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[@jaydemorton9814]

My mum walked past when Evan said "biscuits and gravy" and immediately said "eww" and pulled a face. Had to stop the video to show her the picture cause she thought Americans were putting gravy on digestives.😂

[@ymarkone]

Really good "home made" biscuits and gravy is a thing to live for! I used to work every Christmas morning at a theme park and we would get stuff ready for filming the Christmas Parade. Once everything was set up we would go and eat breakfast in the employee cafeteria. Everything was made from scratch!!! And they always had biscuits and gravy available for breakfast. The biscuits were 3.5-4 inches across and the gravy had quite a lot of sausage in it. I would have them split a biscuit in half and put a sausage patty on each half and them pour the gravy over it. This would be about 7:30-8am and I wouldn't be hungry again until 4-5pm. It was so good!!!

[@FTZPLTC]

I remember the first time I heard the phrase, in the movie Demolition Man, and that was my reaction too. But I thought it was just Wesley Snipes' character being weird.

[@amberwebster83]

My mom makes the best gravy ever it’s so yummy and peppery and has breakfast sausage in it. The biscuits are buttery and flaky. It is my death row meal.

[@bdavis7801]

🤣🤣🤣

[@K-o-R]

@@FTZPLTC First time I heard it was in the cartoon of _The Mask_ where he zooms off to have "bulldog gravy and biscuits!" Stanley's nauseous reaction afterwards did nothing to tell me he didn't literally have dog biscuits and brown gravy.

[@W8D_]

Brit here, Trick or Treating is a much bigger thing in the countryside and in small villages. The kind of place where everyone knows everyone, and parents know that their children are going to be safe. If you live in the countryside and don't have a bag of Maoam's in your cupboard on Halloween night then prepare for some chaos - a friend of mine had their bin lid stolen and thrown into a river!

[@janebaker966]

Mischief Night was a thing in England possibly Wales,Scotland,Ireland too back in history. I think in the 19th century a lot of traditions that actually survived in USA,here got amalgamated into Bonfire Night + Guy Fawkes.

[@kaspianepps7946]

@@janebaker966 I think Mischief Night is still a thing in Lincolnshire. I had a teacher from there who mentioned it and when I went on holiday there the week before Halloween the supermarket had signs saying they wouldn't sell eggs or flour to under 18s.

[@contrapunctusmammalia3993]

I grew up in british suburbia fairly near a few schools and i definitely was planted by the front door with a bowl of sweets to deal with the trick or treaters. Now i live somewhere with a lot less middle class young families so i never see any.

[@haveyoutakenyourmeds]

​@janebaker966 mischief night (or mischievous night) was very much a thing where I grew up in Leeds. Its the day before bonfire night. There is even a film set in the area I grew up all about it called Mischief Night. Likewise trick or treating was, and still is, very much a thing. In some places people go all out like Americans do.

[@lucyj8204]

Yes, in our village someone will volunteer to create a map of houses taking part so you can plan your route. It's a big deal and fully fun. I do think ours is better though because we go ToTing in the dark (because it's fully dark before 6pm) in spooky costumes whereas I think American children go out while it's still daylight and wear any fancy dress they like. That could be happening any time. Make us notice that it's Hallowe'en!

[@Bunnybananabunny]

When I was 17, my parents took our family to the US (NYC and Florida). The trip was expensive, so we didn't have much money to do stuff, so we made a list of all kinds of American things we wanted to try, mostly foods! Like dipping Oreos in peanut butter (like in Parent Trap), Starbucks, corndogs, PB&J, eat Jell-o and Spaghetti-Os, pop tarts, twinkies, Wendy's and a bunch of other random foods, take a yellow cab, j-walk between cars in NYC, see gators in Florida etc etc! Best trip ever!

[@thecunninlynguist]

lol...this warms my heart. PBJ, corndogs, etc. aren't common?

[@Bunnybananabunny]

​@@thecunninlynguist Not in Finland! I had never tried peanut butter before I visited the States😂

[@thecunninlynguist]

@@Bunnybananabunny that's so interesting, it's stuff like this that intrigues me. It's so common place here I never give it a second thought.

[@sophieirwin3497]

Do you not have Starbucks? I found Starbucks in Thailand so assumed it was everywhere!

[@klimtkahlo]

@@Bunnybananabunny how did you like it? As an European I thought PB would be this heavenly tasting thing and I was so bitterly disappointed. I can have a few of the organic stuff with no sugar added but not that great at all. I rather have almond butter and nothing compares to (unhealthy but delicious) Nutella!

[@Garrett.]

In Germany and I think some other countries there is a company called "dinnerhopping" where you literally get on a vintage yellow school bus and they drive you to different restaurants where waiters get on and serve a variety of food.

[@Trebor74]

That sounds great fun

[@peterjf7723]

A friend was a theatre props designer and one year he made himself a demon costume for Halloween, he then went trick or treating with his eight year old niece, dressed as a witch leading him about on a lead. He was about six foot two and it looked impressive.

[@russetmantle1]

ha ha ha love that 🤣

[@andyr.6126]

I always considered macaroni cheese to be part of British food. It was just a staple when I was growing up. I didn't realise it was considered an American thing til much later in life.

[@gilly4026]

Didn’t we invent it?

[@IceMetalPunk]

@@gilly4026 If you're Italian, then yes. The first known mac & cheese recipe is from 13th century Italy.

