- We do use toilet brushes. LOL - There are electric kettles, but you just have to buy it yourself at a store. I have one in my house. You're right though. They are NEVER in hotel rooms. :(
I think there are like 1 tea drinker to 50 coffee drinkers. most tea drinkers, I think, other than a cold day, have a cup of tea in the morning. I will have 2 cups of tea a night for a week and after that 2 cups of tea a month. if no tea no big deal, soda pop will be fine. hate loose tea, to strong. I only like black tea tea bags. never anything to eat with it, that is for cookies and milk. never dunk anything in tea. like all my water, pop, gather aid, ice tea, with lots of ice and very cold, even when 20 F out. time zones are east, central - 1 hour after east, mountain - 2 hours after east, pacific - 3 hours behind east, Hawaii - 6 hours behind east coast. (all these are at the same time, from New York to Hawaii. 3,2,1,12(LA),9 Hawaii.) we celebrate on TV new years eve every time it turns 12 in a time zone. happy new year 5 times.
You have to try what we Americans call soul food and do a video ( we call it that bcoz when black people were brought here during slavery we were given the scraps and put our heart and soul into cooking thus we essentially coined the term )
Not everyone. Some things are ok and others just don't cut it. I don't like most of anything here in America when it comes to comfort food. And I was raised between cultures and countries so I am used to eating them all but at the end of the day to me the American treats to me r just generic vanilla, strawberry or whatever other common flavour with either tons of sugar or salt and I just don't get the yum factor from most comfort food. However when u forget the junk food and it comes to dining out and u find u a good restaurant with a bomb chef, its a win and when it comes to condiments and coffee America just puts the rest to shame. It just sucks that u can only be in 1 place at a time so u just have to work with what u got cause at the end of the day its give and take and it all comes down to preference.
High Fructose Corn Syrup. Studies from Harvard and other places have shown that HFCS shuts down the mechanisms in the brain that tell you when you are full, leading to over consumption. If you notice over the past 40 years, the countries weight problem has gone along with an increased use of HFCS in almost ALL of our manufactured foods. The very same corporate scientists that engineered cigarettes to be more addictive have engineered our foods to be more addictive.Tobacco, food & beverage industries are all owned by the same people. Another factor influencing the increase in weight is the decrease in the popularity of smoking, many just switched addictions to food. Also, restaurant businesses in the US continually compete to offer "more" to customers. But this "more" is usually just very fattening filler material. Yeah, and "american" food can be good. Probably because it's a creative mix of the international cuisines of our various immigrant populations. What foods are actually purely "american"? Most can be traced back to be a variation on recipes brought here from somewhere else. The food is good here because the US is the "food court" of the world. Corn is one of the few things commonly consumed actually native to this continent, hence the excessive use of high fructose corn syrup. Corn crops are HEAVILY subsidized by the government.
Just a weird bit of trivia: The time zone on the moon corresponds with the Central Time zone of the USA. Why? Because that is the time NASA astronauts use because Mission Control is based in Houston, TX.... which is on Central time.
Time shouldn't matter . Neither should where they launch from . The key to that is to not have to launch .send yourself actually through a worm hole .remember your path and who you are and where you come from and you can go anywhere. Fast
And it's part of the Bishop of Orlando's diocese because the Apollo missions were launched from his diocese and Catholic rules are the bishop in charge of where an explorer set out is in charge until the Pope can establish a new diocese. No one on the moon so...
Don’t you all say something like the bog to refer to the toilet? I’d love to hear about some of those idioms. Bogs, from my reading, I understand to be like a swamp, though perhaps not as much standing water as here in the southern us.
Emily Givens - I too dig the whistle feature, but never use it. My wife and I bought a new such kettle over 25 years ago, and even the we had been raised using them, the first thing we did was to set the whislte off. Since that first day tho, that little lid has remained in the upright position, and that kettle gets used many times a day. We don't need no stinking whistles (badges, being a joke). We've never forgotten it to burn dry, but it's only us adults here and it usually implies a cup of tea or coffee, so who could forget about that? Plus, we live in small enough of a house, the stove maybe 15 feet away from the living room, so that any sign of such a thing would easily be noticed. I have a habit tho, of everytime I leave the kitchen, whether I am cooking or not, I always make sure the knobs on the stove are in the off position. Thus, I don't even need to bother looking for the flame. The whistle is cool tho, being very much like an old steam engine. which I think are simply amazing.
@@marykelley854 - I hope I've implied, the electric ones are amazing. Well worth the counter space, if you can afford it. Or, if you are 'on the road', or in a classroom setting. I think they are wonderful, but I keep mine in the basement, as I don't have the counter space for it, but I did the notion. I dont't know the cost, as mine was 'gifted', and I would send it to you, but I fear the postage is worth more than the cost. Otherwise, it is yours. If I knew more about your Sunday School, maybe I could just gift you one.
We had a stovetop kettle in the 90s, until my great grandmother, who lived with us, burned up a few of them. She had dementia and would forget she put the kettle on and would go out in the garden.
@@raynemichelle2996 - Understood. That seems to be a great advantage to a proper kettle. Still, it wouldn't twist my wind, but only because my counter is so small.
Americans drink coffee more than they drink tea. Therefore, there are few instances for Americans to need an electric kettle. Americans who drink tea usually just use a standard kettle on the stove top/range. Or they heat water in the microwave.
We have Keurigs, Joel and Lia. You can get coffee, tea or cocoa in K cups and make your own cuppa whatever suits you. Most hotel rooms will have a Keurig in the room now. Yes, Olive Garden breadsticks are highly addictive!
I think Olive Garden is a cut above Taco Hell ... but then I'm not Italian-American, and it just occurred to me that the last time I went to Olive Garden was probably over 20 years ago.
@@Hbeth Olivr Garden is so extremely above Taco Ball in terms of being an actual restaurant and not a dumpy fast food chain. And a real wet lemon is what it sounds like
Those devices in hotel rooms are called drip filters. You can leave the drawer that would normally have the coffee grounds out, and it's the same as your electric kettle; it will heat the water which then streams into the carafe/ pitcher.
As an American tea drinker, I loved traveling in the UK and Ireland and every room we stayed in had an electric kettle. The US is so coffee driven that they tend to ignore us tea drinkers. And when my stovetop kettle needed replacing I bought myself an electric one, though I do miss the whistle. :-)
In the continental US, we have four time zones: Pacific, Mountain, Central, and Eastern. For some reason, network television programming aired at the same time in the Central and Eastern Time zones, despite the time zone difference. Therefore a show that aired at 8 PM Eastern would air at 7 PM Central.
Correct. I live in the Eastern Time Zone of the US (Ohio) and it has always made me wonder something. Since shows come on an hour earlier in Central than us in Eastern do those in the Central Time Zone get more sleep? The shows are on earlier so it seems to me this could be true. I'd prefer to live in another time zone if this is true lol. (But I'll never leave this area because of my close extended family all being in Ohio) I know lots of people here in Ohio who watch TV til 11pm, then the news til 1130pm, then finally go to bed. Then wake at 5-530am to get ready for work. We are always sleep deprived! No wonder.
@@notallwhowanderarelost7577 That's exactly why shows air 1 hour earlier in central time. The central US used to be the Agricultural center of the US and those farmers and ranchers go to bed early and get up early, hence, shows airing 1 hour earlier.
Note to self: Call my son who is over 21 and ask him if he knows how to use a toilet brush. Omg Joel, hahahaha you were raised around people kind enough to keep the bowl magically clean. That's hysterical.
Yes you have talked about the water line differences between US and European toilets before. And we do use toilet brushes in the US. It is a common thing here too 🙂
I found an electric percolator that have never been used in my pantry. It can be made for making coffee, and maybe tea? Or just water. It's electric and has a glass pitcher, I plan on using it for those times I know I'm going to need hot water for something in a couple of minutes while I'm preparing I just will turn it on!
I love my electric kettle as well but I also love tea. But tea just isn’t as popular in the United States. Coffee is still the king of morning hot beverages. So it does make sense for those who don’t make tea or need to boil water for say a French press to not have a separate appliance just to do that. It’s also that little strange thing that when tea is being portrayed say in a television show they typically aren’t using an electric kettle they use a stove top kettle. So I just don’t think people are generally as exposed to the idea of an electric kettle in the US because they aren’t ubiquitous like they are in the UK
The thing with a coffee maker in a hotel room is that it's only good for coffee. I did a two week study once where I had to live out of a hotel room, the kettle was so much more useful than a coffee maker would have been.
I have a small instant water heater under my sink. It has a nozzle dispenser. I’m on my third one. I think next time I will just get a kettle. Had t ever seen them until I went to Europe.
Our bread sticks used to be slender and dry like yours. Olive Garden changed all that The reason we don't have very many electric tea kettles in the US is because we are coffee drinkers! We have coffee makers at home and in hotel rooms, Keurigs in the office, and Bunnomatics in the shops and restaurants
I don't need an electric kettle. I use my microwave or my Keurig. If I would get a kettle, I'd get one that heats on my stove. It heats water and looks nice sitting there . No extra space needed.
