5 Food Items Banned in America-But Popular in Britain
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- VLOGMAS DAY 9: In which I discuss the culture shock of finding out certain things that are popular in Britain are banned in America.
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Haha! My son-in-law is British and every time he and my daughter go on a trip to England to visit his relatives they come back with an entire suitcase full of chocolates and sweet goodies. Because of this, I have come to understand the British love of their Cadbury chocolate. I don’t care what Hershey’s says, there’s a difference and the British version is amazing!
I agree
It was better before until brought by an American company and the recipe changed.
Totally agree. The UK version tastes better than the US version.
God help them if Customs goes: "open that bag, please."
Hershey put more sugar in the chocolate bar and less ‘true’ chocolate (their own Hershey bar was once described to me by an American chocolate distributor as ‘rubbish’). Indian supermarkets in the USA sell non- Hershey Cadbury chocolate.
European and British hens are inoculated against salmonella, American hens aren’t, which when added to the washing factor, makes unrefrigerated American eggs hazardous (hence the higher incidence of illness from that cause in the USA).
Haggis is fine to eat when food producers are regulated properly as in Scotland - maybe the FDA doesn’t trust American food producers and assumes the Scots are as bad (they aren’t).
Kinder eggs - the FDA assumes American kids are stupid?? The only explanation I can think of (then again ikea had to withdraw products which had instructions to secure to the wall included, and American adults ignored the instructions)
Blackcurrant - my grandkids’ favorite flavor, and they live here in the USA.
I read enough books as a child to have come across black currents mentioned in literature. So much like “Turkish delight” (thanks Narnia) I had to try it. I purchased black current jam when I ran across it for toast or scones. Very very good 👍
What is the link between Turkish Delight and black currants?
@@helenamcginty4920Foods you read about as a child but aren't a thing in America
You can have blackcurrant Jam, you just can't have actual black currants because they are a carrier of a fungus
I accidentally ordered Black Currant tea rather than blackberry tea, online. I had never even heard of it. One sip and I was HOOKED! Americans have been sleeping on black currant and that's wild because it tastes so GOOD!
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I remember picking black currants from wild bushes as a kid. My mum made the most incredibly delicious black currant jam, which we would have on freshly baked bread as an after school snack. I swear I can still taste it! 😊
They are my favorite Jelly Baby!
I disagree, but to each their own. I don't love grape flavored things and it reminds me of grape flavored things.
I know I've had them but I was very young. I don't remember what they really tasted like but I remember liking them.
You should do a blind taste test between English and American Cadburys. Test to see if you really can taste the difference.
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Like the Pepsi challenge! IDK how people get Pepis and Coke mixed-up.
After reading about it often, I saw black currant fruit preserves and bought a jar, and immediately became addicted to black-currant-and-butter toast!
I love the quick shot of Shaun!
I lived in the UK for 16 months, thanks to the USAF and there is a definite taste difference in the UK's Cadbury chocolate and KitKat chocolate -- both marketed by Hershey in the US.
Cadbury chocolate is the bomb! We’ve brought a suitcase full back home after trips to Britain. Once you have Cadbury, Hershey tastes like wax.
Hersheys chocolate tastes like milk that has gone sour. Cadbury rules. I get it at World Market and I use it to make S’mores instead of Hershey.
Hershey’s tastes like sick to Brits.
Everybody knows Hershey's trash
Hersheys is intentionally slighlty curdled milk. It's a unique flavor. Kind of like blood pudding, am I right?
So, Cadbury's chocolate in the USA is made with curdled milk vomit acid, just like Hershey's chocolate is? What a disgusting shame, which I say from the US state (Commonwealth) of Pennsylvania. Southwestern PA, be it known, a few hours' drive from Hershey, PA. Shame on the Hershey corporation. Free market capitalism until somebody feels threatened by the presence of a superior product, I guess.
I loved the 70's era Cadbury bars. They had a creamy flavor Then someone *fixed* them (and raised the price, lowered the weight)
I remember pre-1988 Cadbury in the USA. OMG they were great! Especially the nut and raisen ones; this is from someone that hates milk chocolate and Hershey's bars.
That always happens with anything you enjoy or love. It's been going on for years. You get use to something and really enjoy it and before you know it, it tastes a little different. Before you know they have completely changed everything about the item. It doesn't taste good. The quality is crap. The size is half what it and the price has doubled. It happened with candy, food, even dog food (although I don't know what it tastes like). I just know my dog just doesn't like it anymore. You see it with movies & tv series.
One time, when I was a kid, my dad went on a business trip to Germany, and he brought back a Kinder surprise egg and gave it to me, and he told me that they're illegal in the United States, which was presumably meant to impress me that he had gone to the trouble of smuggling candy into the country, but what actually ended up happening was that I worried a whole lot that I would get in trouble for having it.
Haha they have toys in the center sometimes i feel that's why they no sell. In Mexico not far like Tijuana or any border city will have em
Ermm - wouldn't it have been an easy solution just to eat it? Swallow the evidence....
@@kaykeelan3765 Well, sure, I could eat the egg, but what about the toy? I mean, the toy is why it's illegal in the first place, right?
@@McFlingleson Well, you could have taken it out to the sea, thrown it in and then picked it up - oh! look what I found - bob's your uncle! The start of a criminal career!
The toy inside is considered to be hazardous to small children who might choke on it. That's why the sweet is banned.
When I was a kid in the eighties, and I think maybe into the early 90’s eggs used to be sold unrefrigerated. Farm fresh eggs may still be available from local farms unrefrigerated depending on how they handle the eggs. The important thing is to refrigerate washed eggs and not to refrigerate unwashed eggs because both practices can lead to food poisoning. If you buy unrefrigerated eggs at a farm, or if you are traveling in Europe, do not refrigerate them. This can increase the risk of food born illness. If you are from Europe visiting the United States, do not leave your eggs out of the refrigerator. This could lead to food born illness.
The way the USA handles their eggs baffles me, the hen literally does the job of protecting the egg for you for free and can be stored at room temperature, that is a win win for any business.
Just to explain quickly about the Cadbury thing. Hershey essentially paid millions of dollars to Cabury U.K. for the ability to sell Cadbury-branded candy in the U.S. From Hershey's perspective, they (not unreasonably) feel that if U.K. Cadbury is sold here, then they are essentially competing against themselves, and thereby losing some of the benefit they paid for by buying the Cadbury branding. That's oversimplified, but essentially it.
