Get a haircut, hippie.

Liking teh ponytail.

Loving Mile’s shirt. Borderlands is a fucking awesome game.

Love the fact that u are doing a “Spoony tries” but simmering a Bratwurst is a capital sin ; ) u just grill it.

I think the Laffy Taffy thing might have been a Milky Way bar, since I remember giving him one at the con and they’re pretty much small bars really soft, fluffy nougaty stuff covered in chocolate.

I must say though, there’s something really amusing about seeing someone being all ‘Wow, this foreign strangeness’ to chocolate that you’ve been eating your whole life. XD

Oreo licking beer is ridiculously cute, but careful! Dogs can be alcoholics too ;)

I meet Spoony at the Irish convention, it’s weird seeing things from my local gas station being called exotic.
American chocolate leaves an aftertaste of vomit, something to do with adding corn syrup because it makes it cheaper to manufacture.

I’m entertained by how much of this “crazy UK candy” We have on the shelves here in Canada.

Spoony, what you really needed to try were some of the honeycomb-type candy bars.

Mead can hit people hard. I had some homebrew at a LARP event and I was practically a member of the living dead until I fell asleep and I usually drink straight Jagermeister and absinthe/sambuca based cocktails without problems.
I’ll see if I can rustle up a bottle of the Herald’s homebrew next event and have it sent in…assuming he doesn’t make another hard batch and customs cordon off the package as a bomb threat.

You should try Samuel Adam’s Cherry Wheat then. Great beer if you like cherry flavor. Yuengling is pretty bad, its from Pennslyvania. Their black and tan, which combines their lager and their porter is about the best from them. Individually, both aren’t that good, but the combination somehow works and has a lighter guiness-like taste. About the best beers from the states are Samuel Adam’s Boston Lager, Leinenkugel (their Classic Amber is good, their limited golden lager was great), and I enjoy the Michelob’s Amber Bock. None are Guinness though…hehe hehe. But I prefer my beers on the dark side of things. You might be more of an India Pale Ale and other lighter beers type of person. Some people like beers with other fruit flavors like lemon, blueberry, rasperry, etc, tend to be very fruity. The Cherry Wheat is about the only one I like, but I really like Cherries, so it makes sense.

I remember Solitary. I loved that show. The computer voice got really creepy.

We do have those Terry’s chocolate oranges here in the states around Christmas. Maybe the Turkish delight had some rose flavor in it? That’s a traditional flavor for it, though I agree it is gag-worthy. I have a hard time imagining Miles made it on his run after this.

I just spent an hour of my life watching other people eat candy and drink beer.

The video is quite informative and the chocolates certainly looked.. interesting!

Nice to see some new video.
Also, I suppose you already know, but never, NEVER let a dog have chocolate if you don’t want to lose the animal. It’s highly addictive to them but their body can’t process it so it is highly poisonous.

:)

I’ve always wanted to try mead, but can’t seem to get my hands on any. Just watching that bottle sit there throughout the video in all its golden allure made me feel like poor Oreo, just wanting to sample what was being eaten. I hope Oreo at least got some dog treats after having to stare at all the food she wasn’t allowed to have (and for good reason!)

And I loved the ending to the video with the note on the long editing. It needed to be said, middle finger and all, heh heh heh. Lucky for me, I’m a patient man.

you should come to Germany some time
get some real bear, not that thinned down piss you get elsewhere
Barley, Hops and Water. that’s bear!

FUCK YOUR APOLOGIES SPOONY! QUIT LOLLYGAGGING AROUND THE GLOBE AND GORGING YOURSELF ON BOOZE AND CANDY! MAKE MORE VIDEOS FOR MY AMUSEMENT YOU JESTER SLAVE ARGHHHHGHGHGHGGHH!

Really though, I almost didn’t watch this because the concept seemed incredibly boring, but then I remembered Spoony’s impromptu rambling is more entertaining than most people with a script–worth it. Even if the “real” videos come out somewhat slowly compared to other webseries, I’d rather get those + tasty vlog filler than see half-baked stuff on a weekly basis.

