Americans Try Sweet Scottish Snacks - Irn-Bru 1901, Shortbread & More!
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In this video we try Scottish snacks for the first time! Join us as we taste test a variety of Scottish sweets and treats. These snacks were sent to us directly from Scotland and they were so delicious. We're a bit jealous of the quality of these items, but feel blessed that we were finally able to try some Scottish foods.
We were able to try Irn-Bru 1901 and it was so much better than the regular version. The Scottish shortbread may have been the best we've ever tasted and the fudge, tea cakes and other items were all incredible. We definitely look forward to trying other Scottish snacks in the future.
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who else shouted NO! when she cut the teacake! love it.
Everyone did!!!
There are 2 ways to eat a Tunnock's teacake. You either eat the whole thing all in one bite, or you bite the marshmallow off the top then dunk the biscuit base in your tea.
Me!!!!😂
Don’t cut the tea cake in half! 🤦🏻♂️ bite the marshmallow off 1st. It’s the only way.
Yup! 😂😂
You need to try tunnock’s caramel wafers next time
They tried them a few weeks back, that's why they know the name
I have always liked Tunnocks wafers and teacakes and I am from Hampshire UK. Sad thing is I can't find anyone who sells the plain chocolate variety. Had a teacake tonight - have to limit nyself lol
And my favourite Tunnocks caramel logs
I'm pretty sure waitrose and big Morrison's have the dark/plain chocolate teacakes ☺
Had my mind blown once someone told me to bite small bits off each end and use the wafer as a straw for tea, then once you feel the tea hit your mouth shove the whole wafer in 🤯🤤
In Glasgow (and maybe other parts of Scotland), "ginger" is another word for fizzy drinks! Probably because of the popularity of Irn Bru here😁
Yeah, but if im saying what i want to drink then I think most of us would say fizzy juice, if we didnt specify the type.
I asked a mate to get me a bottle o ginger from the van he actually came back with ginger beer he had no idea why I started pissing myself laughing Hed not long moved to Glasgow from Wiltshire lmao
Love the way Steve starts 'improving' an 1890 recipe, after half a tea cake.
Then it would be an American invention!
@@irene3196and it would taste terrible 🤷🏻♂️
My Dad once had a job inside the Tunnocks factory fixing one of their machines. As he was leaving, the security guard gave him 200 Tunnocks Tea Cakes as a Thankyou
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@SmearCampaignUK He'd eaten a fair few of them by the time he got home .
Lol.... work colleagues wife made a tray of snowballs for the crew, plus some six additional for the boss to take home for his three kids.
When it became apparent that only three of the six made it the twenty miles home he aquired a new moniker for a while.
But you can’t just eat one 😂
We’d accept these as payment, or any reason, really! They were delicious.
Tunnock's is by far some of the best in the UK. And their caramel wafers are lovely. If anyone out there could send you some, you'd enjoy them as they aren't overly sweet, but still scrumptious. Greetings from London
I'm sure I saw them here already. Now Snowballs.....😂😂😂
I grew up on all these foods. I'm so pleased you enjoyed them. You would love Tunnocks snowballs and Scottish butter tablet. 💙💙
My Scottish Aunt once told me the only reason flour is used in shortbread is to hold the butter and sugar together.😃
About right
Semolina flour is goot in shortbread
I would try it if I could get some goot.😃@@pamelaadam9207
@@pamelaadam9207 I decided to make some myself once. The recipe I found used rice flour. It gave it a very authentic texture. You knw, that slight grittiness?
Yes candy floss (UK version of cotton candy) think that tourist Edinburgh stuff is just boiled sugar; like other rock such as Blackpool Rock, again for tourists.
Mmm, Tunnocks Tea Cakes! Everyone's fave. Never last long in our house!
The shortbread fingers can REALLY soak up tea. Leave it in in the tea longer and can suck the tea out of it 😁
yes need to be dipped in tea.. i just left a comment saying the same
With some shortbread fingers you wouldn't have any tea left in the cup after the first finger :)
Goes well dipped in coffee too
That’s gross….. 🤮
Now we need to know if the teacakes lasted more than an hour after this video.
All us brits know once you get a taste for them the whole box is eaten in one sitting 😂😂😂
😂😂 My guess is they didn't last 30 mins
Oh they are deadly, you fly through the box before you know what's happening. I genuinely think the only improvement would be turning a six-pack into an eight.
Lol they are moreish to the point that U don't even realise you have eaten them all and that's ok to over indulge sometimes
Doubt it tea cakes are f@#king tasty.
Got to have the tea, with them. Lol
Mrs Tilly is a personal friend of mine (her name is not mrs Tilly though lol) She started making tablet in a small village in Scotland called Tillicoultry (pronounced tillycootry) All us local to the area in Clackmannanshire call it Tilly hence the company name. She outgrew her kitchen then a small factory in Tillicoultry and she now has a much bigger factory in Larbert Scotland 🏴 Well done to my pal Elizabeth your hard work and dedication paid off 🥰
Steve and Lindsay should try Mrs Tilly’s tablet it’s 😍😋😋🥰
In Scotland we call carbonated drinks "fizzy juice" to differentiate from "diluting juice" btw all flavours are known as juice no matter if fruit flavoured or not 😂
Juice or ginger.
