9 Surprising UK vs USA Differences // Butter on sandwiches, taxes, and more!

[@TequilaDave]

The butter in sandwiches helps to stop wet fillings like tomato making the bread soggy.

[@johnnyuk3365]

I must admit that I first went to the States 30 years ago I found it very strange that they didn’t butter bread in a sandwich, for the reason you say. My wife’s aunt who we were staying with found me buttering bread and thought I was weird.

[@stewedfishproductions7959]

EVERY time I visit the US (and meeting with non-Brits), I seem to end up teaching them 'How to make a Proper Sandwich'. It's also one of the reasons they don't understand why we have so many sandwiches for sale everywhere throughout the UK. Apart from Subway or a local Deli (when you may easily end up paying $7-$10), they usually compare/think of a sandwich as the 'awful looking thing' found in a gas station, only bought by the desperate! NOT buttered as Kaylin say's just not done - because, (just like their chocolate), American butter is usually 'sub-standard' compared to butter found in the UK, Ireland, France, Denmark and many other countries throughout Europe that has a MUCH higher butterfat percentage. The NEXT issue is the bread which can have as much as 500% more sugar in a loaf compared to the UK, so you need to go to an 'artisan' bakers to buy decent bread... Thus, you end up spending a LOT of money to make a good sandwich and that's without buying the fillings... 👍🤔 Also why it's easier to buy 'fast food' and to hell with the ingredients. DOH! (As Homer would say).

[@andrewdoubtfire4700]

I’ve never looked at it this way. Weird.

[@AutoReport1]

So, just use mayo.

[@stewedfishproductions7959]

@@andrewdoubtfire4700 Making a 'decent' sandwich can be quite an 'artform' - It comes naturally to some and others never 'get the knack'. I.e. My brother will 'bung' a few ingredients together and wolf it down, not bothered about how it looks or the order of 'play' - it's just a way of getting the food to his mouth - simple! But one of his sandwiches would never last a few hours for taking on a picnic, just a total, soggy 'mess' when opened to eat... SMH & LOL! 🙄

[@Sandysand701]

Most probably, over the counter ibuprofen is in smaller packets in the UK, because constant use will result in liver and Kidney damage, only take if really necessary.

[@katierscott8771]

Absolutely, it's to make it harder to deliberately overdose.

[@ianz9916]

It's also against the law since 2016 to sell ibuprofen, paracetamol and aspirin in those quantities unless on prescription.

[@desperadox7565]

It's not so much about constant use but more about the risk of an overdose which can destroy your kidneys and you die.

[@jamesrowe3606]

The purpose of taxation is to pay for public services. If you're not living in the USA, you're not receiving public services from them, so that's not taxation. It's extortion.

[@MrPercy112]

Yes, it certainly puts all that ‘Boston Tea Party’ nonsense into perspective. 😉

[@Trebor74]

American revolutionary "no taxation without representation". 250,odd, years later.......

[@jamesrowe3606]

@@Trebor74 Ironic much? 😏

[@richmlvcable]

American taxation on its citizens who want to go abroad is used mainly to act as a deterrent.. probably a relic from another time but also one that remains profitable.. the UK desperately wants to tax "Non-Doms" here which you could argue is equally extortionate

[@jamesrowe3606]

@@richmlvcable Not quite the same though is it? Non-doms are resident in the UK and bringing money in from abroad. We're talking here about Americans resident outside of the USA earning and being taxed in their country of residence. Not directly comparable. The controversy around UK non-dom status is around what many of us see as tax evasion schemes.

[@DadgeCity]

British people think it's just weird not to have butter on your sandwich. Sandwiches can be so dry if there's no butter, plus the butter helps to stop the contents falling out, plus the butter often has salt in it, which helps the flavour.

[@pooheadlou]

Here here! Aussie feel the same. Must have butter!

[@arthurvasey]

Some people tend to be stingy with the butter - a lot of people prefer margarine - I can’t swallow a sandwich without butter on it - I tend to avoid buying sandwiches from shops, as they either don’t put butter on it or don’t put enough butter on it! That’s what is meant by a butty - a sandwich with butter on!

[@stewedfishproductions7959]

CORRECT - But it needs to be DECENT 'real' butter or a DECENT butter SUBSTITUTE _(with a high Butterfat content)._ Because they IMPART flavour to the sandwich which American's can't appreciate!

[@andykoch4175]

At least here in Wisconsin, USA we do butter most everything. Being the dairy state, that apparently doesn't translate to the rest of the states.

[@virtualatheist]

The butter helps grease the otherwise dry food down your neck.

[@tibouzankor1997]

Lunch at 11a.m and dinner at 5pm? I’m not even from the UK but those American meal times are unbelievable to me🙈 Between 10 and 11am we are still having our mid-morning cup of tea or coffee. Then 1pm to 2pm, lunch, usually and dinner from 7pm to 9pm is more like it where I’m from.

[@rosemarielee7775]

How do people get home from work by 5pm?

[@gabrielecox365]

@@rosemarielee7775because UK has decent work laws, same as Germany where I come from. Pensioner now but my working hours were 7am until 3:15 pm with 15 minutes breakfast break and 30 minutes lunch break. And yes, it was a full time job. 35 hour week and 30 days paid leave.

[@ruk2023--]

It's Florida. 90% of the population is in bed by 7pm so a 5pm dinner is late.

[@kj9108]

My wife and I travelled widely in US when we were younger, and very early on we learned the hard way to eat our evening meal before 7.00pm. In most cosmopolitan cities you could find restaurants that were still serving meals at 8.00pm but outside of those cities, and even sometimes with in them, they were closing up as we went in to eat. In North Conway, NH this happened our first evening there and we drove down the main street stopping at every restaurant only to find the same thing. Eventually we found a Mom and Pop restaurant where the owners kindly agreed to feed us.

