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British vs. American Which Dish Isn't Real? (ft. SortedFood)
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- Published on Apr 16, 2026
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The average American bachelorette party has fewer phallic puns than this episode.
Ebbers is the guest so I'd say that's an average amount of innuendos 😅
I must've missed them, could you timestamp?
@KethlasOS Starting at 3:02
@pamlegaspi Bennuendos
well, puns? or outright saying of the word d..k? lol
Can I suggest getting Ben back, both of you create fake historic food and 3 real and invite Max Miller figure out which is fake? A 3 way with Sorted and Tasting History would be epic!
That would be epic !
I second this!!
Ebber's ability to remain stone faced and serious is legendary.
We're born with that skill aren't we.
he is the king of inuendo. he has become numb to it due to his ability to always say sus things
There is this old SortedFood video where they try to make sausages without laughing. Ben has an excellent pokerface
I really enjoy the two of you guys. This is a great idea for a video 😂
It's utterly impressive.
Josh and Ebbers get on so well. Two food history nerds with very different personalities, but they just work so well together.
When is Josh going to go on Sorted food and do a pass it on?
The chaos will be funny.
Or do a MK vs SF pass it on Head to Head.
Yes! Either! Both ideas!
When you say pass it on, having no idea of Sorted's programming, I'm just imagining this style, but the number of fake dishes doubles and is passed on ("double it and give it to the next person") until a single real food is found.
@metaleggman18Sorted does a thing where 5 or so people go one at a time into the kitchen for a short period of time (10 minutes or so), and they have to continue the dish from the previous chef with no context or instruction. It is chaos. But lovely chaos.
and also the Global Street Food/Breakfast! He'd either crush it or learn new dishes with so much enthusiasm
Nah, poker face
I could tell the fake British one from the description. It sounded way too new age hippy drippy when describing using the oyster shell. People in the early modern period did not think like that lol
I love being an American wondering which American dish was fake
I lived in the UK for 8 years, and I happened to guess it right but Ben had me doubting myself like crazy. That spelling of Goosnargh was simultaneously very plausible, and too stereotypical to be fully trustworthy 😅
the us dishes all look like fake abominations.
Yeah we got some weird food here in the u.s I would've thought the u.k ones would be more easy to guess but I was wrong.
I could have sworn ive heard of the pop tart dish before...
@goosenotmaverick1156 Poptart pie exists but not the way Josh made it.
10:58 I guessed the peas one because eating with the shell feels like such a modern prentious farm to table tasting menu thing.
EXACTLY!!!!! And I can just see the rest of the Sorted crew dying laughing when Josh actually used the shell! Especially Baz!
Also, the rhyme is "Pease Porridge", not
"Pease Pudding" That's how I spotted it lol.
Edit - corrected spelling. Thank you my good fellow!
@Hotarg Pease, not peas.
@Hotargon whose authority? I've known it as "pease pudding" in the nursery rhyme for nearly forty years
I agree, but also the famous Californian restaurant 'The French Laundry' has a well known dish called "Oysters and Pearls". The moment I heard 'pearls' as part of the name I thought that doesn't sound right.
Watching this while sitting in Goosnargh, Lancashire is pretty hilarious. Better luck next time Josh
You are not the only one watching from Goosnargh! Was fun watching him convince himself there couldn’t be a place named Goosnargh!
Interesting. it like a 1000 years old!!! There are more people in my neighborhood than there in your village and you are watching this video with me. How about that.
«That can't be an English place name» really isn't a winning strategy.
the more I hear it the faker it sounds
@norcatchI've lived in the UK my whole life and I'm still not convinced Newton Poppleford is real.
When Ebbrell said that people use the oyster shell to eat the food as a way to feel at one with it, I quickly thought that was the fake. With the backstory of it being hundreds of years old and from the UK, I felt that people would've cared more about making sure they weren't hungry than about connecting with food on such a deep level
Exactly! That’s what got me, too.
But, I can also imagine people saving oyster shells as spoons or scoops, especially if their living in poverty.
