American Reacts to Top 10 British Problems!
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- The British people are currently dealing with some harrowing issues. These are the top ten problems that British folks are having to correct in order to live decent lives!
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Jaffa cakes are cakes which makes them exempt from VAT here. Also it was settled in court with the rationale you leave a cake out it goes hard, and if it were a biscuit you leave one of them out it goes soft. Jaffas go hard when left out.
I sent an email to the manufacturer and they sent me this: "It's a cake and we have no idea why people keep arguing. Here's three packets and please continue to say half moon when you eat half of one". I received three Asda coupons for Jafa Cakes.
It's a cake as biscuits in French means twice cooked
Also the bottom layer of a Jaffa cake is a sponge cake
My Brother worked on the Jaffa Cake “biscuit or cake?” case. Crate loads of Jaffa cakes were delivered for both sides to try 😂 They are cakes but as they are coated in chocolate they are taxable. I don’t know if tea was provided in the court, I hope so! 😂🫖 (Neither biscuits or cakes are taxed in the UK)
Was just about to make this exact point
It used to be that you brewed the tea in a pot, then dispensed the tea into a cup. The bag-in-cup brew is a modern day advance. Pouring TEA into a cup that had milk already in it made sense. Sticking milk in a cup with a bag and adding water from a kettle is a modern day misunderstanding of that process, yet some people insist on doing it.
The bag in cup brew is not an advance, it's sacrilege. (but I do it all the time).
We always scald the teapot, then add the tea bags, and then the boiling bubbling water. Putting the teabag and milk in before the hot water prevents the tea from drawing properly. (steeping)
Putting milk and sugar in the cup before pouring the tea means that the sugar does not dissolve properly, and forms a sludge in the bottom of the cup. Good day!
@@MrPagan777 Indeed.
The milk in first was an old Victorian technique due to the delicate china teacups the rich had. If you poured hot tea straight into the cups, there was a chance of them cracking, so a splash (and only a splash) of cold milk was put into the cup so that as you added the tea, it would heat the china up more slowly and avoid cracking.
Modern china is much thinker and stronger, and does NOT need the milk in first.
I never had freddo biscuits, mine were solid choc or had some caramel inside.
The shrinkage of chocolate bars is a thing in my time I’ve seen mars bars , Milky Way & bounty bars shrink a couple of times then a few years later then reappear as an exstra large bar bar with a commensurate price hike then the small bar go’s away till the next time they want to raise the price
@@jameshead9119 think you replied to wrong comment lol,i never mentioned the inflation/shrinkflation issue
@@Jamie_D most likely since my eyes got wonky I use a magnifying glass to read the comments and to skip a bit in the process and tend to jump in on the first thread going my way ie that your freddos comment is one I saw as the shrinking chocolate bars have been a niggleof mine since I was a kid and found my favourite bar had shrunk when I went to the school tuck shop
Sunset in UK where I live today is 9:30pm, midsummer its 10:07 pm and the sun rises again at 4:24 am. But midwinter, the sun does not rise till 8:45 am and sets at 3:40pm, which is why I hate the winter.
I'm the other way round, I love the darkness, winter is the best time of year. I despise the summer, too much light, too much "daytime".😁
The South of England is further north than any part of the USA except Alaska.
One problem. It's impossible to have just one Jaffa Cake without also polishing off the rest of the pack.
Yes that's why I rarely buy them.
I just know I won't stop at one or two or three.....
Alas.
To be fair there just aren’t that many in a pack.
It's just a plain fact of existence: Open Pack=>Empty Pack
I love Jaffa cakes, but they are hard to find here.
When I was a kid on holiday, there was a fancy dress competition and one boy came dressed in shorts and t-shirt on one side and a rain coat and wellies on the other side - he was British summertime.
it looks like the Freddos you bought are the biscuits, not the original, which are solid chocolate frog bars
If you're putting a tea bag directly into the cup, then it's boiling water first and then left to brew. Finally, adding milk to your liking. If however you're using a teapot, then tea and water go into the pot to brew, and you can then add milk to the cup before adding the tea.
it is a problem with milk first, you'd think it wouldn't be - but plenty of heathens prefer milk first
By the end of next month (June) it will still be light at 10pm
(Liverpool)
I once had to write an essay in school when I was young on how to make the perfect cup of tea and it's more in-depth than you can imagine.