There are 6 different timezones in the United States starting with The Eastern time zone 8PM The central time zone 7PM The mountain time zone 6PM The Pacific times 5PM The Alaska time zone 4PM The Hawaii time zone 3PM
Kronos Darkness - Actually, there are 9, but I don't want to get into it. You are right tho, there are six that are commonly observed and just about as you described them. My point is, when it is says '8/E, 7/C', that obviously means 8 Eastern, 7 Central and everyone else can do the math, as they are well used to. A bit arrogant, but true. I was watching the dawn battle the stars, which battled the aurora borealis which battled my phone, when I came to realize that. Kidding, but it is amazing to pass into different time zones, particularly as you run from or to, one or the other. I once walked about a thousand miles South to North, just following the same spring. All of about 2 weeks worth, over more than two months of hiking. I almost had it outrun, but I never did get over the hump.
@@loveislove4879 - You are absolutely right. Not the entirety of it, as that wasn't my intent. I just wanted an extended spring and I got it, from Atlanta to Virginia, early March to early June until it eventually turned to summer and I gave it up and went back to working on a boat that welcomed me, whenever I got back. A few years later, I finally went to College, with all that (and more) in my back pocket.
I actually have an electric kettle and a pour-over that I use to make my morning coffee (because i drink a lot of tea too), but most people in the U.S. just use coffee makers. They can be complicated, but most of them are really convenient once you figure them out.
I can't get past the toilet bowl discussion and Joel never having cleaned a toilet until 2020! WHAT?! You two always crack me up and watching you crack each other up is too fun! Thanks for the giggles!
Here’s an example of how the time zones work for TV programming. “8/7c” means that a show starts at 8 in the Eastern time zone, but 7 in the Central Time zone (located directly west of the Eastern time zone). To try to keep certain programs on during “prime time” hours when people are home from work, a show might start at the following times (east to west): Eastern - 8 PM Central - 7 PM (exact same time as Eastern) Mountain - 7 PM (1 hour later than Central) Pacific - 7 PM (1 hour later than Mountain) Alaskan - 7 PM (1 hour later than Pacific) Hawaiian - 6 PM (exact same time as Alaskan) I think some items can be broadcast to the entire country at once (for example, the election coverage this past week and speeches from Biden/Harris were aired live everywhere most likely) but this is not the norm. Since there is a 5 hour time difference between Hawaii and the east coast, TV programming is complicated here, hence the staggered times shown above!
@@seancatherall31 Networks have separate transmission times for East Coast and West Coast as regulations were drawn up in the decades before satellites. The Rocky Mountains had to be accounted for with signal boosters. Geography plays a part in station call letters. East of the Mississippi River, all stations start with W.[Exception is KDKA is Pittsburgh. First commercial station in the US.] West of the country west of the river starts with a K.
It should also be noted that the broadcast companies run the same commercials and national programming in both the eastern and central time zones simultaneously (do they do the same on the west coast?), hence having to inform people when the show will air in their time zone.
They don't say all of the time zones for tv shows because there is usually a west coast feed and an east coast feed. So a show might come on at 8:00 eastern (7:00 central) but it's ALSO broadcast at 8:00 pacific on a channel the west coast gets.
Breadsticks in America used to be a lot more like the stiff cracker-y breadsticks that Joel and LIa are describing - at least when I was a kid, but I think Olive Garden (and maybe a few other places) began to synthesize garlic bread, garlic knots and breadsticks into the kind of single soft dinner-roll-esque "breadsticks" that we know today.
Guys I love the jingle, what triggers me is when you occasionally switch sides, ie Lia on the left of my screen. Nope Lia on the right, Joel on the left as I watch. Today’s video was perfect!
The 8/7c means 8 EST, 7 Central. So if you're in mountain or pacific time, you can just adjust it yourself. eg: 8 Eastern, 7 Central, 6 Mountain, 5 Pacific. Just like sales tax, you have to do your own maths.
Typically Pacific and Mountain time TV is run separate from Est and Pacific TV. I’m pretty sure on the West Coast, TV is listed as 8/7p for Mountain time and Pacific time.
@@FunDisneyFan Mountain Time is definitely the red-headed stepchild. Pacific time viewers get everything that's not live three hours later, so adverts are focused on them on network TV, just later. I guess Central Time viewers just watch everything at a slightly earlier hour to the East Coast.,
Your example would only apply to a live event. Normal scheduled television shows would be at 8 o’clock for all time zones except for central time which always gets everything an hour earlier. This is an artifact of early television when most of the population of the United States was either in eastern or central time zones. It was too expensive to tape delay for the central time zone so they combined the two and stated the time relative to each time zone. The Pacific Time zone was too far distant to combine so they got their own separate feed.
I dont know im in PST and I can remember the shows saying 7/6c. I think because central it just comes on earlier where in p, m and e it all comes on at 7. Ive never seen 7/6m lol.
When I was a kid, they would say “...8, 7 Central & Mountain.” The. They dropped the “... & Mountain” and would just say “...8, 7 Central.” Now, some networks wont even bother with the other two time zones and just refer to Eastern Time and expect people in the Central & Mountain time zones to figure it out for themselves.
I haven't had cable for several years now, but as I recall, by then the 8/7 central thing seemed like it was mostly just done on live sports broadcasts? National network shows came on at the same time, like no matter where you live, Hill Street Blues was on at 10 PM on Thursday. So the people on the East Coast actually saw it 3 hours before we did, those lucky bastards. I've lived all but 5 years on the West Coast, so I've always been used to hearing "8/7 central," and subtracting 3 from the first time (i.e., Eastern time) and going, "oh, so that's on at 5 PM here."
@@CheekandBluster Not so in the Midwest (Central Time). Hill Street Blues was on at 9:00 pm. In fact, 9:00 was the latest prime-time programming would start. The news came on at 10:00.
@@aaronhomer920 I think that's why they specified 8/7 central. the Central time zone is the only one that's off. Mountain and pacific would be on at 8pm as well.
Growing up my mom would always say this when going to McDonald’s. She said back in the 80s if you called the radio and said it accurately, they would gift you a McDonald’s Big Mac!
Jamie Fries - Big Mac hangover cure. Stumble in about 4 am. Pop three aspirin, chugged down by Juicy Juice (cherry, if you can - something in cherries, is good for a hangover). Drink remaining half gallon of JJ thru the night. Wake up whenever, but it will probably be past breakfast, in McDonald time. Get a Big Mac (and maybe a Filet o'Fish), and the rest of the day will go fine. Hangover, avoided.
8PM Eastern means it's on at 8PM on the east coast of the U.S., but airs at 7PM Central time (middle of U.S.). The thing is, it's airing at the exact same time across the country, but for some people the clocks says 8, for others it says 7. The country is so large that the times need to be zoned to keep the country on a similar schedule. The sun comes up in New York about 3 hours before it comes up in California. If our times were the same, sunrise would be at 6AM in New York and 9AM in California, so the zones are adjusted so the sun rises around the same 'time' everywhere. This is also done for travel reasons, but can definitely be confusing when you have a 2 hour flight that leaves at 10AM and lands at 11AM. Also, we don't have sales tax on every item. Unprepared food (milk, bread, canned, etc.) is not taxed, surprisingly!
@ Kodie S Items being taxed or not depends entirely upon where you live. Where I live, those food items do have sales tax, just at a lower rate. Some items do have none at all, like prescriptions.
8/7c not only means 8:00 Eastern and 7:00 Central Time, but also means that it's on at 8:00 Pacific and 7:00 Mountain even though those two time zones aren't mentioned. Who knows what time the show is on in Alaska or Hawaii lol
The timezone thing for television shows is a bit more complicated. All shows in the Central Time Zone are shown an hour earlier then the rest of the country, this comes from when television first started, so much of the central time zone was Agricultural and people tended to go to bed earlier. Shows like the LOCAL Nightly News still to this day start at 10:00 rather than 11:00 pm. ( It was always weird to hear in movies and TV shows the line "film or updates at 11" because our news is at 10. 11:00 would be right in the middle of Jay Leno for us.) In all the other time zones, network shows air at the same local time, in Eastern, Mountain, and Pacific. So the only ones who need to note a difference is Central, and that is how you arrive at "Friends, on at 8/7c". It's on at 8 in all markets, except for Central where it will be on at 7. NATIONAL Network programming has a very defined window in which to operate between the local evening news (5pm) and local Nightly News (10pm) between which it was network programming as opposed to local, and then after the local Nightly News, network programming picked up once again with the nightly talk/variety shows. These Network entertainment shows also start an hour earlier in the central time zone than in the rest of the country. And still do. :) Including Saturday Night Live, starts at 10:30 pm. Central. In case you're wondering why there is a distinction between local news and national news, it essentially boils down to the country is so big that every large city has its own weather reports and sports reports to give. A national station just couldn't cover the weather throughout the whole United States or all of the sports teams and some other local issues like crime reports. After the local news at 10 (for central time), the feed is handed back over to the National networks and their late night programming. This works out great because 10:30 central is 11:30 on the East Coast, they are ending their own local news and any live programming is then shown at the same time for Eastern and central time zones, roughly everyone east of the Rockies. West of the Rockies everything has to be on a delay so that shows are aired at the correct local time.
