Yes I'm an Australian and I recently went to the USA. I really really did not like them taking my credit card. Just let me use my card on the machine. Also I dont like tipping. Pay your workers properly. I also don't need service people standing there. Trust me if I want you or need your help I let you know.
'Spunk' means semen in UK slang. 'Randy' means 'sexually voracious'. Putting your knife and fork together neatly at the end of a meal shows that you have finished eating and have some manners. In the UK we don't really like insincere small talk from people we don't know. Churchill famously made the 'V' for Victory sign with the backs of his fingers facing the crowd until someone told him that it means 'F off' 😂
American butter is low quality. British butter tastes great. The whole point of butter is to put it on bread. You can have mayo and other things too, but without butter, it's not a sandwich.
I always thought that the butter moistens the bread plus we’ve been buttering bread long before there was mayonnaise or other things you yanks put on them instead ( though I don’t think when the Earl of Sandwich made the first one they used butter as he just said stick a steak between two slices of bread that he could eat on the run )
When Walmart opened shops in Germany they tried to make the employees do the over the top friendliness It didn't go well! The customers and employees hated it There are no Walmarts in Germany or UK The Supermarkets they bought in the UK have been sold
😂 Cultural differences really do play the lead role 😅 I'm a British citizen and all my ancestry is Britain and Europe , I have no problems tipping where required, the 10% on top that my mum and dad taught me stays 😊 However, when I am out shopping I want to be left alone, I do not need"customer service" until I ask for it ?! it has become a joke though, hasn't it? The overwhelming, over the top service (and great strain these people are performing for their boss) Obviously works fine for the US citizen due to their cultural beliefs. I am European, if I need help I will ask ! I just wonder if people in the USA really tip based on all the fake "how y'all folks doing? Is there anything I can do for you?? Anything? (I'll bark like a dog and ride a Unicycle if you tip me big and my boss sees it) 😮 Or they also tip because they know the workers don't get paid enough (certainly not like wages are paid in the UK and Europe) and want to give 💓 If I ever go to the USA again, I will remember not to get annoyed with their culture, and be kind to those who work so hard for a thankless job (I have had those too, bet you have too, Helen Jarvis? 😄
@@catshez yes, you summed up my feelings exactly, hate being "stalked" by over zealous staff. It makes me feel uncomfortable, so I always end up leaving when that type of "american customer service" appears. If I want help, I will ask for it. Simples 👍😁🇬🇧
@@mossygreen2790 🤣Yes you said it far more simply and exactly . If we need help, we will ask for it, OK ?? 😂 Zealous enthusiasm from staff is not what I require when shopping for odds and ends ! How on Earth US citizens cope with this on every shopping spree is beyond me 😧🤨🤣
I remember in the early 1990's, Disney opened a store in Glasgow. They did what they did in the USA and had greeters at the door. Within a hour they had to remove the greeters because they were quite frankly getting verbally abused by shoppers. In the UK the people like to keep to themselves, and it's considered extremely rude to just talk to people you haven't been introduced to, so suddenly having a store employee greet you before you've even got into the shop is horrifyingly rude for us British, even worse is the fakeness of it all, the "niceness". The only exception to the "don't talk to people you don't know rule" is to comment on the weather, which is an icebreaker for the British.
Haha, in England, when you show the back of your hand doing a peace sign, it means you can drop dead. It represents the longbow soldiers holding their bowstring wanting to shoot you.
It’s polite to have your knife and fork next to each other in parallel once you’ve finished eating. It’s signifies that you’ve finished AND that you enjoyed the food. If you cross your knife and fork it means you didn’t enjoy the food BUT that’s considered extremely rude to do, so British people rarely do it as we don’t like to be rude, even if the food was terrible.
That’s not considered rude where I am from, in uk😅 when you’re done with your food you just put your knife and fork on your plate, side by side, sometimes crossed and that signifies your done. I’ve worked in catering before and never thought or saw anyone else thinking about any other way to use the cutlery other than to say your done eating, no one I know does that
The kettle thing is mainly about the difference in voltage. The UK has 240 volts, The US has 110 volts. I have a 3.5 kw (3500 watts) kettle which boils very quickly. If you were to use it in the US it would likely trip the breaker, so electric kettles in the US tend to be lower power & therefor take longer to boil, hence the dreaded microwave which doesn't really produce a good rolling boil. P.s. Liptons tea tastes like lawn clippings. I had to take a big box of PG tips to Florida twice a year for my mother-in-law because once she tasted British tea she couldn't drink that American shite.
I'm Canadian and have both an electric kettle and a stovetop one. You can use them for more than just boiling water , they are after all " a pot " I've used them to boil eggs in a pinch and if your car door lock freezes in winter it's easier to use a kettle. Also microwave water tastes like crap! My Mum is from Scotland and kettles are a must, historically Britain had bad water hence the drinking culture , during the process water is boiled and kills anything that might be in it while making your beer. They would make 2 types and I don't mean the difference of Ale or beer I mean a difference in strength /alcohol content. They would make a weak one for during the day....while you were working and a stronger one for later yes even older children drank it. That was safer than the water. Otherwise it was milk or cider ( soft ) of course there was hard cider too.
