I just discovered Jolly and Korean Englishman channels. Their best interviews are the ones where they have a group tasting. These kids were so polite and well-mannered.
Polite, maybe. Well mannered? No. Almost every single one of them spoke with their mouth full (which is gross and disgustingly bad manners) including the teacher.
@ballyhoo I just wanna say if your talking about when they try all the different types of food that’s them giving their opinion and doing their job but also not everyone thinks talking with food in their mouth is as disgusting as you
I actually saw the original video a couple months ago and it was so funny, I watched it two times more! My 81 year-old mother thought it was hilarious! As a southerner, I can't tell you how gratifying their reaction to iced tea was!
TBF to the UK kids, their scones are closer to our biscuits than our scones are. The way I've always described it to British people that usually seems to get an "Oh, I get it" is that American Biscuits are like a cross between British scones and puff pastry.
The headmaster didn’t go to the US but the hosts of the show did a Southern US food tour a few months ago and the hosts also took a group of older kids from this school to Korea. It’s a great set of channels.
I can't believe I missed the live on this video!!!! 😫 I've been watching Jolly for ever! They have a whole series for British Highschoolers. The OG high school group is something else.
What struck me about this episode was how these 9th-graders in a private boys' school suddenly had their horizons widened through some items in Southern American cuisine. Josh on this channel has another channel called Korean Englishman, in which he introduces Korean cuisine to English people, usually around London. His family lived in China for a while, and the international school he attended was filled with South Korean students. That's how he fell in love with the culture and is now passing it on. Sometimes he goes to this boys' school (he knows the principal) and films episodes like this, introducing the students to new cultures through their food.
Actually biscuits with butter and jam and honey are phenomenal, that's really my favorite thing about biscuits: they work equally well sweet or savory! I had a biscuit once with cinnamon icing and it was incredible.
I am 56 years old, and have lived in east central Alabama my entire life, but i was around 12 years old the first time I tried sausage gravy on my biscuits. It just never looked good to me. The explosion of flavor that came from that sausage gravy was incredible. I just smiled while I chewed, quietly cussing myself for not trying it before.
I live in Derby (pron. darby) in the UK, and we have both Mexican and US restaurants in or just outside the city centre. I can confirm at least one US one does biscuits and gravy. For the avoidance of doubt, US biscuits are buttermilk savoury scones; that's what we call them. The US scones are more like individually baked fruit cakes, close to light parkin in sweetness but without the ginger. Essentially, they're two different beasts, with the UK one being, as I say, closer to the US biscuit than the US scone.
In York i went to an American restaurant and had the most American thing on the menu Fried chicken with waffles bacon and maple syrup.... was expecting the worst due to the odd combo, but to this day it is the best thing that has ever hit my taste buds.
YES! Please open a restaurant in the UK serving Biscuits & Gravy, I’ve never tried it before but based on their reactions and the overall popularity, it’d be a hit!
It’s fantastic, you’ll love it. Southern cooking is really unlike British cuisine (which I happen to enjoy a lot) so take advantage of you ever get a chance.
@oscargunther1423 I agree. This is food that southerners would say "sticks to your bones". It started as really hearty, simple and inexpensive working man's food (and still is for many people). Simple, delicious and will keep you going all day.
Fried Chicken is the most prolific kind of restaurant in London! The problem is we don’t have American “soul food” restaurants to try stuff like biscuits, gravy, grits, collard greens, sweet tea etc. we also have tons of Mexican restaurants, including family-owned and big chains, everywhere. We do need the soul food to come here though lol!!
Oh right I guess I was implying the soul food / American south fried chicken. Obviously chicken is being fried in the UK, I should have made that clearer. I think it boils down to oil and spices, which I assume could be shipped in? Every person who's visited the US and tried our version of fried chicken has lost thier minds. It's truely amazing.
