It's always amazing to me that Brits will only define gravy as being brown. We have brown gravy made with beef stock, but we also have white gravy and chicken gravy, etc. If you open up their sausage rolls, the filling looks about like sausage gravy that they all seem to gag at.
A lot of what we call Spaghetti sauce is also considered gravy in Italy, The first gravy recipes are from France and cover a very broad category of sauces. And cream cheese is used in many desserts .
Gravy comes in many different styles and flavors. There is chicken gravy, turkey gravy, beef gravy, red gravy, and many more. Each gravy goes with a different meat or other foods.
Jolly did Southern food. When Josh saw the baked beans he said, “ these don’t look like the beans we have in England, they’re brown”. The chef they were with responded” That’s called flavor” 😂
It's better. The Brits always think biscuits and gravy seem, or look nasty, but they have no idea just how delicious it really is. I have a local restaurant here in New Jersey, where the owner brought his southern recipe with him....my gosh....heaven on Earth.
I have a bunch of family that lives in Scotland. They came over to the United States for the Holidays last year. None of them had ever had Southern Comfort food. Which we here in the south call "Soul Food." They were skeptical about a bunch of it. Once they had it they were hooked. my immediate family constantly get messages, and pictures of them making the Soul Food back in Scotland. Sometimes they make tweaks to the recipes and they call it "Scottish Soul Food." Its the classic "don't judge a book by its cover," situation.
Lol I see British people (not y'all of course 💕) turn up their noses for white sausage gravy since they haven't had it but turn around and eat blood pudding for breakfast. Hearing the ingredients in both options I will choose the white sausage gravy anytime.
@@kathleenchilcote9127 aye in their defense beans on toast is decent but it’s bland as hell lmao I remember a joke about how Britain took over India for spices but they never thought to use it in their food 😂
For real. I lived in England for two years, and believe me, the food is nothing to write home about unless you go to the ethnic neighborhoods for takeaway. About the only British food that I miss is their fish and chips, nothing else.
I would be more offended but, then I remember that your standard is British food! Things like kidney pie, beans on toast and blood sausage are regarded as creme in the UK food world. 😂
Okay let me address to you about the biscuits and gravy. In no way should biscuits and gravy have that much meat let alone little gravy. No true southerner should cook it like that. A TRUE southern dish of biscuits and gravy contains moderately thick gravy poured with SOME chunks of sausage equally with love on top of your biscuits. I love biscuits and gravy, but that looked like straight throw up. That person who made that needs a whooping. SO sorry for you to witness that, Sophie.
Them gagging at biscuits and gravy and cornbread hurts my head. I know they’ve probably never had it cooked right like mamaw used to but it’s so foreign to me. Absolutely delicious!
I like how disgusted Aidan gets just by the word "cornbread". 😂 If he ever had proper made southern cornbread with a bowl of chili, he might change his mind.
There are so many kinds of cornbread--sweet, not sweet, with onions, not with onions, white corn, yellow corn. It's hard to say you don't like it until you've tried them all.
I notice a lot of Brits seem to instantly dislike many foods, without even giving them a try! I always look at foods I've never had with some hope that I'd like it, and it's been rare that I've truly disliked a food- liver and onions, as well as oysters are my Kryptonite! If people go in assuming they're going to hate it, they probably will, so miss out on enjoying a great variety of amazing foods!
I never liked cornbread cuz there is a specific flavor that tastes like a chemical to me. Either just the bread or corn dogs. But grits & sausage & gravy yum.
She was deliberately talking about the consistency It's not really bread. It's not really a cake. The closest consistency she could describe was a muffin, that is very accurate I'm from the deep south and I grew up eating cornbread Grandma made in a cast iron pan
I was deciding whether or not to be offended, but then I realized you guys eat beans on toast..... I kid! Biscuits and gravy and grits are two of my favorites,My dad used to bring back fried chicken hearts for me when he came back from the deli, and my mom must have made Brunswick Stew at least 5 times a month when I was growing up.
the peanut shells have oil in them which helps the wood floors; this is the first time I have ever seen cheese in biscuits and gravy, and there is more gravy than shown in the picture. Southern sausage is flavored with sage.
My favorite hangover food use to be 2 biscuits splayed open then topped with a sausage patty and egg on each half of course then gravy and the shredded sharp cheddar cheese occassionally I would throw some hash browns on top as well before the gravy and cheese. I had a place a couple of miles down the road that would make it for me every Sunday morning. Eat that then go back and sleep and watch tv all day. I haven't drank in 20 years but occassionally I'll still make it myself at home.
Grits is made from corn. It can be made to be salty and you can add it as a side dish to a regular meal, or add meat to it and make it your entire meal, or.... you can make it sweet and eat it like cereal. I like mine with butter, sugar, and crumbled up bacon in it.
😛 What’s wrong with bangers and mash? I remember having the American version in the grade school cafeteria - they were called ‘flying saucers’. A big ice cream scoop of mashed potatoes on what I remember as fried bologna. We loved ‘em as 7-8 year olds.
@@pacmanc8103 nothings wrong with it. I just think it’s funny comparing bangers and mash to biscuits and gravy. I just think bangers and mash is a weird thing to call food😊and don’t think biscuits and gravy sounds weird. That’s it🤷♂️
@@thekegster92 I guess if you think bangers and mash is a weird name you would think "spotted dick" was totally bizarre! And, it's a dessert, lol. I just always imagine someone in the royal family requesting that for dessert with their very proper, posh accents. Makes me laugh.
My grandparents grew up during the Great Depression and we had chicken and dumplings a lot but my grandmother would make potato and dumplings which she said came from “hard times” and they couldn’t afford the use chicken. I guess the eggs were more valuable. Potato and dumplings are actually my favorite over chicken ones.
So many comfort foods came out of hard times. Look at Black soul food. Collard greens, chitterlings, pig feet, fried chicken, sweet potatoes . . . these were the scraps that the slave owners didn't want so they let us have them. And we made 'em gooooood!
I love when you all do food reviews. For the record, Aidan, I don't like quite a few of these foods either. Of course, I was raised by a Greek father and American mother, and so my comfort foods are a bit different. I was like you when I saw the Fried Chicken appear. After much that I didn't like, finally something I did. Gaynor, I love it when you share your recipe tips.Cheers.
