A Brit And An American Swap Gross Foods For 24 Hours
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- Опубликовано: 17 май 2024
- Join Tom, a Brit, and Jeff, an American, as they swap gross food items for 24 hours. Who'll be able to put together the worst menu?
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I don't eat spam anymore, but spam and grits are definitely not the grossest breakfast items he could've suggested. I'm low-key offended. Definitely a class and or culture difference.
I agree
I didn't see one speck of seasoning in those grits.
@@ebonimccain6988 Probably no butter either. Im from California but spent a summer in Georgia, so I know grits now lol
Definitely cause in the south we eat it all the time
Same, Spam is just way to much salt for me
As a girl from Georgia (USA)...you can put literally anything you want in grits...butter, maple syrup, cheese, onions, etc.
Grits are not ment to be plain
@Shelly Young..Hi fellow Georgian!! I love grits with cheese and my husband loves garlic salt with his grits, a bit savory. Me? Just a country girl who loves butter and cheese that's it. Eggs & bacon on the side is optional 😊
A fellow Georgian👌
@Natasha Warden here is how I eat mine, sugar, butter and honey, or egg with runny yoke, cheese, butter and a little bit of sugar.
even with ranch???
He thinks spam & eggs with grits is nasty!? Hurt my soul with rootbeer float and candied yams being here too 😭
I hate grits personally, love the rest.
Same!! I said, thats a good breakfast to me
Spam is way to salty for, I dislike it so much
Same
@@aliciajohnson1896 if you marinate it it’s better, it removes a lot of the salt. It’s preserved because it’s a war time food, that’s why it’s so salty.
As a southern black woman in the US I feel attacked lol dude that picked it is trippin grits are good he just didn’t cook them right and add the right stuff
Fact grits are so good with cheese salt pepper
Right? And it is a regional kind of cluster. In Hawaii we eat spam with rice, and yeah sometimes eggs. but it's basically pork...and if anyone has had bacon and eggs or pork sausages and eggs...it's not a big deal. And real true grits with cheese so damn good...and that is more of a southern specialty (best grits I've eaten are from family who live in the south).
he didn’t even dislike it ;)
Right ! And the meatloaf and sweet potatoes!
I'm a pale white guy and I was thinking "Did you add nothing? At all? And POWDERED sweet tea?"
As a southern american Jeff picked almost all southern foods. Hurts my heart and soul.😔😪😔
The Jello salad is definitely what I would call a food crime.
Since I’ve reached adulthood, I would like to argue that meatloaf is amazing. It’s just a giant meatball.
Ok but why does the American side appeal to me so much! Apart from the jello salad it’s all so delicious!!
Jello salad done properly is fantastic.
I can talk at least 1 or 2 things from each meal off the list
It actually is lol I’m not sure why he put most of it on the list. Besides the jello salad and root beer I’ve eaten it all before
If I had to guess why it appeals to you, at least from a British perspective: blunt force trauma to the head? /s
Jello salad isn't that popular here anymore either except holidays lol
“Spam is spamming....grits are gritting” thought I’d die laughing 🤣
The only thing from the US that I think is gross is the jello salad lol I love meatloaf and corn dogs. I live in Nevada we have a lot of Filipino and Hawaiian people so Spam is on a lot of breakfast menus 🤷🏽♀️
I don't think anyone has actually eaten jello salad since sometime in the mid 1950's
Then they went crazy with the stuff.
@@jonduggan7433 I’m Minnesotan we eat it a lot during pot lucks and holidays I grew up with it I love it the best kind has coconut, pineapple, marshmallows, whipped cream, and maraschino cherries in it
Yes, meatloaf and corn dogs are American favs lol
It’s the cheese whiz that’s gross. And since when are meatloaf and candied yams gross? I eat candied yams every thanksgiving and Christmas. The only things that looked gross were the cheese whiz, jello salad, and spam.
@@LadyBoyToby is that the same as Ambrosia?
Wait, what... HOW can you find cheese and pickle gross, but not "peas pudding"? HOW?! Mind-boggling. Cheese and pickle is one of the best sandwich fillings ever created.
Pease pudding is amazing! A classic from the north east. Honestly the flavour is not that strong and you can make it from scratch easily.
Shouldn't trust this guy taste buds he thinks grits are gross
I can’t stand pickles. To me it’s one of the worst foods out there
Not everyone likes pickles
@@jpinlondon I prefer it hot though.
I was most shocked about the Branston pickle and cheese sandwich.... I love this, add some lettuce and tomato and make a ploughmans!
With grits use milk instead of water.. salt black pepper butter and cheese! Cook on slow low heat
I have a friend at work who says she adds some cream cheese to grits. Sounds pretty good. 😊
You're making my mouth water ....cheesy grits are the best.
