsp sea salt
1/2 tsp black pepper
1/2 tsp onion powder
1/2 tsp granulated garlic powder
1 Tbsp. dried herbs or handful chopped fresh (we usually use a little bit of dill and lots of parsley)
Put everything in a wide mouth jar and use an immersion blender to process. It's done once the ingredients have emulsified. Put a lid on it and store in the fridge for up to a week and a half.
*If you don't have an immersion blender, you could possibly make the recipe work in your food processor, BUT the steps are a little different. The immersion blender has been a total game changer for us when it comes to this recipe :)
If using a food processor, add all ingredients to the processor (except the oil and the coconut milk) and pulse in the food processor a few times. Then, very slowly (at a trickle) pour your measured out oil in through the top of the processor, with your finger on the grind/pulse button constantly. Takes a couple minutes to do, to ensure it emulsifies correctly. Once your oil has been added, add the coconut milk and pulse a few times and voila! Store in fridge for up to a week and a half.
It's not that we don't have ice in our drinks, we just don't have an entire cup of ice with a slight drizzle of the drink.
That's why they can go back for free refills. They get as much actual drink out of their four refills as we get out of our first one.
Avoid ice even in the U.K. , ice machines can get full of bacteria and they don’t get cleaned as much as they should 😮.
And after all that ice melts, you get really watery soft-drink. My sister tried your white bread found it sugary and very hard.
@@sharonmartin4036 be watered down beyond belief
How bad must American fridges be?
Drinks from mine are already cold enough not to need ice.
I am not religious but toasted hot crumpets with butter are food from heaven.
Make a good base for eggs Benedict too.
I add marmite to my crumpets 😋 😋
@@robertcreighton4635
I have strawberry jam or Nutella on my crumpets.
Crumpets are the perfect melted butter delivery device
And Golden Syrup or is that an Australian thing?
Tartar sauce for fish, garlic mayo or ketchup for dips, mint sauce for lamb or peas, and salad cream or vinaigrette dressing for salad 😁
Have you tried salad cream with chips (U.K.) - delicious!
I'm ashamed to say the only thing I've ever eaten from a McDonald's (ashamed I went to McD, not ashamed it was the only thing) was the 'ham' 'salad' (stretching the definition of both ham and salad). The only reason I liked that was they did a blue cheese dressing that is as rare as hen's teeth for some reason. It was grossly unhealthy but did taste so good.
To add to the condiments: apple sauce on pork, cranberry (or some other bitter/sweet sauce - orange, plum, etc.) on fowl, English mustard on beef. Pickles, lesser mustards (whole grain, dijon, etc), ketchup or 'brown' sauce to taste for junk food.
I've had to wean myself off salad cream! It's addictive to me! 🤣I now limit my use!
I’m from the UK but I can’t even stand the smell of salad cream! The rest of my family do but even the smell turns my stomach.
Mint sauce on new potatoes and cold sliced ham too
We do have ice in our drinks in the uk, but more than a couple of cubes is a rip off because it just means that you are given less drink.
Yeah plus most of our fridges don’t have ice machines, but you can get them here.
That makes sense!
Five cubes of ice will not make your drink any colder than two.
Sorry, Gravy is brown, if its White then its just Bechemel sauce
Chicken gravy is light, it is why "browning" became a thing, because people prefer brown gravy lol
Mayonnaise is epic & extremely popular in the UK. Salad Cream a close second.
Sweet Chilli Sauce is also really popular here!
Can't beat a mixed kebab & chips slathered in garlic mayo and hot chilli sauce, but you will hate yourself afterwards.
I like both mayonnaise and salad cream. I also like honey and mustard sauce, but if you mix salad cream with wholegrain mustard you can get something surprisingly quite similar to it
its even good in a cheese sandwich, chicken sandwich. the list goes on, as well as I like it with salads with wedges.
Y’all need to try mayo on chips as well as ketchup.
Mayonnaise is the most popular we have many salad dressings like Caesar and Salad cream and many many more varied types 😋
Most Brits turn their noses up at the idea of eating your chlorinated chicken.
Americans reject rat hair & worse contaminated British foods. I know your ilk think you insulting Americans the way Europeans insult Brits will make us knuckle under but unlike you we aren’t servile knobs. Now go crawl back in your hole
You mean, everyone in the world but Americans.
The same Brits eating imported Chinese chicken. Keep patting yourselves on the back
@@mmorettievery imported chicken has to go by the same regs whether from China or the US. Thts the whole point.
Keep telling yourselves that oh fools whose government has been selling them out to the Chinese & Indian governments for decades and whose king, another despotic turd is cozy with the naziesque Klaus Schwab as his Uncle Edward VIII was cozy with Hitler. Also explain why you’re ok with your government & the EU are spraying your oats with a carcinogenic pesticide called chlormaquat.
I find we eat typically more oil+vinegar based salad dressings in Europe rather than creamy ones like ranch:
dijon mustard + olive oil + lemon juice (chopped dill optional),
or olive oil + lemon juice + chopped basil or cilantro,
or olive oil + balsamic vinegar,
or olive oil + white wine vinegar,
The exception to that would be a yogurt based dressing: (white greek style) yogurt with pinch of salt, sometimes with added chopped dill and/or pressed garlic and/or lemon juice or white vinegar. Which is great for salads that contain cucumber, especially good in a hot summer.