@@botticellirejectbotticelli2668definitely ginger.
@@botticellirejectbotticelli2668 ginger if you are from the lowlands round Glasgow and Edinburgh
The Ulster Scots call them minerals.
Yes ginger is definitely lowlands. For me it's always been juice. No matter the flavour. Deans, for me, makes the best shortbread. Glad you liked it. And yes, Edinburgh rock is vile 😂. All the best from 🏴
In the west of Scotland, we call soda, "Ginger" as in "I'm off to the shop to buy a bottle of ginger". Some Scots call it fizzy juice but I think that's an east coast thing.
Yea fizzy juice is defo an east coast thing. Dundee here.
Aye definitely called ginger in Glasgow 😂
Definitely Ginger ...Paisley Buddie here
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It would be a tin(not can) of fizzy juice in Dundee.
You should try the Iron Bru with vodka, for that authentic 16-year-old British youth experience 😂
Using Irn Bru as a mixer is sacrilege in Scotland
Its always a favorite for the morning afer a night out to cure the hangover
Never seen it used as a mixer, usually always for the hangover the next day
😂😂😂
Apparently the hangover isn't so bad if using irn bru as a mixer
It always gives me a laugh when someone from the USA pronounces "Pastilles"
Same 😅 lol
It is so annoying
Turns into French. Strictly speaking that is the correct pronunciation because it is a French word.
@@P5YcHoKiLLa Yes, it's actually us Brits who pronounce it incorrectly when we say "pastels"!
More like, 'pastols'
You should be trying the shortbread with a nice cup of tea with milk.
The best way to have it👍
I wouldn't ruin the shortbread taste
Or coffee.
@@mattsmith5421 it wouldn t ruin it , it would complement it.
Cutting open a teacake with a knife. I was losing myself, you need to just bite into it. That shel disintegration is part of the experience. And if you're mouth is large enough, you can inhale it whole. And then crush it in 1 go
I am an inhale and then squish it with the roof of my mouth person. My partner (swedish) looked at me like I was a monster when i ate a teacake whole.
Cutting that teacake gave me the fear! First time in my life I felt seriously anxious.😅
I eat the chocolate off, eat some of the mallow then munch the rest, it’s so good that I like to make it last.
Sophia laughing in the background just made it for me, she is such a joy ♥
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Lindsay looking particularly lovely today :) greetings from Devon, England!
You need to get hold of some Scottish Tablet. My mother used to make it herself and it's so goooood.
I'm addicted to tablet...everytime i go into a shop in Glencoe or Tyndrum i buy 10 bars of Tablet
I used to buy tablet from the ice cream van when visiting family in Glasgow, Scottish ice cream vans were epic. They did sweets, ice cream, you could get them to fill a tub and they’d fill your bottles of drink, the ice cream was superior too, are they still like that?
Scottish Tablet and Macaroon., The recipe in Ma Broons Cookbook for macaroon is first class.
We’re intrigued! 😂
I was waiting for them to try tablet and I'm from the US. Have never had it but love reading novels set in Scotland. It's often mentioned.
Irn Bru is the perfect Scottish hangover remedy!
Always keep a few cans in the fridge 😂
Rock is a special treat that is mainly sold by the seaside, it usually has writing down the middle with the place name for example "Blackpool"
It has been made for generation's, 1887 was when it was first made, and to watch it being made ( usually by hand ) is a skill in itself
You usually buy it to give to others when you come home from your holiday
Edinburgh rock is nothing like seaside rock. It’s a lot softer
When I was about 5, our neighbour went on holiday to Scotland and brought me back some Edinburgh Rock. I remember thinking it was like flavoured chalk (not that I'd ever actually eaten chalk 😄)!
@@kirsteneasdale5707 I would say Edinburgh rock is mostly for children . We always got a box in our stocking at Christmas from Granny who lived just outside Edinburgh.
@SmearCampaignUKyes nothing like "proper" rock. My great aunts used to buy the sort of rock they are trying when I was little. Didn't like it then and don't like it now
Yeah. I don't know many people who like Rock, and the ones who do would much rather something else over it.
Those teacakes are lush and people where im from (North East England) would mostly call it a can of pop.
Yeah we say can of pop where I am in the West Midlands too :)
In Scotland its a can of ginger
East Midlands and we’ve always said pop here 🙂
In north east scotland and as far as I can think everyone I know just call it fizzy juice I cant think of anything else that is used
“Pop” in Yorkshire as well.
Where I grew up, just along the coast from Glasgow, we’d call a sugary carbonated drink fizzy juice but in Glasgow they call it ginger.
