We're BACK in the UK with a brand new series! 😀 And since we love snacks and candy so much, we decided to start it off with another epic snack video! We will have a bunch of different videos coming out during the next few weeks where we try different foods (including iconic UK fast food chains and pubs). We also visited a city/country we had never been to before. Make sure to subscribe so you don't miss it! 😊 - Brandon & Anja
You should watch the first video we made then! The first time we only ordered the snacks. Luckily this time we were in the UK, and were able to pick everything out for ourselves. So much better that way. Thanks for watching!
You mentioned beardmeats food & his Wetherspoons challenge.why not try a video together.he does 1 with his sister all you can eat pizza.also a doughnut 1,a calzone,a huge all chocolate sweets & many more vids .depends where you live but would watch you both trying a challenge
I (Anja) used to work at a theatre in the UK and we sold tea and people seemed to be quite particular about how they liked it. I never knew whether I should leave in the tea bag or how much milk to pour etc. 😅. I really hated when people ordered tea to be honest 😂.
@@wherearewe-ytin a service situation like that, you can’t win, because everyone is different. The best thing to do is pour the water and give it to the person immediately! Leave the teabag in, and give them the milk and sugar separately. That way they can choose how long to leave the teabag in for, and they can also control the amount of milk and sugar they put in themselves! Literally take away all the responsibilities from yourself! 😂 As you can see from the length of the comment, we take tea seriously 😂
For crisps I'd recommend Walkers Max, all crinkle cut. There's papika, jalapeño and cheese and a few others. Give Fruit Pastilles a try. Recently I've started buying Cadbury cake bars, really like the crunchy and fudge ones. Branston did a sweet chilli pickle which I loved but sadly its been discontinued, was really good in a sandwich with salami or chorizo.
We tried Fruit Pastilles in the first UK snack video we did. Check it out! I remember seeing the Walkers Max, but I don't think we've ever tried them. We'll have to next time. That sweet chili pickle sounds amazing. Don't know that we will be making another snack video anytime soon (we still have a Marmite one coming, where we try all Marmite snacks and products) but we'd love to try some of the Branston chutneys next time we're in the UK.
Yeah, I looked up the recipe, and as far as I see , the mayonnaise is the only difference. Is there a lot of horseradish in UK Prawn Cocktail? There is in the Canadian one. I need to try it in the UK, given that it's from there. The name makes a lot more sense too, given that the mayonnaise is added in the UK to give it that pink color (like a prawn). Explains both the sauce color and crisp packaging!
Another great video with stuff I've been cramming in my mouth hole for years. Heinz Sandwich Spread is the one to try. No idea if it's good but it's iconic.
Haha! This was great! After this video I want to meet Brandon off camera! Hilarious!😂😂Anja is so pretty with beautiful hair! Love your great videos! Love from a fellow Canadian! ❤️🇨🇦
I actually found a knock off one at Aldi which is salted caramel biscuit tea which is even better, I think. The Yorkshire Jam and Toast one is my favourite, though. You should try it, if you haven't had it 😊
I (Anja) love Marzipan, too! The stuff they sell during Christmas in Germany is very good. I do know a lot of people in Germany who don't like it either, though. It's a love it or hate it kinda thing. Spain and Hungary has very good Marzipan, too.
I like trying the different flavoured ones too. A couple of years ago Aldi were advertising cheese and onion hot cross buns, but I didn't see them in store unfortunately.
The white powder is confectioners sugar to stop the jelly babies sticking together. There is loads of flavours of chewits the best is fruit salad or cola
Someone else told us it's cornstarch. There seems to be a debate! Haha. We really liked the Chewits, and would love to try some different flavours. Somehow, we only ever came across the Strawberry flavour during out searches. We'll be on the look-out more others, the next time we're in the UK!
@@wherearewe-yt Home Bargains is where you want to go for all your confectionary. They sell the York Fruits and have all the flavours of chewits including the extreme ones.
@@wherearewe-yt I think it varies from brand to brand. Some use cornstarch some use confectioners sugar. There is nothing on the ingredients list that I can see for the Bassetts ones to suggest cornstarch was used
We have something similar in Canada, and my family still eats it..but I have the Picalilli is a lot more sharp of a flavour. My family also eats a lot of pickled beats. Is that a thing in the UK as well? My great grandfather/ grandmother, plus all of my granddads brothers and sisters (besides him) were from the UK. I feel like a lot of the dishes he cooked were passed down from my UK family. There are a lot of similarities I noticed between foods in the UK and those I grew up eating.
