Americans React to Uniquely British Things You'll Only Find In The UK! 

The way the lady in the video says “Jaffa” is the way we say it here in the uk.

There is also a Bury Kebab, which is Black Pudding(blood sausage)in a muffin/Barm, Lancashire Kebab is Pie peas and gravy in a muffin/barm and Wigan Salad is Pie Chips Peas and Gravy.

Chip batch!!! Remember to butter the bread bun first too!!

They even give you tea and biscuits when you donate blood!

We have all kinds of spotters. Train spotters, plane spotters, fire engine spotters and craziest of all, Eddie Stobart spotters. Stobart is a giant transport company and people stand on road bridges to record sightings of their trucks!

I've never seen a pie that looked like that before... ever.. that rank fish thing

Chip butties are honestly divine but you needs lots of butter on the bread and chips need to go on hot to melt the butter. Also Blobby hds a Christmas number 1 song and briefly his own theme park. Britishness at it weirdest and best.

There's more than one Magic Roundabout in the UK. The Swindon one just gets all the hype.

At work, we got talking about favourite foods. Everyone's mouths dropped open when I said that I loved Pie Butty. I cut a pie in half, add a dollop of bbq sauce, and wrap a slice of bread around it. Yum!

certain items don't have vat on them , considered necessary foods , i.e. floor (bread) , veg , fruit , and books , kids shoes

Trains in the UK are quite and a very fast (average speeds 80 to 100 mph) a great way to get around the country. Heritage Railways Steam in particular are great fun and some of the big express Locomotives sometimes run on the Network as well. Public Transport is very good in the UK despite what some say. I live in a very small country town we have a small railway station and also a great buss service, i haven't owned a Car in 15 years, it's just not nessicerry.

The title of this made me remember I was going to suggest how we have cryptic crosswords as standard in our newspapers rather than standard ones and that cryptic crosswords might be a good react.

We don't have a choice you HAVE to have a TV Licence. If you get a TV the licensing ppl are told what the address the TV went but now it lists tablets laptops as you need a license for.

I live in the borough of Wigan, although not in Wigan. I have never seen a Wigan kebab in my life. There is probably a small number of chip shops / bakeries who sell them as a gimmick, but few people would ever eat them! A bit like the deep fried mars bars that are allegedly a staple in Scotland. They are gimmicks limited to a small number of establishments. Chip butties on the other hand are more popular throughout the North! Chip and gravy are another staple of the North that doesn't seem popular down South!

Mr Bobby on Noel's house party did 'Gotcha's', embarrassing celebs. Please watch Will Carling's gotcha.

Jaff to rhyme with naff with er (a) on the end. Not a long 'a'

Think buttys are usually homemade

In all my 48yrs I have NEVER seen a fish pie like that and wouldn’t want to. I’m in the uk

People from the land where peanut butter and jelly sandwiches are a thing complaining about chip butties (fried potatoes in bread and butter)?

'afternoon tea' is something you might treat yourself and some friends to once in a while, go out and have scones and cakes, but it's not a daily thing. DRINKING tea is not just an afternoon thing, it's a 'throughout the day' thing.

Mr Blobby was a fake childrens tv character, created for hidden camera pranks on celebrities, on a saturday night entertainment show called Noels House Party. However, he kind of became a huge cultural thing in the mid 90s, and ironically actually became a legit children's tv character after this. He even had his own hit single.

Dumb traditionally meant 'couldnt speak', like 'mute', not 'stupid'. So I might speculate Dumb Womans Lane used to be a street on which a notable mute woman lived?

I live near London and to me it’s ’Jaffa’, not jarfa. It’s ’kebab’, not kebarb and it’s ‘mushy’, not mooshy 😂

"DUMB" originally meant unable to talk, as in "Mute".

When a biscuit is left out and uncovered it goes soft When a cake is left out and uncovered it goes hard A Jaffa cake is left out and uncovered it goes hard therefore it’s a cake

Ignore most of the things on the video , I am English and seventy years old and believe me I have never heard of most of these foods especially and these old "traditions" are not as traditional as people make out and usually a peculiaritie of a small village etc. Keep up the good work guys 👍

How Alannah pronounces Jaffa is the correct way. They are a cake because they are soft when fresh and hard when stale.

