American Reacts to British Sweets You CAN'T GET in America

[@ianroper2812]

Hershey didn’t want Cadbury’s in the states as it would show up how bad Hershey chocolate really is.

[@mrrandomassduck]

You mean because of the vomit aftertaste from the Hershey chocolate? xD

[@England91]

@@mrrandomassduck that's is because of the chemical that derives from vomit is put into it

[@MrPercy112]

Is it just me, or do other people think that Hershey has a slight aftertaste of vomit?

[@mrrandomassduck]

@@England91 well the butyric acid is more likely a byproduct of lipolysis but yeah.

[@jca111]

@@MrPercy112 I got some genuine Hershey's a few weeks back, and it's horrid. It tastes like really cheap chocolate with a cheesy/sick aftertaste. The whole family tried it and it was so bad we threw it out.

[@redstar7292]

It's been discontinued, but does anyone remember the Cadburys, Old Jamaica Rum & Raisin chocolate bars?! They were epic.

[@Paul_W.E_Ingham]

Actually, I do see Old Jamaica chocolate occasionally in corner shops and in Iceland.

[@NuclearFridge1]

I do. They were great

[@vivianhull3317]

Australia still has the old Jamaican rum and raisin block of chocolate

[@stephenbesley3177]

Yep! Loved it and can't understand why it disappeared.

[@danewood2309]

it hasn't been discontinued, Morrisons, Tesco and Sainsburys sell them

[@seanhickling7340]

The truth is that US 'candy' companies have made sure there are major restrictions placed on UK companies trading in the USA.

[@yedead1]

Probably because the majority of them would go bust if we traded there.

[@England91]

@@yedead1Hershy was the company that lobbied to the government for it it be banned for a while

[@harvelle2432]

@@England91 Because Hershey is GARBAGE!!! 🤢

[@donnajohnson2180]

US chocolate is absolutely disgusting!

[@fordinaford7562]

I literally want to send you each one from this list so you could actually try them

[@weedle30]

On Friday last week, in my supermarket, I served two young American ladies who each had over £75 worth of chocolate bars and treats in their shopping baskets. They were going back home to the USA and had been so enamoured with the taste of both Cadbury and Galaxy chocolates, they decided to take some home with them,to give to family and friends as holiday pressies! They had every version of Cadbury chocolate - fruit n nut; whole nut; caramel etc in their basket together with nearly all of the “branded” bars and I just wonder how many chocolate bars DID end up in the USA and hadn’t been eaten on the flight home ☺️😄

[@LuvNickynGina4ever]

🤣 bravo 👏 to those ladies, hope they enjoyed them

[@misolgit69]

@@LuvNickynGina4ever let's hope US Customs didn't find and confiscate them

[@miaschu8175]

I once met a lady in Asda who was just filling her basket with boxes of Jaffa Cakes. She was going home to Canada and said that she will miss British biscuits and sweets, but especially orange Jaffa Cakes!

[@SuperMadison12]

Hershey actually stopped the sale of chocolate from the UK to the US, because the UK chocolate is better than Hershey

[@jpw6893]

Only Americans want to eat vomit

[@brian9731]

It's probably already been commented - when we say "biscuit" in the UK you would say "cookie". We also sometimes say "cookie" which is a very specific type of biscuit, which is the softer type possibly made giant sized and with chocolate chips or other decoration. But the crispier type is always a "biscuit" in the UK.

[@dylanwilkins7315]

thank you

[@maddiea-t6n]

Also biscuit means baked twice, which is why biscuits are harder than what we’d call a cookie. That’s why they’re different things, at least to us

[@TimpBizkit]

There are drier crunchier biscuit type "cookies" like Maryland, or the co-op and Tesco's finest ones like white chocolate and rasperry, or pistachio. Also chocolate chip shortbread is sometimes labelled a cookie.

[@maximusstorm1215]

I am British and I always call the smaller ones with chocolate chips cookies and so does pretty much everyone as far as I know. They legit say "cookie" on the packets etc.

[@_Professor_Oak]

He 100% knew this, just acting dumb to generate comments.

[@teresaali6658]

You need a PO Box so we can send you the best sweets in the world 🎉 once you eat a British sweet or biscuit you’ll realise what delights you’ve missed out on 💕 British Cadbury is No1 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@honeyfungus4774]

Cadbury's was No 1 until it was taken over by the Yanks and they moved production to Poland. I wouldn't touch it now with a barge pole. A glass and half of milk, my arse, a glass and a half of oil more like.

[@amsodoneworkingnow1978]

I agree there so little taste in it now. I'm a kid of the 50's born in 1953 Cadbury was the only chocolate I remember growing up it used to be not only very tasty but also satisfying now I won't give it house room and only buy galaxy chocolate, but know what even with the recipe being changed so drastically and the milk content almost non existent these days it's still an improvement on Hershey chocolate which wouldn't be allowed to be sold in UK as chocolate due to the level of cocoa used

[@noughtypixy]

@@amsodoneworkingnow1978 can't eat Galaxy chocolate it's to oily for me, Cadbury still tops the charts out of the main brands for my taste.

[@rachelbarber8814]

Agreed

[@Vortiporius_]

@@noughtypixy Try Lidl chocolate, it's far superiour to Cadbury, yet less oily than Galaxy. I've only tried the plain chocolate though.

[@DaveBartlett]

Honeycomb (also known as 'Cinder Toffee') is made in the same way regular toffee is, but while still hot in the pan, bicarbonate of soda (baking soda) is added. This makes the toffee foam up, so that when it's set, it contains lots of air bubbles and is more crunchy than chewy.

[@FaileX2]

In Canada we call honeycomb sponge toffee.

[@iriscollins7583]

@@FaileX2 .Nice Idea.

[@thedisabledwelshman9266]

@@FaileX2 ummmm why? lol

[@FaileX2]

I dunno maybe cuz it looks like a yellow sponge lol

[@timtreefrog9646]

@@FaileX2 out of all of the names, this one suits the substance best for sure 😊.

[@juliarabbitts1595]

Never call Jaffa Cakes a biscuit!!!!! There was a whole court case to decide whether they are cakes or biscuits; this went to the equivalent of a Federal Appeal Court (Court of Appeal in the UK) to decide, the Court ruled they are a cake, which decided the tax rate.