Do you remember when scientists had the time to really work it out 😂
I'm not sure if anyone else picked up on these JJ, but it's the *chocolate* Freddos that people get het up about regarding price increase/size decrease and Gloucester is pronounced "Gloss-tur". Jaffa Cakes are ace and if you have a PO Box, you can just about guarantee that you'd get about a hundred boxes sent to you. So many in fact that if you do like them initially, you'll soon get sick of them and probably never want to see, smell or taste them ever again! 😂
Paying with the exact money, then awkwardly standing there and waiting for permission to leave. Also, when a shop assistant says 'have a good day', and you reply 'you too', thus ensuring you will never enter said shop again.
Watchmojo have excelled and reached lows once thought impossible. However, there is NO debate...if you make tea in a teapot then milk or tea first in the cup does not matter...however, if you make tea in cup/mug then you MUST use water first otherwise it just won't mash properly...then add milk when it's brewed. If you try to make tea in a mug and put the milk in first you're doolally, and need sectioning and/or deportation.
There are genuine cost of living studies based around the cost of Fred's. They look into how different locations and social classes react to the chocolates pricing around the country.
The tea thing is because it's brewed in a teapot, then poured into a cup after steeping. Hence milk first or last
I don't mean to condescend to anyone who already knew this but when Brits say "Very British Problem", it's an ironic self-parody of our silly way of living. We do massively care about Brexit, inflation, and unemployment (also global issues). Still, these "Very British Problems" keep a silly smile on our faces and a way for us to keep that classic self-deprecating, sometimes-hyper-aware British humour alive. I think that if we (pointlessly) argue over Jaffa Cakes it helps deviate away from Brexit and/or politics - always a bad road to tread!
It’s supposed to be milk first in the teacup if you have brewed the tea in a teapot, but water first if you brew up in a mug.
I,m in Liverpool right now and that rain that was forecast is here in buckets ☔⛈😟
I love how sarcastic the video is
If the weather is rainy and miserable nearly everyday it can't be brushed off as a minor inconvenience.
Don't think I've ever been on a plane sober, the only thing I can ever remember is waking up in my hotel wondering where I am 😂😅
WatchMojo getting things wrong again, the upper class people used to put milk in first because they would use fine bone china. These cups would crack or even explode when the water hit them, unlike strong clay ones. So putting the milk in first would cool the water down. They wouldn't use tea bags neither to answer your question (loose tea and a strainer).
The tea problem…
We used to brew in a teapot so milk went in the cup first, tea was already brewed so all was good. Over a few decades people just started brewing in the individual cups so milk goes in afterwards in this set of circumstances
Where I live the ice cream van comes around a 10PM, I'm pretty sure it's not selling ice cream...
I did the sunshine thing today. It’s bank holiday, I live on the south coast and the sun was out so it must be scorching. We went for a drink in a bar at the top of my local island and it was fucking freezing. The wind was gusting low but cold, my wife was wearing a coat, but the sun was out so it was lovely.
going from not enough beans to the Spanish inquisition had me rolling
The Jaffa Cake dispute actually ended up in a court case to find out which they are (tax reasons )
And the court decided it was a cake and no VAT was payable.
It’s all about that moolah!
The narrator got it wrong - the tea is brewed in boiling water in the tea pot, which is then poured into the cup once it has brewed. Then the milk is added.
The milk first paradigm is irrelevant if you use teabags. It's milk first into the cup, then brewed tea from thhe pot. If you go tea first, each drop of milk is scalded. Some people can't taste the difference.
My dude, when you got universal healthcare, suddenly the problems are Jaffa Cakes. Get on board!
Jaffa Cakes. “How is this a problem?!?” Like the intro said, only Brits will understand (why it’s a problem (for us)). 😂
Couple of years ago I bought a 99 from an ice-cream truck in my local riverside park and asked for it with "monkey blood". The guy was shocked, "We can't say that anymore."
You said your an American who doesn't know how to make tea properly. But you sound like you know EXACTLY how to make a proper brew 👍
Never put milk in first,it cools the water so the tea bag doesnt brew as well.
If you offer me a brew and you haven't got any Jaffa Cakes, you'd better be damned sure that you've got a standby packet of Garibaldis!
