Lol... I've looked for one and I have a stove top cause it was just more economical. But yeah they are a bit hard to find... I also find a Kureg (sp?) Style maker is ideal for single cups.
Like me and my siblings. We get along best, with 2000 miles separating us. P.S. 500 miles separate my two sisters. All three of us haven't been in the same room together, in the last 10 years.
@@lennychorn147Respectfully, you might regret not spending more time with your sisters, after one of them dies. Life is too short to allow squabbles or different personalities to keep you away from one another.
@rachelh5211 I am the one most likely to drop dead first. If I don't miss seeing or talking to them while alive. Why would I suddenly miss them when they're worm food? My brother dropped dead 15 years ago. Haven't missed him. My mother died 4 years ago. Didn't make the funeral and don't miss her.
Heinz Beanz is American. The beans are grown in the US, dehydrated and then shipped to England where they are rehydrated by American company Heinz and then cooked and canned for your English breakfasts.
Heinz is from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania! There's 57 varieties ( 😂like on the label). What's funny you can buy a red Heinz T-shirt at the Pittsburgh airport!( I have one of course 😂). As a child the Heinz company would have representation of their products at school -mostly being the gerkin pin (very small sweet pickle), I wish that I had one now ( they are collectors item and might be worth some $$$).
I spent a few years working in the London area. A couple of good friends of mine were so dejected when I told them Heinz was an American company, and their beans are indigenous to the American continent. They also were a bit upset when I reminded them that the word "soccer" is also British, and was the common name for the sport in the UK until the 1980s.
Also, I love them. And I'm from California. I had a full English breakfast in London, and it fuckin' ROCKED. I didn't think the bangers were bangin' but they weren't terrible. At first the raw tomato slices were weird, but they kind of fit in. I never managed to eat beans from the back of the fork. I didn't even know British people did that. Like, that's what spoons are for? But it was a lovely breakfast and carried me through to the late afternoon. Even after walking miles around the city - because I was a tourist. I can't wait to go back someday. My fave spot, however, was Inishmoor. But besides the diesel fumes up your sinuses, London is a great city.
@@stephenhamel9464 You change the y to ie unless the y is immediately preceded by a vowel (like monkey) or is a proper noun (like the Perry family might be called the Perrys). So poppies would be correct.
Not only were tea bags created by America, but teabagging was also invented by Americans. Though, we are much prouder of squatting over our enemies in online video games than making an outdated beverage more convenient.
As a Texan, I grew up drinking Lipton Tea. The logo/mascot picture was of a British looking fellow in a suit and tie with a peaked cap, and a huge handlebar moustache holding a saucer and teacup. But it's Texas, so its freaking hot weather all the time. That's why we drink it sweet, with ice, or refrigerate it. BTW, America is the pinnacle nation as far as refrigeration, and air conditioning. Mr. Louis Carrier can be thanked for that.
I love tea and drink vast quantities of it, both hot and iced (but never sweet), however, I can't stand Lipton Tea. I found that the Lipton Tea sold/consumed in England is different from that in the USA and I don't mind drinking it (but don't love it).
"Why don't we take the deathly hot air and put it outside where it belongs?" is an idea that belongs both to Americans and to the ancient Persians. I enjoy this knowledge.
A/C is still not a thing in countries outside America. If you lived in America you could die without it. 100 degrees Fahrenheit plus 100% humidity! And you don't have window screens?
For quite a while, the commercials for Almond Joy and Mounds was: "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. Almond Joy's got nuts, Mounds don't." I'd forgotten AJ is milk chocolate and Mounds are dark. Both are tasty if you like coconut.
I know that as a kid I would sometimes quote the first part of that slogan in a sing-song voice because it was so catchy (particularly if I was being a bit of a goofball at the time), despite the fact that I never ate Almond Joy or Mounds. I strongly preferred Snickers or Hershey's over Almond Joy or Mounds. I also happen to hate coconut (I think my dad likes it, but I'm pretty sure my mom shares my dislike of it), and it's one of the few things that completely turns me off from anything that has chocolate on or in it (I'm normally a nut for chocolate, as long as it's not white chocolate, which I also hate).
The strongest tea tradition in the U.S. is traditionally in the Southeastern U.S. states, but not hot tea, but 'sweet iced tea'. Growing up, for dinner and supper, we always had sweet ice tea or milk or water. Dad always had coffee with his meals. Having a Coke with a home cooked Southern meal was rare when growing up. A Coke is what you usually had with a hamburger, if not a milkshake, or just by itself.
But we'll also brew traditional hot tea when the mood strikes us, and it'll be in out great great Mawmaw's fine china that's in the antique china cabinet in the kitchen that's there for JUST such an occasion.
Tea drinking depends on your traditions. I'm from an Irish tradition. We drink tea all the time. In my family it's "let's have a nice cup of tea" or "put the kettle on". I drink mostly hot tea all year long
Ice tea is popular all over the United States. However, the big difference is making it sweet. In the north ice tea is tea. Not tea flavored kool-aid. Straight up tea poured over ice. You can add a spoonful of sugar later if you like, some people do (I don't), but it isn't made that way from the get go. In the south you just can't get a plain glass of ice tea. The sugar is boiled in at the start. Drove me crazy the first time I worked down there. Hot day, I wan't an iced tea, and all I can get is this stuff sweeter than soda pop.
Yep, sweet tea I like is made with Lipton Pekoe, also used for Sun Tea. For those that don't know, get your water and tea bags, add some honey, then a perforated lid with paper towel underneath. The paper towel allowed the brew to breathe while keeping out the smaller critters as it ferments under the sun for the day.
The factory where those Mounds and Almond Joy bars were originally made was in my Dad's home town, Naugatuck Connecticut. It was Peter Paul Candy Manufacturing and I had a lot of family that worked there. The company was acquired by Cadbury in the 1970's.
Your family had the more fun factory in your Connecticut town. My mother in law’s family was from New Haven and had the Winchester Repeating Rifle factory.
@ohmightywez yeah, anything working with primers and gunpowder in an assembly plant would be a little dangerous, but that's assuming they made their ammunition in said factory as well.
@@Talon18136 In practical use, I totally agree. Making them in the factory wouldn’t be as much fun. I generally get some fresh air and a bit of exercise with a Winchester in the wild. Eating Mounds will just make me chubby. I have kept my husband for 31 years by going to car shows, never telling him what to wear, and working to stay fit because he promised on our wedding day that he couldn’t go looking anywhere else. It only fair to keep that a good choice if I can. lol And before anyone gets upset that I consider how to keep my husband happy in our marriage, he gets us season tickets to the opera. If we can combine the car show or classic car races with something for me, like a tour of wineries near the track, he’ll happily take me even though he hates wine. It’s give and take for all your life together. We don’t sweat the small stuff.
13:42 The story of how the tea bag came to be is so funny. So these ladies had like a mail-order tea business or something and decided to package the loose tea in little satchels. People were supposed to open the satchel and put the tea in one of those tea strainer thingies. But instead they treated it like you would a herb de provence and tossed the whole bag in. The sellers got letters back from customers commending them on their little baggies and about how convenient they were. So the teabag was born.
@@redfive5856 you see, when one migrated to the USA they are then Americans. We are a melting pot of every culture that has existed in the last thousand or so years. That is why it is actually very silly to say something is "American" because we are a mix of everyone around the world. Brits just can't take the fact they lost and we won. Simple as that. The entire country is the size of a corner of one state in the USA 😂. You can hardly call Britain a country or even a nation. It is the last outpost of the ancient Roman empire. After France aka Rome became no longer manageable, all that was left was Britain.. a tiny island. Btw, your welcome for the Internet as well.. and AC power.. and the telephone.. the list is quite long. Just say thank you and sit down Timmy.
As a musician, I always knew "You'll never walk alone" was American. It's the finale of "Carousel" a musical written by Rogers and Hammerstein back in 1945.
@les4767 My mom loves this song and this movie, so I instantly knew what it was when he said the name of the song. I was yelling at him ‘it’s from CAROUSEL!’ during that entire section.
I remember as a child hearing an Englishman on television deriding Americans for using teabags. I can still hear the plummy voice saying that only loose tea should be used as the bag destroyed the flavor.
It's not so much the bag, but the type of tea used. Loose tea uses large leaf sections that unroll when the water is added and provide more flavor. Tea bags use small chips of tea leaves that tea snobs call floor sweepings.
@carissadallke1345 i have some that are drawstring close. I use them for medicinal fungi. Got like 500 or 1000 of em for like 10 dollars on amazon. One of the most useful things i have purchased.
I came from a small town in Colorado and the VFW raised money for the vets by selling artificial poppies. All the kids joined in selling them. At t he end of the day everybody in town wore a poppy and our cans were full of loose change. One of my best memories of childhood.
How about Hoover? I know some British people assume that Hoover was a British company, and they, unlike us, tend to call vacuum cleaners "hoovers", but the truth is that Hoover was founded in 1908, in North Canton, OH, though they expanded into the UK during the next couple of decades and a few UK-made models were even exported to the USA.
When I was in my 20s, teabags had just been introduced to the UK, and snootier English types said they had "no class." I also had to convince my English friends that Heinz was an American company (one of the Heinzes served in Congress) and Nestlés was Swiss. In North America we pronounce the latter "ness-lees," but the English say "nestles." I pointed out the accent aigu on the final e, but they brushed it off.
