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As a general rule, traditional British food is considered by Americans as pretty disgusting. I'm not talking about foods that Brits have "absorbed" into their own cuisine, like curries...those we would find delicious. I'm talking about things like kippers, lamb with mint jelly, haggis, cockles, mince meat pies, etc. Those are just gross and would never pass most of our lips. But beans is something that Americans in some parts of the country would easily eat for breakfast. For instance, in California and the Southwest, we have a lot of Mexican influence in our cuisine and there is a dish called Huevos Rancheros that we eat for breakfast. (This is probably inspired by Tex Mex more than traditional Mexican cuisine). That is a crispy tortilla covered in refried beans, salsa and eggs. Delicious.
Mince meat pies are very popular in the northeastern older states like Massachusetts. When British people say "beans" they're not talking about the kind of beans Americans would eat unless they are the beans in "Pork n Beans" without the pork.
Agree, except for the Lamb and mint jelly - delicious! And, yes, here in Rhode Island, mince meat pie is found everywhere and is pretty good. Not something I would order unless I was in the mood, tho.
I don’t think this is what “Brits wouldn’t eat”, as much as it is what “Joel and Lia” wouldn’t eat…. Whether British, American, German or Irish, we all have different taste buds.
I wonder if they've given these foods real choices before they judge them so harshly. I lived in England for a year and believe me they eat some DISGUSTING things!!!
@@kelliehatch3615 They're being highly critical of some very simple foods they've never even bothered to taste. Brits eat some disgusting stuff themselves that many others wouldn't touch with a pole.
Grits are ground corn. Where did you get shells? It’s absolutely horrible at Cracker Barrel! You need fresh homemade grits with butter, salt, pepper and crushed bacon… I promise it’s good.
I did not start eating grits until I was a lot older because I developed a gluten allergy and couldn't eat cream of wheat anymore! Somehow I can withstand grits. I love it, but I cook it with milk and salt and add cheese (know that's controversial) not Chez, and even my 12-year-old daughter likes it. ☺️ I'm going to try your bacon and pepper mix, sounds awesome!
@@yelyak oh they are SO GOOD. I don’t think brits quite understand how valuable corn really is to our diet and economy. I know plenty of people who used it for everything from Moonshine (my hometown is Dawsonville, GA hometown of the moonshine festival and where nascar started Go Chase!) to produce to husks for warmth to feed for animals. This country wouldn’t be where it is without using everything we could. Sometimes grits was all we had.
I love how two people come from a nation with a dish called Spotted Dick go crazy because Americans have grits, buttered popcorn, and butter on pancakes. I would recommend that these two check out videos from their countrymen in America. They will see how great American food really is. By the way, Cheez Whiz is not a food, but a topping for chips or for certain sandwiches.
Joel likes real cheese. Who doesn't prefer it, but it's sold at steak prices. I'm not putting $10+ / pound cheese in an omelet or grilled cheese sandwich. That's what Velveeta is for.
@@elultimo102 Recall when Joel and Lia had a sliver of cheese cake ($75 per slice) at a posh London restaurant, and then railed about how inferior a Walmart pecan tart was ($0.50) compared to it. Hysterical.
Actually, it is the level of grinding. Grit is a course grind. Gits (plural) is a type of porridge. "Oatmeal porridge" is a porridge made from "meal", another level of grinding. My ex went to Britain, and called porridge "sand". I had to make him my own and show him he just got some bad oatmeal porridge. Italians call grits "polenta", and it does depend on how they are cooked how they taste and what the texture is. The French also cook it "semoule de maïs" Joel and Lia I challenge you to taste my grits.
@@juliegreen6727 “Grits is a porridge made from boiled cornmeal. Hominy grits is a type of grits made from hominy - corn that has been treated with an alkali in a process called nixtamalization, with the pericarp removed. Grits is often served with other flavorings as a breakfast dish”.Wikipedia
I mean you guys eat mushy peas which has almost made me gag a few time--it's just hideous. But, If you've had Creme of Wheat it's very close of grits in consistency. I too hated grits until I had some in New Orleans it was delicious. Its eaten sweet or savory so, you might like it if you eat if from the right person.
Exactly my point. Every person I know makes grits differently. Some are like concrete some are like water ya just never know and NO chain like Cracker Barrel or Waffle House bothers with seasoning.
I'm English and I agree that mushy peas are horrible. Everyone I know thinks I'm weird for not liking them. I like normal peas but not mushy peas. I have no idea what grits are to be honest, maybe I should try them when I next visit America.
Grits are just a type of porridge made of ground hominy corn, instead of the steel cut oats used in the UK and Ireland. You can prepare it for breakfast, and/or for other meals with seasonings. No idea why a Brit would find it offensive. I don't think corn (maize) is used much in the UK, while it's huge in the US. Yes, polenta is very similar.
Right! I seem to remember Joel devouring a jumbo hot dog bukkaked in processed cheese sauce and bacon at an American style diner in the UK several years back. NEVER EVER!
On chocolate. I do seem to remember them loving on Reese's and even proclaiming Almond Joy bars (Both Hershey products) are better than Bounty Bars. There's also others I'm not going to track down just for sake of argument.
I don’t think anyone likes almond joy in the United States, but yeah everyone loves reeces peanut butter cups, and I have had plenty of bounty bars, and to me the peanut butter cups are better 🤷
Grits is southern. I live in the Northeast and never had grits until I went to the south. But polenta is the same and that’s from Italy. Make fun of Italian food then?
Really, American food, not that we don't have trash but lets start with Spotted Dick, Fish Pie, Pork Pies, the scary full on Breakfast, Hagis, Blood Sausage , I am sure we could go on for sometime with this.
I don’t disagree with your assessment of Hershey’s chocolate. But that’s judging American chocolate by the lowest common denominator. There are many great chocolatiers in the US. See’s is definitely one of the better mass produced choc, but almost every where you can get locally made chocolate that is magnitudes better than cheap candy bars. As for the rest, I guarantee there are a lot of Americans who don’t like these things anymore than you do.
Yeah it's the same way they think Kraft Singles are the only cheese we eat or make ignoring some great cheese like Vermont cheddar or CA's Humboldt Fog (they like Stilton, it's in the same vein). Or cheese out of a can or whatever. Ghirardelli is good mass produced American chocolate, for example.
Yes, there are some good chocolate things in the US. A lot of regional candies too. I am fond of the Russell Stover dark chocolate things that are fairly easy to find. I go around to the stores to get the Russell Stover Easter eggs put on discount the day after.
@@GarrettMerkin Agreed. Also, I wonder why European youtubers always complain about 'American' cheese yet at various cheese contests Wisconsin cheese always win big. Skilled experts from all around the world at the premiere cheese judging event in the world, the World Championship Cheese Contest, continue to heap numerous awards and honors on this 'American' cheese. In 2018, Wisconsin won almost 41% of the prizes awarded, more than any other state or country. So, if anything, it can be argued America has the best cheese in the world!
OMG! Cinnamon toast!That was a treat as a child! Toast the bread in the oven until sugar melts & bubbles with the butter & cinnamon! Brings back memories!
You have to try Tillamook cheese- it's made in Oregon, and we love it. Their ice cream is the best, too! Also, we do NOT put gravy on sweet potatoes LOL
It's still in stores. Usually kept in the refrigerated cheese section. It's good in casseroles...like broccoli and rice. Melts very nicely. Velveta is only good melted.
@@wingwalker7212 cheese whiz: Ingredients: modified milk ingredients, water, cheese (milk, modified milk ingredients, salt, bacterial culture, microbial enzyme, calcium chloride, lipase), corn maltodextrin, sodium phosphates, colour, salt, sodium alginate, modified corn starch, lactic acid, ground mustard, seasoning (contains celery), sorbic acid. Great for any application where you need a melted cheese product - include in mac & cheese, on a cheesesteak, with nachos, etc. Of course, ideally you also add in other cheeses for taste.
This is exactly what I said in my comment to.. anytime I’ve ever heard any foreigner talk about American food for some reason cheese whiz comes up every single time.. i’ve never even had cheese whiz and I’m almost 33 years old.. I guarantee you 95% of the people in the United States haven’t even had it but all these foreigners seem to think that’s all we eat for some reason. They can have someone tell them it isn’t true but they will still continue making videos about it? Durrrr
Most of the chocolates you showed were all by one company, Hersheys. There are so many chocolate makers in the U.S., quality chocolate is every where and I guarantee you it doesn't taste bad.
Maybe it's age, but I agree with those saying Hershey's tastes like wax. Sees is the best, but rare outside of CA---I usually used it for gifts, since it's expensive, so I buy the cheap stuff from the drug store to actually eat.
nobody should be eating neither US chocolate nor British chocolate. They're both awful. Having said that, it's Pretty rich to see Brits turning down their nose when their own cuisine (if I can call it that) is horrendous
British foods that immediately crop up on my "no, thank you" list: Marmite Steak and Kidney Pie "Sweetbreads" I contemplate the vast majority of British Suet "Puddings" with reservations... I would try them, but while Figgy Pudding sounds innocuous enough, one has to know your audience before waxing eloquent about a "Spotted Dick" or a "Boiled Baby". Some of the more nauseating reading I have ever done was to read about the food fantasies that some of Shackleton's men shared during their Antarctic expeditions... mmm... succulent dreams of gorging on guts and lard.... ;-)
Velveeta is a processed cheese product but it tastes NOTHING like "American" cheese. It has a very mild flavor. Grits is basically breakfast polenta which is a very European food. Think of sweet potato casserole the same way you would pie. Berries/apples etc are sweet foods but when you make a fruit pie you don't just dump the fruit in and bake. You add things like sugar, butter and spices. Adding marshmallows to sweet potatoes is the same idea. I've watched Kettle Korn (sweet & salty popcorn) being made and they just cook in in butter and sugar instead of adding the butter after Beans on toast sounds good to me.
Re: British foods I would never eat. Is it really true that at seaside resorts in the UK there are vendors that serve (urp) jellied eels? I can't think of anything more gross. It's like they sat around and said, "Right, what's the most revolting sounding thing we could sell?".
