British people don’t know how old their food is
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 11 ก.ค. 2024
- As a foreigner living in the UK, I never realised how old British food is - and I don't think Brits know, either! I wanted to share these historical British products that are still loved today.
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Before I watched this, I saw the title of the video and the golden syrup and thought you were calling us out for how long some things sit in our cupboards for 😂 Some people have had a tin of golden syrup in their cupboards for years.
100% 😂 I was completely ready to be called out!
And why not?! Sugar is a preservative, it doesn’t “go off” - might degrade a bit but not “go off”
Yeah, I assumed the same, and for much the same reason.
I was thinking the same!😆
I thought that as well
The Cadbury story is pretty amazing,they built a whole village for their employees known as Bourneville, and anyone in a management role had to spend 2 weeks every year either working in the factory or out on the road with their salesmen
There was also port sunlight
And Rowntree too 💯
So glad that the American companies that bought them out didn't tarnish that legacy 🤔🙃
Bournville is lovely place to live - very desirable area! 😎 Actually Quakers like the Cadbury family were good employers by the standards of the time.
But having lived in the West Midlands, I believe because Bournville was a Quaker village, there are no pubs in Bournville??
@@martindehavilland-fox3175 No pubs and no alcohol to be sold at all. That was until a few years ago when they allowed it.
I think part of the reason we don't notice how old food is is that to us a few hundred years isn't all that old. A lot of towns/cities in Britain have history going back thousands of years, and so I think in a way that can desensitise us to the more 'modern' history of companies and their products like this.
Greetings from Canada! I'm one of the four people who knows the flavour of blue Freezies! As someone who once lived in the UK as well, I was always shocked to see carvings on business doors saying stuff like "Est. 1746" and then it occured to me that's older than my home country! Makes me giggle when I'm wandering around Vancouver and I see "Est. 1975" and I think HA! Amateurs!
A building near me has 1435 on it 😳
And the oldest uk building in Orkney is over 5k years old
@@dannyking4138 incredible 😀
Honestly at this point I think us brits are just kinda expecting most things to just be old as sin because when everything is old as hell you ain't all that surprised by it anymore.
Lots of non alcoholic pubs began in Lancashire serving only soft drinks, in late 1800's.
They were begun by the Temperance Society, to encourage people away from alcohol.
You should have tasted Cadbury's milk chocolate in the 80s. It was far superior to whatever you could imagine
What was different about it?
@@eadweard. It was much creamier, no after taste either.. I'm in my 70's now and I live right down the road from Cadbury, know so many former Cadbury workers too, also heard Kraft have something to do with it, yes Kraft foods the people that make cheese slices, they tweaked the recipe a tad using an oil I believe.. just not the same, was brought up with Cadbury.. but now the factory is more of a development facility, oh and Cadbury World, so sad to see it now in beautiful Bournville
@@suepoole8323 My father was born in Bournville - all my family (including me) have worked for Cadbury at at least sometime. My grandparents, uncles and aunts were Cadbury pensioners. My father's first job, in the early 1950s, was as a food technologist in the test lab. His job, daily, was tasting production samples.
He developed a lifelong taste for Dairy Milk & Bournville - and he reckoned the taste _didn't_ change, after the takeover.
Sadly yes lots changed over the decades and the Kraft takeover butchered all sorts of things from the fairtrade commitment to the quality of chocolate used in various products like creme eggs, to the point that I don't buy very much now. Plain dairy milk is still roughly the same as it was 20 years ago.
But in parallel we have much better chocolate available now, both in terms of ethics and quality, from tons of independent boutique chocolatiers that you can validate individually to "good enough" mainstream bands like Hotel Chocolat or Tony's or Divine or similar. So tbh if you want good quality and/or ethical chocolate, just get them instead, esp now that the legacy of Cadbury et al is pretty much dead thanks to buyouts from the likes of Nestlé :/
@@suepoole8323 Thank you for the info! Most interesting.
You should look at Fry's Chocolate, another old company, in 1847 they made the first solid chocolate bar. They are an older company than Cadbury, you can still buy Fry's chocolate. They were founded in 1761.
And you can't beat a Fry's Peppermint Cream!
and the family produced Stephen Fry...
@@AxR558....or Orange Cream, Coffee Cream or just plain Original. Fry's has to be to one product line you just can't go wrong with...MmmMmmm! (and that's from someone who usually doesn't like orange or mint chocolate)
Whilst J.S.Fry may have started before Cadbury, I don't think they can be claimed to be older since Cadbury bought Fry's in 1919. It's now just a brand. Mind you, they're both just Mondelez brands now.
@@AxR558agreed. I love Fry's Peppermint Cream.
Most British homes will have an original tin of Golden Syrup from 1908 in the back of a kitchen cabinet somewhere.
It's custard powder that is the one that always surprises me - you don't expect a powered convenience food version of custard to be a nearly 200 years old product.
