Whatami??? British immigrant here, this guy is pretty pathetic. I arrived when the UK and USA were actually very different now there is very little difference.
This vid was absolutely brilliant. I don't believe I have ever seen anyone take such rib-splitting advantage of (some) people's ability to take umbrage at almost anything.
This guy is awesome he's not trolling it all and hasn't pissed anybody off he's the only fair when all your he's a bread that's come to America and that loves that he just says the comparisons he's hysterical he's never mean about it and he loves it compared to mini bread to just think they're better at everything and the way they do everything is correct you totally are misunderstanding him either that or you've only watched one video
It's like hanging out with my favorite uncle who makes a practice out of being bored and seeing how fast and thuroughly he can get under someone's skin. He knows he's not going to win with either of the traditional pronunciations so he's purposefully twitting us because he can. It's well-aimed, painful, and largely deserved. I'm still laughing.
Yes, his humor is constant, yet at times, subtle. Having lived in Texas and been given enormous amounts of grief about the pronunciation of 'pecan,' I picked up on the joke when I saw the twinkle in his eye on the second time he said it that way.
@@TheHTAAAh yes, I get it. After all one could possibly wind up in a place where food rules are not quite so punitive. And where dry cleaning is cheaper.
A girl in Indiana while guiding a cave tour once said to me "A lot of people call these pillars, but around here we call em columns, because a pillar is where you put your head at night." And after the tour she showed me a bunch of feral kittens that were living under a shed lol.
Except that the Southern half of my family says pehCAHN, while the Northerners say PEEcan. The French influence on the word is more noteable in the South.
Peh-chaan? Never heard of it! Is that a real thing? I was born in Martinsville, Indiana. My Mom was born in Anderson. I only know the pee-can/peh-cahn controversy.
Before prohibition, that drink was called sarsaparilla. They changed the name to Root Beer when beer breweries needed to stay in business. Also, I'm a native Texan and I eat chili dogs with a knife and fork. Any chili dog you can eat with your hands has way too little chili on it.
I know I am a year late to this party, but... You are entering contentious ground as there are so many varieties of pulled pork by region that you are lucky no fight started here!
If you like Root Beer, it gets better with a scoop of vanilla in it. AKA the Root beer float. Also you have to try deep fried twinkies, and Snickers candy bars at the next Fair you go to.
@@katbamf99 I came here to add the deep fried Oreo, but you already beat me to it! Def a favorite. I've also seen deep fried pop tarts and deep fried butter. Neither of which did I try. Fried ice cream is good, but it's not "deep fried" so I'm not sure how it fits here.
Just to be clear, you mean a scoop of vanilla ice cream. You have to be specific with foreigners, they might just dump vanilla extract into the glass, haha!
I tried deep fried oreos once and thought I would die instantly of a heart attack. Lo and behold where my sister lives in Oklahoma at the state fair you can get a deep fried stick of butter. that is just absurd and even if it is delicious (which I will never know) your brain would have to tell you this is not a wise decision.
I’m American (from Arizona) and I say pi-KHAN lol so different American accents say it differently lol. I live 30 minutes away from Pecan groves in southern az which should by rights not even exist here since they take up way too much water for not a great boost to the state economy...Pecan trees in a desert is like a small-scale version of Las Vegas-#unsustainable 😅
Not just having root beer during the summer it's a root beer float that we all crave. Give me a chili, cheese, onion dog and 2 scoop root beer float and I'll have a great summer all wrapped up in one meal.
Best root beer in the world is a Frostie. It was my favorite when I was a kid, couldn't find it for years, and when it finally reappeared in this region, it still tastes just like it did fifty-five years ago.
Not just Indiana. OMG, brainstorm the "Food On A Stick Festival." All food vendors must sell food on a stick, at least one item. Drinks are of course, the exception.
In my experience, the appropriateness of using utensils to eat a chili dog depend upon the amount of toppings. Some are served so loaded with toppings that it can't reasonably be consumed without utensils.
This is why it's nice when they give it to you in a little boat, so it cups and catches the ooze if you don't use utensils, but gives you a cutting surface if you do.
I've watched quite a few Irish actors trying US drinks and foods. They all seem to think root beer tastes like medicine. We usually put mint or fake cherry in our medicine and not sassafrass. I love rootbeer and floats.
One year when I was a teenager we had a visitor from England whom we took to the Minnesota State Fair. I brought her a corn-dog, and she said, "Toad-in-the-hole on a stick!)
I love a good root beer float. I hate that the A&W restaurant near me burned down. I loved getting the 99 cent floats with the coupon. They kept the KFC part when they rebuilt but changed the A&W to Taco Bell.
I have never heard anyone pronounce “Pecan” like “Pechans” is that what they’re called in Britain? Even spellcheck on my phone wants to eradicate that weird spelling.
When I was in England during my time in the USAF, I ordered a quiche from a local restaurant. I pronounced it quickie. They were not amused, but my fellow service members were rolling. They thought I was serious in my mispronunciation. I was not, but playing the idiot from small town in western Texas amazed by big cities was just too much fun! People believed that I rode a horse to school, that our parking lots had hitching posts, and we didn’t have pavement or concrete. It was funny!
If you ask for “Butter Petchaaan” ice cream, they’ll call the mental health team to come take you away😂😂 I’ve only heard the word “Pecan” pronounced as *pea-can* lol
@@postashley I have heard both versions of Pecan through out my life. Pee-can and Puh-can. I wouldn't have been bothered if he had said either. But Petchaaan got me to yell at my computer screen.
@@lorettaziegler8361 ooooo .. I love putting a watermelon in the fridge over night then taking it out, cutting it and devouring it ice cold!! You can feel the cool in your chest as it makes its way to your stomach.
I liked hotdogs/corndogs/chilidogs as a kid. Then I went to Sheboygan, one summer, and my aunt and uncle took me to the Brat Days festival. My uncle also taught me the right way to cook them on the grill. Spoiled me, forever. I'll occasionally eat a hotdog or a corndog (with spicy mustard) still, but given the choice, I'll always pick a bratwurst. One of the best things to do with root beer is to combine it with vanilla ice cream in a root beer float. That's a great summer treat.
