Things BRITISH People Miss the MOST When Moving to AMERICA!

[@ThoseTwoBrits1]

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[@MsTrain69]

@Sean Beckerer you don’t have to understand. I didn’t ask you to. I can use any word I want to.

[@johnp139]

Companies should pay their employees a LIVING WAGE rather than having them RELY ON TIPS to survive! Boycott KZbin for not paying fair wages!!!

[@lasbagman1]

I use a Butter crock or butter bell and keep it on the counter. I also make my own butter sometimes.

[@jeanjohnson8492]

You can find skim milk, 1 or 2 percent milk, whole milk, lactose free milk, and more in the US. The terminology is different. A lot of people use cream in their coffee or half and half. Butter that is whipped and sold in containers is different than butter sold in sticks of 4 (one lb. container) and they even sell Irish Butter here. Actually good tea bags can be found in most grocery stores. Squash is what Americans call yellow squash, green squash (zucchini) and butternut squash.

[@scottsmith516]

Also others like Blue Hubbard usually available only in large chunks of the squash as it is a very large squash we always got it at Thanksgiving and Christmas time along with butternut squash

[@brianbrady3086]

we have yellow butter in America too. So whomever told you the butter is wrong ... they are wrong. It is basically what JOel is saying when you whip it.

[@MatthewBrannigan]

Yeah, I haven't noticed much difference in the butter since I moved from the UK to the US. I think the color change occurs when you don't store the butter in the fridge, which is what is often done in the UK, but really never done in the US.

[@ScarletteSun]

@@MatthewBrannigan Yes this is true. Room temperature butter turns yellow. I think most people in america don't realize you can safely leave butter at room temperature in a butter dish.

[@gillianrimmer7733]

US butter has less butter fat in it than the butter in the UK and rest of Europe

[@Latinblu]

Butter is white because the cattle is fed corn, while yellow butter comes from grass fed, hormone free cattle

[@raymondmuench3266]

brian brady Sorry, most butter in the US is yellow, some darker than others, but yellow is standard. So much was this the case that when margarine was introduced, a little packet of yellow dye was sold with it to be mixed into the white margarine. Dairy farmers used to insist that margarine be sold white so it couldn't be passed off for real butter. The white butter person eluded his r her keeper!

[@t00l0fsatan]

What do you mean by "coffee shop culture?" Cuz ours is like lots of people go in, some immediately leave, but like lots of People grab a coffee, and stay for hours for the free wifi and chill vibe, writing papers and working. Some people meet up with others and just talk forever.

[@kungfuclub]

I'm a Brit and I was confused by this also, as know y'all have this "coffee culture" also.

[@JessOhio2013]

Right...This is Starbucks lol. People sit in a Starbucks and other coffee shops on a laptop or with a friend for hours. I used to study in coffee shops

[@MichaelScheele]

Many Americans like grass fed butter like Kerrygold butter imported from Ireland. In dairy states, local dairies sell higher grade butters.

[@lemontart1883]

I never had butter growing up, only margarine. My dad hated the smell of melted butter.

[@mojoshivers]

I only buy Kerrygold when I buy butter.

[@maureenboyle1926]

Love Kerrygold

[@familybills2908]

😋😋😋 💛 Kerrygold. America has both white and yellow butter - you can get both at any grocery store.

[@MKelly-pm1np]

Kerrygold convert here too

[@Julia-hs7vh]

Love it when you go off on a tangent.

[@andrewbrady0124]

European butter is often fermented, given it a tangy, slightly sour taste. These butters are often richer (more butterfat), making it ideal for baking since it melts quicker. American butter is monitored and regulated by the USDA, which states that a butter must contain at least 80 percent butterfat to make the cut. But we have several European brands here...Kerry Gold Irish butter is very popular here....Joel since your family has a home in Florida you should be familiar with Publix food stores they have a British section...