I remember as a kid, we would take those nestle ice tea powder and dump it in little ice cold water. Eating cold ice tea powder was like sniffing those good stuff as a kid😂
JOE I LOVE JOLLY AND KE THANKS FOR REACTING ♥️ Also these kids aren’t 8 they have to be at least 16 or 17 I remember some of them like a year or two ago!
the kids in this video are around the ages of fourteen and fifteen, i'm pretty sure. it says that they are in year nine which is the third year of high school.
As someone born raised in south real southerners dont over sugar of iced sweet tea. Real sweet tea is balanced. Most restaurants get it wrong. Few get it perfect but it varies. Id bet youd love it.
we've had KFC here for a while but most of the sides are completely different. Popeye's has started to pop up over here and they do have biscuits but no sausage gravy, just the cajan gravy you'd usually get with mash. Like I said though, only recently started popping up and not that common yet
Nah, Popeyes only came here to serve immigrant muslims, not British people, so they’ll never sell pork-based gravy here for their biscuits side. “Even though 45% of the UK is Catholic of whom strictly can’t eat religiously-slaughtered meat, let’s make our chicken halal to benefit the measly 5% population!” - “sounds great!” (the dumbasses that decided the UK menu). It’s not as if every flipping local chicken shop is infected with halal meat already. Catholics, Sikhs and other religious groups literally have nowhere to get their chicken fix now ‘cos more and more KFC’s are going halal too, all just to benefit one immigrant minority!
I remember years ago seeing a BBC show where an African American woman went to England to live and opened a restaurant with Southern foods. It was in either Blackpool or Brighton. So, there are some Southern style restaurants there. And I just saw a youtube video about a real Texas BBQ type places in Edinburgh, Scotland. A Scottish youtuber who has been all over Texas & other States tried it out & thought highly of it. Probably have Mexican restaurants, as well, but it would be hard to get real good, fresh spices & ingredients there. I moved from Southern California to Nashville, Tennessee 18 years ago & the Mexican restaurants here are a VERY pale representation of Mexican food in the border States. So if they can't replicate really good Mexican food here, what chance do they have doing it across the Pond? Josh & Ollie (Jolly) took around 10 British high schoolers to Korea. You might check those videos out. So, so fun. Wish they would bring a bunch to America.
I agree about mexican restaurants- I have yet to have good mexican in the U.K and I am desperate for someone to start doing it! I want to get breakfast burritos after a night out. On the other hand, I totally disagree that we have no standards. We have a lot of amazing food here, we just have different preferences. We have our own classics that we turn to (both British and international) and are as loyal to them as you are to things like biscuits and gravy.
Saw the thumbnail and Lit. Up. Joe reacting to JOLLY/KoreanEnglishman? 😁 I saw this when it came out, I was so annoyed with the smack talk from the highschoolers and then they put it in their mouths and HELLO!
Well we do leave school earlier than you guys in the US does so it wouldn’t be a too much of a shock on why I our teenagers seem older compared to American teenagers
What is it about UK kids that they talk like adults... they actually learn grammar and vocabulary in school. We sort of stopped stressing that in school the last 20+ years.
Joe, I think maybe you just haven't had the right kind of tea. There are so many kinds, with so many different profiles, it seems hard to believe you feel the same way about all teas.
When KFC first opened in UK in 1965, it advertised "Chicken and biscuits". Things went poorly for the chain until it dropped the biscuits and focussed on "fried chicken and chips". Btw, isn't biscuits & gravy also called shit on the shingle? I wonder what these teens would think of that idea?! Btw, your two-finger salute would get you some laughs (or a smack!) in the UK 🤭🤔. There are currently 1000 KFC in UK.
