AMERICANS LEARN ABOUT ENGLISH PUB CULTURE AT THE BLACK FRIARS AND EXPLORE LONDON CITY

Поделиться
HTML-код
  • Опубликовано: 8 июн 2024
  • TODAY WE ARE AT BLACK FRIARS PUB IN LONDON AS AMERICANS WE ARE LEARNING A LITTLE ABOUT ENGLANDS PUB CULTURE FROM TRADITIONAL ENGLISH PUB FOOD AND ALE TO THINGS TO KNOW BEFORE VISITING AND ENGLISH PUB. BLACK FRIARS IS ONE OF THE BEST PUBS IN LONDON AND ITS MENU IS PACKED WITH TRADITIONAL PUB SNACKS. THIS VIDEO IS PACKED WITH AMERICANS TRYING TRADITIONAL BRITISH FOOD TO TIPS AND TRICKS FOR PLANNING YOUR LONDON TRIP WHERE TO GET A SUNDAY ROAST AND MORE.
    #AMERICANSTRY #americansinengland #BRITISHPUB #BRITISHFOOD #uktravel
    FOR MORE INFO OF THE BLACK FRIAR PUB CLICK HERE
    www.nicholsonspubs.co.uk/rest...
    WANT LESS TALKING MORE FOOD CHECK OUT OUR BOROUGH MARKET TOUR HERE
    • AMERICANS TRY FAMOUS B...
    PLANNING A TRIP TO ENGLAND CLICK HERE
    • Secrets Every American...
    REMEMBER TO LIKE THE VIDEO AND CLICK HERE TO SUBSCRIBE SO YOU STAY UP TO DATE ON NEW CONTENT
    / @trippingthroughadvent...
    Hi, thanks for checking out #TRIPPINGTHROUGHADVENTURES our #familytravel #TRAVELvlog we are a Central Florida family who is always looking for new #adventures & #TODDLERACTIVITIES . From theme parks, beaches, historical sites, to food. We love seeing new places and trying new things! …..Which for our #KIDS…. Pretty much everything is new ☺️ Thank you for watching and if you have any questions about any the places we #travel, leave a comment and we will answer to the best of our knowledge! Thank you an as always like and subscribe!

Комментарии • 727

  • @danrcash
    @danrcash Месяц назад +45

    As a former bar wench, I have a good tip for anyone visiting a pub in Britain. We do accept tips, or you can buy us a drink instead, but when you order your first drinks give us a good tip straight off. Because next time you come up to the bar, no matter how busy it is, we'll be right there ready to take your order!
    Yes, queueing is part of British culture, but hey, we're only corruptible humans after all!

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад +3

      I pinned this to the up so everyone can see it lol

    • @Greenwood4727
      @Greenwood4727 Месяц назад +2

      its an unofficial rule, but there are exceptions to all rules

    • @richardwaddington2038
      @richardwaddington2038 Месяц назад +5

      @@Trippingthroughadventures Yeah you tip for exceptional food / service but nothing wrong with buying the Bar Wench a drink .... at the end of your drinks order just say " And one for yourself" thats more than enough . Unless they charge you for a drink being a pint of champagne , then call the manager !!!!

    • @nicolad8822
      @nicolad8822 Месяц назад +8

      Yeah not really a thing.

    • @richardwaddington2038
      @richardwaddington2038 Месяц назад +2

      @@nicolad8822 Except it is.

  • @helenwood8482
    @helenwood8482 Месяц назад +178

    The American desire to be mothered by wait staff is baffling to me. British hate to have their meals interrupted.

    • @paulhenman9907
      @paulhenman9907 Месяц назад +20

      Country pubs are better than City pubs,

    • @jerryoshea3116
      @jerryoshea3116 Месяц назад

      It's not a case of wishing to be 'Mothered',it's certain Bars/ Rest have table service! But u can also find Bars,where they don't provide that ( or it's very basic) that,u just order ur Booze at the Bar!
      And by the way have u ever lived& worked in the U.S?

    • @sangfroidian5451
      @sangfroidian5451 Месяц назад +10

      @@jerryoshea3116 I've been to the US enough and can't stand US service, so that whenever I do go to a restaurant, I will usually put a 10% tip on the table as she brings the food and tell the waitress as long as she leaves me alone from then on, I'll add more at the end of the meal. It usually works out pretty well for everyone then. 😆

    • @jerryoshea3116
      @jerryoshea3116 Месяц назад

      @@sangfroidian5451 As a Tourist or have u actually lived& worked there? And if u find the Customs& approach trying why visit?

    • @lockwood1976
      @lockwood1976 Месяц назад +5

      As an Americans I hate it as well.

  • @surfaceten510n
    @surfaceten510n Месяц назад +32

    Watching Americans struggle to use a knife and fork in tandem is one of the funniest thing i have ever seen.

    • @georgeprout42
      @georgeprout42 Месяц назад

      They had to stop the chimp tea parties at London Zoo because American tourists thought they were apeing them.

    • @Missydee-72
      @Missydee-72 21 день назад +2

      Not just Americans and even some young Brits! Walking through the restaurant on holiday recently I noticed that many handle their cutlery in very odd ways that look awkward and uncomfortable. Presumably their parents didn’t bother to instil table manners in their young and just left them to eat whilst watching tv. As adults these people may have to attend formal occasions when their ignorance will be on public view.

    • @Really-hx7rl
      @Really-hx7rl 19 дней назад +3

      Cackhanded! lol

  • @Carole.P
    @Carole.P Месяц назад +84

    I’m left handed and learnt to hold my cutlery the correct way from the age of 4

    • @roblake3350
      @roblake3350 Месяц назад +4

      I’m right handed but eat left handed 😂

    • @broadband0118
      @broadband0118 Месяц назад +15

      Yes but don't knock him, there's nothing funnier than to see an American struggling with cutlery.

    • @Jason_L10
      @Jason_L10 Месяц назад +1

      Same here, i even use a mouse left handed but with right hand config. Though finding a decent left hand ergonomic mouse is difficult.

    • @gaynorhead2325
      @gaynorhead2325 Месяц назад

      @@roblake3350me too always have.

    • @richardwaddington2038
      @richardwaddington2038 Месяц назад +1

      What I find bewildering/amusing is when people use the knife to "clamp" food then the fork to pull pieces away . Im like "just saw thru the food !"

  • @manwithanaccent4315
    @manwithanaccent4315 Месяц назад +93

    I'm from the UK, now living in Canada with my lovely Canadian wife. Many years ago I lived a few years in the US with my American girlfriend. Every single American I met had zero idea on how to use a knife and fork. Every one of them would cut their food with their knife and immediately place it back on the plate or table - it had nothing to do with being left handed. They would hold the fork like a spear when cutting anything, and no one ever kept both knife and fork in their hands for longer that a few seconds it took to use the knife.
    Bugged the shit out of me lol. My American girlfriend of 3 years eventually agreed with me lol

    • @PUTDEVICE
      @PUTDEVICE Месяц назад

      think that the thing about changing hands with a knife and fork comes from the nobility in France in the 1800s. there were so many noble people.

    • @G0Lg0Th4N
      @G0Lg0Th4N Месяц назад +7

      Does your Canadian wife get along with your American girlfriend?

    • @donsland1610
      @donsland1610 Месяц назад +15

      Whole heartedly agree with you regarding the use of cutlery by Americans. It seem that they never got past the small child handling stage.

    • @PUTDEVICE
      @PUTDEVICE Месяц назад +4

      @@G0Lg0Th4N he is not wrong. Canada is located in America, specifically North America

    • @judithrowe8065
      @judithrowe8065 Месяц назад +10

      Any left handed 4 year old in Europe can handle a knife and fork better than any American. It's like they don't have opposable thumbs!

