Brit Reacts to AMERICAN STUDENTS eating BRITISH Comfort Foods for the First Time! 

I never ever EVER thought I'd hear beans on toast compared to biscuits and gravy. I can already hear the "bless your heart" from just about every US Southerner right now 😂

I dated a British fella years ago and got to try quite a few of his favorites and... UK food tastes like centuries of regret.

For a country that is famous for trading spices, it's amazing they never used them.

British food looks like something you eat if you're on punishment or in prison.🤣🤣

The 7 words you will never hear in America are "Let's go out for some British Food."

Americans, this is what Paul Revere saved us from. God bless him.

The British have amazing pastries and cakes. British tea sandwiches are amazing. I love their tea services- so elegant!

Him being offended that the beans weren't on toast.😂😂 I THOUGHT he was appalled that they were straight out of a can! I guess I was wrong 😂😂😂

Have you ever heard the joke about "What is it like in European Hell ?" Answer : "The Italians run the Government, the Swiss are lovers, the French are mechanics, the Germans are the Police, and the English are the cooks."

Strange how the British took over the spice trade but none of them ever thought of trying some with their foods😅

I am a US marine and all we had was MRE'S in the Gulf War and the British Marines gave us this. Hot cooked food was a treat! We loved it. They did fry the toast.

Friends don't let friends do British food.

I lived in England for 3 years, lost a lot of weight, came home to America, and gained it all back in 2 weeks.

The American revolution wasn’t really about taxation without representation, it was about culinary independence 😉🤣

The British kids eating the American foods is a good one as well.

As a Mexican i can confirm that if we are out of tortillas then yeah we will use toast.

Beans on toast in the US is a survival meal. It reminds us of the “Great Depression”

I lived in England for three years. After 2 years I was at a restaurant and complained to my friends about the food. She said " you need to embrace the culture" . I said " There's embracing the culture and there's Settling for Less". :This is just settling for less 😁

I first went to Britain for a month long holiday in the late '80s. If it hadn't been for pub food, I would have starved to death. Everything else was inedible. Even their fast food (Wimpy Burger, at the time). THANKFULLY, the Britain of today has some EXCELLENT food. It's been fun watching the progression these past 4 decades.

My Grandmother was British and she made home made beans which was the best beans Ever and toast on the side so you can serve yourself. 🥰😋 So much better then the can stuff

I feel so bad for Lewis. He always says the US is so patriotic but he’s so insulted on behalf of his entire country.

You eat with your eyes first. As a southerner dont ever compare biscuits & gravy to beans on toast

I have to give some love to British food. My husband and I went to NY City in the late '90s and there was this tiny little British gem of a restaurant tucked away in Greenwich Village, Tea & Sympathy. He had a fish fry, I had shepherd's pie, and we shared some kind of hot berry trifle/pudding thing for dessert, and straight up that's one of the best meals I have ever had!

I have to say 'We Americans" love our Toasted Buns with Cheese and pickled Relish with a Grilled Hot Dog , Burger or Banger in the Center...! We don't normally go around eating toasted bread cheese with pickles unless it's a 'Pan Grilled Cheese with pickles , and Grilled in Butter...!Fact...!😊😍 Beans go in soup or chilli...! 😂😂😂

This is the kind of food you would eat when you're unemployed and there is nothing left in the cupboard but a can of beans and an old jar of pickles. This is a couple days away from starving.

That’s why whenever a Brit comes to US they can’t get over that our food actually has taste.

9:13 the conviction in your disappointment is priceless

I have been to a Chinese, Mexican, Indian, Mediterranean, German, Italian, French restaurant etc., in American, but have never ever heard of a UK or English restaurant in the US

American born and raised by British immigrant parents. Whenever we went to England to visit the family, I tried...I really tried. All I can say is, "Thank God for Cadbury chocolate biscuits." 😅

We gave Jolly fried chicken, biscuits and gravy, mac n cheese, and banana pudding. You gave the kids Marmite on toast.

I grew up in California with an Australian mother. I was drinking 5 cups of tea a day at age three. We had porridge with treacle for breakfast daily. I love marmite and vegemite but it’s expensive here. It has to be spread very thinly on hot buttered toast with tea 🫖 to drink. I also love cucumber sandwiches.🥪

The kid in white keeps scraping his teeth with the fork. I bet his dentist loves him

for a country that created an empire that colonized around the world for spices... your country rarely uses actual spices...

