American Reacts to British Things that are VERY WEIRD (Part 1)
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- As an American I'll admit that we do our fair share of weird things, however the same can certainly be said to Britain as well. Today I am very excited to learn about 19 weird and interesting things that only British people do. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
I have never seen a fight in a queue in Britain. But recently in a supermarket a person who was not British was trying to jump the queue and a British lady who was probably in her 80s told them off and schooled them on their behaviour. I have never been so proud to be British, she was great.
I feel a swelling of pride myself as I enter my 70th year..
You don’t jump queues.
The Spanish are so rude. They shout instead of talking and all push in.
The thing is, Americans have exactly the same rules of a queue but call it a line
Yeah, you will almost never see a fight. You will hear some furious tutting though.
When I get off the bus, I always say thank you to the driver, irrespective of whether the person in front of me said it or not. It's called manners.
I do too. Plus most of the drivers here are regulars.
it's almost drilled into us that, regardless of how long or short the bus journey, always thank the driver. I've seen kids being told off for not saying thank you. and even teenagers (long story short: driver was getting hassled by teens drinking and smoking on the bus), she was about to dial 999, but they all decided to exit the vehicle. these little scrotes all said 'thank you' as they left the bus.
in another incident, there's a woman who lives up here who could start a fight in an empty room - she's known for randomly bullying people for doing something that she thinks is wrong - and she picked on a young mum with her child. I don't think the young mum was expecting it, but because the woman was a friend of my mums and my own mum couldn't stand her, (they'd previously been at the same day centre, so my mum got to witness what she's like) I told the young mum 'she's always like that. don't take notice of her or acknowledge her. she gets off on bullying' as she was rather upset by what had happened before I got on the bus. ironically, as the bully got off the bus, she said 'thank you driver!!' first.
conclusion: I live in an area full of idiots and people who think they're above a lot of the other people, but if you fail to thank the bus driver - expect hell to open up 🤣
@@robcrossgrove7927 Me too, it's just politeness.
It’s the law! Here in Bristol, the saying is ‘cheers, drive’. Don’t forget that!
I take a taxi.
As far as tea goes there’s actually a scientific reason, if you put milk in before you add the water the fat in the milk inhibits the brewing process. So if you’re having tea that’s been brewed in a teapot it’s fine to put the milk in your cup first, but if you’re making a single cup with the teabag in the cup then you have to put the milk in after it’s brewed.
Also nobody eats scones for breakfast! 😅
Sometimes I put the milk in first, sometimes after. I don't think it makes any difference.
When using teabags, milk clogs the holes in the teabag, so you have to add it last. Even the Tetley tea men knew that you had to “let flavour flood out”.
@@robcrossgrove7927 do you have no taste buds or do you make the weakest tea possible?
@@robcrossgrove7927 you need boiling water to brew the tea, putting milk into it definitely affects that
@@ITzDaveXD I certainly don't like weak tea. I've seen tea that looks like someone waved the tea bag over the top of the cup 😖I like a small amount of milk in my tea, but I do stir and squash the tea bag somewhat. I think it might be that overall, I'm just not fussy.
Going back many years ago, when my son with downs syndrome was about 12, we were at the back in a very long queue, and witch was practically at the back of the supermarket in all isles. It was Christmas time, and the place was jammed packed. I realised that I had forgotten an item, which was just about 10 yards away, just around the corner. A man with a shopping basket, joined the queue behind us. I told my son that when the queue moved forward to move with it. Well the few seconds it took me to get this item, the cheeky man had pushed in front of my son, pushing our trolley back. So I asked my son in a very loud voice why he didn't move forward when the queue moved. The man turned round and looked at us. I just glared at him, and said nothing. The front of the queues, where controlled by a shop assistant, and when a cashier became available, would direct the next waiting customer in turn from an isle to that till. I was going to tell the man that he would get served much quicker if he walked to the end of the tills, as there was a specific queue for people with shopping baskets. After he pushed in I decided not to tell him, so he had to wait over an hour to be served. When he finally got to the front of the queue, the assistant said, is that all you've got sir? There's an express basket checkout at the end you could have gone to and been served much quicker. He turned round and just looked at me, I just smiled sweetly at him, yes he knew that I knew. But that's judgement on him for pushing in the queue, and taking advantage of my son with downs syndrome. If he had still been behind us when I'd returned to my trolley, I would gladly have told him about it. That's what you get for pushing on front of British people in a queue, so hey just don't do it.
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'Yours sincerely' is a way of signing off in a formal letter.
Unless it’s “yours faithfully” and the difference is whether you started with “dear sir/madam” or “dear mr/mrs [whatever]”
Yeah I'm guessing that one is somebody trolling them. They are trying to get you to think a British person is telling them to f off in an email and trying to get them in a fight in a pub.
Honestly I think it depends on the content of the email. If you are contradicting someone or putting them in there place using that passive aggressive polightness British people do then yes we can mean it in a deogratory way. However on most formal emails or letters is a polite way of signing off.
The “yours sincerely” is a sign-off on a formal letter to a named recipient. If the letter is “Dear Sir/Madam” then we use “yours faithfully”. In informal letters - which generally includes all emails, we usually sign off with “kind regards”. However if you write “yours sincerely” on an email - especially to someone who you know - it indicates you have suddenly and deliberately decided to be formal. Why would we do this? If we felt insulted or angered by the recipient.
Agreed its about what you would normally expect from that person rather than any particular rule. If you are always formal, that's fine, if you change tone to be formal, something might be wrong.
Exactly what I do 👍. The more formal and polite I am. The angrier I am
Remember learning this in junior school late 50's early 60's.
