I Took a Brit to the Hershey Factory-And Answered Some Tough Questions

[@chrisrules8403]

At the Cadbury’s factory they used to give you a massive bag full of almost all the main chocolate they make before you entered

[@Agentzinzan09]

Still do or did when I went back April/may

[@evan]

WOW

[@vacuumdiagram]

@@evan Sounds like an excuse for a video/trip! 😀

[@albal156]

Yep! Cadburys factory is so good. Shame the British just can't do entrepreneurialism anymore.

[@nataliatheweirdo]

i happen to live by a cadbury factory that opens every now and again and when my aunt went she came back with like 2 5kg boxes. It was fun haha

[@MrGBH]

Americans were raised on bad chocolate and told it was good Brits were raised on good chocolate and told it was "Not bad"

[@Thurgosh_OG]

And some of us Brits have had several opportunities to try chocolate from different European countries and found some to be 'Good'.

[@davidnottage5427]

​@@Thurgosh_OG I've tried Hershey's bars loads of times and I do not get no vomit or vomit aftertaste

[@GCOSBenbow]

@@davidnottage5427 To me all hersheys tastes like it has bloomed badly, I occasionally get the vomit aftertaste but not consistently. Either way the only Hersheys bar I've ever had that I didn't actively dislike was the cookies and cream bar, and that just tastes like raw sugar.

[@AdeptusPetricus]

Eh, I’d say brits were raised on okay chocolate Stuff you get in continental Europe is leagues better. Now obviously both the UK and US have chocolates that are in the genuinely really good tier but those are generally not the cheapest chocolates

[@HamburgerHelperDeath]

Brits were raised on bad food and everyone knows their food is bad....that's why their national dish is Indian. So congrats on the chocolate...you never hear about great British BBQ.

[@Deano-Dron81]

Thanksgiving as you describe it, is basically the same as a Christmas dinner. You still can gather and appreciate the little time you get together as a whole family and love the food and company and appreciate each other. For many UK households it’s not a religious thing now, it’s a tradition to spend time and enjoy with one’s family. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@evan]

Why not another with a bigger focus on the food

[@TestGearJunkie.]

That's the problem with Christmas these days, it's just become a commercial thing, the object being to sell as much crap to as many people as possible. The real meaning is almost lost 😿

[@thescrewfly]

@@TestGearJunkie. The real meaning is a lot of things: the adoption of a pagan midwinter celebration for the timing, so as to ease the acceptance of a bronze age middle eastern fantasy story already highly mutated by the Roman empire. The look and feel was altered by the Scandinavian and Germanic themes introduced by a 19th American author and the colour scheme finalised by the Coca-Cola company's advertising in the 1930s.

[@tappy8741]

@@evan if you're doing xmas for the presents you're doing it wrong. Unless there's a 5 year old in the vicinity it's mostly about food

[@Thurgosh_OG]

@@evan Well, a fair amount of us Brits still have regular Sunday Roasts, with family and/or friends, so we don't need one day dedicated to something we do at least monthly, if not weekly.

[@J.A.Y.200X]

The takeaway from the Hershey's chocolate debate shouldn't be, "Non-Americans have different food palettes than Americans". Rather it should be, "American children have been conditioned to like the taste of vomit" which is concerning.

[@evan]

Hahahahhaha

[@Hannah_Em]

@@jwb52z9 .... which sounds like a long definition of the taste of vomit, as stomach acid is the major taste of vomit

[@gavingiant6900]

​​​​@@jwb52z9Butyric acid isn't a byproduct of the chocolate making process, it's an adertive that was/is added to the milk to make it last longer that the Hershey company came up with in that way of doing things. The acid is found in vomit, also more so in babies vomit. Hence why the sickly/vomit after taste. If it was a byproduct that you've claimed, all would have that same after taste from all nations/countries chocolate. But that isn't the case though is it... So your argument of it being so is null and void.

[@beatrix1120]

Just like my friends were conditioned to like the taste of vomit in yogurt and parmesan cheese

[@hyseb2]

He said palate not palette

[@Ausecko1]

It's not the British who think American chocolate tastes like vomit, it's everybody who had eaten chocolate.

[@VikingTeddy]

I've yet to meet an American who didn't dislike Hershey's, they've all genuinely loathed it (Unless it's all they've ever tasted of course.) The poor confused boy. Talking about "British palates" and that "Americans genuinely seem to like it" 😄 I understand that everyone has a different sense of taste, and he might find it fine. But how can you spend any time online and not eventually learn that it's bad? And if you do a very surface level search, you learn that it's not even an opinion, it's *objectively* bad due to how it's made, it's not an obscure fact The chocolate was found to contain unusually large amounts of butyric acid, which gives it that bing l vomity taste (it's literally found in vomit). 😁

[@GuanoLad]

There's a great video where Canadian KZbinr Alanna from Adventures and Naps goes back to trying Hersheys after several years of living in the UK. Worth a watch.

[@AlbertPaysonTerhune]

Hershey's chocolate is great. I can appreciate other chocolate. But Americans will go for brownies or chocolate chips if they want chocolate. American adults do not eat candy, and that's basic difference of tastebuds. There is no American adult candy, unless you're talking about boxed Whitman sampler or Belgian truffles. Brits will eat candy as adults...which for Americans would be a scary eccentricity.

[@ironsword7]

@@VikingTeddy probably because your views are heavily skewed?

