American's Honest Thoughts - BRITISH FOOD (PIE!!!)
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- Опубликовано: 8 фев 2025
- Hope you enjoy today's video - we'll get to answering your comments after watching Scotland play Ireland in the Six Nations!
Here, we've gathered a handful of baked goods from our local butcher and Greggs, a British bakery chain that sells food-on-the-go. Zach, a Scotsman, is introducing his American wife, Annie, to some classics both savoury and sweet. Join us as we give you our honest opinions! Also, for those of you who hate food chewing noises, we've listened ;) We did our best to mask our disgusting eating habits with music. Enjoy and let us know what we should try next!
Chapters/Timestamps:
3:05 Greggs Sausage Roll
6:20 Greggs Steak Bake
8:11 Butcher's Sausage Roll
11:32 Steak Pie
13:34 Scotch Pie
15:59 Corned Beef and Potato
18:30 Haggis, Neeps, and Tatties Pie
21:54 Vanilla Slice
24:24 Coconut Iced Bun
27:52 YumYum
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I love the serious chewing, the wandering eyes and the nodding heads of you connoisseurs as you savour the savouries! 😀
Pie tasting is a serious business! 🤣
Missed you guys! Great to see you back. You cant beat a Greggs sausage roll and a yum yum is just yummy xx
Always look forward to Sundays when your videos come out. I missed you guys the last few weeks.
It was a bit strange not putting out a video, but we had a great time with the family as well as knocking out some work commitments! Thanks for sticking with us! 😁
I haven't eaten any form of meat (or pastry, for that matter) in years, so couldn't possibly comment, but it was a delight to watch this video with its charm and humour, as it always is watching your channel. Robert, uk.
20:00 they sell haggis at the chip shops where i live, looks like a kind of battered sausage. So lovely with chips and lashings of tomato ketchup.. nom nom
Low key shocked that a macaroni pie and empire biscuit didn’t make it into this! 😂💜
As an englishman now long settled in Edinburgh I thoroughly agree regarding the terrifyingly calorific macaroni pie. Baz, also of this channel, agrees regarding the Empire Biscuit.
Or a chicken Kebab pie
@@jillwallace1319 Wait. Wait. What's a macaroni pie‽ That sounds amazing! *rushes off to search 🏃🏾♂️
@@RollerbazAndCoasterDad Re. "Empire Biscuit" - Coincidentally, the Scottish Government has recently passed legislation banning the use of the term "Empire" for the famous iced biscuit, because of the potential offence to people with ancestral connections in present & former British colonies. The new name of the sadly maligned biscuit, which iced topping is "crowned" with a jelly sweet "jewel" in the centre, was chosen to reflect its original Scots heritage as a "Scotch Nipple Biscuit" that careful research has determined as offending nobody. Ho-hum.
An excellent plan to cover the mastication with music - very impressive indeed 😄😄😄
Thank you very much! 🤣
Entertaing again folks !!! Keep it up !!!
Thanks! Will do!
I thought we lost you to the storm, welcome back
Yummmmy! It’s Super Bowl Day here in Philly! I’m heading out for some sausage and Pepperidge Farms pastry… Of course there’s Heinz 57 here. But I’m tasting BBq sauce. 😊 Thanks for the inspiration🍻!🎉
Welcome back. I hope you enjoyed the love of your family. Now enjoy the love of us, your followers.
my mother and her family were from Aberdeen Scotland...We grew up with delicious sausage rolls, meat pies and H&P sauce. ( We also attended the scottish games and were able to get these foods as well as some awesome fish and chips ). The one item my mother always had was "oat cakes" which sound delicious but taste like bland cardboard to me...ha ha ha...I'm not sure what she ate on them. My grandfather ( whose accent was so thick...mom used to say just smile and nod your head when he talks to you ) would bring us ( we are USA ) a lot of the UK/Scottish pies and sauces, candies etc from Montreal Canada where they had immigrated to. Great Video
So good to see an American vs UK channel eat a REAL sausage roll and not just the Greggs stuff
Yes, we love our local butcher!
Agreed! Gregg's is great if you want something quick on the go, but almost anywhere else that sells savoury baked goods will beat it on quality.
