Social Etiquette: Britain vs. America

In his latest video, Laurence Brown contrasts how Brits and Yanks do social occasions. The subject came up after the viral discovery that families in Sweden don't find it necessary to include guests in their meals. Brown says that varies from home to home in Britain. The joke used to be that if someone offers to serve British food to you, you should run away. But since Brown has moved to the US, the British national cuisine has shifted to takeout curry, so the old jokes about awful English food have faded away. Still, he has a lot of wry observances about how Americans and the British differ in the way we socialize around food and drink.