Most all grocery stores in America at the checkout usually combined with the scanner is a scale , each item of produce will likely have a little sticker, this has a code number the cashier can put it and the scale weighs it accordingly
In the US supermarkets sell almond milk and oat milk in refrigerators. However, there are shelf stable versions that are also sold in non refrigerated shelves too.
4:30 You have been in the USA, so you probably noticed all cashier stations have scales that you weigh your produce on, you scan the little sticker on the product (if it's missing, you can look up the item), then weigh it, and it will calculate the price.
We have similar shelf stable milk in U.S. but it is not very popular. That milk is irradiated or heated to very high temperature for a few seconds (ultra-pasteurized)
No it isn't. It is high-temp pasteurization that makes it stable. It is brought to 280F - 302F for about 5 secs. Then put in a sterile container. No radiation. It's basically the same as normal pasteurization but then kept in a highly sterile environment and put in sterile containers.
We do have colonies of homeless cats, but there are many rescue groups who run TNR (trap, neuter, release) programs. This hopefully leads to the eventual collapse of the colony once the cats age and pass.
I"ve heard stories (not sure how true) where someone's cat got captured and neutered by mistake. They sued but not sure where that landed...again, not even sure if it was a true story.
@@elebenty5709 Well in Metro Detroit, every one of my cats in a rescue off the street. I even had the local animal control give me one in January 2021 to take care of when they got over-crowded.
I am 67 years old and I have lived in many different states since my husband was military and I have NEVER had to weigh my produce before going to the cashier. The cashier weighs it themselves. In the States if you are at a fast food restaurant you can ask for a cup for water. It’s smaller than the cups for cokes or whatever and you can get tap water at the drink machine.
There are scales in produce sections sometimes, or used to be, but it was mainly to give you and idea of the price for what you are going to buy. Like, if the price is listed as say, .89 cents a pound etc. Once at the checkout they weigh it on scales right there.
Russia and America is what she's talking about. I'm not sure why Millie keeps trying to argue with her when she mentions how things are in her experiences in the US by comparing them to the UK as if they're the same.
@@bluflaam777 Actually this is like her 14th trip to the US and IIRC she doesn't go to the same place more than once so she has a more comprehensive experience than in general.
In most American groceries, the scanners for the barcodes are also scales, so the cashier just places the items on the scale there, enters the item number for the fruit or veg, and the scale automatically calculates the price.
Way back in 1971, when i lived in Scotland, we would buy milk from a dairy store, that had no refrigeration. The weather was always cool, and the building had walls 2 to 3 feet thick, so the building, was like a passive refrigeration system. As i remember, all they sold was milk, eggs, cheeses etc.
My great aunt never had a fridge in Ireland until the mid ‘70s. Milk was “stored” in the bog. It was fresh daily bec they (or a neighbor) had cows. Very different way of life.
@@DianeCasanova You've probably seen it and didn't know what you were looking at. LOL It isn't a big sales item. I used to buy it from Costco, they sold flavored versions of it in cases of single serve cartons.
Normally you don't even have to ask for tap water at a sit-down restaurant in the US. They just provide it automatically, and if you don't want it, you don't drink it.
In California you often have to ask for it, because in a past drought period they passed a regulation to conserve water by not allowing restaurants to automatically give every guest water. The regulation was eventually relaxed but most restaurants here still wait for you to order it or ask you before bringing it.
If you find homeless animals you should take them to an animal shelter. Many times people will sponsor these animals and sometimes even adopt them. Support your local animal shelters.
Weren't you given a glass of ice water when you sat down at a table in a restaurant??? I don't think I've ever gone to a restaurant and not been given ice water almost immediately....the only place I can think of that it wasn't done was when I lived in Arizona and we went to California during a "drought" and if you wanted water you had to ask for it.... All tap water in the US is safe to drink - it may not taste the same because of fluoride in some places or in some homes - (my best friend's house) has well water which I love!! It's water directly from a well on your property...but again, all tap water in cities in the US is safe...and regularly tested... LA driving is horrible - and always rush hour.....it's bumper to bumper driving so it's difficult to "let people in" - I've driven in LA - and hate it . . I wouldn't recommend any tourist - especially from another country driving in LA or New York City!! It's just over populated and over busy.... Sounds like from your videos I've watched during your California stay - you didn't care much for CA over all anyway...so ya, traffic would be rough and remember on top of the residents - half of those people driving are tourists!!! You all were in the 1st or 2nd largest cities and tourist areas in the United States . . . so that's what happens...
I most restaurants in the US the first thing they bring to the table is a glass of tap water with ice. But there are still restaurants that wish to economize and not have to wash too many glasses or dishes. If you want, you can purchase a bottle of flat or sparkling water.
There are states that have tax on food and others that don't. Michigan doesn't tax most grocery foods. I think the last time I looked, Texas didn't tax food, except some items like pop.
Groceries aren't taxed in most U.S. states, but non-food (and some cooked/prepared food) items sold in grocery stores usually are. This seems to confuse Brit tourists quite a bit. They think they are being taxed on everything in the grocery store.
In my part of the US, milk is in a refrigerated section of the grocery store. Single serve milk in aseptic containers can sometimes be found on regular shelves. Non-dairy milk (i.e., soy, oat, almond, rice, etc. milk) can be found in either refrigerated sections or on shelves.
In the US rescues pull cats off the street all the time. I took in a feral cat and for the first 6 months we had to keep her in a pen because she was vicious but as she got to know us she settled in and eventually became a big baby. We had to take her because they were poisoning the cats around a local restaurant and no one wanted her. She has past on now but she lived with us for about 13 years and the vet estimated her at 6-7 years old. It is normal in the US to take a cat in off the streets, as owned cats are usually inside cats and it's much better than promoting kitten sales.