In Canada, it doesn't have mayo - and there's quite a bit of horseradish in it, so it typically has a kick to it. I'll have to try it next time in the UK - considering that's the original version!
@@wherearewe-yt Prawn Cocktail sauce is usually known as "Marie Rose Sauce" and is probably more like American "Thousand Island Dressing" than Shrimp Cocktail Sauce.
Anja is right about the cocktail sauce here in the uk its a mayonnaise base sauce and tomato sauce with a little Worcestershire sauce. In canada you guys have the same cocktail sauce as in the US its like a red sauce and it confuses us here in england lol. Also they arent meant to taste just like prawn its meant to taste like the actual dish "prawn cocktail" which is prawns in our cocktail sauce x
Yeah, the one in Canada seems quite different! Ours has a lot of horseradish in it as well, so it's got a kick to it. Interesting! We definitely didn't taste any strong prawn flavour, but I can see how it would taste like the sauce itself. Gonna have to try it next time we're in the UK for comparison!
I think you guys should visit ireland, if you havent already, or iceland! I never been there and dont feel like ever going there but im sure it would be a very unique experience for you guys to check out since you are close to the countries already. Great video as always!
We have two videos from Northern Ireland coming up in this series. A first impressions video of Belfast, and a Belfast food tour video! We've been to Iceland before, but it was before we did TH-cam. It's beautiful. We will have to revisit one day, and make some content. Thanks for watching, again!
There’s lots of other chewits flavours like black current, fruit salad, cola, ice cream, blue raspberry and there’s chewits xtreme in sour apple or sour cherry they’re so good
Just found that out the other day! Brought some home for my family to try, and looked it up. Some how didn't see a single other flavor besides strawberry the entire time we were in the UK. Going to make it my goal the next time to find some others!
One a penny two a penny hot cross buns 😊and yes the regular are by far the best, I was surprised that you liked Piccadilly as a lot of people don't it's like Marmite you do or you don't i love it and pickled onion monster munch our the best to if you don't mind pickled onion breath lol 🍻🙏
Well, we love Marmite as well! We had it in the first UK snack video we did. We weren't a big fan at the time, but we grew to love it afterwards. Finished the whole thing, and now it's something we always keep in the cupboard. We have a snack video coming out a few weeks from now, where we tried all the Marmite snacks we could find in the grocery store (including two more Marmite variations).
*on the jelly babies (it's from the moulds that are stamped out and are made from the powder, the jelly is poured in, it sets and then they are tipped out, and the remaining powder residue helps form a skin on the jelly babies and stops them from being sticky)
We read about the cornstarch but didn't know there was powdered sugar in there as well. I've never seen any other sweets use that method to prevent sticking. It's a good idea, but I'm not sure how we feel about the powdery texture. 🤔
@@wherearewe-yt yeah it has a bit in otherwise the powder would just taste of cornstarch which, on its own, doesn't taste too pleasant. Almost all gummies are made that way, but because jelly babies are a softer texture, they don't Go through the carnauba wax polishing process that things like jelly beans and certain brands of gummy bears etc go through to make them shine and to provide a harder shell.
@@shithappens1975 Well, I thought I was pretty much qualified to answer this because in the early 1990's I worked at the factory at Owlerton, Sheffield. Guess what one of my jobs was? The were some sweets that were cornflour only, but they tended to be milk based gummy sweets like milk bottles and the strawberry milkshakes. And I think some foam ones like bananas and shrimps too, but in regards to Jelly Babies, they definitely had powdered sugar added to the cornflour, because part of my duties the first year I was there was making the batch of mix for stamping the moulds from. I worked in many food factories in the 90s after leaving school, Bassett's being just one of them. also Golden Wonder (formerly Smith's, Riley's, Sooner Snacks etc) and the Nestlé distribution warehouse. Also had a few months at a yogurt factory and a canning factory that amongst other things produced mushy peas. Most of the experience from those other factories don't apply here, But my experience at Bassett's does. That's the main reason I commented because they asked and I knew the answer first hand. It might be different now, you may be right and it may only be cornflour being used nowadays especially with things like sugar tax, healthier eating etc and various other reasons why they cut sugar out of things, and I haven't eaten a jelly baby in 20+ years so it may have changed,, but I do know at that time during my stint there I personally made the mix on multiple occasions and it contained powdered sugar of some description. If I remember correctly (it was 30+ years ago) it was labelled up as dextrose or something similar, and it was 2 big bags of cornflour to one medium bag of the sugar that went in to the hopper.