[@garycamara9955]

Florida is still on the east coast. Wisconsin is the dairy state, although California has many dairies. My father grew up on a dairy in the central valley, we still have family there. A lot of the kids that I went to school with lived on dairies. Several kids raised cattle for beef on the side as kids. That way they could buy a new car when they were in highschool. Lots of muscle cars then, in the 60s, were in the highschools.

[@billyboycinci]

Most butter bought in a supermarket is yellow. Maybe white butter is some sort of craft or artisanal butter, but certainly not what most people buy with weekly grocery shopping. It's yellow.

[@Govthos]

Our milk options seem to be better than the UK. I'm speaking only of cows milk, we have heavy cream, half & half (half cream and half whole milk), whole milk (about 3.5% fat), 2%, 1%, and skim 0.15% or less. Then there are all the non-dairy options. Butter is yellow here.

[@snarkykat]

Butter experiment suggestion: Get some heavy cream and an electric mixer and mix it. You'll see it go through its various stages until it becomes whipped cream, then whipped butter, then butter, which is naturally yellow(ish), like the butter you find in any American supermarket.

[@Suzibird307]

Joel's next video !!

[@tjkid07]

No butter isn't whipped milk, it is churned (not whipped) cream, not milk. Grass fed milk is way better than grain fed, like most of the low priced commercial butter in the US, but you can get the better butter here - not in your average cafe though.

[@aliciam.7966]

There is both whipped butter (white) and (yellow) butter 🧈 it also comes in a tub (yellow butter) 🧈

[@stevennelson9504]

The color of butter depends on the cattle feed. In the summer when the cows eat more green grass and things, the butter will have a richer more yellow color. In the winter when cows are eating more hay and other stored feed, it will be more pale in color.

[@singingnay195]

Yep, and a lot of dairys will add color into grain fed butter in order to make it look more "normal".

[@yugioht42]

Butter that’s white tends to come from grain fed cows which is most of America, yellow butter is the old school grass fed cows, but because all milk has to be pasteurized here no matter what all the yellow tends to come out anyway leaving the white. When Irish butter came here it was better as the pasteurization process is slower than the American standard which is fast and very hot while European butter pasteurization tends to be a low heat over a long time leaving much of the color and fat.

[@ashp5597]

I love this video, the tangents are amazing. You should just do a video of you talking about memories and stories.

[@maryannebrown2385]

That would be really nice! I would love to hear stories about when they were in school together and some of their first experiences making videos.

[@ashp5597]

@@maryannebrown2385 yeah that would be really cool

[@seandesmond5560]

Great video Joel and Lia!!! 👍 Lia if you ever come to Australia we have tea readily and widely available you can go into any cafe and they will have tea! Also our butter is yellow!

[@kungfuclub]

Winner winner

[@isabelrosato4152]

My cousin was in America for university and he legit bought so many biscuits and tea bags. When he arrived back for different occasions you should’ve seen how excited he was 😂

[@kungfuclub]

I can relate on his excitement

[@cplmpcocptcl6306]

Me too. Except I am always excited to return to America. I’m Sure it’s just foods that are familiar with.

[@paulebailey]

4 hours of tea is what we call high tea. You can still find it at places though it's not as common as it used to be.

[@smallsc111]

Whole milk is full fat, 2% is semi skimmed (I think) and skimmed is skim milk. Half and half is half heavy cream half whole milk in equal parts.

[@Liamshavingfun]

2% milk is the milk fat is 2 percent of the total weight of the milk.

[@danhelphrey6260]

There are regional differences - here in CA "skim" is called "nonfat", and 2% is called "low-fat" in some places.

[@Liamshavingfun]

Skim or skimmed milk is non fat milk

[@lemontart1883]

My parents only ever bought skim milk when I was growing up. It’s what I’m used, but I don’t even drink dairy milk anymore. Anxiety issues, which have gotten worse this past year, have majority affected my digestion. I can’t eat or drink a lot of things without feeling sick, particularly dairy.

[@cplmpcocptcl6306]

@Sean Beckerer And 0%.