In America I've never bought bananas that I had to weigh myself. Each cashier has a scale right there where she scans the items. Even if you choose to use the self checkouts, you lay the bananas down on the place where you scan them and there's scales under the scanner. And you don't get a sticker, the weight and the price come up on the screen. Sales tax in the state I live in is 7 %. I'm tired of visitors from other countries complain about our sales tax. England pays more tax using the value-added system than 7%. People allow their cats to go outside some here. I see cats in my neighborhood. I think a couple are strays though. The lady next door feeds them. I don't. But they come into my carport for rain or cold weather. I don't like that because they will jump up onto my car and leave muddy prints. I've just bought a Toyota Camry and it's a bigger car and for some reason they don't jump on it. I think it's a little larger than my former car and they may think it's too far to jump. I'm glad! I was not glad to hear about your driving in San Francisco. In North Carolina most people are polite and will let you enter the line of cars. Next time come to the best state NORTH CAROLINA !!
Not all states charge tax on food items. Nevada, where I live only taxes you on pre-cooked items. Everything else is tax-free. There are other states that are the same way, but not all.
We have "shelf stable" milk that doesn't need refrigeration too but it isn't very popular. I buy it sometimes because I don't use milk very often and it lasts much longer. Most states in the US don't tax supermarket food . She says she lives in San Francisco where I live and CA definitely doesn't tax food taken out of the store (but it does tax food at eat in restaurants). In SF and most US cities, the Animal Control (shelter) department picks up stray animals. And in SF the shelter is "no kill" so it adopts all of them out .
In convenience stores, they sell bananas individually. But in most grocery stores, they are sold by weight. Kombucha is fermented tea. I think it tastes nasty and there are too many carbs to make it worth acquiring a taste for it. But lots of people like it. We do have ultrapasteurized milk that is shelf-stable.
What does she mean you have to weigh everything yourself, haven't had to do that in decades. The cashier has a weight machine at checkout where she weight things. In my State food items are not taxable unless it is sold heated; or sold for consumption on the premises; or. it has been prepared by the seller and is ready to be eaten.
@@jaycee330 She doesn’t seem imply anything. She merely stated that she uses regular checkouts. She also stated that decades ago, people had to weigh things themselves (news to me!).
@@shawnanderson6313Of course - you have rural areas and urban areas. Northern California and Southern California are definitely the same state. Same everything.
@@pacmanc8103 Okay so same things applies to Texas, Florida, New York. You think Upstate New York is like Manhattan? So original point holds, this isn't a California thing, it is a state thing.
The homeless animals situation here depends upon the area. Most places here don’t allow dogs to roam around this mainly because of rabies. But some places allow cats to be in the wild. This is because they actually help with control of rodents like mice and rats. Some of them are usually caught and spade or neutered and released back to their location to help control the population but it’s been determined that the best way to control this ecosystem of sorts is to let them have some sort of natural predators that can control the balance of pests without having to deal with dangerous predators.
There are homeless cats and dogs in the US. However, it depends on the neighborhood. If there is a homeless cat or dog on the street, you can check to see if it's microchipped.
We have the sticker weigh scales at the big stores as well, but we also have the weigh scale at the check out line that automatically calculates to your total.
Canned. Also, sweetened condensed milk and shelf-stable cartons of milk. I used to buy it from Costco by the case. They were single serve cartons and came in vanilla or chocolate flavors. Works great for a packed lunch but kind of pricey for what it is.
I always boiled water when I lived in Russia. The Russians said you should do it 3-5 minutes. I did 10. And she's right about the smoking - it's everywhere. About the shoe covers: it is often really muddy in Russia even in the big cities. The traffic in LA is not necessarily the same as elsewhere in California, which is pretty laid back. And I assure you that virtually NO ONE in LA drives as aggressively and crazy as in Russia.
It is the same in the US. In restaurants, a lumberyard or even a gas station, ask for a cup of water if you need it. If anyone asks you for water (even at your home door or lawn) you must give water legally. At least in most of the states.
Taxes are not included because every state has different tax rates my state sales tax is six per cent. Six cents on every dollar. Also, some states tax clothes and food some do not. In my state if it is deemed a necessity then it is not taxed. Things like toilet paper, women's feminine care products etc. are not taxed. Makes it easier for the manufacturer to just place the price on a product and ship it too wherever. We do not even think about it when we shop, we just accept this fact and pay for things.
I help at a cat rescue here in the states.I don’t advise people to feed or pickup cats unless you are willing to pay the price. Because cats can have rabies but you can also get cat scratch fever and get infections. I just got done helping the rescue with ringworm infected kittens. Cats can come in with all sorts of problems and yes sadly we put some to sleep because they wouldn’t have pain free life or the poor cat is just too sick and is suffering. The main goal is to educate the community on why you need to spay and neuter your cats and to help the animals and the people. Sadly people think they can just leave their cats out on the side of the road out in the countryside and the farmers won’t care sorry but the farmers do care. We had a farmer call us once he was so overwhelmed with all the cats that people had dropped off and they had Babies or were pregnant that he didn’t know what to do so he called us there had to be at least 40 cats we in a year can rescue over 300 cats and kittens. It’s nuts
So, it sounds like they package their cow's milk the same way as soy milk, almond milk, etc. I think that means they boil it, but I'm not certain. It only starts to spoil once it's opened. If it's boiled, then it tastes different.
There's a city near where I live that is overrun by stray cats. All restaurants parking lots in that city has like 5 or 6 stray cats living in the wooded area around the restaurants.
In Arizona, they gather up strays, spay and neuter them, snip thier ears so to be recognized as already fixed, and put back where they found them. They seem to find their own homes....we have two yearlings from the program. A young male brought them about 4 months old. They stayed Agatha & Christie
It is getting to be pretty common. The fist time I saw one, I was puzzled to see the tiny v cut out of a cat's ear. Later on, someone told me about it.
