British Foods BANNED In America (+1 that is impossible to find)
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- Опубликовано: 10 июл 2024
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Did you know that genuine Scottish haggis is banned in the USA? Or that UK-manufactured Cadbury is banned from America? As a cheeky question, which foods do you wish were banned in your country? Let us know in the comments!
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I still don't get why you guys don't have squash drinks, they're really nice :D Its basically juice that you dilate with water as the juice is way to strong flavour on its own and I heard it could make you a bit sick as well without it being dilated.
I didn't realise that you guys didn't have it until I watched some americans youtubers trying squash drinks that they got from us but to my confusion at first, wondering why they drank it without any water and them going its to strong and I'm like of course it is, you need to have lots of water with it! Then after I looked it up and realised you didn't have it, come on guys you need squash :D It also makes me feel nice that I'm drinking lots of water but it tastes pretty good lol
@Vlad Angelus Thanks for the comment, Vlad! I hate spreading misinformation, so I'm sorry if I got that part of the video wrong. Could you link me to an article about this?
Everything I read during my research said that Cadbury sold the right to manufacture its chocolate to Hershey because Cadbury couldn't figure out how to establish a market in America. The lawsuit came decades later, when Hershey shut down imports of UK-manufactured Cadbury because it posed a threat to its American-manufactured Cadbury.
But yes. Hersheys is garbage that tastes like wax - and not even good wax 😂
@Marcus Knightingale I honestly don't know how we've gotten on without them
@@pipercharms7374 We still haven't tried squash, but it sounds really nice! Will get some first thing, next time we're in the UK ;)
@@WanderingRavens Next time you're in the UK, try and get up to the Scottish Highlands and see some haggis in the wild.
"I'm sorry Sir, we can't sell Haggis as it's dangerous. May I interest you and a semi-automatic machine gun?"
Good one Phil 😂
Im sure our gun stores aren't selling food so... and contrary to popular European belief many Americans dont like guns or own guns many more fight to make owning guns illegal. Ive lived in the deep south the area of the country that loves guns the most and outside of hunting rifles ive only seen one gun in my 35 years of life.
If it’s old enough, you can buy a fully automatic machine gun.
@@beanburger5689 only up to 22 rim fire caliber
@@elvangulley3210 there was a gun aisle in the Wal-Mart I went into in Maine, so yes food and guns in the same shop! Also open carry in a burger king in Vermont.... that's two instances less than a week apart.
In the UK we say “sparkling” water not “carbonated” and “sodas” are “fizzy drinks” :)
Where I lived in Indiana they called 'soda' pop just I we do in Lancashire
Soda is bread in Northern Ireland.
Pop
And fizzy drinks are mostly for kids, not adults
Sodas are Pop!
The Kraft takeover of Cadbury is Not Popular At All. It now tastes, and feels like chocolate flavoured wax. It doesn't even even melt in the mouth any more! A sad disappointment to those of us who remember it the way it used to be.
I'm sorry 🙁 That's actually how I describe Hershey's chocolate - tastes like wax 😣
Oh dear! Well, at least I suppose we can commiserate over the destruction of our formerly good chocolate! We do still have good chocolate available here, you just need to sell a kidney, your firstborn, or similar, if you want to eat it regularly...
I used to be a freddo girl but now I’ve had to shift to galaxy and Nestle. Cadbury tastes so disappointing now. The sorrow is real!
The great Great grandson is Cadburys has started making chocolate lovecocoa.com
It tastes shit now they switched to palm oil. And then there was the issue of the new owners promising not to shut factories after the takeover. I think it was a matter of months before they started to move production to Eastern Europe. I'm one of many who now boycott the stuff. Lindt is far better.
Grace's intake of breath about Kraft buying UK Cadburys is how the whole nation felt!
We feel your pain!!
I wont even buy cadbury anymore the taste now is just wrong.
I've stopped eating Cadbury as something is off now.
It’s not the same taste, I used to love a crunchie but they taste wrong now
BABABOUYA
We were NOT happy when Kraft took Cadbury - it tastes vile now.
The Dark milk is pretty good.
I don't buy Cadbury anymore
this is because of British law about shares in a company. Cad bury didn't want to be bought out originally. Eventually though Kraft Started to buy up all the shares to own a majority stake. This then allowed them to change all the board that votes to their own people. This then allowed then to be allowed to be bought out.
I agree about Cadbury being awful now. Kraft came in and changed the recipe, presumably to make it more profitable. But that's the problem when you decide to become a public company----you are always in danger of being "bought out". What is this dark milk crap?---I've never tried it, but it used to be either milk chocolate or dark chocolate. Yet another great British tradition gone. Kraft can go and shove all of their products where the sun don't shine. Am I angry? You bet your lousy Yankee dollar I am.
@@kingstumble The thing is now that Kraft got bought out by Australian firm Mendoza or however they spell it. Eventually here the chocolate has gone back to the original recipe due to lots of backlash from the British public.
