Americans React to - Top 10 Things America Stole from Britain

[@orwellboy1958]

"Cricket didn't make it across the Atlantic, at all." The West Indies beg to differ.

[@utha2665]

Also, the very first international cricket match was played between Canada and the US in New York in 1844.

[@mushroom4051]

They copied rounders too but forgot the rules so made up there own,same with rugby

[@orwellboy1958]

@@utha2665 that's interesting, I didn't know that. 👍

[@JonathanReynolds1]

@@mushroom4051 Both Baseball and Rounders were originally British.

[@lynette.]

US is about to get back into international cricket.

[@kerenhumphreys43]

I had to laugh, in the eighties an American baseball player came over to England and laughed at cricket and said it's so simple to bat. Then he had a go and missed every single time. It was hilarious!

[@cgkennedy]

Because of the speed the ball came at them?

[@kerenhumphreys43]

@@cgkennedy and because it was low. He was used to arm height batting. 🤣

[@AveCaesar2025]

I think I remember that on the Sports news which followed the Six O'clock news in NZ. It it's the one I'm remembering it was hilarious, and from memory the TVNZ reporter reporting on it thought it was as well.

[@kerenhumphreys43]

@@AveCaesar2025 Yes he kept bragging that he could, and then when he failed it was hilarious. It was on the morning news and was probably shown in countries that play cricket. 🤣🤣

[@dee2251]

@@cgkennedy exactly! He hadn’t taken into account the bowlers. Even the experts can’t always respond to them.

[@davebirch1976]

I love the fact that near the town of Sandwich in Kent is a little village called Ham 😆

[@margaretnicol3423]

They make cheese in Kent too so I guess they all go together! 😏

[@neilgayleard3842]

With cheese from cheddar in Somerset England.

[@modelrailwaynoob]

It's waifer thin too

[@neuralwarp]

And they're just up the road from Rye.

[@hazelanderson1479]

There was a headline in a newspaper some years back about a baby that had been found, having been taken from a town in Massachusetts and it read, “Missing Baby Found In Sandwich.”

[@stevelknievel4183]

As far as I'm aware, hamburgers were originally the local speciality of Hamburg in the same way that frankfurters are from Frankfurt and wieners are from Vienna (Wien in German).

[@johamlett27]

I believe there was a form of hamburger in existence in Roman times (not like what we have today obviously)

[@simonround2439]

I'm not sure that's true. For some reason Americans referred to minced (or ground) beef as 'hamburger'. The hamburger sandwich came much later and was definitely an American invention

[@darthwiizius]

@@johamlett27 Actually very similar, we have a Roman recipe recovered from a site next to Hadrian's wall. The consisted of a beef patty in a bread roll, or bun if you like. The main difference is that the Romans flavoured the patties with pine nuts.

[@darthwiizius]

@@JacknVictor The Romans had hamburgers hundreds of years before Attila the Hun was even born, which was as the Roman Empire was collapsing in the 5th century.

[@tonys1636]

@@JacknVictor My favourite item on the Wimpy menu was the 'Bender', the circular Frankfurter. Always bought a couple to take out before smuggling them into the Odeon cinema as far better than their hot dogs. A mate queued for the tickets and I passed him his bender once the house lights had gone down.

[@vickytaylor9155]

Schools for poor boys and girls were also started in the uk back in the 1790’s in Portsmouth way before the U.S. The person that is credited in the U.S for inventing the modern school system, said that John Pounds was his inspiration. I am a descendant of his brother Henry.

[@darthwiizius]

School Dinners were also invented in the UK by a headmaster in Bradford who's school was in a deprived area in the 19th century. It was to alleviate hunger but also to keep parents able to school their kids as opposed to being forced to send them to work to earn money for food.

[@joeysausage3437]

@@darthwiizius So the brits invented eating? Wonderful!

[@CarolandDave]

@@joeysausage3437 grow up

[@joeysausage3437]

@Carol Gibson Read the comments. You clowns invited everything. What brits claim the United States citizen do, they are guilty of.

[@darthwiizius]

@@CarolandDave I think his school needs to introduce lunches, starved brain syndrome is a real problem.

[@lyndonbelcher8747]

Bill Bailey is not only a comedian he’s a musical genius his stand-up show including playing guitar keyboards singing just good fun

[@wallythewondercorncake8657]

As someone from Devon, I love some of the bits he does taking jabs at the West Country

[@williamwilkes9873]

Did bill bailey ever come home?

[@andybrown4284]

His guide to the orchestra is well worth a watch.

[@knowlesy3915]

Team America (fantastic film) is also inspired by British shows made by Gerry Anderson, the most famous probably is Thunderbirds.

[@davidhamilton2214]

Jimmy Carr clip was from a program called QI .Steven Fry hosted the early episodes. Sandi Tosvic the latter. These are all worth watching. Stands for quite interesting. Various panel members. A great insight into the UK.