The gravy in the picture isn't right. Fry crumbled breakfast sausage, after cooked throw in handful of flour, cup of milk and cup of water. Stir vigorously for less than a minute, turn off and remove from heat. Salt and pepper to taste, pour over rolls or flaky "biscuits" (not cookies). Gravy gets thick quickly so get your fire off fast.
Peanut shells on the floor actually has a purpose. I worked somewhere we did that too, it's for hardwood flooring, the peanut oil is good for the floor.
As a Southerner myself, I grew up on most of this stuff. 6:54 Those were probably roasted peanuts which are different from boiled peanuts. We always get boiled peanuts from a local farm every year. As for drinking sweet tea with them. Sweet tea is my go-to drink since I'm not a huge Coke (soda) fan. I'll drink probably 5 sweet teas per week 😂
All right y'all that is not what good biscuits and gravy looks like!! I don't know where Mashed got that video clip from but nobody in the South or in Texas would make gravy like that. If that was served to me in a restaurant I would send it back
Texas Roadhouse and some other steakhouses serve whole peanuts and encourage the guests to throw the shells on the floor. The reason is peanut shells contain a natural oil that's good for the wood floors. People throwing shells on the floor and walking on them all day (they get swept up daily) are actually helping maintain the establishment by keeping the floor well oiled.
Throwing peanut shells on the floor is a good thing. At the end of the day, when they are swept up, it actually polishes the floor. Especially wooden floors. Squirrel actually tastes good, it's a little gamier than rabbit. In the fall, when I shoot two of three of them, I like to make Pot Pie with mixed veggies, taters, and a Float Crust.
I didn't see banana pudding on this list! Ya'll should definently react to some of Jolly's content. They have some good videos of them trying southern food!
GRITS is similar to porridge, but made from corn hominy (crushed pulverized corn). Usually included with a pat of butter on top &/or a little pepper sprinkled on top. Many in the US South enjoy shrimp & grits in the same bowl.
Gizzards: the mechanical stomach (how chickens grind food since they don’t have teeth) Okra: a vegetable that can thicken gumbo. The sticky stuff is Mucilage… it acts like a roux. You can use that or Filė (North American ground sassafras leaves) but DO NOT USE both or you’ll end up over thickening. Typically Louisiana foods start with a variation of mirepoix called the Trinity: onion, celery, bell pepper instead of carrot.
Every foreigner seems to have fits about grits like it's unthinkable that people like them. I think most people like corn and that's what grits are. Just treated and ground up with butter and salt on top. Yum.
Pinto beans & corn bead. You can make different varieties of corn bread,. Mexican corn bread is a little spicy but I like sweet corn bread. I'm surprised Jiffy corn muffin mix hasn't made it over there yet. And yes I never heard of ambrosia (fruit salad) made with anything but whipped topping (Cool Whip/whipped Cream)
One suggestion is that when you do food reactions from other countries you come into it with a open mind. Because this is the third video I've watched where you guys look absolutely disgusted b4 the video even starts. You won't grow your channel that way. Complaining about the looks of something just because it's doesn't look like the food you're used too,well that's the point. To get out of your comfort zone especially the guy in the middle. I scroll past the suggestion video whenever I see his face because I know he's going to be ultra negative about everything.
the things with peanuts is if you look at the floors they are all wood and the peanut shelss you throw down and step on has oil in them and that goes into the floor to preserve them and make them shine
We had a lady fall after she had stepped on peanuts still in the shell thrown on the floor at our Texas Roadhouse so they did away with the peanuts. I would imagine they would bring in mice and cockroaches too.
The gravy in the biscuits and gravy is made with white gravy and breakfast sausage. They need more gravy with the sausage so it actually looks like gravy instead of vomit. Never seen it with cheese before in my 52 years of life lol The only way I will eat grits is with lots of cheese and lots of grilled shrimp. It's really good that way. Boiled peanuts are pretty good. You wouldn't think so but they are. I grow my own crawfish in the small bayou on my land. I eat them regularly in all kinds of dishes. They're so good.
In the US we have traditional brown beef gravy and white cream gravy. The traditional gravy usually goes on roast and white gravy goes on biscuits or chicken fried steak
I'm from Alabama and the idea of cheese between the biscuits and the sausage gravy offends my very soul. (BTW, would it help if, instead of "white gravy," we said "bechamel sauce?" Because that's what it is, with the bacon or sausage fat taking the place of the butter. It becomes sausage gravy when you mix the sort-of-bechamel with crumbled sausage meat.)
Gravy is a thickening of the juices from a meat, primarily consists of the various forms of fats from the meats. Sausage gravy (the white gravy from the biscuits) is made from the dripping of breakfast sausages and is usually thickened with flower and a dairy product (typically milk or cream or half and half) hence why the gravy is whitish. Now the initial gravy shown is unusually thick, it is more runny than that in typical southern cuisines.
My uncle Joe always said rat traps nailed to a tree with peanut butter worked great for catching squirrels, that was his go to method for some extra meat when he was really broke.
My neighbor makes her cornbread with corn kernels, bacon and chopped onions in it. She says her great grandmother called it johnny cake. He family is in Alabama and has been for generations. I think she said since the 1810s.
Y’all really need to try some of this stuff done right. Grits, cornbread, and boiled peanuts are delicious. I’ll pass on the chicken gizzards and chitterlings, though.
I've eaten many squirrels, my mother use to fry them and make gravy from the leftovers and serve mashed potatos with the gravy and fried squirrel, it was delicious.
Hi guy's 64 yo guy here from Phoenix , Arizona. Just wanted to tell you I enjoy you three's reaction's. I tell you what their are some things on this list I wouldn't eat. Love the channel and yes you need to rename this channel, Daz has his with the Office Blokes !
Hi guys! I grew up with most of these dishes. Chow chow, which I've never heard of, reminds me of relish. My favorites are gumbo, fried catfish, beignets, fried green tomatoes, and homemade apple pie. I really don't like mac and cheese, but I love different types of chili. My favorite stew is homemade beef stew. My mom's, may she rest in peace, was biscuits and gravy. On New Year's Day, she would make us a ham and bean stew with the leftover ham bone from Christmas, a certain kind of bean, and malt vinegar. We would eat it with cornbread. It was supposed to give us good luck for the New Year. It's cool that you all are interested in different goods and cultures. Keep the videos coming. By the way, I highly recommend that Gaynor watch the movie "Fried Green Tomatoes" with Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Mary Louise Parker. It is one of my favorites. It is based on the book,"Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe," by Fannie Flagg.
