As an au pair in France, gouter was the best time of day. I was allowed 30 mins without interruption from the kids. Why? Because I'm English and tea is sacred for English people. So i got to drink a whole pot without the kids asking me anything. Don't normally drink tea, but once the family introduced that rule, suddenly i became a big tea drinker.
My (Australian) teacher aunt instituted the "drinking a cup of tea is sacred adult time" when I was 19 or so and she wanted her other niblings (my baby cousins) to give her a rest. I borrowed it with my kids later when needed - yes, I will happily look/play/listen/etc WHEN I've finished this cup of tea.
In Germany we have "Kaffee & Kuchen" (Coffee & cake), usually between 3 and 4 pm. Love that the little afternoon ritual of hot drink and something sweet exists across cultures.
By the way do English people usually use tea bags rather than tea leaves? I have never seen how they put tea leaves in a tea pot in videos. Even at home.
@@yanas4571 teabags in a cup, tealeaves in the tea pot. Majority of British make a cup most of the time so bags are most popular and affordable option. tea pots usually come out when you have important guests.
True! I'm french and when I was a kid, if I said "I'm hungry" I was answered with "it's not time" and if we asked too many times we had the classic "eat your hand and save the other one for tomorrow".
When I lived in Marseilles my friend told me never go to a shop just before they close for lunch or you will be dealing with a majorly hangry French person.
@@drissouwg9649 Such as? And yeah, I can see how it can be beneficial to some people but 1) I don't have the money to eat good food, regularly, at the moment, and 2) I don't have the mental energy to cook most days or plan meals. So, I eat when I'm hungry, or I go hungry
The French family I stayed with heard that Americans eat a big breakfast so they had eggs, coffee, oj, toast, and oatmeal with berries for me every day. I usually just ate cereal at home, but I didn’t tell them 🤫 Plus I needed the calories to acclimate to all the walking I was suddenly doing.
As a French-American girl, my friends were always surprised that my family ate dinner so late. I just found it normal because that’s how my mother ran the household and I was taking ballet in the evenings so there was no way that I could have dinner at 6:00pm.
That's awesome! I'm raising my French-US kids the same way and we have dinner around 7:30, while the in-laws invite us at 5 or 6 when the kids want their goûter 😂
I relate to eating dinner late, 6pm in general seems so early to me to be honest. Everyone stays up about 4 hours or more after 6 so, why so early? A dinner around 8 sounds perfect to me!
@@jeanclaude7555Thats true xD but it is so because (at least) my generation were told that the healthiest way is to eat small portions every 2-3 hours 4-5 times per day. And its working very well. Before work, at work, after work, snack and in the evening :D In Germany same :P
I'm French living in the US and when we eat at my in-laws' at 5pm I sometimes just can't eat because that's when i want cookies, and if i eat then by 9 I'm hungry again. At home with my own kids I maintain a French schedule, just slightly earlier with a dinner at 7 so they can go to bed around 8-8:30 because they're little.
I can’t imagine eating dinner at 5pm. The earliest I’ll eat dinner in Australia is 6pm and the latest is 10:30pm but if it’s after 9pm it’s more or a supper then a full meal.
In NYC, I was going to see a play at 7pm with a friend so she booked a restaurant at 3.30 pm to make sure we wouldn't get hungry before. After the play I asked her where she wanted to go for dinner and she was like "what do you mean, we had an early diner." I was like "no way, that was a late lunch!", long story short, I wrangled a snack but went to bed hungry.
This times suits me. And also what Ayurveda and TCM recomend. To eat dinner some hours before going to bed. And bedtime at latest 22:00 in the evening.
@@Pacora2023 breakfast before work, lunch time, a cookie or something with coffee while working (it's like, ten minutes at most even if you need a break). And apéro is only done for family dinners or when you really feel like it, it's not a rule for every day. Dinner around 8 pm. Obviously depending on the job, people adapt. A sizable part of adults don't have a significant breakfast, and contrary to popular belief, most people don't get unending lunch breaks. 1 hour is the maximum in most places.
the upside-down baguette bringing bad luck is so real haha. According to my family (when I asked why we did that growing up), it dates back to the times of the death penalty. When an execution took place that day, the baker would save a loaf of bread for the executioner by turning it upside down.
It's not when the execution took place, it was every day. And it was not out of respect, the hangman was bringing death, so no one wanted to eat his bread, or you'd eat the bread of Death ^^
@@lolahernandez5453 There was no respect for executioner. They had some "priviledge" like the bread and stuff, but they were outcast. People wouldn't touch the executioner bread even if offer for free.
No man go ! It's an experience. If you eat dinner at 6pm you will be hungry and snack and put on weight. Having said that most of French eat at 7; or 7: 40 pm. Kids finish school at 4:30 pm later at 5:30 pm. With extra scholar activities everybody is back at home around 7 or 8 pm. But if you're hungry you can buy a quiche at the bakery. I promise you you will forget about snacks once your body adapts. Bievenue en France
@@squidboitoys Broke people who want to educate themselves about the world find ways to travel the world. It simply requires them to go for the facts instead of urban legends.
@@reuben1798 I would die in France. I have a slow stomach so I have to eat dinner by 5pm or I'll end up with indigestion trying to sleep on a full stomach.
@@reuben1798 What if you have this brand new discovery never before seen by humankind called an eating disorder? I think the existence of people with eating disorders kind of disproves your point lmfao😂😂😂
Thing is in France primary/elementary school ends at 4:30pm, middle school and high school end between 5-6pm and regular work ends at 5-6 too, plus with transport time it feels unreasonable to eat before 7 anyways? The rest of the culinary rules will differ, but eating late makes sense when you end your day late and get home late. Though, I had always assumed Americans finish working at 5-6pm too, so how are they eating dinner at that time?
Eating dinner before 5:30/6pm is something we Americans mostly expect from the elderly and young kids. There are lots of jokes in the US about older people eating dinner super early. Many people do eat around 7, probably in part due to working until 5-6pm. Eating prepared foods and eating out both make it more feasible for working Americans to eat early.
As an Uruguayan, you would not believe the shenanigans we do around here 7-8:00 Breakfast 13-14:00 Lunch 17-18:00 Merienda 22-23:00 Dinner Yes, most of us go to bed past midnight with a full belly, and people don't tend to skip meals either, so they'll wake up at 11, have breakfast and just start cooking lunch right away, it ain't brunch if it is two hours apart, right?😂 I personally have my coffee and pastries (bizcochos) for breakfast while cooking lunch for the family every weekend
Yes indeed. Over lockdown (alone at home for around 9 weeks) I decided to only eat when I was hungry. That turns out to be breakfast about 10-11am, then supper around 4 to 5pm. Nothing else, no snacks at all. Proper coffee in the morning before 12 noon (or no sleep that night), and countless cups of tea. Lots of water. If I eat later than say 6pm, GERD keeps me up all night.
Oh. For me brunch is when you eat breakfast food inbetween breakfast hour and lunch hour, and skip both those meals. How can you eat 3 meals so close together lol
@@magalieg273 brunch is usually a coffee with a little pastry like a mini croissant or a sandwich not a full on meal, it's more like a snack so you are not starving from 7 to 15
@@Caitgreenham a lot of people end their shift at work around 14 to 16 so they eat when they get home. Kids also end their school days at 14 (some highschools at 15) so they do the same and eat lunch at home. Then you either enjoy your free time or need to go back to work until 20-21 depeding on your work hours so you get home late. In addition, Spain has the same timezone as Germany even if we are located in the 0+ zone so you could substract an hour if you want to be more accurate to the actual sun day. Hope it helps a little🙃
French class went to a French restaurant, we ordered in French, had the multiple courses and the silverware, we had learned of dinner etiquette and foods that year so it was a really fun to be able to experience it, we went again the year after the next, and had advanced so we ordered more intricate lol they were fun, and especially since all French classes at the same level went at once
Formal eating rules in every country can seem very strange. What people actually do are very different!. I live in the UK, I am born and bred British, come to my house and even a standard British person would struggle with the food rules in my house. Cereal commonly eaten as an evening meal. Cooking and eating a full dinner at 9 or 10pm. Different meals cooked for parent and child. So, this video is not about what the French do, but formal eating rules.
But if you invite someone for dinner and serve breakfast cereal, they will find it odd, won't they? Even if it isn't a formal dinner. The rules in this short are not at all formal, in fact a formal event might respect none of them, and they are not strict, but they are present.
@mievaselli7910 what a weird family you live in if you have never eaten cereal for evening meal. And inviting someone round would certainly change the way anyone eat, making it more formal. Who are you to say that it is weird to have cereal for dinner.
@mievaselli7910 except they are formal customs and rules. And people saying I am wrong to eat cereal for dinner are just strange. They are formalised customs, which are in themselves very weird. It is like it being normal for a British person to eat at say 6pm, when that is way too early. Or cooking the same food for everyone, that is weird. And I am a Brit.
@mievaselli7910 and it you can't understand that I was merely making a comment that the eating habits and formalised customs in every country ca seem very weird, then you have a problem.