[@1bigmac3]

May I suggest that you find an American living in the UK to join you for all of these comparisons. It would really be a big help and remove the guesswork.

[@gretchengantner1531]

I volunteer!

[@KatieScoot11]

You’re right Lia!!!!! Most places in the US serve weak tea bags. I usually buy Tetley British Blend tea or Twinings and travel with it! I just ask them for whatever size tea I want but I always tell them , “But I have my own tea bag!” And I smile and giggle a little! 😉 I’ve never had a problem. But I always ask if I can put it in the cup before they fill it with the boiling water! Nothing worse than adding the tea bag after. It’s not the same! 😁

[@margaretalletson84]

Katie Scoot I am exactly the same.I go on a cruise,take a ziploc bag full of tea bags,then keep them in my bag.(ps I buy my Tetley British Blend online at Walmart,much cheaper than anywhere else)

[@lemontart1883]

I bring my own tea bags to work everyday and get my hot water from Starbucks whenever I want. It is literally a few feet away my break room (Starbucks is everywhere here).

[@aspenrebel]

Oh dear! Well la dee dah dee dah dee!!

[@jillclark3630]

Creamer goes in your coffee. Half and half can also go into your coffee, but I wouldn’t drink it by itself. Whole milk is full fat, 2% is half-skimmed, and skimmed is skimmed. We do have your equivalents.

[@thecomorbiditycurator8018]

Hi there! As someone who has made homemade butter before, butter is naturally a white/off white color. Salting butter and oxidation can change the color to a yellowish tinge.

[@neitan6891]

If you like tea in the US, you just get used to making it at home. The “tea” at restaurants is just Lipton or of equivalent quality

[@RiverWoods111]

Yes truth! I have excellent teas at home, but when I go to a restaurant... ugh! Oh and ice tea is a whole another thing! I just moved from California to Georgia. People think I am MAD (crazy) cause I don't want sweet tea. I like it unsweetened!

[@lemontart1883]

Yep. Try asking what kind of tea they have a most restaurants in the South and you get funny looks. They mostly just offer iced sweet tea which is so sweet it will make your teeth hurt. I like hot green tea though and you can get that at a most Asian restaurants at least.

[@alistairt7544]

@@lemontart1883 Omg, yes. I love ordering tea in Asian restaurants. Genmaicha(toasted rice) is my fav!

[@lemontart1883]

@@alistairt7544 I like that kind too!

[@JoeBorrello]

And instead of brewing it properly they bring you the bag with a little stainless steel pot of lukewarm water.

[@HeckinMoonMoon]

Coffee shop culture is def out there in the States. I live in a small town in Ohio and there's a wonderful coffee shop with a very "traditional" coffee shop feel. I'll be there for HOURS catching up with friends

[@anandashankarmazumdar]

Recommend, please!

[@spanishfox2321]

We have squash and butternut however butternut is usually more seasonal. We make squash bread and brownies at home all the time.

[@ahmadamiriofficial]

The most lovely couple ever. Truly enjoying your videos . Keep going You're doing great mates!! @joel&lia

[@crosette]

Omg the licking butter convo was hilarious! 😂 🤣

[@TheLisaGreenlee]

Lia, I've not had it before but I am aware that the Texas State Fair has batter dipped, deep fried butter on a stick. 🤦‍♀️

[@vegasblt]

The yellow of butter is added in, started in the early 1900s. Butter is made from the cream that floats on raw milk. The milk is squeezed or pressed from the solids, which becomes butter. You can add salt, sugar, coloring etc. Margarine is made different. Tends to be more yellow.

[@catherineavakian5833]

Thanks for all the videos lately! Definitely something to look forward to ☺️☺️🧡

[@hogrod]

The milk here is whole, 2%, 1% and skim. Those other things you mentioned like half and half is a creamer product and not milk, known as half cream in the UK.

