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@GirlGoneLondonofficial 2 года назад

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@michaelwhitcombe7749 2 года назад

When you move house the first things to be unpacked are the kettle, tea bags and mugs then loo rolls. In other words the essentials.

@PedroConejo1939 2 года назад

Immediately followed by identifying the nearest chippy.

@Zooumberg 2 года назад

@@PedroConejo1939 and the local.

@lucie4185 2 года назад

And Biscuits

@Lost_scotsman 2 года назад

Also those are last things to pack to make a movers a brew for half time :)

@bobmartin7399 2 года назад

Electric kettle is great for boiling eggs. Useful in hotels.

@applecider7307 2 года назад

Idiscovered eletric egg boilers in Germany, bought one here on Amazon they are brilliant and fast.

@punjabimundaUK Год назад

In the US the electric is only 110v, an electric kettle would struggle with such low voltage. UK plugs also have a fuse for safety which is absent in the US

@colinbirks5403 7 месяцев назад

Freddo? 83 years old Brit, and I've never seen one. Then again, I rarely buy sweets.

@helenamcginty4920 2 года назад

Yorkshire puddings. A must on the plate of Sunday dinner. Never bought a freddo. They are fir kids. Never even heard anyone mention them. I think your friends are strange if they use them as a measure of the economy. 😂

@neilmorrison7356 2 года назад

The UK 🇬🇧 plug has SO many safety features!

@_starfiend 2 года назад

Tom Scott video.

@Julia-uh4li 2 года назад

@@_starfiend Tom's the Man!!!

@john_smith1471 2 года назад

Keep in mind a heated towel rail has a dual purpose as a bathroom-radiator, no shivering when wet from the shower and keeps the bathroom warm, dry and comfortable. Stand-alone electric versions are available as well.

@stevieinselby 2 года назад

I've never quite got the point of a heated towel rail rather than just having a radiator to drape your towel over... (Except in my parents' house, which has ducted air instead of radiators, so they have electric heated towel rails, which I _can_ see the point of)

@john_smith1471 2 года назад

@@stevieinselby Drying damp items directly on top of a standard radiator causes condensation and mould in the property, a towel radiator is used all year round even when turned off as somewhere to neatly hang vertically several towels, bath mats and face cloths, the steel used retains heat longer even after the heating goes off.

@Brian3989 2 года назад

Your radiators and towel rails should never be so hot that you can burn yourself.

@amyw6808 Год назад

@@stevieinselbywe can easily fit the towels for a family of 4 on our towel rail. Couldn’t do that on a radiator.

@thehonestcritic6577 2 года назад

Regarding the electric plug , you can also point out that with US sockets a child could easily poke something into the live socket where as in the UK sockets are blocked until the larger prong is inserted thus preventing accidental electric shock . Im aware that US voltage is only 110v were the UK is 240v but i still would'nt poke anything metal into it .

@stewedfishproductions7959 2 года назад

Also in the UK, most of our electric sockets have an individual 'ON/OFF' switch, so you don't have to unplug anything (just turn off the power when not using a hair dryer, iron or similar appliance).

@davidfaraday7963 2 года назад

There is a three-pin version of the US plug used for appliances that need an earth (ground) connection. There is also an entirely different design of 3-pin plug used for high-power devices that bridge across both phases of the street supply to provide 220V for these appliances.

@davenwin1973 2 года назад

@@davidfaraday7963 regarding the 2 phase 240V appliances, new construction and hones being rewired that use electric stoves and clothes dryers, now require a 4 prong outlets for those appliances. The updated electrical codes at the federal level wanted those appliances to have a neutral, instead of routing the return power to the ground, like typical 240V appliance. Older homes before 1996 (definitely before 2000) will still have 3 prong outlets for those appliances.

@davidfaraday7963 2 года назад

@@davenwin1973 When you say "routing the return power to the ground, like typical 240V appliances" are you talking about Europe or the US? In the UK domestic supply cables have two conductors from the street transformer: a live conductor at 240V from ground and a combined ground and neutral conductor which is connected to ground at the transformer, but in the US and other countries that follow US practice the street transformer secondary is 240V with the centre-tap grounded. Thus either end of the transformer is 120V from ground but an appliance connected across both live conductors will receive 240V. If power is returned to ground, or to neutral, the supply is only 120V.

@paul404 2 года назад

The no spray on deodorant has surprised me. I would have assumed that was universal around the world.

