There’s minced meat and mincemeat. Two completely different things. Many many years ago in the Middle Ages they used real minced meat but the recipe evolved and is now a sweet fruit and alcohol mixture.
I always love hearing Jess's giggles behind the camera! I wonder how many times she has nearly peed herself laughing at their antics. I nearly do an I'm not even pregnant. Lol
Christmas pudding is gorgeous, but it's very much a brand/quality thing. Home-made ones are lovely, M&S and Sainsbury's ones too. Personally I love Christmas pudding (my Mum used to make her own when I was little and part of it was starting to make it a few month's early and leaving the fruit to steep in alcohol - my Dad always added more and more to the mix until my Mum caught him doing it and told him off). Part of the tradition with it is pouring over some brandy, setting it alight and bringing it to the table while the brandy is still burning off. It doesn't alter the flavour at all and is really just for show. Mince pies are nice with custard too and it helps to get rid of a bit of that pastry dryness as well. Christmas and Easter are the best times to get things like crisps (potato chips) you don't normally see. M&S sometimes make winter berry & Champagne flavour ones with edible gold stars and they're lovely!
If you ever get a package like that again just after Christmas (or any holiday-themed items) and just film it and hold the video until before the next holiday so you can enjoy the food fresh. You two haven't changed much that I can remember since last year so people would be none the wiser except for the person who sent it to you. ps... swearing still counts even if it's in another language Cam 😂
T'was our goal, but as silly as it sounds, adding one more video randomly into our schedule throws a giant wrench in the gears. We definitely wanted to, just wasn't capable with everything else we were juggling
@@MenTry yes here in the uk the Christmas pudding usually gets finished off, sweet mince meat is made by this recipe usually: 250g raisins 375g currants 100ml brandy zest of 1 lemon, juice of ½ 300g shredded suet 250g dark brown sugar 85g chopped mixed peel ½ small nutmeg, grated 1 large Bramley apple, peeled and grated Christmas cake recipe is this: Ingredients 1kg mixed dried fruit (use a mix of raisins, sultanas, currants, cherries, cranberries, prunes or figs) zest and juice 1 orange zest and juice 1 lemon 150ml brandy, Sherry, whisky or rum, plus extra for feeding 250g pack butter, softened 200g light soft brown sugar 175g plain flour 100g ground almond ½ tsp baking powder 2 tsp mixed spice 1 tsp ground cinnamon ¼ tsp ground cloves 100g flaked almonds 4 large eggs 1 tsp vanilla extract
Hi Chaps.Traditionally Christmas pudding is served with white brandy sauce,which is akin to custard,but way way more yummy +brandy butter and cream. I always stick with the brandy sauce because I loath dairy cream and butter is an everyday thing ,obviously not with the brandy!!!!!!! When we were small my mother used to make the white sauce,but she left out the brandy......spoil sport. !!! Anyway,I was so glad that you enjoyed the majority of the festive treats from the U.K. Sent with love from Jo in Wolverhampton,West Midlands, England 🏴 xxxxxxx
Both my grandmother's would make Christmas pudding during the half term holiday in October. I remember them putting in 5ps. We'd stir and make a wish. The best puddings ever. Their cakes were also superb.
Lol! It never fails to where Austin or Cam says/asks something that makes me curious to where I research it. 😂 So, the main properties in mint, spearmint, & peppermint is; Menthol. However the differences between spearmint & peppermint is: -Spearmint has 0.5% menthol composition & its leaves toothed & sharp-looking -Peppermint has 40% menthol composition & its leaves oblong shaped, rounded & lanced
Mince pies are better warm with either custard or brandy butter on. Lebkuchen are gingerbread in a coating. We have German/Austrian based supermarkets here where we can get European Christmas treats and lebkuchen are sold there.
Christmas pudding is like marmite. But Christmas pudding is only eaten once a year. Mostly cuz making it yourself from scratch can take 6 months to do it properly with brandy.
Here from the UK. I love Christmas pudding and Christmas cake but I love fruits. It actually used to be called plum pudding until they realised what they thought where plums where actually raisins. It dates back to the medieval times.
As a Brit I can absolutely tell you that yes we eat constantly Christmas Day!! So much food is consumed that even the sewer works know that Boxing Day they’re gonna have a 50% increase of “work” 😂
Stollen is German and a traditional thing to bake at home during Christmas time. We got one from our neighbours this year ☺️ And it’s pronounced Schtollen
I worked for a German bakery here in Canada and we made 4 different types, at least 400 of each, all by hand. was so good! sold out very quick every year. they made me laugh with how they tried to pronounce it lol. though I will say most people here just say it like "stolen" we made our own marzipan too, because the stuff you get here from the store is not great lol. I fell in love with marzipan because of this. yum!
