Brit Reacts British Highschoolers Try Biscuits and Gravy for the First Time! 

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Beans on toast is something you'd expect to get in prison circa 1830

After a hard day of work, you come in and eat a steaming hot plate of biscuits and gravy, and it's so good. Sticks to the ribs. You get all warm and cozy and slip off into a food coma.

American Biscuits: Throw together Flour, salt, and baking powder. Rub a bunch of butter into the flour (like you would for a pie crust) leaving lots of buttery lumps. Add buttermilk to bring it all together. Roll out into a 1 inch (2.5 cm) high square. Cut with biscuit cutter or glass or for square biscuits just cut with a knife into 3 inch (7.5 cm) squares. Place in buttered cast iron pan. Bake in a hot oven, 425 F (220 c), for 15 minutes. Crispy on the outside, soft and buttery in the middle. Yummies!!! Cream Gravy: Fry up American Breakfast Sausage. This is basically ground pork that is spiced heavily with sage, black and red pepper, and garlic. When browned add 2 Tablespoons (~16 g) flour to the hot pan and stir around for a couple of minutes to mix with the grease and fry out the flour flavor. Add milk, a little at a time, stirring thoroughly to get out the lumps each time. It'll take about 2 cups (~490 g) of milk to bring it to wall paper paste consistency. Season with tons of black pepper and plenty of salt. Done and dusted.

You really need to try homemade buttermilk biscuits with homemade sausage gravy.

Sausage gravy or country gravy. It's not like hotdog sausage or German sausage anything like that. It's pork breakfast sausage. Kinda spicy but also sweet. Goes great with maple syrup and pancakes.

I feel like some things needs to be clarified here. There are all different types of gravy. We have traditional brown gravy in the US that you put on mashed potatoes and such. This just happens to be a different kind. Sausage gravy is like a béchamel but you cook the sausage then add the flour and milk and spices and you get all the yummy flavors from the sausage fat. We also have scones in the US, but they are usually sweet and more dense then what we call a biscuit. Let’s also make the distinction that is not just iced tea, that is sweet tea. Very common in the south but not as much in the rest of the US. I’m actually not a fan it is just too sweet.

What you are seeing is just the beginning of how diverse gravy can be. Sausage, bacon, turkey, mushroom, onion, bean, pork, seafood There are tons of variants on the recipe and thus you get a new gravy for every type of added ingredient. Im shocked more brits have not figured out you can have a lot more than just beef. As for biscuits or scones, the recipe also differs as the original recipe in europe leaned more towards the dessert while america began to turn them into a savory item. This can also have a lot of variants depending on where in america you are as a lot of people have their on twist on the recipe so the recipe you see here is just the most basic of recipes. I theorize this all happened because american settlers didn't always have the same ingredients on hand when it came time for dinner so they used what ever was available. As more people experimented the more recipes that developed thus depending where ever you go you will find a recipe that probably started from simple settlers trying to make themselves a decent meal for dinner and this is what they discovered while experimenting.

Multiple people have explained to you what sausage gravy is, but I just want to clarify, the gravy that the kid was thinking of, Americans do eat that as well, but that type is more for mashed potatoes, than the biscuits shown in the video.

I have watched people react to this for awhile now. No one ever comments on HOW to eat biscuits. We split the biscuit like a scone and butter them. You can add jam, jelly, preserves, marmalade, honey, sorghum, molasses, etc. Everyone I know puts a spoonful of jam on the plate of biscuit and gravy. You get the sweet and savory. Everyone at the table argues over which flavor jam is best with it. :)

Biscuits are good with everything, they're best used for soppin' up the drippins from your meal.

Had refried beans with bread. Bless you.

As far as the reference to "Iced Tea". Ironically, it was introduced to Americans at the world's fair in Ohio in the 1800s by an English man

Biscuits and sausage gravy can be a meal in itself. You can dip fries in the gravy too. It's sweet tea.

I'm from USA never had biscuit &gravy till I was in my 20s now 1 of my favorite

Beans on toast is for when I’ve dug through my couch cushions for spare change, if I’m tired of cheap instant ramen noodles.

There are many kinds of gravy. I think what we call brown gravy is what is popular in Britain. There is red gravy, white gravy, sausage gravy, mushroom gravy, and many more.

I always put blackberry jam on my biscuits and gravy

Fried chicken, mashed pots, gravy from the chicken drippings, some fresh tomatoes and fried okra, brother that,'s eating! Fresh biscuits with butter and honey for dessert. Can't beat it.😄

I'm so proud of these future American's. 😊😊😊😊😊🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

They missed an American classic: chicken fried steak with country sausage gravy. The BOMB!!!!

Hot biscuits straight out of the oven, Honey n butter.

