Are “British food stores” in America any good? 

See, you're clearly not British if you think that tube train was a "pillow thing", it's obviously a draught excluder!

OMG could someone *please* show Evan how to make tea in a teapot, while also explaining clearly and succinctly that a teapot is not in any way a kettle! Can't believe that's not part of the citizenship test 😉

Teapots and kettles are two very different things. A kettle is just used to boil water, where a teapot is a way to make multiple cups of tea at once, you don’t use it to boil water, you pour hot water into it along with either teabags or loose tea…though as my Granny always said “Don’t forget to hot the pot!” i.e you swirl hot water around in the teapot before adding the loose tea/tea bags then the hot water. I believe it both helps to prevent scorching the tea leaves (though I could be wrong about that) and keeps the brewed tea hot for longer. As I have a preference for loose tea, I do own multiple teapots in various sizes.

Omg wait…Evan thinking a tea pot is used the same as a kettle could explain why other Americans have made tea literally inside of the kettle rather than just using it to boil water…but that’s just a theory

Did anyone else notice the gaping absence of Marmite??

Kettles? Those are tea*pots* mate, not kettles; they serve an entirely different function in the tea serving process to kettles. Turkish Delight - how did you think it was to do with turkey? Do Americans call things to do with turkey the meat/bird ‘Turkish’, ‘cause here in the UK, ‘Turkish’ only refers to things to do with Turkey the country. Also, for context, keep in mind that book is set in WWII at the height of rationing when sweets and chocolate were a luxury item that kids would’ve only had once or twice a year in tiny quantities.

My grandad is Italian and when he visits home he takes a suitcase full of chocolate digestives and HP brown sauce! And he comes back with a suitcase full of tagliatelle and tortellini, and mortadella ham. He keeps a full wardrobe in Italy to save luggage space.

I feel attacked for my love of doctor who 🤣

The essentials: Weetabix Cadbury brunch bars Tunnocks tea cakes Yorkshire Gold, PG tips, Twinings Jaffa cakes Birds eye fish fingers All of the Cadbury products (I didn’t see bourneville in any of the places) Vimto Ribena Meal deal sandwiches Crunchy nut cereal Cheddar cheese blocks Chocolate pudding Chocolate eclairs Mr Kipling products Pot noodles Rice crispy squares Penguin chocolate Ready meals Schweppes lemonade Strawberry laces Heinz baked beans Kelly’s Cornish ice cream Irn Bru Muller corner yoghurt

12:10 That's a Coldstream Guard, they still wear the big red coats and silly bear skin hats (made of real bear) while guarding the Queen 14:30 That's a tea pot, not a tea kettle and yes, most people will own a tea kettle because it's the fastest way to serve tea to a lot of people

my new favorite Evan bit is shouting a question at Phoenix through the wall

Can you do the same for USA stores or "American" products in England

2:18 If I remember correctly, Fry's was the first company to make a solid chocolate bar in the mid 1800s and Fry's Chocolate Cream is one of their oldest products.

The shelves just looked like UK shop shelves. I think most of them did a pretty good job. Makes me wonder if our American Candy stores are like actual American sweet shops?

I do love how now you’ve become a citizen of the uk you call your self British :) very glad you came to live with us :)

Frys Chocolate Cream, originally from here in Bristol, is the oldest mass produced chocolate bar in world. I used to have them all the time.

HAHAHAHA Texan here. Forgiving the fact that strong Texas drawls are actually pretty rare in the metropoli… …still, terrible. Good laughs. 😂 Tip - Texan meets British varieties = Australian. Funny you uploaded this today! We just went to our local British store for the first time yesterday - “The British Depot”. It’s owned and run by British folks, still quite small, but growing. The shopkeep was an absolutely wonderful woman, very passionate about British cuisine, which was nice because all I ever hear (except from you) is how boring it is! I frickin love almost every British recipe I’ve made…excepting the liver dishes. Sorry, my Texan pallet tried very very hard. Anyway, we had so much fun. Like kids in a candy store. I shall be returning soon and often.

