Americans Try Snacks from the U.K. | Universal Yums | UNITED KINGDOM

[@magepaster65]

I'm still loving your presentation style. There's no jumping up and down, yelling "This is the best thing I've ever tasted." Just a nice relaxing commentary. Keep 'em coming guys.

[@FinnLovesFood]

Thank you. Sometimes we think we're not animated and exciting enough for KZbin so it's good to hear that our more reserved style is still appreciated.

[@sood9876]

We Brits do like our tart fruits such as rhubarb, blackcurrants and gooseberries. We like them stewed and covered with crumble topping, and served with hot custard

[@woodentie8815]

Rhubarb crumble (with custard) was my favourite pudding at school.

[@cheekymonkey666]

only problem with rhubarb is getting it ripe enough and cooked to perfection otherwise its gunna be bitter and tangy, rhubarb and apple crumble is a good old favorite, but if you daring just get a raw stick peel the outer skin off and then dunk it in a granulated sugar as i used to as a kid and eat it raw...

[@daiman56]

This year the (female section) winner of the Coopers Hill cheese rolling is American. She said that she came over from North Carolina for the event. You should be able to see her interview on You Tube.

[@FinnLovesFood]

Wow! That's quite a trip to get some cheese! :)

[@GRAHAM2109]

Maynards make Wine Gums. They used to be firm many years ago, but they are softer now.

[@neilgayleard3842]

They also make frosted, tangy, and red and black versions.

[@magepaster65]

I stopped eating the Maynards Wine Gums when they stopped being firm.

[@FinnLovesFood]

I double checked and Maynards was one of the other brand of Wine Gums we tried.

[@FinnLovesFood]

@@neilgayleard3842 what flavors are the red and black?

[@FinnLovesFood]

@@magepaster65 you might like the One Pounder brands. They were fairly firm.

[@neilgayleard3842]

Kentish lamb is some of the best in the world. A lot of it has a unique flavour because of salt marshes the sheep graze on. Like Romney marsh close to the coast. A lamb stew and dumplings is something special.

[@FinnLovesFood]

After looking closely at the package, we saw that it was a picture of Romney Marsh on the Kent Crisps.

[@neilgayleard3842]

Yes, the taste of the lamb from there is great if you cook it right. Low and slow the gravy it makes is creamy. Roasted or stewed is the best way, never pink. It's Kent not France.

[@woodentie8815]

Treacle toffee is associated with our Bonfire night - 5th November, when Guy Fawkes and his chums tried to blow up Parliament - along with Parkin(ginger cake), and jacket potatoes baked in the embers of the bonfire. At one time, bonfires were popular in most areas, us kids collecting lumber for our own bonfires; of late the popularity of private fires has dwindled. If you like chewy toffee I’d recommend rum and butter caramels.

[@FinnLovesFood]

Rum and butter caramels sound delicious!

[@woodentie8815]

@@FinnLovesFood They are. Blackcurrant and liquorice, as I've mentioned before, should also be on your UK, 'toffees to try' list. 🙂

[@neilgayleard3842]

My dad was a treacle miner.

[@FinnLovesFood]

@@neilgayleard3842 I had to look up treacle mines - is it a joke? :)

[@woodentie8815]

@@neilgayleard3842 Mine was a Morris Minor!

[@keza92]

I've never heard of most of these brands like Kent crisps they seem more regional, love the fudge & toffee's

[@jamescorr9383]

Another fantastic video, thank you

[@FinnLovesFood]

Thanks for watching!

[@LC-ck8xc]

I recently found your channel and have been binging the episodes. I love the expressions on Ross' face and how he often wait for you to try something first. We have ordered our 1st YUM box after watching your videos. Keep up the good work.

[@FinnLovesFood]

I often don't see Ross' expressions until I'm editing the videos! I hope you enjoy your Yum box.

[@vanessaking4495]

Hi great video as usual I don’t recognise most of those brands but funny enough I just had a packet of piper’s cheddar and onion they are high end crisps you might have tried thortons toffee they have a white pack with brown writing 👍

[@FinnLovesFood]

We were getting them confused! We have tried Thornton's toffee, but the treacle toffee we tried was from Walker's Nonsuch.

[@sandrapaterson8678]

Hi Tina and Ross, love your video reactions 😄 I've never seen pipers or Kent crisps but they looked so good. There are such a vast selection of crisps nowadays but cheese n onion are definitely my fav. You would love a rhubarb crumble with custard, the tartness of the rhubarb and the sweetness of the crumble and custard is a match made in heaven. Maynard wine gums are probably the ones you've tried before, they used to be hard but a lot softer nowadays. I'm going to send you a parcel soon...I've been collecting things hopefully you've not tried before. Happy Friday and have a lovely weekend 😀

[@FinnLovesFood]

HI Sandra. It was fun to try the rhubarb sweets since neither of us has ever tried rhubarb! You're right, Maynard wine gums are the ones we had before. That is so kind of you to send a parcel. We look forward to it! :) Enjoy the weekend.

