@@nathancarr3916 It was concocted in 1895 by Fred Gibson, a grocer in Nottingham, and HP Sauce stands for Houses of Parliament Sauce. Yes, we have many other countries to thank for the discoveries of tea, sugar, spices and herbs traded and brought over here from the Silk Roads starting around 15th century. Obviously the parts of nasty (slave boats) history behind all those too though, can’t not mention that
What is truly 'weird' about Britian is the humour - it can be raucous or subtle and sly, and what creases Brits is when other people take our humour seriously. You can say something outrageous completely dead pan, and if you are not British you may not realise it is a joke.
I am from the North and l would have Southerners insult me because of where l'm from and my accent.l worked with a guy and he would start to insult me!however I gave it back to him !! I guess it was just what you call Banter.We actually got on well and we liked each other. People from other Countries wouldn't get that sense of British humour. This banter wasn't 😂 given Nastily or with the intention of hurting anyone, Some people would not understand this humour.
@@seanhopton. I know what you mean, the exchange between Northeners and southeners can be brutal, but then we have a drink or meal together. I am a southerner, my husband from the North East - and it can be merciless. But any strife and my first call would be my northern relations.
I've found that out humour doesn't really translate on the internet, I've got into trouble quite a few times over what I thought was a fairly silly joke but a non-Briton has taken offense to it. It got me banned from Reddit a couple of times.
Something else we do that overseas visitors may find odd, if not weird, is how everyone will cheer loudly if someone drops a tray of dishes in a restaurant/cafe.
Oh yes especially when a teacher does it even louder in school. I still remember that . Not sure if kids still do it these days tho but definitely did it in my days think it was 2012 my last school year
It seems to be a fairly common thing that when there are videos and lists of things that are supposedly uniquely British, some of them are actually just normal things outside of North America. The washing machines and tipping are like that in a lot of places. It's like the people compiling the lists have only been to the US and UK
Yes, there are loads of videos like this and I often point out that it is Americans who are weird. Brits are not that different to other Europeans. I live in Croatia and tipping is actually less of a thing here than it is in UK.
@@Phiyedough the tipping is possibly related to how bad the worker's rights are in the US. Wait staff can be paid less than minimum wage, because they will supposedly make up the difference in tips. That's why US wait staff are so attentive, and overly nice to the customers. If they don't get the tips, then they can't afford to live. To non-Americans visiting the US, it can come across as fake/insincere. Guess that Croatia is similar to the UK, in that we don't expect our wait staff to act like they are our servants. They're just doing their job, like the rest of us. In parts of France, they don't like tipping. The French waiters can act like you insulted them. It's kind of funny watching Americans in Paris
@@TychoCelchu same in Japan. Waiters etc will refuse to accept a tip. Insults their professional pride by insinuating that they will not do their job properly without the additional reward.
British humour is unique and the best humour worldwide. But be warned it can be very brutal if your unaware of the way we take the piss out of people we really aren't being rude we just love to humiliate people as part of our humour. The UK has over 200 accents and dialects but that isn't weird at all its just our culture. The accents come from the fact that the UK used to be so cut off from one place to the next so we all spoke and sounded different. Its just remained the same over the technical age.
The majority of UK homes were built before washing machines became available. The kitchen was one of (if not the only) room in the house with plumbing. Brick walls make retrofitting hard.
Even later housing the washing machine was a twin tub top loader. big things and if you where lucky you had an integrated spin drum which made it even bigger. we had ours in the larder and brought it out to use as not plumbed in. Front loaders are new fangled and only 40 years old or so.
I bought a very old fashioned house in Scotland in 1997. The estate agent details did not mention a kitchen but there was a room listed as a "wash-house". It had the traditional earthenware sink with just a cold tap and in one corner was the solid fuel wash copper. There was no bathroom but there was an outside loo.
Actually we tip all the time - most often, a service charge between 10% and 12.5% is added to a bill, but I always reward good service and SAY it was good service. Having worked as a waiter and a barman I know how appreciated it is
Tipping,well I never get tipped when I'm @ work,well I get a weekly wage,same as staff in restaurants/pubs etc. I'd always be worried about the boss taking the tip.