Or just writing “regards” 😮
@@solidflyer286 omg regards is the worst. Properly pissed off
Hi Tyler, in the days before tea bags were invented loose tea was placed in a teapot and boiling water, it must be boiling because you infuse tea (coffee is dissolved). If the tea was then poured straight into a teacup there was a chance that the expensive teacup would break or crack due to the delicate nature of the china. To avoid this, a small amount of milk was placed into the teacup this avoided the thermal shock of the hot tea hitting the china. If more milk was required to taste then extra milk was then added. The host serving the tea would not be pleased if their expensive china teacup was broken by a guest. This is not needed these days as even china teacups can stand boiling water. These days it is more likely a mug is used instead of a teacup, the teabag placed in the mug, boiling water poured into the mug and then milk added to taste. In the UK when writing/typing a formal letter we start with Dear Sir,(or madam) and end with yours faithfully,. If the name is known the letter would be started Dear (name), and end yours sincerely. If the letter is not formal then it does not really matter how you start and finish the letter with regards to email the same standard should apply but of course this is not always the case with people thinking using email these formalities do not apply. Personally if I'm emailing someone I know I always start Dear (first name) and end it, either Regards or Best Regards. If family, usually end it with Love,
My work e-mails I generally sign off "Many thanks" and my sig. Even if I'm just sending the customer something they've asked for, like a statement of a DD mandate. Or even if I'm just forwarding something to a colleague.
If I urinate in a cup hot or cold through the same type of paper sieve 'filter' would it matter when I put milk in ..NO..same with tea.
With regards to the China teacup, if you put a bit of milk in first you would be saying it's cheap China as good China should take boiling water.
@@19firebird86correct.
It’s quite telling of a persons family class if they put the milk in first (poor) or last (well off)
@danhudson4614 if you urinate in a cup intending to drink it then you have more problems than just thinking about when milk should go in tea. The person above is right, with regards to protecting the fine bone China of old. It was also a case that a little milk in the bottom of a cup prevented the surface tension 'scum' you can get if you live in a hard water area. All tea must be brewed properly before milk is introduced to the equation, as it reduces the temperature of the water that should be boiling, for infusion to take place properly. It is all about the flavour. For those who don't think they like tea, perhaps it is because it has been made wrong.
In my experience, if you make a pot of tea, it's OK to put milk in the cups first, then pour the tea in after. Some people will wait till the end to add any sugar. But if you're making a single cuppa with a teabag in a mug, the milk and sugar go in last, and only AFTER you've removed the teabag from the mug!
I grew up in London at a time when many bus routes were still operated by old Routemaster buses. So the driver was in a little cab at the front, completely detached and isolated from passengers. So thanking the driver just wasn't a thing, especially as you got on and off the bus at the back. The driver wouldn't hear you even if you did thank them!
When I was a kid in the 70s, we were told not to eat cheese before going to bed, as it would give us nightmares! Not sure that's still a thing these days, though. 🤷♂️
Eating cheese late at night is more likely to keep one awake as can sit heavy in the stomach.
The tea always goes in the cup first, putting the milk in first stems from when only the rich could afford china cups as the cheaper earthenware ones often cracked from a hot liquid poured directly in. They were too thick to dissipate the heat quickly and evenly and the clays were not strong after they were fired.
I always thanked the Conductor or the 'Clippie' if they were on the platform.
The cheese thing is way out of date!
We do complain but we do it in a particular way. Last time I was out for lunch with my mother she complained to the waitress by saying “I’m sorry but this chicken is really tough”, and there’s nothing more English than that.
When I was little, in a park, my Mum told me that a swan could break my arm but I think it was just a warning so I wouldn't mess with them. Scones are served as part of a cream tea. There's a debate as to whether clotted cream goes on first then the jam or vice versa. Big rivalry between Devon and Cornwall. You should always thank your bus driver
Re the Swan thing, as a kid my dad said a Swan can break your arm with one blow of its nose. I think it might have been a dad joke.
"The customer is always right" is considered an extremely outdated attitude in the UK. Actually, I've been told "the customer is never right" in the training of every job I've ever had.
The origins of this phrase date back to the 1900s.
The phrase is currently credited to Harry Gordon Selfridge, the founders of a department store in London. The point of this rule was to advocate for giving weight to customer complaints and feedback.
At the time, the rule was a fresh of fresh air and seen as a significant innovation in customer service. Now its a load of bollox.
@@abs24820 Farage should be paying them as its made him relevant again for a few weeks. Unfortunately .
His uproar has also made one of the owners of GB news very rich by short selling natwest group shares then endlessly encouraging the story to run and run.
No wonder businesses go down the pan! If I had a legitimate complaint and was treated as 'never' right I would never shop there again.
In restaurants it's
The customer is always right, unless the chef says otherwise 😂
@@JJ-of1ir I mean, none of the businesses I've worked for have gone down yet. Of course the occasional legit complaint happens but I'd say 99 out of 100 aren't legit. I've mostly worked at theme parks and most complaints were people arguing their kids should be allowed to go on rides even though they don't meet the height restriction.
Club dress codes are a way to restrict entry when they are often more people wanting to enter than there is space. So the doormen apply a dress code to exclude people. Back in the late 70s my local club required men to have a "five button" formal shirt and tie, no jeans or "patch pocket" trousers, and no trainers/sneakers. What was really happening, was the doormen wanted to stop the club getting packed out with just men. As they would waive through lots of other regulars that didn't meet the dress code.
The tradition of ending by-ee on an upward tonation is chiefly true of today's very elderly. It dates back to a once popular First World War song sung by concert-hall and early wireless stars Florie and Daisy. The song's refrain went: "Good by-ee, Good by-ee. Wipe the tear, baby dear, from your eye-ee. Don't cry-ee, don't sigh-ee, there's a silver lining in the sky-ee. Bonsoir old thing. Cheerio. Chin chin. Nha-poo. Toodle Oo. Good by-ee." I remember my gran singing it in the Fifties.
I used to be a chef, so I'm always quick to remind friends and family that if they are rude to staff they will do the very least they are able to do to help you. It's about respect and the tone that is used. For example, if one of the waiting staff came into the kitchen and told me a table had been rude to them, I would not rush their order and they would get nothing extra. But if I was told that someone had politely pointed out they'd been waiting (maybe they were in a rush or had hungry children with them) I would rush their order and probably send them free drinks or desserts. If the management is good, nice people always get rewarded with treats and the best service.
