American Reacts to The World's Oldest Border 

Deliciously real, you mean; deep-fried Mars Bars are amazing! I have a friend who originally comes from a little town near Aberdeen whose main claim to fame is that it was apparently the place where the deep-fried Mars Bar was invented.

English people can't afford food.

The stereotype is so prevalent that in Avengers: Infinity War, while in Scotland, Wanda and Vision pass a takeaway with a sign in the window that says "we will deep fry your kebab" 🤣

I went to a chippy in Malaig where they managed to batter and deep fry the mushy peas. Playing up to stereotypes? Yes! A little bit of culinary genius? Also yes!

They didn't mind taking our fried chicken to the America's so it's not all bad, I guess.

I actually had to go back and check Jay didnt mispronounce it.

It's also a bridge as it crosses the River Tweed. It's the Royal Border Bridge, though it is not actually on the border! The Anglo-Scottish border was the river there until 1482.

JJ would definitely enjoy some research into this story. Horrible and also bizarre.

@@MsClaudz even back before the war with Ukraine russia was threatening us with nukes for dare trying to accuse russia of using a nerve agent novichok when its was actually proven in the test results

Totally accidental, they just travelled thousands of miles to visit the cathedral.

@@dyent I hear the steeple is 123 meters high 🧐

Also Portadown is down the road😂

your not the police sgt (retired ) ?

@@highpath4776 No I am not that poor guy.

Vik means bay in old Norse.

Fun fact 2: in Britain, we normally say River X, not X River, with (of course) one or two exceptions. So it is the River Tweed, or possibly just the Tweed.

​@@AnnabelSmythWhat were the exceptions you were thinking of or were you just covering yourself?😊 I can't think of any. Some smaller rivers use the words "water", "beck" or "burn" after the name e.g. Teviot Water, Blackadder Water, Pandon Burn.

The form "upon" is used in the formal names of some towns and cities e.g. Newcastle-upon-Tyne" (the same with Berwick too).

@@MrBulky992 I was thinking of London River.

​@@AnnabelSmythI have never heard of "London River". I googled it and it came up with the name of a female performer in films of an erotic nature!😂 The river which flows through London, UK, is the River Thames, if that is what you had in mind. Is there a river of this name elsewhere in the UK?

It has a very tall spire

True. It was used to control foot traffic in the north of england and the south of Scotland.

Except that it wasn't Scotland because the Scots did not invade Caledonia and the Angles, Saxons and Jutes settle in what became England until after the Romans had left. It was just a geographical convenience to put the wall there, making use of the Great Whin Sill, the River Tyne and the Solway Firth.

It was formed as a cut off point to what is now known as England and Scotland.

​@@union310It's when we start using names like "England" and "Scotland" in this context that people get the wrong idea. Angle invaders/settlers from across the North Sea and Scoti from Ireland did not arrive for another 3 or more centuries and, when they did, this was not their border at any time in history. I wish we could simply say that Hadrian's Wall was there to divide the northern and south parts of the island of Great Britain rather than bringing in anachronous elements from later ages.

@@MrBulky992 But you would still be wrong as the centre of Britain is Haltwhistle and that is away from the border wall.

Don't tell Reform UK! They'll go apeshit.

Indeed! And anyway, people seem to forget that it was the Scottish King James VI who took the English throne and not the other way around. He was also the architect of Great Britain, although it was his great-granddaughter who finally completed his planned union.

​@ffotograffydd James VI didn't take the English throne he was asked to become the king as Elizabeth I died childless and had no heir and it was done to prevent a civil war from breaking out over the throne. It did become the UK for another 104 years

The Antonine wall was covered in JJLAs Hadrian's wall video.

More like Berrick, for pronunciation

Deep fried Mars Bar is English, not Scottish. If you want a few English stereotypes I would pick their enjoyment of stabbing kids while snacking on jellied eels. Also, Haggis was found in England before Scotland. It's a variation of a middle Eastern dish, brought back from England's colonisations and trade endeavours.

haggis originated in England not Scotland

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It's an English thing, like stabbing English kids. Is there anything English people won't lie about.

Yes, there has. Plenty of them.

Yes there has - the Anglo Saxons.

​@@jackdubz4247 No, there hasn't. The Saxons and then the Normans were not from England. Henry VIII was a descendant of Celt Normans. The "English" monarchy died out in 1603. The English Crown and Royal Jewels were melted down and destroyed by Cromwell.

"England" takes its name from the Angles. There was no "England" before the Angles, even as an idea. The Venerable Bede wrote "An Ecclesiastical History of the *English* Church and People" in the early 8th century so, by that time, the concept of English, referring to Angles, Saxons and Jutes, as evidenced by the contebts of Bede's book had become established. If we accept the view of history which says the indigenois Brythonic people of the area were slaughtered or chased out toWales, Cornwall, Brittany etc., the invaders/settlers of Germanic invaders remaining were the English. If you believe the Celtic people were absorbed by the Anglo-Saxons through intermarriage and peaceful coexistence, they too became English by adopting the customs of the English. The Kingdom of England came into existence in 927 and was ruled by English kings from the dynasty of the former rulers of Wessex until 1015 when there was a Danish invasion. Every king after the restoration of the English line in 1042, with the exception of except William the Conqueror, had English blood. Henry II's ancestors included Edmund II Ironside, Aethelred II the Unready, Edgar the Peaceful (crowned in 973) and Edmund, brother of the first King of England, Aethelstan. Henry VIII's grandmother, Elizabeth Woodville, was English as was the mother of Mary II and Queen Anne.

@@MrBulky992 Agreed 💯

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Oooooooh! I see. I bet that’s tasty! I wouldn’t have expected fried Mars Bars to be a thing there. I know fried candy bars are a big thing in Texas.