When visiting Madrid, we could not find any place to eat that was open before 9:00 pm. We all had headaches and were grouchy. And learned always to carry some food with us when traveling.
In Spain we have merienda (which is like gôuter) from 4 until 6PM. That's why we have dinner "late", it's not like we're starving the whole afternoon! :)
So you were somewhere without a single fast food joint? BK and Mc's stay open through the day. Bars and restaurants exploit employees but making cooks work for 15 hours a day is a bit much
@@Sayitlikitiz101 Are you implying that french cuisine was historically developed with the modern BMI in mind? If that's the case shouldn't they have hoverboards and smellivision by now? Pretty sure all France's BMI indicates is that living off cigarettes and red wine while bicycling everywhere keeps you skinny
And yet Tolkien tried to convince us it was Shire folks (based on one of the regions in rural England) that were the ones with a gazillion meals a day...
Not particularly strict though Like I think the main times are lunch is 12-2 and make sure to account for what time you had dinner at fir super I know for a fact I tend to have an early dinner (usually 4-5) and supper is at 8-9
Girl, if you go to a Latino household, they will stuff you with so much food at all times. I am Mexican American, and when I'm in Mexico and people come over for a visit depending on the time and day my grandma usually invites the person to stay for a cup of coffee and it's usually accompanied by a piece of pan dulce (sweet bread). There are many types of pan dulce across Mexico, so we just call it sweet bread because the majority of the bread is sweet. And if it's late in the evening, my grandma usually invites the person to eat dinner after asking if they ate already. My grandma mostly says this to like real close friends of the family or real close relatives when inviting them for dinner. And even if you already had dinner and you stop by and visit, you are likely to be offered coffee some bread or cookies.
If you visit a Scottish household in the evening, you'll most likely be greeted at the door with the words "Ye'll have had yer tea?" (as in dinner, a meal) Don't be fooled, it's not a question... Alcohol or cups of tea/coffee are the menu 😂
"Cheese is its own course" That's true. Cheese is also the course we never eat during dinner, because by the time you get to it, it's already 11pm and you're stuffed from the apéro, the entrée and the main course. But you're still going to eat dessert and drink a digestif ! And a coffee for the road !
@@eliartistik even then, when we have people over or when we eat somewhere else, we always have cheese no matter how late it is (but maybe we're just overly French ? Idk lol)
Oh my god. I did a studied abroad during the summer in France one year. The food rules threw me for a loop. I met up with a friend (and one of my former French exchange student that stayed with us) before my study. I arrived at 2pm finally met up with her in her town. She took me back to her place to drop off my stuff and to get cleaned up. I was soooo exhausted from the red eye and nearly 20 hours of travel. We went to a cafe about an hour later and I tried to order a coffee. I wanted to get acclimated to the time as quickly as possible and I needed the caffeine to keep me up. (Plus I had none that whole day so I was getting a headache.) AND THE CAFE TOLD ME NO!! 😂 It’s devastating as an American to be told No and not get a coffee whatever time of day I wanted. 😂 So I asked for an iced tea and they gave me a fucking Snapple! 😂
That's just plain rudeness now for me. Regulating food habits to the extent people who have different food habits are absolutely miserable? I mean, people eat intermittently all the time. You do you, why impose that on me as long as I'm not exactly availing your hospitality? If they had different hours or were unable to serve that's understandable. But rejecting what you asked and serving something else instead... Well. And this is coming from someone who doesn't even like coffee. I prefer my cardamom tea.
@@milishah1249 I think the cafe just had rules where they stopped serving it after a certain point. 🤷♀️ (although, I got the impression from my French exchange student that it was abnormal to order a coffee so late in the day. lol) I don’t know. It was weird. I personally think Snapple is gross because of how sweet it is. I hardly consider it tea. So when I asked for unsweetened tea he was like, “ok.” And brought me a Snapple which is far from what I asked. But whatever. 😂
WHAT, I would die in France 😭 I could drink coffee all day, specially in the afternoon/evening, and don’t even ask my dad: he drinks cofre until he goes to sleep. Actually, it’s really common to make coffee after lunch, to help with digestion, I’ve seen that older people tend to this a lot more, they just have a pan in the stove with coffee and they drink it all throughout the afternoon.
same in the us. the only restaurants open after that are fast food places, and the random restaurant place that also serves alcohol so they can afford to stay open because people will buy food and alcohol. Times were different before the pandemic.
We stay in restaurants until midnight if it’s a celebration, if is “just for eating” is quicker but probably slower than you guys. We eat appetizers (olives and bread), some eat soup, main course,desert,we talk more and before leaving its expresso time, we talk more and we finally leave😂
@santostv. Sounds like a nice time tbh. I think a restaurant visit is maximum 3-4 hours. No appetisers, but sometimes dessert ^^. People here tend to treat food like fuel rather than an opportunity to bond and enjoy life.
Very few meals are eaten at restaurants in Norway though. If you say you're gonna eat (dinner, whatever), nobody would assume you're planning to go out to eat. Every time I see in US media the conversation "Hey, I'm hungry, let's eat" and the other person says "Okay, where do you wanna go?" My mind always goes like "..huh? To the kitchen of course because that'swhere we keep the food..? Ahhhh, forgot they are Americans"
@@Spacemongerr keep in mind movies often portray this ideal life that even Americans cannot afford. Americans eat out but like anything it depends on the person and the money they have. I know some Americans that don't know how to cook so they eat out or order take out basically everyday but those people have either a lot of money or high credit card debt. then there is more average people that because they work 8-10hrs and an average of 30m to work and picking up kids from after school activities at around 7pm when they get home they don't have to cook for 1hr so they most probably have takeout for dinner 2 weekdays. I on the other hand have time to cook elaborate meals for my family cuz we all adults so we all cook so dinner usually takes 1-2 hours to make and I just made home made bread yesterday for 3hrs. I still eat out once a week usually on the weekend and since i saved money by eating at home i can afford a good more expensive restaurant like sushi ($180 on average for 4ppl and $40 tip so $220). Then there is a lot and i mean a lot of Americans that dont eat out at all unless is a birthday or mothers day and even then they will only go to restaurants that while not fast food they are also cheap. they usually cheap on other areas of their lives too like buying a $5 knife pains them so even paying their mother dinner for $20 is a big accomplishment for thrm
@@Sentientmatter8 usually noon, 3pm, and 8pm, but it can vary wildly as I struggle to eat the correct amount of food and nutrients throughout the day. I have ADHD, and eating consistently is a chronic problem for me.
Usualy people who work get up between 7am and 8am. Children begin School at 8am or 9am (depending on their schedule). Same thing for workers, most begin between 8 and 9am. Work usualy ends between 5 and 6pm. Most people are at home between 6 and 7pm. We usually eat at 8pm but little children dine earlier. Usually, toddlers go to bed at 8pm (at most). Children go to bed between 8pm and 10pm. Teenagers and adults... Whenever they want.
My great grandfather used to scratch a cross into the bottom of the baguette before the first rip. They were very Catholic. Food is an event, to be appreciated and shared. A chance to talk and not just mindlessly eat. It's nice. There's zero chance anyone starving. No harm in waiting, good for the gut, good for the mind.
Oh my god the dinner time was so wild, I usually eat sometime around 6-6:30, *but most places don’t even OPEN until **6:30* unless it’s like, a little cafe where students go to have a little drink but they don’t typically serve actual food until much later. Worst part isn’t even that though: the worst part is we’ll be in class til 6 and I’d just have to be hungry for the last hour or so 🙃
The USA also has social rules and expectations about eating / eating out. Tipping culture, using a napkin, how you holding your cutlery Vs what you expect to eat with hands i.e. a taco etc
Many years ago, French students(Parisians in particular) used to stay with me to study English and they would always say - I'm on a permanent diet and I eat only this food or I eat at this hour or that hour...every single one of them ate about £150 worth of food during a one week stay.... one even said - where are my cupcakes today...and the Chinese takeaway again later,...non? I never made any money lol.
That's when they make or find their own food. If they want anything other than 3 squares (including a veggie option if necessary) they can do it themselves.
@@KpopZuko oh this is students coming to someone else's house and demanding expensive meals and snacks. They can eat the cost-effective meals provided and spend their spending money on extra snacks or expensive meals. The host can provide a fruit bowl with apples, bananas, and oranges if they want.
@@Joanna_135 I mean… that’s what I meant? Like. A sandwich they can slap together to tide them over. Or fruit or like. Maybe as a treat gold fish or cheese it’s or something. As an example: The rule in my house is on school mornings kid gets pop tart or toaster waffles. Something easy, but with enough carbs to keep them till they get to school where they get free breakfast. She usually gets a muffin and splits it with a friend. Lunch is either packed the night before, a lunchable because I like them too, or school lunch, which is free, and usually healthy, but also pretty tasty and diverse now. She takes a snack, fruit gummies or an orange or some chips sometimes for afternoon break, has a snack when she gets home at 4 Dinner is anywhere between 5 and 7 depending on when we all agree we’re hungry, someone says they just really wanna eat right now, or times up. Whichever comes first. But if someone says they are hungry, I’m not going to tell them not to eat. If they want something other than what I’m making, they are old enough to use a microwave, or make a sandwich and other simple meals. Same goes for if she just wants dinner early. I won’t adjust my eating schedule, but she’s free to adjust hers if she wishes. She’s also old enough that she can use the stove as long as I’m in the room. Sometimes the smell spurs me to want to eat with her, and in that case we cook together, or if not, she likes just cooking for herself too. I’m not going to tell a hungry child no. That really fucked me up growing up and now I have to eat at very specific times or my stomach rebels from my body expecting the timing for so long.