I worked above a Greggs for 3 years. The smell drove you mental. By the time I left I had put on 3 stone... My partner was happy when I left! 😁 One love from Glasgow. (Oh, I'm team Annie on the pies!)
That would be a tough one to resist on the daily! 🤣
Greggs cheese and onion slice is a goer!! I could have eaten all of the pies in your video sadly 😂😂- best pork pie I ever had was from the bakewell pie shop in Bakewell, beautiful place also, it’s great having a fresh pair of eyes on our eating habits, I’ve always assumed America and England would be the same cuisine wise given heritage etc so it’s really interesting learning our differences/ preferences- Annie reminds me so much of my daughter with her enthusiasms and bubbliness - keep em coming, always a joy 🎉🎉🎉💫💫💫🌟🌟🌟💕💕💕
Go team brown sauce,you ketchup fans.Your taste buds will grow up one day 😉😎
We have hp sauce in canada for as long as I remember so back to the 50's. Love sausage rolls as well which are back to my childhood.
@@brendabardell-resch6869 sausage roll AND brown sauce. Now you're talking 😋
@@brendabardell-resch6869 I believe that if you check the ingredients list, the HP sauce we get in Canada, that is produced here, has a different recipe from that coming from the UK. So there is a slight flavour difference. If I can get it I usually buy the imported one. That being said I am not averse to the Canadian product either
I'm 50 and I have hated broon sauce since I was a wee lad! Mon the Tom sauce! 😃
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Fife & Angus also provides the legendary bridie - definitely worth trying!
Love iced buns but never had one with coconut…one to try 👍🏻
Great video. Something that makes all these pies even better, is warming them and eating them outside on a cold day. Munching a hot pie while watching a Rugby game, awesome.
I couldn't agree more!
It’s nice to see you back l like Greegs sausage roll but I’m team Annie with brown sauce ❤
Great to be back! 🤣
I'm a Canadian donut lover. When travelling I want to try the local foods and the local donuts. The creme brulee at Tantrum Donuts in Glasgow is my favorite anywhere!
Now lived more than half my life in England and abroad but grew up in Scotland, still miss the bakeries and fresh butcher pies (especially the large family size for a Sunday meal). If you're ever in Dundee or Saint Andrews look out for Fisher and Donaldson's bakers and some have shut in cafes....
I am gaining weight just by watching this! Everything looks very tasty, although I need my veggies.... Once again, great video!
Sorry! 🤣
Crap I'm now starving and all the shops are shut 😂 BTW Brown sauce on everything for me ;)
So hysterical 🤣. The music every time you take a bite 🤣. But yes, take me back to Scotland for the pies, the vanilla slices and iced buns !! I'm living in Portugal and they have no idea how much filling to put in a pie 🙄
Greg’s pies were flaky pastry and you local butcher would have used shortcrust pastry - I think that might be why the pastry tasted different.
Scotch pie and baked beans. Put the beans on top and let the sauce run into the pie.
You're right, pie and beans is a great combo, I should have thought to mention that!
Add mashed tatties on top too for a bean & tattie pie!
I love watching these videos! I have to say I started giggling when you did actually play music over the chewing!!😂😂😂😂
Hahahha I laughed at that as well during the editing!
Welcome back to you both.
What the hell! pies go down well with a slurp of tea. I did not think I was going to enjoy this video but it was great.😀
Glad you enjoyed it 🤣
Good to see you two! There are some VERY good butchers to try locally. If you ever find yourselves passing Tranent, the butchers on the highstreet is incredible. North Berwick and Port Seton are also worth a shout.
Also, get yourselves a bottle of chippy sauce (we grab ours out of iceland). Then, have 3 options to cause upset. 😂
I do have to say, put whatever sauce you want on whatever you want to! But Zach, every time I saw that knife cut on the plate, it gave me the fear 😂
Yes, we are spoiled for choice with good butchers locally, not to mention some award winning ones too! HP sauce vs chippy brown sauce would be an interesting taste test for Annie!
@SimpleScottishLiving it was a win for my other half Chris! He didn't move that far, but even the amount we have that England doesn't. He found a love for square sausage and chippy sauce. 😂 He also has been told after watching this he isn't spending his lunch breaks from the phone shop in Greggs on the highstreet. It would cost us a small fortune.
