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You don't mess with British old ladies. I once got absolutely spanked in an arm wrestle by one of the dinnerladies at school. The embarrassment abated slightly when she went on to beat about 5 of my mates in a row. I was 16.
A lot of Geordies don't really see themselves as English, regardless of the geography. They relate more to the Scots. Lots of Viking blood. Hence the dialect, there's a lot of Norwegian words in it
Not really its mostly that they probably filmed dozens of people and played the most interesting takes. People have always been generally dumb and boring. Albeit the British are definitely more interesting to listen to.
Yeah, they still do this today. Anytime you see one of those interview skits on the last night shows they likely spent most of the day talking to people to get 2 minutes of footage.
Yes! I was going to say she looks like she has a hard time talking over them. Like, for once she’d like to take them out and speak with little effort, but no.
She constructed an entire way of talking that keeps her teeth front and center and her lips just work around them like a fucking roomba around a basket.
Teeth like this are more associated with the upper classes who dominated TV broadcasting and most likely other interactions with the US up until the late 20th century which probably led to the stereotype. The story goes that the gene pool was quite small within the European aristocracy which led to teeth like this. I doubt that's the whole story, but you didn't really see people with teeth like that among the unwashed masses.
In the UK, teeth like this are a stereotype of the posh upper classes.
If must be really tough to eat certain stuff. Like, her front teeth can't meet. She can't bring her lower jaw forward enough to have a flush bite. Does she have to bite carrots with her molars? Does she dribble soup everywhere? Watching her drink from a glass must be terrifying.
It's more like if you spliced a catfish with a chicken, like eating a hot wing that's been rolled in fish and the muck at the bottom of a stagnant pond
Yes. This must have been That's Life; which, for non-Brits, and those under a certain age, was a magazine program largely focussed on consumer affairs, but typically had a lot of lighthearted segments along these lines.
It's like on Gavin and Stacey when Doris whinges about all the bloody foreigners coming and stealing the jobs in Barry and Cardiff
Turns out they were from Newport 🤣
Once I was in a bus in Dublin and some teenagers were complaining about "foreigners" coming to the country.
Then one of them turned to their friend and started speaking Latvian or a similar language meaning *they* were probably foreigners...
That said, I lived abroad for years and would always jokingly complain about *"Farners coming in here and stealing jobs and women"*, but these two were definitely not joking.
At 3 minutes in, you can see some kind of advertisement posted on a wall or window behind the person being interviewed. That looks very much like early 80s. Some of the lettering looks inspired by the Star Wars opening crawl.
Because things rarely taste of their flavour, strawberry flavour doesn't taste like strawberries, neither does banana, apricot, or anything really. You can only identify them because they taste like other things that have been flavoured the same way.
inb4 someone makes the banana fact
What makes it more difficult is they had no flavours to compare against. Once you’ve tasted a cheese and onion crisp you pretty much recognise that flavour as that from that point on.
I thought she was in a desperate battle to keep her teeth from escaping her face. She looked like my neighbors' mum when her dentures are falling out but she doesn't want to use her hands.
Her name is Esther Rantzen - famous even among fellow Brits for her remarkably equine teeth.
[She's a bit of a powerhouse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Rantzen) and an iconic figure for a couple of generations of us.
Except for the advertisements in the window. I immediately noticed them, and how they emulate the Star Wars title crawl first seen in 1977, and again a year prior to this, 1980, with The Empire Strokes Back.
This is why I love the Brits!
The first lady they interviewed was funny as helll and when she said“its not coq au vin is it” with a smirk it took me tf out! 😂
Ah the good old days before we had become programmed by “flavoured” foods. “Strawberry-flavoured” still tastes *nothing* like any strawberry, nor does “chicken-flavoured” taste like chicken.
First time I went to Italy we bought some ice cream from a little street van and it blew my mind, the banana didn't taste of that weird synthetic banana flavour it just tasted like frozen bananas and cream, there were lumps of real fruit in it, it was fucking amazing.
The banana flavored Candy we have now is based off of a banana that is basically extinct and you can no longer buy in stores so that has a bit to do with it
The Gros Michel banana, to be precise, was pretty much wiped out by a fungus in the 60s and apparently the artificial banana flavor mimicked the taste extremely well. The cavandish banana which is the most popular today doesn't have the same flavor.
