3:30. The Chocolate bar "Baby Ruth" is not named after American baseball player Babe Ruth. It was named after President Grover Cleveland's daughter Ruth Cleveland who tragically died of diphtheria at the age of 12. She was belovedly known as Baby Ruth by the American public.
Babe Ruth was a baseball player, Baby Ruth is a candy bar with a chocolate nougat center, coated in caramel then peanuts and finally chocolate and was named after President Grover Cleveland's daughter Ruth.
If forced to choose between the two I feel like a nut, but I don’t like coconut. It’s not the taste, it’s the consistency. Get me a Baby Ruth or better yet a Twinkie.
Babe Ruth sued and lost to the Baby Ruth candy bar company which claimed (probably falsely) that the candy was named after President Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Ruth. Then, when Henry Aaron hit many homeruns, he liscenced his name to the company that made a similar bar called Oh Henry.
I used to work with Brits and I really liked them. They were all hard workers, but seemed to enjoy engaging with small talk with myself. One day I had the chance to eat lunch with a mob of them and when I asked if the seat was taken, they pointed and someone said, "It's all yours." I sat down with a huge smile and said back, "Ah, it's nice to be among my cousins," and they all laughed. Wasting no time, I quickly began informing them of the greatest jokes they never were able to learn. We really were family and the only thing different about us, is that Brits talk funny. 😅
I'm from the US, and at this very moment, a large box of Twinnings Breakfast Tea is in the cupboard. I have Lipton for iced tea. Hot tea in the Autumn and Winter, and iced tea in Spring and Summer. 😊
Try making iced tea with PG Tips. I tried it many years ago because I had run out of Lipton and I like it much better. If you're in Texas you can buy it at H-E-B stores.
Mars is originally an American confectionary company. The founder of it eventually took his son, Forest, on after not being there for his childhood. Forest helped his father come up with the namesake Mars bar (not the same as what's called Mars in UK) and was a key figure in his father's factory. Forest demanded a promotion and partial ownership of the company and was denied. He was basically told he could have the UK market to do his own thing with the Mars name and so he did. After his father died, Forest ended up acquiring controlling shares in the Mars, Inc. company in America and now the Mars family owns it all. Most of the famous American Mars candies are also available in the UK but under a different name than their US originators.
What a lot of people do with the poppies here is hang them from the rearview of their car. Although I don't see them as commonly as I did when I was a kid.
I have to chuckle - it's actually BABY Ruth (the baseball player was Babe Ruth) The candy bar was named after President Grover Cleveland's daughter Ruth Cleveland....go figure! LOL
The difference between Almond Joy and Mounds has nothing to do with the chocolate and everything to do with an almond. The jingle for then in the USA is: "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. Almond Joy's got nuts, Mounds don't."
When the tea bag first hit the UK the purpose of the bag was widely misunderstood and assumed to be a portion pouch meant to be torn open and poured into the kettle or cup. It was the same many places in Europe as well until they were later marketed in these places. Long before they were for sale though many people on that side of the Atlantic had encountered them by way of U.S. military aid and supplies in the war where they would be given food supplies along with boxes of tea bags with no instructions explaining what the bags were used for. Considering canned meat, packaged stew base, and other various factory preserved foods we brought over it is an understandable conclusion.
ihave a funny story when my wife an i went to London on our honeymoon we went to a tea house to have some english tea annd some delicious treats.when the tea was broght to the table,theteabags in the pot were LIpton tea made right here in New Jerseylol
Personally, of all UK shop candy I love Flake bars. Bounty bars are really good though. I think it’s interesting Lawrence had such trouble finding UK candy, because on the East Coast they’re rather easy to find. They’re usually for sale in Mall candy stores and in the UK section of large supermarkets next to the other items like Walkers shortbread and PG tips tea. FYI. Peter Paul started the Mounds and Almond Joy candies decades before being bought by Hershey. You can still see the little Peter Paul logo on the packaging. It features much less prominently than it used to. They use the best shredded coconut from the Philippines for its moist texture and strong coconut flavor. They were featured on Unwrapped on the Food Network many years ago and that always stuck with me, because I liked them so much at Halloween. Also, Poppies for Veterans Day in November are still very popular, especially on or around military bases. They’re just made from paper/plastic these days to hang up.
Daz, you might not like "You'll Never Walk Alone" for obvious reasons. BUT American composer Richard Rodgers is also co-credited with penning the melody of a football anthem that you probably DO like: "Blue Moon," which was a doo-wop hit for The Marcels in 1961.
A couple big things he missed, 1. Santa always wore green until the Coca-Cola company bought the rights to his image in a red suit. Now he is depicted in red all over the world. 2. Tea comes from China and came to England via Portuguese explorers thousands of years after it was originally cultivated. Saying tea is English is ridiculous. More accurately England invaded, occupied, and got them addicted to opium to steal tea.