We would be very polite to a rude customer, but they were always welcome to not come back 😂
This isn’t true. Being rude to staff is much more effective than being nice when it comes to getting what you want from them. I’ve worked in hospitality for years. I’m sorry to say it’s true. We’re less willing to want to help rude people, but more likely to help them despite that
@takilatime yeah, by getting even by doing things to their food or drinks. I had 5 kids who were all waiters at one time or another. They told some horror stories about things they had seen happen to rude people. Don't be rude. Be firm but polite. It works.
When my daughter was born it was at a hospital in west London. That was in the morning. As a special treat I had arranged to take my seven year old son to the cinema in Leicester Sq that evening. Then thought we'd try Planet Hollywood. By the time we got in it was really late, and he was nearly asleep. When the staff found out about his sister being born etc they made a real effort to get us jumped up the que a bit. That actually relied on us being nice to the staff, and another party being happy to wait a bit longer to allow us to be seated. In many service situations I'll often ask to speak to a manager/supervisor to tell them how GOOD a member of staff has been. Those managers are usually quite surprised by that.
@@AlanEvans789 Well done! It does pay to be polite.
Lol, at the beginning of your comment I thought you might go to a very bad 'Road Trip, too much sugar on my french toast' kind of place! 🤣. But I agree.
I always thank the bus driver.
It's more difficult on a two-door bus, where you're getting off half way down the bus, and especially if the bus is full.
What I find weird in the UK, is when my neighbours have family visiting. As they are leaving, the parents/grandparents come out with them to see them to their cars. Then spend 10 to 20 minutes talking to them in their front garden. Before they can actually get into their car and be waived off. This is often after they have been visiting for most of the day.
Endearing- my mum did this and then one day leaving my aunts house she was that busy chatting in the front garden whilst leaving she walked by our car and stepped over a 3 brick high neighbouring wall walked around the neighbours car and open the door and sat in the passenger side waving away - We all stood there looking and laughing, it took a good few seconds for her to register what she had done, her face was priceless!
In a shock and in a rush she climbed out and stepped back over back round to our car - all this then took another 5 minutes chatting and laughing and saying goodbyes 😂✋
My neighbour does this! Drives me insane! Her kids come to visit with their kids in tow plus a yappy little dog. They spend all day there, then the visitors pile into the car while the neighbour stands leaning through the passenger window chatting for at least half an hour, the children get bored and get out of the car running round screaming and, the dog barks it's head off
Worst part is, they always park on my dropped kerb blocking my drive and will not move even if they see me wanting to drive in or out. I have to actually get out of my car and tell them to F***ing move! 🤬
@@CW1971 Just awful manners but you have to be assertive so they don't take liberties in the first place.
@@Isleofskye they are so rude! It's a rented property and it's trashed so I keep reporting them to the housing company.
We bought our house 22 years ago and they were already living there, obviously the kids were just younger back then (18 and 20) and still lived there. I was in the shower one day and heard my dog yelping in the back garden, I peered out the window and saw the older one taking my son's new bike out of the garage and throwing it over the fence. By the time I got downstairs they'd thrown it in a van and one of their mates drove off with it. I went banging on the door and the son answered so I punched him on the nose and he went down. Next thing there was a big kick off outside with their mates and my husbands friends,police came and it was a huge mess. They brought the bike back though 😂
They are so scummy, it's like living in an episode of Shameless having them on our otherwise pleasant street
@@CW1971 I used to have an old lady living next door with no driveway, but she used to go spare if anybody parked outside her house. "Because that's where my visitors park". However, her daughter often used to park her large silver BMW SUV across my driveway when visiting. So I stuck an A4 sheet of sticky paper on the front side window, on which I had written, "Don't park like a prat" in black marker. Clean the glass first so it takes a lot of scraping to remove. 🤭
I'm British and can honestly say I've never heard anyone say "Byeee" at the end of a phone call.
I also dislike with a passion people who jump the queue and I'll "voice my dislike" (my husband is usually very embarrassed).
I don't complain about anything AFTER I've eaten or used a product because it's usually at the beginning of eating or using/seeing a product that it becomes pretty obvious that the product isn't up to par so it's then that you should complain.
Keep up the good work Tyler, my husband and I love watching your reactions, you are funny, caring and overall very good to sit and watch. Sending love and stuff from the NW of England (near to Manchester)
I'll be honest - my mum hated hanging up a call on her phone. you had to keep saying 'bye!' as you slowly extended your phone holding arm away from your ear and locate the 'hang up' button while still saying 'bye!!'
10 minutes was the record before she found the 'hang up' button. worse: she was like that irl too. had to almost leave my mothers as I arrived 🤣
I'm British & this was so funny 😂 All true apart from I've never heard of the Britishes or the sincerely ones.
I think that those two were written by people that either aren't brits or haven't lived here very long
Anyone who calls people from the UK Britishes, or even the acceptable Brits, can't be British!
@@miaschu8175 Brit and brits is totaly acceptable to be used by british it's a lot more acceptable than Britonian 🤣🤣
I usually make tea by pouring hot water onto a tea bag, but I was brought up to have a teapot ( with a cosy on of course), and to put the milk in first.
My grandfather came from Devon, so clotted cream (devised by the Gods, by the way) was always called Devonshire Cream, and put on the scone ( pronounced sconn) first.But when a Tourist Board advert for Cornwall showed that order, there was hell to pay. The Cornish insist on putting the jam first. ( N.B. the rivalry between the two counties goes back 1500 years...)
Swans can get angry, particularly if they think you're a danger to their cygnets. An angry Swan may not be able to break your arm, but I wouldn't cross one...
Yes im in wales I always put jam on first I love scones
I think the tea thing relates to loose tea versus tea bags. When I was young we always used loose tea, a teapot and a strainer. The milk was put in the cups while you waited for the tea to brew. Some people started using bags but would put a bag in each cup or mug. If they still put the milk in before the hot water the tea would not brew properly.
Everyone knows that eating cheese at night gives you nightmares. It's not an old wives tale.
I have spent a lot of time on the Thames, where there were large numbers of swans. Due to many people feeding them, they could be quite bullying in their expectation for food.
