🇬🇧BRIT Reacts To AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS TRY BRITISH TEA & BISCUITS FOR THE FIRST TIME!
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- 🇬🇧BRIT Reacts To AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS TRY BRITISH TEA & BISCUITS FOR THE FIRST TIME!
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Hi everyone, I’m Kabir and welcome to another episode of Kabir Considers! In this video I’m going React To AMERICAN COLLEGE STUDENTS TRY BRITISH TEA & BISCUITS FOR THE FIRST TIME!
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Chocolate digestives sound like some type of medication for gas😂
No we don’t have them here. Kabir you are so funny😂
Chocolate digestives in the UK, they are called shortbread cookies dipped in chocolate in the US.
@@marydavis5234 Digestives are not the same thing as shortbread cookies. Digestives are made with whole wheat flour and significantly less butter than a shortbread.
I thought it was a Fiber cookie 😂
@@EeroMyrsky I have actually bought them at my grogery stores International aisle, they are shortbread cookies dipped in chocolate
No, we don't have digestives. From the looks of it, we would call that a wafer cookie. Or a chocolate wafer. Matter of fact it looks like a single layer kit kat bar we have here. Hot tea here is really a drink for when you are sick or old people😂. You will rarely see high schoolers drinking hot tea...they would probably prefer hot cocoa.
A digestive is like a compressed, dry, oatmeal cookie. They're okay, so long as you like oats. A local grocery chain carries them in the international aisle. Nothing to write home about...it's a cookie.
my british born wife says that they are closest to what we call graham crackers.
Such a gross name for them - digestives. Ugh. We'd say cookies or crackers, but even calling it a biscuit is preferable. 😂
@@xzonia1 The Brits have never been very good at naming things.
As a senior American...I grew up drinking tea at my aunt's house. Having Irish grandparents they normally would drink only tea and for their afternoon tea they made scones usually with butter and jam. Sometimes they made American biscuits. They were great bakers, making cookies all the time for us but we always drank milk with them. I believe tea is a cultural thing. If you weren't exposed to it growing up it might be something you wouldn't like. Good channel Kabir!😊
I love tea instead of coffee and I used to have 2 cups a day. But then I started working with a woman from the UK and she would drink it at least 6 times a day. My tea drinking increased when I worked with her 😂
I'd probably like this taste test more than beans and toast.
We don't have any of these readily available, even at Wal-Mart. But I found a place that carries British imports and often treat myself to Hobknobs!
I love tea hot or cold… I’ve never seen “digestives” in any store. Ever. 😔
I tried a chocolate digestive in England when I was 15. It was delish. It reminded me a lot of the Keebler Fudge Stripe cookies we have in the US.
Yes, chocolate digestives are available here in the States. In fact there is a specialty grocery store up the street from my house in Augusta, Georgia called The Fresh Market that sells a wide variety of British biscuits, including chocolate digestives, jammy dodgers, hobnobs, shortbread, McVitties, custard creams, and jaffa cakes (to name a few). Granted they are quite expensive due to being imported from the UK, but I find it worth it to splurge on them every so often. And the McVitties brand of biscuits are readily sold at Walmart here in the States. Again, probably a bit more expensive than what you'd pay for them in the UK, but well worth the spluge once in a blue moon.
I doubt that’s in every city though. Sounds like your lucky
Love the reaction of Kabir, seeing all his favorite flavors being shared with the kids across the pond. Some strong feels being shared!
We do not have “digestives”
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Its such a gross name for a food lol. We have shortbread cookies with chocolate, but they are labeled as... shortbread cookies with chocolate.
Digestives sounds like something you would get from the pharmacy 😅
@@stevenevoy8902Yeah first time I heard it i thought it was medicine for elderly people so they are "regular" when pooping.