Edinburgh Rock isn’t necessarily a tourist thing and certainly isn’t a gimmick. It’s just a Scottish sweet that’s been around since the first half of the nineteenth century, so being somewhat traditional it will have some options that are marketed towards tourists, just as shortbread, tablet and macaroon does…but that doesn’t make it a gimmick.
Shortbread is a traditional Scottish biscuit and has been around since about the twelfth century…so you could say that the bakeries have had a decent amount of time (almost a millennia)to get the recipe right. Weirdly when I first moved to England in the mid nineties, which was a time when most traditional Scottish foods and drink (other than whisky) weren’t really that readily available and so I met quite a few people who thought shortbread was only available at Christmas/New Year, as that was the only time of year that the English seemed to buy it, so there was more of it on the supermarket shelves.
Fudge in the UK in general tends to be vanilla. Chocolate, peanut butter or rum and raisin flavours (for example) would be classed as flavoured fudge and not really as common as just the plain vanilla stuff.
They may have only been around since 1956 but Tunnocks Teacakes are most definitely a Scottish institution but one in its original form (like you had) is loved all over the UK. You can actually get dark chocolate coated Teacakes and Caramel Wafers in Scotland. The base of a Tunnocks Teacake is shortbread, I think it’s either just softened by the Italian meringue or they are made to a specific softer recipe.
Oh and Burgh is the Scots spelling of borough and pronounced bu-rah, as in a municipal area.
I was waiting for the first try of the Tea cake😂😂😂
Everybody loves Teacakes, like everybody hates Twiglets😁
@@Temeraire101 I like twiglets 😂
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I love Twiglets but cant eat Teacakes , way way to sweet .
@@Temeraire101 I like both
@@animalian01 I actually like both myself, though not had Twiglets for a long time. I'm more referring to pretty much all US reactors opinions, usually say something like tastes like burnt twigs😁
Tunnocks snowballs are wonderful
Love, love Tunnock's snowballs, also Tunnock's carmel logs.
"Cunnocks ?" 😂 ...so close to breaking the internet there.😂😂
Shortbread biscuits you can't just eat one piece you end up eating them all
God that's the truth! I've had to ban them from the house!
Chocolate chip shortbread is the ultimate biscuit, nothing can ever top that off!
@@capastianluna8896 Chocolate-covered shortbread!
Millionare shortbread with chocolate and caramel has entered the chat@@capastianluna8896
Shortbread with a cup of tea😋💙🏴
The hat actually suits you Steve 👌🏼🎩
Golden Syrup Cake. (Hope you might try this)
Ingredients
100 g Butter or Margarine
50 g Caster Sugar
50 g Soft Brown Sugar
200 g Golden Syrup
200 g Self-raising Flour
1 Free-range Egg
150 ml Milk
2 tbsp Golden Syrup
Instructions
Pre-heat your oven to 160°c (140°c for a fan-assisted oven) and grease & line a 2lb loaf tin with grease-proof paper.
Place the butter, syrup and sugars into a medium pan and heat gently until the ingredients are just melted together, stirring occasionally. Once melted together, set aside and allow to cool for at least 10 minutes.
In a small bowl/jug, beat the milk and egg together. Set aside.
In a large bowl, sift the flour. Add the egg/milk mixture and the cooled syrup mixture and beat until combined and you have a lump free batter.
Pour the mixture into your pre-lined loaf tin.
Bake in your pre-heated oven for around 1 hour until golden on top and a skewer inserted comes out clean.
Leave to cool for 10 minutes before poking the cake all over with a skewer and spreading 2 tablespoons of golden syrup over the top.
Allow to cool completely before serving. For best results, leave the cake in the greaseproof lining & add a piece of extra greaseproof paper to the top, before wrapping in tin foil for a few days before serving. This will give a deeper flavour to the cake.
In the USA, Golden Syrup is called 'light treacle'.
@@wessexdruid7598good to know
when i was young.. and THINK OF THE SUGAR,, occasionally, my Mum would buy a Jamaica Ginger cake and warm some golden syrup, let down with a little water and make a drizzle out of it. We loved that for a pudding. We didn't have a pudding every day.. just weekends.
@@mariahoulihan9483Me too, with a little custard, yum. 😂
Shortbread is actually fairly easy to make, I used to do it with the kids, and make random shapes, and different food colouring etc. They just never lasted long in our house 😂😂
You need to try ..Tablet …I’m not a Scot but I was introduced to it in the highlands …I became addicted !!😂
Sounds like a drug! 😂
@@reactingtomyroots It's certainly addictive!
Glad you enjoyed your Scottish treats and I love the flat cap,
As well as the chocolate tea cakes, Tunnocks also make a biscuit/snack bar called Caramel Wafers (wafer biscuit layered with caramel and chocolate coated) and another called Caramel Logs (like the caramel wafer but also coated in toasted coconut 😊). They're just the best and quite divine! Then theres a biscuit called a snowball, marshmallow and coconut.
