American reacts to 'Why Europeans are SLIMMER than Americans'
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The fact they thought a 20 minute walk was long says it all.
Most North Americans only walk from the car to the store or inside a mall or Walmart. We have more extreme weather, dangerous roads, unsafe neighborhoods and it’s not so simple.
@@grahamparks1645 I know, my English cousin lives in Florida and the locals think he's crazy walking to work. It's only about 10 minutes lol.
But then again the same people in his street, drive to the bottom of the road to their mail boxes 🙄
Yeah, before working from home I used to walk 3km each morning to work and 3km each evening back. Half an hour each, so 1 hour walking each day. And it didn't feel bad at all.
@@grahamparks1645 extreme weather? What do you mean? That´s not a valid excuse for not walking. Nobody here is saying you should walk out during a tornado, but everyone and their grandma here (Germany and the Netherlands) is perfectly able to walk even if it´s snowing or raining, and generally speaking Europe is situated far norther than the US, look at a map. Furthermore, is actually easier to avoid accidents if instead of a car you go for a walk statistically speaking. On the dangerous roads I agree, but you as citizens can ask for a change: there´s plenty of positive examples for that.
@@ChiaraVet agreed. Having lived in the US though I have to say one thing: if you don't live in a bigger city, there aren't really any sidewalks on bigger roads outside of areas where people live in. If you live in a suburb and want to go to the next one where there are only big stores and offices next to the road, sidewalks are rare. That's of course dangerous to walk. But weather?!
I was kind of shock about the portion sizes in Texas….in a Mexican restaurant each of the party got a basket of tortilla crips that equalled the same amount as a large bag you can buy in the supermarket and I got so much food, I wasnt able to eat it all…so a lot of waste again ( didnt eat all the crips) and the drinks are huge too…..I never took a refill because I already had a hard time emptying 1 glass.
Yes, I’m always stunned by their desire for free refills and having to pay for them when they travel to another country! The most I can drink with a meal is about 400ml and I usually opt for water because soda based drinks bloat me!
Here's the thing about breakfast in Europe : It isn't a real meal like in America. It's more of a snack to get you to lunch which is a real meal. This said, most good hotels (four stars or more) offer breakfast buffets with absolutely everything, from scrambled eggs to waffles to pancakes or even asian breakfast like fried noodles or noodle soup.
I had the reverse experience when I was at university in the States. I used to not have breakfast and have a hearty lunch. But lunch at my American Uni was melted cheese toast or BLTs or something puny...
There is thing in Germany we call coffee and cake (Kaffee und Kuchen) where you get yourself a cup of coffee and a piece of cake around 15:00/16:30, but mostly on vacation, special days of the weekend
Breakfasts are different everywhere. I loved the Austrian/Switzerland breakie when we were out there skiing - right up my alley as it was cold meats and hard boiled eggs. Loved it. In the UK I mostly eat cereal like Oatibix with skimmed milk.
That pasta meal she showed was normal size - we stopped in Lake Tahoe and honestly the meal could’ve fed 3 people. The waiter was horrified, asked me what was wrong with it! I just looked at him and said ‘nothing, it was lovely. There’s just far too much food’. It was HUGE. My then fiancé had warned me before going to the US to never order a large anything! He wasn’t wrong. I could manage a ‘standard’ portion.
I think the difference in walking time is that when you ask a local they usually go directly and without hestitation to said place. But tourists will family will usually walk much slower, talking, watching stuff, having a relaxed time. I don't think that necessarily that north americans are bad walkers.
It really depends on how much time you have on your hand. If you have enough time to walk around, sure why not take a 30 min walk. But when you live a life-style that requires you to take every minute of the day account, there's no time to walk, there's no time for exercise and you get fat.
The problem in the US is that fast food is much cheaper then here. The portions are double then in Europe and in bake recipes Americans use more then 2x more sugar. We in Switzerland nearly eat no deep fried food.
I'm going to defend Italy with the spaghetti sizes, normally a person should eat a serve of 100gr, 80gr if you're on diet, more spaghetti means your stomach gets heavier and usually the meals in Italy are minimum 2 plates without dessert so you should be full, happy and energy when you finish
Is a bufet in Europe too and we do eat much. Actualy I eat a lot in the morning at the bufet and then I eat after 6-7 hours. And we do walk...
Personally I can't eat SWEET the first thing in the morning if I already had some sort of bread be it just Toast bread then ok but I couldn't physical be on the go with like Oversuagred honeyed in waffels or even Lucky Charms (which I only knew in European Version as holiday treats as a wee one)
Convenience is a life style.
btw Mexican are the biggest of all in North America and prob. worldwide. It‘s actually not the McDonald‘s FastFood, more the COKE way of living responsible for Diabetes and Fatness (in Mexico)
An Italian breakfast is no German breakfast is no French breakfast is no Greek breakfast is no Swedish breakfast is no Portuguese breakfast 😅 It is also very North American to assume that all Europeans are the same… ❤
Because 90% of them has no idea what countrys there Are in Europe 🤣
@@ulisiener, oh, I know… I honestly ask myself what they are learning in their geography lessons. I mean, you don’t need to know every single country (okay, in 8th grade I had to learn every single country with its capital city in Asia, Africa an South America, and I still remember a lot of them, but you cannot expect this from North Americans 😅) but at least knowing that Europe isn’t one mushy blob continent where everybody speaks, eats and is the same should be fundamental. I know that not all of them are that, sorry, ignorant… The educational systems in North America really seem to suck.
@@seldakaya0414 oh yeah tons of things suck in america compared to the eu, the food quality and quantity, the complete lack of sidewalks or any place to walk, the education, and dear god some of their laws are just pure insanity, there is a law that lets you pay your employees less than minimum wage IF they get tips that go above minimum wage which is mindblowing to think of
Exactly
Thats true. In my experience I got little plates in France, average plates everywhere else. In Holland, Italy, Spain and Germany you get big plates. But these plates would still be small compared to US plates in both Texas and Florida. Where I have been. Also. The healthy food you can buy at the US grocery stores in Texas and Florida is watery when it comes to vegetables. They taste bland and they don't feed you well. Keeping you hungry. I doubt they have many vitamins with their watery texture to them. When I came back from the US I was craving real vegetables that were, in my opinion, of better quality. While in Holland vegetables are firm, will feed you and keep you healthy. Everything that isn't healthy in the US is way less expensive and will keep you full, but you will remain vitamin deficient. So my family and I were wondering how people were still even standing, thinking or functioning on this diet. No wonder so many people have medical problems. I think people might eat better if the healthy food would taste better, have more vitamins and be less expensive. We also finally understood why richer people would only eat organic food that hadn't been touched by pesticides and such. That food actually is less then our organic and comes close to our non-organic food. But for us it was too expensive. So we rode our two weeks out and got our vitamins back in Holland.
European tip: The meal times is soooooooooo different between countries. Don't take what she says for granted
Ex: when Norwegians are having diner, Spaniards are having lunch
Size also is pretty diffrent across eu
@@ivanfernandezjimenez7847 Facts - I'm a norwegian and been in Spain, and when I eat dinner in a resturant there it's often very few people there, and those who are there are either eating lunch or also tourists eating dinner
Yes here in Italy lunch at 13 and dinner between 20 and 21, in Spain it's lunch at 14-15 and dinner at 22-23, in northern Europe it's lunch at 12-13 and dinner at 19
Watching this as an european is hilarious. We all aren't the same, but yes we walk or using public transportation a lot. We say "thats a 5 minutes walk" and we knows thats not exactly 5 minutes, but we say that because the place is not far. I mean 15-30 min walk is an average to get somewhere. About the food portions - it is not small, it is just enough. Greetings from Prague 🇨🇿
Yeah, 5 minute walk means it’s near but you will walk for a 20 minutes 😂 I have never thought about it but I guess It is a European thing. Also ‘at the end of a road’ it is considered near even if the road is 10 km long 😁
@@MelpomenaBovary Hahaha the end of the road thing is so true. I've been laughing at my own silliness to walk instead of taking public transportation several times when visiting Vienna because I don't like the inconvenience of waiting for it to arrive. So in case it's 3 minutes on the screen I just walk to the next stop, get passed by the bus or whatever on my way and just keep walking. No problem to be on my feet for 20km+ to do a city trip and I know a lot of Europeans doing the same 😂
i really don't do that.. i really estimate and can say , probably about 8 to 10 min, and correct it to, at that speed more like 15 min :)
city has some big ads for location, so many min walking, but those are way to optimistic and those you should double..
but that also goes for car ads.. that mall only 8 min away.. i know the route and think, mmm, the only way to make that time is with no traffic and going way above speed limit, i really hate those misleading adds..
luckely a lot say the distance, and that tend to be exact :)
Well, I usually hear 5 minutes walk when walking would be faster than public transport or if there's like 1 bus stop between 2 points. Maybe just me
Americans do walk slower, I was constantly bumping into people because they were in my way. New York City was the only place they matched my pace.
