Brits’ hilarious reaction to Dutch oliebollen and appelflappen

Taken from Channel 4’s Gogglebox S18E16

[@Pasunsoprano]

Nobody eats oliebollen or appelflappen at Christmas. They are for newyear's eve. And oliebollen dough does not have "lemony buttery milk" in it. Proper dough has beer! Also those were far too tiny.

[@boukeende472]

@Mr Peep$ ok, but nothing in Brabant is done normally

[@joanneswyckmans5921]

I eat oliebollen when they are available. I don't wait for new year lol. I just start eating around november...

[@liannefee9638]

That’s what she said

[@memuka-]

Mensen, ze zegt in het begin ook gewoon dat de oliebollen voor oud en nieuw zijn, het is toevallig gewoon een kerstaflevering. (Neemt niet weg dat ze de flappen en beignets door elkaar heeft gehaald lol)

[@patrickfreeman9094]

Appelflappen aren't deepfried. She made appelbeignets... An appelflap is an ovenbaked pastry.

[@patrickfreeman9094]

Ok, so apparently in the northeast of the Netherlands they call these things appelflap. To confuse natives and non-natives alike. 😂

[@dutchgamer842]

@@patrickfreeman9094 Aren't appelflappen, puff pastry (bladerdeeg) filled with apple, baked till crispy and topped with sugar?

[@roberthempenius9409]

No. Not with beer. With karnemelk!! (buttermilk in English). And there is nothing wrong with the size. Cees Holtkamp makes them even smaller.

[@benanders4412]

My Father use to make them every year. All the children from the neighborhood would come get one at the kitchen window. They still talk about how great it was 30 years later now they are grown up and have children of their own. They taste delicious, and it's a nice tradition.

[@lphoogenboom]

All I see is: "haha I speak only one language and anything that isn't that is weird because i am smallminded"

[@boxie001]

dutch is supposed to be the closed related language to English. an apple flap or apple flaps is not stranger than spotted dick :)

[@henkoosterink8744]

@@boxie001 Citizens of the world, our british neighbours...... Everything from other countries is strange. Eat your plumpudding and shut up.

[@maartjewaterman1193]

LOL!! Dutch donuts?? It were the Americans who adopted those to their food culture, derived from the Dutch 'oliebollen' and 'appelflappen'.

[@dutchgamer842]

Well it's the easiest and shortest way to describe what it is, instead of telling the whole story.

[@Profielzondernaam]

I am Dutch and it is amazing to see brits laughing their brains out over oliebollen and appelflappen :P I love Gogglebox!

[@2eleven48]

That's because we Brits love a bit of smut, as with 'oily balls'.

[@metalvideos1961]

We created the doughnuts. Oliebollen are the original doughnuts. Literally everything about this video is wrong. As a Dutchman I am irritated

[@cathje832]

As a Dutch women i agree

[@dutchgamer842]

Americans created donuts from our oliebollen (maybe it was the Dutch that immigrated to the Americas back then). In American English and in Dutch it's donuts, the British butchered into doughnuts.

[@marinavanorshaegen5617]

The oliebol is a spherical fried yeast dough dish from the Low Countries. Oliebollen are traditionally eaten on New Year's Eve in the Netherland and Belgium. During the winter months they are sold in many places in oliebollen stalls. They are also sold all year round at fairs in the Netherlands and Belgium. greetings from Belgium

[@Lady.AnnAmavi]

🤣🤣🤣 this is to funny .. translating appelflappen en oliebollen to English is crazy. My belly hurts from laughing . I wonder why nobody said " look I lay down a oil ball in my Apple flap " 🤣😅🤣🤣 I wish we had this show in the Netherlands. I would sign up straight away ! My sense of humor 🤣 😂 😄 😆

[@johnkochen7264]

Isn’t it grand how Brits love displaying their ignorance and suspicion of anything not British?

[@nielsvanhoef4530]

those Oliebollen need some raisins

[@annehoog]

With raisins they wouldn't be oliebollen anymore, but krentenbol. Me, I prefer an oliebol, don't like raisins. 😉

[@hendman4083]

An oliebol can be with or with raisins, matter of preference really.

[@prankster1590]

@@annehoog Krentebol is something else. Thats a soft bun with raisins. Oliebollen are made with raisins but for people that dont like raisins you can also get them without.

[@harenterberge2632]

And sucade

[@patrickfreeman9094]

@@prankster1590 it's the other way around... if you like raisins, put them in... and if you buy them from an "oliebollenkraam", you *will* ask for "krentebollen"... it's just a homonym, no big deal.

[@Flossie710]

What... what? What did I just watch?! The people in their homes were lovely, Nigella is beautiful and oliebollen are delicious. Straight forward wins all around, yeah? Yet my brain just ground to a halt for the sheer ...dissonance . Oliebollen are quintessentialy Dutch. Dutch people despise airs. Que posh British lady caressing each word like a Siamese cat licking its shiny fur. 😂 😯 Then all of a sudden there was "lemony, buttery milk" Say what now? I'm truly unmoored here. This universe has forever changed. Doing a very poor job of explaining but imagine how you would feel if you saw a French chef being exquisite about the "orangy, koriander steak" that will go into the Haggis they're making. Lol, this was funny and incredibly uncomfortable at the same time. Nice job.

[@patrickfreeman9094]

Quite.

[@cathje832]

Appelflappen are maded from puffed pastry. Filled with apple, sugar, cinnamon and a little of lemon juice or lemon peal. Sprinkled with sugar and baked in the oven. Delicious! Applebeignets (Nigella thinks these are appelflappen) are 🍎 apple rings dipped in a mix of sugar and cinnamon and then coated with a batter. Then deep fried. We eat them at New years eve. Oliebollen (also a new year treat) are made of a batter that contains yeast and often beer. Deep fried and coated with powder sugar. You can also make them with raisins or little pieces of apple and cinnamon. And if you are feeling fancy and don't care about calories you fill them with pudding cream. (And I do this, yeah baby!) And the batter does not contain milk or lemony butter or butter at all.

