Brit Reacts to Things Americans Do That Confuse The Rest Of The World
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- Brit Reacts to Things Americans Do That Confuse The Rest Of The World
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We hate the drug commercials.
And they've been a running joke for decades.
Here's a medicine so you don't have to use eyedrops so often for your dry eyes.
Side effects may include violent and bloody diarrhea, continual release of pus from your eye sockets, and manic depression.
Say it louder for the people in the back!! 🙌
I'm 42 and I'm tired of commercials PERIOD.
TV and TH-cam needs to do AWAY with wasting my time on items I'll NEVER BUY!!!! 🤣
@@BadAssSykO I like commercials in general as it gives a way for people producing content to make money without subscription. I get annoyed when subscription services add comericals as you are already paying for the content. If i had a real choice with older over the air advert TV vs cable TV or general streaming I would take the first. Everyone has to get paid somehow.
All that said, drug commericals are stupid and do, as stated, highlight the stupidity of some of the drugs if you listen. Heck one of the side effects for an asthma medication was sudden extreme asthma attacks. Overall I think my fellow Anericans are way over medicated and that advertising juat makes it worse and takes advantage of mental illnesses like hypocondria.
@@BadAssSykOand most of TH-cam commercials are for snake oil type products that make claims that have been debunked over and over for DECADES. but YT's leadership is snakey and incompetent
As an American I can tell you that all my vacation days are used for doctor appointments for myself or my family or DMV or Veterinary appointments. It isn’t because we don’t WANT a vacation, it’s because we save them for just surviving the year.
That is so true
You're also made to feel guilty for daring to want a day off...
@@qoatzecotlright, I’ve had jobs that if you want a day off just to relax everyone is questioning your motivations.
No it's not true for us all
I was going to say the same thing... most Americans would love more paid vacation days, but employers don't give them. I think we'd be more productive and definitely healthier mentally if we had more days off.
Peanut butter is what kids eat a lot of.
It got us through the Great Depression when we were poor. Its comfort food.
When i was a kid the drinking age was 18. Then changed to 19, then 21. This was because many young people were driving drunk. Every graduating high school class was followed by at least one funeral from graduation parties. Drunk driving has been significantly reduced as a result of the change.
Yes but think about maternal birth /deaths due to child brides ?!?! Drinking at 21 but sex at 13 ?!?! WTF !!
As an American and I have seen many ads for prescription drugs, I have never once asked my doctor for the drugs on commercials I have seen
Mainly because half of the commercial is taken up with possible side effects. And if the drug has that many side effects, I don't want it.
Me neither! Especially for the side effects! Geez, I don’t even take an aspirin unless I really feel the need. And that is rare. I don’t trust the pharmaceutical companies. And don’t trust doctors either.
Sadly, as someone who is chronically ill, I pay attention to new diabetic medicines. However, I agree that they are advertised a ridiculous amount and I wait awhile for other people to be the guinea pigs first. However, I don't like to be reminded all the time about my diabetes while I'm watching TV. I have to think about it enough as it is.
@@lindaabbott7120 haha that's true. Most of the time it makes me not want that medication. I would rather take one where I don't know the side effects than one that I know can give me depression, stomach ulcers, and in some cases death.
@lindaabbott7120 Maybe, but at least you're going to get educated on the subject because your dr. Is sure not going to tell you. Your pharmacist might after you've bought the drug.
Regarding drink cup sizes, you gotta take into account that we typically fill our cups with ice, at least half way to even two-thirds full.
And I don't know how many of us are drinking full sugar sodas anymore. I've heard the soda companies are taking it on the chin as American's are trying to get healthier. So, many people now get diet soda's to treat themselves. I know that's not healthy either, but I think it's better than the alternative. When I rarely get one, somehow it is fizzier and tastes better than getting it from a 2 liter at a store.
I know I grew up eating a lot of fast food, but I don't do that much anymore. I stick to NY (I'm right out of NYC) pizza, or I get a chicken breast from KFC and don't eat much of the breading and none of the skin. I can't ever forgo my pizza though. I think it might have been my actual first solid food. 😊😛
A drink without ice, I won't drink it. I would rather have coffee.
@@garycamara9955
Soft Drinks are already cold in the dispensers at restaurants.
I always ask for no ice
@@Shay45 Ask them when the last time that soda fountain was cleaned, like the tubes that mix the soda water and carbinated drink mix. It never has, is the answer. You wouldn't drink from them if you knew how much bacteria and gross stuff is in those tubes & under the machines.
@@Shay45but they don't stay cold long
The funny part about advertised drugs is that most tend to have a commercial pop up ten years later regarding a class action lawsuit regarding why the drug was pulled from the market.
But hey, if you make 8 billion on a product and have to pay 4 billion for legal action, that's a profit.
I had an exchange student from Spain a few decades ago and she took peanut butter back with her because they didn’t have it in Spain and she loved it. 😁
We had an exchange student from Germany when I was in school. He also took a bunch of it back with him. Creamy, not chunky. From what I remember, the host family was a teacher and she would ship it to him when he ran out.
American here! Personally, myself and many people I know don’t travel over seas due to cost. It is so much easier to travel state to state. We live in such a vast country that we get to see and experience different things without leaving our country. But, nevertheless I would love to visit Europe sometime.
If your company will both allow you to bank days and also have part of your paycheck go into a savings account (if you never see it, you're less likely to spend it) then it's possible to save up for a long trip, after three to five years. But in my case, my employer went out of business after I had saved up three weeks of vacation days, and I lost it all. Now I'm far less likely to try again to save up days for an international trip.
@@jeanvignes Thats a bummer. One time My job wanted me to work my vacation and roll the days over so I obliged. Of course it was a fiasco and the claimed I didn't have any days and it took months to sort out.Since then what Ive always done is take the payout and buy a CD with it. That way its hard to spend on accident. And when the time comes I just take the time off work unpaid and use my CD to pay myself.