And yes, technically potatoe salads, deli salads like Fleischsalat are called "a salad", and they usually contain mayonnaise of some sort, but that's a totally different category. Probably shouldn't be called salad at all.
because we are Europeans.
@@mariahoulihan9483 In truth though, here in Europe (especially western Europe) there are many more people eating creamy bottled dressings than in the past.
i wasn't the one who made the contrary point.
@@baronmeduse
@@mariahoulihan9483 Where in my response does it indicate that?
@@baronmeduseYeah I agree with you,I’m from England and over the years there has been a lot more creamy sauces in the supermarkets
having a lot of ice must thin out the drink making it more watery
It's a way of making the drinks to further !
I do get what Steve said though about adding it to carbonated drinks. When I used to go to my cousins house the ice elevated the coke.
I had an iced coffee in Starbucks in the US. After I had drank half of it, it tasted like water with a slight hint of coffee - yuck!
@@jessieb7290usually a Rum or Jack Daniels elevates coke and the only time to drink coke
Mint flavoured biscuits, chocolate, and ice cream are very popular in the UK.
Ummmm mint.
Mint yum😊
It's everywhere in the UK, Kendal Mint Cake and Mint sauce is a UK thing. American Mint flavoured items are really weak.
Ooh, mint choc chips ice cream. Cornetto. Yum.
@@victoriarobinson3909 I feel the need to mention a Fry's peppermint cream.
Re crumpets vs 'English muffins'. Please note, we've had this discussion with another great US reactor called McJibbin. He was convinced they were the same until he saw a video showing they are very different, and even then I think he thought we were having him on in some sort of UK-wide conspiracy to confuse Americans.
Connor (McJibbin)🇺🇸 is quite opinionated and _unafraid_ to say what he thinks, but then, he has 'ADD' so has an excuse really...! He has no other way to be.
(My youngest daughter🏴 - just literally 27_days younger than Connor, - 30 now - is "on the spectrum" - of having a 'version' of ADHD - so I'm sort of used to their ways, though it took years to accept my daughter's behaviours as "_normal_ for _her_" rather than her being "naughty" or "a pain in the ***"!!) 🤔😏❤
The English muffin is called a muffin in the UK, they are called English muffin in the US because an English immigrant named Samuel Thomas worked as a baker here & popularized the English style muffin, which became known as English muffins to distinguish them from the quick bread muffins that were popular here, and yes my fellow Americans, Samuel Thomas was the namesake of the Thomas’ English muffin company
In Britain we have salad cream. Also we do like actual vinaigrettes. Yes we also like different sauces and condiments. Things like brown sauce, English mustard, horseradish, and many others.
Also siracha, soy sauce, curry sauce, mint sauce, man I love cranberry sauce at Christmas. I wonder if that tastes the same as an American version.
Each to their own.
@@WookieWarriorz Yuk, nothing on chips, like mine crispy not soggy, thrice cooked, boiled for 3 minutes, fried at 160 C until soft then at 180-190 to crisp up and brown, no hotter than 180 when using Beef Dripping as has a smoke point of 175 and will burn at 185. A Flash point of 187 when clean, lower if has been used a few times. HP Sauce or Heinz Salad Cream on everything else, English Mustard on a dog roll.
@@tonys1636 Ooh blimey, that's a faff....I miss my late mum's chips - cooked in a proper chip pan. These days we just have McCain's homefries in the airfryer....they are so crisp and soft on the inside - and cook in 15 minutes x
@@CaroleEvans93436 Not really a faff as stages 1 and 2 can be done in advance as done in the Italian owned chipper/pizzeria I managed for 10 years. Fresh chips from potatoes peeled and chipped on site. We got through over 10 tonnes of Maris Pipers a week. (Maris Bard for 2nd early period). Chips now on my banned list, thanks Doc. The short boil enables the chips to dry before frying without discolouring and not having to use Dry white or other chemicals. My Pizza dough was even praised by the owner, 20kgs of oo flour used daily, sorry a secret recipe.
When I buy a beer that's what I want to drink - beer. Not watery, tasteless liquid that is beer coloured. Plus, by filling the glass with ice less actual drink is used. It's a con.
I have never seen anyone put ice in their beer. I live in Texas but I have been to almost every state and I’ve never seen this.
It costs more to freeze ice than it does to produce most American sodas!
Wait what philistine is putting ice in their beer?!
Root Beer is not actual beer lol. If i buy beer its guiness or widowmaker which is made in the upper peninsula
Umm, yes. A good quality, room temperature beer in an old fashioned English pub.
American beer? With ice? There are laws in the UK to prevent breweries watering down the beer, not so in America it would seem.
Another thing I don't get is the hype for Oreo's. In the UK we are being bombarded at the moment is all types of Oreo things like (chocolate and Oreo drinks etc). Personally give me custard creams anytime which are far better. Regarding breakfast cereals maybe you should try-out UK cereals against US counterparts. I'm sure UK versions are better with less sugar and less preservatives.