  • @InaMacallan
    @InaMacallan Месяц назад +39

    Rxemember that pubs in England perform much the same function as churches in the US - community centres and family places. Do not try and compare pubs with US bars!

  • @chrisellis3797
    @chrisellis3797 Месяц назад +42

    Left handed my entire life, i still use a knife and fork properly.

    • @keithparker5103
      @keithparker5103 Месяц назад +1

      chrisellis3797 I'm right handed but eat left handed. I've yet to see a rule book on this and I am 83 YO.

    • @chrisellis3797
      @chrisellis3797 Месяц назад +2

      @@keithparker5103 depends on nationality I guess. Some countries prioritise things differently in regard to "manners". I wasn't saying either way was right or wrong, just that the left handed argument isn't a thing.

    • @keithparker5103
      @keithparker5103 Месяц назад +2

      @@chrisellis3797 I agree, I have come across other "conventions" as I have passed through life which, I can only speak personally here, I have found to be B/S
      For example, "you should not chill red wine". I was on holiday in Isreal once where they make a red wine called CARMEL it was horrible stuff until it was chilled when it took on a whole new identity. I got this through a guy from Rugby who shared our table in an hotel. He told me he chills ALL wines. Since then, so have I, I don't care what people think of my preferences, comes with being old I suppose.

    • @catwoman2582
      @catwoman2582 Месяц назад

      ​@@keithparker5103You do you, everyone else can do what they want to do😊

  • @Your-True-Self
    @Your-True-Self Месяц назад +16

    Makes me smile to see genuine Americans embrace the British culture. Our differences are part of the mutual attraction and should be celebrated when we visit each other's countries. Your respect in the pub by not being tourists with cameras at a busy time was lovely to hear. Glad you enjoyed it, you'll be welcomed back anytime. Cheers guys 🍻

  • @zak3744
    @zak3744 Месяц назад +66

    I wouldn't go out of your way to go to Toby Carvery. Nothing wrong with it, but it's just a chain doing cheap-and-cheerful canteen food. Depending on the restaurant and the day, it might be decent, it might be a bit sub-par. Probably unlikely to blow your socks off though.
    Sunday roasts are the sort of thing where if you really want to find a stand-out one, you want to ask a local where the best ones are in that area. You probably won't be able to tell just by looking. Even favourites of mine from places I've lived before, that'll probably be out-of-date now!

    • @TheMightyHams
      @TheMightyHams Месяц назад +8

      I second the above comment re: Toby Carvery. It's like saying to someone visiting America that they have to try a Taco Bell. It's a bit of an institution and the food isn't bad, but you're not going to find anything special. Sunday Roast is one of those things that has the capacity to be really good, or really bad. You'll want to find a nice gastro-pub or restaurant to ensure that you get a good quality one.
      'Insider Food' did an episode recently where they went around some of their favourite Sunday Roast spots in London. No doubt they're more pricey, but if you want the best-of-the-best in London then there's some good recommendations straight-away.

    • @DeterminedFC
      @DeterminedFC Месяц назад +4

      yeah if your in london there arnt even that many and 2 nearly every pub in london will do beter quality then at the toby

    • @jamesgrant7201
      @jamesgrant7201 11 дней назад

      'Cheerful'🤣🤢

  • @mubbles1066
    @mubbles1066 Месяц назад +79

    Glad you guys had a good time here…. As to the difference of sweetness levels in foods here in the UK, it’s because it’s generally much lower than Americans are used to,due to the reduced sugar levels and absence of high fructose syrup in the products. It works in reverse as well though,when Brits go to the states they find the majority of foods(including bread) too sweet for them.🤷‍♂️

    • @LalaDepala_00
      @LalaDepala_00 Месяц назад +8

      I had American chocolate once and it was so incredibly sweet. Almost nauseating

    • @anitawhite2669
      @anitawhite2669 Месяц назад +21

      @@LalaDepala_00 - I tried Hersey's chocolate when I was in the US and it tasted like vomit - never to be eaten again.

    • @linkash4167
      @linkash4167 Месяц назад

      ​@anitawhite2669 that's because it contains an ingredient that's also in vomit

    • @juliawigger9796
      @juliawigger9796 Месяц назад +12

      Americans don't know what chocolate is,

    • @nealgrimes4382
      @nealgrimes4382 Месяц назад +20

      @@anitawhite2669 Fun fact it contains Butyric Acid, the same as is in Vomit.

  • @BeckyPoleninja
    @BeckyPoleninja Месяц назад +77

    😂😂 I'm a lefty and don't hold my fork like a Flintstone!!

    • @stirlingmoss4621
      @stirlingmoss4621 Месяц назад +1

      Harsh !

    • @harvuk7729
      @harvuk7729 Месяц назад +12

      yeh i dont think being left handed has anything to do with using the same hand to use both knife and fork :D

    • @nealgrimes4382
      @nealgrimes4382 Месяц назад +5

      @@stirlingmoss4621 But true.

    • @mattsmith5421
      @mattsmith5421 Месяц назад +12

      Same I'm lefthanded and still have fork in left hand, not shovel.

    • @BeckyPoleninja
      @BeckyPoleninja Месяц назад +1

      @@stirlingmoss4621 which is why I put the laughing emojis

  • @aacwallis4455
    @aacwallis4455 Месяц назад +18

    Get your chips from a Fish and Chip shop! Don't expect 'real' fish and hips in a pub.

    • @WinstonSmith19847
      @WinstonSmith19847 Месяц назад +1

      And ask about a good fish and chip shop you don't want a bad one that does soggy batter and soft greasy chips.

  • @jrswinhoe58
    @jrswinhoe58 Месяц назад +16

    I was taught the cutlery lay out at Primary School when eating the dinners. Fork to the left, Knife to the right and desert spoon above and water glass top right.

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад +1

      We never had anything like that in the states. We should but I’m sure it would offend someone if we did.

    • @AM-dz2sh
      @AM-dz2sh Месяц назад

      @@Trippingthroughadventures Woah, woah.. Ignore the etiquette police. Don't get me wrong it does look strange to 50% of the world... but really, who cares?! YOU DO YOU!

    • @Isobel-el3ye
      @Isobel-el3ye 23 дня назад

      Dessert. There's no point in correcting anyone when you're wrong yourself.

  • @DaveyHotrod
    @DaveyHotrod Месяц назад +14

    Especially in rural areas, the pub is the heart of the community. It's where people go to meet, talk, drink, occasionally argue & then make up. Sing, laugh, watch sport, argue about sport, play pool, darts, dominoes. And drink obviously...

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад +3

      See that’s the kind of pub I would like to see! 🤩

    • @DaveyHotrod
      @DaveyHotrod Месяц назад +4

      @@Trippingthroughadventures The best pub I worked in did amazing food as well. We won Best Sunday Roast in the UK the Observer newspaper 2022. The roasties, Yorkies & gravy were different levels mate...

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад +2

      @@DaveyHotrod what was the name of it we would love to check it out

    • @AM-dz2sh
      @AM-dz2sh Месяц назад +3

      @@Trippingthroughadventures The issue is with a lot of tourists/travellers.. is time & money.
      If you had gone to pubs away from 'touristy zone 1/2', in London,or even outside of London; the community/meeting place vibe would have been apparent.
      People that do not drink alcohol at all, may spend more time in a local or village pub, than a coffee shop. Completely different vibe from 'pub in central London'.

    • @Zoe_WingingLife
      @Zoe_WingingLife Месяц назад +1

      You need to come up North for that, our pubs are the heart of the village ​@@Trippingthroughadventures

  • @petejones7878
    @petejones7878 Месяц назад +19

    Any Public house that is not owed by a brewery or Chain (like J D Wetherspoon , which I would avoid like the plague) is called a free House

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад +7

      Thank you we kept searching “privately owned pubs” it didn’t pop up anything now we know why…. Free houses.

