American reacts to British Highschoolers react to Bri'ish Memes
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Hi mate. We don't just use an electric kettle for tea, coffee or hot chocolate . You could boil the kettle to say get raw vegetables boiling on the stove instantly instead of using cold wate, to cook rice, instant add water meals like noodles, to boil an egg. Just a few uses 🍜🥚 🍚☕
Yeah we use it all the time in cooking. Pasta, vegetables, sauces, it is just a lot faster than boiling it on the hob. I don’t think kettles work as well in the USA though, I don’t think they can get as much power out of their sockets before they trip the breaker.
Yeah we use a kettle to speed up coming for in hot water. Plus we also have instant soups in mugs. Instant flavoured pasta or noodles in mugs where you just add boiling water (obviously not be as good as the real thing, I can see the Italians fuming at instant pasta, but when you're starving and you don't have a cooker they come in handy). Many of these foods probably come from explorers, army rations, and possibly astronaut rations. Also making couscous, rehydrating dried mushrooms and other dried food for cooking with them. Taking the skin of tomatoes for cooking. Loads of uses. Especially when cooking other foods. Plus making hot drinks that are not brewed coffee. Making instant stock, if you don't have masses of tubs or cartoons of stock to hand.
@@Loulizabeth I'm coming round to your house for instant boiled dinner 😂
I've boiled an egg in a kettle before now.
@@insidiousbeatz48 lol. 😂 I'm sure that's why many students who survive on instant food and toasted sandwiches at Uni in dorms, can't wait to get home and eat regular food, plus get their laundry done.
Oh the physical pain I felt watching her make tea. Whether it was a joke or not 🫣
I knowwwwww Why the hell would you heat the water in the microwave? Why would you add milk? Why would you dumb the tea bag like that? I’m dying on the inside.
I know, I think I need therapy now!!!
I know, that even made me cringe, and I'm Canadian!
It is a joke, I am subscribed to her channel. Her husband is in the military and she lived in England for 6 years. She just made the tiktok as a p**s take, I guess cause she knew it would get views!
Same
Blazer/tie/shirt combo is typical uniform in the UK! Also a cookie has chocolate chips usually 🍪
Cookies are normally a bit softer/chewier also.
@@spacechannelfiver cookie also usually got quite a few flavours. biscuit's usually bland, salty or sweet, and ate with tea.
Cookies like cake goes hard when stale, biscuits go soft, with rare exceptions of ones that call themselves cookies but act like biscuits such as Maryland cookies.
My house has a built in instant hot water tap
The highschoolers are from Fulham boys high school, and yes that is their school uniform. Jolly and Korean Englishman have a full series with them, even taking some out to Korea. You should check out more of them
I loved watching them in Korea
It will make you want to try Korean food so badly. Their food looks so amazing.
I agree, the Korean series is very entertaining. Great boys.
I loved watching them in Korea. Max and Armand always hilarious and the way Bobby was so excited and kept wanting to share all his adventures with his mum was just so heartwarming and adorable.
I'm a big fan of JOLLY and The KoreanEnglishman. They are one of the most wholesome yet hilarious guys on KZhead. :))
'Aitch' is actually the correct way to say 'H' in British English, it gives the pronunciation 'a-ch' in the dictionary. It's not a matter of laziness or mispronunciation, I was scolded in primary school for saying 'haitch'
hwhen hyou by a hwhiskey that starts with haitch
Drives me mad when people say haich.
same I was told off for it and just adapted 😭
that's also how we pronounce it in our country and never knew that it is pronounce as haitch in some until I watched Jolly's video lol. It shocked me tbh.
One of my pet hates is people pronouncing it haitch. Drives me mad!
That IS definitely their school uniform, that’s what most secondary/high school’s wear, my boys do. The blazer normally has your school emblem or name on it and ties vary in colour and patterns plus the blazer and trousers can be different colours for different schools. My kids wear navy blue. Also shirts may not necessarily be white depending on your school. At my kids school, there are 4 houses and each house has its own colour tie to represent it.