In our last UK Snack video, we ordered our snacks from a place called "British Corner Shop" and were able to get a decent amount of things. The pricing wasn't the best, but it wasn't terrible! Not bad if there are a few things you've been missing.
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I've been out of the UK so long I feel foreign myself. I'm going back in May for the first time in six years and I plan to cram everything I can down my throat or die trying. Funnily enough, my fav food isn't even British - it's lamb doners. Nothing beats a kebab & people take them for granted. No 2 is def the British sweets though, I love the Aero's and chocs, anything like a Galaxy Bar, a Yorkie, Star Bars, Dairy Milk Buttons or Flakes, big nougat bars with cherry or pistachio, Monster Munch, McCoys...honeycomb, oh honeycomb. ah, the list is endless and I've not even started on the cakes yet. The sweets over here in Japan are sadly not up to par.
We're currently in Canada (where I, Brandon am from) and it's always the same when we visit! There are so many things we've missed, that it feels like an almost impossible mission to fit in all the things we've missed. It's always a great feeling though, trying things you've been missing for so long. Japanese food is amazing - but you're right about the sweets. They're just so-so in comparison. The UK has a great selection of snacks though. It's always one of our favorite things when we visit. We have another snack video coming up a few weeks from now, where we tried all the Marmite snacks we could find...hahaha.
@@wherearewe-yt Marmite? You couldn't pay me to eat it, cowpat spread is what we'd call it as kids. I'm not fully convinced people that like it are actually from this territorial plane. Still, the ads are good. Go have a look at 'End Marmite Abuse' - you'll have a chuckle. See ya :-)
Typically we would make tea by the mug, rather than in a teapot. We'd leave our teabags in for at least 3 minutes, and always squeeze the bag. Sometimes we even leave the teabag in. Is that a crime in the UK?? 😂
the only thing i noticed is that most of you try commercially made items, which to me are ok but some are bland, find a family cake shot or tea room and find the home mande roducts, then you will see and taste the difference... if your in the UK then try the Levendar tea rooms in derbyshire matlock. home made cakes saandwhes etc really good food.
This food is definitely more about snacks you can easily find in the grocery store. Home (or restaurant) made is always going to be better. Thanks for the suggestion! We aren't in the UK now, but we will be back soon enough.
@@wherearewe-yt one place to go is edwinstowe in nottinghamshire, great places to see and its a stones throw from sherwood forest and the major oak and robinhood visitors center, the town center has tea rooms, a pub and other attractions, also close to major motorways... also derbyshire county is next door so there are more attractions to see there... also really good tea rooms... and pubs...
We love to feature unique bars/ pubs in our videos - especially rock pubs, but I don't know if there'd be much interest in a video just about them! They also tend to be quite dark and loud, so they're kind of hard to film in. If there's a rock pub in a city we're visiting, we always go. 😎
@wherearewe-yt no actually it doesn't. The only time I'm a fan of it is literally just the batenberg cakes. Probably coz you can taste sugar more than marzipan. But ik I don't like marzipan. Sooo it's literally about the situation. Like I don't like veg or egg, but then there's literally 1 dish I can eat that has both a variety of veg and has egg n I can eat that. It's all to do with circumstances. With the dish you can't taste the veg or egg coz it all mixes together so the textures and tastes that I don't like I can handle when it's with other stuff. Like battenburg cakes you can't actually taste the marzipan.....therefore I only like it in this one circumstance because of the fact its not noticeably tasteable with the cake and the sugar that's coated it aswell. So no I can inform you I really do not like marzipan just because I like battenburg cakes.
@markcutting6504 yeah I ain't good woth spelling. Also don't really read over what I've put to see if it's spelt right, not that I can tell half the time anyway coz like I said I ain't good with soelling
The white powder on the jelly babies is starch it's used in the manufacturing so they separate from the mold easy and left on the product to stop them sticking together in the bag and making a sticky mess.
