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We are not live, but you can leave a like comment subscribe turn on your post notification bells Let's continue to grow the family from Chicago to the UK Don't forget if we do go live and you happen to miss the live and you want to catch up on previously recorded lives Or be ready for the next group of lives You see it at the bottom of the screen Twitch.com head to the lit one Let's get into this man, this is lost and pond Let me sub up first and foremost Hit the like button six British things that are actually American Feel like this is giving me an opportunity to just get negative And y'all gonna be mad Let's get into it copyright disclaimer under section 107 of the copyright act 1976 Allowance is made for fair use for purposes such as criticism comment news reporting teaching scholarship and research Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing Non-profit educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use No copyright infringement intended all rights belong to their respective owners You get me. Hello, I'm Lawrence And I'm on a quest to uncover all of the memos that Britain and America lost in the pond And one of those memos pertains to things and stuff Specifically things and stuff that are widely synonymous with one country But unbeknownst to most of us were invented in the other Really There's a lot of things that I use that I just expect the British people to have Admit it because I've never heard like a kettle like who's like who you know, I'm saying a kettle Never never heard of it Today we're gonna look at six British things that against all odds are actually American and you might be wondering Lawrence you're British Why would you choose to show up your country in favor of the United States? Well, firstly you hypothetical person my official nationality is British American and secondly I recently gave Britain its due in the much heralded videos six American things that are actually British I'll link that's Don't get more more American than apple pie that video at the end And if you would like to be alerted about all future videos and have it on a chance to subscribe to this channel do that now In the meantime allow me to inflate your brain with facts so beautiful They belong in the Louvre or the discount bins at Walmart When I first moved the United States all of those years ago people would ask me Lawrence apart from your family and Yorkshire puddings What do you bounty miss most about Britain and my answer was always the same British chocolate I mean sure your average American grocery store might carry one or two Cadbury bars and mini eggs But crunches twirls and whisper bars were a lot harder to come by however America's confectionary aisles did contain one divisive British chocolate bar that I happen to love bounty Okay, are you gonna sit up here and tell me that the bounty bars from America? And you guys are just freely taking credit can we get some y'all chocolate is ten times better than ours 100% Let me let us just get that then stick I can live with that except two of the things that I just said are completely and utterly a little bit false The bounty a chocolate covered coconut filled fixture of UK sweet shelves is not actually British at all But American and I know what you thinking. Oh Lawrence Britain sells that is shocking M&M snickers and countless other American topsellers what makes bounty so special and in some respects You raise a valid point especially since the wrapper is plastered with obviously Hawaiian imagery You see I was just thought that this was a product of fantastical marketing kind of like how Britain came up with the world's most famous Bears despite the total absence of bears in the winning reports from the UK What is happening British Wild further more this one is special in part because of its name Which brings me on to line number two the truth of which is this Americans don't call them bounties here The bar is branded differently depending on whether it's light or dark chocolate with the names almond joy and mounds apply no cap Hey, listen, I knew it was oddly similar. I'm enjoying is my favorite candy I got a bag of them in the fridge. No, you think I'm lying. Hold off Dude I knew this was too similar So it's just brand of different, okay I'd respectively both were launched in the first half of the 20th century in the United States And it was only a few years later in 1951 that Mars incorporated which had no trademark attachment to the American varieties Launched bounty in the UK and Canada as straight-up imitations So y'all copied our little candy, huh? Y'all copied our little candy, huh? And I can't really say nothing about the grade of chocolate in the month and almond joy because I just a favorite candy 100% Sandwiched in between the launch of these sugar-laden chocolate bars was an even bigger killer World War part two Thankfully as an antidote to the horror and misery unfolding before them both countries found comfort in music Most famously American band leader Glenn Miller was hugely popular on both sides of the Atlantic to the tragic extent that he disappeared over the English Channel in 1944 as it happens Britain's most lauded wartime music icon herself became synonymous with the English Channel in addition to singing the famous World War two hit and Dr. Strange love outro track will meet again Vera Lynn soothed Britain with the only hopeful white cliffs of Dover as the Hooned in on Britain who wouldn't have found comfort in the prophecy. There'll be bluebirds over the white cliffs of Dover Well for one ornithologists because there are no fucking bluebirds in Britain In fact, they're entirely endemic to North America Which also appears to have been true of the song's lyricist after it was released New Yorker Nat Burton insisted he didn't realize that England didn't have bluebirds still nice sentiment He just felt inspired and got to it. I feel you Nat if that is your real name Anyway, speaking of iconic anthems that brings us on to this You'll never walk a few things Hey, you're not gonna do this to my scouts brother and there's a more British than football a sport whose origins can be traced back To ancient China really okay fine, but few things really are more British than China really don't worry though China got it all right. They got fried chicken as well Something else that I thought you know them there and football chants and songs and perhaps the most iconic anthem in the whole of English football is You'll never walk alone Appropriately given the song's title It is also synonymous with more than one British club with supporters of both Celtic and Liverpool Belting it out before kickoff in fact that makes sense that makes sense Song is so inextricably linked to Liverpool in particular that those four words can be found on the club's badge It is used in reference to the successful 1963 version by Jerry and or the pacemakers at the time Jerry and or the pacemakers were a popular group from Liverpool Perhaps second only to Suppose the people are never gonna know the identity of that other group now And so the song and everything it represents is as Liverpool lean as Albert doc. I didn't know the beaters were from Liverpool Until like last year my bad job But it isn't you see unlike the band formerly