American Things That Are Actually British | American Reacts

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As an American I am really shocked to hear that there are some things that we think of as completely American that are actually British in origin. Today I am very curious to see what these items are. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!

[@longrolstral]

Believe it or not, English originated in England, too?

[@simonbroberg969]

As I keep telling them "Velly solly, me no speak Ameracaneze" Because I was born in England.

[@Demun1649]

English was first spoken by the Illegal immigrants, the Angles from Bavaria, who invaded PRYTTYNN between 420 and 600 AD! So English ORIGINATED in GERMANY. The Angle, Saxe and Jute brought Proto-English, with the Angle and Saxe, plus Proto-Dutch with the Jutes, from Jutland in Denmark.

[@Demun1649]

@Da_Gr88 You seem to ignore the fact that PRYTTYNN belonged to the Celts, and the Angle, Saxe and Jute, had no right to enter the islands and destroy the Celtic culture. They are all ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS.

[@simhedgesrex7097]

@@Demun1649 Proto-English isn't English.

[@Demun1649]

@@simhedgesrex7097 It took you three weeks to come up with THAT? You are certainly no linguist.

[@richardwani2803]

If you're shocked by apple pie then wait till you find out Doughnuts are a Dutch invention lol

[@pfffetc6149]

[@ethancantwell8549]

Wait till he finds out about hamburgers.

[@richardwani2803]

@@ethancantwell8549 🤣🤣🤣

[@stephennewton2777]

What do you mean, French Fries aren’t French? 🙄

[@EvasNan2020]

Doughnuts originated on the Isle of Wight in England.

[@abergreg]

In 1944 the Americans told us that they had built the world's first working computer. We had to let them down gently by telling them that we'd had a couple working for the previous two years.

[@etherealbolweevil6268]

Too secret to let anyone know or write down the specifications.

[@janolaful]

​​@@etherealbolweevil6268The first computer was invented by Charles Babbage (1822) but was not built until 1991! Alan Turing invented computer science.

[@etherealbolweevil6268]

@@janolaful The programmable electronic computer, Colossus. Too secret for history. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_computer

[@catherinerobilliard7662]

@@etherealbolweevil6268the US knew at the highest level, and those in Poland and France. It’s why Churchill insisted US troops lead the Victory Parades through liberated villages in occupied Europe, despite the US General’s reluctance, as well as local opposition for it was their resistance in the vanguard of the battle. “Yanks Go Home” came about in an effort to protect British Intelligence.

[@yoshiclubcaptainfeerick7750]

@@janolafulthe Charles Babbage computer was built during his lifetime. He died in 1871. An ancient computer was found in a Greek shipwreck.

[@johnlow7978]

Most americans forgot america is only almost 300 years old and they think they made the world

[@anitapeludat256]

Your comment is absurd. And it's a repeated absurdity, generation after generation. It only makes a lot of folks, a lot of Brits, for example, sound like very miserable people. Why does the USA live rent free inside your head? You do know American TV and Movies and propaganda that you receive is all B.S. don't you,? Why on earth would anyone believe it,,?

[@wave-e6570]

And England was unified in 927AD😂

[@DianeLittle-dd6ej]

America is 246 years

[@anitapeludat256]

I wonder why that is a regular comment from Brits. You're basically always the pot calling the kettle black. You've just had a much longer period of time to make a heck of a lot of mistakes. Your hubris is just calling out our hubris.

[@DianeLittle-dd6ej]

@@wave-e6570 Scotland is 12,000BC

[@glennaustin37]

As both apples and pies have been around in Britain for at least a millennia before the US was ever a thing, it is hardly a surprise.

[@frankhooper7871]

Either a millennium or multiple millennia 😊 - the latter is the plural

[@glennaustin37]

​ wtf? it wasn't a criticism. The video points out apples weren't native to N America, so get off your high horse...

[@stampandscrap7494]

​@@anitapeludat256no it had Native Americans, and they did not make Apple pie.

[@stampandscrap7494]

​​@@anitapeludat256you do realise that We made apple pies, before any Europeans were in America. There were no apples in America before Europeans brought them to America, therefor it would be physically impossible for them to make apple pie as they had no Apples. I know more about your country than you do.

[@glennaustin37]

​@@stampandscrap7494👍

[@zee2012]

Wait till he finds out that the American National anthem is actually a British drinking song called The Anacreontic Song😂

[@triggeretfc]

Was about to comment the same 😂

[@MousePotato]

@@triggeretfc I did then straight after saw this. Still going to leave it on there though for clear clarification :D

[@PUNKinDRUBLIC72]

You beat me to it!🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@MarkmanOTW]

Oh, he's already done that.....greeted with the same open-mouthed disbelief 😄

[@smockboy]

Same with their "unofficial" anthem "My Country 'Tis of Thee" - it's an adaptation of God Save the King/Queen.

[@MichaelJohnsonAzgard]

Halloween is much older than the US has been a country.

[@Dadopŕsoblueboots]

It's a pagan festival. Halloween 😮

[@Demun1649]

@@Dadopŕsoblueboots Halloween. In full is "All Hallows Eve", the day before "All Saints' Day". The word Halloween or Hallowe'en ("Saints' evening") is of Christian origin; a term equivalent to "All Hallows Eve" is attested in Old English. The word hallowe'en comes from the Scottish form of All Hallows' Eve, (the evening before All Hallows' Day): even is the Scots term for "eve" or "evening", and is contracted to e'en or een; (All) Hallow(s) E(v)en became Hallowe'en. Bad news for you. It was NOT a pagan custom. Christian origins and historic customs Halloween is thought to have influences from Christian beliefs and practices. The English word 'Halloween' comes from "All Hallows' Eve", being the evening before the Christian holy days of All Hallows' Day (All Saints' Day) on 1 November and All Souls' Day on 2 November.

[@Dadopŕsoblueboots]

Oíche Shamhna (/ˈiːhə ˈhaʊnə/ EE-hə HOW-nə) is a Gaelic festival on November marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or "darker half" of the year.

[@Dadopŕsoblueboots]

The shaman. Painted his face. Covered in straw . Telling the evil spirit to leave the village. This is before Christianity came to Scotland.

[@leierkreuz1529]

@@Demun1649 Yes, but that "Christian" festival has origin in the adaptation of the celtic festival practised by Celts who where inhabitants of the Roman Empire, not exactly Irish or Scottish Celts, but Gaulish, Celtiberias and others.