[@deja-view1017]

You're forgetting the first (and long-standing) host Angus Deayton.

[@johnboy2562]

​@@deja-view1017 Angus Deayton never presented QI, it's only ever been Stephen Fry and Sandi Toksvig. You're probably thinking of Have I Got News For You.

[@eolsunder]

a great entertaining show as good as any of the other UK shows. It wasn't factually correct all the time many segments were done out of humor or silliness with the info, but it was all done for entertainment and it was great. Fry was an amazing host, and Sandi took over and she was amazing also.

[@modelrailwaynoob]

Flight is a bigger shock. A Brit was flying around his estate (I think Wales) but didn't record it like the Wright Brothers some time later, so he didn't get the credit. He had longer flights, too.

[@citizenpb]

Yeah and my great-granddad was the first man on the moon. He didn't tell anyone or record it but it definitely happened, honest.

[@modelrailwaynoob]

@citizenpb I see the truth hurts. American by chance? Your lack of education is showing already

[@citizenpb]

@@modelrailwaynoob 🤣No, I'm not American, so less of the nationalistic willy waving Noob. I'm well aware of the claims that Bill Frost 'invented' powered flight, for which there is zero photographic or contemporary written evidence, just an expired patent and hearsay.

[@davebathgate]

George Cayley. Inventor of the glider. Predated the petrol engine.

[@wyterabitt2149]

There's several people who seem to have flown before the Wright Brothers to be fair. It's difficult to be sure who was first for certain, Britain has a good claim but so do a couple of others. The only thing for that is certain at this point is that it definitely was not the US that flew first.

[@BillySugger1965]

Not only the star spangled banner song, but the Stars and Stripes too. These come from George Washington’s family crest from his British ancestry, and there is a crest from his ancestral family, long predating 1776, in the church in the the village of Steeple in Dorset which shows three stars alongside stripes.

[@KGardner01010]

Hi Mark, just to let you know, the Washington family after becoming wealthy had their ancestral home in the north-east first in the latter part of the 1600's, I think? Here in the village of Washington which was named by them (formerly Wessynton) & Possible then "owned?" like most of the surrounding lands back then by the Bishop of Durham (or it's diocese?) - naturally! And their old manor house in the original village centre of Washington after being refurbished, etc, is still a tourist attraction today. (Pres Jimmy Carter even turned up here passing our local school so as to plant a tree on the village green in the 1970's when he also visited the manor house) - (We as schoolkids back then, were all sent to stand at the school fences and wave flags as he passed by). Even on the 4th July, the stars and stripes are put up on the flagpole in it's grounds, too. My old school badge back in the day also had the 3 stars and stripes on it . . . Then some, or most of the main Washington family then later moved down south for some reason or other - more than likely to do with making even more money than they had, I'm sure????

[@darthwiizius]

Bloody Normans, can't go anywhere without causing a ruckus.

[@warailawildrunner5300]

@@KGardner01010 Was a village called Warton in the north west too - church there has the family crest embedded into it. (Warton near carnforth, not the one near Preston).

[@andrewmorgan1819]

The Police Station in Llantrisant was built in 1776

[@Joanna-il2ur]

There is also a flag at his family home in Northamptonshire which resembles the Stars and Stripes.

[@madcyclist58]

In the Jane Austin novel "Northanger Abbey", baseball is mentioned as an interest of the heroine Catherine Morland, showing that it was being played in England before 1817.

[@forthfarean]

Yes. The Americans took baseball from England.

[@forthfarean]

The Anglophile Americans ,upper class, did play cricket.

[@forthfarean]

The American flag is also red,white and blue. From the union flag.

[@leosmoonfish2849]

Team America is a work of genius .Hilarious from start to finish .

[@darthwiizius]

One of the funniest movies of all time.

[@House0fHoot]

FUCK YEAHH! 🤣

[@Aloh-od3ef]

The love making sense….. I don’t think I’ve ever laughed so much at a se# seance 😂😂

[@Just_Another_John]

Its one of those films, that is both very Highbrow and Lowbrow at the same time! especially at the time it was first released

[@antonycharnock2993]

Cringey yeah. That's the point. Dakka dakka dakka😂

[@wrorchestra1]

Black Books is brilliant! Written by Dylan Moran (the guy on the right) its very odd humour but it is funny. Burgers were invented by the Romans as fast food for streetside vendors. Fry's chocolate cream is very sweet, very strong dark chocolate and bloody delicious.

[@MrSinclairn]

Co-written with Graham Linehan [presently immersed in the 'TRA battle(s)'!🙄] of 'Father Ted' and 'The IT Crowd' fame !👌👍

[@wrorchestra1]

@@MrSinclairn another great comedy writer

[@rozpickering1239]

A tower of soup. Best ever. Don't forget Tamsin of Friday night dinner!! All 3 main characters are brilliant actors x

[@captvimes]

definitely worth checking out Black Books

[@carlchapman4053]

Wrorchestra, The Burger was a Roman invention but it was originally used as a military food. As found out by the European colonials eating unfamiliar food in foreign countries causes sever digestive problems and so the familiar cooked meat in a bun with salt and olive oil could be made and eaten anywhere that meat was available (Roman legions always carried flour, salt and olive oil) and it allowed the armies to cross vast distances without creating unneseserary problems, when the Legionaires retired it became a commonly requested food at home as well.

