I was on a school field trip and one of the girls asked the teacher if the minibus was alarmed. I said ‘well it does look a bit scared’. Absolute silence.

I've lived in Britain all of my life and I've never seen a single instance of sarcasm.

Things only normal in the UK: walking into an inanimate object and apologising

In the uk my girlfriend from New York was baffled and shocked we said goodnight and thankyou to the driver when getting off the bus. 11:25

Nearly dropped my tea when you said “ up to spunk” lol In the UK we have instant coffee and cocoa also which can be made with the kettle, also packet soup, mash, noodles which can be made this way.

We don't just use Kettles to make Tea and Coffee we also use them for Pot Noodle. Instant mash potato, Cup A Soup, Gravy and Porridge.

Hi Tyler, the electric kettle is purely for boiling water and the tee pot is for brewing the tea , either ground leaf or teabag, love you show cheers mate.

Imagine going to someone's house and them not having a kettle 😂 when I first visited America, I was offered a tea. I eagerly said yes please and when I was given a tall glass with ice in it, you could imagine my confusion.

Lol "up to spunk" would be understood definitely differently 😂 in the uk

I had a volunteer who had Spanish parents but had lived most of her life in USA. I introduced her to squash and she really liked it. That was in Hungary so it is not just a British thing. If you mix it with carbonated water you get pop / soda.

After living 15yrs in Spain and constantly having to explain my sarcastic comments. I came home, got on a bus, said something sarcastic to the bus driver, and he laughed! I knew at that moment it was time to move home 😅

I saw that you were showing bottles of vimto. They are also available as sweets.

Hi Tyler, Re heating water in a microwave. There is a risk when heating a liquid in a microwave, I think it is slight that bubbles will become super heated and when taken out, if stirred might erupt. Not a problem if heating to normal drinking type temperatures. But to make Tea (as in the drink Brits use) it is necessary for the water to be at a rolling boil, so 100 C or 212 F, with steam rising. This does not seem to be possible in a microwave (I could be wrong), also the container generally would become very hot.

"Standard" tea is what you may find in US stores labelled as English Breakfast Tea. Popular brands are: PG Tips, Yorkshire Tea, Tetley Tea & Typhoo Tea to name but a few. The trick with tea is making sure the water is boiling before hitting the tea bag. When us Brits go abroad we find that they try to make tea with hot, but not boiling water. It just doesn't work.☹

Re. queuing. I remember waiting at a bus stop in old Yugoslavia, there was a queue but when the bus arrived a bunch of Germans barged to the front but the bus driver stymied them by opening the rear doors!

Woah! Is this the first time you’ve seen a kettle? Oh wait. Nope. This is the 15th video this year where you’ve been bamboozled when you’ve seen an electric kettle for the ‘first time’…

Squash is a concentrated syrup or cordial that you dilute with water. Most common flavours are orange, lemon and blackcurrant which is hardly known in the US, grape would be your closest flavour match to blackcurrant. Purple coloured sweets/candies are blackcurrant flavour in the UK and would be grape flavour in the US. Ribena is our biggest squash brand that has been doing blackcurrant squash since the 30s I think.

One Easter the family got together 5 English and 8 Scottish. My aunt asked about the Edinbugh catholic bishop who had been done for kiddy fiddling, what had happend to him. (Not a normal Easter lunch chat). I quickly said "oh it was the worst, he got sent to Glasgow". Every Scottish person burst into laghter, they got it, the English didn't. Edinburgh and Glasgow are total opposits and one is not keen on the other. I love taking the piss, we do it to our mother so much, we call them motherisums.

Squash is like your powdered juice that you add water too, except ours comes in a bottle and has been made into a concentrated form which we dilute one part squash, to four part squash. You can drink it cold or hot. You can get hundreds of different flavours and brands. Flavours like blackcurrant, or orange or lemon, or even tropical/ orange, lemon and pineapple to name a few.

A lot of countries have kettles, that is not a UK thing, it's just not all countries, a big factor in it is if the country uses 230~240 Volts like the UK or 110-120 volts like the US. The higher voltage of UK electrics means it requires less amps and is faster at heating the water. This makes stove top kettles easier in the US but the advantage of an electric kettle is that it uses a mechanism to turn itself off once it reaches a certain temperature, this is usually done through using two metals applying opposite force on each other, the two metals have different thermal properties and so they bend together as it gets hotter, more expensive kettles might use more advanced technology but the basic switch does a pretty good job.