[@gwillis01]

there is a difference in what is considered ancient in America versus England !!! American situation: The old part of the building was built in 1831 and the new part was built in 1985. However, the British version goes like this: the old part of the building was built in 1387 and the new part was built in 1742

[@aspenrebel]

One time, my parents went to England, rented a car, and were driving through some small town somewhere. My father was driving over a narrow Stone bridge and blew out a tire and smashed into the wall. He destroyed the new bridge. Built in 1180 A.D.. They were very upset at him.

[@opheliacloser6255]

Best sentence in this whole video *"If you wanna lick butter, you lick butter, it's fine"*

[@je7771]

I'm going to live my life by these words

[@Suzibird307]

LMAO

[@Suzibird307]

Life is just too short not to.

[@ProsperityClubEducation]

We also have a number of vegan milks. Almond, soy, flax, and coconut. Then there's flavored milks. Not just chocolate and strawberry, but the vegan milk has vanilla and sweetened.

[@clannadlover12]

brits have vegan milks too

[@LeslieLanagan]

I actually put oat milk in my tea/coffee because Lia said it was good. :P

[@Kin_Kin3]

You were talking about butter being more whipped in America so it makes since it can be refrigerated because it is easy to spread, but we also do use a butter dish

[@JoeBorrello]

In the US, restaurants used to serve a brand of tea called “Dinemor”. I would say it was called that because once you drink it you would dine more to get the taste out of your mouth.

[@cobra3527]

When americans try british tea

[@MrFixit-fb5bu]

I'm surprised you have salted butter there. Salted butter started when settlers moved west. They provisioned in St. Louis, and began the months long journey west. They found that by adding salt to butter it lasted much longer without any cooling (didn't have any). To this day, most people here use unsalted butter in the east, and salted butter west of the Mississippi. I just figured that the U.K. and Europe would use unsalted butter.

[@grahamsmith9541]

Both salted and unsalted butter is available in most shops in the UK.

[@kelormz8785]

Lia I too get lost easily when coming out elevators in hotels and especially at a doctors office trying to make it back to the waiting room.

[@sassy-4-ever3]

You two are precious. Thank you. I have an issue with spreading too much butter, especially whipped butter, on everything. You two should go to a dairy and get 20 minute old fresh butter. It will change your life. 😁 😍

[@momstermom2939]

My friend used to get Red Rose tea in gauze bags (no strings or tags) from a relative in Canada. We slurped it up by the pot full. Always in a pot (after pot after pot) until our heads buzzed.

[@ArtJeremiah]

The best butter is that you make on your own. You can either whip cream until it's butter or fill a jar half full and shake it until it's butter. We used to do this when I was a little kid.

[@jamesdennis2058]

I am an American. I can tolerate tea but I don’t like it that much. I drink coffee with a little bit of milk but I refuse to pay big bucks for a cup of flavored coffee for Starbucks.

[@SuperDrLisa]

I bought my first latte from Dunkin Donuts last week because it had oat milk in it and i wanted to try it. $5 later it tasted fine, but realized it was regular coffee and i only drink decaf. I was running around like chicken with it's head cut off

[@sparky711choc]

Totally agree about the tea in America! The best tea they ever had is now sitting at the bottom of Boston harbour. Also, in some parts of the States when you order tea you have to specify HOT tea or else they automatically bring you iced tea.

[@racafritz]

I live in L.A. and I miss those cool coffee houses from the early-mid 90’s. Getting a cappuccino in a cup the size of your head while lounging on a velvet couch or sitting in a wingback chair. Funky decor with local artists work for sale on the walls.

[@lemontart1883]

Starbucks took over a lot of them, but there are still a LOT of places like that in Seattle-Tacoma area. Or there were until this damn pandemic. A lot of independent owned café have been going out of business in 2020. A lot of places in general really, even big chains. Starbucks will be fine though. There is one in literally every grocery store here 🙄 (I work in a grocery store and I like the people that work at the Starbucks about thirty feet away from me though, yeah we real close)

[@kungfuclub]

Sounds just like a scene from Friends! They stopped using the fat wide mugs and just give you the tall white mugs now.

