6 British Things That Are Actually American

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[@dark14life]

As my grandfather used to say while making a cup of tea on Sunday mornings: "The Chinese invented tea. Britain stole it. America perfected it."

[@jefferyindorf699]

I am sure Japan would disagree with the last part of that statement.

[@lauramathews3151]

​@@jefferyindorf699but part of American ethos is delusions of grandeur, and revisionist history...so on brand while definitely inaccurate...

[@marilyntaylor9577]

Leave it to us to find the quickest and easiest way to get rid of loose tea and a strainer

[@PMickeyDee]

​@@derrickbridges2611what's the deal with Irish t?

[@SomeOrangeCat]

@@jefferyindorf699 Japan thinks tea goes in Kat Kats, so what do they know?

[@lisapop5219]

Almond joy has nuts, Mounds don't. Sometimes you feel a nut, sometimes you don't. Part of an old commercial 😂

[@markholm7050]

My memory, at least as subject to corruption as the average computer’s, remembers it as, “Some times you feel like a nut. Sometimes you don’t. Peter Paul’s Almond Joy has nuts, Mounds don’t”. That’s at least partly because my superannuated memory recalls a time before corporate mergers swallowed up the Peter Paul candy company. I can almost, but not quite remember the tune to the jingle. Perhaps it’s best I don’t quite remember the tune. You wouldn’t want to hear me attempt to sing it.

[@larrybrown1824]

And they both can be found in milk chocolate and dark chocolate!

[@jayhom5385]

@@markholm7050 I recalled the tune reading your comment. 👌👌

[@AzraelThanatos]

@@larrybrown1824 Yep, and Mounds is one you can eat with a nut allergy...and is a lot like a haystack except mass produced

[@georgemartin1436]

LOL it's drilled into my brain! You got chocolate on my peanut butter!

[@LillibitOfHere]

Let’s not forget that chocolate is native to the Americas in general.

[@CEOofWasrael]

Mesoamericans had a form of solid chocolate but the modern chocolate bar was reinvented in England by a man named Joseph Fry. Yet another thing the Brits invented & we take credit for😂

[@LindaC616]

​@CEOofWasrael That would not have been possible without the Americas. Cocoa comes from the Americas, and the word "chocolate " is a náhuatl word. Who infused it with milk and sugar is usually attributed to the Swiss. But it starts with Cocoa. In the Americas.

[@neuralwarp]

​@@LindaC616No, it starts with fudge, a product of european beet sugar and european cows' milk.

[@-Subtle-]

​@CEOofWasrael whatever helps you sleep. Your entire belief is based on what some colonials said about the native people of South America. Then of course, a white man came along and made chocolate bars. Sure.

[@LindaC616]

@-Subtle- It is true that the bars that we buy in stores as a sweet treat did not exist then. It was used as a drink, and it was consumed bitter and not everyone got to drink it. The infusion of Cocoa from the Americas with milk and sugar did happen in Europe. Think of chocolate bars like bounty in Galaxy, etc as a result of the fusion of cultures. But it definitely would not have happened without the Americas.

[@julienielsen3746]

Today I learned that there are purple poppies to remember animals that have served in wars.

[@firemanjeff911]

Almond Joy has nuts, Mounds don't! That was even their advertising slogan in the 80's.

[@novabrilliant4510]

Sometimes you feel like a nut, sometimes you don't

[@deathybrs]

Further, both normal Almond Joy and Mounds have Milk Chocolate - there are Dark Chocolate versions of both, but they are alternate versions.

[@shiichan32]

​@@deathybrswell one ver normal ver is milk choco the others normal ver is dark

[@firemanjeff911]

@@deathybrs Damn straight!

[@therightquestion2983]

70s actually

[@jameshill2450]

It is greatly appreciated that you continued to pet the cat even after he interrupted the recording. You will be remembered when the time comes.

[@cate9540]

Is it wrong that I think more highly of someone who doesn't remove their cat from the frame while filming? That cat is definitely loved.

[@joycastle.]

​@@cate9540 Or feared. Rightfully so, probably.

[@cate9540]

@@joycastle. There was no fear in the body language of either of them. He pet the cat without even thinking about it, just like so many of us do as we're reading or watching TV.

[@tracytracy622]

I love seeing Laurence's cat!

[@LindaC616]

Kafka has been slacking on his own channel, he's only doing cameos now

[@amandabeaty1492]

Actually, while the UK does have a lack of bears, there was one bear at the London Zoo who was brought over from Canada by a Canadian solider during WWI. He named this bear Winnipeg (or Winnie for short) after his adopted town of Winnipeg, Manitoba. After the war, the solider gave Winnie to the London Zoo where A.A Milne would take his son, Christopher Robin to visit inspiring him to write Winnie the pooh. So you could say that Winnie the Pooh is Canadian.

[@Trebor74]

You can't have bear baiting without bears.

[@nathangamble125]

The "Pooh" part of his name was named after a swan.

[@zoppie]

Laurence DID specify that there aren't any _in the wild._

[@Levacque]

​​@@Trebor74all imported as curiosities or luxuries by the nobility, no free bears have lived in Britain since about the year 1000. The round barbican of the Tower of London, for example, was definitely used for baiting - the Tower was often used to house a royal menagerie, right up to the early 1800s, and the barbican was already arena or theatre-shaped. And they probably baited just about any animal that they could manage to get there alive 😢

[@JervisGermane]

I was positive Winnie the Pooh was published before WWI. Google does say it was first published in 1926, though. So thanks to you, I corrected a wrong fact in my head.

[@jameswolf133]

During WW2, my father’s family sent food packages, including tea bags, to their relatives in Britain. They thanked them for the tea samples, though they had to open each baggie to use it.