Lindsey makes me feel like I need to reevaluate myself. She’s always so good cutting things in half….she even cut a piece of fudge in half….and there’s me eating an entire box in one sitting and still looking for another snack afterwards
Once tablet and fudge is open it never needs a lid or a container it gets decimated especially homemade
Awwwww so glad u enjoyed the Scottish goodies we sent …ur faces tho eating edinburgh rock was funny..usually it’s kinda powdery once it melts in ur mouth…and nooooo u never cut a tea cake lol…just bite right in lol..we love them so glad u do too xx
The flat cap suits you Steve! 🙂👍
Or a bunnet as we’d call it here in Scotland.
I holiday in Scotland every year, and always come away with Shortbread. Glad you love it too! Golden Syrup…yes, yes, yes!!
I’m having such a nostalgic journey with this video. I’m Australian , but my grandmother was proudly Scottish and I have fond memories of many of these products. Grandma mostly made a lot of these things and I spent many happy hours helping her make tablet, scones and tea cake to mention a few.
Don’t forget toffee cups ,
My mum worked at Paterson shortbread factory in the 1980's . I still eat it today, its the best shortbread in Scotland.
Try Lidl shortbread fingers then get back tae me cheers 🏴
I worked in Pattersons biscuit factory in 2005 for a few yrs
Had a summer job there making the shortbread mixes up. All natural ingredients with huge heavy blocks of butter .
@@JH-fv1gq i worked the hopper 😂👌
In Scotland (near Glasgow) all fizzy drinks are called "ginger" or "fizzy juice".
Shortbread is a luxury, made with butter. British fudge tends to be vanilla flavour, unless you get artisan fudge who do many flavours. Fudge is made with Cream, butter and sugar. Southern fudge tends to be made with clotted cream, but it is all yum. Tunnocks also make chocolate covered caramel wafers which are also really good and I ate them 70 yrs ago when I was a child. Shortbread is so easy to make at home, just 3 ingredients. My son is Type 2 diabetic and loves Irnbrew so the sugar free one is the only one he can have now. The old country really knows how to make good eats 😂 💗💗💗👵🏴🌹🌹🌹
In Glasgow we call all bottles of carbonated juice ( A bottle of Ginger )
Shortbread dunked in a cup of Tea is AMAZING
I need to send Dandelion and Burdock!👌🏻😃
Someone has sent us some! We have a bunch of drinks waiting in the wings to try :)
D&B is the most similar drink to root beer which they will be familiar with
Did I just hear the hook of the Airwolf theme played on bagpipes during the first shortbread section? 😄
Steve’s reaction to the rock was hilarious! 🤣 God help him if someone from a coastal place sends him a stick of rock. It’s gorgeous but looks like he’d be too delicate to try it
It was hilarious 😂
Wait till he tries tablet.
@@lem01uk haha he'd die! 🤣
@@traceys8065 my thoughts exactly. I love Edinburgh Rock.
@@lem01uk yes the pink one is my favourite 😋
That shortbread goes well with a cup of tea ☕️
Edinburgh rock, you have to let it melt in your mouth
I haven’t had Edinburgh rock in years. I used to love it. You're absolutely right about letting it melt in your mouth.
I think its the cream of tartar that makes it so smooth. I wish I had dome here now lol
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Lmao, they *are* really good. Can tell why the Scottish love them.
We call soft drinks ‘juice’ in Scotland. Even soda, fruit juice and all the in betweens
Shortbread is flour, butter and sugar, and that’s it. To make it is easy, just divide the quantities by half each time,
example 12oz flour, 6oz butter, 3oz sugar
Yeah but make sure your hands and the room is cold, last thing you want is the butter to melt 😅
@SmearCampaignUK some people do add it, some don’t
If you haven't tried it Cadburys do Finger of Fudge which is a fudge finger covered in chocolate. "A Finger of Fudge is just enough" 🎶
Love it, as a child I used to think they were singing "it's full of peppery goodness not Cadbury's goodness"
@Jinty92 me too! 😂
The name for soft drinks depend where you live, but 'Pop' is probably the most used.
Not in Scotland pal we just call it juice pop is an England thing
@@Zenbloke Do you know what's also a thing? It's called punctuation. I was trying to figure out what juice pop was but then I mentally added the proper punctuation and magically your sentence started to make sense.
@@ZenblokeThat's probably why they said 'probably the most used' indicating they could be wrong and that there are places where it isn't.
@@Zenbloke’Pop’ is an English name for carbonated drinks but ‘juice’ is more specifically a Glasgow / Lanarkshire term rather than Scotland wide.
‘Ginger’ was what most people used to call it because Ginger Beer was the original (and at one time, only) fizzy drink available here.
