Eating fries on bread and butter in USA would not be similair to UK because US bread has so much sugar and preservatives in it that it would like putting fries inbetween 2 slices of cake.
You're one of the quietest Americans I've ever heard and it's one of the reasons I love your channel. Most other Amercians really do seem to have shout levels of conversation wherever they go, and don't use what we call an 'indoor voice'!
So UK chip butties also won't be the same as fried. In the UK fries are slim cut chips whereas chips on a butty are chunky and then the butter melts from the heat of the chips and is just dreamy. Depending on taste you don't necessarily need the ketchup, just a little salt.
And UK we're behind Sweden, where it's no longer than a second. The banks can handle it. They have automatic share trading systems that do 10s of 1000s of transactions a second.
In the lock down I transfer 40k form HSBC to Halifax in one go, all because HSBC online account is awful, so I walked in the HSBC branched and took 4k out and transferred the rest. Then transferred it to my Monzo account. All went through in moments. I would of gone straight to Monzo but wasn't sure if they had any restrictions. I do love Monzo over anything I've tried. I've got both personal and business accounts. A great perk of the Monzo biz account is you can take payments from someone's card (tap and pay) straight to any supported android phone. You can literally type in £10 total and then tape the card in the back of the phone and it just works. Not sure what other banks offer this.
There's a meme I've seen. "In the US, you can drive for 6 hours and still be on the same state. In the UK, you can drive for 3 hours, the accents changed 4 times, and bread rolls have a different name."
Where I'm from (East Yorkshire) we call them breadcakes....I once went into a local shop near Oxford and asked the lass behind the counter if they had any breadcakes. She looked at me as though I'd broken into her house on Xmas morning and taken a dump under the tree. Then a voice of a woman from the back piped up...'he means baps!!' and she realised what I was asking her.
Why would a Brit even celebrate thanksgiving anyway? Its an American holiday, its a bit fkd up anyway to celebrate genocide. It would be like if the Germans had a day to celebrate Hitler. Its fkn bizarre
Also judging by the stuff we just saw, the sugar & chemical colouring content would be at illegal levels in the UK. Jeez. If they converted all that sugar to ethanol, they wouldn't need to drill for oil ever again.
We don’t have Thanksgiving because we encouraged the pilgrims to leave the UK. They left to wreak havoc amongst American Indians and you now celebrate it every year. We traditionally have roast dinners on a Sunday, all year round. Christmas Day is just more of the same.
You were about 15 years behind us with chip and pin, and I used my contactless card out of habit in Philly 5-6 years ago and first they looked at me like an idiot and started saying ‘no you need to put your card in the machine’ then it worked and they looked at me like I was a wizard. Contactless and card payments are so widespread even the smallest market stall has it.
It's like when I used to visit NYC and use the Subway and having to swipe the flimsy cards through the turnstiles. It drove me mad as I was used to swiping a travel card or my credit card here in london.
@@vickster5001 London got the first ticketing system in 1987, ticketing gates in 1987 and contactless tickets and bank cards introduced in 2012 on buses and and contactless cards implemented on the tube in 2014.
Chip & Pin UK - 2004 USA - 2015 - Still not fully rolled out Contactless ("NFC") UK - 2014 USA - ???? Yet Americans will still tell you they're more "technologically advanced" than the UK.... the only thing they are "more" of, is "deluded".
@@thefiestaguy8831 The ones who work in tech won’t tell you that. I have relatives who work in tech in USA. When they come over to UK they usually sigh with frustration that US has not adopted so many things we do over here. 😂😂😂
Anything even loosly resembling bread gets buttered in my house. Bread without butter is a travesty. My nephew eats sandwiches dry 🤢, we think he's broken😂.
It's not that bottled water is uncommon in the UK (you can buy it everywhere and lots of people drink it), it's just that the majority of people don't feel they _have_ to drink it as an alternative to tap water. Lots of people do still prefer bottled water but it's not 'weird' to drink tap water like it might be in certain parts of the US. Water quality differs by geographical location in the UK too but usually it's just how cloudy the water sometimes looks, it's rare that it actually tastes unusual. I was lucky enough to grow up in an area that gets particularly good water from a hilly/mountainous source and I remember being shocked to discover that not eveybody has crystal clear mineral quality water coming out of their taps 😂
It's getting worse for people ignorantly facetiming in public in the UK. Some people arrogantly think the whole world wants to hear their phone conversations. They'd probably be suited to being on reality TV when they're so vacuously self-important and superficial
Oh yes - thickly spread butter on the bread before you add the chips (fries), then the butter melts into the bread. You can forget the ketchup for me though. Oh, and crisp (chip) butties are also a thing here - great crunch!
Yes, just done the same with my daughter, and because we are always transferring money between us no issues. If I want to pay a builder or plumber then the first time I do it my bank checks that I am sure I want to do this and reminds me to be aware of scammers.😊
@@morbidsnails1913 I remember reading, more than 10 years ago, that barring exigent circumstances, you could expect a bank transfer (between any bank) to be completed within 30 minutes, usually much shorter.
She has realised a British roast dinner, every Sunday, is elite compared to an American Thanksgiving because we literally practise 52 weeks of the year 😊😂
I am currently roasting potatoes for partner and I’s tea (we’ve been out so his parents have had their tea). We’re having a duck and I’m frying off some mushrooms to with it.
The not buttering sandwiches is almost as incomprehensible as no electric kettles at first. However American butter is reportedly tasteless due to corn fed cows,and American electricity is too weak to make kettles that much of an improvement over antique cooker top kettles 😂
@@scousenotenglish2819 actually I agree now,though in my skint student days I got to quite like the taste of Stork marge which was dirt cheap! 😂 now I have to have real butter.
I have lived there and it's true about the butter but also about other foods if you have ever tasted Spanish bread then that's what american bread tastes like,really sweet.
@@ekatep6362 i don't understand that at all, casserole is a midweek thing not for anything like Sunday lunch and marshmallow wouldn't' go with gravy... I'm not a fan of sweet potatoes at all, although they're okay in mash disgusted by the white potato in a pinch.
The 'Sunday roast' died out as a weekly event in middle class families decades ago. It remains as an unchanging incessant event only in those households which are Trumpian in understanding and outlook.
Saying you don’t need any more fries in America, people are fat enough! CHIPS in uk are made by cutting up a potato, deep frying in non toxic oil, sprinkle with a little salt if preferred . NO additives, preservatives or any other added ingredients. Check out the list of items in your Mac Donald’s fries.
Too right. I sent some money to my brother and messaged him to tell him it was on the way. Banking App said within two hours. He told me it was already there!!!
@@annecunningham1151 I work at a UK bank & just FYI it tells you maximum timescales in case there's an issue. Standard transfer between accounts could take up to 24 hours, but 99.9% of them are done in less than 15 seconds. It's great, but then people have a full-on meltdown if it takes more than 5 minutes lol
In the UK we generally use the word casserole differently than the USA. We use it interchangeably with stew. Sweet potato casserole, as it has no sauce wouldn't be a casserole in the UK.
I wouldn't say it's interchangeable but might be a regional thing. Would be the same as chips and fries to some extent. Might be different types of stewed dishes but doesn't make then the same thing.
@@rossshepherd9836 Thanks for the correction. Being dyslexic I don't always get the spelling correct. But I'm sure most people understand what I was trying to say which surely is the point of communication.
UK: you want pay someone, you need their sort code (identifies the bank) and account number: the transfer automatically checks the name on the account (in case you've entered the a/c number wrong), then the transfer takes minutes. I've used it with tradesmen, buying a car... You name it. No faff. Simples.
Well, not always no faff! I had to pay nearly £3000 for roof repairs last year, and my bank refused it the first time as an unusual payment, I can understand them trying to protect me from scammers, but it’s still a pain - I had to record a video message on the app, then it let the payment through shortly afterwards.
@@arwelpoh, such a pain. Your bank protecting your money by asking you to record a video using the same device you're making the transaction with. Not like you had to go get a handy cam and upload it manually to your computer and their website. The feature is all integrated into the app so it really is no more hassle than pointing a camera at your face. 1st world problems 😅
@@arwelpthat's still a better solution than having to haul your arse to the nearest bank, find and pay for a parking spot, wait in line for an open tiller only to realise that your bank doesn't actually have a building you can even enter within 30 miles from you and you're actually stood an a Greggs.
The difference with US foods is that they contain a lot more ingredients than necessary, because they try to enhance the flavours or the appearance with chemicals. UK fries contain three ingredients, potatoes, oil and salt. US fries contain up to 19 ingredients!
We Brits tend to be 'Early Adopters' of new technologies. VCRs and Home Computers are very good examples with which we were WAY ahead of the USA. On banking: I haven't paid any bank charges for at least 30 years now. 🙂 Chip Butties? Lovely!!!
Well, not always. I love a chip butty, but cannot have the bread buttered as it melts (of course) and makes the bread soggy and I can't abide soggy bread, or toast.