The fact that they turned their faces up at chitterlings 🤮. What do you think your sausages are cased in.....if it's all natural it's usually hog intestines. So it's likely you're already eating it!
Essentially, chicken gizzards are the stomach of a chicken (or any other fowl-and surprisingly all reptiles!). Since birds don’t have teeth, they need a way to grind up food before it enters their digestive tract. This is where the gizzard comes in. As birds peck at the ground in search of bugs, seeds, and other food, they also pick up tiny bits of grit, gravel, and pebbles. All of this food and debris moves through the esophagus, gets stored in the crop (a storage compartment), and eventually ends up in the gizzard. Along with salvia and enzymes, the gizzard’s powerful muscle contractions and the grit acts as little teeth to help pulverize the food so it can be digested. Without a gizzard, birds wouldn’t be able to process their food (much like our teeth mash our food before we can digest it).
There’s three kinds of cornbread my husband and I commonly make: plain, sweetened with honey, or loaded/Mexican (shredded cheese, tomatoes w/green chilies, and small cubes of cream cheese)
I fry my green beans in bacon grease with pepper,onion powder,garlic,soy sauce and brown sugar… you can also bake it this way or leave out the sugar if your not in the mood for the sweet. But all the beans need coated and I get it to where some of the beans are browning, then they’re done.
Lol the gizzard isn't truly the stomach. It's part of the digestive tract but it's like the first stop after the mouth. The gizzard is basically a muscle that the chickens use to grind corn since they don't have teeth. Chickens will swallow tiny stones that they store in the gizzard. The gizzard flexes causing the stones to grind the corn. It really just tastes like chicken meat but a bit tougher. It does not taste like chicken livers although some people kind of think of the two together.
Hi, the reason southerners used squirrel/rabbit/chitlins etc was because at times cabinets were empty; additionally, there was the Great Depression. One more thing, I’ve never been to a restaurant and had good grits or greens. My grits/greens are sooo good.
The Gizzard is commonly called the craw it is the pouch in the neck where all food is ground up with the little rocks they pick up so it can then go to the stomach for digestion
That sausage and biscuit representation was not very accurate. The gravy really resembles what you saw on the chicken fried steak but a bit thicker with chunks of breakfast sausage in it. I have been eating it all my life and never have I seen it like how it was presented in this video.
The gizzard is above the stomach, it's a muscle lined membrane used to grind foods because birds can't chew. They'll swallow small rocks and such to help in the grinding. You fillet the meat from the leathery membrane. It's dense like heart meat and delicious, also unchewable if not prepared
21:38 they described in the video that the hot brown was an open-faced sandwich Meaning that whilst it's on 2 slices of bread, it's not wrapped around the meat that's in the sandwich
Recently I was at Disney World at the Rose and Crown. It’s a British pub at Epcot and our server was from the UK and my server Daniel a great guy suggested the Bangers and Mash. My wife asked if it came with White or Brown gravy. Lol 😂😂 I told her after white gravy does not exist in the UK. If you put white gravy on Bangers and Mash I’m sure you’ll be tossed out of a pub. He was nice about the thing and we chatted with our friendly server at the end of the night. I would say all the best servers were from the UK and met some very friendly families from there as well. Matter of fact there were a lot of guests from the UK when I went a couple days ago. Our lovely server Elaine gave my wife proper tea at the Crystal Palace restaurant with a mini kettle and a small jar of honey.
They are wrong about boiled peanuts not being able to be opened by hand. The little shop in my neighborhood sells them. You can break them open with your hand. The saltiness gets in fused into the peanuts through the cooking process. They are delicious. If you have had macadamia nuts they kind of have a similar feeling texture and hardness wise.
White gravy is just the grease from breakfast sausage with a little flour.. then add milk salt and pepper. It isn't hard to make and it's delicious.. you then add your fried sausage back in
Hard boiled eggs....place eggs in pot cover with cold water bring to boil on stovetop, roiling boil. Cover turn off heat let sit 15 minutes. After 15 minutes rinse under cold water, refrigerate. You can eat plain, but you can also shell put eggs in bowl add mayonnaise and dijon or brown mustard about 1 teaspoon worth, mix with potato masher or on low with hand mixer put on toast. You can add a small amount of onion diced small. Put on toast, with bacon lettuce and tomato. Youve just made egg salad
Aunt Jemima, 2 cups corn meal, 2 cups flower. 2 tea spoons salt, one tea spoon of baking powder, cup of sugar, half cup of milk, half cup of oil or melted butter. Mix well, and then pour into a pre greased or oil in pan. Pre heat over to 400 degrees fair and height. Bake for 45 min.
Indian grocers should have fresh okra as well as ready or frozen meals. Indian stuffed okra known as Bhagwan Bhindi is another dish. Southern US cooking gets okra from west African cultures and African immigrant grocery stores and restaurants could be another way to acquaint yourself with the different options for okra. It might be possible to grow it in a back garden over summer or in a hothouse/ greenhouse.
Boiled peanuts are amazing. You take fresh green peanuts and boil them with salt for about 4 hours. They will still have a bite, but the flavor is amazing. You have to soak them overnight. My grandfather was a peanut farmer in Warm Springs, Georgia.
Chilling are rarely eaten, in my experience. I'm a southerner and would never touch them. It seems to mainly be a black thing. When we make ambrosia, we use sour creme. I know how it sounds, but it becomes sweet by virtue of all the fruit juice and you would NEVER guess that it has sour creme in it. I'm not big on mayonnaise, so I couldn't eat that and have NEVER heard of that mix. The kids here just have nit been exposed to this food, though mom has to some degree.
Sausage gravy is popular in the Midwest(Iowa) too, but usually more gravy and no cheese. The only gravy I have ever made is milk based. As far as the size of male chickens balls, they are inside and almost as big as a golf ball.