Those grits looked so sad. He literally listed everything that makes grits delicious. But good grits really just need butter, salt, and pepper at a minimum.
meatloaf, corn dogs, root beer float. All LOVELY
I know right?! How was that considered gross?!
I could eat corn dogs every day.
Right, lol. Corn dogs are awesome, wtf. And I personally don’t like root beer, but as a float it’s not gross at all..
"It's jelly, but it's mayonnaise" NO THANK YOU! 😂
I see a new life for pease pudding, marketed as "the hummus of the North"
@Natasha Warden It's mainly from the North East. It deserves to go far!
@@jpinlondon It's lovely, but not out of a tin, yak.
Us Northerners got it right with Pease pudding...North Eastern woman here and love ham and pease pudding sandwiches.
A) Instant grits are not legit grits. B) Jeff (who is SOUTHERN!) knows that grits always taste better with butter & salt, and either cheese or grape jelly
He also should have known better with the sweet tea. I don't even like it and I know you don't use powdered mix for it.
Poor Tom never gets proper instructions
I think I might be the Venn-diagram for this video. Black American in England, formerly married to a Scottish man. Grits are life. And yes, they should have cheese. It's just white polenta. I like them with American cheese, salt & pepper, topped with a fried egg and bacon. Haggis, neeps, and tatties are delicious. As long as the haggis is from Simon Howie.
If I have my grits savory I like cheddar cheese and shrimp other times I like it with a little sweetness
Is Haggis from anyone else?
I have eaten all variations of Haggis from Simon Howie and they are delicious.
On paper, Haggis is disgusting but putting that aside, it actually tastes lovely and it’s a very clever way of using the pluck from sheep, considering the meat and wool was more often sold in Scotland.
Ok...where did Jeff grow up? I need to know, because outside of the jello salad and combining the corndogs with the easy cheese, I'm not seeing anything gross. I don't like candied yams or root beer, but I wouldn't present either of them as examples of disgusting American food. These are just things he personally doesn't like lol
Corn dog and cheese whiz sounds amazing too
Nothing wrong with a root beer float!
I like cheese whiz, but on a corn dog I would probably just use mustard, but if I had to dip it in cheese whiz I wouldn't exactly call it disgusting.
@@annabelgrace1267 Can ya please explain ta me on what planet sweet tea is gross? Sweet tea is delightful!
As an American I’ve never had Jello salad... but listen here Tom lol, Grits are amazing, you can have it with cheese, sugar, salt and pepper, shrimp, gravy, bacon and sausage, the list goes on... it’s amazing
He was talking about how salty the spam was and how bland the grits were-I was waiting for the lightbulb to go off and it never did 😭
I’ve never even heard of that Jello salad
@@lauramcmillan9592 I bloody love spam! Every British northerner I’ve ever met has...Tom is strange!
@@lauramcmillan9592 that’s the main issue, why are the grits bland 😩. He should have seasoned them.
Its a very Midwest thing
Did it weird anyone else out the fact he didn't use a kettle for the bovril drink and did it straight from the tap xx
I think it weirded people out on both sides of the pond.
I'm still trying to wrap my head around the concept of a beef drink.
You can get taps that boil water now so could just be one of those systems
You don't want to put actual boiling water in a plastic cup like that!
THIS! I was going to put the same comment. You just dont drink hot water from a tap >.
“The crunch of the walnuts really adds a dimension”.
Such a British way of describing something terrible 😁
Haggis is delicious but where was the laverbread??? I'm Welsh living abroad which means you love and miss everything Welsh but even I can't stomach that stuff!
Jeff needs to learn to use a kettle and not hot water straight from the tap
He doesn't have a kettle
Jello salad was big in the 1950's. Grits either have butter or cheese with them. Put same shrimp on the cheese grits! Yum!
Aside from the jello salad, none of the American things are all that gross. I will say though, cheez whiz is okay, but mustard is required on a corn dog and I don't like grits.
I think most of us just watch these to see what silly thing Jeff can mess up this time
I honestly think so too at this point
Yes. What cherished food can he complain about and get wrong?
Yup.
Jeff had Bovril before in the vegemite and marmite video. He knows better.
He’s now just hamming it up for the camera. Because he totally knows how that was going to taste.
I was expecting marmite. Either you hate it or you're crazy.
@@OkRennie11 I love Marmite! I was in the UK once and I had my first taste of Marmite on buttered toast! It was DELICIOUS!