You missed out Mornflake Oats from Cheshire. They started in 1675. Great video as always.
My girlfriend is a descendant of the Lea family in Lea & Perrin. Her aunt has the original recipe scribbled down in an old ledger by Mr Lea
Please express my thanks to your girlfriend's family, Lea & Perrins is one of the great products and you'd be amazed how ubiquitous it became. I watch a ghost town channel set in a mountain silver mining town surrounded by desert in California and Lea & Perrins bottles are about the most common cooking ingredient artifacts the fellow digs up, just getting up to the town is a struggle let alone hauling cases of Worcestershire sauce hundreds of miles through the desert first. WS is to this day about the most common ingredient used by American restaurants especially in American-Italian places but they use cheap and nasty mass produced fake stuff now, I suppose that's one reason why the US reputation for food has waned over the last 20 years.
It's the only true Worcestershire Sauce, all the fake ones are like water by comparison. I don't do many brands but L&P is the only option if you want your sauces to have real depth. Correction there is one option, cooking down raw anchovies until they melt into the sauce. I just use L&P, it's faster and already balanced for use.
Tip for any -Shire name - pronounce is as if it ended in -sha or -shuh in any informal British English dialect. The only exception is when pronouncing the word shire itself, which rhymes with wire.
Non-Brit here. Your last sentence is ironic huh? I found this out in-person by a Brit correcting me when they heard me say it. You could also state to drop the e on the end right? I've heard its the same case with poutine (Canadian dish)
Be fair.....she's only been here seven years!
Correct eg Hertfordshire is pronounced “Hart fd shuh”
Not in the South West England or Scots or Geordie accents
Forget the shire part. Try calling it Wooster sauce! Everybody I know does just that.
Regarding "Wooster" sauce I seem to remember reading that Messrs Lea and Perrin were commissioned by an ex army officer to recreate a sauce that he had tried while serving in India following a very sketchy recipe that an Indian cook had given him. The batch did initially taste awful and so the officer lost interest in it. When Lea & Perrins discovered how good the matured sauce was they contacted the officer and offered him £100 for the recipe.
It's not surprising because it's fish sauce (anchovies) and like all fish sauces it has to ferment or it's far too pungent to consume. L&P were trying to recreate a curry sauce. Funnily enough Tomato Ketchup started out as an attempt to recreate a curry sauce too, this time Japanese Katsu and was originally called "Catsup" before changing to "Ketchup" later, though associated more with the US now Tomato Ketchup is a British creation. In the US there are still the odd brands here and there labelled as "Catsup".
Wooster-sher 🙂😂
The ancient Roman 'mulsum' is also a fermented fish sauce. I suspect there is a connection via India to Worcestershire Sauce.
In Dorset without the "-sher"@@johndaarteest
I seem to remember the story that they made the sauce and put it in barrels. Then found it tasted horrible and forgot about it. Months,or years later,they came across the barrels but didn't remember what was in it so they tasted it and liked it.
It's not a dead lion with flies, it's the bees!
And, as of last week, sadly defunct.
@@moleculeman27 Only on the squeezy bottles. The old logo is still on the tins, unless they have syruptitiously removed it.
It's a biblical quote. 'from the strong shall come forth sweetness' (Don't ask me chapter and verse. I have no clue)
@@qwadratix Stuff about Samson and his feats of strength is found in the Book of Judges as he was the last of the ancient Judges of Israel.
Very interesting video. I didn't know most of this despite being British. Golden syrup is fantastic. I love the fact that the tin hasn't changed. It's iconic and the religious riddle is very cool. I keep a lot of the tins to store nails/screws, and other small things.
There are millions of these cans being used as such, now enough about my shed I wonder how many more are out there?
The trouble with Golden Syrup at least for most people is you never end up finishing a whole tin. You will use it maybes once or twice for making flapjacks and then leave the rest in the tin to go "bad"(I don't actually know if it actually goes off but it turns a little solid, I know honey will never goes off).
@@daviniarobbins9298
Honey contains anti-septic enzymes, in the middle ages they used honey to dress wounds. Henry IVs boy Henry survived taking an arrow under his eye socket, [among other things] without honey there would have been no victory at Agincourt and everyone would be eating suspicious looking sausages forever more, no Lawrence Olivier rousing movie speech, no Hollow Crown series of plays from Shakespeare etc. You can get most of the last of the syrup out of the tin with boiling water, try getting it out of the squeezy bottle.
Yeah it crystallises. But if you warm the tin it will melt the syrup. @@daviniarobbins9298
@@daviniarobbins9298before I watched this video, when I had only the title and the golden syrup to go off, I thought she was calling us out for just that 😂 Having things sat in the cupboard for an age 😂 The video thankfully was not to shame us into cleaning out our cupboards.
