Please try marmite in 2 ways, 1 very thinly spread on buttered toast with a poached egg 😍. 2. Toast bread lightly pop a bit of marmite on then cover with cheese and grill. I promise you will enjoy one of them just please spread extremely thinly x love you guys

You should try some british food and snacks and also do something on what you think a british school would be like

Patriotic advertisements only really exist on the UK during special occasions such as anniversaries or remembrance days.

You can buy Cadbury in America, sort of. It's licensed to the Hershey Company and taste absolutely nothing like the original.

I know I’m a little late to this, however this is a Christmas advert for football matches. Be warned there is some swearing but it’s bleeped out kzfaq.info/get/bejne/er5yeq1-v8ecaX0.html

Lloyds.

Short synopsis here: www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/Our-Group/our-heritage/2015-our-milestone-year/250-years-of-lloyds-bank/life-at-lloyds-bank/at-the-sign-of-the-black-horse/

or a woman in a black robe haha

@@jamesbarnes4964 It's not a robe, it's a cape. And it's not Lloyds Bank, it's Scottish Widows. Apart from that, you're right.

I heard the music as soon as i saw the horse, even though it's muted.

Haven't they! :)

Alex Cox Including that very creepy one where a young girl sends a telescope to a dirty old man on the moon so he can spy on her in her bedroom.

There seems to be a rivalry between John Lewis, Aldi and Sainsburys every Christmas for who does the best ad

They were for a year or two, now nobody gives a fuck

@@christopher6921 You won't slay many dragons with that attitude you naughty boy...

Thank you 😊 I was about to put up a timeline 😊

So helpful! Thank you!

06802300 Hovis is only bread I eat, wholemeal thick sliced.

Although campaigning had begun decades before the official movement was set up. :)

​@@WanderingRavens The Hovis advert is titled “Go On Lad” (a popular and historical working-class phase). It was released in 2008 to combat declining sales of Hovis Bread. Hovis Bread was formed in 1886. The advert celebrates 122 years of Hovis’s and Britain’s history (1886-2008). Thus, it’s exactly 122 seconds long with each second representing 1 year going by from 1886-2008. (Though the transitions between decades do not occur in real-time). The advert shows particularly significant British events during that timeline in highly accurate historical detail. Most noticeably it changes the style of our lad’s clothing, to reflect the clothing style of the decade he's in. At the beginning he's seen in late Victorian Britain with the Victorian street, shops and the horse and cart. Notice the Victorian flat cap our lad is wearing. When he squeezes through the gate all his clothes change, particularly the loss of the flat cap. We’re in 1912 (Titanic & the Suffragette movement going strong). Then 1914 (Beginning of WW1). He hops over the wall. His clothes change slightly. We're in the 1920s and early 1930s (The car & the clothes people are wearing). He runs through the alleyway and his clothes change again. It’s 1940-1941 (WW2 The Blitz). He climbs over the wreckage. From this point on his clothes change very dramatically. It’s 1953 and the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth the 2nd. He runs from the street party and has another clothes change. It’s 1966, England has won the Football World Cup. (The Car waving the flags and the chanting. Also, notice the Black man our lad runs past, reflecting the mass immigration of black people from Britain's former Caribbean colonies that occurred during the 50s and 60s). Again, his clothes change as he runs into the 1970’s. (Notice the Asian couple walking past, reflecting the mass immigration of Pakistani, and Indians from both India and parts of Indian Africa into Britain during the 60s and 70s). Another change of clothes. It’s 1984-1985 and the brutal Coal Miners strikes and riots. His clothes change again and the night sky is full of Fireworks. It’s midnight January 1st 2000 the birth of the 21st Century. One final change of clothes. It’s 2008 and our lad is home and has his slice of Hovis bread. The advert was incredibly successful. The whole nation loved it, talked about it for weeks and in 2009 voted it the best advert of the decade. Sales of all Hovis products went through the roof in the weeks and months following. It also got people, particularly school kids talking about British History. Such that schools requested permission to use the advert as a history teaching tool. Which Hovis granted along with financing additional education resources to help get children interested in history.

Makes sense! 😂😂

@@WanderingRavens It's why we loved the Mighty Boosh and Monty Python. "He's not the Messiah, he's a very naughty boy."

