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Hi there everyone
So today I'm here with my good friend Dodie
and my good friend Savannah
Hello.
One of them is American,
one of them is British.
Which one?
Who is it?
You'll never know!
So, Savannah, how long have you been living in the UK now?
I have been living in the UK since last August,
so a little more than a year.
So you've got enough knowledge.
Oh yeah, I've gotten the general
About food.
Yes.
Lots of gripes.
Now, originally this video was just going to be me and Savannah
just having a little rant, but I figured we needed to throw Dodie in as
the British person to, hopefully, stand up for some of the things we're going to complain about,
Yeah!
Cause, as me and Savannah have lived in both countries
I feel like we definitely have a lot more right to complain
about the state of affairs in England.
Just to start off, I guess, with just eating etiquette
It's a bit strange that British people eat with their forks upside down
Yeah they do
It's like using a shovel upside-down to dig a hole. What are you doing?
I'm sorry but whenever I see you like eat things you kind of carve it out with your fork cause you don't have a knife in your other hand.
Evan doesn't know how to use a knife.
No you dont
That's not an American thing cause Evan doesn't know how to use a knife.
You don't need a knife. A fork is nice enough. Knife enough.
You literally... oh jeez
One thing that did strike me though is that people eat french fries with forks
I've seen people eating their pizza here, with a fork, which is just against my religion.
Yeah it's bizzare
maybe it's just because the pizza here is so bad.
I have not had I've had very very few good pizzas in England.
Shut up!
In England, Domino's is considered a good place to eat
It is though I do like them. Papa Johns
It's like the worst pizza place you could eat in America is Domino's
Papa Johns is also just a bad chain
Shut up it is so good! They make it right in front of your eyes!
Ugh. It's not like, I don't know, I come from an area where there's pizza every single bock there's 8 different John's ,Mom's, and Dad's.
Every single block
Every single block. It's a block
It's block
I think that the pizza is so bad here because they cut it with scissors as well that's just one of the annoying things.
No it's not. It literally,
Imagine taking a pair of scissors and cutting some paper and then going you know what? This pizza could use that. Just let me lift up my thin flap.
would you rather hack it away
No! You use a pizza roller!
Yeah you have to hack! Rather than just
It's not a hack it's a roll! Do you know how wheels are?
Yeah but you have to go back and forth like
No!
She's trying
Curry is not a thing in America.
It's not, yeah, and that's what i was going to say
I had curry for the first time when I came here
Same!
And I was like "Oh this is nice."
You don't get, like, take away curry?
There's no such- no, like when I told my mom I was having curry she was like
"Oh that's so like, is it just like-"
-Foreign.
"Liquid and spices?" and I just went
"No, it's rice."
I went to one Indian place in Philly
and it was just a place where you had to eat with your hands,
like you weren't allowed to use forks and knifes
And curry is like the national staple food of England now
Yeah it's bizzare
I have to say, British people do do cheese a bit better than us
thank you Dodie loves cheese
I love cheese, and I tried American cheese and
it's like weird. It's melty but not.
Do you have cheese in a can?
I love cheese in a can. Cheez Whiz!
But you like spray it in your mouth and it's like *smack smack smack smack*
*SMACK*
I think breakfast in both countries
have their own appeal whereas – Sure. I – Oh come on
I love a good English breakfast Thank you
Yeah, but… Like, it's all savory, but
Let's bring in the but(t)
Bring in the butts. You guys do not –
Your pancakes are big ol' flat pieces of paper. Oh come on!
And they're like, "let's fill them with stuff because
we're so vile" You roll them up and then eat them
That's not a pancake Dodes. No 'cause that's a crepe. (x3)
Crayp?? Crehp!! It's a crayp
Crehp We call them crayps
*whispers* crehhhp
Have you had an American pancake? Yeah.
They're alright. Bit thick, bit stodgy.
That's how I feel about you! Just like our people!
