My Hovis will last up to one week. If it lasted longer than that I would be extremely worried what is in it. I live in England.

​@@peckelhaze6934keep your bread in the fridge, it will last for over a month

Fuckin.hell.bread.lastin.2.t.3.weeks.3.days.more.like.if.ur.lucky

We invented Chicken Tikka Masala!

@@jimclark1374 - It was an Englishman who invented curry powder.

@@keithwilliams1243 . Back in the days when it was considered, a spoonful of the powder along with pieces of apples and a few raisins turned a simple stew into curry. 😂

@@jimclark1374 Which is considered one of the least spicy curry dishes. :)

I remember my school in Gourock serving green curry. Unidentified meat with green sauce on top. Mild by modern standards by exotic for the 70s Scotland. @@grahvis

Haggis pakoras are the business

I couldn’t believe he said that.We love a hot curry.

Tika masala originated in Glasgow

mmmm hormone injected steak

I spent most of my working life in the oil industry, catering mainly to Americans. I was continually amazed by their lack of interest in trying 'different ' foods from around the world. On one occasion, I asked a welding engineer why he liked his steak, so overcooked and all vegetables mushy and soft. His reply, "That is how my wife cooks. It reminds me of home!"

I'm come to realise for all americans guns and bravado, they are all scared. They are terrified of anything outside of their state or outside of america to them its all scarey and all different and they don't like ot Coa it scares them. European culture terrifies most of them the fact we don't have religion like they do terrifies them. They are a scared people with little experience of thw world. Most americans never ever own a passport

@@dagored4077 It's like people going out to a restaurant and ordering the same thing each time 😞 I'm no longer in the position of dining out often, but when I do I still try and order something different each time, especially in 'ethnic' places.

There are some videos here on KZfaq where they compare fast food from the same chain in the US and the UK. It's an eye-opener. The US recipes are invariably full of weird fillers and additives that they simply don't use over here - even though the product has the same name.

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this is very insightful! thank you! I thought I'd seen biscuits with gravy in another blog on Scotland. My eyebrows raised up when he said it doesn't exits in Scotland. And if it didn't well...make your own:) I have lived in Chicago USA for going on 2 yrs now and NY all my life before that. US..is RIDICULOUSLY over prices in everything. especially the food not to mention furniture clothing and housing. I've been researching for the past 3 years now and will continue to monitor the way of living in the UK specifically Scotland until that door has opened up for me to start the relocation process. I have to say that, and this is for me since it's a lifestyle I would like to live, that Scotland hands down checks off all the boxes for me. If I am with the same company in 2 years' time. I will put in for a transfer then. (They are a UK-owned company with offices based there and almost everywhere in the world) What I love about Scotland, and this can be other places as well, is that the cost of living is according to the salaries, not sure if I am explaining myself correctly on this part, but in other words and for example, housing is affordable not to mentions a lot bigger than in NY or where I am now. The average one-bedroom apartment price per month in NYC is $3,950 in Manhattan to $1,500 in Staten Islands NY you can find maybe as low as 2000pm in the city and maybe 1000 for a basement small apt in other boroughs surrounding the actual city. Chicago is much cheaper but not as low as the UK (some parts) There in Scotland you can let an entire home for 650 in certain areas. and even if you are willing to pay 1300 a month abroad you will get so much more for that. How does the US expect anyone to actually live and have a life besides working multiple jobs or shacking up with large families in one one-bedroom ?? Sorry dint mean to rant. But its insane. I do not know why so many folks want to go to America's land of opportunity. even though the past few years many has left and some have gone back to their countries for a better way of living. Idk ..god willing where I will be in 2 years..but I am preparing myself to be able to make that jump and move across the pond to your BEAUTIFUL country Scotland! lol God Bless and take care. 🧡 ( If I do get to move there Glasgow is number 2 on my list..#1for me would be Aberdeen 😊)

​@@GodsSoldier33Aberdeen would be a better choice, but make sure to pack a big coat. Good luck.

@@mehallica666 i love cold. I am in Chicago now where winters get in the negative below zero. Colder than Scotland! lol ..and I LOVE it! Yeah I agree about Aberdeen too. and tks!!

@@GodsSoldier33 Back in the sixties and seventies, we had a family hotel catering to tourists at one of the small fishing villages. it wasn't uncommon for people to comment on the kippers tasting different - it was because they'd be straight off the boats and into the smokers, and straight from the smokers to the kitchen ready to be served for breakfast the next day. No waiting around in the fishmongers, or wherever.

Fascinating informative read thanks 👍

Phew!! I was starting to think I was the only one who knew that!! 🤣🤣

I live in the USA now and the bread here is mostly abysmal.

One of the ingredients (azodicarbonamide) commonly used in American bread is a chemical they also use to make yoga mats.

@@peterkonradort yes I've heard that too

It's cake.

