Canadian 🍁[REACTS] to 11 British things you'll Only find in the UK!

[@philm3509]

That girl is tripping, Jaffa cakes are awesome!

[@stevepage5813]

Jaffa cakes are made of sponge. If you leave a biscuit out over night, it goes soft. If you leave a sponge CAKE out overnight, it goes hard. That's what the court had to acknowledge, as it is fact. Regards from Halifax, West Yorkshire, UK.

[@stephenlee5929]

Also If you store biscuits in an air tight tin (container), they will stay fresh. If you store cakes in a similar tin (container) they will also stay fresh. If you store biscuits and cake in the same tin (together) they both go stale very quickly, this happens with any type of biscuit or cake. This means it is worth knowing that Jaffa cakes are cakes, if stored with you biscuits both will stale quickly.

[@nealgrimes4382]

I'm not even sure why she even mentions Mr Blobby he's not been on the TV since the mid nineties aside from a few guest appearances.

[@grahamlittle37]

Streaming services get paid by subscription, comercial channels get paid through advertising companies. BBC doesn’t show advertisements so depends a license payment to allow viewing

[@robertSibley-t3b]

74 years old and never seen a pie butty!

[@adamdalton3492]

This is strange , Mr Blobby is not around anymore unless you watch tv repeats from 20/30 years ago. Jada cakes are a small piece of plain sponge with a small piece of orange flavour jelly then covered in chocolate

[@bakersmileyface]

Jaffa Cakes is a religion. They're so great that Stargate (TV show) named an entire race after them.

[@pi1872]

that was a good show

[@ElunedLaine]

The UK tv licence was first introduced in 1923 and was originally a radio licence and cost 10 shillings. It changed to include tv in 1946 when the BBC restarted after WW2 and cost £2. All the money goes to the BBC as there are no adverts. It now costs £169.50 a year. You need a tv licence to watch any live broadcasts or streaming service on a tv, laptop or 'phone etc.

[@derekdelboytrotter8881]

not all streaming services, things run by the BBC like BBC iplayer you do but for things like netflix you do not

[@nealgrimes4382]

My TV works just fine without one.

[@thomasmumw8435]

Star Gazey Pie.... It's a celebration food which comes from Cornwall, UK. It's Cornish routes go back decades to celebrate the Pilchard which was the main catch for our coastal fishing fleet. We now mainly only have it at Christmas. Our regional foods also include oysters (eaten by local fishing villages as one of our mainstay foods) the Cornish Pasty (no variation on original recipe), and my favourite is Saffron cake, with proper saffron, delicious! ❤️

[@martinalloway6980]

Mr Blobby has hardly been on tv for 30 years.

[@paulknox999]

train spotters not only take photographs they note down the serial number of every locamotive they see and travel all over the country to try to see as many if not all the trains in the UK, they will also note down distinctive characteristics.

[@KernowWarrior]

The TV Licence (Formally Radio licence) has existed since the radio was invented, when radio technology was discovered, you had to have a licence to use/own one. And it has evolved into the TV licence that e have today.

[@klausschwab9507]

Grope Cant Lane was the street name for the Red light district in a lot of English towns in the 13th century . Obviously I can't spell it with a U on KZbin but you know what I mean

[@paulknox999]

tv license has been around since 1946. Remember the BBC is advertisement free so it gets no revenue from that but it makes a lot of the best TV documentaries and tv dramas on TV plus its "unbiased" news coverage, the license fee mostly goes to fund the BBC and the infra structure to broadcast tv signals. If you can prove you dont watch any live tv channels or any BBC channels live or via internet then you dont have to pay the fee.

[@rorschch12]

I had to ride around the magic roundabout on my motorcycle test. I Passed. Also on street names there is one in London called Gropecunt Lane and it was where all the brothels were in late medieval England.

[@pi1872]

Lol 😆

[@antiqueinsider]

Weird events: Atherstone Ball Game, Worm charming, Gurning Championship, and many more!

[@grahamlittle37]

Tv licence is really a stealth tax and yeah we have Netflix prime and many others

[@dawn5227]

Oh why did she have to start with that monstrosity.. im british, I hated Mr Blobby in the 1990s and its something that needs to remain in the TV archives or better yet burnt and forgotten about.

