Americans React to British Highschoolers seeing British MEMES!

[@leehallam9365]

The electric kettle thing blows the British mind. It is the first gadget anyone buys when they set up house, and will be packed seperately when moving house so it can be opened first.

[@emme2141]

You can ise it for so much more than tea too, I don’t understand why you wouldn’t want one!

[@rainbows5232]

me too, im not british but having a kettle is really a basic must have item. we also drink coffee and tea at home, i cant imagine living without one

[@MJacquelineJ]

I always wonder how they make up baby bottles and stuff without a proper electric kettle

[@ihkeseteeietos5722]

Same as an Asian who don’t drink much tea. Its the first thing I bought for my kitchen when I move to my own place.

[@dad9424]

Blows my mind as an aussie too and we barely even drink tea (less than the poms anyway). It must be so inconvenient having to boil it on the stove, or god forbid microwaving it (lmao)

[@emmajayne4894]

No! A cookie is a type of biscuit. So we have custard cremes, bourbons, digestives, hobnobs,cookies ect. Plus fries and chips are different. Chips are fat and fluffy and fries are thin and crispy.

[@heykirstieb]

Yes! 👏🏻

[@Karinagrinchishin]

For us there's home fries, steak fries, curly fries, and French fries

[@Jacob-ps5xl]

@@Karinagrinchishin we have curly fries and 'French fries' (usually just called fries), for us home fries would just be called fried potatoes and steak fries are similar to chips but slightly flatter

[@user-ry6jj6kx2s]

Yess cookies are in the biscuit category, and fries are in the chip category

[@Loages]

Thank you! Same me a rant 😂 biscuits are a type of cookie is mad to say 😂

[@feewatt]

French fries here in the UK are a different thing to our chips. French fries are much thinner. Chips here tend to be chunkier.

[@lindsaymckeown513]

Yes, we have both. As an older person I associate fries with crappy fast food and we didn't have them until the invasion of the likes of Macdonalds. Unless we went to France!

[@barrygentry5364]

You call fries, fries because they are fried? By that logic everything you fry should be called fries.

[@harv3y874]

so what do you call ones that are boiled and chunky

[@MiniDush]

@@harv3y874chips

[@Aliix458]

​@@harv3y874 fricked because they came out of the oven incorrectly 😂😂

[@jayaloades3840]

@@harv3y874boiled ?

[@Im_Zion]

@@harv3y874chips

[@offthesidelines]

Funny thing is that Max - redhead/ "idk I'm not American!" - apparently lived in the US as a kid (unsure if he was actually born there though) and moved to England as a preteen if I remember correctly. (Even more unexpected: he's a quarter Indian.) Meanwhile Armand (slicked back hair) is actually French, although he also moved to England as a preteen. You can tell that those two accepted all those jokes much easier than the rest of the boys. 😂

[@Codex7777]

The sunburn meme undermined itself, by showing a Belgian footballer, as an example of British person. :)

[@Devonshirejackdaw]

Luv how laid back the kids were in this. Their so British ❤

[@themoderntemplar1567]

We say maths as it's a shortened version of mathematics, math implies that you guys do mathematic. Ours definitely makes more sense, I mean if you were studying physics you wouldn't cut off the s.

[@beatricemorris6517]

Funnily in slavic languages those are all used singular. Translated directly „mathematic, physic, etc”. And you know not all names were first used in english, language is more complicated than this. One doesn’t necessarily make more sense than the other.

[@themoderntemplar1567]

I wasn't debating the etymology but I think it's safe to say that seeing as both countries aren't Slavic and both share English as a mother tongue I fail to see the validity of your rather conflated reply.

[@beatricemorris6517]

@@themoderntemplar1567 it’s not conflated. US and British english from certain point developed independently from each other and being influenced by different other languages. Just because british say it differently, doesn’t make it more correct

[@croissantpower]

@@beatricemorris6517it is correct through because in both dialects it’s short for mathematics. You can’t have a plural word ‘mathematics’ shortened into a singular word ‘math’ lol that doesn’t make any sense

[@jeffcollar]

​@@croissantpower Fish, women, deer, sheep, aircraft, I can go in. The definition of math is mathematics.

