Californian Reacts | British Culture is Impossible to Explain to Non Brits

Ever wondered about the differences between British and American cultures? Prepare to embark on an enlightening journey as we delve into the distinct characteristics that set these two vibrant cultures apart.
British and American cultures, while sharing a common language and historical ties, have developed unique identities shaped by their diverse histories, traditions, and social norms. Let's explore some of the key differences that define these two fascinating cultures.
Additional Differences Between British and American Culture:
- Social Customs: British culture places a strong emphasis on etiquette and social norms, such as queuing (standing in line) and maintaining a stiff upper lip in public. Americans tend to be more informal and expressive, often engaging in small talk with strangers and expressing emotions openly.
- Language: While both countries speak English, differences in vocabulary, pronunciation, and spelling abound. For example, Americans might say "elevator," while the British prefer "lift." Similarly, Americans spell "color," while the British spell it "colour."
- Food and Cuisine: British cuisine is known for its hearty dishes like fish and chips, shepherd's pie, and roast dinners. In contrast, American cuisine is diverse and influenced by various cultures, with popular dishes including hamburgers, hot dogs, and barbecue.
- Education System: The education systems in the UK and US differ significantly. In the UK, students typically wear uniforms, and the school year is divided into terms. In the US, there is more emphasis on extracurricular activities, and students have more flexibility in choosing their courses.
- Healthcare: The healthcare systems in the UK and US have notable differences. The UK has a publicly funded National Health Service (NHS), providing healthcare to all residents regardless of their ability to pay. In the US, healthcare is primarily provided through private insurance companies, and access to healthcare can be more expensive and complicated.
While British and American cultures share commonalities, their differences contribute to the richness and diversity of the global community. By understanding and appreciating these distinctions, we can foster greater cultural understanding and cooperation across borders. So, whether you prefer a cup of tea or a slice of apple pie, let's celebrate the unique tapestries of British and American cultures that make our world a more fascinating place.

[@user-gf1jt2hp4m]

Marmite is nice if spread very thin on hot buttered toast.

[@leohickey4953]

Also a good "secret ingredient" in beef casseroles.

[@DevonRex116]

​@@leohickey4953 I add it to mushroom and lentil cottage pie too. It's a game changer!

[@Sue474]

I actually prefer supermarkets' own brand versions, which are just called 'Yeast Extract' because they taste the same but don't have the weird texture of Marmite. They're cheaper too.

[@madcyclist58]

I like it on thick white bread with lots of butter

[@simonjones7727]

And even nicer if you just leave it in the jar,,,

[@vikkitee4686]

I'm from UK and always use celcius. Is easy to remember water freezes at 0 degrees and boils at 100

[@nbclaymore1861]

Baked beans come in a tomato sauce. The type of bean used is haricot. Some people add HP sauce but I don't think it's necessary.

[@plkrtn]

16 ounces in a pound. 14 pounds in a stone. Marmite is delicious, but they advertise it with the phrase "Love it or hate it" for a reason! They're called public schools because hiatorically, anyone could attend if you could afford it from anywhere jn the country. State schools are generally limited by distance from the school.

[@Flibbles]

To add, public schools are run as a charity, private schools are run as a business, and state schools are barely run.

[@iainsan]

@@Flibbles That is not true. Some UK schools are excellent. The standard does vary, but many provide a very good education and learning environment.

[@Flibbles]

@@iainsan I went to 7 state schools and all were as bad as each other. I finished my education being home schooled.

[@iainsan]

@@Flibbles I'm sorry that you had that experience. I taught in London state schools for 40 years and while they were not perfect, we got good exam results and the children in them were happy with their education. Although my schools were in working-class areas of South London, most of the students went on to university.

[@WreckItRolfe]

​@@Flibbles Were they all urban

[@weejackrussell]

He says "don't leave the tea bag in the cup" real tea doesn't come in tea bags it's made with loose leaves in a teapot.

[@RushfanUK]

Every country has it's own culture and customs, the UK is no different in that regard, the problem I do find is that Americans don't understand that, when they travel here it's not what they expect, they think it's going to be like the USA but with history thrown in, the first major problem they encounter is the simple fact that Americans contrary to what they think don't speak English, it gets even more confusing from that point onwards as reality hits them.

[@AlexGys9]

Pray tell where in England people actually speak English.

[@RushfanUK]

@@AlexGys9 Everywhere numpty.