[@noughtypixy]

And it's not jam in them.

[@aoibh22]

@@noughtypixy i know its orange gelatine, and i love 'em, quater moon, half moon, total eclipse

[@noughtypixy]

@@aoibh22 I eat the cake bit first then fold up the chocolate and gummy goodness😁

[@barneylaurance1865]

Indeed. Because we have a standard 20% tax rate for consumer spending, but basic foods are exempt and get 0% tax. Chocolate covered biscuits are taxed at 20%, chocolate covered cakes are taxed at 0%.

[@drewanywar15977]

Set up one as I would send you a British taste test haul.

[@torroberts6622]

As a Brit, I am loving witnessing the confusion of an American man trying to understand our snacks 🤣

[@lisbetsoda4874]

Yes but doesn't Tyler's ignorance get to you after a while?

[@Nohs135]

I had no idea that they didn't have maltesers

[@markymark13ification]

Sooner you get a P.O box sp peeps can send you UK foods to try you will soon realise how much better our sweets ate than the American ones

[@jabba7746]

Agreed, not only chocolate but a biscuit selection needs to be sent so America understands gravy belongs nowhere near a British biccy 😁

[@flippstar09]

@@jabba7746 I’ve no fking idea what white gravy is 😳 but agreed

[@flippstar09]

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[@andrewcoleman33]

@@flippstar09 I like a biccy and gravy but not togeather

[@jamesgornall5731]

I spent a semester in Japan when i was at university. knew there would be americans there as i visited the US yearly and knew their chocolate was abysmal and wanted to give a good impression of the UK so took around 5kg of Dairy Milk, Fruit & Nut and Whole Nut bars with me, old school with the gold foil on, plus some of the smaller Bourneville dark(er) chocolate too. I knew how absolute cack their 'regular' chocolate was but wasn't quite expecting the reaction i got which was began as you might imagine from a bunch of 20 year old kids who'd never left the US it was a sort of mocking, 'how quaint, it's like Harry Potter " and so on to a few bites in when it changed so a sort of hushed, thoughtful atmosphere. Reaction was universally positive even before i produced the secret weapons...crunchies, and Caramel bars. The most common response was, "do you have any more?" Great way to break the ice. Japanese chocolate is also excellent, by the way

[@sharonlock6452]

We brits wouldn't touch American chocolate with a ten foot pole .

[@jollybodger]

When America's top tier chocolate (Hershey's) is worse than Britain's bottom-of-the-barrel chocolate (Kinnerton) they must be doing something wrong. Kinnerton chocolate tastes exactly like lightly sweetened cardboard made adjacent to cocoa powder, but it's least it doesn't have that distinctive Hershey's aftertaste.

[@Paul_W.E_Ingham]

@@jollybodger Kinnerton seems to specialise in kid's Character brands, so not really about the cacao. This used to be known as chocolate-flavoured candy, cheap and cheerful.

[@givenfirstnamefamilyfirstn3935]

The American stuff deliberately maintains its original soured milk taste. The Yanks are used to the horrible vomit flavour and stick with it a bit like feet and inches and their various fractions of an inch.

[@thedoobieshrew0244]

Reeces are good and the only Hershey worth trying is cookies and cream

[@speleokeir]

Fun fact: Chocolate bars are a British invention. The oldest mass produced chocolate bar is 'Fry's Chocolate Cream' first produced in 1866 and can still be bought today, although Fry's were taken over by Cadbury. It was based on their 'Cream stick' which came out in 1853. The ideas for many US candies were copied from Britain, however the US manufacturers would then patent them and call them their own. Hershey's in particular has done everything it can to block Cadbury products being sold in the US, mainly because Hershey's were worried that for some strange reason Americans might prefer chocolate that doesn't taste of vomit.* * The process Hershy's use to preserve milk and make their chocolate last longer produces bitric acid which is also found in vomit. N.B. Britain is responsible for, or at least played a major part in, almost 50% of the world's inventions, innovations and discoveries. Much of this is because the industrial revolution began in Britain giving us a massive head-start on the rest of the world and we have many of the world's top universities, especially Cambridge and Oxford which attract the best brains from around the globe. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_British_innovations_and_discoveries www.worldatlas.com/articles/the-greatest-british-inventions-and-the-inventors.html interestingengineering.com/innovation/45-of-the-greatest-british-inventions-of-all-time

[@wessexdruid7598]

Fry's, like McIntosh's, Rowntree and Cadbury were all Quaker families - and tended to work with each other rather than competing. It is why so many companies later merged (because there were so many inter-marriages).

[@leighjones8614]

Herseys does taste of vomit!

[@jpw6893]

Yeah as has been said US companies spend a fortune blocking imports of UK sweets, they are afraid of the competition.

[@puffymuffin9064]

That's not nice we have US candy her in London we didn't block they imports out of order

[@bdel80]

That's what happens when you allow lobbyists to dictate rules and regulations

[@chaoticmoron-zl6nv]

​@@puffymuffin9064because e knew that ours would blow 90% of the us stuff out the water

[@MsGeoffh]

You should start a P.O box and people can send you stuff from the UK and do videos tasting them.

[@puffymuffin9064]

Good idea

[@lisbetsoda4874]

He might have if he even bothered to read the comments section. He doesn't. Shows poor respect for his viewers as well as a genuine disinterest in actually learning. He just wants his show for the subscribers but won't do anything for us.

[@nolavout3025]

@@lisbetsoda4874 yes I ve noticed this too, we just all seem to be commenting between ourselves but never see a comment back from him which is disappointing really

[@BrecklandSpotting]

He doesn't know fuck all

[@stephenlee5929]

In UK, the US Smarties are similar to our 'Refreshers' or 'Love Hearts'.

[@ellesee7079]

Thank goodness someone else remembers the original Refreshers!

[@akeel_1701]

exactly what I was gonna say

[@akeel_1701]

exactly what I was gonna say

[@lucyj8204]

@@ellesee7079 had loads in our Hallowe'en treats this year. 10/10.

