This is one of the things I'll stay proud of being an American. Food is delicious, and the variety of legit food, not processed shit, is amazing and diverse, depending on where you are in the country
JOLLY on YouTube. I watched them for years. They initially came to America to try the food, after being under the stereotypical impression that all American food was disgusting and unhealthy. They learned very quickly that while the food over here IS unhealthy, we’re all fat for a reason. Because American food is really really freaking good.
You don't even have to leave the states to blow people away with good BBQ, I've made ribs for New Englanders and Floridians who'd never had any and they were all blown away while personally I would have only given my ribs about an 8/10 score
I mean, coming from England I’ll say just move across « la manche » south and see for yourself what’s going on in France.. They’re pretty good at cooking the shit out of thing.. And if that doesn’t work, you’ll learn how to do a révolution.. Sort of
Brit kids, that was my first reaction to proper Texas BBQ. Now, cover a plastic tray with butcher paper, slap some brisket/ sausage/pulled pork with a big spoon of baked beans and cream corn on it with 1/2 a loaf of white bread. (Son went to college in San Antonio from California. Its the only thing I miss about Texas with the exception of Virginia Green's chocolate cake from Liberty Bar in SA.)
There is no way these kods never had a BBQ before. I call bulls... here. I mean, If English food is cooked correctly, it is disgusting... but they are still not from the viking age!!
I grew up on in New England and I'd never even seen a biscuit (IRL) until I joined the Navy. My wife is still perplexed by that. Took me a while to try, but now I'm in for B&G.
I’m a 57 year old southerner, and I never quite warmed up to cream or sausage gravies- I’m always looking for browns, red-eyes, chicken or turkey gravy instead. And I prefer my biscuits with butter or butter & honey.
And while I DO like sweet tea, I pretty much had to give it up for health reasons. I still have it a few times a year, though.
The funniest thing about this is that you just couldn't leave the quote as is, you just had to put the meaning too. Just in case we're too dumb to get it.
My British born-and-raised Mum cooked in the British style of the 1930s-1960s, which is to say "not well". Though we loved it because it's what she prepared.
Then in her 40s she had an epiphany and stopped over-cooking everything until it was stiff or soggy. It was SO much better.
She always did a decent curry though, having served in Malaya and Singapore.
it actually didnt, but it DID have a lasting impact on what americans think of our cooking style - most americans got their exposure to british food during the war and just after, and went home saying 'god that food was bland!' and it's just stuck around as a reputation. i have a cupboard full of herbs and spices that get used routinely, as do most brits. what we don't do is just pour loads of hot sauce on everything, which seems to be what a lot of americans think of as 'flavour'.
lol, lots of vids of Brit’s absolutely dying of joy eating classic American foods for the first time. Same can’t be said for British culinary classics. It’s not the types of seasoning used. It’s how they’re used and in what quantities.
FYI, American cooking is only good because of the plethora of cultures that have played a part in it (French, Italian, Spanish, Mexican, African, Asia, etc)
what are you counting a british culinary classic here? plenty of people love a roast dinner, for example. for that matter, what are you counting as 'classic american foods'? barbecue seems to be a big one americans claim to have invented, but it's definitely at least as much of an import as things like modern curry is in the uk.
The "food" industry has shaped the ENTIRE eating environment. Rotten capitalists employ teams of scientists to create products with the optimal "bliss point", using the precise combinations of sugar, salt, and fat that trigger cravings. They literally engineer their slop with crack-like addictive properties. They spend billions marketing this slop, particularly targeting children and low-income communities. Deliberately making ultra processed sludge cheaper & more convenient than whole foods.
Indeed, 𝗨𝗹𝘁𝗿𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝗽 𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘁... It's both literally & figuratively sickening. This sludge has strong links to obesity, hypertension, breast & colorectal cancer, and other serious health issues. They've basically designed it to override our natural human satiety signals, which leads people to eat far beyond their body's actual needs. We have a pile of shit socioeconomic system that behaves like fucking malware, optimized for corporate profits rather than public health.
We have walkable cities that are slowly but steadily gaining population. However the boomeresque suburban mentality still claims the lion's share of the population.
Portion sizes are kind of an individual responsibility thing though, honestly. Just because they say the fries are bottomless doesn't mean you need to put that to the test.
yep, baseline exercise is a weird thing that most major cities have but in America and Canada...walking around is not let say....the best idea at times.