I agree joe, the british are weird sometimes. It’s funny how they like to compete with us on everything and we still win!😂😂😂 I love biscuits and gravy. I could eat that every day for breakfast
the school in the video is actually a free school! (non-profit-making, state-funded, free to attend) and on the uniform, i think practically every school (3-16) in the UK has a uniform. on how they sound: it's just their southern/london accents
Loved this video! I do enjoy the Jolly videos once and awhile and their reaction to American food, but enjoy having your input to their videos a bit more. Lol I can relate to Joe's reaction of the reactions! "Life changer?! You're only 8!" Lol
The end of the video... Open an American restaurant in London featuring American food... I've been telling Europeans this for years... Yet in 2023, with RUclips being around forever, with other videos being around forever... Europeans still have no idea what American biscuits and gravy tastes like... It's truly bizarre
I can not stomach iced tea. I can even smell the difference between drinks, and even when I added enough sugar that it no longer dissolved, I still couldn't drink it. Hot tea on the other hand, is better....especially fruit teas.
Lol common man people that watch you and give you views give you constructive criticism and you’re like nah. Odd way to treat ur fans. I’ve noticed it a bit now watching more and more of your videos. If that’s your thing that’s fine but like think people just wanna see your channel succeed. Quite off putting
I watch this channel and the kids often say if they don’t like something. I could tell by the facial expressions that some kids really liked it. They even asked for more sweet tea.
my question when it comes to biscuit and gravy... why do you need the biscuit? isn't this just a weird milky casserole that could go with any buttered bread
"just a weird milky casserole"......🤨 ah, no. This is a gravy, nowhere near a casserole. Made with flour, butter, pinch of salt, lots of pepper, sausage and cream. You definitely need the biscuit, normal bread would disintegrate.
😂 You can put it on waffles, on toast. What ever you want but our biscuits are NOT like scones. They are super soft, fluffy and not denae like scones. They also taste a little salty and very buttery.
I do find it ignoring How America takes this form other cultures then changes then whole thing but keeps the name, then they say there’s is original and the other one is wrong. Find it so ignorant and strange
you need to stop muting the video to talk, I think pausing or even talking over the video would be better than that. Never seen that before, that was so jarring lol
I just discovered Jolly and Korean Englishman channels. Their best interviews are the ones where they have a group tasting. These kids were so polite and well-mannered.
Polite, maybe. Well mannered? No. Almost every single one of them spoke with their mouth full (which is gross and disgustingly bad manners) including the teacher.
@ballyhoo Take your misophonia elsewhere bro
@ballyhoo I just wanna say if your talking about when they try all the different types of food that’s them giving their opinion and doing their job but also not everyone thinks talking with food in their mouth is as disgusting as you
I actually saw the original video a couple months ago and it was so funny, I watched it two times more!
My 81 year-old mother thought it was hilarious!
As a southerner, I can't tell you how gratifying their reaction to iced tea was!
TBF to the UK kids, their scones are closer to our biscuits than our scones are. The way I've always described it to British people that usually seems to get an "Oh, I get it" is that American Biscuits are like a cross between British scones and puff pastry.
The headmaster didn’t go to the US but the hosts of the show did a Southern US food tour a few months ago and the hosts also took a group of older kids from this school to Korea. It’s a great set of channels.
Cool I’ll check that Korean one out!
@JoeAvella KoreanEnglishman and Jolly are run by Josh and Ollie, they're amazing!
@furranteeI can attest to that. Jolly is more on the comedy side things whereas KE is about learning about Korea their channels are amazing!
I can't believe I missed the live on this video!!!! 😫 I've been watching Jolly for ever! They have a whole series for British Highschoolers. The OG high school group is something else.
We have Mexican restaurants in London and beyond !
Scones in the UK are not like that fake crap they call a scone at Starbucks. They are actually round and look like an American biscuit
What struck me about this episode was how these 9th-graders in a private boys' school suddenly had their horizons widened through some items in Southern American cuisine. Josh on this channel has another channel called Korean Englishman, in which he introduces Korean cuisine to English people, usually around London. His family lived in China for a while, and the international school he attended was filled with South Korean students. That's how he fell in love with the culture and is now passing it on. Sometimes he goes to this boys' school (he knows the principal) and films episodes like this, introducing the students to new cultures through their food.
Actually biscuits with butter and jam and honey are phenomenal, that's really my favorite thing about biscuits: they work equally well sweet or savory! I had a biscuit once with cinnamon icing and it was incredible.