Maybe it's because of the region I grew up in but I've never associated tea with England just the idea of having a "tea time" I've always associated tea with China.
honestly, the IMAGE of santa belongs to america, but the idea belongs scandinavia and turkey. i dont know why the brits ever thought they had claim over something that didnt even originate with them. its like the poppy thing. poppys started from a canadian poem about french-belgian fields
@tomhalla426 Google "A Visit From St. Nicholas", published by L. Pran & Co. Boston. There's writing on one of the last pages and all the digits that look like sevens are probably ones. Full disclosure, I don't own the book. My copy is those pix downloaded on my phone.
Going the other way around, the term soccer. Everyone thinks it's American, but the british were the first to coin that term to refer to football. But they stopped using it while America kept using it.
Lewis, I don't know if you've ever heard of a comedy team by the names of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, but the latter eventually took up the hosting of an annual telethon all across the US for Muscular Dystrophy. Toward the end of each 24-hour telethon, Jerry would sing this song. Having to do with walking, and speaking of kids who couldn't do that, it grabbed many a heart string across the country for the final time that year. As I remember, in one of the Chronicles of Narnia movies, the kids were being chased across a frozen lake by a guy in brown, and I took it to mean he was Father Christmas, since it was a British series of movies. Am I correct? Secondly, in parts of Europe, Santa lives in Lapland, I've heard.
When I was a kid, Jerry Lewis had the MD telethon on Labor Day (US). At the end of the weekend, when the telethon was over, he sang You'll Never Walk Alone. That's the only time I've heard it.
I remember, in the middle of the show, where they'd have the kids marching in the studio, singing, "Look at us, we're walking. Look at us, we're talking" .... I don't remember the rest.
"Our special relationship feels more like one of siblings: we might squabble from time to time but it's only because we can't stand each other." 😂 😂 😂 He so nailed it. ❤
Aztecs/MesoAmericans had latex and created probably the earliest ball game; back to 1700 BC. Eastern Woodlands Natives of Canada/USA were playing lacrosse way back when also. Frank Sinatras' first hit during WWII was written by Ruth Lowe of Toronto (I'll Never Smile Again), the first Billboard Top 80 hit. She shopped it to Tommy Dorsey. Sinatra asked her for another hit song, and she obliged him. Later he had Canadian Paul Anka writing hits for him. In 1793 Upper Canada passed the Act Against Slavery. Tell your children to write a letter to Santa Claus, North Pole Canada, HOH OHO, and Canada Post will send a reply. Mongol occupied Russia was drinking tea for much longer of course.
The most commonly consumed brand of milk chocolate in America is Hershey’s, which utilizes pressure cookers during the manufacturing process. This creates an environment perfect for anaerobic bacteria, which go on to create butyric acid, a fatty acid already present in milk and dairy products. The presence of this acid gives Hershey’s chocolate a unique flavor that Americans are very desensitized to, but is shockingly noticeable to people who grew up consuming chocolate that hadn’t been processed in this manner.
Yeah - it's really not good. Thankfully we get a wide variety of chocolate now. No Crunchy bars, though. When I have someone share with American friends, they love them, but they never appeared in the stores. I wonder why - seems like they'd have sold well.
I'd never heard of Bounty until I started watching people from other countries talking about them so that makes sense. My husband LOVES Mounds and Almond Joy.
I do as well, plus I love coffee. Do you have a favorite tea? Mine has always been Earl Grey for hot tea and regular Lipton or something similar for cold sweet tea.
I grew up in Ireland and England. I've lived in California since 1974. I can say emphatically that Cadbury chocolate kicks ass on Hershey chocolate. As for the poppy, it's our state flower; however, ours are a golden orange color (colour). I've tried growing the red ones here, but they don't seem to like the warm climate. PS: I enjoy watching your videos almost as much as I enjoy my air conditioning. Peace and hair grease. ✌️
I found Cadbury waxy and lacking in flavor. Maybe because I grew up on it, i prefer Hershey. Hershey uses sour milk, which some say gives their chocolate bars the taste of vomit. I disagree. To me, it is more sophisticated and adult.
Hersheys is seen as a cheap shit chocolate in america too though. The one with the bird is supposed to be the good one I googled it the brand is called Ghirardelli
The red and white suit that Santa Claus wears comes from the 1930s, I think. This is because Coca-Cola started using Santa Claus in advertisements, and the Coca-cola colors are red and white. Prior to this, Santa Claus wore green or other earthy colors.
Christmas celebrations were banned during the Cromwell era, and heavily discouraged right up to the early 19th century. As it was seen as a drunken orgy by the "lower orders". Also it had papist elements, i.e. "the Twelve Days of Christmas" celebration. Mr. Dickens is widely credited with bringing it back to the prominence it once had, and has now. Over here in the US'n'A, the heavy Dutch influence in NY brought "Sinter Klaus" (Saint Nicholas) into American culture. There were many versions of the gentlemen, but it was Clement Clarke Moore's "Twas the Night Before Christmas" that crystalized the image most Europeans and N/S Americans have of him now.
There are so many different kinds of chocolate in America its impossible to say UK has better chocolate in all honesty. Every brand tastes different…🤷♂️
yeah I think people are referring specifically to Hershey's which apparently most Brits can't stand. I wonder what Brits who don't like Hershey's think about Ghiradeli chocolate, world famous brand made here in San Francisco? 🙂
@@oltedders "he best chocolate in America comes from Europe." Ghiradeli comes from San Francisco, my friend. And it's world class. Like many other things in the San Francisco Bay Area. 🙂
Hershey's is the inventor of milk chocolate that's as American as you can get. Absolutely love Dove chocolate also American. So I guess when it comes to Chocolate I prefer American
Do you have Hershey chocolate here in the states or is it imported to you? I can’t eat Hershey Milk Chocolate in the US in the form of the bars or Kisses because of the chemicals they add to it. I’m one of the people that picks up on the taste of “vomit” but its actually the butyric acid they add to it as a preservative. This acid also exits in human vomit so that is why some people pick up that connection. I know Hershey here also owns Cadbury but THANK GOD they don’t add that acid to that chocolate sooooo that is my favorite American chocolate. I’m unsure if that acid is added to chocolate that Hershey’s exports….but I bet it is because a lot of foreigners don’t like it. 😅
@@chriskeel3096 - I was talking about Hersheys chocolate specifically because they do add Butyric acid to their product which imo makes it taste nasty. If I’m being honest, I could care less about the fermentation step that goes into chocolate production as I consume plenty of fermented things such as sauerkraut, kimchi, pickles, beer, and wine. If you think “rotten fermented cocoa beans” are a problem then I suggest you stay away from Casu Marzu cheese.
Don't forget about cold tea here in the US. Coffee is a morning drink for most while tea is the evening drink. I drink anywhere from a half gallon to a gallon of tea every day. No coffee.
Its funny foreigners think Hershey is our only chocolate. That is our every day chocolate. We also have gourmet chocolate. Sees, Ethel M, Gordiva and others.
I have never seen Santa as necessarily British or American, but Coca-Colan, which I guess is still "American"😅 I also don't see us as siblings 😅 Britain is our father, whereas Canada and Australia are our siblings. Canada is the good son kid, Australia is the kid that got sent to boarding school, and the US ran away and got emancipated 😅
I guess it's just because I'm old but I definitely remember you guys over in the UK used to give those of us from the USA a lot of crap for using tea bags. It was seen as inferior to loose leaf tea and beneath them. That was back in the 80s but I met quite a few people from Britain back then due to my work and they all shared the sentiment at that time. I'm very glad things have changed. 😂
@@DakotaJones-nn2oi It's more to do with the Quality of Cocoa bean (cherry picked vs production farming). Fermentation process, amount of solids in the chocolate, Fat content. Even then it really comes down to preference, Some cheap chocolate can taste amazing, while some expensive chocolate can taste like coffee grounds. And your unlikely to find two people in the same family that like the same percentage of cocoa in their chocolate.
The worst thing to happen to tea in Britain was the use of tea bags. When I first moved to Britain in the early '60's, almost everyone was using loose tea. It was so much better tasting than the bagged tea I was familiar with. Sadly, I returned to Britain after a spell away, and found bagged tea everywhere. As I said, it didn't taste right. I don't know what the bag does to the taste of the tea, if anything at all, but my perception remains the same after many, many years.
Teabags use powdered tea, and too much of it if you're just making a cuppa. Luckily I live in a N. American city with lots of tea drinkers, so I have my choice of English, Chinese & Japanese tea options.
I love both your channels. His sarcasm always has me rolling. "But it's only because we can't stand eachother..." 🤣🤣 Your ability to analyze things and think through things is a great attribute. Some of these I knew. But the teabags caught me as well. And I couldn't help but think of the irony in a funny way: First it was the epic tea party that we threw in the late 1700's. But then almost 200 years later, we got a little drunk and we started tea bagging everyone else in the world. No wonder why we're not invited to parties anymore...
Hershey is synonymously American. But the original process used had the condensed milk being cooked too long, or some such thing, which gives it that very distinctive, slightly sour taste that Americans love. OTHER American chocolates are amazing. I take a business trip to our facility in Durham, UK, and there’s a fierce debate every year if I bring in See’s candy or Ghirardelli’s. Both outstanding chocolates.
Love is a subjective thing and,especially with something so.closely related to childhood and that evokes nostalgia, quality doesn't matter. It's a visceral reaction, not a.question of a refined palate. 🙂 De gustibus non est disputandum.
Love theft I've discovered third channel! The way you say you love Christmas made me tell my husband we should adopt you! You're so funny and wholesome and thoughtful when you present these videos. Keep it up!
