Europeans don't do these things??
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'Murica: "Free refills!"
Europe: "Free healthcare!"
Ouch, that was brutal
Exactly
Newsflash: Neither are free
also Murica: "Better healthcare"
@@jgwill European healthcare is cheaper to run for the governments, nobody goes bankrupt because of an accident. PLUS, Europe has better treatment outcomes. That is stuff that I happily pay taxes for. xD
Fun fact, many of us don't use the word crisps or chips because we are not native English speakers. English is the first language for less than 10% of Europe's population.
I think the only place in continental europe where the word crisp would let them think of fries first is Gibraltar 😂
@@JeroenJA Nowhere are fries known as crisps, french fries is a misnomer picked up by the US military in the French speaking part of Belgium, they are actually "chipped potatoes" shortened as chips in UK English.
@@JeroenJA Yes but nearly 100% of Europe has English as their second language albeit with an American accent (annoyingly)
@@vtbn53 say chips anywhere in the benelux, and it can only mean, euhm, chips, the thin slides fried you eat in front of the tv or so :).
i meant to say chips!
i often heard fish and chips as teenager, i needed a pic to understand they talked about fries ;-).
but the dutch in the north of holland are worse, they call it 'patat' , just the half dialect flemish word for a potato, so just the raw version that hasn't been cooked with.
there was a kinderen voor kinderen song :
Kip patat en appelmoes,
i only understood recently the writers mend fries! i always interpretated it as whatever kind of preparred potato , i still keep on interpreting it that way mainly ;) i just note that some weird connection is made in north to think only of fries..
@@vtbn53 the britisch empire is way over,
the american century that started with the world wars and the USA playing the policeman of the world since..
English would not have become the second language worldwide from just the English, it was mainly cause of the American, to learn programming and such you needed.. English, tv, movies USA is bigger.. so OF COURSE it's mainly american English ;).
if it hadn't been it would have mend WAY less people spoke good English now ;).
and in Europe that would have mend French and German would have stayed more important..
The paying with plastic thing is actually the opposite, the US was so slow to adopt chip and pin in the 90s and contactless in the 00s. When I was in the US I saw people pay by cheque which I hadn't seen since I was a kid
true man, haven't used and don't like use bills bc it is just slow. For 10 years maybe...
UK I haven't written a cheque in 25 years. And even plastic is becoming old-fashioned for many as they just tap with their mobile phone.
It was ridiculous how long it took USA to stop using paper based card swipes!
Well that's what happens when you travel to a third world country that thinks it owns the world.
Very true! However, I think the plastic they mean in the video are creditcards. And then they're right, here in Europe we don't use them that much 🤗
Same, I couldn’t believe they still had checks! it was a while ago though.
The "paying with card" one saying Europeans aren't used to it is laughable because we've been using contactless card payments as the norm for YEARS, and seemingly longer than the US according to the many US friends I talk to. I don't know many people at all who bother carrying cash, and, at least in the UK, we usually recommend tourists not to bother bringing cash and to just make sure their card will work internationally instead.
_Cries German tears_
Theres a lot of wrong things in this video but Yeah, that one got my attention too. It might be different in some eastern european countries but at least in the North and West its actually the opposite. The U.S is behind on that front. I havent used cash in many, many years here in Norway.
Carbon copies on card purchases disappeared even from Sweden almost 30 years ago :) I am 47 and never wrote a check in my whole life.
im from Sweden i have seen the new money we have but i cant tell you what is what. I only use card
the cash culture is obviously almost only a german thing (and representative put over all europe out of a lac of knewledge..) maybe because sometimes france, germany or UK become counted as an example for whole europe which is in fact totally worse because in some cases these countries are QUITE DIFFERENT in many things)
even here cash dying out more and more in germany. (at least after COVID the cashless payment in for example restaurants raised from about 10-30% in average before COVID to around 30-70% since then.)
im german. worked as a waiter for a long time. speak out of experiences :)
„Do you not have opinion segments in the news?“ is my new favorite non-satirical American question 🤣
No, silly boy it’s the news… it’s supposed to be short, precise and most importantly neutral
Then again in Germany the news often has to make clear, that radical political parties are infact … well radical
They still don’t say it as an opinion, but rather say „they are often seen as radical right“
Well honestly it’s just the right thing to do… it’s disgusting how many people vote for Afd
In longer news "shows" you might get ONE opinion piece, but this has to be clearly marked, at least in Germany. It always starts with "Now a commentary by ... (full name)" and ends with "This was a commentary by ...".
@@karinwenzel6361 die 24 Uhr Tagesthemen haben doch immer einen Kommentar zu einem Thema des Tages oder?
Also so many american news are hosted by comedians these days like John Oliver, Stephen Colbert, Trevor Noah ...
And then there are all the annoying commentators. Not just the obvious ones on the right. There are equally annoying lefties like Rachel Maddow.
yeah that question is so baffling
You can eat a 5 course meal, because the proportions are very small. The idea is to TASTE!
It's like an all-you-can-eat buffet, and you get a tiny piece of everything!
I've come out from an 8 course meal hungry. So yeah. Portions are literal bite sizes sometimes.
Screw that. My idea of a dinner is to get enough nutrients into my body to make it through the next few hours. TASTE is overrated, if I don't get FULL.
@@dan_kay you my uncle by chance? XD he just shovels the food in and zooms back into work
@@dan_kay You get full with 5 courses meal buddy, go try a dinner in an Italian or French family, you will see if you dont get full. Taste and full.
As a French person I can say we don't eat five courses at our meals, it's only on rare occasions like for christmas or a wedding or if we go to a really fancy gourmet restaurant like a Michelin star restaurant. Usually when we go to the restaurant we'll have an entrée and a main dish or a main dish and a dessert/cheese plate. Sometimes people who have a larger appetite will have entrée, main dish and dessert/cheese plate but no more then that. Also, if you do go to a fancy gourmet restaurant and have a menu with five or six courses, the portions are much smaller than in regular restaurants otherwise nobody would be able to finish the whole menu. And even in regular restaurants, the portions are still much smaller then in the US, even in fast-foods.
@marinerenoux619 haha... maintenant tu comprends ce que signifie avoir des stéréotypes idiots ?? On dit de nous les Italiens que nous mangeons toujours des pâtes et de la pizza, un apéritif, un deuxième dessert et du café, en réalité un sandwich pour le déjeuner parce que nous travaillons et léger pour le dîner parce que nous nous couchons, ok en vacances c'est vrai pour nous aussi.🤣🤣
Hmmm agree to disagree.
Entree, plat, fromage, dessert et une mignardise pour la route.
That s five in my book and like my weekday diner. 😅
Sundays even include an apéritif first on family lunch.
More often than not we can easily reach five. And stay at the table for an hour and more... 😅
@@etienne8110 I guess every family is different. Personally, I rarely eat five-course meals, even with my family 🙃
The only time I eat a 4 or 5 course meal is at Christmas which is celebrated at home with family. We discuss a theme and then everyone makes 1 dish that adds nicely together.
For example last Christmas I made a fish spread with trout as an appetizer, with bruschetta, then someone else made a shrimp cocktail as entree, we had a main dish of rabbit stew with some vegetables and potatoes on the side, and then chocolate cake for dessert.
So we have some fish, some meat, some bread, some potatoes, and everyone can choose what they want to eat a lot of, or only a little bit.
Going out to restaurants these days they really overcharge for the entrees and desserts. You get a big main course meal for 15-20 euro but the entrees are 10-12 euro for something small and the desserts are similar price. I can eat ice cream at home. Usually I just get a main course and a coffee after.
I only get a three course meal if everyone at the table wants to, and then we get the weekly menu which at most places has 2 items to choose from for each course and is more reasonably priced.
As an Aussie, I find it difficult to understand why there appears to be more checks on age to purchase alcohol then eligibility to purchase a weapon.
if you have five courses.. those will be tiny portions
And they will be rich tasting
And the meal will last, like up to several hours.