I was 30 before I took a trip out of the country plan to do so more now but it is great we can get so many different experiences in our own country as well
I feel like the whole international travel thing is largely related to the sheer size of the country. A Brit traveling to from London to Paris is like a Pennsylvanian going from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh distance wise and they'd still be in Pennsylvania. London to Moscow is like is like Philadelphia to Houston. Same distances but we've never left our country.
the us is like the size of europe. Thats like telling the UK they are uncultured unless they have visited every country in europe.
Great example! I live in Pennsylvania and had two kids in college - one near Philly and one past Pittsburgh. Of course, they both desperately needed things at school that I had to deliver. Our hometown in Northeast Pennsylvania to Philadelphia was almost 130 miles (one way) - about a four-hour round trip. Then we heard from our other son near the Ohio border (280 miles) an 8 1/2 hour round trip. I did both trips in one day. Over 12 hours on the road and I never left Pennsylvania. 🥰 What we will do for our kids!!!! 💗💗
yup. like if I want to fly to London from here in San Jose, I would have to fly across North America and then across the Atlantic....a 10 hour flight on American Airlines! They do offer it non-stop. I would want to book it long in advance because if I booked it for August 14th, apparently it would be 3400 USD and that's for coach 😲
Also, until recently, an American could visit Canada and a fair bit of the Caribbean without a passport.
This is exactly it. I’m in California, and though I want to travel to Europe, I haven’t finished seeing all the parts of my own country yet. I’m planning to finally see New York and DC next year.
I like that the sales tax is added after. It helps us remember to keep the government and their taxes in check. If you factor it in before the people see it, it's out of sight out of mind. It gives the government too much power.
I recently retired. I bought a house closer to my family. I still have my other house. There is only one state between the two. I have to travel 4 1/2 hours between homes.
I had family visit me in Florida. They wanted to go to New Orleans AND Disney World. They honestly thought we could just pop down to Disney for the day. It’s over 8 hours away and it’s in the same state. Even after explaining that to them they couldn’t understand the concept.
The United States is HUGE!
Actually, pharmaceutical companies incentivize doctors to over prescribe their drugs. This is one reason why the opioid epidemic has been so devastating.
Something I’ve learned as an American is that most of the things we say or do come from old Britain and we just didn’t change it when Britain did.
My thought is that the reason we "had to be different" was b/c we were trying to be different than England, since we fought so hard to separate ourselves from it.
@@gracieb.3054 lilky so, it is why we have changed some spellings and pronunciation of some words.
@@Delgen1951they removed unnecessary letters from words to make it different and to reduce costs of using printing presses.
@@Delgen1951 for the most past we have not changed our spelling it is almost always Britain that did the changing
@@gracieb.3054I don't think that's it all. I really don't think it was intentionally being different. many things we got from the UK, but then they changed and we didn't
Many companies in the US won't let you take all of your days at the same time. You have to split them up, especially during peak vacation times, so everyone isn't off at the same time.
Never worked for anyone who wouldn't let me take all of the time I had EARNED. Some times the vacation request would get kicked up to a vice president, but they ALWAYS approved it.
There is so much to see and do in America. We don't need to leave ❤
We may not travel internationally, but our country is HUGE. We can see so many different cultures and landscapes within our own borders!
Americans are also fortunate we have Canada and Mexico so close where we can experience different cultures. It wasn’t that long ago we didn’t need passports to enter Canada or Mexico.
We need to go back. Sovereign citizens, freedom and liberty to travel. No passports for us. Going back will be true progress. Never sacrifice freedom and liberty.
My experience of USA has been that you can experience FAKE versions of any culture there. I get what you're saying, but please recognise you're experiencing the Americanised version and it simply doesn't compare to the real thing!
It's like me going to TGI Fridays for an American experience 😂
@@MyerShift7 You need to go back to the looney bin with that idiotic shit.
@@christophergibson3846 Well of course. A culture can only exist in a vacuum. The cool thing though, is in the biggest cities you can find varying levels. Chicago for instance has a Polish culture so strong that you will find entire neighborhoods where no English is spoken or written. Move a few blocks down and you get a 50/50 mix. another few blocks and things are American with a strong Polish flair. Another mile down the road and the most Polish thing you find is a sausage. I hear its the same for the Irish in Boston. So we may not get 100% cultural societies But Every large city in America has immigrants that have at least opened up authentic eateries from all corners of the world.
We don't travel internationally because "internationally" is so much further away for us. It takes 6 hours to drive from London to Paris. I can't even get out of my state in 6 hours, let alone to another country. Also, there's a lot of our own country to see. Besides a quick trip to Hawaii, I have never left North America, but I have been to 49 American states and 2 American non-states (DC and PR), which is the travel equivalent of going to every European country and a few Asian ones.
This exactly.
So, another words, you have been all over United States.. Good for you!!!
@@vermontmom4232 Alaska to go! I have also done 6 Canadian provinces and 2 Mexican states. But Alaska, that's the dream
@@jenninajeep Alaska is gorgeous! Would love to go myself. By the sounds, you will get there. Keep living your dream! 🥰
If we added up miles we've traveled on vacations, Americans probably travel as much or more than Brits. From NY to Hawaii is almost 5,000 miles, and you are still in the US. (that's equal to London to halfway through Mongolia).
Vacation days are hard to get approved at some jobs. Retail for instance often have blackout days (days you cannot take off). Christmas, Thanksgiving and sometimes during the summer. Also in the US we often get PTO (paid time off) that has to be used foe vacation, sick time and personal time, so we frequently use it all up if we get sick.
I agree, especially if you have greedy bosses. Like for example, I had a funeral to go to so I asked off for that day, and my boss said "Do you reeeallly need tomorrow off?" It's disgusting sometimes.
@cassidythecat The smart alec answer would have been "would you rather they bring the casket here for the service so I reeeaallly don't need the day off?"
Some bosses are jerks, while others are sweethearts. Which one probably has the happiest and most loyal employees?
I love your honesty, integrity.
You don't filter your comments to appeal or try to "suck up" to anyone.
I grew up in UK. until I was 21 years old.
Then I met and married my best friend... an American.
I've now lived in US from 1986 until now.
I'm 59 years old now.
