7 Things Brits Do That Americans DON'T (UK vs. USA)

[@mydanshi6500]

As a Brit I wouldn’t leave meat out of the fridge. Gross!

[@gazmatraz5248]

Also as a Brit never leave meat out and never know anyone else to either.

[@moleogod]

Me neither I just don't get it.

[@1949corek]

Pork Pies and gala pies are left out, as well as processed meat like salami.

[@beds139]

@@1949corek I keep my pork pies in the fridge.

[@blackbob3358]

@@beds139 no man, unless it's red hot and you arn't gonna eat it 'till next week. ........ air 'em i say.

[@beds139]

You do meet some very odd Brits if you have concluded that we leave meat un-refrigerated.Are you finding some remote tribes of ancient picts & celts to provide your info?

[@TheAlmightyPillock]

They are talking I think about when you have a dinner party, and you leave food out on tables for people to get food. There is be a chease baord, and often a buy or thin cut meat, salama etc to get a long with all the other stuff like coose coose. Might be Cold ham as well. Quite normal if your having a big 'everyone bring foot' type of gathering.

[@dianeharrison4975]

For sure

[@amethyst1826]

@@TheAlmightyPillock please explain the 'buy or thin' cut of meat, did you mean big? And I just LOVE your spelling of couscous. Coose coose makes much more sense to me!

[@TheAlmightyPillock]

@@amethyst1826 my apolagise, I am very badly Dysexic :) I'm gald it amused though. Honestly, no idea what was 'buy' mean to origonaly be. THe English language is a continus challenge due to its nonsensical spelling combined with my linguistic inability. I spent three years walking past a Yacht club, wondering waht it was before I worked out it meant the boat. :)

[@amethyst1826]

@@TheAlmightyPillock No apology necessary!! I can understand perfectly what you're saying, it was just the 'buy' that confused me! I know what you mean about walking past places and not knowing what they are as I walked past Wellington Barracks in London for a couple of months, on my way to & from work around the corner. I occasionally saw soldiers standing outside but assumed they were waiting for lifts as I thought the building was a huge office block! 😆😆 It took my mother, 400 miles away, to ask if I'd seen my cousin yet and to actually tell me that WAS the barracks, and the soldiers were on guard not just waiting for lifts!! 🤪🤪 I was a source of amusement amongst my friends for awhile! Lol And guess what? YOU got etc right, which many, MANY non-dyslexic people get wrong and put ect instead!! You earn 10/10 stars for that, so I give you a pat on the back for that! 🤩🤩

[@BurningFlame08]

Literally EVERYONE does Christmas Crackers at Xmas (Christmas)! There's always a hat, a joke + a little small game inside of one!

[@WanderingRavens]

Good to know! I think we'll start doing this tradition too! :D

[@xJavelin1]

And at Christmas parties too. Including Christmas work parties.

[@craigmccullough7333]

And the worse the joke the better.

[@thevonya3977]

If you are not wearing the hat during the dinner you may as well disown yourself from the family. Even the most stubborn, miserable brit will wear the hat for the christmas dinner

[@TheTrulyroman]

The Vonya Very true. You’re considered a miserable killjoy if you don’t join in and put the hat on.

[@stevemoppett2759]

I have literally no idea what you're talking about concerning leaving meat out of the fridge.

[@joegoout]

We might leave a pork pie out if you think someone else is going to have a bit, or a left over cooked sausage from a full breakfast might get left out until lunch - mainly because they're horrible after being in the fridge. But otherwise, no. Don't leave meat out. I've never really seen meat out the fridge that hasn't been recently cooked.

[@lbnewell23]

Yeah never left fresh meat out of my fridge like ever if they’re talking about like corned beef of tuna or something idk

[@ajayjackson7727]

yep, because everyone i know keeps meat in the fridge, i guess the people they saw leaving meat out have no clue about food hygiene

[@gordondavies7773]

@@ajayjackson7727 Pork pies, ham, and other cold meats are best eaten at room temperature. It is acceptable to keep them out of the fridge (but covered) before and during meal service. Unsliced dried, cured saucisson should not be kept in the fridge but in a cool place (what we used to call the larder) with the eggs (in Europe only) and vegetables (never put whole tomatoes in the fridge).

[@TheMattlockyer]

My mother still leaves meat out of the fridge. Her rationale is that it doesn't get cold enough in the UK for it to go off. Now that I live in Australia the idea of any unfridged meat is very off putting and I tend to not eat anything she cooks when I'm visiting.

[@draoi99]

Cheese is meant to be eaten at room temperature, and cured meats have undergone a preservation process (smoking, drying etc) so it's perfectly safe to leave them out of the fridge.

[@johnleonard9090]

Also meat pies like pork or gala should be at room temperature when eaten as the herb and spice flavours are reduced when cold

[@BassBanj0]

Room temperature cheese is fucking disgusting

[@langdalepaul]

@@BassBanj0 depends on the cheese. Also depends on what you call room temperature. People are keeping their houses warmer than they used to, 24°C instead of 18°C.

[@missharry5727]

American cheese may well be disgusting at room temperature, but you lose all the flavour of cheese if it's too cold. Have you never taken a cheese sandwich on a picnic?

[@_deadcoin]

Yeah FR, I always eat cheese at room temp or melt it. I guess it might stay cold a little when I pack a lunch. It taste the same to me either way. These people have to be trolling. Lies!.. they don't eat pizza, taco bell, cheeseburgers, hot dogs, no cheese on your eggs or broccoli and never dipped a nacho. Hard to believe. I leave my smokies, beef jerky , salami , peperoni, etc. out or even a party tray of cubed meat and cheese. I will throw it in the fridge at night tho. Thats because I dont want to attract mice in my house and have $@*& flies in my home laying eggs on my food.

[@ste887]

XOXO - a brit - "why did i get a kiss and a stock cube?"

[@kieranburns3322]

'cos they love gravy? Who doesn't love gravy?

[@TheCornishCockney]

haha,stock cube,oxo will fly over their heads.

[@ste887]

It was meant to fly over their heads as a British joke :p

[@jazzyb4656]

🤣

[@tomajagem9616]

Haha, funny.

[@matttv94]

Most kids in schoolyards are playing football (soccer) not cricket

[@jaidenblake1522]

Unless it's pe... Lol

[@kevoconnor145]

But a good old session of wall cricket (stumps painted onto a wall and an "honour system" used) is still popular. My nephews all play it.

[@WanderingRavens]

Football seems a lot more straightforward and fun than cricket 😂

[@matttv94]

Wandering Ravens agreed

[@davidjones272]

Cricket is the most popular summer sport in the country

[@danieldunlavey6901]

You cure meat as a way of preserving it without refrigeration, it's kind of the point - most European countries have a proud history of cured meats

[@_deadcoin]

wait....but they are not allowed to use potassium sorbate and other preservatives so how does that work?