And farce. Fawlty Towers is pure class based farce. Glorious.

if you want a prime example of classic absurdist comedy that predates Monty Python, check out The Goon Show that ran on BBC radio through the 1950s

@@larryfroot Fawlty Towers is used in management training, every episode is basically a prime example of how not to be a manager

I can see why!! That's good marketing 😂😂

Ask anyone about a advert they remember that will be one of them 🤣

BUT all the following Cadburys ads were, like headscratch, WTF.

you need to watch the cadbury eyebrows advert!

Eye brow advert was legendary

Great distinction between UK and US! Thank you for your insight :)

@@WanderingRavens ads in the UK tend to be more focused at gaining the watcher's attention as opposed to showing off a product Irn Bru (pronounced iron brew) is a Scottish soda The hovis ad, if I'm remembering correctly was for an anniversary Lloyds bank's logo features a black horse

@@WanderingRavens I hate being shouted at by advertisers and will avoid their products at all costs. Eg Cillit Bang and Safestyle.

Good to know! Thank you!

Is it still made from girders?

I love irn bru

@@barrygower6733 I dont know mate all I know is Irn bru is pronounced Iron Brew and is made in Scotland😂👍🏻

And it was ruined when they changed the recipe to avoid the new sugar tax.

Even better 😂😂

Yeah it's old and I think it's more that it's funny and yet cool. Mainly tho everyone loves Cadbury so you don't really have to try that hard

Also to note, gorillas aren't monkeys, they are apes, but a very popular pub name in the north of England is " the drum and monkey", thought to originate from miners slang for the winding wheel and lift (elevator) used in coal mining.

It was a frame by frame recreation of a Phil Collins music video but with a gorilla

@@WanderingRavens Cadbury ads are a bit whacky, have a look at Cadburys Airport Trucks with Queens 'Don't Stop Me Now' as the soundtrack. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/eK2JgLCktc3DfXk.html

France is a hell hole

Hundreds of people risk their lives every month crossing the Channel in flimsy boats to escape the place.

I've only ever flown over France and I couldn't wait to get out of its airspace.

We do like France, but we've been quarantined in the kitchen for a really long time 😂😂

@@cleric7788 so ignorant to say that. France has an abundance of beautiful places. it has its problems in some places but for people to say 'france is terrible' is ridiculous

Steven Johnson how many years ago was the advert because I don’t remember it at all 😂

@@charlielamb9365 mid 90s I think..

2010

Bl**dy hell..😲. My memory is worse than I thought. Thanks for the shock 😂

The drummer was an actor called Garon Michael.

Good distinction - nostalgia over patriotism.

@@WanderingRavens All the flags and bunting he ran through were for the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II in 1953. This was more celebratory than outright patriotism. The suffragettes, WW I troops, London in the Blitz were time markers, not patriotic celebrations. Moreover, the social disorder of the 70's was hardly a cause for patriotism.

@@WanderingRavens The classic Hovis bread advert "The Boy on the Bike" was made in 1973 on Gold Hill, Shaftesbury, Dorset. It was directed by Ridley Scott and the music was Dvorak's New World Symphony. I think our adverts can be works of art as well as trying to sell a product.

@Darth Wheezius Or like Britain today.

Hovis Boy on a Bike 73 kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rZpdeM172ZuWioU.html

We'll save that one for the next video! :D

I love that advert!!!!

That advert freaked me out

Eddie Sparxx An old ad with a girl eating a Cadbury Flake is a particular favourite.

Eddie Sparxx yes that was sooooo funny!

always is

You sort of hit the nail on the head. We Brits are quietly cocky, in that we let our achievements go without saying, a typical Brit won't brag about famous Brits or British inventions but he or she will argue obsessively with anyone who credits another nation with something that we did first. In fact I can't think of another nation that gets as annoyed as we Brits do over mistaken credit.

@rckt I think that is because far right groups have hijacked the St George, not to mention that a lot of people who do fly the St George tend to be bigots and are quite open about it. I imagine there are millions who are simply proud to be English, and they should be, but as a Scot my experience of people who dangle the St George out of their window tends to be string-vest wearing numpties who hate everyone who isn't English, Welsh or white.

rckt Wait where in the Uk are you living? In my road on VE Day, everyone had union jacks in their windows and we even had music and a mini gathering (in our respective front gardens aha) where we celebrated the UK so not everywhere is like that perhaps your dad’s friend just lives in a more diverse area which would mean it would be more excepted to not want a British flag but I think it’s unreasonable that the police got involved, he should’ve been allowed to have it :)

Rob Fraser I think we take it for granted that we’re best so we don’t want other people to feel too bad for being at the disadvantage of not being British

I remember Mrs Slowcombe becoming very patriotic when Old Mr Grace started filling her department with German goods, like brassieres called "bustenhalters"

Added Christmas ads to our list of adverts for future videos!

