Because for them, things being broken signifies new beginnings so it’s taken as a good thing, unfortunately we don’t have that kind of poetry in the UK but it’s just funny innit lol
When somebody bursts into tears and starts to relate all the terrible things that have happened to them that day the standard British reaction is "I'll put the kettle on!"
@@redf7209 Tears are salty. Fresh water is freshly boiled to make a good cuppa. ☕ And I drink my tea, black and with no sugar / no sweeteners. ❤🏴🙂🖖
Absolutely. Your house could have burnt down and you have lost everything you have known and loved, and still, our immediate compassionate reaction is, "I'll put the kettle on".
The stereotype of bad English food goes back to WW2. Rationing and limited supplies meant that the quality of food also suffered up to 1954 when rationing ended. A lot of US people took the tales of unpleasant English food home with them after the war and the stereotype was born. It also took decades for the food industry to recover and really turn things around as choice and quality improved along with a generally better standard of living and changing tastes. Now it's as good as anywhere in the world.
@@Elatenl Nothing but verifiable historical facts and the personal view of someone who has eaten in a good number of the "best" restaurants in many countries. It's also my job. Cope with that.
@@Elatenl I am not arguing better or worse for any particular place. Simply that I have eaten similar quality meals both good and bad all over. The UK is no better or worse than anywhere else. Easy enough to understand I thought.
I would argue British cuisine is the best in Northern Europe. Probably not the proudest boast, if it is even true, but I think it's a strong contender at the very least. Highly underrated cuisine, especially during autumn and winter months
Funny story… I was in the Victoria & Albert museum, waiting for the rest of my family. People started queueing behind me. I had to tell them I wasn’t in a queue. 😊 I solved the "problem" by finding a place where I could put my back against a wall. I loved living in England.
The sandwich thing is food on the go generally for people at work or in transit and will have the main meal in the evening. Of course you can get better in a restaurant but if you not a tourist you are not going to a restaurant every day for your lunch.
You landed on two things that are entirely related. The English ability to accept what they can't change, and the bigger the more unflappable. And the embrace of simple pleasures. It's why a cup of tea is the go to, a simple thing you can control that will always make a situation better.
The obsession is not with the premade sandwich its the meal deal when you work out how much your selection has saved you, you feel like you have some how got one over on the evil faceless corporation you bought it from even though you know you really haven't
@@jonharvey6277 to be fair id bet that on most meals deals Tesco actually losses money. The idea is to get you in the shop and hope you buy something else that makes them money or you just get into the habit of busting their shop and eventually will by things that make them money.
The best line in "A bridge too far " is where Sean Connery gazes out on a plan that is already going terribly wrong on Day One. He is offered a cup of tea by one of his men. Connery proceeds to list every single problem that he faces:- his 10,000 paratroops are spread out all over the place, the fact he has no idea where most of them currently are, That he has been provided with radios that don't actualy work in the below sea level areas of Holland, The fact that he could not speak to any of his units, nor to his commanders in England and on top of all that "I have got lunatics laughting at me from the Woods. Do you really think any of that can be solved by a cup of tea?" he asks in mild exasperation. "It can't do any harm sir" is the immediate guileless response.
How could you possibly forget the weather talk?! Weather is the basis of every small-talk conversation you'll ever have in the UK and, the funny thing is, it's meaningful and a source of endless fascination because weather here changes all the time (the British Isles being islands and all).
Perhaps because that's also an American thing. But yes being in the England most of May 1988 I was pleasantly surprised how nice the weather was in London, not the perpetual fog stereotype which is more typical of the west (Pacific) side of San Francisco.
@@woltersworldThe UK isnt always the picture postcard it is made out to be. I am fron Manchester and this city has some very rough and run down, poverty stricken neighbourhoods with a lot of issues with drugs and young gangs in their 20s stabbing each other and sometimes even shooting each other although that is much rarer than it is in the U.S or even what it was in the UK in the 1990s. Manchester is a lot safer now than it used to be but the major cities in the UK especially Manchester and Birmingham have some pretty rough neighbourhoods than are bot on the tourist brochure, believe me I grew uo in them. Obviously cities like York and Cambridge dont really have that issue but larger UK cities definitely do.
I love that even if you don't want all 3 parts of the meal deal, you don't get the deal unless you take the sandwich, drink, and snack. If you don't want a packet of crisps with your sandwich & drink, it will cost more than if you take it anyway. The store is paying you to take the snack, or charging you for not taking it. 'Take it. Keep it with you. Eat it later. You'll eventually want it, and you'll be happy that you have it. Otherwise your purchase of less food will cost an extra 1.50'
@jasoncrobar724 even better if you want a coffee, cos in Sainsbury Local (which are practically everywhere and have Costa coffee machines), the meal deal is just as much as the coffee itself (£3.50 for a latte or cappuccino, which along with other hot drinks, are included in the £3.50 meal deal), so if you add a snack and a meal, you basically get the food for free to go with your coffee.
OMG, the meal deal sandwiches are excellent!! I have visited Scotland and England and it's great for lunch. I also appreciate the queues and politeness. I found myself asking "sorry to bother..." before a question and people were always pleasant and helpful. I also love animals and live with New England weather, so those topics seemed to be proper conversation. Looking forward to going back again next Fall!
We do have queueing nailed. If you do it wrong we will tut at you. One time I got to the bus stop and no-one else was there so I stood smartly by the sign with my laptop bag tidily at my side and fomed an orderly queue all by myself.
Maybe if you're older. As a young person, I don't remember soap operas ever having been that big a deal. We never watched them in my household, nor did any of my friends or family. They're definitely not big cultural moments, and young people categorically ignore them.
Never been this early before! Love the videos! So right about the queueing! The most solidarity I’ve ever seen between Englishmen and Americans was in the customs line in Brussels. Everyone needed to make their flights and people from all over the world were jumping the line around the snaking barriers. There were lots of Americans and English who weren’t. You could see the English slowly losing their minds as guards did nothing to reprimand the queue-jumpers, but unwilling to say anything. My travel-buddy is very outspoken and I kept stopping him from yelling out, since I get embarrassed more easily. Eventually another American man, a dad with young kids, yelled out to the whole line, which must have been 150-200 people to STOP CUTTING THE LINE because we all have to get through it, and it will go faster if we go in order. I’ve never seen the always-polite British look so happy at a loud American!
The packaged sandwiches come as part of a meal deal (with a drink and snack). Usually bought on the go or a quick cheap lunch. Yes sandwiches in a pub are better but if you don't have the time or money meal deals are quick, cheap and easy. The game usually is to find the most expensive combination as you save the most as the deal is usually the same price in the store
There is one place where queueing just isnt a thing in this country and that is when getting on a train, everyone just masses in a big herd around the doors and fights their way on when they open!
