American Couple Reacts: Trying British Foods, Snacks & Drinks for the FIRST TIME! Part 3! 

Hi everyone. As we said in the opening, we mean no disrespect posting this video after the passing of Queen Elizabeth. Many asked that we would post to help offer a distraction in this incredibly sad time. This episode was recorded before her passing. We hope this offers a smile to you. God bless you all, you are all in our thoughts and prayers.

Saying HP is like ketchup is sacrilege 🤣

During World War 2 when food was very very short there was a fear that the lack of vitamin C could lead to health issues such as scurvy. The UK's only real abundant fruit crop, high in Vitamin C, was blackcurrants. It really caught on and became a firm favourite.

As a British man now living in America I miss so many of these snacks

Blackcurrants carry four times the amount of vitamin C as oranges, and double the amount of antioxidants as blueberries. They are a tart fruit and we quite like the tartness to counteract sweet so there is a lot of blackcurrant stuff over here. A lot more artificial sweetner used over here as various Governments try to tax sugar or pressure manufacturers to reduce sugar (which to be fair is not exactly good for us). Taste is a funny old thing, really. We always used to see Hershey's on American shows and it was so sad when we finally got to taste it and to me, it tasted like the smell of vomit. But apparently, if you grow up with it like American kids do, you don't taste that at all.

Pickled Onion Monster Munch are the best crisps in the world. I love Ribena and I think it’s fairly strong, if it tastes watered down to you I definitely don’t wanna drink anything in America lol I think my teeth would fall out immediately. Tayto’s are Irish crisps, prawn cocktail sauce is supposed to be the flavour, not the actual prawn or shrimp itself, I love Walkers Prawn Cocktail crisps but I have a phobia of prawns so have never actually eaten a real prawn cocktail, only the crisps. I only drink Zero sugar fizzy drinks cos I can’t stand too much sugar.

Star Bar was my chocolate bar as a kid in the early 80s, then they stopped producing them for many years, then they brought it back and I was so happy. Still my favourite today 😊

Sausage rolls are so much nicer when the pastry is still hot and flaky from the oven. Your reaction to the horrid pickled onion Monster Munch was hilarious, thank you for making me laugh!

Pickled onion monster munch is amazing!!!

I prefer galaxy chocolate more than cadburys these days because I definitely think cadburys recipe has changed especially the adding of palm oil,less chocolate flavour and more sugary taste so the chocolate doesn’t seem to melt on your tongue the same.

The difference between the colour of your Orange drinks is that the colouring, Tartrazine, is actually banned in the UK as a carcinogen . A lot of our sodas and candies have moved away from natural sugar as our Government puts an extra tax on sugary stuff to try and combat obesity -especially childhood obesity - and Type 2 Diabetes. I have T2D, so most of what you've just eaten is a big " no - no" for me, unfortunately!

Laughed when you tried the Monster Munch! 'Oh God, no!' was exactly what I said when you picked up the packet 😁

HP sauce stands for Houses of Parliament - The picture is on the front of the bottle... 🇺🇸 💞 🇬🇧

haha, Monster Munch is one of the most iconic, favorite crisps over here and I love them. It's crazy how people's tastes are different in the States :)

Really pleased to see you try Ribena, it was invented in our little village. We live in Blackcurrant Drive named in celebration. If you have the cordial version, you can have it stronger.....

It was nice that you put up the tribute at the start, thank you & much respect

Hehehhe! Pickled onion monster munch are amazing!! 😂. Love from UK!! 🇬🇧

Galaxy is called Dove in America. In the UK Dove is a brand of beauty bar/soap.

I think our Queen Elizabeth would have probably liked this, you are tasting British foods, thank you for the respect you have shown at this sad time.❤🇬🇧

Mix mint sauce into the mushy peas. It’s a traditional northern UK bonfire snack.

Thank you for being so considerate and kind during these difficult times thank you from England

Pickled onion Monster Munch are the best! 10 out of 10 every time!

