@@kaldo_kaldo depends on which company makes the chocolate bunnies. Lindt makes wonderful chocolate bunnies. I prefer chocolate eggs though. You can eat several small eggs, and not feel guilty cause they're 'small'!
The guy who does the porch pirate videos was a NASA engineer. His names Mark Rober and he makes those porch pirates regret being thieves. His father also works at NASA; he worked on the James Webb telescope. Pretty interesting dude.
I love his videos. As you know, it's a quality versus quantity battle w/r/t posting videos but his are definitely worth the months-long intervals. Without checking, I'm wondering who posted most recently, him or the 11foot8inch bridge channel (since it was raised 8 inches to 12-4, not so many hit the bridge).
My little nephew and I love his videos, especially the squirrel obstacle course and the jello swimming pool. I used those videos to show my nephew that silly fun youtube videos can also be smart science.
@@jamsistired yeah, the squirrel videos he started out trying to keep them out of his bird feeders but he ended up being fascinated with the squirrels and actually enjoyed feeding them in a fun and challenging way, while also making sure they weren't hurt. In the jello swimming pool video he let kids in the neighborhood enjoy jumping and playing in it first because he thought of himself as a kid and what a dream that would be. Those kids had such a blast!
I was travelling cross country, through Iowa, a while back. It was the dead of night and we stopped at a Highway Rest Area. I was thirsty, so I walked up to the COla Machine, tucked behind prison bars, and, as I was fishing for change, noticed a rather large, oddly shaped dark area covering part of the machine's illuminated display. ...it was a moth. ...LIT~erally the size of my face. I ran back to the car, screaming.
That's wasn't a moth. It was probably the semilegendary Iowa Ripper, a bloodsucking insect. Some biologists believe it's only a myth, some that it existed but is now extinct. You're very lucky as no actual living witness sighting has been reliably reported since the 1950's at a Des Moines drive-in theater. There have been almost a thousand supposed victims, and possibly many more unrecorded cases, but local pathologists are under strict state orders to assign other causes of death, such as sudden onset of massive anemia and vampire bats (which also occasionally occur in the Midwest and Central Plains). I wouldn't report this to the government because supposedly Dr. Fauci has been detaining and isolating other witnesses to the insect in his classified government lab built high in the Swiss mountains with the cooperation of Dr. Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum. Bill Gates also funds the facility to do experiments for his "vaccine" business. The lab is very high on a mountain top so they can gather the energy from lightening storms as an environmentally friendly way to power experiments. This laboratory has a long history on Swiss medicine. One of the earlier versions provided the inspiration for one of Mary Shelly's Gothic novels. The lab was founded no later than the alchemists of the early Renaissance, like Paracelsus (the real life model for Dr. Faustus, who supposedly sold his soul to Satan). Most Swiss historians believe it couldn't have been founded earlier due to the Catholic Church's primitive opposition to human experimentation.
I lived in an apartment in an old mansion where I would get at least one bat almost every summer. I am now really afraid of them. Imagine that 1 night when I went into the bathroom and something with huge wings was right next to the heating grate and flapped! It must have been 1 of those moths, but it looked like it was the size of a baby bat! Insomnia came back that night
Oh.. my flying squirrels would have loved to eat that huge moth! We rarely see our LG ones and they are no where near that size. I turn on porch light and smack them with a fly swatter then place in fridge till they wake up at night to eat.
The first picture you use for a Gila monster isn't actually a Gila monster. It's a Mexican Beaded Lizard, the only other member of the Gila Monster's genus (Heloderma). The way you can tell is there's only black scales on the head. I'm only pedantic about this because I've spent decades becoming an expert on Gila monsters and beaded lizards because they're my favorite animals and I used to take care of one at a natural history museum. I love them very much.
I've known about them for a long time, though until now I hadn't seen the word written. Sir David Attenborough is responsible for almost the whole of my natural world knowledge! I _think_ they're in Life in Cold Blood, but if not, it's in an episode of one of his incredible series based in the desert (the episode, not the series). I think it's one of the older ones, if you're interested. As you're such a lizard lover (I say that with respect!), you'll love the aforementioned series. It's one of my favourites :)
Around Bastrop, TX, there is a detached area where the Loblolly pine grows, perhaps the most western area of it's range. This area is also known as the "lost pine" area. Unfortunately, 10 or so years ago, a quite large wildfire destroyed much of the trees here. Luckily there is a protected area where new pines are growing again in the ashes.
I love how much you are learning about the wide and diverse American Culture and her very unique vocabulary, demographics, horticulture, geography and anything else that I missed. Your humor makes me laugh and thank you so much for being a source of education to many. Even us in the U.S. are learning many new things that we have never heard before that is actually a "thing." It's better to be a Wise Owl than an Ignoramus.
When I was in Japan, I found an interesting thing in the frozen food section. A package emblazoned with an American flag and the words (In English with Japanese Katakana under) AMERICAN DOGS on it. I took it home and opened it up to my joy, Corndogs! It was a nice bit of comfort food for when I was feeling homesick for America. (Alright, I lied, there were "American Dogs"/corndogs clearly on the packaging and a window so you could see them resting in their frozen American glory.)
I had similar joy in my first few months in Japan, when my katana reading skills were still developing, and I found some at the counter of 7/11. Desperately miss the little packets of ketchup and mustard that burst and squeezed out evenly when you fold it in half. Definitely an improvement upon the condiment packets we use here in the US...
Look up the films on RUclips about the guy who sets out packages for porch pirates that are glitter bombs. This year he added a stinky spray to them as a bonus.
I think porch pirate is just a new term. Most of his series is about established common words or phrases we use in the states. I've never heard the term porch pirate, although the activity I've heard about.
probably a little harder to do as we have a tendency to import as much British culture as possible. I am sure he could probably do a few vids but not as many. some examples i can think of quickly we do NOT have outside of British themed pubs is mushy peas, pork pies, and sausage rolls.
Laurence, a fellow aging Brit here. We had American processed cheese in those big blocks back in the before times, not BC(19) [before covid] but BC [before computers] in the 80s. It was a staple in our shopping from the sadly missed Safeway supermarket.
I am Canadian from Saskatchewan, and we had Safeway and my family visited them from time to time. Although now in the place of the one we often went to is somthing else called Freshco or somthing like that. P.s. it's bakery section was next to non existent comparatively to Safeway, and its produce wasn't great either, so it's name wasn't even earned.
I’ve always called loblolly pines telephone pole trees. Reason being I live in an area that has a lot of paper and timber mills so the pines are planted in certain designated areas in my county for harvest. It takes about a decade for them to grow tall enough to be used for telephone poles.
@@pinecone2455 Me too . My mom lives on Loblolly Drive in a South Carolina town and there are a few of them in her front yard . They're similar to a Western US species of tree called Lodgepole Pines . I believe Lodgepole Pines were used by Native Americans to erect teepees . Also , I believe that when America was still a few colonies the British valued tall straight American pine trees for there use as masts and spars on ships . The tallest pines were from Maine .
That was nine things. Laurence gave us a bonus. Years ago, Herb Caen (columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle) wrote that Chico, California was the sort of place where they have Velveeta in the gourmet section of the supermarket. It did not endear him to the residents of Chico.
Herb liked to trash LA too. The easiest way to get him to shut up was by endlessly repeating the term "Frisco". I actually saw it work on him long ago. I think Chico is a pretty nice place, or at least it used to be.
In San Francisco, they put Velveeta in the gourmet section because people there are using it for cheese fondue. Ooh La La. The rest of us were using it for fish bait It was in the bait fridge
Don't worry Lawrence. I've lived in the US for 70 years now (east coast) and I have yet to experience a corn dog. Have to say, I'm actually learning a lot from your LITP series - especially place names that I've been mispronouncing all my life. You are a real treasure. 💜
So happy for you Laurence. Your years of hard work and dedication are paying off, and there probably isn't a youtuber more deserving than yourself. Health and happiness to you and your wife ✌🏼♥
We have corndogs here in Australia but we call them Dagwood Dogs. Don't know why. They are a must at the local agricultural show (fair) dipped in sauce.
@@ironblitzkriegmetal5177 Must be. Although, other than the comic I've only heard of a "Dagwood" as a type of sandwich with multiple layers stacked insanely high.
I don’t want to be “that” person but as someone who grew up in Wisconsin, hush puppies are an exotic food most have never had and nor’easters only hit the east coast and like a 100 miles inwards. Bleachers I will give you 😉
@@mayloo2137 I’m sure some people enjoyed them up here but I grew up in Wisconsin and never had one or saw one til I moved far far south to Chicago 😜 and they aren’t common here either but everyone grows up differently!
