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[@julie-annbond4825]

I'm a 50 year old English woman & I have never ever heard of or seen a pot noodle sandwich.

[@Millennial_Manc]

Same here. She’s been watching too many silly videos in tik tock.

[@ballroomdiva6856]

Apparently they are a thing - I just Googled it. 🤦🏽‍♀️😆😆

[@gavwright3430]

I'm 47 and have had them on and off for 20 years

[@MrChristbait]

They don't exist,if you're lazy enough to have a pot noodle you can't be arsed to make a sandwich!

[@wayne7521]

Poor people....get out and live ...sheltered life much 😂😂😂😂😂

[@mickstaplehurst8471]

A 'Chip Butty' however is sublime, awesome and NEVER to be disrespected!

[@katherinewithak2865]

The best chip butty is when the chips are from the local chip shopb😊

[@Sue474]

I've never had one.

[@doubledutch4721]

True and not dry like he said when your chips are fried, not oven cooked, and lashings of proper butter on

[@JavaAndroid]

​@@doubledutch4721And vinegar

[@monicawarner4091]

​@@doubledutch4721 • Apart from not having proper chips, Americans don't butter the bread when they make a sandwich. 🤢

[@TerranSol]

As a Brit living in America, I can tell you honestly that British banter is on a whole nother level to American banter.

[@user-lm2vs1sl3v]

Banter doesn’t exist here. I’ve been hoping for 14 years that I could find some but no luck so far. I think the problem is that you need intelligence to have banter and there’s so little here.

[@johnlewis734]

I have live in England all my life and never never have I know anybody have a pot noodle sandwich never

[@nealgrimes4382]

Every time i have a Pot Noodle, i have it with buttered bread, and some goes on there.

[@NickNick-tp5cr]

Me either

[@imogenveneear1935]

I've lived in England all my life and NEVER have I met ANYONE who likes pot noodles!

[@Drew-Dastardly]

@@imogenveneear1935 Bombay Bad Boy is excellent. Most normal people enjoy a pot noodle even the traditional mild ones. Psycho anti-capitalist vegans hate them for some reason even though they are vegan.

[@Drew-Dastardly]

You have clearly only lived in England for a very small part of your life.

[@johnbuyers8095]

As far as the banter, if you are treated politely, you haven’t fit into the group yet. As soon as you are insulted, you are in with the crowd. That’s just the way we work. The bigger the insult, the more we love you.

[@karenrose4739]

So true 😂

[@XXXX-uy7oh]

As long as some smingy Amcn doesn't get all "offended' at the first criticism.. 🙏🏻💜🇬🇧💜

[@jeanbicknell7887]

No, a chip butty is absolutely delicious comfort food; soft white bread, loads of butter and thick cut chips that are fluffy on the inside and a bit crispy on the outside. A sprinkling of salt and throw on the malt vinegar. The hot chips melt the butter and it's definitely not dry. Food just doesn't get any better than this. My dad, bless him, used to put Christmas pudding between two slices of bread and butter on Boxing Day. Each to their own I guess.

[@blackbob3358]

Vinegar on a proper butterered sarny. I really must protest, ms Bicknell. I'll not hear of it !

[@charlottehardy822]

Yes, vinegar optional but otherwise yes. Christmas pudding or pot noodle sandwiches sound wrong to me though, each to their own as you say.

[@Amberle73]

Amazing timing actually as I've just had one for dinner 😂

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

A slice of hot toast between two pieces of soft white bread is remarkably tasty - great combination of textures too.

[@wayne7521]

I used to make corned beef and kit kat sandwiches pal.... owt to make em interesting ....mostly tasted damn fine... My Dad was a glutton for beef dripping on bread.

[@kristena9285]

In 1974, I was 10, arriving for the first time in Newcastle from Norway (on a steamship - TS Leda). My mum on entering the gangway was greeted by an uniformed elderly gentleman with a white moustache and a cap with "South Shields Port Authority" sign on it. He offered my mum his arm and said "watch yer' step thare luvv'...".. My mother fell in love with the English from that moment 🙂

[@lewilewis3944]

He was being posh, on Tyneside it's normally 'pet' or 'hinny'.

[@leontubrok]

And she married him

[@blackbob3358]

Heart warming story, Kristena. Them there "first impressions" can go a long way.

[@kristena9285]

@@blackbob3358 Indeed 🙂

[@catgladwell5684]

I always wanted to go on that ferry. Never did though.

[@stephendisraeli1143]

British politeness is to some extent motivated by conflict avoidance, and I think what she has noticed is people being particularly polite to people they DO hate, to keep the encounter civilised.

[@XXXX-uy7oh]

& you know - we're polite in general 🙏🏻🇬🇧

[@TerranSol]

As a Brit living on America I can tell you honestly that the Brits ability to form a queue is a psychic phenomenon. America's queueing is not terrible but it is haphazard.

[@Neofolis]

I'm a UK citizen and when I started my current job, the other employees were Indian, Pakistani, Kazakstani, Polish, Roumanian, etc. They didn't bring in cake on their birthdays. I soon put them straight.

