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British Highschoolers trying Thanksgiving Dinner for the First Time! (American Reacts)
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We have a feast every Sunday , it’s called Sunday roast and traditionally at Easter we have Lamb.
Criticism is not hate Joel.
America is like our over confident teenage child finding it's way in the world 🤣🤣🤣
Harvest festival is still a thing, but instead of stuffing ourselves, we give food to those less fortunate than ourselves.
Sweet potato casserole is 100% a southern Thanksgiving staple.
Defo a generational thing, pumpkin pie, pecan pie are all available in the UK, young lads would not typically know these foods are available here, unless they went food shopping. Our Christmas dinner is very similar to Thanksgiving, not the average Sunday roast.
The Boys really made this great, they injected so much humour.
The sandwich is basically like a british xmas leftovers sandwich. And ive had plenty of pecan pies in the UK. The uk is extremely multicultural so all of this food is gonna be extrememly easy to find
Hi Joel, you said that you wondered where they got the pecan pie from, ever heard of online recipes? We can make food here you know! 🤣🤣
I was thinking the same lol
Yeah, it’s called “baking” 😅
@brabusta And as a nation we can outbake the US hands down!!
I'm sure josh's wife gabie cooks and bakes the food. She was on masterchef in korea i think
I bet if the Thanksgiving sandwich came in a Tesco meal deal JPS would approve…
😂😂😂😂
I think Sainsbury’s does turkey, stuffing and cranberry sandwich (at Christmas)
Yes he deffo would! 😂
They were going for things we just dont really eat here, the mash, gravy, sprouts etc that you mentioned is nothing new to them from a roast to Christmas dinners
13:20 it's not difficult at all to buy pecans or any of the other ingredients for pecan pie in the UK, especially in the autumn
So amusing the way you mispronounce pecan -per-carn 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Thanks giving was introduced by Brits (You're welcome). Older Brits know about thanks giving, it's the younger generation who don't. Give me a good old British Roast anytime, why do you need a day in the year to eat it!
As a former teacher, I guess this vid was made to simply give the young people a 'taste' of Thanksgiving rather than a full-blown three hour meal.
But the students were fantastic! And the Head teacher was excellent!
Joel you need to come here at Christmas and try a full Christmas dinner. That's our annual feast and it is just the best!
5:35 This is what I grew up with in the south. As a child I loved it, dessert in the middle of the meal. As an adult, I only eat it to be polite.
Apple pie is a British invention so you don’t have to eat it. It’s meant to warm you up on a cold day.
The apple pies which I used to make _didn't_ involve "mushed-up apple" but instead sliced fresh apples, with a sprinkling of light brown sugar (or Demerera sugar) inside a handmade light shortcrust pastry top & bottom, plus a cut-out of a pastry motif atop the pie.
It was sweet enough without being too sweet and definitely _not_ "mushy" - the apple slices retaining their shape, though obviously softened by the baking process.
Try it yourself, Joel, if you have access to a flat work surface upon which to make / roll out enough pastry, and a pie dish or pie plate, and a hot oven - and oven gloves to remove it _safely_ from the hot oven after baking - and you might just surprise yourself at how _nice_ a 'properly made apple pie' can be. 🙂😊
UK here..do you make curry with the leftover turkey after Thanksgiving...
In our house, Christmas turkey left over would be curried...and what a curry my father would make.😮
Sweet potatoes are not only a Southern thing. I was raised in New Jersey and we had it every thanksgiving...and still do.
We brits know how to cook
We have thanksgiving dinner every Sunday.
The sweet potato casserole is a southern thing. JPS is wrong…we do eat it as a side dish, not a dessert.
I have never had that, cannot eat sweet Potatoes.
@vallee3140 Okay…and?
It's not just a Southern thing. It's common from New York through Maine as well, at a minimum.
@Frenchtastrophe I would’ve thought so too, but then again idk why JPS acts like it’s some foreign dish that nobody in the US consumes.
Sweet potato casserole is huge in South Dakota, Minnesota also!