I love these comparison videos, here are my responses to a few: * Wigs worn by the legal profession are just traditional in the UK - thankfully I've never stood in front a Wig. * Washing Machines - I live in a flat (apartment) and have a laundry room here in the basement, I would love to have my own washing machine in my kitchen - I have the space for it. * Spotted Dick, it's so delicious served with custard. You're going to have to try it live on a taste test video. * As a Brit born and bred, I only tip for exceptional service. I think you have to look at the larger pay scale. Our waiting staff are low paid, but nowhere near as low as n the US. * Accents- I was born in Devon (west country accent) and lived away for many years (I married a Soldier) When I lived in the Midlands my accent was looked on as 'proper posh', when I then moved back to the South West I was asked if I was a Scouser. As far as I know, my accent hasn't changed. Our daughter having a Devonshire mother and a Cornish father didn't get the accent right when she auditioned for a part in the play 'Pirates of Penzance' 🤣
I was born in Southern England (Kent) but I spent half my life living in Yorkshire. Then I moved to the black country for a while (Devizes) and then I spent a couple of years in Darlington so my accent is all over the place, the best part is my 4 kids have picked up on some of this but have only lived down South so people can't work out where they're from.
@@mynameisGail Scousers tend to hold on to their accents more than most when they move to another region. I know a few Scousers down here in the south, and they still have their Scouse accents. In fact I can think one Scouser I know who I'm sure has a stronger Scouse accent than when she first moved down here over forty years ago, as if she's purposely cultivated her accent to be even more Scouse.
Sarcasm! Brits are just great at sarcasm. I love it when you're sarcastic to someone and it just flies right over the persons head. I think if there was an Olympic sport in sarcasm Great Britain would win gold all the time.
My Grandmothers house only had cold water on tap (a single one in the scullery) so I learned the secret of the Bowl and the mixing of hot water (heated on a gas ring) and cold. A skill which has served me well over the years of the great mixture tap drought.
I remember we only had a coalfire to heat our home up. You would get dressed really quick because of the cold. What l rememver most was the ice on the inside of the window, your fingers would stick to the ice. You couldn't see out of the window !! That was only in the 80/ late 90s.
@@pyrogian older,larger houses,generally from the Victorian-Edwardian periods,but in essence,a generic term for what is now known as either utility or laundry room.
I'm from Manchester. between my house and Liverpool just 35 miles away, there are three completely distinct accents (Manc, Lancs and Scouse) with their own colloquialisms.
As a plumber l can tell you that traditionally the hot water came from a cold water tank in the roofspace where bugs and possibly vermin could enter. This meant the hot water pressure was way lower than the mains water therfore you could not mix them. In later years manufacture of mixer taps changed so tht the water could not mix within the tap so that unequal pressure no longer mattered. Then with the advert of sealed hot water systems at equal pressures and no longer using roooof supply tanks the whole system has changed for the better. But not all properties have been updated updated.
@@LADYRAEUK There has never been the need to burn or freeze while washing your hands, just put the plug in the drain hole & add both hot & cold to your requirements, turn off the taps when you've got enough water in the basin! Then pull out the plug after you've finished.
Hi Amanda I've been up in front of a few judges and magistrates over the years and wigs and black robes are only worn in criminal cases if its a civilian court case then they don't wear them or the black robes, and brown sauce is a must in a bacon butty.
I love a bacon butty and I love HP Sauce, but there are some things where never the twain shall meet. Straightforward ketchup for me on a bacon sanger.
@@simonsaunders8147 I hear what you are saying mate and I've tried both in my bacon butties, but the brown sauce wins for me but everyone likes what they like and if we all liked the same it would be a rather boring world.
separate taps are there to provide safe cold drinking water. once you mix the hot water into the spigot of a mixer tap, it is contaminated and can result in bacteria's than can kill. we don't tip in Britain and Europe is because unlike America, we pay our waiting staff a decent wage. Brown sauce and HP sauce are totally different. Brown sauce is vinegary, while HP is fruity.
General rule of thumb for non-Britons: If a British person insults you, chances are we like you and want you to engage in banter. But there is a line, we don't do mum jokes, it's likely to get your nose smeared across your face, especially up North.