known as the quarrymen Jerry and or the pacemakers did not write their first few hit singles And this included you'll never walk alone, but then you knew that if you happen to be a fan of musicals I once played Prince Dauntless in once upon a mattress, so it's a touchy subject The piece was in fact the brainchild of American songwriting duo Rodgers and Hammerstein Who included the track on their Broadway smash carousel. So how I have no idea who those two men are But salute did it come to be an anthem for England's most trophy laden club? well by 1963 Jerry Marsden this time without his pacemakers is said to have played a demo to Liverpool's legendary manager Bill Shankly who was like that is an absolute banger mate inject that shit into my veins now We haven't verified the validity of that quote, but rest assured it was along those lines later that year the song Along with other chart hits of the day made it onto the terraces of Liverpool's Anfields stadium and unlike those other songs It hasn't left since Unlike those other songs it hasn't left since Remembrance poppies? That's right even the poppies that are worn by us Brits in the lead up to Remembrance Day aren't actually British But don't take my word for it instead Here's me from a year ago discussing it on a YouTube short that you probably missed Moina Michael was an American professor who pioneered the idea of commemorating soldiers with the red poppy She'd been inspired to push for it after reading the famed poem In Flanders Fields by John McCrae himself a Canadian Lieutenant Colonel While teaching a class to disable World War I Everybody takes everything and makes it their own man It's alright, right? Servicemen That just means you want it more than the last person At the University of Georgia Moina saw an opportunity to engineer financial support for the wounded by selling poppy I would never do something like this As a result of her efforts the American Legion Auxiliary and the British Legion Appeal Fund both formalized the poppy as a symbol of remembrance from 1921 While Britain widely persists with the symbol more than a century later America has long since phased out the November 11th poppy with some choosing to wear one During May's Memorial Day I'm gonna be rude but you have never even seen the flower before Not one time in life Thanks past Lawrence, my neck hurts And now, just like my mate does after an hour on the beach We go from something red to something even more red And what? Santa? Well that's Santa Father Christmas But Father Christmas, one of Santa's pseudonyms while delivering presents Whoa, that name is In Britain didn't always wear that particular colour But as I said in 1987 when Santa brought me a protein pack instead of a proton pack Back up there mate Because who was Father Christmas actually? Well I won't bore you with all of the details because I already did that in this video But in a nutshell it went like this From English folkloric tradition Father Christmas was indeed the personification of Christmas Historically he went by several names including Christmas Lord, Prince Christmas and I'm not making this one up Captain Christmas But when settlers boarded ships for the new world they didn't take Captain Christmas with them Presumably opting for an actual captain There are two big reasons for this Number one 17th century Puritans in England had declared Christmas in a front to God Even banning it at one point And number two Puritans in New England kind of viewed things the same way And so many Christmas traditions were shelved including Father Christmas But fear not because 200 years later with Puritan influence having long since waned he returned However by the time he was revived by the Victorians who often depicted him in green robes And a crown ordered on eBay The US had moved on to other things such as the Dutch figure Sinterklaas And at this point you might be thinking so Well what? Well Sinterklaas is a Dutch figure? What Lawrence you lied to us All this tells us is that Father Christmas is still British Correction was still British Because during the 19th century word of Santa Claus reached England People seemed to take a shine to him And although for a while he and Father Christmas remained distinct Our version started taking on elements of that curious fellow from the North Pole For instance his crown disappeared and was replaced by a hood probably also from eBay His waist became larger and his cheeks rosier And after that Is he smoking a pipe? Sinterklaas was depicted in 19th century Father Christmas got high Cartoons wearing red and white Father Christmas came to follow suit I didn't intend that pun But gosh it was good And so today you could argue that he remains Father Christmas in name only Hence why a lot of Brits just call him Santa Claus Tea bags? Okay talk to me When you hear the word tea there's only one country that comes to mind Britain Well actually the Boston Tea Party right? Realize that's three countries Unless the British fixation with tea is very real Dating back to the 1660s when it was brought to England by Catherine of Briganza The future Queen of England Just over a century later Britain was so enamored with tea That Americans in Boston famously copied us by hosting a tea party of their own And on a personal note See you know what I'm saying? Well kid I'm a genius I remember what you taught me school The one thing that Americans assume most about me is that I prefer tea to coffee Which is only true if I've had three coffees That said British people do generally love their tea Whereas Americans more often than not are indifferent Instead the latter love their lattes And so it will surprise absolutely everybody to learn that tea bags were invented not in Britain But Milwaukee The first painter Ah Milwaukee my neighbor Okay I mean Milwaukee for sure Give them something because they really don't got no identity So yeah I guess And or patent if you will was filed in that city in 1903 by its inventors Roberta Lawson and Mary McLaren Within five years their idea caught the attention of New York importer Thomas Sullivan Who subsequently had them shipped around the world the tea bags not the inventors Today tea bags are a common household item in Britain But Yorkshire tea which is manufactured 80 miles from my English hometown Ours everything to two people 80 miles from this one Behold US patent patent 723287 The tea leaf holder Is that what it's called? Tea bag, huh? They do a lot of that on Call of Duty And so if I've learned anything from this two part series It is that both of my homelands have a rich history of influencing each other In many ways our special relationship feels more like one of siblings We might squabble from time to time but it's only because we can't stand each other Soon I'll be looking at recent words that Britain took from America and vice versa In the meantime if you haven't seen it yet here are six American things that are actually British So watch that video now Thanks man You inspired me to watch this by your thumbnail and I've taken a real liking to you as a human being You do great work and you really educated me here Thank you Tell it leave a like, comment, subscribe, turn on your post notification bell And if anybody in the UK is watching this if you need us to lend you anything else let me know