Hi. Houses...that must be a private school thing as I've never heard of it in use at comprehensive schools. Very 'Potter-esque' though! 😃
Hi. Houses...that must be a private school thing as I've never heard of it in use at comprehensive schools, very 'Potter-esque' though! 😃
Hi. Houses...that must be a private school thing as I've never heard of it in use at comprehensive schools, very 'Potter-esque' though! 😃
Hi. Houses...that must be a private school thing as I've never heard of it in use at comprehensive schools, very 'Potter-esque' though
@@deballen7031 no, it’s just a normal state secondary school!
You need to watch this entire series. These kids are awesome. I promise you will not be disappointed.
I love watching these guys! They’re hilarious!! 😂
@@dawnburris6412 who are they?
@@sf2490 they go to an all boy’s school in England. I can’t remember the name right now, but I feel like I’ve watched them grow up!
I use the kettle many many times per day. For my many pots of tea of course, but also when I cook to speed up the process or for instant soups, instant broth and other instant stuff like that :D Then also I have my hot water bottle for when my feet are cold or I get sick. You can also use hot water for cleaning for example to reduce bacteria or I also use boiling water and dish liquid to clean the drain or pipes.
Also (especially with all the gas/electricity increases), it's quicker and less costly to boil water in the kettle, if making things like pasta... Saves on all the gas used to 'bring a pan to the boil' first - just stick a pan on stove and add the boiling water from kettle!
I'm the same too!
They aren't widespread in countries like the US due to the 110V powersupply; they take an age to boil. Useful for hot drinks, cooking and emergency body washes if the heating packs in.
It takes less energy to boil with an electric kettle than on a stove. (which means less money spend on said energy) So I usually go half-half. Put the kettle on, put water in the pot. And when the water in the kettle is done, I add it to the pot. Besides that it is also good for everything that just needs hot water. Besides tea there are instant noodles and soups or instant cappucchino.
@@spacechannelfiver I don't know about that. Here in Canada, we have the same voltage power outlets as the U.S. We use electric kettles a lot. Boiling water is quick and efficient.
I use my kettle to pre-boil any water i need for cooking noodles or potatoes or whatever efficiently. Boil 2l or so in the kettle within 2 minutes while i heat my pot with a tiny amount of water.
same :)
As a German I can say we Europeans do love our kettles, I’m also pretty sure the same goes for a lot of Asian countries, it’s just great for getting hot water super quick not just for making tea
What they were wearing was pretty normal for a school here. Blazer, shirt, school tie, dark trousers, and black shoes. An electric kettle will be used for various hot beverages, instant noodles, and hot water bottles. The voltage for our electricity is about double what you have in the US, so your electric kettles heat up far slower.
we don't have electric kettles here because their is no need for them. pretty much every house has a keurig or equivalent for coffee. we also have hot water taps in our sinks and refrigerators...
@@PhxVanguard Hot water is not boiling! We always start with cold water when boiling water for tea.
@whattiler5102 why the exclamation point? Are you unwell?
@@PhxVanguard It was merely an emphasis!
@@whattiler5102 also, I don't think you, "always start with cold water" unless you're using the royal we. 25% of Britons aren't even tea drinkers, evidently. 😬
Whenever you cook anything in a pot with water an electric kettle is very useful instead of waiting 10 mins for the water to boil on the hob. As soon as my kettle stops working top priority is to get another. Does probably help that our Electricity is twice the voltage of yours so kettles boil about 2x as fast.
Ryan, there are hundreds of British accents! These lads are from the south so you’ll always understand them. They’re reading from Reddit or something but it’s all part of their adventures with Josh and Olly. If your English classes in America were set out effectively, part of what you studied would include phonics, phonetics, etymology, all the parts of speech, phrases and clauses, as well as parsing and analysis. But Americans seem to be lacking in all of these areas. Also there’s a big difference between letter names, letter sounds, and words written as pronounced. Letter W has a name: Double U. British say stupid as stewpid
The channel the video is from , Jolly, is really funny and full of Britishness! If you want more of the teenagers there’s a whole series on the Korean Englishman channel ( same creators as Jolly)
Almost all children in the UK wear a school uniform. Many in Secondary (High School) education have to wear a blazer and tie. The tie and colour of uniform is different for each school, so students are 'uniformly' dressed.
