AMERICAN in England - FALSE Impressions of ENGLAND / UK 🇬🇧

I hardly ever request ice, simply because a glass full of ice means less actual drink, I'd rather get more of what I paid for. 😂

The British are not so obsessed with perfect looking teeth, they are concerned, however, with having healthy teeth.

I think the criticism of British food being not great during the war is actually insulting to our grandparents who were struggling to provide food for their families while supplies were severely rationed - it's why we were encouraged to grow our own produce turning back (and probably front) gardens into allotments to make the rations go further 🥔🍅🌿

London is not representative of England - if you want to experience the country get out of the capital 🙂

I think some Americans do find the food in the UK tastes "bland" because they are used to the high amounts of sugar, salt and artificial supplements that are added to food in the US. They are less used to natural flavours. I am sure you will notice it when you return to the US and go back to eating the food there, after having eaten UK produced food, how much sweeter and salty the food there is.

Traditional British (cask) beer is typically designed to be at its best when served at “cellar temperature” – around 12-13 degrees Celsius (about 55 degrees Fahrenheit). I prefer my beer from a wooden cask at the correct temperature to get the best flavours.

As a Brit. I say this is a very fair assessment. Filling a glass with ice is a good way of making you pay for less product. A very smart trick in America. A glass of ice filled with coke will have 50% less coke than a glass filled with cold coke. Well done, hope you visit again soon, try the Lake District if you can.

As an Englishman thank you for correcting some of these false impression

I was born in Yorkshire. I have lived in Yorkshire all my life I am 77 yrs old and I have been to London once, and that was just for one day. I was pleased to get home.

If you drink proper beer chilled then it takes away the taste. Lager of course is served chilled.

I may be mistaken about this but I believe that the warm beer , bland food and absence ice were impressions carried by the huge numbers of US servicemen stationed there in UK during and after both WW1 and WW2 when it was no doubt a correct deduction . It could also account for the view that it always rains and possibly the unfriendly people as to be honest the Americans were often resented for joining so late in both wars . This on top of the fact that the British had endured years of rationing of food , clothes , fuel and other commodities and then they see Americans with unlimited supplies of the above as well as cigarettes , sweets ( candy ) especially chocolate and fresh fruit such as oranges and bananas which had not been seen in Britain for years.

I absolutely can smell the rain coming - but petrichor only arises when it's raining after an extended dry period. That's unusual in the UK except in high summer.

We don't call them "wait staff" here... we mostly call them waiters (male) or waitresses (female) though with the habit of hearing Americans using different terminology, our younger folks, in particular have a tendency to incorporate "Americanisms" into their language!! (I try not to, but then am an old 'stick-in-the-mud' regarding English, as I was taught so many years ago!!) 🙂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿❤️🇬🇧🖖

My American daughter in law brought back a bottle of Ranch dressing from a visit to her parents in Colorado. I looked at the back label for the ingredients , there was no actual foodstuff in it - just chemicals and water.

I live in England 200 miles away from London, i would never live in London.

One thing you forgot to add was that Northern Ireland is also part of the UK

That "Do you know the Royal Family" thing gave me some real fun when I was in the USA. Every time that I was asked if I knew The Queen my reply was always "Oh yes, she pops around to my house for Afternoon Tea on the first Thursday of every month. 4 o' clock sharp!" And they BELIEVED ME!!!!! 🤣 The food thing dates back to World War II when a lot of foreign military came over here. We were under extremely strict food rationing at the time and they just assumed that what we were eating then was our usual diet. Far from it. The food revolution here really got going in the 1960s and I would contend that we now have one of the best cuisines in the world. And definitely one of, if not THE, most diverse. 🙂 Thanks for the uploads. Keep 'em coming!!!

The more ice in the glass the less drink in the glass

Traditional ales/beers in a pub = cellar temperature, which is usually cooler than room temperature. However, most people drink lagers which are usually chilled. Weather: I often see Americans from, for example, Arizona, saying how it rains much more than in the USA. The reality is that New York and Seattle get more rain than London. Food: we have at least the variety of food that the USA has, I think more.. The American concept of the UK having bad food goes back to US troops returning from the rationing during WW2. That's generations ago!

The rain is the price we pay for not being frozen from November to late March. The UK (and Ireland) are in the same latitude as Canada, Scandinavia and northern Russia. However the warm water from the Gulf stream prevents it from getting very cold in Winter. On the flip side, the warmer water tends to bring rainy weather more often than not. We're just in an awkward spot in the Atlantic Ocean.