I find Oreos quite nasty. It seems to have a chemical aftertaste. But as you say, they are really pushing their way onto British supermarket shelves.
Oreos used to be good, til their manufacture was moved to Mexico, and they taste like dirt. Now watch 3rd world multiKKKulti Brits start moaning how much they love Oreos
Oreo’s aren’t taboo and can found in 95% of shops. However, it’s rare for me to see anyone eating one. And if offered a biscuit, most people will stick to just the one 😂 bourbons or custard creams on the other hand are usually sold with loads in the packet, as you’re going to need all of them haha
There was an article why most Brits don’t like Hersey’s. Apparently, to make the chocolate last longer, Hershey did something to the milk which ended up “souring” it. Since Hershey gave chocolate to the US soldiers and continued to produce chocolate during world war 2 while Cadbury ceased chocolate manufacturing and helped make things for the war effort, there was not much competition. The US soldiers got so used to Hershey’s chocolate, they (Hershey) continued to produce chocolate using this method of production and other chocolate companies followed suit in America. Britain on the other hand came up with a preservative which didn’t make the milk sour.
Had some once the only Hersheys my brother likes is the cookies and cream version cause he said it was sweeter then the plain stuff. Tried both and I don’t like either.
Interesting! Thanks for taking the time to share. :)
It contains Butyric Acid the same as vomit.
@@reactingtomyroots Fun fact it contains Butyric Acid the same as is in vomit.
I usually love peanut butter anything, but Reese's cover it in dog chocolate. Reese's Pieces are revolting. Try a peanut butter Kit-Kat!
Our peanut butter isn't as sweet as the USA's - my children wanted to try Jif and it was way too sweet.....I ended up buying Asda's smooth peanut butter and mixing it with the Jif one x
We have tried the PB Kitkat from the UK--it was one of our very first try videos! We loved it :)
Yeah in ireland we only eat ground peanuts in a jar which is our peanut butter. Nothing else is added to it. In theory i want to love reeses but way too sugary. I will stick to dipping dates in peanut butter instead
Tried Reese's for the first time last week out of curiosity cos I saw them in a shop in Portugal. Nasty stuff.
The ice thing is overstated I think - it's very typical to get ice in soft drinks whenever you have a soft drink outside of your own house here in the UK. I'm sure most families have ice cube trays in their freezers if they don't have a dispenser too.
But we dont fill the glass with ice..its a couple of cubes
I agree most people don’t have ice makers at home, just add a few cubes on a hot day perhaps, and I can’t be bothered filling my glass with ice in my drink even if refills are available- I’d just need to keep getting refills
The amount of ice in US drinks is a con, you are not having a soda you are having frozen water with a drizzle of soda.
I've used an ice cube tray about 3 or 4 times in 45 years of having my own home.
@@PhiyedoughI use one every day, sometimes more than once
Deep fried Mars bars started in Scotland . I love pork scratchings it’s a Black Country food that type is the fluffy type they are not the real ones
Love good pork scratching, need strong teeth for the crackly ones 😄
The deep fried mars bar is so gross. It was just so congealed. It tasted like a day old melted chocolate bar covered in sugar. 🤢
@@jessieb7290Best place to buy them is Blue Lagoon just outside Glasgow Central station. They have just a fine lattice of batter and are delicious.
Talking of pork crackling, the tv chefs make me laugh - when they put all sorts of concoctions on a pork joint - to get crackling. I just whack the meat in the oven on high for an hour , then turn it down - I've never had an issue with soggy crackling. Proper crackling in bags, is the type that break teeth lol
I remember the deep fried Mars bar trend going on up here. I think the government did ban it, but you can still get them 'under the counter' if you know where to go.
I have never eaten one, but watched one being made for another customer as I waited for my fish and chips order to finish cooking.
It looked absolutely disgusting.
The same customer also asked for chips with all the trimmings - this was salt, vinegar, a squirt each of mustard, mayonnaise, and tomato ketchup, with a generous sprinkle of cheese over the top. Honestly, it looked like someone had sicked up on it.
I couldn't eat my own order when I got home and had to reheat it later when the memory of my experience was a little blunted.
First time I heard about chicken and waffles I assumed they were potato waffles
It one of these food that sound discussing but is really tasty when eating it. Its weird but it works...somehow?
its great us brits are quick to judge yet never tried them ........... bacona nd syrup is heaven too sometimes Americans just get it right and most brits can't stand it yet the same brits will cry if other places judge us ... we are a country of moaning entitled people
@@errneeits disgusting. Being an Irish vegan - the idea of ground up animals is disgusting
The thing with the subway baguettes in the U.K ,the recipe had to be changed due to the high sugar content . As over here it was classed as a cake, and not bread/dough.
Garlic mayo, sweet curry, balsamic, French dressing, chilli mayo, chilli sauce, piccalilli, pickle
All good dressings
Yeah so many good things. 😋 I’m getting hungry.
The healthiest breakfast is rolled oats, they’re full of good fibre, they’re Low GI and they’re a superfood.
Nope eggs boiled
Or fish
@@healingandgrowth-infp4677 You can have both.
