American Reacts to British Foods You CAN'T GET in America (Part 1)
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- Опубліковано 22 чер 2023
- As an American I know that more than most countries out there we let a lot slide in terms of food here so I was absolutely baffled to learn that there are British foods that are actually banned in the United States. Today I am excited to learn about what British foods are not available in America and why that is. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Blackcurrant juice is delicious, you're missing out! It tastes nothing like cranberry.
To me i just think of it as "default" juice with how normal and prevalent it is, cant really compare it to anything else either, its just black currant and thats it for me.
Blackcurrant jam on toast is nice and blackcurrants on cheesecake is a favourite too amongst many other desserts you could enjoy, Tyler.
During WW2 there was a dire shortage of food in England because of conveys being sunk by the Germans. ‘Exotic’ fruits like oranges and lemons couldn’t be found for love nor money. Consequently, many people, especially young children, suffered from a lack of Vitamin C, until it was realised that blackcurrants and rose hips, both of which grew readily in our climate, were rich sources. I distinctly remember getting my teaspoonful of rose hip syrup every morning before going to school. We moved from that location in 1954.
I tried cranberry juice, its horrible...it makes you dryer than before you drink it somehow
Blackcurrant is bloody gorgeous. Love Ribena which is the leading blackcurrant juice product and sell it plain and fizzy !
It’s so weird hearing people from the US being so puzzled by blackcurrant. That’s no more bizarre to me than if someone had never heard of a strawberry 😁
I just looked into it, blackcurrants are widly spread across Europe and Asia, but they don't exist in the USA.
I drank quite a bit of black current juice when I visited England. Absolutely delicious! I really missed it when I returned to the US.
@@ultrareddput a PO box number down I'll send you some, I consider this illegal. Which one do you want? Ribena? Supermarket own brand? Let me know, I'm not joking here.
@@ultrareddseriously, I'm not joking.
@@tonycrayford3893 Thank you for your kind offer. Postage would cost more than the item itself. The legality of black currents varies from state to state. Where I live the law is unclear. I think I'll just add it to my motivation list of saving money to come back to the UK and visit my friends. Again, so nice of you to offer.
Blackcurrant is the default purple flavour in sweets here. I cannot stress how disappointing it is to eat a purple sweet and discover it's grape flavour. 😢
and funnily we have very few grape flavoured things in the UK, not counting wine. and teh squash bit was crazy, i drink cordial everyday, it never occured to me it wasnt a thing everywhere.
Ditto!! Grape flavour is also rare in Australia. Eating fresh grapes is nice but the rich flavour of blackcurrants leaves them in the dust!
Oh yeah, grapes themselves are nice enough (and wine obviously), but as a flavour for other things it's a bit weak and insipid. Blackcurrant is a pretty powerful flavour by comparison (but not at all like cranberry, not really sure why they made that comparison in the video).
@@AsharRaasa Yeah, cordial in America is an alcoholic mixer drink!
I love both 😋😋
Hersheys will say they use the exact same ingredients as British Cadburys but what they’re not telling you is what they add IN ADDITION to the original recipe.
A lot of American chocolate adds Butyric acid to it for a longer shelf life. Brits say that American chocolate tastes like puke compared to British chocolate. That’s because Butyric acid is literary found in the lining of the intestines! Look it up - I’m not making it up.
Such a dirty trick!
And since Hersey created this method and shipped it with the GI’s it became a standard after the troops fir home
I always wondered why Hersheys tasted like stomach acid/vomit. Now I know! Thank you! Thought I was crazy!
the reason american chocolate tastes like the smell of parmesan cheese
I knew there was something wrong with Hershey’s chocolate. That thing tasted like four week old toilet water
Fruit squash is enormously popular in UK. Most homes with kids would have a bottle of it. Most popular flavours are orange and blackcurrant.
And a few people like me add lemonade
Ribena is god tier
Ribena blackcurrant squash is the absolute best. ❤❤
Or if you're Scottish like me, it's not squash, it's diluting juice. I moved to Cambridge 10 years ago and all my kids friends looked at me sooo strangely when I asked if they wanted some diluting juice! 😂
Sat here being English with a pint of orange and mango squash. I drink squash more often than I'll drink fizzy drinks. I drink the no added sugar versions, so it's pretty healthy.
When Kraft bought Cadbury we we're very sceptical as we thought Kraft would cut lots of jobs and move production to Poland which they reassured us that that wouldn't happen. Until 2 years later when Kraft did exactly that and destroyed over a century of British culture
Never eat cadbury chocolate after they bought it out. Not as smooth and the flavour not the same. I put it down to the milk /water every time I go abroad, nobody seems to have as nice milk or water. Flake was to die for...
Don't blame the game ...the game being capitalism
.it's business it's About profit and margins
Capitalism is a huge flaw when it comes to human rights animal rights or the planet
Just as Nestle ruined Rowntree
Kraft did a hostile takeover of Cadbury in order to get access to it’s well established markets in the likes of India and Australia etc, it used these markets to push their own Milka brand which is totally inferior to the Cadbury brand. The very popular Cadbury Creme Eggs were reduced in size and quality by Kraft, this had a huge effect on sales which plummeted.
