Americans React to British Highschoolers seeing British MEMES!

As a British guy the way that woman made the cup of tea actually triggered me, she should be jailed for that absolute monstrosity

It's maths because it's the shortened version of 'mathematics', not 'mathematic'.

I always find it hilarious when Americans comment on English words and how they find the words wrong when we gave the Americans the English language in the first place 😂
Keep up the good work guys, absolutely love your video reactions

Fun fact, biscuit is an old French word for twice cooked, which are what biscuits are. We have cookies, they come under the overall heading of biscuit and are broadly like choc chip cookies. Biscuit is a general term.
O and chips, chips are little shavings/cuts from potatoes, or chips if you will. We have fries as well, they are a specific type of chip. And crisps are crisps because they are, well, crispy 😊

Cookies are cookies in England too, biscuits are something different, chocolate chip cookies we do call cookies.
We also have fries too!! Chips are thick cut version of fries.
We use same word just have other words to differentiate variations.

We call fries chips because the potatoes go through a chipping machine to make them 😂

Biscuit means twice-baked. Cookies are single bake, most modern biscuits are single bake.
But it was much more common to cook sweet things more than once in the past when the term was first taken from the latin.
Military hard-tack was baked 4 times for instance

With the whole French fries/chips debate we call the thick cut ones chips and the thin ones Fries, there’s a difference… we don’t go to McDonalds and ask for Large chips we ask for large fries for example, whereas at a fish and chip shop we’d ask for large chips as they’re the thick cut versions…

To me, (UK) a biscuit is crunchy and a cookie is soft and doughy. Great reaction guys 👍

In the UK a biscuit tends to be hard while a cookie tends to be softer/doughy. Digestives are a brand of biscuits.

Armand is genuinely so funny. It's maths because maths is plural, there's multiple branches of mathematics. My first language is spanish, we also say "matemáticas", it's plural.

The lady that made the tea,was just taking the piss and joking as she lived in the uk for years.

Teabag then pour on boiling water, then milk last once the teabag is removed. Any other way is criminal.

I was surprised none of them knew "innit" was an abbreviation of "isn't it". I was waiting for one of them to pipe up and say it but uhhh - nope.

We have cookies AND biscuits.....and we have chips AND fries! 😂 it may sound confusing but there is difference between them all 🤣👍

Chips are called chips because the potato's are chipped. They go through a Chipping machine.
Crisps are called that because its a crispy slice of fried potato . Its cooked until its crisp.

Hot tea in a cup is simple, pour boiling water over a tea bag in a cup, stir and leave to brew (personal preference but I'd give it 3 minutes tops). Then optional to add sugar and milk if you want it. Some people use lemon instead of milk but we don't talk to those people.

Biscuit comes from french it means twice baked, which is part of the definition of what a Cookie or Biscuit is

Cookies are soft and bend whereas biscuits are hard and snap. It comes from the days of sail when the ship's biscuits were hard and had to be soaked in broth before eating.

I spiritually died watching that lady make tea in a microwave

These guys, man. Love them. They were so close to getting it at the end with the math/maths thing lmao.

As a Pakistani, I speak a mixture of British and American english so it's always hilarious seeing these kind of videos.

“Biscuit” is actually a word with ancient Roman origins. In Latin it would’ve been broken into two-words “bi” and “scuit” (which translates to ‘twice-baked’). For centuries it referred to a basic, hard cracker that people would eat on long sea voyages and such (that’s where ‘sea biscuit’ comes from). They were a low-moisture that wouldn’t go bad after months and months at sea. About 100years ago, the food industry saw huge innovations in biscuits and started flavoring them with sweeteners. In the UK they maintained the use of the word ‘biscuit,’ whereas in the US we used a Dutch word ‘koekje’ (which translates to ‘little cake’). It’s pronounced ‘cookie’ and had been in use in America due to Dutch colonization of NY, NJ, Delaware, etc. Other Dutch food names stuck in the US as well(coleslaw, pickle, etc.).