[@joepiekl]

For me most milk chocolate outside of the UK is pretty poor, even from the same brand (with the exception of a few Belgian and Swiss brands). I used to live in Malaysia, and they sell the locally-made Cadbury's and the stuff imported from the UK. It's twice or three times the price, but I chose it every time. Same with Australian Cadbury's tbh. They change the recipe for warmer climates, presumably to stop it melting all over the place, but it creates this horrible waxy texture and it's not as creamy either. I had a Polish friend in the UK who also said that Cadburys in Poland is nowhere near as good as the UK too. I assumed the Hershey's thing was a myth, but I tried one without knowing what it was recently, and was thinking "What's that weird taste?" And then I remembered the QI episode where they talk about it.

[@JoeBleasdaleReal]

Saying “I don’t like British TV” reminds me of my mates who say “I don’t like fish”. There are so many different varieties that what they mean to say is “I don’t like the fish I’m aware of”

[@CaptainKremmen]

Evan: Hersheys are still good. Me: No! Evan: They hold a place. Me: In the rubbish bin.

[@evan]

Hahaha

[@MattJames2211]

Exactly

[@gdok6088]

It's not a matter of opinion that Hershey's chocolate tastes of vomit. Hershey's contains higher amounts of butyric acid which gives vomit its characteristic smell and taste. The higher level of butyric acid is due to the way the milk is processed by Hershey's purely to extend shelf-life. TLDR; I agree with your girlfriend, Hershey's is disgusting.

[@maxhensley1685]

It's true, Hershey's chocolate objectively has higher amounts of butyric acid, which is one of the components of the characteristic taste of vomit. But there are almost no compounds which humans find unpleasant in all contexts; butyric acid is also one of the key flavor components of parmesan for instance, and military researchers trying to develop stink bomb technology for nonlethal weapons have struggled to find compounds which are repulsive to all people in all cultures. Personally, I used to find it totally believable that other countries just had better chocolate than America does. I'm not particularly a fan of Hershey's to begin with, and thought it was an easy standard to beat. But I didn't actually know what British companies people were comparing it to, and when I heard people compare it against Cadbury's as a benchmark, my immediate thought was "What? But that's even worse though." To my palate, it tastes cloying and lacking any snap to its texture. If you've watched shows like Top Chef, where the judges will say something and grimace and say that it "needs acid," that's me with Cadbury's chocolate. FWIW, Hershey's didn't add butyric acid to their formula to add shelf life. Hershey's formulation was one of the first consistent and shelf-stable forms of chocolate on the market, and other methods which developed less acid in the course of their production were developed later. Hershey's could have changed their formula to mimic later developments, but by then, a market for their flavor already existed, and changing it wasn't necessarily going to be a good business move for them, like Coca Cola changing to New Coke.

[@josefstalin9678]

Yeah but for americans, chocolate tasting that way is just like coffee being bitter. People who regularly drink black coffee enjoy the taste but someone who's never had black coffee will probably think it tastes like dirt. Same often goes for drinking alcohol. If you've never had american chocolate before, you'll say it tastes like vomit, but I've been eating it all my life and I genuinely don't notice it.

[@AlbertPaysonTerhune]

@@josefstalin9678 Hershey's has a special taste all its own but most people think it's delicious. It's called milk chocolate, so its a bit milkier than your average chocolate bunny or Toll House morsels.

[@CoolHandLuke-q1e]

​@@AlbertPaysonTerhune😂

[@WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS]

​@@AlbertPaysonTerhuneI mourn for your lack of access to quality milk chocolate. If I can make a possible suggestion for you, see if you can find a bakers supplier shop. They tend to have access to unformally high quality milk chocolate, yes generally speaking to you the portions are notably larger, however I can attest to this type of chocolate freezing very well, and it's a simple task to portion up the bar into cupboard sized portions and then pop the one you want to keep ready to go in a ziplock/sealable (and ideally suitable for the freezer for the other bars) bag; stick the rest into bags/a tupperware and pop them in the freezer.

[@Ellary_Rosewood]

I can't eat Hershey's and I grew up in the U.S. It tastes like puke. 🤢🤮

[@shirralia]

They add Butyric Acid for some reason, which plays a role in our digestive system and thus is also present in vomit. It's present in many foods in small amounts though. Particularly hard aged cheeses like parmesan. But that's the usual reason cited for why people who haven't acquired the taste from childhood thinks Hershey's tastes like vomit. Because it quite literally does.

[@jmurray1110]

It was originally to keep the milk from spoiling and they continue so as to keep that iconic taste

[@Liamshavingfun]

I think its in your mind

[@johnnyuk3365]

@@Liamshavingfun Butyric acid is not in your mind it is in your mouth, although it could eventually make its way up there.

[@wintersnowowen2254]

It literally does! Why do Americans think it doesn’t?

[@Summerhouse-z7n]

I went to stay with cousins in Massachusetts and we got to talking about food etc and I told them that I had heard all these great things about Hershey's chocolate and when I left my lovely cousin gave me what must have been a year's supply of Hershey's chocolate bars. I felt so bad after I got home and actually tasted it. It really isn't good to British or European tastes. Luckily Halloween was only two or three weeks away so I was able to off load it quite effectively. I do like Cadbury chocolate but Continental chocolate with 56% cocoa is 👌👌

[@Yandarval]

Be prepared for lots of tricks next year. Presuming the kids dont know about Hershey rep yet. If they do, the may refuse to take it.

[@thescrewfly]

Only 56%? That seems rather low. Also, haven't heard the term 'continental' for quite some time...

[@Biketunerfy]

If you like dark chocolate you should try Cadburys boinivillie.

[@lynneserman6054]

​@@Biketunerfy. It's Bournville. Named after the Quaker Midlands town built for the workers by Cadbury.

[@apjtv2540]

With the chocolate thing: I'd imagine it's harder for Brits to enjoy a worse quality of chocolate than they are used to. Whereas American's are going from good to better, Brits are going from good to worse. That's probably something to do with the negative feedback.