That is when I stopped buying or consuming any Cadbury & Kraft products.
The reason the creme egg shrunk is size was simply due to rising costs similar to how many of our chocolates have shrunk it's called shrinkflation. Rather than making the object more expensive they reduce its size.
@@LawfullSpook we get 3 forms of infflation on foods its a joke. Shrinkflation, inflation, and dateflation. Sizes have shrunk yet prices have gone up and the best before date is a fraction of what it used to be/
I'd have to disagree. Milka in the UK is better chocolate than Cadbury since Kraft spoilt it. Milka has no palm fats, proper cocoa and a subtle, but welcome hint of almond paste. Dairy Milk is nasty these days.
Black currants have been grown here in NZ for as long as I can remember and we have a major pine growing industry. Never heard of the fungus. And yes, they leave cranberries for dead on the taste scale.
There's a shit tonne of pine in the UK and Europe too, what they kinda left out is that the species of pine that it impacts in the US is a completely unrelated species to the pine of Europe (they just share a common name because they looked somewhat alike and humans are lazy and somewhat slapdash when it comes to naming conventions, kinda like how European robins and American robins are completely unrelated species that look vaguely superficially similar). The pine species in Europe have evolved alongside the blackcurrant shrub and the fungus it plays host to and, as natural selection did its thing, the pine trees here are the descendants of pine species that developed resistances to the fungus. The pine species over the pond, however, being genetically unrelated and also having never had to develop defences to that fungus were wildly susceptible to it when settlers brought the plant over for cultivation. Essentially its the botanical equivalent of what happened with the smallpox virus and the natives (with the exception that Native Americans aren't a completely separate unrelated species to European humans, obviously).
Black current can carry the rust fungus that causes "white pine blister rust", cronartium ribicola; this is particularly dangerous for US white pines (especially western white pine, sugar pine, limber pine and whitebark pine), whilst several European and Asian white pines are resistant. Croniartum ribicola doesn't exist in most of Africa, Central & South America, the Middle East, South East Asia or Australasia. So even if NZ pines are vulnerable to the fungus, the fungus isn't present.
Just cross the border to your North, Tyler. Black currants, squash, cranberries are all ubiquitous in our stores in Canada. I particularly like black currant tea. Truly, it's amazing how things like Marks & Sparks biscuits, Marmite, real cheese, clotted cream, crumpets, etc are all available here but not in the US.
It’s because you’re part of the commonwealth
Sadly, Tyler never reads the comments. It doesn't show any respect for his viewers, I'm afraid.
@@wessexdruid7598I am ready to unsubscribe. So disrespectful.
Don’t forget there are also red currants too. I haven’t seen a Marks and Spencer’s in Canada for a long time. You can get crumpets at your local grocery store.
Oo I didn't know you could get Clotted Cream in Canada! This makes Canada a viable option if ever I were to leave the UK :D
Fruit Squash in the UK is a bottled concentrated fruit flavoured syrup that you add still or carbonated water to for refreshment. Cadbury doesn't taste the same, it's too sweet and less chocolatey or less rich.
And blackcurrants taste completely different to cranberries. They have a unique rich flavour used for pies, tarts, desserts, sauces and drinks. They are also rich in Vitamin C.
I adore Cadbury. I bought Hersheys chocolate and it’s was just bleh. It was okay but there was nothing really to it just cheap chocolate.
However Cadbury for me is thick and creamy. I have a sweet tooth so I can’t say anything about it’s sweetness but it’s great for me.
I can easily eat a whole bar of it if I’m hungry.
Cadbury's chocolate is not the same since Kraft bought it out. In fact Kraft have admitted to using cheaper ingredients so they could make more profit, it just doesn't taste the same anymore either. Then in2012 Kraft said it was going to split into 2 companies and the confectionery part went to Mondelez International as a subsidiary and the quality of the ingredients deteriorated further. As a chocoholic myself (I too have a sweet tooth), I now buy Galaxy chocolate bars which is made by Mars in the UK.
My grandmother had a blackcurrant bush. Also a redcurrant bush, a gooseberry bush, brambles, loganberries, rhubarb and two apple trees. She used to bake great pies.
Classic garden fruits! My sister grows redcurrants, white currants as well as blackcurrants. Red currants are amazing - like little jewels. I was there once when they harvested the red currants - branches heavy with the fruit and it took ages to pick them all. Easy to freeze and always so delicious. Americans miss out on so many good things (cough - health care).
My older sister told me babies were found under gooseberry bushes in the early 50's . I dug all round the six bushes at the bottom of the garden till I was caught..
@@blondebrandy Not babies in my garden, but lager traps to keep the earwigs away. They will absolutely destroy gooseberry bushes.
“Authentic” British Cadbury was taken over by an American country a few years ago. It tastes dreadful now, and I won’t buy it anymore
@@sholtodepuma I assume you mean Nocebo effect. I'm also surprised you believe the PR from Kraft.