The loop hole is if you want to import it as a non retailer, it can be sent from the UK as "samples." This is a gray area I am sure the Hershey legal team is going to look at someday.
To further explain the Hershey/Cadbury 'thing'. Hershey was so worried about loosing market share to Cadbury (and they were starting to), they petitioned the Gov to ban it but this failed, so they petitioned to allow it to be produced in the states under licence and the US gov allowed that, so Hershey had to pay up to have the licence. If UK Cadbury products had continued to be sold instead, the US chocolate market would be very different these days and many Americans would not be so keen on Hershey's chocolate.
There is absolutely a HUGE difference between UK Cadbury Dairy Milk and US Cadbury Dairy Milk bars. As an American who recently returned from 5 years in the UK, I was delighted to see Cadbury Dairy Milk on US shelves, but then so disappointed when it tasted like the standard waxy US chocolate instead of the luxuriously creamy stuff I ate all the time in England.
@@dwebcubYup, leave it to Hershey's to ruin a good chocolate. They were jealous and couldn't have a foreign brand outdo their junk.
Tried to melt some Cadbury's at low heat on top of some bland cookies. Result: a horrible tasting chalklike junk. No more Hershey's products ever again. Even Kit-Kat tastes much better in the UK.
Blackcurrant jam and preserves are everywhere in the US. We even have blackcurrant wine and I have seen Ribena too in the grocery stores.
Pretty sure your 'everywhere' is an exaggeration, as the facts differ from your observations.
Pretty sure he meant they were common in his experience - not yours. Black currant jams are readily available in supermarkets where I live as well - sorry, black currants are not as unique as some might think. What ‘facts’ are you referring to?
I first discovered Cadbury when I was stationed in Scotland in the early 1970's. I really liked this chocolate and wondered why I had never seen it in the USA. Eventually you started to see Cadbury Chocolate here and I was happy at first. But when I bought the first one I noticed a distinct difference in the taste. The British version has a much milkier taste to it, which I like.
I guess I am just not a 'chocolate connoisseur'!! I wasn't aware that Cadbury wasn't available in US - I thought I bought it before (in the US). I have seen it in other foreign countries (in the food import aisles), but not sure if I ever bought any.
@@mchrysogelos7623 Hersey started making Cadbury here, under license, in the 80's. But the Cadbury chocolate here in the USA tastes different from the UK Cadbury. It's not a drastic difference, but it's noticeable.
We have a small British goods shop in my town. They stock Ribena, Irn Bru, HP Sauce, etc. And they also have a great selection of Cadbury chocolate from England. The Hershey's version doesn't even come close.
I remember watching the Osborne's & they showed them going to one of those shops in LA. Carts of sweets. Drinks.
Same here. It's where I get my mushy peas and canned baked beans for toast!
shhhhhhhh
Oh Irn Bru...delicious!
@@USTEMPLAR Why the fuck do you put actual beans on toast
Personally I can't wait until the ban on haggis is lifted. The food we eat in the US is already jammed full of ground up organs so why are sheep lungs the exception?
Excellent point!!! Not to mention all the harmful chemicals!
Look at some of the Mexican chorizo sometime, the kind that's grease used for seasoning in things like fried potatoes. It often includes lymph nodes. I do not buy it.
We have animal organs here. I don't see why we need to import them.
You can get haggis here. It's US made. Frankly I wouldn't want any meat product shipped from overseas, even if I was expected to boil it for 37 years like haggis.
Ikr??!! Look at Headcheese!!!!
We have a few small British food stores here in South Florida that have British Cadbury along with an entire store full of other British imported foods. I actually helped the owner out and cashiered on the weekends there. I think I bought and ate more than our customers! 🤤
Shhhh! Don't tell Hershey!! 😂
The British Emporium in Grapevine, TX (near DFW) sell British Cadbury. We also used to buy them from our Irish shoe venders at Irish dance competitions around the US. They sell them here, just just have to know where to buy them.
Why are there--of all things--British food stores in Florida?
Are they all really expensive?,here in Dundee,Scotland they have a store called American Candy,all literally just imported American candy,chocolate & crisps(chips),so expensive tho!, a large bag of cheetos was like £8.99,like $12? 😱
@@I_Have_The_Most_Japanese_Music A British Husband and Wife saw the need and opened a few stores. Rod Stewart used to send his people over to the store I helped at. There are a lot of transplants here and the stores we doing really well, that was several years ago though and I don’t know the status now.
My husband is from Scotland so when we go over to visit I take an extra bag and stuff it full on Cadbury hot chocolate mix and dark chocolate kit kats. UK chocolate is much better than American chocolate. My husband usually ends up having to carry the bag through the airport and the looks he gets at customs is pretty funny.
I remember being in Northern Ireland & having Cadbury Swiss rolls with tea! They made our Yodels in the US taste like sawdust
The best are Cadbury Wispa bars. 🤗
It's a shame that the US limits things like chocolate from other countries who make better chocolates and goods. If they were smart they would team up with some of these other companies in other countries. Any of the following companies: The Hershey Company, Nestlé, Mars, Cadbury, Lindt, Dove, Tootsie Roll, Godiva, Ghirardelli and Ferrero could partner up with other companies that make better chocolates around the world and could increase their profits by at least half. Everyone loves chocolate and everyone is eating it.
Irn Bru is better in Scotland than it is in the US too.
Don't blame you one bit. Scotland is so cool. Love to go back some time soon.
I know a wedding caterer who uses only top quality EU or UK chocolate in her baked goods, candies, and chocolate fountains. She gets lots of praise for these items, but she keeps her importers and actual manufacturers a secret.
I am fortunate to live in the town where The British Pantry, Ltd. is located. Awesome product availability, especially at Easter and Christmas.
What town is that?
Our European grocers is tiny and everything is priced at least twice what it would be in England.
What town?
WA
My wife and I took a tour of the Cadbury factory! really cool! They had an Egg car sitting out front. And, being from PA, I find it ironic Hershey sued as they moved most if not all chocolate production to Mexico. Now, I try to support Boyers because they are still in PA.