    • @petejones7878
      @petejones7878 Месяц назад

      If yo7 are looking for a good pub then you can not go far wrong looking at CAmRA Web site

  • @julesarthur4362
    @julesarthur4362 Месяц назад +17

    17 century really isn’t old for a church in England. Churches in villages away from attacks can be 8th century or older. The house next to it (for the vicar) is normally the same age.

    • @martinconnelly1473
      @martinconnelly1473 22 дня назад +1

      Great fire of London 1666. Lot of rebuilding after that. There was talk of squaring up the roads so they would have been a bit more sensible but they ended up just keeping to more or less the old street plan.

  • @nolimittolearning4414
    @nolimittolearning4414 Месяц назад +18

    I enjoyed your vids in London. One thing I find strange being British myself but I like, is how a lot of Americans when using a knife and fork, hold them in the correct hands to cut their food but, then put the knife down and swap the fork to their right hand to eat. It’s a lot of juggling cutlery 😊

  • @xaj1543
    @xaj1543 Месяц назад +14

    I’m left handed and I don’t change cutlery to the other hand, fork in the left and knife in the right.
    It depends on how you were taught as a child, and really the way Americans eat is weird!

    • @101steel4
      @101steel4 Месяц назад

      I think it's just him. Surely everyone American doesn't eat like that?
      He looks like there's something wrong with his wrists.

    • @xaj1543
      @xaj1543 Месяц назад +3

      @@101steel4
      Yes they do, they cut with their right hand then usually put down the knife
      and change the fork to their right hand. I was stating it as fact, did you think
      I was just making it up?

    • @Isobel-el3ye
      @Isobel-el3ye 23 дня назад

      ​@@101steel4Americans don't know how to use cutlery. The ones that do are very much in the minority.

  • @aussiehorndog
    @aussiehorndog Месяц назад +7

    I am constantly amazed when watching Americans eat. It is like watching children who have never learnt basic table etiquette or how to use cutlery, and being left handed is not an excuse. Also when dining out I prefer the British/Australian style of service, not the American style of excessive over"service".

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад +2

      What’s crazy is how this is literally not a thing in America at all. All I can say is where we are so homogeneous and so worried about stepping on other cultures toes. We havnt worried about teaching the European table etiquette out of fear of insulting someone. I actually wish it was taught to me.

  • @PUTDEVICE
    @PUTDEVICE Месяц назад +20

    Sunday roast is a tradition in many countries. you went to church on Sunday morning and after that you went home and cooked a roast of some kind. Sunday was the day of rest and then you could cook something nicer for the meal.

    • @Lily-Bravo
      @Lily-Bravo Месяц назад +2

      My mother prepared it all and had it in the oven before we went to Church. If the vicar went on a bit she would be worried about it overcooking.

  • @roseoconnor5938
    @roseoconnor5938 Месяц назад +25

    There are sooo many varieties of sausages in the UK.....you're spoilt for choice . All according to taste of course.

  • @tobytaylor2154
    @tobytaylor2154 Месяц назад +7

    Whilst I was in America, the friends I was visiting and their friends were fascinated by my use of the cutlery, their faces were a picture when I said if I ate like you lot when I was a kid my mum would've pushed my face into my dinner lol. They couldn't get how I used my fork and how I kept the knife and fork in my hands until I'd finished my meal. As for beers, you should try a bitter, stout and a cider. London pride is my tipple.

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад

      Yea it’s crazy how in America cutlery etiquette is not even a conversation lol

    • @user-lm2vs1sl3v
      @user-lm2vs1sl3v Месяц назад

      London Pride! Oh how I miss a decent pint now that I live in CA. Bottles available but no draught of course. Every time I get back to London I go straight from the airport to The Bell and Crown on Strand on the Green for a pint.

  • @36814
    @36814 Месяц назад +17

    Britain has many , many varieties of sausage not just one.

  • @peteince
    @peteince Месяц назад +9

    Standing outside of a pub on the street to drink usually depends on where the pub is located. If the pub entrance is on a narrow pavement on a busy street, then drinkers can be causing an obstruction to pedestrians forcing them to walk into the road to pass. Also there's the risk of broken glass on the pavement. So some pubs do have a notice on the front door, "no glasses to be taken outside."

  • @davidmarshall6616
    @davidmarshall6616 Месяц назад +17

    As for the sticky toffee pudding, what may not have been to your taste is that some pubs and restaurants use treacle in their puddings, although it's becoming increasingly rare these days due to a lot of the the treacle mines closing down.😉

    • @alisonrodger3360
      @alisonrodger3360 Месяц назад +4

      Not to forget the sad loss of so many Jam Butty mines 😥

    • @Jason_L10
      @Jason_L10 Месяц назад +2

      I blame thatcher for the loss of.the Jam Buttie mines and leaving all the diddy men out of work.

  • @readmylisp
    @readmylisp Месяц назад +4

    When I was a lad most pubs had a football team . You played Sunday morning then back to the pub for Sunday lunch . Great days.
    The Pub League results would be published in the local newspaper.

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад

      That really sounds like some classic home town fun lol, like our American high school football teams in America.

  • @Kingshieldwall
    @Kingshieldwall Месяц назад +10

    You are a very respectful couple, well done and great video. 👍

  • @gkkes
    @gkkes Месяц назад +8

    Historically, Public Houses were outlets for brewers. Many regional brewers existed and still do so. Ind Coope, Fullers, Greene King in Suffolk, Arkells in Wiltshire, John Smiths or Samuel Smiths in Yorkshire, Shepherd Neame in Kent and of course Newcastle Brown ... many many many more.
    As drinking culture has declined and drink drive rules have been tightened many pub chains have declined and many single pubs were sold to independents. This allows pubs to sell a range of beers/products. Most profits now come from food, so many drinkers pubs have become "Gastropubs" which emphasize diners. Drinkers pubs remain popular and simply sell salty snacks like crisps (chips) and nuts, to aid increased beer sales.

  • @IntoTheWhite04
    @IntoTheWhite04 Месяц назад +19

    Remember in 1666 the great fire of London burned a lot down.. lots of buildings are from after that

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад +3

      We actually stayed next to memorial and didn’t know what it was however the topic of the fire came up often on our trip.

    • @IntoTheWhite04
      @IntoTheWhite04 Месяц назад +4

      @@Trippingthroughadventures monument... Yep saw that in your previous vid. Supposedly if you were to lay it down on it's side in the right direction, the top would be where the fire started, in Pudding Lane.

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад +3

      @@IntoTheWhite04 yes monument sorry I had two toddlers attacking me trying to write that, I want to do a little research about the fire.

    • @Isleofskye
      @Isleofskye Месяц назад +4

      @@Trippingthroughadventures Thanks for this. It is impossible to see all of London in one lifetime and I am a 69-year-old Londoner and I have tried:)
      Until recently, the majority of pubs were what we called "tied houses" - they were owned by a brewery, and had an obligation to sell that brewery's beer.
      It's less common now, with the majority of pubs now appearing to be "free houses" that aren't tied to a brewery. That doesn't mean, though, that they are independents. Most pubs in London are owned by one of the huge pub companies, with either a manager or a franchisee as landlord.

    • @brigidsingleton1596
      @brigidsingleton1596 Месяц назад

      ​@@Trippingthroughadventures
      Have you twins ? If so, it gets even more interesting as they age !! (My twins are 30 now so, "I've been there, done that" - my daughter🧡Tegan, lives with me and is my carer - due to my poor health & "multiple co-morbidities" - but my son💙Julian (Tegan's 21 mins younger twin brother) lives in another town with his partner (and their cat- 'Oliver')! 😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️🇬🇧🙂🖖

  • @vickytaylor9155
    @vickytaylor9155 Месяц назад +14

    The shields on the pews will be for each of the families that came to church so each family would have their own pew.