@@sholtodepumanot true Cadburys is such a British institution that its talked about in parliament, and it was said that Kraft altered the milk and cocoa content and its more like the vastly inferior American chocolate now.
To be fair, the "Darkmilk" variant tastes, to me - your mileage may vary, of course - like the original Cadbury milk chocolate. Also the milk chocolate now isn't exactly bad, just different. But, yes, it has changed, even if we can't prove it, and yes, some of us won't like it. Try the Darkmilk, you might like it.
@@sholtodepuma That's nonsense. It's full of palm fats for a start.
@@sholtodepuma What do you mean boo hoo? You've literally been proven wrong, not me.
It’s not called blood pudding! It’s called Black Pudding and it’s delicious! It’s part of a full English as well as any other time you fancy a couple of slices! Yum! 😋😋🇦🇺
look on the back of a cadbury bar in america, it says it's produced by hershey for cadbury. they therefore make it with a more hershey taste. The first time I visited the states in 2004 I bit into a cadbury bar and nearly spat it back out. It tastes bitter and grainy. In the UK it's milky and smooth.
Ribena blackcurrant juice is pretty much the default juice box in the UK. Also blackcurrant ice cream is absolutely banging, worth a flight right there haha
Also, Cadbury's chocolate hasn't changed since Kraft bought it, still the most popular in the UK by far
1940, WWll, the UK Government is supremely worried about Fresh Fruit supplies (i.e almost zero supplies). Therefore Blackcurrants fantastically rich in all the Vitamins required, were already tremendously succesfully grown in the UK climate, cultivation was heavily subsidised hence the appearance around that time of Ribena (created by Vernon Charley) which was almost force fed to children. This benificial habit has stayed for succesive generations, very similar to the age old RN policy of Limes for sailors to inhibit scruvy.
I have never been in a house that hasn't got Squash in Britain, its a way of making water taste delicious and refreshing....
Another name for squash is cordial. It's a concentrated flavouring that you add water to, to dilute it down to drink. Drinking it neat is not advisable, if you don't want stomach-ache. And yes, I'm speaking from experience! Kraft's purchase of Cadbury has had a detrimental effect on the quality of the chocolate, it has to be said. It's no longer what it once was.
I was shocked to discover that my husband ..now ex but not for this reason...used to drink bug bottles of undiluted orange squash. I was sure it could not be good to drink it that way so encouraged him to slowly wean himself off the best undiluted squash by steadily introducing plain water to it Be I think though he objected, he eventually, at home at least, drank it diluted as advised in the bottle label.
Whether or not he continued to drink it best outside of the home, I will never know but as he also tried to hide his smoking habits, and to his Mum,s surprise, to find out he also picked his dinner plate clean like a child or a dig, well, your guess is as good as mine.
When he had an affair with my best friend.
I am single now, needless to say....and my eating and drinking habits differ greatly from his lol.
To a first approximation, squash is basically a Britishism for fruit cordial, however, some fruit squashes also contain other ingredients besides fruit, particularly *barley water,* which I think is what differentiates them from cordials.
In general, squash and cordial are different things. Cordial contains less fruit than squash, and is often used as a mixer for alcoholic drinks. It also has a more intense flavour.
In some areas, the names squash and cordial are used interchangeably, although where I live they're considered different things.
@@brigidsingleton1596 you brought up a memory of my mum going shopping one hot summer. she wasn't one for reading labels. tried to chug a bottle of orange squash at the checkout. had to run off and grab a bottle of something diluted, so grabbed a sports drink (closer to the sugar level in undiluted squash) and a small bottle of still spring water. 🤣
this was prior to surgery to remove cateracts. even afer that, she still didn't read labels.
There is a difference between squash and cordial, though. It's possibly a bit esoteric, but after a while you get to see they are not quite the same thing.
From the Robinsons site: "Cordials are sweeter than squash and may have a more intense flavour."
The best analogy I can think of is the difference between a gin and tonic in a can, and a bottle of gin with a bottle of tonic on the side.
Cordials are like the 'ultra' version of flavour (and are generally correspondingly more expensive).
Squash is like the 'generic' version of flavour; generally suitable for all and of corresponding price.
If you buy posh, hand-crafted stuff to mix with water from a craft fair, it's almost certainly going be branded as 'cordial' rather than 'squash'!
As a Brit I can confirm blackcurrant is everywhere, it's on par with Apple juice and lemonade. I was laughing so hard at the squash bit as I knew exactly what they were talking about, squash is basically a super concentrated extract of juice from fruits and you pour it in a glass with water to water it down. With squash you can choose how strong it is by the ratio of water added and the juice, you can often buy 1 litre of it and it can last ages as you don't need much per drink as it's 70-90% water.
Just got to the bit where you asked how popular is sqaush so to put this into perspective I ask you an American how popular is cola or burgers yes that popular.
In the UK there are blackcurrents and blackberries. They are different fruits.
Cadbury chocolate used to be utterly out of this world amazing, you had to taste it to believe it, but sadly now it's horrible since Kraft changed the recipe! :(
It was actually changed before Kraft totally destroyed it. I believe Cadbury substituted basic vegetable fat (in cold form it looked like an just off-white block of butter) with palm oil or Rapeseed oil (in cold form is a pale yellowy oil), simply because it was cheaper. I think Kraft substituted cocoa with brown ear wax (but I can't be sure of that).