[@leehallam9365]

What you call biscuits are a sort of savoury scone. We do have cookies, they are a type of biscuit. They typically have chocolate chips in. The main brand name is Maryland Cookies. But we have many other types and they are all biscuits. As for fries, chips and crisps. What You call fries, yes they are fried, they are fried chips of potato, they are not French. What you call chips are also fried, so what's the difference? But they are crispy slices of potato, they are not chips. Mind you we have nicked Fries as a name for skinny American style chips. I'm sorry the language is English, we are English so we get to umpire on this. 😂

[@Emily.R.W]

The origin of the word biscuit is twice baked. Which is what you do to make them extra hard. Not all biscuits are twice baked, but they are definitively hard and not crumbly. A cookie will always crumble.

[@kemipue]

The accent ones only really work if you’re from London…

[@phoebe3575]

idk i mean i live in london and there are like 7 different accents here alone - i don’t pronounce a lot of these words like the boys in the video

[@kemipue]

@phoebe3575 Lol, you're right- I just thought explaining that would have been too confusing for most people! 😅

[@phoebe3575]

@@kemipue true! i do find it funny how the stereotypes we get are either 1800s royalty or not pronouncing half the letters in words😂 like there’s never a middle ground

[@kemipue]

@@phoebe3575 hahaha 😆

[@suro_33Mi]

We are european. Many names derive from French or Latin. Biscuits is french...

[@phoenix-xu9xj]

It’s stupid to say we only use kettles for tea. We used them for almost everything in cooking.

[@Ilive_420]

I'm Nigerian and we don't drink that much tea and kettles are a necessity lol

[@Emily.R.W]

When I use my kettle: Boiling water to save time when I want to boil/steam anything. Boiling water to make coffee. Boiling water in case the house boiler breaks. Boiling water to safely transport a large quantity of hot water to my bin to clean it out. Boiling water to use for/in any consumable because hot water from the tap is not always safe to drink (in certain older houses, but not so much any more - that’s why we have two separate taps/faucets) And as for the how to make British tea video, that’s how to do everything wrong. You should boil water in a kettle, add a little hot water into a proper teacup (these are not mugs, they are almost translucent, and have tall sides) and let it warm the cup, pour it out, then add the teabag, pour water up to the desired level and let it steep to the desired strength, discard the teabag, add milk to taste, and stir well. The perfect cup of tea.

[@Weho.]

Cookies that are soft are definitely cookies, cookies that are hard /dry are biscuits

[@paparoach007]

The "problem" with a lot of the phrases we use in the UK comes from the South in London and the surrounding areas. In the North in Manchester or Yorkshire we have much broader phrases and we sometimes use a variation of a known word. In London they say "Bo'oh'wa'er" because that's just how Cockney's say it, in Yorkshire we say "ey lad, give us a bottle of waf'fer (waf-fer)" to use as an example. It does annoy me that the rest of the world only hears the South's slang terms but it is what it is there's no point crying about it but it's hilarious to listen to!

[@lili20203]

In South Africa we also call them biscuits , not cookies 😅

[@fafikhalii89]

I’m shocked Americans don’t have electric kettles

[@Tisha269]

I have one! 🇺🇸

[@Mijah1016]

We have two.

[@chillsimmer1471]

These guys have an a second channel called Korean Englishman and they just started a new series where they take these boys to enlist in the Korean army - looks amazing

[@Nevolet]

American breakfast culture is coffee, bacon, egg, those fluffy pancakes, maybee waffles instead, cereals, bagels and sometimes muffins.

[@cbjones82]

Biscuits from twice cooked. Cos they're hard and crispy... cookies are a type of biscuit in the UK

[@juneseghni]

These are middle class kids so the way they speak is quite 'proper' . They wouldn't necessarily use the slang shown in the memes.

