A MUM living in Menston who is originally from the US has gone viral after sharing her hilarious views of living in the UK as an American.

Lisa Dollan, 39, originally from Atlanta first downloaded Tik-Tok during the pandemic when she lost her job after seeing people posting them on Facebook.

She now has more than 700,000 followers and has gained over 25 million likes in total.

She said: “I just liked how weird and crazy Tik-Tok was really so I downloaded the app and started doing this UK American comparison stuff to fill the time.”

Lisa moved to Menston, from Georgia, to be with her Yorkshireman husband eight years ago but said ‘she’s still not used to the British culture.’

The video that made her ‘Tik-Tok famous’ overnight was when she tried to order chicken-fingers at a KFC Drive-thru.

She said: “I randomly did this one where I went to KFC and tried to order chicken fingers but obviously they’re not called chicken fingers, they’re called what I thought were ‘chicken goulians’, so I recorded it and had no idea I had said the word wrong.

"I went to bed that night with about 500 followers and woke up with about 10,000 and all of the UK were basically taking the mick, telling me that it was ‘chicken goujon’, and that went viral.”

She said after that she ‘started to have fun with it' by comparing words and language, food, and doing taste tests whilst she was looking for a job during lockdown.

Lisa, known on Tik-Tok as YorkshirePeach, said she found the full English breakfast the strangest thing to eat.

She said: “When I came over here I had never in my life seen anybody eat tomatoes from a can for breakfast, it was unheard of in the states, it floored me. I thought it was absolutely disgusting, but when I tried it, I really liked it, and now I love it, it’s my favourite thing ever. But it was shocking.”

She also mentioned how she finds the weather ‘strange’.

“The fact that you guys don’t really have seasons here. We have a very clear-cut summer, spring, autumn, and winter, but here you can have that all in one day, that was a huge adjustment”, she added.

Despite the light-hearted tone of her videos, Lisa highlighted how she feels a lot safer in the UK than in the US, and how the NHS has been a big help to her.

She said: “I love that you guys have policies around gun control. I don’t have to worry about taking my son to school or seeing him on the news. I feel safer here, and the fact you guys have the NHS was mind-blowing.

"When I moved over here I was in about $20,000 of medical debt which took years and years to pay off. I was shocked I didn’t have to pay to have my baby, I still am blown away by the healthcare.”

She mentioned how she loves the UK's dry sense of humour, but she had to learn that people ‘weren’t just being mean’.

She now prefers that you can ‘be best friends but absolutely tear into them but it’s all just for fun.’