@@KpopZuko this isn't a small child, these are teenagers or college age kids, if they're studying internationally. More than old enough to make their own food and buy their own snacks or takeout if they want something fancy. They were just taking advantage of the original poster for some reason- takeout was a one or two times a year treat when I was their age, and if I were a guest in someone's home I'd never demand specific meals or expensive treats or a specific schedule for eating and I'd NEVER make them pay for the extravagant treats I demanded. I wouldn't even do that to my own parents. If I need something specific, I'd go grocery shopping with the host, pay my own money, make it myself, and clean up after. Or if it was a crowd pleaser, I'd pool money or see if it works with something the host was making and find a cost-effective way to make it for everyone. I was happily cooking 100% of my own meals by the time I was 12 and helping with the grocery shopping. I also ate when I wanted or when was most convenient for me. This was a paid position, and the host wound up spending their full income from the program feeding the demanding young adults and teens because they wanted way more expensive food than the budget provided by the program and expected the host to pay.
It's fun learning the food customs of other cultures and it makes me appreciate the freedom of eating what I want, when I want it. Except that now I want to eat a really crackly baguette with fragrant fruity olive oil to dip it in. *sighs and pulls out some flour*
And the the alkohol drinking rules. Drinks have also schedule. Also before you bring in the baguette remember to take a piece from the end and eat that
Me, an adult: I'll have ice cream for breakfast if I like... I survived the tyranny of childhood... Ain't no one telling me I can't eat what I want when I want...
@@AzDoll714actually it’s very healthy to eat what you want when you want it. Look up intuitive eating. Your body knows how to regulate itself, but food rules like these (and even ones you may not think of as food rules because they’re normal to you!) mess with our ability to feel and understand them. Listening to your body is always the right choice!
@@shirablumberg also look up how many people get even fatter on intuitive eating and how it never gets better. Intuitive eating only works when you have a naturally low appetite, or have no access to palatable foods.
@@shirablumberg it does though. I know there's a whole anti-science HAES propaganda movement going on but fat is indeed independently deleterious to health. Bodyfat is an organ just like any other in the body, and when organs are oversized or undersized it independently causes poorer health. And enlarged heart is unhealthy. An enlarged liver is unhealthy. And enlarged adipose system (fat) is unhealthy.
Yeah I dunno, I put my bread in my plate and have gouter at 5 sometimes and I’ve never heard of that upside down bread superstition thing. Guess I’ve been raised by wolves 😂
It's the same in primary school, after that it dependent on your schedule, you can have 1h or 2h of lunch break. But like seriously, 1h is more like 30/20 minutes because you have to wait to get inside the canteen... I remember that some teachers would let us go earlier so we are the first one to go eat. Or we would run in the hallway to get there before there too much people waiting... I don't miss it There never been a 3h lunch break, I don't know where this is coming from
@@zinamara2997I taught public middle school in the US (ages ~11-13) and they were only allowed 25 minutes for lunch, including walking to and from the cafeteria and getting their food. Us teachers had to eat in the cafeteria too to watch the students, so we’d have about 15 mins to eat. If students needed anything or caused problems, you might not eat at all. I hated it and quit teaching after only 3 years.
@CaitFalconer Is it the same everywhere in the US? 20 minutes for lunch break (including the time walking to the cafeteria, fill your plate and once done walk back to the next class) is far from enough time. And you said it's for middle schoolers, so they are used to eat on the go, not to enjoy the food. That's sad
Yes, the human body metabolizes blood sugar much better during the day than overnight. So, at least in theory habitual overnight high sugar and high carb eating could contribute to developing type 2 diabetes. Also, after 12 a.m. or so the body doesn't metabolize food as well because that's when the body wants to rest and repair.
Married to a French person and have lived in France now for 4 years, the food rules still get to me and I still call them bullshit 😂😂, it's not until you meet a French person that's moved to a country with not a strict food rules and all of a sudden they feel like a weight has been lifted off their shoulders that you realize how bullshit it is 😂😂😂😂
it's not, eating at random hours is one of the factors for T2 Diabetes. You must have a fasting period for the insulin levels to drop or else your peripheral tissues will desensitize to it and you'll end up diabetic.
yes, because corn is seen as animal feed and it's also pretty undignified to be seen gnawing on the cob. I remember we served it to a French friend and he cut it all off the cob with a knife before eating.
As a French, it's only something I've seen in American movies. I mean, we eat the main meal of the day from 8pm to 9pm, why on Earth would we be hungry enough to wake up in the middle of the night ?
I only had two rules while visiting Paris. #1 - Collect rolls and chocolate croissants from the hotel breakfast to snack on throughout the day. #2 - Find as many crepe stands as I can. 😂😂😂
When i stayed in France, we were absolutely starving between like 5 and 8 but absolutely no one was open lmao we had to get food from the dang kabaob place, which was delicious, but im tryna eat some french food not Mediterranean! Lmao
First major trip abroad and going suddenly from 3 weeks of huge English breakfasts to only coffee or hot chocolate & croissant for breakfast was a shock! Then we made the mistake of having a light lunch only to discover that at 17:00 when we were quite hungry that no restaurants open until 19:00ish. I do not function well when I'm hungry so I was perpetually hangry those few days in France. Next trip I had it figured out. Buy cheese, snacks or pizza slice etc. at the nearest market before dayend to supplement next day's French breakfast and for snacks. Eat big meal mid-day, further snack for late afternoon, have last meal around 7:30 pm. Because we were on trains, or walking a lot, pre-purchased snacks were vital. (We didn't bring food to breakfast table, we ate in our room before going to breakfast. )
I’m tellin’ you.. Fika is where it’s at. Scandinavians really know what they are doing, and I’ve adapted it into my own life after visiting. Such a beautiful custom originated in Sweden and practiced in Scandinavia. ❤
I am australian, but my mother used to work 16 hour days, so this was my schedule throughout my teen years. Skip breakfast 1:20pm lunch 4pm snack 8-11pm dinner
Its great they have built in grazing... The baguette on the table without a crumb catching thing has always got me.. But they have specific tools for cleaning baguette crumbs off the table
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Ahahahhaah its lovely how the French version is always with a smile and proud to help, when in reality they will hit you with the baguette and the cheese.
Seeing these many rules I am reminded of Queen movie of Kangana. 😂😂😂 But truthfully speaking, many countries world over have all their own rules about eating. When to eat what, how to eat it, the list is endless. For eg: in a south indian wedding if the food is served on a banana leaf, everything will be eaten with hands only. Its looked down upon to eat with spoon and fork. So yeah a part of me gets the French eating system. 😂😂
I am sorry but I don't want to put any of my food on the table...or wait to eat if I'm hungry...this is why I keep snacks, plates, and bowls in my desk at work lol
France and Spain (among other countries) are in the wrong timezone since WW2, so the sun rises and sets much later than in a lot of places. I think it has an effect on activities tied to basic biological needs, such as eating and sleeping. Of course, schedules are also affected by working hours, and individual preference, but on average, French people wake up later (and thus have a very stripped down "morning routine"), eat later, and go to sleep later than in a lot of countries. And Spanish people eat much later than us because they're even further west and still in the same time zone as Sweden.
The body gets used to a schedule and doesn't demand food at whatever hour. Plus everyone does the same so there is more opportunity to sit down for meals and socialize if you want. It's very healthy IMO.
@@DEATHbyHEMLOCK then there’s something wrong. Either you’re not eating enough or you have a medical condition that needs to be dealt with. (And without intuitive eating, you might not know something’s wrong until it gets really bad)
When I went to France all I ate was bread and cheese because they were so delicious there. I bought some cheese off a random vendor near the train and it was the best cheese I’ve ever eaten. It’s been almost 20 years since then and I STILL think about that cheese. I don’t even know what it was because it was like wrapped in foil by hand by the guy with zero label. I get sad knowing I’ll never taste it ever again.
@@lolahernandez5453 it was wrapped in foil and it was soft and spreadable. I kept dipping the bread in it like a really thick chip dip. It was so smooth and creamy. Medium strong flavor kind of earthy sort of and a bit salty (not too much). It’s been a long time. It just tasted so fresh and full of flavor. The closest I can compare is laughing cow cheese but it was much richer. Laughing cow is a similar texture but blander.
Try a French cheese called St. Andre. Very high butterfat content. Not cheap, it's a splurge, but worth it. Let it come to room temp. Will be softer and spreadable. I buy it for eating at holiday time end of year as a treat. Another cheese called Bel Paese is soft at room temp, but not spreadable, it's Italian, but US companies also produce it.