@@kirsteneasdale5707 I'm from Edinburgh & I also call it juice or fizzy juice, I thought ginger/gingies was a Glasgow term I also thought it was specifically for the glass bottles
I was born and brought up in Rutherglen. It's known to be the oldest Royal Burgh in Scotland. Couple of things, the "fudge" is called Tablet in Scotland and has a much different texture than NA fudge. My sister-in-law makes the best Tablet and it is just made with caster sugar, butter and condensed milk but if you don't get the temperatures right it just ends up a big lump. I make Shortbread and have been told it is the best and all that is traditionally in it is butter, sugar and flour. So 1 cup of flour, 1/2 cup of butter and 1/4 cup of sugar per round or square shaped. The trick is in a low oven temperature and the baking time as it doesn't come out the oven hard and then you let it cool and it hardens up to hopefully a crumbly, buttery party in your mouth. Make sure you score the shortbread before it cools so that it can easily snap apart. Anything other than those three ingredients is, to me, not shortbread but a cookie. I agree about the Edinburgh Rock, it is far too sweet. I much prefer "Blackpool Rock" which is a long roll of hard candy in red and white. Mairi
You've got to beat and beat and beat the tablet or it doesn't set right either! I had an amazing family recipe for tablet years ago that I made all the time, but the dogs chewed up the old notebook it was in, I never managed to find another recipe as good - if your SIL would allow you to share her recipe please please post it here!
In Scotland, the generic name for soda is juice. As a teenager, my husband had a Saturday job with the 'juice man', making home deliveries for the juice 😁
In Central Scotland all fizzy juice is commonly referred to as ’Ginger’ after Irn Bru, a bottle of ginger = bottle of fizzy juice
West Central Scotland, maybe as far east as Bathgate!
In Aberdeen and shire it's all ale
A bottle of skoosh in Glasgow schemes.😂
@@stormblooper you used to get a few pence when you took the empty bottle back to the shop... A gingie (pronounced jinji) equalled 20p 😂
@@dianeharvey5629it was 10p when I was wee, I used to go looking for them so I could get sweeties. Doing my bit for the planet since 1987!
dont confuse tea with tea...I know they sound the same and are spelled the same but they are not the same, that sounds stupid but tea is a drink, and tea is also a meal depending on what part of UK you come from. In the Welsh valleys we have breakfast in the morning, dinner is what you each around midday 1pm ish, then you have tea in the evening(this is a meal not a cup of tea). If you are a bit posher then you would have breakfast, lunch and Dinner. So Tunnocks tea cakes are designed to be eaten as part of your tea(the meal tea). Just to confuse things even more when you get even posher you will still have breakfast, lunch and dinner but you might also include an afternoon tea to keep you going until dinner. Now afternoon tea is not just a cup of tea, and is not a full meal that my family would eat at teatime ie about 6 or 7pm. afternoon tea is just a "light" snack of sandwiches and cakes and a cup of tea. Easy really I honestly cannot see why anyone would be confused...
Tea can even mean break too, doesn't necessarily means your drinking tea, often times tea is used for a break, hence lunch is often called a tea break or tea for short!
Afternoon tea is not a "light" snack, I come away stuffed after having an afternoon tea.
What a lovely couple you both are❤. Lynn from Scotland ❤
Love the Scottish theme tune 👌 Tea cakes are the best love them.
There is the Scottish Rock & the Scottish Fudge, but you can also get the Scottish Tablet,
Tablet (taiblet in Scots) is a medium-hard, sugary confection from Scotland.
Tablet is usually made from sugar, condensed milk, and butter, which is boiled to a soft-ball stage and allowed to crystallise.
It is often flavoured with vanilla and sometimes has nut pieces in it.
Tablet differs from fudge in that it has a brittle, grainy texture, where fudge is much softer.
Well-made tablet is a medium-hard confection, not as soft as fudge, but not as hard as hard candy.
Commercially available tablet often uses fondant instead of the milk products.
This produces a slightly less granular texture compared to the traditional home-made tablet, and is supposedly easier to prepare on a commercial scale.
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Trying Edinburgh ROCK, 'Oh it's hard' lol I just bought a 10 pack of Tunnochs tea cakes to split with my mum. She didn't want them, 'oh well her loss!' lol
EDIT. How to eat a tea cake. crack the chocolate top, lick the creamy mallow and finish off eating biscuit.
Yeah, that's the only way to eat a teacake.
In the West of Scotland fizzy drinks are “Ginger” in the East, regardless of the flavour, it’s mainly “Lemonade”
I've lived in the east all my life and that's rubbish lemonade is lemonade we tend to call fizzy drinks by there actual name
@@leighandliam funny, I’ve lived in Edinburgh for sixty-six years, and when we moved here from Lanarkshire I had to get used to calling it “liminade” - but yes, I agree, there is a growing trend to call fizzy soft drinks by their generic names, but when generalising, it is still referred to as either lemonade, pronounced liminade, or fizzy juice…
For the true Brit experience you should be having a cuppa tea with the shortbread + Tunnock's.
Candy flosss -you're learning ;)
I'm a 46 year old, heavily tattooed, probably look like an Hell's Angel - but still those Tunnock's take me back to being a little boy and visiting my nan -
I feel nostalgic just watching you guys tuck in. Trick is though - all in the mouth in one go ;)
Lindsey - controversial, we might have to invade + defend the honour of Tunnocks.