As a Yorkshire Lass I approve of this! Both of you make me laugh so much, hope you have a great Christmas and a happy new year! I hope one day I can send you a care package with some Yorkshire favourites 👍
You should try it with ice cream and squirty cream. Christmas pudding was traditionally doused in brandy booze monthly to mature, Christmas pudding is epic! Usually with mince pies, brandy butter, custard, ice cream and squirty/double cream. My family have buffet style finger snacks for starters throughout the day, main meal for lunch and puddings for dinner
DEBRA HERE FROM SOUTH WALES IN THE GOOD OLD UK The mince is all small bits if dried fruit such as candied peel, currants, raisins and sultanas is a thick sugar syrup, in a sweet short crust pastry. They would have been even tastier with some custard, or cream or brandy butter/sauce. Man that cake was as stale as he'll.
You guys must have weird taste buds as Christmas pudding and cake are lovely. We eat loads of Christmas pudding with custard or brandy cream, delicious. Mince pies have dried fruit in them and best served warm with double cream.
Love Christmas cake and Christmas pudding, we have the pudding with cream, custard or brandy butter. I’ve got one in the cupboard, I may have it tonight 😊
It is tradition to have chocolate coins and a chocolate orange in our Christmas Stocking. We also put a satsuma in ❤ Love hearing you guys talk about British stuff ❤️ For the record, marzipan is lush.🤣
I LOVE Christmas pudding- via my British hubby! We had British fruit cake for one of our flavors of wedding cake. It's amazing! It's so different from ours! I made the cake with my mom, and "watered it" with a boiled-off mixture of brandy, butter and spices. Yum!
As someone living in Australia with pretty much the same Christmas snacks I can fully agree with you guys on all of the fruit cakes, also the “mince meat” looks very much like what you’d just call a fruit mince pie, very common around Christmas, a lot of people I know in Australia do like the fruit pies and cakes but I can’t stand them 😂
Mince pies back in history used to have minced meat in them with dried and candied fruits added. However as the years went on and sugar and dried fruits became more affordable slowly the meat disappeared from the recipe but the name stuck. That’s why they are called mince pied. P.S. Some mince pies also have alcohol added.
Just love y’all, mincemeat, is fruit soaked in brandy, they normally make it in pies, also very big back East. To strong for me, my dad use to love, I put it with cookie dough, it makes a nice spice cookie. Lol love the taste time😊❤❤
My grandma used to put a spoonful of homemade mincemeat in her sugar cookie recipe and folded it over turnover style. Very good with lots of candied lemon and orange peel. Maybe grapefruit peel, figs and dates and raisins and these tiny little dried currents my gran loved. I wanna say she occasionally put well picked over nuts that grand pa and I cracked at the kitchen table. Like Brazil and walnut and pecans and almonds and those little ones. Oh. Hazelnuts. I can remember her lightly toasting in a cast iron pan then chopped up and added too. Probably not 100% mincemeat but she was born in Germany. Her and great gran used to make their own fruit cakes in sept and soaked them in I think, spiced and sweetened rum. Dark rum/brown sugar/cinnamon stick/cloves/orange peel. Probably more than that that I've forgotten. They would pull them out once or twice a week and they checked for any molds and they soaked them in the rum syrup. It seemed one year great gran was gifted a big big bottle of great grandpas favorite bourbon and she my gran used it up making fruit cake. Lol. But that was a fruitcake to remember. We ate little slices with tea or coffee. Yum.
I’ve never seen anyone react to Percy Pigs like that. 😂They are made by Marks and Spencer. No chocolate is better than Cadbury’s. Christmas pudding needs brandy sauce and is yummy but I always love your response to our pudding.
Not gonna lie, the Rodeo Queen episode pops in my head all the time at the most random times. Hahahaha! Probably one of my favorite videos 🤣🤣🤣 You guys are hilarious! I have loved watching y’all over the years. 😄
Love your videos because they make me laugh right along with you. Question? When you receive boxes of food to taste, why do you wait so long to try the food? You have done this with other boxes before. Couldn't you try the food within a month?
In Australia, Christmas Mince Pies are usually shortbread not pastry and served cold. I personally dont like mince pies, christmas cake or christmas pudding. I'd love to see you guys try Pavlova and other Aussie Christmas desserts. And is Christmas not about eating all day for you guys?
Mince pies are made with fruit mince, and you should but cream on them, then they won't be dry. They can be eaten hot or cold but hot is usually nicer!
Bird's is an egg-free custard mix. It was developed specifically for people who couldn't have egg but still wanted custard. Somehow became normal British custard, perhaps due to rationing restricting supply of eggs.