[@lovelifeandcrafts5003]

My favourite oat biscuits are either hobnobs or borders oat milk or dark ginger chocolate biscuits (or cookies). 😊. I love any biscuits xx

[@angelavara4097]

Get a pair of scissors to open the bags it's safer than that knife 😊 the thicker crisps are called kettle chips.maybe you can email the pipers company and ask if they supply to America, you never know they might send you some.

[@FinnLovesFood]

Oh, we have some that we call kettle chips too. That's a good idea for Piper's. :)

[@jennetscarborough5145]

When I make Flapjacks, I make two types, one made with Oats, Sugar, Butter, and Maple Syrup, and one made with Oats, Sugar, Butter, and Golden Syrup. Maple Syrup makes for a crisper texture, and I usually add dried fruit (Sour Cherries or Cranberries go great with White Chocolate chips) and sometimes nuts for a more Granola Bar type. Golden Syrup gives a softer fudgier texture, and I like to add Chocolate Chips, either mixed in or spread on top after cooking, to melt from the residual heat. Alternatively, you can make a thick Ganache and pour it over the top (while still in the Brownie/Traybake tin) after cooling and chill to set up before cutting. Melt together 225g (8oz) Butter, 225g (8oz) Brown Sugar, and 140g (5oz) Syrup add a pinch of salt if using unsalted Butter. Thoroughly mix into 275g (10oz) Rolled/Porridge Oats, and add any required additions (Dried Fruit, Nuts, Chocolate etc, allow to cool slightly first if adding Chocolate Chips). Pack into a deep-sided tin approx 20 cm square lined with baking parchment or Teflon sheets and flatten on top. Bake in a preheated oven at 140c (284f) for 30-40 minutes until golden brown. Allow to fully cool (and ideally chill) before cutting into squares.

[@FinnLovesFood]

We do love that soft, fudgy texture. Golden syrup isn't well-known here, but it looks like it's available at our Cost Plus World Market.

[@jennetscarborough5145]

@@FinnLovesFood if you end up getting a can, a couple of other ways you can use it are by adding a spoonful to a bowl of Porridge/Oatmeal, or put some in the base of a heatproof bowl, top with Sponge batter, and steam or microwave and serve with Custard.

[@gastrickbunsen1957]

The "keep out of direct sunlight" is an in joke amongst us vampire snack producers. Whoops, too many necks loosens the lips.

[@stewthorne]

rhubarb is grown in long dark sheds ,they also say you can hear them growing and there is an area in Yorkshire called the rhubarb triangle

[@FinnLovesFood]

Does it grow quickly? Is that why they say you can hear them?

[@stewthorne]

@@FinnLovesFood not realy its just the the shoots cracking open there are a few pages on KZbin for you to watch

[@FinnLovesFood]

@@stewthorne thanks!

[@BigC1290]

Cherry and Raspberry rhubarb are popular pies here in the bakery aisle best served with warm custard 🍮

[@FinnLovesFood]

Though we haven't had it, we've heard of strawberry rhubarb pie here.

[@maxinemuhammad5979]

Pipers are my faves they are high end crisps such great flavour we love them in our household. You can get lots of different flavours and larger bags also . Love your format and vids very interesting and entertaining.😍😍😍❤️❤️❤️

[@FinnLovesFood]

Thanks! We really like Pipers too!

[@karenannebrown9844]

I love rhubarb, when we were children we ate raw rhubarb dipped in sugar

[@Naeidea]

Johnny's Pickled Onion Rings are the best. So strong and tasty.

[@martinevans4688]

Great video most of the brands are not in the main stream and would probably be obtained through local farm shops and high end stores in the region they are made like in Kent for Kent crisps. Bonfire night treacle toffee brilliant.

[@FinnLovesFood]

Thanks, we wondered if they might be more local and regional brands.

[@jjdoom4420]

You should try and get hold of some British pork scratchings, perfect with a beer or two 🐷🐖🐷🐖 Rhubarb is delicious with custard or ice cream but it has to be perfectly ripe.

[@FinnLovesFood]

We're not familiar with pork scratchings. We see a lot of pork rind snacks, but I'm guessing they are different.

[@jjdoom4420]

@@FinnLovesFood They are very different and delicious. We tend to refer to the light and crispy rinds as pork crunch in the uk.

