Take it from a South Carolina girl. Cracker Barrel sausage gravy is NOT real Southern sausage gravy. It's too thick and gummy, for lack of a better way to put it. And, I've heard that they put liquid smoke in it. Yuck! Until you've had the real homemade stuff, you really didn't get a proper taste. And biscuits here aren't really the same thing as scones. They don't contain sugar, (I usually add a pinch if I'm making them for strawberry shortcake) and they're very buttery and flaky. The scones I've had, even when visiting the UK, tend to be more dense and a bit dryer. I'm not saying anything bad about them. I enjoyed them a great deal with jam and clotted cream. But the two are very different. I suppose Cracker Barrel gave you a rough idea of what the dish is, but it just can't compare to homemade. Great video! 😊
@@bobbiejojackson9448 Firstly....Thanks for watching. I need to head to the south and have some proper Biscuits and Gravy. I didn't realise it was a predominately southern dish and chain restaurants are never going to be the same as proper home cooked or a mom and pop restaurant.
@@MarcRalph If you do head down South, just find you a medium sized town and ask the locals where to get the best biscuits and gravy. They'll steer ya in the right direction. And here's the key... Don't ever feel awkward about asking "strangers" in a Southern town. As my grandpa used to say, "Ain't no sech thang". HaHa Maybe you've heard of Southern hospitality? Well, it's not a myth. Southern folk are the most helpful, polite (chatty) people you'll ever meet! Hell, they might even join ya for breakfast! Or invite ya over t'house and cook it up for ya! 😂
I'm American, and I've had friends visit from England and Ireland. When I made biscuits and gravy, they both said they didn't want any. After they smelled it, they decided to give it a try. They both went back for seconds. The Irishman said it was one of the best things he ate here.
@@MarcRalph I've never eaten at Cracker Barrel, so I can't say. To make it for the family, I normally used a 16 ounce package of breakfast sausage. After the sausage was all brown, I added a few spoonfuls of flour to absorb the melted fat and let that cook for a minute or two. I stirred in about two cups of milk and let it thicken. A little salt and pepper, and you're done! You can put that over scones since you don't have biscuits there. This makes a meaty, delicious gravy.
I do like Cracker Barrel in general. However, home made biscuits and gravy (not everyone can make it) are on a complete different level. If you have a mother/grandmother that can make it home made, it’ll ruin you for store bought. You will become a total B/G snob haha
@@timmills5598 Similarly I ruined Swedish meatballs from IKEA when I started making them from scratch at home. Actually the Swedish meatball gravy is a little similar to the gravy for biscuits and gravy, similar technique with just a couple different or added ingredients.
For the 734th time... an American biscuit really isn't very much like a scone, except in shape. Totally different texture, consistency, weight, and purpose.
You have to remember they aren't used to our biscuits or anything with much flavor that didn't come from India. 😅 They did go all around the world in search of spices only to never use them in their cooking😅 their idea of breakfast is beans on toast. But hey they are trying something new and it will have a positive effect of them. Shame they tried this a cracker barrel instead of a real southern restaurant. Cracker barrel is ok but it isn't the most flavorful biscuits and gravy in the world. 😅
@@chadcrigger3101our idea of breakfast is real bacon, sausage, black pudding, haggis, potato scone, fruit pudding, mushrooms, tomato, fried bread, fried egg, fried potatoes and beans with toast and tea.
Hilarious! A chain restaurant might be good for an introduction, but, please, go to a small town family owned diner to try any one of a hundred versions of 'the real deal'. Any place with grandma cooking the desserts will have a better bisquits and gravy than a chain restaurant.
Well, this was, in fact, "just an introduction," so seems as good a place as any. Home cooked will always be better, of course. That's not in dispute. ;)
Similar to some other comments, a small family owned restaurant will be best for quality biscuits and gravy. Ask around about that in particular and folks will lead you to the right place nearby. Some places will have really good biscuits, or really good gravy. But both together will be a gem of a restaurant.
Glad you enjoyed it but next time, try the ACTUAL biscuits and gravy :). The gravy on the chicken fried steak is not the same as the sausage gravy used for biscuits and gravy.
Sure it is, at least at pretty much every diner I've been to. At some point it's all basically just "white gravy". Sure, with biscuits it tends to be "sausage gravy" with a bit of extra ground sausage meat thrown in. But otherwise, the gravy itself is basically the same "white gravy." Goes well on C.F.S., biscuit, mashed potatoes, etc. :) Looked perfectly fine to me... ^_^ But folks are particular about "their way" of doing things. So, one person's mom's recipe might not exactly match someone else's grandma's recipe, etc. But, looked to me like what CFS & biscuits & gravy should look like. And I've had plenty of both...
Your first mistake was going to Cracker Barrel. I used to live in London so when I moved back to the US, I had a lot of English friends come visit me. I always took them to one of my favorite brunch places and had them try biscuits & gravy mainly because I knew how weird it would be for them. Every single one of them said that they had enjoyed it very much with even some of them saying it is one of the best things they have ever eaten.
To be fair, we also eat biscuits with jam. Sometimes we use butter or honey as well and they are commonly used for sandwiches particularly with chicken, ham, or sausage.
Many people eat biscuits with an assortment of foods/dishes. We always have the option of biscuits, rolls and other types of breads with all holiday meals. We use biscuits in a variety of ways. Along with your list, people often eat them with soups, stews, casseroles or as a side with meat and potato meals, ie: meatloaf, steak, roast chicken, ham, you name it and most meals are enhanced with a biscuit or two. I even make mini pizzas, hot pockets, fruit pies, sausage rolls, pot pies, flavored bread sticks, breakfast sandwiches, mini burgers, money bread, quick cinnamon rolls or balls and every flavor biscuit imaginable. Many things I can make ahead and freeze. Biscuits unlike scones are extremely versatile. They are only limited by your imagination.
Don't get me wrong cracker barrel is good. But, homemade sausage gravy is better by a mile. It's super easy to make. Brown sausage in a pan. Add flour to sausage and grease. Stir until lumps from flour are gone. Add milk to pan. Low heat until it's the consistency you like. Mine is middle of the road. Not thick, not runny. Just a perfect balance of both. Add a ton of pepper and some salt to taste. Takes less than 10 minutes.
@@br4524 looking back I forgot one of my families favorite ingredients. After the sausage is brown and before the flour add maple syrup. Enhances the sweet with savory.
Most of the time we would have sausage gravy with our biscuits. That was plain gravy and not homemade. It is ok with steak or fried chicken but not usually eaten plain with biscuits.
If its a cracker barrel... They still use fat from their sausages and the breakfast sausage seasonings when making their gravy... So it does taste way better than it looks. But you are right.. Without the sausage in it; it just isnt the same. Its actually kind of sad they do it that way. And they also dont put enough in the biscuits.
Have you seen Jolly's video of them trying biscuits and gravy in South Carolina? That's an authentic American biscuits and gravy experience .... and then some!
my old boss used to take us out to eat to cafes with huge portions for breakfast on winter morns from time to time. It is hard to get up on ladders and roofs after chicken fried steak, biscuits and gravy, eggs, and hash browns. Your body just wants a warm fire and a couch at that point.
Generally when I've seen country fried steak with biscuits and gravy the portions are twice what you had there. Difference between local place and chain.
@@MarcRalph It might not apply to all of them, but I've found that people that don't really know how to cook or have someone that regularly cook good homemade food for them, will love a place like Cracker Barrel. It's nowhere near as good as homemade, but close enough if it's your only option, other than things like fast-food. You can find little diners that make really good homemade food, but it's hit and miss, either trying many places yourself or hearing from others about a good place.
Just dont get that stuff everyone reviews online as sausage gravy. There is like at most 1/2 cup of gravy and a pound and a half of sausage. It would be fine but the look is very akin to vomit. Sausage isnt the main ingrediant. The oil that comes out of the raw, then cooked sausage is what makes or breaks sausage gravy.