We definitely have a keep calm and carry on culture, we’ve survived invasions from many other Europeans over the centuries and 2 World Wars, just put the kettle on and we get through it! 😂
We queue in all circumstances, except one. No one queues in the pub… but everyone waiting at the bar is holding a virtual queue in their head, and anyone jumps it will get a look, or worse a tut (but that’s a bit of a nuclear option) 😂
Remember that, if someone asks "How are you?" they're just being polite and the correct answer is always "Fine, thank you, how are you?" Don't start moaning to them about your back problems. Nobody likes a moaner. People don't go to the dentist because very few NHS dentists accept new patients these days. If you can't afford a private dentist, you're screwed. There's a common perception, perpetuated by the media, that absolutely everyone is obsessed with football and it's not true. Maybe 40% are genuine fans and another 30% will pretend they are just to fit in, but rugby, cricket, and tennis are also very popular.
We don’t ‘love’ our pre-made sandwiches as such, we just find them convenient. A Boots Meal Deal is a cheap way of getting a quick lunch and my go-to option if I’m on a long train journey for example (by long I mean three or four hours, not thee or four days). No one is under any illusion that it is haute cuisine but a chicken and stuffing sarnie, bag of Walkers crisps and a bottle of Diet Coke for £3.99 just does the job sometimes.
As an English person, I had a big smile on my face for this video 😀 ... observant!! I think a lot of it comes from the (mainly) perceived history of the last 100+ years, which the press put out ... being an island (weather conversations - eternally changing and for 'breaking the ice') and a couple of world war 'disagreements' (!! - queuing, and see Jo Brand videos '... Two world wars and one world cup, 1-0 down and 5-1 up...' ... you can guess against which team! 🤣🤣) ... just don't get me started about dentists! Cheers!
Where I live there are no longer any nhs dentists. They are only accepting emergency appointments for private care, you have to phone first thing in the morning and hope they have a space and can only get an appointment if you’re in excessive pain. Usually nhs is free for children and pregnant women, and if your a nhs patient you get your appointment cheaper if your an adult. I’m on the books at my dentist as a nhs patient but as I say they only taking emergency private appointments. Has been this way in my area since possibly covid but could have been just before covid as I remember my appointments kept being cancelled. Also they do offer for children braces on the nhs but there has to be a significant reason, not just to slightly straighten teeth, else you have to pay private. Again with the state of being able to actually see a dentist I’ve heard of kids being unable to get their braces taken off!! It’s shocking.
@@wessexdruid7598 The problem long predates the most recent Tory stint in power. In 1999, Tony Blair was promising anyone would be able to see an NHS dentist by 2001 and they never came close - and that was at a time of peak economic prosperity in the UK. They did manage to slightly increase the numbers with some dentists recruited from Poland and other parts of the EU - something that would likely be impossible today, given Brexit and the standard of living in the UK now being lower than Poland in many aspects, with Poland set to be wealthier (GDP/capita PPP) than the UK by 2030 based on present trends. There's no chance any government can do anything about it now with the economy of the UK in terminal, irreversible decline and when even the core services of the NHS like emergency care are in peril.
Im from the UK and English, its funny you mention our queueing, yes we're good at it its how we're brought up, but when we travel and theres no queuing etiquette it shocks us considered rude that others cut in line. Love it when you do our British videos. Nice one Mark x
In the realm of academia and culinary delight, Where intellect and taste meet, a brilliant sight, An American professor named Wolter so dear, With a fondness for England's quaint charms clear. From bustling cities to quiet lanes of green, Where cups of tea are an everyday scene, Your passion for culture and food so refined, Meets the classic English spirit, that's so intertwined. For you, Professor, this song in its might, A tribute to tea, in the soft morning light, Gracie Fields sings, with a voice so free, Of a simple joy, a nice cup of tea. --- Nice Cup of Tea by Gracie Fields You can talk about your coffee, Your Percolated coffee, Your Sanka and your Instant, too, You can have your chocolate, Hot or cold, But listen and I'll sing to you: When I feel a little glow, then I think I ought to go, Where the little man they call the tea boy, Is waiting for me with his teapot ready to pour. Oh, a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake, For me, you can keep your coffee and tea, Because a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake, Make the world go round. When I'm tired and feeling blue, There's only one thing that will do, To pull me through and cheer me up, To pick me up when I'm feeling down, Down, down. Oh, a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake, For me, you can keep your coffee and tea, Because a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake, Make the world go round. When the room is full of gloom, And it's damp and cold, And you're feeling old, A nice cup of tea and a slice of cake, Can make you feel young. Oh, a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake, For me, you can keep your coffee and tea, Because a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake, Make the world go round. When it's nearly half-past three, Then it's time for you and me, To have a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake. When the day is nearly done, And the evening's coming on, And you're feeling so alone and blue, A nice cup of tea and a slice of cake, Will make you feel fine. Oh, a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake, For me, you can keep your coffee and tea, Because a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake, Make the world go round. Have a lovely day professor.
Drink that then have a cup of Earl Grey and then wince. A world of difference between the two. Yorkshire Tea is bloody wonderful. If you get the chance try and get some Yorkshire Tea loaf (or make it, recipes online), as I doubt you'll find it in shops in the USA
Absolutely correct. The media is unbelievably right wing and one of the worst things about the UK. Those headlines are designed to dupe the public into believing all sorts of lies. And the England football thing is very much a divide. It's more prevalent in the South than the North in general. We are more tied to our clubs than the international side. You do raise some good points overall and things like our Tea culture is spot on. We don't like queuing but it is ingrained. The Dental thing is that we were proud that we were all entitled to a basic level of dentistry through our NHS (medical treatment in general actually) rather than the very divided situation in places like the USA where you sometimes can't afford the Dentist or go into severe debt to pay for your basic medical treatment. Like you said in another video we in Europe often follow US politics more than lots of Americans because 'When the US sneezes,the Rest of The World catches a cold' so to speak.
@@skintslots The media is so right wing , as the rag of a newspaper the Sun announces its support for Starmer and the most left wing government we’ve ever had . The BBC is effectively the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation it’s so left wing . 99% of the MSM print or broadcast their view , their opinions, of any news or events, which usually incorporates a large dose of bulls**t , selective editing and left leaning ideologies especially multicultural and woke bulls**t .
If you want to know what English are like watch Shaun's mum in Shaun of the Dead. Her reaction to a zombie apocalypse is the most English thing ever. "It's been a funny sort of day, Hasn't it?"
