What British staple would you miss if you moved abroad?

[@c.d.3652]

The cup of tea... it’s become such a comforting thing and I didn’t get it at first. I am the child of a British mum but grew up in France. When my uncle died (he was the best, love you uncle Bill

[@georgehelyar]

In the US you have to specifically say "hot tea" or they assume you want iced/herbal/etc. If your standard temperature for tea isn't hot then you're doing it wrong.

[@CollectiveWest1]

True. I lost my Mum recently. The nurses offered tea, and so did many other people afterwards. It helped in some mysterious way. A hot, strong, sweet mug of tea is the thing in a stressful or emotional situation, and I say that as a drinker of all kinds of coffee.

[@philiptaylor7902]

Tea, without doubt. I've never found a "proper" cup of tea anywhere abroad (Ireland excepted, of course). Obviously I've had wonderful tea in China and Japan, but it's not the same.

[@MiriamWalcott]

Yes, in any form of crisis the first thing offered is a cup of tea. If you watch British television you'll see it time and again.

[@heliotropezzz333]

I was once unable to sleep at night while in hospital and the duty nurse noticed and asked me whether I would like a sleeping pill. I said no but I would like a cup of tea. She obligingly made one for me and I was soon sleeping soundly.

[@hughtube5154]

Thanks for bringing Kim back. She adds so much knowledge/ perspective.

[@Lily-Bravo]

Old Brit here. Butter is kept in the fridge as the cats cannot open our fridge door yet. We use a cheese slicer which produces very thin rectangles of butter which are easy to spread on the warm things we like to eat it on.

[@sie4431]

Can't you put it in a cupboard

[@gabrielarrhenius6252]

@@sie4431 they can be opened by cats...

[@o_s-24]

"yet"

[@mytube001]

Here in Sweden, a lot of people still put up with the inconvenience of butter, but most have moved on to a spread that has butter mixed with rapeseed/canola oil, making it softer straight out of the fridge, and in recent years more variants have been introduced, with more oil and even some water mixed in, to both make it easier to spread and lower the fat content. Still tastes like butter.

[@wta1518]

Ever heard of a butter dish? It comes with a lid so you don't have to worry about the cats breaking in.

[@mleys3248]

Rain. I once was for one month in Tunisia. Sunshine and blue skyes for the whole month. When I arrived in Brussels Airport, the grey drizzle and specific smell of rain, made my heart jump with joy. Gosh it made me sooo happy. Greetings from Belgium.

[@klimtkahlo]

😂 who would miss rain! I guess we miss what we are used to! I miss high blue skies. I swear no sky is like the sky in my country. And it makes absolutely no sense but even in the same ocean by the sea, other skies seem oppressive with clouds very on top of you… I am sure it is just my personal feel of it and has no base in reality! 😊

[@RoseRodent]

I didn't miss the rain but I missed the result. Months in southern Spain and the landscape just looked thirsty to my Scottish eye.

[@klimtkahlo]

@@RoseRodent oh yes! Dreamy fairy tale like Scottland!

[@silviasanchez648]

Same. I've been to countries where it doesn't rain for weeks even months... I feel like a mummy slowly drying up.

[@jeska1995]

It's been raining all day today and my little one said "mummy I love rain", and after thinking about it for a second I said that I love rain too, and I really do. Sunny days are lovely but cosy, rainy days when you can stay home and chill or walk in the woods and get muddy are days I'm grateful to have.

[@kilsestoffel3690]

When I was 14, my parents sent me to britain to improve my english skills (didn't helped at school grades). I stayed at a lovely english family and had lessons with a bunch of other german teenager. Each day, when I came "home", I was asked, if I wanted "an other cup of tea". It was so wellcoming, to have this hot drink and telling the mum, what I did this day. I also loved the variety of crisp flavours. Best were cheese and onion (yes, you can get them here, but they taste different), vinegar and worcester sauce. I even sprinkle some vinegar on my fries at home.

[@biscuit715]

That sounds really cool. Would have loved to have the chance to go live abroad as a kid! Making up for it now as a student while I still have the time.

[@kilsestoffel3690]

It was 3 weeks, but I gained so much confidence. In speaking a foreign language and in general as a person. Do it!

[@LiqdPT]

15:36 Canadian/American popping in here. Genuinely thought she was talking about the country Iceland and was confused. Evan saying "I've never lived near an Iceland" clued me in that this is a store where you buy (primarily? Only?) frozen food.

[@marcelwiszowaty1751]

Yep, it's a supermarket where most of the produce is frozen. You'll also get milk, cereals, bread, household cleaning materials plus a range of other non-frozen items.

[@klimtkahlo]

I felt the same! Was rather confused!

[@Roz-y2d]

Does anyone remember when ‘Iceland’ was called ‘Bejams’ ? They used to sell freezers and ‘fridges too.

[@marcelwiszowaty1751]

@@Roz-y2d Yes, I remember the name Bejam but I don't recall I ever encountered one. To be honest I didn't make the connection between it and Iceland, where I have shopped on occasion.

