THINGS AMERICA DOES BETTER THAN EUROPE 🇺🇸🇪🇺
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You should not judge salads in the US by fast food restaurant salads or prepared
right? we actually have veggies in our lol
Exactly!
Paulie Doodle sure we do, everyone by me has a greenhouse or a farm the produces vegetables,
@Paulie Doodle Nothing on it? What kinds of vegetables do you put in there we wouldn't toss in our salads?
@Paulie Doodle Some people grow their own stuff and eat it. Like my neighbor who is a fitness freak
They aren't pharmacies, they are retail stores that happen to have pharmacies. Grocery stores have pharmacies too. They couldn't afford to stay open without the high margin and profits from the other merchandise.
I have watched a few of their video's and others trying to get a feel of the mind set of people from those countries. We must try to remember that they live in Socialist/Communist countries and are trained with the mindset that allows few choices. That is how the ruling class maintains control. If the people are made not to have a large choice They will fall in line with the slavery mind set the one percent wants them to have. Eventually they will not be allowed to wipe their own butts until a certain time of day. It is a sad thing to watch. But, it is their choice. Trying to explain to them that life is about choices is kind of futile, It would go against their socialist programing to exercise their minds on such a basic level as to make an informed choice from such a thing as selection.
They are drug stores. That is exactly how they are characterized.
@@chloesophia9445 They did. Walgreens still sells them tho.
Or: Acetaminophen is the leading cause of acute liver failure, so they are simply limiting accidental exposure unlike the US where you might easily overdose unless you read all the labels of the cold medicines you may choose - from our overabundance of choices. .
@@agentleebs Who would be dumb enough to take a drug without reading the label?
A great Southern American here and I've never heard or seen anybody put mayonnaise on a salad 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Robery Lawler I do. It’s normal here....I promise!!!
Sounds disgusting! I'd NEVER even try it.
I think they are referring to things like potato salad or macaroni salad
Some "salads" canot be done without mayo: potato salad, chicken salad, egg salad, tuna salad, etc. There are also some dishes like pear salad ans pineapple salad that have the fruit on a bed of lettuce with a dollop of mayo in the center and a bot of cheese on top.
"Salad dressing" is made of mayo and other ingredients.
That’s funny how you’re ripping us about cigarettes being sold at pharmacies, yet when I’m in Europe I’m stunned at how many more people smoke.
I found that to be a thing in Continental Europe and not really Britain. Then again, I was only in London.
@@beckyweiss6072 It's especially notable going from England from France. Like 2.5x as many French people smoke as English.
lartrak oh yeah, Paris in particular. The smoke would make me choke when i was in various places in the city.
Clearly these guys need to visit more places in the states. New York State as a whole has banned smoking in almost any large public venue
No joke, France, and Italy were smoke bombs... I swear even the dogs had a cigarette hanging out of their lips :) Croatia, Montenegro, and
Bosnia were heavy smokers, they even allowed smoking inside of buildings. In Europe they have smoking rooms in the airports... my friend who
was a smoker raced to one in Paris after our long flight, she said she didn't even have to 'light up'.... she just inhaled when she entered the room
and she was good to go.
Too bad they didn’t bring up that CVS stopped selling cigarettes years ago.
I don't think you guys have eaten at enough places in the U.S. to accurately judge the variety of salads. I mean, it's a big country. The European salad Lia described - leaves, feta cheese, tomatoes, and olive oil dressing - is READILY available in the U.S.
Lorri Lewis I’m pretty sure they’ve mostly been on the east coast aka where healthy food goes to die
Yeah when I heard Lia describe the salad she likes I thought.. “Yeah that’s a pretty typical salad here. Where did they go to eat salad? McDonalds?”
We have a lot of excellent salad options in DC - it's not like London though where the choice of food is out of this world. London is the best city there is, so everywhere is going to seem rubbish to you guys!!
Preach Lorri
Jay Kay Have You only been to DC in America?
No, no, no, no no. You can't just turn right on red. You have to stop first and if clear, then you can turn right on red. Also, cars are supposed to yield to pedestrians in the crosswalk before turning right. There are a lot of drivers who do stupid things, so as a pedestrian never count on the fact a car will actually yield. Make sure your head isn't buried in a phone and you know what's happening around you.
KevlarX2 : key word here is "supposed" - in my daily experience, drivers are "supposed" to drive using sense ability, a respect for the laws of physics, regard for the traffic laws like not running red lights and staying in ones lane, a respect for life of others and an uncommon attribute known as courtesy and brains (don't leave home without them) .
@@eyedonschott Same applies to pedestrians... *glares at all the Jay Walkers* I prefer the European mentality of "If they step into the street, they should expect to get run over".
Right on red simply means if you are turning right at a red light and no other cars are coming then you apply the rules as you would a yield sign. Stop, look both ways, if clear proceed with caution. It is meant to help with traffic congestion to reduce long waiting lines when the traffic may be clear. Oh, and if you step out into traffic unaware of your surroundings, remember, cars/trucks/vans/motorcycles/SUV’s are bigger, stronger and faster than you are. Err on the side of caution and obey the laws of the road.
Regardless, you *CAN TURN RIGHT ON RED* in the U.S. In Germany (and I assume the UK), all lanes have to stop at a red light and wait until it turns green, even if they want to turn right. Even if they are turning off a one-way street onto another one-way street. Seems overly cautious to my American sensibilities.
No pokemon go then unless you want to get hit by a car
I’m from the Midwest (Illinois) in the United States. I’ll give up my ranch dressing when you give up the tea and crumpets🤫🤭😳🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Lol.
Yes
😭 I’m from Illinois too
Mhm...lol. Ranch #1.
i think u mean tea and scones
tea and crumpets aren't as popular
I’ll give you $1,000 to stop saying “raunch.” 😀
@June Giovanna impressive
Also, the obesity rate in California (population 40 million) for adults is 25%. The obesity rate for adults in the United Kingdom is 28%.
Yep. My state of Colorado is at 22%, and my county is at 17%. Generalizing is a bad idea.
It's actually a few really really fat states the drive us to 40+%
@@patriciamccormack2487 Yeah, the Western US generally has considerably lower obesity rates than the Midwest or South.
It’s probably even higher if you applied the newly minted British medical phrase of TOFI (Thin outside Fat inside). Eveyone carries their fat differently.
@@cpscott15 Pretty sure the highest rate for any state is below 40.
who the hell puts mayo on a salad?
Chicken salad, potato salad etc. But as for the lettuce salad, never done it lol.
@@angelajames154 To be honest, I think they probably meant salad dressing. Which a great deal of them, the base IS mayo. I don't think chicken and potato salad classify as what they were actually talking about.
Mayo is used as the base of creamy salad dressings because it is made of egg yolk, oil and vinegar. The base along with other seasoning is what gives the salad - ‘cold dish of vegetables, dressing (usually seasoned with oil and vinegar) and sometimes meat or fish’ it’s unique tastes.
Miracle Whip is salad dressing and is quite good but it is found next to the mayo in the store.
Chicken "salad", potato "salad" etc have a mayo base and are called "salad" but a normal green salad won't have mayo. I'm in California and we have a lot of kale, arrugula, etc. The health-obsessed population here generally expects the dressing to be served on the side anyway. Low-carb/paleo/high-protein are all the rage right now.
Mayonnaise on salad.....?
Mayo..?
What salad did you see?
Ew???
