How Did The Belts Of The USA Get Their Names?

[@NameExplain]

What belt are you watching from?

[@Donut-Eater]

Chicago belt

[@mildredlopez7636]

I love al your vids I subbed

[@DexFire1115]

You are first

[@ozharmounian8497]

Europe

[@davidcercel775]

Beer belt

[@thorpizzle]

I know "belt" isn't in its name, but I think Tornado Alley should count.

[@jodinha4225]

Yeah

[@neighslayer768]

We use the Fujita Scale to measure Tornadoes, so we should call it the Fujita belt.

[@Layman33]

Agreed

[@DISTurbedwaffle918]

The Fun Belt

[@rowynnecrowley1689]

Agreed.

[@ManateeOnRye]

Just a heads up Americans divide their fruit preserves into categories. You've got Jelly which is made with just the juices from the fruit and you've got Jam which is made with the juice and flesh of the fruit. Then you got marmelade and just plain preserves. And while jell-o is a catch all much like kleenex for gelatin desserts you can hear gelatin being used aswell.

[@NameExplain]

DeepScorn interesting. I can see a whole jam video coming in the future.

[@docquanta6869]

Thank you, I was checking to see if anyone else had commented on this yet. Excellently done.

[@rowynnecrowley1689]

Nah, we only say "gelatin" when we're talking gelatinous deserts in a public forum and don't want to advertise for a specific company. Or get sued. You will never hear anyone saying, "Man, I could go for some gelatin right now."

[@uekiguy5886]

I think of gelatin as only referring to unflavored., but I might be wrong.

[@piperdragon3200]

@@uekiguy5886 nope that's about right, especially if you cook. The one is a product in a recipe, the other is a quick treat.

[@bogdanflagshoes9413]

Forgot the coal belt, Eastern Kentucky through West Virginia, southwest Virginia, and central Pennsylvania

[@charliemcgee9803]

I live in the coal belt

[@Rosymaple]

Where lots of coal is grown

[@arthas640]

@@Rosymaple coal isn't grown you idiot, everyone knows its formed deep beneath the ground in Santas workshop where its distributed to bad girls and boys. The stuff they find in Pennsylvania and the rest of the coal belt is just the stuff ancient naughty kids buried in an attempt to hide their shame.

[@angelsanchez-qg1we]

TAAAAKE MEEE HOOOOME

[@seville76.]

@@arthas640 its was a joke idiot

[@damontolhurst]

It seems worth mentioning that: 1) Jell-O is a brand name. The generalized term would be (sweetened/flavoured) gelatin. 2) Jelly, jam, and preserves are three different types of processed fruit spreads in the US.

[@sjakierulez]

Can have more kinds of processed fruit spreads, but can't use metric system

[@Jessie_Helms]

Yes but is there anywhere gelatin is colloquially used? I’ve never heard someone say “let’s get some gelatin” before and I know a lot of people who like it.

[@Fennalope]

@@Jessie_Helms its a situation where the brand name has become more popular and used than the actual name of the product like "Band-aid"

[@YT-Observer]

in the USA Jelly is made from only juices Jam is made with parts of fruit remaining in it. gelatin is the general term for Jell-o the brand name of a product

[@glasswhisperer]

I live in the Bible belt, can confirm a church on every corner.

[@Udontkno7]

With the cryptic sayings on their signs too. And the hella large crosses that just sit in random fields ominously. You comin' over for the cookout?/

[@brantleyhester6641]

Tim Forston yes more than one but WTF I didn't know I lived in the stroke belt! Never heard that before

[@rickdevault2535]

A church on one corner and a bar on the next corner to stumble out of Sunday morning.

[@FreakAboutSims3]

Tim Forston You poor bastard.

[@willcrago4463]

aroace the crosses aren’t random. They are markers of places where people have died. That’s why you see them near sharp curves, cliffs, narrow roads, busy roads, battlefields. I want to say it’s mostly a Baptist or Pentecostal thing.

[@TotoDG]

Please somebody donate $1000 so that we can see the states video!

[@petercarioscia9189]

He's over 600 already, so if 20 people did $20/m we'd be there.

[@NameExplain]

it's ok to smirk or it would take just 400 of the people who watch my videos donating just $1 :)

[@jasonbailey9139]

Or he could take it one state at a time and just have a year of the US. The extra two weeks could be soent on DC or the US outlying areas. :) can’t believe he’d try to tackle all 50 in one go.

[@loriannblack6626]

@@petercarioscia9189 at one time he was over 800 sadly I've watched in horror as the ticker has moved in the wrong direction. If I had the money I would give

[@ryan_n05]

wait this dude posts stuff on the onion and is communist!?!? THIS IS ASKING FOR MEMEZ!!!!!

[@modmaker7617]

Top 3 countries on Earth (in 2019) By land area 1: Russia 2: Canada 3: China or USA (Tied) By population 1: China 2: India 3: USA By GDP 1: USA 2: China 3: Japan Wow. All that Anime/Manga and videogames have worked in Japan's favour.

[@calvincoolidgesimp4380]

By land it’s Russia China USA Canada only beats the us if inland water is included, which it usually is, in that case it’s Russia Canada China

[@modmaker7617]

@@calvincoolidgesimp4380 USA and China are tied because people don't know if to include or exclude Pacific island territories for the USA and the disputed territories of China.

