7 Things Brits Do That Americans DON'T (UK vs. USA) 

As a Brit I wouldn’t leave meat out of the fridge. Gross!

You do meet some very odd Brits if you have concluded that we leave meat un-refrigerated.Are you finding some remote tribes of ancient picts & celts to provide your info?

XOXO - a brit - "why did i get a kiss and a stock cube?"

Never put "x" when texting your boss. Unless you have a particularly affectionate relationship. x 😂

Literally EVERYONE does Christmas Crackers at Xmas (Christmas)! There's always a hat, a joke + a little small game inside of one!

I'm a Brit. Nobody leaves meat out.

Wow, I was really surprised that Americans don’t put kisses at the end of messages. I thought it was just something everyone did 😂

Aww bless they're totally "stumped" by Cricket :) .

I have literally no idea what you're talking about concerning leaving meat out of the fridge.

You cure meat as a way of preserving it without refrigeration, it's kind of the point - most European countries have a proud history of cured meats

Most kids in schoolyards are playing football (soccer) not cricket

“X” isn’t a new thing that’s come with the digital age. It’s always been done - for things such as writing birthday or Christmas cards. It is a kiss. So it’s purely informal. A straight guy would never send another man an “X”. Nor would they ever send one to any other person - other than their girlfriend, wife or their very young children. It would be inappropriate. However women do send it to each other. And usually to close male friends. However you have to be careful - because as an adult - sending it to another adult can be seen as quite an intimate sign.

Cricket is easy: You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game

Cheese is meant to be eaten at room temperature, and cured meats have undergone a preservation process (smoking, drying etc) so it's perfectly safe to leave them out of the fridge.

"we've never heard of Eurovision..." lucky you

X = Kiss XXX = Lots of kisses XXXXXXX = Lots & lots of kisses Always an odd number. Even numbers of Xs are just plain weird.

Beans on toast is the British equivalent of grilled cheese sandwich . Quick, easy, can be eaten as any meal or a big snack. Probably the first thing you learn to “cook” as a kid and very nostalgic.

Eurovision equals European politics set to music!

Salami, Chorizo, Cured meat of ANY kind can be found hanging by strings from the ceilings all over Europe. The key is in the word 'cured' or even 'smoked'. Before refrigeration many peoples used this method to preserve meat. As for Steaks, I would keep them in the fridge (under refrigeration) but I prefer to cook them when the outside is no longer Bright Red, or indeed Red at all. Aged Meat is a far better flavour. Of course you don't do this with Chicken unless you want to die. With Game Birds like Pheasant and Grouse, some people 'hang them dead' until the first maggot appears...I don't go that far but it is also better Aged. Aged meat in the UK sells at premium prices.

Cricket - A group of gentlemen, stand in a field, on a sunny day, waiting for something to happen...

Who leaves meat and cheese just lying about out of the fridge? I have never ever encountered anyone doing this deliberately in my 33 years. Madness.

growing up near London when I was a kid we'd post one of the younger children on the turn in our road to watch out for cars and all of us (my siblings and all the other kids that lived there) would play cricket on the road until we heard that kid yell 'CAR!' - then we'd grab our stuff and run for our lives. when i told a friend from Iowa that she said 'playing cricket in the street' sounded 'Victorian'... it was in 2005ish

You seem to forget that meats like salami are dry cured anyway. They’re just hung up to dry out and there is very little moisture left in them to facilitate bacterial development. A refrigerator only inhibits bacterial growth, but a few hours isn’t going to make a lot of difference. My grandmother told me how, on the mill she grew up in, they’d slaughter a pig for the winter, and would go to the larder to cut off what they needed for dinner. If a rat had got to it and nibbled at some, they just trimmed that bit off. I’m still the same with cheese; if it gets some mound on it, just trim it off, it’s fine underneath.

Cricket is probably the most common sport after football and rugby. Don't worry about not understanding it, half of our own population doesn't really fully get it either!