[@racafritz]

It's Chezibelle The one we frequented was called Insomnia and had a David Lynch style look to it. The bathroom walls were blood red.

[@curtiskoch4731]

When whole milk is left to sit non- homogenized, it will separate into cream and skim milk. Half and half is half cream and half whole milk. In short, cream and half and half are fatter versions of whole milk that one normally adds to coffee to adjust the texture of the coffee without watering it down too much.

[@joannebaker4925]

Lia so sorry about your tea. Enjoyed the video very much. Really liked when you guys went off on a tangent. It was very entertaining.

[@sisken12]

You can make butter in a food processor by just letting the processor run for a while with cream in it.

[@dr.westwood]

Half and half is half milk cream and half whole fat milk.

[@dr.westwood]

@Jenny Shullequal parts milk cream and whole milk

[@adrianaragon3493]

So strange they don’t know this LOL ...so basic

[@dr.westwood]

@@adrianaragon3493 I don't think what we call half and half is a product sold in the UK. Their dairy products are a bit different. For example they have single cream and double cream. I'm still trying to figure out the equivalents. I think double cream is similar to the American version of heavy whipping cream, but I think double cream may actually have more milk fat.

[@GeorgeAAspros]

The color of butter changes with the seasons depending on what the cows eat throughout the year. Perhaps y’all’s seasons aren’t as harsh as ours so there wouldn’t be much variation? & if y’all go to local bakeries in the USA, they usually have the kinds of things y’all prepare with tea, all baked fresh daily. Many bakeries have tables for you to sit at, just don’t expect wait service there.. not the sort of thing most Americans do but my family always appreciated.

[@trevormf]

Most of the time the color of butter varies based on the cow breed and their diet that the milk for the butter came from, although sometimes coloring is added to make it yellow. So, you do get varying colors in the US, but I mostly see pale yellow or white butter unless I’m eating something like Kerry Gold butter imported from Ireland.

[@cynthiabriley391]

Yellow butter... all the time. Whole milk 2% (prob half skim), skim. Half and half is creamy and will be used in soups and heavy sauces.

[@deborahm.2460]

You guys are so cute. You can tell y'all have been friends because there are so many little things that y'all laugh about.

[@adrianaragon3493]

There is literally 200 types of butter here 🇺🇸 Although We grew up on Irish butter KERRYGOLD both salted and unsalted. We also had a tub of whipped butter And a tub of margarine... Which of course is a combination of real butter and vegetable oil. ....we have OPTIONS ..lol

[@MichaelScheele]

In the US, half and half is a mixture of milk and cream. It has between 10.5 and 18% fat. Whole milk (full fat milk in the UK) has 3.25% fat; some dairies used to sell 3.5% fat milk for a richer taste. Reduced fat milk (semi-skimmed milk in the UK) has 2% fat. Low fat milk has 1% fat. Non-fat or Skim milk has < 0.3% fat (usually

[@annettefournier9655]

Half and half is like light cream as opposed to double cream which is our whipping cream.

[@miannally]

Oh my Goodness! I Completely LOVE you two! Absolutely brilliant! 🤣 💖

[@ProsperityClubEducation]

I have a tea room in my house. We have a tea kettle and imported tea.

[@carvenstud]

I came to the channel for the accent videos....and stayed for more Joel :-)

[@mariasetticase3171]

We have yellow butter and whipped butter, Butter is made from heavy cream. Whip it and get cream, go a litte past the cream stage and you get butter. You can get regular butter, or salted, the regular is a little blahh

[@janetmcalmond4479]

Half and half is half cream half milk. Butter is different color depending on the milk used to make the butter itself.