I'm a type-1 diabetic + aspartane's horrible, sucralose or Stevia's a lot better - but... caution with Stevia - LAXATIVE!!!
Fizzy drink or pop.
Teacake - eat the top first, lick the marshmallow then eat the biscuit - everyone eats them differently
Fizzy juice or ginger- calling Irn Bru 'pop' is just sacrilege.
Tunnocks make other cakes and biscuits but when I was a kid our favourite was their Chocolate Snowballs, unfortunately I doubt that they would survive going through the postal system and arrive not squashed. When I was working at sea we used to ship pallet loads of all Tunnocks products including their Snowballs out to the Arabian Gulf states in refrigerated compartments of the ships - I always wondered how high the pilferage rate was by the time they arrived at the receivers!
I'm not sure there is a way to send snowballs through the postal system undamaged, nothing more disappointing than a flat smashed snowball!
Great reaction guys. The only way to eat a teacake is in one bite!
My neice and I used to have a competition to see how many we could cram in at once. I wouldn't recommend it. PS, she won. 4-3. We done the same with Jaffa cakes and polo mints. (lifesavers). Stupid thing to do, but she's very immature. And I'm really sensible!
You are absolutely correct. One bite, after being in the fridge for an hour or two. Rounded top goes in mouth first so the chocolate cracks, marshmallow bursts, and you've got your teeth in the right position to crunch the biscuit 😄
@@lovelyweeburd . Oh, that's the posh way to do it! lol
@@alfiekelly5914 what, putting it in the fridge?!? Hardly posh, any chocolate I have goes in the fridge.
@@alfiekelly5914 so, average 3.5 teacakes consumed by 2 folk in one mouthful each at the same time doesn't sound remotely decadent, but putting food items in the fridge is? Aye, jog on 😂😂
Soft drink/fizzy drink we usually say or we specify like coke, fanta, cherryade, sprite, tango so on 👍
Yummy, I love shortbread and the Tea Cakes. The drink I wouldn’t touch with a barge pole because of the ingredients.
Flat bru ... is a GREAT hangover cure !! And sad to say im old enough to remember the original bru !! Which is way better rhan 1901 !!
Thankyou for an enjoyable taste testing. You made us smile. 😀🏴
I love Tunnocks teacakes, also not a fan of Edinburgh rock (far too sweet). Tunnocks also make caramel wafers. Loganair is Scotland's airline, you did a reaction to their flight between Westray and Papa Westray. I saw a video of one of their longer flights to the south of England; all the passengers were offered a caramel wafer as the inflight snack - very Scottish.
In Wales we call fizzy soft drinks pop
In Yorkshire too.
And in the Midlands.
If you send someone to the shop for a can of pop what do you expect them to bring back?
@@elemar5 the flavour they asked for, obviously.
@user-ld6fr5tk9h lol
Good morning my favourite TH-cam couple! 😁
We call them fizzy drinks. When someone comes round we ask if they want a drink, and then specify what choices we have available, tea, coffee, hot chocolate, apple juice, coke, lemonade... ? We don't just say: do you want a fizzy drink? because not everyone likes every one.
Steve, the Tea cakes are for teatime, not just drunk with tea. Tea is a drink, but it's also a meal.
We generally have breakfast, lunch and dinner...lunch most often cold, dinner most often hot. But on Sundays (traditionally) it switches to breakfast, dinner and tea. Of course not everyone has a Sunday roast, and then again many people have a couple of roast dinners every week, it depends on the family. But teatime, like you've heard of a tea party, is usually sandwiches, cake, and maybe scones. Tea, is a light evening meal.
It was popular amongst the rich and noble during Victorian times, when it was encouraged that children should be seen but not heard. In rich homes the children, up to 12 years old, would spend most of the day in the nursery with the children's Nanny, and have tutors come to the house to teach extra subjects, such as reading, writing, maths, geography, nature studies, art, Bible study and one or more foreign languages, French and Spanish being the preferred, only due to history (war - treaty - another war - a firmer treaty - you still broke our trust! WAR! 😂) cos you know, we've had the odd battle or ten!
Generally the parents were too busy during the day, writing a couple of letters, or taking a stroll round the garden to be bothered by their children, because they were rushed off their feet...🙄 And they would never sit and eat a proper meal with their children. So generally the children would have a cooked lunch up in the nursery which worked as their school room/library/dining area/reading room/afternoon nap room etc.
Formal mealtimes for the adults would often have guests who were staying overnight, or just visiting for a meeting after dinner, so they didn't want their children making them look unrefined at the table. And so teatime became the children's evening meal before bath, supper and bed and was a much more relaxed meal eaten in the sitting room with all the family. The parents would see their children for maybe 2 hours, at 4pm, before Nanny whisked them away for their baths at 6pm. They might come downstairs in their nightgowns to kiss their parents goodnight, but that was about as much time as they spent together each day.