Whenever I see redcoats I think of Butlins, so the name worked for me. I knew it wasn't the reasons but thought it was amusing

I’ve been to The British Emporium in Grapevine, Texas. I’ll admit I was surprised you mentioned it as I figured you’d cover only those on the east and west coast. The owners and staff are from the UK. They are really great! I mean, it’s not like typical American retail store customer service where the employees check on you every few seconds to see if you’re doing okay, but they greet you when you enter and will chat with you if you go up to them. Otherwise you’re free to just wonder about and browse. They’re really helpful at helping select things. On our visit I was interested in buying some cookies and the lady was very helpful at describing the variety of options and giving me insight based on things she inquired if I liked. When my sister, niece, friends, and I tried our selections of food the staff helped us pick, we were very happy with the choices. They got it very right!! They sell electric kettles at the front of the store. I don’t think there’s any photos online of that section as I think most people visiting probably find it boring since it’s got some other small appliances. They also sell adapters so the devices can be plugged in to American electric outlets. And the prices are really reasonable! Lots of teas, tea sets, mugs, and variety of foodstuffs of all kind, including refrigerated and frozen items. There’s toys and games in a section as well, and a small touristy area novelty area. It also has at the back corner a section that has UK over-the-counter pharmacy items. There’s a lot there that I guess Americans visiting don’t think is interesting to take photos of. But I definitely enjoyed visiting it. It’s easy to find once you get to Grapevine. My only difficulty was in getting to Grapevine, but that’s because the route I had been told was the easiest and fastest route to take by a friend that used to live in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex area had areas under construction and detours, so that got me a tad lost. The second time we visited I took a different route that while probably not the easiest, fastest route usually, it didn’t have road construction along the way. That was in 2018. My mom works with a lady whose originally from Manchester, England, UK. She’s been to the store in Grapevine and says it’s a good place for Brits living in the US to get most of the things their familiar with from the UK. However, there’s apparently a store closer to us in Tulsa, Oklahoma that she visits monthly to stock up on UK items. I haven’t visited that store myself so I cannot say what is like. But she says it’s like a smaller British Emporium in Grapevine and it is also owned by folks from the UK living in the US like the one in Texas. The only reason I have not visited it yet is because I have not had any reasons to go to Tulsa (even my family that lives there opted to meet up in Oklahoma City which is even closer to where I live than Tulsa). The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex area is actually full of a lot of locally owned small businesses whose owners are from the nations the businesses sell items from. I have visited Korean, Japanese, Arab, Indian, Chinese, British, French, German, Polish, Mexican, and Brazilian stores. There’s also an international market shopping center. A lot of the individual stores are in shopping centers themed for that culture. Like the Chinese shops were all in a shopping center that was designed with Chinese architecture and had a community center in it as well. It also had these big statues out front of people from Chinese history with neat markers to tell about them. The Korean and Japanese shops share two shopping centers on either side of a major street with lots of variety like grocery stores, clothing stores, book stores, makeup stores, etc. The Indian and Arab stores were in shopping centers, some of which the architecture on the facade resembled architecture from those places. If you’re ever in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex area you should definitely check out some of them and many other places. I’ve been done there with family and friends to go to an event featuring a Hindu saint, to see British RU-vidrs on tour, to see Kpop and Jpop concerts, to go to anime conventions, and there when a friend in the military was returning home to the states from his duty overseas as he flew in there and so our mutual friends and I spent several days there with him before he headed home to California (we became friends when he was stationed near where I live before he got sent overseas). If you ever move back to the states (not sure why you would at the moment, but one never knows where the future will take them) you can at least easily buy a kettle and adapter at the British Emporium in Grapevine. Plus I am sure the staff would love to hear about your time in the UK....assuming the youngest don’t already watch your channel. I mean, we were there for British RU-vidrs Dan & Phil’s World Tour and two of the younger staff folks there knew who they were and were going to the event the next day just like us.