[@vickilokgiri2309]

I never knew Land of Hope and Glory was the Graduation March in the US, kind of ironic as its a very patriotic British song (has lyrics), you should watch it on the last night of the proms that is something to be seen.

[@etherealbolweevil6268]

The idea of a musical accompaniment to graduation ceremony does seem quite American.

[@kathchandler4919]

​@@etherealbolweevil6268let's not go overboard here, it's graduation from school, not uni &, I think would cheapen a university graduation!

[@yoshiclubcaptainfeerick7750]

@@kathchandler4919I’d like to hear an expansion on this thought.

[@kathchandler4919]

@yoshiclubcaptainfeerick7750 both of my girls went to University, now Jill's, in Leeds University was different in that many deans and professors were, very unusually on strike that year so the stage wasn't quite as full of teaching staff as it should have been but, in the UK , these occasions are very formal, almost like taking the Eucharist in the middle church service , you just wouldn't get triumphant music , the emphasis is on each individual student as they go to receive their, well-earned degree . My elder daughter's ceremony, in Liverpool, was actually held in the huge & extremely beautiful & grand Anglican Cathedral of Liverpool, there was silence but for the Head of the University reading out the names and type of degree of each Graduand (that is the actual title of a student until that degree is placed into their hand ) The service was beautiful & reflective in the case of each University, jolly music would break the sombre atmosphere at a time when all we should do is clap & appreciate each student (who have already taken their seats together before the relatives sit down) that's what I mean. Did you see Prince Harry & Meghan's wedding in Windsor or, before that, Prince William and Catherine's in Westminster Abbey ? They were happy but sombre, the brides don't ever bounce down the aisle whooping and waving their bouquets, the difference between marriage services here & in 5he US is similar to University Graduation in each country. Incidentally, I said OK with the music for the ceremony at your school Graduations but we don't even have those, never mind tripping in or out to music!

[@GenerationNextNextNext]

My graduation march back in the day was R Kelly's "The World's Greatest". It doesn't hold up today.

[@cybertenchi82]

Your national anthem originated as an English drinking song. it was originally titled "To Anacreon in Heaven".

[@ilikelampshades6]

Most of their military songs are British songs

[@occamraiser]

their national anthem celebrates the fact that a fort of theirs wasn't captured overnight.....that's a pretty damn modest thing to celebrate.

[@anitapeludat256]

No, but if you want to think that, it's just fine. Music, drums , color guard, were an integral part of instructing troops. Regarding several conflicts in our history. The old historical events throughout history are recognized and honored, without derision towards the British, especially here in New England, as well as Virginia. King Charles is always referred to with respect . ​ He had a tough rein and was quite determined to continue to the end. He was one of the best, in our USA opinion. The assumption by some Brits that Americans as a whole don't know our own facts, have, unfortunately been repeated for decades, in my lifetime anyway. We've been taught history, not criticism of our allies. And we're not the type to sit amongst ourselves and talk smack about England. There is no reason to behave that way. It's not enjoyable and very poor manners. Definitely not an obsession. ☮️ Would be nice, being negative even when life is hard, has never been in our nature. Optimism and kindness are not hard and far more productive.

[@anitapeludat256]

​@@occamraiser How sad. You don't know the entire story, and to presume it wasn't more poignant than that, is cold hearted. Reminds me of a society that lives like crabs in a bucket. What a sad existence for some people. And quite the disappointment of an England we were taught to think more highly of. Pitiful.

[@ilikelampshades6]

@anitapeludat256 you're too sensitive for the Internet lol

[@davidquatermass789]

It's not Halloween It's Samhain, the old festival from the Celts and we rock ;)

[@gerardflynn7382]

Actually Samhain is much older than the Celts.

[@davidquatermass789]

@gerardflynn7382 do tell, I was under the impression it was celtic so would be very interested to learn more. Am always keen to learn new things. Being an old celt myself perhaps I am biased :)

[@ianmarshall9144]

superstitious claptrap , no self respecting English person would entertain being so ignorant .

[@dattebayo7139]

@@gerardflynn7382 Gaelic: relating to the Goidelic group of Celtic languages, particularly the Celtic language of Scotland, It is one of the four Gaelic seasonal festivals along with Imbolc, Bealtaine, and Lughnasa. Historically it was widely observed throughout Ireland, Scotland It is the celebration that is the origin of Halloween

[@jane1975]

Samhain or Sow in is the Celtic Fire festival, basically what the man in the video, but basically the Halloween tradition went to America and came back to its origins, Great Britain. It happens.

[@sharonmartin4036]

The "composer", Elgar, did not attend Yale or graduate from there. He received an 'honorary' doctorate from Yale, as a tribute to him.

[@MrBulky992]

Firstly, you do not need to put the word "composer" in quotes. Elgar actually *was* a composer who wrote two symphonies, two concertos, three major oratorios, symphonic poems, overtures, a set of orchestral variations of worldwide renown, cantatas and much else. Secondly, no one suggests Elgar actually attended Yale as a student but a recipient of an honorary degree is referred to as an "honorary graduate". In fact, anyone in receipt of a degree is a graduate. Anyone in receipt of an honorary degree is an honorary graduate. All graduates have graduated even if they do not do so in person at a graduation ceremony. An honorary graduate is a type of graduate. Elgar was therefore a graduate of Yale, an honorary one who graduated in person at a graduation ceremony.

[@Demun1649]

@@MrBulky992 I think you MAGA call it culture theft?

[@Vana1970]

Elgar lived in Hereford in 1904

[@Demun1649]

@@Vana1970 One of the very few places in Britain that makes top-quality vintage cider.

[@skipper409]

When I was a kid in England, pumpkins weren’t a thing, so our jack o lanterns were made of turnips

[@keithhurst2970]

More accurately swedes. Turnips are MUCH smaller.

[@gerardflynn7382]

Same here in Ireland.

[@gerardflynn7382]

​@@keithhurst2970Actually they were turnips as swedes hadn't been introduced.

[@chrisgrannis2189]

​@@keithhurst2970 Depends where you're from. In Ireland, what you call Swedes, we call turnips. In Scotland they're neeps, and in the US they're called rutabaga.