Yum! Yoga mats.@@peterkonradort

Depending on the weather (temperature & humidity mostly), it can happen. Usually fresh bread shouldn't go mouldy for a week or so, but I prefer to eat it in the first 3 days.

@@user-xi6nk4xs4s Yes, hence store correctly

Scotland with its many many Indians, the home of tikka masala. All the good Indian restaurants are full every night! With white Scottish folk 🤣

Aye Indfian definitely trumps Mexican. Although good Mexican food is pretty damn good.

@@madmark1957 I definitely enjoy good Mexican and Tex-Mex (having tried both in the US as well so know what theoretical good Tex-Mex is) but Indian beats it for me.

Because Mexico was never part of the British Empire. There is also a much wider range of Indian food originating in different areas of India.

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No idea what any of that meant

@@BruceLee-fd7uw Lamb phal is like tasty edible naplam... you will shit FIRE the next day.

@@JohnSmith-ki2eq I never get the shirt from spices or curry, I'm the only pet I've heard of not get it

​@@JohnSmith-ki2eq😂😂😂😂so true 💩🔥

Yeah most milk in the US is actually sold by the gallon. And it’s still more expensive per litre than milk here 😂

A US Gallon is only 7 UK pints.

It’s actually a little less than 7 pints! But milk here is typically sold in litres so I just use that, and a US gallon is 3.7 litres.

@@charlestaylor3027 "Only" seven pints? That's still a lot for one bottle.

@@barrysteven5964 the old Party 7 of Watney's Red Barrel had that in a can. Wine can come in a bottle called Melchizedek which holds 44 uk pints.

I was just thinking it's the first time I've seen Scottish food favourably compared to any one else's! 😄😄😄

We’ll have to agree to disagree on that 😂😂😂

I agree. Even with the massive increase in food prices lately it’s still much cheaper here than in the states. Also, I actually weighed myself the other day and I’ve lost 35lb since moving here, even though I don’t diet or work out (I know I should lol).

Many Europeans have stated they go to the U.S, eat less due to the poor quality and STILL gain weight.

​@@peterkonradortI'm shocked that the USA doesn't have higher food quality than the UK.

Fridges dry out food, an airtight bag is essential. Or just freeze it.

If it's pre-sliced frozen bread it does tend to make really good toast. I don't know why, is it because the inside is 'cooked' less?

It's a strange thing to claim isn't it?

I’m a dual national. Both American and German. And yes, any fresh food item I buy I always pick from the back or bottom of the shelf, but it’s incredibly rare that I find bread with a sell by date more than 2 or 3 days out.

I would say fish and chips, full breakfast, Sunday roast or even beans on toast have a better claim to be called the national dish than curry.

The trouble is that the spices mask the taste of the meat to the extent that the meat finally becomes just a hunk of protein and the only taste left in your mouth is the sauce. Which beggars the question, why not just drink the Tabasco straight from the bottle?

Corporations have ruined America. Different topic, but where I live there’s miles of beautiful coastline. Several places to stop and walk on the beach, etc. not a single large franchise is in my area. It’s like a 45 minute drive if I want to go to a Starbucks. 20 minutes to get to a McDonald’s. But if this was the US, that beautiful coastline would be covered with Hilton’s, Starbucks, and various other chain restaurants and businesses.

@@peterkonradort Yes it’s sad the way the U.S. is going. For instance, On my last visit it was difficult to find a coffee shop that wasn’t Starbucks and I found that infuriating. Also my favourite old fashioned independent restaurant in NYC that served the most delicious hamburger that I’ve ever tasted was gone, what a surprise.

I do often interchange saying “Scotland” and “uk”, kind of like I use both immigrant and expat, mainly for SEO purposes. Because many Americans don’t know the difference between London and anywhere else in the UK 😂 As far as spices unfortunately you’re incorrect. Yes, Tesco and Asda do have a bigger selection of spices and will have most of your “standard” spices but it’s nothing like what they have in the US. Even Costco here has very little variety in the flavours of spices . When I talk about variety of spices I don’t mean your basics like salt pepper and paprika, I mean specialty spices. Like head country, mesquite, wood fired garlic, bourbon peach, etc

And yes! I know about tikka masala. I love it even though it’s not an Indian dish. And while it is delicious, it is not spicy. Lol

@@peterkonradort I'm a bit puzzled by this. Head Country is an American brand and no you can't get it here; mesquite is easily found but may be labelled as _algaroba_ or something with _carob_ in the name; "wood fired garlic" is called _smoked garlic_ and is easy to find - even Tesco sells it. Now of course you can't buy bourbon peach, that's just a straight up weird American thing that nobody else in the world uses!

@@peterkonradort it may also be worth noting that mesquite is considered a *novel food* under EU legacy law still used in Scotland. This means it will sometimes be labelled as 'not for human consumption'.

