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Here in America we sometime call A electric kettle A percolator that boils water. By the way I love tea We get twining tea and tea from Scotland called Taylor's I especially like their Jasmine green tea with honey as A sweetener. I love your friendship chemistry you guys have with each other. I enjoy the British and American difference in cuture I personally really love British history and culture. Also thank you for the good things you say about Usa. I love your videos especially traveling to the Usa and other parts of England as well of other countries sorry for going so long take care of yourselves.
It would be awesome if you guys uplifted the voices of black and POC creators with your platform -- or said literally anything about the racial violence in the US since y'all love America so much.
If that American woman and her daughter making tea in a microwave upset you, you'll understand how we felt when you ate mini pies from Walmart and based your opinion of American pies, like pumpkin or sweet potato, on those. Also, when you've visited the US, you seem to only or mostly go to fast food places as if that's a representation of American cooking. I can't believe you don't go to local restaurants and cafes, even diners, to get a feel for regional American cuisine.
Three great diners are in the Chicago area. 1. Manny's Deli in Chicago on Jefferson Street and Roosevelt Road, just south of the Loop. 2. Harner's Restaurant and Bakery on the Fox River in North Aurora, Illinois. 3. Country Charm Restaurant in New Lenox, Illinois. All three have GREAT AMERICAN FOOD. Come to Chicago and try these restaurants. You will need a car to get to numbers 2 and 3 but within 40 miles from downtown Chicago. Manny's is about a mile or two from the downtown Loop.
I definitely agree with you. I live in Pennsylvania for my entire. And it is extremely rare that I will eat fast food. I would much rather go to an actual real restaurant. Or eat something made mostly from scratch at home. I could never eat that really disgusting fast food junk.
I remember the video of them eating/rating the pumpkin pie I believe. I honestly thought it was a joke and that they'd bring out the real pie eventually.... that wasn't the case. 🤣
8:49 - The title of this clip says "British Foods America Doesn't Have," but unless I'm greatly mistaken, HEINZ is an American food company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania!
Yep. Heinz was founded in America by a German immigrant. Baked beans also originate from America (I understand it to have been popular in the Deep South, but as an Englishman who’s never been to America I’m just basing this on what a I’ve been told!). Heinz is currently owned by the empire-building Kraft who now seem to own the companies that make half of everything we put in our mouths, including Dairy Lea cheese and Cadbury’s Chocolate.
Not sure about the history, Wikipedia was wrong, but U.K. has had beans since 1886. Not sure about the US, but they've been around at least 100 years. Mad Men did an entire episode on Heinz Baked Beans.
In the US, Heinz is known for condiments -- not beans and not soups. As for what Brits call baked beans, Americans know them as pork-n-beans. Many, many companies make them. Stokely van Camp has the lion's share of sales of pork-n-beans in the US. Long ago, there was a bit of pork in each can. Nowadays it's just pork fat.
Americans have to say "Electric Kettle" because when they hear "kettle" they automatically think of a kettle on a stove. Sorry, I can't eat a biscuit/cookie called DIGESTIVE. It makes me think of a laxative.
We generally have stoves in the US and many of us have natural gas stoves, so there is no need for an electric kettle. The only time you hear of an electric kettle is when a kid at college has one because they don’t have a kitchen in their dorm room. They would boil water for ramen noodle or instant oatmeal or grits.
I was going to say the equivalent of an American screwing up a cup of British tea would be a Brit trying to make American sweet tea. Similar name, completely different drink. Like, if heating water in the microwave is triggering, you aren't ready to hear about sun tea 😂
I was blessed to grow up across the street from a British couple and was best friends with their son. They were dear friends of our family and are actually like family to us. We frequently had Thanksgiving meals with them and they introduced me to things like bangers and Yorkshire pudding. LOVE IT. Even though we don't live as near, they still remain dear friends and we make some of their British recipes for our holiday dinners.
"even if it did start in South Africa British people have taken it under their wing, nandos is ours" you just described the history of the British empire lol
@@glendacloud2911 I'm not sure about everywhere in the UK but certainly in my family at least we say beans beans food for the heart, the more you eat the more you fart
@Mark Asher Yeah, when they mentioned Heinz beans I was thinking the same thing...& "Huh? We have Heinz Baked Beans here in the US." (Although I buy Bush's Baked Beans lol)
Americans don't consider baked beans to be a breakfast food, but we definitely do eat them. BTW although Heinz makes baked beans they likely didn't invent them and are better known for their ketchup.
@@dawnjones1471 - If you have access to a Cost Plus World Mart, they sell them there. Also, there are online sellers of Brit food, where they can be ordered. They seem like white Cannellini beans, and the sauce is a bit sweeter and lighter than our American version.
If I'm not mistaken, most kinds of baked beans in America include molasses or brown sugar or some other sweet ingredient, whereas baked beans in the UK don't have that.
@@jpwcpa I'm not so sure...they said "don't get the reduced sugar kind" so that kind of tells me the baked beans they're referencing are like we have in America?
In the US we eat something vaguely similar to your savory pastry. We have “pot pies” they are usually made with chicken or beef along with peas and carrots in a sauce.
Pot pie here is just a bog standard pie. A Cornish Pasty is TOTALLY different, you just hold them and eat straight out of the paper bag from a bakery/pasty shop and they aren't saucy just incredibly flavourful. You are missing out on a goldmine here.
Pot pies are not anything like pasties. My besties mom is British and took us to a pasty shop in Denver, Colorado that reminded her of home. They were so delicious! They weren't saucy and salty like a pot pie would be. The texture, crust and flavor is quite unique and are handheld.
Hob-nobbing means ‘ rubbing elbows’ with the upper classes. We have (i’m sure most places do), a Nob Hill nearby which is essentially a way of saying “that’s where the rich people live”
We call it an electric kettle because there are, also, non-electric kettles that you heat up on the stove. Many Americans of European or Asian descent drink hot tea but we, also, do not typically add milk to tea unless specifically making "chai tea." (don't add milk to green tea, black tea, white tea, chamomile, or fruit teas) Usual additives may include honey, sugar, lemon, etc
Yeah but it’s typically a concentrated liqueur and the drinks they are talking about are concentrates that you just use a few ounces of and then add water. Similar idea.
I absolutely agree with you about the proper way to make tea using an electric kettle. Boiling water in a microwave is a cardinal sin! I've educated my friends on the subject. If they offer me a cup of tea I ask for the water to be boiled in a saucepan. It's a great gift to give because the majority of people here don't own one. I learned a very valuable tip while watching a British television show. The milk should be added first in the cup and then the hot liquid poured in. Makes perfect sense to keep the coffee or tea hot. I like my coffee light with a lot of milk at the bottom. So many servers are not trained and I feel like I have to train them all! LOL I am definitely a coffee snob which is why I prefer to go to a convenience store and make my own if they have a self serve coffee bar. Love your videos. England has a special place in my heart. ♥️. I've spent some time there many years ago when I dated an Englishman. I had many wonderful experiences. Blessings to you both!
In the US a "kettle" is what you put on the stove to heat...So, of course we call a self contained kettle with an electric plug is called (wait for it)...an "Electric Kettle." Is there a "Dryer" in the UK that doesn't tumble?
I think the main difference is that traditional stove-heated kettles are still being used in America whereas in the U.K. their use became less frequent in the 1960s and 70s and were almost obsolete by the 80s. So few people hear their kettle on the stove or hob in the UK so there is no confusion if we don’t differentiate between an electric an non electric kettle. In the last 25 years the only time I e seen a traditional kettle used is on a portable gas stove on a camping site. My grandmother used to use one when I was a kid and it had a whistle on it so you could tell when it reached boiling point. Electric kettles are so much more convenient, but they don’t have the charm of a traditional kettle.
I totally agree with you. For example, there are restaurants/bars in America that serve Scotch eggs here and some of them have been mentioned in the comments on this page.
Yeah. Most American grocery stores will have a UK foods section in their international aisle with Heinz beans, British Cadbury, digestives, etc. My Wegmans has plenty of it. It’s just not something I’d buy. We have high-end American brands of chocolate I’d probably go to first, just because I think they’re nicer than British Cadbury.
Hi, guys! I love the channel! I just need to inform you of the fact that electric kettles are definitely a thing in the States and are actually quite common. They're available at any retail store; like Sears, Best Buy, "Bed, Bath, and Beyond", Home Depot, Target, Walmart, etc... Stay safe! Cheers!