It’s not only that. If you know the place you can walk as efficient as possible, but if your new to the place ofc if will take longer to take the route.
Im german and i walk extremely slow 😂😂
@@leorueland9500 agree, i know my small shortcuts, and walk maybe 20% faster then average, and on my usual walks, i use basically half the time, of what google earth says the walk takes.
also having a child with you just takes you longer.
@@smallblueangel As a fellow german: "Get out of my way, peasant!" 😁
That's only true for big cities in countries like Germany/Netherlands/Nordic countries, i find southern and eastern European to be slow walkers too. NYers and dense areas in the US are some of the fastest walkers, but you have to consider that a native who knows where to go is gonna walk faster, as opposed to a new to the area tourist.
The thing about "10min walks" being more like a 15-20 min walk is really because most Europeans are "time optimists", not because we want to be rude or walk super fast.
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Haha . I feel Scandinavians and the Germans/Dutch are similar. Especially when we say "let's go on a short walk after dinner/lunch"..... 2 hours later...
@@northernswedenstories1028Italians too
We definitely do walk faster than Americans. Americans seem so confused by walking it's like they're always on the slow lane.
Guess I wouldn't know, since the only American people I have ever met was at the train station. So not much walking included in that experience🤷♀️ just didn't think walking could be that different🤔
Oh that explains a lot! I'm a Finn and very punctual, so when it comes to making plans with non-Finnish Europeans I'm always baffled by how often they're late. I wasn't aware of this perspective
It's not about the weather!! 😄 It's about "everything is fried", "the bread contains sugar", "the portions are huge" (probably to get value for $?), "you SIT and watch sports"! Yes, use cars instead of walking! Maybe European cities are more compact, but that's not the reason everyone walks! Eat slowly and enjoy your food, eating isn't a contest, it's meant to be a sensual experience! 🤔😁👍
6 grams of sugar per slice.
Bread is Cake and you eat Dessert for Breakfast are two of the first things that come to mind. Your Medium sized portion is a Large in the rest of the World. Your country is designed for cars instead of people, you aren't even allowed to cross the road if the place you want to get to is directly opposite you - you have to drive, or walk half a mile out of your way to find an actual place you're allowed to cross, so walking is not incentivised
Even in Germany, the size of the portion of fries at McDonald's was increased over time. Just give us a little while and we'll catch up 😅.
Everything contains sugar, they probably even add sugar to the sugar 🤣
@@MrSeedi76 Food in germany is fat and adding beers is non sense
The difference in walking speed can easily be attributed to the amount that you walk. Quite simply the more you walk in day to day life and the fitter you are will have a pronounced difference in your basic walking speed and stamina. Also a tourist who is walking at a relaxed pace and stopping to look at things will naturally be a lot slower than a local just going from a to b.
Good explaination
she was slow because they were with the kids and their grandma. I can't imagine a healthy adult not being able to go at the speed 4-5 km/h
While all that is true, as a Finn living in Canada, I do have to say people here walk _excruciatingly_ slowly as a general rule.
My brother lived in the us for a year and he started baking his own bread because he couldn't find a normal one, one without sugar, so that's probaby also another reason...
We have a pretty good selection of sugar free breads that have shown up on the market in the last couple of years. People have become more cautious of sugar and manufacturers have taken notice of that and started accommodating for it.
My family lives in Spain and we had a holiday in New York and Ontario in 2019. There were four of us but we found that we couldn't finish our plates even when we ordered just two meals in restaurants. The food portions and the drinks were always way too big. The other thing we noticed was that nobody seemed to walk anywhere outdoors - with the exception of NYC. We visited a supermarket and after walking up and down a dozen aisles my wife said: 'But where is the real food'.
Were you in Toronto? People here walk all the time!
And it's not like in Spain we have small portions... We've all had our grandmas stuffing us full of food, so we know what it is to have a big meal, at least by our standards. 😂
The only time I saw people walking in the streets in the US was when PokémonGo first came out 😂
How many cities have you been? All big cities in the North east has endless people walking, alot of bigger cities like Chicago and San Francisco are walkable as well.
LA on the other hand, is not a walkable city.
You’re not supposed to eat it all at once, you’re supposed to take your leftovers home and eat that the next day
Hi Ryan, that Canadian lady is absolutely right, but she is essentially talking about France and Italy as far as dinner time is concerned. It's true, southern Latin Europe generally has dinner quite late. Spain, Greece and Portugal eat late at night too. Yet Northern Europe, in general, has dinner much earlier, close to your guys' standards, that includes the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, and of course Scandinavia. I guess this is simply a question of climate, and light.
There is another difference Southern Europe likes to eat warm dinner at night, while to the North e.g. in Central Europe, like Germany, Austria, Poland or Netherlands lunch is the main warm meal of the day and dinner could be just cold.
Yup, in Poland dinner or supper is usually around 6 or 7 and basically can be cold and look like breakfast. Main warm meal is in the middle of the day
actually, in northern europe nothing is such centralized, most people actually tend to eat either straight after work, or late at night, like 22.00, before sleep, there is no inbetween, and they dont tend to eat dinner together with family, people just solo eat.
And people eat a lot of mcdonalds and drink cars here also, but EU regulations of ingredients, makes mcdonalds a lot healthier than in usa. We can eat 5 bigmacs here, and we would have damaged our health less than in usa after 1 bigmac.
@@henningbartels6245Actually here in Spain, lunch is the main warm meal too, not dinner.
YEp . 20.00 its the earliest(avg) we eat in portugal. and thats in the winter. in the summer we eat at 21:00 /22 and we stay at the table until mid-night (its hot in summer nights 30º celcius, so appetite comes at a later time)
Those portions of spaghetti were not small, they were normal😭
I'm shook lol
An American portion size is usually enough to get miserably full and to take away leftovers for lunch the next day. When I visited France a few years ago, it was the first time I'd ever had a regular sized portion of food. I was pleasantly surprised at how perfect it was. I wish American restaurants would do the same.
@@eisamiller88 Wow! I mean, you do get a lot food for your money then I suppose, bc it's not more expensive than here? But I still wouldn't want massive portion sizes; quality over quantity, all the way.
Yeah, I thought the same. That's a very normal-sized portion. Moreover, why would you need bread with pasta at all?
@@fraewaru That's anything but abnormal. First of all, you tend to get some bread & butter on the table before you even get your dinner out.
Take your aperitif along side it, or of course if you have soup first, which is common for lunch menus.
But it's also quite common to serve some bread with pasta for dipping in the sauce.
@@fraewaru To pick up the amazing sauce (which is the main star served with assorted carbs to get it into your mouth, unlike in North America where the sauce is there to make the carbs palatable) left on the plate.
It's always funny to see that Americans who have been in Europe (or Germany!?) for an hour always know exactly what life is like in Europe.
Right? Like Europe with all its countries is just one homogeneous mass 😂
Germany is in Europe.
@@Onnarashibut Europe is not (just) Germany. Is what Nomaam is saying. Germany, Spain, Bulgaria and Ireland are ALL Europe but they’re SO different from each other
@@Onnarashi hey stay in Russia this doesn’t concern you tovarish 😂
Congratulations. Now you know how Americans feel about the rest of the world. It’s exhausting listening to foreign “experts” on America.
Fattest person I ever knew was my American ex. The amount of food he used to think was a normal sized portion always shocked me. Always the biggest portion available. With a ton of sides. And a starter. And dessert as well. And I was always like 'I thought you said you were trying to lose weight??'
Also high fructose corn syrup is banned here as are many other additives available in the US, and we don't have food deserts. So that probably helps too.
