Hey everyone! We REALLY enjoyed doing this video! So much fun! Please Like & share with your friends! Regrettably the "Ham Banana Rolls" 🤮 are AMERICAN! We are ashamed, 😂 Thank you for your continued support! We love you all! ❤

We are so ASHAMED that the Ham Banana Roll is AMERICAN!! We sincerely apologize for that nastiness!! 😔 😂

The Union Flag/Jack thing… it is now completely acceptable, officially, to refer to the flag of the United Kingdom as EITHER a Union Flag OR a Union Jack - except when flying from a ship when it is ALWAYS a Jack.

The variations of 'shire' pronunciation is probably due to regional accents. As you already know, walk 20 minutes down the road and the accent is different, the colloquialisms are different and you can cause a riot by calling a bread roll a barm cake.

I recommend more Map Men video's. Educational yet funny across the board. Laughter is the best medicine some say !

I live in Shropshire, formerly Salop in Old English and the counties official name 1974-1980, people still now refer to us as 'salopians'! ☺

The pronunciation of counties ending in Shire will vary across the UK - where I come from Cheshire - Lancashire would be pronounced with Sheer at the end. Yet Shire horses would be pronounced shyer. They moved my county borders so I live in a different county now without moving to a different place.

Once again a great video and reaction. On the Freddie Mrcury anniversary, my wife worked in a certain bank and one of her clients was a Miss Bulsara, which is Freddy's real surname and she is Freddy's sister. He sometimes came into the bank with her and my wife chatted with him when he came in. One of the nicest people on the earth is how she described him. Its hard to believe its now 30 years since he passed. Keep the vids coming, I look forward to them x

You should take another look at the ghastly building shown immediately before the Banana/Ham/Custard thingy. This is Trellick Tower in west London, designed by a controversial modernist architect, who also annoyed James Bond author Ian Fleming when he designed some unattractive modernist houses close to Fleming's home. Ian Fleming had his revenge by using the architect's name as the villain in a James Bond novel; the character was repulsively ugly, cheated at cards, cheated at golf, maltreated women and was the world's greediest man. The architect's name was Erno Goldfinger.

We all know the best thing to come out of Yorkshire is the road to Lancashire...🌹 it'd be great if you reacted to The War of the Roses :) 🤔

Shire is pronounced the same as the US state of New Hampshire is, no need to over think it!! In the UK, biscuits are dry, snap when they are fresh and soft when they are stale. A cookie is softer when fresh and can go hard when stale (much the same as a cake sponge!!). So that plate was definitely biscuits to us and not a direct translation to cookie either!! 😁

We eat sliced bananas with hot custard, and that isn't so bad. We also enjoy sliced banana on fresh crusty buttered bread, not the factory doughy stuff. You ladies will get on here in the UK just fine. You're getting the hang of our humour. You laugh at the ridiculous, and we've got lots of that over here. It's what we are.

It makes more sense to concider it like this. UK County = US State UK District = US County With the exception of Rates and by laws ALL Taxes and Laws are Nation wide. So VAT and Income Tax do not vary by County, whereas you have Federal , State and Local taxes. Love the vids, and keep enjoying yourselves :)

Old enough to have been born in Warrington Lancashire which was changed to Warrington Cheshire in early 1970s. Another great episode

Laws are pretty standard through out the country , however there are what are called Local bye laws , these are things like parking restrictions , building permits etc , and income rax is standard nation wide , and is paid monthly ( if you are an employee ) not yearly as the USA . Have a happy Thanks Giving