Loving your tea bag etiquette. You would surprised how many people make weak cuppas.
went to a cafe at a bus station large tea about 3/4 pint water, ONE onecup tea bag left in for 5 seconds
@@philiprice7875 They have to know, so i feel like its a mini attack
Lots of people like to dunk their Jaffa Cakes in their cups of tea. Although you like to have a mug in your hand that you're trying to flog, I doubt you ever have any tea in it, so no need for Jaffa Cakes for you
Subbed, loving all the reaction to the uk, seems like a sound guy
The milk in tea thing started when tea was loose and made in a teapot so it was the actual drink which was being poured into the cup already brewed. I'm a rebel, I don't take milk or sugar.
I resist free sample bites anywhere because, like pub bar snacks and other things, you never know who's been there before you and where their hands have been just before they come back from loo and grab a bite. Yuk!
These are more things we bitch about jokingly amoungst ourselves on a day to day basis rather than ones that threaten our way of life (except maybe the Jaffa cakes). We have a rather dark sense of humour that more often takes the piss out of ourselves rather than anyone else!
01:50 Inconvenience?? It REALLY gets you down (Seasonal Affective Disorder), yes, we actually have a mental health condition for it (it's even in the DMV5). The body and mind both expect the same rhythm of the seasons and when we don't get it (ie it's pissing down all Summer) it can actually make you ill. So NOT an inconvenience but an actual illness and a national problem.
03:15 It always feels like a Jaffa Cake pack is empty with the exception of the first one...that's the problem. It's painful for the psyche ;) @nicktylr described it perfectly earlier.
07:26 Drinking at the airport: Very much appreciated, we've worked very hard on that.
08:26 Holding the door. They are holding the door that long for that chap because it was raining in the courtyard.
09:30 Our sensitivity to what others think can be a problem especially as most people view guilt as an admition of a crime. No, it's just that most British people feel guilty ALL the time.
12:00 Tea: Not problem? This is TEA we're talking about! I can understand that the US doesn't like tea.....every American cup of tea I've had was awful and don't even mention the "British beer" I had (I was 30 odd years ago mind). Tea is a fundamental part of our history, after all, we (The Brits) made most of China addicted to opium just to get it! My opinion: milk last.
13:20 Now this I'll admit to whole heartedly. I still write my texts and emails as if they were a letter, which I write as if I was saying (like here for example) it. Strange as, even though I ran some IRC chat channels back in the day (mid 90's), I rarely use emojis and if I do they're oldskool => ;D
But remember, this is the country that invented punk (now THAT should put the cat amoungst the pigeons ;D
An explaination: I'm autistic
As you can tell, I very much enjoyed this, thanks :)
It rains more in the north west of England 🏴 Its rained for 4 days straight this week. Its not cold its damp
My sarcasm has caused so many problems with workies it’s too hilarious 😆😆
i have a very dry way of saying some things that a lot of people cant be sure if i am joking or not
Jaffa Cake is a cake, it is soft when it goes of it goes hard, biscuits are hard but when go off go soft
UK Spring has been a total washout so far.
By the way thats's not the original Freddo's, you want the fully chocolate one. Way more popular.
Yes,
I find that texting doesn't suit my comical style of writing, because the recipient can take my sarcic style too seriously, and maybe get offended.
For good British humour, sarcasm etc, tune into the television panel prog, 'Would I lie to you?'. Have fun if you can get it!
No debate, water first on tea bag, tea bag out, milk in.
British social awkwardness is awful for British people as it shows what British Social Class you in. British people use politeness as quite aggression.The more polite a British person gets the more angry we are.
You very nearly just bought biscuit Freddo’s. You need to try the solid chocolate or caramel centre ones ideally.
As an Englander I say as soon as you hit the airport it's beer/cider/wine (chose your preference) in large quantities. No messing about, gotta be blind drunk to sleep through the flight! Then continue as such for the holiday and, if you're not driving on the way back, more of the same on the flight back. Food is only a distraction.
The problem with Jaffa cakes is that you can’t stop eating them 😂
The rain thing is a problem. It's not especially predictable, so it is very difficult to actually plan a BBQ in advance (you kind of have to seize the opportunity while you can). And summers really do vary. A recent summer I was desperate for some rain and a change to milder weather. Other summers, we have had a couple of half decent weeks but otherwise shifted straight from early spring to autumn.
Additionally, what we lack in torrential downpours compared to some places, we make up with persistence. Despite the light tone of the video, relentless rainfall is not unusual and flooding is a serious issue in the UK.
That wasn’t tea coming out of that pot! I don’t know what it was but it definitely wasn’t tea!
He’s talking about brewing the tea in a tea pot then is it milk first in the cup,never add milk when the tea bag is the cup
What a load of twaddle!