I generally only drink hot tea in the winter here in Texas. But I definitely prefer loose tea to teabags. I use a metal tea leaf infuser instead of teabags. And that works out best for me because I drink it a pot at a time. With two cubes of sugar and a dolop of cream or milk. The English way. Other than that. During the summer months. It's definitely unsweetened iced tea.
@@grabble7605because I hate bitter things & very few teas aren't bitter, even loose leaf. I also like milk & sugar with coffee for the same reason. But most of the time only a little sugar makes it better or I'll use honey, just depends on the tea.
@grabble7605 it's popular in the south, in which an average spring day would boil an English man alive. The water is needed to keep sweating and working
here in the southern states of America we drink sweetened iced tea by the gallons and not by a 4oz cup. just think of iced tea as being similar to a sweetened iced coffee.
I do remember finding out that Saint Clause or Father Christmas was indeed dressed in green in earlier times. I think it came from Germany. Or what passed for Germany before 1871. There were all sorts of quirky things about Christmas added from different countries. But it was an advertising campaign in the US that gave us what Santa Clause is today. Some time shortly after what we think of Germany formed in 1871.
@@NeversurrenderMM66 umm...pretty sure it was Norman Rockwell, which Coke then borrowed for their ad campaigns. ( his first Santa Painting was in 1913 )
no, it was a man named Thomas Nast who drew Santa Claus for Harper's Weekly in 1862 within the next 15-20 years he changed it to red @@nadjasunflower1387
Hello Luv, Military American here, born in Warrington England. I have Dual citizenship as well. I'm not a coffee drinker, love the smell but can't get it down my throat. But I do drink more than my share of hot tea rear round, ice tea when very hot out. Prince of Wales, Earl Grey teas are some of my favorites. Mounds my favorite dark chocolate bar. Enjoy your channel, thanks for inviting me to subscribe. ❤
The easy explanation about the tea is that in the UK "that was how we always made tea" but Americans have this itch about making things just a bit better.... or at least attempting to.
I've traveled to Britain a few times, and I thought British chocolate was exactly the same as American chocolate. Literally, a lot of the popular chocolate bars in the U.K. are produced by American companies and just given different names
Tea Bags, the internet, MRI's, GPS, personal computers, phones, cell phones, every kind of modern music......ALL INVENTED IN AMERICA. Also Coca-Cola, blue jeans, credit cards......
Many years ago I saw actor Michael York, on one of the morning news shows - GMA or Today, I suppose. They had a fancy tea service set up, you know the kind. He was going to pour. He was taken aback, and mildly derogatory about the fact that tea bags were used, rather than traditional loose tea. He said something like "I prefer my tea without the surgical dressings, thank you very much." (I'm paraphrasing.) Now, I'm wondering about the "why" of tea being a part of the interview! Other than the fact that Michael York is British, of course.
Apples aren’t even native to North America. They’re from, like, Kazhakstan. And, sorry Southerners, peaches are originally from China. You want a fruit native to the U.S., try blueberries.
Only change is that in Finland they believe Santa lives in Northern Finland In a place called Santas village that you can visit. This is also why they do Christmas a day earlier because he is so much closer to them.
An obscure one I know, is the 4-4-0 locomotive type. It's called the "american" class, because they were invented here in America after a number of locomotives bought from the UK which were 2-4-0 types, kept derailing. So putting 4 wheels under the front of the boiler on a bogey, made them derail less.
To be fair, Father Christmas/Santa Claus is actually neither British nor American. He has his roots in Northern Germany and Scandinavia, and is actually a mix of aspects of two Germanic gods, Odin and Thor, with a thin veneer of Christianity hastily applied to make him seem less pagan. The name though comes from a by-name for Odin, Nik. Which mutated after the Christianization of Northern Europe into Niklaus, or Saint Niklaus as a way to make continuing to honor Odin acceptable to the church by pretending it was actually one of their saints. Klaus or Claus is a shortened form of Niklaus, and "Santa" is latin for "Saint" or "holy." Even the tradition of leaving out offerings for him on Christmas Eve (in America, milk and cookies, in Britain, sherry and mince pie) is a throwback to sacrificial offerings of food and drink left out for Odin and the spirits of the Wild Hunt during the Yuletide to appease them and have them bless the household and their land.
Did you know the lighting of the pine or fur tree aka Christmas tree, was from Celtic celebration for the Winter Solstice, the return to longer days, by burning the tree…
Y'all still say "Happy Christmas" we say either "Merry Christmas" or Happy Holidays (because 🤔🥺 were "American" we accept Jewish Chanaka , & or Kwanzaa from Africa.
Technically happy holidays allows them to keep up the same signage through New Years. It encompasses both Christmas and the other holiday a week later.
Yet we colonized north america and built a system which is taxing us just as much. If you think about it the war was for absolutely nothing. And i bet everyone would ve surprised to learn that our government and judicial system are actually not under US control. Same with washington DC. DC is actually not even a territory of the USA and doesnt follow the same constitution. So basically it was all for nothing.
Dumping tea did not result in war. The truth is that they came for the guns and powder in order to stop rebellion and the settlers were not about to have that. That is why we have the 2nd amendment. The tea thing was a mere action of protest.
It should be noted that the Boston Tea Party was actually a protest over the elimination of a tax that threatened to reduce the cost of tea in the American colonies, thus undercutting hard working American smugglers.
"Santa Clause" was an advertising campaign by Coca Cola in the 1920s to promote Coca Cola during Christmas. They combined all the different figures from the different cultures (st.nick, father Christmas, etc) into one persona. These advertisements were posted on the back of the National Geographic Magazines from the 1920s to the 1950s, and became what we now accept as "Santa Clause". I happen to have all the pictorials for this campaign.
Not only that, but even as late as the 1980s, American Football was just marketed as regular Football in Britain, who still referred to association Football as Soccer as well. Also the British still use the Imperial System in some regards. Just like Americans do use the Metric System in some few regards (Usually Drugs and Weapons. No I'm not kidding)
“Almond Joy’s got nuts, Mounds don’t…” The commercial jingle we used to hear watching American TV as a kid growing up in Toronto. We have neither in Canada, but we still have Bounty!
The biggest chocolate maker in the US is Hershey, and back in the day they made chocolate for every other candy company. The biggest difference between Hershey chocolate and pretty much everywhere else, is that they make the milk chocolate with just slightly turned milk. That's why Hershey tastes a little bit sour, when put up against chocolate everywhere else. I grew up with Hershey so I'm used to it, but I can totally understand how that would put others off.
It's all about individual taste. There is nothing I prefer to Hershey's milk chocolate. Doesn't taste sour compared to other chocolates to me. To each his own.
My mother was in the chorus of the original Broadway production of Oscar & Hammerstein’s Carousel during WWII. I grew up singing You’ll Never Walk Alone. 🤗
I view it as Britain is our mother country, and America is the daughter of Britain (the unruly child). Even though we wanted our independence from Britain, we never truly got it. We will always be Britain's child, and Canada is America's sister, that's how I always viewed the countries.
They also pronounce Aluminum wrong. It's because when the news articles were put out in 1825, it was misspelled in the British papers and for some reason they still haven't figured it out.
Maeshalandae- considering there are about 100 different kinds of chocolate in America Id say you are an idiot lol. Sure, Hersheys might be garbage but we have so many different types its insane. All brands taste different.
I think your Curly Wurly bar came about from our Marathon Bar, which sadly stopped production in the early 80s. I can get the CW at specialty candy stores, but they are smaller than ours were.
Around 10:00 fun fact: Christmas is actually just an amalgamation of various pagan practices that long predate the birth of The Christ. Not only that but it is fairly easy to track down when he would have been born, and it was NOT during the winter.
You'll Never Walk Alone has also been the corps song of the Madison Scouts Drum & Bugle Corps for decades....even made it into their 75th anniversary program as seen at th-cam.com/video/5rM9Zk0iFHk/w-d-xo.html (starting at 11:15). Some of the people in the stands singing along are alums of the corps. Many alums sign off on letters ad emails with MYYWA...some even have it on their gravestones.
Christmas is basically a pagan holiday. people try and call it the birth of jesus but it's actually using many pagan traditions and basically took over another festival. tho that happened with Christianity in general. they took over pagan things and changed it for their own purposes
Yep. And the primary reason the Puritans outlawed it, is because of the traditions that were part of how it was celebrated, which included the Saturnalia's partying and getting drunk, if I recall correctly. If people think Christmas is Christian, they've been tricked. Most of the traditions are taken from pagan holidays, such as Saturnalia and Yuletide. The date is wrong if it's supposed to be about Jesus' birth, as he was 30yrs old when he was baptized and started his ministry, and his ministry lasted 3 and 1/2 years. His death was in March... 6 months before/after would have been September/October... nowhere near December. Santa has nothing to do with Jesus, if you take any time to look into the history about the pagan customs and traditions he comes from... (even his red and white suit, while part of the coca cola brand advertisements also strangely enough coincide with a Japanese mythological character wearing red and white robes that enters houses through chimneys...) The yule log, the "christmas tree", the wreaths, mistletoe... all have pagan roots with mystical meanings and reasons. Btw, the star that gets put on top of the trees... representing the star that led the astrologers to the young child Jesus (not the baby in the manger - he was a young child by the time they found him, long after he was born) was sent by Satan to have the young Jesus put to death by Herod... the astrologers (commonly called "wise men", but were practicing something forbidden by the law of the Bible - looking for omens in the stars) were diverted by angelic intervention, so they did not return to Herod with the information he wanted. The Puritans rightly banned it as un-Christian. If you want to be serious about it, and want to know if it's actually an affront to God, take a moment to consider 3 Bible examples that show how God feels about this topic: Haggai 2:10-14 (Can pagan traditions be made clean by being given "christian" reasons?) Exodus 32:1-8 (Does God accept pagan customs being added to brand new "christian" holidays?) 2 Corinthians 6:14-18 (Does God accept mixing pagan and true worship, or do they need to be kept separate?) Can a Christian reasonably celebrate pagan holidays after knowing how God feels about them? I know many people celebrate the christian holidays with "good intentions"... and they may love getting together and having good meals with family and friends, and giving gifts and all that (which, in themselves are not bad activities),... but just take seriously how God feels about those so-called "holy days."