@Julia-uh4li 2 года назад

It is. I lived in Florida briefly, Ohio, Oregon, Akaska, California and Washington state where I'm from. My husband uses spray deodorant and it always was and still is widely available everywhere we lived in the states. I'm incredibly surprised she hadn't heard of this.

@fasteddie406 2 года назад

I think roll ons are better used more in climates that your gonna sweat a lot in, yep Florida etc.

@geosword6 2 года назад

Don't roll-ons capture pit hair and look like a weird pube collection?

@fionagregory9376 Год назад

I use spray deodorant and so does my son.

@fionagregory9376 Год назад

I am English living in England.

@trevorveail 2 года назад

When I first went to Austria in the late 1960's i came across the Duvet. As soon as you could buy one in the UK i got a couple.

@judileeming1589 2 года назад

When visiting the UK (my husband’s family) of course we had Yorkshire Pudding and my sister-in-law gave me her recipe (which I lost in my recent move). I was introduced to the “Toasty Bag” which basically is a bag made from a synthetic baking sheet type material that you put your cheese sandwich into and pop the bag into the toaster and you have a toasted sandwich that doesn’t leak melted cheese (or crumbs) into your toaster. You just toast, slip out of the bag onto a plate and wash out the bag and re-use again and again. Electric kettles are used by Australians as well and we have a smaller version of the three pin power plug. Roundabouts are very common in Australia and our new home is close to an uncontrolled (no traffic lights) roundabout complex consisting of three inter-connected roundabouts that are fed by five very heavily used roads and called “Five Ways” by the locals. What should be a bottle neck is actually very easy to navigate because you just give way to the traffic on your right and enter when the traffic in your right is giving way to the traffic on their right … and so on. However, the “Giros” in the UK were terrifying to us because even though they were nearly always controlled by lights, they were feeders on and off for multiple freeways (indicated by Route numbers painted on the surface of the road) and if we found ourselves in the wrong lane, we would have to keep going round and round changing lanes looking for the appropriate Motorway number on the road surface to enter the new road. We nearly caused an accident on an uncontrolled Giro in London changing lanes. They sure do drive fast in those little cars in the UK.

@fastyaveit 11 месяцев назад

Google the BBC recipe to make Yorkshire puds, It is a simple recipe, but it is hard to perfect, the trick is the temperature of the cooking oil and the oven, it needs to be hot

@grahamstubbs4962 2 года назад

No, no, no. It's not the family and the kettle. It's the kettle and then (possibly) the family.

@Psmith-ek5hq 2 года назад

And lastly the mother-in-law.

@Psmith-ek5hq 2 года назад

I went to a chemist shop once and asked for some deodorant. The woman asked, "Do you mean the ball type?". "No," I said, "it's for under my arms".

@AnyoneForToast 2 года назад

Not the nine o'clock news, "Swedish chemist shop" joke? Mel and Griff. It's a classic you can still find here on RU-vid. 😁👍

@Psmith-ek5hq 2 года назад

@@AnyoneForToast I think it was, yes. I'd forgotten all about it until Kaylin mentioned deodorants, then I got a flashback.

@AnyoneForToast 2 года назад

@@Psmith-ek5hq 👍 It's worth a quick search, for old time's sake 😁👍

@TukikoTroy 2 года назад

Ba dum TSH!

@snafufubar 2 года назад

Boom boom. The old ones are the best.

@l3v1ckUK 2 года назад

Most people (even in the UK) think Yorkshire puddings are served with the main course, but traditionally they're served as a starter with gravy. The idea is that they come out of the oven at the same time at the roast meat, then you eat them while the meat is resting.

@crimsonwizard2560 2 года назад

Most people in Scotland can't stand Yorkshire puddings.

@l3v1ckUK 2 года назад

@@crimsonwizard2560 If the ones in restaurants are anything like the ones on the oil rigs, it's because they're over done and bone dry.

@amitbasu8159 2 года назад

They were traditionally served as starters in poor farming communities in Yorkshire, the idea being that the stodgy pudding would help fill up the family before the meat course, meaning that the expensive Sunday joint would last longer.

@crimsonwizard2560 2 года назад

@@l3v1ckUK What? We don't do a sunday roast. And, Yorkshire puddings are shite

@Paul-hl8yg 2 года назад

@@crimsonwizard2560 Your opinion only!

