Americans React to British Highschoolers seeing British MEMES!

[@Sii6X]

As a British guy the way that woman made the cup of tea actually triggered me, she should be jailed for that absolute monstrosity

[@reallystraightguy2716]

As an American, I've never seen or heard of anyone making tea like this. EVER!

[@RD-eh3tz]

Don't think you can even call it tea when half the glass was milk

[@kimarnill7648]

She lived in the U.K. for a number of years, she should know.😮

[@alexbuckenham1663]

She was definitely doing that for the video to go viral when it triggered us Brits...it worked

[@stutallis5673]

In the olde days, she'd have been burned at the stake for that

[@SteveSmallMusic]

It's maths because it's the shortened version of 'mathematics', not 'mathematic'.

[@leweegiggles]

Yeah but their stupid argument is based on the fact that it's shortened and therefore removed from the word by the shortening

[@B33T33W]

That literally makes no sense. If it was shortened there is no need to ad an s.

[@leweegiggles]

@@B33T33W what he meant was "abbreviated" not shortened. Americans have shortened it but we have abbreviated it.

[@samhilton4173]

It has an S regardless, because it is not a singular area of learning. Since it encompasses multiple subjects it must be pluralised.

[@B33T33W]

@@leweegiggles maths is not an abbreviation what are you talking about loooool you dont understand that word my guy. EU education going strong i see 😂 in that case, anyways, how can you screw up an abbreviation? There is not a set abbreviation for mathematics. This is just turning into a “im right cause im english” argument as if we don’t use the same language.

[@edwardsaj]

Fun fact, biscuit is an old French word for twice cooked, which are what biscuits are. We have cookies, they come under the overall heading of biscuit and are broadly like choc chip cookies. Biscuit is a general term. O and chips, chips are little shavings/cuts from potatoes, or chips if you will. We have fries as well, they are a specific type of chip. And crisps are crisps because they are, well, crispy 😊

[@samhilton4173]

In British kitchens fries are called "frits" or "frittes". "Fries" is still considered an Americanism in the culinary world.

[@edwardsaj]

@@samhilton4173 fair enough, though you'd be hard pressed to find anyone call them anything else other than fries, or chips.

[@bassax7045]

cookies was inherited from Dutch koekjes

[@Worldsamess2024]

​@@samhilton4173 I'm British and never heard of frits. Its always chips.

[@chrislyne377]

​@@samhilton4173 lol no they're not. Where are you from??

[@lyndseyj100]

Cookies are cookies in England too, biscuits are something different, chocolate chip cookies we do call cookies. We also have fries too!! Chips are thick cut version of fries. We use same word just have other words to differentiate variations.

[@gemlc2022]

The chips fries and biscuit cookie thing does wind me up a bit 🤣, as they are different things not just a different name dor them

[@lyndseyj100]

@@gemlc2022 I know it annoys me it isn't like we just use another word we use the words for correct items and have other words for the others.

[@H5chi]

Basically a cookie is a type of biscuit

[@WEZ4136]

I always find it hilarious when Americans comment on English words and how they find the words wrong when we gave the Americans the English language in the first place 😂 Keep up the good work guys, absolutely love your video reactions

[@lydiamichaels1976]

a lot of americans especially teens on tiktok act as if accents, dialects and slang are weird but they've always existed throughout history. Americans have accents but they act as if they have the default or smth and everyone else in the english spking world is weird. Also i think maybe growing up the american media showed only the posh english accent so now that they're older and discovered realistic british accents and slang they act as if it's strange or smth

[@B33T33W]

Americans have contributed plenty to English. You also forget we were you at one point dumbasses (my grandpa moved here from london when he was 18). Lol and maths is just wrong and stupid theres no need to ad extra letter when your trying to get rid of syllables. Defeats the purpose or shortening. Everyone knows math is short for mathematics. Inb4 yall say you invented math.

