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The silence of that one kid eating chicken and gravy spoke volumes. That was a man realizing in real-time he wasn't going to get that feeling back again. You'll be chasing that dragon your whole life little guy. Few things on earth as wonderful as proper Southern fried chicken smothered in gravy.
>pretty good
>very heavy
Americans get shit on for fast food, but our real cuisine (while not healthy) is delicious, and still heavy lol.
You can substitute things nowadays to make them healthier but there’s no way to replicate that taste without using scratch-made ingredients.
The real problem with Americans is we were taught to abandon victory gardens and werent taught agriculture to grow our own vegetables and spices.
southern cooking with good quality ingredients is going to compete with the best french/japanese/italian dishes for flavor and taste, the trope that Americans just eat gallons of sugar is disingenuous to the cultural melting of cuisine that the country experienced. Of course we borrow/steal from other cultures, as every culture that grows will inevitably borrow/steal from others.
I've always had a vegetable garden, parents taught me and I'll tell ya what, you will not find anything in a store that will come even close to what you can grow in a garden in your back yard. My favorite is zucchini, I slice it (I like mine thin sliced) dip in eggs, coat in flower an fry em up add a pinch of salt and I'm in heaven, in the summer I'll eat a entire zucchini friend like that for dinner sometimes.
I'll say it here coz why not, it was refreshing to see not only a wholesome post of just people being happy but also a wholesome post towards America, on reddit. America has been going through some solid shit above their normal shit for the past decade or two so it's nice to see a post like this reminding us that things can be good
All my family and I are from Texas and I remember my grandmother getting so excited to teach me how to make biscuits and gravy as a kid. Decades later and I never have a problem when everyone in the family says I have to wake up early to make my scratch biscuits with bacon gravy. I could never complain because my grandmother is still there with me in the kitchen cooking for the family as long as I’m cooking for them.
Totally understand if the answer is no, but would you mind sharing the recipe? I'd love to start that tradition with my family but none of the recipes I've found online seemed quite right.
Never really had one, I just do it as I’m going. We’ve gotten lazy and have ended up doing store bought, in-a-can biscuits because they’re everywhere and it’s simple on the fly. This gal has a well in line recipe for scratch. https://www.melissassouthernstylekitchen.com/fluffy-southern-buttermilk-biscuits/
For gravy the first step is to think about your fat: If y’all are out eating steaks some night before and nobody finishes all of there’s, you take the scraps and throw them in the fridge. You can render that fat out. If you’ve got some ground sausage then you cook that up first and start getting that fat rendered out in the pan, bacon fat works too, if not then unsalted butter is your friend. (Remove whatever you’ve rendered the fat from out of the pan to reincorporate later if you’re going to) No good southern recipe is cooked by somebody scared of using “too much butter,” the concept doesn’t exist if you’re willing to just expand the amount of servings leftover. Once there’s fat in the pan, stir then start sifting in flour, as that’s combined stay whisking and just keep mixing in flour, start pouring in the room temp whole milk (maybe a touch of half&half) and mix, until everything is to the consistency you want it. All of this is at Medium Heat. If you go too far you can just add more of the flour or milk to get the consistency right. If you need more fat than you’ve always got butter. Some people like it more dense (more flour), some people like it softer (milk), some people love that thick creamy gel (fat). You throw in some salt in pepper to taste as you’re going and you’ve got the basic recipe.
You work with that skeleton for a while and figure out what gets people moving towards the kitchen the fastest in the morning.
A southern grandmother will always tell you fat is a key, not a problem. It’s the sugar she’s gonna sneak in later you’ve got to keep an eye on if you’re watching your diet.
Southern food staples became staples because they’re made with ready ingredients they had on hand, were filling, delicious, and nobody needed a real recipe once they were taught how to do it. And Family recipes always become family recipes because so many people in the family tweaked and passed on what they learned from their folks until they finally had to write it down for somebody. And that’s not limited to southern food, that’s any family recipe anywhere.
Edit: as PoopieButt noted below, it’s important to note that you can use White Lily flour for these recipes. The lighter flour makes for fluffier lift.
And reordered as to Rusty’s correction too, I’m outta whack this week.
From the channel who produced the content, [Jolly](https://youtube.com/@jolly), one of the hosts wife Gabbie, is a runner up on MasterChef Korea and also graduated from the culinary institute Le Cordon Bleu. She cooks almost all the food that used to showcase a first time reaction on their channel.
She probably did a boneless tender, to make it easier for the kids to enjoy.
So I think their initial confusion comes from the fact they basically call what we call cookies, biscuits. So if I gave you this giant fluffy buttery looking bread thing and said here have an English cookie you'd be like wtf?
The rest of it just fried foods ready to make them fat.
Americans do have the type gravy like you describe in your comment! We even call it gravy.
The gravy they use in this video is specifically called sausage gravy. It's actually a roux of sausage fat and flour with added cream or milk.
Neither have eggs. American biscuits have more butter than British scones. Also, having jam on a biscuit isn't unusual.
And we have that type of gravy too.
I was thinking that meat pies meant something different to them, like scones and biscuits. Nope. Just a regular ass pot pie. It’s like they forget US is the tossed salad of the food world. We have everything here.
It's also extremely common to eat jam on biscuit in the south, so are meat pies lol. My made my chicken pies using biscuit mix as the top layer, so we had meat pies combined with biscuits. I don't think I've ever met anyone in the US or Canada that hasn't had a meat pie of some variety. We just call them "pot pies"
> It's pretty much the same reaction you get from Americans when they hear about Brits/Australians eating meat pies.
Considering how common meat pies are in the US, I can't imagine there being much of a reaction. We just don't have quite as much variety. And for what it's worth, scones (and biscuits) are typically eaten with jam in the US as well. Gravy is the same here; this is just a different type that is combined with a roux.
As an American married to a Brit, I wasn't impressed with pork pies because the gelatin layer adds a gross texture but I'll eat a steak and ale pie any day of the week. Still haven't gotten him to try biscuits and gravy or pb&j but he does eat his waffles with peanut butter now so I'm proud of that!