[@tinaunderhill5412]

That’s the most British comment ever 😂😂

[@XXXX-uy7oh]

Very important!🙏🏻🇬🇧

[@XXXX-uy7oh]

​@@tinaunderhill5412 We'll see..🙏🏻🇬🇧

[@davidstewart9701]

We put butter (proper butter) on our bread so it is not dry

[@joyelmes7814]

The butter is to ‘waterproof’ the bread so that wet fillings ie tomatoes or coleslaw, does not soak into the bread and make it soggy.

[@seldom_bucket]

​@@joyelmes7814😅i don't think you need to worry about peanut butter making your bread soggy. If anything it's needed so the bread doesn't dry out too much.

[@joyelmes7814]

@@seldom_bucket do you live on peanut butter sandwiches. Be brave, try other fillings.

[@seldom_bucket]

@@joyelmes7814 huh? What are you on about?

[@joyelmes7814]

@@seldom_bucket same reaction as I had about your answer 😂

[@vickytaylor9155]

Morris dancing is British tradition, that is more than 600 years old. Where I live they dance on May Day(1st Monday in May) in our local city and some towns and villages in the county.

[@OspreyChick]

English tradition. We don’t have Morris dancers in Wales and I’m guessing Northern Ireland and Scotland don’t either. English is not a synonymous for British.

[@julianbarber4708]

Always reminds me of The Wicker Man.

[@NickNick-tp5cr]

We have maypole dancing in North Wales...its kind of similar.

[@OspreyChick]

@@NickNick-tp5cr Really, I thought that was English, too. Never seen it in the south.

[@inkayork3331]

@@OspreyChick There are Morris dancers in both Wales and Scotland.

[@IainEPaterson]

The reason you were thinking all these sandwiches would be dry is because the USA doesn't butter the bread for your sandwiches. Every other country that makes sandwiches with two slices of bread butters them as part on the process. I know this from other videos where US video makers have thought the British way was odd, only to be shouted down in the comments by people from all around the world saying they all butter the bread. It might be because your bread has 6 x the sugar of other countries bread but believe it or not making them the US way is the unusual (probably unique) way.

[@billyhills9933]

Chip butties also tend to be more thickly buttered than a usual sandwich.

[@catgladwell5684]

And it's proper British chips, not the tasteless cardboard sticks that are French fries. Imagine French fries on unbuttered overly sweet American bread - it would be disgusting.

[@wessexdruid7598]

@@billyhills9933 Hence the name 'buttie'.

[@LarissaFay]

Yeap Butter is a key component and vinegar (if you like it). I get the stodge within stodge argument, but when you live in a cold, wet, sideways rain, cloudy and windswept country... you will eventually understand the need for grabbing chips from a local chippy and making a chip butty. 🤷‍♀️ It needs to be made well in the right circumstances for people to understand that particular craving. People put fries in their burgers, it's not much different from that. 😂

[@rjart4]

Americans put peanut butter on bread with out "butter" who does it spread without tearing the bread?

[@whitecompany18]

My local biker bar has morris dancers turn up on a sunny day and after a few drinks everybody is clapping along and dancing and having a jolly old time👍🇬🇧

[@vickywilliams8320]

Oh I run a mile. They just won't stop.😂

[@KernowWarrior]

There's a difference between being overly and pointedly polite (They hate you) and being nice (They haven't made up their mind yet). For example a couple weeks back I met a friend of a friend for the first time, we were out having a few drinks and the conversation was nice, friendly, he seemed like a nice chatty guy, didn't really get to talk to him too much as he was catching up with our mutual friend. The first thing he did when we met again the next day was to take the piss out of my trousers, so I told him his beard looked like a 70's porn stars minge. A friendship was made.

[@LarissaFay]

😂 this is a great example.

[@redbeard8913]

There's nothing like our style of banter!

[@cmcculloch1]

facts!

[@TayWoode]

Yep in Britain true friends laugh at each other face to face but speak highly about the other person when they’re not there

[@user-co4ec3vz7j]

not dry as we put butter on our bread for every time

[@XXXX-uy7oh]

Exactly. The term "chip butty" - would be self explanatory you'd think.. Never underestimate how completely obtuse the average U S person is. (& SO earnest - my gosh..)

[@TheIconsofsin]

I'm from the UK and when i greet my friends at the pub it's most always with a "alright dickheads"

[@TheLoneHaranger]

Or, "Oi, you w@nker, your shout!" Or, "Oi!, knobhead, here's your pint!" Or, "Lift yer feet, ya bellend." Gives me a warm-fuzzy every time. 😄

[@mickstaplehurst8471]

NOBODY who is SANE has ever had a Pot Noodle sandwich!

[@alex_the_balding_fat_man]

Goodbye is generally just "see yer", or "tarah" for many of us.

[@hughtube5154]

It's not just forming a line (queue) that makes the UK (and Japan) stand out. It's when the line's already formed, Brits (and Japanese) will fall in line at the rear. In Europe and the parts of Asia I've been to they'll start filling in from the sides, cutting in several places by not respecting the people already waiting.