Didn't Bavarian-born artist Thomas Nast, who first illustrated the character we're more-or-less familiar w/ about 1862 in Harper's Weekly, made use of red coloring for the suit?
@@craigtalbott731 Not sure who first illustrated him red, but I know it wasn’t the official outfit worldwide until Coke bought the rights and plastered it everywhere.
Yeah, I ordered a case of Twirl bars and Crunchies off Amazon once and they were outstanding. We do have something around here a lot like the Crunchie bar. Locally, it's called sea foam but goes by other names in other parts of the country. And it tends to be made by local confectioners, so it's good chocolate unlike Hershey's. Never had anything like those Twirl bars, though. So light and airy and layered. Delicious.
Almond Joys are just as divisive here as Bounty bars are in the UK (or Canada if that one episode of Letterkenny is anything to go by). I never understood that, I always loved them, but every Halloween they top the list of most dreaded candy.
Idk where all these people in the comments live in America but bounty is still alive and well here in America. And they are not the same as baby Ruth.😂
Is Aiden stoned. He just sits there with no facial reactions whereas Daz and the lovely G are grinning and smiling at Lawrence's humor and references. Just sayin'... Kind of weird. Am I wrong?
i think a number of the references were completely unknown to him. Hard to laugh at something you have never heard of. i'd bet a tenner he has never of Glenn Miller or "The White Cliffs of Dover".
Boy Oh Boy, when i think of tea, I think of the blood shed and loss of Indian lives when the British invaded to take "their" tea... Can you taste the Iron in the tea from all the spilled blood? CHEERS.. Tah tah
When you say American , do you mean Mexican because that's where the Aztecs are from, And they called themselves Culhua-Mexica, And from that we have the modern-day name of there home land Mexico
@@jeandonaghue2150 of course , Americas are all our countries in the new world. Aint saying the usa figured out what cacao was. I dont understand why Spain aint the major chocolate place. Prolly has to do with church.
@@troyshilanski380 First of all, Aztecs are not Spanish, they are native people to that land, the Spanish did make a settlement there, but they are not part of Spain in any way, Mexico has been independent from Spain since 1810, but going with your logic then every single European country should be a major producer of things created or from the Americas, as it was your European ancestors that created the new world Americas, secondly , wtf has the church got to do with it!
@jeandonaghue2150 America is two continents. So the original comment is 100% correct. Even the people living on the southern most tip of Chile love in South America as do the Inuit of Northern Canada.
How could anyone want British chocolate? It's horrible. How could anyone think that You'll Never Walk Alone is British, it's always been well known to be American. Never even knew Britain connected to it so much. Lipton Tea is the worst among teas, it's a big brand but not well liked.
It’s just like you Brits to try and clam are brilliant American ideas , but us Americans don’t mine using your lesser ideas out of common courtesy to make your Brits feel better about yourself. Your Welcome. 🇺🇸😄🇺🇸
Hahaha. Well The American dialect of the English language is more of a hodgepodge of a bunch of different languages thrown together in the alphabet soup.
3:30. The Chocolate bar "Baby Ruth" is not named after American baseball player Babe Ruth. It was named after President Grover Cleveland's daughter Ruth Cleveland who tragically died of diphtheria at the age of 12. She was belovedly known as Baby Ruth by the American public.
You are correct.
Babe Ruth was a baseball player, Baby Ruth is a candy bar with a chocolate nougat center, coated in caramel then peanuts and finally chocolate and was named after President Grover Cleveland's daughter Ruth.
Bounty would be the equivalent of a Mounds candy bar in the U.S. Almond Joy has nuts, Mounds does not. And Baby Ruth is closer to Snickers.
If forced to choose between the two I feel like a nut, but I don’t like coconut. It’s not the taste, it’s the consistency. Get me a Baby Ruth or better yet a Twinkie.
@@imbateman I hate coconut. Never did like it.
There’s still bounty in America.
Baby Ruth seems more like a chocolate covered PayDay than a Snickers.
Babe Ruth sued and lost to the Baby Ruth candy bar company which claimed (probably falsely) that the candy was named after President Theodore Roosevelt's daughter Ruth. Then, when Henry Aaron hit many homeruns, he liscenced his name to the company that made a similar bar called Oh Henry.
Baby Ruth was named after President Grover Cleveland’s daughter, not the baseball player.