[@FaileX2]

What they call smarties in the States we call rockets in Canada.

[@rachelbetteridge9384]

M&Ms were based on smarties. During WW2, F. Mars noticed British soldiers eating smarties, and was impressed with the hard shell as it kept the chocolate from melting making them easier to transports. Then US soldiers who were stationed in UK for training, ready for D-day landings were given smarties as part of their ration packs. As there wasn't an alternative in USA and those soldiers loved them, Mars and Murrie (or M&M) started production of these in NJ to capitalise on the soldiers' new found chocolate favourite.

[@markymark13ification]

You should start some reactions to British TV adverts. And as it is soon to be Christmas season the British Christmas adverts are epic

[@PaulJones-br6uv]

I think he should look at some of the Malteaser disability positive adverts.

[@nenasadie]

They are never going to beat the boxer dog on the trampoline for me. That was mint.

[@torroberts6622]

Yes, the Christmas ads are fantastic, I think one of the reactions I saw said they were surprised they didn't seem to be "selling" anything but the focus tends to be on "selling" a feeling rather than a particular product. John Lewis has done some amazing ones. As far as I can see it seems in America the start of Christmas is when the coca-cola advert is on whereas over here it is the John Lewis Christmas ad they are different every year

[@BrecklandSpotting]

He don't read comments. Lack of effort for channels

[@droof100]

Jaffa cakes are named after Jaffa oranges - a seedless orange. Its not right to say its jam, its more a thin slice of sharp orange jelly - jello, in the US. So yes, cake on the bottom, a slice of orange jello in the middle, topped with chocolate. The sharp jelly/jello gets the taste buds going.

[@Paul-hl8yg]

Cadbury's chocolate (British version) is most certainly one of the best chocolate globally. It is very creamy & has a heavenly taste. The Cadbury's factory is actually what Roald Dahl based his famous book 'Charlie & the Chocolate Factory' from. Cadbury's is 198 years old! Smarties are the original M&M's, being produced as 'Smarties' by British company Rowntree's since 1937 but before that as 'Chocolate Beans' since 1882. Jaffa cakes are delicious too. Our biscuits (cookies) are a hard baked sweet confectionary that are often dunked in hot tea, sometimes hot coffee. Theres a huge range of biscuits & sweets (candy) in the UK. Some might say our confectionary is the best in the World, i would agree with that lol. 🇬🇧🇺🇸

[@brian9731]

Cadbury's is excellent chocolate but all mainstream British chocolate brands or indeed continental European brands are far and away streaks ahead of Hersheys. I seem to remember learning that Hersheys was originally made by accident with sour milk and somehow (f*** knows how!) it caught on and so they started doing that purposely and apparently Americans like it ... until they taste chocolate made properly.

[@mickstaplehurst8471]

Mostly what sets UK chocolate apart is that it TASTES brilliant and NOT like puke!

[@Maugirl2]

A biscuit for the uk is like a cookie for the US. Instead of M&Ms i prefer “Smarties” which were the originals and have been around forever. Galaxy minstrals are all chocolate, no crazy colours on the outside, just chocolate coating and inside… much more upmarket than either Smarties or their copy, M&Ms…. We do have sweets which are similar to the US smarties which we call “love hearts” over here.

[@jca111]

In the UK, a cookie is a type of biscuit, but a biscuit is not necessarily a cookie.

[@iambenjaminwild]

M&ms aren't really a copy, very different in terms of shape and flavours

[@Johnhgy]

The word biscuit comes from a french which means twice baked which results in a crisp texture

[@bb1uk108]

The US Smarties look more like UK Swizzles

[@wallythewondercorncake8657]

@@Johnhgy Actually comes from Latin. The French comes from that

[@stevesstuff1450]

Chocolate and orange work tother so well as contrasting flavours, and really compliment each other. So well in fact, that Terry's have been making 'Chocolate Oranges' for decades! Round, segmented balls of orange flavoured chocolate, that are about the size of an average orange (the fruit!). They come in both milk, and dark chocolate, and are delicious!! 🤤

[@stumblepuppy606]

British Smarties came first in 1937, with M&Ms being invented in 1941, and Galaxy Minstrels coming out in the 1960's. Wine Gums were originally invented as an alternative to alcohol with the rise of the Temperance movement in the late 1800's. Jaffa Cakes aren't biscuits, they're actual cakes (there is a strict definition between cake and biscuit - cakes go hard when stale and biscuits go soft when stale). British Biscuits are pretty much the same thing as US cookies - we have cookies here too but they're generally larger and softer than a biscuit. Honeycomb as found in the Crunchie is a kind of aerated hard toffee where the cross section resembles the inside of a bee hive. We have something like American Smarties, called Refreshers, and they're fizzy.

[@iriscollins7583]

Nothing like Smarties.

[@davidt-rex2062]

Rountrees (Smarties) originally licebced the recipe from Mars.

[@jonsgirl7352]

Absolutely love the British sweets, always looked forward to my dad bringing these home from his trips to England. My absolute favorite has always been Cadbury Flakes!! And I love the British Smarties over M&Ms any day!

[@tamielizabethallaway2413]

Someone post him some....it might stop him talking so much! 😂🤣😅 A young American couple were in front of me at a supermarket once, they kept apologising for having bought so much and I had no problem with it anyway. They had suitcases on the ground, and were dragging out spare hoodies and jackets from inside, to wear double layers and tie others round their waist or shoulders....it was summer! 🤔 The reason...? They'd been here two months, were on their way to the airport to fly home, and were frantically stuffing as much chocolate, biscuits and sweets into any spare gap they could find in their luggage, as gifts for family back home! They said they were so sad to leave Cadbury's (brand) behind especially, but they had other British brands too. They looked genuinely forlorn! But yeah, they'd not bought a single family gift, because when they first arrived and tried our snacks, they KNEW there would be no gifts better than that to take home, rather than typical souvenirs of a Big Ben keyring etc...but they also knew they shouldn't buy it all until their last day, or they'd eat it all! Apparently they'd already done that in the first few days...and had eaten it all! 🤣 So yeah, our snacks and sweets are epic! (Although I personally HATE Jaffa cakes! 🤢) And the video is misleading...Maltesers were never MADE specifically for women dieting that's complete and utter rubbish! It's just that they have a crunchy inner and so only coated in chocolate outside, so there's less chocolate altogether compared to a chocolate bar. The MARKETING seized upon that as "a lighter way to enjoy chocolate" and so women who were dieting, would feel less guilty caving in and buying a bag of Maltesers as a treat. Marketing ploy only...not made for the diet industry! No one I know bothers buying a bag of them anyway... They buy a box and eat the fucking lot in one go! Don't underestimate them! They are lush! 😁

[@catharineholton49]

I can relate to that.. if I open a box of Maltesers, ... they are suddenly GONE.!!