To me,french fries have a hard outside that make them very indigestible,whereas chips don't.I would never go to the States (not that I'm ever likely to) because I wouldn't be able to get proper, eatable chips (except at a British/Irish style pub over there). How can they eat dry bread without butter/marg/vitality etc on ? It's absolute madness !🤭 I love butter,etc on hot sarnies too,it melting and dripping on whatever it is your eating is just heavenly.A fried egg sarnie without butter,etc, I just can't get my head round how sterile that would be .🤯🥺🤯 That quote about the US going from barbarism to democracy without any evolution between the two,spring to mind !🤭🤣😂🤣🤭👍🏼🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️
I'd go further and say we have 3 kinds. Chips (proper, like from chip shops), fries (about 1cm thick, bought-in, frozen in bags by pubs etc) and French fries (extra thin disgusting reconstituted muck as served by the yellow arches).
In the uk we literally put butter on every sandwich or roll. A chip butty is best with chippy chips though and in Scotland we loooove our brown sauce more than tomato sauce! Also lots off people have chips with pizza x
I was having Christmas lunch on the Oporto, Portugal, quayside. Next to me was an American couple talking via a tablet to family in California and I know exactly what they got for Christmas - a great big car that involved a trip outside to view in great detail. The lady was the talker and when her husband suggested that she might be disturbing her fellow diners, she said "It's Christmas" and carried on. My companion was stone deaf in one ear and had tinnitus so conversation was impossible but the English in me prevented me from remonstrating and I have spent 5 years resenting her and myself! Maybe writing this will prove cathartic?!
Where is she in the UK as for drinking bottled water it’s in every child’s school backpack everyone going to the gym and I drink bottled water even though are water is safe but I can’t believe as bottled water is in everyone’s hands and homes. My dog and cat get filtered water lol. Nobody eats chips with pizza that I know but yes you can have them with other meals as they’re basically potatoes and you cook them in the oven in a health way or most people use an air fryer.
Interesting fact Coca-Cola sold Desani in the UK , it was a Coca-Cola branded bottled water. However they got in bother when it was discovered that were just bottling UK tap water.
Also it coincided with an episode of Only Fools and Horse - a comedy show in the UK - where the main character was bottling tap water and calling it Peckham Spring.
There is a whole rabbit hole in the UK about bread rolls: rolls, buns, baps, barm cakes, Scotties it goes on and on. Very regional and people get very protective over their bread products. Bonkers but quite entertaining.
And to really get into it, start throwing in Scones, Potato Scones (Scottish), Potato Farls / Potato Bread, etc. All of the potato-breads absolutely wonderful with a Full English.
@@letitiakearney2423 yup and it is _likely_ that Scottish potato scones are a local derivative of those. Obviously, we know that neither can predate the import of potatoes to Europe from the Americas, so at most only a relative few centuries ago.
I grew up near Tebay, I’ll be honest, I didn’t expect to see it mentioned here! It is famous because it is in the Lake District, and there is local produce there. It is incredibly expensive (like all service stations).
Also, I think the lady is far too critical of her homeland. My wife and I have been to New York and San Francisco in the last 18 month and we loved our time over there. I think it is very easy to criticise where you’re from (believe me, I’d do it about England!).
Gloucester too. And yes lol I was going to say, if she wants a date at a service station, this does NOT make her a cheap date lol. £1.80 for a 45g packet of cheese and onion omg!
UK rest stops tend to be like large mall complexes with various franchises and shops. They are generally very light and airy with lots of glazing. Some are also landscaped with lakes and such.
I have to confess to laughing so hard when my American friend bragged that she made her green bean casserole ‘from scratch’. Turns out that means fresh beans in a CAN OF MUSHROOM SOUP!!! That’s all kinds of wrong. Also, come on, be honest, when you mentioned sweet potato casserole - that’s mashed sweet potatoes covered with marshmallows, and eaten with turkey and the aforementioned bean casserole etc. Guys. And don’t even get me started on the gravy!
@@heatherfruin5050that is factually incorrect, there are some articles that state apple pie was created via the influence of Dutch cuisine but apple pie is in fact English and the first apple pie recipe does originate in England.
A great number of people drink bottled water they just don't drink it exclusively like Americans. Sometimes it's easier for me to grab a bottle if I'm not home
To me fries are the shoestring ones you get at McDonald's. A chip butty needs thick cut chips, crisp exterior but fluffy, squidgy potato interior. Fries and chips are not the same in UK lingo!
In the UK banks have there own banking apps and you just transfer money to whoever you want to and it's an instant transfer. You don't have to wait for it to be approved etc.
A US airport is the scariest place, i dont understand why everyone is so aggressive. I have travelled pretty extensively, and no other airport security is that aggressive, and this was even before 9/11
Have you ever been to Sydney airport? I've travelled there half a dozen times and treated like a criminal for 5...I thought my partner would have to have a anal, he stripped as many metal things he could..in the end they decided the "device" was, a lead pine cone, attatched to the cuckoo clock we'd bought!
The UK is responsible for many banking innovations. Like cash machines, chip and pin, contactless payments and online banking. So naturally we get them first and makes us appear advanced. 😂
@@markdu8762 The Swedes had the first paper money in Europe, about 35 years (1660) before the Bank of England. Paper money was useful for Swedes because they didn’t have much silver to make coins - they used large copper plates instead, the largest, worth 10 daler, weighed nearly 20 kg! Unfortunately they printed too much, which they couldn’t back with metal, and Stockholms Banco went bust within a few years.
@@arwelp Paper money was in use in the UK before the bank of England was established. They were called promissory notes and could literally be on any bit of paper/fabric but had an amount and signature/seal to verify it.
On the chip butty, it's important to note that the type of chips usually used are different from French fries - they are a lot chunkier and best from a chippy. Also, 100% with butter, preferably on a barm! Pure heavy carb-fest but can be so good
Reststops in the UK are called 'Service stations' or 'Services' And they are meant to do what it says, Offer different services, They have places to buy hot food, Hot drinks and places you can actually rest, We are near a services here and it has a WH Smiths, Mcdonalds, Costa coffee, Starbucks, Sainsburys, Greggs, KFC, Spar, Theres even arcade machines and a few other things, Theres a noodle place which i cant remember the name of and a place called Leons who do hot cookies and donuts.
"Pizza and chips" was a kids meal in the 1980s/1990s. It was cheap to buy one frozen pizza and give the kids only 1-2 slices each, then pad the meal out with chips, onion rings etc. Even baked beans. Maybe some areas of the country still do that, but I've not had it since about 1993 lol.
I occasionally do a "pizza dinner" Like you I hadn't had it since the early 90's but it's had a revival in my house. Sometimes we have Pizza, sometimes it's a Pizza Dinner
We don't have Thanks Giving in the UK, We have Harvest Festival instead, which as far as I can remember, is about thanking God for the bounty of the year. People will drop food at the church or school which is then distributed among the needy. Now we just have food banks. Regarding chip butties, we British don't put 8 million tons of sugar into each loaf of bread, so I doubt a chip buttie will taste the same as one made in the US.
saw 2 reaction videos of amercians making a chip butty the couple mad a fair go using steak cut chips (oven baked) but then used butter from a squirty bottle. 2 girls went the whole hog peel spuds thick cut twice fried but also remembered artistan bread then made 4 butties one ketchup, one HP, one mayo, and one just S&V the look one one of the ladies when she tried the HP was priceless
RE Thanksgiving food - to really blow your mind, wait until you discover that Pumpkin Pie as a British invention! No kidding. Your Thanksgiving is sort of a combination of our Christmas Dinners, with elements of our Harvest Festival. In recent decades, and possibly even since the post-war depression years, the Harvest Festival has become less of a thing in the UK, but it used to be a time for donating food for those who might otherwise struggle over the winter months, usually combined with a Village Fete - lots of baked goods, jams and preserves, proper gingerbread, and generally celebrating another year's successful harvest. Just like with your Thanksgiving, there are certain dishes or sides that are traditional at Christmas and almost never seen outside of that context - Brussel Sprouts being one of those (and definitely something many loathe). Christmas cake and Christmas pudding, Brandy Snaps, and so forth. It is also one of the times when one might see less popular/ordinary roast meats such as Goose, Duck and of course Turkey. However, the Brits have a very strong tradition for 'the Sunday Roast Dinner' (also available in virtually every pub that serves food) which is a roast meat (Chicken, Beef or Pork usually), roast potatoes, gravy, maybe yorkshire pudding (especially if the roasted meat is beef), apple sauce if the meat is pork, mint sauce with roast lamb, etc. There will be other vegetables too of course, such as carrots, peas, roasted tomatoes perhaps, maybe parsnips, and this is kind of a tradition for each week (though many skip it at least occasionally for a picnic instead in the summers).
Bottled water is far more common here in the UK than it used to be. Our tap water is filtered and UV disinfected so is safe to drink. The mobile phone face timing thing is becoming common here in the UK. It's maddening.
The tap water here in the north-east of UK both smells and tastes of chlorine like it’s been taken from the local swimming baths 🤢🤮. It’s okay once it’s been boiled in a kettle, but otherwise, I drink bottled water.
Bottled water is pretty common in the UK but the tap water is fine - and free - and you're not contributing to excess plastic. When I say free, we pay 'water rates' on our properties.
Tap water in Scotland tastes better than a lot of bottled water. I went to Florida, and the water was not fit for human consumption, and as they make ice from that water it taints all your drinks.
I never buy bottled water in the UK and I don't know many other people who buy it regularly. I only buy it when I'm abroad where tap water may not be drinkable. If i'm travelling, hiking, etc I have a bottle of water, but it's filled from the tap. Only an idiot pays for water when they can drink free tap water.