I don't understand how can they eat so many food, when I am at my grandma and she forces me to finish meal, I am almost vommiting because of that, it's really hard to finish such portions like old traditional people to be normal. I mean those people who have always lunch exactly at 12:00 and they have always soup + big meal. I am used to eat when I am hungry, not force myself to eat some massive lunch at noon like older people do, it's so annyoing tradition in my country and people are surprised that they are fat when they eat like that. Or vice versa people who eat small portions, but they just eat all the day like my father for example, he is "trying" to lose his beer belly, but it's not really getting better when he drinks 5 beers every day and constantly eats something fatty.
Also dessert seems to be cake whereas on Europe it would be a cooked dessert fruit or something not cake
Were not American but im trying to be healthier and im focusing on cutting down on sweets i still eat my normal meals but im trying to cut out as much sweets as i feel comfortable with and though I can't tell yet others can ive only been doing it for a month anyway my boyfriend used to eat massive amounts of food but resently due to my cut down ive been giving him portions a normal size and i at lest feel a lot better i just want to see a difference in myself soon
What are food deserts?
@Mynew Vast areas with so much food scattered on the ground that nothing can grow. Only those who can't spell have been there.
Thirdly : there is sugar in EVERYTHING in the US. Just read the ingredient list, it's crazy. I saw sugar in smoked salmon. Food colouring, too. Smoked salmon should be salmon and salt and that's all !
You can put little amount of sugar in smoked salmon.
@@helene4397 No need, really, is there ? You can put a little sugar into everything, which is exactly what happens in the States. That was my point. No wonder then that over 40% of Americans are obese... (www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/adult.html)
Why would you salt a salmon if it's smoked ? If its for gustative reasons, ok, but the smoking should be enough for curation/preservation.
Why would you sugar it ? Because americans are addicted to sugar ! It's everywhere, in large portions.
Also, a 5 minutes walk for a local is ALWAYS a 10 minutes walk for a tourist.
@@Pandemonis without salt, fish tastes horrible. It is very difficult to oversalt fish.
She‘s describing a typical Roman Breakfast which normally consists of Capuccino and a pastry. It‘s not a typical European Breakfast. I‘m not even sure something like that exists. Same with the dinner size. In Italy people usually eat in menus, I.e. there is a pasta course, a meat course, fish course and so on. That‘s why the portions are smaller.
Edit:
I correct my post from „usually eat in menus“ to „sometimes eat in menus“. Otherwise I stand by what I said as she obviously talked about eating as a tourist in roman restaurants.
i'd say the breakfast she described in sorta the norm for southern europe. just a pastry, a sandwich or toast with a coffee. like, i'm from portugal, and that's such a common thing for people to have for breakfast, even when i was like 12 years old, my common breakfast was a latte and a pastry, which at least at the time was a super common breakfast among people my age, adults often would have just coffee and a pastry, while us teens would opt for the coffee with milk option
We in Italy don't eat in courses everyday, that is more a Christmas or big family gathering thing. Normally we just have either a first dish (pasta or risotto) or just the second dish (meat or fish). No one eats 4 or 5 course meal every day.
What are you talking about? No Italian eats in menus daily… you’re talking in restaurants and even there it’s not 4/5 regularly.
And what she described as a typical breakfast is the typical breakfast for people that work or go to school, I’ve traveled throughout Europe and most decent hotels have a buffet too… where you take whatever you want. Agreed, we take less than the Americans would, but a coffee and one pastry, that’s a breakfast on the go. And that’s not the Roman style, I’m Belgian.
Only southern European thing she generalized is the dinner time, eating at 8/9pm is a southern European thing, France, Spain, Portugal, Italy and French part of Belgium. (I just ate and it was a small meal and its 9:30pm) but Germany, Netherlands and others eat around 6/7 pm.
And portion sizes, yeah… we go for taste, not quantity. But is it small? Or are American sizes just big, it’s evening, do you still need all the calories?
And last reason we don’t complain about the sizes, eating is not just a necessity, we enjoy it and take time to talk to each other or whatever, going to a restaurant is an entire evening, so when you take 2/3/4 h to eat, you don’t need huge portions, if you take the time, your stomach tells you it’s full, when you eat fast, the brain gets the signals too late…
@@Ray_Vun Lattes are not common anymore in those ages, at least not in the last decade or so.
She is basically describing a Portuguese breakfast , a lot of portuguese drink coffee and eat pastry I normally drink coffee and eat toasted bread with protein cheese
I'm European and overweight... But I think the dimensions are different.
There are fat Europeans, also obese Europeans. But you barely see people who can barely walk or weight more than 150 kg.
But in my group of friends there are maybe 2 others that are overweight. Everyone else is skinny or normal weight. Life is hard when you're the only one overweight 😏😌
Yea, I really think that is the biggest difference.
Not the amount of people overweight but what that means.
I'm overweight at about 160 pounds.
But the as you say 300+ pound people aren't much of a thing here.
Overweight people yes, people who can barely walk, no.
Went to Florida for work with a bunch of Belgian women. Many of them watch their weight and they felt better about themselves before they left Miami International. Again, many of them were overweight BY 20 OR SO POUNDS! Not 200.
@@Londronable Europaens are also overweight by a serious percentage, but not that much as US Americans.
I wonder what would happen to people who are already seriously overweight in Europe after moving to the US😅
Yes, this.
We still have an unhealthy Lifestyle. Not enough Sport and too much fast food, but we don't ususally have mobility scooter level obese people that often.
(I've actually never seen one in person come to think of it)
@@henningbartels6245 But yet noch as obese, or less euphemistic fat.
French national here, 25 years ago I started my professional career working for an American company. I was running, running, running, and my lunch time was a mere 30/40 mins top.
I had terrible stomach problems, ended up with a stomach ulcer. Then I stopped "inhaling" my food and instead enjoying it. (because my health was a concern, believe it or not)
Taking proper bites, chewing it at LEAST 10 times before swallowing. "Miraculously", my stomach ulcer subsided, and I ended up feeling way better.
Fun fact for my Americans friends (try this for real): You WILL get the sensation of being "full" just after 20 mins of eating your first bite (whatever the quantity is).
(you can try that with what you would normally consider a very small snack even!)
Enjoy your food, bite appropriately (that sound so weird to say 😂) and chew (and by that, I mean CHEW. Using your teeth multiple times).
Because while you're taking your time to enjoy your meal, your body will be able to send the appropriate messages to your brain.
My advice: Enjoy your food and the time your spending eating it. And that's pretty much the whole shtick.
Random fact; digestion technically starts in the mouth, through your teeth crushing food, and your saliva. Enzymes in saliva start the digestive process as it's mixed with food in your mouth, so there's an actual reason to enjoy your food instead of eating it too quickly.
You are right (with all that you are writing) and it really sounds/reads very weird! 😀
@@mizot84 English is not my native language, so I can totally understand that I have mispronounce/misspelled/misrepresented something. My sincere apologies. But you get the jest of it right?
@@AlbandAquino Sorry, that was by no means what I wanted to say. I did not have the intention to criticise your spelling or grammar. I just think it is weird that in fact you need to tell someone how to enjoy his/her food and that you actually need to use your teeth to chew it 😀
I totally get that it comes with the circumstances and the overall way of life which is propagated by this American Company/American culture.
Anyway, my apologies if I offended you in any way, that was not my intention! I'm glad you are fine and heathy now and that you can enjoy your food again! 👍
@@mizot84 It came to to me as a shock as well, when my MD told me that I needed to start changing things. But I got you. No need for apologies. I'm fine now and enjoying life. No offence taken. I'm just glad that we could just exchange on that matter.
Hoping that you are well. "Nya:wëh sgë:nö'"
I'm Portuguese. We eat bread but our bread doesn't have sugar, we walk, we have about 4 to 5 meals per day. Having more meals also makes a difference. We also eat way more vegetables in soups or salads. In general healthy foods are cheaper here than in the US. Also the walking: when you walk every day it's faster😂. I agree that when we say 10 minutes it's 20.😂😂😂😂. We eat less in the morning and then we have a proper lunch. Normaly european hotels have a buffet for breakfast 😂, I think she was just scammed on that one.
True, here in germany we especially eat a lot of cabbage, which vegeteables do you guys eat most?
@@MatthiasDrinksH20 We eat salads, and we eat soups with all kind of vegetables. Also green beans, broccoli, carrots, cabbage.