The way I describe Grits as a non southerner is it's similar to oolenta since Grits qnd polenta are made from cornmeal the difference is grits is made from a corn derivative called hominy. Collard, turnip and mustard greens are easy to make , i can and have cooked greens with or without meat. Growing up whenever wevhad a honeybaked ham, my mom would debone the ham of the meat and use the bone for either greens or pinto beans. I'm familiar with jambalaya and Gumbo sibce both of my grandfathers were frim Southern Louisiana and my mom would mske seafood gumbo every other year for new years and she'd make enough to give to neighbors on the street I grew up pn until we moved when I was 14. Gumbo can be as labor intensive to make if made from scratch as a person wants to mske it. It can also expensive to make due to the adding of shellfish ( crawfish, crablegs and shrimp), my mom would make straight seafood gumbo because I didn't eat okra. Chitlins or Chitterlings as that's their official name can wake the dead just by the smell ofvthem cooking alone. I'm not a picky eater and I have a lot of southern blood in my with all of my grandparents being from the south ( grandmothers were from Texas and I'd try any southern comfort food at least once other than chitlins. I was always say my southern blood doesn't run that deep , when it comes to chitlins, I'm too much of a California girl. My mom did cook them once for some cousins by marriage who were coming out to L.A from Texas for a family funeral when I was 6 and thought my mom knew how to cook them given they knew my maternal grandfather was from Louisiana ( their uncle was married to my maternal great aunt , my mom's dad's sister). My great aunt had to teach my mom who was also born in California how to glclean them , When my mom started to cook them, mund you ,she had every door and window in the house 🏠 opened to mitigste the smell and she didn't know about the onion and lhslf a 🍋 trick until years later. My maternal aunt and cousins were also here from the San Francisco Bay area and all of us kids woke up to the aroma pf chitlins cooking and we high tailed it out of the house on to the porch. That's where my mom found us and in unison we asked my mom what she was cooking and she told us. The smell of the chitlllins took over the smell of bacon 🥓, eggs 🥚🍳, everything. My maternal aunt wasn't related to my great aunt as she was over a decade younger than my mom and 20 years their brother's junior.
It's always amazing to me that Brits will only define gravy as being brown. We have brown gravy made with beef stock, but we also have white gravy and chicken gravy, etc. If you open up their sausage rolls, the filling looks about like sausage gravy that they all seem to gag at.
red eye and tomato gravy as well....
And ham gravy (different from red-eye)
@@kimmycook2698 red eye gravy with country ham and biscuit is some serious groceries.
Italians sometimes call their tomato based sauces gravy.
A lot of what we call Spaghetti sauce is also considered gravy in Italy, The first gravy recipes are from France and cover a very broad category of sauces. And cream cheese is used in many desserts .
Gravy comes in many different styles and flavors. There is chicken gravy, turkey gravy, beef gravy, red gravy, and many more. Each gravy goes with a different meat or other foods.
Exactly
Ahh, yes… The British Palate and Cuisine. Conquer half the world’s spice trade and then use none of them.
Jolly did Southern food. When Josh saw the baked beans he said, “ these don’t look like the beans we have in England, they’re brown”. The chef they were with responded” That’s called flavor” 😂
You took the words right out of my mouth 😁
Harsh!... but funny. hehe
😂😂😂
This lol. They judge so many things so hard while eating beans out of a can on toast. 😂
I would put Biscuits and gravy up against any British breakfast. It's so good.
Absolutely.
I prefer bacon grease gravy over sausage gravy both are amazing
Nah that’s cap. I’m not British but I’d rather have a full English breakfast than gravy over biscuits. 😂😂😂
It's better. The Brits always think biscuits and gravy seem, or look nasty, but they have no idea just how delicious it really is. I have a local restaurant here in New Jersey, where the owner brought his southern recipe with him....my gosh....heaven on Earth.
@@04m6gto it’s not only Brits though who think this, a lot of people do. And to be fair the clips they showed for biscuits and gravy looked abysmal.
I have a bunch of family that lives in Scotland. They came over to the United States for the Holidays last year. None of them had ever had Southern Comfort food. Which we here in the south call "Soul Food." They were skeptical about a bunch of it. Once they had it they were hooked. my immediate family constantly get messages, and pictures of them making the Soul Food back in Scotland. Sometimes they make tweaks to the recipes and they call it "Scottish Soul Food." Its the classic "don't judge a book by its cover," situation.
Lol I see British people (not y'all of course 💕) turn up their noses for white sausage gravy since they haven't had it but turn around and eat blood pudding for breakfast. Hearing the ingredients in both options I will choose the white sausage gravy anytime.
Watch Jolly feed a bunch of teens biscuits & gravy. Funny!
Exactly 😂
Or beans on toast..lol
@@kathleenchilcote9127 aye in their defense beans on toast is decent but it’s bland as hell lmao I remember a joke about how Britain took over India for spices but they never thought to use it in their food 😂
@@kevinprzy4539 lmaoooooooo
Comfort food is food you grew up with that you love and it makes you feel good when you eat it. It is that simple no need to over think it.
Brings back childhood memories.
Well said.👍
It's hilarious to hear English people (of all people) criticize the cooking in other countries.
Exactly they literally eat beans with their breakfast. That makes no sense imao
@@shaylak9561 What an inconsiderate way to start your day. With a bunch of ass fuel.
@@shaylak9561 On toast, no less. That's what butter and jelly is for. Or egg yolk.
For real. I lived in England for two years, and believe me, the food is nothing to write home about unless you go to the ethnic neighborhoods for takeaway. About the only British food that I miss is their fish and chips, nothing else.
@@shaylak9561I'm not British, but baked beans with breakfast is pretty good.
Biscuts and gravy is just ❤. The sausage to gravy ratio on that picute is horrible though
The photos are not a good representation of some of these dishes.
I would be more offended but, then I remember that your standard is British food! Things like kidney pie, beans on toast and blood sausage are regarded as creme in the UK food world. 😂
Okay let me address to you about the biscuits and gravy. In no way should biscuits and gravy have that much meat let alone little gravy. No true southerner should cook it like that. A TRUE southern dish of biscuits and gravy contains moderately thick gravy poured with SOME chunks of sausage equally with love on top of your biscuits. I love biscuits and gravy, but that looked like straight throw up. That person who made that needs a whooping. SO sorry for you to witness that, Sophie.