[@jmurray1110]

Personally I prefer 12:30-2 depending on certain factors with a dinner at around 5-6 sometimes 4

[@shaunw9270]

Lovely to see you again! In the UK it used to be possible to buy a bottle of 1000 Paracetamol etc - the law was changed in aid of suicide prevention. As a kid in the 70's we always removed our shoes in the house because my Mum was extremely houseproud. We also recognise blocks in England, but not by intersections as Americans recognise. In the States most intersections in large cities are 1/4 mile apart , that's why drag racing uses 1/4 mile strips , including UK drag strips (other countries often call it a 400 metre , as in Japan) . Take it easy and we'll look forward to seeing you sometime in the future!

[@davidcopplestone6266]

I don't remember 1000 pill bottles, but I clearly remember 100 pill bottles.

[@shaunw9270]

@@davidcopplestone6266 They stopped the 1000 bottles in the mid 90's for regular customers and for a while I could get them via the work's first aider up til about year 2000 when it was reduced to 500. Since then the maximum purchase to the public has been 32.

[@andyf4292]

the scary part... paracetamol is dangerous because the liver has 2 pathways for detoxification, one works fine, but can only handle small amounts. the other needs a particular amino acid. they could add that amaino acid to the paracetamol for pennies. but they dont. yay, capitalism

[@philwill0123]

​@@davidcopplestone6266yep, definitely remember 100+ bottles from Boots in the 80s

[@mikestarkey7989]

If you need to buy brufen in packs of 500, then you REALLY need to see a specialist!

[@frozendude707]

Indeed, for people with long term pain there are prescription options that last longer and cost you next to nothing compared to the shelved stuff.

[@crackpot148]

If you suffer chronic pain your GP will prescribe up to a month's supply of medication at a time. I live in Wales where prescribed medication is free. I cannot take NSAIDs so I get 500/30 mg cocodamol (paracetamol to codeine). However I am aware that codeine is addictive so I am judicious in its use with a one month supply lasting me four to five months. I just put up with my chronic pain as long as it is bearable and only take cocodamol on those occasions when I really do need it.

[@Matthew-mj5wo]

I’m late to the party on this but for most of us Americans a bottle of 500 is going to last a year easy. I bought a two pack of 500 tablet bottles 3 years ago and just opened the second bottle at the beginning of the year. So less about needing 500 in a short time period and more about the bulk buy making sense since they don’t expire.

[@grahamlive]

@@Matthew-mj5wo But even 500 over 2 years is a massively excessive amount. I'd be surprised if I've taken 500 painkillers in my entire lifetime and I'm 50. I buy a pack of 24 only very occasionally. Maybe every couple of years. And I don't always use them all up.

[@Matthew-mj5wo]

@@grahamlive define massively excessive though? Also its not just me I’m married so its not like I took 250 a year that would be a lot. I’ve spoken with my doctor about my use of them for not only headaches but also some knee pain I experience and they didn’t voice concern

[@stephenlee5929]

Hi, Re over the counter drugs, mainly Paracetamol, In UK we used to have the 500 tablet bottles, A limit was introduce in the 90's (I think) to reduce overdosing (accidental or otherwise), I believe there is a similar limit for Ibuprofen. The limit for Paracetamol includes things like cold remedies including Lemsip. I don't think it applies to Aspirin. Note this change has been really very effective at reducing these deaths (sorry I don't have the stats, but they were impressive).

[@Lily_The_Pink972]

People who take paracetamol etc as regular medication for specific conditions are usually prescribed a month's supply.

[@stephenlee5929]

@@Lily_The_Pink972 This depends on where you live, and who your GP is. How old the patient is, whether the patient will have to pay for prescriptions. Its not that clear cut.

[@mej6519]

you can only get 2 packs of anadin soulable at my local tesco. but you can go back in and get another 2 packs.

[@PaddyInf]

Standard is up to 2 packs (16x500mg tabs per box). Pharmacies can sell up to 100 tablets at the pharmacist's discretion.

[@tonys1636]

My Grandmother used to buy bottles of 100 Codeine over the counter at a chemist, now only available on prescription unless a low dose in combination with another drug such as Aspirin, Ibuprofen or Paracetamol then only in small packs at a chemist only and not on display. If I had a headache or other severe pain as a child she would often give me half a tablet, they had a line across them to make cutting in half easy.

[@harrybarrow6222]

UK roads are different to the US for a couple of reasons: First, the US is YOUNG. Most of our main roads in the UK date back hundreds of years, and sometimes thousands of years. Routes were determined largely by the terrain in an era when saving a few minutes was unimportant, and Earth-moving equipment did not exist. Second, the US is BIG and a lot of it is relatively FLAT. You have lots of space for taking direct routes. If it helps, just think about UK roads as QUAINT. 😄

[@Nickcooper625]

The sandwich thing is weird because, objectively, most fillings taste nicer with butter than without.

[@MrBulky992]

I ordered a bacon sandwich at the local railway station buffet where the server may not have been British and was presented with a rasher of bacon between two unbuttered slice of white bread. It tasted *so* dry it was difficult to swallow.

[@charleshayes2528]

@Nickcooper625 I know what you mean, but "taste nicer" is a subjective statement, not an objective one. I like butter with some fillings, such as bacon, but there are some where it just doesn't work as well. Also, some shop-bought sandwiches use spreads that don't have quite the same taste or texture as real butter and they may not taste good, even when they ought to.

[@michaelwhitcombe7749]

On the subject of sandwiches, on my first visit to the USA I was in New York city at the Metropolitan Museum and went to the cafeteria for a sandwich. One of the options was chicken salad, so I thought great! some sliced chicken breast, lettuce and tomato on buttered bread - no what I got was a big lump of paste, plonked in the middle of one piece of bread (not even spread out), a second piece of bread on top and the whole thing secured with a couple of cocktail sticks. No wonder I looked confused to the server!

[@anthonyholden3373]

Nice to see you again

[@michaelwhitcombe7749]

@@fionagregory9147 Thanks for your input. Are you going to correct everybody? Trawl the comments - I bet you find loads more misspellings!

[@Lucia-1414]

Sandwich is ok as well, grammar police and doesn’t get it right

[@Tonydjjokerit]

I went to New York and had a sandwich there. It was HUGE and as pretty good. Chicken, Pickles and a massive salad.