@@Ididnotwanttojoin I lived in Wisconsin til 2002 and have yet to see a long john silvers there or here in Chicago. Not saying they don’t exist but Wisconsin is not really up on southern cuisine or spice in general 🤣 Hush puppies were stuffed toys in the 80s if i remember correctly. Or maybe pound puppies. lolol. I’m not saying OP didn’t experience these things but it’s certainly not common up there and nor’easters don’t affect us beyond maybe residual precipitation. We do get thunder snow tho. In 2010, city of Chicago was shut down by a blizzard with a thunder storm and that NEVER happens (closing down that is)
In the west we have sphinx moths, I’ve laughed so hard when one late evening one got into a grocery store and sent people literally screaming and running around like crazy people. I was able to capture it and take it outside and let it go, and people looked at me like I was a crazy one! It’s a moth, they don’t bite or sting!
Americans do seem to have strange ideas about which insects will sting you. Richard Feynman told a story about being afraid of what he called "darning needles" which sounded like a crane fly or daddy-long-legs.
Unfortunately, you either didn't know, or forgot about the old series "Fantasy Island", with Ricardo Montalban and Hervé Villechaize. Villechaize's character, 'Tattoo', was the assistant to the island's host, and spoke with a heavy accent, and nearly every episode, could be heard announcing the impending arrival of new guests to the island by calling out "The plane, the plane!", which sounded very much like 'De plane! de plane!'
Here's an idea I don't' know if you've talked about if you've run short- From what I understand Britain doesn't really distinguish between solid fruits crushed and boiled with sugar (Jam) vs when it's then strained to leave just the juice (Jelly in the US, No name but "Jam" in the UK from what I've heard, but it may not be true) Some people in the US even distinguish between preserves and jam, wherein preserves has larger pieces of fruit still in it.
There are actually legal packaging definitions in many places to distinguish these and marmelades. It's the percentage of crushed fruit left in, the percentage of pectin and the amount of sugar or other sweeteners.
In elementary school, we had a Gila monster that stayed in the science classroom. Didn't realize it was strange, I wonder if Australians have interesting animals in their schools.
My middle son has one. Amongst others, he collects freaking lizards. He makes me hold one when I come over. If I didn't love him, he wouldn't still be with us...
@@paigeherrin29 I think I would also… but then I guess you wouldn’t be doing what my daughters bio teacher did/does.He’s licensed by the State to pick up road kill. I have no idea how he disposes of the carcass - but he will occasionally bring in parts for real life anatomy lessons. The one that sticks out in my head for some reason is when he brought in lungs from a dead deer and used a straw to inflate/deflate them They were completely flat and very thin.
The first time I remember hearing the term "deplane", in the late 1980s, I couldn't help but imitate the character Tattoo from the late 70s/early 80s TV show Fantasy Island, who in the opening sequence would always yell "Da plane! Da plane!" in preparation for welcoming the guests for this guest star-driven show. ruclips.net/video/HtwRvpuNxeY/видео.html
My husband is from Mexico and he had never heard of corndogs either. I don’t think they have that in Spanish. He saw them the first time at the grocery store and called them condors, which is a bird. lol! 😂
We do have them in Mexico, at least in the area where I am from. They are called “banderillas,” which can be a synonym of “brochettes” or other food on toothpicks or sticks. Banderillas are also the spikes used in “corridas” (bullfighting.) These are defined as “a large decorative dart, covered in colourful paper, that is pushed into a bull's shoulder” (just to clarify, I don't like this practice at all!) However, it makes sense that a corn dog was given that name because of its shape: a wiener in a stick or skewer, mostly covered with something soft like corn batter 😊 I also get the consonant cluster confusion corn dog/condor, it's like a tongue twister 😅
@@mer8795 According to Google Translate they just transliterate it, "hottodoggu". When they say "American dog" apparently that's also a transliteration rather than a translation, Google Translate says "Amerikandoggu".
@@howard2liu that makes sense. One person said if the Japanese didn't have a name option of their own, that they just made an English word sound like it could be Japanese, i.e. milk shake ~ milk shakisu. 😀
I commented before I saw yours that Luna Moths are quite beautiful and they really are. They’re impressive. We did the same as you and would have everyone come to see this lovely creature.
As an Australian we tend to use the same words as they do in the UK for a lot of things. I’ve never heard of deplaning before, we’d be instructed to alight, disembark the flight or exit the aircraft. I’ve learnt so many new things about America from this series. Great work!
I'm sitting by my window looking at a Loblolly Pine Tree forest that surrounds us here in Georgia. The reason there are so many of them is because they are planted by large companies. We have massive acreage covered by them. As you pointed out, they are very tall (at maturity) and have very few branches which means the dimensional lumber created from the harvested trees have far fewer knots to interfere with building houses, decks, etc. Keep up the good work, mate (Can I say that even though you aren't? Hubby wants to know).
@@mayloo2137 The word "loblolly" is a combination of "lob", referring to thick, heavy bubbling of cooking porridge, and "lolly", an old British dialect word for broth, soup, or any other food boiled in a pot. In the southern United States, the word is used to mean "a mudhole; a mire," a sense derived from an allusion to the consistency of porridge. " Wikipedia On our property they grow wild so they are not exactly lumber ready but I can attest to the fact that they love our boggy back fields.
I'm a simple guy... Lawrence posts, I hit 'Like.' First 'Like,' this time. 😛 Edit: "Velveeta" would be an epic musical. All about grilled cheese sandwiches and cheese sauces. Gila Monster venom is the original source of an important anti-diabetes medicine. It's synthesized now, but yeah... Lizard spit.
@@bluegreenglue6565 I spent 17 years working in the drug development department of a major pharma. They test *everything* for pharmacokinetic activity. Ant venom. Tree sap. Flower nectar. Something found on the underside of a slimy rock. It's a pretty surreal job, really. But yeah, lizard spit was definitely a surprise, even for the industry.
Velveeta would be about more than grilled cheese and cheese sauces, it would be about dips, casseroles and fishing. I remember many a fishing trip as a child using Velveeta as bait it worked for Trout, what we called sunfish (freshwater not true Sunfish) and Carp (though an empty hook works on Carp). What we didn't use as bait was out lunch either on crackers or a a grilled cheese.
Porch piracy: as a recent immigrant to the UK, this at first had me stumped. On arrival here, we were astonished that packages could (seriously?) be delivered to you and left on the porch (outside, in the rain, for anyone to carry off!). So your mention of "porch piracy" brought a smile. Being from South Africa the concept was foreign yes, but also incomprehensible in the extreme. A parcel delivered like that might make it for an hour, on a very quiet day! Generally it would be gone within minutes. Over here in the UK it's quite normal. The neighbor across the way had a package delivered to his front door about 11 days ago, while they are soaking up the sun in Spain for the Easter break! It's still there (albeit a bit soggy by this stage!). Yeah, had a good chuckle about this one (at my expense of course!). Cheers mate.
Guess it depends where you live in the U.K , some area's are safe like that and others not so , alot of the time a parcel would be left with a neighbour to look after.
When I first moved to England age 10 I found out the hard way about no free refills (and also why no ice?!) I usually would drink a whole cup of something before the meal even came. My dad wouldn't buy another, and there wasn't water either, so my first meal out I had to eat with nothing to drink. All the subsequent ones I'd be forced to ration my one pint cup of warm coke for the whole experience (I'm a heavy beverage imbiber, I usually knock back 5-6 glasses of unsweet iced tea in a meal, but as a kid it was the same with coke, and I also drink the free water). Yeah, the refills and tiny bottles of things was my hardest adjustment. Being said, I really miss England. Thanks for all you do and giving me something to rant about. Love the channel, wish you the best.
I can remember when free refills first got introduced in the early 1980's by the Pepsi company to try and lure people into Taco Bell. McDonald's was the last holdout, not wanting to give free refills until the early 1990's.
Circle K started offering them in 1983 I remember as a little kid my brothers and I would go over there and fill up a thirst buster and then gulp as much down as possible and then fill it up again and pay for it and gas was cheaper than the thirst buster lol. The refills weren't free at Circle K but cost a quarter unless you drank it all in the store then you could refill as much as you wanted.
If I recall Carls Jr was the first fast food restaurant to offer self service drinks and free refills because they figured out that was cheaper than employing someone to fill drink cups
I worked at Burger King 1984-86. I remember when they put in our “drink bar”. My manager said the most expensive part of drinks was the cost of the cups, not the soda.
Glad I’m not alone on that. I’m from Georgia and I’ve never heard them call that either. Was wondering if I needed to turn in my Southern card, bless my heart.
thats because it is a british name loblolly was a yorkshire stew also became a slang word for a surgeons assistant it was early british settlers who named the pine as it was found in swampy areas that reminded them of stew
Aww... I hope all of you get to try a corn dog and some Velveeta. Corndogs, best dipped in mustard. Velveeta, best thing for grilled cheese sandwiches.
It's actually not that little. Gila Monsters are quite large, as lizards go. The Mexican Beaded Lizard, a close cousin, is even larger. Those are the only two unambiguously venomous lizards in the world.
