A Brit & An American Swap Diets For 24 Hours

this looks gross well that's just such a strong flavor yeah um oh my god [Music] hi i'm tom and i'm jeff and today we are going to be swapping our country's classic diets for 24 hours breakfast is going to be yes that's right it's a full english and for lunch you'll be glad to hear that you are going to be having a tesco meal deal and then for dinner you're gonna be having the british classic fish and chips just in case you get hungry throughout the day i've also got you some snacks a bag of monster munch and a glass of rye so for breakfast i'm talking like thick pancakes and i'm not talking about those those little crepes that you guys pretend are pancakes for lunch we gotta go like true american sloppy joe like a chili filled sandwich and for dinner chicken and waffles is a very big southern dish i know it sounds weird but the two actually really do go extremely well together and then for your snack you're getting some pretzels and my favorite gatorade okay so i'm in my kitchen i'm about to make these american pancakes now my normal pancake recipe for like crepes like thin skinny pancakes like you would eat in the uk is is different this is a this is a new one on me so um i'm gonna try my best and hopefully jeff i don't disappoint you to be honest it's like kind of a lot of food to cook just for myself like many things but that's okay we'll enjoy the thing i'm actually the worst at about cooking is knowing the right order to cook in if i need to do i feel like bacon always beans how to cook two and a half minutes in the microwave oh that's easy i'm just gonna like attempt this the best that i can and um some foods might be cold um i'm a very messy cook as you may already know to be honest so this this is what we kind of are working with oh god that's my butter exploding in the microwave all right we got our sausages and mushrooms all over here those are pretty much ready uh we got our little fried egg going and then bread for toasting so it's it's cooking now i think um and i feel like i'm in that opening scene at matilda where she like makes pancakes for herself except from 25 and not six oh wow look at full plate wish i didn't have anything else to add on to it but guess what i do that beans see what i mean how like the it just goes everywhere that to me looks like a pretty damn nice full english i am well impressed with myself jeff's first homemade full english right here um it's a lot on a plate i like eating a lot of different things so i kind of like that there's a bunch of different flavors um what i don't like is that the beans are already running through everything i mean i make like sausages and or bacon um i don't usually make them at the same time on the same plate but not mad about it mushrooms grape i don't know if i can do the beans on its own i'm gonna dip the bread in the beans sometimes i wonder like what this company makes me do honestly i just really don't like the texture of them but to be honest like the flavor's fine okay like they're not that flavorful it's like whatever but i don't like the texture of how uh like i don't know it's weird it's weird to me it's not fan and i'm sorry now i'm gonna do is i'm gonna make like a combo well exactly what i expected all right so i'm finally here i've got my stack of pancakes with butter blueberries and maple syrup drizzled all over them i have four what i've seen like american cartoons and tv shows and stuff is that people like cut almost like a slice of all of them and like do that so that's what i'm gonna do it's a really big bite oh it's good though they're like soft and fluffy okay here we have a bit of review the top pancake is very syrupy the ones beneath it less so because kind of like the top pancake gets all the action with the syrup but the bottom ones kind of get left behind a bit i do think this is a little heavy for a morning the blueberries i like a lot it makes it taste a lot more refreshing and i do believe blueberries are a great source of antioxidants yeah good job america i will say kind of high effort and took kind of a long time to make but the payoff um worth it all righty it's lunchtime as my main we got a ham and mustard sandwich uh to drink oj this surprised me um i wouldn't really classify orange juice as british at all so i'm interested why he chose that but not complaining because i'm into it and then as my little side scotch egg i've never had a scotch egg before for some reason they just grossed me out like seeing them half open the egg is what is throwing me off it's honestly it's oh you can hear the egg in there too i just took a full mouthful like a huge bite and i only like barely even touched the egg i don't hate it but i don't get the combination from an outsider's perspective it's like very bizarre oh bro i am come with that's amazing i mean certainly not a healthy lunch tom's isn't going to be either though i don't really feel that hungry but i feel like if i don't do this now i'm not going to eat sloppy joes i've been reading about them and i keep getting like different information about what i should do like some people are saying it's like a sort of beef and barbecuey type thing other people have been saying it's more like a sort of chili with that in mind what i do have is the following i actually have leftover chili from last night so i'm like why don't i cook this and put some barbecue sauce in it and then like that's kind of the same american people i'm so sorry if this is wrong because i really don't know this is this is my version this is tom sloppy joe's chili with barbecue i'm sorry but this looks gross it does smell kind of good it smells like it smells like tgi fridays this would be bbq but it's just like it's so weird like it's like a wet i don't know here it goes oh my god i need like a tissue they're like sweet barbecuiness of this oh it's time for record i'm not even sure i've done this correctly but whatever this is that i've made is good [Music] but then do you like eat the sort of like sort of the sloppy outfits with a fork time to have a quick little midday snack tom has given me monster munch cute name looks like maybe cheetos or something pickled onion flavor okay and ribena juicy since 1938 i don't think the combination is going to go great though pickled onion and blackcurrant but get comfy on the couch see how it goes so it's got that point in the day where i'm like flagging a little bit