I like the concept, given that's a problem with a lot of gummy sweets. It also makes things a bit messy when the powder gets all over your hands/ clothes. The Jelly Babies themselves were pretty good, but I'd rather have most other Maynards products! We really like Wine Gums. 😁
@@wherearewe-yt it's a bit more complex but also more simple than using Cornflour/Cornstarch to dust the moulds. They have deep pans of cornflour which get smoothed over, then a mould presses down into the cornflour leaving imprints in the shape of the babies, then they pour the liquid sweet into the indents, then dust over the back with more cornflour. The cornflour that the liquid sweet soaks into becomes the firmer shell around the outside of the jelly babies. Then the batch is scooped/sieved out, the cornflour is smoothed over, and the process begins again. P.S. I have typed Cornflour too many times, and it is starting to lose all meaning.
We're BACK in the UK with a brand new series! 😀 And since we love snacks and candy so much, we decided to start it off with another epic snack video! We will have a bunch of different videos coming out during the next few weeks where we try different foods (including iconic UK fast food chains and pubs). We also visited a city/country we had never been to before. Make sure to subscribe so you don't miss it! 😊 - Brandon & Anja
Hi from UK, love watching people try UK things for the first time 😁👍
You should watch the first video we made then! The first time we only ordered the snacks. Luckily this time we were in the UK, and were able to pick everything out for ourselves. So much better that way.
Thanks for watching!
@@wherearewe-yt Oh cool yeah might have to watch that first video 👍
You mentioned beardmeats food & his Wetherspoons challenge.why not try a video together.he does 1 with his sister all you can eat pizza.also a doughnut 1,a calzone,a huge all chocolate sweets & many more vids .depends where you live but would watch you both trying a challenge
not even halfway through your vlog and already you got me salivating... and now craving prawn cocktail crisps haha
They're so good! I really liked them. Anja not as much, but I think they grew on her a bit afterwards. 🦐
you.....drink your tea what ever way you want its your tastes..so enjoy.....
I (Anja) used to work at a theatre in the UK and we sold tea and people seemed to be quite particular about how they liked it. I never knew whether I should leave in the tea bag or how much milk to pour etc. 😅. I really hated when people ordered tea to be honest 😂.
@@wherearewe-ytin a service situation like that, you can’t win, because everyone is different. The best thing to do is pour the water and give it to the person immediately! Leave the teabag in, and give them the milk and sugar separately. That way they can choose how long to leave the teabag in for, and they can also control the amount of milk and sugar they put in themselves! Literally take away all the responsibilities from yourself! 😂
As you can see from the length of the comment, we take tea seriously 😂
For crisps I'd recommend Walkers Max, all crinkle cut. There's papika, jalapeño and cheese and a few others. Give Fruit Pastilles a try. Recently I've started buying Cadbury cake bars, really like the crunchy and fudge ones. Branston did a sweet chilli pickle which I loved but sadly its been discontinued, was really good in a sandwich with salami or chorizo.
We tried Fruit Pastilles in the first UK snack video we did. Check it out!
I remember seeing the Walkers Max, but I don't think we've ever tried them. We'll have to next time.
That sweet chili pickle sounds amazing. Don't know that we will be making another snack video anytime soon (we still have a Marmite one coming, where we try all Marmite snacks and products) but we'd love to try some of the Branston chutneys next time we're in the UK.
great editing great soundeffects and even better snacks 😂
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We love snacks! Hahaha. We hope to make plenty more snack videos in the future as well. Thanks for watching!
Treacle Pudding is well worth a try. But as you say Mums (or Grannys) homemade puddings can't be beat 😂
It looks good from the photos. Looks a bit like sticky toffee pudding, which is our favorite!
I don't know what theyvare eating in Canada, but prawn cocktail sauce is indeed pink.
Yeah, I looked up the recipe, and as far as I see , the mayonnaise is the only difference. Is there a lot of horseradish in UK Prawn Cocktail? There is in the Canadian one.
I need to try it in the UK, given that it's from there. The name makes a lot more sense too, given that the mayonnaise is added in the UK to give it that pink color (like a prawn). Explains both the sauce color and crisp packaging!
Lovely video, great guys 👍
Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks so much for watching
Great vid guys.