I used to work for Royal Mail and understand why the counties changed in that respect for the post.. it was all about how far an address is from the nearest mail centre... For example, I used to live near a town called Burton-upon-Trent which is in the county of Staffordshire, but the closest mail centre is actually Derby, not Stafford, so the county is Staffordshire but the postcode is DE (Derby), We have a village called Ashby-de-la-Zouche which is in the county of Leicestershire, but the nearest mail centre is Derby, (not Leicester) so residents of that village are in the county of Leicestershire with a DE postcode.. It was all about logistics , hence why we don't need to name counties on an address, Royal Mail can get your post to you with the first line of address and postcode only ! ....and also yes county borders were changed again in the 1970s for logistics and local council funding etc etc .. The village I lived in, in Leicestershire, used to be in Derbyshire, but borders changed because noone really wanted our villages and town 😂🤷🏽‍♀️ The sub-counties are mainly to do with local services, schools, waste collection, etc.. again, a logistics thing.. So I have just moved from North West Leicestershire to Hinkley and Bosworth... it's only a few miles apart, same county of Leicestershire, but our bins and waste collection are different , we have to apply for different council tax, different council offices.. Don't forget, we mostly live on top of each other like sardines here in the UK.. a border is literally a road, a sign, and can be nothing more than that, 1 mile is the difference between counties.. I live in the middle of five counties, right in the very centre of England.. Watching your video and recounting all of this has made my head spin, and I live here 😬😳🤣🤣🤣😲😳😂

Map Men is a great channel with lots of fun videos so I would be happy to see more reactions of them. Y'all make me miss Ohio very much.

This video was a great choice. Really enjoyable! I’ve got to say, a lot of us Brits are probably also confused about the history/changes in county boundaries/names etc! Absolutely thrilled that your great country (not county!) can lay claim to that incredible pudding/casserole!! If you are interested in more UK history, there is a fantastic tv series called Horrible Histories. It’s actually a kids educational programme, but it’s made with humour and is great for adults too. Sadly it may be blocked by KZfaq, but it’s worth a try. Good to see you’re nearly better Natasha. Hope you’ve managed to avoid catching the lurgy, Debbie!

Congratulations on 9k. The enthusiasm and humour you both show really shines through.

The image they used for 'Count' was of course Count Duckula, the vegetarian vampire duck.

If you like Map Men I recommend the Technical Difficulties Quiz: Citation Needed and Two of These People Are Lying.

Congratulation on reaching 9,005 subs! 👏👏👏 Do you realize that when you finish this video you'll probably know more about counties than most people in the UK. 😁

Minor local ordinances DO vary from county to county but national law applies to the whole of England. Historically Durham was a county palatine under a Prince-Bishop so its laws were different until the 1850s.

Æthelstan - nowadays often spelled Athelstan* is considered the first king of England. A lot of people think it was Alfred the Great, be he was only king of Wessex. It's too long to get into here, but before then, England was divided into at least 4 kingdoms, and before that there were the Romans... *Now the th in Æthestan is pronunced with the unvoiced th (as sin south), but at the timee it was written with þ wich was used for both th sounds (as in the, too). However, given the way the name was given in Old Norse (the language of the Vikings) who had both sounds, written þ and ð respectively, it can be argued that it was a voiced th: Aðalsteinn. In the continental Scandinavian languages today the ð evolved into d, the þ into t (Thor, Þórr, has become Tor) pretty much consistently and systematically.

I was wondering why I thought Humberstone was still a thing because I go by the sign everyday, and I've just discovered it's a town now instead of a county. I've just learnt this and I've lived down the road to Humberstone my whole life lmao.

Congrats on 9k, been following your channel from almost the start and I love your fun and enthusiasm. Stay safe, love from London 🫖❤️🎉.

"The Secret Mugger" 😂 You are welcome Ladies & I'm happy You both enjoy them. Sending Big Love Your way 🤗❤️

Never seen that food item in my life and I grew up in the 1970s. 😂

Always knew your channel would be successful . There are two types of vloggers who win views either outrageous or honest. You've combined both you're outrageously honest😀 In all fairness more power to your channel guys . Love Lee and Christine XXX PS we're are from Essex (Canvey Island) but now live in Suffolk, ( Ipswich )

This is one of the best channels that I have added on here. Loving the positive energy from you two lovelies ❤️👍

Your enthusiasm and positivity is medicine for my soul. Thankyou to both of you for being you.x

The county I live in, in Wales, was spilt-up into smaller counties in the 1990s but people still use the old county name on addresses.

