That is insanely good!
Hi, I’m Josh.
I’m Ollie.
And today we’re gonna be trying some jolly real British food with our resident British
food expert Adam.
So Adam you’re a lover of British food.
I am.
You found this place and told us this is where we need to go to try some real British food.
This is place is basically all of the best British food that you can’t normally get
in a restaurant.
First up.
Oh man, this looks good.
Oh my goodness!
This is gonna be a good day guys.
This reminds me of school dinners.
Yeah, it does.
Something I know that they have in the states but definitely don’t eat in the same way
that we do are baked beans.
What’s really important to me is the viscosity of the sauce.
They need to be slow-cooked with love.
You need to get it the right length of time not too hot if you boil them they’ll lose
the taste.
We’re still gonna be talking about a fancy food here, we are talking about canned baked
beans, right?
In!
The interesting thing about the potato waffles is that this is essentially an invention to
cook potatoes in a toaster.
I did not know that.
Me neither.
I wanna eat, I’m hungry.
What’s going on here?
What we have here is a twist on the classic beans on toast.
Beans on toast.
This is beans on toast with red Leicester cheese.
What we are missing here is Worcester sauce.
It’s essentially a fermented liquid which you kinda get that umami taste that it brings
out.
Wow, I like this.
This is my one shot to communicate to the world that British food is not terrible.
I need to put some work in here.
Adams been reading for the last month.
Gonna put some Worcester sauce on.
Ok, Worcester sauce going straight on to the cheese.
I feel like this is an amalgamation of two things I actually like, cheese on toast and
beans on toast.
That is the one.
That is so good, we’ve got a lot to eat but I want to eat more than that.
That is good but…
No buts Ollie!
I looked up into the air while eating it and saw several of my faces just staring down
at me.
That's good, right?
Yeah, that is actually good.
That's hella good.
Visually this food is not done justice it is as simple as it looks but the combination
does work.
It does work.
Next up potato waffles.
Wow, I think that’s the best potato waffles I’ve ever eaten.
Oh, my days!
Something about that simple potato yeah just goes so well with the beans.
So interesting fact about baked beans they're not baked.
Wait what are you serious...
- We should file a complaint. - Why are they called baked beans?
I actually don’t know.
You can’t just drop a fact like that and not know the background information.
You cant just shatter my entire universe.
Doctor Adam, PhD in British food.
Baked beans aren’t British either, like most cultural things in the UK.
Their originally native American.
Wow!
Look at this.
Wow!
Thank you.
You’re very welcome.
- So gents this is the main course. - Oh my gosh wow!
Can I say it right that it's an aristocratic egg.
Well, it's funny you should say that because the English breakfast was originally eaten
by the gentry in the upper classes of the UK back in the 1700s or something.
So this is not a dish that we've just stolen from some other country and brought over to
the UK.
It contains elements of theft.
Okay.
Yeah, British food is on the dock today and you are the barrister in a way it kind of
looks a little bit.
This sausage looks fantastic.
Whoa, that's way too much!
What did you do Ollie?
Both plates.
We’re gonna have to pay for that bottle.
Here we have a very simple breakfast, English sausage, baked beans, fried egg, and we've
got what is called bubble and squeak.
Bubble and squeeze, this is bubble squeak.
The name comes from the sound that the food makes when you’re cooking it it has also
been called peasant food.
Why I thought this was a food of the gentry?
The cooked breakfast was the food of the gentry, no longer.
Bubble and sweet's called peasant food because essentially it is just your leftovers fried.
So in my family bubble and squeak would just be whatever you have leftover from dinner
the night before next morning get it out of the fridge, in the frying pan, bob's your
uncle.
So approximately half of all brits in the 1950s had this or a variation of this for
breakfast every single day.
That's the thing like the history of Britain right, it's all class.
And what do we have here I mean obviously okay just more beans more sausage and chips,
surely this isn't a breakfast thing.
Well, there's a famous quote from an English writer from the 1800s that said if you want
to eat well in England, have breakfast for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Religiously I will not have that outside of breakfast.
What part of your religion is that?
This is a niche cult that I’m going to promote on this youtube channel it's based on medieval
haircuts.
That is so successful that yeah what we essentially do is tweak it for lunch and dinner.