Cranberry is nothing like blackcurrant 😂😂
yes, bueberry is more like blackcurrant than cranberry is. Apparently the majority of the blackberry harvest in the UK is used for Ribena.
Cranberry is more sour
@@trickygoose2 Blueberry is more watery
The smell of cranberry makes me sick, but I think they mean that cranberry is used in the same way that we use Blackcurrent.
Blackcurrant has its own distinct sharp, sweet and sour flavour.
Blueberry is the closest in looks but definitely not in taste!
Blackcurrant banned, black pudding banned, I’m sensing ... some kind of pattern in the states 🤔
Yes, it' so called protectionism.
The Cadbury Phil Collins gorilla ad is a national treasure
It will forever be in our hearts
And now Cadbury’s chocolate tastes worse, since kraft has taken over. Sad.
And smaller.
Taste the same to me,although there was the issue with the cream eggs not using dairy milk chocolate, and introducing Oreos dairy milk into the selection boxes etc instead of traditional British bars
I would rather a bar if galaxy over cadburys any day of the week.
@@Celtman101 galaxy is usually for middle class overweight woman tho. Commonly purchased in 2s or a family bar
@@bmc9504 oh really. My local co op sells the family size bar for only £1, pretty cheap for middle class chocolate. Also, my pitete wife loves it too.
No Black Pudding but wash Chicken in Chlorine bleach!!! Only in U.S.
But not for long...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/chlorinated-chicken-british-markets-us-trade-deal-trump-a9548431.html
@@YourBeingParanoid Who the hell is going to buy chlorinated chickens all the way from the USA when we produce our own chicken in the UK?!
@@Aeronaut1975 the same idiots who pay £3 for a can of imported soda
@@YourBeingParanoid Ugh Ugh never ever will eat Chlorinated Chicken, not on my life. 😡
Shirley Karrutheos It’s only the welfare of the chicken that is bad.
If you’ve ever eaten salad it’s been dipped in chlorine.
I think battery eggs are a lot more cruel. The cages are tiny. They should be banned.
In Scotland, we call squash “diluting juice”, haha!
That's pretty-much only children is it not? I'm an adult and would never dream of calling it 'diluting juice'.
Not where I’m from. Everyone I know calls it that!
@@amybrown2733 I'm from Glasgow and I remember some kids at school calling it 'diluting juice'. We used to laugh at them.
Thanks for the insider tip! :D
I’m from Glasgow too. Never heard anyone I know call it anything else, haha.
Never been to the UK but the first time I tried black currant was while I lived in Germany. The German bakers put it in pastries and you can also get it as a jam.
Too bad there's so much control here in the US. I always enjoy new foods from everywhere. I'm looking forward to visiting the UK and have my fill on all of these goodies and more.
Nice content guys 🙌🏾
See if you have an Eastern European market in your area. They usually have current cookies and jams, although you'll probably need to ask for help translating the labels
The USDA don't like blood, eyeballs, and brains? How do Macdonalds cope without their main ingredients?
They use hair, hoof and teeth
Were not lucky enough for that those burgers are straight soy or wanna be soy
@blackzed I thought it was dog shit in there food😂😂
I love Grace's facial ticks. She's got a very innocent face but then she says things like _"bastardisation"_ and _"Hersheys are shit"_ .
Tics, Donovan. Lose no sleep at all
Cadbury`s has gone down hill since they were taken over by Kraft, tastes like cheap chocolate now .
I'm sorry!
@@WanderingRavens I can't tell you how upset I was when Kraft ruined Cadbury's Dairy Milk, which was so smooth, delicious and creamy. I was seriously emotionally scarred by this, as it feels like the vandalism of an important part of British history, as well as my childhood - I'm not even joking!
It's still better than a galaxy bar
@@RamsFan93 That's matter of opinion!
Don't get me started on the change to creme eggs
No-one says Cadbury bars. It's either dairy milk. Whole nut. Fruit n nut. A flake. Caramel. Etc
And they all tastes like shit now 🤢🤮
That’s acc a good point , I would say dairy milk, and then if ur talk8ng about like a specific type like Oreo you would still say Oreo dairy milk but if people wondered what type of choclolate your actually going do get you’d say ca’brys because then they can say oh no get galaxy or something and then you’d ask which one. Never really thought of that before
@@TheGingerburgerand are so small it’s not worth £1 for 25% less then it was in 90s or 80s.
I think the one that's you're most famous for not having is Kinder Eggs.
Yeah, I'm surprised that we forgot to include that one haha
@@WanderingRavens Well not really missed since it's a German brand not British
The clue is in the name ‘kinder’ is German for children. So kinder eggs are a German brand and not a British brand. But Ribena is a British black current cordial that is delicious.
@@pjschmid2251 Thanks for catching that, PJ! Just looked it up to verify and found out it's actually Italian! :D
@@WanderingRavens Go figure. With the German name and all the variations of Kinder in Germany I just figured it was from Germany.
It really gets my back up when thet call it blood pudding it`s BLACK pudding.
railwayender thank you someone gets
Makes me spit feathers......it’s the shock factor......