[@andyr.6126]

@@gilly4026 I think the first recorded recipe that looks like modern macaroni cheese was from Britain but I think it would be too much to claim it as a British invention. The origins are most likely Italian and also probably French IMO.

[@horat7]

@@IceMetalPunk The wikipedia page claims England as the place of origin

[@ShizuruNakatsu]

"Macaroni cheese" doesn't sound like "macaroni AND cheese". It sounds like cheese of/from macaroni, where macaroni is an adjective to describe the type of cheese in question.

[@OliviaHarrison731]

I didn’t realise people in London don’t go trick or treating, but I’m from Manchester and we did it every year. I do admit the number of people out recently has dwindled though

[@leea8706]

I’m from the north east of England and originally Scotland, trick or treating is really popular and has been since I was a kid (born in 1989), people have been putting more and more effort in every single year. But trick or treating literally started in Scotland and Ireland, so it makes sense we are more into it and that it has spread to the north east too.

[@poppygreen9987]

At least where i am in london people go trick or treating but its not as popular as in america

[@55tranquility]

People in London do go trick or treating - but no its not as big as it is in the States. Mainly because it’s usually freezing cold, p1ssing with rain and dark in November. Also three of my last jobs in London across 10 years all had fancy dress days on Halloween …

[@SirChaddington]

I have fond memories trick or treating as a child, but I've also niced it dwindling a lot in recent years. Dorset btw.

[@Pope_Rural_I5184]

Same in Southend people always trick or treat

[@MisVicios123]

what you say about people just visiting cities is so true!!! i'm from chile and i cannot understand people who come to the country and just see santiago like....congrats you've been to a big city and ignored the desert, mountains, sea, glaciers, rain forests, lakes, waterfalls and everything that makes the country nice the one (positive?) thing that comes from people only visiting the capital is the "i didn't know you had skyscrapers in chile" so at least they can change their view of latin america a bit

[@IceMetalPunk]

But how are you typing this comment when, clearly, non-European countries don't have modern technology like the internet? 😂 /s

[@KiraFriede]

That's true. The rarely remember anything from Santiago and a lot from the rest of the country.

[@russetmantle1]

I'm a London mum of an 11yo and he's too old for trick or treating now, obv, but we did have quite a few successful years of doing it. It started when he was 3 and I was on my way to pick him up from his nursery, which was quite far away from our house in a different (fancier) area. I noticed that a few houses here and there were decorated for Halloween and had jack-o-lanterns outside, so I decided to do a bit of unplanned trick or treating with him, which he loved. A couple of years later, I was tipped off to the fact that the well-heeled part of Walthamstow (just down the road from where we are in Leyton) known as Walthamstow Village was a trick or treating hotspot. Lots and lots of houses participate there, and some of them go all-out. I fondly remember one house on a corner that was not only fully decorated but also had audio pumping out Michael Jackson's Thriller on a loop. The guy in the house opened the door in full werewolf costume and presented my son with a bowl of vegetables, saying "sorry, all the sweets have run out - I hope that's OK". My son picked out a cherry tomato and said thank you. 😂 Then, of course, the werewolf chirpily said "Only joking!" and produced the bowl of candy lmao. So I guess the point is that there are areas in London that encourage trick or treating, where there are enough houses participating to create a good enough density that makes it worth going there. The key is that the whole thing operates via the use of pumpkins as a consent symbol. In other words, children only approach houses that have lit jack-o-lanterns obviously placed outside. You won't get approached if you don't want to be.

[@tracywoods3798]

American small town mom of 3 here.... 11 years old is not too old. That's when they are finally getting old enough to go on their own (at least a few blocks at a time) My oldest just turned 18 and he went last fall. Most people are starting to think it's better that they are out trick or treating than getting into trouble.

[@grimnirnacht]

I went trick or treating until I was 24. Don't cut your kid short on Halloween. It's the best holiday

[@russetmantle1]

Indeed Elizabeth and Tracy! I would love for him still to be going, but he's kinda opted out of it himself. He figures he's too big for it and I don't want to force him. Such a shame!

[@turtlescanfly7]

@@grimnirnachtsame I was going trick or treating into college. I’m 31 now and the only years I haven’t gone were during the pandemic. Granted at some point I started taking younger nieces and nephews and stopped asking for candy myself but I still dressed up and walked around the neighborhood with my SIL and her kids

[@JUMALATION1]

Funnel cake? I have been eating it all my life here in Finland around May 1st as an annual tradition, not even knowing it was a thing in the US 👀 We call it "struva" in Swedish or "tippaleipä" in Finnish, often eaten around the Walpurgis holiday 🎉🎈

[@bethanychomiak1399]

In Canada we call them beaver tails and eat them at fairs and places like that.

[@LiqdPT]

​​@@bethanychomiak1399 afaik, Beaver tails aren't funnel cakes. Those are the same as elephant ears. A big flat piece of dough deep fried and usually sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar

[@itsgonnabeanaurfromme]

@@bethanychomiak1399not the same at all

[@meganlaland8129]

I’m a Brit that married a US military member. We recently spent a few weeks in small town Arizona and I absolutely love it. I have been to the US as a tourist a few times, but going with my husband and seeing things through a whole different perspective was incredible. Two best is things to try though are absolutely panda express orange chicken and Texas roadhouse rolls and cinnamon butter. What I wouldn’t give for some of that damn bread rn

[@qynoi42]

Omg those Texas Roadhouse rolls! And the sweet butter... 😊

[@raikiri23]

As a county kid, I definitely would have preferred living closer to, well, anything growing up. It was a dead end street with only two other kids on it and they spent a lot of time in summer camp. And my parents wonder why I became so into video games. I can only ride my bike up and down the road so many times.