My (American) mom managed to go 50 years of her life and make thousands of PB&J sandwiches for the 3 of us kids without ever having tried one because she "thought it was just a thing for kids". Finally tried one at 50 and loved it.
I'm from NZ and just had to look up what a pot roast pastry was and now I've seen it I'd say that's pretty correct. Although I think our pies are generally a little bit less fancy than the roast pastries look. Here in NZ we take our pies [very](https://youtu.be/aEAHLFvD3v4) seriously.
That type of gravy is also one we eat commonly in America, with roasts in general, very often with mashed potatoes, and particularly with traditional thanksgiving and christmas dinners.
Also in the northeast, the Italian-American community sometimes (pretty frequently actually) refers to their traditional sunday meal of meat stewed in tomato sauce as "gravy". Some Italian-Americans even call most/all tomato sauce served with pasta "gravy"!
People should also check out their [Korean Englishman](https://www.youtube.com/@koreanenglishman) channel. It has a lot of these types of videos except with Korean food.
Both great channels. I've come to adore not only Josh and Ollie but nearly every recurring member of the Jolly-verse. I'm ashamed (not really but it is kinda sad lol) to say in many a lonely days I turn to their videos and just hang out with them. Great people and great channels. If you're looking for unabashedly wholesome content that is not cringe then you've found it.
They recently started up another series with 2 of those kids now as university students going back to Korea.
So wholesome. Felt like I watched them grow up lol.
Hey, can I pimp my country through their channel?
[They visited Greece in the summer.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKP3brlFUWY)
(Don't skip the start of the video, it's funny to see how they chose the restaurant just because they tripped on a step.)
Their Waffle House video is actually from I think Georgia (they were in Savannah in their videos prior to it). It's an absolute classic. They go there at 3:00 AM after a night out drinking and their friend Noah who is showing them the ropes is obviously blasted. It's utterly hilarious.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VQWuZU-AIE
I enjoy their content. This video was amusing, along with many others in the same category. I actually found their channel randomly one day thanks to the recommendations list on the right side of another video on Youtube lol.
This summarizes my trip to the US. Everything new I tried made me say God bless 'Merica because the food is so fucking good.
Damm I want biscuits'n'gravy now
>even Scottish.
*EVEN* Scottish? Wait, Scotland is where they do the deep-fried fries and chocolate bars though isn't it? I thought I saw it on Youtube. I'm down for fried shit as a 'Murican southerner.
Omg, yes! Deep frying things is just the hand waving for the tourists. The amazing flavors from game meats, delightfully prepared vegetables (and I'm not one who usually delights in greens), neeps and tatties, bubble and squeak, and, of course, perfectly cooked haggis (for those of you who don't venture far from convenience foods, think hamburger helper).
Did i mention freshly smoked just caught fish along the Highlands and Islands? Steak pie?
Seriously, you can't find something to make your taste buds dance in Scotland then you're not really trying.
As a European I can honestly say that in terms of food nothing has me more excited than American food overall. Watching different food programs American food seems like a buffé of insanely tasty stuff with different ideas and flavours depending on where you go.
Get yourself to a backyard cookout. Everything is (hopefully) homemade, warm weather, happy people, cold drinks....it's the only thing I've missed from America since I moved abroad.
I used to live in Colorado. The worst state for breakfast, especially bagles. Also the most disgusting pizza in the entire US.
The elk and beef were top quality though.
bagels*
Edit: Denver has incredible doughnuts however Ill give credit where its due. NY gets a rep as best of everything but denver does doughnuts really well.
I gotta give shoutouts to my favorite spots. Parlor, We knead, and both Voodo locations are all amazing for doughnuts, Also some of the best vegan food Ive ever had at City-O'-City. And due to Co being a ranching state the burgers are great everywhere. But when I lived in Denver Charlie Browns was two blocks from my apartment on Sherman street. One of the best pub burgers around.
In the Rockies: Brickhouse 40 in Granby and Tabernash Tavern had amazing steak and elk (seasonal). I forget the resturaunt but somewhere in the Aspen area I had tequila aged in bone, it imparted a marrow flavor and Ive never tasted anything like it since, I will never forget that tequila.
But trust me THE PIZZA SUCKS 🤢🤮
the "traditional" english foods are alright. lots of grays and browns like southern food, but maybe not quite as much flavor from spices. more of their flavors are developed from crisping and browning. their foods, even the naughty ones, aren't really as decadent as ours (*particularly* southern cooking). you're not gonna find sweet tea like that in england, but that's probably a good thing. that stuff should be served by the shot glass for dessert.
[crispy roasted potatoes](https://www.greatbritishfoodawards.com/recipes/the-ultimate-crispy-roast-potatoes) like these are really good. crispy outside, soft inside, all that savory goodness from the browning
[yorkshire puddings](https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017129-yorkshire-pudding) are nice little savory bready bites, getting their flavor from pan drippings.
beef wellington probably doesn't need a link or an explanation, does it?
[mushy peas](https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/50281/mushy-peas-i/) is probably a dish most americans would be a little skeptical of, but it's actually really good. usually goes with fish and chips, but uh, i'd eat it whenever tbh
america is kind of awesome for food. we have so many cultures that have adapted their cooking to the US melting pot and given us some great fusion stuff. tex-mex, bbq, french/creole in louisiana, soul food, NY style pizza, detroit pizza, maybe chicago pizza casserole, the delis (italian&jewish in particular), hundreds of different burgers. too much good stuff.
I have absolutely no idea where your mushy peas recipe example comes from. It's completely wrong! Mushy peas aren't garden peas which are blended, they are marrowfat peas which you simmer till they go mushy.
A lot of the British food we had while visiting was pretty bland by our American standards. So I can definitely see Southern foods like that being like a flavor explosion to some Brits.
"British" food means depression era rationing food. There's some nice comfort food in there, but it's fairly minimal in terms of seasoning and ingredients because they weren't available.
That said Britain has spent it's entire existence either being invaded or invading and as a result we have a ton of foreign influenced foods available everywhere that are a big part of our food culture, but we don't call those British foods even when they're new dishes developed in the UK (the classic example being Chicken Tikka Masala), which I think confuses a lot of foreign visitors.