[@WEZ4136]

@@lydiamichaels1976 I’d agree with that, most likely hearing the English accent from actors in movies 😆

[@lydiamichaels1976]

@Jack Scandinavian is Germanic u melon

[@ladyleighsparrow]

🎤🎤🎤🎤we invented the language so were right lmao

[@_Ogmios]

Biscuit means twice-baked. Cookies are single bake, most modern biscuits are single bake. But it was much more common to cook sweet things more than once in the past when the term was first taken from the latin. Military hard-tack was baked 4 times for instance

[@ianjardine7324]

Which is why biscuits are crunchy and cookies are chewy. This is clearly understood by most of the world but Americans have to be different.

[@MyBigMouth]

To add to this, if you bake biscuit twice now it's still the same texture, but bake an American biscuit twice it turns into a lump of rock.

[@dylanmurphy9389]

For me, a cookie is one specific type of biscuit

[@WEZ4136]

To me as an Englishman a cookie is round with choc chips and hazelnut or whatever you prefer, but we probably have different types of biscuits than Americans have cookies. The reason most Americans don’t have electric kettles is down to the electricity supply as it’s only 110 watts, many use the stove top kettle instead but, WTF was that woman and her kid doing to that poor tea bag, my god she needs taking out into the streets and publicly shamed for that shit. She turned making a brew into a full on international insult to tea drinkers worldwide 😂

[@abbiereynolds8016]

For me, a cookie is the one with chocolate chips in it, everything else is a biscuit.

[@gavinyoung4156]

We call fries chips because the potatoes go through a chipping machine to make them 😂

[@kingspeechless1607]

They are cut into chips with a knife at home and in the past. It makes more sense to say it is called a "chipping machine" because it makes 'ready to cook' chips.

[@pedroneves3153]

With the whole French fries/chips debate we call the thick cut ones chips and the thin ones Fries, there’s a difference… we don’t go to McDonalds and ask for Large chips we ask for large fries for example, whereas at a fish and chip shop we’d ask for large chips as they’re the thick cut versions…

[@ALittleKitten]

Thank you

[@MikaIsDead]

I feel like most young British people (specifically londoners or people from bigger cities) switch between English English and American English for certain words because we grew up watching a lot of American TV

[@pedroneves3153]

@@MikaIsDead agreed

[@kingspeechless1607]

"Large chips" in a chippie, usually refers to the quantity of chips a customer wants, not the individual size of the chip.

[@N2020-h1u]

To me, (UK) a biscuit is crunchy and a cookie is soft and doughy. Great reaction guys 👍

[@jimjimcherie]

Armand is genuinely so funny. It's maths because maths is plural, there's multiple branches of mathematics. My first language is spanish, we also say "matemáticas", it's plural.

[@Shell2164]

Teabag then pour on boiling water, then milk last once the teabag is removed. Any other way is criminal.

[@tonywilkinson6895]

The lady that made the tea,was just taking the piss and joking as she lived in the uk for years.

[@ianmclean6399]

Mathematics. Plural so its maths, math is singular makes no sense

[@wolf_of_fenric]

In the UK a biscuit tends to be hard while a cookie tends to be softer/doughy. Digestives are a brand of biscuits.

[@lizmccarthy-edwards2115]

I was surprised none of them knew "innit" was an abbreviation of "isn't it". I was waiting for one of them to pipe up and say it but uhhh - nope.

[@conallmclaughlin4545]

Chips are called chips because the potato's are chipped. They go through a Chipping machine. Crisps are called that because its a crispy slice of fried potato . Its cooked until its crisp.

[@janelc1843]

I'm not even British, I'm French and I was triggered by the way that woman made tea... I feel really sorry for my British fellows, that was really really really painful to watch

[@pakistancricfan1773]

As a Pakistani, I speak a mixture of British and American english so it's always hilarious seeing these kind of videos.

[@kingspeechless1607]

That should be 'English' and "American English!"

[@the98themperoroftheholybri33]

I spiritually died watching that lady make tea in a microwave

[@nicknoga564]

“Biscuit” is actually a word with ancient Roman origins. In Latin it would’ve been broken into two-words “bi” and “scuit” (which translates to ‘twice-baked’). For centuries it referred to a basic, hard cracker that people would eat on long sea voyages and such (that’s where ‘sea biscuit’ comes from). They were a low-moisture that wouldn’t go bad after months and months at sea. About 100years ago, the food industry saw huge innovations in biscuits and started flavoring them with sweeteners. In the UK they maintained the use of the word ‘biscuit,’ whereas in the US we used a Dutch word ‘koekje’ (which translates to ‘little cake’). It’s pronounced ‘cookie’ and had been in use in America due to Dutch colonization of NY, NJ, Delaware, etc. Other Dutch food names stuck in the US as well(coleslaw, pickle, etc.).