Actually, I'm 67 and lived all over the UK all my life and never once seen jellied eels for sale, never mind tried them. I've never seen them at the seaside - I think they are an old Eastend ( poor part of London) thing from Victorian times. There are some pretty gross things from the USA as well - prairie oysters (testicles) and 'scrapple' - all the horrible bits of a pig ground up, recipes using squirrel and possum - but do you know something? We don't immediately think everyone in the USA eats them - These 'British food' RUclips videos always focus mainly on the same dozen or so weird regional/funny sounding dishes as if that is all we eat in the UK. Also, can you name me any original American dishes that aren't bastardised versions of dishes from other countries?
Oh my. A full english… blood sausage, beans on toast, steak and kidney pie, bacon sandwich wine gums, lucozade, pork pies, mushy peas, jellied eels the list is endless
I'm from America and I just want to say something about our food. Remember that for the most part our food is from all over the world. Just like we are a melting pot of people we are a melting pot of food. We have things that have been handed down form our families for a long time. I make my grandma's swedish pancakes and swedish meatballs and my husband is Mexican so we have a lot of Mexican food. We actually mix the it together on holidays! Our stars are the size of European countries so we have such a vast difference between states too. Plus we like to make everything fast and easy 😂 And our government doesn't ban all the horrible chemicals so they are in our food. That's actually sad.
@@hillfamily3198 That's because it's cheaper and a large percentage of Americans will never be able to afford healthy food in general, let alone anything organic. America, remember, is all about money, unfortunately. It's common for people's lives to be "eat or pay rent", "eat or take medication", pay rent or take medication" etc. America is never likely to change short of half the population dying at once somehow.
Funny that you don't remember a sample at See's candies - that's like one of their signature things - a sample when you first arrive in the shop. American milk chocolate is very light. That's why some of us only eat dark chocolate - and See's has many choices with dark chocolate.
A fair amount of Joel’s reaction seems to be either one instance of bad food, like grits at Cracker Barrel, or the name.He would probably eat polenta. Velveeta is mostly intended for grilled cheese sandwiches, or some other application where melted. It is cheap and bland.
Rather salty on its own. Mix with Rotella (NOT Rotella the diesel oil) for nacho dip with tortilla chips or on scrambled eggs, mix with sausage (browned) and Rotella for a hearty dip.
I like baked sweet & regular potatoes, always with butter. I oil the outsides before baking, and normally eat the entire thing---The skin has all the nutrients.
Nobody just eats Cheese Wiz... usually a warmed base for dips or an ingredient in something else. Grits are great, and I'm not southern, either. Grits have to be made correctly (butter, salt & pepper... cheese optional... and absolutely no instant grits... they SUCK. Really, grits are essentially the same thing as polenta, which I'd bet you probably like... it's all in the preparation/serving. I actually prefer Hershey's chocolate over any Euro brands I've tried... and I don't care for Ghirardelli chocolate either, which is supposedly the American "gold standard" for chocolate. I find popcorn to be nearly inedible without butter, lol. Velveeta is OK for grilled cheese sandwiches or as part of the cheese blend for mac & cheese. I would never eat a slice... awful consistency. I fully agree about the marshmallows on sweet potatoes but, then again, I don't care for marshmallows at all.
I'm from Pennsylvania. The only way I have eaten grits is sliced and fried with syrup. I do not eat Cheez Whiz or Velveeta. I never eat buttered on popcorn. Other than peanut butter cups, I don't eat Hersey's chocolate. As far as peanut butter cups go, I prefer Boyer's, or better yet, the small peanut butter cups from Aldi. If I am going to eat American chocolate, I prefer Ghiradelli, but I generally buy German dark chocolate from Aldi.
"I tried cheese grits at Cracker Barrel" lol please don't judge American food based on Cracker Barrel. It's terrible. Their cornbread has so much sugar and flour in it that it's basically cake.
Most of this is a commentary on mass production and what gets exported feeding into perception.... grading on Cheez Whiz, Velveeta, and Hershey's would be like grading our fashion on the clothing aisle of Wal-Mart or our beer on Bud-Light. It's stuff made by cutting corners (replacing actual ingredients with cheap palm oil) to bring the cost down. There is a lot of very good cheese, chocolate, beer, etc. made here, but they're not often exported or mass produced - or inexpensive.
Grits is ground up hominy ( hominy is a corn derivative ) and is a largely a breakfast item though commercially made and sold all over the country, they are most associated with southern cuisine. Grits is one of those foods a person typically eats because they've grown up eating it. Shrimp and grits sis very popular , grits served in restaurants can be hit or miss given the quantities they're often are made in and the best grits are those home made. Personally I've only eaten grits a handful of times, irregularly at that , in my life . I grew up eating mostly oatmeal and Cream of Wheat 🌾, which is similar to Grits but is smoother in consistency and made of , well you know.. Besides nachos, cheez whiz is also put on Philly cheese steak sandwiches. We have kettle corn which is sweet and salty. Velveeta is not American cheese not like Kraft American cheese slices. Velveeta is a main ingredient in queso ( cheese in Spanish) dip. People do use Velveeta for making Mac and cheese , You guys must've not gone to a See's Candy because every See's store will give a sample if asked and the first sample is always free. I always get a sample of See's Candy when I'm in my local shopping mall. I grew up on See's Candy, I'm old enough to remember when a one pound box of assorted candy was $11.50 and now a 1lb box is $22. Another good and well respected chocolate brand is Ghiardellli Chocolate , though there are stores all over the country, the flagship store is in Ghiardellli Square in San Francisco, See's started in San Francisco too about a couple of decades after Ghiardellli which as founded by an Italian immigrant on the 1860s I believe, See's was founded in the early 20th century around the 19 teens / early 20s. Never trust a chocolate store that doesn't give free samples, jk 😀 Sweet potato marshmallow casserole is a side eaten on Thanksgiving. In the US, Sweet potatoes and yams , the terms are used interchangeably usually. Candied yams are sweet potatoes that cut into 1/2 in pieces and can be made from fresh sweet potatoes or from canned ( tinned) Sweet potatoes that are glazed and are also a side dish for Thanksgiving but can be eaten all year long. Most people use canned candied yams for Thanksgiving. While some people may pour gravy over candied yams and sweet potato casserole, most don't , both are typically eaten on the plate with other sides like dressing/ stuffing ( the difference being is stuffing is put into the cavity of the the turkey 🦃 while dressing is stuffing that's made separately from the turkey and is served as a side. Basically stuffing and dressing is the same thing and the main ingredient in making dressing/ stuffing is cornbread although there are off shoots of traditional cornbread dressing like seafood dressing , apple and walnut or apple and pecan stuffing/ dressing etc. Dressing can be homemade or store bought , a popular brand is Mrs. Cuberston's another one is Stove top which comes in different flavors ( flavors come in the form of the type of broth,: chicken, beef or vegetable and I believe even turkey that may have been used in the commercially making of it).
Cheese in the US... I am going to have to say, the state that truly takes their dairy products very seriously is Wisconsin. They will boast that they are the only State in the US that actually makes Limburger Cheese - so you know those folks are not fooling around.
@@craigster1244 Oh, I am totally aware... but being a native Californian, and having spent 20 years living in Wisconsin... I can assure you... that it is not the same thing at all. Remember that when the size of each states dairy herds were approximately equal, there we 10 times as many dairy farmers - so we are literally talking the difference between 100 herds of 1000 cows and 1000 herds of 100 cows.
You wouldn’t try buttered popcorn-ever. But you tried a boxed manufactured apple pie from Walmart….that one really triggered me. In order to really enjoy buttered popcorn, you have to be in a movie theatre watching a good movie.
They always do this. They hear about something we love, then go find the worst version of it and conclude what horrible food we have. And they're total snobs about it. Then they have the audacity to judge things with a sneer, that they refuse to even try. They've been to three authentic southern pit barbecue places and always order chicken or turkey and sausage, then say they don't understand what the hype is all about. They went to A & W and ordered the DIET root beer!!!!
Beans for breakfast gets an honorable mention - but beans for breakfast, for some folks, is camping food... and then of course, if you are eating "Huevos Rancheros", or "Huevos con Chorizo"... Refritos Frijoles definitely comes with. Personally, I know that I have truly started my day with a plate of the latter!
LMAO I work at Cracker Barrel and the cheese grits do leave much to be desired. They are good with brown sugar and maple syrup though! Also I live about 30 minutes from Hershey, PA where they make the chocolate. The town smells wonderful haha. I love it.
I know that Brits would never eat _Wintergreen_ breath mints because I gave some to friends over there once, and everyone said YUK! and spit them out because you use that odor for some medicinal creams. And that's a shame because it really tastes great.
Wow! Wintergreen is my favorite mint flavor, good to know some people find it disgusting. Do you know about breaking Wintergreen Lifesavers in the dark? They emit plasma light.
@@JDoors Your comment brought back a fond memory. When I was chaperoning a camping trip with the Science Club from the high school where I taught (I'm retired now), we went on a night hike. At one point we stopped and gave the students each a wintergreen lifesaver and had them all bite down on them at the same time. It was awesome! The kids loved it and so did I. I was the French teacher at the HS, so this was a new experience for me too. Thanks for helping me remember that!
American/British chocolate difference is holdover from WWII. American soldiers were given Hershey’s chocolate bars which contained high milk content and was preserved for long ship transport and storage. This gave the chocolate a “vomit y” flavor which the soldiers and other Americans grew to love. After war the chocolate producers went back to previous process but the American tastebuds grew to prefer the modified version. Therefore the flavoring was added back in and remains to this day. You may find some European chocolate brands sold in America also are modified for American tastes. Let us know if you find any. “American”cheese also has a similar history. During war the British people were very hard up for food and America sent a lot. One item was cheese mixed with milk and preserved for trip in cans and given away on streets It became known as “the American cheese “. This caned cheese was produced in great quantity even after the war and given to Britain and sold in US and the name stuck. So your ancestors DID eat velveta cheese until country was rebuilt and start eating proper cheese.
@@jwb52z9 There is no 'American' method for making chocolate. There are countless regional chocolate makers. There are even city local chocolate makers. Hershey's chocolate is the most recognized national brand. Hershey’s chocolate does contain butyric acid, but again, there are thousands of chocolate manufacturers in the USA and most do not use Hershey's secret method of controlled lipolysis, which creates the butyric acid. A quick google search reveals dozens of chocolates without butyric acid such as Starbucks Hot Cocoa Double Chocolate, various Taza Chocolates and various Ghiradelli chocolates.