[@calvincoolidgesimp4380]

Mod Maker well even then, Canada is still in fourth by land area, and the measurements I used for China excluded all disputed territory and having all territories for both countries and the standing are still right, like China beats out the us by 200,000 km

[@modmaker7617]

@@calvincoolidgesimp4380 Okay I just thought it was funny that Canada is ranked higher by land area most of the time. Everybody knows how the Americans always want to be the best but specifically compared against the Canadians but I agree why do they count the the waters for Canada?

[@calvincoolidgesimp4380]

Mod Maker Canada has less land, but if you count inland water, that belong to Canada ie, Hudson Bay then Canada has more, usually inland water would be counted like the Great Lakes(atleast the parts that belong to the us) are usually counted for the area of the us. It just that you said Canada has more *land* area.

[@laakkonen6847]

"The exact reason strokes are more present here isn't exactly known" *Stares in Paula Deen*

[@downsjmmyjones101]

"I'll take 'Lard' for $800, Alex"

[@Jessie_Helms]

Also heat stroke probably counts too. We get extremely hot BUT also extremely humid so while we don’t match Arizona on temp, our stroke conditions are much.... well I don’t wanna day better but maybe, more conducive? Pair that with the smoking and obesity, along with the “Oh naw I’m a country boy I don’t need no docter ma’am I’ll just walk it off y’all” attitude.

[@oilchange6542]

12:23 it's because of the food we eat down here. Southern food/ Soul food isn't really the healthiest. But it's the most delicious!

[@rodrikforrester6989]

Deepfry everything!

[@jsiolkowski]

I tried Popeye's once and I spat it out.

[@jsiolkowski]

@@ericolens3 Oily food (deep-fried even more so) extremely irritates my digestive system

[@mrbrainbob5320]

@@jsiolkowski you should get that checked out

[@DISTurbedwaffle918]

It's not good for your heart, it's good for your soul I'll take Southern food over some of the shit New Englanders pass off as "food" any day. Ever see what they consider "barbecue?" It's an aberration against food, like fuckin grilled pork chop with pickle 🤢

[@user-ct7ys5ld6s]

Stroke Belt is also the Waffle House Belt. Seriously look it up the location of Waffle Houses and the highest stroke and heart attacks.

[@ttortilla]

Yummy ima have some- has a stroke. Dies

[@LisaBowers]

Yep, Waffle House food can be hazardous to your health. But, since they're open 24/7, did you know the federal government uses their ability to stay open as a way to determine the scale of a natural disaster? *From Wikipedia:* "The Waffle House Index is an informal metric used by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to determine the effect of a storm and the likely scale of assistance required for disaster recovery." _"If you get there and the Waffle House is closed? That's really bad..."_ "If a Waffle House store is open and offering a full menu, the index is green. If it is open but serving from a limited menu, it’s yellow. When the location has been forced to close, the index is red. Because Waffle House is well-prepared for disasters… it’s rare for the index to hit red." So, other than offering yummy scattered, smothered, covered, and chunked hash browns, the Waffle House does sorta come in handy.

[@garretphegley8796]

I live in Indiana and their are literally no Waffle Houses...

[@aliviatevis1581]

They’re most common on highways for me, almost every single exit that has a town in it has a waffle house

[@DisgruntledFun]

@@LisaBowers I once went to a waffle house after digging my self out of a 3 foot snow storm and sure enough they were open and I had breakfast lol

[@Nimmo1492]

The word "belt" has lost all meaning to me now.

[@StudioUAC]

I live in the Rust Belt! It's so depressing here! there's nothing fun here to do!

[@NITROIRL40420]

I live in the Rust Belt too. In a few years; we're planning to move to somewhere in either the Bible Belt or the Sun Belt.

[@jodinha4225]

Jesse Weaver seems like a downgrade if you move to the Bible belt

[@NITROIRL40420]

@@jodinha4225 Well; if we're gonna move, we need to move somewhere that won't break the bank. Unless I could make a decent amount of money of my own; like if more people would buy a game I released not long ago called "The Kingly Tales" now available on GameJolt for $5!

[@NITROIRL40420]

@@ericolens3 Maybe if it weren't so damn expensive!

[@TheBaegislash]

Sadly I live in the worst-affected part of the Rust Belt, Detroit. But we're making a comeback don't worry

[@alexiswelsh5821]

I'm from the Frost Belt! And yes the winters can get brutal, especially when there's a polar vortex. Although summer can be quite nice, sometimes. Usually it’s too hot to do things outside unless you have access to a pool.

[@thegoodlydragon7452]

Polar vortexes suck. Sometimes during them you can see the northern US colder than or similar to parts of the Arctic. But then we also get these random warm spells that seem almost like mid-spring.

[@alexiswelsh5821]

The Goodly Dragon IKR! The weather is very strange. Last year I wore two pairs of pants, and my legs were still freezing. And the summer and late spring, it can feel the complete opposite of a frost belt.

[@antiheroes7972]

Does it get above 85f in the frost belt?

[@thegoodlydragon7452]

@@antiheroes7972 Yes.