@stevenr5534 Collecting oyster shells, I can see. It's being connected WHILE eating that feels off
Yep. He said that and immediately it got my vote for fake. I think they said it to see if he would.
Here in shock after Josh's back-to-back Massachusetts fact errors. Not because it's that big of a deal, but because it made me realize that I previously thought Josh's trivia knowledge was boundless and infallible. And that's just crazy.
He messed up Placerville too, which h is north east of Sacramento. And nowhere close to the coast or down from San Francisco. Now I'm questioning everything!
😂😂 River Falls? It's Fall River and we go there for Portuguese food not Chinese.
Him saying "River Falls" gave me a stroke. Also that is NOT how a chow mein sandwich is served. Also 50 miles north of Boston is well into NH.
@_nullzy I just had to jump google to see if there was also a River Falls floating around Massachusetts, even though I knew the sandwich was from Fall River.
@_nullzyBut that is exactly how I would expect Josh to reinterpret a chow mein sandwich, so for me, it tracks.
4:25 we absolutely did have Lizzie McGuire on Disney channel in England! I'm English and grew up watching it :)
Let it be known that Lizzie McGuire did indeed make it over to the UK!
Came to the comments to say this!
most of us watched better stuff though
Maybe he didn’t have sky growing up 😂
@jferran7276I didn't and I watched it
@jferran7276 he might just be over the age group that watched lizzie mcguire too
Can't believe Josh clocked that the Galette was Breton and still selected it as the fake
Josh and Kush, I don't know what subject or challenge but I want to see it
Absolutely!!!! Bring him to the UK and get them on a recipe relay
@barkerblade1842I fear kush would beat him in any head to head, being an actual trainer chef
@c@cinder7258without a doubt kush would walk all over him, recipe relay is as a team not head to head
@cinder7258 the relay is not a head to head, it is a collab over 3 kitchens that the chefs and normals rotate between a starter dish, main dish and dessert with 1 ingredient that is shared between all dishes that has to be incorperated.
If you have not seen sorted food content before it is well worth the watch
@evilreddogyeah I know I was agreeing that a relay would be good because it’s not head to head :)
7:45 lol wow, these 2 together peppered with colorful language is a real treat
Man, idk how it came about but I love the weird friendly food geek friendship between these two
Josh is basically if Ebber's was American and didn't go to culinary school and was self-taught
@freedomcat and had a traumatic childhood 😅
31:24 I personally think that the creation of an entirely new dish thats technically “fake” because it didn’t exist until she created it - yet this new dish tastes delicious - should be considered a WIN..! 😊
Josh needs to come to the UK and be on Sorted because:
1. I need to see him interact with Kush.
2. I need to see Josh try Fallow. Take this man to Fallow. Fallow was made for him. GIve him some of that cod head and mushroom parfait. DO IT.
i agree!!
Even the phrase "cod head and mushroom parfait" might surprise him. In America, parfait is a fruit and yogurt mix that's eaten with granola.
I don't know if the world could handle the combined genius and chaos of Josh and Kush.
josh doing the drop game would be top tier
Why? He is American. The whole planet hates them now.
i love when josh and ebbers hang out, they match each others' freaks really well
7:33 oh gods this probably broke the record for bennuendos 😂😂😂
Nah, normal Tuesday for him 😂
Just glad I'm not on that crew- there would have been interruptions....snorts....guffaws.
Somewhere, Jamie is closing his eyes and slowly shaking his head.
23:05 I flinched
I'm too slow!!!
Traumatized frfr
Yes! More collab with the SORTED lads is always welcomed. 😁
Seeing the histlry of sorted such as supporting the ccp I do not find this a welcome sight
That poptart lasagna is actually really similar to something my grandma would bring for Thanksgivings a decade ago. However, she would use unfrosted blueberry pop tarts and lemon pie filling for the layers, then the top would be a typical lemon meringue whip and refrigerated until the pop tarts got super soft.
That sounds delightful, i love blueberry lemon
And Pop-Tart lasagna is actually a real thing. So Josh really missed the boat on this one.
Sounds like a delightful icebox cake. Thanks for the idea!