[@AlexGys9]

@@RushfanUK Oh yeah, I forgot, sorry. Cockney, Geordie, Mancunian, Devonian, ... is English but somehow that funny language of the Americans is not.

[@RushfanUK]

@@AlexGys9 there you go, you finally got it.

[@AlexGys9]

@@RushfanUK Oeps, ignorant me thought English was a world language but apparently it is only spoken somewhere on an island by some 0.7% of the world population. Thank you for clarifying why I can easily understand Americans, Australians, Non-French Canadians, ... but have trouble in understanding even half of what some native English speakers are saying

[@grahamgresty8383]

Yes all our stones weigh 14 lb. We've been here long enough to make our rocks the same size!

[@californianreacts]

Great to know, thank you, Graham!

[@simonjones7727]

I mean you get used to it, I suppose, but I do wonder what it must be like sometimes to live in a country where there are rocks of different sizes. Can dream, I guess.

[@berniethekiwidragon4382]

If you want to hear some sharp vicious insults, check out the Blackadder series. Rowan Atkinson delivers some very pointed comments as the titular character, in all of his incarnations across English history.

[@benlee8436]

Fun fact that I just made up: The Welsh flag IS represented on the Union Jack by a small version of the Welsh dragon in the middle, but since it's red and the middle of the flag is red you can't see it...

[@MisterChrisInTheUK]

The US doesn't use proper Imperial, it uses it's own version of it. Also, why do US people use pounds to describe enormous weights which would be better stated in tons? 'My car weights over 3,300lbs'... why not 'a ton and a half'?

[@nadeansimmons226]

You need Heinz beans made in the UK and real bread with UK butter spread on it rather than the processed sugary bread you would buy in an American supermarket

[@arejaycee5704]

Culture goes back 1000s of years. Sometimes think Americans cant fathom that.

[@Adrian_1972]

Mixer taps are much more common these days than the video suggests

[@markrichardson3421]

My understanding is that your beans (and bread) are sweeter than ours so beans on toast is a totally different taste without our ingredients.

[@Flibbles]

Plus you can add loads of flavours to the beans (my fav is curry) or just a fried egg.

[@martinbobfrank]

As stated your US beans have a different flavour over the UK beans, but you don't also butter the toast (a must) but I don't blame you as your butter is rank (as it's made from grain-fed cows and not grass/hay fed cows. Let's not talk about the sugar loaves you call bread, that can stay fresh for a year where proper bread goes stale after a couple of days. God has had his say, and Americans have been denied beans on toast; the wrath of God.

[@WreckItRolfe]

​@@Flibbles Egg on beans on cheese on toast

[@Flibbles]

@@WreckItRolfe Yeah 😀😃😄

[@B-A-L]

All American foods are full of added sugar and chemicals. That's why they are all loud and hyperactive!

[@Mark_Bickerton]

Marmite... buy one years supply... one small jar!

[@markwolstenholme3354]

Great to see you back. 😊

[@californianreacts]

Thank you, Mark! Happy to be back with plenty of video's I've found to watch 🙂

[@totalutternutter]

I live 5 miles away from Queen Camel and all the neighbouring villages have weird names, Marston Magna, Corton Denham, there's even a Cadbury castle. I don't know any one who puts HP sauce on beans on toast but I'm a southerner where HP is for poofs and real men use Daddies sauce

[@wiganfan3373]

Chop sauce beats them all

[@jonathangmallender]

So straight men like some daddy sauce in them? Hmmmmm?

[@vickytaylor9155]

You need Heinz baked beans in tomato sauce for beans on toast. Two slices of toasted bread with butter on. Put the toast on a plate. Top with the heated beans and eat with a knife and fork.

[@Jamie_D]

Nice to finally see you again dude

[@mej6519]

love marmite, its a savory spread thinnly on hot butterd toast. but spread it too thick and it can be a bit too much.

[@Sue474]

Cheese and marmite sandwiches are delicious.