Thank you for what you do.
I find your thoughts and commentary very entertaining. Often hilarious. (In a good way).
I loved your comments about the rodeo.... how young the kids were doing it.
Same is true in Florida. My son was signed up by me to learn to sail, His swim check (a test to see if he could swim) was not held at a pool.
It was held in a local lagoon that occasionally had bull sharks and alligators in it.
I did ask about it.
The answer was...."well, the kids know that, .... we view it as a motivational way for them to pass the swim test"
Keep up the good work.
I’ve lived outside of the US and I’ve traveled a lot.
But I recently traveled in the US. We drove 1700 miles in 4 days to go to a family reunion. That’s essentially like driving from London to Moscow.
I went across country on a train. Took 4 days
Right before the Pandemic started…I drove 1700 miles from DC to Colorado Springs…in a day and a half…I was tired as fuck
2 days 3 days tops
Part of the reason Peanut Butter is so popular here in the USA, is because it is versatile.
It can be used for candy bars, ice cream, baked goods, sandwiches and even to make some sauces.
Like, Peanut Butter Cookies, Peanut Butter Cups, Peanut Butter Squares, Peanut Butter Bread....just to name a few things that get done with it.
So it isn't just a sandwich thing.
I like using peanut butter with soy sauce, chili oil, canned tuna, and pasta water to make a noddle dish.
We in the US just don’t hop around and change our systems like the fickle Europeans.
When we were young we both benefitted from tipping. My husband was a pizza delivery driver and he always went above and beyond, taking them plates and napkins and always getting it there hot 🙂 he made very good tips especially from his regulars 😂 without the tips we wouldnt have made it. No matter how broke we were, we always made sure we tipped.
Luckily as an adult he has a much better job but we always make sure we tip "big" no matter if it's delivery or if we go out. We work around what we are getting because yes we are going to tip our server well. 😉✌️
To me tipping is super normal and also as a former server I LOVE the opportunity to give someone nice a great tip and make their day!
A peanut butter and jam sandwich, eaten with a glass of milk, is one of the most balanced meals you can eat...as long as the ingredients are low sugar. Peanut butter is a fantastic form of protein, and was invented for exactly that purpose, to allow people back in the day who didn't have teeth to get the protein they needed.
PB&J sandwiches with a glass of milk is SO good and satisfying. I use a fruit spread that is the lowest in sugar. I have one most nights when ready for bed. Can’t beat it!
Buy organic peanut butter. Peanuts grow underground and are some of the dirtiest foods since chemicals and pesticides end up in the soil where the peanuts grow and gets drawn into the peanuts.
Don't the Brits have something called Marmite or Vegimite or something they just rave about? You don't hear us say that's weird do you? The European obsession with the US is weird.
@@tonya--7704 Vegimite = Australia 🇦🇺.....
@@tonya--7704 No, I'm American and everyone I know who knows of it usually say "ugh", as it sounds so bad. I'd be willing to try it though. Who knows? I could like it.
I don't think anyone thinks peanut butter is actually disgusting though.
Hard to believe that when it goes so well with so many things. Personally, I love peanut (butter) satay chicken and cold noodles, and for a treat, peanut butter & dark chocolate in cool whip. Love peanut butter cookies too.
One of the reasons the drinking age is 21 is because almost everyone in the US drives on a regular basis. Either they own a car or have access to a family car. Driving age is 16. Most of the US is rural. Small towns and farmland, miles and miles and miles of country backroads. Bored kids out drinking and driving have cost families in US a lot of teenage lives. European teens don't drive as a rule so drinking is less likely to get them killed.
This is it exactly, especially since 18 year-olds are more likely to share booze with 16 and 14 year-olds whereas 21 year-olds are less likely to do so.
And you have to be 21 in the USA to smoke cigarettes or vape as well. NOT 18 years old.
There was a time when 18 year olds could buy alcohol. I believe it was mid to late 70s because I remember buying it in 1975 when I was 18 myself. The age was raised later due to high number of kids driving drunk and killing themselves and others. The government stepped in and made each state raise the drinking age.
@@Dark_Angel_Beckons Wow that sure was snuck in. I couldn't imagine being a 19 or 20 year old who was smoking for at least a year being forced to go cold turkey cause the government arbitrarily raised the minimum age on those products you were using.
@@raistlarn Well, they can be crafty little younglings I am sure. But young men @ 18 years old can still be drafted....not so fun, huh? :/
American ex-waitress here. When i was a waitress i was only being paid $2.14 an hour. I depended heavily tips. Now if i go to a restaurant, i respect what the server has to put up with, so i tip well. My attitude is --- if you have enough money to pay for an expensive meal then you should have enough to tip the server or just stay home.
Soccer is a term from the UK that was used until the 90s until Brits decided they didn't want to use the same term as the US. Rugby Football is what American Football was created from so the name was already there. We just dropped the rugby portion off of it
When you said they have the drug commercials “more for money than health” I burst out laughing. Of COURSE they are. Suddenly it occurred to me that in other countries they were doing it for health reasons. 😅
Sad isn’t it! They don’t creat cures they create customers and pharmaceutical companies don’t wNt you well they want you depended on the pills so they profit it’s sickening!
As an American, before I retired I had a love / hate relationship with taking vacations, particularly longer ones, as there was always a ton of work that piled up on my desk while I was away that no one else would / could do. So after being away from work for a week I would not only have to work doubly hard for the first several days after returning, but I would also have to spend a lot of time on the 2-3 days before leaving on vacation going over with ongoing projects, etc. with those people that would be in theory covering for me while I was away, as well as trying to get as many things as possible to the point where they did not need attention until I made it home.
Exactly! I've worked 20+ hours straight before heading to the airport to take one week of vacation.
sounds like you milquetoasts never learned to be adequately assertive at work - can't help you there
Boil some water and salt. Add a little bit of peanut butter and stir until a gravy consistency. Pour it over some biscuits and spice how you want. A southern delicacy.