Biscuits and scone are similar, yet very different. Biscuits have a hard flaky crust and are soft in the middle. Biscuits are also light...Scones from what I understand are dense, and most contain egg where biscuits do not.
scones: egg & sugar [slightly denser/heavier/sweeter] biscuits: no egg nor sugar, just flour, butter and baking soda/salt/milk, etc. [slightly lighter fluffier, more buttery/savory]
From a southerner, born and raised, from the DEEP DEEP SOUTH. Please tell all your European friends to not try biscuits and gravy at Cracker Barrel for their first time tasting. Cracker Barrel is amazing for the price once you find your go to’s, but their gravy is VERY middle of the road. Personally I don’t like it at all. Best is obviously homemade but you have to get the right recipe from a southern grandma. The packet powder country gravy and mix in your own sausage is even better than Cracker Barrel to me. Just my opinion but I know I’m not alone. Just don’t fancy their gravy, which is a shame that they don’t do it right. Edit: Waffle House is way closer to the taste of gravy you want for biscuits N Gravy.
And the sausage gravy itself is actually pretty easy to make. Brown up ground/minced sausage meat in a pan with some salt & pepper, maybe some other herbs/spices to taste (everyone's recipes/tastes are different), add in some flour, and mix until incorporated into the meat / drippings. Then add cream/milk a little bit at a time, and let it thicken up with the flour, until you've made your desired amount / consistency. Generally should be relatively thick but not too lumpy. Some prefer it slightly runnier, in which case slightly more milk/cream. But, generally, I tend toward the thicker side so it sits more in top of the biscuit rather than soaking in. Anyway, add a bit more salt / pepper to taste as needed. Split a biscuit and serve open-faced with plenty of gravy over the biscuits. Yum! Anyway, nothing too terribly difficult. Just browning meat, adding flour, adding milk/cream and stirring until thickened, and spicing to taste (salt & black pepper, mostly).
Biscuits and gravy are different from country fried steak and gravy .......just saying ... Biscuits are like fluffy and airy bread with sausage gravy ....
It was always called Chicken Fried Steak but changed to Country Fried Steak because idiots thought it was CHICKEN!!! It’s just beef fried like chicken and it’s fabulous!!!
Hi, Marc Ralph: Originally in the 18th century a biscuit was called a twice baked cracker in England and a biscuit in the colonies. Traditionally, about a hundred and fifty-five years ago, biscuits and gravy were made with a brown gravy called a farmers' gravy. In southern Appalachia in the late 1800's is when biscuits and sawmill gravy was invented. Sawmill gravy, i.e. sausage peppered gravy was a cheap calorie dense food that kept the lumber jacks going throughout the day. Your scones are a lot lighter, smaller and thinner than traditional american buttermilk biscuits, which are larger, and thicker and which are what is used in our biscuits and gravy. Our biscuits and gravy are a savory dish and never served with jam, nor clotted cream. Biscuits and Sauage gravy are normally served as a main breakfast dish, not as a side bread and they take up the entire plate. Often the biscuits served with Sauage gravy are so big that they can be served as a half order or whole order and the sausage gravy covers the plate. The gravy that is covering your food is more of a cream gravy and not a Sauage peppered gravy. Cracker Barrel, including Bob Evans offers a choice of smaller biscuits with a breakfast meal. If you ever decide to order biscuits and sausage gravy, you won't want to order any other breakfast items, because even a half order is a lot of food.
Im a grandma.....in Tennessee.....i make VERY good Sausage Gravy and Cat Head biscuits (big fluffy biscuits..not hockey pucks from Cracker Barrel)...a full on Southern breakfast is...sausage or bacon...2 eggs (any way i prefer scrambled) and bisciuts and gravy....for dessert...buttered biscuit with jelly/preserves/or better yet...apple butter!! This IS breakfast in my house 😊
I am from Arizona (Southwest, not the South) so I did not grow up with biscuits and gravy. I'm taking this opportunity to ask a real Southern grandma a couple of questions. 1. I always thought that homemade biscuits and gravy where a side to a breakfast that would already have meat. The fried sausage patties or links would be served separately with the gravy made from the sausage drippings, fond, any crumbled pieces. This would be different than the large amount of chopped up sausage we see in restaurants and online. 2. My impression is that biscuits do not have sugar unless you're making up a special batch for making strawberry shortcake. Any thoughts? I'm willing to be wrong.
@chrisstevens410 yes....gravy is made from the drippings at HOME....I'm sure restaurants have their own way....I just don't know bc I don't eat theirs 😆 As for sugar in the biscuits....nope not mine unless for Strawberry shortcake....even then I make more of a pound cake for that.... My biscuits are Flour...Crisco and buttermilk....that's it! We call them Cathead biscuits bc the are huge and fluffy 😊❤️
American here, love scones but I really love homemade biscuits and gravy. Put some Jimmy Dean sausage in the pan, fry it but, add a touch of butter, flour, cook it for a couple minutes, add milk let thicken and pour it over a biscuit and find heaven. Cracker Barrel biscuits and gravy suck.
I used to get that when you could get fried Catfish with it, Cracker Barrel has gotten cheap. Steaks used to be much better to, used to be tbones now you get a fat free lean Ribeye.
I heard you say something about the BIG PORTIONS. You have to remember, most of us work hard every day and it does not take long to work off that big meal before it’s time for the next one. Now not everyone had a hard working job. Many sit behind a desk. But many work outside all day from morning till after dark. We get hungry. I love my biscuits and gravy.
A very heavy breakfast, originally made for rural farm workers that had to expend a TON of energy and work from sunrise (or earlier) to lunchtime before eating again. I love chicken-fried steak or biscuits and gravy, but only once in a great while and one or the other.
Sorry dude you did not have "biscuits and gravy". Putting some gravy from a county fried steak on biscuit is not "biscuits and gravy". If you really want to try "biscuits and gravy" you need to order "biscuits and gravy". As far as he hash brown casserole being cheesy, um... yeah that's how casseroles in the US work
Need SAUSAGE gravy on biscuits, needs to have bits of sausage in the gravy, much better, also need little salt and cracked black pepper on it as well in my opinion, good video!
The scones they have in the UK basically are biscuits, just with more butter and they add sugar. What we call scones here they have another name for...
That's not really biscuits and gravy. That is the gravy you would put on the top of Chx Fried Steak. Biscuits and gravy would almost always have sausage in the gravy. Massive difference.
@@MarcRalph You may wish to ask for "biscuits and sausage gravy". You could also look that up here on RUclips, and you will see the difference. If the gravy does not have sausage chunks in it, it is generally meant to be put on top of chicken fried steak. Take care.
Are you referring to the way the woman was eating? If so there was nothing British about the way she was using her cutlery, or the way she just threw it on the plate when she'd finished her meal. Embarrassing to say the least, like a couple pigs at a trough! 🤦🏻♀️
@violetlilly9644 No, the way they were both eating. The two different styles of eating with utensils. The woman is American style, and the guy is British style.
I can promise you. A British scone and an American biscuit are very much alike, slightly different ingredients, but very similar. I have eaten plenty of scones to know.
Calling that biscuits and gravy is like getting chicken tenders and calling it roast chicken. You're on RUclips. Take a minute and look it up and you'll see how different it actually is.
If you don't have a southern Grandma or Mom and you don't know a good local mom and pop restaurant, if you've got to go with a chain restaurant Cracker Barrel is probably your best choice.
Biscuits n' Gravy is poor people food you got some flour and just a little meat not enough for everyone. They you can make biscuits and gravy to stretch it out and feed everyone.
@@MarcRalph I try it at every restaurant I go to if they have it. I make it from scratch at home. Sausage is the key to a good gravy. My favorite anytime of the day food.