I live near Milwaukee and I gotta agree bratwursts are the best. My uncle from Michigan called root beer floats a brown cow. I used to have them there when I visited him as a kid.
My dad was in the military and we were stationed in Bitburg, Germany (it’s near Luxembourg). Brats are the bomb! I like to cook them in grilled onions and beer. A friend taught me that when I was stationed in South Korea.
It was interesting to me to find out that it wasn't popular in Europe, and it's unknown completely in Asia. And everyone from outside of the US thinks it tastes like medicine.
Loathe root beer. Hideous. Also hate hot dogs, but I like corn dogs. Blue Bell ice cream is the best (Ultimate Neapolitan!). Pechan? Pek-ahn! One great summer food: watermelon! Salted peanuts in a cold Coke is very refreshing, and probably utterly Southern and I'm sure many people are bewildered by the notion.
Lawrence: We call this flavor the Bably Cal-el: Me: Aw come one, it's a deformed totally wrong version of Superman, calling it Bizaro flavor is just the lowest hanging fruit. Lawrence: Pechan. Me: Okay, I think he's actually picking a fight on the internet.
In Louisiana, we have a root beer brand called Barq’s. It’s a much less sweet, more spicy spin on the drink. Dunno if it exists outside the state, I never saw it.
When my family moved to another state when I was 10 and my dad didn't have a job yet, my mom bought 3 economy size bags of frozen corn dogs. By the time they were finally gone, I never wanted another corn dog again.
The sassafras tree is the only tree i know of that has three different shapes of leaves on it. The first to turn a dusky red then orange and finally yellow . Very pretty tree in the autumn.
The beauty of a corn dog, if you can get past the mystery meat, is the deep-fried and just slightly sweet corn. It's much tastier than a regular wheat bun. It goes wonderfully with yellow mustard.
New Englander here: clam bakes, "lobstah" rolls, Dell's frozen lemonade(talking Rhode Island and S.E. Ma.), ice cream from a local stand, made on site, of course.
Root beer is not a “Summer food”! (And “food” is not the bit I’m focusing on....). It’s a 365 day a year thing, no connection to any particular season nor weather. Now a root beer float I could see an argument for that being a summer delight, but not just root beer.
Superman ice cream is SO amazing. But DEFINITELY a midwestern thing. When I moved down south for a few years, I was incredibly distraught to find that not a single ice cream stand or grocery stores sold anything like superman ice cream.
When I first came to America I was surprised at the different soda flavors, Root Beer was the most surprising one, I hated the flavor the first time I tried but I have grown to love it.
Detroit gave us Motown. They also gave us two of the best things on this list: the Detroit Chili Dog and A and W root beer. Even now at 60 I recall my childhood in Michigan being one of chili dogs and a n ice cold A and W. You can not get better than that even in a five star restaurant.
@@jwb52z9 I'm from Arizona, and I've heard "pee-can" and "peh-cawn," and I much prefer the latter, but hearing "pet-chawn" gave me a conniption. I've never heard that one before!
I miss the old IGA store in my Indiana town. The butcher made the BEST tenderloins, perfectly seasoned. Have had some good ones since but not like those!
I live in AZ and can't ever find blue moon flavored ice cream. First thing I do when I get back to MI is have me some blue moon, faygo Rock N Rye pop, and a real coney dog using koegel hot dogs. I will also grab me a chunk of pickled bologna.
I reinforce Puh-kaan, then again I am a Texan too... Pea-can is what we take out on the boat so that a lady can relieve themselves. I also eat chili dogs with a fork, most Texans I know do, and addition to Butter Pecan Ice Cream you should try Pecan Pralines and Cream... Blue Bell of course, yum 😁
That vendor in Oregon who had his hot dog buns ruined by the rain called his “corn dogs” pronto pups. There is a difference. Pronto pups have flour as well as cornmeal. Corn dogs are all corn and sweeter. You might like a pronto pup where you didn’t like the corn dog.
it is amazing to me that nobody has figured out how to fix chili dogs. the same innovation that gave us corn dogs should be able to solve that. though really, hotdogs in your chili is just better and easier. also the best corndogs are pancake-covered breakfast sausages.
Get on a roller coaster at a state fair or amusement park, get off the ride. Go find chili dog. Eat chili dog. Get back on roller coaster. Rinse and repeat until things get really messy. My record was 13 in a row, back when I was 14. I never threw up... but my cousin that went with me on all the rides did.
The small amusement park by me had a thing called a “Tilt-o-Whirl” it was a large disc that spun and tilted randomly, on it were these pods on wheels in a circular rail that spun around also randomly since they moved with gravity only. This didn’t had any sort of pattern, so you spun around and tilted back and forth wildly for 2 minutes... there was a reason the thing was nicknamed “tilt-o-hurl.”
You can buy a pork tenderloin on stick at the WI State Fair. Also, lots of people mentioned a root beer float, but nobody mentioned a Black Cow, which is a shake made with root beer and vanilla ice cream.
I'm taking a deep breath, and letting out a wistful sigh over something else this pandemic has taken from me...The Illinois State Fair. Yes, Laurence that's bye bye to giant corndogs, cream puffs, fresh dairy ice cream, cheese curds, an elephant ear, a deep fried brownie, taffy, and the latest wine samplings from the various Illinois vineyards. Still...safety first! Am hopeful to attend in 13 months!! My best to you and your dear wife!! You keep my ears perked up during these crazy days!! Cheers!!
angelfriend I feel your pain. Went to the Mass state fair once, they have cream puffs called they big one’ (if I remember correctly). Two people could eat that for lunch! Amazing memory. I go to the Ohio state fair now,,, I’m going to really miss that this year.
They cancelled our Iowa State Fair but the local one Mississippi Valley Fair (Davenport, Iowa) is still scheduled to happen, just less activities but the fair food is a go ! :)
i live in illinois too. no firework shows around here either. im blaming the governor, i don’t believe in the second wave terror....pretty much all other countries are on the decline
“Pechan” 😂🤣 Funny story: My mother (who is from Tennessee) lived in Boston for a while when she was young, long before she even met my dad. Anyway, one time she was discussing pecan (which she pronounced with an ‘a’ as in car) pie with her roommates, and they thought she was being snooty because they pronounced it with an ‘a’ as in can.