[@kplkasteel]

Dutch tradition is also that you eat those damn Oliebollen as leftovers until the end January and you literally done for the rest of the year. You have them for breakfast, lunch even after dinner, with the coffee or at tea time... actually anytime of the day!

[@kplkasteel]

@henk hofman we started in October again. First Oliebollen we ate after January was on the 3rd of October. Yes a very specific date.. As that is Leidens Ontzet.

[@ericdpeerik3928]

I might eat 1 at New year and that's my lot. Why would you torture yourself?

[@kplkasteel]

@@ericdpeerik3928 nah depends on who makes the Oliebollen. Nice fresh warm Oliebollen is never a torture

[@chris812125]

She's a little off with the pronunciation of 'Oliebollen' - it's more 'ol-ee' than 'ol-lee' or 'ollie'. It's also technically a New Years treat, instead of a Christmas one. I'm Canadian and have been living in the Netherlands for almost 3 years, and whenever I tell people back in Canada about Oliebollen, I always preface it by telling them that while a simple ball of deep fried dough with some icing sugar might not sound like much, they truly are one of the most delicious things I have ever eaten. It's such a joy when the carts start popping up across the country in November... instead of snow, it's the first sign of the impending holidays =)

[@user-qd2yb5rq8x]

Nigella turned out to have Dutch ancestory

[@Kiekeboetomhier]

Uncle Roger be very disappointed, making our ancestors cry again

[@freonxkipper]

We don't eat any "oliebollen" nor "appelflappen" during Christmas. Traditional there are two occasions where we do eat some oliebollen, that's on New Years eve and the Tuesday after Carnival (six weeks before Eastern) (in the south of the USA known as "Mardi Gras" (FAT TUESDAY). And "oliebollen" and "appelflappen". are available at the "kermis" (fun-fair/village fair or carnival). That's to say, the kind of "appelflappen" Nigella makes. The "Oliebollen" most of the time are made with raisins. (just like scones you can have them with of without raisins). "Appelflappen" are available all year round at bakery's and supermarkets but that kind of "appelflappen" consists of mille-feuille pastry triangles, filled with a mixture of sour apples (Goudreinette) cut in cubes with cinamon and sugar and then topped with caster sugar before baking. Genuine "Oliebollen" was a poor man's snack and only consists of flour, water, yeast and salt. The reason for eating them was that it was cheap, nutritious (fat and carbohydrates) and at the beginning of spring, most of the apples in storage were a little 'off' so it was better to feast on the apples instead of letting them rot. What do we eat on Christmas day? Typically Dutch is "Gourmetten" The word is derived from the French 'Gourmet' but in stead of good food it is a kind of miniature cooking all around an electrical stove with miniature frying pans and small peaces of meat and minced mead accompanied with ketchup and mayonaise like sauces and vegetables in small peaces also to be fryed. It doesn't make any difference what you put in your pan, it always turns out to be a kind of curry. Last decade ready-made-oven-dishes (different roasts or poultry), industrial prepared and sold by supermarkets like Albert Heijn and Jumbo (somewhat like Sainsbury's and Tesco) are very popular. Me, myself like to prepare a traditional English Christmas diner, Scottish smoked salmon on toast, a clear oxtail-soup, roasted turkey with sausages baked potatoes and Brussels sprouts (We don't criss-cross our sprouts in the Netherlands) and in September my wife prepares a Christmas pudding. My parents in the '60s also served turkey on Christmas Day so, if Nigella would like to show a typical Dutch Christmas-treat I would suggest: Present an English turkey-dinner (probably prepared earlier by the production-team 🙂)

[@freonxkipper]

In France a small kind of "oliebollen" are sold at the fair (foor) and called Croustillon about the size of a big marble. Croustillons are in-between a Dutch "Oliebol". and the scrapping you can get at the fish and chips store.

[@dutchgamer842]

In the south east of the Netherlands, oliebollen are also eaten around st Maarten.

[@melsurgenor]

They're available from August in Amsterdam so even tho traditional to eat on new year's eve They're being eaten from summer all thru autumn and winter.

[@jeanetteboer56]

I make them every year on 31 december. It is the same as the englisch People eat brussels sprouts at christmas and a roast. Not my cup of tea😂

[@peerx7866]

After that, try 'stroopwafels'. You'll like them !

[@patrickfreeman9094]

Not from the deepfrier though... appelflappen my foot!

[@Zoza15]

They know what Stroopwafels are..

[@Pasunsoprano]

Leave it up to Nigella to use lemony buttery milk in her stroopwafels too...

[@lordbunbury]

I don’t get why they laugh. At Christmas and new year’s you just apple flap your greasy balls on a plate. Delicious.

[@MrEvers]

In Belgium oliebollen (or smoutebollen, as we call them) are more a fair food, eaten all year round for any local festivity.

[@helloitsme7553]

The existence of Brits is a mystery to me

[@henkoosterink8744]

They are out of time and place.....

[@bertoverweel6588]

How about "toad in the hole" .

[@Roel_Scoot]

What is a badly cooked 'toad in a hole'? A 'frog in a bog' 😂😂😂

[@4trightcitizen895]

Buns would be a better translation than balls. The original donuts :) they taste a bit like the UK donuts. Btw maybe donuts, that have no nuts in them, someone in the past thought this sound like dubble-dutch and translated it into balls and then nuts 🤣

[@thomastoadie9006]

"Appelflappen? That sounds completely made up!" 🤣