Dude must be talking about Italy or Greece 😸👍
Ordered tapas for two ppl in Greece once… ooof never do that 😬
To expand.... where the "mains" plate is 12" across and piled high in the US, in Europe it's 8" across (or only cover that area) and be seen as an American kids meal portion. However if you have a bowl of soup (1 cup), an entree, salad, mains and a dessert. All adding up to probably ⅚ of an American meal.
Exactly
The funny thing about English teeth is that recent studies have found teeth in the UK stronger and healthier than American teeth! Apparently all the procedures Americans go through to whiten etc. end up weakening their teeth considerably, destroying the enamel at a rapid rate. People in the UK do practice dental hygiene they just don’t go to extremes to straighten or whiten that Americans do.
The funny thing is that UK doesnt represent Europe nor brits represent Europeans.
Uk is just one country among many others into europe as a continent. Nothing more.
So the teeth issue is only between you and muricans. Same shit different asshole 😂
That doesn't suprise me at all. My personal impression is that Americans first and foremost care about looks, like white and straight teeth. Correct me if I'm wrong but aren't vaneers and crowns extremely popular in the US? They literally put a shiny fake tooth over the natural tooth, which can be totally rotten inside. On the other hand you can have discolored and crooked teeth that are perfecly healthy.
on top of that if you dring tea after washing ur teeth it stays on them for the rest of the day.
Children (but not adults) in the UK also have free dental care, but they don't have the same culture of forcing orthodontics onto kids. Also, sugar is still ever-present in food and drink but not to the same extent as in the US.
this is basically the same in germany. saying it's a lack of dental hygiene is really just rude and dumb.
10:28 100% true! It would seem weird to see flags everywhere. In Latvia, everybody puts out flags only on national celebration or memorial days. And, no, not the flag of the EU because each country here has their own national flags!
It is really hard to say how things work for Europeans. Every country is so different in their culture. Same thing for paying with cash or card for example. In Germany they prefer cash and you can't always pay by card I believe. In The Netherlands you barely ever use cash and some places don't even take anything besides card.
Hello there! Same in Finland. The covid pandemic speeded up the change from cash to card and even payment by phone here in Finland. For reasons of hygiene, many places only accepted card payments, and today you'd be hard pressed to find even the smallest shop accepting nothing but cash.
Just returned from the Netherlands (Amsterdam and Winterswijk)... they still quite happily take cash and in many places it works better.
@@Gittas-tube cash is filthy
In Canada, we mostly use cards and we just have to tap the card, not insert them into the machine. We have been doing that for years. I am not sure if the US has caught up yet. I know that Walmart Canada was pressured into getting the updated terminals, so we could tap our cards.
Hi, Bavarian here (that's close enough to Germany). I've never been to a place here where you can't (and usually do) pay with card.
In extremely, extremely small and rural stores/bars MAYBE but that's rare.
I'm German and I've met exactly ONE person here who enjoyed watching Wrestling.
He had a mental handicap due to not getting enough oxygen during birth. Make of that what you will.
Wrestling was decently popular over here when i was a kid. When it was still called WWF with ppl like Hulk Hogan, Bret Hart, Yokozuna etc. But yeah, no adult watches that stuff and also not kids nowadays.
Never heard of wrestling. Why would anyone watch that????
😂😂😂😂
I am an American and I have been living in Germany since the early 90s, used to watch wrestling sometimes back then. Watching wrestling is like eating Pringles you know it is bad but what the heck you only live once. And it's good to recalibrate the brain after reading Schopenhauer, Husserl, and Heidegger.
Wrestling used to be big in the UK back in the days of terrestrial TV before the internet, with it being on a Saturday afternoon on ITV guys like giant haystacks and Big Daddy but not nowadays.
You can have 12 courses …but the total volum of food stays virtually the same as a three course. They want you to sample delicious food …not to make you puke 😊😊
Absolutely true. Also in that case your entire meal course takes a lot of more time to be able to digest instead of getting stuffed up to the point of puking.
Yeah, I always looked at it that way. Each course is just a small piece, but you get many small pieces. Some only see "12 courses" and complain that they can't eat that much. Some see the small portions and complain that they want to eat to stop being hungry. The truth lies inbetween.
Exactly!
@@HappyBeezerStudiosI had to think of the joke if a man wants his pizza to be cut into 4 or 8 pieces and he answers "4, i don't have enough hunger to eat 8 slices of pizza"
tbh, about streets being narrow in Europe, a lot, and I mean A LOT of cities come directly from the middle ages, if not before that even. I live in southern France, near Perpignan, and the city has been around since century X. There were no cars back then, only carts pulled by horses, and they weren't that wide. Main street were bigger, to allow for traffic, but even now you can still see places -like my town- that have basically little to no sidewalks in the historic part, because there was no need for it back then, but adding one now would make the street to narrow to allow cars. A solution to it is to turn this part of the town into a no cars zone, where only pedestrians can go, so it is much safer for everyone.
In comparison, the US are a younger country and with the amount of available space, I imagine it was much more easier to plan wide cities, roads, highways, without the hindrance of historical cities and whatnot when industrial revolution happened.
And the same thing applies to the living space. You can find houses that are centuries old, (in the town next to mine you can find one that was built in 1765!) and back then people didn't have global heating or anything, so they built practical, without waste of space that would lead to waste of heat during winter. Only rich landowners and noblemen had big, fancy houses, mansions, with excess of rooms and living space. Commoners lived practical and dealt with much less wealth, much less space, much smaller houses. And that's what you see nowadays, the houses may no longer be here, but newer houses are built where the old ones used to be, so they remain modest in size.
Some cities in south of France like Marseille date back to the Roman period. It was called Massilia. Even the name barely changed in 2000 years.
Shame its such a shithole now.
When my husband and I visited the USA, the humongous meals put both my husband and I off after a while. We started to crave for small, simple meals. My husband is not small in size and can eat, but even for him, it was just too much in The USA.
I would loose my appetite if if see such mountains of food on my plate. American stomachs must be total overstretched.
"Free refills are the best in America"
Ok, but that only applies to soda or coffee, now everyone knows that American coffee is worse than dishwater, and in an American soda there is 66% ice, so you need 3 fills to get a fair portion
And it's quite the opposite in Germany. McD sells Jacobs coffee, a reputable big brand. probably the best coffee you can get for 1.29€ outside of making it yourself. (Used to be 1€ flat which was simply unbeatable)
And corn sirap makes the soda taste terrible.
@@HappyBeezerStudios Jacobs coffee is a very common brand for poor people who have spent literally billions on advertising but the quality is lousy however compared to American coffee it is practically the best you can buy in the US.
This is true. And the only good coffee is espresso.
A shot of espresso at the corner tasquinha is the way to go.
LOL
It's a bit weird to say "Europeans"... We're not the same in the different parts of Europe. We're very different😅
For example alcohol, Sweden is very strict when it comes to check ID. No matter if you are 18 or 72😮
I'm 58 and haven't had to show ID for at least 25 years - despite looking 8-10 years younger than my actual age.
Exactly in Portugal unless you look 10 nobody will ask you.
It is also very weird to say "Americans". We are also extremely diverse.
Totally true. I'm from Italy and i remember very well when we had a cultural Exchange at school with a sweeden class... When they was here they all gone nuts becouse they could drink with no problem, and they was totally wasting themselves.
In North-est Italy where i live wine Is like water almost and people start drinking a bit with their family from childhood. That come both with an higer consumption rate but also with a bigger consciousnes when It comes to drink. Getting drunk Is not Always the aim. Instead you are considered "pretty cool" when you can hold your consciousnes even drinking a lot not the other way around.
In my city Trieste Is not so umusual for people to get in a bar at morning and ask for a "caffè corretto". The correction Is usually white grappa (70+ degree distilled grapes alchool). I used in my school years to get an hot chocolate with Bayliss before to enter school. I don't like coffee 😂
@@deutschegeschichte4972y why is it weird? You are all from the same country. You all speak the same language, you all have the same culture and the same government. Europe is not one country, it’s a continent. We all speak different languages, we all have our own cultures and customs and our own governments.
For instance, I am Dutch. I have nothing in common with someone from Greece. I can’t understand them, our food and cultures are vastly different and so are our governments. It’s like comparing Canada with Mexico.