(Sweden) I remember back in the 90ies when the waiters took your card away, now we just blip it to a terminal the waiter brings to the table. I really dislike the American customer service style, I much more prefer our style where you'll get what you want if you ask for it are but is otherwise left alone.
Regarding how knives and forks are laid on the table,if you go to some restaurants they will put them in a set pattern .You start from the outer cutlery, then work your way in .❤❤.
Butter predates mayonnaise in British culture so we have used it since it was available. It tastes nothing like mayo which is why many prefer it, that and it does not make the bread soggy and limp. However try buying any type of premade chicken sandwich and it will have mayo, because for some reason people think chickens are born in mayo, or there is some sort of quantum entanglement where you absolutely must have mayo if chicken is involved.
@@lindsaymckeown513 I know, I worked for firm thst makes sarnies for a few supermarkets & travel firms etc. Mayo is in most of them. I think it's because mayo is so much easier to apply than butter during the production process. Working in that environment, at the very low temperatures, means butter is continually freezing up & cannot be spread properly, so mayo (they use different types, flavours, etc) is easier to use, it doesn't keep halting work.
@@mossygreen2790 All that emulsifier etc keeps the appearance of it being fresher longer too. To be honest not a fan of anything like that...ketchup, dressing, mustard, etc., and don't eat a lot of bread so it's not a big loss. Couldn't live without eggs or butter though!
The V sign was originally used as an insult to the French by English bowmen/archers, this is because the French would cut those two fingers off if they were caught. It was showing them that they still had their fingers and went on from there. The peace sign is the other way around.
@@lesstuart1788 The forward facing one with knuckles facing forward towards the enemy. He would purposely find out where the enemy was and then do the peace sign towards the crowd/camera with the V sign towards our enemies. Both are referred to as the Victory sign because either way it means victory in a different way.
@@josephturner7569 Longbow men (especially) depending on which historian you ask would have bits cut off, limbs disfigured and such. Battle of Agincourt and 'pluck yew'.😉
When I was small, I didn't know my Mum had a name. I thought her name was "Mummy". We were taught to call our neighbours Mr & Mrs "so & so" (term for whoever) and Mum's close friends, who we knew they first name, were "Aunty Ina" etc. It's shows respect. The two fingered salute is historic, dates back to Agincourt, look it up, it means "f*@k you!". I got corrected by my very flustered Grandparents at about 6 years old.✌ The knife and fork signals are for the waiting staff. It's the Tube in London that runs every few minutes, NOT the rest of the countries trains. The further away from London, the more infrequent. From Yorkshire.
Ditto. I was brought up the same way, carried that way of doing things within my family too. It's respect & good manners. Plus agree with all your other points too ! Thx. 👍😊🇬🇧
In the UK I have never heard the expression 'Day Drinking'. Its just drinking. Sounds like a very judgemental saying as if drinking when its light is somehow wrong.... Ameicans are 'weird'.
We do say Mrs to someone but only if you know them and that they are married. Staff in a supermarket or nice store will usually call the customers Sir and Miss unless they know them. Customers in a store will usually refer to the staff as Mate or Miss. In the UK Sir is reserved for the highest honour due to having Royal Knighthoods. If you are awarded a knighthood or lordship you get to add Sir as your official title. e.g. Sir David Attenborough
I'm in my 60s and never been addressed formally like that in shops! Calling people Sir I find weird especially when it's kids calling their Dads that. Implies areltionship between a superior and a subordinate. But maybe this attitude is a throwback to the oppression of the working and serving classes by the gentry back in the day where you HAD to say Sir, Miss, Madame, by default or lose your livliehood.
Well, the only person we call "sir" is a male teacher at school. "Sir" used in a title, is used differently, in that the title is only said/referred to once, on initial introduction, then you are usually invited to call them by something else, i.e. their surname or Christian name, or, nick-name, maybe. Only an, out-and-out snob would try to insist on regular usage of a title (status, etc). But, I know there are bound to be exceptions?
I work in retail, and by halfway through the day, we have normally had enough of unhappy customers. A lot of us that work in retail have been attacked by customers physically or mentally just because the customers are having a bad day. So we end up being on the end of their bad day for no reason
I watched an American bloke say he made a cup of normal coffee, then put ice cubes in, to cool it down! That's just rank The only persons fridge i go into without asking, is my Mam's. I'd never go into peoples fridge!
I was most surprised while delivering to a car plant in Southern Germany, that may have rhymed with Saudi, to discover vending machines throughout the plant selling bottled beer. I told this story on another thread, and had a reply from a guy who worked in a dealership for them in the U.K. The dealer had a woman customer who bought a top of the range model, and kept bringing it back with a persistent rattle when doing certain maneuvers. they were stumped for months, but eventually tracked it down to an empty beer bottle rolling around inside the drivers door. On another note, Subway are not allowed to call their product bread in Ireland, as it contains far to much sugar, I've had the occasional Subway sandwich when out on the road, but have given up, every type of their "bread" I've tried just falls apart, and I end up picking the filling up off my lap.
