American Couple Reacts: English Counties explained! Hilarious & VERY informative video!!

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Hey everyone! We REALLY enjoyed doing this video! So much fun! Please Like & share with your friends! Regrettably the "Ham Banana Rolls" 🤮 are AMERICAN! We are ashamed, 😂 Thank you for your continued support! We love you all! ❤

[@leesteele9261]

When the video was talking about people get other people’s letters because of another place with a similar address this happens every year with a Christmas card and the odd letters. From 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿❤️ love your videos.

[@phuckerby]

If you can have Bacon and maple syrup on a pancake, why not banana ham and cheese? 😎

[@SJ-GodofGnomes21]

Norfolk and Suffolk came from the geographical way that the Iceni referred to themselves... North folk became Norfolk and South folk became Suffolk. Although of course Norfolk is by far the best County!

[@SJ-GodofGnomes21]

Norfolk is a brilliant County! People here still very much care about their County

[@billyhills9933]

I think a fair recompense would be a video where you try out this American delicacy and give us your thoughts. Surely it can't taste as bad as it sounds, can it?

[@russcattell955i]

I recommend more Map Men video's. Educational yet funny across the board. Laughter is the best medicine some say !

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Definitely! ❤

[@TimeyWimeyLimey]

Be careful if you do their 'Where is the North South Divide' one. It can leave Americans thinking it's a debate about where to draw the line...IT'S NOT !!

[@Isleofskye]

Lovely Reaction Ladies and I Have Subscribed :) You have just stumbled upon 2 of the funniest and wittiest and cleverest Guys out there with over 1 Million Subscribers which they have for a very good reason. Their videos about The London Boroughs ( all 32 of them unlike the 5 Boroughs in New York ) is funny and informative but there are so many Jay Foreman videos especially when he teams with Mark and forms "Map Men". You weren't to know but after the advert, Jay sings a song that he created involving all the County names...:)

[@brooza664]

I also recommend watching their ads

[@paulbrecken2136]

Congratulations on 9k. The enthusiasm and humour you both show really shines through.

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Thanks Paul!

[@gillycarpenter9280]

The variations of 'shire' pronunciation is probably due to regional accents. As you already know, walk 20 minutes down the road and the accent is different, the colloquialisms are different and you can cause a riot by calling a bread roll a barm cake.

[@stoneagepig3768]

We call them bread cakes in West Yorkshire, if it's got dried fruit it's a tea cake. Not sure about the rest of Yorkshire

[@Arael_Angie]

I think you mean breadcake 😝

[@DraconimLt]

uh oh, you had to bring that one up! My Uni housemates and I had that debate multiple times lol... and it's called a Cob!!! 😉😁

[@dave_h_8742]

Cob, bap, batch, balm cake 😂

[@lliving4today]

Ahem!....bread bun 😊😊

[@ColchesterMethodists]

The Union Flag/Jack thing… it is now completely acceptable, officially, to refer to the flag of the United Kingdom as EITHER a Union Flag OR a Union Jack - except when flying from a ship when it is ALWAYS a Jack.

[@Clayton-S.]

Flown from the Jackstaff whilst alongside or at anchor, of course.👍

[@judithmarshall3350]

Depends if you are in Scouts/Guides.

[@Andrewhicks-t4i]

It always annoys me when people call it the Union Jack.

[@royhardy407]

Once again a great video and reaction. On the Freddie Mrcury anniversary, my wife worked in a certain bank and one of her clients was a Miss Bulsara, which is Freddy's real surname and she is Freddy's sister. He sometimes came into the bank with her and my wife chatted with him when he came in. One of the nicest people on the earth is how she described him. Its hard to believe its now 30 years since he passed. Keep the vids coming, I look forward to them x

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

We are so ASHAMED that the Ham Banana Roll is AMERICAN!! We sincerely apologize for that nastiness!! 😔 😂

[@margaretnicol3423]

As long as you're hanging your heads in shame - we'll forgive you. Although I think as a punishment you should try it and let us know how terrible it is. No - even I could not be so cruel. Apology accepted.

