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Yes, you should try deep-fried deviled eggs.
You have 20 cereal boxes.... we have an entire isle of cereal options.
5:58 we have a saying in the south. You can fry anything if the grease is hot enough.
we have like 60 or more different cereals.
You pick the right topics, but you stop it too much, and talk too much.
15:48 thats cute 20 options for cereal. in the US we might have 20 different options just for Cheerios alone 😂
I came down here to make the same comment, and looked into it just to make sure and its 21 lol
@@leemullins7701 lmao that is insane
yeah we usually have a full aisle of cereal
didnt read comments before read...but I listed the Cheerio options in my comment
I posted this exact example a couple of minutes ago, before I saw yours.
“ the difference between Europe and USA is Americans think 500 years is old. Europeans think 500 miles is far.” Lol
Let's not misinform. 200-300 years is old. The UK for example is viewed as our ancient parentage for example and a place like Egypt....good lord it's literally and figuratively biblical.
You lie well.
@@joshbull623 notice the quotes. That is a famous quote, that the author used to explain the difference between American and Europe. I have always thought it a perfect example of our differences. . I don’t believe there is any “ misinformation” in that quote.
@@Dusk1962 okay??? Ummm where is the lie?
@@lenahedger I apologize but my comment was made as a jest, not as a serious critique of the quote, I was exaggerating the point of the quotes spirit for levity sake and building on it by using America's relative age to define everything because that is what Americans do, define everything through the context of ourselves and the U.S. is only officially 247 and around no more than 300 if you want to count the generation that would bring in the first Americans. Also, we invented the English language, your welcome. Just a little Jim Gaffigan joke for ya lol.
Customer service is not tied to tips. Customer service is about gaining and retaining customers. Places that don’t get tips have every reason to treat customers right. Customers have many options and they will go where they feel welcomed and appreciated.
YES!!!!! That's what I've been saying!! Companies here TRAIN their employees to be nice! If I get shitty service somewhere, I ain't going back! That's MY money I'm spending there, not theirs! 😉
That stems from the sheer amount of choice a lot of us have in larger towns and cities. It seems like Europe only has a few options in many cases so there is no incentive to retain customers when they are essentially trapped.
100000% tips are nice but it is about customer retention. I always have my “go-to” places because of the way I am treated there.
I've only ever worked in customer service for every job I've had and honestly it's really not even about retaining customers! Overall we are just nice, doesn't have anything to do with the job or business. Obviously you get some workers who aren't but usually when service workers are being nice it's because that's just how they are.
@@Chris-ib5ht Customer service is the first rule of business.
When Europeans discuss the good customer service in America, there's ALWAYS the suggestion that it's because of the tipping culture. This ignores the good service you get in places where there's no tipping; e.g., fast food restaurants. Good service is ingrained in American culture so that we expect it everywhere, and are disappointed when it's absent.
Part of it is the work ethos. If I'm doing a bad job, that means some other poor schlub has to suffer. If I'm working customer service or retail, it's some poor sod who is just trying to enjoy their time off. I'm on the clock, I'm getting paid to suffer, they're not. It's my job to make sure they get damn good service, just like if/when the shoe is on the other foot, I want to get good service.
Totally agree, there are some industries I would rather sell a kidney before going back to. But on the whole, I think as long as you are at least polite to who's helping you, you're going to get good service.
Like in Oregon (my state) we made it illegal for workers to make anything less than minimum wage, so all workers get min wage and tips (our min wage varies off of where you live in OR from $15.25 to $13.25 an hour as of 7/1), but I still get amazing service from whoever is helping me or serving my food. I try my hardest as well to recognize places that have been kind. Either by going often or something similar.
The biggest thing I've done for someone whose helped me was when my youngest was 2 she was fixated on her shoes didn't want to change them out even though they were gross, and she had outgrown them. So naturally when I took her to this little boutique that offered a wide variety of shoes, she didn't want any of them and the shop lady was so kind and tried to keep my kid busy and happy even though she wasn't having it and helped me by taking the old shoes away and listened to my daughter scream bloody murder and me near tears apologizing we were able to get her a few new pairs of shoes. I went back sans children and told her how much of a big help she was and gave her a gift card with a sizable amount on it. That day was traumatic, and she was the only reason I was able to hold it together, take my child to the ballet studio afterward to get her sister and go home and decompress. She earned every penny of that gift card.
The only place that you tip is in a sit down restaurant or a bar.
Exactly, I’ve had phenomenal customer service at Best Buy and bass pro shops, I guess the idea comes from just pessimism, they’re probably used to people being miserable in the work place that a “happy go lucky individual” is an alien concept to them
Noone can live on minimum wage. A student maybe.
15:10 She said "Spain" because she lives in Spain.