Joel❤️❤️ & Lia STILL cute even after the quarantine, while I gain weight eating all this Navajo food and Frybread 😂😂😂 btw! You guys should do a video exploring American Indian cultures! We are diverse and our food is unique. Love you guys!!
@Tee Moore I'm Cherokee/Creek & I absolutely LOVE your idea! Wouldn't it be great if they went to different parts of the country & tried different Nation's food? They could also compare fry bread & other foods we all have in common & see a difference in how they're made & taste. So many different ideas concerning YOUR original idea come to mind! Hopefully they see this & decide it's worth trying. Again....I LOVE your idea! : )
hen they were first invented in1839 they were indeed thought to help with digestion because of the ingredient. Later this was found not to be the case but the name was never changed.
I'm an American who likes tea. I never order tea at a restaurant. I just make it and drink it at home. A local "British" pub makes Cornish pasties. Love them. I buy Heinz beans imported from the UK and make beans on toast. The way you eat Yorkshire pudding reminds me of biscuits and gravy here in the States. My sister buys imported Digestives.
Yes, I can attest to that. 5 years ago, we bought 15 cans of Heinz beans and brought them to our British friends living in Mexico because they couldn't get them there. We found them in the "international" section.
Same! The most well known ones are from Jordan Pond House in Bar Harbor in Acadia National Park!! (If you’re from ME, I apologize because you’d already know this 😊)
Oh my gosh Mic, I love Jordan's Pond House! 🥰 After hiking down Cadillac Mountain, it was always our tradition to stop at Jordan's Pond House for the lobster stew with popovers and some Cadillac Mountain stout. 😋
@@nicolefinley4759 I've been there and oh yes they are yummy! My mom use to make popovers years ago and we filled them with a variety of things depending on what we happened to be eating at the time. Sweet or savory
4:23 I live in the Phoenix area in Arizona and there actually is a chain of restaurants which serve Cornish pasties; I’ve tried them and they *are* good!
Uhhh...corndogs? Cornmeal is used to make cornbread. I was confused over her remark about muffin tins and cupcake tins being different. In my family they are the same.
American here, been to UK... Had a scotch egg on America from a British pub, but the egg was hard boiled. British Cadburry is better than Hersey, but neither is as a good as real good chocolates you can find in either country. Know nothing of Reibina, You can find pastys here, at British pubs, but I can't find a steak and ale pie, they only have steak and mushroom pies. Never had Nandos. The things I miss from my trip to the UK, that I either have trouble finding here, or it just isn't the same are Sticky Toffee Pudding (I can occasionally find it), Millionaire Shortbread (finally found a place for it, but I have to order it online), Steak and Ale Pie, Pimm's Lemonade, Crabbies ginger beer, and clotted cream... I can find all of those (except steak and ale pie), but it's a pain... Oh... Also British chips like the various Indian flavors and picked onion. (I import them)
Lia: “A Scotch egg, it’s not fried is it?” Come on now, it’s Scottish Lia, of course a scotch egg is fried. 😄 My mum makes homemade ones and they are the best. 😁
Alison Smith You put Scotch in the name it automatically becomes Scottish, we claim it as our own lol 😄. And it isn’t necessarily “completely English either.” The origins of the food can be traced back to places as far as a Northern Africa or even India. The Fortnum and Maison version is only one of it’s more recent incarnations.
My besties mom is British and makes Scotch eggs for the holidays, but she fries them on a skillet. The are so delicious! My favorite are wrapped in maple breakfast sausage! To die for!! You know when she is really pleased with you when she makes them for you special.
Bierocks (pastry with meat) is common in the US. Grew up eating them. Also, Target has Heinz beans. Side note : you can't get Thanksgiving dinner wrong. There's traditional that most eat, but it's not a must serve or your wrong type of situation.
Fabulous! Loved it all! But beg to differ about Yorkshire Pudding - My family has made it for years with a Prime Rib roast dinner. Just stunning! There is another version called a Popover that has a really crusty top and is a bit drier. So good!!!
Yeah, I grew up with it being fairly common for Sunday dinners as well. I think it is more of a home cooking thing than something you'd eat in a restaurant, for the most part.
Sweeties , there are plenty of savory pastries in the Southern States... At least my part of the South anyway... LOL! I lived in England for a time and I found that I needed to eat English Chocolate different from how I would eat chocolate in the states. For me American chocolate is good when you just bite into it and chew. English Chocolate is good bitten and then you let it melt on your tongue.. to savor it... Just my opinion though. Just to let you know Nando's is in the states too, went their last week... it was Good as always... LOL! I truly miss Yorkshire puddings, for me it reminds me of what we would consider a popover or a muffin that didn't rise in the middle... But they're delicious, especially with gravy! We have baked beans here, but they're a side dish not anything we would have on toast.
Texas has thousands of little shops that sell pastries that we call kolaches (ko-la-cheez). There are sweet ones and savory ones. I like the ones with sausage inside. If you find yourselves in Texas again, try some!
British sausages rolls are made with a roll of raw bulk sausage which cooks in the savory pastry. Sausage kolache ( properly called klobasniki by Polish, Czech and German ancestry Central Texans) use cases smoked sausage wrapped in the sweeter kolache dough. So same but different, and I love bakery made and my homemade batches of both.
@@johnbowers6258 Hey John, like Jerry stated, kolaches can be savory and sweet. Savory kolaches are made with meat and pastry like British sausage rolls. Jerry wrote about Texas, but Utah has a restaurant called Hruska's Kolaches and they sell sweet and savory kolaches (their family is Czech). _[Extra for those who are interested]_ We have Amish meat pies (I live on the east coast and there are Amish farmers markets in the north, and you can buy them their or look up a recipes if you don't want to drive...). Also, Michigan has "hand meat pies" (or pasty). And while there are not many, other states do have their own version of meat pies. And I'm African American, but I grew up eating Jamaican patties and empanadas (mostly Mexican). I feel like almost every country has their own version of meat and dough (fried or baked).
I actually make Yorkshire Puddings all the time here in Texas. I always thought they were hard to make, but once I found a recipe, I realized it's simple!
Of course, here in Canada we have all of those things as well as British sections in our grocery stores. 😀. I also know how to make a proper cup of tea!
We have British sections in our grocery stores in America too. I can get any of the things they mentioned in this video in my supermarket...digestives, British Cadbury, British style Heinz beans (which is an American company anyhow). But honestly, I think we just tend to like other foods better. I do enjoy the British brand of lemon curd they sell, because I’m usually a bit too lazy to make my own. ;-)
We have cider. Alcoholic cider is usually referred to as Hard Cider. The stuff you get from the cider mill has no alcohol. We also have lager. 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
My husband and I went to the UK a couple of years ago and fell in love with Nando's. We even brought a bunch of Peri Peri sauce back with us. Unfortunately we do not have a Nando's in California how I was very happily surprised when our local grocery store started selling Peri Peri sauces. Now my husband and I can get a little of our Nando's fix.
Yes Keith from the Try Guys Channel did a review of it at the Chicago location and said it was really good and they had the best salads. I've heard people be called a knob before meaning they were an idiot around the New England area.
I have had British chocolate and I prefer American but it’s what I’m use to. I do buy Nandos sauce and make my own Nandos chicken. Actually made some today.
1. Cadbury's in the US in the '70 was imported from the UK and my mother would buy it, but it was a treat because it was expensive & so rich & delicious... After Hershey's got involved & started producing it here they ruined it... 2. Yorkshire Pudding (muffin style) = Popovers 3. Proper English Tea, depending on where you live, if tea houses are popular it is made properly. Boston Tea Party changed America's tea drinking forever...
heat water,( do not boil) place loose tea in a tea ball, heat pot with hot water, pour water in a bowl, add fresh hot water to pot, let tea in ball steep 10 min or more if you like darker tea, serve in warmed cup add lump sugar or cream as you like.
American here... To explain it to the American kids who haven’t had it, the Cornwall pastries were fixed for miners many, many decades ago. They were the original “Hot Pocket,” and think of a Shepard’s Pie in a handheld delivery system! So, so good.
I was totally thinking of hot pockets during their description. The only difference is that hot pockets are full of preservatives and taste like trash (so typical American food).
We have Pot Pies which are savory meat pies in an aluminum pie tin. They are Chicken, turkey, or beef and the better quality ones have crust on the bottom too.
Come visit Wisconsin. Pasties are extremely popular here. Also in Minnesota and the U.P. Immigrants from Cornwall came to work in the mines here and pasties have been a staple ever since.