you know it's where i would usually have a coffee or whatever i'm gonna have this bottle of gatorade it looks to me like an english energy drink called powerade yeah um it doesn't really have like a distinct flavor like maybe sort of like a melted like raspberry slush puppy or something like that um oh yeah here we go raspberry flavor sports drink with sugar and sweetness okay can we just talk about something for a sec why is raspberry when it's in drinks or slushies or like sweets or anything like that always said blue think about a raspberry for a second raspberries are like dark pink why on earth do people think like that is not the color of a raspberry in any one story that's not no but regardless i like it gatorade is a thumbs up from me i'm trying to think like what scenario would eat these i imagine it's the same as like when you really need tips maybe like in a movie you know or like a football game i don't remember if i've had one of these before oh my god oh my god oh my god this is incredible there's nothing like weird in them but yeah they taste like anything this is a winner good job jeff thank you oh oh my god oh my god i was well that's just such a strong flavor whoa it's almost it's like oh it's like very vinegary wow oh that's called oh well very flavorful i have no interest in washing this down with a black currant drink is that juice yes jeff is about to drink undiluted rye because i didn't think i had to tell him you have to mix it with water oh my god it's so thick it's good it's just it's like a it's like a shake hole it's like a it's a very thick texture for a drink it's very flavorful too wow you guys don't mess around with your flavors um but these don't go together i really hope these two things aren't like a normal combination i just hope he was like being extra british but not like these two together or not man okay so it's fully like just gone midnight i've been pretty full i was like you know what i'm gonna wait until however long it takes to make this dinner of chicken and waffles and syrup i'm sure in america you would probably like fry chicken yourself and make the waffles yourself but i don't know how to do any of that so this is what i've got is this white it doesn't feel right okay so here we have the apex of the day the final meal of the night chicken and waffles how do i feel about this i find the whole savory chicken sweet syrup sweet waffles thing kind of weird like all i can think of is that i want more syrup on it it's hard to describe it's like yes the waffle in the syrup is incredibly sweet and yes the chicken is like really salty but somehow that like works i think i'm gonna go out on a limb here i don't know what jeff's experience is right now but this is better than fish and chips i'll say it fish and chips oh i've not i've been like not looking forward to this all day but we're here we signed up for the challenge we're gonna do it so let's unpack um what i had to order and uh dig in all right so um this is a huge box that might as well fit like a pizza so oh my god you guys just love pale food um gravy which like yum and curry sauce and he's oh no that's what mushy peas looks like oh my god okay so i'm taking the first bite plane just because i feel like i need a good like trial of just how it is playing without anything on it fine um for not being a fish and chips fan again it's fine it's not something i would like really look forward to eating all the time um i'm not doing the mushrooms this is just not gonna happen i'll dip a fry i'll dip a chip into it she's not supposed to eat things that are this green it's neon dude [Music] okay it doesn't really taste like much but it's like very green so i don't like it oh that does not conclude my day eating like a brit because basically i've been posting all of my meals on instagram someone told me their way of uh their favorite way of of making frivina which then made me realize that no one told me to actually add water to it so i feel like now i need to actually taste it properly i have no idea how much you're supposed to do so this is already half water however i beat that oh my god well yeah instantly better it tastes like a real drink now but i feel like that's unfair because it doesn't say add water so how unless you knew how did you know we don't have this kind of thing in the u.s so jeff it's the next day we've both swapped diets 24 hours i assume we probably both got some thoughts how are you feeling greasy i miss colors for breakfast i had brown gray and like maybe a little dark pink for lunch i had brown dark pink and for dinner i had beige and brown how'd you find the scotch egg to me a scotch is probably like a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to you guys like nothing about it is weird to you because it's what you're used to but then when you give it to another culture another country they find the weirdness in it because they're not used to it they've never seen or heard of it before the pancakes i really enjoyed did you make them yourself oh i made them myself i did like from scratch i did toy with the idea of going and getting like an angel mimi's whatever that you just like add water too but i thought no that's not fair that's not what actually that's exactly what americans do so this ravina this ravina situation no one told me that ribena has to be mixed with water first like that's not a thing that we have in the u.s and it says it nowhere on the bottle i can't believe he did that like honestly i'm so sorry like i'm looking such an idiot so i think that's something we can both definitely agree on is like we both had very greasy days yeah if i had to choose between my british diet or your american diet although i loved so many of the things in the american diet i could never vote against a full english i just couldn't do it i'm sorry no convert this time i picked the english meal the british one so i think i would still choose the american one the full english is definitely pulling me in that is a hard one that is a hard one to give up well you know what it was a really interesting 24 hours i'm so glad we did it but to be honest i think i might just have to go and have like a fruit juice and a salad and maybe go for a run yeah like start my own vegetable farm yeah i think should we go down the allotment you

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Id: RiZyNSXnlsw

Length: 15min 37sec (937 seconds)

Published: Tue Sep 08 2020