AMERICAN Reacts to 10 Things That ONLY EXIST in The UK!

[@jonathanhodgson2142]

British pints are actually larger than American pints. An American pint is only 0.883 the volume of a British pint. So a party seven can would be the equivalent of 8.4 US pints.

[@andreasobuaculla9511]

and the beer would still taste like shit

[@johnp8131]

@@andreasobuaculla9511 I remember them, the delicious taste of raw metal and chemicals!

[@torfrida6663]

A US pint is 16 fl oz. UK is 20. 🇬🇧👍

[@user-TonyUK]

@@andreasobuaculla9511 we didnt really care what it tasted like it got you drunk and was cheaper than 7 pints in a Pub

[@grahvis]

I was once at a do where I was wandering around with a Party Four and a wine glass to drink it from. For a good party back in the 60s, you could get a 4.5 gallon barrel.

[@jamescameron-clarke2560]

I still contend that the scariest thing to hear in the dark woods would not be a screech , a snapping twig or a wolf's howl, but a distant cry of "Blobby, blobby, blobby!"

[@eilatanok]

😂😂

[@McBesty-wb8cm]

😂😂😂

[@riverraven7359]

mr blobby is legit an urban legend caught on camera. its weird, disturbing and we cant be sure hes gone because he pops back up every few years.

[@tracytabb2882]

Pmsl damn u right he could pop bk up anytime ah shit 😂😂😂😂

[@muzz3564]

If you even said Blobbybloby my cousin would cry....oh the hours of fun we had 😂

[@margaretnicol3423]

Aaaaaargh!!! No - please - not that. I always hated him.

[@GiggleBasket21]

Apparently he's done, they tried to sell his suit, they had a buyer but buyer backed out....one can only hope he never returns, stuff of nightmares :D

[@helengreig1670]

The “king “ and Blobby are often seen out together! He takes her on Royal engagements with him! 😂🤣

[@chloeebaaker]

the nostalgia I felt when little chef came up is unreal. I used to travel 2 and a half hours every few weeks to see my great aunt and her family. I knew it was gonna be a good weekend when my mum would agree to stop for food at one, I miss it so much!

[@Duacarl]

YES!! Although in the one we stopped at regularly we once caught them microwaving a whole breakfast on the same plate (eggs and all) after they complained it was cold 💀💀

[@aliceramdom.s]

remember the lollys that they used to have?

[@AnOldEnglishBloke]

Little Chef, Big Breakfast. As a child, Little Chef was the stop when we as kids in the boot of the Cortina estate knew we were close to our holiday destination. Then as an adult, Little Chef was the same, just for knowing you were close to the site.

[@andy2950]

The secret of Greggs is quick, reasonably tasty, cheap food on the go. The fact that the sausage rolls and steak bakes are hot from the oven helps......that smell as you walk past is addictive 😅

[@dmgreacts6086]

before i got diabetes i would grab a greggs twice a week

[@CW1971]

I prefer The Pound Bakery 😂 but can't eat either now I've been diagnosed with caeliac ☹️ you'd think Greggs would do some gluten free stuff these days, everyone is jumping on the GF bandwagon

[@andy2950]

@Claire Willis Drop the MD an email. It's all about demand.

[@juliecobbina2024]

It's disgusting

[@carlchapman4053]

Actually the success of Greggs is selling hot food without paying the tax required to sell hot food (Good for them!) Everyone else including burger vans and street vendors have to pay extra tax which Greggs has skilfully dodged allowing them to sell everything cheaper with more profit!

[@thomasmartyn65]

Hey JT, hey everyone, hope you’re all doing well! I’m Cornish and the ingredients of a Cornish pasty are: Beef cut into blocks (traditionally skirt beef as it’s cheaper), Potato, Turnip, Onion and Pepper wrapped in Pastry. They’re “bleddy aansom!” 😜 although back in the days of the Cornish Tin Mines, the miners would have pasties that were half savoury and half sweet as a desert. The sweet half would have berries and jam etc in it and the crust lined around the side would act as something to hold onto with the miners dirty hands and would be discarded when finished. Do NOT listen to the people who say you can put carrots or peas etc into a pasty because then it’s not a Cornish Pasty, it then just becomes an abomination 😂

[@flightlesslord2688]

you know what. Im sick of people dissing British food. We have fucking Greggs. And our pasties are the best too!

[@justamemery9170]

I’m a Somerset fella (Yeovil) but have been to Cornwall a great many times as I have friends who live there and every time I go I always make sure I get a Cornish pasty as they are hands down one of the best pieces of food here in Britain 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@jimdigriz2923]

@@justamemery9170 Man of Kent here and I whole-heartedly agree, Cornish pasties are one of the best.

[@georgiawilby25]

I’m also Cornish, recently moved away and I really miss having a pasty. All they have here is Greg’s (they are slices(bakes) not pasties people 😂) or ginsters 😢

[@LuvKoalaa]

​@@flightlesslord2688 let's start a war. (This is just a joke)

[@CW1971]

The Aldi vs M&S Colin the caterpillar war was hilarious 😂

[@ViicSee]

Not even sure I'd call it a war tbf, more of a one sided beat down by Aldi

[@CW1971]

@@ViicSee you're right, Aldi's SM team are hysterical

[@jackwhitbread4583]

Why they picking on Aldi though? Asda also has a version as does Tesco, Sainsbury's and Morrisons

[@switchnstuff]

@@jackwhitbread4583 there a bit different though

[@PhilipWorthington]

I'm not sure Greggs has a close equivalent in the US. Maybe a mix of Krispy Kreme, Auntie Anne's and Subway? Greggs is not a convenience store, it's a bakery. So it sells loaves of bread, cakes and cookies. It also sells sandwiches - mostly baguettes - and then uniquely British baked goods such as pasties, steak slices and sausage rolls. It's all baked convenience food. Basically, the staples of British food are roasted, baked or fried meat, with bread, pastry and/or potatoes. Which is why the three places I always take Americans who visit are Greggs, Toby Carvery, and a decent chip shop - there are really no direct equivalents for any of those in the US.