Brits are used to disappointment and in the days when all factories shut for a two week period in summer, during school holidays, and everyone had to holiday in England. If they booked two weeks by the sea, and the weather was awful, that was that! And it can be windy, wet and cold. Or it can be dry, hot, sweaty and inflict bad sunburn.
Five weather fronts fighting to give the UK their own version of weather make it unpredictable.
Yes you can try a beer in a pub. Beers are very different here so you can get b sample first.
Free samples. Now you’re getting it Dude! Social awkwardness, guilt, etiquette, protocol versus freebie munchies. English nightmare dilemma.
Free samples are only a 'problem' regarding how many I can take. The person with the samples is there to get rid of them, and I am happy to try, if I like it, I can buy next time, if I don't then that's it.
FUn, interesting and toatally true fact: The guy who invented the revolving door did so for the sole reason that he HATED holding doors open for people!
There's more layers to the torturousness of British door etiquette. There’s an awkward narrow/heavy front door with a big step in my block of flats, which is small enough in itself to recognise most of the neighbours and who might be making all those noises. If I see someone coming in just in front of me, who sees me and is likely to hold the door open - they would have to stand close unfortunately - I just turn back and hide round the corner until they’ve gone up to their flat...
Proper laughed to this one! Love it!
Wo wo wo, "its a biscuit just with cake in the name"
Listen here sonny ....
Airports are no place to be drinking; ridiculously expensive, and how long before you get to use the loo on the plane?
Not the Freddo biscuits, the chocolate bar :) It comes as solid chocolate, or as caramel filled. Also, Gloucester is pronounced "Glo-stuh"
What's annoying is when someone opens the door for you and you're 50 meters away so you feel obliged to run when u were perfectly happy to open the door yourself
That's right: I do the sensible thing and let the door (or gate) close so the person behind doesn't have to run but I still feel bad!
It's not just that it rains in summer, it's that on any given day in June we can have 25 degree C sunshine, hail stones and gale force winds. And the weather forecast will always be wrong, so it's hard to plan anything.
Unless you live in UK you can not realise what importance the rain has for us.
Jaffa cakes...very sweet...lots of suger...weight problem...
we Brits NEED a tongue in cheek emoji
"Gloucester" is pronounced "Gloster"... You're welcome. Another good video, sir. 😊
And Worcester is pronounced Wooster.
Big Jaffa proved in court that they are cakes, and therefore VAT exempt. Because cake is proper food while biscuits are treats, or some such.
Big Jaffa also insists that the chocolate is in fact on the BOTTOM of the cake. It's all flipping topsy turvy!
Biscuit means "baked twice" in English.
Jaffa Cakes are not baked twice
Jaffa cakes have a sponge base not a biscuit base
Jaffa cakes are legally cakes, not biscuits
The argument about milk first is not about tea bags. It is when tea is made in a teapot. the preference comes when pouring from the teapot. do you put the milk in the cup first or after the tea is poured. thats the debate. but its what you prefer.
I have never encountered a sample of anything. All those examples were American series. I don't think it's a thing here, unless maybe in a city.
Theses are funny problem not problems for fun.. we really do have very big actual problems. 😊
You are very wrong to underestimate the Jaffa Cake debate. It ranks up there with the Devon vs Cornwall jam/cream/scone war (yes, it's a war), cutting sandwiches into rectangles or triangles, and which way you hang the toilet roll. You are either right, or a monster. No grey area.
There is no Jaffa cake debate. Look it up, the matter went to court. Its been settled that its a cake not a biscuit.
@@CrazyInWeston That may be so, but my brothers can still spend an unhealthy amount of time arguing about it.
@@JustMe-ks8qc If they're still arguing that its a biscuit after an actual court case of a countrys government vs a corporation then there might be something wrong with them.
Its a cake. End of story. If they cant grasp that then you know what to call them.
been in the uk for 8 years say there are very little issues in the UK, compared to other places the brits do love to complain about everything though.
My benchmark for inflation is a pint of bitter. In 1980, it was 29p a pint in my student hall of residence bar, and between about 35 and 45p a pint in the local pubs...
I remember first buying beer in a pup around 1978, when I was like 14. Think it was like 75p a pint, but I did grow up in the easternmost suburbs of London. I suppose that would have a big impact on the price. I was always really tall for my age, so I was always the one amongst my friend group that had to go to the bar in the pub.
