BRITISH FAMILY REACTS | British Highschoolers Try Thanksgiving Dinner For The First Time!
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Not every state or family in America has the same dinner. It changes by region and culture.
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Very true.
It’s just a day to meet up with all your family and enjoy the day watching football and nonstop eating
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True. But there are some staples that make up a traditional Thanksgiving dinner.
Who is putting gravy on green bean casserole, most definitely not on a sweet potato casserole.....never! It's not a flavor overload, It's just that Brit's sense of flavor is SO underwhelming, that even the slightest bit of flavor might be too much.😂
She thinks we put gravy on everything. Which we don't
@@LancerX916 I definitely know some people will put gravy on everything. Outside of dessert, I'd argue gravy will compliment most traditional Thanksgiving dishes.
@@LancerX916 I always thought brits put gravy on everything. I thought it was partly why their food is always brown. What sauces do they have other than gravy and HP sauce?
Yeah, never put white/brown gravy on anything but the turkey and/or mashed potatoes maybe the the ham...lol
@@emmakai2243 I disagree on gravy complimenting most Thanksgiving foods. Depends on where you are in the country, what foods are traditional to your family and what ethnicity your family's culture is from. Your tradition isn't everybody's tradition in America, melting pot remember. I've never had gravy on any of my family's. Thanksgiving dishes, ever.
The gravy goes on the turkey, stuffing and mashed potatoes. That's it. Nothing else gets gray on it on purpose.
I have NEVER seen anyone put gravy on their sweet potato casserole or their green bean casserole. Also, not everyone tops theirs with marshmallows. Many people top theirs with candied pecans instead.
Much prefer candied pecans
I think that's just Gaynor saying that about gravy on the sweet potato casserole. No one I know does that!
I think Southerners are more likely to use pecans than marshmallows on sweet potato casserole.
I’ve never seen gravy on sweet potato casserole but I’ve seen gravy on green bean casserole for 20 years 😂😂
On Thanksgiving everyone comes over and brings their favorite dishes. So it is a huge assortment of everyone's favorite foods. It can vary greatly by region as people are used to different foods in the various regions around the States.
Like Chir- Turkdunkhams (John Madden used to tell his Thanksgiving secret recipe of Stuffing a chicken inside a turkey , place it in a Ham….and roast. 😂😂
Ham , stuffed with A turkey, That has been been stuffed with a chicken lol
With thanksgiving dinner most people will not (intentionally) put gravy on anything but the mashed potatoes and the meat 😁
It’s much the same as your Christmas dinners or Sunday roast dinners
plate management is key, one must build dams to keep the gravy isolated.
@@CringePeddler yeah usually when mashed potatos are served, you use the serving spoon to push a "well" into the center of your potatos to house any gravy.
Most of us also put gravy on the stuffing.
@@murieljames4022 IDK about that one! Think gravy (deliberately) on the stuffing is more niche
It’s not all covered in gravy. In my family there’s not even gravy on the table. Even if you do do gravy it’s just on the mashed potatoes and maybe the turkey.
Gravy is only on everything if *you* put gravy on everything.
I pour it on the turkey, the stuffing, and the potatoes.
Oh, please no "do do" gravy as you said... 🤣 lol jk
The gravy is only to go on mashed potatoes, the turkey or maybe the stuffing. I personally pair the turkey with the cranberry sauce and the gravy with the mashed potatoes. Would never put it with any of the other food, even though we eat them on the same plate.
G with the crazy gravy assertion. 😂😂
That "Friends" Thanksgiving sandwich is just from Friends as far as I know. Everyone does sandwiches differently. My family's version of the turkey sandwich after Thanksgiving is just bread, mayo and turkey.
On another note here... Southern "dressing," as we call it, rather than stuffing, up north, is much more flavorful and less bready... Has a lot more ingredients! Like most Southern things there's just tons more flavor! And it has nothing in common with salad dressings.