Grits, sweet tea, meatloaf, candied yams and root beer floats are not gross
People eat rice pudding in the US. Sometimes they add raisins and cinnamon. I don't like the texture, but the flavor is good
Bovril for drinking, marmite on toast. Also who makes bovril with hot tap water? Use a kettle please Jeff.
I was shocked by the hot tap water. Is that even safe for drinking!
Most Americans don't own kettles.
@@fionaj8668 yes of course it is lol. It’s just effing weird 😂 but then this is the man who drank ribena undiluted...doesn’t he live in the uk now?
@@alexbostock7826 not necessarily, in the U.K. we have hot water tanks which feed our hot water taps. Due to the water sitting in tanks it’s not deemed drinking water. Some places have combi boilers which does make the hot water drinkable but most hot water only comes out at 60 degrees anyways
@@rebeccas2801 I am in the uk and I’ve drank hot water from the tap...not my preferred method but needs must sometimes.
Eeh pickle and cheese is a classic! I used to love that as a kid
Here, pickle means what you would call a gherkin. So it’s just not something he had any experience with.
@@allisonmb1930 pickles and cheese aren’t what I would consider exclusively British though, Jeff hadn’t even tried rice pudding and that’s very common in America.
It's definitely a specific flavour, he was probably expecting a something like gherkins but it's sweet and rich 🤤
I know I found the rice pudding thing odd aswell
My lunch right now lol 🙈 I love itttt
@@Glasgow328 it's so good!
Think there needs to be Round 2 of this, fellas. I mean, honestly Tom, where were the jellied eels? Or Jeff, Anything from the Underwood Potted Meat line...
Also, I adore these, the 2 of you pull the best faces :)
Wait, what? How is cheese and Brandon gross? It’s a classic 😲😡
Its called having different taste buds 😊
it tastes disgusting
Literally was so shocked that he hated it 😂😂
To be fair he put a crap tonne in there. I’m addicted to the stuff ,but the pickle to cheese ratio is key
I guess it's one of those things you have to be brought up with, because I was can't see anything to dislike and was really surprised when he hated it. Oh well, more for us!
The entire American meal is delicious to me besides the salad lmao
Ok the jello salad recipe he followed is upsetting. Watergate salad with the crushed pineapple and the marshmallows is BOMB at thanksgiving. We have it at every family gathering and not having it for the last year has me CRAVING IT
You're the only other person ive know who mentioned watergate, i havent had it in so long, but used to have it at Thanksgiving and Christmas dinner all the time and yes tom did not make it the right right way at all.
Isn't that ambrosia? I forgot what's in watergate but ambrosia is mandarin oranges, pineapple, marshmallows, coconut, cherries and whipped cream.
@@necrogenesis1981 i was told watergate is a type of ambrosia its has pistachio pudding, canned pineapple, whipped topping, crushed pecans, and marshmallows.
@@TheRogueFeline oh yeah, I was thinking of another kind with apples.
How can you not like a cheese & Branston sandwich?! Americans...
This was an outrage to me too!
Lol I never had it. But considering what he gave the British guy for gross foods I wouldn't trust his taste buds
It sounds gross tbh lol
@QWERTYOP80 How can ya not let people have their own opinions and tastes?
@@erikalouwrens3992 Why can't we let people have their own opinions?
Grits and candied yams are great when seasoned properly...or I mean when seasoned at all 😳
Haggis is not as bad as people think! If you ignore what it is it does taste quite good!
“I thought it’s harder”
“I didn’t expect it’s ready to come out so quickly”
That’s what she/he said COMBO
14:05 “how do i make this stop happening” LMAO🤣 i literally fell on the floor laughing as an american
That's how you know someone has never had a root beer float. Like you have to put the ice cream in first and the SLOWLY add the root beer.
When you adds a good amount of butter and cheese, grits taste absolutely amazing.
*add not adds
Legit all of those American foods are good except for the jello salad and cheese stuff.
I’m sorry but the Jell-O thing is an abomination 🤣🤣
Pre-COVID when we had potlucks there would always be at least one jello fruit salad, I always avoided them. You should try Needhams candies! They're still pretty common in my state, Maine. They're chocolate coated candies and the inside main ingredients are coconut flakes and mashed potatoes. Here they sell them in stores and people make them at home especially around the holidays, they're very easy to make.
Tom you should gave Jeff eel jelly. British classic food.
Not in London but I guess it’s not easy to find in London
@@bababaghanoush they originated in London as eels were one of the only things found in the muddy water of the themes in the Victorian era however in recent years they have fallen out of favour
@Natasha Warden
Jellied eels are a traditional English dish that originated in the 18th century, primarily in the East End of London. The dish consists of chopped eels boiled in a spiced stock that is allowed to cool and set, forming a jelly.
