Will my British girlfriend like the food from my US hometown?

Time for a food adventure from my home state of New Jersey where Heather discovers we do at least one thing astronomically better than in the UK!
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[@trishlehecka1199]

I love your girlfriend content. Now get that lady her own mic pack

[@evan]

I knoooooow! While editing this video it became painfully obvious I need another mic

[@colinofay7237]

Funny cause i thought he was a puff! Good video!

[@roberthindle5146]

​@@colinofay7237Well, 1974 just called.

[@hat9172]

@@roberthindle5146 🤣

[@melodiousramblings8470]

I enjoy all of your videos but this one ranks in the top 3 for me! So delightful to share your childhood with someone

[@user-tc6xg5ze2u]

Same here. Love it. Great content, very relatable with fast narrative and superb editing. Great job Evan 👏🏻

[@aye3678]

Agreed!

[@booknoser321]

The production quality on this video is tv show level. Feels like I just watched a Food Network segment

[@cassieoz1702]

Creamer is a chemical abomination. I find it fascinating how many Americans have never actually questioned their use of 'creamer' and its flavoured variants

[@RushfanUK]

I don't get why they don't just use cream if they want creamy coffee, odd.

[@paulthomas8262]

@@RushfanUK cream is not cheap.

[@cassieoz1702]

@RushfanUK cheaper ingredients and bigger profit leading to advertising push, I'm guessing. There's the dry/ powdered versions too, that were sold as 'convenience'

[@KevinAmatt]

What’s the point of adding seed oils into the creamer?

[@cassieoz1702]

@@KevinAmatt cheap, profitable.

[@mwflanagan1]

Always love when you include Heather in your videos, Evan. I just know you each gained at least 12 pounds on that trip. That was fun. Thanks. You’ve done a good job through the years of championing your home state.

[@evan]

I’ve been on a cut since April (down 12kg) and my trip to Jersey put a big damper on my progress haha

[@BBKing1977]

Ok, Heather deserves a greater presence in your vids! The comedic timing of her flopping beside you at the end was perfection!

[@jadecollins7693]

Really really enjoyed this video- the subject, the editing, the way you and heather interact. Theres something so sweet about someone showing their gf some of the best parts about the place where they grew up. 😊

[@helenroberts1107]

It’s good to see a British viewpoint on American food. Every time we went to Cornwall we stopped in Penzance where you could get an ice cream (not whippy) with Clotted cream on. Yummy

[@evan]

Cornwall makes sense! My main point was that 99x out of 100 from the places I’ve been in the south, north, and wales, if a place offers ice cream (soft serve) it’s mr whippy which is just no comparison to actual ice cream. I’ll have to trip out to Cornwall and Devon

[@letitiakearney2423]

@@evanthere are lots of Italian ice creams especially here in Northern Ireland and only ice cream vans serve that shit. 😂.

[@letitiakearney2423]

@@evanthere are real ice cream places in London just google them. Italian ice cream is sold in most places if you look. Plus ice cream according to FDA must contain 10% Milk fat and good ice cream must be from cows that aren’t treated with artificial growth hormones. Just saying but enjoyed you showing off your home to Heather.

[@lynettesherburne]

Oooh you must try clotted cream ice cream! 😁🍨

[@MatthewJBD]

Oxfordshire, Cotwalds too... ​@@evan

[@rjstrange]

Top notch production quality. I feel like I'm watching The Food Network.

[@williamdom3814]

But without real food.

[@pilsplease7561]

I like Heathers real honest opinions

[@evan]

I always appreciate how articulate she is especially when describing food! It’s a joy

[@pilsplease7561]

@@evan I wish that friends would actually describe how they feel about food when we try stuff instead of just saying whether they like it I cook a lot and want to know why someone likes something. It infuriates me honestly.

[@raymondporter2094]

Blasphemy from Heather preferring the American bacon to her "usual rashers". She might not be allowed back home... Mind you, she gets 10/10 for taking a decent mouthful of the various foods (eg the pizza) rather than a delicate nibble.