They are talking about chicken salad or egg salad
When they described the euro salad it’s literally ever salad I’ve had in America
Yes these two have been smoking smelly cigars
Mayonnaise on salad? I mean I know it's technically a salad dressing but I've never actually seen anyone use it for that purpose.
I've heard of it being used in ambrosia salad, but not the type of salad being referred to here.
Brits use mayo on a lot of stuff we don’t here in the US, and mayo is the main ingredient in ranch dressing.
@@carenb3204 Right, but not plain mayo.
😝.
Phil Nolan The base of most dressings is actually Mayo
Walgreens and CVS aren’t really pharmacies. They’re actually convenience stores with pharmacies IN them. Real pharmacies are usually in medical buildings or hospitals.
Exactly.
Yes, that’s why we call them drug stores. They are stores that sell drugs amongst other things.
I remember reading how the pharmacies back in the old days actually had soda fountains and ice cream available.
Still shouldn't buy cigarettes their bad for you
Drug stores (CVS, Rite Aid, Walgreens, Sav-on) are large convenience stores that have pharmacies inside them.
When you drive on the right side of the road all things are possible
Yes, they are. Especially when we are better drivers.
Guys, the reason they said that our salads are covered in mayonnaise is because ranch dressing and blue cheese dressing are both mayonnaise-based dressings that have lots of mayonnaise in them. They're right about that. There are also some other mayonnaise-based dressing. A lot of honey mustard dressings have a great deal of mayonnaise in them. Obviously all of these dressings have other ingredients as well. I made ranch dressing from scratch once and was stunned that it was primarily buttermilk, sour cream and mayonnaise that I flavored with herbs and spices. It was delicious, the best that I've ever eaten. After seeing what it was made of I cut back on the ranch dressing.
I love how the British accent makes rANch sound like rAUnch. Which is a whole different meaning! 😂😂😂😂😂
My thoughts exactly lol
@@yvettegivens7 totally agree!
It is pretty funny!
It's quite a raunchy discussion.
"yikes this salad is really raunchy" 😂😂😂
A pedestrian has the right of way over a car turning right on red. If you have the white walking guy sign, you have the right of way, the driver is either being a jerk or doesn't know the law.
Jessica Reed ugg I hate drivers who don’t pay attention to pedestrians
Indiana changed that law a few years ago when gas prices skyrocketed, pedestrians no longer have the right of way here.
an example of how states are different in the US. What is the point of a crosswalk then!
That’s true for most of the country, but there are exceptions. In San Francisco, for example, a red light is evidently just a suggestion.
Here in Metro Atlanta pedestrians have the right of way in many places. Here in Metro Atlanta pedestrians are run over and killed almost every week. Why take a chance?
But I've seen many London Vloggers say that as pedestrians London drivers scare the bejeezus out of them and they don't feel safe crossing streets. So I guess the UK is no better.
I don't mean to be that 'triggered American' or anything, but you guys got this ALL wrong. You have no idea how this nation works. You cannot go to one or two states, and assume the entire country sucks. That's ridiculous.
Just because you had a bad salad once, does not mean the WHOLE COUNTRY DOES IT. Freedom of choice is big deal here. You saw Wal-Mart, you've seen CVS (which is actually a convenience store WITH a pharmacy), you should know that YOU. HAVE. A. CHOICE.
If you don't like that people are putting salad dressing on your salad, ask for them to not do that. If they aren't putting the right salad dressing on your salad, ask for the right salad dressing. If you don't like their salad, go to a different restaurant. If you think the whole state does a bad job on salad, go to a different state. Heck! If the whole country ain't doin it right, DO IT YOURSELF!
In this country, IT'S UP TO YOU! Not the store manager's, not the cashier, not the random person down the street, heck, you don't even need to lean on the government. You are your own person. The Constitution ain't for nothing.
Preach 🙌
Right on. Britain, the U.K. or whatever has gone down the nanny state path. I grew up exposed to Western U.S. values in a California that is gone. You takes your chances, step right up and try Burpo Pop, good for all that ails you. Or don't. Do it yourself.
I am not getting any negative message from them. I think they are very good at expressing their opinions. Love it!!!!
Righttttt!!!! 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾
They literally said that they have limited experience. And you have the choice to not get triggered by their opinions. I mean, you do realize that you just yelled at them over a salad right? They weren’t hostile in any way, and the vibe I get from your comment is very angry sounding. They were just chilling, having fun, and talking about their own experience with something. Do the world a favor, and chill 😂
We have stores that sell everything for convenience. It's called freedom. It's you're choice to buy it or not.
Lmfao... that's freedom? Hahahahahahahahah
@@dml5583 Um. Yeah. What's with the laughing?
Richard Hall your*
@@ronswanson7371 Thanks for the grammer lesson. A year later.
Salads, believe or not, vary in the US depending on which part of the country you're visiting. California does amazing healthy salads and dressings, the veg is often picked fresh that morning-farm to fork.
There are VERY few places in California where salads are picked that morning. You'd literally have to be within a few miles of a farm to do that and even then... Over 90% of salads in California are picked just like salads everywhere, by large corporate farms. Anyway, there are plenty of places around the country where you can get very fresh salads, when in season. NYC is full of salad chains and bodegas which all sell fantastic, fresh, and healthy salads. These two didn't bother looking for them, which is fine, but they're coming out of the gates like they know everything, which they just do not and that is not fine.
LOL I'm lucky - I do live in an area of CA where my salad is delivered to my door within hours of being picked. My kids' schools all have fresh salad bars as part of school lunch too.
George, granted you have to be selective on where you choose to eat, but where I live in Sacramento farm-to-fork it is quite common. In fact, the city markets itself as the farm-to-fork capital. There are farmer's markets every day of the week here where you buy straight off the farmer's truck. I run into my favorite chefs all the time. Also, many restaurants in Sacramento, the Napa Valley, and the SF Bay Area have their own gardens from which they pick. I'm a vegetarian and have traveled quite a bit in this country, and no, not all states are the same. Perhaps you don't know Northern California well.
CA is very health-oriented. I've never seen cigarettes in a CVS but that might be because we just don't go there very often. And salads in CA are very healthy, as far as I've seen - it really depends on where you're going to get your salads (eg, Burger King or Wendy's aren't going to have great salads) and what state you're in (eg Southern states love ranch and really fatty dressings which I've never understood but it's what they like). It varies SO so much depending on where you are, it's hard to make a blanket statement like "America's salads across the board are unhealthy".
Californian here - can attest to it. California is very health conscious.
if you think the packs of ibuprofen at Walgreens are big, you would loose your mind if you go to Costco. lol
J LA the state of our health here has a lot to do with the choices people make food wise. Running through McDonald’s is easier and sometimes cheaper than getting the ingredients to make a healthy meal unfortunately.
Julie Alvarado I go to the grocery store and by some beef and veggies for the family for a healthy dinner. I walk out with two bags of groceries that cost me $30. Then I have to go home and cook everything. Then we have to wash all the dishes. The next time I have to fix dinner, I drive by Little Caesar’s and swerve in... Feed the entire family for $8. Don’t have to fix anything and I don’t have to clean anything up. I know Little Caesar’s is garbage - but sometimes it’s just so much easier after working all day to grab something fast and cheap. =‘(
I know it is for sure. My sister is a single mom, works a full time job, and goes to school so she faces that same dilemma every night. It sucks.
The amount they sell you in Britain, according to these two completely reputable geniuses, is plenty for OD. I don't understand why quantity even matters if the negative outcome is not being controlled.
