28 British Things The Whole World Needs
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- The UK is home is some wonderful things! As a foreigner living in the UK, here's 28 British things I think the whole world should have. Have a favourite British thing I didn't mention? Make sure to leave it in the comments!
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Hey! I'm Alanna - a twenty-something documenting my life as a Canadian living in England.
I share the ups and downs of an expat living abroad and what it's really like living in the UK. It's not always easy, but there's been so many wonderful experiences, too. I post a RUclips video every Tuesday & Friday plus an additional video every Saturday on my Patreon account. I also livestream every Wednesday and Sunday at 5:30pm GMT/BST on Twitch.
Alanna x
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Hi Alanna thanks for replying. Ya soo sweet I do love your quirky and sweet videos but I have to decline your offer to your membership as Im not working at mo, But it is something to consider when I do get back to work
I hope you understand keep up the great vids you always make me smile and laugh sp much that Ive even left comments that I never do let alone consider membership
But there ya go 🤣🤣
Thanks Neal
Those Tik Tok dance routines were brilliant. You'd have thought they'd have better things to do than make idiots of themselves by prancing around empty wards and corridors.
It's so nice, and refreshing to hear someone talk so warmly about the UK. There is so much negativity online so this was lovely to watch
Because we told the corporate EU establishment where to stick it back in 2016. The international establishment still can’t get over that.
@@wildsurfer12 And Britain has done so well since. Not!
@@jazzthedog86like nearly every other European country. Nothing to do with brexit
@@TheMilkyWayFlid that doesn’t explain why we’re the worst performing member of the G7, and why the economy is permanently on the skids. Brexit was lunacy in 2016 and it’s no saner now.
@@jazzthedog86 because we spend so much on ridiculous things like HS2. The Eurozone is in recession. Lots of countries are tanking. How would staying in have helped?
I often think the British loose sight or take it for granted of all the things we do really well here in the UK
Like spelling, for example... The word is 'lose'. We're also pretty good at pedantry.
Like what for instance? As for the UK, it is in economic free fall, destroyed by Tory politics..And what do the dumb Brits do. Absolutely nothing! They put the blame on the EU, or foreigners in general.
@@KBJ58came here to say this lol.
Thank you - seeing this sort of thing all the time but not said anything..as someone who wanted to be a proofreader this is very painful!
The NHS is funded by taxation on wages - it's called National Insurance - so for anyone actually working it ain't free.
For layabouts and boat people it certainly is though.
I declare you an honorary Brit. Your observations of everything British is spot on and very genuine.
ive picked out a fair few mistakes! stop being a brown nose
I second that declaration.
@@stevegrant6464 I third it. Motion carried.
I would not insult her by making her an honorary British person! She is an impeccable Canadian Citizen as it is!!
I know you are aware of the risk of hurtful comments when you present these lovely blogs, but it embarrasses me when you print them - “daft cow”, that’s terrible.
We moved to Canada in 2019, and we still complain about the price/quality of the cheese. As a mouse, this was difficult to come to terms with.
It’s because it’s all processed, like the USA.
Blessed are the cheese makers
@@stevenclarke5606 well, obviously , all purveyors of dairy produce
@@Irene-xs9pc All cheese produced for retail is 'processed' to some extent, that is not the reason. There just aren't any (or very few) cheese makers in North America. I get why you don't get decent cheese outside of the Eurosphere because most non-Europeans are lactose intolerant, consuming most dairy is just not a thing in much of the world. But I don't get why they don't make and consume good cheese in America, considering how pretty much every European country makes and consumes loads and loads of wonderful cheese.
Keep your british mourning to yourself. You are in Canada now that hates british traits.
Lots of respect for talking about how "fast food" fish and chips is WAY better.
To all foreigners: get fish and chips from a chippy (chip shop) by the seaside, NOT from a pub.
And then eat it outside!!!
Just keep an eye out for the bloody gulls.
@@mehallica666 Especially in Cornwall and Aberdeen.
The closer it is to the sea, the fresher the fish will be.
True that! 👊🏽
Just saw this and loved it! I'm Irish but have lived here for 39 years (just came for a change for a couple of years!) There is a lot to like about the UK and I will never take it forgranted!
Ireland is great too! Love both countries equally.
Fish and chips straight out of newspaper walking home, hot crispy and delicious. Much nicer than using knife, fork and plate.
And if you were lucky, it included page 3!
YES I REMEMBER THAT ALSO WINKELES
Showing yer age mate, UK has not allowed newspaper to wrap chippy dinners since 1990.
@@wcatfn7928true but I still miss it. My local chippy got round it by wrapping the food in paper BUT putting newspapers on a table by the door
In my country of Yorkshire ,we use the greeting " Eyup" which goes back two thousand years.
She's already drinking Yorkshire tea and eating Yorkshire puds. She'll be converted to a Northerner, saying "Eyup", soon enough.
Also from Yorkshire and we also say "Now then" as a greeting. Throws off a lot of non Yorkshire people.
