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- Published on Apr 17, 2026
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Americans King and Queen Boomers' Reaction to kids trying British food for the first time including a full english breakfast and knickerbocker glory. ENJOY!
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that sunday dinner is horrific, not at all british
Agreed. Meat is the wrong cut and the veg looks over prepped.
Yep the Yorkshire had clearly been frozen and over cooked to be that crunchy and chewy and the whole plate should have been swimming in gravy.
I gasped when I seen it. Looked more like an attempted drawing of a roast dinner. Shameful. ❤
Prison portions.😂
Serve that in England, and fighting would break out..
5:44 Brits everywhere going "WTF is that?!! That's not a Sunday roast."
The breakfast also hardly full 😂
I fucking raged XD
It's some posh snooty immitation.
And that's not a Knickerbocker Glory!
Whoever made that Sunday roast needs to be arrested for crimes against humanity!!!!
my thoughts exactly... it looks absolutely disgusting.
It was an extremely poor example of a traditional home made roast dinner.
yeah, what exactly was that? looked like potato salad?
Haha...was just thinking the same....if someone gave me that on Sunday....
@ronhope3970 😂🤣😂 me too.
Those were some sorry versions, especially the Sunday roast which most Brits wouldn't recognise.
Absolutely! that was not a Sunday roast. We do beautiful roast dinners in the UK with all the trimmings, and gorgeous gravy.
@tazzie2shoos ... Even the lower standard roast dinners you get in some of the dodgier pubs look pukka compared to the muck in the video. That was no traditional roast dinner that was a mini disaster on a plate.
@davidhlennon I'm not Vegetarian but i could make a Vegetarian sunday roast, that would be wildly better than that.
I thought that, but then remembered that it's just a taster. The poor children would explode if they ate full size versions of everything.
@benlee8436 It's not the amount of food it's the quality. They could have given them a small plate with smaller portions. Little kids have roast dinners on Sunday and it doesn't look like that.
The knickerbocker glory should be in a tall glass
That is not a Sunday roast
Knickerbocker Glory is meant to be served in a tall glass with a long spoon. It has layers of fruit, ice cream, jelly and crream - please look up what it's meant to look like.
yep, technically called a 'parfait glass' and a 'parfait spoon' = Long glass with a long spoon.... the spoon being teaspoon capacity, with a longer handle. So you can reach the bottom of the glass without making a mess.
That is not a Sunday roast, where's the gravy?!
It's there on the beef, look closer.
@captaindaveblack-w2q If you have to look closer there is not enough gravy.
No veg either. It's a trainwreck.
It’s the worst roast dinner I’ve ever seen😮
That is the most miserable Sunday roast I’ve ever seen. And no gravy!!!
That Sunday roast was an abomination
My kids used cutlery at that age!!! So did all their friends.
Yeah my parents would’ve been furious if I’d eaten my food without cutlery like that…I’m quite jealous 😂
Sadly the cutlery issue doesn't go away as they grow up
Why are none of the children using cutlery ?
@mrsprivate1678 They are American = no table manners!
That looked more like trifle only, without the custard. These dishes were made by an American.
It's a Scotch egg, not Scottish egg.
You wont be able to try Haggis, it's banned in the US because it contains sheep lungs.
British baked beans are VERY different from American baked beans, they are not interchangeable.
The bread thing is called a Yorkshire pudding and is an absolute must on any roast dinner.
Suggestions for baked British deserts, 'sticky toffee pudding and custard', 'spotted dick and custard', 'Bakewell tart and custard' and 'jam roly-poly and custard' are 4 classics.
Oh but Haggis is delicious. You need to go to Scotland for it, but it's SOOOOO GOOOOD!
@daftirishmarej1827 That is definitely a matter of opinion and not one I share I'm afraid. 🤮🤮🤮
@daftirishmarej1827🤮🤮🤮🤮
What a sorry excuse for a Sunday roast!
The issue with these clips is that it's Americans cooking their version of what they think British food is.
That explains sooooo much
british beans are nothing like your beans
You can buy British beans from the foreign/exotics aisle of some US supermarkets - or at least you could when I was up in Ohio in 2012. But yeah US food isn't generally similar to UK foods. Not all of it is worse, but a lot is far too full of sugar/corn syrup - and the store bread is more cake than bread... Not a fan. Artisinal breads were okay though... but silly expensive.
That Sunday roast looked terrible
ITS NOT BLOOD SAUSAGE, IT BLACK PUDDING!!!
It’s main ingredient is Blood.