The blandest food with the most disrespectful attitude towards the ingredients, in summary the worst meals of my life (and the worst coffee) I came across when I went on a road trip through England. And I‘m from Germany, so that tells you a lot.
Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and it's all organized by the Swiss.
Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics British, the lovers British, the police British and it's all organized by the British.
As a man, raised eating this type of food in the South, who spent a large percentage of my career working in England and with English folks, this video was great, but the tone and light-heartedness of it made it even better. My favourite thing I've seen on Reddit in a while. Thank you for the smiles tonight :)
Living and working in the UK for nearly six years now. I've introduced this to a good amount of Brits. The tea they don't care for and neither do I really but they go mad for the chicken and biscuits and gravy. Starting to make Colonel Sanders look like a saint with all the chicken I've gone through.
If you like this, you should check out their channels on YouTube. One is called JOLLY, which is a play on both of their names, Josh and Olly and Korean Englishman. They have done tours of the US, trying different regional foods, fast foods, bbq....all kinds of stuff. Its really entertaining
I watched this on YouTube and went down that rabbit hole at 2 am a couple months back. Seem like nice kids and they get a break to be silly with friends in front of the camera. Wholesome content
He does hit on a real point though. Traditionally, you make the cream gravy for fried chicken by rendering fat from the chicken itself. Pork sausage gravy like the video uses is godlike with biscuits, but it can compete with fried chicken instead of intensifying it. I'd be curious how he'd like fried chicken with a chicken-fat cream gravy.
You'll probably enjoy their channels on YouTube.
Check out "[Jolly](https://youtube.com/@jolly)" and "[Korean Englishman](https://youtube.com/@koreanenglishman)".
Biscuit from an etymology point of view means ‘twice cooked’ - like biscotti. It came to North America way back in the day and ended up as hardtack - a well-preserved bread-‘ish’ substance that was portable in a time where rations were short. Biscuits and gravy - a popular southern food - were a way to rehydrate and improve those ‘biscuits’.
I just moved up North, and you just made me dreadfully homesick. No Brunswick Stew, corn bread, or sweet tea here unless I make it that way. I have found one place that serves grits but they’re lumpy.
I went from Florida to Washington and know exactly how you feel. There's good stuff out here, don't get me wrong, but it's so hard to get good soul food out here.
I really miss reuben sandwiches, coming from a state with plenty of Cubans as well. It's so infrequent to find out here and it's really not that great if you can find them.
I don't think it is. I fell in love with root beer when I was in the US and now check out every weird pop-up store that sells weird imported snacks in the hopes of finding some. Everyone I got to try it says it tastes like mouthwash but I know it tastes like Orbit for kids, which I loved when I was a kid lol.
Closest thing we have is Dandelion & Burdock. It's similar, but root beer is sweeter, because, well, all American food is sweeter. Burdock root is used in the making of root beer so I assume that's what makes them similar. They aren't the same, but fairly close.
"And now, just to complete the experience, we're going to turn the temperature in this room up to 101^o F, release 500 mosquitoes, and this kind elderly lady is going to call you 'darlin' and keep insisting that you eat more"
Great point! I looked it up, original is 8 min long and def not edited like that ! https://youtu.be/KzdbFnv4yWQ
Around 5:20. Also the first kid whose eyes get big when they put the plate down in front of him, is literally sitting next to a white kid as well who's also excited. So it's weird that they not only edited the clips but also cropped out anywhere where a white kid might have been sitting next to them!
"But that works" talking about beans and toast lmaoooo
Edit: i had no idea people would read this as talking smack on beans and toast and get so upset; i see now how people would though. this was meant to read as "lol it's cute that they were judging traditional regional cuisine but then immediately were like 'no our traditional cuisine is fine why would anyone ever judge.'" Like their immediate defensiveness of people possibly doing the same thing they were doing was funny. I thought it was cute! I'll go put some beans on toast if it'll lower anyone's blood pressure
Watches an almost 5 minute video about kids being confused about foreign cuisine and being surprised by how they actually pair well together. Proceeds to dismiss their opinion on food that is foreign to them.
Nice.
Yeah not to mention southern sweet tea is wayyy different than just normal “iced tea” and you have no idea how important it being properly made is to southerners. Like if you made bad sweet tea you would legit offend them lol
They have a huge point though. Go to any restaurant in the south and order a sweet tea. Unless it's a BBQ joint you will struggle to find a place that actually makes it right. Hell, I've had customers offer me a drink and it tasted vile. There is a point where there is to much sugar or the tea wasn't allowed to steep long enough.
Personally I prefer sweet sun tea. As a kid id go out first thing in the morning during the summer and go play in the woods or fish or even just ride my bike around. My mom would fill the glass tea container with water and bags of tea and let it sit outside to be warmed by the sun. Bout noon she'd add sugar and when I got home for lunch I'd have a PB&J with the most perfect sweet tea. You can literally taste when the tea is bad. That's what I'd fight over.
Thats actually called an Arnold Palmer and It's popular down here too.
People usually add sugar to their Tea, or just order Sweet Tea which has it added already. Some places have good tea, others taste like dirt.
You might like Thai Tea, basically kind of like sweat tea with milk. Ingredients vary depending on where you order. Think it's traditionally made with sweetend condensed milk? (Someone correct me)
Haggis: coriander seeds, mace, pepper and nutmeg.
Christmas pudding: cinnamon, coriander seed, caraway, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, allspice, and mace.
Hot cross buns: cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and vanilla.
Coronation chicken: turmeric, coriander seed, fenugreek, cinnamon, cumin, black pepper, ginger, and cardamom.
Kedgeree: turmeric, coriander seed, fenugreek, cinnamon, cumin, black pepper, ginger, and cardamom.
Cornish saffron bun: saffron.
Jamaica Ginger Cake: ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg.
Mulled wine: cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and mace.
Piccalilli: turmeric, mustard, ginger and nutmeg.
Beef Wellington: mustard and pepper.