[@hesterbeard]

@@Roz-y2d I remember Iceland selling fridges and freezers. I've just looked it up and Bejams and Iceland merged in 1989

[@violetskies14]

I actually love blackcurrant lol, it's my absolute favourite. Honestly it's hard to exactly put a finger on what you miss for me but a couple of my top ones when I've been abroad are: People opening doors for me and making sure to let me pass, and just generally being helpful, I'm disabled and use a wheelchair and depending on the country I have sometimes felt like I don't exist and it made life a lot harder. Struggling to open a heavy door only to have people push in front of me happened multiple times in one place. How green it is, I spent a bit of time in Spain one summer and it hadn't rained in two months so it was all brown and coming home to the explosion of green everywhere was amazing. I've never taken it for granted since. Ease of access to vegetarian food, some countries have way less choice and it can be super hard to find it. Regional one but being called duck, "Alright duck?" feels like a warm hug when you haven't heard it in a while. Earl Grey tea, British biscuits, and mushroom and halloumi burgers. Oh also the ease of access to Indian food.

[@catherinebutler4819]

Blackcurrant cheesecake is the best cheesecake.

[@biscuit715]

People shit on british food, but I do think our diversity of food available is one of my favourite things about this country. Granted, I suppose it's not "ours", but particularly Indian food has had its own twist on it. The one thing I miss when I'm abroad is a proper curry. I've spent a lot of time in Spain, particularly rural Spain, and I don't know how they don't get sick of the same sorts of flavours! I searched all the local supermarkets and not one had curry spices.

[@hammyjammies]

Specifically if I had to leave Scotland, the gloriousness of the tap water would be the first thing I miss, nothing better than winter cold tap water to cure the hangover and/or any ailment, it's honestly a peeve of mine whenever I go to europe and the tap water is no good. Also the classic banger sausage, as well as Lorne's if we're being scottish still, they're hard to come by abroad

[@grassfolk]

I can confirm - I do miss the delicious and chilly tap water!

[@scarba]

I’m Scottish living in Germany and you are so right. Scottish water makes everything taste delicious, diluting juices and coffee and it’s fantastic in the shower, makes the shampoo so foamy and the hair feels so clean. I miss tattie scones. I have made them homemade a few times but not the same. I miss scones in bakeries so much too and I miss self raising flour. I miss chip shops. I miss Ribena. I miss Greggs and cheese and onion pasties. I miss Cadbury’s chocolate 😢I miss tartan carpet and cosy pubs and a good chat in English 😢

[@nicolalagonigro1155]

The tap water in New York City is excellent (seriously!), but we pay a whole bundle of money a month in rent, groceries, transport and utilities to drink it!

[@niallblack2794]

@@nicolalagonigro1155 I'd say that it was actually really quite good in NYC and we were pleasantly surprised but that the ridiculous population density does mean any failures are pretty catastrophic compared to in Scotland. Although saying that we have had failures in Scotland too actually. But yes, the necessitation of being tight on controls with tap water does mean NYC was pretty damn good when we were there. Definitely better than other parts of America although there were some Eastern Seaboard states that had excellent tap water too. And some with absolutely atrocious tap water! Or bottled water that tastes horrible too. I think Florida was the absolute worst for tap water actually.

[@Emmathelady]

Wow! I am so glad to see Kim doing well. She was always one of my favorite guests.

[@dominictemple]

15:38, I think he might be talking about Ale, because the Europeans can do brilliant lagers but English proper Ales are perfect for the climate because they're not hot weather drink unlike Lager.

[@biscuit715]

I don't mind a lager here, but I'm mad for it abroad. So cold and refreshing.

[@_shreyash_anand]

Great to see Kim back on the channel again after so long

[@Persimontree]

How on earth did that one guy miss black pudding in Germany, as if we didn't have like 12 different kinds of Blood Sausage for every single region of the country. From the Oechener Puttes to the Nürnberger Blutpressack I'd even go so far as to say that we have probably an even bigger variety of Blood sausages than England.

[@gabrielarrhenius6252]

I have tasted german and british black pudding and I felt they were different... I do hate black pudding though since they always are dry

[@NotThatOneThisOne]

I'm in Poland at the moment. They also have lots of different types of blood sausage. Haven't found one that either tastes or has the consistency of UK black pudding.

[@AtheistDD]

I think plack pudding is most similar to westphalian "wurstebrot".

[@RBN.De-En]

Because they taste different 🫤

[@HappyBeezerStudios]

@@AtheistDD is that a special kind of wurstbrot? Because that term describes bascially any kind of sausage on bread, it's literally in the name.

[@62stonetank]

On the British beer, it's the cask ales I'm not aware of anywhere else which sells them. And they are absolutely amazing

[@Phiyedough]

Yes, it is definitely one of the main things I miss. Lager is far too gassy for me so I hardly ever drink beer in mainland Europe.

[@helenbartoszek243]

Beer in a cask? Yuk! Not something Australians do, but each to their own!🙂

[@muttley5958]

​@@helenbartoszek243 With out doubt real ales are the best. 😃. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇬🇧

[@turtlepenguinXkizuna]

absolutely, i miss proper ales so much!

[@Torsin2000]

Most of the butter is kept in the fridge. One stick is left out, in a butter dish, specifically to be used for toast/etc.