And cereal choice... once you get over here and go shopping, you will learn the true meaning of the phrase "cereal aisle"
And every one has their favorite cereal that they still eat as adults.
anything over 8 hour drive is beginning of a long trip
We make (or used to- age has slowed us down) the 8 to 9 hour drive down to Southwest Florida to visit with our daughter and various relatives, then turn around and drive back. It would be a round trip of about 23 hours. Now, we have to plan to stay in a hotel and come back the next day. Driving a couple of hours for doctors appointments or such is routine, though. Both my husband and I have driven over an hour (one way) to get to work. It just was what we did.
@@ladybee883I can confirm. We routinely go over an hour away for shopping trips. If we really need something, there's a town 20 minutes away, but selection there is limited. Going back home is a 7 hour drive and we do that fine. Leave early in the morning and we'll be there in the early afternoon. Doesn't even feel that difficult or long, actually.
Long for me is seven hours.
@@kirbygulbrandsen4507 yeah, a little bit long. We get up early and get there still fairly early in the day, so it doesn't feel so bad. It is a long time to be in a car. Taking turns driving and getting a nap when you aren't driving makes it seem quicker though.
@joanna400 I used to be able to make the trip with no problem, but now that we're in our 70's it's just not feasible. We still leave at around midnight, though, so we're there in plenty of time to spend the day before checking into our hotel. Coming back, we don't leave quite as early, usually about 5:00 in the morning, so that we get home before dark so that we can check everything over. We used to have an RV, but really had stopped using it so sold it. The money saved once we didn't have to insure it was a bonus.
Covid messed up a lot of our 24/7 places in America as well. A bunch of places near me are just like you described, they were 24/7 before covid and now close at like 8-10pm. It sucks!
It's honestly such an inconvenience to go grocery shopping at any time but 2-3 in the morning! That's when everything is restocked, there's hardly anybody else there, and it was so much more peaceful. I'd heard Walmart was going to be switching from 24/7 before covid though. That was just the push they needed to go ahead and do it
it really does suck, idk why they don't put them 24/7 again :/
@@Chris-ib5ht that is when I did most of my grocery shopping! It was quieter, and without as many lines. It was also nice to be able to grocery shop after work when you're also a night-shift worker that didn't get home until after everything was closed.
@@Chris-ib5ht Some of the ones around us are pushing to go back to 24/7.
@@L3WGReactsbecause states like California are driving up min wage so it’s not financially viable to be open for those few customers. We will see more of this as min wage goes higher driving operating costs up, hours of operation down while keeping the bottom earners with a still unlivable wage because the cost of living gets driven up due to increased labor costs. The really sad part is the higher wage earners are not getting increasing wages thus lowering their standard of living
I think the quality of service in the US is only partially because of tips or bonuses. I have gotten the impression that a large percentage of Americans (though it probably varies by location) are just used to treating people nicely and being kind to strangers compared with much of the rest of the world. It is a cultural difference.
Exactly, thank you! Tipping has been around so long it is simply part of the culture. I have 15 years front of the house experience in 4 different states including management. People I hired were just nice and friendly people and an experienced wait staff knows the tips will follow by doing a good job, it does not determine your attitude (mostly). People with bad attitudes don't get hired.
Part of it I want to say comes from how we built out country from the ground up. So much was spent expanding and settling the frontier, so when you might be living in a place with not a lot of people around, you tend to rely on those who'd be easiest accessible: your neighbors.
Also in most larger retail locations, customer service is part of the corporate culture, it's a job requirement. Often, friendlier people thrive in that environment.
Exactly. I don’t think it is sustainable to constantly pretend to be nice just to get better tips. I think it is a self selecting population, and genuinely nice people who enjoy working with the public tend to be the ones who can stick with the job and also make good tips.
I worked for a very short time as a waitress. I was horrible! I messed up orders, I forgot who got what, missed bringing drinks, etc. But I got great tips, because my customers were so entertained by me and my apologies, that I had regulars, who waited to sit at my tables. My boss, who was the owner, was upset the first two days, and then realized I was bringing in more business, so he kept me for a whole 6 weeks, until I found a job I was rather more qualified to perform! My customers were sad to see me go, and told me the restaurant just wouldn’t be the same. ( I am sure my boss was rather relieved to see the end of me, though!)
At a typical American grocery store, you will find hundreds of different types of cereals on the shelf. That is not an exaggeration.
Yup, we have an entire aisle dedicated to cereal alone. It's great.
While I was stationed in England in the late 90s, I brought my English fiancé on-base to the Commissary, which is the military American-style grocery store. She was baffled that we had multiple brands of mustard, much less the insanity of the cereal aisle.
So who needs 30 brands of peanut butter or 15 brands of mustard? Most of us repeatedly buy the same brand over and over.
@@terryslipp3148Each person might buy the same every time, but not everyone is buying the same ones. Everyone has different preferences.