[@t.a.k.palfrey3882]

Not having been born in England, this stones thing hit me like a ton of bricks when I began boarding choir school there, aged eight. 🙄. 16 oz = 1 lb, 14 lb = 1 stone, 2 stones = 1 qtr, 4 qtr = 1 cwt (hundredweight), 20 cwt = 1 long ton. (A US ton is a short ton, which is 240 lb lighter). 🤯. I had to learn metric after going to senior school in Africa, aged 13. No wonder I was a confused child!! 😅

[@californianreacts]

I appreciate the story and information on stone and the weights! I can only imagine your confusion with all of the different weight measurements you grew up with trying to understand haha. I believe it was middle school for me when we learned (be it lightly) the metric system. My teachers would always say "yes this makes sense but we don't use it here in the US"

[@iLoveBeingDelusional4U]

The weather reports are reported in Celsius not Fahrenheit in the UK.

[@user-is9ci4te4x]

A notable thing to understand about a lot of British food especially some of the more traditional ones is where people joke about them being bland or savoury the trick is what we have many toppings and sauces to adjust the taste individually such as salt , pepper, vinegar, tomato ketchup, Brown Sauce etc.,mint sauce, canberry sauce, mustard, worcestershire sauce..... a lot of the people you see sampling British food tend to go straight in without putting stuff on which probably varies the results. Funnily enough in some cultures its insulting to add to food as it suggests it doesnt taste right.

[@steevenfrost]

N.B. In the North of England, Tea is a word we use for our meal eaten at say 5 clock. Some might call it dinner elsewhere in The country.

[@user-gt2ud2gw9e]

There are 14 pounds in a stone. We use centigrade in our weather forecasts, but in many other features, we use imperial. We DO however use litres with liquid products in the shops, but in the pub we order in pints.

[@vladd6787]

Don't forget how we give the temperature in Fahrenheit when it's hot and centigrade when it's cold.

[@herstoryanimated]

It's worth noting that the UK likes tea so much that when there were breaks in the tv schedule (prior to satellite/many channels) they used to have to massively boost the power grid to compensate for everyone making a brew during the ads!

[@madcyclist58]

11:58 Wrong, I'm 66 and switch between the two systems, using whichever one is more convenient or intuitive. 44f still sounds more natural to me than 7c. Metric maybe easier but using 1/16th of an inch on my measure gives more exactness in tight tolerances than mm do.

[@jonathanwetherell3609]

Strange, I'm 68 and use strict SI units with few exceptions. Weighing myself and traveling, where it is miles and MPH.

[@stuartduncan2772]

1/16 of an inch is over 1.5 mm so you'd need to be getting down to a 32nd to be more accurate than metric. I'm 61 and I use Celcius for temperatures both for weather and cooking. Don't get me started on imperial measures for beer, milk, petrol etc as US and UK differ with them.

[@jonathanwetherell3609]

@@stuartduncan2772 The beauty of SI units is the scales. If mm are too small we use meters, if they are too big we go down another thousand to microns. Micron too big? Never mind down again another thousand.

[@johnawalker9261]

16ounces in 1pound, 14 pounds in 1stone, 2 stones in 1quarter, 4 quarters in 1hundredweight, 20 hundredweight in 1 ton.

[@Temeraire101]

Heinz Beans which comes in Tomato Sauce. If you have Beans on Toast grill some grated cheese on top. I normally also add a biy of ground black pepper.

[@westwonic]

As a brit watching a foreigner discuss our culture and showing our flag, I am always compelled to check if the Union Jack is upside down or not.

[@FuriKitten]

14lb in a Ston, it's a measurement that was used to measure raw wool, enough to make one bolt of Flemish Cloth

[@L-mo]

as a brit who lived in the US, I can attest that culturally UK and USA are much more different than our shared language (initially) lulls you into thinking.

[@utha2665]

Australian here, Vegimite is superior, I've had both and Marmite is pretty ordinary. I have to disagree with the narrator. But, I get it, it depends on what you grew up with. We also love our baked beans on toast and we used to use stones, pounds and ounces, but we have embraced the metric system far more than the UK. Although, many still understand weight and height, but Fahrenheit, forget it, when he said 60-70°F, I have no idea without converting it. °F to °C is 5/9 x (F - 32), so 60°F would be 5/9 x (60 - 32) = 15.5°C and 70°F = 21.1°C.

[@stevehaddon151]

Nah Vegemite is a poor knock off

[@simonjones7727]

Terrible! You will be telling us next that Lamingtons are superior to Bakewell Tart.

[@utha2665]

@@simonjones7727 100%

[@stevehaddon151]

@@simonjones7727 gotta say lamingtons slap!