[@biscuit715]

That's something I've never understood - a stick of butter. Is it for cooking so you can measure it easily? I've never really noticed myself caring about how much butter I have

[@Torsin2000]

@@biscuit715 well a stick of butter is 8oz I think, and most wrappers have a helpful guide on the side to measure

[@TalesOfWar]

Creme eggs used to be better before Cadbury was bought by Kraft. They used to use the same dairy milk chocolate for everything, now they just use a cheaper version unless it specifically says "Dairy Milk". I'm pretty sure they messed with the filling too. They're just not how I remember them being. Also Oreos are mid. I don't get the obsession with them. Bourbon Creams are superior! On the Greggs thing, I'm always amazed how few there are in London, and they always seem to be next to a KFC. It's just Pret everywhere. They're better up north! They're always hot, you don't have to specifically ask. Often too hot so they burn your mouth lol.

[@sie4431]

Do you mean central London?

[@Scuzzlebutt142]

For Creme eggs in Aus/NZ, they used to be made in the Dunedin Cadbury factory, then they "restructured", and stopped making them there, and now import them from the UK. Compared to what they used to be, they are crap, chocolate not as good, the filling is now very grainy where it used to be smooth. Tellingly, sales of them tanked after this change. Hell, most people in NZ won't buy Cadbury if they can get away with it, as the quality of their chocolate is so much worse than what it was, we stick to Whittakers.

[@MarmiteTheDog]

Cadbury is owned by Mondelez, not Kraft (also owned by Mondelez). Mondelez are the masters of producing utter shite disguised as food (closely followed by PepsiCo).

[@StevenBanks123]

American Snickers bars are a disappointment. I think they wave a peanut over the chocolate as it passes down the conveyer belt. UK snickers… PEANUTS!

[@caramelldansen2204]

What? COLD GREGGS?!?! 💀

[@benjaminwilson2945]

16:42 In my experience blackcurrant is actually usually the most popular flavour.

[@KeesBoons]

For me it is at least. Any forest fruit is way better than the other flavours in general.

[@chrisdale5443]

I second that Roundtree's fruit pastilles the black one was always everyone's favourite

[@alicejade3657]

Same!! Everyone I know would agree with this too

[@KernowWarrior]

Growing up in Cornwall, now living in Ireland. Proper Cornish Pasties!

[@rachelconnolly1030]

Yes! Although I had a decent one in Mace in Belmullet, Co. Mayo just this week

[@Fractureise]

Yes but i prefer a propper Devon pasty

[@KayMaTrixx]

KIM'S BACK WOOOOO!

[@synthiandrakon]

Quick and cheap is i think what describes greggs perfectly. Its really hard to explain to people from other countries why people like greggs so much because its not like incredible. But like i really appreciate being able to get a quick hot lunch thats tasty enough and its actually cheap,

[@DomingoDeSantaClara]

Never understood why they don't keep their food in a warmer, I love steak bakes but refuse to buy them cold, gotta be there just after they come out the oven, which is of course impossible to predict.

[@bearmugs1408]

@@DomingoDeSantaClara I've only had Greggs cold (well lukewarm) once. Maybe I'm lucky but I swear there are warmers in the glass displays. I don't go there often but in the winter/autumn its so nice having a hot pastry to go

[@caramelldansen2204]

Pound Bakery chads rise up

[@seijika46]

Ready meals. (The irritating bait-and-switch tax not included in given price thing is sadly the case in Canada as well. Nowhere outside of North America have I encountered that headache and felt quietly furious about it when living over there - along with that outrageous having to pay for a 'checking' bank account. Urgh.)

[@pyejammiesfanfic640]

The only thing you can say in Welsh is, ‘’Jesu Grist’, (‘Jesus Christ’)? I think I might go for, ‘Chwarae teg’, or, ‘ Da iawn’, I’d miss proper cheddar cheese. What Americans call cheddar is disgusting. I love black pudding and haggis. Yorkshire puds really aren’t difficult to make. I’d miss supermarket ready meals and toasted tea cakes.

[@Sara_S135]

I'm confused about the paying for a checking account thing. I have lived in the US my whole life & never had to pay for a checking account. On a similar note I also am able to send money to other people for free through my bank. Why does everyone claim that we have to pay?

[@AngryVet44]

Paying for a bank account is like paying for anything else American it’s called greedy profit seeking capitalism.

[@brandonhowell5096]

@@Sara_S135 Odds are they are actually payig for the savings account not the Checking as those are free with every bank account I've had over the years.

[@chrispalmer2353]

A. Yorkshire puddings aren’t hard to make. B. Ribena is awesome I love blackcurrant. C. Definitely ribena, or Sausage rolls.

[@jiggyprawn]

Yeah, I was surprised they said Yorkshire puds are difficult to make. Having said that, I used to assume they were until a friend told me how to make them. Really easy.

[@dealbreakerc]

It's not hard to make a decent Yorkshire but it is challenging to consistently make prefect ones.

[@jiggyprawn]

@@dealbreakerc fair enough!

[@MaxNeck]

@@dealbreakerceven a badly made home made one will be 10x better than shop ones

[@OhItsJustKim]

@@dealbreakerc haha yesss i live with a perfectionist baker who threatens to throw incredible cakes in the bin, so i guess it's set an unrealistic standard!