[@jasongarfitt1147]

The turnip ones look way creepier

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

Yes, A1 was a sauce sold in some shops when I was a young boy in London. The cook at school refused to have it in our refec because she viewed it as, "An overly sweet, poor apology for HP." 😅

[@babalonkie]

HP Brown sauce = Best Sauce. I literately find HP a thousand times better than tomato ketchup.

[@etherealbolweevil6268]

What sort of 'steak' do people eat that needs some goey sh!t on it for 'flavour'?

[@AlBarzUK]

@@babalonkie But now HP sauce is no longer made in Brum. The Dutch have snaffled it.

[@babalonkie]

@@AlBarzUK As long as it's still for sale... i'm fine with that. Still originally made in UK lol.

[@yoshiclubcaptainfeerick7750]

@@AlBarzUKI know 😢

[@chrissymoss514]

I don't understand why you're so surprised to learn that many things you consider to be true American are in fact English (or any other country). The early settlers to the USA were from various countries, who brought with them many, MANY different things. America is such a young country, it was inevitable it was going to be influenced by each and every immigrant who landed there!!

[@becky9334]

Exactly! Watching Americans on here learning the truth about all the lies they’ve been told re history and seeing how shocked they are and that realisation sinking in, but there are still lots of Americans that have such a huge ego and are quite delusional, look at how workers have no rights the health care etc yet they are the best at everything 🙄 just my humble opinion ofc 👍😊

[@bereal6590]

@anitapeludat, maybe wanna keep an eye on that old experiment because right now it's not going so well. Generally felons and sexual offenders aren't supposed to run a nation or even be in the race.

[@DatShepTho]

I had no idea the US uses that song for graduation. I always thought it was purely a British patriotic music piece

[@eileencritchley4630]

It is very much a British patriotic piece of music and I had no idea the USA was using it a Graduation Song.

[@thedisabledwelshman9266]

tyler is confused. isnt he always?

[@daveofyorkshire301]

"As American as apple pie" is accurate, because much of what they claim isn't American.

[@mw-wl2hm]

HAHAHA.. well said.

[@willvangaal8412]

Most European Dave .

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@willvangaal8412 The difference is Americans say "As American as apple pie", we don't say "as European as..." ever...

[@jane1975]

@@daveofyorkshire301I think it’s funny that they think that, although there are Dutch and Italian variants, it’s one of the only pies to have become a staple of American culture, the more temperate parts of America like New York and New England for example will definitely be able to have orchards due to their more Atlantic climates. However our Meat pies didn’t translate it seems.

[@daveofyorkshire301]

@@jane1975 Whether we got it from the Dutch or the Dutch got it from us is irrelevant neither of us has claimed it as unique to our nation...

[@FluffySylveonBoi]

The Statue of Liberty is from France tbh.

[@MousePotato]

He missed one. The melody to The Star Spangled Banner is from England composed by the English composer John Stafford Smith.

[@stephenansell7920]

Just wait till you find out that the USA National anthem is actually an old British pub song 😮😮

[@pfffetc6149]

Oh yes!

[@CherylVogler]

I didn't hear of this until just a few years ago. If no one ever tells you or talks about it, how is one to know? It is a fun fact though.

[@philscott3759]

​@@anitapeludat256Oh, it's you again whining about being called out for being up your own ar$e. Booofkinhoo.

[@Mk1Male]

@@anitapeludat256 There is also a lot of criticism from the states about the UK. You must be even more unhappy in your life to make that statement. Not just that, but your life is so bad in the states that you feel compelled to make a statement about an education system you know nothing about. Seriously, people in the UK are a lot more educated about the fact the world doesn't revolve around America. Unlike you.

[@ariversideview5775]

Come to think of it it does sound like a dirge sung by drunkards.

[@carolineskipper6976]

I've never personally seen A1 Sauce here in the UK. We don't really have anything that calls itself 'steak sauce'. Elgar didn't 'graduate' from Yale. He was given an honorary doctorate. He was well British!

[@missem]

We used to have HP steak sauce but it's hard to find nowadays.

[@georgelowles5077]

I saw a supermarket selling A1 sauce a couple of years ago, my son got a bottle to try. Sorry to say that it’s in the back of the cupboard now after he tried it. We’re back to the HP sauce now.

[@Steve-ys1ig]

I hate to tell you but the US national anthem is set to the tune of an old British drinking song

[@jane1975]

That’s new to me that they copied that, even more interesting though is that prior to the Stars and Stripes they had an anthem that used the same melody as our God Save the King. This just cemented their British heritage.

[@danielferguson3784]

No, Elgar was a guest composer/performer at Yale, he did not graduate there.

[@pabmusic1]

He never graduated anywhere, actually.

[@blackbob3358]

@@pabmusic1 Maybe, like ya man narrating here, he did'nt listen much, either.

[@yoshiclubcaptainfeerick7750]

Honorary degree.

[@Attirbful]

OMG - you actually thought Halloween was an American thing?!? Whoosh - mind blown!

[@Jeni10]

Before Independence, the US was a British Colony. Naturally, some British things have stuck, including the Imperial system of weights and measures, and apple pie.

[@howardhales6325]

And a lot of place names.

[@stephennewton2777]

Lots of French things too, including language. This was due to the French (and to a lesser degree Spanish) influences, especially during the colonial revolution when French arms, munitions and other military aid was sent to the colonies to frustrate the British.

[@silverghost131]

id like to say that the american gallon is not the same size as ours 3.785411784 liters is 1us gallon /4.5461 liters is 1 imp gallon

[@anitapeludat256]

​@Da_Gr88 Oh dear, I think maybe you should see someone about that .

[@mrcaboosevg6089]

@@silverghost131 British gallon isn't even the British gallon, it's just a gallon used by the entire world except for the US who for some reason felt the need to change it

[@francesblackman9087]

I only watch this chap when I need a break from the angst of the world. To me he is the epitome of Tim Nice But Dim.

[@RockinDave1]

That's how i feel about Tyler 🤣

[@silverghost131]

i say bloody nice bloke

[@myla6135]

Aww, he's really nice. He's able to laugh about so much and take it on the chin. Just because he thinks as an American rather than a Brit doesn't make him dim. Honestly us Brits can be of sooo superior when it is not deserved. We can be nice but dim in spades about life outside the UK.