Yes although the issue is obviously not because it’s made abroad but because the huge difference in quality would put Hershey out of business, and they know it. So they’ve legally ensured that they maintain the monopoly.
I'm an American but the Brits are right on this one and I don't understand why the USDA doesn't understand that washing the eggs actually decreases the egg's actual protection.
I wondered how on earth Hershey's got such a settlement to stick, so I looked it up. Turns out the case was about Hershey's licensing agreement with Cadbury, and someone else was importing Cadbury stuff from the UK. What I don't get is how a third party like that importer can be bound by the terms of a contract he didn't sign…
But I think the whole reason Hershey had a licence agreement with Cadbury in the first place was to prevent the company exporting it to the US, because they knew full well that it was superior and would probably put them out of business.
@@penname5766 All the same, it wasn't Cadbury doing the exporting, it was some other unrelated party, buying the stuff in the UK and then transporting it himself
It’s a trademark issue.
It's call grey imports. try importing levis Jeans from India to the US and see what haoppens
They bought the exclusive rights to sell in the US, which means no one else is allowed to sell in the US. This is the same reason Netflix has different shows in different regions.
When my grandmother was alive during the 50s, she'd serve currants in various dishes, bakery mostly. Most curious now as to where she got them.🤔 Perhaps a shrub or 2 survived on their farmstead.
We buy them every year for Thanksgiving stuffing. High end grocery store
@@PuggleLover101 If you buy them and it just says currants and they look like raisins, They are not black currants. I have never seen them in America. I have lived here for 50 years. I have to go back home to get them in any form. Or get them here from an import shop. Or off the net.
@@jameskearney4100 You can buy black current bushes from Stark Bros. and Guerneys.
@@jameskearney4100 We get them at the farmer's markets.
Your grandmother probably used currants (tiny raisins), and not black currants. 👵🏻
I did not realize black currant was so uncommon.. growing up there was usually some black currant jam in the fridge. It's a great flavor, people are missing out.
@SalNova15 Nice! I live in a big city that strangely enough has imported British treats at many of the convenience stores even! It was a very pleasant surprise when I moved here (I am not British, just like to travel the world with my sweet tooth).
It's an acquired cultural taste. Never had it until I was an adult, and the first time I tasted something black currant flavored, I seriously asked if what I just ate was tobacco flavored.
Is there more than one variety of currant? I used to use dried "currants" in a fruitcake recipes. The recipe itself came from the 1940's, a newspaper in Buffalo, New York, was the source.
@@deniseeulert2503 Yes, they come in red, black, and white varieties. I've encountered jams made from black and red, I have never encountered white currant products though.
@@RarebitFiends Thanks for the reply
Fun fact, Skittles were originally a UK candy. In the original, the purple skittle was blackcurrant. However, when Skittles came out in USA in 1982, the purple flavor was suddenly grape. Even though the national ban had been lifted for 16 years, because of states that still banned it's cultivation, and the general lack of familiarity with blackcurrant, the flavor was changed anyway.
During the annual “Highland games” in Dunedin ,Florida,You can get hagess, but it’s made locally and not imported. And it tastes terrible.
Haggis always does.
@@micheledeetlefs6041 No it disnae.
"And it tastes terrible." then it's probably made accurately. Ha!
Floridian here-from Dunedin (and a Piper to boot)-been to Scotland and had haggis as well--it’s not the same and real Scottish haggis is actually very good.
I saw those oreos!!
I saw that picture of Shaun from Edinburg!!
Happy now I've immigrated from the U.S. to Costa Rica where eggs are unwashed and unrefrigerated, there are Kinder Eggs, and we get the British Cadbury. Thankful there is no haggis here! Tried it once in Scotland and would not recommend! Just recently discovered how good black currant it! We're missing out in America!
I bought my kids each a kindergarten egg surprise from the corner store and boy did we get a surprise alright. They were full of maggots! Poor little kids.
Kinder surprise not kindergarten! CRIPES!
I saw an episode of Johnny Carson where he interviewed a big burly Scottish man who had won a haggis eating contes. Johnny asked him what he did after he won. “I threw up” was his answer.
Black currant tea is amazing though. It is fairly recently available in the states
I have some right now :)
We have had it here in the East for decades as long as I can remember.
When I studied abroad in England, I was introduced to Ribena. Primarily through a popular drink at the time called a snakebite. 1/2 pint cider, 1/2 pint lager, a shot of Ribena and sometimes an added shot of vodka. I did find Ribena once in the states and picked it up thinking I’d relive my youth, but it ended up sitting in the liquor cabinet for a decade because, TBH, the drink wasn’t really that good and guaranteed at least a hangover, if not a long night on the bathroom floor. I did like the flavour, though, the few times I didn’t have it mixed into drinks that even Vikings would be afraid to sip.
I used to love a snakebite at the end of the night. But not for years as I don't drink now just because of meds
"drinks that even Vikings would be afraid to sip." LMAO!!!
I used to like a snakebite when I was at University. It was the only way I would drink lager as I don't like lager, but I liked cider and even proper scrumpy. I grew up 3 miles from a cider factory in Devon so was introduced to proper cider and scrumpy. I was one of the lucky ones that didn't get hangovers.
It was called "Diesel" when I used to drink it. I used to drink it all night but I'd wake up with purple lips in the morning!
Please clarify, 'cider' for us?
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My farmer’s wife aunt used to grow black currants and made black currant jelly all the time, well before 1966. I never even knew it was outlawed. I’m glad she didn’t try to sell it.
As a child in the 60’s, one great joy in life was to get a tiny toy or book prize from your box of Cracker Jacks! It never seemed to present any of us a problem…
I would love to taste British Cadbury. I didn’t realize that Hershey appropriated it. I’m sad.
You can order it from a British store (or even Amazon). Just don't do it in the summer.
@@kellynch you got that right; Hershey's addled it in part not to melt.
I ate haggis in Oban, Scotland. Enjoyed it and we bought a can and brought back. The canned version was only so-so. Haggis is actually made in Oregon but without the lungs. It was served at a Robert Burns dinner by our Scottish heritage group.
The only way I could eat haggis is if some tricked me into believing it was something else. I might very well enjoy it, but I'm not about to rush into it.