LOL! In the south things can get heated about the correct way to say it...i have had arguments with friends over how to say it.Taken very seriously down here...also 'salmon' too...people have really strong views!
@@randlebrowne2048 I grew up in southern California and have never pronounced the L in salmon or in almonds, either. The A in salmon sounds like the A in can, and the first syllable gets the stress: SA-mun. Almond is AH-mund.
It must be remembered that America is a huge country & that in different parts of America the people have cultural differences like Europe does. New Yorkers are different than people from South Dakota & Alabama to California to Iowa, etc.. The only thing we have in common is that we all speak English as our first language.
Lost in the Pond don’t feel bad, no one does. I’m a Texas native and get hassled be a South Carolinian family member. It’s a peh-cahn for me and a peeee- can for him.
Has he? If he only pronounced it one way he made a lot of people mad. If he pronounced it every way, he made everyone mad. I think inventing a new way to say it was the safest bet.
Mr. Brown says "peetchans" The brains of every English speaker on th internet: 🤯 WTF did I just hear? Mr. Brown: Wonder how many people will cringe? The internet: ALL THE CRINGES!!!!!
@,Lucy Dean Well, no, he does a few of us watching in Britain too, and I for one, never knew how to say "Pecan" . So this discussion has been educational.
@@lesleyhawes6895 You clearly missed the joke. My comment was in response to all of the freak-outs in the main comment section. I am glad that you learned something. That is a wonderful thing. Everyone should learn something new every day. If not, one stagnates. I will never demean anyone about trying to learn. (It's intentional ignorance that I personally can't abide.)
Cool Rocky Road story, I didn't know that! I need to start saying pech-ahhn now. 🤣 I live in Texas. Here, and I'm sure in most other states/regions, the pick-ahn vs pee-can vs pee-kahn debate is very real, intensely felt, and can wreck your home and other relationships. 🤣 Pech-ahhn will drive my friends up the wall. Thank you! 😁
Do the entire state a favor and do not say it in public... would really hate to see you on the Evening News getting bashed with a chair or something. If you verbally torment your friends and relations in private property that's none of our business...
You missed out on the delicious and amazing Root Beer Float - scoops of vanilla ice cream inside a giant mug of root beer. Also, you missed the Coney Dog - sort of like a Chili Dog but way, way better (michigan thing.)
Every time you say "pechan", a bald eagle loses a feather.
And if you pick it up, you can be fined $10,000 and spend a year in jail.
Hahahaha !!
Made me laugh.
Pechan pechan pechan pechan
so he is helping make them bald, they would just be eagles if not for him
"Peh-chaaaan" is probably the only pronunciation of "pecan" that everyone will agree is absolutely wrong. :)
pih-CAHN gang \
pih-CAN gang |----fighting peh-chahn gang
PEE-can gang /
Pea Can
@@La-PetitMort In the words of my Granny, "Our family was never so poor that we had to pee in a can. We at least had a pot."🤣🤣
@@amethyst5538 Is your granny Dolly Parton? Because if so that is awesome. IIIIIIIeeeeIIIIIIII Will always love YouOUouOUou.
I know it’s a joke but it makes me wanna scream😂
This man’s trolling is legendary. He somehow managed to piss off or confuse all of his English speaking audience on both sides of the pond.
Whatami??? British immigrant here, this guy is pretty pathetic. I arrived when the UK and USA were actually very different now there is very little difference.
Lighten up Francis"!!!
Brits are wonderful at dry humor and its freaking hysterical. I love him and his wife so much. 🙃😂🤣💜💙💚
This vid was absolutely brilliant. I don't believe I have ever seen anyone take such rib-splitting advantage of (some) people's ability to take umbrage at almost anything.
This guy is awesome he's not trolling it all and hasn't pissed anybody off he's the only fair when all your he's a bread that's come to America and that loves that he just says the comparisons he's hysterical he's never mean about it and he loves it compared to mini bread to just think they're better at everything and the way they do everything is correct you totally are misunderstanding him either that or you've only watched one video
There’s so many ways to pronounce pecan, and you’ve found the weirdest freaking one. That deserves a slow clap, I am impressed.
A slap upside the head is what he deserves. What nonsense!
@@ogivecrush What nonsense? Welcome to British humour.
It's like hanging out with my favorite uncle who makes a practice out of being bored and seeing how fast and thuroughly he can get under someone's skin. He knows he's not going to win with either of the traditional pronunciations so he's purposefully twitting us because he can. It's well-aimed, painful, and largely deserved. I'm still laughing.
Puh chan??
😂😂😂🤣 that's what I thought‼️ However, I love butter "pea-con" ice cream. 😋 Ok, butter pea-can"❣️😉😜...puh-chaun pie😂too funny😂😂😂‼️
😂 The number of people who don’t understand your brilliant avoidance of the pecan debate... 😂😭😔
Yes, his humor is constant, yet at times, subtle. Having lived in Texas and been given enormous amounts of grief about the pronunciation of 'pecan,' I picked up on the joke when I saw the twinkle in his eye on the second time he said it that way.
He's Switzerland, and still wrong.
Romona Brown as a Georgian: it’s pronounced “puh-kahn”
We understood. We also know an a-hole.
I grew up hearing "puh-khan" AND "pee-can," and to this day, don't know which is correct or where. How I pronounce it varies on my mood.
"You have to use a knife and fork, but only do that if you're willing to face deportation." I DIED! That's so funny!
Just eat a coney with a knife and fork like everyone in Michigan.
So, moral to the story. Only use a knife and fork for a chilli dog if you were born here.
@@sherryford667 you may look at it that way, but you may be disowned or loose a friend or two....but that's ok, think of it as NEW BEGINNINGS!XD
@@TheHTAAAh yes, I get it. After all one could possibly wind up in a place where food rules are not quite so punitive. And where dry cleaning is cheaper.
In the American south a woman selling nuts remarked that they are pronounced pecaans, because peecans are something you keep under the bed.
Well nuts to that lol
A girl in Indiana while guiding a cave tour once said to me "A lot of people call these pillars, but around here we call em columns, because a pillar is where you put your head at night." And after the tour she showed me a bunch of feral kittens that were living under a shed lol.
Except that the Southern half of my family says pehCAHN, while the Northerners say PEEcan. The French influence on the word is more noteable in the South.