Thanks for watching!
Another great video with stuff I've been cramming in my mouth hole for years.
Heinz Sandwich Spread is the one to try. No idea if it's good but it's iconic.
We have so many more things to try! If this video does well, we'll definitely make another snack video one day.
Haha! This was great! After this video I want to meet Brandon off camera! Hilarious!😂😂Anja is so pretty with beautiful hair! Love your great videos! Love from a fellow Canadian! ❤️🇨🇦
Hahaha. Glad you enjoyed! I'm sure plenty of people out there will not share our crude sense of humor. 😂
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amazing video, greetings from serbia
Thank you very much! Glad you liked it.
Stevo from Jackass fame loves pickled onion monster munch so much he has the monster from the packet tattooed on him.
Yeah, I saw a TH-cam video with him sharing his favorite snacks!
That biscuit tea is superb best lovely
I actually found a knock off one at Aldi which is salted caramel biscuit tea which is even better, I think. The Yorkshire Jam and Toast one is my favourite, though. You should try it, if you haven't had it 😊
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When i lived in Germany, i used to love Chocolate Covered Marzipan!
I (Anja) love Marzipan, too! The stuff they sell during Christmas in Germany is very good. I do know a lot of people in Germany who don't like it either, though. It's a love it or hate it kinda thing. Spain and Hungary has very good Marzipan, too.
I like trying the different flavoured ones too. A couple of years ago Aldi were advertising cheese and onion hot cross buns, but I didn't see them in store unfortunately.
Really?? Haha. That's something we'd have totally tried! Didn't know savoury hot cross buns were even a thing.
@@wherearewe-yt Haha I don't think they are, generally. First savoury ones I'd ever heard of.
Tir-rall's (Tyrrell's)
Marzipan is pretty common in the UK. Try piccalilli with a good quality pork pie
What are some other cakes or sweets with marzipan in the UK?
We love a pork pie! That sounds good. 👌
@@wherearewe-yt well fruit cake often has marzipan around it if it is iced. But of course Bakewell has that almond flavour although no marzipan.
Try piccalilli with corned beef on a sandwich but spread butter on the bread before
That sounds amazing. We love corned beef!
The white powder is confectioners sugar to stop the jelly babies sticking together. There is loads of flavours of chewits the best is fruit salad or cola
Someone else told us it's cornstarch. There seems to be a debate! Haha.
We really liked the Chewits, and would love to try some different flavours. Somehow, we only ever came across the Strawberry flavour during out searches. We'll be on the look-out more others, the next time we're in the UK!
@@wherearewe-yt Home Bargains is where you want to go for all your confectionary. They sell the York Fruits and have all the flavours of chewits including the extreme ones.
@@wherearewe-yt I think it varies from brand to brand. Some use cornstarch some use confectioners sugar. There is nothing on the ingredients list that I can see for the Bassetts ones to suggest cornstarch was used
@@what_im_eatin_uk We'll have to check them out! Thanks for the suggestion.
It is powdered sugar on the jelly babies. It's there to stop them sticking together.
We found that out afterwards. Hahaha.
It seems like such an old school thing! I don't recall eating any other sweets in the UK that do that.
It's not powdered sugar it just starch, left over from the manufacturing, the process of getting them out of the mold to be precise.
I'm amazed Picalilli still exists. When I was a kid (in the 70s), only old peopls ate it. I always assumed it would die out.
We have something similar in Canada, and my family still eats it..but I have the Picalilli is a lot more sharp of a flavour. My family also eats a lot of pickled beats. Is that a thing in the UK as well?
My great grandfather/ grandmother, plus all of my granddads brothers and sisters (besides him) were from the UK. I feel like a lot of the dishes he cooked were passed down from my UK family. There are a lot of similarities I noticed between foods in the UK and those I grew up eating.
I always eat it with corned beef on sandwiches
When i first started drinking tea it was with evaporated milk(carnation),it was delicious.
Anja loves drinking her tea that way. She loves condensed milk as well.
I like my tea strong, with just a splash of milk!
Think the evaporated milk was a common northern thing up to the time when we got fridges....still good though🫖😸👍
Anja loves evaporated milk and condensed milk..but she especially loves cream. I'm sure she'd also fill half her tea cup with cream if she could. 😂
Cocktail sauce is tomato ketchup, mayonnaise and Worcestershire sauce mixed together.