@@terryslipp3148 because we aren't all buying the same brands. I typically but Zatarain's Creole Mustard, I don't want the ones everyone else is buying
It can be a double-edged sword when ppl have it so good they have to literally invent reasons to complain…if you know you know ;)
Many American have been indoctrinated to hate their country. I was one of them when I was at university. It was only after I started my own business and started scratching for myself that I began to become patriotic again. The American Dream is real and all of those that claim misery under capitalism are fooled by a creeping "victim mentality" that has been fostered here to divide and conquer.
A sense of gratitude is all that is needed to make life better. This video is great to bolster gratitude.
@@brettmuir5679 That’s why I watch these videos from all over the world. To get a sense of perspectives, Americans living abroad included.
Nowhere is perfect but it does tend to hammer home how unique the US is, especially regarding civil liberties. I’ve seen countless foreign videos espousing free speech in other countries until they get arrested over a Facebook post and suddenly realize they don’t.
Everyone makes fun of America’s 2A until pocket knives and serrated kitchen knives are banned and they realize it has nothing to do with the “tools” used and everything to do with suppressing the population from self-defense (from threats foreign and domestic)
@@brettmuir5679 We are the most upwardly mobile economy in the world. Where else can you make enough to live in the suburbs, in a crime free neighborhood, as an immigrant who doesn't speak the language? When anyone can open a business, anyone can live the dream.
i just checked our local 1 of the 142 grocery stores near me in a 10 mile radius, and our local Publix grocery store has 235 different breakfast cereals.
That's outrageous. How do you cope with such a limited selection?😂
I live in Bentonville, Arkansas. Headquarters for Walmart. You are not going to believe this, but they have several Walmart locations that are now delivering packages to homes using drones. It's still in the testing phase but is supper cool. I always enjoy your clips. Thanks
Hi, Bentonville! I lived in the Twin Lakes area of Arkansas for 26 years, and our Walmart store was number 11.
My cousin quit his as an airplane mechanic in Knoxville,TN to move to Bentonville, Arkansas. Now he works at Walmart sector where they fabricate and maintain drones.
Man, the biggest thing holding me back from going to other countries is that it takes FOREVER to get to any of them. Even if you're flying, it takes ages and costs a boatload of money. If we didn't have to pop over the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean any time we wanted to visit somewhere besides Canada or Mexico, most Americans would go to other countries so much more often.
Fr! Flying to the nearest country for me is over 8hrs and its 24+hrs to drive. I'd hate having to go further than that on a plane
I'd practically live in Tokyo if it weren't for being held back by being poor.
@@Chris-ib5htit takes me 8 hours to get to Hawaii and I can't drive to it.
@bunchielove6893 My bf is from another country and a couple days ago asked me if I wanted to do a little road trip, "just a couple days" then recommended Seattle. He didn't believe me when I said it's over 40 hours just to drive there, then another 40 hours coming back. It would take a "couple days" just to get there
When you said 20 types of cereal was a lot I almost spit out my water. In the small grocery store near me they have over 50 and Walmart has a selection of at least 200. It’s down both sides of a very long isle.
I caution you on when she said service employees are just kissing ass. That can be true for some people who are in a position where they receive tips. However, the statement attempts to negate that people can simply be nice. Most of my best customer service experiences come from people who are not tipped.
Time to just allow that kindness is more common in itself and isn't fake.
Another poster here I say thank you to! I've called her out on this in other videos.
I even got great customer at a Walmart! I know, it surprised me too but this young man spent 45 minutes with me picking out a phone and signing me up for a plan. This was in Austin and he was from somewhere else in the deeper south. I complimented him and his reply was that was simply how he was raised.
Yeah, that is annoying. How is at that we are simultaneously among the most polite people in the world, while our wait staff are just kissing ass? Be logical.
Okay I counted the cereal choices. I went to 4 stores. Walmart, save a lot, aldi and schnucks 2 are St Louis local or regional stores 2 international stores. Their are over 200 original styles of cold cereals and 40 styles of hot cereals.
this is dedication. I tip my hat to you
As an american living in bangkok, all my close friends were British. My neighbor had ants in her apt and a young son...she was putting up with them until she told me! "Oh hell no" i took care of them😂
As an American, I've spent a lot of time in Canada, been to Europe (Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Italy, France, etc.). It's fine. I prefer home. Do enjoy your older cultures, history and architecture, but before long I begin to miss my wild lands (I'm from Northern Minnesota and live on a big piece of rural property close to real wilderness) as Europe is way to "settled' for me.
I would suggest if you want to move to America spend some time here first. Just like there you don't just move on a whim you check out the area and see if you would actually like being there. Also go at different times of the year. Some places have very diverse weather during the year. And of course if you do move here "welcome to America" .