They sell digestives on amazon and at walmart. I thought they were close to graham crackers. I’ve seen British people try to make s’mores with them
I miss strong black tea with heavy cream and stevia. Black tea is the person who creates kidney stone's worst enemy. I used to watch Morse and Poirot while drinking it and eating Speculoos. I tried to immerse myself in the experience.🤣
I was introduced to true English tea and those Chocolate Digestives are AMAZING but my favourites biscuits were the Jaffa Cakes! OMG I wasn't crazy for the Jammie Dodgers. The US, sort of, has a version made by Knott Berry Farms called, Premium Cookies. There use to be an English shop near me, where I would get British imports (they even sold meat pies). As for the biscuits being dunked into a cup tea is like dipping a piece of doughnut into a cup of coffee. 🍵🍩
We have those digestive biscuits and Rich Tea biscuits sold here in the US, and I love them! I'll sometimes eat them by themselves, or dip them in my coffee or tea. Another sweet treat I have is coffee with some Biscoffs. Yum yum!
I've been a tea drinker since I was a little kid. Dad used to let us have a little bit before school on cold days. Never have liked coffee. Red Rose black tea is the best but no milk! Just sugar. I finally bought an electric kettle a few years ago. Tea is so much better that way!
Kabir, yeah man, I'm a convert. McVities biscuits and a frikin "proppa cuppa" ala GB. Electric kettle, pouring boiling water, steeping 3min for my bagged PG Tips and 4-5min on my looseleaf Taylor's. I like me Yorkshire and some Scottish tea as well. Very hardy cups. But what we call English Breakfast tea is my staple. Yeah the Brit biscuit is available in grocery stores here in western Washington. I also imported three extremely British tea pots that I use every day. Made in England, Cauldon Ceramics Stoke-on-Trent, Brown Betty pot, using the local clays as has been done since 1695. Wiki that won't you. LoL Doesn't get more Brit than that. ☕ 🇬🇧🇺🇸
Hi Kabir! In the US, digestive biscuits are called Graham Crackers. And yes, they do have chocolate covered ones. I like to get a bowl of milk and float the graham crackers in it for about 20 seconds. This is enough time for them to soak up the milk. Then I use a spoon and lift it up and eat it. I have been a lifelong tea drinker, but in a way that appalled my British roommate from Manchester at first. I like really strong tea, with lemon and a little ice. For a little over half a liter I use 6 tea bags and a heaping teaspoon each of Darjeeling and Assam tea. I let it brew for about 8 minutes, add sugar and a little honey and a slice of lemon to the hot tea and let it sit for about 5 minutes before adding ice. I use large ice cubes just enough to bring the water up to the top of the 1 liter glass. When my room mate came in one hot afternoon I gave him a glass and he became a fan, though he still mostly drank hot tea, but in the summer he would often have a glass.
We have digestives here but I’ve never seen anyone buy them. Also, when it comes to hot tea we prefer it flavored (like Celestial Seasonings or Bigelow brand). Plain black tea is one of those things you associate with getting free at hotels and meetings.
Calling it digestive makes it seem like medicine. Like digest? 🫢
It doesn’t but I they thought it did when they first started making them. Wish they made them here. My parents were stationed in England when I was a kid. Those remind me of childhood.❤
I mostly do herbal, green or oolong tea. Any of those with a sweet or pastry is the best.
In Publix, they have a "European" section with all of these biscuits. I LOVE the Hob Knobs!
At Walmart, a 300g box of Jaffa cakes where I live is over $16.
I live and have always lived in the USA and Tea was always a thing we had at my grandparents house over the holidays after lets say Thanksgiving Dinner. It was Lipton Tea with always Cream or Milk and Sugar and never anything to dip into the tea. Usually it was served with Desert like Cake as an example. That being said Tea was never a daily option, our daily option in my late teen years was Coffee always in the morning. Later Coffee became a staple for the working adult and became a more frequent drink.