Beans for breakfast…. Yuck!!! Then they gave us fried toast… which I’ve never had… and for fish and chips mushy peas! When my daughter went to school in the UK she got so many requests to bring some American food back as well as some of her American friends also were asked! I only brought back Costa coffee for myself cause we don’t have it here!
Grits are the same as polenta, except grits are finer ground white corn instead of yellow corn. And the chocolate thing is mostly original Hershey's milk chocolate, due to a milk preservative that adds a tanginess, not American chocolate in general. And I find Joel super weird for not liking butter.
It's not that he doesn't like butter. People outside the US just don't understand eating high fat, high salt, high sugar foods because they didn't have to grow up that way in general. I don't think most non-Americans understand how poor some Americans really are and that there is mostly zero help in any meaningful way like they would have by default in every other first world nation.
Before British ships set sail for the New World in the 17th century, the native peoples in North America were already eating a soft, mashed corn (or maize) - a dish that was introduced to English explorers in 1584. Milled corn grits evolved as early as 8700 B.C.E. The word "grits" is probably derived from "grist," which is the name indigenous people in Virginia gave to a ground corn dish they ate and shared with British colonists. During surveillance of the new lands in present-day Roanoke, North Carolina, Sir Walter Raleigh and his men dined with the local Natives. One of the men, Arthur Barlowe, wrote about the ‘very white, faire, and well tasted’ boiled corn served by their hosts. Less than two decades later, this year-round staple - called ‘rockahomine’ by the Natives, later to be shortened to ‘hominy’ by the colonists - was offered to the new English settlers in Jamestown, Virginia, when they arrived in 1607. The Natives taught the English colonists how to make the dish, and it quickly became a part of the American diet (their survival and not starving being a major theme). The course (not finely) ground corn was a bit "gritty" hence the nickname for the corn meal. The modern variations (cheese grits, shrimp grits,
Although well written, your post is not fully accurate. The term "hominy" is not simply boiled corn, but refers to corn that has been treated with an alkali in a process called nixtamalization. Hominy can be cooked whole or ground to produce grits.
I don’t like popcorn because it gets stuck in my throat but even I can admit the butter used on popcorn smells amazing. Like I love when you go somewhere that has a popcorn maker like a store cafe or the movie theater and its the first thing you smell.
Flavored popcorn (like sweet and salty) is great. But, the type of popcorn you get with the buttered kind isn’t flavored. It’s quite dry and tasteless. The warm butter is a rather nice topping! And, it’s a staple at every movie theater in the US.
Not liking buttered popcorn is un-American! You can use other flavorings too. A sprinkle of nutritional (brewers) yeast gives a cheesy flavor, while adding a lot of nutrition.
Joel & Lia you 2 sure are good at stirring the pot. That's all this food video is about. I bet in (secret) you guys can't wait to get your hands on Cheez Whiz or a Hersey Bar.
100%. Hersheys and Nestlé are the lowest common denominator versions of "chocolate" here and I never put that crap in my mouth. Dove, Ghirardelli, (I'm not high on Godiva) plus lots of other locally/regionally made chocolatiers deliver higher quality stuff.
The problem is brits tend to have an overblown sweet factor in their tongue that amps the sweet taste despite not having much sugar in something. We tend to add sugar to tone the acid down which you seem to dislike. Sweet potatoes are sweet but are kinda basic in PH while Marshmallows are slightly acidic and you need the balance. By themselves Sweet potatoes are great just we have to use them when they cook so they don't spoil. thin about it.
If you go to the movies in America, you either get hot, buttered popcorn, or you don't have any at all. The butter is essential! I don't think we would eat it if it didn't have all that hot, drippy butter. . .And what is zed??? . . .Beans for breakfast has to be one of the most repulsive things an American can imagine. Totally gross!
Watching Joel and Lia is my RUclips equivalent of eating CheezWhiz. It's so much fun but absolutely terrible at the same time. Guilty pleasure for sure.
@@vickytaylor9155 No. More like a buttered rice. I love grits and I'm not from the south. It is known as a popular southern dish. Most grocery stores carry Instant Grits.
British foods the rest of the world would NEVER EVER think of eating...top of the list has to be "blood pudding"...ugh, ugh, UGH!!! Those two words should never go together...
@@aimeeguzman6758 oooo I use it to get my grandkids to eat veggies too 🤣 🤣 I also use it in a ton of game day/parties dishes, dips, drizzled over your not so favorite foods in small amounts to help it eat able!
TRUE…. There’s a saying here in Britain 🇬🇧 “You either love it…. Or you hate it” We live near Burton-on-Trent the brewing centre of England. As you drive past, on the A38, the smell of Marmite is thick in the air…. It’s a by-product of the Brewing Industry. I only eat a thin scraping on buttered toast, but my son-in-law ladles it thickly onto his toast…. He’s VERY BRAVE!!😩😱🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Not sure if cuisine is the right word. It's a strong flavoured spread. Used very sparingly on hot buttered toast It's nice, but, "You either love it or hate it."
@@simonpowell2559 I'm from the US. My family had a woman from Liverpool living with us for a few years when I was growing up. I'll never forget my little brother trying Marmite on toast and immediately crying lol
1. Grits are just the same as porridge or oatmeal, except with corn instead of oats. There are no eggshells in them (where did you even get that?). 2. When Cheez Whiz came out - probably in the 50's or 60's - a common expression, mostly among kids, was "gee whiz", which was pretty much just a polite substitute for 'taking the lord's name in vain '. I can assure you, at the time it came out, everybody knew what it meant. It may be more heavily processed than lots of people would prefer (understandably), but it does contain real cheese. 3. As far as the color of cheese goes, there is no naturally orange cheese. The only difference between cheddar and white cheddar is food coloring. Think about it: Have you seen any naturally occurring orange milk? 4. I'm not a big fan myself, but sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top are pretty much just a Thanksgiving thing, or maybe Xmas for those who do the turkey dinner for that. It's a side dish, not a dessert. Some people may put butter on it, or maybe maple syrup, but I've never heard of anyone putting gravy on it. 5. I'm not the slightest bit interested in trying haggis, blood sausage, or mashed peas, but I'd probably be willing, just to say I did.
Cheez Whiz or Velveeta are often preferred for nachos or dip (e.g., queso dip). Velveeta melts easily; that is the reason why it is used in that application. Cheez Whiz is often the preferred cheese for some Philadelphia cheesesteaks makers. Others use real Provolone cheese. Try to conceal your disdain for grits in the American South. It may be taken personally there. America has multiple higher end chocolate makers. Mass market chocolates are not the only game in town. Buttered popcorn is awesome. Butter and maple syrup on pancakes and waffles are superb. You two definitely do not have American tastes. Sweet potatoes and yams in the US are pretty much the same things. True yams from Africa, Asia, or elsewhere are usually not served here. Sweet potato casserole with marshmallows is a must have side dish for American Thanksgiving. It is not a main course. Personally, I prefer other side dishes, but I have to have at least a little sweet potato casserole with marshmallows for Thanksgiving or it isn't the same. British foods that sound unappetizing to me: haggis, black pudding, beans for breakfast, Marmite, and some boiled puddings.
Good USA Chocolate would be Galaxy to people in U.K. Dove to people in USA,British Chocolate brand Cadburys was good before Krafts brought it & change the taste of chocolate I still like it but no where near as good as it used to be, We do have higher end European chocolate Lint being one. There are plenty of good chocolates around but if someone give me a chocolate bar I would very likely choose a British chocolate or European chocolate over American chocolate.
I'm American, and I've never agreed with the idea of putting marshmallows on top of sweet potatoes -- especially since it's supposed to be a side dish, not a dessert! Just over the top sickly sweet IMO. Whoever invented that "dish" must have been a sugar addict trying to sneak their sugar fix into dinner.
I will not live in a world that has no buttered popcorn. HOW do you go to the movie theater? I feel like cheese grits are similar to polenta. Just a little more texture. I prefer grits with butter and sugar though.
I don't think I could ever eat butter on popcorn, assuming that it's melted, that is. The smell of melted butter makes me wanna throw up, toffee popcorn will always be the best type.
Sweet potato casserole isn't only marshmallows on top. It's also candied walnuts (basically walnuts cooked in butter and brown sugar). It's amaaaaaaazing!!!! You MUST try it some time.
Don't knock it until you try it, grits are like oatmeal, and sweet potatoes with marshmallows is a staple at Thanksgiving if you go to a Thanksgiving you would be rude to not try it.
@STOP CENSORING THE TRUTH! I live in the north east and my family has always done it and I know of several other families who do it too. Your family has it's traditions and others have theirs. My family has recipes we use for Thanksgiving that don't change and haven't for a very long time. The recipes are being used by the 6th generation of my family members. 👪
“…Americans think….” Hardly a true blanket statement. Across the entire southwest region with millions of Americans, beans are eaten all times of the day- and have been for generations. Eating them with corn or wheat tortillas is different than toast, though.
Ooh, I hope you get invited to a Thanksgiving with lots of different side dishes. There are varied styles of each depending upon region, some I learn about to this day. Also, there is one good brand of nacho cheese that restaurants use. It’s kinda gross but also good? I crave it from time to time bc nostalgia probably. Can’t wait for your trip to Florida!
Cheez Whiz -is officially described as (I'm not making this up) "Processed Cheese Food"... um, yeah. There are plenty of folks in the US that are boggled that anyone eats it. (though plenty of folks do.)
I don’t know where people got the idea to put marshmallows on sweet potatoes/yams. My family just uses butter and brown sugar if we eat them whole/plain. The cut up/more casserole-y version includes cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, etc. But no marshmallow
I'm from Mississippi and grits were a main staple in our house growing up. I love them. Not cooked in milk. But with water, then salt, pepper and butter.
I am not sure why people take pride in being ignorant when it has never been easier to learn about things through the Internet. What’s worse is how many of these things Joel and Lia said they are awful without tasting them or even knowing what they are. The smuggery around food falls flat for me especially since the UK is one of the fattest countries.
Grits are delicious. Love having some for breakfast! It isn't an age thing. It is super popular in the south. If you grew up in the south odds are you probably like Grits. Popcorn with lots of butter is what I always eat while watching a movie at the theater
I love grits but I do understand why people who didn't grow up eating them wouldn't like the texture. Though now they're so creamy that they hardly have texture at all. When I ate them as a kid there were grittier - though maybe my Mom was just bad at making them.