Let’s now compare someone from New Jersey and Texas. You speak the same language, you eat the same food, you have the same culture and the same government. Are you different? Sure, but so are southerners and northerners in my country, but that’s not the same.
As a German I'm happy we don't look like american plastic dolls with 24/7 make-up and permanent Joker smile, are satisfied with smaller things, wear gym clothes only for sports (or during injury), don't wear guns and don't excessively praise god or our flag. We don't use credit cards for everything so we have no massive debt problems like America.
I think we are much happier than the average American who just can't get enough of everything
It’s not just your dinners are bigger, it’s breakfast, lunch and dinner!!!! Portion sizes in the states are crazy, and the population are the size they are as a result. Plus it seems to be much cheaper to buy junk food than to buy healthy food in the supermarket which again is crazy
A Swedish CZcamsr once did some silly test where he was to pick diff foods in Disneyland (located in the US, not the one in France). Anyway, it was breakfast and drinks and snacks and lunch and drinks and snacks and dinner and dessert and even more drinks and snacks. And all of it skyrocketing in fat and sugar, cholesterol and carbohydrates, and not a vegetable as far as the eye could see. Not even something called salad, even remotely similar to a salad.
After watching that, I promised myself that if I ever feel like visiting the "happiest place on Earth", I'll go for the French one, that's for sure!
When the video said, "the US is the most Christian nation in the world", that was defined by weekly church attendance, and claimed adherence. Nominal Church membership is higher in many European countries, but people don't wear their faith on their sleeves as many US people tend to do.
And yet the have surprisingly few christian holidays. There are many nations that are "less christian" but have pretty much christian holidays as national ones. Like when americans are surprised that stores in germany are closed on sundays. There is the whole thing with not working on the seventh days.
God bless................. - which "god"? - free choice(?)
Amen brother! 🤣 Australian Christmas and Easter holidays are non trading days, the right to peace and quiet is not negotiable, the multicultural residents here generally respect that! 👍
That's because it's considered facetious to do so. If you are of faith, you just do it for yourself and not the onlookers, therefore, it's less likely to see Europeans trying to shove their beliefs down people's throats (less likely doesn't mean entirely unlikely... there are exceptions).
It’s defined by number of Christians, they have 246.7 million Christians, ~79% of their population. Not counting the Vatican, by population percentage, Romania would be the first at 99% of its population being Christians.
As Serbian, it is also weird to see anyone carrying guns. While we have a lot of guns around, they are mostly kept at homes, locked away. Carrying gun requires a different type of permit than just owning one.
It is the same here in the U.S.A. I don't know why everyone seems to think we carry guns out in public. In most places it is actually illegal to. There are some places where its legal but that is most certainly a minority lol.
@@deutschegeschichte4972
Perhaps due to the fact that in America it is still made far too easy for Civilians and mainly criminals.
to obtain and own firearms.
Compared to most countries worldwide.
Unless you want to kill Bosnians 😉
I have Serbian friends and Bosnian too so I know somthing!
well not in texas...we carry guns everywhere including in stores.@@deutschegeschichte4972
In my village in the Netherlands, Walgreen type shop close at 5:30 pm; gas station at 9:00; grocery store at 8:30; liquor store 6:00; most shops at 5:30; and NOTHING is open on Sunday. Side note: the nearest fast food/Starbucks type spot is a 45 min drive.
Sadly grocery chain Colruyt in Belgium stopped offering unsupervised wine tastings at the entrance of their stores just a few months ago because they say "It is no longer appropriate in the modern world", whatever that means. Such a shame! But that's something I feel would never fly in America. 😅
Fun fact about big cars:
In Germany we simply don’t have enough space for big cars. I‘ve had two customers already returning their Bentley and Rolls-Royce respectively because the cars were too big to get through the small inner city streets and too big for most parking spaces.
The lane I live on in the UK is so narrow a big car wouldn’t fit down it, and parking spaces are small.
@@lizroberts1569 I saw a video of someone driving a Ram 1500 in UK streets and that thing looked massive there, but the funny thing is, it’s an average-sized pickup in the states
You really need to defer buying a Rolls-Royce until you can afford to have a chauffeur to take it away to a distant parking place and come back when you need him later.
The vast majority of roads in Europe have existed since people still went around on foot, on horseback or at most in a carriage (also because often there is literally no physical space to widen them); that's why even our SUVs are as big as small cars in the US
Bentley and Rolls-Royce are germans brands (buyed out by VW)
For info : In France, our usual meals would be only a single dish with maybe cheese, depending on the household.
For celebration meals, like Christmas, we would however have a big meal with entrée, main dish, cheese and dessert, and those meals would easily last 3-4 hours. Not because we eat more, but because we talk more and spend time with the family.
Finally, for people in high society who go to many socialite parties, they would eat those 5 course meals, but each dish would have much less to eat. That is why in high class restaurants you usually find that meals are very small, it's because you're supposed to eat just as much as a normal one dish meal, but over 5 different dishes.
"Entrée" veut dire plat principal en anglais US (mais veut bien dire entrée en anglais UK), il vaut mieux utiliser le terme appetizer.
@@chucku00 appetizer c'est pas un apéritif ? genre, des cacahuetes ?
@@camembertdalembert6323 Non, aux US c'est une entrée.
I grew in Belgium and every main meal, it could be lunch or dinner, consisted of 3 courses. Soup or a small salad or another small dish, the main course and dessert or cheese.
Now we only eat 3 or more courses at weekends or when we have guests.
In School and in the students restaurant it was always three courses minimum. My kids in school had a starter, main course, dessert and cheese.
I'm from The Netherlands and we can pay by card pretty much everywhere. That's not what's strange about how American money works. What is insane is the fact that you still use paper checks. I'm in my thirties and the only checks I've seen in in my life time were traveller's checks my parents brought on holiday when I was a kid just in case and rarely, if ever, used; those giant novelty checks you see on TV that aren't actually payable; and a check sent to my work late last year from an American company as payment for our product that we now have hanging on the wall so we can point and laugh at it. Apparently, my boss went to the bank with it and nobody there could figure out what to do with it.
Nou precies dit en zij doen alles met een creditcard en geen pinpas, dat vind ik zo raar! Zij hebben ook geen internetbankieren
French Fries, Chips and Crisps are three separate things in the UK. Chips are usually 'home made' - that is made at home or made in the fish and chip shop. Potatoes are peeled and cut into 8mm-12mm thick chip shapes and cooked in hot oil. French Fries are similar but a lot thinner and are usually bought pre - cut and in large packs, usually frozen. They are sometimes partially cooked. Crisps are thin slices of potato, deep fried with numerous tasty spicy powders added in the cooking process to give extra flavour. Crisps are sold in small snack packets usually. Pringles are another form of crisp which I believe is made from reconstituted potato, pressed in a round mold and deep fried..
that's kinda interesting.
when you joked about someone being "hardcore" for flying an EU flag, i was like "who the hell would put up an EU flag on their porch / house !?" and then it kinda hit me. you have to understand that people over here don't feel much of an attachment to the european union like the americans do towards the united states.
my best guess is that it's because in europe, most of the countries speak different languages.
another reason could be that each country in the EU is more independent than each state in the US.
if the united states feels like a family to an american, the european union feels like a neighborhood to an european.
so yeah, if i were to fly the german flag outside of any sports event, people would think i'm a nationalist; if i were to fly the european flag, people would think I'm a weirdo xD
Also you can’t really compare the EU and the US. USA is a country, EU isn’t
In Danmark and Norway you see lots of flags on private estates. It’s also a matter of culture.
@@janao5017 Of course you can compare these two. You can compare anything to anything else. It only depends on facets you are comparing. Yes, the USA is considered to be one country while the EU is a conglomorate of different countries, but I wasn't comparing anything systematic (neither the government nor the military nor the economy) but I was comparing how attached people generally feel in each "area".
@@Celisar1 Now i'm curious to whether those are danish flags or european flags? I've lived in germany for 37 years and now I live in poland. I've been to italy a few times and drove through france and I've never seen an European flag, only the national flags.