I am now having flashbacks to my childhood. Dad would drag me to wherever the Scottish society met here in Nashville (it was the Sherlock Holmes pub when I was in high school and college). The adults ate it with a "wee dram" but I was under 21 (he was in hospice when I finally was over 21 on the day, so we didn't go) and they always served me milk. Milk and haggis aren't a match, let's just say.
I had it on a Robert Burns night event at a bar
Hawaiian love spam it's pretty near the same canned animal innards. One of my fraternity brothers was Hawaiian and would make a spam and eggs omelette. It was nasty. I told him I didn't go to Harvard to learn to like spam. Lol. He got a kick outta that.😂
Strangely enough I did develop a liking for menudo. I had a Mexican American girl friend and we liked to party i.e. drink and when we woke up with a hangover the next morning she'd fix menudo with squeeze of lime and it turned out to be the best remedy ever to cure a hangover !!
As a child growing up in Canada, I loved British Cadbury products. Moved to US as adult, and it's NOT the same! I still dream of Cadbury's chocolate-covered turkish delight ...
Lived in Montana when my child was younger. It was worth it to drive to Canada to get better quality sweets without that vile high fructose corn syrup. Easter in March can make the driving a different experience that can make one question their sanity though 🤣
@@dhandley8893 I feel sorry for the generations of these last few decades in USA. I am so glad I grew up a LONG time ago and enjoyed some really good stuff. so many things now are trash. I don't drive anywhere to get stuff, I just make most things myself these days from scratch.
@@dhandley8893 Good gravy you are a superhero. Montana is so beautiful but winter packs a wallop.
In the 1960's I remember selling unrefrigerated flats of eggs. The owner of the dairy said the eggs would be "fine" for 30 days.
In the US in the 90’s we did have kind of our own version of kinder eggs called wonder balls. It was a hollow chocolate ball filled with hard candy and a surprise. They didn’t last too long before some kid choked on something and they got banned. I’m still upset I never got the Lion King figurine I wanted to find in one.
Good news! they are back iv found some at my local Walmart
I heard that no one ever choked on Kinder toys or pods, but that the ban qas pre-emptive
Not only are they back now, they've been available for many years in the USA (as in kinder eggs). While I've never bothered buying them, I first noticed them something like 6-8 years ago at Walmart, and have never seen a point since then where they've been removed from shelves. I feel like everyone just parrots that they're banned without bothering to check whether or not it's actually true.
I have some great tiny "Hercules" toys that came in chocolate covered plastic balls. They were very well done and nicely painted. But I can see how their size made them a problem for small kids.
@@Sin_Alder no those are "Kinder Joy" , which have no joy. The plastic egg splits in half, with the toy in one half, and the sprradable "white chocolate " in the other.
The ones we want are harder to find-they're a double layer of white and hazelnut chocolate forming an egg around the pod (w/toy), all wrapped in foil. Iykyk
Being on a cruise in the Caribbean, many of the islands are/were British.
Yes there is a Big difference between the chocolates. And ginger beer, too.
I’m a Brit, married to a Yank, living in the UK. 1. As a fellow Ribena kid the blackcurrant thing was a revelation. 2. My spousal unit tried haggis one Burns night and hated it. 3. When I visit US supermarkets I can never find the eggs because I forget they are hiding in a fridge. 4. I still buy Kinder Eggs, but only when the toys are ones you have to self-build :). 5. Cadbury chocolate in the US has a different recipe to the UK recipe. It tastes totally different.
@Lawrence - also when the Blackcurrent ban happened in the US, that is when the Concord grape took over + the US became 'obsessed' with GRAPE flavoured jam, drinks, sweets, and EVERYTHING purple. lol
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OlderDaughter’s mother-in-law stores the household eggs on the kitchen counter.
If the eggs have not been scrubbed, they have a natural covering that protects the innards from spoiling.
@@gl15col Yes, Laurence just informed us. In the video. That we all just watched. Well, some of us.
Quite right too just how it should be 👍
We kept our eggs fresh from the chickens in a wire basket on the counter. Never had a problem.
@@melanies.6030Oh! I forgot to watch the video first.
By the way. They do sell British Cadbury chocolates at retailers such as World Market and many british imports shops in the US. In South Florida where I lived for many years. You could find British cadbury chocolates, Ribena and many wonderful British imports. All is good, even on Amazon available right now specially the british holiday boxes, or online retailers you can purchase British cadbury chocolates. Yes, they make it in America by Hershey, but they dont taste the same.
That is something that caught my attention, too. I've seen the Ribena in regular grocery stores that have an aisle dedicated to "international" food products.
As Dane loving in Texas I can say that in addition to black currant and Ribena, which we also consume to great length, the same can be said of red currant.
It's nearly impossible to find red currant around here, which is something that's popular in Denmark both as jelly and marmelade, and is something frequently used in cooking.
For those of us with chickens or access to farm fresh eggs in the US, we don't refrigerate eggs either. You just wash them before use and my mom and grandmom always told me to put them in a bowl of water and toss them if they float. This is pretty common in rural areas where having chickens is typical, and will probably become more common with the price of eggs skyrocketing. Weirdly, the US still recommends refrigerating farm fresh eggs immediately, but that just seems like a waste of energy.
I actually have 3 black currant bushes, 2 red currant bushes, and 2 gooseberries growing in my garden and have had for close to 10 years now. I love them. I've always heard about the fabled black currant juice in Britain lol. Man, I bet that's amazing stuff.
I had it when I went to England as part of the People to People program. Was AMAZING. But black pudding by contrast? The brits can keep it, I like Haggis though
@@Sorrowdusk The French call it "boudin noir", bet you'd eat it then...
the real question is how are you pronouncing 'gooseberries' though? 🤔
@@Trebor74 I'd refuse it like Terrine , Tête de veau , and Andouillette
@@CircleThinker how many ways are There to say 🦢🍒?
At the time of the ban there was Mad Cow Disease in the UK. This meat may have been caught up in the restrictions.
Living in the UK back in the late 90s, every time I came home to Chicago I'd have a carry on full of Kinder Eggs and the Cadbury version which was called a Yowie. Same concept. A couple of years ago I discovered Walmart sells the Yowie as does Jewel Osco. Upon that revelation I find it baffling that Kinder Eggs are still illegal here. I can't even find them at my local Irish supermarket which carries all the great British things as well (Ribena, Battenberg Cake, PG Tips, Prawn Cocktail Walkers, and every other candy of my British dreams). Winston's Market. Tinley Park, IL in case anyone is looking.
