My First American Grocery Store Experience | Brits React 

Bristol Farms is an EXTREMELY high-end store, not at all typical of the U.S. or even California. A normal L.A.-area store would be Ralphs or Vons or Albertsons.

I live in California, not every guy would hear a woman make this many comments about how cold it is, and not give her his jacket or scarf. I would've made my first stop at a clothing shop so she could get something more weather appropriate.

Bristol Farms is a gourmet grocery store and it was in a city most people would say is a "rich" area. The second store is a specialty store and most items are imported. So neither is a typical store in Southern California.

This guy is a real creep. This is his wife he's mocking. I really feel sorry for her.

They're in Newport Beach, California, one of the most expensive places in the US, in one of the most expensive local grocery stores. Do NOT take the prices in THAT store as typical of the whole country. The $20 cheese was most likely imported from Italy. My local supermarket also has an in-house bakery that sells fresh bread and pastries. They have similar cakes... but at HALF of those prices. My supermarket does NOT sell $100 champagne. In fact, in my state supermarkets can't sell alcoholic beverages.

I do not like this guy. He is very condescending to her and I feel he purposely takes her to high end places. Can we also say how beautiful she is and her hair is INCREDIBLE!!!!

Just because someone buys a 12-pack of alcohol in the morning doesn't necessarily mean they're going to be drinking it in the morning, they could be buying it to drink later on in the afternoon or evening, doesn't necessarily mean they're going to drinking all of it in one day either.

term El Niño. refers to a warming of the ocean surface, or above-average sea surface temperatures, in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean per the USGS In Arizona, we have a hands-free phone law when driving. You can't drive with your phone in your hand. If you get caught, you will be in trouble. Unless it's on tribal land. I call them Raspberries

I've had the opportunity to speak with three local billionaires, and they've each said essentially this: "Wealthy people get that way by not spending their money on unnecessary stuff." I've taken that to heart (but I'm not yet a billionaire). Bristol Farms looks lovely and I'm sure the quality of their food is outstanding. That said, I can't see myself shopping there even if I were extremely wealthy. Thanks for the video, as always!

Artichokes are a giant thistle native to the Mediterranean and had been eaten in countries like Spain and Italy for thousands of years. You roast it to soften the petals and you eat it before it blooms

Oh no, James and Millie, please don't follow this guy. He is a total jerk and very creepy. Just listen to how he talks to her in a very condescending way. Just don't like this guy at all.

Yes, we do call them raspberries, not redberries that is him, and not the rest of us. And you throw in the fact that there are other red berries and mentioned strawberries, and for a matter of information, strawberries are not berries.

I never met an unpleasant Filipino in my life. I used to have a platoon sergeant who was Filipino and he invited me to his house and his wife was a wonderful person. I worked with a Filipino woman and she was so kind and we talked about Jollibee and food. The girl in this video seems so sweet.

El Nino and La nina` have to do with currents and Pacific water temperatures that affect the weather patterns throughout the Western Hemisphere. They are massive patterns and eventually effect the planet's weather and US severe weather patterns.

Everyone, Bristol Farms is a high end grocery store and their fruit is amazing.

This is not a normal supermarket. This is an upscale, very expensive grocery store.

Target and Walmart are vaguely similar stores. Anything you find at target you can find at Walmart. But everything you find at Walmart can't be found at target. Target has a very small grocery section. Whereas Walmart has a huge grocery section. And finally, every single thing that target has and that Walmart also has. You will find that the prices across-the-board are cheaper at Walmart.

The expensive cheese he picked up for $20, appeared to be an import product. He struggled to pronounce the name of the cheese.

Farmer's markets are cheap, this is a high end gourmet store.

I don't like the patronizing way he's talking to her. She's gonna regret leaving the Philippines.

El Niño refers to the above average sea surface temperature that periodically develops across the East-central equatorial Pacific that affects Australia, South America and North America.