All about the house you grew up in, or to the one you're invited... Varies hugely
Thanksgiving dinner is very different All over the U.S. it's very regional. The South, The Mid-West, The North-East & West coast are very different. The only thing I'll say is the same everywhere is the Turkey. Where I'm from Sweet potato casserole with the marshmallows is a dessert. It's candied Yams that would go on your plate with the main course. Then it's sweet potato pie over pumpkin pie where I'm from.
Same. Where I am from pumpkin pie isn’t that popular. I moved to the Midwest and they it.
The gravy on my plate is in mashed potato well for dipping. Gravy typically doesn't mingle with anything but turkey, mash, and stuffing. I also have never had sweet potato with marshmallows at thanksgiving.
I'm an American watching Brits watch Brits trying American, and I'm here for it. Love the channel, especially the Modern Family reactions!
The thing about pecan pie is that only the top is nut-flavored, so it's balanced out by other flavors unless you truly hate pecans. The base is very sweet, perhaps too sweet for some, as it contains a lot of syrup. It's very popular, very tasty, but controversial if you don't like sweet things or really hate nuts/pecans. The pecans do tend to have a nice roast on them from the oven, though, which I find makes them tastier.
You don’t put gravy on sweet potato casserole lol.
You can top sweet potatoes with marshmellows or you can put a brown sugar topping over them. Both are excellent
Where the heck did they ever get the idea that we have everything leftover from thanksgiving dinner on a sandwich, cranberry sauce on bread I don’t think so🤢, I never saw or heard of this. We put gravy on turkey, mash potatoes, stuffing and if you fixed a roast beef or chicken but never on sweet items or your vegetables.👋🏽🇺🇸
With how diverse America is today, the Thanksgiving dinner spread today is crazy ridiculous!! I’ve been to many parties where they have damn near every food you can think of!!! Maybe the reason why it’s becoming equally as popular to Christmas!!
My family usually has just turkey as the meat, corn bread, rolls, and then somewhere between 8 - 10 sides, with 5 or more dessert options to top it off.
Any of the main foods served at TG(turkey, cranberry, pumpkin) originally come from North America so we celebrate the harvest and survival in the new world, now along with family and friends.
Thanksgiving is normally turkey nation wide, but each region of America may add other dishes as well. Sweet potatoes are not common in the NY area as far as I know. But then again, families make what they like a long with the turkey. Families from an Italian background have lasagna as well. Since my brother could not eat turkey nor chicken, my mom also made ham or lasagna when he was visiting.
I love pecan pie, and I will eat the pie and turkey sandwiches for lunch for the next week after Thanksgiving. From Thanksgiving to the end of the year Americans have great meals and parties.
I hate turkey, so I smoke a brisket instead. So much more enjoyable.
Yeah, family not a huge fan of roast turkey. So we deep fry our turkey or if too lazy we do a roast pork for Thanksgiving.
It isn’t Thanksgiving without lasagna, sausage and peppers, and mussels. We still have the normal fixings, but never green bean casserole. I’ve never had that.
And my mom doesn’t put marshmallows on her sweet potatoes/yams. And we don’t put gravy on everything. It goes mashed potatoes and maybe a little on the turkey
@@mellycook Gravy is a must on the mashed potatoes, turkey and stuffing. It's also a must for me to wear sweatpants on Thanksgiving because I eat a lot.
There is not enough syrup filling in that pecan pie...more like a pecan tart...lol
Marshmallow sweet potato casserole is not a mainstay for most homes on Thanksgiving.
its usually seen as a low class thing.
@@nullakjg767 is it? I've seen people with it, but not on a regular basis.
@@nullakjg767 Where is putting marshmallows on the sweet potato casserole considered a low class thing?
Just curious.
It seems like it's just a way to cook it that's passed down or tried by people who come across the recipe
My family would probably disown me if I brought sweet potatoes with marshmallows to Thanksgiving dinner.