I grew up in West Yorkshire on the millstone grit. Beautiful soft water, soap lathers so easily and the water tastes wonderful. I still haven't adapted after 50 living in a hard water area on the Hampshire chalk, where limescale furs up your pipes and your kettle and it doesn't taste half as good.
Bottled water is common to have when 'out and about', but people rarely stock up on it to drink at home. Our tap water is fine and a surprising amount of care goes into fine-tuning the hardness and the taste - most regional water boards regularly taste-teste for how well the water suits making tea, for example. For a fair old while, London water in particular was famous for the world's most advanced recycling processes (and quantity) given that the main source is simply rainfall and a huge natural aquifer. (Nobody was going to use the Water from the Thames river back in the 60s and 70s, on which the fictional waters of Ankh-Morpork from Terry Pratchett's famous diskworld novels was based).
Always dismayed to see so many American You Tubers sitting in their own homes drinking bottles and bottles of single use bottled water. Think of the environmental impact of millions of Americans doing this every time they want a drink of water. Sort it out USA!
I love how you always end up going down different rabbit holes from a singular word as I do that too. And I enjoy seeing your reactions. I'm from the UK and have met dozens of Americans through gaming and they are always have a culture shock when I talk about things here
6:00 in the UK, you always butter any bread, that’s just how you have bread. Making a sandwich? Butter the bread. Making toast for breakfast? Spread a layer of butter under the jam or nutella etc.
Chips and pizza are super common especially if you make it at home. Most place gives them free as sides. P.S shoutout to TEES BAY it's great. It's not T it's prolonged E "teees"
@@gillianhollins3003 I came to argue, it's teesbay. Then decided to go on Google to validate my point BUT TURNS OUT WERE BOTH right. There's tebay and teesbay 😂. Because she wasn't exactly sure on her pernunciation, I assumed it was the one near me.
@@gillianhollins3003 I was originally going to debate you I searched, turns out we're BOTH right in different ways, there's tebay and teesbay I assumed it's the one near me BUT after searching it's Most likely yours it's way nicer, I assumed she didn't know how to pronounce it (tee at T)
The clip with the British boys trying Thanksgiving food is from a TH-cam channel called Jolly, which has a number of videos of them being introduced to American food and snacks. Worth watching.
Pizza and chips is a very common combo in the UK, especially in schools. Most pizza restaurants don't do it but you can get potato wedges from most popular places, like Dominos and Pizza Hut
Fun fact that most Americans dont actually know, their pumpkin pie isn't pumpkin. If you buy pumpkin pie from any store or make it from a can its actually butternut squash. Its cheaper, easier to manage, easier to grow and cooks up easier. This is why.
It never occurred to me that someone in the US couldn't just send money from their bank account to someone else's, no matter where they bank. In the UK, I've been able to send money to anyone else using online banking or my bank app and it arrive in under 60 seconds for over 20 years
My banking APP has Zelle. My aunt has a different bank because she lives in Houston and send her money and apparently it’s fast because she calls to confirm that she received the money. According to the internet Zelle was founded in 2016 so she probably left before knowing the US made transferring money easier
When I buy second-hand items from the seller's home, I usually just transfer money into their account via phone and they have it almost immediately, before I've loaded my car.
No our security is equally strict, we have updated equipment now where your carry on bag goes through without removing anything from the bag, you still have to remove, belts, maybe shoes, watches and so on
I'm from the UK and I must confess to speaking to people on my phone with speaker on. In my defence I am partially deaf and wear hearing aids and can only hear the person on the other end of the call with the speaker on because of the background noise around me. With me it's not a choice it's a necessity. Generally when I'm out and need to contact someone I text unless it's an emergency. Due to my age, most of friends are seniors and they want to talk to me not text. 😀
Who uses cheques these days? I have used one in maybe 20 years, and that was only because some archaic Government department insisted on it. I had to order a new chequebook just so I could pay it.
We have this in the US as well. I have an app where I can deposit checks (which are rare) by taking a photo. I can send money to other people instantly through Zelle or Venmo.
I’m in the UK & regularly visit my mum in Spain. Firstly transferring money to family or businesses within Europe is really easy. Money has taken a maximum of 20 minutes to get to my mum. Usually it’s less than 1 minute. In Alicante Spain they have a separate security area for the disabled as it takes us longer to go through because of more checks. But doing it this way means the abled body lines & disabled lines both move smoothly & quickly.
Chips are eaten as the carb part of many meals. But here they are potato and nothing else. The problem in the US is too much hyper processed ingredients and too large portions. Ban high fructose corn syrup
The card thing is a nightmare if you deal with American customers in the UK. I used to work in Stamford Hill which is one of the most Jewish areas in the UK. A lot of our customers were American Jews visiting families and their cards presented particular issues as they often would not work on self scans and I had to physically input their card numbers to get the sale to go through. To be fair they were usually patient about this but it was irksome when you had a lot of people with this issue in a queue. You don't get charged penalty fees here unless you hit an overdraft.
There’s a Roman museum in one of the service stations in the south ? Kent … all the artefacts dug up when they were building …. Years ago you couldn’t get a coffee after 10pm … so coffee was available in the service station …
Another passenger once threw the mobile of the guy opposite out of the window at Clapham junction as he was sick of hearing the same conversation 16 times … the communication bell was pulled ..so the train stopped, transport police arrived phone retrieved from track and 40 minutes later the train moved again …
Check out a traditional British Sunday Roast Dinner and maybe you'll understand why Thanksgiving once a year is NOTHING cos we get to eat our equivalent every week!
@@hypsyzygy506 no reason at all - I do it myself - that’s why I put cheat in quotes - but it may give the impression that more people drink bottled water than they actually do
At the end of a holiday in Majorca about 30 years ago I was asked why I drank bottled water. I found out that the tap water was from mountain springs and was healthy too.
Unfortunately people seem to have forgotten that phones can be held to your ear more and more here (UK). Most people aren't face timing, they're just holding a phone to their mouth and shouting at it.
If I get a phone call in public, I tell them i’ll call back later. I would never keep my phone with the sound on in a restaurant. I would just check it randomly, and maybe write a short text. I’m danish.
UK McDonalds also have less chemicals in them, Do a comparison of the ingredients list for a UK and US McDonalds, it will shock you, The US items will have a list of 15-20 things most of which you need a chemistry degree to understand, the UK the ingredients list will be about 6 items long and you'll be able to identify everything as something you can buy from a supermarket, obviously still not the healthiest thing in the world as they are full of sugar, salt and fat, but much better than the US equivalent that you don't feel anywhere near as guilty taking your kids for a treat at the weekend.
Most British do not like sweet and savoury on our roast dinners. Roast meat. Cauliflower cheese. Carrot, roast potatoes , peas. Green beans. Roast parsnips of course Yorkshire pudding we might cook carrots and parsnips with honey glaze Broccoli and other vegetables are used.
So we don't like sweet and savoury, but then you go on to list things that are all either sweet or savoury. Hrmm... So we do in fact like sweet AND savoury. What We or at least I don't like are things loaded with extra sugar. Which it seems most American food seems to be. They single handedly keep the Canadian economy going with their insistence on smothering everything with Maple Syrup. Here the absolute limit is the occasional Sponge with Golden Syrup in it. It's the LAW!
I suggest you watch the video ‘Food Wars’ on the differences with McDonalds in the US and UK, you’ll see what ingredients we have in fries compared to the US. Transferring money in the UK is almost instant, in some cases quicker than physically getting money out of your wallet. ‘Chip butties’ are a must but only works in the UK as the US bread is more like cake, it’s too sweet. Our tap water is delicious and I much prefer to drink it to bottled water and not contribute to plastic waste.
The British having Chips as part of main meals, alongside pizza or sausages or a beef mince pie, etc. could be an age thing. Those under 25 (this is a guesstimate) might not be used to that but older people will be, because it was more common in the 70s, 80s and 90s. So comments saying it's not popular are more likely to be from younger people and of course not everyone has chips and something meals, so there's that too. edit: The Chips and Pizza meal is more of a cooked at home meal, than a takeaway one too, though several pizza delivery places do have chips on their menus too. I know I've had it from time to time.
Also in the 70s and up to the mid 80s, pizzas were not the size of a small table, and home delivery was yet to become a thing. They were more often than not, no more than 8 inches across, and lived in the freezer. So there was plenty of room for chippie chips.
This often offends americans to find out, but apple pie and even pumpkin pie... is british. Apple pie is way older than america. Britain has always been a pie loving island. So pumpkin pie was logically created when the pumpkin was first imported to the uk. On top of this, even Mac n cheese existed in the uk before america. Admittedly none of them are as common in the uk, because we prefer meat pies and other pasta dishes. But they are british food. You can have pecan pie.
Butter is always added to sandwiches unless you clearly state you don't want it. This is really annoying if, like me, you don't like it. On the occasions I've been to sandwich shops I have had to get 'no butter' in very quickly. Buttered bread is definitely the norm over here.
I remember being in the UK and the sandwiches were pre-made and in a case. I asked for one without butter and they said they were pre-buttered. But this was 20 years ago, so maybe things have changed. I'm used to delis where you get sandwiches however you want them.
Just came back from Sardinia and they had a pizza with chips on it on a menu. Suprised. Never seen pizza and chips in the UK (but accept it must be a thing in some areas) Have seen jacket potato and pizza though :) Agree about convenience of transferring money in UK. Instant. None of my friends in UK really carry any cash now. Was also suprised that in Sardinia that there were parking payment machines that still only accepted cash and in shops/supermakets locals were mostly still using cash. In UK people pay contactless, or if too high value, use card and pin.
