Americans Try 12 British Snacks & Candy For The First Time 🇬🇧🍬
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- Two Americans try 11 of the UK's most popular British snacks and candies - er...I mean, sweeties! 🍬 Join us as we try everything from our first Cadbury Dairy Milk Bar to our first taste of Twiglets!
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May I recommend dipping digestives into coffee.
Also, purple Yorkie > blue
I'm smiling watching you guys try these snacks, id recommend a Drifter or a Lion Bar as well
Picnic bar Mmmm 👍🏻👍🏻
I think you would find this video extremely interesting the difference between the standard English accent and the cockney /London accent.
ruclips.net/video/s11qjmvTdJ8/видео.html
Eric: I would finish the Cadbury bar
But not in one sitting though- maybe 2 squares a day
The whole of england: eats the whole thing in 5 minutes
@@KHONTSU_ exactly!
I don't usually plan to eat it all but it somehow all sneaks in my mouth anyway 😂
1 hour i eat the whole thing in 5 mins ish
I prefer Cadbury’s Fruit and Nut over the chocolate only bar. Same great taste as the chocolate only but with almond nuts and raisins mixed in.
I’ve never liked Turkish Delight either nor Prawn Cocktail flavour Crisps. A personal preference only. Try Cheese and Onion, Smokey Bacon, Pickled Onion or other flavours.
I’d also try those flavours from other companies. Walker’s Cheese & Onion tastes different to Golden Wonder’s version.
The chocolate only Wagon Wheels were the original version. I do prefer the jammie ones myself.
The 1 thing that dont belong in Cadbury chocolate is fruit full stop
@@arthurjamesforbes6883 The fruit and nut one is delicious I agree.
I love cheese and onion, it's my favourite flavour, but I definitely prefer the Walkers ones to other brands.
I also prefer the jammy wagon wheels as well.
Cadbury chocolate used to be miles better when it was British owned. Since Kraft took over the taste has got very bad. They use cheap palm oil.
That's so sad!!
Yep 😐
Wandering Ravens If ever you wander as far as Birmingham visit the Cadbury township of Bourneville established around the factory by John Cadbury, which was way ahead of its time for the employees. Also if you don't like Milk Chocolate then try Cadbury Bournville (dark) Chocolate my favourite. Unfortunately they don't manufacturer it in the Tasmanian Cadbury factory.Great review by the way! NSW in Oz
All the British chocolate manufacturers were Quakers who only used quality products.
www.quaker.org.uk/blog/quakers-and-chocolate
@Peter Brown you correct they original manufactured Chocolate drinks or Drinking Chocolate as a way to promote non-alcoholic drinks. NSW in Oz
“If the store Lush made food” the most accurate description of Turkish Delight I’ve ever heard, brilliant 🤣🤣
Well I actually really like it, I consider it an acquired taste, so if you happen to end up being given it somehow you know where to send your Fry's Turkish Delight bars
You have to eat Turkish Delight cold. I keep mine in the fridge so that the chocolate keeps cold. Not nice warm. Delicious cold
It’s true 😂
I HATE TURKISH DELIGHT, IT TASTES LIKE SOAP
Its funny how you call loads of these snacks the British version, when the British is the original.
For example, Lay's is a rebranded Walkers - lays started to sell elsewhere but it kept the name Walkers in the UK cause that's where it came from and its what we were used to.
@rxp56 everything about them is pretty much how it was when it was just Walkers (logo etc.)
Yes exactly!
"Definitely better than Hershey's". Anything is better than Hershey's.
Truth!!
I ate a dog turd for a bet once and guess what, it was better than a Hersheys.
Well, that's not entirely true,............... it was a cat turd.
@@baylessnow 🤣🤣🤣
Fine when you're eating it but that awful aftertaste....
Is the Hershey's sold in the UK different to the hershies in murica?
I wouldn't say that Fry's Turkish delight is actual Turkish delight. But i love it anyway 😍
My favourite chocolate bar that I can buy in Australia.when I’m in the uk it’s definitely toffee crisp
Turkish delight is totally.different in the look, I've never taste it.
I love Frys stuff.
(not that I eat sugar /chocolates unless given... any more)
and
im gonna tell sumit ive never told before...
I used to hope to get my Turkish Delight open and not see a crack in the chocolate 🍫.
@@jameshumphreys9715 Frys stuff is the same flavour, but slightly chewy texture and covered in chocolate rather than powderd sugar.