@@LA_HAmarshmallow in general is considered low class as with other ultra processed foods like cheese whiz, bologna, or twinkies. its just not usually associated with quality dining. Sweet potatos are already sweet and while candied sweet potatos are a thing, they are made with brown sugar, maple syrup, cinnamon and vanilla etc. But both are very sweet even for an american palette, if I was profiling, Id expect sweet potato casserole w/ marshmallow is more common in a low income household that drinks lots of soda and has lots of processed sweets.
brits don't know what a pecan is?!?! 😲😲 they come from a tree, they actually fall off the tree and you pick them up off the ground, crack the shell and take the nut it's delicious in a pecan pie or just eating them straight from the shell
We do sweet potato casserole with a topping made from butter, brown sugar, pecans, and flour. It’s much better!
I think Southerners are more likely to use that topping than marshmallows.
Thanksgiving food like turkey, pumpkins, pecans, and cranberries all originated in the United States. Sweet potatoes, potatoes in general, and squash are from the Americas as well. The only ones that the UK have totally accepted into their diet are turkeys and potatoes.
In my family, holidays could have 25+ people for food, and other people popping in after dinner and eating more or bringing other food. My Italian mother invited anyone, and we were all good cooks. It was also fresh apple pie, peach pie, cookies, cakes, and at least one Italian dish like lasagna or sausage pepper & onion with Italian rolls for sandwiches. After dinner, all guests took home big doggy bags. The next morning, whoever stayed (family mostly) got breakfast fare with fresh bagels, hard rolls, and coffee from a party size percolator. Large North Jersey/New York Italian and Irish clan. Moms home was always the place for extended family.
Have never had sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top. Brown sugar and butter !
We don't put gravy on everything usually just the turkey, mashed tators, and the cornbread stuffing.
😂😂😂 I can't help but laugh at this. She thinks we're maniacs that just pour gravy all over the plate and dip everything in gravy. 😂😂😂😂
That sandwich may be great, but it's definitely an AFTER Thanksgiving concoction! Not part of the traditional meal lol.
Everything is NOT covered in gravy. After the age of six we all figured out how to not soak gravy over anything we don’t want it on.
The pecan pie needed some chocolate chunks inside as well as a nice bourbon butter sauce.
[Edited] That is delicious. Caramel drizzle can be nice, too. But, even the basic recipe is better hot with cold vanilla/bean ice cream (aka a la mode).
Heating the pie makes it lighter and tastier while the cold, melting creaminess of the ice cream creates a heavenly balance
No one is putting gravy on anything but the mashed taters. Sweet potatoes are cooked with nutmeg, brown sugar, vanilla, cinnamon and sometimes marshmallow, and nuts. We do have turkey, but also ham and sometimes salmon. It is different depending on what region you live in. In the south we tend to have a full spread of veggies plus turkey and ham,dressing or stuffing, mac and cheese, green bean casserole. Pies, cakes and cookies for after while watching football.
This isn’t true. In my region we commonly put giblet gravy on our cornbread dressing. Delicious.
I could eat a pumpkin pie in two days by myself. It’s my all time favorite pie! I really have to pace myself.
I prefer a sweet potato pie but if I bake a pumpkin pie I omit the ginger
I prefer sweet potato pie over pumpkin. I don’t get people who can’t taste a difference 😂
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All I can hear right now in my head is Austin Powers: "It's a bit nutty" lol
Green bean casserole has always been a favorite and very simple to make for meals all year round. Just a few cans of cream of mushroom and green beans is all you really need. We always try to have a few cans for it or a semi-quick swedish meatballs with fettuccine noodles.
My mom added pieces of diced up bacon into the green bean casserole
quite frankly to most Americans thanksgiving is considered a more bland meal flavor wise, filled with lots of comfort foods rather than powerful flavors per se. It’s still very good especially in a cold month like November, but to say it’s flavor overload is a bit much. Really does show how muted the british palate is comparatively lol
Who makes what matters. Some relatives are on the do not eat their food list. My family usually has Turkey, fried Turkey, honey baked ham, stuffing, gravy, sliced potatoes, fried cabbage, a garden salad, green bean casserole (only 3 of us like it), rolls, cranberry (canned), cake, sweet potato pie, and banana pudding. There are at least 10 people but can have 5-10 extra depending.