The bread in a chip butty is definitely not toasted, use soft buttered bread, large UK type chips not French fries, and tomato ketchup, truly delicious 😋😋 As for the Magic Roundabout, I used to use it every day, although it looks crazy, and daunting, as long as you stick to the basic rule of roundabouts, (give way to traffic coming from the right), it works amazingly well and clears huge volumes of traffic far better than traffic lights ever could.

I'm always offered tea or coffee with biscuits when I visit the hairdresser. I have never been offered crumpets though🤣

Tv license is for BBC and live TV. You get letters and an actual person at your door to check your house to see if you're watching TV

You can formally declare you're not interested in a tv license anyway. I haven't paid for one I about 15 years

Blobby was on a tv show not aimed at children called noels house party. It aired around 6.30 or 7 pm on a Saturday night if i remember correctly so eventually gained exposure to more and more children but he was mainly there to make the adult guests on the show feel uncomfortable he would just cause mayhem.

Biscuits go soft when stale, cakes go dry. Easy to tell the difference

If you are going to try a chip butty DONT USE FRIES like you get from McDonald’s. Uk chips are chunky roughly 7-10mm diameter and various lengths they are in between wedges and fries. So many Americans just use fries which are different from chips.

The UK movie Trainspotting is not about Trainspotting. The Blurb for the movie says "Renton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out despite the allure of drugs and the influence of friends."

I am not British by birth, i am Romanian born but have lived in the UK for nearly a decade and can confirm i have pretty much adopted the habit of declining a couple of times haha. Also much love from Scotland and thank you for the amazing content :)

Cornish "Stargazer" fish pie. Rare, and ancient fishermen's food. 99.9% of British people have never seen one.

You wont see a chip butty in america as you dont have chips

I think the refusing offered food thing may come from WW2 & for years after the war when food was heavily rationed. It is polite to offer other people food when you eat but i think the dance of refusing then accepting is checking if the person offering really has enough food to spare, without them or their family going hungry. Also people didn't want to look greedy in such hard times. We often ask when offered food 'is it ok, do you have enough?' (enough to be sharing)

I'm surprised that Panto wasn't on the list. So much fun.

Dude, it blows my tiny mind that roundabouts are so rare over there that it sparked a big conversation lol.

Chip butty is soft bread.. and delicious

14:39 How to make a chip butty - Go to the Chippie, get a bag of chips, take them home, butter a slice of fresh white bread, put chips on one half adding sauce if you want, fold over and EAT! It really is that simple! Oven chips work fine too if you're in a country without Chippies.....Crinkle Cut for preference. DON'T USE FRENCH FRIES!

Mr Blobby wasn’t a real children’s character. It was created to trick celebrities in a hidden camera sequence. It was on Noel’s house party.

Mr Blobby was originally a prank, designed to be as horrifying as possible and the person being pranked had to try and sell it to kids. It then became beloved throughout the country and turned into an actual kids' character

Guys, this is not accurate. TV license funds the BBC, public TV in this country. BBC funds documentarys (David Attenborough), Arts programmes, News channels, Amazing radio stations with eclectic music

None of us grow up with Stargazy Pie! The idea of that horrifies most of us too! Also chip butties are very good. Highly recommend.

Dumb simply meant unable to speak. ' We must always remember that this area was once on the main route for smugglers bringing, lace, brandy and tobacco into England from the 14th through to the 19th Century. Many local place names have associations with this illustrious part of our history. The dumb woman may have been a poor hapless woman who witnessed the contraband being hauled up the lane and had her tongue cut out so she couldn’t report the crimes she saw. Another possibility is that a mute woman who lived on the lane dispensed herbal remedies in the area, so the street was named after her due to her significance in the local community.' (Rye News)

British food is sooo much more than this portrayal! She's really showing you the worst of it to bow to the stereotype. And I haven't seen blobby since the nineties.