Scones are in both countries. Why wouldn’t you be comparing scones? Why biscuits when they’re totally different. It’s odd! Like comparing scones to apples, have it make sense 😂😂😂 another thing scones here in America are usually triangular shape, sometimes glazed, but are lightly sweetened with fruit or nuts
What an American calls a biscuit is not a scone in Britain. They are two different things and both are found in America. They look alike but they are different.
I’m from the South of the US in Tennessee and I prefer jam and butter on my biscuits as well. Occasionally I’ll go for gravy, but I rarely eat a hearty breakfast meal like this. It’s too heavy! If I ate a big breakfast I wouldn’t be able to eat until late at dinner time. 😂
My grandpa raised bees, so we'd get gallon jars of honey from him, so we ate a lot of butter and honey on our biscuits! Biscuits are so perfect for most any topping- put any of those things on a piece of bread, it might be edible, but it wouldn't be the delicious, tender goodness with the biscuit!
Love it!! It's all in what you're used to. You weren't brought up on this so one can't expect you to be over the moon when you try it. I read a couple of the comments and the Grandma restaurant one's are right. A tiny small town diner will have your best biscuits and gravy. If you don't see, hear or even feel the word "slathered", they're probably not done right. Lots of black pepper makes them yummy. 😋
Thank you very much for the kind words. I will be looking for some proper mom and pop made ones next time I’m around. Meatloaf is also on the agenda! Who knows what I’ll make of that?
@@MarcRalph Oh, thank you. It's my pleasure. I do think that you will enjoy meatloaf. Most don't really have much of an aversion to it. I never cared for it or much of my mother's cooking. My Grandma could cook anything. Czech food, southern goodness down home food, her mother's food and anything recipe put in front of her. And she and my Papaw loved meatloaf.
@@MarcRalph Oh, you will have to try svickova, pork knuckle and for sweet, please find nut kolache. Not poppyseed although it's very good but nut is so much better and I think if you try both you will agree that nut kolache is tops. It's not like a biscuit/cookie sweet, it's a different sweet. I've never had anything from the homeland. Will you take some dirt and throw it towards Ohio? Maybe I'll catch it. LOL When you are there you will find many bread and potato dumplings. So good!! I hope you have the best time!!
“Scones are made with cream and eggs,” said Katina Talley, owner of Sweet Magnolias Bake Shop in Omaha, Nebraska. “They're sweeter, drier, and may contain fruit. Biscuits are typically made with buttermilk and not sweet”
Why? Why? lol. I know I'm probably alone on this but I don't want any other foods distracting me from enjoying my B&G. On occasion, I will add a side of potatoes or hash browns. But just give me a plate of B&G and I am happy! I save the endless variety of breakfast options for another day. B&G gets all the attention when I make it or order it in a restaurant. And I can eat it any time of day, morning, noon or night. And, like you mentioned, a snack. Can you tell it's a favorite? I just wish I could eat it more often. lol.
Well, then good thing this was in fact a full American breakfast... :P ;) [Did'ja watch the video before commenting?] He had C.F.S. [Country-/Chicken-Fried Steak] & gravy, biscuits and gravy, eggs, hash browns, coffee, etc. Seems like a pretty full breakfast to me. Only thing "fuller" might be if it came with buttermilk pancakes or french toast in addition to, or in place of, the C.F.S.
A cream gravy is a bechamel with whatever add ins you want. Bacon, sausage, hamburger, chicken ECT. America biscuits are flour, salt, baking powder, fat (butter/lard) cold liquid ( water or milk or buttermilk) A scone is more like an extra thick & dense version of an American cookie 🍪 basically above but add sugar and eggs, vanilla and anything mixed in like currants ECT.
The real test of biscuits and gravy is homemade, using sausage gravy. Restaurant white cream gravy is made in a factory and shipped to be heated in a microwave or in bags to be heated a pot of hot water and does not consist of sausage.
Scones and American biscuits are similar but not exactly the same. Scones are made with eggs and biscuits or not. Scones may have a flavoring added to it and it has more sugar. American biscuits has less sugar and no flavoring added to it. If they are made right, the texture is light and airy.
That is not gravy and biscuits, lad. It's a decent attempt, but it's missing several key aspects. Most notably, there is no crumbled sausage in the gravy. Couple other tidbit items, but that's the glaring violation of humanity.
It’s really easy to make. Biscuits: Dry ingredients; 2 cups flour 1/4 teaspoon baking soda 2 teaspoons baking powder 1 teaspoon of salt Mix those together. 1 stick of butter grated with a box grater (large holes) Mix that into the dry ingredients with a fork. 1 cup buttermilk (No buttermilk? 1 cup milk to 1 tablespoon vinegar or lemon juice, refrigerate for 15 minutes) Lightly mix buttermilk into flour/butter mixture. Pour out on a floured surface. Do not kneed! Press mixture into 3/4 inch thick rectangle. Fold in thirds. Repeat this three times. Cut out biscuits with a biscuit cutter. 425° for 13 minutes. Do not over bake. Brush on melted butter when done. Sausage gravy; Brown 16 ounces of ground pork in a pan. When pork is done sprinkle in 1/4 cup of flour and stir until you can’t see it. If you want to make more gravy, add another 1/4 cup of flour. Once you can’t see the flour, slowly add in milk and stir until desired thickness. Season with salt and pepper. Most of the flavor comes from the pork. There are many different recipes that you can make. This is just the one I use. The family loves it. Cheers brother. 🍻
Country gravy on the chicken fried steak doesn’t have sausage. Find a hole in the wall diner that’s packed with cars on a Saturday morning, have the biscuits and gravy there.
Brits need to get over the whole US biscuits/scones thing. Just because they look similar doesn’t mean they’re the same. Scones are made with eggs while biscuits are made with dairy (usually buttermilk and butter) and saltier. I’m sure US scones (usually triangular and sweetened) aren’t like UK scones, though.
This is the first and last video I have seen from this channel, and I can't help but think that this Brit should have just stayed where he was at (across the pond). I've been to over a dozen foreign countries (half of which were in the UK, and I can honestly say that English food is among the most bland and under-seasoned foods I have ever eaten... as if someone from the 15th century had determined that British food should never change from what they were eating then. The difference between Germany vs England, and Ireland vs England as pertaining to food is HUGE! So, this guy came to the table pre-convinced that one of our GREAT staples is weird and somehow unappetizing - showing nothing more than close-minded pompous arrogance and a TOTAL lack of any taste. Funny, he is the ONLY BRIT I have ever seen (doing a reaction vid to biscuits & gravy) that didn't absolutely love them. I know for a FACT that Cracker Barrel has excellent biscuits & gravy also - so THAT can't be blamed. You said "It felt wrong, but I was feeling brave" but in reality - you're just THAT kind of person... you sure weren't "brave" you were only small and wanted to show what a prick you are! HA! *Go back to your cave.
Thank you for the “expert” commentary on how good is supposed to taste like to an entire country. No one wanted a history lesson on your pov on food, nor your supercilious opinion on a man who doesn’t like gravy. How bored do you have to be to degrade a person AND their country just because they didn’t like something you felt was an American specialty. Leave the man alone and get a life you bloody bell n
Had a friend visit from England years ago. My mother was from Oklahoma and made buttermilk biscuits and gravy almost every weekend. My friend loved it. Cracker Barrel biscuits and gravy is fine, but its not like homemade from a Southern cook.
Cracker Barrel is a no go for biscuits and gravy- most chain restaurants are in fact. A good southern diner is where u get the good stuff unless you get invited to eat breakfast/brunch at someone’s home. If you really want to try something that might knock your socks off-chocolate gravy and biscuits is a sweet southern delicacy and it is divine!
Always cracks me up when Brits treat "biscuits & gravy" as some alien-inspired concoction. It's a French Béchamel, one of the French "mother sauces," with pepper instead of nutmeg (optionally with breakfast sausage crumbles if you're having it for breakfast).