Grits are amazing it's nothing but cornmeal gas you don't have to put cheese on a meat you can just put butter my mom groped in them with sugar which is more like cream a wheat to me but I love grits with my eggs and shrimp and grits are the bomb and if you eat polenta which is Italian all it is is cornmeal in a little Patty and then grilled it's grits fried it's bad but we wouldn't need half the crap you do either so it would either so there you go nobody asked you to eat him and I think you totally wrong because you don't speak for all breads and there's Lawrence who we love from Laurence who we love from lost in the pond that eats all kinds of stuff now that hes lived here for a long time So everybody doesn't like everything!!
@@cberry6751 yep! U r correct! A lot of things were eaten I'm in the South because they were farms and people didn't have a lot of money so they had to make things go a long way that's why they had grits and chicken bag and dumplings and big pots of beans and things like that with rice that would fade a lot of people cheaply and that's what you got used to eat when you were little it was carried down their generations!!
Cheez Whiz, Velveeta, and "American cheese" are legally "Processed cheese food" but then so is most European Gouda. Ricotta is actually not cheese because it's made from whey and not milk curds. To be legal US cheese it must be: the , cream, skimmed, or partly skimmed milk, or a combination of some or all of these products, and including any cheese that conforms to the requirements of the Food and Drug Administration for cheeses and related cheese products (21 CFR part 133) By the whey...I mean way...Wisconsin, Vermont, New York, and Oregon will take on Britain for the best cheese worldwide and often win international prizes.
@@lindaellis7451 Hershey's may not be to everyone's liking, particularly some Europeans, but their sales around the world indicates there are substantial numbers of people that love their products, butyric acid and all.
Thanksgiving dinner would be incomplete in my house without candied sweet potatoes or yams. They are boiled, peeled, and then simmered or baked with a thick brown sugar and butter glaze. Forget the marshmallows-they look and taste like glue.
Brits talking about gross American food is funny to me since you aren't exactly known anywhere in the world for your food (and things like Indian don't count). I'm married to a brit and I can tell you first hand that british food is possibly the most bland food I've ever tasted. And while I don't personally like sweet potato cassarole, we don't pour gravy over it. In fact, we don't pour gravy over most of our plate of food because our food has flavor and doesnt need to be swimming in gravy to be edible. Grits are basically polenta, cheese whiz & velveeta are basically for dipping chips into only. Why would you not put butter on pancakes? brit's put butter on everything, you butter your bread for a tuna mayo sandwich so don't know why us having butter on popcorn/pancakes is strange. Herseys brand chocolate is gross though, I agree.
Europe chocolate use freeze dried milk to get the moisture out. Hershey's slow cooks the milk to remove the moisture and it ends up getting a scald (burnt) flavor. That is why Brits think American chocolate taste sickly.
I love Hersheys. I knew there was something about the taste that was different. I thought maybe they roasted the cocoa beans or something. But I personally enjoy the taste. It's not so sickly sweet. I love the milk chocolate more. The dark chocolate is too strong for my taste.
**Most Americans wouldn't dream of eating something as vile as Cheez Wiz. **Grits are basically polenta cooked in a different way. **I agree with you about American chocolate with the exception of Ghirardelli. **Most people don't eat sweet potatoes with marshmallows. That was a 1960s casserole thing. Some people still make it because their mom or gran made it. My mom would sparingly use butter and brown sugar.
Poor Americans and Americans who grow up eating "junk food" will eat Cheez Whiz. People outside the US don't often understand how expensive food is for Americans, let alone anything like actual organic produce. It's not affordable for a large percentage of the US population to eat healthy in reality.
Don’t turn your nose up at American chocolate. Some brands may not suit your pallet, but we have so many regional and local chocolate makers that you’d be surprised how much of it you actually like.
This is true of a lot of the products they bring up. While there are the famous national brands and product types like processed cheese spreads which are often mocked the US has every type of product imaginable at every price and quality level. I've had many kinds of chocolate. Cheese made my local farmers. Great microbrews and local wines. Lobster rolls in Maine. Clam Chowder on Cape Cod. Key Lime Pie in Key West. I do enjoy their presentation style and hearing their opinions. They're fun hosts.
This week: never ever Next month: introducing a new series in which Joel and Lia try novelty American foods that arrived in a gift box, some of them prepared poorly and others actually vile-- but no way to know which is which ahead of time.
Grits that have a "mushy texture, with bits" are improperly cooked. I prepare them with sharp cheddar & Parmesan cheeses, garlic, butter, salt & pepper and a few dashes of hot sauce. Velvety smooth and delicious!
I'm American and cannot stand sweet potato casserole with those marshmallows. Disgusting. I used to eat cheez whiz a long time ago before I knew or cared about chemical ingredients in products and foods. Now I don't touch the stuff. You're also right about American chocolate. I've eaten grits and don't mind it as it's simply on par with the taste of oatmeal. Bland. Good video J & L ♡
I've heard Hershey chocolate uses slightly soured milk almost like sour cream which explains why it has a slightly sour taste. I dont think it is bad but just unique. FRESH Reeses cups are pretty much HEAVEN!
I saw a video on it. Apparently, Milton Hershey was looking for a way to produce chocolate that most people could afford at a time when modern refrigeration didn't exist. To keep the milk longer, he added butyric acid, which is a compound that is also found in puke. I can taste it as well, but I guess as an American, it doesn't bother me, since I first had it as a child. And it absolutely is not present in all American chocolate just Hershey's that I'm aware of
Well, apparently, they don't actively add the butyric acid, but it is a result of how they manufacture the chocolate to keep it shelf stable for a longer period of time. Either way, the butyric acid is in there.
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White liquid cheese on nachos we call "Queso" and it is actually very good! Now Cheez Whiz that's out of the question for anything!!!!l😁
Beans on bread 🤮
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As a general rule, traditional British food is considered by Americans as pretty disgusting. I'm not talking about foods that Brits have "absorbed" into their own cuisine, like curries...those we would find delicious. I'm talking about things like kippers, lamb with mint jelly, haggis, cockles, mince meat pies, etc. Those are just gross and would never pass most of our lips.
But beans is something that Americans in some parts of the country would easily eat for breakfast. For instance, in California and the Southwest, we have a lot of Mexican influence in our cuisine and there is a dish called Huevos Rancheros that we eat for breakfast. (This is probably inspired by Tex Mex more than traditional Mexican cuisine). That is a crispy tortilla covered in refried beans, salsa and eggs. Delicious.
Mince meat pies are very popular in the northeastern older states like Massachusetts. When British people say "beans" they're not talking about the kind of beans Americans would eat unless they are the beans in "Pork n Beans" without the pork.
huevos rancheros is just the egg and salsa, the rest was added, but sounds delicious non-the-less.
100% - pure gross!
Agree, except for the Lamb and mint jelly - delicious! And, yes, here in Rhode Island, mince meat pie is found everywhere and is pretty good. Not something I would order unless I was in the mood, tho.
I make an allowance for fish and chips, unless those aren't actually British.
I don’t think this is what “Brits wouldn’t eat”, as much as it is what “Joel and Lia” wouldn’t eat…. Whether British, American, German or Irish, we all have different taste buds.
They didn’t say which Brits.
I wonder if they've given these foods real choices before they judge them so harshly. I lived in England for a year and believe me they eat some DISGUSTING things!!!
@@kelliehatch3615 They're being highly critical of some very simple foods they've never even bothered to taste. Brits eat some disgusting stuff themselves that many others wouldn't touch with a pole.
Grits are ground corn. Where did you get shells? It’s absolutely horrible at Cracker Barrel! You need fresh homemade grits with butter, salt, pepper and crushed bacon… I promise it’s good.
I did not start eating grits until I was a lot older because I developed a gluten allergy and couldn't eat cream of wheat anymore! Somehow I can withstand grits. I love it, but I cook it with milk and salt and add cheese (know that's controversial) not Chez, and even my 12-year-old daughter likes it. ☺️ I'm going to try your bacon and pepper mix, sounds awesome!
I completely agree with you!!
@@yelyak oh they are SO GOOD. I don’t think brits quite understand how valuable corn really is to our diet and economy. I know plenty of people who used it for everything from Moonshine (my hometown is Dawsonville, GA hometown of the moonshine festival and where nascar started Go Chase!) to produce to husks for warmth to feed for animals. This country wouldn’t be where it is without using everything we could. Sometimes grits was all we had.
Hey! I like grits! Oh I'm old too.
This New England girl ordered grits at a restaurant in Savannah Georgia for the first time last week. Yum!!!
I love how two people come from a nation with a dish called Spotted Dick go crazy because Americans have grits, buttered popcorn, and butter on pancakes. I would recommend that these two check out videos from their countrymen in America. They will see how great American food really is. By the way, Cheez Whiz is not a food, but a topping for chips or for certain sandwiches.
Joel likes real cheese. Who doesn't prefer it, but it's sold at steak prices. I'm not putting $10+ / pound cheese in an omelet or grilled cheese sandwich. That's what Velveeta is for.
@@elultimo102 Recall when Joel and Lia had a sliver of cheese cake ($75 per slice) at a posh London restaurant, and then railed about how inferior a Walmart pecan tart was ($0.50) compared to it. Hysterical.
Grits=ground corn . Porridge=ground oats. Simple as that.
Actually, it is the level of grinding. Grit is a course grind. Gits (plural) is a type of porridge. "Oatmeal porridge" is a porridge made from "meal", another level of grinding. My ex went to Britain, and called porridge "sand". I had to make him my own and show him he just got some bad oatmeal porridge. Italians call grits "polenta", and it does depend on how they are cooked how they taste and what the texture is. The French also cook it "semoule de maïs" Joel and Lia I challenge you to taste my grits.
Grits are made from hominy
@@juliegreen6727 “Grits is a porridge made from boiled cornmeal. Hominy grits is a type of grits made from hominy - corn that has been treated with an alkali in a process called nixtamalization, with the pericarp removed. Grits is often served with other flavorings as a breakfast dish”.Wikipedia
@@juliegreen6727 hominy is made from corn.
Grits is like polenta, but less firm, and ah-may-zing when properly prepared! Cracker Barrel grits are like glue, no wonder you didn't like it!
Y did I read that as placenta...
ah-MAIZE-ing*
I mean you guys eat mushy peas which has almost made me gag a few time--it's just hideous. But, If you've had Creme of Wheat it's very close of grits in consistency. I too hated grits until I had some in New Orleans it was delicious. Its eaten sweet or savory so, you might like it if you eat if from the right person.