The x thing I do to most people but no one official like bosses, or professionals lol or some one you hate lol

Also: 200g of cheese a day?? These are rookie numbers. You must up your game...

We dont generally play cricket at school. More likely to play Rounders. That is what baseball is more related too. Rounders is seen as more of a childrens game though probably wont play it once you leave primary school

x means kiss.The more x's the more you love the person. we usually endure cooler temperatures in the U.K. so food can be left out and not be incubating naughty bacteria.Also if you think about it,cheese was always a means of preserving your left over milk in a form where it can still be consumed later on. As for christmas crackers, the jokes are really awful and cringe worthy.We like it that way.We love our puns,or play on words.

"The world has turned into Las Vegas. Nobody works. Everyone loses money, they drink at any time of the day. And nobody knows what day of the week is today."

Okay, which one of you weirdos has been leaving your meat out all day?? 😂 giving us all a bad name lol

Loving your videos and congrats on passing 10,000 subs x 😉

The blazing saddles bean scene was one of the many bean related highlights of my youth.

From Australia: Cricket also links some English influenced countries around the world. In the long form of test cricket is is very subtle and strategic.

The look and raised eyebrow from Grace at 1:59 as she contemplated the hand movements being demonstrated had me in stiches.

🤪 Never have I heard the paper crowns in Christmas crackers compared with the Romans!!

I'm totally binge-watching your videos, you guys are great! Eurovision was awesome before politics stepped in. We won many times way back when, yet after the voting became political, we now always lose, badly. But it has to be watched for Graham Norton's commentary-it's always hilarious! XOXO is what is printed on the side of our most famous stock cubes, I never knew what the O's were till I watched some American films :) I had a lot of foreign students in my classes at uni, and when they didn't use an x at first I thought they didn't like me! I had no idea it was a British thing! Beans on toast is my staple. It has to be heinz baked beans hot, with hot toast and butter, I can't imagine it any other way. Plus it's not just a breakfast food, it's an anytime food! xxx

Much as I love you guys, I have to reclaim the dad joke crown for the UK by directing you towards Tim Vine, Tommy Cooper - and Bob Monkhouse, who was hired as a gag writer by Bob Hope, no less!

Just before WW1 the USA was on the verge of being admitted to international test cricket. The USA's leading club (the equivalent of the MCC) was the Philadelphia Club, who toured internationally. The war stopped all that, and it never recovered.

Nearly everybody pulls Christmas crackers at Christmas. We do it at school,at work ,at parties and at Christmas dinner

A man told his doctor he had a "wee cough" The doctor asked if he had anything planned for it.

I do the x' to those I'm closest to or I'll start using it if that person starts sending them to me. It varies from person to person. Some people don't like doing it so I wouldn't send it someone to who I thought wouldn't send it.

As you are in France you must have come across the word "chambre" meaning "room". When this translates to Britain it is spelt the same but pronounced "chambray" and it means to leave food and drink out to achieve room temperature. Why? because it tastes better that way, cold food can numb your taste buds; jelly in chambred pies is better and wine superb. Hope that helps. Don't worry about bacteria - you need most of them.

In 92, I was travelling in Florida and stopped in a town (forgot which one) and heard cheering. Investigated and found, 2local teams playing cricket. It was so gentlemanly as well. They stopped for tea, put on by the wives. As I said can't remember the town as drove through that many towns, while touring.

Love a good Eurovision party - if it's themed. you're generally assigned a country. You then have to dress accordingly and bring a plate of food that represents it!

Remember cured meat is made by hanging up in a cellar, not in a fridge, it was a way of preserving meat before fridges, so it's fine out for a while - maybe not in the sun! ^oo^

Beans beans good for the heart more you the more you fart!!! 😂😂😂

The way we have always done it is we have the Xmas crackers on the table, we eat the starter (which is usually melon and whatever other fruit is in the house), then we pull the Xmas cracker while we wait for the food to be dished out or finish cooking. The cracker has a toy(lots of times mini versions of things like a mini spyglass), joke and paper crown. When pulling the cracker it splits into 2 halves whoever has the biggest half get the stuff inside. Then we have the main meal consisting of Yorkshire puds, LOTS OF roasties, turkey, pigs in blankets, roast veg ect and then we have dessert (usually a choice of 2 : roulade and a Xmas pudding). By this time it is usually the 3pm for the queen's speech and after that we have a cheese board with gammon, grapes, crackers, crisps and dips. And to finish it all of an after eight mint.