[@JohnSmith-fr7js]

14 pounds = 1 stone, 2 stones =1 quarter, 4 quarters - 1 hundred weight, 20 hundred weights = 1 ton

[@Joanna-il2ur]

Public schools are called that because they are open to the public if they pay. The other type of school at the time these ancient schools were founded in the 14th and 15th centuries were church schools, founded to train boys to be priests.

[@luvstellauk]

Seriously, if you really want to learn about British culture and quirks stay away from channels like Watch Mojo, they are trash, often poorly researched to the point of being down right wrong. As for bathroom and kitchen taps, barely anyone these days has separate hot and cold taps, if they do it's a retro design thing.

[@nicksykes4575]

For temperature I use Farenheit for positive temps, and Celsius for negative temps, as I was at school when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. Btw, US imperial measurements are different to UK imperial, our pints and gallons are around 12% larger, Your ton is 2,000lbs, ours is 2,240lbs. I believe you call it a long ton.

[@ronturner9850]

Good to see you back. My only comment on accents is that we’re being bombarded with American accents and words especially on the internet where it seems the majority of voiceovers are American. Gradualism at its worst. It’s also creeping into American spellings if you use subtitles on say a Netflix film…..so many missing ‘u’ s and ‘l’ s: neighbor/jewelry. Confusing for kids here!

[@trevormillar1576]

You either love or hate Marmite. Like Australian Cane Toads. Or Ken Livingstone.

[@Rainex-my7jd]

My daughter uses Kilo's and after17 years still don't know what she weighs !!! Celsius to Fahrenheit Double CEL and add 30 gives approx temp !!!

[@B-A-L]

Just move to Green Bay, Wisconsin in USA where it gets to -40 cos its the exact same temperature no matter which system you use!

[@Flibbles]

Marmite is great. When something is described as marmite it means you either love it or hate it.

[@madmark1957]

In the states a double tap is two shots in the back of the head, not a way to deliver hot and cold water separately. Also a number of British imperial measurements are different from US ones.

[@user-gt2ud2gw9e]

No, one immediate identifier when we see a family with more than one or two kids - we know right away without asking, that the children are going to state schools. And in any case, wealthy people don't have time to look after so many kids, there's often a maid (nanny) who takes care of everything including cooking

[@helenwood8482]

Barbarians put HP sauce on beans. It's not pleasant. Beans come with their own sauce.

[@BritishBeachcomber]

Public schools are not private schools because anyone can send their kids there. If they pay the fees. So they are available to the public.

[@stewartwyld5180]

14lbs. to a stone, 28lbs. to a quarter, 112lbs to a hundredweight (cwt}, 20 cwt. or 2240lbs to the ton. Easy peasy. There was also a butcher`s stone which was 8lbs, I don`t know when that was discontinued but it was still alive and well during the1930`s.

[@gennahind4251]

In the UK, historically, private schools were for monks. We're talking about a time when the arts of reading and writing were considered an extravagance. That's the divide.

[@jeanniewarken5822]

The toast must be hot buttered toast with the beans.. the most popular is Heinz baked beans.. hp sauce is not necessary.. though its nice with grated chedder on top. Or melt the chedder on the toast first then add the beens. I tebd to pimp my beans by adding celery salt, a little cayenne and worcestershire sauce.. each to his own.

[@lyndarichardson4744]

Californian Guy, in some ways you seem very British, quietly spoken and reflective. Especially as you appreciate sarcasm, not all Americans get that !

[@californianreacts]

I appreciate for the compliment! Sarcasm is a lot of fun with the right people, at least those who know that I can be very sarcastic to close friends or family. It's good fun!

[@RalphBellairs]

Different accents from city to city?! In the UK we have different accents within the same city! I was born and raised in Whitefield, Greater Manchester. Travel 15 miles to Leigh, also in Greater Manchester and I will often have difficulty in understanding the locals!

[@martinholmes-ue9ko]

We will do as we please, thank you very much.

[@davidstevenson6817]

Agreed … when I’m woodworking sometimes I use metric other time imperial … whichever is easier for the job (just don’t mix … that way is madness) ;)

[@jonathanwetherell3609]

The USA does NOT use Imperial. The official measures are metric but commonly the USA uses US common units, different from the Imperial measure.

[@helenwood8482]

Mixer taps are useless. They never get hot.

[@berniethekiwidragon4382]

Some just take too long to get hot.