We actually know a lot about Thanksgiving so stop saying we've never heard of it. Just because these children dont know when it is doesn't mean older people who grew up on American tv dont know it. The 'yams' and marshmallows dish has definitely been a feature of TG dinners...and you can get Pecan pie everywhere in the UK.
I’m 61 and grew up in Ohio. Candied sweet potatoes has been a side dish on thanksgiving my entire life along with green bean casserole, deviled eggs, etc. my favorite holiday of the year!!
Great video and reaction! Keep em coming!
😊😊That sounds delicious😊😊😊
12:53 Joel’s indignation 😂 it’s like the guy shot a puppy
I can still hear Ross shouting "MY SANDWICH" . Lol.
we know about thanks giving, these are children
Hey, a lot of us do know about Thanksgiving. I was taught about it in school as part of world history.
Thanksgiving to me is “Trains Planes and Automobiles “ 😂😂
It's really weird that British ain't aware about Thanksgiving, wherein some countries around the World, celebrate it with absolute enthusiasm like; Turkey, United States, Canada, India, The Phillipines, Singapore, Thailand, China, South Korea; etc mostly Asian & non- Catholic countries cuz for us it's a festival is all about celebrating with Joy, enthusiasm, love, care, acceptance; etc.
Josh’s wife Gabi makes the food often. She’s a great cook!
Yesss as Ollie likes to remind her, she was a runner up on Korean Masterchef! :)
The Kids love the Pumpkin pie! that needs to be a thing on the UK .. hey Greggs !!!!!!
Your offended face at the pecan pie was funny!
We do get American deserts I the UK my fave is key lime pie , bloody lovely .
It's better with key limes. They have a pretty different flavor than limes that are able to be exported, or even shipped very far from Florida within the US.
I couldnt be put on the spot for what im thankful for... Positive things in life just dont compute haha
In my family , we don't have a Roast every sunday but we have one now and then as a family get together: either at home or go to a Toby Carvery. We do however have what you call "Thanksgiving Dinner" at Christmas lol. We call it Christmas Dinner lol. Xx
Toby Carvery in Enfield, N.London just recently had a British Oak Tree that was at least 450 years old (at the edge of their car park) _felled_ because _they said_ it was a danger to their customers - it was stil in the midst of its spring growth - though they sought no permission to do so from the council who own the land they rent their premises from.
Enfield Council are seriously considering taking out a civil action against the CEO of Toby Carvery over this.
Nick Ferrari (LBC Radio - Mon to Fri, 7am til 10am) has called for the chain of
"Toby Carvery" to be _boycotted_ as a result of their action.
Sweet potato casserole is on my table every year.
Thanksgiving is only American it is not celebrated anywhere else nowadays it is Christmas that’s the big celebration in Europe
it Christmas a Easter in the UK
@Ukhome-s4pUhm.. no Easter is Easter
He keeps saying we know nothing about thanksgiving what does he know about boxing day ?
I guess the sandwich was a quick and handy way of giving the boys the tastes of a Thanksgiving dinner without serving the whole thing on a plate.
Maybe it'd from the friends show
A Brit here.
Sweet potato and marshmallows are served in n the Southern part of the USA.
The tradition started back in the 1900’s.
Sweet potato topped with mashmallow is absolutely not restricted to the Southern US. It's common, particularly for Thanksgiving, from (at least) New York all the way north to Maine.
Pumpkin pie and sweet potato have the same texture dude 😂
The Headmaster goes with the other Fulham HS boys to Korea every time.
They’re school boys, they eat what they’re given at home and in school. You should start watching them react to Korean food because that’s a whole other experience and it led to two trips to Korea, one in high school and one after University!
Yes they are only allowed to eat school lunch at school no packed lunch and they bring them in loads of fast food of course they get excited
I'm a Brit but had reason to spend Thanksgiving in Wisconsin three times in three separate family settings and each family served sweet potato mash with marshmallow. Not to my taste at all, although I like each of the ingredients.
our christmas dinner is the big turkey dinner, but we can have that at new year and easter too.