It did look revolting. My sausage gravy looks nothing like that and it's delicious.
Kept waiting for them to pour on gravy! That looked disgusting!
I actually quite like a thicker-meatier gravy like that (pause). What grossed me out was those slices of cheese.
Or, no sausage chunks at all just the drippings....
lol. so true!
Them gagging at biscuits and gravy and cornbread hurts my head. I know they’ve probably never had it cooked right like mamaw used to but it’s so foreign to me. Absolutely delicious!
I like how disgusted Aidan gets just by the word "cornbread". 😂
If he ever had proper made southern cornbread with a bowl of chili, he might change his mind.
There are so many kinds of cornbread--sweet, not sweet, with onions, not with onions, white corn, yellow corn. It's hard to say you don't like it until you've tried them all.
I notice a lot of Brits seem to instantly dislike many foods, without even giving them a try! I always look at foods I've never had with some hope that I'd like it, and it's been rare that I've truly disliked a food- liver and onions, as well as oysters are my Kryptonite! If people go in assuming they're going to hate it, they probably will, so miss out on enjoying a great variety of amazing foods!
And don't forget green chile cornbread 😋
@@laydp2760 I like to use bacon fat and a bit of chili powder in mine. Really, cornbread has to be up there among the very top comfort foods!
I never liked cornbread cuz there is a specific flavor that tastes like a chemical to me. Either just the bread or corn dogs. But grits & sausage & gravy yum.
Cornbread is like a muffin? I wonder if she ate a jiffy mix version of cornbread. Because traditional cornbread isn't like a breakfast muffin.
They lived in the Houston area and here in Texas we often put sugar or even honey in our cornbread.
She was deliberately talking about the consistency
It's not really bread. It's not really a cake. The closest consistency she could describe was a muffin, that is very accurate
I'm from the deep south and I grew up eating cornbread Grandma made in a cast iron pan
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Sugar on cornbread?
So everyone in your town is suffering from obesity?
Just some soft room temperature butter for me.
Cornbread is like a muffin tho. It's like cake batter made of corn
To be fair I don't think they really have anything comparable
I was deciding whether or not to be offended, but then I realized you guys eat beans on toast..... I kid! Biscuits and gravy and grits are two of my favorites,My dad used to bring back fried chicken hearts for me when he came back from the deli, and my mom must have made Brunswick Stew at least 5 times a month when I was growing up.
Not to mention they eat blood pudding for breakfast...
the peanut shells have oil in them which helps the wood floors; this is the first time I have ever seen cheese in biscuits and gravy, and there is more gravy than shown in the picture. Southern sausage is flavored with sage.
My favorite hangover food use to be 2 biscuits splayed open then topped with a sausage patty and egg on each half of course then gravy and the shredded sharp cheddar cheese occassionally I would throw some hash browns on top as well before the gravy and cheese. I had a place a couple of miles down the road that would make it for me every Sunday morning. Eat that then go back and sleep and watch tv all day. I haven't drank in 20 years but occassionally I'll still make it myself at home.
@@charlessarver8350 Damn, that sounds good.
@@prettybullet7728 Oh it's awesome but one of those things you should do in moderation lol
No sage in mine. Yuck
Don't forget about deer sausage. I grew up with it and loved it. Now, not so much.
Grits is made from corn. It can be made to be salty and you can add it as a side dish to a regular meal, or add meat to it and make it your entire meal, or.... you can make it sweet and eat it like cereal. I like mine with butter, sugar, and crumbled up bacon in it.
Yeah, but you have to know how to cook grits right, grits is real easy to mess up and when you do it can easily be revolting.
Baked cheese grits are the best.
@@nerofl89 Yeah usually people over cook or under cooks them, that's why they gross. lol
Hominy specifically. Basically “hominy” and “grits” are short for “hominy corn” and “hominy grits”, respectively.
No self-respecting southerner eats instant grits, lol.
Aiden: don't close yourself off from expanding your food choices! You will miss out on so many amazing tastes!!!
It always amazes me how you guys can judge us but you have things called blood pudding, haggis, bangers and mash etc.
😛 What’s wrong with bangers and mash? I remember having the American version in the grade school cafeteria - they were called ‘flying saucers’. A big ice cream scoop of mashed potatoes on what I remember as fried bologna. We loved ‘em as 7-8 year olds.
@@pacmanc8103 nothings wrong with it. I just think it’s funny comparing bangers and mash to biscuits and gravy. I just think bangers and mash is a weird thing to call food😊and don’t think biscuits and gravy sounds weird. That’s it🤷♂️
@@thekegster92 I guess if you think bangers and mash is a weird name you would think "spotted dick" was totally bizarre! And, it's a dessert, lol.
I just always imagine someone in the royal family requesting that for dessert with their very proper, posh accents. Makes me laugh.
@@thekegster92I’m with you.
My grandparents grew up during the Great Depression and we had chicken and dumplings a lot but my grandmother would make potato and dumplings which she said came from “hard times” and they couldn’t afford the use chicken. I guess the eggs were more valuable. Potato and dumplings are actually my favorite over chicken ones.
My grandma used to make "potato and whatever shit I can find" soup. It was literally potatoes and whatever shit they could find in their cellar. 🤣
So many comfort foods came out of hard times. Look at Black soul food. Collard greens, chitterlings, pig feet, fried chicken, sweet potatoes . . . these were the scraps that the slave owners didn't want so they let us have them. And we made 'em gooooood!
"kinda like a carbonara"
Everyone in chat: If my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bike.
I love when you all do food reviews. For the record, Aidan, I don't like quite a few of these foods either. Of course, I was raised by a Greek father and American mother, and so my comfort foods are a bit different. I was like you when I saw the Fried Chicken appear. After much that I didn't like, finally something I did. Gaynor, I love it when you share your recipe tips.Cheers.