💙🇺🇲 As an american I never was impressed by biscuits and gravy at all. If you want to try an iconic american breakfast you should look up the history of Sh*t On a Shingle, we just call it SOS for short. It tastes great, you should find a restaurant that serves it to include a side of "eggs sunny side up" or "eggs over easy". Yummy yum!! 😁😁😁😁
Not Cracker Barrel. It's obvious you've never dinned there before. Their biscuits and gravy are made in house from scratch every day, and if needed, several times a day. They would not be able to claim homemade from scratch, which they do, legally if it wasn't.
@@MarcRalph Absolutely not. Just informing this gentleman that Cracker Barrel does not use the shortcuts this guys claims. It's not that deep, lighten up. That restaurant chain can't speak for themselves so I did.
@@DSWilkes Wtf ever!! I make better homemade gravy than that nasty shit.. I've ate their tons of times and I have had their biscuits and gravy. So I know exactly what I'm talking about!!
Eww, NO! Sunny side up is NOT the same as over easy! Sunny side up isn't flipped to cook the top, so the whole top of the egg (white & yolk) are runny. Over easy eggs are carefully flipped to cook the white but tge yolk is runny. This can also be achieved by basting them by flipping hot (usually) bacon grease onto them to cook the top rather than flipping it. I'll never forget when my youngest brother learned the difference in cooking styles the hard way! 😂
Not all biscuits and gravy are created equal. The amount of sausage or bacon grease in the gravy makes a huge difference and most chain restaurants use a packaged mix (I don't know about Cracker Barrel). Diners are usually the best place for breakfasts, although there are definitely some good chains. You might try chicken fried chicken next time. Not quite as heavy as beef for breakfast but served the same way. I also like my hashbrowns not cheesy (but a little crispy). They seem to go with the over easy eggs better that way. Adding good green chile sauce to hashbrowns is also pretty special. Peace, Love!! Welcome to the States.
Biscuits and gravy is more of a southern US thing. I live in the west and have eaten biscuits all my life but it wasn’t until 2017 that I had biscuits and gravy and that was on a cruise ship. Another way that we eat biscuits is with jams, jelly or preserves just like the BRITs but also we might use maple syrup or just plain butter. it all depends on your individual preference. As a kid we commonly would have biscuits on a plate for syrup on the plate and dip the biscuits in the syrup. As an adult I eat it more with either just plain butter or jelly. Side note: in the US, jelly is not gelatin. I know in some countries they call gelatin jelly. In America jelly is just like jam or preserves except it’s made with only the juice of the fruit so it’s clear and doesn’t contain the fruit pulp. It serves the same purpose as jam or preserves.
Marc, if you're ever in the American Midwest, be sure to have a breaded pork tenderloin sandwich. They're a regional specialty. I grew up in the Northeast. I'd never heard of tenderloins until I moved to Iowa in 1990.
You ought to try southern style chicken pot pie. I recommend it with biscuits and chicken mixing over rice. Go straight down from the top like lasagna. It has the most wonderful texture with the flaky biscuit and the chicken pot pie part just seeps into the rice (or mashed potatoes). Best on a cold dreary day.
If I read this one more time, I am from America and I have traveled to London on several occasions. I have eaten many biscuits in a lifetime and I’ve had scones while in England and I’m gonna tell you there is no difference in taste. So all these comments about how different they are I know first hand are bullshit
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NOOOO!!!!!😮 Cracker Barrel adds liquid smoke flavoring to their gravy, which is HORRENDOUS!!!
PLEASE find a propper example of this, PLEASE! ❤
Take it from a South Carolina girl. Cracker Barrel sausage gravy is NOT real Southern sausage gravy. It's too thick and gummy, for lack of a better way to put it. And, I've heard that they put liquid smoke in it. Yuck! Until you've had the real homemade stuff, you really didn't get a proper taste. And biscuits here aren't really the same thing as scones. They don't contain sugar, (I usually add a pinch if I'm making them for strawberry shortcake) and they're very buttery and flaky. The scones I've had, even when visiting the UK, tend to be more dense and a bit dryer. I'm not saying anything bad about them. I enjoyed them a great deal with jam and clotted cream. But the two are very different. I suppose Cracker Barrel gave you a rough idea of what the dish is, but it just can't compare to homemade. Great video! 😊
@@bobbiejojackson9448 Firstly....Thanks for watching. I need to head to the south and have some proper Biscuits and Gravy. I didn't realise it was a predominately southern dish and chain restaurants are never going to be the same as proper home cooked or a mom and pop restaurant.
@@MarcRalph If you do head down South, just find you a medium sized town and ask the locals where to get the best biscuits and gravy. They'll steer ya in the right direction. And here's the key... Don't ever feel awkward about asking "strangers" in a Southern town. As my grandpa used to say, "Ain't no sech thang". HaHa Maybe you've heard of Southern hospitality? Well, it's not a myth. Southern folk are the most helpful, polite (chatty) people you'll ever meet! Hell, they might even join ya for breakfast! Or invite ya over t'house and cook it up for ya! 😂
I'm American, and I've had friends visit from England and Ireland. When I made biscuits and gravy, they both said they didn't want any. After they smelled it, they decided to give it a try. They both went back for seconds. The Irishman said it was one of the best things he ate here.
I’m sure your home cooked ones are way better thank Cracker Barrel’s.
@@MarcRalph I've never eaten at Cracker Barrel, so I can't say. To make it for the family, I normally used a 16 ounce package of breakfast sausage. After the sausage was all brown, I added a few spoonfuls of flour to absorb the melted fat and let that cook for a minute or two. I stirred in about two cups of milk and let it thicken. A little salt and pepper, and you're done! You can put that over scones since you don't have biscuits there. This makes a meaty, delicious gravy.
I do like Cracker Barrel in general. However, home made biscuits and gravy (not everyone can make it) are on a complete different level. If you have a mother/grandmother that can make it home made, it’ll ruin you for store bought. You will become a total B/G snob haha
@@timmills5598 Similarly I ruined Swedish meatballs from IKEA when I started making them from scratch at home. Actually the Swedish meatball gravy is a little similar to the gravy for biscuits and gravy, similar technique with just a couple different or added ingredients.
The gravy is just a roux with American breakfast sausage in it.
For the 734th time... an American biscuit really isn't very much like a scone, except in shape. Totally different texture, consistency, weight, and purpose.
You have to remember they aren't used to our biscuits or anything with much flavor that didn't come from India. 😅 They did go all around the world in search of spices only to never use them in their cooking😅 their idea of breakfast is beans on toast. But hey they are trying something new and it will have a positive effect of them. Shame they tried this a cracker barrel instead of a real southern restaurant. Cracker barrel is ok but it isn't the most flavorful biscuits and gravy in the world. 😅
@chadcrogger3101 gravy time
British scones are also not scones lol
You know how you order that in the UK - "tell the chef to make a really bad scone then make the cat throw up on it".
@@chadcrigger3101our idea of breakfast is real bacon, sausage, black pudding, haggis, potato scone, fruit pudding, mushrooms, tomato, fried bread, fried egg, fried potatoes and beans with toast and tea.
Hilarious! A chain restaurant might be good for an introduction, but, please, go to a small town family owned diner to try any one of a hundred versions of 'the real deal'.
Any place with grandma cooking the desserts will have a better bisquits and gravy than a chain restaurant.
Thank you. Unless Grammas make the biscuits you can't call them good. Sorry, I'm biased.
Well, this was, in fact, "just an introduction," so seems as good a place as any. Home cooked will always be better, of course. That's not in dispute. ;)
I was about to make this exact comment.
I agree! A mom and pop place is 100 times better.
Similar to some other comments, a small family owned restaurant will be best for quality biscuits and gravy. Ask around about that in particular and folks will lead you to the right place nearby. Some places will have really good biscuits, or really good gravy. But both together will be a gem of a restaurant.
Glad you enjoyed it but next time, try the ACTUAL biscuits and gravy :). The gravy on the chicken fried steak is not the same as the sausage gravy used for biscuits and gravy.