[@yurihuffles]

Best way to explain biscuits for both is... to remember that "biscuit" originally was a food item popular on ships. This OG biscuits is the item that both countries version of "biscuit" started as. In the USA where they had all sailed over and thus had used biscuits as an important part of their meal, it therefore makes sense that in America "biscuit" became seen as a core part of a meal, and while the recipe changed you still have it as part of a meal. At the same time the US made a sweet baked snacked called a "cookie". It's also important to note how America often uses the branded name of an item as the name for all items of that type, thus how the US might have a traditional "cookie" (chocolate chip, etc).. but then has a ton of other cookies. In the UK on the other hand, outside of the British Navy people didn't really have a need to eat "biscuits". The rare times at first when a noble person would eat a "biscuit", it wasn't unusual to add things to make the special patch of "biscuits" sweeter. A noble person eating a "biscuit" also wouldn't be doing it as their meal (even if it might of been a meal for those around them). Therefore overtime "biscuits" served to nobles and the upper class became sweeter & flatter and far removed from the "biscuits" that you would eat at sea - leading to "regular biscuits" (for sea) and "sweet biscuits" for the ones nobles ate. In time, "sweet biscuits" dropped the "sweet" and became just "biscuits" as the main type of biscuit eaten in the UK. Also, as countries often describe things in other countries using their own words - the UK did this with the traditional "chocolate chip cookie, etc", matching the description of what the UK calls biscuit.

[@Happhazard]

Chips are chipped potatoes which are fried. Crisps are crisp fried thin slices of potatoes. Biscuits comes from the French word meaning twice baked and so have nothing to do with your biscuits.

[@LadyVenomWay]

Beans on toast is the best breakfast, beans with a full English is also the best breakfast. Beans with everything!!

[@marchenderson9854]

this is a cookie 🍪 and a cookie is a type of biscuit

[@starsign0805]

The fact that alot of British memes like 'zed' and 'tea' and 'electric kettle' and 'biscuits' are super relatable for Indians is peak dark humour.

[@amyw6808]

18c here today and yesterday after the wettest April on record. Feels amazing. I wore a dress with short sleeves and nothing on my legs. Seen loads of people in shorts and T-shirts, even a couple of people in flip flops. Lush.

[@ne12follow]

I love that I am a British person, watching Americans reacting to British kids reacting to American stereotypes of British people.

[@Codex7777]

'Maths' is a contraction of 'mathematics', hence the 's'. :)

[@TylerHall594]

And we just take the first 4 letters and say math.

[@andybaker2456]

If you take the potato out of the equation and think about what a "chip" is, i.e., a small piece of a hard material (think 'wood chips'), then what we call chips in the UK makes sense. In fact, at one time, you sometimes used to see them on restaurant menus as "chipped potatoes", with "chips" being an abbreviation. What you call chips aren't chips at all, they're slices. We call them crisps because they're 'crisp' fried slices of thinly-cut potatoes. I rest my case. 😁

[@Dualtyping]

By the logic that chips are fries because they are fried shouldn’t crisps be crisps because they are crispy?

[@CoreyClaydon]

Cookie has chocolate chips. A biscuit is basically anything else they’re usually plainer like just a chocolate biscuit but cookies is specifically chocolate chips. Also chips are thick and fries are skinny 👍🏻

[@jlucie]

Biscuits means twice cooked, so biscuits are hard, cookies are soft. But I've definitely been disappointed buying a pack of 'cookies' (like Ahoy chip cookies) and they end up being crunchy like a biscuit 😞

[@viviennerose6858]

That's very strange, because I, personally, can only consider beans as a breakfast item

[@psychosoma5049]

4:35 biscuits are different to cookies . Just like chips are different to fries x

[@edenmoon8275]

The accent that Americans associate with the British is the London accent, a lot of us pronounce our 'T's and indeed say BoTTle of WaTer

[@Im_Zion]

Cookie is a type of biscuit, like a chocolate chip cookie. The same way a fry is a different kind of chip

[@Abi-Grey8]

We put the teabag in first, then the water and then remove the teabag before putting the milk in. Some put milk in first then the teabag and then water but I find that a bit bad.

[@barrygentry5364]

And the red faced Brit is a Belgian footballer 😉

[@zu-becca4151]

Biscuits and cookies are different for us as well, and chips and fries are different.