I used to work with Brits and I really liked them. They were all hard workers, but seemed to enjoy engaging with small talk with myself. One day I had the chance to eat lunch with a mob of them and when I asked if the seat was taken, they pointed and someone said, "It's all yours." I sat down with a huge smile and said back, "Ah, it's nice to be among my cousins," and they all laughed. Wasting no time, I quickly began informing them of the greatest jokes they never were able to learn. We really were family and the only thing different about us, is that Brits talk funny. 😅
I'm from the US, and at this very moment, a large box of Twinnings Breakfast Tea is in the cupboard. I have Lipton for iced tea. Hot tea in the Autumn and Winter, and iced tea in Spring and Summer. 😊
same here
Try making iced tea with PG Tips.
I tried it many years ago because I had run out of Lipton and I like it much better.
If you're in Texas you can buy it at H-E-B stores.
Idk if they noticed that he mentioned Daz 😂
Mars is originally an American confectionary company. The founder of it eventually took his son, Forest, on after not being there for his childhood. Forest helped his father come up with the namesake Mars bar (not the same as what's called Mars in UK) and was a key figure in his father's factory. Forest demanded a promotion and partial ownership of the company and was denied. He was basically told he could have the UK market to do his own thing with the Mars name and so he did. After his father died, Forest ended up acquiring controlling shares in the Mars, Inc. company in America and now the Mars family owns it all. Most of the famous American Mars candies are also available in the UK but under a different name than their US originators.
What a lot of people do with the poppies here is hang them from the rearview of their car.
Although I don't see them as commonly as I did when I was a kid.
I like the british candy section in my store. I enjoy those jaffa cakes the most.
I have to chuckle - it's actually BABY Ruth (the baseball player was Babe Ruth) The candy bar was named after President Grover Cleveland's daughter Ruth Cleveland....go figure! LOL
The difference between Almond Joy and Mounds has nothing to do with the chocolate and everything to do with an almond. The jingle for then in the USA is: "Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't. Almond Joy's got nuts, Mounds don't."
When the tea bag first hit the UK the purpose of the bag was widely misunderstood and assumed to be a portion pouch meant to be torn open and poured into the kettle or cup.
It was the same many places in Europe as well until they were later marketed in these places.
Long before they were for sale though many people on that side of the Atlantic had encountered them by way of U.S. military aid and supplies in the war where they would be given food supplies along with boxes of tea bags with no instructions explaining what the bags were used for.
Considering canned meat, packaged stew base, and other various factory preserved foods we brought over it is an understandable conclusion.
ihave a funny story when my wife an i went to London on our honeymoon we went to a tea house to have some english tea annd some delicious treats.when the tea was broght to the table,theteabags in the pot were LIpton tea made right here in New Jerseylol
Personally, of all UK shop candy I love Flake bars. Bounty bars are really good though. I think it’s interesting Lawrence had such trouble finding UK candy, because on the East Coast they’re rather easy to find. They’re usually for sale in Mall candy stores and in the UK section of large supermarkets next to the other items like Walkers shortbread and PG tips tea.
FYI. Peter Paul started the Mounds and Almond Joy candies decades before being bought by Hershey. You can still see the little Peter Paul logo on the packaging. It features much less prominently than it used to. They use the best shredded coconut from the Philippines for its moist texture and strong coconut flavor. They were featured on Unwrapped on the Food Network many years ago and that always stuck with me, because I liked them so much at Halloween.
Also, Poppies for Veterans Day in November are still very popular, especially on or around military bases. They’re just made from paper/plastic these days to hang up.
Daz, you might not like "You'll Never Walk Alone" for obvious reasons. BUT American composer Richard Rodgers is also co-credited with penning the melody of a football anthem that you probably DO like: "Blue Moon," which was a doo-wop hit for The Marcels in 1961.
They seem to have an odd assortment of American songs as football anthems. Sweet Caroline?
Mounds and Almond Joy really did have an excellent marketing strategy with a great jingle. Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't.
I feel like you guys love America which just makes me happy
The Americas is where chocolate was found.
Chocolate actually central American.
Central America is part of the Americas. dufus.
0:18 "Name something 'British that's actually American'."
Aiden. 😉
A couple big things he missed,
1. Santa always wore green until the Coca-Cola company bought the rights to his image in a red suit. Now he is depicted in red all over the world.
2. Tea comes from China and came to England via Portuguese explorers thousands of years after it was originally cultivated. Saying tea is English is ridiculous. More accurately England invaded, occupied, and got them addicted to opium to steal tea.
Didn't Bavarian-born artist Thomas Nast, who first illustrated the character we're more-or-less familiar w/ about 1862 in Harper's Weekly, made use of red coloring for the suit?
@@craigtalbott731 Not sure who first illustrated him red, but I know it wasn’t the official outfit worldwide until Coke bought the rights and plastered it everywhere.
Yeah, I ordered a case of Twirl bars and Crunchies off Amazon once and they were outstanding.