Hello from Colorado, I’m half brit and I know y’all say everyone in England has a plug in kettle but my Mum won’t buy one. She still puts a copper kettle on the stove. I buy PGTips and it is good tea but my guess is it will be dated compared to the UK. So is Tizer on your list? When I was in the sixth grade we went to England for three weeks in the 70’s. I remember Tizer and Sherbert with black licorice. Oh and Swiss rolls. I also visited on my Honeymoon in the 80’s and had a great time, had to have beens and toast the day I left for home at breakfast.
I wonder if the difference in the taste of the tea is not in the tea at all, but in the water...or maybe in the milk...maybe your cows eat a different kind of grass or maybe it is processed differently? idk
The first thing my students always noticed (back when I took kids overseas) was the difference between American foods and British equivalents. Cadbury, McDonalds, etc. just different
Oh my God-they are frickin’ amazing. I buy them in the British section of my Chicago grocery store. Along with PG Tips tea-that’ll get you going in the morning!
I make my own Scottish eggs, so good! I always loaded my suitcase with Cadbury's when I went from England to the states!! Oh I am hungry now!! I make my grandkids beans on toast as I did my own kids. You are making me long for England. Yorkshire Pudding with mashed potatoes and gravy.....oh don't stop. You are so right about tea!!
I love Yorkshire pudding. My grandmother was English and she would make the most lovely beef roast with Yorkshire pudding. Oh, I miss it and I miss her! I love English tea as well. I lived abroad for a long time and we drank real English tea. Miss that, too.
I will say this AGAIN! We use STOVETOP KETTLES in the US. The reason we do this is because our electrical currents run at a lower wattage than they do in Europe, so it actually takes longer for a standard electric kettle to heat water than one put on the stove and heated that way.
I’d love to see your supporting evidence for this statement. A quick internet search gives me at least 3 different sources saying an electric kettle heats water faster than a kettle on the stove. In fact its listed as a selling point on 6 different brands of kettles on Amazon. My cheap electric kettle heats water several minutes faster than it takes if I use the stove.
Have had a number if electric kettles in the US, my sister got is into then after she lived in Manchester for a few years getting her masters... Electric kettles are WAY WAY WAY faster
American here Scotch Eggs: Unfortunately, they have gone out of vogue in America but occasionally do see them on menus. Cadburys: My Canadian wife will concur your observation. Pasty: YES, my English grandmother made them for me as a child. I actually know how to make one or will drive 72 K to buy one Tea: Tetley in the pantry and Wedgwood for special occasions. Again my Canadian wife, knows how to make a proper tea.
Lol Lia you are so triggered by that Tick tock haha. 😂😂 Hobnobs just sound so very British. We don't make tea in the microwave at my house we have a stove top kettle, kids love the whistle when it's ready. Sun brewed ice tea is divine on a hot summer day, used to make that wirh my grandmother when I was a child. Thanks for the video!!😃
We've had Nando's in the Chicago area for at least a year and a half, and my local grocery store sells Ribena and Heinz beans in the British section in the "flavors of the world" aisle. I still miss England terribly though. Can't wait until the quarantine requirement goes away!
Brit in Connecticut here....I make all the goodies you can’t buy in the shops, sausage rolls, scotch eggs, pasties of every variety, proper bread, yummy quiches and of course, the Great British cuppa!(I have a huge bag of PG Tips on top of my fridge!! Chocolate here tends to have edible wax in it which elevates the melting point so it doesn’t melt in hot weather but I get mine from Aldi as it comes from Europe!
A few places in the US serve scotch eggs. I saw, on telly, a food cart, selling them in New York City. / Also, several British pubs, over here, offer pasties, with which many Americans are familiar. The only savory pie, cherished as real American, is chicken pot pie. Try it, next time you're here. / Heinz beans are very popular here, but NOT for breakfast, altho they are available at some breakfast buffets. They often accompany hot dogs or barbecue. / To "hobknob" means to associate, to socialize, with certain people; such as to "hobknob with celebrities," to "hobknob with the criminal element," to "hobnob with the elite," etc. "Knob" means the same here, but is not used by as many or as frequently.
I've made scotch eggs before, it's very easy actually. I can tell you how if you like. (I live in Alabama) Also, we have World Market and I have found lots of UK brands there.
We have baked beens. We usually have it with or at BBQs. I just had some this weekend. Bush Baked beans advertise her all the same. I have tea all the time and love my electric kettle makes life easy.
I was introduced to pasties by my ex wife from Grass Valley California, wich was a gold mining town. We had Cornish Pasties served at our wedding reception.
Thank you! Yes, Grass Valley is the sister city to Cornwall. And every December we hold Cornish Christmas, to celebrate the miners and Cornish history. ❤
@@directorMASC There was a pastie shop called "King Richard's" in Grass Valley. And for a time in the 1990s there were a couple of pastie shops in Sacramento as well.
Sounds delicious. I recently ordered the Pimm’s Jam that Lia mentioned in another video. British Corner sells it online. It’s probably the best jam I’ve ever had. It’s the mint!
Still makes pasties regularly. My great grandfather was from Cornwall. He immigrated to the U.P of Michigan as a miner. We make them once a month and freeze them for the rest of the month.
Makes me so hungry for Nando's and ready to return to the UK to have it again. Nando's really needs to sponsor you two with all the free publicity that you give them. You're the reason that I went and loved it.
There are Nando's restaurants in the East Coast. I live in the DC area and I ate there pretty often before Covid 19. *Note* Pretty often is for me is about 5 times a year, I don't eat fast food often. I mostly cook because it's cheaper.
The state of Michigan is obsessed with pasties. Cornish immigrants settled in the Upper Peninsula to work in the coal and Iron ore mines. "Cornwall Yoopers" brought their pasty recipes with them. Pasties a plenty in the U.P. and throughout the state. The Yooper version adds rutabaga to the mix.
I like Heintz baked beans. However, I add brown sugar, ketchup, onion, and bacon then put them in the oven for about an hour and a half. I don't like beans poured into a saucepan and heated. It's just bland. Almost forgot, I also put a small amount of Worcestershire Sauce in it. The best!
Yorkshire Puddings are cooked in oil, or if you want to go old school lard or beef dripping. It gets preheated in the oven almost to smoking point and the batter is poured into the hot fat and starts sizzling, when they go in the oven they will puff up golden and airy. Butter would burn before it got hot enough.
Growing up, my best friend’s mom was English. I learned the proper way to make tea, I’ve had Scottish eggs, plum pudding, lots of British goodies. I’ve learned to make a lot of the things you mentioned. We had a British pub (run by ex-pats) in Nashville. I love pease pudding and a lot of other goodies!
Have known about Scotch eggs so think I will make them tomorrow. Also when you mentioned the cordial I have a wonderful recipe & used to make my own & bottle it. It would barely last a week but had to give it up because of so much sugar. Love Tetley Tea, being from USA always had it Iced. We had a tea kettle always on the stove, never an electric one. You all are so young so may not know about those. We were so picky about the brewing of Tetley Tea we used an enamel pan to boil the water & steep the tea. That pan could never be used for anything else. Yorkshire Pudding, very similar to what we call popovers. My friend made popovers every morning & we carpooled to work. I drove & it was such a treat to have a warm popover brought out to me every morning wrapped in a linen napkin. I told her not to use her good napkins, paper would be fine. She had never used paper napkins or paper towels. She was from Australia. I wish you had explained clotted cream. That is somthing people in USA do not know about. Pasty’s are somthing that people up North & Northeast make. Especially for miners to take for lunch. Sort of a n entire meal in a pastrie. Personally I think fast food is awful. I also hate Cadbury here in the USA. Did not know it was different in England. I enjoy your videos, & you all always make me laugh. A nice respite from the quarantining & watching people destroy, burn, loot, & murder. Thank you so much.
In America there is a saying that we don’t have any British restaurants because British food is not good. Glad to hear there are other foods other than Fish and Chips and Shepherds Pie.
never understood the "british food isn't good thing" its odd to me at how many people in US seem to believe it, if they'd just looked it up on the internet I'm sure they'd find plenty of british dishes that are very nice that we eat, especially Americans who say our food is bad yet have never been to the UK before or even tried a british meal, not sure I follow that logic there. How can you say a countries food is bad yet never tried it yourself?