As a Brit I can go along with most of these except Christmas pudding, Christmas cake or any kind of fruit cake 🤢 Matchmakers I love the orange and the mint ones. Cheese straws I can easily eat the whole pack. Custard is my comfort food, I could eat a bowl on its on but made thicker and with milk, not water. Do you not have custard in the states? xx
My family always had steamed puddings for Christmas. One date and one cranberry. One had a sweetened whipped cream sauce and the other had a butter sauce. They were delicious.
We usually add some brandy and light the Christmas pudding until the alcohol is absorbed. I never liked it but many do and yes it always eaten up. Fresh mince pies are a delight, and we also do a Christmas log which is made up of crushed biscuits, some nuts and fruits, rolled up in a form of a log and covered in chocolate and that is my favourite Christmas sweet
Haven't giggled that much in a long time seeing your facing eating our Christmas pudding hahahahahaa happy Christmas lads 😀 👍 😊 sending love from uk xx
I love the impression you have of us brits eating all day on christmas day... Its very true 😆 christmas is for eating and mince pies are a must, its raisins, currents, mixed peel and suet.. Most people eat them with brandy cream lol also percy pig is much loved here you get them from marks and spencer which is a posh supermarket in the uk, i always love your videos specially the ones trying uk food. X
The Christmas pudding is a toad's egg hatched by a Raccoon from the dumpster of an elderly assisted living home. (Might as well be the Basilisk of Christmas desserts lol)
We slice our christmas pudding and put it in a frying pan with some butter. The heat caramelise the sugars on the outside and its amazing. You got to have it with brandy sauce and definitely not custard made with water!
Christmas pudding is soooo goood but we make it from scratch rather than buying one! Normally we soak it in brandy and then set it on fire! Its so fun but it is an aquired taste! ❤😂😅
Festive flavoured chips, are beautiful we usually (in a lot of households) make a big curry with the left over turkey or other meats from Christmas day and had the left over veg. Winter warmer, more interesting than a sandwich, sit in a chair wrapped up in a blanket with a bowl of curry and rice watching boxing day movies.
Around the middle ages mince meat pies had meat and the fruit. Over time this changed. Although they no longer have the meat they retained the name. Love you guys by the way :)
7:04 Mincemeat is diced fruit peels, raisins, sultanas etc in a thick sweet jam type consistency. Historically there used to be suet in the mix, which is an animal fat, hence the term mincemeat. Also ground beef in the uk is called minced beef, so I understand the confusion
I was about to say I was very proud of you, Austin. You made it through that rock-hard mini Christmas cake without one gag. And then the pudding came out, and you seemed so relaxed about trying it. So I thought I'd say how much you've grown in your fruit cake trials. But then the gagging started 😂😂🤣🤣
It's called mince meat because it USED to be made with real beef, fruit, sugar, mixed candied citrus peel, and brandy . Now it is just fruit, sugar, candied citrus peel, and brandy. If you can get the real mince meat with meat, it is supposed to be good. I have never tried it.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Firstly, mince pies should be served hot with either ice cream or custard. Secondly, matchmakers come in loads of different flavours so you guys should try all the flavours!!. Thirdly, Christmas cake and Christmas pudding are definitely foods that you either love or hate (I hate both!!!). And lastly - I was actually eating a bar of Cadbury snowball chocolate when you were eating the snowballs!!! 👍
Merry Xmas to you all thx for another great year of content look forward to 2023 videos..would be great if u visited the UK and reacted to different food and drinks
Watching them think mince pies contain mince meat is just hilarious to me, an English person 😂 Also, Terry’s Chocolate Orange is one of my FAVOURITE chocolates ever, it’s delicious
Ok, we have the mince pies and the Christmas pudding & custard in New Zealand too and they are a favourite. The mince pies are minced fruits, not minced meat, eaten cold and not 9 months old. If you didn't grow up with the Christmas pudding & custard then you may not like it but if you did, YUM!
The Christmas pudding comes out at the end, u cover it in brandy and set fire to it. Once the flames go out u serve it up with brandy sauce or brandy butter usually. I never had it with custard! It’s also tradition to hide a coin in it and see who wins a year of good luck by finding the coin. Def choking n teeth hazard tho lol xxx love u to soooo much
Have to say, you joked about as eating all day at Christmas but that is exactly what alot of family's do they get up have breakfast then cook the Christmas dinner for lunch then will have foods like the nuts (we do loads of different peanuts coated in savory things not just chilli ones), the cheese straws, the Christmas cake, Christmas pudding, the mince pies are a staple for homes to have over the Christmas season to offer to people when they pop over (they taste divine warmed up with double cream or even spray cream 😍), we have loads and loads of savory snacks for the Christmas season, we have also had Christmas foods, wrapping paper, cards, decorations etc in shops since end of August/start of September lol). Terry's chocolate orange comes in white and dark chocolate as well as milk. Matchmakers also comes in orange (not as good as Terry's though). The custard should of had a bit less water in it or it is very watery lol
Hi from the UK where I live we have cheese with our Christmas cake preferably crumbly cheeses I just come across your videos and love them you really make me smile ty😊
Watching the replay, I can’t stop laughing, you guys are killing me, my hubby is watching tv and I have my EarPods in, he keeps looking at me like I lost my mind. I am 66 and so happy I found your channel. Thanks for making me laugh for the first time today
Noooooo guys. There's nothing better than a traditional English Christmas lunch (even as an Australian) of a Hot Glazed Baked Ham, Hot Turkey with stuffing, roast vegetables, greens and Gravy finished off with Hot Christmas pudding, custard and Trifle. ❤
IN CANADA WHEN I WAS YOUNGER WE HAD B-B-Q PEANUTS, HUM BUG CANDIES AND QUALITY STREET CHOCOLATES AS WELL AS ALL KINDS OF BAKED GOODS AND HOMEMADE CANDIES.