[@tappy8741]

That's not it. It really does taste like sick. This is not hyperbole. I tried it when I was 12 and can still remember how awful it is. American's must just be conditioned to it, so many from other places say this.

[@josefstalin9678]

​@@tappy8741I remember drinking coffee with nothing in it for the first time and thinking it tasted like dirt, yet it seems quite a lot of people have conditioned themselves to like the taste of black coffee. Its like how people who didn't grow up eating durian can't stand the taste/scent of durian but people who grew up eating it say its delicious

[@gaynorhead2325]

We don’t need Thanksgiving dinner in the UK, most people have a lovely Sunday roast with all the trimmings and often have friends round to share it. Or Christmas, or Easter……

[@evan]

It’s different cause it’s a celebration of the food! And very specifically amazing food only eaten on Thanksgiving

[@better.better]

(typically) I'll point out that there's a Sunday dinner tradition with some American families as well. but I would assume that it's a diminishing tradition because I'd never heard of it until my father's alcoholic GF tried to push it on me... not that I wouldn't mind it occasionally, but her alcohol driven psychotic episodes make what's to be a pleasant experience into more of a night of trauma.

[@letitiakearney2423]

@@evanpity they don’t invite the indigenous people who helped the pilgrims survive the first winter as that is were it actually started. 😢. It’s just now a nice family celebration at the end of harvest time.

[@Lydt95]

@@evanthink what she’s saying is if we want it, we just eat it anytime 😂 we don’t need a ‘holiday’.

[@josephfoulger9628]

@@evanthere is nothing in American thanksgiving that brits would find unique or interesting enough to give a day to

[@Efusco97]

I LOVE the fact You’d live in Liverpool 🎉❤ makes me SO happy !

[@speleokeir]

"Not everything is about money." Isn't it considered sacrilege for an American to say that?🤔😁 I can hear them calling you a commie from 3000 miles away!🤣🤣🤣

[@davidroddini1512]

That’s why he is British now 😜

[@mariacurtis9247]

Plus he's a lover of maths and he doesn't want to work out the profit figures of reselling

[@twilightgeneral777]

More likely Republicans would say that

[@furaosentu]

and then I start to wonder whether 3000 miles is correct, because i don't think in imperial. Friggin' imperialists!

[@diane9247]

No! Most Americans would say that - except rich ones.😅

[@stampinwithcam]

Here's a top tip for cycling - put the ball of your foot on the pedal, you'll find it much easier. I noticed that you had your instep on the pedals; using the ball of your foot means you're using it as a lever and you'll use less energy. Keep up the cycling and always wear your cycle helmet.

[@tonypcoyle]

*Living* somewhere else is hugely different to *visiting* as a tourist. My wife and I have dragged our kids across the world with us... to Spain, Switzerland, Italy, France, and Canada - as well as Scotland where we started and the US where we eventually settled. We've made lifelong friends everywhere! Our son (29) was disgruntled when younger but recognizes now that his world view is much (much) broader than almost all of his peers. He likes it now. We have also loved the experience (and we're never scared to just 'go somewhere').

[@johannayaffe2647]

I like the variety of content that you make... I watch because I like the personality/persona you give over.. you seem to be a genuine person who's making videos about stuff you're interested in, and you're an eclectic person. I watch content from a variety of KZbinrs, but you're one of the few who has such varied content. Keep up the good work, and please take a vacation from posting every week... you really don't need to... your audience will still be here.. Thanks .

[@lynneserman6054]

. I'm new and couldn't agree more. He's refreshing.

[@aliflanagan7669]

Im so refreshed by how you talked about your flat! Im so sick of home ownership just being talked about as a financial investment, its one of the reasons we have such a fucked housing market.

[@seigeengine]

The first thing I was taught in economics was it's about value, not money. Everybody is trying to maximize the amount of value they have. I trade my apple for your pear. I like pears better than apples. You like apples better than pears. We both end up with something we each value more than when we started. You can use "money" as a convenient unit of value. You may lose money on the place, but how much are the other things you gain worth to you? If owning rather than renting gives you greater mental security, how much is that worth to you, money-wise? It's worth thinking about these things so you can make better decisions. We make these decisions all the time, but we often don't really analyze them. and think of them actively.

[@Jamie_D]

Glad things went the road they did,happy to have you here :)

[@tuxcatjodi]

Really enjoyed this Q & A

[@johnnyuk3365]

I can’t think of a single reason for the UK “celebrating “ Thanksgiving on 28th of November with a colossal turkey dinner and then like Americans doing exactly the same thing less than a month later. Canadians celebrate Thanksgiving on the 14th October which does give a more leisurely 2 months to Christmas. I thought Thanksgiving was all about celebrating the 1621 first harvest of the Pilgrim Fathers. Well you yanks were a month behind the Canadians and they are much further North. Get your act together, and start apologising for bumping into other people when it is not your fault like us Brits and Canadians do.

[@stevedaytona]

I can't speak for all Americans but I have very rarely had Turkey at Christmas in the 20 or so years I have lived here.

[@twilightgeneral777]

​@@stevedaytonaChristmas dinner was usually ham where I came from

[@thescrewfly]

So sorry! (I'm not a US American but I thought I should apologise anyway, because they probably won't).

[@Thurgosh_OG]

@@thescrewfly You sound more Canadian. Apology accepted, with gratitude.

[@josefstalin9678]

As someone else already said, christmas dinner is often ham in the states. I never understood the turkey for christmas either. Nowadays though, I've been making a beef wellington (every other year, because I still like a goof ham) and that seems like it'll become tradition for my family going forward

[@01akqueen]

I will watch no matter the subject/language. I find you interesting and appreciate the variety of issues you present. Whether the subject matter is happy, sad, serious, or informative, I enjoy your take. Keep being such a varietal dude🙂 From a mom of young adults!