As an Irish person in Canada, I've always enjoyed ordering a Caesar and have the server try to ask me if I want more tabasco or more Worcestershire sauce in it, because they can never pronounce Worcestershire. It cracks me up every time, because everyone struggles and has their own version of it! I realised while I was there a few weeks ago that it's why in some bars they ask you if you want your Caesar more "muddy" or more hot. More muddy means more Worcestershire sauce!
Just call it Lee & Perrins
My favourite cordial by far is Rose's Lime Juice. First made in 1867 in Leith, Scotland. I feel lost if I don't have a few bottles in the house. It still uses sugar and not a sweetner to preserve the drink so it tastes so much better than the cheaper (sweetner) laden varieties. Cheers 🥂
im wondering if thats why were called 'limeys'
No, we were called limeys because we took huge amounts of limes on all our ships to stave off scurvy when sea voyages would take months and up to a year depending on where the ships were going. Lemons became cheaper at one point and we assumed that all citrus fruits would work the same, so we switched over, but there’s basically no vitamin C in lemons so scurvy came back with a vengeance until we switched back.
@@Nevyn515 Lemons have a load of Vitamin C, 53 mg per 100 grams of juice, that's half the daily amount you need
I prefer new fangled, I like Robinson's Lemon Barley Water. Rose's lime is nice though and can be used as a mixer as well as a cordial.
Essential for a real Gimlet!
Great to learn all this history of brands 👍🏻 Colman’s mustard near to where I live was founded in Norwich in 1814 so that’s another old brand
Can't believe they sold out and closed the Norwich factory.
We are just left with a new mustard milling factory!
@@AndrewwarrenAndrew
No respect for history, Colman's was revolutionary when it was invented. People used to carry mustard in balls like putty before canning allowed for supply and storage as a powder. The ultimate most mustardy mustard ever created, proper hot stuff.
Alanna - you should visit Norwich. It's the best city there is although we tend to be a bit modest about it and as you arrive the road signs just say "A Fine City"
I was cracking up laughing at you absolutely butchering the pronunciation of British place names. I'm from Batley, the home of Fox's biscuits and have never heard anyone say the town name like you did-so funny. I'm glad you gave a shout out to Fox's their biscuits are lovely. I did once work at the factory on packaging the jam & creams and spent some time trying to get over to the chocolate section to sneak some goodies.
I’m from up the road in Wyke and I lost it 😂 Bat-Lee 😂😂
Yikes, you had me there for a moment - thought I was gonna have to clear out all that old stuff rotting at the back of the fridge…🤣🤣
Phew! I thought you were going to talk about finding products hiding in the deepest nooks and crannies of our pantries that were past their best before dates🤣
my thoughts exactly ,Bill
Me too 😂
I bloody love finding something years past its date - I see it as a challenge
"Bring out the ancestral Marmite!"
My mother once told me that Vimto was made and marketed to encourage people to drink non-alcoholic beverages.
you either like it or loath it, but always remember vimto is an anagram of vomit he he he xxx
Kind of true. Back in the 19th century alcohol was consumed because of culture and the lack of a fresh water supply in cities, water was poisonous and beer wasn't so even children drank. Once fresh water supplies came on line there was a big drive to promote soft drinks which is oft attributed to the temperance movement, the Quakers for a large part, but it was in reality a big public sector health push that was influenced by groups like the Quakers. I live in a Quaker built town and for decades there were only 4 pubs allowed in the town, local myths state the Quakers only allowed them due to the lack of a fresh water supply in the early days but that is wrong, the pubs had been there and licensed for centuries so the Quakers had no powers to interfere with them. Outside of those pubs my town was a dry town for decades, no off licenses, no new pubs etc. The only new place apart from the 4 original pubs allowed to sell booze was the hotel built in the town centre as hotels have different regulations under national law regarding the sale and consumption of alcohol on the premises.
It's widely drunk in the Middle East for that very reason.
I think a lot of the chocolate makers like Frys were the same. (it was drinking chocolate back then) Also Thomas Cook oddly enough. Also these people had to get creative because traditional routes to sucess like politics were only open to Anglicans until the mid 19th century.
Your second pronunciation of Gloucester was correct 😂 and your struggle to say Worcestershire makes me proud to live there! 😊
The English accent that creeps in when trying to pronounce certain brands always makes me chuckle 😂
I lived about half mile from the Lea and Perrins factory, could smell the fermenting sauce.
The Cadbury family also had connection to Worcester, they had several homes in the city. They also had a coffee shop.
Bat Lee,oh our poor Alanna still can't get her head around British place names.
I think she's doing it deliberately now - how can you pronounce "Painswick" wrong?
@@youcantleavethisempty when did she pronounce painswick? How do you pronounce painswick? Is it like Warwick? Is it painsick? And personally I think she's one of the most genuine people on TH-cam and can't imagine her deliberately messing things up,have you watched her other posts? She doesn't sugar coat her opinions so why would she deliberately mess place names up?