Some say a Hot drink is only for cold weather days, but from my exp coffee was a wake up drink or a thing to boost energy. Tea on the other hand was a drink we had when we were not feeling well and usually had Lemmon in it for sore throats. It was also considered a drink you could have with the option I think with No Caffeen so it would not keep up up all night like a cup of coffee would do for most.
The closest to Tea and Biscuits for people in my country with the DIP factor is widely known to be Coffee and a Doughnut, where with whatever coffee you were having you would Dunk your doughnut into the coffee, Maybe you have heard of "Dunkin Doughnuts" coffee shop. So we do Dunk some things but for me I never wanted to dunk anything in a drink to make it wet or soft.
For me when I do drink Tea, I prefer a Green Tea, Orange Peko or even a Darker tea and usually sweet to taste.
So you get to eat cookies everyday. Americans a cookie bag is open I promise cookie bag emptied that day!! Digestives are yum but no we only have them in the British section of the grocery store. Our grocery stores have tiny sections for different countries that if you're lucky you can find some cool imported stuff. Asia Section, Spanish Section( where I get my Cuban spices and Maria cookies and guava paste), Hebrew section, there's a tiny Euro/British mixed section with some biscuits etc
I love when people are trying new food and the first think you hear is UMM. That is the ultimate compliment. It’s not a word it’s your soul groaning with pleasure. Tea and biscuits is a guilty pleasure and a lovely ritual. IMO American here, I appreciate a good thing from anywhere. ❤ We Americans LOVE chocolate anything but chocolate and orange is not a thing here. Our cookies, pastries and a lot of other foods have much much more sugar than European breads and pastries. I lived in Germany above a bakery and pastries are very different than here.
We can find digestives, tea, brown sauce, etc usually in the international aisle at some grocery stores
I have "American" biscuits (with honey or jam) with tea all the time! Not alien at all, lol. I've seen the chocolate digestives in the "international aisle" ; they are really good; I usually eat the entire pack in one sitting.
More and more, I am seeing Digestives in the stores here where I live. I just cannot drink hot tea when it's still 100F. So I save that for my 3 days of Winter. Seriously, my state and where I live, we don't get cold.
Digestive is called grayham cracker....they are rectangles and some are chocklat coated
Biscuits are bread and neither cake nor cookies. Biscuits are not meant to be eaten alone but, like bread, with a meal -- most often breakfast (with sausage gravy or with grits and eggs) but also other meals such as the biscuits served with chicken at Popeyes or KFC.They can be sweet if you spread inside them with honey or preserves/jelly/jam. Or you can spread butter instead and that adds flavor as well.
Yes! My mother-in-law made cat head head biscuits. If any were left from breakfast, my children love to eat them cold.
We probably do have them under some other name. I feel like the name “digestives” wouldn’t sell too well here..
They are just a shortbread cookie dipped in chocolate.
Kabir, my local Meijer store sells PG Tips and Yorkshire Gold tea along with the regular and chocolate digestives.
Giving kids/ teens tea and biscuits probably ain’t gonna wow them much. They should give them sticky toffee pudding with custard sauce. 🤤
I have tea each Tuesday with a friend. He goes to The Saint James Tearoom here and gives talks on the British Royal Family twice a year. For my part I prefer cookies with milk.
There are some teas that I find acceptable but most are, to me, thin and watery and mostly flavorless. I mostly drink Asian teas in Oriental restaurants. It seems fuller in taste. Regular "Teas" need a fuller taste and I might be tempted to drink more. Being a border state with Canada we seem to have a few of these "Digestives" in a scattering of stores but they aren't common.
Marmalade always tastes like the wrong part of the fruit was saved and used in making it.
Best description of marmalade. Lol
You can find digestives but they aren’t wide spread generally they are found in specialty international isles of grocery stores and such
I agree Jaffa’s are great. I could easily polish off a bag.
Jammie Dodgers are definitely my jam. As for jaffa cakes I'd prefer the raspberry ones over the orange ones and in the summer fresh out of the fridge for a nice refreshing taste.