In Canada, it doesn't have mayo - and there's quite a bit of horseradish in it, so it typically has a kick to it.
I'll have to try it next time in the UK - considering that's the original version!
@@wherearewe-yt Prawn Cocktail sauce is usually known as "Marie Rose Sauce" and is probably more like American "Thousand Island Dressing" than Shrimp Cocktail Sauce.
@@jennetscarborough5145 Interesting! I will definitely be trying it the next time we're in the UK.
Anja is right about the cocktail sauce here in the uk its a mayonnaise base sauce and tomato sauce with a little Worcestershire sauce. In canada you guys have the same cocktail sauce as in the US its like a red sauce and it confuses us here in england lol. Also they arent meant to taste just like prawn its meant to taste like the actual dish "prawn cocktail" which is prawns in our cocktail sauce x
Yeah, the one in Canada seems quite different! Ours has a lot of horseradish in it as well, so it's got a kick to it.
Interesting! We definitely didn't taste any strong prawn flavour, but I can see how it would taste like the sauce itself. Gonna have to try it next time we're in the UK for comparison!
Try dipping the Thai sweet chilli crisps in cream cheese. Really nice
Sounds good!
Just spit my tea out when my comment flashed up on screen 🤣🤣🤣
Hahaha. We were wondering if anyone was going to see part 2 and see their comments come up.
I mean, we had to include that one - how could we not.😂
the Tyrells crisps you picked that is a relatively new flavour for them, they also have a Posh Prawn Cocktail same flavour as walkers but smoother
That sounds good! We will have to try those. We also need to try Walkers Max, according to other commenters.
Try hot cross bun toasted, with butter, grated red Leicester cheese then melt under the grill
That sounds delicious. 😋
I think you guys should visit ireland, if you havent already, or iceland! I never been there and dont feel like ever going there but im sure it would be a very unique experience for you guys to check out since you are close to the countries already. Great video as always!
We have two videos from Northern Ireland coming up in this series. A first impressions video of Belfast, and a Belfast food tour video!
We've been to Iceland before, but it was before we did TH-cam. It's beautiful. We will have to revisit one day, and make some content.
Thanks for watching, again!
@@wherearewe-yt 👍
There’s lots of other chewits flavours like black current, fruit salad, cola, ice cream, blue raspberry and there’s chewits xtreme in sour apple or sour cherry they’re so good
Just found that out the other day! Brought some home for my family to try, and looked it up. Some how didn't see a single other flavor besides strawberry the entire time we were in the UK. Going to make it my goal the next time to find some others!
You should try DISCOs Cheese & Onion and Square Crisps Cheese & Onion 😛
I don't know that we've ever tried that brand. We'll have to try next time we're in the UK!
One a penny two a penny hot cross buns 😊and yes the regular are by far the best, I was surprised that you liked Piccadilly as a lot of people don't it's like Marmite you do or you don't i love it and pickled onion monster munch our the best to if you don't mind pickled onion breath lol 🍻🙏
Well, we love Marmite as well! We had it in the first UK snack video we did. We weren't a big fan at the time, but we grew to love it afterwards. Finished the whole thing, and now it's something we always keep in the cupboard. We have a snack video coming out a few weeks from now, where we tried all the Marmite snacks we could find in the grocery store (including two more Marmite variations).
@@wherearewe-yt oh great looking forward to watching it 😊
Its a mix of icing sugar and cornflour (powdered sugar and corn starch)
*on the jelly babies (it's from the moulds that are stamped out and are made from the powder, the jelly is poured in, it sets and then they are tipped out, and the remaining powder residue helps form a skin on the jelly babies and stops them from being sticky)
We read about the cornstarch but didn't know there was powdered sugar in there as well. I've never seen any other sweets use that method to prevent sticking.
It's a good idea, but I'm not sure how we feel about the powdery texture. 🤔
@@wherearewe-yt yeah it has a bit in otherwise the powder would just taste of cornstarch which, on its own, doesn't taste too pleasant. Almost all gummies are made that way, but because jelly babies are a softer texture, they don't Go through the carnauba wax polishing process that things like jelly beans and certain brands of gummy bears etc go through to make them shine and to provide a harder shell.
@@JacknVictorit's literally just starch no icing sugar.