Wow uh… we're getting a bit
violent
make out
OH NO
If you missed that
nothing happened
Cider I love cider I miss apple cider
like that's such an autumn/fall thing
I thought you meant alcoholic No and then also in England
cider is alcoholic No I agree
but that is the one thing when I go back home
to the states that I miss. I do miss cider. Yeah, you don't have like (??)
I miss apple cider when
I'm here and I miss alcoholic cider
when I'm in America Yes I agree
They're both beautiful. Why can't I live in a place that has both?
What's your apple cider? It's like
apple juice, but yet… Nice… spicy
Spices (x4) It's called spiced
apple cider sometimes. Spice. Yeah, it is
it's like cinnamon-y…kinda
It's autumn Oh that sounds so nice
It is really nice I want that but also
alcoholic. Well, in Ohio at least
we had like little autumn fairs
Yep Where you go
and like go on hay rides Hay rides
And like, pick your pumpkins and have some soda
And you can also pick apples 'cause it's that time of season
Bacon is a bit weird here. It looks
sort of like Canadian bacon. It's just ham
Yeah. I don't like our bacon. I much prefer
your bacon, 'cause it's like thin and there's no fat on it
and it's not stringy it's like
CHOMP CHOMP CHOMP
Beans for breakfast I've come to accept
as a thing. I can put beans on I don't like beans
my toast now that I've lived here for three years
Beans on toast and cheese is like the best. But
But when I still think beans, I immediately
think barbecue. Barbecue baked beans. Yeah, yeah
With hot dogs yeah
What? What's that? It's dinner. For dinner – Yeah, it's not like a breakfast food
Yeah you like put some hot dogs on the grill and
like have some beans. And burgers And you get some barbecue baked beans
You can have beans for any meal.
Like beans, baked beans are like everything
What is the number one food that you miss?
I was talking to Dodie about this.
I really like…have you had a fluffernutter?
*GASP* fluffernutter
I didn't know what that was. I found out. It's fluff and peanut butter
Oh, they have fluff here!
They do Yeah, in Asda you can find it
In my Tesco they have
the strawberry fluff, but not like
the normal fluff Just so everyone knows, fluff is literally
a marshmallow spread
I don't like it So imagine if you took marshmallows and
made it into a spread So you have
What a fluffernutter is, is
take two pieces of bread
peanut butter, marshmallow fluff
*slap* *aggressive slurping*
Put peanuts in it if you get like no yeah I don't like that
what you just did We can talk about this later
but peanut butter's not really a thing here and
It doesn't taste that good either. You have to find it No Yes it is!
Everyone keeps telling me that it's an American thing
like peanut butter's an American thing
It is. You guys like don't have it
as much because we have peanut butter and jelly
every day at school. Oh yeah
I like peanut butter and jelly That's a staple for American school, but you guys
Yeah peanut butter and marmalade as well is really nice
Marmalade is so British. It's like
Paddington Bear over here Sorry?!
Sandwiches I feel like you guys
are severely lacking on. You guys just Shut up!
You throw them all in the blender and you're like
let's just have a two-pound sandwich at Tesco What?!
But I'm used to delis, giving me
fresh cut meat and cheeses and
having a big ol' sammich. Yeah
I feel that "Sammich" You guys don't have those
At the McDonald's back home,
they do these really nice salads
We're good at salads! No, we
are excellent at salad! And that's Excellent!
the thing like at McDonald's, for like
four dollars, you can get like a giant
like nice salad with like
peppers in it, and like
chicken, and like all these nice things
I hear they have doughnuts at McDonald's isn't that
freaking weird? I always went, you're – Yeah
Like, the McDonald's in America kinda pretends it's not unhealthy
And like, the apple pies And here they're just like *unintelligible noises*
Yeah yeah yeah yeah Ok but like
when I went to America and you get like
the drinks things Okay
Okay, the bloody drinks things are like
SO sweet. They are SO sweet. A small is this big as well
Yeah and like it's like
you can feel everything in your head
rotting because it's so sweet. It's like
drinking cancer. It's so…
Oh my gods I love
sweet tea, that's not a thing here like when
people say tea here