[@evan]

@@pilsplease7561I try to describe everything I like about food as much as I can to learn and remember things better

[@lzbrtstwbrtakaliz]

I don’t know how I came across this video, but I’m so glad I did. We clearly grew up near each other (I went to Gateway,) because these are all places I grew up going to that have a special place in my heart. By the end I was waiting for Dippy’s and you didn’t disappoint!

[@NZKiwi87]

I’ve never understood how creamer is just accepted as normal.

[@LiveFreeOrDieDH]

marketing!

[@nyanuwu4209]

Over time, people took 'creamer' to mean 'this specific thing' rather than 'whatever makes the coffee creamy' which can be that powdered stuff, cream, milk...

[@rextitan]

I read a bunch of comments about it but I still wasn’t ready to hear “99% of uk ice cream is the same, mr whippy.” That’s just misinformation.

[@philcoogan7369]

Quite 99% of UK ice cream is not mr whippy

[@Natz-d2c]

@@philcoogan7369 I'd struggle to buy Mr whippy here, there are no ice cream vans but ice cream shops with really nice ice cream. Yes I am in the UK.

[@jonnynexus]

"It looks like apple juice and it tastes like apple juice because it is apple juice." :)

[@EricMBlog]

I’m a bit confused by saying that frozen custard and soft serve ice cream are the same thing. Like, they are very similar, but to my knowledge they use somewhat different ingredients. At least in the Midwest. (I don’t think normal soft serve has eggs, while custard does).

[@IceMetalPunk]

You are correct.

[@carrie5490]

@@EricMBlog I was confused as well, custard in the uk and Australia is made with cream, milk, sugar, vanilla pod, and egg yolk. I was wondering if this was just a frozen custard, which sounds amazing, or if it was just another America way of saying ice cream.

[@adrianamo819]

The FDA regulates what you can call the products based on ingredients and nutrition facts. Legally, ice cream must contain a certain % fat content (and cream) to be labeled as such in the US. Gelato has a different % fat content, and custard has another (and egg yolks/eggs). This is why Dairy Queen is not ever referred to as ice cream, it’s soft serve. They’re not legally allowed to call it such.

[@pjschmid2251]

I was thinking the same thing. Soft serve ice cream is dairy queen. Frozen custard is Culver’s and they aren’t the same thing. To be considered frozen custard it has to contain 1.4% egg yolk solids by weight. Dairy queen would not qualify nor would most soft serve ice cream. Frozen custard is superior in my opinion.

[@triscuitbiscuit]

That is correct. NJ has both soft serve and frozen custard places. Definitely not the same thing.

[@kathymarshall220]

Loved this! I don’t know if Heather’s been in any of your videos before, but this is the first one I’ve seen her in and the two of you are so adorable together 😊 Now we need a video of Heather getting you to try obscure British foods (like golden syrup) to see how it compares

[@tomrogue13]

They've been dating for at least like 2 years

[@caeliachapin5317]

In some parts of the US where I've been, "creamer" is used as a generic term for any creamy thing you can put in coffee, including actual cream and the liquid plastic.

[@t.m.p8187]

Such a cute couple and so cute that they can expose each other to their cultures!

[@carrie5490]

If you go out of London, particularly into the south west there are a few great local ice cream shops. It may not be huge but it is there. Ultra creamy ice cream in Somerset, Devon and Cornwall for sure

[@carbongrip2108]

Hmmm... interesting. Evan, research this and report your findings :P

[@jasminebraid5891]

Devon and Cornwall especially well known for clotted cream ice cream (bonus points for a dollop of clotted cream on top too!)

[@carrie5490]

@@jasminebraid5891 yep, can’t get more creamy than clotted cream ice cream.

[@carrie5490]

@@carbongrip2108 yes, I’d love for him to try these and see if it is anything like the ice cream from home

[@FTZPLTC]

I'm a philistine - used to go to Cornwall all the time as a kid, but I *hated* the local ice cream. My child-brain thought it tasted like it had hair in it? Always wondeer if anyone else had that experience.