I made grits for some British friends once, and they were horrified. I think only one person tried it, and they didn't like it.
Exactly my point. Every person I know makes grits differently. Some are like concrete some are like water ya just never know and NO chain like Cracker Barrel or Waffle House bothers with seasoning.
I'm English and I agree that mushy peas are horrible. Everyone I know thinks I'm weird for not liking them. I like normal peas but not mushy peas. I have no idea what grits are to be honest, maybe I should try them when I next visit America.
Grits are just a type of porridge made of ground hominy corn, instead of the steel cut oats used in the UK and Ireland. You can prepare it for breakfast, and/or for other meals with seasonings. No idea why a Brit would find it offensive. I don't think corn (maize) is used much in the UK, while it's huge in the US. Yes, polenta is very similar.
@@loboheeler Shrimp and Grits is a popular Southern Dinner dish. Especially around the Gulf Coast. ( Just adding to the dialog... )
Lol right out the gate: “we will never EVER EVER eat these foods!” 5 seconds later: “well on nachos it’s ok.”
Right! I seem to remember Joel devouring a jumbo hot dog bukkaked in processed cheese sauce and bacon at an American style diner in the UK several years back. NEVER EVER!
On chocolate. I do seem to remember them loving on Reese's and even proclaiming Almond Joy bars (Both Hershey products) are better than Bounty Bars. There's also others I'm not going to track down just for sake of argument.
I don’t think anyone likes almond joy in the United States, but yeah everyone loves reeces peanut butter cups, and I have had plenty of bounty bars, and to me the peanut butter cups are better 🤷
@@afunandfriendlyname8468 Almond Joy is one of my favorite candy bars. I think it's weird when people don't like them.
Ppl who dislike Almond Joy and/or Mounds.. i bet they don’t like the coconut. More for us🙂
Those eggs are the best! Well those and Cadbury😋
@STOP CENSORING THE TRUTH! I remember Mallow Cups. I like them, too, but yeah, I don't really see them. I'm 41.
Grits is southern. I live in the Northeast and never had grits until I went to the south. But polenta is the same and that’s from Italy. Make fun of Italian food then?
Really, American food, not that we don't have trash but lets start with Spotted Dick, Fish Pie, Pork Pies, the scary full on Breakfast, Hagis, Blood Sausage , I am sure we could go on for sometime with this.
I don’t disagree with your assessment of Hershey’s chocolate. But that’s judging American chocolate by the lowest common denominator.
There are many great chocolatiers in the US. See’s is definitely one of the better mass produced choc, but almost every where you can get locally made chocolate that is magnitudes better than cheap candy bars.
As for the rest, I guarantee there are a lot of Americans who don’t like these things anymore than you do.
Yeah it's the same way they think Kraft Singles are the only cheese we eat or make ignoring some great cheese like Vermont cheddar or CA's Humboldt Fog (they like Stilton, it's in the same vein). Or cheese out of a can or whatever. Ghirardelli is good mass produced American chocolate, for example.
@@GarrettMerkin Exactly. I used to live in CA and they have great cheese. Cowgirl Creamery makes a number of great cheese and Humboldt Fog is amazing.
you forgot the dollar store bags of easter chocolates. those are a step down from hersheys.
Yes, there are some good chocolate things in the US. A lot of regional candies too. I am fond of the Russell Stover dark chocolate things that are fairly easy to find. I go around to the stores to get the Russell Stover Easter eggs put on discount the day after.
@@GarrettMerkin Agreed.
Also, I wonder why European youtubers always complain about 'American' cheese yet at various cheese contests Wisconsin cheese always win big. Skilled experts from all around the world at the premiere cheese judging event in the world, the World Championship Cheese Contest, continue to heap numerous awards and honors on this 'American' cheese. In 2018, Wisconsin won almost 41% of the prizes awarded, more than any other state or country. So, if anything, it can be argued America has the best cheese in the world!
I've had toasted bread with butter, cinnamon and sugar.
OMG! Cinnamon toast!That was a treat as a child! Toast the bread in the oven until sugar melts & bubbles with the butter & cinnamon! Brings back memories!
@@deerking4848 That is a bona fide childhood memory. THANKS
Oh yes! I grew up on cinnamon toast as a treat. So did my kids. 😊
I can remember eating brown sugar sandwiches as a child.
Cinnamon toast is so good!
You have to try Tillamook cheese- it's made in Oregon, and we love it. Their ice cream is the best, too!
Also, we do NOT put gravy on sweet potatoes LOL
Tillamook is great! Love the ice cream and yogurt.
Europeans mention Cheez Whiz a lot but I haven’t seen Cheez Whiz in a grocery store in years.
It's still in stores. Usually kept in the refrigerated cheese section. It's good in casseroles...like broccoli and rice. Melts very nicely. Velveta is only good melted.
Yeah I went through Walmart trying to find some for a friend who wanted to use it to entice her dog to eat medicine. No luck.
Both Cheez Whiz and Velveeta are mostly chemicals
@@wingwalker7212 cheese whiz:
Ingredients: modified milk ingredients, water, cheese (milk, modified milk ingredients, salt, bacterial culture, microbial enzyme, calcium chloride, lipase), corn maltodextrin, sodium phosphates, colour, salt, sodium alginate, modified corn starch, lactic acid, ground mustard, seasoning (contains celery), sorbic acid.
Great for any application where you need a melted cheese product - include in mac & cheese, on a cheesesteak, with nachos, etc. Of course, ideally you also add in other cheeses for taste.
This is exactly what I said in my comment to.. anytime I’ve ever heard any foreigner talk about American food for some reason cheese whiz comes up every single time.. i’ve never even had cheese whiz and I’m almost 33 years old.. I guarantee you 95% of the people in the United States haven’t even had it but all these foreigners seem to think that’s all we eat for some reason. They can have someone tell them it isn’t true but they will still continue making videos about it? Durrrr
Most of the chocolates you showed were all by one company, Hersheys. There are so many chocolate makers in the U.S., quality chocolate is every where and I guarantee you it doesn't taste bad.
Maybe it's age, but I agree with those saying Hershey's tastes like wax. Sees is the best, but rare outside of CA---I usually used it for gifts, since it's expensive, so I buy the cheap stuff from the drug store to actually eat.
nobody should be eating neither US chocolate nor British chocolate. They're both awful. Having said that, it's Pretty rich to see Brits turning down their nose when their own cuisine (if I can call it that) is horrendous
The Belgians and Swiss make great Choclate and I am from the UK .
just a note in the Latino community, beans for breakfast is a regular thing to eat..
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@Rosie ! Sure, but not a can on Heinz dumped on toast!
As a Mexican-American yes I agree. But as Craig Chastain said. "Heinz beans on toast" ? is a far cry from a Latino breakfast ! I just don't get it ?
British foods that immediately crop up on my "no, thank you" list:
Marmite
Steak and Kidney Pie
"Sweetbreads"
I contemplate the vast majority of British Suet "Puddings" with reservations...
I would try them, but while Figgy Pudding sounds innocuous enough,
one has to know your audience before waxing eloquent about a "Spotted Dick" or a "Boiled Baby".
Some of the more nauseating reading I have ever done was to read about the food fantasies
that some of Shackleton's men shared during their Antarctic expeditions...
mmm... succulent dreams of gorging on guts and lard.... ;-)
You forgot the jellied eels.
The Black Bear I loved this comment! lol : )
This!!!
Me too! Great list 💐
it is so weird what JOEL AND LEAH find gross considering the VILE British food......and I mean VILE
Velveeta is a processed cheese product but it tastes NOTHING like "American" cheese. It has a very mild flavor.
Grits is basically breakfast polenta which is a very European food.
Think of sweet potato casserole the same way you would pie. Berries/apples etc are sweet foods but when you make a fruit pie you don't just dump the fruit in and bake. You add things like sugar, butter and spices. Adding marshmallows to sweet potatoes is the same idea.
I've watched Kettle Korn (sweet & salty popcorn) being made and they just cook in in butter and sugar instead of adding the butter after
Beans on toast sounds good to me.
Re: British foods I would never eat. Is it really true that at seaside resorts in the UK there are vendors that serve (urp) jellied eels? I can't think of anything more gross. It's like they sat around and said, "Right, what's the most revolting sounding thing we could sell?".
Actually, I'm 67 and lived all over the UK all my life and never once seen jellied eels for sale, never mind tried them. I've never seen them at the seaside - I think they are an old Eastend ( poor part of London) thing from Victorian times.
There are some pretty gross things from the USA as well - prairie oysters (testicles) and 'scrapple' - all the horrible bits of a pig ground up, recipes using squirrel and possum - but do you know something? We don't immediately think everyone in the USA eats them -
These 'British food' RUclips videos always focus mainly on the same dozen or so weird regional/funny sounding dishes as if that is all we eat in the UK.
Also, can you name me any original American dishes that aren't bastardised versions of dishes from other countries?
Not true.
Grits MUST be fresh & made just before you eat them! I love grits, butter, salt, pepper & bacon! Yummy
You are making me hungry! 😋
Yeah & NO instant grits!!
Me too!! I love grits w butter, salt & pepper. Some like it w sugar…
Grits are awesome!!!
If your vomit tastes like chocolate, I'm jealous...
LOL!
BAZINGA!
They are the only ones that have Vomit on the menu.
England is not know for its cuisine. Blood sausage for one. Beans for breakfast? Are you mad?
And kippers too!!! And Englanders demand fully enclosed toilet stalls, It amazes me there are not a lot of exploding loos.
Oh my. A full english… blood sausage, beans on toast, steak and kidney pie, bacon sandwich wine gums, lucozade, pork pies, mushy peas, jellied eels the list is endless
I'm from America and I just want to say something about our food. Remember that for the most part our food is from all over the world. Just like we are a melting pot of people we are a melting pot of food. We have things that have been handed down form our families for a long time. I make my grandma's swedish pancakes and swedish meatballs and my husband is Mexican so we have a lot of Mexican food. We actually mix the it together on holidays! Our stars are the size of European countries so we have such a vast difference between states too. Plus we like to make everything fast and easy 😂 And our government doesn't ban all the horrible chemicals so they are in our food. That's actually sad.
I get that, and this is also true in the UK, but a lot of American food is highly processed and full of fat, sugar and salt.