I once saw a Thames Swan doing its level best to drown a three year old girl - mark you it was protecting its nest and family, but quite frightening anyway.
I was taught it's important to pour boiling water on the tea leaves/bag to make a 'good' cup of tea. The milk and sugar go in after - only if it's wanted and it's usually just a matter of taste. I don't think we get 'mad' if people make their tea differently for themselves - though we might think it slightly odd, perhaps ....?
Which is why you should use a (warmed) pot to brew the tea. Then you pour the tea onto milk _in the cup_ - that way you don't 'scald' the milk by putting it directly into a mass of near boiling water. You are effectively making your milk into UHT. If that's your bag, fine, but it will taste different.
Yes it all depends how you make it. I usually make loose leaf in a pot and I put the milk into the cup first. If I was just using a tea bag in a cup however, I would add the milk afterwards as it interferes with the infusion.
Milk was added first because of the use of porcelain teacups & using a teapot also, cooled the tea enough to stop the porcelain from cracking. The use of pottery cups/mugs changed that & milk can be added after pouring, the pottery being much stronger for higher temperature liquids. I have been drinking tea for over 50 years & i have never had milk curdle by putting it in after pouring the tea into the mug. There is no taste difference either. The only taste difference i have noticed is if you use semi skimmed or full fat milk, the latter making a creamier cuppa. 🇬🇧
Agree, if using a pit it doesn't matter so much whether you prefer to add the milk before or after. Only matters with the tea bag in a mug technique..which just does not taste as good anyway 🙂
@@Paul-hl8yg It doesn't curdle - but it does gets heat treated. It's as if you were using sterilised milk to make your drink - there IS a difference in taste.
In most Nightclubs in the U.K. you can’t enter if you are wearing Trainers/Sneakers.
That inflection thing on the phone sounds like an American who may have heard a British person do that once or twice and assumed all British people do it, lol. Nobody does that. The only I time I hear British people say goodbye like that is when they're layering their goodbye with dollops of sarcasm, like saying goodbye because they can't seem to get rid of you, lol
British people say sorry for everything, when we complain about food, well say “ hi im really sorry but theres something wrong”
I imagine everyone in Britain watching this was screaming at the screen when that clip showed a woman pouring about half a pint of milk into a cup of tea !!!!!! AARRGGHHHHH !!!!!!😳
Queue jumping is definitely a wrong move here in the UK. As a brief example … There’s a long running TV programme here called Good Morning Britain. The two presenters of that show jumped the queue ahead of the many hundreds who were lining up for hours (some camped out for days) around London to pay their respects to the late Queen.
Pushing into the queue simply isn’t British fair play, old chap!
Phil & Holly were on This Morning.
When it come to tea, it's a very serious topic here, lol! 😂
Take note of how each person likes their tea as some like a little more milk while others less.
The time the teabag is left in the cup is also important to the strength of the tea.
It takes some skill to be able to make it right to suit each individual person and know, should you get it wrong in any way, Brits will either be polite about it or roast you about it!, lol! 😂
I'm a tea drinker, but if I was to make someone a mug of tea and they moaned about it, they would be getting their own tea in future.
@robcrossgrove7927 Ahhahaha! 😂😂
I can understand where you're coming from, some people are so fussy!
19:33 the reason "sincerely" can sometimes seem like an "f off" depending on context of the email is because having to sign that the email is being sent "sincerely" almost makes it seem like they're overcompensating for their "kindness" "honesty" or how genuine the message actually is. it's almost like the equivalent of when someone say's "no disrespect, but..." they both have similar undertones, sometimes they can come across as snarky or sarcastic, basically in short... it's like sugar coating.
The whole jam or cream first thing goes back a long way, but in essence the Cornish people have created a delicacy beyond the ken of mortal men and put this Cornish Clotted Cream on top of the jam where it belongs, having pride of place. The Devon people have this stuff called Devonshire Cream which is not that much better than butter so is put under the jam to hide it away.
Her late Majesty the Queen used to put jam first then cream, and so that to me has to be the right way.
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😂😂😂 love the passion and debate this topic always inspires, and the prenounciation debate
I usually have jam first then add cream on my scone (Skon) 😂
@@eloisewelch5854the whole pronunciation debate becomes even more bizarre with the addition of the belief that scones were actually created firstly in Scotland (though they differ a little from their modern counterparts in that they were made from oats and cooked on a girdle) and are thought to be named after The Palace of Scone, which is pronounced Scoon (rhymes with goon).
Pretty sure the use of 'Britishes' was a typo of 'Britishers', which Ive also only heard foreigners use to incorrectly describe Brits in a way we dont do for ourselves.
The queuing starts at Nursery school or Primary School - In the playground as School starts it’s day the teachers come out the School and stand 2 metres apart in a side by side line and each child lines up in a queue in-front of their class teacher then we walk orderly to the classroom - where we queue outside while the teacher opens the door allowing each pupil to enter the classroom
At secondary school this changes and no teachers come out -
The pupils were told to line up outside their classrooms to allow movement of other students through the corridor
This in a disciplined school still happens -
We also were taught to queue for school dinners and if there was a fire alarm test - we were made to queue up and walk orderly out to the playground and stand in a line while the teacher did a head count
As a general rule these days, if the tea is brewed in a pot, milk goes in the cup first. If the tea is being brewed in the cup, milk is added after the teabag is taken out, otherwise it is not hot enough for the tea to adequately brew.
If you are making a mug of tea with a tea bag in the mug, never put the milk in first.
It does three things.
1: the boiling water ‘cooks’ the milk, altering the flavour of the milk, and not in a good way. Try drinking some UHT (boiled) milk and some normal milk, the tastes are completely different.
2: the cold milk lowers the temperature of the boiling water, and at lower temperatures the ‘nicer’ flavours in the tea leaves fail to brew out.
3: the fats in the milk soak into the tea leaves, again adversely altering the result.