Ever see the dashcam videos of traffic controls in Russia? It's highly unsafe and unregulated driving with little intersection management. That's the difference between US and Russian drivers.
There is a scale at the register for the bananas. It’s built in. Even at self check out you just sit the bananas there and press the button and it rings it up
When I visited Russia I thought it was bizarre that we had to wear shoe covers or put on “indoor” shoes at the hospital, but all of the crazy homeless cats roamed freely in and out of the lobby and they kept windows open in procedure rooms with no screens on the windows-didn’t seem very logical to me
Feral cats are a problem in the US. There are charity organizations that spay/neuter feral cats to help control the population. A friend in rural Pennsylvania told me she has at least 20 feral cats in her neighborhood. I live in Tennessee and feral cats are a problem here as well.
No smoking areas in the US are “policed” by the people who own the building, not the actual police. Smokers here are accustomed to stepping outside before they light up.
Shelf stable milk exists in the U.S. but isn't super common. It is sometimes used by food banks and programs that provide food assistance to the poor, as it can be stored and provided without refrigeration. "Homeless" cats exist for sure in places but most places do things to not allow feral cats. The only place I know that has a big population of feral cats is Miami Beach, Florida. Right turn on red depends on the state you are in. In California it is legal. I think Florida too. But I think New York not?
As an American who has taught English near St. Petersburg, he's right, Russian just don't GAF when it comes to smoking or hygiene in public places. British Airways lost my bag flying into St. Pete -- imagine the fun I had with that customer service experience. Especially considering my town was a 4 hour drive from the airport and I had to return 2 days later to get it.
People smoked everywhere in the United States until more recently. Something like the past 30 years it stopped. I remember smoking in the planes in the 1970s and 80s😊
We have plenty of feral cats in my home city. We have trap and neuter programs for them to try to keep their numbers down without actually harming them.
There's a store that I go to in a small strip shopping area with open woods on the side. There's a Veterinary next door. The Vet posted signs on walls and posts asking to not feed the stray cats outside. 👌
I'm pretty sure medical personnel wear shoe covers in the US, to protect their shoes from vomit, blood, urine, etc. There may be other technical or science areas where there's a "clean room" situation of needing to keep contaminants out of the workspace.
Cow's & goat's milk is refrigerated. Some brands of oat & almond milk are refrigerated but most alternative milks such as oat, almond, & coconut milk are on shelf. Fresh fruit & vegetables are sold by weight & almost all stores can weigh them at checkout. Only few stores require they be weighed with printed bar code label before checkout. There are plenty of homeless cats & dogs but probably not in middle class areas where she is living because they have animal control. Homeless encampments there are plenty of them. A lot of churches & charitable ministries collect bags of pet food to distribute to poor & homeless people with pets. U.S. has regulated clean water standards. You only have to pay for bottled water in restaurants. Shoe covers are used in hospitals, operating rooms, clean rooms such as research labs, some food preparation or manufacturing, etc. California, New York City, & other large cities have very aggressive drivers. U.S. requires yearly (or every other year) car inspections & emissions inspections. They require all lights, tires, doors, windows, etc. are intact & functional.
We don't have "homeless" cats in the US, we have "stray" cats! LOL We don't call animals that do not have owners and live in the wild as homeless. We call them strays and yes, we have them, although cities and counties generally work hard at trapping them, fixing them and either release them again or try to get them adopted. Our city has a very large beautiful wild park and we struggled with stray cats all the time until a local society started trapping them and neutering them so they would stop producing babies. It has been years and years since I have seen a stray cat in the park! It works!
If you self check out here in the U.S. then you’ll have to weigh the the items at the register. We sell condensed milk on the self not refrigerated.But dairy products have to be refrigerated this is food safety regulations.
Sales taxes are never included in US pricing. One reason for that is that every state has a different tax rate. One might be 5%, another might be 6 or 7 percent. Delaware, for example, has zero sales tax. And there are also differences in what products are considered taxable. In Maryland, where I live, legitimate food items are not taxable. Legitimate, though, does not include snack items, (chips or "crisps"), sodas, candy, cookies or dessert items, nor does it include pet food, or other non-food items like cleaning products. So, your grocery bill will include both non-taxable and taxable items. As far as "homeless" animals; there are literally millions of feral (or stray) cats in the US. It's sad to me because I adore cats. Often, they are trapped, neutered, and returned to the wild by various organizations in the US. In my view, TNR efforts are a wonderful way to address the problem. It reduces their numbers, and no animal is needlessly put down. Usually, when a cat is TNR'd, they also clip off the tip of one ear, so that people know they have been neutered or spayed. I belong and donate to an organization called Alley Cat Allies, who does this kind of work. There are also many kind people who feed strays here in the US.
Again, in most states, none prepared foods purchased are NOT TAXABLE!! That might not be the case in Silicon Valley where she lives. but it's a generalization and not indicative of most US states.
Like eggs, the US has milk processed before it is sold and then needs to be refrigerated to keep it from spoiling. Produce has a code sticker on it. The scale reads the code and the weight and comes up with the amount for the cashier. If the sticker/tag is missing, the cashier can look up the code.
I am originally from a dairy farm. In order for milk to stay fresh, it needs to either be kept at a certain temperature (refrigerated) or irradiated/packaged to be shelf stable.
There is actually a law in California called the “Finders keepers law” that states that it’s illegal to take items (probably including animals?) from the streets/sidewalks without first reporting it lost and if the owner doesn’t retrieve it within a certain amount of time from the police station then you can go back and take it for yourself.
It would depend on the value and where you found it. (Context is everything). Then there is a waiting period of 7 -90 days (depends on value). True story... I found about $250 in an envelope with a gal's name on it. There was a bar & grill just a half block away. My assumption was that one of the staff dropped it while walking home or to the bus stop. I went to the bar and asked if "gals name" was working there. The gal came up to me and introduced herself. I asked if she had lost anything...her eyes lit up as she knew right-a-way what I was asking. She thought that she left it at work and came back looking for it. Timing! She got her $ back. I also found a $100 bill floating across a parking lot. No one around. I get to keep that.