@marcuswayman1628 2 года назад

Yorkshire pudding used to be flat in the bottom of a big tray as it was designed to soak up the weekly meat joint dripping underneath the spit. The idea was that you had it to begin with to satisfy immediate hunger so you eat less meat - the joint of meat would then last several meals across the whole week. Round/circular yorkshires were a modern take on it as lighter and less stogie - but you haven’t had a proper yorkshire until you have the flat one - soooo full of meat flavours 🤪

@enkisdaughter4795 Год назад

I remember reading the Jsmes Herriot books where this was said by a farmer’s wife to her children “Thems as eats the most pudding gets the most meat.” They were given a piece of pudding with gravy on (which is lovely by the way) so by the time they ate their meal, they were full.

@deborahwhitney9427 Год назад

My mums friend is from Yorkshire and she still does her Yorkshire puddings the original way.

@marcuswayman1628 Год назад

@@deborahwhitney9427 Fabbi, when am I getting an invite! - Yummeee

@elwolf8536 9 месяцев назад

🤤🤤🤤

@fenradast3577 3 месяца назад

If left to go cold then spread some jam on it.

@paulcrowley8587 2 года назад

I had my honeymoon is Orlando. Totally shocked that the hotel room did not have a kettle. What? Even the cheapest motel in Europe has a kettle, tea coffee sugar etc.

@hazy33 Год назад

It's because their electric system is 120 volts and not the 240 volts we have in the uk

@paulcrowley8587 Год назад

@@hazy33 USA electricity just cannot boil water for making tea

@jennyk488 Год назад

Even the cheapest motel in the UK has an electric kettle --- not true of Continental Europe.

@warden330 2 года назад

You will really have frightened Americans with your picture of a roundabout. We should reassure people they are not normally like that. They are very common in Europe including Britain because they are very much safer than light controlled junctions. Not only does traffic approach them knowing that it has to yield, but it has to slow down to go round it. Fatal accidents at roundabouts are vanishingly rare.

@mikehorton6225 Год назад

Girl, you must have led the most sheltered life in America. I am from Tampa Florida and I have seen or used every one of those things except the two chocolate items and the electric teapot.

@amyw6808 Год назад

Kettle, not teapot. You use kettles to heat water. A teapot is where you brew the tea.

@AnneDowson-vp8lg 10 месяцев назад

Sorry to be picky here, but it's an electric kettle. This is for boiling water to make tea. Then you put tea in a teapot, which can be ceramic or metal, and you pour the boiled water over the tea and let it mash or stew for a few minutes before pouring it into a cup or mug. Of course, most people now put a teabag in a mug and pour the water straight from the kettle, me included. But I hope you see the difference between a kettle and a teapot 🫖 and don't mix them up again

@stevelknievel4183 2 года назад

To my English ears you referring to 'the suburbs of Florida' makes it sound like Florida is a city. As far as I can tell, in the UK, suburbs are always attached to a major city such as London Anything else is just a housing estate. When Americans talk about suburbs or suburbia it can feel quite jarring as a result.

@terencecarroll1812 2 года назад

I've tried lynx stick deodorant but found it became 'stodgy' for want of a better word, and ended up leaving a white stain on my clothing. I didn't enjoy how it felt so went back to spray

@haeleth7218 2 года назад

Welcome to the UK. It made me laugh when you said if you have a fire you make a cup of tea and everything is fine again 😂

@archiebald4717 2 года назад

As a boy, I used to deliver newspapers to make some pocket money. I have no idea how it would have worked without letterboxes.

@anthonyscott4270 2 года назад

I too was a paper boy, it was in 1968 to 70. earned 25 Bob a week, £1-25 but I got about £2 in tips. I hated Thursdays because not only the evening paper but there were also the radio and TV times. The bag felt like I was carrying half a ton.

@bronzewand 2 года назад

You can never trust a person without an electric kettle... 😅

@joemorris5288 Год назад

When you move house in the UK last thing on the van is the kettle, first thing off the van is the kettle.

@richard6440 Год назад

Dont put the kettle on the van. You'll get to your new house first, so take the kettle in the car with you , so you can have a nice cup of tea waiting for the removal men :)

@simondanson2560 2 года назад

When we went to South France there were 'squat' toilets. Didnt know how to use them so didnt in case made a mistake. It looked very old!

@richardhargrave6082 2 года назад

Kettle, tea pot, tea and mugs are always the first thing when moving house. I was supplied by the heated towel rail, they can be heated electrically independent to the central heating and with the CH. It means dry towels, easy!

@berty1422 2 года назад

We like our Tea. But the Americans get very upset about Tea. They do not like Tea Parties for some reason. They think Tea is made by throwing it into an ocean....my my my...