The essentials for me would be (in no particular order): - Smoked Back Bacon - Proper sausages, such as Cumberland - Yorkshire Pudding - Scotch Eggs - Cornish Pasties - Meat Pies - Pork Pies - Sausage Rolls - Branston Pickle - Colman’s Mustard - Crumpets - Pickled Onion Monster Munch - Quavers - Hoola Hoops - Hobnobs (specifically the chocolate ones) - Jaffa Cakes - Fruit Pastilles

I just want to make sure because I can't quite tell, you don't think you're meant to actually boil the water in a China teapot do you? Like you don't think you're meant to put delicate porcelain over a flame do you? Evan? EVAN?

Fun fact: I'm from the town where the British Emporium is, and there's literally so many brits here. For some reason, a lot of different British (mostly English, tbf) families settled here 10-20 years ago and all set up various shops. Buon Giorno (a coffeehouse), Across the Pond (a GF pub), and The Londoner have all become local favorites and where you'll hear the most English accents in the area. It was great for getting biscuits, teas, and food while being in the boiling 40-45º heat lol. I've been in Scotland for the past 6 months, and can say that everything back in Colleyville/Grapevine (the towns they're in) was a solid 7/10.

-1 point in the Texas British Emporium store for the cadburys “cookies” stand But +10 points for the Dalek.

Evan, Evan, Evan. Fry's chocolate creams are some of the oldest chocolate from our Isles. They are my father's child hood favourite. He use to buy me one back in the 1980's everytime we went for fuel at a petrol station. And my dad is from Pontefract, so licorice to him is like Reese's cups to Americans 😉. Just so you know.

"British people don't celebrate Halloween" speak for yourself, Evan! 😂Have you been in a TK Maxx lately? It's September and I'm already filling my house with adorable pumpkin items!

Fry's chocolate is the worlds first commercial chocolate bar... ever... tut tut Evan.

Don’t be dissing jelly babies! Those things are like crack when you open a bag of them.

I imagine Evan has a portal to Phoenix, AZ he uses just to shout questions at to get the city's input on trivial matters personally important to him

BLACK BOMBER - seeing that in the fridge in the Floridian shop pushes it straight to the top of the list for me.

About 6 or 7 years ago I went to stay with my brother for a few months in Seattle. He told me there was a place called The British Pantry (if I'm remembering rightly). I was showing him everything there was on the shelves until we hit the custard creams..... Let's just say we gorged ourselves on them. He hadn't had one since he moved there, I'm sure it was like that scene in Ratatouille for him.

I like liquorice Allsorts! Also, Fry's Chocolate Cream was the first mass produced chocolate bar in the world! Fry's were eventually bought out by Cadbury and they own the rights now.

I’ve never owned a sports direct cup, to be honest most of the mugs I own came free with Easter eggs.

teapot =/= kettle! Very different. If you use a teapot, you still need the kettle.

Evan: "I have never actually known what [salad cream] is for" Me: Salads?

I only have loose leaf tea occasionally but still I use a tea pot most days just for a teabag. You get more flavour without the increase bitterness from tannins you get when steeping in a mug.

I feel like we have a lot of these items in Canada. I have to go to the British Import store to get real Turkish Delight and Schwepes Bitter Lemon. Ironically, Schwepes is a Canadian company but I can’t get Bitter Lemon in a regular shop.

I do have a teapot that belonged to my grandmother 😂 and yes we do have a Sports Direct Mug😂😂😂

As a Texan I’m quite impressed by your british-Texan accent attempt 😂 🤠

Salad cream mixed with mashed potatoes. Or salad cream with mashed boiled egg in a sandwich. So salad cream would be something I would miss.

What a fun idea for a video, loved it!