I'm in Nottinghamshire and I've always said ayup and so do loads of people i know here its either ayup or alright mate.
@@waynelowe3329 Ey up, duck.
@samanthahardman7459 Aye, you're reight. Where I come from, we say nah then, or nah then thee tha gret ugly waaart.
Just when I feel like I'm completely done with this country, you come along with one of these videos and put everything into perspective and make me appreciate what we've got!
Exactly 👍
As a 60 year old Brit , I wish I could muster the same enthusiasm to go and look around the UK .
Would you prefer to let the next generation fight over the dwindling resources this land has to offer or fight for what is yours? I mean no disrespect and I'm not on a mission to drum up political support, but it's quite obvious we're being fleeced with low-emission zones in the name of climate change or mass immigration to take care of pensions. Both of these things will change the nature of British culture and I for one have been blase to their effects for too long.
I think it’s a case of better the devil you know
@@davey1602I've read your post a few times, and I'm honestly not sure what your point/question is, or who it's addressed to.
First rule of RUclips: "DON'T READ THE COMMENTS!!!!"
I think I must be depressed. You've made me want to cry, listening to this. UK here.
Once again Alanna nailed it as a british person we take all the things she's mention in her video for granted and we should appreciate it more
Thanks for that Alanna we need more people like you x
One of my personal favourite insults is " he's about as useful as a chocolate fire guard ".
A full-English is the most amazing thing I’ve ever had in my life as an American who’s making the move to the Uk I have a lot of love for the UK 🇬🇧 ❤ I love black pudding and the culture is beautiful. I cannot wait to get shoes on ground and the dialects are really cool.
Must include fried bread.
Welcome to the 🇬🇧 when you get here Jennifer 👋.
@@davesimms5397 Indian bread to you, Jenny
I love a good black pudding, but a full roast isn't that great compared to a nicely prepared cafe breakfast we have here. Pretty basic stuff.
@@mikeball6182That's just asking to be given naan bread with your full-English! North America and the UK have very different ideas of what "Indian" is.
'... finish at the pub' ... one of the best lines in the English language! Great list!
"Kill Phillip, grab Mum, go to Liz's, go to the Winchester, have a cold pint and wait for all this to blow over" Fried gold!
Been in Australia for 50 years and still miss a Ploughman's Lunch
Thanks for this. It's become popular in recent years for British people to profess their hate for this country, its culture and all it stands for, so it's nice to hear somebody talk about the good parts of our land and culture.
As far as public transport goes, we all complain pretty much constantly about the trains and the Tube, but let a foreigner badmouth them and we'll rally around like nobody's business. Actually they're pretty reliable, if not cheap; personally I only recently got round to getting my driving licence (at the age of 48!) since I've spent most of my working life in and around London and never really needed a car.
As for history, well, my house is older than your country, so we'll leave it there :)
Public transport is VERY different and 100% worthy of complaints outside of London. The gulf in quality, value for money and reliability of public transport even in other major cities like Birmingham compared to London is enormous.
Thank you Alanna for this video. As a retired Brit now living alone in New England for 30+ years, I miss everything on your list plus starchy puddings with Birds custard, tarts, Boddingtons cream ale, Christmas foods, crumpets and toad in the hole. As a keen cyclist and hiker I miss the UK countryside and very walk-able towns and cities.
I 'm fully aware of the gloomy news about the bad economy and terrible housing situation yet I am still driven to move back in a few years for the many positive things there. The U.S. has been really good to me career wise but its time to reconnect with my family, my culture, my history and my country.
Don't, your memories are not here. It's a foreign place now. Litter is everywhere, no pubs left. Most are now food eateries, or Indian restaurants. Roads are hell. craters, potholes and sinking crumbling tarmac. Food is awful.laws say no sugar, no certain oils, all biscuits and cakes,chocolate ,yuck! New recipes. Meat's filled with waterbulkers. England is gone.
Just because I haven't seen Boddingtons in a while sorry .
Hopefully you are in or near Mass. , where Boddingtons is available. A larger packie (liquor store) will have it in stock, or will be happy to order for you.
Do come but hurry because there are lots of Yanks in the queue . . . Sorry, in the line.
@@robertfarrow5853The whole world has gone to 5h17, hasn't it? By which I mean whatever bit of it you are in.
Here in Somerset, England is alive and well, and beautiful and quaint.
Plenty of countryside. Plenty of local and authentic food. Plenty of nice friendly people enjoying our comedy and fish and chips and free museums and dialects and pubs and 25 local artisan cheeses.
Sure; there are potholes in the road. Some of them have a family tree traceable back to Roman times. We are mighty proud of them!
NGL: A lot of local pubs and bars have closed down over the past decade. Now there are generally one or two per village. Or about 6 within walking distance. So, so bad.😢
But my local is yards away, and the only one I'd go to anyway...
Maybe you are just old and grumpy? I get like that sometimes too. But then I watch a video like this and my perspective snaps back into place like an elastic band in a home-made catapult.