And, to make it more confusing, there is a Hawaiian time zone which is either five or six hours different from Eastern time (depending on Daylight Savings Time) and three hours later than California. The prime time TV block between 7PM and 10PM is recorded in California and sent via satellite to Hawaiian stations, which pick up the signals and hold on to them until the local time in Hawaii reaches 7PM, after which they broadcast the entire block, inserting their own commercials. While watching the election last week, when I sat down to watch at 7PM, the time in New York was already at 1AM. When I went to bed at 11PM, the sun was already rising on the East Coast.
The channels are broadcast from different places so unless it's a live program they other side of the country will have the program at 7pm but at their time. The continental US has 4 zones and usually split in middle for broadcast. Eastern/Central And Mountain/Pacific. Most nationally televised LIVE programming starts about 8-9ET to accommodate the earlier zones.
"8/7c" means that the show is at 7:00 Central Time, and 8:00 Eastern time. The US has four time zones: Pacific, Mountain, Central, and Eastern. Shows that broadcast to the nation have to specify time zone when they say when they broadcast.
More specifically, networks have an “east coast” and “west coast” sat feed. That way, the east can be 8/7, and the west 9/8. Technically broadcast hours later
The low water level in the loo helps the flush speed of the water to remove waste.... it`s also shallow to stop water born diseases like cholera (bacteria), dysentery (bacteria or amoeba), cryptosporidiosis (protozoa), hepatitis A (virus) and giardia (protozoa). Splashing/living on your butt and entering your butt passage when you wipe....
And don't forget to put the coffee in too if you want coffee! lol Also, if you just want water for tea, then you just fill it up with water (you have to pour the water into the machine, should have a place for water)
For TV listings - All time zones have the same evening timing, except for the midwest where things show an hour earlier. For ex, if a show airs at 8pm, it shows at 8 in most time zones, but 7 in the midwest. So they list it as 8/7 to explain that. As for electric kettles - we just fill a mug with water and heat it in a microwave. No need to also have a kettle.
Actually you're wrong here... A TV show airs at the same time I. Both the East coast & Central Time zones. The East coast just happens to start their prime time at 8(hence) their news starts at 11. I(believe the Mountain time is similar to the West Coast in that they get shows in a similar vein as the East coast/ Central time zone. West Coast folks used to get mad that folks in the East & Midwest we're spoiling the plots in many shows by (first) chatting about them(then later)tweeting about them *Before* they're shown, out there.... I think this might've changed recently(?)
In the event of ANY crisis or upset Brits namely English 'Put the kettle on' as everything(supposedly)seems better after a cup of tea.I don't think English people would survive without putting the kettle on
🙋🏼♀️ I’m one of your bingers. Your voices are just so lovely and soothing. Y’all are basically my co-workers while I work from home these days! Just chattin in the background!
Electric tea kettle or electric coffeemaker.... That decision is clear. We use tea kettles on the back burner while making soup on the front burner of the stove if you are under the weather. Also, we take the tea kettles and regular coffee pots along on camping trips.
To start off with you are my Legends and I absolutely love your material. Don't change your jingle. I don't remember when I first subscribed to your channel but I doubt I will ever get to watch all of your videos not that I will ever stop trying. Joel and Lia forever. Do more videos like this, stay safe and keep me smiling.
This episode is a rerun. Even has the same title as 🇺🇸AMERICAN Things That Confuse BRITISH PEOPLE! 🇬🇧 and discusses the same subjects toilet water, bread sticks, central time TV shows, tea kettles. Its like deja vue all over again.
Depends on how the toilet is designed - some use less than others. Time Zones - 8 Eastern Time - 7 Central Time - 6 Mountain Time - 5 Pacific Time.... We have Electric Kettles - Or we put one on the stove.
Joel and Lia when referencing the 8/7c: “That is REALLY sad” in the most pitying sarcastic voice😂👌 It is true. life is so darn hard. Us american tv watchers just can’t CATCH A BREAK😩
And that's only what you see in Eastern time zone where there is a chance of overlap with Central. Central, Mountain and Pacific see something different.
8/7 means 8 eastern time(east coast) 7( midwest, Illinois etc )Indiana in Midwest has 2 time zones eatern and midwest. then mountain time (Colorado and states there, would be 6:00. then Pacific time 5:00, west coast. so California is 3 hrs behind east coast, No one misses a program
It was funny when he said “8/7 so people in the central part have to go back 2 hours” when really 7 would be the central time 😂 it can be confusing for people who don’t have multiple time zones but it was cracking me up
The only problem with heating water in the microwave is that when you touch the mug the water can explode out the top of the mug (not a spill of the water but something to do with touching the mug and the superheated water can shoot out the top scalding your hand.
3:39 There's definitely toilet brushes used here 😂 It's realized after moving out of the parent's home and finding out the toilet doesn't stay clean by itself
fun bit of trivia: Olive Garden is a restaurant chain that is a small part of a large conglomerate American company that also makes mountains of cold breakfast cereal and then packages it in 18 or 24 ounce portions in cardboard boxes sold at the supermarket. There are food snobs who say "Olive Garden is a horrible restaurant because their recipes are formulated in a huge corporate test kitchen instead of being the ancient secret family recipe that someone's great--grandmother first created in rural Italy in 1849 and passed onto the daughter who was making the big scary trip to America for a better life. "
Time zones; EST: Eastern Standard Time, CST: Central Standard Time (1 hr earlier than EST), CST: Central standard Time (2 hrs earlier than EST), PST (Pacific Standard Time, 3 hrs earlier than EST).
When time is presented like that, Its usually Eastern(new york) standard time. So being from the West coast I always since learning this, have had to subract three hours #life lol
Of course I pulled the biscuits and gravy out of the trash, in a styrofoam container, the other trash didn't even touch them. I love biscuits and gravy way too much to let that entire meal go to waste. There was half a Denver omlette too 😂
“The coffee machine that looks a bit dirty always” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I thought I was the only 1 that thought they looked gross lol just learned how to use one at 30 unfortunately
The toilet water line actually varies depending on various factors, and i don’t think it’s universal in the US. I have seen a lot of very low water lines lately. I agree the higher water lines are better for not having to clean the bowls as much...
The time zone thing 😂 8/7c means 8 for Eastern time, 7 for central time. I think In the , mountain and pacific region they have it formatted for them. There’s also Alaska and Hawaii time. Too many time zones😂
That was my first thought, it would take constant maintenance with the water line so low. And things like toilet paper might stick rather than float sink and flush!
Exactly!! I have been living in Germany for over six years and what a pain it is to clean.Fortunately ,My German hubby loves the USA and we plan to move back when he retires.I also was shocked to have to pay to use the restroom at the gas stations.Say whattttt?
Please do not change the jingle! It's an iconic song for the iconic Joel & Lia Show - like the James Bond song you hear in the James Bond movies. We are a legion of American fans who are totally loyal to our beloved Joel & Lia!
Lol this was awesome! Fun fact the older the toilet in the us the more gallons per flush. For the electric kettle I had never seen one until I had a friend from Poland. After having one I can’t believe it’s not more popular because it’s amazing but in US hotels you’ll always find a coffee maker. Can’t tell you how mad I’ve been when there wasn’t one in my room before!
Joel, Lia, Darlings: America is SIMPLY not a country where people drink hot tea. It’s a coffee culture. Do you need an electric kettle to brew coffee? Of course not! You just use an electric coffee maker instead. Virtually every home has one. I have an electric kettle but it’s only because my body doesn’t tolerate coffee well, so I’ve switched to tea. Please get over the kettle thing. It makes Brits seem quite silly when they’re shocked by this. I should add that Americans do drink a lot of tea, but it’s mostly iced. I’m not (and never have been) crazy about iced tea myself, but there you go. That’s the answer!
I live in America and my husband and I not only have electric kettle, we have one with different temperature setting. It's super fancy cuz it even has a different color light for each temperature. It's not hard, you just push the button until the right one lights up.
Nope, they too are called breadsticks pretzel sticks are a completely different thing. Just here in the states the hard thin breadsticks have become less common and even rare over time and the soft think ones have become more popular and the norm
The breadsticks Joel & Lia know in England are a crunchy specialty of northern Italy and called grissini. The breadsticks served at Olive Garden have nothing at all to do with the Italian ones. The originals are perfect wrapped with a thin slice of ham, Prosciutto/Mortadella/salami, or some blue cheese, and great for a teething baby to gnaw on. As kids, when sitting at the Thanksgiving kid's table, we would wack them against our wrists, breaking and sending the top third flying across the table. Hopefully hitting one of my many cousins in the head, and hopefully not be seen doing it by our folks.
Television time zones we just need two because as you go west, it conforms to the standard Eastern time. So for a program that shows at 8 Eastern, Central watches it at the same time 7 Central (8 Eastern), but then it’s played again two hours later and shown at 8 in the Mountain time zone (10 Eastern), and one last time an hour in the Pacific time zone at 8 locally (11 Eastern). So what 8/7 Is really telling you is that this show airs locally at 8 p.m. in all time zones, except Central, where it shows at 7 p.m. Or as I like to say, everyone watches a show at the same time locally, like Friends when it originally aired was always a Thursdays at 8 pm show except for the weirdos in Central where it was a Thursdays at 7 show. As someone who lives in California I can literally call my friends on the East Coast and ask what happened on a show 3 hours before I watch it in California.