[@johnp8131]

You may know that our Imperial volume is different too. 1 Imperial pint is 20 fluid ounces, whereas an American pint is only 16 fluid ounces. BTW, ounces etc..... are the same in both countries. Therefore you need to be more wary in British pubs when drinking a beer or twelve over here?

[@hypsyzygy506]

The US fluid ounce is actually very slightly larger than the Imperial fluid ounce.

[@anitaherbert1037]

Marmite Love it or hate it. Best way for novices soften butter dip the very tip of a knife in then mix that smear into the softened butter. It has a really strong umami taste. If you like the little dark brown almost burnt bits on the bottom of a meat roast pan you will probably like marmite.

[@FoodFestTelevision]

Marmite is absolutely delicious. I have it every day, spread thinly on toast. Australian Vegemite is completely different and vile, never confuse them.

[@wiganfan3373]

the accents 20 mile north, south and east of where I live in Cumbria, sound nothing like mine and nothing like each other, the same can be said when you travel further north, south and east, luckily the sea is west

[@vikkitee4686]

You either love marmite or hate it. I hate it, my husband loves it

[@simonjones7727]

I remember a surreal cartoon that showed a man with a normal head, arms and legs but a jar of marmite for a body. His wife was saying "I just can't stand what you are turning into nowadays, Brian"

[@zingo1010]

To be fair a teaspoon of jam works too.

[@markhindmarsh2811]

I'm a 55yr old Brit . I have no idea about pounds or stones . Beans on toast is disgusting and HP sauce is the work of the Devil . I know how fast I'm driving in mph but goodness knows how many pints to a gallon , yup the UK has got me screwed 🤦🏻

[@Gismo-ih7gi]

The accent thing is just because were old. Way back when each town/city would be an insolated comunity that would all sound the same, have their own customs, words, even language in some cases. Closed bubbles where strangers were the rarity. So even 10 miles away would have been a whole different bubble. The world grew up around them over hundreds of years but places kept their sound, their quirks and alot of strange seeming customs and rules.

[@Isleofskye]

Another difference. Scottish people say "I am from SCOTLAND" (and proud of it). Welsh people say "I am from WALES ( and proud of it.). Irish people say "I am from IRELAND" (and proud of it). English people (usually,like me) say "I am ENGLISH) but the Younger Generation, especially Young Females say "I'm from The UK"........

[@helenwood8482]

In the UK, we use F for high temperatures, C for low ones.

[@FuriKitten]

I'm 52 the only time I use F Rather then C is when talking to Americans

[@anitawhite2669]

Do we!!! I'm in my 70's and never use Fahrenheit always use Celsuis

[@JustMe-ks8qc]

Marmite is fermented bin juice. Fight me. Travel 5 miles in any direction you get a new accent, new words, and a different name for a bread roll. Speaking of bread, you don't just need the right beans, you need the right bread- US bread is so sweet it's almost cake. That said, once you try HP, you won't want ketchup again. Fish fingers with HP is a top level sarnie choice. Not much you can't put in a sandwich here.

[@B-A-L]

I can sum up why you should never eat Marmite in two words: Yeast Infection!

[@wiseblood90]

I lived in new york for 5 yrs and the amount of people who couldn't work out metric it's hilarious because your cash is all metric

[@berniethekiwidragon4382]

I'm a bit of a strange case. I grew up in Hong Kong in the 90s and earily 2000s. I was taught using the metric system. Imagine how confused with Imperial Units I was when I came here. It's not that I never heard of the Imperial Units. It's still very much in use with things like food recipies. It's just I never really use them personally. Added to that cofusion are the old Chinese units, like taels and cattes for weight, which is still used in wet markets (16 taels to a catte, 1 tael is 37.80 grams).

[@pennyaccleton6227]

​​​@@berniethekiwidragon4382 oh how you took me back... my father was Army and we spent 3 years in Singapore when I was 10, '63 to' 66. The times I was sent down to the shop in the kampong for a catte of rice... You just brought it all back. Thank you. Edit : Honestly didn't realise it was so much, around 4k, maybe 9 or 10lbs? Good thing I had my brother. Edit : somebody's going to do the maths and tell me how much I am out. It doesn't detract from the memory however. I went back a few years ago, visiting some of my old haunts. The kampong is gone now, nothing remains of it, but the house we lived in is still there and looks exactly the same.

[@vtbn53]

We are used to you septics messing things up and being confused, it's what you are good at.