About the electric kettles… Well, even though I’m not British (I’m from France), they come in quite handy because you can take water to boiling point quicker than on a stove and therefore get water ready for cooking faster for example. At least I use it quite often for that purpose and know many others that do too
Russell Hobbs kettles.
If you drink 10 mugs of tea every day, a kettle will become a staple in you life :D
I literally don’t drink tea at all (yes I am British) and barely drink coffee of the instant variety in the house - I use my kettle constantly! For pasta, rice, potatoes, veggies - literally anything you want to boil 😂 get one. It’ll revolutionise your life. And while you’re at it get an air fryer.
I boil the kettle to make real coffee in my pour over system. I also use it to make soup, to add to my steamer since a kettle is ten times faster than the stove, and for washing up heavily stained pots and pans.
Josh and Olly took some of the boys and their teacher, to South Korea for about two weeks and they went on all kinds of amazing adventures, especially with food!
right. I watched every video haha
The kettle thing still blows my mind. It is literally the first thing almost all British people would buy. Even if they don't drink tea! The thing you have to remember though is that we have 240 volts so they work much quicker here. Oh and math is the American pronunciation that still jars with me the most. The s on mathematics is there because it is plural, that's why if you shorten it, it stays.
A cookie is a biscuit with chocolate chips within the dough. We do have gravy which we put on a roast dinner. The lads are in Secondary school. That’s their uniform which is common across the uk. Fish & chips = cod or haddock mostly xxx
Quite amusing that the English person with sunburn is actually a Belgian football player!
That IS their school uniform! We do have gravy, but it's different from yours. Also one of the boys featured, Armand, is French, so has a slightly different accent!
His parents are French but he grew up in England.
Nah, the gravy is pretty much the same. (I think the lad was just saying that he, personally, doesn't like gravy.) Although you can't get gravy granules in the US so, if you're not making it from scratch you have to add a packet mix to a saucepan of cold water and then heat it up on the hob. But I suppose the lack of gravy granules doesn't matter because no electric kettle anyway!
With electric cattle you can use not only for tea or coffee, but also for soups, or to preboil the water before putting in in a pan to cook something, it saves energy.
Those electric cattle are all the craze aren't they? I suppose that is what electric cattle prods are for.
According to The Oxford Dictionary (2nd edition), the word zed is derived from the French word for the same letter, zède, as well as from the Latin and Greek word for the letter zeta. The pronunciation zee is a 17th-century variant of zed. The earliest citation is from a 1677 language textbook, A New Spelling Book by Thomas Lye, a Nonconformist minister and teacher in London, England. It’s thought that zee was last used in England during the late 17th century; however, usage is difficult to trace, because pronunciations for letters were not often written down. Regardless, zee made its way to the British colonies in North America.
"ZED" is also much better as there's a clear difference between letters "C" and "Z"
@@DavidDoyleOutdoors Have read that was one of the reasons for sticking to ZED
I mean english is a germanic language and in germany we pronounce it like "tsett". So taking the consonant shift into account it would end up being "zed" modern english.
@@Skyl3t0n Thanks friend, don't forget British (before Saxons), Celtic, Latin & French
@@Skyl3t0n Sorry, forgot Nordic
We also only call hard biscuits such as digestives, jammy dodgers and bourbons biscuits, but we’ll call the large bendable cookies (usually with choc chips) cookies
A Cookie...is a Cookie, its a type of Biscuit that usually has Chocolate pieces in it. Biscuit is from the french "twice baked" which is how they are made, so a Cookie is a type of biscuit but we have others
I was really surprised to hear that Americans don't use electric kettles. In Europe, many countries use. My family used an electric kettle throughout my childhood, and so did I. Therefore, I was shocked. For us, it is like a washing machine, which is necessary in every home.
That was really fun! Glad you decided to watch it with us! :)
I love the original video :D I am so glad you're reacting to this!!
as i was told a while back the difference is cookies are soft and biscuits are hard. when they go stale it's the cookies that are hard and the biscuits soft
13:37 As a Brit, I can confirm that if we ever have a day where it doesn't rain, someone committed some form of ritual sacrifice.