Don't knock sausage gravy until you try it.. it's absolutely awesome..there are more kinds of gravy than English brown gravy
That gravy is to thick. There’s sausage pieces in the gravy. I’ve never seen cheese In biscuits and gravy.
crumble the biscuits or sausage biscuit with gravy inside
I don’t do gizzards or ambrosia salad
Ya that cheese looked so off putting
@@plnkfloydian7814 ya I’m 50 and have had biscuits/gravy my whole life and have never seen anyone put cheese in it
@@mellycook you’ve missed out for 50 years that’s crazy
The gravy in the picture isn't right. Fry crumbled breakfast sausage, after cooked throw in handful of flour, cup of milk and cup of water. Stir vigorously for less than a minute, turn off and remove from heat. Salt and pepper to taste, pour over rolls or flaky "biscuits" (not cookies). Gravy gets thick quickly so get your fire off fast.
Yes, very poor representation of white gravy!!!
I could only think of the stereotype that british conquered the world for spices to never use them in their cooking and southern food is so good!
What you see in this video is not biscuits and gravy lol they showed off some monstrosity like it was normal
As a Texan, that was a HORRIBLE example of biscuits and gravy
As a Californian, that was a HORRIBLE example of biscuits and gravy. lol.
As an Illinoisan that was a horrible example of biscuits and gravy.
I make cornbread for me and my dad all the time. Its absolutely delicious.
There are corn muffins as well.
Peanut shells on the floor actually has a purpose. I worked somewhere we did that too, it's for hardwood flooring, the peanut oil is good for the floor.
@unklebacon:
And the RATS love it.
comfort food = something you want when you're missing home, sick, or just need a culinary hug
COOL WHIP is a Whopped topping that you would use on Slices of Pie, Cake or Cups of Ice Cream in he same way you would use Whipped Cream!
We have brown gravy. Too Warm biscuits are great they are a flaky , airy bread with touch of sweetness and buttery they melt in your mouth
The fact that banana pudding was not on that list is an absolute sacrilegious. A true Southerner Would have put that on the list
That was the first thing my husband asked, “what about banana pudding?” Lol
"Tomah-toes are green before they are red?", has to be a city boy all his life. I never laughed so hard, thanks.
If you havent had Fried Green Tomatoes...you havent lived...its like heaven...I can eat them until i literally get anymore into my body...wonderful
Bless their hearts. I'm less than 2 minutes in and they're salivating over eggs.
As a Southerner myself, I grew up on most of this stuff.
6:54 Those were probably roasted peanuts which are different from boiled peanuts.
We always get boiled peanuts from a local farm every year. As for drinking sweet tea with them. Sweet tea is my go-to drink since I'm not a huge Coke (soda) fan. I'll drink probably 5 sweet teas per week 😂
Y'all bring a bright side to my day watching your reactions.
All right y'all that is not what good biscuits and gravy looks like!!
I don't know where Mashed got that video clip from but nobody in the South or in Texas would make gravy like that.
If that was served to me in a restaurant I would send it back
Texas Roadhouse and some other steakhouses serve whole peanuts and encourage the guests to throw the shells on the floor. The reason is peanut shells contain a natural oil that's good for the wood floors. People throwing shells on the floor and walking on them all day (they get swept up daily) are actually helping maintain the establishment by keeping the floor well oiled.
Throwing peanut shells on the floor is a good thing. At the end of the day, when they are swept up, it actually polishes the floor. Especially wooden floors. Squirrel actually tastes good, it's a little gamier than rabbit. In the fall, when I shoot two of three of them, I like to make Pot Pie with mixed veggies, taters, and a Float Crust.
I didn't see banana pudding on this list! Ya'll should definently react to some of Jolly's content. They have some good videos of them trying southern food!
GRITS is similar to porridge, but made from corn hominy (crushed pulverized corn). Usually included with a pat of butter on top &/or a little pepper sprinkled on top. Many in the US South enjoy shrimp & grits in the same bowl.
I can imagine Aiden is going to be the life of the party at a Southern cookout
Gizzards: the mechanical stomach (how chickens grind food since they don’t have teeth)
Okra: a vegetable that can thicken gumbo. The sticky stuff is Mucilage… it acts like a roux. You can use that or Filė (North American ground sassafras leaves) but DO NOT USE both or you’ll end up over thickening.
Typically Louisiana foods start with a variation of mirepoix called the Trinity: onion, celery, bell pepper instead of carrot.
Also, okra is great if your a bit...constipated...okra and tomatoes, you Will go.
Not a fan of file' A lot of people say it doesn't have a flavor. It does to me a flavor I don't care for so I stick with the okra lol.
@@kimmycook2698 okra and tomatoes go perfectly together
I ate gizzards as a little kid, but no thanks now. I LOVE fried okra.
Absolutely love gizzards. I found a local fried chicken place that makes them perfectly, and I've been hooked ever since.
Every foreigner seems to have fits about grits like it's unthinkable that people like them. I think most people like corn and that's what grits are. Just treated and ground up with butter and salt on top. Yum.
omg Aiden, just try something before you say "I wouldnt like that " GEEZ you Brits
Pinto beans & corn bead. You can make different varieties of corn bread,. Mexican corn bread is a little spicy but I like sweet corn bread. I'm surprised Jiffy corn muffin mix hasn't made it over there yet. And yes I never heard of ambrosia (fruit salad) made with anything but whipped topping (Cool Whip/whipped Cream)
For the peanut shells on the floor, you might have been thinking of Texas Roadhouse. I LOVE fried okra, it's one of my favorite things in this world.
One suggestion is that when you do food reactions from other countries you come into it with a open mind. Because this is the third video I've watched where you guys look absolutely disgusted b4 the video even starts. You won't grow your channel that way. Complaining about the looks of something just because it's doesn't look like the food you're used too,well that's the point. To get out of your comfort zone especially the guy in the middle. I scroll past the suggestion video whenever I see his face because I know he's going to be ultra negative about everything.
the things with peanuts is if you look at the floors they are all wood and the peanut shelss you throw down and step on has oil in them and that goes into the floor to preserve them and make them shine
We had a lady fall after she had stepped on peanuts still in the shell thrown on the floor at our Texas Roadhouse so they did away with the peanuts. I would imagine they would bring in mice and cockroaches too.
The gravy in the biscuits and gravy is made with white gravy and breakfast sausage. They need more gravy with the sausage so it actually looks like gravy instead of vomit. Never seen it with cheese before in my 52 years of life lol
The only way I will eat grits is with lots of cheese and lots of grilled shrimp. It's really good that way.