In the decade or so since I walked a college campus every day and had burgers or chicken and pop for half my meals.. I'm nearing 50% heavier with at least slightly improved eating habits. Having to walk places regularly (or at least having the option) is really so huge for burning calories. And also having the time available to do that walking.
Food portions aren't a problem compared to not walking regularly. you could eat a bucket of fried chicken and it wont be a problem if you just walked/ran it off.
I don't think that meat is worth moving to the fascist dictatorship shithole called USA, where the People elect and then re-elect a pedophile rapist who fantasises out loud about dating his own daughter.
Imagine the reason everyone speaks English is because you loved spice, and then never fucking using it and now your kids want to move to the land of no tea or healthcare because they tasted beef that wasn't boiled for the first time ever.
Even then, you might want to not, i doubt we'll be better by then. It's not easy to get perfect but it can be done with relative ease if you know the techniques. Learn how to make it properly and start a business ;)
It was always a nightmare. The empty rhetoric was never true. Never. Just obnoxious self aggrandising and ignorance. A culture that is worship wealth, fame. Stupidity and itself will never be great.
They're eating smoked brisket. Brisket is not sauced before it is smoked. If they're dipping it in sauce, that's one thing, but sauce is not part of the cooking process.
You're absolutely right, but also BBQ like this isn't easy to cook at home. You need a smoker and 12+ hours, which also means somewhere to put the smoker and laws that allow you to have fire in your backyard. So for this style of BBQ it's pretty unlikely they could do it at home.
They can. But you always have to check, and these kids seem like they may live in London which has a lot less space and possibly laws about that. Many cities in the US do too, that's not unique. Plus smokers aren't necessarily readily available because they just aren't common. It's not impossible but it's likely impractical.
southstar1
This is one of the things I'll stay proud of being an American. Food is delicious, and the variety of legit food, not processed shit, is amazing and diverse, depending on where you are in the country
IndiaGolfPk
Korea BBQ is better than Texas BBQ
darthbiscuit
JOLLY on YouTube. I watched them for years. They initially came to America to try the food, after being under the stereotypical impression that all American food was disgusting and unhealthy. They learned very quickly that while the food over here IS unhealthy, we’re all fat for a reason. Because American food is really really freaking good.
Kittenman15
Americans love this sort of post... (Sorry, but it's true)
CitrusyGarlic
You don't even have to leave the states to blow people away with good BBQ, I've made ribs for New Englanders and Floridians who'd never had any and they were all blown away while personally I would have only given my ribs about an 8/10 score
KingofRogues
I live in Texas...and its hard to find good Texas bbq..its just all so dry
Rockafella83
I mean, coming from England I’ll say just move across « la manche » south and see for yourself what’s going on in France.. They’re pretty good at cooking the shit out of thing.. And if that doesn’t work, you’ll learn how to do a révolution.. Sort of
mikekearn
This reminds me of those jokes about giving a medieval peasant a sour Warhead or whatever lmao.
Sayagain
Cool ranch dorito!
sarahsaurroar
They're adorable!
whatifdogwasoneofus
I live in the UK and wear my Terry Blacks cap
Yupurineutah
😋
defrostedtauntaun
That level of flavor can kill a small child in Britain.
Pelican3
Wow! They speak really good English.
Mr21782Man
That's actually Kansas Barbecue. Kansas BBQ is about that sauce, Texas BBQ is dry rubs and slow long indirect heat.
Yupurineutah
Stand still laddie! Wait for the banana pudding with nilla biscuits. They're wafer thin!
nation543
No, kid, you don't want to move to America. Take those words back.
jimhotep
Maybe just stop through for takeout, but they don't want to stay. None of us want to stay...
Hueroc
"I used to think that I didn't like food but then I realized I was just born in England" - Brennan Hook
IceWeaselX
"I have not eaten all day, and it's probably the best thing I've ever eaten."
That statement isn't really as strong of an endorsement as intended. Everything tastes better when you really want food.
ColoradoDiceCo
https://youtube.com/@jolly?si=Vyd4q_uFARn3_3_D
woozle
HeNeverSawMollyAgain
CuteLukePatoot
Love cultural food exchange vids like this. ♥
torp
French here. We have a say : "British boil everything, the only thing they grilled once was Jeanne d'Arc".
SaladinIskander
jeez louise
Superchao
brutal
DemSumBigAssRidges
https://imgur.com/gfbFvkz.gif
Melguawan
aw man. thats the best bbq. wait. what do you..... im not resisting... i you.
