Watching people eat prawn cocktail snacks that don’t realise it’s not prawn or fish at all is a great insight to how perception plays a huge part in experience
Also, don't base your love or hate on a supermarket pork pie. They are never that nice. If she had tried one from a local butchers, and also, NOT microwaved it, her rating would more than likely been a lot different.
- NEVER microwave pastry - it goes soggy. - Pasties: Hot and filling they're great on a cold day. Originally they were eaten by tin miners in Cornwall. The crimped edge was used as a handle because their dirty hands were contaminated by tin and that part was thrown away when they'd finished. Some have a savoury filling at one end and a sweet one at the other so you get a main course and desert. - Pork pies should be eaten cold.e.g. with a salad, ploughmans lunch, picnic, etc. Best with a bit of mustard or salad cream. Melton Mowbray pork pies are the best ones. The traditonal ones have a layer of meat jelly between the pastry and meat, which is an acquired taste. Like Marmite some people like it, others hate it. As a kid I hated the jelly, now I don't mind it. - Irn Bru (prounounced Iron Brew) tastes like bubble gum. It famously outsells coca-cola in Scotland. Probably because it's used as a hangover cure!😁 - Monster Munch. I like the beef ones too which were the original flavour and they do a hot one & spicy one as well. - Penguins, Jammie Dodgers & Tunnocks Tea cakes are something we all grew up with. Tunnocks teacakes date back to 1956 and the end of rationing, Penguins were first made in 1932, Jamie dodgers are considerably older and date back to the1870s! By today's standards they're okay without being anything special, but back in the day they were a real treat. - Terry's chocolate orange. These date back to 1932 and are often given as stocking fillers at Christmas or at Easter. There are milk and dark chocolate ones. I prefer the dark chocolate that you had, but both are great. Recently they've started doing them in other flavours too, white chocolate, mint, truffle and exploding candy. - Jelly Babies date back to 1864. You have to bite their heads off because doesn't everyone enjoy biting off the heads of babies?😁😈 Other old school traditional sweets are: Sherbet lemons which are all boiled sweets with sherbet inside which were Dumbledor's favourites. Also bon bons (lemon are best) and chocolate eclairs (not to be confused with the desert).
while I can agree with everything else, as an ex butcher who won the best pork pie in Britain award (walter smiths great taste diamond award free range pork pie) as published by the independent newspaper 2011 with MM coming 7th or 8th (i forget its been a while), i can confidently say even ignoring the fact i not only made them myself for years but went on to win the first place and not letting that have any influence on this opinion, MM are extremely overrated and a huge part of their success is simply down to being the household name for pork pies, people who have both never tried a pork pie in their life, or have but dislike them, will name MM if asked. compared to a large number of alternatives, they are honestly quite bland and the pastry quality and lack of gelatine/any trace of seasoning in the actual mix itself pretty much solidifies its place as an 'ok' pork pie with an excellent reputation to carry it to success. oh, and they're also bloody expensive compared to much better competitors :P.
Definitely not just a Lebanese thing, because grandmothers in the middle of nowhere in the US have the same crystal dish full of candy that no one knows where to buy.
WHERE DO I GET THE TACK CANDIES.. no but forreal i don’t even really like them but i have random cravings out of no where for them.. havent had them in years..
Just Google "old fashioned hard candy" and / or "hard Christmas candy" and you'll find TONS of that stuff available online. It seems there's a market for it. 😆 Still don't know where Granny got hers from though. 😁
so the pork pie is made with hot water crust pastry which is hot water lard suet fat whatever and flour, then pork inside and injected with gelatine so when you heated it up everything melts. definitely meant to be eaten cold as everyone has said
Just so you know those caps are no longer designed to be fully removed, you just unscrew and push it back. it's so you cant lose the lid. Incase you wanted some: Tesco (the big store not express) do actually now sell Tim Tams. Raspberry is the original Jammy Dodger flavour but Apple and Blackcurrant is quite nice too. Banana and Pineapple ones are not good. You need a part 2 for biscuits! Milk Chocolate Hobnobs (dipped in tea!) is a must 😄
As a Brit, lucky enough to taste the chocolatey magic of the fabled Australian Tim-Tam (Timmo Tammo Australis), I can confidently say Dr Tam perfected his craft and outshone the humble Penguin. The legend lives on!
Tunnocks Tea cakes, Terry's Chocolate Orange, and Jaffa Cakes....all things I only ever consume in full in one sitting! I really miss the bigger packs of Jaffa Cakes too when I could get two tubes of 15 for lunch if I was out somewhere and the only place to get something was a corner shop.
The pork pie is supposed to be eaten cold, genuinely never seen anyone heat one up before! As for the Jelly Babies, try the blackcurrant one. You might change your mind! Also thank god you didn't try the Scampi flavour NikNaks... they're like the UK version of Surströmming, or durian fruit!
Australian and NZ pies are eaten hot, and we have a huge range of flavours to choose from. Probably where the thought "Pie (must equal) Hot" came from for the pork pie. It is rare for pies out that way to be eaten cold unless they've just been sitting around for a while and the eater has only just gotten around to the eating part of cooking them.
That was the Dark Chocolate Terrys Chocolate Orange…not sure if you got that one on purpose or not…but the Milk Chocolate one is superior! (Blue packaging) incase there’s ever a part two 🤷🏼♂️ Wispa Gold are amazing too FYI 👍🏼
Not to throw shade on Americans but this is so much better coming from an Aussie. Brits and Australians just have better banter and are generally way more sarcastic (which makes everything better)
The powder on the Jelly Babies is cornflour, it's used to make the mould for the sweets so they don't stick to it. They compress it into a tray to form it, then press a metal plate into it that leaves imprints in the shape of the Jelly Babies. After the hot jelly cools and sets, they break the tray up to release the sweets.
Nice to see you enjoyed nearly everything, although as an American it still throws me for a bit of a loop to hear what we call cookies refereed to as biscuits. Makes me wonder what other differences there might be in such common things. Regardless, hope you enjoyed your trip (and didn't eat TOO many snacks 😆).
I R N - Brew = Iron Brew... A Scottish Beverage. Also Skips are awesome. The UK used to have a massive thing about Pickled Onions and Prawn Cocktail in the 1700's onwards but less so in the late 1900's. Welcome to the UK Abby.
What are you on about? Actual Prawn Cocktail was a very popular starter, in restaurants and cafes across the UK in the 1970s and 80s. That's only 40 years ago not 300!