It's f'n great here.
Being a born and bred Brit I love your video’s they remind me that actually we have it pretty good for the most part and we tend to forget that sometimes. 😀👍💜
Thank you, I really appreciate that!
You do not need to use apostrophe if a word is just plural. Videos.
@@fionagregory9147 but does it really matter?
@@fionagregory9147
Good for you! I've mentioned the "grocer's apostrophe" dozens of times on RUclips, and have been called a "grammar Nazi" and similar names almost as often. If people want to appear to be semi-literate, that's their privilege.
@@johnstoddart9026 Matter? Probably not.
But worth correcting? Yes. It's an English thing. We tend to do 'language' and 'punctuation' in a way that other countries or age-groups don't seem to understand. Like castles 'n' sh1t.
Letting people get away with things like 'Could of' or "Gregg's the baker's" is just the thin end of the wedge.
Soon will all be writing; "I R at Uni n got a 3th in inglish lol" on our CVs if we go down that path. Bad show; knock it off!
Looking after our buildings and bridges and giving them a 'Listed' status, so they can't be pulled down or changed, without local council's approval, should be on your list.
Developer's who pulled down an old pub recently, were taken to Court, and were made to rebuild it.
It means that we still have some nice old buildings next to the horrible modern office tower blocks.
Natural history museum is the best the building itself is simply stunning
A lot of people knock the UK but we are quite lucky and don't realise it until it's spelled out to us by a foreigner! Just found your channel and really enjoyed your views, keep it up ☺️. Have been to Canada several times and it's a lovely place with lovely friendly people, don't knock it!!
I'm with you there. I find the Canadians very friendly
Yes we are 🥰
@@MariaSantos-fw8vu As an ex-Brit who has been in Canada for 50 years now living in a rural area in Maritimes I would certainly agree. In some ways living here has a lot in common with the UK that I remember when living in a rural area in Dorset. Very friendly and very neighbourly. But not so true in many of the large Canadian cities these days in my opinion, as city life has become much like cities anywhere.
I love your enthusiasm about living in Britain, you’ve just made me realise it’s not so bad living here after all x
🇬🇧 I love living in the UK 🇬🇧 The history, the ancient buildings, beaches, rivers , fish and chips, woodlands , castles, the people, just everything.
I live near Warwick Castle. It's a wonderful day out.
Warwick Castle is not a ruin.
Ps. I'm from Kent.
The first "great things from Britain" video that doesn't mention our truly brilliant 3-pin electrical plugs.....
Agreed an absolute marvel of engineering, it's simplicity understates it's remarkable functionality and overall safety.
She has another video where she says she doesn't like them.
Part of this, though, I think, is the lower voltage of the electrical supply in North America, and the need for higher safety with the supply in the UK. (110v/240v). Those UK plugs are huge though! But the thing I do like about UK plugs is that the wattage you can get from those 13 amp sockets at 240v sure is useful when you are using your kettle!
South Africa has the 3 pin electrical plugs, only difference is they are round instead of squarish.
Those aren't great, brilliant, and they certainly aren't a marvel of engineering... They're oversized, bulky, wastes of materials that increase the cost of goods and provide no discernible safety improvement over other plugs unless you include the dolts who would have inevitably found a way to injure themselves using a sponge in the numbers.
Nice of you to appreciate UK.
You make it sound like a paradise.
❤
My wife and I were talking about English food and why it has such a bad reputation globally, and your passion over the full English breakfast brought it back to me. Sunday roast, North Sea fish, not to mention our penchant for soups and stews.. so much good food! Some of it not so good for you, but some of it SO good for you! Root vegetables like potatoes, parsnips etc. I love global food from all corners of the globe, but there is some great ‘English’ options.
Face melt Loon. English food is fantastic and knocks spots of American food. The
MYTH about our food is ridiculous and goes back to rationing and the second World War. The more you talk about it the more foreigners will believe it.
The bad reputation was formed by US servicemen who tasted food during rationing in the U.K. during WW2.
Shepherd's pie, bangers n mash, toad in the hole, steak and ale pie, mince n dumplings, roast pork with crackling and sage and onion stuffing get it all in my face immediately
pies, pies and pies...
I met a German priest, a friend of my family, who loved Xmas pudding. We always took one if we went. Why? The English soldiers gave him and his friends a load of that in 1945 when he was hungry.
I've never really appreciated the history in the UK until recent years. Thinking about it, my wife and I were married in a 16th century manor house which had the ruins of a 12th century monastery attached to it. Neither of us had any personal connection to the owners of the property, it was just one of the venues available to rent for the day. And there are sites like this available all across the country! We do truly have a rich history in this country!
That sounds like Norton Priory to me! Maybe not , but I do love British history. The view from my bedroom window when I lived in Runcorn was an 11th century castle. You can't get better than that, IMHO!
Well, it has taken this lovely young lady to get me to think how much we DO have in this country. I had begun to hate it here, but she is right, appreciate what you have !