[@tamielizabethallaway2413]

@@catharineholton49 I know! How does that happen...? 😂 I ate a selection box yesterday... 🙄 Was supposed to be wrapping it up for Christmas, but somehow I was suddenly ramming in chocolate bars sideways! 🤣 I felt so guilty all afternoon that the only thing that helped last night was eating a bag of chocolate coins! 😳 I wish I was joking.... I feel sick as a dog and my belly aches today 😩 I don't really eat chocolate that often, but when it's THERE looking at me it taunts me! 😂🤣😅

[@smudger671]

I'm amazed they are allowed to call Hershey chocolate!

[@lisbetsoda4874]

It's probably a "chocolate product" like their cheese which isn't real cheese.

[@sonny2593]

Anything described as 'dunkable' refers to dunking into tea. Or witches 👍 Also, we have what you call smarties here in the UK but we call your smarties 'refreshers' 😊

[@jollybodger]

Maynards Refreshers or Swizzels Fizzers, since Swizzle's also make Refreshers but they are fruit flavoured chew bars with a sherbet centre.

[@Phoenix83uk]

Dairylea dunkables wouldn't tast good in a brew though, and they're a UK food.

[@mikehull5042]

A lot of us in the UK love orange flavoured sweets and biscuits, I personally love anything mint, or peppermint, we have a vast variety of sweets and biscuits to fill our needs...and the industry gets better with new sweets and biscuits, if I was american I'd be jealous 😂

[@barriehull7076]

Hi Mike.

[@jt5765]

Yeah my kids are polar opposites. Daughter is a stickler for Orange flavour whilst my son insists on Mint. Personally I prefer Honey/Caramel versions of most chocolates. I'm going to the USA to work for 6months at the end of 2023 & I'm not looking forward to the chocolates over there which sound mostly horrendous from friends & colleagues.

[@lindylou7853]

Many of our chocolate makers were Quakers who wanted to divert people away from alcohol to drinking chocolate - Fry’s, Rowntree’s, Cadbury’s. Cadbury created their own factory worker village near Birmingham: Bourneville. Staff had gardens to dry washing and grow vegetables. The houses were lovely - as seen on Peaky Blinders later on. They had everything, except a pub. The houses are still very popular. Galaxy is a brand of chocolate and mostly make bars, not M&M type chocolates. Minstrels are medieval musicians when not chocolate.

[@christinamoxon]

My favourite is a Fry's peppermint cream bar. I love the combination of dark chocolate and mint. Yum.

[@jollybodger]

@@christinamoxon After Eights are the ultimate dark chocolate/mint combo.

[@robertdraper5782]

The members of the Cadbury family had a number of houses across the Midlands that were left in wills with a codicil that they could only be used as children's homes. I worked in one briefly it was directly opposite the car park for the British Camp in the Malvern Hills.

[@Paul_W.E_Ingham]

@@robertdraper5782 For those not aware British Camp is an Iron Age hill-fort built by "Celtic" people in the west of England in the first Millenium BC.

[@suelund4667]

Minstrels is a relatively new name. They were originally called Treats with the slogan, ‘Treats melt in your mouth not in your hand’.

[@GSD-hd1yh]

Jaffa Cakes, named after the Jaffa Orange variety. Orange flavoured Jam/jelly, on sponge cake, covered in chocolate. Excellent.

[@orwellboy1958]

Lots of KZbinrs have p.o. boxes and receive loads of stuff such as snacks, tea, etc. Some have even received kettles which I think are as rare as hens teeth in the U.S. I don't think you'll regret it.

[@chrisspere4836]

They might not use an electric kettle if they're electric price rises as much as ours in England. ✌🙂

[@lisbetsoda4874]

They also comment and read the comments from their subscribers. Tyler doesn't care to learn at all. He is a typical American, like he admits on the intro.

[@crazycatlover1885]

The US smarties look similar to "fizzers" over here in England, also parma violets but they are all one flavour.

[@SuperCraigjack]

You could react to( why American chocolate tastes like vomit ) it will be an opener , and yes please get a po box mate

[@Dunbardoddy]

I like the British definition of what constitutes biscuits and cakes as follows. A biscuit is crunchie and went it gets stale by being left out of its sealed container looses crunch and goes soft. On the other hand a cake is soft and spongy and when it gets stale by being left out of a sealed container looses its soft spongy texture and goes dry and crusty. Jaffa Cakes caused a major debate - were they a cake or a biscuit following the above the definitions... Leading to a court case - During the court battle between Mcvitie’s and Her Majesty’s Customs and Excise, Mcvitie’s baked a giant Jaffa Cake to prove that Jaffa cakes were really cakes and not biscuits. It was a long and costly dispute, but McVities finally tasted sweet success and Jaffa Cakes were finally recognised as chocolate covered cakes.

[@Hannah.Walker]

If you do order anything, try a Double Decker chocolate bar. Every American I've seen try them love them. It would be good to see if you do 😆

[@smudger671]

Double Deckers have no resemblance to the original product when they were introduced.

[@Sgt.chickens]

@@smudger671 fucking delicious tho

[@jamesgornall5731]

If you cant find them you can make them. My brother and i made one weighing 4kg a few years ago. It was incredible

[@marycarver1542]

In the UK Biscuits are crispy sweet things, often taken with a cup of tea! What you call biscuits, we call scones !

[@marycarver1542]

Yes, our biscuits are also your "cookies"!