[@ElliotDooleysmith]

The Fry's chocolate factory in Bristol, more specifically Keynsham, is the town that I grew up. I have visited the factory a couple of times for tours, that was when it was owned by Cadbury's. It was amazing. Sadly, in 2011, when Cadbury's was bought by Kraft they closed it down. Damn you Americans! It's a real shame, as it was quite a point of pride of the people who lived there. Interestingly, Bill Bailey (shown in the next clip) also lived in Keynsham.

[@Orchardman53]

You know the construction plant company "Caterpillar" and tracked vehicles, such as tanks, the track system was invented in Grantham UK. The UK patent was sold to the Caterpillar company in the USA.

[@WatchingDude]

The type of apple pie you get depends very much upon what the locals use as cooking apples. In the UK the Bramley apple is often used which is quite tart whereas in Australia we have the Granny Smith apple which was crossbred in 1868 and that is used as a cooking apple here. I am unaware what you might use in the US for a cooking apple but some people also like to make apple pie with apples that are not cooking apples and therefore are sweeter than cooking apples.

[@PaganPunk]

I'm English....Ive always preferred to cook with Granny smiths ....Much nicer flavour....I love the American 'Empire' Apple to just munch on though x

[@simonround2439]

There is is a reference to baseball in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey, published in 181 . Another fun fact: although cricket never really took off in America , the first ever international cricket match was between the US and Canada in 1844.

[@maximushaughton2404]

One problem, Canada was not a country at the time. Canada started to be a country in 1864, thenin1867 Canada became a federated country in its own right. Up untill then it was British and French colonies. The game was billed as 'United States of America versus the British Empire's Canadian Province’, and the States lost, so no wonder it did not take off. Americans only seam to like sports in which they are granteed to win.

[@rozpickering1239]

WW1 soldiers receiving the plastic surgery experiments were called ' The Guinea Pig Club' . Because they knew they were the experiment. Really very interesting but also heart breaking as many were pilots who suffered terrible burns.

[@vickicrisp3510]

I’m aware that plastic surgery came on in leaps and bounds during the Battle of Britain, due to as you’ve said the number of burn injuries the pilots suffered are you merging the two world wars in your comment here? Or was it a feature of both conflicts? The first world war saw the inception of the RAF and I understand that pilots weren’t issued with parachutes as it may encourage cowardice. A somewhat bizarre attitude, if true, and lead to yet more unnecessary deaths. Going back to your original comment I’m not trolling but interested.

[@grahamtravers4522]

When I was a boy in the 1950s and 1960s we were taught to play baseball in junior school. In my case it was somewhat superfluous, as I was already keeping score for my Dad's baseball team, Alexandra Old Boys, in the South Wales baseball league. To my mind, Welsh baseball is a far superior game to American baseball, because: it is played on a full-circle pitch (like a cricket pitch), not just a quarter circle, so the fielders have to cover much more ground; no gloves are worn, except by the backstop, so catching is a true skill (as in cricket); the bat has a flat face (like a cricket bat), so the ball can be placed anywhere around the full circle, allowing for gentle sweep shots, cuts shots, etc., as well as just trying to bash the ball out of the park.

[@catherinewilkins2760]

The Stars and Stripes is also from England. That was the heraldic device of William Legge who Mary Washington married, their son George Legge was on HMS Gloucester that sank in 1682. That was the vessel that carried James Duke of York, brother of Charles II and found off Great Yarmouth in Norfolk, faily recently.

[@kieronledger9929]

I live in the original Washington, the red and white stripes are from the Washington family crest

[@neilgayleard3842]

In all saints church in Maidstone Kent there's a dedication to his uncle Lawrence with those colours.

[@alanscott8063]

It's inevitable that a number of American icons were imported by immigrants. Other ones I found out are, Uncle Sam was a meatpacker from Greenock in Scotland. The first ever officially recorded baseball game following the modern rules was played in Walton-On-Thames in Surrey, England. Thomas Paine wrote part of Common Sense while living in Lewes in Sussex, England

[@MrTrilbe]

Well someone has to say the tongue in cheek thing of "Things America stole from Britain" Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, oh and the language 😛

[@terencecarroll1812]

The show you saw with Jimmy Carr was called Q.I. and I'd like to suggest that you have a look because it's very informative on so many subjects as well as being so funny

[@SPierre-dm4wo]

Loving the typo in the thumbnail, it really helps with the American vibe!

[@Sue474]

Yes "Stoll from Britian" Oh dear.