In that case why do we have hose pipe bans most summers?
While visiting someone in the US I was asked if I wanted something to drink. I don't drink tea, but I asked for a cup of hot water. I was then completely disgusted when they simply filled a mug from the hot tap! I was also horrified to see them making their baby's bottle formula with water from the hot tap!
Thankyou so much for reacting to this video. This made my day!
Ryan, with your sense of humour, you would thoroughly enjoy visiting Britain. I lived there for five years and miss it a lot. All the best from Finland!
If you like them, there is also a video of them trying USA snacks. 😏😉
Plus, I think there's one of them trying Thanksgiving food for the first time.
A cookie to a Brit is a very large, thick chewy biscuit with nuts or chocolate in.
Not just large tho what about Maryland
@@JC-kn3sx they're only called cookies because of Maryland being an American state. They;re still biscuits in my eyes.
Most people don’t have a coffee maker at home so use kettle to make instant coffee as well, or milo or whatever. Those kids were trying to pronounce the words the way an American would rather than do the accent, as the words themselves are said quite differently in UK (and New Zealand where I’m from). Yes they were their school uniforms; most schools have uniforms in UK and NZ.
I had to learn Australian vocabulary and expression after moving here in my late teens many years ago, so I know just how frustrating these idioms can be. I remember getting out of a Black taxi cab in London on a family holiday when my then just twenty year old daughter turned to me and asked what language was the cabbie (driver) speaking? After my son and I stopped laughing I responded “Cockney” and got this blank look from her, followed by the question “and what country is that”? My Australian wife turned to her and said, he was born within the sound of bow bells in London and he was also laying that accent on rather thick! I’ve previously had to translate local English for my wife on previous trips especially when heavy accents and expressions come into play while in London and the Midlands.
Reasons for a kettle: - Tea - Hot Chocolate - Coffee - Instant Noodles - Sterilising Water - Steaming with essential oils - Anything else that needs boiling water
You forgot about steaming open other people's letters!
Oh you did Jolly! 😍 josh and Ollie, they have such a great channel especially the series with the high schoolers!
You can use a kettle for anything you use hot water for! Pasta, rice, hot drinks, pot noodles, boiling veggies etc
I think it’s important to remember that power supply in the US is vastly different, so much lower than here in the UK. Whereas I would boil the kettle then pour in the pan for pasta/veg etc it probably would take an absolute age in the US.
It’s not the amount of milk, it’s that the tea leaves only give up their flavour when covered with boiling water, then you can add the milk. If you like it milky, add hot milk.
It was a joke video about how SOME Americans might think it is made!
@@joyfulzero853 thank god for that…. I was going No, Nooooo, not like that! All thru..lol
Cookies bend. Biscuits snap.
Anytime I get to watch Jolly, is like anytime I get to watch your channel, or that of Tyler. Hope you have a great day, Ryan.
We need more of these video reactions from you there is not many 😭
Those suits are their uniforms but they seem to go to a pretty fancy school - my blazer (jacket) was a plasticky piece of crap 😆 and so were the pants - all polyethylene. Theirs seemed like proper fabric - very dapper. I liked having a school uniform because it meant I didn't have to think about what to wear at all. EZ game :D
I LOVE JOLLY!! I found their channel during COVID. These kids are great!! I feel like I’ve watched them grow up!
Kettle for all kinds of hot drinks, both instant and ground coffee in a caffetiere. Also for things like pot noodles. Also sometimes in cooking, where its quicker and more energy efficient to boil the water in the kettle rather than the pan.
The first film "Trainspotting" was based on a book by the same name. It came out in two versions, one in British English, the other in phonetic Scottish accent.
Ryan, I and I'm sure any Brits watching, lost the will to live seeing her 'make tea'.....God I hope that was a joke 😂😂😂
What they're wearing is a pretty average secondary school uniform.
Love your videos!!!!!
Jolly , a channel that brings happiness.
