Welcome back everyone! As requested in multiple comments, we've reacted to our first JOLLY video and what a treat it is. They're incredibly well made and an absolute pleasure to watch. I hope you enjoy the video as much as we did. We've upgraded our microphone so hopefully the audio is better than it has been in previous videos.
As a Texas boy who loves watching my UK brethren react. It really isn't that crazy here. I love you kids and I haven't had the opportunity to visit my ancestral home (Scotland, Ireland, Spain, Germany) but that's par for the course when your American. Love yall! Check out Tex-Mex and what H.E.B. is...
Jolly has traveled to places around the world to try cuisine. They've even been to Buckingham Palace at least twice for state dinners with King Charles.
its interesting how different brits are where they have schools segregated by gender and make them wear suits. so different from the americans who seem more socialized and less formal.
Jolly has a knack for finding the best places to eat in the US. I use their videos to point visitors in the right direction for places to eat. Biscuits are not really like scones, they are light and fluffy, a bit salty and very buttery. Southerners like to cover them with cream gravy that has ground sausage mixed in. It's fabulous but very heavy. Biscuits are a real thing in the South and are used in many ways.
An American Biscuit is kind of like a cross between a Scone, and a croissant texture wise, but is more fluffy, and very buttery. The Sausage Gravy (or Country Gravy) is made by cooking what we call Breakfast Sausage which is a loose almost paste of ground pork with spices. You cook that, and use the fat that is left in the pan to cook the flour. Once the flour is cooked (only takes a couple of minutes, and you have to stir it constantly) you add in Milk, or Heavy Cream, Salt & Pepper along with some of the crumbled up Sausage. You can add other Herbs & Spices if you want. Gumbo starts with the Rue. Rue is where you slowly cook flour until it is a deep brown (don't burn the flour though!). The you add the water, meat (sausage of various types, shrimp, ham, crawfish, or whatever you have on hand), Bell Pepper, Garlic, Onion, Celery, and tons of spices. Gumbo is a dish you can make with a lot of different meats and veggies. As long as you get the Rue, and Spices right it is open to whatever you have on hand within reason. BTW Chorizo is pronounced more like 'Chur E so' in Mexico, and the U.S.. Fun Fact: The word Chipotle = Smoked Jalapenos
@@AliKaiProject If you are going to make Gumbo the main keys are getting the Rue correct along with the right Spices. After that it is very simple. To make a good Rue you will need to cook it a long time on a low heat, and you have to keep stirring it so you don't burn it. Burnt flour will ruin the whole pot of Gumbo! I eat Gumbo at least twice a month, but I eat a lot of Cajun/Creole food as well. I live just outside of Houston, and being so close to Louisiana we have the benefit of a lot of great Cajun/Creole food here. I like spicy food, so Cajun/Creole food along with Tex-Mex, and Latin American cuisines make up a lot of my favorites. Of course Texas BBQ is my #1 favorite.
Scones and biscuits look similar, but are very very different. Scones are more dense. Biscuits, better than a nasty scone, is buttery, flaky. Sorry, England. Just stating facts. Time for you guys to come to the South. You won't be disappointed in our food. Promise.
I’d suggest a video on the origins and history of soul food, and sub-cultures and their takes on the food as well! Black Americans have created some great cuisines from scraps ❤
Every time I watch one of these reaction videos of british people I think..what sort of boring food do you eat? 🤔I feel bad for you all and hopefully you get to try this one day.
You've got to watch Jolly's crawfish boil video and southern fried chicken for the first time. They have so many good U.S. food videos. Texas BBQ, Southern BBQ, Waffle House.
Here in Louisiana, we do like spicy food. It's not an "OMG that's spicy," (most of the time) it's more of a kick to compliment the food. Except seafood boils of course, people often put condensed pepper extract into the the water.
Dressing is another name for stuffing, like stuffing made on thanksgiving. Candied yams are sweet potatoes that are parboiled to make them soft then covered with white and brown sugar, cinnamon, a little bit of vanilla and syrup or molasses. It’s then baked so the sugar gets “candied” like caramel.
Gumbo is a wide ranging thing. Some are runny, some are thicker. There's hundreds of recopies for it, and everybody will tell you 'theirs' is the best. I've had awesome gumbo's and some that aren't so good. I know my family gatherings we used to go out in the morning, and catch a lot of blue crab. We'd take them home and make homemade crab gumbo. It rocked.
Jolly's channel is amazing! You need to check out so many more! A biscuit here is NOT a scone, and the gravy we have is a cream-flour based white sausage gravy but can also be made without the sausage and put over chicken fried steak! I just SUBBED, hope to see more great videos!
We've had so many comments about biscuits! They do look similar to a scones, but we now know they're not the same 😅. Chicken fried steak is such a weird one, still trying to get my head around the fact it's not chicken 😆. Thanks for watching! ♥
@@AliKaiProject The steak is fried like chicken, that's why they call it that. To add more confusion, there's a chicken fried chicken too. Scones have eggs in them, while biscuits do not. I. Enjoying your videos! ❤
@@AliKaiProject It is called chicken fried steak because it is battered and fried like fried chicken, but the steak is tenderized and it is so delicious! Hope you try it soon. Also, I just subscribed.
The Spanish once controlled Louisiana, which is where Jambalaya originated from in concept, substituting ingredients for local ingredients like our German variant of heavily smoked andouille, chicken/pork, and spices, also without the crunchy toasted rice found in Paella. There is a tomato and seafood based Jambalaya as well, most notable in and around New Orleans, but never found in Acadian. Also, the architecture in the French Quarter is also a Spanish contribution, as odd as that sounds.
Tabasco sauce comes from Louisiana. The sauce gets its name from the Mexican state of Tabasco. The founder of the company traveled around Mexico procuring different types of chiles, and one of his favorites came from Tabasco, Mex. He returned to the US with all the chiles and created Tabasco sauce.
This is why South East Texas is particularly amazing. We have all the Tex-Mex, all the Creole, and all the comfort food your seeing. Beaumont Texas is particularly fun, but Houston has it it all.