It's believable because there were all kinds of weird desserts back then and lots of ones made up to sell some random product.
Lily and Kush join up would be a force of nature😅😅😅
Kush would break her mind. He has no rules.
They should make sure to re-up their fire insurance before that collar
11:51 «That can't be a place name in England» isn't really a winning strategy.
Being from MA, even I was convinced chow mein sandwich was fake because Josh said "River Falls, Massachusetts" and "50 miles north of Boston" (when 50 miles north of Boston is ~10 miles into New Hampshire), because the real place is called Fall River, and is south of Boston, so it sounded like an intentional mistelling of the story.
I knew about the sandwich because it's a thing in Rhode Island, where I lived, which is why I was scratching my head at River Falls.
Fall river
yes, same! 😂 thing is I heard of a chow mein sandwich before but my brain will not believe Josh is wrong about anything. lol
i was absolutely losing my mind
That’s ok, Placerville is northeast of San Francisco Sacramento. His geography is pretty bad 😂
Hangtown/Placerville is actually north of Sacramento...do I finally know something that Josh DOESN'T know?
i was going to comment the same thing lol. i live in Sac and was like wait a minute... its north not south
Running to the comments to find this!
Id say east.
Definitely more east than south lol
And SF is not north of Sac! I’d say Placerville is east.
28:47 "If you burrito any food, I'm kind of into it" even Paella Josh?
😂😂😂😂 Spaf!!
🤣
A Burrito-ed Paella?
Sign. Me. UP!
Yum ... 😋
I have NEVER seen anyone outside of Utah talk about the insanity that is Hawaiian Haystacks. That’s my childhood 😢
I’ve been trying for decades to recreate those.
Lizzie McGuire definitely made it to the UK and it's hilarious!
16:12 correction: it's Fall River, Massachusetts (not River Falls) which is 50 miles south (not north) of Boston. It's right next to Rhode Island, so the sandwich is really popular there.
24:12 Calling Lily the axis powers was insane 😂😂😂
Lily*
the fact it went under the radar is crazy hahahahahahaha
Literally 💀🪦💀🪦💀🪦💀
Wow! The Hawaiian Haystacks brought back a flood of memories from my Utah elementary and middle school days back in the 90s. It's been some time since I have had it, but as I recall, it was a favorite among the various lunch menu options at our school. Though I don't think ours had canned mandarin oranges or any sort of nuts, or chopped celery - just the other ingredients. It was warm, simple, and filling.
If Josh and Ben ran for office together, I would not only vote for them.... I would physically force other people to vote for them.
Your Ollipop sponsor segment gave me nostalgia. When I was 11 (currently 51F), I went on a Caribbean cruise with my mom. I hit that bar to get Shirley Temples everyday for the whole cruise. The bartender started asking me if I wanted "the usual". Yes they let me in the bar. The 80s was a different time. 😂
River Falls... North of Boston... I'm FROM MA and thought it was a clever fake based on that, I thought I was in on it too! Turns out they cleverly fooled me...
Same! I was like, well that's fake because that's not a Massachusetts town. Was it intentionally fake info though or were they just wrong? The sandwich is from Fall River, south of Boston.
Got 2 out of 3. Maybe I should be a judge on the show. Lolz. Always love these. Hope to see more!
The way I knew it was the pop tart one because I've experienced the war crimes of many an Ohio church cookbook and that was certainly in none of them lol. Nicely done all of you!
Same, from Ohio and that sent up all the red flags. Plus, I watched the movie Unfrosted.
Kush has GOT to show up here at some point. The chaos levels will be off the charts!
Josh throwing shade at Digestives as if the OG Oreo biscuit isn't called Hydrox xD
And theres a reason Oreos became more popular lol
usa is so far behind they think they are first
Hybrid droxstar
Hydrox and Oreo are not the same cookie.
Hydrox was made 4 years before and existed at the same time, owned by a different company.
Named from Hydrogen + Oxygen
If you told me Hydrox was for laundry, I would 100% believe you.