Sweet mince pies are not usually dry so obviously due to the delay🤣🤣 Mince meat is raisins, fruit and spices. I love our British Christmas treats.
That would be “fake” mince meat. Lol. Not real. 😁
There’s minced meat and mincemeat. Two completely different things. Many many years ago in the Middle Ages they used real minced meat but the recipe evolved and is now a sweet fruit and alcohol mixture.
Mincemeat pies used to have meat in them. They’ve changed over time.
Growing up, my mom made mincemeat pies with meat.
NO IM GONNA KILL MYSELF BECAUSE THEY ATE IT HOTTER
Now I think you guys should try a blind apple tasting. Peel the skin off and just taste the apples and do a ranking?
Great idea!
Yes i wud lov to see the reaction.
YESSSSSSS
How exciting.... apples. Do you also enjoy paint drying?
Yessssssss!
You guys have such amazing chemistry, it's like you're two halves of the same brain. And Jess laughing in the background always me smile.
I always love hearing Jess's giggles behind the camera! I wonder how many times she has nearly peed herself laughing at their antics. I nearly do an I'm not even pregnant. Lol
The first time I watched them I thought they were a couple because of the crazy chemistry 😂
Christmas pudding is gorgeous, but it's very much a brand/quality thing. Home-made ones are lovely, M&S and Sainsbury's ones too. Personally I love Christmas pudding (my Mum used to make her own when I was little and part of it was starting to make it a few month's early and leaving the fruit to steep in alcohol - my Dad always added more and more to the mix until my Mum caught him doing it and told him off). Part of the tradition with it is pouring over some brandy, setting it alight and bringing it to the table while the brandy is still burning off. It doesn't alter the flavour at all and is really just for show. Mince pies are nice with custard too and it helps to get rid of a bit of that pastry dryness as well. Christmas and Easter are the best times to get things like crisps (potato chips) you don't normally see. M&S sometimes make winter berry & Champagne flavour ones with edible gold stars and they're lovely!
I would absolutely love Men Try and Ladies & Lattes to come to the UK and try British cuisines. Also experience the British culture.
Love Christmas pudding, we used to put a silver coin in it when cooking. Whoever found it would have good luck and happiness for the next year.
Sounds like a King Cake made in New Orleans. We instead hide a toy baby or kidney bean. Don't ask me why. No idea. Lol
@@SherriLyle80s some strange traditions out there lol
@@SherriLyle80s so you can hide a toy in cake but you still can't buy kinder surprise? And no kinder joy is not the same lol
Nope never liked it or christmas cake. We never have it
I’m sure homemade is much better than the stuff they had. 😊
Now that Cam and Austin are going to be daddy's at the same time again will there be another daddy race? I didn't think I would ever stop laughing.
If you ever get a package like that again just after Christmas (or any holiday-themed items) and just film it and hold the video until before the next holiday so you can enjoy the food fresh. You two haven't changed much that I can remember since last year so people would be none the wiser except for the person who sent it to you. ps... swearing still counts even if it's in another language Cam 😂
T'was our goal, but as silly as it sounds, adding one more video randomly into our schedule throws a giant wrench in the gears. We definitely wanted to, just wasn't capable with everything else we were juggling
😂
@@MenTry yes here in the uk the Christmas pudding usually gets finished off, sweet mince meat is made by this recipe usually: 250g raisins
375g currants
100ml brandy
zest of 1 lemon, juice of ½
300g shredded suet
250g dark brown sugar
85g chopped mixed peel
½ small nutmeg, grated
1 large Bramley apple, peeled and grated
Christmas cake recipe is this:
Ingredients
1kg mixed dried fruit (use a mix of raisins, sultanas, currants, cherries, cranberries, prunes or figs)
zest and juice 1 orange
zest and juice 1 lemon
150ml brandy, Sherry, whisky or rum, plus extra for feeding
250g pack butter, softened
200g light soft brown sugar
175g plain flour
100g ground almond
½ tsp baking powder
2 tsp mixed spice
1 tsp ground cinnamon
¼ tsp ground cloves
100g flaked almonds
4 large eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
Hi Chaps.Traditionally Christmas pudding is served with white brandy sauce,which is akin to custard,but way way more yummy +brandy butter and cream. I always stick with the brandy sauce because I loath dairy cream and butter is an everyday thing ,obviously not with the brandy!!!!!!! When we were small my mother used to make the white sauce,but she left out the brandy......spoil sport. !!! Anyway,I was so glad that you enjoyed the majority of the festive treats from the U.K. Sent with love from Jo in Wolverhampton,West Midlands, England 🏴 xxxxxxx
Glad u guys enjoyed most of our treats 😁 x
Cheese straws are awesome!