I like to see the current state on smoking cigarettes in the UK in comparison to the US😄😄!
First of all, the countries are vastly different in population. You'd have to consider proportion when coming up with that figure. Secondly: the point is that while the U.S sells cigarettes in pharmacies with no shame (which are highly toxic and have nothing to do with promoting good health), this is not a practice in the U.K.
@@jlbaker2000 My point is not about where they sell cigarettes but how much Europeans smoke compared to Americans in the US. Consumption of cigarettes in the UK is certainly more prevalent than in the US. In light of it all, Americans have band smoking in all public places and although that is our current practice..cigarettes aren't good for anyone..no matter how much or how little. My narrative began when a CZcams tried to put down "my country tis of thee". No need for us to go to war about our countries practices. The wars been over a long time ago. And due to the state of the world..I extend you love and ✌!
Canada smokes more.
At least we in the states don't call cigarettes "fags". That's just weird.
Technically, it's "Buttermilk Ranch Dressing " and it must be from the original Hidden Valley Ranch dressing.
S.Lynn buttermilk ranch and regular ranch are very different things and tastes.
I have made ranch dressing and we did use a lot of mayonnaise as well as buttermilk and ranch seasoning. Do they not know mayonnaise is invented by the French?
When she explained the European salad I was like that’s literally the salads we have in the US😭
tbh salads in the us is more lettuce some tomatoes some carrots dressing is overload u cant lie
Not triggered, just perplexed.
Just because something is offered as a choice (salad dressing or cigarettes and chocolate in CVS) doesn’t mean you have to buy it or order it. And if you do, it’s no one else’s business.
Most of us in the US believe in freedom of choice and personal responsibility.
They literally criticized every single thing they mentioned and the title is "THINGS AMERICA DOES BETTER THAN EUROPE"
@@guayabito6946 That's Europeans for you.....
I have watched a few of their videos and they NEVER know what they are talking about. Smh. Ask a friend or something.
But they watch American movies so they know all about America. Not only that, they've actualy been for a couple weeks so they're experts.
I live overseas and I noticed that a large number of non Americans have a false image of what the country actually is. They think they know all about it because they watch Hollywood productions and music videos.
Something you Brits do far better than Americans is that you go out of your way to try and NOT offend. You guys are very tactful , eloquent and at the same time educational. It’s very much appreciated by those of us that have never traveled abroad and have often wondered about our good friends across the pond.
I liked the part about A/C because it’s so common and needed here, especially in the Deep South. Our summers are so long and brutal here that people actually die every year simply because they don’t have A/C. They’re usually elderly.
Lia, I think you’re absolutely gorgeously adorable.
I’m glad I recently found you guys on CZcams since I love learning about our differences and find it wonderful. Imagine how boring life would be if we were all the same.
You guys are always welcome here in America and I look forward to learning more about your way of life.
6:45 CVS, Walgreens, etc. are 'Convenience' stores. The Pharmacy is a department within them. Grocery store chains also have Pharmacies. There are very few dedicated 'Pharmacy only' locations.
Yeah, it has been years since I have seen a stand alone pharmacy.
They are "drugstores." A store larger than a convenience store, like 7-eleven, but also has a pharmacy.
Lol! We have one is ever there
Meant no one is ever there, the parking lot is always empty
They have chains just like that in London. Boots and Superdrug are good examples. They're EVERYWHERE.
That's because we don't eat salad as a side dish. You described what we call a " dinner salad" ...it's a meal. It's supposed to have a lot of calories cuz it's the main meal.
You can have whatever you want, which is true of any country where people are free to choose and have the means to. Different people eat differently.
lol you shouldn't be having FULL meals under 300 calories...
you forget that the UK is catching up to the US in terms of obesity.
yes that's why the UK has the own tv show a version of my 600lb life and why??? because they too are over weight
Ad Revenue lol right.
Obesity is result of Sugar in everything, over eating, & Mcdonalds
Eventually we'll all be like the fat people in Wall-E.
Obesity is a sign of a nations prosperity. A small side effect.
I live in Southern California and our salads are *AMAZING*!! You ate salads in New Jersey and Texas and want to say American salads are covered in ranch dressing LOL!
In Europe it depends on the region as well. In Central Europe a lot of the vegetables and fuits that need a lot of heat and sunlight are produced in green houses.
The taste is ok, but not great.
If you go to Southern Europe especially Greece and Balkans, you can buy cheap, very fresh and locally produced vegetables everywhere and they taste amazing.
Mee Bee So Cal native here as well.We do have some bomb ass salad spots.SweetGreen even though their originally a D.C. chain Now headquartered in LA,it’s arguably my favorite place to get salads.
Texas has tons of salad options, not just ranch. I’m a Texan and eat lots of fresh, healthy salads and never eat them with ranch.
NJ salads suck, but Italian food we got you
Seriously? I don't know anyone who puts mayo on their salads.
I assume that they think anything called salad here, like potato salad or egg salad is "salad" as it was in the name.
I do. No carbs in mayo!
Pokey Phillips I think they were talking about ranch dressing - the base of ranch dressing is mayonnaise
They have the same tuna and potato salad as we do.
Mayo = is not just mayonnaise but any thick opaque slurry containing oil and vinegar or lemon juice. And weirdly enough SUGAR. A proper salad doesn't need those generous slatherings of gooey stuff called 'dressing'. Many salads are not 'dressed' but 'coated'.
You don't understand how hot it gets in North America in the summer and how bitterly cold it gets in the winter. Without AC people die from the heat. It is serious business, maybe you're not used to it, but it's a necessity here. When it's over 100 degrees (37 C) and the humidity is around 80%, good luck walking 1/2 block without collapsing.
We do eat healthy salads, just don't get them from McDonalds.
I've never seen cigarettes in a pharmacy. But, you're in NY so maybe it's okay there. It's not done in Missouri. Smoking is almost illegal here.
I love Cheez-Itz too. I usually buy the family size. (Of course, it takes a week or more to eat them.)
The need for heating I understand. But airconditioning is luxury. Humanity has survived in the real tropics for aeons without airconditioning. Fire however has been a necessity.
@@hannekehartkoorn5987 There were more heat-related deaths in the US during the summer of 2018 than any other natural disaster. Air conditioning is a necessity, not a luxury. Do you have any idea what it is like to have actual temperatures over 100 degrees with a heat index of 130 degrees and 87% humidity? Here's an article for you to read. If you don't believe it, come to Kansas City, Missouri next July and see for yourself. www.curbed.com/2018/7/6/17539904/heat-wave-extreme-heat-cities-deadly
@Sue Nuckles. I've lived in the tropics for most of the time since the early 1990's, in Africa, Australia and Asia. Predominantly without airconditioning, like most people in tropical climates.
Topical climates are typically very moderate though. Yes, high humidity, but usually not too hot or too cold. I didn't have AC when I lived in the tropical Brisbane, Australia, but you bet your ass it's necessary here in Texas!
Airconditioning is a recent thing. Native Americans survived without it for millennia.
"By the time you get to the salad, you might as well eat a Big Mac."
Yeah. That's the point. American salad > European salad
It is more helpful to think of Walgreens as HAVING a pharmacy than BEING a pharmacy. A lot of our pharmacies are more like convenience stores, so it's more accurate to think of as convenience stores as having pharmacies. If you go to a pharmacy strictly speaking (as in JUST a pharmacy), it isn't going to have anything but health related items, except maybe a small selection of candy. About health, I always say, "You can't outrun your fork".