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

@@margaretnicol3423 we may actually try it... Debbie already found the recipe 🤮🤮

[@margaretnicol3423]

@@TheNatashaDebbieShow Well if you can eat pineapple with ham and cheese on a pizza banana's not so far off. Looking forward to seeing that video. :-D

[@gmf121266]

Totally forgiven as we had our own weird foods in the 70's. There was an eccentric cook over here called Fanny Craddock..(don't laugh its true!) who I remember doing weird stuff like taking the yolks out of hard boiled eggs and mixing them with mayo cayenne pepper and blue food colouring and then piping it back into the egg white...Why I don't know. She is a hoot to watch bossing her assistants about. I'm sure you can find some of her vids on youtube.

[@MARKSTRINGFELLOW1]

No-one makes a doughnut quite like Fannies. !!

[@tkfaf15]

Map Men is a great channel with lots of fun videos so I would be happy to see more reactions of them. Y'all make me miss Ohio very much.

[@Luminara1981]

I live in Shropshire, formerly Salop in Old English and the counties official name 1974-1980, people still now refer to us as 'salopians'! ☺

[@davidsanderson2960]

Weren't Salopians in a Doctor Who episode? lol

[@Luminara1981]

@@davidsanderson2960 quite possibly!! 😂

[@paulhollis8879]

As in tubes?

[@John-ed2wj]

This is one of the best channels that I have added on here. Loving the positive energy from you two lovelies ❤️👍

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Well thank you so very much!! ❤

[@wolfie5]

The pronunciation of counties ending in Shire will vary across the UK - where I come from Cheshire - Lancashire would be pronounced with Sheer at the end. Yet Shire horses would be pronounced shyer. They moved my county borders so I live in a different county now without moving to a different place.

[@hackdaniels7253]

21:09 The law doesn't vary from county to county (in England). Taxes are raised locally for local spending, and the amount asked for does vary from county to county, this is still a nationally consistent arrangement (if you see what I mean).

[@seanryan4679]

Old enough to have been born in Warrington Lancashire which was changed to Warrington Cheshire in early 1970s. Another great episode

[@latchfordbob]

I learnt recently that the border was the ship canal. I'd always thought it was the Mersey. I'm L.A. and always classed it as Cheshire.

[@seanryan4679]

Both Warrington and widnes are on the Mersey and has been in Lancashire until 1973

[@seanryan4679]

And just in case you did not know Widnes railway station was were Paul Simon allegedly wrote Homeward Bound

[@beatlesgirl2782]

Same for me. Warrington became part of Cheshire when I was 5

[@beatlesgirl2782]

@@latchfordbob I was born on Wilderspool Causeway in Warrington which has the Mersey running across one end and the Ship Canal across the other end.

[@frogletx]

The image they used for 'Count' was of course Count Duckula, the vegetarian vampire duck.

[@jonlloyd7772]

Thanks for this, ladies. I'm a brit, and I learned quite a lot from this. Always enjoy your videos. Keep em coming....

[@smithjohn5121]

Laws are pretty standard through out the country , however there are what are called Local bye laws , these are things like parking restrictions , building permits etc , and income rax is standard nation wide , and is paid monthly ( if you are an employee ) not yearly as the USA . Have a happy Thanks Giving

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Thank you!!

[@cogidubnus1953]

If you're paid weekly as an employee you pay the tax weekly.

[@smithjohn5121]

@@cogidubnus1953 True, but your employer pays it to the inland revenue monthly , do people still get paid weekly ??

[@kretisme]

@@smithjohn5121 not often but a few do my last job did

[@cogidubnus1953]

@@smithjohn5121 Shop-workers, Bus Drivers, labourers...probably plenty of others too...

[@margaretnicol3423]

Congratulation on reaching 9,005 subs! 👏👏👏 Do you realize that when you finish this video you'll probably know more about counties than most people in the UK. 😁

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Haha!!

[@drdeth2000]

If you like Map Men I recommend the Technical Difficulties Quiz: Citation Needed and Two of These People Are Lying.

[@agranda6379]

This video was a great choice. Really enjoyable! I’ve got to say, a lot of us Brits are probably also confused about the history/changes in county boundaries/names etc! Absolutely thrilled that your great country (not county!) can lay claim to that incredible pudding/casserole!! If you are interested in more UK history, there is a fantastic tv series called Horrible Histories. It’s actually a kids educational programme, but it’s made with humour and is great for adults too. Sadly it may be blocked by KZbin, but it’s worth a try. Good to see you’re nearly better Natasha. Hope you’ve managed to avoid catching the lurgy, Debbie!