43p for a banana!? Yikes. In the US, we generally sell them by weight. Depending on if they're organic or not, I've seen them anywhere from 39 cents to 69 cents a pound. The last time I bought some, I got 5 bananas for a little over a dollar. I have seen at least one store who sells them individually, usually for a parent to give a child to eat while they're shopping, but the most I've seen it is for 25 cents for one.
1 I don't know where you live in America but there are homeless cats there's an organization that will catch them then spay and neuter then release them back into the wild.
The people that live in San Fran, really don't have to drive everywhere too" much. Because pretty much every place there is basically walking distance up there. I mean SF is the California version of NYC but the population in SF is less denser than NYC.
You can tell the quality of a country by how many or few homeless animals wander outside. In Iraq, there are dogs everywhere. You can't pet them. They're terrified of people. I knew the mete and measure of the people by that alone.
It’s a cultural thing, not entirely sure the direction you were going about ‘the people’. They would never think of petting a dog or having a pet dog in their house because they’re considered dirty. In fact, most are afraid of dogs because the ones they’ve experienced often run in packs. Cats are similarly seen, but a little different.
America if full of abandoned cats, people often get them when they live in Apartments and when they have to move they just toss them out on the street to fend for themselves because they think that all cats know how to hunt, and that isn't true - cats have to be taught to hunt by their mother or other cats. There are millions of abandoned cats in the USA. When it comes to driving - in the cities on both coasts in America the drivers are excessively aggressive! This woman is kind of crazy about being authoritarian about what you should or should not do.
Yall are confusing me again . I lived in the Uk in early 2000s. There was both kinds of milk and the long life milk which is the same that you put in coffee there was stored in the shelf . But the regular milk was in the fridge
There are homeless cats in the USA, But we advocate to get your animals fixed so their population doesn't suffer. Cats kill and even eliminate species of birds. Even one of our popular game shows "The Price is Right" with Bob barker he would finish EVERY episode to "Spay and neuter your pets." Only private offices like the dentist have you wear shoe covers.
I trust my tap water anywhere I've lived in the US. I do buy some bottled water for activities outside. My hubby drives a lot on Phoenix.. Its NUTS!! LA is bad too.
Shelf stable milk is done with high temperatures. As soon as its opened it has to be refrigerated. We do actually have it in the states.
It's everywhere, only some ppl are looking for it tho'. I see it at Costco all the time in cases of chocolate or vanilla single serve cartons.
@@bluflaam777 they have boxed milk at all stores.
@@Sylviala2009 Oh, I know I see it everywhere. I was just saying I actually bought it at Costco for my lunches.
I used to by Parmalat, shelf-stable milk from Italy, in stores in the US. Then that company went under, but plenty of other brands are available.
that’s the least of your problems.
Most all grocery stores in America at the checkout usually combined with the scanner is a scale , each item of produce will likely have a little sticker, this has a code number the cashier can put it and the scale weighs it accordingly
Shelf-stable milk doesn't get refrigerated until after it's open. A lot of the discount stores in the US sell boxes of milk like that.
Most US grocery stores sell UHT, or ultra-heat treated milk, on counters. That’s what she’s talking about in Russia.
@pacmanc8103 didn't know what it was called. I get it at places like Dollar Tree, Family Dollar, or Dollar General for camping or as a backup.
In the US supermarkets sell almond milk and oat milk in refrigerators. However, there are shelf stable versions that are also sold in non refrigerated shelves too.
4:30 You have been in the USA, so you probably noticed all cashier stations have scales that you weigh your produce on, you scan the little sticker on the product (if it's missing, you can look up the item), then weigh it, and it will calculate the price.
I’m so impressed by her kindness toward strays.
We have similar shelf stable milk in U.S. but it is not very popular. That milk is irradiated or heated to very high temperature for a few seconds (ultra-pasteurized)
UHT milk is cobalt iradiated . The US Navy ships I sailed on had used it when the fresh milk ran out .
No it isn't. It is high-temp pasteurization that makes it stable. It is brought to 280F - 302F for about 5 secs. Then put in a sterile container.
No radiation.
It's basically the same as normal pasteurization but then kept in a highly sterile environment and put in sterile containers.
@@bluflaam777 some milk is ultra pasteurized, some milk is irradiated with Gamma rays, sometimes both processes are used.
We do have colonies of homeless cats, but there are many rescue groups who run TNR (trap, neuter, release) programs. This hopefully leads to the eventual collapse of the colony once the cats age and pass.
I"ve heard stories (not sure how true) where someone's cat got captured and neutered by mistake. They sued but not sure where that landed...again, not even sure if it was a true story.
And in the meantime, the tnr cats keep other strays from setting up kitten factories in that colony's territory.
They were up to 100 million homeless cats in the United States and where I live none of them are trapped and neutered😊
@@elebenty5709 Well in Metro Detroit, every one of my cats in a rescue off the street. I even had the local animal control give me one in January 2021 to take care of when they got over-crowded.
I am 67 years old and I have lived in many different states since my husband was military and I have NEVER had to weigh my produce before going to the cashier. The cashier weighs it themselves.
In the States if you are at a fast food restaurant you can ask for a cup for water. It’s smaller than the cups for cokes or whatever and you can get tap water at the drink machine.
There are scales in produce sections sometimes, or used to be, but it was mainly to give you and idea of the price for what you are going to buy. Like, if the price is listed as say, .89 cents a pound etc. Once at the checkout they weigh it on scales right there.
Or you can ask for a cup of water for free and then fill the cup with soda at a machine 😏
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@@buddystewart2020 yes I still see the scales in some stores but I have never had to weigh it and get a price and stick it on the produce.