My fave things about being a Brit is our humour, our music, our climate, NHS, our beautiful villages and our people. In fact, I love just about everything and would never want to live anywhere else.
You're proud of the NHS? That organisation that has basically ensured me death because the doctors wouldn't test me for cancer when it was still treatable? It wasn't a funding issue, it wasn't a staffing issue. It was STAFF issue; they didn't care. I hope the NHS is privatised before I die in the next 18 months. Thanks NHS.
NHS isn't going to be around for long.
@@teesman61 NHS is crap, countries with a public private system like Australia do much better. Private for those that can afford it and a public system for those that can’t.
@@andrewharris3900 It would take a hell of a lot more than that to make me move to Australia. I do not wish to be fried alive.
@@andrewharris3900The UK does have private health systems as well as public! And has done for bloody YEARS! You think the rich use the NHS?
Alanna, you missed out the Fried Bread on the Fully Cooked English Breakfast. If you've never had it before, you should definitely try it! 👍😃🙂 Also, Cadbury's isn't the same as it was, since Kraft bought it - yes, something as good as Cadbury's really did taste even better!
Mushrooms and fried bread are definitely the best part of a fry up. I’m with you, Alana, regarding black pudding; if given the choice, I’d swap it for a double portion of one of the other ingredients of an English Breakfast.
I’ve personally gone off the fried bread, thick white toast please. But I would go for a half a tomato and black pudding :)
Some humans are going to hell for the ruining of Cadbury's Dairy Milk, that's for sure. A blanket statement for which I'll never apologise: Americans can't make chocolate.
Kraft bought Freia here in Norway too. They used to have fantastic milk chocolate. After the take-over in the early-mid nineties, it went downhill fast. Today, the Freia branded milk chocolates are uneatable, in my opinion.
Ooh no, no fried bread. That's just horrible. Has to be toast every time. The 'fried bread' we did as a kid: Grill the bacon, the wipe the grill pan clean with a slice or two of bread and toasted. |Since the grill pan was clean to start off with, it's only a small amount of bacon fat soaked into one side only of the bread. Now that's nice, but a slice of bread deep fried? Yuk! And grilled tomatoes, not tinned. Although it's called a fry-up, in our house the only thing actually fried is the egg. The sausage, bacon, tomato, black pudding and even (if we have them) hash browns are all grilled. Mushrooms, chopped, in a bowl with a tiny amount of garlic-olive oil, some herbs, and 1 - 2 minutes in the micro-wave!
And while I love baked beans, they just don't belong on a breakfast plate unless it's just beans on toast, maybe with sausage or bacon. But then it's not a full English. :) YMMV!
I am British, from Yorkshire, retired and live with my Thai family here in Bangkok. I am in my sixth year here and you have mentioned so many things that I miss. Back in Yorkshire we always had a Sunday roast but the dinner was always started with a Yorkshire pudding course, here it‘s rice or noodles! Accents, ha ha ha I’m still trying to get my head around the Thai language with 44 consonants, 28 vowels & 5 tones. I could kill for fish & chips. Fish is popular here but it looks like something off finding Nemo & never battered. Cheese is processed in flat square slices. I miss the NHS, you can’t even register with a doctor here. If you need to see a doctor, you have to go to a hospital where a doctor attends to see anyone who has an ailment. Pay as you go. It is warm 24/7 here in a monsoon area. There is a high rainfall, depending on the time of year. Siamese history & culture is different & interesting. I won’t sleep tonight thinking about Cadburys chocolate.
🙏
I'm in Yorkshire just getting ready to go to family for Sunday dinner. Yorkshire pudding for starters obviously. Thinking about you 😂😂
Yorkshire Pudding with gravy should be eaten as a starter (to fill you when food was scarce) now lost amid all the meat and vegetables.
Traditionally - Beef with Yorkshire pudding, Pork and Chicken with stuffing, lamb with savoury suet pudding, and lots of gravy made in the roasting dish to take up the juices.
Yorkshire Puddings filled with gravy and onions. My Mother was from Yorkshire and said they quite often filled with custard and a blob of jam as a pudding.
aye works as a sweet or savoury dish, it's just pancake batter essentially :)
My Gran used to make one straight Yorkshire Pud to have with a roast, and put dried fruit in another one, to have for 'afters'. But she wasn't from Yorkshire, she was a Cockney 😂
It's wonderfully refreshing to hear a 'visitor' finding good things about my country. I think one of things that still makes my country 'great' is the fact we have people like you living here, so please don't decide to go home 🙂
We need to protect our wonderfull NHS dont vote tory. That's republican if your American like America they want to privatise our NHS
Fish and chips are best eaten sat on a wall, looking at the sea. Unfortunately this can involve fending off gulls.
It is so lovely to see someone from outside the country who apprecistes whst the UK has to offer, as we Brits so often take it for granted and need to be reminded.