[@TheUnarmedPanda]

9:39 WOAH! Did she just pour the milk first? Blasphemy!

[@simonjones7727]

Thanks for the trigger warning.

[@user-ox9ec1id9x]

Marmite has a very strong bitter taste, so it is not liked by everyone. It is a love it or hate it thing, certainly an acquired taste. British Public Schools stem from the days when gentry children were privately educated at home. A few schools to educate in numbers developed, so these were 'public', long before universal education was enforced in the 19th century. Town names go back a long way, & some are 'frozen' in ancient spellings when pronunciation has changed over centuries. Some names have been set down on maps in modern times in a way the map makers thought they should be spelt, & local accents with all sorts of origins have created interesting names. The very long Welsh name was created by a railway company inventing a name to publicise a new station by combining a number of nearby places to make the longest name they could. The joke stuck, so became the official name of the station. We still use miles/MPH when driving, but fill our tanks with litres (though more often by cost, i e , we fill up to £20, £30,£50 say). The American colonists must have used Stones in weights, especially for people, it's much more convenient than simple pounds. A stone is 14 pounds, so a person will weigh, say 12 stone 7 pounds, or 7 1/2 stones, or 16 stones 10 pounds, etc it's very easy to picture these for a Brit. We know that a person at 20 stones weight is large, at 30 stones is enormous, while at 10 stones they are light. I can't imagine figuring out a person by how many pounds weight they might be. It's like houses, we estimate their size by the size, in feet x feet of each room, overall square footage means nothing to us, we need to know how that space is divided, into rooms & spaces. Generally we have little difficulty in swapping between two systems, the 12 hour & 24 hour clock for time, Centigrade for temperature, litres for liquids, but also pints & gallons (US pints/gallons are differently sized to UK ones). We still figure some things in feet & inches, & square yards, but also measure in metres etc if needed. The metric system was being introduced when I was an apprentice engineer in the 1960's, & I had spent all my schooldays with the imperial system, with some knowledge of metric being taught in the last couple of school years. When I began work in an electrical engineering company we had three systems of measurement to work with. First was the British standard, which most stuff was built around up to that time, then there was the newer metric stuff, on top of this was an American system of nuts & bolts, wrenches etc, that was different to both of the others, because there were some US made machines around. So that was a bit tricky. I don't know if they were what Americans would call the Imperial system, but they were certainly not the same as our British Standard 'Imperial' system. You learnt to be adaptable.

[@WreckItRolfe]

Most people under 50/40 won't understand what you mean by Fahrenheit.

[@BillCameronWC]

I don’t think the US uses a pure Imperial system, rather a US customary system. For example in the traditional British Imperial system, there are 16 ounces in a pound, but 20 fluid ounces in a pint, whereas in the US it is 16 fluid ounces, so a US gallon is only 80% of a British gallon. Of course now Britain has adopted the Metric system we have a somewhat schizophrenic attitude. I use metric for temperature as I tend to think most in Celsius/Centigrade, but I still know from my childhood (I am 70+) what temperatures are in Fahrenheit. We measure distances in miles, but I know pretty accurately what a kilometre is. And we buy petrol (‘gas’) in litres, but measure consumption in gallons as in MPG (miles per gallon), when buying trousers (‘pants’) the waist/length is in inches, and frankly I have no idea what the relevant equivalents in centimetres are. Shoe sizes are a whole other subject - if I want a shoe size 8 in the UK, that’s size 9 in the US, and in European measurements terms that’s about 43 for British 8 1/2. Before I realised the difference I did one buy a pair of quite expensive size 8 shoes in the US which were way too small for me & had to dump them soon after I got back home - they might be just about OK briefly in the cool of the morning, but quickly became unwearable once they and my feet warmed up - lesson learned! 😉

[@hypsyzygy506]

The Imperial System was developed after 1776, so obviously the USA never used it.

[@hypsyzygy506]

UK men's shoe sizes are calculated from size 12 being 12 inches long, then the sizes go down in barleycorns (3 barleycorns to the inch). So size 11 is 11⅔" long, size 10 11⅓" long, etc.

[@jonathanwetherell3609]

The veriety of accents, yes but what I mourn is the steady demise of dialect words.

[@CamcorderSteve]

FYI: 16oz=1lb, 14lbs=1 Stone.

[@ChrisStewart-mn5wm]

Marmite is like dipping your toast in raw sewage.