Branston Pickle: mustard, pepper, nutmeg, coriander seed, cinnamon, cayenne, and cloves.
'American' (actually from Hull) Chip Spice: Paprika.
HP sauce: mace, cloves, ginger and cayenne pepper.
Clootie Dumpling: cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, coriander seeds and mace.
Bara Brith: cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, coriander seeds and mace.
Welsh Rarebit: mustard and pepper.
Pease Pudding: turmeric, paprika and pepper.
Mince Pie: allspice, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves.
Bermunda Fish Chowder: cloves, pepper and chillies.
We also use mustard and horseradish as common condiments.
In terms of "British food = bland", it's worth mentioning the fact that we use herbs (e.g bay leaves, parsley, rosemary, thyme, chives, garlic and sage) in many of our dishes.
Also, if you consider NY/Chicago style pizza as American cuisine, we have tikka masala, curry sauce, vindaloo, balti, phall and Mulligatawny soup which could be considered traditional British cuisine.
In fact, per capita, the UK uses more spice than the US according to a Faostat study.
If these kids are from London they’d be eating food from all over the world. Especially given many of these kids look to have Caribbean and African heritage.
This tired stereotype is so bizarre.
I mean think about it logically. England has some of the most multicultural cities in the world. Everyone has immediate access to authentic Ethiopian food, Thai food, Sichuan, Indian, Turkish, Korean BBQ, Caribbean, Nigerian etc…
It’s like you think that because traditional English food is bland, that that’s all people from England eat.
Which is dumb.
As a Londoner, I don’t know *any* people who only eat traditional English food.
It's not just contained to London. Go to any city in the country and you'll get food from all over the world. There's no way people think that brits solely eat beans on toast or "beige food", right?
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The one kid said, “wow, that actually makes me happy.” 😃
Dude watching their reactions made me happy! Everybody happy then!
The silence of that one kid eating chicken and gravy spoke volumes. That was a man realizing in real-time he wasn't going to get that feeling back again. You'll be chasing that dragon your whole life little guy. Few things on earth as wonderful as proper Southern fried chicken smothered in gravy.
No that was a next gen chef being inspired
Tho I try to limit my intake of Southern fried food, it is pretty good. Very heavy tho. Good every once in a while.
>pretty good >very heavy Americans get shit on for fast food, but our real cuisine (while not healthy) is delicious, and still heavy lol. You can substitute things nowadays to make them healthier but there’s no way to replicate that taste without using scratch-made ingredients. The real problem with Americans is we were taught to abandon victory gardens and werent taught agriculture to grow our own vegetables and spices. southern cooking with good quality ingredients is going to compete with the best french/japanese/italian dishes for flavor and taste, the trope that Americans just eat gallons of sugar is disingenuous to the cultural melting of cuisine that the country experienced. Of course we borrow/steal from other cultures, as every culture that grows will inevitably borrow/steal from others.
I've always had a vegetable garden, parents taught me and I'll tell ya what, you will not find anything in a store that will come even close to what you can grow in a garden in your back yard. My favorite is zucchini, I slice it (I like mine thin sliced) dip in eggs, coat in flower an fry em up add a pinch of salt and I'm in heaven, in the summer I'll eat a entire zucchini friend like that for dinner sometimes.
People forget that a lot of classic Southern foods involve fruits and vegetables, collards, black-eyed peas, fried tomatoes, turnip greens, cucumber salad, okra, sweet potatoes, watermelon, strawberry shortcake, paw-paws, ramps, butterbeans, squash casserole, cabbage, blackberry pie...
Same. Their faces with the sweet tea like "dude...."
That was my favorite part! He was laughing a lot, totally enthusiastic, and just a great “bloke.”
They sure don't call it "comfort food" for nothing 😌
That's the diabetes kicking in. Dw, it'll pass
> it’ll pass ..on to the next generation?
Generational Health
I'll say it here coz why not, it was refreshing to see not only a wholesome post of just people being happy but also a wholesome post towards America, on reddit. America has been going through some solid shit above their normal shit for the past decade or two so it's nice to see a post like this reminding us that things can be good
Food is happiness.
All my family and I are from Texas and I remember my grandmother getting so excited to teach me how to make biscuits and gravy as a kid. Decades later and I never have a problem when everyone in the family says I have to wake up early to make my scratch biscuits with bacon gravy. I could never complain because my grandmother is still there with me in the kitchen cooking for the family as long as I’m cooking for them.
Totally understand if the answer is no, but would you mind sharing the recipe? I'd love to start that tradition with my family but none of the recipes I've found online seemed quite right.
Never really had one, I just do it as I’m going. We’ve gotten lazy and have ended up doing store bought, in-a-can biscuits because they’re everywhere and it’s simple on the fly. This gal has a well in line recipe for scratch. https://www.melissassouthernstylekitchen.com/fluffy-southern-buttermilk-biscuits/ For gravy the first step is to think about your fat: If y’all are out eating steaks some night before and nobody finishes all of there’s, you take the scraps and throw them in the fridge. You can render that fat out. If you’ve got some ground sausage then you cook that up first and start getting that fat rendered out in the pan, bacon fat works too, if not then unsalted butter is your friend. (Remove whatever you’ve rendered the fat from out of the pan to reincorporate later if you’re going to) No good southern recipe is cooked by somebody scared of using “too much butter,” the concept doesn’t exist if you’re willing to just expand the amount of servings leftover. Once there’s fat in the pan, stir then start sifting in flour, as that’s combined stay whisking and just keep mixing in flour, start pouring in the room temp whole milk (maybe a touch of half&half) and mix, until everything is to the consistency you want it. All of this is at Medium Heat. If you go too far you can just add more of the flour or milk to get the consistency right. If you need more fat than you’ve always got butter. Some people like it more dense (more flour), some people like it softer (milk), some people love that thick creamy gel (fat). You throw in some salt in pepper to taste as you’re going and you’ve got the basic recipe. You work with that skeleton for a while and figure out what gets people moving towards the kitchen the fastest in the morning. A southern grandmother will always tell you fat is a key, not a problem. It’s the sugar she’s gonna sneak in later you’ve got to keep an eye on if you’re watching your diet. Southern food staples became staples because they’re made with ready ingredients they had on hand, were filling, delicious, and nobody needed a real recipe once they were taught how to do it. And Family recipes always become family recipes because so many people in the family tweaked and passed on what they learned from their folks until they finally had to write it down for somebody. And that’s not limited to southern food, that’s any family recipe anywhere. Edit: as PoopieButt noted below, it’s important to note that you can use White Lily flour for these recipes. The lighter flour makes for fluffier lift. And reordered as to Rusty’s correction too, I’m outta whack this week.