Neither can a large chunk of the country, like to come to Wales to see how you get on pronouncing our language! Well that is what a lot of English place name are like for her as a non Bri.
She certainly does not deserve your condescending comment!! I can only hope you did not mean it to sound like it read!
At first I thought this video would be about us Brits just having food in our cupboards that have been there for years, especially with the Golden Syrup on the thumbnail. I think we've probably all had one of those at the back of a cupboard at some point that we've forgotten about. Made me think back to 2014 when I found some tea bags right at the back of my grandma's cupboards that had a use by date of something like 1992... And they were Twinings tea bags by the way! The best part of that is that she had moved a few times prior so she kept on taking her ancient tea bags with her 😂
Me too lol😂
Lea & Perrins’ Worcestershire Sauce is still made in the Worcester factory and exported to over 130 countries around the world. That is except in the US, where the Pittsburgh factory makes it to a 'slightly' different recipe* and sells it in bottles with a white paper' 'outer' wrapping. The wrapping represents the paper that was put around the bottles when the product was first exported around the world and used to stop the bottles clinking together in the ships holds...
*The 'original' UK recipe uses malt vinegar while the US version uses distilled white vinegar.
Beats me how they keep going because you use so little of it a bottle lasts for years! , it must be because there is nothing else like it.
@@gin9991At one point I had a bottle so old it had no 'best by' date! 😂
A big owner here in Cyprus imported Amican chocolate that was his biggest mistake it never sold it was so bad
Twinnings is the best tea the same with Porter ans sherry was mix in Bristol also the Cream
@adventuresandnaps Worcester, Massachusetts, is pronounced locally as "Wusta" from which you could get "Wusta-sheer" sauce. I hope this helps.
@@ericrabinowitz6390
It's probably better to use 'WOOS-ta-SHUR', which is closer to the pronunciation than SHEER! And when pronouncing 'most' British county names ending in SHIRE it's the same... So Derbyshire becomes DAR-ba-SHUR, Gloucestershire becomes GLOS-ter-SHUR and Leicestershire becomes LES-ta-SHUR. It SHUR is your friend... 😎
Lee & Perrin is similar to Garum, a fermented fish sauce used in Phoenicia, ancient Greece, Rome, Carthage and Byzantium, with a base of fermented anchovies.
Indeed.
Patum pepperium is an English fermented anchovy relish. I'd assume tastes similar to garum.
British fridges aren't as big as Canadian fridges. Can't waste space with premixed jugs of juice. Tap water in the UK is usually cold enough, even in summer.
And tap water isn't laced with fluoride, unless you happen to live in Birmingham (and few other places I can't remember).
When I was a kid living in Shepherds Bush West London around 1966 a truck carrying tea chests (wooden boxes) of loose tea (Twinnings) overturned at shepherds Bush green, spilling the boxes of tea all over the road. I asked a policeman at the scene if I could take some of the tea. I ran back to our nearby house for a container and filled it with the Twinnings black tea. That container of free tea latest for ages. I guess things were different back in the 60s. It wouldn't be allowed today I guess.
Makes sense to pick up food. Not after it has been mashed into the ground! We food salvage people have some sense.
TWININGS-LASTED-TRY READING (PROOF READING) WHAT YOU PUT,BEFORE PUTTING IT......
@@ronburden7236 Oh dear, did I upset the grammar police? How sad.
@@kevdenn Just tell the grammar police that posting in Capital Letters is the same as shouting at a person?
I thought from the title that this video was going to be something about those grocery items that live at the back of the cupboard for years, only getting thrown out when you move house!
But this was a great little History lecture!
The Foxes Jam 'N' Cream biscuit is the 3rd most essential supply in our house ( behind goat's milk, and coffee, if you're interested - for reasons too personal to go into here). During Lockdown I had friends bringing me packets of them for weeks when my usual supermarket had no deliveries!
Pronunciation guide:
Batley is pronounced 'Batt -ly'.
Americans(and Canadians) always have trouble with 'Worcestershire'. You nearly had it when listening to the guide....but the first part is 'wooss' (as in 'book' ) rather than 'worse'
Glosstersher
Cadbury all the way!!!!
Or forget wostesresxhire sauce just get Hendersons it easier to say a comes from gods country
I’ll give you credit for drinking goats milk, for me it tastes like a barnyard 🤮
So did I 😂 I'm pleased it's not just me.
@@geoffpriestley7310Henderson's Relish is nice, but the two things are different enough to both earn a place in the cupboard.
@@ange1098 I agree it used to smell and taste like goats cheese, but these days commercially available goats milk is indistinguishable from cow's milk. We use it for medical reasons rather than taste anyway.