I am 56 years old, and have lived in east central Alabama my entire life, but i was around 12 years old the first time I tried sausage gravy on my biscuits. It just never looked good to me. The explosion of flavor that came from that sausage gravy was incredible. I just smiled while I chewed, quietly cussing myself for not trying it before.
What a small world. I also live in East Central Alabama. Love the South. We have the greatest cuisine anywhere.
Real BBQ should be spread across the UK too.
Biscuits and gravy, Chicken 'n Waffles both slaps.
8:40 tea is CLASS
I live in Derby (pron. darby) in the UK, and we have both Mexican and US restaurants in or just outside the city centre. I can confirm at least one US one does biscuits and gravy. For the avoidance of doubt, US biscuits are buttermilk savoury scones; that's what we call them. The US scones are more like individually baked fruit cakes, close to light parkin in sweetness but without the ginger. Essentially, they're two different beasts, with the UK one being, as I say, closer to the US biscuit than the US scone.
In York i went to an American restaurant and had the most American thing on the menu Fried chicken with waffles bacon and maple syrup.... was expecting the worst due to the odd combo, but to this day it is the best thing that has ever hit my taste buds.
Imagine living that everyday!
They are just savoury scones made with butter milk. The gravy is a cream sauce with things like bacon, sausage, and mushrooms very British.
@neilgayleard3842 they are taking about chicken and waffles not biscuits and gravy.
YES! Please open a restaurant in the UK serving Biscuits & Gravy, I’ve never tried it before but based on their reactions and the overall popularity, it’d be a hit!
It’s fantastic, you’ll love it. Southern cooking is really unlike British cuisine (which I happen to enjoy a lot) so take advantage of you ever get a chance.
@oscargunther1423 I agree. This is food that southerners would say "sticks to your bones". It started as really hearty, simple and inexpensive working man's food (and still is for many people). Simple, delicious and will keep you going all day.
Joe and jolly? I am in heaven
Fried Chicken is the most prolific kind of restaurant in London! The problem is we don’t have American “soul food” restaurants to try stuff like biscuits, gravy, grits, collard greens, sweet tea etc.
we also have tons of Mexican restaurants, including family-owned and big chains, everywhere. We do need the soul food to come here though lol!!
Oh right I guess I was implying the soul food / American south fried chicken. Obviously chicken is being fried in the UK, I should have made that clearer. I think it boils down to oil and spices, which I assume could be shipped in? Every person who's visited the US and tried our version of fried chicken has lost thier minds. It's truely amazing.
I want some soul food restaurants in the northern US..
I remember as a kid, we would take those nestle ice tea powder and dump it in little ice cold water. Eating cold ice tea powder was like sniffing those good stuff as a kid😂
i saw this and my god, these british children reminds me of my friends
JOE I LOVE JOLLY AND KE THANKS FOR REACTING ♥️
Also these kids aren’t 8 they have to be at least 16 or 17 I remember some of them like a year or two ago!
the kids in this video are around the ages of fourteen and fifteen, i'm pretty sure. it says that they are in year nine which is the third year of high school.
i love biscuits 'n gravy, gotta be one of my favorite things.
I didn't know you had a channel. I subbed as loved you on food insider channel.
As someone born raised in south real southerners dont over sugar of iced sweet tea. Real sweet tea is balanced. Most restaurants get it wrong. Few get it perfect but it varies. Id bet youd love it.
we've had KFC here for a while but most of the sides are completely different. Popeye's has started to pop up over here and they do have biscuits but no sausage gravy, just the cajan gravy you'd usually get with mash. Like I said though, only recently started popping up and not that common yet
Nah, Popeyes only came here to serve immigrant muslims, not British people, so they’ll never sell pork-based gravy here for their biscuits side. “Even though 45% of the UK is Catholic of whom strictly can’t eat religiously-slaughtered meat, let’s make our chicken halal to benefit the measly 5% population!” - “sounds great!” (the dumbasses that decided the UK menu). It’s not as if every flipping local chicken shop is infected with halal meat already. Catholics, Sikhs and other religious groups literally have nowhere to get their chicken fix now ‘cos more and more KFC’s are going halal too, all just to benefit one immigrant minority!