Brits react to these tour of videos all the time. It gives you an idea of the food and culture in different parts of the U.S. cause believe me, with how big our country is the differences are VAST 😁
It's NOT a scone! Biscuits are soft inside with buttery layers- a lot of butter is used to make the dough, resulting in the aforementioned buttery layers with a very flaky texture.
@@AliKaiProject to be fair, British scones are waaaaay better than American scones. Commenters are thinking you’re comparing an American biscuit to an American scone, which is a rock hard, chalky abomination. 😂
It’s funny but Comfort Food and Soul Food are a bit different. Comfort food is what anyone might find as comforting such as chicken noodle soup, macaroni and cheese, or biscuits and gravy. Soul food in the US is food that originates in black communities. Soul food can be comfort food. Here’s a good video for biscuits and gravy: th-cam.com/video/_GN1lh9q5WE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=_KEu8vKwfWSnatVu Jambalaya is a variation of paella because it originates from people brought over as slaves from Africa.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Jolly! I love these guys! I hope you had fun with this and I look forward to more with these guys! Always leaves a smile on my face!
Interesting fact: in the U.S., the terms "dressing" and "stuffing" are used interchangeably for reasons I'm not quite clear on. You'll find the same dishes referred to as "dressing" in some parts of the country and "stuffing in others. So you were right that the oyster dressing was a stuffing!
I like the nosey donkeys. It is possible the sausage is andouille which is spicy. Many do use soup to compare because gumbo doesn't have direct comparison.
Gumbo is made with a base called “roux”, which is made from flour and oil blended to a color that can take up to an hour to make. Then the “trinity” of celery, onions, and bell peppers are added. Gumbos come with sausage, pork, seafood, and/or chicken and rice. Every region has their own versions though. Seasonings are key as well. A must try if you come to Louisiana! Gail
They won't usually tell you this, but Southern soul food has its history in slavery. Slaves were rarely fed enough, so they hunted local animals and picked local produce. Often these animals were not inherently delicious (like opossum or raccoon), or they had to eat it when it wasn't particularly fresh (like when they found it already dead), so heavy spices helped, and Soul Food was born. Of course, restaurants now use quality ingredients and the recipes have been perfected through many generations, so it's some of the best food in America. 😋❤️🤠
Great video! Tabasco is spicy AF. I live in Florida, but I have lived in Louisiana, Texas, Arizona and Colorado and I can say Tabasco is super spicy to me. Sauces from Louisiana such as crystals hot sauce, used here, are vinegar based. Like in buffalo chicken wings. Not really spicy but it’s vinegar heavy. I was watching jolly and this popped up😊 Sending love to you and yours from Orlando, Florida
Thanks for watching! Sounds like you've had plenty of opportunity to enjoy all of this amazing food, I wish we had some of it available over here.. the more we see, the more we want it! 😆
You pause a lot which can be fine but rather than just pause and play, hit the left arrow each time so the video replays the last five seconds. Definitely need to do more Jolly and look at "Your New Zealand Family" channel as they just visited the US. Subscribed 👍
i am not a catfish person.. i will fish for them tho.. i love fishing but cod is my fave fried fish.. i love sausage and gravy.. easy to make and soooo goood.. i love to make fried chicken every once in a while,, i bake my chicken mostly which is heathier than fried.
The tannins in the ice tea combined with the ice, help with the burning you may get from the spicy. Warning if you eat jalapenos, it's the seeds that make it so hot
The gravy is flour based with milk, butter, black pepper, bits of sausage. And as someone whose had both biscuits in the US and scones in Great Britain, they are different densities. Biscuits have a higher ratio of butter and are lighter and flakier.
Gumbo = first you make a roux in an iron skillet (flour, water, etc). Its stirred constantly while other ingredients are added to the roux. Roux is the base for gumbo. The darker the roux, the better I like it. Look up a video on youtube on how to make it.
The term “Soul Food” was coined in the ‘60s to describe foods created by the Southern slaves before and after Emancipation. They were extremely poor and had to make do with whatever food items they could find, and to make it as palatable as possible.
Candied yams is american sweet potato with butter cinnamin nutmeg alspice white and brown sugar and we usualy eat that during holidays or Sunday dinners.
Spicy in Louisiana cooking is very seasoned but it is not intended to be burn your face off hot. You want to taste everything in the dish. Typical Cajun/Creole seasoning is a combination of salt, cayenne pepper, black pepper, granulated onion, and granulated garlic as a baseline, each blend will have their own twist to the basic combination of which, everyone has their favorite. Hot sauce is used as a marinade component and to give extra heat for those who want it, but it adds quite a bit to a plate of red beans.
Southwestern and Louisiana cuisine is pretty spicy. In the rest of the south, some food is spicy and some is not. All of it, however, is very strongly flavored. At home, even canned vegetables that were being warmed up on the stove got garlic, onion, salt, pepper, and a generous spoonful of bacon grease added. My southern food tradition is southern Appalachian, so it is far less spicy than you would find in New Orleans. The kinds of things you would find in our traditional foods are: biscuits and gravy, chicken and dumplings, fried chicken, cornbread, fried apples, fried green tomatoes, soup beans, and lots of fresh vegetables straight out of the garden.
If you want a foodie town and wonderful people GO to New Orleans (NOLA)! I lived there for a few years. It's amazing! My family and I just visited our friends this past year, we absolutely love it!