Resembles a hockey puck
You don't have squash???
I have about five different flavours in the cupboard.
That's a lot of squash! And nope, it's not a thing in the US at all, though I'm not sure why as I'm sure Yanks would like it 🤷🏻
@@WanderingRavens Big soda keeping it out! :)
Wandering Ravens my friend and his wife live in America he moved from the U.K. to the USA and apparently you can get it but you would have to go to a British store that sells imported stuff like the American candy stores In the U.K..basically store that only sell British things and possibly Irish aswell
@Marcus Knightingale 😂 Klingon Desert. Thanks for making me laugh. Americans don't have a strong relationship to anything made with blood in general, so this one didn't surprise me at all.
@@WanderingRavens Is Kool aid a bit like squash, never had it. Adding powder to water seem a bit like squash. I only have blackcurrent squash at the moment.
I am so surprised about blackcurrants & no squash - wow both were staples of my childhood.
Hi Alan! To be honest, I'm not really sure how we survived without them!
tbh blackcurrant squash accounts for about 95% of my liquid intake!
Just a little addendum to my long rant on blackcurrant :)
On the topic of what blackcurrant resembles tastewise, I guess you could argue that it is in the ballpark of blackberries. But not quite - there is a distinct uniqueness to blackcurrant.
Since you mentioned you haven’t tried it before, you definitely should! And since you are in France, you’ll have to look for products called «cassis». You should be able to find blackberry jam (confiture de cassis) candy (bonbons de cassis), blackcurrant squash (sirope de cassis) and even blackcurrant liqueur (crème de cassis). Happy blackcurrant hunting! Bonne chasse au cassis! 😀❤️
Eggs! In America they treat them with a wash, which removes a defensive layer, and they can go ‘off’ so... have to be kept in the fridge. in Europe that wash is banned, and eggs don’t need to be kept cold.
That's because Europeans can be trusted to wash the eggs right before using them. That way anything that was stuck to the shell is rinsed off and doesn't end up in whatever you are making.
John McMillen nobody washes store bought eggs! It's completely unnecessary. All laying hens are vaccinated and the UK government advice is that even raw eggs are safe to be consumed by traditionally at risk groups such as the very young, pregnant women, the elderly as the risk is tiny. Eggs that are dirty enough to require washing is an indicator of poor / illegal production methods.
The truth is that European hens are fed/ treated as to maintain the strong shells, rather than latterly treating the eggs. Prevention over cure
John McMillen never washed an egg in my life.
Just because you can't see anything on the shell, doesn't mean it's clean. And it doesn't matter how well the chickens are treated, there is still a chance for foreign matter to be on the shell. Now, if you can crack the egg without any of pieces of the shell getting in the egg it's probably OK, but if a piece of shell with foreign matter ends up in the egg, that could be bad.
I'm so glad that you said Hersheys is shit! When I first went across the pond, I thought 'Ooh! Hersheys. A classic American treat!' No, reader. No it is not. It tasted like the equivalent of our cheap, 20p chocolate over here! There's plenty of lovely American treats, but Hersheys is certainly not one!
Spot on, Sarah! Hersheys tastes like wax, and not even good wax 😂
Hershey’s doesn’t have enough cocoa in it to qualify as chocolate over here as far as I’m aware. It’s similar to what we’d refer to as fake chocolate, the waxy stuff that’s used for really cheap things
It's literally the only chocolate I eat because everything else tastes so strong! I asked for milk chocolate not 500 versions of dark chocolate.
I think you are being to kind hersheys chocolate tastes like vomit 😣
@@richardburke8566 Lol, exactly what I thought when i tasted it, even smells like vomit
God I wish this channel had more subs, it's unbelievably deserving of it, keep it up guys!
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So Ribena cordial is a double-whammy for you guys?
A huge double-whammy!!
Wandering Ravens , Ribena is an amazing blackcurrent squash. It is a-May-zing! Do try it next time you’re over here!
Winter Spice Ribena would blow their minds, a blackcurrent squash as a hot drink, pity they only produce it for the winter months
Love to see that you are now saying "Cadbry" rather than "Cad - Berry"!
Living proof that people can change for the better! 😂
In the UK, if you listen closely to what most people (at least in the South East) say, it's "ca'bry. Even the 'd' goes. Only on adverts do you hear southerners say 'cadbury'.
Phil Dane yep! Although I’m a southerner and I say ca’bry 😂
No they are saying Cadbury as intended.
Yeh anyone in the uk I’ve met has only ever said cabrys, and normally with the s on the end like the general term even though it’s not correct
That’s insane no black currents omg... OM DOUBLE G guys, no squash😅🤣 no Robinson’s Squash ?
I know! It's the wild west over there 😂
No Ribena! 😱
tsrgoinc omg yes I forgot the don’t even have that wow
Watching while gobbling black currants
No Vimto!
It isn’t down to better hygiene, but less careful butchery. It’s why the US treats chicken with chlorine...