You are not looking hard enough if you don't believe the UK holds astonishing beauty. Cumbria, the Isle of Skye, Dorset, the Isle of Scilly. The architecture, the history, art, music...the UK is home to amazing beauty and treasure well worth exploring and experiencing.
Much ❤
...... In the Fog!!!!
Dude, I'm afraid you are getting your expectations of the US way too high. But we'd love to have you here! Just remember that the grass is always greener..
Yep, the grass is greener and there are tremendous differences between urban and rural areas. There are some small towns that don't have fast food restaurants or grocery stores.
'...the grass is always greener...' over the septic tank ~ Erma Bombeck
@nowhereman725_ Yep! My hometown didn't have a grocery store or even a gas station. Running errands took planning ahead. And I recently drove over an hour without passing through a single recognizable town on a trip. You definitely have to choose a good spot to get what you want
A lot of the stuff that was mentioned has to do with consumerism culture. It’s great when you have money but otherwise not so much. And personally I could do with a little less choice since I’m a pretty indecisive person. Do we really need 100s of different types of toothpaste or anything? It makes my head spin.
Nah. Ive been to the UK and its shit. Ive been to many countries and the best one ive been to is probably Japan. Italy is funny, Germany is nice. But the US has it nailed.
I was a customer service manager at a Chase Bank call center. My employees had performance reviews yearly. And every call that they took was recorded. And as a manager, we had to review multiple calls a month from each of our people. Their raises would depend on customer service. Customer's also were encouraged to take a survey at the end of the call, and believe me, if the caller didn't like his/her service, they definitely made it known. And if the rep received a bad survey, managers were required to listen to the call and then bring the rep in to listen and discuss the correct way to handle the call. If it was really bad, the rep would get written up, and after 3 write ups, they would be fired. We also have at least 100 different cereals. We have a whole eisle of the grocery store just for cereal. ❤😮😂
We have an entire aisle for cereal ... I would guess, 100 -125 options easily available. & they are always adding or changing
I used to drive 1 hour 45 mins one way to work 3 days a week. So 3 and a half hours round trip. Lasted for about 2 years.
Distances between towns in Montana can be some distance. Back in December my sister and brother-in-law drove 6 hours one way to take me out to lunch on my birthday. Then they turned around and drove home the same day.
Lewis,
I used to regularly drive a stretch of road, about an hour long stretch where I inevitably pondered the possibility that I had died and gone to Hell.
So, no matter how bad you think your roads are EVERY country has their little slice of unending Hell.
The Florida panhandle, specifically I-10. So.much.monotony.
NYC has the Brooklyn Queens Expressway. It has so many potholes and cracks. These are caused by salt and the heavy trucks. Due to the HEAVY TRAFFIC, it is impossible to close it to repave it. When they close ONE lane to do repairs, it causes a traffic jam of at least an hour!
For our servers, we keep a list of our favorites for each restaurants and our never agains. We are really patient and really understanding when issues happen, so it takes a lot to get to our never again list. For our favorites, we know we'll be well taken care of so we take care of them. We'll give a tip along with a $20 "gift" every now and then. We make sure to tell them it's a gift each time so they don't have to share it or claim taxes. At Christmas time, we also gift them extra cash or a gift along with a card thanking them for being amazing. A restaurant could have delicious food, but if service is bad we won't go back.
Here in Michigan (& Ohio & Indiana i think) we have Meijer stores that used to be open 24 hrs but since covid, they close at midnight....still awesome tho. Also there are some McDonald's thst are open 24 hrs. Lots of fast food places are open til midnight or beyond. During the holiday shopping season, lots of places extend their hours until late evening, early morning.
Wisconsin too
Here in Ohio and it was nice to go shopping at 2 or 3 in the morning as it was "normal daytime" hours for me at the time. I was able to get off work at 7:30 in the morning and still beat most of the busier times of the day after they made the change. Much past 8 and they would start filling up with the normal daylight customers.
Georgia has a big TV production business, TV stations are different though. Most cities have their own stations.
There are a lot of restaurants in the states if you are through with your beverage you have to put your hand over the top of your glass when the waitress comes by because if you're not paying attention she will refill it before you have the chance to tell her no
There are ppl who have never left the state they were born in
If you go to a shop, you will find machinery, trucks, mechanics, huge tool boxes, a store is where you have: grocery store, hardware store, all products stores, drug stores, specialty stores, etc.
I flew 4 1/2 hrs from Hawaii to L.A.had a lay over 2 hours then 5 hr flight to Chicago, O'HARA airport, a 3 hr lay over then 1 1/2 hr flight to Cincinnati Ohio. By the time luggage came out of carousel I had been traveling like 16 hours and all in one day with time zone changes! 😊
Between 1970 and 1998, the number of different types of breakfast cereals in the U.S. more than doubled, from about 160 to around 340; as of 2012, there were roughly 4,945 different types (estimate based on the mass customization of online shopping). lol bro that's the record for 2012... it's 2024 now! Imagine how many we have now!