The amount of innuendo is propostorous
I love how much research Josh did in order to reach his fake dish. All the details of Kellogg and Post and country squares are true.
Absolutely devastated. When he was talking about its magazine origins I was like "That is 100% something that happened and I'm looking for that issue".
wow, i cant believe the kitcheneers would create a very spesific regional dish from my hometown! Tinutuan as we locals call it, and the rest of indonesians just called them Bubur manado (Manado's porridge) many indonesians dont know the name of Tinutuan, so im still surprised the dish got a spotlight with the original name on this channel💌
wow thanks for the explanation so I dont have to google it wkwk..
at first I was thinking that it looks like bubur manado, but then she said Tino tuan from Indonesia and made me curious and checked the comments
Ebber's innuendo made all the way to Mythical Kitchen!
Benunnendos is what we call it in the UK - I never understand how he acts so innocent while everyone else is cracking up!
I too am related to Robert the Bruce, assuming knocking up the help counts. 😂
2:42 should have agreed that it was from a nursery rhyme 😂
I'm curled up laughing my head off at the innuendoes
Ben and Josh could play Bruce Banner and the incredible Hulk respectively. I feel like there's a sketch there, and Josh would get to be shirtless! I think Ben is even wearing jeans here, providing continuity with Josh's jorts.
Brilliant
what is this comment...
@OldestHouse it's perfect, is what it is
That last one reminded me of the watergate my grandma made for holidays as a kid, haven't thought about that in years.
I'll be sad if Ebbers doesn't break out the Wiggin Slappy.
Or the legendary parmo
The Slappy definitely sounds and looks made up. Would have been a good one to throw in there. Great call!
Sorted needs to meet That Midwestern Mom!
I learned the word “cloche” from Sorted waaaaaaay back in the day and seeing as I’m a normal, I’ve never had a reason to say it out loud or hear it said in real life and thank god for that because whoever I’d be talking to in this hypothetical scenario would wonder why I’m suddenly trying to sound British.
What do you guys call them?
@LyysabethI think he is referring to the difference in pronunciation in the UK vs the US. Klaawsh vs klowsh as ways to say cloche
😂 in French it just means "Bell"
If i bite into a cookie and there is caraway seeds inside i'm gonna attack whoever served me those...
I grew up eating $1 chow mein sandwiches served in small Styrofoam containers, served burning hot with zero crunch 😂
Did you have it like they did in the video or actual Fall River style with the flat fried noodles?
The collective food knowledge present in this group is impressive.
Peas pudding pearls sounds like it was inspired by Thomas Keller
The galette is the kind of thing French people eat when nobody's looking.
Shoutout to Lily.
That's it. That's the comment.
I gave you thumbs up because you be shoutin out a real one! Lilly is my little homie
@PaleHorseO.o - I think I just leave this comment on any/most videos that Lily is in. Ever since she joined The Mythical Kitchen, I've always enjoyed her energy and talent. She is also a complete gremlin though.
I love her chaos.
"If you burrito any food I'm immediately into it" *He says mid unburritoing it because he's deathly afraid of carbs*
9:10 not me literally munching on a Digestive biscuit while Josh roasts it
I can't pass on a chocolate hobnob
I enjoy a graham cracker or a pizelle that isn’t too sweet, just a nice bit of texture and enough flavor so you know it’s for sure food lol
At least you weren't munching on a 7:54. Also in my country "stive" means stiff, which more or less gives the same result.
Anyways.
When you suspect the innuendos aren’t really innuendos.
They’re bennuendos
We need Josh on Sorted! He has the perfect vibe for a cooking challenge, like Tin Roulette.
Ok I will out myself a bit here but Josh saying "the axis powers" and then pointing to an asian person was one hell of an unexpected moment XD
Genuinely this was an incredibly entertaining watch. Ben and Josh are such a great duo between their knowledge and thinking of food, and Lily did a fantastic job with the final dishes
the bennuendos were running wild.
I was really thinking I would do better at the American one but the chow mein sandwich was made to look not at all portable. I’ve seen too many ridiculous “salads” in church cookbooks that I almost believed that pop tart thing was legit. Well done, crew!