[@danieldunlavey6901]

@@_deadcoin just with drying and regular salt, plus really really good food hygiene from farm to table - because America does things like chlorinating chicken and washing eggs, it removes the impetus from farmers to ensure livestock is raised clean and healthy, which in turn means the extra cleaning is needed - it's a vicious circle that the US can't get out of without fundamentally changing how they manufacture and consume food; though the blame isn't on consumers, but the big companies that only look at the financial bottom line

[@kieranburns3322]

Cricket is easy: You have two sides, one out in the field and one in. Each man that's in the side that's in goes out, and when he's out he comes in and the next man goes in until he's out. When they are all out, the side that's out comes in and the side that's been in goes out and tries to get those coming in, out. Sometimes you get men still in and not out. When a man goes out to go in, the men who are out try to get him out, and when he is out he goes in and the next man in goes out and goes in. There are two men called umpires who stay out all the time and they decide when the men who are in are out. When both sides have been in and all the men have been out, and both sides have been out twice after all the men have been in, including those who are not out, that is the end of the game

[@WanderingRavens]

There it is! Clear as day.

[@chriswalford9228]

Although it's another sport we invented but are crap at, along with Football (soccer) Rugby, tennis , Rowing, squash and Badmington. One day we will win something!

[@RandomPerson-kd84]

Perfect explanation

[@kieranburns3322]

@@WanderingRavens Well - there's a guy standing in front of; but not actually standing in front of 3 upright sticks with two small sticks on the top of them, and he's holding a bigger stick defending them while someone throws a ball at them in the hardest way possible. If he hits the ball with his stick, he runs away from the sticks he is defending while his team mate run towards them. The team that runs away the most wins. I really can't make it any clearer you know.

[@WanderingRavens]

@@kieranburns3322 We'll just have to visit a game next time we're there!

[@charlielamb03]

Wow, I was really surprised that Americans don’t put kisses at the end of messages. I thought it was just something everyone did 😂

[@JessCausey]

Only to significant others

[@Simistarfish]

Same.. That's actually mad 😅

[@jca111]

I'm a Brit. Nobody leaves meat out.

[@chrisdechristophe]

What about a buffet?

[@jca111]

@@chrisdechristophe well yes, but that being eaten almost immediately.... Not 4 hours

[@PedroConejo1939]

How lower class. We leave beef and lamb out to have for tea, just put it on the slab in the pantry. Not chicken though. We also like beef to start going green before we cook it.

[@dang5554]

I had a friend who thought it was funny to greet people with one testicle hanging from his fly

[@paulchedzey7276]

I would, I'd leave a roasted joint out after it was cooked.

[@mscoop74]

Never put "x" when texting your boss. Unless you have a particularly affectionate relationship. x 😂

[@olliemutube]

Aww bless they're totally "stumped" by Cricket :) .

[@WanderingRavens]

I'm going to go learn enough about cricket to get that joke ;D

[@olliemutube]

@@WanderingRavens Stumps are what you try to knock over in cricket :). Love the vids keep up the great work. x

[@williammuir7606]

Howz'attttt

[@mikesmith71]

@@olliemutube ah, you bailed them out 🤣

[@olliemutube]

@@mikesmith71 I am bowled away by this pun.

[@leecal5774]

“X” isn’t a new thing that’s come with the digital age. It’s always been done - for things such as writing birthday or Christmas cards. It is a kiss. So it’s purely informal. A straight guy would never send another man an “X”. Nor would they ever send one to any other person - other than their girlfriend, wife or their very young children. It would be inappropriate. However women do send it to each other. And usually to close male friends. However you have to be careful - because as an adult - sending it to another adult can be seen as quite an intimate sign.

[@Sackva]

I remember being 14 and having a 20 minute conference with my friends about whether to send back two or three kisses back to a boy that had sent her two

[@leecal5774]

Sackva 😂

[@IshtarNike]

I disagree that it would be inappropriate, it would just make small minded people doubt your sexuality. It's for this reason that I send them to everyone.

[@___anaks41]

That’s not true. Straight men send other men X all the time

[@ghxsty_]

my dad sends an ‘x’ to people all the time, men and women, it’s not a sexual thing. many other guys I know send them as well so I wouldn’t generalise to much

[@richardedgar9670]

You seem to forget that meats like salami are dry cured anyway. They’re just hung up to dry out and there is very little moisture left in them to facilitate bacterial development. A refrigerator only inhibits bacterial growth, but a few hours isn’t going to make a lot of difference. My grandmother told me how, on the mill she grew up in, they’d slaughter a pig for the winter, and would go to the larder to cut off what they needed for dinner. If a rat had got to it and nibbled at some, they just trimmed that bit off. I’m still the same with cheese; if it gets some mound on it, just trim it off, it’s fine underneath.

[@thevonya3977]

Some people forget that cheese itself is the result of REALLY gone-off milk solidifying and LETTING the bacteria grow in a specific way. Leaving cheese out will only dry it out or mature it and ANY green mold growth would only grow on the surface, easily chopped out and ignored.

[@richardedgar9670]

The Vonya exactly! I’ve had this battle with my dear missus where if something goes out of date, it goes in the bin. After seven years I have finally got it through to her that something doesn’t magically become rotten after a particular date. Use your noggin. My favourite is Parmesan or Grana Padano, which are aged for three years, but when you buy them it tells to consume within three days. My steak last night had been aged for four weeks, but apparently if I hadn’t eaten it by today ( bearing in mind I planned to cook it), it would have been inedible. We eat a lot of gone off stuff as humans, we just don’t think about it much.

[@thevonya3977]

@@richardedgar9670 Aaah the good ol' 'Sell By Date' malarky. It's a date literally plucked from the air to give an idea when a product 'falls below a specific standard'. For bread this might mean it goes a bit stale, for meat you may need to check before cooking and for cheese its more 'chop this bit off and carry on... ITS CHEESE FFS'.

[@richardedgar9670]

The Vonya I have an encyclopaedic knowledge of the breads in my local shop that will turn stale immediately, stay soft, but go off after a couple of days, stay fresh for a week and go mouldy. I’m a really fun person.

[@simonwatkins3236]

What's the point of putting a dry-cured ham in the fridge. it has hung in a shed for six months if it was going to go off it would have done it then.

[@maxsch8454]

"we've never heard of Eurovision..." lucky you

[@TonyFisherPuzzles]

Obviously you haven't watched it.

[@maxsch8454]

@@TonyFisherPuzzles obviously I have, hence my aversion to it

[@chilliam00]

There's a Netflix movie now with Will Ferrell. 😂

[@madabbafan]

My one rule for Eurovision - don't watch it sober

[@TinOfBeans]

@@madabbafan that ones quite hard if you're under 18

[@rmcguire7033]

Salami, Chorizo, Cured meat of ANY kind can be found hanging by strings from the ceilings all over Europe. The key is in the word 'cured' or even 'smoked'. Before refrigeration many peoples used this method to preserve meat. As for Steaks, I would keep them in the fridge (under refrigeration) but I prefer to cook them when the outside is no longer Bright Red, or indeed Red at all. Aged Meat is a far better flavour. Of course you don't do this with Chicken unless you want to die. With Game Birds like Pheasant and Grouse, some people 'hang them dead' until the first maggot appears...I don't go that far but it is also better Aged. Aged meat in the UK sells at premium prices.