[@rosebun6270]

Not everyone slaps their knees, to leave a place. Depends which part of the country you are in. Again not everyone does long goodbyes.

[@monicawarner4091]

I'm in my mid-70s, have lived in England all my life, but have very rarely seen anyone slap their thigh before announcing their departure. I've never even heard of a Pot Noodle sandwich, but it can't be any more "weird" than spaghetti on toast...the thought of which also makes me cringe...but each to their own. The most telling part about British people's ability to queue is that they automatically form one if there is no existing one. They also have the abilty to form "non-queue" queues in crowded bars or doctors waiting rooms, where they will take a look around and make a mental note of who is before them to be served or seen, and more importantly, who came in after them. Bar staff are total masters of this art! I think Alanna sees the way people behave where she lives, but doesn't realise that customs are different in different parts of the UK. No-one even looks at each other on public transport in London, but go north as far as Manchester and beyond, and a stranger will be greeted by smiles and "hellos" from fellow passengers. People really are more friendly up north!

[@29jug11]

When in Rome….comes to mind here…. That young lady is a temporary guest in my country…. Wouldn’t it be a great pity if we were all the same love?..I spent a week in Hollywood, I’ve never had strawberries and pineapple on my Bacon and egg breakfast before…. "Have a nice day " 😂

[@michaelprobert4014]

Yes, she would agree. She loves the differences though she is allowed to find things different and even, heaven forfend, things she doesn't like.

[@user-np2dp8ck4j]

That’s what she’s saying. She’s allowed to not like everything while she’s staying in my country.

[@garygalt4146]

Good chance she will never leave. She loves it here.

[@XXXX-uy7oh]

I was dragged to LA by my Publisher not too long back 🫣💜 (& it was The Worst) My gosh - those ppl! (In & around sort of "mid level" Hollywood..🙄😌 What a Nightmare! (I almost ran for the airport several times during the first few days) It was just.. awful.. (ugh!) Sharks mostly Everybody & Anybody on the make😶💜 (Total Fantasists mainly🤥💜 you tend to find) (Not quite M Markle level of Fantasist obvs) but getting there.. & most were nowhere near as successful as they pretended OR would like to be (that was v clear for lot of the trip) Never again though.. my gosh. (It's not like my Publishers don't take a decent percentage anyway - let them get on with it) & the way they talk - just no! (Terrible Grammar - clearly most of them had never hv read a book in their lives) I also find the term "Brits" - to be utterly ridiculous . We are English or Scottish or Irish or Welsh! (It's not that hard to work out which - surely🤭💜) 🙏🏻💜🇬🇧💜

[@XXXX-uy7oh]

​@@user-np2dp8ck4j She loves it🎉💜 She'll turn into one of those Canadians who'll never leave🤭💜 (Remember; they don't sound much different when they talk) & they aren't hugely different to U S types when you first meet them - but! Canada🇨🇦💜 is a Commonwealth Country🌏💜 (& they have a bit more going on upstairs💜💜) + they understand the importance of the Commonwealth🌏💜 + of Tradition/Duty/Honour (re yr Country & all that sort of thing (Canadians are so much better💜💜 than yr average LA type or any West Coast/none New Yorker etc etc (many Manhattan types are much less annoying than yr Average Amcn types you tend to find - although best not to expect too much obvs🤔💜 & it is true that you cannot go anywhere in the UK really - without tripping over the occasional Canadian & Family🙏🏻💜🇬🇧💜

[@primalengland]

Yes, I call everyone love or sweetheart, even my bloke mates, and we’re all proper ‘blokes.’

[@85parrot]

I love a big bloke being called sweetheart. Or darlin. It's just great.

[@primalengland]

Been watching Alanna’s channel for years. She’s come a long way. Always worth a watch.

[@homoerectus6953]

She aboutly is and same, been watching her for a long time. Now we need to watch someone else watching Connor, watching Alanna react.....may be an Ozzie, so we have the full set.....lol

[@primalengland]

@@homoerectus6953 My mind just melted. That was straight out of ‘The Matrix.’

[@Jeni10]

This definition applies to Australia as well: “Why is it called a kitty jar? In Middle English, a kitte was a wooden tub (probably < Dutch). This gave rise to Modern English kit, meaning a collection of objects intended for a particular purpose, or the container to hold such a kit. It is conjectured that kitty, in the sense of a collection of money for a particular purpose, is derived from kit.” I’ve noticed that Americans don’t usually understand Etymology and in recent years, I have come to realise why. It’s all the fault of Noah Webster and his made up version of English (simplified for Americans) : he has a LOT of explaining to do!

[@lornabenson]

This comment should be pinned at the top.

[@XXXX-uy7oh]

What do you mean "Middle English?" & FYI - the Dutch Empire was Nothing to do With English ppl The Dutch Empire also gave S Africa the Horrific Apartheid Regime" - right up until 1992..🙄😌 🙏🏻💜🇬🇧💜

[@XXXX-uy7oh]

No dear. You read that on Google & like most things on Google / ant of those Californian Apps - that's completely incorrect. You should learn that - picking up things from Google means you'll embarass yourself often🙄🤭🙏🏻🇬🇧

[@XXXX-uy7oh]

​@@lornabenson No. She literally copied thar from Google (& it's massively incorrect) - like most things on Google/Any Californian Apps Sorry 🙏🏻🇬🇧

[@Jeni10]

@@XXXX-uy7oh I looked up the etymology and that’s a quote from my search results. Nothing to do with the Netherlands, the country, just the etymology.