I just ate what they gave me, I’m pretty sure I had the sausage gravy with the biscuits. Have a great day and thanks for watching.
Also Tabasco with biscuits and gravy
@@melindaberry3768 Do love some Tabasco sauce. All these suggestions coming forward is great.
Sure it is, at least at pretty much every diner I've been to. At some point it's all basically just "white gravy". Sure, with biscuits it tends to be "sausage gravy" with a bit of extra ground sausage meat thrown in. But otherwise, the gravy itself is basically the same "white gravy." Goes well on C.F.S., biscuit, mashed potatoes, etc. :)
Looked perfectly fine to me... ^_^
But folks are particular about "their way" of doing things. So, one person's mom's recipe might not exactly match someone else's grandma's recipe, etc. But, looked to me like what CFS & biscuits & gravy should look like. And I've had plenty of both...
Yes!!! They are definitely different and I’m not even a born Southerner - I just live here and know the difference! Love both!
BISCUITS AND SCONES ARE COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.
ITS NOT THAT DEEP.
@@MarcRalphyes it is
Comparing a biscuit to a scone, is like saying cake and pie are alike
Your first mistake was going to Cracker Barrel. I used to live in London so when I moved back to the US, I had a lot of English friends come visit me. I always took them to one of my favorite brunch places and had them try biscuits & gravy mainly because I knew how weird it would be for them. Every single one of them said that they had enjoyed it very much with even some of them saying it is one of the best things they have ever eaten.
man can you imagine his reaction if he had biscuits and gravy from somewhere other than cracker barrel.
To be fair, we also eat biscuits with jam. Sometimes we use butter or honey as well and they are commonly used for sandwiches particularly with chicken, ham, or sausage.
Many people eat biscuits with an assortment of foods/dishes. We always have the option of biscuits, rolls and other types of breads with all holiday meals. We use biscuits in a variety of ways. Along with your list, people often eat them with soups, stews, casseroles or as a side with meat and potato meals, ie: meatloaf, steak, roast chicken, ham, you name it and most meals are enhanced with a biscuit or two.
I even make mini pizzas, hot pockets, fruit pies, sausage rolls, pot pies, flavored bread sticks, breakfast sandwiches, mini burgers, money bread, quick cinnamon rolls or balls and every flavor biscuit imaginable. Many things I can make ahead and freeze.
Biscuits unlike scones are extremely versatile. They are only limited by your imagination.
butter honey 50/50 whipped up drowning a steaming hot crumbled up biscuit total guilty pleasure
Biscuits and gravy is a meal in of itself.
Nothing else is needed with it.
Amen!
Needs an egg with a runny yolk on top!
Eggs
@@normvaughn8085covered in gravy !
Maybe, but mine isn't complete without hashbrowns.
Scones are dense and sweet. A good biscuit is light and crispy outside with a savory profile. Good for gravies ,egg yokes or sweet toppings.
I am sure homemade biscuits and gravy would be a lot better than what you can get at any chain restaurant.
Without a shadow of a doubt.
Of course 🙄
You really need to try biscuits and gravy an family owned restaurant. Biscuits and sausage gravy is awesome
Don't get me wrong cracker barrel is good. But, homemade sausage gravy is better by a mile. It's super easy to make. Brown sausage in a pan. Add flour to sausage and grease. Stir until lumps from flour are gone. Add milk to pan. Low heat until it's the consistency you like. Mine is middle of the road. Not thick, not runny. Just a perfect balance of both. Add a ton of pepper and some salt to taste. Takes less than 10 minutes.
😊thanks for the recipe
@@br4524 looking back I forgot one of my families favorite ingredients. After the sausage is brown and before the flour add maple syrup. Enhances the sweet with savory.
Most of the time we would have sausage gravy with our biscuits. That was plain gravy and not homemade. It is ok with steak or fried chicken but not usually eaten plain with biscuits.
If its a cracker barrel... They still use fat from their sausages and the breakfast sausage seasonings when making their gravy...
So it does taste way better than it looks.
But you are right.. Without the sausage in it; it just isnt the same.
Its actually kind of sad they do it that way. And they also dont put enough in the biscuits.
@@lawrenceshdowsausage gravy and cream or pan gravy are two different things made two different ways regardless of what ingredients you use.
Have you seen Jolly's video of them trying biscuits and gravy in South Carolina? That's an authentic American biscuits and gravy experience .... and then some!
country fried steak AND biscuits n gravy? food coma, that's what that is........yummmmmmmmm
The portion sizes are too much for me… and I like to eat!
my old boss used to take us out to eat to cafes with huge portions for breakfast on winter morns from time to time. It is hard to get up on ladders and roofs after chicken fried steak, biscuits and gravy, eggs, and hash browns. Your body just wants a warm fire and a couch at that point.
Generally when I've seen country fried steak with biscuits and gravy the portions are twice what you had there. Difference between local place and chain.
Delicious is what that is... ;)
Damn straight it is! That’s some good eating right there. 👍
You need a sausage gravy with chunks of sausage in it and homemade biscuits to fully appreciate it. Biscuits and gravy from CB arr just ok.
Agreed. I need some proper homemade stuff. A lot of people in the comments are defending CB to death though, it’s wild.
@@MarcRalph It might not apply to all of them, but I've found that people that don't really know how to cook or have someone that regularly cook good homemade food for them, will love a place like Cracker Barrel. It's nowhere near as good as homemade, but close enough if it's your only option, other than things like fast-food.
You can find little diners that make really good homemade food, but it's hit and miss, either trying many places yourself or hearing from others about a good place.
Just dont get that stuff everyone reviews online as sausage gravy. There is like at most 1/2 cup of gravy and a pound and a half of sausage. It would be fine but the look is very akin to vomit. Sausage isnt the main ingrediant. The oil that comes out of the raw, then cooked sausage is what makes or breaks sausage gravy.
Look at him dipping EVERYTHING in the gravy. Biscuits, Hash Browns, and Chicken Fried Steak.
Isn’t that the point of the gravy?
Biscuits and scone are similar, yet very different. Biscuits have a hard flaky crust and are soft in the middle. Biscuits are also light...Scones from what I understand are dense, and most contain egg where biscuits do not.
scones: egg & sugar [slightly denser/heavier/sweeter]
biscuits: no egg nor sugar, just flour, butter and baking soda/salt/milk, etc. [slightly lighter fluffier, more buttery/savory]
Scones with jam and cream are so good. American here, who has never had biscuits and gravy.
Scones are SO much sweeter than biscuits. I tried gravy with a scone once. It was kinda like gravy on King's Hawaiian rolls.
@@cynthiaoconnor7185 perhaps you should have tried a cheese scone.
From a southerner, born and raised, from the DEEP DEEP SOUTH. Please tell all your European friends to not try biscuits and gravy at Cracker Barrel for their first time tasting. Cracker Barrel is amazing for the price once you find your go to’s, but their gravy is VERY middle of the road. Personally I don’t like it at all. Best is obviously homemade but you have to get the right recipe from a southern grandma. The packet powder country gravy and mix in your own sausage is even better than Cracker Barrel to me. Just my opinion but I know I’m not alone. Just don’t fancy their gravy, which is a shame that they don’t do it right.
Edit: Waffle House is way closer to the taste of gravy you want for biscuits N Gravy.
Next video:
British bloke tries Mexican Food for the first time! ...at TACO BELL 😂
You mean Taco Bell is not authentic Mexican food 😂
@@MarcRalph
😁👍
My favorite at Cracker Barrel is the hash brown casserole. Could eat a tub of it
And the sausage gravy itself is actually pretty easy to make.