[@pi1872]

Lol

[@necessaryevil3428]

This woman is insane if she doesn't like Jaffa cakes!!! I can't put the box back unfinished once i open them 😋 Plus seven years in England and unable to fathom out buying a bag of chips from the local 'Chippie' and a loaf of bread to make a chip butty....... not the brightest Canadian 🙃

[@antonycharnock2993]

Further explanation of the Jaffa cake. Orange is also a popular chocolate flavour in the UK. Jaffas are a type of large orange which are usually classed as the best kind you can buy. Most of the UK's come from mediterranean countries like Spain. You must also put a full one in your mouth to be a true connoisseur😂

[@pi1872]

Sounds good to me

[@TheJohnboyhunter]

TV licensing isn't unique to the UK. Numerous countries in Europe, Africa and Asia have some kind of TV licence. The only difference is that people all over the world have heard of the BBC.

[@nealgrimes4382]

A Wigan Kebab started as a Joke about Wigan, not saying people never do it and places may sell it now but it's really just humour, that said i'm from Lancs and we do think everything is improved if it's either wrapped in pastry or between two slices of Bread and sometimes maybe both.

[@robbiemcgrath4553]

Dumb Woman's Lane. The most well-known story is that when the road was used as a main route for smugglers, a woman who witnessed the criminals hauling the contraband up the lane had her tongue cut out so she couldn't report what she saw.

[@pi1872]

Oh wow thats crazy

[@claregale9011]

When i went to the US t.v seemed so chaotic in its format , adverts all over the place and would pop up in middle of sports , shows etc at funny times like 5mins in then another ad .nightmare 😅

[@pi1872]

Yes so true

[@mallockracer]

A cake is Hygroscopic (Goes hard if left to sit) and a biscuit which is Hydroscopic (Goes soft when left to sit) this was the basis of the court case with Jaffa Cakes and Jaffa is a type of orange..

[@mallockracer]

****Nerd Alert**** ****Nerd Alert****

[@stephenlee5929]

Trainspotting, Well worth a try, if you are in Scotland, ask Ewan McGregor. 😁😁

[@adrianboardman162]

I think the designer was on Mushrooms when they dreamed the Magic Roundabout up. It gives me a headache just looking at photos of it.

[@stephenlee5929]

But it actually works quite well.

[@markbrown4127]

The TV licence isnt actually as insane as you think. Consider all the stuff you get from BBC, then consider the charge of 150 quid a year or whatever it is. Then consider Amazon Prime, or Disney TV. You'd pay a similar amount, and get f*ck all compared to the BBC. And all with no adverts.

[@helenwood8482]

Mr Blobby is not a part of most people's lives. It disappeared decades ago. Nobody misses it. Jaffa Cakes are not biscuits. They are, as the name suggests, cake. They didn't change the name. It is a cake. It has no characteristics of a biscuit. They have a cake base with an orange top, covered with chocolate. The TV licence means no ads on BBC channels and high quality programmes. It's worth every penny. We have David Attenborough because of the TV licence. The licence is older than TVs. Our TV is the envy of the world. I have never heard of a Wigan kebab before this video. I have heard of chip butties, but never had one. You Canadians are afraid of fish? Cheese rolling, I cannot defend. There is nothing Brits will not do for cheese. Bonfire night is fun. The Waterfront Festival sounds good. I feel the peach one would get boring fast. Yes, we have manners when offered things. Roundabouts are great. They make driving safer and more efficient. They're not complicated at all. There is no situation in which tea is not appropriate. Our street names are often very old and very strange. Many have a tale to tell. Dumb used to mean "unable to speak". It didn't mean stupid. Trainspotters are very strange. They collect the numbers of trains. Birdwatching make a lot more sense to me.

[@anitawhite2669]

Totally agree with you about Mr Blobby - it was for kids decades ago.

[@NOKK72]

Mr Blobby hasn't been a thing for decades so don't know why she has highlighted it to be honest. And it's not weird, it's just daft humour. Jaffa Cakes are amazing so don't know what she is talking about.

[@anitawhite2669]

The BBC was set up decades ago before way before the internet - so to fund the BBC we had to pay a tv licence to watch tv. In those days we, here in the uk, only had one tv channel BBC. In 1955 we had another tv company set up ITV which was funded by advertising, but even if you only watched ITV we still had to pay for the tv licence. Now we have multiple tv channels, the law has changed that we can no longer watch any 'live tv' on any channel, unless we have a tv licence. Chiili Jon Carnie on KZbin explains it so much better than I can.

[@pi1872]

Thank you

[@atorthefightingeagle9813]

I much prefer Mr. Blobby to Jaffa Cakes.

[@suejaneuk1681]

I am originally from Swindon and the magic roundabout is so infamous.