[@Slizard]

also krispy kremes and subway are in uk aswell

[@CDADRacer]

As someone who works at Greggs, were are not a bakery we are a food to go outlet, we also do not advertise any savouries as hot.

[@ManMang0]

Cornish Pasty - Beef (usually skirt), Swede(traditionally Turnip), potato, onion all chopped up into small squares/triangles, seasoned with pepper, drop a knob of butter in, wrapped up in shortcrust pastry and sealed with a crimped edge. Glazed and baked in the oven for 30-40 minutes. I live in Cornwall and it really is a big part of culture down here, everyone can name their top three pasty shops within a 50 mile radius. My three are Gea Farm, Anne's Pasties and Ethringtons butchers in scorrier. I would settle for a Cornish oven or Philps though. Rowe's and Warrens are a joke, I don't know how they are allowed to call them pasties, unsuspecting victims will fall foul to these chains and think that's what a pasty actually is meant to be... Just to add, we don't have Gregg's in Cornwall because people would grab a pasty from their local bakery instead of going to Greg's so they pulled out and closed all their stores. Edit: apparently Greg's making a comeback down here!

[@muzz3564]

I've friends in Tintagel,there's a little pasties shop down towards Merlins cave,best I've ever had. No idea it's name 😊

[@philjones6054]

My best Cornish pasty was from a bakery on the high street in Bude. I bought about five to bring back to S. Wales with me as they're so delicious.

[@Richjwade]

Greggs have now infiltrated Cornwall at the Victoria services on the A30. Have to agree Anne's Pasties are pretty good but local to me I'd pick a Barnecutt's pasty. So JT if we send you an exact recipe would you make a proper job Cornish Pasty? Go on you know you want to!

[@jamespasifull]

You can't beat a proper Oggie!! 😋😋😋

[@johnp8131]

Always buy a dozen or so to bring back home, from a bakers near St Mellion when I visit.

[@HeidiSholl]

Thing with Colin is, every supermarket has a knockoff version. Aldi just took the piss a bit by naming theirs Cuthbert (most similar name), and making it look just like Colin. Other supermarkets at least made theirs look a bit different, different face mold and so on, but Aldi really were asking for it 😂

[@LuvKoalaa]

Yeah same with morrisons I think and sainsburys

[@HeidiSholl]

@@LuvKoalaa Sainsburys and Morrisons ones are different enough though I think. Sainsbury's "Wiggles" has a different face mould with floppy ears and different boots, and Morrisons "Morris" also looks totally totally different. ASDA, Tescos and Co-op all look completely different too, and went with fondant icing instead of chocolate for the face. Aldi flew too close to the sun and then behaved like a child when they got reprimanded for it 😂

[@ellegaitor2887]

Aldi’s marketing team tho are amazing lol 😂 I love their social media posts

[@HeidiSholl]

@@ellegaitor2887 Idk, Aldi's business practices and the way they treat their staff kind of cloud my judgement a bit 😂 I find their company to be generally quite problematic, and the way they handled this an extension of that

[@JennieShaw-b2i]

Inside a pasty there are meat and onion and other vegetables.

[@ChuchiiChoo]

Henry has been dragged around upside down smashed into doorframes doors and furniture up and down this great country for so long and Hetty the pink hoover with lashes was his girlfriend in my mind (sweethomealabama), the tiny versions for your desk were absolute staples of any teachers desk throughout my childhood

[@KASPlaysSims]

I think they have one in green that’s called George too . I remember I had an argument saying George come on your annoying or you won’t move . I hope my neighbour across the road didn’t hear me shouting George or saying George as his name is George .

[@dacritterKRS]

​​@@KASPlaysSims there is also a industrial one called James , he's yellow. In my opinion not as strong as Henry. I bought a James for work and he only lasted a couple of years , so I went back to Henry. Almost forgot the blue one he's called Richard and will eat water.

[@teree1255]

When he gets stuck on a corner and just stares at you 😂 x

[@ambermccormick9506]

🤣🤣🤣 I'm howling!! It's so true though! Poor Henry and hetty have been through so much!

[@ZanzibarBreeze]

Greggs was great until it got all upmarket and increased the price over 3x. When I was at Uni in 2007 I could get a Steak Bake for 75p. Now I’ve seen them as expensive as £2.30. every store use to feel like a local bakery which was cheap and cheerful but they changed their image to reflect a more modern deli like experience and hiked the prices to give a more upmarket image

[@michaelhancox1986]

Ya sin the fuckin price of it now! 😮

[@ValueHurts]

that's called inflation

[@Urbex_Explorer1]

loads more now

[@MsKaz1000]

You can get 2 frozen non-baked ones for 3.50 in Iceland and just bake them at home from frozen

[@dubvcronix6584]

I've haven't step foot in a Greggs in years. Last time I went in there I bought my food and then was told I have to pay extra to sit down and eat, I returned what I bought and walked out.

[@susyward581]

Little chef was like a milestone. Stop off for a break knowing how much longer to arrive at destination. This was when road travel took longer, A and B roads, not so many motorways.

[@zoefarr2600]

There was one with a really weird roof in between Doncaster and Nottingham

[@lewisjones85]

I loved little chef milkshakes

[@mikeh020011]

Fun fact some of them are now adult stores (Sex shops).

[@MareSerenitis]

Little Chef's cherry pancakes were absolute fire.

[@ally6364]

Am I the only one who remembers “Happy Eater” it was the other motorway restaurant option.

[@rebekahtaylor6142]

I always thought Henry was just a gimmick product until I used it. It’s actually a pretty good hoover. And Colin is a legend

[@annemariefleming]

Cornish pasty...beef, potato, onion and sometimes swede, with a light gravy. The shape is important too.

[@thatsthat2612]

My dad told me that way back, a Cornish pasty would be half savoury and half sweet. I dunno if that's accurate tho

[@Paulthompson9942]

​@@thatsthat2612 it is, because they were originally food for miners, the crust would act as a handle so the food would not get all dirty with coal dust, one end would be meat and potatoes the other would usually have an apple in it

[@thomasmartyn65]

Always turnip! 😂

[@G44ever]

Little Chef was like a truck stop. Cornish pasties traditionally contain beef and vegetables. When the Cornish miners went to work they normally had half savoury with the beef and veg and the other half was sweet to eat as a dessert.