@@Thurgosh_OG No... what are YOU on about!? Hardly any Brit eats in actual restaurants in the UK... That's why 80% of restaurants always close down in under 5 years and 25% of the British population have NEVER been in one... not even once... and cafe's doing starters!?... how luxury lol. Restaurants have NEVER been a popular thing in the UK... hence the old stereotype of the UK not "knowing how to cook or flavour anything"... it actually comes from a reality. Only in the last decade have restaurants been more visited by Brits... and even then... at their peak... they got that 80% closing down statistic. in the 1700-1800's sea food became a massive cheap dish as Britain expanded it's fleets, especially amongst the Americas where Prawns are abundant and the dish is ancient. Also Britain had got a massive thing with pickling and fermenting... including pickling tomatoes to make chutney... the actual ingredient used before Tomato sauce/ketchup and mayo ever came on these isle... granted the original recipe was slightly different. In the 60's and 70's (mid 1900's not late) it did become popular again in households for the same reason it was popular centuries ago... cheap and plentiful as Britain was financially struggling for a couple of decades after the war. It's literately known as a "poor persons taste of luxury"... the very people who cant afford to go to restaurants.
They can be eaten warm but only when they're freshly baked and just out of the oven, they're never re-heated. Cold with some sort of fruity chutney/pickle, preferably eaten outdoors at a picnic. That also looked like it was the worst type of mass produced, supermarket bought, miniature pork pie, which are bloody awful at the best of times.
the difference between an over heated pasty and microwave is night and day :) and totally agree with the comments about microwaving the pork pie, HERESY! :P Pork Pies are a cold meat pie have a bite with a pickled onion and a slice o cheddar!
Pickled Onion Monster Munch is one of the 'original' flavours, but there wasn't really a 'first' flavour, as the whole schtick was that there were three monsters with three different flavours. When I was a kid they made a special 'vanilla' flavour, which was disgusting and there's a reason you can't get them anymore! If you're still in the UK when you see this, I'd say you should pick up the Roast Beef and Flamin' Hot flavours of Monster Munch to try! Roast Beef particularly is moreish! Also, I'm disappointed you didn't like Skips, but part of the experience of Skips is letting them melt on your tongue, so if you can stomach it, I'd say give them another go!
In the UK ( and many other places) 'Spicy' does not always mean Hot. It can mean, lots of spices are used in it. Nice & Spicy Nik-Naks have plenty of flavour but aren't hot.
In Australia we have pork pies that are like beef/chicken pies that you eat hot... I know that U.K pork pies are eaten cold (though i just found out, you - some - eat with mustard)... Is the mustard suggested the same as hot English mustard? (the mustard that burns out your nose).
Couple of fairly random picks in this vid. I’d recommend the items below to anyone with a sweet tooth looking to try UK junk food. Chocolate Hob nob biscuits (with tea!) Cadburys dairy milk caramel After Eight mints Star bar Mr Kipling Viennese whirls Bolands Jam mallows. The Jam mallows tend to be in smaller shops rather than supermarkets, but they’re insanely addictive!
Darling , remember , foods you get in USA as well as in AUS they are super packed with extra flavourngs and preservatives , like way more then in EU countries due to regulations so what taste airy and soft taste for us its solid taste
@@DavidChong almost every single "crunch" sound in this video is overdubbed. I assume it's to appeal to the sort of people who find satisfaction in that sort of thing. I find it kind of odd but it's whatever
Sadly it's not the same since Kraft bought the company. They changed the chocolate shell from Cadbury Dairy Milk to cooking chocolate with a lower cocoa content, so they're just not as nice here in the UK either. That was what made them great, since the creme filling is just sugar. Unless they changed it back, but you know, corporate decisions to cut costs like that don't tend to get reversed.
@@patrickholt2270 They also changed the smooth fondant filling to a gritty one. Many Brits have actually stopped buying them and Cadbury now makes more money in other countries, than it does in the UK, because so many Brits no longer buy their products. Cadbury is still somewhat popular but no longer dominates chocolate bars and treats in the UK.
I still remember the best thing i ate during my round trip through the uk and that was a cottage pie in a small restaurant on holy island. That tasted like heaven
You are not supposed to heat a pork pie either in an oven or in the microwave. They are meant to be eaten at room temperature. With pork, there is a risk of food poisoning. Also, Pom-Bears are German; the ones sold in the UK are made in the UK. The Pringles sold in the UK are made in either Belgium or Poland. Penguin chocolate bars, until 1987, contained 11% penguin meat. Which is still more than 4'N Twenty pies in Australia 😅.
@@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe All the cold meat pastry stuff, sausage rolls, pork pies, pasties, slices and bakes, even scotch eggs (yes I know it isn't pastry, shut up) are best eaten hot straight from the butchers. All good cold, obviously but steamy, flaky, buttery pastry and pork pies where the aspic hasn't set or scotch eggs where the bread crumb is still crispy... that's top tier. Like pizza, reheating doesn't do them justice but advocating for only eating them cold is missing a treat.
pork pie in a microwave... absolute criminal!!! So many great snack though, Cornish pasties and Jaffa cakes are elite. Great vid Abby, hope you enjoy the rest of your time in London :)
Abby, if you wanna try a proper Cornish Pasty, come down to Cornwall in South West England. The one you had looked like a Ginster’s and believe or not, most Cornish folk hate them, despite being made in Cornwall. And I also recommend Burt’s crisps but I think they’re only available in Cornwall and Devon. Also, Pork Pies are primarily eaten cold.
Ah, thanks so much. I was wondering if someone was going to explain that properly, otherwise I was going to have to break out my keyboard and... wait...
If you want the best Cornish pasties, actually go to Cornwall. There are others like Scottish pasties which are minced beef and chunks of turnip. Welsh pasties are Lamb and Leek often with some potato. English pasties are bacon and cheese again with potato. Most have not heard of them unless they know the history of food. All of them were originally food for miners. You open the top and eat the contents.so the sometimes toxic dirt on your fingers does not get on your food. The original pasties were also way bigger an miners needed a lot of calories.
I am in New Zealand and some of the stuff like Irn-Bru is available here. A NZ company ETA has made Monster Munch here in NZ since the 1980s but in different flavors to the UK ones. I can pick up a English Pork pie or a Cornish pasty at Woolworths Supermarket in NZ. Terry's chocolate orange Original chocolate version has been in NZ a few decades and the Dark chocolate Terry's is available here now to for a few years. Can not get the percy pigs but the other two lollies are available at Woolworths in NZ along with 90% of what you tried.
Pork pies from the supermarket aren't great. Would recommend getting one from an independent butcher. They usually have their own individual recipes. Also if you want it warm, heat in a regular oven for bedt results. The shortcrust pastry will remain crisper where as it goes soggy in the microwave. The can also be eaten cold too.
The original Monster Munch flavour was Roast Beef (yellow packet). Pickled Onion followed a year later and is, in my entirely correct opinion, the only one worth eating.
Hey, they took out most of the sugar a few years ago due to sugar tax. it used to be 33 grams. you can still buy the original Irn Bru with full sugar and its ace. i am Scottish by the way.