    • @andrewtims9524
      @andrewtims9524 Месяц назад +5

      They show which families paid for the pews

    • @lloydcollins6337
      @lloydcollins6337 Месяц назад +3

      In London especially there's also a possibility that they were guilds who paid for it for their members since guilds did a lot of religious activity in the past as well.

  • @InaMacallan
    @InaMacallan Месяц назад +18

    The pelican in her piety is a common symbol in churches. It shows a mother pelican pecking her breast and feeding her young with the blood (an allusion to theblood of Christ). Very old medieval legend.

    • @andywatts8654
      @andywatts8654 Месяц назад +1

      It leaves me a bit cold though I must say

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад

      @GiddeeAunt then why did they you that work there call it a pelican ?

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад +1

      You must be hard of hearing cuz the gentleman calls it a pelican twice in the vlog. As soon as we walk into the church. You should probably go to the church historian and have a talk with him about it.

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад

      Yes, it’s a bit off putting

    • @excession3076
      @excession3076 Месяц назад +4

      @@GiddeeAunt
      How many people, specifically how many woodworkers/carvers, had seen a pelican hundreds of years ago?
      Have you ever seen medieval pictures or bestiaries?
      The animals/bird pictures often look nothing like the real animal because the people drawing/painting/carving them had never seen one.
      And it takes less than a minute to find the reference to the mother pelican sacrificing herself for her children on Google and it's symbolism within Christianity.

  • @user-zg8gn1mf6o
    @user-zg8gn1mf6o Месяц назад +13

    I would just like to say you guys are very very cool and respectful and you obviously care I'm subbed

  • @sangfroidian5451
    @sangfroidian5451 Месяц назад +44

    In some churches, pews would be paid for by a family and their crest indicated who had provided the pew and would usually be reserved for their use if they attended a service.

    • @Billyzgstar
      @Billyzgstar Месяц назад +1

      Yes my ancestors were Normans and had wealth from 1066 and were granted lands with a castle near Blackpool and they also were patrons of the Church of St Helens near Liverpool they paid for the church so got tombs inside the church where 4 of them are buried sadly during the protestant and catholic wars a lot of the wealth was confiscated so I never received any inheritance but the history is still something to be proud of.

    • @Gambit771
      @Gambit771 17 дней назад

      ​​​@@Billyzgstaryou can't complain about your family's wealth being stolen if they were Norman and came over in 1066.
      You know full well how they received that land and wealth.
      Your history is not something to be proud of.

    • @Billyzgstar
      @Billyzgstar 16 дней назад

      @@Gambit771 Ha nice troll mate the fact my family changed all human history by helping bring about the Magna Carta and making Britain literate after the dark ages might outshine your bog standard ancestors but I'm not a self-loathing commy so I'm happy thanks .

    • @Gambit771
      @Gambit771 16 дней назад

      @@Billyzgstar What troll?
      You're the troll by that being your reply to a different point of view.
      Do you have any evidence to back up that your family brought in the magna carta? 🤦‍♂️
      Who's trolling now?
      Of course you don't.
      You're making it all up
      You don't know anything about Britain back then, you clearly don't know anything about how evil the Normans were.
      If you did you would be ashamed of your families history (if you was telling the truth that is).
      They were basically the Germans in France in the early 1940s.
      Think about that and don't expect any proud Englishman to hold you in any high esteem for what you oddly claim with pride that your family did in the past.
      Remember, you have done nothing.
      You are using what you think are your dead relatives glories (thieving, murdering, enslaving, stealing, oppressive family legacy) as your own.

    • @Gambit771
      @Gambit771 16 дней назад

      ​@@Billyzgstarin case my last reply was deleted by RUclips (pointing out the evils of the Normans, your assistant family, will do that), I'll leave you with this.
      You are lying.
      You don't understand the history of England, nor the Normans and you are failing to pass off what dead people did as your "glories" because you have achieved nothing in your life, but that just shows your lack of morals, as if the lying didn't already do that.

  • @gsnmeyer
    @gsnmeyer 9 дней назад +1

    As a Brit I take great delight in watching Americans trying to use cutlery. Great video thanks

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  9 дней назад

      We know lol 😂 all in good fun the stuff we get a laugh of things the Brit’s do too, all in good fun!

  • @philipmason9537
    @philipmason9537 Месяц назад +8

    The British way of using cutlery actually means no difference to use whether you’re left or right handed. I’m right handed but we hold the fork in the left hand and use the right hand to cut with the knife, holding the knife horizontal to the plate not pushing down vertically. The main difference is that we tend NOT to put the knife down and only use the fork, we hold the knife and fork for the whole meal which cuts down the eating time and keeps the food warm !

    • @dotwyness4110
      @dotwyness4110 Месяц назад +2

      I'm right handed but hold the fork in my right hand and knife in left hand, always have done as its more comfortable for me, always got wrong off the mother in law when i set the table 😂

    • @gaynorhead2325
      @gaynorhead2325 Месяц назад +1

      @@dotwyness4110I’m the same I put food in my mouth with my right hand, same as I write or use scissors with my right hand, it makes more sense to me!

  • @claregale9011
    @claregale9011 Месяц назад +6

    Hi Guys , yes London is very , very old you will see remains of Roman walls 8n London dating back 2000 yrs , 8ts not uncommon to find churches in towns around the u.k dating back to 12th century we tend to keep and preserve our History for future generations to appreciate , the u.k is literally a living museum . 😊

  • @Well-in-the-garden
    @Well-in-the-garden Месяц назад +9

    Yes you definitely want to try a traditional Sunday lunch xx

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад +4

      We did we’ve came home and try to recreate, it’s just not as good we need to come back lol 😂

  • @petermartin1967
    @petermartin1967 Месяц назад +13

    Such a lovely couple ❤. I hope you come back to the U.K. soon 👍🏻

  • @user-eb1sd2vj9r
    @user-eb1sd2vj9r Месяц назад +9

    Hi. Enjoying your video. As someone has already mentioned there is a difference between the City of London (note City has an upper case C as it’s part of its name) and the 32 London boroughs called Greater London which came into existence as 32 boroughs on 1 April 1965. Before then the towns, villages and hamlets that now make up Greater London belonged to the counties surrounding the City. The Romans arrived on what is now England back in the year 43 and they built a settlement which they called Londinium around that time. It eventually became the capital of the Roman province of Britannia (previously the capital was what is now Colchester in the county of Essex). The revolt by an amalgamation of local British tribes led by Queen Boudicca burnt Londinium to the ground which is when the Romans built the wall around their City (at this point it covered about 330 acres). The Romans left in the year 410 and Londinium fell into disuse. The Anglo-Saxon King of Wessex, King Alfred the Great, (whose grandson became the first King of the English in the year 927) resettled London and repaired the defensive walls in 886 (London was in the neighbouring kingdom of Mercia but Alfred was by then acknowledged as King of the Anglo-Saxons, the remaining territories of what his grandson would unite into the Kingdom of England were controlled by the Vikings). Modern London starts from the year 886. Since then various settlements have been incorporated into London, the last time being in 1965. For example the town in London where I was born was first mentioned in a Royal Charter by King Ethelbert of the Kingdom of Kent in the year 862 granting the lordship of the manor of Bromley to the Bishop of Rochester, so on 31 March 1965 Bromley was a market town in the county of Kent and on 1 April 1965 it was the capital town of the London Borough of Bromley, London’s largest borough at approximately 59 square miles (the City is only 1.12 square miles). London in total is over 606 square miles just with the City and the 32 London boroughs. If you include the urban area beyond London then it’s about 671 square miles and if you go beyond that and include the metropolitan area it’s about 3,236 square miles. London’s 606 square miles has a population of just under 9 million people. The upshot of all that is there is a difference between the City of London and the city called London.