If you want to try growing your own food, I recommend black (and red) currants: they're very easy to care for (and the fruit is very tasty)
The wildlife would appreciate it too 😊
There are also white currants
I grew up eating black currants off of bushes in my mom's garden which she started from an elderly friend's bushes. He made wonderful currant wine with his. At least, I assumed they were black currants rather than red because we ate them when they turned black. But I could be wrong!
My Mom & I grew red currants when we lived in the country. Red Currant jam is the bomb! Unfortunately, being diabetic, it's pretty much forbidden anymore.
You need to try loganberry!
My friends who have chickens don't refrigerate there own eggs that thay don't sell. I never thought anything of it until hearing that other countries it is common to not refrigerate.
I don’t refrigerate my chicken eggs….Michigan
Black current jam is delicious on wheat toast. I'm on the East Coast and everyone I know has heard of or eaten it. As for chocolate, find a local candy store that makes their own. You need good chocolate Laurence, life is too short!
I've had black currant. Pretty sure good ol Christmas Tree Shops carries jams, and I've always been ablt to find a yin of hard candies/boiled sweets
I'm on the East Coast and never heard of black current jam, and always thought that a "current" was just a type of raisin. I'll have to see if I can track down some black current jam.
@@kalinystazvoruna8702 It's currant, not "current". And you can, of course, have dried currants, which look very much like raisins.
I put dried currants in pancakes and salads. I also like all kinds of berry jams on rye toast.
@@TrueThanny LOL! Yes. I realized it was a typo after I posted, but there was some other nonsense going on that I had to take care of, but thanks for telling me I can't type today! I'm quite aware of that! :)
One problem with Ribena I've noticed. Well, ok, two: The bottle is over-tall and often doesn't fit on the store shelf. But the big problem is that many people don't realize it's a concentrate, so it appears to be horribly expensive. It's actually not bad when prepared properly.
Great video! I found I can get real Kindereggs in the global food market. The big yellow capsule inside makes me laugh if anyone thinks a child will swallow it whole.
You say that but it literally happened several times so...
That's not the point and people seem to bring up Kinder eggs as if they were the reason for this law.
§342.d of the USC considers every confectionery adulterated (and therefore prohibits import and production) which "has partially or completely imbedded therein any nonnutritive object [...]".
So it doesn't matter what size the object inside is. A brick coated halfway in chocolate would fall under the same rule.
You may ask what about a popsicle then, wouldn't the stick qualify as well? Fair enough and yes - "except that this subparagraph shall not apply in the case of any nonnutritive object if, in the judgment of the Secretary as provided by regulations, such object is of practical functional value to the confectionery product and would not render the product injurious or hazardous to health".
Black currant jam, tea, jelly and in a few shops black and red currents. Yum. Yes, all wonderful, just a bit hard to get.
Hello! My family is from Suffolk and Ixworth and my mom was born in Bury St. Edmunds but we all live in Florida so it is cool seeing more Americanized Brits and their experiences
When I visit England, I make sure to have room in my suitcase for chocolates - love them!!
Blackcurrant: Many years ago, I had a friend who was a fellow Anglophile. She and her roommate were having a cuppa after dinner one evening when I arrived to visit. A cuppa was offered means accepted. I remember taking the first sip and looking at her. When I asked what it was, she grabbed the box of Twining’s and passed it to me. Oh my goodness! I was captivated by the aroma and taste, sweetened with a dollop of honey.
Small problem, in the 2000's sometime Igot a box of Twinings fruit teas as here described, in my local supermarket. They were trying lots of odd teas at the time, but I've never seen them since in Britain! So, Ribena, yes, black currant jam, yes, but in my opinion black currant tea is not typically British.
I’m in USA, and I used to buy eggs directly from the farmer that were not refrigerated, and I stored them in the pantry. However, once refrigerated, fresh eggs must stay that way until using them.
Haggis: I was afraid to try this until my sons and I were offered some as part of Burns Night at Scouts... We all loved it so much that we bought it regularly after that. You *can* get haggis in the US, but all the "questionable bits" are replaced by more liver - an okay dish, but definitely not as good as the real thing! So, yes, I'd love to see this ban lifted.
Cadburys: There *is* an ingredient difference, sadly... As someone who is intolerant to soy, I can have the basic three (milk, whole nut and fruit and nut) in the UK, but in the US, they add soy lecithin, so I can't eat it. :(
Funny about blackcurrant. I hadn't realized that was why you didn't get it in the States. Anything that would be blackcurrant in the UK is generally grape in the US.
Thanks for getting the egg thing right. It's such a different concept. Of course, washing the eggs and subsequent refrigeration also allows them to be stored for longer... But I prefer the British way on this one too. (As a former keeper of chickens.)
In case this is useful: my cousin found out he was severely allergic to soy and had to remove all from his diet but was told by his doctor, I believe, that soy lecithin actually contains no soy and therefore it was an exception. Worth researching yourself if there's anything you love but can't eat because of that. 🤷🏼♀️
You had a night dedicated to Mr. Burns, from The Simpsons? Excellent.
In the US any pluck from animals like sheep cannot be used in food since they could contain anthrax spores which can be deadly.
@@Steve_Stowers the Simpsonville? No. That’s a real thing in the real world.
@@Steve_Stowers No, this is Robert Burns - Scotland's most famous adulterer and poet.
Info on egg production very interesting. I did not know in Britain eggs are not refrigerated. Makes sense to me washing off the protective cover makes the eggs more perishable.
I too prefer unrefrigerated eggs....lived in Uganda and that's how they are there, no problem, just wash off if particularly "dirty" or not. :)
Almost every chocolate lab dog I have met or just heard of has had a name that's a chocolate brand name. The SECOND time I encountered a chocolate lab named Cadbury was when I realized that it had to be a chocolate brand.
Blackcurrant jam. How can the world exist without it?
Lawrence, Ribena is available in the US, or at least was up until the pandemic. One of my favorite, if somewhat expensive concentrates. Also, some of us grew up with parents who had a source for dried black, and red currants. Not Zante currants that are just under sized raisins, but the real ribes berry. There are native species of wild currant as well that can be harvested in some national forests. Availability varies within the US regionally - a lot.