As a Southerner Ice tea is northern without sugar ! We drink Sweet tea it has sugar....lots of sugar😂😂

And the only good thing about being up and hard at work on Saturday! This was fun, I would eat this later in the day, bit rich for breakfast for me, sausage gravy I believe is a more popular food in the south, their reaction to it was priceless, as always thank you

Bless you.

The difference between American biscuits and scones is sugar and butter. Scones have a ton of sugar, and the biscuits don't. There is a lot of butter in biscuits that make them soft in the middle. To us Americans, beans on toast sounds like prison food.

You guys should try busch beans they come in so many flavors

Cracks me up to see people take a knife to biscuits and gravy. Ive tried beans on toast just out of curiosity, you can have my share.

Just be sure that you make white sausage gravy and add quite a bit of black pepper to it. If you make your own biscuits be sure to fold them several times to get the layers. I love iced tea but I prefer mine without sugar, which is weird for a Texan.

Beans and cornbread is the bomb.

We usually have biscuits and gravy with eggs and toast at breakfast. Satisfies hunger till lunchtime. We call it stick to your ribs food.

The gravy recipe is quite easy to make the biscuits are as well

The south or southeast of the US has the best tasting food and the nicest people!

Yes biscuits & gravy are delicious if done right. The lumps in the gravy are bits of sausage. You do not have to use sausage in uour gravy. Cream gravy taste good with or without sausage.

There’s is nothing better than a fresh hot biscuit with butter and jelly or butter and honey!!! Also nothing goes better with fried chicken than waffles with butter and maple syrup!

Two split biscuits on a plate, s serving of scrambled eggs on them, and the whole thing covered in sausage gravy is the perfect breakfast.

My first real job after high school was working at a restaurant and making this for breakfast every day.

Biscuits and Gravy may not look great, but it tastes awesome. It's possible to screw them up, when you don't get the gravy right. Like too much sausage which makes it bitter, but that's extremely rare. The way the hot gravy makes the biscuits moist is so good.

the difference between regular iced tea and southern sweet tea is we add the sugar when it's still hot so MORE sugar can dissolve than normally would. I believe in chemistry it's a concept known as supersaturation

Baked beans in England and Ireland is more like Pork and beans here in America.

If I see one more Brit say it is not gravy I am going to lose it.

Fried chicken and white gravy is surprisingly good too. Even unfried chicken. You can make chicken gravy as well, which is yellow, but white gravy works extremely well too. Restaurants that have chicken tenders will often have a side of white gravy in styrofoam cup for dipping. We also have what is called Chicken- or Country-Fried Steak. Which is a thinly cut steak, usually Sirloin, which is tendorized, and then covered in egg wash wnd batter and then deep fried. You then cover that with white gravy and just like the fried chicken here, it's miggty tasty. Whenever a restaurant offered country fried steak, i'd usually order it. Common sides for that meal are green beans and some sort of potato, either mashed of baked. You can country fry a porch chop too, but it's usually beef steak that you'd do that to. Basically what the white gravy does is it softens whatever you're putting it on, while leaving enough crunchiness (if its fried) that you're still getting all textures.

lol we do eat them with jam and butter as well xD

20MAY23: American here, tthe biscuits are made with shortening and butter and as they cook the two release a bit of steam. Making then nice, light and fluffy. a perfect pairing with Sausage gravy. Flavorful and filling.

Cream gravy tends to go well with almost anything fried. French fries, chicken, okra, the list goes on.

In the south we also have fried Chicken on Waffles....pour some syrup on top......yum.

Alas I am seeing another video other than Holland. Btw I am your old supporter!

thank you for being nice to the kids. i've watched a few videos with americans responding to this video and they truly say some mean remarks about the kids and laughing at them because they called a biscuit a scone. i can't believe how mad i got. i'm from texas and i understood every part of this video. some people are so uneducated. sorry for the rant.

I eat Baked Bean on toast all the time. Sometimes I just have beans and plain bread or even biscuits.

7:56 This makes me wonder what these high school students would think of an Arnold Palmer, which is basically ½ Sweet tea & ½ Lemonade

Biscuits and gravy are super easy to make at home, you don't need to come to the US to enjoy it! There are a lot of videos on the net showing you how to make it......just be sure to use lots of black pepper! I personally eat toast with my baked beans, so beans on toast is not a weird thing for many of us in the USA. I also enjoy just a piece or two of toast covered in "British" style, or roast gravy!! I grew up eating "hamburger gravy" on toast....which is the same as sausage gravy, but you use ground or minced hamburger instead of sausage.......we call it "Sh*t on a shingle" and it is really tasty as well!

Jolly just did a video about American High schoolers try British comfort food for the first time!