[@jimikelley189]

As a Life Member of the V.F.W. Auxiliary, we still sell the "Buddy Poppies" each year to raise money for Disabled Veterans programs, and "In Flander's Field" is still part of our memorials. Good video

[@M167A1]

Greetings from Post 11326

[@80sGamerLady]

Yep. Even had some Golden Poppies ❤

[@jdm5570]

Yep. The VFW. Every year.

[@garryferrington811]

Don't tell the "suckers and losers" guy.

[@ferretyluv]

I always associate In Flanders Field with Dropkick Murphys.

[@CameronVarley]

I love that Winnie the Pooh was shown despite being a Canadian bear found by a Canadian and then kept in a British zoo. It's only the story itself that was inspired by Milnes son that is British.

[@ringo-lf3cd]

And then popularized by an American company (Disney) through the popular cartoon. Kind of a crazy journey.

[@ABC1701A]

@@ringo-lf3cd Disney's version bears NO resemblance to the original. I've sat through their version when babysitting and it is an affront to Pooh himself.

[@adamlewis5700]

An affront to Pooh himself. Had a good chuckle at this.

[@iskandartaib]

There was a movie made in the last few years about the life of the real Christopher Robin - apparently he got bullied in boarding school when the other kids figured out who he was. He was so upset by the whole Christopher Robin thing that he rebelled and enlisted as a soldier against his father's wishes in WW2.

[@Frankie5Angels150]

And the original name was “Winnie the $hit” but they toned it down.

[@tallactordude]

The real surprise to me here was that “You’ll Never Walk Alone” is popular with a couple of British football teams. I’ve always known it as the famous song from Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Carousel,” having been in the production of it during my first year of college.

[@jeannie457]

My mama rocked us to You’ll Never Walk Alone in the 50’s & 60’s. I rocked my own to it in the 80’s & 90’s. It never had anything to do with your football. We are fans of musicals.

[@Levacque]

​@@jeannie457they started out kind of sweet but then became bitter with the "your football" comment. Just enjoy your thing while also allowing them to enjoy theirs.

[@hectorsmommy1717]

I grew up in the 60's and early 70's (when I went off to college) watching the Jerry Lewis Labor Day telethon raising money for Muscular Dystrophy charities. He always sang this song to some of the kids at the close of the telethon. That is the only memory I have of it. IIRC he started his telethons about the same time in the 60's as this song was written.

[@tallactordude]

@@hectorsmommy1717 Actually, the song was written in 1945, which is the year the Rogers and Hammerstein musical “Carousel” opened on Broadway.

[@veramae4098]

Very few music groups wrote even one song, "in the days". When the Beatles' first album came out and it was all "John Lennon and Paul McCartney" it was a shocker to many.

[@johnguill6129]

The Veterans of Foreign Wars (an American organization is existence since the end of World War part 1) still distributes poppies around Veterans Day in November as well as around Memorial Day in May. While doing this on one occasion a pair of Canadians stopped and recited a portion of Flanders Field to us.

[@MsVilecat]

The whole poppy thing is still very popular in Canada on Remembrance day.

[@ernestcline2868]

The VFW predates WWI, being established after the Spanish-American War since the preeminent US veteran organization at the time, the Grand Army of the Republic, was only for Union veterans of the Civil War.

[@scullyfox4271]

Even in America we have brand name differences for the same products. On the west coast our favorite mayonnaise is called Bestfoods. In the Midwest it's called Hellmans. Same with grocery stores. Here it's called Albertsons, there it's called Jewel Osco...or something like that. This was a major culture shock to my American psyche. We're not as united as you would think.

[@anitapeludat256]

We are 50 different countries in a complicated marriage . I've traveled all over, coast to coast, north and south here. I love my fellow Americans and have met many, many incredible people . I find our cultural differences to be a source of fun when meeting new people . Our govt on the other hand.......... 🙄🙏😮

[@80sGamerLady]

Lol Hellman's? Dukes will change your life.

[@scullyfox4271]

@anitapeludat256 you're right, it's fun!

[@scullyfox4271]

@80sGamerLady I have never heard of Dukes lol....wonder what it's called here?

[@jan6986]

​@@80sGamerLady WV here, Dukes, yuk! Hellmans here.

[@californiadreamer2580]

LOL The "sibling rivalry" between our countries is true, but if anyone else goes after the UK, we have your back ❤ I think many Americans feel a similar relationship with Canada.

[@leahmollytheblindcatnordee3586]

You are so right.

[@reliantncc1864]

Canada is our hat. We will protect this hat. And yeah, the UK can count us as a permanent brother. Not that the UK has much to fear in this day and age, but we'd throw down like mad if anyone messed with them.

[@stuartdollar9912]

The Anglosphere is a bond thicker than water in general. US/UK/Australia/Canada/New Zealand.

[@LillibitOfHere]

I love Canada. I love Canadian accents across the continent as well.

[@bothellkenmore]

I've often in a simplistic way thought of my USA, Canada, Australia and UK as siblings although us latter 3 having common background as far as how we were terrible to indigenous peoples and that we had gold rushes.

[@jasonlescalleet5611]

I would never have guessed that tea bags come from Milwaukee. I associate that city with a different beverage 🍺 🍻

[@NeonBeeCat]

Even their baseball team is named after it hahah

[@geneard639]

Funny thing, Mounds and Almond Joy were made in Naugatuck CT on State Route 63, and if you follow that road into New Haven it will take you to the Grove St. Cemetery where you will find Glen Miller's cenotaph.

[@rubycat23]

With so many sibling squabbles between our two countries I find your videos uplifting and a joy to watch. We really do compliment each other and when the proverbial hits the fan we are there for each other. Id include Canada in this too. Also, as a Brit who cant go a day without tea I thank you guys for our humble teabag!