Motorway rest stops such as Welcome break are nothing like Bucc-ees which is more like a out of town retail outlet our service areas are meal based rest stops ....
When she said Americans are loud, can't say that about you, your quietness is what drew me to watching your videos, Butter was originally put on sandwiches for picnics, by spreading the butter all over the bread right up to the edges you stop the contents making the bread soggy, nobody wants soggy butties 😊
Met many Americans, the stereotype is true. The last two Americans I met I literally heard before I even saw them. Their loud talking about "profit scale factor" on the phone was audible before I noticed them. This was in central London. By contrast I spoke to about 20 people from probably about 5 different countries before that, and they were all more pleasant. Give me any european, australian or someone from timbuktu over an American any day of the week.
@@W0rdsandMus1c Sure. But I was talking about Americans. Who I have found to be the loudest people out of the lot, and i've been to numerous countries many times.
JJLA in the UK we have been able to instant transfer to someone on our phones for year as most of our banks have their own app (in bank before apps, some non ''my'' bank transfers would take upto 3 days i think it was) and you can usually have 99% control over your accounts on the app(bank dependant), we can basically do all our banking with just our bank on our phones instantly - transfers, direct debits, moving money from one account to the other, and so on. I didn't realise you guys didnt get this too.
"what will it be for tea tonight, will it be salad or frozen peas" "will it be mushrooms, fried onion rings, we'll have to wait and see" "hope its chips its chips".
Chips tend to be oven chips which are usually lower fat /lower salt. You can choose to add salt to taste. Often we put salt and vinegar on. Chip shop chips are deep fried and bought as take away. The chips she refers to with other meals depends whether in restaurant (usually fries) or done yourself (usually oven chips).
I have just returned from a visit to the US and used airports in Chicago and LA and the security and immigration staff were really aggressive and rude. Put someone in a uniform and they turn into a Dictator
Unlike the renowned Atlanta Airport Security Staffs; well known by most flyers for being cold, indifferent & unfriendly, and that's when they're at their happiest best of times (minutes/hours/day) too.
Sandwiches: as a pre-war (WWII) sandwich eater, and despite WWII RATIONING, I have never had a sandwich without both sides buttered. Recently, I discovered that Americans don’t do this. How on Earth do you manage to stick the filling to the bread slices, and how awful does it taste?
Specify! When you say 'both sides buttered' some poor American is going to wonder if you mean both sides of each slice of bread, rather than both (inner) sides of the sandwich. 🤣
Brits have no issue using Facetime, we used Skype for years before Facetime became a thing BUT this is done when we're sat at home, or in a hotel, somewhere private NOT out in public, when you're not going to be able to give your full attention to the Facetime call as you're still walking around, aware of people around you etc etc
Aussies butter our bread too, unless there’s that one person in your circle of friends who chooses not to, but it tastes better with butter, the butter forms a barrier against liquids seeping into the bread and making it soggy, and it can also bring a balance to the flavours in the sandwich. I always butter my bread.
Why do Aussies have to try and make stuff all about them? Everytime there is a vid about the UK, there are always Aussies in the comment trying to make it about them We don't care. If we wanted to know about your little country, the vid would be about you. But we don't so its not
14:01 a lot of our rest stops off the main motorways are like little shopping villages. Some sell local farm produce, they have at least one supermarket food hall, souvenir shops, florists, clothes, music, books, great restaurants (some have at least 12 restaurants/fast food takeaways. They aren’t all that wonderful but they are very good & always clean (at least in my experience).
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Eating fries on bread and butter in USA would not be similair to UK because US bread has so much sugar and preservatives in it that it would like putting fries inbetween 2 slices of cake.
Or brioche
US butter is pretty crap, too.
THEY PUT SUGAR IN BREAD💀🤣
@@crumpetman yea there is a lot of sugar in American sliced breads.
@@artasium1😱😱😱🤢🤢🤮🤮🤮
You HAVE to butter the bread, and the chips have to be hot so the butter melts around the chips and into the bread. Ketchup is optional.
I still can’t believe Americans don’t put butter on there sandwiches!
Savages! 🤣 😉
I was really genuinely shocked when I first learned that Americans don't butter their sandwiches! 😮
No, that can't be the case...a sandwich without butter, barbaric
Sandwich spread? Or maybe mayonnaise?
I think their butter is inferior even to our margarines.... never had it so i don't know but people say this
Neither do iI and I am a Brit. with fillings you cannot taste it wasted calories i think!
You're one of the quietest Americans I've ever heard and it's one of the reasons I love your channel. Most other Amercians really do seem to have shout levels of conversation wherever they go, and don't use what we call an 'indoor voice'!
IN DOOR VOICE UP YOUR ASS.
i fully agree.
He’s like the 2nd quiet American I came across. I also watch an Irish person who’s louder
Your voice is so soothing!
So UK chip butties also won't be the same as fried. In the UK fries are slim cut chips whereas chips on a butty are chunky and then the butter melts from the heat of the chips and is just dreamy. Depending on taste you don't necessarily need the ketchup, just a little salt.
if it takes days for your money to transfer, it is definitely behind. Our money can be transferred almost instantly unless its a really large amount
I've just transferred £500 from my account with Barclays to my other account with HSBC...........Instant!
Same in Denmark.
Yup, just did a transfer. Closed the first bank app went to the second bank app. It was there already
And UK we're behind Sweden, where it's no longer than a second. The banks can handle it. They have automatic share trading systems that do 10s of 1000s of transactions a second.
In the lock down I transfer 40k form HSBC to Halifax in one go, all because HSBC online account is awful, so I walked in the HSBC branched and took 4k out and transferred the rest. Then transferred it to my Monzo account. All went through in moments.
I would of gone straight to Monzo but wasn't sure if they had any restrictions. I do love Monzo over anything I've tried. I've got both personal and business accounts.
A great perk of the Monzo biz account is you can take payments from someone's card (tap and pay) straight to any supported android phone.
You can literally type in £10 total and then tape the card in the back of the phone and it just works. Not sure what other banks offer this.
There's a meme I've seen. "In the US, you can drive for 6 hours and still be on the same state. In the UK, you can drive for 3 hours, the accents changed 4 times, and bread rolls have a different name."
Where I'm from (East Yorkshire) we call them breadcakes....I once went into a local shop near Oxford and asked the lass behind the counter if they had any breadcakes. She looked at me as though I'd broken into her house on Xmas morning and taken a dump under the tree. Then a voice of a woman from the back piped up...'he means baps!!' and she realised what I was asking her.
Where I come from they're called cobs , go in the pub and have a cheese & onion cob with your pint 😊. 👍
I can even tell if someone is from the town 5 miles away by the way they pronounce 'found'
3hours? So about 30 miles then.
The other meme is. 100 years is a long time in the US. 100 Miles is a long way in the UK.
We really don’t need Thanksgiving every week because we have Sunday roasts.
Absolutely. I can't understand saving the joy of a roast dinner for once or twice a year!
We should give thanks that most of the nutters crossed the Atlantic to the New World.
The UK's Christmas dinners are similar to a Thanksgiving dinner, too.
@@jamesdignanmusic2765 not really, we don’t have many of the same things. Turkey is about the only similarity.
@@Escapee5931 Hahahahahah
"Why isn't there a Thanksgiving restaurant?" In the UK we have carveries. And Sunday Roasts, in the pub and at home...
That's why.
Why would a Brit even celebrate thanksgiving anyway? Its an American holiday, its a bit fkd up anyway to celebrate genocide. It would be like if the Germans had a day to celebrate Hitler. Its fkn bizarre
No we don't have them because thanksgiving is an American thing.
Also judging by the stuff we just saw, the sugar & chemical colouring content would be at illegal levels in the UK. Jeez. If they converted all that sugar to ethanol, they wouldn't need to drill for oil ever again.
We don’t have Thanksgiving because we encouraged the pilgrims to leave the UK. They left to wreak havoc amongst American Indians and you now celebrate it every year. We traditionally have roast dinners on a Sunday, all year round. Christmas Day is just more of the same.
You were about 15 years behind us with chip and pin, and I used my contactless card out of habit in Philly 5-6 years ago and first they looked at me like an idiot and started saying ‘no you need to put your card in the machine’ then it worked and they looked at me like I was a wizard. Contactless and card payments are so widespread even the smallest market stall has it.
It's like when I used to visit NYC and use the Subway and having to swipe the flimsy cards through the turnstiles. It drove me mad as I was used to swiping a travel card or my credit card here in london.
@@vickster5001 London got the first ticketing system in 1987, ticketing gates in 1987 and contactless tickets and bank cards introduced in 2012 on buses and and contactless cards implemented on the tube in 2014.
Chip & Pin
UK - 2004
USA - 2015 - Still not fully rolled out
Contactless ("NFC")
UK - 2014
USA - ????
Yet Americans will still tell you they're more "technologically advanced" than the UK.... the only thing they are "more" of, is "deluded".