@@hillfamily3198 That's because it's cheaper and a large percentage of Americans will never be able to afford healthy food in general, let alone anything organic. America, remember, is all about money, unfortunately. It's common for people's lives to be "eat or pay rent", "eat or take medication", pay rent or take medication" etc. America is never likely to change short of half the population dying at once somehow.
Swedish Meatball’s are good,however I find marshmallows with Sweet Potatoes I would never eat together only on there own
Beans in the morning... so you can be farty ALL day long! 😂
Funny that you don't remember a sample at See's candies - that's like one of their signature things - a sample when you first arrive in the shop.
American milk chocolate is very light. That's why some of us only eat dark chocolate - and See's has many choices with dark chocolate.
A fair amount of Joel’s reaction seems to be either one instance of bad food, like grits at Cracker Barrel, or the name.He would probably eat polenta.
Velveeta
is mostly intended for grilled cheese sandwiches, or some other application where melted. It is cheap and bland.
Rather salty on its own. Mix with Rotella (NOT Rotella the diesel oil) for nacho dip with tortilla chips or on scrambled eggs, mix with sausage (browned) and Rotella for a hearty dip.
Velveeta in Macaroni and Cheese is the best.
@@mspfinney agreed
Velveeta is actually crazy expensive, for what it is. A brick of cheeze is like 10 dollars.
Sweet potato casserole is SO good! You eat it at thanksgiving and Christmas so it goes well with everything else
I like baked sweet & regular potatoes, always with butter. I oil the outsides before baking, and normally eat the entire thing---The skin has all the nutrients.
Nobody just eats Cheese Wiz... usually a warmed base for dips or an ingredient in something else. Grits are great, and I'm not southern, either. Grits have to be made correctly (butter, salt & pepper... cheese optional... and absolutely no instant grits... they SUCK. Really, grits are essentially the same thing as polenta, which I'd bet you probably like... it's all in the preparation/serving. I actually prefer Hershey's chocolate over any Euro brands I've tried... and I don't care for Ghirardelli chocolate either, which is supposedly the American "gold standard" for chocolate. I find popcorn to be nearly inedible without butter, lol. Velveeta is OK for grilled cheese sandwiches or as part of the cheese blend for mac & cheese. I would never eat a slice... awful consistency. I fully agree about the marshmallows on sweet potatoes but, then again, I don't care for marshmallows at all.
I'm from Pennsylvania.
The only way I have eaten grits is sliced and fried with syrup.
I do not eat Cheez Whiz or Velveeta.
I never eat buttered on popcorn.
Other than peanut butter cups, I don't eat Hersey's chocolate. As far as peanut butter cups go, I prefer Boyer's, or better yet, the small peanut butter cups from Aldi. If I am going to eat American chocolate, I prefer Ghiradelli, but I generally buy German dark chocolate from Aldi.
I have never had pepper or sugar on my grits
"I tried cheese grits at Cracker Barrel" lol please don't judge American food based on Cracker Barrel. It's terrible. Their cornbread has so much sugar and flour in it that it's basically cake.
Huh, I've always thought that CB's cornbread was pretty tasteless.
You guys are too funny. No beans for breakfast lol.
Yeah, as much as I love you two, this is a bit ironic because I've eaten in the UK, American food is sooo much better!
Most of this is a commentary on mass production and what gets exported feeding into perception.... grading on Cheez Whiz, Velveeta, and Hershey's would be like grading our fashion on the clothing aisle of Wal-Mart or our beer on Bud-Light. It's stuff made by cutting corners (replacing actual ingredients with cheap palm oil) to bring the cost down. There is a lot of very good cheese, chocolate, beer, etc. made here, but they're not often exported or mass produced - or inexpensive.
Grits is ground up hominy ( hominy is a corn derivative ) and is a largely a breakfast item though commercially made and sold all over the country, they are most associated with southern cuisine. Grits is one of those foods a person typically eats because they've grown up eating it. Shrimp and grits sis very popular , grits served in restaurants can be hit or miss given the quantities they're often are made in and the best grits are those home made. Personally I've only eaten grits a handful of times, irregularly at that , in my life . I grew up eating mostly oatmeal and Cream of Wheat 🌾, which is similar to Grits but is smoother in consistency and made of , well you know.. Besides nachos, cheez whiz is also put on Philly cheese steak sandwiches. We have kettle corn which is sweet and salty. Velveeta is not American cheese not like Kraft American cheese slices.
Velveeta is a main ingredient in queso ( cheese in Spanish) dip. People do use Velveeta for making Mac and cheese , You guys must've not gone to a See's Candy because every See's store will give a sample if asked and the first sample is always free. I always get a sample of See's Candy when I'm in my local shopping mall. I grew up on See's Candy, I'm old enough to remember when a one pound box of assorted candy was $11.50 and now a 1lb box is $22. Another good and well respected chocolate brand is Ghiardellli Chocolate , though there are stores all over the country, the flagship store is in Ghiardellli Square in San Francisco, See's started in San Francisco too about a couple of decades after Ghiardellli which as founded by an Italian immigrant on the 1860s I believe, See's was founded in the early 20th century around the 19 teens / early 20s.
Never trust a chocolate store that doesn't give free samples, jk 😀 Sweet potato marshmallow casserole is a side eaten on Thanksgiving.
In the US, Sweet potatoes and yams , the terms are used interchangeably usually. Candied yams are sweet potatoes that cut into 1/2 in pieces and can be made from fresh sweet potatoes or from canned ( tinned) Sweet potatoes that are glazed and are also a side dish for Thanksgiving but can be eaten all year long. Most people use canned candied yams for Thanksgiving. While some people may pour gravy over candied yams and sweet potato casserole, most don't , both are typically eaten on the plate with other sides like dressing/ stuffing ( the difference being is stuffing is put into the cavity of the the turkey 🦃 while dressing is stuffing that's made separately from the turkey and is served as a side. Basically stuffing and dressing is the same thing and the main ingredient in making dressing/ stuffing is cornbread although there are off shoots of traditional cornbread dressing like seafood dressing , apple and walnut or apple and pecan stuffing/ dressing etc. Dressing can be homemade or store bought , a popular brand is Mrs. Cuberston's another one is Stove top which comes in different flavors ( flavors come in the form of the type of broth,: chicken, beef or vegetable and I believe even turkey that may have been used in the commercially making of it).
I agree with Joel and Liz about the grits, chez wiz, Velveeta and marshmallow sweet potatoes.
Never one have I heard of gravy on sweet potatoes! 🤢
Not all grits are hominy. They're specified as hominy grits when they are that.
Great retort.
Real queso is not made with Velveeta though. On a side note this was a very long response, it read like a power point presentation lol.
Cheese in the US... I am going to have to say, the state that truly takes their dairy products very seriously is Wisconsin.
They will boast that they are the only State in the US that actually makes Limburger Cheese - so you know those folks are not fooling around.
California is now the number one dairy st at ye!
@@craigster1244 Oh, I am totally aware... but being a native Californian, and having spent 20 years living in Wisconsin... I can assure you... that it is not the same thing at all.
Remember that when the size of each states dairy herds were approximately equal, there we 10 times as many dairy farmers - so we are literally talking the difference between 100 herds of 1000 cows and 1000 herds of 100 cows.
Yes. I'm in Chicago and I go to Kenosha a few times a year for cheese. Those stores have some Serious cheese aisles.
Do you still make Liederkranz cheese? My daddy used to eat that. The rest of us left the room because of the smell, lol.
You wouldn’t try buttered popcorn-ever. But you tried a boxed manufactured apple pie from Walmart….that one really triggered me. In order to really enjoy buttered popcorn, you have to be in a movie theatre watching a good movie.
They always do this. They hear about something we love, then go find the worst version of it and conclude what horrible food we have. And they're total snobs about it. Then they have the audacity to judge things with a sneer, that they refuse to even try. They've been to three authentic southern pit barbecue places and always order chicken or turkey and sausage, then say they don't understand what the hype is all about. They went to A & W and ordered the DIET root beer!!!!
Beans for breakfast gets an honorable mention -
but beans for breakfast, for some folks, is camping food...
and then of course, if you are eating "Huevos Rancheros", or "Huevos con Chorizo"...
Refritos Frijoles definitely comes with.
Personally, I know that I have truly started my day with a plate of the latter!
LMAO I work at Cracker Barrel and the cheese grits do leave much to be desired. They are good with brown sugar and maple syrup though!
Also I live about 30 minutes from Hershey, PA where they make the chocolate. The town smells wonderful haha. I love it.
I know that Brits would never eat _Wintergreen_ breath mints because I gave some to friends over there once, and everyone said YUK! and spit them out because you use that odor for some medicinal creams. And that's a shame because it really tastes great.
Wow! Wintergreen is my favorite mint flavor, good to know some people find it disgusting. Do you know about breaking Wintergreen Lifesavers in the dark? They emit plasma light.
@@JDoors, I'd forgotten about the sparking. Just another reason why _Wintergreen_ is the best.
@@JDoors Your comment brought back a fond memory. When I was chaperoning a camping trip with the Science Club from the high school where I taught (I'm retired now), we went on a night hike. At one point we stopped and gave the students each a wintergreen lifesaver and had them all bite down on them at the same time. It was awesome! The kids loved it and so did I. I was the French teacher at the HS, so this was a new experience for me too. Thanks for helping me remember that!
American/British chocolate difference is holdover from WWII. American soldiers were given Hershey’s chocolate bars which contained high milk content and was preserved for long ship transport and storage. This gave the chocolate a “vomit y” flavor which the soldiers and other Americans grew to love. After war the chocolate producers went back to previous process but the American tastebuds grew to prefer the modified version. Therefore the flavoring was added back in and remains to this day. You may find some European chocolate brands sold in America also are modified for American tastes. Let us know if you find any.
“American”cheese also has a similar history. During war the British people were very hard up for food and America sent a lot. One item was cheese mixed with milk and preserved for trip in cans and given away on streets It became known as “the American cheese “. This caned cheese was produced in great quantity even after the war and given to Britain and sold in US and the name stuck. So your ancestors DID eat velveta cheese until country was rebuilt and start eating proper cheese.
There's also the fact that the American method for making chocolate creates butyric acid in it, which is the majority component of vomit.
@@jwb52z9 There is no 'American' method for making chocolate. There are countless regional chocolate makers. There are even city local chocolate makers.