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Can happily report a healthy Debbie! 😀

[@thomasm1964]

Shire : when used on its own or to describe an object like shire horse, we pronounce it as "shyer". When it forms part of a county name, it is more like "shh". So a shyer horse but York-shh or Nottingham-shh.

[@katydaniels508]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 still laughing about the ham banana thing. I really love this video. Thank you 😁

[@Klingon2468]

Oh almost for got in the clip of 1972 did you here him say Rainbow, well that was a kids show, I never missed an episode. I watched a few clips on youtube recently, I couldn't believe it, tv execs must have thought we were all simpletons, I laughed my ass off you should give it a watch. 💗💗💗

[@HankD13]

The map men are great - and have done so many really cool videos. Very educational and very entertaining - do more!

[@KernowWarrior]

Glad your on the mend. Love the Map Men, enjoyed you reaction. You should let their adverts play out, they are very entertaining with a lot of effort put in.

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Yeah but they get paid for them, we don't 🤷🏼‍♀️🤷‍♀️

[@KernowWarrior]

@@TheNatashaDebbieShow And? You say that like its a bad thing? Map Men get a boost to their channel, so they can continue to make content for you to react to. Its only an extra min of (entertaining) video for you to watch and its no skin off your nose either way. Unless of course your being forced to pay Map Men to use their content then I would kinda understand why you would be reluctant to show their ad, otherwise I don't see your reasoning.

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

We don't need to explain our reasoning

[@KernowWarrior]

@@TheNatashaDebbieShow I didn't ask you too. I just said I didn't understand it.

[@Lee-70ish]

Always knew your channel would be successful . There are two types of vloggers who win views either outrageous or honest. You've combined both you're outrageously honest😀 In all fairness more power to your channel guys . Love Lee and Christine XXX PS we're are from Essex (Canvey Island) but now live in Suffolk, ( Ipswich )

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Thanks so much Lee & Christine!! ❤❤

[@jo7449]

Thank you for another informative and fun video

[@jackcarter5101]

I knew you'd love the channel Jay Foreman! Which is why I recommended his video 'Why are British Place Names So Hard to Pronounce?". I'm so glad you proved me right by liking his channel.

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

We have to thank our KZbin advisor for this video! We will definitely be doing more in the future!

[@jackcarter5101]

@@TheNatashaDebbieShow I look forward to it. It will also help you for if you ever visit the UK. As Jay Foreman himself said (satirically), "There is nothing for fun than laughing at tourists who don't know how to say something properly, simply because they're from a different country, and could never be reasonably expected to have predicted a local pronunciation that contradicts the basic rules of language!"

[@Kestrel1971]

12:16 - My home town, St. Ives! (in Huntingdonshire, now in Cambridgeshire, but still kind of in Huntingdonshire), famous for the Monday market and the riddle, "As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives".

[@paulbrown7720]

"The Secret Mugger" 😂 You are welcome Ladies & I'm happy You both enjoy them. Sending Big Love Your way 🤗❤️

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

You mugged us!! We've never been mugged before and it was awesome! ❤❤

[@paulbrown7720]

@@TheNatashaDebbieShow 😂❤️

[@helenjarvis7755]

Food shown at 15m 1972 omg 😱 yes I agree 🙃who would eat that. Love Map Men videos

[@zebj16]

Congrats on 9k, been following your channel from almost the start and I love your fun and enthusiasm. Stay safe, love from London 🫖❤️🎉.

[@jonathanocallaghan9202]

Your enthusiasm and positivity is medicine for my soul. Thankyou to both of you for being you.x

[@cuthalin4976]

It makes more sense to concider it like this. UK County = US State UK District = US County With the exception of Rates and by laws ALL Taxes and Laws are Nation wide. So VAT and Income Tax do not vary by County, whereas you have Federal , State and Local taxes. Love the vids, and keep enjoying yourselves :)

[@monkee1969]

council tax could change depending what side of the road you live on but the bin men still come on the same day for said street! To add to the confusion, police forces share counties, i'm under Devon & Cornwall constabulary (2 counties) & i have no clue what became of Avon & Somerset constabulary once they got rid of the county of Avon!