I enjoy some teas in the winter. Chamomile/lemon/orange. There’s a brand that has flavored teas ( the chamomile is called “sleepy time”) it’s my favorite. Never seen digestives in the 3 states I’ve lived in. But I’d never dip a cookie in my tea. Now hot chocolate yes
I've tried making hot tea before, but no matter how long I steep it, it always tastes like hot water to me, so watching this made me feel better! I'm not making it wrong; I just can't taste it like this kids couldn't too. :) I hate anything orange flavored, so I would be right there with them about the jaffa cakes. I'd probably like the chocolate biscuits though. This was fun to watch! Thanks for the reaction. :)
The closest thing that we have to Tea and Biscuits in America would be Milk and Cookies
Nah we drink coffee the way they drink tea, we have coffee with our cakes and cookies. Coffee with desert is expected.
I love both
Maybe an age thing with the jaffa cakes. I know when I was younger I hated chocolate orange snacks.. now I like that flavor combo. Who knows really. Just personal perspective from own experience ❤❤
I grew up eating American biscuits with butter and jam, with a cup of tea or cawfee. And, we do eat Social Tea biscuits and similar type biscuits, which are types of cookie. It's not unusual here.
Kabir, before the internet, the closest US thing to a digestive biscuit was a graham cracker, but usually, not a lot of people nationwide eat them. I always thought of them as diet food. I don't think most Americans have ever had a real digestive biscuit. Americans aren't known for eating in moderation.
I'd make shortbread if I were to serve something biscuit-like with tea, but these days, I typically drink it all on its lonesome. I'm a US American, and replaced coffee with tea years ago, because my GI got to a point where it couldn't handle it. Now, coffee is relegated to Sunday mornings only, and when I do that, I'll sometimes serve chocolate donut holes, or mini eclairs.
Digestives are sold in most US grocery stores/supermarkets, usually in an international food aisle. Sometimes, they’re called something else. I think more American kids grow up eating graham crackers or animal crackers as a semi-sweet snack.
Are digestives called that because they used to be made with a mild laxative?
He hasn’t even started watching and I’m rolling my eyes. We have cookies. We just call them “cookies” instead of “biscuits”. Seriously, we’ve got all kinds of cookies even imported cookies or styles of cookies from around the world. We’ve been known to dunk them in milk, hot cocoa, coffee, and sometimes tea.
I love how Kabir states the "extravagant" number of calories in a package of Chocolate Hobnobs incredulously, with eyes agape... you forget that 2000 calories is barely an appetizer for some Americans, my man! 😆🤣
The only place I've found chocolate digestives is in some stores' International section. My parents and I brought several packs of chocolate digestives home when we were introduced to them by friends living in London
Same with Jaffa Cakes- But I'm a huge fan of both. I go through a whole pack in a day, they're so good.
We used to have what we called chocolate wafers which were a crisp chocolate cookie that were often used crushed and mixed with melted butter to make a crumb crust for certain pies, or bar cookies also used crushed on the outside edges of frosted cakes. However, the company that made them for years is no longer. We do have imported cookies that have chocolate on them but other than something that perhaps Pepperidge Farms sells I am not aware of any that are made in the US. You can find things similar to what is in this video at Trader Joe's or at international markets here but tea and cookies is not a regular thing for us, it would generally be milk or coffee for dunking. Americans are all about strong, blow your hair back flavors, bland things don't really go over well here. The UK seems much more like Europeans in their tastes than like Americans. Americans will even accept artificial flavors if they are strong like in fruity cereals and candies. I grew up eating basic cookies and European wafers and cookies so I rather like some of the plain ones. I don't like fruit and chocolate together so I probably wouldn't like the cake ones. The fact that these are served with tea is probably the deciding factor against them. Had they been served with milk for dunking there may have been a better reception. Here milk and cookies is a thing like tea and biscuits is in the UK and Europe. Hot tea is generally something we use medicinally (sick, cough, sore throat) more than the usual beverage of choice. Herbal Teas enjoy a certain degree of favor here but regular tea is probably consumed as Iced Tea (Americans do love their iced tea) more than hot tea. We drink a lot of water here (plain or flavored, carbonated or not) and it is quite possibly the favorite beverage. Beyond that we drink different carbonated soft drinks, coffee and energy drinks.