@@shithappens1975 Well, I thought I was pretty much qualified to answer this because in the early 1990's I worked at the factory at Owlerton, Sheffield. Guess what one of my jobs was?
The were some sweets that were cornflour only, but they tended to be milk based gummy sweets like milk bottles and the strawberry milkshakes. And I think some foam ones like bananas and shrimps too, but in regards to Jelly Babies, they definitely had powdered sugar added to the cornflour, because part of my duties the first year I was there was making the batch of mix for stamping the moulds from. I worked in many food factories in the 90s after leaving school, Bassett's being just one of them. also Golden Wonder (formerly Smith's, Riley's, Sooner Snacks etc) and the Nestlé distribution warehouse. Also had a few months at a yogurt factory and a canning factory that amongst other things produced mushy peas. Most of the experience from those other factories don't apply here, But my experience at Bassett's does. That's the main reason I commented because they asked and I knew the answer first hand.
It might be different now, you may be right and it may only be cornflour being used nowadays especially with things like sugar tax, healthier eating etc and various other reasons why they cut sugar out of things, and I haven't eaten a jelly baby in 20+ years so it may have changed,, but I do know at that time during my stint there I personally made the mix on multiple occasions and it contained powdered sugar of some description. If I remember correctly (it was 30+ years ago) it was labelled up as dextrose or something similar, and it was 2 big bags of cornflour to one medium bag of the sugar that went in to the hopper.
Brits love marzipan.
Interesting! I feel like we haven't noticed many marzipan sweets in the UK. What others are there?
Anja absolutely loves it's. For me, it's just okay.
yeah the powder is to stop them sticking together
An Englishman, watching from Lithuania and missing some of these things 🤤
In our last UK Snack video, we ordered our snacks from a place called "British Corner Shop" and were able to get a decent amount of things. The pricing wasn't the best, but it wasn't terrible! Not bad if there are a few things you've been missing.
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These two Are like Americans but Brian is Canadian and Anja is German and i don’t know why but anja look to me Serbian idk why😂😂😂Best TH-camr snack and culture food testers ever
Hahaha. Thanks for saying that, and thanks for watching!
If Brandon sat still and held a fishing rod, he would look like a gnome.
Maybe I am one? 🥸
I've been out of the UK so long I feel foreign myself. I'm going back in May for the first time in six years and I plan to cram everything I can down my throat or die trying. Funnily enough, my fav food isn't even British - it's lamb doners. Nothing beats a kebab & people take them for granted.
No 2 is def the British sweets though, I love the Aero's and chocs, anything like a Galaxy Bar, a Yorkie, Star Bars, Dairy Milk Buttons or Flakes, big nougat bars with cherry or pistachio, Monster Munch, McCoys...honeycomb, oh honeycomb. ah, the list is endless and I've not even started on the cakes yet. The sweets over here in Japan are sadly not up to par.
We're currently in Canada (where I, Brandon am from) and it's always the same when we visit! There are so many things we've missed, that it feels like an almost impossible mission to fit in all the things we've missed. It's always a great feeling though, trying things you've been missing for so long.
Japanese food is amazing - but you're right about the sweets. They're just so-so in comparison.
The UK has a great selection of snacks though. It's always one of our favorite things when we visit. We have another snack video coming up a few weeks from now, where we tried all the Marmite snacks we could find...hahaha.
@@wherearewe-yt Marmite? You couldn't pay me to eat it, cowpat spread is what we'd call it as kids. I'm not fully convinced people that like it are actually from this territorial plane. Still, the ads are good. Go have a look at 'End Marmite Abuse' - you'll have a chuckle.
See ya :-)
York Fruits are easier to find at Christmas time.
Ahhhh, gotcha! We searched several stores and were never able to find them. 😅
It's also about how you make your tea... how long you brew it for, if you squeeze the bag.
Typically we would make tea by the mug, rather than in a teapot. We'd leave our teabags in for at least 3 minutes, and always squeeze the bag. Sometimes we even leave the teabag in. Is that a crime in the UK?? 😂
@@wherearewe-yt Everybody has their own method tbh...
When eating Jelly Babies, it is essential to bite off the head first!