@@bjdefilippo447 chip sticks
Both my grandmother's would make Christmas pudding during the half term holiday in October. I remember them putting in 5ps. We'd stir and make a wish. The best puddings ever. Their cakes were also superb.
Lol! It never fails to where Austin or Cam says/asks something that makes me curious to where I research it. 😂 So, the main properties in mint, spearmint, & peppermint is; Menthol. However the differences between spearmint & peppermint is:
-Spearmint has 0.5% menthol composition & its leaves toothed & sharp-looking
-Peppermint has 40% menthol composition & its leaves oblong shaped, rounded & lanced
Mince pies are better warm with either custard or brandy butter on. Lebkuchen are gingerbread in a coating. We have German/Austrian based supermarkets here where we can get European Christmas treats and lebkuchen are sold there.
I can buy that very packet of liebkutchen at aldi here in the US. They are pretty good.
Lebkuchen isn't even British 🤣
@@tracyhagan6222 its German no?
@@Emeraldwitch30 yes it is
I had it when I lived In Germany as a child and it wasn’t my favorite but as an adult I live gingerbread lol
Can't wait for the video of cam surprising you with baby #2 :)
i thought its 3 kids now for both
@@tabithahoward4271 it’ll be his second bio kid, 3rd including his bonus (step) daughter.
@@Themccormickfamily oh ok. well i didnt know because i thought kaylee was his too. well thats cool
If they read the comments it won’t be a surprise then
@@Witchy_Woman55 cam and shaylee have announced it on there UA-cam channel life's a Burch 😂
Haha loved your reaction to Christmas pudding at the end! It's definitely a love/hate relationship with it in the UK 😅 you either love it or hate it 😅
Yep exactly and I am defo in the love Xmas pudding side
I hate it 🤮
Christmas pudding is like marmite. But Christmas pudding is only eaten once a year. Mostly cuz making it yourself from scratch can take 6 months to do it properly with brandy.
@Kevin Moore Yes.
I’ll only eat my mums homemade one and it’s baffled my fiancé 😂
Here from the UK. I love Christmas pudding and Christmas cake but I love fruits. It actually used to be called plum pudding until they realised what they thought where plums where actually raisins. It dates back to the medieval times.
As a Brit I loooove Christmas cake ! We got so many last year we still have one 😂 it’s so yummy ! I don’t get how u don’t like it
Fruit cake? Bleh!
There's had no alcohol to preserve it better
As a Brit I can absolutely tell you that yes we eat constantly Christmas Day!! So much food is consumed that even the sewer works know that Boxing Day they’re gonna have a 50% increase of “work” 😂
I'm British and I love Christmas pud and custard. I also love Christmas cake.
That makes 2 of us
Christmas Pudding with brandy sauce 😋 👌 😍
The British seem to really like raisins. So glad you didn't throw up, Austin! Love and hugs from Norway!
😂 yeah we don't normally enjoy raisins here in the states unless it's covered in chocolate
I puked on the floor once when my mother decided to make me eat a piece of fruit cake then I painted the rug in the kitchen with my vomit.
Brit here. Younger people don't seem to like it but yes we love dried fruit in our Christmas sweet treats.
😂😂😂😂😂 I'm from England and seeing you try stuff we eat that is normal to us is really hilarious 😂😂😂
Stollen is German and a traditional thing to bake at home during Christmas time. We got one from our neighbours this year ☺️
And it’s pronounced Schtollen
I worked for a German bakery here in Canada and we made 4 different types, at least 400 of each, all by hand. was so good! sold out very quick every year. they made me laugh with how they tried to pronounce it lol. though I will say most people here just say it like "stolen"
we made our own marzipan too, because the stuff you get here from the store is not great lol. I fell in love with marzipan because of this. yum!