[@jonesnori]

I had always assumed that tea bags were the inferior American way of making tea, and was surprised the first time I visited the UK to discover how common they were. The only place I went that used loose tea was a Chinese restaurant. (Y'all still make better tea. A lot of us don't properly boil the water.)

[@casey6556]

As a Canadian, I can say that my countrymen are quite proud of one of our compatriots being the writer of In Flanders Fields and the origin of the poppy tradition (which we carry on on November 11th just like the Brits)

[@jonesnori]

I'm American, and we've mostly forgotten, but my late husband grew up in Ontario and I got to appreciate the custom. I have a poppy pin on right now.

[@sarahheld3761]

I used to hate tea, but I developed MS and one of the triggers that makes my symptoms worse is caffeine 😢! My husband taught me about herbal tea. I love it and drink it everyday!😊

[@YasuTaniina]

I much prefer herbal tea too. I grew up with it though, and I also can't have a lot of caffeine for medical reasons

[@LoveClassicMusic0205]

Herbal tea isn't actually tea. It's more of a tea substitute.

[@susananderson9619]

My mom's Dad was born and raised in England,Stokes on Trent,to be exact, I hope I remember the name correctly. He and Grandmom lived with us for a 1year .He taught me some strange eating English foods The best was black tea., I have to have a cup or two every morning.

[@michellejohnsen912]

​@@LoveClassicMusic0205 Your comment made me look it up. It's true, there's a specific tea plant/ bush. I never knew that is where the name tea came from. I thought tea just meant any plant based mixture that brewed in hot water to make a drink. Learn something new everyday 🙂

[@thomaswilliams2273]

Actually the tea leaf is an herb, so technically regular black tea is herbal.

[@marycasanova8905]

Odd that "you'll never walk alone" is a British football chant. Here, we play it a lot at funerals(witnessed at several family friends, two aunts, an uncle, and two of my brothers funerals)

[@steakears]

They play it at Liverpudlian funerals a lot as well. Typically because of the football anthem. I’m a huge Liverpool football fan and have seen many videos and read many articles in evidence. YNWA is the teams an acronym and stamped on many a fans coffin.

[@claregale9011]

Not a chant anthem for Liverpool fans especially after the 89 tragedy where 96 fans died .

[@dreadfulspiller8766]

Is that the same song played on the Jerry Lewis telethon?

[@LindaC616]

​@@dreadfulspiller8766I think so

[@linmonPIE]

I just went and listened to it. It’s got such a somber sound. Strange to me that it’s a chant.

[@stevensines7026]

I dont know how many people say this but your videos are always funny and educational. Even on a stressful day they can bring a smile and a laugh to my sometimes troubled soul. Thank you for crossing the pond, my friend.

[@jlyvren89]

The best part of any history is when you get to share it and learn from it... 👍

[@marlenepearson3936]

😂 😅 Fascinating, Laurence. Thanks for featuring your cat,;AND petting him. 😺

[@Sammywhat]

There are so many amazingly, wonderfully mediocre moments in this video that I dare say this is yet my absolute favorite Lost in the Pond since the last one. Thank you, Laurence. ♥

[@nicolad8822]

Mediocre “of only average quality; not very good” Agreed.

[@deborahdanhauer8525]

My dear Laurence, if you think Americans are indifferent about tea, you haven’t met enough southerners yet. We drink LOTS of tea. Tea and coffee and water is all I drink❤️🤗🐝

[@laurie7689]

Yes. It's just that it is so hot and humid down here that we like our tea with ice.

[@pegasusgold50]

I am an American tea drinker. The only way I can stand coffee is sweetened and creamed heavily- it's just too bitter to me taken black. Even though I generally go with iced tea in spring and summer, hot tea in fall and winter, I do occasionally switch up😉

[@Catmom-gl5nt]

My mother’s family had lived in New an England for 150 years, th we love their tea. I grew up with afternoon and high tea and nothing drives me more insane than modern British people calling popovers Yorkshire pudding. They are 2 different things, dang it, and should not not be conflated!

[@capnkwick4286]

Truly, do not come between Southerners and their iced tea. Now, if only we could play nice with each other when it comes to sweetend and unsweetened.

[@laurie7689]

@@pegasusgold50 I actually like it both ways, but my husband only drinks his sweetened.

[@steveanderson9290]

Nice episode Lawrence! On the subject of Brits and Americans being like siblings, I find that to be an apt description, but I had one experience in my life that really got me thinking about the subject. I was working in Saudi Arabia when the Falklands war broke out. 90% of my co-workers were British, and we lived in a walled compound in living quarters with individual rooms surrounding a common area where there were tables, couches, and a TV. During the war, everyone was glued to radio and TV hoping for news of the war. On one evening news came of a significant British victory (it might have been the sinking of the Adm Belgrano) and the room erupted in cheers, and I was one of those cheering. When the Brits noticed that I was cheering with them they became genuinely confused and asked me why I was cheering too. I replied, "well of course I am, you guys are my brothers!". I never quite understood their reaction. Possessiveness of a deeply personal subject perhaps? I'm not good at social signalling and stuff, my brain doesn't seem to be wired for it.

[@nicolad8822]

They must have been a bit Saudi stir crazy. I don’t recall cheering anyone’s death back in Britain.

[@L1623VP]

You are correct. Apparently, those Brits forgot a bit of history.

[@bewawolf19]

@@nicolad8822 What a lie. Look at the Ukraine war and don't claim people won't cheer other's death in Britain.

[@SteveSingsThings]

Heinz baked beans is another good one. It’s as British as it gets but has its origin was in the US. Beans and toast or served with breakfast is a mainstay.