They're still banned in a lot of northern states sadly. I guess white pine trees were worth more to people at the turn of the 20th century than the native currants and gooseberries were.
@@weibie - White pine is still quite valuable. But importing already-processed black currant products isn't that risky, only the live plant that may harbor the invasive species.
I tried black currant for the first time ever a few months ago in a snack imported from Turkey (I think) in a Universal Yums box I got in the mail and it was delicious.
How can I try them?
Gooseberries were under a similar ban for the same reasons, but seem to be making a comeback. I know very few Americans who have had them.
I must confess, I love blackcurrant jam (I have a jar in the fridge right now in fact), tea, and Ribena (occasionally), as well as haggis (with a bit of HP sauce). So sad they aren't more common over on this side of the pond.
It's probably worth noting that the lineup of Cadbury products available in America is much smaller than in Britain, and omits some of the ones British people like to go on about, e.g., Flake. On the other hand, Cadbury isn't one of the better brands of chocolate anyway; it's pretty much in the same quality tier as Nestle and M&M/Mars. Dove is loads better without being significantly more expensive, and if you're willing to spend actual money on chocolate in America, you can get Ghirardelli.
Flake is weird chocolate in my opinion and very dry.
Dove is called Galaxy in the UK and is one of the best general chocolate bars around (by general I mean not a more specialised brand). Cadbury went downhill years ago when it was bought by an American company who changed the recipe and then moved production to Europe. It's supposed to be coming back to Bournville in England soon but I don't know it they will revert to the original recipe; I know it has cost them a lot of sales by making these changes and also bringing in varieties that contain American things, like Dairy Milk with oreo cookie bits in it, has done them no favours. Hardly anyone I know buys Cadbury products these days.
Cadbury’s is much better than Mars IMO (and M&Ms are made by Mars anyway). Also, Mars is actually American, but in the reverse of the Cadbury situation, it is made here for the U.K. market. And if you’re willing to spend money here, we obviously have tonnes of our own luxury brands in the U.K. too, including organic and/or raw chocolate, as well as mainland European brands from places like Switzerland and Italy. But if you’re comparing like for like, then Hershey (and Cadbury made by Hershey) is the commercial equivalent of Cadbury, and we know which is better.
@Jonadab the Unsightly One I’m not sure it makes any difference how small the range is over there if the quality of the chocolate in the first place is so inferior, meaning demand for it is probably quite small. Plus, it’s competing with Hershey’s own-branded chocolate, so I imagine they have made sure that theirs is more visible to the consumer and that they sell just enough “Cadbury” to satisfy the public that they have options whilst ensuring that nobody gets too favourable an impression of it.
@@johnsaia9739 Are you in the U.K.?
The first time I had Cadbury (fruit and nut, I think) was in the London Underground, from one of those handy little machines that were everywhere (1979?) I fell in love. I have eaten the ones that are available here in the US, but they are not really the same.
My Australian wife tried to visit the Cadbury factory when holidaying in Tasmania with her best friend (2010) and unfortunately for her and due to the H&S regulation there, they no longer conducted tours. A couple of years later I took her to Bournville, the home of Cadbury’s chocolate in the UK since 1824 just a couple of suburbs from where I grew up. She was more amazed by the quaker socialist principles that founded the town and the community that had been built there than anything else, and loved the tour of the originally chocolate factory.
Cadbury in Tasmania is made for Southern Hemisphere consumption. It taste slightly different due to additives to help it retain its shape in higher ambient temperature here, which my wife commented on when touring the original factory. I must admit since it was sold to Kraft foods in 2010 the quality has wavered somewhat and there others that are now just like Whitaker from NZ if not better. However I do remember my wife comments after she first tasted Belgium chocolate, that ‘she’s died and gone to Heaven’!
The only thing I really miss is that hardly anyone imports the dark Bournville chocolate which is one of my personal favourite food groups as they don’t manufacture it here in Tasmania. NSW in Oz
@@nswinoz3302 I thought for a second that perhaps they closed the tours due to security concerns. That happened with Kellogg, who used to have wonderful tours, but then came the era of corporate espionage.
@@milowadlin Yes, Kellogg’s and Pullman (coaches) is the USA along with Cadbury were well ahead of their time for the treatment of employees as people (not employees). Cadbury’s had a strict policy that once you left you were never employed again, and they did have industry espionage issues dating back to at least to when Roald Dahl another local wrote “Charlie and the Chocolate factory” , based very loosely around Cadbury that had some darker undertone. NSW in Oz
RE: Haggis - we eat plenty of heart, liver and kidneys. It's the lungs that are illegal.
It is VERY hard to get currants in America, especially in the rural Midwest. My British Nan loved them in scones but I couldn’t ever find any, so we had to make due with blueberries. Once we found blackcurrant jam, you would have thought it was every Christmas, and every birthday wrapped up in one.
I bought an old England stamped lidded casserole dish that had a hunting scene and birds on it at a rummage sale. I thought it was really different and kind of pretty until I found out it traditionally is used for baking blood pudding. I sold it on Ebay.
Well, you could have just washed it in hot water or if it were dishwasher safe just put it in.....LOL!
Do you mean Black Pudding? British Black Pudding is nothing like the blood sausage you get in European countries. It more like Haggis (in texture) than those european squishy sausages. The cooking vessel doesn't get any blood on it as it's enclosed in a sheep's stomach (or artificial lining these days).
I know what you mean about Cadbury chocolate. Around 1960, a British lady, married to a US serviceman brought me some Cadbury's from Britain. It was the best I had ever eaten. I still eat the US made Cadbury chocolate, but it is not the same.
I am a Brit who emigrated to South Africa 20 years ago. I was very pleased that I could find almost all British products in the supermarkets here however as in the US Cadbury's chocolate does not taste the same and Heinz baked beans also taste different to the real thing. Oxo beef stock cubes are not generally available as they were banned after the outbreak of "mad cow decease" about 30 years ago and the ban has never been lifted.
If you have the hens that lay the eggs and gather them daily but don’t want to refrigerate them, just wipe them with a dry cloth, you can leave them at room temperature until you wash them.