Thanks for this, ladies. I'm a brit, and I learned quite a lot from this. Always enjoy your videos. Keep em coming....

I knew you'd love the channel Jay Foreman! Which is why I recommended his video 'Why are British Place Names So Hard to Pronounce?". I'm so glad you proved me right by liking his channel.

So glad this suggestion worked out so well! Really love your reaction - especially to the banana-ham-cheese casserole!

What they did not mention was there is only 1 "County" left in England and that is County Durham.

Another fun video I love love love your chemistry together. Congrats on 9k 👏

Hello lovely friends. If you enjoyed the Mapmen doing our counties, then I recommend you find their video on British place names, it's a hoot! FYI, being "ancient" I can actually remember the 70's. "The first episode of Rainbow" refers to a kids TV show (think Sesame Street, but simpler and cheaper). As to the concoction of bananas, ham and cheese sauce, I have no idea although I have had grilled banana with grilled bacon. It's actually way better than it sounds it should be. Confession time now, Natasha. I started to watch your last post about Christmas and all. but had to shut it off quickly. In the 3 months that I've been watching the pair of you, I have become so fond of you both (yes, I know it's dumb) that I truly hate to see either of you so upset. There is quite enough misery in normal life without dredging it up without reason. Love, hugs, kisses etc.....................................the ancient Englishman.

Hey ladies I'm a Yorkshire lass I would pronounce it York shur. I live just above the sticky outy bit ( East riding of Yorkshire on the map lol) never accepted and they changed it to Humberside, always put Easy Yorkshire on any correspondence. And I'm from Hull which is in East Yorkshire always was always will.

I love you ladies. You are very open minded. Royal Mail goes back to the 1660's Every wonder why British stamps are the only stamps that do not have their country name on them when all other countries do? I is because WE INVENTED stamps in 1840. Love your show. Alan ( From the Metropolitan Borough of West Midlands or as we who live hearin call Warwickshire !!) Keep it up ladies TTFN (Ta Ta For Now)

YOU had Yorkshire pronounced correctly, well done.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 still laughing about the ham banana thing. I really love this video. Thank you 😁

Congrats on 9k , I was subscriber no 6 .I,m proud of you both , love your enthusiasm to learn , keep having fun .x.

Really enjoyed that, very interesting. You both compliment each other so well 👏👏👏

Enjoyed this super interesting 🤔 any fellow Lancashirians?!🌹

Hahaha this was a great video I actually learnt something about my home town ( Leicestershire) and also found the hamcheesebananacasserole hilarious 😂 soooo glad it didn't catch on would not want to try that 😄

I know there is an ad at the end of most mapmen vids, but they are just as funny as the main part. Congrats on 9.08K subs.

I was born and raised in Lancashire, then in 1971 the border with Cheshire to the south was moved north and we were told we now live in Cheshire. I've never accepted this and always omit the country from my address.

Moment of silence for the banana meat cheese casserole 🤣🤣... that had me

I’m from Cornwall, which is basically the same in all county maps because of our history and position in the far south west of the U.K. :)

Congrats on the 9k ladies love the show keep it going 😁

Shire : when used on its own or to describe an object like shire horse, we pronounce it as "shyer". When it forms part of a county name, it is more like "shh". So a shyer horse but York-shh or Nottingham-shh.

In the US, the mail is delivered by the US Postal Service. In Britain, the post is delivered by the Royal Mail.

The map men are great - and have done so many really cool videos. Very educational and very entertaining - do more!

Hello to you both, that was a very entertaining reaction, and quite funny, I love your sense of humour. You can definitely count on me to be with you on Wednesday for Freddies anniversary.