[@romancetips365]

Lol aged meat sounds like it would pair well with blue Stilton. But personally I like my food fresh.

[@rmcguire7033]

@@romancetips365 choices :-)

[@alicetaws2711]

The way we have always done it is we have the Xmas crackers on the table, we eat the starter (which is usually melon and whatever other fruit is in the house), then we pull the Xmas cracker while we wait for the food to be dished out or finish cooking. The cracker has a toy(lots of times mini versions of things like a mini spyglass), joke and paper crown. When pulling the cracker it splits into 2 halves whoever has the biggest half get the stuff inside. Then we have the main meal consisting of Yorkshire puds, LOTS OF roasties, turkey, pigs in blankets, roast veg ect and then we have dessert (usually a choice of 2 : roulade and a Xmas pudding). By this time it is usually the 3pm for the queen's speech and after that we have a cheese board with gammon, grapes, crackers, crisps and dips. And to finish it all of an after eight mint.

[@Heresskip]

growing up near London when I was a kid we'd post one of the younger children on the turn in our road to watch out for cars and all of us (my siblings and all the other kids that lived there) would play cricket on the road until we heard that kid yell 'CAR!' - then we'd grab our stuff and run for our lives. when i told a friend from Iowa that she said 'playing cricket in the street' sounded 'Victorian'... it was in 2005ish

[@lesleyannismay8295]

We did the same with kirby as well or any street game.

[@Heresskip]

@@lesleyannismay8295 difference being it wasn't a street game we just had nowhere else to play lmao

[@entomember]

Beans on toast is the British equivalent of grilled cheese sandwich . Quick, easy, can be eaten as any meal or a big snack. Probably the first thing you learn to “cook” as a kid and very nostalgic.

[@jacketrussell]

X = Kiss XXX = Lots of kisses XXXXXXX = Lots & lots of kisses Always an odd number. Even numbers of Xs are just plain weird.

[@SebastianTombs]

Even numbers of Xs is sarcasm.

[@joeyo5139]

Really? I’d quite often but xx on messages 😂

[@jacketrussell]

@@joeyo5139 Yes, really.

[@alwolfy1782]

I have to agree it has to be an odd number of x's. For me it will be one or 3. Only for friends and family. I don't do it all the time. I reserved it to light hearted greetings.

[@amethyst1826]

I'm OCD, so it HAS to be even amount of kisses.

[@Peterd1900]

We dont generally play cricket at school. More likely to play Rounders. That is what baseball is more related too. Rounders is seen as more of a childrens game though probably wont play it once you leave primary school

[@lesleyannismay8295]

I played in senior school. But live a bit of rounders haven't played in years

[@ellaf3877]

My school (before changed to cricket because not enough schools played rounders) had rounders teams and would play competitive matches against other schools and stuff

[@kathrynabbott5032]

Rounders is a summer game in girls’ schools when I was growing up.

[@bremCZ]

Yeah, Rounders is where America got baseball from.

[@lelem1052]

We played rounders all through secondary school

[@Gothtecdotcom]

Cricket - A group of gentlemen, stand in a field, on a sunny day, waiting for something to happen...

[@galinor7]

Don't get me started on Soccer. One and a half hours of running about to keep warm and nobody score a point unless they fall over in a painted square and pretend to be injured. Makes Cricket look great.

[@josephroberts2831]

@@galinor7 You definitely not watched football properly then

[@stevebrindle1724]

Best game in the world!

[@romancetips365]

Must be played pretty rarely then considering the weather.

[@cakie_0933]

Well yeah we play it in summer, doesn't necessarily have to be sunny. No I'm not a dude.

[@chrislyne377]

Who leaves meat and cheese just lying about out of the fridge? I have never ever encountered anyone doing this deliberately in my 33 years. Madness.

[@lesleyhawes6895]

Ah, you youngsters! I actually got two covered 'cheese platters' as wedding presents, designed to keep cheese on, out of the fridge. That was when the 'cheese course' was part of every civilised evening meal, not a meal in itself.

[@WeSmiths]

As you are in France you must have come across the word "chambre" meaning "room". When this translates to Britain it is spelt the same but pronounced "chambray" and it means to leave food and drink out to achieve room temperature. Why? because it tastes better that way, cold food can numb your taste buds; jelly in chambred pies is better and wine superb. Hope that helps. Don't worry about bacteria - you need most of them.

[@WanderingRavens]

We hadn't heard of "chambray" before. Thank you for enlightening us :D

[@SweetTinaB]

I don't put tomatoes or eggs in the fridge, its not necessary. It amazes me how much Americans put in the fridge. Another thing I see Americans do is washing meat, which you should never do, as it spreads bacteria around

[@sandees9lives345]

@@SweetTinaB I don't put my tomatoes in the fridge either. I hate cold tomatoes. And cold fruit. Yuck. But in America we have to refrigerate our eggs due to some process they go through. That's why most of our eggs are white while yours are brown. It's for some reason, but I didn't feel like Googling it and typing the whole scientific explanation. LOL

[@sandees9lives345]

@@SweetTinaB Oh, I forgot to mention, I NEVER wash meat! I honestly don't know a soul who does either. And I've been around for a lot of years! If I ever saw someone do that, I would slap them in the head with a raw chicken leg 🍗 and ask them what the cluck they think they're doing!

[@SweetTinaB]

lives whenever I see people cooking on American tv they're washing the meat. Especially chicken lol

[@elizabethprior4968]

You shouldn’t refrigerate cooked pastry - refrigeration toughens the pastry and ruins the texture. You have to remember that meat pies are cooked and therefore sterile inside, so should be ok for a few hours as long as they are kept free from contamination. But most meat pies should be eaten same day anyway. Traditional Pork pies can be kept successfully for 2-3 days because of the herbs and spices that go into them. Raw meat should always be refrigerated. Things like salami are preserved meats and were developed as a way of storage long before refrigeration. xx

[@kieranburns3322]

Also: 200g of cheese a day?? These are rookie numbers. You must up your game...

[@WanderingRavens]

😂 We'll do better next time

[@cogidubnus1953]

Yes you'd have impressed if you'd bought yourself some crackers or water biscuits and had a decent amount of cheese :-)

[@gordondavies7773]

Now you are in France you can discover real cheese.

[@gordondavies7773]

You could try a baked whole Camembert, for instance, a raclette or a fondue Savoyard

[@Weyru]

200g of cheese is one meal

[@tsrgoinc]

Eurovision equals European politics set to music!

[@steevenfrost]

x means kiss.The more x's the more you love the person. we usually endure cooler temperatures in the U.K. so food can be left out and not be incubating naughty bacteria.Also if you think about it,cheese was always a means of preserving your left over milk in a form where it can still be consumed later on. As for christmas crackers, the jokes are really awful and cringe worthy.We like it that way.We love our puns,or play on words.

[@malcolmchapman3213]

In 92, I was travelling in Florida and stopped in a town (forgot which one) and heard cheering. Investigated and found, 2local teams playing cricket. It was so gentlemanly as well. They stopped for tea, put on by the wives. As I said can't remember the town as drove through that many towns, while touring.