I don't know what they were describing, but every type of turkish delight i've ever had, tasted like flowers.
well the essential ingredient of pink Turkish Delight is rosewater...which is why it tastes floral.
i love twiglets. they’re basically just crisps coated in marmite and marmite is classicly a love or hate food. i couldn’t tell you why i like them, i just love them.
Pure umami.
I’m a marmite hater so twiglets taste rank to me, my better half loves them though
I absolutely love marmite. But I think twiglets are the devils incarnation
Love twig let's but hate marmite 🤷♀️
you like marmite because you're fundamentally a terrible human being ;)
top tip: dip the digestives in the tea!
US milk chocolate like Hershey contains Butyric Acid, which you find in Parmesan Cheese, sour milk and vomit, which is why people in the UK have not been enamoured with the US brand
I remember reading that somewhere and being absolutely disgusted 🤢
I pestered my mum to get me a Hershey bar years ago, finally tried it and 🤢😷 ugh it was vile. I don't know how they eat that stuff and think it's chocolate 😐 I suppose it must just be because they get a taste for it at a young age.
Lol ha ha haaa. Yes another Brit here who when first tried it thought it tasted like puke
THAT'S why it tastes of vomit!
I understand Butyric acid is on the EU poisons list.
U should try Jaffa cakes, Terry’s chocolate orange and if u come across an m&s whilst in the uk try Percy pigs
Evie Sant Percy pigs are the goat of sweets
I think they already done jaffa cakes.
percy pigs have a gluten free option
Lidl's own brand (Sondey?) Jaffa cakes are far superior than mcvities.
Agreed. Percy Pigs are the best!
Can’t believe nobody has suggested Liquorice Allsorts! Now there’s a test of character for you. 😂 (Explanatory note for Americans - no liquor is involved.)
Also:
Revels
Twirl
Bounty Bar
Caramac
Beef flavour Hula Hoops
Walkers and Lays are the same brand btw.
Mmmmm caramacs are so tasty 😋
"Skips" Prawn Cocktail crisps are the king of prawn cocktail crisps. You should try them sometime. They just melt in your mouth.
Skips are well nicer
Nah standard walkers prawn cocktail is the one
@@mickythemack4558 my mum agrees with you 😊
Sour cream & onion is pretty great ..
Skips aren’t crisps they are a puffed wheat or rice snack. Taste great though.
maltesers- 1937
whoppers- 1949
answered ur question, maltesers are the ofs
Fun fact! The blue smarties were removed from the packets in 2006, due to an additive in the blue sugar coating that couldn’t be sourced naturally (whereas a natural flavour could for the other sweets in the tube could be). Blue smarties were reintroduced in 2008 this time they used spirulina. 😊
I was 4 years old when they brought out the blue Smartie. At the time there was a worry that it contained too many E numbers. Us kids thought that the E stood for ecstasy, the class A drug, so we wandered round the playground pretending we were off our heads. I came to the conclusion, in my 4 year old mind, that the reason they put ecstasy in the new blue Smartie, was to hide the flavour (us kids would've noticed the difference if they added it to any of the other Smarties)
I was proper hyper active after a packet of Smarties. Just like I had smashed a couple of pills. Later in life I found stronger drugs. But make no mistake the E numbers in the old school 80s Smarties was off the scale 🙂
Also, only the orange smarties have a flavour (chocolate orange). In the 90s Nestle released all sorts of limited edition Smarties which actually were flavoured, my favourite which hardly anybody remembers were Coca Cola flavour (the shell tasted of cola, not the chocolate. It shouldn't really have worked but it did!)
Twiglets are just marmite flavoured crisps, and i personally love them
Wine gums aren’t actually made from wine!! They’re all just fruit flavoured
You say it tastes like a flower, Turkish delight is rose water flavoured
Eric: "I don't want to swallow it". Grace: "That's what she says"
🙊🙊😂
@@WanderingRavens Or, as we British say, "As the actress said to the bishop."
In Nottingham we would have said… “She cried!” (As in calling out, not tears)
Cadburys dairy milk used to be a British treasure until it got bought out and corrupted/ruined. It makes me sad. ☹
Twiglets are heavenly but they have incredibly variable production quality. The intensity of the is more diverse than any other manufactured product I’ve known, but they remain my all time favourite snack ever .... when done right the twiglet dust at the bottom is AMAZING ❤️
If you are looking for ideas here are some of my favourites:
Chilli heat wave Doritos
Double Decker
Dandelion and Burdock (drink)
IRN-BRU (drink)
Elderflower (drink)
Revels
Pork scratchings
Galaxy chocolate
Bornville Dark Chocolate
Smiths Scampi and lemon crisps
Frazzles crisps
Whisper Gold
Cadbury’s Creme Egg
Good choice on favourites I'd demolish all of those 😄
Scamp fries still going ?