Peh-chaan? Never heard of it! Is that a real thing? I was born in Martinsville, Indiana. My Mom was born in Anderson. I only know the pee-can/peh-cahn controversy.
Greetings from Texas. We pronounce P'caans correctly around here. It's our state tree. The rest of you mispronounce it.
The fact that you had root beer and ice cream right next to each other and didn't mention root beer floats. Wasted opportunity there.
I was expecting him to bring that up, but at least it was mentioned in the comments.
Exactly! Root beer floats are made with ice cream... a dessert, which thereby transforms the root beer into a food....so stuff it Uncle Toby!
Maybe he's still assimilating after 15 years and somehow hasn't come across a float.
Before prohibition, that drink was called sarsaparilla. They changed the name to Root Beer when beer breweries needed to stay in business.
Also, I'm a native Texan and I eat chili dogs with a knife and fork. Any chili dog you can eat with your hands has way too little chili on it.
Actually they sell sasparillas still, they have a slight difference in taste, like birch beer.
Im in California and I agree with the Chili dogs, just cook some recently and had to use a knife and fork
@@califdad4 really im a Californian and I eat them with hands 🤔🤔
People eat it differently but I never seen anyone eat it with a fork and knife
@@stayhomewearamask3318 the ones I buy at A &W I eat with my hands, I just got carried away on the one I put together at home
You should add a scoop of the vanilla ice cream to the root beer. Root beer float is an excellent American summer food
I cannot recommend this enough
Root beer floats..love, love, love them! I rarely eat ice cream but love an All American root beer float!
this
Classic.
Try adding vanilla ice cream to orange soda. Taste like a orange creamsicle.
Mispronouncing Pecans like that will get you deported as well.
and also denied entry back into the UK
Especially in the South! 🤣🤣 Then there’s the difference between pee-cans and pee-cons! But that another story.
@@bieuxyongson And I say puh-kahns in Georgia as well.
IKR?! Puhchans 😂😂😂 puhleeez! WTF is that?!?!
Random Cheese I actually pronounce it like that. My phonetic spelling was wrong. 🤣🤣🤣
You should try a pulled pork sandwich. It's kind of messy, but delicious.
Aka: REAL barbeque. 😊
Yes, it's good, but nothing like a pork tenderloin sandwich.
@@owenjohnson5030 needs to be fried to taste good
Oh, yeah!! SO good!
I know I am a year late to this party, but...
You are entering contentious ground as there are so many varieties of pulled pork by region that you are lucky no fight started here!
You may be loosing your accent but your British humor is delightfully still intact
I scared the cat laughing at "petchan."
J W same here!!
Your cat is your pet-chan
Mine just looks at me like, "WTH?" 😾
I almost had a stroke listening to him say pecan. 🤣
Peh channnn lol
If you like Root Beer, it gets better with a scoop of vanilla in it. AKA the Root beer float. Also you have to try deep fried twinkies, and Snickers candy bars at the next Fair you go to.
Yesterday, while enjoying root beer floats, my granddaughter and I made a toast to who ever invented it, perfect on a day of 93f temp😎
Fried Oreos & red velvet funnel cake 👌🏻
@@katbamf99 I came here to add the deep fried Oreo, but you already beat me to it! Def a favorite. I've also seen deep fried pop tarts and deep fried butter. Neither of which did I try. Fried ice cream is good, but it's not "deep fried" so I'm not sure how it fits here.
Just to be clear, you mean a scoop of vanilla ice cream. You have to be specific with foreigners, they might just dump vanilla extract into the glass, haha!
I tried deep fried oreos once and thought I would die instantly of a heart attack. Lo and behold where my sister lives in Oklahoma at the state fair you can get a deep fried stick of butter. that is just absurd and even if it is delicious (which I will never know) your brain would have to tell you this is not a wise decision.
America loves to answer the question, "Can you fry this?" The answer is always "Yes!"
That's not new- the Scots have been doing that for centuries!
Yes we can even fry butter and coca cola.
Laura Klaassen Minnick I knew I loved the Scots! I can’t eat a ton of fried food, but oh goodness, I love it!
You have not lived until you’ve had fried Oreos.
What do you like fried?
Yes.
OMG, that sound effect when the Midwest fell off the wall! 😂😂😂😂
pe-CAHN bless yore heart hearing "pe-CHAN" is killing my SOUL
I can deal with pe-CHAN better than PEE-CAN! That's just so wrong on so many levels. LOLOL.
How does can make a cahn or con sound??
@@berrijohnson1022 because can and con are homophones
Berri Johnson magic. After all, we’re talking about English.
I’m American (from Arizona) and I say pi-KHAN lol so different American accents say it differently lol. I live 30 minutes away from Pecan groves in southern az which should by rights not even exist here since they take up way too much water for not a great boost to the state economy...Pecan trees in a desert is like a small-scale version of Las Vegas-#unsustainable 😅
You have successfully mispronounced pecan in a way to confuse everyone.
Lmfao I was like.. what the F?
Something about it left me truly distressed- which even I know sounds stupid but... *pechan.*
There will always be a fight on how to pronounce it but both sides can agree that that was not it
I cringed so hard..
It's why they don't have many across the pond. They aren't allowed to have them unless they can say it correctly. 😉
Not just having root beer during the summer it's a root beer float that we all crave. Give me a chili, cheese, onion dog and 2 scoop root beer float and I'll have a great summer all wrapped up in one meal.
Best root beer in the world is a Frostie. It was my favorite when I was a kid, couldn't find it for years, and when it finally reappeared in this region, it still tastes just like it did fifty-five years ago.
A&W. Must get to one before summer ends. Thank you for reminder.
Laurence wants the world to burn with that pronunciation.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😈
With every mention of "pecan" he triggered a hundred internet trolls. Definitely one way to get comments on a video.
It made my ears hurt, almost as much as the people that pronounce it peeeeeeeee-can.
I thought he was serious about it, until he made the remark about alternative pronunciations. Funny, funny man.
🤣🤣👌👌
The whole point of the Indiana State Fair is food on a stick.
Not just Indiana. OMG, brainstorm the "Food On A Stick Festival." All food vendors must sell food on a stick, at least one item. Drinks are of course, the exception.