[@lifeinrussia5190]

"The world has turned into Las Vegas. Nobody works. Everyone loses money, they drink at any time of the day. And nobody knows what day of the week is today."

[@WanderingRavens]

Yay, quarantine!

[@lifeinrussia5190]

@@WanderingRavens In Russia, so))

[@baylessnow]

Just a normal weekend in the UK.

[@pabmusic1]

Just before WW1 the USA was on the verge of being admitted to international test cricket. The USA's leading club (the equivalent of the MCC) was the Philadelphia Club, who toured internationally. The war stopped all that, and it never recovered.

[@budd2nd]

Talking about the cooked meats, the point I think you have missed, the meats you were specifically talking about were CURED meats . The have been smoked, so bacteria and mould find it very difficult to grow on them. Smoking was used as a preservative for hundreds of years, long before we had refrigeration. People would keep their meat edible, all winter long by smoking it.

[@michaelwhite6498]

A man told his doctor he had a "wee cough" The doctor asked if he had anything planned for it.

[@Wannawatchthis5555]

michael white 😅that took me longer than it should have

[@frankbrodie5168]

@@Wannawatchthis5555 Come on mate. Maybe it's me having Scottish heritage but I saw that in 2 seconds tops.

[@leea8706]

Frank Brodie I’m scottish and it still took me a few seconds.

[@baylessnow]

@@Wannawatchthis5555 Two fish in a tank. One turns to the other and says, "Well, can you drive this thing or what?"

[@cass6683]

Halp me i dont get it

[@phillipsindel2291]

From Australia: Cricket also links some English influenced countries around the world. In the long form of test cricket is is very subtle and strategic.

[@whipcream345]

Cricket is probably the most common sport after football and rugby. Don't worry about not understanding it, half of our own population doesn't really fully get it either!

[@WanderingRavens]

Glad to know that we aren't alone 😂

[@whipcream345]

@@WanderingRavens I got 'Boiled in the bag' or spandangled (in north east slang) after England won the cricket world cup, but could literally count on one hand how many cricket players i know!

[@lesleyhawes6895]

But not in playgrounds, every school I worked in that didn't have playing fields banned un- organised cricket, because of the cost of repairing windows; and in one case the headmaster's car windscreen!

[@philipwild01]

Cricket used to be played extensively in the States. English counties used to tour there, right up to the 1920s. The first international cricket match was USA vs Canada.

[@mikesaunders4775]

I think there is still a Cricket league in Colorado Springs.

[@johnkemp8904]

I believe around the 1890s the Philadelphia Cricket Club was a very well-esteemed club internationally. When I looked it up a few years ago I found that it had long been that US institution, a country club. Shame!

[@bernardthedisappointedowl6938]

Remember cured meat is made by hanging up in a cellar, not in a fridge, it was a way of preserving meat before fridges, so it's fine out for a while - maybe not in the sun! ^oo^

[@emmamaclean737]

The x thing I do to most people but no one official like bosses, or professionals lol or some one you hate lol

[@WanderingRavens]

Good to know 😂

[@thevonya3977]

The 'x' means a kiss and actually comes form the traditional practice of putting and x on a card or letter to someone you are on friendly terms with. It is primarily done from girls/women texting people they are friendly to as a sort of text-ender, more x means more friendliness. My wife always gives me 5 x's on the end of her messages, so I know full-well when she is angry at me when a message comes in with one or no X's on the text

[@markpstapley]

@@WanderingRavens Putting an X inside an O is a "French" kiss, so definately don't write that on a card to your grand mother.

[@Sackva]

I’m a Brit lady and never send kisses! Except to my bosses (ladies) because they sent them first and I didn’t want to offend!

[@whumpingwillow]

Even long before cellphones and txting was invented, when couples used to send letters to each other (hand written) they would usually put x’s at the end to denote kisses. X’s usually denoted kisses and o’s usually denoted hugs, so to see xoxoxo at the end of a hand written letter usually meant kiss hug, kiss hug, kiss hug etc. this practise naturally carried over to txting when communication became more digital.

[@dang5554]

The blazing saddles bean scene was one of the many bean related highlights of my youth.

[@lylydiz]

There’s all sorts of tacit etiquette about adding kisses at the end of a message. As a general rule it is used to signify that you are friends rather than acquaintances. You wouldn’t normally add them to official or work correspondence (though some people do!). There are also grey areas eg adding kisses in a text to a friend’s partner could be construed as flirting. Generally tho it’s pretty innocent - like a peck on the cheek on greeting.

[@WanderingRavens]

Good to know! Thank you for the extra context :D

[@oldrootsfreshshoots]

I do the x' to those I'm closest to or I'll start using it if that person starts sending them to me. It varies from person to person. Some people don't like doing it so I wouldn't send it someone to who I thought wouldn't send it.

[@WanderingRavens]

Good to know! Thanks for the extra context :D We are learning the rules of 'x' sending 😆

[@Sophie.S..]

@@WanderingRavens You most definately wouldn't send an x to your boss!

[@malcolmmcgregor2555]

no offense if you don't x

[@denmaroca2584]

Generally, I'd use an 'x' to someone who'd I'd kiss (actual or airl) on greeting in real life.

[@sophieclarke6365]

I'm from England and literally I've never played cricket

[@WanderingRavens]

Good to know we're not the only ones who are confused! 😂

[@01jvb]

I think it's still rare for girls to play cricket.

[@thisisnev]

I had to play it for five years at school, and they never really explained the rules to us. I think there may be a genetic element to it - you either play it instinctively, or you don't.

[@sas949]

Sophie Clarke we had to play cricket at school

[@captbumbler5356]

Love Cricket and Ladies now play a lot, they have a world cup just the same as men do. you should plan to watch a England / Australia test match on week ( 5 Days)

[@handyman109]

Electricity in the UK! (For your info and not directly tagged to this vlog). Plug sockets(outlets) have three holes - the bottom two are where the 'electric' is. The top one is the Earth connection - a safety connection in case of a fault. If you look at a socket straight on, you'll see the bottom two holes are shielded by a plastic shutter (so children, or stupid adults can't poke anything into the live electric parts). The plug itself has three pins. The top pin is longer. As the top pin goes into the socket it raises the protective shutter so the bottom two pins can contact the live electricity as they go in. The bottom pins are half covered in, usually, black insulation so a really stupid person won't touch any live parts if the plug is only half in or out of the socket. Additionally, the plug has an internal replaceable fuse, rated say 3amps for a table lamp, or 13amps for a toaster, as protection from faulty wiring, power surge or overloading. Who would use a system with open electrical outlets you can poke a screwdriver in, and an un-fused un-earthed plug?? Madness!! Now, the bathroom issue! NO sockets in bathrooms, so idiots can't plug anything connected to the mains electricity in the room with a huge tub of water in it! Soaking in the bath - toast in the toaster - knock toaster into bath - kill yourself! Likewise, light switches have to either be outside the room near the door, or operated by a switch on the ceiling with a long cord - so your sopping wet hands on getting out of the bath won't deluge the light switch with water and kill you! Your vlogs are really interesting, keep up the good work!