Try finding Rhubarb and ginger jam outside of UK

Electric kettles aren’t just for making tea. Brits also use one when we cook- rice, pasta, any boiled vegetables, to fill a hot water bottle- just stop it before it gets to boiling among other things.

As for squash, think about the Soda Stream... You get a thick syrup that you add to the soda stream and the soda stream makes it fizzy. Well that's squash basically only fizzy... We usually make squash with still water, ive seen people usr soda water, tonic water and lemonade (UK Lemonade, US Lemonade) rather than water. Well that thick syrup would be the flavouring... That's the squash or it is also called cordial... Cordial is an older name for squash, but some still use it.

i lived in barcelona for a few years and people drank squash it was just a different brand, english breakfast tea, fish and chips etc is common there, brits do love to travel to spain after all haha

Fruit squash is a great drink option- add either cold water or hot. Brilliant! Electric kettles and teapots serve entirely different purposes. I don't drink tea, but boil my kettle many times a day - to make my coffee (in a cafetiere) give my dried pasta rice or vegetables a head start, or to help with cleaning jobs.

Electric kettles can be bought online in USA but they are very popular out there because USA voltage is half what UK (and many other countries) voltage is. So an electric kettle in America would take a lot longer to boil than it would in UK.

Queuing in the UK wasn't always the way. The British used to be as diorderly as everyone else, until the second world war. it became illegal by law to be disorderly, and enforced that you had to queue. After the war, the british were so conditioned to queue, its has remained ever since.

In Australia, if you are at a pub for a meal but a non-alcohol drinker, one of the standard drinks to order is a lemon squash. We also have a bottled soft drink sold in supermarkets called Pub Squash.

queuing that and wearing seatbelts its like people in the uk dont have to be told to do these things we ALWAYS do them nomatter what its just something we do automatically

Squash comes in many flavours. How I described it to my American friend is that we make our own juice (yes, we have juice also). Squash is a concentrate of juice, so only a little goes in the cup, and the rest is filled with water... making it juice. We do say making a juice, fancy a juice, etc, but it's actually only juiced when it's been mixed with the water

Meal deals is common in some stores at trainstations here in Sweden but not really anywhere else in the country.

I think cynicism and negativity is kinda embedded into the British psyche. I reckon that's where our sense of humour comes from, and why we're so damn funny, because in the face of cosmic adversity there is nought to do but poke fun and laugh.

I think the kettle - as you allude to - is merely a function of the British tea obsession. At work, for instance, there's a kettle in the canteen. A break during the day is actually called a 'tea break'. It's as normal as the sun rising in the sky every morning.

squash is available n Greece also kettle I use to fill hot water bottle to fill hot watr bottle saves a lot on heating

MAJOR difference between UK and US - the frequency of ads on tv and the preponderance of pharma ads in the US - they are not allowed to advertise meds on tv in the UK.

Gosh, this electric kettle confusion again. The electric kettle wins hands down. The real advantage is with the kettle is It boils in half the time as the cup boiled in either the microwave or the stove. Since (at 1450 Watts) it uses about the same amount of power as the others, halving the time halves the energy. A teapot is not electric and you put teabags or tea leaves in it and add hot water from the quickly boiled kettle water. We boil the kettle if we want a drink of instant coffee and other hot drinks. You ONLY boil WATER in the kettle

Here he goes again with the kettle/teapot thing ........ there's only so many times we can tell him. I suggest we leave him to think that kettles and teapots are the same thing

The way a microwave heats up food is by heating the water molecules in it I’m sure so microwaving nothing but water should be the same as microwaving any food item with water content idk what would happen if you microwaved dry food but idk why you would do that and “British”normal tea would be called English breakfast or black tea, pg tips, Yorkshire tea and tetley are all big brands, it’s not uncommon for places like cafes and restaurants now to have like 8 different types of tea like fruit teas, green, earl grey, black, decaf etc

11:40 Squash is readily available across Europe. eg sirop de grenadine, de cassis, or de framboise.

Water flavourings certainly exist outside of the UK, but maybe not packaged in bottles in the quantity of squash. The USA seems to prefer it to be more concentrated as drops of 'flavor enhancer'

Squash. Concentrated juice. We can buy a bottle of Squash for say, £2 and dilute into 20 bottles of juice from 1 bottle of concentrate. The rest of the world buys a bottle of ready diluted juice for £2.