@Rabmac1UK 2 года назад

Feel free to STOP with the Massive Promotional SPEECH The UK Plug is superiour because the plug socket on the wall has the 2 bottom holes (live electricity) sealed (in case children should poke something metal into the hole) The larger and longer pin goes into the top hole on the wall, which enables the opening of the bottom holes, for the 2 lower pins in the plug (again, the live electricity supply) In addition, the top pin on some plugs, is metal (yours was plastic) and when metal has a third wire in the plug which is the Earth wire, more safety feature Last, UK Plugs usually have a fuse inside them, lamps typically have a 3 Amp Fuse, items that use more current will have a 13 Amp fuse, again, a safety feature Only things like an electric razor use a two pronged plug, and therefore need an adapter, a 3 pronged plug with a 2 pin socket on it's back. The only 2 pin sockets in my house are to be found in the bathrooms, generally above the mirror

@stewedfishproductions7959 2 года назад

You forgot to mention that the two bottom pins also have insulation around them (except for the ends), so that even if the plug is partially inserted (opening the bottom holes), you still cannot get a shock from the exposed pins... UK 👍🇬🇧

@Rabmac1UK 2 года назад

@@stewedfishproductions7959 Entirely correct my friend. A welcome addition, thanks So very many things in the UK are better in the UK, IMHO the first is that we don't build houses out Wood, in High Wind Areas.

@stewedfishproductions7959 2 года назад

@@Rabmac1UK - I always think of the Wizard of Oz and the house in the tornado...

@wessexdruid7598 2 года назад

You realise she gets paid for the promotion??

@Rabmac1UK 2 года назад

@@stewedfishproductions7959Just So 😄

@mwsjohn 2 года назад

When I visited China, there was only one tap in the bathroom wash basin and I could not see how to get water out of it as turning the tap head did nothing. It turned out you have to pull up the tap head before it worked lol.

@Jah_Rastafari_ORIG 2 года назад

Spray deodorant used to be about 75% of the market (roll-on the other 25%). I never saw a stick deodorant much prior to the late '70s or early '80s. I think the rise of sticks had more to do with the phase out of aerosols in general because of the hole in the ozone.

@firsteerr 2 года назад

i ahve bought several cans of spray deodorant in the US including in Florida

@lizalynnrivera1329 2 года назад

Kind of a bit dumb for. being 30 !!!!!! The amount of things she hasn’t seen is astounding. .

@dirtbikerman1000 2 года назад

25p for a freddo The world has gone mad I stopped eating them when they went above 10p Scandalous...

@simonmckenzie8993 2 года назад

Freddo Frogs. One of Australia's greatest inventions from 1930.

@firsteerr 2 года назад

3 pin plugs , not prongs ...try treading on one on your way to the bog for a midnight piddle !!

@potownrob 2 года назад

One notable thing I didn’t see in the US but saw everywhere in Spain was a bidet. Not going to get into how great they are, but I don’t get why they never caught on in the states. Also, not a thing per se, but very old people walking all over the streets was a new thing for me. 😂

@berty1422 2 года назад

Yup, you see all the multi million dollar mansions and they got nothing that is luxurious. No Bidet. The showers have No Body jets, they only have rain heads...

@potownrob 2 года назад

@@berty1422 the uncultured nouveau riche…if only they had studied European lavatorial history and architecture…

@edbad85 2 года назад

We wouldn't save an electric kettle from a fire. Yes, they are the most essential item in our kitchens but they are, for that reason, very common and very cheap. Let it burn, you might trip over a new one as you wait for the fire fighters

@bobbuethe1477 2 года назад

In the US, we bake Yorkshire pudding in muffin tins and call them "popovers." Great for breakfast with butter and jam or honey.

@tallmale188 2 года назад

That sounds disgusting!

@trevorhart545 Год назад

That is the pudding after the Sunday Roast despite what Paul Houston, Texas? Lost in Space thinks!

@mrsjudetheobscure Год назад

@@tallmale188 I'm a Brit and our granny (Scottish) would make extra Yorkshire puds on a Sunday which we'd have as a treat with with a spoon full of custard and jam when we came in from school on a Monday. Mind you she was a wee bit...'individual' shall we say 😉

@jonathanfinan722 Год назад

@@tallmale188 it does too. 55 years I’ve lived in West and North Yorkshire and I’ve only seen perverts talk about sweet stuff on Yorkshire on the internet. I mean, would you put gravy on a treacle sponge? Of course not.