[@jamieandtherandomstuff]

Re Superbowl Sunday, we have the FA Cup in England that's played every year in May. 30 or so years ago it was one of the only games to be shown on TV and practically the whole country watched it. Build-up to the game would start at 9am and they'd follow both teams travelling from their hotels to Wembley Stadium. The game didn't kick off until 3pm and it was shown on two channels. At that time we only had three channels!!!

[@CBX-vp7db]

In Wales in the seventies we had three English Channels - BBC One, BBC Two, HTV (ITV in Wales) BBC One and ITV would show the game in English, whilst BBC Two Wales would show it with Welsh Commentary.

[@ianz9916]

I think the nearest equivalent now is the Eurovision Song Contest.

[@henrycopeland7316]

Really have missed your vids. Welcome back…no pressure but keep the vids coming they are a joy to watch and very educational. In the Uk a block does not exist. Intersections occur where roads meet, but roads tend to be where old field boundaries were or foot paths were and they tend to follow the terrain rather than following a geometric grid. Evidence of former routes can be found in the landscape even today.

[@cubbymumma3941]

Hi therexx. UK person herexx. Re exams, back when I was in sixth form 20] years ago (eek, I'm old), your tutors could put your name forward for additional courses called AEA (Advanced Extension Award) on top of your A-level courses. These were smaller classes with lots of discussion and debate that were very much catering for super-duper brainy folks who were on track for Oxbridge or similar. A friend in the year above me did AEA English Language and Literature and I was in total awe of her.

[@glynnwright1699]

Our carpet cleaner told me that fitted carpets are only common in the UK, Canada and parts of the USA. I have no way of knowing if he is correct, but I do know that most places I have been, including the Southern States, interior floors are usually tiled or wooden, with some rugs. I don't recall any expectation to remove shoes in houses with tiled or wooden floors. There was a spate of teenage suicides from overdoses that caused the law to be changed thirty years, or more, ago. Good to see you back...

[@RottingEarth]

An Italian friend if mine was confused when they came to the UK and there was carpet inside the houses

[@JacknVictor]

American not using butter for sandwiches has only been a thing since the late 70s when it was (wrongly) announced that butter was not good for you in a bid to get everyone on to "healthy" spreads such as margarine, which killed it dead. Before then America used to use butter on sandwiches. They also used to refer to "jello" as jelly until the brand name took over from the product name, and refer to most "cookies" as biscuits (not a biscuit) up until the begining of the last century where the danish inspired name of cookie took over from it ,(a cookie was a specific type of biscuit but is now used as a blanket term for all biscuits except of course the American scone style biscuit). There are lots of differences, but most of the differences used to be the same up until certain points in history. The one thing that amuses me is the phrase as American as apple pie to mean something that is true red white and blue American. Like you couldn't get anything as American as this thing you are discussing. Except apple pie pre-existed America by many hundreds of years, Britain, Germany and many other countries had been baking apple pie for a long long time. Infact, apples themselves were not really a thing in America. Inedible crab apples existed in the USA and not a lot else, it wasn't until apple trees brought over from Europe were planted and grown in the 1800s in the USA that it would of been possible to make an apple pie there.

[@neilmorrison7356]

Great to see you again! Note the education system in Scotland is markedly different from the rest of the UK.🦄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🦄🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@mikesaunders4775]

And the legal system.

[@stephenlee5929]

Hi, The Mobil phone rates, the argument that US is big misses the point that The UK rates are similar to those in EU, and EU rates are not restricted to any one country.

[@COMEINTOMYWORLD]

Welcome back to your channel xxx In regards to pills, in the UK you do get around 16 in a pack and the expiry is a couple of years. Who on Earth could get through a massive amount of pills in a large bottle unless the US has longer expiry dates?! You'd have to be dishing them out of the street.... I'm with Smarty mobile phone and pay £6 a month for everything. But there are cheaper providers too. Surely there's a competition watchdog in America that would do something to shake up the market there? The butter on bread business originated from when the patron saint of England, St George, used the defeated dragon's tail to smear butter on his bread before he added beef slices. And the tradition has stuck ever since....

[@andypandy9013]

When I was a kid here in the UK in the 1960s Breakfast was before work or school, so anything from 6:30 to 8:30. Lunch (some called it "Dinner". Still do! 😅) was between about Noon and 1:30. Tea was a meal taken after work or school and was eaten from around 5:00 until 6:30. If it was taken later than that, say between 7:00 and 9:30, it was known, correctly, as Dinner. If you had eaten a Tea you would usually, before bedtime, have a small bite to eat like a sandwich or perhaps, for us kids, a bowl of cereal. This was known as Supper. Four meals might sound a lot but you need to keep in mind that back then we walked a lot more than we do now, including virtually ALL kids walking to school. There was no 'School Run' back then! Also, our houses were relatively cold compared to now. Very few had Central Heating or much, if any, insulation so our bodies burned off lots of carbs just keeping warm. And our 'Portion Sizes' were much, much smaller. Back then we had relatively few fat people, even to the extent that we kids would stare at any fat person we saw walking around! It was that unusual. In many ways life in the 2020s is so much better than it was 60 years ago but I just despair of the awful diets that some of us have and the obesity crisis that has hit us in the last 20+ years. 😥

[@Emmet_Moore]

I’m probably a bit old-fashioned, but that’s how I’ve always referred to my meals, having been born in 2001. Unless I have to compromise for whatever reason I eat breakfast between 7 and 8, lunch between 12 and 1, tea between 5 and 6 and then I often have a packet of crisps or an apple or something between 8 and 9, which is supper. Dining out would feel weird at teatime though, usually that would be between 7 and 8. I am overweight though thanks to sugar and beer. (And I hate central heating - I’d rather just wear a jumper and thick socks)

[@brackalack1]

I always think of my midday meal as dinner. Purely because at primary school we always called the kitchen staff dinner ladies! I can't unlearn it, but people often look at me funny when I call it dinner so I just get specific and give the name of my food. Avoids everyone getting confused. Night time is just family so I agree and go with the flow of whatever its being called 😂😂