[@elliebuist8734]

I’ve been to Texas once and got to go to Chili’s, Chick-fil-a and in & out. I loved them all but feel like I only scratched the surface of the food in America, I’d love to go back and try even more at some point 😀

[@BOABModels]

There was a Chili's in Cambridge, UK in the early 2000s - I had no idea at the time it was unusual.

[@ymarkone]

Actually, it's better to find locally owned restaurants than to go to the huge chains. The food quality is usually much better and the flavors are much better. The really good local restaurants source their ingredients locally as well, so much fresher and better tasting!

[@LoneWulf278]

If you ever return, remember to try chili, gumbo, chicken fried steak, sweet potato pie, barbecue, whataburger, and kolaches. 😋

[@Wizardraveger]

You should try North Carolina’s two bbq styles: Lexington and Eastern

[@Trebor74]

I went to a Wendy's. Can understand Americans call them sliders. There was so much sauce,and was so wet, the burger slid out the bottom

[@leea8706]

I’m absolutely blown away that trick or treating isn’t done all over the UK. I’m British and I trick or treated my entire childhood and now my kids do it every year. I live in the north east of England, born in Scotland and had part of my childhood there and trick or treating is just something that people did every year. People put a lot of effort into it too. Trick or treating was originally created by the Celts so it makes sense that it spread to north east England from Scotland, I’m just surprised it spread to America before the rest of the UK!

[@phoebegee54]

I've only done it once or twice ever.

[@Squimbelina]

Yeah - that was news to me too! Only in London? We all did it growing up in the far north of Scotland.

[@leobeboop4944]

It's quiet common east of England as well from my experience! We haven't had any trick or treaters the last few years but I live down a lane where noone would find me and the rest of the houses on my road have massive creepy driveways lol I thought the whole UK celebrated Halloween this video is the first time I've heard differently

[@TheArmouredArmadillo]

I did it once as a child, then my parents just offered to buy me some sweets/chocolate that I wanted and I thought that was much better, just get what I like :D

[@calumvaughan8690]

When I was a kid growing up in a little town in the south of England in the early 00's, Halloween was actually really popula! All the kids would dress up and the whole town would be out, and there wouldnt be many houses that you would knock on that were not participating. Looking back on it, it was exactly how you'd imagine it in an American film - kids running all over the place knocking on doors and getting free candy. I feel like years later, I don't really see this anymore as an adult on halloween, I put candy out for the kids last year but didnt even have anyone turn up!

[@FredrikOstrozanszky]

Can so relate to the magical feeling of trick or treating and the loss when you get to old. Except in Sweden we used to dress up as witches on Maundy Thursday (the day before Good Friday) and get easter candy. Sadly it doesn't happen so much anymore, as the tradition has fallen out of use.

[@04williamsl]

My friend was from Sweden and she said what would happen is on Christmas Eve, there'd be guys dressed as Santa who would go around to each persons house/flat and deliver the presents. That sounds soooo amazing. Where I live in the UK, not a chance could you trust a random guy with your child's Christmas presents. You're just asking for them to be stolen

[@FredrikOstrozanszky]

@@04williamsl this probably depends on where you live. For me it used to be one of our neighbours. But I know of people that had one of these Santas. They are pretty known locally, so not total strangers. Parents usually make an agreement with them and hide the bag of presents at an agreed place outside if they live in a house or just hand them the bag when the children are not noticing. Not so common when the children are older and absolutely not when there's only grownups.

[@erinsammons42]

I grew up on the Isle of Man, Halloween is not really a thing but you do similar celebrations on the same day and it's called Hop-Tu-Naa - you basically go round people's houses singing a particular song and get sweets and/or money. It was great!

[@boneitch]

I just love how "I'll travel the world, but this iconic place in my home country is just so *far*" is a common human sentiment.

[@Tarry_Plaguer]

I actually was one of those "kids" who grew up in that 70's ET culture neighborhood. I actually miss it now, We definitely don't have that vibe anymore. Growing up, I delivered newspapers from my bike. I had 40 customers. My bike had extra long front forks with a smaller wheel in front than in back. It also had a banana seat and the u shaped handlebars . It looked a bit like a "chopper" as that style of motorcycle was referred to. There was a lot of undeveloped land that extended back behind our school as well as off the end of a street that the corner store was on. We children would ride our bikes all around back in those fields and build secret hide outs in blackberry hedges or up in a tree. We also had a huge bean yard one street over where we would pick beans for cash. The river was next to the bean yard and had some off shoots that were shallow and calm. We even made some rafts and things out of old barrels and lumber. Made a "push-mobile" out of old wagon parts and the pully off of an old washing machine. We took turns pushing each other around the block in it. Never did get the 5HP B&S engine to run, wanted to make a go kart. Also had some fields with horses in them. We would feed them grass and an occasional carrot or apple. I also had a HO train set and I dabbled in control line gas powered planes. Was in the Cub Scouts. And of course did some vacation things. I went to the expo 74 World Fair in Spokane, WA Saw this amazing thing called a Radar Range that if you put a paper cup of water in it would boil the water without burning the cup! Was truly amazing, my mom couldn't believe it. I guess it used something called microwaves to agitate atoms or some such. COOL! I went to Disneyland, just before Space Mountain opened up I really liked the "America Sings" exhibit. RIP. Spent a week at Wallowa Lake and did some hiking there. Now THAT is some beautiful country! The gondola lift to the top of Mt. Howard is nice, but hiking along the trails to Aneroid Lake is really something. My mom and my sis both live on the Oregon coast, so yeah, I visit the coast quite a bit. There is some truly beautiful coast line to see. Just be aware that "sneeker" waves, really are a thing. Always be aware of what the waves coming in are doing I have had some pretty scary experiences.