I’ve never seen gravy on sweet potatoes ever, that’s odd! Also would never have a huge potion of sweet potatoes. 😂 not everyone in America eats the same things either, each family is different.
Pecan pie is gelatinous and has a very gross texture in my opinion 😂 we in my household have whole cranberries with whole berries with our turkey.
Berries with holes in them?
@@gemoftheocean that’s funny didn’t catch that! Hilarious
Marshmallows arent the most common way to eat sweet potatoes but ive definitely had them.
Going clockwise, you build your plate as so: meat/protein, your green of choice, mash, stuffing, macaroni n cheese, sweet potatoes. Your bread of choice wherever then you gravy the meat n mash, good to go. And in my black household no marshmallows for the sweet potatoes we just do brown sugar and we use actual potatoes, cut em down the middle and boom.
Going clockwise? What happens if you go counterclockwise?
Pumpkin pie is my favorite!!!!
I love Jolly but to start this with the Friday after Thanksgiving sandwich robs you of the Thanksgiving experience. It’s about the plate and presentation of all the food. Turkey, stuffing, the gravy, carrots, cranberry sauce, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes (no marshmallows for me) and you can’t forget the biscuits or dinner rolls. And then dessert…Apple pie!!! G, you know how it is!!!
EXACTLY!!!
I don't think they had the luxury of setting the whole school up for a gigantic Turkey Day feast let alone a small one. A full feast wouldn't even fit inside the library or easy to carry.
So in my family we usually offer 3 different meats for the main meal; turkey, ham, and a deer roast. For the sides it changes every year on what we make but we usually have mashed potatoes, turkey gravy, stuffing, cranberry sauce (canned and fresh), corn, and sweet potatoes (the method on the cooking of those does very, some years sweetend with marshmellows or brown sugar other years just steamed and buttered), and rolls. Sometime we'll have green beans or a green bean casserole but not every year. Deserts are usually an apple pie, a pumpkin pie, and banana pudding.
It's been held at my parents house for the last 15 years or so, and depending on the year it can be anywhere from 10 people to 16 people.
Yes the turkey gravy with giblets.
And the darker gravy as well....
That's right 👍😉 we have 2 different kinds of gravy with thanksgiving dinner.
For you nut haters (which I find unimaginable), something else that in some ways tastes similar to pecan pie is walnuts in syrup topping for ice cream.
Great reactions y'all!!! Keep up the "brilliant" work!!! (as you say 😋) 👍👍👍❤❤❤
You must watch British highschoolers try biscuit and gravy ( and some other things ).
The foods we eat at Thanksgiving are foods that was discovered when North, Central , and South America was discovered. These foods were not know anywhere else in the world. However, the potato caught on so good in Ireland that when the Potato got the potato blight, Irish people began starving to death. Thus a great mass of Irish by hook or crook managed to get on a ship and flee to America.
I’ve never had Yorkshire pudding but it looks really good to me.
I skip the leftover sandwiches after Thanksgiving and instead make turkey taquitos. Made with fresh salsa and queso, we almost look forward to them more than the actual feast.
We can only take so many sandwiches, so we have tacos, enchiladas, stews, and soups as the week goes on
You put what you like on your plate and every family has their own family favorites. I have never eaten cranberries or the cranberry jelly.
You are using regional dishes as standard Thanksgiving foods. Each area (region) and family have different sides with their turkey.
I don't have a post sandwich I just heat it up and eat the leftovers as is.