[@alexiswelsh5821]

acr in the summer and late spring, hell yeah. Two weeks ago it stayed well above that.

[@kyletarrao5303]

I think that bible belt and rust belt are definitely the most common; the rest are quite obscure.

[@garretphegley8796]

Wtf the Corn Belt and the Wheat Belt are pretty fucking well known about.

[@a-drewg1716]

I would say the bible belt, rust belt, and even sun belt are the most commonly known. With the Rust and Bible belts both being talked about in politics as they include most of the swing states while the Sun belt has also been talked about recently as it has the 3 most populated states (California, Texas, and Florida) and is even home to 1/3rd of the US population (makes since as it is the largest belt), and is also the region which in recent years has been experiencing a population boom with states in this area being some of the fastest growing. The Sun belt has also become the economic power of the country with the region having some of the most migration, fasted growing populations, and numerous tech companies coming/starting here ( this is pretty much solely concentrated in Florida, Texas, California, and Arizona)

[@a-drewg1716]

@@autumnleaving nope, Florida has a population of 21 million while New York has a population of 19 million

[@downsjmmyjones101]

Those are certainly the most well known but there are several others that aren't too obscure. I live in the Snow Belt and I've heard of the Sun Belt, Corn Belt, and Wheat Belt.

[@prettyskies4164]

Don't forget the sun belt

[@FabsterCola]

We have our own bible belt in the Netherlands

[@doctorpicardnononono7469]

zwaar gereformeerde klojos stuk voor stuk.

[@jodinha4225]

I imagine they’re all Protestant tho

[@aymarafan7669]

@Not Gay Actually my cousin I believe said it’s predominantly Catholic.

[@Ivyonblond]

Yeah In the south

[@Ivyonblond]

Aymara Fan Germany and Netherlands both became mostly catholic Yes i know Netherlands is 51% athiest

[@TheGurumash]

As an American, I learned the difference between Jam and Jelly was that Jam had remaining fruit flesh in the jar, while Jelly was filtered Jam or otherwise clear jam. Grew up in Florida so I don't speak for all the people of America, but I thought I'd contribute.

[@willywonka3050]

As a Californian, jam=more flavor/runny/little pulp, jelly=less flavor/set with pectin/no pulp, preserves=basically jam but more pulp/seeds. I tend to use “preserves” the most, even if it’s technically jam/jelly/marmalade.

[@samurailevi49]

As from a north eastern state, we call it jelly, but nobody would look twice if you did call it jam.

[@sharkwaffle1582]

I’m not sure about the rest of the Treasure Valley (Boise metropolitan area for non-locals) but I always understood the differences between jam, jelly and preserves in pretty much the same way as you: jelly is the pure stuff, jam, has fruit bits in it, and preserves is mostly fruit bits

[@paplomkalula9964]

Wow! I used to think jam and jelly were same thing..just that the Americans said Jelly and Australian/British referred to it as Jam.. #PapuaNewGuinean 🇵🇬

[@thegoodlydragon7452]

Quick tip: In American speak South = South East and Midwest = Northern Mid-East. The confusing terms reflect a time when our country hadn't yet been settled from coast to coast.

[@nachtegaelw5389]

Kind of? I wouldn’t call Minnesota or Wisconsin North East, and I wouldn’t call Texas South East. But your point about nomenclature being relative to the borders at the time the regions were defined is a good one.

[@daniellanctot6548]

3:01... I just chuckle every time you make a pro-wrestling reference. Thumbs up to that! lol!

[@Delgen1951]

The school of bad acting?

[@SleeplessStreams]

Jell-O is a popular brand of gelatin in the US that's become synonymous with the food itself, but outside of that we call it gelatin.

[@keizervanenerc5180]

Here in the Netherlands the only belt we really talk about us our own version of the bible-belt (bijbelbelt in Dutch) that runs through the country from Zeeland in the southwest through the middle of the country in Utrecht and Gelderland to the border with Germany where Overijssel an Drenthe meet. It is to be noticed that this belt specificly refers to the places were people are still higly religious compaired to the rest of the country, and follow mostly protestant/reformed branched of christianity. The belt does not include the southern provinces of Noord-Brabant and Limburg, due to this area being more catholic than protestant. Eventhough the belt is still inportant today, it is becomming less so, as a few years back it was announced that for the first time in history a majority of Dutch citizens are now non-religious.

[@charleswillams9501]

That's sad. What that means is less stability

[@Jayden3649]

@@charleswillams9501 I really can't tell if this is sarcasm or not

[@hmmm6317]

Can you make a video about the name Caledonia? I know of three ,the old name of Scotland,new Caledonia, and a Small region in the island of Crete, what is the etymology,and how do they connect?

[@loriannblack6626]

We have a Caledonia here in PA, USA

[@DISTurbedwaffle918]

If I recall, the UK controlled Crete for a while. All places are probably currently or formerly UK-ruled, like how there's New Ireland in Indonesia.

[@hmmm6317]

@@DISTurbedwaffle918 no crete was never colonized or settled by thd brits, the longest time it was kind of but not really is in ww2 for some months as a member of the allies before the german occupation, maybe you mean Cyprus?