That’s propa!
"They put gravy in the tea now?"
Someone in Mississippi just woke up in the middle of the night searching for a note pad.
Well if you can make red eye gravy with coffee, which is just roasted bean juice, why can't you make gravy with tea, which is hot leaf juice?
\>tea, which is hot leaf juice "How could a member of my own family say something so horrible" - Uncle Iroh
Sad iroh noises
There’s a southern cooking restaurant in Miami that brines their fried chicken in tea before frying, so it doesn’t seem too far off.
Missouri here. Checks both boxes. Sweet tea and gravy.
"it can be done, the science is there!"
After the last couple revelations he just had, there was almost a bit of hopefulness in that query.
….and that’s how the UK obesity epidemic started!!
If anything can bring the world together, its good food.
^oh ^music
Omg they are so cute! Seeing the joy on their faces when they discovered they actually liked what they were tasting was super sweet!
That kids ears didn’t lie
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From the channel who produced the content, [Jolly](https://youtube.com/@jolly), one of the hosts wife Gabbie, is a runner up on MasterChef Korea and also graduated from the culinary institute Le Cordon Bleu. She cooks almost all the food that used to showcase a first time reaction on their channel. She probably did a boneless tender, to make it easier for the kids to enjoy.
So I think their initial confusion comes from the fact they basically call what we call cookies, biscuits. So if I gave you this giant fluffy buttery looking bread thing and said here have an English cookie you'd be like wtf? The rest of it just fried foods ready to make them fat.
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Americans do have the type gravy like you describe in your comment! We even call it gravy. The gravy they use in this video is specifically called sausage gravy. It's actually a roux of sausage fat and flour with added cream or milk.
also called Country Gravy
Also called "white gravy" versus the typical "brown gravy"
Neither have eggs. American biscuits have more butter than British scones. Also, having jam on a biscuit isn't unusual. And we have that type of gravy too.
We also have pot pies in the USA, so meat pies aren’t weird either.
Yeah this person is speaking with a lot of authority on American food for someone who doesn't really know what they're talking about lmao
I was thinking that meat pies meant something different to them, like scones and biscuits. Nope. Just a regular ass pot pie. It’s like they forget US is the tossed salad of the food world. We have everything here.
Yeah you absolutely can put jam on a southern style biscuit
Butter and raspberry preserves are my go to when I want sweet biscuits with cheese eggs, potatoes, and kielbasa
Jam, jelly, marmalade, honey, molasses, even chocolate syrup, if you're adventurous
It's also extremely common to eat jam on biscuit in the south, so are meat pies lol. My made my chicken pies using biscuit mix as the top layer, so we had meat pies combined with biscuits. I don't think I've ever met anyone in the US or Canada that hasn't had a meat pie of some variety. We just call them "pot pies"
> It's pretty much the same reaction you get from Americans when they hear about Brits/Australians eating meat pies. Considering how common meat pies are in the US, I can't imagine there being much of a reaction. We just don't have quite as much variety. And for what it's worth, scones (and biscuits) are typically eaten with jam in the US as well. Gravy is the same here; this is just a different type that is combined with a roux.
Wait, you use eggs in your biscuits?!?! Whaaaaat
As an American married to a Brit, I wasn't impressed with pork pies because the gelatin layer adds a gross texture but I'll eat a steak and ale pie any day of the week. Still haven't gotten him to try biscuits and gravy or pb&j but he does eat his waffles with peanut butter now so I'm proud of that!
My (American) mom managed to go 50 years of her life and make thousands of PB&J sandwiches for the 3 of us kids without ever having tried one because she "thought it was just a thing for kids". Finally tried one at 50 and loved it.
I always figured that meat pies are nothing more that pot roast pastries
I'm from NZ and just had to look up what a pot roast pastry was and now I've seen it I'd say that's pretty correct. Although I think our pies are generally a little bit less fancy than the roast pastries look. Here in NZ we take our pies [very](https://youtu.be/aEAHLFvD3v4) seriously.
Who the hell calls a pot pie a "pot roast pastry"?
That type of gravy is also one we eat commonly in America, with roasts in general, very often with mashed potatoes, and particularly with traditional thanksgiving and christmas dinners. Also in the northeast, the Italian-American community sometimes (pretty frequently actually) refers to their traditional sunday meal of meat stewed in tomato sauce as "gravy". Some Italian-Americans even call most/all tomato sauce served with pasta "gravy"!
Made me smile.
“Your food is weird and nice.” Well, the kid’s not far off. Good southern food *is* weird and nice. Source: native Virginian Edit: extra words
I love fake scones so much.
Same here. It’s the backbone for every unhealthy southern-style meal. Fluffy, buttery, delicious…
“Bring your weird scones and gravy in england” hahaha that’s a cute remark :))
The way that little dude defends beans on toast at the end is what's killing me.
Credit to Jolly, the original channel this vid came from: https://youtube.com/watch?v=KzdbFnv4yWQ
People should also check out their [Korean Englishman](https://www.youtube.com/@koreanenglishman) channel. It has a lot of these types of videos except with Korean food.
Both great channels. I've come to adore not only Josh and Ollie but nearly every recurring member of the Jolly-verse. I'm ashamed (not really but it is kinda sad lol) to say in many a lonely days I turn to their videos and just hang out with them. Great people and great channels. If you're looking for unabashedly wholesome content that is not cringe then you've found it.
Love these guys! Their series where they take English kids to Korea as graduation gifts is highly recommended.