Horrible? Really? I have eaten Cadbury's chocolate all my life (i'm 57 now) & although it has changed a bit, its not changed that much. It certainly is better than any rival mainstream UK companies chocolate such as Galaxy or Thorntons. The only chocolate i think is as nice is Lindt (red) chocolate. Cadbury's chocolate is also 100% better than Hershy's.
@@Paul-hl8yg the difference is like night and day to me, though tbf I'm very fussy when it comes to sweet food. But I'm with you on Lindt being great and Hersey's paling in comparison even to today's Cadbury. But then that's not saying all that much as Hershey's are famous for setting out to make the cheapest possible chocolate. 🤢
@@sergioaguero7113 😂😂😂
@@SiaD777 Theres that Cadbury's/Galaxy divide in the UK, one person liking the former & another the latter. Which do you prefer? Cadbury's today still stands out better than any other chocolate (apart from Lindt' red) in my opinion. Its all a matter of taste at the end of the day though eh. 👍
The proper Cadbury is very different than US chocolate. In fact many british are so dissappointed now an American company own them now. Many of our favourites have become more American (kind of sickly sweet to us) So we treasure the few that are still the original recipe.
I agree with this. Do you know which bars still have original flavour? As I literally only buy dairy milk
Yes. Think Opal Fruits and Marathon bars.
Fruit and Nut, whole nut and Caramel seem original.
Milk Tray is worst 😫
Love Marathon (new name snickers 😢) except it is not Cadbury.
@@markpodlesak7204 Milk Tray used to be a firm family fave and had lots of different flavoured and textures centers, but now it's utterly is abysmal and everything is a disgusting type of praline which we all hate!
Many British/European people who have tasted Hershey/et al 'chocolate' have described it as having a taste/smell that makes them think of vomit! The reason behind it is the presence of butyric acid. Butyric acid (also found in rancid milk and vomit) is a natural flavouring agent that is commonly used in Hershey's chocolate to enhance the taste and aroma of the product; it also helps to improve the texture and shelf life of the chocolate.
Having googled it, some walmarts sell Ribena in their British section. Just remember it is concentrated so you put about 1 part juice to about 4 parts water.
Yes you are going crazy Tyler! The Squash we are talking about is nothing whatsoever to do with the vegetable.
What we are talking about is a concentrated form of (usually) fruit flavouring that is added to, and/or diluted, usually by water to make a refreshing drink.
It is available in inumerable flavours, and it's up to you how diluted you choose to make depending on the amount of water, etc. you add.
Neither should it be confused with fresh fruit juice which is also available but different.
Squash usually comes in bottles, either glass or plastic, and can be kept in the cupboard and lasts for ages. It does not need to be frozen or refrigerated.
It is not a syrup, but is a concentrated flavouring.
It works out much cheaper than fresh fruit juice, is convenient, and kids love it.
It can also be used as a mixer for alcoholic drinks.
Most people always have a bottle or two, or three of various flavours in their cupboard. It's healthier than any can of your "Soda".... 😉
Black currant jam was my favourite growing up. My Mother’s favourite drink was Rum and Black (black currant) sometimes you can find blackcurrant drink “Ribera” in Canada in specialty stores in Canada , woohoo 🎉 I can now find it 😊
When Kraft bought Cadbury UK they tried to change the Creame Egg; Creame Eggs were made using Cadbury's famous Dairy Milk chocolate, but that's expensive, so Kraft tried to replace it with a cheaper chocolate. People objected, Kraft said "well they've never been advertised as being made with Dairy Milk". This didn't fly. Kraft backed down; at least, in the UK, I don't know about other countries where Cadbury's is sold.
I think they just ended up changing the recipe for Cadbury’s chocolate because it has tasted awful for years
The creme egg recipe was changed years before Cadbury got bought out.
I'm actually really surprised you don't have concentrated juice. It's a staple in the UK.
The advantage of having squash is you can have it as strong or as weak as you like. Some premixed drinks are weak. In our cupboard now are two lemon squash two orange squash and a ribena. Ribena is concentrated blackcurrant 😂
In the US, you make cold drinks using powders with added water. In the UK we use concentrated fruit juices with added water, to make the same sort of drinks but the UK drinks are generally healthier than the US ones.
Tyler go to a British store, buy a bar of genuine British made Cadbury chocolate. You will never eat US made chocolate again.
The traditional sweet flavours in the UK are strawberry, orange, blackcurrant, lemon and lime. In the US it seems that most candy is cherry, grape, watermelon and apple flavoured.
Squash drinks are very popular to the point of being normal everyday drinks orange, blackcurrant, apple are the most common, as a kid i would have this everyday stuff like pop (cola / pepsi) were a treat.
Hershey did get a licence to produce Cadbury products in the US but only after they got the US government to stop UK Cadbury from starting its own US production lines and creating a huge competitor for Hershey.