[@seanshure]

Caledonia Is Latin for scotland new caledonia I would assume is named after scotland ask for crete I would assume it goes back to the original meaning of the word which I think was like a edge of the world or something

[@stephenroney3630]

@@seanshure Most countries and regions in Eueope were named by the Roman's. Caledonia = Land of the Caladons, Britannia = Land of the Britons, Hibernia = Land of Winter. Germanica= Land of the Germans, Scandanavia = Land of the Scandis, Hellenia = Lamd of Helen (of Troy), (Greece).

[@thomasturner6980]

I'm interested in the cowgirl's belts tbh

[@jeffc2346]

Reverse?

[@umbrastar]

I’m from the “unchurched belt.” I’ve never heard that term before but it doesn’t surprise me.

[@allanrichardson1468]

Back in the early 1970s, the company I worked for in Jacksonville, Florida, sent me to a newly acquired sister company in Oakland, California, for a few months, to learn the differences in the IT systems used by the two companies. Ten years later, the parent corporation decided to rush through a merger; I had moved on into different industries and locations in the meantime, and they looked me up to rehire me, as most of the IT staff and the director were moving from Oakland to Jacksonville to push through a hasty IT merger. But that’s another story. In greeting my California friends, I told them they were moving from the “Buddha Belt” to the Bible Belt. I don’t know why Name Explain didn’t include California in the Unchurched, or Buddha Belt.

[@rowynnecrowley1689]

Sounds to me like a bunch free-thinking people who don't need a piece of literature about a mythical being who gives cancer to babies to tell them it's not ok to kill people and steal their shit after banging their wife.

[@umbrastar]

@@ericolens3 I go to church.

[@a-drewg1716]

​@@rowynnecrowley1689 wow mate way to be an ass. First off while I personally think anyone who takes the words of the Bible as this ultimate truth as an idiot. The thing has been translated through numerous languages numerous times. Was hand printed for hundreds of years (meaning what was in the book was really up to the whims of who ever was writing it), hell it wasn't even written by god or Jesus but by people way after just collecting stories, or way before. I mean hell the old testament was written a ~1000 years before Christ was born. Still though do not just say god is some mythical being. Billions of people believe in some kind of god and that belief is what makes them "alive", what makes them exist. As long as there is people to believe in them they do exist. Its just that simple. This is the reason Greek and roman and Egyptian gods/pantheons are considered myths now because no one believes in them any more. The same too can be said about anything and everything. Such as money. All money is, is paper that we believe has value. Its not backed by any valuable such as gold or silver, but is simply backed by beliefs. Because of that belief $1 USD is worth $1 USD. Of-course though you don't believe in any god so that means you know so much more then everyone else right. They are the idiots for believing in something.

[@thebigdawgj]

Jelly and jam are different, and Jell-O is a brand of gelatin product. Someone who specializes in names like you should know this.

[@Layman33]

Would Tornado Alley be considered a belt due to weather?

[@LedosKell]

I don't belive it will ever be called the 'Tornado Belt' but Tornado Alley is definitely a belt.

[@sarreqteryx]

I had thought "belt" was a form of "veldt" 11:02 American jelly ≠ british jam. American jelly is fruit juice thickened with pectin, it more resembles Jello, but is more substantial. American jam is whole fruit jammed (nyuk nyuk) through a food mill, and thickened with pectin. Preserves is like jam, but with larger chunks, and marmalade is universal. the picture you used there looks more like preserves to me.

[@kylepickus5712]

Jello jam and jelly are all three different things in the US. Our Jello is your gelatin or jelly, our jam is your marmalade and kept in a jar, and our jelly is like your jam but more artificially flavored and come in squeeze bottles.

[@stephenwright8824]

Agreed. Jam and jelly are made differently enough that they can almost be thought of as different classes of food.

[@RobinFlysHigh]

9:12 Minnesota: *_Am I a joke to you?_*

[@petergray2712]

Yes. Because the Vikings play there.

[@susanmurphy958]

@@petergray2712 Very bad Peter Gray very bad.

[@glasswhisperer]

Jelly and jam are two separate things here. What you pictured would be jam here.

[@Affixton96]

Yes. Jelly has fruit juice as an ingredient, and jam has crushed fruit as an ingredient.

[@Affixton96]

@Transpecies Grolar Bear Isn't that term only for those that are made with citrus fruits?

[@Retromags_Brian]

Jelly and jam are different. Jam is made from fruit and has fruit pieces in it, and you spread it about your toast and enjoy it. Jelly is made from fruit juice and has no fruit pieces in it. It's clear and smooth and more stiff than jam. You also spread is on toast and enjoy it. Neither have any relation to Jell-O, which doesn't spread.

[@halftimelordwizard]

Wow such difference. Sounds like two variations of the same thing

[@faristaj2326]

American logic is so strange

[@12tone]

Watching this from the California belt because the state's so big it deserves its own.

[@nathanides7584]

What about an Alaskan belt, and a Texas belt even?

[@Jivvi]

Earthquake belt?

[@willywonka3050]

@@Jivvi that’s basically any state on the pacific coast. Especially Alaska.

[@ColePenner]

Watching from the Rain Belt! (Basically Cascadia)

[@katiearbuckle9017]

Lol, he got us with Unchurched though. But Rain Belt makes more sense.