[@florrie2303]

We British invented the Sandwich thus we are entitled to literally put any food stuff between 2 slices of bread and eat it. When I was a child I remember having "sugar butties", which was bread and butter with white granulated sugar spread over it! It was delicious...well I thought so back then...now I'm not so sure!?!

[@jasoncallow860]

We didn't the sandwich, we invented a sandwich and gave it a name. People have been putting stuff between bread since it was invented.

[@billyhills9933]

Sugar sandwiches... and syrup sandwiches which was golden syrup as a filling. And we complain about American bread being too sugary.

[@Drew-Dastardly]

Yes. White bread and margarine (Stork) with sugar. Absolute heaven for a poor hungry working class child as I was in the 1970's. We also had POBS which was a "breakfast cereal" of Pieces Of Bread and Sugar with milk. When my dad had a job we had Weetabix.

[@florrie2303]

@@Drew-Dastardly same here, poor working class in the ‘70’s.

[@dominicmoloney2621]

This response is possibly the first time I have seen the word "literally" used correctly on social media, we are indeed entitled to put any food stuff between 2 slices of bread...(literally)!

[@fayesouthall6604]

It’s more a collection than a kitty, a kitty is used for communal things like tea, coffee and milk

[@nigelanscombe8658]

Another term for a collection of money is “a whip round” or just “a whip”.

[@davethatcher4954]

Whip round!

[@natmanprime4295]

im a brit and i agree with connor. eat the pot noodle out of the damn POT

[@fayesouthall6604]

Damn right

[@conallmclaughlin4545]

On bread, wee bit of cheese... Can't beat it

[@johnturner7569]

Can't abide snot poodles.. with or without bread.

[@natmanprime4295]

@@johnturner7569 piri piri, bombay bad boy and the other curry one are delicious. beef and tomato one is an abomination. it cannot be eaten

[@lby1961]

Where I live in the North West of the UK both men and women call everybody love.

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

or if not love, then pet...

[@Drew-Dastardly]

@@jamesdignanmusic2765 "pet" is more of a Geordie thing which is North East.

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

@@Drew-Dastardly euh - you're right. It was north-east I meant.

[@davidc3850]

It's love or duck round our way.

[@Rachel_M_]

Do you know the story of Boaty McBoatface? Legend

[@faithpearlgenied-a5517]

I'm so disappointed they chickened out of using it for what it was intended for 😬 it would have been great.

[@weedle30]

@@faithpearlgenied-a5517I think one of the underwater boats has been named as Boaty McBoatface - known as Boaty for short 😉😃

[@fayesouthall6604]

@@weedle30that’s right !

[@NickNick-tp5cr]

A pub in Wrexham is called pubby mcpubface.

[@Rachel_M_]

@@NickNick-tp5cr 😂 awesomely... I'm not that far from Wrecsam by train, might take a day out now spring is in the air

[@AngelDove]

"Think it's normal" with all due respect, it is normal in the british culture. Every culture has their normal things, it's not normal if you live in another country with other culture behaviors and do your stuff there, sure. If youre in UK and doing it... it is normal, you're the 'weird' one if you're a citizen of another country staying in UK 😂

[@Ayns.L14A]

NO CONNOR, CHIPS are cooked in beef dripping ( beef fat ), the bread/bread roll is smothered in Salted,Creamy English butter, then you add your ketchup, brown sauce, mayo, malt vinegar ,gravy, curry sauce whatever you choose........a proper chip butty..........

[@AD270479]

Think it might be worth pointing out to him, this isn't what most Brits do... The beef dripping thing. Normal cooking oil is probs what about 99% of us do.

[@blackbob3358]

The first half of your statement was spot on, but then you got incredibly silly, Ayns !

[@blackbob3358]

@@AD270479 Much to my dismay, our kid. They do'nt taste nowhere near as good.

[@Ayns.L14A]

@@blackbob3358 different people like differing things on their butties, sometimes on sliced bread i'll have ketchup, however, depending on my mood, if i get a chip butty from the chip shop, it may have curry sauce or gravy on it, but both will have batter(scraps)

[@ed_ward_1430]

@@AD270479 I can remember when fish and chips cooked in beef dripping was the norm - there was an outcry when chippies started using vegetable oil, although fish-and-chip shop staff said it was a better option, as the beef dripping odour and grease used to get into their hair and clothes.. Several chippies still use beef dripping, especially in the North of England.

[@alex_the_balding_fat_man]

As a Brit I'm saying a Pot Noodle sandwich should be illegal. 20 years prison minimum.

[@phillipescott9764]

5:18 The oddest pet name that I know if regular use is ‘My lover’ - used to address friends, family and strangers in Cornwall and parts of Devon. In the same region they also use (as an alternative) ‘my handsome’.