The whole Midwest is “deep fried food on a stick” at our fairs! I’m really missing them this year!
@@kayjacoby290 My dad used to threaten to open a restaurant called Liver on a Stick. Do not hire him as a menu consultant!
i thought it was more dipped in batter and fried
HAHA, that is LITERALLY the Iowa State Fair, we have over 50 foods on a stick. And a butter cow
I had no idea what he was talking about when he first said "Butter-pechan" until I realized he was trying to say "Pecan."
The photo reference is a really helpful when he goes a little too far to be plainly understood
In my experience, the appropriateness of using utensils to eat a chili dog depend upon the amount of toppings. Some are served so loaded with toppings that it can't reasonably be consumed without utensils.
Sometimes there's no civilized way to eat something.
If it's a Skyline cheese coney, a fork is definitely needed.
Exactly.
This is why it's nice when they give it to you in a little boat, so it cups and catches the ooze if you don't use utensils, but gives you a cutting surface if you do.
If you dont need utensils and probably a bib then you arent living your best life
I've watched quite a few Irish actors trying US drinks and foods. They all seem to think root beer tastes like medicine. We usually put mint or fake cherry in our medicine and not sassafrass. I love rootbeer and floats.
My Danish stepfather thinks that root beer tastes like something they use to clean their bathrooms with in Denmark.
Halfhearted Homestead why did he taste that
I personally think Dr.Pepper tastes more like medicine than root beer tbh
Depends on the brand of rootbeer, some are quite ... odd.
S̷c̷r̶e̷a̴m̵s̸ ̶o̸f̷ t̵h̸e̷ ̶u̶n̴i̷v̶e̷r̸s̷e̸ It is the greatest of all medicines.
One year when I was a teenager we had a visitor from England whom we took to the Minnesota State Fair. I brought her a corn-dog, and she said, "Toad-in-the-hole on a stick!)
I, too, eat my chili dogs with a fork and knife, and I was born and raised in Texas. I'm all for minimizing mess while eating.
Kind of like eating a Sloppy Joe.
Who doesn't use a knife and fork to eat a chili dog?😁
I just axe the bread and have a bowl of beanie wienies with cheese.
Agree. Like the extra long cheese coney from Sonic. They usually give you a fork to go with it.
So uncivilized to eat a chili dog w a fork
Barq's root bear with a scoop of Breyer's vanilla is a great summer sweet treat!
It's got bite.
Where do you buy a root bear?
I love a good root beer float. I hate that the A&W restaurant near me burned down. I loved getting the 99 cent floats with the coupon. They kept the KFC part when they rebuilt but changed the A&W to Taco Bell.
Barq's is so much better than A&W lol
Root beer is one of America’s great unsung heroes. Unique to this country, and pretty much the apogee of civilization.
Nobody:
Literally nobody ever:
LITP: pehchawn.
Everybody on the Internet: YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!
Yeah, he did that on purpose probably hoping his Uncle Toby will start pronouncing it that way!
I have never heard anyone pronounce “Pecan” like “Pechans” is that what they’re called in Britain? Even spellcheck on my phone wants to eradicate that weird spelling.
It took me till he said "pechan pie" to realize what he was talking about 😂😂
I think he was trying to see just how many people he could piss off by deliberately saying it wrong
I think he's being what the Brits call... Cheeky? Chahnky?
@denise baber ah, cool. I learned something new. Thanks.
Pechan! 🤣🤣🤣 love it!
When I was in England during my time in the USAF, I ordered a quiche from a local restaurant. I pronounced it quickie. They were not amused, but my fellow service members were rolling.
They thought I was serious in my mispronunciation. I was not, but playing the idiot from small town in western Texas amazed by big cities was just too much fun!
People believed that I rode a horse to school, that our parking lots had hitching posts, and we didn’t have pavement or concrete. It was funny!
Loki1620 in the uk quickie = sex... so it depends on their age gender how funny they found you 😅
I live in a heavily Amish populated part of Ohio. Many businesses do have hitching posts for all the buggies AKA rolling obstacle courses.
Having spent most of the last 12 years in Texas, I have seen hitching posts outside of various businesses here. They're rare, but not unknown.
I've heard Europeans, who spoke English as a second language, pronounce it as key-she, that was very funny
you are an idiot-- no one would pronounce "che" as "key"
If you haven't had Blue Bell ice cream, you are sincerely deprived.
Came here to say the same.
The best ice cream on earth
If you ask for “Butter Petchaaan” ice cream, they’ll call the mental health team to come take you away😂😂
I’ve only heard the word “Pecan” pronounced as *pea-can* lol
That's the joke. People love correcting the way anyone pronounces pecan so he intentionally said it wrong.
Nope... puh-kaan... no pee-cans please. Ugh.
@@postashley I have heard both versions of Pecan through out my life. Pee-can and Puh-can. I wouldn't have been bothered if he had said either. But Petchaaan got me to yell at my computer screen.
Pea-cahn.
Most folks where I am at pronounce it pu-kahn, but pee-can is more fun to say
I thought you would’ve included watermelon. When I was in the US I couldn’t believe how popular they were.
Surprised until you tried its delicious refreshing taste that cools ya down on a hot summer day. 🍉
Loretta Ziegler I totally agree. I thought it was lovely.
I wonder if the growing season in the UK is warm/sunny enough for watermelon?
@@lorettaziegler8361 ooooo .. I love putting a watermelon in the fridge over night then taking it out, cutting it and devouring it ice cold!! You can feel the cool in your chest as it makes its way to your stomach.
Watermelon has such a high water content that I sometimes just eat it rather than drink anything to hydrate myself on a hot summer day.
Oh jeez, ya got me craving an root beer float now.
I liked hotdogs/corndogs/chilidogs as a kid.
Then I went to Sheboygan, one summer, and my aunt and uncle took me to the Brat Days festival.
My uncle also taught me the right way to cook them on the grill.
Spoiled me, forever. I'll occasionally eat a hotdog or a corndog (with spicy mustard) still, but given the choice, I'll always pick a bratwurst.
One of the best things to do with root beer is to combine it with vanilla ice cream in a root beer float.
That's a great summer treat.