KFC in the US doesn't have sausage gravy either to be fair.
I remember years ago seeing a BBC show where an African American woman went to England to live and opened a restaurant with Southern foods. It was in either Blackpool or Brighton. So, there are some Southern style restaurants there. And I just saw a youtube video about a real Texas BBQ type places in Edinburgh, Scotland. A Scottish youtuber who has been all over Texas & other States tried it out & thought highly of it. Probably have Mexican restaurants, as well, but it would be hard to get real good, fresh spices & ingredients there. I moved from Southern California to Nashville, Tennessee 18 years ago & the Mexican restaurants here are a VERY pale representation of Mexican food in the border States. So if they can't replicate really good Mexican food here, what chance do they have doing it across the Pond?
Josh & Ollie (Jolly) took around 10 British high schoolers to Korea. You might check those videos out. So, so fun. Wish they would bring a bunch to America.
Uk scones are not like us scones, much lighter and softer.
The lumpy is from the break fast sausage
I agree about mexican restaurants- I have yet to have good mexican in the U.K and I am desperate for someone to start doing it! I want to get breakfast burritos after a night out. On the other hand, I totally disagree that we have no standards. We have a lot of amazing food here, we just have different preferences. We have our own classics that we turn to (both British and international) and are as loyal to them as you are to things like biscuits and gravy.
A great video would be an American trying a jam and cheese sandwich a wired combination that tastes great
They are literally Mexican restaurants in London lmao and American fry chicken too
Year 9 doesn't mean they are 9 years old, it means they are in ninth grade
Saw the thumbnail and Lit. Up. Joe reacting to JOLLY/KoreanEnglishman? 😁 I saw this when it came out, I was so annoyed with the smack talk from the highschoolers and then they put it in their mouths and HELLO!
I like chicken fried steak and gravy with biscuits on the side. Fireee.
When ever i hear your voice I keep hearing you yell, "US only baby?!" Food Wars I believe.
Indeed!
Well we do leave school earlier than you guys in the US does so it wouldn’t be a too much of a shock on why I our teenagers seem older compared to American teenagers
What is it about UK kids that they talk like adults... they actually learn grammar and vocabulary in school. We sort of stopped stressing that in school the last 20+ years.
For me, American gravy looks like ragout. Or a more liquid filling of Dutch croquette.
The look like scones but don’t have the sugar. Breaded with proper meat gravy would probably be ok
Joe, I think maybe you just haven't had the right kind of tea. There are so many kinds, with so many different profiles, it seems hard to believe you feel the same way about all teas.
if made properly it doesnt have that tea flavored sugar water. when its made that way made wrong
someone take his mute button away lol
Goodness. At least put some butter on the biscuits maybe a little honey or jam
Given that scones are a British pastry, perhaps they know better than you or Starbucks.
It’s like telling them English Muffins aren’t muffins…
When KFC first opened in UK in 1965, it advertised "Chicken and biscuits". Things went poorly for the chain until it dropped the biscuits and focussed on "fried chicken and chips". Btw, isn't biscuits & gravy also called shit on the shingle? I wonder what these teens would think of that idea?! Btw, your two-finger salute would get you some laughs (or a smack!) in the UK 🤭🤔. There are currently 1000 KFC in UK.
Shit on a shingle is chipped beef, you can find it normally in little tins alongside canned fish. Brined but kinda dry.
Nope SOS is Cream Chipped Beef on Toast
Agree not scones!
I agree joe, the british are weird sometimes. It’s funny how they like to compete with us on everything and we still win!😂😂😂 I love biscuits and gravy. I could eat that every day for breakfast
Typical yank response 🙄
Apple pie as in, American as apple pie was taken over by the first British settlers in America.