My friends from Poole, Dorset took me to Bath fr the day to see their son and his family. The Roman baths were amazing as were the terraced gardens down by the river. I really got immersed in British things as there is nothing like living in their home. Ray, a retired RN Officer, loved his comfortable chair by a small fire in the evening. Pam loved English bowling and snookers. They had both traveled over the years and could explain many things from different perspectives. They are both gone now, but they took me many places only a local would know. Many of your comments brings back memories.

Talking about the cooked meats, the point I think you have missed, the meats you were specifically talking about were CURED meats . The have been smoked, so bacteria and mould find it very difficult to grow on them. Smoking was used as a preservative for hundreds of years, long before we had refrigeration. People would keep their meat edible, all winter long by smoking it.

Cricket used to be played extensively in the States. English counties used to tour there, right up to the 1920s. The first international cricket match was USA vs Canada.

I've learnt so much..previously I thought an 'x' in communications was simply a celebration of Christina Aguilera...like: What would Xtina do?...

Eurovision’s been cancelled this year and I’m absolutely gutted

Played cricket every year since starting school as well as rounders. Rounders is another classic game but it’s a mix of baseball (the bat is same but smeller and always wooden) and cricket( there no stumps and u have to run around like 6 posts to get a full rounder)

It’s hilarious how in relationships people gradually increase the number of kisses until it gets ridiculous but if you don’t put the “correct” number of kisses it suggests something is wrong 😅

There’s all sorts of tacit etiquette about adding kisses at the end of a message. As a general rule it is used to signify that you are friends rather than acquaintances. You wouldn’t normally add them to official or work correspondence (though some people do!). There are also grey areas eg adding kisses in a text to a friend’s partner could be construed as flirting. Generally tho it’s pretty innocent - like a peck on the cheek on greeting.

I'm from England and literally I've never played cricket

As a brit, seeing them open the Christmas Crackers wrong feels like an illegal action 😂

Do Americans do mother in law jokes. May I recommend viewing Les Dawson a British comic who done some good one and it was said that he and mother in law got on well together.

Literally just finished texting my boss with two xx at the end of the message as you were talking about that very topic.

There's a Compton Cricket Club in Los Angeles. Very cool, they wear the England football shirt as their kit.

I use x all the time, it’s become a bit like punctuation for me, so I have to remember to not send it to professionals or strangers, unless the stranger uses it first, lol! I have certain friends that I don’t use them for coz they don’t like it! The meat and cheese thing, I always put it in the fridge. Butter I do leave so you can spread it! X

When you say leaving meat out of the fridge I'm guessing you were in a delicatessen. If its the meat I'm thinking off its called jambon and its an air dried meat from Spain. This typically has no moisture in it and can stay in the kitchen for weeks

Even long before cellphones and txting was invented, when couples used to send letters to each other (hand written) they would usually put x’s at the end to denote kisses. X’s usually denoted kisses and o’s usually denoted hugs, so to see xoxoxo at the end of a hand written letter usually meant kiss hug, kiss hug, kiss hug etc. this practise naturally carried over to txting when communication became more digital.

Pretty much everyone has Christmas crackers. A huge percentage of photos taken at Christmas are pictures of someone’s Gran asleep in a chair with a silly hat on ( I always call them hats although they are usually crown shaped) . Usually a plastic toy or puzzle and a joke. The jokes are uniformly awful and that’s part of the fun. There is a range of crackers from the very basic to make your own to expensive dinner party ones that have a classier gift and a more elaborate hat. You can’t carry them on aircraft as they contain explosive. Really enjoy your videos 👍

Say 'herb' correctly... Oh, and 'oregano'.