[@educatednumpty71]

Cookies are soft and bend whereas biscuits are hard and snap. It comes from the days of sail when the ship's biscuits were hard and had to be soaked in broth before eating.

[@happycatyoutube]

We have cookies AND biscuits.....and we have chips AND fries! 😂 it may sound confusing but there is difference between them all 🤣👍

[@jacksmith4460]

Biscuit comes from french it means twice baked, which is part of the definition of what a Cookie or Biscuit is

[@whitedwarf4986]

I've often thought the closest place in the USA to us over here in terms of attitudes and sense of humour is New York so it's good to hear New Yorkers think the same.

[@xtdr-nutx3252]

4:55 yeah but you can fry other stuff too but you dont call them fries so no it doesnt make sense. Plus, we do call a certain type of chips "fries" depending on what chip it is.

[@HairyNun]

"theyre fries because theyre fried" Do americans not realise crisps(chips) are also fried? Holy shit that explains a lot.

[@liamwilko9285]

New York is definitely the closest you'll get to having a similar culture to London

[@richardcarter5082]

We definitely speak quicker than most Americans. New York is faster speaking than the rest of USA I find. With a lot of US youtubers I have to watch at 1.5x speed, but you guys I watch at normal speed.

[@GamerBruh13]

In the U.K. we have both cookies and biscuits. They are different. Also we have fries and chips. Fries when they are the thin shoestring type, and chips when they are thicker cut.

[@bigbadburts]

True. French Fries are a thin cut chip.

[@callmespinach4524]

You guys have a MASSIVE breakfast culture lol. Cereal? American. Pancakes, bacon, waffles , eggs benedict, hash browns? American. Even the idea that breakfast is the most important meal of the day is American.

[@Lily-Bravo]

70yr old Brit here. in my childhood breakfast was half a grapefruit or orange followed by eggs of some sort or kippers or smoked haddock, or porridge. It was substantial anyway. Then I came home from school for a cooked lunch with pudding and after school would be a "high" tea of baked beans on toast, or tinned spaghetti or cheese or sardines on toast, with bread and butter and cakes with hot milky drink and biscuits before bed. No snacks, no fizzy drinks. I was skinny as a rake. I had autonomy over my pocket money and bought sweets though.

[@puneetantaal9272]

i think they maybe mean on a daily bases, cuz people dont cook waffles on a tuesday. some people do just black coffee, or theres oatmeal, but mostly there isnt a huge national breakfast thats a go-to idk

[@welshknight1456]

Try a full english breakfast, bacon, eggs,sausages,toast with salted butter, bread and butter, black pudding, fried tomatoes, mushrooms,beans,hash brown, Hp sauce or heinz tomato sauce, salt and pepper, mug of hot tea. Cant beat it .

[@dannysmith8035]

the reason why brittish says maths is there is 6 main displines of mathematics

[@icba9292]

an electric kettle is such a basic necessity over here, like when someone moves house, the first thing they will buy is a kettle, cutlery, plates and dishes, mugs and glasses. Its that much of a necessity lol

[@Yehnah677]

We have chips which are the normal ones, fries which are the thinner ones but we also call them chips sometimes and then crisps which are crisps. Cookies are cookies but you have a wide range of biscuits.

[@ChrisDornDorny]

To us Brits a cookie is a type of biscuit Cookies are generally softer and have other things added to it like chocolate chip cookies 🍪

[@chrisBrown58]

Time to check out a couple of classic sketches. The Two Ronnies "Four Candles" sketch, and Only Fools and Horses "Chandelier" sketch...both are comedy gold.