[@imogenveneear1935]

Yeah we don't pronounce the y in my right either! Proper job.

[@rayzalaf8988]

I'm English and I've never heard of a Pot Noodle Butty, I wouldn't entertain it, it sound disgusting even if I borrowed an American's taste buds.

[@fayesouthall6604]

It’s madness

[@hypsyzygy506]

Soft white bread, buttered, with a tasty filling. What's not to like?

[@admusik99]

"Pot Noodle Sandwich" Connor: STOP ✋️ 🛑 😂

[@pem...]

Theres nothing dry about a chip butty slathered in butter! Thin fries are no good either, you need proper chips in it... innit!

[@justcode2822]

When I lived in Plymouth and the lady behind the shop counter said 'Alright my lover' was a bit weird because I'd never heard it before

[@marieparker3822]

That happens in Cornwall.

[@Aloh-od3ef]

In Japan Burger King sells a burger called the fake burger. It’s a chip butty in a bun, with a slice of pickle.

[@Spiklething]

Slice of pickle? You mean gherkin

[@Orchardman53]

In Derbyshire UK the expression "Mi'Duck" is still common.

[@MrBulky992]

Don't forget that, by default, in the UK, the bread in a sandwich is, by default, buttered on the inner side so our sandwiches are rarely dry and they will very often have some kind of sauce or relish in there too e.g. mayonnaise or, with tinned salmon, it would be vinegar, or branston pickle. A chip butty will have chips cooked in dripping or oil so they will not taste dry either. I bought a bacon butty at the railway station a couple of months ago: two slices of ordinary white supermarket bread with bacon between and which turned out to have no butter. I found that very dry.

[@joyelmes7814]

The butter grips the filling and it does not slide out. It is awful when sandwiches have no butter. Some insist butter is bad for you, but I prefer something that tastes natural than those tubs of axle grease.

[@MrBulky992]

​@@joyelmes7814 As soon as it begun to be declared that butter was healthier than artificial spreads and full-fat milk and yoghurt was no longer frowned upon, I switched back.

[@Denathorn]

The thing with queuing is that I think us Brits respect "The line", more then others... Like if you jump in, be prepared for some major whinge, we deem it totally disrespectful... Like in the realms of dropping an eggy fart when everyone is tucking into their Christmas dinner. It's one of them, and when it goes the other way, as an example, your at the super market and have a trolley full, but the person behind you has a basket with half a dozens items in, you let them in, and the appreciation of that simple act is real, they are all thank yous and what not. Same when in the pub at the bar, your standing there waiting your turn, and you know your next, and the person next to you jumps in forcing his order on the staff... It's like "Here, there is a queue you know", but if the person next to you knows it's your turn next, and the bar staff look at him for his order, it's manners for them to direct the bar staff's attention to you... Again, you appreciate that act, and thank them.

[@lailachopperchops9290]

(in the English Midlands)Bab is used as a friendly form of address. , Alright bab x

[@jeanbicknell7887]

'Duck' too and I believe 'hen' in Scotland.

[@fayesouthall6604]

Butty or But is used in Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

[@ABee-jb9vz]

West Midlands. The East Midlands is Duck

[@DenisePeel]

When my to be husband met my mother (from Birmingham, but not living there ) she said 'would you like a cup of tea, Bab? to me and he turned yo ne and said 'I thought your name is Denise! He was from the North East, we weren't in Birmingham, so he wasn't used to hearing the term Bab !!

[@jeanbicknell7887]

@@ABee-jb9vz I lived in Birmingham and we used Duck

[@TheLoneHaranger]

The Chip Butty doesn't need explanation. It is what it is. Either you get or you don''t. Sun's out, shirt off. It isn't Florida. Or Texas. Take advantage of Ol' Sol when you can! There's a quaint adage about queuing. "Even by himself, an Englishman will form an orderly queue of one."

[@MaxKingsley72]

I agree pal, she’s overthinking it haha

[@JJ-of1ir]

ALL our sandwiches over here start with bread AND BUTTER. Then we worry about what goes in the middle of it.

[@Scaleyback317]

Once they stop insulting you - watch your back! The best sign of probably having a fun day at work is when the boss walks in and on his way to the tea pot says "Morning wankers", When the boss hears the replies of, "Bollocks" or "Shove it" he/she knows they're in the right frame of mind to see the morning's work as fun to be had also and by the end of the day way more will have been acheived than if she/he'd walked in silently and got no rebuke in return. Guarantee if that person had just walked in and sullenly gone, wordlessly, to their office, someone in that room would quip "Shit the bed?" or "Cat pissed on their slippers?" or "Day 28?" or something really dark and nasty - to which everyone in the room would laugh. throw in their own crude suggestion and get on with the work in hand but perhaps not quite so enthusiastically thinking they may have to be walking on ice for the rest of the day. Believe me - banter can be dark and nasty if it's your turn to have the spotlight on your arse but most of the time it's as funny as hell and in the right team can make the day so much happier all round. Especially as your know when they have finally finished lacerating you and pouring the salt into the wound, to the depths your ego can just about withstand, the spotlight will shift onto the next target and it's open season on them with you contributing. Some places of work are not for shrinking violets and having always worked in that sort of environment it can make a bloody miserable day, even the days when fear is palpable and threat is in the air a fun time.