Love this video 😂 I love the onion flavoured things. Prawn cocktail isn’t actually prawn flavour, it’s the flavour of the sauce you have on a prawn cocktail. Star bars have peanuts but they don’t have peanut butter. All flavourings in the UK are natural flavourings and natural colours. No artificial colours or flavours so things might taste weaker to you that actually taste strong to us. Also Britain had a massive cut on sugar and started taxing companies more on sugary things so they started replacing sugar with sweetners. Wagon wheels used to be even bigger when I was a kid, and used to have a tonne of jam. But to reduce sugar they reduced the jam. Everything was better when we were kids LOL

Prawn cocktail chrisps are basically the flavour of Mary Rose sauce, which is the sauce in the 70s prawn cocktails x

Mushy peas and mint sauce is amazing mix together and it’s gorgeous.

Hi Girls, OK I'm with Natasha here. I'm Brit and my choice of chocolate is always Galaxy as it is much creamier, like silk, saying that I only have plain galaxy, none of the extra's yuk! The only other thing that I might occasionally eat are Quavers and sausage rolls but homemade.

You should try the Ribena concentrate which you add water to to march your own strength of flavor also known as squash

Ladies, how can you possibly judge when you are mixing sweet and savoury! Remember too , American products are absolutely full of artificial flavours, colour, sugar and all things evil, most of which are banned in the rest of the world, I am amazed you found something British with artificial flavours! Would just like to add that most of us dont like that rubbish either. !

Loved this video!!! The disclosure was very thoughtful.

HP sauce has tamarind a spice from India a reflection of our historic links with this country.

Yaaay! Yorkshire caviar (mushy peas)

I love Ribena, yep HP is stronger than A1. If you get over to UK have a Greggs Sausage Roll

Such an incredibly honest preface to the reaction. I still feel the loss of my Queen. It hit me hard, and I am proud to say as a 53yo man who served the Queen for 9 years in the British military, I cried when HM left us.

Love these two ladies keep them coming

With the prawn cocktail crisps it tastes more the the sauce that you put on prawn cocktails rather than the prawn. Xxx❤️🇬🇧

Hello Natasha and Debbie, you are both kind and respectful. Thank you for a good video and you did make me smile. (Frances, UK)

Kind of wish I hadn't watched this now as I need to get changed and go to Tesco for some Monster Munch.

We've had a blitz on sugar in Britain, everything is less sweet now, and no-one has really noticed the difference, it started when people noticed 40 grams of sugar in a can of sprite, it only took 30 years for the government to act.

Prawn cocktail is a mixture of tomato sauce and mayonnaise that is used as a dip for prawns :)

The love u have for my country warms my heart thank u ❤❤❤❤

I've always said it's such a shame you guys don't have something like Greggs's over there. They do amazing pasties and buns.

Star bar has peanuts, but it’s news to me that it has peanut butter

I'm from Scotland UK and starbar is my favourite chocolate bar 🍫

Thanks so much for your videos. You guys are really great 😊

Chicken and mushroom pot noodles (green) and the beef and tomato one (brown) are the best. BBQ beef hula hoops are my favourite. And I recommend putting a little bit of mint sauce in the mushy peas.. soooo good 😅 I’m offended you don’t like the pickled onion monster munch 😂 they are the best crisps ever!!!!

Loved both you're t shirt

I'm sitting by concidence with a couple of pickled onions watching your faces and i'm laughing my head off. I needed this laugh after my week, Thanks a lot.

Fox's biscuits are really good especially dunked in your tea. I would have thought your drinks have more sweeteners than the UK, your foods have more sugar.

Your faces when you nibbled the pickled onion Monster Munch made me giggle 🤭. I love them!🇬🇧

Hey guys, loved the video, just gotta say , you should have put the mushy peas on the sausage roll and hp on top! yum yum! 😁

HP sauce is also known as brown sauce. Another brand of Brown sauce is Daddies, but HP is the most popular.

Great video. Just stumbled across this video by chance. You guys are entertaining and have no idea how great your reactions are to British foods and snacks. The snacks you guys selected are actually relatively cheap in comparison to your American varieties. Probably explains why us Brits can eat these snacks so frequently. Your reaction to the pickled onion Monster Munch was excellent - I couldn't stop laughing. Great video upload. Thank you for sharing.

With the hula hoops kids in the uk put them on their fingers like rings and eat them of their fingers.

mushy peas are a side you have with fish and chips AKA fries, not by itself lol.