[@pi1872]

I think i saw the roundabout on one of my other videos it was crazy 🤪 or maybe this video

[@seanmc1351]

chip butty, best late night meal, or struggle meal, for students, or less well off, to make at home, i am 60 and i will say, we have this once a week at least, after few beers in the house, go to bed, watch box set, bit hungry, chip butty, i only do home made chips, i still cant get away with the dry frozen stuff,

[@seanmc1351]

The TV license is for watching live TV, which does count your lap top, it also counts for you mobile really, as you could watch live TV on it, I have never had TV license in my life im 60, i have been fines 3 times, it was usually 90 pounds pay 5 pounds a week fine low income, there was one time i got knock at the door, spent 7 hours in a cell in the 90's, till i paid 134 fine, i was arresred saturday, i would have been there till monday court, my wife paid it got me out lol

[@pi1872]

OH WOW

[@seanmc1351]

@@pi1872 im commenting on your most popular foods uk, whatch out for it in a second

[@jonathangoll2918]

I quite like Jaffa Cakes, and they are cheap. We really must get you trying Marmite. ( Most people from your side of the pond hate it. The mistake you make is spreading it to thickly to start with.) Stargazey Pie is really only found in Cornwall. But I must mention the Scottish habit of deep-frying everything, incuvding Mars Bars and meat pies... She only scratched the surface with weird festivals. The Bog-Snorkelling champioships at Llamwrtyd; the various games of Mob Football - such as Atherstone, Warwickshire: Pancake Races; Nettle-eating; Gurning; and the most interesting one, the Abbot's Bromley Horn Dance. They walk all round the village, carrying deer antlers on their heads. The antlers have been radio-carboned back to mediaeval times, and it looks awfully like prehistoric sympathetic magic... Thete is a lot of controversy about TV Licences at the moment. It must be pointed out, though, that they're why the BBC doesn't have to have adverts and is not subject to commercial interests.

[@mattsmith5421]

There used to be a program called Noel's house party, it was on around 6:30 at night and was aimed at being a kind of a family entertainment show, Mr blobby was a character made to make the celebrity guests feel a bit awkward but he became far bigger than the show he was invented on. Jaffa cake is actually a cake they didn't just change the name of it, a cake goes hard when it goes stale and biscuits go soft.

[@JillHughes-n1h]

You don’t see mr blobby now .

[@seanmc1351]

roundabouts are better, safer, quicker, yes it takes some getting used, to, there is 80% less accidents on a roundabout, there are less serious injury, due to the speed of a roundabout, traffic flows quicker, I will admit, for a new comer, they do take some getting used to,

[@suejaneuk1681]

There's also Dead woman's Lane and Shutgate Lane.

[@lindabloomfield4879]

Train spotting was more prevalent with the steam train era. People take down the engine numbers and I suppose facts of what class etc it is. It isn't done by many now.

[@scottwebb1978]

The main bbc channel started in 1936 , no commercials , second tv channel was a commercial channel was 15 local tv channels different station for your area of the uk started in 1955 then BBC started their second channel in1964 ( power failure problems across londn hampered opening night check out bbc 2 the start up that wasn't...then till 1982 you had 3 terrestrial channels 1984 came the 4th a second commercial channel and 1997 was the last to come which was another cvommercial channel... analogue t shut down around 2009/2012

[@whitecompany18]

Yeah train spotting is a thing, we have thousands of train stations across the UK and you can get a book of all the trains ever made and their number so some people like to check them all off visiting different branches nation wide. On the subject of British traditions maybe check out a top vid of "the Atherstone ball" explaining the rule and the origins of the game👍

[@lindabloomfield4879]

I have never seen that fish pie on a menu. I have heard about it many years ago but I think I it's probably more historical now and only around the fishing ports.

[@johnt8998]

I've never seen that pie either. I hope that the rest of the fish inside the pie is cooked a bit better than the heads. 🤢

[@atorthefightingeagle9813]

As a middle-aged Brit I'd never seen or heard of Stargazy pie until KZbinrs started putting it in videos just to show Americans "look at the disgusting shit they eat in Britain!“ I doubt anybodys eaten one since about 1843. It's BS.

[@alisoncauser2955]

It was a similar situation with shortbread biscuits.

[@stephenlee5929]

sorry, where? why?

[@alisoncauser2955]

@stephenlee5929 Shortbread is a biscuit,but was called bread to avoid the biscuit tax in Scotland. Similar to the jaffa cake story. Short breads were a traditional thing to eat on new years eve , stems from pagan times.

[@stephenlee5929]

@@alisoncauser2955 Sounds interesting, but weren't there specific rules about the weight bread could be sold in?

[@scottwebb1978]

Mr Blobby had a number 1soing at Christmas in 1993 .... Mr Blooby was created from A primetime bbc one entertainment show from the 90s on The BBC and he never dissappeard well he does but always come back again

[@nealgrimes4382]

only or a few guest appearances, most people who where not around then don't know who he is, sadly i do remember him.