We have so many different gravies that we eat with biscuits. We even eat them with supper sometimes. I prefer bacon drippings over sausage.

My stepfather is British and he LOVES American food

Biscuits and gravy need some scrambled eggs dropped on the plate. Amazing.

Hahaha ....keep it up and youl get beans on toast.....it was a threat in our house

a solid typical american biscuits and gravy is best imo with sage sausage gravy. it adds another dimension of flavor and pairs with the flavor of the biscuit! just some advice if you ever make one!

Dude, come to Houston and I’ll show you around.

I tried the beans on toast❤😋 my Mom used to give us tomatoes over toast she said it came from our English ansestors 😂 yummy as well 👍

If i have beans on toast its gonna be nice italian bread with black beans that also have onions pablanos and cheese mixed in to make my favorite filling

I like gravy made with bacon grease I found sausage it’s too spicy with all my biscuits. I do love a good butter and jelly biscuit. I prefer grape , or apple better so good

There are some american diners in UK, mostly London.

If you really want to try it there are lots of videos were RU-vid creators made it.Same with legit southern sweet tea.

I like beans and potato crisps

Biscuits & gravy is a regional dish of the American South. It's poor people food, created to use inexpensive ingredients and be very filling for people with very little money and days full of hard work. Flour was inexpensive and a central staple in poor homes. Milk and butter came from the one cow a family or a neighbor had. Churning milk separated the fats (butter) from the liquid (buttermilk). Salt was an essential staple as well, and baking powder was very inexpensive and used in small amounts. Those were your ingredients for biscuits. Even today, rural farms have a few pigs and meat supply is also increased through hunting. Sausage was a way of getting the most out of a butchered animal; the ears, tail, snout, feet, fatty parts, etc was ground into mince, with spices, salt, and pepper added to extend freshness. formed into patties and fried, a lot of fat was released into the pan. But if broken into small bits and fried, flour added and sautéed to slightly brown, then milk slowly added to thicken, you get a very flavorful gravy. Salt and pepper to taste, and the meal is ready. Because biscuits & gravy are a pauper's meal, it's not just for breakfast, though breakfast is the most common meal. It's often served at any hour of the day, with or without side dishes. For breakfast, it's often accompanied by eggs, bacon, potatoes, fried apple slices, grits, rice, or toast. And at breakfast, there will be butter and a sweet such as jam or honey to put on biscuits not covered by gravy. Newgrl6651 has the right recipes for making this. The thing is the biscuits in this video look like they were overbaked. Proper American biscuits are white along the side and lighter-golden on top. Also, as you can tell from newgrrl6651's recipes, there is no sugar or other sweeteners in American biscuits; they're a savory flavor, more like rolls in flavor, but fluffier inside. It's the fluffiness that makes them very absorbent, so they take in and hold the gravy better. The American biscuits in this video also weren't properly plated. The one boy had the right idea, breaking the top and the bottom of a biscuit apart like a scone. To properly plate biscuits & gravy, you split the biscuits, lay them on the plate fluffy interior-side facing up, THEN pour the sausage gravy over them, so the fluffiness absorbs the gravy. Pouring gravy over an unopened biscuit would be silly, since the baked outer surface is not very absorbent. Also, Americans have a wide menu of gravy types. We also make gravy from every mammal and bird we cook and eat. Sausage gravy is just one type. We even make gravy for biscuits & gravy from chicken stock instead of sausage; we call that 'country gravy'. It's made very like sausage gravy except the grease is vegetable-based or butter and chicken stock is substituted for some of the milk. Otherwise, it still uses flour, salt, pepper, and milk. One final thing: Biscuit mix is available for making biscuits. Sausage gravy and country gravy are also available as a packet mix. I do NOT recommend them. Making them from scratch is easy, doesn't take that much more time, and tastes a whole lot better.

I am a 73 year old American and I have eaten beans and toast all my life.

Bean on toast is Heinz baked beans on toast. Not the best thing in the world but edible if you are very hungry and there's nothing else to eat.

I had biscuits and gravy and coffee just this morning

I could go for some biscuits and gravy right now

does anyone else find it disquieting that he knows what a chopped-up ferret looks like?

I'm sure tons of ppl told you how to make it. My one piece of advice is TONS of fresh black pepper 😊

In America we have every flavor barbq, southern, grilled, Mexican, seafood you name it. Pork and Beans on toast sounds more like bread and water to Americans

Sausage gravy is so simple to make, all it is flour milk and ground sausage. You brown the sausage and add about a table spoon of flour you can eyeball it. Then after you brown the flour a little you add your milk to the consistency you want. It will thicken up the longer you cook it. You can make the biscuits from scratch. Another RU-vidr Mr H and Friends,his wife did cooking with Mrs H and she made it. I know you don't have ground sausage you can get the links and cut it out of the casing

Just make your own from scratch :) you can do it and it's best that way. I have faith!