Great video, as a Brit I had no idea about much of the content, thanks! Although when I saw the title I thought it might be about the contents of my fridge... I tend to ignore the 'Best By' dates and only throw stuff away when there are furry bits developing... 😁
Same here- found a tin from 2007 in my cupboard a while ago, I’ve convinced myself it time-travelled there 🤣
..as Bill Bailey is sometimes said to say.. *"Satan's furry jam-hats!"*
Actually, most of us, especially those over a certain age, know just how old much of our food is.
If you ever have a cold, make yourself a hot (original recipe) vimto as it not only tastes nice , it also soothes your throat.
You do have to make it stronger than you would normally have with cold water.
The best version of Vimto is from about 20 years ago, before they forced aspartame on every single version. Now it all tastes like pesticide.
The ‘sugar tax’ rules have a lot to answer for. Now the only cordials I can drink are Bottle Green or Rocks and the only carbonated drink is red Coke. I miss Ribena so much (except I bought some when I went to Kenya this year where it still has no artificial sweeteners).
I bought an Middle Eastern version of Vimto in the Arab shop. It is so much nicer. Full sugar.
tartrazine! Yum
@@netherherenorthere1000 Yeah i hate the taste of stevia blerghhhh ruins the taste of all the pop it's in :-/
I adore the taste of aspartame.
Thanks for this video. I once met a Colour Scientist who worked for Cadburys. She said that at any one time Cadburys were pursuing several court cases around the World to protect their exclusive right to use the particular shade of mauve associated with the inner, metallic wrapper of Cadburys Dairy Milk.
When I visited Cadbury World in Bournville, Birmingham, years ago, railings around the car park were painted in that distinctive shade of mauve, which was instantly recognizable.
Just to blow your mind a little further... the recipe for Worcestshire sauce is based on garam, which is a fermented fish sauce that was widely used back in the *ancient Roman times.*
Theres a nursery rhyme "Doctor Foster went to Gloucester", that should give you a hint on pronounciation!
But not the spellng of "pronunciation" 🙂
Just always great videos with a great presentation. Always brings a smile to my face. One of the very few channels that I keep on coming back to ! 😊
Thanks so much!
Vimto, the real version not the pink one, was very much a northern drink right through to the 80s.
Hi as a Brit with a lot of Scottish and Canadian ancestry and the guy who invented the concept of TH-cam I'm ticking a lot of demographics for this video. Having grown up here I kind of take for granted that most food brands have been around for a long time. This is mostly because large scale industrialisation was a British phenomenon. Leeds and Manchester had the textile mills, Worcester had Lea & Perrins York was a railway and Army town that also specialised in Chocolate (we had both Rowntrees and Terry's here). Birmingham specialised in weaponry, Sheffield in steel.
Yes I did know about Samson and Lyles but those aren't flies, they're bees. The legend is about how he finds honey in the lion's corpse but it's illegal so he gives a riddle as a way to hide his crime.
3:18 But isn't that because the average fridge in North America is about the same size as a typical studio flat here in the UK ? We can't afford the shelf space !
Are food is far fresher, American food is absolutely loaded with preservatives. It's to extend shelf life.
Have you found out that FRY'S made the first formed Chocolate bar... In 1847👍 and they were bought out by Cadbury in 1919 😎
Fry, Rowntree, McIntosh, Cadbury were all Quaker families that worked together, rather than competing. They apprenticed the youngsters in their families with other Quaker businesses to mix experience.
Yup, Fry's mint cream is the first and still produced solidified chocolate product in the World. Clever man Fry, he must of realised the bitter chocolate would take time for people to get used to so he added a mint cream in to balance it for people not yet addicted to chocolate.
Fantastic video, Alanna. I always love to learn something new. 👍
Thank you for your work. I really enjoy them all. Keep going. Keep up the good work.
I occasionally watch a channel called Ghost Town Living. The thing that amazes me is how many UK food containers/bottles he's dug up because this place (Cerro Gordo) is literally an old silver mining town in the mountains in California. Just getting up and down from there would have been a task let alone bringing supplies through the desert around the hills. They seemed to like their Lee & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce. BTW we have Mr Freeze ice pops here too.
My mum still makes traditional fruit cakes (complete with mum-edited amounts of booze added….🥳🥴), Lyles Black Treacle is one of the ingredients. Such an evocative smell when they’re in the oven, regular fruit cakes without this particular ingredient just don’t smell right! The black treacle tins have the same imagery but in red, there’s no mistaking the branding it’s such a beautiful design.
(Whenever mum was baking and I’d have friends round they’d just stand in the kitchen, I admit now I was really lucky to grow up with a baker)
You should look at Britain's oldest companies in general haha. The royal mint has been a company since 887 AD if my memory serves me right
Do they still make mints.
I go to Dunster Mill to collect my flour. It’s fun to watch the wheat being ground and poured into the bag. I think the mill is from the 1700’s, it uses water wheels so very eco friendly.