[@jeffhampton2767]

Heinz is an American company from Pittsburgh Pennsylvania and they own Heinz beans in England. Walker's crisp in England is actually owned by the American company Lays potato chips

[@amazinggrapes3045]

Of course Heinz is American! Although we associate it more with ketchup

[@incrediblymai8362]

American here, we had baked beans with supper tonight

[@five-toedslothbear4051]

9:03 You said "Britain", but I said "China"...I guess you didn't hear me because that Laurence in the rectangle up there is in the past and a different place. And I said China even though I'm studying Japanese, and learning how to write 茶 (tea) by hand, but that writing came from China anyway, too.

[@jesseberg3271]

Or India.

[@jayhom5385]

@@jesseberg3271 This was my thought as well. In fact I have a nice first flush darjeeling in the cabinet from a very British sounding place, Castleton Estate.

[@jackieknits61]

The Indian tea market was created by the east India company. So basically, English. Though the Indians have taken that ball and run with it. Kind of like cricket.

[@chupathingy6626]

As an American with an affinity for British food & culture, I love your vids. Also, we need to see more of your cat. 😂

[@-Subtle-]

So you use salt AND pepper!?!! 😁

[@chupathingy6626]

@@-Subtle- I know, it's practically a scandal! 😆

[@Darvec]

My father was American and my mother was Scottish. In the rough days of rationing in Britain immediately after WWII, my father’s parents would send my mother’s parents care packages, including tea. My mom said her dad would say why do the Americans package their tea in wee sacks?!! Then they would carefully open each tea bag to make tea. American tea bags were still unknown in 1940s Dumbarton, Scotland!

[@themoviedealers]

The song You'll Never Walk Alone is also inextricably linked to comedian Jerry Lewis. He sang it in a lachrymose manner every year on his Labor Day Telethon in support of research for Muscular Dystrophy. That show ran for over 40 years.

[@Beth_Alice_Kaplan]

I was thinking the same thing. Actually, it's a good song in context with the musical, but otherwise it's quite annoying.

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

I prefer cold tea over hot tea. I live down south, iced sweet tea is very common here and you change your tune about hot tea real quick when you spend a summer combating 95-100+ degree heat on a daily basis. I also try to avoid using the AC for the sake of keeping the bill low. I currently have a toffee flavored tea and orange spice, but those are for when it gets colder. Which, while fall has arrived, the heat still hasn't fully gone away. I need us to break up with summer so we can fully move on with fall 😂.

[@engletinaknickerbocker5380]

When I was a kid living in Alaska after coming inside from skiiing or sledding, we had hot Russian tea made from lemon-essence Lipton tea powder added to orange juice or Tang powder with cinnamon, a few Labrador tea leaves from the bog down the hill that we picked and dried in summer and a small pinch of nutmeg. So plain tea wasn't a 'thing' until I married my Japanese husband who drank straight very fine green tea, and sometimes barley tea if sick. So, cold, even iced, sweet tea was rather foreign.

[@JanetBrown-px2jn]

After leaving the UK for NYC it took me years to enjoy iced tea,it was so foreign to me,and tea without milk isn’t my cup of tea.

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

@@JanetBrown-px2jn Lol, I'm the opposite, tea with milk (hot tea, I mean) doesn't taste that good to me 😅. If I'm going to drink hot tea, I only add sugar and maybe honey. But I can certainly understand that such a drastic difference can be hard to adjust to!

[@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley]

@@engletinaknickerbocker5380 I too used to live in Alaska as a kid! But I've never had the teas that you mentioned. Those sound really interesting.

[@engletinaknickerbocker5380]

@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley We lived at the top of a 'hill' bordering what must've been a glacial river to the ocean many millennia in south-central (north of Anchorage). On the edge of the hill embankment were willows, and we used to climb them and try to swing over the 'river bottom' as far we could (in winter --so we'd land on the snow). The 'river bottom' was an area of collective dampness in the early part of summer, as runoff from melting snow in the mountain made its way to the sea. There were places not far away with springs and artesian wells, but in late summer this 'river bottom' was dry enough to walk through. Still, there was sphagnum mosses, and horsetail, and covering in patches were Labrador tea plants. My mother was a Girl Scout leader and encouraged us to learn as much as we could about the natural flora as a source of natural remedies and pharmacognosy. Anyway, hot Russian tea was great with a little honey for a sore throat --in the winter. I don't ever recall drinking it when it was warm out! Some added dried rosehips for 'extra' vitamin C.

[@davids6898]

Oscar Hammerstein was really into larks, evidently. Not only in Carousel, the bird was referenced in songs from The Sound of Music and Oklahoma!.

[@guyfaux3978]

He included them for a lark, you're telling us? ;-)

[@M167A1]

In Flanders Field and its resulting red poppy are icons of Memorial Day in the US and Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth. And are used by Veterans groups like the VFW, American Legion, Royal Canadian legion and Royal British legion just to name a few. VFW POST 11326.

[@aliciaschultz309]

Went to Ukraine in 2019 to see my new granddaughter. She was 3 and we went to a coffee shop. I ordered a chia tea. She replied.. Baba chia is Tea! According to her, I said Tea tea. Schooled by a 3 year old lol

[@monicapdx]

I'm American, and knew from somewhere that chai meant 'tea' since I was a kid. Something I read, no doubt. I laugh myself silly whenever I see products named chai meaning tea with spices. It's really masala chai. Masala means 'spices' in Hindi. I have a tendency to start repeating 'tea tea' and giggling. Thank gawd I don't do it out loud. I'm 68, I'd get some weird looks. 😄 (It's best made at home. Not hard at all.)

[@theknightswhosay]

I didn’t realize Eastern Europeans didn’t know what tea was until I had a rare non-Hispanic housekeeper in Las Vegas. I think he was from Russia or Ukraine. When I went to Eastern Europe, I discovered everyone called it chai. Even Romanians call it that despite speaking a Romance language.

[@jonesnori]

The two words (tea and chai) are closely related, both being derived ultimately from different dialectal versions of a single Chinese word for tea. The less common (at least in the U.S.) cha and char come from the same source.