I promise you, if you made two identical mugs of tea in the kitchen, with the exception of the milk being before or after, someone who drinks tea regularly will be able to tell one from the other, even though they did not see you do it. To get the test fair the mugs also have to be the same colour (yes, taste is effected by visual clues!)
The milk first or second argument with tea comes about from those of us who grew up using loose tea, so we had to make it in a teapot. The tea was already brewed before it came into contact with the milk. Anyone who lives in a hard water area will know that pouring black tea into a cup, then adding milk, runs the risk of a cery thin film on the surface which gets broken by the milk. Aesthetically this isn't pleasing, so you avoid this by putting a small amount of mikk in the cup before pouring on the already brewed tea. In areas of softer water this isn't an issue. Once teabags became commonplace people started to brew their tea directly in their cup or mug. If they added milk then hot water to the teabag they instantly reduced the temperature of the boiling water. This affects the flavour of the tea, as it is supposed to be made with boiling water, not water cooled by combining with cold milk. Obviously, this means people in hard water areas are back to the problem of a hole in the scum on the surface of the tea, as the milk breaks the surface tension. The answer to this is to always make your tea in a teapot, loose leaves or teabags, then put a little milk if required into the cup before the already brewed tea is poured on...but teapots aren't always practical, hence the discussions. It does annoy me when I ask for tea, and the server asks if I'd like milk, so they add milk while a teabag floats in the cup. Just give me milk that I can add to the tea, when it has properly brewed.
I have genuinely been a pub where people have had a full on half an hour debate about the best way to make a cup of tea.
'The customer is always right' is a quote from Harry Selfridge, who was American, but lived in London. But everybody forgets the end of the quote 'in matters of taste'.
Shoes is a dress code - you don't get in if the doorman decides you're casual.
And tutting in the UK is basically a death threat.
Thanking the driver when getting off a bus is NOT optional.
Me, at cafe with friend: tut a lot, complain to friend.
Staff: is everything okay?
Me: yes thank you, it's fine
Staff leaves
Me: complain to friend while tutting
well, I think the idea about the cheese and nightmares is that cheese is, of course, somewhat more challenging for the body/system to digest. And the later one eats (and the „heavier“ one eats) can effect one‘s sleep pattern. Now, it might not directly effect one‘s dreams, but it might if your system is sensible to these things… Like some can drink coffee until late at night and sleep like babies while others must have their last coffee before a certain time or they‘ll have such a hard time falling asleep…
Literary reference: In A CHRISTMAS CAROL, Mr. Scrooge puts down the apparitions to pieces of undigested cheese.
To test the recipe for the perfect cup of tea put forward in 1946 by George Orwell himself, Dr Stapley of Loughborough University established that putting the milk in after the boiling water is incorrect, as it causes the milk to heat unevenly (as opposed to pouring the water on top of it). This uneven heating of the milk causes the proteins in it to denature, meaning they lose their structure and “clump”, affecting the taste and contributing to that skin you get on the top. So when someone says they can tell if you put the milk in first or second in the tea you’ve made for them just by tasting it, turns out they probably can. Chimo
With tea it's sugar, teabag, water, milk.
The sugar needs to dissolve, the teabag needs to steep so they go in first so that they have more time to do their thing.
The milk going last is so that you can gauge the right amount of milk based on the color of the tea.
If you put the milk in first it'll be hard to be consistent because the water will water it down and you'll have milky water before the teabag starts properly steeping.
It makes it really hard to gauge how much more steeping the teabag needs to do because with just water you see a visual change and you lose that with milk first.
It makes it hard to gauge how much milk you've put in because it's at the start of the process so you can only add more or have a sad milky cup of tea.
So if you put milk in first you could very well have a weak, milky tea which is just bad tea.
The only exception to this rule is the builders tea where you leave the teabag in throughout the drinking process, so the teabag will be sufficiently steeped regardless because it's not removed.
If you put milk in last, you can properly assess if the teabag is steeped to your liking based on the color change of the water, and you can get the same level of milky-ness by just getting the same color of tea each time.
Having said all that, I wouldnt get upset that someone made their tea with milk first - if they made me tea like that i might. But it's their choice to have bad tea.
It's just respectful to thank the bus or train driver for a safe journey 🙏
If you make tea in a teapot, you put milk in the cup first, then add tea from the teapot. However, if you make tea in a mug (large cup) you place a tea bag into the mug, add boiling water, let it brew, remove teabag, then add milk.
The multiple 'Bye!' is definitely true - but I'm not sure where the rising inflection comes from. Maybe it's a specific local accent.
Complaining to everyone except those in a position to do anything about it is SO British! We like to complain, but not being confrontational. If we do complain, unless it is right at the start where you are sending a full plate back to the kitchen for a replacement, you might get a few pounds off, or a free drink, but rarely would you get the whole dish for free.
The shoes to get into a club- often there is a dress code and bouncers famously bark "No Trainers" at people attempting to get in. You'll hear this referenced by British comedians from time to time.
Saying thank you to the bus driver is basic politelness......The person stating this must be weirdly naturally rude if they weren't planning to say it until someone else said it first.
Scone isn't a breakfast item...it's an afternoon tea item...
But apart from that, the putting milk in first or not DOES matter. It depends how you are making your tea. If you make it in a pot, and then pour into a cup, the you can put the milk in the cup first, but if you are making a single cup of tea you HAVE to put the tea and boiling water in first, or else the liquid won't be hot enough to brew the tea.... I'd get angry about that, and I don't even drink tea!
It's an urban myth that a swan can break your arm. They can be quite vicious!
The Queen (now the King) only owns all untagged swans on a certain stretch of the Thames. They are counted each year in a process called 'Swan- Upping'. The monarch doesn't own all the swans in the uK.
The cheese and nightmare connection is a well known 'old wives tales'
Britishes is a completely made-up word.
'Sincerely' is a very formal way to sign off an email, and so might well be a passive aggressive response.
Not sure its as strong as 'f*off!'.
Complain in Britain about food or drink and you’re guaranteed the replacement will come with an extra dollop of spit lol
Or worse!
Saying bye a lot is usually because the person on the other end of the phone is not getting the hint!