@@dave_h_8742 yep
Incredible list! Thank you!! :D
Yes chili heatwave Doritos!
Hersheys literally have the aftertaste of sick
A QI fan i see 😃
@@kruandrew8930 I mean yeah, but also it's just a fact! I didn't even know they mentioned it on there, but what I do know is I've tasted it and it tastes like sick!
So true!
American chocolate contains Butyric Acid which is also found in vomit, hence why they have a similar taste. Also, I read somewhere that American chocolate, in particular Hersheys, has such a low cocoa solid percentage (I believe it's about 10%) that it wouldn't be classed as chocolate if it was made in the UK, but rather chocolate flavoured candy.
That’s because there’s an acid in the chocolate called Butyric acid which is also naturally present in the gut and the Butyric acid is the cause of the smell or taste of vomit. That’s what’s in a Hershey’s bar.
Everytime I see a "try British snacks" video, I always have a little smile knowing that there will be a Chekov's Turkish Delight lying in wait on their table.
You need to try the following:
Crisps:
- McCoys crisps (Cheddar & Onion flavour)
- Monster Munch (Pickled Onion flavour)
- Walkers (Worcester Sauce flavour)
Biscuits/Cakes:
- Jaffa Cakes
- Jammie Dodgers
- Aero Chocolate bar (The mint one)
- Chocolate Hobnobs
- Topic Chocolate bar
- Galaxy Caramel
- Cherry Bakewells
These next two don't really fit in with the kind of stuff in the video. But they are definitely snack food.
- Pork Pies (You can eat them hot or cold. I personally like them warmed up a bit)
- Scotch Eggs
Drinks:
- Ribena (Be sure to dilute it before drinking though)
- Irn Bru
- Vimto
- Lilt
- Tango
Follow up your taste for orange chocolate with a 'Terry's Chocolate Orange', very British and unusual, but not as unusual as that Turkish Delight !
Other bars to try would be a Galaxy chocolate bar and compare it to Cadbury's. Cadbury's Fruit & Nut is also a traditional favourite and I know you have something similar in the U.S. but the Mars bar is almost a staple food over here too. Biscuits, Hobnobs, digestives' oaty cousins.
i'd thrown in bounty, kendal mint cake, stick of rock, diam/dime bar, kinder egg, liquorice all sorts (i have know idea if you can get any of these in the states
@@charlesalbertini1860 yes that's more me,
I was in the CTC cycling touring club as a kid (I still have my 12 speed up in the loft)
and always used to have a mint cake with me on those weekends.
They have Mars bars in the states but they're called Milky Ways. And what we call Milky Ways in the UK are called 3 Musketeers in the US.
@@2Worlds_and_InBetween He already thinks everything is too sweet I think kendal mint cake will be a major shock.
@@nat3007 true, tbh I've been off the sugar and chocolate for a few years now,
I doubt I could...
but that 13 year old me is happy to make himself sick on Frys 🍫 n mint cake. 🤔
Maltesers were invented in 1936, Whoppers copied in 1939
We didn't know that! Have you tried both? And if so, are the flavours identical or what are the differences between the two?
@@WanderingRavens Not tried Whoppers, but I expect they're much the same, apart from the British chocolate tasting the best of course. Saying that, I once watched a programme about chocolate preference, and there is supposedly a difference between American, English and Asian chocolate and people tend to prefer the chocolate they grew up with. Loving your vids x Oh and another thing about chocolate I find, it is tastes best when you let it melt in your mouth instead of just biting and swallowing it x
@@cockertoo8920 Nope, the chocolate tastes different & so does the centre, the malty flavour of the centre is just off in whoppers. Malteasers are one of my favourite sweets; when I moved to the states I tried whoppers, as I thought they'd be the same, & I didn't even finish the pack they were just so disappointing.
Toffee crisps one of my faves but yet again a lot smaller than they used to be. Chocolate bars in the UK have become smaller and yet the cost remains the same.
Fry’s Turkish Delight is divine imo.
The raisin and biscuit Yorkie generally has a lot bigger fandom than the plain one, which I would tend to agree is nothing special.