@jamesneeson9825don't give a shit it BLACK PUDDING.
It's not a traditional English breakfast, it's a full English breakfast. The way the presenter said it makes it sound like we all eat that day in day out over here. We'd all be hospital with heart disease by the age of 30 if it was😂
But we would if we could😉
hell i would eat it in hospital.
Love it in a giant bap. Yum
Full English does not look good, but is just for kiddies. UK Beans are with a tomato sauce, US is a sweeter sauce. When eating it mix up a bit what you eat at the same time on the fork.
Yes full english breakfast
Black pudding is very tasty, and that sunday roast was revolting
That was the most pathetic Sunday Roast I've ever see. It was not a good typical example.
I think it was OK for a children's serving, but the tiny amount of gravy, on the meat only, is not the British way.
It was nothing like a traditional roast dinner, serve that up to a British kid and they'd spit in your eye. 😂
Can't give kids roast spuds 'n gravy if they don't have proper emergency healthcare.@alpine_newt
can u recall when spoons did sunday dinners...they were pretty bad!!
It's for kids though.
That roast dinner is a travesty!!!
Knickerbocker glory is layers of strawberries, raspberries, ice cream , merengue, whipped cream and raspberry syrup. It's delicious. Scotch egg, a good one is banging, it's sausage meat wrapped around a boiled egg , dipped in breadcrumbs and deep fried. Its usually eaten cold as a snack, its good picnic food.
We normally cut up the food for small children.
That Sunday roast was not right at all. It was trying to be a roast beef and Yorkshire pudding and vegetables. There was no roast potatoes shown at all.
Knickerblocker Glory = Heaven
"This is the first time I ever felt this good". Ha ha ha ha. That bit was frickin' hilarious.
That wasn't a Sunday Roast, it was a war crime.
For a dessert, you can't go wrong with a trifle.
Unless you're Rachel from Friends.
I liked most of it as a kid, except that orange grainy layer that had a chemically taste. I don't recall knickerbocker glory having that layer that trifle did, but although making a trifle was a trifle to do, my parents never made a knickerbocker glory at home, which meant I only ever saw them in cafes, and hence couldn't afford them. 😢
Or crumble and custard
That Sunday roast is nothing like how we do it in the UK
I don't know what the hell was going on with that totally alien 'Sunday roast' thing, I felt bad for the kids and annoyed that the producers clearly hadn't researched it. The plate should be loaded with fresh vegetables (minimum of 3), a pile of roast potatoes, roast parsnips, stuffing, sliced roast meat (beef, pork, lamb or chicken), a Yorkshire pudding as big as your head and lashings of meaty gravy. This is your basic minimum roast dinner, other stuff is often added.
As a kid I always had a knickerbocker glory when we went out - a 2ft tall glass filled with ice cream, fruit cocktail, strawberries in syrup and whipped cream and they gave you a special long spoon to eat it with. Happy days!
As a Brit who used to live in the US, US beans are WAY sweeter than UK beans. You should try it with UK beans.
That is the saddest and most inadequate-looking Sunday roast I've ever seen! Someone is responsible for that and I recommend they go into hiding until the heat dies down!
The Sunday roast, nothing like it’s supposed to look, nothing 👍
That “sunday roast” is a travesty and a crime.
Poor excuse for a Sunday dinner half of it was missing 🤣🤣
I mean they were probably trying to give the kids a meal they can handle. They already have too many fat kids
Half!!! And the rest.😂
If I was invited to a friends house for a Sunday roast and they put that plate down in front of me I'd wonder what I'd done to make them hate me so much, that is the worst example of a Sunday roast I've ever seen, if I was served that in a restaurant I'd just stand up and leave without paying the bill, it's that bad! Yorkshire puddings are made with pancake batter which is why the kid said they smell like pancakes, I think you have something similar called Popovers.
Their sunday roast did not have enough gravy. The whole plate should be full of gravy.
They are kids
@TheeAbominableJoeMan Your point? Gravy is both delicious and it helps to get the meal down. Plus a bonus drink at the end when everything is eaten and only the gravy is left.
As a kid we ate our Sunday roasts from a bowl to make sure the excess gravy didn't spill out
@TheeAbominableJoeManit’s Gravy not heroin.
🤣🤣🤣 yeah and the rest of the dinner 🤣🤣🤣
Enough gravy!!!! It didn't have any!
A Scotch Egg is English not Scottish.
No it's NOT. Try get yourself off your Wiki habit mate then you'll stop making a twat of yourself.
Even the English call them Scotch eggs!