The British don't have cuisine, they have food. To underscore this I can say that in 60+ years of travels around the U.S., I've never seen a British food restaurant. We have Chinese, Mexican, Italian, French, German, Japanese and even tiny countries like Vietnam have popular restaurants here, but NO British restaurants!! None! But in fairness to the Brits, NO ONE can beat their Lemon Curd or their Orange Marmalade!!! It's the very best and we can't beat it!! 👍👍👍❤️

As an American I really enjoy beans and toast. I make an English breakfast on occasion and it's pretty good.

Aww. Doesn't matter what other people like. Just what u to eat matters, kiddo.❤

I think that many Brits fail to realize that Heinz Baked Beans are an American product. The company that makes them was started in 1869 by Henry J. Heinz in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (USA). They weren’t introduced to Great Britain until 1901.

Beans on toast seems like it was left over from WWII when there wasn’t a lot to eat. ❤️

I’m just going to come out and say it. I’m an American who loves the British food that I’ve had. Coronation chicken, steak and ale pie, fish and chips, bangers and mash, etc. I love it! Can’t wait to go back and have more.

My mom is Scottish and when I was struggling in my younger days and she came for a visit, she suggested we have beans and toast. She did, I ate my ramen! Lol I love some HP!

Please never compare biscuits and gravy to beans and toast 😅

I think the problem is that as Americans we have such a wide variety of good food that something as basic as beans on toast isn’t going to be good unless you’re really hungry.

I’m born and raised Savannah GA and the southeast is heavily British Irish heritage. Our version of the beans on toast is can of cold, (straight from the can)VanCamp pork and beans served with a pound (maybe a little less) of fried bacon and soft, white bread. This is also a favorite meal for camping.

Peanut butter on toast then drizzled with Sriracha is easy to prepare, tasty, relatively nutritious and cheap.

I have worked in the U.K. since 2008, and still go on a regular basis. I remember the first time i was there, i went on a date, and she said she is going to take me to eat classic English food. We went to a Indian restaurant. I started laughing and thought she was just joking. No, she wasn't. She didn't understand why i was laughing but confused. I will say the food was good.

British cuisine is apparently, "well, I didn't die, so this is now a staple in my diet."

I never in my life heard anyone say let’s get some British food

I don’t understand why beans on toast gets such high praise. I’m in my 70’s and when I was growing up one of my mothers go to meals ( close to payday) included baked beans. A hot dog browned in a. Skillet then cut up into small slices and added to the beans. Came with butter bread. Sometimes it was put into a hot dog bun, topped with baked beans with a side of thinly sliced fried potatoes.

Lewis, I now understand why you eat American fast food 5 times a week. Kids and teenagers are ALWAYS BRUTALLY HONEST, regardless of their country of origin. When you finally come over here, you're going to be very angry; you'll feel like you've been lied to your whole life. Like a Cuban immigrant visiting an American grocery store for the first time; happy, sad, angry, and overwhelmed...all at the same time. 😮😮

Don't take offense to it. We eat a lot of food that is well seasoned and some British food is just bland to us. Those are American teenagers, and they are going to be brutally honest. Their palettes favor foods that have a little spice to it. And also biscuits with gravy is second to none.

They have the oddest food combinations. In all of my life of eating grilled cheese sandwiches I have never thought let me try this with pickles. 😂😂

I watched the video of the Scottish guy in Texas. Born and raised in Texas. Ived all over the state except for west Texas, it's way over there. LOL. Been out there a few times. I grew up along the south Texas coast . It took a long time to go anywhere. I've spent a lot of my adult life in the east and Texas area.from Beaumont and Texarkana , to Houston area. Each area of Texas is different, with different accents, food favorites, and climate. The houses on stilts are to combat high water sea surges during a hurricane or flooding along rivers and bayou in a huge thunderstorm flood or a rainy tropical system. We do have every kind of food. Texas was influenced by the native Americans and all the immigrants that came after.❤❤😊😊 Enjoy your program.

The salty face is killing me! 😂😂😂😂 Come across the pond…we’d love to feed you!😂

The best part is Lewis' face when one of the kids used the spoon "I want to scrape this off". That was priceless. @8:41

My friend... remember, between English women and English food a great nation of sailors was born!

What we do is a Grilled Cheese SANDWICH. I grill mine with either butter or olive oil. Sometimes i put jalapeño slices, pickles, or mild green chilies in it, too.

Lewis, thanks for being a good sport for this video. It was a lot of fun watching your reaction.