Not quite, but close. In the Mountain Time Zone, shows shown at 8 Eastern/7 Central are recorded from the Eastern/Central feed, then delayed an hour and shown at 7 Mountain. In fact, network announcers used to promote programs as airing at "8 Eastern/7 Central and Mountain, especially in the seventies, but, in recent decades have dropped the "and Mountain" part of the phrase. The West Coast gets its own separate dedicated feed and airs its prime time programming in pattern three hours behind the East Coast from 8-11 Pacific.
@@dngillikin Really? I was unaware this was the case. I don’t visit the Mountain Time Zone to see for myself but it makes sense. I just thought Central was the only odd one out. Thanks for the clarification.
@@mojoshivers Yeah, really. I moved to the Mountain Time Zone sixteen years ago from the Eastern zone, and I lived a few years in the Central Time Zone. Honestly, as a former East Coast kid, I have never gotten used to Prime Time starting at 7 pm.
@@dngillikin That would be odd. I’ve traveled across the U.S. a lot but never lived anywhere but California. The other time zone I’ve been the most is Eastern as my two closest friends live there. So all I know is prime time is always 8 p.m. I couldn’t handle 7 p.m. because everyone knows that’s when you’re cooking or picking up dinner so it’ll be ready for the Prime Time shows to start. I’d probably starve if it prime time started at 7. Lol
@@mojoshivers Exactly. I'd normally be grabbing a bite to eat at a restaurant or doing something outside at 7 in the Spring and Summer months. What ended up happening more often than not is that over time, I just stopped watching broadcast television, relying instead on my voluminous video library and streaming services.
I don’t use an electric kettle because we installed an instant hot water tap at the kitchen sink. Always have 160* F filtered water anytime without the wait for the coffee press or tea.
I discovered electric kettles in a UK hotel. I’ve had them ever since. They’re handy for more than tea. Most US box stores have them for as little as 10 pounds. Yes I googled the exchange rate 😁
though the US has 9 time zones tv programming occurs by "blocks." in other words, a tv show that will air simultaneously on several networks mainly affects the eastern and central time zones only. exception is live tv but most people know how to handle that accordingly.
Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun. Big Mac.... & Big Mac, Filet of Fish, Quarter Pounder, French fries, Icy Coke, Thick Shakes, Sundays and Apple Pies...
I am Canadian and have an electric kettle. I use it maybe once a month if I decide to make a large pot of tea. Most of the times or one cup I’ll just use the kitchen faucet that gives me boiling water. Which is different from the washing up tap.
based on other things I've seen, British use Instant Coffee, instead of brewing when they make it themselves, probably because they already have a way to heat water.
We ca Ill it a coffe pot instead of a kettle. We use either a coffee pot or a coffee maker. A coffee pot percolates. While, a coffee maker drips. That being said, both heat the water like a kettle.
A coffee pot and tea kettle are two different things. The expression the pot calling the kettle black is about teapots and tea kettles, because they are the same thing.
I just have a kettle that sits on my stove top, you might call the range. And I heat it up there. An electric kettle is just another appliance that I’d have to find room for. And quite frankly, the coffee pot is more important!
8/7c is for shows being aired in only the eastern and central time zones. They air at the same time, but the clocks in those time zones are an hour off, so the tv station has to say the time zone of the "earlier" show, so the viewers there don't miss it.
Oh, and with regards to the first thing, we do use a brush, even if it's just for rust stains under the rim. We tend to hide the brush in the cabinet under the sink.
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- We do use toilet brushes. LOL
- There are electric kettles, but you just have to buy it yourself at a store. I have one in my house. You're right though. They are NEVER in hotel rooms. :(
I think there are like 1 tea drinker to 50 coffee drinkers. most tea drinkers, I think, other than a cold day, have a cup of tea in the morning. I will have 2 cups of tea a night for a week and after that 2 cups of tea a month. if no tea no big deal, soda pop will be fine. hate loose tea, to strong. I only like black tea tea bags. never anything to eat with it, that is for cookies and milk. never dunk anything in tea. like all my water, pop, gather aid, ice tea, with lots of ice and very cold, even when 20 F
out. time zones are east, central - 1 hour after east, mountain - 2 hours after east, pacific - 3 hours behind east, Hawaii - 6 hours behind east coast. (all these are at the same time, from New York to
Hawaii. 3,2,1,12(LA),9 Hawaii.)
we celebrate on TV new years eve every time it turns 12 in a time zone. happy new year 5 times.
You have to try what we Americans call soul food and do a video ( we call it that bcoz when black people were brought here during slavery we were given the scraps and put our heart and soul into cooking thus we essentially coined the term )
We don’t need hot water for things.
@@LaSmoocherina Americans?
Everyone always says American food is so good, but then questions why we’re fat. 😂😂
The better to use as zombie bait during the zombie apocalypse? ;)
Not everyone. Some things are ok and others just don't cut it. I don't like most of anything here in America when it comes to comfort food. And I was raised between cultures and countries so I am used to eating them all but at the end of the day to me the American treats to me r just generic vanilla, strawberry or whatever other common flavour with either tons of sugar or salt and I just don't get the yum factor from most comfort food. However when u forget the junk food and it comes to dining out and u find u a good restaurant with a bomb chef, its a win and when it comes to condiments and coffee America just puts the rest to shame. It just sucks that u can only be in 1 place at a time so u just have to work with what u got cause at the end of the day its give and take and it all comes down to preference.
When I went to America on vacation when I was a kid, I was surprised by the portions. They were twice as large as I was used to at home.
I’ve cut down on soft drinks, eat very little, if any, bread... Since late 2019 I’ve lost 40 pounds. Not sure what that is in “stones.”
High Fructose Corn Syrup. Studies from Harvard and other places have shown that HFCS shuts down the mechanisms in the brain that tell you when you are full, leading to over consumption. If you notice over the past 40 years, the countries weight problem has gone along with an increased use of HFCS in almost ALL of our manufactured foods. The very same corporate scientists that engineered cigarettes to be more addictive have engineered our foods to be more addictive.Tobacco, food & beverage industries are all owned by the same people.
Another factor influencing the increase in weight is the decrease in the popularity of smoking, many just switched addictions to food.
Also, restaurant businesses in the US continually compete to offer "more" to customers. But this "more" is usually just very fattening filler material.
Yeah, and "american" food can be good. Probably because it's a creative mix of the international cuisines of our various immigrant populations. What foods are actually purely "american"? Most can be traced back to be a variation on recipes brought here from somewhere else. The food is good here because the US is the "food court" of the world. Corn is one of the few things commonly consumed actually native to this continent, hence the excessive use of high fructose corn syrup. Corn crops are HEAVILY subsidized by the government.
Just a weird bit of trivia: The time zone on the moon corresponds with the Central Time zone of the USA. Why? Because that is the time NASA astronauts use because Mission Control is based in Houston, TX.... which is on Central time.
Thank you, now I feel just a little bit more special about my time zone. 🇺🇸
Me too!
Thank you. I love knowing that.
Time shouldn't matter . Neither should where they launch from . The key to that is to not have to launch .send yourself actually through a worm hole .remember your path and who you are and where you come from and you can go anywhere. Fast
And it's part of the Bishop of Orlando's diocese because the Apollo missions were launched from his diocese and Catholic rules are the bishop in charge of where an explorer set out is in charge until the Pope can establish a new diocese. No one on the moon so...
"When you drop the kids off at school"
Umm, the pool, Joel.
“Drop the Browns off at the pool”
Don’t you all say something like the bog to refer to the toilet? I’d love to hear about some of those idioms. Bogs, from my reading, I understand to be like a swamp, though perhaps not as much standing water as here in the southern us.
@@jacobsonma - I believe they do. As to standing water in the South, like the Swamp Fox, Francis Marion knew.
😂😂😂
@@3novembersky I thought it was the Browns are going to the super bowl, or drop the kids off at the pool.
I still don’t understand what is wrong with a stove top kettle lol. That’s what I’ve always used to heat water. They’re also fun because the whistle 😂
Emily Givens - I too dig the whistle feature, but never use it. My wife and I bought a new such kettle over 25 years ago, and even the we had been raised using them, the first thing we did was to set the whislte off. Since that first day tho, that little lid has remained in the upright position, and that kettle gets used many times a day. We don't need no stinking whistles (badges, being a joke).
We've never forgotten it to burn dry, but it's only us adults here and it usually implies a cup of tea or coffee, so who could forget about that? Plus, we live in small enough of a house, the stove maybe 15 feet away from the living room, so that any sign of such a thing would easily be noticed.
I have a habit tho, of everytime I leave the kitchen, whether I am cooking or not, I always make sure the knobs on the stove are in the off position. Thus, I don't even need to bother looking for the flame. The whistle is cool tho, being very much like an old steam engine. which I think are simply amazing.
Yes agreed. I love it as well, however I do hope to purchase an electric one for when I have a tea party in my Sunday School Class.
@@marykelley854 - I hope I've implied, the electric ones are amazing. Well worth the counter space, if you can afford it. Or, if you are 'on the road', or in a classroom setting. I think they are wonderful, but I keep mine in the basement, as I don't have the counter space for it, but I did the notion.
I dont't know the cost, as mine was 'gifted', and I would send it to you, but I fear the postage is worth more than the cost. Otherwise, it is yours.
If I knew more about your Sunday School, maybe I could just gift you one.