[@kaieden]

Spices! I recently visited family in Taiwan and as an avid cook was excited to share some of my favourite meals with them, but couldn't find many of the ingredients whilst even more were just prohibitively expensive (especially dairy). British supermarkets have spice aisles with just about every spice a regular cook will want, and most towns will have a south asian shop with more variety & bulk prices. The spice aisles in Taiwan were mainly different variations of black & white pepper. I realised then that I definitely took the availablility of ingredients for granted back home. Tinned tomatoes were like £2 a tin, butter was like lurpak prices. I gave up! Other countries also don't seem to drink live ales, I'd miss that too. Expats who are missing chips, crumpets, & yorkies though should try making them at home, they're super easy & much nicer than store bought anyway!

[@PawsinParis]

As somebody who moved to France this question is easy, Greggs vegan sausage rolls,crumpets, sliced white bread and Yorkshire biscuit tea.

[@wiganfan3373]

I spent some time in the Charente region during the 80's, the only sliced bread you could get was a third of the size of a loaf, weird mini slices but always felt stale

[@ogribiker8535]

@@wiganfan3373 I now live in the Charente and 'American' white sliced bread is everywhere.

[@PawsinParis]

You can get pain de mie, it’s too sweet. English bread is much better !

[@MegaWilderness]

How, just how, when French food is so amazing?

[@PawsinParis]

@@MegaWilderness Ok, don’t get me wrong. A crusty, fresh baguette from la boulangerie is top tier. But when I want an egg and cress, or a cheese and pickle, I don’t want a baguette. I want trashy sliced white !

[@BlueRoseHelen252]

i'm British and i would definitely not keep proper butter in the fridge, and I hate that yucky margarine stuff

[@MegaWilderness]

If it's spreadable it's been diluted with oil. Keep it in the fridge and slice it. If it isn't salted, it's not butter

[@__-fm5qv]

@@MegaWilderness Depends I tend to just have unsalted butter, because its easier when it comes to baking, and I don't want to have multiple blocks of butter on the go. Especially as I just live by myself. I normally just sprinkle some salt on after I've spread the butter.

[@helenbartoszek243]

I'm from Australia and during autumn, winter and spring I keep my butter out of the fridge. But during summer it must be kept in the fridge, otherwise it turns to liquid.

[@thorstenjaspert9394]

@@helenbartoszek243 The summers in Germany become hotter. With indoor temperatures over 25 degrees, butter become too soft. The best thing were if you have a fridge with 15 degrees to temper the butter right. But this is luxury.

[@Ykoz2016]

I’m American, vegan, and lived in Korea last year. There was one or two breads in the supermarket but mostly you had to go to a bakery to get bread, which was kinda quaint tbh. And the bakery chains are literally everywhere. So that was just fun. HOWEVER, for no reason at all, all their bread was made with milk. All of it. So I had to find vegan bakeries and go halfway across town to buy bread. Which was also expensive. So that became a special treat. It FELT like I was going out of my way to buy a fancy cake from a special pastry-shop for a birthday party. But in reality I was hunting down white bread for avocado toast. Just part of the adventure 😂🤷‍♀️❤️

[@charaznable1131]

Omg!!! Have been watching evan since a long time and watched kim on old vids of evan and love that's she's back

[@thegrumpyguy1043]

I did move abroad and I can tell you that Twiglets aside, I missed the history. In Australia brown signs meant nature walks, in the U.K. they mean ancient things. I loved Australia without reservation, still do, but that is what I missed and now I’m home I’m glad for it.

[@Tnya099]

Yes! Same as a Brit in Australia. I'm so excited to move back to England for the castles and the ancient history. I absolutely love Aus for the native wildlife, and it's so beautiful, but I miss the English countryside and stone houses and old, old things.

[@sophieirwin3497]

I do miss proper pubs in LA. My mum came to visit last September, and it was a mission to find a pub relatively near by to my apartment to have a glass of wine whilst we decided what we wanted for dinner. Also I agree with Kim, proper British pubs you go to the bar and it's nice not having someone trying to serve you at a table all the time.

[@nicktankard1244]

there is a pub in LA with proper British cask beer. It's glorious

[@sophieirwin3497]

@@nicktankard1244 ooh where is it?

[@nicktankard1244]

@@sophieirwin3497 ok I just google and apparently it changed owners. It used to be called Yorkshire Square Brewery and it was a British style pub with cask ales and traditional pub food. Won a bunch of awards and stuff. Now it’s called Project Barley Square. I haven’t been to LA in about 5 years. But it seems they kept it the same. It’s in Torrance.

[@sophieirwin3497]

@@nicktankard1244 Thanks for the recommendation! I'm always looking for a bit of home

[@WILFREDRUSSELL-h8n]

@@nicktankard1244I used to like going to Ye Old King’s Head in Santa Monica when I lived in LA. It had a great British vibe, food, beer - but I haven’t been since 1990!

[@terija129]

Lived for 5 years in London- miss free museums and brandy butter for Christmas

[@WelcomeToWonderland]

When I moved to Germany the thing I missed was cheddar and cider (west country moment), non of the cheese in the shops filled the gap and the only cheddar I found was a ridiculous 4 euro for 4 slices of cathedral city in Edeka or an Irish one in Aldi which wasn't very good, needless to say I had friends and family smuggle me over some

[@PawsinParis]

Same here in France, the “cheddar” just doesn’t cut it !