Yes, the name comes from the process of mincing the meat that goes around the egg, which is known as scotching, hence the name scotch egg.
5:56 thats a tiny sunday roast to have a real sunday roast it's gotta be at least half the height of mt everest on the plate. It's thanksgiving dinner essentially, EVERY SUNDAY
Americans trying to do BRITISH food😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
This YT vid might help - 'KNICKERBOCKER GLORY RECIPE' by Barry Lewis
Scotch eggs are magnificent.
That wasn't representative of a Sunday roast....no stuffing, little amount of gravy, one meat, no roasties, where is the vegetables? Wheres all the other components of a roast
I was thinking the same thing. No stuffing, no veg. They probably overcooked it as-well. If i made something like that i'd be fired and shot.
Scotch Eggs are not Scottish. They were invented in the early 19th century by a chef for Fortnum and Masons (a famous London department store) to sell as food on the go to travellers on the stage coach to Edinburgh (hence "Scotch" eggs). I'm not sure where I heard that, but I think it was on QI (I can't remember if you've done a reaction to QI or not, if you haven't you should definitely check it out).
That's a very sad looking Sunday Roast
lol i was thinking the same looks very minimal and i usually have chicken with sunday roast not a steak.
@nigec4969 ... Lamb is also delicious with a roast, one of the tastiest meats you can eat. Turkey roast of course is traditional for Christmas and for some at Easter also.
@nigec4969 ... 👍
That is not a Sunday Roast, if you served that to anyone in the UK they'd have no idea what it's meant to be. A proper Sunday roast would be a plate piled up with vegetables meat stuffing potato's and a Yorkshire pudding. There should be too much food to the point its falling off the plate. Not that measly disaster.
scotch egg with a nice dollop of mayo between the sausage meat and egg (cut in half, take the half of egg out, squirt mayo in the hole, put egg back in the hole)
the "sunday roast" died this day, wtf was that , thee navy's on its way. . the plate should be stacked high.
As an English person I’ve had a knicker blocker glory once in my whole life . The roast dinner was nothing like a roast dinner , the ones here are so amazing . Scotch eggs are nice if freshly made , not from supermarkets .😅
Used to be the thing at Wimpy and Golden Egg restaurants back in the sixties and seventies, before MacGrollies and Kentucky Fried Salmonella became popular! My parents would buy me one if I ate my "Bender"! Yes I still think they serve these to this day?
@john8127-v7z Wimpy, yes! Knickerbocker Glory and Banana Split!
@john8131 ... Yeah, Wimpy used to do a pucker Knickerbocker glory back in the 1970s.
I used to have knicker bocker glory a lot when i was a kid, but i'm old and it was more popular then though not sure why it's not popular anymore because it is nice.
Knickerbocker Glory was voted number 1 British dessert AT the Great British Food Awards ... its a British classic ❤😊
Sunday roasy needs to fill up the WHOLE plate....lots of gravy too.
The young lad was right about a Knickerbocker glory, 60 years in and still love them.
*UK Here: KnickerBocker Glory Layered desert either Raspberry-Strawberry or Peach.: - Bottom layer, Jelly with fruit and sponge/ Second Layer, custard Layer with fruit/ 3rd Layer, Ice Cream with fruit sauce/ 4th layer, more custard with fruit/ 5th layer, ice cream with fruit sauce, and Final Top Layer "Whipped Cream with a cherry on top".*
Knickerbocker Glory is just a fancy Sundae with whip creame and different fruits.
Oh and that Roast Sunday dinner was quite pathetic, it was missing most of the ingredients
No knives in the USA?
They seem to use forks, only, quite a lot in US for some reason and when they do use a knife and fork [adults] I’ve seen many (not all) hold their forks like they’re 2 years old, in this weird vertical position. Strange.
@Nutrient-Gold watching Americans eat is the best replacement for a chimp's tea party I've seen.
If you're making an English breakfast, make sure the baked beans are British-style. Heinz or Branston (Branston's superior.)
American baked beans are COMPLETELY different. They contain molasses and brown sugar.
Butter the toast too!
Kraft Heinz should be avoided, like food brands such as Kelloggs they've cheapened all their products and are now no better than supermarket's own. The ketchup is ok but there are regular findings of things that move within their sauces,soups and beans, suggesting quality control issues (in both US and Europe)
Heinz baked beans are horribly sweet which is probably why they are liked by children. Branson baked beans are for adults.
Or try fried bread, tattie scones/farls/potato bread. Toast comes after.