It's weird they start them off with sides, rather than mains! It's bound to give a skewed false impression meant to "shock" their British bland tongues, lol... The marshmallows on a "SWEET!!!" (duh?... sweet compliments sweet potatoes unlike regular ones!) is meant to add sweetness to a combo that goes so well together... Not just throwing sweet crap on everything! Omg!
I love turkey sandwiches after Thanksgiving. The boys are so adorable.
We make it into turkey salad. Yum
7:27 i love how the student real life cut it in half and handed his fellow student half of a whole pie 🤣🤣🤣🤣punkin pie is actually good as holy hell
I don't particularly like sweet potatoes but when you add marshmallows to it it's a game changer! It's soooo good!
I don’t like it with marshmallows. Pecan topping is where it’s at.
Well, lol, if you put gravy on marshmallow sweet potato you're doing something wrong, respectfully. It goes on the turkey, mashed potatoes and maybe drizzled on your stuffing. It could mix together on your plate, but it's not supposed to.
We don’t do marshmallow on sweet potato casserole in the south. We do a pecan and brown sugar crumble. Tastes so much better and gives it texture
Really? I grew up in the south and everyone I knew put marshmallows on. Moot to me as I find sweet potatoes revolting.
“Flavor overkill.” 😂
The turkey needs a pardon because it is criminally delicious 🤤😂
I love candied yams and sweet potato casserole but I usually scold the inside of my mouth because I’m unable to wait for it to cool.
My mom makes the best candied yams.
SORRY MISS IF THEY PUT GRAVY OVER SWEET POTATOES THEY WAS DRUNK!!! HAHAHA
Fr she don’t know what she talking about
Stick to the mashed potatoes , gravy, stuffing and Turkey. Bread rolls are tolerable too (if you cover them in butter).
Someone in the family always puts out one of the weird sides and then they go home with it 😂 (they must make it for their-self)
Dear Gaynor... Having gravy on "everything" on one plate is 99% completely accidental. Somr may run into the edge of some other dish if you pour a lot on your turkey or dressing! 👍 That only happens on purpose for the 1% of weirdos who are maybe gravy fiends or just plain nuts! 🤣
Who told you that we cover everything in gravy? 😂😂
Everything is not all covered in gravy!! And you control the gravy if you want to even put it on (the turkey and mashed potatoes). And smothering things in gravy is a southern thing.
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I love Thanksgiving but I hate green bean casserole and pumpkin pie. and No marshmallows on my sweet potatoes, I scrape them off...lol
On a normal day I used plates with compartments. I can't have the different dishes touch. That's extra true on Thanksgiving!
I'm American, and I've never put gravy on anything but the mashed potatoes, lmao
After doing a mix of salad and spoon soft barbecued meat, I can see why Friends did that. It's a nice balance of meat and vegetables with your carbs involved. Sure it can get messy but it's tasty.
THANKSGIVING is warm and cozy and family and a party afterword somewhere and a fly outfit and autumn and the fucking food and pets and the music and MF’s who COOK !!!!!!
in my 70's I have never even seen this leftover sandwich, we always had Hot Turkey sandwiches.. Hot sliced turkey between two slices of white home made bread cut in half, a large scoop of Whipped Potatoes between the cut sandwich and hot turkey gravy poured over the potatoes and sandwich.
she never said to put gravy on those other things, she said it just gets on it. a big plate of food, the gravy moves around.
I love the principal so much😂
If you pour your gravy correctly, you can manage to keep it on only the items you want.
We do not put gravy all over everything. The kid with the jacked up teeth on the left has no pallet and probably eats only chicken nuggets. Bless his heart 😊
They missed the brown sugar sprinkled over the marshmallow 😞. My first company in Ireland made a Thanksgiving dinner and my French manager told me the sweet potato & marshmallow was weird
I’m American and I don’t like marshmallows on my SPC. I like the pecan and brown sugar topping.