Fun fact... Cadburys isn't even no where near the oldest chocolate in the country. The original chocolate bar was created in Bristol and it's called Fry's, Fry's were the first in the world to create the chocolate bar. Cadbury later bought Fry's.
J. S. Fry & Sons, Ltd., better known as Fry's, was a British chocolate company owned by Joseph Storrs Fry and his family. Beginning in Bristol in the 18th century, the business went through several changes of name and ownership, becoming J. S. Fry & Sons in 1822. In 1847, Fry's produced the first solid chocolate bar. The company also created the first filled chocolate sweet, Cream Sticks, in 1853. Fry is most famous for Fry's Chocolate Cream, the first mass-produced chocolate bar, which was launched in 1866, and Fry's Turkish Delight, launched in 1914
Oh how I wish they still made the Fry’s Five Centres.
Hershey's owns the rights to Cadbury's in the USA. As for the rest of the world, Kraft bought Cadbury's in the 1980s. It was later spun off, along with Nabisco, into Mondelez International in the 2010s.
@@dougbrowning82I know... But thanks for the info ☺️
First of all, loving the "glasses free" look, Alanna. Fascinating history lesson. Thank you. I knew one or two of them, but it was great to learn about the others. Xx
Got to be honest, I'm struggling to get used to the glasses-free look. I feel Alanna should do at least one video a month with fake glasses on!!! Love the output though! How about Stones ginger wines 1740! Or Tunnocks 1890?!
Batley is Bat-lee, sounding more like Bat-leh in local speak (I've family there).
I live in Carlisle where an even older biscuit company is. Carr's of Carlisle, commonly called Carr's. Carr formed his first bakery and factory in 1831 and received his first Royal Warrant in 1841.
By 1885 when Carr died, they were making 128 varieties of biscuit.
As far as I'm aware, Carr's biscuit factory is the only McVities factory with a name
Love this video, full of things I didn't know, don't really need to know but now I do know I have a deep proud.
Excellent video. Educational and entertaining. As you mentioned we don't realise how old some of our popular products are. But Yeah.... I want to eat Biscuits and chocolate now... So thanks for that 😁
When it comes to biscuits I must be a McVities (1830) man, digestives, Jaffa cakes, rich tea biscuits, hob nobs. I didn’t realize that until I started to think about the biscuits I grew up with.
Golden syrup on a warm Yorkshire pudding makes a fantastic afters . Many of the Victorian confectioners were Quakers .
When I was a child every corner sweetshop used to make their own Vimto ice-lollies which sold for a penny, or twopence for the larger size. In those days there was only the original flavour.
There's also Trebor Mints 1907, Marmite 1902, Bovril 1889, Henderson's relish 1885, Quiggin's Kendal Mint Cake 1880 etc.. Nicholson Dry Gin 1736 (not quite a food though) We are just old
Mmm! Kendal Mint Cake. I love the stuff.
Colman's Mustard 1814
Always amuses me how upset Sheffield people get if you say that Henderson's is a rip off of Lea and Perrins (which it 100% is, because it's a later product and it's got all the same ingredients apart from the anchovies - they even did the Aldi thing and put it in a similar bottle.) Nice for vegetarians, anyway.
Gin is food as far as I'm concerned.
I absolutely love Worcestershire sauce. And use it all the time.
I wonder if it is all so fascinating to you because some of what we think of as just getting a bit old, is older than your home country. I have lived in houses that were built before Columbus Discover America, and where I live, many places are hundreds of years older, so something that is just 2 or 300 years old, isn't really considered old.
Yes, I always enjoy telling my American collegues that I was christened in a church that is older than any structure in America (except native american adobe buildings), and that this church is considered to be comparatively modern, only being late mediaeval. Old ones are Norman and a thousand years old.
Such a good video, makes you think! Thank you 😍
Thomas Lipton opened his first shop in 1871 in Glasgow.He went on to develop Lipton’s tea.
I went to Art College in Batley ( pronounced Bat Lee ) the art college was very close to the biscuit factory, If the wind was blowing the right way the sickly sweet smell was all pervasive
I went to nursing college next to Rowntree in York. During fermentation it was horrible. The smell was truly awful.
Dabtac? Yeah I worked at Fox's. It's surprising how quickly you get used to the smell and just don't notice it anymore. Noseblind
I know what you mean, one night I had to catch a train from Welwyn Garden City while the wind was blowing from the Shredded Wheat factory, my Gawd did that make me hungry.
Lovely vid! I think I'll enjoy Fox biscuits, Cadbury and Twinning Tea more now. 😊
Really excellent! So interesting. Thanks so much Alannah.
You surprised me more than I was expecting, I must say, Thank you!
You need to get Scotland and sample their products. Such as Haggis, black-pudding, Cullen Skink, Walkers Shortbread, 🤤
I hope she sees this!