[@nicolab2075]

​​@@myla6135Well said. He's extremely open minded. I'm from the UK and I watch quite a few of these kind of US/UK videos, and the Brits in the comments can be completely insufferable

[@hauskalainen]

But why are meat pies seemingly unknown to Americans?

[@P5YcHoKiLLa]

Land of Hope and Glory is almost a 2nd national anthem in the UK although I think it's tailored more to England. 10:50 He didn't graduate Yale, he was given an honorary doctorate, that's a bestowed title, not an earned one, hence why it's titled "honorary". (10:25) 11:43 Yes we do but it was originally named "All Hallow's Eve"

[@nathangamble125]

I'd argue it's more like the 3rd national anthem for England, after Jerusalem.

[@alisonlovatt6143]

For England,not the UK. We Welsh have one of the best anthems in the world. 😊

[@margaretnicol3423]

The horror of Halloween is the American Trick or Treat. What's that all about? When I visited my Scottish grandmother the kids would dress up and go round the local doors - however - the big difference was that treats had to be earned by doing something like a song or a dance or even saying a poem.

[@garyal23]

It annoys me when the kids come round saying "trick or treat" we used to say " do you want any guisers" years ago lol

[@kittyjohnstone5915]

Seventy five years ago in my part of Scotland “Please tae help the guisers, Christmas is comin’, the pigs are gettin fat, please pit a penny in the auld man’s hat, if ye havnae got a penny, a ha’penny will do, an ye havnae got a ha’penny God bless you…” was the plea, the song, and blessing from the weans (children) Guising, often we’d be invited in to take part in games like dookin for apples (apples floating in tubs of water which we had to catch by catching the stalk in our teeth, or standing on a chair to drop a fork from our mouths to spear an apple) then do our party piece for a reward, sometimes of a few pennies, more often homemade confectionery. In fact we were disappointed if we didn’t get sweeties… the pennies we did get often went to help pay for the 5th of November bonfires and fireworks. BTW Guy Fawkes Bonfires picked up from even more ancient traditions, and had Fawkes grafted on to the already extant bonfire night.

[@douglasstocks9698]

They would go guising which comes from the word disguisting

[@crackpot148]

​​​ You're wrong. Guising (or more properly, guysing) comes from Guy as in Guy Fawkes. Kids would make a dummy of Guy Fawkes and from Halloween to 5th November beg for pennies to buy fireworks for bonfire night when the guy would be burned. Kids doing this would be called guysers. We would chant, "Penny for the guy, Penny for the guy" and then sing, "Christmas is coming, The goose is getting fat, Please put a penny in the old man's hat. If you don't have a penny, A ha'penny will do, If don't have a ha'penny God bless you."

[@douglasstocks9698]

No it's not comes from the word disguise. As they would disguise them selves as a spirit so the the spirits that would be about on Halloween wouldn't see them.

[@dee2251]

We were eating Apple pie here centuries before you were even a country. The very first written recipe for Apple pie is documented in one of the oldest cookbooks in the world from the 13th century called ‘The Forme of Curry’. Early settlers brought the recipe and the apple seeds to grow apples in America, because apples weren’t native to your country. It’s as English as apple pie.

[@wyterabitt2149]

@@jennil7797 Wtf are you whining on about? Learn basic language usage, conversational usage of the word we in this way is obvious and completely acceptable. And "might" is fairly meaningless. There's not a single food, idea, invention, or anything that might have already have happened/existed/invented - from recently but lost for various, to long ago and lost. The fact is there is no reference to it before the extremely old recipe, and that old recipe is referring to something already done for a long time even before the recipe. At that point just accept that unless more information comes about, it is British. And if more information does come to say otherwise, then we can change that idea.

[@enemde3025]

You can't have an " instrumental SONG " !! A song without words is ....a TUNE ! As a Scotsman , I remember trying to scoop out and carve a TURNIP , or NEEP as we call it, for HALLOWEEN.

[@skald9]

Yes, the scooping out and carving of turnips had it's roots in the southern Netherlands (which is partly called Belgium today) and came to Scotland via the Flemish. A big part of the modern Scots have Flemish ancestry.

[@kathchandler4919]

As a Geordie we did exactly the same (who changed or purple turnips into tiny swedes & vice versa though?)

[@kathchandler4919]

Halloween, Ireland, Scotland AND Northumbria & Cumbria (England)

[@mariandavis7953]

A Geordie here of Scottish descent. We used turnips (or swede if you insist) to make the lanterns in our house. I always got the job of hollowing it out. Because I was a kid I was only trusted with the dullest knife in the cutlery drawer or a spoon. I hated that job and cut or scraped my fingers many times 😢

[@stevehartley7504]

Forged is to be beaten into shape Cast is to be poured into a shaped hollowed out shape using molten metal

[@peterjones6507]

Good grief. Do US folk really think they invented apple pie? I find this hard to believe.

[@marydavis5234]

Have you ever tried Apple pie from the US, they are not the same as Apple pie from Britain.

[@peterjones6507]

@@marydavis5234 They vary between households. never mind countries. But I would assume apple pie has been around for about as long as apples. . .

[@Gittas-tube]

​@@marydavis5234👩🏻‍🌾🥧 The American apple pie is also very different from the French tarte aux pommes, which is much more refined, although in France there are apple pies of many types made with very thin slices of apples arranged in a circular pattern on top of the filling and dough, as well as pies with bigger chunks of apples. And then there is of course the Tarte Tatin, the upside down apple pie. As to the growing of apple trees in the U.S., I remember the story of Johnny Appleseed who walked around sowing apple seeds to increase the harvest of apples in the States - or something like that. As apples can be grown all over the temperate climate zone, it's impossible to say where apples were first used to make pies...🍎

[@smellygoat]

@@marydavis5234 bro they're literally the same thing. it's apples, in a pie.

[@rowannestripe2964]

Yes, Americans do a good apple pie, but its a very British thing. Apple pie is as British as it gets!

[@davidjackson2580]

Land of Hope and Glory, Mother of the Free, How shall we extol thee, who are born of thee? Wider still and wider shall thy bounds be set; God, who made thee mighty, make thee mightier yet, A very British piece.

[@DanielWalker-jo2kr]

Almost embarrassingly so. One could almost hear overtones of 'kill the natives and take their land because... manifest destiny!'

[@babalonkie]

Wait until people find out about Amazing Grace...