At many banks, there is one queue for the tellers…regardless of how many tellers are open. That protocol started in the UK. Furthermore, it was developed spontaneously, by customers.
Punctuality and being on time is a huge thing here. Latecomers will always get "the look". This is more so in a professional setting than in a social one. The Brits are sticklers for time.
Being English myself there is one modern “ism” I hate and it’s the hatred for the word Soccer as used in the US. It’s obviously used to stop confusion over Football American style. But we forget the word Soccer is itself English. It is a deviation of the term Association Football and used so not to be confused with Rugby Football. As in Soccer or Rugger rules when matches could be played using either rules. I had many an argument over the word Soccer yet we used that word right up to the end of the 1980’s. Also Rugby Football was played in the US and developed into the game we know as American Football, hence the use of the word Football.
yah, I was in Scotland recently. and a tourist tried to jump the queue at the breakie line. It almost did not end well for that lady. “its cuppa” 😂 good stuff!!
Japanese queueing ranks above English queueing, especially at train stations. Japanese people start queueing before a train arrives, whereas with English trains usually a disorderly crowd forms at the doors when the train arrives.
The sandwich thing is so they can grab and go I think. English friends are quite sophisticated in their food/menu preferences or pairings so its not for lack of palettes 😅
I lived in England for a couple years in Salisbury what a beautiful small countryside city. I have been watching your videos for years and finally subscribed today! I thought I already was lol
Your Keep Calm & Carry On comment reminds me of Bill Bailey's bit about the English's way of answering "How are you?" "Not too bad." The most English of answers. "That's as good as it gets in ol' Blighty! Things are clearly bad but they're not as bad as they could've been. There's the abyss, but we're not in the abyss. We're in the gift shop or car park next to the abyss. It's not too bad." I'm Canadian. We answer the same way. You can tell we're part of the Commonwealth.
Great video again. There are also Scottish-isms. Yorkshire tea is my favourite tea too but if you want to take it to another level try Loose Leaf Tea. Bit like moving from Blended Whisky to Single Malt. The tea is kept in a caddy and you put a measure of the leaves in a tea pot. Leave for 3-4 minutes and pour into the cup through a strainer. There are loads of varieties but "English Breakfast" is the most popular. Maybe try "Earl Grey" as well for variety? Milk is usually added not Cream. Cream and jam is spread on scones for "Afternoon Tea". Perfectly done in "Betty's Tea Rooms" dotted around the country. Enjoy!
I’m glad you like our queuing culture, if someone skips a queue at an airport or shop for example I find it sooo rude! You visited Chester, if you like it you should also visit my hometown Shrewsbury, very similar! 😊
Wolter, your ‘Englishisms’ are so well observed. As a Brit, you’re 99% spot on, which is pretty impressive. Also it’s nice to hear you pointing out our best bits, especially at the moment, when things here aren’t so great.
YORKSHIRE TEA IS THE BEST!! Also, I love that you said with a biscuit. Not a cookie, a biscuit!! Also love how the video covers many different locations all over the country. I even noticed Bibury.
I always appreciate when I ask someone how they are and they do likewise to me. I've found with some people when I ask them how they are, they say "Why?", which both confuses and kind of upsets me a bit
Dentistry, most cannot afford to go private and the NHS was always quite awful so we have a real fear of the dentist. It's not about us not wanting glorious American teeth we've just had the fear put in us by really bad dentists on the NHS. However, now there are virtually none left so we don't even get that option any longer. It's either private or nothing. Worth also knowing that many don't care in the slightest about football or soccer as N America calls it. Tips, mention tips. Here it's strictly for food service. Some places add tips on top. If tips are added and the service is awful, get it removed. Our wait staff receive an ok salary. Yes, a tea, many of us don't say cuppa and, if we offer it then often it's followed by the question, tea or coffee. I think you've bought into the tourist propaganda there of how things used to be 40 years ago. Yes, we're weather obsessed but then, it's incredibly changeable and we do like to work out what to wear each day. I suspect she country with seasons is likewise talking weather a lot. We're really multicultural here, cannot underestimate that enough. Much of the language is actually from Europe especially France. Many of our restaurants are not British born but are from all over the world but, strangely, still British! We're totally cool with others communicating with us the best they can and will help to understand them and be understood.
Blinkered or what! Football (soccer) is the top sports game in the world. and is the No 1 sport in the UK, the home of football, but obviously not your thing. So probably tiddlywinks is your thing then?
Walking down the street: In most countries, people walk on the sidewalk and pass on the side that they drive (i.e. in the US, we tend to walk on the right. When I go to Canadian ski resorts, they even tell you that on tourist information). In the U.K. (yes, even in Scotland), they just walk WHEREVER. When I asked my English friends about this, they tell me with attitude that "NOBODY is going to tell me how to walk on the sidewalk". (Okay, better than the Spanish which tend to play "chicken" while walking on their streets. And don't get me started about the Greeks...).
I’ve raced up those steps at Chester railway station a few times to run to catch my train back to Liverpool! As for tea, a top tip is a lot of English folks are very, VERY particular about how they take their tea. Never automatically put the milk in. If in a relaxed setting, ask them to add their own milk. Eg I like my tea dark, strong, a splash of milk and no sugar. Any more than a splash of milk and Im unhappy, the English if eating on the move or on a work break its purely functional so cheap and quick. Regarding the sandwiches, unlike our lazy European neighbours who dwell eternally over lunch, a work lunch break or when travelling, food is functional, so quick and cheap.
The sandwich thing made me chuckle, I never realised how obsessed with them we are, but it's true. There was even a social media account called rate my meal deal where people would post which sandwich, snack and drink they got and people would rate it 😂😂
I think the best example of the "keep calm and carry on" mentality was after the 7/7 attacks when terrorists exploded bombs on three tubes and a bus in London. The next day people were back using the tubes and the buses. All transport services were fully restored and resumed operating within a month. Though fun fact, the "keep calm and carry on" were actually never used and nearly all copies of the posters were destroyed so their paper could be recycled. Until one randomly resurfaced in a charity shop in the 00s.
Обичам и уважавам хората на Острова заради сдържаността им, но и емпатията към другите, които се нуждаят от помощ. Важен е и начина по който ние общуваме с тях, всичко е взаимосвързано. От България
Strafford upon Avon. You're just up the road from my home town although I live at the other end of the world now. Love the countryside in that part of England.
I’m Canadian and I agree! I always have it in the house and so did my mother! And the only thing I use ketchup for is to cook with - otherwise it’s yucky!
I didn't know that keep calm and carry on was a British thing, the sign by my door makes more sense now. It says keep calm and carry with a picture of a gun.
