Tipping in the US is a huge thing - check out our previous guide to cultural differences where we talk about that: th-cam.com/video/moq4d0QqfR8/w-d-xo.html 🍺 Or czech out the episode about 🛞driving: th-cam.com/video/FXw6_uxCUXA/w-d-xo.html (USA vs Europe)
I'd love to see a video on US motorcycle riding laws vs European ones. In Europe it always seemed more common to have a vespa or a motorcycle on the street and people were more used to lane splitting. I'd love to see a full video on that
It’s the same here in Argentina, we say: Descubriste América! But the meaning dates back to colonnial times, when Spain clamed they had discovered a continent full of different people, cultures and political systems, very sophisticated even comparing to Europe. Though Europeans (not only Spanish) never recognized it.
I grew up in California where we drank Florida orange juice. When I visited Florida, I noticed the restaurants served California orange juice. The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
@@ericdpeerik3928 It comes from the phrase, "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence," meaning one always thinks something one doesn't have, is better than what one does have. Old proverbs....
Interesting. In Chicago, most of our oj says something like "blend of Brazilian and US oranges." The only "single-origin" kind is Florida, specifically Florida's Natural. I really like that, so Cali has it's work cut out, but I'd like to try their oj.
In Czech we call Kanady ("Canadas") leather military boots and also ice-hockey skates (the second one makes sense, the first one idk really). Also we use a term Kanadský žertík ("Canadian joke") when referring to practical jokes that are somehow over the line.
@@DevangOnline yeah yeah i speak and write in french , my mother tongue ..English is only my secondary language.. So what should i make mind of ?.. .. eh
@@Pyromat Holy crap, not only you guys can't make up your mind which English to use, can't even decide which language to use. You turned out to be even more confused than I thought 🤣🤣
@@DevangOnline Pauvre toi... y'a longtemps que j'ai décidé....mais puisque certaine nation se pense encore le nombril de l'univers ... je tentais simplement d'être convivial pour le simple d'esprit .... et alors maintenant à ton tour, crois tu que t'arrivera a faire du sens cette fois ci ?
I got a chance to live in Germany briefly in the 1990's. We lived in Dharmstadt and the neighbors all around knew we were Americans..and when the holidays rolled around several neighbors came over asking if we could get them an American Turkey rather than their usual Christmas Goose. We obliged since we had access to the Commissary on the Army base. When we bought the turkey the only ones they had left were these freakishly large..GIANT..turkeys. They all were easily in excess of 30lbs. So we bought them and the looks on their faces when we gave them the birds and said "Sorry, all they had left were the SMALL birds, we hope you don't mind!" Those birds were the talk of the village ..probably to this day.
I live in Kentucky, USA and European means a couple things here. First it means small or compact, like your washer/dryer combos or cars. Second, it can mean artisanal or like it took time and thought to make. Lastly, it can also mean being a bit odd or fruity, usually in reference to males who are eccentric.
Coming from the US, I mostly think of food when I think of "European" products, and that the European version is typically considered more authentic or higher quality. Though more commonly we'd refer to the exact country something is from vs just Europe. E.g. "I'll have the Italian wine", not "I'll have the European wine".
American 🇺🇸 here. I agree with you. We would be specific saying things like “French wine 🍷,” “Swiss chocolate 🍫,” “Italian sausage,” etc. which carries a sense of authenticity, higher quality, or something more expensive (like for wine, crystal, cars, etc.) 👍
In europe when it comes to food we usually think of american as oversized or too sweet. And the customer service is considerd fake and over the top. There's more to it though but these aspects stick out. We're very influenced by america in many aspects however the specific connotation is often negative.
"open plan" is a plague here in Sweden as well. You have an impressive cooking range, expensive ionized aluminium fridge and freezer, but when you have people home you buy takeout to avoid having to show the mess in the kitchen as it will also be you dining room as well as the social gathering room. Another reason is to void having food smell all over the apartments/house. Traditionally, with a real kitchen, you will have more space to stove the dirty utensils after cooking, and the cool people hanging out in the kitchen (yes, this is definitely a thing, especially if there is music in the living room where the party ostensibly is) near the beer fridge will accept that there will be a few cooking utensils that have not been cleaned yet.
That’s mostly true then. I live in the US and it is just a normal kitchen and living room, but it is true that it is most common for the living room and kitchen to be right next to each other connected
I think that the reason we call those fridges "american" is because we have first seen those on american shows, like Dallas, Married with Children and so. I think that English equivalent for "american smile" (not in meaning of fake smile) could be million-watt smile.
Curiously, when I first saw them outside of the US they were just called Hitachis (Hitachi being the only big-name company actively selling in the region). And copy machines, for the same reason, were called - no, not "xerox" but "canons".
@@jmi5969 In Poland copiers were and are always called 'xero' (without the ending X for some reason), it's practically the only name for these machines. Even though sometimes people use the word 'kopiarka' (literally copier), officially even in manuals for devices of other brands like Canon or Brother copying function is referred as 'funkcja xero'.
@@markarca6360 Sure. But in this particular time and place their name was popularly "appropriated" specifically for wide refrigerators (not necessarily side-by-side, anything wider than standard 60 cm). There certainly were imports of other Korean and Japanese brands, but somehow only Hitachi was genericized.
Canadian in the UK here. I find the "American" section of big supermarkets to be hilarious here. Also, it's weird to see hot dogs in glass jars or cans and the label is covered in American flags. lol
We do something similar in the US with Mexican cuisine (Mexican being anything from south of the Rio Grande river, because "it's all the same.") I see a lot of Mexican flags on those products. Ironically most of those are actually not even Mexican, but actually Tex-Mex.
My favorite UK term is "American doughnuts". I think that must originate to distinguish donuts with a hole in them from the hole-free Dutch "oliebollen" -- though I can't recall ever having seen the latter in the UK.
In Ukraine we call a college varsity jacket with white sleeves an American bomber. A special type of pool (a ball game with a stick on the green table with colourful balls) is called American. Sweet mustard is called American because Ukrainian one is hot and strong like wasabi or chili pepper. Oatmeal cookies with chocolate drops or raisins are called American. Rollercoasters are called American hills.
The two postcards you showed when talking about American Night, are from my town. Ocean City, Maryland. I have learned a lot from your videos. I can’t wait to be back in Prague, in two weeks. This will be my 4th time visiting.
We do like a lot of those "vegetable medley" in America. Peas, carrots, and corn; peas and carrots; peas, carrots, green beens, and corn; coliflower, broccoli, carrots, and peppers; broccoli, green beens, carrots, peppers, mini corns, and onions. Basically Freese or can 2 or more colors of vegetables, ideally with different shapes, and it seems to often sell as a popular packaged product. We also do this with "salad mixes," which are just different prepared vegetables that don't need to be cooked and are ready for someone to dump some dressing on.
In Holland, mixes with corn are called mexican... American foodstuffs are if it's processed with little nutritional value and very sweet/sugary. The side by side fridge is also called an American fridge. And a toilet with heatin, built in bidet and such is called a Japanese toilet. Cause they came up with it first.
As an American this very interesting and entertaining. …. The one I feel that I should address is the American smile. We do smile at people that we encounter… I don’t know how we learn that, but we do. But here is the thing… It’s not fake. Not for me at least. It’s a genuine greeting. I’m wishing you well. Have a good day. Just a hello. Truly. ❤😊
To be fair in Europe in many countries that would be off putting, especially if the smile was unprompted with for example saying hello/good day or some kind of interaction.
It's definitely a cultural difference. Here, don't smile at anyone you don't know/don't want to have a conversation with. It's the Czech "keep your business to yourself" mentality.
@@Kumanosuke no, I don't think so. maybe in large cities but in the country it's a habit but genuine one. People still hold the doors for each other and use the fleeting smile when about to be in close passing proximity to a stranger.
Haha, this episode is hilarious! I always find these things interesting. I'm originally from the Czech Republic. I have lived in the US for 23 years now. I can see more and more things in grocery stores and spas referred to as European because it wants to portray a higher standard of either food or care. Which are many times correct, mainly when it comes to food. You have way better laws when it comes to food additives, etc. than we do here. The thing with the "American smile" - I used to look at it the same when I was "fresh-of-the-plane" :-D ... however, now I know better. It's purely a polite thing to smile and have small talk with a stranger. When I ask you "How are you?" in passing, it does not mean I want to hear your life story at the moment (unless I really do). It's just a nice thing to do and say. That's all. I'm actually always bummed out by how negative people in Czech are every time I go back to visit. When I say hello to a random person on the street and smile, they usually look at me with a look as if saying "What does she want from me?" I really hate how many Czechs judge this culture without even stepping one foot here. Sure, have your opinion, but go experience it for yourself first, and then form it. Not from reading some stupid internet comments or listening to "news". Just go and experience it. Also, the politics doesn't equal the people...just like anywhere else. By the way, I love your channel. Good job, guys! I have included some of your videos in my tips for friends when they travel to Prague. :-)
about how do you do - i think polish people destroyed that habit in UK XD because we WILL anwser, and honestly, usually with naging about weather/job/health/whatever is currently bothers us :P and while i do know right anwser, and that 'how do you do;' isnt really a question, i still feel urge to tell person about everything ;) ikd, maybe it is imprinted in my DNA or sth :D
@@beheroot 😂😂😂 I saw a video from a U.S. expat that lives in Prague and makes videos about Czech culture for other expats. She basically said when you ask a Czech person “How are you?” in passing, they will tell you that they think the neighbor poisoned their goat… 😂😂😂 So I know what you mean. LOL
Dude, i can't agree more with you. As a german with roots in the US who visits it a lot i just hate this trend that everybody here talks trash about it without knowing anything about it. On the other hand it keeps tourism on a certain level so i can't be too mad about it. I'm always happy to avoid other germans over there :D
In the 50s our French immigrants neighbors couldn't believe the "bread" was actually bread. Wife thought it was a bag of novelty convenient sponges. Kid spilled her milk and mom threw a handful of "sponges" on it! After she learned some English she and my mom had a good laugh. Other thing was cookie mix. She couldn't imagine such a thing and bought it thinking it was actual cookies.. They had a good laugh at their picnic!
As a Belgian who chose to move to the US to be with my wife, I second that opinion. I miss the wide selection of good bread in Belgium. The "artisan" bread I buy in supermarkets like Kroger are not that good and the bakeries near me don't even sell bread? It's weird and my American friends have no idea what I'm complaining about every time I bring it up
@@nipo2540 My British parents in Canada just make their own bread after struggling with the local bread for a few years. They will occasionally buy baguettes and they've also sometimes frequented various European-style bakers typically run by other Europeans. It really is a problem.
In Hungarian, we call these open-layout kitchens (that you're presenting from) American kitchens (which are to me basically living rooms IN the kitchen/dining room...) But "American bread" follows the German tradition and is called toast bread in Hungarian.
In mexico we call the "american bread" Pan bimbo even if its not bimbo brand (bimbo is the biggest bread company in mexico and owner of a lot of brands of bread around the world like sara lee in the us, or panrico in spain, they have presence in 33 countries.)
That's definitely not just a Czech/European thing: in Brazil, we call bread rolls "French bread", even though they're not French (the recipe is Brazilian). I think the reason people add those nationality adjectives to products is to make them look fancy (since they're "foreign", or made in a foreign style), so that more people want to buy them (it's a marketing strategy). We also call the US version of football "American football", and use the word "football" ("futebol", in Portuguese) for soccer.
And what France dubs _pain perdu_ we call French toast, sometimes not even capitalized. Same dish, though: bread slices soaked in milk with egg beaten in, and griddled. International if we sweeten it with Canadian maple syrup.
@@w.reidripley1968 In CzechoSlovakia (nowadays in both countries) we use to make French toasts a lot, but did not call them french and made them salty (my recipe is egg+milk+herbs /Marjory or thyme or cumin/ + salt + black pepper and if it happens that I have leftovers of salami or ham, I chop it into tiny pieces into a mixture) and eat them with ketchup or mustard or tartar sauce (special mayonnaise based sauce). Toasts we made from bread, use garlic and it is best snack with beer
As others have said, it is usually by nation rather than anything being referred to as "European style." There is a aura of good quality about most products linked to a country. Examples are Irish butter, Italian shoes, French bread, French fashions (actually this is the only one I can think of that one might say European: European fashion), English tea, English scones, Swiss chocolate, Swiss cheese, and a German clock. Also the phrase "German engineering" would mean something masterfully made, but I think primarily it would refer to something actually made in Germany.
I'd say it's bc the US is one big country with huge prefectures if you think about it. Europe is a group of countries, and each of them has its own prefecture. We don't say Washington Bread, we say American bread. With that in mind, it makes sense for Americans to say french bread and not European break, as France is a country and not a prefecture/state.
@@arjix8738 Even in the USA we say Georgia peaches and Florida oranges. I wonder if these other countries say anything according to region or province.
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@@anndeecosita3586 not really, grapes are just grapes and oranges are just labelled oranges in europe. there is however a tiny sticker on each of these that tells where they come from (letter size about 2mm), i think it's either a deep-rooted custom or a rule.
@@anndeecosita3586 ofc if I'm buying Greek apples in Greece, the specific region they came from is how they are labeled. But if I'm buying American apples (I'd never do that), I wouldn't say texan apples, I'd say American apples
@ I'd say it's a custom, at least in Greece and Spain it would make sense for it to be a custom. Different areas have different soil, so different harvests. Everyone would rather buy apples from an area known to have a good harvest rather than the opposite.
In America we refer to a lot of things with country names, like Polish sausage (kielbasa) or English breakfast (what the Brits know as a "fry-up,") but the most common name referring to all of Europe would be "continental breakfast," which is a morning meal or snack consisting of things like pastries, fruit, bread, and/or cereal - basically everything but meat, potatoes, and eggs. Mid-range hotels will often offer free continental breakfast, usually from a self-serve counter.
My dad told me that when he went in the USA to visit our cousin's there, his uncle showed him, with a lot of proud, a fridge. He believed that Italy was still in the '30s when he left
I live in Sweden and have relatives that migrated to North America about 80-90 years ago. In the 70's, one of them was proudly telling his Swedish relatives about how well made he's become. He even owns a Volvo. At the time more than half of the cars in our part of the country were made by Volvo. That really highlighted how our local car manufacturer made a mark internationally. The presented themselves as more exclusive and luxurious on the other side of the Atlantic while being a cheap alternative in Sweden.
@@JaharNarishma theres a similar thing with german cars, where outside of Germany they are often considered high quality (german engineering and such) while inside of Germany they tend to be pretty common and not too unaffordable
@@JaharNarishma back in the 70’s and 80’s Volvos were known to be built to a higher safety standard than American or Asian cars. Volvos cost more as well and they cost a lot more to maintain, so one had to be doing well in life to own one. I believe that’s still the case.