Every pizza I ate or saw in Italy was very thin based and I went North and South Italy they cook in about 7 mins.
Baking time highly depends on the oven temperature. 7 minutes is actually quite long for pizza 3-4 minutes is the most to have base baked and crispy and cheese melted enough.
I've tried pizza in Britain and the USA both were terrible
Had thin pizza in Italy and loved it
@@cargra49in ireland (and im sure the uk) we eat Naples stonebased pizza. You prob didnt know where to get it
I always go for the Italian bottom when the option is there when ordering pizza. Or when in a Italian restaurant many other dishes are usually more interesting so unless it is pizza discount day…
So glad Sophia has parents who care about what she eats.
Fun fact about Outback Steakhouse: the guys who founded the chain had never been to Australia. Its as Australian as borscht!
As American as apple pie 😁
@@101steel4 So, English then?
Its all way too salty in there
@101steel4 which comes from the UK via the Netherlands around the 1300s
@@101steel4 You mean as English as Apple Pie.
I learn so much about America from you. You seem like such good people, i love how well you and your wife chat to us and each other.
Appreciate you hanging out with us :)
I love hot toasted crumpets with lots of butter, completely different to a muffin
In Europe we do have High Fructose Corn Syrup but only permitted in it's lower fructose content. It is allowed in fructose content of 20-30% whereas in the US this is between 42-55% which is extremely problematic. I went to the states for three weeks. After the first 10 days I would only get food from Whole Foods or Trader Joes because that double pump of insulin from the HFCS made me feel really unwell. Pork Crackling we call Pork Scratchings and are eaten in the UK.
I am sure others will have commented, but a muffin is like a slightly denser than normal bread bun. Can be eaten toasted with butter and often savoury fillings like ham slices etc.
A crumpet is completely different. Bubbles form during the baking process although it retains a firm base. Toast it under a grill and add lots of butter. The butter melts and soaks down into the crumpet via the air bubbles. They are fantastic and you have to try them.
I am surprised they are not known/available in the US.
But a breakfast muffin is totally different from a choc chip or blueberry muffin. 🤣
I will never eat chicken and waffles with syrup 🤢🤮
I never have, but I probably would. I've had a chocolate pizza and that was pretty nice.
I've had it before. But it's still better to make a desert with waffles.
It's basically a pudding with chicken on it 😂😂
you should try it is good. I tried it in a American style diner in Oldham Lancs . It was really nice.
@@errnee nooo
American cereal has to be classed as candy in the UK
Cucumber isn't bland, it's subtle!
I think that most Europeans are against American food because of the additives, colouring, sugar and hormones that’s has been added to it. Don’t get me wrong we do have packaged and fast food in the UK but it’s way healthier than yours even though I still consider it junk food. Why do you need ice if your drink is ice cold to start with.
OUR EQUIVALENT TO USA BISCUITS
From how you describe biscuits and gravy, I’d imagine that Suet dumplings (not Chinese or Asian dumplings) that Brits cook in beef stew would be similar to USA biscuits with gravy.
I'm from the UK but had 'biscuits and gravy' while on holiday in Florida. It's like we'd have plain scones (no sugar) with sausage slices in white sauce. Not bad, but very stodgy!
@@Jeanne24601 Thankyou. I’d love to try them
In ireland - we might add balsamic vinegar to salad (and maybe some extra virgin olive oil) Or some humous. Avocados, tomatoes and beetroot add moisture. If eating a salad - you are eating it because it is healthy so we don't add lots of "sauce" as we know they are full of calories which defeats the purpose of opting to have a "healthy" salad
I think those of us not from the US don't like your food in general, as in store bought or certain restaurants is due to the sugar levels being far far higher at time, the sugar being FRUCTOSE above others. In the UK, fructose isn't banned but, it is strictly controlled.
We generally prefer more savoury as you can then taste all the different flavours. Sugar wipes out all flavours basically.
I get that in the US you don't have to have such high sugary foods, but they are far more prevalent in comparison. There are other things too but that is not for here. We just prefer savoury over sugary though many may not realise this.
Pork Scratchings? that's what we call em here in the UK. Pub Snack, great on a pork sunday roast. Gotta have the layer of fat. Love em. Pork Crackling/Scratchings we call it both, a very British thing.
US Biscuit = British Dumpling
I'm from the UK and I love mint flavoured things. Mint aeros are my favourite and mint poppets
Your biscuits is similar to our scones. Scones are very buttery and flakey and eaten buttered with clotted (heavy) cream and jam, served with tea
you can make cheese scones, to have with leek and potato soup other foods like that
18:44 Salad cream or mayonnaise are used on salads in the UK. There's also salad dressings like Thousand Island Dressing
You can still get ranch, or a billion other types of salad dressing, just fine. Salad cream is actually pretty rubbish on salads imo. I like it with boiled eggs though.
British food is safer than American food lower salt sugar 🏴🏴
Too much ice and too-cold drinks. Ice waters down your drink and dilutes the flavour. When something is too-cold, the flavour becomes diminished.