English food has a reputation of being bad because during WW2 when the Americans arrived the British had been rationing severely as the nation was starving after years of war. British food today is really good.
Well, I've got the dentist on Thursday 😁 Sandwiches, its because theyre easy & convenient 👍 i really hope Germany sells them! As im visiting Germany in September 🥳 (Berlin & Munich)
My favourite pre-packaged sandwiches: Asda = Cheese and onion Tesco = Cheese and onion or chicken, bacon and lettuce Morrisons = Cheese and onion Sainsburys = Ham hock Booths (a Northern brand) = Chicken Caesar wrap M&S = Cheese & celery
Not just in England, in Scotland it is Sandwiches every day! Sandwiches with all kinds of interesting fillings is what got me. My personal favorite is the coronation chicken and Lox and cream cheese.
Dentistry has been on the National Health system since 1948. There are many who are scared of visits to the dentist but I think that most of all, we really don't mind having a snaggly tooth or big gaps. We have never really bought into that idea of going about with a mouthful of corrective metal. Oh, and I could live very happily on sandwiches and tea. Hardly any washing-up that way!
The “carry on” thing is known as the “stiff upper lip” and was born during the london blitz in world war 2. The destructive horror of the situation and no other option but to keep composed and carry on regardless. You can see this in photos of the time, people dressed smartly and carrying on whist standing in utter destruction or using a substitute to carry on with the job etc
When paying for a sparkling water at a truck 🛻 stop somewhere in England 🏴, the cashier said, “This one is a bit fizzy, you know”. That would never happen in America 🇺🇸 😂
I find it interesting how people make fun of English food names, yet here in the U.S., restaurants and people still call it Shepherd's Pie instead of Cottage Pie when it is made with ground beef and not ground lamb.
The sandwich thing.......I'm not sure that we love them (because they're awful) but it's cost effective (for the supply chain) and minimises time spent in retail - no waiting for the tedious line in Greggs, which is usually what we'd prefer, and can be handled by untrained staff because of the sterile packaging.
Most English thing I’ve ever heard “I’m sorry, but I’m not going to apologise for that” 😅
Apparently in other coutries, the whole bar /pub doesn't shout "whheeey" when someone drops a glass
Yeah, other countries are weird ;-)
and an occasional "don't wash that one".
Actually, Cyprus is the only other country I’ve seen that do this! A big “Opa!” Is usually chanted
Because for them, things being broken signifies new beginnings so it’s taken as a good thing, unfortunately we don’t have that kind of poetry in the UK but it’s just funny innit lol
When somebody bursts into tears and starts to relate all the terrible things that have happened to them that day the standard British reaction is "I'll put the kettle on!"
Nothing a cup of tea won't fix!
because upset people are useless at making the tea?
@@redf7209
Tears are salty. Fresh water is freshly boiled to make a good cuppa. ☕
And I drink my tea, black and with no sugar / no sweeteners. ❤🏴🙂🖖
This is why British tanks are the only ones in the world to have tea making facilities fitted as standard.
Absolutely. Your house could have burnt down and you have lost everything you have known and loved, and still, our immediate compassionate reaction is, "I'll put the kettle on".
The stereotype of bad English food goes back to WW2. Rationing and limited supplies meant that the quality of food also suffered up to 1954 when rationing ended. A lot of US people took the tales of unpleasant English food home with them after the war and the stereotype was born. It also took decades for the food industry to recover and really turn things around as choice and quality improved along with a generally better standard of living and changing tastes.
Now it's as good as anywhere in the world.
@@Elatenl Nothing but verifiable historical facts and the personal view of someone who has eaten in a good number of the "best" restaurants in many countries. It's also my job. Cope with that.
@@Elatenl I am not arguing better or worse for any particular place. Simply that I have eaten similar quality meals both good and bad all over. The UK is no better or worse than anywhere else. Easy enough to understand I thought.
@Elatenl I agree with the Dutch thing. Never understood how Britain gets such a bad rap for its food and nobody talks about the Netherlands 😂
I would argue British cuisine is the best in Northern Europe.
Probably not the proudest boast, if it is even true, but I think it's a strong contender at the very least. Highly underrated cuisine, especially during autumn and winter months
@@Joker-yw9hl I'd be inclined to agree!
Funny story… I was in the Victoria & Albert museum, waiting for the rest of my family. People started queueing behind me.
I had to tell them I wasn’t in a queue. 😊 I solved the "problem" by finding a place where I could put my back against
a wall. I loved living in England.
A very British answer to the problem.
The sandwich thing is food on the go generally for people at work or in transit and will have the main meal in the evening. Of course you can get better in a restaurant but if you not a tourist you are not going to a restaurant every day for your lunch.
You landed on two things that are entirely related. The English ability to accept what they can't change, and the bigger the more unflappable. And the embrace of simple pleasures. It's why a cup of tea is the go to, a simple thing you can control that will always make a situation better.
Very accurate, don’t forget our sarcasm and need to politely insult ourselves and everyone else with words or phrases
The obsession is not with the premade sandwich its the meal deal when you work out how much your selection has saved you, you feel like you have some how got one over on the evil faceless corporation you bought it from even though you know you really haven't
Nailed it 😂
Love a good meal deal. It's what keeps the nation going.
The obsession is also with the variety of options / combinations
@@jonharvey6277 to be fair id bet that on most meals deals Tesco actually losses money. The idea is to get you in the shop and hope you buy something else that makes them money or you just get into the habit of busting their shop and eventually will by things that make them money.
And it will cost well less than half of what it will in a pub or restaurant, as he suggests. Many are delivered fresh, every day.
The best line in "A bridge too far " is where Sean Connery gazes out on a plan that is already going terribly wrong on Day One. He is offered a cup of tea by one of his men. Connery proceeds to list every single problem that he faces:- his 10,000 paratroops are spread out all over the place, the fact he has no idea where most of them currently are, That he has been provided with radios that don't actualy work in the below sea level areas of Holland, The fact that he could not speak to any of his units, nor to his commanders in England and on top of all that "I have got lunatics laughting at me from the Woods. Do you really think any of that can be solved by a cup of tea?" he asks in mild exasperation. "It can't do any harm sir" is the immediate guileless response.
That's the truth of it
It is considered polite to thank people, like the bus driver, when they do something that makes your day better.
Aww You're obviously not a Londoner
"Cheers drive"
@@MaZaCar_Xiaoyu Proud to be English and Thrilled not to be a Londoner.
@@flower-ss2jt that's what the ones who can't afford London usually say 🤣
@@MaZaCar_Xiaoyu You make the point for yourself about why many people do not want to be a 'Londoner'.
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way.
@@chriswright4677 Are you frittering and wasting the hours in an offhand way ?