[@k2411871]

Most of the world calls them "biscuits" as oppose to cookies, which is a type of biscuits

[@emmadye115]

BISCUITS AND COOKIES ARE NOT THE SAME - CONCERNED BRITISH PERSON ALSO WE DO USE THE WORD FRIES, ITS FOR THIN CHIPS, CRISPS BECAUSE THEY ARE CRISPY OMG

[@doger6425]

A cookie is a cookie over here but it's just a type of biscuit, there's loads of different types of biscuits. We have fish and chip shops all over the UK where they put potatoes into a machine called a chipper. In France they cut their potatoes much thinner and call them fries, we have fries aswell but we just call them chips 😂😂😂

[@CapraObscura]

I dont understand why americans say Graham like "Gram" And Craig like "Creg"

[@Sayitlikitiz101]

The "biscuit" argument baffles me. I am American but I know that the word is not even English, it's French and of Latin root! Biscuit in French is what the Brits call biscuit too, so the Brits are correct and we, Americans, are wrong and are using the word for the wrong item. It's too late to change anything now, but let's try not to be obnoxious about it.

[@cazzyuk8939]

MathS is short for MathematicS. I've been to NY & it's closer to us Londoners, there isn't much difference to be honest - I liked the NYorkers - some were brash but so are some Londoners so am used to that & didn't take it the wrong way.

[@ryandarkes3280]

To make tea 1 put tea bag in cup 2 add boiled water (preferably from a kettle) 3 let tea steep to make it stronger 4 remove tea bag 5 add a drop of milk 6 drink it

[@beastiebear7231]

'Innit' is the lazy form of 'isn't it'

[@Nekotaku_TV]

There are people that don't know that?

[@TheJammm79]

Lovin yr work fellas. I like how u are getting our culture and running with it! It’s really interesting to see u guys compare and it’s great u can do it with laughs instead of being too serious. Props 👍

[@BSMAG87]

We don't have what you consider biscuits in the UK (i.e. the bread roll-esque things you get in restaurants, which are closer to a British scone than anything else), but we also use the work cookie (I'd use that for something round and chocolate chip, maybe soft and chewy etc - i.e. the quintessential cookie). In the UK, biscuit is a more general term for what you'd consider cookies at large but I typically associate it with custard creams, ginger nuts, digestives, bourbons etc. (call those cookies and I'd raise an eyebrow)

[@lindadoran9700]

And also the best you will never walk alone by the Liverpool fan

[@Sara_Louise]

We have many variations of 'fries' - Thick cut, crinkle, jackets on, french fries that could all be fried but look different

[@vickyrandall4334]

In UK chips are called chips because thay are potatoes that have had bits chipped off them, aka cut into chips. French fries are a skinny version of a chip that is fried (think McDonalds fries). Crisps are crispy super thin potatoes. It makes much more sense than the American words for these... they did get fries right though so credit where it's due.

[@elena-zg4ry]

beans are often on a full english breakfast so u need to try one and it might change ur mind!

[@adriandickson5208]

Here in UK, a cookie is a specific type of biscuit, normally with chocolate chips. And, fries are the skinny french fries like in McDs, whereas Chips are much thicker.

[@melovesawyer]

I was told before that linguistically the letter H is actually pronounced ‘aitch’. I remember that because I refuse to change how I say it lol.

[@SJ19_998]

Not every biscuit is a cookie, but cookies are biscuits. A rich tea digestive is not a cookie.

[@sue4260]

Theres nuffin up wiv our biscuits or chips mate! U na wot I mean mate...init!! Lol💖🇬🇧💖🇬🇧

[@Akira03183]

Chips are chuncky and fries are thin

[@Saacary]

Z (zed) being uppercase, z (zee) being lowercase

[@EwanBrooks]

Not all fries are fried though, they're oven baked too, so potatoes go through a chipping machine that turns them into the size and shape of a fry hence chips, crispy thinly sliced potatoes hence crisp..

[@ThatEssentialAttire]

The majority of people with any brain cells in the UK don't use the word "innit". We do have cookies but they're a type of biscuit, Lets be serious Biscuit is the correct word and to state the obvious the language is ENGLISH.

[@joshowen3718]

Bacon, sausage, egg, beans, black pudding, hash browns, fried tomato and thick cut bread for breakfast is amazing!