If you want to try and make gumbo so you can get a taste of Louisiana. This is the exact recipe for the gumbo they ate in the video.. Creole Filé Gumbo: 1¼ pounds seasoning ham 1¼ pounds smoked sausage 1½ pounds chicken pieces ½ pound hot sausage 1½ pounds peeled shrimp 6 to 8 gumbo crabs 1 dozen oysters 2 cups chopped onion ¼ cup chopped garlic 3 green onions, chopped ½ green bell pepper, chopped 2 teaspoons thyme leaves 5 bay leaves ⅔ cup vegetable oil 4 to 5 tablespoons flour 10 cups water Filé powder Salt and pepper Hot cooked rice, for serving Method of Preparation: Cube ham and slice sausages. Heat oil in an eight to ten-quart pot. Add ham to brown. Add onions and cook until tender. Add chicken and sausages and brown. Add shrimp and other seasonings and cook five minutes. Sprinkle flour over meats and seasonings and stir well. Add water and bring to a simmer. Add salt and pepper to taste. Add gumbo crabs and cook on medium to low fire about 45 minutes. Add oysters and cook five minutes. Turn off heat. Add filé powder (to taste) and stir into gumbo. Serve over cooked rice. Serves 10 to 12. Note: Seasoning ham is simply leftover baked ham, ham steaks, etc. chopped into 1/4 inch pieces. If your crowd doesn't care for heat, substitute your favorite breakfast sausage links for hot sausage; just make sure it isn't a variety that includes syrup or other sweeteners. Gumbo crabs are readily found in the freezer section of Louisiana supermarkets; they're the leftover crab after the jumbo lump meat has been removed from the body of the crab. If you do not have access to gumbo crabs, substitute 1 quart of boxed seafood stock for 1 quart of the water.
Someone else you might try: Cowboy Kent Rollins - he is a Wagon Trail Cook and makes some GREAT SOUTHERN-AMERICAN RECIPES!! You'll enjoy him: he's a LOT of FUN and makes GREAT FOOD!! :)
Hi. Imagine French Canadians living in the Newfoundland area , now owned bhy England, 'eminent domained", and forcibly shipped to Southwest Louisiana. All you have are your spices. What would you eat? That is how some Louisiana foods got started.
Enjoyed the video, Jolly is a great channel to learn more about American cuisine. For future reference, the words Paella and Chipolte are pronounced as follows: Pa-el-la (pie - AEY - ya), Chip-ot-le (Chip -OT - lay).
A scone adds eggs and sugar which southern biscuits usually don't. The foods of La. come from several cultures. The paella from Spain then there are German, French, Italian, Acadian. There are also influences from west Africa and the first native Americans.
Catfish is a very meaty fish - and I believe it's the only fresh water fish that has "skin" vs scales - you peel the skin off - I love catching catfish !! Love eating it even more especially fried in flour & corn meal!! YUM YUM Biscuits do not have the texture of scone - biscuits are very flaky and cakey... Love you guys!
Southern Sweet Tea Recipe: Fill a Qt pitcher 1/2 full of Ice. Store in freezer or fridge. In a 1qt pan fill 3/4 with water. Add 1-Cup.. yes CUPS of Sugar and 3 Tea Bags(Lipton or American Classic are best) IMPORTANT: Then turn on the Heat and bring to a boil. (This makes the Sugar on the bottom begin to Carmelize). When it comes to a boil, turn off heat, THEN stir and allow to cool for an hour. Pour into pitcher with ice and stir. In the Summer add a few slices of lemon. That's my Great, Great, Great, Great Geandmothers Recipe. Rick Charleston SC
Soul Food is African American cuisine. Soul was a specific 60’s & 70s term for Blackness. Soul Brother, Soul Sister, Soul Food. Soul = African American cultural products. Southern slave owners didn’t cook. The big house Cook was a powerful plantation role & working in the kitchen a job that took lots of cooking. That’s why so many foods are ubiquitous with general Southern cooking. But Soul Food has its differences with it. Mostly lol flavor.
The name comes from the neo-Marxist idea that only historically oppressed people have souls. The value of the soul is based on melanin content and whether or not a father is present in the family unit.
I just happened upon your channel for the first time today and saw that you are reacting to a JOLLY video. I have watched them off and on for a while now. I am from California and have traveled to New Orleans before twice already. American biscuits are savory and soft inside, buttery too sometimes and they are served with sausage gravy. You two need to see the rest of those JOLLY videos to see the rest of their visit to New Orleans, Louisiana, I have had scones and American biscuits do not come close to scones. Sometimes our biscuits can be enjoyed with butter and jam, or jelly or fruit preserves. As Josh has mentioned the bar has been set high for both Josh and Ollie at this point when it comes to flavorful food with some spice to it, they loved that southern fried chicken when they were in the state of Georgia as well as the biscuits and gravy there too. In New Orleans Josh and Ollie went to another restaurant (different day) called Willa Jean and they both realized they cannot handle their liquor in the morning when it comes to brunch, because Bloody Mary beverages may be a bit spicy and perhaps too tomatoey for Josh and perhaps he's never tried vodka before, it's just a guess, but they did enjoy their meals there, and at some point, they enjoyed biscuits and gravy again! Hopefully their videos inspire you two do try some American soul food from our southern states especially from Louisiana! I enjoyed your video reaction! Peace. ☮
Thanks for the comment! The JOLLY videos are awesome and as a new fan I (Kai) love their reactions to food and it makes me want to try everything 🤤. When we eventually take a trip over, I can't wait to visit some of these restaurants and get a taste for myself.
There is not just one go to dessert in America. We are a congregation of every country and they brought their recipes to us. Distinctly American dessert is pumpkin pie, pecan pie, sweet potato pie, American apple pie, buckeye candy, and the list can go on.
to give comparison, Tabasco is considered 'beginner' or 'baby' level in the South. we actually put in on the young children's foods. also, some clarification is needed. in the South. when you use spices to make something taste better, it's called 'seasoning', but when you use peppers or other spices to make it very 'HOT' tasting, it's called 'spicy'..
Yall knew from the intro what to expect, but love yalls reaction. I think the south is not so exotic as it once was, but we want to have you experience it. Yall would fit in nice here in Houston. Hope yall can make it.
Biscuits, and gravy..... -- the gravy is a flour-based gravy that spiced with black pepper & ground sausage meat. Which that type of gravy is called "sausage gravy". -- without the sausage, it's just "white gravy" --Biscuits are lighter & fluffier than a scone. I haven't eaten biscuits & gravy, but I've had each of the ingredients.