Also you were right Spoony, 5% is a totally pussy ABV but it’s pretty common for light beers. If you want to try something that isn’t piss-water you should look for 7-15% beers from breweries in/near your state. I don’t know what you can get in Arizona, but Pacific brands like Rogue, Deschutes, and Stone (I think you tried their Arrogant Bastard?) are what made me into a beer drinker. The difference between that kind of beer and Bud/Coors/etc is like the difference between eating at a local burger joint and McDonald’s.

Firsty, good to see you up and posting again soon,
I was kind of worried you may have gotten sick or something after your trip
which would have been a shame.

But anyway I’m an English person so seeing your reaction to
things I’ve grown up with is really rather funny in an odd way. Although glad
to see you enjoy our chocolate. Well since I live on this side of the pond I
feel I should give a little commentary on what you tried. Also yes I will concede
that Swiss chocolate is some of the best you will get.

I should mention now that Cadbery do to a lot of different chocolates
and basically even bought out a lot of their competition over here and still
run the bars as separate entities. But you see even though it may seem like
some of them are just ‘chocolate bars’, they do in fact make them differently
which can make the world of different to the flavour in some of their chocolate
bars. Also its true that texture does play a big part of it, personally I can’t
stand Whispa

Well I saw you were not really into the Curly Wurly, but you see the
actual draw to them is that chewy center. I mean I rather like the taste
too myself but the real draw for parents is that it’s kind of cheap and can
keep a kid happy for a while.

Now I have too just point out, you were making a big thing with the
bubbles and I loved when you bit into that Aero, because I knew you would not
be ready for that. I mean I can see where you might not be used to it, but
Aero’s big draw is the amount flavour they pack into their bars, plus they are
pretty much the king of bubbled chocolate. Whispa and all that basically
came up later and are generally not as good. Also those are the large Aero’s,
you can actually get bars the size of that Lion bar which have like five
segments.

Onto the Walkers Crisps, i want to point out that Prawn cocktail is one
of the big debate flavours of Walkers, by that I mean you do get people that
will absolutely love them enough to by the big single flavour bags
and others that hate it. Personally i don’t mind but would prefer salt
and vinegar.

Wow… I’m actually learning stuff about the States; I never would have
guessed you did not get Turkish delight over there. The stuff in that bar
though is the most basic of it, which is pretty much just a gel made from
starch and sugar. The actual stuff usually contains nuts like hazel, walnuts or
pistachios. Although the I
think that the gel in the bars is one of the cheapest kinds which is generally
flavoured with rosewater or mastic.
I have tried the good stuff though and I would highly recommend giving it a try
if you fancy something sweet and different. The actually stuff also comes in
cubes without any chocolate and is powered in Icing sugar to prevent it from
sticking.

Also
yeah that’s probably not a proper Scottish brew, I mean it may come from some
weedy clan’s recipe that was shipped out to Canada a few hungered years ago. But
coming from a big Scottish clan I can say that the ‘dwarf’ analogy you made is
pretty true when it comes to good quality drink in Scotland. Whiskies and meads
are the kind of thing we like, something thats going to warm your blood after a
cold day. Ohh and a Hot toddys are generally drank before bed or to fight of
the cold or a flu. It’s usually made though with whisky, boiling water or
warm milk, and sugar or honey and of course served still hot.

-5% is average for a “normal” European beer, everything I drink (German beers mainly are 5)

-Haha its so weird seeing some marvelling over aero’s and jaffa cakes, they are just so normal here (although we do the same when we see Hershey or some american brand)

-Never seen a Moro in England, must be an Irish bar. All the bars you are trying are the same thing really – Its weird you have NO chocolate orange? Do you guys have Mint Chocolate?

-Hahaha the Pink packet, the one everyone leaves until the end if you buy a multipack!

-FUCK YES LION BAR – THATS THE NUMBER ONE SHIT IF YOU HAVE BALLS!

-Turkish Delight? You can get that anywhere in Europe – its great man can’t believe you didn’t like it.

-When they say “good with Cheese” they didn’t mean American Kraft cheese slices, that stuff is to cheese as a McNugget is to Chicken

-You can get small Aeros, they are just huge “family bars”

To be honest you had a bad selection,You can’t generalise that all sweets in europe are the same because most of the stuff you got was really similar, but as you said you got it in a random corner shop I understand why its this stuff.