Seeing your face drop when they gave credit to America for Santa Claus was priceless. I know how you feel. Christmas is my favorite holiday too. I love your videos. You are hilarious. Hope you get to come to America sometime soon!!!!
My family was Dutch and Sinter Klass represented Christmas. But he didn't wear red. We had a statuette of him dressed as a church bishop in blue and holding a shepherd's crook. Definitely a more religious figure than the one in red popularized by Coca Cola.
The latest itineration of the tea bag are iron-seal. You by your tea/herbs by the oz., and you tea bags by the roll (say 100). I just found some at my mom's house I'd made years back and put in zip-locks, both Jasmine and Pennyroyal teas. Herb and Flame on the internet used to have a good selection!
Tea used to come in bricks and you would have to chop them up and go through a whole process. We got tired of it. But the bricks were easy to dump in the harbor. They sank pretty well.
the "tea leaf holder" was exactly that, the original idea was to sell higher quality better tasting tea and to show everyone that their tea WAS better they handed out (actually mailed throughout town i believe) samples with a little baggy of their tea leaves, enough for 1 cup. They were supposed to cut the bag open and make tea the normal way, but people being creatively lazy figured out they could toss the bag and hot water in and be done. They quickly patented the idea once they heard what people were doing (local store run by them, people have to come in to buy the tea, people ask where the bags are) At least this is the story ive heard a few years ago. believe it was my 8th grade science teacher that told me this actually, he was 50-60 years old and told us some stories about his past one day. Used to be some sort of historian or preservationist at a museum or something.
The longer story about Tea Bags is that it started with a tea company deciding to send out some fancy samplers with the tea in silk pouches, and everyone looked at them and thought, "Oh cool, this way we can brew tea without getting the leaves in it," but because silk's expensive the revelation that the concept was appealing had to simmer until filter paper could be adapted for the job. As for the actual war on Christmas, The puritans were basically opposed to all holidays, but especially hated Christmas because it the early version was mostly about big groups forming to go from house to house singing "Give us food and booze or we'll break in your door and take it!" or an approximation thereof. Ironically a lot of modern Christmas is currently so family oriented because of the decades where everyone needed to practice it in hiding
The electric kettle (which Brits insist no Americans have) was also invented in the US
I’m using my electric kettle in America right now. 😂
Isn’t that hilarious how they think we don’t have kettles of like… any kind?? 😂
Lol... I've looked for one and I have a stove top cause it was just more economical. But yeah they are a bit hard to find... I also find a Kureg (sp?) Style maker is ideal for single cups.
@@spthibaultthey sell them at pretty much any online retailer, and at Wal-Mart
I have a electric kettle. Makes heating water for cup ramen and tea nice and easy.
"We might squabble once in a while. But that's only because we can't stand each other." I laughed way too hard at that.
Like true siblings😂
So true, too funny!🙂
Like me and my siblings. We get along best, with 2000 miles separating us.
P.S. 500 miles separate my two sisters.
All three of us haven't been in the same room together, in the last 10 years.
@@lennychorn147Respectfully, you might regret not spending more time with your sisters, after one of them dies. Life is too short to allow squabbles or different personalities to keep you away from one another.
@rachelh5211 I am the one most likely to drop dead first. If I don't miss seeing or talking to them while alive. Why would I suddenly miss them when they're worm food?
My brother dropped dead 15 years ago. Haven't missed him. My mother died 4 years ago. Didn't make the funeral and don't miss her.
Heinz Beanz is American. The beans are grown in the US, dehydrated and then shipped to England where they are rehydrated by American company Heinz and then cooked and canned for your English breakfasts.
Is this because of the war? It would make sense.
Heinz is from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania! There's 57 varieties ( 😂like on the label). What's funny you can buy a red Heinz T-shirt at the Pittsburgh airport!( I have one of course 😂). As a child the Heinz company would have representation of their products at school -mostly being the gerkin pin (very small sweet pickle), I wish that I had one now ( they are collectors item and might be worth some $$$).
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I spent a few years working in the London area. A couple of good friends of mine were so dejected when I told them Heinz was an American company, and their beans are indigenous to the American continent. They also were a bit upset when I reminded them that the word "soccer" is also British, and was the common name for the sport in the UK until the 1980s.
Also, I love them. And I'm from California. I had a full English breakfast in London, and it fuckin' ROCKED. I didn't think the bangers were bangin' but they weren't terrible. At first the raw tomato slices were weird, but they kind of fit in. I never managed to eat beans from the back of the fork. I didn't even know British people did that. Like, that's what spoons are for? But it was a lovely breakfast and carried me through to the late afternoon. Even after walking miles around the city - because I was a tourist. I can't wait to go back someday. My fave spot, however, was Inishmoor. But besides the diesel fumes up your sinuses, London is a great city.
It's super easy to dump tea into the harbor when it's all bagged up 🤷♂️
I heard they had a choice to throw over barrels of rum or tea and everyone said "save the rum! Throw the tea!"
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Santa Claus was historically really St
Nicholas...a Catholic Bishop
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What could be more British than an American professor inspired by a Canadian poem about flowers growing in France?
I (in America) have a Canadian remembrance quarter with a poppy on the back, I got it in my change years back & kept it.
There are a lot of poppys (I think that’s correct but if not then “ies”) grown in Asia as well, hence the opium/Heroin trade.
@@stephenhamel9464 You change the y to ie unless the y is immediately preceded by a vowel (like monkey) or is a proper noun (like the Perry family might be called the Perrys). So poppies would be correct.
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bro have you ever actually looked up where flanders field is? its a war cemetary in belgium not france....
Not only did we invent the tea bag, we put coffee in it.
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@@AreYouKittenMeRtNow#fuckyeah
Not only were tea bags created by America, but teabagging was also invented by Americans. Though, we are much prouder of squatting over our enemies in online video games than making an outdated beverage more convenient.
I love those Coffee singles by Maxwell House.
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As a Texan, I grew up drinking Lipton Tea.
The logo/mascot picture was of a British looking fellow in a suit and tie with a peaked cap, and a huge handlebar moustache holding a saucer and teacup.
But it's Texas, so its freaking hot weather all the time. That's why we drink it sweet, with ice, or refrigerate it. BTW, America is the pinnacle nation as far as refrigeration, and air conditioning. Mr. Louis Carrier can be thanked for that.
I love tea and drink vast quantities of it, both hot and iced (but never sweet), however, I can't stand Lipton Tea. I found that the Lipton Tea sold/consumed in England is different from that in the USA and I don't mind drinking it (but don't love it).
Of course, University of Texas grads & students are "Texas Rea sippers"!
"Why don't we take the deathly hot air and put it outside where it belongs?" is an idea that belongs both to Americans and to the ancient Persians. I enjoy this knowledge.
I thank Carrier every week when I get paid. Without his invention, I wouldn't have a profession, and I wouldn't live in Arizona 😂
A/C is still not a thing in countries outside America.
If you lived in America you could die without it. 100 degrees Fahrenheit plus 100% humidity!
And you don't have window screens?
For quite a while, the commercials for Almond Joy and Mounds was: "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. Almond Joy's got nuts, Mounds don't." I'd forgotten AJ is milk chocolate and Mounds are dark. Both are tasty if you like coconut.
I will be heading to the store tomorrow for some Almond Joy and Mounds.
Back when commercials were cheeky snappy and effective 😂
exactly. The song got stuck in my head when he stated that
Oh man talk about memories hahaha I love Almond Joys to this day
I know that as a kid I would sometimes quote the first part of that slogan in a sing-song voice because it was so catchy (particularly if I was being a bit of a goofball at the time), despite the fact that I never ate Almond Joy or Mounds. I strongly preferred Snickers or Hershey's over Almond Joy or Mounds.
I also happen to hate coconut (I think my dad likes it, but I'm pretty sure my mom shares my dislike of it), and it's one of the few things that completely turns me off from anything that has chocolate on or in it (I'm normally a nut for chocolate, as long as it's not white chocolate, which I also hate).
The strongest tea tradition in the U.S. is traditionally in the Southeastern U.S. states, but not hot tea, but 'sweet iced tea'. Growing up, for dinner and supper, we always had sweet ice tea or milk or water. Dad always had coffee with his meals. Having a Coke with a home cooked Southern meal was rare when growing up. A Coke is what you usually had with a hamburger, if not a milkshake, or just by itself.
But we'll also brew traditional hot tea when the mood strikes us, and it'll be in out great great Mawmaw's fine china that's in the antique china cabinet in the kitchen that's there for JUST such an occasion.