The pork chop special you couldn't understand is what she is calling the "7th Ward" Pork Chop - I assume meaning the recipe originated (according to her) in the 7th ward of New Orleans - New Orleans is split into numbered wards for voting purposes, so it's a New Orleans thing to define where you come from by the ward number - i.e. my family originates from the lower 9th ward - also there are neighborhoods like Treme, Bywater, and others that people identify their heritage by - if you Google the 7th ward (or Treme, etc.) you can get information on the area they encompass
Their videos include a visit to Austin Texas where they have BBQ at Terry Black's, Tex Mex at El Dorado Cafe and a Tomahawk steak at another restaurant. They do a food truck video with another youtuber when they're in CA as well as BBQ in Louisiana, Beignets, Po Boys and several other meals in New Orleans. The ones where they have they go to the boys school and have them try biscuits and gravy, Popeye's, Taco Bell, Wendy's and a version of Thanksgiving dinner are some of my favorites because those kids and the headmaster are hilarious.
You dont drink gumbo, you eat it lol. Im from louisiana, and gumbo can be made in many different ways with all different kinds of foods but you dont drink it lol.
The only thing biscuits and scones have in common is flour and water, that's it, biscuits are totally different. Soul Food has it's origins in African American Southern cuisine. Those favorite childhood foods that mom made (if she could cook) is called comfort food.
I feel like New Orleans gets overlooked by a lot of International travellers that come to The US. It's a truly unique American city that has American food that most people outside of the US rarely know about. And for the liquids of gumbo, most people would soak the liquid into a piece of cornbread and eat it that way. Cornbread is extremely dry and porous which makes it like a sponge for liquids. We do the same for other vegetables like greens, peas and greens.
Jambalaya is a off shoot of panella. Of course Louisiana having insurance from Spain, France, Native tribes, West Africa and Caribbean we got a taste if everything here in New Orleans
Dressing is different from stuffing. Dressing is made from cornbread adding ingredients as chicken stock, onions etc stuffing is made from croutons. Candied yams are made from Sweet potatoes instead of Yams( Yams originate in Africa/Asia so the slaves substituted Sweet potatoes because yams are rare here and we just kept calling it Yams) Catfish is very big in Southern USA. I grew up eating fried Catfish and cheesy grits, it's nothing to see a Friday night Catfish fry you buy a filet on a piece of white bread with hot sauce, mustard 😊
You will have a lot of places to go in New Orleans. It is a 'foodie' city. Soul Food is the food of slaves & indigenous people but taken to a very high level. It is 'poor folk' food with what ever you could drag out of the swamp. New Orleans adds a French & Spanish influence as well. There is a lot going on with soul food & everyone has a different way to make it.
@@AliKaiProject There will be some things you don't want to try. But almost all is very good. I'm in Texas, next door to Louisiana & some of it seems very exotic to me.
Candied yams are very similar to sweet potatoes, candied of course! Have you tried baking fish on onions? It takes all the fishy taste away and even the onions are delicious!
I hear the biscuits and scones comparison a lot, but we have scones here too and they're very different. Scones are dense and sweet. Biscuits are much more similar to a denser but fluffy, sometimes crumbly sometimes flaky, bread roll. Imagine a muffin that wasn't sugary or sweet at all.
Soul food has a history. It's primarily foods that slaves on plantations could get their hands on. Granted some other dishes have been added. It is now, just good stuff.
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Welcome back everyone! As requested in multiple comments, we've reacted to our first JOLLY video and what a treat it is. They're incredibly well made and an absolute pleasure to watch. I hope you enjoy the video as much as we did. We've upgraded our microphone so hopefully the audio is better than it has been in previous videos.
As a Texas boy who loves watching my UK brethren react. It really isn't that crazy here. I love you kids and I haven't had the opportunity to visit my ancestral home (Scotland, Ireland, Spain, Germany) but that's par for the course when your American. Love yall! Check out Tex-Mex and what H.E.B. is...
Did you know theres a button for closed caption lol
Jolly has traveled to places around the world to try cuisine. They've even been to Buckingham Palace at least twice for state dinners with King Charles.
Go ahead and venture down the JOLLY rabbit hole, it's a great journey! 🤠
Soul food is a reference to African American cuisine that originated in the Deep South.
Also, to add it's cooking from the heart as my grandma used to say it's all about love
Biscuit ain't no scone. Two different culinary species.
Typically gumbo is served over rice instead of eaten by itself.
Soul food is the traditional food of African Americans.
Their videos treating British school kids to American foods are funny.
its interesting how different brits are where they have schools segregated by gender and make them wear suits. so different from the americans who seem more socialized and less formal.
Actually sounds intriguing, might have to watch one :)
@@AliKaiProject I would suggest the one about biscuits and gravy. It kind of sorts it out. Lol
@@DakotaBorn-111 Oh no... not the biscuits again! 😂 We'll take a look :D
@@AliKaiProject Lol Yup but the kids do it justice I think.
Jolly has a knack for finding the best places to eat in the US. I use their videos to point visitors in the right direction for places to eat. Biscuits are not really like scones, they are light and fluffy, a bit salty and very buttery. Southerners like to cover them with cream gravy that has ground sausage mixed in. It's fabulous but very heavy. Biscuits are a real thing in the South and are used in many ways.
I love that!😍We'll have to use Jolly as our navigation when we venture around the states!
An American Biscuit is kind of like a cross between a Scone, and a croissant texture wise, but is more fluffy, and very buttery. The Sausage Gravy (or Country Gravy) is made by cooking what we call Breakfast Sausage which is a loose almost paste of ground pork with spices. You cook that, and use the fat that is left in the pan to cook the flour. Once the flour is cooked (only takes a couple of minutes, and you have to stir it constantly) you add in Milk, or Heavy Cream, Salt & Pepper along with some of the crumbled up Sausage. You can add other Herbs & Spices if you want.
Gumbo starts with the Rue. Rue is where you slowly cook flour until it is a deep brown (don't burn the flour though!). The you add the water, meat (sausage of various types, shrimp, ham, crawfish, or whatever you have on hand), Bell Pepper, Garlic, Onion, Celery, and tons of spices. Gumbo is a dish you can make with a lot of different meats and veggies. As long as you get the Rue, and Spices right it is open to whatever you have on hand within reason.
BTW Chorizo is pronounced more like 'Chur E so' in Mexico, and the U.S..