-They have that kind of Beer, you are drinking some “gimmick” beer not a real one.

so spoony was oreo…in your spot ? YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA *banned for life*

Spoony, you are one of my favorite reviewers ever, EVER. But if you complain one more time about calories I will be forced to have you turn in your MAN card. From one man to another, this is your only warning. Keep up the good work.

Miles took one for the team.

But yeah, enjoyable and always good to see an update and Miles in a video.

Ha Spoony reviews Highlander beer WHILE rocking an Adrian Paul -esque ponytail.Karma i’s tells ya.

You should try European bread, butter and cheese. Bread in the states is fucking horrible.

I feel dumb, sitting here watching Spoony and Miles eat brats while I am nursing a bowl of Coco Krispies. A little jealous too.

Well in Sweden beer strong beer is beer over 3.5%, everything under that can be found in a normal grocery store. In Sweden you aren’t allowed to sell alcohol in normal stores, they can be found in a store called Systembolaget wich is owned by the government. Wine is around 15-20% and liquors, like vodka, are up to 40%, higher per cent isnt allowed in Sweden, but in Estonia you can find rum at 90%, and it’s really fucking horrible!

This is probably the cutest thing I’ve ever seen in my life. I was
always aware English chocolate was better than American, but ever since my
Dutch roommate shared her gift boxes with me from her mum, I now think English
chocolate sucks XD

My friends and I adore listening to this divide in culture. We always
thought “Candy” just meant sweets, like any hard sugar product,
anything that didn’t have chocolate in it. But to see the word means all products
in general. I think that’s bloody brilliant.

Also, you probably think I’m weird, but we could make a drinking game of
the number of times you use the word cookie. Cookie is only used one time, for
a biscuit with chocolate chips in it, otherwise its always called a biscuit. So
whenever it’s applied to all these different things, we cracked up. Especially
like with the whole Kitkat bar. If you guys actually use biscuit in your
kitkats, I apologize for sounding rude, but we looked at each other wondering
why you said that, when it’s clearly a wafer. That’s the reason why they’re so
soft. (Or if a wafer also comes under the cookie category, again I apologize
for sounding rude).

To this day I don’t think anyone knows if they like Prawn Cocktail crisps
or not. They just exist. Walkers has had a lot of gag crisps that come in and
out all the time, from barbecue, to ketchup to marmalade, breakfast fry-up and
Christmas dinner….yeah we’re kinda f*cked up aren’t we? I think it’s just our
equivalent of “every flavour jelly beans” XD

I never realised we had so many orange products? When I was a kid, all I
remember was mint. Mint chocolate was EVERYWHERE back then, now it just seems like
orange has slowly pushing its way in and taking over the minds of Brits. All
hail the orange! *salute*

Number one rule of bubbly chocolate: Do not chew it!!! Let it melt on
your tongue, that’s where the REAL bubbles come from.

And no one likes Turkish
delight. We just keep it on the shelf ‘cause it’s one of the original flavours.
You can’t just throw it away.
I don’t like Curly
whirly either :P Although I’ve always wanted to try taffy. What is taffy exactly?

PS. If you ever
come back to the UK. Galaxy chocolate! If you have it, brilliant! If not, Cadbury
is everywhere yes, but it’s too sweet for me. But Galaxy is epic! it’s kinda
like the everyman’s upper class chocolate. Try it!

i approve of dat shirt

I’m surprised, so in the States you don’t have Lion cake…
I’ll think about sending a few more chocolate from Italy.

ye if you go to scotland spoony there’s a fizzy drink called irn bru ?? its orange but it doesnt taste of orange so you will be fine on that but it is quite big in scotland and since im from scotland i have it all the time so ye if your ever over here again try some cause im pretty sure you dont get it over in the states but i could be wrong

omg i see kingdom hearts 3d on your table. i cant believe it, you’re the last person i thought would ever get that game. i know it shouldnt but it makes me really happy you did get it. what did you think of it if youve played it yet (i know your busy), im like in love with the game. thats all.

ah Spoony if you want good American beer you have to drink the craft brews. the macro lagers, (budweiser, coars, etc) Samuel Adams is pretty tasty, since you live closer to California try to get some Sierra Nevada ii recommend the Pale Ale or the Kellerweis Heffeweisen, and if you like something a little stronger then try the porter. when you feel a little more adventurous try the stout.