Velveeta and American "Cheese" isn't actually cheese. It's a cheese product. You can make it out of basically any cheese (I'm not aware of one you can't). It requires using sodium citrate to allow the cheese to emulsify in water. It's basically how fondue cheese and cheese wiz is made. Corndogs vary on the batter. A lot of times people use the ultra-sweet stuff which I don't care for. Fun fact, a Loblolly Pine seed went to the moon (sorta, it didn't go to the surface, just circled around it) and it grew up in Arkansas at a school of forestry. They were called Moon Trees. A PR stunt from NASA.
Luna Moths are sick. I remember years ago one night a few friends & I were at our (now gone) local 24hr 711 sometime late in the evening/early morning when there was a Luna Moth outside the store. I was finishing up my purchase of probably snacks & cigarettes and one of my other friends that was outside opened the front door. The clerk saw the moth and was like "no, no, no don't let it in" while my friend was like "it's comin in!" as he ushered it into the store. Absolutely hilarious encounter at the time. Guess it doesn't quite translate well via text but trust me it was great.
Yeah, the first time I heard a flight attendant use the word "deplane," he'd been a bit of a wit throughout the flight and I thought he was using a jokey phrase to refer to "get the hell off so we can go on break." Turns out it was a word.
Watch the old show “Fantasy Island”, starring Ricardo Montalban & Herve Villechaize. Villechaize’s character would often shout, “De plane! De plain!” When guests would arrive. Just a bit of useless trivia 😂
When I told my friend from the UK about some of our foods like Frito pies, chicken fried steak with country gravy, cow pie cookies, and the crazy deep fried foods at the Texas state fair, he thought America had lost its ever lovin' mind. He told me about the deep fried Mars bars, but was confused as to why we had deep fried butter, cheesecake, twinkies, and yes, beer. Then I told him about the highway clustertruck known as a "mix master".
I'm in Calgary, Canada. We have the Calgary Stampede every summer, and every summer, they invent new fried foods for us fairgoers to try. Last summer, I tried alligator bites and pickle dogs. PS the Calgary Stampede made an American list of crazy carnival foods years ago. 😅
Always interesting! And I learned something too! I didn’t know about the L pine trees- never heard of them but I’ve lived in upstate New York all my life. So thanks for that ❤😊🙃
Herb Caen was a very popular columnist in the San Francisco Chronicle. His columns were about a dozen short items, light humor, society gossip, local shenanigans. In the early 80's he happened to be traveling in the north state, and while in a Safeway supermarket in Chico he discovered that they had put the Velveeta in the Gourmet Cheese section. Of course he wrote about it in his column and thus Chico became the butt of many jokes about their sophistication, or lack thereof.
Those pre-packaged singles are not American cheese. You need to find an actual deli and get some Land o Lakes or New Yorker American cheese. It is very different than that rubbery, yellow crap. White American cheese is what you typically find on a cheesesteak other than provolone. It's kind of a mild cheddar flavor, and very creamy and melts really well. It's probably one of the best cheeses for a grilled cheese sandwich.
Decades ago, I participated in some marketing tests at the mall. The demonstrator was from Wisconsin, and the food was a Velveeta type cheese product which she made "Ro-tel Dip" from. Wisconsin is known for cheese, so it was amusing to all us southerners that she had never had anything like that before, ate half the samples she made, and couldn't wait to share the recipe with friends back home lol. Where I worked, it wasn't uncommon for there to be multiple versions of Ro-tel dip at any potluck, all extremely popular. The ones I remember are with ground beef, country sausage, or my favorite, chili.
'Deplaning' prompted the vision of one of those old woodshop how-to videos being run backwards: 'Your newly smoothed table top can once again be rough and thick.'
Loblolly was dried compressed soup. On HMS Victory etc, a surgeon's assistant was know as a Loblolly boy because it was his job to serve meals in the sickbay. Soup considered as being the best diet for sick sailors.
Velveeta comment: About 25 years ago my Texan friend's son was getting married in Provence France, my friend decided to recreate a Texas barbecue for the wedding reception. He figured he could get most of the ingredients there -- but with the language barrier that turned out to be nontrivial, and he wasn't happy with the result. There was one thing that did come out just as he wanted. He knew he couldn't get proper cheese for nachos in France, so he smuggled in a big log of Velveeta. Coals to Newcastle, cheese to France. Actually Velveeta isn't even cheese, it's a "cheese product" made from whey protein concentrate, milk protein concentrate, milk, fat, and preservatives. I couldn't talk him into trying something French. Texans be Texans.
I think deplane is relatively new. It's pretty new to me anyway. I remember people saying disembark. I am american and deplane just sounds really funny and kinda dumb to me. It makes me think of that show from the 70s where the little guy is famous for shouting "De plane! De plane!" When I plane is landing. I don't remember the name of the show, it was before I was born, but I remember my mom telling me about it.
@@alangarde2928 Tattoo was his name, I think - and yes, that was my first thought as well! I suppose the passengers did soon disembark after he spotted "De plane!" so maybe he was ahead of his time! 😊
@@marydavis5234 ok, maybe less syllables for time's sake 🤷🏻♀️ It still sounds dumb to me, and I don't think it actually makes sense. When we get on a plane we are not planing, when we get out of a car we are not decarring. Just because the military says it doesn't mean it's correct or that it should be a word for civilian use necessarily. We really don't need to go full on military here, yikes. I really think it sounds stupid.
Velveeta was an ingredient in my dinner this very night! It was good ol' burger mac, but I made it fancy with onions, mushrooms, spinach, bell peppers, garlic and other seasonings.
@@samiam619George and Vera Boyington...Way back in the 1940s, they created the very first corn dog, which they called the Pronto Pup, by coating a hot dog with a special batter and deep-frying it to a golden brown.
"Loblolly" is an old Southern term for "mud puddle". In fact, I've driven down a dirt road with an old Southern gentleman who called out, "Watch out for that loblolly", meaning to avoid going through a muddy pothole. There are three pine species that are common in the Southeast: loblolly, slash, and longleaf. Longleaf grows in dry, sandy soils, slash in more intermediately dry soils, and loblolly in wetter soils. But, loblolly has been widely planted outside its native range, which is why it is also so common. Fun fact about loblolly pine: if you crush the needles, it smells EXACTLY like oranges. (Because the needles are very high in Vitamin C.)
I wonder how long corny dogs have been available in the UK. I know of RUclipsrs who do food hauls that have included them. You're just adorably funny, Laurence.
Pro tip: Mustard goes on Corn Dogs. Mate! Take the 3 hr drive & get on down to Springfield, IL and hit up Cozy Dog. The Original (well, um, maybe). While you're there, the Lincoln Library is pretty neat too.
Actually Laurence, there are TWO venomous lizards native to the USA, Besides the Gila Monster, there is the Mexican Beaded lizard. Yes I know it says "Mexican". Still they are, in fact, native here. Most are not un-documented.
Czech Republic here. It is abolutely unheard of to leave an article of mail, let alone a package, unattended. Packages are delivered hand-to-hand or picked up by the addressee at a post office or the delivery point (which can be a code operated box). There is is no way in hell a package would be left anywhere. People simply PAY for the aforementioned delivery and there would be no record of it otherwise.
"A relatively small area of the United States" Well, Maybe a relatively small *proportion* of the US, but a large land area. :) (Was that you who had a video about how hard it was to wrap your head around the sheer size of the US as someone from a much smaller country?) Love your channel. Thanks.
I just LOVE that you live in Chicago which is on edge of lake Michigan because with as it "The pond" as well. But lake Superior (which is bigger), that's lake Kitchi gami!
Laurence, this is a real.job. You really have a gift. I enjoys your vids very much. Velveeta makes wonderful grilled cheese sandwiches. And the best corn dogs are those freshly dipped and fried at the fair. 🙂
When I traveled to Britain I was amazed at the lack of ice. We only stayed at one hotel with an ice machine and most mixed drinks would be served with only 1 or 2 cubes and water was chilled but no ice.
@@robertmiller9735 I did see Hawaiian shirt in Alaska but sure you are right about parka. one thing is sure, Alaska and Hawaii both serve lots of ice in drinks, must be American thing.
Parcel pirates/thieves are such a big problem in the UK because parcels aren't usually left in the front of houses where they can be seen. They will either be left in a pre-arranged place or very often left with a neighbour. I've got to know quite a few of my neighbours because we've looked after parcels for each other. Btw we DO often have 'front porches' in the UK but they are different. We sometimes have a front door behind which is a small area with a mat and maybe a cupboard and then another front door leading to the house. This small area between the doors is the front porch and it's where parcels can be left. All our Amazon packages are left in our front porch. It's out of the weather and out of sight. Ideal.