This is her experience at whatever grocery store she goes too it's not like that everywhere
Russia and America is what she's talking about. I'm not sure why Millie keeps trying to argue with her when she mentions how things are in her experiences in the US by comparing them to the UK as if they're the same.
@@nochannel1q2321 They also went to the US and are just saying that 'in their experience'...
@@bluflaam777 Actually this is like her 14th trip to the US and IIRC she doesn't go to the same place more than once so she has a more comprehensive experience than in general.
In most American groceries, the scanners for the barcodes are also scales, so the cashier just places the items on the scale there, enters the item number for the fruit or veg, and the scale automatically calculates the price.
12:45 There is no legal requirement to give someone tap water in restaurants, but they just do it anyway as a courtesy.
Way back in 1971, when i lived in Scotland, we would buy milk from a dairy store, that had no refrigeration. The weather was always cool, and the building had walls 2 to 3 feet thick, so the building, was like a passive refrigeration system. As i remember, all they sold was milk, eggs, cheeses etc.
My great aunt never had a fridge in Ireland until the mid ‘70s. Milk was “stored” in the bog. It was fresh daily bec they (or a neighbor) had cows. Very different way of life.
Hey from the US (NC). We adopted in a stray cat 10 years ago, she's still with us today! She's my fur baby 🐈⬛❤️
Scales are built into the checkout counter's conveyor system. The cashier just scans or punches in the code for the produce.
Police don’t arrest you for smoking peer pressure controls smokers
My cat was a rescue off the street. He's the sweetest, most well behaved cat I've ever had.
Mine are all street rescues, but they act more like three-year-olds. Lovable, but sometimes they cause trouble.
We DO have shelf-stable milk in cartons on the shelf, not in the refrigerated cases.
But most of us don't buy it.
I've never seen shelf stable milk. What area of the US is it available?
@@DianeCasanova all areas, you just have to know where to look.
@@DianeCasanova You've probably seen it and didn't know what you were looking at. LOL It isn't a big sales item. I used to buy it from Costco, they sold flavored versions of it in cases of single serve cartons.
Normally you don't even have to ask for tap water at a sit-down restaurant in the US. They just provide it automatically, and if you don't want it, you don't drink it.
Water and ice is free in all restaurants in the US. They always bring it to you without asking for it.
In California you often have to ask for it, because in a past drought period they passed a regulation to conserve water by not allowing restaurants to automatically give every guest water. The regulation was eventually relaxed but most restaurants here still wait for you to order it or ask you before bringing it.
If you find homeless animals you should take them to an animal shelter. Many times people will sponsor these animals and sometimes even adopt them. Support your local animal shelters.
Weren't you given a glass of ice water when you sat down at a table in a restaurant??? I don't think I've ever gone to a restaurant and not been given ice water almost immediately....the only place I can think of that it wasn't done was when I lived in Arizona and we went to California during a "drought" and if you wanted water you had to ask for it.... All tap water in the US is safe to drink - it may not taste the same because of fluoride in some places or in some homes - (my best friend's house) has well water which I love!! It's water directly from a well on your property...but again, all tap water in cities in the US is safe...and regularly tested...
LA driving is horrible - and always rush hour.....it's bumper to bumper driving so it's difficult to "let people in" - I've driven in LA - and hate it . . I wouldn't recommend any tourist - especially from another country driving in LA or New York City!! It's just over populated and over busy.... Sounds like from your videos I've watched during your California stay - you didn't care much for CA over all anyway...so ya, traffic would be rough and remember on top of the residents - half of those people driving are tourists!!! You all were in the 1st or 2nd largest cities and tourist areas in the United States . . . so that's what happens...
Most places last 10 years don't just give out water. Least places I go
@@chrischar9428 Sorry in the last 10 years you have gone to sit down restaurant in US and they don't give you water ? Which part of the US is this ?
@@chrischar9428The places I go to most certainly bring glasses of water when taking the order.
Most repairmen entering your home will wear shoe covers
I've lived in many places, and the first time I saw shoe covers was after I moved to WA state 5 years ago
Yep especially plumbers
NEVER seen or heard of such a thing anywhere I've lived in the US.
I most restaurants in the US the first thing they bring to the table is a glass of tap water with ice. But there are still restaurants that wish to economize and not have to wash too many glasses or dishes. If you want, you can purchase a bottle of flat or sparkling water.
Food tax is not a surprise in the US and the charged taxes are not extra. They are the taxes which have not yet at all been billed.
There are states that have tax on food and others that don't. Michigan doesn't tax most grocery foods. I think the last time I looked, Texas didn't tax food, except some items like pop.
In most states, grocery food is tax exempt
Groceries aren't taxed in most U.S. states, but non-food (and some cooked/prepared food) items sold in grocery stores usually are. This seems to confuse Brit tourists quite a bit. They think they are being taxed on everything in the grocery store.
In my part of the US, milk is in a refrigerated section of the grocery store. Single serve milk in aseptic containers can sometimes be found on regular shelves. Non-dairy milk (i.e., soy, oat, almond, rice, etc. milk) can be found in either refrigerated sections or on shelves.
Same here.
UHT milk is found on regular shelves even where you live. Guaranteed.
In the US rescues pull cats off the street all the time. I took in a feral cat and for the first 6 months we had to keep her in a pen because she was vicious but as she got to know us she settled in and eventually became a big baby. We had to take her because they were poisoning the cats around a local restaurant and no one wanted her. She has past on now but she lived with us for about 13 years and the vet estimated her at 6-7 years old. It is normal in the US to take a cat in off the streets, as owned cats are usually inside cats and it's much better than promoting kitten sales.