Brown up ground/minced sausage meat in a pan with some salt & pepper, maybe some other herbs/spices to taste (everyone's recipes/tastes are different), add in some flour, and mix until incorporated into the meat / drippings. Then add cream/milk a little bit at a time, and let it thicken up with the flour, until you've made your desired amount / consistency. Generally should be relatively thick but not too lumpy. Some prefer it slightly runnier, in which case slightly more milk/cream. But, generally, I tend toward the thicker side so it sits more in top of the biscuit rather than soaking in. Anyway, add a bit more salt / pepper to taste as needed. Split a biscuit and serve open-faced with plenty of gravy over the biscuits. Yum!
Anyway, nothing too terribly difficult. Just browning meat, adding flour, adding milk/cream and stirring until thickened, and spicing to taste (salt & black pepper, mostly).
Biscuits and gravy are different from country fried steak and gravy .......just saying ... Biscuits are like fluffy and airy bread with sausage gravy ....
Yeah, did I miss something? He clearly ordered country fried steak.
It was always called Chicken Fried Steak but changed to Country Fried Steak because idiots thought it was CHICKEN!!! It’s just beef fried like chicken and it’s fabulous!!!
@@sandybruce9092 Right, but title says he ordered biscuits and gravy.
He has biscuits on the side of plate he tasted the biscuit first and said it would take getting used to then ate the steak and that’s what he liked
Hi, Marc Ralph: Originally in the 18th century a biscuit was called a twice baked cracker in England and a biscuit in the colonies. Traditionally, about a hundred and fifty-five years ago, biscuits and gravy were made with a brown gravy called a farmers' gravy. In southern Appalachia in the late 1800's is when biscuits and sawmill gravy was invented. Sawmill gravy, i.e. sausage peppered gravy was a cheap calorie dense food that kept the lumber jacks going throughout the day. Your scones are a lot lighter, smaller and thinner than traditional american buttermilk biscuits, which are larger, and thicker and which are what is used in our biscuits and gravy. Our biscuits and gravy are a savory dish and never served with jam, nor clotted cream. Biscuits and Sauage gravy are normally served as a main breakfast dish, not as a side bread and they take up the entire plate. Often the biscuits served with Sauage gravy are so big that they can be served as a half order or whole order and the sausage gravy covers the plate. The gravy that is covering your food is more of a cream gravy and not a Sauage peppered gravy. Cracker Barrel, including Bob Evans offers a choice of smaller biscuits with a breakfast meal. If you ever decide to order biscuits and sausage gravy, you won't want to order any other breakfast items, because even a half order is a lot of food.
Im a grandma.....in Tennessee.....i make VERY good Sausage Gravy and Cat Head biscuits (big fluffy biscuits..not hockey pucks from Cracker Barrel)...a full on Southern breakfast is...sausage or bacon...2 eggs (any way i prefer scrambled) and bisciuts and gravy....for dessert...buttered biscuit with jelly/preserves/or better yet...apple butter!!
This IS breakfast in my house 😊
Get the tea ready, I’m on my way for breakfast. Thanks watching.
I am from Arizona (Southwest, not the South) so I did not grow up with biscuits and gravy.
I'm taking this opportunity to ask a real Southern grandma a couple of questions.
1. I always thought that homemade biscuits and gravy where a side to a breakfast that would already have meat. The fried sausage patties or links would be served separately with the gravy made from the sausage drippings, fond, any crumbled pieces. This would be different than the large amount of chopped up sausage we see in restaurants and online.
2. My impression is that biscuits do not have sugar unless you're making up a special batch for making strawberry shortcake.
Any thoughts? I'm willing to be wrong.
@chrisstevens410 yes....gravy is made from the drippings at HOME....I'm sure restaurants have their own way....I just don't know bc I don't eat theirs 😆
As for sugar in the biscuits....nope not mine unless for Strawberry shortcake....even then I make more of a pound cake for that....
My biscuits are Flour...Crisco and buttermilk....that's it! We call them Cathead biscuits bc the are huge and fluffy 😊❤️
American here, love scones but I really love homemade biscuits and gravy. Put some Jimmy Dean sausage in the pan, fry it but, add a touch of butter, flour, cook it for a couple minutes, add milk let thicken and pour it over a biscuit and find heaven. Cracker Barrel biscuits and gravy suck.
When am I coming round for dinner :)
You are the FIRST Brit I have watched that would “take it or leave it “. It was a hit with everyone else.
That's because he had country gravy and not proper sausage gravy. There's a huge difference.
Thanks for saving me from
Watching this
Also, he got biscuits and gravy from a chain restaurant rather than a proper mom and pop establishment. He done messed this video up.
I used to get that when you could get fried Catfish with it, Cracker Barrel has gotten cheap. Steaks used to be much better to, used to be tbones now you get a fat free lean Ribeye.
I heard you say something about the BIG PORTIONS. You have to remember, most of us work hard every day and it does not take long to work off that big meal before it’s time for the next one. Now not everyone had a hard working job. Many sit behind a desk. But many work outside all day from morning till after dark. We get hungry. I love my biscuits and gravy.
I need to try meatloaf next!
I make a mean meatloaf too❤❤❤
A very heavy breakfast, originally made for rural farm workers that had to expend a TON of energy and work from sunrise (or earlier) to lunchtime before eating again. I love chicken-fried steak or biscuits and gravy, but only once in a great while and one or the other.
Biscuits and gravy is/are like any other meal in that they CAN be made badly or very very well. You just have to keep experimenting.
biscuits and gravy with two eggs over easy on top. good stuff.
Sorry dude you did not have "biscuits and gravy". Putting some gravy from a county fried steak on biscuit is not "biscuits and gravy". If you really want to try "biscuits and gravy" you need to order "biscuits and gravy". As far as he hash brown casserole being cheesy, um... yeah that's how casseroles in the US work
Milk gravy needs lots of pepper, half and half and rosemary…………it’s all about the sausage quality and great gravy❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Need SAUSAGE gravy on biscuits, needs to have bits of sausage in the gravy, much better, also need little salt and cracked black pepper on it as well in my opinion, good video!
Scones and biscuits are 2 totally different types of food. You must have sausage gravy with your biscuits. Not white gravy.😊
The scones they have in the UK basically are biscuits, just with more butter and they add sugar. What we call scones here they have another name for...
Need to try southern biscuits and gravy at a non chain.
Completely different thing and way better
That's not really biscuits and gravy. That is the gravy you would put on the top of Chx Fried Steak. Biscuits and gravy would almost always have sausage in the gravy. Massive difference.
I’m going to have to get it again, I asked for biscuits and gravy so assumed that would be what I got. I don’t know what I don’t know i guess.
@@MarcRalph You may wish to ask for "biscuits and sausage gravy". You could also look that up here on RUclips, and you will see the difference. If the gravy does not have sausage chunks in it, it is generally meant to be put on top of chicken fried steak. Take care.
Thanks for trying it.
You’re welcome
I love watching the difference between the British way of eating with utensils and the American way of eating with utensils.
I noticed that too.
Are you referring to the way the woman was eating? If so there was nothing British about the way she was using her cutlery, or the way she just threw it on the plate when she'd finished her meal. Embarrassing to say the least, like a couple pigs at a trough! 🤦🏻♀️
@violetlilly9644 No, the way they were both eating. The two different styles of eating with utensils. The woman is American style, and the guy is British style.
I've seen lots of Brits compare biscuits and scones, and they are not the same thing. They look similar, but that's it.
I can promise you. A British scone and an American biscuit are very much alike, slightly different ingredients, but very similar. I have eaten plenty of scones to know.
Calling that biscuits and gravy is like getting chicken tenders and calling it roast chicken. You're on RUclips. Take a minute and look it up and you'll see how different it actually is.
If you don't have a southern Grandma or Mom and you don't know a good local mom and pop restaurant, if you've got to go with a chain restaurant Cracker Barrel is probably your best choice.
My mom was born and raised in Memphis. Oh, she could cook southern. Dad was from Syracuse NY. He loved my mom's cooking. He turned southern😂
Biscuits n' Gravy is poor people food you got some flour and just a little meat not enough for everyone. They you can make biscuits and gravy to stretch it out and feed everyone.