While sitting in the emergency department of a hospital in Arlington, Virginia, the doors suddenly burst open and a lad, around 18, came rushing in from the parking lot, while pushing a wheelchair. In the chair was a girl around the same age as the boy. Blood was coming out of her mouth and her face was badly cut in a number of spots. As he entered he yelled that they had just been in a car accident and she badly needed help. The nurse at the desk immediately asked for her insurance and when the boy said she didn't have any insurance, the nurse firmly stated for everyone in the room to hear, "Well then get her out of here and off the hospital property before she dies, otherwise it will affect our insurance rate. Ironically, about ten days later we received a request for a donation to the hospital. Needless to say, the request went into the garbage. Chimo

Not bloody kettles again!

Tea brands- Yorkshire and Barrys are my go tos. I tend to have a cup on the go all the time until about 6pm. And Vimto is the only squash i get.

Free at point of use healthcare is quite limited to a few countries. UK, Scandinavia, Germany. Some have part low payments, but moat u pay full costs.

Sarchasm in uk humour knows no boundaries!! If we don't make fun of people we usually are not friends with them or don't like them. Bigger the insult is the greater the friendship or bond between you!

Some of those posters on Reddit need to get out more, 43 Countries have Universal Health Care, I have used and owned Kettles in Middle East, Thailand, Vietnam, China etc, I can buy Squash at my local 7-11 here in Bangkok, if I ask for tea I get black tea, if green or herbal tea is required then the modifier is added to the word.

I live in Australia, and we take after Britain in many things.Tea is big here, health cover, electric kettles and squash .

Electric kettles aren't popular in the states because essentially due to US voltages they Litherland do take twice as long to boil vs UK and other places around the world

Being negative is absolutely a UK thing after marriage to a Canadian and moving to Canada I realized how negative my upbringing was, I am so glad that I have gradually changed over the years, something I tried hard to do. I noticed it especially when my parents came to visit in 1988 and I had been here then 13 years 🍁 my parents sat me down and pointed out all the negative things they could find in my husband. He had worked so hard in our front and back yard to make it nice before they came. After they left I sent lots of pages of a letter explaining, I knew far more of his faults than they did but if I chose to focus on them it would wreck my marriage, instead I chose to look at all his good points and have a good marriage. This is the only time my Father ever wrote to me in one of my Mum’s letters, telling me he was proud of me and that I was a good wife 😊

Yr talking about, cornials which need diluted. Squosh is the whole fruit liquidised. Juice is squeezed fruit.

Tetley, PG Tips and Yorkshire Tea are the top three brands of tea, with the latter usually being considered to be the best...

Yorkshire (not gold or biscuit) is the best British tea, Tyler bud. But the generic 'English breakfast tea' is the broader known standard. Oh & microwaves, and often pots, bring a metallic, dish washed water taste to the water. Kettles don't. Also, bare in mind that water from different places has subtle taste differences. I know Worcestershire tap water is v.nice, & they add fluoride to it. Leicester water seemed stale & unpleasant. As an American, Tyler... I recommend bottled water, for neutrality. Lol. 😉

"up to spunk" took me off guard for moment 😂

Tea has all the benefits of coffee, but tastes good.

I had a friend who was a big lad, i alway,s called him bean pole 😂😂

Electronic kettles are in Canada. You can get meal deals in Canada.

Squash does exist in America but only in BIG tourist areas (usually in the uk isle). I got some mini bottles of squash when I went to Florida in 2019 from a Walmart. Also sometimes on holiday in some European countries Iv bought some from large grocery stores. But it is most prevalent in UK.

Meal deals have populated and spread to most shops now.

After watching your upload about UK plugs and electricity supply being safer and more highly powered, I'm surprised that you still don't understand why we use kettles. Our 230-240V means we can boil enough water for half a dozen cups of tea (or whatever other needs you have) in around 1-2 minutes. A microwave takes that for just 1 cup. When I go to mainland Europe, they have a similar plug and power system to the U.S. and it takes an eternity to boil a kettle of water. That's why no one else uses kettles. Hope this makes sense to you. And you may also know 'squash' as 'cordial', as we do over here.

Smurfs come from Belgium.

Tyler. In 1994 I was working on a 6 month secondment in Staten Island (NY). Got the 4th July off work, it was a nice day. Went into my local bar, The Cargo Café and met some locals. Why aren’t you having a good time I was asked? I replied, “We lost”! no one could understand the sarcasm. .

There are many brands but the generic mix name u asking- one of the most popular Brits like would probably be a breakfast to or an Earl grey.

you can get Electric Kettles in the USA there just not very common and can get them from many places.