[@celine4evauk]

Ok, so i've never heard of anyone having a pot noodle sandwich! You can't beat a chip butty, or a decent bacon sandwich. Names, well i only usually say "my love" to people - and not that often. But i do get called a lot of things (usually nice lol) - treacle, pumpkin, buttercup, to name a few others not mentioned in the video. Colin the Caterpillar cake is revolting. The chocolate is disgusting - much nicer cakes out there! Saying goodbye to people sometimes is drawn out, My favourite is to shout to colleagues (once they're a bit far away after saying bye etc) "missing you already" LOL

[@blackbob3358]

Me neither, Celine. Hard to fathom, but i used to know a kid who made "custard powder" sandwiches. Still scratching mi head, 50 years later.

[@celine4evauk]

@@blackbob3358 ewww! lol I always remember my Dad saying he used to have sugar sandwiches when he was a kid. That was a generational thing definitely lol

[@deankelz29]

crisp or chip shop chips in a fresh crusty roll with a good amount of nice buttery butter yummmm

[@Danny_kay]

Its crazy to think Morris Dancing is older than America it doesn't need to be America it can be any country but the fact its older than a country is so crazy. My family was Morris Dancers but as people get old and the world moves forward its kind of faded away although is still a thing. And when it comes to people taking there tops off its like come on now its non stop pissing down so the first opportunity pretty much most people basically strips down bollock naked its the perfect excuse to get shit faced after all its drinking weather it just puts you in the mood. I see a lot of these kind of videos on the "weird" things we do but that's simply based on where your staying/living as someone abroad in the UK so what might people do/say in the south doesn't happen in the North i'm North and the best thing in England 😜😜

[@Sue474]

I've lived in England for all my 70 years and I've never had a chip butty or a Colin the Caterpillar cake in my life.

[@Wang_Monkey]

It's known as "Sun's out, Gun's Out!" (Pretending our arms are guns... pretty sure we heard you guys calling your arms guns and we've jokingly adopted it!)

[@leohickey4953]

The terms of affection thing is pretty regional, especially in terms of vocabulary, but I was taken aback the first time I boarded a bus in Sheffield to find myself addressed as "love" by the (male) driver. It was a few weeks before I figured out it's a non-gender-specific, friendly greeting in that part of the country, used by all to all.

[@TheDizzydiana]

and cocka or cocker me old cocker.!

[@Drew-Dastardly]

No. I have never heard a same sex person refer to someone as "love" unless they were blatantly out homosexual, in which case it is just banter and nothing to be insulted about. Up Norf pretty much all men and women use the term "love" for a friendly term of respect for the opposite sex. It's great but dying out due to PC.

[@jackethangs5570]

See also 'flower' - bit of a South Yorkshire thing I think.

[@wessexdruid7598]

Go a little down into Notts and it's 'Duck' - or 'Meduck'.

[@stephendisraeli1143]

The birthday person gives instead of receiving because that's easier to organise, in an office context, and it comes to the same thing in the end because the birthday person keeps receiving for the rest of the year.

[@raycornford283]

The thing about banter that confuses some people is that, at its best, it's done with a completely straight face.

[@misschieflolz1301]

2:38 - My man will have his mind blown when he hears about the Toast sandwich.

[@DAC767]

Pot Noodle sandwiches are amazing. And being over polite to someone you are already acquainted is usually a sign of contempt,, polite to strangers is done with a warmer manner.

[@Dan-B]

I think the politeness equalling people not liking you is more with people that you know on a personal basis. Politeness is a preset behaviour for most Brits, so if someone you know well enough to be more personable with is just being polite, they could be hiding how they really feel about you by just resorting to the preset. It isn’t a dead cert that politeness means that someone doesn’t like you, but the reverse of people making fun of you casually meaning that they like you/feel comfortable around you is definitely true 😛

[@lemdixon01]

In Cornwall the pet name is ''my lover''. So ''hello my lover''.

[@fayesouthall6604]

My Somerset relatives call me ‘my lover’

[@wessexdruid7598]

And Devon.

[@lemdixon01]

@@fayesouthall6604 yes so The West Country

[@thomasdalby8420]

British people tend not to insult people they don't care for because it avoids conflict so politeness is the way forward. If they feel comfortable enough to insult you it means they feel relaxed in your company. When a Brit becomes angry it usually results in shouting and violence....but you have to push for that to happen.

[@rayzalaf8988]

Slap the knees is a great observation, it never entered my shrivelled swede until this.🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍

[@robcrossgrove7927]

I don't know anyone who slaps their knees or thighs when they're about to get up. I think it might be an older generation thing and it's dying out now.