Need a part 2 episode with: the macaroni pie, the bridie, the chicken curry pie, the doner and chilli pie, the pineapple tart, etc.
All good suggestions! We definitely couldn't have tried any more that day! 🤣
Your children would love scotch pies with baked beans for weekend lunch or after school meal
Yes, not sure how I forgot to mention pie and beans as a winning combo!
Try a Tunnocks pie if you get the chance with beans and brown sauce.. 😋
Been to Scotland twice and I devour the steak pies at almost every meal when I’m there! Delicious!
Yes, it's almost hard to find a bad steak pie here!
Never seen coconut on an iced bun before nor filled with cream, usually just a plain fluffy bun covered with icing.
No, it was a new one to me, I also don't like coconut.
Great to see you back Zach and Annie! The last couple of Sunday's weren't the same without you. Well done to Annie for having the haggis. You can get haggis all year round, Zach, and they do a vegetarian version - I have no-idea what they taste like.
Thanks so much!! Yes, Haggis you can get year round, it was the butchers haggis neeps and tatties pie I was wondering if it was just for Burn's night. Also, the vegetarian Haggis isn't half bad!
Love a scotch pie with beans. In the fort or out.
Fantastic video as always 😊 My wife and I love watching these in anticipation of our upcoming Scotland trip. Not sure if we missed it, but could you tell us the price comparison between Greggs and your local butcher's? Thanks in advance!
Thank you and have a wonderful time on your trip. Yes, we forgot to add in the prices. The Greggs sausage roll is £1.30, the steak bake was £2.10 and all five pies from the butcher were £8.20, so around £1.65 per pie.
My favourite growing up in Scotland was the classic strawberry tart,❤
Definitely right. The Scotch Pie is a good middle ground between a Sausage Roll and a Steak Pie. Still laughing about being buried covered with Steak Bakes. 🤟🤣🤟🤣🤟
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Greggs sausage rolls are good, mainly because they’re cheap and reliable. But I think most other local bakers doing a sausage roll will be better.
Yes, you always know what you are going to get. We forgot to put up the prices but the butcher sausage roll was only 30p more expensive.
I shouldnae have watched this video. Now I'm hankering for a crispy bacon roll dripping in HP Sauce and a Sausage Roll! Washed doon with a hot chocolate.
I have just spent 6 weeks in New Zealand and in every cafe you go into, as well as cakes and slices they do half a dozen to a dozen different types of pie. (eg egg and bacon, Breakfast pie [sausage egg bacon etc] as well as the usual steak, steak and mushroom, chicken etc.) They also do a very tasty chicken, brie and cranberry sauce toasted panini.
That might be the perfect information I need to convince Annie we need a trip to New Zealand, thanks for the info!
You guys!! Becoming professionals at presentation! Music over the eating segments to cover the full mouth issues! Nice work. Interesting video as always.
Thanks so much!!
Hi Zach & Annie, I don't know whether either of you watch QI, but some years back Stephen Fry asked the question "what was smuggled into the USA for Burns Night", after contributions from Dane Sandi Toksvig Welshman Rob Bryden and Englishman Alan Davies, Scotsman Fred Macaulay chimed in with an hilarious story about the haggis address being translated into German, and then back to English, it's well worth a watch.
Hi Guys great to have you back. Cheese n onion pastie from greggs can’t beat it followed by any cake really lol. Take care
Thank you 😁
Music to chew by… Brilliant! I’ll have to try that at my next family meal. 😂 My grandma served my dad mince pie almost every day when he was growing up. I never had it when I was growing up (wonder why?) Glad you had an enjoyable family Burns meal and are back with us. Missed you!
Hahaha, music over dinner chewing would be hilarious! Yes, we had a great time with the family, thanks!
Long term vegetarian so my favourite pies include roasted vegetables inside and especially cauliflower cheese sauce. I can recommend them!
I don't mind the odd Greggs sausage roll, but I stay well away from the steak bake. The amount of sodium is too much for me. Like most things in life, you just have to be balanced and have Greggs as a treat.
Hope your family enjoyed Scotland .
Hope this didn't ruin your dinner LOL! You would need to offset all these with a nice big salad. Are green salads uncommon there? When I was a kid, West Coast USA, Mince Meat pie was typically served at Thanksgiving and Christmas. No idea what was in it, meat wise, but it was tasty and not very sweet. Enjoy your videos!