It can get really hot in the USA compared to the UK. It can be 90-100 degrees. So we need AC
90's and high humidity- add pollution and you have a big health risk without air conditioning! The UK hardly ever gets that hot.
Oh, it can get hotter than that. I have been in 119 F (I think it was Death Valley or near by). I hiked in 115 F in the desert (Anza Borrego). Actually, it was so dry it only felt like 100 F.
Phoenix is over 100 for months on end lol. It’s been 90s in February ... I’m
In Florida now. Humidity right now is 86% temp is 79 at nearly 7pm lol . I’d die without a/c
I leave in the Southeast (Georgia) typical May-August weather has temps between 98-105 F, and humidity hovering 80-95%. Without A/C this would be brutal. We usually have a few deaths due to heat every year
Ray Bragg 🧐 hi Ray Bragg from Georgia! My since childhood best friend was named Becky (Bragg) she’s married now.... lol ive never come across the name again! Random I know but I’ve never come across anyone else with that last name!
You guys know nothing about American salads. We have thousands of types. Most of us never use ranch salad dressing.
They go to Wendy's and White Castle when they visit the states!!!! Not fair at all. I"m sure those restaurants she visits in Greece are not the Greek version of Burger King. They need to visit real American cafes and bistros.
Please don't be mean.
I have never met someone that DOESNT use ranch?
Mee Bee we👏do👏use👏ranch👏
Nah, most of us do love Ranch dressing lol. We also love other dressings too.
We love our AC because for the most part, when it gets hot here, especially down south, it's miserable.
I'm in Central New York and we actually get comparable heat. Granted, it's for a severely limited time of the year (aka July, August, and the first two weeks of September), but when it happens it's still pretty bad. (Meanwhile we get all four seasons at any given time of the week for the rest of the year). XD
And another thing about heat is we've got humid heat, like what you and I experience, and then dry heat, which is what I experienced when I went to Vegas - god now that's fucking awful. That sort of heat slams you in the face when you least expect it. At least with humid heat you feel it the second you step outside and can brace yourself accordingly.
Never had a salad like the mess you described here. Sorry.
"Why are Americans overweight?" Two minutes later: "Cheez-Its!" Asked and answered. 😉
And bacon
😀
Way to many options
We don't walk enough. We drive everywhere. Most do not exercise. We WAY oversize everything at restaurants. Sadly, it is our culture, which is slowly changing as we see it is an epidemic. I have to constantly read labels and I do exercise but most is in diet. Sure, I like to indulge occasionally but what I consider a treat, is most of American's daily/weekly diet. It is not easy to be active and healthy in most of this country!
Danielle Paterek Touche’.
I sure miss the days when I could eat whatever I wanted as a kid and never gain a pound
😩😂
So sorry about your American experience with salad. The salad differs from restaurant to restaurant. It can be utterly delicious and nutritious or down right unhealthy and may/may not taste good. It all depends on what place that you go to. So don't judge us on your one experience. It is as different as people are different.
This. Fast food places are the ones who usually load theirs with calories. Not sure if Salad Station is a local place, but we have a couple here where you make your own salad and they weigh it. You can potentially have an unhealthy salad or a healthy one.
You can always use vinaigrette dressing or Italian.
Personally, I don't use dressing on my salad. For me, a salad will have Romain, some red cabbage, some shredded or sliced carrots for a touch of sweetness, and that's pretty much it.
@@VelcroYuppie Me, too. I feel condiments tend to overthrow the natural flavors of food and don't use them.
They need to try a decent salad bar. Build your own; blame yourself.
We have everything in a grocery store, including pharmacy
"Ability to turn right at a stop light" From what I remember driving in the UK (30 years ago), most all intersections where roundabouts, and you never really stopped, you just yielded to the car already in the roundabout.
Well I must be honest but America is a mass mixture of European Culture, so pretty much anything we are is because of Europe, just we made it better.
lol greatest response haha
Its-Me Anthony First of all, I refuse to believe my day to day life is based on white people. America is filled with all different types of people you give Europe too much credit
America is filled with a plethora of different people but yeah Hispanics and Caucasians are responsible for a lot in America. Ps. Hispanics are just spicy white people.
@@drxppysims2482 Hispanics and all latin americans also have many European influences. But either way European things became dominant in US.
I read recently that 62% of brits are overwight or obese vs 65% of Americans.... Considering the portion sizes I think that's not a significant difference. Also, I think what you are defining as a pharmacy is actually a convenience store where you can get many different items.... The pharmacy itself is just an entity, not a stand-alone business.
@midgetydeath .... there's like 350 million Americans and when was the last time you were in such a position to see them all to have this perception? You only see maybe a few hundred people a day if you're out and about, if ~65% of them are obese, that's the same perception you'd have in either country. It's just a stereotype.
They just wanted to criticize. Brits find it imposible to say a single positive thing about us. They literally did not say a single thing without giving it a negative spin.
Walgreens is a pharmacy, sells everything they mentioned.
@@guayabito6946 And? Dude, there ARE things about our country that truly do suck. Like capitalism, it's glorified greed. And I think that sux. They aren't wrong to point that out and vilify it. No, they didn't directly talk about greed, but the pharmacy thing is a prime example of capitalism gone awry
@@devandestudios128 The US is all about capitalism and that is precisely what makes this country great and why we are the world's #1 economy. I do not want this country to become another Europe. If you like socialism so much, then move to China, you will love it there. You do not know what you are talking about.
I live in NJ & where the hell did u find a gym for $9/ month 😂? I haven’t found one less than $25/ month and without a membership fee
Texas? Who the hell knows XDDDD There are good deals like that, but they're not quite as cheap as that.
I'm from Michigan, my gym is is $10 a month, no membership fee.
Its $50 for a YMCA membership in Minneapolis. I'd do $9
I love how they keep saying obesity is a huge problem in the USA when the UK has it’s own obesity epidemic (which they never mention). They always act like UK is so much more healthier than America.
“Obesity in the United Kingdom is a significant contemporary health concern, with officials stating that it is one of the leading preventable causes of death. In February 2016, former Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt described rising rates of childhood obesity as a "national emergency".[1]”
“Data published as a part of the World Health Organisation (WHO) study in 2014 indicated that 28.1% of adults in the United Kingdom were recognised as clinically obese with a Body Mass Index (BMI) greater than 30.[2] In 2014 62% of adults in England were classified as overweight (a body mass index of 25 or above) or obese, compared to 53% 20 years earlier. More than two-thirds of men and almost six in 10 women are overweight or obese.[3]”
Or the dental stereotype.
Karen Dowling
True, I read a statement from the NHS warning that if the obesity rates there don't stop growing, obesity-related illnesses will end up bankrupting the system.
This is so true they try to make it seem like America is complete shit but I’ve lived there for 3 years and absolutely hated it. The only reason I stayed was for my girlfriend because her parents lived there. I will NEVEr go back. And if America is such shit to them then why not they leave??
The obesity in the US was set in stone since ww2, when they made the American diet to fatten up the really underweight soldiers. They teach in schools and parents teach their kids and give it a few generations with all the technology to make things easier and you made your very own plan of obesity. They didn’t even change the food pyramid til 04 and even then it’s outdated. The pyramid was made to put fat on the skin and boned 16-18 year olds. It had intake a diet of about 6-11 servings of carbs daily that’s insane.