We've been using contactless payments in the UK since 2007 so massive L on you only discovering it 5-6 years ago
@@thefiestaguy8831 The ones who work in tech won’t tell you that. I have relatives who work in tech in USA. When they come over to UK they usually sigh with frustration that US has not adopted so many things we do over here. 😂😂😂
Anything even loosly resembling bread gets buttered in my house. Bread without butter is a travesty. My nephew eats sandwiches dry 🤢, we think he's broken😂.
Depends on the bread. And whether or not it is going to be cheese on toasted.
Fish finger sandwich is ace
It's not that bottled water is uncommon in the UK (you can buy it everywhere and lots of people drink it), it's just that the majority of people don't feel they _have_ to drink it as an alternative to tap water. Lots of people do still prefer bottled water but it's not 'weird' to drink tap water like it might be in certain parts of the US.
Water quality differs by geographical location in the UK too but usually it's just how cloudy the water sometimes looks, it's rare that it actually tastes unusual.
I was lucky enough to grow up in an area that gets particularly good water from a hilly/mountainous source and I remember being shocked to discover that not eveybody has crystal clear mineral quality water coming out of their taps 😂
It's getting worse for people ignorantly facetiming in public in the UK. Some people arrogantly think the whole world wants to hear their phone conversations. They'd probably be suited to being on reality TV when they're so vacuously self-important and superficial
Oh yes - thickly spread butter on the bread before you add the chips (fries), then the butter melts into the bread. You can forget the ketchup for me though. Oh, and crisp (chip) butties are also a thing here - great crunch!
Agreed ketchup would be an abomination imho. It's all about the grease upon grease, creamy against crunchy melty melty butter
Thank you for spelling "butties" correctly ;P
Don't forget the salt and vinegar...😂
Mmm chip sandwich... bbq chips on buttered fresh white bread.
Cheese and onion crisps, cheap white bread, anchor butter👌
Thanksgiving dinner is a roast dinner eaten once a year, for the U.K. it’s a Sunday roast eaten weekly
I recently transferred 3K to my sisters account of a totally different bank to mine, it was with her within a couple of minutes
yeah. My bank warns me that it "may take up to 2 hours" for a (bank to bank) transfer but it's usually almost instant
Yes, just done the same with my daughter, and because we are always transferring money between us no issues. If I want to pay a builder or plumber then the first time I do it my bank checks that I am sure I want to do this and reminds me to be aware of scammers.😊
@@morbidsnails1913 I remember reading, more than 10 years ago, that barring exigent circumstances, you could expect a bank transfer (between any bank) to be completed within 30 minutes, usually much shorter.
@@katiperry8533 I had to wait more than ten seconds in a petrol station today.. that's never happened before.
Done similar with a transfer app to Bulgaria. Took five minutes.
She has realised a British roast dinner, every Sunday, is elite compared to an American Thanksgiving because we literally practise 52 weeks of the year 😊😂
I am currently roasting potatoes for partner and I’s tea (we’ve been out so his parents have had their tea). We’re having a duck and I’m frying off some mushrooms to with it.
@@katashworth41 mushrooms with roast?
@@lillired857 Yes, but I will eat mushrooms with pretty much anything savoury.
LOL.
American Thanksgiving and their Christmas meal is a copy from the UK and Charles Dickens books
The not buttering sandwiches is almost as incomprehensible as no electric kettles at first. However American butter is reportedly tasteless due to corn fed cows,and American electricity is too weak to make kettles that much of an improvement over antique cooker top kettles 😂
I hate butter and marg.
Dry bread always for me, even dry toast when I have sausage on toast or egg on toast.
Electric kettles in the U.S. do boil water better than a stove top kettle. There have been trials.
@@scousenotenglish2819 actually I agree now,though in my skint student days I got to quite like the taste of Stork marge which was dirt cheap! 😂 now I have to have real butter.
@@promiscuous675 yep,but not by that much which may be why the Americans haven’t adopted them.
I have lived there and it's true about the butter but also about other foods if you have ever tasted Spanish bread then that's what american bread tastes like,really sweet.
Most UK households have a Sunday roast every week and most of us have it with all the trimmings so it’s like Thanksgiving dinner every week!
But better
I dont, I'll cook a roast every now and then. Usually duck but it's once in a blue moon and I don't cook roasts consistently.
But we don't put mashed sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top. So grim. And their version of "casseroles", green beans with soup is a "casserole"
@@ekatep6362 i don't understand that at all, casserole is a midweek thing not for anything like Sunday lunch and marshmallow wouldn't' go with gravy... I'm not a fan of sweet potatoes at all, although they're okay in mash disgusted by the white potato in a pinch.
The 'Sunday roast' died out as a weekly event in middle class families decades ago. It remains as an unchanging incessant event only in those households which are Trumpian in understanding and outlook.
Saying you don’t need any more fries in America, people are fat enough! CHIPS in uk are made by cutting up a potato, deep frying in non toxic oil, sprinkle with a little salt if preferred . NO additives, preservatives or any other added ingredients. Check out the list of items in your Mac Donald’s fries.
Chicken and chips, pie and chips, sausage and chips, gammon and chips and of course chips and curry sauce to name a few
yip, and much less fat on ours due to the surface area of there's being huge in comparison.
Please upvote this more!!
And our chips are thicker than fries, larger surface area, less fat.
You should have googled one of our motorway service station.
She forgot to add, we use our bank app to transfer money,.
It takes seconds to send and receive the money being transfered.
I forgot to add that part in my comment as well :D
Too right. I sent some money to my brother and messaged him to tell him it was on the way. Banking App said within two hours. He told me it was already there!!!
@@annecunningham1151 I work at a UK bank & just FYI it tells you maximum timescales in case there's an issue. Standard transfer between accounts could take up to 24 hours, but 99.9% of them are done in less than 15 seconds.
It's great, but then people have a full-on meltdown if it takes more than 5 minutes lol
@@Dan_Gilpin Hahahahaha
In the UK we generally use the word casserole differently than the USA. We use it interchangeably with stew. Sweet potato casserole, as it has no sauce wouldn't be a casserole in the UK.
I wouldn't say it's interchangeable but might be a regional thing. Would be the same as chips and fries to some extent. Might be different types of stewed dishes but doesn't make then the same thing.
Stew is normally cooked on the hob, casserole in the oven
Potato*
@@rossshepherd9836 Thanks for the correction. Being dyslexic I don't always get the spelling correct. But I'm sure most people understand what I was trying to say which surely is the point of communication.
@@dominique8233, I can't help it. When I see an error, I can't let it go. Apparently it's part of OCD, a mental disorder.
UK: you want pay someone, you need their sort code (identifies the bank) and account number: the transfer automatically checks the name on the account (in case you've entered the a/c number wrong), then the transfer takes minutes. I've used it with tradesmen, buying a car... You name it. No faff. Simples.
Well, not always no faff! I had to pay nearly £3000 for roof repairs last year, and my bank refused it the first time as an unusual payment, I can understand them trying to protect me from scammers, but it’s still a pain - I had to record a video message on the app, then it let the payment through shortly afterwards.
@@arwelpoh, such a pain. Your bank protecting your money by asking you to record a video using the same device you're making the transaction with. Not like you had to go get a handy cam and upload it manually to your computer and their website. The feature is all integrated into the app so it really is no more hassle than pointing a camera at your face. 1st world problems 😅
@@arwelp You need to advise the bank when you need to pay an unusual amount out of your account Makes sense to me.
@@arwelpthat's still a better solution than having to haul your arse to the nearest bank, find and pay for a parking spot, wait in line for an open tiller only to realise that your bank doesn't actually have a building you can even enter within 30 miles from you and you're actually stood an a Greggs.
The difference with US foods is that they contain a lot more ingredients than necessary, because they try to enhance the flavours or the appearance with chemicals. UK fries contain three ingredients, potatoes, oil and salt. US fries contain up to 19 ingredients!
And salt is optional.
Tebay services are practically compulsory stops when travelling to/from Scotland
True story
Also Gloucester services on the M5 - it's sort of associated with Tebay ( I didn't want to call it a chain!)
They have one in Scotland associated with it too, but never been to it.
Tebay services is amazing. Great views. Plenty of gifts and refreshments. An amazing spot. Almost criminal to not stop there.
Only independent services in the UK.
And I got married there
We Brits tend to be 'Early Adopters' of new technologies. VCRs and Home Computers are very good examples with which we were WAY ahead of the USA.
On banking: I haven't paid any bank charges for at least 30 years now. 🙂
Chip Butties? Lovely!!!
It doesn't matter what we put in our sandwiches, we always butter the bread first.
French fries are thin, chips are chunky we have both.
Well, not always. I love a chip butty, but cannot have the bread buttered as it melts (of course) and makes the bread soggy and I can't abide soggy bread, or toast.
To me,french fries have a hard outside that make them very indigestible,whereas chips don't.I would never go to the States (not that I'm ever likely to) because I wouldn't be able to get proper, eatable chips (except at a British/Irish style pub over there).
How can they eat dry bread without butter/marg/vitality etc on ? It's absolute madness !🤭 I love butter,etc on hot sarnies too,it melting and dripping on whatever it is your eating is just heavenly.A fried egg sarnie without butter,etc, I just can't get my head round how sterile that would be .🤯🥺🤯
That quote about the US going from barbarism to democracy without any evolution between the two,spring to mind !🤭🤣😂🤣🤭👍🏼🇬🇧❤️❤️❤️
@@DianaSheward They do have 'Steak Cut Fries' in the US and those are chunky chips, so you could get by for a visit.