Before Covid, Walmart was 24/7 but not anymore. Pharmacies (basically mini grocery stores) are 24/7, same with some fast food and diners.
I had a good laugh at "traveled 4 hours and you're still in America." I remember as a kid, we would drive from our home in Huntington Beach, CA to our grandmothers house in Redding, CA. It was like a 9 hour drive and you are still in the same state lol.
I think the family history thing is becuase there is no one dominant ethnicity in the US. Very few families were here 200 years ago. There are exceptions of course but they are exceptions.
My ancestors arrived to North America in 1634. We found this out a few yrs ago and were amazed.
I have never heard of a 24 hour Target. They are usually 8 am until 10 pm
If you go to most grocery stores there is an entire isle dedicated to cereal and breakfast items. And no store actually carries every option available.
“An Englishman thinks a hundred miles is a long way; an American thinks a hundred years is a long time” Diana Gabaldon in "Outlander"
Georgia has a HUGE film industry. All the Marvel stuff is done outside of Atlanta.
Omg! The bakery that I love that makes the best Italian cream cake I have ever had, is almost 2 hours away.
Do I drive there every weekend? No, my tukus is big enough. Thank you very much.
But do I drive up there a couple times a year to get my cake? Hell yes I do! 2 hours is nothing.
You are seeing pictures of beautiful things in the US. Not every inch of it is like that. In the state I live in. You will drive for miles and not see anything of interest. No offense to people who live in Oklahoma. Some of it is beautiful. But if you have to drive diagonally across the state. It's going to take three years. 😂
Okay. Maybe it'll take a whole day. I might have exaggerated ever so slightly. But on that long drive there is not a lot to see. I mean there are some things. But you're not going to see those mountains or the water or any of that kind of stuff. Some of this country is quite flat and quite boring.
The tipping in this country has gotten utterly out of control. I actually went to a kiosk where there was no person working. I had to pick my item. I'd run it through the register by myself. And they had the audacity to ask me for a tip. Will I tip? No. My new rule in life is hairdresser, dog groomer, and wait staff who serve me at a table. No one else.
Tipping was originally something you did because the people in a wait staff position did not make the full minimum wage. My first job was as a waitress. I made $2.20 an hour and the minimum wage at that time was $3.30 an hour. I actually made more as a waitress then I could make at minimum wage.
So is all of that tipping that people talk about necessary? No. It is customary to tip certain people. But now they want to tip at McDonald's. After they've given you the wrong order no less. No no no no you don't need to do that.
I need to know the location of that bakery... please tell me its in the northeast corridor!
My dads cousin traveled to Germany, enjoyed the original farm and land of the paternal family. He witnessed seemingly familiar faces and characteristics. Simply amazing to me. Some things you never forget.
I work in a grocery store as a day stocker. Our cereal aisle definitely has >100 varieties of cereal. Maybe even closer to 200 varieties.
Big stores being open 24/7 in the US is generally going to be in an urban or metropolitan area. I've seen several stores go to 24/7 because they have employees stocking overnight, so why not get the extra sales. Then, a couple of years later, they discontinue 24/7 open hours.
Currently, I'm 50 miles east of downtown Los Angeles and it's suburban enough that it's pretty much gas stations and fast food drive throughs that are open 24/7. Fast food locks the doors on indoor eating overnight.
6:45 many perfer the tips because they can actually make more than they would of with a higher salary
20 cereals? That's quaint. The tiny store I work in - not a grocery store - has about 20 cereals. A grocery store may have 100.
That said, there's a lot of cereals that are basically the same, just made by different companies. And then you get minor variations, like 10 slightly different Raisin Brans (this one has almonds! This one has walnuts! This one mixes in cranberries! This one has yoghurt-covered raisins! Etc.)
Dude….just want to say how much I enjoy your content. Can’t wait till you come over and experience it for yourself to see your reactions.
How it feels to drive two hours in the US depends on what part of the US you're in. The Texas panhandle, for instance, is ridiculously boring.
I agree if you just stay on I40. But if you take a lesser highway, there is a lot of beautiful scenery.
No lies detected! I drove from El Paso to Dallas and it was the most boring road trip ever!
Driving through central California is so boring
Or all of Kansas, Nebraska or Oklahoma
@@jennofthewest0916 Absolutely true, but there are so much worse areas in the US as well including through Texas. At least in California you have some mountains off in the distance and hills to your West. The biggest gap in exits is about 30(?) miles there as well. Much further in other places.