Love the look on their faces when they take the first bite! So hilarious!
Like he was trying poison
We make scones and we make biscuits (also cookies) and each has a difference for us.
Could not stop laughing about 'Portions! Portions.'
They get me every time.
Wouldnt have picked cracker barrell for trying biscuits and gravy😂😂. Try it everywhere😂😂
This is the general consensus. I’ll find a better place.
@@MarcRalph I try it at every restaurant I go to if they have it. I make it from scratch at home. Sausage is the key to a good gravy. My favorite anytime of the day food.
Scones are in both countries. Why wouldn’t you be comparing scones? Why biscuits when they’re totally different. It’s odd! Like comparing scones to apples, have it make sense 😂😂😂 another thing scones here in America are usually triangular shape, sometimes glazed, but are lightly sweetened with fruit or nuts
What an American calls a biscuit is not a scone in Britain. They are two different things and both are found in America. They look alike but they are different.
I’m from the South of the US in Tennessee and I prefer jam and butter on my biscuits as well. Occasionally I’ll go for gravy, but I rarely eat a hearty breakfast meal like this. It’s too heavy! If I ate a big breakfast I wouldn’t be able to eat until late at dinner time. 😂
My grandpa raised bees, so we'd get gallon jars of honey from him, so we ate a lot of butter and honey on our biscuits! Biscuits are so perfect for most any topping- put any of those things on a piece of bread, it might be edible, but it wouldn't be the delicious, tender goodness with the biscuit!
@@RogCBrand I love butter and honey on biscuits!
a Brit criticizing food is like a blind man saying the sun hurts his eyes. Dude so did not want to admit his flaws...
What flaws? What are you on about?
Love it!! It's all in what you're used to. You weren't brought up on this so one can't expect you to be over the moon when you try it.
I read a couple of the comments and the Grandma restaurant one's are right. A tiny small town diner will have your best biscuits and gravy. If you don't see, hear or even feel the word "slathered", they're probably not done right. Lots of black pepper makes them yummy. 😋
Thank you very much for the kind words. I will be looking for some proper mom and pop made ones next time I’m around. Meatloaf is also on the agenda! Who knows what I’ll make of that?
@@MarcRalph Oh, thank you. It's my pleasure. I do think that you will enjoy meatloaf. Most don't really have much of an aversion to it. I never cared for it or much of my mother's cooking. My Grandma could cook anything. Czech food, southern goodness down home food, her mother's food and anything recipe put in front of her. And she and my Papaw loved meatloaf.
@@faegrrrl your grandma sounds wonderful. I’m of to Prague in a couple of weeks funny enough. Do you recommend a Czech dish to try?
@@MarcRalph Oh, you will have to try svickova, pork knuckle and for sweet, please find nut kolache. Not poppyseed although it's very good but nut is so much better and I think if you try both you will agree that nut kolache is tops. It's not like a biscuit/cookie sweet, it's a different sweet. I've never had anything from the homeland. Will you take some dirt and throw it towards Ohio? Maybe I'll catch it. LOL When you are there you will find many bread and potato dumplings. So good!! I hope you have the best time!!
You need to try it in the South... Not just a "counrty store" either... Like a diner... Or homemade if you can
I need to do a road trip to the south and try a lot of different foods there, that’s a bucket list item for sure. Thanks for watching.
Some people need to stay home
Some people shouldn’t leave comments.
“Scones are made with cream and eggs,” said Katina Talley, owner of Sweet Magnolias Bake Shop in Omaha, Nebraska. “They're sweeter, drier, and may contain fruit. Biscuits are typically made with buttermilk and not sweet”
Thanks for the info!
Remind me never to buy a cheese scone from her.
Biscuits & Gravy by itself is a snack. Should be part of a "Full American Breakfast".
Why? Why? lol.
I know I'm probably alone on this but I don't want any other foods distracting me from enjoying my B&G. On occasion, I will add a side of potatoes or hash browns. But just give me a plate of B&G and I am happy!
I save the endless variety of breakfast options for another day. B&G gets all the attention when I make it or order it in a restaurant.
And I can eat it any time of day, morning, noon or night. And, like you mentioned, a snack. Can you tell it's a favorite? I just wish I could eat it more often. lol.
Well, then good thing this was in fact a full American breakfast... :P ;) [Did'ja watch the video before commenting?]
He had C.F.S. [Country-/Chicken-Fried Steak] & gravy, biscuits and gravy, eggs, hash browns, coffee, etc. Seems like a pretty full breakfast to me. Only thing "fuller" might be if it came with buttermilk pancakes or french toast in addition to, or in place of, the C.F.S.
@@MGmirkin Yes, one can get the same with those extras if you are that hungry. But I usually add regular toast instead of pancakes.
A cream gravy is a bechamel with whatever add ins you want. Bacon, sausage, hamburger, chicken ECT.
America biscuits are flour, salt, baking powder, fat (butter/lard) cold liquid ( water or milk or buttermilk)
A scone is more like an extra thick & dense version of an American cookie 🍪 basically above but add sugar and eggs, vanilla and anything mixed in like currants ECT.
A Biscuit and a Scone are different. Scones are a lot more packy and less salty. The Gravy is a Bechamel sauce.
I just was fascinated by the different etiquette in using a knife and fork. American way, not great, the English way, very silver service like.
My wife also makes this comment, I don’t notice it all that much.
Aww, you went to Cracker Barrel....
Not a good presentation for buisketts and gravy..
Bummer becau there's better places..
Where would you suggest to try some? I need to try Meatloaf as well.
The real test of biscuits and gravy is homemade, using sausage gravy. Restaurant white cream gravy is made in a factory and shipped to be heated in a microwave or in bags to be heated a pot of hot water and does not consist of sausage.
Wrong place to go. I will only eat there if I'm traveling. I've been to the you were at before. Not good biscuits and gravy.
Scones and American biscuits are similar but not exactly the same. Scones are made with eggs and biscuits or not. Scones may have a flavoring added to it and it has more sugar. American biscuits has less sugar and no flavoring added to it. If they are made right, the texture is light and airy.
That is not gravy and biscuits, lad. It's a decent attempt, but it's missing several key aspects. Most notably, there is no crumbled sausage in the gravy. Couple other tidbit items, but that's the glaring violation of humanity.
It’s really easy to make. Biscuits:
Dry ingredients;
2 cups flour
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
2 teaspoons baking powder
1 teaspoon of salt
Mix those together.
1 stick of butter grated with a box grater (large holes)
Mix that into the dry ingredients with a fork.
1 cup buttermilk (No buttermilk? 1 cup milk to 1 tablespoon vinegar or lemon juice, refrigerate for 15 minutes)
Lightly mix buttermilk into flour/butter mixture.
Pour out on a floured surface. Do not kneed! Press mixture into 3/4 inch thick rectangle. Fold in thirds. Repeat this three times. Cut out biscuits with a biscuit cutter. 425° for 13 minutes. Do not over bake. Brush on melted butter when done.
Sausage gravy;
Brown 16 ounces of ground pork in a pan. When pork is done sprinkle in 1/4 cup of flour and stir until you can’t see it. If you want to make more gravy, add another 1/4 cup of flour. Once you can’t see the flour, slowly add in milk and stir until desired thickness. Season with salt and pepper. Most of the flavor comes from the pork. There are many different recipes that you can make. This is just the one I use. The family loves it. Cheers brother. 🍻
American biscuits are not scones.
Country gravy on the chicken fried steak doesn’t have sausage. Find a hole in the wall diner that’s packed with cars on a Saturday morning, have the biscuits and gravy there.
why you seem affraid of eating food
Don’t fn go to Cracker Barrel for a southern staple my man. We’ll make it right for y’all.
Booking my ticket now
I prefer biscuits without gravy. Just butter or jam etc....or, as a breakfast sandwich with egg, sausage, bacon etc.