[@richardhargrave6082]

Marmite is a love or hate thing, Put too much on your toast, like they do on reaction videos and you probably wont like it, thinly spread on buttered toast and its lovely. The schools, never really understood it. The accent changes every ten miles The separate taps is not really a thing, most people have mixer taps, they have caught on. Nothing wrong with tea, I'm drinking one now. Best out of a tea pot. Imperial is outdated, keep up with the times America! Temperature is best in Celsius. Beanz Meanz Heinz

[@hypsyzygy506]

Beans Meanz Fartz.

[@davidswan4083]

And an Imperial pint is bigger than a US pint, 20 fl oz rather than 16. Old mnemonic, "A pint of water weighs a pound and a quarter". I'm old enough to have had the whole Imperialist weights and measures dinned into me at primary school, the whole pecks / bushels, rods, poles or perches chains, furlongs etc Argh! So very glad to be using SI / metric now.

[@berniethekiwidragon4382]

Is this the same world that used shillings and crowns?

[@davidswan4083]

@@berniethekiwidragon4382 Yep, 12 pence to the Shilling, 20 Shillings to the Pound. I was very glad when we went decimal in 1971. The Crown wasn't in common usage, but the half Crown ( 2 shillings and sixpence) was, as was the 3p coin, 12 sided like the current £1, and worth about the same I should think.

[@eveoakley6270]

I’m from England. Hardly anyone I know eats Marmite.

[@darrenwilson7217]

HP sauce harks back to the Commonwealth and the Jewel in the Crown, India. Curry is the nations favorite food. HP sauce is a hot and spicy sauce. A favorite mixed with the egg yolk of fried eggs or on a sausage or bacon sandwich. In the US you love Mexican food, being your spicy neighbour. In the UK it is spicy Indian food and flavours. We have a lot of immigrants from the Indian continent I.e. India, Pakistan or Bangladesh. Wendy

[@trevormillar1576]

There's a town in England thsy doesn't exist, because mosy American ISPs have profanity filters; it's "SCUNTHORPE "

[@simonjones7727]

Who put the the "thor" in Scunthorpe...as they sing on the terraces.

[@nicks4934]

Is that near Clitheroe? 😂

[@hypsyzygy506]

​@@nicks4934 About 97 miles (2 hours by car).

[@iainsan]

Back in the middle ages, the poor were not usually educated at all, while the rich educated their children with hired, live-in tutors. In the 16th century, 'public' schools were set up for the sons of the middle classes. Each major town and city had one and the boys were educated by teachers, but their parents had to pay fees. Eventually, the aristocracy began sending their sons away to 'public' schools as well and many of them became very prestigious and expensive. A few girls' public schools followed later, but tax funded state schools for everyone were not set up until the 1870s.

[@trevormillar1576]

Actually the Irish drink more tea than we do.

[@kenUK762]

14lbs = 1 stone. 😊

[@californianreacts]

Thank you!

[@nicks4934]

Imperial pint is 20fl oz. 1.25 lbs❤

[@peterlinsley4287]

Yes, Vegemite is not as good as Marmite. It's better. The Satin rocks that went to the moon was metric designed by German's they had to put imperial gauges in it, so it was easy for Americans to read. I think they still use Metric today. Celsius od easy it's based on water 0 water is frozen 100 it's boiling. 36 is 100 degrees Fahrenheit.

[@BusstterNutt]

I think the only time I use imperial measurements now is when I read Harry Potter talk to Americans or speak to old people.

[@hypsyzygy506]

But USAians don't use Imperial, so it'll just confuse them even more.

[@trevormillar1576]

We still use "Imperial" units because its a daily reminder that we were the only nation in Europe that did not surrender ti Napoleon.

[@B-A-L]

Makes you wonder why America didn't adopt Metric given that France was directly responsible for its independence from Britain!

[@Isleofskye]

Fahrenheit every time for me. It's 90 Degrees!! as opposed to it's 32C or it's ONE HUNDRED Degrees !! as opposed to "38". Feet and Inches every time. He is 6-foot 3 inches! as opposed to the bland Centimetres. 6 FEET = 182...5Feet 11=180 5 Feet 10 = 177

[@KevPack65]

I love marmite and have it every morning on buttered toast.

[@robertlonsdale5326]

Have a bacon butty with HP sauce.