Beans on toast is a quick easy and CHEAP meal for children, either for breakfast or when coming home from school

Everyone does Christmas crackers at Christmas and sometimes boxing day too. It's got a paper crown, a joke or two and a little trinket like a toy or bottle opener or trick or keyring, things like that

Watching cricket on a traditional village green on a hot summers day with a pub to hand is one of the finest ways to get plastered 😃

Eurovision is the best! It’s the campest musical event on the planet.It’s such a shame it’s not taking place this year. I would avoid sending a message to your boss ending in ‘x’.😀 I end all messages to close friends and family with ‘x’, sometimes ‘xxx’.

Electricity in the UK! (For your info and not directly tagged to this vlog). Plug sockets(outlets) have three holes - the bottom two are where the 'electric' is. The top one is the Earth connection - a safety connection in case of a fault. If you look at a socket straight on, you'll see the bottom two holes are shielded by a plastic shutter (so children, or stupid adults can't poke anything into the live electric parts). The plug itself has three pins. The top pin is longer. As the top pin goes into the socket it raises the protective shutter so the bottom two pins can contact the live electricity as they go in. The bottom pins are half covered in, usually, black insulation so a really stupid person won't touch any live parts if the plug is only half in or out of the socket. Additionally, the plug has an internal replaceable fuse, rated say 3amps for a table lamp, or 13amps for a toaster, as protection from faulty wiring, power surge or overloading. Who would use a system with open electrical outlets you can poke a screwdriver in, and an un-fused un-earthed plug?? Madness!! Now, the bathroom issue! NO sockets in bathrooms, so idiots can't plug anything connected to the mains electricity in the room with a huge tub of water in it! Soaking in the bath - toast in the toaster - knock toaster into bath - kill yourself! Likewise, light switches have to either be outside the room near the door, or operated by a switch on the ceiling with a long cord - so your sopping wet hands on getting out of the bath won't deluge the light switch with water and kill you! Your vlogs are really interesting, keep up the good work!

Christmas crackers normally consist of jokes, sometimes a puzzle or riddle on paper, toy/small object and a paper crown. Some get placed on the Christmas tree for decoration leading up to the day and also opened on new year's as well.

Ideally a Christmas cracker contains a paper hat, a rubbish gift and a cheesy "dad joke". Ubiquitous.

Americans write "xoxo", until they realise in spanish that's pronounced "chocho" which is a slang word for... Well, female genitalia...

X for a kiss pre-dates all the text stuff. I remember my mum putting Xs in Xmas and birthday cards and this was decades before mobile phones even existed. This is a very, very old habit.

In Australia we pretty much do the same as the English Christmas with the roast meats and steamed puddings, but it’s blazing hot as it’s the middle of summer. We love to add a lot of fresh seafood to the table too.

The first ever cricket match between two countries was played between USA and Canada on 24-26 September 1844 at St George's Cricket Club in New York

X’s at the end of a text, email, social media comment should be reserved for people you are very close to, love, care for. I put 3 x’s on most of my messages 😘😘😘

I’m from London and I’d almost always put an x on the ends of my messages even to my boss or coworkers but I know I work in a rather casual setting. And normally 1 or 2 to friends xx

Love the video

Some people say that cricket is a metaphorical / symbolic representation of a castle being besieged by enemy forces. The wicket (the three sticks with the thingy across the top) is the castle; the bowler is the enemy cannon shooting at it; the batsman is the defender.

I always put an X at the end of a text to a friend of the opposite sex. 2 xx if we’re close. You should always serve cheese at room temperature at a dinner party and never serve it straight from the fridge. Bye Grace xx

In my experience I would use the ‘x’ as a sign of affection. I’d never send a male friend an x, if I had a very close female friend I might. But generally they’re reserved for loved one, be that family, who normally get one or two x’s, else a romantic interest who may often get two or more x’s. I find it’s commonplace for couples to always send at least two X’s to each other. Tho some people do find it a bit irritating having to put an x on every message, a friend once told me (quite flippantly) that she wouldn’t want a needy boyfriend who felt he required an x after every message

The ultimate Christmas fight - what colour paper crown do you get. As a kid me and my brother fought for the purple one every Christmas 😂

We always have crackers on Christmas.and the jokes are really bad but so bad they are funny x

The cheese thing. Especially hard cheeses like Red Leicester. Ideally, this needs to 'sweat' before eating to get the full flavour of the cheese.