[@biscuit715]

Yeah real cider, the scrumpy you buy off the dodgy farmer down the road, is impossible to find anywhere else. It's always some horrible sweet shit. And European cheese is fantastic, but it is strange that we have a load of good European cheeses in our shops but they never have real cheddar or wensleydale or any other good british hard cheese.

[@Eric_Hunt194]

On the Caramel Digestive question, for a while they did a version with coffee flavoured caramel... those were amazing!

[@jameswilson2364]

Not serious with no mention of Marmite...

[@XsGames_]

It's hard to miss it these days, you can get import vegemite/marmite most places.

[@PawsinParis]

You can find that easily on line ! It’s the fresh foods that people can’t get easily.

[@Miss_Lexisaurus]

omg yes, how could I forget! I definitely missed Marmite.

[@BOABModels]

I've found marmite in supermarkets in France and Spain.

[@Alan_Duval]

Then again, British Marmite isn't a patch on New Zealand Marmite (and that IS hard to find in the UK, since the Kiwi shop, down the way from the NZ embassy, closed down).

[@ad3z10]

Cider would be a big one for me, it's my drink of choice at the pub but finding any abroad (excluding obscenely sweet stuff) can be a challenge.

[@Lily-Bravo]

"Brits don't know real butter" Extraordinary comment to make. After Christmas I found a pint of double cream at the back of the fridge I had forgotten about. It was a month past the date but looked OK and surprisingly smelled OK. I have a Kilner butter churn and thought it was time to use it. I ended up with about 250g of butter. I had over guessed the amount of salt to add so shoved in garlic as well. Kept it in the fridge and used it to make garlic bread.

[@biscuit715]

I'm normally very stingy on the sorts of food I buy, normally the cheapest shit, but real butter is something I always splash out for. I bought lurpak when the shop was out of the proper stuff and even that just tasted like oil.

[@JustAnotherPerson4U]

I agree with the butter remark and the butter I'm currently using is kept in a butter tray. Although, sometimes I do keep butter in the fridge for baking purposes. Because some recipes call for cold butter.

[@Harrison_J_T]

Kiiiiim! A video on her channel recently and now her on your channel, what a treat. I followed her since the sarcaschicks days

[@skylark.kraken]

I love Greggs because it's cheap. The prices for other fast food is crazy, if I want fast food I want it dirt cheap, don't tell me that a BigMac is a good deal when the meal deal is like £6, give me £3 of pastry and it's far more filling With Greggs being cold, it's worth noting that it's a bakery, they make food at a certain time and then sell it. So if you get stuff in the morning it's freshly made and it's hot, if you get stuff at lunch they will have prepared stuff for lunch, but in the late afternoon it's been sitting there since lunch. Past 14 you're risking it, but before then it should be fine, past 16 don't get your hopes up you get a choice and it's hot enough

[@JanPopieluch]

8:15 that was the most loving "yeah" towards a Heinz product I've ever heard in my life :D

[@Jess140594]

I love putting malt vinegar on my salad, I've done it since I was little. I love it, can't get enough.

[@seanmcgovern8789]

Where was Kate buying paracetamol for €7 in Ireland?!? You can get non-brand in a chemist for like €1-€2 and the name brands are like €3+ Edit: I realise now from the ppl responding to me that it’s possibly about bigger size packs or other factors. My bad. I also agree it’s outrageous, makes the hangover hurt more having to fork over the cash getting the tablets. To be serious tho while we’re not as bad as the yanks for healthcare and I know the nhs is being gutted by the tories and bad officiating/upper management, irelands 2-tier system makes me yearn for a system even close to the nhs.

[@sie4431]

That's still quite a lot

[@glumdrops3678]

I pay all of 20p for paracetamol

[@seanmcgovern8789]

@@sie4431 oh yeah totally, but much different to €7😂

[@KK-yr2vc]

It's over €7 in a pharmacy for branded paracetamol, with the same brand costing €2.5 in a supermarket. There are other brands in the pharmacy for slightly less

[@jonathanfinan722]

That's still outrageous.

[@kelly1827]

Loving the chemistry/vibe/best mate thing with Kim!

[@PrinAnie]

I have just realised how much colonisation left behind. So many of these things are available here in South Africa. Our fish and chips come with chips that flop around, feel like they were just dipped in oil, but they are so good! Especially with lots of salt and vinegar.

[@janebaker966]

Greggs Cheese + Onion Bake is the only one to pick. I was once lucky enough to have one straight out of the oven,it was so piping hot I couldnt eat it for 15 minutes. And it was delicious. The crisps and cheesy biscuits in French supermarkets are SO tasty,ours are bland in comparison. Im told that some of them are made by the one same company but they vary the recipe to suit the national taste.

[@JustCallMeHen]

The British Home store Cheese and onion pasties were superior and always too hot to eat, I Miss BHS!

[@WonderfullyBookish]

So nice to see Kim again!!

[@sairhug]

One thing I missed when living in New Zealand was specific-smelling shower gel. In the early noughties in Invercargill (i.e. the back end of beyond - even the national train service said "nup" and wouldn't go there any more), all that was available were super-generic brands which didn't have a particular scent ... just, like, an overly-perfumed chemical pot-pourri of scents which I couldn't stand and gave me instant headaches. My mum had to send me care packages from England containing Original Source shower gel with identifiable smells like mint, lemon, lime or lavender. An Anglophile American friend was hooked on Imperial Leather soap, Typhoo tea and Branston's Pickle.