When you drink British tea for twenty or so years, you develop preference for the taste. Since putting milk in before the hot water changes the taste, yes people do get upset about the order.
The basic premise is that, unlike coffee (where too hot water can scald the beans and spoil the taste), tea only really works with boiling or just-boiled water. If you have milk in there, it cools down and doesn’t infuse properly. Therefore, taste difference.
The one that’s actually stupid is the ‘don’t re-boil’ rule, where if you have already boiled the water it tastes different when you let it cool and boil it again. It has to do with how much oxygen is left, and it has no basis, because blind taste tests have all come up with no confirmed results.
The cheese nightmares is true to an extent, as cheese contains a chemical called tryptophan that can give you vivid dreams. I have also never heard anyone saying that sincerely means f off in the UK, that one sounds like total BS. Defiantly no one ever says Britishes I have never heard anyone say that 😂.
I've heard 'Britishers' used in an ironic / jokey manner. It sounds as though it's derived from the German adjective 'britische/r/s' so might date back to the war era.
Some clubs in UK don't allow trainers ( sports shoes)
I can't say I've ever felt obligated by the behaviour of the person before me to say thank you to a bus driver, I'd always say it regardless of the person before me. But I do feel obligated.
"the customer is always right" only refers to their fashion decisions, however most people have forgotten that piece of information and expect it everywhere. no you are not. as a retailer, i have problems with customers all the time who feel entitled to complain when something doesn't go their way, even when what they think is right is against the law. it's so frustrating and i have to be nice to them anyway.
Hmm being British I believe the milk in the tea thing depends on how the tea is made. If you make the tea in a teapot you would put the milk in the cup first and then pour the tea in second. If you make tea with a teabag in the mug you would put the teabag in, pour on the water (which must be boiling), smoosh the teabag against the side of the mug to get as much tea out of it as possible, take the teabag out and then you would add the milk. It would be weird and the tea wouldn't be able to brew properly as the temperature would be lowered, (and maybe would waste some of the milk?) to put the milk in at the same time as the teabag, or at least that's how it is in my world! Also cheese before bed would definitely give me nightmares 😂. I love your videos, they make me giggle 🤭. Oh, and I nearly forgot something about queues. We are of course very polite when queuing, but whatever you do don't stand too close to the person in front of you in the queue! I have had a person breathing down my neck behind me in a queue on many occasions which I deal with by taking a sharp step backwards and stepping on their toe! Of course I then apologise very profusely by saying "Oh my goodness I am so sorry, I didn't realise you were so close!". They then usually apologise too, and don't breathe down my neck a second time 😜🤣. It really is not a fun thing to feel a stranger's hot breath on the back of your neck, it's a bit creepy!
The way you make tea and order you put cream and jam on a scone are definitely debated. Always say thank you to bus drivers. Britishes isn’t a word because British is plural so it doesn’t need to be made plural but Brit can as Brit is singular. Pushing into a queue will not go down well. Some clubs and bars won’t let you wear jeans or trainers, others won’t let a group of men in without any women in the group. I used to let them come in with me and my friends at some of the big London clubs - not sure why or if that even still happens though.
Where does this couple come from, they sure have some weird ideas
Their channel is Mid-West Americans, they have spent some time around the UK.
"Good-bye-ee" is probably an ingrained collective memory from the WW1 song of the same name. It's (sort of) well known through movies and tv - especially Blackadder. Chorus -
Good-bye-ee! good-bye-ee!
Wipe the tear, baby dear, from your eye-ee.
Tho' it's hard to part I know,
I'll be tickled to death to go.
Don't cry-ee! don't sigh-ee!
There's a silver lining in the sky-ee.
Bonsoir old thing, cheerio! chin chin!
Nah-poo! Toodle-oo!
Good-bye-ee!
The comedian Doc Brown famously did a set on the show Russel Howard’s good news where he rapped about the who tea order thing and it’s absolute class.
These two seem to have very unusual " insights" to the British way of life ! Large pinches of salt required !!
If it's wrong ...complain. After all, it's YOUR money you're spending , so make sure you get what you paid for !
No trainers , no football shirts, no baseball caps. Just SOME of the rules for getting into a club in the UK.
Always TEA first ! Add milk and sugar to taste.
Scones (pronounced scon), are NOT breakfast items ! Depending where you are in the UK determines what you put first on your scone. DEVON v CORNWALL.
The swan thing is an urban legend ! The bones in a swan's wings, like all other birds , are HOLLOW, so there is no way they can break a human arm ! The ARE very protective of their chicks and will defend them if you get too close by spreading their wings and honking at you and even chase you away.
Always thank the bus driver 😊
From my clerk days in Government: Letters: 1, Dear Sir/Madam ends Yours Faithfully; 2, Dear Mr/s XYZ ends Yours Sincerely; 3, Dear [First name] ends Yours Sincerely or With Regards. The signee is 1. Mr/s XYZ with designation; 2, Mr/s XYZ designation is optional and 3, personal stuff should be just signed. Emails do not follow these rules so they can be 'Best Regards' or similar. You're welcome.
Always nice to see the Ravens appear 🤘
They are spot on with the telephone "bye". I have a few friends who I know will say goodbye at least 5 times if I don't hang up.
then you get the crew who don't say goodnight and close the door, but stand waving as you walk to the car, get in the car, drive off (with the obligitory 3 toots on the horn), and continue waving until you are out of sight . . . Then loudly exclaim about what a wonderful night it was . . . .
What? neighbour issues? Me???
It's childhood trauma.
I always put milk in first but most people put it in last. I really do not how other people do it. Just enjoy it
Believe it or not, yes, people get annoyed about the order of stuff, It does affect the taste, I personally don't care, I don't drink tea or coffee, so drink it as you prefer! some people do get annoyed if you put jam on before or after the cream on scones, but again I don't care, yes there is a difference in taste like there is if you spread the jam on the scone or drop a dollop of jam on, jam is preserved fruit such as strawberry with a load of sugar, I'm unsure what you Americans call jam? Preserve? or do we all call it Jam?