Until recently in the last few years, you could get UK made Cadbury chocolate in certain US grocery stores as they imported them by way of a 3rd party, but Hershey caught on and cracked down on those sales too. There are on line 3rd party sellers in the UK that will send you UK Cadbury chocolate as "assorted manufacturer samples" direct to your door. Who knows how long that will be allowed until the Hershey legal team gets wind of it?
Direct personal imports of Cadbury's chocolate to the USA are perfectly legal and will not be seized at the port of entry because (1) the purchase is made outside the USA, where Hershey's domestic ownership of the brand is immaterial, and, (2) the port authorities have no (and can have no) brief to enforce a purely commercial arrangement. They are federal employees there to enforce federal law, not the civil law (including asserted contractual rights). Hershey's only course of action would be to sue the US carrier, but this would fail because the carrier is merely transporting goods, not selling them, or sue the foreign supplier, which would also fail, because the sale occurred outside the USA, where Hershey does not have rights to the brand.
@@allenwilliams1306 another slimy coporate US company. go figure. Glad I dont eat chocolate much anymore.
During my study abroad in the UK, I was so surprised by the Cadbury chocolate, and actually all the chocolate. It was so much better. SO much better.
I want to go to the UK just to eat their chocolate, lol.
Just graduate from milk chocolate to real chocolate!
That is what happens when there are less chemicals in the food!
@@timriehl1500 it’s not difficult to buy it in the US. There are plenty of places online. Just don’t buy it in the summer.
I found the same experience with all the typical chocolate brands we buy here in the U.S. they tasted so much better in the U.K.! I also found the non-chocolate candies like bon bons tasted better as well. I noticed they use sucrose instead of corn syrup. Way better to just use sugar (sucrose) in my taste buds opinions.
I live in the US, I used to work in a grocery store. We used to not refrigerate our eggs at first.
I can still find a Kindersurprise at my local produce market.
I believe that cheesse ritz crackers are now unavailable / banned in Ireland. I loved them, but their main ingredient is hydrogentated corn oil or something, and the second ingredient is msg. They were good with wine though!
In Canada, we have Cadbury chocolate made by the Canadian branch of Cadbury, a subsidiary of Mondolez International. Unfortunately, they've been replacing coca butter with palm oil, so it's not the same anymore.
Mondelez, which is the global services name used now by the American food giant Heinz-Kraft. Domestically, I don’t know about Canada, it remains Kraft.
I lived in England for a year many years ago. My addiction to chocolate was furthered by the luscious candy. There was one called Frye’s Chocolate Cream, A McIntosh bar of little squares filled with caramel and of course Cadbury. I was excited beyond belief when I saw Cadbury being sold here-until I tasted it. One bite is all it took. I was SO disappointed!! It was definitely NOT the same. I never bought an American Cadbury again. May as well go for the Hershey or Marrs. 😞
I used to buy English Cadbury chocolate in the US in the 1960's. Like you I am disappointed with the Hershey type and never tried it again.
American Cadbury chocolate is NOT like the English formula.
@@olga138 if it's not dark chocolate then it's not chocolate. Don't care for that sweet fake milk chocolate taste no matter where it's from. After getting used to the slightly bitter sweet complexity of dark chocolate the sicky sweet taste of milk chocolate is for kids and adolescents.
@@willkittwk That’s your opinion. Just because it’s not to your taste doesn’t mean it’s only for kids. I love it. And so do millions of other adults. I like dark chocolate too in small doses, but I often find it far too rich and caffeinated (the “purer” and thus more potent it is, the more I get that feeling of my heart beating too fast afterwards and the accompanying anxiety). It’s also usually overloaded with far too much sugar to compensate for its naturally bitter taste, which I find overwhelming.
@@willkittwk I won't eat American milk chocolate at all, but a genuine Dairy Milk or Galaxy imported from the UK or Ireland is excellent.
I had to lookup currants on the web because I use Zante currants when I make multiples of Alton Brown's Free Range Fruitcake every Christmas. It turns out that Zante currants are a type of grape, while black, red, and white currants are a whole different species of plant.
I like Haggis. It's delightful. I've never thought of it as a pudding. Brits seem to use the term "pudding" much differently and more widely than those in the US envision a "pudding" to be. It's more like the meat inside of a stuffed cabbage roll. Texture is like finely ground beef with onions and oats. Very flavorful. If you like beef barley soup you'll like haggis. You can get domestically produced Haggis in the US. And get over the sheep's stomach part. When it's from a restaurant you never see the stomach, they cut it open and only serve you the contents, and most nowadays use artificial casings anyway. Besides, most quality sausages with natural casings use intestines, so what's the big deal?
When I was at the Edinburgh Fringe, I'd eat haggis several times a week: it was a good, cheap meal. By the time someone told me what it was, it was too late: I already liked it!
ANTONINUS-I was so disappointed the first time I had Yorkshire Pudding. I looked at my plate and asked 'Where is the pudding'? They pointed to this bread thing and said 'There it is'. I said that was bread and was corrected. I was so bummed as I was expecting a dessert type American pudding. Then I had Christmas or Plum Pudding. I thought ahead of time-'Aha! If it's full of plums, it'll be real pudding'! Nope, wrong again. I couldn't figure out where the plums were (there are no plums in plum pudding-go figure) and it is filled with all this candied fruit which I despise. I am done trying any kind of British pudding!
I'm one of those rare Americans who has tasted blackcurrant. I like it. I sometimes buy d'arbo brand blackcurrant jam.
A local supermarket has canned imported haggis in its British foods section. Either it was imported illegally or it's some special haggis made for the U.S. market without sheep lung.
Most likely the 2nd option.... You CAN buy haggis in the US but it has all the "illegal" parts replaced by legal ones. You can get cans of it online or in "world food" sections of stores. If memory serves, the cans are kind of orange colored and look "old fashioned" in the design. It kind of looks like dog food or something once you open it....
I've seen a vegetarian version on US store shelves. I mean....what?
@@Nimeariel Not many canned prepared foods can measure up to the fresh form. Haggis is one of them.
There are restaurants here and there (usually pretty upscale) that serve haggis. Brae Loch Inn in Cazenovia, NY, cooks and serves an amazingly delicious haggis made (without lung) on-site. I could eat it at least every week, given the chance.