Its from this channel that I came across Walkers shortbread
Cullen skink - sounds a bit fishy to me😊 as a Scottish chef.All the best to you and yours. Rab
Most of us are aware how old these foods are, and are proud of the fact. All good things stand the test of time
Enjoyed that one Lass thank you!
Fascinating - I learned many things, despite being born in Britain *mumble* years ago. But I must mention your accent. It sounds lovely to my ear. The way you pronounce ‘“West Yorkshire” is your best London accent yet 😀
As someone has already said, it's pronounced Bat- ly. I used to work around the corner from the factory and I failed my first driving test outside the bloody factory. You could also buy huge bags of broken biscuits really cheap.
Still can. I stop by the factory shop quite often
I used to love sitting with a spoon eating black treacle straight from the tin 😁
Use the children's nursery rhyme - Dr Foster went to Gloucester in a shower of rain..
Making Gloucester rhyme with Foster.
I saw a picture of Shackletons expedition hut and to my surprise recognised half the brands on his food shelf
Alanna the way you were trying to pronounce Worcestershire sauce tickled me! My American gf who lives in Maine pronounces Worcestershire sauce very oddly too 😆 It is indeed a very strange word
Cadbury for sure Alanna - Galaxy is overly sweet for me. Also, the Cadbury dark chokkie, 'Bournville' is a model village created by Cadburys for their employees to enjoy 🙂
I just imagine Mr Naps giggling in the background as Alana tries to pronouce "Worcestershire" while refusing to help :)
...and getting "The Look" (ie the death stare) for his troubles!
You might want to check out BIBBY company that made that barge, founded in 1807.
The Tunnocks Bakery in Scotland founded in 1850's. Famous for Teacake and Caramel Wafer.
Fun fact. The Tunnocks Tearoom in Uddingston used to keep a Myna Bird which greeted the Ladies with a cheery "Hello" but 1980's school kids taugh it swear words and it had to be re-located.😂😂
Love the history lessons and a few pointers on pronunciations "bat-lee" is the town in Yorkshire, and it's wuster-sher sauce and Gloster-sher, you can't beat a good bar of Dairy Milk, unfortunately I usually have to buy the biggest bar and eat it all in one go.
When I was a child I loved Vimto, it was my favourite drink. Worcestershire Sauce is always added to my Sunday gravy, also to a good Chile or Italian. You have done great research and taught me a lot about products I use regularly.
Worcestershire sauce lights up any savoury sauce due to the MSG content it gets from the anchovies.
Hi Alanna, another entertaining & extremely factual video👏. As a native of Worcestershire, I think I qualify for the correct way to pronounce this beautiful English cathedral town & county. It's Wusta-Shu. As far as the amazing Lea & Perriins sauce, a good cook will pronounce it Worcester sauce (definitely drop the shire) just listen to Marco Pierre White or Ramsay pronounce it lol.
Marco Pierre ...... we must bow to his pronunciation of English?
As a Midlander but also one that was taught received pronunciation I'd say "Wooster-sheer" but yes, "Wooster" is what we would tend to use.
Love watching you discover all these things we take for granted 😁
As a child there was always a tin of Lyle's golden syrup in the house with a bottle of Camp Coffee. Originally Camp Coffee was sold as a cheap and convenient instant "coffee" of its day that could be carried around in army rations, but as it was made largely from chicory it made horrible coffee as a drink. Now it's marketed as coffee extract for baking, etc. It's been around since 1876 and was produced by Paterson & Sons Ltd in Glasgow.
That's a weak-ass Vimto you mixed up right there! 😂
Coloured water 😂😂
@@holydiver73 Yeah, I thought it looked a bit weak, too. A 5:1 mix is about right, IMO.
Chocolate was invented by the Fry family in Bristol. Their first Chocolate was Frys Chocolate cream, a wonderful bar still available today.
I had one the other day and it was tiny !!!!!!
That must have been a shock to the Inca's and all the other people who drank and ate chocolate before Fry's
@@DaveF. they did not eat it , they only drank it . Its the Europeans that made it into a edible. Namely the English.
@DaveF. From memory - Fry's are credited with the invention of the chocolate bar, ie eating chocolate, over Cocoa or drinking chocolate, which, yes had been around for centuries (Fry's were a cocoa producer, as were Cadbury.. both Quaker families keen to promote drinking chocolate as a virtuous alternative to the 'vices' of Coffee and Alcohol.
In the spirit of all such things, it was discovered by accident. Unfortunately, however, they didn't come up with the conching process which makes a chocolate bar smooth, and the fondant 'cream' inside the bar was there to make up for the gritty texture of the chocolate they coated it with. Conching was invented by the Swiss, and eating chocolate became the next big thing.
@@johnd6487 the Swiss had to make it one at a time by hand , the English mass produced it first . And it's been called into doubt about the Swiss doing it first .
Great and informative video ✌
Oldest brewery in the UK is Shepherd Neame (another word to try to pronounce!) which is at least going back to 1698.