Karen Dowling thank you for saying this because it’s so true
CVS and Walgreens are best described as convenient stores that have pharmacies. The entire store isn't a pharmacy. The actual pharmacy is usually tucked to the side or back of the store.
I have never been outside of the United States in my 47 years on Earth. I imagine it is dark and scary outside of this country.
"thrice weekly" how posh...lol...love you two - so super adorable.
Joel and Lia, you can't judge America by New York and New Jersey. I know ya'll have been to other parts of America, I watch your videos, but mayonnaise on a salad???? Come down South for some find Southern cooking.
NY and NJ have excellent produce and NYC have some of the best restaurants in the world. If you like chicken fried everything, go ahead and visit the south, but legitimately and in all seriousness you should either make your own salad or visit fine restaurants, if you buy prepared salad from fast food like Panera or the supermarket because they know that sugar hides problems with freshness and that sugar is addictive.
Those are the two worst states in the Union.
jimmy baker and a lot of fatty gross food with equally fat gross people.
Migthulhu hardly. Have you been to Nevada or Alabama?
@@migthulhu You're not one of those people who thinks New York is just New York City and the surrounding boroughs are you? Because I've got a newsflash for you - it's not.
To be fair, American pharmacies aren't really 'pharmacies.' It's really a store with a pharmacy inside. It's a separate section of the store. We don't have places just for meds bc the store would be small, a waste of space, and u can't compete with pharmacies in stores.
Sarah Kupka my girlfriend actually works in a flat out pharmacy. It's quite small, but it has a very personalized touch to it. In the hoity toity regions of Florida, you can get away with charging more in a place like that, because of the individualized attention.
@@Candorsmayhem then that's really rare. I've never seen one in America in my 28 years of living there
In my town we have two small flat out pharmacies. The town I live in is very small so we don’t have a CVS or a Walgreens etc. so we have to get our meds from the small pharmacies or drive and hour away to one of the chains.
it’s called “CVS/pharmacy” so cvs is kinda of the convenience store and the pharmacy is usually toward the back so u can get ur medicine/prescriptions
As far as the cold thing goes my mom and I have always said, you can put enough clothes on to get warm but you cant legally take enough off to cool off.
Ha ha ha!!
While interesting, you're trying to compare and contrast a nation the size and complexity of an entire continent, with the UK. Many of the things you are observing occur and exist in one area of the nation. The US is as diverse, if not more so, than all of Europe. Granted, we do have many consistencies that run through the country, such as the media, but our language, diet, customs and traditions are enormously diverse. The nation you have in mind in many of your questions is a Hollywood rendition of the nation that actually exists.
Bill Haddad - I don’t think the United States even comes CLOSE to the diversity of Europe.
Oh are you really saying that the USA is as diverse as Europe aka a continent which is formed by 50 countries that have been there for more than a thousand years for some? Would you say that Russia and Italy are as close as Minnesota and Arizona?
Wow that is a typically American view
midgetydeath maybe modernisation did kill some part of the nations cultural identity but they will still be way more different within each other than two American states. We have each a very distinctive history and people should go and see that from themselves!
@@chech5774 The United States is much more diverse than Europe--liguistically, culturally and geographically.
@@d_a_n_a. That's not even remotely true that Europe is more diverse than the US, and if you think so you've never been here. Even within one state you have completely different geographical features, languages and cultures, and each state has its own unique history. Arizona is nothing like Minnesota other than that the people speak American English. Hawai'i is nothing like Georgia, New York is not like New Mexico.
The fact they're from a country that dislikes ice in drinks invalidates every opinion they have
Thomas Strunk bawhahahaha!!!!! I love it. You must be from the South!
Thomas Strunk I’m from Ohio and I hate ice in beverages always have.
Andi Bell well I would guess you're in the minority, but I can't be for certain. I just know whenever I travel for business around the US, every restaurant puts ice in its drinks
Thomas Strunk probably, but there are other, more valid reasons, to find Joel and Lia annoying.
Andi Bell it was a joke buddy. Don't get all up in arms. They put out good content
Strictly speaking you are not allowed to turn right on red until the "walk man" light is extinguished. It is the greatest thing ever.
You two are so much fun to watch!!! I’m always cold 🥶
6:50 well the pharmacy is actually in that store, usually in the back, the rest of the store sells other things. It should be noted that CVS does not sell cigarettes. They stopped several years ago.
I just bought a pack of cigarettes from a CVS a few months ago in Louisiana.
@@BP-or2iu Interesting it was a big news story when they announced they would stop selling them in 2014. Their website even talks about it. The ones here sell stop smoking aids like the patch and nicotine gum in the place where the smokes used to be.
Yeah, I remember them talking about it. Never put it together that they were still selling them at this one in my hometown.
Never mind. I just realized it's a Rite Aid.
Phil Nolan n
You shouldn't feel that New York and New Jersey are representational of America. There's so much more to see and do.
Always remember, each state has its own piece of history in the history of American immigration and as such has its own culture unique from the rest of the country.
There's so much more to explore outside of the coastal states which shouldn't be taken for naught.
Next time you visit, rent an RV & go exploring for a few months.
Go to the mountains of Colorado or the ancestral native sites of New Mexico. Visit Denali in Alaska or the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Visit the down-to-earth people of Missouri or a restaurant in New Orleans. Go visit the House on the Rock in Wisconsin or hike the boundary waters of Minnesota. Visit a dude ranch in Texas or hike the Appalachian Trail. Walk the Hoover Dam and boat down the Mississippi.
The best chapters of the book are in the middle because that's where everything happens.
BVSchaefer I could not LOVE this comment more. I think if they had an actual true inkling of America and what it means to have true diversity in regional cultures. I had s man from the UK come into my work and I made a joke about why he would come here from England. His response was the he had seen much of the country and had to admit that it was the most beautiful country he had ever been to in terms of diversity. Not just in people and cultures but in scenery. He said it was the only place he had been to where you could have mountains and deserts and beaches and canyons. Made me appreciate my own country in a way I had not before and it took a Brit to make me see it. They are not all so boorish.
Again I think these British people are ignorant and really do need to do some more research on what they put out on video. They are just bashing Americans and that's okay cuz they have the right to say what they want. But they sure sound like ignorant jackasses to me!
Many Europeans see the United States as New York and Los Angeles, never knowing that those cities aren't even close to the American experience, they're the opposite of it.
No one state is representative of America.
Your response is one of thought and maturity. Most of these people are extremely harsh right now. Americans go to other countries and make videos and get the same backlash. It's not like anyone's saying any country or nation is a dirty cesspool of degradation. They're all taking a tiny wedge of experience and making it broad to fit the whole nation. A mistake yes but nothing deserving of all this hate.
Years ago when I was a teenager I went to the home of a friend or her sister was making the salad. It had two ingredients lettuce and a lot of mayo. Apparently that's what they were used to. I have seen people put straight mayonnaise on a salad if the one that they want isn't available but overall most people use a salad dressing. I'm not quite sure what the description of the American salad came from except the ones that she described in Europe are the ones that are here in the US. Mayo is the main ingredient in most salad dressings but not all. But on the other hand you really got to like mail-in order to tolerate it that much
With the heat and cold. I agree with you Joel. Put another layer on! It’s much easier to warm up than it is to cool down!
I don’t have an issue with your opinions of the US I actually like hearing other perspectives I just wish you all would at least google things before making your videos. You all should know the little things at least like Lysol wipes are not for the body. I hope you two continue to have more opportunities to travel this country so that your experiences can debunk some of the notions that you all have. I want to continue supporting you all but the lack of research is annoying.