Yorkshire pudding is enjoyable eaten after the main meal as a dessert with raspberry jam. Which was its original intention.
I never heard that as an origin of Yorkshire pud. I understood it to be to compensate for meagre meat portions in poorer households, fill up on something cheap.
That made me feel so lucky to live here….we def take the uk for granted
It's helpful to stop and appreciate the little things sometimes!
@@AdventuresAndNaps definitely!
I can happily eat just a plate full of Yorkshire puds with a slathering of mince gravy.
In Britain we not only get 28 days paid vacation, it's often seen as the employers responsibility to ensure an employee uses their allocation, rather than resenting you for taking it!
"Daft cow" is a lovely insult, very affectionate!
Bubble and Squeek , typically a use for leftover vegetables from your Sunday dinner. Basically it's Cabbage, Onions and Mashed Potato fried as one mixture. The name is from the sound the mixture makes when fried.
Lived in London for 14 years. Never had a car....never needed to. Travel was so much quicker by public transport.😊.my friends who had cars rarely used their own cars as it often took much longer to travel!
I loved the “we have so many great cheeses” line.
Thank you for a well presented video. You held my attention from go to whoa. I'm a 77 year old grandfather in Queensland, Australia. My dad
was from Scotland and I'm drawn to Britain very much. England gave cricket to the world, and railways. Scotland gave golf to the world, and
the finest whisky. I especially love the old British comedians. Morcombe and Wise, The Two Ronnies. Tommy Cooper. We live a similar kind of
lifestyle down here. We've never rebelled against our British roots, yet we welcome other cultures as does the UK. I've subscribed to your channel
and look forward to your future RUclips presentations.
As a northern English man you must visit Scotland the highlands are amazing the drive to Inverness is awesome in my fifty’s now feel I’ve been blessed to see such a beautiful country
Many amazing places from the Scottish Islands to Devon & Cornwall
The Lake District and the Cotswolds are beautiful parts the country too.
2:53 I'm imagining the entire world coming together for an almighty fry up 😂peace in our time 🕊
Fry up not good for your health. I was born in UK. Now live in Greece. I never eat fry up. Greek food much better
Bless you, I’ve only just spotted this on RUclips and it was lovely to hear someone talk so nice about our country for a change. You made me realise just how fortunate and privileged us Brits really should be for taking so many fantastic things for granted. Especially Yorkshire puddings. Oh, and chocolate. Oh, and cheese. We do love cheese. Anyhow, it would have been rude not to say thanks after watching. You clearly were a Yorkshire lass in a previous life. Keep up the good work lass.
We've got good buses and taxis too. Especially the older ones. The original Routemaster bus must have been something for tourists to see.
All of these things make me so glad I was born on this sceptred Isle.
Sometimes...it takes a "foreigner" to point this stuff out to us.
You're NOT a foreigner anymore though Alanna.
You are now an honoury Brit! ☺️👍
Thank you!! 🥳
Hiya Alanna, I hope you get your British Citizenship
Well, that’s it as far as I’m concerned. You can consider yourself British now. You totally get this country’s culture along with its foibles. I’ve watched your videos for a while now and since your early ones, you have matured into an even more intelligent, open minded and beautiful person, not to mention a beautiful woman. If Canada could sent more like you to Kent, that would be great. 🇨🇦➡️🇬🇧👍🏻
Never mind Kent, she needs to be shared with the whole country, maybe not Scotland though, only joking, I love Scotland, the Scots themselves though, Mehhhh! I actually lived and worked in Scotland for a while and loved every minute. Amazing people.
Hiya LOL Canadian here, bucket list is go to a pub! So true w architecture! Luv their humour!
I recommend looking at the national Trust and English heritage .they both look after historic buildings and open them to the public.
was literally on her list
In daily life, its pretty .... standard fair for the Brits to be gloomy.
Alanna comes along and just gushes about things she has found, loves, enjoys. We all need to have some more Alanna-Attitude.
Sort of, an Alannatude!
Nailed it. As a Brit living in Canada (BC) those are precisely the things I miss most. Oh and the "Up North" made me smile. You really are becoming acclimated.
😂 Thank you! Hope you're enjoying BC!!
So are you - you said acclimated not acclimatised :))
One of the best insults I've heard is when somebody is on the 'Dole' and they greet them "Alright, jobless?"
outing myself as a STEM kid here but I was honestly expecting this entire video to mainly be about the goated electric plug design lmao
Number 29: The world needs a lot more Alannas!
You're too nice!!
I love Alanna she’s absolutely Adorable
Love this list. It certainly highlights things we should be proud of.
As for the term 'daft cow', it all depends on the circumstances and the tone of voice, as it can be said as both an insult and an endearment, you might also hear the term 'silly cow' as well.
Bubble and squeak is much tastier than hash brown and is part of the traditional English Breakfast foods.
Not in my house lol , keep your cabbage 😂
@@Indicasativa55 Why the laugh emoji? Seriously. Anyway, you can't decide what is traditional English food. Hash browns are not.