[@rayzalaf8988]

@@robcrossgrove7927 You might right or you might be a Southerner. 😂

[@rayg4360]

No knee (thigh?) slapping down our way

[@user-pu8uh4mw8z]

British chips are not fries they are also not dry. They are not matchsticks, like fries, but thick, crispy outside fluffy inside. Bread is buttered which melts with the heat of the chips, absolutely delicious. Not as good as a bacon butty but up there with it.

[@Sandysand701]

It's the butter on the bread in a chip butty that makes it taste nice, supposedly UK butter tastes better than US, because UK cows are grass fed, as opposed to grain. I did here of college/university students on a budget would put a toasted slice of bread inside a sandwich. Yep a pot noodle sandwich is a lot of carbs, It's the first I've heard of doing that.

[@sushi513]

our banter can get quite personal, but I think she is overthinking the nice thing a little bit. We're usually a pretty polite people when it comes to strangers, hence the pet names, or if we don't know someone well enough to be bantering like we would with a best friend. Are there people that are fake nice to people they don't like? Yea sure, but that could probably be said for some Americans too.

[@williamvitkovitch8591]

Aye up duckie! Nottingham greeting

[@seanmc1351]

connor, americans have made this online, and love it, these are struggle meals, you have to think, students, home from the pub, want something quick and easy

[@djs98blue]

Go to Italy. They often don’t queue.

[@tightropewalkergirl6485]

It’s a free for all in Germany too

[@WithTwoFlakes]

I've seen a full-on fight break out in a French ski resort. Some teenager on a snow board tried to jump the queue. Idiot picked the biggest bloke in the queue to push in front of. He lamped the kid without a moments hesitation. Laughter abounded as we all shuffled forward through the blood stained snow...

[@lukespooky]

most med countries don't

[@djs98blue]

@@lukespookyexactly so worth telling some people this though not so much Americans or say Japanese

[@matshjalmarsson3008]

What kind of chocked me the first time I came to the UK was men sitting in sun bathing chairs at the beach, fully dressed, and I mean wearing suits

[@billyhills9933]

I used to put ham, cheese, tomato, sweetcorn relish and pineapple in a sandwich. I called a Hawaiian Pizza sandwich.

[@vtbn53]

You put butter on the bread for crying out loud, that stops it being to dry, but you can put all sorts of condiments on it to suit your personal taste, but butter is NOT optional.

[@TwoBassed]

Office culture has been destroyed by the DEI regulations, can’t say anything without the risk of ‘offending’ someone these days with a high risk of losing your job over it!

[@beccasalt8960]

Being polite doesn't mean we don't like you - it *could* still be true but, most of the time, it just means that you aren't yet comfortable with the person and you feel the need to 'stand on ceremony '

[@emmahowells8334]

I love being called love or sweetheart etc, it's welcoming and makes you feel like you belong in a way.

[@monicawarner4091]

That's exactly what it's supposed to do. I really don't understand why someone being nice to someone else is offensive.

[@Sandysand701]

Usually you can understand the difference between folk using pet names in a condescending way or genuine warmness, It's common sense, the tone of their voice or the volume/loudness will give you the message. Yes you are correct, she is over analyzing/complicating it a bit, usally if strangers are being very polite they have no beef with you, they are just being professional, but if a close friend or workmate is being over polite, It means instead of the usual friendship banter, they have taken a step back and giving out a cryptic message to say there is a problem.

[@tlohecnal]

You're hundred percent correct she is overthinking the banter thing #Bizarre

[@teresadixon3342]

You haven't lived until you have had a chip butty (sandwich ) with salt and vinegar and either daddies sauce or tomato ketchup. I come from Birmingham ( in the UK ) and we call everyone " bab " , even when the person is older than us

[@MrPagan777]

Chip Butty: lots of butter on the bread. It's a massive carbuncle, but it does the job.

[@martinwilliams5154]

Morris dancing, you cant beat it for shear fun. Just back from Harmonie festival in Germany, dancing in front of 1000 people, they loved it.

[@rjart4]

The goodbye thing is totally accurate

[@andrewmorton9327]

In Scotland instead of sweetheart, etc. we say 'Hen' as in 'What can I get you hen?'

[@joannacurran8475]

As a Brit never heard of a caterpillar cake

[@michaelprobert4014]

Oh dear!! Where have you been?

[@shelleyphilcox4743]

Mark's and Spencer make a kids birthday cake that is a cartoon style Caterpillar...and then Aldi copied it and called it Cuthbert. M&S launched a trademark case against Aldi, and Aldi hit back with a 'free Cuthbert' campaign and using M&S catchphrase 'this isnt just any food, its M&S food's with 'this isnt just any court case, this is....free cuthbert'. Aldi and M&S came to an arrangement and Aldi is selling Cuthbert cakes again....and so are Sainsbury and Morrisons with Wiggles and Morris. Aldi did a spoof advert with all the Caterpillars at a party...and then Colin arrives and theres a spat. The strap line is then 'Like M&S...only cheaper'. Colin costs £9.50 and Cuthbert is £5.50. Oh...I forgot, apparantly Asda does Clyde the Caterpillar!