When I was a little girl (in the 70s), I recall the news discussing a switch to the metric system. Oh, the uproar! We have a small interstate (I17) in Arizona that is signed in metric. The experiment failed because apparently, we are really stubborn. Didn't bother to fact check my recall, so don't quote me, lol.
Cheese in a spray can is not at all popular in the US these days. It was popular when it was first launched back in the late 1960's through the 1970's, but gradually fell off after that. I'm sure it's still available, but I can't remember the last time I saw it at the store.
I had to order it online. I just wanted to know what it was like and if it was any good. It is not. It tasted like cold creamy American cheese. I don't like American cheese on anything except a cheeseburger, or a grilled cheese sandwich, so this was a no-go for me. Who knows? Maybe I've saved some of you from making this mistake.
@@gracieb.3054 lol the Europeans think that we think that's gourmet cheese lmao. It's like, no, Europeans. We have excellent cheeses, from Wisconsin, Monterey, Napa, etc. We can also buy cheese or bread imported from Europe. Sometimes you're just hungry and don't need a special 4 star gourmet meal lmao. 🙂
Like I said in another comment, I think they're just jealous that we lead in pretty much every form of human endeavor, so they nitpick over little things that nobody cares about lmao. "You went to the Moon? Hah! We have 400 types of artisan bread! Beat that!" lmao.
I see every time. I don't buy it, not because of pretentiousness, I just don't need it.
Cheese in a can was never popular it was something high school and college kids liked.
I had some not too long ago. The best is on celery.
when you use a calendar to note an appointment, do you go to the day or month first? 🤔
And we generally give the month first when speaking. They just have a screw or two loose. 😂
Most people don't buy those ridiculously huge burgers or spray cheese. Doctors and hospitals get kickbacks for prescribing certain drugs. The drinking and voting age was changed to 18 in the US around 1970, the drinking age was changed back to 21 as was mentioned in the video.
I’m an American and that comment about Americans don’t have a desire to travel internationally is NOT TRUE! So many of us WISH we could but it just costs too much. It’s the wealthy Americans that tend to travel overseas
As an American, if I was in another country and didn't tip waitstaff, I'd feel like crap. That feels disrespectful. I don't care how much they earn. It's not an easy job to be on your feet all day dealing with customers and getting orders right. Some people think low wage earners are below others, and that's bullshit because the hardest workers make the least money. That's what doesn't make sense.
In Germany they will tell you point blank if you tip ONLY round up to the next dollar even if you are only tipping .01 cent
In many Asian countries it’s a literal insult to tip. Don’t do it lol
If waitstaff jobs paid even minimum wage, tipping would feel odd in the US too, just like giving money to anyone else you're doing business with outside of the service industry. Tipping would then become the disrespectful thing, like you were treating people as below your station and in need of charity.
Thank you! It’s called gratitude. And I like to share what’s in my heart with something that proves it. Cash works well.
Must be different American I think it's stealing because a majority of tips do not go to the waitress go to the owner
Being a tipped employee here in the US put me through to my Masters Degree in college, and allowed me to travel Europe twice. It keeps the prices of going out to eat down. Some people don't tip, we usually can tell who that's going to be, but most people do.
Food service is a hard job. Always tip =)
Employees at Casa Bonita restaurant in Colorado (recently purchased and reopened by Matt Stone and Trey Parker of South Park fame) get $30/hr and no tipping. It hasn't even fully opened yet and employees are already complaining about it.
@@Gizmo42Rodeo That's funny b/c most wait staff in the US complain about the effed up tip system. It allows the restaurants to pay their wait staff almost nothing (literally a few dollars per hour) and says it will be made up for in tips. Other than at gambling establishments, or possibly in fine dining, you may make almost nothing, b/c it is pretty much left up to the guests to decide if they pay you or not. You could make next to nothing on a bill that cost hundreds. I don't believe what you're saying, b/c it literally does not make sense. There is no sane reason why employee's would complain about having a stable & reliable, living wage.
My guess is you are a restaurant owner who doesn't want this idea of actually having to pay your staff a living wage, rather than keeping all the spoils of that labor for yourself. That makes sense.
@@gracieb.3054 Here's a thought, look it up. It's been all over the news here.
@@gracieb.3054No one is forcing people to take those jobs. They are told what their pay will be and if they accept the offer that’s on them. Of course a business owner opens a business to make money and make a profit to grow the business. Some companies are better at sharing the wealth with their employees than others. Those that do are typically more successful, but not always.
I LOVE when he says Huuuuu!?!?!! And Whaaaaaa?!?!!? 😂😂lol
That cheeseburger with 10 patties is completely unreal. Nobody buys, sells or makes those like that, LOL!
We have a Game here in the US called Handball where 2 opponents take turns hitting a Small Rubber Ball with their Open Hand against a Wall, it's like Racket Ball but without the Racket
I believe it originated in Latin America and then came here.
I think Americans don't travel outside the county because we have so much diversity here. There's plenty to see in our own country, and just going to another state can be like going to another country. 😊
Which many Brits resent because they wish they still controlled us as a colony that they could loot and exploit
My friends and I did the roadtrip from Sacramento, California to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. We could see the physical and cultural differences in each state. Amazing
Also the fear of being kidnapped is real for Americans. We've seen it happen too much. Bur I agree we do have so much to see. You could travel everyday of your life and still not see everything in America.
I've been to all 50 states now and to about 15 countries. Every single state and country has something to offer!
I think it's because it's too expensive and the jet lag is killer going to the other side of the world, airfare alone is at least $2k min for economy. A lot of us go to Canada and Mexico because they are close. Europeans going to european countries is like us going to other states.
I've been 1,000 miles south of where I live, and I've been 700 miles west, and I've never left the USA. Actually, I've never even left the right half of the USA, despite driving west for 10 hours. I live like... a 6 hour drive from the east coast. This country is HUGE. There are counties in Texas bigger than some countries.
We did a 3 day train trip from Philadelphia to San Fransisco (with stops only to take on/let off passengers). If we did that from say Paris, we'd probably end up half-way through Russia.