@@Tharmorteos I mean sure but if you would ask US Americans how they fell about North America they wouldn’t be even nearly as patriotic as they are towards the USA. And if you ask a german how they feel about EU vs Germany you would get two different answers. It’s obvious that people wouldn’t feel as attached to a conglomerate of countries as they would to their actual own countries and culture. So no it’s not really comparable.
Portuguese here. Our love of good food is legendary, It's not about quantity, but quality. We love to eat well, not to gorge like animals.
Same in the America, we desire quality over quantity. I don't know why everyone believes all of us are brainless fat humans with no self control.
And another country that I think is even better than America in that respect.
the only time Im eating like an animal is when my grandma puts a bunch of delicious food on the table and desserts like arroz doce (aka the best dessert prove me wrong) and cakes
@@Qiwupi__have you tried a good Italian ice cream? If it is not better, at least it is close to arroz doce
Same in italy
5:15 "In America, you can pay with plastic just about anywhere..."
We've had that for decades, but the last 5 or 6 years, I've left my plastic at home and I've paid everything with my phone. The only exception is some petrol/gas stations need you to put your card into a slot, everywhere else is contactless payment, which you can do by smartphone. Fantastic if you're prone to forget your wallet when you go out for groceries!
Isn't paying by card a thing of the past? I'm old-fashioned and use a card, but younger people pay by phone. I often hear that the phone is more convenient, but it's hard for me to switch.
@@HatszepsutMerytrethat was funny for me reading "I'm old fashioned...". I thought you were going to say " I use cash". It seems that everyone under 50 has bought into the belief that cashless transactions are safer and quicker. They may be a few seconds quicker but not safer. Really, when was the last time you were robbed of cash? For me it's been 40 years and I have scammers on my phone trying to pass themselves off as my bank and others once a month on average. That's why I don't use phone banking. Besides that, non cash systems are for the banks convenience and profit, not the customer's. They are used to monitor the population for governments, police and business. They can see on what and where you are spending your money on. This might not apply to you but it's amusing when younger people are mocking towards me for preferring cash when they are the ones being exploited.
It's really cool to have shops open 24/7, cause for example Lidl supermarket that is next to my apartment is closed at 8 pm snd openes at 7 am. Bank is closed on the weekends, some smaller shops are also closed 9n the weekends, shopping malls are working till 9 pm, 10 pm max
Once my mom followed an American Thanksgiving turkey recipe. We had to throw it out, it was so sweet, and sugary. We definitely eat less sugar. Also, we can drink legally at 18 at least in Romania, and in Hungary, not at 16.
you eat turkeys? Too much hair...
I think the love of sugar is not exclusive to the United States but to the whole American continent. I'm Spanish and I work everyday with Central an South America food products and customers, and we often talk about the different between Spanish cakes, sweets, drinks, etc and theirs (Colombian, Ecuatorian, Bolivian, etc.), which are much sweeter than ours. When they want to sell a product to Spaniards, they know they must use less sugar. It's a fun fact, but when you observe from outside, South and North America have more things in common than expected.
By the way, there are quite a lot Romanian food shops here in Madrid. I once bought a Bulgarian rose jam and it was delicious 😋
@@oliheg9230😂😂😂😂
As a Romanian, I'll never eat turkey. Chicken, pork and beef are the best meats.
Belgium and Germany have their drinking age at 16
Fun fact, British dental hygiene has passed the US quite a few years ago at this point.
(Am not British, but I remember reading about it)
in prices, certainly
@@sodapop83 You can't really say america is cheaper when so many people there are in medical debt. This is not even a thing in the Netherlands and I doubt it's a thing in britain.
obviously that remark in the video was just rude. whitening your teeth is never healthy. it is destroying them.
@@sodapop83 Nonsense. The US has some of the highest dental charges going.
@@Khorsman87 Its not. But as is the norm these days Americans react outof "we are the best"attitude instead of opening their minds. Should add, some Americans not all.
You have a gift for finding really popular yet also really strange vids with a narration that states their opinion without citing sources.
I'm a European and I confirm everything said in the video is true. My particular bugbears are the way the price shown is never the price paid, because they then add the tax (this never fails to drive me crazy), and the number of ads on TV, which makes American TV unwatchable.
The whole teeth thing always makes me laugh because having riden a hire bike across the US a couple of times I saw more people lacking teeth than I'd seen over here in years. The truth is the UK actually comes above the USA in the dental health lists (got to love the NHS) and we don't have the shiny white perfect teeth because most of us just want good teeth rather than the work of a cosmetic dentist in our mouths. The urban myth comes like many US beliefs from what the UK was like during world war 2 (before the NHS) and has lingered.
Yes. The more tooth enamel, the more yelow and healthier.
And the Americans that have their teeth,look like they all have the same exact smile,Americans teeth are copy paste literally!!
@@drakulkacz6489 Still does not hide the fact that the US in general has worse teeth according to the DMFT index (Decayed, Missing due to caries, and Filled Teeth) than the UK.
The US seems to be kind of Hollywood smile, or gums, with not much in between. America does tend to go for the 'perfectly straight' and whitened teeth look, which does look odd to outsiders, as it looks like old people's dentures - just very unnatural.
Unless your hanging out with Junkies most people I come across in the UK have perfectly good teeth, but as anywhere there are exceptions.
Little fun facts: In Germany "french fries" or "chips" are called "Pommes frites" or short "Pommes". It's because the French word for potatoe is "pomme de terre", which literally means "apple of the earth". Potatoe in German is "Kartoffel" but another word for it is "Erdapfel", which literally means "earth apple".
Just forget it , muricans have such clean "brains" you can't help them anymore.
In Nürnberg wie call them Bodaggn.
In The Netherlands we also say earth apple (aardappel), but fries are called patat (the Belgium word for potato) or friet (from the French frites)
But in english french fries qre called like this because they are frenched and then fried
@@gluteusmaximus1657 Gesundheit!
The drinking age is actualy 18yo in most european countries
But there's lot of tricks to obtain alcohol before that age (like there's places where it's known they don't check IDs, or to ask an older person to buy for you, etc)
Ιn Greece I used to buy cigarettes for my adult relatives from the neighborhood kiosk since I was five! It was absolutely normal to ask your kid to do so.
Same (I'm from Italy)
Here in the USA, it's changed a LOT since my childhood (Baby Boomer). For example, cigarette vending machines are illegal a lot of places. (Kids buying).
& yeah, I used to get cigarettes for my parents (IDK if there WAS an age limit) but you can't do that now. It's 18 & they catch you selling underage it's TROUBLE.
On the news. I’d expect a newsprogram to be factual and completely unbiased. No room for opinion, just facts. If it isn’t that, it’s not journalism but editorial. But that bit of the journalistic code of conduct has been lost to mankind.
It used to be that way. Once newsreaders were like accountants proclaiming a balance sheet. As boring as cardboard but trustworthy, and proud of it
Well. Not free. Small amount is deducted from salary and its mandatory in every employment ❤
The media in Britain are nothing but Whitehall mouthpiece stenographer's. The 💩 they spewed out over covid & now Ukraine is excruciating when you know the truth. Just earlier tonight I heard ITN tea time news calling the Russian population gullible because they support their president. Or even the way they phase the war crimes against the Palestinians. Under international law they're literally war crimes being committed against them daily. But they'll call it "clashes" when Israel bulldozes their homes for Eastern European or American Jews to build houses on & kids throw stones at them & get shot dead. And media personnel & medics get shot too. But they'll completely ignore it.
Room for opinions has to be stated, here is what x of this lobby has to contribute to the argument.
And i feel most eu public network television do that, while coloring in on commercial stays limited not to overly be clear in contrast to the public channel. In flanders the commercial one mostly tends to include more sensation news items too, sadly both channels waste a huge part of the news blabbling on about sports, especially on sundays and mondays..
@@JeroenJA At least with sports, you know they can't lie.