True, I always do 5 meals a day and I always weight my food in the day before to the next day cuz I'm on a diet but diet does not means you are restricted to eat only specific food, I'm getting helped by Tiago Guimarães and I eat all I want in my diet I just need to weight the food and I'm getting very good results
The first time I had a burger in the US I struggled so much with it, despite ordering a small one and I think I even left some of it because I just couldn't eat it. When I ordered "a piece" of chocolate cake in vegas, it might've been a whole cake as well. it took me 3 days to finish that one piece. (yes, I left it in our hotel room fridge and took it as desert for 3 days straight) Never before in my life did I ever think I might actually get sick of eating chocolate cake, but at the end of it I really couldn't look at any kind of desert anymore and my definition of "sweet" got severally undermined
I was in Las Vegas this autumn and I walked into a fast food restaurant with a german colleague. After seeing the portions we ended up ordering the children menu because it was more than enough. It wasn’t even about money, we were expensing everything, the company was paying. We just didn’t want to throw away 3 quarters of our portion and we definitely wouldn’t eat that much unhealthy food. The sheer amount Americans eat is incredible.
Hello Ryan! I'm from Poland and i can tell you that she is talking specifically about France and Italy. Yeah walking wherever you can is something we do pretty much everywhere but that's because we have shops, restaurants, parks and every other places close to one another. Cars are used if needed but not as a necessity, mostly only in winter when temperature is below 0 degrees in Celsius and the is ice everywhere, plus gas here is way more expensive (in Poland about 1.65$ a liter). The breakfast in most hotels is usually a buffet, you can take whatever you want and how much you want. The difference is that most of things you can get is scrabled eggs, sausages, salads, toasts, sandwiches ham and vegetables. I think that in most hotels the only sweet thing you can get for breakfast is pancakes and maybe jam for toasts. We don't eat sweet breakfasts because they usually make you feel hungry much sooner. As for the time of dinners, yeah in some countries you can eat dinner really late, but normally we try to eat it not later than 6pm or at least 2 hours before sleep for healthy reasons. We also eat 5 meals a day but they are smaller sizes. We have breakfast, second breakfast (around 10.30 - 11 am and mostly if you didnt had time to eat normal breakfast), lunch, dessert and dinner as the last meal. I dont know much about US, every time i watch your videos i learn a new thing about America, absolutely love your videos. Have a great day/night
Cheers from Hungary! Over here it is the same. Multiple smaller meals a day, no cereal for breakfast. Walking, running to get the bus.
In Italia la colazione e' solo dolce ma si limita ad alcuni biscotti o una brioches... E prima del pasto c'è lo spuntino... Di solito un frutto
Bruh last time I had second breakfast was in kindergarten. Lunch at 1pm was in middle school. I have never in my life eaten dinner so early. 6pm is usually time for lunch nowadays when you get off work. Dinner was always past 8pm, I don’t know anyone who eats it sooner aside from little children but later they eat snacks before bed anyway so it’s counter productive. I have spend all my life in big cities and I am wondering if you are perhaps from village,+60 yo or still at school and that’s where your schedule comes from
@@PlayerFORgamev The second breakfast depends for me. If I wake up at 6 am then I have a second breakfast around 10 am. Mind you, it's usually just a banana or a toast.
Have my lunch usually around noon. It's my only cooked meal a day.
Dessert depends. Sometimes I think about eating a dessert, but I realize I want to save money so I skip it.
And I have my dinner around 6pm. But it's not a cooked dinner or only if I haven't finished my lunch. Then I eat the leftover.
I live in a city too and I am a working 26 years old.
Some people have a build in clock on when to eat and that's where the schedule comes from. If I skip breakfast I feel it, and while I can survive skipping the second breakfast, I get grumpy.
@@alfonsolabaiadeltabacco7459ooh no the Italians that refuses to learn English are entering the comments
As an Italian, I simply want to add a comment on the bit about walking vs bus in Florence. Buses are famous in italian cities to always be late, stucked in traffic and cramped with people, so if the place you want to go is reachable with a 10-15 mins walk usually walking is adviced since probably counting the time to reach the bus stop, the time waiting for the bus and the actual time on the bus it will take you twice as long if not more 😅 especially in city centers as famous and full with traffic as florence!
Yep, I think the store owner was actually giving them a favour. I wouldn't take a bus if my hotel is that distance of where I am from. Just rest a little and then walk
The breakfast she described sounds like what we would call a 'continental breakfast' in the UK. In my experience in hotels both kinds of breakfast are available (continental or cooked/buffet style/British )
That is a typical French breakfast. If she wanted bacon and eggs she should have taken a vacation to the U.K.
Well and as studies show, UK people are fat as well
In spite of the rumours, very very few English or British sit down to a huge breakfast of bacon and
eggs these days! If they eat breakfast at all, it is more likely to be a bread roll or a slice of toast.
Those huge fried breakfasts are for high days and holidays. Apart from anything else, anyone
having to get off to work doesnt have time to do a breakfast like that. Children are most likely to
have a bowl of cereal, but not the overloaded with sugar etc. that apparently American foods are.
I believe it is the quality of the food as much as the quantity, that is their problem.
French hier. To have good aka fresh pastry in the morning means that some in the house has to go to a bakery early in the morning, could be on Sundays but not on week days. And even if there is lots of bakeries in town, not so in the countryside. Traditionally it was bread ( the kind that last few days, or toasted) butter, jam, could be the Nutella style, older people were still on ham or so. Nowadays it's more cereals or Toast, but the old tradition is coming back.
Or Scandinavia
Our portions are normal, American ones are enormous😂
Also: the dinner time depends of the country and occasion, in some places you do not have a lunch but early dinner instead, at 3 - 5 pm, and in the evening it's a light supper; later dinner is eaten by people coming home late or for example on dates etc.;)
In Germany there is a completely different breakfast, because in the hotels there is usually a buffet, where you can take what you want.
In Rome it is very expensive and the portions are small, besides the Italians eat their spaghetti as a starter, then a small meat dish and for dessert they drink an espresso that is so strong, then you can wake up death with it.
In Italy it is normal to eat a small pastry in the morning and drink coffee with it, other European countries have different food cultures.
Only in the southern countries is dinner so late, in Germany we eat between 6 and 8 pm.
In Italy it is very hot in the summer, where people take their lunch break from 1 p. m. to 4 or 5 p. m. and then go back to work.
They come home late, then cook and eat late.
Why are Europeans leaner when they really are?
We walk more or cycle more and it's true, 10 minutes is usually 30 minutes, we don't run faster but as Europeans you know that.
We eat smaller portions, we don't go to a restaurant to eat every day, we can't afford that.
However, there are also people who never run further than park their car.
One more thing on the side. When we were in Texas going to a football game with my nephew, he told us the seats were on the fifth floor.
We were internally prepared to walk up these five floors, and when we were in Stadtion, we were very surprised that there were escalators.
You don't find that in any soccer station, you walk up all the stairs.😁
As a German, I can totally confirm this!
well, you also have to consider thar having breakfast in a hotel is not the same as having breakfast in a European home. Even so hotels might offer breakfast buffets in various countries, people at home or on the run to work, don't have these huge buffets.
I am Italian. If you live in Italy you might eat a "pastry" as you call it with a cappuccino but most hotels offer full breakfast, both sweet stuff but also ham, eggs, cheese, the whole buffet. I don't know in which hotel she stayed but it must have been cheap.
When you go to a soccer game in Europe, you end up on the field, not on a seat...
Here in Czechia, old people mostly have breakfast at like 7 AM (they eat some bread with butter, honey or jam or something) and then they eat really big main meal with soup included at 12PM (they always force you to finish it and take more dumplings than you can eat) and then they have dinner in like 6-7 PM and they eat mostly remains from lunch or some bread with ham, cheese or something like that. Old people really live like that and when you are with your grandparents and you want some food in like 11 AM, it's really bad for you, they are almost calling police because of that, I totaly hate this traditionalistic culture which older people still keep, I eat when I am hungry, not when some traditions say I have to eat.