The parents would munch on a sandwich or two, and it would tide them over until their formal meal in the dining room at 8pm. Eventually all of these customs between rich and poor blended into the variety of mealtimes and foods eaten at those mealtimes, that we still have today. An ordinary family may eat pie and mash for their average evening meal, even on trays watching the telly in the front room! But if having guests over for dinner, then it's not unusual for them to lay the table, get out napkins and tablecloth and glasses, and serve 3 courses for them and their guest.
Most British children know all of these mealtimes and what foods to expect at each, and know how to lay the table accordingly by at least aged 8, if not much younger. And no we don't have ALL those mealtimes every day! We have 3 meals a day like most people, actually I only have one meal a day, but I live alone so can do what I please. In an ordinary day, a cup of tea served around 2-4pm is generally when people would nibble on biscuits, as it's a stop-gap between lunch and dinner - reminiscent of the Victorian teatime which served as a stop-gap for the adults.
These days afternoon tea (meal) is usually a treat for people, enjoyed by us occasionally, alongside tourists. Very few people have those formal lives of yesteryear anymore, except royalty and nobility, but even they are more relaxed about it. Restaurant menus btw serve, starters, (or starter course) mains, (or main meals) and pudding (or afters, or desserts... Pudding refers to the third course in this instance, and also refers to types of steamed cake puddings...but the third course Pudding is not the same as sweet puddings.)
We double up on a lot of word usage here! So remember to look at things such as tea cakes, as being the type of cake suitable for an afternoon tea, at least back in the old days. These days someone can munch through a box of six just while watching their favourite TV show! 😂 Not me, I don't like them.
Love to you all! 😘😘😘 xxxxx
Fizzy pop when I was a kid in the 90s and visited my grandparents our grandad used to say do you want some pop, when we asked what flavours they had he said red flavour green flavour brown flavour white flavour ect
Oooh gotta love those colours......of non specific flavour 😂
@@mattsmith5421I grew up in the '70's and we had a fizzy drink man in a van, that would drive round selling big bottles of fizzy drinks....all the children's favourites such as limeade, orangeade, cherryade, lemonade, Tizer, cream soda and COLA 🙄 (not real coca cola) 😂. I guess at the time those drinks were fairly new and generally pricey in the shops, because a lot of Mum's would stock up from him.
In our house, and in most of Scotland we used to have breakfast in the morning, dinner at mid day, and tea (or ‘high tea’ to give it its proper title) around 5.30-6pm, and supper before bed.
We have only changed to the English times of Breakfaat, lunch and dinner in the last 30 years of the 20th century because of the influence of the media.
When I was at school, my Grand Aunt who was born in 1894, used to come and cook for us while our parents were at work. We had porridge, coffee and / or toast for breakfast. At 12.30 when we came in from school, we had a full dinner of meat (mince, frying steak or rump stew) with veg (usually carrots) and tatties, usually followed by jelly and ice cream.
At teatime when we came home from school, we had high tea which would be something like a boiled egg and toast, followed by a biscuit, cake, scone or a Tunnock’s tea cake (nothing to do with English tea time). In the depths of winter, my aunt would make us dumpling (steamed pudding drizzled with golden syrup).
She was a great cook. She cooked for her widowed mother and sisters pre war, as they worked and she stayed at home. They sent her to Glasgow’s famous ‘Dough School’ (Queen Margaret’s College of Domestic Science) to learn how to run a house and cook.
I don’t like Tea cakes either, and I grew up in Uddingston where they are made.
@@tamielizabethallaway2413 we did too in 80s and early 90s got 12p back for returning the bottle to them lol
Rock/ rock candy is mostly sold in coastal towns all over Britain. Many people including me will have it after they have eaten and drunk everything else during a day trip. It works well to cut the taste of the salty things you have had. Also a toffee apple does the same thing.
Edinburgh rock is completely different from say Blackpool rock. Totally different beast!
Scotland make THE BEST biscuits and cakes. 😋
Im Scottish and that’s a lie 👍🏻
The French make the best cakes, says this Scot.
Cringer alert! triggered by a biscuit..LOL@@ianmcconnell12
You need to have a cup of Scottish Blend tea with your tea cakes and shortbread
I recently discovered Marks & Spencer Salted Caramel tea cakes. They have more flavour than Tunnock's ones though are a wee bit smaller. Great with tea.
With respect, please don't ever again mention the two in the same sentence. 😂😂😂😂
@@isking1715 Not sure which side of the fence you're on there.
@@auldfouter8661 Oh I'm a Tunnock's fan all day long. Can't eat anything salted caramel at all. You enjoy your treat though, each to their own. 😄
When irn-bru first changed the recipe they stopped making the original. Cans of the original left in shops was so in demand people were paying crazy prices for it. 1901 was then produced as a limited edition. Due to its popularity they continued to make it and you can now buy both in shops. A 2 litre bottle of the new 1 is £1.49, a 750 ml 1901 is £2.15.
It kind of reminds me of the new Coke debacle in the 80s, good you can get both but I need to drink sugar free as I’m diabetic.