Referring to ID-ing
I once went grocery shopping with our daughter (she was around 2 or 3 at the time and i was around 24-25 😅) and my husband asked me to bring some cigarettes for him - i don’t smoke 🚭 💁♀️ - and the cashier asked me for my ID 😂
I pointed at my daughter and she said „you don’t need to be 18 to have a kid“
Well, she’s right 😂
yeah well the typical rule of thumb is if you look under 25 your ID should be checked (it wont always happen but thats the usual rule)
It wasn't a strange question: IIRC the US have (together with the UK) the highest number of teen pregnancies in the western world.
In Europe a regular new house at least in Romania has about 115-120 meters square. That includes a living room with open space kitchen, 3 dormitories, 2 bathrooms and a small entrance in the house where you may have install closets for outdoor jackets, shoes, you name it. There might be or not a small separate room for the main gas heater which does not take much space. Also it might have two parking lots and between 250 to 600 meters square of land including the house build on top of it.
The funny thing about being id’d as a Romanian in another European country is that we don’t have our date of birth on our ids. It’s encoded in our national registration number (CNP - personal numeric code): it starts with 1 for males 2 for females, then yy/mm/dd and then another 6 digits that are unique. I’ve had a few people stare at my id for a good minute before asking where my date of birth was and then I had to explain - 1 policeman and some ladies at the city hall in Belgium. For one of them I even had to google a picture that backed it up. Another person clearly couldn’t find it and I saw on their face they were too polite to ask and just handed it back (western union)
There's a huge Czech flag in front of one of the houses in our street and I find that creepy. I'm Czech.
Hi. Czech here. Are they people who moved to the US recently or are they like second generation living in US?
@@peet6101 I live in Czechia. Moravian Silesian region... 🙄
Swede here, if I see a huge Swedish flag hoisted out of the modest but strict norms, I think they might be "new-Swedes" happy to have gotten asylum here, or some creepy spies who hope to be incognito and melt in!!! 😀 If they let the flag hang outside like rag to dry after 9 o'clock PM or after sundown, then you know for sure they are not native Swedes in that house. Other mistakes are like chosing the wrong color or fabric (cheap Chinese stuff) or the wrong size in regard to the pole. A Swedish spy novel could start with such observations. How about Czech flag rules?
@@DNA350ppm there aren't many, only that when displayed alongside other national flags, it should be in the more prominent position... 🤔 But I wish they didn't just leave it hanging there in all kinds of weather😕
@@afiiik1 Yeah, it is much too beautiful and valuable as a symbol to do that, hope it will change!
In the UK the law refers to buying alcohol rather than drinking it. You can't buy alcohol under 18 but you can drink it with a meal and with an adult in a pub or restaurant at 16. In your own home the age is 5 I believe (it's pretty low anyway).
UK = not part of europe, or european values or the EU union.
UK = cancer to europe we dont want you to compare your pathetic nations to our success.
My son was on a school trip to Rome, and he told me that while they sell wine to everyone who shops there, but the local kids usually don't it unless they are asked to by their parents to get something (they forgot when shopping). They don't buy alcoholic beverages for themselves.
4:12 The drinking age in Germany is 16 for beer and wine and 18 for hard liquor. When I grew up (I’m 49 now), nobody asked me for ID, ever. The only time I was ever asked for ID was when we went out to clubs (not bars). We could go to clubs at age 16 until midnight. The bouncer kept the IDs of the teens under 18 where you paid your cover charge and if they still had your ID at 0:15, they would come looking for you and drag you out of the club. While we were in the club however, nobody asked for ID at the bar, regardless of what we ordered. Things have changed A LOT since then. Nowadays, bars and clubs are checking IDs just as strictly as they do in the US. I don’t know if the “16 until midnight” rule still applies today.
Same thing with smoking. You have to be 18 to buy cigarettes. Back then, you could just get smokes at the cigarette machines that were set up throughout the towns/cities without any ID. Cigarette machines are pretty much vending machines for smokes. Nowadays, you actually have to scan your ID card at the machine so it can verify you are 18, before it lets you get smokes.
Dude, you should honestly go to europe and see this stuff for yourself. You already reacted to so many videos about the differences and based on your reactions, i think you would like it here!
That's exactly how I think about it too.
I hope his channel grows enough that he gets the funds to go. England would be a logical place to start but the possibilities are endless. He could do some street interviews of his own and test the things he has seen on the videos he's watched.
Does he ever reply to comments....?
Also Italy would be a good place to go to try out the tight streets.
You can pay anything with a plastic card, but the plastic is mostly a debit card and not a credit card. Even at a hotdog stand, ice-cream stand or other street vendors. You’ll have to search to find a shop or supermarket in my country where you can pay with a credit card. Unless it is in a touristy place. I have a credit card, but not in my wallet, it is at home in case I go abroad.
Or when you have to buy something online like a plain ticket
That one was really bad even for the Infographics Show.
It's not as true nowadays, but between roughly the early nineties and mid-to-late tens, if you wanted to know what new way of paying will revolutionise American life in three-to-five years, all you had to do was look at how Europeans were paying today.
Even better I can just pay with my phone :D
I was surprised when I saw that considering that my experience of the US was that they had outdated card readers everywhere. I actually at to swipe my card and sign a piece of paper in osme places with some places not even accepting cards. Whereas in Europe I'm paying for a bus ticket, electric scooters and car parking with my phone or just by tapping my card on a screen. A shop without contactless payment is extremely rare.
In Sweden, you can go for weeks - even months - without using cash.
In Norway we tip. In Sweden the tips are very very small. I got a very clear message from a bartender in China 15 years ago: can you please stop that? We do not take tips. We get our salary. In France the receipt will often have the "20 percent tips included"
When I moved to UK from the other European country I discovered that I actually was learning "American" English at school. I called fries- chips, lorie-truck, tube-subway etc. I think that it's a common thing in non-english European countrues and only Brits has their unique names
We have a saying: "Only a fool (meant as insane or stupid) smiles without a reason." It is considered as respectful to be serious or neutral, a serious face is a trustful face. We are coconuts, hard on the outside, hiding lot of our feelings inside. Not everyone gets to see your inside. You can be generally happy, having a good day, and still don't show it on your face. A gentle, polite smile is for strangers, and a sincere, big smile, when your eyes are smiling too, is for the moments of real happines and for your close ones. Not speaking for everyone though! People are different and some are very smiley naturally.
I think in europe it's more about intuition, if the people themselves act happy and chipper, it's more or less normal for the cashiers to get a bit happy too, but also avoid smiling when someone obviously looks annoyed or angry. So yeah, I think europeans simply have a better "feel" for things.
lmao I can almost hear my teachers say: "you're laughing without a reason? That's pretty serious, don't you think?" (btw I'm from Slovakia as well)
I actually have a sign on my wall (yes, cheesy, I know!) that says: "Smile, it confuses people!" and that is very true here in the Netherlands...
Europeans smile.
Americans grin.
(If a person that is generally neutral smiles,
you know it is a genuine smile.
You can never replace a smile with grins.)
@@Judith_Remkes I just think the american smile is fake and I don't like it. It feels manipulative. When someone smiles at me in the Netherlands I know it's a genuine smile and I like that a lot more.
The ID thing: As you work as a cashier in Europe (The Netherlands for me), and you don't know if someone is of drinking age, you ask for their ID to be sure, but if you can see it's a grown adult, you don't ask for the ID, since it's clear. But if you just don't know/hestitate about their age, you can ask for their ID to check. And in some stores, there's a little picture/board that says 'No Alcohol under 18, keep your ID ready' (18 is the legal drinking age in The Netherlands) So if you're a little above 18/just turned 18, you have your ID ready if they ask for it.
Yeah a couple of these things don't really count for the Netherlands. (maybe a couple of other countries as well). The banking system is also incredibly well done in the Netherlands.
I was a little bit proud, when they asked me for my ID, when buying beer, while I was 23 already, and in Germany, you had to be 16 (it was in the 00s) to buy beer and wine (18 for liqueur).
I'm czech, here is smoking/drinking age 18. When i was 11 in the UK they didn't even let me eat in classic restaurant/pub because they also server alkohol and i was only allowed to go to mc Donalds or BK fór the lunch menu... (Before 2000)
Last time I got asked for my ID I was 27. So I started laughing and said, oh yeah I just shaved, and then showed the cashier my ID. She was very embarrassed and started blushing lol. Since then she doesnt dare to talk to me.