I'd go further and say we have 3 kinds. Chips (proper, like from chip shops), fries (about 1cm thick, bought-in, frozen in bags by pubs etc) and French fries (extra thin disgusting reconstituted muck as served by the yellow arches).
Speak for yourselves, if my sandwich has chicken I'm not dumb enough to put butter on it. Mayo goes on chicken sandwiches not butter.
In the uk we literally put butter on every sandwich or roll. A chip butty is best with chippy chips though and in Scotland we loooove our brown sauce more than tomato sauce! Also lots off people have chips with pizza x
I was having Christmas lunch on the Oporto, Portugal, quayside. Next to me was an American couple talking via a tablet to family in California and I know exactly what they got for Christmas - a great big car that involved a trip outside to view in great detail. The lady was the talker and when her husband suggested that she might be disturbing her fellow diners, she said "It's Christmas" and carried on. My companion was stone deaf in one ear and had tinnitus so conversation was impossible but the English in me prevented me from remonstrating and I have spent 5 years resenting her and myself! Maybe writing this will prove cathartic?!
Five years is no time at all to hang on to resentment; remember we fought the Hundred Year War!
Where is she in the UK as for drinking bottled water it’s in every child’s school backpack everyone going to the gym and I drink bottled water even though are water is safe but I can’t believe as bottled water is in everyone’s hands and homes. My dog and cat get filtered water lol. Nobody eats chips with pizza that I know but yes you can have them with other meals as they’re basically potatoes and you cook them in the oven in a health way or most people use an air fryer.
You need to get outmore. Every chip shop in Scotland sells a pizza supper.
As an Australian I would have spoken up.
@@heatherfruin5050 as an English female...so would I...
Interesting fact Coca-Cola sold Desani in the UK , it was a Coca-Cola branded bottled water. However they got in bother when it was discovered that were just bottling UK tap water.
🤣🤣🤣 cheeky sh1ts 🤣
Also it coincided with an episode of Only Fools and Horse - a comedy show in the UK - where the main character was bottling tap water and calling it Peckham Spring.
There is a whole rabbit hole in the UK about bread rolls: rolls, buns, baps, barm cakes, Scotties it goes on and on. Very regional and people get very protective over their bread products. Bonkers but quite entertaining.
And to really get into it, start throwing in Scones, Potato Scones (Scottish), Potato Farls / Potato Bread, etc. All of the potato-breads absolutely wonderful with a Full English.
@@britishknightakaminininja1123potato bread comes from Northern Ireland and soda bread. It was sold by M&S in the United kingdom around the eighties.
@@letitiakearney2423 yup and it is _likely_ that Scottish potato scones are a local derivative of those. Obviously, we know that neither can predate the import of potatoes to Europe from the Americas, so at most only a relative few centuries ago.
you missed 'cobs'- i'm offended
North East: Newcastle, Gateshead, South Shields, it's all about the stotties 😊
I grew up near Tebay, I’ll be honest, I didn’t expect to see it mentioned here! It is famous because it is in the Lake District, and there is local produce there. It is incredibly expensive (like all service stations).
Also, I think the lady is far too critical of her homeland. My wife and I have been to New York and San Francisco in the last 18 month and we loved our time over there. I think it is very easy to criticise where you’re from (believe me, I’d do it about England!).
Tebay is a bit special. Scotch eggs. And other delights.
Gloucester too. And yes lol I was going to say, if she wants a date at a service station, this does NOT make her a cheap date lol.
£1.80 for a 45g packet of cheese and onion omg!
Gloucester service are expensive but the farmhouse is lovely, would go there regularly if it were closer...
UK rest stops tend to be like large mall complexes with various franchises and shops. They are generally very light and airy with lots of glazing. Some are also landscaped with lakes and such.
While some are complete dumps and all are so damn expensive.
Like Gloucester South 🙂
And they have motels often - you could actually live on one full-time
@bryanholden6my favourite service station/rest stop EVER!!!
@@quamby1able And mine! 🙂
I have to confess to laughing so hard when my American friend bragged that she made her green bean casserole ‘from scratch’. Turns out that means fresh beans in a CAN OF MUSHROOM SOUP!!! That’s all kinds of wrong. Also, come on, be honest, when you mentioned sweet potato casserole - that’s mashed sweet potatoes covered with marshmallows, and eaten with turkey and the aforementioned bean casserole etc. Guys. And don’t even get me started on the gravy!
Lasagne and chips I will live and die for
I think this this girl has developed a chips obsession. Fair play.
Remember she lives in London. It's probably all she can afford to eat.
Apple pie is English.
Originally German or Dutch. I haven't Googled it recently.
@@heatherfruin5050nope.
First recorded recipe is actually English@@heatherfruin5050
@@heatherfruin5050 Nope, it was in England hundreds of years before Germany / Netherlands
@@heatherfruin5050that is factually incorrect, there are some articles that state apple pie was created via the influence of Dutch cuisine but apple pie is in fact English and the first apple pie recipe does originate in England.
Ooh, egg and chips, yum!
I keep chilled tap water in my fridge - you can ask for tap water in pubs and restaurants (by law). Not many people drink bottled water routinely.
A great number of people drink bottled water they just don't drink it exclusively like Americans. Sometimes it's easier for me to grab a bottle if I'm not home
@@jackwhitbread4583Fully agree. If I’m out and about then grabbing a bottle is easy. But, if I’m at home then the tap water is just fine
To me fries are the shoestring ones you get at McDonald's. A chip butty needs thick cut chips, crisp exterior but fluffy, squidgy potato interior. Fries and chips are not the same in UK lingo!
In the UK banks have there own banking apps and you just transfer money to whoever you want to and it's an instant transfer. You don't have to wait for it to be approved etc.
Same in Denmark.
@@kille7543Same like everywhere in Europe.
@@MsPataca Americans are just weird when it comes to this sh*t!
What great west unhinged
@@Tgs-z9w ???
A US airport is the scariest place, i dont understand why everyone is so aggressive. I have travelled pretty extensively, and no other airport security is that aggressive, and this was even before 9/11
Have you ever been to Sydney airport? I've travelled there half a dozen times and treated like a criminal for 5...I thought my partner would have to have a anal, he stripped as many metal things he could..in the end they decided the "device" was, a lead pine cone, attatched to the cuckoo clock we'd bought!
The UK is responsible for many banking innovations.
Like cash machines, chip and pin, contactless payments and online banking.
So naturally we get them first and makes us appear advanced. 😂
We even invented paper money when everyone else was still carrying bags of gold and silver around. 🤣
The Chinese had paper money in one form in the 7th century and as far back as 11th century in a form similar to current standards
@@markdu8762 The Swedes had the first paper money in Europe, about 35 years (1660) before the Bank of England. Paper money was useful for Swedes because they didn’t have much silver to make coins - they used large copper plates instead, the largest, worth 10 daler, weighed nearly 20 kg! Unfortunately they printed too much, which they couldn’t back with metal, and Stockholms Banco went bust within a few years.
@@arwelp Paper money was in use in the UK before the bank of England was established. They were called promissory notes and could literally be on any bit of paper/fabric but had an amount and signature/seal to verify it.
@@Thurgosh_OGthe Knights Templar used promissory notes during the crusades IIRC
On the chip butty, it's important to note that the type of chips usually used are different from French fries - they are a lot chunkier and best from a chippy. Also, 100% with butter, preferably on a barm! Pure heavy carb-fest but can be so good
Bill Hicks used to joke that in the UK the ladies of the night would offer "head and chips" 😂
A head supper?
"Over our spud quota"
@@Rych Hahahahahaha
Just don't ask for the garlic sauce!
Reststops in the UK are called 'Service stations' or 'Services' And they are meant to do what it says, Offer different services, They have places to buy hot food, Hot drinks and places you can actually rest, We are near a services here and it has a WH Smiths, Mcdonalds, Costa coffee, Starbucks, Sainsburys, Greggs, KFC, Spar, Theres even arcade machines and a few other things, Theres a noodle place which i cant remember the name of and a place called Leons who do hot cookies and donuts.
Don't forget shower facilities, etc
"Pizza and chips" was a kids meal in the 1980s/1990s. It was cheap to buy one frozen pizza and give the kids only 1-2 slices each, then pad the meal out with chips, onion rings etc. Even baked beans. Maybe some areas of the country still do that, but I've not had it since about 1993 lol.
I still have it for dinner sometimes when I feel like it 😁
Very common in Ireland/NI with pizza/chips combos. Like all pizzerias have that here.
And seen often in UK too, definitely not just a 90s thing
I occasionally do a "pizza dinner"
Like you I hadn't had it since the early 90's but it's had a revival in my house.
Sometimes we have Pizza, sometimes it's a Pizza Dinner
I'm British and I seriously don't understand the pizza and chips nonsense. Vile
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We don't have Thanks Giving in the UK, We have Harvest Festival instead, which as far as I can remember, is about thanking God for the bounty of the year. People will drop food at the church or school which is then distributed among the needy. Now we just have food banks. Regarding chip butties, we British don't put 8 million tons of sugar into each loaf of bread, so I doubt a chip buttie will taste the same as one made in the US.
saw 2 reaction videos of amercians making a chip butty
the couple mad a fair go using steak cut chips (oven baked) but then used butter from a squirty bottle.