Being nice is a cultural thing here in the U.S. It isn't about tips and most retail sales people do not receive commissions. There are certainly exceptions (e.g., car sales) and we have jokes about them. Our jokes center on them telling you anything to get you to buy - but never about how nice they were or whether or not they were kissing the backside. They'd better be nice and kiss the backside or we're spending our money somewhere else. lol Companies see engaging with the customer as a way to build brand loyalty - if the customer has a positive experience, they'll come back. Socially, we teach our children to be friendly and nice - it is expected behavior here. Many of us, if smiling and saying hello gets no or a negative response, are walking away saying "a$$hole." And if that person was a customer, once they need something or want to check out, they'll only get the absolute bare minimum of what the employee could possibly do for them. Shrug. As I said - it's expected behavior to be friendly and nice in any social situation, and that absolutely includes the customer /employee situation. It is part of why Karens are mocked so relentlessly here and why complaints of rudeness by staff are almost always guaranteed to get you a discount or something free the next time you shop/eat there.
First time I ever heard of deep frying "everything" was 30 or more years ago on a travel show from Scotland. Way before it caught on over here.
water beds always helped in the heating and cooling. winter turn the heater on and it was toasty, summer turn it off, just off and the water get to where you feel cold
Yes, in the states, we have appliance repair people. Maybe because I'm used to it, but it seems like common sense to have people that know how to fix things, fix things. 😊 Louis, u can order an electric blanket or throw to heat ur bed up. Cooling is another matter. A fan is my choice. Cheaper and easier than a specialty device. We can vacation in so many places here. The problem comes from not getting paid vacation time or time off period to go on vacation. Since covid, the 24hr walmarts in my area, close at 11pm, same as Louis said for his town. 😊 Definitely never had 24hr pharmacies here. The hours of walmart pharmacies in my area is 9am-7pm with it closing for a couple hours in the middle of that time for lunch. Sucks for sure.
You've never had a 24hr pharmacy?! I used to work overnights at CVS (philly) and thought there were 24hrs everywhere
@@steventambon2588 no. Not in eastern ohio/northern panhandle WV area.
@@jikook7457 ahhh okay that makes sense. My family in Sistersville WV did say they really only have Walmart to go to 24/7
@steventambon2588 we're neighbors, as we say for anyone less than a day trip away 😀 I'm around Wheeling.
@@jikook7457 Those tiny towns on the Ohio River are all so quaint and lovely
Shopping in America is definitely better than Europe. I can go out at three in the morning buy a case of beer, lawnmower, and a shotgun. You know you need those things in the middle of night.
You never know when a zombie apocalypse will spring up.
Where? MostWalmartsare closed from 11pm to 6am. What store is selling lawnmowers and shotgun in the middle of the night? I may need them at my house
@@dalemoore8582 Walmart there’s still plenty of them open 24 move out of the hood, my friend
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Myers is open 24 seven but they don’t sell shotguns. I stand corrected at Walmart does indeed close at 11 I was unaware of that.
The beer and the shotgun I get - but mowing the lawn at night can be a little dicey. lolz
Very true! I took my 25 year old handbag to Loui Vuitton store to have the zipper replaced cost $250.00 worth it! Looks new.
15:55 in many big U.S. grocery stores, you expect to see at least 50 options for cereal, and they take up like half an aisle.
I hope when you do make it over here, you do a video on all of the things that these youtubers told you that was utterly false. Or true in one part of the country but not true in other parts of the country.
If he is buying a house over there, he probably isn't coming over here unless his CZcams career goes viral.
Gas stations sell groceries in some places. Or at least beer and drinks, pizza, sandwiches. Chips, pastries, tobacco, etc.
The land of opportunity. I lived in ten different states in my career. Every new job was a new state. A move up the ladder each time but still within the same job skills. All within an industry that is actually quite small, fire trucks. I started as a mechanic and worked up from there. Worked in various positions with dealers and then manufacturers, eventually as a national sales manager for a prominent builder. I love this country.
Yes, I have a Louis Vuitton tote bag that I recently took into their store due to loose stitches on the handle. The store repaired in two days.
If you're paying for 'free' refills - they ain't free!
We even have roads that "sing" while you drive. The side of the road plays a song if you travel on it.
They have some that sound like a gun if you drive off onto the shoulder. It will wake you up.
You know, sodas that come out of the machine(?) that pours it into a cup, cost the restaurant a few cents each. They're already making like a 1000% profit off of the initial purchase.
One thing that I about high school, 14-18, is having your own car for high school, great times. Still love my cars, one convertible for weekend drives, 2014 Camaro , looks like Bubble bee.
A lot of shows are filmed in Georgia. In NYC, developers have broken ground on a new film and studio center by the river. And Canada has major productions in Toronto and Vancouver.