Brits need to get over the whole US biscuits/scones thing. Just because they look similar doesn’t mean they’re the same. Scones are made with eggs while biscuits are made with dairy (usually buttermilk and butter) and saltier. I’m sure US scones (usually triangular and sweetened) aren’t like UK scones, though.
It’s just a bit of fun, my friend, nothing to serious.
Bad place to try it....
Where would be a better place to try it?
Glad you made it to Cracker Barrel. Hahaha… hash brown casserole is ‘too cheesy”! 😂🤣
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Thank you for the correction.
We also put butter and jam on biscuits. They’re not just for biscuits and gravy. They’re really not like scones except the shape and they’re baked.
This is the first and last video I have seen from this channel, and I can't help but think that this Brit should have just stayed where he was at (across the pond). I've been to over a dozen foreign countries (half of which were in the UK, and I can honestly say that English food is among the most bland and under-seasoned foods I have ever eaten... as if someone from the 15th century had determined that British food should never change from what they were eating then. The difference between Germany vs England, and Ireland vs England as pertaining to food is HUGE! So, this guy came to the table pre-convinced that one of our GREAT staples is weird and somehow unappetizing - showing nothing more than close-minded pompous arrogance and a TOTAL lack of any taste. Funny, he is the ONLY BRIT I have ever seen (doing a reaction vid to biscuits & gravy) that didn't absolutely love them. I know for a FACT that Cracker Barrel has excellent biscuits & gravy also - so THAT can't be blamed. You said "It felt wrong, but I was feeling brave" but in reality - you're just THAT kind of person... you sure weren't "brave" you were only small and wanted to show what a prick you are! HA! *Go back to your cave.
Good luck with life. Have a great day.
Thank you for the “expert” commentary on how good is supposed to taste like to an entire country. No one wanted a history lesson on your pov on food, nor your supercilious opinion on a man who doesn’t like gravy. How bored do you have to be to degrade a person AND their country just because they didn’t like something you felt was an American specialty. Leave the man alone and get a life you bloody bell n
Had a friend visit from England years ago. My mother was from Oklahoma and made buttermilk biscuits and gravy almost every weekend. My friend loved it. Cracker Barrel biscuits and gravy is fine, but its not like homemade from a Southern cook.
Can hardly hear a word you’re saying ! Too much background noise !
Yeah, I tried to clean it up as best I could. It’s a learning experience.
Cracker Barrel is a no go for biscuits and gravy- most chain restaurants are in fact. A good southern diner is where u get the good stuff unless you get invited to eat breakfast/brunch at someone’s home. If you really want to try something that might knock your socks off-chocolate gravy and biscuits is a sweet southern delicacy and it is divine!
Always cracks me up when Brits treat "biscuits & gravy" as some alien-inspired concoction. It's a French Béchamel, one of the French "mother sauces," with pepper instead of nutmeg (optionally with breakfast sausage crumbles if you're having it for breakfast).
Your description makes it sound so much nicer 😂
Cracker Barrel is one of the worst choices for Biscuits and Gravy. And chicken fried steak is just unpleasant by any measure!
Thank you! I completely agree with everything you said
Turn your nose up at biscuits and gravy? You eat beans on toast and sausage made of blood for Pete's sake!
Have you ever had either? You’re missing out if you haven’t.
💙🇺🇲 As an american I never was impressed by biscuits and gravy at all.
If you want to try an iconic american breakfast you should look up the history of Sh*t On a Shingle, we just call it SOS for short. It tastes great, you should find a restaurant that serves it to include a side of "eggs sunny side up" or "eggs over easy". Yummy yum!! 😁😁😁😁
I will definitely be looking for that. I will get ordering eggs right one day 😂
So interesting! We grew up on SOS, but never heard of it for breakfast. 🤔
In what area of the US is it a breakfast food?
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Real biscuits and gravy should be homemade. Restaurants use the cheap powder or canned gravy
Nothing beats home cooking.
Not Cracker Barrel. It's obvious you've never dinned there before. Their biscuits and gravy are made in house from scratch every day, and if needed, several times a day. They would not be able to claim homemade from scratch, which they do, legally if it wasn't.
@@DSWilkes are you paid by Cracker Barrel?
@@MarcRalph Absolutely not. Just informing this gentleman that Cracker Barrel does not use the shortcuts this guys claims. It's not that deep, lighten up. That restaurant chain can't speak for themselves so I did.
@@DSWilkes Wtf ever!! I make better homemade gravy than that nasty shit.. I've ate their tons of times and I have had their biscuits and gravy. So I know exactly what I'm talking about!!
Eww, NO! Sunny side up is NOT the same as over easy! Sunny side up isn't flipped to cook the top, so the whole top of the egg (white & yolk) are runny. Over easy eggs are carefully flipped to cook the white but tge yolk is runny. This can also be achieved by basting them by flipping hot (usually) bacon grease onto them to cook the top rather than flipping it.
I'll never forget when my youngest brother learned the difference in cooking styles the hard way! 😂
Not all biscuits and gravy are created equal. The amount of sausage or bacon grease in the gravy makes a huge difference and most chain restaurants use a packaged mix (I don't know about Cracker Barrel). Diners are usually the best place for breakfasts, although there are definitely some good chains. You might try chicken fried chicken next time. Not quite as heavy as beef for breakfast but served the same way. I also like my hashbrowns not cheesy (but a little crispy). They seem to go with the over easy eggs better that way. Adding good green chile sauce to hashbrowns is also pretty special. Peace, Love!! Welcome to the States.
Thank you, friend. 🇺🇸
Biscuits and gravy is more of a southern US thing. I live in the west and have eaten biscuits all my life but it wasn’t until 2017 that I had biscuits and gravy and that was on a cruise ship.
Another way that we eat biscuits is with jams, jelly or preserves just like the BRITs but also we might use maple syrup or just plain butter. it all depends on your individual preference.
As a kid we commonly would have biscuits on a plate for syrup on the plate and dip the biscuits in the syrup. As an adult I eat it more with either just plain butter or jelly.
Side note: in the US, jelly is not gelatin. I know in some countries they call gelatin jelly. In America jelly is just like jam or preserves except it’s made with only the juice of the fruit so it’s clear and doesn’t contain the fruit pulp. It serves the same purpose as jam or preserves.
Dipping them in syrup sounds good.
I live in Pennsylvania and have always heard of biscuits & gravy but just had it for the first time recently. I loved it.
So the gravy at Cracker Barrel is sawmill gravy which is made from bacon fat. I much prefer sausage gravy, esp with my biscuits. Glad you enjoyed it
While I love Cracker Barrel, the price is great for the food you get, but you've definitely gotta try some good homemade biscuits and gravy.
Looks like im gonna have to head south and find a good old fashioned mom and pop cafe to try it in.
Marc, if you're ever in the American Midwest, be sure to have a breaded pork tenderloin sandwich. They're a regional specialty. I grew up in the Northeast. I'd never heard of tenderloins until I moved to Iowa in 1990.
Come to Wva and eat at a Tudors Biscuit World..,or as President Obama mistakenly called "Two Doors" while visiting.
I’ll make the trip next time I head to Maryland for a visit.
You ought to try southern style chicken pot pie. I recommend it with biscuits and chicken mixing over rice. Go straight down from the top like lasagna. It has the most wonderful texture with the flaky biscuit and the chicken pot pie part just seeps into the rice (or mashed potatoes). Best on a cold dreary day.
Any place other than Cracker Barrel you would have gotten good biscuits and gravy. You really want biscuits and sausage gravy though.
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Other than they’re both bread products, an American biscuit is not like a scone.
Have you ever tried a British scone?
If I read this one more time, I am from America and I have traveled to London on several occasions. I have eaten many biscuits in a lifetime and I’ve had scones while in England and I’m gonna tell you there is no difference in taste. So all these comments about how different they are I know first hand are bullshit