A crumpet isn't an English muffin cut in half. It's completely different. 👍

It makes me laugh hearing from a tourist that British food isn't good , especially when he's never left London. The food , range , availability, and safety standards of UK food is second to none. I love international food but I'm totally proud to eat British too !! 💕 and by the way, crumpets and muffins are totally different things 😆👍

The “bangers” name came about from the sausages that were made during rationing when butchers would add a lot of water and other fillers to bulk out their sausages to give customers more food from their small meat rations. The excess water content would turn to steam and the pressure caused the contents to explode from the sausage skins with a loud bang. The name just stuck even for thee much higher quality sausages generally used for bangers and mash today.

Scotland checking in: our tap water is the stuff of legend. It’s held in the same national pride as whisky or irn bru

Sausage Rolls - sausage meat wrapped in pastry. A very underrated British classic snack.

The idea that English food is bad just isn't true , some of the greatest chefs in the world are English, also black pudding is bloody delicious !

What Mark had pictured while he was talking about them weren't English Muffins - those were crumpets. Two very different things!

You need to try "toad in the hole" which is sausages cooked in a Yorkshire pudding batter in the oven. Great with mash, cabbage and gravy! Also, ale needs to be cellar cooled not ice cold. Larger is ice cold but ale and stout etc no way!

You can go anywhere in the UK and the tap water is more than safe to drink. You never need to waste money on bottled water. We also have Squash. You can add it to water to give it flavor.

100% you need to have a roast dinner! Pick your meat: - Beef - Pork - Lamb - Chicken Vegetables: Pretty much anything, but you have to have at least 3! Potatoes (1 or 2): - Roasted - Mashed - Boiled Staples and thus required by English law: - Gravy - Yorkshire puddings Edit: Stuffing

Also baked beans in UK makes a lot more sense for breakfast, because they aren't as heavily sweetened in America, so with being more savoury they definitely make a good addition. If you do go for the Full English, a good way to eat it is to gather a bit of everything on to a slice of toast and it; on top of the things shown in the video, depending on which cafe you go to, the Full English will also include fried tomatos and/or mushrooms.

No one actually eats afternoon tea how its served in the tea shops except on a special occasion, its usually a treat for the Mrs.

Don't worry about the baked beans -- you have never tried them -- the beans you have in the us are completely different

An English crumpet is nothing like a muffin.

I thought it was bad enough when he said a crumpet was an English muffin cut in half - served at high tea no less… then he said our tap water is undrinkable (it’s pretty nasty in some places, granted, but he made it sound like you shouldn’t even entertain our tap water)… then he said if you ask for lemonade you’ll get sprite? Plus plenty of other nonsense he slipped in there… no automated beer pumps and 10% tips on sit down meals? Where the flip did this man do his research?

Wherever you go for a fry up you can always say "no beans" or "no pudding" etc and they'll always accommodate the change, most places will offer to replace it with a different item too, like extra egg or another sausage. Black pudding took me years to get into (the reason you guys can't sell it I think is because it's made from blood I guess) but it's honestly so tasty.

Tap water in the UK is pretty much bottle water. It tastes the bloody same!

There is a restaurant where I live (SW Missouri) that serves English food, including pasties, fish and chips, and Shepard's pie - it's amazing! The owner is from Watford, UK.💜💚

In addition to mushy peas on fish and chips, some people are known to have it with gravey instead (or even both). Also some people like to have curry sauce on their fish and chips, which is not like any standard Indian curry. I'd recommend you try each one, every person is different in their tastes and it all comes down to preference

Mushy Peas are the dried hard peas, soaked in bicarbonate of soda over night, rinsed, then simmered on the stove for about 1 and a half hours. Add salt.. OMG !! You can buy the peas boxed with the bicarb tablet included.

The tap water varies. In London it’s not so nice, but in other regions it’s much nicer. It depends on the hardness of the water. Here in North West England the water is amongst the softest in the country and it really is fine to drink, I don’t buy bottled water as it’s over priced and no better

I’ve spent 25 years of my life not eating black pudding because of what it is, I finally had it on my full English a couple of months ago and oh my god I won’t go back now 😂😂

Just know that people generally only refer to a sausage as a "banger" these days when it's served with mash - the name of the dish is "bangers and mash". Don't go into a sandwich shop and ask for a banger sandwich, all that'll get you is a funny look!

Black pudding is one of my favourite things of a English breakfast.