    • @brigidsingleton1596
      @brigidsingleton1596 Месяц назад +1

      ❤ Thank You... I have never had a great memory and am 70 now, and it hasn't improved so am unlikely to remember all of those delicious facts (especially the figures - probably due to my having dyscalculia) but... I enjoyed reading your comment (& hope this American couple did too). I appreciate the effort and thought that you put into your description of my country's capital, again, as an English woman I probably / possibly ought to know at least some of it but whilst at school, History was not a particular favourite subject of mine... It is now, despite my inherent lack of memory recall!! I hope to see / read more of your informative and absorbingly interesting comments elsewhere - if possible - at another time. 🤔🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️🇬🇧🙂🖖

  • @carltonurwin3923
    @carltonurwin3923 Месяц назад +6

    The Pelican is often seen in churches and particularly on pulpits. It was believed in the past that they fed their young on their own blood. Therefore they symbolise sacrifice and selflessness, associated with Christ for Christians.

  • @dickyt1318
    @dickyt1318 Месяц назад +2

    you can usually get a 'Roast Dinner' in a pub or in a cafe [the traditional ones not the Starbucks style or continental one's] and in central London they can be a little hard to find. Toby Carvery's are a good place to enjoy a traditional 'Roast' lunch / dinner. Tipping is done where you have a waiter / waitress taking your order & serving it to you as in a restaurant. Where you are ordering & paying for food at the bar or counter then no tipping is required or expected.

  • @richardwaddington2038
    @richardwaddington2038 Месяц назад +3

    Great vid .....Im very happy that the wonderful Pedro Pascal loved his Bangers and mash and his beutiful wife finally got the sticky toffee pudding she always wanted . ! Looking forward to the sunday lunch vid xx

  • @roblake3350
    @roblake3350 Месяц назад +4

    If you are just here visiting, then take a train out of London for a day or two to experience different parts of England - Oxford and Birmingham are both easily a round trip back to London in a day if you make an early start to have a whole day in each 👍 or even get out to the countryside (Cotswolds is easily doable from Oxford too)

    • @susandrydenhenderson6234
      @susandrydenhenderson6234 Месяц назад +1

      Kind of but anywhere but Birmingham, the least interesting and attractive city in the country

    • @georgeprout42
      @georgeprout42 Месяц назад

      Brit rail pass makes this affordable. Can't even view prices if in the UK, but unlimited rail for £? per day is a bargain. VPN wont help btw, you need to show a foreign passport to collect it after buying it abroad.

  • @WinstonSmith19847
    @WinstonSmith19847 Месяц назад +2

    London is almost 2000 years old the Romans started the first major settlements and there was probably people in the area before that, it was called Londinium by the Romans.

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад +1

      We wanted to dive more into the Roman history but there’s just so much lol.

    • @WinstonSmith19847
      @WinstonSmith19847 Месяц назад +1

      @@Trippingthroughadventures There is lots of Roman history all over the UK 🙂👍

    • @user-lm2vs1sl3v
      @user-lm2vs1sl3v Месяц назад

      @@TrippingthroughadventuresHadrians Wall is interesting.

  • @MarjorieStoker-oj8fh
    @MarjorieStoker-oj8fh Месяц назад +3

    There's a thousand dialects and cultural is about we are the best its what we contributed to our wonderful and successful world

  • @jeanniewarken5822
    @jeanniewarken5822 Месяц назад +6

    All pubs used to be privately owned, thats why they are all different. They used to brew their own beer... Then breweries came into being, for instance 'Brickwoods, Watneys, Gales etc and they started to buy up pubs, put their own pub landords in and sell their own Ales. These days, breweries are no longer in the pub business and many pubs are now owned by chains, covering all types of budgets. There afe still independant pubs owned by i dividuals.. this has happened over hundreds of years.. some chains i wouldnt touch with a bargepole such as weatherspoons, they are cheap, they often refurbish the pub and take the soul out of it and the food is questionable but as i said, they are cheap... you can find independant pubs.. you just gotta look for them.. I live in Portsmouth on the south coast.. Its the main naval city of the UK.. its on a tiny island and it is the city with the highest number of pubs per capita in the UK..

  • @daveofyorkshire301
    @daveofyorkshire301 Месяц назад +8

    London and London city are two different things. There are two London's.
    Taking a sip of a pint (which is 20% bigger than a US pint) means you have drunk from a pint, you haven't drunk a pint until you finish it. I wouldn't comment, but you did say "officially".
    Everyone knew you were American when you started eating because you put down the knife and switch hands. Here it's common to hold the knife in the right hand and the fork in the left and not to put either down until you've finished eating, unless you need to reach for something.
    Pubs often allow a card to be swiped and run a table tab. I always did this to prevent the need for cash. At the end you just ask for the bill, it's prepaid and you're done, you can check and contest the bill before payment as they itemise it before final payment.
    The independent pubs are struggling and becoming rarer. But there are still quite a few outside the cities... It's whether they're popular enough to survive in an area big enough to sustain it, with enough patronage to weather the hard times.
    As for atmosphere, you have to bare in mind up to about 9pm (probably earlier) you could see children in a pub, even dogs in some, after about 10pm it turns into a different atmosphere, more adult, louder, a night out.
    Most pubs will have a beer garden or somewhere outside to sit, especially in good weather. That's when you'll see people socialising outside.

    • @I_Don_t_want_a_handle
      @I_Don_t_want_a_handle Месяц назад +3

      Was that even a pint glass? Looked like either a half litre or a short measure.

    • @daveofyorkshire301
      @daveofyorkshire301 Месяц назад +1

      @@I_Don_t_want_a_handle It's London the tourist, especially Americans don't know any better.

  • @susandrydenhenderson6234
    @susandrydenhenderson6234 Месяц назад +2

    Shields would be the family crest of those who provided them and possibly those families originally sat in them on Sundays.

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад +1

      Thank you for that I figured it had to be something like that, because each coat of arms was so unique.

  • @michaelwhite8031
    @michaelwhite8031 Месяц назад +2

    I've always found American's to be very polite.

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад +1

      We are in our own way for the most part, if you just look at our actions for the most part Americans try to be respectful, but I think since Americans and British is so close, most British does not judge them by American culture politeness they judge them by the british idea of politeness. Which is kind of different.
      I noticed British politeness can still be achieved while being “snarky “ as too American politeness is a complete judge of overall personality.
      For example: people seemed to think we was rude, for not saying please in our market video.
      In America, people look at terms like please as excessive, ( not all the time, but can be) sometimes it comes off as insistent or excessive, a persons judged by their body language and personality.
      If a person is good spirited and nice and patient= good manners
      If a person is rushing and dismissive= rude.
      No matter what words or phrases you use in the interaction.
      Also in busy situations Americans have a “ get in get out” personality, like in lines, we walk up say what we want and move on.
      There’s actually some places in the north east if you walk up and don’t say exactly what you want as soon as you go the register and move on, you get tossed to the back of the line. lol
      So it is important to understand Americans do put efficiency over manner and being efficient is a sign of good manners lol.

    • @michaelwhite8031
      @michaelwhite8031 Месяц назад

      Thanks for the explanation

  • @WITYTRAVELS
    @WITYTRAVELS Месяц назад +2

    What a beautiful church! You have to take a picture in the red telephone booth or you didn't visit London! We heard that CRUNCH. Good tips on how to order at the pub. Learned a lot about British pubs. 😀😃

  • @DazUK1
    @DazUK1 Месяц назад +2

    Great vid guys. Looking forward to the next one.