I'm not in Europe, but in New Zealand liquor stores will mostly only ask for ID if you look quite young (in my experience anyway). But the supermarkets are insane. I'm 34 and I STILL get carded when buying a bottle of wine. They have signs up saying they will card you if you look under 25 (actual drinking age is 18) but I think they err VERY heavily on the side of caution. I notice I get carded less if I have my child with me. Apparently being a mum automatically makes me look older? Lol
italian here. we have torte and torte salate ( cake and salted cakes) the second is just like say an english shepperd pie but with other filling. maybe by cake they meant that
SO MANY sweeping generalisations! I wouldn't put too much faith in Infographics tbh. Always love your reaction videos though. Hugs from Someone With White Straight Teeth, Yorkshire England 😊
If you look around drinking age (16-18) they will ID you, of course. But if you look clearly 25 or more nobody is asking anything, it's obvious you are over age.
In San Francisco my father had to show his ID in a bar. My father, at that time, was 76 years old, and is frequently mistaken for father Christmas (he has a long beard). Hilariously he misunderstood the word "ID" as "idea", and not being familiar with this practice, he proceeded to present ideas on various topics 😆
@@hgu123454321😂just think how smart we would all be if everyone shared ideas after a meal. More value than a tip, I’d say.
I was 26 in 1990 and was asked for ID in a pub in Kent. I was rather chuffed I looked so young.
I think all the strict rules around drinking in the us just makes it more interesting for kids to try it
Yeah. I was born in America, but I had my first beer at 14 when I went on vacation to Germany. It was disgusting lol. But taste is a matter of opinion.
Partially for sure, but I don't know how bad is it in US. For comparison, where I am from, drinking till you fall under the table is... not uncommon for younger generations. Also at rural festivities, if there is no police present (why would there be?) age of 9 would be most likely be enough to get you a beer and I am not even talking about drinking at home. I think I had my first sip of beer at the age of (possibly) 4. XD
You can most likely guess which country I am from, based on these informations. XD
Ryan , where I grew up in France Shops open between 8.30am and 6pm tops and everything closed on Sundays with the exception of the Bakery and a few restaurants but the small village centre was all closed up and dead by midnight
Americans "ughing" at European food in Europe is just the kind of ignorance we're used to from the folks over the pond. Belgium invented chips, they eat them with mayonnaise as well (among other things). Why do Americans think that their bastardized versions of our food are an improvement? Because they're not, I assure you. Literally everything from Ice cream over pizza to chocolate is worse in the US. And this is not an opinion. The list of nutrients agrees with me.
Commercials are the reason I don’t even have tv anymore. Even the EU amount of ads made me turn the thing off.
But it was always fun to watch a US program here and guess where the adbreaks had been. My god. Over there I’d lose the plot of any movie
Usa documentaries are the worst! Half the program is an add, so extremely "teasing" over and over about the "shocking" truth, that when it finally comes it just feels disappointed ALWAYS cause they did not allow one bit for the really special thing to speak for itself..
They shouldmzje summaries of those, about 1 3th of the original lenght is probably all you could need, but just add some quiet second in between :-). To give thing some time to sink in..
@@JeroenJA And then I find some british documentary and it's just relaxing and informative.
"In America, you can pay with plastic just about anywhere", which is exactly what we have been doing in (at least northern) Europe for years.
Same in France
At this point it's more like decades.
Meanwhile, in the US, some still use cheques for utility bills. ^^'
Everybody pay with plastic card in russia
In Spain we pay everywhere with a credit card, even at flea markets.
@esaholmberg Also in southern Europe. We aren't as backward as you may think...
I watched an old 1940s film about an American farm family who worked their farm land during WW2 and it showed how they tried to meet the Government requirements of production and also how they fed themselves each day . Their daily work was much more physical and they used a lot of energy so they would use up the type of meals served because they worked hard. Today most people have jobs where they are sedentary. But it looks TODAY like the meals they are possibly served are rather too large. I grew up in the 1950s and our family was very active , my parents and all relatives the same and not a single one became fat in their lifetime. Now I am 71 and still at a weight etc that I was when I was in my 20s. People need to set some guidelines about the amounts they might eat ,etc or they become obese . It is apparrently an epidemic looming in the Western world even now starting in Asia!
In the Netherlands, where the drinking age was raised from 16 to 18 some years ago, the ID-able age is anything that looks up to 25. The reasoning behind that is that around that age, most people's complexion will have changed from adolescent to a more mature looking one. It makes it easier for store workers to weed out the young ones from the long-adults than trying to determine between 16 or 18 for someone.
I'm a Frenchman and I stopped watching TV almost 10 years ago because of ads (also the lack of interesting content). They were nowhere near the level of ads displayed on American TV, but still, annoying AF. The level of ads displayed in US TV shows is just absurd... On par with ads displayed on CZcams BTW...
But at least you can just disable them on youtube. The only option for the telly is never watch any of it live so you or your mythTV box can skip/delete them.
Ads on CZcams? You should think about your IT Security! When i use my VPN (own not NordVPN) it will blocks ads, in my local network their is a pihole that block ads if some ads or other malicioius things get through they will get blocked by uBlock, CanvasBlocker or a cracked Premium App or sometimes i pay for the service to support it and get some adfree features. But this way you probably won't even need an Antivirus to keep you safe from the internet if you don't open something you downloaded manually.
You should also take care of your Privacy, i know you have nothing to hide but you still close the door when you go to the toilet and the internet will know a lot about you when you don't close your doors.
same
I ma Dutch. I pay for internet 800 channels. I needed to put in a password for the TV. We tried to it did not work and we are now with three channels (NL1, 2 and 3) and we do not feel we miss out a lot if anything. And no, we have no netflix etc. Just as boring.
I'm from the Netherlands and the handful of things on TV I've watched was always with the finger on the mute button. I literally (literally literally) get nauseous hearing ads. Firstly they're to loud and secondly that wheedling, manipulative tone feels like fingers rummaging through my brain.
The funny thing is that the few American ads I've seen (in Incognito Windows in my browser) feel less invasive somehow. Maybe because they're way to long they feel like badly(er) acted sitcoms and they're never for anything I know of as a product so it feels less personal.
As an European, i find it weird when your beds are against the window! They should be on a solid wall.
Yeah in UK we would end up with mould behind the bed. Outside walls need breathing room
9:00 Gas stations in Germany tend to close between 10 pm to 12 pm though some of the more dominant companies like Aral, Shell, etc tend to have a "Nachtschalter" where they close the doors to the shop but you're still able to shop through a window. The mid-sized companies usually still have a card reader active at night but in some rural areas you're often out of luck if you need fuel in the middle of the night.
A general exception are Autobahn rest stops. Those tend to have gas stations open 24/7 with full access to the shop area and even limited dining
In Europe it's mostly illegal and heavily fined to air more than 12 minutes of commercials per hour on TV. You also have strict rules on how often you can stop a show to insert commecials. Eg. a movie you can't add commecials to more often than every 20 minutes.
“Opinion news segments” are a very American thing. In Sweden we have don’t have them at all. It’s more common to have special programming concerning a hot topic where people debate. That’s probably the closest we have
Same in the Netherlands
Same in Austria 🇦🇹
Same in Spain
4:06 The drinking age in Europe generally leans towards 18 years old, but there are some European countries which have set the minimum drinking age at 16 years old, like Belgium, Luxembourg, and Switzerland for example. Finland its 18
In Denmark people can buy beer and low volume wines at 16, but everything else, like high volume specialty brews and hard liqeur, you have to be 18.
Although people drink at an early age in Belgium, I have never seen drunken riots like you see in the US. I think they learn early but in moderation.