A long time ago, my mother (we were poor) would buy a set of cow heart and lungs for $1. She would make beef heart stew, and sweet and sour lungs. The lungs would not smell good while they were cooking down, but after they were done, they would be so good with bread dumplings. Also, the cleanliness of eggs highly depends on how clean the nests are kept. All the people complaining about dirty eggs are saying much more about their animal husbandry than about chickens.
In the US, most eggs are produced by chickens that are kept in tiny cages in dark barns, stacked tier on tier. Droppings are going to fall from the top to the bottom and dirty not only the chickens, but of course the eggs. In fact, chickens die and are not removed, but allowed to rot and eventually fall through the gratings along with the droppings. Some of those nice clean eggs in the boxes may have been rolling around in rotting chicken guts for awhile, which is why they certainly need a wash. I used to work in an egg processing plant and it wasn't pleasant.
The eggs from my own chickens and ducks and geese, I would sandpaper off the dirty bits (I kept up with keeping the nests clean, but occasionally there would be an oopsie) and they would keep very nicely on the counter unless it was really hot, in which case I would refrigerate them.
And speaking of hot, during the hot spells of 2012, I would take a garden hose to the flock. Every few hours, I would chase them into the corner and give them a good spray. They didn't like it, of course, but I didn't lose any birds, unlike my neighbors.
Thanks for the cooling tip! We bought a 100 acre cattle ranch, and I hope to establish a flock next spring. Almost all of our neighbors have flocks and once you try REAL farm fresh eggs you'll never go back!
Just a hint people...If they're truly farm fresh eggs they won't be at Walmart!
Thanks again! 😊
We only buy free range eggs in the UK. You can get barn raised but battery cage farming was phased out, rightly, to improve hen welfare.
It is important to know that ordinary cooking and canning temperatures will not kill Anthrax spores. Therefore it is critical to avoid getting them into the food market
Kinder Joy is not a compromise made for the American market. It's actually a completely separate product (with hazelnut flavors) made by the same company as Kinder Surprise. In countries where Kinder Surprise is sold they can be found side by side on the shelves.
I tried haggis in Scotland. Um, no thank you. I’ll be okay never eating it again.
Well done, at least you gave it a try. So many won't because of the contents, when there are far worse ingredients in some US meat products.
Mr. George, haggis can be an acquired taste. My sister used to call it rehydrated dehydrated oatmeal for years and now she is a fan. It is such an important part of Scottish culture, history and tradition that Robert Burns wrote the “Ode to the Haggis”. The Ode is recited every year at the Burn’s Supper on I believe January 24.
Blackcurrant is something I fell in love with on my first trip to the UK. Thank goodness for Amazon!
Given the Kinder Egg ban, I can't understand the decades of sales of CrackerJack - trsacle-flavoured pop-corn and peanuts with random plastic or metal trinkets thrown in (tiny trinkets, with no encapsulation to stop you munching them alkng with the corn and nuts)
The difference is Crackerjack toys being in the box with food VS Kinder Surprize toys being encased in food. The toy is inside the egg shaped chocolate.
I've been to England when I was in the Army. The 82nd crosstrained with the British Paras. We received British Airborne Wings and they received American Airborne Wings. Its was awesome. I dont remeber what they were drinking but it may have been that "black current" stuff, not for sure. Love the videos, Lawrence. Keep them up.
One of the best things I saw in London on my first trip years ago was Cadbury Chocolate bar vending machines on the platform on the Tube. We don't have any food on our metro trains here, so I was happy to see that and the chocolate was so much better than I was used to at home. I have also had currants and currant jelly, but it has been many years and I remember someone made it from currants they had grown here. I have also had and love black currant tea and I remember some currant hard candies from my childhood that my great grandma had (she was English) that I loved. As for haggis, well, it is an acquired taste. Thanks for reminding me of these good memories from my childhood. :)
Interesting. A few years ago I was drinking black currant juice routinely.. I love that stuff.
The backyard chicken movement in the US is growing. If you like unrefrigerated eggs, you can probably get them pretty easily. Either you can have your own chickens, or your neighbors will give them to you. I used to get excess eggs from my stepdad's workplace.
When visiting England, they insisted on stocking up on sweets for the road trip, which I thought was unheard of. These are adults eating tons of kids candy !!
Regarding the "non-refrigerated eggs" - it is not true that you can't buy non-refrigerated eggs. What is banned is selling non-cleaned eggs, i.e., selling eggs straight from the chicken that did not get cleaned; the reason being that chickens sometimes shit as they're producing the egg so they need to be cleaned before sale. Unfortunately, the shit that's on the egg kind of messes with the natural protection that covers the egg. I say this as someone who not only raises chicken, but who took a course with the Tennessee Department of Agricultural, and that was one of the items stressed.
On the other hand, when I lived in PA, the Amish would come into Philly with eggs *that were not refrigerated*.
What Laurence missed is that British and EU chickens are inoculated against salmonella, so there is no need to wash the eggs. In the US chicken producers don't spend the money on this inoculation and therefore have to wash the eggs to try to limit potential salmonella, however there is the risk that during the washing process, moisture could be drawn into the eggs, as they are porous, which could result in salmonella.
That story is so much chicken shit. Eggs do often get some chicken shit on them (and some arse-feathers, come to that), but this does not affect the natural sealing of the eggs. Since you do not eat the shell, this makes no difference whatsoever. These eggs do not need to be washed, although if you are a bit squeamish, you can always wash the outsides if you want, but immediately before you crack 'em. I had some unrefrigerated shitty eggs, scrambled, for supper last night (which were also two months after their use-by date). No problems.
Also available in Canada: British Cadbury.
And in some places real Haggis.
I grew up in Appalachia and had always heard of blackcurrant, especially black currant jellies. And I have been drinking black currant tea off and on for a couple of decades now.
As for canterbury, it must be amazing chocolate. I traveled to the UK in 2010 with my then soon to be 15-year-old son. I would stop at a shop and pick up some cadburys and flapjacks for snacks. He loved both, as I found out when I would open my bag that night or the next day to get a bit of chocolate and there was none.
The chocolate always disappeared first. He says Cadburys is excellent chocolate.
Also chicken eggs in the U.K. usually come from flocks inoculated against salmonella. If they have the "lion" stamp they are safe and can be kept unrefrigerated.