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад +1

      Thanks I wasn’t a fan of making this one seemed a little blah to us to much info not enough to look at but the next one will have more fun stuff lol.

  • @user-eb1sd2vj9r
    @user-eb1sd2vj9r Месяц назад +11

    If a pub is called a “free house” it is not tied to a particular brewery and the landlord or landlady of the pub is likely the owner. If it’s tied to a particular brewery (what you were talking about) then the landlord or landlady is employed by them. That’s a general rule of thumb in the UK (Remember England is just one of 4 countries in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the 2 names are not interchangeable. Also Great Britain is the name of the largest island in the British Isles and not a country, so there is no such currency as the Great British Pound - a term I often hear in videos on the UK).

    • @susanroberts2289
      @susanroberts2289 Месяц назад +3

      I agree. Look for “Free House”

    • @nealgrimes4382
      @nealgrimes4382 Месяц назад

      Breweries no longer own Pubs it's all chains now and some are still independent.

    • @erikadavis2264
      @erikadavis2264 Месяц назад

      ​@@nealgrimes4382Wadworths own pubs.

    • @SeeDaRipper...
      @SeeDaRipper... Месяц назад

      So where does GBP come from then?

    • @user-eb1sd2vj9r
      @user-eb1sd2vj9r Месяц назад

      @@SeeDaRipper... from people who don’t know any better. I think they must have seen the Great British Bake-off show and think Great British refers to Britain rather than the bake-off (the show could be called Britain’s Great Bake-off and have the same meaning but the pun wouldn’t work).

  • @chrissymoss514
    @chrissymoss514 Месяц назад +2

    Dear me!! I'm a "leftie" and I've never had a problem using cutlery correctly. In fact, I've NEVER seen anyone (left or right handed) use their knife and fork as you did. Incidentally, I use all the right handed tools (ie : scissors) just as a right handed person would - I just adapted. I am ambidextrous too!!

  • @erikadavis2264
    @erikadavis2264 Месяц назад +7

    Good video. I could make a few comments, but I just want the say, Icecream Sundae 🍨..... nothing to do with a day of the week. 😊
    Toby Carvery, don't make a special trip.

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад

      Great, now I got to research ice cream to see why lol 😂. It just feels like we should though cuz it doesn’t have to be great to be a part of a culture lol. And until we find a nann to take us in on Sunday we got to stick to commercial 🤣😂🤣🤣

    • @erikadavis2264
      @erikadavis2264 Месяц назад +1

      @Trippingthroughadventures So now you made me look. 🙄 Apparently..... 'Why do they call it an ice cream sundae?
      A local belief is that a Plainfield druggist named Mr. Sonntag created the dish "after the urgings of patrons to serve something different." He named it the "sonntag" after himself, and since Sonntag is the German word for Sunday, the name was translated to Sunday, and later was spelled sundae.' So you weren't too far off after all!
      As for Sunday lunch. Toby isn't horrendous, just not the best. If you're ever near to Stonehenge on a weekend let me know, and I'll recommend somewhere. 😁

  • @gmdhargreaves
    @gmdhargreaves Месяц назад +2

    Your fork action is like a stunt man!!!!

  • @robertbrennan2268
    @robertbrennan2268 Месяц назад +9

    How old is the City of London? Founded by the Emperor Claudius in 43AD. The majority of City Churches were built after the great Fire of London of 1665. Many were by Wren who rebuilt the burned out St Paul's Cathedral. There are medieval churches such as St Bartholmew;s. in spaces where the fire did not reach. The City then underwent the Blitz in 1940, and many churches needed to be restored. It is remarkable how many survived - thanks to "fire watchers" on the roofs dumping incendiaries in sand buckets as they landed. Blackfriars pub is on the site of the Blackfriars Monastery, dissolved by Henry VIII in around 1539. It is a late Nineteenth Century pub. It is a witty building - the joke being that monk's cells being seem to have ben turned into drinking dens! But thi is in line with the Friar Tuck stereotype from the legend of Robin Hood. Cheers!

    • @possumyx
      @possumyx Месяц назад +1

      The most stupendous church in the City of London is the 900-y-o St. Bartholomew the Great, round the corner from Barbican tube stop.

    • @brigidsingleton1596
      @brigidsingleton1596 Месяц назад +2

      *1666 ? The Great Fire of London ?

  • @user-bo5ys7bi1d
    @user-bo5ys7bi1d 25 дней назад

    Another interesting video. Your approach and honest reflections are very refreshing. The content is on point. Thanks. Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

  • @Loki1815
    @Loki1815 Месяц назад +20

    It's not because you are a lefty, the majority of Muricans seem to be unable to use cutlery. Yes, we are taught table manners, dining etiquette by the time you are 4 or 5 but if you look at your, so called, Murican food, the majority is Finger Food and doesn't require a knife and a fork. I'm sitting here racking my brain for an actual American Dish!
    OK, so I went to Google and there are loads of dishes that Google purports to be American but alas.....
    Apple Pie from England
    Hamburger from.. er.. Hamburg, Germany.
    Frankfurter... er Frankfurt Germany.
    French Fries.. from...?
    Pizza from Naples, Italy
    Spaghetti Bolognasè from Imola Italy
    Meatballs from Persia
    Sandwich from Kent England the Earl of Sandwich.
    Mac and Cheese Europe (Debatable where though)
    Roast Dinner (as in Thanksgiving) England
    Doughnuts Dutch
    BBQ from Prometheus, the second he gave man Fire there was someone waiting to throw Ribs onto the flame!
    You could, of course, claim the TV Dinner?
    I like the style of your videos and it is nice to see that you haven't followed the style of others before you! I also like your honesty.

    • @kurtcoolson9054
      @kurtcoolson9054 Месяц назад +6

      French fries from Belgium, I believe.

    • @BR-lq6fc
      @BR-lq6fc Месяц назад +2

      We Brits also invented the superiority complex. So many examples in the comments of this video. Please indulge us this simple pleasure and don't take it to heart. Thanks for your understanding

    • @surfaceten510n
      @surfaceten510n Месяц назад

      And to think this is the nation ( natzi scientists ) that put a man on the moon,

    • @Lily-Bravo
      @Lily-Bravo Месяц назад +1

      Go back a bit further and potatoes peppers tomatoes came from America as did sweetcorn, popcorn, chewing gum, chocolate, turkey, chillies (The Aztecs used all those)and I am sure there are others as well. I live near a town in the UK that grew rich making wool cloth and dying it red using cochineal also from the Aztecs.

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад +1

      First off thank you, you make a good point, in all your points in America it’s not that we are primal, despite popular belief most Americans are mixed ethnicity and race. Besides native Americans there is no true Americans because we all came from all over the world. People always get confused when we say “ we make the best pizza “ we are not saying the Irish guy or the Asian guy makes the best pizza” we are usually get pizza from the Italian family the Chinese from the Chinese, they are all ethnically different but we are all Americans. As far as cutlery we was European founded but since then every type of person on the planet has came here and brought their culture with them. So if you think about what being American is, everything you just listed is American by the concept of what makes something American. lol

  • @quercus8833
    @quercus8833 Месяц назад +2

    Fabulous interior.