Tap water is so much better in the UK than the US, not much different to bottled water.

American impressions of English food are heavily influenced by World War 2, when Americans came over en masse first as soldiers and then as tourists after the war. British food was rationed for 14 years from 1940 on, and took a long time to recover after that. If you look at what the Tudors and even the Victorians ate, it was a very different thing. Thankfully we're getting back to normal now!

If you come to the North West of England, you have to go to Blackpool and have 'Blackpool Rock', which is like hard boiled candy in a stick form. You will find rock shops basically at any coastal resort in the UK. Blackpool is great, and a traditional seaside resort. Lancaster for the history - outside of London it was the only city to have the most executions back in the day) and is known as 'the hanging town'. The Pendle Witch trials took place in Lancaster in the 17th century (the equivalent of the Salem witch trials) and they were hanged in Lancaster. Morecambe Bay too, beautiful scenery. And it's the gateway to the Lake District! Scones with butter, jam and clotted cream- it's a staple in the lakes. We do proper cakes up here. Afternoon tea is also a big thing. It's basically something you have in the afternoon (obviously), which consists of little finger sandwiches with the crusts cut off (usually egg mayo, tuna and cucumber, ham or cheese), followed by cakes and scones with jam and cream. Yorkshire puddings as well, it's like pancake batter but you put it in the oven on a cake tray and bake them with oil and they rise and go crispy. You have to put loads of gravy in them (meat gravy, not the white gravy you have with grits). Seriously, come to me if you want to know what to eat LOL :)

Yorkshire pudding, absolutely heaven

The thing is in Britain we don’t only eat British food. We eat Italian, Indian, Chinese, Thai, Jamaican etc etc. but of course we do have our staples like full English and roast dinners

Toad in the hole with onion gravy 😁

apple crumble is what we make when we can't be bothered to make pastry. 40%flour 30% sugar 30%butter and rub it together until it's like breadcrumbs then pour over sliced and cored cooking apples, cinnamon and sugar and bake for 30-40 minutes

I definitely saw the difference in waiting staff when I went to the US. Whilst a waiter/ress in the UK might come over once or twice to check if everything is okay, you won't get approached as much as you do in the US or see the waiter hovering near by as much. So you may need to call over a waiter if you require something, like a drinks refill, for example. It also depends on where you're dining. It doesn't make it bad service, just be aware that it's not expected here for waiting staff to be close by as much.

The Full English Breakfast is the greatest meal known to man. Even the European hotels have it, even though they hate us. 😀🇬🇧🍳🥓 Also...the reason you still find separate hot and cold taps in most places is because the cold water is from the mains and safe to drink. Hot water is heated up in a boiler so cant be guaranteed...therefore drinking water doesnt come from a mixer tap.

Sticking a pastry lid on top of a bowl of stew and calling it a "pie" should be made illegal.

Crumpets & Muffins are two completely different thing's & 'High Tea' is between 5pm & 6pm. If you are somewhere posh & ask for a High Tea at 4pm, you'll have a long wait. High Tea is Traditionally, Earl Grey Tea, Very thinly cut Cucumber Sandwiches without the crust & a piece of sponge cake. Tea with Scones, clotted cream & Jam (Traditionally it's Strawberry Jam) is called a Devonshire Tea.

You want to head to a greasy spoon or a truckers cafe for a proper full English breakfast For a Sunday roast head to a Carvery. You can usually have up to 3 different meats and all the trimmings. You won’t be disappointed Also check out an Eaton Mess for desert. Also check out the Chinese and Indians we have here in the UK Definitely a non British but British dish

My favorite English dinner has to be toad in the hole! - Sausages cooked in yorkshire pudding batter. Couldn`t think of anything else i`d rather have, delicious!

When it comes to tipping, unlike in the US, there is no lower minimum wage for people who are expected to make their money through tips; as such, it's less of a thing here because people aren't typically relying on tips to pay the rent. There's also less of waiters heading to your table and the like unless you call them over, because it's kind of assumed that you don't want them hovering around your table while you're eating.

Bubble and squeak is my absolute favourite comfort food. With cold cuts and pickled onions. A boxing day tradition!

Princess Di used to have a can of Heinz baked beans on toast each morning for breakfast.