@CMOT101 9 месяцев назад

And you are wrong

@trevorhart545 Год назад

Electric Kettle, as a Brit I am not surprised. Many people say the same. I had a friend who went to a Swiss Finishing School where they had NO kettles. When she came to the UK she made Tea/Coffee using the Hot Water Tap! We have an electric travel kettle for Europe since they have a similar issue. Yorkshire pudding, biased as I am from Yorkshire, it can also be a pudding with Jam inside it or as a starter so can be part of all 3 courses of Sunday Roast, also a UK "thing".

@CazTanto 2 года назад

When I go abroad I have an electric travel kettle I pack. Inside it I store enough tea bags for two cups a day (morning and evening). I don't know if it's just easy to tell the difference or if so many Brits do this that they are used to it, but I've never had my bag checked because of this 😂 Also, if you want a food that even much of the UK hasn't heard of, you gotta try a Kentish Gypsy Tart 😋

@titchs9098 2 года назад

I do this too! Travel kettle and teabags are essential.

@fatblokeonamotorbike1600 Год назад

Or you could go to Skipton and have Curd Tart - beautiful. In fact Skipton has so many cake shops and they all sell the most delicious pastries and fancies.

@philiprice7875 Год назад

the reason UK plugs stay in socket is simple. the cord hangs down, so if you catch the cord the force cant pull plug out, the USA plugs the cord comes out of the back meaning any tug and it will pull plug from socket

@MrGlobbits 2 года назад

I'm sure I've seen spray deodorant in American films, TV shows, ads, etc.....

@davidmitchell1391 2 года назад

Three "pin" plug! In the UK "prong" nearly always means the sharply pointed end of any object such as on a fork, but not of a pin! Us Limeys invented the English Language purely for the confusion of Johnny Foreigner. US and UK English differences can be subtle, but certainly point to the origin of the the speaker, and most obviously the author of a written piece. As my English teacher said many, many years ago, "Neither usage is incorrect, but one should always strive for consistency". Oh, the irony! Here endeth the lesson. 😀

@unitedkingdomoffiveeyes9765 2 года назад

I have an American friend who I used to send cadburys chocolate aspecially cream eggs too and plastic tuperwhere boxes....they struggled to get them...

@jerrypie25 2 года назад

Ummm. There's tons of spray deodorants and roll on here I'm the US..... maybe not in Florida? But in California

@Lily-Bravo Год назад

That roundabout was just about the scariest one to exist in the UK. It's the "Magic Roundabout" in Swindon. I live fairly close and have managed to avoid it for 35 years, but hit it by accident recently. There wasn't time to study it from above or to look at the signs so I went round the edge one exit at a time. I stopped at a supermarket on one exit and got chatting to a man in the queue who let me in in front of him as I only had one item. I said I had popped in for an energy boost so I could tackle the roundabout. He said he had seen people quivering with fear do the same!

@frankhooper7871 7 месяцев назад

There's also a "magic roundabout" in Hemel Hempstead 😊

@danensis 6 месяцев назад

@@frankhooper7871- which has one more road (and roundabout) than the swindon one.

@ZargonUSA 2 года назад

Freddo's mus be a recent thing, because when I left the UK to come to the US, and I was born in the UK, and lived there up until 2001, Freddo's was never seen or even heard of.

@dib000 10 месяцев назад

I ate them in the 1970's don't remember them in the 80's but remember eating them again mid 90's

@skipper409 2 года назад

Electric kettles are difficult in the US as they demand a lot of electricity to boil one - not really supported by 110v systems

@mikeh020011 2 года назад

I worked for a telecoms company and I worked in some very remote locations with no facilities. I all ways had an electric travel kettle with me .As a backup I also had a gas camping stove with me.

@potownrob 2 года назад

Spray and roll-on deodorant do still exist here, at least in upstate NY. I don’t think they’re as common as they were back in the 80s and 90s, but they still exist.

@user-oo8xp2rf1k Год назад

I couldn't believe my American friend had no kettle. I was thinking "if you don't have a kettle, what do you use for a kettle?". Blew my mind . The only reason the British army spent half defence budget in the challenger tank was so the troops could have a robust all terrain vehicle, fitted with a kettle.

@themachine5957 2 года назад

Spray-on deodorant not common in the US? But, in the opening titles of the American sit-com The Fresh Prince Of Bel Air, doesn't Will Smith's character get caught spraying graffiti on a wall, and try to pretend that the spray paint can is a spray-on deodorant can?