So this will be like kind of the lunch version of the English breakfast essentially.
That's a good sausage.
So good!
Wow, look at this guys.
Holy moly!
This my friend is the sandwich round.
That is good!
I mean it looks like a really gourmet…
Sausage and egg mc muffin, I would say is my favourite breakfast meal.
A real patriot are we?
He’s livid.
So this is the English muffin although it was invented in England was popularized in
America slash may have been invented in America by an Englishman.
The guy moved to new york he opened up a bakery and from then on called the muffin house.
He’s the muffin man.
He is the original muffin man.
Oh my gosh, the muffin man's in Shrek, isn’t he?
Where's the muffin man from, England.
Do you know the muffin man?
I know the muffin man.
So this is the chip butty.
We had one of those at a fish and chip shop, not gonna lie it wasn't great.
This looks really good chips are almost perfect.
I guess that’s a good thing.
Yeah, when chips and bread are the two elements of a meal you kind of want one of those two
elements to at least be good right.
Yeah, ideally both.
Yeah ideally.
What we do need for this though and what we are going to improve on the previous chip
butty is some sauce.
Wow, this is homemade brown sauce.
I’ve always been curious about this, what is brown sauce cos it's a bit ominous in how
vague the name is?
It's essentially a thicker version of Worcestershire it's vinegar, yes vinegary it's got tomato
in and it's got some spices and turmeric.
So this is also known as hp sauce do you know why it was called hp sauce, because it was
consumed in the houses of parliament.
Oh, great scott.
That's on the label.
Yeah, that’s why it’s called hp sauce and it's got our parliament.
Unfortunately, the guy that invented it had a debt to pay and he sold the recipe for 150
pounds.
Wow, that's bad times, really popular sauce in the UK now.
It's really bad, 28 million bottles of it sold every year that guy missed out.
That's like smosh selling their channel for nought dollars.
Look at that dripping!
We've got sausage we've got cheese we've got hash brown we've got eggs we've got hp sauce
and an English muffin.
I feel like I got the raw deal here.
You did get the raw deal but serves you right for my hair comments.
Is that good?
I don't love it I think that's the best thing we’ve had today it's really good.
So what is an English muffin because obviously it's got a distinct look is it just bread
well their original word is from an English muffin cos it’s got a distinct look, is
it just bread?
Well, the original word is from a German word muffin which means little cake.
Sounds like something I would say that I completely made up.
That sounds completely made up, are you serious?
I’ll literally come back here for that.
They've improved on the McMuffin.
Everything weve had today is like quite a similar colour is that a theme for British food?
Yeah, it's what's on the inside that counts right?
So the next item on the menu is actually a dish that has a variation in almost every
country of the world.
- Here we go. - Thank you.
This is rice pudding.
What do you think of when you first see that?
I mean if I’m honest I had this a lot at school.
That's it for me too, school lunches for pudding the go-to was rice pudding either with a bit
of jam in the middle, or you know sometimes just sugar sprinkled all over the top.
Another feeling I’ve got about this yeah is never wanting it but always enjoying it.
Now you mix first or do you get a bit of the jam on the spoon?
That is so good.
That's so good.
-That is delicious. -I didn’t want it but I’m enjoying it.
That is delicious.
I think this is the best thing we've had.
This is maybe the most British thing.
That's bloody phenomenal!
l it's similar to so many dishes around the world like it's not that far off risotto it's
similar to juk in Korea or like zhou in china.
Sorry as you said that not far off risotto-like all Italians around the world are like.
Like I’m not saying it's a good risotto if it was a risotto but what I’m saying
is what's fascinating is it's very similar to a lot of savoury dishes around the world.
This is a dessert, it's sweet made with rice.
That is insanely good.
Yeah, I think that actually is one of the best British meals we've had on camera.
Yeah, I managed to fit in my superlative in there in the video yeah yeah I feel like it's
a complete jolly video.
So thanks for that Adam.
My pleasure.
It's very good if you want to check it out some good traditional but also like a kind
of slightly modern take on good traditional British food, this is where you can find it.
Meantime we'll see you jolly soon.
See you later bye.
Hi, I’m from Spain and my reason to be jolly is.
I spent way too much money on this but I’ve got ramen for at least a month so yeah.
Have a great day.