I haven’t directly talked about my weight loss but my “a fresh start” video did talk about several of the key factors that caused it. Not the most positive stuff though so I’m not sure if I’ll make a dedicated video about the weight loss, or, about what started it 😂

I ate from a chippie once cause I had to have some proper haddock n chips. It was great but that was the only thing I ate in Scotland that was greasy. Even a sausage roll or a pie wasn't.

First thing i look for when I get back to Scotland for a visit (apart from Irn Bru... stereotype but don't care, it's true!) is a white pudding supper! I LOVE white pudding and miss it so much. I tend to go over the top having them on visits home so that I scunner myself of them so I don't miss them so much (for a while 😛)

Me too. But I miss a lot of other things as well.@@andrewdavidson665

I’m sorry to hear that! Unfortunately you’re 100% correct about everything in the US being just for profit with zero regard for actual people.

im to book a ship back to the uk lol. bbetter for your health.

@@cyberash3000 Yes, travelling by ship has so many advantages over air travel. It's like a mini holiday. Decent to good food, good company, shows, COMFORT, and a LOT more aircraft fall out of the sky than ships sink 🙂 I love ships, used to take my late son across to Denmark to see Legoland pretty often when I lived in Tyneside a very long time ago. I hope you realise I shall now have to retire to the bathroom and cover myself with green dye. Just kidding my friend. I wish I could go to the UK also but could never make the journey - even if I had access to Jim Kirk's transporter - too old and too medically screwed 🙂Enjoy the voyage and give old Blighty a "kiss" from me. Grateful thanks for the update.

@@cyberash3000 Copy reply in case YT "loses" the original. All the very best my friend. Safe journey. Thanks for everything.

you really need to watch "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" you are never too crocked to do something if you want it enough mate. watch that movie. @@aidencox790

Yes every (or I hope every) local area in the US has a “health department” that does those types of checks. I know they check to make sure the area is clean and food is stored at the proper temperature, etc but I would have to do more research to see what the exact differences are. But, keeping the work area clean and the food at the proper temperature doesn’t fix the food being poor quality to begin with 😂

Yes but that would require us to have space in our freezer. We’ve had two fridge/freezers since we moved here because they’re so small but the second one just went out so we don’t have much free space, especially since the freezer has like 12 panera bagels in it that we’re saving for a special occasion 😂

Yeah, freeze it to preserve it and then ruin everything by microwaving it.

I follow them on Facebook! I haven’t had the chance to visit yet but one of these days I will

The uk had been at war 2 years before the USA entered it. Food stocks were low and we had to eat what was available.

@@jamesmason7262 Which wasn't much. It was just about the minimum to keep you going.

British food is bland and American food is sugar filled and processed.

@@petermcculloch4933 Sugar kills you, but bland doesn't. I disagree that British food is bland though, apart from supermarket pre-cooked food, which I never eat.

@@petermcculloch4933 Corn syrup isn't what most british would think of as sugar

Sugar.

Yes we live a little bit further down, in west Kilbride but Greenock isn’t too far away. We actually stayed there for our Covid quarantine when we first moved here!

Not forgetting deep-fried Mars bars!

@@Fidd88-mc4sz Or English chip butties .

my sister who works just under the directors for a big car company gets top jet set around the world, as you would imagine, and stays at the best places and has always eaten at the top of the top restaurants (and stayed one jose marineos yacht) always says the food in the usa is terrible.

Yes! Love me some pepperjack. Morrisons does carry Monterey jack which probably would be the closest thing you can get here. Even though I know it’s not the same lol

Thank you! I actually weighed myself last week for the first time since moving here and I’ve lost about 30 pounds. Which is shocking because I don’t work out and my diet is absolutely horrible 😂

I’m actually going to mention this issue in (I think) my next video! Refrigerators here are way too small to have enough free space to keep your bread in there. Lol

@@peterkonradort plenty of room in my fridge, yours must be either small or packed with food

The american police frequently use more rounds in a single incident than entire countries police forces use in months in europe

I support Scottish independence. Especially since that would mean a return to the EU, although I am aware that even if that does happen it would probably be at least 10-15 years maybe longer before that change would actually take effect.

Absolutely bollocks! The UK has some of the strictest food standards in Europe, in fact the UK wrote most of the laws while we were in that prison. We're out and that is that, can't believe you fall for all that hype still.

​@@peterkonradortIt'll never happen I support Texas leaving the US. How's that make you feel, you're not from the UKsame as I'm not from the USso both of us should keep our nebs out of each others business, oh and by the way, the Scottish half of my family want to stay in the union, guess what they've been there for many many generations.

​@@peterkonradortWhy don't you move to Germany, you said in your intro that you're Half German and you love the EU, they're already in the EU, so that's a perfect match for you.

@@forsakingfear3652 I repeat, if you want a trade agreement with the U.S. you'll have to follow their standards. And then you're out of trade with EU. Simple as that.