[@WOFFY-qc9te]

The Woke 's want to rework the word's

[@Deano-Dron81]

English piece*

[@ariversideview5775]

@@babalonkie pub song with lots of bawdy.

[@cthutu]

In Britain, Hallowe'en celebration is still heavily linked to it's dark origins, e.g. witches, demons, etc. and so people dress up as such. In North America, it's more a fancy dress evening where you see costumes that have nothing to do with Hallowe'en.

[@stephenellis7668]

Many British people commemorate Guy Fawkes night or bonfire night at about the same. 5th November

[@cthutu]

@@stephenellis7668 I usually do both

[@emmahowells8334]

Halloween is the one day that the dead and spirits walk the earth, the people of the day dressed as monsters to protect us from evil, witches or wiccans as they were known as back then were those who used this as a form of protection and not a dark art actually.

[@simoncoles2463]

I think dark origins is a bit strong. Samhain (Gaelic) or Calan Gaeaf (Welsh/Brythonic) is simply the start of winter. It’s one of several times in the Celtic year where the barrier between the physical world and the spiritual was thought to be weak - hence the tradition of ghost stories and remembering the dead (a bit like the day of the dead in Mexico). In the traditional Celtic tradition, each day starts at sunset rather than sunrise, so the equivalent of the 1 November began at sunset. The Christian church confused this, called the 1 November ‘All Hallow’s Day’ and the night before ‘All Hallows Eve’ (shortened to Halloween) in one of the medieval church’s many appropriations of other religious or cultural traditions. In a strange way, that misunderstanding has found it’s way back into Welsh, as we now refer to the festival as Noson Galan Gaeaf (the night before Calan Gaeaf)

[@thegreypath1777]

Good.

[@dee2251]

Gordon Ramsey recently revealed that doughnuts originated in England. There’s so many things that Americans have taken from us and renamed. They’re even doing it now with Yorkshire puddings and calling them popovers. Basically l, Americans are playgarists😂

[@anitapeludat256]

And you are perpetually miserable. Decade after decade, millennial after millennial. Life is hard, complaining doesn't help. You'd like the states to be as miserable as you. You can't figure out why we smile often. In fact many in England don't trust a smile. What a sad way to live. That's what your criticisms show us about you.

[@thegreypath1777]

"TAKEN"??

[@TheWebcrafter]

5:04 - So, England's 3rd best steak sauce became America's best.

[@davidmalarkey1302]

Tyler you never listen to the narrator Elgar didn't graduate from Yale. He received an honorary doctorate and played his own music. Isn't it interesting to find out your life is a lie and also shows how much Americans live in a bubble and they know nothing about life outside of America.

[@stue2298]

This is a perfect example of even when americans try and educate themselves, in less than 30 seconds after been given the correct fact, they get that fact wrong.

[@sgpsimonb]

Be nice. Tyler makes an effort to burst his bubble every day.

[@RockinDave1]

@@sgpsimonb Nah he just makes an effort to make money off us viewing. From what I've seen watching him for ages, he retains almost zero of what he "learns" and greets every repeated "revelation" with the same slack jawed "gee whizz gosh golly" reaction. He's either utterly disingenuous or is making no attempt to actually learn anything; instead realising that reaction videos have been the goto thing for new channels to get lots of views for the past few years. I stick with him, he seems like a nice enough guy, but he really frustrates me for the above stated reasons.

[@zenicwhite1918]

yes thank you someone else says it he never listens and it pisses me off greatly

[@margaretnicol3423]

@@RockinDave1 So stop watching him???

[@bulwinkle]

I have always interpreted, " as American as apple pie", as not American at all.

[@cambelloroxy9420]

Liberty is actually more French than American

[@cambelloroxy9420]

@Da_Gr88 my point still stands ( it is more FRENCH than AMERICAN…)

[@GuinevereKnight]

You go over the top with just about everything, doesn't mean you invented it...or do it 'best'. You seem to think everything is a competition and go totally nuts. But it seems more hollow and you don't even know why you do it. The connections back in history is lost. (Since you can't understand you were'nt first.) I'm not British but that culture has so much, yet they don't shout it out so loud, just do their thing and get on with it. Respect. Land of hope and glory. ❤ 🇬🇧

[@scottneil1187]

Another round of Tyler 'learns' things he's already been told about.

[@nolasyeila6261]

Apple pie, Halloween, he's seen it all before and so have we...

[@marydavis5234]

He is an embarrassment to all Americans.

[@marydavis5234]

@@nolasyeila6261 newsflash Apple pie in England and the US are NOT made the same,

[@jakeoliver9167]

​@@marydavis5234doesn't matter. It's still Apple pie. Quite often recipes differ. But it's not a new thing. Barely different. Also... when it came to America it was obviously exactly the same as what it was in Europe back then. Just accept Apple pie isn't anerican. It doesn't shatter your identity

[@keefsmiff]

​@jakeoliver9167 mate these guys are so sad , it's the little mothers meeting where they bitch about Tyler , it's because unrequited love hurts, they could always unsubscribe

[@bandycoot1896]

See the BBC Proms where they sing Land of Hope and Glory. It is oft stated that the English National Anthem - not the UK anthem, which is God Save The King - should be either Land of Hope and Glory or Jerusalem. The Welsh and Scots have their own anthem but England sticks with GSTK. America does go OTT with Halloween, far more than the UK. Apple and pumpkin pie, the Liberty Bell, et al. - makes you wonder why you wanted Independence...🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@andrewcoates6641]

Re the fact about apple pie. Not only is the apple pie originally from England as is the whole apple tree but the most popular variety of apple that is widely used to fill said pie is called a Bramley apple and every Bramley apple tree in the world has been proven by testing the genetic code to have been grown by either splicing a shoot from the original tree or more rarely to have been grown from seed from the same tree which was originally planted in a walled garden at the home of the Bramley family, reputedly by the matriarch of the family that had paid to have the house and garden built. The Bramley apple is a variety that holds very true to its original type and the fruit is generally a cooking style which if you attempt to eat it straight from the tree is very nearly inedible, being hard and very sour. It has a very green skin, which has to be peeled and sliced into wedges or slivers and be sweetened with a mixture of sugar or honey and butter as the fruit is layered into either a dish or pre-cooked pastry cases and a pastry lid is laid on top either plain or decorative and more butter/sugar paste added in small amounts all over the pie before baking it. The pie can be served hot or cold, with or without hot or cold custard, or with whipped cream or ice cream and frequently has spices added to the filling such as cinnamon or nutmeg. Other ingredients such as raisins and sultanas can also be included with the pie filling for variety. The original Bramley apple tree has unfortunately fallen to the chainsaw due to its old age and the ravages of desease, but the pure strain of the tree has been preserved and there are several examples that are now growing well in separate locations to keep the tradition going.