Tea drinking depends on your traditions. I'm from an Irish tradition. We drink tea all the time. In my family it's "let's have a nice cup of tea" or "put the kettle on". I drink mostly hot tea all year long
Ice tea is popular all over the United States. However, the big difference is making it sweet.
In the north ice tea is tea. Not tea flavored kool-aid. Straight up tea poured over ice. You can add a spoonful of sugar later if you like, some people do (I don't), but it isn't made that way from the get go.
In the south you just can't get a plain glass of ice tea. The sugar is boiled in at the start. Drove me crazy the first time I worked down there. Hot day, I wan't an iced tea, and all I can get is this stuff sweeter than soda pop.
Yep, sweet tea I like is made with Lipton Pekoe, also used for Sun Tea. For those that don't know, get your water and tea bags, add some honey, then a perforated lid with paper towel underneath. The paper towel allowed the brew to breathe while keeping out the smaller critters as it ferments under the sun for the day.
Funny that you say dinner and supper because in the Midwest dinner and supper are the same thing.
The factory where those Mounds and Almond Joy bars were originally made was in my Dad's home town, Naugatuck Connecticut. It was Peter Paul Candy Manufacturing and I had a lot of family that worked there. The company was acquired by Cadbury in the 1970's.
Your family had the more fun factory in your Connecticut town. My mother in law’s family was from New Haven and had the Winchester Repeating Rifle factory.
@ohmightywez yeah, anything working with primers and gunpowder in an assembly plant would be a little dangerous, but that's assuming they made their ammunition in said factory as well.
@@ohmightywezarguably the Winchester is more fun than the candy
@@Talon18136 In practical use, I totally agree. Making them in the factory wouldn’t be as much fun. I generally get some fresh air and a bit of exercise with a Winchester in the wild. Eating Mounds will just make me chubby. I have kept my husband for 31 years by going to car shows, never telling him what to wear, and working to stay fit because he promised on our wedding day that he couldn’t go looking anywhere else. It only fair to keep that a good choice if I can. lol
And before anyone gets upset that I consider how to keep my husband happy in our marriage, he gets us season tickets to the opera. If we can combine the car show or classic car races with something for me, like a tour of wineries near the track, he’ll happily take me even though he hates wine.
It’s give and take for all your life together. We don’t sweat the small stuff.
Ugh, I wouldn't take credit for chocolate in USA.
13:42 The story of how the tea bag came to be is so funny. So these ladies had like a mail-order tea business or something and decided to package the loose tea in little satchels. People were supposed to open the satchel and put the tea in one of those tea strainer thingies. But instead they treated it like you would a herb de provence and tossed the whole bag in. The sellers got letters back from customers commending them on their little baggies and about how convenient they were. So the teabag was born.
Another one Lawrence didn't point out is that English Muffins are actually American as well. They were invented by Samuel Thomas in New York.
Oh my goodness! I'm about to have an 'English muffin'! Heh...an 'American muffin'. 😁
Samuel Thomas was an Englishman and gave the “English muffin” its name.
@@redfive5856 you see, when one migrated to the USA they are then Americans. We are a melting pot of every culture that has existed in the last thousand or so years. That is why it is actually very silly to say something is "American" because we are a mix of everyone around the world. Brits just can't take the fact they lost and we won. Simple as that. The entire country is the size of a corner of one state in the USA 😂. You can hardly call Britain a country or even a nation. It is the last outpost of the ancient Roman empire. After France aka Rome became no longer manageable, all that was left was Britain.. a tiny island. Btw, your welcome for the Internet as well.. and AC power.. and the telephone.. the list is quite long. Just say thank you and sit down Timmy.
@@redfive5856 I don't care.......please pass the orange JELLY!! 🤣
Marmalade or Jell-o?@@MAGGOT_VOMIT
As a musician, I always knew "You'll never walk alone" was American. It's the finale of "Carousel" a musical written by Rogers and Hammerstein back in 1945.
Didn't Jerry Lewis sing this song to close out his Labor Day Weekends MD Marathon?
@@josem2468 I'm not sure. I never made it to the end of those shows.
@@les4767 What's funny is most Americans are more familiar with the song "I Walk Alone" by Green Day than the song "You'll Never Walk Alone".
@@-TheShaun- That depends on how old you are.
@les4767 My mom loves this song and this movie, so I instantly knew what it was when he said the name of the song. I was yelling at him ‘it’s from CAROUSEL!’ during that entire section.
I remember as a child hearing an Englishman on television deriding Americans for using teabags. I can still hear the plummy voice saying that only loose tea should be used as the bag destroyed the flavor.
It's not so much the bag, but the type of tea used. Loose tea uses large leaf sections that unroll when the water is added and provide more flavor. Tea bags use small chips of tea leaves that tea snobs call floor sweepings.
@gotham61 you can buy empty tea bags & fill them with your own.
@carissadallke1345 i have some that are drawstring close. I use them for medicinal fungi. Got like 500 or 1000 of em for like 10 dollars on amazon. One of the most useful things i have purchased.
It does definitely destroy the flavor. It makes paper flavored tea! 😮💨
@@iahelcathartesaura3887It also absorbs some of the tea oils removing some of the flavor.
I remember as a child buying paper poppies from veterans for soldiers ❤
I came from a small town in Colorado and the VFW raised money for the vets by selling artificial poppies. All the kids joined in selling them. At t he end of the day everybody in town wore a poppy and our cans were full of loose change. One of my best memories of childhood.
This tells me I'm old, because I remember when they were real poppies. The paper ones were a disappointment.
How about Hoover? I know some British people assume that Hoover was a British company, and they, unlike us, tend to call vacuum cleaners "hoovers", but the truth is that Hoover was founded in 1908, in North Canton, OH, though they expanded into the UK during the next couple of decades and a few UK-made models were even exported to the USA.
They do tend to think they invented everything. I've had Brits argue with me over things they think are British.
When I was in my 20s, teabags had just been introduced to the UK, and snootier English types said they had "no class." I also had to convince my English friends that Heinz was an American company (one of the Heinzes served in Congress) and Nestlés was Swiss. In North America we pronounce the latter "ness-lees," but the English say "nestles." I pointed out the accent aigu on the final e, but they brushed it off.
Excellent comment! 😂👍👏🧡
Maybe it's because of the region I grew up in but I've never associated tea with England just the idea of having a "tea time" I've always associated tea with China.
your thumbnail is pretty, you should make videos featuring yourself 🙂
I equally associated tea it with England and China. But yeah, I see England as the posh tea time in suits 🤣
I usually think of Pakistan, North Africa, and Japan when I think of Tea outside the US.
It's weird how we all have different thoughts on tea.
I associate it with the Irish. I only associate certain teas to China.
@@Dodsodalo As well as the type of tea, perhaps its just me but green teas always seem prevalent in stories or animations regarding asian cultures,
Santa Claus was, in the current image, was the creation of Clement Clark Moore and Thomas Nast, and refined in 1930’s Coca Cola ads.
honestly, the IMAGE of santa belongs to america, but the idea belongs scandinavia and turkey. i dont know why the brits ever thought they had claim over something that didnt even originate with them. its like the poppy thing. poppys started from a canadian poem about french-belgian fields
In my copy of a very early "A visit from St. Nicholas" which is illustrated and St. NICK really does look much like the 1931 Coca-Cola ad.
@@horsepowerandtalk1033 Who was the illustrator? And when was the publishing date?
@tomhalla426 Google "A Visit From St. Nicholas", published by L. Pran & Co. Boston. There's writing on one of the last pages and all the digits that look like sevens are probably ones. Full disclosure, I don't own the book. My copy is those pix downloaded on my phone.
Going the other way around, the term soccer. Everyone thinks it's American, but the british were the first to coin that term to refer to football. But they stopped using it while America kept using it.
Lewis, I don't know if you've ever heard of a comedy team by the names of Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, but the latter eventually took up the hosting of an annual telethon all across the US for Muscular Dystrophy. Toward the end of each 24-hour telethon, Jerry would sing this song. Having to do with walking, and speaking of kids who couldn't do that, it grabbed many a heart string across the country for the final time that year.
As I remember, in one of the Chronicles of Narnia movies, the kids were being chased across a frozen lake by a guy in brown, and I took it to mean he was Father Christmas, since it was a British series of movies. Am I correct?
Secondly, in parts of Europe, Santa lives in Lapland, I've heard.
When I was a kid, Jerry Lewis had the MD telethon on Labor Day (US). At the end of the weekend, when the telethon was over, he sang You'll Never Walk Alone. That's the only time I've heard it.
I remember, in the middle of the show, where they'd have the kids marching in the studio, singing, "Look at us, we're walking. Look at us, we're talking" .... I don't remember the rest.
You’ll Never Walk Alone is from the American musical, “Carousel” by Rogers & Hammerstein
"Our special relationship feels more like one of siblings: we might squabble from time to time but it's only because we can't stand each other." 😂 😂 😂
He so nailed it. ❤
I lived in London for a time and on American Independence Day (4th of July) my neighbors had a "good riddance day BBQ party.
@@blind2nothing1 LOL, glad they got in on the fun of BBQ's for that day....
@@blind2nothing1 Some English people refer to the 4th of July as "when we granted you Americans home rule."
3:25 i love Almond Joy and Mound, well coconut in general
In the southeastern US, we wear poppies in observance of Veteran's Day.
If you visit a VFW (Veterans of Foreign Wars) hall, they hand them out.
Aztecs/MesoAmericans had latex and created probably the earliest ball game; back to 1700 BC. Eastern Woodlands Natives of Canada/USA were playing lacrosse way back when also.