In America I've never bought bananas that I had to weigh myself. Each cashier has a scale right there where she scans the items. Even if you choose to use the self checkouts, you lay the bananas down on the place where you scan them and there's scales under the scanner. And you don't get a sticker, the weight and the price come up on the screen. Sales tax in the state I live in is 7 %. I'm tired of visitors from other countries complain about our sales tax. England pays more tax using the value-added system than 7%. People allow their cats to go outside some here. I see cats in my neighborhood. I think a couple are strays though. The lady next door feeds them. I don't. But they come into my
carport for rain or cold weather. I don't like that because they will jump up onto my car and leave muddy prints. I've just bought a Toyota Camry and it's a bigger car and for some reason they don't jump on it. I think it's a little larger than my former car and they may think it's too far to jump. I'm glad! I was not glad to hear about your driving in San Francisco. In North Carolina most people are polite and will let you enter
the line of cars. Next time come to the best state NORTH CAROLINA !!
That is what the young lady stated. She said in Russia you have to weigh your produce, in America you don't it is taken care of at the register
Not all states charge tax on food items. Nevada, where I live only taxes you on pre-cooked items. Everything else is tax-free. There are other states that are the same way, but not all.
We have "shelf stable" milk that doesn't need refrigeration too but it isn't very popular. I buy it sometimes because I don't use milk very often and it lasts much longer.
Most states in the US don't tax supermarket food . She says she lives in San Francisco where I live and CA definitely doesn't tax food taken out of the store (but it does tax food at eat in restaurants).
In SF and most US cities, the Animal Control (shelter) department picks up stray animals. And in SF the shelter is "no kill" so it adopts all of them out .
In convenience stores, they sell bananas individually. But in most grocery stores, they are sold by weight. Kombucha is fermented tea. I think it tastes nasty and there are too many carbs to make it worth acquiring a taste for it. But lots of people like it. We do have ultrapasteurized milk that is shelf-stable.
There’s no tax in food in Massachusetts USA, but taxes on everything else!!!
What does she mean you have to weigh everything yourself, haven't had to do that in decades. The cashier has a weight machine at checkout where she weight things. In my State food items are not taxable unless it is sold heated; or sold for consumption on the premises; or. it has been prepared by the seller and is ready to be eaten.
Haven’t you gone through self checkout, where you enter the code and then put the plastic bag with the fruit items on the scale? I just did it today.
@@pacmanc8103 Obviously, as she seems to imply, she doesn't use self-checkout.
@@jaycee330 She doesn’t seem imply anything. She merely stated that she uses regular checkouts. She also stated that decades ago, people had to weigh things themselves (news to me!).
Beesleys: Please note that Northern California and Southern California may as well be two completely different states.
Isn't this the case for majority of states? For example Chicago might as well be it is on state compared to the rest of Illinois.
@@shawnanderson6313Of course - you have rural areas and urban areas. Northern California and Southern California are definitely the same state. Same everything.
@@pacmanc8103 Same state, but not 'same everything'. San Fransisco is nothing like San Diego and neither of them are like LA.
@@bluflaam777 You’re talking about how they look. I am talking about how the place functions.
@@pacmanc8103 Okay so same things applies to Texas, Florida, New York. You think Upstate New York is like Manhattan? So original point holds, this isn't a California thing, it is a state thing.
The homeless animals situation here depends upon the area. Most places here don’t allow dogs to roam around this mainly because of rabies. But some places allow cats to be in the wild. This is because they actually help with control of rodents like mice and rats. Some of them are usually caught and spade or neutered and released back to their location to help control the population but it’s been determined that the best way to control this ecosystem of sorts is to let them have some sort of natural predators that can control the balance of pests without having to deal with dangerous predators.
San Francisco tap water is from the Hetch Hetchy reservoir, which is in Yosemite Park.
There are plenty of stray cats in the U.S. Lots in shelters, lots running loose.
There are homeless cats and dogs in the US. However, it depends on the neighborhood. If there is a homeless cat or dog on the street, you can check to see if it's microchipped.
We have the sticker weigh scales at the big stores as well, but we also have the weigh scale at the check out line that automatically calculates to your total.
We have "evaporated milk" in the USA that's stored at room temp until opened.
Also condensed milk too!
Canned. Also, sweetened condensed milk and shelf-stable cartons of milk. I used to buy it from Costco by the case. They were single serve cartons and came in vanilla or chocolate flavors. Works great for a packed lunch but kind of pricey for what it is.
Stray cats are able to be domesticated
We have cold milk and shelf stable milk. In my area most but not all fruit are sold by weight. Of course we have animals without homes.
Our local 'strays' tend to be food for the coyotes. LOL
I always boiled water when I lived in Russia. The Russians said you should do it 3-5 minutes. I did 10. And she's right about the smoking - it's everywhere. About the shoe covers: it is often really muddy in Russia even in the big cities. The traffic in LA is not necessarily the same as elsewhere in California, which is pretty laid back. And I assure you that virtually NO ONE in LA drives as aggressively and crazy as in Russia.
It is the same in the US. In restaurants, a lumberyard or even a gas station, ask for a cup of water if you need it.
If anyone asks you for water (even at your home door or lawn) you must give water legally.
At least in most of the states.
Taxes are not included because every state has different tax rates my state sales tax is six per cent. Six cents on every dollar. Also, some states tax clothes and food some do not. In my state if it is deemed a necessity then it is not taxed. Things like toilet paper, women's feminine care products etc. are not taxed. Makes it easier for the manufacturer to just place the price on a product and ship it too wherever. We do not even think about it when we shop, we just accept this fact and pay for things.