Yes, Joel and Lia need to travel around the Northeast: Connecticut and Western Massachusetts are very similar to England, including word pronunciations. Also, Joel and Lia need to educate themselves on what the race of psychopaths are doing to Americans. Sarah Westall has lots of great guests. Blackstone Intelligence Network and Natural News' Mike Adams are excellent sites. annavonreitz.com explains the legal/financial history which is 99% different than the psychos teach us through "university". History, science, finance, government, medicine, psychology,...all lies, lies, lies.
Yes, they both are VERY uncultured, it’s not there fault they sound ignorant they just haven’t seen enough cultures... they really should take more opportunities to view places with their own eyes and hopefully ditch some of these terrible stereotypes they keep placing on Americans
@@alphabeta4070 I live overseas and the thing is that America has such a dominating cultural presence in the world that everybody consumes American news, music, films, and tv shows and then they think they have some kind of an expert opinion on what the country is when in reality they know nothing of the on-the-ground reality
Completely misleading title- should be "We debate someone else's list and slag the US when we can"
That's exactly right. That would be a much more accurate title (and it would be accurate for many of their videos).
Very few gyms are reasonably priced! It's not uncommon for a gym to be $50+ a month for 1 person! There are maybe 1 or 2 gym chains that are around $10/mth.
And yeah, what salad did you get that had mayonaise on it?
Maybe their talking about Ranch Dressing
Ranch dressing varies highly in quality. The super fresh kind with buttermilk is delicious.
Or the kind with avocados. Yum.
Britain isnt the skinniest nation on the planet
Tbf, they're the fatest in Europe. Especially, the northeners.
Donivan Thomas I’m from the UK and I completely agree with you
@@MasterM333 The FATTEST European country is Turkey, followed by Malta then Greece then the UK. Also being a northerner myself I would love to know what you are basing your ridiculous statement on??
@@Jerseybaby19 on northerners in London:) no offense,lass.
@@MasterM333 Aye, aya daft lad, watch yous mouth next time wee laddie!!!
“Take that 🥓! Take it” 😆
All chicken put into salads is plain chicken, or occasionally possibly herb-encrusted.
The reason that "stunningly amazing salads" are so great is because they are so healthy. The use of cranberries, pumpkin seeds (preferably - and not to uncommon to find - sprouted, of course), bleu cheese, unusual lettuces or even having the base made partially out of basil instead of lettuce/kale. Fresh black pepper, cayenne pepper, lemon salt. Avacado. Possibly having the red peppers roasted instead of raw - and for that matter, actually having enough different vegetables. Literally the health-ish companies are the ONLY companies that have what they call the "gourmet salads" - which is literally the reason why salads are mentioned on the list. Except for the ones that are much better then UK are better because they come from a not-specifically-healthy restaurant, so they (might) have enough bacon, enough cheese, maybe jalapeno, peas, new and unusual dressings, or whatever else is going to make that bacon salad taste awesome! And thus is obviously way better the UK even if you personally prefer the make sure the cheese is raw and such... according to this video, all salads in the UK are basically those shitty bags from "Discount Bob's" that say "salad" on the package but literally have nothing at all I'm the bag besides cabbage and carrots - missing even the most basic of salad ingredients such as onions - literally don't even have a bag of dressing in the bag - and use both purple and green cabbage to try to make stupid people think that there is some kind of salad in the bag instead of merely being a bag of two different shredded vegetables and absolutely nothing else.
And the one ingredient that is most definitely NEVER put on ANY salad no matter what... is, of course, mayonaisse.
....Fucking MAYONAISSE, WTF?
10:25 there are number of reasons for America's obesity epidemic, Central among them is our lifestyle here, which tends to be more work oriented than other countries. So trying to maintain a work-life balance, eat right, and keep up a gym membership when you're working at least 40 hours per week whatever your schedule happens to be, is quite challenging. You have to have a sort of dedication to it that is not as common as people would hope. Me for example, I work 40 hours a week and have over an hour commute each way, which means roughly 11 hours out of each day is engaged with work. Combine this with my family obligations, and visiting a gym becomes a luxury. I do however go to the gym at least 3 times a week, however because of my schedule I have to arrive at the gym at 4:30 a.m. luckily I belong to a gym that is actually 24 hours which is probably another thing that US gyms do better than Europe. By the way the above are not excuses, they're reasons. There are no Solutions in life, there are only trade-offs.
Warpig Johnson regional diets in US are mostly based on the type of work ie places like Minnesota Wisconsin have higher fat diets bc the calories needed to perform the job but that diet has stayed the same instead of changing w the times
I respectfully disagree with your reasoning why America is fat.... I believe it's the car culture combined with food. No one walks unless they're in a city (and then barely) and we eat too much in a serving plus snacking on high calorie items.
@@keriezy I appreciate your view, I wonder though how much Americas 'car' culture is directly related to our 'work' culture? However either of those are factors of obesity among certain groups, but clearly not all.
Warpig Johnson, I’ve lived in the US for a ling time now, but have never really adjusted fully to the ‘work mindset’ (I’m originally from Germany).
Don’t know if you’ve heard of the following saying, but it does adequately capture the different mentality:
In The US, people live to work, whereas in Europe, people work to live.
And I find a workday in the US much more stressful than in Germany. We’re no slackers, we work hard too, but it’s not as mentally challenging, imo.
In the US-maybe because of the political correctness everyone- wild about?-you constantly have to watch what you’re saying to whom, you have to be cognizant of your behavior in general at all times, etc.
I’m guessing though that Americans grow up in/with this culture and may not perceive it as draining. :)
@@religiohominilupus5259 Yeah, you pretty much nailed it. America: work until you die and they replace you. 🤣
$9 gym membership? 😯 I’m clearly living in the wrong part of the US!
Tiffany and Brian for real! Try $40-50/month? Unless it’s planet fitness, which isn’t everywhere, THAT’S why many Americans can’t afford a gym membership!
from alabama, u.s.a. yrs ago i started just putting "stuff" i like in salad and taking it to family and office get-togethers, and people started asking me for the "recipe":
fresh spinich, cherry or grape tomatos cut in half, fresh celery cut in chunks, sliced black olives, sliced fresh (or sauted, according to preference) mushrooms, cut fresh cauliflour, cut fresh broccli, spiral cut brown sugar ham cut in pieces, 1 lb. fresh cooked bacon crumbled, fresh boiled polish sausage cut in chunks, sliced boiled eggs, choice of style shredded cheese, croutons, and choice of about 3 dressings on the side. items are cut just large enough that a person can pick out anything they don't like and still easily have the rest.
About the traffic. When I was in the UK, my family almost got run over a million times. Nobody stopped for us, even though we had the right-of-way.
CVS stopped selling cigarettes for that very reason.
That's good! I think the place we were was called Walgreens?
@@ThoseTwoBrits1 amp-washingtontimes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/amp.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/2/walgreens-stores-stop-sale-cigarettes-gainesville-/?amp_js_v=a2&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQECAFYAQ%3D%3D#referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtontimes.com%2Fnews%2F2018%2Faug%2F2%2Fwalgreens-stores-stop-sale-cigarettes-gainesville-%2F Here's an interesting article. The thing about America (like you said, capitalism gone crazy) is that most people tend to think that monetary incentive is more powerful than legislation. If even a significant percentage of people stopped shopping at Walgreens until they took cigarettes off their shelves, the change would happen much faster and with far less cost than if it had to go through Congress, lobbyist, etc. That's honestly how our political system is designed to work... from the bottom up rather than top down. Of the people, by the people, for the people. 😊 Keto up the content. Love watching you!