[@GPandzik]

Me: "Huh, he doesn't sound like he's from Jersey. Maybe he's a transplant?" Evan: "Woorter" Me: "Ah, there it is." 😂❤ Love the episode!

[@colinlambert882]

Scallion are green onions? That is still Stateside! Scallions are ….. spring onions our side of the Pond

[@cheyennemoore8380]

Yay! This is my favorite video of this year. Thank you!

[@haleywink1307]

As a long islander I’d like to say that maybe you’ve been spoiled bc all of your ice cream places serve frozen custard, but soft serve ice cream and frozen custard are definitely not interchangeable! Frozen custard is elite

[@raisedfromash]

Omg haha "I wont describe to you what it is until after you try it" with the Scrapple xD Knew what was coming with family from Philadelphia!

[@brandon91191]

Yeah…it is best that you try not to think about what Scrapple is made out of when you have it.

[@miriamrobarts]

Yes, she was brave to try it, esp. with that intro.

[@Ahzpayne]

@@brandon91191 I find it best to just not eat the shit that it's best I not think about. I'm not some savage on the verge of starvation like my ancestors. And they sacrificed so I can have better. I'll be damned if I will dishonor that collective effort by eating or thinking like one of them.

[@user-tc6xg5ze2u]

The wrap up though ! You two are verrrrry cute 😍 Thank you. One of my most favourite episodes so far !

[@vickywitton1008]

All British ice cream is not whippy! If you go anywhere in the UK you can get loads of different ice cream flavours! In fact we have something called ice cream farms, where the choice is immense

[@evan]

Yes but you must seek those out. The difference is these are the standard in most of my state and the US in general. Same could be said if I said the US isn’t walkable. You could say “yeah well what about New York???” That is not the standard.

[@aprillesley]

@@evan It is standard where I live in Lancashire. Around here you would really struggle to find Mr Whippy type ice cream. Even all the restaurants and pubs sell the local ice creams, because nobody would visit them if they didn't. I think there are many areas of the UK that are similar. Love your video though - very interesting to see your girlfriend trying your childhood foods.

[@neilmeadowcroft7569]

I would describe every tub of ice cream sold in supermarkets as proper ice cream, I only know whippy from certain ice cream vans.

[@geemo4284]

My Whippy is normally only found in ice cream vans, in the UK, or, occasionally, shops that sell general groceries and they might have a machine in the corner. Most ice cream shops, which you will find all along the coast and in towns and cities, will sell proper ice cream, and ice cream, in tubs, is available in all supermarkets, so I’m a bit baffled at your experience. Did you just got to ice cream vans, or something?

[@mocat1]

Being from Ontario, after always wondering about why this US Wawa chain, is named that, I finally googled it. I had no idea that there was another place called Wawa. I’ve only ever known about Wawa, Ontario. They have a giant Canada goose statue beside the Trans-Canada highway.

[@auntlynnie]

I was so happy when she compared scrapple to black pudding. I do feel like it’s pretty analogous. I live in the Catskills Mountains (NY), and we have scrapple in the supermarket.

[@StewedFishProductions]

TBH: I believe the closest English foodstuff to American 'Scrapple' would be 'haslet' _(especially "Grasmere Farm" 'Lincolnshire Haslet whole meat loaf')_ - Several other butchers sell haslet loaves on-line. You can also buy sliced haslet in Tesco, Morrisons and ASDA. Although no longer made with the pork offal etc. of traditional haslet, when sliced it does look similar to the scrapple they were eating. OR: Look up videos on YT of how to make 'home-made' Lincolnshire haslet. If you have never eaten it, give it a go, its great for a Ploughman's Lunch or a 'cold meat' selection. 👍👍👍 😋

[@LiveFreeOrDieDH]

As a North Jerseyan, everything this guy says is wrong! 😂 Looks like you two enjoyed yourselves. Cheers!

[@aknighty]

Now I like broccoli, but you could ask me to name one million pizza toppings and it wouldn’t even cross my mind. That was super interesting to me.