@StayAtHomeMeme correction on the second cheese I mentioned. I meant to say Port Salut is the name. It's also a French cheese but cheese makers in America also produce it. Look in your grocers cheese section.
Thats true. As an American i was starving most of the time in France and Italy. France has the tiniest portions of food. In Italy there is such a long time period between lunch and dinner, you were starving all day.
Hahaha y'all Crack me up..... how can you starve in France and in Italy ??? Are you adults or toddlers ? You want eat ? Go eat don't wait that someone tell you what to do or where to go ? Life must be hard for you guys
I once put ice cubes in my red wine since it wasn't cold enough, i really want something cold, the waitress is horrified and start swearing, the people arround me looks like they're about ready to put me in a guillotine 😂
They’re so easy to rile up 😂 But they also have a lot more respect for food and the process of making it as a feature of their culture than we do in the US, so I get how they’d be offended by both watering down a wine and bringing it to the incorrect temperature for serving.
Wine is an art in France. Each bottle is the result of a didicated work and choice from from the winemaker to the consumer. Ice cubes are too cold and will dilute the wine, ruining it in the process. If the wine is not served at the right temperature I think that you can ask for it to be colded properly.
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As an au pair in France, gouter was the best time of day. I was allowed 30 mins without interruption from the kids. Why? Because I'm English and tea is sacred for English people. So i got to drink a whole pot without the kids asking me anything. Don't normally drink tea, but once the family introduced that rule, suddenly i became a big tea drinker.
My (Australian) teacher aunt instituted the "drinking a cup of tea is sacred adult time" when I was 19 or so and she wanted her other niblings (my baby cousins) to give her a rest.
I borrowed it with my kids later when needed - yes, I will happily look/play/listen/etc WHEN I've finished this cup of tea.
In Germany we have "Kaffee & Kuchen" (Coffee & cake), usually between 3 and 4 pm. Love that the little afternoon ritual of hot drink and something sweet exists across cultures.
By the way do English people usually use tea bags rather than tea leaves? I have never seen how they put tea leaves in a tea pot in videos. Even at home.
@@yanas4571 teabags in a cup, tealeaves in the tea pot. Majority of British make a cup most of the time so bags are most popular and affordable option. tea pots usually come out when you have important guests.
I don't know anyone who owns a teapot they use in the UK haha, clearly the other poster is very posh or something
Today I learned that I, a chaotic culinary raccoon, would not survive in France
😂
Come to Spain. We eat all day long.
@@melaniekeeling7462 Spain would be better anyway, for the foods y'all eat.
But I'd miss the Mexican I can get from down the street :E
Definitely, TexMex is the best. In Spain, things are changing fast...😢
@@Zireaelist
Hallelujah. Sections on the menu are suggestions, if I want to have cheese for every course that's nobody's problem but mine.
True! I'm french and when I was a kid, if I said "I'm hungry" I was answered with "it's not time" and if we asked too many times we had the classic "eat your hand and save the other one for tomorrow".
But usually mum's are givi’g le quignon (the end of the baguette) to the kids to help them wait
I have to remember the hand comment for when my kids start to nag me about dinner while I am cooking it.
When I lived in Marseilles my friend told me never go to a shop just before they close for lunch or you will be dealing with a majorly hangry French person.
Si tu as faim, mange ta main...
On est tous passé par là...
That made me laugh 😂.
8am-12pm: caffeinate
12-6pm: forget entirely
6-9pm: eat anything available
Sounds correct
this is the way
Yep, that’s how I do things.
ADHD? 😂
This is the way of the virgo.
Dinner is when I'm hungry
I was looking for this comment 😅
Why have food rules when your stomach makes its own
Same? Like I don't understand scheduled eating. I eat whatever I want, when I want. (And usually I'm not hungry anyway)
@@AmieMorley-st6tzRegular eating hours actually has some benefits
@@drissouwg9649
Such as? And yeah, I can see how it can be beneficial to some people but 1) I don't have the money to eat good food, regularly, at the moment, and 2) I don't have the mental energy to cook most days or plan meals. So, I eat when I'm hungry, or I go hungry
Also, nice pfp. I'm not big on anime, but I really liked Kakegurui.
The French family I stayed with heard that Americans eat a big breakfast so they had eggs, coffee, oj, toast, and oatmeal with berries for me every day. I usually just ate cereal at home, but I didn’t tell them 🤫 Plus I needed the calories to acclimate to all the walking I was suddenly doing.
So sweet of them! 💙🤍❤️
I'd never want to leave
They definitely watched American movies and shows where they have full buffets laid out on the table every morning 😂
@@Andy-xx3ttfr 😂😂😂
And so considerate of you to recognize the gesture as the hospitality it was and recognize how it can assist you at the same time!
US is just “Eat when you want. Hungry at 2am? We have 24 hour establishments! Work the night shift and “dinner” is at 9am? Brunch time!”
Thank god for Waffle House
@@fart63and IHOP!
And Denny's...jk
And you wonder why you have obesity problems ?
We had moar before the 🦠.
As a French-American girl, my friends were always surprised that my family ate dinner so late. I just found it normal because that’s how my mother ran the household and I was taking ballet in the evenings so there was no way that I could have dinner at 6:00pm.
That's awesome! I'm raising my French-US kids the same way and we have dinner around 7:30, while the in-laws invite us at 5 or 6 when the kids want their goûter 😂
Very American, here. Despise dinner at 5 or 6…
While I may be hungry at that hour, I do not want a full meal yet. Goûter sounds perfect!
I relate to eating dinner late, 6pm in general seems so early to me to be honest. Everyone stays up about 4 hours or more after 6 so, why so early? A dinner around 8 sounds perfect to me!
@@kreissthekeeperwhen do you guys go to bed? I can’t sleep if I ate right before bed :/
3hrs it has to be for me
Im American. I Always Found It Weird That People Ate Dinner When The Sun Was Still Out.
8:00 breakfast
10:30 coffe&pastrie
14:30 lunch
18:00 merienda
22:00 dinner
welcome to Spain
What is your favorite thing for merienda?
@@ikabikaboo A classic is some bread with an ounce of chocolate. Small sandwich or some fruits
al final alguien q nombra a la merienda🙏 como argentino necesitaba verlo
Qué comen en españa para el desayuno si después toman café y pastries? O es como un segundo desayuno?🤔
Merienda pasión 💪🏻
Dinner at 22:00
Up and ready for breakfast at 8:00
So like...do you go to bed immediately after dinner, no bedtime routine?
Come to Poland we'll give you a full warm dinner at 3pm. 🇵🇱
you guys eat all the time !
Omg I guess I need to go to Poland!
@@jeanclaude7555Thats true xD but it is so because (at least) my generation were told that the healthiest way is to eat small portions every 2-3 hours 4-5 times per day. And its working very well. Before work, at work, after work, snack and in the evening :D In Germany same :P
Motherland represent! Also eat your dinner leftovers for breakfast. Just add bread and it's magically an entirely different meal!
Sounds amazing!
I'm French living in the US and when we eat at my in-laws' at 5pm I sometimes just can't eat because that's when i want cookies, and if i eat then by 9 I'm hungry again.
At home with my own kids I maintain a French schedule, just slightly earlier with a dinner at 7 so they can go to bed around 8-8:30 because they're little.
Ok does that make you better than others ?
I can’t imagine eating dinner at 5pm. The earliest I’ll eat dinner in Australia is 6pm and the latest is 10:30pm but if it’s after 9pm it’s more or a supper then a full meal.
My family would be screwed. We have dinner at 5:30 so we can be in bed by 8-9. Because hubby is up by 4:30 and everyone is up having breakfast by 7.
In NYC, I was going to see a play at 7pm with a friend so she booked a restaurant at 3.30 pm to make sure we wouldn't get hungry before. After the play I asked her where she wanted to go for dinner and she was like "what do you mean, we had an early diner." I was like "no way, that was a late lunch!", long story short, I wrangled a snack but went to bed hungry.
I would need another meal by then too.
This times suits me. And also what Ayurveda and TCM recomend. To eat dinner some hours before going to bed.
And bedtime at latest 22:00 in the evening.
@@soumiamaldji9011😂😂 😂 😂 half 3 is a bit mad 😂 I wouldn't be able to sleep cause I'll get so hungry around 11pm 😂
We take a breakfast before 10am, we take a lunch at 12pm, we have a goûter at 16h then we take the apéro at 18h till 19h30 and then we eat. Voilà ! 🇫🇷
Do you get the guillotine if you eat outside your set hours? 😂
Unfortunately, yes...@@sebeckley or worst: public shaming for the rest of our lives !
When do you work ?
@@Pacora2023 it depends, office hours or « heures de bureau » it’s between 8am and 12pm, in the afternoon it’s between 13-14pm to 17-18pm
@@Pacora2023 breakfast before work, lunch time, a cookie or something with coffee while working (it's like, ten minutes at most even if you need a break). And apéro is only done for family dinners or when you really feel like it, it's not a rule for every day. Dinner around 8 pm. Obviously depending on the job, people adapt. A sizable part of adults don't have a significant breakfast, and contrary to popular belief, most people don't get unending lunch breaks. 1 hour is the maximum in most places.
the upside-down baguette bringing bad luck is so real haha. According to my family (when I asked why we did that growing up), it dates back to the times of the death penalty. When an execution took place that day, the baker would save a loaf of bread for the executioner by turning it upside down.