Most of the problems with contaminated chickens here in the US started when big business pushed for the processing lines to be sped up faster and faster, and the USDA inspectors couldn't keep up. It's almost impossible to check carcasses well when the lines move that fast. It's all about the almighty dollar and to hell with the consumer. The rich get richer and we get sicker. Money talks and B.S. walks.
You must be able to get crème de cassis in the US, though? At high end liquor stores? How do you make your Kirs Royales, my dears?
😂😂😂 it always makes me laugh when i hear Americans saying 'Blood' pudding... you know we just call it 'Black' pudding here in the UK don't you?! lol. interesting vid though guys - I didnt know that about Cadbury's...
Makes me feel sick as a Scottish person hearing it called the wrong thing 🤮😠
You can’t call it black pudding any more.... it pudding of colour. Black pudding is racist. 😂😂
Oh no! We forgot to call it black pudding. That's our time in Korea kicking in - people call it "blood pudding" there.
My mother used to make black pudding at the butchers she worked at during the war years. She always said no one would ever eat it if they saw it being made. It does taste nice, probably better grilled though.
@@joshward1148 😂😂😂 - yeah I forgot about that - lets just call it 'Breakfast' lol 👍😂
UK Cadbury is no longer Cadbury the recipe has been changed out of all recognition.
lee i agree with you to me its more sweet with less chocolate taste and a kind of after taste im finding it hard to descibe
@@marcanderson6239 It tastes foul these days. Why trash something that works??
It's bland now. I remember it tasting a lot nicer
@@RavenclawStudent123 lol the same reason im not fond of it anymore
@@marcanderson6239 Interesting. I wonder how many people actually dislike this new version
The squash thing blew me away! There was a time when I was a kid, I loved Robinsons' Peach Squash so much that we had at least 30 bottles of the stuff one time when it was on sale for half price! Kept it under my pool table haha
we also have 'high juice' which is juice that gets you high...
nah it's just squash with higher fruit and sugar content
What. 😂😂
@@WanderingRavens high squash is so you need even less to make the drink. The reason we have squash though is one bottle can make 10 to 30 (dependent on ratio) pints of flavoured water. It's cheaper and (if you go for no added sugar) healthier than juice. Also the one big difference between us and American Cadbury is the oil and fats. In the EU we can only use less than 5% non cocoa fat. While in the US there is no such legislation. Also in 2015 Cadburys USA started using high fructose corn syrup in some of its product. While in the UK we generally use beet sugar.
@@timealone7906 I've always preferred high juice but probably because I didn't realise you were sposed to use less 😂 so I've always just had like a really strong sweet glass of squash 🙈
What no Ribena!! What do you do when you get a cold 😂
@simon hoare lucozade?!
that's entirely different to ribena! Hahah
Em… Lucozade. or 7-up!!
I've never heard of anyone having a Ribena when they have a cold. I just go with the good old Lemsip with a splash of Whisky, yeah it's not good to mix paracetamol and alcohol but it works.
@@michaelcumming2097 We always used to have hot Ribina when we had a cold
I'm originally from Brum the old home of Cadburys.Bournville is a model village on the south side of Birmingham, England, best known for its connections with the Cadbury family and chocolate - including a dark chocolate bar branded Bournville.I still love Bournville chocolate.As a kid i would munch on a Cadbury Bonus bar it's a shame they dont make them now.And one more thing Cadburys is made in Poland as well.' Mondelez has seven factories in Poland, including the largest Skarbimierz, which produces the Crunchie, Double Decker, Curly Wurly, Chomp, Fudge and Picnic. Cadbury has been producing chocolate in Eastern Europe for the past 20 years, but the iconic Dairy Milk has always been associated with production in the UK.All the best from Droitwich Spa cheers and keep safe both.
Hi Peter! Thanks for sharing your chocolate-industry insight with us! So does Cadbury still have a production plant in the UK for the Dairy Milk line?
Yes they do and you can go to Cadbury World in Brum and have a tour but this is not the factorie.@@WanderingRavens
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Used to have blackcurrant growing in my garden as a kid.
Delicious!
Me too. My mum used to freeze loads of them every year to use in jams and puddings later in the year
Sounds like we need to start sending Red Cross food parcels across the pond :)
Please. Or at least send them to us here in France haha
In which direction?
Hahaha
Fun fact! In ww2 Australian would send food parcels to the UK and they would be distributed out to families who were housing evacuated children from the city's. Its why the UK and Australia still have this strong relationship to help each other out. For example recently the UK helped out Australia with supplies with the fires. Its also why a free trade deal has recently been signed because while under EU trade the UK had to cut all ties with all other countries. Welcome back Tim Tams to UK shores.
@@stephpick I'm not sure that's the main reason the UK and Australia have a strong relationship, but it is a good thing. We have similar lifestyles too. The UK sends foreign aid to many countries who have citizens who don't like us. Why do we bother?
3:02 in the UK we call that butternut squash
That's what we call it too :D
I am growing blackcurrants in my garden. I grew up with ribena. Funnily enough I also have a cranberry plant which I bought in Italy.