Now if only Spoony could do an angry V-log against the crappy total recall remake. Because Brad Jones didn’t thrash it big enough.

watching Spoony react here mad me LOL!

While I am not sure about all of the U.S. up here in Connecticut there is a chain of stores called Aldi that carry jaffa cakes.

Wow Spoony, I didn’t realise the dearth of super delicious chocolate you guys didn’t get in the US. No Jaffa Cakes? How do you survive!? I am now glad you have been introduced to our wonderful Brittish Chocs! Also if you liked those you would love a Wispa (if you didn’t get a chance to try one).

Also, poor Oreo :D dog chocolate away!

No orange flavoured chocolate in the States? Really? That amazes me, it’s my favourtie combination other than mint chocolate. Oh my, Terry’s chocolate orange, the best orange chocolate in existence! I want one now! I’m going to have to nip to the shops, damn you Spoony!

In all honesty I really can’t stand any of the Hersheys that my friends have brought me if they’ve ever been on holiday so I’m happy that you’ve been introduced to the lovely Brit range. Have you ever tried real Belgian chocolates? They would blow you away, seriously. Delicious. In fact at one point the Belgians actually wanted Britain to change our legislation and stop calling our chocolate ‘chocolate’ because they claimed it didn’t have a high enough cocoa and, I think, cream/butter content. So you can imagine what THEIR chocolate is like. Mmmmmm.

Also if you liked that beer you should try some of the ales from the Wytchwood Brewery, from somewhere down in England, I’m sure you could find them somewhere online perhaps? The Hobgoblin ale is particularly nice :)

Anyway, loved the review! Oreo is a cutie as usual. You should get her some dog chocolates to make up for not getting any tasty British treats!

Oh yeah, I should have waited to review at the end. Yeah, just to say I agree with you, milk covered turkish delight is disgusting, but turkish delights, which is a Turkish sweet we normally get in Britain at Christmas, is delicious on its own. I hate the Cadbury’s turkish delight. Also you do get individual aero mint and orange sweets, they’re called bubbles (fucking bubbles!) so they’d probably be better :)

Oh yeah and a hot toddy is a Scottish or Irish drink which is made of hot water, honey and whiskey mixed together (or that’s how my dad makes them). It’s wonderful for curing colds and tastes good too, especially in winter when it’s freezing!

Thanks again for suffering through the sweet feast for our entertainment!

5% for a beer is actually not that weak for a beer. The strongest I’ve seen is around 7%, at least, the strongest that tastes GOOD! I’ve drank a beer called Beelzebuth that was 14% and it was total shit tbh. Beer here in Portugal is around 6% if I recall correctly, don’t have beer in hand right now XD

Turkish delights are DELICIOUS! Of course, I’ve never had those cadbury things. It’s probably nowhere NEAR what a real Turkish delight is =)

Turkish Delight is SUPPOSED to be a sweet rose flavoured jelly type candy. The funny thing is the Cadbury Turkish Delight is so bad that here in Australia the official Cadbury Delight is actually made by a completely different company that Cadbury owns.

Actually there is a brand of specialty cookie here in the states which is almost identical to Jaffa Cakes called Pim’s, I think the the only real difference is the the orange filling is a bit stronger and there is a few less per package. I usually find them in either the cookie or specialty cookie aisle of most grocery stores

In Singapore where I live, there’s almost no originality in the snacks department, and what Asian candy we have tastes like crap. Most of the snacks sold are from the West (European candy is expensive here in South-East Asia).
Here’s what I’ve gotten from watching this:
1) American Alcoholic beverages: Not as good as UK ones
2) American chocolate and candy snacks: Not as good as European ones
3) American Cheese: Not good
And from the Wendy’s Training videos, I get the impression that American fast food isn’t all that great (not that I can say different about the fast food joints here in S’pore)
In the cuisine department, where does the US excel? Do they have good rice or meat dishes over in the States?
Spoony should do that Scottish accent more often.
ALL foods taste better dunked in mead. Potato chips, lamb chops, rat poison-laced loaves of bread…