My favourite crisps whenever I'm in the UK: Mackie's Haggis & Cracked Black Pepper. Haven't tried any other crisp brand with haggis flavour, but I'm sure they're good too. I'm Norwegian, and to me they taste a bit like lungemos (do not look this up!) with black pepper. Now, I love that stuff, but it's a divisive food, not only for the contents, but the name (again, don't look it up). 😄 Other stuff I've found in the UK that I really like, is Walker's Short Bread and Yorkshire pudding with Cumberland sausage. Steak and kidney pie is pretty good, if you can handle kidneys. Fish and chips, of course, with brown sauce (the cheap kind). Chip buttie is probably the least healthy thing I've tried, but it's better than you'd think! Never had a crumpet with jam and clotted cream, but I'd love one! Drink you should try: Horlicks. Best made with whole milk. It's not what you'd expect, yet very comforting! Next time I'm in London, I'm going to try one of the oldest fast food restaurants there: L. Manze. They serve pies, mash, liquor (parsley sauce) and jellied eels. I'm usually not a very adventurous eater, but "when in Londinium", I suppose... 😄
Terry's Chocolate Orange has been available in Australia for many years, both Coles and Wollies carry the milk chocolate option and you can get the dark chocolate option at most good confectionery stores.
The PASTIE is similar to me from mexico and almost same spelling but we call it PASTÉ ( PAST-EH). Even in some parts of the country and here in Texas, they are also called EMPANADAS. Same filling or whatever meat they make them in. Very delicious
ther original pasty wasnt made with flakey pastry but a basic pastry brushed with butter, the crust needed to be stiff for the minors to hold, they would eat the large core of the pasty leaving the crimped edge to discard, minor ate these all the time and because they were covered in coal dust they had dirty hands which is why they were made with a large crimped crust. pork pie is usually eaten cold, but i do like to heat them up and have them with baked beans... a good british treat when you go out shopping is to have a baked potato with cheese... when we go to our local town there is always a baked potato vender... then another trsaditional food i make for bonfire night is roasted potato squares and triangles, basically potatos cut up into 1 inch size pices and then roasted with seasoning of black pepper and salt... really good to eat and tasty... also good with cheese. there are some foods youtubwrs havent shgown is rhubarb crumble, apple crumble and plum crumble.. all worth trying with custard...
I love pork pies but as was said by many you do not heat them, Earliest memory way back to late 1970s childhood. Was with my grandparents going down to the West Country. We stopped in a layby they got out a table chairs, plates knives and forks and napkins and we had a grandparent picnic which included pork pie, loved it ever since.
You have to bite the chocolate off the top of tea cakes, then eat the marshmallow leaving the biscuit (and jam, you should try those from LEE'S) until the end.
I was born and raised in western Montana in a mining town. The Cornish miners' wives brought the pasty (it's pronounced "P ah sty") to our little town. We like our pasties with a beef gravy (American-style gravy) or ketchup. Gravy's the best.
Yes, the jelly babies!! They were my favourite growing up, so when I moved to the UK and was feeling homesick, I needed comfort food. Opened the bag and thought wow these don't look right and literally threw the bag away with ONE bite. Felt soooo disappointed
I've never eaten a hot pork pie. I can imagine that would be bad. A smear of mustard or mint sauce on either half after you cut it in two (four for the bigger ones) doesn't go amiss. What I like about Jelly Babies is the two different textures. I love the slightly crusty outer texture. It just makes them a more interesting experience. The big biscuit surprise it took me most of my life to discover is with the bog standard, super cheap, out of patent Bourbon (borbon, not berban) biscuits. You dip them in hot tea for 3 seconds, and the filling melts and becomes this gooey chocolate mousse, and it's amazing. You don't have to buy the expensive brand biscuits to really have a treat. It doesn't work with Custard Creams though. They stay pleasant but not special.
Oh Abby, if your up here in the UK for a wee bit then travel around a bit. Now being Scottish then I'll let you into a little secret (or two) Irn-Bru is oor other national drink which pairs perfectly with DEEP FRIED MARS BAR!!! Which is another Scottish invention (probably while we where 🥴 😂) so my advice is come north of the border to find some more tasty treats such as the DEEP FRIED MARS BAR (eventho im a west coast lad, come to Edinburgh) other Scottish things to try are the lorne sausage (square beef sausage) to get the true culinary experience get it on a morning roll (bun) with a slice of black pudding (if you have been drinking the night before then this sausage & black roll washed down with Irn-Bru will save you....Scotland we may not have cured cancer but we have cured hangovers...) Haggis, oh my dear this is an experience...thats all im saying. So you tried the mighty Tunnocks tea cake but Tunnocks do some other tasty biscuit treats the caramel wafers & caramel log....a cuppa tea will be needed & finally the two big guns (well im my personal opinion) clootie dumpling (think fruit cake with cinnamon & all spice) &...(drum roll) SCOTTISH TABLET!!!...(dont worry this isn't a drug!...well kinda!) Now this is something else & im going to give you fair warning ⚠️ one very small peice of tablet with a coffee or a "dram" of single malt whisky is a sweet elegant treat...one large bit of tablet however is an edible form of ADHA wrapped in type 2 diabetes with a trip to the dentist to fill 3 cavities....but it is good!😂. If you find yourself up in Scotland give me a shout & i will be more that happy to act as tour guide & first-aider should ya have more than one bit of tablet (SHE NEEDS 33CL OF IRN-BRU STAT!! Note: not a doctor😂😂😂) safe travels pal 👍🏴♥️🇦🇺
I'm an old Aussie, i don't microwave any type of pastry... We get several types of Pork pies in Oz... Australia was colonized in 1788, federated in 1901... Children these days.
Don’t quote me on this but I think sour patch are made here in the uk. Maynard’s made them for a while so could account for the difference in flavours. For me nothing beats the USA ones! And the sugar stuff on the jelly babies is the moulds that they are made from
My suggestion would be to try a variety of Fox's Biscuits & Mcvities biscuits with Yorkshire tea. Probably a whole pot of tea as you'll notice we have a whole supermarket aisle of biscuits, mostly those two brands.
I'm British and I wish we would stop comparing Penguins with Tim Tams, Tim Tams are far superior, Ocado are selling them online now, for any Aussies out there or Brits who want to try, please don't ever heat up pork pies again, such an insult haha, just subscribed to your channel, enjoyed it !!
I find it great that the 2 things you like are both Scottish classics(Irn Bru and Tunnocks Teacakes). Just a pity you didn't try the other Tunnocks produce like the snowballs,caramel wafer and caramel logs.(well worth a try)🏴🏴🏴
Monster Munch began with many more flavours, they had the same Pickled Onion and Flamin' Hot flavours, but they used to have Burger flavour and Spaghetti flavour, but they stopped making them for some reason
The original flavour was Roast Beef in 1977, then Pickled Onion in 78. 'Saucy' flavour was the 3rd of the trio (1981) in the adverts, though there had been a few other short lived flavours in 1980. Flamin Hot did not come out till 1994.