[@Eric_Hunt194]

"Biscuits and Gravy" Shows an image of something that looks like a square scone and herby cottage cheese

[@Kurbymarie]

"Yellowstone is over in one of the Dakota's" 🤣 As someone from Wyoming and has lived in Montana, that statement upsets me on a level I didn't expect to feel.

[@ShizuruNakatsu]

As someone from Ireland, who has never been to the Americas at all but knows a lot about geography (including US geography), I wasn't sure if he was gaslighting me, or if I had been gaslighted for my entire life until now.

[@drewdavies9905]

I can’t explain how big of a fan I am, I’ve been watching you for years and no matter what the video I always give it watch. I love you and your content!

[@conormurphy4328]

You should either use your coffee grounds and fertiliser for your plants or put them in your food bin. Coffee grounds aren’t good for your drainage system.

[@Nic_S.]

In Germany Trick or Treating is actually pretty popular as well.Not everyone participates, but a decent amount do. Even in smaller villages (from my experience it's actually easier there, but I moved to a bigger city just at that age where I was geting to lold for that so my view could be a bit scewed)

[@fenrisulfr8]

I even went trick or treating 10 years ago in my German village. I was later shocked to learn that it isn't universal, especially back then. So glad I got to experience "street Halloween", and because we already celebrate carnival, you have to get creative with exclusively spooky costumes :)

[@Nic_S.]

@@fenrisulfr8 for me that was 14 years ago (or going back to the first times probably more like 18)

[@Serenity_yt]

I did go trick or treating a few times but it was very different to what you'd normally think of. No strangers houses only people we knew that had agreed beforehand and just one big group of a couple kids out on the street. In my southern German village at least. In the Austrian town we lived in before that Halloween was basically only mischief night by drunk teenagers and if little kids did it still only at houses they knew people. Plus we were raised Lutheran and on Reformation day we usually went to church and had activities there in the afternoons and evening.

[@danielcolwell4077]

Evan confirms Wyoming doesn’t exist bc Yellowstone is in one of the Dakotas 😂

[@MyBigBeautifulHeart]

Montana also.

[@pjschmid2251]

And a little bit in Idaho but none of it is in either of the Dakotas so Evan proves again that Americans suck at geography even within their own country

[@sunflowerdales]

You're right about Hershey's being an acquired taste because the way the milk is processed makes the chocolate taste like vomit to people who didn't grow up with it! That sounds like an exaggeration to people who haven't tried Hershey's, but as a Brit who tried Hershey's a fair few years ago now, I thought maybe I accidentally got an expired chocolate because I almost hurled after one bite but its actually just what the bar is like. The milk, I believe, is soured in a way to allow the chocolate to have a longer shelf life and were shipped to troops overseas during WWII if I remember correctly. HOWEVER! Hershey's cookies n' cream chocolate bars are really stinkin' good and they sell them in the UK also.

[@jwb52z9]

Cookies and Cream Hershey bars aren't chocolate, really.

[@sunflowerdales]

@@jwb52z9 Mm mm true, if they did actually taste like a Hershey's chocolate then god help us

[@keithbromley6070]

When my friends and I went to SF for a conference back in 2006, we had a few things on our “must do” list that we did: - Eat in lots of diners - Stay in a “Psycho” style motel (you know, U-shaped with cars parked diagonally along the sides) - Go to Yosemite (we were there for ~16h and saw 3 bears!) - Go to a baseball game and order a footlong hot dog (The only home run of the game was scored while we were buying them. Bonus 1: One guy shared some his peanuts with us. Bonus 2: We saw a fight - that was oddly kind of fun) - Go snorkeling in the Pacific (we swam with a baby seal) *Note on what I just watched: S’mores may be more authentic with Hersheys, but that stuff genuinely tastes like puke, so proper British chocolate would make it 100% better (IMHO)

[@jessackroyd1990]

"I've heard in London there are some families that go out trick or treating" - not just London. We trick or treat in Worcestershire. And probably most counties in the UK.

[@Komicklepto]

I was obsessed with The Magic School Bus as a child and always wanted to ride in a yellow school bus just so I could feel like I was in the show.

[@hsellors]

I live in Worthing, South UK, and last year experienced my first UK trick or treating with my son and our neighbours. I was astounded!!!! So busy, full of kids and families wondering the streets, decorations and so many sweets. Great community feel. Never had that as a kid!

[@leea8706]

I’m so confused by this cos I’ve been trick or treating my entire childhood and now my kids do and I was born in 1989. I was born in Scotland but moved to County Durham when I was 6 and It’s always been something everyone does and people put a lot of effort into it. It was originally invented by the celts though so makes sense that it would be done in Scotland and north east.