In my family home, we had blackcurrant juice every single day, hot in winter and cold in summer! It's also delicious mixed with apple juice! 😋 An excellent source of vitamin C, great in cold medicines, teas, tarts! 😉🇦🇺 Squash drink, no thanks! Ginger with apple and/or carrot juice, yes! The best Cadbury chocolate is made in Tasmania! 🌄👍
Squash is like making your own gatoraid, so rather than buying 20 bottles of gatoraid, you buy one bottle of squash and make 20 glasses of juice from it, its space saving if the cupboard and comes in multiple flavours. Every household will have at least 1 bottle in the cupboard.
I live in Spain make a long trip twice a year for squash, bingo and other UK foods
I haven't watched a reaction where Americans have ever preferred Herscheys to any UK chocolate. Check out a few of the reactions where UK subscribers have sent cadbury packages to US reactors.
I went on a very expensive cruise, being a chocolate lover I could not resist buying a very expensive bar of Hershey's. The first bite went in the bin followed by the rest of the bar......
Squash is brilliant! In the UK most grocery stores will have a large selection of flavours to choose from. It makes far more sense to buy drinks in concentrate form than pre-mixed drinks due to the space and weight saving and the huge reduction in packaging. Why buy 8 bottles of drink when you only need 1. It's such a no-brainer food item I was very surprised to not be able to buy an equivalent in the US. The closest thing I could find was Kool-Aid but that was far less convenient to mix and tasted terrible.
Just to add, my fav attribute of squash (or diluting juice - juice for diluting) is that you can control the level of flavour. You can add just a splash to a glass of water and have slightly flavoured water or go half and half to get a drink that'll make your eye water. Most people are somewhere in between.
The quality and taste of the water used to dilute squash must also be important.
Nearly every house has squash. Sugar free or with sugar, most flavours of fruit are available.
Most blackcurrants in the UK are used for a squash called Ribena.
Very difficult to get fresh blackcurrants in the UK unless you grow them.
Blackcurrant Jam is gorgeous, Squash is a cordial that you add water to depending how strong you like your flavoured drinks.
On toast yum yum 😊
@@fayesouthall6604 defo and with a cuppa
In my larder I have three different bottles, Orange Squash, Vimto and my personal favourite Ribena made from blackcurrants. You can make them as strong or weak as you prefer. Saves refridgerator space.
Most households in the UK will have a bottle of squash in the kitchen cupboard. It's economical as you only use a bit and then mix it with water from the tap. Blackcurrant squash Ribena is delicious!
The fact that i had a bottle of diluted Apple and Blackcurrant Squash sat next to me when i started watching this video had me chuckling a bit at his reactions
Blackcurrant is a staple British flavour. Very widely used. In regards to squash, used every day. We always have several bottles of different flavours in at any time.
Robertson orange and pineapple diluting juice is my favourite, made with Scottish water straight from the tap. It's cheaper than buying cans or bottles of soda or flavoured water.
Yeh the point of squash is that it's essentially concentrated fruit juice, so it lasts a longer time. It's really popular because it's much more ecconomical than normal fruit juices. And yes, you can absolutely get blackcurrent squash - I grew up on that and it's delicious 😅❤
Tyler needs a PO box so we can send him some british stuff to try
Completely agree
British squash has nothing to do with the American plant. It really is just a synonym for concentrated fruit juice that you add water to before drinking. As for popularity, daily basis mate. :) Especially for kids. Probably more popular than tea on a warm day.
You can't beat stewed blackcurrants along with cornflakes and a banana. It's why I grow them in my garden. Just sublime and good for you too. Blackcurrant tarts are an intense flavour experience. Blackcurrants need a period of cold weather in the winter to produce a crop of fruit so grow well in Scotland although I think the main cropping is in England for Ribena.
which is also a squash
The late Queen Elizabeth Ii grew substantial fields of blackcurrants in her Sandringham Estate in Norfolk which are used to pmake the odrink Rubens for example.
I expect the current King, Chwill probably continue growing blackcurrants there too for the same reasons... of course, he has staff, farmhands etc to run the estate growing produce.arles III ..no pin intended by the
I have seen, as an adult de, the UA-camr JPS drink Rubens which someone here in the UK sent to his P.O.Bix but they forgot to tell him to dilute it as it is mostly sold in the bottles as a squash and so many servings can be drunk from the one bottle, but he drank it strate from the bottle undiluted, like a boss, and lioed it... When sold in cartons, however, it is predicted so can be shipped straight from the carton with the straw provided , maybe someone could send you some so you could try it for yourself .. have you considered getting a P.O. Box yet, Tyler...
NEVER pass up the purple sweets in the UK. I like grape, too but I just love the burst of black currant.
The closest thing to uk squash would be powdered Kool-Aid which you dilute with water.
Squash is just a bit healthier because it normally super concentrated fruit juice and you just add water to return it to a natural and drinkable state. Kool-Aid has a lot of artificial colourants and E numbers, which dyes your clothes if you spill it and makes your kids go hyper after one cup 😂
Don't forget white and red currents too.