We had a stovetop kettle in the 90s, until my great grandmother, who lived with us, burned up a few of them. She had dementia and would forget she put the kettle on and would go out in the garden.
@@raynemichelle2996 - Understood. That seems to be a great advantage to a proper kettle. Still, it wouldn't twist my wind, but only because my counter is so small.
"Find someone who looks at you the way Lia looks at a Pizza Hut."
Or the way Joel looks at a Reese's peanut butter cup.
It will blow their minds that Pizza Hut in America used to have an all-you-can-eat lunch buffet.
Love your jingle ... classic and it means "Joel and Lia" to me.
Dear J & L. YOU LEAVE YOUR JINGLE ALONE! Itsw different and I love! Keep up the good work.
Love the jingle
I can't stand it when intros to videos take as long as some major motion pictures. Their jingle is IDEAL.
Americans drink coffee more than they drink tea. Therefore, there are few instances for Americans to need an electric kettle.
Americans who drink tea usually just use a standard kettle on the stove top/range. Or they heat water in the microwave.
I have friends who drink tea regularly, some are Anglophiles. None of them have electric kettles. A standard kettle on the range does the job.
@@MichaelScheele My family has had an electric kettle for 10+ years. It's not that uncommon anymore.
Or they use the coffee maker to make the hot water
@Orange Top , an electric kettle is not old fashioned in the States. A tea kettle that you heat up on a stove is.
Any coffee pot brews hot water as well
When we drop the kids off at the pool in the US we want to hear a "splash", not a "thump". But we still have to use the brush occasionally.
And of course you have the poop knife......
😂😂😂
I read this comment before I watched the video and I was so confused 😂
@@jamiedamoth6465 Ah yes, the poop knife
@@jamiedamoth6465 Generally the caffeine and fat diet ensures that a poop knife is never required. Speed dumps all around.
Joel! It’s not, “Drop the kids off at school”, it’s “Drop the kids off at the pool”! 😂
I've heard both.
@@raynemichelle2996 I've only heard the pool and the pool makes way more sense.
Lol never head of school. I've always heard pool.
Take the Brown's to the bowl
@@bsimon8652 ha ha ha ha!!! Haven’t heard that one! 😂😂😂
We have Keurigs, Joel and Lia. You can get coffee, tea or cocoa in K cups and make your own cuppa whatever suits you. Most hotel rooms will have a Keurig in the room now. Yes, Olive Garden breadsticks are highly addictive!
RE: The jingle. If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Chum is fum!
Oh it’s broke!!
We don’t think about sales tax. We just buy it, sometimes thinking about it being more than the stated price.
We don't have sales tax in Oregon, so I always get confused when it's mentioned
lol
It is b/c here in the USA, there is a significant Italian -American population and to this group Olive Garden is like the Taco Bell of Mexican Food
Please never put Olive Garden and Taco Bell in the same sentence again
I think Olive Garden is a cut above Taco Hell ... but then I'm not Italian-American, and it just occurred to me that the last time I went to Olive Garden was probably over 20 years ago.
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Explain
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By the way, what is a real wet lemon?
@@Hbeth Olivr Garden is so extremely above Taco Ball in terms of being an actual restaurant and not a dumpy fast food chain. And a real wet lemon is what it sounds like
Those devices in hotel rooms are called drip filters. You can leave the drawer that would normally have the coffee grounds out, and it's the same as your electric kettle; it will heat the water which then streams into the carafe/ pitcher.
As an American tea drinker, I loved traveling in the UK and Ireland and every room we stayed in had an electric kettle. The US is so coffee driven that they tend to ignore us tea drinkers. And when my stovetop kettle needed replacing I bought myself an electric one, though I do miss the whistle. :-)
In the continental US, we have four time zones: Pacific, Mountain, Central, and Eastern.
For some reason, network television programming aired at the same time in the Central and Eastern Time zones, despite the time zone difference. Therefore a show that aired at 8 PM Eastern would air at 7 PM Central.
I live in the central time zone and absolutely love the shows starting at 7. Able to watch all the shows and actually get to sleep at a decent time.
Correct. I live in the Eastern Time Zone of the US (Ohio) and it has always made me wonder something. Since shows come on an hour earlier in Central than us in Eastern do those in the Central Time Zone get more sleep? The shows are on earlier so it seems to me this could be true. I'd prefer to live in another time zone if this is true lol. (But I'll never leave this area because of my close extended family all being in Ohio) I know lots of people here in Ohio who watch TV til 11pm, then the news til 1130pm, then finally go to bed. Then wake at 5-530am to get ready for work. We are always sleep deprived! No wonder.
In MT and PT shows air at 7:00 p.m. but of course it's a 2-hour delay from the East Coast. So spoilers are already on the internet.
@@notallwhowanderarelost7577 That's exactly why shows air 1 hour earlier in central time. The central US used to be the Agricultural center of the US and those farmers and ranchers go to bed early and get up early, hence, shows airing 1 hour earlier.
You forgot Hawaii time.
Omg Joel waving his coffee around made me so nervous. 😂😂😂
Just put the coffee cup down Joel!😂😅
Note to self: Call my son who is over 21 and ask him if he knows how to use a toilet brush. Omg Joel, hahahaha you were raised around people kind enough to keep the bowl magically clean. That's hysterical.
We have a "kettle" in most hotel rooms. It's called a microwave.
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Yes you have talked about the water line differences between US and European toilets before. And we do use toilet brushes in the US. It is a common thing here too 🙂
In an American hotel there would most likely be a coffee maker. I do own an electric kettle and I love it!!
I found an electric percolator that have never been used in my pantry. It can be made for making coffee, and maybe tea? Or just water. It's electric and has a glass pitcher, I plan on using it for those times I know I'm going to need hot water for something in a couple of minutes while I'm preparing I just will turn it on!
I also have an electric kettle. 😉
I love my electric kettle as well but I also love tea. But tea just isn’t as popular in the United States. Coffee is still the king of morning hot beverages. So it does make sense for those who don’t make tea or need to boil water for say a French press to not have a separate appliance just to do that. It’s also that little strange thing that when tea is being portrayed say in a television show they typically aren’t using an electric kettle they use a stove top kettle. So I just don’t think people are generally as exposed to the idea of an electric kettle in the US because they aren’t ubiquitous like they are in the UK
The thing with a coffee maker in a hotel room is that it's only good for coffee. I did a two week study once where I had to live out of a hotel room, the kettle was so much more useful than a coffee maker would have been.
I have a small instant water heater under my sink. It has a nozzle dispenser. I’m on my third one. I think next time I will just get a kettle. Had t ever seen them until I went to Europe.
Our bread sticks used to be slender and dry like yours. Olive Garden changed all that
The reason we don't have very many electric tea kettles in the US is because we are coffee drinkers! We have coffee makers at home and in hotel rooms, Keurigs in the office, and Bunnomatics in the shops and restaurants
You must not live in the south. We've never had crackery bread sticks. Actually in the south we usually have hushpuppies.
Tru dat
When I worked in a cafe, we had a Bunn coffee machine, it made the best coffee anyone ever tasted.
I don't need an electric kettle. I use my microwave or my Keurig. If I would get a kettle, I'd get one that heats on my stove. It heats water and looks nice sitting there . No extra space needed.
@@mermaid1717 hush puppies are the best. Now I'm hungry 😂😂
I’ve never used the hotel room coffee maker or kettle, if there is one. I’d rather go out for it. And we ‘re not as obsessed with hot tea as you are.
I usually assumed they haven’t been cleaned since they were put in the room. 😆
Exactly. Bayou will see more coffee machines. We don't drink tea much
My family in the UK clown on me so hard for not owning a kettle😂😂😂
We spend so much time laughing at the ways we do and say everything differently.
There are 6 different timezones in the United States starting with The Eastern time zone 8PM
The central time zone 7PM
The mountain time zone 6PM
The Pacific times 5PM
The Alaska time zone 4PM
The Hawaii time zone 3PM
Kronos Darkness - Actually, there are 9, but I don't want to get into it. You are right tho, there are six that are commonly observed and just about as you described them. My point is, when it is says '8/E, 7/C', that obviously means 8 Eastern, 7 Central and everyone else can do the math, as they are well used to. A bit arrogant, but true. I was watching the dawn battle the stars, which battled the aurora borealis which battled my phone, when I came to realize that. Kidding, but it is amazing to pass into different time zones, particularly as you run from or to, one or the other. I once walked about a thousand miles South to North, just following the same spring. All of about 2 weeks worth, over more than two months of hiking. I almost had it outrun, but I never did get over the hump.
@@dobiebloke9311 You must've hiked the Appalachian Trail!
@@loveislove4879 - You are absolutely right. Not the entirety of it, as that wasn't my intent. I just wanted an extended spring and I got it, from Atlanta to Virginia, early March to early June until it eventually turned to summer and I gave it up and went back to working on a boat that welcomed me, whenever I got back. A few years later, I finally went to College, with all that (and more) in my back pocket.
I actually have an electric kettle and a pour-over that I use to make my morning coffee (because i drink a lot of tea too), but most people in the U.S. just use coffee makers. They can be complicated, but most of them are really convenient once you figure them out.
I can't get past the toilet bowl discussion and Joel never having cleaned a toilet until 2020! WHAT?! You two always crack me up and watching you crack each other up is too fun! Thanks for the giggles!