I really like both so if you have bars of it and don't want them you know where to send them
@@1IbramGaunt but we don't lol
Agreed, the original feels like there's too much chocolate if that makes sense and the rasins sort of break it up a bit
Yorkies were innovative in their time because most chocolate bars were too thin, and Yorkie bars were thick enough to actually taste of chocolate. These days, other chocolate tastes enough of chocolate that Yorkies are a bit pointless.
You guys need to find an old traditional sweet shop and buy a selection of the hard sweets on offer from the jars..
Along with a traditional pop like dandelion and burdock 😆
Theres kind of one in leeds city market
@@lindylou538 yep, there is..
A ¼ of...
Rhubarb and Custard
Pear Drops
Acid Drops
Chocolate Limes
The greatest sweetie of all: Tunnock’s Tea Cakes
YES
Fully agree.
Agree but is it just me or does the biscuit always taste like cardboard 😅
YEEEEEESSSS
Oh yes!
The prawn cocktail crisps aren’t prawn flavour, they’re cocktail flavour. So when you order a prawn cocktail at a restaurant, it’s the flavour of the sauce you dip it in
One thing the many “taste test” videos does show is that whilst the general concencus seems to be that UK chocolate is better quality than US chocolate, it must be much sweeter. I see many times an American will take a piece of our chocolate and immediately say they couldnt eat the whole bar as they would be bouncing off the walks from the sugar rush. Where as over here, we just open it up and eat the lot without even thinking 😂😂
We were honestly surprised at how sweet they were! Although that could in part be due to the fact that we generally only eat dark chocolate haha
Wandering Ravens...Have to admit, dark chocolate is right up there. If you like orange, get a Dark Chocolate Terrys Orange....simply divine 😛😛
@@WanderingRavens If you like dark chocolate you should try the Cadburys dark milk chocolate. Its a mixture of dark and milk chocolate so its not too sweet, not too strong, its just right. The advert says its for grown ups but me being 14 loves it as I'm not a fan of things too sweet.
Ginger 😂😂
As an Aussie who moved to the UK, I’d have to agree. Your chocolate is very very sweet, especially Galaxy - I struggled to get through a whole bar of that! And your Cadbury is definitely sweeter than Aussie Cadbury but I know the ingredients are slightly different. However Aussie chocolate does not have any vomit-flavoured chemicals in it and is arguably just as smooth and rich as UK chocolate. We also have Lindt and Green and Blacks as well so I was glad I could find those easily over here.
Walkers is Lays.... Prawn Cocktail refers to the sauce rather than prawns themselves. Similar to Ketchup flavour in the US
Good to know!
Ketchup flavour is More of Canada 🇨🇦 thing than USA 🇺🇸
@@davidbrowne3761 I wasn't. sure, I grew up in Canada. Do find it strange how many things like smarties and stuff aren't in the US. We had them in Canada for the most part.
Prawn cocktail sauce's proper name is Marie Rose sauce. It's rather good when made well.
@@russcattell955i That's right, couldn't think of the name at the time.
When Kraft bought Cadbury they changed the recipe to the low chocolate, high sugar Hershey recipe. Disgusting.
Well they didn’t actually, it’s the same bar the fat content. It’s palm oil
A relative of a former colleague worked where they produced wagon wheels. I once manage to get a box of 98 for £2!
The Prawn Cocktail is the sauce rather than the prawns. Twiglets are, quite simply, Food Given to us by the Gods, and if you haven;t acquired a taste for em you're not trying hard enough.
The guy who invented M&Ms got the idea during the Spanish Civil War, when he noticed some combatants snacking on Smarties.
Smarties 1937, M&M's 1941
they are both nice tho
😁😁🧐
And correct me if I am wrong and this was a myth, but wasn't the red dye for the red ones made from crushed beetles?
@@wembley636 cotchneal
(i cant spell) the colour made from the... beatles
(iirc)
Wagon Wheels used to be bigger and thicker way back in the 1970s and early 80s. They got shrunk to its current size back in the 80s. They deny it but if you compare the wrapper of one from 40 years ago with a current one you can clearly tell there is a difference in size. I prefer the ones without the jam in them.
In case you were interested, walkers and lays are the same company. Walkers changed their name to 'lays' ages ago, but decided to keep the same name in Britain because that's where the company started.