MyCatIsMissingAnEar
Time to call the bondulance!
Melguawan
you are hurting me
Melguawan
i cnt brth... hlp
Melguawan
dead
Junkman9096
Brit kids, that was my first reaction to proper Texas BBQ. Now, cover a plastic tray with butcher paper, slap some brisket/ sausage/pulled pork with a big spoon of baked beans and cream corn on it with 1/2 a loaf of white bread. (Son went to college in San Antonio from California. Its the only thing I miss about Texas with the exception of Virginia Green's chocolate cake from Liberty Bar in SA.)
2074red2074
You don't miss HEB?
Yupurineutah
H!E!B!
Junkman9096
OK, all that AND Central Market. HEB is for the common people, Central Market for those with refined tastes.
2074red2074
They're both owned by the same company.
Junkman9096
Yes, I was aware of that.
monkeyshines
There's no way that Caribbean British kid hasn't had jerk pork or jerk chicken, this isn't a whole new world.
Lionanar
There is no way these kods never had a BBQ before. I call bulls... here.
I mean, If English food is cooked correctly, it is disgusting... but they are still not from the viking age!!
AHartMurmur
Burnt ends from Texas?! Now I've heard of everything
MajorA21
Yeah I immediately said no. Been here all my life and I've only had them out of state. And they aren't good.
Omicron416
I'm sorry you didn't get good ones.
FormerlySable
Every BBQ joint I’ve been to (and I’ve lived in 3 different parts of Texas over 30 years) serves burnt ends.
theskepticinme
It’s blasphemy. Burnt ends originated in Kansas City
FormerlySable
So Kansas City spread its BBQ love and Texas imitated as a form of flattery? What about that is blasphemy?
hovelhopper
Maybe they didn't realize Texas cows and Kansas cows were the same.
theskepticinme
More likely, burnt ends became really popular and people started asking for them in Texas
VibratingNipples
They try Biscuits and Gravy for the first time https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzdbFnv4yWQ
sunnrider
Totally onboard with burnt ends and Texas bbq, but biscuits and gravy are badly named mush from Satan.
AntaNce
"Oh my days!". (Looks like chopped ferret, LOL)
JoeT85
I grew up on in New England and I'd never even seen a biscuit (IRL) until I joined the Navy. My wife is still perplexed by that. Took me a while to try, but now I'm in for B&G.
imredheaded
Biscuits and gravy is where it is at. You've got the salt, butter, spice, umami and texture, it all just adds up in a deliciously unhealthy meal.
VibratingNipples
Original video for OP post https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xD4MjjEWsE
Trelis
Thanks, VibratingNipples.
Dannyalcatraz
I’m a 57 year old southerner, and I never quite warmed up to cream or sausage gravies- I’m always looking for browns, red-eyes, chicken or turkey gravy instead. And I prefer my biscuits with butter or butter & honey.
And while I DO like sweet tea, I pretty much had to give it up for health reasons. I still have it a few times a year, though.
imredheaded
If I do sweet tea, it's half and half. Half sweet tea and half regular iced tea. Straight up sweet tea is too sweet.
Dannyalcatraz
It’s basically dessert in a glass.😁
wereSOlittle
This one is tribesmen try different pies it’s pretty good. https://youtu.be/q-jIHmJzbs4?si=2yVEMvd8E8qHSrZk
AntaNce
What an amazing group of charming people. With great headgear. And facial hair. Adored this very much. :)
Nemacol
The Sultan is my favorite. Also, I wish I was in a place to try a bunch of their foods as well. mmm
IamTOOOLDforThisShite
Great Britain, who conquered the world for its exotic spices ... and then never used them to cook with.
bunnyandbear
Heaven: English wait staff and French chefs.
Hell: French wait staff and English chefs.
Bubbells
I tried winning a chili cook off with a recipe from a British chef..... I got last place
FoxPesdassi
It is said that "The quality of their cuisine, and the beauty of their women, made the British the finest sailors in the world."
Meaning, the food & the girls were both so repellent that the men tried to get as far away from them as possible.
Sprocker
The funniest thing about this is that you just couldn't leave the quote as is, you just had to put the meaning too. Just in case we're too dumb to get it.
rustythecyborg
We're not qualified. Half of us suffer serious injury slicing open avocados.