I help at a cat rescue here in the states.I don’t advise people to feed or pickup cats unless you are willing to pay the price. Because cats can have rabies but you can also get cat scratch fever and get infections. I just got done helping the rescue with ringworm infected kittens. Cats can come in with all sorts of problems and yes sadly we put some to sleep because they wouldn’t have pain free life or the poor cat is just too sick and is suffering. The main goal is to educate the community on why you need to spay and neuter your cats and to help the animals and the people. Sadly people think they can just leave their cats out on the side of the road out in the countryside and the farmers won’t care sorry but the farmers do care. We had a farmer call us once he was so overwhelmed with all the cats that people had dropped off and they had Babies or were pregnant that he didn’t know what to do so he called us there had to be at least 40 cats we in a year can rescue over 300 cats and kittens. It’s nuts
Yeah, my dad's small farm had animals dropped off there too.
So, it sounds like they package their cow's milk the same way as soy milk, almond milk, etc. I think that means they boil it, but I'm not certain. It only starts to spoil once it's opened. If it's boiled, then it tastes different.
There's a city near where I live that is overrun by stray cats. All restaurants parking lots in that city has like 5 or 6 stray cats living in the wooded area around the restaurants.
In Arizona, they gather up strays, spay and neuter them, snip thier ears so to be recognized as already fixed, and put back where they found them.
They seem to find their own homes....we have two yearlings from the program. A young male brought them about 4 months old. They stayed
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It is getting to be pretty common. The fist time I saw one, I was puzzled to see the tiny v cut out of a cat's ear. Later on, someone told me about it.
Never ever would i store any kind of milk out side the fridge, ever
Ever see the dashcam videos of traffic controls in Russia? It's highly unsafe and unregulated driving with little intersection management. That's the difference between US and Russian drivers.
There is a scale at the register for the bananas. It’s built in. Even at self check out you just sit the bananas there and press the button and it rings it up
When I visited Russia I thought it was bizarre that we had to wear shoe covers or put on “indoor” shoes at the hospital, but all of the crazy homeless cats roamed freely in and out of the lobby and they kept windows open in procedure rooms with no screens on the windows-didn’t seem very logical to me
Feral cats are a problem in the US. There are charity organizations that spay/neuter feral cats to help control the population. A friend in rural Pennsylvania told me she has at least 20 feral cats in her neighborhood. I live in Tennessee and feral cats are a problem here as well.
We feed them cat food and winter we make a home for them outside and if to cold turn on the firepit to keep them warm ❤
No smoking areas in the US are “policed” by the people who own the building, not the actual police. Smokers here are accustomed to stepping outside before they light up.
We have both cold and shelf oat/almond/rice milk. It depends on the packaging on whether it's sold cold or room temp.
Bananas are weighed at the checkout in most if not all stores in the USA.
Shelf stable milk exists in the U.S. but isn't super common. It is sometimes used by food banks and programs that provide food assistance to the poor, as it can be stored and provided without refrigeration.
"Homeless" cats exist for sure in places but most places do things to not allow feral cats. The only place I know that has a big population of feral cats is Miami Beach, Florida.
Right turn on red depends on the state you are in. In California it is legal. I think Florida too. But I think New York not?
She is using a self check out, if you use a human cashier, they weigh as needed.
As an American who has taught English near St. Petersburg, he's right, Russian just don't GAF when it comes to smoking or hygiene in public places. British Airways lost my bag flying into St. Pete -- imagine the fun I had with that customer service experience. Especially considering my town was a 4 hour drive from the airport and I had to return 2 days later to get it.
Honestly, you can get cats off the street...the whole "cat distribution system" meme is based on cats just showing up and moving in...
People smoked everywhere in the United States until more recently. Something like the past 30 years it stopped. I remember smoking in the planes in the 1970s and 80s😊
Plastic shoe covers sound super dangerous. Plastic plus water is a accident looking for a place to happen
"Homeless" cats are called strays or feral cats. They are great for controlling the rodent population.
So NYC needs about 40 million stray cats then lol
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LA driving seems like something close to The Road Warrior.
We have plenty of feral cats in my home city. We have trap and neuter programs for them to try to keep their numbers down without actually harming them.
Any kind of ultra pasteurized milk is self stable but in the US it still is out in the chiller.
At least don't have a military dictator as leader
We almost had that though. She's from Russia.
There's a store that I go to in a small strip shopping area with open woods on the side. There's a Veterinary next door. The Vet posted signs on walls and posts asking to not feed the stray cats outside. 👌
🐱Please check the stray cats for micro chips before you rescue them of the street.
When the hubby never goes grocery shopping...😉
I'm pretty sure medical personnel wear shoe covers in the US, to protect their shoes from vomit, blood, urine, etc. There may be other technical or science areas where there's a "clean room" situation of needing to keep contaminants out of the workspace.
All prepared food is taxable and the rest is not taxable
Americas have rom temp milk, it's just not very popular. The most famous brand is Parmalat.
Grocery (food) in most US States are tax exempt.
In Michigan where I live food is not taxed it's against the law the only food that has tax is prepared food like McDonald's going out to eat etc.
Almond milk comes in both styles as well. Refrigerated version has to be refrigerated.
As does the other once opened.
I weigh my own fruits and vegetables at self checkout / CA here
Cats control the rodent population and they are AWESOME…if you’re one of the ones they choose to love
Cow's & goat's milk is refrigerated. Some brands of oat & almond milk are refrigerated but most alternative milks such as oat, almond, & coconut milk are on shelf.
Fresh fruit & vegetables are sold by weight & almost all stores can weigh them at checkout. Only few stores require they be weighed with printed bar code label before checkout.
There are plenty of homeless cats & dogs but probably not in middle class areas where she is living because they have animal control. Homeless encampments there are plenty of them. A lot of churches & charitable ministries collect bags of pet food to distribute to poor & homeless people with pets.
U.S. has regulated clean water standards. You only have to pay for bottled water in restaurants.
Shoe covers are used in hospitals, operating rooms, clean rooms such as research labs, some food preparation or manufacturing, etc.
California, New York City, & other large cities have very aggressive drivers.