[@grahamstubbs4962]

Marmite should be administered in homeopathic doses initially. Once you've got a taste for it, all bets are off. 🙂

[@laurelward2297]

We have a mix in UK of imperial and metric. But I don't know anyone who uses Fahrenheit. J think measurements are generally done in metric also, but sometimes in imperial. Wierd 😊

[@juliaw151]

1:37 i love a lot of marmite. Thickly spread. 3:17 back when schools were first a "thing", they were mostly church schools, and you could omly go if you were part of the church. Public schools were different, they were open to anyone, so long as you could pay the fee. You didn't have to be part of a church to attend. State schools are government funded, free for use for everyone, you do not pay a fee to attend. Then there are private and independent schools, which are a whole different kettle of fish. Eton, an internationally renowned school, is a public school. 4:56 'tis true, we're mean to people we love. 6:56 accents can vary even within towns, let alone counties or regions. 10:42 you actually officially use the us customary system, of which some are imperial, and some are not, ounces, pounds, gallons for example, yours are not imperial. They differ to our ounces, pounds and gallons. 12:33 We don't, only old people do, as it said, "some older people will still tell you the temperature in farenheit". That to me, makes no sense. If it was 60-70⁰ you'd be dead, considering the highest recorded temperature on earth is 56.7⁰.

[@Caambrinus]

'Very unique'....no, no, no.! Unique is an absolute adjective. IOW, something unique is...well, unique.

[@dukeofclemance]

it has to be Heinz beans. if a café or restaurant served anything other than Heinz beans that would be considered appalling and would be burnt to the ground immediately and rightly so in my humble opinion

[@jeanniewarken5822]

Waitrose own make baked beans virtually identical to Heinz and half the price

[@valeriedavidson2785]

The Imperial system comes from England which is what you use. I don't know why you do not use stones.

[@JJ-of1ir]

No, you either Love it or you Hate it

[@Jill-mh2wn]

Like any culture anywhere ,you have to live it for a while to really understand it. Americans have this strange idea that because they speak a similar language ,the culture should be the same as the one they grew up in . I had a friend who worked in London for Merrill Lynch, a huge American company with offices all over the world .Anyone aspiring to executive position was expected to serve some time in the major cities of Europe ,South America , Asia etc . When she got to know them ,almost without exception they said that the London posting was the most difficult for their families to adjust. For each new posting, they would work at learning something of the foreign language ,culture etc ,but London? After all it's just the same as the USA !

[@user-gt2ud2gw9e]

Welsh Town names were not exported to North America, as for example English. Their language is different, and in addition, you cannot pronounce some of their letters as you would in English, otherwise they won't understand which place/town you want. Double L is a classic example of that. It has nothing anywhere even near the sound of an English L.!

[@krissymarklewis1793]

We have dirrerent accents every 4 miles away.

[@Mark_Bickerton]

US imperial is strangely NOT the same as British Imperial... I have NO idea why!

[@edwinchapple7224]

America has customary units. Imperial measurement relate to those from the Weights and Measures Act 1824, that covered Britain and her Empire.

[@Mark_Bickerton]

@@edwinchapple7224 I dont/cant doubt what you typed. Can you shed any light on why they differ? I'm genuinely intrerested!

[@edwinchapple7224]

@@Mark_Bickerton weights and measurements have been regulated for over a thousand years in the British isles. With each different set of rules and regulations came minor changes and often further confusion. The American customary units evolved from those of the UK in the 18th century. The “American” 16oz pint was known as a Queen Anne or a Wine pint in the UK. There was a major standardisation of Weights and Measures in the 1824 act. That is where the Imperial 20oz Pint came from. There has been many small changes since. For example Public Houses in Britain where only allowed to serve beer in measurements of a gill, half pint or an Imperial Pint right up until joining the European Union, when the law to allow measures of 500ml and 1 litre was introduced (1985). Since that date Imperal measurements are given in their metric equivalents. Fun Fact, the basis of all British weight and measures is the size of a barleycorn!

[@Mark_Bickerton]

@@edwinchapple7224 Dude, you're a walking encyclopedia :) I would love to spend an evening in a pub with you. What else do you know lol... I dont care... just type anything :)

[@trevormillar1576]

"Old Glory" doesn't include Puerto Rico; why?

[@jeanniewarken5822]

Its a territory not a state, similar to Isle of Man, channel Isles, gibralter etc= British overseas territories