[@philroberts7238]

Tom Scott has a whole YT vid on the design of the British plug.

[@TheReaver93]

The meats that you're on about that get left on the side are either cured meats like salami or heavily salted like in a pork pie (The jelly helps here too). Salt cured meats like pork are fine to be left out due to the salt reducing the moisture content and protecting it from bacteria and the same goes for dry cured meats that have been hung out to dry for months and had their mosture content massively reduced. You won't see meats that aren't cured left out for long and even then, a couple of hours isn't going to make a massive difference in terms of bacterial growth as it will still all be safe to eat.

[@lizzief4461]

Played cricket every year since starting school as well as rounders. Rounders is another classic game but it’s a mix of baseball (the bat is same but smeller and always wooden) and cricket( there no stumps and u have to run around like 6 posts to get a full rounder)

[@WanderingRavens]

Haven't heard of rounders!

[@spencerwilton5831]

Wandering Ravens Rounders is the forerunner of baseball!

[@cogidubnus1953]

In Silly Sussex we still have Stoolball, a game I used to play years ago as a youngster..there's a League I believe....I think it's nearly died out amost everywhere barring Sussex, Surrey and Kent, which is sad as it's believed to be one of the fore-runners to Cricket, Rounders and Baseball...

[@lizzief4461]

Cricket is mainly done by boys but doesn’t have to be and rounders is usually done by girls

[@kevinshort3943]

@@cogidubnus1953 It's not silly. They had all the stuff at Scouts, and used it regularly.

[@Xenon0000000000001]

The look and raised eyebrow from Grace at 1:59 as she contemplated the hand movements being demonstrated had me in stiches.

[@chanchito4401]

Hahahaha good spot 😂

[@WanderingRavens]

😂😂

[@candyeggs1089]

Eurovision’s been cancelled this year and I’m absolutely gutted

[@barongreenbackthe2nd418]

I shouldn’t worry thoe,we never win anyway,we are hated in Europe.

[@Gambit771]

@@barongreenbackthe2nd418 Yes but it is fun watching corruption.

[@ol-Sarge]

My friends from Poole, Dorset took me to Bath fr the day to see their son and his family. The Roman baths were amazing as were the terraced gardens down by the river. I really got immersed in British things as there is nothing like living in their home. Ray, a retired RN Officer, loved his comfortable chair by a small fire in the evening. Pam loved English bowling and snookers. They had both traveled over the years and could explain many things from different perspectives. They are both gone now, but they took me many places only a local would know. Many of your comments brings back memories.

[@peterxblack]

I've learnt so much..previously I thought an 'x' in communications was simply a celebration of Christina Aguilera...like: What would Xtina do?...

[@dianeharrison4975]

Hahaha

[@dianeharrison4975]

Really?!

[@traceyt1560]

Love a good Eurovision party - if it's themed. you're generally assigned a country. You then have to dress accordingly and bring a plate of food that represents it!

[@davemedhurst6220]

When you say leaving meat out of the fridge I'm guessing you were in a delicatessen. If its the meat I'm thinking off its called jambon and its an air dried meat from Spain. This typically has no moisture in it and can stay in the kitchen for weeks

[@RoyCousins]

The "jelly" in pork pies is gelatin. It's made from the rendered cartilage and bone from a pig. It is put in pork pies to prevent the cured meat from drying out.

[@mandolinic]

I don't really want cured meat. I'd much rather have meat that hadn't been sick in the first place.

[@trinafitzalan-howard5809]

In Manchester there are some weird meat pies that have no named meat, grey coloured with jelly. Avoid. Pork pies from Melton Mowbray is where you should go, not at all like their supermarket cousin and no jellies. Re the cheese, we do harder cheeses than in France and cool is fine. Cheddar from cheddar is also massively different from supermarket fayre.

[@thisisnev]

Much as I love you guys, I have to reclaim the dad joke crown for the UK by directing you towards Tim Vine, Tommy Cooper - and Bob Monkhouse, who was hired as a gag writer by Bob Hope, no less!

[@antonycharnock2993]

Bob Monkhouse kzbin.info/www/bejne/oobZgnavl7Klh6c

[@nickgov66]

Bob Monkhouse wrote Bob Hope's famous "ad libs"

[@andr386]

When different kind of salts are added to meat to preserve it, it doesn't need to be stored in the fridge. The meat wil progressively cure and dry up. The only reason to keep it in the fridge is to stop the drying and keep the level where you like it. But that's only for cured meat. For regular cooked dish with meat, american rules are pretty good. Maybe we tend to go a little bit further than you but it's overall the same concensus.

[@Smorans]

Okay, which one of you weirdos has been leaving your meat out all day?? 😂 giving us all a bad name lol

[@Xenophaige_reads]

They, like Cornish/Devonshire pasties, have the meat fully enclosed after being cooked. When they are cooked all the bacteria etc is killed. The pastry around the outside then prevents immediate access to the meat, which is what will go off quickest, therefore allowing it to remain out of a fridge. Also the meat in those pies have a fairly high amount of salt in them which again lengthens the amount of time before the microbe level makes them unsafe to eat. With cured meat... it is cured it is made by being left out of the fridge and mixed with salt and spices. You'll find it left out in their countries of origin. With the cheese it isn't about the taste for most people as far as I know (I'd never heard of this before this video but it makes sense) It's just another food that can be left out for a fairly long time, due to moisture levels and salt content. Farmers used to go out to the fields to work with a lump of cheese as part of their lunch, as standard, regardless of the weather.

[@abbyhuntley3171]

It’s hilarious how in relationships people gradually increase the number of kisses until it gets ridiculous but if you don’t put the “correct” number of kisses it suggests something is wrong 😅

[@helenchelmicka3028]

haha like changing from "Kind Regards" to "Regards" means that person's seriously pissed off with you lol lol

[@johnloony68]

Some people say that cricket is a metaphorical / symbolic representation of a castle being besieged by enemy forces. The wicket (the three sticks with the thingy across the top) is the castle; the bowler is the enemy cannon shooting at it; the batsman is the defender.

[@stephenpitt6363]

Beans on toast is a quick easy and CHEAP meal for children, either for breakfast or when coming home from school

[@arya2571]

as an american, we have no right to critique the brits because we feed the kids straight up preservative loaded sugar :/

[@lesleyhawes6895]

Depends on age I think, when I was young, sixty years or more ago, Heinz beans were a novelty, and we thought they came from America, but they were never part of a 'full English' breakfast, that began about the time of the large growth in bed and breakfast accommodation in the sixties. I have them for tea now, or as part of a barbecue.