[@seanchadwick9036]

In Canada and the United States, half and half almost always refers to a light cream typically used in coffee. (See below.) The name refers to the liquid's content of half milk and half cream. Its milkfat content is 12.5%. It is widely available in the United States, both in individual-serving containers and in bulk. It is also used to make ice cream. Non-fat versions of the product are also available, containing corn syrup and other ingredients. "Half and half" or "Half-and-half" is a mixture of milk and cream, which is often used in coffee. In the United States, half and half is a common liquid product produced by dairy companies in premixed form. It was invented by William A. Boutwell of Boutwell Dairy in Lake Worth Beach, Florida, which distributed the blend regionally between 1927 and 1956. In the United States, half-and-half must contain between 10.5 and 18 percent milkfat. It is pasteurized or ultra-pasteurized, and may be homogenized. The following optional ingredients may also be used: Emulsifiers Stabilizers Nutritive sweeteners Characterizing flavoring ingredients (with or without coloring) as follows: Fruit and fruit juice (including concentrated fruit and fruit juice). Natural and artificial food flavoring. A milkette, (also referred to as dairy milker, creamette or creamers) is a single serving of milk (2%) or cream (10% and 18%) in 12 millilitres (0.42 imp fl oz; 0.41 US fl oz) or 15 millilitres (0.53 imp fl oz; 0.51 US fl oz) containers used for coffee and tea. The single cup of milk is stored in a sealed (foil cover) plastic cup of milk or cream with long shelf life but must be refrigerated.

[@siddharthgibikote8928]

I absolutely love watching your videos❤️❤️.... I've learnt so much about The UK and more through your videos... They're super interesting and fun...I've binge watched so many...I also remember you saying in a previous video that you get proper Cheese 🧀 in Britain and only like plastic cheese and stuff in America 😅....

[@familybills2908]

As an American, I struggle to get proper tea at cafes, etc. It’s hard to even get a cup of trully hot water to go with the tea!!

[@karenschafer2827]

Oh, yes! I often get a Lipton Tera bag in a cup with a jug of luke-warm water on the side.

[@familybills2908]

@@karenschafer2827 Exactly! Or some no name brand 👀of tea dust!

[@bethmeredith]

Great video you two!xx

[@gavinparks5386]

You can soften butter straight from the fridge, in the microwave- a matchbox sized piece will need 20 to 30 seconds at 100 watts. Semi skimmed milk in the UK is legally between 1.50% and 1.80%. Whole milk is normally standardised to 3.6% but used to be " straight from the cow % and could be anything from 3.5 to 4.5% unless it was from a Channel Island breed.

[@micahwoodard]

The tangents are what I'm hear for😄 and of course to see y'all's lovely faces☺️

[@johnrodrigues5974]

Butter isn’t whipped, it is churned.

[@chrisknight4851]

I love watching you guys, but sometimes you both make me want to yell at the screen! We have the same milk lol, just different names for these things.

[@chrissyzcreationz]

I ask my guests beforehand if they have any foods they dislike or have dietary needs.

[@antoinette2840]

Butter is made from the cream that comes to the top after milking the cow and is churned until it's butter.

[@paulebailey]

And we call it buttermilk.

[@antoinette2840]

@@paulebailey buttermilk comes before butter.

[@seanchadwick9036]

Before modern factory butter making, cream was usually collected from several milkings and was therefore several days old and somewhat fermented by the time it was made into butter. Butter made from a fermented cream is known as cultured butter. During fermentation, the cream naturally sours as bacteria convert milk sugars into lactic acid. The fermentation process produces additional aroma compounds, including diacetyl, which makes for a fuller-flavored and more "buttery" tasting product. Today, cultured butter is usually made from pasteurized cream whose fermentation is produced by the introduction of Lactococcus and Leuconostoc bacteria. Another method for producing cultured butter, developed in the early 1970s, is to produce butter from fresh cream and then incorporate bacterial cultures and lactic acid. Using this method, the cultured butter flavor grows as the butter is aged in cold storage. For manufacturers, this method is more efficient, since aging the cream used to make butter takes significantly more space than simply storing the finished butter product. A method to make an artificial simulation of cultured butter is to add lactic acid and flavor compounds directly to the fresh-cream butter; while this more efficient process is claimed to simulate the taste of cultured butter, the product produced is not cultured but is instead flavored. Dairy products are often pasteurized during production to kill pathogenic bacteria and other microbes. Butter made from pasteurized fresh cream is called sweet cream butter. Production of sweet cream butter first became common in the 19th century, with the development of refrigeration and the mechanical cream separator. Butter made from fresh or cultured unpasteurized cream is called raw cream butter. While butter made from pasteurized cream may keep for several months, raw cream butter has a shelf life of roughly ten days.