[@ColePenner]

Katie Arbuckle I mean, God IS a vicious two-faced prick (and he doesn’t exist, of course)

[@MrMalve25]

Yea I have never heard of Unchurched Belt, though it does fit as many of us here are Athiest or otherwise religiously unaffiliated. In my group of 5 really close friends (yes I have more than 5 friends those are just the ones I hang out with most often) 3 of of us are pretty stout Athiests, 1 i am not actually sure about (though i believe used to be a wiccan i believe) and 1 is a Christian though mostly non practicing (ie believes in God and stuff but dies not goe to church and stuff) I was kinda surprised we were not called the rain belt our reputation for wet weather. Ironically Seattle which is known for being super rainy actually get less annual rain fall than most Eastern and Gulf cities. It's just they usually get it massive bursts while we get much lighter amount over anymore constant time frame. Finally i was surprised that the Great Lakes were called the fruit belt. I did not know they really grew much fruit there. After researching it a bit the main fruit producing states are actually California at 51% and Florida at 19% (no real surprise forneither of those 2), Washington at 10% (not a surprise to me since I live here, but other may not be aware) then Michigan at 4% and Oregon at 3%.

[@dajjukunrama5695]

Americans really hate fictional characters, I’m not visiting, all you do is yell and get triggered

[@MrMalve25]

@@ColePenner Yea if I actually believed in God, he would have some serious explaining to do. If you have ever seen the the show Supernatural, the last episode of the most recent season really gives what I would consider an appropriate iteration of God if he were to exist

[@ms.wintersylvia7504]

One small detail about the "snow belt" it is more accurately named "the snow belts" as it more refers to the several smaller areas on the lee-ward side of the great lakes that receive the heavier lake-effect snow, rather than one large snowy area.

[@ReinSouls]

I never knew anyone who called it the “snow belt.” But I have heard the term “lake effect belt.”

[@TotoDG]

To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems!

[@peterosborne8315]

All hail to the ale!

[@user-bw9jo2iz5s]

Homer Simpson

[@vincentperratore4395]

What about a belt of booze?

[@Blvd40]

I am originally from Michigan but currently live in Texas. Even being a northerner I had always heard of the Bible Belt but never heard of these other "belts" around the country. Very eye-opening! I am doing a project to unearth the origin of the term Bible Belt. I'd like to refer back to this belt as it compares to other parts of the country with their own nicknames.👌

[@dontsubscribe3702]

“Lovely” Sunshine. If you’re wondering about the stroke belt, the heat mixed with the humidity is a big factor I’m pretty sure

[@thephilosiphizer9227]

I'm in the snow belt. But also the Irish belt. It extends from Maine to New York. And it denotes the area most Irish immagrants landed

[@cyberpotato63]

The migration you refer to, wasn't the only Irish migration to North America though. That Irish migration was predominantly Irish Catholic population that settled in New York & New England during the middle and later part of the 19th century. There was an earlier predominantly protestant migration of Scots Irish during the colonial period to the middle Atlantic states. What became known as the Scots Irish was actually a mix of protestants from the plantations of Ireland, Scottish from the borderlands with England, Welsh, with a fair number of English and Irish Catholics in the mix.

[@ItsDannyio]

According to this vid, I’m viewing from the Bible, Cotton, Sun, and Stroke Belts. I could take a 30 min drive to enter the Black Belt.

[@mkultrabaked6190]

As a catholic from the Unchurched belt, I can confirm that many people here are religious, but just don’t feel like going to church.

[@BonaparteBardithion]

I'd never really thought about it before, but now that I do I don't think I know anyone that's strongly religious. I can't think of any particularly dominant religion in the area either, except that a lot of them are some variant of Christianity. There are a dozen different churches in a mile radius, all a slightly different belief. And even among people that do attend no one gives you grief for working Sundays or anything.

[@TheCriminalViolin]

@@BonaparteBardithion Same here, although it does seem like the most frequent people I hear that mention their religion/that they are religious tend to be either Moron or JW (Jehovah's Witness).

[@BonaparteBardithion]

@@TheCriminalViolin They're both pretty new forms if Christianity, so they proselytize more than older religions. Compare to the Catholic Church a few hundred years ago when areas were being settled. Also, Mormonism has a central Pope-like figure, so as religions go they might be extra organized.

[@jriver226]

Maybe this is something for you to explore but the broader idea of Jam in the US is broken up into Jelly, Jam, and Preserves which are distinguished by the pulp. A jelly has no pulp whatsoever, jam has pulp but is spreadable, and a preserve is more or less jam that isn't filtered. I don't believe Jelly would be considered a wrong way to refer to jello, but most Americans associate it more with something like peanut butter and jelly then gelatin snacks, so it would confuse us on the same way using gay as a term for being happy throws many people off.

[@jriver226]

... that's not how language works, but whatever.

[@blakehillman6494]

I'm watching from the Jell-o belt, and your explanation of the region seems spot-on to me. And people here often refer to all brands of gelatin desserts as "jello," just as they often refer to all tissue paper as "kleenexes."

[@tearlach47]

No matter how much I watch Name Explain, I will always see drawn-Patrick's goatee as his mouth.