@DirefulT453 Год назад

The list you went through, all can be found in Australia and New Zealand ,even the 3-pin plug (although not quite so heavy duty). Just shows how much the antipodes shares in common with the UK

@alwaysfair4991 9 месяцев назад

So many moved there after the second world war, "£10 poms".

@alwaysfair4991 8 месяцев назад

@@marydavis5234 For USA there are two associated plug types, types A and B. Plug type A is the plug which has two flat parallel pins and plug type B is the plug which has two flat parallel pins and a grounding pin. USA operates on a 120V supply voltage and 60Hz.

@wessexexplorer 2 года назад

Spray deodorant is the most surprising item in your list. Maybe the Freddo one was the one I didn’t know of in Britain😄 I used to have these blocks of toffee that used to be 10p

@firsteerr 2 года назад

vlue bird toffee , my pal used to work at their west london factory and there was a bloke who lost a leg from molten toffee

@0utcastAussie 2 года назад

Battered deep fried Squid rings from the chip shop in Kalamunda forum, Western Australia in 1982. Absolutely gorgeous. I'd never seen them in the UK before that and the ones I have tried here (Uk) since are disgusting ! But then... We used to skive school in Western Australia and cycle to Bickley Reservoir. We passed through "Orange Grove" to get there and would "go scrumping" on the mandarins. To this day I haven't tasted mandarins that nice and I personally must owe that farmer $50 for the ones i nicked off his trees. Well worth it and I'd happily pay him $100 now if he's still alive !!

@whawkins88 2 года назад

Try eating Yorkshire pudding with strawberry jam on it. It's to die for!!

@keithrudd8003 2 года назад

My father’s favourite

@Sidistic_Atheist 2 года назад

The no spray deodorant is the most shocking to me...

@Julia-uh4li 2 года назад

It is very common. I'm super surprised she said that. Like, my jaw hit the flippin floor lol. My ex husband used it in all 4 states we lived in. It's readily available everywhere!!! Sometimes this gal makes me laugh out of sheer bafflement.

@RonSeymour1 2 года назад

If you can burn your hand on a towell rail the the central heating is too high. Turn the heating down or turn the flow valve on the towell rail towards off if no thermostat is fitted. That will restrict the flow of water and cool it down. Under the cap on the valve is a small slotted valve head. Turn it clockwise, but not all the way.

@Julia-uh4li 2 года назад

Thank you for the instructions as I'm having one installed soon. This has been worrying me. I'd heard another American saying the same thing about getting burned. 😁

@RonSeymour1 2 года назад

@@Julia-uh4li As the radiator is part of the heating system if it is very hot so will all the other radiators in the house be. They should never be that hot and the boiler water temperature setting should be 55 degrees centigrade for heating and 48 degrees for hot water. As it hasn't been installed yet you could ask the installer to add a thermostat to the radiator so that you can adjust the temperature and even turn it off. (You don't need a towel rail to heat all day). They are inexpensive and easy to add.

@danensis 6 месяцев назад

@@RonSeymour1- water must be heated to at least 60°C to kill any legionella, and distributed at a minimum of 50°C.

@johngardiner6800 2 года назад

As a plumber l can tell you that you can get them with an electrical element for summer use or you can plumb it to work from the boiler simply by connecting it to the hot water primaries in the case of a cylinder system or by a separate zone valve in the case of a combination boiler.

@markellison1707 2 года назад

There's heated towel racks here in the USA. Mail slots were very common in the 50's and 60's. What part of the USA did you grow up in, the Appalachian Trail?

@Julia-uh4li 2 года назад

I know!! I get that she only knows Florida but sheesh, she always talks about things we don't have in the US that we've always had. I'm SO much older than she is so I can understand, for the most part

@davenwin1973 2 года назад

She says she's from Florida. She must have grown up in a mostly post WW2 Florida, regarding mailslots. I'm in Gary Indiana, and those were mostly found on homes before 1950 here. Overtime, people sealed their ls off, because some kids would decide to pull pranks, and either slip small critters through them, to being cruel, and stick fireworks through them, and burn people's homes down. So in older neighborhoods, people switched to having their mailbox outside, either hanging on their house, or get the standard street mailbox, and mount it on a pole, near their front door.

@HubbaHubba64 2 года назад

Freddo's are actually Australian and still produced in Australia

@petershelley1406 2 года назад

and our plugs have a fuse in them

@davidmitchell1391 Год назад

The last time I saw a non-electric kettle, must have been about forty years ago. They were usually made from thin aluminium, with a whistling spout that told you when the water was boiling. They were heated by placing them on either a gas or electric hob.