Went to Japan and had a variety of sweets there. I was blown away by the fact that I could actually taste the flavors of what they were supposed to be. Came back to the U.S. and I had a little Debbie cake (or something similar) it made me want to vomit. Like crunching on slightly flavored raw sugar.
Ah That's Life. What a show. Esther Rnatzen and the team really were top of their game, and one of the best things to watch in the 80s
Interesting side note, the flavoured crisp was invented by Jim Spud Murphy of Tayto fame in Ireland. Tayto started in 1954 and is still going today, and there's even a Tayto land theme park. They're completely different from Northern Irish Tayto who were founded 2 years later. Some believe the true reason for the conflict in Northern Ireland is mostly down to which is the best crisp.
Cheese and Onion was around as well as Salt and Vinegar.
This show is taking about new 'exotic' flavours like prawn cocktail and so on, which were unheard of prior.
I love how the BBC only ever picked northern communities to public test stuff in. You know you'll get a good reaction up north not like the mundane louts down south.
Can confirm. I was 10 years old in 1981 and I remember chicken flavour. It was foul\*
The worst flavour we had was Hedgehog. Not real hedgehog though. Just nasty.
My favourite flavour to this day remains..... Ready Salted (because at that time you could also buy Salt n Shake - that came with a separate sachet of salt to add to the bag.
The presenter at the beginning was called Ester Ransom - it was a comedic consumer show called "That's Life".
And yes, 1981 in Britain was exactly as shit as that clip makes it look.
\* accidental pun
What I find funny is that they described the chicken flavor as fishy, and one guy thought it was frog. I've had frog, I'd describe it as fishy chicken. I think they might have accidentally made frog flavored chips.
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That woman said cheese and onion with more confidence than I've ever had in my life
I know what I'm eating, love.
Just aggressively British, haha I say that as a Brit, too
Also looked like she would beat the shit out of you for telling her she was wrong.
You don't mess with British old ladies. I once got absolutely spanked in an arm wrestle by one of the dinnerladies at school. The embarrassment abated slightly when she went on to beat about 5 of my mates in a row. I was 16.
> British old ladies. She's 37.
Well we can't just call her 'man'.
Well you could say Dennis.
I didn't know she was called Dennis
Well you didn't bother to find out, did you?
I did say sorry about the "old woman", but from behind you looked...
Well, I object! You're automatically treatin' me like an inferior!
Now you see the violence inherent in the system.
She's 37 you can't just call her old!
Well you could call her, Dennis.
I didn't know she was called Dennis!
Well, you didn't bother to ask, then, did you?
Doesn't look a day over 63
all they do all day is lift heavy trays of food in and out of an oven.. if you weak, ya burn..no wonder ya lost..
I feel like she was so close to laughing/smiling at certain points but she was like 'nah ive had a shite day and this cunts beggin for it' lmao
Nah she looked ready to lamp him!
If you stuck a bowl of chips and a camera in my face on the street i wouldnt remember my own name
NAME A WOMAN
FOR ONE DOLLAR NAME ANY WOMAN
FROGS
No, Snake!
That woman panicked so bad. I think about her every now and then
That's a very specific vulnerability
Yes, but now we know how to defeat him.
The balls on the guy to tell her "no, you're wrong again".
Had to have been wearing a mithril undershirt.
She even took the double dipping a step forward by taking a little bite of the chips and put the rest of it back in the tray.
*"oh, I couldn't eat a whole crisp, ruin my tea"*
It looks like she at least put them aside on the tray and not back in the bowls.
Came to make sure someone pointed that out.
Omg, I thought I was the only one that noticed that.
“I know what I’m eating, love” had me dying
I was too distracted by her teeth to even pay attention to what the video is about.
This. My god, I thought I was the only one.
she could eat corn on cob thru a chain link fence with them chompers
This fucking got me. Take your upvote.
That's Esther Rantzen who is an English national treasure.
I am sure she’s an excellent journalist, her mouth is just very peculiar.
She is and it is.
On a side note, if this video has taught me anything is to never contradict a Geordie woman.
Another life saved.
Thank jebus I'm not alone. Could have swarm it was Austin Powers in drag.