[@England-Bob]

Crisps are a British invention(1800’s British recipe as opposed to American 1920’s). So its not chips.

[@parzival3582]

We do say fries for skinny chips occasionally. It's not because they're fried, it's because they're named after 'French Fries' which are very skinny.

[@bookclub5021]

These guys, man. Love them. They were so close to getting it at the end with the math/maths thing lmao.

[@melovesawyer]

The tea thing, I’ve also seen people actually obtain electric kettles and literally make the tea inside the actual kettle, milk and all!

[@ellacartwright6133]

How to make tea for Americans: Boil kettle or get boiling water Get a mug out Put tea bag in the mug Pour boiling water into mug Get a teaspoon Squeeze tea bag on size of mug Usually 2/3 times depending on how strong you like it Dispose of tea bag Get milk and pour into the mug Add more milk if it’s too dark Once finished with adding milk You have a choice This choice will depend upon where you stand in Britain You can add sugar or sweetner However I strongly advise it’s better without So I hope you enjoy your tea

[@Saacary]

Cookies are a type of biscuit, we still call them cookies regardless 😂

[@ibanezman04]

3:56. Cookies are a type of biscuit. But not all biscuits are cookies. (In the same way that all jaccuzis are hot-tubs but not all hot-tubs are jacuzzis). In America a biscuit is like a British scone, only not as as nice and only ever savoury, never sweet. In Britain scones are most commonly eaten with Clotted cream and Jam. 4:50 Because there's nothing French about them that's what we say fries. Fries are thin, chips are fat, that's how we differentiate the two. 7:05 Beans on toast is a cornerstone of British culture. Especially breakfast. (Don't knock it till you've tried it). However the 'Brit's don't use spices or season their food' stereotype is only accurate for those who don't know how to cook. Having lived in America I'd say it's ironically more appropriate to US culture. 9:34 NO that is definitely not how you do it. That video is sacrilegious. I could point out 100 things wrong with how she made that tea, but to your point about milk...It's literally supposed a splash of milk. Thats it. 13:34. Spot on lad. In conclusion. If there's any further confusion over the English language or the alphabet, spellings, pronunciations etc. Just remember we invented it, and you guys fucked it all up. :) Keep up the great videos guys!

[@informedchoice2249]

The term biscuit comes to English from the French biscuit (bis-qui), which itself has a Latin root: panis biscotus refers to bread twice-cooked. The Romans certainly had a form of biscuit, what we'd now call a rusk and, as the name suggests, it was essentially bread which was re-baked to make it crisp.

[@annabellej9429]

5:02 "French fries because the potatoes are fried" Don't tell him how they make Lay's chips

[@connor5522]

In England we call chips crisps, fries are still called fries but only the actual skinny fries, when we say chips we mean the thick fluffy type of fries

[@ElandBee]

The footballer who was sunburnt is actually Belgian not British.

[@fjnemo]

Baked beans for breakfast is the only way to go

[@GunnarFreyr71909]

English has a lot of French derived words like 'buiscuits'.

[@whitewolf8644]

Biscuits are what we call a large variety of “cookies”. Cookies are cookies then we have, custard creams, bourbons, shortcake, rich tea and on it goes..all considered biscuits 👌

[@-MySticMaY-]

Cookies big, biscuits small

[@DavidStruveDesigns]

A good way to tell if it's a cookie or a biscuit - cookies turn hard when they go bad, biscuits turn soft.

[@Mathewmartialart]

student with the beard has already had 3 mortgages

[@Astrolavista]

Both make sense - Fries makes sense because you fry them. Chips make sense because you chip away at a potato to make them

[@BritishReaction]

We use cookies in england too... Cookies are a category is biscuits... Like crisps... crinkle cut are a type of crisps... It would be like in the US, you call all crisps, "crinkle cuts" even if they are another type of crisp

[@dkadkins6545]

Americans think of math as a plural expression, while British speakers think of math as a singular expression.