[@BenjWarrant]

Cricket. Explained as a modification of baseball. First, the pitcher's mound and the plate become two ends of the 'pitch', each of them is called the 'crease';'the ball is 'bowled' rather than 'pitched' and each bowl of the ball is called a 'ball'; every six balls the players move so that crease that was mound and the crease that was the plate are reversed. The batters run from crease to crease instead of round a square. One big difference is that there are two batters (batsmen) on the field at the same time. On each crease are three posts sticking out of the ground about thigh-high - the 'wicket'; on top between posts one and two, and two and three are balanced a couple of small wood cylinders called the bails. Anything that requires a player to hit the wicket requires him to hit it hard enough to knock at least one of the bails off (like a high-jump bar being knocked off the posts). Getting the batter off the field can be achieved in a number of ways: the pitcher can hit the wicket with his pitch; catches are an 'out' just like in baseball; hitting the wicket with the ball while the batters are running between the creases is out in the same way as the ball being caught by a man on base in baseball - this is called being 'run out'; there is also 'LBW', or 'leg before wicket', which occurs after the bowl has struck the batsman's leg and involves the umpire determining whether the ball, if it had not struck the leg, would have hit the wicket. In other words, batsman can't stick their leg in the way to stop the ball hitting the wicket - they have to use the bat. Electronic systems are now used to determine whether the umpire was right if one of the teams challenges the decision (there are only a limited number of challenges, like line challenges in tennis.) Scoring: the two batsmen running from crease to crease is one run; they can keep doing this and scoring one run each time, until they decide that the danger of being run out requires them to stay in the crease they are at. If the ball crosses the boundary line after being hit by the batter, that's 4 runs; if it crosses the boundary line before touching the ground that's six runs. A team is eleven people; once ten of the eleven have been ruled 'out' then that 'innings' is over; the players leave the pitch and swap roles just like in baseball. There are strict rules to prevent the bowler from 'throwing' the ball: the bowling arm must be straight - no cocking the elbow - and this is why bowling is technically more difficult than pitching, although good pitching requires just as much skill and craft as good bowling. The bowlers can run up to the crease to deliver the bowl, but they don't have to. Some bowlers rely more on the speed of the ball, others use techniques to move the ball through the air or off the ground - 99.9% of bowls involve one bounce of the ball between the creases. That's a lot of text but maybe some Americans might find it useful.

[@Motorhawk2]

Do Americans do mother in law jokes. May I recommend viewing Les Dawson a British comic who done some good one and it was said that he and mother in law got on well together.

[@WanderingRavens]

We do have mother in law jokes 😂

[@maryavatar]

Oh God, no. Don’t send them there! They think the US is better at crap humour. If they find the ‘working men’s club’ genre of comedians, they’ll be mentally scarred.

[@TombstoneHeart]

@@maryavatar Awe, go on, let 'em watch a bit of Bernard Manning. That'll fuck 'em up big time! lol

[@TitianTopsyTurvy]

@@TombstoneHeart I imagine Bernard Manning would go down a storm with the current US President and his pals... actually thinking about it Trump may have "borrowed" some of his material.

[@caldoesstuff7290]

Well I have played Cricket school but not enough to know the rules very well but the basics is. 🏏 the thrower throws the ball trying to hit the stumps. The batter has to hit the ball and then run to the other stump where the thrower is and run back. Which equals 1 point. If you only get to the thrower it’s half a point. Normally you have one person at each stump running back and forth until the ball is caught by a fielder, you get stumped which is where the thrower or the person behind the stumps behind the batter, gets the ball and touches it against the stump, or when the thrower knocks over the stumps behind the batter.

[@TubbsyMalone]

As a brit, seeing them open the Christmas Crackers wrong feels like an illegal action 😂

[@TnasEV]

Nearly everybody pulls Christmas crackers at Christmas. We do it at school,at work ,at parties and at Christmas dinner

[@tonycasey3183]

Leaving meat out of the fridge. OK Large cuts of things like beef and game are left to age at a cool room temperature for weeks. It's what gives it flavour. The outside may dry out and, even, get a little mould on it but it doesn't affect the inside. Some meats, like bacon and ham - the ones that are done properly, not just by adding flavoured chemicals, are cured. It is the traditional way to preserve meat from the days before refrigeration. Go to a Spanish or Italian bar and see hand that are hung from the ceiling for months before eating. Pies, like pork pies, for example, are traditionally cooked in a hot water pastry that lasts a long time. During cooking, any bacteria in the meat is killed. The pie is then filled with a jelly that makes an airtight seal around the meat. They can be left unrefrigerated for a couple of days for the smaller ones, but much longer for the big ones. Other types of pies like, for example, steak and kidney, have a pastry that is less robust, but, again, the meat will have been cooked and any bacteria inside will have been destroyed. In bakeries they will be displayed unrefrigerated, but you will be expected to eat them on the day they were made or the following day at the latest. Cheese. Processed cheese goes off quickly in it's not kept in a fridge. But think about what traditional cheese is and how it's made. Essentially it's milk that's gone bad. That's why it smells. The bacteriaand mould in traditional cheeses are edible. They colonise the cheese and prevent harmful bacteria penetrating the block of cheese. A decent Stilton, for example, will have been aged, unrefrigerated for a good couple of months before it even reaches the store. Top tip with cheese. If an unwanted mould begins to bloom on the outside, just cut the outside off the block. The inside will be fine. In the UK, we tend to keep our fresh food shops a little cooler than in the USA. Also, we rarely have very hot weather, so refrigeration is not always essential. Don't get me started on eggs....! xx

[@lbnewell23]

Cricket simplified : a guy throws a ball toward 3 posts if it hits them he gets a point. There’s a guy with a bat he will hit the ball to stop it from hitting the posts. When the ball is in the field like in baseball you run as far as possible before someone gets it back to the person throwing the ball

[@tmobz]

I use x all the time, it’s become a bit like punctuation for me, so I have to remember to not send it to professionals or strangers, unless the stranger uses it first, lol! I have certain friends that I don’t use them for coz they don’t like it! The meat and cheese thing, I always put it in the fridge. Butter I do leave so you can spread it! X

[@Qwazor]

This is my understanding of cricket: You've got the big field and inside that there's a dry rectangle with two sets of wickets (three long sticks) which are at either end. The bowler stands at one end of the weird dry rectangle and throws the ball at the batsman opposite him to try and hit the wicket behind him. If the ball knocks over the wicket and the bales (small cylinders on top of the wicket) fall off then the batsman's out (I think). If the batsman manages to hit the ball he, along with the other batsman, runs to opposite sides of the rectangle (edit: it's called the pitch) to score runs until the ball comes back to the bowler. If the batsman has his leg in front of the wicket and the ball hits his leg it's called "Leg before wicket" and he's out (the ball would have hit the wicket if his leg wasn't there) Also if it goes outside the boundary it's an automatic 6 runs. That's about the limit of my knowledge.