Maybe Lucy cleans the toilet bowl for him.
You've got to be kidding
I am glad that Lucy has trained him
Lia
Here’s an example of how the time zones work for TV programming. “8/7c” means that a show starts at 8 in the Eastern time zone, but 7 in the Central Time zone (located directly west of the Eastern time zone).
To try to keep certain programs on during “prime time” hours when people are home from work, a show might start at the following times (east to west):
Eastern - 8 PM
Central - 7 PM (exact same time as Eastern)
Mountain - 7 PM (1 hour later than Central)
Pacific - 7 PM (1 hour later than Mountain)
Alaskan - 7 PM (1 hour later than Pacific)
Hawaiian - 6 PM (exact same time as Alaskan)
I think some items can be broadcast to the entire country at once (for example, the election coverage this past week and speeches from Biden/Harris were aired live everywhere most likely) but this is not the norm. Since there is a 5 hour time difference between Hawaii and the east coast, TV programming is complicated here, hence the staggered times shown above!
Actually, I believe you're correct Rachel, except that a show that's on at 8/7c is on at 8 on the west coast, not 7.
@@seancatherall31 Networks have separate transmission times for East Coast and West Coast as regulations were drawn up in the decades before satellites. The Rocky Mountains had to be accounted for with signal boosters. Geography plays a part in station call letters. East of the Mississippi River, all stations start with W.[Exception is KDKA is Pittsburgh. First commercial station in the US.] West of the country west of the river starts with a K.
There are other exceptions to those rules also.
www.google.com/amp/s/amp.bnd.com/living/liv-columns-blogs/answer-man/article66843127.html
It should also be noted that the broadcast companies run the same commercials and national programming in both the eastern and central time zones simultaneously (do they do the same on the west coast?), hence having to inform people when the show will air in their time zone.
They don't say all of the time zones for tv shows because there is usually a west coast feed and an east coast feed. So a show might come on at 8:00 eastern (7:00 central) but it's ALSO broadcast at 8:00 pacific on a channel the west coast gets.
Breadsticks in America used to be a lot more like the stiff cracker-y breadsticks that Joel and LIa are describing - at least when I was a kid, but I think Olive Garden (and maybe a few other places) began to synthesize garlic bread, garlic knots and breadsticks into the kind of single soft dinner-roll-esque "breadsticks" that we know today.
Guys I love the jingle, what triggers me is when you occasionally switch sides, ie Lia on the left of my screen. Nope Lia on the right, Joel on the left as I watch. Today’s video was perfect!
The 8/7c means 8 EST, 7 Central. So if you're in mountain or pacific time, you can just adjust it yourself. eg: 8 Eastern, 7 Central, 6 Mountain, 5 Pacific. Just like sales tax, you have to do your own maths.
Typically Pacific and Mountain time TV is run separate from Est and Pacific TV. I’m pretty sure on the West Coast, TV is listed as 8/7p for Mountain time and Pacific time.
that would be just "math" in the US.
@@FunDisneyFan Mountain Time is definitely the red-headed stepchild. Pacific time viewers get everything that's not live three hours later, so adverts are focused on them on network TV, just later. I guess Central Time viewers just watch everything at a slightly earlier hour to the East Coast.,
Your example would only apply to a live event. Normal scheduled television shows would be at 8 o’clock for all time zones except for central time which always gets everything an hour earlier. This is an artifact of early television when most of the population of the United States was either in eastern or central time zones. It was too expensive to tape delay for the central time zone so they combined the two and stated the time relative to each time zone. The Pacific Time zone was too far distant to combine so they got their own separate feed.
I dont know im in PST and I can remember the shows saying 7/6c. I think because central it just comes on earlier where in p, m and e it all comes on at 7. Ive never seen 7/6m lol.
When I was a kid, they would say “...8, 7 Central & Mountain.” The. They dropped the “... & Mountain” and would just say “...8, 7 Central.” Now, some networks wont even bother with the other two time zones and just refer to Eastern Time and expect people in the Central & Mountain time zones to figure it out for themselves.
I haven't had cable for several years now, but as I recall, by then the 8/7 central thing seemed like it was mostly just done on live sports broadcasts? National network shows came on at the same time, like no matter where you live, Hill Street Blues was on at 10 PM on Thursday. So the people on the East Coast actually saw it 3 hours before we did, those lucky bastards. I've lived all but 5 years on the West Coast, so I've always been used to hearing "8/7 central," and subtracting 3 from the first time (i.e., Eastern time) and going, "oh, so that's on at 5 PM here."
@@CheekandBluster Not so in the Midwest (Central Time). Hill Street Blues was on at 9:00 pm. In fact, 9:00 was the latest prime-time programming would start. The news came on at 10:00.
@@aaronhomer920 Oh, no kidding? Ok then, I sit corrected.
@@aaronhomer920 I think that's why they specified 8/7 central. the Central time zone is the only one that's off. Mountain and pacific would be on at 8pm as well.
"Two all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun."
Growing up my mom would always say this when going to McDonald’s. She said back in the 80s if you called the radio and said it accurately, they would gift you a McDonald’s Big Mac!
The BIG MAC!
BIG MAC
Jamie Fries - Big Mac hangover cure. Stumble in about 4 am. Pop three aspirin, chugged down by Juicy Juice (cherry, if you can - something in cherries, is good for a hangover). Drink remaining half gallon of JJ thru the night. Wake up whenever, but it will probably be past breakfast, in McDonald time. Get a Big Mac (and maybe a Filet o'Fish), and the rest of the day will go fine. Hangover, avoided.
You've just shown your age! Lol
8PM Eastern means it's on at 8PM on the east coast of the U.S., but airs at 7PM Central time (middle of U.S.). The thing is, it's airing at the exact same time across the country, but for some people the clocks says 8, for others it says 7. The country is so large that the times need to be zoned to keep the country on a similar schedule. The sun comes up in New York about 3 hours before it comes up in California. If our times were the same, sunrise would be at 6AM in New York and 9AM in California, so the zones are adjusted so the sun rises around the same 'time' everywhere. This is also done for travel reasons, but can definitely be confusing when you have a 2 hour flight that leaves at 10AM and lands at 11AM.
Also, we don't have sales tax on every item. Unprepared food (milk, bread, canned, etc.) is not taxed, surprisingly!
@ Kodie S Items being taxed or not depends entirely upon where you live.
Where I live, those food items do have sales tax, just at a lower rate. Some items do have none at all, like prescriptions.
8/7c not only means 8:00 Eastern and 7:00 Central Time, but also means that it's on at 8:00 Pacific and 7:00 Mountain even though those two time zones aren't mentioned. Who knows what time the show is on in Alaska or Hawaii lol
The timezone thing for television shows is a bit more complicated. All shows in the Central Time Zone are shown an hour earlier then the rest of the country, this comes from when television first started, so much of the central time zone was Agricultural and people tended to go to bed earlier.
Shows like the LOCAL Nightly News still to this day start at 10:00 rather than 11:00 pm.
( It was always weird to hear in movies and TV shows the line "film or updates at 11" because our news is at 10. 11:00 would be right in the middle of Jay Leno for us.)
In all the other time zones, network shows air at the same local time, in Eastern, Mountain, and Pacific.
So the only ones who need to note a difference is Central, and that is how you arrive at "Friends, on at 8/7c".
It's on at 8 in all markets, except for Central where it will be on at 7.
NATIONAL Network programming has a very defined window in which to operate between the local evening news (5pm) and local Nightly News (10pm) between which it was network programming as opposed to local, and then after the local Nightly News, network programming picked up once again with the nightly talk/variety shows.
These Network entertainment shows also start an hour earlier in the central time zone than in the rest of the country.
And still do. :)
Including Saturday Night Live, starts at 10:30 pm. Central.
In case you're wondering why there is a distinction between local news and national news, it essentially boils down to the country is so big that every large city has its own weather reports and sports reports to give. A national station just couldn't cover the weather throughout the whole United States or all of the sports teams and some other local issues like crime reports.
After the local news at 10 (for central time), the feed is handed back over to the National networks and their late night programming.
This works out great because 10:30 central is 11:30 on the East Coast, they are ending their own local news and any live programming is then shown at the same time for Eastern and central time zones, roughly everyone east of the Rockies. West of the Rockies everything has to be on a delay so that shows are aired at the correct local time.
Thank you!
I appreciate this very thorough explanation.
Living my whole life, except five years in the U. S. Navy, in the eastern time zone I’m used to “news @ 11.”
WAIT
WAIT A FUCKING MINUTE
IT’S NOT LIVE ON THE WEST COAST AND THEY *STILL* HAVE INSANELY DELAYED CAPTIONS????
WTF
WHY THE HELL
And, to make it more confusing, there is a Hawaiian time zone which is either five or six hours different from Eastern time (depending on Daylight Savings Time) and three hours later than California. The prime time TV block between 7PM and 10PM is recorded in California and sent via satellite to Hawaiian stations, which pick up the signals and hold on to them until the local time in Hawaii reaches 7PM, after which they broadcast the entire block, inserting their own commercials. While watching the election last week, when I sat down to watch at 7PM, the time in New York was already at 1AM. When I went to bed at 11PM, the sun was already rising on the East Coast.