With squash you can now buy pocket packs which are super concentrated syrups in a small one shot squeezy bottle. It contains around 20 shots and you squeeze it into a bottle of water or flask to flavor it
To flavour it in the UK!
Blackcurrant is high in vitamin C and has always been used in our 'squash' since the post war years when other fruits were still scarce; to get vitamins into the people especially the children. Rose-hip syrup was also commonly given for this same reason. Some imported fruit was on ration her until the 1950's. Squash has remained a popular children's drink ever since. We, now, have all the fruit juices you have too. Though maybe different flavours. Blackcurrant is also a fab Jam. By the way we have lots of pine trees in the UK and no-one has heard of this virus/fungi it must be an allergy your pines had to a non native species.
We don't use palm oil in the UK cadburys.. palm oil was banned here I think
Palm oil isn't banned in the UK, but there was a campaign to boycott it a few years ago, because the people who mass produced the palm oil were torturing and killing orangutans and destroying their natural environments... it's still in some products like shampoo, toothpaste, Fanta, spreads, Skittles, Mars bars etc... but many families have boycotted them.
Tyler, perhaps you should get a P.O. box so we can send you stuff to react too?
Tyler doesn't read the comments.
Honestly the lack of fruit squash blows my mind - I'd genuinely die of dehydration! In answer to how often we drink it, I don't think I've ever visited someone's home and them not have squash of some kind available. Rather a crossover with the blackcurrant too as I'd say blackcurrant & apple or plain orange are the most common flavours
In England we just pick berries from the bushes and eat them straight away,they are lovely.
Squash is great! I always buy it and add it to carbonated spring water. It's excellent if you must keep hydrated but you're bored of plain water. Wimbledon the tennis tournament used to have a big squash sponsor and even the tennis players can be seen adding it to their water bottle during the match
When I was sick as a child, my mother put blackcurrant jam in hot water and stirred it up. She may have put some lemon juice in it. This was the best tasting medicine I ever had. It helped a cold clear up and allowed me to sleep at night. She made the jam and reserved it for medical use until the next crop came in.
It's a very effective herbal remedy.
Squash as a flavour for water is so common in the uk that we often have a shelf in the kitchen just for squash and other mixers (such as dryginger for alcohol) i personally get through roughly 1.5L of water flavoured with squash per day.
I can top that. I get through around 4.5L per day (Apple & Blackcurrent). I dont drink tea, coffee or alcohol though.
Im drinking apple and blackcurrant . The juice is a cordial mixed with water then refrigerated then drank cold. Its so refreshing
When was a child, blackcurrant squash (brand name Ribena) was ubiquitous.
I used to drink a lot of squash as a child, my favourite was Ribena a blackcurrant flavoured drink. Unfortunately, since the introduction of the sugar tax in the UK, most soft drinks contain sweeteners, which, if like me you have the misfortune to think they taste like chemicals that leave a bitter after taste, squash is a pleasure no longer available to us. I have found an Elderflower cordial, however, which doesn't have any sweeteners but it's quite expensive.
I can't abide anything with sweetners in either, Ribena is actully still the same but they ruined so many British staples, R Whites Lemonade is undrinkable now due to vile artificial sweetners, as is Old Jamaica ginger beer; not only do they taste revolting, they give me migraines too - artificial sweetners should be bannec, they're revolting, nasty toxic things.
The whole “the sugar free taste the same” gets me every time. No. They. Don’t.
In the summer we drink squash every day, instead of having plain water we flavour it with orange, lemon, blackcurrant and a myriad of other fruit flavours and combinations. And as an aside Hersheys chocolate is vile compared with proper Cadbury’s chocolate.
Blackcurrent is an example of how a plant can evolve at a local area level to live with its neighbour plants without killing each other but when moved out of its neighbourhood will kill. Blackcurrent is also high in vitamin C and can be used as a squash with either hot or cold water ratio 1 to 7 with water approx.
One thing that will cause flavour change is the source of any sugar. Europe uses sugar beet (a root veg) as its main source plus some cane sugar (a leafy grass) from the tropics. US tends to use a lot of corn syrup (from grass seeds bodies). Each and the differing process methods will give a different food taste. Hence the world of differences.
Yeah ecosystems do eventually balance out but invasive species can be a right pain
Squash is pretty much another name for cordial. You put a small amount with water or soda water and you have a flavoured drink. It is VERY popular haha
For the squash they are talking about think cordial.
Blackcurrant cheesecake used to be massively popular in the '70s through to the early '00s, but seems to have gone by the wayside as I hardly ever see it sold in supermarkets nowadays.
I spent years searching for £1 frozen blackcurrant cheesecake for an old lady that I used to shop for around 10 years ago. She wouldn't believe me when I said I couldn't find any. Ribena buy over 90% of the UK blackcurrant crop, so it has to be a bumper crop year for the rest of us to get any left by the jam makers.
OMG blackcurrant cheesecake is heaven on a plate! 🤤
Comparing to cranberry is erroneous, it's a far far more delicious fruit.