Mars bars in the US are not the same thing as they are in the UK. I think what you call a Mars Bar we call a Milky Way. Pork scratchings as we call them are also a thing in pubs in the UK. What you call English muffins are not the same as the ones you get here as ours are not really sweet. Crumpets are griddle cooked and have holes on top. You toast them and eat with butter melted into them, yummy.
Crumpets are made from a batter and are cooked in a frying pan a bit like a thick pancake but you use a metal ring to form the shape. A muffin is made from dough like bread and is cooked in the oven.
Mine come from Mr Warburton's lol 😅
Having food that can kill you, that's what is weird to me...Also mint stuff, love that taste. So have no idea why he thinks that British think that's weird.
every food can kill you...... people have died eating salad leaves (parasites)
The biggest suprise for me visiting America was the practice of serving fruit alongside vegitables for main courses. In the UK fruit would only be served as a dessert although fruit sauces can accompany a main meat dish, A student from Kansas visited my University and made a Thanksgiving Dinner , I was the only Brit up for eating the bowl of fruit served with the Turkey
I've noticed that when ive seen family channels on TH-cam, they will have their scrambled eggs with a side of fruit on the same plate and it confuses me so much
tomato isa fruit so technically uk does have fruit with main dishes
@@paulmilner8452 It is indeed a fruit from a botanical perspective, but used primarily as a vegetable. Same for cucumber.
I’m from the uk and I enjoy grapes, peaches and other fruits in my salad, especially with salmon or steak
@@user-xk9jh5py6g loads have apples with pork etc here, its not just americans with fruits and meats , duck and orange etc
Being born in South Wales, one of my all-time favourite foods is Faggots & Peas, with Mashed Potato and gravy:-
Faggots are meatballs made from minced off-cuts and offal (especially pork, and traditionally pig's heart, liver, and fatty belly meat or bacon) mixed with herbs and sometimes bread crumbs. [1] It is a traditional dish in the United Kingdom, [2] [3] especially South and Mid Wales and the English Midlands
Close second favourite is: Chip Butty. Fried potato strips (chips), dusted with salt and pepper and a splash of vinegar and tomato Ketchup, all wrapped up in 2 slices of buttered bread (or a roll). What's not to love?
We have "salad cream" in the UK. Also ranch Doritos are called Cool Original because we don't have ranch
I love ranch so much and I’m not American. I do wonder if it’s cause I’m from the south here. But ohhh yeah I miss having ranch in a subway sandwich 😋 can’t afford that anymore, but man that was heaven.
We do have it here, you just haven't noticed it. And it's nothing special.
We do have ranch. It's usually in amongst the salad dressings at the supermarket - google 'Newman's Own' for instance - like £1.95 from Tescos.
I like it a lot. It's just not a big thing. Also we don't tend to have the powdered ranch 'mix' that they have in the US.
“Salad cream” is fake mayonnaise we have something similar here called Miracle Whip.
@@mmoretti Salad cream is more vinegary.
Biscuits and gravy...dumplings and gravy perhaps?
I enjoy mustard. The english and french versions are quite different.
A very common salad dressing is Salad Cream. You were sent some sachets a while ago.
Chicken with honey !! Waffles are not a thing in the UK.
American "mint" flavour is probably made from chemicals and additives.
Steve says he hates processed foods, then his mouth waters at most of the "food" the narrator talks about !
I remember going to a McDonalds many years ago and ordering a Coke with my dinner. It tasted disgusting and I took it back saying "There's something wrong with my Coke, it tastes like dental mouthwash."
He said "Sorry, I must have given you root beer by mistake" That tells you all you need to know about root beer, McDonalds no longer sell it in the UK.
Americans developed a taste for root beer as our ancestors were introduced to teas made from sassafras by American Indians. Root beer was originally called sarsaparilla. We also enjoy birch beer just as you enjoy ginger beer
Reminded me of the red cherry or strawberry "shoe laces", a traditional sweet in the UK. The most common sweet and savoury food in the UK is Chinese sweet and sour sauce with chicken or pork balls. Ice is a good way to numb your taste buds, so you don't notice the rubbish you are buying. In the UK we buy soft drinks from the chiller cabinet. So we are not just paying for frozen water.
Yes but ours have flavour and taste good. They’re probably made with real fruit juices here. Never waste your time on the American kind; they smell of playdough and have no flavour.
Heinz tomato ketchup is the favourite sauce by far in the UK and heinz salad cream, try reggae reggae sauce! Absolutely delicious
I`m from the UK and have had chicago pizza in chicago, and new york pizza in new york, chicago 0, new york 1, had pizza in italy 100% the best
Lyndsey is definately more European in her tastes
They are both Europeans 😁
It's interesting a report I read today that there is a big upswing, especially with the young, in returning to full-fat milk and other dairy products after the huge long-lasting wagging of fingers by scientists and other health advisors about saturated fat. Frankly, I foresake 'thin' milk (where's the taste in it?) and love butter and cheddars and soft cheeses and 'live' full-fat yoghurts. Of course, I don't eat huge amounts of them! I'm 75 and in reasonable good health. I hate when any food is messed about with. Robert, uk.