[@weedle30]

I LIVE in Kent and I have never seen Kent Crisps, ever! 😳😟 so I googled it and read that they are only available in certain locations and stockists but are manufactured in Canterbury (Kent) about 40 miles away in a straight line (and where my son went to Uni 🙂) so I am v confused now! Why are they not MORE local?! But I WILL find them! 😂 there are other flavours and the pictures on the front of the packets depict something “Kentish” . With the pics I could work out; The Ashmore Cheese (local town i think) & onion has a pic of an Oast House - the buildings where the hops that make the local ales are dried and stored.. Oast House are unique to Kent I believe. There are three close to where I live, that are now lived in as a family domain. I will look a bit closer and see if I can tell you what the pic on the front of your lamb&rosemary flavour crisps was of! 🥺

[@neilgayleard3842]

I am Kentish born and bred//Maidstone. I only tend to see them in small shops and some farm shops.

[@johnleonard9090]

@@neilgayleard3842 co-op stocked them, I’m over the border in East Sussex and can get them there and in Jempson’s

[@ElizabethDebbie24]

Hi, Kent crisps are sold on the Amazon website, if you want to purchase them.

[@weedle30]

@@ElizabethDebbie24 yes, thank you, I googled them and saw a link for the A word! They also have a FB page! ‘things you didn’t know, you didn’t know!! ‘ 😃

[@johnleonard9090]

@@weedle30 looks like the American over sticker uses a different classification for vegetarians as checking Kent crisps website states the ingredients include lamb extract made from Romney lamb and the picture on the bag is of Romney Marsh

[@michaelriordan8265]

I'm so surprised that in a country the size of the USA that you don't have lamb very often,I thought there would have been lots of grazing land available, I'm going to make myself a cheese and onion crisp butty and a pint, have a great day

[@FinnLovesFood]

We have a lot of grazing land, but I'm sure it's mostly for cattle. I read that in the US, only about one pound of lamb is consumed per capita compared to 81 pounds of beef, though poultry is the most popular. Enjoy your pint and crisp butty!

[@dorothysimpson2804]

It is pronounced eleven zez It is Gren ock. Piper's crisps are in our shops, I have not seen Golden Cross or, Kent Crisps. Rhubarb makes a great crumble with hot Birds Custard. Rhubarb and Ginger Jam is good. Gooseberry Crumble is great too with Custard. Both rhubarb and gooseberries need lots of sugar when cooking. Cornwall puts jam first and cream on top. I prefer syrup to treacle. Treacle toffees are mainly eaten on Bonfire night!

[@FinnLovesFood]

Thanks!

[@tonycasey3183]

I was born in England and have lived here for all of my 57 years and I have never seen Kent crisps, Golden Cross or any other of the brands you tried other than Piper's Millions and Grandma Wild's. I wonder where these mail order companies source their products.

[@neilgayleard3842]

If you're not from Kent then it's unlikely you will see them.

[@m.r.3275]

You can get them in certain Waitrose stores. Pipers are great 👍

[@nicolaclement6993]

I have only heard of Piper's and Millions!

[@dazza9326]

I've seen quite a few of these brands about..... Maybe that's the whole idea with this mail order, they're different from the main brands we know, I've defo seen most of them in small numbers in the UK.

[@cyberash3000]

@@neilgayleard3842 they have them in blackpool

[@cyberash3000]

ive had kent crisps, in a pub in blackpool.. never heard of golden cross.

[@FinnLovesFood]

I looked up Golden Cross and they are part of Nisha Enterprises, based in Scotland.

[@BigC1290]

Flapjacks in the UK can be dunked in tea some people do

[@ghtqwrrt871]

Since the coronavirus pandemic here in the UK the variety of Pipers available seems to have diminished.Cheddar and onion readily available, Chorizo flavour only seen sometimes and my favourite Tomato seem to have disappeared although I have seen them in a multipack on Amazon but I have not seen any in the shops for 2 years now

[@FinnLovesFood]

I hope they come back. Tomato is a flavor we don't see much here for crisps - I bet they're delicious.

[@ghtqwrrt871]

@@FinnLovesFood oh yes. I miss them

[@robertwhite952]

Love you guys. Have you ever been to the UK? Or do you have any intentions of coming in the future? I know it is expensive and your fantastic country needs a lifetime to explore, but maybe a different culture, not to different of your own could be of interest to you. Remember our history is also your history if you go back far enough. x

[@FinnLovesFood]

Thank you. I've been to Europe several times, but not to the U.K. Ross hasn't been overseas yet and I think the U.K. would be a perfect place to start. We do hope to make it over some day. Every new video I watch just adds to the list of places I want to see!