[@Draftspike]

Guys come on, it’s maths because the full word is mathematics 😂

[@lily-Rose14]

We use fries and chips, fries are thinner and chips are thicker.And we have different types of biscuits and cookies!

[@theresaryan2280]

In Wales in the UK we say Oi boyo. And see that it over there and see you in a minute now etc etc

[@Weho.]

The tea bag should go in the hot water on its own without the milk. Once the Teabag is out, then the milk goes in ☕️…. And she added wayyyyyy too much milk, that was nearly half a cup of milk that went in there. 🤢

[@Clover_moon111]

It's pretty funny how most people outside the uk seem to think that Britain is just England, like i don't say a lot of those things like that

[@hulda4ever]

Biscuits and cookies are different in the UK biscuit is a butter cracker. They use cookie too for like chocolate chip 🍪

[@fr0z3n33]

Whose language is it? Thought so that’s like tryna tell Spanish people how to speak Spanish 💀

[@bloodclaat]

The only people who speak the purest english form are the British upper class and royals, most people speak a casual form of english in Britain

[@sallystar3688]

we dont make tea like that lol, we boil it in a kettle, put teabag first in mug then pour the water from kettle and then add milk and add 1 teaspoon sugar or something

[@nevaeh_miku9946]

Btw when they say beans for breakfast they mean in a full English breakfast, they don’t mean on their own

[@minniemoon3144]

In the uk we call cookies just cookies we don’t call them biscuits if that helps

[@GA-ik6pi]

😂😂😂 swear down this is funny!! You know being from London we just talk how we do. Don’t pay no mind the pronunciation 🤣. Rah this is jokes

[@Mortal150k]

BISCUITS AREN'T COOOKIES !!!!!!!! they are different, very different

[@liamowen]

Yall got to remember we were munching on biscuits before you where even a country. 1588 my man ! Ship rations !

[@babymammoth6254]

Guys, we invented the English Language, not you! 😂

[@mariabolt3881]

Aren't Lays a Company? Crisps are the product.

[@jessyh7944]

Anything that can be dunked in a cup of tea is a biscuit

[@carolebuckle7977]

The brits created a lot of the words 🤛🏻🤭🤭😂

[@theresaryan2280]

Have a couples of spoons of beans with bacon sausages eggs etc for breakfast

[@lindsaymckeown513]

Hilarious. Mostly London/South East accents mind you; Northern English and Scottish accents and sayings would blow your minds! And they speak much faster too.

[@francespetrak4600]

Innit is a way of saying "isn't it?"

[@JennieShaw-b2i]

The fries may be fried but the potatoes are chipped hence chips

[@Whiteshirtloosetie]

Bi = 2 so Biscuit means cooked twice. If you cut wood what you get is wood Chips. Cut a potato they are Chips. Therefore if Crisps are sliced how can they be Chips.

[@viviennerose6858]

We do say 'shut up' a lot, but there is a helluva lot of shu' up too

[@AditPatidar]

british ppl call them chips cos they look like chipped pieces of potatoes. and the same with crisps. we call them crisps because they are crispy.

[@Katmarie100]

And if you're from the north of England you frequently have bikkies to dunk in your tea!

[@moustachetuesdays]

The woman making the tea was American! And she did that poor cuppa dirty. We have electric kettles in the uk! Boiled the water, pour into cup, add tea bag and stir. Finish with milk/sugar if you have it….. I drink my black! Her way was an abomination!

[@viviennerose6858]

Not 100% sure, but maybe they're called chips because you chip away at the potato? French fries comes from pomme frite - fried potatoes, which to me sound more like the whole thing! I'm English, I'm prejudiced 😄

[@colinglen4505]

They're 'chips' of a potato.