Georgia is where Tyler Perry's production company is. The major studios are in LA and NYC, mostly, though. Smaller, indie companies are more scattered, throughout.
free refills in the US are usually for water, sodas, and teas/lemonades. for the specialty drinks you would have to "repurchase" the drink. and it's funny that she mentioned georgia when she asked if they have their own tv/production industry because a famous producer/director (at least in the black community lol) tyler perry, opened up his production company in georgia. a lot of things are filmed in atlanta, georiga as well like the marvel movies. idk if casting happens in georgia or if they just film there, but georgia is a big part of the film industry
1:24 i know that sound SO well -- it's the sound Find My iPhone makes when you activate it
I have a mattress cover that heats up. Each side of the bed has its own controls......just like an electric blanket.
There is also an AC unit that you can tuck up under your bedding that blows cold air for summer time. I live in a house that is over 100 years old and there is no heating upstairs.
Yep, I have a heated mattress cover just like that! They're awesome. But I also remember my auntie having an electric blanket back in the 50's in England when I lived there.
I flew from Miami to Anchorage ,Alaska once non-stop and it took 37 hours
One year my mom did back to back trips to visit family. It took 14hrs for her to fly from home to Fairbanks, Alaska. Almost to the minute the same time 14hrs to fly from home to visit family in Romania. She found that ever so odd.
Believing you can achieve something is half the battle!
FYI, Louis Vuitton's website says repairs are available at ALL of their stores, just use the store locator to find one near you no matter what country you're in. If there isn't a store near you, you can initiate a repair request online and send your item to them for repair. It's the same with most high-end manufacturers. The driving distances between the US and the UK are soooo different, which is the reason Laurence (Lost in the Pond) told you to pick a small area of the US to visit unless you were planning on being here for weeks, if not a couple of months. The distance for me to drive to my sister's house here in Florida (not only in the same state, but only halfway though the state) is the same as the driving distance from London and Edinburgh - in the UK it would get me to a different country!!! 5 hours for my sister to drive here and 6 hours for my nephew to drive here from the University of Florida in Gainesville, and both have done it down and back IN THE SAME DAY more than once when they needed to come here for something like a special appointment but they could only take one day off from work or school. Here's a real kicker... this is just driving in Florida, mind you... to drive from Key West at the south end of Florida north to the state capitol of Tallahassee, and then get on I-10 and drive west through the Florida panhandle (your route is going to look like 2 sides of a triangle), just to get out of Florida is almost 100 miles more than driving from London to Lerwick in the Shetland Islands (yes, I know you have to take a ferry from the north end of mainland Scotland) and takes over 14 hours if you drive non-stop!!! Many people who live in South Florida drive through 2 to 3 counties to commute to work - I know a number of people who commute to work every day from West Palm Beach to Kendall (southwest Miami), and where I have worked during the past 10 years frequently takes longer than 2.5 hours to drive home at the end of the day. I understand that you could frequently drive from London to Cardiff faster than I can get home from work. I will tell you something that makes me really envious - you being able to go to a pub or similar hometown restaurant for Sunday roast. It's a staple in the UK but we don't have anything like it in the US, and it looks SO GOOD. The other thing you have that we don't, and you seem be so used to them it's not a big deal for you, are castles and stately homes. The places your aristocracy have called home are mind-blowing. When Diane was talking about customer service, I've never heard of tipping someone who works in a store (she was talking about tipping someone extra who works on commission - never heard of this, wish she would have named one store so I would know what kind of place she could have been talking about). The Walmart 5 minutes from my house is a supercenter (full dept store plus full grocery store) and is open 24 hrs. I can literally get in the car and hop over there to get anything you can think of at 3am if I feel like it. Most gas stations/convenience stores are open 24 hrs., as are many Walgreens pharmacies, and fast food places like Wendy's if you're craving a burger & fries in the middle of the night. I know that Lewis is probably on his computer during those hours just like I frequently am, so these things are very convenient 🍔🍟🍕🌮🍩🍰🧁🥧🍗🍨🍪🍷🍺 😜 Have you thought about the difference in the attitudes between the US and the UK where in the US kids are brought up to believe that you can be whatever you want to be and accomplish whatever you want with hard work and determination, where in the UK you have a negative attitude and frequently expect things to be provided for you by the government, and this might be the reason there are so many more choices, so many different kinds of companies, restaurants, businesses, etc, in the US - because more people work to open their own business or create their own product, and be the master of their own fate, as it were.
Walmart is no longer 24/7 after COVID-19. Winco Foods is 24/7 in areas where you have them.
At my local Walmart, I have over 100 cereal choices. Remember that is the cereal aisle where one side is just cold cereals & the other side has hot cereals, granola bars & protein bars.
She's right about the television industry in individual states. We have 5 TV stations just here in the city of Indianapolis.
20 different cereals? I go into the main store in my small town and we have a whole aisle to choose from. Both sides. Probably over 300 varieties from "healthy" varieties into the "almost" 100% sugar varieties.