Boiled peanuts are pretty good. You wouldn't think so but they are.
I grow my own crawfish in the small bayou on my land. I eat them regularly in all kinds of dishes. They're so good.
In the US we have traditional brown beef gravy and white cream gravy. The traditional gravy usually goes on roast and white gravy goes on biscuits or chicken fried steak
I'm from Alabama and the idea of cheese between the biscuits and the sausage gravy offends my very soul. (BTW, would it help if, instead of "white gravy," we said "bechamel sauce?" Because that's what it is, with the bacon or sausage fat taking the place of the butter. It becomes sausage gravy when you mix the sort-of-bechamel with crumbled sausage meat.)
Good biscuits depend on the right type of flour: ☺️
Gravy is a thickening of the juices from a meat, primarily consists of the various forms of fats from the meats. Sausage gravy (the white gravy from the biscuits) is made from the dripping of breakfast sausages and is usually thickened with flower and a dairy product (typically milk or cream or half and half) hence why the gravy is whitish. Now the initial gravy shown is unusually thick, it is more runny than that in typical southern cuisines.
I would say it looked the consistency of library paste or putty. The ratio of sausage to the gravy was way too great.
My uncle Joe always said rat traps nailed to a tree with peanut butter worked great for catching squirrels, that was his go to method for some extra meat when he was really broke.
My neighbor makes her cornbread with corn kernels, bacon and chopped onions in it. She says her great grandmother called it johnny cake. He family is in Alabama and has been for generations. I think she said since the 1810s.
Y’all really need to try some of this stuff done right. Grits, cornbread, and boiled peanuts are delicious. I’ll pass on the chicken gizzards and chitterlings, though.
@@sw3783 But you can probably by the movie True Grit.
I've lived in Alabama for 45 years. I hate boiled peanuts. They nasty. But sausage gravy poured over a flaky biscuit is divine.
I've eaten many squirrels, my mother use to fry them and make gravy from the leftovers and serve mashed potatos with the gravy and fried squirrel, it was delicious.
Hi guy's 64 yo guy here from Phoenix , Arizona. Just wanted to tell you I enjoy you three's reaction's.
I tell you what their are some things on this list I wouldn't eat. Love the channel and yes you need to rename this channel, Daz has his with the Office Blokes !
Hi guys!
I grew up with most of these dishes. Chow chow, which I've never heard of, reminds me of relish. My favorites are gumbo, fried catfish, beignets, fried green tomatoes, and homemade apple pie. I really don't like mac and cheese, but I love different types of chili. My favorite stew is homemade beef stew.
My mom's, may she rest in peace, was biscuits and gravy. On New Year's Day, she would make us a ham and bean stew with the leftover ham bone from Christmas, a certain kind of bean, and malt vinegar. We would eat it with cornbread. It was supposed to give us good luck for the New Year.
It's cool that you all are interested in different goods and cultures. Keep the videos coming. By the way, I highly recommend that Gaynor watch the movie "Fried Green Tomatoes" with Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Mary Louise Parker. It is one of my favorites. It is based on the book,"Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe," by Fannie Flagg.
The fact that they turned their faces up at chitterlings 🤮. What do you think your sausages are cased in.....if it's all natural it's usually hog intestines. So it's likely you're already eating it!
Essentially, chicken gizzards are the stomach of a chicken (or any other fowl-and surprisingly all reptiles!). Since birds don’t have teeth, they need a way to grind up food before it enters their digestive tract. This is where the gizzard comes in.
As birds peck at the ground in search of bugs, seeds, and other food, they also pick up tiny bits of grit, gravel, and pebbles. All of this food and debris moves through the esophagus, gets stored in the crop (a storage compartment), and eventually ends up in the gizzard. Along with salvia and enzymes, the gizzard’s powerful muscle contractions and the grit acts as little teeth to help pulverize the food so it can be digested. Without a gizzard, birds wouldn’t be able to process their food (much like our teeth mash our food before we can digest it).
There’s three kinds of cornbread my husband and I commonly make: plain, sweetened with honey, or loaded/Mexican (shredded cheese, tomatoes w/green chilies, and small cubes of cream cheese)
Please, you guys gotta do videos where you make some of these and try them. trust me biscuits and gravy is goat!
I fry my green beans in bacon grease with pepper,onion powder,garlic,soy sauce and brown sugar… you can also bake it this way or leave out the sugar if your not in the mood for the sweet. But all the beans need coated and I get it to where some of the beans are browning, then they’re done.
Fried pickles should of been on the list. Those are very popular in the south.
Omg yeeesssss so good!!
Ohhh yes, love fried pickles 😋
Lol the gizzard isn't truly the stomach. It's part of the digestive tract but it's like the first stop after the mouth. The gizzard is basically a muscle that the chickens use to grind corn since they don't have teeth. Chickens will swallow tiny stones that they store in the gizzard. The gizzard flexes causing the stones to grind the corn. It really just tastes like chicken meat but a bit tougher. It does not taste like chicken livers although some people kind of think of the two together.
Hi, the reason southerners used squirrel/rabbit/chitlins etc was because at times cabinets were empty; additionally, there was the Great Depression. One more thing, I’ve never been to a restaurant and had good grits or greens. My grits/greens are sooo good.
The Gizzard is commonly called the craw it is the pouch in the neck where all food is ground up with the little rocks they pick up so it can then go to the stomach for digestion
That sausage and biscuit representation was not very accurate. The gravy really resembles what you saw on the chicken fried steak but a bit thicker with chunks of breakfast sausage in it. I have been eating it all my life and never have I seen it like how it was presented in this video.
The gizzard is above the stomach, it's a muscle lined membrane used to grind foods because birds can't chew. They'll swallow small rocks and such to help in the grinding. You fillet the meat from the leathery membrane. It's dense like heart meat and delicious, also unchewable if not prepared
The peanuts on the floor sounds like the Texas Roadhouse restaurant.
Cheese grits preferably POLENTA with butter and cheese is soooooo good😍
21:38 they described in the video that the hot brown was an open-faced sandwich
Meaning that whilst it's on 2 slices of bread, it's not wrapped around the meat that's in the sandwich
As for cornbread it can often be served with butter and jam instead of toast with breakfast or with butter and honey instead dinner rolls.