Double Decker is a great chocolate bar to be honest - Cadbury's stuff usually hits the mark. Cadbury's Fudge is also very good, as is Boost (UK's Moro). Wispa Gold is their top tier though! Nestle's Yorkie is quite a popular one too and has been around for many years, it's Nestle's version of a Cadbury's Dairy Milk.
Fun Fact Abby - Coca-Cola is the best selling drink in every country in the world apart from Scotland, where it's - you guessed it - IRN-BRU! I'm glad you like it, and it's pronounced IRON BREW! Come visit Scotland, you'l love Edinburgh
Your reaction to British snacks did not disappoint. Be careful though. You don't want to get too attached. They sell many of these snacks down the international aisle in Woolie's and Coles - and they're not cheap! There was a time when if you'd asked me if I'd ever spend approx £5 ($10) on a 2L bottle of Irn-Bru, I'd have laughed and said no. But, have you ever been taken by surprise and you get a full-on angelic choir moment, and a bright light shines down? Well, that was me when I stumbled upon the international aisle. The angels sang and a bright orange glow radiated from the bottom shelf. The next thing I know, I'm nursing a bottle of IRN-BRU, like a baby, on the bus home. To this day, it's probably the best and most expensive bottle of IRN-BRU I've ever had - or will ever have.
A real Scottish drink:? Buckfast From the heart of Devonshire (England) A girder. Double whisky can of irn bru Long irn ice tea Dbl voddy n bru Bucky and milk (best to use ice cream) A whisky from islay (eye-lee) And when you visit Scotland… Edinburgh (is pronounced “Ed in bra”) Glasgow (is pronounced glaz-GO)
The town that irn bru (iron brew) comes from has been there since before 1271. One of the battles in the movie Braveheart happened in the same town (The Battle of Falkirk)
Abby I believe the pastry in question that you were trying to remember the name of is, a Cornish Oggy I have had one at the Cornish Pastry company in Jerome Arizona, and the Oggy is such a delicious pastry.
...microwaving a pork pie is like microwaving sushi!
Or boiling beer in the kettle.
NO SHE DIDN'T WTF! I'm never going to heal from this trauma.
Yep... Pork pies are eaten cold with brown sauce ❤
Vom’d a little in my mouth when she bit into that… microwaving a pork pie is almost a war crime
i can't stand pork pies cos of the jelly but puttin' it in the microwave no no no
The fact she microwaved a pork pie everyone in the UK just said get out now
😂😂😂😂 yeah mate totally….I’m like who the **** microwaves a pork pie 😂😂😂
Watching people eat prawn cocktail snacks that don’t realise it’s not prawn or fish at all is a great insight to how perception plays a huge part in experience
Skips are so fuggin good though, and vegan as a bonus.
@@Wobble2007 skips are top tier!
Skips are vile though. Even the limited edition Salt & Vinegar ones tasted like the prawn cocktail flavour.
@@Thurgosh_OG false 😂
Pork Pies are intended to be eaten cold with a dash of English Mustard.... not in a microwave.
Or pickle, or boiled egg, or scotch egg :)
I say, piccalilli not mustard. Are you a heathen?
I love salad cream with mine. I am weird though.... 😂
A dash, you mean a heap load of English mustard.
@@markdavis4754 I didn't want to destroy her taste buds straight away 🤣
Thankyou... watching you microwave a pork pie has helped me wake up from my 15 year coma... my family is so greatful to you. Thankyou
Nor surprising lol, wtf, a warm pork pie 0_p
"IRN (Iron) BRU - Made in Scotland from girders!"
"He was a good kid, but he liked Irn Bru"
URN - BREW has me dieing hahaha
It's made from girders
Don't drink too much or you'll rust.
...dissolves girders, more like.
WHY! Microwave a PORKPIE!!! :'(
And to try it without brown sauce too. It's just not right.
You eat it cold?
It's a picnic snack it's supposed to be eaten cold @@DngnRdr
Bro she's giving me cringe shivers.... this is why people do these video with someone from the actual country 😂 so they can show you
Also, don't base your love or hate on a supermarket pork pie. They are never that nice. If she had tried one from a local butchers, and also, NOT microwaved it, her rating would more than likely been a lot different.
You forgot to read the joke on the back of the Penguin pack. 😂
Came here to say the same thing, best thing about a penguin is the sh*t joke
The dad jokes
I havent had a penguin, in so long i had forgotten they had the dad jokes. Im off to get some now..
@@MrBlackjimrogan…did you get them in the end, and if so, what were the jokes? Lol
- NEVER microwave pastry - it goes soggy.
- Pasties: Hot and filling they're great on a cold day. Originally they were eaten by tin miners in Cornwall. The crimped edge was used as a handle because their dirty hands were contaminated by tin and that part was thrown away when they'd finished. Some have a savoury filling at one end and a sweet one at the other so you get a main course and desert.
- Pork pies should be eaten cold.e.g. with a salad, ploughmans lunch, picnic, etc. Best with a bit of mustard or salad cream. Melton Mowbray pork pies are the best ones. The traditonal ones have a layer of meat jelly between the pastry and meat, which is an acquired taste. Like Marmite some people like it, others hate it. As a kid I hated the jelly, now I don't mind it.
- Irn Bru (prounounced Iron Brew) tastes like bubble gum. It famously outsells coca-cola in Scotland. Probably because it's used as a hangover cure!😁
- Monster Munch. I like the beef ones too which were the original flavour and they do a hot one & spicy one as well.
- Penguins, Jammie Dodgers & Tunnocks Tea cakes are something we all grew up with. Tunnocks teacakes date back to 1956 and the end of rationing, Penguins were first made in 1932, Jamie dodgers are considerably older and date back to the1870s!
By today's standards they're okay without being anything special, but back in the day they were a real treat.
- Terry's chocolate orange. These date back to 1932 and are often given as stocking fillers at Christmas or at Easter. There are milk and dark chocolate ones. I prefer the dark chocolate that you had, but both are great. Recently they've started doing them in other flavours too, white chocolate, mint, truffle and exploding candy.
- Jelly Babies date back to 1864. You have to bite their heads off because doesn't everyone enjoy biting off the heads of babies?😁😈
Other old school traditional sweets are: Sherbet lemons which are all boiled sweets with sherbet inside which were Dumbledor's favourites. Also bon bons (lemon are best) and chocolate eclairs (not to be confused with the desert).
Bob on mate 👌
Ralfy in Melton Mowbray
Irn Bru does NOT taste like bubble gum. Also its pronounced IRN BRU Like iron but without the o. Everything else you said was bang on!
while I can agree with everything else, as an ex butcher who won the best pork pie in Britain award (walter smiths great taste diamond award free range pork pie) as published by the independent newspaper 2011 with MM coming 7th or 8th (i forget its been a while), i can confidently say even ignoring the fact i not only made them myself for years but went on to win the first place and not letting that have any influence on this opinion, MM are extremely overrated and a huge part of their success is simply down to being the household name for pork pies, people who have both never tried a pork pie in their life, or have but dislike them, will name MM if asked. compared to a large number of alternatives, they are honestly quite bland and the pastry quality and lack of gelatine/any trace of seasoning in the actual mix itself pretty much solidifies its place as an 'ok' pork pie with an excellent reputation to carry it to success. oh, and they're also bloody expensive compared to much better competitors :P.