How many dozens of times under past reactions has it been explained/clarified for him in comments that a kettle isn't the same thing as a teapot?! Don't waste your time commenting folks (unless it's for other viewers) 'cause Tyler won't do you the courtesy of reading it, though he invites comments at the end of every video. I unsubscribed a while back but check in occasionally in the vain hope that he's actually learning something and not still endlessly repeating himself... Nope, it's still like Groundhog Day around here. Such a pity as there's something quite likeable about him at times, but I'm afraid the novelty has well and truly worn off for me. My advice if you don't unsubscribe is to hit that thumbs down button occasionally. If more people do that he may eventually realise where he's going so badly wrong.

The main tea in the UK would probably be English breakfast tea. However you can get different breakfast teas depending on where you live. I live in Scotland so it's Scottish breakfast tea, presumably specially made for our soft water.

Something I must address for you Tyler as I've seen in a couple of your videos now that some people on reddit say NHS is free healthcare. It's not free healthcare. It's "free at point of use." I honestly don't like it has 'free' There at all as leads to confusion. It's paid through taxes and national insurance contributions (something everyone pays towards public services like police, fire service etc) and it is not an insignificant amount. There are issues with this system too. Just an example would be someone who works but never uses the NHS is still contributing to it as opposed to someone who doesn't work and therefore doesn't contribute and uses it frequently. It happens. Or so-called "health tourism." Someone from a country with crappy or no healthcare comes to UK and just by being here can receive all sorts of healthcare for free. This happens a lot also. The system is easily abused.

Electric kettles are not as ubiquitous in the USA because the lower voltage (120V) is (was?) insufficient to effectively heat the element designed for UK's 230V. Lower wattage 1kW 120V elements are available and are probably suitable for camping/heating a mug of water, but aren't a patch on UK's 2+kW ones.

Hello Tyler, I may be slightly over the top, but to avoid the shear panic of being without a kettle, I have amassed 4 of them - 1 in service and 3 brand new ones in their original boxes (just in case). I’m so reluctant to crack open a new one, that I keep fixing up the daily in service one when it starts playing up. I do like to get at least 10 years’ service out of each kettle if at all possible! On one occasion I microwaved a mug of water to make some tea. My trusty stead had failed again and I hadn’t managed to get round to fixing it on that occasion. As stated earlier, I also I didn’t want to open up a new boxed kettle before determining that the daily one was beyond any kind of repair. Well, I just couldn’t believe the scum that rose to the top! I’ve never seen that before. Goodness knows where it came from. I tried it again on a different day and exactly the same thing happened. There was no way that the resulting concoction could ever be described as tea. Of course the use of a kettle isn’t confined to making tea - it does great for coffee, giving your vegetables in a pan a head start in cooking, allows spaghetti to be rinsed in load of hot water, steam letters open (perhaps I shouldn’t have mentioned that one he he), provides a good jet of steam that can be used to sterilise things or perhaps bend some plastic or wood in DIY kind of way, there’s no end to it. Why would anyone want to boil a pan of water on a stove or microwave it? So, long live the kettle I say - preferably a 3kW one, not one of these modern EU excuses for one! PS Yes I too am miserable all day, everyday. I wouldn't be happy if I were not miserable.

Squash is a generic name for a sweetened, concentrated juice drink, generally made with real fruit, as well as other things... I used to drink a lot of "Robinsons" Orange and Barley when I was younger.... Americans tend to think of Kool-Aid when they see it, but Squash is sold as a liquid, and generally far less artificial.... I would give "Ribena" as a typical example, as well as the various "Robinsons" flavours... but you generally don't have blackcurrent either, which is crazy to me. As for the Kettle, because standard outlets in Europe are 240v, not 120v, electric kettles tend to be much faster... but I still can't imagine heating water on a stove or something.

In Canada we usually drink orange pekoe tea. Red Rose is my favourite brand, I'll use Tetley if it's the only other brand available.

A kettle isnt a tea pot, a tea pot is where you store the tea after youve made it.

Squash is a non-alcoholic beverage with concentrated fruit juice and sugar, used in beverage making. It is usually fruit-flavoured, made from fruit juice, water, and sugar or a sugar substitute. Modern squashes may also contain food colouring and additional flavouring. Some traditional squashes contain herbal extracts, most notably elderflower and ginger. Is usually made from a blend different fruit juices to give it the best flavour, so orange squash may contain a blend of different varieties of oranges for the perfect flavour. Others may contain the juices of different types of fruit. The closest thing in the US is Kool Aid, although, apart from squash being a liquid, the kool aid powders are not simply dried fruit extract, but contain more of chemical flavouring.