[@anitapeludat256]

Thank you for such an excellent history and detailed description.

[@nicolab2075]

@@andrewcoates6641 There's nothing like Bramley for pies. Thanks for that history.

[@watermelon7998]

again, what makes you think that other countries were not making apple pies at the same time or before England did? not a very complicated dish

[@johnkemp8904]

Tyler is the man who, when reacting to a video narrator saying ‘You can’t have gone to school in the English-speaking world without knowing that Britain once ruled a quarter of it’, looked at his camera with a dozy expression and said ‘I didn’t know that’.

[@dee2251]

Actually 3/4s 😂

[@gerardflynn7382]

4/5

[@irenecaird6688]

Tyler is funny and honest. I think he's great

[@djw7141]

@@dee22511/4.

[@thegreypath1777]

Return the stolen jewelry! Return the stolen furniture!

[@philipmason9537]

HP sauce is the most popular ‘brown’ sauce in the U.K. and is slowly making inroads in the US because when Americans try it in the U.K. they usually love it and end up buying it in the British section at Walmart or from the British online food sites based in the US.

[@ScratchySlide]

Can't understand why it's in the British aisle's (no pun intended) as it's now Dutch.....

[@Tidybitz]

​​@@ScratchySlide ... It maybe made in the Netherlands now, but it is, and always will be a British brand, just like many other things which have sadly been taken over, HP = Houses of Parliament.

[@ScratchySlide]

@@Tidybitz I know what HP stands for, ta. Not made in Britain, not British. Simple as that.

[@Tidybitz]

@@ScratchySlide ... As I said, no matter where it's now made, it's still a British brand, always will be. Ta!

[@ScratchySlide]

@@Tidybitz You'll be saying the same about Cadbury's...... 🤣

[@Songfugel]

Majority of "US" inventions are not actually US inventions. A lot of them were bought or even stolen from inventors all over the world, who were not American, and re-branded, licensed, patented under an American company. This is even true today, majority of US based inventions and science papers are not from American inventors/scientists, and only operate under US owned companies/licenses/Universities Especially right after WW2, many of the "US based" inventions that started the modern age were actually gained from European allies (mainly from the UK) as compensation as part of a secret deal (well, secret at the time) between the Allied forces and the US that bought the US's support during the war. The nuclear bomb and modern microwave based radars being the most significant ones in that deal Not that this is an US only thing mind you, before that, Europe stole most of its "inventions" from China, Arabic Nations and India. So many of the pivotal inventions us Europeans still claim as our own, were invented and popularized over 1000 years before us by the Chinese dynasties. The reason we don't hear about it that much, is ofc. that history is often rewritten by the victor and China was taken over by an extremely conservative and isolationist Emperor, that banned many those inventions, and most crucially, banned naval exploration. For example, at that time China had in the 200 BC all the naval technologies (including the magnetic compass) that started the European Age of Discovery and colonialism in the 15th Century! but due to this one dynasty, it was stopped almost at its infancy. China even had a navy of sorts going as far back as 526 BC, when my own ancestors hadn't even entered the Iron Age yet 😂😂 Which for us Westerners is a pretty lucky thing indeed, since not only would the US not be a thing, but China could have easily taken oven the World with their almost 1000 years of technological head-start and a population that was 1/3rd of the whole World's population at the time. The World would be a very different place indeed, if China had not banned naval exploration

[@atorthefightingeagle9813]

Europeans did not steal most of its inventions from China and Arab nations. Absolute BS. China didn't solve the problem of measuring longitude at sea and create GMT. Or develop the first vaccine, or discover antibiotics, or build steel bridges, or invent steam power, or harness electricity. And who built Stonehenge millenia before China did diddly squat? Did the Romans nick all of their technical prowess from the Arabs? No. Oriental countries lived with a policy of isolationism and the Arabs were only interested in enslaving Africa and Eastern Europe.

[@penningtonlfc]

hes talking about edison the patent thief,lol

[@stampandscrap7494]

You missed out the Jet engine. Invented in Brotain given to America for free

[@willvangaal8412]

Commis

[@Shoomer1988]

The US uses A1 sauce because we were kind enough to give away our cast-offs.

[@chrisives2152]

They have it because its not good enough to sell in the UK 😂

[@surfaceten510n]

@@chrisives2152 They have it because HP is a better sauce.

[@toasterhavingabath6980]

​@@chrisives2152did you literally not hear in the video that it was out competed

[@Yandarval]

Tyler finally gets the irony of playing the unofficial British national anthem for over a century, across the US.

[@abergreg]

Lets be honest, we invented almost everything, all the sports, the best language, the best rock and pop music, all the best place names, computers, humour, sarcasm, irony, its boring now.

[@deadeyes4626]

Also television

[@etherealbolweevil6268]

@@deadeyes4626 Radio, telephones, etc. What we didn't invent was the US Patent law which meant US patents could copy other national patents and receive protection in the US, i.e. a charter for patent theft. They did join in when it suited them to do so. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_international_patent_treaties

[@chrissymoss514]

​@@etherealbolweevil6268 That's interesting 🤔. Thanks 👍

[@LustWaffel]

And the pride of Britishness the navy is chock-full of Dutch terms and English itself is just French + old German + Old norse so everyone borrows from somewhere 😂

[@SteveBagnall-gh1fu]

The biggest bastardised language on the planet, the true English language is very like Welsh. Still we haven't been invaded since 1066 like just about every other country except Sweden and Switzerland.

[@stephenansell7920]

If you look up "land of hope and glory last night at the proms" which takes place each year in London you'll get to experience the full version of the song

[@bandycoot1896]

A1 tastes nothing like HP sauce. HP is far better 😉😉🤣

[@marydavis5234]

I have tried both, there is way too much vinegar in HP.

[@helenwood8482]

If I heard Americans play Land of Hope and Glory, I would assume they were trying to flatter us.