My gran worked as a lab tech at Mars when they were developing Galaxy. The reason it tastes different is that it has a different crystal structure that they achieved using a double melt process. This was discovered, as many great things are, by accident. Mars did most of their product development work in the UK, out of their factory in Slough. We used to be able to tell it was about to rain because the wind would blow from a particular direction and carry the smell of chocolate over ten miles away.

No disrespect, what is needed is some light relief right now. And who does not like a laugh?

Good morning ladies.

I'm fully with you on Galaxy being way better than Cadbury's! I see a lot of US Reactors really loving it but us British people are actually pretty sad about it's decline in quality and flavour since Mondelez bought the company. Mars and Nestlé are the best out of the "standard" UK chocolate bars for me. Terry's Chocolate Orange is great too, one of my faves.

Lol I knew the monster munch was gonna tear your heads off lol

Watching this and have a star bar ready to eat 😂love your content! Love from Cymru (Wales)

Mushy peas without fish and chips and vinegar is just odd, ribena is meant to be a light not overly sweet soft drink that is aimed at kids so not meant to be overly strong and unhealthy, chicken and mushroom pot noodles are the one.. the chow mein is definitely poor.

I am from the North of England and we call Mushy Peas Manchester Caviar. I personally don't like them. I wouldn't touch a Pot Noodle either. I do however love prawn cocktail crisps. Thank you ladies for another brilliant video.

OMG, mouth watering all the way through this video, bar Pot Noodles and Wagon Wheels. Quavers used to be my favourite snack.

Pickled onion Monster Munch are so tasty and the other 2 flavours too (Roast Beef and the other is Flaming Hot) Mushy peas are great!

Brown sauce doesn’t taste anything like tomato ketchup 🤣

The prawn cocktail crisps are just the flavour of the sauce, not the prawn. Our cocktail sauce is just mayonnaise, ketchup and Worcestershire sauce, but it is more mayonnaise than ketchup.

I'm sat watching this and as soon as you picked up the monster much my mouth started watering 😂 i love them 😂😂

I love the wagon wheels, they also do them without jam

Isnt it weird that us british love all these snacks haha. And when i went to USA i disliked their snacks. I think its more of growing up with snacks rather than mainly the taste

Good thing about sausage rolls, make the sausage meat that YOU like and then wrap and cook…

I loved the Monster Munch “oh god no” 😂

Prawn cocktail is usually the flavour of the prawn cocktail sauce and not prawn itself. That's why it has a slight tomato flavour.

quite a few people now don't eat any Cadbury chocolate ever since kraft bought them out, then changed the recipe, me being one of them.

Tayto is northern Irish but you must try Tayto cheese &onion on white bread and butter

Mushy Peas are also eaten with warm Pork Pie and HP Sauce.

Yes it is the same peas that are used for split pea soup. Here we make it with ham or with pork ribs cooked in the soup. Then take the meat off the ribs (usually just falls off during the cooking)

I just wanted to say the way American has covered this and responded has been truly remarkable. Never in my life would I have expected such positive media coverage, US flags at half-mast on Gov buildings, and other key buildings lit up in the the Union Jack flag colours. I guess it really is true that during sad times is when you really get to see who your friends are. RIP QE II. Long live the King.

You wil be pleased to know that A1 sauce is also originally British too, from the 1830's. Still availabe here but not as common as a few decades ago? "Split pea soup", yes we have pea & ham soup, not hugely popular here anymore. Probably more of a German thing, for the US, most traditional restauants over there will serve it but with smoked mettwurst rather than ham.

HP sauce is great with mashed potatoes. Mushy peas are normally made from marrowfat peas which are harvested after being left for longer in the field and are less popular than other types of pea.

god bless you both you have put a smile on my face thank you after the loss of our queen xxx

Ribena - used to be all I'd drink as a child. Changed in recent years due to law around sugar content. Used to contain a LOT more sugar and no sweeteners. I'm not a fan of the change in taste since then.

Blackcurrant production in the United States is relatively limited. The blackcurrant (Ribes nigrum) was introduced by English settlers at the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1629 and was cultivated on some scale, particularly in New York. The plant acts as a host for the white pine blister rust that threatened the timber industry. In 1911, the federal government banned the cultivation, sale, and transport of blackcurrants to protect the white pine. Government programs systematically destroyed blackcurrant plants by chemical spraying. The federal ban was lifted in 1966, though many states maintained their own bans. Research showed that blackcurrants could be safely grown some distance from white pines and this, together with the development of rust-immune varieties and new fungicides, led to most states lifting their bans by 2003. Blackcurrants are now grown commercially in the Northeastern United States and the Pacific Northwest. Because of the long period of restrictions, blackcurrants are not popular in the United States, and one researcher has estimated that only 0.1% of Americans have eaten one.