It's also why us brits get to enjoy some of the more exotic flavours
If you ever come across an M and S, I would suggest getting Percy Pigs (the bog standard ones, not piglets or fizzy tails or any of the spin offs). They are iconic. Also a crunchie bar and chilli flavoured walkers sensations crisps are great
I tried Percy Pigs (the proper M&S ones) and I didn’t get the hype?? Just tasted like a bog-standard gummy sweet. Maybe because I didn’t grow up with them?
@@alliebenson4653 in the past year or so M&S have changed the recipe of the Percy Pigs, the new ones taste nothing like the old ones (old ones were so much better)
Abbie Crawford yep, I completely agree. I think they changed them to be vegetarian. I’ve since become veggie so I’m ok with the change but I have to admit that the original ones definitely tasted much better which is unfortunate.
Allie Benson yep it’s probably different when they’re a part of your childhood. Also if you’ve only had them since the recipe change then I get why you wouldn’t be impressed because they’re definitely not as nice as they once were.
It’s also worth mentioning that there are Percy Pigs in a green packet that are called ‘original veggie’. They taste the exact same as the old recipe but with green ears and they’re great. But I haven’t come across them very often, only in the very big stores where there’s a larger variety.
British chocolate is just better... sorry 🙃
I agree! Although, Seattle (our home city) does have a lot of artisan chocolatiers who make good chocolate 😋
There is a reason for that. Because the milk has to travel much further in the USA additional preservatives are added so that it doesn't go off before arriving at chocolate factories and those preserves can be tasted in the finished product... and yes those finished products are far, far worse than the product in the UK.
Belgium chocolate is better
@@raymondcragg7282 Some (many) say Belgian, some say Swiss, pay your money and take your pick. Once reason I've heard that "American" chocolate" is not is good is due to climate, they have hotter temps and so the chocolate has to have a waxy constituent to stop it melting into a gloopy mess, UK weather is less (mostly, until maybe recently) extreme
BTW, it wasn't just Cadburys that used this track - ruclips.net/video/s-3kW0wEQIQ/видео.html&ab_channel=KarmaTiger
When they said prawn cocktail crisps taste a little barbecuey I think my soul left my body 🤣
fry Turkish delight is a national treasure .. i don't believe your reaction, you simply cant be serious
Walkers are indeed British Lays. Lays crisps are also found in France.
Ah okay! Thanks for answering that for us! I thought the branding looked incredibly similar haha
@@WanderingRavens Yeah, lays is just called walkers in the UK, same thing, there's a very interesting story that I cant properly explain but I recommend you look into it
@@WanderingRavens Lays bought Walkers a number of years ago The design of pack was a Walkers design which Lays liked so they change the design of the Lays packs.
Walkers is now a PepsiCo subsidiary. They also own the Smiths brand: the one that is dearest to our old folks' hearts, because Frank Smith invented the crisp as a pub snack. He toured pubs selling them, and had blue salt cellars to hand out to season the crisps. Unfortunately, they were nicked, so he put his crisps in bags that contained a small blue paper packet of salt. You put the salt in the bag, then shook it. There are now many other brands of crisps, the greatest of which is Seabrook's, available mostly in Yorkshire. They are the best.
actually they are not related to lays, but just use the same cooking recipe!
After Eights (chocolate) in part 2 please! You may also want to try Scampi Fries or Frazzles (both crisps)
Try tea cakes, snowballs, Yorkshire parking, and Milka. The twiglets are marmite flavour btw
Frito-Lay bought Walkers (a separate company at the time) in 1989. Because Walkers had 41 years of brand-name recognition, it was kept as the name... people in the UK already knew and were familiar with that brand
Smarties were the forerunners of M&Ms. 1930s again.
We didn't know that!
M&Ms are shit compared to Smarties
@@bobsmallshaw3488 peanut m&ms tho...
Never mind McVitie’s HobNobs, try Aldi’s Oaties (also available chocolate coated) at a fraction of the price.
Are those an equivalent to McVitie’s HobNobs?
@@WanderingRavens Aldi's Oaties are also less sweet than McVitie's Hobnobs which would probably suit your palate better, the same is true of Lidl and Asda's own brand rip offs of Hobnobs (sorry, can't remember what they're called but I'm sure you'll spot them if you look).
@Samsung Worldwide Spain has been an Islamic country for over 1000 years so why defend it if you hate islam so much?