[@anitapeludat256]

Ok now you sound like a jealous girl. Listen to yourselves sometime. How are you not embarrassed,? Zero self awareness,? How pitiful.

[@kevinty7]

22:14: the penny drops, colonists, our ancestors made all of you😂😂and they brought their stuff with them too😂😂😂

[@margaretnicol3423]

This is how Trumpery is so successful. If he repeats rubbish often enough people believe it!!!

[@rosemarymurlis-hellings8138]

Relevance?

[@margaretnicol3423]

@@rosemarymurlis-hellings8138 Apple Pie!

[@SteveHulford-ce3tu]

Watch BBc Last night of the Proms - listen to Land of Hope and Glory-Jerusalum- Rule Brittania

[@trevorcook3129]

Yu don’t celebrate Halloween in the US. You call something Halloween but it’s just a fancy dress day. Cultural appropriation ? Look up the origin of your national anthem. English again. As English as apple pie.

[@dee2251]

I’d say Jerusalem is the nation’s favourite. Followed by Land of hope and glory. You need to watch ‘Last night of the proms’.

[@TheWebcrafter]

10:54 - Instrumental only music is called a TUNE. A 'tune' accompanied by lyrics is called SONGS.

[@ElunedLaine]

Even the US National Anthem tune is British

[@scrappystocks]

One other think that came from Britain was the tune of the Star Spangled Banner. It was written by John Stafford Smith born in Gloucestershire England in 1751. Later it was used as the tune for the US National Anthem. Every time I hear the US anthem played I say "Well done John - a great British tune".

[@robMurphy-jk3fq]

Check out last night of the proms you might learn something 😮

[@RockinDave1]

*Half learn, mishearing chunks of the narration or just not listening. Then forgetting it again in ten minutes if the rest of his reactions are anything to go by

[@partridge9698]

If apple pie is not made with the Bramley variety of apples, then it is not proper apple pie.

[@ritacobb3063]

The best apple pie is made with bramley apples. The flesh is soft and it has the most delicious mild flavour

[@jay-rk1ve]

Only 1 sauce on steak. Peppercorn Sauce

[@ChrisBetton]

Stilton is also acceptable.

[@ChrisBetton]

Or Stilton. But that's it. Those are the two.

[@WightPirate]

YES! I was just about to write this too. I smother my steak in pepper corn sauce

[@jameshunter6635]

Let’s be clear….A good quality steak…seasoned and cooked properly, should never be ruined by any bloody sauce whatsoever. A1, HP, Ketchup, Peppercorn, blue cheese….NOTHING!! The beautiful flavour of a steak should not be tarnished so grotesquely.

[@BazColne]

We have HP (brown) Sauce and Daddies (brown) Sauce. Both fabulous.

[@Mabinogion]

But we never put them on steak unless it was messed up during the cooking

[@LorisTheUntethered]

I refuse to believe you became a full grown man this oblivious to basic stuff you could work out yourself.

[@leohickey4953]

He could've added baseball.

[@RachelGrant-r7c]

Yep, Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen, she plays baseball lol!

[@nicolafenner6260]

You've reacted to a video before where you were told apple pie is British so it can't be a shock.

[@annesmith2259]

Why do t you just listen to the narrative instead of constantly overthinking

[@sharonmartin4036]

It's called "reacting". If he didn't say anything it would be just us watching him watching something else. . . . . . . . . . . .

[@nolasyeila6261]

​@@sharonmartin4036 he could listen..then react. Not second guess everything before it has been shown or explained.

[@sharonmartin4036]

@@nolasyeila6261 He likes to see if he can guess things. Leave him to do his show the way he wants to. Nobody is forcing anyone to watch him if they don't like it. Live and let live.

[@thedisabledwelshman9266]

america IS NOT the greatest country in the world.

[@Owen7070]

yes, everyone except Americans know that

[@marydavis5234]

Do you know what would happen, if the US left NATO.

[@Owen7070]

@@marydavis5234 It wouldn't be good for the US... lets put it that way.

[@mrchickflick4444]

A high school American called Jim violating an apple pie was enough for America to have their apple pie licence revoked 😅

[@rayaqueen9657]

Aw dear Tyler i really felt for you in this video. You really looked a bit shaken! Don't worry. It'll all be ok. 🧡

[@adrianwaygood7156]

American apple pie tastes like cinnamon (yuk), whereas British apple pie tastes of (sharp) apples.

[@bassoprimo]

It isn't even real Cinnamon (Cinnamomum verum), it is a cheaper inferior version - Cassia Bark (Cinnamomum cassia)!

[@davidstewart9701]

Wait, what! Is a this another video I’ve already covered with the same things? Wait, what? It can’t be! Wait, what? Am I taking the piss? Wait, what? YES!

[@RAYRAAMSALU]

I'm a little surprised that Laurence didn't mention that the music to the American national anthem originated in the UK written by John Stafford Smith

[@susanlane8803]

My Ancestors travelled with William Penn on the Welcome (Ship) in 1682 and founded Pennsylvania, we still live a 5 mile distance from where they all lived!

[@anitapeludat256]

That's a great family history.!

[@occamraiser]

AMERICA is British....with some Irish, Polish, German, Italian, Hispanic, Chinese and Vietnamese influences layered on top. Almost EVERYTHING you consider American is from somewhere else, usually England. America isn't old. The church around the corner where I was christened is older than America. It's in fact older than the first colonies - apart from the Native Americans and Vikings. We have buildings older than your nation - so almost nothing is American.

[@watermelon7998]

you seem to think that old means "superior"

[@jeanauguste-f7i]

I'd be interested in knowing what actual culture the USA has it doesn't even have a national costume. I can only think of one thing and that's your gun culture.

[@Yandarval]

The US murdered many traditional UK and Irish festivals and holidays. All Hallows' Eve and Christmas were very different to the overly commercial ones we have today.

[@margaretnicol3423]

Oh dear - it's him - the Pond guy! I hope he doesn't mess this one up. OK - he wasn't as bad as he sometimes is.