[@Mous3v2]

Frozen custard is actually different than soft serve. It has eggs in it.

[@BrianRandall-v8c]

And neither can be legally called ice cream.

[@Mous3v2]

@@BrianRandall-v8c Custard is SO much better.

[@katinthehat7655]

im pretty sure we also have frozen custard but its just a type of ice cream, you can make it without eggs though thats probably what you call ice cream:)

[@Mous3v2]

@@katinthehat7655 it's called frozen custard because you're actually making a custard it's not just ice cream. You need the eggs to do so.

[@lehoff]

I'm glad I live in the Mediterranean this food does not appeal 😂

[@zaphodbeeblebrox6627]

Well, it looks like Heather was spot on the money. This is what Wikipedia says: In the United Kingdom, taffy pieces are known as "chewy sweets", "chews" or "fruit chews" the term "taffy" is not widely used. Popular brands of chew include Chewits and Starburst. Actually the difference between Apple cider and apple juice is a small thing called fermentation & plenty of time. Also, I believe the best British cider is usually made with sour apples. That's why British cider is alcoholic

[@guyfaux3978]

"Taffy" IS used, but it's a slur word against the Welsh. Probably why it's not used to refer to candy.

[@daniellelevy8056]

I'm originally from Philly, and I have family in Ocean City that I grew up visiting so everything about this video was so nostalgic for me. I just spent the whole video salavating🤤 (btw johnson's popcorn ships and it is totally still good even if it's not still warm)

[@ethelmini]

The British military don't have a marketing department, so they had "Non Dairy Whitener" instead of Creamer in their rations. Brutal honesty wins wars.

[@VaughanCockell]

And the major brand name for it in the UK is probably CoffeMate.

[@ellenwatts4809]

Taffy in Wales is a name for a welshman, originally for dafydd(david)

[@frankhooper7871]

In the words of the poem: Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief.

[@63angel]

There's no comparison between a fresh tomatoes and a store bought tomatoes. Most tomatoes in grocery stores are actually "hot house" meaning grown in greenhouses. They don't get the sunlight and they can grow year around. The only ones that are fresh are the vine ripe tomatoes. Which the stores always charge more for them instead of other tomatoes. I love tomatoes, but I won't eat them on anything unless they are fresh tomatoes.

[@miriamrobarts]

Most grocery store tomatoes (out of necessity) are varieties developed to ship & store well -- unfortunately at the cost of flavor. They're likely to be picked prematurely for the same reasons. I live in a hot-summer Mediterranean climate, so tomatoes love it here. I'm guessing if someone lived in a colder zone, but had a backyard greenhouse that got warm enough (or grew indoor with grow lights), they could grow great tasting heirloom tomatoes, too.

[@rb9580]

@@miriamrobarts For better or worse, tomatoes have changed radically in UK over the last 20-30 years. They used to be a more seasonal product, grown in UK glass-houses and sold in different sizes and colours, but we have now converted (or been converted!) to the most common supermarket offering being plum or cherry tomatoes. These are now much more consistent than before and on the shelves all year round, but they are also very much sweeter, with a consequent loss of the background tomato flavour. At times it can be difficult to find the old standard tomatoes, which have become "salad" tomatoes and as for the larger "beefsteak" tomatoes, best of luck finding them in a UK supermarket these days!

[@marym.1567]

Most grocery stores in NJ sell NJ tomato’s during the season. People are serious about a tomato sandwich

[@miriamrobarts]

@@rb9580 That's sad. 'Beefsteak' tomatoes are great for burgers and sandwiches. I hope you can find a good place to get them, & good luck if you try growing some yourself.

[@SmileyMikee]

Gourmet soft Ice cream is absolutely something in the UK. I live near a cow farm that has a family run ice cream company attached to it that is literally 1 mile away from the farm. I guess it's just not something you get in the big cities.

[@jujutrini8412]

You definitely get proper soft ice cream in London.

[@johnlabus7359]

Frozen custard isn't the same as ice cream. Frozen custard has egg yoke.