[@terencecarroll1812]

There are many different ways of making Apple pies, some cook the filling first others put the apple in with sugar and butter then cook in the pastry

[@davebirch1976]

The top 2 American Candy's, Starburst and Skittles are also British creations.

[@joeysausage3437]

Wrong.

[@davebirch1976]

@@joeysausage3437 right, check Wikipedia

[@carolineskipper6976]

Good Spot of Bill Bailey in the Black Books clip. Excellent series - do seek it out! Did you spot that it was also Bill Bailey sitting with Jimmy Carr on the QI clip? Although Angela is probably correct in that the definition of a 'sandwich' is any filling slapped between two pieces of bread, I think the term is most usually appled only to sandwiches made with 2 slices of bread from a loaf. Any other form of bread would be referred to as a a filled *insert name of bread poduct here* so, a bun, cob, bap, roll, baguette, panini, ciabatta etc. On a cafe menu there would be a distinction between the types....

[@England-Bob]

Don't forget crisps wrongly called chips in US. Yes British invention (1817 William Kitchiner cookbook "The cook's Oracle" being the first published recipe). We invented we call it..😁

[@maudeboggins9834]

Actor Jimmy Edwards was a burn victim from WW2 & was treated brilliantly by the NZ plastic surgeon. Edwards had a huge handlebar mustache to hide his scars.

[@alistairbolden6340]

On the invention front its almost every invention in the last 800 years the British can take credit for. Since the start of human history just over 40% of all inventions were created by the British. That other 60% that the Brits did not create were mostly before the year 700AD and thus before England was a whole nation. Surprisingly this trend has not changed since the UK stopped being a military superpower. A little rock in the north sea is still responsible for almost all notable inventions since the start of the 21st century. Really strange that the UK at its most powerful was still just over 2% of the worlds population, and yet managed to get every top scientist and mathematician in every field to go there for hundreds and hundreds of years. Thx to Oxford, Cambridge and Imperial Collage London they still do today.

[@PHDarren]

12:40 regarding the re-use of the tune for Star Spangled Banner, the UK anthem God Save the King isn't just used by the UK and has been used by others throughout history, from wikipedia - "Liechtenstein, "Oben am jungen Rhein", and the royal anthem of Norway, "Kongesangen". The melody is used for the American patriotic song "My Country, 'Tis of Thee" (also known as "America"). The melody was also used for the national anthem "Heil dir im Siegerkranz" of the German Empire from 1871 to 1918 and as "The Prayer of Russians", the imperial anthem of Russia from 1816 to 1833. In Switzerland, it is known as "Rufst du, mein Vaterland".

[@captvimes]

I come from the county in Englland where stool ball/ rounders came from. French word criquet is same as flemish krickstoel and our name for it stool. We still play it in Sussex but it is now mostly as you say mixed sex or childrens game. Cricket version of the rules became dominant.

[@azzajames7661]

An English/British children's book originally published in 1744 called “A Little Pretty Pocket-Book” has the first documented use of the word “baseball,” though the earliest surviving edition is from 1760.

[@davetdowell]

Difficult to claim any of the things before 1783 were stolen, like Apple Pie. Up until then Americans were Brits, so those things were their's to use by right. It'd be more accurate to say those things were legacy items retained after independence, like trains in India.

[@joeysausage3437]

Good way to put it.

[@mikesaunders4694]

Exactly…..early Americans were essentially disgruntled British colonists who weren’t happy paying tax to the crown.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

@@mikesaunders4694 And plenty of them were happy with the taxes, it's just the disgruntled few that made more noise. A lot like modern social media were a few make a noise and suddenly all Mainstream Media has to follow.

[@catshez]

Yes I couldn't have put it better myself.. 👍 Apple seeds were brought from Europe.. indeed so were pumpkin seeds.. these plants did not exist on the American continent before "invasion/colonisation" But we do have the Americas to thank for corn and potatoes !! Yipee for corn and potatoes !! Huge thank you American continent !! 😃🙌

[@catshez]

@@mikesaunders4694 Taking personal opinions to the side, because of whom the Crown belonged to at the time, not everyone was happy.. Such is Democracy.. there will always be people who don't agree. Guy Fawkes and his men tried to blow King James up, 15 years later the Mayflower set off.. makes sense things happened as it did ! James was not best loved by all. It is a shame that US citizens don't know much about the Gunpower Plot, it was a pinnacle moment in time that made things progress as they did 🤷🏽‍♀️ If there hadn't been unrest here in the UK, there would be not be a USA as it is now.. Spaniard, Portugese, and other nations would have "conquered" in turn... the history would be entirely different. I have no vested or personal interest, just like to look at situations from the outside.

[@Mike-rw2nh]

The first electronic computer - Tommy Flowers & Alan Turing. The first mechanical programmable computer - Charles Babbage

[@davidbarrett1487]

Tommy Flowers & Bill TUTTE, and there were many more Bletchley Park too, WW2. GPO built Colossus.

[@joyridgway6398]

Lady Ada Lovelace wrote the first program for it.