I'm old enough to have perspective on how things have changed in our US lifestyle. I was born in 1960. My Mom didn't work outside the house and usually made a from-scratch dinner every night. We did not snack after dinner. If we were really hungry before bedtime we could have a bowl of cereal. We lived in a typical two car US household, but as kids we played outside much more than kids do today. Bicycling, climbing trees, explore places on the edge of town. Didn't go home until it was dark. In my elementary school of 400 kids there were maybe three or four fat kids. Fast forward to today and I'd guess one out of three kids is overweight or obese. Fat kids make fat adults. What changed? People are much more sedentary, ubiquitous fast food (a rarity until the mid-70s), more processed foods and sugar or corn sweetener in most of it, much greater soda consumption and more moms working outside the home not cooking meals the way they used to. I know its not a complete list, but really if people tried living more like we did in the 1960s and 1970s it would help. Cook more at home, limited snacking, make fast food an occasional treat instead of a common thing and get outside more!
as you said, I saw a study that pointed out that people in the 50s-60s burned as twice calories only because of the chores at home and daily life, and bad processed food that we have today started in the 80s and that is when type 2 diabetes got to be more and more common
We are still doing all of this in Germany! More cooking, buying more and more healthy foot, no coke or sprite outside of special days! Kindergarden and pre schoolers regularly go outside, kids are playing outside every day ( at least ours, even on rainy or cold days). All kind of different sports as hobby and we walk as much as, we can. That's why we can eat ( preferred) sweets now and then, without any problems! But at age of 12, kids don't want to go outside anymore, without any sport activities it's harder to stay in shape!
Most Norwegians eat home cooked meals, even when the women work outside the home. It is just the natural way of things. I know other cultures are more used to going out to eat, either to their local restaurant/diner/fast food joint, but that isn't as common here. And it has just been normalized. For everyone. It isn't even like the whole "i don't know how to cook, that's a woman's job" is a part of our mentality, because the idea of the 60's housewife cooking dinner kinda ended with my granddad's generation. My dad is almost 70, and i cannot remember ever meeting a man of his generation who didn't know how to cook. When you come home from work, you cook dinner. I still hear people in my family talking about how my granddad couldn't cook and how he would buy me fast food the few times he had to watch me, as if that was the weirdest thing they could imagine.
My german grandad learned how to cook for himself when he was 84 when my grandmom died - i always admired him for that :) we even prepared more complicated meals together (like Rinderouladen)
I don't understand why you don't cook, i grew up with two working parents they still cooked fresh homemade food for us everyday, both lunch and dinner and when I started grew up i learned how to cook by myself and now whoever comes first cooks for the others.
Btw I'm italian
“…,they walk to church,…” We Europeans don’t walk to church for religious reasons. Our churches are pretty empty from believers. We walk to church to watch a concert or to visit it like a museum.
Of course we do. Speak for your country. In a few years you will be displaced by another religion and there will be No More Churches. :)
I was surprised she even said that. That sounded more like something an American would say. I'm Canadian too and that would not even cross my mind. Not really a thing here either, unless, like you said, a concert or some event. Many churches have closed and others now also share the space with multiple congregations and/or ethnicities/languages as there are hardly enough church goers per community to keep them going.
You can't generalise about all of Europe, or all of Europeans - I, for one, go to church, and the churches are rarely empty.
As an American I moved to France 35 years ago...when you look at my siblings it is impossible to imagine we are from the same parents...I'm 6 foot and thin like a dancer...My brother is stacked but with age he has chubbed out around the middle, thighs, hips, shoulders and calves, while mys sister is a fast food addict and obese...I don't eat the same foods...America has so many steroids, hormones and antibiotics shoved into their meats and dairy, GMO's perpetuate the vegetables and those items only make people fatter and fatter over time. I also walk a lot, all my grocery shopping is done on foot, I walk my dogs 3 times a day, I do my own gardening...I will take the metro across the city but then walk from one hood to the next...Americans get in their car to drive a block and a half to pick up their kids from a play date, drive to the grocers, drive to the post office, it is all focused around being lazy and making motors do their life...when you go to the bank you go in, there is no drive through services unless it is one window, but not canisters in vacuum tubes. In the past 10 years I have eaten fast food 2 maybe 3 times...So at 60 and 6 feet tall I have never gone over 175 lbs...my siblings went over 200 in high school. I also spent many years on the French Riviera and incorporated much of their diet into my daily habits...
I wouldn't say most of us Europeans, we walk fast in big cities in countries like Germany, Northern France, Netherlands, Nordic... I find southern and eastern European to be slow walkers.
@@donquixotedoflamingo5510 Well we (Eastern Europeans) also walk fast lol
@@carne865 Not compared to Scandinavians and germanics lol, ALL big city people walk fast to be fair, but i find big city western-northern europeans and big city americans like New Yorkers to walk the fastest. (Also Tokyo).
@@carne865 I actually prefer eastern european and many Americans' medium pace, feels more grounded and relaxed
@@donquixotedoflamingo5510 can agree on all you say haha.
Here in Austria many people just go for a walk. A long hike in nature on a Sunday is pretty normal here.
If I only need a few groceries, I either walk or take my bike. We definitely also have McDonalds here, but no one would ever consider eating that every day.
id say diet, portion size, more walking, hormones in food etc
Yes, in France we tends to take our time to eat. Sometimes on the weekends we start at 12h and end way after (like 14-15h) Because for us, it isn't only eating. We take our time to talk and socialise.
I'm sry if my english isn't rly good. Eng isn't my first language.
Regardless of how fast people normally walk, if you're going someplace you're not familiar with, especially if you're not sure you're going the right way, I think it is almost automatic that we walk at a slower pace than normal. I bet if they had walked the same route to the Eifel tower a couple of times more, it would have taken them considerably less than the 25 min. it took on the first day. Probably close to the 10-15 min. it was first described as being. From my own personal experience, especially when following another person's instructions and the route is just slightly involved, I will tend to be a more hesitant, double checking every turn, with a few stops a long the way mentally retracing my route and the given instructions. It is completely different than how I walk when when I don't have to think about it, and just know how to navigate my way somewhere. Not to mention when you're tourists walking around a city, there will be short pauses to look at something along the way, in a way natives don't do. All of this takes extra time.
that was exactly what I thought as well. If you are a native you just want to get to your destination. A tourist ist often distracted, looking here and there, talking a photo, waiting for the rest of the group, asking for the way and maybe taking not the right turn. This all adds up, plus you are on vacation ... discovering new thing - and not on a hurry.
Also she says about having a 6 year old and an elderly lady with bad knees, the guy prob gave her the health person speed o ten mins, not a kid in toe and grandma, walking speed.
While based in the US, I worked for a few years for a French company and I had to go over there regularly. One thing I noticed with the French, they never snacked during the day but had three normal meals with sensible portions. They don’t starve themselves but just eat sensibly.
10 minutes walk or the bus ? Well I walk, the right bus stop is probably 3-5 minutes away, then you probably wait a bit for the bus, hope that it's not full, pay for a ticket, ride the bus that stops every minute because you're in the city so it's slow, get off and most of the time you'll have a little walk again from the bus stop to where you're going. When you could have arrived to destination twice as fast for free, using humanity's best ability : walking without effort.
My experiences when we went on vacation in different countries in Europe and stayed in hotels and booked breakfast , there was always a larger buffet where you could eat much as you want ed , and then drinks like coffee, tea, milk and juice. In Poland on the baltic sea there was also a lot of fish ,very delicious.🙂💙
What she described sounds like the breakfast on the go I eat going to work or when I was young before school… you might still get that in very small hotels or bed a,d breakfasts… but I agree with you, I’ve traveled on holidays and for work a lot around Europe, especially France , Sweden, Netherlands and always a buffet.
Yup, all hotels I did in other european countries had buffet.
However in general I noticed that plates and pastry sizes and others tend to be small, which forces us to fetch more often and thus eat slower
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Don't be afraid to come to Europe. We like Americans. Just try to not fulfill all the stereotypes 😂
there is nothing wrong with being stereotypical and American... just try not to complain if things are different in Europe or as expected and don't shout at the waiter if he doesn't take some special American credit card.
I'm an American living in the Netherlands and people here are markedly slimmer than the average American. FYI, DDT (Dutch dinner time) is between 6 and 7pm. But I think it's more the Dutch practicality that keeps them slim. I went to the OBGYN a few years ago and I knew I was heavier than my "fighting weight" and could have been in better shape. She straight up told me, "You're overweight. Next time I see you, you better be able to tell me you rode your bike every single time you got groceries." I was shocked but you better bet that lit a fire under my ass to lose around 5kg.
I moved to Vancouver from the UK in 1981 and lived there for 10 years before returning to the UK. I travelled in the USA also. My overriding memory of food was my first visit to McDonalds, I simply couldn't finish a Big Mac and Fries with a milkshake, in contrast by the time i left in 1991 i could eat 2 Big Macs and a hashbrown and milkshake without a thought. Coming back to the UK saved me from clinical obesity, i'm convinced of that 😂😂
BC and england is about the same english culture . I am in Montreal and we are more european (France , Italy , Spain ) regarding food and taking time to enjoy life
Thats actually my only memory of my first Trip to the US at 6yo. I couldnt finish a MC flurry.