I can confirm we have huge pine forests and the blackcurrants have not yet wiped them out 😂
@@catfrab I think the probabilities are small but lumber and logging are big business in America so even a small chance is something they dare not risk
Oh man that was a nostalgia trip reading your comment! I literally tasted that blackcurrant topping as I read!
Iceland shops sell it.
Blackcurrant is a good alternative to strawberry if you don't want a sweet taste it's used in tarts and pastries , especially jam .
For many years we grew blackcurrant bushes in our fruit patch, makes a gorgeous drink and akin to the blackberry but that has a sweeter taste. Great in tarts. High in vitamins (I delved into Mr. Google) - Iron. Calcium. Phosphorous. Magnesium. Manganese. Vitamin B1 thiamine). Vitamin B2 (riboflavin). Vitamin B5 (pantothenic acid). Reminds me must buy some blackcurrant jam!!
Sguash is also sometimes called cordial.
I probably drink a couple of pints of squash each day. At the moment I'm drinking apple and elderflower, or "summer fruits" which is a blend of strawberry, raspberry, apple and cherry I think. Very refreshing!
You'll get around 10 litres of "juice" from a 1 litre bottle of squash, diluting it with tap water. It doesn't need refrigerating. American chocolate tastes like vomit to us, because of the butyric acid (which is also in vomit/rotting dairy products) that you use.
Actually you can get squash (the juice drink NOT the vegetable) in tiny bottles in America in tourist areas. I got some from a Walmart when I came over in 2019 to go to Disney. I think it was in the British food isle.
The recipe used for chocolate varies between countries, due to regulations and what the local taste. One of the major difference is the amount of cocoa. Chocolate in US has less than UK and UK has less than rest of Europe. So, what America calls chocolate, legally is not chocolate in UK. Similarly what we produce in UK is not what they consider as chocolate in rest of Europe. When we were part of EU the rules defining what could be classed as chocolate had to be written to accommodate this fact.
Yes - the other famous difference is the amount of butyric acid. Not so popular outside the US.
I thought Green & Black's and Montezuma could be considered chocolate in Europe. I may be wrong.
I read that one of the reasons chocolate in America is different from chocolate in Europe is the climate. The chocolate made in America has to withstand a far greater range of temperatures.
@@cecilyrose8433 I think these days that's less of an issue, but in the earlier days of chocolate making, that's why butyric acid was added. People in the US became accustomed to the taste of it, so these days even though there are better substitutes they keep making it that way because that's how the industry has worked for decades.
Where I live Hersheys is sold as choc flavoured Hersheys put a preservative in their recipe is a chemical found in vomit The Cadbury choc made in USA is still superior to Hersheys sorry
Tyler, see if you can find Ribena in an english area of a store and drink a sip of it neat, that is as close as you can get to pure blackcurrent flavour, while there , get some marmite
I just checked my kitchen cupboard and I have 2 bottles of mixed fruit squash, a bottle of orange squash and a bottle of lemon and barley mix. Much cheaper than buying sodas, and I can have it as strong or weak as I want by just adding more, or less, water. True UK Cadbury chocolate was SOOOO much tastier than USA chocolate, but since Kraft bought them out, UK Cadbury products are no longer superior.
Black current Juice, or squash , is very popular here, it is stuffed full of vitamin C !
Blackcurrent Jam is very popular ! "Squash" refers to bottles of drink made of the fruit, ( many other fruits as well)
that you pour a little in a glass and then top up with water.
"Cranberries aren't very popular in the United States."
Are you daft? Never had cranberry sauce at Thanksgiving? Never had a girlfriend (oh, of course not) who drank a Cosmo?
Ive noticed that his outburst of WE DONT HAVE THAT HERE! just means I HABENT5SEEN SHIT AS I DONT REALLY LAVE MY TOWN, BUT OM. GONNA PRETEND I KNOW ABOUT WHATS IN THIS COUNTRY!
Theres about 5 videos of him saying America dont have this or that even though i know it a big thing in America. Like fish they dont eat acording to him. US is a massive fish eating country and they have so many towns that are all about fishing and catch and relaease videos and restaurants that gets fish in daily. They love seafood aas much as the next guy but he talks like they don't touch fish at all. Its such a weird way to run a channel but idk.. Everything he says is strange to me.. 😏
Hot Blackcurrant is an absolute winner in cold weather.
Hi Tyler American chocolate contains butyric acid which is to give it and especially the milk a longer shelf life. This means American chocolate has a more acid flavour than European chocolate. Butyric acid is also present in baby vomit which is why some Europeans say American chocolate tastes like baby sick to them I have no idea how they know what baby sick tastes like!
The Blackcurrant is used in products such as Ribena (drink or concentrate "squash" to which you add water to a small amount of the concentrate". Another product you will find Blackcurrant in is Fruit Pastilles which is a sour sugar coated gummy candy
KRAFT ruined the cadbury creme egss :(
Plus now everything is smaller,but high price😢
Yes they did, what was staple family favourite around Easter for many generations, is now an inedible, toxic chemical sweetner tasting abomination that gives me migraines - we usually buy Sainsbury's or M&S versions of them now, much more like the originals and no artificial sweetners.