It Started with the Pilgrims but eventually they forgot how to spell using a U and then they got completely Gun Obsessed and deciding to confuse everyone they re named stuff like Jam to Jelly and Jelly to Jello and Aubergine to Eggplant so we the British decided to Ban Thanksgiving in the UK just in case in the future they were mad enough to Name an Orange Blob as President!
Lmfao💀
Bless your heart 😂
I think they use an American in London who has a restaurant. He’s a native Mississippian, his food looks amazing.
around the time you guys have thanksgivibg we have harvest festival, usually octoner
Thanksgiving is similar to our Christmas dinner with some of the main ingredients prepared differently. We do commonly eat all of the component parts of your Thanksgiving meal, Mac & Cheese, mashed potato, Brussels sprouts, but not served together as part of the same meal. As far as your desserts go we bake here, we know pie and pastry, we don’t really need Pumpkin Pie & canned pumpkin isn’t something you’ll generally find in our kitchen cupboards but supermarkets do sell it. A lot of Thanksgiving food seems to be laced with unnecessary amounts of sugar whereas our traditional Christmas foods are typically drenched in booze.
We call it _macaroni cheese_ though. _Not_ the dreadful 'Americanism' of "Mac & Cheese" ... 😞
😀great video Joel. I love watching these great guys trying new foods. 👍
I only eat pumpkins with a roast dinner, I always thought pumpkin pie was savoury.
I think most Americans do have sweet potatoes for thanksgiving.
You might as well go down the Pub on a Sunday and have a roast dinner.
Love, love, love pecan pie. Thank you, America.
we have pecan pie in uk. its like treacle pie with nuts
The first time I experienced American Thanksgiving, my kids and I made a big mistake. We accepted two invitations. The first was for 13:00 at a colleague's home in Fredericksburg, and the second was for dinner at my son's best schooolmate's home in Falls Church at 19:00. We didn't make that mistake again!! 😅
We have sweet potato casserole every Thanksgiving and I live in Ohio.
for the benefits of us older folk, I had to look up "year 10"
Co-Pilot says: In the UK school system, Year 10 typically includes students aged 14 to 15 years old. This is part of Key Stage 4, where students begin preparing for their GCSEs - so Form IV in old money.
In my small - aboug 450 or so pupils (all girls) school, we attended: From the age of 11:
1st Year, 2nd Year, 3rd Year, 4th Year, 5th Year, the Lower 6th & the Upper 6th. (I stayed on by my own choice til the end of the Lower 6th, but most, in fact - I think all - of my best friends left at the end of the 5th Year).
@brigidsingleton1596 5th year for o-levels 😇❤️
@DavidPaulMorgan
I only got 6 CSEs.
Grade 2 English,
Grade 2 Art,
Grade 3 Biology,
Grade 3 Human Biology,
Grade 4 Social Studies, (minus project)
Grade 4 Social Studies. (plus project) !
What can I say... I'm dim... 😞 🤔 😞
@DavidPaulMorgan
"5th Year for O-Levels"
...yes, and your point is!..?
@brigidsingleton1596 information. I didn't know what year 10 meant.
The pecan pie is like butter tarts but has the pecan and usually no raisin.. When living in England, saw that American's and Canadian's would celebrate their own Thanksgiving.. You can find most of the meal in most shops in UK.. 😹
you can buy pecan pie from tesco in the uk
I am not a fan of Pumpkin pie, but I do like Pecan Pie and have it whenever I can.
I'm sure they've got some American themed restaurants in London (and elsewhere in the UK), where they might have sourced this stuff. I know here in Copenhagen there's an American owned pie shop, so I assume everything they sell there is reasonably authentic.
one of the guy's wives (a korean lady) is a good chef.
Most video's for American Thanksgiving dinner have included marshmallow/sweet potato dish.. For our Thanksgivings in Canada, it's very, very rare to see sweet potato and as the one lad said it's a sweet and the marshmallow belongs on the stick and over a fire.. 🐦😹
Yay!