  • @dianeshelton9592
    @dianeshelton9592 Месяц назад +2

    In the first church those plaques on the end of the pews were dedicated to some family or guild of someone who had died . So if a member of the Tailors guild had died a pew would be bought in his honour. It was a Wren church , the man was raring it wasn’t rebuilt due to bomb ( it may have been damaged in WW2 in the blitz ) but it was originally designed by Sir Christopher Wren to replace an old medieval church which had been burnt down in the Great Fire of London 1666 when a a lot of the churches in the city of London burnt down. A man called Sir Christopher Wren designed 51 new churches including St Paul’s cathedral . They all look quite similar and are all extremely beautiful.
    The

  • @alanmon2690
    @alanmon2690 Месяц назад +4

    In the first church the guide mentioned the City of London. This is London proper with its own legal rights and charter and Lord Mayor, just a small area roughly where the Tower of London. What is now commonly called London is actually Greater London, an amalgamation of lots of villages and towns....

    • @geoffreynolds8835
      @geoffreynolds8835 Месяц назад +1

      City of London is different from London Town. It has it's own Police Force and uniform.

  • @glastonbury4304
    @glastonbury4304 Месяц назад +4

    Lots of Roman parts of London to visit as well...and churches from around the 11th century...

  • @anitaherbert1037
    @anitaherbert1037 Месяц назад +1

    A country pub is a different animal altogether. Often have attractive outside beer gardens and play areas. Better food especially if its a gastro pub. Its family friendly during the day. Somewhere you go for Sunday dinner with the family or take mum for her birthday. My favourite one had 3 log fires, dogs were welcome and different events like quiz nights, a pub bowling team and then old codgers football team. It had great barbecues in some and outdoor jazz band event every summer.

  • @glastonbury4304
    @glastonbury4304 Месяц назад +5

    Wetherspoons is more a bar than a pub and where people go for cheap drinks...not really touristy pubs but there are loads of Independent pubs in London....but you have to remember pub food is usually cheap comfort food...

    • @jillosler9353
      @jillosler9353 Месяц назад +3

      Not all of it. In order to survive nowadays pubs have had to go beyond just selling alcohol and cheap food. Some have great chefs and serve amazing food - without it costing a fortune.

    • @nealgrimes4382
      @nealgrimes4382 Месяц назад +1

      Cheap they are not, apart from maybe Wetherspoons.

    • @glastonbury4304
      @glastonbury4304 Месяц назад

      Cheap compared to restaurants and gastropods have great food but more outside London...

  • @rolandscales9380
    @rolandscales9380 Месяц назад +2

    Before the age of scientific enquiry it used to be thought that the female pelican would peck her own chest open to feed her young with her own blood. This is why the pelican was regarded as a symbol of Christ.

  • @user-do6yv8he4n
    @user-do6yv8he4n Месяц назад +2

    we tend to stay away from bars in our area they always get a little to rowdy for our liking, but that pub look relaxing and that beer looked cold. I approve

  • @ronturner9850
    @ronturner9850 Месяц назад +1

    Be careful, you’re giving American tourists a good name! 😂. You two are a breath of fresh air in the crowded RUclips market of videos about London and I’m looking forward to seeing more of your travels and your quiet enthusiasm and appreciation of our Country. Keep them coming!

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад

      Wow thank you so much for your kind words and thanks for watching! We loved the whole trip and can’t wait to come back and see more!

  • @tedfoster5
    @tedfoster5 Месяц назад +1

    Great to see you enjoyed little old Britain, come back soon, spend some time in the village pub but before you go make sure it’s open because most villages are quiet so the pub is not always open

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад

      We fell in love with your Country, We are in talks of returning because how well this series is doing and explore more of the country.

  • @richt71
    @richt71 Месяц назад +3

    Our sausages are mostly pork with different herbs added. The main varieties are Lincolnshire and Cumberland. Our sausages are fried so the outside should have a firm outside.
    Bangers and nash is comfort food for many Brits. I actually had banger's, mash and baked beans for my dinner yesterday. Quick and easy.

    • @elemar5
      @elemar5 Месяц назад

      Were there any drugs in it? Seems to have messed up your typing coordination.

  • @nadeansimmons226
    @nadeansimmons226 Месяц назад +3

    I have been left handed all my life and have never had any problems. Goodness knows why you never learnt how to hold your fork in one hand and stopped swapping hands all the time. Crazy.

  • @stevenmontgomery8117
    @stevenmontgomery8117 Месяц назад

    When I was installing new lifts in Unilever house we used to go in the Blackfriars every Friday afternoon

  • @phoenix-xu9xj
    @phoenix-xu9xj 23 дня назад +2

    Pubs in some parts of the country are NOT calm. Many pubs have gardens and children are welcome. Quiz nights etc.

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  23 дня назад

      We want to bring our kids, little Richard loves fish and chips and mash too!! He would love England, he watch’s peppa pig and bluey so he calls soccer, football ball and accuses all of us as being “cheeky“ lol he would fit right in lol

  • @TimeyWimeyLimey
    @TimeyWimeyLimey Месяц назад +1

    Pubs are usually owned by the breweries and leased to a person or family to live there and run the pub, called the pub landlord. Don't know about London but in the rest of the country each pub usually has it's own menu and home made food, The exception is a Weatherspoon's pub which is more a restaurant chain with an artificial pub attached serving the same mass produced pub food and menu across the UK.
    For more pub culture, check out a BBC comedy you can find on YT called 'Early Doors', a Manchester pub that's seen better days.

  • @Kay-uy4xn
    @Kay-uy4xn 23 дня назад

    The chains often have their own brewery - there are also micro breweries who have one or a few pubs. There are many independent pubs and they often have the best food

  • @newbris
    @newbris Месяц назад +2

    You'll find the pubs that serve large meals will tend to be more calm. There's pubs that focus on sports, pubs that focus on the drinking, food pubs, community pubs etc etc.

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад +1

      Next time we want to be more out into the country side in smaller villages, we want to experience a true, community style pub.

  • @user-eb1sd2vj9r
    @user-eb1sd2vj9r Месяц назад +1

    Hi. Pub comes from public house and that is what they are - in the past when poor people did not have room in their homes to socialise with family and neighbours the local pub served that purpose. It’s not the same as a bar, so that is why, particularly in pubs in the countryside, you will see children in there. It’s not an adult only place to get alcohol in the way a bar is. It is a social hub for the local community. There are of course some that are more like bars and less welcoming for families, but we also have actual bars for that vibe.

  • @Neilhuny
    @Neilhuny Месяц назад +2

    The shield markers on the end of pews mark who paid for them! The richer you are, or the more senior you are within aristocracy, the local area etc - the closer you are to the front of the church. Guilds (skilled labour unions) also paid for pews. Poor people sit or stand at the back

  • @glastonbury4304
    @glastonbury4304 Месяц назад +3

    Loads of great food in London...love Borough Market and Camden Market...😋

    • @ianprince1698
      @ianprince1698 Месяц назад +2

      many different countries' foods in a line next door to one another

    • @WCGUK2024
      @WCGUK2024 20 дней назад

      Where you need a credit card 😂

  • @steveatbuccscoin336
    @steveatbuccscoin336 8 дней назад

    The shield are family crests and when there are on the pews it is where families would sit for the service, if they were attending that day. Some may have been away at family estates etc.
    Some of the crest may have been from families who were no longer around but frequented the church in prior years.
    Steve

  • @chrisaskin6144
    @chrisaskin6144 Месяц назад +1

    The Black Friars looks like a scaled down version (a MUCH scaled down version) of the Flat Iron building in Noo Yoick.

  • @what_im_eatin_uk
    @what_im_eatin_uk Месяц назад +1

    It can be tough to know what pubs are chain and what pubs are locally owned. You will almost always get the better food and service at the locally owned pubs.

  • @TheCornishCockney
    @TheCornishCockney 22 дня назад +1

    Fullers pubs,gorgeous,especially the Inns in the Home Counties,same with another London brewery,Youngs of Wandsworth,South London.
    But please don’t assume that ALL British pubs are similar.
    They most certainly are not.
    Get out in the “sticks” and find these big old grand boozers with huge fireplaces,great in winter,and soak up the atmosphere.
    I could show you London pubs that are not on the tourist trail that would delight you.