[@arkemiffo]

A few years ago I Was in the US because of work, and I decided to try out lots of things that I've only heard about on TV and shows, but never tried, because growing up in Sweden we had our own things. One of them was a Hershey-bar. I ate about one square of it, and threw the rest away. It just tastes funky, almost chemical. It was simply not good. Sure, it might have been a bad example or something, but damn, I'm not really in for trying it again. On the other hand, the Twinkie was great though.

[@vickywitton1008]

I thought Twinkies were gross! Hersheys did smell and taste of sick and the Red Vines were just about edible

[@GCOSBenbow]

First thing I ate in the US was a deep fried twinkie. It tasted incredible but 3 bites left me feeling incredibly nauseous for the rest of the evening and I've eaten multiple scottish deep fried chocolate bars in my time.

[@josefstalin9678]

​@@GCOSBenbowwait until you try deep fried oreos, deep fried ice cream, or deep fried butter on a stick!

[@seigeengine]

Hersheys is notoriously vomity because the milk is deliberately slightly spoiled, historically for some kind of practical preservation reason, and then people just got used to the flavor. Personally, I think it's fine. The real offenders are the cheap waxy chocolates that taste of nothing and suck. Also, twinkies are meh.

[@Catsandcamera]

We don't think Hershey's tastes like sick, it does taste like sick

[@Liamshavingfun]

What is sick?

[@NotThatOneThisOne]

Technically it tastes of the butyric acid they put in it. Butyric acid is one of those things that makes sick smell/taste as it does. So yes, it tastes of sick.

[@prodigioussovereign2548]

​@@Liamshavingfun sick is British for vomit

[@evercuriousmichelle]

Sick = 🤢🤮

[@hanifarroisimukhlis5989]

@@NotThatOneThisOne Also butyric acid is byproduct of rancidification process, so yeah Hershey's is rancid.

[@rikmoran3963]

I'm glad you look at your apartment as a home and not just as an investment. The value you get from it doesn't have to be financial! A lot of people that I used to work with were only interested in the return on their investment. They were always stressing out when the market changed!

[@josephhughes1498]

Liverpool was very unexpected I live there and Brighton seems to be where all the cool things happen and every cool small business seems to be from there haha

[@e.m.ber.]

The set and lighting is exquisite here, I love it - incredible job!

[@Tom_murray89]

Since Kraft took over cadbury’s the chocolate seems to have gone down hill

[@checker297]

i agree, in australia now I buy whittakers (NZ brand) if i want quality chocolate or darrel lea (AU) for fun types of chocolate (raspberry bullets are great). Cadbury blocks are now tiny, so it no longer can compete on size and its quality was never that great

[@Scuzzlebutt142]

@@checker297 Whittakers is an excellent choice, if I as a New Zealander can weigh in :) . It is great, it may not be up to the premium European brands, but as a "standard" block it is really good. Combined with Whitakers being quite a good company, in that whenever their prices go up, the add is generally "The prices are going up because shipping and ingredients are going up in price, sorry." and goes up marginally. Cadbury in NZ is now considered a pretty terrible brand, barely a step above the non-branded cheap chocolate you get in Chocolate coins and such.

[@Thurgosh_OG]

'Seems to' is too vague. It most definitely has gone downhill, what with changed recipes and trying to 'Americanise' it by adding the likes of oreo bits, to it. Just awful nowadays.

[@checker297]

@@Scuzzlebutt142 honestly i dont rate the common premium eu chocolate brands much higher than cadbury. If i want something high quality ill get Noosa chocolate (AU). Whittakers is a good price for a decent quality and decent amount for that everyday consumption kind of thing.

[@mattnaylor29]

Gone down hill? Nah. Fallen of a cliff more like.

[@sophieirwin3497]

Liverpool is the correct answer. I am currently living in LA, and plan to be here long term, but if I ever move back to the UK, I'm going back to Liverpool, my university city, which I did my undergrad, masters, first job and PhD. It was and still is my favourite city and the only place I really felt at home.

[@TheAlmightyDoge]

I totally agree with the perspective of not caring about how profitable some things will be to resell later. For me it’s with cars. Lots of people say that I should base my decision off of depreciation rates and resell values. Lol no. I buy a car with features i need, drive it until the wheels fall off, and then get another one. The car’s value is the things it enables me to do. It’s not an investment it’s an expense and, if you can afford a car, you CAN afford that expense if you view it that way from the start, shop within your means, and factor it into your finances accordingly.

[@seigeengine]

I mean, those people likely do sell their cars after a few years to shift to a newer one, so the value it retains is more relevant to their long-term financial interests. Similarly, you really ought to be doing the same... not the selling and upgrading regularly, but the considering the longevity of the vehicles you're buying. After all, not thinking about it doesn't make the costs go away, it just means you're making decisions blind.

[@04williamsl]

Anyone who asks whether the home they bought is worth it based on a profit they've made/lost should never be allowed to own a home. A home isn't there to make profit from. It's there to give you shelter and make memories in.

[@ShirinRose]

Agreed!

[@JhericFury]

Agreed, sort of. I care a great deal about whether I stay in neutral/positive equity because I have a mortgage, and it's more difficult and more expensive to remortgage with negative equity, so I need to care about the house value in order to continue living here.

[@Phiyedough]

In practice you have to live somewhere and if the one you have has gone up in price the one you want has probably gone up more!

[@randommusic4567]

Maybe for your forever home, but most people go through a few other homes first as they climb the ladder and so at that point the value, equity etc really does matter

[@JhericFury]

@@randommusic4567 see, I feel the difference here is that a lot of us will barely get one, let alone multiple. Besides that the idea of investing in a property to protect your wealth against inflation, which is realistically all you're describing is, is more a sticking plaster to a terrible housing situation, and one a lot of people can't afford.