@@WanderingRavens Be sure to watch the 2014 John Lewis one and the 2017 BBC one, I love those.

Thank you for identifying all those events for us! And we're so glad you enjoyed the video :)

....first time I've seen the ad...very funny...

Irn bru floats r amazing

Pity they changed the recipe. The reduced sugar version isn't as nice as the original.

@@l3v1ckUK my brother gets so angry when he isnt drinking the original recipe😂😂

Thank you for letting us know how to say it! And for sharing the context behind the drink :D

Very popular in Russia too, especially with vodka

Thank you for helping us understand the distinction between nostalgia and patriotism. I think you're spot on!

So glad we were able to tug at your heartstrings. These advert videos are teaching us how to market to Brits 🤣 We'll do our best to keep the videos coming! x

Good to know! Thank you!

Thanks for the tip! We'll give it a try :D

Or use Bovril, which actually tastes of beef and is better in every way!

I thought I was the only one who uses it in gravy. It works very well when making gravy for liver and onions.

Such a good suggestion. They should watch the last 5 years of John Lewis Christmas adverts or something like that!

yes yes yes!

Thank you for the recommendations!!

Maybe, but they are very “over-reacted” to, and a bit overhyped too. They’ve become a bit of a cliché.

Zombie Atemybrain Definitely agree John Lewis Xmas Ads have become an event...

Alison Anthony OMG yes they were absolute classics.

Ooh, yes! Ravens, you absolutely HAVE to look at some of those. They're absolute classics of the school of "make the advert intriguing to make the product memorable."

I think the voiceover is by Michael Buerk who is quite a well-known TV news reporter.

I'm sure that people know other parts of the UK were bombed as well as London, but a lot of people automatically think of London when they're talking about The Blitz.

London got hit the hardest, plus it’s the capital city so it always comes up whenever people talk about both wars for numerous reasons.

I know this is a month old, but when we were in Bath and saw pix of the bombing damage, I said out loud (as I do) something like - Gee, I didn't know anywhere but London was bombed. Whoa. Was I ever put in my place! And almost not politely (gasp). I had to explain, quickly, that outside of the UK, only London gets the bombing press. And even though we were in Bath, they talked about Bristol being decimated as well.

Sheffield was a prime target outside London because it was an important center for the steel industry. Sheffield Steel was known around the world and if the Germans could interrupt our steel manufacturing, it would cripple our ability to produce aircraft and weaponry or the war effort

They weren't great at hitting their targets with bombs tho... My great grandma often told me about when the primary school and half of tupton in Derbyshire got blown up as they thought they were over Sheffield!

Wow! We'll look up some of their older ones then!

The iconic one was a boy taking the bread home up a steep street, with Dvořák's New World symphony in the background, played by a brass band.

@@jerry2357 that's the one!

The Hovis advert with the boy going up the hill was directed by Ridley Scott

Great distinction! Thank you!

Brilliant! Thank you for identifying those for us :)

Wandering Ravens and it’s pronounced Iron like the metal, Brew like you would brew tea, but its a very Scottish soft drink, that add is showing a Scottish man having his Scottishness reinforced in the face of great adversary (a very British person in his house but he can manage with his all powerful Iron brew🤣 its a its a poke at both English and Scottish

The Irn Bru ad definitely WAS shown in England. I saw it enough times!

As an English person, I thought the Irn Bru advert was very funny.

I hate coca cola, its far too sweat and just taste chemically. I don't know why it outsells irn bru here, I'd much rather a can of irn bru, im still stumped on the taste though it tastes strangely familiar.

Don't forget Specsavers.

British Baguette of course! How could I forget the Specsavers adverts! I wear glasses from Specsavers too! I shouldn’t have forgotton those, I apologise!

Pah, I say. If you want a good Guinness ad, it has to include Rutger

@@AndrewHalliwell Lol yeah you could be right.

That's true. If I ever had to be executed, I'd want it to be on Tower Hill.

Every English peron : ?? I thought Eva Peron was Argentinian ?

Like when Her Majesty went up in the helicopter to parachute down to the Olympics opening escorted by 007 from MI6?

Helen Trope there were two miners’ strikes in the seventies.