I did not know Vimto was originally Vimtonic.
There was quite a big anti-drink movement in the UK at that time and also people were rather malnourished and had a poor diet. So rather than have (bad) alcohol it was likely that people were drawn to an non-alcoholic drink that was seen as a giving you energy (back then energy was called vim) rather like we have Red Bull now.
May I ask if you did this video just to eat all the good food? 😂 love it
I believe there is a box in the Twinings office in London where the salesmen collecting samples of tea could deposit some money ‘To Insure Promptness’. It’s where we get the word ‘tip’ (meaning gratuity). If they had spelled it correctly on the box (ie Ensure) then we would be tepping our waiters today.
In Twinings' early days, "insure" and "ensure" were essentially synonyms. The distinction between those words is slightly more modern than the company, and they share the same etymology. (Although, I don't know when this perhaps-apocryphal story about the first tip jar is said to have taken place.)
They tep their waiters in Seth Efrica to this day!
Your pronunciations are hilarious 🤣 Love it 👍
Omg love you so much! Hello from a Kiwi!😊
Whilst I love pronouncing it the way it's spelt, it's normally called 'wooster' sauce.
Black treacle probably arrived in England with the Norman conquest in 1066. There are a few pubs called "The Treacle Mine". This apparently dates back to the English civil war 1642-1651, when people would bury their valuable treacle ahead of an occupying army, who would then search for it by digging. As well as a foodstuff, treacle had medicinal uses.
The Pub I used to pop into post Uni in Sheffield was in a building built in c. 1475 called Old Queens Head (not been a pub that long though). Really old building in the middle of Sheffield, all old beams etc (mind you this was 30+ years ago :) so not sure what it is like now ).
I used to be at college just down the road from the Twinings shop, so used to pop in there for tea on a regular basis. Worth a visit if you get the chance. Their vintage darjeeling was my favourite, but they don't make it any more 😢
Hi Alanna,bought some davidstow cheese on your recommendation and you are right it's bloody lovely, stay happy,safe and healthy everyone ✌️
ahh so glad to hear you like it!! it's one of my favourites still ☺️🧀
I told her about it a very long time ago.
There is a similar alternative to Worcestershire Sauce (and tbh many of us just call it Lea & Perrins) called Hendersons Relish, from Sheffield. It's got the same kind of Umami taste, and you use it in similar ways. The main difference is that it doesn't have anchovies in it (which Worcestershire sauce does)
Also gluten free!
One of the best things to put Worcestershire sauce in is Caesar Salad, it's part of the original (and by far the best in my mind) recipe for it.. That's where the incorrect assumption of anchovies in a Caesar comes from, it's because the sauce is made from fermented anchovies (like Garum the old Roman sauce) .. so really Woosty sauce is also derived from a 2000 year old recipe, which is pretty old!
Fantastic research
If you visit the west of Scotland and ask for squash, you'll probably get blank looks (depending on the age of the people you're with!). When I was a kid it was diluting juice, and the only reference to squash you'd ever see was 2 weeks a year when Robinsons were advertising during Wimbledon.
Thanks for the Scotland shout-out! 😎
Fellow West Coaster who was born in the mid 70’s and I totally agree with everything you said here. I’d also add that cordial was only ever used for either really posh diluting juice (that generally pretty much doubled the price by putting that word on the label) or period dramas that would referring to a homemade cordial…although my Mum used to buy a medicine sized bottle of something called cordial wine every year and you boiled its contents with litres of water and a load of sugar. It was non-alcoholic and part of the ritual of putting the Christmas tree up. Once it was all decorated the living room would be lit only by the fairy lights and the glow from the fire and we’d all eat warm mince pies and have a small glass of cordial wine…sorry, I went off on quite the tangent there.
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Isn't mulled wine basically non-alcoholic when prepared correctly due to the alcohol boiling off? BTW Lemon Barley Water from Robinson's rocks, one squash to rule them all. Another BTW, I have fond memories driving around the west coast of Scotland (been all over the country over the years), some fabulous roads and probably the best place if you want to look north and see giant oil tankers being tossed around like twigs.
We used to call it dilutable juice (pretty similar) when I was younger, growing up in north east England. Squash is getting more common now though.
@@lynnejamieson2063yeah, cordial was only used to describe posh stuff here too.
But, don't all Scots drink Irn Bru? Was staying at a hotel near Loch Lomond and all the chambermaid's trolleys had large bottles of Irn Bru. No cola or lemonade or water
I heard there were four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire... (Beatle's reference lol) Loved this video, very interesting and and informative! Thank you!
very small holes though.
So interesting thank you. I did know some of those facts but certainly not all 🙂 enjoyed that
We pronounce it wooster sauce. There are silent letters in it.
If you like golden syrup spread it on bread then spread clotted cream on top!