@@gar6446or just kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town?
How could you possibly forget the weather talk?! Weather is the basis of every small-talk conversation you'll ever have in the UK and, the funny thing is, it's meaningful and a source of endless fascination because weather here changes all the time (the British Isles being islands and all).
Perhaps because that's also an American thing. But yes being in the England most of May 1988 I was pleasantly surprised how nice the weather was in London, not the perpetual fog stereotype which is more typical of the west (Pacific) side of San Francisco.
Got that in an upcoming video 😉
@timmmahhhh yes, the english talk about the weather because it's an American thing 🙄
@@no_soy_rubio I didn't say that.
@@woltersworldThe UK isnt always the picture postcard it is made out to be. I am fron Manchester and this city has some very rough and run down, poverty stricken neighbourhoods with a lot of issues with drugs and young gangs in their 20s stabbing each other and sometimes even shooting each other although that is much rarer than it is in the U.S or even what it was in the UK in the 1990s. Manchester is a lot safer now than it used to be but the major cities in the UK especially Manchester and Birmingham have some pretty rough neighbourhoods than are bot on the tourist brochure, believe me I grew uo in them. Obviously cities like York and Cambridge dont really have that issue but larger UK cities definitely do.
Worth noting that like the Irish English conversation is often framed in humor or sarcasm.
More probably irony.
I’m a Brit, but I reckon the Irish are better at it. Only slightly, but better.
7:42 NHS dentists are hard to come by (and still cost). Private dentists are prohibitively expensive.
As an English person I can say the obsession with tea is accurate.
Im a born and bred Yorkshireman hut I never drink tea. Always coffee.
@@Kivetonandrew ... Me too, although Notts/Derbyshire, always coffee.
As a (now) adopted Lancastrian, I've never, ever liked tea. I don't even like the smell of it!
“Hi. How are you”
“Yeah not bad” (even if you’re dying)
Also, you haven’t lived until you’ve had a Boots meal deal.
I love that even if you don't want all 3 parts of the meal deal, you don't get the deal unless you take the sandwich, drink, and snack. If you don't want a packet of crisps with your sandwich & drink, it will cost more than if you take it anyway. The store is paying you to take the snack, or charging you for not taking it. 'Take it. Keep it with you. Eat it later. You'll eventually want it, and you'll be happy that you have it. Otherwise your purchase of less food will cost an extra 1.50'
You probably haven't lived AFTER having a Boots meal deal 🤮☠️😁
Last time I was in the UK Boots had nothing to do with food 😂
@jasoncrobar724 even better if you want a coffee, cos in Sainsbury Local (which are practically everywhere and have Costa coffee machines), the meal deal is just as much as the coffee itself (£3.50 for a latte or cappuccino, which along with other hot drinks, are included in the £3.50 meal deal), so if you add a snack and a meal, you basically get the food for free to go with your coffee.
Your enthusiasm is infectious - and I'm British! Keep it up.
OMG, the meal deal sandwiches are excellent!! I have visited Scotland and England and it's great for lunch. I also appreciate the queues and politeness. I found myself asking "sorry to bother..." before a question and people were always pleasant and helpful. I also love animals and live with New England weather, so those topics seemed to be proper conversation. Looking forward to going back again next Fall!
Please do, you’ll be most welcome.
With that attitude we look forward to welcoming you back to our fair land.
With your attitude, it's only the accent will give you away!
@Sine-gl9ly Thank you! I feel more at home in the UK than I do here in my actual home country. 😍
British army tanks have a boiling vessel as part of the standard equipment, to make tea!
Because in WW2 they quickly discovered it is far too easy to lose the crew when they all get out for a brew.
Of course they have, it's a well known fact the British can't go anywhere more than ten miles away before they need a cup of tea.
@@mothmagic1 Is that why the US copied them?
We do have queueing nailed. If you do it wrong we will tut at you.
One time I got to the bus stop and no-one else was there so I stood smartly by the sign with my laptop bag tidily at my side and fomed an orderly queue all by myself.
You forgot the cheering in pubs when a glass gets broken lol
Remember - us Brits are such experts at insulting people that you probably won’t even notice we’ve just insulted you.
Soap operas in the US are daytime TV, whereas in England they are prime time drama and occasionally major cultural moments.
Maybe if you're older. As a young person, I don't remember soap operas ever having been that big a deal. We never watched them in my household, nor did any of my friends or family. They're definitely not big cultural moments, and young people categorically ignore them.
Never been this early before! Love the videos! So right about the queueing! The most solidarity I’ve ever seen between Englishmen and Americans was in the customs line in Brussels. Everyone needed to make their flights and people from all over the world were jumping the line around the snaking barriers. There were lots of Americans and English who weren’t. You could see the English slowly losing their minds as guards did nothing to reprimand the queue-jumpers, but unwilling to say anything. My travel-buddy is very outspoken and I kept stopping him from yelling out, since I get embarrassed more easily. Eventually another American man, a dad with young kids, yelled out to the whole line, which must have been 150-200 people to STOP CUTTING THE LINE because we all have to get through it, and it will go faster if we go in order. I’ve never seen the always-polite British look so happy at a loud American!
So why is the American bloke in this video insisting that queueing is a uniquely English phenomenon?
Да, летището на Брюксел е малко и неудобно. Но спазвах правилата, защото в случая те имат практичен смисъл. От BG
I genuinely can’t think of a time when someone has cut the queue and nothing has been said. That said, I live in the north.
1:54 Did you just say you put cream in your tea!?! 😮 Has to be milk! From an English subscriber 😊
@@bgr20 I think he said creamer. Not as good as milk but better than actual cream!
The packaged sandwiches come as part of a meal deal (with a drink and snack). Usually bought on the go or a quick cheap lunch. Yes sandwiches in a pub are better but if you don't have the time or money meal deals are quick, cheap and easy. The game usually is to find the most expensive combination as you save the most as the deal is usually the same price in the store
Sound advice, meal deals are usually not much more expensive than buying the cheapest item alone
There is one place where queueing just isnt a thing in this country and that is when getting on a train, everyone just masses in a big herd around the doors and fights their way on when they open!
We definitely have a keep calm and carry on culture, we’ve survived invasions from many other Europeans over the centuries and 2 World Wars, just put the kettle on and we get through it! 😂
Cuppa makes all better
@@woltersworldNo, but not so bad. 😊😊
Always look on the bright side.🎶🎶
I'd say you've gone through eight years of anything but keep calm and carry on. You have suffered from a sort of national hysteria!
And now you're being invaded against and your own government is promoting the invasion against you.