Piper charms I think we don’t have much of an opportunity. I live in the Midwest, and before that San Diego, CA and Miami, FL. I know of Italian, French, German, Chinese, Korean, Indian, Japanese, Thai, Mexican, Brazilian, Ugandan, Egyptian, Lebanese, Jamaican, Haitian, Cuban restaurants....just to name a few. I haven’t ever seen a British restaurant.
Daveogarf That’s great news, unfortunately it’s not my experience. I haven’t been to an Irish Pub in several years, maybe some of them serve some English fare.
Nando’s has taken off at least in the D.C., Maryland, Virginia metropolitan area. Hope they’re here to stay after the Covid crisis. They have been a great addition to the many options we have food wise here.
I have tried most of these. There is an import store in Plymouth Massachusetts that I go to from time to time and I am able to purchase the items or the items to make them.
Sandra Alberto I ate Nando’s in Chicago, too. A number of years ago, no less. It was pretty good, but I don’t really get the fierce love for it that Brits have.
@@ninaradio The nandos menu that you guys have in the US and the way they prepare the food are both different to the nandos in the UK. Whie I really enjoy it here, the nandos in Australia was terrible so it definitely differs where you go in the world
he says it like "raunch" (raunchy), same sound in "launch", I noticed that too ... :) if I heard it in an unknown context my brain would be in pain trying to put it together as to what he's talking about ... raunch :) .... raunch(y) dressing :) but he's adorable so that's his unique feature :)
@@_rhea.b_1305 I could see that point of view for sure... just for argument sake though, if someone insists on owning a language, I can't but say - "ranch dressing" is from the US, therefore ... :) so whenever I hear different I think they are not talking about the real ranch dressing but rather about something else ... :)
Baked Beans... Navy bean in tomato sauce, America we add BBQ sauce... Honey or Brown sugar.. Disney films made about England... Mary Poppins , Bed Knobs and Broom Sticks.. We just threw the Tea in Boston Harbor... a long time ago...
Hobnob means “to associate with on friendly terms”. It’s an old word that was around in Shakespeare’s time which means “a little of this and a little of that”. It’s an old fashioned word that only pops up sparingly
I totally agree on the chocolate - UK - amazing - Canada - trash Nandos we have in Canada as well. Again, UK - amazing - Canada - trash I make yorkshire pudding a few times a year, definitely different proportions of ingredients to pancakes and you should actually cook them in lard/fat/oil at the bottom of the muffin tin. Make sure the oil is hot first in the oven before putting your batter in or they will not turn out! I had a friend that loved his tea like "gnats piss". Well, why bother then?
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Here in America we sometime call A electric kettle A percolator that boils water. By the way I love tea We get twining tea and tea from Scotland called Taylor's I especially like their Jasmine green tea with honey as A sweetener. I love your friendship chemistry you guys have with each other. I enjoy the British and American difference in cuture I personally really love British history and culture. Also thank you for the good things you say about Usa. I love your videos especially traveling to the Usa and other parts of England as well of other countries sorry for going so long take care of yourselves.
It would be awesome if you guys uplifted the voices of black and POC creators with your platform -- or said literally anything about the racial violence in the US since y'all love America so much.
If that American woman and her daughter making tea in a microwave upset you, you'll understand how we felt when you ate mini pies from Walmart and based your opinion of American pies, like pumpkin or sweet potato, on those. Also, when you've visited the US, you seem to only or mostly go to fast food places as if that's a representation of American cooking. I can't believe you don't go to local restaurants and cafes, even diners, to get a feel for regional American cuisine.
Three great diners are in the Chicago area. 1. Manny's Deli in Chicago on Jefferson Street and Roosevelt Road, just south of the Loop. 2. Harner's Restaurant and Bakery on the Fox River in North Aurora, Illinois. 3. Country Charm Restaurant in New Lenox, Illinois. All three have GREAT AMERICAN FOOD. Come to Chicago and try these restaurants. You will need a car to get to numbers 2 and 3 but within 40 miles from downtown Chicago. Manny's is about a mile or two from the downtown Loop.
They need to go to a Mom & Pop bakery for apple or sweet potato pie
I definitely agree with you. I live in Pennsylvania for my entire. And it is extremely rare that I will eat fast food. I would much rather go to an actual real restaurant. Or eat something made mostly from scratch at home. I could never eat that really disgusting fast food junk.
Yes! Please stop eating pie from Walmart! Gah!!
I remember the video of them eating/rating the pumpkin pie I believe. I honestly thought it was a joke and that they'd bring out the real pie eventually.... that wasn't the case. 🤣
British chocolate, while wonderful, has a melting point that can’t handle the south. That is why Hershey’s was so popular during WW2
Hershey’s probably has plastic in it let’s be honest
8:49 - The title of this clip says "British Foods America Doesn't Have," but unless I'm greatly mistaken, HEINZ is an American food company headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania!
I was watching this video like have y’all never been to Pennsylvania 😂
Yep. Heinz was founded in America by a German immigrant. Baked beans also originate from America (I understand it to have been popular in the Deep South, but as an Englishman who’s never been to America I’m just basing this on what a I’ve been told!). Heinz is currently owned by the empire-building Kraft who now seem to own the companies that make half of everything we put in our mouths, including Dairy Lea cheese and Cadbury’s Chocolate.
Not sure about the history, Wikipedia was wrong, but U.K. has had beans since 1886. Not sure about the US, but they've been around at least 100 years. Mad Men did an entire episode on Heinz Baked Beans.
In the US, Heinz is known for condiments -- not beans and not soups. As for what Brits call baked beans, Americans know them as pork-n-beans. Many, many companies make them. Stokely van Camp has the lion's share of sales of pork-n-beans in the US. Long ago, there was a bit of pork in each can. Nowadays it's just pork fat.
@@lindaellis7451 baked beans have been around since colonial times--but we don't eat them for breakfast or put on toast.
Americans have to say "Electric Kettle" because when they hear "kettle" they automatically think of a kettle on a stove. Sorry, I can't eat a biscuit/cookie called DIGESTIVE. It makes me think of a laxative.
Why would anyone think that was a good idea for a food item name. I was thinking the same thing
We generally have stoves in the US and many of us have natural gas stoves, so there is no need for an electric kettle. The only time you hear of an electric kettle is when a kid at college has one because they don’t have a kitchen in their dorm room. They would boil water for ramen noodle or instant oatmeal or grits.
Well I can assure you you'd be missing out because they are DELICIOUS!
@@ey1806 It doesn't matter the taste if the name is repulsive.
I always think about it being a laxative, too.
I was going to say the equivalent of an American screwing up a cup of British tea would be a Brit trying to make American sweet tea. Similar name, completely different drink. Like, if heating water in the microwave is triggering, you aren't ready to hear about sun tea 😂
Oh my God-Sun tea is amazing!! Hmmmm..it is blazing outside right now. I think I am going to go make some!!!
I was blessed to grow up across the street from a British couple and was best friends with their son. They were dear friends of our family and are actually like family to us. We frequently had Thanksgiving meals with them and they introduced me to things like bangers and Yorkshire pudding. LOVE IT. Even though we don't live as near, they still remain dear friends and we make some of their British recipes for our holiday dinners.
"even if it did start in South Africa British people have taken it under their wing, nandos is ours" you just described the history of the British empire lol
I don’t want to. The worker, I have a birthday note…
Sorry… There’s something wrong with my phone. I said in America we say beans beans the musical fruit...the more you eat the more you toot
@@glendacloud2911 I'm not sure about everywhere in the UK but certainly in my family at least we say beans beans food for the heart, the more you eat the more you fart
@@glendacloud2911 the more you toot the better you feel so let's have beans for every meal😊
That's a crazy autocorrect 😂😂😂
Guys, Heinz is an American brand founded by Henry John Heinz in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1869.
@Mark Asher Yeah, when they mentioned Heinz beans I was thinking the same thing...& "Huh? We have Heinz Baked Beans here in the US." (Although I buy Bush's Baked Beans lol)
Americans don't consider baked beans to be a breakfast food, but we definitely do eat them. BTW although Heinz makes baked beans they likely didn't invent them and are better known for their ketchup.
@@dawnjones1471 - The British variety come in a blue can, and they're different but good.
@@daveogarf I'd love to try them!
@@dawnjones1471 - If you have access to a Cost Plus World Mart, they sell them there. Also, there are online sellers of Brit food, where they can be ordered. They seem like white Cannellini beans, and the sauce is a bit sweeter and lighter than our American version.
In the US, hobnob has a particular meaning: "mix socially, especially with those of higher social status"
It's commonly used in the south.