[@matthew-Williams]

I know there is an ad at the end of most mapmen vids, but they are just as funny as the main part. Congrats on 9.08K subs.

[@olorin1.414]

We all know the best thing to come out of Yorkshire is the road to Lancashire...🌹 it'd be great if you reacted to The War of the Roses :) 🤔

[@rayoflight6505]

Another fun video I love love love your chemistry together. Congrats on 9k 👏

[@michael_177]

Ah I love jay foreman videos good choice. And its always a treat when you two upload 😊 Hope you're both doing well and grats on 9k subs

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Thanks so much Michael! We stayed up all night getting this video made, so just getting ready to sleep!

[@synaesthesia2010]

a Yorkshire man from South Yorkshire here. i find your reaction to all this hilarious

[@Payne2view]

The county I live in, in Wales, was spilt-up into smaller counties in the 1990s but people still use the old county name on addresses.

[@AndrewHalliwell]

lemme guess... Glamorgan?

[@Payne2view]

@@AndrewHalliwell One of the many :-)

[@chrislawley6801]

North or South Wales is another divide 😏

[@adventussaxonum448]

Where I live is now RCT (Rhondda Cynon Taf) but most people still say Mid Glamorgan.

[@Payne2view]

@@adventussaxonum448 I know, it is mad really. Mid Glamorgan has not existed for about 26 years. May as well write "Silures" on an envelope.

[@BarleyC]

So glad this suggestion worked out so well! Really love your reaction - especially to the banana-ham-cheese casserole!

[@martynnotman3467]

Minor local ordinances DO vary from county to county but national law applies to the whole of England. Historically Durham was a county palatine under a Prince-Bishop so its laws were different until the 1850s.

[@garethbrown9191]

You two ladies are awesome! I love you and your videos! Shout to the boys for a great video!

[@stuartbrittain7835]

Provision of local services vary considerably from county to county, as do policing standards, etc

[@DerEchteBold]

I think on some British tv show they said the weird banana-ham&hollandaise casserole is from the 50s. But I looked up the picture, it's from something called "McCall's Great American Recipe Card Collection" and that was indeed published in the 70s, maybe the recipe is older.

[@christinepreston8642]

Shire is pronounced the same as the US state of New Hampshire is, no need to over think it!! In the UK, biscuits are dry, snap when they are fresh and soft when they are stale. A cookie is softer when fresh and can go hard when stale (much the same as a cake sponge!!). So that plate was definitely biscuits to us and not a direct translation to cookie either!! 😁

[@michaelmclachlan1650]

I believe the sole exception are chocolate chip cookies, I don't recall them being described as chocolate chip biscuits - though I'm sure someone will insist.

[@HA1LILPALAZZO]

14:16 ah yes the 70's were the time of Fanny Craddock and here interesting dinners. In the 70's swinger parties became popular and cookbookswere made for such occasions.......this looks like one of those dishes

[@JoCunningham2204]

Hahaha this was a great video I actually learnt something about my home town ( Leicestershire) and also found the hamcheesebananacasserole hilarious 😂 soooo glad it didn't catch on would not want to try that 😄

[@chocoilike]

Hey ladies I'm a Yorkshire lass I would pronounce it York shur. I live just above the sticky outy bit ( East riding of Yorkshire on the map lol) never accepted and they changed it to Humberside, always put Easy Yorkshire on any correspondence. And I'm from Hull which is in East Yorkshire always was always will.

[@mawganrogerson4233]

I’m from Cornwall, which is basically the same in all county maps because of our history and position in the far south west of the U.K. :)

[@traceymorris7300]

Hi neighbour. Im in Devon😀

[@mawganrogerson4233]

@@traceymorris7300 Devon?!! I’ve got no time for Devonians; you do your scones the wrong way round 🤨😂

[@traceymorris7300]

@@mawganrogerson4233 I actually have mine the Cornish way😂😂

[@mawganrogerson4233]

@@traceymorris7300 Yayyy! Good to hear there are some Cornish allies across the border 😆✊

[@traceymorris7300]

@@mawganrogerson4233 ive got lots of Cornish family.😀

[@robertalaverty9282]

The Video was great. Very entertaining to watch. Look forward to the video on Wednesday. I love queen. Will definitely be joining you for that.