[@guvnormcfc66]

Cornish pasties are just savoury,if you made a half savoury,half sweet you,d get run out of town.The only half sweet,half savoury pasties I know of is something called the bedfordshire clanger which is half pork filling,half apple pie filling not sold in many place in the UK ,dates back to the 1800s.

[@jerry2357]

Party Sevens (and their little brothers, the Party Fours) were for when you had a party at home. Basically, it was like having a small keg that people could use to top up their glasses. You didn’t have one big can to yourself.

[@cashkitty3472]

I didn't know this was a thing and in british.

[@jamespasifull]

I remember me & some mates, at a house-party, using a party 7 to have a drinking competition! We opened it, then left it for a couple of hours, to go flat, before pouring out a pint each! It was room temperature, flat, & foul, but I won by drinking mine in around three-or-four seconds flat!!! I surprised everyone by NOT throwing up later!! 🤣

[@johnp8131]

The idea was OK but the beer "Grotneys" was disgusting! Other brewery groups like Ind Coope did it too. At least with a four pint tin?

[@jamespasifull]

@@johnp8131 Their Pale Ale was a huge seller in the 70's! Mind you, poor taste was all the rage back then, wasn't it?!?! 🤣

[@johnp8131]

@@jamespasifull Exactly, whatever happened to "Long Life"? I surpose lager took over, espectially during and after the Summer of '76?

[@kirstygraham3781]

As a cleaner, I’ve cleaned with shark vacuums, Miele, vax, dysons… and I’ve had issues with all of them but my Henry has never let me down 😂 I work in a 50 lodge holiday park and we exclusively use Henry hoovers and the only thing we’ve ever had to fix/replace on them in YEARS is the heads when they wear down over time 🤣

[@dacritterKRS]

As a builder I swear by Henry he'll eat anything I throw at him. I had a James but he only lasted a couple of years , so I went back to Henry. You wouldn't believe how many Dyson Hoover's I've broken if I've had to borrow a customer's in a pinch , they are awful and hate fine dust, you then have to spend 2hours taking them apart cleaning all the filters, not a fan of Dyson's at all. I was moderately impressed by shark as I had one at home till it broke and was replaced by Henry

[@kirstygraham3781]

@@dacritterKRS mielie had the best suction by far and it was a slightly older model so broke a lot but Henry has never let me down

[@steveosborne2297]

When I was the service engineer travelling all over the country in the 70s , starting about 6 o’clock in the morning I’d love to stop at little Chef at about 8 o’clock because it was the only place I could get pancakes covered in maple syrup . I’m still addicted to this day

[@vtbn53]

Oh yuck why ruin perfectly good pancakes with that sugary crap?

[@BTSFanLoveJungkook]

9:50 yes Colin the caterpillar is a normal thing to have here in the UK I actually don’t remember a birthday party I have been to or had not have a Colin the caterpillar cake

[@robertcreighton4635]

I once pulled into a little chef years ago in Oxfordshire. I asked for their version of a full English breakfast. Waitress said sorry no eggs I said why not? Her reply somebody nicked them this morning I nearly fell off my chair laughing. Mind blown 😂😂😂😂😂

[@tommarrs2528]

Having lived in Oxfordshire all my life.. this does anything but surprise me 😂😂

[@shmupperfromhell]

That was the magic of little chef! They often also had coffee - with no milk lol

[@robertdraper5782]

I nearly drove into a Little Chef once but the tiny fcker jumped out of the way.

[@markgt3492]

THEY USED TO USE EGG POWDER NOT FRESH EGGS 🥚

[@Phildood27]

My mum refused to enter another little chef after they refused to let her breast feed me in there in mind February 1987, -9⁰c and she had to take me outside to the car.

[@Kissameassa538]

I think you doing things about the UK has opened your eyes about us. Some things we are proud of, some not so much. We have gasted your flabber about us, we can be naughty. ❤️🇬🇧

[@Lyca31]

The Party 7 was for a party of lots of people. It wasn't meant to be drank by 1 person. From what I remember Little Chef was super expensive. £4.99 for a breakfast years ago was a lot. Most local cafes would sell a £4.99 breakfast today where I live. Everyone pretty much despised the House of Lords. Cornish pasties are amazing. News of the World was pretty much The Sun on Sunday. Garbage tabloid. The caterpillar cakes are pretty much swiss rolls covered in chocolate and sprinkles. they are tasty and good for little kids birthdays. Greggs is the best. Tizer is a kind of fruity pop.

[@kelm03]

We never went in Little Chefs as the food was overpriced and not the best. Oh and Colin the Caterpillar are good for grown up birthdays too x

[@aarjaycee3601]

There's a detail absent from the Party Seven that it's important to note. Sure you could just pop the thing open and use drink it with your friends BUT, the idea was, it came with a tap. A metal and plastic device which had a compartment in it for a CO2 "bulb"(cylinder) which clamped to the top of the can, and sealed the opening for dispensing the beer from the oversized can to your glass. A plastic tube on the underside of the tap drew the beer up from inside the can (pressurised by the forementioned CO2 "bulb") and as if by magic, draught beer right there in your house. I remember these things as a kid growing up in the mid/late 1960s - 70s and most of the adults around agreed they, to use a modern term, sucked! The beer was cheap disgusting slop and the cans did not keep a good seal where the tap was fitted so that any beer not consumed almost immediately the can was first pierced, went flat and was even less drinkable than it was when "fresh" There was also a smaller version, the Party Four, and other breweries had their own versions of these oversized draught beer in your house cans. BUT the system was universally crap and they soon disappeared. Nobody I know lamented their passing

[@DaveBartlett]

Unfortunately, Party Sevens DIDN'T come with a CO2 tap - but you could buy one (from Boots, if I remember correctly.) But the point of it being a PARTY seven was that a party, you could pour out the contents of the whole can for one round!