They are clearly from a private (posh) school which is at least partly why they sound like adults
Are they? I figured that’s what all high schoolers wear. Do some schools have casual dress in the UK? Uniforms are rare in the US
the school in the video is actually a free school! (non-profit-making, state-funded, free to attend) and on the uniform, i think practically every school (3-16) in the UK has a uniform. on how they sound: it's just their southern/london accents
Loved this video! I do enjoy the Jolly videos once and awhile and their reaction to American food, but enjoy having your input to their videos a bit more. Lol I can relate to Joe's reaction of the reactions! "Life changer?! You're only 8!" Lol
London needs a Waffle House.
You need to pause the video every time you comment. You keep missing the kids reactions. It detracts from enjoying their reactions.
Posh UK Kids do talk indeed talk like adults yes. :-)
I'm from Washington and Beans and toast sound good
*on toast
@philipareed yes
It really is but it has to be British baked beans as the American version are too sweet, so I have heard.
@feewatt groovy I think my Fedmyers might have some I will try get some and try it
Its going going scone american "biscuits" need jam and clotted cream 😂😂😂😂
The end of the video... Open an American restaurant in London featuring American food... I've been telling Europeans this for years... Yet in 2023, with RUclips being around forever, with other videos being around forever... Europeans still have no idea what American biscuits and gravy tastes like... It's truly bizarre
I can not stomach iced tea. I can even smell the difference between drinks, and even when I added enough sugar that it no longer dissolved, I still couldn't drink it. Hot tea on the other hand, is better....especially fruit teas.
I can’t stand hot tea. I only force myself to drink it when I’m sick. When it’s cold I find tea to be refreshing
biscuits and gravy
Biscuits? - OK. Gravy? - not at any price.
What's with your audio...fix it
nah
Lol common man people that watch you and give you views give you constructive criticism and you’re like nah. Odd way to treat ur fans. I’ve noticed it a bit now watching more and more of your videos. If that’s your thing that’s fine but like think people just wanna see your channel succeed. Quite off putting
I am so sick of videos that have almost NO VOLUME. Turn up the volume.
You mute the audio, let it play, and talk while they're talking. Are you even reacting, or just talking while a video plays in the background?
The second one
Reacting to reactions is a bit much. I hope this doesn't catch on.
You can tell that they are forced to say they like it, for the video😂😂
I watch this channel and the kids often say if they don’t like something. I could tell by the facial expressions that some kids really liked it. They even asked for more sweet tea.
@anndeecosita3586 they bite into the biscuit dry and went 'mmmmm' 🤣😭 dont try tell me they aren't just chatting shi
@anndeecosita3586 uk food is not that bad 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Oh you poor deprived soul. You have no idea of the life altering experience US Southern food or Soul food has on your taste buds. Bless your heart.
@SherriLyle80s bless my heart? Excuse me hahhahaha i would wage my house you haven't ever even left your own country 🤣🤣😭
my question when it comes to biscuit and gravy... why do you need the biscuit? isn't this just a weird milky casserole that could go with any buttered bread
"just a weird milky casserole"......🤨 ah, no. This is a gravy, nowhere near a casserole. Made with flour, butter, pinch of salt, lots of pepper, sausage and cream. You definitely need the biscuit, normal bread would disintegrate.
A regular bread would become overly soggy and fall apart.
😂 You can put it on waffles, on toast. What ever you want but our biscuits are NOT like scones. They are super soft, fluffy and not denae like scones. They also taste a little salty and very buttery.
That looks like vomit.🤮🤢
I do find it ignoring
How America takes this form other cultures then changes then whole thing but keeps the name, then they say there’s is original and the other one is wrong. Find it so ignorant and strange
Looks and sounds vile..... Iced tea is vile - too sweet.
Have you ever tried any in the US? It's brewed either by the sun or in a pot.
you need to stop muting the video to talk, I think pausing or even talking over the video would be better than that. Never seen that before, that was so jarring lol
"Why do British kids sound like adults"
More worryingly, why do American adults sound like children.