[@lorrebreaker]

Moment of silence for the banana meat cheese casserole 🤣🤣... that had me

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

It was much required!

[@welshcake56]

lol my cheeks are hurting at you taking the pi$$ at the banana, ham, cheese casserole

[@kimmyJayne2597]

Enjoyed this super interesting 🤔 any fellow Lancashirians?!🌹

[@saracollier6308]

Congrats on 9k , I was subscriber no 6 .I,m proud of you both , love your enthusiasm to learn , keep having fun .x.

[@claratrevlyn5304]

You should take another look at the ghastly building shown immediately before the Banana/Ham/Custard thingy. This is Trellick Tower in west London, designed by a controversial modernist architect, who also annoyed James Bond author Ian Fleming when he designed some unattractive modernist houses close to Fleming's home. Ian Fleming had his revenge by using the architect's name as the villain in a James Bond novel; the character was repulsively ugly, cheated at cards, cheated at golf, maltreated women and was the world's greediest man. The architect's name was Erno Goldfinger.

[@kevinshort3943]

That was custard? It looked to me like sausage (photoshopped into bananas), ham/bacon, with melted cheese on top.

[@raphaelnikolaus0486]

Jago Hazzard has a great video on the building (and others of that type)

[@stephenlee5929]

I think that's Balfron Tower, in East London (E14), by Blackwall Tunnel, same Architect. The stairways and lift shafts are different. I used to walk past i in the late 60's/early 70's A great place when first built.

[@claratrevlyn5304]

@@stephenlee5929 Yes, you're right. Good spot.

[@mercifulzeus01]

@@kevinshort3943 My first thought was Hollandaise sauce...

[@ClairesCraftyCorner]

Loved this 🤣🤣🤣 London/ now Essex here.... proper down South and we say Shuh as in YorkSHUH .... the 'Shire' is definitely pronounced differently across the country depending on regional accents ... some of my family say 'Sheer' but I'm common 🤣🤣🤣 congratulations on 9K ... thats incredible in 3 months x

[@ethanmason0382]

I was wondering why I thought Humberstone was still a thing because I go by the sign everyday, and I've just discovered it's a town now instead of a county. I've just learnt this and I've lived down the road to Humberstone my whole life lmao.

[@wessexdruid5290]

Humberside was the county - not Humberstone (a suburb of Leicester, no where near the Humber).

[@ethanmason0382]

@@wessexdruid5290 oh I'm getting confused with all the humber malarkey sorry

[@ethanmason0382]

@@wessexdruid5290 meant humberside

[@DrDaveW]

I’m from Lincolnshire. It was a big deal when some of our county was taken away for Humberside.

[@catshez]

I used to work for Royal Mail and understand why the counties changed in that respect for the post.. it was all about how far an address is from the nearest mail centre... For example, I used to live near a town called Burton-upon-Trent which is in the county of Staffordshire, but the closest mail centre is actually Derby, not Stafford, so the county is Staffordshire but the postcode is DE (Derby), We have a village called Ashby-de-la-Zouche which is in the county of Leicestershire, but the nearest mail centre is Derby, (not Leicester) so residents of that village are in the county of Leicestershire with a DE postcode.. It was all about logistics , hence why we don't need to name counties on an address, Royal Mail can get your post to you with the first line of address and postcode only ! ....and also yes county borders were changed again in the 1970s for logistics and local council funding etc etc .. The village I lived in, in Leicestershire, used to be in Derbyshire, but borders changed because noone really wanted our villages and town 😂🤷🏽‍♀️ The sub-counties are mainly to do with local services, schools, waste collection, etc.. again, a logistics thing.. So I have just moved from North West Leicestershire to Hinkley and Bosworth... it's only a few miles apart, same county of Leicestershire, but our bins and waste collection are different , we have to apply for different council tax, different council offices.. Don't forget, we mostly live on top of each other like sardines here in the UK.. a border is literally a road, a sign, and can be nothing more than that, 1 mile is the difference between counties.. I live in the middle of five counties, right in the very centre of England.. Watching your video and recounting all of this has made my head spin, and I live here 😬😳🤣🤣🤣😲😳😂