Loved this one great video

I would miss English milk and sliced bread over there. American sliced bread is disgusting. And forget the war. From the 1960's 'Redcoats' was the name of people that worked in English Holiday Camps! ( Butlins )

Meijer stores have little areas with British foods, not a lot but you can get Digestives, canned custard, Maynard's candies, Karta Cakes, Heinz Beans. Different flavors of Squash including Blackcurrent, HP Sauce, Marmite, Bisto, Ribena and Yorkshire Gold and PG Tips teas. The International Aisle is a fun time 😁

"Sports direct mug" 😂 yes I have...

Singing dodie made my day thank u Evan for ur service

I’ll be honest I’ve only ever used salad cream when making tuna pasta cause it tastes better than mayo 😂

Fun fact: Jacob’s Cream Crackers were invented in Ireland. I live in Canada and buy them regularly at my local supermarket. They are displayed with all the other crackers (and they are the cheapest). There is also a small British section, but I have never bought anything from it. Tayto crisps and Bailey’s are also Irish products.

Ah ye, I'm jumping in on the teapot discussion too... I have a pot of tea every morning working from home here in the UK, many pots during the winter. It's a nice big bulk of tea so I don't have to keep getting up to make each cup.

Evan I love you man :D great content great laughs. We use electric kettles to heat the water, which then gets poured into the tea pot with a tea bag or loose tea. A pot makes the tea brew better and one bag can make 2-3 cups. BTW loose tea is like going from instant coffee to gourmet. It's sooo nice :)

I LOVE Lucozade! I was so amazed when i found out years ago that they dont have it in the US. I use salad cream instead of Mayo in an egg mayo sandwich, and its also great on cold pizza lol

You're already inserting the phantom "p" into vimto. Well done! 🤣

I take offence to the 'bland food'. British food is amazing, especially when you don't have access to it. I lived abroad as the wife of a serving UK soldier for many years. The Naafi was great, but there were some things I couldn't get. I used to have to wait until my family visited us to get UK staples... they used to have a suitcase full of goodies. We used to call it contraband.

british candy introduced my to chocolate covered honeycomb....and that is DELICIOUS

NYer currently living in Texas. So Myers of Keswick actually has the cereal, back bacon, tea and stuff. The shop is quite tiny so I'm assuming the photos didn't show it. I've been a few times with my uncle who flies to London for work on the regular. It makes him feel right at home. The main reason I feel the tea wasn't emphasizes is that you can buy authentic British tea at any grocery store in the city. My mom drinks PG Tips and Red Rose whereas I prefer Twinings (but I'm American so take that as you will.) In the boroughs, you can even find authentic tea in some bodegas.

Salad cream is far superior direct replacement for mayo in either egg sandwiches or tuna jacket potato topping.🤤

A friend of mine genuinely has a wall of beans in his flat - kind of like the one at 4:10. One of each brand (including beans with sausages of course) 😂

Evan putting on a British Texan accent sounds like Jake Kiszka‘s Oliver Reed and I love it 😂😂

I love salad cream! It's a bit like mayonnaise with mustard. In my opinion that makes it preferrable than mayonnaise.

What's a tea kettle? Tea pots and kettles are two different things, you don't boil water in a tea pot.

I really liked the song at the end!

I cracked up at the sports direct mug! I've been away from home for several years and completely forgot about them!

We have quite a few British/UK shops in Florida because of all the snowbirds who live here in the winter from those areas. In fact, you can get many of those items just at the regular Publix in my area. Also, you can't buy hard alcohol at grocery stores in Florida...you have to get that stuff at a liquor store.

OMG! Salad cream! You have to explore salad cream and other salad accompaniments and now would be perfect as it’s the height of British summer!

I don't have a giant Sports Direct mug but I do have a really out of place Royal Albert Lavender Roses cup and saucer LOL

I love that British Emporium is on here. I live in Dallas, and we had two. The one closest to me closed a few months ago, but was combined with a Brit owned restaurant “Fish & Fizz” who had the most amazing fish & chips, and pickled veg. I can’t wait to have it again when I visit London in a couple months!

I think you rated them spot on.

