hi we're john and leah and this video is about highly american
things that americans didn't realize were american until they went abroad
and it's not popcorn i'm not like hinting at like it's not a problem this wasn't a
prop we're just eating fun and this is this isn't um this is one of our favorite popcorns
yes we get into the theme of america whilst we uh do this video yes and this isn't a spawn we're
just genuinely our favorite popcorn no no wish it was mm-hmm okay so first one i'll kick it off
having ketchup with every meal free ketchup with your meal ketchup's just a thing
that isn't necessarily like the done thing everywhere no some places you have to pay extra
for sachets or you'd call it packets of ketchup and sauces and if you don't have to pay for it you
most certainly have to at least ask for it so in mcdonald's in the uk if you want sauces you have
to ask for it and they hold it behind the counter and they give it to you i believe in america they
just let you squirt it into a tub or like you can just have whatever you want sauces are like
extras but i think like sauces are necessities in america thinkable not to offer sources for free
like yeah if i was an american i would have a whole fridge just for condiments and sauces
because i would be able to collect so many sauces everywhere i go
and you know what americans found it hilarious that we call them sachets sachet yeah
but this is a packet of popcorn yeah i mean this is a packet i got kind of a couple of sachets of
ketchup please yeah what is it i don't even know but they were like oh my gosh you're so
sashay i'm like it's a saturday sachet away even if you ask for something kind of like
you know not posh inside your sachet you're like can i get a sachet of brown sauce or salad cream
satay of salad cream yeah okay the next one on the topic of dressings is that ranch is the default
dressing like ranch or ranch it bothers it's like the iconic dressing i and i just think it's dead i
don't think it's that good i don't understand the ranch height if it if like for example a salad or
something comes with ranch we always ask for it on the side because they just drench it and it's
just too much like i think ranch is like this tier i put sour cream higher than it i even put chive
sauce higher than rice yeah we're just not don't do it for me and it hasn't made its way to the
uk so in the last i'd say year and a half buffalo sauce it's starting to be stocked in supermarkets
which i'm so excited by because i have buffalo all the time yeah but that's only fairly recent
ranch is still not readily available in the uk this has basically become a sauces video this
is all about soil sources although our sauciest video oh my gosh i don't understand what with
the video was oh it's basically the funny things that americans don't realize are super american
catch up with everything sources with everything that are just included the fact that red cups are
so synonymous with america to the rest of the world so much so when we first went to america
we were like oh my god red carpets because we don't get them in the uk they're so american
they could like we saw them in the supermarket or even just out and about and we were like oh
my god i've got iphone pictures of red cups yeah literally it's like we'll use them as when i first
went to america i bought a whole pack of red cups never opened them or used them but people now do
that for american themed parties in the uk where it's like a thing to have red cups but americans
didn't don't realize that they're a thing they're just like they're literally cups like do you guys
not realize that in films they always see like a big pool house party and it's always those red
carpets always so like joel buying them cups for the party he never had yeah because i don't have
parties it's like they one day they'll be used for a you know a party it's in songs like one of
miley's songs she says red cups and sweaty bodies everywhere red cups and sweaty bodies everywhere
hands in the air like we don't care so it's like in culture that we consume so red cups is amazing
yeah absolutely amazing yeah did you know this because you're quite you love showers i'm very
picky about my water pressure when it comes to showers apparently an american thing is
strong water pressure have you noticed it's particularly strong i actually think that from
the airbnb's we've stayed at the last couple of times the showers have been extremely weak
i've been extremely disappointed with the power of the shower yeah and i felt like this is not
getting the soap out of my hair i'm gonna have to stay under here for a long time the fact that they
are saying in this article that they have the strong water pressure
disagree but obviously you guys know better than me yeah i haven't noticed it to be fair either way
i'm just like showers a shower really yeah it says here like when abroad showers feel like a watering
can like a flower watering pot yeah that week is there much worse than a really weak shower awful
yeah that's the point but it says here in america it's like the pressure is strong enough to tear my
skin off oh okay no i didn't notice that no i've never had that i've never had that much pressure
maybe we're staying the wrong places yeah oh this is good i still don't understand this okay garbage
disposals are so american go on you won't even this is going to blow your tiny little mind right
so when i moved to the uk you're signing your tiny lady when i moved to the uk my flatmates