[@cynthiawilliams4093]

I remember Bounty being advertised in the USA, I loved them. I don't know why they just never became as popular as the Mounds bar.

[@jeffhampton2767]

When I was a kid back in the 1960s and 70s we had Almond Joy candy bars and mounds and bounty

[@digitalnomad9985]

Exposure. Not as many people knew at a glance what they were, so no impulse buys (which are the mainstay of candy bar sales).

[@jeremyortiz2927]

I remember we had Bounty (milk chocolate) for a while in the US during the 80s and 90s but I haven't seen them here in years unfortunately.

[@jeffhampton2767]

I grew up in the United States in the 1960s and 70s and we had Bounty candy bars

[@427Arbok]

American Southerners drink a lot of tea, actually. Though it's not that culturally important. Also, properly made Southern sweet tea contains so much sugar it often pushes the border edge between "beverage" and "syrup," but that's beside the point. The key is, in the South, most everyone will drink tea, whereas coffee is much more restricted to certain people. However, very few tea drinkers take their tea as seriously as even your average coffee drinker does-and I say this as someone who puts a fair bit of effort into both beverages.

[@JamieStuff]

The humour in this episode was exceptional. You had me rolling!

[@purplepanties26]

I’ve been to England and Ireland twice each and Scotland once. And not once was I served loose leaf tea. And I drank it every day multiple times per day. Guess those teabags came in handy.

[@nicolad8822]

Very traditional tea shops and hotels will serve loose leaf.

[@sbishop6450]

Loose teas making a bit of a comeback here in uk with those cups or tea post with infusers (a sort of leaf cage) that is integral to the cup/pot.

[@purplepanties26]

@@nicolad8822 I literally came back from Ireland 2 weeks ago and stayed at 3 B&B’s and 6 hotels. Even the upper crust of staying at Kilronan castle served teabags. 🤔 Maybe it’s more in England. I’ll find out next year when we go to Scotland/England. But I find either way, loose leaf or a bag, makes a fine cup of tea. And English Breakfast is my favorite.

[@jacquestuber628]

​@@sbishop6450yeah that hipster shit is popping up everywhere

[@Vaeldarg]

@@purplepanties26 It's because the language of convenience is universal. If something is convenient enough, it can transcend even nationalism.

[@Snoopdad-zw4mz]

Let me school you a bit. When I came to Britain for graduate studies, I also got the course in Tea Preparation 101 - which had nothing to do tea bags but did have a lot to do with "warming the pot". Tea bags in 1970 were pretty much a derided American invention that had not caught on yet. The same might be said of Hallloween and the "trick or treat" thing that was thought at the time as American as pecan pie, but now is a multi-million- dollar industry in Britain.

[@cjb8010]

When I visit the UK, I feel at home, but at home at my old aunt’s house. So many familiar things, and so many homey familiar things - just a tad older and wiser. What surprises me are not how many things the countries share, but the occasional thing we just do not share - like British Plum Pudding. How did something so outrageously fascinating NOT make it to America?

[@L1623VP]

Didn't British pudding make it to America in the form of fruit cake? It's not identical, but seems like it was inspired by British plum pudding.

[@BlessingsfromNorthIdaho]

Fruitcake and plum pudding are different. Fruitcake is baked and plum pudding is steamed. They have a few ingredients in common but are very different. I have been an American all my life 😎 as my family has been since the American revolution and I have been making plum pudding for most of my adult life. My husband’s family, also American, makes carrot pudding. Why carrots? Because there were no plums on the frontier and prairies. Our family loves both.

[@jovetj]

I've never had plum pudding, but a _good_ fruit cake is really delicious!

[@cjb8010]

@@jovetj agreed. I had a real one long after I had learned to hate the version that looks like baked Jujyfruits.

[@BlessingsfromNorthIdaho]

@@jovetj agreed. Plum pudding is quite good too, especially with a nice lemon curd .

[@vortexathletic]

As a American who is a fan of football ⚽️, I will absolutely use the info on “You’ll Never Walk Alone” if I see some football elitist hating on Americans

[@Blondie42]

Don't forget to throw at them it's called soccer in every other English speaking country . . . including England. Where TV programs have "soccer" in the title.

[@claregale9011]

No one here claims it a British song lol its actually just an anthem for the 96 Liverpool fans that died in 1989 so it is sentimental to the people of Liverpool.

[@AnglandAlamehnaSwedish]

Futbol*

[@jencyncir1533]

My friend is from Liverpool and I’m from California and I CANNOT WAIT for him to wake up so I can rub this in his face

[@Sonny_McMacsson]

@@AnglandAlamehnaSwedish Fußball

[@Dunybrook]

Somehow I just learned that Yorkshire pudding is basically popovers only substituting beef fat for the butter so they are a bit more savory.

[@monicapdx]

Now try Toad in the Hole. Cook some sausages in a 9"x9" or so baking dish in the oven until browned, then pour Yorkshire pudding batter over them and bake. Recipes all over the web. Absolutely wonderful! I personally discovered it around 11 or so and have been enjoying ever since. Otherwise I've never had popovers. 😆

[@susannpatton2893]

I am the only ine in my family that prefers tea to coffee. I may drink 1 cup of coffee a year, usually Christmas and with hazelnut creamer. Now I have to have a cup of hot tea. So yummy.

[@E3ECO]

English muffins are American.

[@jimschuler8830]

The presence of Yorkshire Gold marks this as a perfectly balanced video with no exploits.

[@TheEulerID]

Speaking as somebody who was raised in Slough, home of the Mars factory, nobody was under any illusion that the chocolate bars of various sorts were anything other than American in origin, although they usually had local names, like Marathon instead of Snickers, although Mars did go about rationalising product names. As for teabags, nobody sensible has ever seriously claimed they were a British invention. In my childhood, it was always loose tea, teapots and tea strainers.