I learnt something new today about Cornish pasties crimped edges 👍
We use natural flavourings, sweeteners, colourings and preservatives. So the sweetness comes from fruit and vegetable sugars
Definitely not just a Lebanese thing, because grandmothers in the middle of nowhere in the US have the same crystal dish full of candy that no one knows where to buy.
WHERE DO I GET THE TACK CANDIES..
no but forreal i don’t even really like them but i have random cravings out of no where for them.. havent had them in years..
Im pretty sure all grandmothers everywhere have that dish. And its always full of random candies that no known store actually sells....
Just Google "old fashioned hard candy" and / or "hard Christmas candy" and you'll find TONS of that stuff available online. It seems there's a market for it. 😆 Still don't know where Granny got hers from though. 😁
I was just thinking this same thing
They're just hard boiled sweets
so the pork pie is made with hot water crust pastry which is hot water lard suet fat whatever and flour, then pork inside and injected with gelatine so when you heated it up everything melts. definitely meant to be eaten cold as everyone has said
A bit of chutney or relish with it would help too
"Was going through something, not sure what, probably just like, a Monday" that is a fucking line. I love it.
Just so you know those caps are no longer designed to be fully removed, you just unscrew and push it back. it's so you cant lose the lid.
Incase you wanted some: Tesco (the big store not express) do actually now sell Tim Tams.
Raspberry is the original Jammy Dodger flavour but Apple and Blackcurrant is quite nice too. Banana and Pineapple ones are not good.
You need a part 2 for biscuits! Milk Chocolate Hobnobs (dipped in tea!) is a must 😄
Morrisons own brand of hobnob (I think they are called "Oaties") are superior. to my taste buds at least.
@@grizzlybear3809 absolutely not. OG is the best. the rest have got some okay to mediocre but not superior.
Those caps are so annoying.
its to stop animals/kids choking on them, i believe.
Fun fact: Tim tams were invented by an Australian who tried a penguin in London and wanted to try and improve it
That makes a lot of sense
we need to aquire these tim tams.
@@spwicks1980 You can buy tim tams in Tesco and Ocado, they are not that great tbh.
As a Brit, lucky enough to taste the chocolatey magic of the fabled Australian Tim-Tam (Timmo Tammo Australis), I can confidently say Dr Tam perfected his craft and outshone the humble Penguin. The legend lives on!
And failed... you didnt finish the statement, your welcome 😂😂
Tunnocks Tea cakes, Terry's Chocolate Orange, and Jaffa Cakes....all things I only ever consume in full in one sitting! I really miss the bigger packs of Jaffa Cakes too when I could get two tubes of 15 for lunch if I was out somewhere and the only place to get something was a corner shop.
The pork pie is supposed to be eaten cold, genuinely never seen anyone heat one up before! As for the Jelly Babies, try the blackcurrant one. You might change your mind!
Also thank god you didn't try the Scampi flavour NikNaks... they're like the UK version of Surströmming, or durian fruit!
IKR
Australian and NZ pies are eaten hot, and we have a huge range of flavours to choose from. Probably where the thought "Pie (must equal) Hot" came from for the pork pie.
It is rare for pies out that way to be eaten cold unless they've just been sitting around for a while and the eater has only just gotten around to the eating part of cooking them.
I heat them up. Even the big £1.99 Melton Mowbray pork pies.
The key to not turning it into a soggy mess is heat it in the Oven not a Microwave.
It's the same in the UK, it just depends on the pie@@damianwright3690
Pork pies should be eaten hot from the butchers.
A lot of people think spicy just means hot, when actually it just means spices are used (not all spices are hot, in fact the majority aren’t)
Yes.
Steve-o loves pickled onion monster munch so much he got it tattooed on himself.
Legend!
Thats the only flavour
The best, also love picked onion Space Invaders.
@@danbeasteu9785 Roast beef Monster Munch rule!
That was the Dark Chocolate Terrys Chocolate Orange…not sure if you got that one on purpose or not…but the Milk Chocolate one is superior! (Blue packaging) incase there’s ever a part two 🤷🏼♂️ Wispa Gold are amazing too FYI 👍🏼
Abby: "I wish it was crispier." Also, dubs in the most crispy notes from food in the world.
Something seriously wrong with that jammy dodger to have a crisp like that 🤣
Whilst in the UK come visit Bristol. You’d love it hear, proper chill vibes, great atmosphere and lush sights
*Here*
I'm from Bristol too
clifton suspension bridge is worth the trip. not sure what else is there though really.
True Bristol is sound
Bristol? BRISTOL? hahaha. It’s a complete run down cess pit. 😂😂😂😂
Not to throw shade on Americans but this is so much better coming from an Aussie. Brits and Australians just have better banter and are generally way more sarcastic (which makes everything better)
The powder on the Jelly Babies is cornflour, it's used to make the mould for the sweets so they don't stick to it. They compress it into a tray to form it, then press a metal plate into it that leaves imprints in the shape of the Jelly Babies. After the hot jelly cools and sets, they break the tray up to release the sweets.
Nice to see you enjoyed nearly everything, although as an American it still throws me for a bit of a loop to hear what we call cookies refereed to as biscuits. Makes me wonder what other differences there might be in such common things. Regardless, hope you enjoyed your trip (and didn't eat TOO many snacks 😆).
I R N - Brew = Iron Brew... A Scottish Beverage.
Also Skips are awesome.
The UK used to have a massive thing about Pickled Onions and Prawn Cocktail in the 1700's onwards but less so in the late 1900's.
Welcome to the UK Abby.
What are you on about? Actual Prawn Cocktail was a very popular starter, in restaurants and cafes across the UK in the 1970s and 80s. That's only 40 years ago not 300!
@@Thurgosh_OG No... what are YOU on about!?
Hardly any Brit eats in actual restaurants in the UK... That's why 80% of restaurants always close down in under 5 years and 25% of the British population have NEVER been in one... not even once... and cafe's doing starters!?... how luxury lol. Restaurants have NEVER been a popular thing in the UK... hence the old stereotype of the UK not "knowing how to cook or flavour anything"... it actually comes from a reality. Only in the last decade have restaurants been more visited by Brits... and even then... at their peak... they got that 80% closing down statistic.
in the 1700-1800's sea food became a massive cheap dish as Britain expanded it's fleets, especially amongst the Americas where Prawns are abundant and the dish is ancient. Also Britain had got a massive thing with pickling and fermenting... including pickling tomatoes to make chutney... the actual ingredient used before Tomato sauce/ketchup and mayo ever came on these isle... granted the original recipe was slightly different. In the 60's and 70's (mid 1900's not late) it did become popular again in households for the same reason it was popular centuries ago... cheap and plentiful as Britain was financially struggling for a couple of decades after the war. It's literately known as a "poor persons taste of luxury"... the very people who cant afford to go to restaurants.