Fanner50
Or bagels
titoitoi
Smash, not slice.
thisistheusernamethatneverendss
Apparently the 15 years of rationing during WWii and after had a lasting impact on their cooking style
IamTOOOLDforThisShite
My British born-and-raised Mum cooked in the British style of the 1930s-1960s, which is to say "not well". Though we loved it because it's what she prepared.
Then in her 40s she had an epiphany and stopped over-cooking everything until it was stiff or soggy. It was SO much better.
She always did a decent curry though, having served in Malaya and Singapore.
JustAnotherRandomCommenter
it actually didnt, but it DID have a lasting impact on what americans think of our cooking style - most americans got their exposure to british food during the war and just after, and went home saying 'god that food was bland!' and it's just stuck around as a reputation.
i have a cupboard full of herbs and spices that get used routinely, as do most brits. what we don't do is just pour loads of hot sauce on everything, which seems to be what a lot of americans think of as 'flavour'.
thisistheusernamethatneverendss
lol, lots of vids of Brit’s absolutely dying of joy eating classic American foods for the first time. Same can’t be said for British culinary classics. It’s not the types of seasoning used. It’s how they’re used and in what quantities.
FYI, American cooking is only good because of the plethora of cultures that have played a part in it (French, Italian, Spanish, Mexican, African, Asia, etc)
JustAnotherRandomCommenter
what are you counting a british culinary classic here? plenty of people love a roast dinner, for example.
for that matter, what are you counting as 'classic american foods'? barbecue seems to be a big one americans claim to have invented, but it's definitely at least as much of an import as things like modern curry is in the uk.
Fendeezy
I love watching these videos. It's like they finally understand why America is so fat.
OfficialPresidentGump
Most Americans are fat because they choose to be fat. Source- I live in America and choose not to be fat.
cattywumpus
I was at a bar with a German tourist, and he tried fried cheese curds for the first time. "If I had these near my home, I'd be fat too!"
NChomsky
The "food" industry has shaped the ENTIRE eating environment. Rotten capitalists employ teams of scientists to create products with the optimal "bliss point", using the precise combinations of sugar, salt, and fat that trigger cravings. They literally engineer their slop with crack-like addictive properties. They spend billions marketing this slop, particularly targeting children and low-income communities. Deliberately making ultra processed sludge cheaper & more convenient than whole foods.
PrincessWasabi
Lifetime taste preferences are developed ~age 2, so if u grew up eating it youll always crave it:/so glad corporations shape our lives
NChomsky
Indeed, 𝗨𝗹𝘁𝗿𝗮 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝗹𝗼𝗽 𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝗲𝘁... It's both literally & figuratively sickening. This sludge has strong links to obesity, hypertension, breast & colorectal cancer, and other serious health issues. They've basically designed it to override our natural human satiety signals, which leads people to eat far beyond their body's actual needs. We have a pile of shit socioeconomic system that behaves like fucking malware, optimized for corporate profits rather than public health.
anSSLerrorhasoccuredandasecureconnectiontotheservercannotbemade
And you’d think American school children would actually weigh less, what with all the holes
RadioFloyd
https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJlZTZ5eHU2Znpkd3lyeG4yZ2Voa3JyZWhmYTBlbHQ3OHBocTg3aHk3MyZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/EKDGlXqALQUOQ/giphy.mp4
DocAqua
PrincessWasabi
It’s the lack of walkable cities with unhealthy portion sizes of cheap & nutrient poor food. Good thing there is access to care—wait lol
originaljbw
We have walkable cities that are slowly but steadily gaining population. However the boomeresque suburban mentality still claims the lion's share of the population.
GramGram
"Americans eat like they have healthcare."
SealandIsARealCountry
I spent a week in Amsterdam and in that week I lost 3 pounds
Nostradamuswaswrong
Portion sizes are kind of an individual responsibility thing though, honestly. Just because they say the fries are bottomless doesn't mean you need to put that to the test.
PrincessWasabi
100% agree, but for those Americans in poverty, seems like a lot of bang for your buck
TeamRocketHR
Yeah, a lot of people don't realize diner-sized portions are meant to last more than one meal.
MoopsyLD
the food sizes aren't exactly a problem. its the lack of walking thats the true culprit, aside from healthcare etc. not making people worry too much
notsureofanything
Texas food portions are like 20% larger than the rest of the country. Getting a Whataburger in Mississippi is actually smaller than the ones in Texas.