Don't worry about the UK. The Shetlands and Orkneys are going to leave Scotland and stay with the UK taking the majority of fisheries and oil with them that Scotland needs to even hope to be independent. FACTS! 😁
Crunchies, Caramac, Curly Wurlys, Love Hearts and Refreshers (maybe the lolly as the candy is quite similar to Love Hearts)! Though my fav you tried here was a Toffee Crisp.
You’re supposed to dip that digestive into your tea or coffee. Mmmmm, I’ll finish this comment later, away to put on a brew
Only the orange Smarties are flavoured. It used to be orange chocolate but now it's just the shell. In the old days the brown ones were dark chocolate. Twiglets are twigs dipped in Marmite!
They also used to sell tubes of orange only Smarties which were amazing. Don’t know if they still sell them though.
@@ben9DB Tesco are doing a giant tube for £1
HighHoe Kermit I’ll have to check it out next time I go, thanks!
@@ben9DB Asda are doing a share bag for £1, so are Amazon, but they're only 112g where as the tube in Tesco is 130g, not that I'm an orange Smartie nerd or anything...
When I was a kid about 50 years ago (!) my school had a geography club, which I belonged to because it generally replaced games day. One day we visited the McVities factory, then located near London Bridge. There I learned 1) that Twiglets are sprayed with Marmite, not dipped, as they emerge from the oven on a continuous conveyer belt and 2) commercial biscuits are unbelievably delicious when they’re hot and fresh from the oven. If you ever get a chance to visit a biscuit factory, take it - you’ll remember it all your life.
Wine Gums used to taste like wine but then changed to just fruit flavour so I think you tried blackcurrant and orange ones.
We looked it up after the video and apparently they never had wine in them. The guy who invented them was Methodist and so didn't believe in consuming alcohol. Wine Gums were marketed as an alternative to actual wine 😂
Years ago, I remember they had a better wine flavour than today's offering. Like most things, the recipe changes by brand or over time, and not always for the better. Jelly Babies are one example, they all seem very bland tasting now as the flavourings have altered, due to food colour / flavour restrictions.☹
@@WanderingRavens That's the one! They have never tasted like wine, however I always thought that was what wine tasted like as a kid. It took a long time for me to twig as an adult that they were actually just fruit flavoured! There was a fun moment in Doctor Who in which the Doctor tried wine only to spit it out in disgust and say, 'I thought'd it'd be like the gums!'
I still like them a lot though.
@@brianwhittington5086 I wasn't sure if it was just because I was young that they seemed to taste different but I remember liking the yellow ones more before.
@Ann-Marie Lucas. Remember there was a lot of controversy many years ago about the danger some additives that colour and flavour food and drink caused. It was all to do with certain " E numbers ", some were banned or restricted in their use and from memory, it concerned some reds and yellows. Research said they could cause behaviour changes in some people and also links to health problems. I don't think real alcohol was actually used before in wine gums, just flavouring additives. The substitute artificial additives or natural flavours and colours probably made noticeable differences to many foods and drinks at that time.
Eric and Grace are so great. Love watching their videos. So great and entertaining!
Awww, that makes us so happy! x
You guys are great!! As a Brit its so Entertaining watching your videos, glad i found you, now about to go back to your first video and binge watch 😊💪❤
Only the orange one is flavoured. At Christmas you get whole tubes of just orange ones. They are the best ones!
dawn russell before you could buy the big tube of orange smarties I bought many packs to make one for my mama for Christmas
I'm sure long ago the red ones had a dark chocolate centre and and the light brown one might have been coffee flavoured
Fry's Turkish Delight is a classic, every Christmas I'd get a bar in my stocking.
But the question is, do you like it?? 😆
@@WanderingRavens not really every Christmas I'd try and swap it for my brothers Yorkie 🤣
Wandering Ravens I like Turkish delight bar and prefer to the original turkish delight from Turkey.
What is it with Americans and Turkish delight? Never seen one that hasn't gagged on it. It was a complete treat to us as kids.
Turkish delight is one of my favourites and it’s actually the best,
Yes the real ones not this crap
i can’t be the only person her never thought of wine gums as wine 🍷 but whine (like crying) but i’m just a bit weird 😂
I love Turkish delight!!! It's one of my favourites. I guess it's also either something you'll love or you'll hate
I love Turkish Delights too but the original ones that this crap lol
I absolutely love Turkish Delight, also the new lemon one
That Frys Turkish Delight is basically a cheap generic rose-scented Turkish Delight wrapped in chocolate to cover the poor quality. You can get proper Turkish Delight in the UK, and yeah, it’s much much better.