Hershey's chocolate is the most recognized national brand. Hershey’s chocolate does contain butyric acid, but again, there are thousands of chocolate manufacturers in the USA and most do not use Hershey's secret method of controlled lipolysis, which creates the butyric acid. A quick google search reveals dozens of chocolates without butyric acid such as Starbucks Hot Cocoa Double Chocolate, various Taza Chocolates and various Ghiradelli chocolates.
Whoa! Badmouthing butter on pancakes? You’re treading on sacred ground there.
Beans for breakfast…. Yuck!!! Then they gave us fried toast… which I’ve never had… and for fish and chips mushy peas!
When my daughter went to school in the UK she got so many requests to bring some American food back as well as some of her American friends also were asked!
I only brought back Costa coffee for myself cause we don’t have it here!
Grits are the same as polenta, except grits are finer ground white corn instead of yellow corn. And the chocolate thing is mostly original Hershey's milk chocolate, due to a milk preservative that adds a tanginess, not American chocolate in general. And I find Joel super weird for not liking butter.
It's not that he doesn't like butter. People outside the US just don't understand eating high fat, high salt, high sugar foods because they didn't have to grow up that way in general. I don't think most non-Americans understand how poor some Americans really are and that there is mostly zero help in any meaningful way like they would have by default in every other first world nation.
Before British ships set sail for the New World in the 17th century, the native peoples in North America were already eating a soft, mashed corn (or maize) - a dish that was introduced to English explorers in 1584. Milled corn grits evolved as early as 8700 B.C.E. The word "grits" is probably derived from "grist," which is the name indigenous people in Virginia gave to a ground corn dish they ate and shared with British colonists. During surveillance of the new lands in present-day Roanoke, North Carolina, Sir Walter Raleigh and his men dined with the local Natives. One of the men, Arthur Barlowe, wrote about the ‘very white, faire, and well tasted’ boiled corn served by their hosts. Less than two decades later, this year-round staple - called ‘rockahomine’ by the Natives, later to be shortened to ‘hominy’ by the colonists - was offered to the new English settlers in Jamestown, Virginia, when they arrived in 1607. The Natives taught the English colonists how to make the dish, and it quickly became a part of the American diet (their survival and not starving being a major theme). The course (not finely) ground corn was a bit "gritty" hence the nickname for the corn meal. The modern variations (cheese grits, shrimp grits,
Although well written, your post is not fully accurate. The term "hominy" is not simply boiled corn, but refers to corn that has been treated with an alkali in a process called nixtamalization. Hominy can be cooked whole or ground to produce grits.
I don’t like popcorn because it gets stuck in my throat but even I can admit the butter used on popcorn smells amazing. Like I love when you go somewhere that has a popcorn maker like a store cafe or the movie theater and its the first thing you smell.
Popcorn = nostalgia every single time
Flavored popcorn (like sweet and salty) is great. But, the type of popcorn you get with the buttered kind isn’t flavored. It’s quite dry and tasteless. The warm butter is a rather nice topping! And, it’s a staple at every movie theater in the US.
Indeed. I'd get a box/bag of Cracker Jack before I get buttered popcorn.
Not liking buttered popcorn is un-American! You can use other flavorings too. A sprinkle of nutritional (brewers) yeast gives a cheesy flavor, while adding a lot of nutrition.
That dreck they put on popcorn at theatres is NOT butter Harvey
@@wingwalker7212 Ok, Wing. I’ll go with, “There is a flavored substance put on popcorn in US theaters that I personally enjoy.”
LOL! Yeah I’ll still put it on movie popcorn sometimes even tho I know it’s just salty oil
Joel & Lia you 2 sure are good at stirring the pot. That's all this food video is about. I bet in (secret) you guys can't wait to get your hands on Cheez Whiz or a Hersey Bar.
The hypocrisy is strong with those two just in the first example on Cheez Whiz.
Dove and Ghirardelli chocolate is better than Hersheys.
i agree…hersheys choc is not good, especially kisses
Very much agreed!
100%. Hersheys and Nestlé are the lowest common denominator versions of "chocolate" here and I never put that crap in my mouth. Dove, Ghirardelli, (I'm not high on Godiva) plus lots of other locally/regionally made chocolatiers deliver higher quality stuff.
Y'all better check those AC filters in those hotels. Sometimes they get condensation inside and they mildew. You could be breathing mold spores.
As an American... our chocolate absolutely TASTES LIKE CRAP! Lol I said what I said !
Blasphemy!!! 😂
😆😂 I agree. Most chocolate in the US is tastes like crap
This is true 😔
I think the only time I would refuse to even try something (food) is if it contains something I'm genuinely allergic to.
The problem is brits tend to have an overblown sweet factor in their tongue that amps the sweet taste despite not having much sugar in something. We tend to add sugar to tone the acid down which you seem to dislike. Sweet potatoes are sweet but are kinda basic in PH while Marshmallows are slightly acidic and you need the balance. By themselves Sweet potatoes are great just we have to use them when they cook so they don't spoil. thin about it.
If you go to the movies in America, you either get hot, buttered popcorn, or you don't have any at all. The butter is essential! I don't think we would eat it if it didn't have all that hot, drippy butter. . .And what is zed??? . . .Beans for breakfast has to be one of the most repulsive things an American can imagine. Totally gross!
Watching Joel and Lia is my RUclips equivalent of eating CheezWhiz. It's so much fun but absolutely terrible at the same time. Guilty pleasure for sure.
We don't eat beans for breakfast more of a lunch or dinner food.
Grits are made from corn.
Bob D, is it similar to Italian polenta?
@@vickytaylor9155 No. More like a buttered rice. I love grits and I'm not from the south. It is known as a popular southern dish. Most grocery stores carry Instant Grits.
British foods the rest of the world would NEVER EVER think of eating...top of the list has to be "blood pudding"...ugh, ugh, UGH!!! Those two words should never go together...
Velveta is usually a melting cheese that's creamy when heated. I use it for my macaroni & cheese.
That's exactly what I was going to say. I use it for my cheesy potatoes!
@@aimeeguzman6758 oooo I use it to get my grandkids to eat veggies too 🤣 🤣
I also use it in a ton of game day/parties dishes, dips, drizzled over your not so favorite foods in small amounts to help it eat able!
If I saw someone slicing velveeta and putting it on crackers I would die.
@@helgacucumber3871 lol me too
@@chrissyzcreationz yes, dips need it for sure and it's perfect for melting on veggies! I've never seen anyone use it on a cracker 🤣
A nation that eats marmite has no business critiquing America's foods.
Marmite is the nastiest thing to come out of British cuisine
TRUE…. There’s a saying here in Britain 🇬🇧 “You either love it…. Or you hate it” We live near Burton-on-Trent the brewing centre of England. As you drive past, on the A38, the smell of Marmite is thick in the air…. It’s a by-product of the Brewing Industry. I only eat a thin scraping on buttered toast, but my son-in-law ladles it thickly onto his toast…. He’s VERY BRAVE!!😩😱🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Not sure if cuisine is the right word. It's a strong flavoured spread. Used very sparingly on hot buttered toast It's nice, but, "You either love it or hate it."
@@simonpowell2559 I'm from the US. My family had a woman from Liverpool living with us for a few years when I was growing up. I'll never forget my little brother trying Marmite on toast and immediately crying lol
@@jhonnyazul5372 I can imagine. Poor thing.
'It's not expensive'... Cheese is ridiculously overpriced in most parts of the world. It usually costs 10% of my grocery bill here in Mexico.
Yeah, when you go to the cheese area in most US markets it's easy to find cheeses that are $10+ or more a pound.
Next video, Joel and Lia: "Eating American foods we would never eat"
1. Grits are just the same as porridge or oatmeal, except with corn instead of oats. There are no eggshells in them (where did you even get that?).
2. When Cheez Whiz came out - probably in the 50's or 60's - a common expression, mostly among kids, was "gee whiz", which was pretty much just a polite substitute for 'taking the lord's name in vain '. I can assure you, at the time it came out, everybody knew what it meant. It may be more heavily processed than lots of people would prefer (understandably), but it does contain real cheese.
3. As far as the color of cheese goes, there is no naturally orange cheese. The only difference between cheddar and white cheddar is food coloring. Think about it: Have you seen any naturally occurring orange milk?
4. I'm not a big fan myself, but sweet potatoes with marshmallows on top are pretty much just a Thanksgiving thing, or maybe Xmas for those who do the turkey dinner for that. It's a side dish, not a dessert. Some people may put butter on it, or maybe maple syrup, but I've never heard of anyone putting gravy on it.
5. I'm not the slightest bit interested in trying haggis, blood sausage, or mashed peas, but I'd probably be willing, just to say I did.
Cheez Whiz or Velveeta are often preferred for nachos or dip (e.g., queso dip). Velveeta melts easily; that is the reason why it is used in that application.
Cheez Whiz is often the preferred cheese for some Philadelphia cheesesteaks makers. Others use real Provolone cheese.
Try to conceal your disdain for grits in the American South. It may be taken personally there.
America has multiple higher end chocolate makers. Mass market chocolates are not the only game in town.
Buttered popcorn is awesome. Butter and maple syrup on pancakes and waffles are superb. You two definitely do not have American tastes.
Sweet potatoes and yams in the US are pretty much the same things. True yams from Africa, Asia, or elsewhere are usually not served here.
Sweet potato casserole with marshmallows is a must have side dish for American Thanksgiving. It is not a main course. Personally, I prefer other side dishes, but I have to have at least a little sweet potato casserole with marshmallows for Thanksgiving or it isn't the same.
British foods that sound unappetizing to me: haggis, black pudding, beans for breakfast, Marmite, and some boiled puddings.
Good USA Chocolate would be Galaxy to people in U.K. Dove to people in USA,British Chocolate brand Cadburys was good before Krafts brought it & change the taste of chocolate I still like it but no where near as good as it used to be, We do have higher end European chocolate Lint being one. There are plenty of good chocolates around but if someone give me a chocolate bar I would very likely choose a British chocolate or European chocolate over American chocolate.
By the way….the United States is the largest producer of cheese in the world. Germany is second and France third.
I'm American, and I've never agreed with the idea of putting marshmallows on top of sweet potatoes -- especially since it's supposed to be a side dish, not a dessert! Just over the top sickly sweet IMO. Whoever invented that "dish" must have been a sugar addict trying to sneak their sugar fix into dinner.