U.S. requires yearly (or every other year) car inspections & emissions inspections. They require all lights, tires, doors, windows, etc. are intact & functional.
We don't have "homeless" cats in the US, we have "stray" cats! LOL We don't call animals that do not have owners and live in the wild as homeless. We call them strays and yes, we have them, although cities and counties generally work hard at trapping them, fixing them and either release them again or try to get them adopted. Our city has a very large beautiful wild park and we struggled with stray cats all the time until a local society started trapping them and neutering them so they would stop producing babies. It has been years and years since I have seen a stray cat in the park! It works!
Some of us call them homeless cats😊
If you self check out here in the U.S. then you’ll have to weigh the the items at the register. We sell condensed milk on the self not refrigerated.But dairy products have to be refrigerated this is food safety regulations.
Yes always pick up random cats, in America street cats that are ear tipped are FREE!
Sales taxes are never included in US pricing. One reason for that is that every state has a different tax rate. One might be 5%, another might be 6 or 7 percent. Delaware, for example, has zero sales tax. And there are also differences in what products are considered taxable. In Maryland, where I live, legitimate food items are not taxable. Legitimate, though, does not include snack items, (chips or "crisps"), sodas, candy, cookies or dessert items, nor does it include pet food, or other non-food items like cleaning products. So, your grocery bill will include both non-taxable and taxable items.
As far as "homeless" animals; there are literally millions of feral (or stray) cats in the US. It's sad to me because I adore cats. Often, they are trapped, neutered, and returned to the wild by various organizations in the US. In my view, TNR efforts are a wonderful way to address the problem. It reduces their numbers, and no animal is needlessly put down. Usually, when a cat is TNR'd, they also clip off the tip of one ear, so that people know they have been neutered or spayed. I belong and donate to an organization called Alley Cat Allies, who does this kind of work. There are also many kind people who feed strays here in the US.
Again, in most states, none prepared foods purchased are NOT TAXABLE!! That might not be the case in Silicon Valley where she lives. but it's a generalization and not indicative of most US states.
Like eggs, the US has milk processed before it is sold and then needs to be refrigerated to keep it from spoiling. Produce has a code sticker on it. The scale reads the code and the weight and comes up with the amount for the cashier. If the sticker/tag is missing, the cashier can look up the code.
I am originally from a dairy farm. In order for milk to stay fresh, it needs to either be kept at a certain temperature (refrigerated) or irradiated/packaged to be shelf stable.
There is actually a law in California called the “Finders keepers law” that states that it’s illegal to take items (probably including animals?) from the streets/sidewalks without first reporting it lost and if the owner doesn’t retrieve it within a certain amount of time from the police station then you can go back and take it for yourself.
It would depend on the value and where you found it. (Context is everything). Then there is a waiting period of 7 -90 days (depends on value).
True story...
I found about $250 in an envelope with a gal's name on it. There was a bar & grill just a half block away. My assumption was that one of the staff dropped it while walking home or to the bus stop. I went to the bar and asked if "gals name" was working there. The gal came up to me and introduced herself. I asked if she had lost anything...her eyes lit up as she knew right-a-way what I was asking. She thought that she left it at work and came back looking for it. Timing! She got her $ back.
I also found a $100 bill floating across a parking lot. No one around. I get to keep that.
Eggs are sold in fridges in the States where here they are nt .I think because ours are pasteurised
43p for a banana!? Yikes. In the US, we generally sell them by weight. Depending on if they're organic or not, I've seen them anywhere from 39 cents to 69 cents a pound. The last time I bought some, I got 5 bananas for a little over a dollar. I have seen at least one store who sells them individually, usually for a parent to give a child to eat while they're shopping, but the most I've seen it is for 25 cents for one.
1 I don't know where you live in America but there are homeless cats there's an organization that will catch them then spay and neuter then release them back into the wild.
The people that live in San Fran, really don't have to drive everywhere too" much. Because pretty much every place there is basically walking distance up there. I mean SF is the California version of NYC but the population in SF is less denser than NYC.
You can tell the quality of a country by how many or few homeless animals wander outside. In Iraq, there are dogs everywhere. You can't pet them. They're terrified of people. I knew the mete and measure of the people by that alone.
It’s a cultural thing, not entirely sure the direction you were going about ‘the people’. They would never think of petting a dog or having a pet dog in their house because they’re considered dirty. In fact, most are afraid of dogs because the ones they’ve experienced often run in packs. Cats are similarly seen, but a little different.
@pacmanc8103 then why are there dogs everywhere? Make it make sense. Because religion is dumb.
America if full of abandoned cats, people often get them when they live in Apartments and when they have to move they just toss them out on the street to fend for themselves because they think that all cats know how to hunt, and that isn't true - cats have to be taught to hunt by their mother or other cats. There are millions of abandoned cats in the USA. When it comes to driving - in the cities on both coasts in America the drivers are excessively aggressive! This woman is kind of crazy about being authoritarian about what you should or should not do.
Yall are confusing me again . I lived in the Uk in early 2000s. There was both kinds of milk and the long life milk which is the same that you put in coffee there was stored in the shelf .
But the regular milk was in the fridge
I hated driving in Phoenix, Az. And New York is crazy! 😝
You need to do things around your island.. you will get alot of vews because jersey is not very known and would be very interesting. Do blogs
I feed several stay cats and dogs. I do agree with her about going to a shelter to adopt a pet instead of buying. That's just my opinion ❤
There are homeless cats in the USA, But we advocate to get your animals fixed so their population doesn't suffer. Cats kill and even eliminate species of birds. Even one of our popular game shows "The Price is Right" with Bob barker he would finish EVERY episode to "Spay and neuter your pets."
Only private offices like the dentist have you wear shoe covers.
I trust my tap water anywhere I've lived in the US. I do buy some bottled water for activities outside. My hubby drives a lot on Phoenix.. Its NUTS!! LA is bad too.