[@theknightswhosay]

Yeah I always understood Brits had sort of a disdain for teabags. I like them though because I like my tea extra strong.

[@Zesty_Washington]

How about electric kettles which were invented in Chicago, the current home of Sir Laurence Brown!

[@iallso1]

Interesting comment about bears, there were wild bears in Britain until about 1500 years ago, there is even a bear on the county emblem of Warwickshire.

[@mattkono7816]

But if that's true.. *looks at Welsh flag* -begins contemplating effectiveness of missiles against dragons-

[@iallso1]

@@mattkono7816 keep contemplating lol.

[@redrick8900]

Nope.

[@conniecrawford5231]

There are more than 57 Heinz products but the bottles have ( or had) 57 on their bottles. We Pittsburghers sometimes refer to mixed breeds dogs ) mutts) as Heinz 57 dogs! We love our Heinz products!

[@glennzanotti3346]

We Texans LOVE tea... in a big glass with ice and a lot of sugar. Actually, sweet tea (iced) is big all across the US South.

[@MorinehtarTheBlue]

We have sweet tea in Canada as well. Though as we don't trade in any unsweetened varieties we simply call it iced tea.

[@robertpearson8798]

@@MorinehtarTheBlue I’ve had both and sweet tea is usually considerably sweeter than what we call ice tea in Canada.

[@glennzanotti3346]

@@robertpearson8798 Yes, Southern sweet tea will make your teeth hurt... but it tastes so good. LOL

[@charlenemack7040]

Laurence…f’n funny. Thank you. I am here in Maine, we had a horrible Wednesday night. You have cheered me up today I greatly appreciate it. 😊❤

[@Captain_Bad_Bill]

Owe, Lawrence! You just shocked the brat out of my bun (that didn't sound right...) While I'm aware of the well-kept secret that the typewriter & it's offspring the 'qwerty' keyboard were invented in Milwaukee, I would have never guessed that teabag could have been the thing made Milwaukee famous!

[@qwinlyn]

Lovin the Canada credit for Flander’s Field! Oh, and we still follow the poppy wearing thing this month of the year.

[@Your-dad-with-milk140]

I remember buying remembrance poppies in America when I was in high school from vets. They had a little phrase on them. I bought one and kept it in my car.

[@georgeadams1853]

I recall reading about a conversation (circa 1940s) between an Yank and a Brit, and the subject turned to tea, with the Briton noting how bad American tea was; he finished his complaint with, "And then there's THOSE BAGS!" Since then I've always believed that tea bags were anathema to the British. How times have changed!

[@petermescher332]

Snobbish brits don't like to admit it, but over 95% of tea in the UK is sold in bags. (And, as another fun fact, France has more McDonald's than any other country in the EU.)

[@w.reidripley1968]

Georgeadams, this would seem to date "Builders' Tea" as definitely postwar. Author Robert Galbraith/J.K. Rowling introduced the term to this side of the Pond recently.

[@kimberlyholt2241]

Mounds and almond joy are my favorites too! 🥥

[@jessicawolitarsky139]

Love how you continue to pet and snuggle your very happy kitty throughout the video 🥰

[@ferretyluv]

TIL Bounty is the same as Almond Joy. The story I heard for teabags is that a salesman used raw silk bags as samples for tea. His customers thought they were for steeping, used it that way, and loved it. So he patented it as the tea bag.

[@micheledeetlefs6041]

Hi Lawrence. Just reminding you that the first successful British colony in the United States was not Puritan. You seemed to forget Jamestown. They didn't have an issue with Christmas. Also, you forgot probably the most infamous sports song the British sing during their games which actually belongs to the United States. I'm referring to "Swing Lo, Sweet Chariot". While the average Brit might not know that "You Will Never Walk Alone" is an American song, there's absolutely no way in heaven, hell, or the lands which lie betwixt and between that they don't realize "Swing Lo" is an African American spiritual! The chorus alone is a dead giveaway.

[@micheledeetlefs6041]

@@Lootoodle Jamestown and Plymouth are only about 400 miles away. Even by the ridiculously teeny standards of Europe, that's hardly "almost as if into separate countries." And there was nothing disrespectful - just as there was nothing inaccurate - in my statements.

[@thomaswilliams2273]

​@@LootoodleI may be wrong, but it seems to me the only mistake made was calling Jamestown successful. Admittedly there has been a lot of recent discussion about whether Plymouth or Jamestown counts as the starting of the country, and while I believe the spirit, the founding of who the US came to be was through the Puritan Pilgrims, I will still admit that Jamestown was first.

[@traviscosby1016]

@@thomaswilliams2273 The bar for successful is really low. Basically since it didn't disappear like Roanoke and allowed further settlement.

[@micheledeetlefs6041]

@@thomaswilliams2273 "Successful" by historical standpoints meaning permanent, not profitable. People remained in Jamestown even after the charter was revoked. The same thing happened in Plymouth. (Which also had its charter revoked, although nobody seems to remember that!) In both cases, new Royal charters were issued once the old ones were revoked. So it's not like people packed up the colonies and moved elsewhere. They continue to operate under new management. So, from the perspective of a historian, they were successful. They led to permanent settlements. Roanoke, by comparison, did not. And that is considered a failed colony. Now, if history were written by economists instead of historians, the story might be different. It would also be pretty boring. Honestly, instead of stories about people struggling against all odds in new and challenging situations, we'd have pie charts on expenditures versus assets. Yuck!

[@reindeer7752]

@thomaswilliams2273 - You were correct the first time. Jamestown was the first successful British colony. They had good relations with the indigenous peoples, grew crops and their settlement lasted lasted 100 years. Their religion was Church of England.