How about: 1) Breakfast Burritos. They're a staple here in the Southwest. I don't know about the rest of the country. They're at all food trucks/lunch wagons/roach coaches (I assume you've already covered those), diners, coffee shops, fast food places and even supermarkets, grocery stores and liquor stores. Basically eggs, some kind or kinds of meat (bacon; breakfast sausage, ham, chorizo, etc.), potatoes (fried or hash browns) and or refried beans/frijoles, sometimes rice, usually some chile salsa and pico de gallo (look it up), and of course cheese which is usually something like Mexican Ranchera or Panela, wrapped inside a large flour tortilla (corn tortillas taste better but aren't flexible enough to contain large amounts of burrito filling). Served hot. Your entire breakfast minus coffee and a pastry and orange juice in a handy wrapper. Usually quite large. Very American. They don't eat anything like this in Mexico unless they were brought there by former American residents. 2) As an extension of the above Frijoles aka Refried Beans. Cooked pinto beans put in a frying pan with some lard, for taste and to cook. The beans are smashed into a puree with something like a potato masher. Chicken stock may be added in small amounts to make it relatively smooth. Typically no additional seasoning is needed but usually served with something like a salsa or chile sauce. Pretty a staple side dish and recipe ingredient. It's in every burrito. I doubt whether either one of these is known in England. They're mostly Mexican though frijoles are eaten throughout the former Nahuatl and Mayan areas of North and Central America.
I live in Northwest Missouri and I have two loblolly pines. My father-in-law brought them to us, in 1994, from north east Arkansas. They are very flexible trees. Arkansas does not get the kind of snows that we can get in Northwest Missouri. More than once, after particularly heavy snows, the tops of the trees, which stands from 60 feet high, will be pinned to the ground from the weight of the snow. And the funniest porch pirates videos on RUclips involve booby trapped boxes.
I am sure, when most Brits reference getting off an aircraft, it is the same word we use for getting off a ship... Disembark or Disembarkation. I also use it for getting off a bus. The word Deboarding somehow feels unintelligent.
It's weird that they call it "deplaning" now, when they already had the word "deboarding", which I remember them using in the past. Never would have thought of it as unintelligent, but regardless, they're using "deplaning" now.
@@Trifler500 I see the word "deplaning" and my immediate thought is how to pronounce it. Does it relate to planes or plans? Are people making a reverse plan (if there is such a thing)? Curious and curiouser (you can blame C.S. Lewis for the word "curiouser". It does appear in the OED).
I hear "deplaning" and think of a removing a layer from a solid surface. The last time I traveled by plane was in 2019. They said; "depart/departure" "Before you depart, please check your overhead bins"
Velveeta Cheese and Shells New York Company Italian Style Sausage Diced onions, jalapenos, and bell pepper/poblanos Start cooking the noodles in one pot Crumble and brown the sausage in a saucepan Add in diced veggies, cook with sausage until soft Once all is cooked, combine I don't have a name for this yet, but this is one of my favorite meals I've come up with.
don"t mess with the Indiana State Fair! I try to get back every summer with my Indiana family. Long history of entering contests, etc. I do end up with a corndog every time!
Luna Moths are BEAUTIFUL! Corndogs are a family favorite snack food! Porch Pirates are a BIG problem in the US! I live in Milwaukee and parcels get stolen from my building's lobby ALL the time! I used to have to have packages delivered to my office before we went remote.
As a kid in Canada, I got it into my head that the children’s classic The Velveteen Rabbit was The Velveeta Rabbit. I blame my parents, naturally.
"Well it's not really rubber."
It's not really cheese, either.
That would be violently American. It's bad enough to make rabbits out of chocolate for Easter, but a rabbit made of cheese? haha
@@kaldo_kaldo depends on which company makes the chocolate bunnies. Lindt makes wonderful chocolate bunnies. I prefer chocolate eggs though. You can eat several small eggs, and not feel guilty cause they're 'small'!
@@mayloo2137 I feel guilty eating chocolate eggs! That's so many chocolate bunnies that won't be born :(
Velveeta Rabbit sounds like a Canadian fairy tale celebrated by eating cheese rabbits on Easter.
The guy who does the porch pirate videos was a NASA engineer. His names Mark Rober and he makes those porch pirates regret being thieves. His father also works at NASA; he worked on the James Webb telescope. Pretty interesting dude.
I love his videos. As you know, it's a quality versus quantity battle w/r/t posting videos but his are definitely worth the months-long intervals. Without checking, I'm wondering who posted most recently, him or the 11foot8inch bridge channel (since it was raised 8 inches to 12-4, not so many hit the bridge).
My little nephew and I love his videos, especially the squirrel obstacle course and the jello swimming pool. I used those videos to show my nephew that silly fun youtube videos can also be smart science.
I love his videos, he’s really kind and charitable.
@@jamsistired yeah, the squirrel videos he started out trying to keep them out of his bird feeders but he ended up being fascinated with the squirrels and actually enjoyed feeding them in a fun and challenging way, while also making sure they weren't hurt. In the jello swimming pool video he let kids in the neighborhood enjoy jumping and playing in it first because he thought of himself as a kid and what a dream that would be. Those kids had such a blast!
Mark Rober’s videos are so awesome.
I was travelling cross country, through Iowa, a while back.
It was the dead of night and we stopped at a Highway Rest Area.
I was thirsty, so I walked up to the COla Machine, tucked behind prison bars, and, as I was fishing for change, noticed a rather large, oddly shaped dark area covering part of the machine's illuminated display.
...it was a moth.
...LIT~erally the size of my face.
I ran back to the car, screaming.
Where you s teeming, "Quick get a bone, I've got to capture this rally cool moth. "?
That's wasn't a moth. It was probably the semilegendary Iowa Ripper, a bloodsucking insect. Some biologists believe it's only a myth, some that it existed but is now extinct. You're very lucky as no actual living witness sighting has been reliably reported since the 1950's at a Des Moines drive-in theater. There have been almost a thousand supposed victims, and possibly many more unrecorded cases, but local pathologists are under strict state orders to assign other causes of death, such as sudden onset of massive anemia and vampire bats (which also occasionally occur in the Midwest and Central Plains).
I wouldn't report this to the government because supposedly Dr. Fauci has been detaining and isolating other witnesses to the insect in his classified government lab built high in the Swiss mountains with the cooperation of Dr. Klaus Schwab and the World Economic Forum. Bill Gates also funds the facility to do experiments for his "vaccine" business. The lab is very high on a mountain top so they can gather the energy from lightening storms as an environmentally friendly way to power experiments. This laboratory has a long history on Swiss medicine. One of the earlier versions provided the inspiration for one of Mary Shelly's Gothic novels. The lab was founded no later than the alchemists of the early Renaissance, like Paracelsus (the real life model for Dr. Faustus, who supposedly sold his soul to Satan). Most Swiss historians believe it couldn't have been founded earlier due to the Catholic Church's primitive opposition to human experimentation.
I lived in an apartment in an old mansion where I would get at least one bat almost every summer. I am now really afraid of them. Imagine that 1 night when I went into the bathroom and something with huge wings was right next to the heating grate and flapped! It must have been 1 of those moths, but it looked like it was the size of a baby bat! Insomnia came back that night
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Oh.. my flying squirrels would have loved to eat that huge moth!
We rarely see our LG ones and they are no where near that size.
I turn on porch light and smack them with a fly swatter then place in fridge till they wake up at night to eat.
The first picture you use for a Gila monster isn't actually a Gila monster. It's a Mexican Beaded Lizard, the only other member of the Gila Monster's genus (Heloderma). The way you can tell is there's only black scales on the head.
I'm only pedantic about this because I've spent decades becoming an expert on Gila monsters and beaded lizards because they're my favorite animals and I used to take care of one at a natural history museum. I love them very much.
I'm just proud of him for learning how to say Gila.
A man took a sick beaded lizard to the vet and asked "Can you Gila monster?"
Funny, I seem to recall everyone I know saying "Gilly" monster not "Hilly" monster. Of course we didn't speak spanish.
Thank you for your service to the commentariat!
I've known about them for a long time, though until now I hadn't seen the word written. Sir David Attenborough is responsible for almost the whole of my natural world knowledge! I _think_ they're in Life in Cold Blood, but if not, it's in an episode of one of his incredible series based in the desert (the episode, not the series). I think it's one of the older ones, if you're interested.
As you're such a lizard lover (I say that with respect!), you'll love the aforementioned series. It's one of my favourites :)
Around Bastrop, TX, there is a detached area where the Loblolly pine grows, perhaps the most western area of it's range. This area is also known as the "lost pine" area. Unfortunately, 10 or so years ago, a quite large wildfire destroyed much of the trees here. Luckily there is a protected area where new pines are growing again in the ashes.
Augusta National Golf Club, home of the Masters Tournament, is famous for its Loblolly pines, among other things.
The irony is that those fires are healthy for the new trees.