These are high school kids, not college students.
They sell Jaffa Cakes at Lidl in the US.
I’ve had Jaffa Cakes before and I loved the taste!!!
I would never even consider eating anything called a digestive unless it was in pill form! Lol.. well, until now!
If it tastes like hot water and nothing then the tea hasn't had enough time to infuse the water. It usually takes tea about 2 minutes it properly infuse the water in my experience with tea.
I’m not a tea drinker but if I’m congested I love some hot jasmine green tea with honey and some ginger
Tastes like hot leaf juice.
That's because it is...
@@bobbiscrittercave2348 Ok Zuko 😎
We have McVitie's digestive cookies here in Canada. Maybe I will buy some the next time I do my online grocery shopping
Americans know the answer to the Jaffa debate. It's between a UK biscuit and a cake. I think the word you've been searching for, for decades, is cookie. Personally, I hate the taste of zest from any citrus, so orange Jaffas are disgusting to me. But I love a raspberry or strawberry Jaffa.
Perhaps you can find a chocolate digestive in a specialty shop, but I've never seen them.
Wait until y'all discover Girl Scout Cookies and.. milk! The choices alone will put your mind into overload
Expecting us to like tea and biscuits is the same as us expecting you to like root beer
Tea was always big in my family when I was a youngster and I still love it today, though I'm definitely more of a coffee drinker now. As far back as I can remember, we would occasionally, though rarely, have biscuits with it too but they were called (branded) "tea biscuits". They were kind of bland yet the tea & "tea biscuits" seemed to compliment each other when the tastes were commingled. By themselves however, the tea biscuits were quite bland and rather tasteless. I much preferred buttered toast to dip in my tea than tea biscuits.
I know I've joked about it a lot (i.e., beans on toast) but another common dinner meal of my youth was creamed peas (or creamed chipped beef) on toast. It must have been a common menu item back in those days, since the very first episode of Band of Brothers shows it being served in the mess, during the Winters and Nixon, "Sobel is a genius" scene.😉 I think it may have been a poor man's dinner menu item leftover from the depression era or something. Peace🕊
TBH, It's similar to cookies & milk. Hell, I even ate biscuits with Chamomile Tea
Aussie here - love Rich Tea with tea. Do yours have currants and a bit of a ginger taste? I think chocolate-y biscuits (and Tim Tams of course) are nicer with coffee though.
Hot tea is pretty much a winter and adult drink here. I drink coffee all morning but when I have had too much then I switch over the hot tea. I have my favorites and let the tea bag stay in the cup a while. We call these "biscuits" cookies. We have a children's and teenager favorites call Animal Crackers. They are crackers in the shape of animals about 1" in length. Even adults secretly like them. They are dry and need milk to wash them down. Most kids are not introduced to hot tea until they are adults and can appreciate it. Here in the US iced tea the only tea that is a staple. Most of our teenagers don't even know that the US is the only place that has iced tea. That is a drink they would drink all day in the summer. And that is called Sweet Tea in the southern states. My parents drank iced tea all summer long by the gallons that they made themselves. I am not a fan of iced tea. I will drink hot tea any day first.
I like to dunk cookies in coffee instead of tea!
I like hot tea, but coffee is my go-to.
I’ve never had a single one of those! I’ve never seen them at a store
If they were called cookies and not biscuits, they may have fared a bit better. We have most of those biscuits over here in Canada, and mostly older( older English) people eat them. They serve them in all our hospitals because they have a lower sugar content than ours. We grew up with more sugary items over here. As for the tea, it looked like it was maybe plain tea? Perhaps made stronger as you say Kabir and with some milk and sugar in it and I bet they would have liked it. Great video! Many thanks.