asked why in movies people would stick their hand in a sink drain and have it ripped apart i told
them about garbage disposals and they were very weirded out so basically my parents have this
but i don't think we have u6 we're so not used to in the uk garbage disposal you chuck food waste
into the so instead of putting it in bin you put it into the sink i've seen a sink grinds up and
throws it away where does it go then sewage no but we never use it
because it seems so wrong for a brick to put food leftovers in a sink that we just put it in the bin
so they just basically put anything so you're telling me
they've got it so good they don't have to hover over the bins scraping plates they're just by
the sink so they've got what two sinks almost so they just go garbage disposal into the water
garbage disposal into the water i am so jealous that is amazing yeah why are we not doing it here
why don't we have make it make sense it's because they use too much energy i've asked my
grandparents what's my absolutely i was like why are we not having top loaders she's like they use
too much water especially in this energy crisis energy crisis she was like we don't have enough
stuff to put in them they do yeah having a house of like 20 million people yeah wow the next one
is strict rules around drinking america has very strict rules around yeah so if they were abroad
they're not in america they must think that like they could get away with anything which is
probably why they think brits are so boozy oh they think we're busy this person said when i
studied in the uk the lack of public drinking laws was a bit of a culture shock being able to walk
outside with a bottle of beer was very freeing so they must be not allowed to drink unless on a
private premises then in america right the only thing we've got similar in london is you can't
drink on public transport yeah but you can drink outside you can walk through a park with alcohol
you can walk down the street drinking alcohol you can drink wherever you want makes it sound like we
literally like just roll out the beer tavern but drinking just because you can doesn't mean
you should yeah nothing is great neither right nor wrong but you can make it exactly i mean i'm
but yeah america's just got some weird rules around drinking got to be over 21. it's got to
be in the trunk of your car it's got to be in a brown paper bag we only sell it in liquor stores
not in supermarkets yeah you can't drink on the street like so you're trying to tell me that like
if your kids are not getting sleep don't just give them a bit of alcohol yeah don't you just give
them a shot of whiskey or something just give them a little bit of brandy on their tongue and just
see them nod off it's very hard strange because in the uk as we've said before but we'll say it again
in case you're here yeah in the uk you can drink from any age if you're under adult supervision
yeah and in the family home you can do that yeah so we've had alcohol as kids yeah not strong
alcohol i should add i would have paniche what's that so basically beer and lemonade oh i just
call that a shandy shandy punishment i think it was called panache in france because we'd always
have by the paniche bottles in france but they were like a small percentage of alcohol but still
we were used to having alcohol from a younger age because you can exactly because that's unthinkable
to americans really oh just give them a little drink send them off to sleep not gonna harm them
no they love it they love it she knows she raided the booze cabinet when she was younger oh yeah i
got caught drinking oh i was going like this with the sambuca like that and putting it on my tongue
delicious me and my cousin got caught and we got caught with um those alco pops that aren't even
what are they called wkds wkds the blue ones i was like let's just go
to the shed do you guys have sheds i was like let's go to the shed and drink it
yeah good times no we won't we didn't go overboard but no you know right the next one americans are
really good at constant air conditioning oh i know and it does not for me is it i get too
cold we could be in a hot place and then we go into an olive what's it called olive garden
and i'm wrapping myself up with napkins yeah i'm like covering my arms because i'm so cold
that's the confusing thing you're in a hot climate and you're hot but you need
and it's boiling it's like so hot like 90 degrees but you must remember to take a jacket with you
if you're eating out or growing indoors if you go in you need to be prepared to be freezing so your
legs and your feet and your toes you're gonna get cold i don't need to tell you guys that and this
is the thing when we complain about it being hot in the uk and we get responses on the instagram
going that's not even that hot it's like it is when you don't have ac in your house it really
is it is when you don't have acne yeah when you don't have eight are you gonna get ac this year
no i did look into it i might do but you've got a fan that i'll have to do but i i will i'll regret
it when i'm in bed sweating the tits off i'll be like i wish i had it but it's just like we
just don't have it here it's not a thing i don't think i know anyone with ac yeah it's worth it
but like no i've not really been to anyone's forever home and seen ac in there no because
it's just not well we only have two hot weeks a year yeah so they just deal with it yeah anyway is
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