Blackcurrant sweets are 100x better than grape sweets. Grape flavoured things are nasty 😝
(It's why our skittles are so much better XD )
I do hate grape flavour. :(
Ice cold Ribena 🤤
@@tsrgoinc ever had a hot ribena growing up when you were sick?
@Keiran Bond - Yep. It was worth being ill just to get hot Ribena.
With the fungus issue I do understand that prohibition on the fruit but why would that extend to flavorings? No fungus could survive that process.
Hopefully we can ban chlorinated chicken 👍
Fingers crossed 🤞🏻 We want it banned too because that's just nasty 🤢
Isn't BoJo working very hard to get it into Britain?
Bob L. They can’t because of our strict laws. There is a certain process meat has to go through to avoid contamination hence why the states is very high for food poisoning.
@@Jemma1487 they won't get it in as it's being banned by the supermarkets as well
Would not eat chlorinated chicken sounds so wrong. I prefer corn feed organic chicken once you tried that you'll never go back to normal chicken
Here in the UK, an amazing drink (and a childhood favourite of mine) is a ‘Henry’. A ‘Henry’ is a mixture of squash (usually orange) and lemonade. A classic favourite honestly, great on a summers day!
The squash picture you showed in the video is called 'Butternut', but there are so many types of 'squash'. Squash, Pumpkin and Gourd are all from the same family of plants; the Cucurbitaceae. These include pumpkin, scallop and zucchini.
'Black pudding' is a typical UK type of blood sausage and is always made from pork blood. In Europe there are a lot of types. Here in the south of the Netherlands we have a local variant called 'balkenbrij' (lit: beam slush). The taste of blood sausage varies strongly from region to region. My personal favourite is the Danish kind (blodpølse), which is predominantly sweet with a strong spicy flavour (cinamon, ginger) and is considered a treat for you eat it fried and usually with syrup.
Don't forget Scotch eggs, Heinz baked beans & Cornish pasties 🍽
Wish we had pasties in Seattle!!
Heinz Beans are American. Baked beans were first introduced to the UK in the early 20th century, initially imported and sold in luxury stores in London like Fortnum & Mason.
You can get Cornish Pasties in many US states, mostly where the Cornish miners went to. You can get them in Canada too together with proper British sausage rolls.
@@WanderingRavens There is a shop in Seattle called the British pantry or English pantry, not sure where. Does
Redmond ring any bells?
Anyway, you can buy pasties there and all kinds of British goodies that aren't sold elsewhere in the USA.
@@ftumschk now baked beans are a staple in the diet. Branston baked beans are cheaper, only 75p each tin and taste the same.
Grace should lead more often.
RELEASE GRACE.
But I'm shyyyy 😂
@@WanderingRavens I feel for you being afflicted with same condition. Still I think Eric has been very lucky as you seem a delight. Keep up the good work.
Hey guys!
I'm so glad you guys aren't keen on Hershey's! I found that the US Cadbury bars are quite bland and I swear down they aren't tempered properly, I was bought a 5KG bar as a birthday present by an american friend, they posted it out to me and everything and I felt super shy saying anything (I was quite young and she was quite cute lol) because it was so sweet to receive a present from over the pond.
When I was in the states many years ago we could find no squash at all, but we did find this insanely sugary death powder, you just added water and you got some strange sugar concoction that was trying to masquerade as orange juice... :D
There was also some really bizarre breakfast 'cereals' - there was one that still sends shivers down my spine when I think about it! We woke up super early (about 5am) to head over to Cocoa Beach to see the 1995 shuttle launch, So we grabbed some cereal from the store the night before so we could have our breakfast while watching the launch, we discovered one that contained Bananas and Apples and pretty much every fruit you could imagine. We all thought 'this looks fun' and might be somewhat better than Lucky Charms. Well, needless to say, we were wrong, DEAD wrong! Those fruity pieces were nothing more than coloured sugar lumps in disguise!
I was so happy the next day because we could go up to hotels breakfast buffet and eat as much fruit as was human possible :D
I've waffled on and should probably stop now lol... :D
Thank you for the great video :)
Take care
x
@@MagentaOtterTravels They're both American now! Oh noes!
Thank you for sharing your harrowing story of the diabetic cereal with us, Ben! We feel your pain. Whenever we go back to the states, we have to remind ourselves to be careful about what we eat because there's so much sugar in things you wouldn't expect :( Sad.
So glad you enjoyed the video and I hope you were still able to enjoy the shuttle launch!
xx
The powder was probably Tang. I don't see Tang in my grocery. Either they don't have it or else it is relegated to the lower shelves where unpopular items reside.
Place I used to go to pub trivia (before the COVID lockdowns) had a monte cristo on their menu (think croque monsieur if that helps) but didn't supply a jam or preserve for dipping or topping; apparently some places consider that an essential element and others just omit it. So I started bringing a little cup of my own preserves whenever I was going to order the monte cristo, and I figured since it was my own meal I could choose whatever flavor I wanted.
So I brought blackcurrant. Hey, there's a restaurant in Bisbee that serves their monte cristo with prickly pear jam.