@@anndeecosita3586 I can only eat SPC with marshmallows. Can’t bring myself to eat pecan pie but I’ve taken it to Thanksgiving celebrations 😖
I'll never understand the overly dramatic "this is so disgusting!" wanting to vomit reaction. I understand if someone doesn't like something but how can someone have that type of reaction to pecan pie? Makes no sense to me.
I’ve never had pumpkin pie in my life
There is another tradition in America at Thanksgiving it’s fried turkey you inject a raw turkey with needles 💉 usually Creole butter flavor and giant pot filled with peanut oil and connected to a propane tank the turkey is slowly lowered into the hot oil and is fried between 4-5hrs depending on how big it is. When done it the most flavorful and juicy meat you can have
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My mom would make her own blend that has honey in it before she plumps her turkey up. It makes the skin crispy as a result but I still love it all the same.
We deep fry our turkey at Thanksgiving and sometimes Christmas. We don't inject liquids as it will burst in the hot oil. We just marinade in brine and use dry rub.
If you check out other videos. We say we had deep fried Turkey for thanksgiving.
@@limeygaynor I remember you said that before.
Candied yams should have some brown sugar, cinnamon, pecans and a smattering of marshmallows
Nobody makes that sandwich. Their lying. You don't mix all the goddamn food together. No gravy on sweet potato s.
The only place I've seen anything like that is a place called Capriotti's here in Phoenix.
I actually had something like that before but I didn't have mashed potatoes or gravy in it. It wasn't that bad.
maybe a lazy stoner would when raiding the fridge for left overs lol.
We did do that sandwich thing with leftovers but only put in what you want. I only would make a turkey or any meat with stuffing with bread.
Yes, they do. The ingredients may differ, but yes, people make and eat That and similar sandwiches
I love Sweet potato casserole. And no, we don't put gravy on everything. Mostly just the turkey and mashed potatoes. Maybe dip your rolls in them. Too bad, their sponsor turned out to be a scam.
When I was a kid we didn't have sweet potatoes for Thanksgiving we had candied yams with marshmallows
Chicken Turkey Ham Roast Mac and Cheese Beans Sweet Potatoes
Pies Cakes Green Beans Corn and Other Things my family have on Thanksgiving. I don't have alot of thing they gave those kids for The Video
He's lord of one square foot of land in Scotland where they plant a tree on every one bought it's really a novel idea
You got to start off with Macy's Thanksgiving day parade before dinner.
as an American. I NEVER PUT MY SWWET POTATO WITH THE ACTUAL DINNER! and I HATE PECAN PIE! also that sandwich is on FRIENDS but as a joke b/c no one makes that I promise.
Fun Fact- the usa isn’t the only country that celebrates Thanksgiving. Canada and Liberia do also. Canadians in October
When the president pardons the turkey the animal is sent a children's zoo to live out thier life.
Actually, the president of the US pardons 2 turkeys per year who spend the rest of their lives living on a farm in Virgina called Gobbler's Nest
The names of the turkeys match each other and are sometimes patriotically themed, sometimes not
Recently named turkeys have been
Stars and Stripes
Liberty and Bell
Peanut butter and Jelly
The tradition of pardoning started just after WW2 with President Harry Truman in the late 1940s
Nope Sweet potato pie is boiled whipped sweet potatoes,can of sweetened condensed milk,butter,eggs,vanilla extract,little nutmeg and cinnamon in a pie crust no marshmallows ever💯
Out of England and Spain discovering new land, we pretty sure Spain got the best! England just got the tea leaves from India
Some families have a baked glazed Ham instead of Turkey
I think she misheard the sweet potato and marshmallow dish.. there is no gravy on there. The white came from the marshmallow, lol.
Love all of these foods but Pecan Pie is amazing. They should have put cool whip on it too. Cant believe they didnt know what Pecans were. I didnt know our foods were that much different. To me Pecans are the tastiest nut there is. Especially roasted in the oven with alittle butter and salt.
I'm a 54 year old American, and I've never heard of the marshmallow and sweet potato combo at Thanksgiving. Wtf, lol