Rutland, smallest, the most posh and a "jolly nice walk" Very pretty.

Ah I love jay foreman videos good choice. And its always a treat when you two upload 😊 Hope you're both doing well and grats on 9k subs

Provision of local services vary considerably from county to county, as do policing standards, etc

Congratulations on your 9k well i live in the UK and I'm confused great video girls x look forward to your show's every week keep up the good work hugs sue

I’m from Lincolnshire. It was a big deal when some of our county was taken away for Humberside.

You girls totally get the brit sense of humour.

Congrats on 9K, looks like if you put your mugs together you’ll make a complete flag, cheers

Loved this 🤣🤣🤣 London/ now Essex here.... proper down South and we say Shuh as in YorkSHUH .... the 'Shire' is definitely pronounced differently across the country depending on regional accents ... some of my family say 'Sheer' but I'm common 🤣🤣🤣 congratulations on 9K ... thats incredible in 3 months x

Fantastic video! Glad you are enjoying our very long and complicated history! My county (Norfolk ) is part of the ancient kingdom of East Anglia. East Anglia is commonly spoken of - even Universities and TV stations are named after it - but you will not see it on any maps!

I live in Northamptonshire, which has, only this year, been split into two Unitary Authorities. It's currently a mess, with the two new authorities still working out how to split the old County-wide services like Libraries and Highways between them. I'm in North Northamptonshire but we had a new delivery of books into our local library which said property of West Northamptonshire on them. The government was forced to make some sort of change when the old County Council went bankrupt. They basically sold everything that wasn't nailed down (and some stuff that was) and built a new, no luxury spared, County Hall, which now stands empty.

People outside Yorkshire do care what county they are from, people are proud of where they are from.

Well done on the 9k subs ladies glad your doing so well xx

Your right about the UNION JACK, because it is flown on a JACK STAFF on a ship.

People from Yorkshire pronounce it 'Yorksha'. Only southern English people say 'Yorkshear'. Thanks for uploading, loving the channel, guys :)

Shame they only showed people from Yorkshire who Americans will probably never have seen or heard of. They could have mentioned for example Dame Judi Dench, Sir Patrick Stewart.Sir Ben Kingsley, Charles Laughton. Maybe the Bronte's or William Wilberforce. We Yorkshire people don't really care what the authorities do with the map because as far as we are concerned the only map that counts is the first one they showed. In Yorkshire we also have Yorkshire Day on August 1st.

Lovely Reaction Ladies and I Have Subscribed :) You have just stumbled upon 2 of the funniest and wittiest and cleverest Guys out there with over 1 Million Subscribers which they have for a very good reason. Their videos about The London Boroughs ( all 32 of them unlike the 5 Boroughs in New York ) is funny and informative but there are so many Jay Foreman videos especially when he teams with Mark and forms "Map Men". You weren't to know but after the advert, Jay sings a song that he created involving all the County names...:)

Love you guys and your videos and I am a retired widower who lives in Halifax in West Yorkshire. If ever you are in this area of England you are more than welcome to stay at my place.

I live in the totally unimaginative county named Tyne and Wear, they lumped bits of Northumberland and Durham together, all that history from the ancient Northumbria and the land of " Prince Bishop's " co Durham from Roman's and Vikings and some how, we ended up sounding like an Estate Agent's.

I am so proud of you that your saying the Union Flag! Yes the Union Flag was designated to ships only, but nowadays as the Union Jack is no longer used, the Union Flag /Jack are interchangable

I really enjoyed this and I am looking forward to the Queen video on Weds. Congrats on your 9k + subs. You are both wonderful people, please enjoy your Sunday.