@@jeanbolduc5818 I'm not convinced that is the case Jean, current obesity rates are higher in Quebec than BC. 25+% vs 22+% respectively.
Hey I was born in BC and moved to UK in 85 then moved back in 91 before finally moving back over here for good. Portions are half the size over here. That woman was delerious
I live in Poland and the "eating schedule" looks different for me: 3 main meals and 2 smaller or just skipped meals. There is breakfast that you eat right after you wake up, 2nd breakfast that is a small meal about 10-11am, a midday meal/lunch that is the biggest meal of the day around 2pm (may differ from household to household), an afternoon meal that is commonly some snack and the last meal of the day - dinner around 7-8pm. It's highly discouraged to eat after dinner (especially for children).
Ps: I live in Pomerania and it's how this is done in my family but you can find different approaches on this matter all over Poland.
It's basically the same in all parts of Poland. Sometimes people eat small lunch at workplace and big dinner at home, so dinner may be the biggest meal of the day.
Spaghetti is not a main dish in Italy, but a starter.
Not really a starter, but a first course. Pasta dishes come first, then the second course which is meat, or fish, with a side dish, salad or vegetables. Before the pasta dish you can have a starter, there's a great variety of them and they are called antipasti.
@@ssanti66 I was not aware of the difference between a starter and a first course, but I'll happily stand corrected. Eitherway, you can't expect a big bowl of pasta when there's another course coming.
@@DenUitvreter Italians are big on a multi-course dinner with at least 4 courses. If you go to a party like a wedding that could easily increase to 15 courses...
@@henningbartels6245 I know, personally I like a big plate of spaghetti as a main course.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner time great varies based on the country you are in, for example here in Finland, dinner and lunch are traditionally much earlier than in the Southern Europe, but we more often have a light supper to compensate (especially families)
In here, for families with children the average routine is usually something like:
- breakfast is usually around 7-8 am
- then a school/work lunch between 11am and 1pm (depending on grade and school)
- when coming back from school/work between 3 pm to 4 pm they often have a light snack if lunch was earlier and dinner will be a bit later
- dinner is usually around 5 to 7pm
- finally a light supper before bedtime (bread & tea/hot chocolate for example) at around 8 to 9 pm
So the point is, eat regularly thorough the day at about 4-5h intervals, but eat healthier and smaller proportions. When you divide that huge calorie-bomb into smaller meals/snacks thorough the day, you will feel less hungry, will have more energy, and most importantly, will have far less spikes/crashes during the day.
In Italy we do exactly the opposite:
Breakfast around 7-7.45 biscuits/cereals coffee or milk or... a coffee (me just a coffee)
12- 3 pm lunch
7-9 pm dinner
So most of us eat 3 meals a day, some just 2 and aldults hardly snack... and yet we're not more overweight than other Europeans. It is a matter of habits, to each their own. But we all have scales: they're a good indicator if we're doing something wrong.
@@mimmiblu6138 I don't see how this is opposite? or even all that different
@@mimmiblu6138Im Finnish but I usually just eat one huge meal in a day. I just dont really get hungry that easilly and well when I eat I want to eat really well so one time a day huge meal for me. Of course sometimes I eat 2 or even 3 times per day but more often than not just one time.
Then you go and sabotage NordStream 2 ???
i'm always way faster than Google Maps predicts haha so yh theres some truth to that
as to "10 minutes walk" - we probably say 10 minutes where it takes 20 minutes walk because it's irrevalant. 10 or 20 minutes walk is just a small walk, it's close and we don't bother to be exact b/c why. It means it's close, you can easily walk there, I don't care for how long it takes, 10 mins or so. Also, if I wanted to take a bus or a tram (or underground in some cities) I would have to wait probably 10 mins or so, so I can spend my 10 mins getting there on foot sooner than the bus comes.
Yes the portions are smaller, but the breakfast topic is different to every place!
The time, the portiosn, breakfast, it all depends on the country you re at. Its impossible to break it down and make a general assumption. Because the cuisines and culture differ from each other SO MUCH. In Germany typical dinner time is 6 to 7 pm. Thats why prime time is 20.15. In france if i remember correctly prime time is at 9pm.
Hotter countries eat later, because of the heat.
In France we eat later because the working day for many is longer , 9am - 7pm with a 2h lunch break = 8h working day, so dinner has to be later.
About the 10 minute walk, I imagine she was walking aside the big roads, not knowing the shortcuts for traveling by foot. That is a reason why it took her longer. I discoverd Apple Maps totally ignore bike and walking path and mostly only show roads usable by cars
My German view, first to the walking time: Yes, you mentioned it. The time has not to be exactly, but it should give you an impression of the experience when you walk. Example: A "Just around the corner, 5 minutes" tells you that it should be an easy walk, no obstacles, no waiting for traffic lights, not uphill, etc. Even when it takes 10 minutes, that description is okay. When you are told "You may walk there, but it could take 20 minutes or longer", then beware. The way could be more exhausting, maybe uphill for a distance or maybe with some major street crossings etc. --- Portion size. As others mentioned, the portions in Germany most times are slightly bigger than in Southern Europe. But not always the size of American Restaurants. You are right, the fancier the dinner, the smaller the portions (but the more courses, probably). Because fancy menus are focused on taste, not on getting full fast. --- I don't eat breakfast during the week, too. But when I do at the weekend, I have 2 bread rolls (that make 4 halfs or even 8 quarters for cold cuts, cheese or sweet spread like Nutella e.g.) and one boiled egg (medium). When I'm on holiday (doesn't matter where), I love "american breakfast" with scrambled eggs, bacon, sausage and pancakes as desert. But that's for holidays only. At home I sometimes eat 2 fried eggs on a Sandwich ("Strammer Max") for lunch. 😁
The sad thing is that Europe gets influenced by the American products too much. The amount of really fat people in Germany increased so much in the last 10-20 years. And because of the lockdowns it went even worse. I got more pounds on my hips during the lockdowns too because I was cooking less fresh than usual. Instead of going to the supermarket 3-5 times a week, which is just 3 minutes away from my apartment ( and it's really just 3 minutes, I checked the time 😁), I bought a lot of unhealthy processed food and was just at the supermarket once a week. As I felt like a fat pig, I stopped this unhealthy behavior and went back to normal again. I felt so much better immediately and my unwanted pounds melted away😁now I hold my weight on a healthy level for years again😁
I’m in the UK and definitely the number of larger people has increased so much.
Most American cities were built after the invention of cars so the cities were designed for car use. European cities are much older so they're more compact and public transport makes it easier not to use a car. Also a hotel with " free" breakfast is the norm in the UK and Ireland where you pay for B and B. (Bed and breakfast) Most of the time they have a buffet type set up. In France, Spain or Italy it's often not included or, if it is, it's just coffee and a croissant or bread and cheeses.
You would be surprised to discover how much of the actual road infrastructure in the US was built only after WWII and how many poor neighbourhoods were bulldozed to make room for cars. It wasn´t bad planning: it was a conscious, very racist decision (because of course many of those neighbourhoods were mainly inhabited by poc).
Yea, because it’ll take me 2 hours to walk on foot to the nearest city for me. However, in car it takes 15 minutes. Trust me… if I could walk to stores…. I’d be sure glad to! But unfortunately not, my state is quite widespread. Even whenever I am in a car and going shopping… it takes an hour just to go to 3 places, that aren’t even far from each other. It’s preposterous, however, use to it now.
In Spain we actually dinner between 21:00 to 22:00, we also do a little snack healthy or not between 18:00 to 19:00, and a long walk for an average european will be like hour and a half to get to somewhere and then walk around for the whole day, thats how we do tourism here, the idea of 20 min being a long walk is mindblowing
Si, 20 min es como ir al super o lo que ando yo hasta el gimnasio.
Some things to point out.
I dont know what hotels shes been to, but every hotel has a breakfast saloon were you can just eat whatever you want.
It gets on my nervs every time she says "smaller" like the people, the breakfast etc its not smaller its the right size, its the americans that have enormous plates and meals, thats why you literelly never ask someone to take the left overs in Europe, because theres NO leftoversm anh who the hell dinners at 18h???