I'm a Texan...and we have some British resteraunts here in the Houston area....and I love the shepherd's pie...fish and chips....and sausage rolls....ive also had (and loved) scones with clotted cream and lemon curd!!! So the British do have good food...its just not shown in this video 🥰

Oh, Lewis! There ARE Americans who DO love your nation's comfort foods! I had the good fortune to stay with families in South London, Bristol, Yorkshire, Edinburgh, Manchester, and Liverpool. My "adopted mum" in Catford (South London) was a fabulous cook! She was so sweet. She brought a cup of tea to my room each morning to wake me up. She prepared a traditional English breakfast, complete with beans on toast, sausage, or bacon, eggs, and a lovely roasted tomato. It was a feast! Porridge was also an option, should we so desire. She sent us off for the day with lovely prepared sandwiches of chicken, tuna, or egg salad, BLT, or some sort of cheese and pickle combination. I did try a marmite sandwich once, and I must admit that once was enough! At tea-time, we enjoyed what we Americans would call a light supper, served with a poached fruit covered with a delicious, homemade vanilla cream sauce. This was served warm, and was the most comforting of all the foods I enjoyed having during my visit. THEN, several hours later, we were served ANOTHER meal, much like what we would call, dinner! This meal was served around 9PM. Just in time to retire for the night on a full belly! At home, we hardly ever had four meals in a day, but this particular family did. Needless to say, I always felt well-fed and happy to experience any and all British (or Scottish) foods that were put in front of me. Which brings me to a funny story about my first Scottish breakfast. While driving from Yorkshire to Edinburgh, our driver told me to "keep an eye out (the van window) for haggis." When I asked, "What's a haggis?" He replied, they are animals native to the Scottish Highlands, that look like hairy birds." So, all the way to Edinburgh, I was on the lookout for these mythical creatures. The next morning, when we went down to the hotel dining room, I heard the couple seated next to us order a full haggis breakfast. When it was served, I took a peek, and I couldn't even begin to describe what I saw. At least, our driver owned up to the fact that it wasn't a cooked hairy bird. It was worse! (Sounding) I didn't have the nerve, then, to try it. Maybe now, I might. But, I would have to go back to Scotland to do so, as it is illegal to import haggis to the US.

Most of us think of "comfort food" as something warm and comforting that Mom made from scratch, not a can of weird sweet beans dumped on wonder bread. Comfort food is food that beckons people to the kitchen when they smell it, like freshly baked bread. It soothes your soul. I don't think canned beans and marmite would soothe my soul or comfort my husband after a long day of work.

No, that wasn't grilled cheese. It looks like cheese melted on bread in a toaster oven. A grilled cheese sandwich has buttered bread with cheese sandwiched in between them and then heated on the grill top until the cheese is melted. Just wait, I'm sure you're going to love our American food.

This explains why Gordon Ramsay is so pissed off all the time. The man is trying his best to cook a decent meal and maybe, just MAYBE, change his country’s reputation of having gross food. Bless his poor ole heart!

Hey, you Brits gave us delicious Tea and yummy Fish & Chips - More than makes up for the Marmite and the Beans...lol!! I'm thinking the cheese and pickles is probably pretty decent because I love both. Now I'm interested in trying British food!

I love beans on toast. I find it extremely comforting. Warm slices of toast spread with real butter, then topped with beans. Mmm mmm mmm! My mother used to make us cheese toast all the time. This brings back wonderful memories of my childhood. I absolutely love marmite. I always keep a jar on hand. To me it tastes like a very strong cheese.

"It smells like poison." LOL. Give that girl a 🌟

He looks seriously hurt when they don't like that food poor guy

When i think of the UK , the first thing I think about foodwise, is that Fish that's battered to look like fried chicken and French fries they call chips, and those bland biscuits and scones to go with tea.

I'm American and I LOVE British food. :)

Your death glares during the "cheese on toast" segment were hilarious.

Canned beans are for power outages, camping etc. Now black, white or red beans cooked with smoked ham hocks and the last 20 min add onion, cilantro, garlic. Place that on buttered toast or better yet buttered cornbread. The butter adds flavor AND keeps the bread from gettin soggy.

Not going to lie, the first and second ones feel like something a college student would make when they're dirt broke and have no other options because that's all they found in their fridge....lol

It's simple. The British invented the Spice Trade but never figured out how to use spices. America, as a land of immigrants, has had people from all over the world bring their cultures and cuisines with them.

Aww Lewis don't feel bad. We all grow up eating different kinds of food. Beans on toast sounds like maybe it was a war time meal that just stuck.