Susan Lee remember icarly
Like ‘rubbing shoulders’!👍
@@janetstraw191 Sadly, we cannot do that now and may never again.
It means both here in the UK.
It is BOLD to say that the US doesn't have baked beans.
If I'm not mistaken, most kinds of baked beans in America include molasses or brown sugar or some other sweet ingredient, whereas baked beans in the UK don't have that.
@@jpwcpa I'm not so sure...they said "don't get the reduced sugar kind" so that kind of tells me the baked beans they're referencing are like we have in America?
Boston is known as "bean town" afterall.
its not BRITISH baked beans so it isn't THE baked beans
Didn't baked beans, such as Heinz, originate here in the U.S.?
In the US we eat something vaguely similar to your savory pastry. We have “pot pies” they are usually made with chicken or beef along with peas and carrots in a sauce.
Pot pie here is just a bog standard pie. A Cornish Pasty is TOTALLY different, you just hold them and eat straight out of the paper bag from a bakery/pasty shop and they aren't saucy just incredibly flavourful. You are missing out on a goldmine here.
Michael Doyle I was thinking it’s more like a hot pocket.
Definitely not like American pot pies or hot pockets! Soooo much better
Pot pies are not anything like pasties. My besties mom is British and took us to a pasty shop in Denver, Colorado that reminded her of home. They were so delicious! They weren't saucy and salty like a pot pie would be. The texture, crust and flavor is quite unique and are handheld.
Cheryl Parrish salty pot pies?
Hob-nobbing means ‘ rubbing elbows’ with the upper classes.
We have (i’m sure most places do), a Nob Hill nearby which is essentially a way of saying “that’s where the rich people live”
We call it an electric kettle because there are, also, non-electric kettles that you heat up on the stove. Many Americans of European or Asian descent drink hot tea but we, also, do not typically add milk to tea unless specifically making "chai tea." (don't add milk to green tea, black tea, white tea, chamomile, or fruit teas) Usual additives may include honey, sugar, lemon, etc
In the US a Kettle is something we put on the stove to heat water. An Electric Kettle is one you plug in to heat water.
And the end result, boiling water, is exactly the same. As is boiling water from a micro wave. Wait til they discover instant boiling water faucets...
Coffee pot.
@@dilsnikdilznik Yeah it doesn't make any difference how water gets to 212 F.
“Cordial” in the states is alcohol , not fruit juice.
Yeah but it’s typically a concentrated liqueur and the drinks they are talking about are concentrates that you just use a few ounces of and then add water. Similar idea.
I don't drink, but I know of cordials as chocolate covered cherries that they usually sell around Christmas.
MrAdrenaline1982 those are delicious 🥰
Stephanie Robinson their cordial is like our Sunny Delight 😝 it’s yucky
I absolutely agree with you about the proper way to make tea using an electric kettle. Boiling water in a microwave is a cardinal sin! I've educated my friends on the subject. If they offer me a cup of tea I ask for the water to be boiled in a saucepan. It's a great gift to give because the majority of people here don't own one. I learned a very valuable tip while watching a British television show. The milk should be added first in the cup and then the hot liquid poured in. Makes perfect sense to keep the coffee or tea hot. I like my coffee light with a lot of milk at the bottom. So many servers are not trained and I feel like I have to train them all! LOL I am definitely a coffee snob which is why I prefer to go to a convenience store and make my own if they have a self serve coffee bar.
Love your videos. England has a special place in my heart. ♥️. I've spent some time there many years ago when I dated an Englishman. I had many wonderful experiences. Blessings to you both!
You drop “electric” from “electric kettle” like we dropped (or never said) “tumble dryer;” we just say “dryer.”
Or dropping the "electric" from the word "flashlight". Pure torture, I know ... :-)
Or we say tumble - you just stick the washing in the tumble when it's ready.
In the US a "kettle" is what you put on the stove to heat...So, of course we call a self contained kettle with an electric plug is called (wait for it)...an "Electric Kettle."
Is there a "Dryer" in the UK that doesn't tumble?
We say dryerr to in UK
I think the main difference is that traditional stove-heated kettles are still being used in America whereas in the U.K. their use became less frequent in the 1960s and 70s and were almost obsolete by the 80s. So few people hear their kettle on the stove or hob in the UK so there is no confusion if we don’t differentiate between an electric an non electric kettle. In the last 25 years the only time I e seen a traditional kettle used is on a portable gas stove on a camping site. My grandmother used to use one when I was a kid and it had a whistle on it so you could tell when it reached boiling point. Electric kettles are so much more convenient, but they don’t have the charm of a traditional kettle.
This is America. If you look hard enough, you can find everything on your list somewhere.
I totally agree with you. For example, there are restaurants/bars in America that serve Scotch eggs here and some of them have been mentioned in the comments on this page.
Yeah. Most American grocery stores will have a UK foods section in their international aisle with Heinz beans, British Cadbury, digestives, etc. My Wegmans has plenty of it. It’s just not something I’d buy. We have high-end American brands of chocolate I’d probably go to first, just because I think they’re nicer than British Cadbury.
Exactly, our local supermarket has everything they mentioned. Also, we do have Yorkshire Pudding as well. It's the same recipe used to make Popovers!
What an American thing to say🙄
We call Yorkshire pudding/ popovers. My mom made them all the time.
Hi, guys! I love the channel!
I just need to inform you of the fact that electric kettles are definitely a thing in the States and are actually quite common. They're available at any retail store; like Sears, Best Buy, "Bed, Bath, and Beyond", Home Depot, Target, Walmart, etc...
Stay safe!
Cheers!
Joel❤️❤️ & Lia STILL cute even after the quarantine, while I gain weight eating all this Navajo food and Frybread 😂😂😂 btw! You guys should do a video exploring American Indian cultures! We are diverse and our food is unique. Love you guys!!
Would love to see that. My dad lived with the Navajo people for a few years and I love the Navajo food he makes.
Andi James oh my gosh really?? That’s so awesome! I’m glad you have experienced the culture a bit! That’s so cool!!
Tee Moore What a fabulous suggestion! I hope they consider that.
Corinne Florin Ooh I’m hoping too!! ❤️❤️
@Tee Moore I'm Cherokee/Creek & I absolutely LOVE your idea! Wouldn't it be great if they went to different parts of the country & tried different Nation's food? They could also compare fry bread & other foods we all have in common & see a difference in how they're made & taste. So many different ideas concerning YOUR original idea come to mind! Hopefully they see this & decide it's worth trying. Again....I LOVE your idea! : )
'Digestives' sounds unappealing. It sounds like something that helps you control explosive diarrhea.
hen they were first invented in1839 they were indeed thought to help with digestion because of the ingredient. Later this was found not to be the case but the name was never changed.
Digestives are very good, they are perfect with tea or horlicks.
Every single video you made of you eating Walmart versions of food you brought back from your trip was equivalent of the mom and daughter making tea.
I'm an American who likes tea. I never order tea at a restaurant. I just make it and drink it at home.
A local "British" pub makes Cornish pasties. Love them.
I buy Heinz beans imported from the UK and make beans on toast.
The way you eat Yorkshire pudding reminds me of biscuits and gravy here in the States.
My sister buys imported Digestives.
We have Heinz baked beans, Americans just prefer Bush's baked beans. We usually eat them when we grill and barbecue.
Bush's of course...we should send a can over and convert them to the one true baked bean.
Yes, I can attest to that. 5 years ago, we bought 15 cans of Heinz beans and brought them to our British friends living in Mexico because they couldn't get them there. We found them in the "international" section.
We actually have Yorkshire Pudding but they are called Pop Overs here
Same! The most well known ones are from Jordan Pond House in Bar Harbor in Acadia National Park!! (If you’re from ME, I apologize because you’d already know this 😊)
Oh my gosh Mic, I love Jordan's Pond House! 🥰 After hiking down Cadillac Mountain, it was always our tradition to stop at Jordan's Pond House for the lobster stew with popovers and some Cadillac Mountain stout. 😋
@@nicolefinley4759 I've been there and oh yes they are yummy! My mom use to make popovers years ago and we filled them with a variety of things depending on what we happened to be eating at the time. Sweet or savory
Kinda different as in Yorkshire pudding traditionally beef fat is spooned into the Yorkshire molds.
@@lilamk5 yup. popovers are traditionally buttered molds.
I've had a scotch egg at an upscale beer bar in Chicago. It was delicious. Definitely something I wish was more readily available in the states.