Honestly it’s just that good

Biscuits and Gravy are not hard to make. Download some recipes and get to it. Mr. H and friends have made and they loved it.

Sweet tea

I will never try bean on toast because the only beans I like are refried beans with lots of lard though out.

There seems to be a HUGE misconception as to what Gravy is. Gravy is literally defined as a "covering sauce." Gravy is usually made with the broth/roux of whatever meat you're cooking with. White sausage gravy as seen here is nothing more than cooked up sausage bits, flour, and milk. (Salt and pepper to taste). It's extremely easy to make. You cook up your sausage, then add a certain amount of flour, stir that in a bit to it starts getting pasty, and then you start adding milk to get that white gelatinous look. You just stir it all together by adding a bit of milk until you get the comsistency you want. Some people like the gravy thicker and chunkier, but others, like myself like their gravy a bit thinner and runnier. Not too thin, but just thin enough to wear it pours over the biscuits nicely. And then once you put it on your bis uits, which you should halve before you pour the gravy over them, so that the gravy can soak into the flakey goodness, you just add a bit more pepper, and you'll have the best breakfast meal ever. I'd rather have a big plate full of biscuits and gravy than bacon, eggs, hashbrowns and toast. Most fast food joints that seeve breakfast in the States have a Biscuits and Gravy option. And in my opinion, Hardees beats them all out, including McDonalds.

I love a full English breakfast (except thae black pudding) abd the beans were good but they have nothing on biscuits & gravy. By the way we don't put sausage in the crwam gravy we serve with chicken. That's overkill even for us. 😂😂

You can make American biscuits and sausage gravy on your own. Same with country fried steak/chicken. There's some versions on the internet.

Very south loosiana man here. Biscuits and gravy ,gravy is not a rice and gravy ,gravy. Biscuits and gravy is more a breakfast food. It's made totally different than a meat gravy

They needed a fried chicken leg. Chicken fingers are alright, but meat eaten off the bone, perfect.

Hold on!! I'm legit offended. That is NOT southern fried chicken. That's simply boneless chicken that was fried. Southern friend chicken is actual chicken parts battered up and deep fried.

Basic differences, is scones have eggs in recipe and biscuits do not.

It's pretty good

I think you should try biscuits & gravy for yourself now and post your own reaction. It's really, really good when done right.

We eat biscuits and jam to

Ha! newgrl posts how to make biscuits and gravy .. and it turns into an immediate food war!! Great!

Actually they got it slightly wrong. Basically Biscuits and sausage gravy, or even just cream gravy without the sausage for some people. But it's normally a breakfast dish and never served with southern fried chicken. You can get cream gravy when you order chicken tenders, ( usually breast meat, no bones or skin), at restaurants and dipping tenders in cream gravy is a thing. But never sausage gravy. And it would be uncommon for anyone to order sweet iced tea along with breakfast. Most likely they would drink coffee, milk or orange juice along with a breakfast meal. Of course there could be a few oddballs out there who would order sweet iced tea with their breakfast but it's not a regular thing. And speaking of the gravy. We also have the brown gravy. Most restaurants in the Southern United States will offer cream or brown gravy with lunch or dinner meals. Mashed potatoes are a common food that you would be asked which type of gravy you wanted with it. If you wanted gravy at all. And the sausage in sausage gravy is probably not the type of sausage your thinking of. It's more like ground pork, no casings, seasoned with quite a bit of sage Black pepper, cayenne pepper, salt and other herbs depending on what brand you buy. But definitely the sage is essential in a breakfast sausage for sausage gravy. If you were to just order the breakfast sausage on it's own. You'd get something that looks more like a couple of miniature hamburger patties, only made of ground pork and seasoned liberally with sage and pepper. Hope this explanation helps clear a few things up.

What Brits call biscuits, we call cookies.

Oh I forgot you season it with salt and pepper

Think beans on toast is good, try some pinto beans and CORN BREAD

Why would we settle for beans and toast when we can have pinto beans and tortillas or pita bread and hummus?

Jolly did American students trying beans on toast.. it didn't go as well as this....

I've tried beans on toast with Heinz bbq backed beans and I tried to like it but it was just gross to me

Try the Jolly video where they go to Waffle House. That is just as fun to watch. Like all their videos are.

I've never had beans on toast, but I do already know it's not for me because I absolutely hate the taste of baked beans! So I very much doubt a piece of bread will make me like them.

YT is American. It's s biscuits, not scones.

If you can find the ingredients in your country you would be able to try to make it maybe?