In the U.K. we have both cookies and biscuits. They are different.
Also we have fries and chips. Fries when they are the thin shoestring type, and chips when they are thicker cut.

You guys have a MASSIVE breakfast culture lol. Cereal? American. Pancakes, bacon, waffles , eggs benedict, hash browns? American. Even the idea that breakfast is the most important meal of the day is American.

Mathematics. Plural so its maths, math is singular makes no sense

I've often thought the closest place in the USA to us over here in terms of attitudes and sense of humour is New York so it's good to hear New Yorkers think the same.

New York is definitely the closest you'll get to having a similar culture to London

Lovin yr work fellas. I like how u are getting our culture and running with it! It’s really interesting to see u guys compare and it’s great u can do it with laughs instead of being too serious. Props 👍

A cookie is a cookie over here but it's just a type of biscuit, there's loads of different types of biscuits. We have fish and chip shops all over the UK where they put potatoes into a machine called a chipper. In France they cut their potatoes much thinner and call them fries, we have fries aswell but we just call them chips 😂😂😂

Most of the world calls them "biscuits" as oppose to cookies, which is a type of biscuits

We have chips which are the normal ones, fries which are the thinner ones but we also call them chips sometimes and then crisps which are crisps. Cookies are cookies but you have a wide range of biscuits.

the reason why brittish says maths is there is 6 main displines of mathematics

To us Brits a cookie is a type of biscuit
Cookies are generally softer and have other things added to it like chocolate chip cookies 🍪

'Innit' is the lazy form of 'isn't it'

Time to check out a couple of classic sketches. The Two Ronnies "Four Candles" sketch, and Only Fools and Horses "Chandelier" sketch...both are comedy gold.

I dont understand why americans say Graham like "Gram"
And Craig like "Creg"

We definitely speak quicker than most Americans. New York is faster speaking than the rest of USA I find. With a lot of US youtubers I have to watch at 1.5x speed, but you guys I watch at normal speed.

We don't have what you consider biscuits in the UK (i.e. the bread roll-esque things you get in restaurants, which are closer to a British scone than anything else), but we also use the work cookie (I'd use that for something round and chocolate chip, maybe soft and chewy etc - i.e. the quintessential cookie). In the UK, biscuit is a more general term for what you'd consider cookies at large but I typically associate it with custard creams, ginger nuts, digestives, bourbons etc. (call those cookies and I'd raise an eyebrow)

More of these!! They’re so funny 😂😂 great kids!

MathS is short for MathematicS. I've been to NY & it's closer to us Londoners, there isn't much difference to be honest - I liked the NYorkers - some were brash but so are some Londoners so am used to that & didn't take it the wrong way.

beans are often on a full english breakfast so u need to try one and it might change ur mind!

We have many variations of 'fries' - Thick cut, crinkle, jackets on, french fries that could all be fried but look different

Yessss we need more time guys

To make tea
1 put tea bag in cup
2 add boiled water (preferably from a kettle)
3 let tea steep to make it stronger
4 remove tea bag
5 add a drop of milk
6 drink it

I was told before that linguistically the letter H is actually pronounced ‘aitch’. I remember that because I refuse to change how I say it lol.

an electric kettle is such a basic necessity over here, like when someone moves house, the first thing they will buy is a kettle, cutlery, plates and dishes, mugs and glasses. Its that much of a necessity lol

The tea thing, I’ve also seen people actually obtain electric kettles and literally make the tea inside the actual kettle, milk and all!

We do call the thin ones fries or French fries in Britain. Chips are usually much thicker.
But in general we say chips to mean everything

We say cookie too, but only for certain types of *biscuits*
We also call thin cut *chips* fries

They are called chips because it is the shortened version of 'chipped potatoes'.
I don't understand why on earth you would call sliced potatoes (crisps) chips.

Not all fries are fried though, they're oven baked too, so potatoes go through a chipping machine that turns them into the size and shape of a fry hence chips, crispy thinly sliced potatoes hence crisp..