In coventry we HAVE A thing called a spaghetti junction, WHERE different lane's cross othere ,some times I've been offerd a cup tea at the hair dressers .BUT NOT afternoon tea. YOU can get on a train in coventry and get of in Cornwall U.K..

Mr Blobby ISN’T a kid’s character, Stargazy pie is extremely rare and from hundreds of years ago, nobody eats that. Jaffa, the way she says it, is correct. People moan about the TV licence ( that many other Countries have too btw) but willingly pay £40 per month to Sky- you’re paying to be advertised to! Chip butties are amazing- not French fries- proper chips. Americans don’t butter their sandwiches, which is just bizarre as far as we’re concerned.I’m British and I accept things offered first time, I think she’s just hanging with ultra polite people. There are a few ‘magic roundabouts’ not just the one in Swindon. You do have some roundabouts in the US, they’re being introduced. Dumb women’s lane just means that there was a woman that lived there that couldn’t speak, we tend not to use the word ‘dumb’ to mean stupid. ‘Tom Tit’ is a bird.

No don't toast the bread loads of butter on two slices of bread, put salt and vinegar on chips put into bread Red or brown sauce, it's delicious.

Outsiders tend to think of the benefit of an advertising free channel goes as far as 'its nice not to have to have to keep stopping for breaks'. The core appeal of an advertising free service is the channel is NOT BEHOLDEN TO ADVERTISERS, and so isnt forced to make only the content advertisers will be willing to pay for a slot in.

Biscuits soften and become soggy when left out where as cakes go stale.

the afternoon tea at the hairdresser was probably a fund raiser for a charity

When she says afternoon tea and crumpets, I think she's confusing crumpets with scones. Crumpets are for breakfast, scones you would have with an afternoon tea. Love your channel Steve, keep up the great work! 👍

I think that Canadian has crumpets and scones mixed up, crumpets are a breakfast thing , they don't go with cream.

Most people in the UK have never seen Stargazer pie outside of a photo or video. It's not something commonly found or eaten in the UK. It's one of those things that some old woman or some old fisherman might make just for show.

Remember its a Chip butty and not a Fries butty.

Most people I know pronounce Jaffa cakes like jam NOT like jar.

Someone sent you the UK highway code. Roundabout protocol will be in that book. that will explain roundabouts

No you DO NOT toast the bread for a chip butty. You definitely have to butter the bread though and have decent chips, not french fries!! A little salt on the chips, red or brown sauce and definitely a drink to help it go down... For me it's an Irn Bru 😁

Never seen a pie in a roll and never seen one of those fish pies ... and I'm 70!! My parents used to live near Coopers Hill and we'd watch from their window!! Nana Karen UK

The TV licence is for receiving the signal to your home. The licence was for radio to start with. In order to hear it you needed receiving equipment and then a licence to operate it. The British Broadcasting Commission BBC was set up. When TV came it was sent through the same radiowaves as before so you still require a licence. Now it's the signal to your home, streaming platforms, watching and recording live TV, recording any programmes live or not and the BBC channels and platforms. It even covers Internet and mobile phones apparently.

The afternoon tea in the hairdressers is not a normal thing in the uk. I've never seen it.

Mr blobby would be mr squashie by the time I'd finished with it! - and chip butty, food of the Gods! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The demand letters you saw are NOT sent by any company. They are from the TV Licensing Authority, which is a government agency. As in over 50 other countries, everyone who has a television to watch any station has to pay a fee, or are charged through tax or an add-on to electricity bills. In the UK, this is to pay for advertisement-free tv and radio.

noel edmonds has a lot to answer for!

I am British. If I was hungry and someone offered me a biscuit with tea/coffee I would say 'Ooh yes please!' on the first go. If I didn't want one but kept getting asked, I would end up talking one anyway TO BE POLITE! That's when I would say 'Oh, Go on then.'