NotaCPA
yep, baseline exercise is a weird thing that most major cities have but in America and Canada...walking around is not let say....the best idea at times.
ZachariasWolfe
In the decade or so since I walked a college campus every day and had burgers or chicken and pop for half my meals.. I'm nearing 50% heavier with at least slightly improved eating habits. Having to walk places regularly (or at least having the option) is really so huge for burning calories. And also having the time available to do that walking.
Fuckimgurcunts
Oh the food portions are obnoxious lol
MoopsyLD
Food portions aren't a problem compared to not walking regularly. you could eat a bucket of fried chicken and it wont be a problem if you just walked/ran it off.
RedCamaro
Finish your schooling before moving to America. I think you know why.
KleptoKea
I don't think that meat is worth moving to the fascist dictatorship shithole called USA, where the People elect and then re-elect a pedophile rapist who fantasises out loud about dating his own daughter.
mike13815
Also get your teeth fixed, stock up on prescriptions, and learn to just nod and smile whenever someone regurgitates propaganda to you.
Snooj
Because by the time you've finished schooling you'll be smart enough to not want to come here.
shitheadtookmyname
To be in the top 1% most educated?
sharK11
if they finish their schooling they won't want to
Goldensands
By then he might have enough sense not to go. But then he is British? Who knows then.
AnchorHandler
Why would anyone want to move to America from a civilized country?
TwiceK
Imagine the reason everyone speaks English is because you loved spice, and then never fucking using it and now your kids want to move to the land of no tea or healthcare because they tasted beef that wasn't boiled for the first time ever.
Paradox1111
At some point the American jobs will be done remotely from other countries
alcamar
Even then, you might want to not, i doubt we'll be better by then.
It's not easy to get perfect but it can be done with relative ease if you know the techniques. Learn how to make it properly and start a business ;)
BishlamekGurpgork
By the time you finish your schooling, you won't want to, anyway.
IAmTheBadW01f
If your schooling was successful
BishlamekGurpgork
Also much more likely outside the US. Though not foolproof, granted.
pak0chu
Finish your schooling and learn how to grill
WhatzitTooya
I'd rather get a smoker and stay out of that mess.
dyerzeve
As an American…. https://media2.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTY1YjkxZmJlcTA0N3FueDE3ZjRhbnJuZGpqcnJlNXBlZTAyanlzZXQwY3gxYW9zciZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/IV2DvTArF5b9u/giphy.mp4
ProudAussie
Better places in the world than the USA.
It's no longer a dream. It's the nightmare.
Goldensands
It was always a nightmare. The empty rhetoric was never true. Never. Just obnoxious self aggrandising and ignorance. A culture that is worship wealth, fame. Stupidity and itself will never be great.
MaleProstateMilker88
When was it a dream and a dream to who?
KevinStrexcorp
Finish your schooling, then wait 40-50 years. By that point, you'll have an idea if it's safe.
Pelican3
Yeah. The Fin’s have the best schools
Rihn
And then don't move to America.
putcleverusernamehere
*Finish your schooling then don't move to America
Pelican3
Yeah. The Fins have the best schools
TexanSailor
Boys you can just learn how to make and use a smoker on YouTube. You don’t have to finish school or move. You can do that shit on the weekend.
InfocalypseRising
Dogman1227
And all that's doing and destroying bullets as they barely breach the water and disintegrate.
Hamsammiches
Damn...
MaleProstateMilker88
Or learn to cook at home. Why the hell would anyone wanna move to the States?
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tinctures
They're eating smoked brisket. Brisket is not sauced before it is smoked. If they're dipping it in sauce, that's one thing, but sauce is not part of the cooking process.
TinyBadger101
You're absolutely right, but also BBQ like this isn't easy to cook at home. You need a smoker and 12+ hours, which also means somewhere to put the smoker and laws that allow you to have fire in your backyard. So for this style of BBQ it's pretty unlikely they could do it at home.
MaleProstateMilker88
Why do you think countries outside US can't have smokers and can't light fires on their backyards?
TinyBadger101
They can. But you always have to check, and these kids seem like they may live in London which has a lot less space and possibly laws about that. Many cities in the US do too, that's not unique. Plus smokers aren't necessarily readily available because they just aren't common. It's not impossible but it's likely impractical.
MaleProstateMilker88
Google told me that there's list of best smokers in UK 2025. Moving to US instead of learning to cook at home the same food is more impractical.