You mean you don't tell jokes about someone's mother? I'm from up north and I've never heard one. Whether it's taboo or not I can't say. In fact I can't say I've ever heard of one off the top of my head, not even on the telly. However, I've heard of an absolute screamer which involves A mother, as well as her son, husband, and daughter.(in that order) I've told this short joke many times and people have pissed themselves with laughter. I'm not sure I'm at liberty to tell it here. Suffice to say, it involves criminal conduct and in incredibly bad taste and no doubt offensive to many. I've probably said too much already, so before all hell breaks loose I'd better draw a line under it.
No. We don't go in for 'Yo Mama' jokes here. Mums are generally held in high esteem and treated with respect. You might hear a big bloke, who's covered in tattoos, say something like: "I love my old mum." And it'll be the truth. Woe betide anyone who makes a 'Yo Mama' joke within his earshot.
I understand why there are regional accents as most people don't seem to travel very far from home as a rule. However, I was surprised when on a road trip with our British friends in the Midlands on one of our recent visits 5 years ago that I had no clue what someone was saying to me. After I left, I asked my friend what the person was saying and his response was, "I haven't a clue", LoL. Great reaction video, I hope all is well Rob
Two x's - my god woman! Just the one from me, stiff upper lip and all that. One doesn't want to appear too emotional, what! 😂😂 Great video Amanda and as you say, if we were all the same then the world would be a pretty boring place.
@@LADYRAEUK and HP and Daddies Sauce have different flavours, because HP was originally created to be a "Gentlemens Condiment" for use in the House of Commons and has a Unique Recipe which is Copyrighted.
Hi Amanda, asides from the obvious shortage of space, I always thought the reason for the washing machine in the kitchen was the convenience. As we tend to have washing lines in our back gardens or back yards & the kitchen is usually closest.
I think it may be a throw-back to the fun that Anglo-Saxons would take from weaving riddles, which explains the English sense of humour, and the play on words and secret messages. The English make fun of pomposity and employ puns better than anyone....they can be devastating in a put-down, or to just test who you are, to make fun of you:)
And most (not all) of the population having a respectable vocabulary derived from multiple languages. Please, don't give the anglo-saxons / anglo-normans credit for what they found when they stole the country at the point of a sword.
Regarding the accent thing, I grew up in central South Wales - a mining valley (they called us 'woolly backs' [reference to the hill farm sheep] because all the valley people across South Wales just about share the same accent). 5 or 6 miles south in town was a completely different accent (we called them 'townies', amongst other names) and just a few miles north was another distinctive, almost Mid Wales accent (more drawn out Welsh consonants, like "LL" and "RH"). Three distinct accents within 12 miles, yet all noticeably Welsh, though all English speaking. All the same dialect but all different accents. 25 miles east was Cardiff and 25 miles west was Swansea (I don't know why I say "was" because they are still the same distances from where I grew up) and they both had different accents of the same dialect too. Cardiff seems to draw out and inflect the vowels a lot more than the rest of Wales; i.e., Cee-aardiff), a bit like Liverpool Scouse but not at all like that. Swansea (think Dylan Thomas) generally has the distinctive sing-song cadence. You can almost pin-point exactly where someone grew up in South Wales when hearing their accent. None of them are at all like Mid or North Wales accents. Often called 'The Land of Song', I think of it more as 'The Land of Accents'.
Housing stock in 'Britain' varies from tiny to silly large. There's plenty of houses with laundry rooms or 'utility' rooms to keep all the appliances out of the living areas- nothing new there.
HP, the UK's no. 1 brown sauce has been adding oomph to your favourite dishes since 1903. The original recipe was invented and developed in 1899 by Frederick Gibson Garton, a grocer from Nottingham. Garton sold the recipe for the sum of £150 to settle a debt with Edwin Samson Moore, the founder of the Midlands Vinegar Company, who launched what we know and love today as HP Sauce. If you didn't know, HP stands for 'Houses of Parliament' as it was rumoured the sauce was used in the restaurant there, back at the turn of the 20th century. Since then the sauce has become so popular that a whopping 28 million bottles are consumed in a year - if the bottles were stacked on top of each other, they would reach the same height as 6,189 Houses of Parliament!