[@hsellors]

@Lee A I was born in 87 :) trick or treating was definitely a thing when I was growing up in the south of england, but my mum wouldn't take me 😭 My son is 2 and my neighbour invited us. I didn't think it would be very busy...but the streets were bustling with loads of excited kids and lovely neighbours decorating their houses and giving out sweets.

[@SailorSteph]

I always went trick or treating growing up in the UK, but I’ve noticed less people seem to do it these days.

[@MissesLykaa]

When I was younger we went to America on a holiday and we went to an American Girl Doll store in New York. Damn they were so expensive but I wanted one so bad 😅

[@Zomerset]

Amtrak and the Greyhound Bus are things I would like to experience. Great way to see the US up close and personal. A lot is missed when travelling by plane.

[@Spiklething]

I went to the US in 1984. Things I did for the first time ever - McDonald’s, drive-through, theme park and shopping mall. I also saw the space shuttle land. However, we had a garbage/ waste disposal system at home already.

[@bread-kp5mg]

I totally agree on the cities thing! Cities like NYC, Boston, etc, are cool and that, but my favorite things about America are the simple everyday things. I’m from Oklahoma, a boring, boring, state, so I always have the most nostalgia for the simple things. 4AM Waffle House, hanging out in Walmart, going to Sonic or Braums, sitting with friends in truck beds at different parking lots, driving aimlessly in the middle of nowhere, etc. Would 100% recommend this way to explore the US :)

[@jojoh8067]

20 years ago I went to NYC for 3 days for my birthday as a surprise. It was a brilliant trip and at JFK while we were waiting for our flight home I saw Hershey Bars at the little shop in the departure lounge. I was so excited and bought one. Took a giant bite then said (embarrassing loudly I’m advised) “oh my god that’s the most disgusting thing I’ve ever tasted”. My (now ex) husband was mortified and told me to shut up. In fairness I’m usually very quiet and polite but I’d had very little sleep over the preceding 4 days so...and it was just awful....that’s my excuse anyway. 😬🤷‍♀️ It genuinely remains one of the most horrible things I’ve ever put in my mouth.....vegan cheese is also in that category.

[@grimnirnacht]

😂😂😂 Hershey's is disgusting

[@jwb52z9]

Hershey's chocolate tastes that way because of the way the chocolate is made. In making it, the lipolysis process creates a byproduct called butyric acid in the chocolate. Unfortunately for people who don't grow up eating Hershey's chocolate, butyric acid is also a major component of human vomit. Americans who don't have vegan, vegetarian, health nut parents grow up eating it and we don't really notice a problem as most non-US chocolate is far too expensive for the average, especially poor, American.

[@davidhamm7909]

Hershey’s isn’t chocolate. It’s chocolate flavoured candy.

[@danielintheantipodes6741]

Garbage Disposals were often featured on US TV shows in my childhood. I thought all Americans had them! I share your concern about them because the men in the TV shows were always getting their ties caught in them. They looked terribly dangerous. I use a strainer thing over the pipes to keep the junk out of my drains with zero danger! They are trying to push Halloween here, but it is not taking off. Thank you for the video!

[@ymarkone]

As a British man living in the US my "Mac & Cheese" is a hybrid. First of all, I don't use macaroni, I use those small shells. They hold the cheese better! I will also use a Velveeta type cheese from ALDI as my starting point and add some real cheeses for both melt and flavor. Then here comes the British part of my recipe...SPAM!!! Yep, take a can of SPAM and cut it up into 1cm cubes, place it in a frying pan over medium heat and stir occasionally until crunchy. I call these Crunchy Nuggets of Porky Goodness. Stir these into your "Mac & Cheese" and you will never go back!!!

[@Helena-ou8ry]

Drive thru everything! My favourite where the drive thru library because dam it’s hard to walk inside to get or drop off a book. And the drive thru ATMs which make getting money out more difficult and unsafe.

[@divirtuallady]

During the pandemic Tesco sold packs of frozen mini corndogs, with the stick and everything! They were almost as good as the real thing. Haven’t seen them on their online shop for several months however. It was a previous video of yours that made me search for them. 😋

[@IceMetalPunk]

To the person who doesn't buy that American chocolate is "bad", I'd like to warn them: there's a chemical difference between American chocolate and other countries', due to the way we process our milk, which started because the US is so big that we needed to make our milk chocolate more shelf-stable for transportation over long distances. One of the byproducts of that different process is butyric acid, which is slightly sour; if you aren't used to that taste in your chocolate, the only other place you'd probably have tasted it is in... literal vomit. So until you get used to the American chocolate flavor, you might have some bad associations with it 😂

[@janebaker966]

Cadburys chocolate is disgusting now and I don't buy it. Kraft bought the company,moved production to Poland and changed the recipe. It's disgusting now.

[@geministargazer9830]

Australian chocolate has to be shelf stable as well (because hot) and it tastes better than the American chocolate I’ve tried

[@juliasings6131]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="729">12:09</a> My family hosted a German exchange student for 3 weeks recently. We put together a welcome bag that included a thing of Hershey's chocolate. He loved it. Might be a person-to-person thing, but also, the Lindt chocolate bunny he brought was so much smoother and better tasting than any I'd ever had from the US, so...

[@suzkstein]

Having a car in high school is a must if you live in the burbs. I grew up on Long Island and a car was "needed", however, I wish I had grown up in Manhattan and used the subway and buses. The grass is always greener.....