Homemade rootbeer from our local hamburger chain here in western ny- Tom Wahl's
Root beer and rum's pretty good too!
I live near Milwaukee and I gotta agree bratwursts are the best.
My uncle from Michigan called root beer floats a brown cow.
I used to have them there when I visited him as a kid.
@@lynntaylor9681 I had my first root beer float at the A&W drive-in, in the town where I spent my childhood.
It's a great memory.
My dad was in the military and we were stationed in Bitburg, Germany (it’s near Luxembourg). Brats are the bomb! I like to cook them in grilled onions and beer. A friend taught me that when I was stationed in South Korea.
"I'm gonna go now and fix America" The best joke in the whole episode is the unintentional one. Very timely.
5:40 **talking about how Root Beer isn't popular in the UK**
**MidWest had a heart attack and dies**
It was interesting to me to find out that it wasn't popular in Europe, and it's unknown completely in Asia. And everyone from outside of the US thinks it tastes like medicine.
😂🤣👍
Some brands of Root Beer do taste like medicine.
"The Midwest just fell. I can only think it was too many pork tenderloins." I'm dying! 🤣
I'm actual crying because butter pe-chahn is hilarious.
It's even funnier when your significant other next to you is begging the video to stop pronouncing it that way.
At least he didn't say pee-can.
woah nice name
Loathe root beer. Hideous. Also hate hot dogs, but I like corn dogs. Blue Bell ice cream is the best (Ultimate Neapolitan!). Pechan? Pek-ahn! One great summer food: watermelon! Salted peanuts in a cold Coke is very refreshing, and probably utterly Southern and I'm sure many people are bewildered by the notion.
Lawrence: We call this flavor the Bably Cal-el:
Me: Aw come one, it's a deformed totally wrong version of Superman, calling it Bizaro flavor is just the lowest hanging fruit.
Lawrence: Pechan.
Me: Okay, I think he's actually picking a fight on the internet.
He said "Baby Kal-El", and I like the idea of Bizarro. 😂
Superman ice cream is the best
In Louisiana, we have a root beer brand called Barq’s. It’s a much less sweet, more spicy spin on the drink. Dunno if it exists outside the state, I never saw it.
We see Barq’s in Florida.
And Indiana.
"Fair food, as opposed to *looks around to make sure hes not going to be stabbed* un-fair food"
In the Carolinas they make something called a “slaw dog” which is a hot dog plus chili, coleslaw, and mustard. They’re awesome but super messy!
they are epic. also burgers are known as “ all the way” with that same combo. 🥰
Always liked pastrami with Cole slaw on Rye sandwiches.
Best hot dog.
I'm from WV originally, and we had what is called a West Virginia dog. It's as you described, but with chopped yellow onion added. They are amazing.
Don't forget a pulled pork sandwich and a Cheerwine!!!
As a fellow British transplant, I am very surprised root beer's taste wasn't compared to the smell of Germolene ointment!
Exactly I tried it whilst on holiday in Florida many years ago but you are spot on it’s Germolene
How do you get a "CH" sound from "pecan"? There's no H...
Maybe someone took the ck sound in some pronunciations and spelled it how it sounded (since ch can also make that sound)
Also, Italian pronounces a lone "c" as a "ch" in combination with the right vowels
Lmao
@@jordanwilliams9300 Only when followed by an E or an I; as in cello or cibo.
Because it's hilarious
Did you really just call chili “meat sauce”???
Hilarious
No he was referring to the meat sauce on Coney Island hot dogs; nothing like chili.
As someone from Rochester, NY, I'm also offended.
Its much much closer to a meat sauce than it is to a chili
@@klaghzyn8124 as someone from Texas I am VERY OFFENDED
I love this guy. Learning & laughing at the same time can't be beat. :)
When my family moved to another state when I was 10 and my dad didn't have a job yet, my mom bought 3 economy size bags of frozen corn dogs. By the time they were finally gone, I never wanted another corn dog again.
"Im gonna go now and fix America" ..... Thank God! We need it!
😅🗽
Speak for yourself. I like the eclectic America we now are.
@@tracysmith7935 um ok...
As someone who also lives in Indianapolis, I would pay MONEY to hear a full length version of your first state fair experience
I was so triggered when he called them “Pechans.” There Pe-cans!
Puh- cons
Where Pe-cans??
No, a pee can is something you pee in.
*theyre
They're "peh-cahns".
The sassafras tree is the only tree i know of that has three different shapes of leaves on it.
The first to turn a dusky red then orange and finally yellow .
Very pretty tree in the autumn.
White mulberry does too. Well, actually it has four.
When I was young my father showed me how to hunt for sassafras root
See, I say Puh-Kahn unless I'm talking about pie which for some reason makes me say Pee-Can. "Butter Puh-Kahn ice cream" and "Pee-Can pie".
"Butter pechan" ... "butter pechan" ...
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"sausage" "meat sauce" the way he describes hot dogs and chili
I know, right?
The beauty of a corn dog, if you can get past the mystery meat, is the deep-fried and just slightly sweet corn. It's much tastier than a regular wheat bun. It goes wonderfully with yellow mustard.
New Englander here: clam bakes, "lobstah" rolls, Dell's frozen lemonade(talking Rhode Island and S.E. Ma.), ice cream from a local stand, made on site, of course.
coffee ice cream. I could use a Del's and stuffed quahog right now, but I'm landlocked.
I grew up in Western Massachusetts (Springfield), and my favorite ice cream brands were Friendly's and Hood.
My kingdom for a Hoodsie cup!
@@lisamessina5952 How did I ever manage to forget stuffies and coffee ice cream? Must nave been a senior moment.
@@diannelavoie5385 Also Autocrat coffee syrup and New York Systems "hot wieners"!
Root beer is not a “Summer food”! (And “food” is not the bit I’m focusing on....). It’s a 365 day a year thing, no connection to any particular season nor weather.
Now a root beer float I could see an argument for that being a summer delight, but not just root beer.
Rootbeer popsicles are the best.
In WI ice cream isn't a summer treat either.
@@TheBSishere Well, ice cream isn't a summer treat anywhere in the U.S. It's just more popular in the summer due to the increase in temperature.
Superman ice cream is SO amazing. But DEFINITELY a midwestern thing. When I moved down south for a few years, I was incredibly distraught to find that not a single ice cream stand or grocery stores sold anything like superman ice cream.