@@bababaghanoush
Jellied eels are a traditional English dish that originated in the 18th century, primarily in the East End of London. The dish consists of chopped eels boiled in a spiced stock that is allowed to cool and set, forming a jelly.
honestly, eel jelly sounds like a threat.
I winced at hearing Jeff describe pease pudding as 'like hummus', then realised I was looking at the grits thinking "it's just polenta" , so I'm probably even worse here!
If that is all your grandma put into your jello salad, you where lucky. And better believe you had to sit at the table til you finish all that she put on your plate.
Jeff, if you like the tinned rice pudding you should definitely make a homemade one! It's super easy and a million times better! especially if you bake it and add nutmeg too
Agree with you wholeheartedly. Way better homemade.
Haggis is actually delicious
The way Jeff's face moves tho looks like he has total control over all of his heads organs, muscles, bones and everything else
What's he doing yOu nEeD to bOiL the KeTtLe nOt hOt wAtEr oUt oF tHe TaP 😂😨
HE HAS NO KETTEL! PLUS THE INSTRUCTIONS SAY DON'T BOIL THE WATER! MORON!
I love grits (w/brown sugar + butter) but I’d eat it w/salty spam too! I love corn dogs & meat loaf too. 😂 My hubby hates all these things - so I can see why they made the list.
Now, jeff has never heard of rice pudding???? I can't! we eat that here too JEFF!!!!!!!!
Right? Jell-O brand even sells it in cups
I am glad to see a video like this again.
You need to have the bovril spread with mature cheese then grill it. Perfection.
I'll try that. I normally only add the Bovril spread into stews or gravys
I’ve lived in the east coast of America for over 20 years and I’ve never heard of or seen that jello salad and there’s no way I would ever try it so kudos to you and kudos to you Jeff for trying haggis, cos I’ve never tried that or black pudding neither!! I’ve had grits and they’re edible, but flavourless. Jeff, you should have put butter on your toast and spread a lot less bovril and it wouldn’t have tasted so salty. That’s the mistake a lot of Americans make with bovril and marmite is spreading it like it’s peanut butter and not putting butter on their toast first.
Haggis is yummy with mash potatoes and gravy 😋
My family is from southern Kentucky and jello salad is definitely a thing they eat there. It is gross and normally contains all sorts of things including actual lettuce. Very gross. If is popular enough that you can even find it in buffet in Southern Indiana (an area where a lot of people moved to from the South during the Great Depression).
As an American with Irish parents, I actually LOVE blood pudding. It's been well over a decade since I had it but it conjures up fond memories of my dad's heart attacking inducing weekend fry-ups
Try cheese and butter through the grits-A lot of Southern people do that!
Not me
Tom is much more open to trying new things. Yayy 🧡
Lol the green Jello salad is crazy, but my family and I love it! My grandma added pineapple and a tiny bit of horseradish in her recipe too! 😂
Make the the jello salad from pistachio pudding and maraschinos next time! So much better.
My family does this exact jello salad and has for 50+ years.No walnuts, but with pineapple. (also its not a jello salad if you make it with pudding)
@pengu82 Uh, jell-o salad is made with jello gelatin not pudding!
Branston pickle and cheese is my childhood, most people I know love it! It's mad how growing up with things makes you love them compared to people who haven't, Like for me squeezy cheese sounds absolutely revolting but most American people I know love it haha
I'll give you a hint, we don't eat squeezy cheese cold lol. It's a cheese sauce, it's only good when it can burn your mouth.
I am American and I don’t eat, nor do I know anyone that eats, cheese like that. I don’t know...it must be a regional thing.
I know literally no one who eats it in New York
Squeeze cheese is not popular in the us
I have Branston and cheese on crackers, in sandwiches (on its own or as a ploughman's) and I have Branston on pork pies.
1:49
Subtitles said:
"Use hot *waiter* , not boiling, and stir for the perfect drink"
Oh, i will use a hot *waiter*
American here and haggis is actually really good. I had it served to me on biscuits with brown gravy. Really good.
But home boy offended us southern folk sending grits saying they're nasty. Lol, British guy knew just what they needed!
The fact that he didn’t put scrapple on the menu for breakfast confuses me. Hands down the grossest nonsense around
Tom you need a&w root beer, and you pour it over the ice cream!
Erm haggis is delicious if it’s cooked good and can be cooked in different ways , it’s from Scottish culture and has a lot of history behind why we eat it ! ♥️🏴
Totally! Pure hurt my soul to see it in the "gross" category...