[@FTZPLTC]

Trick or Treating was always a big thing in my area in the UK - very suburban area with lots of families with younger kids so it made sense. I think it depends a lot what part of the country you're in though. Some areas do Penny For The Guy instead, which I've tried to understand and just can't.

[@TalLikesThat]

I visited the US three times with my family, and each time we spent around a month there. Three weeks out of every trip were dedicated to an RV tour of as much nature as we could. The last time I was there was almost 10 years ago, and I really miss the vast forests of the US. They are magical.

[@MrUhlus]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="500">8:20</a> i can make a good mac and cheese, but i want to try the "crappy" instant stuff

[@phoebegee54]

Instant stuff can go either way, can be awful or nice, but I'd be more willing to take a chance on instant mac and cheese than a lot of things.

[@euanduthie2333]

Okay, - at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="527">8:47</a> that looks like it could be my recommended videos list- Weird Al, Urbanism and nerdy videos about infrastructure are honestly most of my feed at this point.

[@DANIxDANGER]

Yellowstone is in montana and Wisconsin too! That's how LARGE it is. We'd go to Old Faithful on the way to visit my sister in Montana when she lived there. Definitely worth going! And the hotdog carts in NYC are so different than the hotdog carts in LA. I've had both, and i prefer the carts in LA 😎

[@angelnatt]

the annual carnival in my town has deep fried smores, they were so good it keeps me up at night sometimes

[@ianz9916]

Very much an Evan evolution video. The Bangkok to California to now showing the increasing time between visits to the barber.

[@andrewbeaver1843]

As an American, I went to Ireland within the last two weeks with 29 other people. A diner, restaurant, or a pub, that served food past say 7pm or 8pm, would have been nice. Most places we went stopped serving at just about that time. Good thing Guiness over there is practically a liquid meal!

[@EveeeeeXD]

Since I was in the US for a students exchange, everytime we do a bonfire we make our "german" smores😂 with marshmallows, Leibnitz butter cookies and "Eszet-schnitte" (thin chocolate you usually put on bread rolls) It's really good😊

[@melbutterworth7976]

The bus bar is something we have a lot of in the uk, usually a routemaster. They pop up at outdoor events like fairs and festivals and the like, they're quite cool

[@EmilyCheetham]

Some of these things do exist in uk. Insinkerators you can have fitted in uk, some pubs in uk have jukeboxes.

[@Aliandry]

Growing up I experienced something similar to Halloween. In the centre region of Portugal, specifically in and around the city of Coimbra, we celebrate(d) "Noite das Bruxas" (night of the witches) or "Bolinhos e Bolinhós" (the chant for cakes, you can google the chant name, it's on youtube), where children would dress up in their deceased family members clothes (so the spirits think they are dead and leave them alone during the night trip around the town/village) and go out singing for "cakes" ( the bolinhos e bolinhós) or money, holding candles (looking back that's super creepy and I love it). Because of the influence of Halloween, the fact that it was only celebrated in the region but not the whole country, the city growing so fast (with people from all parts of the country and the world) and because the celebration is paganistic (but adapted into Christianity), it stopped being popular and instead, if anything, nowadays people will celebrate Halloween. Funnily enough, they might still use parts of the rituals from Noite das Bruxas, such as making a candle protector out of cardboard (but they will cut out eyes and a mouth in the shape of a Jack o'lartern instead of just holes) or singing the chant together with "doçura ou travessura" (Trick or treat). I always thought about it when I watched American movies about Halloween. It was an amazing time and I'm so glad I got to live it. I can imagine that Halloween has a different vibe. Noite das Bruxas is/was a lot more sombre and children were never accompanied by parents, but instead by an older child or teen. It made us feel like were were on a mystic mission of sorts, with our ancestors watching over us as we walked amongst ghosts because that was the night they said the spirits would walk the earth again. Most people gave us money, which I was grateful for, since I never liked sweets much. I guess I like that better than Halloween. Nowadays kids get candy, bleh ahah.

[@katrinabryce]

Halloween is a much bigger thing in Scotland. When I moved to England, I found people’s confusion about Halloween very confusing. The main difference with Scottish Halloween is that we use turnips for our lanterns instead of pumpkins.

[@jeffreykyle8587]

The people with a fascination with school buses have never ridden one - in the summer with no A/C.

[@indigobunting5041]

Or in the middle of winter in North Dakota. So cold in the bus you can see your breath.

[@sleepingroses761]

Evan I have to agree with you on the Dairy Queen thing, with one exception. The historical Moorhead, MN Dairy Queen is so good! My parents always referred to it as "the good Dairy Queen," and we went there whenever we could. They are one of the original establishments and aren't completely integrated into the corporate chain, so they have more freedom over what they serve. I suspect this is why their ice cream on its own just tastes better than the stuff at typical DQ chains. They even still handmake their own Dilly Bars!

[@krose6451]

Im suprised road trip type stuff or visiting famous film locations wasnt more of a theme

[@bethsmith3421]

Evan! Yellowstone is in Wyoming, Montana and the edge of Idaho. No part of Yellowstone national park is in either of the Dakotas 😮. I think you are referring to the badlands. School busses suck!

[@pinkonesie]

I've never done the Appalachian trail, but Yellowstone--whoa, it's beautiful.