I love how much you are learning about the wide and diverse American Culture and her very unique vocabulary, demographics, horticulture, geography and anything else that I missed.
Your humor makes me laugh and thank you so much for being a source of education to many. Even us in the U.S. are learning many new things that we have never heard before that is actually a "thing."
It's better to be a Wise Owl than an Ignoramus.
When I was in Japan, I found an interesting thing in the frozen food section. A package emblazoned with an American flag and the words (In English with Japanese Katakana under) AMERICAN DOGS on it. I took it home and opened it up to my joy, Corndogs! It was a nice bit of comfort food for when I was feeling homesick for America.
(Alright, I lied, there were "American Dogs"/corndogs clearly on the packaging and a window so you could see them resting in their frozen American glory.)
I had similar joy in my first few months in Japan, when my katana reading skills were still developing, and I found some at the counter of 7/11. Desperately miss the little packets of ketchup and mustard that burst and squeezed out evenly when you fold it in half. Definitely an improvement upon the condiment packets we use here in the US...
As an American I'd be fascinated by a reverse version of this series. also, I've never heard the phrase "porch pirate" before so thank you for that.
Look up the films on RUclips about the guy who sets out packages for porch pirates that are glitter bombs. This year he added a stinky spray to them as a bonus.
I think porch pirate is just a new term.
Most of his series is about established common words or phrases we use in the states.
I've never heard the term porch pirate, although the activity I've heard about.
@@langreeves6419 We use that term in AZ though I don’t know where it originated.
Hint: they don't steal porches.
Darn man, you haven't been on the internet enough.
I wish you’d do it the other way round. Things we have in the UK, but not stateside
Pakistani rape gangs?
probably a little harder to do as we have a tendency to import as much British culture as possible. I am sure he could probably do a few vids but not as many. some examples i can think of quickly we do NOT have outside of British themed pubs is mushy peas, pork pies, and sausage rolls.
Laurence, a fellow aging Brit here. We had American processed cheese in those big blocks back in the before times, not BC(19) [before covid] but BC [before computers] in the 80s. It was a staple in our shopping from the sadly missed Safeway supermarket.
Safeway lives in Ameruca still
@@terrybull1534 really? They're going extinct up here in Canada
I am Canadian from Saskatchewan, and we had Safeway and my family visited them from time to time. Although now in the place of the one we often went to is somthing else called Freshco or somthing like that.
P.s. it's bakery section was next to non existent comparatively to Safeway, and its produce wasn't great either, so it's name wasn't even earned.
I’ve always called loblolly pines telephone pole trees. Reason being I live in an area that has a lot of paper and timber mills so the pines are planted in certain designated areas in my county for harvest. It takes about a decade for them to grow tall enough to be used for telephone poles.
I live where the loblollies roam. The great Southern pine forest.
@@pinecone2455 Me too . My mom lives on Loblolly Drive in a South Carolina town and there are a few of them in her front yard . They're similar to a Western US species of tree called Lodgepole Pines . I believe Lodgepole Pines were used by Native Americans to erect teepees . Also , I believe that when America was still a few colonies the British valued tall straight American pine trees for there use as masts and spars on ships . The tallest pines were from Maine .
That was nine things. Laurence gave us a bonus.
Years ago, Herb Caen (columnist for the San Francisco Chronicle) wrote that Chico, California was the sort of place where they have Velveeta in the gourmet section of the supermarket. It did not endear him to the residents of Chico.
He's not wrong.
I've been to Chico and I think Herb was being too generous.
His description of SF was 'The Baghdad by the Bay' which makes Chico look like an improvement.
Herb liked to trash LA too. The easiest way to get him to shut up was by endlessly repeating the term "Frisco". I actually saw it work on him long ago.
I think Chico is a pretty nice place, or at least it used to be.
In San Francisco, they put Velveeta in the gourmet section because people there are using it for cheese fondue. Ooh La La.
The rest of us were using it for fish bait
It was in the bait fridge
Don't worry Lawrence. I've lived in the US for 70 years now (east coast) and I have yet to experience a corn dog. Have to say, I'm actually learning a lot from your LITP series - especially place names that I've been mispronouncing all my life. You are a real treasure. 💜
Corny Dogs are the BEST!
As a Midwesterner i mentioned Velveeta as a refrigerator staple to an Italian American friend from NY. He was horrified.
So happy for you Laurence. Your years of hard work and dedication are paying off, and there probably isn't a youtuber more deserving than yourself. Health and happiness to you and your wife ✌🏼♥
We have corndogs here in Australia but we call them Dagwood Dogs. Don't know why. They are a must at the local agricultural show (fair) dipped in sauce.
Probably after the comic strip character dagwood who is obsessed with food
@@ironblitzkriegmetal5177 Must be. Although, other than the comic I've only heard of a "Dagwood" as a type of sandwich with multiple layers stacked insanely high.
The sandwich is named for him because his layered sandwiches were taller than Shaggy's and Scooby-doo's layered sandwiches.
I remember them being called that here (upper Midwest US) when I was a kid.
@@HermanVonPetri Yes, my mom & dad grew up in NYC around good deli & they would often talk of Dagwoods.
Hush Puppies, Bleachers and Nor' Easters at the same time sounds like a Packers home game.
Hush puppies in Wisconsin? Maybe if there is Long John Silver's in Green Bay.
@@Ididnotwanttojoin aren't hush puppies more common in southern States?
I don’t want to be “that” person but as someone who grew up in Wisconsin, hush puppies are an exotic food most have never had and nor’easters only hit the east coast and like a 100 miles inwards. Bleachers I will give you 😉
@@mayloo2137 I’m sure some people enjoyed them up here but I grew up in Wisconsin and never had one or saw one til I moved far far south to Chicago 😜 and they aren’t common here either but everyone grows up differently!
@@Ididnotwanttojoin I lived in Wisconsin til 2002 and have yet to see a long john silvers there or here in Chicago. Not saying they don’t exist but Wisconsin is not really up on southern cuisine or spice in general 🤣 Hush puppies were stuffed toys in the 80s if i remember correctly. Or maybe pound puppies. lolol. I’m not saying OP didn’t experience these things but it’s certainly not common up there and nor’easters don’t affect us beyond maybe residual precipitation. We do get thunder snow tho. In 2010, city of Chicago was shut down by a blizzard with a thunder storm and that NEVER happens (closing down that is)
In the west we have sphinx moths, I’ve laughed so hard when one late evening one got into a grocery store and sent people literally screaming and running around like crazy people. I was able to capture it and take it outside and let it go, and people looked at me like I was a crazy one! It’s a moth, they don’t bite or sting!
In some parts of the country, we havd problems with Mayflies. Smaller, but very numerous!
Americans do seem to have strange ideas about which insects will sting you. Richard Feynman told a story about being afraid of what he called "darning needles" which sounded like a crane fly or daddy-long-legs.
We have moths in the uk and they are scary, about the size of a dime lol
Humans do be fearing the wrong things, sometimes 😂
We have beautiful green Luna Moths here in East Texas. Some are quite large and totally harmless. They like pine forests and flower nectar.
"...which I thought was an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical."
I love all your jokes, but I love your theater jokes a whole lot.
*theatre hehe.
@@DarthBastard Thought about it! 😁
Lawrence could make reading from the want ads or obituaries section of the paper as amusing as hell. Thanks buddy! I love your videos, Lawrence!!!!
Hello Paula
Unfortunately, you either didn't know, or forgot about the old series "Fantasy Island", with Ricardo Montalban and Hervé Villechaize. Villechaize's character, 'Tattoo', was the assistant to the island's host, and spoke with a heavy accent, and nearly every episode, could be heard announcing the impending arrival of new guests to the island by calling out "The plane, the plane!", which sounded very much like 'De plane! de plane!'
Yet the word goes back to 1923
Here's an idea I don't' know if you've talked about if you've run short- From what I understand Britain doesn't really distinguish between solid fruits crushed and boiled with sugar (Jam) vs when it's then strained to leave just the juice (Jelly in the US, No name but "Jam" in the UK from what I've heard, but it may not be true)
Some people in the US even distinguish between preserves and jam, wherein preserves has larger pieces of fruit still in it.
There are actually legal packaging definitions in many places to distinguish these and marmelades. It's the percentage of crushed fruit left in, the percentage of pectin and the amount of sugar or other sweeteners.
@Nicky L Interesting. I've seen many brits tell me otherwise.
@Nicky L Yeah, we either call it Jello or Gelatin.
We have jam (crushed fruit), jelly (strained) and conserves (whole fruit). You can buy them in all supermarkets.
But Jello is just a brand name for one manufacturers jelly.
I have NEVER heard of a "loblolly pine" before, and I've lived my entire life in the U.S.
Pretty much every telephone pole you see and most building lumber is Loblolly Pine.
It grows fast and straight.
I always called those Georgia pines
People tend to call all pine trees pine trees.