[@cassieoz1702]

I'm old, and have always made ice cream with milk, cream, sugar and egg yolks. Eggless ice cream was originally a commercial product, made possible by the use of emulsifiers.

[@franciscopozole]

Traditional ice cream is made with egg yolks. It is quite literally custard that has been frozen and churned. The fact there is cheap knock off ice cream being sold as soft serve is kind of irrelevant.

[@hal90001]

Cheese emulsification is done through chemical additives. FYI.

[@fuzziestlumpkin]

NaCHO cheese.

[@aidencox790]

@@fuzziestlumpkin In the US yes - and hamburgers are held together by high-temp compressed ham-glue. That's US food. 98% garbage - but cheap to produce.

[@charlestaylor9424]

Interesting that in Scotland a Hoagie is a selection of meat, sauce and vegetables wrapped in a Naan bread.

[@daniellelevy8056]

You cannot convince me the most iconic veg to come out of Jersey isn't the Jersey corn. It's SOOOO yummy and you can't convince me it's not iconic

[@CyanideCarrot]

I was waiting for the mention, and so confused when it never came up

[@evan]

House is near cornfields but nothing in season!

[@habi0187]

I like video but as a German I have to state that this pumpernickel bagel has nothing to do with real pumpernickel. Using some wheat dough and put some alibi seeds on/in it is so American shortcut loving.

[@aidencox790]

US food is cheapened in any way possible. Profit is everything.

[@sazji]

Usually a good pumpernickel bagel will be very dark and chewy. That was extremely pale, more like cheap rye bread.

[@MatthewBrannigan]

As someone from San Diego, this is as alien to me as it is for Heather, so I really need to get to NJ sometime!

[@bostonjunk]

Coffee 'creamer' is called 'whitener' in the UK. It makes coffee taste creamier than just milk.

[@Nowhalle]

As soon as I read the title, I eagerly anticipated the Wawa review. Glad it was the first stop (as it should be)!!

[@aurora6920]

Great seeing Heather's British opinion on American foods and it was really interesting to learn about them, i hope to try these some day!

[@DaddyStoat]

Sainsbury's used to sell these things called "breakfast slices" that were basically Taylor Ham in streaky bacon-sized strips. Same taste, same texture. I think they're still available, but I haven't seen them in quite some time.

[@kazzle101]

It must be so hard being a Diabetic in America.

[@JonEvans-st9kt]

Do you mean in the food sence or that will cost you arm and a leg medical bill wise

[@kazzle101]

@@JonEvans-st9kt Chronic Diabeties will take your feet and your eyes for starters. The US looks to have a high Gycemic Index, too much sugar, food supply combined with nonexisant public healthcare. So to give you an answer, both.

[@ShakenSoul]

Watching as someone who is lactose intolerant I probably couldn’t eat anything you tried but it all looked so amazingly delicious 🥲

[@harrybarrow6222]

I lived in California for almost 14 years. I loved the fresh fruit and vegetables there (but wash thoroughly first). I am very happy to be back in the UK eating relatively unadulterated food. US companies view food as a product to be marketed and enhanced with sugar, salt and unnatural additives, like “emulsifiers”, “preservatives”, and “artificial flavorings”. The aim is to encourage consumers to eat more, regardless of the impact on health.

[@djlondon7956]

Haven't you tried a traditional UK East London frozen soft-serve peach cider bagel with Italian tomato taffee jimmies?! They're the best 😂

[@HamptonSmall]

LOLs in Hipster! 😂

[@Geekeh_UK]

The one thing I'd suggest now you're back in the UK, is buy yourself an ice cream maker. I remember many many years ago when my father bought one, and followed one of the included recipes for vanilla ice cream, which was very close to, if not exactly a recipe for proper traditional egg custard, and then obviously frozen with the gadget that constantly stirs it as it freezes. But yeah, it tasted fantastic, totally unlike anything I'd ever had before. And obviously you can keep trying new recipes and tweaking them until you find the perfect flavour.