@@Dionysos640 I’m laughing because tradition or not cabbage tastes like a fart smells so I go for the hash brown. Sorry if you think I was laughing or mocking you as it wasn’t my intention. I hope you’ve had and continue to have a wonderful day
@@Indicasativa55 Cabbage doesn't smell or taste like farts. I don't care if you were mocking me, we don't know each other. Think that one through. Bubble and squeak is much tastier (and healthier) than hash browns and if you can't appreciate that, well, it's you and your taste buds loss
@@Dionysos640 iv thought it through and I think you may be a full on bell end so il leave you with that to consider and assimilate you weirdo 😘
Hello Alanna, as an 83-year old Yorkshire lad from Harrogate I am sure you have read my mind. Both the tea and the pudding mines are in a secret location in Harrogate and the miners descent 200 feet, always at 11am on Thursdays, dig out the tea packets and the dishes of Yorkshire Pudding. I am only kidding. It is, of course, 9am not 11am.
I notice you kept saying "we". That was nice!
My family had friends in Belgium, where they make really fantastic chocolate. But whenever we visited, they asked us to bring bars of Cadbury's Dairy Milk.
One thing you didn't mention about paid holiday/vacation days is that you don't need to use up any of that time if you're ill. You get time off work in addition to those paid holidays. If you're lucky with your employer, you'll get sick days on full pay, but if not, you'll get a guaranteed amount from the government. And if you're ill while on vacation, you can claim those days as sick days and get your vacation days back.
For the non Brits watching = worth noting that Alana Central, Kent, is [along with parts of the Welsh Border and the West Country] a cider stronghold.
Over much of the country asking for a "local" cider will get you a blank look.
Westcountry lad here and Cider is the best. Proper scrumpy 👍
Cider....icky
I've watched loads of videos made by citizens of USA and now Canada, about the UK and I'd like to thank you all for making me really appreciate my country. I thought most countries were the same way as us!!!! 😂🤣😂🤣🙏💕. We Brits take all that we have which is special, so much for granted. Thank you. By the way, as a proud Yorkshire lass, you are 100% correct about Yorkshire puddings and Yorkshire tea.... Yorkshire is God's own County💖
The phrase is "God's own COUNTRY" btw (often misquoted), but, yes, I entirely agree with your sentiment.
There’s just a couple of things I would add to this very comprehensive list. The first is maps. Britain has the best maps in the world and if you want to access the countryside and it’s amazing web of footpaths you’ll need a good map. This is even better now that you can get them all on your phone. The second thing is the National Trust. This is a charity that buys up and protects landscapes and buildings of national interest and opens them to the public. If you come over here on holiday you can get short term membership at a very reasonable price and you’d be amazed at the variety of stately homes and castles that are available to you. It’s a ready-made holiday.
Ordnance Survey maps are the world's finest maps.The National Trust used to be good but now they are too woke and have drifted away from their original concept.
Decent public transport is my #1 favorite thing about places like the UK and a lot of EU countries! I know everyone who lives there likes to say it sucks but from an American perspective, it's amazing.
Honestly, so good! Walkable towns, too!
The UK public transport pails when compared to the Dutch system.
@@clivewilliams3661 pails???
@@Bear_the_shepherd It’s on my bucket list.
We’ve been at it for a while! Glad you appreciate it!
If you like hash-browns (as I do), have you tried the more traditional bubble and squeak? It's delicious, and is perfect with a "Full English" breakfast, or with an afternoon/evening meal for that matter. As a kid, it was always a treat to have sausage, beans and bubble and squeak for tea... I had simple tastes.
I've just posted the same thing, and here you are...
I deliberately make excess mash so I get leftovers for b&s 😉
@@sarkybugger5009 Fantastic! Can't beat a good B&S :)
@@ftumschk What happens if you say ftumschk three times? 😁
@@sarkybugger5009 I actually just make batches of bubble and squeak on its own, then freeze it in bags - in an emergency you can even defrost it in the frying pan
@@sarkybugger5009 I appear behind you and drag your soul into the Underworld ;)
Her mention of Yorkshire tea was how Damien Lewis realized that Clare Danes was spying on him in 'Homeland'
'How do you know I like Yorkshire Gold?'
As a Yorkshire Man we had Yorkshire Puddings ever Sunday Dinner filled with gravy. But we made so many that we also had them as a desert with Jam, Lemon Curd or Treacle.
I didnt realise how much I love the greeness of living in countryside here, until I was abroad for a while...also the bleak but beauitful coastline/beaches...
Yeah I really love the green countryside throughout the year - Ontario ends up looks very grey and white in winter.
I'm a Brit and I love our green countryside although moment of the country is brown at the moment and black in places after fires. But it recovers pretty.quickly
You mean the yellowness :D
Two days of rain and already the green is returning
One of the most bleak places I've been was the Yorkshire moors, wonderful views over the foreboding countryside, but it's honestly beautiful to be there.