@@prismaticc_abyss Mercedes and BMW in particular -- we pay a luxury-car tariff that kicks the price up, and the imported spare parts are, or were, rather more expensive too. Volkswagen was the conspicuous exception for decades, and was simple to maintain.
In Texas we have "kolaches" pronounced ko-la-chee - and most of them are far from their Czech roots. My favorite and one of the most available comes with sausage, cheddar, and jalepeno inside.
Lots of Czech immigrants to Texas lead to that. We have them at nearly every donut shop in AZ I've gone to as well. Though usually it's ham, cheese, and jalapeño
The toilet with two buttons is just now entering the US market, and when I first moved to Prague back in the day ('05), I definitely noted how it was far superior to the "american standard"--- pun intended for the Americans who get this... for my Czech peeps, American Standard is literally the name of the company that produces the basic, standard American toilet that probably is in at least 85% of American homes.
I remember my friend going to Ireland for the first time in '07 and experiencing the double button toilet. She was so confused, she posted about it on Facebook 😂
We had Armitage Shanks stamped over ours in the UK for a long time... Now its the Dual flush buttons, still not sure what each one does exactly, the small or larger one just seems the same flush time.
Fridges in Europe are normally 1 door wide, no more than 2 feet. Double door fridges are very rare, almost non-existent 20 years ago, and so are fridges with an ice dispenser. They are the kind of fridges that you would typically find in American homes, the kind you see in movies.
I live in America but I guess I have a "European" fridge - just 1 door wide, no ice dispenser, most visitors comment on how small it is, one person asked why the freezer didn't have a light in it (because it wasn't designed that way, of course). I'm just one person and it's big enough for me, and it actually fits in my tiny kitchen. Most people I know do have an American fridge. Some have an additional appliance that looks like an American Fridge but it is actually all freezer.
Where do you live? Side-by-side refrigerator/freezer combinations with ice/water dispensers are widespread here in Norway and have been for 10-15 years. Even in 2004, when I started working as a white-goods-appliance salesman, I'd estimate 10-15% of the refrigerator/freezer combination units we sold were 90cm side-by-side. For the ones with a special interest: In Europe, most side-by-side refrigerator/freezer combinations are 89.5cm (about 36 in) wide. Almost all regular refrigerators, freezers, and dual-purpose units are 59.5cm wide (about 24in) designed to fit between 60cm kitchen modules, the exception being those meant to be built into the kitchen (with custom doors) being 56cm wide, and smaller appliances typically lower than 160cm that are usually 54.5cm wide. Almost all appliances are made just under 60cm wide; cooktops, ovens, dishwashers, and even laundry machines. Popular exceptions are wider cooktops with 5 or more burners/zones.
As an american, I get salty at the American smile thing, but I get that it's just a cultural difference. But I feel like lots of people from Europe (especailly in Germany, for some reason, based on my limited experience) don't tend to understand it that well. Where I live, we smile when meeting people. People from Latin America also tend to smile when meeting people. And at least my gf and I (both from different American countries) were told growing up to smile by our parents. Because the idea behind it is to make the experience as pleasant as possible for all parties. It's not so that they LIKE you, it's so that they're not offended BY you.
Along with the orthodontia thing. European populations seem to skew to imperfect tooth rows. Mesoamericans by contrast skew to straight tooth rows, so much so that they are downright toothy when they smile. You seldom saw them in braces.
In some places of Italy (I experienced it countless of times in Southern Italy), if you smiled at people randomly they would think you're mocking them and be aggressive about it. Not everyone of course, but you would find especially young men antagonizing you.
@@stirbutnotshake84 why are your problems my problem? They aren't. Get your big girl panties on and get the fuck over your "bad mood" doesn't matter, be better loser
@@Zdobywczy oh you poor stupid little thing 😧 the smile is a public courtesy to make everyone feel at ease and make going to the grocery store or downtown more pleasant for everyone, idk why you think a smile would offend anyone but coming from a European I'm not surprised 😭
Great video. As an American living in Prague, I fully appreciate all of these. I hadn't heard about the American Bed or the American Fridge, but these make sense to me. One that you missed: American Dressing for salads here. I've seen the Spak brand American Dressing here and based on the ingredients (based on Yoghurt and milk with tomato paste, vinegar and spices) I'd say it's similar to what we call either French dressing or Russian dressing.
american fridge is total classic of a word here, i remember asking my parents as a kid if we could have the american fridge, and my friend delivers electronics as a job and he always talks about how the american fridges are absolute massacre to bring to higher floors of a bulding haha
As an American 🇺🇸 who first moved to the Czech Republic 🇨🇿, I honestly laughed when I saw all of these “American” labels that made no sense to me at the time as to why, hahaha!!! 😂
Hello from Korea. Yes. Literally just today there was an ad for some goat milk protein powder that is "!!100%!!!! From Netherlands goats!!!!" It makes me roll my eyes. But there are many ads like this where they make a big deal that the ingredients are from Europe. Or clothes that were !!designed in Italy!!! Famous all over Europe!!!!!!!!!!! Also they strangely have many ads where they need to sell toothpaste and always there is some "doctor" from Germany to explain how amazing their toothpaste is. 😅 If you watch TV in Korea, you can't avoid these ads. They're on all the time.
As a Dutchman from a rural area and been all over the country, I've never seen a goat farm that wasn't a petting zoo. Maybe they mean the milk powder was made from Dutch breed of goats? Now I'm curious
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I knew we had too much cow milk, but never heard about goat milk farms. All the powder is made from a total of about half a million goats, but they make cheese as well! So don't know if the goats from the add ever saw part of my country!
@@relo999 There are many goat farms in the Netherlands producing milk. By the end of 2020 there were almost 500.000 goats in the Netherlands. Getting goat milk powder is almost impossible. Usually you get fresh ilk or more often Goat cheese. Usually milk powder is produced when farmers get a better price, as it happened during the milk quality problems in China some years ago. Especially for baby food.
From an American: European beer = better beer European car = better cars, now just more expensive European wine = better wine European women = exotic, mysterious European clothing = expensive, trendy, more stylish. This was much more pronounced pre 1997, before most people had the internet and the world was opened up for them. Now, it's much less so.
European cars means just expensive. Not better. In fact, BMW and Mercedes are known to break down and require expensive repairs after ~50K miles. A lot more people are starting to take note. Maybe that was a term back in the 80s? Not sure what European clothing also means. Never heard of it in my life until now. No such notion in where I live in the US.
@@plartoo Yeah, Mercedes now is a wreck. 30 years ago you never saw a benz on a tow truck or on the side of the road broken down. Now, I'd rather have a Kia than a Benz.
It's so cute in a way. In Poland, pre common people having access to internet, 'American' meant all types of cooler and better quality. American jeans, American cigarettes, American music, American cars. We had to have "Good - because it's Polish" certification (you can find the logo for it on Polish products) pushed and explained in commercials. People were hungry for foreign products. The grass is greener on the other side. :,) Nowadays we realise how shit everything is, no matter the country. But still... We can shit on our own country and nobody else can join in. We are funny people. :,)
I also feel like we don't have European objects, but styles that are relating to a European country like the French doors, french cleats, German style bratwurst, ect.
I went on a lengthy quest to find a comparison and 1 slice of Penam Super Sandwich weighs about the same as 1 slice of Wonder Bread Giant. I think the issue is that in Europe "toast bread" is a novelty rather than a staple. _Real_ bread is a French or Italian type yeasted whole (not sliced) loaf. I commend this attitude. Sliced sandwich bread, especially white, is an abomination. Hand-sliced yeast bread will fit in a toaster. And I'm American.
@@MelissaThompson432 If I remember it well (did not seen for ages) sandwich was alike baguette, but twice larger kind of bread (in CzechoSlovakia). Traditiona Czech(oSlovak) Chlebíček needs it as abase
People in the comments have already mentioned how Americans usually view food being labeled as ‘European’ (or from a European country) as higher quality, but I’d argue the same applies to clothing as well! Shoes, jackets, purses, etc that are made from a European country are definitely viewed as being higher quality than their American counterparts. For example I bought some really nice leather shoes in Italy for $200, and while you could definitely buy leather shoes from the US for the same price it doesn’t have that mystique & prestige as being Italian Leather shoes
Often, shoes made in the USA are much better quality and last longer. Paying $200 for shoes most likely won’t get you that in Europe. As a general guide.
Because only very high quality clothing is made in europe - every else, and I mean EVERYTHING is made in China, Bangladesh, etc. and just imported. I'm kinda excluding stuff from eastern europe/balkans though but they generally dont have a huge clothing industry either
@@GerManBearPig Bro stuff made in Eastern Europe / Balkans is hit or miss, but provided you have a great sense of feeling the seller, if you buy stuff that's locally made (not imported from God knows where), they last you a lifetime. Here in Romania for example you can get some pretty solid fucking shoes and leather jackets, never had any have any defect or needing replacement (beyond me growing out of them or changing the insoles every now and then)
@@kylierosedj I don’t know about that. Italians are famous for their shoes. They are definitely not made the same way as the US shoes you bought. $200 is not expensive for good shoes.
Here in Norway we also use "amerikansk" (American) as an adjective for big, oversized, and slightly vulgar things. We also say that something is "helt Texas" ("completely Texas") if it's crazy, out of control and dangerous. (It's probably inspired by Western movies) And apparently "Hawaii" means "with ham and pineapple" almost everywhere in the world.
Here in the Netherlands, we have "Filet Américain" which is French for "American fillet", but real Americans are appalled by it. It is mainly raw ground beef with herbs and sauce to put on bread or toast. It actually hasn't got anything to do with the USA, but rather it is from Armorica, the part of France currently known as Normandy.
WRT to your question about referring to something in the States being "European" I recalled that when I moved to France in 1991, I saw an advertisement for "les ongles américains" (American manicure/nails) at a local mani/pedi shop. When I inquired about the manicure I laughed because the same treatment in the US is called a French manicure.
fun fact, if you dont have any coins or keys, at least in germany you can just ask a cashier of teh store, they usually have some of those plastic tokens that you can use to unlock teh shopping cart
After Covid some stores in the Netherlands removed the chain part from them so no coin needed at all. So going to a new store is like gambling, do I need the coin or not? That's about all te gambling I do ;)
I was actually wondering where you would get them. I mean I know my mum has a bag of them and so do I, but if a foreigner came here where you would go to get one?
@@amazincrackmonkey7176 American beetle” - the potato beetle actually comes from America. It was first described in 1824 in Colorado. It then reached Europe in 1875 on merchant ships. In the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland and others. appeared already approx. 1939
dunno if it's porpaganda, but my parents are deadbeat on Western "bio" warfare. It's STILL less horrible than soviets did themselves with Sosnowsky's hogweed. They planted this highly poisonous motherf*cker all over USSR as farm animal feed and found out it's worse than poison ivy. Now if a crop field is infested with these, you have to hire a team of specialists and they basically dig away a layer of soil while wearing PPE.
Italian dressing, German beer, Greek yogurt, French bread, European style cabinets, European wax, Czech Kolache. All either highly regarded or considered a special style of something particular : )
I was in Prague on holiday, and we walked into a car show. It was all American cars (new and old). I had to laugh. I came all the way from USA to see an American car show in Czech Republic.
In America everyone I know calls it a "French door" style fridge because the doors are beside one another. Not to say that the type of Fridge originated in France but that placing any two doors in that specific configuration is called a "French door"
Holy crap. I'm an American who lives in Slovakia and just now learned about the key-shopping cart trick. This will revolutionize my life for all of those times I change jackets and leave whatever change I have at home. Thank you honest guide!
Funny being Icelandic, even tho it's technically a European country I can never relate to those "only Europeans understand" types of memes and stuff. Literally none of these are known as "American" here. Especially with the fridge, these are absolutely everywhere here! That being an American thing never even would have occurred to me. Literally not a single thing you mentioned in this video is known as American here lol. Rarely for the better, almost always for the worst, we relate faaaar more to the US than the rest of Europe. It's strange.
Well Iceland is technically in both Europe and America ;) When I visit Iceland it definitely felt more like North America than Europe. So much so I find it odd they want to join the EU, when it seems like NAFTA would have been a better fit.
@@rpvitiello yeah exactly that's why I said it's "technically a European country". Despite our capital and like 80% of the population being on the American side of the country (including myself. Im from the village home to the famous bridge between continents). I've always found that weird too especially how insanely dependent and influenced we are by America, especially the USA. Maybe it's cause of the other nordics being European and they're also important to us so maybe there was some sort of worry of disconnect in that regard, I'm not sure tho.
You are not alone. In Germany we do not refer to these things as american. We know that the big fridges and open kitchens are popular in america but we do not call them "american". Only thing i know is the big sandwich toast and maybe people would call certain kinds of pizza. "american style"
Serving size is a big difference. The USA small fast food beverage size is close to the large European size. All-you-can-eat buffets aren’t found in Czech from what I’ve seen.
well no one says that they are truly american, for example when it comes to the bread even when its called american bread here in europe it still usually has much less sugar than the real one as people are not used to it but it still has more than most breads here. maybe even all of them
we can't use that much of preservatives in the bread so it won't last as long as the one in America, therefore you need only as much as you eat in time before it's stale or moldy. other thing could be people maybe only buy it to have a hot sandwich and it's just a on occasion, usually we use the regular bread aka yeasted/starter bread in the shape of a bread (not cube or cuboid (I've never heard the word cuboid before 😂 is that the right word for the 3D rectangle?)). not sure if I'm right but that's my possible explanation
They're popular in Asia, I think one of the reasons is that because of high heat and humidity a full loaf would go moldy before it can be eaten. It's a new thing that's been introduced in Australian supermarkets and really makes sense especially if you're single and only need half a loaf.
The American Fake Smile has been addressed in previous comments, but I want to add my two cents. While we do smile a lot, during greetings and such, the only time to really be wary is if someone is trying to sell you something or take you somewhere you didn't intend to go. We do offer (usually genuine) smiles at momentary greetings. Customer service roles also smile a lot (like in restaurants or hotels, etc), and this is intended to be friendly and inviting toward customers (though as a former hotel customer service person, I can attest that a lot of times they are fake, especially if you're having a bad day or are just there for a paycheck. However, there are genuine people in these places that love to help people and are being completely real). We're sorry if you find this creepy, but it' something we learn to do growing up. If you visit, we do hope you have a nice time.
Having worked in the US film industry for over 30 years I have some experience with “American night”. We actually called it “hot lighting” a scene. This is where the film, yes, actual film, is purposely overexposed and under developed. With the advent of digital sensors this is no longer necessary. I’m still amazed at how little light is used, especially for night scenes. It’s actually more common to shoot in low light and make it look like full sunlight.