There were two miners strikes . One in the seventies . I was at high school at the time and lack of coal led to power cuts . My dad was a ,miner and so were several of my uncle's and both my grandads which meant we were all the the same boat . When the second strike came I was married with children and my husband was a miner as well . But the one in the ad was definitely the 80s strike

Good to know! Thank you, Helen!

@@grahamboffey457 The one in the ad was in the 80s I believe.

Steve Rich Hall did a great bit about that. “ A horse gallops out of the fog, a woman in a hooded cape walks by, violin music in the background. A crow calls somewhere, night falls....WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT!? WHAT WERE THEY SELLING?? “ 😁

We'll give it another go ;)

@@WanderingRavens A very thin scraping, and I mean sraping, not spreading over buttered toast is the way to go. Non Brits make the mistake of just using too much. The trick is to use as little as you can because the flavour is so intense.

@@larryfroot you are kidding,right? 1 rounded t-spoon per slice MINIMUM.

@@WanderingRavens You can also use it as a flavor enhancer; it falls into the umami flavor group, so consider adding it to things like beef casserole or cottage pie, about a ¼ tea spoon per serving, you won’t taste Marmite but it will enhance the flavor.

Added it to our list of adverts for future videos!

Fanny = vulva

Thank you for the recommendations!

I agree. Would also recommend the Carling ad with Sylvestra Le Tousel, “ Water in Majorca “.

That's a classic.

Anyone remember the Woodpecker adverts? What a refreshing change!

Then your child is gonna hate you forever.Especially if it's a boy.

baylessnow It’s a joke.Watch the commercial.

Ahh Fanny, you've got your Daddy's eye's

AMEN!!

@@WanderingRavens Yes it is,except for the Cadbury's sold widely in the USA since Kraft bought them and has the dreadful Hersheys making it under licence. Every time I return from the UK to California with Cadbury's chocolate my colleagues rave about it being so much better than the US version. The same applies to Kit-Kat (another original English product). Surely you must have seen Cadbury's Chocolate Orange on this side of the pond around at Christmas time ?

@@coliniancooke8848 I used to live in Australia and the Cadbury choccie doesn't taste the same there either. I think it's because the UK version has vegetable fat in it and the Aussie version doesn't, something like that 😁 Here's a question for you...Do you like to keep your chocolate in the fridge?

It was never that good, but it's inedible since Americans bought it and turned into sugary crap.

@@coliniancooke8848 Chocolte Oranges were originally Terry's of York, later owned by Rowntrees and nowadays Nestlé. They were NEVER Cadburys.

That makes sense! Thank you for taking the time to share your insight :)

Thank you for sharing the context behind Irn Bru! We're so glad you enjoy our videos :)

@@WanderingRavens The add is playing on England / Scotland football rivalry.

Your right. I watched the same thing

That bulldog "will nevva surrenda"

So glad you enjoyed it!! If this one goes over well we'll do another :D

@@WanderingRavens 😁😁😁

Definitely - the Smash adverts - haven't seen them since the mid '80s. For mash get Smash....

Naa the Pepporami ads, with Ade Edmondson are way better 😄

@@wyatt0003 "WHAT'S THE MATTER, TOO SPICY FOR YOU????" X¬D

That's smart marketing!

It came before the world cup so I think it was the coronation

Good to know! Thank you!

It was the Queen's coronation in 1953.

Well, bread is a very emotional food.

@@WanderingRavens Not if you have to avoid gluten :(

Bread 4 Prez.

Good to know! Thank you!

Elephants Memory this also annoys me greatly, so I’m glad I’m not the only one! It should be ad-vertise-ment, shed-ule, and reSearch with the stress on the S and not on the Re.

@@mirij7192 We are on a downward slope I'm afraid as we can not force people to speak decent English

I think you mean incorrectly, not wrongly. lol

We haven't been able to stop thinking about it since shooting this video 😂😂

@@WanderingRavens 😂 The ad has done its job then

It's SOOO good!!

The town is Ottery St Mary. I went to one as a kid before it got so busy. It was great fun. It also used to be held in another town as well but not so well known. But it was closer to where I grew up. Still fun.

rachel penny yeah I think it’s the best time of year and I didn’t know there was another place that used to to them cause I thought it was only ottery in the whole world but I always try to get you tubers to react to them so we can get more publicity as we struggle to keep it running each year due to insurance

Love it! British banter is one of my favourite things about the UK!

Brilliant! :D