I don’t think I’d be buying much at this store; everything is so expensive! Even the bananas are almost twice as much as here

Them bananas where 3 times normal price of what we pay at my grocery store. lol

FYI, "Red Berries" also know as red currants are a form of gooseberry. They do resemble raspberries, but are different in taste.

El Nino is actually Spanish for El Niño (Spanish for 'the Christ Child'). Hispanic people also use it commonly as, the young boy. It refers to a warming of the ocean surface, or above-average sea surface temperatures, in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean. This bring on harsh weather events, mostly affecting coastal areas but can travel further in land. In general, El Niño conditions lead to wetter, snowier conditions in Amarillo and cooler maximum temperatures during the winter. La Niña conditions lead to drier and warmer temperatures overall, with notable extreme cold spells. In stronger El Niño or La Niña episodes, these trends are even greater

This store is known for being extremely overpriced. It would be fun to see you look up stuff on your phone that you do not know what it is like El Nino while reacting.

It's California, everything is expensive. Texas is half the price. This is not a normal American store.

I used to live in Temecula/Marietta, ComiCali right next to camp Pendleton. Semper Fidelis 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

I have so many raspberries in my yard during the summer that people come over and dig them up to replant in their yard. We can't even eat them all, so we freeze some and give them to friends. They were there when we bought the place. That girl is such a sweetheart.

She's from the Philippines this is cold weather for her

In New Hampshire, we have a hands-free law for cell phones. The red berries are raspberries.

El Niño is a cyclical weather pattern. There’s another one called La Nino. It has something to do with temperature and rainfall. I lived in Southern California for many years and never noticed that it made any difference in anything. Then the global warming hysterics started raving about it and it still doesn’t make any sense or difference. 😊

Wegmans in Manhattan imports fresh fish from Japan. They are a much more exclusive grocery store.

I think grocery stores do keep it colder, like Acme, Shop Rite, Market Basket etc Maybe because it keeps the food fresh longer & the refrigerator & frezzer cases don't burn as much energy

The way the phone is moving around, he'd be in trouble for using his phone while driving. Only hands-free features can be used while driving. It does vary from state to state, but he's in California and they're quite strict. For the most part, our berry selection is strawberry, blueberry, raspberry and blackberry ... also cranberry in the autumn and winter. Occasionally you'll find very special regional or seasonal berries -- but no one would have a clue what you mean by red berries but we do sometimes have red currants. Bristol Farms is a VERY upscale grocery store and they carry the finest quality you can find, so yes, it's expensive. It's funny how they're in Newport Beach and talking about crime. It's probably one of the safest (and wealthiest) communities in SoCal.

Never ever have I heard anyone call them red berries WTF

Have you guys herd of "The Portal" in Dublin Ireland and New York city USA? It's an art installation in each city that has a screen displaying what is happening in the other city live. You can wave and talk to someone on the other side of an ocean like they are right in front of you.

That store is expensive as hell

Those prices were almost 4 times more than I would expect to pay! Our local shops are much more reasonably priced, even for something like those cuts of meat. --Dan

There are butchers in most chain American grocer stores. You can ask them for specific cuts of meat, to grind or mince meat, etc. I’ve only seen a few foreign tourists react to standard everyday supermarkets. The grocery section in Target or Walmart are small compared to a chain supermarket, lol.

I've not been in a Bristol Farms, but those prices are high-end items or over-priced for what they are looking at. California has some very "organic-loving" people, which raises their prices. "El Nino" is a weather pattern that California blames for their extreme weather, which is sometimes very dry, and other times very wet. My mom told me, when I was a kid, "If it doesn't have a price, it's either too expensive, or it's not for sale." 😂

1:30 Technically at the point he's filming, it's private property and would be up to the owner to have him trespassed.

That dried Filipino fish when cooked will stink up the whole house.

The phone is on a holder and the sound goes through the car. It is called hands free and is totally legal!