I'm kinda glad that like some chocolate bars and please continue exploring our British culture. I can't help but smile ☺
You should try microwaving the toffee crisp for about 20 or 30 seconds, it’s a game changer
No! M&M's are like Smarties!
I'm pretty sure Smarties came first.
They did, Smarties in 1937 and M&Ms in 1941
Correct - allthatsinteresting.com/mms-history
I was looking for this comment 😂😂
You need to try tayto crisps, since you are in Northern Ireland (they are waaaay better than walkers crisps)
With Club Orange/Lemon and Emerald Caramels.
Northern Irish Tayto are but a shadow of real, original Republic of Ireland Tayto. But we can at least agree that both are much, much better than Walker's.
Yes!! They are high tier! Esp spirals 😋😋😋
if you make a part two maybe you could try biscuits (i recommend custard creams,bourbons and party rings) love your content!
A few years ago there was a version of the Yorkie bar which appeared in British miltary ration packs (MREs) It was labelled "It's not for civvies"
Thanks to Eric for my new pick up line.
"You're so sweet you give me diabetes".
😂😂
I feel like Eric's tastebuds are overly sensitive. Wagon wheels are really not that sweet, in fact I always think they have more of a salty taste than most biscuits.
They probably are overly sensitive. We rarely, if ever, eat candy 😂
Wagon wheels are salty more than sweet it’s like a savoury
Wagon Wheels to me just taste like pure refined sugar. I've never got the appeal.
Twiglets are Marmite flavoured. People either love or hate marmite. Personally, I’m addicted to the stuff❤️
Oddly enough, I hate marmite but really like Twiglets. I suspect it's because they are baked, so something in the flavour changes.
twiglets are mankind's greatest creation, pure bliss on every bite
I enjoyed the fact you took the time to note it was Yorkshire Tea, the best tea.
So true about Yorkie... just milk chocolate but just so iconically british- I would also recommend double deckers!
Are double deckers a type of Yorkie bar?
@@420StepsFromHell yum yum yum 🍫😊
@@WanderingRavens There is a raisin and biscuit Yorkie and a nut version, personally I prefer the former and double decker are Cadbury where Yorkie is Nesle Rowntree.
@@simonbutterfield4860 I quite like the raisin and nut Yorkie - probably part because it means less of the nasty waxy chocolate and part because Cadbury keeps on producing chocolate bars that contain nuts rather than 1 with just fruit.
When Yorkies came out in the 70s, their selling point was the thickness and hardness of the chocolate. I remember one of the lines from the advert at the time was "Good, rich and thick, a milk chocolate brick".
Twiglets are a snack flavoured with Yeast extract. Very similar to a spread called Marmite ( Vegemite in Australia) it's a love or loathe spread. We in England use this phrase ' It's a Marmite thing!' meaning you either love something or hate it.
Prawn cocktail crisps aren’t really meant to taste of prawn, it’s based on the prawn cocktail starter, so basically Marie Rose sauce. The cheap and cheerful 70’s version of that, was mix ketchup and salad cream.
The reason why Turkish delight tastes like eating a gelatine version is a flower is because the filling is rose flavoured...
Great use of the word "feck", (11.25) Eric. Your stay in Northern Ireland must have rubbed off on you, or you've been watching Father Ted!🇨🇮🤣🍫
Both!! 😂😂
As an English person I need to publicly declare my undying love for all things Reese's...especially the white chocolate cups 🤤
Virtually everything on that table contains or may contain gluten.
Including the Yorkie & Dairy milk.
Galaxy and Dairy Milk do “Dark Milk” versions of their chocolate now.
An interesting sweet you may find rank are Squashies.
Squashies are amazing
If you liked the prawn cocktail walkers you'll *love* Skips. They sort of melt in your mouth, almost like communion bread.
Also, you should try caramel Cadbury and white chocolate Oreo Cadbury. In my opinion Cadbury dairy milk doesn't taste great on it's own, but these two variations are really good.
Herecey! Milk chocolate cadburys is the best!
when looking at the difference between uk chocolate bars and american look for the coco solids amount near the ingredients section! in the uk to call it a chocolate bar it has to have more than 20% coco solids in america its only 10% needed to be called a chocolate bar! i hope that helps!
Recently, Smarties changed their colouring. Back when I was a kid, their colours were a lot brighter. However, they were filled with additives and E-numbers, linked with child hyper-activity, so now they use natural colourings (At least that's what I heard)
Back in the day, the packaging was a cylindrical tube, with a plastic cap with a letter embossed on the inside. I suppose it gave them a collectability/educational factor for the kiddies.