[@DanielWalker-jo2kr]

Apples actually originated on the slopes of Tien Shan mountains of Kazakhstan, in central Asia, which lies adjacent to the old Silk Road trading network. From there they were adopted by The Hittites in Northern Anatolia and the Persians in modern day Iran, who actually had laws regarding the accidental damaging of apple orchards. It was the Romans who first brought apples to Britain, where pies and crumbles would become just one way in which the cooked fruit entered the local diet, including the habit of combining cooked apples with pork and cloves. There were no apples in America at all, until immigrants brought cuttings and saplings with them to plant in American soil.

[@Jill-mh2wn]

I remember a cartoon when I was a child loooooong ago, called `Johnny Appleseed `,about going round America planting orchards.

[@Deano-Dron81]

Can I see a record of them using it? Probably not….

[@Merrid67play]

Johnny "Appleseed" was just an environmental bandit, going around chucking seeds out the window. Most appleseeds don't breed true.

[@matt-fh6hb]

The “American pastime” of baseball is also British. We have both Welsh and British codes of baseball to this day, that evolved from rounders. And we also have the American code. All very similar but with differences. And the “father of baseball” is a Yorkshireman, called Harry Wright, from Sheffield, who was very much involved in the first professional club, the Cincinnati Red Stockings. A player on his team was Albert Spalding, who went on to fake the Doubleday myth, to claim the sport was created in America, even though he knew Wright personally, had travelled to the UK with him and seen British codes first hand… but that wouldn’t help him sell his wares, would it?

[@paulbantick8266]

They also bastardised Rugby Union to come up with Gridiron rules.

[@stephennewton2777]

A1 is virtually the same as Brown sauce in taste and appearance. Beef steaks aren’t especially popular in the U.K. and are more likely to be served with a peppercorn sauce than something smacked from a bottle.

[@kimspicer9038]

And pumpkin pie! The only experience I've had of that was in the 60s in the village school when sometimes pumpkin pie was.on the dinner menu. Being little children with very conservative palates we'd scrape the pumpkin from the pastry and eat the pastry with the custard. Then we'd have to try that disguise the remainder of the pie by putting it over the base of the pudding plate to look less than it was. If we left food we'd be kept in to eat it. So pumpkin pie has never appealed, even now.

[@davidwebley6186]

Perhaps I've lived a sheltered life but I am not aware of any steak sauce in the UK. What is a steak sauce exactly.

[@braxtonkhan3979]

5:34... Guns

[@JohnResalb]

Hi Tyler, Most of these things were imported with the founding fathers, but I think these days, kids at school don't learn much about this important period in American history. They're not even sure why you guys speak English! Never mind - they're all happy and friendly (at least those I meet on holiday over here).

[@willvangaal8412]

Yuo are meaning the founding fathers who lived in the Netherlands .

[@gridlerbing]

It's not pronounced holloween It's short for all hallows eve.

[@MrHorse-by3mp]

Has America actually ever invented anything? Maybe rubber chickens and non-biodegradable "cake," but I'm talking about things that are actually somewhat important. It's okay, I'll wait.

[@generaladvance5812]

Are you joking? Or just really ignorant.

[@Deano-Dron81]

@@generaladvance5812I mean it’s not entirely untrue though is it? They seem to have a list of notable inventions that people think originated there but in fact didn’t. I’m not just talking about this video, I’ve watched more actual in depth recognisable videos on the same subject.

[@anitapeludat256]

We like people and we know how to smile. You aren't known for smiling and don't trust smiles. Therefore, you live to trash the states like it's a national hobby. Put others down in an attempt to elevate your insecurities and deep sadness. That's what you demonstrate with every criticism.

[@Deano-Dron81]

@@anitapeludat256 lol

[@MichaelJohnsonAzgard]

A1 is like our HP sauce and I would never pour it over steak.. That would be a crime! Use a peppercorn, Diane or Béarmaise instead.

[@rosincox9799]

Agree.I only use HP on sausages .

[@marieparker3822]

When I was a child, turnip lanterns were the thing. We had Halloween parties at the Brownies (junior Guides or Girl Scouts for Americans), with ducking for apples, eating treacle scones (covered in treacle) hanging from strings, with hands tied behind one's back, dressing up in a disguise. We also went out in small groups throughout the town, disguised, knocking on strangers' doors, and performing a song, poem or story in exchange for nuts, fruit or small amounts of money. The beauties of a high-trust society, eh? It was - and remains - a children's festival (with pagan origins), although some religious people visit their relatives' graves on 2 November(All Souls' Day). 1 November is All Saints Day.

[@stevehartley7504]

Elgar was given an Honorary Doctorate at Yale. He just did a concert in celebration

[@bexbugoutsurvivor]

I will tell you another thing that use to be British is....AMERICA.

[@tiniselles]

I like watching videos on KZbin of people from the US moving to The Netherlands. They are all so surprised by our apple pie. They see real apple slices!

[@robertcervantes7016]

Tyler, check out the 13 colonies. Your brain is going to explode because they're all British.

[@anitapeludat256]

And lots of white Europeans.

[@karenchristinewise7833]

Hallowe'en, proper spelling, is definitely Celtic ( Keltic phonetically) is the festival of the dead. The God Crom Cruach ruled over the dark half of the year. A Celtic day was sundown to sundown. The walls between this life and the next were practically non-existent. The dead came back to visit their descendants. Parties were held to appease them, bonfires were lit for protection and food was given out to strangers. The belief was that if you were disguised that you would be safe from vengeful ghosts. British refers to the Celtic people of Britain. Even in pre-Christian Ireland, our laws were called Brehon Law, derived from Britain. English comes from Germany as Anglo-Saxons. Also, Apple pie is called Apple tart in Ireland.

[@eyeball226]

The idea that Americans think that they were the first to put apples in pastry has always been incredibly amusing.

[@victor58010]

This is the best comment section ever! So many hilarious and bitchy comments,but mostly good humoured and curiously restrained,like a debate between university scholars. Many commenters are falling over themselves to politely insult one another - it reminds me of the wonderfully sarcastic wit of Blackadder,I love it! This is what the internet should be about,not nasty,hate-filled garbage,just light hearted verbal fencing. Congratulations to you all,you made my day.

[@margaretnicol3423]

Take a listen to Land of Hope and Glory at The Proms. Just don't play it on July 4! 😀

[@James.Ess123]

Most of these things were popularised in America and are American. They just have origins elsewhere as all things do. Land of Hope and Glory is definitely popular here though and is very well known. People eat apple pies here too, but we prefer meat pies in the UK. The statue 🗽 was made in France.