Food service is something you should NEVER, EVER complain about.
When I was young, I worked in hospitality.
And believe me, you DO NOT want to know what pissed off kitchen staff did to whining customers' replacement or next course.
I'll leave it to your imagination... 😱
Someone has already noted the point about leaf tea and teabags.
Originally British china was very poor quality and if you poured hot water into a British teacup, it could crack. So we put the milk in first to prevent this happening. It became cultural, even after our teacups became sturdier.
Teabags changed all that.
Milk can go in the cup first when the tea has been brewed in a pot. However, boiling water must be poured on a tea bag in the cup and brewed before the milk is added. I've asked for (nay demanded!) a new cup of tea when I've been given a cup where the server has added milk immediately after the hot water, before my tea has brewed - it's not drinkable done that way! Saying that, my friend makes her tea that way - like gnat's piss! But she is American :D
The order you add cream and jam to a scone (which is not a breakfast item, btw) is about Devon versus Cornish customs. Also, the way that scone is pronounced - either to rhyme with "gone" (how I say it) or to rhyme with "stone" (how weirdos say it).
Milk of course goes in first, followed by tea brewed in a tea pot. If however you are a peasant and have thrown a teabag into a mug then milk goes second.
Nooooooo! Milk last, always!!
If someone is saying 'Bye' a few times there are politely asking you to shut the hell up and end the conversation, it's only said more than twice when the other party is carrying on speaking after you've said 'Bye'.
Weve had to learn passive agression because its rude to be openly rude or confrontational hana
In British clubs you have to wear kind of smart/casual clothes, jeans with black shoes is the most common dress code.
This is why milk first granted fine chain may no longer be used but you know
Fine china cracks when you pour boiling tea into it, so sticking the milk in first cools the water, which keeps the cup from cracking.
With tea, sugar first, then milk if using a cup. Sugar, then water, if using a mug. On scones, you put jam on first, then cream.
Milk goes in first when it’s a porcelain cup. If using a teapot then milk in first then tea. If using a mug, teabag in, then milk.
You must put the boiling water in tea first. The reason is that to get the essence out of the tea leaves the water has to be very hot and milk lowers the temperature so much that the tea cannot brew properly and you only get what is effectively coloured milk. The tea bags mustn’t be in the mug for longer than two minutes otherwise it goes bitter. It makes no difference at all whether you put the sugar in at the start of the end, it doesn’t affect the brewing.
Putting the milk in first only comes from when brewing the tea in a pot (which most of us only do for “Sunday afternoon tea” nowadays), and that’s because if you put the tea in first there’s a danger of cracking fine bone China cups, so the milk first in that situation negates the possibility of heat shock damaging your fine china.
Try making tea in a pot. You will notice the difference in taste.
@@wessexdruid7598 of course, it’s much better, it’s just so convenient to do the tea bag in a mug thing during the working week.
Totally so much nicer..I use a pot all time at home. And loose leaf tea. It's really not that inconvenient. And if you don't want the faff of a strainer many tea pots come with a built in one now.
@@individualmember I just use a small tea pot - mine is stainless steel, so can be easily propped over the kettle to catch the steam, to pre-warm. Tea never develops the same flavour, in a mug - unless you prefer it over-stewed.
With milk in tea - the water needs to be close to boiling in order to produce a "proper" flavour, if the temperature is lower (coffee temp) the flavour is off (to my taste and apparently others)
Sincerely means "I hate you." Best wishes means "I am tolerating you." Regards means "I have wasted enough time on you." Love means, "We are friends."
If you make tea in the cup, you have to take the bag out before adding the milk. If you make it in a teapot, you add the milk first and then add the tea. It tastes nasty if you do it wrong.
As a Brit, if I go into a restaurant and the food is crap. I will complain about it to the serving staff. My wife hates it when I do it. 😂
I'm British but living in Croatia. I was once having a meal in a restaurant with some Croatian friends. One of them received the wrong dish or something and I urged them to complain but they wouldn't!
I agree with you! You are paying for it so you are entitled to fair quality and should complain if the food is not up to stabdard. However there ate people who complain about trivia and that is not good
We don't often say "thank you" its more likely shortened to thanks or cheers, also milk goes in after the water and sugar goes in last!
I have been a milk in first forever person but a british youtuber convinced me to try milk in last and it makes a huge difference! Milk in second makes the tea less bitter.
No idea what you're going on about lol but the reason the milk goes in after is because you want boiling water to brew the tea. Putting cold milk from the fridge in is going to spoil that
I always say thank you to the bus driver as I get off, and then, if on a train say thank you to any railway official on the way out of the station.
In Italy there's a phrase similar to the British one about cheese... if you tell someone you had horrible nightmares, they ask you if you had a lot of peppers the previous evening at dinner (because they are supposed to be difficult to digest, and so indigestion can cause you unrestful sleep)
Not me laughing my ass off because I do the byEEE thing everytime 😂
But with the saying bye repeatedly, that's usually because when my mum (or generally any older female family member phones me) they'll say they have to go, bye etc, then keep talking for another 30 minutes! It never ends! I swear they could have a kitchen fire raging in the background & still say bye/restart the conversation atleast 5 times before actually hanging up
generally the tea thing becomes an issue if someone made you tea wrong. and the nightmares from cheese is actually true if you choose the correct cheese. Blue Stilton has mould in it that is slightly hallucinagenic so that eating a few ounces about an hour before sleeping will give you vivid often chaotic dreams. I have tested this personally and can atest that at least it worked for me
It's a big thing if you put jam first or cream first on a scone. It's Devon v Cornwall
The sign off's on letters depended on who the recipient was. If you were writing to a named person such as Mr Jones then the sign off was always expressed as "Yours Sincerely" If the recipient of the letter was not a named person but you started the letter Dear Sir/ Madam, then the sign off should always be "Yours faithfully". These days you are fortunate if you receive any letters at all through the post so the issue rarely arises. I've never heard of the meaning FO in the uK.