The other place I did pub trivia served a "full Irish breakfast", so yes, I've also experienced black pudding. Great stuff.
As for haggis, I had to do some work to come up with a Japanese name for it. Eventually settled on "kyōkai hitsuji", which is literally "inside-out sheep".
Do you have cordials in the US? Because they are similar to squash drinks.
Loved the imperial March playing over the Kraft logo! 😂
In the USA do u have Terrys chocolate, it the oldest in the world and the recipe and packaging style has never changed on the first bar, it’s also the best cos they make chocolate oranges. That’s why england has the best chocolate.
..and Frys chocolate invented the first solid chocolate bar
Love Terry’s is still good
Eric: "can haggis actually make you sick?"
ad: "Fellas! Are you still powdering your balls?"
Eric: "I don't know, I'm not a meteorologist
As already mentioned, Blood pudding is called Black pudding herein the UK, it originates in a town called Bury in Lancashire - Northwest England. The only way to get a genuine fresh one is from the outdoor market there, either from 'Chadwicks' or 'the Bury Black Pudding' stall, They are yum and can be bought uncooked to take home or steamed ready to eat, black peas are also quite a tradition there.
I have blackcurrants in my garden, they smell strange as berries, a bit like cat pee, we make lovely black & redcurrant jam every year.
So how do you order a Rum and Black in a bar then?
www.barnonedrinks.com/drinks/r/rum-and-black-10461.html
Yes Kraft are ruining Cadburys. They said they wouldn't change the recipe, and they did. They said they wouldn't stop manufacturing at Bournville, but they did .............. etc, etc .
Funny you should mention Bournville. I saw it being sold in my local Asda on Saturday. I was kind of shocked.
My grandparents love to drink lager and black, I dont know what they'd do In the states
Hey can I buy a semi automatic assault rifle?
American: Sure
Can I have some blackcurrants too?
American: Are you insane? We want to protect our country.
😂😂 And get the feck out of here with that sheep lung!! This country has standards!
Wandering Ravens Is it true that Kinder eggs are banned too?
You can shoot eachother but eat a berry and its game over
@@Georgexb Oh spare the children, they could choke on the small toys inside the massive plastic yellow container....
@@WanderingRavens Did you ever have Steak & kidney pie in the UK? We do like our offal. There are actually gastropubs that specialise in it. Oh yeah don't forget tripe. A lot of this was make do food when you couldn't afford real meat. In my home town in Yorkshire, there was a shop called Speights which sold this sort of stuff. You could buy roast cow udder & my Grandmothers favourite, chicklings & bag🤮
No American has ever eaten an Apple & Blackcurrant pie? What sort of primitive society is this?
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Hiya. Isn't it Apple & Blackberry Pie? All the best.
@@Andy_U apple and blackberry crumble 🤔
A sad one
@@wencireone - That too. Mmmm.
I love knowledgeable Americans that actually do there research on things. 💯💯✅🙌🏾
I remember when I first visited the USA I bought a Hershey’s chocolate bar... er, it was a “what is this” moment. I was very saddened. Comparing American chocolate to European chocolate is..very difficult.
Well, your first problem is comparing Hershey to chocolate. I mean, that is literally, the worst thing you could've used to judge American chocolate. What is the worst European chocolate? Henceforth, I will use that to judge all European chocolate.
@@emteemac Yep. We have Lindt, Ghirardelli and Russell Stover. They are all very high quality brands and all very popular in America. We Americans do not stuff ourselves with Hershey's chocolates everyday.
I had a glass of blackcurrant squash on the go when I started watching this!
Sounds delicious! 😋 We'll have to give that a try next time we're in the UK
But was it Ribena?
@@grizzlygamer8891 no, Tesco high juice...😔
Grizzly Gamer Ribena isn’t a squash it’s juice. Vitmo has a fizzy drink and a squash
@@WanderingRavens I think that being given hot Ribena as a treat when ill is a childhood memory for many if not most British people. It was known to cure everything my three kids had wrong with them colds, football injures, chicken pox - you name it.
I love watching you two, as a proper northerner (Manchester) it’s so nice to see two Americans appreciating proper British things. You don’t see it very often here😊
I cant believe you guys don't have squash! Kids and everyone drinks nothing but or tea!!, XXXps thank you, you guys are very respectful of the differences and it's very kind of you xxx great research and reporting with integrity newly subbed love from the UK xxx 🙂
There was waiting for the Kinder egg to come up. :(
Don't worry, Kinder Eggs are Italian - made by Ferrero, the same people who gave use Ferrero Rocher and Nutella.
But Kinder isn't British! It's Italian ;D
I like the yellow containers inside the eggs.
@@WanderingRavens Yep that would be a good reason :) Also for some strange reason I thought it was German.
@@maximushaughton2404 Same! I just guessed that Kinder was a German company based on how 'Kinder' means 'Children' in German right? (or something very similar at least). I didn't know until today that Ferrero was Kinder's parent company!
Blood (black) pudding is readily available in France , even thought of as a delicacy it is called boudin noir.