Poor execution dude he's just doing his job and even his bread got bullied.
@@idalia799it was by respect. Otherwhile he would had no bread left for his meal.
I didn't know that!
It's not when the execution took place, it was every day. And it was not out of respect, the hangman was bringing death, so no one wanted to eat his bread, or you'd eat the bread of Death ^^
@@lolahernandez5453 There was no respect for executioner.
They had some "priviledge" like the bread and stuff, but they were outcast. People wouldn't touch the executioner bread even if offer for free.
You’re slowly making me reconsider any thoughts of traveling to France
Yeah don't go see by yourself, discover the world through TH-cam videos.
@@puccaland yes that’s what us broke people do.
@@squidboitoys In many countries broke people are also uneducated and easily influenced and manipulated unfortunately.
No man go ! It's an experience. If you eat dinner at 6pm you will be hungry and snack and put on weight. Having said that most of French eat at 7; or 7: 40 pm. Kids finish school at 4:30 pm later at 5:30 pm. With extra scholar activities everybody is back at home around 7 or 8 pm. But if you're hungry you can buy a quiche at the bakery. I promise you you will forget about snacks once your body adapts. Bievenue en France
@@squidboitoys Broke people who want to educate themselves about the world find ways to travel the world. It simply requires them to go for the facts instead of urban legends.
As a mom who's up by 4-5am, I need to eat at 4pm cause we're all in bed by 7. Thanks. 😂
Same
@@jackiemyers2773 that's a vision from hell omg. My french blood is freezing just thinking about waking up before 5 am.
7pm???? Thats crazy!!!
You sleep 9-10 hours every day?
8 or 9 pm, that's too much sleep for an adult. Kids yes, but adults?
Dont mind me, just turning over everyones baguette
Bad guy
@@marceline8989 Bad guette
7 am - breakfast
12 pm - lunch
3 pm - snack
6 pm - dinner
6:05 - 9 pm - eat *everything* in the pantry
9 pm - bedtime
I eat all day long 😂
@@reuben1798 I would die in France. I have a slow stomach so I have to eat dinner by 5pm or I'll end up with indigestion trying to sleep on a full stomach.
@@thehigherevolutionary dang. I never understood why people eat at certain times. Just eat. It’s not hard.
@@reuben1798
What if you have this brand new discovery never before seen by humankind called an eating disorder? I think the existence of people with eating disorders kind of disproves your point lmfao😂😂😂
@@jacobash5904 did you just make fun of me?
The vast majority of french people don’t eat at 6PM, it’s more between 7PM and 8PM generally.
Yeah, taht what's she said, dinner is at 8 ^^
She said Apéritif is at 6 but even that is still a bit early ^^
Thing is in France primary/elementary school ends at 4:30pm, middle school and high school end between 5-6pm and regular work ends at 5-6 too, plus with transport time it feels unreasonable to eat before 7 anyways? The rest of the culinary rules will differ, but eating late makes sense when you end your day late and get home late.
Though, I had always assumed Americans finish working at 5-6pm too, so how are they eating dinner at that time?
Eating dinner before 5:30/6pm is something we Americans mostly expect from the elderly and young kids. There are lots of jokes in the US about older people eating dinner super early. Many people do eat around 7, probably in part due to working until 5-6pm. Eating prepared foods and eating out both make it more feasible for working Americans to eat early.
I wonder at what time it starts and what breaks you have 🤔
School generally ends around 3-3:30pm if you happen to be in HS and live in CA.
So by the time dinner rolls around at like 6pm, we're pretty hungry 😅
As an Uruguayan, you would not believe the shenanigans we do around here
7-8:00 Breakfast
13-14:00 Lunch
17-18:00 Merienda
22-23:00 Dinner
Yes, most of us go to bed past midnight with a full belly, and people don't tend to skip meals either, so they'll wake up at 11, have breakfast and just start cooking lunch right away, it ain't brunch if it is two hours apart, right?😂 I personally have my coffee and pastries (bizcochos) for breakfast while cooking lunch for the family every weekend
As an argentinian, I approve this message.
xD wow that's intense
Love Montevideo, very civilised, but for crazy hours BA knocks you into a cocked hat. Going to the office straight from the nightclubs was fun ...
Eating so late is great way to gain weight! But if you don't wanna be obese, it's supposed to be no food 4 hours before bedtime.
You forgot to mention drinking mate all day long!!!
Greetings from Chile🇨🇱❤
lol, my GERD could never….😂😂😂
Yes indeed. Over lockdown (alone at home for around 9 weeks) I decided to only eat when I was hungry. That turns out to be breakfast about 10-11am, then supper around 4 to 5pm. Nothing else, no snacks at all. Proper coffee in the morning before 12 noon (or no sleep that night), and countless cups of tea. Lots of water. If I eat later than say 6pm, GERD keeps me up all night.
Gerd is the name of my old aunts friend 😄 (Scandinavia)
In Spain we do
7-10 breakfast
11-13 brunch
13-16 lunch
17-19 snack
21-24 dinner
Is there a reason why you all eat so late? I am Canadian, and when my parents could afford it- dinner was at 530.
Oh. For me brunch is when you eat breakfast food inbetween breakfast hour and lunch hour, and skip both those meals. How can you eat 3 meals so close together lol
I love it
@@magalieg273 brunch is usually a coffee with a little pastry like a mini croissant or a sandwich not a full on meal, it's more like a snack so you are not starving from 7 to 15
@@Caitgreenham a lot of people end their shift at work around 14 to 16 so they eat when they get home. Kids also end their school days at 14 (some highschools at 15) so they do the same and eat lunch at home. Then you either enjoy your free time or need to go back to work until 20-21 depeding on your work hours so you get home late. In addition, Spain has the same timezone as Germany even if we are located in the 0+ zone so you could substract an hour if you want to be more accurate to the actual sun day. Hope it helps a little🙃
French class went to a French restaurant, we ordered in French, had the multiple courses and the silverware, we had learned of dinner etiquette and foods that year so it was a really fun to be able to experience it, we went again the year after the next, and had advanced so we ordered more intricate lol they were fun, and especially since all French classes at the same level went at once
Formal eating rules in every country can seem very strange.
What people actually do are very different!.
I live in the UK, I am born and bred British, come to my house and even a standard British person would struggle with the food rules in my house.
Cereal commonly eaten as an evening meal.
Cooking and eating a full dinner at 9 or 10pm.
Different meals cooked for parent and child.
So, this video is not about what the French do, but formal eating rules.
But if you invite someone for dinner and serve breakfast cereal, they will find it odd, won't they? Even if it isn't a formal dinner.
The rules in this short are not at all formal, in fact a formal event might respect none of them, and they are not strict, but they are present.
@mievaselli7910 what a weird family you live in if you have never eaten cereal for evening meal.
And inviting someone round would certainly change the way anyone eat, making it more formal.
Who are you to say that it is weird to have cereal for dinner.
Calling these habits formal rules is like calling T shirts and jeans formal wear.
Anyway, this video is right about what most French people do.
@mievaselli7910 except they are formal customs and rules.
And people saying I am wrong to eat cereal for dinner are just strange.
They are formalised customs, which are in themselves very weird.
It is like it being normal for a British person to eat at say 6pm, when that is way too early. Or cooking the same food for everyone, that is weird.
And I am a Brit.
@mievaselli7910 and it you can't understand that I was merely making a comment that the eating habits and formalised customs in every country ca seem very weird, then you have a problem.
When visiting Madrid, we could not find any place to eat that was open before 9:00 pm. We all had headaches and were grouchy. And learned always to carry some food with us when traveling.
Grocery store.
Maybe you should get the concept of “merienda”, an informal meal between lunch and dinner
That would be so awesome, where I live every restaurant is closed by 9pm
In Spain we have merienda (which is like gôuter) from 4 until 6PM. That's why we have dinner "late", it's not like we're starving the whole afternoon! :)
So you were somewhere without a single fast food joint? BK and Mc's stay open through the day. Bars and restaurants exploit employees but making cooks work for 15 hours a day is a bit much
The French have turned food into a fine art, and by that I mean over complicated, arbitrary and exclusive for no real definable reason
You just defined every aspect of French life.
Showing your petticoat there ...
@@rorykeegan1895 You mean my pantallets
I believe the average French BMI proves there is a well defined reason.
@@Sayitlikitiz101 Are you implying that french cuisine was historically developed with the modern BMI in mind? If that's the case shouldn't they have hoverboards and smellivision by now? Pretty sure all France's BMI indicates is that living off cigarettes and red wine while bicycling everywhere keeps you skinny
"Your fork is in the wrong hand and it's also upside down" 🤭👏👏👏
Teaching Americans to eat using a knife and fork is an impossible task 😂
Ugh... That baguette on the table rule got me every time.