18:00 (or 6pm for americans) - Northern europeans eat at 18:00 or 19:00o'clock. Hell in the Winter it is getting dark at 15:00 (3pm) so why should you wait half the night to dinner?
Friends that visited the US were so shocked to find how big the food portions were. It’s like twice the size or more of what we eat here (Greece).
Most US restaurants design their portion sizes with the intention of sending you home with half to have for lunch the next day. Taking some of the food to-go is ingrained in our culture. That said, there are many who clean their plates instead, and it's often hard to decide when to stop eating a meal if it's particularly enjoyable. For that reason, I much prefer European portion sizes.
@@eisamiller88 I remember doing that in houston. HAd a nice meal in the evening, took the stuff away and had two lunches over it. Super price efficient :D
I am a keen cyclist. Since maybe 20 years. 21 months ago I decided to buy an ebike, to be able to go for longer rides. Since then I have for the first time in my life lost some weight. Around 6 kilos.
My husband and a friend of mine where in the USA. And thats what they told me about their experience:
1. They could not find any food that tasted NOT sweet. Even bread tasted sweet.
2. My husbands collegue finally found a shop with non sweet food. It was very expensiv.
3. In the restaurant they wanted to talk and sit but they got the bill without even asking for it.
4. They went back to the hotel in the evenings but there was noone else in the streets. Only cars. They felt "strange".
5. They wanted to walk in the mountains and had to PAY for it.
6. They sometimes had trouble to get just water. Only soft drinks. The water from the tap smelled like chlor.
One year my husband had to travel there from time to time for some weeks and he gained so much weight, that he had to buy a new suit.
He also had some other accidents. He could not open the window of his hotel room and got a bad cough. An American collegue told him to buy some "very good" medicine. In Germany you can not buy real medicine in shops. The medicine was very strong and he felt so dizzy he could not work the whole day and had to stay in hotel (and was affraid to die and noone would help him, because I was not there. 🤭
As an English person I was shocked at the amount of food put in front of me. An American side salad would feed a family of at least 4 people.
I found myself having a short stack of pancakes for breakfast then the next time I would eat was an evening meal about 7pm. I would choose a child's portion and usually shared both meals with my daughter who was 8 at the time
Still felt heavy, lethargic and bloated for the entire holiday and put on about 7lb in weight in 2 weeks.
@8:00 Intrigued that you think that looks "very small". Just how big are US portions then as that looks like a normal dinner?
I'm Canadian and i thought that portion was totally normal too! How is that small? Don't know where that woman in Canada lives or eats if she also thought that was small
There’s a big difference in between Northern Europe and more southern Europe like France and Italy while they may eat between 7-10pm. At least here in Finland most people usually eat between 4 and 6pm. So most times when people talk about Europe they have been to a couple of countries. So keep in mind it doesn’t apply to every country here.
Here in Germany, the portions are usually so large that you are full after the main course.
It annoys me that it is never possible to order a three-course meal with soup/salad, main course and dessert.
Maybe I'm the only one who thinks the portions are so big, because I don't eat big portions at home either.
ur correct atleast from my bavarian experience but i enjoy a filling cheap main course meal 😆i like savory dishes more then sweet dessert anyway tho. not a fan to go out just to get some ice or easy dessert i could make at home any time 😅
Me too!
In Austria as well. Baked cheese, Schnitzel, Cordon Bleu, baked champingnons, baked cowliflower, baked brokoli (baked vegetables in general), all of them defty but quite cheap to get. Also, we like to have big desserts as a main-course.
Yeah, same. I cannot eat half of these portions. So I like all you can eats because I can take less food. 😂
Alter, ich kann kein Englisch... xD
dessert is no food, there is always enought space left :D
I live in Switzerland and 5 hours walks/hikes were normal for children to do once in a while. Even when I go out with friends we could just walk for hours without any destination.
Ten minute walk means it doesn't take long. No one has timed it!
From what I can tell it's not simply just portion size and lack of exercise, it's the quality.... Compared to Australia.... Scary 🙀
It’s interesting that over the years I’ve seen the average quality of food in the U.S. deteriorate alarmingly. I’ve visited that country many times and though the portions have always been large the quality is overall down. Forget the high end Michelin starred restaurants in NYC, L.A, etc they are a million miles away form 90% of restaurants.
I am from Bulgaria and when i was in Germany for my university studies, people in my dorm - Germans, French, and Italians were all baffled by our eating habits too :) we like to have a heavier breakfast - quite regularly I do some pasta for breakfast or it is heavy on bread. My country used to be really big on agriculture and people used to eat well for breakfast so they have enough power to work the fields. Then we get lighter lunch and then we usually have a late dinner. So in conclusion even in Europe, we have so many different habits. But unfortunately, Europe is getting fatter by the year. When I was a kid in 1st grade - we had only 1 obese kid, nowadays in my daughter almost half of the kids are overweight, which I find as a growing problem. Kids eat a lot of junk food and move less these days, or at least in my country.
I'm a fat European but, I like going to the USA because the locals make me look athletic. Also, whilst lots of food contain sugar (To lengthen shelf life) it is usually the wrong kind of sugar. That is FRUCTOSE. Check the contents label, if it contains fructose from corn syrup buy a different product. If you investigate what fructose does to the organs of the body, as opposed to sucrose or glucose, you will find out why. Try TH-cam videos.
Actually a REALLY important point. Especially high fructose corn syrup. Our bodies can't process that stuff for the most part.
Also processed cheese
@@araceli2827 Haha, you reminded me of a big shock I had in the US: I saw a frozen pizza where the package said "Made with real cheese!"
@@mgparis haha it makes you think that on the other ones there are fake cheese and wonder "what I was eating then?"
Fast food is cheap in the US. (Relative) Fresh food is cheap in Europe.
There is WAY more sugar in everything in the US. What the US called bread is almost cake in Europe.
Eating in a restaurant is a social thing in Europe. It is about the company more than about the food. Eating at a table at home instead of TV is also a good thing.
People walk slow in Spain.
Tourists in general walk slower, because they are enjoying the scenery. If you are not looking around, you will be faster.
If I walk to my job or home I will walk easily twice as fast as when I walk enjoying the sun.
Our petrol prices are 4x USA prices so walking makes sense, plus our food is mostly natural and not stocked with sugars. If you eat after 8pm the body stores it all as fat
Italy here. It's true we have a small sweet breakfast and two main meals, lunch and dinner, but we usually have snacks in mid morning and mid afternoon, especially the kids. But our traditinal lunch is one first course, usually pasta o rice dishes, one second course, meat or fish, side dishes which are vegetables, and finally fruits or dessert. With a lot of bread. Dinner is pretty much the same except for the first course, but if you're at a restaurant you might also have a first course. So I don't think we eat that much less, even with smaller portions.
Canadian living in Europe here. You just have to look at the price of gas in Europe, with a lot of tiny towns and great bike paths. That alone would be a factor.
In most hotels in France that I know of breakfasts are also usually buffets. But most of the time you have to pay extra for the breakfast.
When I went to the USA with my family I had to stop the servers from refilling my cup. I was dying I couldn’t drink anymore, i always empty my cup to not waste anything.
The portions were also a lot bigger than I expected so I was walking around feeling pregnant.
Lies or she must’ve been really unlucky coz It’s usually a buffet in Europe too… 🤔😕
If it's a "continental": buffet. Mostly served in the "chain hotels". In really local hotels it is depending on the country, but never idiotic much. In Italy and France: coffee plus some bread/croissant, in those countries they often have no breakfast at all: just a coffee.
Just on the picture of the dinner - where you comment that "this is very small... "
Yes .. that might be the big difference - because my thought was ... this is a HUGE piece of - what looks like salmon! You do not seriously think this is a small portion?! Along with that half a salmon (!) .. she also has what looks like gnocci or tortellini as a side dish. + a basket overfilled with bread.
Also .. going to bed hungry. I actually do like to go to bed hungry (I am a Nord, so we eat dinner at around 5 or 6pm) ... i hate being in bed feeling full. Also, i sleep on my stomach - maybe that is a reason. I never feel peckish after 8 o´clock. The only times i do eat that late is when we are having an evening dinner with friends or so .. but then we also stay up long into the night.
I don't know about other countries but in Poland one if the most important things during a party is... A walk!