[@andypandy9013]

@@brackalack1 At my school we had 'Lunch Ladies' not 'Dinner Ladies'. 😃

[@lynnejamieson2063]

When I was a kid in the 70’s and 80’s, my Mum used to make quite a big deal of supper. At about 8pm (probably a bit earlier in the 70’s as I was under 5 and the youngest, so it would have had to be before my bedtime) a table cloth would be put over the coffee table and then there would be bread, crisps, biscuits, whatever my Mum had baked that day (normally scones, rock cakes or shortbread) and anything that could be put in a sandwich was laid out on the coffee table along with a pot of tea, hot orange/ribeana, cutlery and plates. Then we’d all make our own little feast…my brothers used to do some weird combinations like jam with either cheese or skips 😳 On occasion my Mum would make potato fritters or on Shrove Tuesday we’d have freshly made Scottish pancakes that were still warm from the frying pan. Supper was my favourite meal of the day as a kid, I think in part as it was the only meal where we each had a choice over what we had…though crusts were never optional 😊

[@andypandy9013]

@@lynnejamieson2063 Sounds great. Glad you enjoyed it. Greetings from me in Yorkshire to you in Bonnie Scotland! ❤️

[@Pippins666]

Blocks - despite (mostly) not having towns or villages laid out in a grid pattern, because they just evolved over centuries (the ancient town of Winchelsea, in Sussex, is an exception - where incidentally Spike Milligan is buried, with the immortal epitaph "I told you I was ill!") growing up in the 50's, and ever since, we talked about walking round the block. An oddly shaped block, for sure, but still "a block"

[@lynnejamieson2063]

Where I grew up in Scotland we talked about growing round the block too but we never referred to places as being x amount of blocks over, I don’t even think that was used in Glasgow where the city centre (at least) is based on a grid…my Dad used to always claim that New York was based on Glasgow because of the grid based plan 😊

[@michaelwhite6498]

No butter on dry bread makes you want some liquid. Paid $9 for a sandwich + $6 for a bottle of water. Paid $9 for 15 advil (ibruprofen) UK = 90p for 15. Its all about the profit.

[@gerardphelan7996]

I am a Brit in my 60's living in the South East and have NEVER been asked/expected to remove my shoes in a British house. That must be a generational difference. Probably a good idea for the reasons you give, but I have survived so far remaining being fully shod!! It is great to see you back - you have a refreshingly different slant to other US visitors / commentators / reaction vloggers.

[@tifrap]

I agree, and am of similar age, this year was the first time that I ever encountered this, and at the house of friends that I have known for decades, seems like a recent affectation to me.

[@shellieeyre8758]

Same here - it's happened a couple of times where people have very pale carpets but not normally.

[@suzettewilliams1758]

Only when they have white carpets. Stressful for all concerned.

[@capitalb5889]

You're right that it is very much a recent development. It does make sense - whatever you've been walking through outside you then tramp around the house. With pale carpets you can see the dirt. But it is still there even if you can't see it. Yuck!

[@barrysteven5964]

I'm 66 and my mum always made us take our shoes straight off! It's just normal to me. I grew up in the north east and the weather meant that your shoes are nearly always wet and/or muddy when you come in. You couldn't walk across carpets with them.

[@lottie2525]

Lovely to see you back again. I was so shocked when I first found out about the ridiculously unfair taxation thing. I think the only other country that has the cheek to try this on is Eritrea. Stupidly, it can also apply to children of US parent/s who were born in say the UK and have never even set foot in America, but because of their joint citizenship have tax obligations to their parent's original country. It's that ridiculous.

[@davidjones332]

I remember during the Vietnam War there were a number of rows because some British mothers had given birth while visiting the US, and eighteen years later the US decided that their children were liable to conscription to go and fight a stupid pointless war on behalf of a country with which they had no connection.

[@allenwilliams1306]

@@davidjones332 Back in the 1990s, I was teaching, and there were several siblings having the surname Gonzalez. The father was Spanish, who had fled Spain owing to Franco's persecution of the Left. He, obviously, couldn't go back to Spain or he would be thrown in jail. Neither could the boys once they reached 18 because they would have been conscripted into the Spanish army, even though they had never been in the country in their lives and spoke not a word of Spanish.

[@shaunfarrell3834]

And our spineless governments of all parties ha let them get away with it and utterly failed their own citizens.

[@tonys1636]

@@davidjones332 If a UK citizen and one has a child birth in another country then always register the birth with the British Embassy or Consulate, they will then be a UK citizen or at worst a dual national not a citizen of that country alone.

[@AnneDowson-vp8lg]

If the US government is so good at collecting taxes from citizens living abroad, why can't they use some of that tax to pay for universal health care?

[@ChocolateTampon]

I'm married to an American and whenever we visit the US it seems that Americans plan a day out around food. The first thought is what time and where they are going eat. For example, a 6 hour drive would include 2 stops for food. In the UK we'd just drive the whole 6 hours and not bother unless we had missed a meal and then maybe we'd just grab a quick burger at a drive through.

[@lameplanet]

Interesting the number of UK people saying they never take their shoes off. Most people I know don't wear their shoes in the house - mainly because it's so wet here all the time so your shoes get mud and stuff on them, and most people in the UK have carpets so that soon creates a mess. Also it's just way more comfortable to be in socks or slippers or whatever than outdoor shoes inside.

[@valeriedavidson2785]

I never wear outdoor shoes in the house. I think it is filthy when you consider what is on the ground outside. I appreciate it when workmen take shoes off in my house.

[@iainallan5667]

It is a generational thing, I am 72and have never taken your shoes, and don't know any body of my generation who does, but my nephews do.