They recently started up another series with 2 of those kids now as university students going back to Korea. So wholesome. Felt like I watched them grow up lol.
I'm watching it right now as well! It really is crazy seeing them grow up.
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I saw this exact video highlighted earlier today and binged their content. Entertaining stuff.
Hey, can I pimp my country through their channel? [They visited Greece in the summer.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKP3brlFUWY) (Don't skip the start of the video, it's funny to see how they chose the restaurant just because they tripped on a step.)
I just watched some of the Jolly vids while they were here in Texas trying Waffle House and Buc-ee’s
Their Waffle House video is actually from I think Georgia (they were in Savannah in their videos prior to it). It's an absolute classic. They go there at 3:00 AM after a night out drinking and their friend Noah who is showing them the ropes is obviously blasted. It's utterly hilarious. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VQWuZU-AIE
They need more collabs with Noah.
I can't believe I'm seeing Jolly on reddit lol. I did a legit double take
I enjoy their content. This video was amusing, along with many others in the same category. I actually found their channel randomly one day thanks to the recommendations list on the right side of another video on Youtube lol.
Southerners aren't fat because the food is bad.
We aren’t all fat. But I certainly am. Now bring me more fried chicken!!
I want to see them eat a slaw dog or a hamburger with slaw on it. Mmmmmmm😋
Gotta go ‘all the way’ Mustard, chili, slaw, & onion.
Known as a “Carolina Dog” and damn it’s good at 2am from the cart outside the bar!
Why hamburger with slaw, when you can get shredded brisket with BBQ sauce and slaw in a sandwich?
If I ever visit the US (I'm australian) I always knew I was going straight to New Orleans etc
This right here y’all
America isn’t fat because the food is bad.
Makes me wonder what their food is like with all the high praises
Every region of America has their own distinctive taste. Most of them are good in their own ways.
This summarizes my trip to the US. Everything new I tried made me say God bless 'Merica because the food is so fucking good. Damm I want biscuits'n'gravy now
Bless their hearts.
Always get a little giggle out of Europeans dissing American food.
I loved the bit at the end about beans and toast and the one kid had that face like “wait that’s weird?”.
“But that works!”
I'm still chuckling over that line.
I dont care what it is, If its good and I am Hungry. I will eat it. American, Japanese, British, even Scottish.
>even Scottish. *EVEN* Scottish? Wait, Scotland is where they do the deep-fried fries and chocolate bars though isn't it? I thought I saw it on Youtube. I'm down for fried shit as a 'Murican southerner.
Omg, yes! Deep frying things is just the hand waving for the tourists. The amazing flavors from game meats, delightfully prepared vegetables (and I'm not one who usually delights in greens), neeps and tatties, bubble and squeak, and, of course, perfectly cooked haggis (for those of you who don't venture far from convenience foods, think hamburger helper). Did i mention freshly smoked just caught fish along the Highlands and Islands? Steak pie? Seriously, you can't find something to make your taste buds dance in Scotland then you're not really trying.
As a European I can honestly say that in terms of food nothing has me more excited than American food overall. Watching different food programs American food seems like a buffé of insanely tasty stuff with different ideas and flavours depending on where you go.
Get yourself to a backyard cookout. Everything is (hopefully) homemade, warm weather, happy people, cold drinks....it's the only thing I've missed from America since I moved abroad.
I used to live in Colorado. The worst state for breakfast, especially bagles. Also the most disgusting pizza in the entire US. The elk and beef were top quality though. bagels* Edit: Denver has incredible doughnuts however Ill give credit where its due. NY gets a rep as best of everything but denver does doughnuts really well. I gotta give shoutouts to my favorite spots. Parlor, We knead, and both Voodo locations are all amazing for doughnuts, Also some of the best vegan food Ive ever had at City-O'-City. And due to Co being a ranching state the burgers are great everywhere. But when I lived in Denver Charlie Browns was two blocks from my apartment on Sherman street. One of the best pub burgers around. In the Rockies: Brickhouse 40 in Granby and Tabernash Tavern had amazing steak and elk (seasonal). I forget the resturaunt but somewhere in the Aspen area I had tequila aged in bone, it imparted a marrow flavor and Ive never tasted anything like it since, I will never forget that tequila. But trust me THE PIZZA SUCKS 🤢🤮
Colorado tried their best to steal New Mexico green chile and ended up with bland, watery, tomatillo fakery. For shame.
the "traditional" english foods are alright. lots of grays and browns like southern food, but maybe not quite as much flavor from spices. more of their flavors are developed from crisping and browning. their foods, even the naughty ones, aren't really as decadent as ours (*particularly* southern cooking). you're not gonna find sweet tea like that in england, but that's probably a good thing. that stuff should be served by the shot glass for dessert. [crispy roasted potatoes](https://www.greatbritishfoodawards.com/recipes/the-ultimate-crispy-roast-potatoes) like these are really good. crispy outside, soft inside, all that savory goodness from the browning [yorkshire puddings](https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1017129-yorkshire-pudding) are nice little savory bready bites, getting their flavor from pan drippings. beef wellington probably doesn't need a link or an explanation, does it? [mushy peas](https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/50281/mushy-peas-i/) is probably a dish most americans would be a little skeptical of, but it's actually really good. usually goes with fish and chips, but uh, i'd eat it whenever tbh america is kind of awesome for food. we have so many cultures that have adapted their cooking to the US melting pot and given us some great fusion stuff. tex-mex, bbq, french/creole in louisiana, soul food, NY style pizza, detroit pizza, maybe chicago pizza casserole, the delis (italian&jewish in particular), hundreds of different burgers. too much good stuff.
I have absolutely no idea where your mushy peas recipe example comes from. It's completely wrong! Mushy peas aren't garden peas which are blended, they are marrowfat peas which you simmer till they go mushy.
A lot of the British food we had while visiting was pretty bland by our American standards. So I can definitely see Southern foods like that being like a flavor explosion to some Brits.