[@philipbarnes4176]

Also a Brit, have heard of them but never had one. No idea who Colin is beyond a cake

[@imogenveneear1935]

Brit here, 1/ never heard of Colin the caterpillar, 3/ that's a way of talking, maid! Usually from different areas and because you don't know peoples names, 4/ Morris dancing brilliantly British! Chases off evil spirits, 5/ yeah some people really shouldn't! 6/ Yup, designed for herding children and difficult family members, Americans and social media people would name it a call to action 7/ We are very polite people, but only your mates are allowed to insult you! It stops a lot of fighting. Lol Brits rarely hate Canadians 8/ that's weird in my part of Britain! Not the kitty, the treats! 9/ yeah, that's a teenage girl thing! My generation go for bye, love you or see you later!

[@halcroj]

Hi Connor - I watch loads of your videos - but I also watch loads of Alana's (Adventures and Naps). I find her hilarious. You're right, she exaggerates a bit, but she also shines out a bit of truth in that exaggeration. You watch some really interesting stuff. I try never to miss it.

[@Lily-Bravo]

In my town about 30 years ago there was a dance group who did Appalachian Clog dancing and they won a competition in the Appalachians!

[@TwoBassed]

We were raised to have good manners and be polite, nothing ‘weird’ about that! What I find weird is people finding politeness weird!

[@tenniskinsella7768]

Exactly shorts showing how people behave in buses in america appalling me. I know eventually someone is good but that's not the point. Are there not ramps on the buses for wheelchairs and space for wheelchair

[@gavingiant6900]

Butty refers to butterd sandwich, so chip butty... Red sauce, vinegar etc is added to taste.

[@alananderson5731]

Having a drink in a pub last week and the young lady behind the bar called me young young man,I felt offended I'm 78

[@markthomas2577]

I've followed Alanna for years ..... she's a great personality and makes really interesting content .......

[@robbie_]

I've never heard of Colin and I've never heard of Pot Noodle sandwhiches either. I like a baken bean and cheese sandwich every now and then though.

[@BigScubes]

Never heard of Colin the caterpillar? Have you ever ventured outside before

[@lby1961]

I have heard of Colin and bought them when my kids were young but the pot noodle butty sounds vile.

[@CovBloke1310]

The Adventures and Naps channel is one of the best on KZbin. Great choice mate. Always look forward to your selections! Greetings from Coventry U.K.

[@TheNorfolkman]

Morris dancing is said to have originated from Moorish dancing and probably came to England at the time of the crusades.

[@kristophergoordman7225]

I’ve heard of it before, and I always thought that’s what they were calling it. Moorish dancing!

[@captchaos6870]

Chip butty. Lots of butter, salt, HP sauce. Nice.

[@LowGrav1ty]

This girl needs to chill, bless her 😂 😂

[@TSM-908]

Pet names can be very regional across the U.K. example love and pet are popular in Liverpool, darling or sweetheart is maybe London, in Scotland “hen” is also used. Suns out shirts of also done by women but they are most laying down in a public park say in London during their lunch hour, obviously the women have bikini tops on or sometimes just pretty bras that look like swimsuit tops. Banter - all politicians use the term “with the greatest respect”, really meaning the opposite. Very friendly to people who you don’t know well it’s really a safe way to start off the conversation, eventually you will know who likes you and who does not. Honestly women are more catty than men. A kitty is a pit of cash, normal in a card game, in poker it’s the ante up process. In U.K. offices there is a kitty for office tea, coffee and biscuits for the contributing members who use this tea, coffee or biscuits. However these days most offices have vending machines so kitty’s are slowly becoming redundant.

[@donmaddox8898]

We put butter or margarine on our bread so not dry

[@deirdrewalsh4177]

Only butter or it’s sacrilege.

[@joyelmes7814]

Never margarine.

[@pershorefoodbanktrusselltr3632]

Monster Munch sandwich, now your talking!

[@user-fp1ot9my8f]

Understand an American wrote this(?) Britain, like any country, values a range of virtues that contribute to its cultural identity and societal norms. Some commonly recognised virtues in British culture include: 1. Politeness: Britons often value courteous behaviour and politeness in social interactions. 2. Resilience: The ability to endure challenges with determination and strength is admired in British society. 3. Fairness: A sense of fairness and justice is important, both in personal relationships and in the legal system. 4. Humour: Britons often appreciate wit, sarcasm, and a good sense of humour. 5. Tolerance: Diversity and tolerance of different beliefs, cultures, and lifestyles are increasingly valued in modern Britain. 6. Empathy: Understanding and compassion towards others, especially those facing hardship, is considered virtuous. 7. Honesty: Being truthful and sincere in one's actions and communications is generally respected. 8. Courtesy: Showing respect and consideration for others, whether in speech, actions, or gestures, is seen as virtuous behaviour. These virtues may vary among individuals and communities within Britain, but they contribute to the overall fabric of British society. So when are you coming over again?😉

[@connorcandlish5610]

In the uk, there is rarely ever good weather, so when it is good, the shirts come off

[@TheDizzydiana]

I love Alana's vlogs. Our sandwiches are legendary, try a sandwich of Bombay Mix anything goes between bread after a night out.