@@bugsygoo We're still the same deeply stubborn people underneath. We're not good at being told what to do - that's why we don't have ID cards.
We queue in all circumstances, except one. No one queues in the pub… but everyone waiting at the bar is holding a virtual queue in their head, and anyone jumps it will get a look, or worse a tut (but that’s a bit of a nuclear option) 😂
Remember that, if someone asks "How are you?" they're just being polite and the correct answer is always "Fine, thank you, how are you?" Don't start moaning to them about your back problems. Nobody likes a moaner.
People don't go to the dentist because very few NHS dentists accept new patients these days. If you can't afford a private dentist, you're screwed.
There's a common perception, perpetuated by the media, that absolutely everyone is obsessed with football and it's not true. Maybe 40% are genuine fans and another 30% will pretend they are just to fit in, but rugby, cricket, and tennis are also very popular.
We don’t ‘love’ our pre-made sandwiches as such, we just find them convenient. A Boots Meal Deal is a cheap way of getting a quick lunch and my go-to option if I’m on a long train journey for example (by long I mean three or four hours, not thee or four days). No one is under any illusion that it is haute cuisine but a chicken and stuffing sarnie, bag of Walkers crisps and a bottle of Diet Coke for £3.99 just does the job sometimes.
Meal deal is a British institution
You put cream in your tea!!! What devilry is this?!!
As an English person, I had a big smile on my face for this video 😀 ... observant!! I think a lot of it comes from the (mainly) perceived history of the last 100+ years, which the press put out ... being an island (weather conversations - eternally changing and for 'breaking the ice') and a couple of world war 'disagreements' (!! - queuing, and see Jo Brand videos '... Two world wars and one world cup, 1-0 down and 5-1 up...' ... you can guess against which team! 🤣🤣) ... just don't get me started about dentists! Cheers!
Where I live there are no longer any nhs dentists. They are only accepting emergency appointments for private care, you have to phone first thing in the morning and hope they have a space and can only get an appointment if you’re in excessive pain.
Usually nhs is free for children and pregnant women, and if your a nhs patient you get your appointment cheaper if your an adult. I’m on the books at my dentist as a nhs patient but as I say they only taking emergency private appointments. Has been this way in my area since possibly covid but could have been just before covid as I remember my appointments kept being cancelled.
Also they do offer for children braces on the nhs but there has to be a significant reason, not just to slightly straighten teeth, else you have to pay private. Again with the state of being able to actually see a dentist I’ve heard of kids being unable to get their braces taken off!! It’s shocking.
Let's hope the situation improves under the new Government. This is not what the NHS (a Labour invention) was supposed to be.
@@wessexdruid7598 The problem long predates the most recent Tory stint in power. In 1999, Tony Blair was promising anyone would be able to see an NHS dentist by 2001 and they never came close - and that was at a time of peak economic prosperity in the UK. They did manage to slightly increase the numbers with some dentists recruited from Poland and other parts of the EU - something that would likely be impossible today, given Brexit and the standard of living in the UK now being lower than Poland in many aspects, with Poland set to be wealthier (GDP/capita PPP) than the UK by 2030 based on present trends.
There's no chance any government can do anything about it now with the economy of the UK in terminal, irreversible decline and when even the core services of the NHS like emergency care are in peril.
Im from the UK and English, its funny you mention our queueing, yes we're good at it its how we're brought up, but when we travel and theres no queuing etiquette it shocks us considered rude that others cut in line. Love it when you do our British videos. Nice one Mark x
In the realm of academia and culinary delight,
Where intellect and taste meet, a brilliant sight,
An American professor named Wolter so dear,
With a fondness for England's quaint charms clear.
From bustling cities to quiet lanes of green,
Where cups of tea are an everyday scene,
Your passion for culture and food so refined,
Meets the classic English spirit, that's so intertwined.
For you, Professor, this song in its might,
A tribute to tea, in the soft morning light,
Gracie Fields sings, with a voice so free,
Of a simple joy, a nice cup of tea.
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Nice Cup of Tea by Gracie Fields
You can talk about your coffee,
Your Percolated coffee,
Your Sanka and your Instant, too,
You can have your chocolate,
Hot or cold,
But listen and I'll sing to you:
When I feel a little glow, then I think I ought to go,
Where the little man they call the tea boy,
Is waiting for me with his teapot ready to pour.
Oh, a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake,
For me, you can keep your coffee and tea,
Because a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake,
Make the world go round.
When I'm tired and feeling blue,
There's only one thing that will do,
To pull me through and cheer me up,
To pick me up when I'm feeling down,
Down, down.
Oh, a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake,
For me, you can keep your coffee and tea,
Because a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake,
Make the world go round.
When the room is full of gloom,
And it's damp and cold,
And you're feeling old,
A nice cup of tea and a slice of cake,
Can make you feel young.
Oh, a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake,
For me, you can keep your coffee and tea,
Because a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake,
Make the world go round.
When it's nearly half-past three,
Then it's time for you and me,
To have a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake.
When the day is nearly done,
And the evening's coming on,
And you're feeling so alone and blue,
A nice cup of tea and a slice of cake,
Will make you feel fine.
Oh, a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake,
For me, you can keep your coffee and tea,
Because a nice cup of tea and a slice of cake,
Make the world go round.
Have a lovely day professor.
That was brilliant!
I'm a Yorkshire Tea drinker, too: we get a great price on 100-count boxes right here in my neighborhood (Austin, TX), and now I'm hooked.
Drink that then have a cup of Earl Grey and then wince. A world of difference between the two. Yorkshire Tea is bloody wonderful. If you get the chance try and get some Yorkshire Tea loaf (or make it, recipes online), as I doubt you'll find it in shops in the USA
I will NEVER buy The S*n newspaper. You can't buy it anywhere in Liverpool and rightly so.
Absolutely correct. The media is unbelievably right wing and one of the worst things about the UK. Those headlines are designed to dupe the public into believing all sorts of lies. And the England football thing is very much a divide. It's more prevalent in the South than the North in general. We are more tied to our clubs than the international side. You do raise some good points overall and things like our Tea culture is spot on. We don't like queuing but it is ingrained. The Dental thing is that we were proud that we were all entitled to a basic level of dentistry through our NHS (medical treatment in general actually) rather than the very divided situation in places like the USA where you sometimes can't afford the Dentist or go into severe debt to pay for your basic medical treatment. Like you said in another video we in Europe often follow US politics more than lots of Americans because 'When the US sneezes,the Rest of The World catches a cold' so to speak.