I’ll say it again BRITS DONT LIKE FLAVOR. They are boring
Recently I was at Disney World at the Rose and Crown. It’s a British pub at Epcot and our server was from the UK and my server Daniel a great guy suggested the Bangers and Mash. My wife asked if it came with White or Brown gravy. Lol 😂😂 I told her after white gravy does not exist in the UK. If you put white gravy on Bangers and Mash I’m sure you’ll be tossed out of a pub. He was nice about the thing and we chatted with our friendly server at the end of the night. I would say all the best servers were from the UK and met some very friendly families from there as well. Matter of fact there were a lot of guests from the UK when I went a couple days ago. Our lovely server Elaine gave my wife proper tea at the Crystal Palace restaurant with a mini kettle and a small jar of honey.
Pecans are used a lot in the South as pecan trees grow all across the region. In fact, it's the state tree of Texas!
They are wrong about boiled peanuts not being able to be opened by hand. The little shop in my neighborhood sells them. You can break them open with your hand. The saltiness gets in fused into the peanuts through the cooking process. They are delicious. If you have had macadamia nuts they kind of have a similar feeling texture and hardness wise.
White gravy is just the grease from breakfast sausage with a little flour.. then add milk salt and pepper.
It isn't hard to make and it's delicious.. you then add your fried sausage back in
Hard boiled eggs....place eggs in pot cover with cold water bring to boil on stovetop, roiling boil. Cover turn off heat let sit 15 minutes. After 15 minutes rinse under cold water, refrigerate. You can eat plain, but you can also shell put eggs in bowl add mayonnaise and dijon or brown mustard about 1 teaspoon worth, mix with potato masher or on low with hand mixer put on toast. You can add a small amount of onion diced small. Put on toast, with bacon lettuce and tomato. Youve just made egg salad
Tomatoes can come in many different colors. As for sausage and gravy don't knock it until you try it.
Bless y’all’s hearts…:)
Aunt Jemima, 2 cups corn meal, 2 cups flower. 2 tea spoons salt, one tea spoon of baking powder, cup of sugar, half cup of milk, half cup of oil or melted butter. Mix well, and then pour into a pre greased or oil in pan. Pre heat over to 400 degrees fair and height. Bake for 45 min.
Sergio,do a edit with the new p.c.name.Nobody will find the poor old aunt anymore.R.I.P.thanks cancel culture.
I agree with Aiden, I like hard boiled eggs but straight after they're done, can't eat them cold lol it's not the same imo
Indian grocers should have fresh okra as well as ready or frozen meals. Indian stuffed okra known as Bhagwan Bhindi is another dish. Southern US cooking gets okra from west African cultures and African immigrant grocery stores and restaurants could be another way to acquaint yourself with the different options for okra. It might be possible to grow it in a back garden over summer or in a hothouse/ greenhouse.
Okra grows in the wild in the Dominican Republic.
Boiled peanuts are amazing. You take fresh green peanuts and boil them with salt for about 4 hours. They will still have a bite, but the flavor is amazing. You have to soak them overnight. My grandfather was a peanut farmer in Warm Springs, Georgia.
I would love to try an authentic British breakfast. Mmmmmmhmmm
Generally I like my eggs fried. But I do LOVE a good eggs benedict w/ extra hollandaise. Oh Yeah!!!
We always use chicken for Brunswick stew
In early times ,rabbit was used
The gizzard is the part in the chicken that grinds the food like dried corn into dissolved food
Chilling are rarely eaten, in my experience. I'm a southerner and would never touch them. It seems to mainly be a black thing. When we make ambrosia, we use sour creme. I know how it sounds, but it becomes sweet by virtue of all the fruit juice and you would NEVER guess that it has sour creme in it. I'm not big on mayonnaise, so I couldn't eat that and have NEVER heard of that mix.
The kids here just have nit been exposed to this food, though mom has to some degree.
Sausage gravy is popular in the Midwest(Iowa) too, but usually more gravy and no cheese. The only gravy I have ever made is milk based.
As far as the size of male chickens balls, they are inside and almost as big as a golf ball.
The way I describe Grits as a non southerner is it's similar to oolenta since Grits qnd polenta are made from cornmeal the difference is grits is made from a corn derivative called hominy. Collard, turnip and mustard greens are easy to make , i can and have cooked greens with or without meat. Growing up whenever wevhad a honeybaked ham, my mom would debone the ham of the meat and use the bone for either greens or pinto beans.
I'm familiar with jambalaya and Gumbo sibce both of my grandfathers were frim Southern Louisiana and my mom would mske seafood gumbo every other year for new years and she'd make enough to give to neighbors on the street I grew up pn until we moved when I was 14.
Gumbo can be as labor intensive to make if made from scratch as a person wants to mske it. It can also expensive to make due to the adding of shellfish ( crawfish, crablegs and shrimp), my mom would make straight seafood gumbo because I didn't eat okra.
Chitlins or Chitterlings as that's their official name can wake the dead just by the smell ofvthem cooking alone. I'm not a picky eater and I have a lot of southern blood in my with all of my grandparents being from the south ( grandmothers were from Texas and I'd try any southern comfort food at least once other than chitlins. I was always say my southern blood doesn't run that deep , when it comes to chitlins, I'm too much of a California girl. My mom did cook them once for some cousins by marriage who were coming out to L.A from Texas for a family funeral when I was 6 and thought my mom knew how to cook them given they knew my maternal grandfather was from Louisiana ( their uncle was married to my maternal great aunt , my mom's dad's sister). My great aunt had to teach my mom who was also born in California how to glclean them , When my mom started to cook them, mund you ,she had every door and window in the house 🏠 opened to mitigste the smell and she didn't know about the onion and lhslf a 🍋 trick until years later. My maternal aunt and cousins were also here from the San Francisco Bay area and all of us kids woke up to the aroma pf chitlins cooking and we high tailed it out of the house on to the porch. That's where my mom found us and in unison we asked my mom what she was cooking and she told us. The smell of the chitlllins took over the smell of bacon 🥓, eggs 🥚🍳, everything. My maternal aunt wasn't related to my great aunt as she was over a decade younger than my mom and 20 years their brother's junior.
My father originates from South Carolina and have sweet potato pie every Thanksgiving or Christmas