[@aarjaycee3601]

@Dave Bartlett come to think of it, you're right The fact I was a kid when these things landed had clouded that memory But yes, my dad, his stepdad, and everyone we knew who had one, bought their taps from Boots along with supplies of "Sparklets" CO2 'bulbs' for said taps and home soda syphons Ah the past eh? We didn't know we were born

[@speleokeir]

Mr Blobby started as a character on a Saturday Night entertainment show called Noel's House party. He was on a spoof childrens show as a practical joke on celebs who thought it was a real show. It was intentionally awful , irritating and scary, the kind of a thing a clueless TV exec might dream up after overdoing the drugs. It was supposed to be a one off, but the first one got such massive reaction that they pranked several other celebs with him. And then Mr Blobby was everywhere.

[@Pull_a_Bharv]

The Gotcha awards

[@harrymarshall]

,, and the Xmas #1 song ✨🙄🎄

[@helengreig1670]

Noel’s House Party, in the early nineties, he was part of the Gotcha’s segment of the show! Very annoying! Noel Edmunds (presenter) used to be a Prime time Radio1 DJ before that! He along with Philip Schofield, should be sent to jail for the horrible creatures they inflicted on the public! And What WAS Schofield doing with Roland Rat in the broom cupboard?😂🤣😳👀

[@helengreig1670]

@@harrymarshall I Know, I worked in a factory at the time and it was on the radio about 20 times a day,FOR WEEKS! No escape from it! Not even in the loo! It still drives me mad! 😂🤣🥴

[@skyrat3816]

JT may not have been too far off with saying Blobby is like their Barney. Both are cursed that shouldn't be anywhere near children. Although those of us who grew up in the 90's are to be thankful to Blobby the way we turned out lol

[@laguna3fase4]

I was a manager at Little Chef. We were a bit like a roadside diner you have in the USA. It was a national chain, that changed ownership several times until the last owners closed it down permanently.

[@jacobreisser8034]

Henry vacuums are made by a British company called Numatic, they make them for domestic and industrial use. Their industrial models are great and very reliable.

[@catz4m8z]

I love my Henry, he does a good job....but I especially love the fact that the whole range has names and faces like a budget Thomas the Tank Engine crew!LOL

[@davidvarley1812]

As a manager of a industrial cleaning company in the UK, I only buy Henry vacuums. There fantastic and last for years, even decades.

[@nocteensis1297]

Tell me about it, I used to have a dyson back in the day and all that bloody thing used to do was break down and snap it's roller belt, i got a henry 5 years ago and I've not had a single problem yet with it.

[@davidvarley1812]

@Nocte Ensis Dyson are the worst vacuum on the market. There fans awful and not worth buying.

[@freddaubney2393]

Cornish pasties are usually full of beef chunks, onion, swede, potatoes but were originally half meat and half sweet, like jam, and were a whole meal for hungry Cornish miners.

[@jessicagear65]

Mr Blobby is the stuff of nightmares 😂

[@katydaniels508]

Still scary

[@origamipig]

😂

[@oddpoppetesq.3467]

I used to love seeing blobby on Noel's house party as a kid. Is he freaky looking hell yeah, but my god he made me laugh 😂😂😂

[@Orange_Storm24]

He also had a no.1 song out here in the 🇬🇧🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️ was REALLY BAD

[@Reaper6083]

I went to Crinkly Bottom when i was a kid, unfortunately couldn’t get into the mansion due to renovations, i both loved and was terrified by Mr Blobby lol

[@inmedx]

Blobby also has a UK number 1 music single. There was a point where you couldn't escape him, and now he's ingrained in all our memoirs. 😂😂

[@ivylasangrienta6093]

There a lots of protected food products in the UK, where you can't call something by it's name unless it's produced in a certain area of a certain country, like champagne, cognac or feta. The UK parliament consists of the elected house of commons and unelected house of lords. There are some great videos explaining the whole system, you should definitely react to those.

[@alexabc220]

Yeah we used to have to sell Cornish pasty’s as “traditional pasty’s “

[@ManMang0]

Cheddar cheese, from Cheddar is probably one of our most famous known and reproduced around the world. Just up the road from the home of our pasty.

[@evilmessiah81]

not only in the uk, real champagner has to be from the Champagne region and parmesan chease has to be from parma and so on

[@ivylasangrienta6093]

@@evilmessiah81 Ah, I mistyped, I meant Europe, not UK.

[@jimb9063]

@@ManMang0 Weird thing is they haven't made cheese there for ages (unless they've started to since the last time I went!).

[@BTSFanLoveJungkook]

5:55 I have never heard of this as well and what just makes it worse is that I live and was born in the UK

[@PiersLawsonBrown1972]

Gregg's is good as you get the same items for the same price anywhere. The down side of it, was that it pushed out all the small independent bakeries which are as rare as hens teeth now.

[@matt-fh6hb]

It really isn’t. Cooplands, Thomas the Baker etc are all the same kind of place but better quality than Greggs.

[@BTSFanLoveJungkook]

8:24 Colin the caterpillar is fine I have had them for countless of birthdays because they are small and delicious

[@iainsan]

15 shillings is 75p now. Party Sevens were cheaper than buying smaller cans, but seen as pretty naff even then. Little Chefs were great - their food was excellent - sadly missed. The House of Lords has existed for 100s of years. It used to be full of aristocrats, but there are only a handful left now. It is mainly made up of experienced ex-politicians and other professionals. They do not formulate laws, but only amend non-financial laws voted for by the Commons. The video gave the wrong impression.

[@Sam.Gaming]

Did we use shillings before pounds?

[@Ven183]

@@Sam.Gaming nope, but the pound was 240 pence

[@Rachel_M_]

There used to be 20 shillings (240p) in the old Pound in the pre decimal system., with the shilling being worth 12 Old Pence.

[@Rachel_M_]

And the house of Lords can introduce bills, for example The Assisted Dying Bill was introduced by the HoL

[@Sam.Gaming]

@@Rachel_M_ What is a shilling equivalent to

[@willowcobb]

The Cornish pasty has great historical significance too. It was eaten by miners for their lunch, with the savoury one end and sweet the other end. A meal in one. As their hands would be very dirty so they would hold the pasty by the crusty crimped edge and then that was thrown away.