@@skintslots The media is so right wing , as the rag of a newspaper the Sun announces its support for Starmer and the most left wing government we’ve ever had . The BBC is effectively the Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation it’s so left wing . 99% of the MSM print or broadcast their view , their opinions, of any news or events, which usually incorporates a large dose of bulls**t , selective editing and left leaning ideologies especially multicultural and woke bulls**t .
It's all over Liverpoo, because it lives, rent free, inside your head.
Nobody cares that everyone in Liverpool hates The Sun.
It’s filth like most of the right wing press in England.
Preach!
I enjoyed this video. England is fascinating!😊❤
If you want to know what English are like watch Shaun's mum in Shaun of the Dead. Her reaction to a zombie apocalypse is the most English thing ever. "It's been a funny sort of day, Hasn't it?"
*British
@@redceltnet You're right, I should said British my bad.
At many banks, there is one queue for the tellers…regardless of how many tellers are open. That protocol started in the
UK. Furthermore, it was developed spontaneously, by customers.
It's not so much the sandwich itself but the marketing concept of "the meal deal" tha gets us all moist. Nobody knows why.
Punctuality and being on time is a huge thing here. Latecomers will always get "the look". This is more so in a professional setting than in a social one. The Brits are sticklers for time.
Tell that to my ex-girlfriend
@@no_soy_rubio
Public transport (buses, trams etc)and road traffic, or train strikes impede travel times... It isn't always a girl's fault.
@brigidsingleton1596 she doesn't need public transport if she's going from the bathroom to the living room
@@no_soy_rubio
How can she be late going from the bathroom to the living room?
@@brigidsingleton1596 you'd have to ask her!
Being English myself there is one modern “ism” I hate and it’s the hatred for the word Soccer as used in the US. It’s obviously used to stop confusion over Football American style. But we forget the word Soccer is itself English. It is a deviation of the term Association Football and used so not to be confused with Rugby Football. As in Soccer or Rugger rules when matches could be played using either rules. I had many an argument over the word Soccer yet we used that word right up to the end of the 1980’s.
Also Rugby Football was played in the US and developed into the game we know as American Football, hence the use of the word Football.
@@stephenbrown4211 An octogenarian Brit of my acquaintance was shocked to find in his schoolboy diaries a reference to playing soccer.
Nice one. Did not know that.
yah, I was in Scotland recently. and a tourist tried to jump the queue at the breakie line. It almost did not end well for that lady. “its cuppa” 😂 good stuff!!
Japanese queueing ranks above English queueing, especially at train stations. Japanese people start queueing before a train arrives, whereas with English trains usually a disorderly crowd forms at the doors when the train arrives.
Yes but those who were on the platform first still board first.
I always bought a Marks and Spencer's sandwich any time I took the train. They're very tasty.
The sandwich thing is so they can grab and go I think. English friends are quite sophisticated in their food/menu preferences or pairings so its not for lack of palettes 😅
I lived in England for a couple years in Salisbury what a beautiful small countryside city. I have been watching your videos for years and finally subscribed today! I thought I already was lol
Your Keep Calm & Carry On comment reminds me of Bill Bailey's bit about the English's way of answering "How are you?"
"Not too bad."
The most English of answers. "That's as good as it gets in ol' Blighty! Things are clearly bad but they're not as bad as they could've been. There's the abyss, but we're not in the abyss. We're in the gift shop or car park next to the abyss. It's not too bad."
I'm Canadian. We answer the same way. You can tell we're part of the Commonwealth.
Great video again. There are also Scottish-isms. Yorkshire tea is my favourite tea too but if you want to take it to another level try Loose Leaf Tea. Bit like moving from Blended Whisky to Single Malt. The tea is kept in a caddy and you put a measure of the leaves in a tea pot. Leave for 3-4 minutes and pour into the cup through a strainer. There are loads of varieties but "English Breakfast" is the most popular. Maybe try "Earl Grey" as well for variety? Milk is usually added not Cream. Cream and jam is spread on scones for "Afternoon Tea". Perfectly done in "Betty's Tea Rooms" dotted around the country. Enjoy!
Clotted cream, for scones.
@@wessexdruid7598 Perfect!
I’m glad you like our queuing culture, if someone skips a queue at an airport or shop for example I find it sooo rude! You visited Chester, if you like it you should also visit my hometown Shrewsbury, very similar! 😊
Cant beat the old meal deal Butties,Drink and a Snack 😂
Wolter, your ‘Englishisms’ are so well observed. As a Brit, you’re 99% spot on, which is pretty impressive. Also it’s nice to hear you pointing out our best bits, especially at the moment, when things here aren’t so great.
YORKSHIRE TEA IS THE BEST!! Also, I love that you said with a biscuit. Not a cookie, a biscuit!! Also love how the video covers many different locations all over the country. I even noticed Bibury.
I love british food, and HP is so good!!! Well, I simply love England and wish I could live there!
@@tiffanystone7820 so come on over 🇬🇧
@@kevinpierce3458 thanks! I wish I could! Money is a big issue, plus immigration rules and all. Maybe I'll win the lottery one day 😉
@@tiffanystone7820 where are you living currently?
@@kevinpierce3458 the states 😕
@@tiffanystone7820 do you not like living there?
Ever visited England?
On P&O Iona when I went in June 2024, they had a choice to virtually queue for mealtimes
You showed my parents' house! :) 7:11
You also showed the village where I work! :) 7:30
I always appreciate when I ask someone how they are and they do likewise to me. I've found with some people when I ask them how they are, they say "Why?", which both confuses and kind of upsets me a bit
I never knew we had a reputation for bad teeth/ avoiding the dentist until this video- not sure how to feel now 😂
Dentistry, most cannot afford to go private and the NHS was always quite awful so we have a real fear of the dentist. It's not about us not wanting glorious American teeth we've just had the fear put in us by really bad dentists on the NHS. However, now there are virtually none left so we don't even get that option any longer. It's either private or nothing.
Worth also knowing that many don't care in the slightest about football or soccer as N America calls it.
Tips, mention tips. Here it's strictly for food service. Some places add tips on top. If tips are added and the service is awful, get it removed. Our wait staff receive an ok salary.
Yes, a tea, many of us don't say cuppa and, if we offer it then often it's followed by the question, tea or coffee. I think you've bought into the tourist propaganda there of how things used to be 40 years ago.
Yes, we're weather obsessed but then, it's incredibly changeable and we do like to work out what to wear each day. I suspect she country with seasons is likewise talking weather a lot.
We're really multicultural here, cannot underestimate that enough. Much of the language is actually from Europe especially France. Many of our restaurants are not British born but are from all over the world but, strangely, still British!
We're totally cool with others communicating with us the best they can and will help to understand them and be understood.
Blinkered or what! Football (soccer) is the top sports game in the world. and is the No 1 sport in the UK, the home of football, but obviously not your thing.