[@darrellpowell6042]

The world's first solid chocolate bar put into production was made by J. S. Fry & Sons of Bristol, England, in 1847. Cadbury began producing one in 1849. Released in 1866, a filled chocolate bar, Fry's Chocolate Cream, was the world's first mass-produced chocolate bar. The UK's industrial revolution sure did make a lot of world's first.

[@amandadaley4182]

I love being Canadian cause we actually get most of these over here as we have British shops like the UK Shoppe where we can get these items. I've also seen a few of these items at our local Walmart in our international food section. Also your American smarties here in Canada are called rockets.

[@johnbanton5921]

The filling inside a Jaffa Cake is orange flavour, not a soft jam but quite a firm filling which is more like citrus topped with chocolate. Generally, the type of chocolate you remember from childhood will always be your favourite. English chocolate is sweeter do to more milk whereas I found Hershey's rather bitter. It's all down to preference but Jaffa cakes, yes please ☺️ PS hope you're feeling ok now and I like the new style haircut 👍

[@BrecklandSpotting]

He doesn't reply to comments, it's misleading when he says drop a comment. He just latched on to the most simple and easy KZbin idea. Reacting. On his second channel he is always bored and barely speaks. Shows a lack of effort. He doesn't want to learn or grow a friendly and interactive channel and subscriber base

[@poak5742]

Custard cream biscuits (cookies) are amazing and i am surprised that it wasn't on the list.

[@MarkmanOTW]

The pairing of orange and chocolate is a classic taste pairing, hence why it appears in different UK chocolates, desserts, cakes and biscuits. Surprised as a 'chocolate connoisseur' you didn't know that. It may seem odd to Americans because USA chocolate doesn't have the depth and sophistication of flavour of UK and European chocolate. USA chocolate tastes awful on account of the ingredients and recipes used. USA companies block or restrict UK products, or make using a different recipe if they own the company (Kraft took over Cadbury in 2009), when producing for the USA. Note: Americans who've tasted our chocolate, love it once they've experienced it.

[@sandrabeaumont9161]

Hob-Nob is an old word for socialising. As in maybe a few friends getting together for tea/coffee with a biscuits. Dunking is dipping a biscuit into a liquid, such as the aforementioned tea/coffee and even milk.

[@katherinetucker4265]

'dunking' is usually with biscuits (eg, hobnobs, digestives, rich tea biscuits), take a biscuits and dip them into your cup of tea long enough so they get damp but before they get so wet that they break off.

[@wessexdruid7598]

M&Ms were a copy of Rowntree's Smarties. Maltesers were made using Ovaltine, then coated in chocolate.

[@annaparry4045]

Chocolate and orange is a classic flavour combination. Many chefs use it as a basis for desserts. That’s why the sweet manufacturers use it, also it’s delicious.

[@spudssnowdrops6286]

Have you tried Terry's Chocolate Orange? If you like orange and chocolate, you'll absolutely love it ^.^ It's also made with real orange oil so it's not artificial flavouring either.

[@leeriches8841]

@@spudssnowdrops6286 have you tried the white chocolate Terrys chocolate orange? It's even nicer than the original.

[@jollybodger]

@@leeriches8841 Nothing is better than Terrys dark chocolate orange. I just wish the milk chocolate version wasn't the only one with a popping candy option.

[@covya]

You would describe hobnobs as a cookie, yes. Cookies, for us in the UK, refers exclusively to chocolate-chip cookie style things that are typically softer. The rest are called Biscuits.

[@adamruscoe170]

They didn't adequately explain most of what those sweets or treats were, but then I think the video was for the UK audience, ie "Look at what the yanks don't get that we do!". The Jaffa cake (Jaffa is a brand name for oranges which were grown in Isreal) started out as a thin sponge cake base, a layer of orange jelly on top of that, then the top of the thing coated in milk chocolate. As with most brands they've added different flavours as time goes on but the original orange is the most popular Wine gums ARE basically gummies, but they have a very particular hard jelly texture and the flavours are quite strong compared to some gummies you get There is a difference between Minstrels and Smarties in that they're different sizes and the chocolate is different. Smarties are aimed at kids in bright coloured tubes and you used to get a plastic lid with a letter on the bottom (which you could collect to get the full alphabet etc). Minstrels are "the more grown up version", often marketed at women (Minstrels sponsored the Bridget Jones movies in the UK for example). Either way they rival M&Ms in the UK for the chocolate coated in sugar market Aero and Wispa are two relatively new things (devised in the 80s whereas the mars bar etc were devised in the 30s). They use a particular type of binding agent that allows a gas to be blown into the chocolate mix that causes bubbles to form. These bubbles melt quicker than a bigger block would...

[@peterjackson4763]

Aero was first produced in 1935 by Rowntrees - taken over by Nestles in 1988.

[@tonys1636]

A Jaffa orange is a type that was developed in Israel although is the name of the company as well, not because they come from there only. A sweet varient of a Seville orange (the ones used for Marmalade). Aero bars date from just before the war, the mid thirties. Production of high fat and sugar items (sweets and cakes) was restricted during the war and along with chocolate rationed, just the simple bars often only dark (Bournville) when available.

[@AndrewHalliwell]

Wisps is recent, created in the eighties. (I remember Mel Smith and Gryff Reece Jones in the first adverts. Aero, however, it's been around for donkeys years.

[@amsodoneworkingnow1978]

I ate Aero as a child in the 50's and 60's my friend so I think perhaps your dates need checking

[@Paul_W.E_Ingham]

@@peterjackson4763 Yes I thought Aero was older, certainly around in my 1960s childhood. Wispa is much newer.

[@andrewvalentine6977]

Jaffa cakes are dangerously addictive which why I don't buy them often. It's more like jelly or jello in the middle. Extremely good. Minstrels or smarties tend to be bigger than m&ms. Minstrels are made with Galaxy chocolate which is top tier. Where as Smarties, like the US counter part is aimed more at children.

[@SurrealisticLEO]

It's quite interesting how all these British sweets I can find in Estonia and Finland also, or their equivalent. Jaffa cakes are the best, especially the orange ones but the others are excellent also. Maybe these recipes aren't patented or something for them to be available in other countries under different sweets companies (like Finnish Fazer).