@@AlanEvans789
I think there was a big difference in prices between the East Midlands and London.
7:23 you do not HAVE to do this. No one is making you go to the airport pub and get pissed before you even got on the plane. Perfectly acceptable to get on the plane sober. Unless you're flying to Australia in which case I don't really blame you, that's a long time to be in the air, booze might be the only thing to get you through it.
People who put milk first need a slap and 6 months in prison
I confess, the weather is all my fault, the sun briefly came out, my British optimism kicked in, and I bought a Mazda MX 5 Convertible, so now it's gone all damp and changeable.....sorry!
people mock british summer time but with no ac in ur house and our houses designed to keep heat in its torture
and not freddo biscuits the OG is solid chocolate
The milk first thing isn't really about teabags. In fact, imagine the tea has been brewed in a pot, and the issue is all about how it ends up in your cup/mug. Historically, a lot of people put the milk in the cup first and then added the tea. The reason was, as suggested in the vid, that the water might cause the china cup to crack. However, most people now make their tea with a bag in the mug so this debate is rather anachronistic. You shouldn't put milk first in that scenario for the reason you suggested.
I leave a shop if they are offering free samples. I don't want them.
It's pissing down here!
im in Denmark and the sun will today set at 09:40 (21:40) and will rise at 04:58 tomorrow :) wont see many stars at night before the middle of augus again, its too bright out at night :)
Yes milk tea matters , milk first is wrong, the tea doesnt brew if you put in the milk first, you just end up with a cup of hot diluted milk with sugar. But these are not real problems, I dont know anybody getting anxious over freddos or jaffa cakes, rain is the only other problem because you can't trust the weather forecast. Rain comes out of nowhere, and always when you're wearing jeans and have a few miles to walk...
Him showing Freddo biscuits instead of solid Freddo bars got me a little too angry 😠😂. I nearly said irrationally angry but no, fellow brits will (or should 👀😆) agree that there's nothing irrational about it. The solid bars were the 10p ones. Until this video i'd never even heard of the biscuit version😒😂
Its not that it rains alot its that weather in UK is extreme like in england its either extreme heat or extreme cold we had a drought one year and the next year one of our wettest years
Ive just finished a box of Jaffa Cakes
It is whether you put the milk in the cup or mug before pouring the brewed tea in, or tea first then milk. Who gives a ****? I always go tea/coffee first then milk.
I'm sorry but there are too many errors in this video to let it go by ! Firstly the debate of whether jaffa cakes are cakes or biscuits was solved in a court of law when they first came onto the market where it needed to be resolved for tax purposes , Lawyers proved it should not have to have tax added to the cost as would a biscuit because it was a cake (which you don't have to pay tax on ! ) There reasoning was that a cake differs from a biscuit in a very obvious way and that is a cake is soft and goes hard when it is stale and a biscuit is hard and goes soft when it is stale ! Secondly being just past my mid fifties I remember a time before Fredo's and I recall them being about 2 or 3 pence when they came out and remember the first instance of shrinkflation the massive wagon wheel which suddenly shrunk to the size of normal biscuit and the companies lies and denial of the fact whilst trying to gas light the nation (won't buy one to this day because of that and they don't taste as good , don't get me started on marathons and opal fruits !) The debate of milk and tea is not an argument in fact it is not a debate it is simple and this millennial with his 10 pence Fredo's couldn't have got it more wrong ! Today we have tea bags so usually the tea bag goes in the cup first (unless your doing a pot of tea which would be unusual nowadays !) Then the water goes in to mash or infuse the tea in the water , if you put milk in first it stops the tea from infusing properly ! The confusion stems from when tea was loose and it was done in a teapot the notion of putting the milk in the cup goes back to them days if back in them days you had expensive bone china cups and you poured boiling hot tea into the cups the thermal shock would cause the cup to crack ! So teabags , ceramic mugs , milk first = your obviously a moron !
You need Freddo chocolate bars, not Freddo biscuits. The biscuits have even less chocolate than the shrunken bloody bars do. 😒
Jaffa cakes, are cakes, not biscuits.
That's what our courts decided.
It only appears to be a biscuit, because its sold like that.
Also:
If a biscuit is kept to long it goes soft,
if a cake is kept to long it goes hard,
Jaffa cakes go hard,
I'm told.
Fredo’s are NOT biscuits. Absolutely no one eats Fredo biscuits. Fredo is a chocolate bar.