[@victorialovatt976]

2 minutes in and now I want to watch Life on Mars (again). God I loved that show

[@jcbslytherin269]

Henry the hoover is the best hoover ever, nothing else compares, we have them at work, home , mine lasted 28 years.

[@Aeronaut1975]

A UK pint is 568ml, a US pint is 473ml

[@IndiBrony]

Greggs is so well-loved in and around Newcastle that in my home town - South Shields - there was 3 Greggs *on the same street*, two of which were just 2 doors away from each other.

[@MasterZeus94]

Oh yeah, as someone who visits the UK at least once a year, Greggs (and Pret) is definitely a lifesaver for quality quick grabs :D

[@samesportf1129]

on the inside of a pastie can be a lot of different things but the og ones r meat and potato’s and onions and stuff

[@russellpotter7294]

Used to love Little Chef. On holiday we used plan the car trips via a map of Little Chefs so we knew we could stop for a meal. Originally Cornish Pasties were made for tin miners and had one half savoury and the other sweet. As the hands were dirty they could hold the edges and then throw those away after eating. Nowadays they just have savoury meat and potato and spices.

[@muzz3564]

They used to have the map,pamphlet form,with all the branches marked on them...happy days😊

[@Parker8752]

Mr. Blobby was originally a prank - there was a segment on Noel's House Party called the Gotchas, where they would prank celebrities, and the idea was that they'd convince a celebrity that Mr. Blobby was a new kids TV character and his only role was to be as obnoxious as possible to try and piss off the celebrity. I still remember the time he was in the papers for getting the shit kicked out of him at a children's birthday party because he just showed up and ruined the birthday cake.

[@tashachick6904]

When I was 8 I entered an art contest and came second- the prize was a life-sized inflatable Mr Blobby…. I was so scared of it 🤣🤣

[@nothanks1239]

I live in Cornwall. You can have different fillings, but the traditional cornish pasty is basically filled with steak and potato. Yes, it is lush. Used to be made specifically for the miners. Their hands would be dirty, so they would hold onto the crust to eat the rest of the pasty, and then the crust got thrown away. Personally, I think the crust is one of the best bits, so it's a shame for them 😆 I've had pasties outside of Cornwall, and they're never as good. Always come to Cornwall if you want the best traditional pasty.

[@grahvis]

The crust would end up with a lot of lead off the miner's hands. It would be left for the knockers.

[@dianeknight4839]

Cornish pasties have minced lamb or beef, onions,swede or turnip and sometimes potato. The filling is seasoned with a good dose of pepper and wrapped in its iconic pastry case. It has a thick twisted edge as it was originally made for miners to keep the main part of the pasty clean from their dirty hands. I have never had a pasty outside Cornwall that tastes as good.

[@butterflyqueenuk]

Ah Mr Blobby, you either laugh or scream. You need to watch 'Jack Whitehall is terrified of Mr Blobby' it's hilarious. And Mr Blobby had a #1 song in the charts for some reason 😂

[@cst039]

Christmas #1 1993

[@rigberrycrunch]

6:58 time stamp... the wall they are sat on is in a stunning small fishing village called Polperro. I have a photo of me and my son sat on the same wall. I take him here at least once a year and they have an amazing pub that does fresh caught fish dishes daily called The Three Pilchards.

[@andrewcoates6641]

The Party 7 was a large can of beer really only suitable for home parties because once you pierced the top of the can you needed to drink the entire can before the contents went flat and undrinkable, until someone created a dispensing system that kept the drink inside under pressure with a compressed gas cylinder, which I think had carbon dioxide (CO2) in it just like a soda water bottle is recharged. The most common brand in the UK was sold under the name Sparklets and could be bought from most food and drink stores but also from a chain store called Boots, a high street pharmacists. The dispensing tap would extend the life of the product by up to four or five days, but it was clumsy and easily dislodged from the tin.

[@johnp8131]

Still got a bellows type pump dispenser, from the seventies, for Party Sevens etc.... Looks like a "Male enlargement aid"?

[@Psylaine64]

@@johnp8131 now that was a memory I didnt need resurfaced lol

[@stephanietoms]

Cornish gal here 👋 pasties are EVERYTHING here 😂 they’re typically steak/mince with potato, onion and swede, salt and pepper and LOTS of fat/butter/lard 😎 but you can get loads of different flavours like cheese and onion, vegetable, chicken etc! They used to be something Cornish people would eat in the mines. Apprentice the reason why the crimping is on the side is because they used to hold that bit to make sure the coal and dust didn’t get on the bit they were eating! Sometimes they used to have custard/some kind of dessert filling in one end so the miners could have dessert too! Thank u for listening to my Cornish ted talk 😂🤓

[@nigelhyde279]

The House of Lords isn’t just rich land owners, some of the country’s most influential and intelligent people sit there. So the man that invented IVF treatment for infertility is a Lord and speaks on medical issues or Baroness Benjamin who presented child’s tv programs and helped children’s charities.

[@lauracrothers8131]

Lord Winston, think he's great.

[@demonic_myst4503]

Its also the only house that has a constitutional right to exist based on english history the magna carter which is often cited ad the earliest democratic constitution did not create any house of commons it gave the lords the right to meet and set taxes the hiuse of commons was created kater by the king out of rich buisness men and town representatives to deal with the shut the king was too lazy to handle the hiuse commons doesnt ecist out of any right to vite it ecists because monarchs were too lazy to deal with meeting every person who wanted soeak their problems he just ket the lords form a meeting of people to talk out oroblems make solutions and use the nee tax powers of the lords to deal with that shit so the king can focus on diplomacy and war

[@switchnstuff]

On the inside of a pastie is like a pie it has potatoes meat and other things (there are really nice)

[@petersp63]

Little Chef was always a Treat there Jubilee Pancake stuffed with Cherries and a block of Ice Cream!! absolute Heaven!

[@dorryfrost3915]

Those pancakes were our main reason for stopping at Little Chef.. and the full breakfasts… shame they all closed.