[@Monkeyboy1138]

I’m a Brit, I love both American and British chocolate.

[@tayet6875]

Hershey's is uncomfortably waxy and tangy. Now that your girlfriend described as "sick" I'm like: ThAt's it! That's the taste!!😂

[@MichaelJohnsonAzgard]

I'll watch your videos no matter the content and I'm like that with every channel I follow. I find it's the creator that I'm more interested in, even though it was probably the content that initially drew me in.

[@PansyPops]

1:25 British people do have a family-centred holiday where we enjoy home baked stuff. It’s called Christmas, a lot of families have a bigger celebration for Christmas in place of Thanksgiving. You also said that it is different to Xmas but still, why would you _only_ be thankful for one day instead of being mindful and thankful for what you have every day? _(Of course it differs from family to family but it’s very friends/family-centric for everyone I know)_

[@PrincessPebbles0_0]

That’s not all Thanksgiving is about… there is a historical aspect to it in The USA

[@nightsazrael]

I am American and except for Sees and Ghiradeli, I don't like American chocolate, I much prefer European chocolates. 😸😸😸😸😸

[@hufflepuffwannabe]

I like your mindset on homeownership! It’s a really refreshing perspective

[@vickyiles1690]

Really love this video Evan and well done in your music and thank you for sharing such close subjects with us, your a great guy x

[@rohitdoestech]

Thank you for answering my question 😍

[@evan]

:D

[@beauthestdane]

I absolutely agree on living somewhere outside your country of origin. I lived for 6 years in Israel as a child in the 70s, and it really does make a huge difference on your perspective of the world as a whole. Planning our move to France in a couple of years when I retire.

[@johnhockenhull2819]

I used to work for a company which sent us on courses, and they were usually in Liverpool. The people and the city are so welcoming. I used to look forward to going on courses in Liverpool. And I the scouse accent is so unique.

[@heneagedundas]

I like that British TV series are so often relatively short. You don't end up getting bored with them!

[@postiekeefveness4415]

A Brit here, we give Hersheys chocolate (there's a misnomer) to the grandchildren as a punishment.

[@evan]

Lmaooo

[@MsPeabody1231]

😂😂😂 You are evil

[@janiceturton7756]

i used to like Cadbury chocolate but the taste has changed . I like Belgium or Swiss choc now

[@Boxersteavee]

1:24 that's literally just Christmas dinner though

[@evan]

IT IS DIFFERENT

[@Boxersteavee]

@@evan is it though? Isn't it close enough to Christmas anyway?

[@prodigioussovereign2548]

The foods for Christmas & Thanksgiving are similar, but the holidays are very different. Thanksgiving is literally being super thankful for family, friends & good food. It's all about comfort, love & fellowship. Whereas Christmas is a huge formal, commercialized stress fest.

[@alexatkin]

@@prodigioussovereign2548 Implying that Thanksgiving isn't a huge formal commercialised event? Its certainly how its portrayed in TV/Movies.

[@prodigioussovereign2548]

@@alexatkin it's not nearly as commercialized as Christmas. It kinda blends into typical fall decor, not much is specifically for Thanksgiving. Also, you're not expected to get gifts or cards for anyone. It's not a religious holiday so there's less virtue signaling & showing off going on. All in all it's a relatively restful (once the food is cooked 😁) holiday.

[@tcshack701]

American here, we don't only have Christmas Crackers, we also have Thanksgiving Crackers.

[@conallmclaughlin4545]

1:19 like Easter Sunday? We don't need thanksgiving, we have Halloween (a huge thing in Ireland) plus we have boxing day and Sunday dinners

[@mariacurtis9247]

As an English person we also have bonfire night to get together with friends have food and watch fireworks

[@TestGearJunkie.]

@@mariacurtis9247 The Americans do fireworks on the 4th of July. Incidentally, I have yet to meet an American who can tell me why, when their date system is the other way around from ours (29/09/24 here being 09/24/24 there) they still refer to independence day as the fourth of July and not July the fourth.

[@theukyankee]

I'm an American who grew up in PA and I can't eat Hershey's any longer after living in the UK for years. It doesn't taste of vomit to me but tastes like wax. I can eat some specific American chocolates but they tend to be done by small chocolate makers. I do like British chocolate better and like some other European country chocolates even more.

[@TrailBikeMike]

I’m in the UK and I’ve been to Hershey Chocolate World and the factory a few times as I have cousins from there. Funny thing. One of my cousins married a Mr Hershey (no relation to the chocolate) and they live on Hershey Road, Hershey! lol. And yes, Hershey chocolate does taste like sick.

[@boredomsentmehere]

How on earth do you find Brighton boring? It's all the best parts of London condensed

[@Ingens_Scherz]

Liverpool is a great choice. I've only been there twice in my entire lifetime (and that's quite a long lifetime now!), and I loved every minute of each visit. Lovely city; sweet people.

[@mytube001]

I've never understood that bit about not being shown videos. I see every video from every channel I subscribe to in my subscription feed.

[@evan]

87% of views these days come from home feed and recommendations, not subscription feed. So while you may (thanks for being a sub feed trooper), 87% of my general audience (and me most times) watch lots based on our home page, based on our viewing history so that’s the way itnis

[@Alfonso162008]

I've never understood it either, especially when they say stuff like "click on the bell to get notified whenever I upload a new video". I've never had any problem seeing when a new video pops up in my feed (well, I've had sometimes, but that's because I get distracted or miss it when looking through the feed 😂). But like, what's the point of subscribing to a channel if you're not gonna check the subscription feed to check the new videos?