[@richard3365]

I'm from the USA, and I knew a little about cricket. I didn't know all the terms I'm about to use, but I had the general idea about the bowler throwing the ball at the wicket, and the batsman trying to hit the ball away and run down the pitch and back, and I assumed every time he returned to his own spot he got a point of some kind (or does he also get a point for reaching the opposite side?). I also had the general idea that if the wicket got hit, the batsman would swap with somebody else. Questions I still have after reading your description: 1. When does the bowler switch? Is it a single "out"? 2. Is it a single bowler that throws at each batsman, or does each team have their own bowler? 3. At what point is the game considered ended? For example, after the bale has been knocked down 4 times, or after the batsman has been out twice? 3. Does something different happen if the ball hits the wicket but does NOT knock anything over (either not thrown hard enough or glances off)? What if it knocks the bale down but doesn't knock the wickets over? What if it completely misses the wickets? 5. What if the ball hits the batsman other than what you mentioned, for example in the arm or chest?

[@VinylBlog]

In my experience I would use the ‘x’ as a sign of affection. I’d never send a male friend an x, if I had a very close female friend I might. But generally they’re reserved for loved one, be that family, who normally get one or two x’s, else a romantic interest who may often get two or more x’s. I find it’s commonplace for couples to always send at least two X’s to each other. Tho some people do find it a bit irritating having to put an x on every message, a friend once told me (quite flippantly) that she wouldn’t want a needy boyfriend who felt he required an x after every message

[@alisonrandall3039]

The first ever international cricket match was between USA and Canada. The Canadian cricket team in the United States in 1844 was both the first official international cricket match and the first official international game of any sport. The match between the two national teams was billed as 'United States of America versus the British Empire's Canadian Province'. It’s the second most played game in the world after football. George Washington played the game often.

[@1701spacecadet]

Say 'herb' correctly... Oh, and 'oregano'.

[@1701spacecadet]

@@missprimproper1022 Oh yes! I cringe at 'bay-zil' Every. Single. Time.

[@Bookofwords]

and aluminium

[@sandees9lives345]

We will if you say Nike correctly. The way you say Adidas is correct and we are pronouncing it wrong. It's Ah-Dee-dahs, not Ah-dee-duss. But we say Nike correctly. Nye-kee is correct and not Nyk without pronouncing the ee. But I personally love our differences. It makes life more interesting and sometimes makes me giggle. When people cringe or get angry about this kind of thing, it makes me feel like they think they're superior and we're just uneducated idiots or something. That's certainly not the case. When we became independent and separate from England, we just evolved into a different kind of culture. There's not one who's "better" than the other or more correct and intelligent. It's just the way we were raised and things engrained into us. It was a linguistic evolution over a couple hundred years and is normal to us. I just don't get the anger, cringing and gagging over it. I think it's fun and I really enjoy comparing the differences with my UK friends. 🥰

[@donnamulrooney3387]

Well said! As a Brit I love our differences, if everyone was the same life would be boring. We should celebrate both our similarities and differences and not argue about who is "right", there is no right.

[@Bonglecat]

If you are referring to left out on the counter as the glass fronted counters that are open at the back, they’re refrigerated. All meat and cheese are refrigerated in stores in the UK except, as other people have pointed out, cured meats like salami if they are whole but once cut they would be refrigerated as well.

[@hyzenthlay7151]

Americans write "xoxo", until they realise in spanish that's pronounced "chocho" which is a slang word for... Well, female genitalia...

[@WanderingRavens]

😂😂😂

[@happyguy2k]

💀 😂

[@JohnSmith77777]

cooked meat & meat pies. If you notice the meat/meat pie has been cooked. It is never reheated and it is generally covered (a bit of foil, clingfilm, actual cover dish so the chances of infection is very low. Also if you notice, it just doesn't get very hot in the UK most of the time. If it was the height of summer, the cold meats/pies would indeed be kept in the fridge. The food would be consumed within the day. so time-wise little chance of infection buildup.

[@damianmccoy6128]

Eurovision is the best! It’s the campest musical event on the planet.It’s such a shame it’s not taking place this year. I would avoid sending a message to your boss ending in ‘x’.😀 I end all messages to close friends and family with ‘x’, sometimes ‘xxx’.

[@p.i.eriksson]

You have to separate storage temperature and cooking/eating temperature Quality cheese should be eaten at room temperature, but stored in 4-6℃ (recommendation may vary from different countries), raw meat may benefit by being cooked from room temperature, what I mean by that is that you do not cool down your frying pan so much if the meat is closer to room temperature. However, raw meat should always be stored in 2-4℃. Cured, smoked or preserved meat. that is a whole different story, and may vary depending on in which way it is preserved. The different methods of preserving meat is developed in order to have protein available without refrigerators.

[@RavenclawStudent123]

I'm a Brit and really....I don't get the obsession with Eurovision as I'm pretty sure it's a very biased music show

[@WanderingRavens]

Is that why the UK frequently loses?

[@kieranburns3322]

There are more politics in Eurovision than in the European Parliament! ;)

[@Rebecca-yl1zt]

Wandering Ravens it’s all political, countries which like eachother will typically vote for one another, hence why UK loses 😂x

[@RavenclawStudent123]

@@WanderingRavens Not sure but probably to do with the fact that the majority of us voted out of the EU or something. The last time we won was with Katrina and the Waves. Also, the other singers put on their amazing stage show and we just don't seem to do that I stopped watching it after Jamala (Ukraine) won as she was singing about the Crimea and upset Putin and one rule is to not sing about politics

[@WanderingRavens]

@@Rebecca-yl1zt Ahhhh, okay, good to know 😂 x

[@dang5554]

Beans on toast is not a common breakfast, but more of a brunch when you want something warm and filling. There's loads of other uses for beans - jacket potatoes, BBQs , with sausages and chips, etc

[@oasis4life014]

Beans beans good for the heart more you the more you fart!!! 😂😂😂

[@WanderingRavens]

😂😂😂

[@andalltheangelssay212]

On top of spaghetti All covered with cheese I lost my poor meatball When somebody sneezed

[@richard3365]

When I was a kid I heard it as "Beans, beans, the musical fruit. The more you eat, the more you toot!" Of course, beans aren't really fruit, so I like your version better.

[@lucyshsw2052]

The more you fart the better you feel So eat beans with every meal

[@dianeharrison4975]

@@andalltheangelssay212 haha

[@johnbath616]

The first ever cricket match between two countries was played between USA and Canada on 24-26 September 1844 at St George's Cricket Club in New York

[@frogletx]

X for a kiss pre-dates all the text stuff. I remember my mum putting Xs in Xmas and birthday cards and this was decades before mobile phones even existed. This is a very, very old habit.

[@DavidCulshawmer-r]

the reason you leave meat out of the fridge is because it absorbs things like soy sauce and other seasonings before its cooked , makes it taste much better , the reason for pies is ( especially pork pies ) is a similar reason , warm meat takes the flavour where as cold meat dosent

[@TukikoTroy]

The cheese thing. Especially hard cheeses like Red Leicester. Ideally, this needs to 'sweat' before eating to get the full flavour of the cheese.

[@tmd63]

Cricket: Two people defend the bails (the cross piece on top of 3 sticks), one at each end. The bowler attempts to hit the bails off by either directly hitting the bail or the 3 stumps which support the bails. The batter, defends the bails by attempting to hit the ball away. Think of Baseball but with only 2 bases!. Hitters can be caught out by fielders catching the ball without it hitting the ground. Run out by not being in the crease in front of the bails (like reaching a base) but the catchers are either the bowler at the bowling end or the wicket keeper at the defending end (think of the batter in baseball only running between the bowlers and the home base)

[@WanderingRavens]

Good to know! Thank you for the extra context :D

[@GrahamS67]

I would never leave uncured meat out.