Try blackcurrant Jam you might like that. It goes well on toast or you can put it on scones with cream. It also makes a great filling in a sponge cake with the blackcurrant jam and a layer of cream.

This is the most respectful video of British foods I’ve seen. I like your content. I’m in florida for two weeks is there any thing I should try that anyone recommends?

You need to dunk the vienesse biscuits in a cup of English breakfast tea x

No disrespect at all! Keep Calm and Carry On. Yes we've had a hammer blow but life goes on. ☺❤👍

Just watched this for a first time, and your faces after eating the pickled onion monster munch was hilarious.

Thanks ladies 😊

Artifical sweetners is not good for you as they are chemicals but neither is too much sugar, over time it can take a toll on the body's natural insulin, which can lead to type 2 diabetes, also obesity and heart disease, so neither options are that healthy tbh, artificial colors and flavors are chemicals also and are not good. if only these type of drinks had just natural sugar and flavor from fruits without more being added, might not be as sweet but would be better for you imo.

If you ever come to the UK there are So so many things you need to experience. i for one would welcome you here

Yep, Pot Noodles are ghastly. :D I'm from the UK myself and your opinions on the various items were very close to my own.

Thank both

My favourite bit about this video was both of your faces eating the monster munch. 😂 Thank you for that giggle. Our general flavours are quite mild compared to yours, I found out when I visited the US. In the north of England, they eat meat and potato pie (very nice on its own, but then they put beetroot and mushy peas with it) each region has its own speciality which is weird to outsider. Jeez us Scot’s have the worst - HAGGIS 🤢 the only time I’ve ever been able to eat a tiny wee bit, is when it was coated in a whiskey and butter sauce. What about gingerbread? Do you guys have gingerbread (cake)? Again the north of England, Lake District (Grasmere to be precise) is best known for this. Hobnobs? With or without chocolate. It’s an oat biscuit, best with a cup of tea or coffee. Hot Heinz baked beans on toast, with brown sauce 😋 it’s a perfect winter evening quick fix dinner if you can’t be bothered cooking. Must be Heinz baked beans though, they are very different to your baked beans. I’m sure loads of suggestions including what I have suggested will have already come to you. Our regional foods are either steeped in history and may be modern dishes in primitive form or created they may have been created out of necessity, ie rationing after wwII. On top of that all our individual palettes are different. Everybody is different. You can’t help liking what you like and not liking what you don’t. ❤ yet another great video, thanks guys. 😘

Morning ladies, no disrespect at all, we all need a laugh and giggle at the moment, so Thankyou xx Where sausage rolls are concerned everyone raves about a Greg’s sausage rolls here, Greg’s is a nation wide sausage roll shop that have very recently branched out into a clothing line in a clothes store, hats, T-shirts bags etc, so funny 🤣 I’ve not had a pot noodle in years, never really a massive fan, but I had naked noodles recently and they were pretty good. Ahhh, don’t get me started on Monster munch🤣, the crisps were huge when I was little now they are tiny in a massive bag! Yes, pickled onion 😳😳 beef ones are good to try! What a fun video, thankyou ladies! Xx

Branston pickle is nice with the sausage roll

Thank you for the comment about the Queen, that was very nice, if you have a sausage roll you guys would love a greggs sausage roll, there the best. But try the mushy peas with the sausage roll because they go well together and if you can get hold of any mint sauce put abit of that on with the sausage roll and mushy peas

Morning

Hi girls.... The sausage rolls are tastier when they are warmed in the oven and you can also eat the mushy peas with it. Actually laughed out loud with your reaction to the pot noodle.... I honestly don't think anyone really likes them even though they are eaten here lol. Monster munch pickled onion are a British Institution they are my absolute favourite I would beg steal and borrow for a bag lol

When are you two going to come over and visit us in person? There are so many foods you need to try and you need to be here to try them.

I've just put on 1/2stone just watching that!! 🤣❤️🤩