Tyler, HailMary74 maybe, just maybe, might have been demonstrating a type of british humour that non-brits often don't recognise as humour - thinking the speaker is being serious when in fact they are speaking with their tongue firmly in cheek ? 😁

I grew up with Lipton's tea bags so that's my go to, but do like Twinings English Breakfast.

Tea requires boiling water. Microwaving doesn't boil the water. Gross.

Same in New Zealand, if you order a tea you'd get a cup of hot tea with milk and sugar to your liking. Maybe a herbal if offered. Rarely any of that other stuff. But our coffee is the best in the world.

Brits go on lots of holidays, the first thing many people pack are tea bags. Now you can see how we like our tea.

Vimto made with boiling water and real lemon juice added got me through a covid cold a few weeks ago.

if you microwave water, there is a chance youll get it so it turns to spray and steam when its moved

Squash is a thick fruit juice that needs watering down, you get a lot of drinks from one bottle. I hate tea!!!! But the brands most popular are Yorkshire Tea, PG Tips, Typhoo. The meal deals are a savoury item (sandwich or, wrap) a drink of your choice and either a bar of chocolate/crisps, all for about £3.50. Great for office workers, students and tourists. Electric kettles are only for boiling water, they are not teapots.

The brand 'Yorkshire Tea' is the most popular tea in England.

Squash is in essence what you would call Concentrate.

You can get water practically anywhere. Why haul tons of it about when you can concentrate the flavouring and reduce the load by 90%. QED. 🙂

How to understand Squash, from US perspective: You can get Coke or Pepsi/other sparkling drinks from a tap/fountain, to make these you take water add some gas, and mix it with syrup, I think, you could do that without the gas, strange for Coke, but could do with Lemon flavour or Orange flavour syrups? Those Lemon/Orange flavour syrups would be Squash in UK. But they come in many flavours and are available in a bottle which you mix with water at home. It means you have a large volume of drink, but it doesn't take up much space and was not heavy to transport home. Note this is a very basic explanation of the concept.

About electric kettle, it does exist in the KSA(Kingdom of Saudia Arabia)

Heads up mate, at 17.25 that word also has a different meaning in the UK. I'll leave it to you to google it, three cheers to you thanks

If there’s a collective term for a group of British people it’s a “Queue”. It’s just expected without needing to be asked that you get behind the people who were there before you. Catch me going overseas for the first time in my 20’s and clutching my pearls when people cut in front of me.

Im more interested by the fact you can boil water in a microwave?!?!?!😂

squash is concentrated fruit juice which needs to be diluted, it may have an added vitamin boost added sweetener, coloring and preservative a bottle of this will last a long time as the added water makes up to 90 percent of the drink , cheers mate

Do Americans think we only use boiling water for tea. What about pasta, cup of soup, pot noodles?

all squash or cordial in the UK is a concentrate mixed with water and its a fruit drink and you don't have to put 5 cups of sugar in it like you do with Kool-aid XD

Hey Tyler, you obviously do a lot of UK vs US comparison videos. Do you think you'd ever visit the UK one day? I reckon a vlog of your first hand experiences there could be quite interesting.

The “standard “ tea which most household brands are made with is “english breakfast” there is an idea that the cheaper tea brands from the “sweepings “ of a number of the named types of tea like darjeeling, ceylon and oolong assam and English breakfast

We have a stereotype for being overly polite in the UK but in my experience it's Americans who are politer. The most polite thing I ever saw was visiting family in the USA over thanksgiving. We were sitting down to dinner and a couple came in and said hello and sat down and had a drink with us and it was only after they left that we realised nobody had any idea who they were and didn't want to question them out of politeness. To this day we have no idea who they were and they presumably are just as in the dark. They obviously got the wrong house on the street and didn't want to just walk in and out again.

Watching the on-screen production notes on a DVD of a British TV show, an American asked an online forum about a line that read 'The performers received orange squash between takes' (actually, something that Tennis players tended to have at Wimbledon) and was totally baffled. There ensued several attempts to identify what this actually meant. It turned out that, no, it wasn't like Kool-Aid (something that, for the sake of balance, we don't have). But it's always amazing what you take for granted.

No, we have squash in every pub in Australia

Wow for the first time, I feel I’ve taken our NHS for granted. It’s there, it’s always been there for me and still is.

Finding that there are servers for drinks in bars, you don't have to go and order and collect your beer yourself.

Queueing is a simple matter of having respect for fellow man and accepting that we are all of equal importance.