They were intended as a "disguise" so briefs couldn't be recognised outside of court according to a QC mate of mine they cost a bloody fortune - I think her first one was about £750
Brown sauce is the best thing ever! Absolutely goes with bacon in fact that's a given, none of that tomato sauce m'larky. We apologise for everything as well, even if it's not our fault. Someone, accidentally steps on your foot. It's the person whose foot that was stepped on that apologises. Do Americans think it's weird that we like Marmite as well? I mean, it is definitely a love/hate situation. Overall I agree with someone of them on the video. But, that's what makes us Brits unique.
In most Eastern European housess/flats, washing machine is in the bathroom. As in room with the bath toilets are often separate. Same logic as in the kitchen - that's where plumbing goes into.
Desserts for you to try: Spotted Dick with Custard Rice Pudding with a dollop of jam Eton Mess Jam Roly Poly and Custard Bakewell Tart (original is called Bakewell Pudding) from the village of Bakewell, and not the nasty processed Mr Kipling ones. Treacle Sponge Pudding, again with custard Treacle Tart Rhubarb Crumble (how to consume a poisonous plant in a delicious way)
Not only are the accents so diverse. But I've had people talk to me in English, yet not been able to understand ONE individual word. I'm Danish & we have some odd accents as well. But nothing as extreme as Britain.
I'm surprised moaning about the weather didn't make it in! - admittedly, not everyone does but many a Brit will never be satisfied with the weather! Anyway!: great video Amanda!! xxx .... ohhhh I went too far there!
I don't think we do moan about it really; it's just that our weather is so variable that it's a ready subject upon which to strike up a conversation, especially with strangers. It's really our collective bonding process, akin to pledging allegiance to the flag in the US.
I once read a comment on Quora by an American gentleman who was speaking about about the expressions Brits use . He asked " And can someone please tell what the hell is the meaning of the village bike " . To the American folks here the village bike is a loose woman, a tart, etc . What do you do with a bicycle ? You ride it . Everyone has had a ride . Catching on overseas friends?
I don't use X's. I use emoji's. I watched Danny Dyer teaching Cockerny to Americans, phonetically. Try these, Amanda: "Corta panda", "alma chizzit", "janarta meen". Good luck. 🇺🇸🇬🇧💜🖖
@@LADYRAEUK I've always told my daughter that weird is good. Being called 'weird' is a compliment. 'Weird' means you're different - and who the heck wants to be the same as everyone else? She's now 16 and super-weird. 😅🤣
@@LADYRAEUK "weird" comes from the Anglo-Saxon word "wyrd", it is a concept of "fate", but not in the pre-destiny sense of the meaning that other cultures have.
Weird v 'Not wired' - surely outsiders always view others traits as a mix of both. Vive la difference and celebrate our diversity, uniqueness, eccentricities. That's what makes the world such a funny, interesting, mind-blowing, shocking place. 👏😱😜😄
My Daughter did a Law Degree & became a Barrister, she told me two things, the more worn a Barrister's wig is the better & longer he/ she' s been practicing. The other thing is, there is a pocket in the back of their gown so as in oldern times, the client's solicitor would put more coins in to make the Barrister work harder.
I think its only QC.s that had the purse? Newbie barristers are often called white wigs by older ones,. Barristers are never paid: they earn fees (this is syill the case, adverts for c;erks and sipport staf fin firms are minions of the fee-earners.
On the matter of regional accents I am told that there is a wicked rumour existing that the Northumberland Fusiliers are the only regiment in the British Army that has interpreters on it's strength so they can communicate with the rest of the Army.
Accents. Around 44 years ago I took a friend on a holiday to stay at my my Gramdmother's house, only about forty miles away. My friend often could not understand my grandmother and her brother's speech and dialect!
I remember watching an episode of American sit com Fraser where Daphney’s ( a British actress with strong Mancunian accent) brother came to visit, the brother being a British actor with a strong east London natural accent. This seemed odd unless the were separated at birth and there parents having came individually from the two cities and got divorced and moved back to their home cities take custody of one child each. Yeah I suppose that could happen
@@jamescrompton5291 John Mahoney was from Blackpool I think. He might have had an opinion on Daphnes Manchester accent which always grated on me even though I love the show.
Accents - the way I understand it it is a throwback (hundreds or even a thousand years ago) when different regions of Britain spoke different languages. Gaelic and Cornish being two examples. Another is Welsh which is still widely spoken in Wales. Cornish is still spoken by a few. The country has since standardised on English but the vestiges of the old languages remain in the form of regional accents.