El niño and la niña translate to little boy and little girl, respectively. It's based on the heat in the Pacific Ocean on the West Coast. El Niño usually has wetter weather for California and la niña usually causes due weather for California. Each has its difficulties to the agriculture of California. The wetter weather causes flooding and the dryer weather causes fights and wildfires. It's kind of the Cliffs Notes version of the two and they cause different weather patterns to different parts of the US.

Artichoke, fresh steamed till it's falling apart easily, is so much fun to eat. You have to see it done by someone who knows how to eat it. It's not a fork knife spoon experience.

Holy Moly! all the items here is soooooo expensive! I couldn't afford to walk through the doors. Wow!

Here many of the Nexican grocery stores have an eat in area. Order your food and eat it there or take home

EVERYTHING is really HIGH in CALIFORNIA.

They are probably in one of the most expensive areas of the country. Those prices are crazy.

In GA, it is illegal to drive with your phone in your hands, but seems it is not enforced very much as I see it all the time.

I am shopping in Walmart and it is 6: 00 AM. Just a normal day for me.

That's extremely high end. I can get those crab legs for $29lb at my local grocery store. Colossal shrimp for about $13lb.

I've always called them Raspberries.

17:10... hahaha Millie!

I think it depends on the state. In Illinois, you can't hold you're phone while you're driving. It can be on a stand, for like a GPS, but you can't have it in your hand. You used to be able to talk on the phone while driving, but that changed in like 2016.

You mentioned you hadnt seen a place that cooks food in front of you. I've been to some Asian restaurants where you pick your meat and its cooked in front of you. In San francisco, there used to be a place where your seating is in curtained off booth & you get the meat raw because there is a Hibachi in the center of your table and you cook your own meat. The hibachi is a small Japanese grill.

Raspberries or strawberries. Never heard of red berries.

Most likely yo can get the same cuts of meat at a more reasonable price elsewhere. High end stores in America doesn’t necessarily mean better quality, just a higher price. However, they usually have items (not necessarily a lot) that you can only buy in there store like the Champagne Bear Candy.

No this guy is a jerk. He took her here just for her to see high end grocery store not to actually buy anything. These are not typical prices.

If you get back in Texas go visit an HEB super grocery store, you will be shocked at the prions available.

It is amazing that we take our food verity for granted in the US. We are blessed in America with so much. Those are Yams , I have never seen real sweet potatoe in any US grocery store. Sweet potatoes look like white potatoes but they are sweet, you have to grow them yourself in the garden.

Yes, we say raspberries. He probably didn't know what the were and just called them red berries.

Some States like Michigan, phone use is Is restricted. Must be hands free at all times

I hope you come back soon. Ernie from Florida.

This is one of the most expensive places on the US, Newport Beach is where actors and million and billion ayers live. They mark up everything to an extreme price to keep the middle class and poor away.

If you have your phone out in the car on a California roadway, you're driving (in motion, not parked) and it's visible to the police, you CAN be ticketed. But people do it anyway. It causes accidents and road rage incidents. It's not uncommon in traffic for people using their cellphones to leave a big distance between their car and the car in front of them: it's a dead giveaway. Pull up next to them and sure enough, they're staring at their phones instead of paying attention to traffic.

Honestly dried fish is basically pure salt with the fish flavor amped up. It’s the easiest thing to do ever. Gut the fish and leave it the sun for a day or two and that’s it. The sun dries fish fast. I end up making it at least once a year during the winter. It just sits in the freezer and keeps forever. I use it a lot because I’m Asian and a lot of recipes have it included. It’s a replacement for salt or fish sauce. Yeah we use a lot dried or fermented things.

This is a very high end store . Not as expensive as Gelsons. Rich people store. Artichoke are tasty

HEB is awesome. They are a Texas based family owned grocery store. They have large selection and reasonable prices. Back in 2017 Hurricane Harvey was approaching and people were starting to panick. They kept everything under control and organized. They also brought in pizza for the employees. As i was leaving they were handing out dos and don'ts for a hurricane preparedness.