Australia has European Ovens and cooktops We call them European Appliances and when we travel we buy European adapters so we can use Australian appliances like shavers and charge of mobile phones😊
Same here in France, "Frigo Americain" (2 door fridge), "Sandwich Americain" (white sliced bread in a bag) and so on. You left one out, "Prix Americain", that's when you are at a market or getting a quote from a tradesperson and you get an inflated price.... you say "don't give me a prix Americain"! Great channel, long term follower. Cheers.
hahah we dont have exactly saying like that in Czechia but when i was in Mexico last year and they gave me inflated price i often told them that they need to go down with it that iam not from the US hahaha
If I recall correctly, the Colorado potato beetle is only native to a tiny area in the U.S., though just as in Europe it's everywhere now. Its original host plant isn't even a potato.
@@unanec Watch the video, then, where the discussion is about "American bug". The beetle in question is more widely known as the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata.
I live in the US. My friends and I call fake smiles “customer service smiles” because service jobs require constant smiling or you could get fired. But I might be a bad American. My fridge is small with a small one door freezer on top of a larger one door fridge. I also don’t eat white sandwich bread, and I don’t have a box spring. 😂
Also known as Colorado Beetle in UK, I think that's its normal name, note it does come from USA. There are (were) posters about it in UK Police stations.
Czech movie parody of Police Academy is called in Czech ,,Byl jednou jeden polda" in American it is ,,There once was a cop", and for me it's a really great movie with the already dead actor Ladislav Potměšil, sadly. 😢
I just want to say that your phrasing of "already dead" made me laugh... not AT you or your English. It's not a phrase we would use and thinking of how we MIGHT use it is what made me laugh. Like, "I was going to meet this actor, but he was already dead!"
In general, yes, if I get something from Europe, yes, I can usually assume it's better. Why? It's pretty simple actually: Importing low-quality garbage isn't a winning strategy in commerce. Importing goods is already expensive, and you're asking your customer to pay a premium to get it. So, if it isn't special, why would they be inclined to do so?
Over in Finland, a yank fridge is the one with the fridge on the bottom and a half shorter freezer on top. And handegg is "jenkkifutis" or yank footie.
Czech does not equal European 😅 The only naming I could agree on as a Scandinavian is the american football. The other are either specific for Czech R. or Central Europe. But I guess an American would say the same :D
I would say they are Czech specifics. And idk why are even those a thing and I am Czech. Many of these I personally didn’t know. For example that bread is called toast bread. Just two brands have American themed packaging, rest is normal looking, noone I know calls it American bread. I knew just about fridge and smile. That’s all. I am just kind of pissed by two things. From this video - that we seem to be thinking of America as something better even when we don’t. And also that it’s marked as “European” things, even tho it’s czech point of view…
@@wtmfr To be fair quite a lot of stuff we call american is called american in other countries in europe as well.. But yeah this video had a huge amount of stuff which is specific to Czechia and post communist countries.
True, I think that it was the purpose. As a Polish person, it is, and it was nearly the same as Janek showed here in Poland. 99% correct😊 Great video 👍✌️
European windows, those that tilt and turn are considered more "advanced" in American home construction. Also, European cabinetry is becoming popular in America. That's the construction technique where a face frame is not used and the doors overlay the cabinet frames. It allows for better access and utilization of the interior of the cabinet all while using less material.
@@CreeplayEU Typical American windows are double hung sashes that slide vertically in the frame bypassing each other. They can provide ventilation at the top and bottom but are lousy at keeping the rain out unless fully closed. If they have a tilt feature it's only for cleaning not ventilation.
I’m from the US and I always associate European things as better. It’s not just food, but everything as a whole. Cities, technology, trains, etc. And when it comes to food, that too.
I'm part Czech from my ancestry, to me proper bohemian bread is twisty houska, just like my little bohemian bubby used to make. Our mom made a newer version of kolaches, raised with baking powder vs. yeast used in the traditional ones.
I have personally never encountered something described as "European" or "European-style" in the US. But definitely country-by country, you will see things described as "French Fries", which aren't actually French, but the cut is called a French cut. Plenty of food is called by the country of origin, like "French something" or "Italian something". Although many of these things are not Italian or French, and were invented in the US and given "exotic" names to help explain their sudden appearance and drive sales. Almost nothing called "Chinese Food" is actually invented in China, as an extreme example. But most things called Japanese definitely are Japanese. Outside of food, you will be seriously hard pressed to find something with a foreign country or region used to describe it, but there are definitely exceptions, like Oriental or Persian rugs. French doors (like you mentioned), Russian Nesting Dolls, Fine China etc. And I've never heard of it being used to imply quality, only difference - like it's something exotic that you have less access to so come try it. And it's possible that some of the things like "American Fridges" were an idea invented in the US, but the US abandoned so much of its industrial sector to China. Almost nothing is made in the US anymore. Even though many things might not exist, or would have been invented later, if the US never existed.
I know that in the Netherlands lots of Chinese food came from Chinese that first lived in areas in the Dutch East Indies, before migrating to the Netherlands.
@@martijn9568 What types of Chinese food did you get in the Netherlands? A lot of the Chinese food in the US would not be found in China, because it is made up by Americans. And most of what does exist in Chinese tradition, like General Tso's Chicken, is radically different/Americanized versions of real Chinese dishes.
@@AmarthwenNarmacil what to say - we have Turkish honey they never heard of in Turkey, French potatoes they never heard of in France, Dutch salami (spec. Holland - with cheese in it) they never heard of in Netherlands or at least with much better cheese, Serbian skewers which do not use skewers (those needles) and is more like Kebap in sauce (and maybe Serbs never heard of it - not sure) and of course American Potatoes
Smiling in America and Canada came about because in a very short period of time there were many immigrants, and they often did not share a common language. So smiling was the only way groups of people were able to communicate. Cultures with high immigration developed a smiling culture, those with little to none did not.
I love going into grocery stores in other countries I visit. In Australia I loved how the "dog food" section was huge, filled with tubes of kangaroo meat. Our pug would think it's heaven.
Yes! If you do get a chance to travel, it is really, really worth it to try to visit a grocery store or market, the kind that the locals use. It’s a great way to understand what they see how they perceive things or how it’s perceived for them. Love it!
Also dude yes, I get so excited when I see anything is European. From food to cars to electric plugs, everything European IS better. Y'all already got the best part of our country anyway (the bread).
09:16 exactly! I also remember them by the name "Colorado beetle" Growing potatoes at home for themselves, people never used insecticides because they were expensive and hard to get, not to mention toxicity. Instead, what is cheap and healthy? Getting your kids' help! Every summer, we picked those beetles by hand bi-weekly. The irony is that potatoes in the USA are mostly produced in Idaho and Washington rather than Colorado.
I just visited Prague and went to the supermarket to get some things for my breakfast and was intrigued as to why there was American branded bread! 😂 Great video!
The difference in how smiles are interpreted is so interesting. We're not fake smiling when we smile at strangers. It's a greeting and an expression of non-agression. We don't think about it, we just do it because it's our cultural norm. I can see why it would be off-putting if it's not the norm.
@@nrb27 It's not fake. It's a *different* smile than the "I'm super happy yay life smile". That's an expression of emotion. The American smile is a cultural greeting. Like waving or a handshake. It's a learned behavior that becomes second nature. Think nodding for yes and head-shaking for no. If that's how your culture does it, you never think about it as an adult, but it's not some inherent expression of emotion. It's a cultural gesture understood by people within that culture to mean a certain thing. The smile we're talking about is very specific. It's not a wide, toothy smile. It's closed-mouthed, tight, quick, and might include and top-down head nod. In our culture, that means something, in yours, it doesn't. I'm sure there are expressions you have that would be confusing to me.
@@nrb27 That's the only "fake" smile (as in a smile that acts as a gesture rather than an expression of emotion) I can think of. If we're talking about general American friendliness, that's just not fake lol. Smiles and casual conversation with people you'll never see again is normal for us.
I love this kind of videos! They are so funny. And I agree, the comments are funny too. America is so diverse, people from different parts of the country insist that things are correct or incorrect, because we have so much variety.
@@jenniferpearce1052, exactly. America is huge and full of lots of micro cultures. It would be more accurate to think of the US by regions. A Bostonian and someone from Birmingham, Al and someone from LA would all have different responses.
That was fun but it's more of a Czech Republic thing than a general European one. In my part of Europe the only items we'd describe as 'American' are the fridge and the football game. BTW you're wrong about football. Rugby football - a game allowing the carrying of the ball - was codified before soccer. and gets its name from it being played on foot rather than on horseback.
honestly could be a post communist country trend calling stuff american. Since we didnt have access to west products we would usually call higher quality products american.
Thanks for making this. As an American, it’s so neat to see how other cultures incorporate “American things” into their culture. I think my favorite thing was calling a car an American or maybe the white bread.
Well, I'm sorry but this video is a lie. Europeans don't call "american" to those things. Maybe in the country where this guy is from, but not in the whole Europe.
Hmmm...In America, potato wedges are just tossed with oil and roasted (sometimes with fresh rosemary), then salted. Nothing more. We don't have mixed seasoning packets for them. I wonder what's in the packets besides salt. And we don't have Nesquik cereal.
Football is called football because you play it on foot as opposed to playing on horseback. kicking the ball came much later when sheep heads were replaced with inflated bladders.
In the US and my country, Canada, we used to have shopping carts that required you to put a quarter in to unlock them, but they were so irritating that they were replaced by carts with wheels that seize up if you try to take them beyond the property of the shop that owns them.
In my country we also call the yellow and sweet mustard American (opposed to the usual, "spicy" greenish brown) + American cheese are those prepackaged individual slices that you peel the plastic wrap off 😁
American cheese is usually just synonymous with processed cheese even in the US so it can very between the low quality Kraft singles you mentioned or can be homemade with a hard cheese, a soft cheese, and a thickener. The flavor is often muted by the process, but it melts rather than hardens from heat which is the reason it is used.
Fun fact: in the US American Cheese has labeling calling it something like, "pasteurized processed American cheese food," because it doesn't meet the FDA's definition if cheese
@@Poonbahbah that's the generic version of American cheese. American cheese is a combination of different cheeses like cheddar and Swiss and another the processed cheese food isn't always cheese or even dairy but something to mimic cheese 😅
@@Poonbahbah Not true, there is such a thing called "American Cheese" and in order to be labeled as such it must meet a criteria of being two or more cheeses such as cheddar and colby or other cheeses heated and mixed with sodium citrate or some other salt to emulsify it in a homogeneous mass. Cheese Food, American slices and other products which contain more than accepted amounts of milk, whey, and other additives cannot be legally labelled as "American Cheese" and if you go into an american grocery store and see a product labelled "American Cheese" you can be assured that it's going to be almost purely just two or more "real cheeses" that have been blended together with an emulsifier and little else.
German here: *The Fridges:* so first we differentiate between regular fridges with no freezer and fridges with a freezer. (Kühlschrank, Kühl-Gefrier-Kombination). With the latter, we are referring to the differfent types apparently the same the Americans do, meaning side-by-side and French Door. But don't take my word for it, not really been Fridge shopping before. *The Casket:* Difficult. We kind of call everything a "Sarg". You could argue that a casket is more of a "Totentschrein". Mostly you would say "halb Öffnender Sarg" (half opening Coffin) though. *The Bed:* Yeah, that's just a Boxspringbett. *The Bread:* Generally we call it Toastbrot (Toastbread, as you do). Only the larger ones are "American Style" or, as labelled on yours, "Super Sandwich" *Day for Night:* (I worked on couple of movies for cinema) While "Amerikanische Nacht" (American Night) is somewhat used, you hear it quite rarely, Tag als Nacht (Day as night) a little more common, but often you will hear it as "Day-For-Night". *American Smile:* That's a difficult one. we don't have a term for like a fake smile.... We do have Hollywood Lächeln (Hollywood Smile) though which describes pretty much picture perfect teeth and an asthetic appearance of the smile. I guess you could interpret some fakeness into it, but it's mostly referring to super white, straight, and generally perfect teeth. *America:* Interesting. So if were talking cars, these big oldtimers (old cadillac, Oldsmobile, etc) we call them Ami-Schlitten. It's difficult to translate but a direct translation would be Yank Sleigh. Ami being short and slang for American and nice cars are colloquially referred to as Sleighs. If they aren't specifically American, mainly just stretch limos in general, they are just called Straßenkreuzer (Road Cruisers / Land Yachts). For the cigarettes I don't know anything comparable to be honest. *American Bug:* Eh, not aware of anything like that. *American Football:* Well, regular football is just plain old Fußball (football, surprise surprise) and American Football is just Football. We don't _really_ put American in front of it anymore, but I guess it's more of a colloquial thing, but a very, very, very common colloquial thing. So if you just say football to anyone, we will think of American Football. Generally we don't necessarily connect the prefix "American" with something better. More with something too big, too loud, too obnoxious and fairly unnecessary.
you might be interested to learn that the rest of the world calls square pillows "European Pillows" when they're specifically German pillows. Oh, and Finland calls walnuts "German nuts."
I wonder if it’s because English is technically a Germanic language, but the terms seem to directly translate between each other, and even have the same basic root for the words.
You forgot the American pancakes. I suppose the Americans just call them pancakes. Netherlands here. I’ve never heard of American bed. We call it just box spring. American potatoes is also not known in The Netherlands, searched for it on the site of the largest supermarket chain of The Netherlands. There was a time I made potatoes wedges in the oven, after I found receipts on American websites. I remember one with sage, orange peel and garlic. It was delicious. (Now I have to buy an oven and try to find back that receipt)
I've spent quite a bit of time in the Netherlands. Generally, Dutch pancakes are just called "pannenkoek" and American pancakes "hotcakes" or "pancakes". I haven't heard "American Pancakes" unless the person was speaking exclusively dutch ("Amerikaanse pannenkoeken") or English (restaurants like Amsterdam Pancakes or Moak, for instance). If you go to the Moak website, they refer to them as American pancakes in English (as an appeal to people seeking American cuisine, I assume); but in Dutch never even make a reference to "American": "Wij, Sten en Sammy, zijn in 2016 begonnen met de hulp van een paar vrienden. Veel vrienden, eigenlijk. En sinds die tijd maken we lange dagen om ze wat liefde terug te geven. Onze filosofie is best simpel. We zijn verliefd op geweldig eten. De sappigste sapjes. Onze vibe is mellow urban. Met in de hoofdrol vooral de hip-hop van gisteren en back-in-the-day. En dat alles bieden we met onze toegewijde stilo van gulle gastvrijheid. Fo real! De droom die we nastreven is om onze liefde en passie voor pancakes over de wereld te verspreiden, in alle grote steden. Btw: Moak associeert voor ons met Mokum. Amsterdam dus."