Good to know! Maybe I'll give it another go :D
Boudin noir is made with cream rather than oats or barley though so it has a much smoother texture than British black pudding.
And in Germany there's Blutwurst (literally, blood sausage). Most cultures have a version.
@@WanderingRavens Slice some onions, add bits of apple, put the boudin on top and put it all in the oven. With a glass of Normandy Cider. Yum.
Another brill vid folks! Tried Hershies (did I spell that right?) after getting a large bar from someone - ended up chucking it after a couple a bites, after a lifetime of chomping Cadburys....it just didn't compete!
When you're next in the UK you absolutely HAVE to try black pudding. It took me 20 years to get my head around the blood ingredient , but when I finally plucked up the courage to eat it, it was amazing and I never looked back. I'm from the South West of England and in Devon/Cornwall we have "hogs pudding" that you should look into as well- traditionally served at breakfasts.
Funny how Eric has one look; same hair same shirt, and Grace has so many looks; long hair, short hair, hair up, hair down, glasses on, glasses off, eye make-up, no eye make-up.
You can tell which one of us is the click-bait 😂
Haha. Unfortunately, we men are awful at changing looks. I'm convinced it's why we go bald, it's nature's way of stopping us having any more crap haircuts.
@@mikeward7367 Spot on. 😂
Grace is gorgeous. Eric is, well hes Eric.....😂
Yes I am here. 🥂
How!! I clicked publish, then opened the video and you were already here 😂😂
Wandering Ravens I was here within 10 seconds😉
quite informative i enjoy your videos hope your well and enjoying paris
So glad you enjoy our videos! And cafes just opened this week, so we can finally get out of our apartment and start enjoying the city :D
here we have juice which is what i think you were describing as already diluted juices and their more common but people also buy concentrated drinks like blackcurrent when there are more people around as it doesnt go off and many people can drink it without needing to buy more since you only take a little at a time then add water. this means that its great forstuff like childrens parties
Never knew that about blackcurrants!
I honestly had never heard of them before going to the UK
I've been to the States 4 times and I never knew this! It's the BEST flavour!
Blackcurrant popularity goes back to world war two. In 1938 hundreds of acres of blackcurrants were planted to provide high vitamin C juice for children (thats why the Ribena label says "since 1938). Why? Mr Chamberlain was preparing for war even though he was trying very hard to avoid war. And in the likely event of a shortage of oranges, there would be an acceptable substitute
@@WanderingRavens you should come to Calgary, Alberta. Lots of blackcurrants in local grocery chains. If you're lucky, it will also have an International section where you'll find Ribena too.
UK black pudding is mostly pork blood
And the best kind is Bury black pudding which you'll find in most supermarkets in the UK. I've also eaten it in Spain (morcilla) and in a Brazilian restaurant.
Oh! Thank you for the correction!
@@antonycharnock2993 Will try to find some :D
@@antonycharnock2993 not noticed that version in Scotland or the South of England.
Scottish and Irish versions are mainly Cow or Sheep blood still.
The common Blackcurrant concentrate is "Ribena". It was more expensive than other squashes and a special treat when I was a kid.
Kraft Foods (now known as Mondelez) actually owns quite a few British food and drink brands, according to Wikipedia KFs owns not only Cadbury (which they are trying to ruin) but also Dairylea 'Laughing cow' cheese products, Jacob's crackers (and therefore Mini Cheddars, British version of Goldfish basically), Terry's chocolate, Capri Sun and Tassimo. I know the last two can be bought most places (including the States) but of the many 'drink' brands the Mondelez Wiki page had on it those two I know you can buy in Supermarkets in the UK, there was one apparently British coffee company listed but I've never heard of the so either their tiny or they have since acquisition gone bust
Black pudding please!
Also, it's pig blood and chunks of fat with secret spices and herbs (herbs with an aitch! Lol)
yes please the H is there.
There's a little creature in Scottish folklore called a haggis look it up its funny
So funny! Thank you for sharing that fun fact with us!
Hi, in the uk you can buy squash (which you need to dilute), fruit juice, which is what it says, and fruit juice with added water which it has to say on the carton. The last 2 are usually next to each other so you need to check, ie: read the label.
Another smashing episode 👌🏻🙂💜
Thank you! x
Stop saying "blood pudding" it's BLACK PUDDING!!!
I've visited the USA many times but I don't tend to seek out British foods there so I was interested to hear about the subtle differences between American made cadbury's chocolate and the UK versions. Thank you for your very clear and thoroughly researched explanations of that and the rarity or non-availability in the US of the other British foods you mentioned.
good to see you got out of quarantine
The wild haggis is difficult to rear in America, Im afraid. Its a shy creature that only comes out at certain times of year and can only be hunted for two weeks in the fall. Many a Scotsman has shed a tear for his homeland when hearing the plaintive cry of the solitary Haggis looking for its mate across the glen.
You should do a Welsh foods video!