[@alisoncauser2955]

The brambley apple was bred first in Nottinghamshire where I live. You can still see the garden in which it was grown. Now the world's favorite for making apple pie and crumble.

[@robertobrien5709]

Base-ball/Bass-ball/Rounders has been around since at least as early as the 1600's, the game was described using a diamond play area in the 1740's and was a commonly played game, in 1749 the then Prince of Wales is listed as a player. The game of baseball entered north America via English immigrants, the first officially recorded game of Baseball in north America was played in Canada in 1837, the first officially recorded baseball match in the USA was in 1846.

[@dianef4227]

I can’t believe they didn’t mention ice hockey!

[@gamingtherapy7587]

Another entertaining vid . Keep up the great work. You have to have a home made Apple Pie , the ones in the pub are nothing compared your own

[@ianmontgomery7534]

I had a skin cancer on the end of my nose which they removed and put on a skin graft. It is almost undetectable and a credit to the plastic surgeons who did it. the operation didn't cost me anything thanks to Medicare here in Australia.

[@midwestamericans3806]

Congratulations, good to hear!

[@RaduRadonys]

"A burger is more American..." well you'd be surprised to know that burger is short for hamburger which comes for Hamburg, which is a city in Germany where it was invented.

[@bhobbybhoy6244]

A sandwich is any kind of filling between 2 slices of bread and only bread. A burger does not consist of two slices of bread but a bun or roll halved in two with either a burger patty or a chicken breast between it hence why it’s called a Burger roll or as we also call it if it’s made with chicken , a chicken burger not a chicken sandwich unless you’re using sliced bread then it would be a chicken sandwich 🤣🤣🤣 So to narrow it down Bread = Sandwich Bun or Roll = Burger 😜👍🏻🤣

[@oakguard]

Just don't go into chip buttys you'll really confuse them

[@tsrgoinc]

Yep, you get lyrics of the star spangled banner, one greatest works of fiction ever, especially the last 2 lines!

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Which are?

[@tsrgoinc]

@@Thurgosh_OG What the land of the free? Not even close to being and don't get me started on the home of the brave. They don't have a clue about bravery on the main, I'm not saying all don't but majority certainly don't, they believe gung-ho is bravery! I've been in battles with American's on my side, I was more worried about getting killed by them that I was the enemy!

[@joyridgway6398]

That is what me and my daughter and I have been saying for a long time. They said saved in both World Wars, although they didn't join in for 2 years.

[@Bobmudu35UK]

Driving through rural Sussex the other day,on rare sunny day,i saw a game of stall ball being played. It was a beautiful scene! 🇬🇧

[@meshezza]

As a Brit I have to say The US office is one of the best shows I’ve ever watched. It’s brilliant, clever and witty with the right amount of cringe comedy, where as the UK version is just uncomfortable viewing

[@folksinger2100]

The words for the Star Spangled Banner were written and conceived by Francis Scott Key while aboard the Royal Naval vessel HMS Minden

[@Uatu-the-Watcher]

4:14 Those look like the creatures from Galaxy Quest!

[@stephenpodeschi6052]

Since many Americans were British originally it should not be a surprise just like some parts were influenced by French and Spanish and many other cultures after 1776.

[@andrewcoates6641]

To the best of my knowledge the apple tree is not a native species of the American continent and the most popular apple variety for making apple pies can all be traced back to one tree in a walled garden in Britain but I must admit that I have forgotten the actual location. The variety is the Bramley and the fruit is almost inedible when raw but when sweetened and cooked it has excellent taste and texture. As for burgers the earliest known recipe is from a Roman text that describes a ball of chopped meat with herbs, flattened and cooked in a pan or skillet over a charcoal burner and served on a flatbread with the universal Roman seasoning of a sauce made of mashed up small and salty fish that has been allowed to ferment and rot.

[@frankhill2406]

Also interesting to note that the Macintosh apple came from a tree located near Kingston Ontario

[@AliceSylph]

The first "plastic" surgery I'm aware of was in 6th century BC in India. A physician (Sushruta I believe) documented how he covered up and replaced noses using the patient's forehead skin that he had enlarged as cutting off noses was a typical criminal punishment for a wide array of crimes. Then in 16th century Europe got their hands on it and used it to help people who had contracted advanced syphilis where their noses had been eaten away. This video is right in that it wasn't until the world wars that the field was massively opened up and they began experiencing with foreign substances to help disfigured soldiers, but origins of the practice is Indian and they were doing it well before any European

[@midwestamericans3806]

Very interesting! Thank you for sharing ill definitely look into that more.

[@vickicrisp3510]

From my limited knowledge of the subject I believe quite a number of medical practices originated from the middle and far east

[@SteveRGash]

I did rounders in school aged 8. The deal was to have 4 bases, a one handed round bat, home runs etc

[@Highlands73]

Checkout the top Irn Bru adverts. I’ve heard other Americans say that they would love the ppl who made the Irn bru adverts to do the super bowl half time commercials

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Wasn't that 'Anna and JT'?