[@danieltsiprun8080]

"Leave a comment" i supported this channel now, am i a good boy?

[@Zachyshows]

i liked, replied (that counts) and subbed to patrick

[@danieltsiprun8080]

@@ericolens3 i don't celebrate Christmas so this won't effect me.

[@inconsistentvisuals]

the bible doesn't derive from Latin it comes from the ancient greek word vivlos (βίβλος) literally meaning book.The word biblioteca also derives from Ancient greek being formed by the aformentioned word vivlos and theto (θετω) which means to position something , put it in its place

[@turtlevader]

We don’t call your jam jelly. We have moth jelly and jam. And preserves. Each one just gets thicker with more chunks in it.

[@air5096]

11:04 FYI It's only Jelly if it's seedless, it's Jam if it has seeds

[@DJPJ.]

The South of Norway is the "Bible Belt".

[@michdem100]

Fun fact - tripoint between beer, vodka and wine belts is in Poland. And it's quite aligned with how the borders were before 1st world war. I'm from the beer belt if you're curious.

[@amayasnep]

Some other "belts" in the US aren't traditionally belts but are nonetheless important to mention: Tornado Alley (area of US with a high incidence of tornado formation), Appalachia/Piedmont (a belt-shaped region of the US with a similar culture), each of the three main coasts, and the Arizona Sun Corridor (basically the Phoenix-Tucson metro).

[@GnosticAtheist]

Norway is not really in the vodka belt. We are in the "does it contain any alcohol yes please" belt.

[@rickard7031]

Same for Sweden, but together we can for the akvavit belt! Denmark can join us too.

[@grahamlive]

Europe has a beer belt? So do I. It holds up my beer gut.

[@Azknowledgethirsty]

In fact we here divide Europe in 3 differently, the Mediterranean belt, which does include turkey but not the balkans, the German belt which doesn't include Belgium but goes include the Nordic countries and the slav belt, which is like the the vodka one but with the balkans

[@DrewSprague1218]

Your Jello Belt map needs to go a little bit into the west of Idaho, to get Boise in the map. I'm watching from the said belt.

[@tropicaltracerbirdie2241]

Blue Turf Belt (Go Broncos!)

[@markpapenfuss1111]

Same

[@chenoaholdstock3507]

YOU WILL ADORE THE HISTORY OF THE EGGPLANT! I SWEAR, GET ON THAT!

[@BobbiDoll]

Jelly is not Jello. Jello - Dessert made with gelatin. Jelly - A spread made with pectin. Jam - Made with pectin, has fruit, doesn't have as firm consistency. Preserves - Made with pectin and more of the fruit. Marmalade - Made with citrus fruit, containing some of the peel in transparent jelly, made with pectin. Fruit Butter - A thick spread made with the pulp of the fruit and sugar.

[@officielEP]

In Nigeria.. We have the middle belt. As they are not part of The Northeast The Northwest Southeast Southwest South-south regions

[@1Phire]

dirty centrist

[@dulcimerrafi]

A bit of context of for a couple of the belts that you mentioned: 1. One defining feature of the Bible Belt is that a plurality of its residents are members of the evangelical Southern Baptist community, unlike most other parts of the country, where a plurality of residents practice Catholicism (I assume the reason for this is that, while Protestants as a whole may outnumber Catholics in many of those parts, no single Protestant denomination predominates). The only other major exceptions, I think, are the Jell-O belt (a term I had never heard of until this video), where LDS is the predominant religion, and parts of the Upper Midwest, where Lutheranism predominates. 2. The Borscht Belt came into existence because Jews were once barred from attending many mainstream summer camps and resorts for families. In response to these restrictive laws, a set of resorts that catered specifically to the Jewish population popped up in upstate New York, conveniently located near the NY Metropolitan Area with its large Jewish community. Once civil rights laws were enacted that made it illegal for businesses to openly discriminate on the basis of ethnicity or religion, the Jewish-friendly resorts of the Borscht Belt became no longer necessary as Jews could now vacation with their gentile colleagues and companions. The most famous legacy of the Borscht Belt is in the area of comedy, as stand up comedy was one of the main sources of entertainment at these resorts and many famous comics of the mid-20th Century got their start playing what was known as the Borscht Belt Circuit.

[@lightdeathguy9266]

You could do a video on British counties in the same style as the one on the US states

[@lightdeathguy9266]

J Kindness I live in Shropshire and some people think it’s posh

[@prettypic444]

Sunbelt here! I also wonder if we’re growing an “Aerospace belt”- it feels like there’s a lot of companies devoted to airplanes and even space travel in California, Texas, Florida, and Washington (maybe it’s more of a U)

[@virginiarailfannoah5415]

I'm from the Bible and Stroke Belts. Which is ironic, seeing that I'm a Shinto/Buddhist.

[@singharpan9859]

Shinto and buddhism are different religions though ?

[@jonnyOysters]

@@singharpan9859 often Buddhism is mixed with traditional religions in East Asia. Like Shinto in Japan and Taoism in China. It's not like Christianity or Islam where one has to follow one or the other.

[@sokyu7723]

Interesting. How is the food there? I have heard the food in the Stroke Belt is unhealthy and contributes to the name.