The reason why servers no longer take credit/debit cards out of your sight is to protect you against them skimming it, which copies all the info, allows to make a copy on a card blank & use it where ever they like, running up a huge bill or emptying your bank account. This is why chip & pin & contactless payment was created so no one had the opportunity to copy your card as they don't touch it. The knife & fork thing comes grom etiquette, the rules of correct behaviour & table manners at the Royal court or upper class gatherings, dating back to long before the New World was discovered, that middle or higher class Brits emigrating to America would've known & any people who had worked in the kitchens or dining rooms of stately homes. It's still kept at a much lesser degree throughout the UK, & starts being taught to toddlers when they girst start eating solids & using cutlery, like not speaking with your mouth full, or chewing with your mouth open. As you get older it's how to cut with your knife, to always use both your knife & fork when eating at the table, usually knife in the right hand fork in the left, & never to slurp soup, or drinks come to that! Resting your elbows on the dinner table is rude, you often hear "All joints on the table will be cut!" as a warning to children to get their elbows off the table usually from the older generation! A lot of children say "thank you for my dinner, please may I get down?" when they've finished their meal & want to leave the table. But that's pretty much it apart from what he's saying about the knife & fork at the end of a meal: when we've finished our meal we put our knife & fork together, which mainly means it's less likely they'll be dropped as you or someone else takes the plate back to the kitchen. But, if you're at a restaurant & have food left on your plate but you've finished, putting your knife & fork together lets the server/wait staff know your plate can be taken away, or, if you haven't finished eating & are in a really in depth conversation, or need to pop to the toilet, leaving your knife & fork apart (like 5 & 7 on a clock face it doesn't have to be trally dramatic) you won't get interrupted by a waiter asking if they can take your plate, or getting back to your table & your food is gone! Spunky has the old school meaning just like you explained, just like gay meant happy & joyous, but neither are really used in everyday speach anymore. Spunk on its own IS a slang term for the cream a man produces from his body! 👀 However, Spunk in Scandinavia is a salty, liquorice candy!!!
Kettle culture 😊 It seems to still be prominent and unapologetically non-moving in Canada ? Perhaps as British and French (and a lot of European countries) need a kettle! We've been using kettles for thousands of years. All of the old countries around the world use a kettle of some type, for use on fire, gas or more recently electric. I know your communities such as Amish still use kettles as Europeans did centuries ago. Like many things I think US colonies made a silent abolishment of the kettle, just to smite the English and European world 🤔😂😂😂 Electric kettles are fantastic, but I love my whistling kettle 😅😊
Have you tasted US butter, I don't think so, it's only fit to be mixed to add grease not to be tasted. That is why you always add a sauce to plain ingredients you don't get that creamy butter taste from pale yellow lard.
Harrods is very different to the vast majority of shops in the UK! It's pretty exclusive and the staff have to grovel like they do in the USA else they wouldn't last 😉
@@lindsaymckeown513 But the staff don't badger people to see if they can help them like the States. And, trust me, it's not grovelling. Bit more reserved and professional than that.
@@artemisfowl66 Not badgering is standard practice in the UK from Harrods to the humble corner shop though. And calling people Sir or Madam is certainly not standard practice this last 40 years right across the UK, and was always less common here in Scotland than in England even before that. People here in the Highlands are very reserved and professional without calling anyone Sir or Madam and shoppingnhere is a joy no matter the quality of the shop or restaurant. Harrods is high end so the customers will have certain expectations and they have an international clientele also. I lived in Texas for a wee while and being called Ma'am drove me crazy and I didn't not like to go shopping there bute there was an understanding that if they didn't do this and ask you all the time if you needed help they might be in trouble, and also they were often on commission so it was a custom you had to grin, bear and be polite about. I'm old now and have been called Miss by a youngster when someone couldn't get my attantion and that was sweet and funny, but Ma'am/Madam...just no!!
ive never walked into mi parents house and go in fridge and everybody i know dont do either so i dont know were hes coming from about over here apart from his mates lol
When we are kids, we say Mr or Miss or Mrs and then the last name Never ever call your parents or grandparents by their name... you're right... it's crazy
The meaning behind come round sometimes seems to differ for country people and townies. Out in the country we actually do mean come on round and bring something to share.
After the battle, and in future ones, English archers held up their two fingers and waved them at the French. It was a sign intended as an insult and a warning and as such was an effective gesture. It showed the French that the archer's two fingers remained intact and he still remained a deadly adversary.And we still do it.🤣You need two fingers to draw a bow string.
American Sandwiches tend to have a lot more mayo, sauces, etc. than British sandwiches, so you need butter. American Sandwiches also tend to have more filling to hide the taste of the sugary bread!
Brits DO NOT put butter on burger buns. Amazing that Americans haven't heard of "bread & butter". A thin layer of butter, or more normally margarine, is spead on bread to eat on its own, for use in a sandwich or on toast so the bread isn't dry to eat. I can't imagine how you eat PB & J sandwiches without butter on at least one slice of bread, surely it just sticks to your teeth?! The thing that horrifies Brits about iced tea is the amount of sugar added to it. People who add 1 teaspoon of sugar to their cup of tea will get a raised eyebrow, like "oh, they've got a sweet tooth". Adding 2 or more teaspoons will be greeted with shock & wide eyes 👀😂
The reason you don't have kettles is because it takes ages to boil on US power, we have 240v 13 amp power and it takes much less time, which is still too long! When we were kids, in the 70s/early 80's we didn't call adults by their first names, this includes friends parents, still seems weird calling my mates mum by her first name, even though I'm 59! There will be another train in a few minutes Never turn up at someone's house unannounced Iced tea is a sweet mess Another laugh with you Island Girl!