There are a few interesting differences in colloquialisms - to "knock someone up" in the UK simply means to wake them in the morning by banging on their door. I understand the US use of the phrase also involves banging but that's as far as the similarity goes.
I visited somewhere at the other end of the country and my tour guide talked to me with a familiar accent...because he'd lived in the same town in his earlier life!
The reason for washing machines in the kitchen and separate taps is the same one - it is the way houses with hot water and (later) central heating were designed since the late Victoria era onwards. Essentially house would have the rising fresh water main entering the building in the kitchen and then supplying a cold water tank in the attic. That cold water tank would then provide gravity pressure to upstairs cold taps and a hot water tank (usually on the floor below). The hot water tank would be heated by gas (or electric elements) and houses with central heatings would run their heating circuits from that tank also. Now the kitchen cold water tap would always be direct to the main as that was your drinking water. As such it was never allowed for a mixer tap to exist in the kitchen because that would be mixing fresh mains water with hot tank water and (in the event of a valve failure) that could theoretically allow hot tank water to flow back into the water main. As the local Water Board could not know how clean your tank was (and legionella was quite common early on in this design history) this was not allowed. It still, technically, isn’t allowed in houses with tanks. For the same reason you had separate taps upstairs as well as, though these would both be fed by tanks, if your hot tank was contaminated (more likely) you would still not be able to contaminate your cold tank and you’d have at least cold water until you could ha e it seen to. Washing machines were always considered safer to run off freshwater rather than tank water (even though some designs required a hot water feed as well) and since the freshwater main was in the kitchen, your washing machine would be there also.
There is also the fact that hot water tanks in the loft were not always sealed and if the lid shifted, they may be contaminated (if you have mice or rats or birds up there that fall into the tank). This doesn't matter if the water is for washing - a whole different thing if you accidentally drink it!
Why should these items be classed as weird. It is what makes us! There are things other cultures do that we find weird. This is what defines individual cultures and stops all being identical.
I remember my grandmother saying don't drink from the hot tap it's poisonous. The hot water used to have a header tank and things used to fall in it, mice, cement and so on . Where the cold water was straight from the mains, that's why we have two taps. Now with combination boilers that's not needed
Well, he already admitted that the not tipping habit isn't really a British thing, tipping the way Americans do is rather uncommon in most if not all of continental Europe as well. Also in regards to regional accents, Germany has plenty of them just like the UK. People from Saxony, Bavaria, Lower Saxony (yes, that's a rather different place than Saxony), Frisia, Berlin, the Ruhr area, Swabia and many other place all have very different accents. I'm pretty confident other countries are similar, I vaguely remember reading someone from Skane in southern Sweden speaks quite differently from someone in Stockholm or Goteborg..It's just that most Brits and Americans are rather useless in speaking a second language, so they never get to experience the richness of other languages.
We don’t tip because that is usually priced into the bill (service charge) and staff get a decent wage. Tipping is for outstanding service. In the US, staff wages are comparatively low, and staff rely on tips for a significant part of their income.
I tip for a server going ‘the extra mile’ not for taking my order, walking 15 feet, passing my order through a hatch and then bringing me my order. It’s what they are paid to do, isn’t it? If lowly paid staff quit and owners can’t replace them, then they will have start paying a decent wage. Sorry. My mistake. That sounds like socialism.
Washing machines in UK kitchens has to do with the way our plumbing works. Anyway many UK bathrooms are too small to put a washing machine in. Mine doesn't have a toilet, because it's in a separate room next door to the bathroom, and there's a cupboard with the electric immersion heater next to the chimney, that the toilet is next to on the other side of the partition walls. So it's also down not to only space, but UK architecture. In my bathroom the taps are connected to the water tank, but in the kitchen only the hot tap is, so the water is only hot if my water heater has been on and the cold tap is directly attached to the mains water supply, as is the washing machine.
I'm a 3 X er. Always. Loved this video. Xxx I started teaching in a school in Gloucester in 1976. I came from Coventry originally. It took me ages to fully come to grips with the Gloucester accent. It's definitely got West Country tinges.
There has never been the need to burn or freeze while washing your hands, just put the plug in the drain hole & add both hot & cold to your requirements, turn off the taps when you've got enough water in the basin! Then pull out the plug after you've finished.