I'm an American - the sales tax is WAY more complicated than you think. Not only are there state sales taxes (which your map shows) but there are county and city sales taxes. So the sales tax can vary from city to city. And some cities have public improvement fees, which is basically a tax, but they can't call it that because of certain laws. Yeah, it's a pain. Also, I'm currently living in Switzerland and I miss ice in my drinks.
Omg. You make it make it sound like some complicated calculus equation. Just plan on 10 cents for a dollar, a dollar for every ten and 10 dollars in tax for every 100. You will always have enough money when you pay then. It's not rocket science. Where I live its 25 cents for every 3 dollars. I just mentally add ten bucks for every 100. It's not that difficult.
@@lesterine77 Good way to budget. You're right, ten percent is probably a good average overall.
Yeah tipping doesn't bother me. It's just what we do. I actually like it. When you go for drinks or to a restaurant you know you will be tipping. You can make someone's day with a tip. You can really show appreciation to someone who helps you out. A thank you is nice, but there is no better thank you than a big tip.
When I was 18, I could drink alcohol in most states. One issue was that 18-year-olds are still in high school and would supply alcohol to younger schoolmates. I believe drinking and driving was an issue too.
I’m an American who loves to travel internationally. The one thing I don’t think is an accurate stereotype that ALWAYS comes up is portion sizes. Sure, the US has several “novelty” type restaurants that boast huge portion sizes. I’ve traveled extensively across Europe and don’t find much difference in sizes from normal restaurants in the US to Europe. Also, I’m not talking about fast food either. I’ve actually been shocked by the German portion sizes (at a touristy restaurant, so I’m sure that was part of the “schtick”). And I’m also unable to eat a full Italian meal with all the courses served. So, I think that stereotype is a little overplayed. Love your videos, and I don’t mean anything bad by my comment…just trying to give perspective.
2:28 the main argument for tipping is that it allows for those in tough financial situations to save substantial amounts on food by not tipping. Additionally, it is supposed to foster altruistic ideologies in a community.
It’s great in theory; however, it is bad for the customer as the food at many restaurants is not significantly cheaper than it would be without a tip
Yes, ice cold drinks do taste so much better. There is nothing better than an ice cold soda on a hot summer day.
They keep forgetting that Canada also has a tipping culture may not be as prevalent as the US, but they do tip especially and sit down restaurants
We used to live in Germany, but bought our groceries (including peanut butter) from the nearby U.S. Army base. While wearing an expensive velour skirt, my next-door neighbor, a French woman married to a German man, accidentally sat in chewing gum. She was distraught, but I brought over our peanut butter to apply to the gum. (It loosens sticky messes from fabric and from hair!) The woman and her mother were so impressed with the fragrance of the peanut butter that they used their hands to wave the scent up to their noses! I let them keep the jar because they loved it so much. (And the peanut butter got the gum off of her skirt.)
Tipping only bothers me because restaurant owners can be shady. Some owners will steal a percentage of a servers tip and some will add all the tips together and divide it between servers meaning bad servers can get more and the server you wanted to tip more to may get less. Considering that servers rely on tips to live, I always hope some shady owner is not stealing their tips
The freedom of speech comment about advertising drugs is ridiculous. If that were the case, cigarettes would still be allowed to advertise on TV and they can't
The difference is that cigarettes have been proven harmful to peoples health, and that makes it different than medicines which are supposed to be helpful to peoples health.
@@gracieb.3054 sorry that doesn't fly. These medications have numerous side effects and some are even death. It comes down to the lobbyists paying off politicians, it has nothing to do with our health
@@gracieb.3054Supposed to be, but you of course hear all of the possible side effects including death on some of these ads.
I say the government has no business regulating tobacco advertising as long as they list the dangers as well so it’s not misleading.
I’m not a smoker. I simply say that as someone who believes in our rights.
Neither can alchohol
Or prostitution
Usually those huge burgers are challenge burgers. If you can finish it in so many minutes, you win something cheap like a t- shirts and your pic on the wall. You'd be surprised how many tiny woman beat out a large man. Lol
In the 1970’s the drinking age dropped to 18, then the number of deaths from car accidents rose. Thus the federal 21 year old law.
It changed [back] the year I turned 18_ I was 'grandfathered' in.😏
Ive never seen burgers like that. Im sure I could find one in DC which is close to me, but you wouldnt find this easily in most of the US. Thats just crazy.
I think part of the MM/DD/YYYY format comes from an agricultural background. The size of the US, and varying crops, plus the size of the population, not to mention immigrants with different farming cycles were moving to the US. Keeping track of what month it is helps track planting cycle and management of insects and diseases. If you lived outside of the major farming states, keeping track of the month first could help you track when produce would be in season and when you could expect it at the stores close to you.
lol why do you dopes just make things up like that?? If you don't know what you're talking about (and you clearly don't!) it's okay NOT to leave a comment, sweetie! really it is
@@Marcel_Audubon Actually, you are the one that does not know what they are talking about. So it is okay not to leave a comment.
@@Texasnoname so you're basically just recycling my comment almost verbatim? #braindead
I live in a college town and I can tell you without a doubt, we LOVE our college and high school football games. High school games have HUGE rivalry...lol
Try a peanut butter and banana milkshake sometime, you may change your idea on pb. As for travel, it takes nearly three days just to drive across Montana and you'll see several different environments on the way. Besides we can visit France in
Louisiana, Germany in Texas or Washington, Norway in Minnesota and Disney in Cali or Florida (I'm pretty sure those are separate countries by now).
Voting age used to be 21. It was lowered during the Vietnam War because 18 year olds were being drafted.
The month- date- year format makes sense to me as it is a straighter line to when you're referring.
Every month has the same days, basically, so putting the month first narrows it down immediately as to which date.
So if an event is happening on the 20th, you don't have to read on to find out which 20th.
It cuts to the chase, if you will.
Nonsense. Literally nonsense. It makes no sense. Numbers either go from highest to lowest or reverse. If you were invited to a party on 04.10.2024 when would you turn up?
@@lorrainemoynehan6791Month, Day, year IS going from the smallest to the largest, though! There’s 12 months, 30ish days, and 2023 years on the current calendar.