[@djlondon7956]

Well done for eating all that without hospitalisation. ❤🎉

[@steventambon2588]

As a person from Delco, we are from the same cut of culture and that includes not giving up an opportunity to shit talk. I laughed so hard at all the jabs at North Jersey and New York

[@katemoody1587]

The word Deutsch is a very new word, all people from the Netherlands and Germany were called Dutch until a few hundred years ago.

[@stellamex1]

As someone from Lancaster county, with half her family from Philly, and who grew up going to OCNJ, loved this video!! I do not like scrapple. Lancaster County Amish farm ice cream places have the best ice cream (as opposed to custard), imo. Pine View Dairy & Fox Meadows Creamery are two you should definitely visit (Pine View's Oreo Caramel Espresso is the absolute best ice cream in the world). And fyi, technically, custard is made with a base that includes egg, ice cream only has cream.

[@Crusty_Camper]

When I visited my American cousins in Georgia the new food experience I loved the most was...... fanfare......GRITS! Yes, that mixture of frogspawn and wallpaper paste is delicious !

[@Bozebo]

If you call it polenta it sounds fancier :P

[@laikanbarth]

I literally had no idea creamer had all of that oil in it. I’ve been drinking creamer for 30 years in my coffee and absolutely love it but now I feel nauseous. I guess I should’ve paid better attention to the label. I thought it was actually real cream and flavoring. Who would have assumed it’s oil??!!! Now I’m so completely grossed out. Guess I will be drinking my coffee black from now on. Why did you have to tell me 😢😢??

[@-rolyat44]

I haven't had rita's in like a decade and just seeing the blue raspberry literally had me having a ratatouille moment because when I used to have it a lot my go to flavors were blue raspberry and swedish fish and like the sight of it had me feeling the taste in my mind

[@blue-steel7177]

I can see why the south calls it water ice of Rita's is the best Italian ice in the area. Gotta go to the Lyndhurst bakery for real Italian ice.

[@theodricaethelfrith]

The Dutch-Dutch have balkenbrij, which is on the scrapple spectrum, and also something I struggle to finish. Black pudding has a lot more going on.

[@RCassinello]

It's weird as an older Brit to see a woman from England not know what creamer / Coffee-Mate is, as it was the number one coffee add-on throughout the entire 1980s and 1990s here. But then, I suppose it was also weirdly nostalgic to see "Oh, they still use that stuff in America? How quaint!"

[@nicolad8822]

Cafés used to serve little pots of it, I always asked for milk, but we never bought it at home.

[@ukmaxi]

I feel like the soft serve ice cream comparison is a bit narrow. How have you only ever had Mr. Whippy? There are way more variations available, Mr. Whippy is just a nationwide brand of soft serve that ice cream vans have. When I grew up we used to have Sargents Ice Cream, which was a clotted cream ice cream found at the sea side local to Lincolnshire. Not sure if it's still around though. Anyway, still plenty of soft serve that are not Mr. Whippy.

[@delibakerytravel]

This video was fabulous as your channel always is.Thanks from San Diego.

[@gzk6nk]

Lots of highly processed high sugar food there. Not very healthy is it. UK ice cream isn't just Mr Whippy rubbish. Near here, for instance, Blaze farm in the Peak District make superb ice cream. And they are far from alone.

[@doctorprancer]

Love this video. It's like a food crawl TV episode, I would try some of those bagels.

[@damnimloomin]

Evan’s accent is coming out HARD lol those O’s are killing me 😂

[@eggsalad550]

Same with whenever he says "water". Granted the pronunciation of water differs across all over north america even on a state by state/province by province basis haha

[@tonylarussa4046]

"Italian" cold cuts! LOL

[@bugsygoo]

Be grateful they don't call their chemical ice cream 'Italian'. Honestly, I was watching them eat ice cream and could only conclude that both countries must only know awful ice cream.

[@Bozebo]

@@bugsygoo Yeah, there's an amazing proper Italian ice cream place near me with countless awards. People will walk past it to go to Tesco and pay more for shite instead...