[@robertwhite952]

@@FinnLovesFood Hope you make it. x

[@FinnLovesFood]

@@robertwhite952 thank you.

[@joanne26]

Pipers Crisps are always available in all of my local supermarkets and also my local farm shop I do buy them occasionally and love all the flavours I’m not familiar with the Scottish Brands as they would be local to Scotland About clotted cream As far as I am aware it’s always been a Devon/Cornwall ‘thing’ I buy a brand called Rodda’s Clotted Cream and in the summer months usually when I make my own scones Jam first then cream for me Clotted cream fudge There is a shop in a coastal town in Devon called Sidmouth and they make their own and you can just smell those buttery, creamy ingredients before you even get near the shop At Junior school so age 8-11 you would go into the local newsagents across from the school building and buy 1 penny (100 pennies was £1) worth of wine gums and other chewy sweets I suppose say 2/3 handfuls and eat them before you walked into the classroom You would be so hyper from all the sugar but after school I would go out with my mates and run around all over the local park 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@FinnLovesFood]

I imagine the smell of that clotted cream fudge was just heavenly! If only I had the energy to run around a park nowadays. I could eat more sweets!

[@ianjohnboy]

was it taverners for the treacle toffee you were thinking of

[@FinnLovesFood]

We've tried Taverner's toffee (delicious), but the treacle toffee was Walker's Nonsuch.

[@ianjohnboy]

@@FinnLovesFood have you tried the plain toffee and the nut toffee with brazil nuts in usually comes with a little hammer here in uk .

[@FinnLovesFood]

@@ianjohnboy we've had the plain toffee, but it came in a bag without a hammer.

[@woodentie8815]

@@ianjohnboy yeah, that Brazil nut toffee’s really tasty.

[@stewthorne]

please sir can you use scissors as you got a bit close to your fingers with the that knife

[@sunnyshine2215]

I love Piper’s crisps, anyone tasted Jalapeño & Dill? Amazing!

[@FinnLovesFood]

That sounds like an interesting flavor - I don't think we've seen a combination like that here, usually just one or the other. We received one of your parcels (thank you! Haven't unboxed it yet). Did you mention that you sent two?

[@sunnyshine2215]

@@FinnLovesFood it’s a great flavour, hopefully you get to taste it one day! Oh excellent! Yes there were two parcels so the other one shouldn’t be too far behind 👍😄

[@FinnLovesFood]

@@sunnyshine2215 okay, we'll keep watching! The first one came really quick - they must have gotten separated during shipment or it's held up in customs.

[@vickytaylor9155]

Cawl is pronounced cowel in Welsh. It is a very tasty stew.

[@FinnLovesFood]

Thanks. I should have know it would not be pronounced how it looks! :)

[@cheekymonkey666]

only pop corn i like is with butter on or with caramel or frosting...

[@FinnLovesFood]

Buttered popcorn is the best. Last weekend we had a sample of butter flavored olive oil, drizzled on popcorn and topped with truffle salt. It was delicious.

[@jamesfry8983]

Ploughman's lunch is not historical it dates back to the 1950s and was a way of selling more cheese

[@neilgayleard3842]

In restaurants and pubs that's true. But it does go back long than that. Traditionally farm workers would take bread, cheese, and onion to work. Nothing else.

[@jamesfry8983]

@@neilgayleard3842 Very true, so I would think the onion would of become the chutney

[@Nick_Jarrett]

Chocolate chip cookies, instead of biscuits, or we might have a cookie selection if someone's being fancy like a butter cookie selection. It's more if the biscuits have that chocolate chip cookie profile. I mean if I was offered a cookie I'd expect something that looks like a chocolate chip cookie in size and design, perhaps slightly smaller but keeping the same thickness As far as potato chips go it's more on the thicker crisp side as you say, the kind of crisp that makes that stronger snap sound and breaks into proper chips or shards in your mouth when eating, vs crisps that are thinner and more "crisp" if that makes sense? Like lays/walkers which can be near transparent sometimes and be puffed up

[@Nick_Jarrett]

Foods subject to high temperatures can shorten the shelf life (taste and sometimes bacteria growth). It's the same as products saying "store in a cool dark place"

[@Nick_Jarrett]

We do have pound land but often companies have done round numbers like £1. As you probably know sales tax in the UK is already added to each product on the labelled price. It helps catch buyers eyes too, all that need is a pound coin and easier to calculate the total price in a shop if things are in increments of 1,.25,.50 and. 75

[@Nick_Jarrett]