He is being cheaky. Middle class people were bogged down in rules of etiquette... In the 19th Century. Nobody really does that now. As for cards we tend to not want them out of our sight because of debit card fraud. People clone your card and drain tour account. It's like giving someone your entire bank account and trusting them with it.
The offensive V-sign/reversed Peace sign is DEFINITELY older than the USA as it comes from Medieval times when England & France were at war (nothing knew there!) & England's long-bow men were so effective they were destroying the French armies, which were soldiers, cavalry & some canons but the cross bow hadn't been invented yet, & even when it was, it could shoot as far or with as much power as a long bow. The long bow men could fire from a safe distance & the French had no retaliation. If an archer was caught, to make sure they could never shoot arrows at them again, the French would cut off the 2 fingers of the V sign, which they'd need to pull back & hold the bow string. To torment archers before & during battle, the French would show them the V sign (just like someone would flip the bird), even waggling their 2 fingers to say "we're going to beat you & then we're going to cut off your fingers!"
When paying with plastic it is less likely that your card is skimmed and cloned if you never let it out of your sight. It is the keys to your bank. Shopping in Cornwall usually involves a good chat and at least asking how someones day is going. City folks often get a bit stressed at people having a conversation in the cue ahead of them, until they get used to Cornish "drekly" time (we favour "easy now" style living). The issue of the V sign is because it is the traditional way of giving someone the finger. It dates back to a time when the French invaded and would cut off the bow fingers of the English archers. Waving your 2 fingers at someone is a big f*ck you.
Dinky comes from Dinky Toys, that made things original little Hot Wheels cars. Dinky toys are small & fun so the word dinky applied to anything else means small & fun, I've never heard of it meaning anything else?!
If a shopkeeper forced their service on me I would walk out of the shop. Butter actually tastes good here, What does it say about American butter if no-one likes it? Not every British person likes sweet tea -sugar in tea for me is an anathema so iced tea is not going to be as popular here. I have never come across it being impolite to say Sir. Some Ladies object to Madam, though.
I really enjoyed your video, your laugh is contagious. The butter thing i don't agree with though, i'm from England and i don't know anyone who slaps butter on everything.
We don't let other people take our debit/credit cards away from the table because they can be cloned.
and the card details may get sold on to hackers and foreign criminal gangsters. We are told by the banks not to let the card out of our sight.
@@sjbict Yes, banks can refuse compensation if you do let your card out of your sight.
It takes less than one minute to clone your credit card. Are you still sure you want to let your card be taken away?
Don't take Evan too seriously. He gets a lot wrong.
Yes I'm an Australian and I recently went to the USA. I really really did not like them taking my credit card. Just let me use my card on the machine. Also I dont like tipping. Pay your workers properly. I also don't need service people standing there. Trust me if I want you or need your help I let you know.
In the UK they often bring the machine to your table so there’s no danger of cloning.
I like that. Especially in todays day and age where thing are going left. Hope all is well have a good one🥰🥰
'Spunk' means semen in UK slang. 'Randy' means 'sexually voracious'. Putting your knife and fork together neatly at the end of a meal shows that you have finished eating and have some manners. In the UK we don't really like insincere small talk from people we don't know. Churchill famously made the 'V' for Victory sign with the backs of his fingers facing the crowd until someone told him that it means 'F off' 😂
I'm Randy and i'm full of spunk. Has a very different meaning in the US
Say that in the UK and you'll be a huge hit on the comedy circuit 😂😂😂
I think our Cornish friend is being funny (Kernow = Cornwall , part of Uk ) . We have a great sense of humour !
@@lorrainegmoore5042 Well spotted, I missed that
3:10 Because we have mobile terminals. The waiter brings that to you so your card never leaves your sight
American butter is low quality. British butter tastes great. The whole point of butter is to put it on bread. You can have mayo and other things too, but without butter, it's not a sandwich.
American bread is pretty bad so the butter goes with it perfectly.
We don’t put it on burgers though lol
I always thought that the butter moistens the bread plus we’ve been buttering bread long before there was mayonnaise or other things you yanks put on them instead ( though I don’t think when the Earl of Sandwich made the first one they used butter as he just said stick a steak between two slices of bread that he could eat on the run )
Americans stop learning how to use a knife and fork at 5. Just watch a child and an adult eat and it's the same.
In some of Evan's videos he extrapolates what happens in London to the whole of the UK. Not so. London is like an island.
When Walmart opened shops in Germany they tried
to make the employees do the over the top friendliness
It didn't go well!