Canadian here: I like butter on pancakes.
I will not live in a world that has no buttered popcorn. HOW do you go to the movie theater?
I feel like cheese grits are similar to polenta. Just a little more texture. I prefer grits with butter and sugar though.
I don't think I could ever eat butter on popcorn, assuming that it's melted, that is. The smell of melted butter makes me wanna throw up, toffee popcorn will always be the best type.
A lot of us don't eat popcorn. If we do it's plain , salted or sweetend .
I don't like popcorn though so 🤷
british chocolate is just fine. premium american chocolate is much better than basic chocolate bars.
Sweet potato casserole isn't only marshmallows on top. It's also candied walnuts (basically walnuts cooked in butter and brown sugar). It's amaaaaaaazing!!!! You MUST try it some time.
Yum! We have that every year at Thanksgiving
My mom sweet potato casserole, in addition to the marshmallows, also has maple syrup and brown sugar mixed into potatoes. So good!
Don't knock it until you try it, grits are like oatmeal, and sweet potatoes with marshmallows is a staple at Thanksgiving if you go to a Thanksgiving you would be rude to not try it.
@STOP CENSORING THE TRUTH! I live in the north east and my family has always done it and I know of several other families who do it too. Your family has it's traditions and others have theirs. My family has recipes we use for Thanksgiving that don't change and haven't for a very long time. The recipes are being used by the 6th generation of my family members. 👪
Yes, Americans think beans for breakfast are super weird! x
“…Americans think….” Hardly a true blanket statement. Across the entire southwest region with millions of Americans, beans are eaten all times of the day- and have been for generations. Eating them with corn or wheat tortillas is different than toast, though.
Ooh, I hope you get invited to a Thanksgiving with lots of different side dishes. There are varied styles of each depending upon region, some I learn about to this day. Also, there is one good brand of nacho cheese that restaurants use. It’s kinda gross but also good? I crave it from time to time bc nostalgia probably. Can’t wait for your trip to Florida!
Omg! I’m 31, never had grits till I was a young adult and I love love love them!! 😂
Cheez Whiz -is officially described as (I'm not making this up) "Processed Cheese Food"... um, yeah.
There are plenty of folks in the US that are boggled that anyone eats it. (though plenty of folks do.)
I don’t know where people got the idea to put marshmallows on sweet potatoes/yams. My family just uses butter and brown sugar if we eat them whole/plain. The cut up/more casserole-y version includes cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, etc. But no marshmallow
It is a Southern thing to put marshmallows on mashed sweet potatoes. It's a casserole type thing and has brown sugar on it also.
From the south (Georgia), and we love grits. :)
Absolutely!!!
I'm from Mississippi and grits were a main staple in our house growing up. I love them. Not cooked in milk. But with water, then salt, pepper and butter.
I am not sure why people take pride in being ignorant when it has never been easier to learn about things through the Internet. What’s worse is how many of these things Joel and Lia said they are awful without tasting them or even knowing what they are. The smuggery around food falls flat for me especially since the UK is one of the fattest countries.
It’s called click bait!
@@homerwiggins3965 True
Grits are delicious. Love having some for breakfast! It isn't an age thing. It is super popular in the south. If you grew up in the south odds are you probably like Grits.
Popcorn with lots of butter is what I always eat while watching a movie at the theater
It’s definitely a southern thing. We love our grits in Louisiana.
I love grits but I do understand why people who didn't grow up eating them wouldn't like the texture. Though now they're so creamy that they hardly have texture at all. When I ate them as a kid there were grittier - though maybe my Mom was just bad at making them.
Grits are amazing it's nothing but cornmeal gas you don't have to put cheese on a meat you can just put butter my mom groped in them with sugar which is more like cream a wheat to me but I love grits with my eggs and shrimp and grits are the bomb and if you eat polenta which is Italian all it is is cornmeal in a little Patty and then grilled it's grits fried it's bad but we wouldn't need half the crap you do either so it would either so there you go nobody asked you to eat him and I think you totally wrong because you don't speak for all breads and there's Lawrence who we love from Laurence who we love from lost in the pond that eats all kinds of stuff now that hes lived here for a long time So everybody doesn't like everything!!
Kids in America eat grits like kids in Hawaii eat Poi…or in Australia, marmite!!
@@cberry6751 yep! U r correct! A lot of things were eaten I'm in the South because they were farms and people didn't have a lot of money so they had to make things go a long way that's why they had grits and chicken bag and dumplings and big pots of beans and things like that with rice that would fade a lot of people cheaply and that's what you got used to eat when you were little it was carried down their generations!!
If you don't like our food don't eat it. And many, many American males died over in your country saving you from the Nazis so have some respect.
Cheez Whiz, Velveeta, and "American cheese" are legally "Processed cheese food" but then so is most European Gouda. Ricotta is actually not cheese because it's made from whey and not milk curds. To be legal US cheese it must be:
the , cream, skimmed, or partly skimmed milk, or a combination of some or all of these products, and including any cheese that conforms to the requirements of the Food and Drug Administration for cheeses and related cheese products (21 CFR part 133)
By the whey...I mean way...Wisconsin, Vermont, New York, and Oregon will take on Britain for the best cheese worldwide and often win international prizes.
It could be that hotel needs to clean their A/C.
I can't wait until Joel & Lia come to Canada and discover that there is actually another country in the world besides the US and UK. 🇨🇦🇨🇦
I hope they go to Greece to spite you, also we need more non white culture imma be honest
Definitely no to beans for breakfast and definitely no to blood pudding…
I know this has been said a 100 times but only Hershey's brand is like this. We know the difference. Our other brands are amazing.
Hershey's has an ENTIRE CITY! It can't be that bad😜
@@lindaellis7451 Hershey's may not be to everyone's liking, particularly some Europeans, but their sales around the world indicates there are substantial numbers of people that love their products, butyric acid and all.
What kind of beans? What kind of toast? That seems strange to me. But I agree - haggis will never pass these lips.
Thanksgiving dinner would be incomplete in my house without candied sweet potatoes or yams. They are boiled, peeled, and then simmered or baked with a thick brown sugar and butter glaze. Forget the marshmallows-they look and taste like glue.
I use Honey. Drizzled all over with butter. Yummy.
Brits talking about gross American food is funny to me since you aren't exactly known anywhere in the world for your food (and things like Indian don't count). I'm married to a brit and I can tell you first hand that british food is possibly the most bland food I've ever tasted. And while I don't personally like sweet potato cassarole, we don't pour gravy over it. In fact, we don't pour gravy over most of our plate of food because our food has flavor and doesnt need to be swimming in gravy to be edible. Grits are basically polenta, cheese whiz & velveeta are basically for dipping chips into only. Why would you not put butter on pancakes? brit's put butter on everything, you butter your bread for a tuna mayo sandwich so don't know why us having butter on popcorn/pancakes is strange. Herseys brand chocolate is gross though, I agree.
Europe chocolate use freeze dried milk to get the moisture out. Hershey's slow cooks the milk to remove the moisture and it ends up getting a scald (burnt) flavor. That is why Brits think American chocolate taste sickly.
I love Hersheys. I knew there was something about the taste that was different. I thought maybe they roasted the cocoa beans or something. But I personally enjoy the taste. It's not so sickly sweet. I love the milk chocolate more. The dark chocolate is too strong for my taste.
You just unfriended all of the southern states! Grits is so Southern there version of oatmeal but it's entirely corn!
@STOP CENSORING THE TRUTH!
Malt O meal
**Most Americans wouldn't dream of eating something as vile as Cheez Wiz.
**Grits are basically polenta cooked in a different way.
**I agree with you about American chocolate with the exception of Ghirardelli.
**Most people don't eat sweet potatoes with marshmallows. That was a 1960s casserole thing. Some people still make it because their mom or gran made it. My mom would sparingly use butter and brown sugar.
You are correct on every point!
Poor Americans and Americans who grow up eating "junk food" will eat Cheez Whiz. People outside the US don't often understand how expensive food is for Americans, let alone anything like actual organic produce. It's not affordable for a large percentage of the US population to eat healthy in reality.
Don’t turn your nose up at American chocolate. Some brands may not suit your pallet, but we have so many regional and local chocolate makers that you’d be surprised how much of it you actually like.
This is true of a lot of the products they bring up. While there are the famous national brands and product types like processed cheese spreads which are often mocked the US has every type of product imaginable at every price and quality level. I've had many kinds of chocolate. Cheese made my local farmers. Great microbrews and local wines. Lobster rolls in Maine. Clam Chowder on Cape Cod. Key Lime Pie in Key West.
I do enjoy their presentation style and hearing their opinions. They're fun hosts.
This week: never ever
Next month: introducing a new series in which Joel and Lia try novelty American foods that arrived in a gift box, some of them prepared poorly and others actually vile-- but no way to know which is which ahead of time.
Grits that have a "mushy texture, with bits" are improperly cooked. I prepare them with sharp cheddar & Parmesan cheeses, garlic, butter, salt & pepper and a few dashes of hot sauce. Velvety smooth and delicious!
If the AC is bugging your nose, maybe it's a mold/mildew issue.
Or maybe dust, if it hasn't been used! Guessing here!
Clean the filter or call management to have them change the filter out. Shouldn't have to suffer
I'm American and cannot stand sweet potato casserole with those marshmallows. Disgusting. I used to eat cheez whiz a long time ago before I knew or cared about chemical ingredients in products and foods. Now I don't touch the stuff. You're also right about American chocolate. I've eaten grits and don't mind it as it's simply on par with the taste of oatmeal. Bland. Good video J & L ♡
I've heard Hershey chocolate uses slightly soured milk almost like sour cream which explains why it has a slightly sour taste. I dont think it is bad but just unique. FRESH Reeses cups are pretty much HEAVEN!
I’ve always found Hershey’s to have a particularly unpleasant taste.
I saw a video on it. Apparently, Milton Hershey was looking for a way to produce chocolate that most people could afford at a time when modern refrigeration didn't exist. To keep the milk longer, he added butyric acid, which is a compound that is also found in puke. I can taste it as well, but I guess as an American, it doesn't bother me, since I first had it as a child. And it absolutely is not present in all American chocolate just Hershey's that I'm aware of
Well, apparently, they don't actively add the butyric acid, but it is a result of how they manufacture the chocolate to keep it shelf stable for a longer period of time. Either way, the butyric acid is in there.