I absolutely love the genuine friendship and fun y’all have! Sending all the love from Massachusetts
I actually forgot how much I love watching these guys 🥲 so glad this video came up! 💚
As a Yorkshire Lass I approve of this! Both of you make me laugh so much, hope you have a great Christmas and a happy new year! I hope one day I can send you a care package with some Yorkshire favourites 👍
You should try it with ice cream and squirty cream. Christmas pudding was traditionally doused in brandy booze monthly to mature, Christmas pudding is epic! Usually with mince pies, brandy butter, custard, ice cream and squirty/double cream. My family have buffet style finger snacks for starters throughout the day, main meal for lunch and puddings for dinner
Austin looks like a real life Elf on the shelf!!! He does lol thanks for the laughs guys!!!
I was literally crying at the end with the Christmas pudding 😂😂😂😂😂
DEBRA HERE FROM SOUTH WALES IN THE GOOD OLD UK
The mince is all small bits if dried fruit such as candied peel, currants, raisins and sultanas is a thick sugar syrup, in a sweet short crust pastry. They would have been even tastier with some custard, or cream or brandy butter/sauce.
Man that cake was as stale as he'll.
You guys must have weird taste buds as Christmas pudding and cake are lovely. We eat loads of Christmas pudding with custard or brandy cream, delicious. Mince pies have dried fruit in them and best served warm with double cream.
Love Christmas cake and Christmas pudding, we have the pudding with cream, custard or brandy butter. I’ve got one in the cupboard, I may have it tonight 😊
Nothing better than you two together, making us laugh.
It is tradition to have chocolate coins and a chocolate orange in our Christmas Stocking. We also put a satsuma in ❤ Love hearing you guys talk about British stuff ❤️ For the record, marzipan is lush.🤣
YES - Rodeo Queens was my first Men Try video! I was hooked, right away! Love you guys!
I LOVE Christmas pudding- via my British hubby! We had British fruit cake for one of our flavors of wedding cake. It's amazing! It's so different from ours! I made the cake with my mom, and "watered it" with a boiled-off mixture of brandy, butter and spices. Yum!
As someone living in Australia with pretty much the same Christmas snacks I can fully agree with you guys on all of the fruit cakes, also the “mince meat” looks very much like what you’d just call a fruit mince pie, very common around Christmas, a lot of people I know in Australia do like the fruit pies and cakes but I can’t stand them 😂
It is a fruit mince pie, its just called a mince pie normally over here
OMG- your faces are priceless! Thanks for sharing the laughter!
Mince pies back in history used to have minced meat in them with dried and candied fruits added. However as the years went on and sugar and dried fruits became more affordable slowly the meat disappeared from the recipe but the name stuck. That’s why they are called mince pied. P.S. Some mince pies also have alcohol added.
My grandmother made green tomato mincemeat and it had suet in it. It was surprisingly good.
"Hey guys want to go play some whackitball, im gonna whack it so hard" i can't 😂 I almost peed my pants. So funny!
Austins crazy eys when he gets excited. Hilarious.
You guys make my day better you always make me smile and laugh
Do stop being yourselfs!!!!! Thank you much love!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤
Just love y’all, mincemeat, is fruit soaked in brandy, they normally make it in pies, also very big back East. To strong for me, my dad use to love, I put it with cookie dough, it makes a nice spice cookie. Lol love the taste time😊❤❤
My grandma used to put a spoonful of homemade mincemeat in her sugar cookie recipe and folded it over turnover style. Very good with lots of candied lemon and orange peel. Maybe grapefruit peel, figs and dates and raisins and these tiny little dried currents my gran loved. I wanna say she occasionally put well picked over nuts that grand pa and I cracked at the kitchen table. Like Brazil and walnut and pecans and almonds and those little ones. Oh. Hazelnuts.
I can remember her lightly toasting in a cast iron pan then chopped up and added too. Probably not 100% mincemeat but she was born in Germany. Her and great gran used to make their own fruit cakes in sept and soaked them in I think, spiced and sweetened rum. Dark rum/brown sugar/cinnamon stick/cloves/orange peel.
Probably more than that that I've forgotten.
They would pull them out once or twice a week and they checked for any molds and they soaked them in the rum syrup.
It seemed one year great gran was gifted a big big bottle of great grandpas favorite bourbon and she my gran used it up making fruit cake. Lol.
But that was a fruitcake to remember. We ate little slices with tea or coffee. Yum.
I’ve never seen anyone react to Percy Pigs like that. 😂They are made by Marks and Spencer. No chocolate is better than Cadbury’s. Christmas pudding needs brandy sauce and is yummy but I always love your response to our pudding.
I prefer cream with my Christmas Pudding. Others prefer custard.
Rum sauce
Percy Pigs are made by Katjes, a German company, on behalf of Marks and Spencers
Not gonna lie, the Rodeo Queen episode pops in my head all the time at the most random times. Hahahaha! Probably one of my favorite videos 🤣🤣🤣 You guys are hilarious! I have loved watching y’all over the years. 😄
Love your videos because they make me laugh right along with you. Question? When you receive boxes of food to taste, why do you wait so long to try the food? You have done this with other boxes before. Couldn't you try the food within a month?