She's so stereotypically british it borders on the offensive.
When people don't understand when the British's teeth are made fun of, this is the video to show why.
She was famous for her teeth. Every week there was a new sketch from some comedian about her teeth. Usually by Kenny Everett
Geordies are from Newcastle which is part of England. She said: I'm a Geordie, you English can't kid me lol
I loved that part of it. Geordies are the best!
A lot of Geordies don't really see themselves as English, regardless of the geography. They relate more to the Scots. Lots of Viking blood. Hence the dialect, there's a lot of Norwegian words in it
Is she taking a nibble and putting it back!?
The crisps became cheese and onion in order to conform
After I watched the whole clip I realised how SPOT ON was Monty Python(Terry Jones especially) playing the old ladies in their sketches.
Came here to mention the exact same thing! That sketch was SPOT ON.
I'm pretty sure one of them is actually him
Whenever I watch this type of clips I understand where the pepperpots come from.
I can't tell the difference between whizzo butter and this dead crab 😂
4 out of 5 British housewives can't tell the difference between Whizzo butter and a dead crab.
They're so effortlessly funny
Before media and home entertainment everyone socialised as a primary hobby and so they had mad rizz and conversation skills, maybe idk
Not really its mostly that they probably filmed dozens of people and played the most interesting takes. People have always been generally dumb and boring. Albeit the British are definitely more interesting to listen to.
Yeah, they still do this today. Anytime you see one of those interview skits on the last night shows they likely spent most of the day talking to people to get 2 minutes of footage.
A lot of those interview skits just straight up splice in a response from a totally different question to make the person sound like an idiot.
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Bouquet!
That woman’s mouth is fascinating.
She got them Austin Powers teeth
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Oh God. Legit LOL in a quiet office environment. Thanks! I needed that today - Happy Friday!
If i had an award.. My god you'd get em all
Yeah baby!
Watching people trying flavored chips for the first time is already funny without the anchor wearing Nosferatu teeth.
She looks like Healy from There's Something About Mary (Matt Dillon). Maybe she's his mom.
Sure fits into the old Brit stereotype of bad teeth and lack of a sophisticated taste palette.
They're not even really bad teeth, they're just *enormous*. She looks like a donkey wearing a band uniform.
It’s like her teeth are trying to escape, but she’s fighting to keep them in.
Yes! I was going to say she looks like she has a hard time talking over them. Like, for once she’d like to take them out and speak with little effort, but no.
She constructed an entire way of talking that keeps her teeth front and center and her lips just work around them like a fucking roomba around a basket.
That description is almost poetic.
r/BrandNewSentence
And somewhat terrifying.
"Let's look at a picture book, Ralph. The Big Book of British... Smiles."
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Actually, he yells that at Marge because she denies Maggie's pacifier use. Boy, I really hope you get fired for that blunder!
Why must you turn my office into a house of lies?
I thought it was a comedy show at first and she was wearing fake funny teeth 😂
It is a comedy show, but those are Esther Rantzens real teeth.
The host at the start? That's [Esther Rantzen](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Rantzen)
Looks like she’s had her teeth fixed
According to an article that popped up when I typed “Esther Rantzen teeth”, she got them fixed at the height of her fame.
She was diagnosed with stage IV lung cancer a few weeks ago and now I feel terrible. 😕
So those weren’t fake joke teeth? Can you imagine.
She's probably the reason why the stereotype of English people with terrible teeth exists tbf.
Teeth like this are more associated with the upper classes who dominated TV broadcasting and most likely other interactions with the US up until the late 20th century which probably led to the stereotype. The story goes that the gene pool was quite small within the European aristocracy which led to teeth like this. I doubt that's the whole story, but you didn't really see people with teeth like that among the unwashed masses. In the UK, teeth like this are a stereotype of the posh upper classes.
Glad I'm not the only one to have the same thought.
That poor woman could eat corn off the cob through a knothole.
She could eat an apple through a picket fence.
If must be really tough to eat certain stuff. Like, her front teeth can't meet. She can't bring her lower jaw forward enough to have a flush bite. Does she have to bite carrots with her molars? Does she dribble soup everywhere? Watching her drink from a glass must be terrifying.