@@dStreSd Albert Heijn calls them American Pancakes, in English. That means the Dutch call them American Pancakes! I’m Dutch, and I call them American pancakes, just like everybody I know. I wonder where you were in The Netherlands, because I never heard of hotcakes. Or amerikaanse pannekoeken.
In Belgium we have Américain préparé of filet américain, which is spiced up raw minced beef as a spread (like steak tartare on bread). It's origine is Belgium though :D
Hey Pavel! I think it's only fashionable in the Czech Republic. I'm from Croatia and I've heard of most of these "American" products for the first time.
@@cookiebinary Also, American pizza is usually very cheesy with American types of cheese and uses pepperoni as the main topping most of the time. "Normal Italian" pizza is mozzarella and maybe ham, usually no pepperoni.
In my experience having lived in Italy near a pizzeria is that "American" pizze are much greasier than Italian ones, which might get a drizzle of olive oil. Mainly, it's all down to the quality of the ingredients. The Italians don't tend to put every and the kitchen sink as toppings - just a few, selected ingredients.
Rugby is the first football to have codified and they don't kick it around on foot either and it's not round ball shaped either. In fact football comes from the medieval period and referred to any sport with a ball and played on foot as opposed to on a horse or something. The term is not about kicking a ball with your feet, like is done in association football, which was codified second. Also, the ball gets kicked in American football from time to time, so... They're the same family anyways.
I live in Tennessee and we always smile at someone to make them feel welcome. It is how we are raised and it is genuine. My granddaughter talked to someone from another country and was appalled that they did not smile at everyone. I see Irish butter in the store and that’s about it. I live in a small town.
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the average european sees americans in television, mostly. like, politicians, businessmen, or just your regular stock photo model. while I can't say for sure, as I don't know Joe Biden for example, but I'd say his smile is mostly artificial, right? and it's also cultural. we generally don't smile all the time in europe. so when someone looks like they taped their face into a smiling position, it just looks unnatural and artificial to me. but then again, there is no single 'europe', just like there is no single 'america' either. local communities can (and do) vary wildly.
The irony, you people fake smile and then get mad at foreign people for not having that same warped and phony way of acting towards others the way you do?
As a german: We don't label things like the fridge, the coffin, the bed or the potato "American". For example, it's just the "Boxspringbett" instead of the american bed
As a Czech, I didn't know that spring bed is called "american," I always thought that american bed is just bigger like for 2 people, but you sleep alone there. Spring beds are very rare now, I don't even remember when I saw a spring bed for the last time and it's mostly not really comfortable for me, I like harder mattress, I totaly hate those soft 50 cm tall mattress in hotels, you lie there and your back is bent like a shoe and I have terrible pain in my back after few hours in such bed.
It's so funny to see that some things will be called American in my country, the Netherlands, like the fridge, but others don't have the American in front of it like the beetle. Same contintent but totally different history. Love your vdeo's. I have been to your country 3 times for holiday and it is so beautiful. Maybe you should film in some other beautiful places as I know there are a lot off! I might rewatch your episodes in a second attempt to learn your language, but it's really hard!
@@lauratrompe7016 People were making fun of it already before 1989, some of those propagandistic shits are that ridiculous, that even my grandma is saying how they were making fun of it back in the day. Even member of communist party were making fun of it, that regime was just one kid's play and most of people were pretending they play that game while they were smuggling Metallica vinyls from Germany and listening it that loud on purpose that everyone around could hear that. 😀 That regime would fall even without velvet revolution just few years ago because even high ranked commies were lost in all those memes they had to follow. 🙂 It's crazy that we make fun of it like that, while in Russia, they still keep their Lenin and other Something-IN persons statues. 🙂
@@Pidalin yes it is! Only have been once to east-Berlin, a view weeks before the Wall was fallen. My pasport has never been checked like that again! It was a weird tense fibe and I was really intimidated by the soldiers everywhere. I was 18 at the time, had been to the USA once already.
@@lauratrompe7016 And now, when they randomly check you in train to different country, we are angry that they bother us for 2 minutes. I started traveling more after we entered schengen area, I saw some border check only once in my life when we were going thru Switzerland and even that was like: "Where are you going?" "Just passing thru on our way to France." "Ok, then you can go." And when we were leaving Switzerland, they were like: "Do you have something which should be taxed?" "No" "Ok, then you can go." Nobody was actually checking us and I never needed my passport again because I never left schengen area since that time. I can't imagine things like waiting 10 hours in some line at the border and some people want it back. We were also going to Spain in 2006, which was one year before we entered schengen and even back in 2006, I don't remember any border checks, German, French and Spanish borders were just opened and cars were slowly passing thru, maying you had to show passport, I don't remember, but you could pretty much just pass thru border without any check. Last year, I was going thru Austria by bus and there were some police men at border but they were just doing "go go go" guesture, it's ridiculous when you compare it to how it was like before 1989, there were mines and machineguns at border with Austria.
In germany I never heard about American fridge as this. It's a side by side here. The big American fridges from the 50th and 60th are called American fridge here. Like in Indiana Jones IV. Except of the sandwich, I would say we have completely different names in germany, than in Czech
Maybe you or your Parents are very young, because I and a lot of my friends would definitely refer to both the old and any double door fridges as American.
It isn’t described as an American fridge. But if someone would say that I bought a big American fridge everyone will understand immediately that the person bought a fridge with two doors.
In case anyone's wondering, in France we refer to side-by-side fridges as "Réfrigérateur Américain" ('American refrigerator'), and to 'French door' fridges as "Réfrigérateur Américain 'French Door'" ("'French door' American refrigerator"), without even translating it.
In Belgium it is usual to allow people to greet the body before the funeral. The relatives can choose between an open or closed coffin. I prefer closed, I want to remember the deceased as living beings.
In German, the only thing that's sometimes called American is the fridge. We usually use the English word "football" to talk about American football as opposed to "Fußball".
It depends, I lived in the Bay Area for many years and now live in Spain and the bread culture is about the same. During the 90´s I grew up in the Midwest and I would agree that the bread there is lower quality.
I feel like many one the things in this video is just Czech and not really broadly European, but just like you, I cant speak for the whole of Europe, but I have personally never heard of these American things, except for football/ hand-egg. Whenever I think of an American fridge I think of those old retro fridges.
Outside of Prague there's a quarry called "Great America" or as most people say "America" I always thought it was called America because of it's size but then I found out there were also two other quarries called "Little America" and "Mexico" Turned out it was named after a small village (basically just two houses) near the quarry that was, since 1861 (for some reason) simply called "America" and I couldn't find more info regarding it's name
Lol 😄😅 as an American, this is funny. None of the things you showed in video is labeled American here in the US. It's just a bed, bread, fridge ect❤️😁🇺🇲
That makes sense doesnt it? You are in America so you would expect "Bread" to be american bread etc. Noone would put such a label on the normal product.
That type of bread, in the UK, and I'm pretty sure in the US too, it's usually also sweetened to the point I feel it, and is overall really weird to a Russian
Well to be fair, its called sandwich bread here. We do have different types of bread available at the store. You can buy a baggett, sourdough, rye, focassia, naan, or just sandwich bread.
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Tipping in the US is a huge thing - check out our previous guide to cultural differences where we talk about that: th-cam.com/video/moq4d0QqfR8/w-d-xo.html 🍺
Or czech out the episode about 🛞driving: th-cam.com/video/FXw6_uxCUXA/w-d-xo.html (USA vs Europe)
I'd love to see a video on US motorcycle riding laws vs European ones. In Europe it always seemed more common to have a vespa or a motorcycle on the street and people were more used to lane splitting. I'd love to see a full video on that
Nice vid - please do a vid on the hard to get items that we Americans can bring to Czechia as gifts.
I once owned a Game Hand Egg, but didn't know, that they were something spicial, so I gutted it to use a piece of the leather.. :/
nice kitchen "set". not sure about the chartreuse tho
can we call it CTEball?
In the Italian language we say "Wow, you discovered America" when someone says something extremely obvious
Same here in Czech republic
Same here in Slovakia
It’s the same here in Argentina, we say: Descubriste América! But the meaning dates back to colonnial times, when Spain clamed they had discovered a continent full of different people, cultures and political systems, very sophisticated even comparing to Europe. Though Europeans (not only Spanish) never recognized it.
In Brazil we would say: "Discovered Brazil!" Kkkk
Same in Serbian... We also call captain Obvious - Columbus.
I grew up in California where we drank Florida orange juice. When I visited Florida, I noticed the restaurants served California orange juice.
The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
You know, it is expensive to run trucks empty, so the just have to move something back.
Other side of the fence?!?! Does Google in the US correct it with "Did you mean: Mexico" 🤪
@@ericdpeerik3928 It comes from the phrase, "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence," meaning one always thinks something one doesn't have, is better than what one does have.
Old proverbs....
Interesting. In Chicago, most of our oj says something like "blend of Brazilian and US oranges." The only "single-origin" kind is Florida, specifically Florida's Natural. I really like that, so Cali has it's work cut out, but I'd like to try their oj.
@@Backroad_Junkie Have you ever seen cows, or sheep, trying to get through a fence to the grass on the other side? That's where it originates.
I'm from Quebec (Canada), here we refer something as european when is fancy (or it taste funny) and as american when is huge (or annoyingly loud)
In Czech we call Kanady ("Canadas") leather military boots and also ice-hockey skates (the second one makes sense, the first one idk really). Also we use a term Kanadský žertík ("Canadian joke") when referring to practical jokes that are somehow over the line.
And we call Canandians "America Lite" or wannabes. Speak like Americans, write like the Brits. Make up your mind eh.
@@DevangOnline yeah yeah i speak and write in french , my mother tongue ..English is only my secondary language.. So what should i make mind of ?.. .. eh
@@Pyromat Holy crap, not only you guys can't make up your mind which English to use, can't even decide which language to use. You turned out to be even more confused than I thought 🤣🤣
@@DevangOnline Pauvre toi... y'a longtemps que j'ai décidé....mais puisque certaine nation se pense encore le nombril de l'univers ... je tentais simplement d'être convivial pour le simple d'esprit .... et alors maintenant à ton tour, crois tu que t'arrivera a faire du sens cette fois ci ?
I got a chance to live in Germany briefly in the 1990's. We lived in Dharmstadt and the neighbors all around knew we were Americans..and when the holidays rolled around several neighbors came over asking if we could get them an American Turkey rather than their usual Christmas Goose. We obliged since we had access to the Commissary on the Army base. When we bought the turkey the only ones they had left were these freakishly large..GIANT..turkeys. They all were easily in excess of 30lbs. So we bought them and the looks on their faces when we gave them the birds and said "Sorry, all they had left were the SMALL birds, we hope you don't mind!" Those birds were the talk of the village ..probably to this day.
I live in Kentucky, USA and European means a couple things here. First it means small or compact, like your washer/dryer combos or cars. Second, it can mean artisanal or like it took time and thought to make. Lastly, it can also mean being a bit odd or fruity, usually in reference to males who are eccentric.
I thought the gay or European song was a joke haha
@@floofnoodle it’s a joke, but it’s playing off a real stereotype.
I’m a European who’s eccentric but not gay. How do I identify myself now????😂😂😂
@@bigQraz eccentric and european
I lived my first 21 years in the USA and the last 40 in different European countries, but I have NEVER heard of washer/dryer combos.
Coming from the US, I mostly think of food when I think of "European" products, and that the European version is typically considered more authentic or higher quality. Though more commonly we'd refer to the exact country something is from vs just Europe. E.g. "I'll have the Italian wine", not "I'll have the European wine".
Danish pastery, and our butter, and maybe bacon.
@@CONEHEADDK Yeah, the whole world calls it Danish and Danes call it 'viennese bread'...😂😂
American 🇺🇸 here. I agree with you. We would be specific saying things like “French wine 🍷,” “Swiss chocolate 🍫,” “Italian sausage,” etc. which carries a sense of authenticity, higher quality, or something more expensive (like for wine, crystal, cars, etc.) 👍
@@saafiiiraa True - Wienerbrød.. :D
In europe when it comes to food we usually think of american as oversized or too sweet. And the customer service is considerd fake and over the top. There's more to it though but these aspects stick out. We're very influenced by america in many aspects however the specific connotation is often negative.
Interesting video!! In Spain, an "american kitchen" is the one that is integrated in the living room, not an independent space in the house.
That makes sense. As an American, I have only ever had kitchens that connected to the dining room.
"open plan" is a plague here in Sweden as well. You have an impressive cooking range, expensive ionized aluminium fridge and freezer, but when you have people home you buy takeout to avoid having to show the mess in the kitchen as it will also be you dining room as well as the social gathering room. Another reason is to void having food smell all over the apartments/house.
Traditionally, with a real kitchen, you will have more space to stove the dirty utensils after cooking, and the cool people hanging out in the kitchen (yes, this is definitely a thing, especially if there is music in the living room where the party ostensibly is) near the beer fridge will accept that there will be a few cooking utensils that have not been cleaned yet.
Same goes in Brazil, we call Cozinha Americana (Americana Kitchen) or Cozinha conceito aberto (Open Concept Kitchen).
That’s mostly true then. I live in the US and it is just a normal kitchen and living room, but it is true that it is most common for the living room and kitchen to be right next to each other connected
That’s interesting. Here in America we call that an “efficiency apartment” or a “flat”
I think that the reason we call those fridges "american" is because we have first seen those on american shows, like Dallas, Married with Children and so.
I think that English equivalent for "american smile" (not in meaning of fake smile) could be million-watt smile.
Curiously, when I first saw them outside of the US they were just called Hitachis (Hitachi being the only big-name company actively selling in the region). And copy machines, for the same reason, were called - no, not "xerox" but "canons".
@@jmi5969 In Poland copiers were and are always called 'xero' (without the ending X for some reason), it's practically the only name for these machines. Even though sometimes people use the word 'kopiarka' (literally copier), officially even in manuals for devices of other brands like Canon or Brother copying function is referred as 'funkcja xero'.
We Filipinos call refrigerators "Frigidaire", an American ref brand.
@@jmi5969 Hitachi also sells other appliances like aircons.
@@markarca6360 Sure. But in this particular time and place their name was popularly "appropriated" specifically for wide refrigerators (not necessarily side-by-side, anything wider than standard 60 cm). There certainly were imports of other Korean and Japanese brands, but somehow only Hitachi was genericized.