Yes in the uk craft beers ale lagers the barrels are stored in the cellar at temp 11-13c some places 9 but to cold and you loose the taste of the hops and brewing. probably most people don't like ice as it waters down the drink and you wouldn't have ice in another country because you don't know if the ice is safe/how clean as you could get ill
In Scotland they deep fry pizza. (Pizza Crunch) but they also batter & fry pizzas too (Battered Pizza). You can get the deep fried Mars bar and since the Scots started this craze I've seen deep fried caburys cream egg's. I think the deep fried ice-cream has been tried too.
I'm just outside Glasgow and work in a chippy !! Love watching Americans try a battered Mars bar or pizza crunch !! I've got customers from England that ask for them half cooked as they are taking them bk home to England to freeze + pop in their airfryers !! as their chippy cant/won't do a crunch !!
A lot of those we can get in the UK. They sell ranch in Tesco for example. The mars bar in the rest of the world is not available in the US but it's basically the same as a US milky-way bar. I think the original US Mars bar had peanuts and is completely different. The deep fried candy bars are from Scotland along with deep fried pizza etc.
I've had biscuits in the USA - not with sausage gravy though.
They aren't like scones really - more like a cross between a bread roll and soda bread.
American cheese isn't 🧀 don't debate me 😂😂😂
Luckily some Americans have realised this and are now going down the artisan home made style of cheese but unfortunately I don't think it's widespread.....
it works both ways English chinese food isn't chinese food don't debate me , ever seen the look chinese people give you when ordering chips with their food? exactly
@@paulmilner8452 😆 👍
Americans have been making cheese since the country’s founding. What’s called American cheese is processed cheese, which you Brits have also only you call it singles, with brands like Dairylea. Do you think people don’t know this?
@@mmoretti we have the best selection of cheese available, american cheese isn't even on the same radar but i know you guys like to think you are the best at everything lol, cheese since you were founded? yeah british cheese that was .......... we've been making cheese alot longer like the rest of the world
We have Ice in our drinks in the UK unless we choose not to. I prefer not to have ice as it waters down the drink as it melts
Salad cream, mayo, ketchup, brown sauce, garlic mayo, sour cream and chives etc.
I like _almost_ all of those
Except Mayo😡😠😠 - which I _HATE_!!!.
I _LOVE Salad Cream!!!❤
(& Malt Vinegar❤)
Ohhh brown sauce is so good! I haven’t had it in years, forgot it existed.
Looking at white bread in US supermarkets, what the hell is in it to give it such a long expiry date?
Bread in the USA is made with flour treated with chemicals that make it stay softer for longer.
Preservatives.
A loaf can literally last for weeks 😬
Some of the same stuff that's used in the manufacture of yoga, sunbathing and camping mats, apparently. It keeps them spongey so I suppose it does the same in bread ... LOL!
Ice in the UK has to be made in ice cube in trays not many people own ice makers in summer you can buy bags of ice, most people only use ice in drinks when it's hot.
We were taught if we went aboard to country's that could give you a upset stomach don't drink the water, and decline ice in drinks as that will upset your stomach also.
Some people decline ice from fast food chains because the ice makers never get cleaned in some places and bacteria and mould has been found in ice, a TV programme showed the inside of ice cube makers in some fast food place's and they were gross, then staff were coming forward saying it was true they don't have time to clean them and sometimes they aren't even allowed to they need a service engineer every 6 months to do it, and it's to expensive to call a engineer just to clean pipes
Yes don't eat the ice or drink tap water in America.
When my cousin lived in Florida he mad the mistake of using ice from their fridge.
It was yellow😂
Mint and chocolate or just mint in general can be found all over the world either as an ingredient or a flavour.
There’s no reason why corndogs should be a big thing in the UK when we have sausage rolls.
Marshmallow is very popular in the UK and many other countries too…in fact there is a gourmet marshmallow company from Australia that often pops up in my TH-cam shorts.
No need for hot pockets when we have pasties (past-ease plural, past-ee singular) which are delicious either hot or cold and come in multitudes of flavours.
Ice in drinks is common in pubs and restaurants in the UK but it’ll be a handful of cubes with a really cold drink poured over. Often you will be asked if you want ice or ice and a slice too…we even have those reusable ice cubes and the stone ones too. Most if not all of Europe (and quite possibly the world outside of the US) doesn’t have unlimited refills as the norm but ice will be available and often the default, it’s the quantity of the ice used in the US that seems unnecessary.
White bread is very common in the UK, it just doesn’t have as much sugar in it. I believe that for most of continental Europe sliced store bought bread, is generally just used for toast.
Ranch is available in the UK (I’ve seen Newmans in supermarkets since before Paul Newman died), it’s just not overly common. We have loads of salad dressings, French, Italian, Caesar, honey mustard, thousand island, salad cream and mayonnaise amongst others including vinaigrettes. For dipping there’s garlic and onion, sour cream and chive, guacamole, salsa, hummus and other legume based ones amongst others.
What you call sweet tea, we just call iced tea and it’s been available for as long as I can remember here in the UK, just not overly common and usually lemon or peach flavoured.
Fried food isn’t a just US thing, it’s all over the world.
Pork cracklings are (as far as I’m aware) what we call pork scratchings in the UK. It’s only called crackling in the UK when it’s still attached to the roasted meat.