[@TheMountainMan001]

Beans on toast topped with cheese… nothin better - top tier food and a healthy hearty breakfast.. Tea - 2 sugars, tea bag, boiling water (leave to simmer for a minute) then add a drop of milk to relax the taste. Cmonnn now…

[@ellehan3003]

Biscuit means twice baked. So the end product is hard. British biscuits tends to snap when you break them, so theyre hard. Cookies are softer. Digestive biscuits used to be a health product years ago. For the digestive system. But people liked the taste so we eat them for fun.

[@Shebeast3]

i am a huge jolly/koreanenglishman fan,they have great content

[@ElsieMayTrixieBell]

Chips are chips of a potato, crisps are crispy. Cookie is in the biscuit family.

[@KingBuster90]

Crisps) crispy potato peels Chips) chipped up potato Cookie) is a type of Biscuit like Sandwich Biscuits (Example Oreos), Digestive Biscuits, Ginger Biscuits, Shortbread Biscuits, Cookies, Chocolate-Coated Marshmallow Treats (Example Tea Cakes), and Speculaas. PS in Scotland potatoes are called Tatties pronounces like a mix of tattoo & titties ta-teez & Tomatoes are tim-ma-tays sometimes pronounces without the second t

[@amazingdragongirl747]

as an english person on a biscuits front , I say cookie for anything cocolate chip , its a chocolate chip cookie and biscuits for everything or say what on the laybel like hobnobs or digestives

[@EmWahOwl]

Maths is just Mathematics ---just take out the ematic from it and keep the s at the end :D oh and the beans in the morning thing..i was always raised that it's only a breakfast food when served as part of a Full-English breakfast ( sausages, bacon, beans, eggs, chopped tomatoes and mushrooms)

[@shaynasheikh4832]

Biscuit - Middle English: from Old French bescuit, based on Latin bis ‘twice’ + coctus, past participle of coquere ‘to cook’ (so named because originally biscuits were cooked in a twofold process: first baked and then dried out in a slow oven so that they would keep).

[@SteveSmallMusic]

They are called chips because it is the shortened version of 'chipped potatoes'. I don't understand why on earth you would call sliced potatoes (crisps) chips.

[@gtxviper]

Chips = Crisps, French fries = fries. What we call chips is a different cut to fries, they're thicker

[@laurenssims3730]

BRITISH PERSON HERE : We say buiscuts and cookies both, they are DIFFERENT things

[@kieronimo1]

A cookie is a type of biscuit in the UK. Like chocolate chip Maryland cookies. Fries are a kind of chips in the UK, the skinny crunchy ones like you get in McDonalds. Chips are fatter and soggier. Don't forget, It's kind of our language so we're more right than you are. In the UK, what you call fries are called crisps (because they are thin, crispy and sliced fried potato).

[@sallystar3688]

the funny thing about that harry potter meme is that harry potter is literally a british movie so if anything british people are the ones saying it right

[@Yehnah677]

You can put innit at the start of a sentence.

[@marcusdalling2018]

What do you call fries that you cook in the oven ? Ovens 🤣

[@ayupuspita5660]

I'm sorry, but it always makes me laugh when american people get so angry/annoyed over some different english words when they don't even made the language 😅

[@flwrsforvaña]

Neither did the British. There are two t's in the word "bottle", yet yall still skip them somehow.

[@Circlesquare_11]

@@flwrsforvañaEnglish people didn’t make the English language?

[@flwrsforvaña]

@@Circlesquare_11 Nope

[@tethys17]

Biscuits and cookies are seperate things. A biacuit goes soft over time and cookies go hard.

[@juneseghni]

What's wrong with a cup in the microwave? The handle of a cup in the microwave shouldn't really be that hot-it's the water molecules that are agitated into producing heat by the microwaves, not the cup itself (apart from the surfaces in contact with the hot water. )Do people not know how microwaves work these days?

[@georgerobinson3388]

Basically we are capable of having more words for individual stuff 😂

[@TheCarrShow]

I can't wait for British Highschoolers React to Americans Reacting to British Highschoolers Reacting to Americans Re-

[@xtdr-nutx3252]

cookies for us are the ones with chocolate chips in them. Biscuits are anything BUT. So like, digestives, custard creams, bourbons, ect.. are biscuits, cookies are cookies, (the ones with chocolate chips in them) . So thats the difference