2 girls went the whole hog peel spuds thick cut twice fried but also remembered artistan bread then made 4 butties one ketchup, one HP, one mayo, and one just S&V
the look one one of the ladies when she tried the HP was priceless
RE Thanksgiving food - to really blow your mind, wait until you discover that Pumpkin Pie as a British invention! No kidding.
Your Thanksgiving is sort of a combination of our Christmas Dinners, with elements of our Harvest Festival. In recent decades, and possibly even since the post-war depression years, the Harvest Festival has become less of a thing in the UK, but it used to be a time for donating food for those who might otherwise struggle over the winter months, usually combined with a Village Fete - lots of baked goods, jams and preserves, proper gingerbread, and generally celebrating another year's successful harvest.
Just like with your Thanksgiving, there are certain dishes or sides that are traditional at Christmas and almost never seen outside of that context - Brussel Sprouts being one of those (and definitely something many loathe). Christmas cake and Christmas pudding, Brandy Snaps, and so forth. It is also one of the times when one might see less popular/ordinary roast meats such as Goose, Duck and of course Turkey. However, the Brits have a very strong tradition for 'the Sunday Roast Dinner' (also available in virtually every pub that serves food) which is a roast meat (Chicken, Beef or Pork usually), roast potatoes, gravy, maybe yorkshire pudding (especially if the roasted meat is beef), apple sauce if the meat is pork, mint sauce with roast lamb, etc. There will be other vegetables too of course, such as carrots, peas, roasted tomatoes perhaps, maybe parsnips, and this is kind of a tradition for each week (though many skip it at least occasionally for a picnic instead in the summers).
Yep, you’re right, that sounds very similar to Thanksgiving! I’m starting to think it’s another thing we borrowed from you! Thanks!
I'd completely forgotten Harvest Festival. Haven't done that since the 80s
Bottled water is far more common here in the UK than it used to be.
Our tap water is filtered and UV disinfected so is safe to drink.
The mobile phone face timing thing is becoming common here in the UK. It's maddening.
The tap water here in the north-east of UK both smells and tastes of chlorine like it’s been taken from the local swimming baths 🤢🤮. It’s okay once it’s been boiled in a kettle, but otherwise, I drink bottled water.
Tap Water in Solihull is lovely, makes a fantastic cup of tea 🫖. I don’t get any limescale around my taps or in the kettle 😊
Bottled water is pretty common in the UK but the tap water is fine - and free - and you're not contributing to excess plastic. When I say free, we pay 'water rates' on our properties.
Tap water in Scotland tastes better than a lot of bottled water. I went to Florida, and the water was not fit for human consumption, and as they make ice from that water it taints all your drinks.
I never buy bottled water in the UK and I don't know many other people who buy it regularly. I only buy it when I'm abroad where tap water may not be drinkable.
If i'm travelling, hiking, etc I have a bottle of water, but it's filled from the tap. Only an idiot pays for water when they can drink free tap water.
I grew up in West Yorkshire on the millstone grit. Beautiful soft water, soap lathers so easily and the water tastes wonderful. I still haven't adapted after 50 living in a hard water area on the Hampshire chalk, where limescale furs up your pipes and your kettle and it doesn't taste half as good.
Bottled water is common to have when 'out and about', but people rarely stock up on it to drink at home. Our tap water is fine and a surprising amount of care goes into fine-tuning the hardness and the taste - most regional water boards regularly taste-teste for how well the water suits making tea, for example. For a fair old while, London water in particular was famous for the world's most advanced recycling processes (and quantity) given that the main source is simply rainfall and a huge natural aquifer. (Nobody was going to use the Water from the Thames river back in the 60s and 70s, on which the fictional waters of Ankh-Morpork from Terry Pratchett's famous diskworld novels was based).
Always dismayed to see so many American You Tubers sitting in their own homes drinking bottles and bottles of single use bottled water. Think of the environmental impact of millions of Americans doing this every time they want a drink of water. Sort it out USA!
I love how you always end up going down different rabbit holes from a singular word as I do that too. And I enjoy seeing your reactions. I'm from the UK and have met dozens of Americans through gaming and they are always have a culture shock when I talk about things here
Chips and french-fries are NOT the same!
6:00 in the UK, you always butter any bread, that’s just how you have bread. Making a sandwich? Butter the bread. Making toast for breakfast? Spread a layer of butter under the jam or nutella etc.
Chips and pizza are super common especially if you make it at home. Most place gives them free as sides. P.S shoutout to TEES BAY it's great. It's not T it's prolonged E "teees"
It's tebay
@@gillianhollins3003 I came to argue, it's teesbay. Then decided to go on Google to validate my point BUT TURNS OUT WERE BOTH right. There's tebay and teesbay 😂. Because she wasn't exactly sure on her pernunciation, I assumed it was the one near me.
@@gillianhollins3003 I was originally going to debate you I searched, turns out we're BOTH right in different ways, there's tebay and teesbay I assumed it's the one near me BUT after searching it's Most likely yours it's way nicer, I assumed she didn't know how to pronounce it (tee at T)
I've never had it and didn't know it was a thing
The clip with the British boys trying Thanksgiving food is from a TH-cam channel called Jolly, which has a number of videos of them being introduced to American food and snacks. Worth watching.
One thing i love about this channel is the quiet way you speak very calming.
Pizza and chips is a very common combo in the UK, especially in schools. Most pizza restaurants don't do it but you can get potato wedges from most popular places, like Dominos and Pizza Hut
OMG
OMG! In schools? We have food nazis in Australian schools the food has to healthy.
But go to any chicken shop and go for a combo meal. Pizza chicken chips and a 1.5l bottle.
Tap water is definitely good here, and safe to drink and we do drink a lot of it. Bottle water though is also very popular, and available everywhere.
Fun fact that most Americans dont actually know, their pumpkin pie isn't pumpkin. If you buy pumpkin pie from any store or make it from a can its actually butternut squash. Its cheaper, easier to manage, easier to grow and cooks up easier. This is why.
It never occurred to me that someone in the US couldn't just send money from their bank account to someone else's, no matter where they bank. In the UK, I've been able to send money to anyone else using online banking or my bank app and it arrive in under 60 seconds for over 20 years
My banking APP has Zelle. My aunt has a different bank because she lives in Houston and send her money and apparently it’s fast because she calls to confirm that she received the money. According to the internet Zelle was founded in 2016 so she probably left before knowing the US made transferring money easier
Butter melts in a chip butty its a must. My mum did fish fingers and cetchup sandwich that my friend's loved
When I buy second-hand items from the seller's home, I usually just transfer money into their account via phone and they have it almost immediately, before I've loaded my car.
No our security is equally strict, we have updated equipment now where your carry on bag goes through without removing anything from the bag, you still have to remove, belts, maybe shoes, watches and so on
wouldnt be a jjla video without spontaneous deep dives
I'm from the UK and I must confess to speaking to people on my phone with speaker on. In my defence I am partially deaf and wear hearing aids and can only hear the person on the other end of the call with the speaker on because of the background noise around me. With me it's not a choice it's a necessity. Generally when I'm out and need to contact someone I text unless it's an emergency. Due to my age, most of friends are seniors and they want to talk to me not text. 😀
IN the UK, we can get a cheque cleared by the next banking day just by taking a photo of it on your phone using your banking app
Not all banks offer this. My bank does, but my mother-in-law's doesn't. I have apps for both as I'm a power of attorney.
You still get cheques? I've not written one for decades and not be given one for many years.
@@Thurgosh_OG I remember never writing a cheque and the last one I got was about 6 years ago from the Tax Man.
Who uses cheques these days? I have used one in maybe 20 years, and that was only because some archaic Government department insisted on it. I had to order a new chequebook just so I could pay it.
We have this in the US as well. I have an app where I can deposit checks (which are rare) by taking a photo. I can send money to other people instantly through Zelle or Venmo.
I’m in the UK & regularly visit my mum in Spain. Firstly transferring money to family or businesses within Europe is really easy. Money has taken a maximum of 20 minutes to get to my mum. Usually it’s less than 1 minute.
In Alicante Spain they have a separate security area for the disabled as it takes us longer to go through because of more checks. But doing it this way means the abled body lines & disabled lines both move smoothly & quickly.
Chips are eaten as the carb part of many meals. But here they are potato and nothing else.
The problem in the US is too much hyper processed ingredients and too large portions.
Ban high fructose corn syrup
The card thing is a nightmare if you deal with American customers in the UK. I used to work in Stamford Hill which is one of the most Jewish areas in the UK. A lot of our customers were American Jews visiting families and their cards presented particular issues as they often would not work on self scans and I had to physically input their card numbers to get the sale to go through. To be fair they were usually patient about this but it was irksome when you had a lot of people with this issue in a queue. You don't get charged penalty fees here unless you hit an overdraft.
There’s a Roman museum in one of the service stations in the south ? Kent … all the artefacts dug up when they were building …. Years ago you couldn’t get a coffee after 10pm … so coffee was available in the service station …
There's Roman croft villa literally next to a train station near me in South East London. Went years ago, many artifacts and things to look at.
Another passenger once threw the mobile of the guy opposite out of the window at Clapham junction as he was sick of hearing the same conversation 16 times … the communication bell was pulled ..so the train stopped, transport police arrived phone retrieved from track and 40 minutes later the train moved again …
Check out a traditional British Sunday Roast Dinner and maybe you'll understand why Thanksgiving once a year is NOTHING cos we get to eat our equivalent every week!