[@peterharridge8565]

@@evan issue with subscribing is now I am subscribed to too many people, and am overloaded and consequently my subscribed content is not always available to me. I have been a subscriber for years. But I now never ring the bell, because I don't want unlimited emails. Then I have to delete them. But I always get Evan's content. Because I guess I always view them.

[@TestGearJunkie.]

I don't get a feed. I don't want one, either. I check manually if there's anything I want to watch or not.

[@nailsofinterest]

​@@peterharridge8565note you can turn off the email notifications. I have!! They are a pain and fill your inbox!

[@ArtwithKrissy]

We used to have a Thanksgiving type celebration called harvest festival, a time to be thankful for the harvest and the people who you share the harvest with. People can still celebrate this if they'd want.. people tend to forget about it after school as it's a Christian festival..

[@Mikas60]

You can get Melatonin from online pharmacies in UK. All they ask is that you fill out a questionaire, and if nothing is off, they automatically approve it and ship the item.

[@GCOSBenbow]

If you have naturally low levels of melatonin then it's a great thing to help make up the difference and train your body into sleeping at a regular time. If you take it to avoid having to be sensible about turning off your screens at a reasonable hour, not only are you going to get diminishing effects over time but you can also severely damage your natural sleep cycle as your body will expect an increased level of melatonin to want to go to sleep. While melatonin isn't addictive per se you can easily build up a dependence on it, I would strongly advise talking to a GP and/or taking a melatonin test (you can get saliva home test kits really easily online) before trying to get a prescription.

[@krisjonesuk]

The reason Europeans don’t like Hershey’s chocolate is because they add Butyric Acid as a preservative. This acid is also present in Parmesan cheese and in vomit.

[@bentilley5412]

Not sure how helpful this is (probably not very), but the main reason that I like your channel is that I never know what you're going to talk about. Sometimes I agree with you, sometimes I don't. Sometimes the subject is something I have never even thought about, or formed an opinion on. There are channels that I subscribe to because they are about a particular thing that interests me, but I subscribe to yours because you are interested in a lot of things, and that is interesting in itself. I'm not that into coffee, though.

[@john_smith1471]

Hershey chocolate sold in Britain’s supermarkets is made in Malaysia, although the Reese bars are made in the US.

[@woofbarkyap]

"A holiday based around delicious home made food, and family" - yes, we have Christmas 🤣 As for chocolate, it's not the milk or anything, just that we don't like the taste of vomit and we're happy that way, seems appropriate somehow 🤣

[@Zomerset]

Thank you answering my question about the KZbin algorithm. That was a very useful insight. I’m happy to watch your videos, even if I think the subject won’t appeal to me, because there is usually something I find interesting.

[@Nave03]

Im American and live abroad in Belgium. Suffice it to say I love Belgium chocolate and don't like Hershey's. I didn't know why for a while. Then I realized its because I hate malt in choclate. I think if you dont mind it than most chocolate is fine. Love your vids as a fellow American abroad btw!

[@ScottRahner]

Love your view on ownership, absolutely correct!

[@Wonzling0815]

I'm from Germany and like chocolate. I've been on a few US trips and made it a challenge for myself to try as many "weird" sweets and drinks I could get. I especially wanted to try all the stuff I see in movies or read about in books (think The Stand and Payday bars). I tried Hershey's a few times and the only kind I could stand was one with hazelnuts, and only if I chewed the whole mess thoroughly so the sweetness lessened a bit.

[@jackielinde7568]

To be fair, Hershey's does taste a bit like puke. It had to do with something about the supply chain for milk, but I don't remember the exact reason. The idea was that the milk wasn't as fresh aby the time it got to the factory. So that's the original source of the taste. BUT, when they solved that problem, they found people didn't like it because "the formula changed." (Ask Coca-Cola about changing formulas.) Now they add the substance back in to make the chocolate have its distinctive taste. If you grew up on it, you won't notice it. But if you grew up on Cadburry's or Kindle chocolates, you definitely notice the taste.

[@batmanslarynx]

I've been meaning to ask; as you pledged allegiance to the queen, is that redundant now as she's dead or was it pledging to the crown in general?

[@evan]

It was sadly to the queen and all her heirs

[@TestGearJunkie.]

@@evan More than I did. The Queen I respected. Charlie is just a dickhead. Sorry, but he is.

[@TheRealSasquatch]

@@evan Surely, to the late Queen and all her heirs. The use of sadly infers you are sad that you took the oath in itself!

[@jaycee330]

@@TheRealSasquatch I'm sure he means "Sadly" because the Queen is no more.

[@batmanslarynx]

@@evan That's unfortunate.

[@weeeeems]

I would say our Easter is like an American Thanksgiving. At least in my family.

[@RM-ti8nf]

Thanks for explaining this about the algorithm Evan xx

[@mojojojoe100]

you could go to language exchange groups to keep practicing your german in london, and it'd probably be very helpful to others trying to learn german...and spanish. also if you release your professionally produced song you have to also show us the version you you produced that "is not that good"

[@seigeengine]

This. It's also just a good idea. Lots of skills really do erode very quickly when you stop using them. It's good to spend a little time on maintenance regularly.