@john_smith1471 2 года назад

My relatives in Toronto Canada house built 1926, always had an electric kettle, also a traditional letter box in the front door and proper cast iron radiators.

@alanmills9492 2 года назад

The electric kettle seems to be the best value for money item. For a few quid, you're now able to boil water in a few minutes each time, when you want to glug tea all day.

@jubeaumont6305 2 года назад

which is,of course, every day!

@julia2jules 2 года назад

Try Yorkshire puddings with chocolate pudding or ice cream They make a delicious base for sweet treats too!

@paulmidsussex3409 2 года назад

Or with strawberry jam.

@nigem6611 2 года назад

An old Yorkshire way of eating Yorkshire puddings is with Raspberry Vinegar (Syrupy Type) gravy and all. Thought it was something unique to my Yorkshire mothers side of the family who ate them this way that was until I met a total stranger from Yorkshire who told me that in some parts of Yorkshire people ate them this way including herself. (Interesting note I remember in the sixties and seventies you could bye Raspberry Vinegar over the counter at a chemist as it was considered beneficial to aid recovery from colds and flu.) It's also very easy to make.

@choccyfan 2 года назад

We have a heated towel rail / rack, and the way our plumbing is set up, it is heated by either the heating part of the system or the hot water part. This means that even with the heating being off in summer, any towels still get warm when the hot water part of the system is running.

@sparkyprojects 5 месяцев назад

If you want an extra experience with Yorkshire puds, try eating them with a bit of strawberry jam I used to have yorkshires with dinner, then eat the leftovers with jam Another way to enjoy them is to get the large ones (aunt bessies) and fill them with something like a stew, mince, chilie con carne etc. Not forgetting that toad in the hole is sausages in yorkshire pudding

@jonathanfinan722 Год назад

As far foreign stuff I’d never seen before, I first went to Portugal about thirty years ago and at a country fair kind of thing they had a kind of beer tent. There were bowls of salted flat, yellowish beans everywhere as a bar snack to make you drink more. You take the skin off and eat the middle. A bloke told us that the Portuguese name translates as “sex bean.” Just yesterday I saw a video about food in Madrid and there were the same beans were being sold in a tapas bar. The Spanish name apparently translates as “little vaginas.”

@davidw1518 6 месяцев назад

I am British, born here and spent most of my life here (I was 73 last week). I have never heard of a Freddo either. As far as Cadbury's Flake is concerned, I realise that, for an American, ANY non-American chocolate is good, but try Swiss (or Belgian) chocolate, and you'll never again want to waste your time and money on Cadbury's.

@elwolf8536 2 года назад

Literally seen the thumbnail gets a wiff of the misseses Yorkshire's int'oven....... weird

@Brisleep1 4 месяца назад

Florida?? I've never heard of it, my cat says it's in the Midwest somewhere. I'm the old guy who moved from NV to PA recently, but I spent 8 years in the army in Germany, they had heated towel racks, more like warm than hot and they were essential because they seemed to believe that the bathroom was to stay at 50f, so I found in hotels it was vital to jump from a shower to the towel rack and wrap yourself in one to keep from freezing. The chocolate in Germany was amazing, I usually got Ritter Sport from town and a big box of pastries to carry to the barracks where I would charge twice what I paid for them. Sadly, my time was in the 80's and it took forever to find German chocolates in the US, though now it seems common to have British made candies everywhere here in PA, and I'm thrilled, because people seem to think this Hershey's stuff is chocolate, it doesn't taste like it to me, lol.

@frankhooper7871 7 месяцев назад

There is an American near-equivalent to a Yorkshire pudding: popovers - my step-mother (from Pennsylvania) used to make them.

@jacqpaschoud 9 месяцев назад

When you showed a picture of Yorkshire Pudding it was a picture of American Popovers in a popover pan! I was never any good at makeing Yorkshire puddings till I saw Chef John on RU-vid making Popovers and putting them in a cold oven to cook. I couldn't afford a popover pan so bought a jumbo muffin pan and hey presto Popovers which are no different to Yorkshire Puddings! So you weren't wrong with that photo!

@KevinSmith-up1qo 6 месяцев назад

Target has a whole aisle of electric kettles and aisles of spray deodorant 😳I bought my first electric kettle, in America, in Wichita, back in 2000 🤣

@paulhorgan6152 2 года назад

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@karenblackadder1183 2 года назад

They are *not* Yorkshire Puddings. They are an abomination, probably invented by an incompetent and lazy cook. A real Yorkshire Pudding is the size of a dinner plate, slightly chewy base and crust of about one inch. Your full roast dinner is served in the base with lashings of gravy, Colman's English Mustard and Colman's English Horseradish Sauce.