[@mmorden9938]

We have all of these where I live in Canada. Walk through my childhood

[@Penguins1999]

Cookie (UK) = Chocolate chip cookie (US) Biscuit (UK) = Cookie (US) Scone (UK) = Biscuit (US) they’re similar anyways But we do it with clotted cream/butter and jam, while you use gravy, which makes biscuit (US) seem to have the same concept as Yorkshire puddings (UK) Smarties (US) = similar to Love hearts/palma violets (UK)

[@beverleyringe7014]

Wine gums taste delicious, very popular over here.

[@Loretta_Goff]

The Crunchie bar is chocolate covered sponge toffee.. Also available in Canada and has always been my favourite :) It melts in your mouth and tingles a bit so I suppose that's where their reference to champagne came from.

[@leeriches8841]

There was a champagne flavour Chrunchie that was available in 1999 until just after the year 2000 (to celebrate the new millennium.) It was actually pretty nice! Lovely wrapper, it was kinda holographic looking.

[@markjones127]

KitKat chunky peanut butter is my weakness, you can't just chomp them down either, you eat them by carefully deconstructing them to prolong the pleasure!

[@sjd7810]

And possibly a candidate for one of THE most addictive substances known to mankind 🤤🤤🤤

[@hesterwright3674]

Have you tried the lotus biscuit spread kit kat bites 🤤

[@cerithomas2032]

Omg definitely my weakness too , I go to the shop and buy in bulk 😂

[@charlottelove2080]

I have just came across this video, but on the note of orange flavour I just wanted to say if you want to see why us Brit’s love it, Terry’s Chocolate Orange is a great example I believe you can access in America and is delicious. Some other treats from Britain should you be interested are Flying Saucers, Double Decker’s, Moam’s and Quavers.

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

Honeycomb as a confectionary You take sugar, heat it till it caramelised then add bicarb of soda, this forces bubbles into the caramel which then hardens. Its delicious

[@Haizmusicc]

In Canada we have almost all of these.. Those sugar pill things are called rockets here though. We have the chocolate smarties and m&ms. Cadbury and hershey are both very popular and all the different kinds can be found at any store. We have all the giant kitkats and every other kind of chocolate bar in giant size, some have different things added like Carmel, fudge, ect. You can get a gummy bear the size of your head.

[@Maugirl2]

Omg crunchie bars… have you never had honeycomb? please, you have to try all these…❤❤

[@continental_drift]

Seems to me that he never made honeycomb when he was a child.

[@davebirch1976]

The KitKat chunky was only introduced in the late 90s so it's relatively new compared with others

[@blazednlovinit]

Showing your age mate, that's like 30 years ago ;) Love the pfp btw, I'm from West Yorkshire.

[@davebirch1976]

@@blazednlovinit I can remember it being on the local news when they announced they were bringing out this new style of KitKat, obviously they interviewed people in the KitKats home city of York to ask what they thought of this idea 😆 I'm in the newest part of Yorkshire, South Yorkshire.

[@jmurray1110]

Well it was prefaced with relatively

[@davebirch1976]

@@jmurray1110 well it was 25 years ago this year when it came out, the original had been out 63 years at that point.

[@corringhamdepot4434]

Honeycomb is basically sugar and golden syrup boiled up with bicarbonate of soda. So that when it cools down, it hardens into mostly bubbles held together with sugar. One of the many ways British confectioners have of selling sweets full of air. Crunchie and champagne are both full of bubbles.

[@frizzbat7233]

Recommended your channel somehow and having a binge! Our Jam is I think is what you call Jelly. Would absolutely watch a British Sweet tasting video. Love from Wales

[@MedeaJaff]

Crunchies are my fave choc bars, you can get them in parts of Canada, so hop north to get a taste. Haven't finished watching the vid, so I don't know if Maltesers are mentioned.. Again, you can get those in Canada. Orange flavoured chocolate is divine 🧡 (my nickname at school was 'Jaffa Cake' coz of my surname lol)

[@timothyreel716]

That's still a pretty big hop!😂

[@FaileX2]

Yeah maltesers are here in Canada as well but we also have whoppers. Orange flavoured chocolate is amazing. We have Terrys chocolate orange here , and it's a solid orange flavoured ball of chocolate wrapped in foil that when you smack it on a hard surface it breaks into sections like an orange and it's devine, we usually get them around Christmas.

[@iriscollins7583]

@@FaileX2 My indulgence, at least three a week.🍊

[@kontiuka]

Most of these are available in Ontario. Crunchie. Aero. Smarties. Kit Kat Chunky. Wine Gums. Maltesers.

[@catharineholton49]

Love maltezers. So many ways to ear them too!!! Lol

[@ben-tendo]

Aaah the age old England vs. America use of 'biscuit' raises its head again... 😂 and with all the orange flavouring, I'm surprised Terrys Chocolate Orange wasn't on the list. A literal orange shaped chocolate (with segments that break apart) with orange flavoured oil in the chocolate itself.

[@ruth_HEX]

Honeycomb toffee is also known as cinder toffee, yellowman, sponge toffee, puff candy.

[@Loulizabeth]

Apparently our Maltesers are somewhat similar to American "Whoppers". Sweet malted milk balls covered in chocolate. Though Maltesers are a bit bigger, and have shiny chocolate coating rather than a matt chocolate finish. Jaffa cakes have a very thin sponge cake base, with a kind of orange marmalade. (the Jaffa name bit comes from a variety of orange which is used for the middle orange middle disk) disk on top then the whole top is covered with chocolate. Basically if you like chocolate and citrus flavour you'll love it. They are incredibly addictive

[@leehallam9365]

The Minstrel, Smarty, M&M thing comes out the fact that Mars operated as two quite seperate businesses in each country, run by different members of the family that owned them, and they developed many seperate products. For example their best selling bar in the UK for many years, the Mars Bar is not sold in the US in the same form, and Milky Way is a different product in the two countries. M&Ms were launched in the 1940s in the US, but not in the UK where Smarties made by Rountrees already had that market covered. In the 60s a product called Treets which had similar options to M&M was tried, but scrapped when M&Ms appeared here in the eighties. Minstrels appeared just before that, made by Mars using Galaxy Chocolate, their UK chocolate bar brand, they are bigger, and more chocolatey, aimed at an adult market.