4:55 yeah but you can fry other stuff too but you dont call them fries so no it doesnt make sense. Plus, we do call a certain type of chips "fries" depending on what chip it is.

In UK chips are called chips because thay are potatoes that have had bits chipped off them, aka cut into chips.
French fries are a skinny version of a chip that is fried (think McDonalds fries).
Crisps are crispy super thin potatoes. It makes much more sense than the American words for these... they did get fries right though so credit where it's due.

Biscuits are what we call a large variety of “cookies”. Cookies are cookies then we have, custard creams, bourbons, shortcake, rich tea and on it goes..all considered biscuits 👌

Crisps) crispy potato peels
Chips) chipped up potato
Cookie) is a type of Biscuit like Sandwich Biscuits (Example Oreos), Digestive Biscuits, Ginger Biscuits, Shortbread Biscuits, Cookies, Chocolate-Coated Marshmallow Treats (Example Tea Cakes), and Speculaas.
PS in Scotland potatoes are called Tatties pronounces like a mix of tattoo & titties ta-teez
& Tomatoes are tim-ma-tays sometimes pronounces without the second t

Because if you said pass me a cookie and there was cookies and “cookies” which one do you pick up😂

We use cookies in england too... Cookies are a category is biscuits...
Like crisps... crinkle cut are a type of crisps... It would be like in the US, you call all crisps, "crinkle cuts" even if they are another type of crisp

The footballer who was sunburnt is actually Belgian not British.

In Charleston SC we say innit exactly how they do

In England we call chips crisps, fries are still called fries but only the actual skinny fries, when we say chips we mean the thick fluffy type of fries

Maths is just Mathematics ---just take out the ematic from it and keep the s at the end :D oh and the beans in the morning thing..i was always raised that it's only a breakfast food when served as part of a Full-English breakfast ( sausages, bacon, beans, eggs, chopped tomatoes and mushrooms)

Biscuit means twice baked. So the end product is hard. British biscuits tends to snap when you break them, so theyre hard. Cookies are softer.
Digestive biscuits used to be a health product years ago. For the digestive system. But people liked the taste so we eat them for fun.

What do you call fries that you cook in the oven ? Ovens 🤣

To us in the UK a cookie is a specific type of biscuit and fries are a thin cut chip

We do say fries for skinny chips occasionally. It's not because they're fried, it's because they're named after 'French Fries' which are very skinny.

The term biscuit comes to English from the French biscuit (bis-qui), which itself has a Latin root: panis biscotus refers to bread twice-cooked. The Romans certainly had a form of biscuit, what we'd now call a rusk and, as the name suggests, it was essentially bread which was re-baked to make it crisp.

Biscuits and cookies are seperate things.
A biacuit goes soft over time and cookies go hard.

Biscuit - Middle English: from Old French bescuit, based on Latin bis ‘twice’ + coctus, past participle of coquere ‘to cook’ (so named because originally biscuits were cooked in a twofold process: first baked and then dried out in a slow oven so that they would keep).

A good way to tell if it's a cookie or a biscuit - cookies turn hard when they go bad, biscuits turn soft.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Thats me after being in the sun

Crisps are a British invention(1800’s British recipe as opposed to American 1920’s).
So its not chips.

Try a full english breakfast, bacon, eggs,sausages,toast with salted butter, bread and butter, black pudding, fried tomatoes, mushrooms,beans,hash brown, Hp sauce or heinz tomato sauce, salt and pepper, mug of hot tea. Cant beat it .