In elementary school, we had a Gila monster that stayed in the science classroom. Didn't realize it was strange, I wonder if Australians have interesting animals in their schools.
My middle son has one. Amongst others, he collects freaking lizards. He makes me hold one when I come over. If I didn't love him, he wouldn't still be with us...
Not strange at all.. just depends on the teacher.
@@JimAllen-Persona this biology teacher would politely decline.
@@paigeherrin29 I think I would also… but then I guess you wouldn’t be doing what my daughters bio teacher did/does.He’s licensed by the State to pick up road kill. I have no idea how he disposes of the carcass - but he will occasionally bring in parts for real life anatomy lessons. The one that sticks out in my head for some reason is when he brought in lungs from a dead deer and used a straw to inflate/deflate them They were completely flat and very thin.
@@JimAllen-Persona that’s kinda cool, actually. (The deer lungs). Sounds like an engaging teacher who creates engaging conversations!
Another very humorous look at the common language that separates us! Well done Lawrence!
The first time I remember hearing the term "deplane", in the late 1980s, I couldn't help but imitate the character Tattoo from the late 70s/early 80s TV show Fantasy Island, who in the opening sequence would always yell "Da plane! Da plane!" in preparation for welcoming the guests for this guest star-driven show. ruclips.net/video/HtwRvpuNxeY/видео.html
My husband is from Mexico and he had never heard of corndogs either. I don’t think they have that in Spanish. He saw them the first time at the grocery store and called them condors, which is a bird. lol! 😂
That’s adorable ☺️
The western sky was black with them at one time; they had a twenty foot wingspan!
We do have them in Mexico, at least in the area where I am from. They are called “banderillas,” which can be a synonym of “brochettes” or other food on toothpicks or sticks. Banderillas are also the spikes used in “corridas” (bullfighting.) These are defined as “a large decorative dart, covered in colourful paper, that is pushed into a bull's shoulder” (just to clarify, I don't like this practice at all!) However, it makes sense that a corn dog was given that name because of its shape: a wiener in a stick or skewer, mostly covered with something soft like corn batter 😊
I also get the consonant cluster confusion corn dog/condor, it's like a tongue twister 😅
There should be Mexican style corndogs.
El Corndog Pasa.
That's Peru heard from.
Here in Japan the Corn Dog is called an "American Dog".
@gaijinito what do you call a hot dog in Japan?
@@mer8795 According to Google Translate they just transliterate it, "hottodoggu". When they say "American dog" apparently that's also a transliteration rather than a translation, Google Translate says "Amerikandoggu".
@@howard2liu that makes sense. One person said if the Japanese didn't have a name option of their own, that they just made an English word sound like it could be Japanese, i.e. milk shake ~ milk shakisu. 😀
Congratulations Laurence! You truly deserve it. You’ve worked really hard.🐝❤️🤗
As a word lover, I just binge watched in ascending order this entire series. Thank you. I had a good many laughs and chuckles doing so.
Luna moths are GORGEOUS!!! I don't know about everyone else, when we see one we call everyone in the house to see!
Yes they are beautiful!!
I commented before I saw yours that Luna Moths are quite beautiful and they really are. They’re impressive. We did the same as you and would have everyone come to see this lovely creature.
As an Australian we tend to use the same words as they do in the UK for a lot of things. I’ve never heard of deplaning before, we’d be instructed to alight, disembark the flight or exit the aircraft. I’ve learnt so many new things about America from this series. Great work!
I'm sitting by my window looking at a Loblolly Pine Tree forest that surrounds us here in Georgia. The reason there are so many of them is because they are planted by large companies. We have massive acreage covered by them. As you pointed out, they are very tall (at maturity) and have very few branches which means the dimensional lumber created from the harvested trees have far fewer knots to interfere with building houses, decks, etc.
Keep up the good work, mate (Can I say that even though you aren't? Hubby wants to know).
Why are they called Loblolly pines?
@@mayloo2137 The word "loblolly" is a combination of "lob", referring to thick, heavy bubbling of cooking porridge, and "lolly", an old British dialect word for broth, soup, or any other food boiled in a pot. In the southern United States, the word is used to mean "a mudhole; a mire," a sense derived from an allusion to the consistency of porridge. " Wikipedia
On our property they grow wild so they are not exactly lumber ready but I can attest to the fact that they love our boggy back fields.
I'm a simple guy... Lawrence posts, I hit 'Like.'
First 'Like,' this time. 😛
Edit: "Velveeta" would be an epic musical. All about grilled cheese sandwiches and cheese sauces.
Gila Monster venom is the original source of an important anti-diabetes medicine. It's synthesized now, but yeah... Lizard spit.
"Disembark" would be the proper word for leaving an aircraft. Or "getting out." Or "Buggering Off."
Your call.
@@lairdcummings9092 probably from our Fantasy Island days 🤣
@@bluegreenglue6565 I spent 17 years working in the drug development department of a major pharma. They test *everything* for pharmacokinetic activity. Ant venom. Tree sap. Flower nectar. Something found on the underside of a slimy rock.
It's a pretty surreal job, really. But yeah, lizard spit was definitely a surprise, even for the industry.
@@lairdcummings9092 Honestly, that sounds like an amazing job. : )
Velveeta would be about more than grilled cheese and cheese sauces, it would be about dips, casseroles and fishing. I remember many a fishing trip as a child using Velveeta as bait it worked for Trout, what we called sunfish (freshwater not true Sunfish) and Carp (though an empty hook works on Carp).
What we didn't use as bait was out lunch either on crackers or a a grilled cheese.
Porch piracy: as a recent immigrant to the UK, this at first had me stumped. On arrival here, we were astonished that packages could (seriously?) be delivered to you and left on the porch (outside, in the rain, for anyone to carry off!). So your mention of "porch piracy" brought a smile. Being from South Africa the concept was foreign yes, but also incomprehensible in the extreme. A parcel delivered like that might make it for an hour, on a very quiet day! Generally it would be gone within minutes. Over here in the UK it's quite normal. The neighbor across the way had a package delivered to his front door about 11 days ago, while they are soaking up the sun in Spain for the Easter break! It's still there (albeit a bit soggy by this stage!). Yeah, had a good chuckle about this one (at my expense of course!). Cheers mate.
Guess it depends where you live in the U.K , some area's are safe like that and others not so , alot of the time a parcel would be left with a neighbour to look after.
@@markbradley7323 Yeah, I guess you're right.
You didn't take his parcel in, just left it to get sodden? Some neighbour, you..
@@wessexdruid7598 "When in Rome, do as the Romans do!" I won't say I am comfortable with it, but that was the local advice we were given.
@@dennisleighton2812 Like I said - you've proven yourself a real neighbour.. :-/
Not comfortable, but having a real chickle about it. Right.
When I first moved to England age 10 I found out the hard way about no free refills (and also why no ice?!) I usually would drink a whole cup of something before the meal even came. My dad wouldn't buy another, and there wasn't water either, so my first meal out I had to eat with nothing to drink. All the subsequent ones I'd be forced to ration my one pint cup of warm coke for the whole experience (I'm a heavy beverage imbiber, I usually knock back 5-6 glasses of unsweet iced tea in a meal, but as a kid it was the same with coke, and I also drink the free water). Yeah, the refills and tiny bottles of things was my hardest adjustment. Being said, I really miss England. Thanks for all you do and giving me something to rant about. Love the channel, wish you the best.
They want you to drink their beer.
I can remember when free refills first got introduced in the early 1980's by the Pepsi company to try and lure people into Taco Bell. McDonald's was the last holdout, not wanting to give free refills until the early 1990's.
Circle K started offering them in 1983 I remember as a little kid my brothers and I would go over there and fill up a thirst buster and then gulp as much down as possible and then fill it up again and pay for it and gas was cheaper than the thirst buster lol. The refills weren't free at Circle K but cost a quarter unless you drank it all in the store then you could refill as much as you wanted.
If I recall Carls Jr was the first fast food restaurant to offer self service drinks and free refills because they figured out that was cheaper than employing someone to fill drink cups
I worked at Burger King 1984-86. I remember when they put in our “drink bar”. My manager said the most expensive part of drinks was the cost of the cups, not the soda.
Funny enough, I grew up in Alabama and I’ve never heard of a Loblolly pine, we just call them pine trees 😂
Glad I’m not alone on that. I’m from Georgia and I’ve never heard them call that either. Was wondering if I needed to turn in my Southern card, bless my heart.
@@paigeherrin29 same. Never heard the term! :)
thats because it is a british name loblolly was a yorkshire stew also became a slang word for a surgeons assistant it was early british settlers who named the pine as it was found in swampy areas that reminded them of stew
This has to be a real job because we all jump on it this fast 😂😂
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Lawrence you need a quote from Tatoo for the plane joke, ""DE-PLANE DE-PLANE!"