I'm surprised how he said tap water is gross...i live in southend (just east of london) I've only ever drunk tap water for 26 years and it tastes fine 🤣🤣

Cornish pastie’s are probably the best food ever, and the tap water is fine with a splash of ribena

While the guy reviewing deserves credit, he's fallen into the trap of thinking restaurant food is typical British food. Take the picture of Bangers and Mash he shows. That isn't what it looks like. Generally is a huge scoop of mash, sausages and then smothered in onion gravy. He talks about the beer and how it isn't cold but that's because some ales are meant to served at room temperature. I'm not having a go at the dude who made the review video, all I wanted to suggest is maybe you find a video from someone who lives here to give you a better view on traditional grub. As always, great and entertaining video.

It’s shocking how little seafood we eat in the U.K. when there is incredible fish caught in our waters. You are never more than 70 miles from the sea in the U.K. so you can get amazing fish all over the country. Our chocolate is made with fresh milk and legally must contain at least twice the cocoa as in the US so that’s why it’s so different.

High Tea is different from Afternoon Tea which is what he has been describing with scones and cakes and normally served from 3pm. High Tea usually starts around 5/6pm and will include a hot savoury dish like cheese on toast, maybe a simple salad as well as the cake and tea.ý

I'd say for the breakfast, definitely do it in what we call a "greasy spoon cafe", maybe not every day as it will clog your arteries, but it tastes so much better from these little independent places than from a chain restaurant, or even the hotel! Definitely try black pudding, breakfast isn't complete without it! 😋

Actually Londoners drink a lot more coffee than tea from my observation. Tea is still traditional, people do drink it, but because the 9-6 working/commuting life leaves everyone so tired they're just guzzling coffee all the time. They walk into work in the morning cup in hand and have at least two more throughout the day probably. Starbucks, Costa, there are coffee places on practically every street in London (only slight exaggeration).

In the North East of England and Scotland, tap water is excellent.

Traditional British food ..shepherds pie cottage pie , Sunday roast , fish and chips , cornish pasties, cream tea , full English, scotch egg , ploughman's lunch , beans on toast , many different pastry pies , sticky toffee pudding, eves pudding , syrup sponge , jam roly poly , I could go on 😄✌

if you like chocolate from Cadbury that much you can have a tour around the main Cadbury factory in Birmingham UK and its quite cheap and you get samples for free when on the tour

Fish: most of Britain is near the sea, so fish should be fresh. Btw, Walter, shepherd's pie is made with pieces of lamb; cottage pie is similar but made with mince.

'High tea' can also be called afternoon tea. We also have crumpets in the mornings with cheese and butter

Crumpets and muffins are completely different plus you definately have to try black pudding fried up with your breakfast 😋

I disagree on the tap water. It's delicious up in the nordics at least, and it wasnt bad in the UK when I lived there.

In America, bottled water is just tap water in a bottle, which is so crazy to any Brit as all our bottled water is from a natural source. Please react to Tom Scott’s video on Why Dasani water failed in the U.K.

I love Cornish pasties they fit in your hand, they come in meat and potato filling, or cheese and onion or curry filling.

Crumpets are NOT English muffins!! As different as apples & pears. Tap water in parts of Northern England is gooooood!

Hash browns are not part of an 'English' breakfast. They are an import from the US. Even the Swiss rösti (which is just like a giant hash brown) has only been around for a relatively short time in the UK. 70 year ago we didn't talk about 'traditional' breakfasts, we just called it 'bacon and eggs'.Bacon and eggs usually included the occasional sausage and some starch in the form of toast or bread fried in bacon fat. It was a post-war luxury which we typically only ate at the weekends. Who has time to cook all this stuff when you have to get out of the house to go to work?

It's the same in the UK ,if you get lousy service at a restaurant then they don't get a tip ,but if the service is brilliant then you tip . In hotels I tip housecleaning ,dinning room ,front desk(reception ) and the tour bus driver if he's been driving for a week .

8:39 What did he just say. "Boney Apple Feet" 😂 It's bon appétit.

Sausages from different regions taste very differently to each other, so be sure to try local wherever you go. I'm vegetarian now and they've only just started to get all the different styles in, but I did miss all the different varieties 😂

I love the taste of our tap water 🇬🇧but I guess I’m used to it. My American friends think our water tastes like soil and I think American water tastes like swimming pool water, very chemically tasting.

He's spot on about Pies. We ROCK pies. Pie on a bed of mash with mushy peas. Good god, it's heaven.