I would never leave uncured meat out.

Everybody without exception has a cracker at Christmas, they always have a joke and a hat and a small gift or toy. Some of the most common things are mini screwdrivers, packs of playing cards, bottle stoppers, mini sewing kits etc, the children’s ones have small toys. You can also buy kits to make your own so you can put your own gifts in them. As for Xs the number depends on how well you know and like the person, you should always match the amount sent to you or add more. They are only used in casual texts to friends and family. You wouldn’t send a kiss to your boss. Next time you visit you should go to cheddar gorge if you want to learn more about cheese.

I *LOVE* watching Eurovision. Drink every time you hear Graham Norton make a sarcastic comment and you'll be plastered before it's halfway through. So funny. Love it.

Never heard of XOXO. You learn something new every day. Triple "XXX" meaning kiss kiss kiss is usually reserved for someone you love. It could be your partner ... or your granny. One "X" or two "XX" is for a friend. No "X" is for the taxman.

You dont have beans on toast😨your missing out

cricket in baseball terms, 2 teams, the one at bat has 2 batters on field. against 1 catcher and 1 bowler/ pitcher, 9 fielders, pitcher has a limited amount of pitches he's allowed to throw, once the limit is reached the pitcher and fielder swap places. batting is done from the middle of the playing field, to score the batter hit the ball in any direction the batters then run between the 2 wickets/ bases and continue to run between the bases until the ball returns to either the pitcher or catcher, if the ball goes over the edge of the field either by rolling or flying over that is automatic points. to get a batter out you have to either catch the ball in the air or hit the base/wickets with the ball before the batter can reach it. to end a teams at bat you have to get out at least 10 of the 11 batters. there are different versions of cricket that limit how long a match/ game can be played.

i was at first confused when you said about the meat and cheese, but if we are having a buffet, or guests round, we usually leave the cheese and crackers out until the evening so we can snack on it all through the day. and yes christmas crackers are a must

I have never put an X at the end of a message, but then I'm not a teenage girl.

BEANS BEANS, GOOD FOR THE HEART. BEANS BEANS MAKE YOU FART. THE MORE YOU FART, THE BETTER YOU FEEL. SO EAT BEANS EVERY MEAL.

When different kind of salts are added to meat to preserve it, it doesn't need to be stored in the fridge. The meat wil progressively cure and dry up. The only reason to keep it in the fridge is to stop the drying and keep the level where you like it. But that's only for cured meat. For regular cooked dish with meat, american rules are pretty good. Maybe we tend to go a little bit further than you but it's overall the same concensus.

Really fun video. As regard putting an 'x' on a message, that is not something I would commonly do as I associate it with meaning love. So really, only to my wife or children (and then I think my son might not appreciate that from his dad). I know other people use it to mean affection or friendship. I think the practise of putting it at the end of messages may only really have come about in the affection or friendliness mode when mobile phone text messages became a thing. Christmas crackers are very commonplace. They have a small explosive charge in them so bang when pulled. They usually contain a paper crown, a gift (tiny pack of cards, nail file, little game, a magic trick or some such), a bad joke (dad jokes really) and maybe a fun fact or riddle. It's traditional to wear the crowns while eating your Christmas dinner.