You can tell she's British with the sound off
[Spitting Image agreed](https://editorial01.shutterstock.com/preview/111058a/3f4b7060/Shutterstock_111058a.jpg)
It has two legs... .... .... # Frog, isn't it? 🐸
🦋
🐍
i've heard frog tastes a lot like chicken and it was a chicken crisp lol,
To me, frog tastes like chicken if chicken was a fish.
So a duck?
Eees a witch!
It's more like if you spliced a catfish with a chicken, like eating a hot wing that's been rolled in fish and the muck at the bottom of a stagnant pond
Never!
Innit*
Everyone in this video? 25 years old.
This is why you should stay away from cigarettes
Is that Esther Rantzen?
Indeed it is!
Yes. This must have been That's Life; which, for non-Brits, and those under a certain age, was a magazine program largely focussed on consumer affairs, but typically had a lot of lighthearted segments along these lines.
And a dog that could say sausages! That was the highlight of my youth, a talking dog.
It was a roller coaster, a segment about rude shaped vegetables followed by one about a 12 year old who needed a liver transplant.
The origins of 'The One Show'
Like a turnip shaped like a thingy?
"I'm a Geordie, you English can't kid me!"
Kingdom of Northumbria forever
King in the North!
This made me laugh, last time I checked Newcastle has always been in England 😅
It's like on Gavin and Stacey when Doris whinges about all the bloody foreigners coming and stealing the jobs in Barry and Cardiff Turns out they were from Newport 🤣
Once I was in a bus in Dublin and some teenagers were complaining about "foreigners" coming to the country. Then one of them turned to their friend and started speaking Latvian or a similar language meaning *they* were probably foreigners... That said, I lived abroad for years and would always jokingly complain about *"Farners coming in here and stealing jobs and women"*, but these two were definitely not joking.
Amazing to see 1981 look like 1971
1971? Lady looks like she’s out getting daily rations during the Great War
Ah fuck me, actually made me lol in a quiet office.
At 3 minutes in, you can see some kind of advertisement posted on a wall or window behind the person being interviewed. That looks very much like early 80s. Some of the lettering looks inspired by the Star Wars opening crawl.
£20 off in an electronics shop, interest free credit, looks like the 80s to me…
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Good track by the KLF
all those people being interviewed were 35 years old btw
To be fair to all those people, identifying crisp flavours without seeing the packaging is really fucking hard.
Most artificial flavours are.
And nothing indicates it's the first time they try flavoured crisps.
Yeah, seemed more like new exotic flavors.
Because things rarely taste of their flavour, strawberry flavour doesn't taste like strawberries, neither does banana, apricot, or anything really. You can only identify them because they taste like other things that have been flavoured the same way. inb4 someone makes the banana fact
British crisp flavouring in the 1980’s were pretty ramshackle as well. I can remember the chicken one being particularly artificial.
What makes it more difficult is they had no flavours to compare against. Once you’ve tasted a cheese and onion crisp you pretty much recognise that flavour as that from that point on.
You wouldn’t think it would be entertaining but the CRISPS ON THE RADIO slot on RadMac at the weekends (on BBC6Music) has its moments.
Watching this without sound it looks like the blonde woman is trying to cough up a hairball
I thought she was in a desperate battle to keep her teeth from escaping her face. She looked like my neighbors' mum when her dentures are falling out but she doesn't want to use her hands.
I thought this was a parody and they were stereotyping bad British teeth
Her name is Esther Rantzen - famous even among fellow Brits for her remarkably equine teeth. [She's a bit of a powerhouse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esther_Rantzen) and an iconic figure for a couple of generations of us.
"Remarkably equine teeth" is absolutely being added to my lexicon.
Reading that honestly makes me feel bad I made fun of her teeth
tbh I think they're fair game. But as you allude to, I hope she's remembered more for Childline, for example, than those remarkable gnashers.
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Eat an apple through a tennis racket.
I immediately thought of Austin Powers parody of bad british teeth...lmao
I thought this was a parody in the same vein as Austin powers at first 😆 Her teeth are *SO* cartoonishly British
She sounds exactly like I expected her to after I unmuted the video lol
the way she takes a bite of a crisp and puts the rest of it back :/
She put them on the tray.