I think that two taps makes you use less water, you put a small amount of bot hot and cold in the bowl but with a mixer tap you can leave the tap flowing at the required temperature.
Regional slang, I'm originally from Bristol, sayings and words like gert lush (really nice), Jaspers (Wasps),Alright me luvver (how are you), different areas have there own colloquialisms. I've lived in the country side for 20 years now and my accent has softened but I still remember using these words and phrases :)
I have never *not* tipped in a restaurant in any country. In Germany you always round up when paying. In the UK and France you leave it on the table and in the US you add it to your payment.
Tipping is a thing in the States because the food/restaurant industry there don't pay proper wages. In the UK & EU they usually have a legal minimum wage.
l'm from Australia & l will comment on this: 1. our legal people wear wigs also(or did the last time l was in a courtroom). 2. every house that l have been to here has the washing machine in the laundry. 3. l love British humour. not too keen on Monty Python, although my adult kids love him. l loved The two Ronnies. "Four candles" had me chuckeling for days. 4. like traditional British food, roast beef, baked spuds, gravey, peas, Yorkshire pud, like Mum used to make. 5. ln my house the taps deliver water from a single nozzle. Didn t know this was a problem. 6. l don't tip. Don't see why l should assist the owner in paying his staff's wages. 7. l like brown sauce but prefer tomato sauce or Lancashire Relish. 8. l find the regional accents facinating especially the Northern ones. l can do a fair imitation of the Yorkshire & Geordie accents. Don't know if l could fool a native speaker though. Love your channel, Amanda.
The HP sauce is not a sauce but a meta-sauce, being composed of other ingredients and Worcestershire sauce. The more metas, the merrier the sauce. It's a very distinctive taste which I both love and hate, a perfect duality. A personal story form the late eighties, I briefly worked at the local Hewlett Packard office, and there they had the HP HP drinking contest every year with the engraved honor list, with a bottle of the brown sauce and a shot glass on display. I would not take part in that competition.
I'm British that live in South Africa, washing machine is in the kitchen, sink , dustbin, washing machine and fridge in reach. The locals cannot understand my dry homour . HP sauce is popular here, for awhile it was not around but we have it back. HP on susagers. I have a accent and sometimes I get misunderstood. And I do other British eccentric stuff .
Even London is full of different accents. Mine is North West London and also middle class, because there are class differences in accents too. But I do find that only other Londoners and people from the nearest counties, can tell the difference. At Art School in the early eighties, me and a friend in my year who was from Eastern Essex, were told by West country friends, to much amusement, that we sounded like cockneys.
I pick up local accents very quickly, to my embarrassment, but there are even different languages almost between the branches of the armed forces. I'm ex navy, my son is ex army (he also served with the RAF and on board one of H.M. ships) and we have a mutual friend who is ex RAF.. Over the years we have each picked up enough to be tri lingual plus our original English. Non service people get lost very quickly when we speak together.
Seems many countries put their washing machine in the kitchen, which i've only recently realised. Some of the horrible footage of destruction in Ukraine shows their washing machines in the kitchen even though Ukraine is huge compared to the UK.
I live on Teesside in the UK, and my accent is a North East one. Yet my aunty lives in a town called Peterlee, literally 9 miles up the road, and she has a Newcastle accent as do all the residents. I worked in a call centre years ago, based in Hartlepool (where they hung the monkey. Look it up on Google) and received calls from all over the UK and nine times out of ten the caller assumed I lived in Newcastle because of my accent.
They certainly have similar characteristics, but most people from outside the area (like me) couldn't tell the difference. But the locals ears are more atuned to it.
We do tip. But there isn’t the same expectation or amount. 10% is standard in restaurants, though some places will have a service charge instead, where the establishment creates an expectation by putting a figure on the bill, and at some places this might be 12.5% or 15% rather than 10%. Service charges are technically optional, but it creates an expectation, and it’s rare that the charge is withheld. If you were mildly disappointed with the meal, you’d likely still tip. It would tend to have to be a disaster for the service charge to be withheld. Rounding up to a con isn’t figure - which may be more or less than 10% and often way less outside of restaurants- is not unusual. I’ve never faced aggression for under tipping here, though I did in the US when I rounded up a cab fare.