Hahaha. Any gummy with a head! Sour Patch Kids, Gummy Bears..off with their heads! ☠️😂
Definitely more humane.
the only thing i noticed is that most of you try commercially made items, which to me are ok but some are bland, find a family cake shot or tea room and find the home mande roducts, then you will see and taste the difference...
if your in the UK then try the Levendar tea rooms in derbyshire matlock. home made cakes saandwhes etc really good food.
This food is definitely more about snacks you can easily find in the grocery store. Home (or restaurant) made is always going to be better.
Thanks for the suggestion!
We aren't in the UK now, but we will be back soon enough.
@@wherearewe-yt one place to go is edwinstowe in nottinghamshire, great places to see and its a stones throw from sherwood forest and the major oak and robinhood visitors center, the town center has tea rooms, a pub and other attractions, also close to major motorways...
also derbyshire county is next door so there are more attractions to see there... also really good tea rooms... and pubs...
Is it corn starch on the Jelly Babies?
Yeah, it is! We found that out after. 😂
Have you ever thought of reviewing rock pubs and clubs?
We love to feature unique bars/ pubs in our videos - especially rock pubs, but I don't know if there'd be much interest in a video just about them!
They also tend to be quite dark and loud, so they're kind of hard to film in.
If there's a rock pub in a city we're visiting, we always go. 😎
I prefer plain hot cross buns.
We'd love to try them fresh from a proper bakery. 😋
What on earth was that cheese lol. Looked like a processed slice!!
I think it was Red Leicester! We got it from Saintsbury's.
@@wherearewe-yt Love Red Leicester
@@BeckyPoleninja It was delicious!
Typical foreigner, tea should taste like tea.
It does taste like tea. 😂
Im not a fan or marzipan, bit the mr kiplimg betenberg cakes slap
I hate to break it to you, but I think that means you're a fan of Marzipan 🤓😆😂
@sophieless you spell like a drunk South African
@wherearewe-yt no actually it doesn't. The only time I'm a fan of it is literally just the batenberg cakes. Probably coz you can taste sugar more than marzipan. But ik I don't like marzipan. Sooo it's literally about the situation. Like I don't like veg or egg, but then there's literally 1 dish I can eat that has both a variety of veg and has egg n I can eat that. It's all to do with circumstances. With the dish you can't taste the veg or egg coz it all mixes together so the textures and tastes that I don't like I can handle when it's with other stuff. Like battenburg cakes you can't actually taste the marzipan.....therefore I only like it in this one circumstance because of the fact its not noticeably tasteable with the cake and the sugar that's coated it aswell. So no I can inform you I really do not like marzipan just because I like battenburg cakes.
@markcutting6504 yeah I ain't good woth spelling. Also don't really read over what I've put to see if it's spelt right, not that I can tell half the time anyway coz like I said I ain't good with soelling
I'm not a fan of battenburg 😂
Someone else said in the comments that the UK loves marzipan. Hahaha. I'm with you though. Anja can keep it. 😂
@@wherearewe-yt i think it's more popular with older people they grew up on it haha not for me lol great video 💜
@@Keiron-pw6sl Glad you enjoyed it! Thanks for watching. 😃
@@wherearewe-yt your very welcome looking forward to the next one 😊
I legit cant stand jelly babies 💀🤮
We pretty much love all Maynard's - but Jelly Babies are just alright. Would definitely choose em' over All Sorts or any type of Liquorice though! 🤣
The white powder on the jelly babies is starch it's used in the manufacturing so they separate from the mold easy and left on the product to stop them sticking together in the bag and making a sticky mess.
I like the concept, given that's a problem with a lot of gummy sweets. It also makes things a bit messy when the powder gets all over your hands/ clothes.
The Jelly Babies themselves were pretty good, but I'd rather have most other Maynards products! We really like Wine Gums. 😁
@@wherearewe-yt it's a bit more complex but also more simple than using Cornflour/Cornstarch to dust the moulds.
They have deep pans of cornflour which get smoothed over, then a mould presses down into the cornflour leaving imprints in the shape of the babies, then they pour the liquid sweet into the indents, then dust over the back with more cornflour.
The cornflour that the liquid sweet soaks into becomes the firmer shell around the outside of the jelly babies. Then the batch is scooped/sieved out, the cornflour is smoothed over, and the process begins again.
P.S. I have typed Cornflour too many times, and it is starting to lose all meaning.