[@dalenicholls4427]

There is a Royal Mail centre by Stoke on Trent train station

[@Isleofskye]

Lovely Reaction Ladies and I Have Subscribed :) You have just stumbled upon 2 of the funniest and wittiest and cleverest Guys out there with over 1 Million Subscribers which they have for a very good reason. Their videos about The London Boroughs ( all 32 of them unlike the 5 Boroughs in New York ) is funny and informative but there are so many Jay Foreman videos especially when he teams with Mark and forms "Map Men". You weren't to know but after the advert, Jay sings a song that he created involving all the County names...:)

[@eivindkaisen6838]

Æthelstan - nowadays often spelled Athelstan* is considered the first king of England. A lot of people think it was Alfred the Great, be he was only king of Wessex. It's too long to get into here, but before then, England was divided into at least 4 kingdoms, and before that there were the Romans... *Now the th in Æthestan is pronunced with the unvoiced th (as sin south), but at the timee it was written with þ wich was used for both th sounds (as in the, too). However, given the way the name was given in Old Norse (the language of the Vikings) who had both sounds, written þ and ð respectively, it can be argued that it was a voiced th: Aðalsteinn. In the continental Scandinavian languages today the ð evolved into d, the þ into t (Thor, Þórr, has become Tor) pretty much consistently and systematically.

[@ianprince1698]

yes..

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

9k subs in 3 months is great TBH 👌🙂👏 keep going ladies x

[@markkettlewell7441]

Never seen that food item in my life and I grew up in the 1970s. 😂

[@helenwood8482]

Whatever it is, I hope it was very quickly detonated in a controlled explosion. What worries me is that the "cheese" looks like custard to me.

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

😂😂😂 it's American! 😭😭

[@samcan1]

Rutland, smallest, the most posh and a "jolly nice walk" Very pretty.

[@eivindkaisen6838]

In the US, the mail is delivered by the US Postal Service. In Britain, the post is delivered by the Royal Mail.

[@sueparr1060]

Congratulations on your 9k well i live in the UK and I'm confused great video girls x look forward to your show's every week keep up the good work hugs sue

[@clarelawton4653]

Congrats on 9K, looks like if you put your mugs together you’ll make a complete flag, cheers

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Thanks!!

[@moonramshaw1982]

When I saw the thumbnail I thought Debbie was teaching Natasha YMCA lol. Love from Lancashire 🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Dying laughing 😂

[@777petew]

We eat sliced bananas with hot custard, and that isn't so bad. We also enjoy sliced banana on fresh crusty buttered bread, not the factory doughy stuff. You ladies will get on here in the UK just fine. You're getting the hang of our humour. You laugh at the ridiculous, and we've got lots of that over here. It's what we are.

[@richardgale2023]

It'd be fine washed down with Dr Pepper

[@johexxkitten]

Bananas & custard is amazing!

[@diane9656]

Hi hoooo hi hoooo OHIO 🤣😂

[@Diamondmine212]

Love bananas and custard,love banana sandwich. Yum. Dad's favourite was bananas sliced up in milk with a bit of sugar sprinkled on ,leave to stand awhile to really flavour the milk.😃

[@robertwatford7425]

Good fun videos - both yours and theirs. One thing they got wrong, Rutland is not the smallest county; the Isle of Wight is an island off the South Coast and is a county, and when the tide is in it is slightly smaller than Rutland :-)

[@Isleofskye]

A Beautiful "Olde Worlde" place that I visited in 1968,1972,1976 and 2017 and I am glad to say it hasn;t changed much :)

[@nigelhamilton815]

You girls totally get the brit sense of humour.

[@Macca-zx7gz]

What the heck was that banana thing!? Thank god, whatever it is, was left in the 70s 🤣🤣

[@nickname6747]

People from Yorkshire pronounce it 'Yorksha'. Only southern English people say 'Yorkshear'. Thanks for uploading, loving the channel, guys :)

[@lauralishes1]

No it's not only Southern English people.

[@dee2251]

I disagree. I’m from West Mid’s and we say Yorksheer. We’re bang in the middle and definitely not Southerners.