I once worked on a quite high end American school in St Johns wood London and I would be very surprised if you couldn't get aurhentic american scoff there. 😄
There is a restaurant in London that is owned by a guy from America. He from the south I believe. I know he made them a Thanksgiving meal and made pecan pie. They may have gotten it there.
I’m pretty sure the brits could cook-up a pecan pie from an American recipe! 🤷♀️
That sandwich is good but it's really an after Thanksgiving meal. Bob Evans resturant sold them around Thansgiving a few years ago.
Canadian Thanksgiving predates its U.S. counterpart. The earliest known Thanksgiving celebration in Canada is said to have occurred in 1578, when explorer Martin Frobisher held a feast in Newfoundland to celebrate his safe voyage. This event happened 43 years before the well-known 1621 harvest feast shared by the Pilgrims and Wampanoag people in Plymouth, which is the basis for the U.S. Thanksgiving.
Hello Joel, I did watch this episode of Jolly and if I remember correctly all the dishes where made by the American wife of one of their staff, I could be mistaken however as it was quite some time ago. If you haven't seen their other channel Korean Englishman yet you should checkout when they took a group of kids and Mr Smith to South Korea, you'll really enjoy it.
With you on regular potato over sweet potato!
Potatoes are virtually always served regardless of whether or not sweet potatoes are also served.
I think they didn't include the turkey and trimmings etc because its UK traditional Christmas dinner that they all know
Ive seen this video a few times and the Americans reacting to it all rave about the sweet potato casserole, so it may be more popular than you realise Joel. It seems as though they were offering the elements you dont often see here.
The English do flavour magnificently
You mean by opting to eat Indian food instead?
@Frenchtastrophe no but Americans eat a lot of British food
@sharnadixon-scott710 Such as?
@Frenchtastrophefried chicken Mac and cheese pot pie apple pie cherry pie devilled eggs bread pudding pound cake are some examples
As a Brit, I had heard about the sweet potato dish topped with marshmallow and being served as a side to the main meal, but having marshmallow on top must make it taste like a dessert. With regard to apple pie, it can be made with stewed apples for a softer pie, but I have had them with large chunks of apple where they remain slightly firm, so not all apple pies are sloppy. It depends how you make them. Pecan nuts are available in the UK, so they would have just found a recipe for the pie. People have different tastes, so don't be surprised that some people will not like things which you think are delicious, and vice versa.
An american cooked it for me once and I actually enjoyed it. Thr marshmallow chars a little on top and it was good
Same with we Scots, all our problems started (and continue) because of the English 😂
ive seen alot of vids with the marshmallow and sweet pot , and the sweetness of the 2 pies is tooo sweet, they bring from usa as we dont sell some of the rubbish they put in,
If you don't like how sweet American food is, why are you tasting it? If it's less sweet, it's not the food anymore and tasting is is irrelevant. If you already know you don't like it tasting there's no reason to taste it because it's irrelevant.
@Frenchtastrophe i had no choice when your in usa
@ Interesting. I guess you missed how many different cuisines are commonly available throughout the US due to the immigrant culture? Unless you dislike Chinese, Mexican, Spanish, French, Russian, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Indian, Canadian, etc., food. Because all of that is present and readily available.
Is English your third language?
@Frenchtastrophe if u were a person with a brain cell u would understand the uk does not put things like yoga mat substance in bread i was in us for 10 days and tried alot of different food and i was not impressed it tasted chemical or to sweet and dont get me started on the chocolate
Goodness me can cook and bake lol
'The english dont do flavour well' is such a tired old stereotype. we invented the curry in 1340!!
We get pecan pie in UK, I've had it a few times, really nice
You should try a Sainsbury's Taste The Difference Apple Pie, cold of course with a thick slice of cheese. Delicious.
Very good video 👍.