That was brilliant, thank you Ryan. Those nice young students conducted themselves admirably with intelligence, wit and charm. Very entertaining
I love their channel, it's so funny 😁
You can use boiling water for cooking too (spaghetti etc), it's faster than a stove alone and saves energy
We do have gravy, just not the American kind, our gravy is what you would get on a roast dinner. There is a difference between cookies and biscuits here too. Biscuits are generally all hard and crunchy or crumbly, cookies are more chewy and soft.
11:43 I think every European would be surprised.
I was so shocked on my trip to the states that no one had a kettle its something i had never thought of.. its for everything not just tea... my American friends now have said kettle and cannot believe they never used one!
I ain’t been to school for almost 15 years but that’s standard school uniform to me so yeah we all had to put up with that each morning 😒🤣
Idk if it's just in my area of the uk but we technically don't call anything a 'cookie' on its own. There's chocolate chip cookies or raisin cookies for example which some people shorten down to 'cookie'
I use a kettle for coffee, tea, hot chocolate, sometimes to top up the sink if i want extra hot water, it can also be used when cooking such as wilting veg, filling a pan with water so it doesn't take as long on the hob (stove top), making pot noodles (not noodles with pot in them lol, just a plastic tub of flavoured noodles) and many more.
Brilliant vid, can't beat a bit of Jolly 👍
The most shocking part was watching someone epically fail to make a cup of tea, don't you have tea bags in the USA? I don't put the milk in until the liquid is black with tea infusion, but granted I do like my tea very strong.
That was a deliberate JOKE video about making the tea!
I'm pretty sure it was a joke, but Americans, as a rule, don't drink hot tea - or, what the rest of the world simply calls, 'tea'. In America, 'tea' is cold and usually comes out of a tin/can.
@@rua5818 Tin/Can? Right, remind me to never go to America
@@eniej The cold tea is bought in a tin, just like soft drinks. It's drunk straight from the fridge or poured over ice in a glass. Not the sort of comfort drink enjoyed in most other English-speaking countries. Apparently deliciously refreshing on a hot day though. Don't knock it till you've tried it, as they say.
I don’t speak for everyone in the US, but we do indeed have tea bags, and loose tea, though I don’t think that’s used nearly as often. I’m not a big tea drinker myself, however, what my family has always done is heat a mug of water in microwave and then stick the tea bag in for a while. I think many people do have tea pots or electrical kettles, but again, unless they drink tea on a daily basis, they’re going to just pop it in the microwave.
One of these days, I really wanna see this guy come to England for a holiday or something. He’s so wholesome and curious about Britain I’d love to see him actually experience a British pub, fish n’chips and London. As well as experience other parts of the UK
Also, some of the things I use a kettle for as a Brit: -Tea -Herbal infusions -Hot water for Cous cous -Hot water for cooking -Hot water for instant coffee -Hot water for noodles or ramen -Hot water for hot water bottle -Hot water for heating up water for cooking pasta (it goes to boil faster because the water was already hot) :)
English is such a fascinating language. As far as I know, it's the British accents that changed more than the American ones. England is also known for it's great variety of accents, so there's not one singular accent that defines it. I have another reaction suggestion for you on this topic: kzhead.info/sun/eMWsiZ2Kin-BaH0/bejne.html
I follow these guys (Jolly) and they have some amazing content. They took all those high schoolers, who just graduated, to Korea for 3 weeks. They're all amazing kids. Also, I'm a Newfie Canadian, who watches Coronation Street every day, so I have no trouble understanding them at all. Plus, half of Newfoundland sounds like British or Irish.
you and your brother do great reactions together and separately , have a great day fae S.W.Scotland
I (not British) use my electric kettle for coffee (can't drink tea) but mostly for boiling water when I am cooking pasta, rice, potatoes... Saves energy.
we use electric kettles for coffee, tea and hot chocolate , gravy granules and other stuff : ) like anything you need to add hot water too. trust me its used lol
There is a whole series of these kids experiencing Korean food, which does have spices. Worth watching!