Personally, as a Brit I don’t like baked beans if any kind and I’m not alone.
British beans are so different 😋
loved the reaction, especially the nickerbocker glory, the kid in the black shirt, hilarious ! as a child i always used to ask my mum if i could have one whenever we were in a cafe or restaurant ,but sadly i wasn`t allowed ,now im 58yrs and ive never tried one, anyway there`s still time perhaps. great video as usual ,thanks guys.
A traditional dessert in Northern Ireland is bread and butter pudding, usually served with warm custard but I like it with ice cream as I prefer the hot/cold thing
The breakfast was nesh but the roast was diabolical.
‘Knickerbocker Glory’ is just a variation on what the US call an ‘ice cream sundae’, the quality is also variable depending on where you get it. But at its best it is delicious… and I haven’t had one for ages… and I want one now after watching this.
Scotch eggs are a boiled egg wrapped in sausage meat, coated in breadcrumbs and deep fried. Quicky refridgerated theyre also great cold for picnics
Knickerbocker Glory is totally yummy 🍧❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
"This is the first time!" needs to become a meme 😂❤
King boomer and Queen boomer my name is Owen Richard Ellis live in the UK England Derbyshire Chesterfield ❤️ 🇬🇧 love you guys
Knickerbocker glory -- layers of fruit and ice cream, plus fruit puree, topped with cream, nuts and a must, is the cherry on the top !! Scotch eggs -- put lunch in your pocket -- quick and easy; they are so moreish -- eat them hot, cold and with coleslaw, or mini-tomatoes !!
For a traditional British dessert try making Bread and Butter pudding with custard. Yum!
Literally what I'm cooking tonight. Added marmalade and candied peel for an orangey twist. 🧡
Love a bit of bread and butter pudding.
They have probably had bread and butter pudding before, we have it in the US here it’s called Bread pudding.
@marydavis5234 we have bread and butter pudding and bread pudding in the uk, they are very different from each other. Bread pudding is like a bit like a loaf cake, bread and butter pudding is baked desert in a custard and dried fruit.
@mehhandle The bread pudding in the US is the same as your bread and butter pudding,some times it has fruit in it, depending on who makes it.
I always imagined Knickerbocker Glory was an American dessert.
knickerbocker glory is an ice cream sunday that has fruit, ice cream, whipped cream and merigue, can be tooped with sauces, nuts and a cherry, however lots of places in England do change it up a bit and create their own version but that is what it was originally.
Your wife is funny as fuck lad
edit: there's a really good chemistry between you both really fun to watch.
Only the scotch egg looked authentic. The rest was definitely poor American versions of British food lol
9:12 his eyes are on stalks. 😂😂
Jam roly-poly with custard is much better 😊
Knickerbocker Glory is an American dessert introduced into the UK in the 1930's
This programme could have at least given the children, child-sized knives, forks and spoons.
Adult Americans barely use cutlery.
Some Scottish desserts - Clootie Dumpling (steamed cake), Cranachan (raspberries, cream, whisky, oats), tablet (created when a Scot tasted sugar and thought "that would be nice if it was sweet), shortbread, macaroon (made with mashed potato).
King Boomer, you may have this experience yet to come. When our boy was 2 ish we were in a pub restaurant for sunday roast. He was in a high chair and our plan was to feed him some from our plates, he had other ideas. On seeing some big slabs of rare roast beef soaked in gravy on my plate, he quickly leaned over and stabbed one with his fork and dragged it across the table so he could devour it.
🤣🤣
My 3 year old grandson uses a knife and fork.
Scotch eggs are a favourite picnic food in the UK, and are also good if you need something reasonably substantial to eat on the go.
Mum always put a Scotch egg in my packed lunch whenever there was a school trip! Delicious!
Yeah, an American once said to me are Scotch eggs originally from Scotland because of the name, I had to explain that no they were invented in England and the name comes from the process of mincing the meat to go around the egg which is known as scotching, hence the name scotch egg.
@martinwebb1681 They _are_ English but no one knows the origin of the name.
Scotch eggs aren't just a picnic food, sure those horrible dry ones you get out the supermarket are often found in picnics, but Scotch eggs can also be served in fine dining restaurants, served warm with the sausage meat still moist and the yolk still running. The difference between the two is night and day.
black pudding is the ultimate cure for a hangover. If your partner serves you one when you can hardly open your eyes they are keeper.