[@cocobrowny]

@@Bozebo Ooh, is it anywhere near London? I’d love to try it!

[@earthtaurus5515]

@@Bozebo what is it called?

[@scottlarrabee9527]

No reason to apologize for pork roll, my local food is the tomato pie (imagine all the fun of deep dish pizza, but without any cheese). Never picked up on your accent before until you said 'wooter ice'. Maybe being home brings it out. Love watching videos of you and Heather together. You remind me so much of my wife and I 24yrs ago.

[@59withqsb12]

You two making each other giggle is the cutest thing I've seen today. Great video Evan, I hadn't heard of several of the things you introduced Heather to, so thanks for the education. Is it weird that I _really_ want to try scrapple though?? 🙂

[@cosycoffeee]

Love hearing from your girlfriend! Also enjoyed the food content/ratings. I'm from Buffalo, NY (don't live there anymore) but it's well known for it's food! Went for a visit a year ago and took my husband. He LOVED it. I can promise that food in the UK and New Jersey (really in most places honestly) is better than the food where I currently live :')

[@klimtkahlo]

😂 when you said “by my people” I thought of Amish! 😄

[@kelly1827]

When you said you were going to get more fresh, natural food I was hoping you were filming in summer -- for peak Jersey tomato season ❤, but at least there were still decent ones around. I'm so glad she liked NJ, and specifically GlouCo! 😊

[@ethelmini]

28:00 a "custard stand" keyed up great innuendo, but Heather really knocked it out of the park 😄

[@ZJoshuaZBarberZ]

Congratulations on 800k subscribers 🎉🎉

[@marysweeney7370]

From the start I was waiting for the pork roll sandwich, and you hit right out of the gate with scrapple!

[@Kate-pl5is]

"the first place we went the moment we entered New Jersey" is so real because whenever I fly into EWR I go to Wawa. God I miss PA and Wawa.

[@SwimCoach8]

I worked for Hershey, in milk processing, for 40 years. The amount of cream diverted to shore points during summer months is incredible. 50 years ago, before commercial producers ruled the market, milk production would drop sharply during the heat of summer. Whole raw bulk milk would often be in short supply because the shore points in New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia demanded soooooo much cream for ice cream. I can think of no better fight. The production of our chocolate, not appreciated by Europeans vs some of the richest creamiest ice cream on earth!! Thank you for your time and special thanks to your girl friend for being the subject of detailed food experimentation! P.S. Bologna in Dutch country isn't that pale minced bologna stuff. Long live Seltzers sweet Lebanon bologna! Many Dutch folk will put syrup on their deep dark scrapple.

[@laurenh6668]

This was great, she was very honest ha. It was fun to see reviews the other way around 😊

[@celestegross6622]

Diners are a way of life in NJ. Every event ends at the diner. Went to the movies? Go to the diner. Done at the bar at 2am? Go the diner (gotta be a Taylor ham & cheese on a hard roll). After church on Sundays? Diner.

[@simhedgesrex7097]

The "soft serve" thing was interested. I grew up (in the 60s in the UK) eating "Mr Whippy" and it wasn't called "soft serve". At the time, normal ice cream was so hard that it had to be either sliced with a knife, or else left out of the freezer for a few minutes to soften up to the point where it could be served with a spoon or ice cream scoop. Then in the 1970s "soft serve" ice cream was introduced: this was normal ice cream that was just soft enough to be served from the tub with a spook or scoop straight from the fridge. The suggestion that Margaret Thatcher worked on the team that invented soft serve, was not about her inventing Mr Whippy style ice cream. These days, you can't get that really hard ice cream, so the term "soft serve" has evolved to mean Mr Whippy style ice cream.