If your making tea in a mug with a bag then putting the milk in first will stop the tea from stewing properly and you end up with a cup of pee really weak and mashing the tea bag too much can result in catastrophe a torn tea bag aaaaargh not good got to start all over again putting milk in last you can judge your preferred strength of your beverage xx
Coffee can get burnt easily so you add the milk in first to avoid it however tea does not release its full flavour at lower temperatures so you should add the milk in last. However you should always remove the teabag before adding the milk or you will ruin it. Tea is important! We have fought wars over it. we lost but thats beside the point
Scones with cream and jam, I don't think people really get upset about but tea, very much because milk ruins the tea leaves, due to it's fat content. If it's using a tea bag then it's always water first, if it's using a teapot then it doesn't matter as milk does not go into the pot and so it can't ruin the tea leaves. For a teapot, it use to be milk first into the cup to help make the cup last longer but that isn't an issue with modern cups/mugs/etc, as they are more resistant to the heat.
We don't always just tut. Sometimes we say oye mate, there's a queue here!
Teabag, in a mug or cup, get the strength required, then the milk. Take the bag out. From a teapot, milk first, tea second. SImple. The first with a bag, it takes away the taste of the paper from the bag. And for our American friends, a TEAPOT is NOT, IS NOT, IS NOT A KETTLE!!!!!! Just for info.
Yep, I'm guilty of the 'byeee' thing and make no apologies, it's just a funny and indearing part of my culture. We're happy to complain about anything but food, because we don't want anyone doing something yucky to it in revenge. The restaurants here will give something to you for free if you don't like it, it's just that complaining about food here is rare. I have seen quite a few arguments with queue jumpers, but only one that came to blows and the police were called; usually the person jumping the queue will come off worse because everyone else in the queue is against them and shouts them to the back. British clubs usually don't allow trainers/sneakers so you have to wear shoes. People might joke about their tea or scone making preferences, but we don't take it seriously. As children, when we were taken out for the day to a place where there were swans, our parents would always warn us not to go near them, because 'their wings and beaks were so strong they could break your arm', I doubt very much if this is scientifically correct, but they are huge and prone to attack, especially if they have young cygnets; we were also taught at a young age that they all belong to the Queen (would now be King) and that if we annoyed them we'd get locked up in the Tower of London (my dad had a cruel sense of humour 🤣) The 'cheese before bed causing nightmare' is a common old wives tale, like 'if you pull a funny face and the wind changes direction, your face will stay like that' 'Britishes' isn't a correct term of address, it's a dumb mistake by someone with half a brain cell so don't use it unless you want people to think you're uneducated. 'Yours sincerely' or 'Yours faithfully' means 'genuinely' and is used to emphasise your honest intentions toward the person you're writing to, but while it is formal, it should usually only be used when either applying for a position, or writing to someone you already know; every day business emails should be either 'Kind regards' or 'Best regards', some companies use 'Best wishes' but while thats inoffensive, it's not very appropriate, as 'Best wishes' is usually something you write in a personal card to someone. Thanks for this, I look forward to part 2.
the bus thank you is also a shyness thing but if someone has the courage to speak up then they are admired and people keep it going lol
The milk in first stems back to Bone China Cups. The cups can crack or explode when the boiling water hits the cup. To combat this, cold milk is added first to cool the water down. Nowadays and back then with normal cups, it's how your family usually do it (because the normal cups can take the heat). This can come from if you come a posh family, or somewhere down the line of your family members worked at one of the big posh houses way back in the day (if you put milk in first). There are many factors involved, but usually it stems from family.
How I make one: Tea bag and sugar (sugar to your taste, start with two tea spoons and experiment) in cup or mug, add boiling water, let it rest for about a minute, lightly squeeze the tea bag a few times against the side of the cup letting the water circulate through the tea bag while doing it, squeeze hard against the side of the cup/mug, throw the tea bag away or put it in the sink or on a plate if your abit skint (to re-use), now add milk (only a few splashes) and stir, let it cool abit and enjoy (biscuits optional).
If the milk goes in second I've been making my tea all wrong ever since I started making my own. All the ingredients go in the cup then the BOILING water goes in. Job done.
I think the reason most Brits don’t complain at a restaurant is more for fear of getting someone into trouble - we all make mistakes or have off days so we understand that and either eat up or shut up. Also people who complain having eaten most of what they are complaining about are seen as trying to get a free meal 😂
On the phone, we rarely say several goodbyes one after another - usually one of us will say goodbye and we don’t want to be the first to put the phone down until the other person says goodbye in case they haven’t finished their conversation and sometimes they will remember something else they meant to say so then you say goodbye again - twice 😂 and so on. The person or people you live with hear a few goodbyes so imagine it’s all never-ending!😂
We were told that a swan could break a bone with their huge wings but the theory was debunked years ago. Maybe they could scare people into falling over and be responsible for that. 😊
The milk/tea one is an old one. In the days when we used loose-leaf tea and a teapot, and china cups and saucers, if you had poor quality china, then putting the boiling tea in first, the cup would break, so people would put cold milk in first to stop this. However, doing this could also be an insult, because it implies that you think the china is poor quality! So if you confidently put the tea in the china cup first, you're acknowledging that the china is of good quality.
i'm one of those people where if i have a complaint i HAVE to say something...and i damn well will not tolerate being called the following words: bossy, manipulative, controlling or fussy...if people try to call me any o those words they may get punched, smacked, spat on or even kicked. the best thing they can do is take what i'm saying in and fix the problem...do as i say n STFU. last time i made a complaint at the airport one middle eastern security guard made the mistake of talking back to me as if he had no idea why i was complaining...when the problem was pretty much...obvious...it was all around him. so i spat on him. then he started yelling like a crazy terrorist and saying i was the one in the wrong. i'm a perfectly nice person i should clarify that now...i just expect people to listen if i have a complaint...do that and we will get along fine. problem countries like america don't understand the logic of "let's just sit and talk about this."
I make tea by putting in water and then milk. For people who take sugar, teabag, water, sugar and milk. Sugar has to be added before milk. Do not squeeze the teabag. I am Irish and we now drink more tea per head than the British. Coffee is taking hold.