Bottled water is very popular when people are out and about (not so much at home) - but people ‘cheat’ by refilling their bottles from a tap 😹
Why wouldn't we when tap water tastes so good?
@@hypsyzygy506 no reason at all - I do it myself - that’s why I put cheat in quotes - but it may give the impression that more people drink bottled water than they actually do
At the end of a holiday in Majorca about 30 years ago I was asked why I drank bottled water. I found out that the tap water was from mountain springs and was healthy too.
Unfortunately people seem to have forgotten that phones can be held to your ear more and more here (UK). Most people aren't face timing, they're just holding a phone to their mouth and shouting at it.
If I get a phone call in public, I tell them i’ll call back later. I would never keep my phone with the sound on in a restaurant. I would just check it randomly, and maybe write a short text.
I’m danish.
UK McDonalds also have less chemicals in them, Do a comparison of the ingredients list for a UK and US McDonalds, it will shock you, The US items will have a list of 15-20 things most of which you need a chemistry degree to understand, the UK the ingredients list will be about 6 items long and you'll be able to identify everything as something you can buy from a supermarket, obviously still not the healthiest thing in the world as they are full of sugar, salt and fat, but much better than the US equivalent that you don't feel anywhere near as guilty taking your kids for a treat at the weekend.
Most British do not like sweet and savoury on our roast dinners. Roast meat. Cauliflower cheese. Carrot, roast potatoes , peas. Green beans. Roast parsnips of course Yorkshire pudding we might cook carrots and parsnips with honey glaze
Broccoli and other vegetables are used.
So we don't like sweet and savoury, but then you go on to list things that are all either sweet or savoury. Hrmm... So we do in fact like sweet AND savoury. What We or at least I don't like are things loaded with extra sugar. Which it seems most American food seems to be. They single handedly keep the Canadian economy going with their insistence on smothering everything with Maple Syrup.
Here the absolute limit is the occasional Sponge with Golden Syrup in it. It's the LAW!
I suggest you watch the video ‘Food Wars’ on the differences with McDonalds in the US and UK, you’ll see what ingredients we have in fries compared to the US. Transferring money in the UK is almost instant, in some cases quicker than physically getting money out of your wallet. ‘Chip butties’ are a must but only works in the UK as the US bread is more like cake, it’s too sweet. Our tap water is delicious and I much prefer to drink it to bottled water and not contribute to plastic waste.
We always had pizza and chips as kidd, you'd get 2 or 3 slices of pizza and some chips. We do the same sometimes with the kids too.
Is that Gloucester services with the farm shop, love that place for pork pies and sausage rolls
Love the way you do your own checks during the videos you comment on and give your own experiences😊
The British having Chips as part of main meals, alongside pizza or sausages or a beef mince pie, etc. could be an age thing. Those under 25 (this is a guesstimate) might not be used to that but older people will be, because it was more common in the 70s, 80s and 90s. So comments saying it's not popular are more likely to be from younger people and of course not everyone has chips and something meals, so there's that too.
edit: The Chips and Pizza meal is more of a cooked at home meal, than a takeaway one too, though several pizza delivery places do have chips on their menus too. I know I've had it from time to time.
Also in the 70s and up to the mid 80s, pizzas were not the size of a small table, and home delivery was yet to become a thing. They were more often than not, no more than 8 inches across, and lived in the freezer. So there was plenty of room for chippie chips.
This often offends americans to find out, but apple pie and even pumpkin pie... is british. Apple pie is way older than america. Britain has always been a pie loving island. So pumpkin pie was logically created when the pumpkin was first imported to the uk. On top of this, even Mac n cheese existed in the uk before america. Admittedly none of them are as common in the uk, because we prefer meat pies and other pasta dishes. But they are british food. You can have pecan pie.
Butter is always added to sandwiches unless you clearly state you don't want it. This is really annoying if, like me, you don't like it. On the occasions I've been to sandwich shops I have had to get 'no butter' in very quickly. Buttered bread is definitely the norm over here.
I've found the norm with sandwiches is actually mayo in shops but people use butter at home.
I remember being in the UK and the sandwiches were pre-made and in a case. I asked for one without butter and they said they were pre-buttered. But this was 20 years ago, so maybe things have changed. I'm used to delis where you get sandwiches however you want them.
Just came back from Sardinia and they had a pizza with chips on it on a menu. Suprised. Never seen pizza and chips in the UK (but accept it must be a thing in some areas) Have seen jacket potato and pizza though :)
Agree about convenience of transferring money in UK. Instant. None of my friends in UK really carry any cash now. Was also suprised that in Sardinia that there were parking payment machines that still only accepted cash and in shops/supermakets locals were mostly still using cash. In UK people pay contactless, or if too high value, use card and pin.
Motorway rest stops such as Welcome break are nothing like Bucc-ees which is more like a out of town retail outlet our service areas are meal based rest stops ....
My mums rules for butter work. If it has a flat surface you butter it. To the edge. Thick enough to leave teeth marks.
My son and I send each other money through our banks all the time, and we don't have the same bank. It's so simple.
Same. I am surprised it's such a lot of faffing around in US.
We have the same thing in the US. It's called Zelle, and it's through our banks. Not sure why people are saying we don't.
Hi your voice is sooo calming and watching your videos is always nice, you kinda remind me of Michael Jackson in a good way:)
When she said Americans are loud, can't say that about you, your quietness is what drew me to watching your videos, Butter was originally put on sandwiches for picnics, by spreading the butter all over the bread right up to the edges you stop the contents making the bread soggy, nobody wants soggy butties 😊
Met many Americans, the stereotype is true. The last two Americans I met I literally heard before I even saw them. Their loud talking about "profit scale factor" on the phone was audible before I noticed them. This was in central London. By contrast I spoke to about 20 people from probably about 5 different countries before that, and they were all more pleasant.
Give me any european, australian or someone from timbuktu over an American any day of the week.
@@thefiestaguy8831 I am talking about JJ not the rest of the world, it is his channel you are watching.
@@W0rdsandMus1c Sure. But I was talking about Americans. Who I have found to be the loudest people out of the lot, and i've been to numerous countries many times.
JJLA in the UK we have been able to instant transfer to someone on our phones for year as most of our banks have their own app (in bank before apps, some non ''my'' bank transfers would take upto 3 days i think it was) and you can usually have 99% control over your accounts on the app(bank dependant), we can basically do all our banking with just our bank on our phones instantly - transfers, direct debits, moving money from one account to the other, and so on. I didn't realise you guys didnt get this too.
Well there's....
Pizza & chips.
Egg & chips.
Egg, bacon & chips.
Egg, bacon, sausage, & chips.
Chips, bacon, sausge & chips.
Chips, egg, chips, chips, bacon & chips.
Chips, sausage, chips, chips, bacon, chips, tomato & chips
Oh.... and Spam a chips.
"what will it be for tea tonight, will it be salad or frozen peas" "will it be mushrooms, fried onion rings, we'll have to wait and see" "hope its chips its chips".
@@SiAnon remember that advert 😂
Chips tend to be oven chips which are usually lower fat /lower salt. You can choose to add salt to taste. Often we put salt and vinegar on. Chip shop chips are deep fried and bought as take away. The chips she refers to with other meals depends whether in restaurant (usually fries) or done yourself (usually oven chips).
Airport staff are also very polite and helpful in the Uk
I have just returned from a visit to the US and used airports in Chicago and LA and the security and immigration staff were really aggressive and rude.
Put someone in a uniform and they turn into a Dictator
Unlike the renowned Atlanta Airport Security Staffs; well known by most flyers for being cold, indifferent & unfriendly, and that's when they're at their happiest best of times (minutes/hours/day) too.
28:20 - Dear everyone. There is no "E" in "Marshmallow" - there's nothing mellow about them!
Sandwiches: as a pre-war (WWII) sandwich eater, and despite WWII RATIONING, I have never had a sandwich without both sides buttered. Recently, I discovered that Americans don’t do this. How on Earth do you manage to stick the filling to the bread slices, and how awful does it taste?
Specify! When you say 'both sides buttered' some poor American is going to wonder if you mean both sides of each slice of bread, rather than both (inner) sides of the sandwich. 🤣
...and dry
It's called mayo, you never heard of other condiments like mayo or mustard?
They probably just cover it in Maple Syrup.
Brits have no issue using Facetime, we used Skype for years before Facetime became a thing BUT this is done when we're sat at home, or in a hotel, somewhere private NOT out in public, when you're not going to be able to give your full attention to the Facetime call as you're still walking around, aware of people around you etc etc
Aussies butter our bread too, unless there’s that one person in your circle of friends who chooses not to, but it tastes better with butter, the butter forms a barrier against liquids seeping into the bread and making it soggy, and it can also bring a balance to the flavours in the sandwich. I always butter my bread.
Why do Aussies have to try and make stuff all about them? Everytime there is a vid about the UK, there are always Aussies in the comment trying to make it about them
We don't care.
If we wanted to know about your little country, the vid would be about you. But we don't so its not
14:01 a lot of our rest stops off the main motorways are like little shopping villages. Some sell local farm produce, they have at least one supermarket food hall, souvenir shops, florists, clothes, music, books, great restaurants (some have at least 12 restaurants/fast food takeaways. They aren’t all that wonderful but they are very good & always clean (at least in my experience).