[@rb9580]

Of course, in the 60s very few households had a freezer and most domestic fridges had at-best a very small ice-tray. If ice cream was being served in the home, it was bought from a local shop or cafe and kept in the fridge till use - maximum of a couple of hours later - by which time the hard frozen ice-cream softened to the point where it was easy to plate-up. The advent of larger freezer sections in our fridges created the demand for tubs of ice-cream that could be kept at home in a ready-to-use condition and hence the demand for a softer product. One of my early memories as a child in the mid 60's is my mother sending me down to the cafe for the ice-cream to have as dessert, while she was cooking the evening meal! Imagine a mother sending a five-year-old off to the shops on his own with a purse of coins nowadays!

[@simhedgesrex7097]

@@rb9580 Same here (only it was the local shop). I lived in Brixton, and from the age of about 8 was sent to walk unaccompanied to school and back, half a mile away across Brixton and Streatham every day.

[@StephMcAlea]

Great video. Were parts sped up? The Manco and Manco part was hard to understand. More Heather please, she's awesome 👌

[@bobkrist1]

As a fellow Jersey boy, I say you did a great job on this video!

[@mickb.8925]

Very fun to see you introduce Heather to your childhood food. Also, pork roll looks to be very similar to "bakrol" here in Belgium! I like it a lot but I don't see many people eat it here.

[@SamiKelsh]

As a Canadian, I was also very surprised when I encountered frozen custard in the US, and it was just apparently ice cream, but also can confirm that frozen custard slaps as an affogato. Also, as someone whose only experience of New Jersey has been an airport, my one prevailing memory of said airport was getting a black and white cookie. And at the risk of angering any New Yorkers reading this, the black and white cookie was good.

[@danielintheantipodes6741]

That was fun! Thank you for the video!

[@russjoneswrites]

"breaking news! peach is back" - excellent signage

[@evan]

I loved that haha

[@jamiefoerst]

Kohrs bros has to be one of my favorite NJ foods

[@annaross150]

As someone from the Pittsburgh area of PA I found this video delightfully familiar and new at the same time! God I really want a pretzel cone, that’s genius.

[@BronzeManul]

"Grape 👉 🍬" - Heather 0:14

[@chrisperyagh]

American grape flavour is the most vile flavour ever invented. It doesn't even taste anything like any grapes I know of and I've got grapes growing in my garden which are nice and sweet.

[@auntlynnie]

Syracuse Carmelcorn lets you buy a mix of caramel & cheese. SO GOOD.

[@endlessteatime4733]

Super fun video! I'm tempted to go see New Jersey for the food now.

[@heatherkara]

Scrapple! I don't even know how to spell it. Both my parents grew up in Lancaster County and so I grew up with Scrapple (in Baltimore). I'm vegan now, so my Scrapple eating days are over, but my mother just introduced my daughter to it on a recent visit. I am nostalgic for it. It's a home food. 🥰

[@MarceldeJong]

10:59 I love how there's a book trading post there! Perfect place for it.

[@erikhughes8412]

Wisconsinite here, and we have the fourth largest Amish population in the US, so we have scrapple here as well. We also have frozen custard - which is NOT the same as "ice cream", because frozen custard has egg yolks, while ice cream does not. Frozen custard also usually has a higher butterfat content.

[@janebaker966]

That cream substitute is TOXIC!

[@carbongrip2108]

So true, almost all the substitute crap is far worse than just having the real thing.

[@Betweoxwitegan]

"Instead of it being ice that's flavoured, it's almost like it's flavoured ice" ah yes, the difference is evident.

[@jamiemersel1247]

Shriver’s!!! I grew up going to Ocean City every summer and I used to stand in front of the Shriver’s window with my grandparents, watching the dolls (Taffy and Fudge) in the window do flips while my parents went inside to get our fudge. So nostalgic for me!!

[@evan]

Yeah I loved the dolls! I wanted to get a shot of them flipping but Forgot in the edit 😭

[@verykyle2]

I grew up in Franklinville but moved to upstate New York as a kid. This whole video was an absolute treat for me. Manco & Manco in OC, scrapple, farm markets, the BEST pizza in the world. Pork roll and saying arange instead of orange. South Jersey was the best spawn point possible lol

[@michaelfoubister4339]

Being British she probably knows Wawa. It's a song by George Harrison Wawa. Look it up !!!!!!