[@wow-roblox8370]

14:35 you know the food is bad when even Americans are going *WHY*

[@downsman1]

Hello lovely friends. If you enjoyed the Mapmen doing our counties, then I recommend you find their video on British place names, it's a hoot! FYI, being "ancient" I can actually remember the 70's. "The first episode of Rainbow" refers to a kids TV show (think Sesame Street, but simpler and cheaper). As to the concoction of bananas, ham and cheese sauce, I have no idea although I have had grilled banana with grilled bacon. It's actually way better than it sounds it should be. Confession time now, Natasha. I started to watch your last post about Christmas and all. but had to shut it off quickly. In the 3 months that I've been watching the pair of you, I have become so fond of you both (yes, I know it's dumb) that I truly hate to see either of you so upset. There is quite enough misery in normal life without dredging it up without reason. Love, hugs, kisses etc.....................................the ancient Englishman.

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Appreciate it. But there was reason. To tell my story and possibly help others at the holidays going through such misery.

[@downsman1]

@@TheNatashaDebbieShow Those are all good, even noble, reasons but I just found it too tough to take. Forgive me, I'm just a silly old man.

[@peteringlis1800]

Banana meat cheese casserole as Debbie called it,oh yea, together your banter is brilliant, keep it up

[@alanthomas8372]

I love you ladies. You are very open minded. Royal Mail goes back to the 1660's Every wonder why British stamps are the only stamps that do not have their country name on them when all other countries do? I is because WE INVENTED stamps in 1840. Love your show. Alan ( From the Metropolitan Borough of West Midlands or as we who live hearin call Warwickshire !!) Keep it up ladies TTFN (Ta Ta For Now)

[@Walesbornandbred]

These guys are great, their video's are funny and informative.

[@michelleeastwood55]

I've never laughted so much on a Sunday morning in a long time thank you x To all the Bananas in the world I'm sorry 🍌😂x

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

😂😂

[@michaelcockerill7654]

Love you guys and your videos and I am a retired widower who lives in Halifax in West Yorkshire. If ever you are in this area of England you are more than welcome to stay at my place.

[@DazzleMonroe]

I laughed for every 25 minutes of this. One day, when the world is opened up again, you should come to my part of England and fall over laughing at our accent and piles of bricks they call "history"

[@Paul-pc2le]

Hello to you both, that was a very entertaining reaction, and quite funny, I love your sense of humour. You can definitely count on me to be with you on Wednesday for Freddies anniversary.

[@jemmajames6719]

People outside Yorkshire do care what county they are from, people are proud of where they are from.

[@johnnhoj6749]

True, it's just that most people outside Yorkshire don't feel contractually obliged to relentlessly bang on about it.

[@user-vt9um8mv4t]

Congrats on the 9k ladies love the show keep it going 😁

[@wellingboroughanddistrictu3a]

I live in Northamptonshire, which has, only this year, been split into two Unitary Authorities. It's currently a mess, with the two new authorities still working out how to split the old County-wide services like Libraries and Highways between them. I'm in North Northamptonshire but we had a new delivery of books into our local library which said property of West Northamptonshire on them. The government was forced to make some sort of change when the old County Council went bankrupt. They basically sold everything that wasn't nailed down (and some stuff that was) and built a new, no luxury spared, County Hall, which now stands empty.

[@KR-us9pj]

Fantastic video! Glad you are enjoying our very long and complicated history! My county (Norfolk ) is part of the ancient kingdom of East Anglia. East Anglia is commonly spoken of - even Universities and TV stations are named after it - but you will not see it on any maps!

[@dnf-dead]

Yay for West Midlands

[@Theytoldmetodoit1]

The bananas wrapped in ham and covered in hollandaise sauce was from an American 1974 publication; Contemporary Cooking 60 : McCall's Great American Recipe Card Collection

[@devilsadvocate1597]

I am so proud of you that your saying the Union Flag! Yes the Union Flag was designated to ships only, but nowadays as the Union Jack is no longer used, the Union Flag /Jack are interchangable

[@wyvernmodelrailway]

Call me old fashioned, but I still seperate the two. The Union Flag in General and the Union Jack when flown from a ship. Might be my boy scout and naval background.