The customers and employees hated it
There are no Walmarts in Germany or UK
The Supermarkets they bought in the UK have been sold
😂 Cultural differences really do play the lead role 😅
I'm a British citizen and all my ancestry is Britain and Europe , I have no problems tipping where required, the 10% on top that my mum and dad taught me stays 😊
However, when I am out shopping I want to be left alone, I do not need"customer service" until I ask for it ?!
it has become a joke though, hasn't it? The overwhelming, over the top service (and great strain these people are performing for their boss)
Obviously works fine for the US citizen due to their cultural beliefs.
I am European, if I need help I will ask !
I just wonder if people in the USA really tip based on all the fake "how y'all folks doing? Is there anything I can do for you?? Anything? (I'll bark like a dog and ride a Unicycle if you tip me big and my boss sees it)
😮 Or they also tip because they know the workers don't get paid enough (certainly not like wages are paid in the UK and Europe) and want to give 💓
If I ever go to the USA again, I will remember not to get annoyed with their culture, and be kind to those who work so hard for a thankless job (I have had those too, bet you have too, Helen Jarvis?
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@@catshez yes, you summed up my feelings exactly, hate being "stalked" by over zealous staff. It makes me feel uncomfortable, so I always end up leaving when that type of "american customer service" appears. If I want help, I will ask for it. Simples 👍😁🇬🇧
@@mossygreen2790 🤣Yes you said it far more simply and exactly . If we need help, we will ask for it, OK ?? 😂
Zealous enthusiasm from staff is not what I require when shopping for odds and ends ! How on Earth US citizens cope with this on every shopping spree is beyond me 😧🤨🤣
I remember in the early 1990's, Disney opened a store in Glasgow. They did what they did in the USA and had greeters at the door. Within a hour they had to remove the greeters because they were quite frankly getting verbally abused by shoppers. In the UK the people like to keep to themselves, and it's considered extremely rude to just talk to people you haven't been introduced to, so suddenly having a store employee greet you before you've even got into the shop is horrifyingly rude for us British, even worse is the fakeness of it all, the "niceness". The only exception to the "don't talk to people you don't know rule" is to comment on the weather, which is an icebreaker for the British.
Like this here once Disney shop we had they were too nice it was cringy
Haha, in England, when you show the back of your hand doing a peace sign, it means you can drop dead. It represents the longbow soldiers holding their bowstring wanting to shoot you.
Poor Evan, seen a few of his video's and he still doesn't understand british life. He tries poor thing. Just gets it wrong most of the time
This bloke dosent know much, he’s very annoying, a bit like lost in the pond bloke,, he runs down England so much, why live here then..
@@beverleyringe7014 I think he's going for sarcastic humour but evn that has to be based in fact!
Mayonnaise soaks in to bread. Butter stops mayonnaise soaking in to bread.
It’s polite to have your knife and fork next to each other in parallel once you’ve finished eating. It’s signifies that you’ve finished AND that you enjoyed the food. If you cross your knife and fork it means you didn’t enjoy the food BUT that’s considered extremely rude to do, so British people rarely do it as we don’t like to be rude, even if the food was terrible.
Also that the waiting staff can clear your plates without disturbing you!
That’s not considered rude where I am from, in uk😅 when you’re done with your food you just put your knife and fork on your plate, side by side, sometimes crossed and that signifies your done. I’ve worked in catering before and never thought or saw anyone else thinking about any other way to use the cutlery other than to say your done eating, no one I know does that
The kettle thing is mainly about the difference in voltage. The UK has 240 volts, The US has 110 volts.
I have a 3.5 kw (3500 watts) kettle which boils very quickly. If you were to use it in the US it would likely trip the breaker, so electric kettles in the US tend to be lower power & therefor take longer to boil, hence the dreaded microwave which doesn't really produce a good rolling boil.
P.s. Liptons tea tastes like lawn clippings. I had to take a big box of PG tips to Florida twice a year for my mother-in-law because once she tasted British tea she couldn't drink that American shite.
I'm Canadian and have both an electric kettle and a stovetop one. You can use them for more than just boiling water , they are after all " a pot " I've used them to boil eggs in a pinch and if your car door lock freezes in winter it's easier to use a kettle. Also microwave water tastes like crap! My Mum is from Scotland and kettles are a must, historically Britain had bad water hence the drinking culture , during the process water is boiled and kills anything that might be in it while making your beer. They would make 2 types and I don't mean the difference of Ale or beer I mean a difference in strength /alcohol content. They would make a weak one for during the day....while you were working and a stronger one for later yes even older children drank it. That was safer than the water. Otherwise it was milk or cider ( soft ) of course there was hard cider too.
(Sweden) I remember back in the 90ies when the waiters took your card away, now we just blip it to a terminal the waiter brings to the table.
I really dislike the American customer service style, I much more prefer our style where you'll get what you want if you ask for it are but is otherwise left alone.
Regarding how knives and forks are laid on the table,if you go to some restaurants they will put them in a set pattern .You start from the outer cutlery, then work your way in .❤❤.
That’s so awesome🥰🥰
@@IslandGirlzHaveFlow05XBSUsually this only happens in a posh/fancy restaurant
Butter predates mayonnaise in British culture so we have used it since it was available.
It tastes nothing like mayo which is why many prefer it, that and it does not make the bread soggy and limp.