That is NOT a Sunday dinner 🤣🤣🤣🤣
I was gonna say that, too. Where was the broccoli, cabbage, sprouts, carrots or peas. No mint sauce or stuffing either (although I don't have those either as I hate them XD )
@mikkdcthey are children , when you were a child did you like broccoli, cabbage ,carrots , peas and Mint.
@marydavis5234 Apparently young children's taste buds dislike certain chemicals in things like broccoli, sprouts. It may be a protection against poisons.
Lemon meringue pie is the best. Loads of preparation, best baked overnight in a very cool oven, but disappears so quickly 😂
Knickerbocker Glory - a 1980s tummygasm🎉
Actually way more popular and better in the 1960s and 1970s.
And originating from the 30s 😂
A Sunday roast? Oh no. That person read from an upside down book
Honestly you’ll love Scotch Egg, well worth trying
Has to come with a qualifier though. The quality can vary greatly A good quality scotch egg is delicious and worth trying, but the poor end scotch eggs are awful.
A pair of knickers and the rest is unprintable.
Scotch eggs are delicious, especially with a runny yolk😋
'Oh it's wrapped in sausage...ok' (then follows deep contemplation). I love this guy.
If my mum had the audacity to serve me that ‘Sunday roast’ I’d throw the plate across the room.
My parents wouldn't dream of serving that to me i'd be like "what the fuck do you call this?!" 😂 also, i've seen loads of people saying well it's a kids portion.. not in my house it isn't, as far back as i can remember i've never had a serving that pathetic for a roast dinner, and i've always been skinny lol
@jackbrooking4754 I would hope she would have thrown you across the room after it.
Haggis is delicious. Like many traditional dishes best use was made of everything edible from an animal and bulked out with cereal grains or whatever was to hand. Earlier generations mainly lived a hand to mouth existence so nothing was wasted.
A Knickerbocker Glory, at least the last one I had, was ice cream with strawberries, strawberry sauce, chocolate sauce and crushed pecan nuts, topped with fresh whipped cream and served in a tall 12 inch glass.
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Not a Sunday dinner 101
We don’t call blood sausage it’s black pudding. It’s actually not bad. Our beans and anything like the US baked beans, but it is down to taste.
The name "Blood pudding" in the US derives from the German version of "Black pudding", which is "Blutwurst" and very similar but just not fried and eaten cold like ox tongue or similar. Americans just don't realise how much, later immigrants influenced names and their version of English etc.....?
We've got this in Sweden as well. It's called "blodpudding" literally blood pudding. We slice them in half moons, cook them and eat them with lingonberry jam@john8127-v7z
@john8127-v7z Black pudding is usually fried and eaten hot, though i like it cold.
It was blood sausage before it was black pudding.
@nigec4969 do you mean Etymology the study of words not the study of insects. Black pudding blood sausage i think you will find same thing really. Just different name.
The "Sunday Roast" was enough for a mouse.
The best and worst insult I've received was from my 5 year old cousin. I went to my aunts' home and my cousin was watching the hobbit, I sat down and after a couple of mins she said "Iain just because your ugly doesn't mean people should call you" after a couple of more mins she then said "I think you look like an elf" so I said "Aww that's sweet" and without battering an eyelid returned "aye, from Harry potter" then ran out the room laughing. I was devastated, cried myself to sleep that night.😂
A thin disk of black pudding with a scallop on top is delicious. The French eat their "boudin noir" with apple sauce.
That roast dinner looked dreadful, those poor children
I forget how many " Knickerbocker Glory's & Rum Babba's " it took for me to buy my wife when we were teenagers before she agreed to go out with me. Poor & ignorant, I didn't know of any other way to impress/woo her 🤭.... And 40yrs later, we still go for a romantic/nostalgic Knickerbocker Glory once in a while. If only it didn't take me all night to do what we use to do all night🥺, it would truly be like old times😋.
Were you in Wimpy's?
@charlestaylor3027 Where else ! lol
You can ‘build’ your own knickerbocker glory. With a mix of cream, ice cream, jelly, fruit, broken up meringue, nuts, etc. others will make a chocolate one with chocolate custard at the bottom, chocolate flakes/bits etc. As to British deserts, we make the best in the world. We love our deserts and there are millions, both hot and cold. Mostly hot for wintertime, eg any fruit or jam or mincemeat pies with custard. Or treacle sponge ‘pudding’ that can be made with other things eg jam or toffee sauce, or even dried fruit/sultanas…all with lashings of custard. Or, hot fruit pies with cold icecream. Best to look online for all different puddings/cakes etc. hope you understand what I mean as we do talk a different language, even though it is similar, we use different words for things.