Fun Fact: The word Chipotle = Smoked Jalapenos
That clears things up! Might have to look into Gumbo recipes and try to make it over here, it looks delicious!
@@AliKaiProject If you are going to make Gumbo the main keys are getting the Rue correct along with the right Spices. After that it is very simple. To make a good Rue you will need to cook it a long time on a low heat, and you have to keep stirring it so you don't burn it. Burnt flour will ruin the whole pot of Gumbo!
I eat Gumbo at least twice a month, but I eat a lot of Cajun/Creole food as well. I live just outside of Houston, and being so close to Louisiana we have the benefit of a lot of great Cajun/Creole food here. I like spicy food, so Cajun/Creole food along with Tex-Mex, and Latin American cuisines make up a lot of my favorites. Of course Texas BBQ is my #1 favorite.
@@AliKaiProject it's spelled "roux," I don't fault this kind person for not knowing that. i'm a south louisiana native.
Scones and biscuits look similar, but are very very different. Scones are more dense. Biscuits, better than a nasty scone, is buttery, flaky. Sorry, England. Just stating facts. Time for you guys to come to the South. You won't be disappointed in our food. Promise.
I’d suggest a video on the origins and history of soul food, and sub-cultures and their takes on the food as well! Black Americans have created some great cuisines from scraps ❤
Sausage gravy is made from breakfast sausage butter flour milk cream sale and pepper… you can add more herbs to your taste
Yeah you make a rue go from there
Every time I watch one of these reaction videos of british people I think..what sort of boring food do you eat? 🤔I feel bad for you all and hopefully you get to try this one day.
They eat Indian food.
You've got to watch Jolly's crawfish boil video and southern fried chicken for the first time. They have so many good U.S. food videos. Texas BBQ, Southern BBQ, Waffle House.
Here in Louisiana, we do like spicy food. It's not an "OMG that's spicy," (most of the time) it's more of a kick to compliment the food. Except seafood boils of course, people often put condensed pepper extract into the the water.
Sounds like we might survive a trip after all 😄
@@AliKaiProject generally, if you can eat buffalo wings without a problem, 90% of food in Louisiana will be just fine.
Soul food is like a hug from your favorite Gran . In every bite .
Dressing is another name for stuffing, like stuffing made on thanksgiving. Candied yams are sweet potatoes that are parboiled to make them soft then covered with white and brown sugar, cinnamon, a little bit of vanilla and syrup or molasses. It’s then baked so the sugar gets “candied” like caramel.
Gumbo is a wide ranging thing. Some are runny, some are thicker. There's hundreds of recopies for it, and everybody will tell you 'theirs' is the best. I've had awesome gumbo's and some that aren't so good. I know my family gatherings we used to go out in the morning, and catch a lot of blue crab. We'd take them home and make homemade crab gumbo. It rocked.
Let's hope our first Gumbo is a half decent one 😆
Jolly's channel is amazing! You need to check out so many more! A biscuit here is NOT a scone, and the gravy we have is a cream-flour based white sausage gravy but can also be made without the sausage and put over chicken fried steak! I just SUBBED, hope to see more great videos!
We've had so many comments about biscuits! They do look similar to a scones, but we now know they're not the same 😅. Chicken fried steak is such a weird one, still trying to get my head around the fact it's not chicken 😆. Thanks for watching! ♥
@@AliKaiProject The steak is fried like chicken, that's why they call it that. To add more confusion, there's a chicken fried chicken too. Scones have eggs in them, while biscuits do not. I. Enjoying your videos! ❤
@@AliKaiProject It is called chicken fried steak because it is battered and fried like fried chicken, but the steak is tenderized and it is so delicious! Hope you try it soon. Also, I just subscribed.
@@carolynlong2740 It sounds delicious. Welcome to our channel! ♥
The Spanish once controlled Louisiana, which is where Jambalaya originated from in concept, substituting ingredients for local ingredients like our German variant of heavily smoked andouille, chicken/pork, and spices, also without the crunchy toasted rice found in Paella. There is a tomato and seafood based Jambalaya as well, most notable in and around New Orleans, but never found in Acadian. Also, the architecture in the French Quarter is also a Spanish contribution, as odd as that sounds.
American gravy has sausage in it. It's delicious if made right.
Tabasco sauce comes from Louisiana. The sauce gets its name from the Mexican state of Tabasco. The founder of the company traveled around Mexico procuring different types of chiles, and one of his favorites came from Tabasco, Mex. He returned to the US with all the chiles and created Tabasco sauce.
Thanks for the info!
This is why South East Texas is particularly amazing. We have all the Tex-Mex, all the Creole, and all the comfort food your seeing. Beaumont Texas is particularly fun, but Houston has it it all.
Brits react to these tour of videos all the time. It gives you an idea of the food and culture in different parts of the U.S. cause believe me, with how big our country is the differences are VAST 😁
Biscuits are made with flour lots of butter salt backing powder a little sugar is optional… they come out soft snd flakey
They taste like flakey buttery bread. Not sweet. Not hard like a scone. You also can eat them with butter and jelly or with cane syrup and butter.
It's NOT a scone! Biscuits are soft inside with buttery layers- a lot of butter is used to make the dough, resulting in the aforementioned buttery layers with a very flaky texture.
Apologies! We were just going by looks, we've been educated by the comments and now know better... 😆
@@AliKaiProject to be fair, British scones are waaaaay better than American scones. Commenters are thinking you’re comparing an American biscuit to an American scone, which is a rock hard, chalky abomination. 😂
It’s funny but Comfort Food and Soul Food are a bit different. Comfort food is what anyone might find as comforting such as chicken noodle soup, macaroni and cheese, or biscuits and gravy.
Soul food in the US is food that originates in black communities. Soul food can be comfort food.
Here’s a good video for biscuits and gravy: th-cam.com/video/_GN1lh9q5WE/w-d-xo.htmlsi=_KEu8vKwfWSnatVu
Jambalaya is a variation of paella because it originates from people brought over as slaves from Africa.