Only beer and wine at age 16 in Switzerland. (Plus maybe other stuff that I don't even know exists with as little alcohol in it as beer.)
in Belgium you can drink beer at 16, but everything else is 18 :)
Compared to the USA Europe has a very loose relationship to alcohol. Since everybody drinks and nobody gets drunk this provides a good example for the next generation. O.k., everybody and nobody is a little exaggerated, but generally its true. Most kids never see their parents drunk, most will get drunk in their youth, but many will not like that feeling so much that it is worth repeating too often. Alcohol is sold freely in most of Europe, it can be consumed freely in most of Europe, that is one of our freedoms US Americans only can dream of. -- Maybe the Swedes are a bit out of proportion here, but that shows that they must get drunk anytime they enter another country. A German does not get drunk because he or she crosses the border to e.g., France.
08:44 All czech Tesco hypermarkets used to be open 24/7 before covid started. Then they were forced to close at 8pm and reopen at 6 am. They never returned back to 24/7 opening hours. Now they close at 10pm and reopen at 6am. But many gas stations are still open 24/7. But in Prague you can still find many small shops open 24/7 (even small convenient stores)
In Germany we usually get about 20-30 minutes of TV program with 5-10 minutes of commercial break, depending on the type of channel.
Private channels usually sit at the top end of commercial break length while while the government-curated public channels tend to have very few commercials and are primarily financed through a functionally mandatory broadcast "not-tax"
It's very weird if the news narrators ask each other's opinions and refer to each other by first name. I came to watch objective facts, get your opinion off the screen, safe it for the talk show.
Agree, but here in the UK, I've never seen a news or current affairs programme that doesn't heavily favour the establishment and their party. It's just that if it's said in a posh or rp accent people don't question anything.
My goddaughter lives in Seattle at the moment and she reckons American fashion is about 2 years behind Europe.
Elegance, styles and quality in clothing are always at the forefront of Europe.
In finland there’s a guideline that if the person looks thirty or under u check their id, if they’re 65 and look the part then ur most likely not gonna be asked. My mom finds it flattering when every now and then she’s asked for id even tho she’s about 45
A large lunch is just having dinner during the day and usually goes with a light lunchlike dinner in the evening. This is preferable for your digestivesystem as you eat your biggest meal when you most need it. Also, the 5 course meal is usually as much as you would get in a 3 course meal. The courses are not to add mass to your meal but rather, different experiences. For example, a 5 course meal almost always comes with an amuse. This is a course that is comprised of a 1 or 2 bite meal.
Finally you can pay with card everywhere, even most foodstands, just not creditcard. There are few countries where this is not a thing in Europe.
In Sweden big pharma are not allowed to have commercials on any media.
Not the prescription stuff, but over the counter meds like painkillers are advertised.
Another example why sweden is just the best country
A lot of these stereotypes in the video don't apply in Sweden
The most complexing thing about French Fries is that they aren't French. They originated in Belgium, where they are called pommes frites (fried potatos (o.k., literally fried apples, but potatos are called pommes de terre, apples of the earth in French)). In many other European countries, pommes frites or short pommes or frites is thus the standard word for French fries.
The "French fries are Belgian" is a hoax that became viral in the 90s.. Pommes-Frites (the original name) where already consumed in Paris during french revolution and there are way older recipe books that explain how to cook fries the Parisian way. In other terms, almost a century before the creation of Belgium, pommes-frites where already popular in France. All of this has been documented so it may be time to end this hoax, no?
@@marvinmaubert350 It is not that easy. Most recipes dating back to the 18th century do not describe what we would understand today as French Fries or Pommes frites. Rather they are various types of fried potatos. The potatos in those recipes are not cut to sticks, rather than slices, or rolled into balls (like Swiss Roesti) and they are normally fried, and not put in a bath of boiling oil. The first known actual seller of what we would today call French Fries was a guy nicknamed Monsieur Fritz selling them around 1838 in Liege, Belgium.
In Germany they are still called „Pommes frites“ or „Pomfritz“ 😂 or even shorter „Pom-ass“. 😅
Yes, no one in Europe says French fries. Pommes frites it is. At least here in Sweden. 👍
Yup, in french they are... Frites! Or frites de pommes de terre, to make the distinction with vegetables fries, if both are available.
Nice video as always. I love to see the differences. I feel the need to answer some of your questions, if you like. From a German perspective:
- crisps are chips and fries are Pommes not crisps. I have never heard anyone say in Germany.
- If you're looking young they will ask for your id. When you're obviously over 20 usually nobody asks anymore.
- Don't watch wrestling so I don't know much about it. I see this from time to time in television program entries (and get mad because once and a while they cancel anime because of WWE haha). Some people do watch WWE, but it's def not as big here as in the USA. Soccer is THE thing here.
- You can't go shopping after around 8pm, on sundays and on holidays, but gas stations are open 24/7 (and McDonalds lol). At gas stations you can also buy some stuff, such as drink and food, cigarettes, hygiene products like toothbrushes, tampons, etc.
Britis teeth are healthy, w hite etc. but we dont all look as if we are wearing falsies, as Americans do!
We dont fret over the occasional not quite straight tooth, but our teeth ARE clean, mostly white and healthy !
It makes me laugh a little when it comes to free refills. But do we really think that it is the restaurant owner who offers the refill for free, or has the cost of the refill already been calculated into the bill? I guess the second option.
We in Europe don't call "frenchfries" as "chips" or "crisps"... I mean only around 10% of Europeans do so, remaining 90% of Europeans doesn't use English and so they call them:
- картофель фри / kartofel fri - Russian, Ukrainian,
- Pommes frites - French, German Spanish, Italian, Serbo-Croatian,
- frytki - Polish.
Hranolky - Czech
Frietjes - Flemish Belgians
Fritten - Flemish Belgians
Frieten - Flemish Belgians
Friet - Flemish Belgians
Patat - Dutch people from above the rivers
Ranskalaiset - Finland
картопля фрі in Ukranian.
@@filipkozak7754 smażeny syr a hranolki to nadjedzenie
When in New York, my mother took me to a very nice restaurant. I looked at the Menu and I chose a Child size. I can't remember the details now as this was in 1964. I have to say even the Child portion was a a bit much for me to get through. Might be just me or the fact I was born in WWII years and grew up when rationing didn't finish entirely until around 1955 when I was a teenager.
I feel like the strict laws on alcohol in the US just makes it more enticing for younger people to try. Like, I had no desire to try it for the longest time, simply because I didn't care. The hype around 'being old enough to drink' isnt big here (like, maybe your friends or parents will offer you a drink once or twice) and it's not seen as 'cool' or stuff either. If you show up to a party and say 'i don't drink' usually no one will bat an eye and offer you something else instead.
It's the "Infographics show"! Poorly researched by the ignorant. But it's popular because it's in cartoon form!
most of it is true though
Yeah. A lot of it seems more like "what the US thinks EU thinks about the US."
Exactly
I think they just took a small sample from less then 10 Europeans that went to the states? Gives some idea, but i suspect totally different things would be weird in NYC, the mid-west, California, texas or the southern Christian belt. So did they just randomly pick what they felt covered mostly the usa all over? :-)
@@GdzieJestNemo Or true-ish. "Europeans" are a diverse lot - views and attitudes can differ greatly.
I realise that a bunch of European countries are still catching up on digital and card payments, but in the Netherlands our banking systems are way more advanced than those in North-America. When I opened up a bank account in Canada, it felt like travelling 10 years back in time.
But seriously. Everyrhing i buy i can just put my phone against a machine and within 2 seconds i payed for it. America only have credit cards cuz they make money on. People with not enough money buying stuff with, 5 months later they still dont have enough money and than gotta pay rents over the stuff they bought than. Making the creditcard makes rich
Same in Czechia, you can use it almost everywhere, even small stalls. Plus I use my phone most of the time.
yeah, but here in europe the majority of stuff is bought with debit rather than credit. The whole european system is much safer than the US system, considering we pay with what we have, not with what we can pay off in the next twenty years
In my country there are stores that don't accept cards. When I visited Netherlands I saw for the first time ever that there are stores that don't accept cash.
True in fact nederlands have the highes social disparity in all the world.