In Glasgow soft drinks are called Ginger, In Edinburgh are called fizzy juice, England (north east) call it pop,
Background on me, I’m North East English married to a Scottish Lady living in Scotland, working at a (Semi) HGV truck driver in the UK
Skoosh as well.
You need a hot drink with Shortbread. Dunk it in tea for as long as you dare...
For as far back as I can remember soda = fizzy drink
The Barr's company started in Falkirk and that's where my grandmother was born in 1896, She knew the original Barr's folk. The usual term for a soft fizzy drink back then was ginger and you'll still hear older people call it that today.
Shortbread is at it's best if it's warmed in the oven first and served with a cup of tea.
There's a saying about foul winter weather in Scotland - " Just a day for cups of teaandd shortbread".
As a Scot... the term we use for fizzy juice of any kind is ginger... Mostly because Irn Bru is a ginger colour and its our national drink
Why is Steve dressed like Jamie from mythbusters 😭
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Love the way they pronounce pastilles..
I defy anyone to bite into a Tunnock's tea cake and not get the mallow on the end of their nose/on their chin/on their fingers. Scrumptious. Only a few people have the Irn Bru recipe, so the pastilles would be flavoured as close as the makers could get to the real thing. I was disappointed Scottish Tablet wasn't there - it's like a hard fudge (but better) and almost pure sugar, so you probably would not have liked it. The Edinburgh Rock was in touristy packaging - there's a ginger flavour which I love.
Hi both, home made ALL butter shortbread is good ,AND we MAKE it for gifts .And I also MAKE Scottish pancakes for snacks . Candy flose.,is like your cotton candy. If you would like to MAKE Scottish pancakes, THIS IS HOW I make them .1cup of self raising flour ,1 large egg and 1 cup of milk ,AND about 1oz of butter malted. Put ALL the ingredients in a bowl beat well to a MAKE a smooth ,thick batter to the consistency of thick cream . (2) heat a large , non stick frying pan over a medium heat and grease with a little oil or butter .drop the mixture in dessertspoons on to the hot pan ,spacing them well apert to allowing the mixture to spread . (3)when bubbles appear surface ,turn the pancakes over with a non -stick palette knife or a spachula and cook on the other side for seconds -1 minute ,until golden brown. Transfer to a wire rack and cover with a towel to keep them soft .cook the remaining mixture in the same way . Serve at once ,with butter and jam or maple syrup or just butter is good. Take care and all the best .😊😊 💖👍👍👍
I'm Scottish and I have to say you need to try tablet!! Ita bit like fudge but harder and sweeter
I love The teacakes ...you don't mess about cutting or biting them,just shove them in whole ...Snowballs are nice too,that's a big ball of mallow,covered in dessicated coconut. I cant stand rock candy...it's like eating chalk ..i've just finished a family sized tin of shortbread in 4 or 5 days
That was fun.... great seeing your reactions.. I'm born n bred in Scotland, so I grew up with all these and never gave them a second thought. Glad you enjoy our grub though. 😊
There is a shop on The Royal Mile in Edinburgh that makes fresh fudge in front of you. Tradition fudge, rum and raisin, chocolate fudge and many varieties.
I go there twice a year for my son in law, his bday and Christmas. Absolutely delicious.
We call them Fizzy juice but my grandparents called everything "ginger" referring to irn bru, regardless if it was coke, Fanta etc
My west coast relatives call soft drinks "ginger" too. Weird.
You live on the central belt don't you? 😂 I call it that too!!
All of Scotland calls it ginger but when i was a kid growing up in Glasgow i called it ginger too but also called it 'skoosh', this was before irn bru did it in cans and only had bottles, we called it skoosh because of the sound it makes when you unscrew the cap off the bottle.
Aye, ginger in South Lanarshire too.
Ginger or as mentioned above skoosh, Central Belt.
i knew as soon as you cut the tea cake, you where headed for disaster. Put the remaining tea cakes in the fridge for 20 mins before eating them, make the chocolate go all crunchy when you bite into it. Same for the Irn-Bru, must ALWAYS be drunk when it's ice cold.
Thanks for the tip! And the Irn Bru was chilled :)
I’m impressed they got to you without being crushed, I can walk 5 minutes from the shop and they have collapsed in 😂
Shortbread goes nice with hot milky tea or coffee
One teacake is not enough. Once you start you just can’t stop.
And exactly what is the matter with that 😋😄
Irn-bru is also a perfect cure for a hangover
The chorus of Flower of Scotland on bagpipes ringing out as you tuck into a Tunnock's Tea Cake. Perfection!
Scotland calls carbonated drinks fizzy juice, Pop in England. Mrs Tilly's Scottish Tablet is even nicer than the fudge. The Tunnocks Teacakes are a favourite especially at my workplace as we take treats in to staffroom on our birthdays and a few years ago The Glasgow Science Centre did an experiment in launching a Tunnocks Teacake into Space. There is a video if you Google it. It's very funny as they put a human voice over as if the Teacake was talking 😂😂😂
Where do you work🤔😄👍