Harvester, Subway and Nando's do soft drink refills, and Wetherspoon's do hot drink refills
Tobys Carverys do soft drink refills
@Nicky L Because you're thirsty
Aww... I hope all of you get to try a corn dog and some Velveeta. Corndogs, best dipped in mustard.
Velveeta, best thing for grilled cheese sandwiches.
And it has to be yellow mustard!
Thanks, I came here to find this😂!
I love that there’s a little animal that we call a “monster”.
Why on Earth would you love that?
True it is funny, animals considered unattractive are often villainized by calling the monsters. But. There are always those who adore them.
It's actually not that little. Gila Monsters are quite large, as lizards go. The Mexican Beaded Lizard, a close cousin, is even larger. Those are the only two unambiguously venomous lizards in the world.
@@TrueThanny agreed, I think they get up to nearly 2 feet in length....
Not little!
Velveeta and American "Cheese" isn't actually cheese. It's a cheese product. You can make it out of basically any cheese (I'm not aware of one you can't). It requires using sodium citrate to allow the cheese to emulsify in water. It's basically how fondue cheese and cheese wiz is made.
Corndogs vary on the batter. A lot of times people use the ultra-sweet stuff which I don't care for.
Fun fact, a Loblolly Pine seed went to the moon (sorta, it didn't go to the surface, just circled around it) and it grew up in Arkansas at a school of forestry. They were called Moon Trees. A PR stunt from NASA.
My dad pointed out that “deplaning” isn’t really proper. The plane is depassengering.
more technically, the plane is being depassengered.
I'd guess, other countries use some variant of "disembark"
When they're Boeing planes they could be deplaning. It depends upon have fallen off in midair.
Luna Moths are sick. I remember years ago one night a few friends & I were at our (now gone) local 24hr 711 sometime late in the evening/early morning when there was a Luna Moth outside the store. I was finishing up my purchase of probably snacks & cigarettes and one of my other friends that was outside opened the front door. The clerk saw the moth and was like "no, no, no don't let it in" while my friend was like "it's comin in!" as he ushered it into the store.
Absolutely hilarious encounter at the time. Guess it doesn't quite translate well via text but trust me it was great.
Yeah, the first time I heard a flight attendant use the word "deplane," he'd been a bit of a wit throughout the flight and I thought he was using a jokey phrase to refer to "get the hell off so we can go on break." Turns out it was a word.
Watch the old show “Fantasy Island”, starring Ricardo Montalban & Herve Villechaize. Villechaize’s character would often shout, “De plane! De plain!” When guests would arrive.
Just a bit of useless trivia 😂
"Hey, Tattoo! What part of Spain gets the main rain?"
Each one of these gets better than the one before
I can't wait for Part 50. : ))) Once again, Laurence, this was a good one. Keep'em comin'.
When I told my friend from the UK about some of our foods like Frito pies, chicken fried steak with country gravy, cow pie cookies, and the crazy deep fried foods at the Texas state fair, he thought America had lost its ever lovin' mind. He told me about the deep fried Mars bars, but was confused as to why we had deep fried butter, cheesecake, twinkies, and yes, beer. Then I told him about the highway clustertruck known as a "mix master".
I'm in Calgary, Canada. We have the Calgary Stampede every summer, and every summer, they invent new fried foods for us fairgoers to try.
Last summer, I tried alligator bites and pickle dogs.
PS the Calgary Stampede made an American list of crazy carnival foods years ago. 😅
Always interesting! And I learned something too! I didn’t know about the L pine trees- never heard of them but I’ve lived in upstate New York all my life. So thanks for that ❤😊🙃
Herb Caen was a very popular columnist in the San Francisco Chronicle. His columns were about a dozen short items, light humor, society gossip, local shenanigans. In the early 80's he happened to be traveling in the north state, and while in a Safeway supermarket in Chico he discovered that they had put the Velveeta in the Gourmet Cheese section. Of course he wrote about it in his column and thus Chico became the butt of many jokes about their sophistication, or lack thereof.
I live in Arizona and I can vouch for the Gila monster. There is even a river named the Gila.
Hello Loretta
Those pre-packaged singles are not American cheese. You need to find an actual deli and get some Land o Lakes or New Yorker American cheese. It is very different than that rubbery, yellow crap. White American cheese is what you typically find on a cheesesteak other than provolone. It's kind of a mild cheddar flavor, and very creamy and melts really well. It's probably one of the best cheeses for a grilled cheese sandwich.
I buy the land o lakes American in my grocery store. It's delicious.
Anything labeled “cheese food” is neither cheese nor food. Get cheddar or Swiss for your burgers.
Brilliant commentary with the wry humor I love!!!!!!!
Can't go wrong with Velveeta & Ro-Tel. Or a good corndog.
Velveeta Shells & Cheese with a spoonful of salsa, mmmmm. Oh and dipping that corndog in BBQ sauce. 😁
Liquid gold!
Decades ago, I participated in some marketing tests at the mall. The demonstrator was from Wisconsin, and the food was a Velveeta type cheese product which she made "Ro-tel Dip" from. Wisconsin is known for cheese, so it was amusing to all us southerners that she had never had anything like that before, ate half the samples she made, and couldn't wait to share the recipe with friends back home lol. Where I worked, it wasn't uncommon for there to be multiple versions of Ro-tel dip at any potluck, all extremely popular. The ones I remember are with ground beef, country sausage, or my favorite, chili.
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It’s ok to like Velveeta & Ro-tel, but don’t fool yourself into thinking you’ve made a real queso 🫕
'Deplaning' prompted the vision of one of those old woodshop how-to videos being run backwards: 'Your newly smoothed table top can once again be rough and thick.'
Porch pirates is term often used to describe THIEVES. Don’t make it cutsie. A thief is a thief. No matter where they steal from
They're thieves, but thieves of a particular type.
Pirates exist today and they're far from cutsie. Complain to the entertainment industry about making piracy cutsie.
@@angiebee2225 Global warming is caused by the decline in the number of pirates.
It's complicated, but just trust me. 🙃
@@Primalxbeast I'll buy it.
@@angiebee2225 Then you've taken your first step on the path to becoming a Pastafarian. 😉
Loblolly was dried compressed soup. On HMS Victory etc, a surgeon's assistant was know as a Loblolly boy because it was his job to serve meals in the sickbay.
Soup considered as being the best diet for sick sailors.
Yeah! Another Lost in the Pond! Thank you Lawrence.
Velveeta comment: About 25 years ago my Texan friend's son was getting married in Provence France, my friend decided to recreate a Texas barbecue for the wedding reception. He figured he could get most of the ingredients there -- but with the language barrier that turned out to be nontrivial, and he wasn't happy with the result.
There was one thing that did come out just as he wanted. He knew he couldn't get proper cheese for nachos in France, so he smuggled in a big log of Velveeta. Coals to Newcastle, cheese to France.
Actually Velveeta isn't even cheese, it's a "cheese product" made from whey protein concentrate, milk protein concentrate, milk, fat, and preservatives. I couldn't talk him into trying something French. Texans be Texans.
I think deplane is relatively new. It's pretty new to me anyway. I remember people saying disembark. I am american and deplane just sounds really funny and kinda dumb to me. It makes me think of that show from the 70s where the little guy is famous for shouting "De plane! De plane!" When I plane is landing. I don't remember the name of the show, it was before I was born, but I remember my mom telling me about it.
'Fantasy Island' is the show you are thinking of, and that was my first thought too!
@@alangarde2928 Tattoo was his name, I think - and yes, that was my first thought as well! I suppose the passengers did soon disembark after he spotted "De plane!" so maybe he was ahead of his time! 😊
Deplane is actually a very OLD US military term, the show was Fantasy Island.
@@marydavis5234 ok, maybe less syllables for time's sake 🤷🏻♀️ It still sounds dumb to me, and I don't think it actually makes sense. When we get on a plane we are not planing, when we get out of a car we are not decarring. Just because the military says it doesn't mean it's correct or that it should be a word for civilian use necessarily. We really don't need to go full on military here, yikes. I really think it sounds stupid.
Velveeta was an ingredient in my dinner this very night! It was good ol' burger mac, but I made it fancy with onions, mushrooms, spinach, bell peppers, garlic and other seasonings.
Corndogs are also called prontopups in the northeast...cornbread battered and fried hotdogs...awesome food
Prontopups? Weirdos!
@@samiam619George and Vera Boyington...Way back in the 1940s, they created the very first corn dog, which they called the Pronto Pup, by coating a hot dog with a special batter and deep-frying it to a golden brown.
"Loblolly" is an old Southern term for "mud puddle". In fact, I've driven down a dirt road with an old Southern gentleman who called out, "Watch out for that loblolly", meaning to avoid going through a muddy pothole.
There are three pine species that are common in the Southeast: loblolly, slash, and longleaf. Longleaf grows in dry, sandy soils, slash in more intermediately dry soils, and loblolly in wetter soils. But, loblolly has been widely planted outside its native range, which is why it is also so common.