You don't heat pork pies! And the pastry - eaten properly cold - is delicious, not at all soft ;)
They can be eaten warm but only when they're freshly baked and just out of the oven, they're never re-heated. Cold with some sort of fruity chutney/pickle, preferably eaten outdoors at a picnic.
That also looked like it was the worst type of mass produced, supermarket bought, miniature pork pie, which are bloody awful at the best of times.
the difference between an over heated pasty and microwave is night and day :)
and totally agree with the comments about microwaving the pork pie, HERESY! :P
Pork Pies are a cold meat pie have a bite with a pickled onion and a slice o cheddar!
Pickled Onion Monster Munch is one of the 'original' flavours, but there wasn't really a 'first' flavour, as the whole schtick was that there were three monsters with three different flavours. When I was a kid they made a special 'vanilla' flavour, which was disgusting and there's a reason you can't get them anymore!
If you're still in the UK when you see this, I'd say you should pick up the Roast Beef and Flamin' Hot flavours of Monster Munch to try! Roast Beef particularly is moreish!
Also, I'm disappointed you didn't like Skips, but part of the experience of Skips is letting them melt on your tongue, so if you can stomach it, I'd say give them another go!
They've just brought out a BBQ Sauce flavour as well which I really like, but then I also didn't mind the Vanilla Ice Cream ones...
Roast Beef and pickled onion monster munch were the original flavours launched at the same time.
@@markwestwood3339 According to Walkers website, Roast Beef flavour came first. My memory of the time they came out agree with you though.
In the UK ( and many other places) 'Spicy' does not always mean Hot. It can mean, lots of spices are used in it. Nice & Spicy Nik-Naks have plenty of flavour but aren't hot.
"Waiter! Waiter! my gazpacho soup is cold could you warm it up!" Bloody philistine! Warming a pork pie!
In Australia we have pork pies that are like beef/chicken pies that you eat hot...
I know that U.K pork pies are eaten cold (though i just found out, you - some - eat with mustard)...
Is the mustard suggested the same as hot English mustard? (the mustard that burns out your nose).
@@R0d_1984 Yep the one that clears your sinuses, Or maybe salad cream for wimps.
Couple of fairly random picks in this vid. I’d recommend the items below to anyone with a sweet tooth looking to try UK junk food.
Chocolate Hob nob biscuits (with tea!)
Cadburys dairy milk caramel
After Eight mints
Star bar
Mr Kipling Viennese whirls
Bolands Jam mallows.
The Jam mallows tend to be in smaller shops rather than supermarkets, but they’re insanely addictive!
Darling , remember , foods you get in USA as well as in AUS they are super packed with extra flavourngs and preservatives , like way more then in EU countries due to regulations so what taste airy and soft taste for us its solid taste
Yeah nah, Australia has quiet strict rules for food, far more then the U.S, but we are heading down the U.S road in some things.
Abby youre back, i just love the way you take everything in stride and if people are rude or trolling you just sarcasm them and keep moving
Love that you microwaved it and it still sounds crunch
yeah how does that even happen? i've never had anything supposed to be crunchy end up remotely crunchy after microwaving
@@DavidChong almost every single "crunch" sound in this video is overdubbed. I assume it's to appeal to the sort of people who find satisfaction in that sort of thing. I find it kind of odd but it's whatever
@@Shortened2Max Yeah, came to say this. If you ever get a crunch from a Jaffa Cake there's a problem!
British expat here, and i really appreciate how positively you review everything.
I personally could not have eten so much sweet food in one go.
You Should Try The English Version Of The Cadbury Creme Eggs!!! As, An American, That S**T Is Addictive!!!
It's basically like pouring chocolate into your face with a side-dish of more sugar than a human can comprehend.
@@Durbanite2010LOLZ 😂🤣😂!!! That’s So Freaking True!!!
Sadly it's not the same since Kraft bought the company. They changed the chocolate shell from Cadbury Dairy Milk to cooking chocolate with a lower cocoa content, so they're just not as nice here in the UK either. That was what made them great, since the creme filling is just sugar. Unless they changed it back, but you know, corporate decisions to cut costs like that don't tend to get reversed.
@@patrickholt2270 Damn!!! That’s A Shame!!! I Had Two, Of The England Made Cadbury Creme Eggs, Years Ago, and I Thought, That They Were Sinful!!!
@@patrickholt2270 They also changed the smooth fondant filling to a gritty one. Many Brits have actually stopped buying them and Cadbury now makes more money in other countries, than it does in the UK, because so many Brits no longer buy their products. Cadbury is still somewhat popular but no longer dominates chocolate bars and treats in the UK.
I still remember the best thing i ate during my round trip through the uk and that was a cottage pie in a small restaurant on holy island. That tasted like heaven
Abby, today my doctor diagnosed me with a severe lack of awareness, that came out of nowhere
Carrying on the tradition of the og cast… i respect you lmao..
Lol 😂
No one saw that coming
You are not supposed to heat a pork pie either in an oven or in the microwave.
They are meant to be eaten at room temperature. With pork, there is a risk of food poisoning. Also, Pom-Bears are German; the ones sold in the UK are made in the UK.
The Pringles sold in the UK are made in either Belgium or Poland.
Penguin chocolate bars, until 1987, contained 11% penguin meat.
Which is still more than 4'N Twenty pies in Australia 😅.
@@UnbelievableEricthegiraffe All the cold meat pastry stuff, sausage rolls, pork pies, pasties, slices and bakes, even scotch eggs (yes I know it isn't pastry, shut up) are best eaten hot straight from the butchers. All good cold, obviously but steamy, flaky, buttery pastry and pork pies where the aspic hasn't set or scotch eggs where the bread crumb is still crispy... that's top tier. Like pizza, reheating doesn't do them justice but advocating for only eating them cold is missing a treat.
Australia was FEDERATED in 1901 and officially became the nation of Australia.... Capitan Cook arrived in 1770 and the 1st fleet arrived in 1788....
I think its pretty obvious what she meant...
@@KingZappa Only if a person ACTUALLY knows the history...
pork pie in a microwave... absolute criminal!!! So many great snack though, Cornish pasties and Jaffa cakes are elite. Great vid Abby, hope you enjoy the rest of your time in London :)
Who microwaves a pork pie 😂 wtf, that new to me a British guy😂 3:23
Abby you’re great! Can you do a part 2? There are loads of other British food I’d love to see you try 😆😆
Terry’s Chocolate Oranges are sold in America at Christmas time as Stocking Stuffers. They are great!
I buy one and throw it in my freezer. Don't know why, but it seems to taste even better when frozen.
Apparently they are ridiculously expensive in America, probably because of import prices. They are like £1.50 here
@@jamzplayz9389 I miss the poundland, being a pound. I used to get mine from there.