So probably tiddlywinks is your thing then?
Tesco coronation chicken sandwich is peak meal deal sandwich. If it’s not sold out sometimes I push the boat out and get two. Superb 👌🏻
I thought the saying was, “Keep calm….and bugger off.”
We stayed at Lucy's Tea Room this past May. Phenomenal place to stay and the food was delicious. Their tea in the morning, just the best.
Rain and queues !
And the rain is not as much as advertised.
Walking down the street: In most countries, people walk on the sidewalk and pass on the side that they drive (i.e. in the US, we tend to walk on the right. When I go to Canadian ski resorts, they even tell you that on tourist information). In the U.K. (yes, even in Scotland), they just walk WHEREVER. When I asked my English friends about this, they tell me with attitude that "NOBODY is going to tell me how to walk on the sidewalk". (Okay, better than the Spanish which tend to play "chicken" while walking on their streets. And don't get me started about the Greeks...).
Love to see how people see us were not perfect but were trying😂😂😂😂
Cream? In tea? Is that an American misconception of English tea culture?
Better than brandy in tea 🫖 I s’pose! Kidding! Lol 😂 sorry couldn’t resist!
The Scottish, Irish, English and Manx all enjoy cream in their tea, but how much cream or how much sugar used varies by locations within each country
@@bunionpain16 In all my fifty years plus of living in England and Scotland, I have never once known anyone put cream in their tea.
@@martypines9704 I stand corrected. I should have said milk and not cream.😲
In America when we refer to any milk products being put in coffee or tea we call it cream.
Hello from Stoke-on-Trent. It's very much like Stratford-on-Avon!
I’ve raced up those steps at Chester railway station a few times to run to catch my train back to Liverpool!
As for tea, a top tip is a lot of English folks are very, VERY particular about how they take their tea. Never automatically put the milk in. If in a relaxed setting, ask them to add their own milk. Eg I like my tea dark, strong, a splash of milk and no sugar. Any more than a splash of milk and Im unhappy, the English if eating on the move or on a work break its purely functional so cheap and quick.
Regarding the sandwiches, unlike our lazy European neighbours who dwell eternally over lunch, a work lunch break or when travelling, food is functional, so quick and cheap.
The sandwich thing made me chuckle, I never realised how obsessed with them we are, but it's true. There was even a social media account called rate my meal deal where people would post which sandwich, snack and drink they got and people would rate it 😂😂
I think the best example of the "keep calm and carry on" mentality was after the 7/7 attacks when terrorists exploded bombs on three tubes and a bus in London. The next day people were back using the tubes and the buses.
All transport services were fully restored and resumed operating within a month. Though fun fact, the "keep calm and carry on" were actually never used and nearly all copies of the posters were destroyed so their paper could be recycled. Until one randomly resurfaced in a charity shop in the 00s.
Обичам и уважавам хората на Острова заради сдържаността им, но и емпатията към другите, които се нуждаят от помощ. Важен е и начина по който ние общуваме с тях, всичко е взаимосвързано. От България
Even our taxis queue: a taxi that is empty will not overtake another taxi.
@1:52 Did Mark say *creamer* in tea??? {bodysnatcher scream}
Strafford upon Avon. You're just up the road from my home town although I live at the other end of the world now. Love the countryside in that part of England.
Yes, as an Englishman, I think that this is a great description of the English and their cultural peculiarities!
HP Sauce is the best ❤
I’m Canadian and I agree! I always have it in the house and so did my mother! And the only thing I use ketchup for is to cook with - otherwise it’s yucky!
@@nancyrafnson4780 I love tomato sauce!
Baked beans are good with a fry-up (Full English Breakfast)
Baked beans are good, no need to qualify.
Congrats on your weight loss wolters world. You look great!
Keep calm and carry on is a WWII refence - a good one though
And biscuits (cookies to Americans). We love biscuits!
Choccy digestives!
I didn't know that keep calm and carry on was a British thing, the sign by my door makes more sense now. It says keep calm and carry with a picture of a gun.
English food has a reputation of being bad because during WW2 when the Americans arrived the British had been rationing severely as the nation was starving after years of war. British food today is really good.
Well, I've got the dentist on Thursday 😁
Sandwiches, its because theyre easy & convenient 👍 i really hope Germany sells them! As im visiting Germany in September 🥳 (Berlin & Munich)
5:24 Huh, never seen brown sauce in a jam jar before lol
You are not far from me today 😊 there is plenty to do in Worcestershire if you make it here at some point
My favourite pre-packaged sandwiches:
Asda = Cheese and onion
Tesco = Cheese and onion or chicken, bacon and lettuce
Morrisons = Cheese and onion
Sainsburys = Ham hock
Booths (a Northern brand) = Chicken Caesar wrap
M&S = Cheese & celery
Coronation chicken all day everyday!!! Then bacon. I oddly will go for the tuna fish and corn occasionally when i feel crazy 😀
Not just in England, in Scotland it is Sandwiches every day! Sandwiches with all kinds of interesting fillings is what got me. My personal favorite is the coronation chicken and Lox and cream cheese.
The pre made sandwiches are amazing.
Just a list of the most normal everyday things. And it’s coming home is an ironic song, by the way.
I didnt go to the dentist for 30 years, good job i never smile.
Dentistry has been on the National Health system since 1948. There are many who are scared of visits to the dentist but I think that most of all, we really don't mind having a snaggly tooth or big gaps. We have never really bought into that idea of going about with a mouthful of corrective metal. Oh, and I could live very happily on sandwiches and tea. Hardly any washing-up that way!
The “carry on” thing is known as the “stiff upper lip” and was born during the london blitz in world war 2. The destructive horror of the situation and no other option but to keep composed and carry on regardless. You can see this in photos of the time, people dressed smartly and carrying on whist standing in utter destruction or using a substitute to carry on with the job etc
We love a meal deal thats why we love our prepacked sarnie's
Hoping to make my first trip to England in 2025!
Have fun, suggest you try outside London, as well as in it.
Its worth it.
When paying for a sparkling water at a truck 🛻 stop somewhere in England 🏴, the cashier said, “This one is a bit fizzy, you know”. That would never happen in America 🇺🇸 😂
I find it interesting how people make fun of English food names, yet here in the U.S., restaurants and people still call it Shepherd's Pie instead of Cottage Pie when it is made with ground beef and not ground lamb.
The sandwich thing.......I'm not sure that we love them (because they're awful) but it's cost effective (for the supply chain) and minimises time spent in retail - no waiting for the tedious line in Greggs, which is usually what we'd prefer, and can be handled by untrained staff because of the sterile packaging.