Lmao what CVS you going to mine sure dose
No problem selling alcohol, though
Yet the sell candy and sugary soda,coke,pop. Whatever you want to call it.) So its hypocritical. CVS stop selling tobacco only due to political pressure
I love you guys and your observations. However, you do seem to have narrow scope of the culture. I see you buying and eating SO MUCH JUNK! Not everyone eats all that crap even if it is available. Not everyone eats at fast food places. I haven't watched all your shows, but I think it's that your eyes are drawn to the stuff that seems different and crazy and indulgent and that fits with your preconceived ideas of America through film, television and social media. Time to spend a couple of weeks with some Americans in different settings. You have plenty of fans and subscribers who I think would love to host you for a stay to learn about real American Culture.
Agree. We would host yall. @joel&lia
Hear hear, well said.
Just because it’s not a part of America that you like doesn’t mean it’s not a ‘real’ part of American culture
@@pianoman2245 I think what OP meant is that it's not the sum total of real American culture.
"Go to bed, dah-ling." LOL😂
“Give up raunch. Give up raunch.” 😭
I'm sorry but I'm American, California girl here and who on Earth puts mayonnaise on their salads?! Lol.. I've never seen that before or even heard about that! We do make very good, great healthy salads and there are actually healthy salad dressing that aren't all cream or mayo, and believe it or not, the pieces of chicken that are in some salads are not marinated in thick sugary sauces! What place did you see that at?! I have a fruit salad I prepare in my own home, no side cream or no sugar added. I also have been to many restaurants while traveling or around my town that I always choose healthy foods to eat including salads. There are many varieties of salad dressing to choose from and that's up to someone to want to buy it or not. Trust me, we Americans do eat really good healthy salads and don't put all that unhealthy crap in it like you think. We love tomatoes, in our salads too, and other raw vegetables also!
I'm tired of hearing no one puts mayo in a salad has anyone ever heard of chicken salad, tuna salad, potato salad, macaroni salad. Enough said I'm done comment all you want on what I just said
They had a potato "salad" or egg "salad" somewhere and think that's actually what we have when we eat salads. Or they are confusing mayo with ranch dressing (buttermilk based).
Thousand Island dressing is half mayo half ketchup. Though these days I don't know anyone who puts that in a salad. Yet they still sell em in supermarkets so I guess people still do.
As for the bogo type discounts. Keep in mind lots of time it will say something like "2 for $10" or something. What that actually means is that they're $5 each. In many cases you don't have to buy 2 or whatever amount.
ehhh… I guess that depends on the area. Here. No you can't buy one at half price. It may be a bit more for just one.
BOGO on the other hand for stuff you use? Best deal ever.
@@scottsmith1806 My nearest store sells theater size candy for $1 each but they list it as 10 for $10. lol
@@3DJapan a few decades ago, the store my mother worked in ran a test. The customer could by a dozen eggs for 33 cents, or 3 dozen for a dollar. Wanna take a bet on which one sold best?
@@scottsmith1806 I would assume the 1 dozen. Most people just don't need 3 dozen eggs.
@@3DJapan believe or not they bought the 3 for $1 instead of the 33 cents for a dozen. Willing to pay a bit more for the same amount. :-O
What do you use on salads for dressing, just plain greens with no dressing?
I love yall's videos. Sometimes they are a bit crazy to me but i still love them. Ha : )
The business model for most gyms is based on people not going. If the gyms are cheap, then that means there are a ton of members who just don't go.
Even then to get out of your membership is a pain. I broke my foot badly and obviously couldn’t go but, they still needed a doctor note describing what and why I couldn’t continue to go. I had only 2 months left on the membership but, needed 3-4 months to safely heal to do a normal workout. I will never join a gym again because of that ordeal. I got more of a workout going to the doctor in a cast using crutches then to the gym to give them the note then home.
Walgreens and CVS are not pharmacies. The have pharmacies in them
They started out as pharmacies and added the other crap as time went on
@@andibell2534 wrong, Walgreens started as a food front store, not a pharmacy. CVS wasn't technically a pharmacy, but a health and beauty store
Walgreens and CVS ARE pharmacies that happen to sell other items. The full name of CVS is CVS Pharmacy.
@@officerrebar3839 Dud give it up, they are pharmacies now, but they were not always
It shows freedom, let people make their own decisions.
OMG! I went to the CVS to get my Oxycontin prescription and noticed that they also sell cigarettes and chocolate....the horror!
Ken Kruger the irony is, the chocolate is the safest item in that list
When was this? Cvs hasn’t sold cigarettes in years. Chocolate thought they still sell. I’m lucky I don’t like it so I’m not tempted to buy any when I go.
Cvs stopped selling cigarettes nationwide like 6 years ago...
In this country there is a direct correlation between poverty,and obesity. Eating healthy can be more expensive. The shops ( which are difficult to find in poorer neighborhoods) with the organic, gluten, and soy free foods , for example are more expensive even healthier choices for satisfying a craving for something sweet is more expensive. As poverty can be generational ,so to can obesity.
yep and the food desserts, where there aren't any grocery stores but a lot of fast food spots and convience shops.
"Food desert" is a bullshit concept. The term implies that the problem is merely one of local scarcity, when really it's more to do with the inability of poor and under-educated people to make better choices. Putting a Whole Foods in a ghetto neighborhood isn't going to stimulate demand for kale and quinoa among people raised on McDonald's.
Yep, here in Atlanta there are several food deserts in the low-income areas and all the food those stores sell is boxed or canned and usually highly processed. Or there's fast food, which is an affordable option for many of these families, so they use it often in many cases. Good luck trying to find fresh fruit or veg or whatever. And even if they found healthy food, they'd have to learn to prepare/cook it. Jamie Oliver had this issue when he came over and tried to change the food in schools in Los Angeles, like he did in the UK, and failed miserably. He was up against A LOT of push-back: people not being able to cook, people not having access to healthy food in many neighborhoods, the food being pushed in stores and school being based on big name companies wanting to sell things (like stuff with corn -- especially High Fructose Corn Syrup WHICH IS IN ALMOST EVERYTHING -- and wheat, which is pushed really hard in this country -- see films like 'King Corn'), etc. Plus, our food pyramid, which is supposedly how we should eat healthy, is more based on foods that make the government money (grains) and not really on food that ACTUALLY makes us healthy. All those grains are getting many of us sick (I say this as a Type 2 Diabetic that had to give them up to lower my blood sugar) and it just keeps getting worse. It will be hard to fix the obesity epidemic in this country, especially when our government and food and drug systems are profiting from us being unhealthy. :(
Perhaps in your area of the US you have a direct correlation between poverty and obesity but in my area that isn't true. Most of the homeless people who I've had contact with--I've worked in non-profits that provide assistance for them--are more likely to be underweight than obese. Even the poor with housing have a pretty standard ratio. What delineates heavy from hearty is education, or mental disease here. Those people who never finished high school are more likely to be fat. People suffering from severe depression also have the added pounds.
That's the trouble with having a country that covers half a continent! You'll never be able to make a blanket statement about us! LOL!