[@pennyaccleton6227]

Personally I prefer Treets to M&Ms. I really miss them. M&Ms don't cut the mustard as far as I'm concerned.

[@johnleonard9090]

UK Smarties actually pre-dated M&M’s by several years, 1937 for the UK Smarties and 1941 for M&M’s

[@JamesAHirons_]

One thing I noticed as a brit trying American sweets, your portions are much bigger but sugar sweetness drowns a lot of the flavours of the ingredients (chocolate, toffee, caramel etc).

[@TomOsp]

I've tried an American KitKat whilst on holiday, it tastes completely different to the original.

[@TopherPotter]

American KitKat's are made by Hershey's, whereas in the UK it's produced by Nestlé. This also explains why the "Chunky" variant hasn't been introduced in the US, and why the UK's has a much smoother richer chocolate.

[@leeriches8841]

The majority of American sweets taste like crap, especially their chocolate (yuuuuck.)

[@RichardBarclay]

US KitKat's have a different number of wafers to UK too.

[@skywatcher8045]

Ryan, honeycomb is a sweet made as a toffee but with the addition of bicarbonate of soda which reacts to the sugars and creates a crisp toffee with lots and lots of fine holes. Delicious. This may be made at home but skill or a sugar thermometer are needed to avoid burning.

[@wallythewondercorncake8657]

We don't have American biscuits here, closest equivalent would be a scone. What you call cookies, we call biscuits. We do still use the word cookie tho, but pretty much exclusively for chocolate chip or raisin. Also no British person would call a biscuit a sweet, sweets are candy and chocolate.

[@MrPercy112]

👍👏

[@speleokeir]

Cookies and biscuits are slightly different. The word biscuit actually means 'twice baked'. Baking them twice makes them hard and crunchy and means they don't go stale as quickly. Cookies are only baked once and so are soft and gooey in the middle.

[@deanweir8458]

Galaxy chocolate is amazing! My favourite, you get bars and buttons , so creamy and yummy!

[@delskioffskinov]

We call cookies biscuits in the UK your biscuits are more like our scones!

[@marydavis5234]

American biscuits are nothing like a British scone. Biscuits in the US have buttermilk, self-rising flour and melted butter.

[@bobbuethe1477]

Biscuits can made with buttermilk, true, but there are many recipes. A more typical one is made with regular milk, flour, baking powder, butter or oil, and salt. It's not that different from a scone, but without sugar or egg.

[@PoppyFlux]

I had an "aha" moment when you showed US smarties. They look exactly like Refreshers. UK powdered sherbet (the stuff inside the Wham bar, and in other UK sweets) has a fizzy mouth feel, like our Refreshers.

[@anniethefallen2326]

Mate, winegums are my all time favourite sweets, they're so good!!!! You need to get a P.O box sorted so we can send you this stuff

[@tamielizabethallaway2413]

"mate" that made me laugh...it says so much in one word.... but probably went over his head! 😂

[@anniethefallen2326]

@@tamielizabethallaway2413 I say it so much that I didn't even realised I wrote it XD But, that is very true

[@sandrascott5299]

Has to be Lions midget gems for me, love them.

[@VanWhistler]

What the US call candy bars, we call them either chocolate or chocolate bars. The stuff we call candy we also call sweets. These are more like the hard suckable sweets, or boiled sweets. Also we get small sweets which seem to be blocks of compressed icing sugar (Confectioners sugar)

[@shayminup7]

To clear some things up, galaxy and Cadbury are the 2 main basic British chocolate brands, cadburys is your main one with many different chocolates and other sweets as Americans say it, and galaxy is your more fancy stuff, galaxy is owned by mars. In Britain a biscuit is usually a crumbly round baked good nothing like your American biscuits, biscuits can be many flavours and are usually dunked in tea or milk. And yes we do have m and ms we have a whole store of them in London

[@Paul_W.E_Ingham]

Rowntrees, Fry's, Terry's, Thornton and Nestles are other widely available chocolates. Although like many brands they are now owned by international conglomerates.

[@andy70d35]

Hershey vomit bars, tried one, it went in the bin. Give me real British milk chocolate. What Americans call biscuits, we would call a scone. Galaxy minstrels or even a bar of Galaxy chocolate has a real creamy taste and smooth taste. Wine gums are not like gummies, wine gums have a strong fruit flavour in comparison to gummies. Jaffa cakes have Jaffa orange oil in the orange flavour part, hence the name.

[@SilvanaDil]

The irony of the UK having WineGums, but hardly anything in grape flavor.

[@whitecompany18]

Because blackcurrant tastes nicer than something you're ment to make wine from 👍

[@johnp8131]

@@whitecompany18 Crème de cassis?

[@Sgt.chickens]

Yeah like he said. Blackcurrant is just better grape. So we all have that flavpred stuff instead. Go ribena!

[@barriehull7076]

Is orange chocolate a thing? Millions of Terry's Chocolate Oranges are sold each year. You can find them in seven countries: Great Britain, Ireland, United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. Carambar, the company that makes Terry's, says it sells 44 million oranges every year.

[@zaphodbeeblebrox6627]

Jaffa’s are a variety of juicy sweet Orange which comes from Israel. Although Oranges are available from all over southern Europe & North Africa, Israeli Jaffa oranges are considered the best this side of the Atlantic. Jaffa cakes therefore are named after the orangey jelly filling placed on the sponge base and then covered in chocolate. Jaffa cakes then experimented with other flavoured jellies, but kept the Jaffa cake name as a brand name as they’re so well known. Even generic Supermarket brands call that type of sponge cake ‘Jaffa cakes’ . Orange is still considered the best by most people. If you can get them, try ordering blackcurrant flavor. Blackcurrants look like small blueberries and in their natural state are quite Tart in flavor, but are sweetened when used as a conserve or in sweets(Candies). A few American who have tried Blackcurrant flavoured stuff on KZbin seem to like the taste.