The prices there are unreal. I never shop at any place like that.

THAT is nuts!

HEB is king in Texas , specifically south Texas.

I live in indiana, groceries in California are outrageous, it's expensive everywhere, thanks to Biden, but this video is not typical

Bristol Farms is probably on the same price scale as Fortnum & Mason in the UK

El Niño is a Southern California weather phenomenon that brings a lot of rain, btw Chrissy seems nice but the guy not so much

Not a market selling local products. Just very expensive high end items.

You're not supposed to use your phone while driving, but people take that risk all the time. (Also applies to using a Go-Pro or other devices.)

But I ❤ the BEESLEYS.

Cell phone usage is ok in the US if youre using hands-free. They were using the cell as a map, this is legal. Some States have tried to ban their use completely, claiming that it can take your eyes off the road or, you may receive a disturbing phone call that may take your attention away from your driving. I dont know if any States have succeeded. This is only likely in the Nanny Leftist States that think we all need hand holding and permanent mommy & Daddy. As an example, NYC made it illegal to walk & use a cell phone at the same time. This was because a woman once walked into a lamp post in Manhatten, because she was distracted by her phone. San Francisco tried doing the same, but it wasnt based on an actual incident. San Francisco wanted it based on the experience of NYC. God forbid anyone accidently stick a fork in their nose while eating out on a first date. They would outlaw eating while dating.🤪😱🤣🤣 You can often find people breaking the law, though

I’ve never heard of this store. It must be a West Coast thing.

This place is a very Posh grocery store

Expensive grocery store in an expensive city in an expensive state..

He obviously went to some of the more expensive supermarkets with imported food also. Not sure where all you went in California but there are a lot. Of places in California where food is normal price too I lived there for a while work there. Adjust depends where, and what store you go to.

Using a cellphone while driving is against the law in the USA also. But as some say it's not against the law untill you get caught.

there's something creepy about the couple at the grocery store

Never been to a Bristol Farms, and I am a 64 year old American man in East Peoria Illinois. I do all my food shopping at Kroger and Walmart. Also never been to a Ralphs or Vons or Albertsons, because we do not have any of them around here.

He deliberately took her to one of the most expensive stores in the area, In fact he's going to be taking her to all of the most expensive stores in the area to show her how high price everything is here in the US compared to where she came from. I believe she's from the Philippines.😎

In my city, it's a $350 fine if you're caught with your phone in your while driving, whether you're on it or not. That's not counting the court costs.

They did not go to a regular grocery store.

Raspberries. I picked them to buy school clothes

I don't understand why he would take her into a high-end grocery store and only spend a little over $12. If he was trying to act like he's part of the 1% he has failed miserably. He should have taken her to Walmart where she would have learned more and he really needs to drop the condescending attitude

This is available. But really the average family doesn't buy this selection unless its a special occasion. Restaurants often shop there. It is not where we would shop for groceries.

He said it was a high end store in the beginning of the video

Whole grilled fish is a staple in Asia. Those were likely caught the night before and thrown onto the grill 5 minutes before they got there. I don’t know why but the head is fine as we see it as you should not waste anything and we put everything to some use. Beef used to really rare around coastal regions in Asia so we had to make do with other protein sources and fish is readily available. Basically you waste nothing if it’s on the plate. Pork is available and so are chickens. You wouldn’t complain if it’s covered in soy sauce and peppers though.

In Michigan you can not have your phone in your hand while you’re driving.

If and when you come back you definitely need to find a Wegmans. Wegmans started in Rochester NY and now is up and down the East Coast of America

California store prices are terrifying. I've seen cheaper prices elsewhere.

New York it’s raspberry’s. Artichokes are delicious. Come to New York. We are high here is well. Especially after Coved.

No! Those are very inflated, but I guess it’s probably the most nutritious you can buy. We have a farm that sells their produce in the area I live in, and I’ll pay more for certain things like local honey and the dehydrated vegetable chips. Definitely not your weekly grocery run.