Baked beans for breakfast is the only way to go

And also the best you will never walk alone by the Liverpool fan

student with the beard has already had 3 mortgages

I love jolly 😂😂

3:56. Cookies are a type of biscuit. But not all biscuits are cookies. (In the same way that all jaccuzis are hot-tubs but not all hot-tubs are jacuzzis). In America a biscuit is like a British scone, only not as as nice and only ever savoury, never sweet. In Britain scones are most commonly eaten with Clotted cream and Jam.
4:50 Because there's nothing French about them that's what we say fries. Fries are thin, chips are fat, that's how we differentiate the two.
7:05 Beans on toast is a cornerstone of British culture. Especially breakfast. (Don't knock it till you've tried it). However the 'Brit's don't use spices or season their food' stereotype is only accurate for those who don't know how to cook. Having lived in America I'd say it's ironically more appropriate to US culture.
9:34 NO that is definitely not how you do it. That video is sacrilegious. I could point out 100 things wrong with how she made that tea, but to your point about milk...It's literally supposed a splash of milk. Thats it.
13:34. Spot on lad.
In conclusion. If there's any further confusion over the English language or the alphabet, spellings, pronunciations etc. Just remember we invented it, and you guys fucked it all up. :)
Keep up the great videos guys!

as an english person on a biscuits front , I say cookie for anything cocolate chip , its a chocolate chip cookie and biscuits for everything or say what on the laybel like hobnobs or digestives

You guys should do a reaction to Sherlock with Benedict cumberbatch

biscuit is by definition a snapping thin thing like the pottery. Aitch is also correct

How to make tea for Americans:
Boil kettle or get boiling water
Get a mug out
Put tea bag in the mug
Pour boiling water into mug
Get a teaspoon
Squeeze tea bag on size of mug
Usually 2/3 times depending on how strong you like it
Dispose of tea bag
Get milk and pour into the mug
Add more milk if it’s too dark
Once finished with adding milk
You have a choice
This choice will depend upon where you stand in Britain
You can add sugar or sweetner
However I strongly advise it’s better without
So I hope you enjoy your tea

Cookies are a type of biscuit, we still call them cookies regardless 😂

Theres nuffin up wiv our biscuits or chips mate! U na wot I mean mate...init!! Lol💖🇬🇧💖🇬🇧

I think most people in the uk distinguish “cookies” as in the classic choc chip cookies and biscuits. Like, if I had some Maryland cookies and I was offering one to my mate I’d ask “do you want a cookie” and not “a biscuit” That’s just me anyway

Beans on toast topped with cheese… nothin better -
top tier food and a healthy hearty breakfast..
Tea - 2 sugars, tea bag, boiling water (leave to simmer for a minute) then add a drop of milk to relax the taste. Cmonnn now…

Nice. I been watching Jolly for years. Learned some Korean because of these guys. Josh and Olly ❤️

Here in UK, a cookie is a specific type of biscuit, normally with chocolate chips. And, fries are the skinny french fries like in McDs, whereas Chips are much thicker.

I'm not even British, I'm French and I was triggered by the way that woman made tea... I feel really sorry for my British fellows, that was really really really painful to watch

A cookie is a type of biscuit in the UK. Like chocolate chip Maryland cookies. Fries are a kind of chips in the UK, the skinny crunchy ones like you get in McDonalds. Chips are fatter and soggier. Don't forget, It's kind of our language so we're more right than you are. In the UK, what you call fries are called crisps (because they are thin, crispy and sliced fried potato).

Fun reaction guys.

no no no cookies are a type of biscuit hahaha.

Biscuits is harder than cookies over here. Cookies tend to be a bit softer with choc chip etc.

We also conquered the land for tea which we still use

You need to watch Michael McIntyre, ‘send to all’ it’s brilliant. I’m surprised someone in America hasn’t started doing it with guests.

The tea was pretty special .

Over here in UK this is all we call a cookie here 🍪 🍪 🍪 🍪 but it's literally only that one thing where as you call all of them cookies , I guess you have them lotus biscoff " cookies" over in the states , but they're not a cookie and they're rectangle in shape.. well everything like that we refer to as a biscuit

Basically we are capable of having more words for individual stuff 😂

Beans, beans, they are good for your heart. The more you eat, the more you F A R T ….

There's so many different types of biscuits. Cookies are just one type.
There's so many different types of chips. Fries are just one type. (weird america prefers something smaller for once lol)
The only change of word that works properly in America is "chips" (as in crisps) since they don't just refer to one type.