However try buying any type of premade chicken sandwich and it will have mayo, because for some reason people think chickens are born in mayo, or there is some sort of quantum entanglement where you absolutely must have mayo if chicken is involved.
I stopped buying sandwiches altogether when they replaced butter with mayo!
I prefer chicken, butter and salt and white pepper, white pepper is hotter than black pepper and is also spicy compared to black pepper
@@lindsaymckeown513 I know, I worked for firm thst makes sarnies for a few supermarkets & travel firms etc. Mayo is in most of them. I think it's because mayo is so much easier to apply than butter during the production process. Working in that environment, at the very low temperatures, means butter is continually freezing up & cannot be spread properly, so mayo (they use different types, flavours, etc) is easier to use, it doesn't keep halting work.
@@mossygreen2790 All that emulsifier etc keeps the appearance of it being fresher longer too. To be honest not a fan of anything like that...ketchup, dressing, mustard, etc., and don't eat a lot of bread so it's not a big loss. Couldn't live without eggs or butter though!
The V sign was originally used as an insult to the French by English bowmen/archers, this is because the French would cut those two fingers off if they were caught. It was showing them that they still had their fingers and went on from there. The peace sign is the other way around.
Yep, means fk you!
Churchill used the v sign to mean victory
Nope. Captured enemy were killed unless they could be ransomed. By their families.
Not applicable to archers.
@@lesstuart1788 The forward facing one with knuckles facing forward towards the enemy. He would purposely find out where the enemy was and then do the peace sign towards the crowd/camera with the V sign towards our enemies. Both are referred to as the Victory sign because either way it means victory in a different way.
@@josephturner7569 Longbow men (especially) depending on which historian you ask would have bits cut off, limbs disfigured and such. Battle of Agincourt and 'pluck yew'.😉
When I was small, I didn't know my Mum had a name. I thought her name was "Mummy". We were taught to call our neighbours Mr & Mrs "so & so" (term for whoever) and Mum's close friends, who we knew they first name, were "Aunty Ina" etc. It's shows respect.
The two fingered salute is historic, dates back to Agincourt, look it up, it means "f*@k you!". I got corrected by my very flustered Grandparents at about 6 years old.✌
The knife and fork signals are for the waiting staff. It's the Tube in London that runs every few minutes, NOT the rest of the countries trains. The further away from London, the more infrequent. From Yorkshire.
Ditto. I was brought up the same way, carried that way of doing things within my family too. It's respect & good manners. Plus agree with all your other points too ! Thx. 👍😊🇬🇧
In the UK I have never heard the expression 'Day Drinking'. Its just drinking. Sounds like a very judgemental saying as if drinking when its light is somehow wrong.... Ameicans are 'weird'.
We do say Mrs to someone but only if you know them and that they are married.
Staff in a supermarket or nice store will usually call the customers Sir and Miss unless they know them.
Customers in a store will usually refer to the staff as Mate or Miss.
In the UK Sir is reserved for the highest honour due to having Royal Knighthoods.
If you are awarded a knighthood or lordship you get to add Sir as your official title.
e.g. Sir David Attenborough
I'm in my 60s and never been addressed formally like that in shops! Calling people Sir I find weird especially when it's kids calling their Dads that. Implies areltionship between a superior and a subordinate. But maybe this attitude is a throwback to the oppression of the working and serving classes by the gentry back in the day where you HAD to say Sir, Miss, Madame, by default or lose your livliehood.
Well, the only person we call "sir" is a male teacher at school. "Sir" used in a title, is used differently, in that the title is only said/referred to once, on initial introduction, then you are usually invited to call them by something else, i.e. their surname or Christian name, or, nick-name, maybe. Only an, out-and-out snob would try to insist on regular usage of a title (status, etc). But, I know there are bound to be exceptions?
Putting butter on bread for whatever your having is a personal preference to be honest
About the card : If we would give our card, there are people that will take 4000 Euro's from you instead of 40.
I work in retail, and by halfway through the day, we have normally had enough of unhappy customers. A lot of us that work in retail have been attacked by customers physically or mentally just because the customers are having a bad day. So we end up being on the end of their bad day for no reason
I watched an American bloke say he made a cup of normal coffee, then put ice cubes in, to cool it down! That's just rank
The only persons fridge i go into without asking, is my Mam's. I'd never go into peoples fridge!
Beitish people prefer to browse in stores, and then when they’ve made their choice, or if they need help, they will the ask for it.
I was most surprised while delivering to a car plant in Southern Germany, that may have rhymed with Saudi, to discover vending machines throughout the plant selling bottled beer. I told this story on another thread, and had a reply from a guy who worked in a dealership for them in the U.K. The dealer had a woman customer who bought a top of the range model, and kept bringing it back with a persistent rattle when doing certain maneuvers. they were stumped for months, but eventually tracked it down to an empty beer bottle rolling around inside the drivers door. On another note, Subway are not allowed to call their product bread in Ireland, as it contains far to much sugar, I've had the occasional Subway sandwich when out on the road, but have given up, every type of their "bread" I've tried just falls apart, and I end up picking the filling up off my lap.
with the gun thing it not the feeling of being safe at a gun show its what they do with the guns away from the gun show
I love friendly sales people!