That's good to know, thanks for the comment :)
Thanks for sharing your thoughts on Jolly! I love these guys! I hope you had fun with this and I look forward to more with these guys! Always leaves a smile on my face!
Thank you for the suggestion!
Interesting fact: in the U.S., the terms "dressing" and "stuffing" are used interchangeably for reasons I'm not quite clear on. You'll find the same dishes referred to as "dressing" in some parts of the country and "stuffing in others. So you were right that the oyster dressing was a stuffing!
You guys just like to confuse us! 😆
Pronouncing them "chipolte" and "pie-ella" in the same sentence is so British 😄
2:29 She said “7th Ward pork chop.”
New Orleans has wards which are basically neighborhoods. She has a New Orleans accent (one of many).
I heard what she said but I didn't understand what it meant! Thank you for clarifying that, now I know!
Gumbo is usually served over rice
I like the nosey donkeys.
It is possible the sausage is andouille which is spicy. Many do use soup to compare because gumbo doesn't have direct comparison.
Great minds think alike. The broth from gumbo makes a perfect sipping drink, like a fine bourbon or scotch.
Gumbo is made with a base called “roux”, which is made from flour and oil blended to a color that can take up to an hour to make. Then the “trinity” of celery, onions, and bell peppers are added. Gumbos come with sausage, pork, seafood, and/or chicken and rice. Every region has their own versions though. Seasonings are key as well. A must try if you come to Louisiana! Gail
Definitely, I really want to try it!
They won't usually tell you this, but Southern soul food has its history in slavery. Slaves were rarely fed enough, so they hunted local animals and picked local produce. Often these animals were not inherently delicious (like opossum or raccoon), or they had to eat it when it wasn't particularly fresh (like when they found it already dead), so heavy spices helped, and Soul Food was born. Of course, restaurants now use quality ingredients and the recipes have been perfected through many generations, so it's some of the best food in America. 😋❤️🤠
The biscuits are fluffy and made with butter milk
Great video! Tabasco is spicy AF. I live in Florida, but I have lived in Louisiana, Texas, Arizona and Colorado and I can say Tabasco is super spicy to me. Sauces from Louisiana such as crystals hot sauce, used here, are vinegar based. Like in buffalo chicken wings. Not really spicy but it’s vinegar heavy. I was watching jolly and this popped up😊
Sending love to you and yours from Orlando, Florida
Thanks for watching! Sounds like you've had plenty of opportunity to enjoy all of this amazing food, I wish we had some of it available over here.. the more we see, the more we want it! 😆
You pause a lot which can be fine but rather than just pause and play, hit the left arrow each time so the video replays the last five seconds. Definitely need to do more Jolly and look at "Your New Zealand Family" channel as they just visited the US. Subscribed 👍
Thanks for the advice, that’ll improve things a bit if we pause awkwardly. 👌
Highly recommend watching their video on Louisiana crawfish boil
I see you have a beautiful portrait of myself and my siblings behind you. 😆
Loved the video!
Gotta love the donkeys 😆
i am not a catfish person.. i will fish for them tho.. i love fishing but cod is my fave fried fish.. i love sausage and gravy.. easy to make and soooo goood.. i love to make fried chicken every once in a while,, i bake my chicken mostly which is heathier than fried.
Texas here! jolly's reaction to terry blacks bbq is so great!
Great reaction!!!
America 🇺🇸 has many different regions and we all cook differently. That’s why we love America. We are so different yet one.
So much variety to try :)
The tannins in the ice tea combined with the ice, help with the burning you may get from the spicy.
Warning if you eat jalapenos, it's the seeds that make it so hot
oh those boys are great! you will love them.
Good job guys, please react to more videos from the Jolly Channel. You can react to their Texas BBQ video.
Thank you! We're always looking for recommendations. You can expect to see the Jolly Texas BBQ in the near future :)
You have never had fried chicken unless you have been to the south
I don't doubt that at all :)
The gravy is flour based with milk, butter, black pepper, bits of sausage. And as someone whose had both biscuits in the US and scones in Great Britain, they are different densities. Biscuits have a higher ratio of butter and are lighter and flakier.
Gumbo = first you make a roux in an iron skillet (flour, water, etc). Its stirred constantly while other ingredients are added to the roux. Roux is the base for gumbo. The darker the roux, the better I like it. Look up a video on youtube on how to make it.
LOVE JOLLY VIDEOS!!! :) They do a GREAT JOB and try A LOT of GOOD FOOD!!! ENJOY!!
The term “Soul Food” was coined in the ‘60s to describe foods created by the Southern slaves before and after Emancipation. They were extremely poor and had to make do with whatever food items they could find, and to make it as palatable as possible.
Candied yams is american sweet potato with butter cinnamin nutmeg alspice white and brown sugar and we usualy eat that during holidays or Sunday dinners.
This is my first video but won’t be my last, I just subscribed. You two are so genuine and cute together. Watching you is soul food for the heart.
Thank you for the lovely comment! ♥
Spicy in Louisiana cooking is very seasoned but it is not intended to be burn your face off hot. You want to taste everything in the dish. Typical Cajun/Creole seasoning is a combination of salt, cayenne pepper, black pepper, granulated onion, and granulated garlic as a baseline, each blend will have their own twist to the basic combination of which, everyone has their favorite. Hot sauce is used as a marinade component and to give extra heat for those who want it, but it adds quite a bit to a plate of red beans.
Southwestern and Louisiana cuisine is pretty spicy. In the rest of the south, some food is spicy and some is not. All of it, however, is very strongly flavored. At home, even canned vegetables that were being warmed up on the stove got garlic, onion, salt, pepper, and a generous spoonful of bacon grease added. My southern food tradition is southern Appalachian, so it is far less spicy than you would find in New Orleans. The kinds of things you would find in our traditional foods are: biscuits and gravy, chicken and dumplings, fried chicken, cornbread, fried apples, fried green tomatoes, soup beans, and lots of fresh vegetables straight out of the garden.
If you want a foodie town and wonderful people GO to New Orleans (NOLA)! I lived there for a few years. It's amazing! My family and I just visited our friends this past year, we absolutely love it!