We have Chicago style pizzas in the freezer section in the UK and they are far easier to find than New York style.
Pop Tarts are available in the UK…disgusting (or at least I found them so the one time I tried them over thirty years ago).
Biscuits and gravy seems odd to those of us from the UK because the biscuits look very much like scones and we don’t generally top them with something excessively sauce based. Though I will point out that scones can be sweet, savoury or neutral in the UK.
Soft biscuits in the UK are not called cookies…they’re called stale and both hard and soft cookies are available in the UK but they are general style of biscuits. Fresh ones with a short shelf life will generally be soft but there are hard/crunchy shelf stable ones too but they are generally chocolate chip or raisin and oat etc.
Seems like there was an awful lot of non factual generalisations thrown out in this video.
I will say that when I visited the US in the 90’s as a vegetarian, not only was it a nightmare to actually find anything to eat in general, the fruit and veg seemed to have had the flavour grown out of it, the crisps were ridiculously greasy and the chocolate was horrible. We flew into Orlando and were surprised by being so far south but not hearing a southern accent in any of the places we visited (Orlando, Tampa, St Petersburg and Tallahassee) but we also visited Tupelo Mississippi, Memphis and Nashville. Stopped off In Birmingham Alabama to have some chocolate fudge cake (which at that time in the UK was known as Alabama Fudge Cake) and visited somewhere connected to the Civil War in Georgia (I can’t remember anything about it because I didn’t leave the car due to having taken some painkiller’s that unbeknownst to me were also sleeping tablets). The country was lovely, the people were lovely (even though the over the top customer service could make me feel a little uncomfortable…like being called ma’am when I was just 18 but the food we encountered was terrible, which makes me so annoyed when you find people from the US in the comments section going on about how awful UK food is but they’ve never left the US, so how do they actually know and I daresay that if I were to mention how terrible I found the food tasted when I actually visited there, I’d have someone come back with how things have improved in the last thirty years…but these same people can’t imagine the same thing in regards to UK food improving from when their ancestors visited eighty years ago when almost everything was under extreme rationing…sorry, that turned into a bit of a rant.
Actually we do corndogs I had them before I love them
@@michaelpierce826 I didn’t actually say we don’t have them, just that they’re not really a big thing here. Nice to know that they’re tasty though, as a vegetarian I’ve obviously never partaken 😊
Ever since I went to Italy I can only eat thin and crispy pizzas. If I have to have a deep dish pizza it has to include pineapple and sweetcorn.
If you like sweetcorn and pineapple on pizza, try adding in jalapeño too, it's delish😊
Hi guys.
With salad, I prefer to have Cypriot style and only olive oil and lemon with dried crushed mint as a dressing. (My dad is Greek Cypriot)
Other condiments I like depends on what I am adding them to.
Ketchup on fish fingers, brown sauce on bacon rolls/English breakfast
Mayo chicken in a roll with English style salad
I like barbecue dips and Peri peri sauce with a cheeky Nando’s etc.
Horseradish with beef is my absolute favourite but I rarely have it these days. It has a way of making my eyes water but I love it 😅
Btw, I’ve tried a Twinky, it was granular and over sweet, awful!
Toxic chemicals
Looks Like you should come to the UK and get away from all that awful food! We like some ice but not when it’s more than the actual drink, I hate it watering down my drinks. Cold from the tap or fridge is fine by me
Too much ice in coca cola causes it to be watered down. Less ice equals more coke.
What's the point of telling us to "try it" when the video is about what we don't like!
I can honestly say that I don't want to try most American food stuffs. There is no appeal whatsoever for me. Chocolate with mint is the exception though I don't know where it originated. Can't stand mayo - much prefer salad cream - sometimes mixed with tomato sauce (try it, its fab). Also, to me, adding a shed load of ice to my soft drinks is not on - you are getting less liquid due to the ice AND you're paying an extortionate price for the ice!
no they aren't we are ... in America they get free refills we don't
We have ice in the UK, but why fill your cup with ice (water) and have less room for the product you’re buying.
Hence the 'free' refills, you are probably getting the rest of the drink you should have had in the first place. IMO
The main things I think of that America does with food, that I don't like the look of are where you mix extreme sweets and savouries - like marshmallows on sweet potato next ti turkey at Thanksgiving... But I am not a huge sweet and savoury combo person.
There was me thinking hot pockets was just an American name for Pop Tarts.
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Nothing wrong with mint flavour but it depends on the product. Mint Aero chocolate, mint penguin biscuits etc are great.
❤After eight is so dangerous for a diabetic. 😂😂😂
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I love 'After Eights' (& I've type2 diabetes - but I never check my blood sugars!!)
@@brigidsingleton1596 i'm not checking each meal bc i'm not (yet) on insulin. But those after8 is so addictive for me i really needed to restrain myself. Early teen i could eat a box in no time. But now the limit is max two squares😋😋😋😋
Just popping in the comments, to say Lyndsay is so freaking pretty! Massive love from Rhondda, South Wales ❣
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Pizza - have it Italian style.
