UK vs USA Food Fight | 5 Dishes, SAME name VERY Different! ft @mythicalkitchen​ ⁠@TastingHistory

It's UK vs USA in today's food fight! Pudding vs Pudding... Jelly vs Jelly... CHIP VS CHIP!! Who will come out on top?

Big thanks to Josh and Max for joining us! Their links are below:

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[mythicalkitchen]

The only thing that matters is that 'soggy biscuit' means the same thing in the US and UK 🤝

[beccay]

If you tell a room full of children that they are getting cupcakes & then give them bran muffins your going to find out real quick they should not be called cupcakes 😂

[antonpham]

Now all we need is for the boys over at Sorted to do a SnackSmash and for the Mythical Kitchen Crew to do a Pass It On.

[TotallyCluelessGamer]

As a fun bit of linguistic history. The reason that Cookie is such a broadly used term to describe basically any small sugary baked good in the US comes down to English and Dutch mixing in the Pennsylvania/New Jersey/New York area, as the Dutch word for the food was "Koekje" which English colonists adopted into "Cookie" in the 1700s.

[laurendean]

As an Australian I want you to know that both options presented as "chips" are in fact chips. In Australia you generally just guess which one someone wants based on context clues.

[TastingHistory]

I stand by all of my carefully considered decisions. 😂

[LemurDreamer]

My three favorite cooking channels on YouTube, all crossing over? YES PLEASE.

[winie]

Disagree with Josh’s argument that muffins and cupcakes are the same thing! As someone who loves muffins but for years kept ending up with cupcakes, there’s a difference in the batter between a muffin and cupcake, cupcake batter is smoother and lighter, not lumpy and muffin batter is lumpy and more dense because you need the addition of things like buttermilk or oats to give it more heft!

[littleraeofsunshine]

I love that American English encapsulates just how much we eat by having so many specific names for specific products vs the wide-ranging use of names in British food products.

[Lexito]

It’s so crazy seeing all three of you guys collab. I’ve been watching sorted, mythical, and tasting history for years. My world’s literally colliding right now 😂😂😂

[peterzerfass]

Josh, Ben and Max in one video? Now that's some truly mythical sorted history right there. Epic!

[Charlee]

I feel like the American side got very short changed here 😆

For the biscuits, Americans call them biscuits because they are the "quick breads" that evolved out of the hard tac (sp) they brought over from the UK (that the one gentleman pointed out was called biscuits) with them and eventually added lard etc to

As for the Jello/Jelly, we actually call it "gelatin" here if using proper terms but in common terms we call it Jello due to the brand being a household name for so many years. Just 2 things I would have liked to see put out there for info if nothing else.

[meat_mech_jellyfish]

What we all need is a pass it on with the mythical kitchen team. You know you want it.

[Lumaweh]

Josh should have expanded more on the different methods of making jelly, jam, preservatives, marmalades, etc. I think having a more diverse naming for them, given their different uses and tastes, would have won him the round similar to how he got the point for pudding.

[mcbbygrl]

We need a Chef vs. Chef battle between Josh and Ebbers! That would be AMAZING!!

[GLDFILMS]

2:12 I’m from Louisiana, for context. I believe a true biscuit is a homemade fluffy, almost falling apart biscuit. You cut it in half so there is a top and bottom and you put butter and a jelly or a jam in the middle. My favorite is a homemade mayhaw jelly.

[alexdavis]

A Max Miller Sorted food video is the cross over I never knew I needed but so hear for it! Love the history you learn on his channel.

[Loreurka]

As a belgian, the fact that he said « BELGIAN Frites » and not french fries made me so happy 😂

[E-A-Z-Y]

Love this crossover, I remember Josh when he was the new guy on set for GMM, lifting them out of the ‘boiled for safety’ era. He’s really done well for himself, great guy.

[DavidJones-gwgo]

As an an American southerner, I need to say; do not let the man from Minnesota rep biscuits!

But yeah, great and funny video, guys. Hopefully more intercontinental colabs in the future.