[@geoffbeattie3160]

Crumpets,sausages,bisto,Oxo,pies, pasties, squash, pubs, curries, fish n chips, M& S left Holland 4-5 yrs ago so any UK item costs 2-3x the UK price in EU now. 6 sausages were €6 last weekend!!😮

[@terrymason8628]

I lived in the US - L.A and Arizona for 3 years, and missed: real bacon, eggs with bright yellow yolks, bread with taste, breakfast tea made with soft water not filled with chemicals, the ability to have a proper local butcher, Vimto, and Radio 4

[@geekygalaxy4307]

Yellow yolks aren’t a flex 💀

[@Denis-ez8gd]

what does it mean real bacon? I wonder, to what product are you referring to.

[@terrymason8628]

Bacon rashers thickly cut, Canadian bacon to Americans, as opposed to the ubiquitous sliced with a razorblade 'Farmer John'

[@doodeedah6409]

Also, most bacon in the US contains sugar, that they have a specific product category called “sugar-free bacon”.

[@simoncaine9515]

Kim, please make more videos on your channel 😊 they're always amazing 👏

[@OhItsJustKim]

👀

[@simoncaine9515]

@@OhItsJustKim I said what I said 😅

[@animebackgroundscenery]

The color science in this video is beautiful

[@ima.ekenes]

I only lived in England for a few months. I do miss carveries! Also clottes cream (with or without scones), vinager crisps, and shopping at 2am in a giant, nearly empty ASDA. ❤ (Hello from Norway👋🏻)

[@HonestWatchReviewsHWR]

The things I always when I go on holiday are proper sausages and brown sauce.

[@paxperbellum1661]

My sister has us ship Yorkshire Tea over to SoCal. She can get it there, but she says it's not the same blend as the UK-market version (and expensive). She also fills half her bag with it when she visits.

[@sailingayoyo]

We have got our Yorkshire puddings down to a T now. Never wash the muffin tray and have a really heavy weight one. Put the tray in the very hot oven to get the oil mega hot, then out, pour in the batter as fast as possible and get it back in the oven pronto.

[@maryholden3136]

I've lived in England since I was a teenager and I'm greatgrandma now 😊 so a long time ago. I still miss Tayto cheese and onion crisps (Tayto invented the flavour)

[@punkrockzoologist9449]

How does someone miss tea bags in New Zealand? NZ has exactly the same kimd of tea bags as the UK. NZ crisps are sub-par, I'll asmit, but they still have lots of them there.

[@stripysocks3772]

When I lived abroad I missed custard. I could make an apple crumble from scratch, but my attempts at custard would sometimes turn into scrambled eggs in sweetened milk.

[@RaverRacer]

When I was abroad for a year the thing I missed the most was Greggs But now that I've been abroad again, probably the only thing I miss is London in the sun

[@eggchipsnbeans]

"But now that I've been abroad again, probably the only thing I miss is London in the sun", umm what's that?

[@RaverRacer]

@@eggchipsnbeans exactly 🤣🤣 so I don't miss all that much

[@bes4497]

I did move abroad (to Japan) and the things I miss the most are baked beans, Yorkshire tea, marmite, crumpets and bourbon biscuits. Also whole grain and seeded breads, pretty much only soft white sandwich bread and baguettes are available here.

[@auntyangie33]

We've just moved to a flat opposite Iceland. We go there all the time. It's great.

[@MiriamWalcott]

The theatre, good haberdashery stores and a variety of sweets including Maltesers and Revels are what I miss.

[@markiieee]

the yorkshire puddings are not difficult, equal quantities by weight of milk, eggs and flour. metal cupcake tray, a bit less than a half inch of oil in each cup, make sure the oil is piping hot before you pour the mix in. once you put them in the oven dont open it until they look ready, easy

[@Bunnybananabunny]

Omg Asian toast (Chinese/Korean/Japanese) is the best in the world!! The toast slices are like 1,5cm thick, they get golden crunchy on the outside but still soft and chewy on the inside. And allegedly they add sugar to make them very tasty😂 I always bring back as much as I can fit in my bag and fill my freezer at home😂

[@mrcoolsun3142]

pots of cockles, from the local market here in Wales, complete with vinegar and pepper - eaten on the go - maybe not a staple for most British folks though

[@riverAmazonNZ]

If you want cockles in NZ you have to go and harvest them yourself and cook them up

[@Bellabambina123]

I adore Kim's shirt!! 😍

[@evan]

It is lovely

[@VespaNuman]

I lived in New Zealand for a couple years and thought their crisps were better. Snackachangi vinegar and salt in particular. Vinegar before salt because you've taken off a layer of skin from your tongue by the end of the bag. Perfect for a vinegar loving Brit. Although I did miss the variety of relatively cheap European food we have in the UK. A proper ball of mozzarella, genuine parmesan, prosciutto, chorzio, actually mature cheddar, good quality olives. You can get all those things in NZ, but not as cheap or readily available.

[@AholeAtheist]

I was thinking maybe they meant specific brands or flavours, because we also have tea bags here. I've heard brits love shrimp cocktail flavoured crisps, which are usually a limited release flavour here.