Frank Sinatras' first hit during WWII was written by Ruth Lowe of Toronto (I'll Never Smile Again), the first Billboard Top 80 hit. She shopped it to Tommy Dorsey. Sinatra asked her for another hit song, and she obliged him. Later he had Canadian Paul Anka writing hits for him.
In 1793 Upper Canada passed the Act Against Slavery.
Tell your children to write a letter to Santa Claus, North Pole Canada, HOH OHO, and Canada Post will send a reply.
Mongol occupied Russia was drinking tea for much longer of course.
it was passed in 1793 but it wasn't actually abolished until 1834.
The most commonly consumed brand of milk chocolate in America is Hershey’s, which utilizes pressure cookers during the manufacturing process. This creates an environment perfect for anaerobic bacteria, which go on to create butyric acid, a fatty acid already present in milk and dairy products. The presence of this acid gives Hershey’s chocolate a unique flavor that Americans are very desensitized to, but is shockingly noticeable to people who grew up consuming chocolate that hadn’t been processed in this manner.
Yeah - it's really not good. Thankfully we get a wide variety of chocolate now. No Crunchy bars, though. When I have someone share with American friends, they love them, but they never appeared in the stores. I wonder why - seems like they'd have sold well.
I'd never heard of Bounty until I started watching people from other countries talking about them so that makes sense. My husband LOVES Mounds and Almond Joy.
When Lawrence was talking about the Bounty bar, I was thinking to myself, "that looks just like a Mounds bar..."
What man doesn't love.....mounds ❤
I like what he said, America and Britain are like siblings. Lol!
Technically, it's more of a parent and a very independent child relationship.
Like a runaway teen!
Imagine growing up to realize your sole parent were the most evil across the globe.
I'm an American and go through two boxes of 100 tea bags every week. I love tea.
I do as well, plus I love coffee. Do you have a favorite tea? Mine has always been Earl Grey for hot tea and regular Lipton or something similar for cold sweet tea.
I drink 2 cups of herbal tea in the morning. I can't have black tea as much as I like it.
I grew up in Ireland and England. I've lived in California since 1974. I can say emphatically that Cadbury chocolate kicks ass on Hershey chocolate. As for the poppy, it's our state flower; however, ours are a golden orange color (colour). I've tried growing the red ones here, but they don't seem to like the warm climate. PS: I enjoy watching your videos almost as much as I enjoy my air conditioning. Peace and hair grease. ✌️
I found Cadbury waxy and lacking in flavor. Maybe because I grew up on it, i prefer Hershey. Hershey uses sour milk, which some say gives their chocolate bars the taste of vomit. I disagree. To me, it is more sophisticated and adult.
Dove outshines them both
Wait till you hear that hershey owns cadbury
Hersheys is seen as a cheap shit chocolate in america too though.
The one with the bird is supposed to be the good one
I googled it the brand is called
Ghirardelli
I prefer Dove over Ghirardelli@@RusticRonnie
The red and white suit that Santa Claus wears comes from the 1930s, I think. This is because Coca-Cola started using Santa Claus in advertisements, and the Coca-cola colors are red and white. Prior to this, Santa Claus wore green or other earthy colors.
The suit was illustrated in the Civil War by artist Thomas Nast (1863). Red suit, white beard.
Christmas celebrations were banned during the Cromwell era, and heavily discouraged right up to the early 19th century. As it was seen as a drunken orgy by the "lower orders". Also it had papist elements, i.e. "the Twelve Days of Christmas" celebration.
Mr. Dickens is widely credited with bringing it back to the prominence it once had, and has now.
Over here in the US'n'A, the heavy Dutch influence in NY brought "Sinter Klaus" (Saint Nicholas) into American culture. There were many versions of the gentlemen, but it was Clement Clarke Moore's "Twas the Night Before Christmas" that crystalized the image most Europeans and N/S Americans have of him now.
However, Charles Dickens and his little book, ‘A Christmas Carol’, did have _some\ to do with it as well.
@@StoryMing Yes indeed! I gave him a shout out above :)
All those German Georges also had a hand in bringing it to prominence in Britain.
There are so many different kinds of chocolate in America its impossible to say UK has better chocolate in all honesty. Every brand tastes different…🤷♂️
I prefer Lindt. Swiss Chocolate.
yeah I think people are referring specifically to Hershey's which apparently most Brits can't stand. I wonder what Brits who don't like Hershey's think about Ghiradeli chocolate, world famous brand made here in San Francisco? 🙂
Yes. The best chocolate in America comes from Europe.
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Any chocolate from France.
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"he best chocolate in America comes from Europe."
Ghiradeli comes from San Francisco, my friend. And it's world class. Like many other things in the San Francisco Bay Area. 🙂
Hershey's is the inventor of milk chocolate that's as American as you can get. Absolutely love Dove chocolate also American. So I guess when it comes to Chocolate I prefer American
Do you have Hershey chocolate here in the states or is it imported to you? I can’t eat Hershey Milk Chocolate in the US in the form of the bars or Kisses because of the chemicals they add to it. I’m one of the people that picks up on the taste of “vomit” but its actually the butyric acid they add to it as a preservative. This acid also exits in human vomit so that is why some people pick up that connection. I know Hershey here also owns Cadbury but THANK GOD they don’t add that acid to that chocolate sooooo that is my favorite American chocolate. I’m unsure if that acid is added to chocolate that Hershey’s exports….but I bet it is because a lot of foreigners don’t like it. 😅
@@MrMmitch32 wait till you learn chocolate is nothing more than rotten fermented cocoa beans. but sure, blame the preservatives
@@chriskeel3096 - I was talking about Hersheys chocolate specifically because they do add Butyric acid to their product which imo makes it taste nasty. If I’m being honest, I could care less about the fermentation step that goes into chocolate production as I consume plenty of fermented things such as sauerkraut, kimchi, pickles, beer, and wine. If you think “rotten fermented cocoa beans” are a problem then I suggest you stay away from Casu Marzu cheese.
The last Hershey's chocolate I bought had made in Mexico on the back of the wrapper a few years back. I prefer See's chocolates.
Galaxy chocolate is also American (it's known as Dove in the states)@@MrMmitch32
We invented tea BAGS... My grandmum from Edinburgh had a tea ball. She used leaves in it and put it in the hot water.
And I still use a tea-ball ...
@@sabrinamassie5606 I played t-ball as a child. And wiffle ball, which brits stole and call rounders lol
Us Americans did the first Brexit. AHAHAHAHAHAHA
Well, no. They were British at the time. That's what led to the "American revolution".
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Amerexit?
@@pennylane3746 😂🤣
Don't forget about cold tea here in the US. Coffee is a morning drink for most while tea is the evening drink. I drink anywhere from a half gallon to a gallon of tea every day. No coffee.
Tea has an enzyme in it that destroys thiamine. Drinking too much tea caused me to have a thiamine deficiency.
Its funny foreigners think Hershey is our only chocolate. That is our every day chocolate. We also have gourmet chocolate. Sees, Ethel M, Gordiva and others.
"Gourmet" isn't 'everyday chocolate'. Kids coming along on grocery trips are getting Hershey.
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Well I didn't say that. Maybe you could reread my comment. We have other choices for chocolate besides the every day Hersey.
Hershey's is THE S'Mores chocolate
Even Mars chocolate is better than Hershey, especially the Dove/Galaxy line.
It is not like there is no imported chocolates in that long candy aisle. They act like we have limited options in the USA.
I have never seen Santa as necessarily British or American, but Coca-Colan, which I guess is still "American"😅
I also don't see us as siblings 😅
Britain is our father, whereas Canada and Australia are our siblings. Canada is the good son kid, Australia is the kid that got sent to boarding school, and the US ran away and got emancipated 😅
The poor Kiwis always get forgotten. (I'm not Kiwi.)
I think that's how it was done in Hetalia. I'm not sure though, never did watch that one.
This was funny, thanks for the laugh!
santa relly isn't either, only thing american is the appearance which was pushed hard by advertisements
@@justaride1366they're the middle child
I’m from Milwaukee and I didn’t even know that tea bags were from here. We’re more known for our beer.
Finally found another miltown person. I also didn’t know teabag’s were invented here.
No. You're known for BAD beer.
Aww, I'm sorry. Beer sucks donkey ass, that's why it tastes like donkey ass. Yes, I've eaten ass ass. It tastes like American beer.
I guess it's just because I'm old but I definitely remember you guys over in the UK used to give those of us from the USA a lot of crap for using tea bags. It was seen as inferior to loose leaf tea and beneath them. That was back in the 80s but I met quite a few people from Britain back then due to my work and they all shared the sentiment at that time. I'm very glad things have changed. 😂
I also remember the Brits looking down on tea bags.
America invented tea bagging,lol 😂.yah
American chocolate is excellent in chocolate specialty stores, not over the counter/ hersheys.
Mass produced chocolate had a massive drop in quality. Turns out, cost cutting hits products that have a more complex flavor profile especially hard.
@@DakotaJones-nn2oi It's more to do with the Quality of Cocoa bean (cherry picked vs production farming). Fermentation process, amount of solids in the chocolate, Fat content.
Even then it really comes down to preference, Some cheap chocolate can taste amazing, while some expensive chocolate can taste like coffee grounds. And your unlikely to find two people in the same family that like the same percentage of cocoa in their chocolate.
Cocoa beans and sugarcane are new world products of the Americas. Once again European snobs trying to pretend they're better.
Dove is excellent.