You forgot to mention pantomimes,unique to the uk

Leaving meat out of the fridge. OK Large cuts of things like beef and game are left to age at a cool room temperature for weeks. It's what gives it flavour. The outside may dry out and, even, get a little mould on it but it doesn't affect the inside. Some meats, like bacon and ham - the ones that are done properly, not just by adding flavoured chemicals, are cured. It is the traditional way to preserve meat from the days before refrigeration. Go to a Spanish or Italian bar and see hand that are hung from the ceiling for months before eating. Pies, like pork pies, for example, are traditionally cooked in a hot water pastry that lasts a long time. During cooking, any bacteria in the meat is killed. The pie is then filled with a jelly that makes an airtight seal around the meat. They can be left unrefrigerated for a couple of days for the smaller ones, but much longer for the big ones. Other types of pies like, for example, steak and kidney, have a pastry that is less robust, but, again, the meat will have been cooked and any bacteria inside will have been destroyed. In bakeries they will be displayed unrefrigerated, but you will be expected to eat them on the day they were made or the following day at the latest. Cheese. Processed cheese goes off quickly in it's not kept in a fridge. But think about what traditional cheese is and how it's made. Essentially it's milk that's gone bad. That's why it smells. The bacteriaand mould in traditional cheeses are edible. They colonise the cheese and prevent harmful bacteria penetrating the block of cheese. A decent Stilton, for example, will have been aged, unrefrigerated for a good couple of months before it even reaches the store. Top tip with cheese. If an unwanted mould begins to bloom on the outside, just cut the outside off the block. The inside will be fine. In the UK, we tend to keep our fresh food shops a little cooler than in the USA. Also, we rarely have very hot weather, so refrigeration is not always essential. Don't get me started on eggs....! xx

Cricket simplified : a guy throws a ball toward 3 posts if it hits them he gets a point. There’s a guy with a bat he will hit the ball to stop it from hitting the posts. When the ball is in the field like in baseball you run as far as possible before someone gets it back to the person throwing the ball

Cricket. Explained as a modification of baseball. First, the pitcher's mound and the plate become two ends of the 'pitch', each of them is called the 'crease';'the ball is 'bowled' rather than 'pitched' and each bowl of the ball is called a 'ball'; every six balls the players move so that crease that was mound and the crease that was the plate are reversed. The batters run from crease to crease instead of round a square. One big difference is that there are two batters (batsmen) on the field at the same time. On each crease are three posts sticking out of the ground about thigh-high - the 'wicket'; on top between posts one and two, and two and three are balanced a couple of small wood cylinders called the bails. Anything that requires a player to hit the wicket requires him to hit it hard enough to knock at least one of the bails off (like a high-jump bar being knocked off the posts). Getting the batter off the field can be achieved in a number of ways: the pitcher can hit the wicket with his pitch; catches are an 'out' just like in baseball; hitting the wicket with the ball while the batters are running between the creases is out in the same way as the ball being caught by a man on base in baseball - this is called being 'run out'; there is also 'LBW', or 'leg before wicket', which occurs after the bowl has struck the batsman's leg and involves the umpire determining whether the ball, if it had not struck the leg, would have hit the wicket. In other words, batsman can't stick their leg in the way to stop the ball hitting the wicket - they have to use the bat. Electronic systems are now used to determine whether the umpire was right if one of the teams challenges the decision (there are only a limited number of challenges, like line challenges in tennis.) Scoring: the two batsmen running from crease to crease is one run; they can keep doing this and scoring one run each time, until they decide that the danger of being run out requires them to stay in the crease they are at. If the ball crosses the boundary line after being hit by the batter, that's 4 runs; if it crosses the boundary line before touching the ground that's six runs. A team is eleven people; once ten of the eleven have been ruled 'out' then that 'innings' is over; the players leave the pitch and swap roles just like in baseball. There are strict rules to prevent the bowler from 'throwing' the ball: the bowling arm must be straight - no cocking the elbow - and this is why bowling is technically more difficult than pitching, although good pitching requires just as much skill and craft as good bowling. The bowlers can run up to the crease to deliver the bowl, but they don't have to. Some bowlers rely more on the speed of the ball, others use techniques to move the ball through the air or off the ground - 99.9% of bowls involve one bounce of the ball between the creases. That's a lot of text but maybe some Americans might find it useful.