Just to say Pie and Mash as a traditional dish predates fish and chips by over 100 years and you can still find lots of Pie and Mash shops. In London they also sell stewed and jellied eels. Tourists going to Greenwich should try the pie and mash shop there.
As a UK resident, loved to hear your perceptions on our culture. I found it fascinating. Please, keep it up.
Milk chocolate is a bit more complicated than what is allowed to be used as fat. North American cattle is typically grain-fed, whereas British cattle is typically grass-fed, which produces a richer milk. It's why our butter is much more yellow than the paler North American butter (no colourings needed!).
In addition, because the production of milk and the consumption of milk is typically so far apart in the US (I assume the same is true in Canada), the milk is lypolised to sterilise it prior to shipping and prevent it going off during transport, during which butyric acid forms in the milk. Butyric acid is commonly found in baby vomit (before weening, babies produce enzymes in their stomach juices that do a similar thing), so you will often find reference to this when people discuss the differences online. It creates a sharp, tangy flavour that can be quite off-putting, which limits how much milk can be added to the chocolate and is often compensated for by adding more sugar instead. You might note that American chocolate tends to have sugar listed above milk in the ingredients, whereas it tends to be the other way around in British milk chocolate.
British milk production is a lot closer to consumption, so the milk is not sterilised prior to incorporation into the chocolate, which produces a richer, creamier texture in comparison. Cadbury famously advertises 'a glass and a half of milk in every pound of chocolate'. A lot of American chocolate to Brits tastes like the really cheap no-name chocolates that you find in advent calendars and other things where the chocolate is just a novelty and taste is secondary.
Thanks for the video, it’s good to be reminded that some things I take for granted are actually privileges that not everyone has. I hope you and the butler have a great week
Well said! Hope you have a great week, too!
While perhaps not as true in big cities like London or Manchester, the people of the UK are some of the warmest, friendliest, most welcoming folks I have had the pleasure to meet. I think that you, Alanna, are a great addition to that population! Hiya!!!
People in big cities, no matter where in the world, don't have the time to be friendly. It's not just London or Manchester. If I said hello to everyone I walked past in London I'd wear my voice out by the time I got home!
I find genuine Mancs (becoming rarer) to be amongst some of the friendliest people anywhere, and I'm a Londoner.
Just remember: there is Yorkshire, and there's everywhere else.
Cosmopolitan cities, and tiny hamlets. Rolling hills, and rugged cliffs. Modern architecture, and buildings many hundreds of years old. Castles, stately homes, monasteries, bridges that were the sites of pivotal battles. Pioneers of the railways and flight. More pubs per capita than other counties, the most haunted city in existence, the largest Gothic cathedral.
Honestly, Yorkshire is all you need!
@tonyb7387 Last I checked Scarborough is in Yorkshire...
Scarborian here, we say the same about Whitby, so many pubs closing down now though
No. 10: Some of the best insults are political from the House of Commons. My favourite is one politician describing an opposition politician as a “Semi house trained polecat”
A bit of a marathon vlog today Alanna. You could have easily made it to 40, or more with places to visit, snacks, sweets, crisps, takeaway meals, just to name a few. We never tire of hearing you telling the world how good things are here.
Don't forget mushy peas with your fish and chips. A taste sensation
29th thing the world needs is for Alanna to become a British citizen! I'll keep watching!🙂
No, she does not need to become a British citizen. At least as a Canadian she has an escape route when Britain goes belly up.
@@DerekLangdon canada and britain both allow dual citizenship, though i do agree 100% with the importance of her keeping her canadian citizenship... once britain's north sea oil runs out in a few decades and london's reputation as a global financial center fades more, the UK will be fade along with it
@@DerekLangdon'Escape' to Canada? Things need to get A LOT worse before considering that. And a lot better over there!
I've just remembered 'Meal Deals' !
All supermarkets do them, where you buy a main course, snack and drink.
You can typically get a tray of salmon sushi, a starter of 2 vegetable samosas, and fresh orange juice for approx 3.50. It's a bargain and cheaper than a restaurant.
So, one of the best things about Britain is foreign food !?
It's not foreign, the supermarket meal deal is an abomination to international cuisine, they make sandwiches that taste like cold wet air and sit in a fridge for 3 days before you eat it.. and a yoghurt is NOT a main
The one thing I never see people mention when discussing English breakfasts, is marmalade? Putting marmalade on the toast you are eating alongside a fry up is pretty normal. The tartness and acidity helps offset the greasiness of the food. I know I was sometimes considered 'extreme' for actually putting marmalade directly on things like sausages, but felt vindicated one year when an award winning sausage maker revealed that they actually put marmalade directly into the sausage when they made it.
...the reason it's never mentioned is, I suspect, because you're completely on your own with that one! Marmalade in a full English? You're as mad as a box of frogs!!
Marmalade is mid to begin with and adding it to a full English is just....