@@AnimeByTheHour I feel like you had to really think about that one or your brain works much different than mine (and likely most others.) A day is the shortest amount of time, a month the next shortest, and a year the largest. You're picking an inconsistent measuring method. Month, Day, and Year all represent a different amount of time which is ultimately what dates are marking.
And one clarifies the next. 'What is it today'?
Option US:
'May'
'I know that, funny guy. It's been May for weeks. May what?'
' 17th'
'Thanks. Was that so hard?'
Option Europe:
'17th'.
'Thanks.'
@@MrCho14 Funny cuz I thought exactly how that other person thought. American would never answer that way. What is today....means the day not the month...so we would say 17th or the name of the day (Tuesday)...that easy. Some would say also May 17th...those the people who like to hear themselves speak....lol
Month-day-year makes far more sense when you take into account how English is generally spoken.
While you COULD say "the 25th of January, 2010," for example, you would, generally speaking, normally say "January 25th, 2010."
The reality of the situation though, is both systems are actually entirely arbitrary, and just as good as the other for writing dates.
The only real difference being that people belonging to the day-month-year club seem to generally enjoy being arrogant dickheads about it.
For writing dates MM/DD, yeah when somebody asks my birthday I say June 10th. I find that system more intuitive, because we're usually talking about dates in the current year, and saying the month first sets the time of year in your mind and then the day of the month narrows it down to the specific. I agree, if we wrote the year first it would be less confusing though lol.
Yeah I am more a fan of YYYY-MM-DD (dashes or dots or no spaces are fine) it makes things easier to sort if files are named that way. If somone just asks me or wants me to write a date free hand i default to saying the day, and lettered month and year. So 30 July 2023. That way i dont have to remember if somone wanta the day first or the month first.
@@fcold9402 yeah ditto on both counts! Naming files like monthly tax filings keeps it sorted in that format. And I also write the month out often like you say to avoid confusion.
are yu confused by it?
As an American who had to deal a lot with foreign co-workers, whether on conference calls, emails, whatever, I got into the habit of writing, for example today: 16Aug23. That way there is no confusion among fellow Americans or foreign colleagues about what day I meant.
@@fcold9402 Writing it YYYY-MM-DD also sorts better numerically. This is my preferred method and how the military writes them which is where I got it from. Or if you just want a number then YYYYMMDDHHMMSS works great.
One of the big reasons we lowered the voting age from 21 to 18 is the idea that if you're going to serve in the military you should be able to vote for the people who decide if we go to war.
Vacations are usually used for family emergencies, Dr. Appointments, and sometimes you take time off to go camping or visit relatives. The big burger is called a Heart Attack. Very few can fully eat it.
“to me it’s like they’re doing it more for money and not for health” I laughed in a depressing way at that cause I remembered most other places on earth at least pretend that they care more about human lives than making money, but here people die from rationing expensive drug prescriptions or from avoiding getting treatment cause they can’t afford it, and so on, but at least there are also countless people here fighting to change things for the better
Canada has the metric system, we converted in 1975 when I was a teenager. We were told “Think Metric “ I never could get it so to this day I still describe things in inches, feet and yards but I do think metric when it comes to kilometres, or Celsius for temperature. Odd thing though, I imagine that due to the US not going metric, the construction industry seems to also use inches, feet and yards as well as metric. My grandkids don’t have a clue what an inch is!😂
I was 5 in 1975 But I do remember learning the metric system in first grade and being told that America IS changing to the metric system so we had to learn it. So we were supposed to change with ya but I guess we were too lazy. :)
Handball (also known as team handball, European handball or Olympic handball)[3] is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of throwing it into the goal of the opposing team. A standard match consists of two periods of 30 minutes, and the team that scores more goals wins.
Our fruit.and veg aisle is probably bigger than your whole grocery store...the veg pictured is from a corner grocery...
Minor correction for you: No, you can't smoke at 18. Four years ago (2019), the minimum age for smoking was raised to 21. Cigarettes, cigars, e-cigarettes ... it doesn't matter, you can't buy tobacco products until you are 21, and there are NO exceptions.
You can't buy a gun at 18 either. Or serve on a jury. You have to be 21.
@@tonya--7704 But you can vote at 18. And enlist. So there's that!
@@tonya--7704you can by a long gun at 18. Handgun needs to be 21
@@kramermccabe8601 in California it's 21 for any firearm
@@neutrino78x 18 to buy a long gun in California (18-20 unable to purchase semi-auto "assault rifle" style firearms) with a valid hunting license
The other thing about not traveling outside the US is that most people don't live around family, so those vacation days are used on trips to see family (in the US).
Like when shopping, especially for clothes and shoes, sizes vary depending on clothing brand and states too. You may wear a size small in KY but be large in Alabama.
Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, and Japan all call it Soccer. If anything, at least in the English speaking world, the UK is sort of the odd one out here. Also, the term Soccer was coined at Oxford University.
Personally, I think the 21 age for drinking might have something to do with the fact that almost everyone has a car. If you live in a place that is small or has good public transportation, it doesn't make sense. But if you have to drive to get home, it is a very different story. We hope that either maturity or fear of being caught will keep the rest of us safer.
Raising the drinking age to 21 in 1984 was directly related to the influence of MADD at the time. MADD was formed in 1980 and DUI accidents became a large societal conversation in the early 80s, President Reagan basically bribed states to raise the drinking age to 21 or the government would withhold federal road fund money from them
you have made the perfect case for better public transport
The problem was that 18 year olds, many still in high school, would show up to school drunk. In fact, at my high school if a student was missing the school would check at the local tavern. Sure enough...
@@stischer47 I'm not entirely sure of your cause and outcome. Is/was the problem that students rock up tipsy? Or is the problem that they drive after a glass or five? You could always raise the driving age to 21 and let them drink from 18. The advantage to that might be better public transport...FOR EVERYONE. But of course you are apoplectic at the thought and yelling that I don't understand. Well yes and no. It's a conundrum. Driving age is uniformly 18 in europe, although I'd say that over half of 21 year olds can't drive. I understand that is disenfranchising them in USA as there is insufficient public transport. Were the students really in a bar so early in the day? Why didn't they just put booze in a flask and drink it in the playing fields like any normal teenager?