[@tigerlily6642]

Good morning natasha and Debbie,looking great 👍

[@suellewellyn68]

Counties govern certain aspects of day to day life, such as roadworks cleaning, fire dept ambulances, and local taxes but the main law of the land is the same throughout Britain, Wales has its own Government,as does Scotland and part of Ireland, but they still rely on the Parliament of London England for monies towards larger costly exspenditure! It's complex.😳

[@horacehoofhead8469]

Hi girls I'm from Kettering in Northamptonshire which is twinned with Kettering Ohio ..which is a town near Dayton ...family indeed ....you girls are great and much love sent to our lovely cousins x

[@alisonsmith4801]

I live in the totally unimaginative county named Tyne and Wear, they lumped bits of Northumberland and Durham together, all that history from the ancient Northumbria and the land of " Prince Bishop's " co Durham from Roman's and Vikings and some how, we ended up sounding like an Estate Agent's.

[@peterellis1307]

Don't forget Alison the ancient counties were never abolished, so tell people you live in and are a proud lady of Northumberland or Durham. I always put the traditional county on the envelope when writing to my folks in Tynemouth, it's not necessary but makes me feel better.

[@alisonsmith4801]

@@peterellis1307 Unfortunately I've lived my life in the country of Tyne and Wear, so I can't really say I can claim either of these amazing counties but my family history is a mixture of both Northumberland and co Durham,that's what happens when your born on Tyneside.

[@niallrussell7184]

still has more character than... West Midlands!

[@alisonsmith4801]

@@niallrussell7184 Think we both got jipped on our countries names. Funnily enough our Police Force is Northumbria Police, yet the Fire Brigade is Tyne & Wear, just to confuse us.

[@heleni0]

I live in Teesside/ Cleveland/ Tees Valley/ County Durham/ Whatever the drop down menu on the online shopping website says. It's different every damn time

[@VK-yg8lp]

I really enjoyed this and I am looking forward to the Queen video on Weds. Congrats on your 9k + subs. You are both wonderful people, please enjoy your Sunday.

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Aw thanks so very much! ❤

[@catnipmurphy5971]

Well 1970's cookbooks were a lawless wasteland, and plantain and prosciutto is sort of acceptable. What the Cheez Whizz was doing on there is a mystery. At 06.40 Um, well, the Union Jack thing is an urban myth. Quite a modern one actually which has a lot to say about social media and none of it good. A Jack was a flag flown by a ship. The Union flag flown from a navy ship was a Union Jack. It fell into common useage and back in 1908 the admiralty told the government of the day, in relation to the appropriateness of the Union flag being called the Union Jack by people, "Meh, whatevs bbz xoxox" (I summarize) and ever since it hasn't mattered until, well, y'know Facebook and that thing of telling people things whether they're true or not. Anyway, love the channel.

[@peterson61]

Love you guys + I'm learning so much (and I live here)

[@stephenhodgson3506]

Shame they only showed people from Yorkshire who Americans will probably never have seen or heard of. They could have mentioned for example Dame Judi Dench, Sir Patrick Stewart.Sir Ben Kingsley, Charles Laughton. Maybe the Bronte's or William Wilberforce. We Yorkshire people don't really care what the authorities do with the map because as far as we are concerned the only map that counts is the first one they showed. In Yorkshire we also have Yorkshire Day on August 1st.

[@grapeman63]

Jay Foreman is a KZbin legend and the Map Men videos are brilliantly informative and entertaining. Almost as entertaining as their in video adverts which are a must watch!

[@FenderTele]

Hiya Girls comment number 1! I hope your both well, I'm going to Google how many counties there are in the UK and the USA!

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Hey there! 👋

[@FenderTele]

@@TheNatashaDebbieShow This has just put the thought of I'm running for the county line in my head! From my childhood I can remember the Dukes of Hazzard does Hazzard County exist lol!

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

@@FenderTele Yes it does!

[@FenderTele]

@@TheNatashaDebbieShow Wow! I can remember my mother buying an Orange Mini at that time and I got in BIG trouble! It had 12 miles on the clock and I attempted to get in through the open window resulting in scratches to the paint!!

[@belindakennedy5828]

By merging don't garanteed your tax would go down like the new county your joining with,it would be garanteed that they would go up in line with the other one,if that makes sense.

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Yes it does