One thing I'd like to point out is that 10 minutes into the video and so far none of these "favorite foods" shown are made from scratch! None of them! Great American foods are made from scratch, not from opening a can!

When I was growing up my mom would put beans on left over hamburger buns so we wouldn’t waste the buns. However, she would add. 2 pieces of bacon on top and cheese and put it back in the oven to melt the cheese. We did like it

We used to eat beans on toast when I was a kid in the 80s. We also ate canned hash on toast, with ketchup, and creamed tuna on toast. This was Cali, and we were considered middle class.

The look on his face at 8:19 is exactly the face Americans make when Brits try American food and hate on it for no reason 🤣😂🤣

Dude looked genuinely broken hearted when they hated the cheese toast

Comparing biscuits and gravy to beans on toast? Please! The British traveled the world, conquering, ransacking, and collecting the best spices on the planet. They took them home and promptly forgot about them.

I started following you for a few reasons. Your smile is amazing. You were so upset about Americans not liking the food. And third your eyes.

As an American, I spent 4 months at an American base in Baghdad, Iraq having burgers, steak, lobster, stir fry everyday. Left there to go to Basrah, Iraq and was at a British Base for 3 months. I felt like a prisoner of war every meal time. The food was so bland, unseasoned, and terrible. I would rather eat MRE’s for 3 months straight over the food that was being served.

I’ve spent time in England for about 2 months, living with a friend. Years later I was in Ireland for work. My Irish coworkers and I were talking and they asked me what food was better, English or Irish. I never answered faster with “Irish!” 😂

I am not British, born and raised in America, but I was raised on beans and toast, and even today, I still eat this. Yummo.

I'm an American that hangs with a lot of Irish. They tought me to eat beans on toast, & I make it regularly!

Asking high school kids what they think of food from other countries? That's funny in itself.

I have a Dutch son n law that came to the u.s. and he gained all kinds of wt. after going back to the Netherlands. He lost it all. I asked him why. His answer was that our food tasted really good.

I usually add onions, brown sugar, worchestershire sauce, or bbq sauce to baked beans. Sometimes add fried apples.

Jaffa cakes are absolute fire and nothing will change my mind. Especially the orange and dark chocolate ones.

Simple piece of advice for you L3WG, since you are already at least 50% American, it is time to start thinking like an American! If someone from another country decided to criticize our food, we wouldn't be offended. We would simply understand that others don't understand how amazing it is and that is because of their lack of food experience 😂😂😂

It seems to me that these foods entered British culture during the 20th century when food shortages and general poverty were the rule. Brits made the best of it with what was available and affordable. In America we have so many cultures bringing their best.

Lewis set some butter out on the countertop and let it become room temperature, put a skillet on the stove at low medium Heat. When the butter is room temperature and soft spread it thinly all over two pieces of bread. Put one slice of butter down in the skillet put two slices of cheese of your choice on top of that piece of bread and then put the second slice of bread butter up on top of the sandwich. When the sandwich Browns on one side smash it down flip it over and let it brown on the other side, the cheese will be melted and the bread toasted and it will be delicious

if it's open faced cheese on toast it's cheese toast, if it's grilled with butter and a closed sandwich it's a grilled cheese.

Maybe with a thick piece of toast (Texas toast), Bush's baked beans, crumbled bacon on top.

Aww!! Please don't take offense to these kids not liking the comfort food of your home. Just like when people there try something new, it's hard for some people to get into new things. Don't take it as a personal stab. We love your videos!

I'm an American and I absolutely LOVE beans on toast! Had no idea it was British when I eating it as a kid, still do!

I make a pot of beans and turn them into refried beans for breakfast. We eat them with eggs, bacon/sausage, and toast. So we end up using the toast to wipe up the egg yolk or for a sandwich and we add everything. It's a different texture than the regular beans with toast and we flavor ours with bacon fat.

Mexicans do eat beans and toast but we have REFRIED beans on toast with cheese usually cotija or queso fresco

I think the difference between British food and American food is that Brits eat things that are either sweet, salty, or vinegary. Whereas Americans rely on seasonings such as garlic, onion, oregano, thyme, etc. which adds more flavor to the food.

I use to eat baked bean sandwiches all the time when I was a kid. And that was in the 70’s. ❤️

Many years ago we had a fast food chain called, "Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips." I loved that place. I don't think I've ever had any other British food before, but I do love Fish and Chips, so the Brits did do good there at least. :)