Obviously people who hate on herseys (not saying its the best btw), have never tried chocolate coins. That is truly mass produced trash.
The worst thing to happen to tea in Britain was the use of tea bags. When I first moved to Britain in the early '60's, almost everyone was using loose tea. It was so much better tasting than the bagged tea I was familiar with. Sadly, I returned to Britain after a spell away, and found bagged tea everywhere. As I said, it didn't taste right. I don't know what the bag does to the taste of the tea, if anything at all, but my perception remains the same after many, many years.
Teabags use powdered tea, and too much of it if you're just making a cuppa. Luckily I live in a N. American city with lots of tea drinkers, so I have my choice of English, Chinese & Japanese tea options.
Could be that the bags are pre-portioned and it's not the amount you'd like to use.
There are tea bags made of silk that don't affect the taste like paper bags.
Could be that since teabags are paper, they leave a slight papery aftertaste to the tea.
It's not really the tea bag so much as what's in it. Tea bags have tiny pieces of tea leaves. Infusers or silk bags use full leaves.
I love the song the "White Cliff's of Dover." Even now, just thinking of it, I get the chills and tears start.
You went through so many emotions in rapid time over Santa Claus and tea bags haha.
Worse, The Red and White Santa was started with a Coka a Cola add campaign. Coke branded red and white suit on Santa, it caught on and spread.
@@kerriroberts4486 I was thinking about that the whole time. I thought for sure Laurence would mention it! 😆
I love both your channels. His sarcasm always has me rolling. "But it's only because we can't stand eachother..." 🤣🤣
Your ability to analyze things and think through things is a great attribute.
Some of these I knew. But the teabags caught me as well. And I couldn't help but think of the irony in a funny way:
First it was the epic tea party that we threw in the late 1700's. But then almost 200 years later, we got a little drunk and we started tea bagging everyone else in the world. No wonder why we're not invited to parties anymore...
Hershey is synonymously American. But the original process used had the condensed milk being cooked too long, or some such thing, which gives it that very distinctive, slightly sour taste that Americans love.
OTHER American chocolates are amazing. I take a business trip to our facility in Durham, UK, and there’s a fierce debate every year if I bring in See’s candy or Ghirardelli’s. Both outstanding chocolates.
"sour taste that Americans love" No no no, not love at all. Tolerate, or know no better.
Love is a subjective thing and,especially with something so.closely related to childhood and that evokes nostalgia, quality doesn't matter. It's a visceral reaction, not a.question of a refined palate. 🙂
De gustibus non est disputandum.
Across the pond is a great channel to watch. He's informative and funny. Much love from Central Texas.
I remember when I was much younger, Brits used to make fun of Americans for using teabags.
I remember something like that. We didn't care though, we mostly drink coffee.
Love theft I've discovered third channel! The way you say you love Christmas made me tell my husband we should adopt you! You're so funny and wholesome and thoughtful when you present these videos. Keep it up!
Mericans drink a lot of iced tea. For me... classic Earl Grey, with honey and agave nectar. No sugar, NO MILK! Good hot or cold!
Earl Grey with nothing added for me
I generally only drink hot tea in the winter here in Texas. But I definitely prefer loose tea to teabags. I use a metal tea leaf infuser instead of teabags. And that works out best for me because I drink it a pot at a time. With two cubes of sugar and a dolop of cream or milk. The English way.
Other than that. During the summer months. It's definitely unsweetened iced tea.
I'm to impatient and lazy. Put a tea bag in a mug, fill with water, and two minutes in the microwave.
Misconception that Americans don't drink that much tea... We love it..except we drink it the right way sweet and in ice... 😉😉💖
If you loved it, you wouldn't need to water it down and cut it with half your weight in sugar. So why you lyin'?
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I want it COLD like my water and sodas.
@@grabble7605because I hate bitter things & very few teas aren't bitter, even loose leaf. I also like milk & sugar with coffee for the same reason. But most of the time only a little sugar makes it better or I'll use honey, just depends on the tea.
@grabble7605 it's popular in the south, in which an average spring day would boil an English man alive. The water is needed to keep sweating and working
@@carissadallke1345Milo's sweet tea is the best.
here in the southern states of America we drink sweetened iced tea by the gallons and not by a 4oz cup. just think of iced tea as being similar to a sweetened iced coffee.
I do remember finding out that Saint Clause or Father Christmas was indeed dressed in green in earlier times. I think it came from Germany. Or what passed for Germany before 1871. There were all sorts of quirky things about Christmas added from different countries. But it was an advertising campaign in the US that gave us what Santa Clause is today. Some time shortly after what we think of Germany formed in 1871.
Coca Cola designed the look of Santa Claus.
@@NeversurrenderMM66 umm...pretty sure it was Norman Rockwell, which Coke then borrowed for their ad campaigns. ( his first Santa Painting was in 1913 )
no, it was a man named Thomas Nast who drew Santa Claus for Harper's Weekly in 1862 within the next 15-20 years he changed it to red @@nadjasunflower1387
Hello Luv, Military American here, born in Warrington England. I have Dual citizenship as well. I'm not a coffee drinker, love the smell but can't get it down my throat. But I do drink more than my share of hot tea rear round, ice tea when very hot out. Prince of Wales, Earl Grey teas are some of my favorites. Mounds my favorite dark chocolate bar. Enjoy your channel, thanks for inviting me to subscribe. ❤
The easy explanation about the tea is that in the UK "that was how we always made tea" but Americans have this itch about making things just a bit better.... or at least attempting to.
I've traveled to Britain a few times, and I thought British chocolate was exactly the same as American chocolate. Literally, a lot of the popular chocolate bars in the U.K. are produced by American companies and just given different names
It’s seems coffee has been a big hit in the UK for a good while now . Most British I talked to drink more coffee than tea ….
My great grandpa loved Yorkshire tea. However it was always hard to find in California except for one store at the coast 2-3 hours away.
Tea Bags, the internet, MRI's, GPS, personal computers, phones, cell phones, every kind of modern music......ALL INVENTED IN AMERICA. Also Coca-Cola, blue jeans, credit cards......
Airplanes, Helicopters, Aircraft Carriers, Military Submarines.....
….lightbulbs, phonographs, microphones, movie cameras, stapler, air-conditioning, social media, bubble gum, breakfast cereal, potato chips, tater tots, dishwasher, washing machine, sewing machine, vacuum cleaner, paper towels, microwave oven, space shuttle, smoke detectors, electric guitar, escalator, revolving door, satelite navigation, shopping cart, zipper…
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@@EagleFang74 Precisely, my good man, Precisely.
America won civ on culture a long time ago.
Many years ago I saw actor Michael York, on one of the morning news shows - GMA or Today, I suppose. They had a fancy tea service set up, you know the kind. He was going to pour. He was taken aback, and mildly derogatory about the fact that tea bags were used, rather than traditional loose tea. He said something like "I prefer my tea without the surgical dressings, thank you very much." (I'm paraphrasing.) Now, I'm wondering about the "why" of tea being a part of the interview! Other than the fact that Michael York is British, of course.
Wait, what?! Apple pie is British and teabags are American? What kind of alternate universe have I entered? 🤣🤣🤣
Apples aren’t even native to North America. They’re from, like, Kazhakstan. And, sorry Southerners, peaches are originally from China. You want a fruit native to the U.S., try blueberries.
The term soccer is also British 😂
@@AdamYJI prefer pecan pie. Don't care where it originated from.
Sakura trees are American and from new york.
Back it the day we used to gift planta
@@Nuadineveryone knows that, it was the original name for the sport.
Its still called soccer in most countries
California poppies are the state flower. They are orange and bloom in spring.
I had no idea you guts even used teabags over there. I have seen some much media where Americans are scoffed at for using them 😂
The Beatles hit Till There Was You is also American, from the musical The Music Man by Meredith Wilson.
Santa Claus is world wide, belongs to all. At 74, I still believe!😉
Me also. I believe that Santa Claus is out there doing the good works. 64
Me too! 🎉❤😊
Only change is that in Finland they believe Santa lives in Northern Finland In a place called Santas village that you can visit. This is also why they do Christmas a day earlier because he is so much closer to them.
An obscure one I know, is the 4-4-0 locomotive type. It's called the "american" class, because they were invented here in America after a number of locomotives bought from the UK which were 2-4-0 types, kept derailing. So putting 4 wheels under the front of the boiler on a bogey, made them derail less.
To be fair, Father Christmas/Santa Claus is actually neither British nor American. He has his roots in Northern Germany and Scandinavia, and is actually a mix of aspects of two Germanic gods, Odin and Thor, with a thin veneer of Christianity hastily applied to make him seem less pagan. The name though comes from a by-name for Odin, Nik. Which mutated after the Christianization of Northern Europe into Niklaus, or Saint Niklaus as a way to make continuing to honor Odin acceptable to the church by pretending it was actually one of their saints. Klaus or Claus is a shortened form of Niklaus, and "Santa" is latin for "Saint" or "holy." Even the tradition of leaving out offerings for him on Christmas Eve (in America, milk and cookies, in Britain, sherry and mince pie) is a throwback to sacrificial offerings of food and drink left out for Odin and the spirits of the Wild Hunt during the Yuletide to appease them and have them bless the household and their land.
Exactly all of this!
Yes, Virginia... there IS a Santa Claus.
Even in Britain.