Salad cream, Branston pickle, Piccalilli (cheese, ham, sausage sandwiches), HP sauce, Daddies sauce, Tomato sauce for chips (fries), and in my hubby's case all over his egg and bacon! Tartar sauce for fish and chips, Mint sauce for lamb, apple sauce for pork, horseradish sauce for beef, cranberry sauce for turkey/chicken.
The one food thing that had me rattled in NY was butter.
I could get unsalted, which was okay, but I couldn't get salted, no great shakes, but what I could get, and in hindsight it doesn't surprise me, was sweetened and it tasted terrible! 😨
Mint flavoured anything is delicious. Mint chocolates, mint tea, mint chocolate biscuits, mint ice cream, mint sauce, mint jelly, the list goes on.☺
Depends on the mint. If your ingredient is mint then you are fine. If it's Mint™ a synthetic mint like substitute, then run away.
Crisps on butties are probably one, i went through a phase where all i would have for my dinner at work was a ham butty with loads of diced silverskin pickles and quavers on, it was amazing.
Cheese and onion crisp butty is my favourite go to comfort food. With a small lump of strong cheddar cheese on the side.
just put a jar of silverskin onions in my supermarket basket online.. Loved them since i was little when m Mother would buy a jar just for me to hae at Christmas or if a buffet was going to happen for the wider family, as I didn;t then like traditional pickled onions. My dad made jars and jars pf nuclear fuel strength pickled onions every year. in massive jars.. he gave a lot away to his siblings but we had loads too. The nearest I have found in a shop is Gardners.. crispy and at £4 odd a jar quite expensive these days. I get them for christmas. he used to leave all the pickling spices in the jars.. so they got more and more intensely flavoured. Never did a bad batch. He grew the onions himself as well.
Are there any chain stores in the US that sell nothing but quality foods without the chemicals?
Yes but they are expensive and only in the most affluent areas. They would be like Waitrose or Harrods, not accessible to the majority of regular Americans.
They have ones that claim to be organic.
But the American definition differs to ours.
Ice is pretty much always be served with a cold drink in a bar, cafe, restaurant etc. wines and beers are usually served chilled but no ice, and at home I’m happy with fridge cold and personally I’d never drink room temp water
PS: my American cousin, you enjoy grits, cucumber, and water. You seem to dislike anything with even a hint of flavour. 😂 You'd be very much in your culinary element as a tofu-centric vegan in Mongolia 😅🤢
Tofu-centric vegan in Mongolia 😂
Tartare sauce or Light Mayo with fish for me, plus a squeeze of lemon! Especially nice on a fish finger buttie!! 🇬🇧 😋
for shop bought tartare sauce, as something of an expert myself, lol.. the BEST is Waitrose essential range Tartare shop.. I now only buy that one.
@@mariahoulihan9483 Thanks for the tip!😘
well, if you like it creamy that is.. lol. @@jana7514
I think we just want value for money … want the drink with ice … not a glass of ice with a drop the drink you have ordered ….
lmao we love being robbed here what you talking about value? they can add ice there because they get free refills, we here get a mcdonalds coke and they add 10 cubes to it and give you half drink.... we can't refill it lol
You have lots of great food. Po' Boy Sandwich, Jambalaya, Gumbo, Pastrami on Rye and the best of all - warm, fresh Beignets! Yum! 😀
That's not a pizza, it's a flan.
it's a chicago town pizza invented by italian americans ....... to them it isn't a flan its pizza and their heritage , us brits can't tell americans what a pizza is despite it being italian its been heavily reinvented in the US from Italian families i think they'd know more than us tbf
We love condiments/dips/sauces so much in the UK that the top shelf of a high proportion of UK fridges is entirely dedicated to half-finished bottles and jars of a wide variety of mayos, salad creams, mustards, chutneys, relishes, chilli sauces etc. 😆
I wonder if climate might explain why cool foods and drinks are bigger in southern states .
SWEET potatoes. THEN sugar. THEN marshmallows - this food is a death sentence
US white bread is made from rubber gym mats. It’s banned in Europe. Thank god we don’t usually have ranch dressing. Not usually available in restaurants.
I'm British, and I LOVE ice in my cold drinks. Even in the depths of winter when the heating is out, my diet coke has 2 huge ice cubes in it 👌
we have mince and dumplings in gravy.
I cant stress this enough - the though of black pudding is gross... but its so yummy , not mind blowing but def tasty. Same for steak and kidney pie... we dont even think what the words mean its an S tier comfort food and hits the spot on a cold day
Liver and onions is superb.
Love liver and onions.with a good mashed potatoes
No thank you. I don't eat offal full stop.
I love all offal very good for you too , liver soaked in milk first to take out the bitterness, dust with flour and fry in a little veg oil . Make a nice onion gravy and a side of creamy mash very nice 😊
I prefer liver and bacon. ❤
Yes Lambs Liver & bacon onions cooked in a little beef gravy and mash potato on the side. yum yum
N Ireland here, with family a couple of miles away in the Republic of Ireland. We have ice here. In bars it's standard. But generally you have to ask for it. In the home it's used generally during the 2-9 days per year when it's sunny and warm :p Even in hot Euro countries like Spain, it's better to ask for less ice as it can disguise how much spirits they're giving you for your money.