[@hopeabercrombie9259]

Tick or treating is massive where I live in the uk. South east. People put on whole walk through experiences through their houses. Only knock on houses with a pumpkin outside 🎃

[@michellemaine2719]

As much as I am not a fan of NJ, the diners are elite. I have never gotten behind Hershey's on a s'more. I always substituted something else, or better yet, just had the marshmallow. We get trick or treaters here in South Shields. As the only local Americans, I feel we have a duty to participate. I feel like you have quite the business idea there with the school bus bars, make it happen, haha (and serve corndogs and funnelcake to go with the booze).

[@frkPalmer460]

In norway we have «nyttårsbukk» where you went around on new years or during «romjul» (week between christmas and new years) in the neighbourhood, dressed as whatever you wanted, sang a little christmas song, and got candy. Its been more or less replaced by trick or treating now, but we have always had a tradition to go around, dressed up and get candy as kids. And in sweden i did it during easter.

[@TonyP_Yes-its-Me]

Being an older guy, as a kid I always wondered what these things called "M&M's and Snickers" were like. It turns out I had been eating them all my life. They were just called Treets and Marathon, before "The Great Re-Brand of the 1990's".

[@Naylte]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="570">09:30</a> When I hear about that I think it goes all the way from Anchorage to Punta Arenas. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="605">10:05</a> Wot? (picturing going along the road right up at the bumper of the car in front) <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="612">10:12</a> Oh!

[@davidhamm7909]

We didn’t have trick or treating when I was young but my kids did every year and they’re both in their 30s now. So, yes, trick or treating has been a thing in the UK for many years now.

[@kmacdizzle]

haha in metro Detroit we call the day before halloween "Devils Night" when I was a kid that day was insane and we weren't allowed to go out

[@salhooper]

We have things like Tater Tots but they’re usually called potato ‘pops’ or ‘croquettes’

[@norules08028]

Evan, I took the kids out for Halloween last year and ppl gave ME candy too. I was so excited.

[@jlpack62]

Good luck finding Yellowstone in the Dakotas. Also, why completely ignore the second part of a post about the pulled pork sandwich. They are the bomb!

[@hutchyyy6444]

Ive lived in both England and Scotland and we absolutely trick or treat here. It's become the only reason for Halloween, and has been for most of my life (I'm 25). So confused when I see people from London act like we don't do it here. Just like Americans seem to think London encompasses the whole of Britain, people who live in London also seem to think they're representative of the rest of the country. In actuality, London is usually the odd one out when it comes to most things 😅

[@1991birthday]

I grew up in Oregon, have family in Washington, & friends in California, use to have family there too. I’ve been all up & down the west coast, not the coastline though, I’m sure it mostly was I5 but given I don’t drive, I don’t know every road & highway we’ve taken. In 2016, I did a road trip through California & it was a lot of fun, I went to San Fransisco for Pokémon Worlds & got to see one of my friends that lived near the area at the time. My mom got to see some of her friends in Ventura, & we also went to San Diego to see my cousins before they moved to Washington later that year. We also stopped in Weed, it’s a tradition, whenever we drive to California, we have to spend a night in Weed. In 2017, a friend of mine that lives in Israel came to visit, she saw my photos of California so when she was done hanging out with me, she drove a rental car all through California herself. Some of the pictures were showing how heavy the smoke & smog was since it was summer, there were fires & well, it’s California, there’s a lot of traffic. I thought it was interesting that I could look directly at the sun without it hurting but it did make the area seem ugly, suppose the sun pictures were kinda cool. Just surprised it was enough to cause her to take the journey herself.

[@maddysutherland3166]

When I was a kid, my mum was really anti-trick or treating, so I only went a couple of times with friends/ cousins. Now I make lucky dip packs for trick or treaters :-) I love that’s it’s a time of year when you can give so many strangers a little something that’s not too serious. X

[@Fudce]

There was a time in the past where Iceland used to sell frozen corndogs. That was well over 25 years ago now though, so I'd have to assume they didn't sell well. I used to love them though.

[@monicaanndebari7277]

Like you, I'm from NJ now living in the UK and diners are definitely top of my list when I go back! 😋

[@royw-g3120]

For me a tailgate party before a sports event.

[@TransmascWantsChickenStrips]

i live in a small town in canada and the local bar has a school bus you can be seated in. the owner loves buying old things and making tourist attractions out of them, especially vehicles because he can drive in them during the local canada day parade.

[@Amyduckie]

I really would love to visit the pacific north west. It just looks like my kind of place, while being totally different from Australia. Chicago deep dish pizza, collard greens and the Grand Canyon.

[@grimnirnacht]

I live in the pnw, everyone is really nice here and would welcome you 😊

[@paulburrell3821]

I was lucky enough to go to the States many times for work and fulfilled many of my "I want to try..." experiences. Those included the breakfast diner, Hooters (very overrated), Olive Garden, In & Out, The Cheesecake Factory, a Twinky bar (blaaaugh) and a gun range (my colleague having to sign that I wasn't suicidal was interesting) amongst many others. However the one thing I never got around to was to try a baseball batter's cage with the baseballs shot at you.

[@NotThatOneThisOne]

I take my daughters out Trick or Treating (UK). There are loads of kids out and my girls end up with carrier bags full of sweets.

[@loydpryor179]

I grew up in a small Midwestern town in the US during the late 70s/early 80s. Loved being able to walk or bike around town all day and into the evening. Parents didn't worry as long as I was home by dinner. That probably wouldn't fly these days.