If you want to try and make gumbo so you can get a taste of Louisiana. This is the exact recipe for the gumbo they ate in the video..
Creole Filé Gumbo:
1¼ pounds seasoning ham
1¼ pounds smoked sausage
1½ pounds chicken pieces
½ pound hot sausage
1½ pounds peeled shrimp
6 to 8 gumbo crabs
1 dozen oysters
2 cups chopped onion
¼ cup chopped garlic
3 green onions, chopped
½ green bell pepper, chopped
2 teaspoons thyme leaves
5 bay leaves
⅔ cup vegetable oil
4 to 5 tablespoons flour
10 cups water
Filé powder
Salt and pepper
Hot cooked rice, for serving
Method of Preparation:
Cube ham and slice sausages. Heat oil in an eight to ten-quart pot. Add ham to brown.
Add onions and cook until tender. Add chicken and sausages and brown. Add shrimp and other seasonings and cook five minutes.
Sprinkle flour over meats and seasonings and stir well.
Add water and bring to a simmer. Add salt and pepper to taste.
Add gumbo crabs and cook on medium to low fire about 45 minutes. Add oysters and cook five minutes. Turn off heat.
Add filé powder (to taste) and stir into gumbo. Serve over cooked rice. Serves 10 to 12.
Note: Seasoning ham is simply leftover baked ham, ham steaks, etc. chopped into 1/4 inch pieces. If your crowd doesn't care for heat, substitute your favorite breakfast sausage links for hot sausage; just make sure it isn't a variety that includes syrup or other sweeteners. Gumbo crabs are readily found in the freezer section of Louisiana supermarkets; they're the leftover crab after the jumbo lump meat has been removed from the body of the crab. If you do not have access to gumbo crabs, substitute 1 quart of boxed seafood stock for 1 quart of the water.
Someone else you might try: Cowboy Kent Rollins - he is a Wagon Trail Cook and makes some GREAT SOUTHERN-AMERICAN RECIPES!! You'll enjoy him: he's a LOT of FUN and makes GREAT FOOD!! :)
Hi. Imagine French Canadians living in the Newfoundland area , now owned bhy England, 'eminent domained", and forcibly shipped to Southwest Louisiana. All you have are your spices. What would you eat?
That is how some Louisiana foods got started.
Enjoyed the video, Jolly is a great channel to learn more about American cuisine. For future reference, the words Paella and Chipolte are pronounced as follows: Pa-el-la (pie - AEY - ya), Chip-ot-le (Chip -OT - lay).
Pronunciations noted 😃
You can make gumbo with just about any kind of meat. Beef, chicken, seafood, alligator, rabbit...
A scone adds eggs and sugar which southern biscuits usually don't. The foods of La. come from several cultures. The paella from Spain then there are German, French, Italian, Acadian. There are also influences from west Africa and the first native Americans.
Catfish is a very meaty fish - and I believe it's the only fresh water fish that has "skin" vs scales - you peel the skin off - I love catching catfish !! Love eating it even more especially fried in flour & corn meal!! YUM YUM Biscuits do not have the texture of scone - biscuits are very flaky and cakey... Love you guys!
Love the donkey picture behind you!
The eyes of the donkeys behind yall know what busicuits and (sausage)gravy is. It's my eyes on a Sunday when I know what's up.
I was in the UK for about a month and I never realized how much I would miss flavor in food and spices
You should check out the video from their trip to Texas where they go to Terry Blacks.
Will do :)
Cut to the BEST JOLLY video and go to their Terry Black BBQ one...
Southern Sweet Tea Recipe:
Fill a Qt pitcher 1/2 full of Ice. Store in freezer or fridge.
In a 1qt pan fill 3/4 with water.
Add 1-Cup.. yes CUPS of Sugar and 3 Tea Bags(Lipton or American Classic are best)
IMPORTANT:
Then turn on the Heat and bring to a boil.
(This makes the Sugar on the bottom begin to Carmelize). When it comes to a boil, turn off heat, THEN stir and allow to cool for an hour.
Pour into pitcher with ice and stir.
In the Summer add a few slices of lemon.
That's my Great, Great, Great, Great Geandmothers Recipe.
Rick
Charleston SC
Soul Food is African American cuisine. Soul was a specific 60’s & 70s term for Blackness. Soul Brother, Soul Sister, Soul Food. Soul = African American cultural products. Southern slave owners didn’t cook. The big house Cook was a powerful plantation role & working in the kitchen a job that took lots of cooking. That’s why so many foods are ubiquitous with general Southern cooking. But Soul Food has its differences with it. Mostly lol flavor.
The name comes from the neo-Marxist idea that only historically oppressed people have souls. The value of the soul is based on melanin content and whether or not a father is present in the family unit.
Popeye' fried chicken!! based on a Louisiana recipe. its a country wide chain now. their fried chicken is the bomb
For thee jambalaya and chili sauce you have to mix it up before you eat it and not to much just enough for your pallet...
Biscuits LOOK like Scones but taste totally different. They're more bready than cakey.
I just happened upon your channel for the first time today and saw that you are reacting to a JOLLY video. I have watched them off and on for a while now. I am from California and have traveled to New Orleans before twice already. American biscuits are savory and soft inside, buttery too sometimes and they are served with sausage gravy. You two need to see the rest of those JOLLY videos to see the rest of their visit to New Orleans, Louisiana, I have had scones and American biscuits do not come close to scones. Sometimes our biscuits can be enjoyed with butter and jam, or jelly or fruit preserves. As Josh has mentioned the bar has been set high for both Josh and Ollie at this point when it comes to flavorful food with some spice to it, they loved that southern fried chicken when they were in the state of Georgia as well as the biscuits and gravy there too. In New Orleans Josh and Ollie went to another restaurant (different day) called Willa Jean and they both realized they cannot handle their liquor in the morning when it comes to brunch, because Bloody Mary beverages may be a bit spicy and perhaps too tomatoey for Josh and perhaps he's never tried vodka before, it's just a guess, but they did enjoy their meals there, and at some point, they enjoyed biscuits and gravy again! Hopefully their videos inspire you two do try some American soul food from our southern states especially from Louisiana! I enjoyed your video reaction! Peace. ☮
Thanks for the comment! The JOLLY videos are awesome and as a new fan I (Kai) love their reactions to food and it makes me want to try everything 🤤. When we eventually take a trip over, I can't wait to visit some of these restaurants and get a taste for myself.