In NYC before both sexes drinking age law was raised to 21 in 1984 girls remained at 18yo for a while when 21yo was raised for boys. In a very short time they decided this was a very stupid idea and changed both sexes legal drinking age to 21. Tbh most of my friends started imbibing at age 14 - 15 while I held out until after high school.
My son served in the Air Force during the Iraq war. Coming home on break to Wisconsin, he was only 19. A little tweak in the drinking age law allowed the active service or reserve member the right to legally drink with a parent present. But even better was that the final decision to allow or refuse this practice was truly up to the establishment- NOT the government.
It makes me happy to tip servers. Especially when they go the extra mile and are pleasant. A sense of humor and good attitude goes farther with me than perfection. Someone with a great attitude will get at least a 50% tip with me. I tip based on effort and attitude more than "was everything perfect ". Perfection without joy is no fun. The way you carry yourself when things don't go perfect is important
"What do you do with that burger?" Buy 2 packs of buns and use it to make eight burgers at home. 😂
The reason the US and the UK and other places would do Month/Day/Year has to do with agrarian culture. Month is the most important part of the entire date because it conveys information about what season you're in and the tasks to be done, as well as any upcoming holidays. While neither country is agrarian any more, the US kept the old format, probably out of habit, the way we speak, and the fact that knowing the weather and cultural expectations of the month still makes it the most important part of the date, usually, when conveying information.
We aren't really different. Most of the things the Brits get confused over are things we go from them. They just changed their systems over the years to match their neighboors while we didn't. As for the month/day thing it all comes down to how we say it.
The UK still isn't fully metric either. Their speed limit signs are often in miles per hour. Many still use feet, inches, yards, gallons when talking about stuff. Same with Canadians though they did change all of their signs.
@@Gizmo42RodeoI once saw a reactor talking about how dumb it was that the US used imperial not metric. In practically the same sentence they used the term “stone” referring to weight which refers to pounds. I wanted to tell them to make up their minds!
My favorite reaction of yours was Italy calling “football” Soccer! Loved it 🥰
The tall stack of meat patties in the burger is most likely challenge. To get your picture on the wall of the establishment. A lot of the US citizens don’t eat that everyday😂 also I didn’t choose to learn the metric system vs the imperial, it was what I was taught through out school. We vote at 18.
The one thing I dislike about tipping is when you pay with a credit card and put the tip on the card, also, the establishment takes a portion of the tip and gives the rest to your sever, which I view as theft. So if I pay with a card, I make sure to give the server the tip directly to them in cash.
Bingo! That’s what we always did.
That would be illegal. A company can't take people's tips. The reason people want the tips in cash instead of on cards is because the company is required to report tipped income to the government and then the person has to pay taxes on them.
I've worked 30 years as a server and bartender. I've never seen or heard of an establishment taking a portion of a server's tip. That's illegal.
Most states in America have a law that says the company has to pay out untaken paid time off, meaning you still see those vacation days on your paycheck and you are also getting paid for working resulting in a good payday.
Actually I think is is only in a couple states like California and New Jersey where that is still true.
In ohio we used to have Vacation days and sick days and vacation days would roll over year to year and would pay out on leaving the company. However they converted it all to Paid Time Off (PTO) except in excluded states. PTO is like the old sick leave, as it is there and you can use it but if you dont use it by end of year you lose it and they do not pay it out if you leave the company.
@@fcold9402 That's a bummer to hear. I thought it was many if not most states. I live in Colorado and by law my employer has to pay me for untaken PTO at the end of the year.
In Texas PTO doesn't roll over to the next year, you just lose it. When I retired I didn't get my PTO balance either, but I had used most of it, so I didn't lose too much.
Middle income Americans tend to have “staycations” which is a vacation but stay at home
Mothers against drunk driving got the drinking age raised.
The idea that Americans are not well traveled is pretty ridiculous.
We just generally stay in country (I’ll never see all I want here….but I’ve got 1 HI island done…)so we don’t have to do currency exchange….lol
They dont realize that different cultures traveled to the US. The only culture that travels to them is indian.
@@christineharrison7815 My friends that I know, including myself have travelled and lived in many countries. I have college degrees from the USA, UK and China.
@@rogerhenslee4745I think the point she was making was that a lot of Americans don't feel the need to travel abroad when we have a lot of culture to see here. Some people are scared of flying and others don't have the thousands of dollars to go to a foreign country. If it weren't for some mission programs that allowed me to go to Slovenia and Namibia, I would have never left the US either because it's out of my price and I can already see so much here that are vastly different from just my hometown or state by driving 8-10 hours away.
@@NannerBrams Sure its harder for an American to travel abroad then a European to travel a few hours by bus! No arguments and agree!
I've seen this video being reacted to a couple times now and it's confusing to me. The video is comparing apples to oranges especially with most of the side by side pictures. Comparing a 20 patty burger from a local diner to something you might get at a Michelin star restaurant and comparing box sugary cereal to different types of meats is not being honest with the comparisons. Sure our food is probably more fatty that others but the narrator would have you believe we don't have those other options available.
While we might have bigger burgers and larger portions of fries (chips to Brits), the vast majority of us have never encountered or eaten an enormous 10 patty burger. Those are just for competitive food eaters or you eat one burger and take the rest home. I know once I ordered a 3 patty burger from Wendy's and ate one burger. Then I used my own buns and ate a burger at home for the next 2 days. It was a better deal than just buying one burger.
For sure though, America has some of the best fine dining in the world, but I didn't think that's what they were saying in the video. Most American's have fast food a lot more often on a regular basis than fine dining, and I would guess that other cultures eat healthy meals on a more regular basis than America does overall. Of course it doesn't make it clear that more wealthy, cosmopolitan areas may be more health conscious, but we are still one of the unhealthiest countries in general. Someone is eating all those processed foods we make here. Our corporate culture that forces people to work unending backbreaking schedules and pressures people not to take those vacation days if you want to have a job means a lot of people have to eat poorly and on the go.