The way people interact is very different between north and south . And different areas
The reason why servers no longer take credit/debit cards out of your sight is to protect you against them skimming it, which copies all the info, allows to make a copy on a card blank & use it where ever they like, running up a huge bill or emptying your bank account. This is why chip & pin & contactless payment was created so no one had the opportunity to copy your card as they don't touch it.
The knife & fork thing comes grom etiquette, the rules of correct behaviour & table manners at the Royal court or upper class gatherings, dating back to long before the New World was discovered, that middle or higher class Brits emigrating to America would've known & any people who had worked in the kitchens or dining rooms of stately homes. It's still kept at a much lesser degree throughout the UK, & starts being taught to toddlers when they girst start eating solids & using cutlery, like not speaking with your mouth full, or chewing with your mouth open. As you get older it's how to cut with your knife, to always use both your knife & fork when eating at the table, usually knife in the right hand fork in the left, & never to slurp soup, or drinks come to that! Resting your elbows on the dinner table is rude, you often hear "All joints on the table will be cut!" as a warning to children to get their elbows off the table usually from the older generation! A lot of children say "thank you for my dinner, please may I get down?" when they've finished their meal & want to leave the table. But that's pretty much it apart from what he's saying about the knife & fork at the end of a meal: when we've finished our meal we put our knife & fork together, which mainly means it's less likely they'll be dropped as you or someone else takes the plate back to the kitchen. But, if you're at a restaurant & have food left on your plate but you've finished, putting your knife & fork together lets the server/wait staff know your plate can be taken away, or, if you haven't finished eating & are in a really in depth conversation, or need to pop to the toilet, leaving your knife & fork apart (like 5 & 7 on a clock face it doesn't have to be trally dramatic) you won't get interrupted by a waiter asking if they can take your plate, or getting back to your table & your food is gone!
Spunky has the old school meaning just like you explained, just like gay meant happy & joyous, but neither are really used in everyday speach anymore. Spunk on its own IS a slang term for the cream a man produces from his body! 👀 However, Spunk in Scandinavia is a salty, liquorice candy!!!
Kettle culture 😊 It seems to still be prominent and unapologetically non-moving in Canada ? Perhaps as British and French (and a lot of European countries) need a kettle! We've been using kettles for thousands of years. All of the old countries around the world use a kettle of some type, for use on fire, gas or more recently electric.
I know your communities such as Amish still use kettles as Europeans did centuries ago.
Like many things I think US colonies made a silent abolishment of the kettle, just to smite the English and European world 🤔😂😂😂
Electric kettles are fantastic, but I love my whistling kettle 😅😊
Have you tasted US butter, I don't think so, it's only fit to be mixed to add grease not
to be tasted. That is why you always add a sauce to plain ingredients you don't get
that creamy butter taste from pale yellow lard.
It is polite, when working in a shop, to address customers as Sir and Madam. I was trained at Harrods and raised in my parents' shop, so I would know!
Harrods is very different to the vast majority of shops in the UK! It's pretty exclusive and the staff have to grovel like they do in the USA else they wouldn't last 😉
@@lindsaymckeown513 But the staff don't badger people to see if they can help them like the States. And, trust me, it's not grovelling. Bit more reserved and professional than that.
@@artemisfowl66 Not badgering is standard practice in the UK from Harrods to the humble corner shop though. And calling people Sir or Madam is certainly not standard practice this last 40 years right across the UK, and was always less common here in Scotland than in England even before that. People here in the Highlands are very reserved and professional without calling anyone Sir or Madam and shoppingnhere is a joy no matter the quality of the shop or restaurant. Harrods is high end so the customers will have certain expectations and they have an international clientele also. I lived in Texas for a wee while and being called Ma'am drove me crazy and I didn't not like to go shopping there bute there was an understanding that if they didn't do this and ask you all the time if you needed help they might be in trouble, and also they were often on commission so it was a custom you had to grin, bear and be polite about. I'm old now and have been called Miss by a youngster when someone couldn't get my attantion and that was sweet and funny, but Ma'am/Madam...just no!!
I'm Scottish and my girls were taught to never address an adult by their 1st names, its disrespectful
ive never walked into mi parents house and go in fridge and everybody i know dont do either so i dont know were hes coming from about over here apart from his mates lol
When we are kids, we say Mr or Miss or Mrs and then the last name
Never ever call your parents or grandparents by their name... you're right... it's crazy
The meaning behind come round sometimes seems to differ for country people and townies.
Out in the country we actually do mean come on round and bring something to share.
After the battle, and in future ones, English archers held up their two fingers and waved them at the French. It was a sign intended as an insult and a warning and as such was an effective gesture. It showed the French that the archer's two fingers remained intact and he still remained a deadly adversary.And we still do it.🤣You need two fingers to draw a bow string.
Happy Saturday Island Girlz ❤❤
Same to you!🥰
American Sandwiches tend to have a lot more mayo, sauces, etc. than British sandwiches, so you need butter. American Sandwiches also tend to have more filling to hide the taste of the sugary bread!