I wonder if the Keebler fudge cookies would be close to an English biscuit.
I have seen digestives in Walmart. I've never tried them though. I might have to check them out. The rest of the cookies, I don't think I've ever seen here in the States.
I found Jammie Dodgers in the international section at the store. Definitely not my thing.
I like my tea to be strong.
Any time is tea time… if I lived in the UK I’d buy stocks in electric kettles. No wonder they’re such a necessity.
We have jammie dodgers in the US, we just call them linzer tarts
A Linzer torte is a pie.
@jwb52z9 yes, I know. I'm talking about the linzer tart, not torte. It's a small cookie
I automatically associated Jammy Dodger with The Doctor.
I read somewhere that a properly made cup of tea has more caffeine than a cup of coffee. If that's true how do brits manage to sleep at night?😆
It has to be a Tim Tam slam.
Those cookies would probably go better with coffee
Not bad, but it ain’t coffee and donuts. 😊
Never heard of a digestives.
I think the funny thing is that in the 21st Century, Brits will act like the simplest thing, like a dry, tasteless cookie, or a dab of jam, is a gift of the gods. These kids probably don't even *know* anybody who lived through the '30s or '40s, much less experienced anything even remotely like it, but they carry that same idea of deprivation and wonderment over a quarter gram of sugar like Laura Engles with a piece of rock candy.
Did he just say "yellow teeth"? At first, I thought I heard him say "yellow tea". (Oh, how I want some yellow tea.)
Also, with the Jammie Dodgers, they remind me of British trans UA-camr Jammidodger (I think he said that's where he got his channel name from). And the whole trying to separate them thing, that's how we eat Oreos here in the States. (As to which I'd prefer, Jammie Dodgers or the LA Dodgers, I'd say the Jammie Dodgers, despite never having had them. I'm indifferent about the LA Dodgers [their crosstown rivals, though...I'm a Mariners fan, so they're a division rival], and while I may not have had Jammie Dodgers specifically, I've had- and enjoyed- jelly-filled cookies.)
I can't stand hot tea it's gross but I can put away some iced tea unsweet with lemon juice
I only recently learned out british people take the tea bag out lol. Most americans just leave it in and finish it before it gets too strong. The last few sips are usually a bit bitter but its better than not being able to taste anything but hot water. And orange and chocolate balls are kidna popular around X-mas but personally i hate the comboniation of citrus and chocolate. Key lime pie, lemon bars, orange chiffon cake, in america you would never put chocolate with any citrus deserts. Graham cracker crumbles/crusts, , or meringue, or creame, but never chocolate. It just doesnt really pair with it.
I've been drinking tea since I was a little kid and our family never left the bag in the cup. You let it steep 3-5 mi minutes max for black tea then take the bag out. It drives me nuts to see people on TV leave the bag in.
@@dexterkitty22 Same. And I've never seen someone leave the bag in the cup IRL, just in the movies.
@@dexterkitty22Black tea is not the only type of tea tho. lots of people drink green tea and herbal teas which are more subtle. also how long does it take to drink 6 oz? steeping times are longer than the time it takes to drink it.
The word digestive is not appetizing.
We dip cookies in coffee and hot chocolate, nothing new.
A dry cookie dipped in hot water....yum...🤢🤢🤮
That looks terrible WE DONT DRINK TEA AND IT STAINS THE TEETH.
WE learn in school coffee does not stain the teeth we want white teeth and hate British food.
Kabir, the point is a lot of Americans don't care about calories. If we cared we would demand that our government ban all the chemicals and corn syrup that they allow into our food. If we did we would lose our fattest country award and you know we like to be #1 in everything. 🤣🤣🤣🤣