@@TyrantSong me too
@@HackerJack42as a Brit we do that aswell but make sure you smash it as that’s the correct why to open it
I felt my Soul Leave my Body when she said, "she microwaved the pork pie" ....
I despise how Australian’s call sweets ‘lolly’s’. Lolly is short for Lollipop, which is candy on a stick 🍭
Even in Germany, candy on a stick is called a lolly, although there is a German word (Lutscher) for it. Usually, most people will use lolly.
I love your dedication! You put about 4 videos worth of snack reactions into one!
The dark chocolate orange ❤ nice choice
Prefer white
@@paulscaff1000 Prefer MInt.
@@Thurgosh_OG didn't know they done mint going to have to find it
Abby, if you wanna try a proper Cornish Pasty, come down to Cornwall in South West England. The one you had looked like a Ginster’s and believe or not, most Cornish folk hate them, despite being made in Cornwall. And I also recommend Burt’s crisps but I think they’re only available in Cornwall and Devon. Also, Pork Pies are primarily eaten cold.
IRN BRU IRON BREW
Ah, thanks so much. I was wondering if someone was going to explain that properly, otherwise I was going to have to break out my keyboard and... wait...
If you want the best Cornish pasties, actually go to Cornwall. There are others like Scottish pasties which are minced beef and chunks of turnip. Welsh pasties are Lamb and Leek often with some potato. English pasties are bacon and cheese again with potato. Most have not heard of them unless they know the history of food. All of them were originally food for miners. You open the top and eat the contents.so the sometimes toxic dirt on your fingers does not get on your food. The original pasties were also way bigger an miners needed a lot of calories.
What a wonderful woman, I even melt away after every word she says
I am in New Zealand and some of the stuff like Irn-Bru is available here. A NZ company ETA has made Monster Munch here in NZ since the 1980s but in different flavors to the UK ones. I can pick up a English Pork pie or a Cornish pasty at Woolworths Supermarket in NZ. Terry's chocolate orange Original chocolate version has been in NZ a few decades and the Dark chocolate Terry's is available here now to for a few years. Can not get the percy pigs but the other two lollies are available at Woolworths in NZ along with 90% of what you tried.
Pork pies from the supermarket aren't great. Would recommend getting one from an independent butcher. They usually have their own individual recipes. Also if you want it warm, heat in a regular oven for bedt results. The shortcrust pastry will remain crisper where as it goes soggy in the microwave. The can also be eaten cold too.
The original Monster Munch flavour was Roast Beef (yellow packet). Pickled Onion followed a year later and is, in my entirely correct opinion, the only one worth eating.
Hey, they took out most of the sugar a few years ago due to sugar tax. it used to be 33 grams. you can still buy the original Irn Bru with full sugar and its ace. i am Scottish by the way.
My favourite crisps whenever I'm in the UK: Mackie's Haggis & Cracked Black Pepper. Haven't tried any other crisp brand with haggis flavour, but I'm sure they're good too. I'm Norwegian, and to me they taste a bit like lungemos (do not look this up!) with black pepper. Now, I love that stuff, but it's a divisive food, not only for the contents, but the name (again, don't look it up). 😄
Other stuff I've found in the UK that I really like, is Walker's Short Bread and Yorkshire pudding with Cumberland sausage. Steak and kidney pie is pretty good, if you can handle kidneys. Fish and chips, of course, with brown sauce (the cheap kind). Chip buttie is probably the least healthy thing I've tried, but it's better than you'd think!
Never had a crumpet with jam and clotted cream, but I'd love one!
Drink you should try: Horlicks. Best made with whole milk. It's not what you'd expect, yet very comforting!
Next time I'm in London, I'm going to try one of the oldest fast food restaurants there: L. Manze. They serve pies, mash, liquor (parsley sauce) and jellied eels. I'm usually not a very adventurous eater, but "when in Londinium", I suppose... 😄
Pom-Bear to me, are the best ready salted snack, so good.
Pastry on a pork pie is watercrust pastry which is water, lard and flour. That's why it's so dense and not flaky.
Oh i really hoped you'd like skips, i love them!
Terry's Chocolate Orange has been available in Australia for many years, both Coles and Wollies carry the milk chocolate option and you can get the dark chocolate option at most good confectionery stores.
"I ate the whole packet, that was eas not a good day for me" You stopped at one packet! that's incredible self restraint 😂
The PASTIE is similar to me from mexico and almost same spelling but we call it PASTÉ ( PAST-EH). Even in some parts of the country and here in Texas, they are also called EMPANADAS. Same filling or whatever meat they make them in. Very delicious
Pasties were introduced to Mexico by Cornish miners (from Cornwall, South West England), who had gone to Mexico to work about 200 years ago.
ther original pasty wasnt made with flakey pastry but a basic pastry brushed with butter, the crust needed to be stiff for the minors to hold, they would eat the large core of the pasty leaving the crimped edge to discard, minor ate these all the time and because they were covered in coal dust they had dirty hands which is why they were made with a large crimped crust.
pork pie is usually eaten cold, but i do like to heat them up and have them with baked beans...
a good british treat when you go out shopping is to have a baked potato with cheese... when we go to our local town there is always a baked potato vender...
then another trsaditional food i make for bonfire night is roasted potato squares and triangles, basically potatos cut up into 1 inch size pices and then roasted with seasoning of black pepper and salt... really good to eat and tasty... also good with cheese.
there are some foods youtubwrs havent shgown is rhubarb crumble, apple crumble and plum crumble.. all worth trying with custard...
I love pork pies but as was said by many you do not heat them, Earliest memory way back to late 1970s childhood. Was with my grandparents going down to the West Country. We stopped in a layby they got out a table chairs, plates knives and forks and napkins and we had a grandparent picnic which included pork pie, loved it ever since.
You have to bite the chocolate off the top of tea cakes, then eat the marshmallow leaving the biscuit (and jam, you should try those from LEE'S) until the end.
I was born and raised in western Montana in a mining town. The Cornish miners' wives brought the pasty (it's pronounced "P ah sty") to our little town. We like our pasties with a beef gravy (American-style gravy) or ketchup. Gravy's the best.
Yes, the jelly babies!! They were my favourite growing up, so when I moved to the UK and was feeling homesick, I needed comfort food. Opened the bag and thought wow these don't look right and literally threw the bag away with ONE bite. Felt soooo disappointed
Good on ya Abby, have fun in London ❤ your videos always
The chocolate orange you've got there is plain chocolate. The 'regular' one is milk, in a blue box. It'd be interesting to see which you prefer.
I'm miss Abby and it's good to see her back!
I've never eaten a hot pork pie. I can imagine that would be bad. A smear of mustard or mint sauce on either half after you cut it in two (four for the bigger ones) doesn't go amiss.
What I like about Jelly Babies is the two different textures. I love the slightly crusty outer texture. It just makes them a more interesting experience.