Oh almost for got in the clip of 1972 did you here him say Rainbow, well that was a kids show, I never missed an episode. I watched a few clips on youtube recently, I couldn't believe it, tv execs must have thought we were all simpletons, I laughed my ass off you should give it a watch. 💗💗💗

Counties govern certain aspects of day to day life, such as roadworks cleaning, fire dept ambulances, and local taxes but the main law of the land is the same throughout Britain, Wales has its own Government,as does Scotland and part of Ireland, but they still rely on the Parliament of London England for monies towards larger costly exspenditure! It's complex.😳

Yay for West Midlands

I loved the show & these 2 guys are great!! About those bananas! I had relatives that served peeled bananas, rolled in mayo & crushed peanuts for dessert! I actally loved them BUT I love mayo on or in everything! A really funny & enjoyable show!!!

Glad your on the mend. Love the Map Men, enjoyed you reaction. You should let their adverts play out, they are very entertaining with a lot of effort put in.

I've never laughted so much on a Sunday morning in a long time thank you x To all the Bananas in the world I'm sorry 🍌😂x

Well 1970's cookbooks were a lawless wasteland, and plantain and prosciutto is sort of acceptable. What the Cheez Whizz was doing on there is a mystery. At 06.40 Um, well, the Union Jack thing is an urban myth. Quite a modern one actually which has a lot to say about social media and none of it good. A Jack was a flag flown by a ship. The Union flag flown from a navy ship was a Union Jack. It fell into common useage and back in 1908 the admiralty told the government of the day, in relation to the appropriateness of the Union flag being called the Union Jack by people, "Meh, whatevs bbz xoxox" (I summarize) and ever since it hasn't mattered until, well, y'know Facebook and that thing of telling people things whether they're true or not. Anyway, love the channel.

Congratulations on the 9k subs and the continued success of your channel 👏 👍 😀

When I saw the thumbnail I thought Debbie was teaching Natasha YMCA lol. Love from Lancashire 🇬🇧🇺🇸

Counties are if anything equivalent to your state's, its not really broke down smaller than that. We do have parishes within counties and they have small councils, but they don't wield any power other than litter picking.. Tax is mainly the same everywhere including Wales Northern Ireland. And very similar in Scotland. The only tax that differs from town to town is council tax, which also differs from house size to apartment. This we pay to our local council for things like Rubbish (Garbage) collection and street cleaning...

I laughed for every 25 minutes of this. One day, when the world is opened up again, you should come to my part of England and fall over laughing at our accent and piles of bricks they call "history"

Banana meat cheese casserole as Debbie called it,oh yea, together your banter is brilliant, keep it up

Thank you for another informative and fun video

Hiya Girls comment number 1! I hope your both well, I'm going to Google how many counties there are in the UK and the USA!

I don’t remember eating anything like that. Banana and custard yes, but banana custard with meat, no thanks.

a Yorkshire man from South Yorkshire here. i find your reaction to all this hilarious

In the North East of England, in particular in Newcastle where i’m from the local dialect (Geordie) pronounce the word ‘shire as ‘sha. As in shadow. So any of the shires become Yorksha or Lancasha with the A being pronounced the same as the A in attack. So it’s a sharp A. Really enjoying your videos, keep up the good work ❤️

The correct pronunciation is “shuh” You learned it correctly. Ignore the video guy he’s confusing.

A British county is probably more equivalent to a US state than a US county

There are some amazing videos with map men and I would love to see you both react to more of them! Keep up the good work! 🤗

9k subs in 3 months is great TBH 👌🙂👏 keep going ladies x

Good fun videos - both yours and theirs. One thing they got wrong, Rutland is not the smallest county; the Isle of Wight is an island off the South Coast and is a county, and when the tide is in it is slightly smaller than Rutland :-)

lol my cheeks are hurting at you taking the pi$$ at the banana, ham, cheese casserole

Hi girls, so funny watching that 🤣 I Live in Liverpool, which is now part of Merseyside. Prior to 1972 we were part of Lancashire. There are one or two people I would love to try that Banana stuff on 😜💗

Another fun video ladies. You must check out and review more of the great work produced by these two guys....