[@BenJamin-ny1kw]

You should bring raw meat to room temp before cooking which can take an hour or so depending on the thickness as it tends to cook more evenly but i don't think they are referring to raw meats.

[@SvenTviking]

We’ve had fridges for like a century.

[@RichardBarclay]

@@SvenTviking to be fair, it was unusual to eat uncured meat before we invented refrigeration, unless you could slaughter it immediately before butchering, and then cooking.

[@dang5554]

How about vaccinated meat?

[@MrJoeshipley]

Cured/salted meats can be left at room temperature for longer but generally other meat should be left out until cool then refrigerated until further consumption.

[@stuarttaylor1799]

BEANS BEANS, GOOD FOR THE HEART. BEANS BEANS MAKE YOU FART. THE MORE YOU FART, THE BETTER YOU FEEL. SO EAT BEANS EVERY MEAL.

[@clashfan2875]

Beans, Beans the musical fruit. The more you eat the more toot. The more you toot the better you feel. So have some beans at every meal.

[@ellaf3877]

And don't forget to say after burping: pardon me for being so rude, it was not me, it was my food. It sent a message to my heart. Thank god it was not a fart. (Or it was not me it was my food, it just popped up to say hello and now its gone back down below)

[@rachaelharris9226]

Beans beans good for your heart, the more you eat the more you fart, the more you fart the more you eat, the more you sit on the toilet seat x

[@ryledra6372]

Beans for breakfast, Beans for dinner, Good ol' beans for tea! If I were nothing but a bean How happy I would be!

[@anthonycunningham8116]

I can understand you might want to refrigerate meat (although depending on the meat, room temperature meat if its cooked is perfectly fine for a while-say at a buffet at a party), but cheese is supposed to be eaten at Room Temperature.

[@joeyo5139]

I’m from London and I’d almost always put an x on the ends of my messages even to my boss or coworkers but I know I work in a rather casual setting. And normally 1 or 2 to friends xx

[@ricmac954]

Domestic refrigerators have only been ubiquitous in UK homes from the 1960s. Until the mid-20th Century, people had a meat safe -- effectively a metal box with a hinged door and a mesh grille for ventillation. Its main purpose was to keep flies off the meat. Obviously, meat wasn't kept for long periods unless it was cured, or if it was game left to hang. People would have gone more frequently to their local butcher if they consumed red meat in quantity. Game was often fly- blown by the time it was cooked and cooks could hear the popping of maggots when the meat was in the oven.

[@MaggieMMM]

X’s at the end of a text, email, social media comment should be reserved for people you are very close to, love, care for. I put 3 x’s on most of my messages 😘😘😘

[@WanderingRavens]

Thank you for clearing that up for us, Mags! x

[@Thurgosh_OG]

@@WanderingRavens We do have that same meaning for 3 X's as the states but it's not something that most people would use to end a text.

[@charleskent5]

What Mags said. X's for loved ones and those close to you. Basically people who you might give a kiss to in person. So in my case, my Mum (she gets 3 X's), aunties, nieces that sort of thing, but I wouldn't leave an X for my mates in the same way that I wouldn't greet them with a hug and a kiss.

[@mandolinic]

Cricket for beginners: There are two "wickets" placed 22 yards apart. A wicket is three short wooden poles ("stumps") of a particular size, and two short "bails" across the top. The bails are balanced so that if any of the stumps are disturbed, at least one bail falls off. The area in front of each wicket is called the "crease". The basic principle of the game: In front of each of the two wickets there is a member of the batting team. Each batter stands in the crease before the wicket. The bowler takes a run-up and throws the ball (using a straight arm action) from one wicket towards the other wicket. The batter tries to defend the wicket by hitting the ball with the bat. If the ball goes past the batter and hits the wicket, then the batter is out and must leave the field. If the batter strikes the ball, but it is caught by a member of the fielding team before hitting the ground, then the batter is also out. But if the batter can hit the ball so it evades the fielders then the two batters can run across over to the opposite wickets and score one run. Each batter has now changed to the opposite wicket, so that the other batter will receive the next ball. If time permits, they can cross over several times, scoring a run each time; however, a batter can be out if the fielding team are able to hit either wicket with the ball while the batters are running between wickets. If the batter hits the ball so that it crosses the boundary of the field without touching the ground, 6 runs are scored; this is reduced to 4 runs if the ball touches the ground first. Play is split into "overs", where an over is 6 balls bowled by the same bowler from one wicket. After each "over", a different bowler must bowl 6 balls from the opposite wicket. This means that play alternates between the two wickets, changing over every 6 balls. The captain of the bowling team decides who will bowl the next over, but no bowler can bowl two consecutive overs. Each side has eleven players, and when ten players of the batting side have all been out, then their turn at bat ends, and either the game ends, or the other side takes their turn to bat. However, the batting side's captain can decide to end his/her team's turn at bat early and allow the other team in to bat. This is called "declaring". And that's basically it. There are a few more complications and rules which have been added over the years, but that's the fundamental idea behind cricket.

[@johnr4876]

You dont have beans on toast😨your missing out

[@WanderingRavens]

It's the UK's happy little secret ;)

[@johnr4876]

@Henry Lovejoy it tastes delishous

[@kieranburns3322]

@Henry Lovejoy Baked beans in tomato sauce mate. Food. Of. The. Gods.

[@cogidubnus1953]

@@MagentaOtterTravels Fancy seeing you here! Dave

[@lisasheridan3558]

@@WanderingRavens it's an Irish thing too

[@Marsha1901]

The bowler bowls the ball to the team member standing in front of the wicket. If the chap doesn't hit the ball, and the ball hits the wicket it dislodges the bails. Villages play cricket, counties play cricket, as in Kent versus Sussex. Also countries play cricket as in India versus England.

[@sas949]

I always put an X at the end of a text to a friend of the opposite sex. 2 xx if we’re close. You should always serve cheese at room temperature at a dinner party and never serve it straight from the fridge. Bye Grace xx

[@WanderingRavens]

xx

[@xmassent]

In the UK putting an x at the end of a message is a term of endearment and is used by males and females and isn't just a kiss. Males who are best friends often use it to each other although they are straight. It's just a sign of close friendship

[@TonyFisherPuzzles]

Cheese from the fridge is better but no one is going to keep putting it back at a party. Meat isn't left out very long, certainly not hours. The paper hats are from the 3 kings that visited Jesus (obviously).

[@handsoffmycactus2958]

Ew no you serve cheese at room temperature. You have to let it come to. Have you never served a cheese board? I’m British

[@cakie_0933]

Christmas crackers normally consist of jokes, sometimes a puzzle or riddle on paper, toy/small object and a paper crown. Some get placed on the Christmas tree for decoration leading up to the day and also opened on new year's as well.