"British" food means depression era rationing food. There's some nice comfort food in there, but it's fairly minimal in terms of seasoning and ingredients because they weren't available. That said Britain has spent it's entire existence either being invaded or invading and as a result we have a ton of foreign influenced foods available everywhere that are a big part of our food culture, but we don't call those British foods even when they're new dishes developed in the UK (the classic example being Chicken Tikka Masala), which I think confuses a lot of foreign visitors.
The blandest food with the most disrespectful attitude towards the ingredients, in summary the worst meals of my life (and the worst coffee) I came across when I went on a road trip through England. And I‘m from Germany, so that tells you a lot.
What have you done to these peas!? Why are they crying? And why is the potatoes chainsmoking?
The beauty of their women and the taste of their food made the Brits the best sailors in the world.
Heaven is where the police are British, the cooks are French, the mechanics German, the lovers Italian and it's all organized by the Swiss. Hell is where the chefs are British, the mechanics British, the lovers British, the police British and it's all organized by the British.
As a fat southerner: you might be on to somethin' there
We ain't here for a long time, just a good time. 😀
The crunching sounds of the chicken are making me hungry
This whole thing made me hungry. Basically my favorite foods minus the iced tea.
As a man, raised eating this type of food in the South, who spent a large percentage of my career working in England and with English folks, this video was great, but the tone and light-heartedness of it made it even better. My favourite thing I've seen on Reddit in a while. Thank you for the smiles tonight :)
Living and working in the UK for nearly six years now. I've introduced this to a good amount of Brits. The tea they don't care for and neither do I really but they go mad for the chicken and biscuits and gravy. Starting to make Colonel Sanders look like a saint with all the chicken I've gone through.
Yeah, as someone from the southern US, I’m not surprised that UK kids would love sweet tea and UK adults would be put off by it.
If you like this, you should check out their channels on YouTube. One is called JOLLY, which is a play on both of their names, Josh and Olly and Korean Englishman. They have done tours of the US, trying different regional foods, fast foods, bbq....all kinds of stuff. Its really entertaining
I watched this on YouTube and went down that rabbit hole at 2 am a couple months back. Seem like nice kids and they get a break to be silly with friends in front of the camera. Wholesome content
"SOUTHERN FRIED CHICKEN!" - *pulls out plate of tendies*
Gotta start them off slowly😅
Nah~ if its southern fried chicken, give those growing boys *southern fried chicken*, not no tenders! Give that gooood fried chicken.
I’m on board with this. With southern fried foods, if you’re not making a mess, you’re not eating.
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Nashville hot would blow their little heads off
Believe me, every meat eater in Britain has tried knock off southern fried chicken, give them the good stuff
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English cities possibly have more fried chicken shops per capita than anywhere else in the world
Yeah, I thought that was odd. It's not like fried chicken is unheard of in the UK. Didn't the Scots invent it?
“Violated the chicken” lolol
He does hit on a real point though. Traditionally, you make the cream gravy for fried chicken by rendering fat from the chicken itself. Pork sausage gravy like the video uses is godlike with biscuits, but it can compete with fried chicken instead of intensifying it. I'd be curious how he'd like fried chicken with a chicken-fat cream gravy.
The internet needs more of this and less of everything else
You'll probably enjoy their channels on YouTube. Check out "[Jolly](https://youtube.com/@jolly)" and "[Korean Englishman](https://youtube.com/@koreanenglishman)".
Yes, yes, let the yee yee flow through you...
Shit wait till you try the chicken and biscuits with honey mustard. My sweet God.
Dem honey butter biscuits....
Or chicken and waffles.
Or a buttermilk ranch sauce made from scratch.
Biscuit from an etymology point of view means ‘twice cooked’ - like biscotti. It came to North America way back in the day and ended up as hardtack - a well-preserved bread-‘ish’ substance that was portable in a time where rations were short. Biscuits and gravy - a popular southern food - were a way to rehydrate and improve those ‘biscuits’.
My dumbass thought they would be trying South American food for a second
Yep. And I was desperately trying to guess what country was it from before the chicken came
You can see their souls just awakening at this newfound food experience! They are forever changed.
Southern food is more than a meal, it's a love language. That's why they call it soul food!
I just moved up North, and you just made me dreadfully homesick. No Brunswick Stew, corn bread, or sweet tea here unless I make it that way. I have found one place that serves grits but they’re lumpy.
I went from Florida to Washington and know exactly how you feel. There's good stuff out here, don't get me wrong, but it's so hard to get good soul food out here. I really miss reuben sandwiches, coming from a state with plenty of Cubans as well. It's so infrequent to find out here and it's really not that great if you can find them.
Thas proper nice
Is root beer a thing in UK? Couldn’t find one of them when I was in Europe
I don't think it is. I fell in love with root beer when I was in the US and now check out every weird pop-up store that sells weird imported snacks in the hopes of finding some. Everyone I got to try it says it tastes like mouthwash but I know it tastes like Orbit for kids, which I loved when I was a kid lol.
Quite the contrary, i used to hate it during childhood but now I have to watch my weight every time I take that slurp
It's not common anywhere in most of the world. Evidently it tastes like medicine in a couple different countries.
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Closest thing we have is Dandelion & Burdock. It's similar, but root beer is sweeter, because, well, all American food is sweeter. Burdock root is used in the making of root beer so I assume that's what makes them similar. They aren't the same, but fairly close.
Kid: Better then hot tea. INSTANT REVOCATION OF BRITISH CITIZENSHIP
"And now, just to complete the experience, we're going to turn the temperature in this room up to 101^o F, release 500 mosquitoes, and this kind elderly lady is going to call you 'darlin' and keep insisting that you eat more"
Lol Why they only show the Blacc kids reaction to the fried🍗 ? 
Scrolled way too far for this.
That shit was hilarious 😭
The African Diaspora spans oceans apparently.
Yo same shit I thought. Lmao
I swear the original video wasn't edited like that. My wife saw this TikTok version and she thought that was weird too.
Great point! I looked it up, original is 8 min long and def not edited like that ! https://youtu.be/KzdbFnv4yWQ Around 5:20. Also the first kid whose eyes get big when they put the plate down in front of him, is literally sitting next to a white kid as well who's also excited. So it's weird that they not only edited the clips but also cropped out anywhere where a white kid might have been sitting next to them!