The green wine gum is likely to be hock and Maynards is the leading brand (edit: you beat me to it) Maynards also do sour wine gums where the outsides are coated in sour sugar

[@Nick_Jarrett]

With rhubarb and custard sweets they're supposed to combine the fruity tart flavour of the rhubarb with the sweet and creamy custard flavour. You really need to try the proper hardboiled sweet version

[@Nick_Jarrett]

Millions were popular because you got so many when asking for a quarter, or half pound (weight) of them in sweet shops. The cashier would take a big plastic or glass jar off of the shelf and tip them out or use the included mini scoop onto metal scales and then tip into a paper bag

[@eviltwin2322]

This is a bit of a recurring theme with videos about Universal Yums, but I don't recognise any of these products! The brand names are unfamiliar too.

[@FinnLovesFood]

Some viewers recognized the brands, but they seem to be smaller and more localized.

[@eviltwin2322]

@@FinnLovesFood Yeah, that makes sense.

[@markrichardson3421]

Personally I pronounce it eleven-zuz but I'm northern so others might differ.

[@FinnLovesFood]

So I guess I was closer with the first pronunciation!

[@woodentie8815]

Absolutely right. I’d be surprised if anyone in the UK says it differently.

[@cyberash3000]

it says "hock" not "hook" lol

[@FinnLovesFood]

We finally figured it out. LOL. And Ross also thought it was "hooch" which could have worked too! :)

[@cyberash3000]

@@FinnLovesFood wine gums where created by the temperance movement an anti drinking movement which also swept through the USA but never really left, in the uk it got pushback as people didn’t like the church pushing ideology on it so the drinkers pushed back and eventually we beat the temperance movement the Methodists had started. But during that movement they invented wine gums as an alternative to drinking, alcohol don’t take my word as gospel but that’s the story I’ve been told by quite a few people

[@DaveBartlett]

The leaflet was wrong: Wine gums are fruit flavoured NOT wine flavoured. The 'wine' aspect in the name is just that each gum has the name of a wine (or sometimes a spirit) on them. The "Hock" that you found refers to a generic term to describe white wines from the Rhine area in Bavaria (and also similar produced in Hungary,) e.g Moselle, Liebfraumilch, Riesling. The word 'Hock' derives from the name of the town "Hochheim am Main" a town in the Rhine wine producing region, which was initially known in Old English as "Hockamore". Also, their definition of "High Tea" was total misinformed nonsense! "High Tea" is a variation of the meal "Tea": where "Afternoon Tea" would consist of cakes, biscuits and cold savoury items like sandwiches, "High Tea" would normally be served later in the day and would also include a hot dish. If you can get hold of scones (or even bake your own,) but find difficulty in obtaining clotted cream, as a substitute you could use mascarpone cheese, an Italian sweet dessert cheese with the same constistency and a very similar flavour to clotted cream, often used in cheesecakes and in tiramisu.) As for the Devon-Cornwall 'feud' over the construction of a cream tea scone: Devon insist you top half a scone with cream then jam whereas Cornwall insists it's half a scone, then jam then cream; I've always gone along with the Cornish method, (since it's easier to spoon cream atop jam than it is to spread jam on cream,) but if you add another half scone on the top, people can make their own choice just by deciding which way up to eat it!

[@FinnLovesFood]

We're familiar with Riesling, but haven't heard the word "hock." We do have easy access to mascarpone cheese and putting cream on top of jam does sound a bit easier!

[@jamespickersgill8416]

Love your videos but I feel these universal Yuma people are taking the p#ss a bit. Most of these brands are pretty obscure to us.

[@FinnLovesFood]

We were wondering about that. Probably easier and cheaper for them to acquire.

[@jamespickersgill8416]

@@FinnLovesFood exactly, and then charging you way too much for “the British experience” seen plenty of universal yums reactions and they seem to always be nonsense I’ve never heard of, cheap stuff from a corner shop or niche stuff from a very local factory that hasn’t made it to the mainstream. No hate intended, just seems to be a company selling stuff from a country that they have never been to.

[@FinnLovesFood]

@@jamespickersgill8416 the boxes are fun, but we have wondered about the quality of the snacks. We subscribed to British Candy Box for a bit - they ship from England and have more well-known brands.

[@sandyblack9698]

Great content. You must try "burts crisps"as there made were I live here in devon I particularly like the oil they use to fry them.as for the bistow sweets there factort is on the same industrial estate were I work here in devon blessings and enjoy. 🫖🌲

[@FinnLovesFood]

We have found Burt's Crisps at Cost Plus World Market. So far we've only tried the salt and vinegar flavor, but they have a few others available. We did enjoy them!