We do have something around here a lot like the Crunchie bar. Locally, it's called sea foam but goes by other names in other parts of the country. And it tends to be made by local confectioners, so it's good chocolate unlike Hershey's.
Never had anything like those Twirl bars, though. So light and airy and layered. Delicious.
Babe Ruth was a baseball player.
Baby Ruth is a candy bar (no relation).
Baby Ruth (not Babe) is the name of a candy bar and has nothing to do with the baseball player unless he was named after the candy bar.
He wasn't named after the candy bar,his real name is George Herman Ruth
@@donaldstewart8342 I know his name.
Technically, even Cadbury is American now. Cadbury is owned by Kraft Foods.
Baby Ruth was named after a President's daughter.
I grew up thinking Kit Kats and A1 sauce were American. Very British, thanks btw. 😆
Sorry the Houston Asterisks were eliminated Aiden. They couldn't cheat this time around. 😜
No coconut in baby ruth
Almond Joys are just as divisive here as Bounty bars are in the UK (or Canada if that one episode of Letterkenny is anything to go by).
I never understood that, I always loved them, but every Halloween they top the list of most dreaded candy.
Bounty is not even close to a Baby Ruth Bar, Bounty is similar to a Mounds Bar.
You're thinking of Babe Ruth not baby. Baby Ruth was named after a Presidents daughter.
From somebody else's video on the subject - baked beans.
Idk where all these people in the comments live in America but bounty is still alive and well here in America. And they are not the same as baby Ruth.😂
I hate almond joys. Yuk
Not Baby Ruth, Mounds
Bounty can be found canada
Does the younger generation in the Uk also drink tea a lot too?
I do but coffee is becoming more popular these days we still drink a ton of tea though
Hello Ms G!! Ms D : )
Is Aiden stoned. He just sits there with no facial reactions whereas Daz and the lovely G are grinning and smiling at Lawrence's humor and references. Just sayin'... Kind of weird. Am I wrong?
i think a number of the references were completely unknown to him. Hard to laugh at something you have never heard of. i'd bet a tenner he has never of Glenn Miller or "The White Cliffs of Dover".
Probably just has a different sense of humor, on top of what @@JeffTaylor-tr7mysaid
@@JeffTaylor-tr7myagree.. and he's probably stoned, lol.
Boy Oh Boy, when i think of tea, I think of the blood shed and loss of Indian lives when the British invaded to take "their" tea... Can you taste the Iron in the tea from all the spilled blood? CHEERS.. Tah tah
Jackass
2:20 and once again, Gay is wrong about something. How surprising . . . 😐😐😐
Never liked Almond Joys or Mounds. Give me a Snickers Bar any day.
What the hell is an office bloke?
Chocolate itself is american, ask the aztecs.
When you say American , do you mean Mexican because that's where the Aztecs are from, And they called themselves Culhua-Mexica, And from that we have the modern-day name of there home land Mexico
@@jeandonaghue2150 of course , Americas are all our countries in the new world. Aint saying the usa figured out what cacao was. I dont understand why Spain aint the major chocolate place. Prolly has to do with church.
America/American is a European name/term. If Aztecs discovered/developed chocolate it would have preceded Italian/Spanish/European explorers.
@@troyshilanski380 First of all, Aztecs are not Spanish, they are native people to that land, the Spanish did make a settlement there, but they are not part of Spain in any way, Mexico has been independent from Spain since 1810, but going with your logic then every single European country should be a major producer of things created or from the Americas, as it was your European ancestors that created the new world Americas, secondly , wtf has the church got to do with it!
@jeandonaghue2150 America is two continents. So the original comment is 100% correct. Even the people living on the southern most tip of Chile love in South America as do the Inuit of Northern Canada.
Bounty is just almond joys which is grosssss
How could anyone want British chocolate? It's horrible.
How could anyone think that You'll Never Walk Alone is British, it's always been well known to be American. Never even knew Britain connected to it so much.
Lipton Tea is the worst among teas, it's a big brand but not well liked.
Depends on what one grows up with. I thought Kit Kats, A1 and the Star Spangled banner melody was American. Turns out very British. 😜
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It’s just like you Brits to try and clam are brilliant American ideas , but us Americans don’t mine using your lesser ideas out of common courtesy to make your Brits feel better about yourself. Your Welcome. 🇺🇸😄🇺🇸
English language defeats you 👊🏻👊🏻😂😂
Hahaha. Well The American dialect of the English language is more of a hodgepodge of a bunch of different languages thrown together in the alphabet soup.
@@billc.5861 you need to get your spelling and grammar right and then we take you serious. 😉
Ok Ok. My grammar sucks. I do apologize ,you got me on that one.
@@billc.5861 😂😂👍🏻
My mate Daz red on a ⛱️ beach after an hour?? We need pictures Daz.