Every time I see one of these types of shops (either online or in the real world e.g. USA or UK type store in Australia) I always imagine what an "Australian Store" in the UK/US/etc might look like or have in there. I can imagine a store with things like Vegemite, Bundaberg ginger beer and other brewed drinks, Kirks soft drinks, Weet-Bix, Tim-Tams, Milo, Samboy Chips, Violet Crumble bar, Allens lollies, Minties, Caramello Koala, Cotties Cordial, Shapes, Tic-Toc Biscuits, Anzac Biscuits, Aeroplane Jelly, Chicken Salt, Macadamia Nuts (including Chocolate Coated Macadamia Nuts) and Nobby's Nuts If you had a fridge/freezer section you could have Four'n Twenty Pies, Paddle Pop ice creams, Golden Gaytime ice creams and Drumstick ice creams. Then if you were going to have alcohol, you could have Bundy Rum, VB, XXXX, Goon (which is basically really really cheap crappy wine in a foil pouch with a tap on it that is in turn inside a cardboard box) and maybe some Fosters (although basically no-one in Australia actually drinks Fosters)

Quick shout out to my local British shop “British Connection” in Torrance. It’s pretty small, but has saved the day many times with back bacon, Branston pickle, and baked beans in particular. They even had non-dairy Easter eggs (Moo Free I think) so my kids (who can’t have dairy) could get something. I’m hoping they get the Moo Free advent calendars in for Christmas too. An extra shout out to Yorkshire Square Brewery in Torrance that has British beers, snacks, food, AND a dart board. Brilliant. Cheers!

I wanna see a card board cop near the store entrance...

you using the phrase "absolutely fuck off" for "massive" is incredible 😂😂😂😂 you've proper assimilated now loooool

Mint sauce is a must have and bisto gravy

"What is a Horlick?" - love it!

The Sports Direct mug is right on the nose 😆

Speaking of Tuyrkish Delight... Don't get the chocholate thing, go get REAL turkish delight, the kind dusted in powdered sugar...even just a cheap variety box, Turkish delight is heavenly

You should try some regional British food, start with a Staffordshire oatcake!

I was brought up on salad cream - didn't even know what mayo was until I had to make it for my Food and Nutrition O Level (yes, I am pretty old 😢). We dolloped it all over our salads - mainly lettuce, quartered tomatoes and sliced cucumber. I was even known to indulge in salad cream sandwiches - white bread and butter with a slather of salad cream! Then came the invention of Heinz Sandwich Spread which rocked my world and became the sandwich filling of choice for my teenage lunchbox! Haven't eaten either of those things for at least 40 years but, Evan, you have sparked a nostalgia for stuff from my youth and I may just have to slip a bottle of salad cream into my shopping trolley tomorrow!

Soooo I have those biscuit tins from the ‘redcoat’ shop. One holds parma violets, the other holds my grandads ashes… he would have wanted it that way…

We have the British Pantry Ltd. in Redmond, Washington. Nice shop with a decent selection of items - sweets, sauces, biscuits, teas - a REALLY good fresh bakery selection - pasties, tarts, sausage rolls, ECLES CAKES! - and some deli items such as cheeses and sausages. There's also a huge selection of tea cups and some "UK themed" gifts. The clincher with this place is the tea room/restaurant on one side and the pub on the other side! I've been going there for 40+ years. They always bring in a nice selection of Christmas treats and nice Advent calendars. I think it would be a good contender for your line up. 😉👍

6:25 completely ignored the Eccles cakes and Fentimans. That's top tier British foodstuff right there.

This was an interesting (if architecturally depressing) topic! There's a very popular restaurant/pub/gift shop & bakery (fresh pasties, sausage rolls, etc.) called Ye Olde King's Head in Santa Monica. I realise the name is fairly ridiculous, but there's a variety of main courses: a good fish & chips, steak & mushroom pie, Irish stew, many more, some better than others. Lots of British beers on draught (more than average American restaurants with just 2 or 3) and decent wine selection. Also a very nice tea. It actually looks like a pub & has been there for decades. Cons: touristy, expensive, hard to park in the area. Pros: near the beach, easy to walk, large choice of food & fun pub adjacent to restaurant (darts with the local Brits) & good service.