Just after a few drinks and when it starts to get a little dark it's the best time to walk around the block, find some playgrounds, just explore and have fun
These walks are also like 1h long at least. Spacer is obligatory!
Regarding breakfasts, it varies a lot, but if your hotel is at least 3 stars is mandatory to have a buffet for breakfast.
She kind of missed a big factor there: sugar! There is a lot more sugar in a lot more products in USA (and I guess Canada too) compared to the same meals in Europe. I mean, you guys have sugar in bread. I had friends coming from a USA trip saying that bread is really sweet there, more like cake than bread after our standards.
Funny story, when I've been to Japan we were in search of a bank to cash in some traveller checks and asked for the directions. They told us it would be a 10 minute walk. So walked 10 minutes and there was no ball anywhere. So we retraced the route and found the bank half way through. We were just way to fast. What might explain why we were sweating like the tourists we were in opposit to the locals.
Yet another funny story, but this time about the breakfast. I actually experienced it the exact opposite way. But it also depends on how the country you stay in does do breakfast.
In London it was more centered around toast, jam and marmalade, whilst in Germany it's most of the times bread/breadroles with jam and marmalade, and cold cuts. And, of course, the larger the hotel the bigger the buffet.😊
That what I was always telling, it's not about McDonalds, it's about callories ballance. You can eat 5 burgers in a row if you are able to burn all those calories.
In Italy now instead of school buses there are often " pedibus".. Some adults pick up kids and all together they walk to school!
I noticed when I visited the US, it's wasn't just the quantity of food they ate, but the quality. I was amazed at the amount of fried carb laden food on offer. Also fresh veg is not consumed as much as here in Europe.
Hi Ryan, Austrian here.
Our portions are really big, we always have self-serve-buffets with bacon, scrambled eggs, cheeses, hams, saussages and cereals.
But you do not have to take in all of everything...
A buffet is there to offer a choice. Take a bit of something you really like.
Though available, doesn't mean loading time.
@@dutchman7623 welp, the portions served are really big. Then we got those huge breakfast-buffets. I described the later.
Italy
Breakfast: 7-10am
Lunch: 12-14pm
Dinner 19-21pm
Breakfast in the hotels are normally buffet (3/4/5 stars), all you can eat, except for egg dishes that are à la carte. The Canadian lady must have been in a bad 3star or similar (judged also by the picture). No decent 3 star will give you 1 croissant and coffee and that's it.
Portions are the size of an average stomach (organ) size. In the south of Italy the portions are bigger. That portion of pasta in the picture is NOT small.
We walk waaaaay more. And bike.
We enjoy conversation with food, slow food, just enjoying the taste and ingredients that are almost always premium quality. Wine too. It's normal to have a glass during your lunch break and go back to the office.
P.S. every hotel will give you on average 5mins less on walking time if they are not like in the main square, cause they make it seem more central (and what do you know, you are a tourist) 😁
He won't understand the 24h clock lol
@@101steel4 oohh hahhaha habit, wanted to make it American but 🤣 7-10am /12-2pm/7-9pm 😁😁😁
@@andrijanaginin1168 I know but Americans can't count past 12 apparently 🤣
i laugh soo hard when you were speaking about the portions of the food and i was thinking this portion is really ok and then you said about the bread and i saw it and i was thinking "who the fuk is gonna eat all that bread" and then you said "the bread is in good portion " and i was wtf?
I'm from Poland and I still think that food portions here are too big for me 😂
Who eats dinner at 5 or 6 ??? OMG! in greece 5-6 its our afternoon snack time or coffee time! our dinners usually are at 9 or even 10! if you go to a restaurant at 7-8 it will be empty!. DINNER at 5 or 6? wow!
Yup... She's quite right. I'm portuguese, and besides walking everywhere, which I don't do (some people do) because it's quite unconfortable, since Portugal is quite hilly, and walking for a long distance can be a challenge (also depends on from where you are of course, you can be from plainier places in Portugal, but in summer those places will be around 100ºF/40ºC during the day). Regarding meal sizes we have quite decent ones (for european standards) and even for americans.
About meal times.... yeah... she's right. Breakfast at abou 7/8, lunch at 12/1pm generally, a snack at 4/5 and dinner at 8/9pm. Having dinner at 5:30 or 6:30 is something completely unthinkable for any portuguese, or spanish or italian... and others. It just doesn't exist, it's not a possibility even, because at those times we are leaving work. And then add some time to get home, some more time to bath your kids and homework, some more time to cook.... and it is 8pm easy... (we generally start working at 8/9, in most places, and work for 8h plus 1 for lunch time).
This is a bit annoying to watch, because this lady confuses Italy with the whole of Europe.
Try googling your directions. It will tell you the walking time. I used Google for directions on my trip to Berlin last year. I use to live in Scotland. I would walk everywhere which I loved. The problem in rural America is the distance and crazy drivers. I really don’t trust people enough to walk/bike to the grocery store.
We call it a 10 minute walk because it's a pleasure to do it, the time runs faster when you enjoy a beautiful downtown. We also put a mirror in elevators so to use a lower speed and efficient engine
the issue is the all too present over-tolerance, and that we here in Western Europe are also slowly but surely adopting the thought of "live and let live" to an extreme, to the point where you can't even point out issues and grievances without getting called out for it😅 I only managed to lose weight (from BMI 29 to 23) after I got told by people once too often that they see/think of me as XYZ (just because of my weight). In hindsight, I'm thankful to them, cause that was MUCH more of a motivation/wake-up call than any "you are precious"-scam that promises you equal treatment while in reality, as a fat person, you're reminded every single day what the society (even if the society itself is fat!) thinks of fat people. I am MUCH happier now as a slim person. People generally treat me better (probably because I'm happier and thus more approachable/likeable, and because my confidence is through the roof), and my vitality and energy level is high. I didn't have any physical health issues when I was fat, but my mental state was in shambles at times, especially during teenagehood. Boys and girls, toughen up and hit the gym! The beginning is the hardest part. You'll feel like you want to faint or vomit, and your muscles might hurt a bit, but see it as a wake-up call for your body. You can be more by weighting less!
Well done, it's not easy to lose weight ! As a holistic healer, I don't sugar coat, but I don't guilt trip either. It's just the facts, the risks, and what you want to do about it.
I am German and would like to add a few things:
We Germans don't eat dinner that late. We eat between 6 and 8 pm. The further you go to the south of Europe, the later they tend to eat. I think Mexicans also eat dinner later than US Americans.
I was in a relationship with an US American and I noticed even more differences:
1. Very few US Americans eat salad. My ex hated it. In Germany, it is perfectly normal to start a lunch or dinner with salad. At least in the restaurants. Real fresh and selfmade salat, not the unhealthy stuff out of a bag!
2. The average German eats fast food much less often. And when we say we go to a restaurant, we don't mean McDonalds. Fast food is not real food for many here. At most, it's an unhealthy quick substitute and an exception to the rule.
3 Even at McDonalds, there are major quantitative and often even qualitative differences between Germany and America. The first time I went to a McDonald's in the U.S., I was shocked. I couldn't eat it. It was much too greasy and the taste was just disgusting.
4. Almost every food contains more sugar. I don't think that helps either...
I think that there are again many differences between European countries in things like breakfast. Here in Germany, for example, breakfast is one of the most important meals of the day and can sometimes be a bit more sumptuous than breakfast in Italy or France, especially at the weekend. In Germany there is a saying that goes: Eat in the morning like a Kaiser, at noon like a king and in the evening like a beggar.
I agree, we have the same saying in France that goes "In the morning eat like a king, at noon like a prince, and at night like a poor"
But I'd say that it's less and less applied, most people I know tend to eat what I call "american breakfast" meaning dessert for breakfast, eat poorly at lunch because they're working, and eat their main meal at night because they're hungry and have more time to make it.
Caloriewise the Americans have an English breakfast, a French lunch and an Italian dinner, so early in the day they want a late night snack. Even a lot of walking wouldn't help that.
That's funny! I used to hear a similar saying as a child growing up in the then Czechoslovakia: "Eat breakfast alone, eat lunch with a friend, give dinner to an enemy." Different way of saying the same thing.
@@JanVlcekOnline Goes to show that moderation sits deep down in European culture. If you don't have that in such a new culture as the Americans, it's not surprising it goes wrong. Here in the Netherlands we have bread for breakfast and bread for lunch, so that sorts itself out.
Germans do tend to be quite large as well though !