[@seanchadwick9036]

A Tea-mate variety for whitening tea was also introduced in the UK in a glass jar as well as in other countries in sachets. In the UK the variety was subsequently discontinued owing to poor sales performance. In other locations the product remains available.

[@kristinadeheras2787]

Butter is different colors because of what the cow eats. Also the US processes butter differently. Make some butter at home. Pour cream in a jar (don't fill to the top - leave about 20% or more space at the top. Shake, shake, shake for a long time until the butterfat separates from the buttermilk.

[@dmfraser100]

Lea what is the name of your favorite tea?

[@donnasanborn8232]

Whole milk has 3.5% fat. Then it goes down to 2%. Next is 1%. Then skim milk. Half and half is made of half whole milk and half light cream. It is usually used for coffee and cooking. Creamer is for coffee. It can be flavored or plain. It may or may not be made from dairy. It can also be powdered. Some creamers are made chemically.

[@Cbiskit23]

Yellow colorant can be added to butter to meet ppls preferences so it's not necessarily yellow naturally all the time. But I think when we're talking about natural butter being yellow it depends on the diet of the cows - it's not necessarily more "normal" to be whiter or yellower. I think when you're looking at small producers of butter, maybe they'd feed their cows a diet higher in carotene vs more factory dairies.

[@anandashankarmazumdar]

Butter is the milkfat separates from milk. You churn (not whip) milk to separate the fat out. You then “skim” the butter off and what remains is skimmed milk. Whipped butter is butter that has been whipped to incorporate air into it.

[@seanchadwick9036]

The original product was introduced in February 1961, followed by Coffee-mate Lite and Coffee-mate Liquid in 1989. In the US, where the product is manufactured by Nestlé in Glendale, California, the product is available in liquid, liquid concentrate and powdered forms. American Coffee-mate comes in over 25 different flavours, including gingerbread, Parisian almond creme as well as peppermint mocha. Discontinued varieties include Coffee-mate Soy and Coffee-mate Half & Half. In Europe, it is only available in powder form as a coffee creamer in one or two varieties depending on the country with no added flavours. The European version of Coffee-mate is manufactured without the use of hydrogenated fat, which is linked to heart disease.

[@harrymyhero]

Lia, please list your five favorite teas! I would love to try them!

[@kenbrown2808]

Whole milk is about 3.5% milkfat. 1% and 2% are semi skimmed, they now have fancier names for skimmed. half and half is half milk and half cream. non dairy creamer is closer to latex paint than to milk.

[@glenpeteroak]

I have found that Aldi's Benner brand tea is not as bitter as Lipton's.

[@seaniek1990]

The Brenner Jasmine tea is really good

[@paulluna8099]

Full fat milk is whole milk, 2% is semi-skimmed milk. Half and half is 1:1 ratio of cream and milk. Creamer is a nondairy product to lighten up a cup of coffee.

[@t00l0fsatan]

Lol creamer is like a thick, often flavored milk or milk-like product, it can also be in a powder form. Like it really varies. Creamer is like only used in coffee for the most part, like you're not gonna put it in your cereal or cook with it. They might replace the dairy with sugar or oil.

[@abstruseone4052]

Creamer is made with powdered milk.

[@jimjungle1397]

Cream is milk fat and butter is made from cream. Before homogenization, people poured the cream off the top of the milk and had cream and skim milk separately. Full fat = whole milk, semi-skim = 2%, 1% sometimes available, completely skim = skim milk / fat free. Half and Half is half cream and half milk, more fat than whole milk, but less fat than cream.

