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Hey, Guy, welcome back to the Girl Guy London Channel.
If you're new here, my name is Kalyn.
I'm an American who's lived in the UK for almost ten years,
and today we are trying American smores versus British Smores.
Okay, so for today's video,
I am camping at an English campground, but I do have some American ingredients
for a very popular American campfire treat, which is a smore.
So I know some Brits are familiar
with Smores, but some people that I've met here genuinely have never heard of them.
Smores is short for some more, and it kind of dates back.
The first mention was in the 1920s, and throughout history it's appeared
in like, Girl Scout and Boy Scout camping recipe guides.
And it's just become a really popular, like summer camp camping treat.
So traditionally you would make them over
a campfire, but lots of British campsites don't allow you to make campfires.
So we have a camping stove
and I have some American ingredients and the British ingredients of how ow.
You would make a more in the UK because
you can't get all of the ingredients for smores here in the UK.
Maybe you can find imports,
but you can't find them at a typical British supermarket.
So first things first, I'm going to talk you through how to make
an American more so you can try it at home.
Then we're gonna make the British more, and then we're gonna compare and I'm going
to try and be nonbiased, which is basically impossible,
unbiased. I'm very sleep deprived from campus, so
I forgot what I think.
I don't know. I don't know where I was.
Okay, so we are going to start with the American version.
So here's what you are going to need.
You are going to need some
Graham crackers, which we don't have here in the UK.
So we call them Graham crackers.
And my British friends make fun of the way I say the word Graham.
So I'm sure you Brits at home.
We'll also find something funny with it, though.
It sounds right to me, but these are honey Graham crackers.
They're basically the plan kind.
And these were bought at Walmart and brought back to me by a very nice
friend who is in the States because I haven't been in a long time.
So we have authentic Graham crackers,
and basically what they are is sort of it's kind of hard to explain
because I don't know what to compare them to in the UK.
It's kind of like a sweet cracker, possibly.
I don't think it qualifies as a biscuit here, but yeah, it's like a flat.
They come in pieces like this and you break them apart.
But you can't find Graham crackers in the UK.
So you'd have to order some imported
from the States if you want to make the authentic American version.
So we're going to have the gram crackers then we have marshmallows.
Again.
The ones I have are American brand marshmallows.
So they're jet puffed marshmallows.
And on the back of the marshmallows and the Graham crackers and the talk
that I'm about to mention, they all have the recipe for Smores.
So this is such an iconic snack
that on all of the packaging just talks about smores.
So American marshmallows tend to be these larger kind, which I find are more
difficult to find in the UK with UK brands.
A lot of times when I look
for marshmallows here, they're going to be the smaller ones.
Often they'll be actually like white
and pink ones that we have at our local store.
And American marshmallows and British marshmallows are actually different.
There's something about the coating of a British marshmallow.
I'm not entirely sure what it's coated in, but it sometimes feels like maybe like
a sugar coating on the outside or something.
It would be something that you wouldn't
notice unless you have tried an American marshmallow and a British marshmallow.
But American marshmallows really don't have anything.
I completely smooth on the outside.
And typically in America, bigger is better.
So we have jumbo marshmallows
have any British marshmallows for the British version.
So we're just going to pretend for that one that I'm using British marshmallows,
but that is going to be a key ingredient in the more.
And the final ingredient in our more is going to be some Hershey's milk chocolate.
And if you are a Brit who has been
to the States and tried Hershey's or somehow tried it in the UK,
my question for you today is going to be
your opinion on the taste of Hershey's chocolate.
Now, I grew up on Hershey's chocolate.
We don't have CAD berries in the US.
Even the imported stuff doesn't taste the same.
And we really all at her.
She's of course, there's other like more luxury brands, but when you're having
smore, Hershey's chocolate is the way to go.
So I grew up having her.
She's my whole entire life not thinking anything of it.
And I moved here and a lot of take my time about to fall down.
Hold on one moment.
Okay.
There we go.
So a lot of people here don't like
the taste of Hershey and say it tastes disgusting.
Again, let me know in your comments down below.
It kind of tastes like my childhood, so it's hard for me to be objective, though.
I can probably say I do prefer CAD berries, but this is what a Hershey's
chocolate bar looks like and it's easily broken up into squares.
Okay, so now that I've talked a lot about
our ingredients, we are going to make a smore.
So what we're going to do first is we're going to take a skewer.
Typically, if you're camping, you're just going to find a stick in the Woods.
That's more fun, but I don't see any sticks around.
I came prepared with these skewers.
You're going to skewer a marshmallow,
turn on your flame or your fire.
I've just done now.
So I'm just doing this, like, on an open flame,
and I'm just going to toast the marshmallow by kind of turning it slowly.
So
you're going to get a little bit of burn.
Part of the fun of making more as a kid is
your marshmallow lighting on fire and then panicking and waving it all around.
So real fire hazard and a lot of campsites.
So I'm just going to keep lightly toasting it.
Maybe I'll get it to set on fire for fun.
There it goes. Okay.
So that's a pretty well done marshmallow.
So we're going to go ahead and turn off or heat.
Okay. So now I have my toasted marshmallow,
and for the American version, I'm going to take one
side of my Graham cracker, so I've split the larger cracker into half.
So you're going to have two of these little force.
So I'm going to go ahead and put
the Hershey's chocolate on this Graham cracker right here.