You can absolutely compare apples to oranges. Lol. Just messing with you
Yeah Europeans always think that we regard spray cheese as gourmet/artisan. Or Wonder bread. lmao.
If I'm just getting a sandwich for lunch, I don't need top of the line artisan bread lol. but if I wanted artisan bread, I could get it.
Maybe they say that kind of crap to distract from the fact that they have never landed men on the moon and returned them safety to the Earth. 🙂
@@neutrino78x Yeah. It's weird how spray cheese comes up in all these videos. I personally do not like it at all nor is it something that I see someone use unless it's a 10 year old with Ritz crackers.
@@NannerBrams indeed! And I'll bet that the Europeans have some kind of equivalent to that over there too, and just like us, nobody considers it to be the best example of cheese made in Europe. lol
The problem with us not taking all our vacation days is mostly because most jobs you have to plan around holidays and other workers so you can’t take a lot of time off at a time.
19:32 This happened to me. Where I am, the legal drinking age is 19 and literally a month after my 19th birthday, we took a trip down to the U.S. and I suddenly had to remember that I couldn't legally drink while there lol!
Servers make an average of 3.13hr. Tips are main income. At a nice restaurant, you can make over $300 a night in tips. That’s $1500 a week in tips and usually average 30 hrs a week.
Im not joking in anyway, but a waitress at a decent resturant in the US can easily make double what a dr does in the UK thanks to tips and the UKs abysmal pay rate.
@@nullakjg767 Do you own a restaurant? Because the truth of the matter is that most people go to chain restaurants. Sure, you *might* make more at a fine dining establishment, but the problem is that it is up to the diner's whether you get paid or not. If they are stingy, you could do all that work and walk away with very little. It is not a stable, reliable living wage. I am not basing this on my own experiences alone, but I read a lot. This has been the subject of many articles in many news publications. Over and over you can read about how unfair this system is to people who are in the restaurant industry, b/c they have to wonder if they are going to be able to make rent. This is the reality of the situation, though your personal experiences were different. It isn't fair to workers. The restaurants mainly get all the rewards.
Also, in America we have so many places here in America to visit with in it's own borders. As an American, I had a boss ask me once why I do not go any where on Vacations. My answer was, If I go to a different place for a vacation. Means I am quitting my job and moving to that place. Then when I get to that place. I just get a job there. That way, I am always on a vacation and get to know that area. Then when done move back and get another job. But as a cook, you can always get a job any where in America.
My husband has worked for his company for 25 years and accumulated over 5 months of sick leave, and cashes in his vacation time at the end of the year. He does however get 2 weeks personal time off, which he uses for dental and doctor appointments. Also for our birthday’s. These can’t be cashed in and it makes it easier for us to share parenting duties.
Clothes in nyc are taxed but waived in august for school shopping clothes in new jersey are not. For example. My county taxes on taxsble items in some towns are only half of the full rate
There is already a sport called handball so it’s not the same
2:25 Every server would absolutely hate that. They would immediately take a massive paycut. When I worked as a chef we had servers that could work Thursday-Saturday and make $1500-2000. If they were paid a minimum wage they would likely get paid very close to THE minimum wage which even in the highest paying states only gets to $15/hr. Working Thursday-Saturday from 3 to 11 they would make $360 a week. Even if they worked double shifts 7 days a week they would make $1,050.
Football in Italy is called "Calcio". On the vacation, I personally know a lot of people who have ample vacation and (separate) sick time but don't use them because they can essentially cash them in when they retire. For instance my dad retired in 2018 but had enough vacation/sick time that he continued to collect his regular paycheck for another 2 years.
I know of two running theories on the whole "Football" thing. One of which being that it's not a reference to the body part at all, but to the measurement. It's a game closely measured in yards, where every 'foot' of land gained counts. The other theory I've heard is that the sport is actually an evolution of a game played on horseback, and is an on foot variant. Don't know about the validity of either, but it's some interesting reasoning.
The best tippers are people who were waiters or waitresses, I was one and you know how hard you work getting slammed with multiple tables at once and how little you get paid. I was a waitress in 1997 and got paid $2.13 an hour, so tips help plus I had to give a percentage of my tips to the busboys and hostesses.
I was a server and bartender in Panama City beach back in 2011-2013. I lost nearly 40 pounds during my first spring break season and another 20 before the summer season was over. I made $2.73 an hour from the restaurant, but if I left after the shift with less than $300 in cash, I had a bad night. A double could easily net $400-500. I worked 6 nights, including 3 back to back doubles from Thursday thru Saturday on bike week and made over $3k in cash.
The customers, government, restaurants and everyone BUT the servers want to see tipping go away. Servers fight like hell for those good jobs on the beach. I lived in a condo right across the street from the Gulf of Mexico, drove a nice sports car, had a motorcycle, and had my bills for the year prepaid in envelopes, just from what I made from late February through the 4th of July. If restaurants are forced to pay something like $15 an hour…every server I know would quit. Seasonal servers would be at a particular disadvantage because a lot of restaurants in places like PCB close down in October and don’t reopen until February.
Do remember that up until recently we could travel to Mexico and Canada without a passport, so that increased the area we could travel to.
When could we travel to Canada or Mexico without a passport?
@@MC-zr6gc I've gone to both Mexico and Canada (pre 9-11) many times with my family and never needed a passport. All you needed was ID (driver's license). 9-11 changed all that though.
@@MC-zr6gc You can still travel to Canada on a driver's license and a birth or naturalization certificate or green card as long s you aren't flying in. All you need is proof of citizenship/permanent resident status and proof that you live in the US. I don't know if this is true for Mexico.
I've never worked anywhere that I didn't have to fight to get days off for anything. And PB&J is food of the Gods. 😆
You can make a lot out of peanut butter. Peanut butter pie,cookies,peanut butter dipping sauce,shakes. It's very versatile, and im Canadian . We use a lot of peanut butter 🥜