[@justrobackken]

In Canada we have the same butter as you guys. The Americans seem to use sweet cream in their butter vs us just using regular cream. I much prefer our yellow butter

[@maureenboyle1926]

Great Lia, How is butter grassfed? My nieces love eating spoons of plain butter, drove my brother nuts

[@paulebailey]

We call it organic, but I don't think we put suger in butter.

[@kerte6573]

You guys are hilarious - who would have thought a discussion of butter could be so funny!

[@jlelliotton]

The worst is when they bring you a tea bag on the side of a tepid pot or cup of water. In Canada milk/cream comes based on fat as 0% (skim), 1%, 2%, 3.25.% (whole milk), 5% (light cream), 10% (half and half cream), 18% (whole cream), 35% (whipping cream).

[@lemontart1883]

I’m American and I drink a lot of tea, ever since I was a teenager. Like often, and LOT of different kinds from all different cultures (and I have a kettle), but not Southern sweet tea anymore (way too sweet). I was never a big coffee drinker, but I don’t drink coffee at all anymore because it upsets my stomach. I’m a little weird though. I’m an Army Brat and I’ve lived in a lot of parts of America and Germany. Where I live now, near Seattle coffee rules all. It’s the birthplace of Starbucks and you can’t throw a stone without hitting an expresso stand or coffeehouse.

[@rebeccasimantov5476]

I've heard that the coffee culture is huge in Seattle...and also that it rains there for about 300 days of the year!

[@lemontart1883]

@@rebeccasimantov5476 It doesn’t rain nearly that much, at least not all day long. You get a lot of days where it will rain in the morning, but the rain will stop by midday. It stays cloudy most of the time though. There are few sunny days, and lots of pale people. Lol. The environment is very green and beautiful.

[@janetstraw191]

I lived in England for a long time - and I love PGTips! I have been back in the USA for years now - I order PGTips online from ‘The English Tea Store. Cannot live without it!

[@mangococo8429]

You can just go to stater brother grossery store they have them

[@starwindangel]

Butter is created by beating heavy cream (double cream) past the “whipped cream” stage, separating the fat solids from the liquid. There are actually two by-products from the process, butter and buttermilk. With milk, whole milk is typically 4% butterfat. I’m not sure how we ended up with both 2% and 1% milk, but indecision comes to mind...LOL. Non-dairy creamer is a low fat substitute for cream and is typically used in coffee. It often comes flavored. My favorite is French vanilla and I put it in lots of things besides coffee.

[@dianeyerger8976]

Half and half is a coffee creamer.We have flavored coffee creamers just for coffee. It's not milk for like cereal! We have whole milk,2%,1%and skim milk

[@Jo3W3st]

The have all the milks you were talking about at most supermarkets its very common and butter variations as well

[@briankelly85]

Try Trader Joe's Irish breakfast tea. it is just life changing.

[@msbemindful6043]

I’m going to have to try this

[@rhiannonmurphy9034]

I agree with getting no tea here in America. But there is a good tea restaurant in Austin Texas. I have Barry's tea, PG tips, Teapigs, and Ahmad tea. Very good teas.

[@johnrodrigues5974]

If your butter is in the fridge and is hard to spread on a bisquit or bread, throw some in the microwave and then brush it on the bread

[@Jack_Stafford]

Lia , you cracked me up when you were talking about licking the butter packets. When I was a kid I used to sneak into the kitchen and stick my finger into the butter container in the fridge. To this day I rate some restaurants based on the wuality and flavour butter they provide with their fresh rolls! I still can be very happy with some real quality butter and plain saltine crackers.

[@florianbates614]

Such elegance, beauty and nobility is old English architecture. Where I live there’s not a lot of cool old buildings.

[@DoctorsSong]

Most butter here is almost white with a hint of yellow. Now when I get Kerrygold butter it's yellow. Not sure if it has something to do with the cows diet. Here cows eat a more grain based diet. I know that Kerrygold cows eat mainly grass until they need a little extra feed in the colder months