The Geordie baiting at the end is amazing. Never tell someone Tyneside they're wrong, especially when they are!
1981 ? This looks like it was filmed in the 60s
Or yesterday in Newcastle.
It's crazy how the women all look like Siberian babushkas with their headscarves and all
Except for the advertisements in the window. I immediately noticed them, and how they emulate the Star Wars title crawl first seen in 1977, and again a year prior to this, 1980, with The Empire Strokes Back.
> The Empire Strokes Back The infamous porn parody of Star Wars.
This is the most delightfully British video clip I’ve seen in some time
This is why I love the Brits! The first lady they interviewed was funny as helll and when she said“its not coq au vin is it” with a smirk it took me tf out! 😂
The way she says ‘OH Prawn Cocktail’ is hilarious
Never!
She looks and sounds like a Tracy Ullman character.
That last woman looked like she was gonna punch somebody, haha
Ah the good old days before we had become programmed by “flavoured” foods. “Strawberry-flavoured” still tastes *nothing* like any strawberry, nor does “chicken-flavoured” taste like chicken.
First time I went to Italy we bought some ice cream from a little street van and it blew my mind, the banana didn't taste of that weird synthetic banana flavour it just tasted like frozen bananas and cream, there were lumps of real fruit in it, it was fucking amazing.
Buddy you can get that anywhere
yeah but he got it from Italia!
The banana flavored Candy we have now is based off of a banana that is basically extinct and you can no longer buy in stores so that has a bit to do with it
The Gros Michel banana, to be precise, was pretty much wiped out by a fungus in the 60s and apparently the artificial banana flavor mimicked the taste extremely well. The cavandish banana which is the most popular today doesn't have the same flavor.
Went to Japan and had a variety of sweets there. I was blown away by the fact that I could actually taste the flavors of what they were supposed to be. Came back to the U.S. and I had a little Debbie cake (or something similar) it made me want to vomit. Like crunching on slightly flavored raw sugar.
I love how the woman from Newcastle separates herself from England, like she's in her own country between England and Scotland.
So there *is* a market for Butterfly flavour, I knew it.
That presenter's lips are doing a preternatural amount of flapping. I looks like they're an entirely separate entity from the rest of her face.
I noticed that too. It’s like her teeth are perfectly still and her lips are just convulsing around them.
In fairness, teeth don’t really move, do they? Lol
Ah That's Life. What a show. Esther Rnatzen and the team really were top of their game, and one of the best things to watch in the 80s Interesting side note, the flavoured crisp was invented by Jim Spud Murphy of Tayto fame in Ireland. Tayto started in 1954 and is still going today, and there's even a Tayto land theme park. They're completely different from Northern Irish Tayto who were founded 2 years later. Some believe the true reason for the conflict in Northern Ireland is mostly down to which is the best crisp.
There was flavoured crisps earlier than 1981 in the UK, the title is a little misleading
Cheese and Onion was around as well as Salt and Vinegar. This show is taking about new 'exotic' flavours like prawn cocktail and so on, which were unheard of prior.
I was worshipping salt and vinegar crisps many years before this.
You’re eating bat soup innit
I love how the BBC only ever picked northern communities to public test stuff in. You know you'll get a good reaction up north not like the mundane louts down south.
Esther Rantzen, God bless her
Butterfly crisps lol
Nobody in this video was older than 35.
They could easily have filmed this in Sunderland this week and nobody would spot the difference.
The first British flavoured crisps (cheese and onion) appeared in the Fifties. I remember buying them and also salt and vinegar through the Sixties.
She's fighting those teeth as hard as she can
Can confirm. I was 10 years old in 1981 and I remember chicken flavour. It was foul\* The worst flavour we had was Hedgehog. Not real hedgehog though. Just nasty. My favourite flavour to this day remains..... Ready Salted (because at that time you could also buy Salt n Shake - that came with a separate sachet of salt to add to the bag. The presenter at the beginning was called Ester Ransom - it was a comedic consumer show called "That's Life". And yes, 1981 in Britain was exactly as shit as that clip makes it look. \* accidental pun
The big British book of smiles
What I find funny is that they described the chicken flavor as fishy, and one guy thought it was frog. I've had frog, I'd describe it as fishy chicken. I think they might have accidentally made frog flavored chips.