Did you know the lighting of the pine or fur tree aka Christmas tree, was from Celtic celebration for the Winter Solstice, the return to longer days, by burning the tree…
Y'all still say "Happy Christmas" we say either "Merry Christmas" or Happy Holidays (because 🤔🥺 were "American" we accept Jewish Chanaka , & or Kwanzaa from Africa.
Kwanzaa is American. It was created in 1966 by a Black Power Activist.
Technically happy holidays allows them to keep up the same signage through New Years. It encompasses both Christmas and the other holiday a week later.
Haha, Boston tea party, I just imagined a bunch of fish hopped up on caffeine.😂
It actually makes sense for tea bags because tea was actually a big deal before it was taxed like mad resulting in the war.
Yet we colonized north america and built a system which is taxing us just as much. If you think about it the war was for absolutely nothing. And i bet everyone would ve surprised to learn that our government and judicial system are actually not under US control. Same with washington DC. DC is actually not even a territory of the USA and doesnt follow the same constitution. So basically it was all for nothing.
Dumping tea did not result in war. The truth is that they came for the guns and powder in order to stop rebellion and the settlers were not about to have that. That is why we have the 2nd amendment. The tea thing was a mere action of protest.
It should be noted that the Boston Tea Party was actually a protest over the elimination of a tax that threatened to reduce the cost of tea in the American colonies, thus undercutting hard working American smugglers.
"Santa Clause" was an advertising campaign by Coca Cola in the 1920s to promote Coca Cola during Christmas. They combined all the different figures from the different cultures (st.nick, father Christmas, etc) into one persona. These advertisements were posted on the back of the National Geographic Magazines from the 1920s to the 1950s, and became what we now accept as "Santa Clause". I happen to have all the pictorials for this campaign.
The word "Soccer" comes from the English - Association Football -> Soccer.
Not only that, but even as late as the 1980s, American Football was just marketed as regular Football in Britain, who still referred to association Football as Soccer as well.
Also the British still use the Imperial System in some regards. Just like Americans do use the Metric System in some few regards (Usually Drugs and Weapons. No I'm not kidding)
“Almond Joy’s got nuts, Mounds don’t…” The commercial jingle we used to hear watching American TV as a kid growing up in Toronto. We have neither in Canada, but we still have Bounty!
If you think American chocolate is bad then you've just had Hershey.
Hershey chocolate tastes how baby puke smells.
@@PirokhHershey's is horrible.
What, you don’t like brown wax?
The biggest chocolate maker in the US is Hershey, and back in the day they made chocolate for every other candy company. The biggest difference between Hershey chocolate and pretty much everywhere else, is that they make the milk chocolate with just slightly turned milk. That's why Hershey tastes a little bit sour, when put up against chocolate everywhere else. I grew up with Hershey so I'm used to it, but I can totally understand how that would put others off.
It's all about individual taste. There is nothing I prefer to Hershey's milk chocolate. Doesn't taste sour compared to other chocolates to me. To each his own.
Almond Joy has nuts, Mound don't. The difference is in the name
The modern day Santa Claus with red suit was first seen in an ad for Coca Cola. Not only is Santa Claus American, but born in Atlanta, Georgia ! 😂
britain isnt even top 3 countries i think of regarding tea 😂
I literally thought "India" at that bit.
My mother was in the chorus of the original Broadway production of Oscar & Hammerstein’s Carousel during WWII. I grew up singing You’ll Never Walk Alone. 🤗
I view it as Britain is our mother country, and America is the daughter of Britain (the unruly child). Even though we wanted our independence from Britain, we never truly got it. We will always be Britain's child, and Canada is America's sister, that's how I always viewed the countries.
...May I recommend the anime Hetalia? :P
They also pronounce Aluminum wrong. It's because when the news articles were put out in 1825, it was misspelled in the British papers and for some reason they still haven't figured it out.
American chocolate often contains "butyric acid" which is a by-product of dairy, and which, coincidentally enough, is the same acid found in Vom.
Reese’s chocolate does, yeah. But our mass produced chocolate is absolute garbage anyway. Give me Belgian every time.
Maeshalandae- considering there are about 100 different kinds of chocolate in America Id say you are an idiot lol. Sure, Hersheys might be garbage but we have so many different types its insane. All brands taste different.
And it’s so good…
I think your Curly Wurly bar came about from our Marathon Bar, which sadly stopped production in the early 80s. I can get the CW at specialty candy stores, but they are smaller than ours were.
Around 10:00 fun fact: Christmas is actually just an amalgamation of various pagan practices that long predate the birth of The Christ. Not only that but it is fairly easy to track down when he would have been born, and it was NOT during the winter.
You'll Never Walk Alone has also been the corps song of the Madison Scouts Drum & Bugle Corps for decades....even made it into their 75th anniversary program as seen at th-cam.com/video/5rM9Zk0iFHk/w-d-xo.html (starting at 11:15). Some of the people in the stands singing along are alums of the corps.
Many alums sign off on letters ad emails with MYYWA...some even have it on their gravestones.
Christmas is basically a pagan holiday. people try and call it the birth of jesus but it's actually using many pagan traditions and basically took over another festival. tho that happened with Christianity in general. they took over pagan things and changed it for their own purposes
Yep. And the primary reason the Puritans outlawed it, is because of the traditions that were part of how it was celebrated, which included the Saturnalia's partying and getting drunk, if I recall correctly.
If people think Christmas is Christian, they've been tricked.
Most of the traditions are taken from pagan holidays, such as Saturnalia and Yuletide.
The date is wrong if it's supposed to be about Jesus' birth, as he was 30yrs old when he was baptized and started his ministry, and his ministry lasted 3 and 1/2 years. His death was in March... 6 months before/after would have been September/October... nowhere near December.
Santa has nothing to do with Jesus, if you take any time to look into the history about the pagan customs and traditions he comes from... (even his red and white suit, while part of the coca cola brand advertisements also strangely enough coincide with a Japanese mythological character wearing red and white robes that enters houses through chimneys...)
The yule log, the "christmas tree", the wreaths, mistletoe... all have pagan roots with mystical meanings and reasons.
Btw, the star that gets put on top of the trees... representing the star that led the astrologers to the young child Jesus (not the baby in the manger - he was a young child by the time they found him, long after he was born) was sent by Satan to have the young Jesus put to death by Herod... the astrologers (commonly called "wise men", but were practicing something forbidden by the law of the Bible - looking for omens in the stars) were diverted by angelic intervention, so they did not return to Herod with the information he wanted.
The Puritans rightly banned it as un-Christian. If you want to be serious about it, and want to know if it's actually an affront to God, take a moment to consider 3 Bible examples that show how God feels about this topic:
Haggai 2:10-14 (Can pagan traditions be made clean by being given "christian" reasons?)
Exodus 32:1-8 (Does God accept pagan customs being added to brand new "christian" holidays?)
2 Corinthians 6:14-18 (Does God accept mixing pagan and true worship, or do they need to be kept separate?)
Can a Christian reasonably celebrate pagan holidays after knowing how God feels about them?
I know many people celebrate the christian holidays with "good intentions"... and they may love getting together and having good meals with family and friends, and giving gifts and all that (which, in themselves are not bad activities),... but just take seriously how God feels about those so-called "holy days."
Santa Claus wearing red and white was actually cemented by Coca-Cola in advertising. That is why he looks like a Coca Cola can.
3:00 actually almond joy has nuts, mounds don't. Because sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.
Seeing your face drop when they gave credit to America for Santa Claus was priceless. I know how you feel. Christmas is my favorite holiday too. I love your videos. You are hilarious. Hope you get to come to America sometime soon!!!!
My family was Dutch and Sinter Klass represented Christmas. But he didn't wear red. We had a statuette of him dressed as a church bishop in blue and holding a shepherd's crook. Definitely a more religious figure than the one in red popularized by Coca Cola.
I literally love everything you put out. Your channel is unbelievably entertaining and full of pure learning facts!
The latest itineration of the tea bag are iron-seal. You by your tea/herbs by the oz., and you tea bags by the roll (say 100).
I just found some at my mom's house I'd made years back and put in zip-locks, both Jasmine and Pennyroyal teas. Herb and Flame on the internet used to have a good selection!
Tea used to come in bricks and you would have to chop them up and go through a whole process. We got tired of it. But the bricks were easy to dump in the harbor. They sank pretty well.
the "tea leaf holder" was exactly that, the original idea was to sell higher quality better tasting tea and to show everyone that their tea WAS better they handed out (actually mailed throughout town i believe) samples with a little baggy of their tea leaves, enough for 1 cup. They were supposed to cut the bag open and make tea the normal way, but people being creatively lazy figured out they could toss the bag and hot water in and be done. They quickly patented the idea once they heard what people were doing (local store run by them, people have to come in to buy the tea, people ask where the bags are)
At least this is the story ive heard a few years ago. believe it was my 8th grade science teacher that told me this actually, he was 50-60 years old and told us some stories about his past one day. Used to be some sort of historian or preservationist at a museum or something.
The longer story about Tea Bags is that it started with a tea company deciding to send out some fancy samplers with the tea in silk pouches, and everyone looked at them and thought, "Oh cool, this way we can brew tea without getting the leaves in it," but because silk's expensive the revelation that the concept was appealing had to simmer until filter paper could be adapted for the job.
As for the actual war on Christmas, The puritans were basically opposed to all holidays, but especially hated Christmas because it the early version was mostly about big groups forming to go from house to house singing "Give us food and booze or we'll break in your door and take it!" or an approximation thereof. Ironically a lot of modern Christmas is currently so family oriented because of the decades where everyone needed to practice it in hiding