Jello salads are big in the south. Texan here, and I grew up with something very similar to the one in the video....I love it, though I'm pretty sure it is just nostalgic. Grits are also very southern. Next time, cook them in chicken stock, add cheese and a couple of dashes of chipotle Tabasco sauce.
Diet swap, comfort food edition!
Yes! I'd suggest Jeff should eat a deep fried Mars bar!
@@ellat8804 Uhm..... Mars bars don't exist in the US Jeff is American, don't forget!
This actually hurt my soul. How can you not like a cheese pickle sandwich. Just add some mayo and lettuce and it would be perfect.
its disgusting
I agree...a lot of these ‘gross foods’ confused me...
putting lettuce and mayo on a cheese and pickle butty hurts my soul
Add what!?
Has no one here ever had a Ploughmans sandwich. It might be weird if you're not English but it tastes so good even if it's from the supermarket
Cheese and Brandon pickle sandwiches were my faves for a good while!
That's not how you do jello salad at least in my family. We use fresh strawberries, sour cream, and it's supposed to be frozen. Not whatever that was. That was straight out of a 1950s cook book when they added jello to everything
We all have our own ways of makin things!
You eat hotdogs but think spam is gross...make it make sense
grits with cheddar cheese is good
spam and eggs is also good
Tom is on something lol
Tom with the spam 😂😭 killed me
No boiled kettle water for the bovril , just hot tap water ? Or is this one of them boiling hot taps , not just a normal hot tap.
It says on the packet not to use boiling water, just hot water
Thank you
Spam,eggs and grits are delicious 😋. You can add so many different things to grits like butter,cheese,pepper,etc....
The American one isn’t even bad! Apart from the jello
and meatloaf lol
@YaAliMadad......maybe it was because Jeff finds them gross. LOL
SnEAkErHEaD Always wanted to try it
SnEAkErHEaD id eat it
Midwest girl here! Jell-o pudding are ESSENTIAL to any family gathering, and I still love them in some sort of Stockholm Syndrome type of way.
Not Tom pouring the soda first 😂😂😂 it’s ice creams scoops then soda on top
All that food sounds good. Maybe I'm just hungry...
Also I’m from the south and that powdered tea. Bless your heart.
I know it even had British on the screen was like don't you have a black tea bag?
You should have had Tom eat chitterlings. 😆 I was just at an event and someone brought lime jello. Love root beer floats,❤️
With a root beer float, you put the ice cream in first, then you pour the root beer over it. Do it slowly so that you can control the "primordial ooze".
Grits are amazing and the BRIT right on the money! Shrimp and grits or cheese grits-food of the gods!
Rice pudding amazing
Listen if your grits don’t taste good it’s because you didn’t make them right.
I am obsessed with these two! 💕
For a root beer float you’re supposed to put tbt ice cream in first
Explain tbt? Also, accordin ta Google, the best way ta make a float is ta chill a glass, pour your coke, and then add the ice cream.
Jeff read the instructions this time but why didn’t he use boiled water instead of hot tap water?!?
I thought that discussing drinking water out of hot tap 🤢
@michellemoh5081 The directions said not ta use boilin water
I feel like the American guy went so light on the British guy with the food he picked 🤣 the corn dog and everything for dinner are nothing compared to the British stuff
Grits are literally a porridge made of corn instead of wheat, like polenta, and you can & should use them as a base. They are endlessly adaptable. Cheesy grits? Delicious. Make it with veggie broth or stock, and serve it with a protein? Yes, please. Eat it with honey or maple syrup? Amazing. Gross? I think not.
Bovril on toast is nice. its all i would eat on my toast for years after i went off marmite (back to loving it now). but please tell me Jeff did not make a drink using the hot tap and that was one of those special hot taps for hot drinking water????? also note for Jeff Bovril beef tea was originally medicinal
How are corn dogs and meatloaf controversial? I feel like the American dude has never actually tried the foods he sent over and just knows that they exist. The only controversial foods there are the jello salad and rootbeer float, the rest are just regional foods that most folks enjoy.
I don't consider root beer floats controversial. I personally don't like root beer but that is just a personal preference. Root beer floats are very common here and not considered gross at all.
Lots of these actually look delicious
Grits are suppose to be made with butter, salt, n pepper. Some ppl even do sugar
2:06 I would have used a kettle..
American's don't use kettles though lol
@@deanthomson1891 we do in Canada so its just weird to see people not use them
@@deanthomson1891 I use an electric kettle in Minnesota. Poor Americans working for buzzfeed can't afford one.
Is nobody upset about the fact he put root beer in before the ice cream?
Knew that eruption was coming...
Shoudd have met that haggis with chitlins. Meatloaf is amazing when done proper.
Meatloaf and candied yams are freaking amazing! Tom got off easy