The big biscuit surprise it took me most of my life to discover is with the bog standard, super cheap, out of patent Bourbon (borbon, not berban) biscuits. You dip them in hot tea for 3 seconds, and the filling melts and becomes this gooey chocolate mousse, and it's amazing. You don't have to buy the expensive brand biscuits to really have a treat. It doesn't work with Custard Creams though. They stay pleasant but not special.
Different Abby doing different take on snack tasting. Not just nibbling in the corners but straight up demolishing them.
Hi abby nice to see you back on RUclips I was waiting for one off you to start there own channel hope you wil do good on you own
Oh Abby, if your up here in the UK for a wee bit then travel around a bit.
Now being Scottish then I'll let you into a little secret (or two) Irn-Bru is oor other national drink which pairs perfectly with DEEP FRIED MARS BAR!!! Which is another Scottish invention (probably while we where 🥴 😂) so my advice is come north of the border to find some more tasty treats such as the DEEP FRIED MARS BAR (eventho im a west coast lad, come to Edinburgh) other Scottish things to try are the lorne sausage (square beef sausage) to get the true culinary experience get it on a morning roll (bun) with a slice of black pudding (if you have been drinking the night before then this sausage & black roll washed down with Irn-Bru will save you....Scotland we may not have cured cancer but we have cured hangovers...) Haggis, oh my dear this is an experience...thats all im saying.
So you tried the mighty Tunnocks tea cake but Tunnocks do some other tasty biscuit treats the caramel wafers & caramel log....a cuppa tea will be needed & finally the two big guns (well im my personal opinion) clootie dumpling (think fruit cake with cinnamon & all spice) &...(drum roll) SCOTTISH TABLET!!!...(dont worry this isn't a drug!...well kinda!) Now this is something else & im going to give you fair warning ⚠️ one very small peice of tablet with a coffee or a "dram" of single malt whisky is a sweet elegant treat...one large bit of tablet however is an edible form of ADHA wrapped in type 2 diabetes with a trip to the dentist to fill 3 cavities....but it is good!😂. If you find yourself up in Scotland give me a shout & i will be more that happy to act as tour guide & first-aider should ya have more than one bit of tablet (SHE NEEDS 33CL OF IRN-BRU STAT!! Note: not a doctor😂😂😂) safe travels pal 👍🏴♥️🇦🇺
I'm an old Aussie, i don't microwave any type of pastry...
We get several types of Pork pies in Oz...
Australia was colonized in 1788, federated in 1901... Children these days.
Don’t quote me on this but I think sour patch are made here in the uk. Maynard’s made them for a while so could account for the difference in flavours. For me nothing beats the USA ones!
And the sugar stuff on the jelly babies is the moulds that they are made from
Ahhhh, you missed the joke on the Penguin wrapper - every wrapper has a dad joke on them. Some more material for YeahMad 🤣
My suggestion would be to try a variety of Fox's Biscuits & Mcvities biscuits with Yorkshire tea. Probably a whole pot of tea as you'll notice we have a whole supermarket aisle of biscuits, mostly those two brands.
I'm British and I wish we would stop comparing Penguins with Tim Tams, Tim Tams are far superior, Ocado are selling them online now, for any Aussies out there or Brits who want to try, please don't ever heat up pork pies again, such an insult haha, just subscribed to your channel, enjoyed it !!
thanks for the video also glad your doing well and you always look so amazing stay safe and have fun in London
I'm in Canada and every Christmas I receive a chocolate orange (even as an adult). The toffee one is SO good.
A snack you should try is something I put together when on a low buget, cook mini Yorkshire puddings and add Nutella
I find it great that the 2 things you like are both Scottish classics(Irn Bru and Tunnocks Teacakes). Just a pity you didn't try the other Tunnocks produce like the snowballs,caramel wafer and caramel logs.(well worth a try)🏴🏴🏴
Monster Munch began with many more flavours, they had the same Pickled Onion and Flamin' Hot flavours, but they used to have Burger flavour and Spaghetti flavour, but they stopped making them for some reason
The original flavour was Roast Beef in 1977, then Pickled Onion in 78. 'Saucy' flavour was the 3rd of the trio (1981) in the adverts, though there had been a few other short lived flavours in 1980. Flamin Hot did not come out till 1994.
Double Decker is a great chocolate bar to be honest - Cadbury's stuff usually hits the mark. Cadbury's Fudge is also very good, as is Boost (UK's Moro). Wispa Gold is their top tier though! Nestle's Yorkie is quite a popular one too and has been around for many years, it's Nestle's version of a Cadbury's Dairy Milk.
Fun Fact Abby - Coca-Cola is the best selling drink in every country in the world apart from Scotland, where it's - you guessed it - IRN-BRU! I'm glad you like it, and it's pronounced IRON BREW!
Come visit Scotland, you'l love Edinburgh
8:36 that crunch 🤩
I also recommend a delicious entree, Shepherds Pie, it’s so delicious, I have also had Bangers and Mash, it’s so good too.
You missed the jokes on the back of the penguins!! Also microwaving a pork pie is outrageous
Love that you Aussies call sweets, lollies... I kinda wanna use it, but everyone here in the UK is gonna look at me like I'm nuts
I really enjoy you and the subjects you present. 😊
IRN BRU began as a hangover tonic, which it weirdly does help with a hangover still
Thats the sugar😂
Your reaction to British snacks did not disappoint. Be careful though. You don't want to get too attached. They sell many of these snacks down the international aisle in Woolie's and Coles - and they're not cheap! There was a time when if you'd asked me if I'd ever spend approx £5 ($10) on a 2L bottle of Irn-Bru, I'd have laughed and said no. But, have you ever been taken by surprise and you get a full-on angelic choir moment, and a bright light shines down? Well, that was me when I stumbled upon the international aisle. The angels sang and a bright orange glow radiated from the bottom shelf. The next thing I know, I'm nursing a bottle of IRN-BRU, like a baby, on the bus home. To this day, it's probably the best and most expensive bottle of IRN-BRU I've ever had - or will ever have.
Having a penguin without reading the dad joke on them.... The bad jokes are thebest part of it 😂😂😂
A real Scottish drink:?
Buckfast
From the heart of Devonshire (England)
A girder. Double whisky can of irn bru
Long irn ice tea
Dbl voddy n bru
Bucky and milk (best to use ice cream)
A whisky from islay (eye-lee)
And when you visit Scotland…
Edinburgh (is pronounced “Ed in bra”)
Glasgow (is pronounced glaz-GO)
The town that irn bru (iron brew) comes from has been there since before 1271.
One of the battles in the movie Braveheart happened in the same town (The Battle of Falkirk)
Not only are skips great, but beef monster munch are the best and I'm sure the original!
Abby I believe the pastry in question that you were trying to remember the name of is, a Cornish Oggy I have had one at the Cornish Pastry company in Jerome Arizona, and the Oggy is such a delicious pastry.