[@nancyagain6474]

Hey KZbin I’d love to watch Evan’s video on coffee 🎉🎉🎉

[@ralfbauerfeind8236]

New watcher from Germany here. I just found you, and I enjoy watching US, UK and German people views of the world. I skipped through your videos and must say I am impressed! You started 13 years ago, and even have spent quite some time in Germany. Guess I have to watch several videos of yours to understand you better. But you mentioned a video in German? I really appreciate that you are doing all the original content and not just reactions as many do, but to help you getting back in German mood (and back into the language), you might get help from German shows? There sure are some options to do that. Starting from 'Feli from Germany' explaining things about Germany in English mostly, the channel 'Easy German', and more advanced topics like the channel 'Jules der II.' with the video "Deutsche Bundesländer in einer Nussschale", the "Nachtschleife" featuring 'Bernd das Brot' (approach VERY carefully), or the satire of 'Heute Show' about Brexit or Trump. Looking forward listening to you speaking German. Now I am to go scrolling back to view a few movies from the beginning of your KZbin career. 😊

[@thepenguinofspace9291]

have you watched his german gcse video, its one of my favourite videos of his. wish he did more of that series of german exams etc.

[@Jordan_Warrington]

I agree so much. As someone who is in a shared ownership property, I didn't buy this for a profit. I purchased this to provide security and a stable cost for housing.

[@lynneserman6054]

We tend to have a meal and get together like your Thanksgiving about half a dozen times a year. Usually around family celebrations and the seasons.

[@jennyhammond9261]

I went to the Hershey Factor several years ago. The chocolate drizzles popcorn was stale and it wasn't like they were selling the candy for cheap since they didn't have to ship it!

[@d_dave7200]

Even for smores, I stick a bar of dairy milk in there. Is it the classic smores taste? No. But it's still better, sorry :p

[@lucyj8204]

We melt the marshmallow on the fire and put it between two chocolate biscuits (digestives would be classic, but hobnobs are also excellent, and knockoff brands work just as well).

[@GCOSBenbow]

Chocolate hobnobs with a marshmallow stuffed in there is hands down the best smore you will ever have.

[@josefstalin9678]

I do mine with a reese's cup and I've heard some do it with a Ghirardelli chocolate caramel square. Y'all gotta step up your game and use a caramello or something

[@seigeengine]

I mean, smores are awful. Whoever thought it was a good idea to take some of the driest crackers going, and to stick two super-dry things on it and then melt them together should be cascaded in molten smore.

[@YaaLFH]

Evan, you should sign up for the London to Brighton Bike Ride. It's a great experience!

[@laineydunlap9757]

I would go out of my way to watch a coffee video! Loved this, nice chill time.

[@nijntje369]

💯 grind your own, also big yes to Chemex. This is literally a ritual for me in the morning!

[@mytube001]

Chemex sounds like a pesticide brand...

[@peterharridge8565]

On coffee I use a Keurig copy (brand in US). I had it in my airbnb in US April. Impressed I bought it on Amazon UK when back. But it blew up on plugging in. My electrician said it would. Thanks Amazon. Anyway found out Keurig stopped doing UK models and so company that was distributor when they did produced a Chinese copy themselves. And you use pods that work with Keurig. Has come with issues and it seems Pods that came with it were faulty but now great. One cup at a time. Vey cheap, I looked at my meter and seems to be a lot less than a1/100th of a kW of electric. If pod is unsealed a big mess. So check pods because come by post so box may have been dropped, but that's the pods not the Keurig. Anyway I don't need ground or beans. I have pods.

[@AlbertPaysonTerhune]

So no coffee when you wake up, you have to work and wait.

[@nijntje369]

@@AlbertPaysonTerhune Worth the wait my friend! The right coffee, right grind *chef's kiss 😅

[@GCOSBenbow]

@@AlbertPaysonTerhune It takes no more time than boiling a kettle. Plus if you make a good sized batch at a time you get 3-4 cups from one grind!

[@craftyclaira]

Wow! Evan Totally agree with you about the property. After 22 years of paying a mortgage half the monthly cost of average rent- I feel that was my 'profit' ...I just lost £10k two months ago on the sale of leasehold flat after 25yrs. I walked away on a very bad leasehold with only half of my original deposit. BUT yeh it's was my own place- now I am at the mercy of a landlord and excessive rent costs! Not all in life is measured by a bottom line

[@monmonmonsta]

Stumbled onto an episode of Lateral with Evan recently! Such a pleasant surprise...and took the role 'master of pun' very seriously 😅

[@rambunctiousmedia3350]

American addict of M&M's here, CHOCOLATE IS CHOCOLATE! YOU CAN NEVER HAVE ENOUGH!

[@CraigUntlNytTym]

"A holiday centered around having a really nice amount of home baked food with friends and family" THAT'S CHRISTMAS.

[@Kriasr]

Nah, they have different vibes

[@CraigUntlNytTym]

@@Kriasr how? In what way?

[@CraigUntlNytTym]

@arunsalwan8558 yeah, so you have two of those food focused family holidays close together.

[@RCassinello]

I think the Thanksgiving issue is that that's exactly how Christmas used to be in the UK, but during my lifetime of nearly 50 years, Christmas has been heavily commercialised to the point where it's pretty similar to American Christmases. No one wants you round for a meal and company now - it's about stopping by to exchange gifts, then onto the next house... Christmas used to be this big weeklong event starting on Christmas Eve of spending time with friends and family. Now it feels like come Boxing Day, everyone wants to just wants to put the tree down and go shopping again.

[@Melvin4356]

I fully agree with the advantages for an American to live in a foreign country for at least a half a year, even if only for the opportunity to experience a different culture. I've had the opportunity to live in 2 other countries besides the U.S. for more than 2 years each. Not only did I learn a different language in each, but, learned a good bit about the culture of each.

[@PhillCurtis]

Keep doing what you're doing! 👍

[@mr.d5314]

I had Hershey chocolate once in 1998 and it was the worst thing that I've ever put in my mouth.

[@Irishharper]

As an American that lived in the UK, I can't deal with Hershey. Yuck... it's just poor quality. As for your channel, I don't remember when I started following you, but it's been a few years... I love how diverse and ever changing it is. Thank you for being you. My Sunday wouldn't be the same without you and because of you I am learning Scottish Gaelic... quite a feat for a 70 year old that forgets why she walked into the kitchen...lol

[@TestGearJunkie.]