Zach can you please teach people outside of Scotland about the classic rumbledethumps. I think it is so versatile. I think you may have talked a little about it in an older video, but it can be served with sausages and beans, leftovers, on a cottage or shepherds pie instead of just mash, on top of a fish pie . Fried like bubble and squeak etc. In England we have sweet brioche type long buns with Chantilly cream and jam in the middle.
HAgis---my husband always added a little Drambuie sprinkled on the haggis. Try it!
Excellent suggestion, will try it!
@@SimpleScottishLiving Don't droxn it though! Slainte!
Cream fudge donut,my favourite 😋
Especially the Fisher & Donaldson ones, those are amazingly good.
I agree with Annie re the coconut iced bun. I would rather have a Chocolate Eclair.🤤🤤
Macaroni cheese in a pie my favourite. Good, interesting video x
The dough in the coconut roll/bun would have been an enriched dough so it will contain extra ingredients like eggs, milk, butter, or sugar. The dough is used all sorts of sweet pastries that on first sight look like regular plain bread but are much nicer.
Ahh, thank you! That makes sense 😁
Aberfoyle butcher does a sausage roll that size and the sausage to pastry ratio wasn’t as good as a Greggs, sometimes bigger isn’t better 🙈
Damn!!! I am envious. Sadly there is no local traditional butchers in my area anymore. The wares from the butchers looked fantastic. I love Yum-Yums which I can only find in my Co-op, again sadly my local bakery is no longer around.
Top tip. Stoke's brown sauce has appeared since Zach left the island. It costs a bit more but it is greater than HP by the same amount those brands are better than cheap non brands.
In Michigan we do Cornish pastries because we had Cornish miners who moved to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan!❤
Ah, very interesting, thank you!
Love the fact that Iceland / Food Warehouse does frozen sausage rolls stake bakes from Greggs so I can stockup
ooooh great tip, thank you!
My go to is a Corned Beef Pasty - not a pie as you said.
Macaroni cheese pie is more typical in Scotland compared to the corned beef one.
All look yummy!
Yes, they were all winners in our eyes!
Down here in England, we would have included a Melton Mowbray pork pie, a Balti pie and a Cornish pasty. Maybe next time.
Annie is delighted there are so many more pies to try!
Consider Greggs as a kind of McDonalds of bakeries. Local independent bakeries will always be different, sometimes better, sometimes worse. Find a good one and Greggs will usually come off second best.
Seriously - no Forfar Bridie?
Coconut iced bun should be a sweet bread - if not, you've been had!
You are in the Edinburgh area - get to a chippy and buy Annie a Pie Supper with salt and Brown Sauce - or fish, a battered sausage, smoked sausage or any of whatever is on offer. A very different flavour to HP sauce, and generally not available in the west of Scotland. Try asking for brown sauce in a Glasgow chippy and you'll get "You fae Embra?"
Love your taste test I attach another you tuber channel what's for Tea she does grocery hauling week if their dinner meat pies , and fish pie's
wheres this butcher about id travel from Edinburgh for his pies they look quality
Has Annie seen a Haggis in the wild yet ?
I saw one once on a motorcycle trip
I keep sending her out with Finnegan to try and catch one, but she says she can't find any 🤷♂️
Scotland has gotta be a contender for savoury pie capital of the world.
I'd you ever get the chance try a Forfar " bridie " I think you'll like them... mean while enjoy 🥙
I'm intrigued, we'll add it to the list, thanks!
Zach's accent has changed so much since you started this channel.
Good to hear! Thanks 😁
Roll and bacon = brown
Roll and sausage = brown
Roll and black pudding = tomato sauce
Roll and potato scone = tomato sauce
Sausage roll = tomato sauce
Scotch pie = Reggie Reggie sauce 👍🏻🤣 hope that clears everything up on the sauce debate 🙈🤣
I'm not a big fan of doughnuts, but, in West Yorkshire, there is a bakery called Couplands who do a Yum-Yum that is similar to the SPANISH Churros and it is lovely with hot chocolate - I prefer savoury, but Coupland's Yum-Yums are VERY good.
Well Done!! All those pies , pastries ,Yum Yums , Irn Bru and not a Burp between you.