When I first came to America I was surprised at the different soda flavors, Root Beer was the most surprising one, I hated the flavor the first time I tried but I have grown to love it.
"It's insidious." " Just like the Federation . "
You should try it with a scoop of vanilla ice cream floating in it.
You should try birch beer, too.
Chris Horne that sounds good!
Laura Gandy I have never heard of it, is available at most grocery stores?
Detroit gave us Motown. They also gave us two of the best things on this list: the Detroit Chili Dog and A
and W root beer. Even now at 60 I recall my childhood in Michigan being one of chili dogs and a
n ice cold A and W. You can not get better than that even in a five star restaurant.
By Detroit Chili Dog you mean a Coney Dog?
Try Barq's rootbeer . It is so far better than the second best choice that you won't even remember what the second best choice is.
Barq's for strong, Henry Weinhard's for smooth.
@@kaneo1 I never heard of Henry Weinhards . Is it specific to a local portion of the States?
"Pechan???" I hope you know that my dead grandmother is spinning, SPINNING I SAY, in her grave right now. LOL!!!
As a Texan, “Pet-chaawn” made me wince but not as bad as when people say “pee-can”. I HATE “pee-can” 🤢🤣
My uncle used to use alternate pronunciations to various words on a regular basis. it should not surprise you that he's been divorced 6 times.
In Texas, it's "peh cawn".
I’m Texan, and I approve this message.
@@jwb52z9 I'm from Arizona, and I've heard "pee-can" and "peh-cawn," and I much prefer the latter, but hearing "pet-chawn" gave me a conniption. I've never heard that one before!
As a southerner from Georgia our pronunciation is similar "Pa-con"
LOL. Are there any other Texans here that yelled, "Yeah! Corn Dog!" when he mentioned it? Yes, its a thing we say when excited about something.
Indiana native here. Love a fair corndog and a huge pork tenderloin!
Had a pork tenderloin sandwich every Thursday when the diner down the road had it as the lunch special when I was working in Kansas. Yum.
Me too 🙂
We have those in Oregon too, only we bake or fry the tenderloin and call it a pork sandwich. I need to try the battered kind, now.
I miss the old IGA store in my Indiana town. The butcher made the BEST tenderloins, perfectly seasoned. Have had some good ones since but not like those!
I’m back home in Michigan for a few weeks and had a double scoop of SuperMan and Blue Moon ice creams! Summer nostalgia at its finest🍦😋
I live in AZ and can't ever find blue moon flavored ice cream. First thing I do when I get back to MI is have me some blue moon, faygo Rock N Rye pop, and a real coney dog using koegel hot dogs. I will also grab me a chunk of pickled bologna.
You came back just in time for the state wide heatwave? I'm so sorry. It's gonna be in the 90's for the next 10 days at least.
I really like Blue Moon but its so hard to find these days
Anyone familiar with Moomers? It’s in TC. Great ice cream and even though I can’t have diary or sugar I go every time I go back home. 🙃
I’m in OH and I get Superman on a waffle cone every single time I go get ice cream. I’m 31 and I don’t even care lol.
I cannot express to you how much I enjoy your videos. Thank you for bringing up a laugh out of me, at least once, during each one. Much needed :)
I watch this channel mainly for the furtive glancing .
Puh-kaan. That is how “pecan” is pronounced. Signed with love, a Texan. (I also eat chili dogs with a fork, and loaded with jalapeños!) 🌶 👍🏻
And onions.
I'm from Missouri and I endorse this message
its pronounced that way if you are referring to the nut...but if its pie... it's PEA-CAN pie. Just my opinion 😂
I reinforce Puh-kaan, then again I am a Texan too... Pea-can is what we take out on the boat so that a lady can relieve themselves. I also eat chili dogs with a fork, most Texans I know do, and addition to Butter Pecan Ice Cream you should try Pecan Pralines and Cream... Blue Bell of course, yum 😁
8:32 is when he says ‘pechaaan’ if anyone is wondering
Lawrence's perpetual incredulity sustains me.
That vendor in Oregon who had his hot dog buns ruined by the rain called his “corn dogs” pronto pups. There is a difference. Pronto pups have flour as well as cornmeal. Corn dogs are all corn and sweeter. You might like a pronto pup where you didn’t like the corn dog.
That is an accurate definition originally. No longer true though.
it is amazing to me that nobody has figured out how to fix chili dogs. the same innovation that gave us corn dogs should be able to solve that. though really, hotdogs in your chili is just better and easier.
also the best corndogs are pancake-covered breakfast sausages.
Get on a roller coaster at a state fair or amusement park, get off the ride. Go find chili dog. Eat chili dog. Get back on roller coaster. Rinse and repeat until things get really messy. My record was 13 in a row, back when I was 14. I never threw up... but my cousin that went with me on all the rides did.
And that's why state fair midways smell the way they do. 😖
The small amusement park by me had a thing called a “Tilt-o-Whirl” it was a large disc that spun and tilted randomly, on it were these pods on wheels in a circular rail that spun around also randomly since they moved with gravity only. This didn’t had any sort of pattern, so you spun around and tilted back and forth wildly for 2 minutes... there was a reason the thing was nicknamed “tilt-o-hurl.”
This reads like a 4chan post
@@mindichance3117 You mean pa-chaun?
f688xt6 @ that was true youthful fun.
OMG who else had to rewatch the preceding shots multiple times to track the progress of the Fall of the Midwest??? Fantastic...
You can buy a pork tenderloin on stick at the WI State Fair. Also, lots of people mentioned a root beer float, but nobody mentioned a Black Cow, which is a shake made with root beer and vanilla ice cream.
You can also make a tea out of Sassafras. That was a good day as a kid when my dad showed me that.
I'm taking a deep breath, and letting out a wistful sigh over something else this pandemic has taken from me...The Illinois State Fair. Yes, Laurence that's bye bye to giant corndogs, cream puffs, fresh dairy ice cream, cheese curds, an elephant ear, a deep fried brownie, taffy, and the latest wine samplings from the various Illinois vineyards. Still...safety first! Am hopeful to attend in 13 months!! My best to you and your dear wife!! You keep my ears perked up during these crazy days!! Cheers!!