Fun fact about loblolly pine: if you crush the needles, it smells EXACTLY like oranges. (Because the needles are very high in Vitamin C.)
I wonder how long corny dogs have been available in the UK. I know of RUclipsrs who do food hauls that have included them. You're just adorably funny, Laurence.
I love this series... I'd you can come up with more... I'd love to see more of these!!
Love from Georgia 🇺🇸❤️🇬🇧
Great job as always! I really needed a smile today 🥹👍
Pro tip: Mustard goes on Corn Dogs.
Mate! Take the 3 hr drive & get on down to Springfield, IL and hit up Cozy Dog. The Original (well, um, maybe).
While you're there, the Lincoln Library is pretty neat too.
Actually Laurence, there are TWO venomous lizards native to the USA, Besides the Gila Monster, there is the Mexican Beaded lizard. Yes I know it says "Mexican". Still they are, in fact, native here. Most are not un-documented.
Funny you brought that up. Another poster said he had a picture of both.
What if I told you that a good portion of the western US used to be Mexico?
@@haileybalmer9722 So? "used to be" is the relevant phrase here.
@@HemlockRidge Maybe that's a factor in how the Mexican beaded lizard got its name. 🦎
Czech Republic here. It is abolutely unheard of to leave an article of mail, let alone a package, unattended. Packages are delivered hand-to-hand or picked up by the addressee at a post office or the delivery point (which can be a code operated box). There is is no way in hell a package would be left anywhere. People simply PAY for the aforementioned delivery and there would be no record of it otherwise.
"A relatively small area of the United States"
Well, Maybe a relatively small *proportion* of the US, but a large land area. :)
(Was that you who had a video about how hard it was to wrap your head around the sheer size of the US as someone from a much smaller country?)
Love your channel. Thanks.
Yeah, I thought the same: That “small area” is bigger than the UK…
I just LOVE that you live in Chicago which is on edge of lake Michigan because with as it "The pond" as well. But lake Superior (which is bigger), that's lake
Kitchi gami!
No free refills? Barbarians!!!
Priceless 🤣! Absolutely hilarious 😂!
The glitter bomb videos are absolutely hysterical.
Laurence, this is a real.job. You really have a gift. I enjoys your vids very much. Velveeta makes wonderful grilled cheese sandwiches. And the best corn dogs are those freshly dipped and fried at the fair. 🙂
It's BLOODY TIME Britain got words for these things!! LOL!
Love ya Laurence. You’re doing great. I’ll never miss one of your videos and am now working very hard to visit your home island.
When I traveled to Britain I was amazed at the lack of ice. We only stayed at one hotel with an ice machine and most mixed drinks would be served with only 1 or 2 cubes and water was chilled but no ice.
It's hardly surprising, considering how much hotter summer is in most of the US.
@@robertmiller9735 Very true, not a complaint just an observation of difference between two countries.
@@janicew6222 That would be a bit like an Alaskan complaining about not being able to buy a parka in Hawaii, yeah.
@@robertmiller9735 I did see Hawaiian shirt in Alaska but sure you are right about parka. one thing is sure, Alaska and Hawaii both serve lots of ice in drinks, must be American thing.
More cheap ice = less expensive drink
You are being screwed by them filling your glass with ice
Luna Moths are quite beautiful. We saw them occasionally at night when we were in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
Velveeta dip with rotel tomatos is 🤤
Parcel pirates/thieves are such a big problem in the UK because parcels aren't usually left in the front of houses where they can be seen. They will either be left in a pre-arranged place or very often left with a neighbour. I've got to know quite a few of my neighbours because we've looked after parcels for each other.
Btw we DO often have 'front porches' in the UK but they are different. We sometimes have a front door behind which is a small area with a mat and maybe a cupboard and then another front door leading to the house. This small area between the doors is the front porch and it's where parcels can be left. All our Amazon packages are left in our front porch. It's out of the weather and out of sight. Ideal.
American cheese is not the silly little cheese slices with the plastic wrapped around.. Real American cheese is bought in the deli department
And the deli versions are much superiour.
@@shanereynolds5971 Delis are the best places to buy good cheese!!
Yep. Land o lakes ftw!
How about:
1) Breakfast Burritos. They're a staple here in the Southwest. I don't know about the rest of the country. They're at all food trucks/lunch wagons/roach coaches (I assume you've already covered those), diners, coffee shops, fast food places and even supermarkets, grocery stores and liquor stores. Basically eggs, some kind or kinds of meat (bacon; breakfast sausage, ham, chorizo, etc.), potatoes (fried or hash browns) and or refried beans/frijoles, sometimes rice, usually some chile salsa and pico de gallo (look it up), and of course cheese which is usually something like Mexican Ranchera or Panela, wrapped inside a large flour tortilla (corn tortillas taste better but aren't flexible enough to contain large amounts of burrito filling). Served hot. Your entire breakfast minus coffee and a pastry and orange juice in a handy wrapper. Usually quite large. Very American. They don't eat anything like this in Mexico unless they were brought there by former American residents.
2) As an extension of the above Frijoles aka Refried Beans. Cooked pinto beans put in a frying pan with some lard, for taste and to cook. The beans are smashed into a puree with something like a potato masher. Chicken stock may be added in small amounts to make it relatively smooth. Typically no additional seasoning is needed but usually served with something like a salsa or chile sauce. Pretty a staple side dish and recipe ingredient. It's in every burrito.
I doubt whether either one of these is known in England. They're mostly Mexican though frijoles are eaten throughout the former Nahuatl and Mayan areas of North and Central America.
I refuse to eat bean burritos, not "every" burrito has fricken beans.
RUclips is a real job, if you did the same work on late night TV you would be making a fortune. We love having you here on demand. 😁👍❤
I live in Northwest Missouri and I have two loblolly pines. My father-in-law brought them to us, in 1994, from north east Arkansas. They are very flexible trees. Arkansas does not get the kind of snows that we can get in Northwest Missouri. More than once, after particularly heavy snows, the tops of the trees, which stands from 60 feet high, will be pinned to the ground from the weight of the snow.
And the funniest porch pirates videos on RUclips involve booby trapped boxes.
I am sure, when most Brits reference getting off an aircraft, it is the same word we use for getting off a ship... Disembark or Disembarkation. I also use it for getting off a bus. The word Deboarding somehow feels unintelligent.
It's weird that they call it "deplaning" now, when they already had the word "deboarding", which I remember them using in the past. Never would have thought of it as unintelligent, but regardless, they're using "deplaning" now.
Yes, "deplaning" came about at some point in my existence
@@Trifler500 I see the word "deplaning" and my immediate thought is how to pronounce it. Does it relate to planes or plans? Are people making a reverse plan (if there is such a thing)? Curious and curiouser (you can blame C.S. Lewis for the word "curiouser". It does appear in the OED).
I hear "deplaning" and think of a removing a layer from a solid surface.
The last time I traveled by plane was in 2019. They said; "depart/departure"
"Before you depart, please check your overhead bins"
@@ShainThomas If it was related to plans, it would be "deplanning"
We always called getting off a plane to disembark because nautical terms are/were sometimes used for things related to planes.
The first and only time I had Velveeta happened to be in Australia. And I always got free refills at Nando's in Britain.
I've heard from people in the UK that Nando's is really the only place there that does free refills.
@@O2life also TGI Friday's and Harvester!
We have a yard game called Corn Hole (look it up) not to be confused with the old farm boy prank "corn hole".
We eat hobo sandwiches. A mixture of velveeta cheese, ground beef, and pan sausage. On a wheat sub bun. Pinnacle of dining.
What is "pan sausage"?
I assume the wheat bun is to keep it healthy
Haha. It is anything but healthy. Pan sausage is similar to ground beef but with pork and sausage seasonings. Sausage with no casing.
Honestly, that sounds delicious
Velveeta Cheese and Shells
New York Company Italian Style Sausage
Diced onions, jalapenos, and bell pepper/poblanos
Start cooking the noodles in one pot
Crumble and brown the sausage in a saucepan
Add in diced veggies, cook with sausage until soft
Once all is cooked, combine
I don't have a name for this yet, but this is one of my favorite meals I've come up with.
don"t mess with the Indiana State Fair! I try to get back every summer with my Indiana family. Long history of entering contests, etc. I do end up with a corndog every time!
I suppose you've heard 'bugger off' a lot - Lawrence. 🤣 😂 🙃 Love the videos.
As I always say, You are hilarious!
Luna Moths are BEAUTIFUL!
Corndogs are a family favorite snack food!
Porch Pirates are a BIG problem in the US! I live in Milwaukee and parcels get stolen from my building's lobby ALL the time!
I used to have to have packages delivered to my office before we went remote.
I had a food box delivered... they left the box!
This is a real job, Uncle Toby.