[@brackalack1]

The horrible thing about the large bottles of paracetamol etc that used to be sold was people would be drunk or depressed or feeling dramatic and they'd decide to take a handful of pills because they wanted to either make a point or they really did want to end it all. They'd wake up the next day and feel a bit embaressed or work things out etc. But large amounts of paracetamol can really damage your kidneys. So even if they were unsuccessful in the inital suicide attempt, they sometimes still ended up dying because of the organ damage. No one needs that many tablets in the house! It's just a temptation in some circumstances when people are feeling vulnerable.

[@sillybollox2244]

I live in the UK - I don't know many ppl who require you to take your shoes off. I can't imagine inviting ppl for dinner or a party, and expecting them to take their shoes off!

[@Granny_Cat_Lady]

Hi GGL, please do not leave KZbin, I only discovered you a few a week ago & I love your content ❤

[@johnsimmons5951]

You are correct A Levels only gain you entry to Uni, there is no credit for the Uni course. In English & Welsh unis the Honours Degree courses are only 3 yrs long, and you join a course for a particular subject, and transfers to another degree is usually only possible to other courses within a school (ie a subject area) or a highly related subject. For example if you joined a Business studies degree you couldn’t transfer to any science topic, or law or medicine courses.

[@davidjones332]

When I went to a Welsh university (admittedly fifty years ago!) it was obligatory for arts students to take three subjects in their first year regardless of whether they were taking a Single or Joint Honours course.

[@maximushaughton2404]

It's not so much the blocks that people in the UK don't understand, it the numbering system. When you get house numbers like 1622, to someone from the UK we'll think that it's a road/street that has 1622+ houses on it, but when you get to know the numbering system in the US it makes sence, but is still silly to us. As 1622 is the 22nd builing, on block 16. Super Bowl Sunday, we used to have a day like that every year, but it's fallen of in popularity, and that is F.A. Cup final day. By the way welcome back.

[@barneylaurance1865]

There are two types of medicines you can buy without a prescription in the uk: "Pharmacy medicines" that have to be bought from a pharmacy in the presence of a pharmacist, and "General sale medicines" that you can buy in any shop, like a supermarket. Generally you have to ask for a pharmacy medicine but you can pick up a General Sale medicine of the shelf yourself.

[@dasy2k1]

The max size for paracetamol over the counter is 16 tablets and the max sale to one person is 2 packs (and other medicines that contain paracetamol count towards that pack limit) If its supervised by a pharmacist then you can get double that Anything more than that requires a perscription The reason is to prevent people self-unaliving (stupid algorithms) by taking overdoses

[@duncanbarker1885]

A levels in England and Wales have an UCAS tarriff points. One A is 48 points, one B is 40 points etc you can find a points calculator at most university sites. I only really know about this as I used to be a teacher and would often be asked by parents as some people thought that different subjects were worth more points. Good to see you back

[@scottv1600]

But universities don't have to offer based on Points - most Universities will still offer something like "ABB with an A in X" or "CCC with 2 Cs being X and Y" etc instead of these sill UCAS points

[@ForestKicks]

Great to see you Kalyn! I always remained subscribed in the hope you'd post again. Welcome back!

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

That's so kind, thanks so much for watching!

[@torros1839]

Nice to see you back. I know people here in the UK pay £40+ per for mobile bills gor the newest phone models

[@scottv1600]

yeah - but thats because the cost of the phone itself is factored in - if you are paying for an iphone say - that can be up to £1000 if you were to buy it up front. So instead, that gets divided by the 24 months you are paying for your contract (as not everybody has a grand spare at one time) - well that's £40 a month on it's own. Either way, nothing even remotely as high as the US prices. If you do buy a phone outright, or keep an older phone, than £10-£20 (depending on network and data usage requirements) is 100% going to be your bill - and if you buy the phone as part of the contract, then you'd add that to the £40 I mentioned above.

[@philcoogan7369]

Hi good to see you're back. I grew up knowing that the only thing more rude than taking my shoes off to go into someones home would be mentioning it if they expected me to. There are those that do and those that don't and you don't say anything about it, if you're in the wrong place. Of course if you're in a shoes on place but your shoes are covered in mud etc. you should take your shoes off but you need to ask permission first. I come from a shoes on background and my Father would ask permission of the rest of the room before taking his shoes off. As for sandwiches the very idea that someone would forget to put butter on is pretty near unbelievable.

[@kirillkomarov5928]

So happy to see you again! Definitely best UK vs USA videos on KZbin !

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

That's very kind, thank you so much!

[@rebeccabroadway9874]

Blocks are a new country thing, we have old roads not Simcity - We have Wimbledon, Football league, Rugby World Cup etc, usually watched in the pub

[@Zomerset]

Welcome back 🙂 I didn’t realise how massive the SuperBowl was in the US. I like the idea that everyone gets together for it. Those mobile phone charges are unbelievable. I can’t imagine paying 10x as much for the same service.

[@mikesaunders4775]

Of course nobody in England ever watches the FA Cup Final.

[@AnneDowson-vp8lg]

Yes, Cup Final day is big, and the World Cup, and people have strawberry teas for Wimbledon Finals, but most people who watch these games have an interest in the sport. The Eurovision Song Contest is also an evening when many people get together and have parties while watching.

[@jaycee330]

It really depends on what plan you have. I have unlimited text/phone and a decent data cap for $30/month.

[@primalengland]

Well hello there!!!! Long time no see. Great to have you back.

[@fpcoleman57]

Pronunciation of "mobile": Mo-bile (the stuff which comes out of your bile duct) Mo-bye-l (bye as in goodbye)

[@LordToogood]

Heyyy Kalyn !!!!! Good to see you back again and great come back video. I have been lying awake for the last 4 - 5 months wondering when a random girl on the internet was going to come back to tell me the differences between the us and the uk that people wont tell me.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

I knew that was the case! ;) Thanks for watching and coming back to say hi!

[@MillsyLM]

Never had my dinner/evening meal at home later than 6pm. Even on occasions when we do go out to restaurants we generally eat something mid afternoon to bridge the gap. I haven't put butter on my sandwiches for over 25 years. Usually use salad cream or pickle.