[@Highlands73]

@@Thurgosh_OG spot on it was them. Beautiful couple 😁

[@donwright3427]

Stole our language and now they tell us how to spell our words. Connexion etc etc

[@KGardner01010]

Apparently the American "inventor" of baseball was over in the UK for some reason and saw kids playing rounders. He liked the idea of it, even keeping the diamond shape of the bases but altering the name to suit himself. Our bases would have been coats, jackets, even pullovers then quite likely back then - just as it was for goalposts for football when young. As expected though, he then added his own rules and ideas for how to play it - so many a side, etc, even to wearing a glove to catch later to save soft hands from catching something that might be too hard (unlike in cricket!) . . . and as always, a mask and padding for the catcher appeared, too . . . (Very early Health & Safety regulations began showing up there!) - likely transposed into the same H&S for your American Football (well, handball? - and once again, so unlike Rugby) . . . 😒🧐

[@citizenpb]

Total nonsense.

[@rbrooks2007]

It was the only game I really liked back in the days of the early Cold war when we lived not far from the then USAF Brize Norton in Oxfordshire, with American forces families living among us. The game also gave rise to perhaps the only funny skit that Abbott and Costello ever did.

[@davidparker8650]

its a girls game called rounders

[@CyanideSunshines]

​@@davidparker8650 it's not a girls game 😂😂😂

[@azzajames7661]

A children's book originally published in 1744 called “A Little Pretty Pocket-Book” has the first documented use of the word “baseball,” though the earliest surviving edition is from 1760.

[@roniberahaquartet477]

Also you can check the game of Banatske sore. If Mihajlo Pupin one of greatist scientists in USA ,grow up in Banat region today Serbia played that game maybe is thing to guess which game came first Baseball or Banatake sore .

[@skodass1]

"burger is more american than a sandwich" Lol... same deal... this time stolen from a german

[@CaptainKrimson]

actually the old Romans ;-)

[@MrGBH]

That is indeed Bill Bailey, AKA the bald guy with long hair

[@Jonsson474]

Donuts or “munkar” can be found in Swedish author Cajsa Warg’s cookbook “Hjelpreda I hushållningen för unga Fruentimber” from 1755. I do however believe that it originates from the Portuguese “Farturas” which in turn came from the Chinese “Youtiao”. What the Americans call doughnuts have a far older history than one might believe.

[@davidhansell7012]

Apparently everything was invented in Scotland; love from England!

[@Thurgosh_OG]

Thanks, we're glad you've finally got it. Cheers from a Scotsman.

[@Ionabrodie69]

They wish..🙄😂😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧

[@craiglee3653]

The first house and the first street in the world with Electric lights were in Newcastle, England. Lord Armstrong funded Joseph Swann if memory serves. Eddison was a total thief.

[@booluther]

Black Books is a great show

[@voododd666]

Love the video as always. Plus your welcome America 😂😂

[@user-man-now80]

You two are unforgivably reasonable and understanding. You must learn to use the word ''rubbish ''. It is so empowering, but you must use it with a big smile. Love your work. Thanks. Sheffield, South Yorkshire.

[@nicholasburns7970]

For all you Americans out there The Earl of Sandwich who the snack is named after was The First Lord of The Admiralty during The American War for Independence. He worked late and needed an easy meal late at night at Two slices of bread with a slice of salt beef.

[@viviencockle2116]

1. A sandwich is with sliced bread not bread rolls….hot dog is just that as is beef burger, whatever is put in a roll is called by the contents, example “Cheese and tomato roll” 2. Baseball has nothing in common with cricket, but it does with rounders with it’s origins dating back to Tudor times.

[@celticguy197531]

Sir Harold Gillie was not based in London when he invented his technique. He was based in a military town called Aldershot at the Cambridge Military Hospital which took the wounded from the Somme under night not to let the public know about the losses in the Somme then he moved to Sidcup Kent because it was a bigger hospital. The game Baseball well a diary was found and written in the late 1740s in which the person who wrote "he was invited to a game of Bass-Ball in a town called Guildford"

[@rbrooks2007]

The F-111s swing wing affair came from Barnes Wallis who took it to the States to show off as an idea when the British military found no use for it. Upon returning with his 'variable geometry' idea he said to his assistant "I believe I've oversold it."

[@margaretnicol3423]

Same Barnes Wallis of the bouncing bomb?

[@monza1002000]

Barnes Wallace, along with the Miles Aircraft Co. also supplied radio controlled scale models of the fully moving tailplane, canard airframe and a jet aircraft design the was the exact "cough cough" shape used for the US rocket aircraft that broke the sound barrier several years later 😊

[@monza1002000]

​@@margaretnicol3423 Yes, the same guy, shear genius.