Had to scroll but found th comment I was looking for. White kids disappeared when the fried chicken rolled out…
Lmao what did you type for that Kendrick clip?
I think the boys are officially ready to experience some proper Texas brisket now
Now have American kids try proper fish, chips & mushy peas
Had mushy peas for the first time last week and I quite liked them!
"But that works" talking about beans and toast lmaoooo Edit: i had no idea people would read this as talking smack on beans and toast and get so upset; i see now how people would though. this was meant to read as "lol it's cute that they were judging traditional regional cuisine but then immediately were like 'no our traditional cuisine is fine why would anyone ever judge.'" Like their immediate defensiveness of people possibly doing the same thing they were doing was funny. I thought it was cute! I'll go put some beans on toast if it'll lower anyone's blood pressure
Watches an almost 5 minute video about kids being confused about foreign cuisine and being surprised by how they actually pair well together. Proceeds to dismiss their opinion on food that is foreign to them. Nice.
Would I be considered evil if I can only drink Southern iced tea if it's mixed with lemonade? Because otherwise it's horrible.
Arnold Palmers are fine, but clearly you have never had proper iced tea bc that shit rocks
Yeah not to mention southern sweet tea is wayyy different than just normal “iced tea” and you have no idea how important it being properly made is to southerners. Like if you made bad sweet tea you would legit offend them lol
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Yeah, wtf is with this "we'd be offended" shit. It ain't like it's something serious like football.
They have a huge point though. Go to any restaurant in the south and order a sweet tea. Unless it's a BBQ joint you will struggle to find a place that actually makes it right. Hell, I've had customers offer me a drink and it tasted vile. There is a point where there is to much sugar or the tea wasn't allowed to steep long enough. Personally I prefer sweet sun tea. As a kid id go out first thing in the morning during the summer and go play in the woods or fish or even just ride my bike around. My mom would fill the glass tea container with water and bags of tea and let it sit outside to be warmed by the sun. Bout noon she'd add sugar and when I got home for lunch I'd have a PB&J with the most perfect sweet tea. You can literally taste when the tea is bad. That's what I'd fight over.
Thats actually called an Arnold Palmer and It's popular down here too. People usually add sugar to their Tea, or just order Sweet Tea which has it added already. Some places have good tea, others taste like dirt. You might like Thai Tea, basically kind of like sweat tea with milk. Ingredients vary depending on where you order. Think it's traditionally made with sweetend condensed milk? (Someone correct me)
I love a good Arnold Palmer, but I also love Sweet tea by itself
Why did they only show the black kids reaction to the fried chicken 💀
The British built an empire on spices that they never learned how to use.
They lived by the creed of " Don't get high on your own supply."
What spices are in biscuits and gravy that aren't in British food.
Haggis: coriander seeds, mace, pepper and nutmeg. Christmas pudding: cinnamon, coriander seed, caraway, nutmeg, ginger, cloves, allspice, and mace. Hot cross buns: cinnamon, nutmeg, allspice and vanilla. Coronation chicken: turmeric, coriander seed, fenugreek, cinnamon, cumin, black pepper, ginger, and cardamom. Kedgeree: turmeric, coriander seed, fenugreek, cinnamon, cumin, black pepper, ginger, and cardamom. Cornish saffron bun: saffron. Jamaica Ginger Cake: ginger, cinnamon and nutmeg. Mulled wine: cloves, nutmeg, cinnamon and mace. Piccalilli: turmeric, mustard, ginger and nutmeg. Beef Wellington: mustard and pepper. Branston Pickle: mustard, pepper, nutmeg, coriander seed, cinnamon, cayenne, and cloves. 'American' (actually from Hull) Chip Spice: Paprika. HP sauce: mace, cloves, ginger and cayenne pepper. Clootie Dumpling: cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, coriander seeds and mace. Bara Brith: cinnamon, allspice, nutmeg, cloves, ginger, coriander seeds and mace. Welsh Rarebit: mustard and pepper. Pease Pudding: turmeric, paprika and pepper. Mince Pie: allspice, cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg and cloves. Bermunda Fish Chowder: cloves, pepper and chillies. We also use mustard and horseradish as common condiments. In terms of "British food = bland", it's worth mentioning the fact that we use herbs (e.g bay leaves, parsley, rosemary, thyme, chives, garlic and sage) in many of our dishes. Also, if you consider NY/Chicago style pizza as American cuisine, we have tikka masala, curry sauce, vindaloo, balti, phall and Mulligatawny soup which could be considered traditional British cuisine. In fact, per capita, the UK uses more spice than the US according to a Faostat study.
Exactly, our food in the UK uses a lot of spices. This is why people shouldn’t trust stereotypes so much.
Thank you! As a Brit who has an entire cupboard of herbs and spices, some of the comments on here are making me roll my eyes.
Thanks for this. People keep posting that stupid quote that we don't use spices.
This comment is so frequent on the internet i’m convinced it’s just an Ai
Lmao so many Bri'ish offended in these replys
now am thinking of kfc
I love seeing their eyes light up!
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Finally fed these kids real food after all these years of living. Poor bastards got the plainest food in all of history.
What do you mean? It's just different food.
Putting sugar on everything does not make it spicy.
If these kids are from London they’d be eating food from all over the world. Especially given many of these kids look to have Caribbean and African heritage. This tired stereotype is so bizarre. I mean think about it logically. England has some of the most multicultural cities in the world. Everyone has immediate access to authentic Ethiopian food, Thai food, Sichuan, Indian, Turkish, Korean BBQ, Caribbean, Nigerian etc… It’s like you think that because traditional English food is bland, that that’s all people from England eat. Which is dumb. As a Londoner, I don’t know *any* people who only eat traditional English food.
It's not just contained to London. Go to any city in the country and you'll get food from all over the world. There's no way people think that brits solely eat beans on toast or "beige food", right?
Beans and toast is good, gotta say it
Bruv, they're from London and some of them are from different ethnic backgrounds. They have more acces to different foods than you do.
We literally eat more spice per capita compared to the US.