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I feel your pain. Went to the Mass state fair once, they have cream puffs called they big one’ (if I remember correctly). Two people could eat that for lunch! Amazing memory. I go to the Ohio state fair now,,, I’m going to really miss that this year.
They cancelled our Iowa State Fair but the local one Mississippi Valley Fair (Davenport, Iowa) is still scheduled to happen, just less activities but the fair food is a go ! :)
Ditto Wisconsin. Maybe I will lose the weight I gained last year from eating cream puffs by next year.
i live in illinois too. no firework shows around here either. im blaming the governor, i don’t believe in the second wave terror....pretty much all other countries are on the decline
DEEP FRIED BROWINIE?!! I both hate and love that idea.
Your comedic timing is gold. The wit is great, but the timing...genius.
“Pechan” 😂🤣
Funny story: My mother (who is from Tennessee) lived in Boston for a while when she was young, long before she even met my dad. Anyway, one time she was discussing pecan (which she pronounced with an ‘a’ as in car) pie with her roommates, and they thought she was being snooty because they pronounced it with an ‘a’ as in can.
LOL! In the south things can get heated about the correct way to say it...i have had arguments with friends over how to say it.Taken very seriously down here...also 'salmon' too...people have really strong views!
@@loriefutrell8264 Yeah, a lot of people around here (West Texas) tend to leave out the "L" in salmon.
@@randlebrowne2048 I grew up in southern California and have never pronounced the L in salmon or in almonds, either. The A in salmon sounds like the A in can, and the first syllable gets the stress: SA-mun. Almond is AH-mund.
Not matter how you pronounce it we all know what nut you’re talking about.
“I’m going to go now and fix America” ..... good luck and Godspeed, buddy.... 🤦🏻♀️
😂😂😂😂 I wish it was that easy
4:58 - That's a real pork tenderloin sandwich! Look at that meat-to-bun ratio!
The next step is to replace the buns with pork tenderloin
Pork tenderloin on a vestigial bun.
I don't know what the heck that thing is, but it's not pork tenderloin. It looks like a deep fried pork chop.
Birch beer is so much better than Root beer. Yocco's chili dogs in PA are easily eaten without a fork. Nice video!
Love birch beer
My man
Modern root beer isn't really root beer. It's just the chemical from wintergreen oil. You have to try *real* yeast-brewed root beer sometime.
Stewart’s hot dogs and root beer
You’ve obviously never tasted real root beer then.
What about the "Root Beer Float" It's so much better than plan root beer (which I like, drink it solo just don't drink it with dinner).
It must be remembered that America is a huge country & that in different parts of America the people have cultural differences like Europe does. New Yorkers are different than people from South Dakota & Alabama to California to Iowa, etc.. The only thing we have in common is that we all speak English as our first language.
The way you pronounced pecan reminded me of that old Family Guy episode, "Cool Whip"
"Cool Fhwip''. It's still funny.
No one:
Lawrence: pechaaaaaaaaahn
Hahahahahaha! Definitely not how I actually pronounce it. p'KAHN
Lost in the Pond don’t feel bad, no one does. I’m a Texas native and get hassled be a South Carolinian family member. It’s a peh-cahn
for me and a peeee- can for him.
Pe-KHAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNN
@@LostinthePond you pronounce it better than people in Georgia do.
Ha ha, I don’t like root beer, I love chocolate ice cream/coke floats.
For those who wondered, a corn dog is dipped in corn meal batter..a Pronto pup is dipped in flour batter then fry both
Lord, everyone's talking about the way he pronounces pecan, leave the man alone, I think he gets it 😂
Engagement is good for his channel.
He may get it, but it still sucks. I tried to reach through my phone to throttle him, but there was some sort of screen in my way.
That's one hilarious way to avoid the pee-can vs pu-con debate. Love it
I have a visceral reaction to his pronunciation of pecan
Where I’m from pecan is said “pe-con” and the way you where saying it made me flinch every time
The amount of people who took his pronunciation of pecan seriously is alarming 🤦♀️ He has pronounced it properly in previous videos.
Has he? If he only pronounced it one way he made a lot of people mad. If he pronounced it every way, he made everyone mad. I think inventing a new way to say it was the safest bet.
It is a fighting matter. I will call anyone out anywhere and embarrass my own self if I hear pee can.
It is worth a fist fight. It’s one of just two or three words I will absolutely end a friendship over.
More like it is just fun to fight over. We be hungry internet trolls.
“Properly”
Pork tenderloins, oh my gosh Yes!! Grilled tenderloin is wonderful also.
Mr. Brown says "peetchans"
The brains of every English speaker on th internet: 🤯 WTF did I just hear?
Mr. Brown: Wonder how many people will cringe?
The internet: ALL THE CRINGES!!!!!
@,Lucy Dean Well, no, he does a few of us watching in Britain too, and I for one, never knew how to say "Pecan" . So this discussion has been educational.
@@lesleyhawes6895 You clearly missed the joke. My comment was in response to all of the freak-outs in the main comment section. I am glad that you learned something. That is a wonderful thing. Everyone should learn something new every day. If not, one stagnates. I will never demean anyone about trying to learn. (It's intentional ignorance that I personally can't abide.)
Cool Rocky Road story, I didn't know that! I need to start saying pech-ahhn now. 🤣 I live in Texas. Here, and I'm sure in most other states/regions, the pick-ahn vs pee-can vs pee-kahn debate is very real, intensely felt, and can wreck your home and other relationships. 🤣 Pech-ahhn will drive my friends up the wall. Thank you! 😁
Do the entire state a favor and do not say it in public... would really hate to see you on the Evening News getting bashed with a chair or something.
If you verbally torment your friends and relations in private property that's none of our business...
You missed out on the delicious and amazing Root Beer Float - scoops of vanilla ice cream inside a giant mug of root beer.
Also, you missed the Coney Dog - sort of like a Chili Dog but way, way better (michigan thing.)
PEE-can, Pee-KAHN, Pee-CAN...and apparently, there’s Pee-Chaun.
Peechan.... it sound like a character's name from Wallace & Grommit....
#2 should probably be Puh-KHAN. But yeah I think he purposely made it up so he didn't use any of these pronunciations!