[@petersp63]

@@dorryfrost3915 Nice to know there's someone else out there with excellent Taste! LOL btw I now make my own with Cherry Pie Filling!!

[@freddyfivenightsatfreddy8135]

6:51 I know where they are there in polpero it’s called or something like that you have to walk down so far just to go to here

[@AdamaBanana]

Mr Blobby even has his own hit music record. And yes, it DID get to number 1 over here.

[@waynegray2284]

For the Pastry: 1 cup all-purpose flour 1 pinch salt 2 ounces cold butter (or half lard and half butter), cubed 2 to 3 tablespoons cold water For the Filling: 1/2 cup cubed skirt steak or rump steak (sirloin) 1/2 cup 1/4-inch-diced potato 1/2 cup 1/4-inch-diced swede (rutabaga) 1/4 cup finely chopped onion Salt, to taste Freshly ground black pepper, to taste 1 large egg, lightly beaten Traditional Cornish Pasty

[@Lifeonasofa]

Greggs is so funny. No one ever thinks “oh shall we go to greggs today” but everyone has very often thought “gosh I’m starving but in a rush…oh look there’s a greggs” and ran in for a £1 sausage roll or chicken bake 😂 it’s a great hot snack stop

[@xorsyst1]

We definitely go out specially for Greggs sometimes :D

[@matt-fh6hb]

@@xorsyst1 😂

[@boontime]

Nope, not unless I want to throw up also

[@timberwolf5211]

As for Mr Blobby, he started out in Noel's House Party, a Saturday night BBC programme with Noel Edmonds. Over the years both as a Radio DJ and a TV presenter on various shows, Noel used to do pranks on people. His favourite was setting up fellow celebs in a fictional situation that they had no control over, and then letting chaos ensue. Mr Blobby was a part of this, in Noel's House Party, Noel used to do his "Gotcha!"'s, basically, it looked like an Oscar, but with a hand wrapped around the figures middle. All the Gotcha's that year, were obviously all filmed before the live shows aired, so the celebs had no idea at the start that they were being pranked. They usually thought that they were there for a legit job, with Mr Blobby they thought it was a Children's programme. Obviously, Mr Blobby completely wrecked the fake programme set, as he always did, and after complete chaos had ensued, and either the celeb was traumatised, and/or wanted to Kill Mr Blobby, Noel would then come out from behind the set, with a Gotcha! Then they would invite the celeb onto the show, every week, and play back the embarrassing footage. Some of them were really funny. They said about Henry's siblings Hetty, who's Pink and has eyelashes, and James who's a yellow compact version of Henry. Then there's Charles, who's, Blue and bigger than Henry, and is a wet/dry vacuum, that can pick up spills and unblock sinks. George who's Green, big like Charles and is a vacuum and can also shampoo your carpet and upholstery. And then there's Harry, he's also Green, but small like Henry, and he's for pet hair, and has cute "animal" shaped eyes! lol.

[@jeffstevens4262]

One of the things Greggs stores are so famous for (and quite rightly so in my opinion) are their incredible sausage rolls. The very best in the world. Their staff are all friendly and the prices and quality of their foods is just wonderful. Greggs has become a real British institution and one we're all so proud of.

[@The_Jumping_Box]

Idk I think Jenkin's have better sausage rolls, Gregg's does pretty much everything else better tho

[@crypticcryptid4702]

I know some local stores that do better sausage rolls, but they are nice

[@JustSophie2024]

6:05 In cornish pasties you can have loads of things in them but the most common one is mince and some cooked veg 9:51 In every supermarket you see them, they are a really famous thing but you only tend to have them when you are younger. I had one when i was 4 or 5 i think 12:48 I have a henry vacuum, people tend to buy them if they are a builder because it can clean up bigger things off the floor like pieces of bricks

[@FlyinScottsman]

In case you're wondering, Little Chef is the UK equivalent of IHOP in the US.

[@jamiebrooks3864]

Its rebranded the little thief

[@scottythedawg]

just without the pancakes

[@dianeleitch7049]

IHOP is very good, Little Chef was awful.

[@sarabaldeschwieler7763]

Or Denny's

[@peterward1698]

As teenagers we used to share party sevens or if we were a bit hard up the smaller party 4 and mix with cheap cider. And yes these were UK pints which were 20 Fl Oz as opposed to US 16 fl Oz pint. Aaah crazy days.

[@ahdyn]

they are not Cornish pasties if they are not made in Cornwall, actually recently KFC in UK is no longer called "Kentucky fried chicken" coz us british don't eat your chlorinated chicken! lol

[@zo7034]

The house of lords point is misleading at best. Its a house of about 700 people, only 50 people are there because their dads were lords and their grandads etc. Most are experts in their field and have been appointed by the monarch, under recommendation by a panel. Unfortunately, recent conservative governments have tried to recommend many conservative MPs and their wealthy friends to join the lords. Traditionally, they have only voted on bills that are related to their expertise. So a person made a lord because of their expertise in the environment wouldnt vote on bills relating to childcare etc. Being unelected also traditionally meant that once a lord, the person didnt need to bend to the wishes of political parties. However, this has also been fading in recent years. The house of lords is a good thing for Britain and British politics, however, the process for them to be appointed as lords does need to be updated and made more independent IMO

[@donnagreen7386]

Greggs is awesome. I live not far from the shop shown. They are a staple on every high street. You can go to any branch and know you will be getting exactly the same quality and taste. They can be addictive though. When I worked in a town centre there was often a mid morning trip to greggs by someone who came back with stuff for the whole office. You’d be fine then one person would say greggs and that was it… 🤣

[@matt-fh6hb]

Greggs addictive? It’s just cheap tat people buy because it’s quick isn’t it? It’s not even tasty 😂

[@donnagreen7386]

@@matt-fh6hb well not everyone has your tastebuds. Each to their own 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@josephinewaters632]

Hi, Josephine from Yorkshire in England here, Greggs is amazing if you ever get the chance to go there. I'm not sure if this is the same in every Greggs store or not, but normally they have a wide range of food and drink choices, some of which come in a lunch deal. Some of these products include pizza, sausage rolls, sandwich baguettes, Walkers crisps, doughnuts, brownies, muffins, apple juice, orange juice, water, and other hot and cold food and drinks which I can't remember off the top of my head. You can request to have some food products heated up for a few minutes in the oven, but double check the packaging before you do this, and some can still taste nice regardless as to whether they are hot or cold. Depending on the size of the Greggs, you might get some chairs and tables to actually eat inside if you wanted to, but they're not all the same. I think the idea is to eat and drink them on the go, at least that's the impression I've got over the years.