In Australia, Christmas Mince Pies are usually shortbread not pastry and served cold.
I personally dont like mince pies, christmas cake or christmas pudding.
I'd love to see you guys try Pavlova and other Aussie Christmas desserts.
And is Christmas not about eating all day for you guys?
Mince pies are made with fruit mince, and you should but cream on them, then they won't be dry. They can be eaten hot or cold but hot is usually nicer!
Austin's soul left his body when he ate the Percy pig gummi candy. 😂😂😂
We have some of these in Australia too
Would be awesome if you tried Australian Christmas traditions
Bird's is an egg-free custard mix. It was developed specifically for people who couldn't have egg but still wanted custard. Somehow became normal British custard, perhaps due to rationing restricting supply of eggs.
By far, it's one of the funniest episodes. I was crying at the whack-it-ball bit! 🤣🤣
As a Brit I can go along with most of these except Christmas pudding, Christmas cake or any kind of fruit cake 🤢 Matchmakers I love the orange and the mint ones. Cheese straws I can easily eat the whole pack. Custard is my comfort food, I could eat a bowl on its on but made thicker and with milk, not water. Do you not have custard in the states? xx
Is that our pudding in the US? Pudding here in the states is a specific dessert used in desserts like triffle or in cakes to make it moist.
@@SherriLyle80s Yes it sounds the same kind of thing. Our pudding in the UK is the cake itself.
My family always had steamed puddings for Christmas. One date and one cranberry. One had a sweetened whipped cream sauce and the other had a butter sauce. They were delicious.
We usually add some brandy and light the Christmas pudding until the alcohol is absorbed. I never liked it but many do and yes it always eaten up. Fresh mince pies are a delight, and we also do a Christmas log which is made up of crushed biscuits, some nuts and fruits, rolled up in a form of a log and covered in chocolate and that is my favourite Christmas sweet
Haven't giggled that much in a long time seeing your facing eating our Christmas pudding hahahahahaa happy Christmas lads 😀 👍 😊 sending love from uk xx
Just found you guys tonight. Love love love you both! Just watched the Nair episode lol. My new favorites on here!
I love the impression you have of us brits eating all day on christmas day... Its very true 😆 christmas is for eating and mince pies are a must, its raisins, currents, mixed peel and suet.. Most people eat them with brandy cream lol also percy pig is much loved here you get them from marks and spencer which is a posh supermarket in the uk, i always love your videos specially the ones trying uk food. X
The Christmas pudding is a toad's egg hatched by a Raccoon from the dumpster of an elderly assisted living home. (Might as well be the Basilisk of Christmas desserts lol)
5:46 to paraphrase Batman and Catwoman: “Mistletoe can be deadly if you eat it. A kiss can be even deadlier if you mean it.”
Should have been Mr Kipling Mince pies 😂
We slice our christmas pudding and put it in a frying pan with some butter. The heat caramelise the sugars on the outside and its amazing. You got to have it with brandy sauce and definitely not custard made with water!
Christmas pudding is soooo goood but we make it from scratch rather than buying one! Normally we soak it in brandy and then set it on fire! Its so fun but it is an aquired taste! ❤😂😅
Festive flavoured chips, are beautiful we usually (in a lot of households) make a big curry with the left over turkey or other meats from Christmas day and had the left over veg. Winter warmer, more interesting than a sandwich, sit in a chair wrapped up in a blanket with a bowl of curry and rice watching boxing day movies.
We used to pour brandy on the pudding and then light it ... I still love suet pudding at Christmas ❤🎄
Around the middle ages mince meat pies had meat and the fruit. Over time this changed. Although they no longer have the meat they retained the name. Love you guys by the way :)
Actually we say Father Christmas not Santa Claus 😄
7:04 Mincemeat is diced fruit peels, raisins, sultanas etc in a thick sweet jam type consistency. Historically there used to be suet in the mix, which is an animal fat, hence the term mincemeat. Also ground beef in the uk is called minced beef, so I understand the confusion
My gran used meat from sauerbratten occasionally to make mince meat
In my part of England we tend to say Father Christmas instead of Santa Claus.
I love Christmas pudding with cream, and Christmas cake.
I was about to say I was very proud of you, Austin.
You made it through that rock-hard mini Christmas cake without one gag.
And then the pudding came out, and you seemed so relaxed about trying it.
So I thought I'd say how much you've grown in your fruit cake trials.
But then the gagging started 😂😂🤣🤣
OMG,the look on Austin's face when he ate the christmas pudding 🤣🤣
Britches n a bunch...Nickers in a twist.