[@rbrooks2007]

@@monza1002000 there is film footage of Frank Whittle's jet engine fixed to the back of something like a Humber car, going around in circles while men in coats stood there watching it. They threw Whittle off his own jet engine project and gave some jet engines to the Americans who had a better use for them.

[@monza1002000]

@rbrooks2007 Rubbish but as long as you believe it LOL

[@danielferguson3784]

Apples are not a natural American plant, but was taken over with the English colonists. Many sport & games originate in Britain. Football =Soccer, American football from British Rugby. Baseball, from English Rounders. Golf, from Scotland. Cricket was played in Colonial America, but during the Civil War troops didn't have time to prepare good grounds, & a rounders field was easier to set up, so it became more common. A Pie has to be closed by a top covering of pastry. If not it is not a pie, but a tart.

[@footscorn]

No, Swan was the first to give the first public display of a workable light bulb before Edison did the same in his lab 6 months later. Swan successfully sued Edison for breach of copyright on both sides of the pond.

[@DarraghC]

Baseball is an offshoot of rounders. (played for 100s of years, still run by the GAA).

[@Naeron66]

Apple Pie in England definitely dates to the 13th Century, we still have recipes first published back then.

[@irreverend_]

What they didn't mention about sandwiches there is that the prepackaged sandwich was also a British invention, Marks and Spencer started selling them in 1980, so they've not even been around that long.

[@samuel10125]

I agree with your wife to an extent certain deserts like Apple Pie are better when you make it yourself

[@hl6876]

There is a reference to baseball in Jane Austen's Northanger Abbey

[@Spiklething]

Stoolball - the game that dates back to the 1300’s - was invented in Sussex, which is where I’m from and I had to play stoolball at school.

[@benlee8436]

Black Books is a fantastic sitcom and you should certainly watch it!

[@laurabedford5095]

The show ,when sandwiches mentioned is Black Books , realy funny

[@chrisshelley3027]

Angela Angela, you bossy miss 😂 I'm thinking that someone upset you in the comments to a previous reaction, you are a lovely person and I can't imagine why anyone would do such a thing, we all make mistakes it's how we learn, it bothers me that someone would be like this toward you, both Ethan and yourself make some of the best videos on here and long may it continue, you noticing Jimmy Carr was funny though, your speed and certainty made it much more amusing, take care both of you :)

[@joyridgway6398]

An English man called Charles Babbage is known as the fatherof computers. Ada Lovelace invented the first program for his computer. As a result, she is often regarded as the first computer. I believe there was an American military program called Ada.

[@jimdigriz2923]

Fun fact - Near the town of Sandwich, Kent is a village called Ham.

[@MxMoondoggie]

Songs didn't have something like copyright back then so it was common for a melody to be reused again and again with different words. There is like 80+ versions of songs using the same melody for Star-Spangled Banner because popular melodies were reused a lot from drinking songs to patriotism. It's just in this case we already know the origin of the song because records exist. Lots of patriotic songs from America were lifted from different things. They even managed to write a song to the same melody as "God Save the Queen/King" of all things lol

[@ellehan3003]

Rounders is identical imo. It just doesn't have loads of rules so it's easy for children to play. A few years ago my family and friends played it on the beach.

[@dee2251]

Apple pie has been eaten in Britain for centuries. The first written recipe was in an ancient English cookbook called ‘The Forme of Curry’ written in the 13th century and we’ve been making and eating it long before America existed.

[@vallee3140]

If you have a Burger its between a Roll usually, not bread so not a sandwich.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

The full name of a roll is a Bread Roll, so yes sandwich.

[@vallee3140]

@@Thurgosh_OG sounds weird calling it a sandwich

[@CaptainKrimson]

The terrible puppetfilm is called 'Team America (the world police)'. Watch it please, I think it is one of the best films I've ever seen!

[@cambs0181]

Also not only does the UK have an NRA, it was actually what gave Americans the idea to create their own in the 19th century.

[@alansmithee8831]

Hello Ethan and Angela. Sandwiches in bread rolls are common in UK, but the rolls change name by area. Americans might find the name "butty" a bit strange though, presumably from "in bread and butter". Where I grew up a bread roll is a teacake, but elsewhere this name is used for what I would have called a currant teacake, so it can confuse when requesting a sandwich in one. I recently found a KZbin site with references to my local history, but having grown up making Yorkshire videos Catherine Warr has expanded to wider topics, like how UK beat US at baseball. She could do with some more subscribers for her channel if anyone reading this is interested? The last bit got me thinking of football videos you looked at. Can you imagine English fans at the next World Cup chanting "We want our song back! We want our song back!"?

[@RushfanUK]

Sandwiches are made from two or more slices of bread from a loaf, a bread roll would be described as a filled roll not a sandwich, this why despite McDonalds a burger is not a sandwich.

[@alansmithee8831]

@@RushfanUK The bread roll cut in two has two slices. I would gladly stand up in court and say it was bread sliced in two.

[@kevintwine2315]

@@RushfanUK Exactly.