  • @angelacraw2907
    @angelacraw2907 Месяц назад +1

    Wow you ate at a 'regular' of mine when I worked in the City. Personally I love that pub's pudding but the best one I've ever had was in the Lake District, up north.

    • @rachealbrown2166
      @rachealbrown2166 Месяц назад +1

      That would be because sticky toffee pudding was invented in the lake district!

  • @rikspilz4991
    @rikspilz4991 Месяц назад +3

    It's like, can you suck a fruit pastille to it's conclusion without chewing it... Can you eat a meal keeping your fork in just the one hand?

  • @lynwratten9857
    @lynwratten9857 Месяц назад +1

    You will always see the sign of the brewery that supplies any particular pub in the UK Fuller's is one of the many breweries, that does not mean the brewery own the pub it just supplies the beer. The pub is usually for a relaxed drink after work or for an evening out with friends. Toby carvery is quite basic it's not always the best.

  • @gmdhargreaves
    @gmdhargreaves Месяц назад +1

    Love this channel!!!!!❤❤❤❤

  • @bobbybigboyyes
    @bobbybigboyyes Месяц назад +2

    Toby Carveries and Harvester pubs are in most towns across England, so you don't have to go far to go into one to get a Sunday roast!

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад

      I noticed Englands a black hole of Toby’s non in site and we never heard of harvester pub

    • @AM-dz2sh
      @AM-dz2sh Месяц назад

      @@Trippingthroughadventures Tobys is essentially iHop, Olive Garden or Taco Bell.... Cheap/shite chain restaurants

  • @katydaniels508
    @katydaniels508 Месяц назад +1

    Hi from England 😁You have a new subscriber. Your content is great, and different from the same old generic stuff everyone else is putting out. Good for you 😁 Also, don’t have a carvery at a chain pub. Go to an independent, they have some of the best produce and best chefs in the country 😁

  • @Greenwood4727
    @Greenwood4727 Месяц назад +1

    my home town has TWO red boxes as part of the town hall and they are protected because they are an integral part of the looks of my town hall

  • @Neilhuny
    @Neilhuny Месяц назад

    Absolutely fascinating seeing everyday, ordinary life in England from someone else's perspective!

  • @captaintorch983
    @captaintorch983 Месяц назад +22

    Please please visit parts of the country other than just London. The capital is the least British place of all. It was a lovely almost magical place in the 1950's -1970's but not any more.
    York, Bath, Wells, Lincoln, Carlisle, Bristol etc all highly recommended.
    Have a great visit.

    • @andywatts8654
      @andywatts8654 Месяц назад +7

      Silly London hatred. Much of london is still great

    • @captaintorch983
      @captaintorch983 Месяц назад +7

      @@andywatts8654 Fine, well you can go and visit there every day. I merely suggested other possibilities for visitors to the UK.
      I will check with you next time.

    • @andywatts8654
      @andywatts8654 Месяц назад +2

      I see you london haters all over RUclips. Most have never been here or not for decades

    • @danrcash
      @danrcash Месяц назад +1

      I'm not discounting your opinion that many parts of the UK are beautiful, but I'm not sure London in the 50's to 70's was a garden of glittering delights, what with the bomb damage, squallor, slums, poverty, smogs, strikes, power cuts and the three day week, The Winter of Discontent....

    • @captaintorch983
      @captaintorch983 Месяц назад +1

      @@danrcash Of course we all look back through rose tinted specs Dan, but when I first visited in the 1950's, it was clean and tidy. Much of the bomb damage had been cleared up. It was bustling thriving place, and I have happy memories. Anyway it was the same everywhere in the country regarding those events.

  • @barrywhite5899
    @barrywhite5899 Месяц назад +1

    4:47 that’s my work office on Threadneedle Street !!

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад

      No way that’s kool, I don’t even know you but still went and looked to see your office lol 😂

  • @susandrydenhenderson6234
    @susandrydenhenderson6234 Месяц назад +2

    You should try Saturday nights in pubs, and small towns.

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад

      Would love to usually in America in my younger days you could go to certain bars on Saturday night and they would have karaoke… great for some fun and a laugh 😆

  • @susandrydenhenderson6234
    @susandrydenhenderson6234 Месяц назад +1

    The pubs used to all be private and separate but the breweries formed chains of pubs they supplied who were then tied to them. Lots of pubs are still independent and different.

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад +2

      We would like to find more independent pubs, also it will make you happy to know
      1. We have been working on the proper way to eat with cutlery, because we like the idea of having some class even if our homeland didn’t teach us it.
      2. Yea we try not to talk with our mouth full but we are working off alot of excitement right there.
      3. Grammar is subjective to “what is correct or what is not”, food can be Good as well as bad, language was originally based to communicate wants emotions and desires to another human. As long as it is communicated with understanding and is culturally appropriate. For example in the UK saying things like “ me nann, me dad, me car”. Rather it be right or wrong, it’s culturally accepted as communication in the uk, however, refer to anything in a possessive nature as “me “ in the states, will land you in a speech therapy class 😂… speech is subjective lol.

  • @paulknox999
    @paulknox999 Месяц назад +1

    there are a lot of "Free Houses" around the UK free house are pubs that are not aligned to a particular brewery. Weatherspoons is a chain of places that is not really a pub not really a restaurant its a place to go for cheap beer, cheap food made that is all the same for all their places it serves a purpose for some.

  • @timbanks8331
    @timbanks8331 Месяц назад +2

    If you want a 5* sunday roast, book at table at "Black Lock" 5 venues in london, cost 25% more than your average but well worth it!
    Youll need to book a few weeksbun advance tho!!

  • @user-eb1sd2vj9r
    @user-eb1sd2vj9r Месяц назад +6

    If you want to eat a roast, you can do that on any day. A Sunday roast is just the name of the version specifically served on Sundays - like a special for that day, it’s what people want most on Sundays and they specialise on that day. Just order a roast dinner on any day. Also it’s ice cream sundae (not Sunday so not referencing the day of the week). 😊

  • @user-zb7qf8rq5r
    @user-zb7qf8rq5r 28 дней назад +1

    The shields denote a family crest. Often in CofE churches families owned pews.

  • @mehitabel6564
    @mehitabel6564 Месяц назад +1

    'Tied' pubs versus 'Free Houses': Most of the pubs you mention are 'tied pubs', owned by one of the large breweries, and generally the beer and ale on tap will be from that brewery. 'Free Houses' are owned and run privately, where you'll get a much wider and more interesting range of beers and ales, and the food will be diverse. CAMRA (The Campaign For Real Ale) will often also endorse pubs, usually free houses. That's where the interesting drinks are. City pubs and country pubs also are quite different in atmosphere, and it's worth visiting both. Country pubs will often be more family oriented, though you won't see kids at the bar, they'll be allowed inside, often when the family is there for a meal. The other drink to try is cider, which in the UK is alcoholic, like hard cider in the US. Parts of the West Country, Somerset, specialise in cider and that's worth seeking out too.

    • @Trippingthroughadventures
      @Trippingthroughadventures  Месяц назад

      Thank you this is a lot of good information. We noticed all our cups was branded to the drink we chose, is this common for all pubs or just tied pubs.

  • @user-pv6fv6bz4f
    @user-pv6fv6bz4f Месяц назад +1

    Pubs are traditionally owned by the brewery and are either managed houses or are rented to a self employed tenant.

    • @nealgrimes4382
      @nealgrimes4382 Месяц назад

      Pubs are no longer owned by Breweries.