I’m currently living in Nova Scotia with my hubs who is on a work secondment ( for a couple of years) and I am shocked, shocked I tell you, about the price of books here in Canada … absolutely horrendous !!!!! Paperbacks are four times the price here in Canada ☹️
Free museums are absolutely brilliant!!
So are roast dinners…most of all, Yorkshire puddings!
You won my Vote to be a true Brit when you endorsed Yorkshire Tea, you sealed it with the Yorkshire Puddings >👍👍👍👏👏👏👏👏
Proper annual leave/holiday/personal time off, is standard across all European countries. In Europe, we can't understand how north Americans don't get proper time off. A rested worker is a better worker.
Pubs/cafes are also normal across European countries. You don't have to drink alcohol, but you can if you want to.
If you want history, visit York. York has a full medieval street that's still in everyday use; The Shambles. York also has the shortest street (with the longest name). Blink, and you'll miss it as you walk by. You can walk on the city walls. They're 1,000 years old, and in places you can see the Roman remains as well. You can visit a real Viking settlement; the Yorvik Centre, not to be missed. There's also York Minster. It's beautiful. York is the biggest city in England. Sorry for the York plug. I used to live there and absolutely love it.
Hiya Alanna! I'm glad you like you love so many things here. And it really shows, that we shouldn't take things got granted in the UK. Cheers you! 😀 👍
Thank you!
@@AdventuresAndNaps 🥳
Alanna, another humorous video. The full English, you have to have the mushrooms and definitely a slice of fried bread or if you want a "slice of dip". We British sometimes take things for granted, such as the history.
I super love living here. South Africa was scary.
For insults, you can put "bloody" in front of pretty much everything to turn it into an insult, like calling someone a bloody spork, or a bloody crumpet for example.
You absolutely crushed this list! I think you could include the lack of natural disasters here as well. I'd gladly take a Winter of drizzle over Volcanos, tsunamis, hurricanes, earthquakes, mass flooding, wildfires and long lasting droughts! Also the lack of dangerous animals, I think the Adder is the only actually dangerous thing here and even then a death would be very rare, no Bears or Hippos or Tigers or Deadly Spiders or Sharks or Crocodiles here 😅
I love living in the U.K. and having Canada as a Commonwealth family member. IMO it would be a benefit for Canada to lean more on the Commonwealth British influence of items like PAYE taxes and Tax included in the price etc items that you mentioned here and turn away from the USA influence. I can't wait to go to Canada some day though, what a stunning country!
It was one QI once that Britain actually has the most tornados in the world. They just happen to be so small that even bin bags laugh at them! As for Canada turning away from the USA well it's kind of hard when you have a border with them that is 5,000 miles long!
We have trmors and flooding
You're comparing a small land mass with countries the size of continents. If you take a similar sized chunk out of where the average person lives in those countries, they don't deal with most of those things either.
I think deer and cattle are far more dangerous than adders, though re-introduced wild pigs/buffalo/wolves/bears would probably give them a run for their money.
You should try "toad in the hole"... Sausages in a tray of Yorkshire pudding batter, and gravy! Yum!
I made it on Patreon! So good!
@@AdventuresAndNaps hiyaaa.... ohhh, plugging the patreon. Excellent marketing effort! 😂 Well played. Not such a daft cow after all!!
Love the channel and the energy. Have to disagree with you about public transport outside of the main cities. I live in the North East and unless you have a car, places are pretty inaccessible.
Let's not forget to mention that British Cider is a different thing to US Cider - in the US it's just apple juice (which is what we call it over here - apple juice) whereas British Cider is an alcoholic drink, usually stronger than the average US beer.
Especially when it comes to a Scrumpy Cider. Which is lovely.
We have cider here too, we just call it "hard cider". There are many different ones too - some you can buy in stores, some at lubs/bars (we have those where I live). Also, I'm lucky to have locally made ciders - it's part of the whole craft brewing thing that took off years ago. :)
I so much enjoyed your observations and comments !! so much that we take for granted - but don't realise how lucky we are - thankyou !
a lot of us older folk (ie 50's and up) actually grew up on Yorkshire pudding in Canada. We'd have it with our roast dinner mostly. Still make it here in Montreal.
Well done, great representation of our beautiful country...honorary Brit you are...
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The vacation time sounds really exciting. I left in the US coz of the scary healthcare and poor time off. Best decision I ever made.
Should point out that back in the day (40's and 50's) we never called it a "full English".
A lot of our cheeses were started by small family farms decades even hundreds of years ago using excess milk and have become so popular they've had to expand.
Except for 'stinking bishop' where even the French do a runner from,the person who invented it should be in prison...unless the piece I tasted was from a bad batch
🤣🤣can’t believe somebody called you a daft cow😂🤦🏽♂️unbelievable, I think you’re just lovely🫶🏽great video, agree with everything 😂apart from the daft cow bit😊
😊 thank you!! 🐄
@@AdventuresAndNaps 😂your welcome🫶🏽
Thankyou for helping me to be more positive about my country...love your videos xx
Yeah me too!