Have to admit one of my favorite things about going to new countries is trying all the new weird and wonderful snacks that I’ve never seen, tried or imagined before :)

Bit of a tidbit of info, but much of Canada’s original citizens were from Scottish birth. In fact, one of our provinces (Nova Scotia) means “New Scottland”. =p

And, on the subject, you can actually get Aero (regular and mint variety… orange is new for us too), Crunchie, Kit Kat Chunky and Bounty bars in Canada. Also, Terry’s Chocolate Orange can be found in Canada around Christmas. They’re actually shaped like oranges (even being segmented into slices) and the idea is to smash them on a hard surface, so the segments are broken apart when you open the wrapper.

Also, with Walker’s chips, you missed out on their Roast Chicken variety… which is absolutely great.

Also, that “insulation”-looking stuff is likely English Toffee… not a fan myself =p

Finally, Dairymilk does do some good chocolate… but yeah… that stuff is most definitely Turkish Delight (if you get Big Turk in the states, you have the same thing). I really don’t like it either to be honest.

Hot Mead is something you should try…. absolutely worth ist, when it´s cold outside.
Pear Cider is also worth a shot ;)

WTF. I just watched two guys eat European yummies for 1.5hours… Nice.. :) You should do one where you eat American goodies to show us European fans what’s your candies are like

Éphémère is from Quebec, isn’t it? Didn’t know they got that in Ireland!

Damn you Spoony you made me go and buy a candy bar, and I’m even less of a sweet tooth than you. PS I bought a Bounty

Haggis is a Scottish thing Spoony not an Irish thing.

Still I’m surprised you couldn’t find any, I can get it here in England &
it’s pretty good stuff.

Spoony,

Beer critiquing is not off-limits because you’re not accustomed to drinking them, and I can see why certain people like some beers and not others. However, trying a wide variety of beer is my hobby, so at the same time, I like many kinds of beer, and keep experimenting with beers I don’t like to see if one breaks the mold for me. Even I cannot understand how I can like Porters and Stouts, but not Dry Irish Stouts and Scotch Ales.

Ultimately, the fun part of my hobby is trying to figure out what someone ELSE might like. And a picky drinker isn’t a bad thing, nor is having a “dumb” palate. I just talked about this the other day, the difficulty of drinking things like spirits and picking out all the notes, and understanding what “notes” were supposed to be there in the first place. Like how certain whiskeys tout having “notes of oak, cherry, honey, etc” but then most people wind up chasing it with soda or shooting it without a second thought to the taste. Beer isn’t much easier to be honest, and I’m having trouble drinking certain styles now because the flavor is kind of blurring (especially in the hoppy pale ale department). But I digress, I’m not a beer expert.

It sounds like the “cherry” beer from the microbrewery might have been a wheat beer. And in that vein, you should look around to see if there’s a wheat you might like. In simpler ones, Fransizkaner is a good one if you can find it; flavored-wise, its not my forte, but Orange Wheat from Hangar 21 might also work for you. Just if you’re curious.

Good lord Spoony! Don’t let your doctor see this, he’ll chew your head off.

are you serious Spoony? You must be the most ignorant guy I’ve ever seen in regards to alcohol.All classic beers Heineken Amstel Bud Budweiser have 4.7-5% so 5 % is quite normal and not touristy.

Unless I’m very much mistaken (the most likely scenario), Highlander Brew is made in Ontario.

Spoony’s next video should be him and Miles trying different kinds of herb. You know what I mean.

On second thought, forget about the herb. That would be the most boring video in the entire universe.

I love Curly Wurly’s :(

It took you TWENTY minutes to think of the Stargate joke for Jaffa cakes? I’m disappointed in you Noah.

Holy shit, spoony, what the fuck are you doing? Candy and booze doesn’t mix well at all.

I’m from Austria and never had a curly wurly before a few weeks ago. My reaction was the same. It immediately glued up all teeth and was really hard to brush out. I won’t eat another bite.