[@golden_gloo]

Wow, feels like ages since I've seen an Evan Edinger video with Kim in, must have been like some pre-lockdown British vs American video.

[@punkrockzoologist9449]

Aussie pubs you go up and order at the counter. Great for big groups because you pay individually as well.

[@cc2panda]

14:12 NJ has 2 of the largest Indian enclaves in the US. There is probably more good Indian spots on Oak Tree road than most states have all together.

[@iancomputerscomputerrepair8944]

A very funny and entertaining video Evan. Please ask Kim back for another video!!

[@jeska1995]

Yorkshire puddings are absolutely not hard to make! I only learnt how to cook a few years ago, and now make roasts from scratch and have learnt that both gravy and Yorkshire puddings aren't hard to make. Yorkshire puddings are 3 ingredients, whisk, heat up oil or lard in the oven, ladle the batter into the hot oil and give them a check every so often without opening the oven door. That's it.

[@adamclark6756]

Wait! Other places don't have nettles? I never knew that.

[@KeesBoons]

We do in the Netherlands. Probably a US specific comment.

[@AmyThePuddytat]

@@KeesBoons They are probably in many countries, but I remember getting stung by nettles all the damn time in the UK and the garden would become nothing but nettles if you didn’t constantly weed it. It has never happened to me anywhere else. I don’t think I’ve seen a single one here in Australia.

[@KeesBoons]

@@AmyThePuddytat Thank you Amy. I think nettles are common around Europe. I've seen them in many countries and remember the itches from when I was a little boy ;o). Here in the Netherlands we even make soup of them.

[@AmyThePuddytat]

@@KeesBoons I worry for the sanity of the first person who grabbed a plant that causes painful inflammation on contact with the skin and thought, ‘Hmm, I think I’ll boil this up and put it in my mouth.’

[@KeesBoons]

@@AmyThePuddytat Happened with a lot of the foods in the past. We've not always had the luxury of being able to just buy our food and still many people on our planet haven't. I think tea is not something one would expect to be very popular either. It's just some leaves, which don't look very nutritional.

[@we-hb4ni]

Top video guys. Toast and butter after a few months abroad is heaven.

[@Lily-Bravo]

I came home from Australia because I missed the pubs, the seasons, and walks in the country (And the town, as walking into spiders webs all the time was not pleasant). Oh and the bird song, (Although I loved the magpie calls out there - very evocative) Oh and the history.

[@kristalpower292]

7:49 trying to figure out if squash is the equivalent to cordial in Australia.

[@adamwyatt9748]

Yes it is mate

[@davidcook7887]

Yeah, if you go the States a quick beans on toast with a cuppa ( made with kettle so it’s fast) is a missed commodity. Along with bangers and HP sauce.

[@marctelfer6159]

How does Kim *always* manage to pop up literally the day after I think "I wonder what Kim's up to now. Been a bit since a video"? Then BOOM! There's Kim! :D To answer the question, for me, definitely shepherds pie or yorkshire puddings. Like I assume you can get them places, and you can, like Evan said, make your own, but I only make them when people come round, and it's a thing they also all know about and like. Would be nice to introduce that to people if I moved abroad, though :D

[@TheRealBobHickman]

Potato waffles - ideal for sarnies, but not really seen outside the UK. They're waffley versatile as the ad goes.

[@RM-ti8nf]

Pfft have lived in New Zealand 63 years. WE HAVE TEABAGS AND CRISPS It'd be hard to find loose leaf tea. We don't have 100 flavours of crisps, but we have what we like

[@almostyummymummy]

Too right we do. Although, I never call them crisps.

[@NicolaDrake79]

It's not hard to find loose leaf tea, but yes tea bags are definitely the more common kind.

[@Alan_Duval]

That said, finding a close equivalent to Griffin's gingernuts in the UK is a nightmare 😞

[@riverAmazonNZ]

@@Alan_Duvalcornish fairings are kinda similar

[@Alan_Duval]

@@riverAmazonNZ Thanks! I'll keep an eye out.

[@alwynemcintyre2184]

Here in Australia you might find American style baked beans in speciality stores, there's about 4 different companies making baked beans here. Plus one that does regular baked beans, english style, cheesy, ham bbq flavours as well.

[@MikeRees]

Can't always make a roast dinner. There are large parts of the world where having an oven is an expensive luxury because it's just not part of the local cuisine to roast or bake things. Subsequently after staying in Thailand for a few months I had an outrageously strong craving for pasta bake when I made it back to Blighty.

[@WobblyBits_X]

I'm in NZ and have absolutely no idea what that person is talking about at 7:52. We have tea, loose and in bags. We have innumerable varieties of "crisps".

[@BellePullman]

Tea bags were one thing in New Zealand I didn't need to miss - NZ brands are decent! We even brought some Bell's home to UK!