[@adrianmcgrath1984]

For cell phone coverage, you have to take terrain into account as well as distance. Cell masts in the UK are typically on top of existing buildings, and paying a small rent. This also means that there are roads to get to them, and elevators to get up to them. Whereas in the US masts are often outside towns and - if they have roads to them, require workers to drive ut and climb them. In some places it will be helicopter access only. With the UK being relatively flat, fewer masts are required.There is nothing in the UK approaching the Rocky Mountains - or the Black Hills, or the Grand Canyon, Death Valley these sorts of geographical obstacles mean vastly more relays are required to get coverage

[@wonhung]

Dinner/Supper is around that time because we have Tea at about 4.pm. Supper can also be even later at around 10.30pm. Brits often stay up a lot later in my experiance to around 1.30 - 2.00am.

[@richardhargrave6082]

Hi! Welcome back! I have missed your insights The pills quantity is to stop people overdosing. You take your shoes off because a lot of people have carpets, as you say. Hard flooring has become more popular here, so there is probably a mix. We have friends who bring their slippers when visiting. I have friends who have the Monday after the Super Bowl because they have watched the game or gone to a party, the nearest is the FA Cup Final, where there is often a get together for a beer and BBQ I have heard that mobi costs are very different. You've still got it! Just post when you want to, its more relaxing for you and keeps the standard up.

[@brumplum]

A super-important difference in the tax systems which every American I know finds incomprehensible is PAYE (Pay As You Earn) - the vast majority of people working for an employer, large or small , do not have to complete a form and work out their own taxes at the end of each year. The employer uses some essentially simple calculations and pays on your behalf to the HMRC (UK equivalent of the IRS) each month/week from your salary . After the end of the tax year (5th April) the HMRC will make a detailed re-calculation, and write with an explanation either asking for more or issuing a refund. If you have other sources of income (savings, property, shares ...) HMRC will usually have been informed of any duties payable and charge /refund accordingly. Most people will never have any reason to communicate with their tax office as the original calculations will have been correct.

[@johnnyuk3365]

The limitation on number of paracetamol tables you can buy in the UK (normally 16) is a sensible one. It is quite a toxic drug which can cause serious kidney and liver damage and there have been cases of people dying from overdoses. Difficult to determine exact fatal dose but if a person swallowing 40 to 50 pills are likely to be in serious trouble. That is only 3 packs, I suppose the thinking behind it is that someone contemplating suicide would have to visit 3 or 4 pharmacies or supermarkets to buy sufficient and the effort in doing so may make them give up. “Oh this is too much trouble, I better carry on living” but more importantly they may decide to seek help. Even continuous low regular dosages of paracetamol to control pain can seriously affect kidney function. Due to other medications I take, my GP has advised me not to take paracetamol at all.

[@Nickcooper625]

Yes, the rules on tablet limits were introduced in 1999, before which paracetamol poisoning deaths were running at around 550-650 per year. They immediately started falling year-on-year, eventually stablising from 2007 at around 200 per year.

[@AnneDowson-vp8lg]

To see a jar of 500 ibrofen was shocking to me. No wonder so many people take accidental overdoses and die in the USA, like poor Tom Petty. This is just disgusting.

[@stephaniehamilton6217]

I agree; unfortunately my late uncle was unaware of the dangers of Paracetamol and took Lemsip and paracetamol together and unfortunately died from liver failure.

[@johnnyuk3365]

@@stephaniehamilton6217 so sorry to hear about your late uncle. We think about paracetamol as a simple tablet - unfortunately as you know so well - it isn’t.

[@AnneDowson-vp8lg]

@@stephaniehamilton6217 So sorry to hear about your uncle. RIP.

[@fpcoleman57]

As regards butter, I use it as a glue for dry ingredients in sandwiches to stop them falling out when I'm holding them in my hands. If I eat a sandwich on a plate with a knife and fork, a little butter stops the sandwich dancing around on the plate and, of course, when I lift the cut portion to my mouth helps to stop the ingredients falling out. I would never use butter if I was using peanut butter or spreadable cheeses but if I was using sliced dry cheeses or deli meats then, yes, I would use butter. An alternative to butter which I use sometimes is mayonnaise.

[@gavingiant6900]

The mobile thing, just remember that 'e' is there (think bile as in the fluid in your body, or til and tile). We use mo-bil to refer to the petrol company, then we use mo-bile for a cellular phone. Both are different in action and the technical side, mobile is closer to the mark though.

[@snoopy10411]

Most people don't finish work until 5pm so by the time you have got home, changed, sorted the kids out, cooked etc. it's probably more like 6-7pm anyway

[@philipmccarthy6175]

A- levels do get you into university in the UK. Students apply for places at universities and the universities will require certain grades in the A-level exams and if the applicant attains those grades they will be offered a place at said university.

[@fionafrazer8820]

I never wore shoes in the house when living in the UK - shoes came off at the door, and on went the slippers! I don't expect people to do it here in the US, but often people ask me if I would like them to (I live in the Northeast where the weather can be messy). The eating hours in the US are so early - maybe because work starts so much earlier. We just returned from a home trip to the UK, and many workers are still having coffee at 9/9:30/10, therefore lunch and dinner are much later. Butter on a sandwich is essential to stop the filling from soaking through the bread. I find people in the US are holier than thou about butter (and taking sugar in your coffee) - which is hilarious considering the amount of sugar, fat and chemicals that are found in everyday food. I find that many restaurants only have sweeteners (at least three different) in the sugar container, and usually have to ask for "real" sugar! And - you never get a spoon with which to stir your coffee!! The traffic (block) system isn't everywhere in the US - try driving in Boston! I also found it so weird that directions are often given in North, South, East, West, etc. (turn east on xx, then west on xx). I would say turn left, turn right etc., and still do - even after living here forever!

[@howardscott1556]

You hinted at another minor difference in this video. You said "when England is playing" , in the UK we tend to refer to teams, organisations etc in the plural so it would be "when England are playing"

[@bonetiredtoo]

Naproxen, which is prescription only in the UK, is over the counter in the US and you can buy in in similar quantities to ibuprofen!