Canadian in the UK here. I find the "American" section of big supermarkets to be hilarious here. Also, it's weird to see hot dogs in glass jars or cans and the label is covered in American flags. lol
We do something similar in the US with Mexican cuisine (Mexican being anything from south of the Rio Grande river, because "it's all the same.") I see a lot of Mexican flags on those products. Ironically most of those are actually not even Mexican, but actually Tex-Mex.
Do you get a free AK-47 too?
@@NathanHedglin Only in Texas and Florida XD
I've seen that stuff on Kay's cooking!😂
My favorite UK term is "American doughnuts". I think that must originate to distinguish donuts with a hole in them from the hole-free Dutch "oliebollen" -- though I can't recall ever having seen the latter in the UK.
In Ukraine we call a college varsity jacket with white sleeves an American bomber.
A special type of pool (a ball game with a stick on the green table with colourful balls) is called American.
Sweet mustard is called American because Ukrainian one is hot and strong like wasabi or chili pepper.
Oatmeal cookies with chocolate drops or raisins are called American.
Rollercoasters are called American hills.
Thank you for sharing. I had no idea of any of this. It’s interesting.
In Italy we call Rollercoasters Russian Montains! "Montagne Russe".
In Russia, ukraina is a part of Russia, in My Country Poland we dont need Russian people
@@dodge6571this is only in Russia, in Poland we dont talk about this things just like i
@@ytvc6039same in Mexico, Montaña Russa
The two postcards you showed when talking about American Night, are from my town. Ocean City, Maryland.
I have learned a lot from your videos. I can’t wait to be back in Prague, in two weeks. This will be my 4th time visiting.
If you say "Amerikansk blanding" (American Mix) in Norway, it means a bag of frozen mix of peas, carrots and corn from the grocery store.
if you add cauliflower to the mix this is a French mix here in Czechia, peas-carrot-corn is here common and not called American ;)
Sounds Like a very patriotic Kind of Mix.
We do like a lot of those "vegetable medley" in America. Peas, carrots, and corn; peas and carrots; peas, carrots, green beens, and corn; coliflower, broccoli, carrots, and peppers; broccoli, green beens, carrots, peppers, mini corns, and onions. Basically Freese or can 2 or more colors of vegetables, ideally with different shapes, and it seems to often sell as a popular packaged product. We also do this with "salad mixes," which are just different prepared vegetables that don't need to be cooked and are ready for someone to dump some dressing on.
We have the same in Sweden. In this case I think it got the name because corn is vaguely associated with America here.
In Holland, mixes with corn are called mexican... American foodstuffs are if it's processed with little nutritional value and very sweet/sugary. The side by side fridge is also called an American fridge. And a toilet with heatin, built in bidet and such is called a Japanese toilet. Cause they came up with it first.
As an American this very interesting and entertaining. …. The one I feel that I should address is the American smile. We do smile at people that we encounter… I don’t know how we learn that, but we do. But here is the thing… It’s not fake. Not for me at least. It’s a genuine greeting. I’m wishing you well. Have a good day. Just a hello. Truly. ❤😊
To be fair in Europe in many countries that would be off putting, especially if the smile was unprompted with for example saying hello/good day or some kind of interaction.
@@NuSpirit_ I guess that’s a cultural difference. We are all creatures of what we know and what is familiar. It makes us unique. ❤️
It's definitely a cultural difference. Here, don't smile at anyone you don't know/don't want to have a conversation with. It's the Czech "keep your business to yourself" mentality.
But it is fake
@@Kumanosuke no, I don't think so. maybe in large cities but in the country it's a habit but genuine one. People still hold the doors for each other and use the fleeting smile when about to be in close passing proximity to a stranger.
Haha, this episode is hilarious! I always find these things interesting. I'm originally from the Czech Republic. I have lived in the US for 23 years now. I can see more and more things in grocery stores and spas referred to as European because it wants to portray a higher standard of either food or care. Which are many times correct, mainly when it comes to food. You have way better laws when it comes to food additives, etc. than we do here. The thing with the "American smile" - I used to look at it the same when I was "fresh-of-the-plane" :-D ... however, now I know better. It's purely a polite thing to smile and have small talk with a stranger. When I ask you "How are you?" in passing, it does not mean I want to hear your life story at the moment (unless I really do). It's just a nice thing to do and say. That's all. I'm actually always bummed out by how negative people in Czech are every time I go back to visit. When I say hello to a random person on the street and smile, they usually look at me with a look as if saying "What does she want from me?" I really hate how many Czechs judge this culture without even stepping one foot here. Sure, have your opinion, but go experience it for yourself first, and then form it. Not from reading some stupid internet comments or listening to "news". Just go and experience it. Also, the politics doesn't equal the people...just like anywhere else.
By the way, I love your channel. Good job, guys! I have included some of your videos in my tips for friends when they travel to Prague. :-)
Bothering strangers and harassing them is not helpful at all you are just making people uncomfortable and paranoid. It's not disneyland wtf.
about how do you do - i think polish people destroyed that habit in UK XD because we WILL anwser, and honestly, usually with naging about weather/job/health/whatever is currently bothers us :P and while i do know right anwser, and that 'how do you do;' isnt really a question, i still feel urge to tell person about everything ;) ikd, maybe it is imprinted in my DNA or sth :D
@@beheroot 😂😂😂 I saw a video from a U.S. expat that lives in Prague and makes videos about Czech culture for other expats. She basically said when you ask a Czech person “How are you?” in passing, they will tell you that they think the neighbor poisoned their goat… 😂😂😂
So I know what you mean. LOL
@@create_amazing_life maybe its pan-slavic thing - anwsering rethorical questions that arent even questions XD
Dude, i can't agree more with you. As a german with roots in the US who visits it a lot i just hate this trend that everybody here talks trash about it without knowing anything about it.
On the other hand it keeps tourism on a certain level so i can't be too mad about it. I'm always happy to avoid other germans over there :D
In the 50s our French immigrants neighbors couldn't believe the "bread" was actually bread. Wife thought it was a bag of novelty convenient sponges. Kid spilled her milk and mom threw a handful of "sponges" on it! After she learned some English she and my mom had a good laugh. Other thing was cookie mix. She couldn't imagine such a thing and bought it thinking it was actual cookies.. They had a good laugh at their picnic!
Lol.))
As a Belgian who chose to move to the US to be with my wife, I second that opinion. I miss the wide selection of good bread in Belgium. The "artisan" bread I buy in supermarkets like Kroger are not that good and the bakeries near me don't even sell bread? It's weird and my American friends have no idea what I'm complaining about every time I bring it up
@@nipo2540 My British parents in Canada just make their own bread after struggling with the local bread for a few years. They will occasionally buy baguettes and they've also sometimes frequented various European-style bakers typically run by other Europeans. It really is a problem.
In Hungarian, we call these open-layout kitchens (that you're presenting from) American kitchens (which are to me basically living rooms IN the kitchen/dining room...)
But "American bread" follows the German tradition and is called toast bread in Hungarian.
In Germany we have the regular "toast" bread and then the larger version they showed as well, usually labeled as "american sandwich bread"
In mexico we call the "american bread" Pan bimbo even if its not bimbo brand (bimbo is the biggest bread company in mexico and owner of a lot of brands of bread around the world like sara lee in the us, or panrico in spain, they have presence in 33 countries.)
Similar for the kitchen in Sweden. It translates very badly but the mean8ng is close to "open blueprint solution."
living room in the kitchen is a studio apt for like 2 ppl at most. Open kitchen is the kitchen open to the dining room. Not a closed off kitchen.
@@AtomicBoo And "bimbo" in the US means a dumb woman, used as an insult.
That's definitely not just a Czech/European thing: in Brazil, we call bread rolls "French bread", even though they're not French (the recipe is Brazilian). I think the reason people add those nationality adjectives to products is to make them look fancy (since they're "foreign", or made in a foreign style), so that more people want to buy them (it's a marketing strategy). We also call the US version of football "American football", and use the word "football" ("futebol", in Portuguese) for soccer.
According to what I found online they tried to copy the european style of bread, so it does make sense to call them french
Or maybe the shape. Like a long roll being a french bagette,
And what France dubs _pain perdu_ we call French toast, sometimes not even capitalized. Same dish, though: bread slices soaked in milk with egg beaten in, and griddled. International if we sweeten it with Canadian maple syrup.
@@w.reidripley1968 In CzechoSlovakia (nowadays in both countries) we use to make French toasts a lot, but did not call them french and made them salty (my recipe is egg+milk+herbs /Marjory or thyme or cumin/ + salt + black pepper and if it happens that I have leftovers of salami or ham, I chop it into tiny pieces into a mixture) and eat them with ketchup or mustard or tartar sauce (special mayonnaise based sauce). Toasts we made from bread, use garlic and it is best snack with beer
As others have said, it is usually by nation rather than anything being referred to as "European style." There is a aura of good quality about most products linked to a country. Examples are Irish butter, Italian shoes, French bread, French fashions (actually this is the only one I can think of that one might say European: European fashion), English tea, English scones, Swiss chocolate, Swiss cheese, and a German clock. Also the phrase "German engineering" would mean something masterfully made, but I think primarily it would refer to something actually made in Germany.
I'd say it's bc the US is one big country with huge prefectures if you think about it.
Europe is a group of countries, and each of them has its own prefecture.
We don't say Washington Bread, we say American bread.
With that in mind, it makes sense for Americans to say french bread and not European break, as France is a country and not a prefecture/state.
@@arjix8738 Even in the USA we say Georgia peaches and Florida oranges. I wonder if these other countries say anything according to region or province.
@@anndeecosita3586 not really, grapes are just grapes and oranges are just labelled oranges in europe. there is however a tiny sticker on each of these that tells where they come from (letter size about 2mm), i think it's either a deep-rooted custom or a rule.
@@anndeecosita3586 ofc if I'm buying Greek apples in Greece, the specific region they came from is how they are labeled.
But if I'm buying American apples (I'd never do that), I wouldn't say texan apples, I'd say American apples
@ I'd say it's a custom, at least in Greece and Spain it would make sense for it to be a custom.
Different areas have different soil, so different harvests.
Everyone would rather buy apples from an area known to have a good harvest rather than the opposite.
In America we refer to a lot of things with country names, like Polish sausage (kielbasa) or English breakfast (what the Brits know as a "fry-up,") but the most common name referring to all of Europe would be "continental breakfast," which is a morning meal or snack consisting of things like pastries, fruit, bread, and/or cereal - basically everything but meat, potatoes, and eggs. Mid-range hotels will often offer free continental breakfast, usually from a self-serve counter.
true european breakfas: coffee + cigarette
@@unanec Thats east Europe m8
Interesting. At least here in Germany we do eat meat and eggs for breakfast. 😉
@@skunk326nope, central and west Europe to, Coffe and cifarette
@@juwen7908in German Is a fake Polish breakfast
In Brazil, the most common type of bread is called "French bread", and it can only be found in Brazil 😅
in the uk we say French stick for a Baguette
What kind of bread is it?
Oh no, we have French bread in Sweden too. It's probably different than Brazilian French bread, though. 😂
In the USA we had French toast, which was white bread soaked in egg and then friend
@@stevensaxonberg7807 in uk we call it eggy bread
My dad told me that when he went in the USA to visit our cousin's there, his uncle showed him, with a lot of proud, a fridge. He believed that Italy was still in the '30s when he left
I live in Sweden and have relatives that migrated to North America about 80-90 years ago. In the 70's, one of them was proudly telling his Swedish relatives about how well made he's become. He even owns a Volvo. At the time more than half of the cars in our part of the country were made by Volvo. That really highlighted how our local car manufacturer made a mark internationally. The presented themselves as more exclusive and luxurious on the other side of the Atlantic while being a cheap alternative in Sweden.
@@JaharNarishma theres a similar thing with german cars, where outside of Germany they are often considered high quality (german engineering and such) while inside of Germany they tend to be pretty common and not too unaffordable
@@JaharNarishma back in the 70’s and 80’s Volvos were known to be built to a higher safety standard than American or Asian cars. Volvos cost more as well and they cost a lot more to maintain, so one had to be doing well in life to own one. I believe that’s still the case.
@@prismaticc_abyss Mercedes and BMW in particular -- we pay a luxury-car tariff that kicks the price up, and the imported spare parts are, or were, rather more expensive too. Volkswagen was the conspicuous exception for decades, and was simple to maintain.
@@JaharNarishma VOLVO is a good safe car.and i like it.
In Texas we have "kolaches" pronounced ko-la-chee - and most of them are far from their Czech roots. My favorite and one of the most available comes with sausage, cheddar, and jalepeno inside.
🤣🤣
I assure you that we don't eat these koláče-s here, we eat them with sweet fillings. :) These sound like some made-up bu****it. :D
Lots of Czech immigrants to Texas lead to that. We have them at nearly every donut shop in AZ I've gone to as well. Though usually it's ham, cheese, and jalapeño
I live in Texas and have had sweet kolaches from Texas and Czechia. I prefer the Texas ones. But Czech Pilsner ….OMG
Koláčky are the best with apple or plums filling. We often have poppy seads or curd cheese too
The toilet with two buttons is just now entering the US market, and when I first moved to Prague back in the day ('05), I definitely noted how it was far superior to the "american standard"--- pun intended for the Americans who get this... for my Czech peeps, American Standard is literally the name of the company that produces the basic, standard American toilet that probably is in at least 85% of American homes.
I remember my friend going to Ireland for the first time in '07 and experiencing the double button toilet. She was so confused, she posted about it on Facebook 😂
The Dual flush took over Australia in the 80s. I think we started it!
They've been around for a long time but they had to convince people they worked well.
I guess America and Russia have very different standards :D
We had Armitage Shanks stamped over ours in the UK for a long time... Now its the Dual flush buttons, still not sure what each one does exactly, the small or larger one just seems the same flush time.
Fridges in Europe are normally 1 door wide, no more than 2 feet. Double door fridges are very rare, almost non-existent 20 years ago, and so are fridges with an ice dispenser. They are the kind of fridges that you would typically find in American homes, the kind you see in movies.
Yes, I've never seen a fridge with an ice dispenser or water dispenser in Europe. Water filters are rare too.
I live in America but I guess I have a "European" fridge - just 1 door wide, no ice dispenser, most visitors comment on how small it is, one person asked why the freezer didn't have a light in it (because it wasn't designed that way, of course). I'm just one person and it's big enough for me, and it actually fits in my tiny kitchen. Most people I know do have an American fridge. Some have an additional appliance that looks like an American Fridge but it is actually all freezer.
And most American movies TV shows show old-type American fridges from the 50s. Look at the show "Friends" it has a 1940s-1950 type refrigerator.