‘I’m not interested in a crusty roll.” - Lia.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH
Sadie Hawkins Dance: Is where the girls ask the boys to a dance.
The channels are broadcast from different places so unless it's a live program they other side of the country will have the program at 7pm but at their time. The continental US has 4 zones and usually split in middle for broadcast. Eastern/Central And Mountain/Pacific. Most nationally televised LIVE programming starts about 8-9ET to accommodate the earlier zones.
Well my toddler loves your jingle! She heard it and now walks around saying De de da! Lol
"8/7c" means that the show is at 7:00 Central Time, and 8:00 Eastern time. The US has four time zones: Pacific, Mountain, Central, and Eastern. Shows that broadcast to the nation have to specify time zone when they say when they broadcast.
There’s also AK and Hi time zones. USA has 6 time Zones. Eastern EST, Central CST, Mountain MST, Pacific PST, Alaska AKST and Hawaii HAST.
More specifically, networks have an “east coast” and “west coast” sat feed. That way, the east can be 8/7, and the west 9/8. Technically broadcast hours later
But when it says 8/7c it also means that it's on at 8 Pacific and 7 Mountain (in addition to 8 Eastern and 7 Central)
When the waters down that low here it’s cause it’s about to cost you $500+ to fix 😂😂😂
The low water level in the loo helps the flush speed of the water to remove waste.... it`s also shallow to stop water born diseases like cholera (bacteria), dysentery (bacteria or amoeba), cryptosporidiosis (protozoa), hepatitis A (virus) and giardia (protozoa). Splashing/living on your butt and entering your butt passage when you wipe....
The coffee thing cracks me up. You only put the filter in and water, that's it. You guys are funny.
And don't forget to put the coffee in too if you want coffee! lol Also, if you just want water for tea, then you just fill it up with water (you have to pour the water into the machine, should have a place for water)
You want a good Keurig machine. I love those!
@@sarahgoings1703 the coffee is in the filter at hotels
Think they're talking about Keurig coffee .my sister had to show me.
For TV listings - All time zones have the same evening timing, except for the midwest where things show an hour earlier. For ex, if a show airs at 8pm, it shows at 8 in most time zones, but 7 in the midwest. So they list it as 8/7 to explain that.
As for electric kettles - we just fill a mug with water and heat it in a microwave. No need to also have a kettle.
Actually you're wrong here... A TV show airs at the same time I. Both the East coast & Central Time zones. The East coast just happens to start their prime time at 8(hence) their news starts at 11. I(believe the Mountain time is similar to the West Coast in that they get shows in a similar vein as the East coast/ Central time zone. West Coast folks used to get mad that folks in the East & Midwest we're spoiling the plots in many shows by (first) chatting about them(then later)tweeting about them *Before* they're shown, out there....
I think this might've changed recently(?)
I love every time it comes out that ppl don’t use kettles and then we all have to go “we use kettles! We’re not uncouth!”
when Americans want hot water, they run the water through an empty coffee maker.
Uhhhh, I usually use my electric water heater.
In the event of ANY crisis or upset Brits namely English 'Put the kettle on' as everything(supposedly)seems better after a cup of tea.I don't think English people would survive without putting the kettle on
Doesn't anyone use the stove anymore?
Maybe he should have added "in a motel." That's what I've been told by traveling tea-drinkers, anyway.
I want one machine that does everything, & that's the coffee maker.
I love the English habit of using electric kettles. Bought me one after I moved back to Germany. Cannot live without it these days :)
🙋🏼♀️ I’m one of your bingers. Your voices are just so lovely and soothing. Y’all are basically my co-workers while I work from home these days! Just chattin in the background!
Ummm for the record, I LOVE yalls intro sound. Honestly so catchy and I sing along with it every time 😂
Lia: " Why don't Americans have electric kettles? They're only 15 pounds!"
Americans : " Why would I want a kettle that's so heavy?!"
Electric tea kettle or electric coffeemaker.... That decision is clear. We use tea kettles on the back burner while making soup on the front burner of the stove if you are under the weather. Also, we take the tea kettles and regular coffee pots along on camping trips.
The American voltage is 120V; the UK voltage is 240. You would find the American kettle very slow to boil the water.
To start off with you are my Legends and I absolutely love your material. Don't change your jingle. I don't remember when I first subscribed to your channel but I doubt I will ever get to watch all of your videos not that I will ever stop trying. Joel and Lia forever. Do more videos like this, stay safe and keep me smiling.
I forgot to add that I have RUclips premium and love it.
I've had an electric kettle for years, as well as a Nepresso and Keurig.
This episode is a rerun. Even has the same title as 🇺🇸AMERICAN Things That Confuse BRITISH PEOPLE! 🇬🇧 and discusses the same subjects toilet water, bread sticks, central time TV shows, tea kettles. Its like deja vue all over again.
At minute 6 Lia turns into a total cat, "what's that outside"
"Squirrel!" 🤣🤣🤣😅
@@TrinitySurvivorNet EXACTLY what I thought!
@@TrinitySurvivorNet EXACTLY what I thought!
I’m American and I use my electric kettle every day!! ☕️
Coffee sachet? So fancy, I’m calling mine a coffee sachet from now on.
Well many things confuse me in the UK too)) example. “A boot is a trunk and a shoe?” Hehe. 😉
Don't forget about the bonnet being a hood and a hat!
A hood is a head covering and an engine covering, what's you point, better example please 🙄
Who hurt you, Mitch?
@@BunniBeshara no one, I'm just a moody cow 😉
A Wellington is also a shoe and a savory dish.
Depends on how the toilet is designed - some use less than others. Time Zones - 8 Eastern Time - 7 Central Time - 6 Mountain Time - 5 Pacific Time.... We have Electric Kettles - Or we put one on the stove.
Joel and Lia when referencing the 8/7c: “That is REALLY sad” in the most pitying sarcastic voice😂👌
It is true. life is so darn hard. Us american tv watchers just can’t CATCH A BREAK😩
And that's only what you see in Eastern time zone where there is a chance of overlap with Central. Central, Mountain and Pacific see something different.
8:00 est/7:00 cst
8/7 means 8 eastern time(east coast) 7( midwest, Illinois etc )Indiana in Midwest has 2 time zones eatern and midwest. then mountain time (Colorado and states there, would be 6:00. then Pacific time 5:00, west coast. so California is 3 hrs behind east coast, No one misses a program
It was funny when he said “8/7 so people in the central part have to go back 2 hours” when really 7 would be the central time 😂 it can be confusing for people who don’t have multiple time zones but it was cracking me up
I used my electric kettle only once, I find it's a lot faster just heating a mug of water in the microwave
UK people are dying by reading that last phrase! :D
@@andr_w 30 seconds on high and BAM! Ready! Chug that sucker and dash off!
The only problem with heating water in the microwave is that when you touch the mug the water can explode out the top of the mug (not a spill of the water but something to do with touching the mug and the superheated water can shoot out the top scalding your hand.
Microwaves are bad
@@ElleS572 well we used it sense we Where born it didn’t effect anything
3:39 There's definitely toilet brushes used here 😂 It's realized after moving out of the parent's home and finding out the toilet doesn't stay clean by itself
I like your intro. It's quick. I hate long ones where they introduce everyone, along with a song. 🤣
Same. Short, sweet, to the point
fun bit of trivia: Olive Garden is a restaurant chain that is a small part of a large conglomerate American company that also makes mountains of cold breakfast cereal and then packages it in 18 or 24 ounce portions in cardboard boxes sold at the supermarket.
There are food snobs who say "Olive Garden is a horrible restaurant because their recipes are formulated in a huge corporate test kitchen instead of being the ancient secret family recipe that someone's great--grandmother first created in rural Italy in 1849 and passed onto the daughter who was making the big scary trip to America for a better life. "
Time zones; EST: Eastern Standard Time, CST: Central Standard Time (1 hr earlier than EST), CST: Central standard Time (2 hrs earlier than EST), PST (Pacific Standard Time, 3 hrs earlier than EST).
When time is presented like that, Its usually Eastern(new york) standard time. So being from the West coast I always since learning this, have had to subract three hours #life lol
Joel: Hope you're not eating.
Me: (dejectedly throwing out my plate of biscuits and gravy)
SOS ;)
*gasp in southern* Don't you dare waste biscuits and gravy! 🤣
UK viewers: those are not pastries (cookies) with gravy. They are small savory bread rolls.
I continued to eat my home made Keylime pie with an Oreo cookie crust. Didn’t bother me at all.
Of course I pulled the biscuits and gravy out of the trash, in a styrofoam container, the other trash didn't even touch them. I love biscuits and gravy way too much to let that entire meal go to waste. There was half a Denver omlette too 😂
“The coffee machine that looks a bit dirty always”
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 I thought I was the only 1 that thought they looked gross lol just learned how to use one at 30 unfortunately
The toilet water line actually varies depending on various factors, and i don’t think it’s universal in the US. I have seen a lot of very low water lines lately. I agree the higher water lines are better for not having to clean the bowls as much...
I LOVE your jingle! I sing along with it at the beginning in my own high pitched cartoon voice.
The time zone thing 😂
8/7c means 8 for Eastern time, 7 for central time. I think In the , mountain and pacific region they have it formatted for them. There’s also Alaska and Hawaii time. Too many time zones😂
But I HATED European toilets because of the “marks” and constant cleaning needed.