Here’s a few ideas to get you started:
- Laverbread
- Cawl
- Bara Brith
- Welsh cakes
- Glamorgan Sausage
- Welsh Rarebit
I’ll let you find out for yourselves what all these are! 😋
I couldn't agree with you more about Hershey's. I remember a few years ago that someone I worked brought a box of miniature Hershey bars of various types of chocolate back from a holiday in the US. None of us had had them before but we'd heard of them. They got shared out around the office and absolutely everyone who tried them thought they tasted disgusting. Even worse than the cheap UK chocolate we sometimes get in non-brand Easter eggs. Those things literally left the aftertaste of vomit in my mouth. I had to eat a Cadbury's chocolate bar to make it go away (that's my excuse anyway)
Good episode 👍😃
So glad you enjoyed it!
Cordial.. vimto is a classic northern one although my favourite at the moment is elderflower and apple. Ive visited the Cadbury factory in the uk.. so good.dipping a twirl in a brew :)
I’ve seen Ribena (black currant) in my local stores in New York. Also grenadine is similar to “squash”
The closest thing I found to squash in NJ was in a bar where I ordered a lager and lime,the barman didn't know what I meant but I happened to see a bottle of Lime cordial which is what we use in uk.Hersheys are lying about the cadbury chocolate in US, they are allowed to put chemicals in their chocolate whereas in UK they are not allowed to.
Kraft split into two companies a few years ago - One half became "Kraft Foods" and concentrates on North America, the other half became "Mondelez" and concentrates on the international market (as viewed from America). Cadbury's are part of the company that is now known as Mondelez.
Like sausages, the quality of black pudding varies greatly. A good one will be nicely-seasoned with pepper and have a slightly crumbly texture after frying. The cheaper ones are waxy and rather bland. I love a slice with fried egg on toast - nom! I(also had it in Scotland as part of a Salmon salad, with a whisky and honey dressing. Delish! ) Waitrose sell a good one btw. If you happen to be in Northamptonshire again, normally I would suggest driving straight through Corby (😉), but having a large Scots population, the local Morrison’s has a massive selection of Scots square sausage, black pudding, potato scones and haggis, etc 🙂.
there used to be a black market in dairy milk chocolate in areas like boston and new york with large irish communities
In one of the Raymond Chandler books he talked about drinking Gimlets made with gin and Roses lime juice. Lime juice is just a form of fruit squash.
I applaud your terminology, very correct
3:28 swuash is extremly cost effective as a standard £1 bottle of squash can make roughly £8 - £10 worth of drinks. Such as if you bought orange squash and orange juice each for £1 the juice would run out long before the squash would so it is especially useful for large families or family gatherings
3:12 Squash isn't a 'concentrated fruit syrup', as that's a completely different product (which isn't that popular over here due to their heavy reliance on sugar). It's closer to a cordial (or is a cordial, I forget which)
3:53 we have that was well. Our juices will either say 'from concentrate' or 'never from concentrate' on them (that description may vary between brands)
The quintessential squash is Robinson's Barley Water served at Wimbledon Tennis. The addition of barley to orange gives a smooth mouth feel and body not as watery...
Fascinating stuff as always and clearly plenty of research the Wandering Ravens put into the how/why things are as they are on each side of the pond. I've always got the impression of America having a far more relaxed attitude on most things compared to UK. E.g. electricity outlets and electric switches in your bathroom, sure. Mix fresh drinking water with your heated bathing water in the same tap, you bet. Chlorinated chickens, no problem. But blackcurrants? Black pudding?? or Kinder eggs??? That's just crazy talk, far too dangerous! Hehe, I always learn something new, thanks guys.
So glad you enjoyed this video, Paul!! x
As well as Black currents, there is red currents and white currents, not so common but available in some supermarkets when in season
Just on an interesting note, Haggis as it is known is found in English recipes before it arrived in Scotland as a dish. It has long since entirely become associated with Scotland though.
My Dad, an Irishman, once told me that the bagpipes were an Irish invention given to the Scots as a joke. I think he may have been winding me up though.
You said it, nobody has ever believed me when I mentioned it ,thanks.
Mike Ward Bagpipes probably originated in the Middle East. Plus apparently Romans ate something akin to haggis...
@@roderickmathison5245 The general concept of cooking organs etc in this way has been seen across the world. Which is why I said what is known as Haggis, because unlike the other versions all somewhat to very different in recipe, this version was just Haggis but shortly before it reached Scotland and got its name.
@@roderickmathison5245 The general concept of cooking organs etc in this way has been seen across the world. Which is why I said what is known as Haggis, because unlike the other versions all somewhat to very different in recipe, this version was just Haggis but shortly before it reached Scotland and got its final name.
I seem to remember a lot of black pudding manufacturers went bust when the UK really tightened the hygiene rules surrounding the making of black pudding commercially. Also, many manufacturers now use dried blood as it's easier to meet those hygiene rules.
A black pudding is required on pain of death in a full fry-up, as is baked beans, mushrooms, bacon, egg, sausage, toast and a cup of tea.
When I came over to the states I found these like sachets that you added to water, they were a good sub for squash