The big grocery stores usually have an entire aisle dedicated to cereals.
service guy driving 3 hours is more of a flyover state thing. In NYC (for example) there would be such a guy within NYC. 🙂
Like Huey Lewis and the News said,
"New York, New York, is everything they say
And no place that I'd rather be
Where else can you do a half a million things
All at a quarter to three"
🙂
As far as Cereal, we have at least 200+ choices. This kinda includes store brands. Love From Michigan and it's a rather warm Evening. Never had I seen 45 degrees in January.
Cereal?? In the US there is usually an isle floor to ceiling, 30meters long, with nothing but brands of cereal. 😳
We have hundreds of different cereals in our markets, usually 1 aisle is dedicated to cereals the aisle is around 100 - 150 feet long to give you an idea
The distance thing always makes me laugh. Last year I landed a job in a motorcycle shop, that was 30mins away from where I live. I was ecstatic about it cause it cut down my commute to and from work by half. By 2/3rds when the traffic was bad. I was doing an hr, hr and a half each way. Almost every day.
Oh, how I long for decent public transit, and walkable cities.
Come to Rochester, New York. Call us a big small town or a small big city, but there still is a whole lot of stuff packed in. You can take the bus if you want to, and most things are no more than 20 or 30 minutes drive away, and you can live in certain neighborhoods where things are relatively walkable, or you can go live in some small towns where there's a lot more walkability. And that's all here in Western New York.
LOL I love that her American accent goes “woooow” like Owen Wilson.
Beds the first heating and cooling bed was the waterbed. Very comfortable set the temperature to your liking in the winter and in the hot summer months id set it to like 65 to 68 degrees F
Same thing here in the U.S. about the stores that used to be open 24 hours before Covid. They have not gone back to the extended hours.
The easiest way to describe the cereal options… Cereal gets it own isle at the supermarket.
Remember, Diane alternates living in Ireland and in Spain.
15:10 She said Spain because she's lived in Spain as well. She said so in one of her other videos you reviewed. That's why she always compares between America, Ireland, and Spain. 😜
I'm from California and we say WOW when we see rain the 7 days a year we see it. LOL
In all of 2023 we had a total of 5.3 inches of rain.
Georgia has a huge film industry. Everything from the walking dead, cannonball run, stranger things, etc.
10:21 hot places and Cold places in the same country...
I used to live in San Diego California, we could go swimming at the beach in the morning, jump in the car at noon and drive for 2 hours, then go snow skiing for the afternoon. We could do that without leaving our state of California.
I actually did the beach in the morning and then drive to the ski resort in the afternoon just so that I could say that I did it. That was back in the late '80s early '90s.
Family Feud with Steve Harvey is a Georgia entertainment studio production
Before covid, there were stores open 24 hrs., but now there isn't. You have to go to a convenient store gas station, like speedway or shell. There are some fast food open till 1am.
I once drove 12 hours, one way to get one of my cats, a Highland Lynx. The next year I did it again. Last weekend I drove 2 hours one way to get a cockatiel.
I can't drive anymore but once I drove 12 hours and I hated doing it that long also I had been driven from NY to FL and Pittsburgh PA it't was fun when I was younger road tripping but hate long drives now!
The difficulty of driving in Boston is infamous. For good reason. Whichever side of the river you’re on, you don’t like to cross it. Even if it’s only 2 miles away to yourself “yeah but I’d have to cross the river.”
Where is in Texas? Where I’m from driving two hours to get someplace is not a big deal and it’s typically an hour to go anywhere. When I would fly to see my family, it was typical for me to fly into Dallas from Boston Approximately five hour flight, rent a car drive an hour and a half to my moms. Stay there for an hour or a day depending and then drive six or seven hours to Odessa to see my kid. Thank goodness he lives here now! home again home again.
It was an ordeal
I had to comment about the cereal, ha..I went shopping yesterday to buy rice crispie and it just hit me as to how much of a choice of cereal we have. This average size grocery store, called Marval, has probably 50 different cereal boxes. And then in bulk, in a bag they had 10 different types..It's insane but sure nice to have such a great choice!
It's funny that she asked if Georgia had It's own tv industry. I live just south of Atlanta and most of the MCU movies were filmed within 20 miles of my home. It's not unusual for the local high school to have filming done there over summer break.
cereal: you've seen how long the food aisles in Walmart. Imagine the cereal aisle -- both sides are FULL of different types of cereal for the entire length.
Just before COVID some Walmarts here in Las Vegas, NV stopped 24 hours. But all all restaurants are 24 hours.
Cereal in the U.S. there are at least 4-6 types of different flavors for one brand. Take Cheerio's, you have original, honey nut, whole grain, strawberry, apple cinnamon, chocolate peanut butter, frosted, and very berry. These are only the one i can think of and one brand.