Wow. As an ex-pat Essex girl living in Scotland, kudos to you, I can just about get my head around Doric (the dialect that's common here in the North-East) but Gaelic is way out of my league..! I'm half Welsh and tried learning that once, no chance 🤣

[@michaelmccasland9852]

In the series "Food that made America" their episode on the chocolate industry it was mentioned that Hershey deliberately made his chocolate taste different from European Chocolate.

[@annabear3553]

Glennkill is a great book, I loved reading it! Great choice from Heather.

[@williamjenman6902]

The British obsession with investing in property rather than creating homes for people to live in is one of the worst aspects of this country, and it ripples though so many other issues from the generational wealth divide to the impact of immigration. Good attitude, Evan, I just wish more Brits thought like you about housing.

[@LadyMephistopheles]

It's not just the British. It's the general landlord mentality.

[@peterharridge8565]

@@LadyMephistopheles I don't expect to make anything on my 2 properties. If I do would be peanuts. Say £20K for the two.

[@williamjenman6902]

@@peterharridge8565 Then you've either only just bought your properties, so they haven't had time to increase in value, or you invested unwisely in a very poor location or poor property, or maybe have just been really unlucky. Rents have roughly doubled where I live in the last 7 years; believe me when I say that your "20k is peanuts" comment says it all; £20k is a LOT of money to most of us, especially tenants.

[@peterharridge8565]

@@williamjenman6902 No I agree with Evan, I'm not looking for a profit. I'm looking for somewhere to live. That £20K is peanuts in relation to property prices in the south, I live up north so not looking for profit. rents only doubled because property prices went up. I am well aware of southern prices specifically rents. I was paying £600 PCM for a 1 bed flat in 2016, that's why I moved. It went up 33% in 2 years. The direction was up, wasn't going to stay in south if that is the case. So I moved, anyone can do the same. I charge my tenant £435 per month and that's gone up from £400 in I think 3 years. And that I only had to charge because of a £500 payment for a special licensing scheme to the Council. I don't want to put rents up. I haven't invested unwisely, I only paid £37K plus about £12K renovation. So that's £49K and might be worth £65K now. But if I sell obviously there are costs associated with it. I'll consider it if tenant leaves, not unless. There are literally hundreds of properties worth the same or less. Many will be 100 years old and built of stone. The one I have is brick built. So many will not go up much. Newer properties are different, they may go up.

[@DavidStruveDesigns]

It doesn't help that we've allowed so many foreigners who don't even live in our country full-time to buy up so much housing stock, and if it's not individuals it's hedge funds and corporations. The ONLY ones who should be allowed to buy a house in the UK should be people who live here all the time - not people who only live here two or three months out of a year.

[@catgladwell5684]

If there is a hell, the inmates will be served black coffee and hershey chocolate, If there is a heaven they will get a piping hot cup of English breakfast tea and a Cadburys chocolate biscuit.

[@krisrowan]

It is the butyric acid that Hershey puts on their chocolate that makes some feel it taste like sick. Other countries don't use this acid on their chocolate.

[@joshc-dev]

i love your coming to London story ❤

[@andreahidalgolujan7029]

Melatonin is also sold over the counterin spain. It's closer than the states

[@willjacks6888]

I feel like I’m the only Brit that likes Hersheys. Admittedly, my fondness is almost 100% nostalgia-based as it reminds me of a holiday in America when I was 8 years old.

[@NRajah]

I make smores with cadbury's dairy milk. Much better than with Hersheys.

[@really-quite-exhausted]

I use chocolate digestives lmao it's much easier but maybe not as gooey?

[@NRajah]

@@really-quite-exhausted I've tried that but the ratio of marshmallow to chocolate is too one sided. A bit more chocolate is needed. I also find graham crackers (pronounced gram crackers somehow) are too thin. Digestives are much better.

[@julian5956]

Anything is better than hersheys. At work people bring back hersheys from holiday sometimes. It often left uneaten!

[@helenjohnston3178]

Chocolate digestives are way easier for smores than separate biscuit, chocolate & marshmallow.

[@Rabellaka.]

I don’t eat s’mores because I’m allergic to most graham crackers, but here in Canada, Caramilk is quite common instead of plain chocolate. Who wouldn’t want to add a bit of caramel?

[@Arthur-yf9yv]

I will never surrender my belief that autumn and winter holidays are there to fend off seasonal depression.

[@corvidkusnos]

Technically we do have a Thanksgiving-like holiday in the UK but it tends to be mostly within Christian communities: Harvest Festival (October 6th this year) It's not widely practised because most people are either non-Christian or non-practising, but if you wanted to have a Thanksgiving-like holiday without them um. genocidal connotations, Harvest could be a good shout

[@allanjmcpherson]

I would never tell someone they can't be a coffee nerd because they buy ground (though I would encourage them to try grinding their own). I do think realistically, though, if someone is a coffee nerd, they will almost certainly grind their own beans. It's like step 1 of coffee nerdery.

[@nes999]

Midwest here. Growing up we refered to ice cream as the stuff that you bought at like a DQ. Ice Milk was the stuff from Walmart. (That could be because we are in a diary farm heavy area though.)

[@ezraclark7904]

I'm from Pennsylvania and I can't eat Hershey

[@Rhinneh]

If you liked the IT Crowd, look up Black Books, the show that came before (and Father Ted before that). They’re a little older but the humour is the same!

[@GCOSBenbow]

Black books is certainly IT Crowd-esque. Father Ted is waaaay more offensive in its humour though (still hilarious).