[@stephaniehamilton6217]

Yeah, don't take Naproxen, it is toxic for the kidneys, I know because it caused my kidneys to fail!

[@welshjohn1]

What a nice surprise to see you back! I hope this is the first of many videos.

[@martinalloway6980]

The small amount of over the counter medication was brought in as suicide prevention. Paracetamol suicides dropped something like 60% once they brought this in.

[@roymiller5531]

Katlyn welcome back, you’re looking well. Post whenever you feel up to it. 😊

[@bugaboo-bricks]

It's literally "bread and butter". As fir the tablets, ask at a pharmacy if you need a big pack.

[@OnlyAnOpinion20]

A levels provide UCAS points, you need a certain amount of points to do a degree, the amount of points you need depends on the degree/subject etc

[@hesky10]

You missed a major difference in taxation. In the United States everyone employed, regardless of self employed or working for someone/company, has to complete a tax return, in the UK if you're employed by a company your company automatically deducts taxes from your income and a tax return is not required, a tax return will still be required if self employed

[@yogimoninc]

If you go to a pharmacy in the UK you can buy larger packs of pain killers (100+), you just need to ask, they are not on the shelves.

[@cackleberrycottage2340]

I have fibromyalgia and I live in a rural area in the mountains. I keep large amounts of all OTC meds because there have been times (forest fire, floods, pandemic) where we couldn't get off the mountain and the the tiny local pharmacy runs out. They only stock 1 or 2 of everything, so mostly you would have to go without.

[@pspence9569]

Don't know what they're called now. When I was in high school in Scotland, totally separate education system from England, we had Sixth Year Studies. I think they were called Advanced Highers for a while. That would, depending on the subject, let you skip certain classes, or get you into second year, in that subject in further education. You would still need to carry other classes to make up your total.

[@fabsy64]

UK person here. As the use of landline phone has decreased greatly, people have come to refer to "mobile phones" as just "phones.

[@simonspeechley2859]

Mealtimes are: Breakfast, Lunch (between 12 & 2pm) and Tea (5 to 7pm)

[@roberth.7260]

Interesting stuff. OK - so, if your sandwich filling is already very moist (egg mayo, for example) then you don't need spread (butter, or some equivalent). However, if you take the "classic" BLT (bacon, lettuce & tomato), or chicken, or beef, or cheese, then some sort of spread is required, or it's far too dry. I do sometimes use mayo instead of butter - that can work better with a BLT, or with chicken, in my opinion. The British say mobile, not cellphone, and it's pronounced "mo bile" (not like the city of Mobile, in Alabama).

[@deannas1515]

I'm American, and I put butter on sandwiches, some people like Miracle Whip or mayo on lunchmeat sandwiches. I don't know why you would want to eat it dry.

[@BBKing1977]

I feel like you’re my on again/off again KZbin relationship. 😂 Good to see you back, if only for now. Just know that you’re welcome to grace us with your virtual presence whenever you like.

[@GirlGoneLondonofficial]

Oh absolutely, I'll probably break up with you again at some point and then come back....so prepare yourself so you don't get heartbroken. ;)

[@JanoJ]

To help understand Mobile Phone prices, it can be cheaper here, but does depend on the contract. Many contracts do subsidise the phone for x number of years (2 years usually) so the monthly payment is for both the service and the phoen subsidy. However, you can get a sim only contract (which is what you listed) where you can buy the phone or under its own finance terms. Mine gives me unlimited calls and text (UK dont carge to receive calls or text) and 60GB data for 10 pounds a month, and is a month to month contract.

[@JanoJ]

We USED to be able to buy 100 tabs (or more) of paracetamol, but due to it being missused, either due to ignorance or even suicide, and the health harm caused by that, its now banned to sell in more than a certain size. And its not paracetamol, any drugs available over the counter that can cause serious health harm if used excessivly are similarly restricted.

[@karentaylor5983]

I have lived in the UK all my life, and we don't really put butter on chicken sandwiches it's usually mayonnaise.

[@charlesunderwood6334]

Eating time varies- I agree lunch is typically 1, but dinner is more likely to depend on if you have children- maybe 5.30 if you have young children, progressing to 7 or 8 with teenagers/no children. Not sure how you can eat earlier as you have to have tome to get home and cook. Even with children it it rare to eat out before 6.30. Without children 8-9 is most normal, and with a drink or two before the meal, may not eat until well after 9.

[@lindastaines8288]

I would say that dinner time depends on time getting home from work

[@stuartmarshall2418]

Always enjoy your videos, glad to see you posting again

[@graemecatty9921]

Mobile is pronounced mo 'bile' as in 'tile'. The 'e' at the end is the differentiator.

[@colinearnshaw7725]

As others have pointed out, the paracetamol limit was introduced to help prevent intentional or 'accidental' suicides.As little as 4 paracetamol can destroy a liver, and in my experience (i was a social worker) the number of people who briefly 'recovered' from an OD, apologised as they 'didn't mean it', but then died of liver failure was enormous.

[@johnsbone]

Credit for other qualifications is offered by the Open University ( our online remote university) OU courses can be spread over your life / working life.

[@jasonwoods4811]

Yay nice to see you, welcome back, you've been missed :D

[@katrinabryce]

For medication, "off the shelf" is meds you can pick off the shelf and pay for at a regular till. "Over the counter" means it has to be bought from a qualified pharmacist who will check it is suitable for you before selling it. A-Levels get you UCAS points which allow you get a place at university. You can go to college and some courses there can count towards your first year of university if they are at Level 4 or 5 (A-Levels are Level 3, an Ordinary or Honours Degree from University is Level 6, the highest level you can get is Level 8). Scotland is a bit different, because they have 4 year university courses instead of 3. A-Levels in the right subject can count towards your first year, and some college courses can count towards your first or second year. (In Scotland, A-Levels are level 7, an Ordinary Degree is level 9, an Honours Degree which most people graduate from Uni with is level 10, highest is level 12)

[@adrianmcgrath1984]

As an American filing your taxes every year you can return to the US as a citizen in full standing. A British person who has been out of the country for a period of years, returns with no or reduced access to services. Things like the NHS are not available to you until you have jumped through some significant hoops.