You can find them at Old World pubs, Renaissance Faires, and fine purveyors of UK foods. Plus, they're easy to make. Many recipes on the internet.
Don’t know for sure, but I suspect there were kettles before electricity.
4:23 I live in the Phoenix area in Arizona and there actually is a chain of restaurants which serve Cornish pasties; I’ve tried them and they *are* good!
Joel and Lia: "They don't have meat wrapped in bread."
Tacos: "Am I nothing to you?"
Not bread lol
Uhhh...corndogs? Cornmeal is used to make cornbread. I was confused over her remark about muffin tins and cupcake tins being different. In my family they are the same.
@@kidscats3952 Same. I have never even heard of muffin tins and cupcake tins not being the same thing
Empanadas. Calzones. Doesn’t every culture have meat wrapped in bread? Mmm.
@@kidscats3952 I think muffin tins are technically a bit bigger in size but I just use a cupcake tin for both.
Yoopers eat pasties. (For those who don't remember the Michigan slang video, they're people from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.)
Very popular in Wisconsin as well!
American here, been to UK... Had a scotch egg on America from a British pub, but the egg was hard boiled. British Cadburry is better than Hersey, but neither is as a good as real good chocolates you can find in either country. Know nothing of Reibina, You can find pastys here, at British pubs, but I can't find a steak and ale pie, they only have steak and mushroom pies. Never had Nandos.
The things I miss from my trip to the UK, that I either have trouble finding here, or it just isn't the same are Sticky Toffee Pudding (I can occasionally find it), Millionaire Shortbread (finally found a place for it, but I have to order it online), Steak and Ale Pie, Pimm's Lemonade, Crabbies ginger beer, and clotted cream... I can find all of those (except steak and ale pie), but it's a pain... Oh... Also British chips like the various Indian flavors and picked onion. (I import them)
Lia: “A Scotch egg, it’s not fried is it?”
Come on now, it’s Scottish Lia, of course a scotch egg is fried. 😄 My mum makes homemade ones and they are the best. 😁
Scotch eggs aren't Scottish but completely English, invented by Fortnum and Mason, way back for posh people's picnics.
Alison Smith You put Scotch in the name it automatically becomes Scottish, we claim it as our own lol 😄.
And it isn’t necessarily “completely English either.” The origins of the food can be traced back to places as far as a Northern Africa or even India. The Fortnum and Maison version is only one of it’s more recent incarnations.
@@pauliedoodle1939 Still isn't a Scottish incantion, but an English one, and I wouldn't call the 1700s fairly recent unless you live in Brigadoon.
My besties mom is British and makes Scotch eggs for the holidays, but she fries them on a skillet. The are so delicious! My favorite are wrapped in maple breakfast sausage! To die for!! You know when she is really pleased with you when she makes them for you special.
@@alisonsmith4801 True, but they are fried nonetheless.
Bierocks (pastry with meat) is common in the US. Grew up eating them. Also, Target has Heinz beans. Side note : you can't get Thanksgiving dinner wrong. There's traditional that most eat, but it's not a must serve or your wrong type of situation.
Fabulous! Loved it all! But beg to differ about Yorkshire Pudding - My family has made it for years with a Prime Rib roast dinner. Just stunning! There is another version called a Popover that has a really crusty top and is a bit drier. So good!!!
What is the proper form with the warm-up with her all afternoon and have a better side
My mother made them with roast beef, popovers and gravy!
Yeah, I grew up with it being fairly common for Sunday dinners as well. I think it is more of a home cooking thing than something you'd eat in a restaurant, for the most part.
Sweeties , there are plenty of savory pastries in the Southern States... At least my part of the South anyway... LOL! I lived in England for a time and I found that I needed to eat English Chocolate different from how I would eat chocolate in the states. For me American chocolate is good when you just bite into it and chew. English Chocolate is good bitten and then you let it melt on your tongue.. to savor it... Just my opinion though. Just to let you know Nando's is in the states too, went their last week... it was Good as always... LOL! I truly miss Yorkshire puddings, for me it reminds me of what we would consider a popover or a muffin that didn't rise in the middle... But they're delicious, especially with gravy! We have baked beans here, but they're a side dish not anything we would have on toast.
Texas has thousands of little shops that sell pastries that we call kolaches (ko-la-cheez). There are sweet ones and savory ones. I like the ones with sausage inside. If you find yourselves in Texas again, try some!
British sausages rolls are made with a roll of raw bulk sausage which cooks in the savory pastry. Sausage kolache ( properly called klobasniki by Polish, Czech and German ancestry Central Texans) use cases smoked sausage wrapped in the sweeter kolache dough. So same but different, and I love bakery made and my homemade batches of both.
Would love to try a kolache sometime! Tried a,sausage roll from an Indian bakery and it was pretty good
In Louisiana you can find kolaches at most doughnut shops usually sausage, jalapeno sausage or boudin.
Kolaches are spreading through out the country now.
@@johnbowers6258 Hey John, like Jerry stated, kolaches can be savory and sweet.
Savory kolaches are made with meat and pastry like British sausage rolls.
Jerry wrote about Texas, but Utah has a restaurant called Hruska's Kolaches and they sell sweet and savory kolaches (their family is Czech).
_[Extra for those who are interested]_ We have Amish meat pies (I live on the east coast and there are Amish farmers markets in the north, and you can buy them their or look up a recipes if you don't want to drive...).
Also, Michigan has "hand meat pies" (or pasty). And while there are not many, other states do have their own version of meat pies.
And I'm African American, but I grew up eating Jamaican patties and empanadas (mostly Mexican). I feel like almost every country has their own version of meat and dough (fried or baked).
I actually make Yorkshire Puddings all the time here in Texas. I always thought they were hard to make, but once I found a recipe, I realized it's simple!
Of course, here in Canada we have all of those things as well as British sections in our grocery stores. 😀. I also know how to make a proper cup of tea!
We have British sections in our grocery stores in America too. I can get any of the things they mentioned in this video in my supermarket...digestives, British Cadbury, British style Heinz beans (which is an American company anyhow). But honestly, I think we just tend to like other foods better. I do enjoy the British brand of lemon curd they sell, because I’m usually a bit too lazy to make my own. ;-)
We have cider. Alcoholic cider is usually referred to as Hard Cider. The stuff you get from the cider mill has no alcohol. We also have lager. 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
My IDEA for an American version of a Scotch Egg: boiled egg center, surrounded by sausage, but instead of bread crumbs....bacon?
My husband and I went to the UK a couple of years ago and fell in love with Nando's. We even brought a bunch of Peri Peri sauce back with us. Unfortunately we do not have a Nando's in California how I was very happily surprised when our local grocery store started selling Peri Peri sauces. Now my husband and I can get a little of our Nando's fix.
We’ve had Nando’s in Chicago and the Washington DC area for a while now. I don’t know why it’s not all over America.
We don’t say knob.
I've seen the Chicago Nando's but never ate there. I wonder if its the same as the British Nando's.
Yes Keith from the Try Guys Channel did a review of it at the Chicago location and said it was really good and they had the best salads. I've heard people be called a knob before meaning they were an idiot around the New England area.
Is there not a city in the USA with a district named Knob Hill?
Yeah, I work in DC and live in Maryland and there’s Nando’s all over the place.
I have had British chocolate and I prefer American but it’s what I’m use to. I do buy Nandos sauce and make my own Nandos chicken. Actually made some today.
1. Cadbury's in the US in the '70 was imported from the UK and my mother would buy it, but it was a treat because it was expensive & so rich & delicious... After Hershey's got involved & started producing it here they ruined it...
2. Yorkshire Pudding (muffin style) = Popovers
3. Proper English Tea, depending on where you live, if tea houses are popular it is made properly. Boston Tea Party changed America's tea drinking forever...
I missed that usual cheerful "Hi! We're Joel and Lia!!!" at the start of the video
We have all these foods in Canada, also all british food shops and our large grocery stores have a all british section.
That's because Canada has good taste 😜👍
Lia, if that American lady making tea triggered you, don't watch her making beans on toast 😱🤯☠️ you've bean warned 🤣
heat water,( do not boil) place loose tea in a tea ball, heat pot with hot water, pour water in a bowl, add fresh hot water to pot, let tea in ball steep 10 min or more if you like darker tea, serve in warmed cup add lump sugar or cream as you like.
American here... To explain it to the American kids who haven’t had it, the Cornwall pastries were fixed for miners many, many decades ago. They were the original “Hot Pocket,” and think of a Shepard’s Pie in a handheld delivery system! So, so good.