That was my first thought, it would take constant maintenance with the water line so low.
And things like toilet paper might stick rather than float sink and flush!
Yep. Skid marks, or bacon strips if you prefer, and stuck paper with such a low level are not good.
Exactly!! I have been living in Germany for over six years and what a pain it is to clean.Fortunately ,My German hubby loves the USA and we plan to move back when he retires.I also was shocked to have to pay to use the restroom at the gas stations.Say whattttt?
Just when we were getting over the J&L you had to remind us 😂😭😭x
It doesn't seem very long ago to me. I'm curious when that was.
@@Shay2theT just over 2 years ago now x
@@amybellman4919 geez. How time flies!
Please do not change the jingle! It's an iconic song for the iconic Joel & Lia Show - like the James Bond song you hear in the James Bond movies. We are a legion of American fans who are totally loyal to our beloved Joel & Lia!
Lol this was awesome! Fun fact the older the toilet in the us the more gallons per flush. For the electric kettle I had never seen one until I had a friend from Poland. After having one I can’t believe it’s not more popular because it’s amazing but in US hotels you’ll always find a coffee maker. Can’t tell you how mad I’ve been when there wasn’t one in my room before!
When was this released, I’m experiencing deja vu or a flaw in the Matrix
Love these two but They’ve DEFINITELY gone over all these things before.
I actually was watching this on my TV and grabbed my phone so I could see the comments because I thought the same thing.
Yep they have covered all of them at least twice lol and some more
Joel, Lia, Darlings:
America is SIMPLY not a country where people drink hot tea. It’s a coffee culture. Do you need an electric kettle to brew coffee? Of course not! You just use an electric coffee maker instead. Virtually every home has one.
I have an electric kettle but it’s only because my body doesn’t tolerate coffee well, so I’ve switched to tea.
Please get over the kettle thing. It makes Brits seem quite silly when they’re shocked by this.
I should add that Americans do drink a lot of tea, but it’s mostly iced. I’m not (and never have been) crazy about iced tea myself, but there you go. That’s the answer!
how interesting....im from the bay area and we drink a lot of tea here....i think a lot of "woke" people drink tea
I use an electric kettle to brew my coffee in a French press, now that’s style
I have a gooseneck electric kettle for heating my water for my pourover coffee.
@@PhilandSofia I love French press but I always break them 🤦♂️
@@shakarussanders9911 I’m sorry. You are grinding the beans right? 🙄
I literally was eating my Chinese takeaway and you say “if you’re eating, stop” 😂
Skid marks-- absolutely!! Bothered me while in the UK 😂
I live in America and my husband and I not only have electric kettle, we have one with different temperature setting. It's super fancy cuz it even has a different color light for each temperature. It's not hard, you just push the button until the right one lights up.
They have them (kettle) on most cruise ships. Am a American. We don’t drink as much tea as you do in the UK.
I drink more tea than Coffee I’m American 🇺🇸
Yeah we do actually have your type of breadsticks, we call them unsalted hard pretzels, or a pointer that teachers use on chalkboards.
The breadsticks they are used to are served in some restaurants in the US.
Nope, they too are called breadsticks pretzel sticks are a completely different thing. Just here in the states the hard thin breadsticks have become less common and even rare over time and the soft think ones have become more popular and the norm
The breadsticks Joel & Lia know in England are a crunchy specialty of northern Italy and called grissini. The breadsticks served at Olive Garden have nothing at all to do with the Italian ones. The originals are perfect wrapped with a thin slice of ham, Prosciutto/Mortadella/salami, or some blue cheese, and great for a teething baby to gnaw on. As kids, when sitting at the Thanksgiving kid's table, we would wack them against our wrists, breaking and sending the top third flying across the table. Hopefully hitting one of my many cousins in the head, and hopefully not be seen doing it by our folks.
Television time zones we just need two because as you go west, it conforms to the standard Eastern time. So for a program that shows at 8 Eastern, Central watches it at the same time 7 Central (8 Eastern), but then it’s played again two hours later and shown at 8 in the Mountain time zone (10 Eastern), and one last time an hour in the Pacific time zone at 8 locally (11 Eastern).
So what 8/7 Is really telling you is that this show airs locally at 8 p.m. in all time zones, except Central, where it shows at 7 p.m. Or as I like to say, everyone watches a show at the same time locally, like Friends when it originally aired was always a Thursdays at 8 pm show except for the weirdos in Central where it was a Thursdays at 7 show.
As someone who lives in California I can literally call my friends on the East Coast and ask what happened on a show 3 hours before I watch it in California.
Not quite, but close. In the Mountain Time Zone, shows shown at 8 Eastern/7 Central are recorded from the Eastern/Central feed, then delayed an hour and shown at 7 Mountain. In fact, network announcers used to promote programs as airing at "8 Eastern/7 Central and Mountain, especially in the seventies, but, in recent decades have dropped the "and Mountain" part of the phrase.
The West Coast gets its own separate dedicated feed and airs its prime time programming in pattern three hours behind the East Coast from 8-11 Pacific.
@@dngillikin Really? I was unaware this was the case. I don’t visit the Mountain Time Zone to see for myself but it makes sense. I just thought Central was the only odd one out. Thanks for the clarification.
@@mojoshivers Yeah, really. I moved to the Mountain Time Zone sixteen years ago from the Eastern zone, and I lived a few years in the Central Time Zone. Honestly, as a former East Coast kid, I have never gotten used to Prime Time starting at 7 pm.
@@dngillikin That would be odd. I’ve traveled across the U.S. a lot but never lived anywhere but California. The other time zone I’ve been the most is Eastern as my two closest friends live there. So all I know is prime time is always 8 p.m. I couldn’t handle 7 p.m. because everyone knows that’s when you’re cooking or picking up dinner so it’ll be ready for the Prime Time shows to start.
I’d probably starve if it prime time started at 7. Lol
@@mojoshivers Exactly. I'd normally be grabbing a bite to eat at a restaurant or doing something outside at 7 in the Spring and Summer months. What ended up happening more often than not is that over time, I just stopped watching broadcast television, relying instead on my voluminous video library and streaming services.
I don’t use an electric kettle because we installed an instant hot water tap at the kitchen sink. Always have 160* F filtered water anytime without the wait for the coffee press or tea.
I discovered electric kettles in a UK hotel. I’ve had them ever since. They’re handy for more than tea. Most US box stores have them for as little as 10 pounds. Yes I googled the exchange rate 😁
It's usually the Italians from Italy who say "thats not real Italian food"! Thanks for educating us, but it's still good 😋
though the US has 9 time zones tv programming occurs by "blocks."
in other words, a tv show that will air simultaneously on several networks mainly affects the eastern and central time zones only. exception is live tv but most people know how to handle that accordingly.
9 in the USA and its territories only 4 in the 50 states.
"It's a good time for the great taste of McDonald's."
"Food, Folks, 'n' Fun"
"Did somebody say McDonald's?"
"I'm lovin' it."
Just to name a few...
Two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame seed bun. Big Mac.... &
Big Mac, Filet of Fish, Quarter Pounder, French fries, Icy Coke, Thick Shakes, Sundays and Apple Pies...
We LOVE Olive Garden! And, yes, best breadsticks ever.
I am Canadian and have an electric kettle. I use it maybe once a month if I decide to make a large pot of tea. Most of the times or one cup I’ll just use the kitchen faucet that gives me boiling water. Which is different from the washing up tap.
I like the jingle. Beda boda bep beeda. Or something like that. 😂
I think it’s cute. :)
I always used a kettle when I was younger.. now we just stick it in the microwave
I'm confused about you being confused about a coffee maker. How do you make coffee in the UK?
based on other things I've seen, British use Instant Coffee, instead of brewing when they make it themselves, probably because they already have a way to heat water.
@@ClintBrubakken Oh yuck! Hopefully their instant coffee tastes better than ours! 🤢
French press or pour over. You need a kettle for that as well. Instant is gross and has less caffeine. Its not good.
Hotels in America only have coffee makers...I use an electric kettle every day but not for tea! I use it to make oatmeal. :)
We ca Ill it a coffe pot instead of a kettle. We use either a coffee pot or a coffee maker. A coffee pot percolates. While, a coffee maker drips. That being said, both heat the water like a kettle.
It really isn't the same thing.
A coffee pot and tea kettle are two different things. The expression the pot calling the kettle black is about teapots and tea kettles, because they are the same thing.
I just have a kettle that sits on my stove top, you might call the range. And I heat it up there. An electric kettle is just another appliance that I’d have to find room for. And quite frankly, the coffee pot is more important!
They call the stove top the “hob.” 🤷🏻♂️
The American label for clothes horse is drying rack DRYING RACK They are usually made of wood and collapsible when sold in the U S
8/7c is for shows being aired in only the eastern and central time zones. They air at the same time, but the clocks in those time zones are an hour off, so the tv station has to say the time zone of the "earlier" show, so the viewers there don't miss it.
Oh, and with regards to the first thing, we do use a brush, even if it's just for rust stains under the rim. We tend to hide the brush in the cabinet under the sink.
Lia is so cute, she looks like a 90's girl, she got this old style.
She’s an “old soul.”
Lol me being a 90s teenager I can totally see that!
Btw how old is Lia?:o