[@lesliedausey]

Love, love, love Yorkshire Gold! We first heard about it in a passing remark by the Beasleys, saw it at World Market, tried it, and it's been a staple in our American home for the past couple years.

[@jaksmittensandstuff6413]

😂 I just love you. So, because my darling family felt the need to bring home the pestilence to me, I am forced to bring all my quilts and pillows to the living room sofa, curl up with my Lysol and Vicks Puffs, and watch the KZbin on the TV...horrible, I know 😮 Luckily, the KZbin algorithm understood my misery and placed you and your channel in my scrolly thingy. You are an absolute riot, and yes, I did subscribe. Oh, and Yorkshire Gold is the best! ❤😂

[@dianaroach3093]

He's a hoot. I like him too

[@neoneapolitan2122]

2:15 Lawrence, you forget to mention the other crucial difference between AlmondJoy and Mounds: one has almonds, and the other doesn't - _an important distinction to be made._

[@tad27612]

When I lived in the UK, I really enjoyed the poppy tradition. I had previously traveled several times around Britain especially to small towns where I would almost invariably see memorials to those from the towns who had been killed in the Great War. This touched me deeply.

[@kirbyculp3449]

An useless fratricide of a war, tragic.

[@janne6957]

Your videos are ALWAYS interesting, informative and hilarious. But my favorite part is your cat’s walk-ons. Thanks for sharing your observations…and your cat.

[@delphinewood7519]

“A crown ordered on eBay” lol. I love your channel. Thanks for the laughs.

[@kitefan1]

Live in New England, went to New Brunswick a few weeks ago and had a Bounty that unexpectedly was a wrapper with a series of smaller wrapped candies of chocolate covered coconut. The thing I immediately noticed was that like most UK pre-made chocolates and biscuits it was less sweet than anything bought in US.

[@seantlewis376]

I love Lost in the Pond. I'm in a different situation from Lawrence, being American and having lived in Europe, including Wales, for several years. These episodes always make me nostalgic for those times. Keep 'em coming, mate.

[@richb313]

Another great episode what amazes me is your ability to do it week after week.

[@null0byte]

Bounty bars were sold here in the US too for a while, but was discontinued some time back. I remember seeing them as a kid but always thought of them as just the milk chocolate counterpart to a Mounds and wished a dark chocolate version of Almond Joy would be released. Was always confused why Mounds/Almond Joy would be in the same advertisement but Bounty would be left out. Didn’t know they were from different companies until recently.

[@timprussell]

Canadian American in Chicagoland. They still use the poppy for Remembrance Day in Canada. We memorized the poem in grade school.

[@davidwilkins5932]

Our man Kafka makes an appearance! 🐾😶🐾

[@pamelasimone5084]

Growing up, my grandmother always had pots of hot tea or pitchers of iced tea around the house. I grew up with it. I find it comforting. I am becoming more knowledgeable about the different varieties and differences among the three colors. I’ve grown fond of on blended with ginger and turmeric that tastes quite nice. I do find more varieties are available as loose tea than in bags. So I need to spring for an infuser.

[@tobascoheat6582]

Love you, Laurence! Thank you for all the interesting tidbits that we share with G.B.! 👍👍👍

[@jeffbranch8072]

I was born, raised, and still live in Michigan. I don't drink coffee, never liked it. I've drank tea since I was 3 year old and asked my sister what she was doing. (The answer was, "Making tea, you want some?") That was 1968, and I still drink Red Rose tea 55 years later, though more for sentimentality that for any brand loyalty.

[@chrisjarvis2287]

Lawrence you forgot Baked Beans :)

[@duckduckgoismuchbetter]

I thought I learned in the early 80s as a teenager that teabags were actually passe in Britain. And that no proper British person would ever make tea with a teabag. I'm not sure where I read that, or saw it on TV though. I think I was aware at the same time that the teabag was some "unspeakable American contrivance" to the average proper Englishman. Maybe that was old information at the time, dunno.

[@ABC1701A]

Proper tea is made with loose leaf tea, the stuff that goes into teabags (although they are convenient and great if you're going out for the day, easier to make a mug of tea with a bag than loose tea during a picnic) is often the stuff left over after loose tea is boxed. It's basically all the little bits that are too small to be loose tea where the leaves have been rubbed almost into dust. Just not as good quality (although I believe some brands are far better than others) and using teabags in a teapot isn't that easy to do. Convenient but that's about all you can say for them. Incidentally you can also get coffee bags, same thing but with ground coffee in them instead of tea.

[@theknightswhosay]

Usually they object to individual teabags at least. Some will make a pot of tea with a bag or bags.

[@silverwuffamute]

@@ABC1701A Proper tea can be made whichever way you want to. Don't be a weird sanctimonious blowhard by trying to gatekeep someone enjoying a hot brown liquid.

[@Birdbike719]

Never would've thought the remembrance poppy was invented in America! Maybe because I watch a lot of Britbox

[@DanielByers-qf9qi]

2:46: For those wondering, that is the Douglas TBD-1 "Devastator". It was the first modern (enclosed cockpit, retractable gear) aircraft carrier torpedo bomber. By actual wartime, it was outdated: It had an underpowered early model Pratt & Whitney Twin Wasp, and was equipped with the erratic and inferior torpedoes of early WWII. They were thus the ones devastated at the Battle of Midway. (Actually, most American craft suffered great losses that day, until the belated assault by the last squadron of Douglas SBD-3 "Dauntless" dive bombers.)

[@aresee8208]

I have long thought it is very unfortunate that most people associate songs with certain singers who've (often regionally) popularized them, rather than the songwriters who, you know, created them.

[@susannpatton2893]

My grandmother made hot tea and toast for our ailments, worked most of the time

[@gailsears2913]

I was surprised to hear Laurence say Celtic with a soft c sound for the British soccer team. I have heard that only the American basketball team used that pronunciation and otherwise it was pronounced with a hard c/k sound

[@allendracabal0819]

The online Merriam-Webster dictionary has an informative write-up on this topic that I recommend you take a look at. It should be easy to find with a simple web search.