Adventures and naps pronounces jaffa correctly by UK standard

I am 51 and have lived in the UK all my life. Most of the things she mentioned are NOT common in the UK. This video is quite insulting in it's ignorance and stereotypes. You should react to a video from someone who looks older than 16. To be honest, I am quite angry after watching this reaction 😠

Stargazey pie is eaten on Tom Balcocks Eve down in Mousehole and St Ives in West Cornwall. I’m a Cornish maid and definitely would not eat it. But it is a thing. It’s a tradition. Going back to Mr Blobby, a pub in our town in Cornwall was painted pink. The next morning, blobs of yellow was painted all over it. The landlady was fuming, No one knew who the pranksters were. So funny. It was all over the newspapers.

It's true the thing with reluctantly accepting stuff, I think it's down to our wariness of strangers and the fear of being indebted to someone

He was never a real kids character. He was on a family show called ‘Noel’s House Party’ that used Mr Blobby to prank people.

Steve..go check out ' Up helly aa ' THE absolute fire festival held in the Shetlands!! It is something else!!!!

I am a truck driver and I love the Swindon roundabout There is one in Hemel Hempstead as well. Also, I am old and have never seen Star Pie accept on weird reaction videos.

The BBC is like PBS. It's effectively a government department. You don't really get the option not to pay. Any live TV you must have a licence

🍰 VAT is not charged on goods that are considered essentials - so _most_ food does not have VAT charged, and nor do children's clothes for example. Back in the day, people were more likely to make a cake than buy one from a shop, so it was considered a staple and not eligible for VAT - whereas biscuits were seen as a luxury product that was more likely to be factory-made, and so was classed as eligible for VAT. (This does raise the obvious question of, if cakes were considered a staple because people mostly made them at home, why cakes _that people didn't make at home_ were still a staple 🤔). Over the intervening period since the rules were set, shopping and cooking habits have changed, and so what might have had some logic 50+ years ago isn't necessarily logical and consistent today! 📺 The TV licence debate has got increasingly murky as technology has developed. If you're watching or capturing live TV (even if via a streaming service) then you have to have a licence, and if you're watching BBC iPlayer (on-demand service) then you have to have a licence even if you only ever watch programs on catch-up. If you only watch streaming services from providers other than BBC then you don't need a licence. 🚂 Train spotting is a much less common hobby than it was some decades ago. I guess it wouldn't be much of a hobby in the US because you have so few trains! But yes, each individual train has a unique number on it, and there are people who go out to see not just a _type_ of train but specific numbers so that they can tick them all off. I don't understand the attraction of it myself, but each to their own!

The BBC licence fee is wrong on so many levels. For the last fifteen years it has been reruns or repeats most or all mornings and afternoons😂 and then at night you might get a new show or drama but not that often they have been buying french and Scandinavian cop shows and drama's with subtitles with our money at the moment. And they been doing all this since 1936 when we first saw Olympics from Germany with Hitler give medals out to Jesse Owens 4 time Olympic champion he was made to feel welcomed, and when he got back to America, and was asked to visited the white house, he had to use the service entrance or backdoor. The BBC licence fee as been building up in bank accounts since 1936. Now they make between £9 billion and £14 billion a year plus BBC America and they are always pleading poverty which the general public don't know. They take people to court and get about half a billion. They make money from books of TV cooking shows and other shows, they make money from movies now and again I don't remember a big hit film but somebody might know some, they sell toys of doctor who other shows, selling games from shows, DVD videos and downloads and selling franchise shows all the time. Even of stuff comedies from 1960's through today viewing and BBC America brings money in by selling to BBC America and buying it back allegedly and they have been known to make advertisment or adverts of major brands made at BBC studios which they don't tell the British public. In all a secretly way Love mom

If you don't think you will like a Chip Buttie try a Bacon Buttie instead with brown sauce.

If the Battle of Britain was our finest hour... Mr Blobby is by far our worst!!!

Chip butties are amazing but make sure you butter your bread. Dont add condiments. Amazing with the butter melting into the chips. Fat chunky chips work best. Not skinny fries. Another amazing sanwich is a fish finger sandwich with batttered fish fingers inside buttered bread. I like to add a bit of malt vinegar in that. Jaffa is pronounced the way the canadian lady says it.