Susan Sackinger , so I wasn't really talking about homeless ppl. As I can tell from your comment , you do realize that they have a whole different set of circumstances. Yes blanket statement are generally not a good idea , and my comment was just meant to be conversational . Also if you look up OBESITY AND POVERTY. You can get a great deal of information that I can't but here in my short comment. Hope your having a lovely day.
Lysol wipes are not for your bum. Lysol is a brand of cleaner for bathrooms & kitchens that comes in spays & wipes
I didn't understand why you called it a modesty blanket until you got up to get the Cheez-its! LOL I love that you left that in there. You're awesome! :D
Turning left on red is also allowed in some places if there is no sign that says "left turn on green arrow only" Its great for me as a nightshifter when I'm going to work late at night and there is no traffic, I shouldn't have to wait at the light when is only me and a couple others at the light and its perfectly safe for me to turn.
Trains sound a horn to warn pedestrians that a train is coming...not really an "unnecessary sound" unless you are just thinking of yourself. You do realize that over 40 UK's can fit into the United States, right? It is a vast, vast country. It seems that you have not quite grasped that fact. Maybe salads are subpar in the cheap restaurants you frequented during your stay but is in no way indicative of the US country as a whole. The same for obesity. Why is there an obesity problem in Britain? Maybe you should explore that one. I suppose your opinions are entertaining in their naivete, but I for one find the US bashing tiresome. I have lived in Europe and can say that I quickly became tired of the unsolicited negative opinions about the US from Europeans that visited the US once or twice or never. Seems they gathered most of their information of the US from our Hollywood movies, which is laughable; or biased news stations, which is unfortunate. European countries are so tiny- Europeans have no concept of how large and diverse the United States is; so making blanket statements about anything here really doesn't apply to the reality of the situation. From first hand experience one thing the US definitely does better than the UK is orthodontics!
All they went to was a crappy White Castle in NY. They judge American fast food and restaurants based on that one BAD location.
This is our life. Let us be. We don't go to your country and nit pick every aspect of it because it's not what we're used to. We don't judge your whole country based on escargot.
I believe "Triggered" is the appropriate response to that.
The UK doesn't do cosmetic orthodontics, we do dentistry for healthcare - more Brits have more healthy teeth than pretty much anywhere.
I see it as a US shortcoming that your commercial healthcare wants to treat healthy people because it's more profitable than offering care to those that really need it. Though, sadly we are starting to catch up on toorh vanity .
sweet potato hear hear!
ethelmini the Jeremy Kyle show proves otherwise. 😂
Someone is triggered
At 7:39-you have actually touched on a very sore point with the sale of cigarettes at pharmacies here in the US. You may not have noticed but CVS actually does not sell cigarettes for the very reason you stated. They decided at the corporate level in was hypocritical to have an entire store dedicated to promoting health and well-being and yet at the front sell those cancer sticks. So about two years ago they removed cigarettes from all stores. You are correct about Walgreens however. It is still possible to buy cigarettes there.
why not, we pay more per person for our meds than any other country. they have to make enough money to pay the bills. whats just as bad is the alcohol in this country.you cant go a single day without coming across a drunk driving around or some drunk walking into a gas station looking for a handout to buy more alcohol.
Is it a really sore point though? Is anyone out there protesting that CVS doesn't sell cigarettes? I don't know if too many people care.
It isn't the sugar in the drinks and snacks that causes the obesity in the US. It's the sugar in the canned goods and the boxes of food like cereal. Have you ever read the ingredients on a cereal box? Wow! It's the way the companies tweak the name of sugar to make it sound like something else so you won't know you're eating it! Sucralose, Maltose, Agave Nectar, Blackstrap Molasses, Carob Syrup, Demerara, Florida crystals, fruit juice concentrate, invert sugar, Panela, Muscovado, Sorghum, Sucanat, Treacle, Turbinado... Between Healthline.com and myself we've been able to identify 57 different names for sugar. It's hard to keep track. If you eat food that you didn't prepare from scratch, you are stuffing all that sugar into your body.
As for obesity related diseases, scientists are finding that many of the diseases originally identified with obesity are, in fact, associated with excess sugar or excess fats. Our culture packs sugar into our bodies in such quantities that diabetes, for instance, is no longer in the realm of the obese.
@@Bozemanjustin It's funny too hear them selling beer and wine. I had no idea since that's not the case in Pennsylvania.
Rite-Aid still sells them too.
Keep in mind that our left turns are basically like your right turns, provided the only difference is the basic swap in directions.
We just have pharmacies in retail stores. So it’s a corner store with health stuff
Hahaha y’all know nothing about America, I still luv y’all channel tho
4:21 You guys as pedestrians have the 'right of way' in the case of a right hand turn.
I can see where they're coming from though; there are a lot of people that drive that ignore the fact that pedestrians have right of way when they're making right turn.
@Ric Goesinya Here in Florida also, except that both roads have to be one way.
@Ric Goesinya That's only if you're turning from one one way street onto another one way street. Still, not all states allow it.
Very true, but I still swivel my head because there's left turns too being made and sometimes drivers don't see pedestrians. I just do not trust that they see me so no music either.
Oh yeah, sorry, I wanted them to be aware of the 'right of way', I don't want to encourage them to blithely walk into the street. 😂
Keep in mind that most of Europe is on the same level as Canada; therefore heating is more important than cooling. The United States, especially the southern states, at not only very warm or hot but most are humid as well. Air-conditioning helps a lot. Also the north Atlantic current rotates clockwise; therefore the waters around Europe are cool or cold and cool the land.
Living in Louisiana without ac you could not survive. 100 F degree days are common,,, with humidity of 70% or higher.
You would not be able to do anything.You all seem to not think that we are a huge country with many climates...
Europe and canada and Australia normal countries usa not normal bigger
the food regulation is more strict in europe and japan than in america, the sugar industry is one of the few that has the government in their pocket thanks to lobbying, and there is a lot of hidden sugar everywhere, and then you got lots of livestock that are given hormones to get bigger...well, put two and two together, and that is a hugely overlooked reason why a lot of people in america are obese, i noticed when i studied abroad in japan for 5 months, and didn't change how much i ate, or much of the type of foods i ate, and i naturally started getting skinnier, i walked a lot at both colleges and was part of a dance group and still practiced in japan, so it wasn't a lack of walking or exercise, it wasn't the portion size, heck, i went to a few restaurants that gave me a ton of japanese food in japan, big bowls of udon noodles, okonomiyaki is also big and filling, and the curry rice comes in big portions too, so that being the reason is a myth. and i ate plenty of sweets in japan as well, it is literally the quality of the food given, that is the biggest reason, our regulation is basically to make sure we aren't poisoned, not so much the good quality. and the only way to guarentee good quality is by going to farmers markets and spending a ton for so little in america:/
There's a difference between being triggered and offended you guys say alot of offensive things and dont care its insensitive
How? They haven’t said anything offensive at all. They do have I guess an “attitude” maybe but that’s part of the enjoyment. They are not offensive at all you’re just way too sensitive
Jaden exactly
Nicholas Cardenas they have no clue what they are talking about which is the issue and they keep making these videos
Nicholas Cardenas And you're a dip shit ! Was that offensive ? It shouldn't be cause it's true !!!
I didn't really find any of it offensive (as an American). Someone being wrong about something they have no/little personal experience isn't offensive to me. These are fairly off the cuff videos, like a conversation you'd have with a friend, instead of an expert educating you on a topic. It's just a style choice, and not one that everyone enjoys.