Yes. I was thinking "Hot Pockets" are the only common US savory pastry.
I was totally thinking of hot pockets during their description. The only difference is that hot pockets are full of preservatives and taste like trash (so typical American food).
We have Pot Pies which are savory meat pies in an aluminum pie tin. They are Chicken, turkey, or beef and the better quality ones have crust on the bottom too.
I was thinking the contents seemed similar to a Shepard's Pie
Come visit Wisconsin. Pasties are extremely popular here. Also in Minnesota and the U.P. Immigrants from Cornwall came to work in the mines here and pasties have been a staple ever since.
Hello from Colorado, I’m half brit and I know y’all say everyone in England has a plug in kettle but my Mum won’t buy one. She still puts a copper kettle on the stove. I buy PGTips and it is good tea but my guess is it will be dated compared to the UK. So is Tizer on your list? When I was in the sixth grade we went to England for three weeks in the 70’s. I remember Tizer and Sherbert with black licorice. Oh and Swiss rolls. I also visited on my Honeymoon in the 80’s and had a great time, had to have beens and toast the day I left for home at breakfast.
I wonder if the difference in the taste of the tea is not in the tea at all, but in the water...or maybe in the milk...maybe your cows eat a different kind of grass or maybe it is processed differently? idk
The first thing my students always noticed (back when I took kids overseas) was the difference between American foods and British equivalents. Cadbury, McDonalds, etc. just different
I’m sorry but dark chocolate digestives are the most gorgeous thing ever
Oh my God-they are frickin’ amazing. I buy them in the British section of my Chicago grocery store. Along with PG Tips tea-that’ll get you going in the morning!
I make my own Scottish eggs, so good! I always loaded my suitcase with Cadbury's when I went from England to the states!! Oh I am hungry now!! I make my grandkids beans on toast as I did my own kids. You are making me long for England. Yorkshire Pudding with mashed potatoes and gravy.....oh don't stop. You are so right about tea!!
I love Yorkshire pudding. My grandmother was English and she would make the most lovely beef roast with Yorkshire pudding. Oh, I miss it and I miss her! I love English tea as well. I lived abroad for a long time and we drank real English tea. Miss that, too.
I will say this AGAIN! We use STOVETOP KETTLES in the US. The reason we do this is because our electrical currents run at a lower wattage than they do in Europe, so it actually takes longer for a standard electric kettle to heat water than one put on the stove and heated that way.
Robert Gronewold nope, I have a Smeg electric kettle and it heats up very quickly. Love it!
@@maureenbirkel9073 Yes, but that's a VERY well made kettle. Not your typical Walmart $20 one.
I’d love to see your supporting evidence for this statement. A quick internet search gives me at least 3 different sources saying an electric kettle heats water faster than a kettle on the stove. In fact its listed as a selling point on 6 different brands of kettles on Amazon. My cheap electric kettle heats water several minutes faster than it takes if I use the stove.
Triggered🙄
Have had a number if electric kettles in the US, my sister got is into then after she lived in Manchester for a few years getting her masters... Electric kettles are WAY WAY WAY faster
American here
Scotch Eggs: Unfortunately, they have gone out of vogue in America but occasionally do see them on menus.
Cadburys: My Canadian wife will concur your observation.
Pasty: YES, my English grandmother made them for me as a child. I actually know how to make one or will drive 72 K to buy one
Tea: Tetley in the pantry and Wedgwood for special occasions. Again my Canadian wife, knows how to make a proper tea.
Lol Lia you are so triggered by that Tick tock haha. 😂😂 Hobnobs just sound so very British. We don't make tea in the microwave at my house we have a stove top kettle, kids love the whistle when it's ready. Sun brewed ice tea is divine on a hot summer day, used to make that wirh my grandmother when I was a child. Thanks for the video!!😃
TicTok
I don't use Tic tok or however you spell it, I'm old and don't care
We have a restaurant in Phoenix, AZ called Cornish Pasty Co. that makes all kinds of savory pasties. The owner is from Cornwall. It’s super delicious.
We've had Nando's in the Chicago area for at least a year and a half, and my local grocery store sells Ribena and Heinz beans in the British section in the "flavors of the world" aisle. I still miss England terribly though. Can't wait until the quarantine requirement goes away!
Brit in Connecticut here....I make all the goodies you can’t buy in the shops, sausage rolls, scotch eggs, pasties of every variety, proper bread, yummy quiches and of course, the Great British cuppa!(I have a huge bag of PG Tips on top of my fridge!!
Chocolate here tends to have edible wax in it which elevates the melting point so it doesn’t melt in hot weather but I get mine from Aldi as it comes from Europe!
I've heard the term go out hobnobing. It means go out socializing like at a party.
You can get Scotch eggs at Milwaukee Irish Fest which is held the 3rd weekend in August
We are sleeping on the Scotch egg. I make them at home. So delicious.
A few places in the US serve scotch eggs. I saw, on telly, a food cart, selling them in New York City. / Also, several British pubs, over here, offer pasties, with which many Americans are familiar. The only savory pie, cherished as real American, is chicken pot pie. Try it, next time you're here. / Heinz beans are very popular here, but NOT for breakfast, altho they are available at some breakfast buffets. They often accompany hot dogs or barbecue. / To "hobknob" means to associate, to socialize, with certain people; such as to "hobknob with celebrities," to "hobknob with the criminal element," to "hobnob with the elite," etc. "Knob" means the same here, but is not used by as many or as frequently.
I've made scotch eggs before, it's very easy actually. I can tell you how if you like. (I live in Alabama)
Also, we have World Market and I have found lots of UK brands there.
We have baked beens. We usually have it with or at BBQs. I just had some this weekend. Bush Baked beans advertise her all the same. I have tea all the time and love my electric kettle makes life easy.
There's a restaurant here in Louisville that makes ScotchEggs
Omg are you in Louisville.. me too....
Beverly Kiper so am I!!
Thomas Largent awesome. Hope to see you someday. But also glad to know I can try scotch eggs
Where can you get Scottish Eggs in Louisville? I’m in NKY.
I was introduced to pasties by my ex wife from Grass Valley California, wich was a gold mining town. We had Cornish Pasties served at our wedding reception.
Thank you! Yes, Grass Valley is the sister city to Cornwall. And every December we hold Cornish Christmas, to celebrate the miners and Cornish history. ❤
@@directorMASC There was a pastie shop called "King Richard's" in Grass Valley.
And for a time in the 1990s there were a couple of pastie shops in Sacramento as well.
Sounds delicious. I recently ordered the Pimm’s Jam that Lia mentioned in another video. British Corner sells it online. It’s probably the best jam I’ve ever had. It’s the mint!
I love British Corner Shop! I get Cherry Bakewells and Tunnocks Caramel delivered but because of COVID, the shipping price is out of control lol
Nice!! Will have to check them out, lots of our subs have mentioned the British Corner shop!
@Wynn Hildreth Thanks for mentioning British Corner. Now I gotta go have a look! : )
Still makes pasties regularly. My great grandfather was from Cornwall. He immigrated to the U.P of Michigan as a miner. We make them once a month and freeze them for the rest of the month.
Yorkshire pudding is one of my favorite things ever. I save fats from cooking meat just for it.
In my family we call Yorkshire Pudding a Popover. We love them!
Just yelled at the screan 'no, they are deep fried you idiot!'
Bit of an overreaction, I apologise 🤣
Love the idea of doing a completely wrong Thanksgiving dinner video. You two would be hilarious at that.
Makes me so hungry for Nando's and ready to return to the UK to have it again. Nando's really needs to sponsor you two with all the free publicity that you give them. You're the reason that I went and loved it.
There are Nando's restaurants in the East Coast. I live in the DC area and I ate there pretty often before Covid 19.
*Note* Pretty often is for me is about 5 times a year, I don't eat fast food often. I mostly cook because it's cheaper.
Where? I'd love to try a Nandos
There are several locations in Chicago.
The state of Michigan is obsessed with pasties. Cornish immigrants settled in the Upper Peninsula to work in the coal and Iron ore mines. "Cornwall Yoopers" brought their pasty recipes with them. Pasties a plenty in the U.P. and throughout the state. The Yooper version adds rutabaga to the mix.
We have Scotch eggs in St. Louis. I love them!
There used to be a pub south of I-44 that had awesome scotch eggs. But the place is gone now. 😢 Where is your favorite place for them?