@@ValleyOakPaper under-sink water filters are popular in Ukraine, since tap water is pretty mineralized and that would make electric kettles feel bad
Where do you live? Side-by-side refrigerator/freezer combinations with ice/water dispensers are widespread here in Norway and have been for 10-15 years. Even in 2004, when I started working as a white-goods-appliance salesman, I'd estimate 10-15% of the refrigerator/freezer combination units we sold were 90cm side-by-side.
For the ones with a special interest:
In Europe, most side-by-side refrigerator/freezer combinations are 89.5cm (about 36 in) wide. Almost all regular refrigerators, freezers, and dual-purpose units are 59.5cm wide (about 24in) designed to fit between 60cm kitchen modules, the exception being those meant to be built into the kitchen (with custom doors) being 56cm wide, and smaller appliances typically lower than 160cm that are usually 54.5cm wide. Almost all appliances are made just under 60cm wide; cooktops, ovens, dishwashers, and even laundry machines. Popular exceptions are wider cooktops with 5 or more burners/zones.
As an american, I get salty at the American smile thing, but I get that it's just a cultural difference. But I feel like lots of people from Europe (especailly in Germany, for some reason, based on my limited experience) don't tend to understand it that well. Where I live, we smile when meeting people. People from Latin America also tend to smile when meeting people. And at least my gf and I (both from different American countries) were told growing up to smile by our parents. Because the idea behind it is to make the experience as pleasant as possible for all parties. It's not so that they LIKE you, it's so that they're not offended BY you.
Along with the orthodontia thing. European populations seem to skew to imperfect tooth rows.
Mesoamericans by contrast skew to straight tooth rows, so much so that they are downright toothy when they smile. You seldom saw them in braces.
In some places of Italy (I experienced it countless of times in Southern Italy), if you smiled at people randomly they would think you're mocking them and be aggressive about it. Not everyone of course, but you would find especially young men antagonizing you.
@@stirbutnotshake84 why are your problems my problem? They aren't. Get your big girl panties on and get the fuck over your "bad mood" doesn't matter, be better loser
The thing is that Europeans won't get offended if you don't smile at them.
@@Zdobywczy oh you poor stupid little thing 😧 the smile is a public courtesy to make everyone feel at ease and make going to the grocery store or downtown more pleasant for everyone, idk why you think a smile would offend anyone but coming from a European I'm not surprised 😭
Great video. As an American living in Prague, I fully appreciate all of these. I hadn't heard about the American Bed or the American Fridge, but these make sense to me.
One that you missed: American Dressing for salads here. I've seen the Spak brand American Dressing here and based on the ingredients (based on Yoghurt and milk with tomato paste, vinegar and spices) I'd say it's similar to what we call either French dressing or Russian dressing.
american fridge is total classic of a word here, i remember asking my parents as a kid if we could have the american fridge, and my friend delivers electronics as a job and he always talks about how the american fridges are absolute massacre to bring to higher floors of a bulding haha
Isn't european "American Dressing" just american "Thousand Islands" dressing?
As an American 🇺🇸 who first moved to the Czech Republic 🇨🇿, I honestly laughed when I saw all of these “American” labels that made no sense to me at the time as to why, hahaha!!! 😂
@@scotty7 I think our American Dressing is just called Ranch Dressing in the U.S
Dressing so bad, no country wants to takie responsibility for creating it xD
Hello from Korea.
Yes. Literally just today there was an ad for some goat milk protein powder that is "!!100%!!!! From Netherlands goats!!!!"
It makes me roll my eyes. But there are many ads like this where they make a big deal that the ingredients are from Europe.
Or clothes that were
!!designed in Italy!!! Famous all over Europe!!!!!!!!!!!
Also they strangely have many ads where they need to sell toothpaste and always there is some "doctor" from Germany to explain how amazing their toothpaste is.
😅 If you watch TV in Korea, you can't avoid these ads. They're on all the time.
As a Dutchman from a rural area and been all over the country, I've never seen a goat farm that wasn't a petting zoo. Maybe they mean the milk powder was made from Dutch breed of goats? Now I'm curious
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 I knew we had too much cow milk, but never heard about goat milk farms. All the powder is made from a total of about half a million goats, but they make cheese as well! So don't know if the goats from the add ever saw part of my country!
@@relo999 There are many goat farms in the Netherlands producing milk. By the end of 2020 there were almost 500.000 goats in the Netherlands. Getting goat milk powder is almost impossible. Usually you get fresh ilk or more often Goat cheese. Usually milk powder is produced when farmers get a better price, as it happened during the milk quality problems in China some years ago. Especially for baby food.
I actually was super curious why goats and why Netherlands, but the advertisement didn't explain why.
@@jandenijmegen5842 Never seen em, is like with pigs and that being mainly a thing below the rivers not so much above it?
From an American:
European beer = better beer
European car = better cars, now just more expensive
European wine = better wine
European women = exotic, mysterious
European clothing = expensive, trendy, more stylish.
This was much more pronounced pre 1997, before most people had the internet and the world was opened up for them. Now, it's much less so.
European cars means just expensive. Not better. In fact, BMW and Mercedes are known to break down and require expensive repairs after ~50K miles. A lot more people are starting to take note. Maybe that was a term back in the 80s? Not sure what European clothing also means. Never heard of it in my life until now. No such notion in where I live in the US.
@@4and20blackbirds Sorry you were not alive in the 80s. It was the plot of many movies and tv show, but sure greasy - dope.
@@plartoo Yeah, Mercedes now is a wreck. 30 years ago you never saw a benz on a tow truck or on the side of the road broken down. Now, I'd rather have a Kia than a Benz.
It's so cute in a way. In Poland, pre common people having access to internet, 'American' meant all types of cooler and better quality. American jeans, American cigarettes, American music, American cars. We had to have "Good - because it's Polish" certification (you can find the logo for it on Polish products) pushed and explained in commercials. People were hungry for foreign products.
The grass is greener on the other side. :,) Nowadays we realise how shit everything is, no matter the country. But still... We can shit on our own country and nobody else can join in. We are funny people. :,)
@@waterbuck Really, do you have some example?😀😀
I love your English accent! The clarity of your voice is amazing for someone who doesn't live in America or England.
I also feel like we don't have European objects, but styles that are relating to a European country like the French doors, french cleats, German style bratwurst, ect.
I think the bread size you are looking at is referred to as "Texas Toast" in the USA. It's extra big bread slices.
Yeah their local bread just looked like most normal breads here in the US to me.
I went on a lengthy quest to find a comparison and 1 slice of Penam Super Sandwich weighs about the same as 1 slice of Wonder Bread Giant.
I think the issue is that in Europe "toast bread" is a novelty rather than a staple. _Real_ bread is a French or Italian type yeasted whole (not sliced) loaf. I commend this attitude. Sliced sandwich bread, especially white, is an abomination.
Hand-sliced yeast bread will fit in a toaster.
And I'm American.
@@MelissaThompson432 If I remember it well (did not seen for ages) sandwich was alike baguette, but twice larger kind of bread (in CzechoSlovakia). Traditiona Czech(oSlovak) Chlebíček needs it as abase
People in the comments have already mentioned how Americans usually view food being labeled as ‘European’ (or from a European country) as higher quality, but I’d argue the same applies to clothing as well! Shoes, jackets, purses, etc that are made from a European country are definitely viewed as being higher quality than their American counterparts. For example I bought some really nice leather shoes in Italy for $200, and while you could definitely buy leather shoes from the US for the same price it doesn’t have that mystique & prestige as being Italian Leather shoes
Often, shoes made in the USA are much better quality and last longer. Paying $200 for shoes most likely won’t get you that in Europe. As a general guide.
Because only very high quality clothing is made in europe - every else, and I mean EVERYTHING is made in China, Bangladesh, etc. and just imported.
I'm kinda excluding stuff from eastern europe/balkans though but they generally dont have a huge clothing industry either
@@GerManBearPig Bro stuff made in Eastern Europe / Balkans is hit or miss, but provided you have a great sense of feeling the seller, if you buy stuff that's locally made (not imported from God knows where), they last you a lifetime. Here in Romania for example you can get some pretty solid fucking shoes and leather jackets, never had any have any defect or needing replacement (beyond me growing out of them or changing the insoles every now and then)
And lingerie, we must not forget European lingerie.
@@kylierosedj I don’t know about that. Italians are famous for their shoes. They are definitely not made the same way as the US shoes you bought. $200 is not expensive for good shoes.
Here in Norway we also use "amerikansk" (American) as an adjective for big, oversized, and slightly vulgar things.
We also say that something is "helt Texas" ("completely Texas") if it's crazy, out of control and dangerous. (It's probably inspired by Western movies)
And apparently "Hawaii" means "with ham and pineapple" almost everywhere in the world.
Being from Texas, I kind of love that.
@@landrypierce9942 same lol
You’re not wrong as an American
Don't forget the Norwegian expression "Hawaii-fotball".
@@hkrohn What does that mean?
Here in the Netherlands, we have "Filet Américain" which is French for "American fillet", but real Americans are appalled by it. It is mainly raw ground beef with herbs and sauce to put on bread or toast. It actually hasn't got anything to do with the USA, but rather it is from Armorica, the part of France currently known as Normandy.
How weird and interesting, cool! 😁
In Czech we call it "tatarák" or tartar steak.
WRT to your question about referring to something in the States being "European" I recalled that when I moved to France in 1991, I saw an advertisement for "les ongles américains" (American manicure/nails) at a local mani/pedi shop. When I inquired about the manicure I laughed because the same treatment in the US is called a French manicure.
LOL Reminds me of Danishes. In Denmark they're called Bread from Vienna.
fun fact, if you dont have any coins or keys, at least in germany you can just ask a cashier of teh store, they usually have some of those plastic tokens that you can use to unlock teh shopping cart
After Covid some stores in the Netherlands removed the chain part from them so no coin needed at all. So going to a new store is like gambling, do I need the coin or not? That's about all te gambling I do ;)
I was actually wondering where you would get them. I mean I know my mum has a bag of them and so do I, but if a foreigner came here where you would go to get one?
@@dustojnikhummer Kaufland information centre or internet
@@dustojnikhummer as i said, just ask for one at the info desk or the cashier
It's the same here in the Netherlands.
8:50 We used to have exactly same bug propaganda in Poland
Same in East Germany lol
Honestly it wouldn't surprise me if we did drop bugs to destroy crops.
@@amazincrackmonkey7176 American beetle” - the potato beetle actually comes from America. It was first described in 1824 in Colorado. It then reached Europe in 1875 on merchant ships. In the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland and others. appeared already approx. 1939
dunno if it's porpaganda, but my parents are deadbeat on Western "bio" warfare. It's STILL less horrible than soviets did themselves with Sosnowsky's hogweed. They planted this highly poisonous motherf*cker all over USSR as farm animal feed and found out it's worse than poison ivy. Now if a crop field is infested with these, you have to hire a team of specialists and they basically dig away a layer of soil while wearing PPE.
Makes me think of Starship Troopers lol
Italian dressing, German beer, Greek yogurt, French bread, European style cabinets, European wax, Czech Kolache. All either highly regarded or considered a special style of something particular : )
Wow, you have term 'Czech Kolache' in US? :o
I'm really interested about your version of "Kolache". Can you describe it, please?
@@MilanObrtlik you'd be disappointed. It's nothing like the actual czech kolač.
I was in Prague on holiday, and we walked into a car show. It was all American cars (new and old). I had to laugh. I came all the way from USA to see an American car show in Czech Republic.
Came from America to see Americas :D
In America everyone I know calls it a "French door" style fridge because the doors are beside one another. Not to say that the type of Fridge originated in France but that placing any two doors in that specific configuration is called a "French door"
I wonder why exactly French though, why not "Saloon doors" then? 🤔😁
@@em0_tion Saloon doors are swinging doors.
Holy crap. I'm an American who lives in Slovakia and just now learned about the key-shopping cart trick. This will revolutionize my life for all of those times I change jackets and leave whatever change I have at home. Thank you honest guide!
Why do you have a jacket just for change?
@@BubbaSmurft What, you just go walking around without Jacket-change? You're tempting fate, my friend!!
Hello. What city are you in? :) are u having a good experience so far?
@@TeresaSvk Bratislava: the greatest city on Earth, sort of.
Funny being Icelandic, even tho it's technically a European country I can never relate to those "only Europeans understand" types of memes and stuff. Literally none of these are known as "American" here. Especially with the fridge, these are absolutely everywhere here! That being an American thing never even would have occurred to me. Literally not a single thing you mentioned in this video is known as American here lol. Rarely for the better, almost always for the worst, we relate faaaar more to the US than the rest of Europe. It's strange.
Well Iceland is technically in both Europe and America ;)
When I visit Iceland it definitely felt more like North America than Europe. So much so I find it odd they want to join the EU, when it seems like NAFTA would have been a better fit.
As a swede I don't recognice any of these aswell, and that included the IKEA bed. Never seen them labeled like that here.
@@rpvitiello yeah exactly that's why I said it's "technically a European country". Despite our capital and like 80% of the population being on the American side of the country (including myself. Im from the village home to the famous bridge between continents). I've always found that weird too especially how insanely dependent and influenced we are by America, especially the USA. Maybe it's cause of the other nordics being European and they're also important to us so maybe there was some sort of worry of disconnect in that regard, I'm not sure tho.
You are not alone. In Germany we do not refer to these things as american. We know that the big fridges and open kitchens are popular in america but we do not call them "american". Only thing i know is the big sandwich toast and maybe people would call certain kinds of pizza. "american style"
You are not alone, I'm from Central Europe and I never heard any of these things being called American except A. football.
I've never seen a bread package that's only 10 slices
Serving size is a big difference. The USA small fast food beverage size is close to the large European size. All-you-can-eat buffets aren’t found in Czech from what I’ve seen.
well no one says that they are truly american, for example when it comes to the bread even when its called american bread here in europe it still usually has much less sugar than the real one as people are not used to it but it still has more than most breads here. maybe even all of them
@@EatDrinkBeMerry You can find all you can eat specials in Asian restaurants in the Czech republic, especially in shopping mall food courts.
we can't use that much of preservatives in the bread so it won't last as long as the one in America, therefore you need only as much as you eat in time before it's stale or moldy. other thing could be people maybe only buy it to have a hot sandwich and it's just a on occasion, usually we use the regular bread aka yeasted/starter bread in the shape of a bread (not cube or cuboid (I've never heard the word cuboid before 😂 is that the right word for the 3D rectangle?)). not sure if I'm right but that's my possible explanation
They're popular in Asia, I think one of the reasons is that because of high heat and humidity a full loaf would go moldy before it can be eaten. It's a new thing that's been introduced in Australian supermarkets and really makes sense especially if you're single and only need half a loaf.