[@virginiarailfannoah5415]

They are, @@singharpan9859. However, many Japanese people belief that the Buddha and Izanagi coexist.

[@virginiarailfannoah5415]

You're pretty right, @@sokyu7723. In my hometown, there are crap-loads of fast food places. We have just about every major fast food chain you can think of. Also, in the south, we have this fast food chain called Chick-fil-a. It's a very Christian company, tough, and it gets protested in many states. I still like it, even if I'm a Shinto/Buddhist.

[@stephenwright8824]

I'm in the snow/salt belt. Eastern Massachusetts can also be considered the Molasses Belt; have you ever heard of the Great Boston Molasses Accident?

[@kait1291]

I visited Massachusetts recently and thought the Molasses incident was some sort of a joke....and then I learned more. That would have been completely terrifying!

[@656hookemhorns]

Watching from the Sunbelt. And what do you call what we call jam?

[@uekiguy5886]

"Jam" is the same in both kinds of English. He got that point mixed up.

[@brucescott9604]

Bible belt here

[@BonaparteBardithion]

@Transpecies Grolar Bear Isn't marmalade a specific type of jam?

[@nachtegaelw5389]

Jam is jam. Apparently they don’t have jelly?

[@mr.onehouse264]

I've never heard of the Jell-O Belt, though I apparently live on its South end. (Jell-O is a brand name that became a word in itself, like how asking for a Kleenex means you want a paper facial tissue even if the box is a generic store label.)

[@nightstar4330]

Pine belt is in Missouri *Angry Mainer Noises*

[@jofriko5416]

Yea but it’s a pine that grows in warmer climates (southeastern US)

[@zozzy4630]

Fun fact, the snow belt gets so much snow for two (main) reasons: of course, it is mostly the northern part of the frost belt, but we also get a lot more precipitation in general because of the Great Lakes (which I've heard called the "lake effect" but I'm not sure if that's a real, formalized term). I'm from Pittsburgh, so I can attest that it actually reaches a fair bit further than you might think - we're close to the edge of it though because of the Allegheny and Appalachian Mountains.

[@MrMisterMaster]

Watching from the Vodka belt! 0:11 The day I see metric numbers alongside the imperial ones in future videos, I'll become a Patreon right away. :)

[@rowynnecrowley1689]

Why do you have to be such a nazi? Is it cuz the metric system makes your dick sound bigger?

[@MrMisterMaster]

​@@rowynnecrowley1689 I'd say my dick sounds smaller in metric, because cm is a smaller measurement than inches. But I get your concern. This is not the point of this comment though. That comment was my way of telling Patrick how to become a better channel without complaining. It was meant to be said in a positive manner, hence the little smiley at the end. I love "Name Explain", I've been a subscriber for ages and I watch and enjoy every video. Also about the whole imperial-metric debate: I'm not saying videos should contain metric only. I say use both! There are many European viewers here. It is a lot more effective for 1 person to convert to metric (say +2 minutes of extra editing) instead of 30 000 people doing it on their own (say 30 seconds * 30 000 = 250 hrs)). While I'm at making a longer comment, let me wish you a great day as well! :) *TL;DR* No nazi. Dick same size in USA. Name explain great, but great things can become even better.

[@kode6515]

I'm in the heat death belt, aka Arizona where our tempetures hit over 125 Fahrenheit and we cook eggs on the sidewalk

[@whatevergoesforme5129]

I wonder if the US will someday be divided into the left-wing belt and the right-wing belt.

[@blakepeanutbudderman8163]

The state that I live in is part of (according to the video) the Banana, Corn, Fruit, Wheat, and Frost belts.

[@TheStarswearee]

Name explain : I think of Germany and Belgium when I hear beer The Netherlands: am I a joke to you

[@sjakierulez]

Well we aren't known for our beers

[@AbiGail-ok7fc]

According to some German and Belgium friends I have, when it comes to beer, the Netherlands *is* a joke.

[@MagicofAramis]

About Jell-o : It is a brand name, like how people call tissues Kleenex or box knives X-acto. Jell-o is a brand of jelly. Jam is the one with the solid fruit in it.

[@michaelfrazier7234]

I just found a really cool pattern in groups of words what they refer to in the uk/us (I’m from the states but have lived in the uk for three years) So jel-o and jelly are the same thing but jelly does not refer to jam but more process form of jam you can’t find in the UK. (Jam US is Jam UK) I also think of the example of apple juice, cider, and hard cider. Where cider in the uk refers to hard cider in the us and cider in the us refers to apple juice in the uk but what Americans call apple juice (a filtered and a slightly dehydrated from of apple juice) does not exist in the uk.

[@Eclipse-mf6hc]

Me (when “black belt” is first uttered in this video): Such a cool name! Wonder where it came from! Me (when he word “workers” is said): Oh... that’s why it’s called “black belt”

[@abigailstandish4143]

i always thought that they were called belts because of the highways that ran through them btw from the salt belt

[@jacobchurchwardtruered116]

I'm from the unchurched belt and I agree with the littel attendance and I'm also mormon and I never heard that we like jell-o so that was new.