And I'm gonna have the other Graham cracker ready to go, just like this.
And I'm gonna go ahead and put the marshmallow on here.
I'm trying to do this so you can see.
And then I'm going to go ahead and squash
the marshmallow off, pull that skewer out, squash it until it's really guy.
And now I have an authentic American smore.
Okay. So now it's time to make the British
version with some things that you can find in the UK.
If you want to make these at home.
Again, the marshmallows that I have are the jumbo American marshmallows.
So you can either find those or if you use
smaller marshmallows, then you kind of just skewer a lot on and do it like that.
But I'm going gonna go ahead and use can berries.
Chocolate.
So I've got the iconic purple packaging here.
Again, Cadbury's chocolate.
Well loved in the UK.
Really delicious, really smooth dairy milk.
And it comes in just little squares like these that we got out of this larger bar.
So again, you can't find her. She's in the UK.
And I think a lot of British people are perfectly happy with that.
So we're going to use some CAD berries for a British version.
And instead of Graham crackers, we are going to use rich tea biscuits, so
they didn't have to pack.
But you can kind of see, it was a light blue packaging.
And
these are considered good for dunking and tea here.
I would say that these are chocolate digestives or plane digestives
would actually be kind of the closest Graham cracker equivalent,
but these have less of a sweet taste to me, which I think works for what we're
going for here because we don't necessarily want something super sweet.
Again, a Graham cracker is kind of like an in between taste.
It doesn't taste very dessert like,
but it's not necessarily completely plain cracker, like so we're going to go ahead
and try this with the rich tea biscuits or digestive if you have those at home.
So
the process is the same.
So I'll go ahead and see my marshmallow or
marshmallows, and I'm going to make sure my flame is on.
I'm just going to toast this and make sure
that you've got your tad berries on your biscuits ready to go,
and you're just going to Cook it until it's nice and guy
browned on the outside.
People like theirs with varying spectrums of done.
So it's completely up to you that I'm going to probably consider that done.
Okay, so I've got my marshmallow,
I've got my rich tea biscuit and my CAD berries and my other witch tea biscuits.
Go ahead and act as the topper.
So I'm going to put my skewer and marshmallow on here,
cover it with the rich, cheap biscuit, pull out the skewer,
and there you have a nice guy British alternative to a more.
And it's also just started raining as I
pulled out the British more, which is very authentic to me.
So the final thing that we're going to do is I'm going to do a taste test.
I am going to try.
I know which one is which it's impossible
to a blind taste taste test won't work in this situation.
I'm gonna try and cleanse my palette and see what the pros and cons of both are.
Okay, so we've had to go inside because it started pouring down rain.
So I'm gonna go ahead and start with the American version, nice and gooey.
And this is going to be a complete mess.
And that is the point of us more.
You can see how the crumb of this Graham
cracker kind of starts cracking a bit and crumbling again.
That's part of what we consider to be the fun of a swarm.
I'm going to have a really hard time
comparing until I try the British one, because this does taste like my childhood.
So let's try the British one and then compare.
So we've got a rich tea biscuit and cab berries,
and you can see the rich biscuit kind of crumbled as well.
Not necessarily exactly the same as the Graham cracker.
Okay.
So having tried both, I'm gonna say the rich guy biscuit British
version wins for the chocolate, not just because CAD berries is
probably better than her she's, but Cadbury's is thicker than her she's.
And so you get a thicker layer of chocolate, which I like in that one.
However, in the American version,
I think the taste of a Graham cracker to me is just so iconically Smoore that I
couldn't possibly choose the British version.
There's just something about
the taste that works really well with a combination of flavors.
But honestly, I would say if you are
trying to make a more at home in the UK, you want to know what it's all about.
And you try the British version with digestive in Cadbury's chocolate.
It's pretty similar.
You're going to get the full small experience, I would say.
Now it can be a little bit slightly
different again if you have lots of little marshmallows instead of one big one.
But as long as you do like five to seven small marshmallows and kind
of put them all in the center, you should end up with a similar taste.
So I go go ahead and choose the Americans more because I'm American.
I couldn't possibly choose the knockoff version on this one.
There are plenty of British things
that Americans don't do well, but as More is very classically
and authentically American, so I'm gonna have to give it the win.
But I hope you enjoyed this video on all
about American and British Smores if you've made it to the end.
Yes, you did. Just spend all this time watching a video
about Smores comment below and let me know if you've ever tried Smores.
Have you had them in the US?
I'm assuming most people haven't had them while in the UK, but I know a lot of Brits
do travel internationally or have American friends and have heard of them.
But definitely let me know your thoughts.
And if you haven't tried us more before, go ahead and make one.
Send me a picture at the email listed on my YouTube channel.
I would love to hear it.
It's a really fun, easy, easy, easy dessert to make.
You can just make them on the stove with a gas burner.
You can even melt the marshmallow in a microwave.
We've also done them on the barbecue by putting some marshmallows on a tin foil
container and melting the marshmallows.
That way, there's lots of different ways you can make them.
And also you can do things like using gluten free digestives for someone who's
gluten free or changing up the ingredients slightly.
So it's a really diverse dessert, and I have never had them at a campfire
here in the UK, but we have them for dessert quite often.
So there's your video. Thanks for watching.
And I'll see you guys next time.