[@whatevil]

Brit living in Canada now. Things I miss: Super wide variety of crisps. I can get a fair few of the specific ones I used to miss from ex-pat stores but they're expensive and I miss just having them available everywhere. Good Indian food - I've started making my own. Some half-decent Indian takeout exists here but it's *expensive*. Packaged sandwiches and meal deals - in supermarkets everywhere in the UK but not really a thing here. They're just convenient, cheap and easy. I can of course make better sandwiches but again it's just the convenience. Squash being cheap - I can get it here but it's like $5 for a bottle. Strawberry laces. I didn't have them often in the UK but now they're harder to get, I do miss them. I *can* get them here but it's expensive. Chip Shop chips. This is the biggest thing. You can't get them here and you can't make them yourself at all easily - you can't get the right potatoes for one thing. Also chips were always so cheap - £2-3 for enough chips and mushy peas for a whole meal. There is nothing comparable here. Canada also does the "tax not included in the price" thing.

[@MadHatterGrellAJ]

High ceilings. My grandparents are from a country where most houses and flats with the exception of very old buildings have quite low ceilings and it makes me quite claustrophobic.

[@travelduderino]

I'm not sure if this is a thing in Britain but in Minnesota we mix drained canned tuna with mayonnaise into a paste and then make a sandwich out of it. Tuna Sandwich.

[@AholeAtheist]

LOL. WTF? We have tea bags and crisps in Aotearoa(New Zealand). Maybe they mean a specific brand or flavour? We do have quite a few brands of tea here though. I'm told Brits quite like Shrimp cocktail flavoured crisps though, and that's usually a limited release flavour here. Also, the price of paracetamol in continental Europe seems steep. The non name brand paracetamol here is NZD$2 for 20 tabs, which is about 1.10 Euros. (Oops, was it Ireland, and not continental Europe?)

[@John.S92]

Fun fact; Butter will start to become rancid after 2 days. Only keep little hotel-micro packets of butter in room temperature, for regular butter? That goes in the refrigerator of course.

[@maryholden3136]

That's ridiculous...... 2 weeks maybe. I buy butter once a month and have only had this problem once during a heatwave

[@PaulinaLemuriaRutkowska]

I've lived in UK for 7 years, moved to central Europe and miss clotted cream, ale, marmite and terry's chocolate orange. On the other hand the selection of squash flavoures (fruit sirup for diluting) is by far way bigger here: herbal, elderflower, raspberry, blueberry, peach, mango, lemon, orange, etc.

[@95CamaCazzie]

4:30 my sister in law sadly passed away in the front room, and when we were waiting for the funeral directors to arrive we went into the kitchen for a cup of tea

[@Binteh]

I'm not british but I've lived in the UK for about 7 years, and I miss the sausage rolls, the breakfast sausages and the prawn cocktail crisps... can't find those anywhere outside of the UK... BUT, amazon has them imported, thankfully!

[@cern1999sb]

I moved to the Netherlands, and I miss small packets of crisps that I can have for lunch. They only seem to sell the big sharing size bags, which means I can only have them if I'm having people over or feeling very gluttonous

[@laurentaylor774]

I lived in Paris for a while, parsnips and gravy granules were almost impossible to find and when I could they were really expensive. Really missed those!

[@brendalevesque6384]

If you don’t like squash, have you tried cordial? Lime cordial has been around for at least 65 years. My friend buys me various fruit cordials at Christmas. It’s just concentrated fruit juice. Delicious, dilute it with water Evan!,

[@5Bip]

Having lived on 3 continents, I missed traditional seasonal goods and I went to long lengths to make my own. Since I'm home, I have now incorporated parts of the new countries at these times. When I lived in Portland, Oregon I was amazed how much british and northern european stuff eg pickled herring, UK tea, in a local supermarket. Even had a few indian curry houses. My Mum was finnish and my dad was american, while I was born in the UK. It is a wonderful world.

[@richardlincoln886]

The thing that says 'home' when I come back is a decent cup of tea. It's just not the same anywhere else - even if I make it myself when there.

[@philipellis7039]

Having just spent five weeks in France and Spain I know that my wife would have also said squash as we had to take enough with us for the whole trip. I’d probably say fish and chip shops, the frite places you occasionally see are rubbish (deep fried frozen fries) and not everywhere like fish and chips shops are. Being in a small French town and the only takeaway is 17€ artisan pizzas that aren’t even available until 7pm. Pah!

[@chrisdale5443]

As an Englishman in France I miss Farm sales, as in dispersal auctions, plugs that are easy to plug in, Eccles cakes, Christmas cakes and the variety of fruit in the supermarket

[@rachelconnolly1030]

Yes to Eccles cakes.

[@carolannmathieson1594]

Ex pat living in Norway, Salad cream (heinz naturally), branston pickle -although available in tiny jars for the equivalent of £18..., good cheese , marmite twiglets and walkers salt and vinegar crisps. Most of the rest we have managed to replace,

[@angelle_rose]

I lived abroad for a few months and I started missing food that I barely ate like scones but I was craving them so much! My craving stopped when I came back even though I didn't eat them 🙈

[@JenniD1990]

When I lived briefly in America (I’m from Northern Ireland, UK) the first thing I missed was good chocolate, and the second thing was a chippy (fish and chip shop). I’ve a friend from home who lives in Canada at the moment and she frequently misses a good Chinese takeaway - which she can’t get where she is.

[@brandonhowell5096]

Chocolate is very subjective when it comes to being "good" most countries that don't have Cacao growing naturally aren't actually eating true chocolate. True chocolate doesn't actually have much taste to it, often suppose to be super bitter, and funny enough its closer to the US version of chocolate then everywhere else in the world