You’re right about that. I’m going to try butter but then again where would I give good butter here in the states. 🥰🥰
We learned to walk the correct direction in the streets even when we were children.
Brits DO NOT put butter on burger buns. Amazing that Americans haven't heard of "bread & butter". A thin layer of butter, or more normally margarine, is spead on bread to eat on its own, for use in a sandwich or on toast so the bread isn't dry to eat. I can't imagine how you eat PB & J sandwiches without butter on at least one slice of bread, surely it just sticks to your teeth?!
The thing that horrifies Brits about iced tea is the amount of sugar added to it. People who add 1 teaspoon of sugar to their cup of tea will get a raised eyebrow, like "oh, they've got a sweet tooth". Adding 2 or more teaspoons will be greeted with shock & wide eyes 👀😂
The reason you don't have kettles is because it takes ages to boil on US power, we have 240v 13 amp power and it takes much less time, which is still too long!
When we were kids, in the 70s/early 80's we didn't call adults by their first names, this includes friends parents, still seems weird calling my mates mum by her first name, even though I'm 59!
There will be another train in a few minutes
Never turn up at someone's house unannounced
Iced tea is a sweet mess
Another laugh with you Island Girl!
He is being cheaky. Middle class people were bogged down in rules of etiquette... In the 19th Century. Nobody really does that now. As for cards we tend to not want them out of our sight because of debit card fraud. People clone your card and drain tour account. It's like giving someone your entire bank account and trusting them with it.
Girl, that laugh is the perfect demonstration of RANDY 🤣🤣🤣
Island Girlz, love your accent! ❤
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Ayeee Island Girlz blessings, true not acceptable to go in person fridge there is rules.
Knowledge sweetie hope all or well with you. Yep I’m on board with that as first. 🥰🥰
British politicians are "supposed" to be neutral & unbiased, putting the good of their area & the country above any personal preferences
Thanks for another great reaction video
My pleasure!!🥰
The offensive V-sign/reversed Peace sign is DEFINITELY older than the USA as it comes from Medieval times when England & France were at war (nothing knew there!) & England's long-bow men were so effective they were destroying the French armies, which were soldiers, cavalry & some canons but the cross bow hadn't been invented yet, & even when it was, it could shoot as far or with as much power as a long bow. The long bow men could fire from a safe distance & the French had no retaliation. If an archer was caught, to make sure they could never shoot arrows at them again, the French would cut off the 2 fingers of the V sign, which they'd need to pull back & hold the bow string. To torment archers before & during battle, the French would show them the V sign (just like someone would flip the bird), even waggling their 2 fingers to say "we're going to beat you & then we're going to cut off your fingers!"
Aww bless him Evan has lived in U.K. for quite some time now, but he really still doesn’t quite get it…he’ll learn, eventually
When paying with plastic it is less likely that your card is skimmed and cloned if you never let it out of your sight. It is the keys to your bank.
Shopping in Cornwall usually involves a good chat and at least asking how someones day is going.
City folks often get a bit stressed at people having a conversation in the cue ahead of them, until they get used to Cornish "drekly" time (we favour "easy now" style living).
The issue of the V sign is because it is the traditional way of giving someone the finger.
It dates back to a time when the French invaded and would cut off the bow fingers of the English archers. Waving your 2 fingers at someone is a big f*ck you.
To us we don't fuss with a lot of interaction,it's not rude it's just how we are.
We always called Mama's friends Miss and her name or Mr. And his name.
I love your laugh! It’s very contagious 😂
Aww thank you🥰🥰
Dinky comes from Dinky Toys, that made things original little Hot Wheels cars. Dinky toys are small & fun so the word dinky applied to anything else means small & fun, I've never heard of it meaning anything else?!
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If you can suggest an alternative to butter to add a buttery taste to my sandwiches I'm all ears...
I’m so glad you like good customer service. You pay a lot for it too! About 20% I hear…
If a shopkeeper forced their service on me I would walk out of the shop. Butter actually tastes good here, What does it say about American butter if no-one likes it? Not every British person likes sweet tea -sugar in tea for me is an anathema so iced tea is not going to be as popular here. I have never come across it being impolite to say Sir. Some Ladies object to Madam, though.
When you lay your fork points up, it means you want to order more. When you lay your fork points down, it means you are done eating and want the bill.
I still do not know why Evan lives in the uk, he is always giving us a hard time.
Make yourself at home means the exact same thing in the UK as America. Don't know what he's talking about with the Cinemas
Table manners
I am English and I say sir or miss to people I don’t know
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I really enjoyed your video, your laugh is contagious. The butter thing i don't agree with though, i'm from England and i don't know anyone who slaps butter on everything.
I love butter but never on sandwiches!
I am never impressed with this guy 🇬🇧
Randy is full of spunk... 😮
Wish he Would speak more slowly 🫤
This guy's a bit of a 🔔.... 🤦🏻♂️🤣
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Hi Island girl how are you ?
I’m doing ok and how are you🥰🥰
Island Girl mi hunni 😘 💕
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Mostly rubbish.
Thought you liked the UK, but all you ddo is look for the negatives think it's time to go home bye