Tea Pots are essential for tea drinkers! Pop a teabag or two in them, fill with boilingwater, and pop under a tea cosy. (I saw a lot of teapots, but no tea cosys - big error) Then, once you've finished your first cup, you can go back and pour yourself another. Or do tea for multiple people if you have friends.

OMG the first store you pulled up is literally like 10 minutes from my house in FL! I thought it looked familiar lol

Salad cream is great with Egg on a sandwich: Hard boil egg, chop up egg, add reasonable amount of salad cream, butter bread, add egg mix :D

The main thing I would be looking for is Branston Pickle. I also stock up on Rice Krispies and Shreddies when I visit UK but I'm guessing they are available in USA anyway?

I wish that the shops I go to have so many options of sweets and everything sweet in one isle or shelf section.

You should look up Jungle Jim's International Market just north of Cincinnati, OH! I think the British section of the store is actually quite nice and it seems to check the box on the selection! I'll have to take some pictures next time I go and tweet 'em at ya

When I went to Disney World recently in the UK pavilion in Epcot they were selling Jacobs Jaffa Cakes, which I had never seen before. When looking at the writing on the back it said they were made in the Republic of Ireland, so not really British. If they are going to sell Jaffa Cakes in a store selling British goods they should be the McVities ones. Also, as the name suggests Turkish Delight is actually Turkish, not British, it just seems to be popular in the UK.

I was expecting them to have a load of obscure brands no one in Britain actually buys, but their selections were really quite good. I think the prevalence of Irish stuff in British stores would be politically controversial in the UK though.

Definitely make a pot of tea for a video (no searching how to do it or any tips just guess) I want to see you put the teapot on your stovetop :)

For those questioning Evan's right to consider himself British, simply because he doesn't recognise a draught excluder or know the deep inner workings of a teapot, consider that a now HUGE raft of "British" people believe that the contractions of would have, could have and should have are would of, could of and should of and not would've, could've and should've. If ignorance had any right to diminish citizenship then lots of us should question our own right to belong. Go Evan - you do you! 👍

Horlicks is not liquid digestive biscuit, whoever told Evan that needs a salp up the side the head. Horlicks should be made with hot milk and is malt flavoured drink. I would say in the UK Horlicks is generally drunk by people of certain age and usually around bedtime.

Willow on the Green in San Francisco is amazing!

I kinda love when you shout at Pheonix if he likes something

next thing you know they'll have fish and chip shops and they'll sell fries instead of proper chippy chips lol

A large Freddo costs $1.19 at my supermarket here in Australia and $0.85 when on sale

British, have a teapot that I occasionally use, usually if it is cold and I’m busy so I want to have lots of tea at my desk, or if I was being fancy when guests are over.

Teapots are ideal for loose-leaf tea. This video is making me realize the vast majority of what's in "British" shops in the USA could also be in "Canadian" shops there. We have most of those items and brands. And yes, Twinings is my favourite tea! I prefer Earl Grey.

Most of these things are stuff I can get at the Safeway I work at here in Vancouver, BC. Growing up, I could even have gotten some of them back in Antigua in the Caribbeans (lived of Weetabix in the morning in milk or slathered with peanut butter).

If you mix 1 part salad cream with 2 parts mayo you get close to miracle whip. That's mostly what I use salad cream for but the polish side of me loves it in sandwiches with polish smoked sausage. 😋

Seeing you get roasted for calling the tall teapots "tea kettles" is killing me 🤣 I'm assuming you were thinking of cowboy kettles and it got lost in translation? 🤣 The ONLY reason I've made that connection is my dad's requested a cowboy kettle for Christmas to go on the wood burning stove! (We live rural, still got single glazing, winter is gonna suck).