There is not just one go to dessert in America. We are a congregation of every country and they brought their recipes to us. Distinctly American dessert is pumpkin pie, pecan pie, sweet potato pie, American apple pie, buckeye candy, and the list can go on.
Paella is pronounced with a y because it's again... Spanish. Not pie ella
to give comparison, Tabasco is considered 'beginner' or 'baby' level in the South. we actually put in on the young children's foods.
also, some clarification is needed. in the South. when you use spices to make something taste better, it's called 'seasoning', but when you use peppers or other spices to make it very 'HOT' tasting, it's called 'spicy'..
😱😱 we have a lot of work to do on the spice front then 😂
When you come to the States, remember to support local restaurants. Corporate restaurants are not all that great.
Born and raised in Louisiana. It’s like a different country. Everyone else zigs and they zag.
Yall knew from the intro what to expect, but love yalls reaction. I think the south is not so exotic as it once was, but we want to have you experience it. Yall would fit in nice here in Houston. Hope yall can make it.
Biscuits, and gravy.....
-- the gravy is a flour-based gravy that spiced with black pepper & ground sausage meat. Which that type of gravy is called "sausage gravy".
-- without the sausage, it's just "white gravy"
--Biscuits are lighter & fluffier than a scone.
I haven't eaten biscuits & gravy, but I've had each of the ingredients.
The pork chop special you couldn't understand is what she is calling the "7th Ward" Pork Chop - I assume meaning the recipe originated (according to her) in the 7th ward of New Orleans - New Orleans is split into numbered wards for voting purposes, so it's a New Orleans thing to define where you come from by the ward number - i.e. my family originates from the lower 9th ward - also there are neighborhoods like Treme, Bywater, and others that people identify their heritage by - if you Google the 7th ward (or Treme, etc.) you can get information on the area they encompass
Thanks for clearing that up, makes a lot more sense now. 😃
Their videos include a visit to Austin Texas where they have BBQ at Terry Black's, Tex Mex at El Dorado Cafe and a Tomahawk steak at another restaurant. They do a food truck video with another youtuber when they're in CA as well as BBQ in Louisiana, Beignets, Po Boys and several other meals in New Orleans. The ones where they have they go to the boys school and have them try biscuits and gravy, Popeye's, Taco Bell, Wendy's and a version of Thanksgiving dinner are some of my favorites because those kids and the headmaster are hilarious.
They said the “7th ward pork chop” 7th ward is just a hood in new orleans
When we eat extra spicy food down South in the US, we get a natural high from the endorphins the spice releases. The hotter the better, lol.
Dressing is usually made with cornbread . A better version of stuffing😁
You dont drink gumbo, you eat it lol. Im from louisiana, and gumbo can be made in many different ways with all different kinds of foods but you dont drink it lol.
I'd totally eat all the lumpy bits then drink the sauce. :)
They needed to mix the hot sauce into the Jambalaya!
The only thing biscuits and scones have in common is flour and water, that's it, biscuits are totally different. Soul Food has it's origins in African American Southern cuisine. Those favorite childhood foods that mom made (if she could cook) is called comfort food.
I feel like New Orleans gets overlooked by a lot of International travellers that come to The US. It's a truly unique American city that has American food that most people outside of the US rarely know about. And for the liquids of gumbo, most people would soak the liquid into a piece of cornbread and eat it that way. Cornbread is extremely dry and porous which makes it like a sponge for liquids. We do the same for other vegetables like greens, peas and greens.
The food looks awesome, I need to try some gumbo! 😀
Jambalaya is a off shoot of panella. Of course Louisiana having insurance from Spain, France, Native tribes, West Africa and Caribbean we got a taste if everything here in New Orleans
Louisiana Hot Sauce is the same heat as Tabasco. I use hot sauce therapeutically to open congested sinus and nasal passages.
We often eat spicy food when congested but not on the Tabasco level.
Dressing is different from stuffing. Dressing is made from cornbread adding ingredients as chicken stock, onions etc stuffing is made from croutons. Candied yams are made from Sweet potatoes instead of Yams( Yams originate in Africa/Asia so the slaves substituted Sweet potatoes because yams are rare here and we just kept calling it Yams) Catfish is very big in Southern USA. I grew up eating fried Catfish and cheesy grits, it's nothing to see a Friday night Catfish fry you buy a filet on a piece of white bread with hot sauce, mustard 😊
Small channel but we really enjoy you guys' reactions. Love from Seattle, Washington USA. ♥
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Biscuits are a quick bread.
7th Ward is an area in New Orleans where African Americans been since the late 1500s
You will have a lot of places to go in New Orleans. It is a 'foodie' city. Soul Food is the food of slaves & indigenous people but taken to a very high level. It is 'poor folk' food with what ever you could drag out of the swamp. New Orleans adds a French & Spanish influence as well. There is a lot going on with soul food & everyone has a different way to make it.
Sounds like heaven.
@@AliKaiProject There will be some things you don't want to try. But almost all is very good. I'm in Texas, next door to Louisiana & some of it seems very exotic to me.
Candied yams are very similar to sweet potatoes, candied of course!
Have you tried baking fish on onions? It takes all the fishy taste away and even the onions are delicious!
Hmm interesting! We have tried baking fish on lemon slices but not onions so far so we’ll give that a go at some point; thanks for the tip!
I hear the biscuits and scones comparison a lot, but we have scones here too and they're very different. Scones are dense and sweet. Biscuits are much more similar to a denser but fluffy, sometimes crumbly sometimes flaky, bread roll. Imagine a muffin that wasn't sugary or sweet at all.
That is what our scones are like! Not sweet and more dense and crumbly :)
Soul food has a history. It's primarily foods that slaves on plantations could get their hands on. Granted some other dishes have been added. It is now, just good stuff.
We're all for the good stuff.