[@wackojacko0295]

Greggs isn't a convenience store, JT. I guess the best way to describe greggs would be an extremely good bakery. They sell everything from brownies and coffee to pizza slices. If you're in the UK, you should definitely try it, especially the gingerbread men damn they're so good.

[@MCHNCLgoosecat]

Agreed

[@_starfiend]

They're okay. They're not great, but they are okay. There are very few bakery chains, and Greggs is certainly towards the top of that list, but most independent bakers are better.

[@Torchyc]

I have found that Greggs is not as good as it once was, it was great in the early 2000s even into the mid-2000s but they made the stores more uniform and it lost a lot of products and charm.

[@dentyph5169]

Extremely good bakery? I mean it's alright tastes decent enough

[@matt-fh6hb]

“Extremely” and “good” are doing some heavy lifting there.

[@domr508]

Cornish pasties were invented for the miners in cornwall that had to go into tin mines every day. They would bring a cornish pastie into the mine and the pastry served as a layer of protection against any harmful sibstances from the mine. The pastry was not for eating

[@ticketyboo2456]

As a seventies kid I remember my mother driving us and stopping at Little Chef on the way. I remember the free lollies too. These impressed us greatly but hey it was the seventies...

[@luckypatchies1068]

The free lollies, I remember those! They were still doing them in the 90s!

[@raphaelperry8159]

I could've sworn we had a Little Chef just outside town. It must have closed down a few years ago. Or maybe it became a Happy Eater. Wow. Apparently it closed down in 2017.

[@vickywitton1008]

I used to think going to one in the nineties was really cool. We didn't have much money so it was a cheap night out!

[@bobingabout]

We had a Henry when I was a kid. my mum got a new vacuum cleaner. When the new one broke down, she went back to the Henry. We eventually gave the Henry away to someone who needed a Vacuum cleaner. That's how Reliable they are!

[@IDyce88]

Greggs are literally...amazing, you can get; sausage rolls, crisps, drinks, pizza slices, donuts, shortbread, brownie, baguettes, small sandwiches, savoury pastries of varies types (like beef or chicken). they also do seasonal treats like gingerbread or hot drinks at xmas. i got food from them throughout my late teens...there was one not far from my college...far easier than waiting in the huge line at the cafeteria. just quickly go to town and grab some greggs.

[@matt-fh6hb]

I’d rather go hungry. In fact I’d rather set fire to my testicles than eat Greggs.

[@IDyce88]

​@@matt-fh6hb i'm not going to try and convince you of anything LOL...also who would set fire to their testicles...WTF.

[@dragoonis88]

Greggs great here in hereford, we have better steak bakes round here imo

[@necronic23]

Gregg's pizza slices are fething legend, as well as the sausage roll.

[@IDyce88]

@@necronic23 personally i wouldn't pick their pizza slices...their ok...i more go for their sandwiches, sausage rolls and donuts. but hey...each to their own.

[@RobbieGamingYT]

I live in the UK, Greggs is known of making pastries, one of the most sold items is their sosauge roll, basicly pastry around processed hotdogs.

[@sammieconsalvey4448]

I miss little chef their Olympic breakfast was damn good aww pancakes with ice-cream and cherry

[@Sharpyveyron]

I'm from the UK but I've never had a cornish pasty

[@MCHNCLgoosecat]

Love your British reaction videos, as a proud Englishman.

[@littlemy1773]

As a manxie we don’t have greggs over here, is it worth the hype? Like next time I’m in England should I make a trip or 🤷‍♀️

[@jayneswinnerton8812]

@@littlemy1773If you want or like pastries then Greggs is the place for you 👍

[@MCHNCLgoosecat]

I personally love Greggs, but that isn't much because I've never tried something with pastry and not liked it. Greggs does the best pastries I've ever had though.

[@littlemy1773]

@@jayneswinnerton8812 I do but pastry doesn’t love me any more lol I gives me horrific heartburn!

[@littlemy1773]

@@MCHNCLgoosecat I’ve just remembered I may have been to one in Newcastle as a little kid but, we only went in for sandwiches and it was 30 years ago maybe. Most the bakeries here have closed down now sadly so maybe greggs will take advantage of this at some point!

[@passionfruit5320]

Corniche pasties basically like a shepards pie wrapped in a pastry covering rather then covered with potato top. There's also vegan pasties. Everyone's had a collin cake. It cheep and cheerfully and long enough to give a good number of slices.

[@davidtownsend3592]

The House of Lords can’t block laws. They just revise them and make sure they’re the best that they can be and send them back to the House of Commons for further debate and discussion etc… saying that the House of Commons can disagree if they think what they want is the best for the country.

[@demonic_myst4503]

the irony of an american disagreeing withthe idia of a house vetoing laws is pretty funny tho tbh

[@stewartbrodie1720]

Yes, the last point is the critical one: the elected Commons has supremacy and can force bills through against the Lords' will if necessary.

[@demonic_myst4503]

@@stewartbrodie1720 yea the house of lords block laws for the countries best interest carrer politicians dont do anything that doesnt get tyhem vites or followntheir ideology the house of commons has never done whats best for the country and an american thinking elected officials do has never read their own constitution nor have they studied the founding fathers

[@aidyplays1013]

The inside of a traditional cornish pasty is usually beef with a good assortment of vegetables. Obviously, it's diced beef, not an entire slab of meat, oh and they're most definitely almost always made with a garnish of a complimentary sauce so the inside isn't always dry.