[@cait_linss]

The moment these guys find out scouse accents exist is over for them

[@BEBEXGWENPLAYS]

Y’all saying we are wrong with our words but we were here first 😭👏

[@jonathanordidge5338]

You guys don’t have what we call biscuits you just have a thousand choices of cookies is all, we have cookies too

[@hulda4ever]

Let’s all remember that Americans came from the UK and changed the language later on

[@GrayXOXOlol]

I mean in Ireland we pronounce it Mats instead of math or maths

[@Codex7777]

Virtually all the accent memes were using a stereotypical London accent. Even most Londoners don't talk like that, lol. Most Brits have a completely different accent and there's a LOT of different accents! Drive an hour, from any point in England and the accent will be completely different from the accent at your starting point. In some cases you'd only need to drive half an hour, or less! :)

[@hrts4biil]

you doing british accents have me crying. we call ‘chips’ crisps we call ‘fries’ chips and fries as chips are thicker and fries are like the ones you get from mcdonalds. as well a cookie is usally bigger and chewier, and the chunchy ones are biscuits (like digestives) and they dint go w coffee they go w tea. as well chewsday is the superior way. and so is schtupid. as ny brother changes race in the summer and never goes red (i burn but we dint talk abt that) and beans is disgusting, but beans is like top tier breakfast for most people. i gave ny friend a tin of beans fir her birthday. and tea is made: first add tea bag, then add hot water from a kettle or hot water tap, mix, add milk, take tea bag out and then optional: sugar. and its. more maffs then maffimatics. and its SHHHu Uup (or SHHHuT UuP

[@PatriciaSoper-oy4xs]

I'm British and agree that Math is correct, as the word Mathematics is not a plural.

[@Dan-B]

It’s worth mentioning that it looks like they went to a public school (Private School) the students seem a little bit sheltered compared to many British students. It’s not common place to be British and not know how to pronounce things Worcestershire 😛

[@TeamEmperor]

She put tea in her milk

[@drum253]

We have biscuits insted of huge dense cookies because we don't want to get THAT fat.

[@jackreynolds3868]

I mean seeing as we created the language what we say is right

[@emmahowells8334]

You call them french fries, but they aren't french as where you are isn't france, so no different really. We call them chips because it comes from the old English word cipp which means a small piece of wood as in chipped piece of wood. French fries were invented in 1775 then introduced to Britain we also referred to them as chips as they were chipped off the potato so has two meanings for the word chip. So you call them fries cause of how they're cooked, we call them chips as it refers to how they are cut into the shape.

[@vuyisilembhola9270]

As a South African, I dentify a lot more with the British English. I sometimes find some of the things Americans say weird.

[@iallyl3877]

we have cookies, and biscuits, we dont call cookies Biscuits. have a full english with baked beans bro, its the breakfast of champions

[@anastasiaivanova9131]

I have a question for you, why do you call them ''French fries'' if they not even French?

[@Infiniteeverything8]

Tbh, crisps are also fried

[@anthonywilson6554]

Crisp is a potato CHIP.

[@paulforryan4253]

The american meme pronouncing things. Its always the stereotypical cockney accent.

[@kizzyycat6574]

Aussies also pronounce most of their words the same way as British people do....

[@Heytheredelisandwich]

Y’all don’t microwave water?

[@That-Ginger-Chick]

Maths because mathematics not mathematic. We speak quicker than you. I watch Americans when I'm tired because its easier to take in.

[@fordaru4180]

Put their links if you gonna use their videis😮

[@liul]

We don't understand why you call your pseudo-rugby "football"

[@SejalChauhan-kn5hr]

i totally agree with term Football not Soccer bruh

[@kookpg7629]

I don't understand why do Americans make fun of British accent when english was literally created by the british people

[@DJdopaminCZ]

Reaction, on reaction on memes. I should make reaction on reaction on reaction on reaction

[@Ha-young_is_Just_Too_Fine]

British high schooler's is a bit extreme, those are English, can tell since they literally look like how Family guy represented them

[@maria-se5gh]

stop buying starbucks

[@PolishGeorge]

Cookies are made with cookie dough

[@theresaryan2280]

That woman who made the tea cannot be British at all. She didn’t do anything right making that tea Maths. The s is because of the word mathematics

[@MJS-vx3oj]

Chips are chips because the potatoes are chipped and then fried. Crisps are crisps because they're crispy. French fries are an abomination on the planet, the fact they're French says it all.

[@jezzkeepgoinh]

chips arent fries