Absolutely hilarious
omg Austin isent lying!!! rodeo queen has never made laugh so hard i use to watch it over and over lmao
23:59 "Do you hate yourselves?" I have no idea why, but that moment killed me. The way he said it. 😂😂
Oh my gosh! You guys keep me in stitches!😂😂😂
The Christmas pudding usually has alcohol poured over and lit on fire, and after it goes out, one may "drizzle" or add cream.
I've always used milk to make the custurd powder thicker xx
It's called mince meat because it USED to be made with real beef, fruit, sugar, mixed candied citrus peel, and brandy . Now it is just fruit, sugar, candied citrus peel, and brandy. If you can get the real mince meat with meat, it is supposed to be good. I have never tried it.
🤣🤣🤣🤣 Firstly, mince pies should be served hot with either ice cream or custard. Secondly, matchmakers come in loads of different flavours so you guys should try all the flavours!!. Thirdly, Christmas cake and Christmas pudding are definitely foods that you either love or hate (I hate both!!!). And lastly - I was actually eating a bar of Cadbury snowball chocolate when you were eating the snowballs!!! 👍
Who's eating hot mince pies with ice cream?? Thats weird to me.
@@DDTC73 its the best way to eat them!!!
@@icedimages 😱
Merry Xmas to you all thx for another great year of content look forward to 2023 videos..would be great if u visited the UK and reacted to different food and drinks
Watching them think mince pies contain mince meat is just hilarious to me, an English person 😂
Also, Terry’s Chocolate Orange is one of my FAVOURITE chocolates ever, it’s delicious
The lebkuchen, it's not a raisin, it's clove 🤣
Fun fact: in Britain we leave out mice pie 's and carrot's for Santa on Christmas eve.
Ok, we have the mince pies and the Christmas pudding & custard in New Zealand too and they are a favourite. The mince pies are minced fruits, not minced meat, eaten cold and not 9 months old. If you didn't grow up with the Christmas pudding & custard then you may not like it but if you did, YUM!
Cam that right hand it on point like Kobe or shaq on a simple day of playing - I laughed so hard with this video 😂😂
"Do y'all spend Christmas eating?"
Uh... yes?
The Christmas pudding comes out at the end, u cover it in brandy and set fire to it. Once the flames go out u serve it up with brandy sauce or brandy butter usually. I never had it with custard! It’s also tradition to hide a coin in it and see who wins a year of good luck by finding the coin. Def choking n teeth hazard tho lol xxx love u to soooo much
Have to say, you joked about as eating all day at Christmas but that is exactly what alot of family's do they get up have breakfast then cook the Christmas dinner for lunch then will have foods like the nuts (we do loads of different peanuts coated in savory things not just chilli ones), the cheese straws, the Christmas cake, Christmas pudding, the mince pies are a staple for homes to have over the Christmas season to offer to people when they pop over (they taste divine warmed up with double cream or even spray cream 😍), we have loads and loads of savory snacks for the Christmas season, we have also had Christmas foods, wrapping paper, cards, decorations etc in shops since end of August/start of September lol). Terry's chocolate orange comes in white and dark chocolate as well as milk. Matchmakers also comes in orange (not as good as Terry's though).
The custard should of had a bit less water in it or it is very watery lol
No Xmas pudding left especially as we do it with white brandy sauce! Yummy but it has to be fresh same for the fruit mince pies or some cream on top
The accent that Cam keeps doing. We don't sound like that 😂 only the royal family do. 😂
I had a high pitched buzzing in your video, I did check other videos if it was me but it was only on this video. Have a great day guys.
The mince meat pies are alot better when fresh.
Hi from the UK where I live we have cheese with our Christmas cake preferably crumbly cheeses I just come across your videos and love them you really make me smile ty😊
Watching the replay, I can’t stop laughing, you guys are killing me, my hubby is watching tv and I have my EarPods in, he keeps looking at me like I lost my mind. I am 66 and so happy I found your channel. Thanks for making me laugh for the first time today
Cam: Aggressively shove food back in box😂😂
Mince meat used to be made with deer meat. It was one of my grandmas favorite pies. Now they use dates and raisens, usually.
Noooooo guys. There's nothing better than a traditional English Christmas lunch (even as an Australian) of a Hot Glazed Baked Ham, Hot Turkey with stuffing, roast vegetables, greens and Gravy finished off with Hot Christmas pudding, custard and Trifle. ❤
I Hope you guys are friends forever. You make me laugh and the day better 😝
“What’s so bad about it?” // “Everything!” 😂 ☠️
IN CANADA WHEN I WAS YOUNGER WE HAD B-B-Q PEANUTS, HUM BUG CANDIES AND QUALITY STREET CHOCOLATES AS WELL AS ALL KINDS OF BAKED GOODS AND HOMEMADE CANDIES.