[@StormWarningMom]

The poppy tradition is also big in Australia and New Zealand... I have friends there that celebrate Remembrance Day.

[@andonbailey9656]

I like that he said 'siblings'. I thought it was because we keep stealing from each other and claiming it as our own.

[@MsRENO1977]

Oooooooh, Laurence….keep up the great content and excellent entertainment…. Love, from a fellow mid-westerner in KC, Mo……

[@MsRENO1977]

@@Click_Profile_for._.more_info I am trying to, but having issues doing it. Help I am lost in the dm pond!

[@jgranahan]

Ooo Lawrence, I like the voice in a box old-timey radio effect!![4:50] And your beautiful Mid-Atlantic accent, er, mate!

[@TheTonyahawk]

I actually think of Japan and China first for tea, but I do remember tea time about 2:00ish when living in Montreal and Toronto being distinctly British of origin.

[@lorrygoth]

As a Canadian, I love your humor. Also very interesting.

[@stefanjones2637]

Bounty bars were sold in the States many years ago, alongside Mounds and Almond Joy. I'd pretty much forgotten about them until I saw them for sale in Vancouver, B.C. last month.

[@AbstractStew]

2:23 I was just about to ask what the difference was between a Bounty Bar and a Mounds Bar. Now, I know.

[@jayhom5385]

3 letters.

[@jannetteberends8730]

Im from The Netherlands. Sinterklaas, that became Santa Claus, is living in Spain. His day is 5 December. On that evening it’s “pakjesavond”, that’s the evening of presents. He’s wearing a red mantle. I suppose the red clothes of Santa came from that. The American Santa Claus is becoming popular in The Netherlands. So Dutch children have the best of both worlds. Personally I think the green Father Christmas is better than the red one.

[@juliejindra1325]

And then there is Zwarte Pete...

[@jannetteberends8730]

@@juliejindra1325 he’s been gradually replaced by chimney Pete. Just some black smudges on his face, because he goes through the chimney he has soot on his face. The national entry on television only has chimney Pieten. And some are just white.

[@roberturibe3150]

Not me

[@jonesnori]

Sinterklaas is Saint Nicholas in English, yes? December 5th is his saint's day. We Americans have kind of jumbled several stories together to get Santa Claus. My church's old pastor used to dress up as Saint Nick every year for the kids, complete with bishop's mitre, cope (gold, not red), and crosier.

[@jeffhampton2767]

The original Santa Claus is from the country of Turkey but the United States created the modern day Santa Claus in the red suit that we see today

[@ginnyschofield5768]

Hi, Laurence! There is a very important memo that has been floating around in the pond for eons, which I hope you will address in one of your videos. This memo pertains to "the many different ways that Brits have of referring to Great Britain". Americans hear the names "Great Britain", "England", "United Kingdom", etc. As a dual citizen, you've surely heard of confusion among us colonists about whether these are interchangeable names or if each refers to a different country or region. Please enlighten us and allow us to finally get a good night's sleep. Thank you. Ginny Schofield, your neighbor to the South in Lincoln's Springfield

[@15oClock]

I'm sure I knew the Ghost of Christmas Present was based on 19th century Victorian proto-Santa, but I forgot until I saw this.

[@quaintlyeccentric]

Great video, Laurence. I never knew Glenn Miller was lost over the English Channel. And I think I will get a red poppy to wear for Armistice day this year. (Memories of grade school.) Keep up the good work.

[@MickAlderson]

Not only was Glenn Miller lost over the English Channel, there was a theory that a returning British bomber might have dropped a bomb on his plane. Supposedly a flight of Lancaster bombers returning with undelivered bomb loads saw a small plane below, thought it was German, dropped their bombs, and hit it! The story has been mostly disproven. Apparently the timing and location of the flights don't quite line up.

[@robertsprigge5535]

I've heard a convincing talk from a large distributed network of researchers that Glen Miller wasn't on the aledged plane and that there's a much more interesting story about what actually happened to him and the reason behind it.

[@kiwitrainguy]

The way I've heard it was that bombers returning to the UK with undropped bombs would drop them over the English Channel as it was too dangerous to land with them still on board. The plane that Glenn Miller was on was just unlucky to be caught underneath. @@MickAlderson

[@Textile_Courtesan]

I keep a box of Yorkshire Gold tea in my cupboard at all times when I learned Sir Patrick preferred it above Earl Grey. Although to be honest the majority of my tea is loose leaf so I can play with flavours and use a mesh infuser. I also happen to use an electric kettle.

[@greghamann2099]

The tea bag invented in Milwaukee. WOW.

[@jefferyindorf699]

I suppose a lot of beer went into the brainstorming of it. 🙂

[@emaniburton9422]

Don’t forget baked beans Lawrence 😂 especially Hienz

[@tootz1950]

Yuk.

[@samanthab1923]

Right? I’ve only seen those Heinz baked bean cans on Brit shows. I don’t know anyone in the US that eats Baked Beans on toast with breakfast. 😮

[@jwb52z9]

Heinz Beans were never popular in the US and haven't been directly sold in the US for decades, outside specialty shops and international food aisles.

[@jasonlescalleet5611]

I was shocked to find out that Heinz made something besides ketchup. In my mind Heinz=ketchup and ketchup=Heinz.

[@samanthab1923]

@@jasonlescalleet5611 Same here

[@suesmith4040]

Thanks for the video. They always interest me. Hearing the differences and alikes of countries is something I like to learn about.

[@LKMNOP]

These are still sold on November 11th in the United States. You will see veterans at almost every traffic light with them. As well as on memorial Day.