The American Fake Smile has been addressed in previous comments, but I want to add my two cents. While we do smile a lot, during greetings and such, the only time to really be wary is if someone is trying to sell you something or take you somewhere you didn't intend to go. We do offer (usually genuine) smiles at momentary greetings. Customer service roles also smile a lot (like in restaurants or hotels, etc), and this is intended to be friendly and inviting toward customers (though as a former hotel customer service person, I can attest that a lot of times they are fake, especially if you're having a bad day or are just there for a paycheck. However, there are genuine people in these places that love to help people and are being completely real). We're sorry if you find this creepy, but it' something we learn to do growing up. If you visit, we do hope you have a nice time.
Having worked in the US film industry for over 30 years I have some experience with “American night”. We actually called it “hot lighting” a scene. This is where the film, yes, actual film, is purposely overexposed and under developed.
With the advent of digital sensors this is no longer necessary. I’m still amazed at how little light is used, especially for night scenes. It’s actually more common to shoot in low light and make it look like full sunlight.
Australia has European Ovens and cooktops
We call them European Appliances and when we travel we buy European adapters so we can use Australian appliances like shavers and charge of mobile phones😊
Yeah, I've heard Americans who visit Europe have to use adapters as well if they want to plug anything of theirs into an outlet.
I am not sure that European appliance is designed to work upside-down (joke - sorry I couldn't help myself)
Same here in France, "Frigo Americain" (2 door fridge), "Sandwich Americain" (white sliced bread in a bag) and so on. You left one out, "Prix Americain", that's when you are at a market or getting a quote from a tradesperson and you get an inflated price.... you say "don't give me a prix Americain"! Great channel, long term follower. Cheers.
Haha I love that. I’m from Quebec so we don’t use “prix American” we’d just say “prix de fou” but I’d love it if that caught on here. 😂
hahah we dont have exactly saying like that in Czechia but when i was in Mexico last year and they gave me inflated price i often told them that they need to go down with it that iam not from the US hahaha
We caal it in Czechia as a highland tax/ alpine tax
We’ve got French potatoes 😄 if you want to look up the recipe just google “francouzské brambory”
nobody say "Prix Americain" in france
In Spain, they refer to coleslaw salad as ensalada americana. It's weird, because I wouldn't assume coleslaw as being something American.
We call it in Czech coleslaw but I actually consider it as being something American xd
i have only seen coleslaw in america and american restaurants tho, so it checks out.
I always thought it's Polish but I just discovered it actually comes from the Netherlands xD
As an American, it's very strange to see coleslaw being referred to as a salad. Over here, it's a topping for barbecue, or a small side
In Russia you only typically find coleslaw at a (American style, don't have traditionally Russian steak) steakhouse as a side dish to a steak.
If I recall correctly, the Colorado potato beetle is only native to a tiny area in the U.S., though just as in Europe it's everywhere now. Its original host plant isn't even a potato.
as a european i have no idea what are you talking about
@@unanec Watch the video, then, where the discussion is about "American bug". The beetle in question is more widely known as the Colorado potato beetle, Leptinotarsa decemlineata.
We call the Colorado potato beetle the Colorado potato beetle here in Colorado.
@@unanecyou seem to be a fake European then. Or, been living under a rock.
I live in the US. My friends and I call fake smiles “customer service smiles” because service jobs require constant smiling or you could get fired. But I might be a bad American. My fridge is small with a small one door freezer on top of a larger one door fridge. I also don’t eat white sandwich bread, and I don’t have a box spring. 😂
We still use "colorado bug" in Hungary. (same story)
Also known as Colorado Beetle in UK, I think that's its normal name, note it does come from USA. There are (were) posters about it in UK Police stations.
Funny is that the bug really is from Americas as it is potato parasite and potatos come from America - commies only misused it against US... :)
@@stephenlee5929 Maybe Americans were bombing you with those bugs too and you don't even remember that now. 😀
@@Pidalin I thought that was food after WWII 🤔
@@lauratrompe7016 food with hidden bugs inside 😀
Czech movie parody of Police Academy is called in Czech ,,Byl jednou jeden polda" in American it is ,,There once was a cop", and for me it's a really great movie with the already dead actor Ladislav Potměšil, sadly. 😢
I just want to say that your phrasing of "already dead" made me laugh... not AT you or your English. It's not a phrase we would use and thinking of how we MIGHT use it is what made me laugh. Like, "I was going to meet this actor, but he was already dead!"
Hoši, děkuji za video v češtině i angličtině! ❤ Vždy posílám verzi v angličtině přátelům v Americe a rodině tam žijící a od srdce se smějeme. 😅
Jj
In general, yes, if I get something from Europe, yes, I can usually assume it's better. Why? It's pretty simple actually: Importing low-quality garbage isn't a winning strategy in commerce. Importing goods is already expensive, and you're asking your customer to pay a premium to get it. So, if it isn't special, why would they be inclined to do so?
Over in Finland, a yank fridge is the one with the fridge on the bottom and a half shorter freezer on top. And handegg is "jenkkifutis" or yank footie.
Czech does not equal European 😅 The only naming I could agree on as a Scandinavian is the american football. The other are either specific for Czech R. or Central Europe. But I guess an American would say the same :D
I would say they are Czech specifics. And idk why are even those a thing and I am Czech. Many of these I personally didn’t know. For example that bread is called toast bread. Just two brands have American themed packaging, rest is normal looking, noone I know calls it American bread. I knew just about fridge and smile. That’s all. I am just kind of pissed by two things. From this video - that we seem to be thinking of America as something better even when we don’t. And also that it’s marked as “European” things, even tho it’s czech point of view…
Scandinavia is culturaly more distant to some average European than Czechia.
@@wtmfr To be fair quite a lot of stuff we call american is called american in other countries in europe as well.. But yeah this video had a huge amount of stuff which is specific to Czechia and post communist countries.
@@Pidalin well in some sense everybody is lol :D as wse are the exact centre we are literaly the avarage europeans :D
@@Pidalin Germany doesnt call any of these things american either
Great episode. But to be honest, I think you are giving a more Czech perspective on "American" than a general European one. Still cool!
True, I think that it was the purpose.
As a Polish person, it is, and it was nearly the same as Janek showed here in Poland. 99% correct😊
Great video 👍✌️
Well he's Czech so what do you expect? Check mate
@@scienceevolves4417 Ehhh...what does the "title of this video" say? 🤣
European windows, those that tilt and turn are considered more "advanced" in American home construction. Also, European cabinetry is becoming popular in America. That's the construction technique where a face frame is not used and the doors overlay the cabinet frames. It allows for better access and utilization of the interior of the cabinet all while using less material.
wait, how do you open windows in America then?
@@CreeplayEU They push it up...
@@CreeplayEU Typical American windows are double hung sashes that slide vertically in the frame bypassing each other. They can provide ventilation at the top and bottom but are lousy at keeping the rain out unless fully closed. If they have a tilt feature it's only for cleaning not ventilation.
I miss/prefere the up/down skiders, we had in Canada. So nice that the wind doesn't break things.
@@CONEHEADDK Isn't "the wind not breaking things" a function common to all windows, including the European ones?
I’m from the US and I always associate European things as better. It’s not just food, but everything as a whole. Cities, technology, trains, etc. And when it comes to food, that too.
I'm part Czech from my ancestry, to me proper bohemian bread is twisty houska, just like my little bohemian bubby used to make. Our mom made a newer version of kolaches, raised with baking powder vs. yeast used in the traditional ones.
Also near Prague is existing American quarry (Velká Amerika)
I have personally never encountered something described as "European" or "European-style" in the US. But definitely country-by country, you will see things described as "French Fries", which aren't actually French, but the cut is called a French cut. Plenty of food is called by the country of origin, like "French something" or "Italian something". Although many of these things are not Italian or French, and were invented in the US and given "exotic" names to help explain their sudden appearance and drive sales. Almost nothing called "Chinese Food" is actually invented in China, as an extreme example. But most things called Japanese definitely are Japanese.
Outside of food, you will be seriously hard pressed to find something with a foreign country or region used to describe it, but there are definitely exceptions, like Oriental or Persian rugs. French doors (like you mentioned), Russian Nesting Dolls, Fine China etc. And I've never heard of it being used to imply quality, only difference - like it's something exotic that you have less access to so come try it.
And it's possible that some of the things like "American Fridges" were an idea invented in the US, but the US abandoned so much of its industrial sector to China. Almost nothing is made in the US anymore. Even though many things might not exist, or would have been invented later, if the US never existed.
I know that in the Netherlands lots of Chinese food came from Chinese that first lived in areas in the Dutch East Indies, before migrating to the Netherlands.
@@martijn9568 What types of Chinese food did you get in the Netherlands? A lot of the Chinese food in the US would not be found in China, because it is made up by Americans. And most of what does exist in Chinese tradition, like General Tso's Chicken, is radically different/Americanized versions of real Chinese dishes.
As a Swiss I always find t funnywhen I read about "Swiss rolls". I was not aware it was somehow viewed as typically Swiss. We just call it "Roulade".
@@AmarthwenNarmacil what to say - we have Turkish honey they never heard of in Turkey, French potatoes they never heard of in France, Dutch salami (spec. Holland - with cheese in it) they never heard of in Netherlands or at least with much better cheese, Serbian skewers which do not use skewers (those needles) and is more like Kebap in sauce (and maybe Serbs never heard of it - not sure) and of course American Potatoes
Smiling in America and Canada came about because in a very short period of time there were many immigrants, and they often did not share a common language. So smiling was the only way groups of people were able to communicate. Cultures with high immigration developed a smiling culture, those with little to none did not.
it makes sense but it can be corelation and not causality
There is the Canadian Girlfriend
I love going into grocery stores in other countries I visit. In Australia I loved how the "dog food" section was huge, filled with tubes of kangaroo meat. Our pug would think it's heaven.
That is fascinating and somehow horrifying
Yes! If you do get a chance to travel, it is really, really worth it to try to visit a grocery store or market, the kind that the locals use.
It’s a great way to understand what they see how they perceive things or how it’s perceived for them.
Love it!
I'm American and definitely didn't know that was the difference between coffins and caskets. That's interesting! This is great.
Also dude yes, I get so excited when I see anything is European. From food to cars to electric plugs, everything European IS better. Y'all already got the best part of our country anyway (the bread).
09:16 exactly! I also remember them by the name "Colorado beetle"
Growing potatoes at home for themselves, people never used insecticides because they were expensive and hard to get, not to mention toxicity. Instead, what is cheap and healthy? Getting your kids' help! Every summer, we picked those beetles by hand bi-weekly.
The irony is that potatoes in the USA are mostly produced in Idaho and Washington rather than Colorado.
Yep, we call them Colorado bugs in Ukraine. They eat potatoe plants, people use to get rid of them by picking them off one by one.
Now we got American moth. That bitch is even harder. You need to cut and burn lots of branches to get rid of.
This would have been a great episode to collab with Jen from Dream Prague.
Nontheless it still is without her and I was very entartained.
i would actually like one crossover/featuring episode :)
I just visited Prague and went to the supermarket to get some things for my breakfast and was intrigued as to why there was American branded bread! 😂 Great video!
The difference in how smiles are interpreted is so interesting. We're not fake smiling when we smile at strangers. It's a greeting and an expression of non-agression. We don't think about it, we just do it because it's our cultural norm. I can see why it would be off-putting if it's not the norm.
I thought smiles were expressions of emotion, not nonagression
murica is a cartoon country with horrible people who subscribe to discriminatory based beliefs like enforced social hierarchys etc
@@nrb27 It's not fake. It's a *different* smile than the "I'm super happy yay life smile".
That's an expression of emotion.
The American smile is a cultural greeting. Like waving or a handshake. It's a learned behavior that becomes second nature. Think nodding for yes and head-shaking for no. If that's how your culture does it, you never think about it as an adult, but it's not some inherent expression of emotion. It's a cultural gesture understood by people within that culture to mean a certain thing.
The smile we're talking about is very specific. It's not a wide, toothy smile. It's closed-mouthed, tight, quick, and might include and top-down head nod.
In our culture, that means something, in yours, it doesn't. I'm sure there are expressions you have that would be confusing to me.
@@nrb27 That's the only "fake" smile (as in a smile that acts as a gesture rather than an expression of emotion) I can think of.
If we're talking about general American friendliness, that's just not fake lol. Smiles and casual conversation with people you'll never see again is normal for us.
I cry when I'm happy, smile when I'm mad, frown to be friendly, and laugh when I'm sad.
In Sweden we refer to the box spring bed as "continental"
Lemme guess, because you burn a lot of "rubbers" on it? 🤣😂
Can't wait to see Americans react to this video. ^_^
I usually delete these channels.
I love this kind of videos! They are so funny. And I agree, the comments are funny too. America is so diverse, people from different parts of the country insist that things are correct or incorrect, because we have so much variety.
Shut up
@@jenniferpearce1052, exactly. America is huge and full of lots of micro cultures. It would be more accurate to think of the US by regions. A Bostonian and someone from Birmingham, Al and someone from LA would all have different responses.
@@oneauthenticmanwow no wonder you all despise each other and kill each other all the time
That was fun but it's more of a Czech Republic thing than a general European one. In my part of Europe the only items we'd describe as 'American' are the fridge and the football game.
BTW you're wrong about football. Rugby football - a game allowing the carrying of the ball - was codified before soccer. and gets its name from it being played on foot rather than on horseback.
honestly could be a post communist country trend calling stuff american. Since we didnt have access to west products we would usually call higher quality products american.
Thanks for making this. As an American, it’s so neat to see how other cultures incorporate “American things” into their culture. I think my favorite thing was calling a car an American or maybe the white bread.
Well, I'm sorry but this video is a lie.
Europeans don't call "american" to those things. Maybe in the country where this guy is from, but not in the whole Europe.
Hmmm...In America, potato wedges are just tossed with oil and roasted (sometimes with fresh rosemary), then salted. Nothing more. We don't have mixed seasoning packets for them. I wonder what's in the packets besides salt.
And we don't have Nesquik cereal.
Football is called football because you play it on foot as opposed to playing on horseback. kicking the ball came much later when sheep heads were replaced with inflated bladders.
In the US and my country, Canada, we used to have shopping carts that required you to put a quarter in to unlock them, but they were so irritating that they were replaced by carts with wheels that seize up if you try to take them beyond the property of the shop that owns them.
Still do here in the states. Especially Aldi, which is a German grocery chain here in the states.
@@sonza68 I've been in California for college, many years ago, and they had them then. The coin-op ones, that is.