[@peckelhaze6934]

I could never eat a sandwich without butter. I pay about £8 per month. Nice to still hear from you.

[@stephaniehamilton6217]

I'm a bit weird; I take butter on cold sandwiches, but not on hot sandwiches(except toast, of course)!

[@FinlayMacintyre-ti9li]

Glasgow City centre is a grid system and because it resembles the American layout has been used in films. For example, WWZ used Glasgow to stand in for Philadelphia

[@KPKENNEDY]

We used to sale bottles of 200? of paracetamol or aspirin. This was much cheaper than the blister packs we get today and when blister packs were introduced,. The change was for safety reasons. Also as something of interest in the USA the antidote to paracetamol was included in the tablet. I assume that this is still the case. I wish that we had adopted this in the UK.

[@highlyunlikely3698]

The verb to butter refers to buttering bread etc, we don't spread butter on bread, we butter our bread... bread and butter is a thing, here. Unbuttered bread for sandwiches seems oddly dry.

[@rhiantaylor3446]

Just to say that UK Uni entrance works in a very similar way to that you describe for the US. We will typically apply before receiving A level results and be given a minimum score required for acceptance. My wife studied History and would have had to attend French and Latin lectures were it not for prior scores in these subjects at school.

[@annaburch3200]

Hey, Lady!!!! Happy to see your smiling face! The guys watched with me. They say hi, too. 😁 Hugs, sweet friend!!!

[@charleshayes2528]

Hi, I don't know how I managed to miss this when it first came out. The main thing I want to comment on is eating times. I can't claim to speak for the whole of the UK or even the whole of England, but I think meal times have more to do with class and background than with the nation. So, when I was growing up, the midday meal (usually called "dinner", confusingly) was eaten precisely at midday, not 11:30 am or 11:45 am nor 12:15 pm, etc., while the evening meal (usually called "tea") would be around 5 pm to 6 pm. These times were typical for our working class/blue collar neighbourhood and I believe may have been established when most people worked in very local factories. This meant that workers could usually get home at a consistent time for the evening meal, even if they did not get home to eat at midday. The pattern of eating the evening meal later seems to be associated with either the very wealthy or with the middle classes who commuted long distances to work. When I lived in Hull, the working day began early and the local fish and chip shops were serving "tea-time" meals at 4:30 pm and would be shut soon after.

[@Wee_Langside]

Mow-bile. When i was a boy in Scotland in the 1950s it was bread and jam aka a jeely piece no butter or much less often bread and butter nothing else. Possibly due to expense. There was a meal in Scotland called High Tea which would be something like poached eggs, fishcakes, or Welsh Rarebit, followed by scones, pancakes, fancy cakes if you were being a bit "society" and pot after pot of tea. Different from Afternoon Tea.

[@meezursrule]

It used to be possible to buy large amounts of paracetamol over the counter. In 1998, legislation was introduced to restrict the amount of paracetamol that can be sold in a single transaction over the counter. I think this was due to fears about not just paracetamol intentional overdose, but about people popping them like sweets when in pain and accidentally overdosing. Butter on sandwiches is very common - personally I don't like it that way, but most people in Britain seem to.

[@AndrewJLeslie]

Buy paracetamol etc at a Pharmacy, the limits are much higher. Not sure how high they are but certainly 84 was the last box of ibuprofen we bought. You can also get stronger versions of Ibuprofen etc at a Pharmacy. In Northern Cyprus, a Pharmacy offered me 5,000 for a very low price! Mobile is pronounced Mo-bIle as in bile, not as in automobile, when referring to phones. Welcome back, by the way.

[@weirdscix]

The limit on paracetamol was because they can cause hepatotoxicity if taken incorrectly, before they were limited they caused a lot of deaths and need for liver transplants.

[@KB42moomoo]

most of these don't shock me but my jaw DROPPED when you said the average us phone bill!

[@kenholst3541]

I live in the u.s. and my cell phone bill is 40 dollars a month with unlimited data

[@grahamlive]

@@kenholst3541 Mine is £20. Around $25.

[@leshabright1294]

Everyone i know just says phone in the UK. If its not a mobile, its called a house phone, but only older people still have those!

[@markkenyon2216]

Welcome back! Lovely to see you again.

[@Gameplanguru]

Nice to see you. Come back whenever the fancy takes you. FA Cup final is the nearest thing that we have that is comparable to Superbowl Sunday, but we don't do the same razzamatazz and it's not the huge social thing that Superbowl Sunday is in the US. It used to be a bigger deal than it is now. I nearly fell off my chair at US mobile charges! I don't think any other channel has addressed this difference, so thank you for pointing this out. All the best, and I'll see you when I see you.

[@JohnPilling25]

Brit in US here. My US cell phone bill is $30/month total; unlimited everything and includes unlimited text and data worldwide which for me is great because I don't need another"mobile" when, each year, I am back in the UK/Europe for several months. It's such a good plan that T-mobile don't offer it anymore but I am grandfathered in for life so I'm not changing.

[@colinlambert882]

There is no AP University qualification equivalent, because British universities, except Scotland, have 3 years of specialised subject courses, so there is no general studies requirement in year 1/2.

[@missharry5727]

I went to a UK university in 1966 and every student was required to take an additional course on top of their main course, completely unrelated to the main subject. If you were doing a joint degree you did an ancillary course for one year, if a single course a subsidiary course for two years. The extra course had to be very different from your main, so for example if you were an arts student it might be science and vice versa. My subject was classics, which counted as a joint subject - two languages and history and philosophy. So I had to do an ancillary and chose history of art. I would have liked to do a new language, say Hebrew or Russian, but that wasn't allowed.

[@myotherchannel2729]

I pay £1 a week for my mobile tariff (the phone itself was bought separately). EE no longer offers the £1 a week tariff for new customers, but they do have a £10 a month one.

[@lynnenolan3484]

Good to see you back ! even if you’re gone again girl !!