I am going to lock in the poptart cake. just because i don't think pistachio jelly would be popular in the past.
Please do a million more episodes of this, it's really entertaining.
On Sorted, Ebbers is famous for the innuendo, but he got to really let loose on his visit over here!
Lilly: I’m not the enemy!
Also Lilly: proceeds to be the enemy.
11:36 What an actor this Ebbers😂
Had us had until the very last second
16:25 Damn, Josh. Fall River is South of Boston.
Near Road Island!! Get a map!! 😂😂😂
I was sure the chow mein sandwich had to be the fake because there is no "River Falls" in Mass.
With Josh’s ball knowledge regarding niche college sports facts I’m surprised he didn’t mention River Falls WI winning the D3 football Natty this year
Pease porridge hot,
Pease porridge cold,
Pease porridge in the pot
Nine days old!
My boy called Fall River, River Falls. Don't do my New England towns dirty.
As if Fall River needs to be any more dirty 😂
Also said it was north of Boston. I was so confused.
@lebebop9931 Show some respect to the Scholarship City!
It's also about 50 miles south of Boston. 50 miles north of Boston is NH.
Sam Hyde
The moment he said use the oyster as a spoon I was like nah thats cap 😂
16:22 JOSHUA. For a man who does seemingly infinite research, you got the town name wrong. It's Fall River, MA. Get it together, man 😂
*And* it's about 50 miles *south* of Boston, not north. That's like a double flip flop.
And they ha e Portuguese food not Chinese.
I was literally coming here to make that same comment. He also didn't use Hoo Mee Chow Mein, so he made it wrong.
@ebobhazard what is the appeal to a chow mein sandwich? I want to judge but I more want to know why its a thing
@cookiesncreme2491so, it has lots of textures. It's crunchy, it's soft, it has a thick gravy. You also get the saltiness, usually it has Chinese pork strips in it, so it gives it some sweetness as well. The best is when the gravy soaks into the bread, it it just pops it up.
Panning to an East Asian person when mentioning axis powers was wild lmao
Ebbers does WAY too good a job at making each dish believable. This was tough!
CALLING LILY THE AXIS POWERS IS SO WILD LMAOOO
I want more of Josh and Ben just nerding out about food
Josh should be teamed up with Kush in mystery drop it would be awesome chaos 😂
I think I could watch these forever. What a dynamic kitchen duo! Wonderful on-screen energy
As someone from Utah, can confirm that I had Hawaiian Haystacks at least once a month growing up.
25:45 I will never get tired of people reacting to Josh's eating. It doesn't bother me personally but it will ALWAYS catch my attention lol.
Pretty sure Lizzie McGuire DID make it to England, just in a later era than Ebbers, the late 90’s-00’s kids know!
I wonder how many times they had to redo the scene around 7:50, no way they kept it together first time,lol
You underestimate Ebbers ability to keep a straight face while saying innuendo.
I like how "poptart lasagna" is just Watergate salad with pop tarts in it, being from Appalachia, Watergate salad is one of my favorite, but rarely eaten deserts (mostly because only a few people in my family like it)
Obviously, the bad name for a cookie would be *in*digestives.
Amazing crossover. I hope they can do this every time Sorted is in town. It's just straight up fun 😄
Cockaliki soup (however pronounced) will always only make me think of the original Witches movie. Someone HAS to know what I'm talking about.
Placerville is almost due east of Sacramento lol. But yeah, hangtown fry is still available.
3:00
What you said you love there???
......i bet you do 😏
Ebbers was surprised by Josh's slurping, but Josh didn't have a problem building on the Bennuendos. I think we know who won this episode.
This format is great and these two are such an incredible match. So heartwarming seeing them enjoying to go so deep into the history of American and British cuisine while having the twist of the fake dish. More of this please :)
16:22 me, a bostonian: "river falls"? NORTH of boston?? lmao
I'd love to see "pass it on" with Mythical Kitchen!
Ben Ebbrell has finally found his master in pulling off innuendos with the straightest face possible