[@alexreid1173]

My mom grew up similarly. They moved the school out of town so now everyone has to be bused instead of almost everyone walking… it’s still decently walkable, but not to school

[@Teleportella]

In the Netherlands we also go trick or treating, of well, go past houses for candy. We traditionally do it on St. Martins day, november 11th. Although in the street I grew up in the city of Delft we did celebrate Halloween, but that was just because all of the kids also liked dressing up. Because dressing up isn't a part of St.Martin.

[@bmp011]

Mischief night is a big thing up north in the UK, or it definitely used to be! There’s even a film called Mischief Night from 2006 that is set in Leeds

[@franklingoodwin]

The American thing I've always wanted to try is Philly cheesestreaks. I've heard they're great

[@thecunninlynguist]

they're fantastic. But you'll need to get them in Philly proper. The ones in other states are some fake ones (I say this as a Californian). For whatever reason non-Philly city ones like to add peppers and other stuff.

[@better.better]

oh, they ARE 🤤

[@adude20]

@@thecunninlynguist Exactly... if a restaurant calls them a "Philly Cheesesteak" you know it's probably not so good.... real ones are sold in the Philly area and are just called a Cheesesteak.

[@mckamy4711]

I have had digestives dipped in homemade icing (literally icing sugar and water). You could wait for the icing to set or just be impatient like me and eat them straight after dipping

[@cheyennemoore8380]

Biscuits and gravy will always be a favorite along with cornbread as a southern American. I know how it looks England, but try it! Promise it tastes amazing. Jolly had some English people try them and they loved them. I’m telling ya. Try it.

[@johannayaffe2647]

Go for a visit to the country, and there you will find county fairs/county shows, which usually last about 3 days + which have things like competitions for the prize cow, various company exhibition stands, beer tents, possibly a gymkhana, farm equipment displays, food stalls et etc .all in big marquees... they obviously wont be as big as a state fair, except maybe RI, but I think you'd enjoy it... Eg Somerset County Show, wtc etc

[@tommygately8461]

I feel like having a car in hs is more dangerous as if you go to a party with friends in the us, you have to get home somehow. In a walkable city you could just take a train.

[@mackereltabbie]

I'd like to see Yellowstone, it looks amazing. I've tried S'mores on 4th of July in the US, I managed 1/2 lol Edited: walkable city + beer legal at 18 > car in high school

[@Bigdog5400]

Evan, long time subscriber (2014ish), and it’s nice to see a video where you have nostalgia for your home country, and aren’t completely shitting on it for the entire length of the video.

[@Tom_Hillman]

As a young adult who grew up super into 20th century history and who enjoyed action movies and first person shooters, the want to go to a firing range is super relatable. Im 100% pro gun control, and the ease of access to firearms in the US is horrid, but i cant help but think sometimes "Couldn't we do this at a museum?" With the caviat that we'd keep all gun laws exactly the same and just allow people to try out some iconic firearms at a range at a museum 😅

[@Something-Strange]

Yellowstone is amazing. So beautiful. PS - its located in Montana and Wyoming and a little sliver of Idaho. Great video!

[@arkadiakowalczyk4768]

Biscuits and gravy... Once went to England on language-school trip. We made a stop at the store (Tesco I believe), went for some sweets I never tried, seen biscuits thought "ah yes our teacher told us, cookies are from AE we lern BE not AE, in Britain they are biscuits" yeah turns out they were not biscuits as in cookies but biscuits as in biscuits and gravy. But hey I also got vinegar chips and artificial food flavours/colours so that I could finally bake with flavour of strawberry or cola, as in Poland we only had almond vanilla and lemon flavouring

[@MrDannyDetail]

They certainly sold frozen corndogs in the UK about 25 or so years ago, as I remember trying them once or twice in the family home somewhere in the later 90s, but they clearly didn't catch on in the Uk because by the time I began working in a supermarket in 2000 there was no sign of them.

[@mstenberg8288]

I can not belive the love for corndogs... spent one college year in Nebraska and corndogs was by far the worst thing the school cafeteria served, the hot dog could just aswell have been microwaved.

[@literaltruth]

Fun fact - while in England there has been a thing where some places have adopted Trick or Treating from what they've seen in American media, in Scotland (and, I believe, Ireland) the tradition has always been here. In Scotland it's known as "Guising" or, in my hometown, "Gallowtions" - and is mostly the same except rather than threaten a "trick", children have to do some sort of little party piece in order to earn their treat - like tell a joke, sing a song, do a dance etc. Some houses will have traditional Halloween games set up like "Dookin for Apples" (which rather than sticking your head in a container and try to fish out an apple with your teeth, you kneel on a stool over a bucket of apples with a fork or knife between your teeth and try to release it and spear one of the apples - which you then keep. Also quite common was hanging treacle scones from a string which you would then try to eat with your hands behind your back.

[@francesatty7022]

guising is much older than mainstream american media.

[@boneitch]

I have always wanted to experience an American Halloween. Halloween isn't really a thing in the Netherlands, and even though it's our family's main holiday, I'd love to experience it in a country where it's just everywhere.

[@oldtechnobodycaresabout]

I live in a village (south of London) in the UK and trick or treating is very popular here!

[@Toastie]

I can't get over the "gravy" looking like sick. I am sorry it is never going near me.

[@raven3moon]

It, doesn't look great, but it's just milk, flour, butter and bits of breakfast sausage.