[@BonaparteBardithion]

I've heard it, but it seems to be more common in places where LDS are more dominant. I'm from the Northwest. Salads and cookies are the big thing at the potlucks I've been to.

[@CYCOCOMICS]

Yeah, we're so "lucky" to have all that sun in the Sun Belt. Arizona longs for rain.

[@seancondon5572]

The bible belt is actually a funny one. See, I was in Windsor, Ontario buying some Cuban cigars, and the Lebanese Canadian guy at the cigar shop asked about my funny accent. Told him I had moved to Michigan for a job, but I was from Alabama, which is in what we call the "Bible Belt" ... where a lot of people talk with a similar accent. Guy found the name of the region amusing.

[@WanJae42]

Watching from the Tornado Belt, aka Tornado Alley.

[@MrCubFan415]

WanJae42 Me too! Which state?

[@patrickblanchette4337]

11:42 While that is the meaning of the current name; my dad (he’s from Michigan) explained to me that because they put a whole lot of salt on the roads (this the name salt belt) that would cause older models to rust even more quickly, thus the name salt bet was born. -Hello from the Sun Belt.

[@tkPuncake]

*talks about frost belt* *uses picture from city that can’t handle winters* Still an awesome video though keep it up!!

[@Twisted_Logic]

To expand a bit on the differences between American and British jel- words for you, Jell-O is a specific name brand of gelatin treat that you call jelly in the UK and had more or less been genericized. In the US we use the terms jelly and jam, but for two distinct variations of the product. Jelly is smooth and made only using juice while jam is made with the juice, pulp, and seeds giving it a different flavor and texture. (There's also preserves, which use the whole fruit.)

[@seanmichael7666]

Honestly as an Ohioan we kinda find it offensive to be called the rust belt and that name is only used outside the region.

[@pandyslittlesenpai1777]

A great tragedy caused by the federal Reserve banksters.

[@kotymcneal8589]

Greetings from the Unchurched Belt! Northeastern Oregon specifically

[@ZyphLegend]

I'm from the tornado belt.

[@A.F.Whitepigeon]

Actually, the reason there's so much snow in the Snow Belt isn't latitude but proximity to the Great Lakes. Basically, moisture comes up out of the lakes and into the atmosphere, and when it's cold it comes down as "lake effect" snow. This is also why there's more snow on the eastern sides of the Lakes than the western sides; prevailing winds blow west-to-east. It's also worth noting that the heaviest lake effect snow tends to be on the eastern ends of east-west oriented Lakes, in places like Buffalo, New York, because the air has more time to pick up moisture.

[@FireurchinProductionsByzantium]

Origin behind the word Jet (day 3)

[@triangledefinition]

I'm from the snow belt and I regularly trudge through knee deep or higher snow, and sometimes have to shovel my driveway three times a day to keep it clear.

[@dgray7537]

Unchurched Belt should be changed to: "outdoors paradise belt." Or "You want me to do what? with 1/2 my weekends, lol see you on the lift Belt"

[@RoccosVideos]

I live in Massachusetts so I’m part of the frost belt. At least summers are mostly nice when they’re not too hot.

[@JR-my6bc]

Bible Belt

[@Rakonax]

i'm from beer belt, tho my culture demands to call every beer thats not from my region piss water. greetings from germany :D

[@montheramer222]

I’m the first viewer ☺️

[@DexFire1115]

Name Explain beat you. Also many people see “0 view” statistic when they click on the video. So everyone thinks they are first

[@rikuurufu5534]

To us Americans, Jelly specifically refers to seedless jam, typically made from fruit juice rather than the whole fruit. If it has seeds and/or pulp in it, It's Jam, or preserves if it's extra thick and solid, or marmalade if it's made of any kind of citrus.

[@icefrout]

Kinda weird that the "Unchurched Belt" is in the northwest when the neighboring states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, and Connecticut are all less religious than Washington. In addition, New York is less religious than Oregon and Rhode Island is less religious than Nevada.

[@BonaparteBardithion]

I guess those would be the Athiest States.

[@unm0vedm0ver]

I think the next step of your etymologies would be to trace the modern English words through old English into proto-Germanic, and then back to proto-Indo-European. It'd make the etymologies 100X more interesting! Love your channel!

[@mcxopjesh]

Jeez, I need to brush up on my history. I'm a Mormon from Utah, and thus from the jello belt. I had no idea there was such a thing as a jello belt, or the importance of it to our culture, I guess the term just isn't all that used. Oh well, the more you know!

[@Donut-Eater]

about the jelly confusion, in america we call the sweetened fruit goop either jelly, jam, or preserves depending on the size/amount of fruit chunks, but can also be used interchangeably (well, nobody uses the term preserves in that loose sense, only the stricter one)

[@Tailikku1]

As an American, there is a better way to distinguish the names that would consfuse someone in the UK Jell-O: brand of gelatin Gelatin (US) = Jelly (UK) Jelly (US): made from fruit juice = Jam (UK) Jam (US): made from the pulp, can contain seeds Preserves: fruit chunks in a gel or syrup. Marmalade (US) is made with oranges

[@senseimonkey8082]

In the southeast we have an obscure belt called the soup belt because of the unusually hot and humid weather. It contains: North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, and Mississippi