@@lindaschultz7253 The Scottish Arms in the Central West end. Great pub, you can get Sheppard's Pie and many other Scottish favorites, too.
@@kingstar10101 Thanks, I've been dying for a Scotch Egg fix!
My sister's husband is from New Zealand and makes the most delicious Yorkshire pudding. I had never heard of it before. I'm glad I get to enjoy it! ❤❤
We have Heinz baked beans in the US. I prefer Bush’s 😬
I like Heintz baked beans. However, I add brown sugar, ketchup, onion, and bacon then put them in the oven for about an hour and a half. I don't like beans poured into a saucepan and heated. It's just bland. Almost forgot, I also put a small amount of Worcestershire Sauce in it. The best!
Yes! Bush's is king here!!
@@karlamackey4675 so basically you just homemake Bush's baked beans?
@Julia Christenberry you mean beanie weanies?? Bush's orginal baked beans & hotdogs.
Mer Maid did we just become best friends??? Bean party!!! 😂
Yorkshire Puddings are cooked in oil, or if you want to go old school lard or beef dripping. It gets preheated in the oven almost to smoking point and the batter is poured into the hot fat and starts sizzling, when they go in the oven they will puff up golden and airy. Butter would burn before it got hot enough.
When you can travel to the USA again visit somewhere besides Texas you will find many more foods that you mention here
Everything they mentioned can be found here in Austin, TX, especially Scotch eggs.
I don’t no about the US, but Nandos has some locations in Canada.
We do have pot pies and calzones, those are savory pastries.
I had British "savory" pastries in London and found them to be very bland. I had to put a lot of brown sauce on them.
Growing up, my best friend’s mom was English. I learned the proper way to make tea, I’ve had Scottish eggs, plum pudding, lots of British goodies. I’ve learned to make a lot of the things you mentioned.
We had a British pub (run by ex-pats) in Nashville. I love pease pudding and a lot of other goodies!
A lot of Renaissance Faires in the U.S. have Scotch Eggs. Otherwise I'd never heard of them.
I see them on Irish, English and Scottish pubs in Chicago. They are delicious!
A restaurant in my college town in rural Pennsylvania, has scotch eggs on the menu
Yup. Our favorite British pub in Chicago has Scotch Eggs on their menu every day. They’re terrific.
Have known about Scotch eggs so think I will make them tomorrow. Also when you mentioned the cordial I have a wonderful recipe & used to make my own & bottle it. It would barely last a week but had to give it up because of so much sugar. Love Tetley Tea, being from USA always
had it Iced. We had a tea kettle always on the stove, never an electric
one. You all are so young so may not know
about those. We were so picky about the brewing of Tetley Tea we
used an enamel pan to boil the water & steep the tea. That pan could never be used for anything else. Yorkshire
Pudding, very similar to what we call popovers.
My friend made popovers every morning
& we carpooled to work. I drove & it was such a treat to have a
warm popover brought out to me every morning
wrapped in a linen napkin. I told her not to use her good napkins, paper would be fine. She
had never used paper napkins or paper towels.
She was from Australia.
I wish you had explained clotted cream.
That is somthing people
in USA do not know about. Pasty’s are somthing that people up North & Northeast make. Especially for miners to take for lunch. Sort of a n entire meal in a pastrie. Personally I think fast food is awful.
I also hate Cadbury here in the USA. Did not know it was different in England. I enjoy your videos, & you all always make me laugh. A nice respite from the quarantining & watching people destroy, burn, loot, & murder. Thank you so much.
In America there is a saying that we don’t have any British restaurants because British food is not good. Glad to hear there are other foods other than Fish and Chips and Shepherds Pie.
I went to a place in NYC that was owned and operated by a British couple that had moved to the US. I had a Full English Breakfast and it was amazing!
never understood the "british food isn't good thing" its odd to me at how many people in US seem to believe it, if they'd just looked it up on the internet I'm sure they'd find plenty of british dishes that are very nice that we eat, especially Americans who say our food is bad yet have never been to the UK before or even tried a british meal, not sure I follow that logic there. How can you say a countries food is bad yet never tried it yourself?
Piper charms I think we don’t have much of an opportunity. I live in the Midwest, and before that San Diego, CA and Miami, FL. I know of Italian, French, German, Chinese, Korean, Indian, Japanese, Thai, Mexican, Brazilian, Ugandan, Egyptian, Lebanese, Jamaican, Haitian, Cuban restaurants....just to name a few. I haven’t ever seen a British restaurant.
*Kathy Lee Hutchinson - That may have been the case decades ago, but British offerings have steadily improved over the years.
Daveogarf That’s great news, unfortunately it’s not my experience. I haven’t been to an Irish Pub in several years, maybe some of them serve some English fare.
Savory pastries: Collin street backery in Waco Texas and Weikel's in La Grange; both well known for their pastries, both sweet and savory
Cornish pastry sounds *almost* like our pot pies, only they’re usually made with chicken. 🤔
Similar idea, sarahraegraham
You cannot eat a pot pie on the go.
Meat pie can be held in your hand.
Kathy Reinhofer churches chicken sell a pot pie you can eat on the go now
Nando’s has taken off at least in the D.C., Maryland, Virginia metropolitan area. Hope they’re here to stay after the Covid crisis. They have been a great addition to the many options we have food wise here.
Making a “wrong” Thanksgiving dinner would be hilarious 😆
Maryann Lyons and don’t forget the cranberries
Yah! Just leave the innards of the turkey where they are and roast it! Lol
I'm in Boston so you better not screw it up too badly.
There is no way they could get the stuffing right.
It would be like watching the 3 stooges cook thanksgiving dinner.
I have tried most of these. There is an import store in Plymouth Massachusetts that I go to from time to time and I am able to purchase the items or the items to make them.
It says online that as of 2019, the US has 42 Nando's. Who knew? 🤷♂️
What? No way. I need to find one.
I went to one in Chicago
Sandra Alberto I ate Nando’s in Chicago, too. A number of years ago, no less. It was pretty good, but I don’t really get the fierce love for it that Brits have.
Is it the same restaurant as Nandos Peri Peri? I’ve been to the one in Annapolis Md it was really good.
@@ninaradio The nandos menu that you guys have in the US and the way they prepare the food are both different to the nandos in the UK. Whie I really enjoy it here, the nandos in Australia was terrible so it definitely differs where you go in the world
Yes, havent you guys heard that song "slob on my knob, like corn on the cob"!!!!! lol
I would listen to 20 minutes of Joel saying “ranch”
he says it like "raunch" (raunchy), same sound in "launch", I noticed that too ... :)
if I heard it in an unknown context my brain would be in pain trying to put it together as to what he's talking about ... raunch :) .... raunch(y) dressing :) but he's adorable so that's his unique feature :)
@@DMDM-dc9ep That’s the correct way to say it because English is from England, so we know how to pronounce our own language :))))
@@_rhea.b_1305 I could see that point of view for sure... just for argument sake though, if someone insists on owning a language, I can't but say - "ranch dressing" is from the US, therefore ... :)
so whenever I hear different I think they are not talking about the real ranch dressing but rather about something else ... :)
@@DMDM-dc9ep And I am not talking about the dressing, I’m simply referring to the word ‘ranch’
Baked Beans... Navy bean in tomato sauce, America we add BBQ sauce... Honey or Brown sugar.. Disney films made about England... Mary Poppins , Bed Knobs and Broom Sticks.. We just threw the Tea in Boston Harbor... a long time ago...
Hobnob means “to associate with on friendly terms”. It’s an old word that was around in Shakespeare’s time which means “a little of this and a little of that”. It’s an old fashioned word that only pops up sparingly
I’m in Canada... I work next door to a Nandos! Smells soooo good!
My nana made the best Yorkshire puddings!!! ❤️
The reason we drink coffee instead of tea, is because we dumped all our tea in the Boston harbor years ago. ;-)
I totally agree on the chocolate - UK - amazing - Canada - trash
Nandos we have in Canada as well. Again, UK - amazing - Canada - trash
I make yorkshire pudding a few times a year, definitely different proportions of ingredients to pancakes and you should actually cook them in lard/fat/oil at the bottom of the muffin tin. Make sure the oil is hot first in the oven before putting your batter in or they will not turn out!
I had a friend that loved his tea like "gnats piss". Well, why bother then?
Just give your friend hot water and milk, save a tea bag, if he questions it, tell him it's "save a tea bag month" sorted 😁👍