[@carolinelamb5940]

😂😂😂 your reactions made me laugh. I bet you thought us British are mad 😂

[@DannyBrown04]

im cornish! so a pasty's ingredients are beef steak, onion, potatoe and turnip wrapped and crimpped a certain way in pastery to maintain its name! they were used to feed the miners years ago and would traditionally be half savoury and half dessert, they would be crimpped with the crust being a certain way so miners with dirty hands could hold the crust asnd throw it away after! nothing beats and good pasty from a local butchers or bakery, soo good to the point its taken years for greggs to open a bakery in cornwall because its not a cornish bakery

[@littlemy1773]

Colin is your go to birthday cake, everyone has had a Colin at some point . This is not just a caterpillar, this is a Colin caterpillar!! 😂

[@_starfiend]

Well, everyone under about twenty.

[@littlemy1773]

@@_starfiend I didn’t have birthdays as a kid or a teen, so technically I’m 25 not 41 🤣

[@Xacei]

Colin the Caterpillar is iconic! It always reminds me of when my uni flatmates got me the Asda version, Clyde, for my 20th. You're never too old for a caterpillar cake!

[@danclarke2305]

A traditional Cornish Pastie contains steak, swedes and potatoes, wrapped in a pastry. The 'crimped' edge was originally designed for miners - in order for them to eat the rest of the pastie with their dirty hands.

[@watchesfromedges]

The original Henry the Vacuum always had the longest flex, longest tubes and the longest metal pipes of any vacuum cleaner, you never had to run about changing sockets or half-crouching to reach the floor. It could have a bag or be not and didn't have to be emptied as often as other makes. Still unbeatable.

[@karenward267]

Cornish pastie has meat potatoes and other vegetables. It was made for the Cornish miners as it was a complete meal encased in pastry.

[@leonbanks5728]

1:39 Bear in mind that UK pints are almost 100 ml bigger than US pints as well.

[@CDADRacer]

Cornish pasties have beef mince, potato, and onion i believe. I also really enjoy tin miner pies, its basically the same but 2/3 is a cornish pasty and 1/3 is apple pie

[@squeakatu1981]

A Cornish Pasty now has beef mince, vegetables and seasoning. It was made for miner's back in the day and half of the pasty would be meat and veg then the other half would be fruit.

[@brianrobinson4825]

Greggs is great. We used to have local chains of bakers selling savoury meat pastries, pastys and pies all over. They tended to merge over time and then get bought out by the bakery chain from a bigger town. Greggs is sort of the last man standing,. starting in Gosforth, Newcastle (I actually ate there recently) and taking over all the other chains in Newcastle, then the whole North East, Then the rest of the North (they bought out the excellen Birketts here in North Lancashire). Now they are becoming bigger and bigger down south and in that there London. My daughter and I had breakfast from there this morning. I had a minced beef and onion pie, she had a sausage roll, salt and vinegar crisps (chips in the US), a Sausage and Bean Melt, She had a coke, I had a flat white, and we both had a double chocolate muffin. Tasty grub. And in Newcastle, it seems like they are on every street corner.

[@paulfranklin8636]

Greggs actually have stores in Belgium, Canary Islands, Spain & Portugal

[@travisaxewound4748]

Cornish pasty ingredients: diced or minced beef, onion, potato and swede in rough chunks along with some "light peppery" seasoning. Crimped along the top, where the Cornish miners used to carry/hold the pasty to avoid getting chemicals like arsenic on the pasty itself. The crusts would be thrown into the mine to appease the Cornish piskies/pixies.

[@karenlloyd945]

Lived in Cornwall & was told that a cornish pasty is made with diced beef, swede, onion, pepper & they are delicious, the ones made by the local butcher were the best I've ever tasted

[@hollyclift6792]

You should start watching some of our British tv shows like the i betweenness, Benidorm, Friday night dinner, only fools and horses and more

[@paulinemakepeace4582]

I have a Hetty vacuum which is pink...but it is great if you have building rubble to clean up..very heavy though..real work out dragging it around the house. To heavy to get up the stairs.

[@lauramorris7843]

Blobby was originally a spoof character invented to prank D list celebrities on a Saturday night tv show called Noel's House Party. The celebs would expect a Barney type character but would be met with chaos and destruction.

[@DaveLennonCopeland]

Excellent reaction video 😃 Mr Blobby is the ultimate agent of chaos. Greggs are like Subway. Henry Hoover, I've had mine for over 20 years. Tizer, yeah it's okay. Tizer's name originally comes from the phrase "Tizer the Appetiser". Party 7 were good if you could open it without it exploding and spaying beer over everyone. Mm, Little Chef. Ahhh, Cornish pasties, yum! Meat and veg go inside. I think they originally were savoury in one half and sweet in the other.

[@geoffwhiting6350]

Mr Blobby was at the opening of a local supermarket along with a famous boxer Frank Bruno who has a really distinctive laugh. Blobby got into the store and knocked over a whole stand of spirits doing thousands in damage. Glass and booze everywhere.

[@tgsgardenmaintenance4627]

Have fond memories of the party seven, as a kid in the 70's, my dad would send me down the pub to buy a party seven, and his cigarettes! Many pubs in those days had a kiosk, where you could buy stuff without going in the pub itself! And yes, in the 70's, we could buy beer and cigarettes as a child! Greggs is a great British icon, they have shops everywhere, sometimes four within sight of each other. They are predominantly known for their sausage rolls, which are of dubious content, but taste great. It is basically a bakery for people to grab a quick hot or cold, cheap lunch! The steak slices are also very tasty!

[@HamishG199]

Although I’m British the only way I know about Mr Blobby is from the Virgin Trains farewell video 😂

[@JulietVorster]

Little Chef doesn’t have a US equivalent. It was like a universal truck stop restaurant that was on every main route throughout the country. Colin the caterpillar is a chocolate cake, which also comes in various forms such as cake in a jar, and miniature Colin cakes as finger food. It’s not exclusively for birthdays It’s just a cake. Henry vacuum cleaners are mostly used in business locations rather than homes. I use one as my shop vac. They are indestructible.

[@bethanybrookes8479]

Idk about Henry being indestructible, there's a poor little guy who lives in my uni halls at the moment, shared between two flats, and he's kinda... dead. Not even Henry can survive years of abuse from students.