Lol that just sounds dirty, they clean the table beforehand right?
@@ryanbarclay7939 who would eat on a dirty table? That's what tablecloths are for.
@@tyrionsparkly9027 maybe it's just me, but I'd not trust the tablecloth is clean either. At least put a clean plate or cutting board down.
@@ryanbarclay7939 um, we wash our tables right after eating??? and we usually swipe them before too
@@eliartistik well that's good to know,very relieving lol.
And yet Tolkien tried to convince us it was Shire folks (based on one of the regions in rural England) that were the ones with a gazillion meals a day...
To be fair, we do have breakfast, elevenses, lunch, tea, dinner and supper here in the UK so we're not far off the French's abundant meal schedule.
Not particularly strict though
Like I think the main times are lunch is 12-2 and make sure to account for what time you had dinner at fir super
I know for a fact I tend to have an early dinner (usually 4-5) and supper is at 8-9
She's talking about the "gouter" around 4.30pm but to be honest, I don't know any adults who eat it. It's usually an after school snack for kids.
i've eaten dinner at 5pm and i've eaten dinner at 12am. sometimes both in the same day. dinner is when i'm hungry
Girl, if you go to a Latino household, they will stuff you with so much food at all times. I am Mexican American, and when I'm in Mexico and people come over for a visit depending on the time and day my grandma usually invites the person to stay for a cup of coffee and it's usually accompanied by a piece of pan dulce (sweet bread). There are many types of pan dulce across Mexico, so we just call it sweet bread because the majority of the bread is sweet. And if it's late in the evening, my grandma usually invites the person to eat dinner after asking if they ate already. My grandma mostly says this to like real close friends of the family or real close relatives when inviting them for dinner. And even if you already had dinner and you stop by and visit, you are likely to be offered coffee some bread or cookies.
If you visit a Scottish household in the evening, you'll most likely be greeted at the door with the words "Ye'll have had yer tea?" (as in dinner, a meal)
Don't be fooled, it's not a question... Alcohol or cups of tea/coffee are the menu 😂
I’m Portuguese for grandma is always eating time but we still have regular schedules that are similar to the French
"Cheese is its own course" That's true. Cheese is also the course we never eat during dinner, because by the time you get to it, it's already 11pm and you're stuffed from the apéro, the entrée and the main course. But you're still going to eat dessert and drink a digestif ! And a coffee for the road !
How long do you take to eat ??
We have cheese everyday at my house and we're done with dinner by 8pm, 9 at the latest
@@mariemaland589 I think they are talking about when you have people invited
@@eliartistik even then, when we have people over or when we eat somewhere else, we always have cheese no matter how late it is (but maybe we're just overly French ? Idk lol)
@@mariemaland589 Same tbh but i get that sometime you're full just by the apéro
@@mariemaland589 between 30 min and one hour, if you are a big family
Oh my god. I did a studied abroad during the summer in France one year. The food rules threw me for a loop. I met up with a friend (and one of my former French exchange student that stayed with us) before my study. I arrived at 2pm finally met up with her in her town. She took me back to her place to drop off my stuff and to get cleaned up. I was soooo exhausted from the red eye and nearly 20 hours of travel. We went to a cafe about an hour later and I tried to order a coffee. I wanted to get acclimated to the time as quickly as possible and I needed the caffeine to keep me up. (Plus I had none that whole day so I was getting a headache.) AND THE CAFE TOLD ME NO!! 😂 It’s devastating as an American to be told No and not get a coffee whatever time of day I wanted. 😂
So I asked for an iced tea and they gave me a fucking Snapple! 😂
That's just plain rudeness now for me. Regulating food habits to the extent people who have different food habits are absolutely miserable? I mean, people eat intermittently all the time. You do you, why impose that on me as long as I'm not exactly availing your hospitality?
If they had different hours or were unable to serve that's understandable. But rejecting what you asked and serving something else instead... Well.
And this is coming from someone who doesn't even like coffee. I prefer my cardamom tea.
@@milishah1249 I think the cafe just had rules where they stopped serving it after a certain point. 🤷♀️ (although, I got the impression from my French exchange student that it was abnormal to order a coffee so late in the day. lol) I don’t know. It was weird. I personally think Snapple is gross because of how sweet it is. I hardly consider it tea. So when I asked for unsweetened tea he was like, “ok.” And brought me a Snapple which is far from what I asked. But whatever. 😂
I'm used to get coffee whenever I want to too. I'm German.
WHAT, I would die in France 😭 I could drink coffee all day, specially in the afternoon/evening, and don’t even ask my dad: he drinks cofre until he goes to sleep. Actually, it’s really common to make coffee after lunch, to help with digestion, I’ve seen that older people tend to this a lot more, they just have a pan in the stove with coffee and they drink it all throughout the afternoon.
@@milishah1249 What?! French people being r-u-d-e?! Say it isn't so! The French people aren't known at all for being rude...LOL.
I love food etiquette ❤❤❤ it’s so much fun!
Lol I'm french and realized a long time ago we're crazy. I left France 12y ago and just came back. Culture shock is real.
In Norway 9 and 10 pm is when the restaurants close 😂😂😂
same in the us. the only restaurants open after that are fast food places, and the random restaurant place that also serves alcohol so they can afford to stay open because people will buy food and alcohol. Times were different before the pandemic.
We stay in restaurants until midnight if it’s a celebration, if is “just for eating” is quicker but probably slower than you guys.
We eat appetizers (olives and bread), some eat soup, main course,desert,we talk more and before leaving its expresso time, we talk more and we finally leave😂
@santostv. Sounds like a nice time tbh. I think a restaurant visit is maximum 3-4 hours. No appetisers, but sometimes dessert ^^. People here tend to treat food like fuel rather than an opportunity to bond and enjoy life.
Very few meals are eaten at restaurants in Norway though. If you say you're gonna eat (dinner, whatever), nobody would assume you're planning to go out to eat.
Every time I see in US media the conversation
"Hey, I'm hungry, let's eat" and the other person says
"Okay, where do you wanna go?"
My mind always goes like "..huh? To the kitchen of course because that'swhere we keep the food..? Ahhhh, forgot they are Americans"
@@Spacemongerr keep in mind movies often portray this ideal life that even Americans cannot afford. Americans eat out but like anything it depends on the person and the money they have. I know some Americans that don't know how to cook so they eat out or order take out basically everyday but those people have either a lot of money or high credit card debt. then there is more average people that because they work 8-10hrs and an average of 30m to work and picking up kids from after school activities at around 7pm when they get home they don't have to cook for 1hr so they most probably have takeout for dinner 2 weekdays. I on the other hand have time to cook elaborate meals for my family cuz we all adults so we all cook so dinner usually takes 1-2 hours to make and I just made home made bread yesterday for 3hrs. I still eat out once a week usually on the weekend and since i saved money by eating at home i can afford a good more expensive restaurant like sushi ($180 on average for 4ppl and $40 tip so $220). Then there is a lot and i mean a lot of Americans that dont eat out at all unless is a birthday or mothers day and even then they will only go to restaurants that while not fast food they are also cheap. they usually cheap on other areas of their lives too like buying a $5 knife pains them so even paying their mother dinner for $20 is a big accomplishment for thrm
There is no country on earth where my eating schedule makes sense, but especially not France, apparently.
What is your eating schedule?
malaysia can eat rice at 2 in the morning. and we eat best bread in the world - roti canai, any time of the day
@@jangguttok7437come to Germany and try our bread
I tell you it's very good
@@Sentientmatter8 usually noon, 3pm, and 8pm, but it can vary wildly as I struggle to eat the correct amount of food and nutrients throughout the day.
I have ADHD, and eating consistently is a chronic problem for me.
@@dawn8293it's a very similar schedule
Cultures: Have there own eating and drinking habits
Me: Eats traditional breakfast foods at 3:00pm
What time do people wake up? When are toddlers put to bed? 5am sounds rough if going to bed at midnight.
Usualy people who work get up between 7am and 8am. Children begin School at 8am or 9am (depending on their schedule). Same thing for workers, most begin between 8 and 9am.
Work usualy ends between 5 and 6pm. Most people are at home between 6 and 7pm.
We usually eat at 8pm but little children dine earlier. Usually, toddlers go to bed at 8pm (at most). Children go to bed between 8pm and 10pm. Teenagers and adults... Whenever they want.
I'd say I don't care I'm eating now, because I don't care what time it is .
As a French, I concur 😂
The word "French" is an adjective, not a noun.
"As someone French, I concur."
My great grandfather used to scratch a cross into the bottom of the baguette before the first rip. They were very Catholic.
Food is an event, to be appreciated and shared. A chance to talk and not just mindlessly eat. It's nice. There's zero chance anyone starving. No harm in waiting, good for the gut, good for the mind.
Oh my god the dinner time was so wild, I usually eat sometime around 6-6:30, *but most places don’t even OPEN until **6:30* unless it’s like, a little cafe where students go to have a little drink but they don’t typically serve actual food until much later. Worst part isn’t even that though: the worst part is we’ll be in class til 6 and I’d just have to be hungry for the last hour or so 🙃
America must be pure CHAOS for people used to being told how to act and what to do all the time!