All in Annie's editing! 🤣
I’m having rump steak with onions & mushrooms, mashed potatoes,cauliflower & Yorkshire puddings with gravy….but now I’m longing for a PIE 🥴😋😂
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@ Just had my Sunday lunch, laying on the recliner declining sponge & custard as totally full. PS…no longer thinking of PIES? 😜🥴😵💫😂🤪😆🤣👍🏴
6:30 I find Greggs steak bakes aren't as good as they used to be. The quality of steak in them has nosedived. These days, getting one that isn't full of fat/gristle is a lottery.
Missed you❤
Homemade pastry is so much nicer.
We have plain iced buns in the south, no filling or coconut.
Give me an egg custard tart any day.
Love a pork pie from the butchers, a Cornish pasty and a chicken and ham pie alongside all the others 😅
Annie is delighted there are still so many pies to sample!
You NEED to try a macaroni pie next
Yes indeed!
Scotch egg born in London I think 🤔
Hope Finnegan got the left-over pies!
He certainly tried!
The sauce wars are technically called team red vs team brown ;)
Hey guys! 🙋🏽♂️
Hi! Good to be back!
No Killie pie 😮 you gotta taste them king of pies
Added to the list for the next time, thanks!
@ you can get them in Aldi 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🏴🏴🏴
Zack , Girth of the sausage 😂😂that's a line you don't hear every day . Miss my pies and sausage rolls . The pastries are puff pastry , rough puff pastries, or hot water pastry for the scotch pie .
Haggis v hotdog 🌭 the difference is, we know what's in a haggis . You would never eat another hotdog if you knew what the ingredient are.
Custard/vanilla slice origin France filling sauce anglaise also know as creme patissier (Custard) puff pastry "mille-feuille" translates to "thousand leaves,"
Going for a lie down after texting all that useless fact .
Scotland does have a high of heart problem, our
Scottish national motto is . "If in doubt , FRY IT !"😂
Hope we have a good day at murrayfield .
Really enjoyed the video 👍
Scotch pie made with any meat except mutton or haggis made with pig meat, both fake, avoid.
hahahaha, yeah I think I almost turned this video into an OnlyFans video with that comment! 🤣 Sadly we are not going to talk about today at Murrayfield...😪
Agree , we got our backside handed to us by the Irish , ah well there is always next year 🙂
Scotch Pie is great wit mint sauce.
Should try a "London Cheese Cake". Square flaky pastry topped with icing sugar and coconut. Absolutely no cheese included.
Great idea, never heard of that one!
I love a Greggs sausage roll on the rare occasion they are freshly baked, but because tehe odds of this are low i haven't bothered in years, since Bakers oven branches shut down
You know that Iceland sell Greggs items to bake at home?
@gillianmeehan3206 yes they never quite the same home baked, at least for me, but thanks
Did you know the first greggs shop was in newcastle upon tyne now nationwide
I had no idea!
Jeopardy 😂
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The best pie? American Pie (topped with lyrics...) = ruclips.net/video/PRpiBpDy7MQ/видео.html
You have to try a beef and stilton brampton pie.from huntingdon.
Added to the list, thanks!
I have had a bottle of Aldi Chapter And Verse Shiraz, so please excuse my comments.
Vanilla Slice is THE best dessert!!!
You made me hungry today for proper meat pies, that are not available here in Canada.
Hahaha yes, we were licking our lips when we were editing this one!
I think I gained half a stone just watching. 😉
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There's only 3/4 Gregg's in the entire county I live in, HP fruity is the king of sauce.
I had no idea that America only does sweet or dessert pies. How odd that they've never had a culture of savoury ones.
Yes, it's a strange one, I would have thought savoury pies, especially portable ones like the steak bake would have been very popular over there!
I also relocated from North America as a mum in a family with three young children. Initially, there were times when we felt had made a mistake and that we would have gone back if offered decent jobs. We never looked! However, we stayed and have never regretted our decision. Family life and good education and healthcare have been excellent. We now have an advocate, an architect and a manager in one of Scotland ‘s biggest hospitals. Scotland really is great and will be even greater once independent.
I'm here for the disgusting chewing ! Bring it on !!
So sorry, I 'think' we managed to cover most of it!
Brown sauce 100%