Australian food is the best,BBQs, meals at the pub, we have the Gold Coast the beaches have the whitest sand surfing,the Great Barrier Reef and so much more you would love it here.🤠🤠🤠🤠🦘🦘🦘🦘🐨🐨🐨🐨

I've seen so many posts about full English breakfasts, I'm starting to think Americans must think we eat it everyday! It's a weekend thing usually, or you get one if your out and about, but most of us start the day with toast or cereal and a brew!

My absolute favourite British dish is steak and kidney pudding. Closely followed by the full English. Haggis is banned in the US but black pudding isn’t. I believe it’s called blood pudding there

English breakfast is eggs, bacon, fried bread, sausage and grilled tomatoes, tea and two slices of toast with butter and marmalade

I worked for a multinational company, and our German manager who visited annually used to say he came over specifically for the English breakfast.

Tap water is great in most of the country maybe not London, I've not been there for a while. This feels really dated, the food here is fantastic- not just pies!

try toad in the hole with mash potato, peas and beef gravy

Hey I am from Manchester, Everyone over here in England drinks tap water. Also it is very rare if we tip anyone, we do not have a waiter that comes to the table and introduces themselves and stays with their own specific tables to wait on. Usually we have to excuse a waiter and ask for a drink or for them to take your order and it is common for a few different waiters to tend to you

UK has hard and soft water depending where you go and it's all drinkable, any bad taste is usually in big cities due to pipe works. Tipping is not necessary as all workers get minimum wage , £8 or more unlike US where tipped staff can be on $2 hour.

He is taking about Afternoon tea. High tea is a completely different thing. High tea s typically an early evening meal served with tea and bread and butter.

Hi, Tap water is fine, its always safe. The taste changes by area, London is probably the worst, but like most things its personal preference. Try it, it won't make you ill, if you don't like the taste you can get bottled. Its often worth running the tap for a short time, I tend o fill a glass, pour that away then fill again.

Scones, jam and clotted cream.. lovely

I had back pudding for my breakfast a couple of days ago xx also I have mushy peas for my lunch with mince sauce xx try it xx

I don't think Black Pudding is illegal. I've seen people in the US have it. I think Haggis might be illegal because it's traditional recipe uses a bit of sheep's lung.

Having been to the US a number of times, the American view of British food comes from their grandparents or great grandparents who served here in WWII. We had rationing where the food was designed to sustain us rather than to please us. But during that time obesity went down as did heart disease and other food related illnesses. Since WWII British food has changed dramatically, we have embraced some of the best cuisines from around the world and top chefs from around the world praise the quality of what we produce. The way we produce our food is to higher standards than most other countries, so the quality is internationally recognized. As I've said I've been to the US and my experience quantity over quality is the norm, quality is harder to find, but it is there.

black pudding is clotted blood, there are two dishes there are almost the same shepherds pie and cottage pie, shepherds pie is made with lamb mince meat and cottage pie is made with beef mince meat

Tin tomatoes is always offered as an alternative to beans. Back pudding is made from blood.

Crumpets aren’t English muffins, really different texture.

The myth about Britain having bad food mainly comes from Americans and refugees from other countries staying there in WW2, when Britain was rationing. Same goes for the whole "bad teeth" thing. With Britain being the primary staging area in Europe it saw a massive influx of people from countries that hadn't experienced rationing in their own countries who later went back and told the horror stories about how bad the food was. Also, a traditional full English is back bacon, Egg (fried, scrambled or poached), Tomato (grilled or fried), fried Mushrooms, Toast (or fried bread) and sausage. Common extras are black pudding, beans (almost standard these days), Hash browns, bubble and squeak (regional) and potato cakes (again, regional). As a side note. When it comes to alcohol make sure to try some mead. The traditional one tastes like I always assumed beer would taste when I was a kid lol. But it's growing in popularity, and can be flavoured with almost anything same as gin or vodka. It's the oldest recorded alcoholic beverage.

We have something called squash which we put in tap water. It’s a concentrated fruit flavoured syrup which you add to water. English staple.

Betty's tea room in York is amazing!!

As a West Country man may I add Pork Steaks marinated and baked in a quality cider' or Pork & Apple In Cider Casserole. But it has to be a good quality local cider and not any commercial rubbish 😉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

When you do visit JT definitely get your fish and chips (with plenty of salt and vinegar) from a Chippy rather than a restaurant, even better if your by the seaside eaten straight out the paper x

In many pubs you get your table, there will be a table number, and you then go to the bar to order your food and drink. The food is usually brought to your table. Quite common in UK. Pubs rarely have waiter service. You go to the bar yourself to get drinks. Food wise, Sunday roasts, full English breakfast, pies and chips, fish and chips, ploughman's lunch, sausages, cornish pasties, sausage rolls.