[@deja-view1017]

​@@alansmithee8831 but not a sandwich. Two slices of bread from a loaf is what makes a sandwich a sandwich (as per the snack served for the Earl of Sandwich).

[@alansmithee8831]

@@deja-view1017 If this were enforced in UK, like such things as Cornish pasties, thousands of "sandwich shops" would have a problem. I see no difference in reality to a sandwich made from two crusts.

[@markjones127]

The history of apple cultivating is very interesting, up until not so many years ago it was still somewhat of a dark art, then a bunch of British scientists sat down and worked out how to do it on an industrial, more fool proof scale, basically if you take a seed from an apple and plant it, the chances of the new tree growing the same variety of apples is very low, so apple trees need to be grafted, so you'll take the rootstock of a good solid apple tree, then cut branches off a tree of a known variety and graft those branches onto the rootstock, it's the only way of knowing exactly what type apples you're going to grow, you can even grow a tree which has had several varieties grafted onto it, apple pie has always been a much loved treat here, my gran and mum were always baking apple pies, my parents are now passed but I live in their old house with 3 apple trees in the garden, one is Bramley which I planted myself as child and makes amazing apple pies!

[@vladangelus7530]

As well as the music coming from a British drinking song also some of the lyrics that are in the American national anthem came from the British national anthem. Personally I don't know which bit but I do know a whole verse was lifted from the British national anthem but I can't remember if it was removed from the British national anthem because it was being used in the American national anthem or the Person that wrote the lyrics took it from the British national anthem after it was stopped being used for some reason. I'm sure I heard it on Qi or when I was at school but I have known it for quite some years and as far as I know unless I'm told or proven wrong it's the truth as far as I know.

[@WatchingDude]

The saying as American as apple pie always annoys me slightly because I always knew that the UK created apple pie 1st. The UK has a very long history of people eating both fruit pies and meat pies (not in the same pie of course). So I always used to wonder why on earth Americans thought they invented the pie especially considering they generally don't have any awareness of a savoury pie.

[@TheRoldrage]

In the Tudor and Stuart times mince pies contained both minced beef and various fruits

[@tommorrison4189]

on the back road from Dover to Sandwich there is a sing that reads Ham Sandwich

[@rickb.4168]

Black Books is really worth checking out.

[@markgladman2789]

Top British sitcoms/TV comedy shows worth viewing; Blackadder (particularly series 4), Dad's Army, Fawley Towers, Green Wing, Black Books.

[@Zentron]

Just to add to the Baseball one, even the name 'Baseball' was coined here, the game was first taken to the Americas back in the 1770s vua Canada, where its popularity grew and then trickled down into the rest of America. Also, Ice Hockey was invented here too, along with 10 Pin bowling and of course, Crisps aka Chips in America!

[@dougwilson4537]

🙂 A lot of Canadians will take umbrage at your claim that Hockey was invented in England. 😉 The usual competing claim is between Nova Scotia, and Ontario. (two Canadian Provinces, for anyone who doesn't know) And the term is just Hockey. 😂 To quote Don Cherry, ' You don't put a team in a town, where they call it Ice Hockey'.😂 Cheers!😊

[@wyterabitt2149]

@@dougwilson4537 They would be very wrong. Even taking the "newest" evidence of how old hockey is England, it is an engraving showing hockey being played on ice using skates from 1797. Even alone this predates any evidence of hockey in Canada. And there's evidence going further back than that in England and Scotland.

[@1978oggy]

The original Star Spangled Banner lyrics (The Anacreontic Song) To Anacreon, in Heav’n, where he sat in full glee A few sons of harmony sent a petition That he their inspirer and patron would be; When this answer arrived from the jolly old Grecian - Voice, fiddle and flute, no longer be mute I’ll lend ye my name, and inspire you to boot And, besides, I’ll instruct you, like me, to entwine The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus’s vine And, besides, I’ll instruct you, like me, to entwine The myrtle of Venus with Bacchus’s vine

[@Ian-lx1iz]

Aw, dudes! _Team America: World Police_ is THE greatest movie ever to come outta the US. It's NOT stop motion at all, and it's certainly NOT cringey. It's very deep, considered and thoughtful. A must for your reaction channel imho.

[@bigenglishmonkey]

kim jong il singing is iconic

[@misolgit69]

Rounders was played with a short single handed bat and a larger ball similar to a softball

[@peterdollins3610]

in case it's not on the list the jet engine. Many of the Scientist who worked on the Atomic Bomb though a fair few of these had fled Germany. One had the idea of how the Atomic Bomb could work as he was crossing the street to Russell Square in Bloomsbury. Then the entirety of the Industrial Revolution based in part on the Scientific Revolution from Bacon/Newton etc..

[@johnps65]

You really have to check out Bill Bailey. He's brilliantly funny and an excellent musician too. Look for his stand up shows to see him at his best 😊

[@vanessamartin5522]

You should trust Angela more, she's always right ❤