If you want to have good laugh at a Brit trying food in other countries, watch some of the video clips with Karl Pilkinton ( An Idiot Abroad ) talking about the food he was given in some of the many countries that he has visited 😂. 🇬🇧
I got you on the sponsorship, but they gifted it, that was a nice though. I agree it should have been the meal, what you call gravy looks rank, and pasta and cheese djo not belong with a roast meal
I love sweet potatoes, once or twice a month. Pumpkin? Nah. Pumpkin Pie? -mmm mayb - nah. Rhubarb is the way to go. Pecans are great, Pecan Pie - maybe I’m not putting enough custard on it?- I love nuts, Brazil, Pecan, Pistachio, Sweet Chestnuts, Cob - hey, I am one!
Flavour: Rhubarb, Quince, Gooseberry, Sloe, Raspberry, Blackberry, Apple, BLACKCURRANT (to die for - I know Americans are forbidden this king of fruits - something to do with the 5th Amendment, right? “I only ate the blackcurrant once, m’laud”) - Deserts? - Bread and Butter pudding is the best - I believe.
Thankful? I’m thankful to JPS!
If I'm ever in the USA around thanksgiving I will try pumpkin pie, I've made 3 or 4 different recipes over here and can't say I like it very much at all. As for that sweet potato monstrosity, I'll pass lol. Great vid it's good seeing Brits react to American food.
A lot of the food is made by Josh's wife Gabby. She's a trained chef and has been on cooking competitions like Master Chef where she was one of the finalists.
Useful fun fact, thanks mate😊
Gabbie doesn't make any of the American food.
They probably didn't do the basics as that is our Christmas dinner 🤷♀️
All thanks giving is our sunday roast and Christmas Dinner.
Do you typically have more or less all of your relatives hosted, spend the entire day cooking and spending time together then eat a massive feast that leaves sufficient leftover food for several days of meals? No. Having a meal prepared that features a few side dishes, a properly cooked entree, etc., is not similar to Thanksgiving.
Canada celebrate Thanksgiving month before
What about Canadian Thanksgiving? second Monday in October.
Pumpkin Pie....🤮 However, loads of restaurants in the UK have Pecan Pie. Very nice.
How is it that one kid hasn't had nuts before? If you ask him if he's had a snickers bar before he'd say yes, THAT'S where his statement falls apart.
There is an American Chef they visit to in their video's it's probably him who they get the food from
No they only went twice this video was before that. They have a female southern.chef male the food
I love pecan ice cream, it must be good on a pie. We eat pumpkin soup, or its's more like stew, combined with other vegetables like carrots and potatoes, and we blend it with cream. Very nice. I wouldn't mind trying the pie. We have turkeys and eat a lot of turkey meat, but rarely entire turkeys. Rather duck or goose, then; turkey meat is a little too dry. I suppose they had an American person there to prepare it, the ingredients can be found easily in Europe. To prepare the food and send it frozen would make no sense. Do you know how to cook? You could come to Europe and open a restaurant with American food... Although now, with agent orange, people may not be to happy about it.
A funny video! However, I think I prefer an English/Irish Christmas Dinner of Roast Turkey, mashed Potato and Roast veges! (Yorkshire puddin in England). Plum Pudding set alight.with a penny and served with Cream/custard, Trifle..and since I'm in Australia I often prefer a barbeque with Pavlova as a desert!!
so, the same exact thing as US Thanksgiving?
@ No Pumpkin Pie. Pecan Pie. Sweet potato. And I suppose the original traditions of Ireland and England were then what the pilgrims followed to celebrate Thanksgiving...
He commented that he'd never heard of sweet potatoes casserole. I mean everywhere you go in the United States there's going to be totally different foods based on where you are. Kind of surprised how ignorant he was about that!
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no macaroni and cheese. my gf is here fav
Its like a lesser Christmas dinner
Probably a greater one, actually. You likely don't spend the entire day prior to the dinner with a huge quantity of your family and extended family cooking from before sunrise throughout the day and spending time with each other and then eating a feast that even with such an enormous number of people consuming it will provide for the host family's meals for days afterward.
So why donyou like pumpkin pie and not apple pie? That makes no sense.