Taking up on what you said, this is how I’d spell the way Americans talk: Hairy Poddeur
Jolly has some fantastic stuffs I’ve been watching them for years
The fact that he’s never heard anyone say ‘take the mick’ as a British person kills me inside
i love your channel
In Canada too we use our kettles for more than tea eg I prefer instant coffee, so I would use the kettle. If you have to cook something in a saucepan on the stove. Kettle water boils faster than trying to boil it on the stove element. The only things I use a microwave for is defrosting and to cook a microwave dinner.
last summer it was hot in the UK mostly dry and even the North was 36c and it wasn't just the odd day most of the summer was like 25c to 36c in the North and London reached 40c ! it was the best summer I've ever been through it felt like I was in Spain or the south of France : ) I'm 31 yrs
I have watched Jolly and Korean Englishman for so long, their a good KZhead channel
As a South African we use kettles not just for tea or other hot beverages, we also use it to heat water for rice, pasta, noodles, vegetables, instant meals, to boil stuff, make soups, etc. Not in the kettle itself, but pouring the boiling water into another vessel. Much faster than heating cold water on the stove. We use the kettle everyday. And I'm not even of British descent! (Kids also wear school uniforms here too.)
i love the korean englishman's series with the british highschoolers! especially with them trying korean food!
Yeah those are the uniforms! In my school we had dark navy blue blazers with school emblem on them, white shirt, and a tie with the school emblem and in 4 different colours depending on the house you were in. My school was a catholic school so the boys were typical dark trousers, and the girls had to wear dark green checkered kilts, though I heard they recently changed it to allow girls to wear trousers if they now want to. For 6th form my school changed the navy blazers to black, the ties to black, and the checkered kilts to black and white.
you should watch more jolly! maybe check out their other channel, korean englishman too. theyve interviewed a bunch of celebrities on there + they did a really fun series where they took the highchool boys to korea!
Hey, you got in that rabbit hole! Now you'll have to binge watch everything with high school students on Jolie and their other chanel Korean Englishman! They're smart, funny and opened to any culture. Josh and Ollie (creators) took them to Korea for couple of weeks (great serial). You have to go through playlists with those kids on Korean Englishman. BTW, you can learn a lot about Korea with those videos.
Very entertaining and great bunch of kids, young adults really. One good thing is we can take a joke. A lot of our humour is aimed at ourselves. Innit!? 😉😁
I really like these kids!
Moment: 6:52, yes, yes it is how our uniform looks, and you can’t remove the coat/jacket/blazer or whatever the school makes you wear, not matter how hot it is, it’s pain
I don’t drink tea or coffee but still use my electric kettle all the time. If I’m cooking I’ll boil the water in the kettle and then put it in the pan.
I use kettle for boiling water fast when I want to make pasta or rice, for cookign water to pour in sink to unclog it, for tea and coffe and herbal teas like mint etc, for instant soups... its on multiple times a day
On the "chew" sound in 'tu' words: Brits tend to pronounce it "tyu" when speaking more slowly, which gets abbreviated to "chew" when speaking more quickly. Americans, in contrast, tend to pronounce it "too" at all speaking speeds.
These high schoolers were on KoreanEnglishman channel. They also took some them to Korea to experience the culture & the food!
Our electricity is double yours so our kettles boil in 2 mins not 6 and we use them for lots of different things including instant coffee. Yes our kids wear these uniforms.
electric kettles come in handy to save energy when cooking. Water heats so much faster in a kettle and when you add water to a stew or soup or for anything in an instant pot for example. It makes the cooking process that much faster and cheaper (by saving energy costs…)
the left interviewers resemblance to the young Jim Carrey was my primary thought watching this video, and I still can't unsee it :D
The highschool boys on Jolly / Korean Englishman! They are my favorite "mini-series" on YT.
Boddle a Woddir = American-ish? (Bottle of Water) Yoo gaat t' be jokin' (You've got to be joking) Ah do believe it's Tuesday (It's chewsday, innit - except, in Glasgow, it'd be "It's Tuesday but.") It looks like a school uniform - but I'm not sure they're all of school age. Dogs might have their biscuits with gravy...
4:15 no the way he pronounces it is just so funny to me (I’m British and I know some people who pronounce it like that) Edit: I swear every county has a different accent and it so funny
PS: most of the series with the students is on their other channel, Korean Englishman.