They decide we’re degenerates with too many options and they’re not necessarily wrong 😂
On the video, it's more for formal meals than regular meals. I remember that we only did this for holiday meals in my family, especially for cheese.
The USA also has social rules and expectations about eating / eating out.
Tipping culture, using a napkin, how you holding your cutlery Vs what you expect to eat with hands i.e. a taco etc
For me it would be pure HEAVEN. Would love to visit the US for food.
@CaitFalconer but I enjoy the freedom of being able to eat what I want when I want. We just eat too much, that's all
Many years ago, French students(Parisians in particular) used to stay with me to study English and they would always say - I'm on a permanent diet and I eat only this food or I eat at this hour or that hour...every single one of them ate about £150 worth of food during a one week stay.... one even said - where are my cupcakes today...and the Chinese takeaway again later,...non?
I never made any money lol.
That's when they make or find their own food. If they want anything other than 3 squares (including a veggie option if necessary) they can do it themselves.
@@Joanna_135 add two snacks. You still need the little break and energy boost to get through the day.
@@KpopZuko oh this is students coming to someone else's house and demanding expensive meals and snacks. They can eat the cost-effective meals provided and spend their spending money on extra snacks or expensive meals. The host can provide a fruit bowl with apples, bananas, and oranges if they want.
@@Joanna_135 I mean… that’s what I meant? Like. A sandwich they can slap together to tide them over. Or fruit or like. Maybe as a treat gold fish or cheese it’s or something.
As an example: The rule in my house is on school mornings kid gets pop tart or toaster waffles. Something easy, but with enough carbs to keep them till they get to school where they get free breakfast. She usually gets a muffin and splits it with a friend.
Lunch is either packed the night before, a lunchable because I like them too, or school lunch, which is free, and usually healthy, but also pretty tasty and diverse now.
She takes a snack, fruit gummies or an orange or some chips sometimes for afternoon break, has a snack when she gets home at 4
Dinner is anywhere between 5 and 7 depending on when we all agree we’re hungry, someone says they just really wanna eat right now, or times up. Whichever comes first.
But if someone says they are hungry, I’m not going to tell them not to eat. If they want something other than what I’m making, they are old enough to use a microwave, or make a sandwich and other simple meals. Same goes for if she just wants dinner early. I won’t adjust my eating schedule, but she’s free to adjust hers if she wishes. She’s also old enough that she can use the stove as long as I’m in the room. Sometimes the smell spurs me to want to eat with her, and in that case we cook together, or if not, she likes just cooking for herself too.
I’m not going to tell a hungry child no. That really fucked me up growing up and now I have to eat at very specific times or my stomach rebels from my body expecting the timing for so long.
@@KpopZuko this isn't a small child, these are teenagers or college age kids, if they're studying internationally. More than old enough to make their own food and buy their own snacks or takeout if they want something fancy.
They were just taking advantage of the original poster for some reason- takeout was a one or two times a year treat when I was their age, and if I were a guest in someone's home I'd never demand specific meals or expensive treats or a specific schedule for eating and I'd NEVER make them pay for the extravagant treats I demanded. I wouldn't even do that to my own parents. If I need something specific, I'd go grocery shopping with the host, pay my own money, make it myself, and clean up after.
Or if it was a crowd pleaser, I'd pool money or see if it works with something the host was making and find a cost-effective way to make it for everyone. I was happily cooking 100% of my own meals by the time I was 12 and helping with the grocery shopping. I also ate when I wanted or when was most convenient for me.
This was a paid position, and the host wound up spending their full income from the program feeding the demanding young adults and teens because they wanted way more expensive food than the budget provided by the program and expected the host to pay.
Arriving in locals restaurants in Italy at 8pm not only are we the only ones in there but the staff are eating dinner before it gets busy 😊
It's fun learning the food customs of other cultures and it makes me appreciate the freedom of eating what I want, when I want it. Except that now I want to eat a really crackly baguette with fragrant fruity olive oil to dip it in. *sighs and pulls out some flour*
I'm either genetically a farmer or a cave woman. Supper at 9 pm? I've been asleep for an hour at that time.
I’m in bed by 8pm😂
And the the alkohol drinking rules. Drinks have also schedule. Also before you bring in the baguette remember to take a piece from the end and eat that
I’ll side with America on this one. If I want chips imma eat chips
This video made me go back to OMAD again. Thanks!
Me, an adult: I'll have ice cream for breakfast if I like... I survived the tyranny of childhood... Ain't no one telling me I can't eat what I want when I want...
It sounds unhealthy to eat anything you want when you want it. Hopefully you know how to tell yourself no.
@@AzDoll714actually it’s very healthy to eat what you want when you want it. Look up intuitive eating. Your body knows how to regulate itself, but food rules like these (and even ones you may not think of as food rules because they’re normal to you!) mess with our ability to feel and understand them. Listening to your body is always the right choice!
@@shirablumberg also look up how many people get even fatter on intuitive eating and how it never gets better.
Intuitive eating only works when you have a naturally low appetite, or have no access to palatable foods.
@@taylorhillard4868 fat does not mean unhealthy…
@@shirablumberg it does though. I know there's a whole anti-science HAES propaganda movement going on but fat is indeed independently deleterious to health.
Bodyfat is an organ just like any other in the body, and when organs are oversized or undersized it independently causes poorer health. And enlarged heart is unhealthy. An enlarged liver is unhealthy. And enlarged adipose system (fat) is unhealthy.
Yeah I dunno, I put my bread in my plate and have gouter at 5 sometimes and I’ve never heard of that upside down bread superstition thing. Guess I’ve been raised by wolves 😂
Yes indeed. If you turn the bread upside down, the devel will come in your house 😂
I love your videos, you are ALWAYS RIGHT!
Omg goûter, that takes me back. I lived in france as a kid, boi nostalgia
You may come to Québec, it’s not even 17h yet and I’ve already ate supper 😎 most people eat supper between 17h and 19h, but we don’t have this gouter
Mes amis!
My bedtime is 8 😂
This was the most difficult unit in French class back in high school.
I took it for the language but all the culture stuff was cool.
😂😂😂 all true. I remember I couldn't wait to get home from school to have my goûté as a child in France.
this was switzerland not france, but public schools break for 2 HOURS everyday so kids can go home and eat lunch lol
iirc it's also the case in France in every primary schools. For high school it depended heavily of the day, sometimes we had 3 hours, sometimes 1 😂
It's the same in primary school, after that it dependent on your schedule, you can have 1h or 2h of lunch break. But like seriously, 1h is more like 30/20 minutes because you have to wait to get inside the canteen... I remember that some teachers would let us go earlier so we are the first one to go eat. Or we would run in the hallway to get there before there too much people waiting... I don't miss it
There never been a 3h lunch break, I don't know where this is coming from
@@zinamara2997I taught public middle school in the US (ages ~11-13) and they were only allowed 25 minutes for lunch, including walking to and from the cafeteria and getting their food. Us teachers had to eat in the cafeteria too to watch the students, so we’d have about 15 mins to eat. If students needed anything or caused problems, you might not eat at all. I hated it and quit teaching after only 3 years.
@CaitFalconer Is it the same everywhere in the US? 20 minutes for lunch break (including the time walking to the cafeteria, fill your plate and once done walk back to the next class) is far from enough time. And you said it's for middle schoolers, so they are used to eat on the go, not to enjoy the food. That's sad
@@zinamara2997 It definitely happened when I was in high school.
The sweet part makes sense to eat earlier in the day and not at night after dinner
Desserts are usually sweets eaten after dinner in North America.
Yes, the human body metabolizes blood sugar much better during the day than overnight. So, at least in theory habitual overnight high sugar and high carb eating could contribute to developing type 2 diabetes. Also, after 12 a.m. or so the body doesn't metabolize food as well because that's when the body wants to rest and repair.
But they have dessert, a digestif and coffee with dinner anyway 😂
"Dinner is not until 8"
Spaniards: why so early?
"And you are now the weakest link. Goodbye" LOL
Which one is the eye-poking fork?
Married to a French person and have lived in France now for 4 years, the food rules still get to me and I still call them bullshit 😂😂, it's not until you meet a French person that's moved to a country with not a strict food rules and all of a sudden they feel like a weight has been lifted off their shoulders that you realize how bullshit it is 😂😂😂😂
it's not, eating at random hours is one of the factors for T2 Diabetes. You must have a fasting period for the insulin levels to drop or else your peripheral tissues will desensitize to it and you'll end up diabetic.
@@yannickramouillet3742 Oh, that's why cheese is a separate course, got it 🙄
France: Food rules. 📝👨🍳🏆
USA: Food RULES! 🥳🍔🍕
Wales is my favourite. Round the clock force feeding of anything and everything you can be made to eat. Plus snacks
And the French think we're crazy because we eat corn on the cob.
Yes you are 😅
yes, because corn is seen as animal feed and it's also pretty undignified to be seen gnawing on the cob. I remember we served it to a French friend and he cut it all off the cob with a knife before eating.