[@AnthonySinclair-Wellings]

Biscuits are crunchy. Cookies are softer. But never at breakfast soaked in milk. The American things sounds like old fashioned baby food Farley's rusks. Smarties came out about a hundred years before M & Ms. Jaffa cakes, you haven't lived if you haven't tasted one. They are additive. Yes we sometimes might dink a hard biscuit ie Hobnob into tea or coffee, a hot drink to soften and enjoy.

[@paulvernon4160]

The Jaffa cake is a crossover between cake and biscuit, the "jam" is more like jello, a small patch of it on the top of the sponge base then covered over in dark chocolate.

[@gavingiant6900]

Jaffa cakes are cakes. Cakes go stale and biscuits go soggy. Jaffa cakes goes stale. There was a court case years ago about it.

[@elisabethhopson5639]

Jaffa cakes are addictive because they are so good. Marks and Spencer did a cranberry version a few years ago, that was seriously good too. Not so keen on the lime versions though. Basically, Jaffa cakes are just mega, you haven't lived if you haven't had any.

[@jollybodger]

@@gavingiant6900 Damn beat me to it, the court case decided that stale cakes go hard, stale biscuits go soft, stale Jaffa Cakes go hard therefore Jaffa Cake = cake.

[@gavingiant6900]

@@jollybodger Yep, they even made a giant Jaffa cake to prove the point. Just put in the biscuit section to be easier to find.

[@LETMELOGON3HTC]

Jaffa cakes don't have jam in them. They have Jaffa orange flavoured jelly or as the Americans call it Jello

[@lizzieapples3339]

You definitely need a PO BOX then we can send you loads of sweets😂

[@unclegreybeard3969]

Send him sweat? that's just sick.

[@MrPercy112]

😂

[@steddie4514]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤪

[@lizzieapples3339]

@@unclegreybeard3969 😂 I didn’t even notice that typo😱🤦🏻‍♀️

[@lauriemapplebeck1286]

We also have Smarties too. We are Commonwealth. This may mean why we have the same candies as the UK!🇨🇦🇺🇸🇬🇧

[@HarryFlashmanVC]

Jaffa Cakes.... legendary staple food stuff

[@cybermerlin2000]

Wine Gums get their name from the fact that they are wine coloured and nothing more. The colours are: Sherry, bordeaux, claret and champagne where the yellow is usually lemon flavoured, red is raspberry, black is blackcurrant and orange is tangerine. They were intended as an adult chewy gum sweet The jam in a Jaffa cake is actually a flavoured jelly. Most commonly orange You need to set up a way for subscribers to send you samples.

[@duncancallum]

Blackcurrant was my favourite by far .

[@cybermerlin2000]

@@duncancallum Blackcurrant is the best followed by strawberry then orange

[@Mariethechaotic]

Wow, I didn't know that there were so many differences between America and Canada sweets. Aeros are sold all over Canada, though I haven't seen honeycomb. We have the British smarties too, and Crunchies, and KitKat Chunkies (which is where I'm at in the video right now). I guess we're the favourite British child 😅.

[@Mariethechaotic]

Waittttt and Maltesers?? You don't have Maltesers. Nope, couldn't live in the US (I mean, for many reasons, not just the lack of good chocolate). Wine gums definitely here but not super popular.

[@amsodoneworkingnow1978]

Yes if have to agree at least as far as Scotland is concerned. If all of our commonwealth of nations family members the Canadians would be that one cousin mum volunteers for you to babysit but you actually don't mind because you adore the little one.

[@leeriches8841]

@@amsodoneworkingnow1978 definitely! Australia is the hyperactive young cousin that jumps all over the couches and chases the pets.

[@jollybodger]

@@Mariethechaotic The Honeycomb Aero is only honeycomb flavoured chocolate and does not actually contain honeycomb.

[@Paul_W.E_Ingham]

@@Mariethechaotic Americans have something similar called Whoopers, so you could survive,

[@ms.antithesis]

honeycomb isn't like beehive meterial it's a crunchy tasting thing made from honey cinnamon and sugar.

[@jessaaaymaree]

Your smarties look similar to fizzers in the UK. We have m&ms here too, think we can have different varieties of similar chocolate as there's more variety on the chocolate brand so they all have a bit of a different taste.

[@audiogob9392]

Jaffa cakes & kitkats are the two best on this list, and that's coming from a British European like myself

[@loribroadbent8573]

You call them "smarties" and we call them "rockets", but we have those "pill shaped candies" here in Canada too.

[@davidgarside2620]

Aero has been around since 1935, what you call Smarties we call Refreshers, the Flake came about when someone thought to use and combine the discarded chocolate shavings into a bar. Smarties were launched in 1937 before M&M's 1941. Jaffa cakes are named after the variety of orange used to make filling.

[@markwolstenholme3354]

Honeycomb in usa is known as cinder toffee or hokey-pokey.

[@SapphireRavenmoon]

Galaxy is a rich creamy chocoloate and it actually my favourite over Cadbury's, though I do still love Cadbury's :P

[@elemar5]

My favourite at the moment is Aero Caramel. 8 months later and they have disappeared.

[@nuttyrockchickart3040]

ok, so cookie usa = biscuit uk biscuit usa = savory scone (closest) uk m&ms american chocolate, smarties cadbury chocolate, minstrels are galaxy chocolate and bigger

[@lewis7644]

There seems to be a bit of a confusion around Jaffa Cakes, they're basically plain spongecake at the bottom, an orange jelly not jam as they say as it's more set as in when you bite into it it doesn't pour out all over the place and then a thin layer of milk chocolate to cover the top. They're very popular because there's just simply nothing else like them & after watching this I've realised we do really love our chocolate & orange flavourings here in the UK and it's a good complete package for a sweet, soft textured sponge, tangy fruitiness of the jelly and then the light snap of the chocolate. What more could you ask for?

[@helenwood8482]

When a Brit says biscuit, they mean what you would call a cookie. What you call biscuits, we do not have.

[@iambenjaminwild]

Scones

[@iapetusmccool]

UK "biscuit" also includes crackers as well as cookies.

[@marydavis5234]

@@iambenjaminwild Biscuits and scones are nothing alike, American Biscuits are short breads

[@iambenjaminwild]

@@marydavis5234 I never said they were, I was simply replying that we do have what they have and we call them scones