[@gr8witenorth61]

i thought train spotting had to do with heroin, i remember a movie of the same name, and it was about a bunch of junkies trying to get their next fix, and where that takes you, usually the morgue................

[@pi1872]

Lol yup

[@dawn5227]

Jaffa cakes are cakes. Its not a biscuit. Its sponge with a orange jelly covered with chocolate. Its not at all biscuit like. But they are delicious

[@jpw6893]

Lots of countries have a license fee for TV.

[@atorthefightingeagle9813]

Stargazy Pie - not a thing at all. Never seen one, never even heard of it until KZbin. It's BS. Whenever it did exist was probably localized to some tiny area just like jellied eels in the East End. But KZbinrs like Alanna make out we have it for breakfast, dinner and tea.

[@pi1872]

Lol

[@robertSibley-t3b]

why does she keep saying tea and crumpets then shows tea and scones?

[@antonycharnock2993]

TV licensing use scare tactics. At one time everyone was told there was a TV detector van with ads on the tv. It's all a load of rubbish.

[@pi1872]

Lol

[@nige4287]

That lass is living in lala land

[@stephenlee5929]

Kent I thought, but you could be right.

[@pi1872]

😆🤣

[@lewilewis3944]

Jaffa Cakes have an orange jam on top of the cake. I love them, especially the dark chocolate version. The BBC is worth every penny of the license fee, it means there are zero adverts (commercials). It's not just TV but various radio stations including local, the website is also kick arse. BBC iPlayer has thousands of on demand shows + films. The BBC's over 100 years old and transmitted the worlds first ever TV programmes. The Right Wing have been trying to shut it down for years, they hate it.

[@AutoAlligator]

I'm right-wing. I don't think anyone gets their "News" from the BBC anymore. Radio stations are usually local. (Kick-arse is very subjective when describing a website...) I don't think the BBC should be shut down. I do not think it should be a legal requirement to have a licence to watch tv. (£169.50 per year ! which is more than Netflix or any other subscription based service you can opt into or out of.) It simply doesn't exist anywhere else in the world. Does the fact you support the BBC mean you are left-wing? and if so doesn't that mean the BBC is not impartial? In which case as a Conservative why am I paying for a licence to promote left-wing media?

[@lewilewis3944]

@@AutoAlligator You mean apart from the 8 BBC national radio stations? I went Lib Dem in the last election, hardly left wing, is it? The license means the BBC isn't beholden to share holders or advertisers/sponsors. The rest of the world trusts BBC news and often quote it because of their reputation for fact checking and impartiality. When was the last time you saw FOX being quoted as a news source? You don't like it:? There's always Murdoch's outlets, knock yourself out.

[@sjbict]

Blobby is not still on tv and hasn't been for years and it wasn't his show

[@mattsmith5421]

Definitely isn't worth it it's full of absolute shte, only decent thing they have is football once in a blue moon.

[@Shoomer1988]

@@sjbict He turned up on This Morning last year.

[@martinalloway6980]

The license funds the BBC so for just over 50p a day you get world class TV, 7 tv channels, 8 or so national radio stations, many regional radio and news outlets as well as the world service. BBC news is an international benchmark on news reporting and world leading drama. More value for money than Netflix, Prime or Disney.

[@stevekenilworth]

bbc was a great service, no more

[@tomnicholson2115]

​@@stevekenilworth So true, the BBC, is now the British Brainwashing Corporation, and the licence needs to go the way of the dinosaurs, and the sooner the better. I haven't had a licence for 22 years, and no, I don't watch live broadcast TV, mostly just KZbin and Netflix. So you can live without the BBC I wish many more people would discover that, and help with the licence extinction process.

[@NOKK72]

I promised myself that I wouldn't comment twice on a reaction video but this young woman is terrible at highlighting British things. Everything is "weird" according to her.

[@anthonycutt]

Fact check me pls, The BBC is the largest TV broadcaster in the world, we pay a licence because there are no adverts! From 1 April, the cost will go up by 6.6% to £169.50, after being frozen for two years. The increase is based on the inflation figure for September 2023. The BBC's total income from the licence fee in 2023 was £3.74bn, which accounted for about 65% of the BBC's total income of £5.73bn, Brits and many many others love the BBC, its an institution for sure, appreciate its difficult to get your head around!

[@Lickalotamot]

One of them is Freedom for now unlike Fascist Canada.

[@pi1872]

Fascist Trudeau, it's not all of Canada. It's just the PM and his libs.