Happy to be and Italian slaker
in finland cashiers have to ask for id if the person looks younger than 30. some stores even require id for energy drinks
Hi, Ryan! About the news and the commercials. The approach to the news casts is probably different in some European countries, but in most Western European countries, the main news casts are required to be impartial and strictly factual, not slanted or being the news reporter's personal opinion. There are other discussion programs where politicians, reporters and experts analyze and comment on topical items, of course.
American news on TV sometimes resemble a show instead of serious news because of the sensationalism, drama and simplified view that they have. In Europe, we want the news presenters to be calm, serious and therefore trustworthy. So as not to seem too dull and boring, many news end with an item of a lighter genre, something a little funny for instance.
As to the amount of TV commercials in the U.S., it really was a shock to find out that there were commercial breaks every five minutes or so! This I did discover in Fort Wayne, Indiana, and Chicago, Illinois, when I lived there in the late sixties. I wondered how people could accept that without protesting. At the time, you couldn't record anything and skip the ads. Nowadays, in Finland (and I guess in many other European countries as well), there are strict regulations for how much of an hour-long program, for instance, can consist of commercial time. Here, the maximum is around every fifteen minutes, that is, before and after a program is on and twice during. Another factor is that the main channels in many countries have no commercials at all. They are funded by the state, that is, by general taxes, as so many other things are that the citizens get to enjoy without having to pay for them separately out of pocket.
As a general rule, Ryan, please take whatever is proposed in the videos about Europe or specific European countries with a big grain of salt. Some info is accurate and some is dated. For example in this video, the part about using credt cards or cash varies greatly and a lot changed on that front because of covid. Finland has ever since Nokia been in the forefront of using plastic and the latest modes of payment like instant payments on one's smart phone from one's bank account. This is now mainstream. Everything is now concentrated to the smartphones. Everything.
Well, those were some of my personal remarks...
Thanks for your videos. I'm happy to support a 'fellow Hoosier..😊
I'm from Portugal. Here, your ID might be requested in some situations. I was asked ONCE to watch a +18 movie at the theater. It's funny because I was 23 and none of my friends were asked to show their ID, but me... because of my "baby face". 😑 They all laughed.
same problem especially after i have shaved and i am 36 but after shaving i look like 21, and same for ID in some cases you get asked for an ID, from the Netherlands btw
Hi Ryan. Here in Germany it happens more often with "younger" people that they are asked for the identity card if they want to buy alcohol or tobacco. There are even signs at the cash registers which apologize for the fact that you are asked for the ID card because you look a little too young :-) Thanks for your entertaining videos. Keep it up! P.S. In the show "realer irrsinn" you have found the best German show in my opinion. Bureaucracy meets sarcasm.....simply delicious to watch.
Except when you've just turned 16 and walk up there all proud with your ID and are just waiting for them to ask you for it. They never do it on that day :(
This guy at the end is the Head of the Wagner Group who fought for Russia in Ukraine and efmg Africa, who has been killed by Putin last yr...
I was asked for ID in New York - I was 30 at the time and my answer was to swear in surprise..... the guy behind the bar laughed and as he got the beer he just said "You Brits".
I watch a Spanish show. It lasts 2hrs and 30 min and they only break for commercials and adds 3 times. I love it!!!
I've only ever been stopped by the police twice in my life, both in LA, same thing both times. Was staying with a friend in LA, nearest shop was a mile away, every time I walked there, didn't have a car, I'd get pulled by an LA cop. Apparently walking to he shops isn't done. The cops were nice btw, probably helped that I was English and had my passport with me...
Amazing, In the land of the Free?
I got pulled on the I40 doing a shade under the ton and the cop was great especially once he took his hand off his gun when he heard my accent and noticed the Union flag I had tied to the back of the bike.
My sister was stopped too while pushing a buggy with her one year old in it. She told the cops what she thought of his country caught a flight back home as soon as she could. It was the land of the free provided you drove everywhere. The USA is a country where you are not allowed to walk apparently!
@@stephenlee5929 The land of the free, where nothing is free, and usually more expensive than anywhere in Europe.
I got warned by a cop for Jay walking in Canada, thanks to my English accent that i didn't get a ticket.
So, in Europe (at least in Belgium), only the police can force you to show your ID, so most of the time it's only taken out if you look younger and someone refused to sold you something.
I think it's the same in France, with the exceptions of cashiers, because it's explicitly stated that selling alcohol, tobacco and gambling games to anyone under 18 is strictly forbidden. So if you're a child, teen, or look young, you'll be asked to show your ID to make sure you're legal.
Now, I don't know if they do this EVERY TIME, but technically they should. It's kind of recent too, it's been really made a thing when I was in my late teen years, so roughly 10-12 years ago. I remember being like 20 and having the cashier ask for my ID because I went to purchase a bottle of alcohol.
No one can "force" you to show your ID except the police in the USA. You just won't be able to buy the cigarettes or alcohol.
Not so. European legislation requires countries to ask for ID to comply with the Alcoholic sales. Even if you look 22 or more.
For clarification: No, someone you want to buy alcohol from can't force you to show your ID!
You can absolutely reject that. They simply won't sell you the alcohol then, but they can't see your ID without your consent.
There is no problem showing your ID if you intend to buy something +18
In fact, it is mandatory otherwise the person will not be able to buy if they cannot prove that they are +18 and I think that's good, this prevents the person from losing their job and prevents irresponsibility
(Based in Portugal)
I was very into WWW when it started airing in Spain, especially because there were a pair of commentators that made the matches really fun to watch. But then I started paying attention at the live audience, and watching those people getting all worked up about, seeing how they vibrated and how they _believed_ something that was so plainly fake, was incredibly creepy. Somehow it took all the fun out of it.
Does Spain get much coverage from Mexico of the luchadores? I can imagine that would be entertaining!
The marvel of WWE, AEW etc is how these massive men, and women, can perform these live stunts and not hurt themselves.
@@colinmorrison5119Mexican wrestling isn't very popular in Spain, so I don't think the regular TV channels give it much coverage 🤷♂
Dane here. We use our flag as decoration when we celebrate birthdays, graduations, weddings etc. (national events too of course). So if I see a house with a lot or even just one danish flag outside, I would just assume that they are celebrating someone's birthday or something like that.
So do we (Sweden).
And to me that helps to keep the flag "special", if you know what I mean, it gives a very special feeling to hoist the flag in the morning. If you do it every day, I think that feeling goes away by time, which IMO is sad.
In most Europen countries, including the UK. cash is rare ! Most places just require a light touch with a card, job done !
True of cities, but not in rural areas. There are places where you can ONLY pat with a card, but in most places you have the choice still.
I as an Yooropian find it weird that an American makes a video about how Europe is actually mostly France and the UK :D
Greetings from Edinburgh, Estonia... :D Omelette baguette!
To be fair, even western Europeans know very little about eastern countries! I would love for him to react to stuff specific to these regions ❤️
Camembert, frites !
@@clementwymiens7955 sausage with mayonaise ;)
@@user-fn2pb2ux9t EEEEEW! NO, THAT'S GROSS 🤣😘
As a Brit. I totally agree with you. Europe is much more than just us in the UK. and those odd Snail sippers (Jk). its so diverse and amazing and all of it deserves love (Even the French ;P ) and to be seen for the vast cultural differences within. :). much love from the uk
@@Tvashk I live in France for 14 years and never sipped a snail. Whenever I come to England (my daughter lives there), the only thing eatable is foreign. Magnificent Indian food in London. British food is like British weather.........boring. That said, I love this strange island on the other side of the channel.
In the UK a lot of our Garages (As we call them - your gas stations) do supply fuel 24 hours but are not maned they are on auto pumps paid by credit/debit card, the one snag is you need to have around £100.00 - ($120.00) credit in your account before you can use the pump -
I work in a supermarket in Denmark where we have two types of alcohol regulations: for beer and wine, the minimum age is 15, and for strong alcohol, it's 18. However, I don’t always check people's IDs even if I suspect they might not be 18 or 15. This is because our firm doesn’t strictly enforce these rules, so they aren't followed as rigorously. But it can still cause trouble if a violation is reported. So, it's not about doing whatever you want; it’s just that it's not as big a deal in Denmark as it might be in the US.