In my country we also call the yellow and sweet mustard American (opposed to the usual, "spicy" greenish brown)
+ American cheese are those prepackaged individual slices that you peel the plastic wrap off 😁
American cheese is usually just synonymous with processed cheese even in the US so it can very between the low quality Kraft singles you mentioned or can be homemade with a hard cheese, a soft cheese, and a thickener. The flavor is often muted by the process, but it melts rather than hardens from heat which is the reason it is used.
@@gljames24 we also call that American cheese here in America 😅
Fun fact: in the US American Cheese has labeling calling it something like, "pasteurized processed American cheese food," because it doesn't meet the FDA's definition if cheese
@@Poonbahbah that's the generic version of American cheese. American cheese is a combination of different cheeses like cheddar and Swiss and another the processed cheese food isn't always cheese or even dairy but something to mimic cheese 😅
@@Poonbahbah Not true, there is such a thing called "American Cheese" and in order to be labeled as such it must meet a criteria of being two or more cheeses such as cheddar and colby or other cheeses heated and mixed with sodium citrate or some other salt to emulsify it in a homogeneous mass.
Cheese Food, American slices and other products which contain more than accepted amounts of milk, whey, and other additives cannot be legally labelled as "American Cheese" and if you go into an american grocery store and see a product labelled "American Cheese" you can be assured that it's going to be almost purely just two or more "real cheeses" that have been blended together with an emulsifier and little else.
German here:
*The Fridges:*
so first we differentiate between regular fridges with no freezer and fridges with a freezer. (Kühlschrank, Kühl-Gefrier-Kombination). With the latter, we are referring to the differfent types apparently the same the Americans do, meaning side-by-side and French Door. But don't take my word for it, not really been Fridge shopping before.
*The Casket:*
Difficult. We kind of call everything a "Sarg". You could argue that a casket is more of a "Totentschrein". Mostly you would say "halb Öffnender Sarg" (half opening Coffin) though.
*The Bed:*
Yeah, that's just a Boxspringbett.
*The Bread:*
Generally we call it Toastbrot (Toastbread, as you do). Only the larger ones are "American Style" or, as labelled on yours, "Super Sandwich"
*Day for Night:* (I worked on couple of movies for cinema)
While "Amerikanische Nacht" (American Night) is somewhat used, you hear it quite rarely, Tag als Nacht (Day as night) a little more common, but often you will hear it as "Day-For-Night".
*American Smile:*
That's a difficult one. we don't have a term for like a fake smile.... We do have Hollywood Lächeln (Hollywood Smile) though which describes pretty much picture perfect teeth and an asthetic appearance of the smile. I guess you could interpret some fakeness into it, but it's mostly referring to super white, straight, and generally perfect teeth.
*America:*
Interesting. So if were talking cars, these big oldtimers (old cadillac, Oldsmobile, etc) we call them Ami-Schlitten. It's difficult to translate but a direct translation would be Yank Sleigh. Ami being short and slang for American and nice cars are colloquially referred to as Sleighs. If they aren't specifically American, mainly just stretch limos in general, they are just called Straßenkreuzer (Road Cruisers / Land Yachts).
For the cigarettes I don't know anything comparable to be honest.
*American Bug:*
Eh, not aware of anything like that.
*American Football:*
Well, regular football is just plain old Fußball (football, surprise surprise) and American Football is just Football. We don't _really_ put American in front of it anymore, but I guess it's more of a colloquial thing, but a very, very, very common colloquial thing. So if you just say football to anyone, we will think of American Football.
Generally we don't necessarily connect the prefix "American" with something better. More with something too big, too loud, too obnoxious and fairly unnecessary.
you might be interested to learn that the rest of the world calls square pillows "European Pillows" when they're specifically German pillows. Oh, and Finland calls walnuts "German nuts."
I wonder if it’s because English is technically a Germanic language, but the terms seem to directly translate between each other, and even have the same basic root for the words.
You forgot the American pancakes. I suppose the Americans just call them pancakes.
Netherlands here. I’ve never heard of American bed. We call it just box spring.
American potatoes is also not known in The Netherlands, searched for it on the site of the largest supermarket chain of The Netherlands.
There was a time I made potatoes wedges in the oven, after I found receipts on American websites. I remember one with sage, orange peel and garlic. It was delicious. (Now I have to buy an oven and try to find back that receipt)
I've spent quite a bit of time in the Netherlands. Generally, Dutch pancakes are just called "pannenkoek" and American pancakes "hotcakes" or "pancakes". I haven't heard "American Pancakes" unless the person was speaking exclusively dutch ("Amerikaanse pannenkoeken") or English (restaurants like Amsterdam Pancakes or Moak, for instance).
If you go to the Moak website, they refer to them as American pancakes in English (as an appeal to people seeking American cuisine, I assume); but in Dutch never even make a reference to "American":
"Wij, Sten en Sammy, zijn in 2016 begonnen met de hulp van een paar vrienden. Veel vrienden, eigenlijk. En sinds die tijd maken we lange dagen om ze wat liefde terug te geven.
Onze filosofie is best simpel. We zijn verliefd op geweldig eten. De sappigste sapjes. Onze vibe is mellow urban. Met in de hoofdrol vooral de hip-hop van gisteren en back-in-the-day. En dat alles bieden we met onze toegewijde stilo van gulle gastvrijheid. Fo real!
De droom die we nastreven is om onze liefde en passie voor pancakes over de wereld te verspreiden, in alle grote steden.
Btw: Moak associeert voor ons met Mokum. Amsterdam dus."
@@dStreSd Albert Heijn calls them American Pancakes, in English. That means the Dutch call them American Pancakes! I’m Dutch, and I call them American pancakes, just like everybody I know. I wonder where you were in The Netherlands, because I never heard of hotcakes. Or amerikaanse pannekoeken.
European stuff comes off as simplistic yet sophisticated in quality and craftsmanship to many here in America.
In Belgium we have Américain préparé of filet américain, which is spiced up raw minced beef as a spread (like steak tartare on bread). It's origine is Belgium though :D
We have that in the Netherlands too!
Eww. Why would anything uncooked ever be "American"? This thing sounds very French.
Hey Pavel! I think it's only fashionable in the Czech Republic. I'm from Croatia and I've heard of most of these "American" products for the first time.
The best one that gets me EVERYTIME is finding an American Style Pizza, absolutely no clue what makes it American apart from the flag on the box
In Slovakia, we divide into Italian and American pizza. The difference is in the thickness of the dough used. Italian has thin dough, American thick.
@@cookiebinary Also, American pizza is usually very cheesy with American types of cheese and uses pepperoni as the main topping most of the time. "Normal Italian" pizza is mozzarella and maybe ham, usually no pepperoni.
In my experience having lived in Italy near a pizzeria is that "American" pizze are much greasier than Italian ones, which might get a drizzle of olive oil. Mainly, it's all down to the quality of the ingredients. The Italians don't tend to put every and the kitchen sink as toppings - just a few, selected ingredients.
Rugby is the first football to have codified and they don't kick it around on foot either and it's not round ball shaped either. In fact football comes from the medieval period and referred to any sport with a ball and played on foot as opposed to on a horse or something. The term is not about kicking a ball with your feet, like is done in association football, which was codified second. Also, the ball gets kicked in American football from time to time, so... They're the same family anyways.
I live in Tennessee and we always smile at someone to make them feel welcome. It is how we are raised and it is genuine. My granddaughter talked to someone from another country and was appalled that they did not smile at everyone. I see Irish butter in the store and that’s about it. I live in a small town.
the average european sees americans in television, mostly. like, politicians, businessmen, or just your regular stock photo model. while I can't say for sure, as I don't know Joe Biden for example, but I'd say his smile is mostly artificial, right?
and it's also cultural. we generally don't smile all the time in europe. so when someone looks like they taped their face into a smiling position, it just looks unnatural and artificial to me.
but then again, there is no single 'europe', just like there is no single 'america' either. local communities can (and do) vary wildly.
Americans smile more
Don't forget what's happening in Irish whiskey these days!
The irony, you people fake smile and then get mad at foreign people for not having that same warped and phony way of acting towards others the way you do?
As a german: We don't label things like the fridge, the coffin, the bed or the potato "American".
For example, it's just the "Boxspringbett" instead of the american bed
Yeah, the only thing I knew really was the smile and the toast bread. The rest is more specifically Czech.
As a Czech, I didn't know that spring bed is called "american," I always thought that american bed is just bigger like for 2 people, but you sleep alone there. Spring beds are very rare now, I don't even remember when I saw a spring bed for the last time and it's mostly not really comfortable for me, I like harder mattress, I totaly hate those soft 50 cm tall mattress in hotels, you lie there and your back is bent like a shoe and I have terrible pain in my back after few hours in such bed.
Well that's the advantage of the German language. You just describe the thing and that's the name 😂 Czech needs to be creative
What about gas chambers 😅😅😅😅😅😅
@@a.wadderphiltyr1559 because the germans were masters at utilising those at one point in his story?
It's so funny to see that some things will be called American in my country, the Netherlands, like the fridge, but others don't have the American in front of it like the beetle. Same contintent but totally different history. Love your vdeo's. I have been to your country 3 times for holiday and it is so beautiful. Maybe you should film in some other beautiful places as I know there are a lot off! I might rewatch your episodes in a second attempt to learn your language, but it's really hard!
Old communist propaganda is just one big meme now, so even young people say american bug just for fun. 😀
@@Pidalin I'm glad that you all can make more fun off it now!
@@lauratrompe7016 People were making fun of it already before 1989, some of those propagandistic shits are that ridiculous, that even my grandma is saying how they were making fun of it back in the day. Even member of communist party were making fun of it, that regime was just one kid's play and most of people were pretending they play that game while they were smuggling Metallica vinyls from Germany and listening it that loud on purpose that everyone around could hear that. 😀 That regime would fall even without velvet revolution just few years ago because even high ranked commies were lost in all those memes they had to follow. 🙂
It's crazy that we make fun of it like that, while in Russia, they still keep their Lenin and other Something-IN persons statues. 🙂
@@Pidalin yes it is! Only have been once to east-Berlin, a view weeks before the Wall was fallen. My pasport has never been checked like that again! It was a weird tense fibe and I was really intimidated by the soldiers everywhere. I was 18 at the time, had been to the USA once already.
@@lauratrompe7016 And now, when they randomly check you in train to different country, we are angry that they bother us for 2 minutes. I started traveling more after we entered schengen area, I saw some border check only once in my life when we were going thru Switzerland and even that was like:
"Where are you going?"
"Just passing thru on our way to France."
"Ok, then you can go."
And when we were leaving Switzerland, they were like:
"Do you have something which should be taxed?"
"No"
"Ok, then you can go."
Nobody was actually checking us and I never needed my passport again because I never left schengen area since that time. I can't imagine things like waiting 10 hours in some line at the border and some people want it back. We were also going to Spain in 2006, which was one year before we entered schengen and even back in 2006, I don't remember any border checks, German, French and Spanish borders were just opened and cars were slowly passing thru, maying you had to show passport, I don't remember, but you could pretty much just pass thru border without any check. Last year, I was going thru Austria by bus and there were some police men at border but they were just doing "go go go" guesture, it's ridiculous when you compare it to how it was like before 1989, there were mines and machineguns at border with Austria.
In germany I never heard about American fridge as this. It's a side by side here. The big American fridges from the 50th and 60th are called American fridge here. Like in Indiana Jones IV. Except of the sandwich, I would say we have completely different names in germany, than in Czech
Maybe you or your Parents are very young, because I and a lot of my friends would definitely refer to both the old and any double door fridges as American.
@@Held_der_Feuer definitely not and also never saw side by side fridges labeled as American in a electronic store or fridge store as American
It isn’t described as an American fridge. But if someone would say that I bought a big American fridge everyone will understand immediately that the person bought a fridge with two doors.
In case anyone's wondering, in France we refer to side-by-side fridges as "Réfrigérateur Américain" ('American refrigerator'), and to 'French door' fridges as "Réfrigérateur Américain 'French Door'" ("'French door' American refrigerator"), without even translating it.
I attended open casket furneral in Poland, for my grandfather. This is certainly an experience in life i can't really explain. It was surreal.
In Belgium it is usual to allow people to greet the body before the funeral. The relatives can choose between an open or closed coffin. I prefer closed, I want to remember the deceased as living beings.
In German, the only thing that's sometimes called American is the fridge. We usually use the English word "football" to talk about American football as opposed to "Fußball".
hab noch nie gesehen das ein Geschäft die Kühlschränke "amerikanischer Kühlschrank nennt"
what do you call "Foosball" then?
@@davidjacobs8558 "Tischfußball", that translates to table football
@@katii1997 Ist wahrscheinlich in den letzten Jahren unüblich geworden. Meine amerikanische Schwägerin fand das Wort auch merkwürdig.
Americans who have been to Europe come home and find themselves grossed out by our own bread...it's sooo bad!!
It depends, I lived in the Bay Area for many years and now live in Spain and the bread culture is about the same. During the 90´s I grew up in the Midwest and I would agree that the bread there is lower quality.
I feel like many one the things in this video is just Czech and not really broadly European, but just like you, I cant speak for the whole of Europe, but I have personally never heard of these American things, except for football/ hand-egg. Whenever I think of an American fridge I think of those old retro fridges.
I'm Romanian and we don't use this broad "American" adjective at all either.
9:37 american football comes from rugby and british football
fun fact: soccer was british slang for "association football"
I'm American and we usually refer to fridges like that as "French Door." I've never heard anybody use "Side by side."
Outside of Prague there's a quarry called "Great America" or as most people say "America" I always thought it was called America because of it's size but then I found out there were also two other quarries called "Little America" and "Mexico"
Turned out it was named after a small village (basically just two houses) near the quarry that was, since 1861 (for some reason) simply called "America" and I couldn't find more info regarding it's name
yeah, tthats like 5 kilometers away from my house, never been there though xd
@@Luckenw you should visit it, it's a nice view
Lol 😄😅 as an American, this is funny. None of the things you showed in video is labeled American here in the US. It's just a bed, bread, fridge ect❤️😁🇺🇲
That makes sense doesnt it? You are in America so you would expect "Bread" to be american bread etc. Noone would put such a label on the normal product.
That type of bread, in the UK, and I'm pretty sure in the US too, it's usually also sweetened to the point I feel it, and is overall really weird to a Russian
Well to be fair, its called sandwich bread here. We do have different types of bread available at the store. You can buy a baggett, sourdough, rye, focassia, naan, or just sandwich bread.
I'm willing to bet that the "American Bread" also has more sugar than regular bread.
I even bet the American bed has more sugar than regular bed :D
@@interstellar.overdrive No doubt. Although their schools have more salt.
'European streets' if a street is enjoyable and dense and often car free
European Chocolate is Cadbury's Dairy Milk.