@@lisadowsett6836 I'll have to give them a try. Thanks :)
Squash is just a general term for any fruit drink mixtures that are very concentrated, and you have to add water to, to make drinkable
It’s more like a brand name that got so common it became generic that all similar drinks are referred as squash’s as well
@@jameshead9119 is that actually true James?
@viviennerose6858 as far as I know it is there’s actually very few brands in that market aside from squash Most being generic store own brands
Hi again James, not important, but out of interest - are you referring to US or UK?
@@viviennerose6858 in the UK
if you want to try blackcurrant see if you can get a UK concentrated juice drink called Ribena (avoid the sugar free) but be careful it is super concentrated so a little goes a long way.
Tyler's confusion over Squash is almost adorable!
We have drinkable tap water in the UK.
There is definitely a difference in the US Cadburys chocolate and the UK Cadbury chocolate. Also since Kraft bought the UK Cadbury I find that the UK Cadbury taste too sweet because I think they use too much sugar than the original UK version.
Blackcurrants are ubiquitous in the UK, used either to make juices/cordials or in desserts such as cheesecake. Also to make jam (‘preserves’ in the US I think), and hot toast spread with butter then blackcurrant jam is delicious and on breakfast tables as well as orange marmalade you will often find jams made with fruits such as blackcurrants, strawberries or raspberries, other popular jam-making fruits are gooseberries, greengage or plums. Blackcurrants are also popular in France (cassis) and are used to make an alcoholic liqueur (crème de cassis) often used to make a champagne cocktail or a sparkling wine cocktail (Kir Royale) or a dry white wine cocktail (simply Kir) - great for a summer afternoon drink in the garden 😎👍.
When I was ill in hospital in my teens my mum used to bring me blackcurrant cream tarts from Ye Olde Pastie Shop in Bolton every day. They are to die for!
Black currant is one of the BEST fruit flavours. I m always sad that the US can't experience it.
They taste nothing like cranberries. Because black currantts are so tart ty are not eaten raw, but cooked. Cooked they become very rich and sweet.
Squash isn't like juice concentrate - it's a sugary syrup, flavoured with fruit. Backcurrant squash is particularly popular. It's what most kids drink at home a lot of the time. You can mix it with cold or hot water, depending on what you want.
UK Cadbury's is still made pretty much to the same British recipe. It would be commercial suicde to change it much, frankly. It's not like it's the only brand we have.
I've just made up a fresh-fruit salad mix of raspberries, strawberries and blackcurrants, sprinkled with sugar - delicious, and the blackcurrants are not too tart, they just add a bit of 'zing' to the mix!
My love was Cadbury Roses but since the takeover we are missing some flavors though the chocolate is still good. US is allowed to add a lot of flavoring that is banned over here.
Currants come in red, black and white. The black ones are the most "curranty" ones. The German name for "currant" is Johannisbeere (because the harvest starts around St. John's day = 24 June), and since some time there is also the Jostaberry, a complex-cross from blackcurrant, the American coastal black gooseberry and the European gooseberry. (The gooseberry is called Stachelbeere = thorn berry in German, so Jo+Sta+berry.) The USDA in Corvallis, Oregon also developed several jostaberry varieties, but unlike European selections those are rather thorny. Jostaberries taste similar to black currant, but a bit less tart and a bit sweeter. Black currants are mostly used for juice (in UK including squash), jams, cakes and so on; dried ones will sometimes be added to muesli mixes (= cereals).
17:10 Actually Cadbury belongs now to Kraft's subsidiary Mondelez International, which also holds for example the brands Oreo, Ritz, TUC, Milka, Choclat Suchard, Toblerone and many others. Imho the quality of all this brands went down since they belong to Mondelez... Generally US chocolate is sweeter and European chocolate contains more cocoa, and afaik there is also a difference in the (allowed / prescribed) pretreatment of the milk (or milk powder) used in milk chocolate.
Yes, Kraft tinkered with the UK recipe, and it went from a nice, smooth product to a nasty cloying one.
It's funny because blackcurrant is a very common flavour for a lot of things, but most people will not have eaten the berry itself
When I was very young, we used to grow blackcurrant bushes in our garden and were allowed to pick them freely. Unfortunately when visiting my grandparents, I picked and ate what I thought was a blackcurrant but was actually deadly nightshade. It didn't end well for me!
I used to work on a farm that grew them but never bothered to eat them as, although I like the taste, I don't like the texture. Maybe it is the same for others so that is why they're not usually sold in shops.
Blackcurrants taste near to blueberries. We as children, with the neighbouring packs of children used to pick blackberries and blackcurrants as children salt them to get rid of bugs and eat them. In the 60s in local parks.
Blackberry crumble or blackberry squash which is a concentrated juice drink that you add to water, these are some options, you can also use them in a fruit salad.
I guess we have blackcurrant you guys have grape we just dont really have much grape flavour stuff
Except wine.
@@donaldb1 🤣 that much is true
Squash is one of those things that exists to save space. Like how there's no Argos in the US. When land is so cheap and stores and homes are huge you don't need to save space.