@@JJLAReacts I've never tried them but my brother liked them.

Jeezo what part Scotland were you brought up in?

@@jmillar71110 Not far from Aberfeldy. In central Scotland near Loch Tay.

@@irene3196 Whisky gets its colour from the Oak barrels it is matured in. Distilled whisky is actually clear before going into the barrels. (Highlander here.)

@@daveffs1935 I'm in Fife right on the coast and only ever had brown water if there was a burst pipe lol

I say brown, but it was pretty clear,, just had a light sort of tan colour to it. Loch Tay has the same colour water so it might have been from there, I have no clue TBH@@jmillar71110

They deep fry them in England too, mostly because that is where it started.

Still does

The reason Scottish tap water is better, is due to the lack of chalky mineral deposits in the majority of Scotland. Tap Water in the SE of England is particularly bad for this (but still safe to drink).

I've tried tap water in London and it was disgusting and warm, this was in 1990 though, maybe they got their act together idk.

England's tap water is amongst the worst and dirtiest in Europe. Stop lying! Also, England's tap water is not one combined entity. It is several, failing, private operations.

For now, but the way things are going it’s not guaranteed.

I imagine its because people like symmetry so they took it from the top and went down and streamline it for it to look nice as they took it apart **shrug**

A Highland what? I've never seen a cow anywhere in Scotland.

@@irene3196 Why would I be "kidding." Scotland's Highlands have coos, not cows. 😉 (Coo is not slang, or the result of an accent, it's the appropriate Scots word)

more to do with the fact that the Northern Ireland flag contains the crown

I think the one you're thinking of is plane to see ...

I can think of at least three.

Prestwick ,Lerwick, Wick ,Herdwick ( sheep).

​@@auldfouter8661They're not all English, though, are they?

@@MrBulky992 They're English language place names.

He was saying BЯЯЯ-wick.

Unfortunately _(and I appreciate what you are trying to explain),_ but mentioning Warwick Davis, _(a very British actor who probably means nothing to an American - even if he was in Star Wars)_ it doesn't actually mean anything _(especially if they don't know how it's really pronounced and get it wrong anyway!)_ - Just saying! 🤔

I can’t believe QI spouted that nonsense. It’s apocryphal about Berwick being officially at war with Russia until the 1960s.

Officially we all have 'God save the King/Queen' as our UK anthem but at certain events, mainly in sports, each country uses its 'local' anthem to differentiate between countries in the same nation.

I read that the UK has no official national anthem. Are any of the others official? I think there has to be a law passed to make things official e.g. the union jack is the official flag of the UK because there is a law to say so. "Flower of Scotland" is fairly recent. When I was young, it was either "Scotland the Brave" (used at the Commonwealth Games) or "Scots wha' hae wi' Wallace bled". Does Northern Ireland have an official national anthem? Surely not "Danny Boy"?

Scotland doesn't have a national anthem. It has a variation of tunes that Scots support being used in place of an official one. Flower Of Scotland being the most popular.

no, NI does not have a national anthem but they do use the English song Danny Boy at sporting events@@MrBulky992

Northern Ireland does have a flag but it can not be flown from public buildings to keep the Irish happy, it can be and is flown from private buildings in its tens of thousands all year round.

There are plenty more of us Scots and English who are happy with the way things are with the Union, as shown in the vote a few years ago.

as someone from Newcastle, i have to put up with the scots and the southern english...its a pain

​@@Thurgosh_OG No, there isn't. There were more Scots happy with Scotland's EU situation.

​@@darkwave9345 Is Newcastle a real place? Aren't you that Northern Town that ran every time Scots marched down to York, which Scotland owned for quite a while.

The English have never gotten over losing all the wars to the much smaller Scotland, and having to give up their sovereignty to prevent Scotland finishing them off with a French alliance.

There hasn’t been a monarch of England or Scotland since the Act of Union, cooked up by James VI & I, and carried out by his great-granddaughter.

@@Mark-HaddowSo James VI fought a war to take the English throne? They’d better rewrite the history books then… oh wait, that’s not what happened at all! 😂

@@ffotograffydd Yeah, which is why I never made such a gibberish claim, and you did. England lost every war (3) with Scotland. James VI inherited England, and was the last monarch crowned King of England, as he created the Union of Crowns and no longer recognised England as a seperate Kingdom. Likewise with his son, who was the last monarch to wear the crown of England before the English destroyed it. 😆

@@Mark-Haddow Someone is only using the history that suits their argument! 😂😂😂

I don't think separating will ever stop the nastiness between the English and Scots... the nastiness you speak off today though, is nothing compared to the nastiness before we became a union...

@@curtiswatts4349 True. The hatred from the English towards the Scots is getting beyond a joke these days.

@@jackdubz4247 that’s not what I was trying to say… but I wouldn’t say it’s the English hating the Scot’s more either. Both have that love/hate relationship.

@curtiswatts4349 true. I know of Scottish who have visited England and I know of English who have visited Scotland. The news on both sides of the border is horrendous and so different. Both are as bad as each other

@@OneTrueScotsman What you have to realise is that more of us Scots are happy in the Union and unhappy with the devolved government that the SNP gave us. Can you imagine how much worse things would be in Scotland, if we were trying to be independent. We'd be pushed into third world category in no time and the EU isn't interested in having us (thank god) because they don't want more members who can't even raise enough funds to run their own countries.

Legally and officially Northern Ireland is a country. News media though, often calls it a province or a region of the UK, which is actually wrong but no one seems to correct any inaccuracies said by mainstream media.

Northern Ireland is part of the old Province of Ulster and most certainly is a country, you are confusing Ulster with NI.