Well yes.... are you a ruminant ?
Soooo I'm guessing in France 3 AM snack trips to the fridge for a nibble on a block on cheese like a rat is frowned upon 😂
As a French, it's only something I've seen in American movies. I mean, we eat the main meal of the day from 8pm to 9pm, why on Earth would we be hungry enough to wake up in the middle of the night ?
@@jeanneraufaste8691 be us most of us are asleep by then
Paradoxically it is in our culture and we are proud of it.
Just look at how important night snacks are in french shows like Kaamelott.
@@jeanneraufaste8691 diabetes No kidding, caught my mom having a full meal at 4:00 am. She follows her blood sugar, not rules.
I only had two rules while visiting Paris. #1 - Collect rolls and chocolate croissants from the hotel breakfast to snack on throughout the day. #2 - Find as many crepe stands as I can. 😂😂😂
I would be hungry all day with all the rules 😂😂
And probably healthier too 😊
Switzerland:
7.00 breakfast
9.30/10.00 morning snack
12.00 lunch
16.00 afternoon snack
18.00 dinner
I'm a Swiss in France then. Good to know! I hate family times for super late dinners
Excellent! It’s 7:58pm. Maybe there’s some sort of dinner in the fridge ;))
Was never interested in going to France before, but after watching these videos, France sounds like a place you’d never miss out on if you never go
I love these. I grew up with a French step mom then I lived in France as an au pair for a year. These bring me back.
When i stayed in France, we were absolutely starving between like 5 and 8 but absolutely no one was open lmao we had to get food from the dang kabaob place, which was delicious, but im tryna eat some french food not Mediterranean! Lmao
you didn't have goûté ?🤔😶
Kebab is Turkish, not Mediterranean.
Mediterranean food is part of French gastronomy. We have a border with the Mediterranean Sea...
In Spain we do:
9am - Breakfast
11am - Media Mañana
1/2pm - Lunch
4:30pm - Merienda
9pm - Dinner
You must eat very small portions
@@CandicePoe I wish 😅 I'd be cheeper abd healthier
Almost FIVE HOURS of no food before dinner? Not possible! @@gonzalofraguasbringas8617
First major trip abroad and going suddenly from 3 weeks of huge English breakfasts to only coffee or hot chocolate & croissant for breakfast was a shock! Then we made the mistake of having a light lunch only to discover that at 17:00 when we were quite hungry that no restaurants open until 19:00ish. I do not function well when I'm hungry so I was perpetually hangry those few days in France.
Next trip I had it figured out. Buy cheese, snacks or pizza slice etc. at the nearest market before dayend to supplement next day's French breakfast and for snacks. Eat big meal mid-day, further snack for late afternoon, have last meal around 7:30 pm. Because we were on trains, or walking a lot, pre-purchased snacks were vital. (We didn't bring food to breakfast table, we ate in our room before going to breakfast. )
I’m tellin’ you.. Fika is where it’s at. Scandinavians really know what they are doing, and I’ve adapted it into my own life after visiting. Such a beautiful custom originated in Sweden and practiced in Scandinavia. ❤
I used to travel to france for work regularly and just trying to find some food between 5 and 7:30pm was impossible (except McDonalds)
I am australian, but my mother used to work 16 hour days, so this was my schedule throughout my teen years.
Skip breakfast
1:20pm lunch
4pm snack
8-11pm dinner
Its great they have built in grazing... The baguette on the table without a crumb catching thing has always got me.. But they have specific tools for cleaning baguette crumbs off the table
Ahahahhaah its lovely how the French version is always with a smile and proud to help, when in reality they will hit you with the baguette and the cheese.
Seeing these many rules I am reminded of Queen movie of Kangana. 😂😂😂 But truthfully speaking, many countries world over have all their own rules about eating. When to eat what, how to eat it, the list is endless.
For eg: in a south indian wedding if the food is served on a banana leaf, everything will be eaten with hands only. Its looked down upon to eat with spoon and fork. So yeah a part of me gets the French eating system. 😂😂
I am sorry but I don't want to put any of my food on the table...or wait to eat if I'm hungry...this is why I keep snacks, plates, and bowls in my desk at work lol
Me gustan a lot tes vidéos, tu are très charismatic
Ngl cheese as a pre-dessert course hits different
Dinner at 8pm!?! I'm usually in bed before then 😴
France and Spain (among other countries) are in the wrong timezone since WW2, so the sun rises and sets much later than in a lot of places. I think it has an effect on activities tied to basic biological needs, such as eating and sleeping. Of course, schedules are also affected by working hours, and individual preference, but on average, French people wake up later (and thus have a very stripped down "morning routine"), eat later, and go to sleep later than in a lot of countries.
And Spanish people eat much later than us because they're even further west and still in the same time zone as Sweden.
@@filiaaut That's explain a lot.
It is indeed difficult to go to sleep before 8 pm when you finish working at 6 pm.
Sounds unhealthy, I prefer intuitive eating. Listen to your body, not some arbitrary schedule.
The body gets used to a schedule and doesn't demand food at whatever hour. Plus everyone does the same so there is more opportunity to sit down for meals and socialize if you want. It's very healthy IMO.
@@purpurina5663just because it helps society run the way we’re used to doesn’t mean it’s healthy. Society promotes a lot of unhealthy things.
what if you're hungry all the time?
@@DEATHbyHEMLOCK then there’s something wrong. Either you’re not eating enough or you have a medical condition that needs to be dealt with. (And without intuitive eating, you might not know something’s wrong until it gets really bad)
To be fair, as much as I dislike the rigid rules of the French, “listening to my body” is how I turned into an obese man.
The eating dinner so late rule always kills me. I am so goddamn hungry and just want to eat!
Sweden has something similar to gouter called Fika where you have a lunch/afternoon break with something sweet
When I went to France all I ate was bread and cheese because they were so delicious there. I bought some cheese off a random vendor near the train and it was the best cheese I’ve ever eaten. It’s been almost 20 years since then and I STILL think about that cheese. I don’t even know what it was because it was like wrapped in foil by hand by the guy with zero label. I get sad knowing I’ll never taste it ever again.
what the texture was like? and the shape?
@@lolahernandez5453 it was wrapped in foil and it was soft and spreadable. I kept dipping the bread in it like a really thick chip dip. It was so smooth and creamy. Medium strong flavor kind of earthy sort of and a bit salty (not too much). It’s been a long time. It just tasted so fresh and full of flavor. The closest I can compare is laughing cow cheese but it was much richer. Laughing cow is a similar texture but blander.
Try a French cheese called St. Andre. Very high butterfat content. Not cheap, it's a splurge, but worth it. Let it come to room temp. Will be softer and spreadable. I buy it for eating at holiday time end of year as a treat. Another cheese called Bel Paese is soft at room temp, but not spreadable, it's Italian, but US companies also produce it.
@@treasuremuch9185 oh my god THANK YOU!
@StayAtHomeMeme correction on the second cheese I mentioned. I meant to say Port Salut is the name. It's also a French cheese but cheese makers in America also produce it. Look in your grocers cheese section.
Thats true. As an American i was starving most of the time in France and Italy. France has the tiniest portions of food. In Italy there is such a long time period between lunch and dinner, you were starving all day.
Maybe that's why people in US are obese and people in Europe are not. Just sayin'
I know. Same here but I broke all rules 😂
Why ? Did they kept you chained to a wall😂
@@santostv. I was a teen staying at a relatives house. I could only eat what they gave me.
Hahaha y'all Crack me up..... how can you starve in France and in Italy ??? Are you adults or toddlers ? You want eat ? Go eat don't wait that someone tell you what to do or where to go ? Life must be hard for you guys
We're sort of supposed to have the same rules in Belgium, at least in Wallonia but we tend to bend it 😅
"Fuck it, where's McDonalds Paree"
I once put ice cubes in my red wine since it wasn't cold enough, i really want something cold, the waitress is horrified and start swearing, the people arround me looks like they're about ready to put me in a guillotine 😂
I'll try and hold them back but I suggest you run for it
They’re so easy to rile up 😂 But they also have a lot more respect for food and the process of making it as a feature of their culture than we do in the US, so I get how they’d be offended by both watering down a wine and bringing it to the incorrect temperature for serving.
I like to put ice in my beer if it’s not cold enough 😂
Just raise your glass to them, clink around the ice cube, and say "Sante, mes amis! (Cheers, my friends)."
Wine is an art in France.
Each bottle is the result of a didicated work and choice from from the winemaker to the consumer.
Ice cubes are too cold and will dilute the wine, ruining it in the process.
If the wine is not served at the right temperature I think that you can ask for it to be colded properly.
There shouldn’t be rules about food just put it in your mouth chew it up and eat it
That sounds like the only rule we should have. I eat when I'm hungry.
Exactly!!
Making up rules so that you can pretend like you're better than all those savages that don't follow your rules is human nature.
OKAY MA'AM CAN I JUST HAVE SOME DAMN CHIPS. MY RIBS ARE SHOWING
My personal favorite is getting the salad at the end not the beginning.