"i dont want to swallow" upon trying turkish delight,eric finds out what its like to be a girl.
Walkers is owned by Lay's,
Lay's are owned by Frito Lay
Frito Lay are owned by PepsiCo.
Really? We had no idea!
@@WanderingRavens And the reason Walkers crisps are everywhere is that PepsiCo used to tie them together in a deal/ultimatum to retailers to the effect of "if you want to stock Pepsi, you'll also stock Walkers crisps." They also own the Smith's brand.
I used to prefer Golden Wonder, which are all but impossible to find in England now. You may have more luck in Ireland.
Cadburys has changed so much. I remember when they were 250g bars for £1.29 from the corner shop. Now they seem softer and blander than they were before, not to mention half the size
Here's a great trick using malteasers. Lay on your back and pukker your lips, place a malteaser on your lips and blow. The idea is to make the malteaser float in mid air as you blow. It's in an old malteaser advert.
should have tried tunnock s teas cake
Will save those for part two!
and tunnocks carmel wafers
Thank You! I'm doing my online shopping ready for delivery tomorrow and I fancied a treat. Deffo putting tunnocks tea cakes on there right now 😀
They are horrible!
Tunnocks tea cakes?
Am I the only one who likes Turkish Delights? 0_0
I'm afraid so 😆
Yes! Hateful stuff.
What is wrong with people? Turkish delight,even covered in chocolate, is gorgeous!!! Fry's is a piece of perfection.
I love it too. They are wonderful :)
Currently in a multi pack of three for £1 at Tesco, with no reduction in individual bar size, I think they are wonderful. But I have to point out sincerely that the product is actually called ‘Fry’s Turkish Delight’ other brands are available but are inferior.
The chocolate balls are called Whoppers in the states. They are always sold at movie theaters and most Walgreen's stores. The filling is malt.
Yorkie bars do a bar for the army that says “not for civvies”
I'd recommend Bounty which is coconut covered in chocolate and Crunchie which is honeycomb toffee sugar centre covered in chocolate as well. Hope you enjoy both if you ever get them, they're both gluten free i believe 🙂
Again another well established product. Dear ravens, please note that like McVities digestives bounty bar comes in plain and milk chocolate. I prefer the plain (dark), chocolate one, which should be eaten at room temperature in a warm room for the full experience. I myself sit on them for about ten minutes
These are the same as "mounds" in the US, and are one of the few US sweets that are similar to the UK version.
That's an evil suggestion. Bounties are known to be hated in the UK.
There was outrage when they took the ‘not for girls’ off of the Yorkie packet 😂
I admire people who can try all this and not feel sick/ pucke 😅 I have to try a few of these though, been in uk for 1.5 years and feel i am missing out on many things 🤣
As soon as I saw the twiglets on the table I thought "They won't like them" as I've yet to meet anyone from the US or Canada who does. As with Marmite, I think it's something you have to be brought up on. Personally I think Galaxy make a better chocolate bar than Dairy Milk although I'd happily eat either. Wagon Wheels are much smaller than they used to be (no doubt due to sugar content) When I was a kid they were huge and the playground dare always used to be "can you fit a whole one in your mouth?" This game was eventually banned in our school when a boy got one stuck in his mouth, started choking and had to be taken to the school nurse. It's over 40 years ago but I can still remember the sight of that kid being led away with this huge biscuit stuck in his mouth & tears streaming down his face!
Walkers are the kings of the crisp world, they've been around for about 100 years I think. As you have probably sussed by now the British are very keen on their crisps - everyone has their own personal Walkers favourite flavour (except my dad who would only ever eat ready salted or salt & shake) but there is no such thing as a bad Walkers crisp.
I'm guessing any Turkish delight if you've had it before was lemon flavoured? The one you had is rose water flavoured which is the other most common flavour of TD you normally find.
You have to try Polo´s peppermint.There is nothing more Brittish like those!
Trebour mints are a minty bit stronger 😉
Or Werthers Original. 😍
@@ashleighalexandra1290 Werthers are German
If you want "spicy" menthol..its original flavour "Fisherman's Friends"
wencire one: “stick ‘em up yer bum and they last a bit longer!” as we used to sing at school 😂
Good to see you two still having fun in England, you are now honary English as you know it has to be Yorkshire tea.