Guys guys guys...when you make your Chip Butty please use Butter on both sides of your Bread. Just Chips and Ketchup will be 💩 plus your Bread is too sweet so its not going to be the same anyway. Francis Bourgeois is the most famous Train Spotter, check him out.

Mr Blobby was a childhood favourite for me. Noel Edmund’s house party he was on and I may be wrong there might of been a little song by Mr Blobby “blobby, oh mr blobby” 😂

Blobby was NOT a children's TV character. It was a lampoon of children's TV characters taken to a grotesque extreme and was for ADULTS. And he would cause slapstick chaos on TV shows. NOT FOR KIDS!!

I live in a small village when i go to the hairdressers she will always offer clients a cup of tea, the cake and haircut was probably a promotion to get people into the salon or perhaps a new salon opening up but it wouldn't be every day. Its true that people decline the offer of something first time, we offen say ' no i couldn't' or 'are you sure' then say' oh go on then' it stems back to when people were poor but out of politeness would offer you something even if it was there last ( biscuit ) for example so it reassures the taker that the giver has enough to give you one, if they didnt they would take ( the biscuit ) away when you were declining and the taker wouldn't take offence Everything stems back to history and in the UK were proud of history

Subway bread can’t be called bread in Ireland, by law it’s cake, not bread, because of how much sugar is in it. xx

Jaffa not Jarfa.

I am 66, English born and bred. I've always lived in the south and I've never seen a pie between bread. I've also never seen a stargazer pie although I have heard of them as a very old fashioned thing. Mr Blobby was the brainchild of Noel Edmonds and was part of his show. We took our kids to Blobby World...they loved it.

The Magic Roundabout is a breeze compared to Spaghetti Junction!

Recording BBC channels and channels with no Advertisemens is still classed as watching The channels so you can not use the excuse it was not live it was recorded, it has no Advertisements so you have to pay the licence to own a TV, The TV transmits a signal that tells the monitoring stations and vehicles that your house has a TV or broadcasting device

The BBC is not 'a company' it is a Country owned station. British Broadcasting Corporation was the first ever TV channel in the UK and remained the only one for years; and then 'independent' TV came along which needed advertisers to make it pay. The reason for the TV Licence is to cover the cost and upkeep of the nationwide infrastructure needed to bring television into the home - remember that TV was analogue then and needed towers to receive and send signals and that didn't come free.

I haven't had a TV for years. So I just filled in an online form to declare I don't need one, then every so often I have to confirm it's still the case. It's nothing. No checks, no hassle, never get a letter from them.

I'm 55 , British never seen that stargazing pie !! What ancient book did she find that ? Not common at all !😅 maybe 100 years ago ? Maybe ?

Hairdressers offer you a drink of tea or coffee & maybe a biscuit whilst your having your hair done but not afternoon tea & cakes.. that's is not a thing

I'm not sure how anyone could hate Jaffa cakes, it's like hating unicorns or rainbows.......

When VAT was introduced, certain goods and services were considered so essential that it was decided they should be subject to less tax, or none at all. This was done in two ways: zero rating and exemption. In the eyes of UK law, biscuits and cakes are necessities and are zero rated. However, chocolate-covered biscuits are regarded as a luxury, which means the full rate of VAT is payable. For reasons that are not entirely clear or logical, no distinction is made between chocolate-covered cake and cake without a chocolate coating. All this might have passed us by as a quaint aspect of British legal thinking if McVities, the makers of Jaffa Cakes, had not gone to court, arguing that their product was a cake. To prove its case, McVities baked a special 12 inch Jaffa Cake which persuaded the court of its cake-like properties. As a result, no VAT is charged on Jaffa or other, more traditional chocolate covered cakes.

Have you tried Jacket potato well cooked in the oven which ends up with a brown skin on the outside and cooked potato inside,cut it open then use butter in the potato by mincing some potato.

The word "Dumb" means, unable to speak. So it's not how we use the word Dumb in modern times.

Rule 1 of British cooking; if it's savoury and tastes good, slap it between 2 slices of bread.