Most people don't have afternoon tea at 4pm these days. My grandmother used to make a pot of tea and have it with a biscuit at 4pm, but people don't typically have a full high tea every day. They might go out to have one for a treat every now and then - tea with little sandwiches, cakes and scones with jam and cream. People do have several mugs of tea or coffee per day, eg at 11am or 4pm, often with a biscuit. Water in London is revolting, but in the North, the water is soft and tastes fine.

The real ales and draught beers in pubs are generally dispensed by hand pumps which use a vacuum to send the beer into the glass whereas Lager ( light beer) normally is dispensed by a button which uses gas to push the beer into the glass. With the hand pumps the taste of the beer isn’t tainted by the gas.

"I just wanna go through all the different pubs, like hit as many as I can" Well JT us Brits call that a Pub Crawl.

Pub meals really are brilliant, I’ve worked in pubs and always had my meals there

You have to have the right baked beans because the sauce can vary , Heinz baked beans are one of the best

The tap water in Australia is really good. It's clear and pure, we only ever fill up our drink bottles from our kitchen tap.

If you make it to Northern Ireland, then you have to go for an Ulster Fry - like the "Full English" raised to a whole new level :D It's hard to beat a good steak & kidney pie, too . . . Cadbury chocolate isn't what it used to be. I can't eat it any more, and find Galaxy is much nicer.

As a kid I always thought of Wellington Boots when Beef Wellington was mentioned.

Sunday Roast dinner is absolutely something you must do whilst here in the UK as is a English Breakfast of some sort. As for Black Pudding, I'm a recent convert to it over the last few years and I'd recommend trying it at least (I'm still more into White Pudding which is more an Irish thing)

When you come here, come to Birmingham. They have amazing local areas good for Indian and Chinese food, and Cadbury World. It is the tourist attraction at the main Cadbury factory. We went in February 2020. They give you chocolate while going round, you can play with melted chocolate and learn to spread it, and see workers decorating the different products. We also booked a chocolate themed afternoon tea in the cafe which was delicious. The gift shop had some more unusual products and the imperfect chocolates. Mountain Dew is harder to find in stores here. I’m not sure about London stores as I live in the South West. I only know of a couple of places here that sell it. The tap water tastes different in each area. London and the surrounding areas are usually fed by the Thames, so it has more limescale in it. It furs up the pipes and your kettle quickly. The Midlands water comes from Wales, and has less limescale. We use a Brita water filter to take the scale out. When at cafes, look for home baked goods. The culture for home baking is huge. Try a traditional Victoria sponge, a Bakewell tart, traditional fruit cake and of course scones. There are regional recipes to look for too, like Welsh cakes and Bara Brith in Wales and Eccles cakes. Hot puddings are great here too. Bread and butter pudding is a must, with lots of custard. Any form of crumble, mince pies ( sweet mincemeat, mixed fruits and spices when made at home is also soaked in alcohol for a period of time) jam rolly polly, treacle tart, and sticky toffee pudding. If you make it to Yorkshire, look for a cafe chain called Betty’s. They are part of Taylor’s of Harrogate who produce teas and coffees. We had a fantastic afternoon in a Betty’s celebrating my husband’s birthday. It’s a traditional English tea room style, and has a huge choice of tea blends and cakes. It wasn’t cheap, but was incredible. We hope to go again at some point, although you can buy a limited number of products online.

Here in Scotland we drink water straight from the tap. We use it for diluting juice and all sorts

If you’re in England and want to try an English breakfast (or “fry up” as we call it), the best advice is to ask a cab driver to recommend a good cafe. If anyone knows where to get the best fry up in town, it’ll be a cabbie. The high tea thing is not that common over here. We drink tea, obviously, many of us getting into double figures a day, but high tea, with finger sandwiches and little tea cups, that’s the sort of thing posh people do. I’m 45 and I’ve never had high tea in my life and I don’t know anyone who has. We have tea in big mugs, not dainty little tea cups.

I think that you probably don`t get fresh fish in the USA unless you are in a State that borders onto ocean. And the best fish comes from cold waters, so as the UK is an island with access to the North Atlantic for our fishermen , we are used to good quality fresh fish as a staple diet in our daily menu .