@karenblackadder1183 2 года назад

@silvertail7131 2 года назад

The kettle surprised me. It's so, basic here. You get them in even cheap hotel rooms, for, hot drinks of any form you care to mention. It's such a fast and convenient way to boil water, I'm, surprised they're not more universal

@arlmondgcalcutt6562 10 месяцев назад

Electric kettles rely on suffucient wattage over a small period of time to boil water effectively - we have 240v the US has 120v - which means they need to double the ampage for equivalent power - ampage is the 'volume' going down the wire - which means the US require twice as thick wire to achieve the same wattage which is impractical (not exactly true but you get the idea) watts=voltsxamps

@bevtuft3572 Год назад

Where has this girl been living? Spray deodorant has been around for YEARS. And you can buy electric kettles at Walmart.

@bermudagirl50 Год назад

I loved the way you called a kettle a contraption! 😂😂😂

@johnbunyan5834 Год назад

I have never heard of a Freddo; but I've only lived in England for 84 years. I also cancelled my TV licence from August 2019, so don't see TV ads.

@multicolouredhuman 4 месяца назад

How do you Americans NOT have electric kettles, I feel sorry for you 😔🙃😱

@nickgrazier3373 2 года назад

Cadbury Flake! Have you tried looking for the Cadbury Flake 80’s adverts, they are the best rock guitar riff tutorials on TV ever

@ladyselenafelicitywhite1596 Год назад

Yorkshire pudding is delicious with gravy 🙋🏼‍♀️

@KevinSmith-up1qo 6 месяцев назад

We have loads of roundabouts in Minnesota and the number is increasing all the time; mostly at the expense of 4-way stops -?the dumbest invention known to man.

@AutoReport1 Год назад

Ok, again "never seen" had to be an exaggeration. Never looked for must be more accurate. Several brands of spray deodorant or body spray can be bought at Piggly Wiggly in Florida and electric kettles are sold at every hardware store and presumably at every electrical appliance store in the US. Axe spray deodorant is practically a meme. Why the British commonly have electric kettles and Americans usually stove top if any is a long history related to why Americans call a combined oven and range a stove and the British call it a cooker. The fact that electric coffee makers became common long before instant coffee was invented (ask yourself why electric kettles usually look like coffee pots not tea kettles).

@bren106 10 месяцев назад

A 110v electrical supply will not be as efficient for an electric kettle, and yes I know 220v is also available but maybe not in suitable locations around a kitchen. Why it isn't? V=I/R

@debwilson5236 2 месяца назад

Such a lovely young lady you remind me of my oldest daughter, I hope you are enjoying living here in the UK ❤❤❤

@darylnelson3026 9 месяцев назад

The heating towel rack mostly came for the fact UK homes and Flats only had central heating at one time They only heated one room.

@Rayhhh 11 месяцев назад

I just came across this and I can’t believe Americans don’t have spray deodorant wow 😮

@philshorten3221 2 года назад

Funny the things that don't seem to be exported! So now we need your list of everyday things missing here in the UK

@mcdo8975 Год назад

8:20 boiling water in electric kettle would take twice as long as US household outlets use 110V VS 230V in the UK

@davidw1518 6 месяцев назад

In the UK we call them 3-pin plugs, not '3-prong' plugs. The socket in the wall has two small internal plates in the two live holes, meaning that it is impossible for a child (or a stupid or drunk adult) to insert anything into them and get an electric shock, or worse. When you put the plug in, the longer pin at the top goes into the top part of the socket, pushing a mechanism that moves the internal plates, so allowing the lower two pins into the live parts of the socket. You make a lot of the fact that the plug doesn't fall out of the socket, but that's irrelevant - neither do plugs in the rest of Europe - it's the safety aspect that is the reason for the three pins. For larger electrical items, using higher wattage, the third pin also acts as the earth, which is a further safety aspect.

@julesnagbunga1204 2 года назад

The US is quite backward in many ways. These items are readily available in Australia. I was shocked to find Americans still use shower curtains and have no idea what self raising flour is!

@Dean-gq5pe 2 года назад

Great video, when I visited the Florida water beds seemed to be very popular. I had heard of them but never seen one. Hours of fun. Hope your family are ok over there, with the storm.