I love how Anna’s reaction to the date thing is the same reaction the rest of the world have to the way you guys write the date. It’s so fecking dumb to right the month first 😂
@@Jbatley1 Like I mentioned on another comment. Do you look for the day page on a calendar first? Or do you turn to the month first? My calendar has the month you look to first.
I don't agree with the comment about lack of choice in the UK...there is plenty of choice, too much sometimes. We have whole aisles in supermarkets dedicated to cereals, biscuits, etc...and while we tend to have blackcurrant drinks such as Ribena, we have whole aisles dedicated to grape drinks too - it's called WINE!!! 🍇🍷🥂🍾😀
I was just coming to comment exactly the same 😂 cookies/biscuits we have endless choices, the same as with breakfast/cereal.. love the wine comment too 😂
UK notes are all different sizes not for aesthetic reasons but for the blind. It allows them to tell the value based on the size. The new plastic notes have braille on them too. It's also why our coins are so distinctive in shape and size.
12:10 hi! i wanted to add something to this fact. I'm argentinian and we also have very colorful bills. it usually helps elderly people (or even normals adults) recognize their money easier. so that if they're paying someone they don't mix up the 100 for the 20, and are not taken advantage of by some stranger 😊
I think one of the weirdest things that I as an eurpoean also come in contact with alot (when doing online shopping for example), is the fact that you guys use this weird ass imperial system of units, instead of the metric system like everyone else in the world does, it's just a thing that makes things more complicated than they need to be :D
Americans also measure stuff by all kinds of peculiar things. Something might be the size of two football fields or four washing machines. Is the imperial system so counter-intuitive that measuring by random items is tempting? Whyyyy not then switch to the metric system?
We just use it because we got it from Europe back when it was the norm. Now it's too much trouble to change everything from imperial to metric when it already works.
Unless it's at a concert, football match, or anywhere outdoors with a big crowd. Then we get the plastic pint glasses. They even fill from the bottom now 🤣🤣
In UK we have entire aisles full of biscuits (cookies). The big difference is that we don’t have multiple options to buy basically the same cookie. In UK there is a huge variety of different biscuits that are very diverse in texture, flavour and shapes.
@@pattyx984 I think he was refering to the different sizes of the same products the americans have. A variety of flavours of the same product like maryland cookies is not the same. We usually have 1 or 2 different options for most products, in america there are sometimes 10 + different sizes of the same product
@@WeAreThePeople1690 I agree lol, not heard of marylands tho (I am from UK, but mostly shop in aldi or Asda, rarely but sometimes Iceland) but we do have a good selection, the prices tho.... THEY KEEP CLIMBING like Ughhh, I remember when Tesco gingernut cookies (their own brand) where like 20p a pack, their now like 50p like wtf... Cost of living is so fucked, esp the electric prices!!
@@WeAreThePeople1690 I don't know about that. In the US, at least where I'm at, you can have a selection of the same thing, same size, same number per package, but different brands. Which usually follows the "You get what you pay for." axiom. Then you have the "same thing" at different stores. I drink Gatorade. But Gatorade from Walmart if very different from the regional Meijer stores. The Gatorade is cheaper at Walmart, but it's also two to three months older, and it tastes it. Yucchh! We needed one thing recently, so we used that as a reason to check out an Aldi store. It had a Walmart feel to it. Cheap things, looked "cheap." Not real appetizing, especially the produce.
For the VAT, I'll explain the situation regarding Italy (since I was born and lived here all my life): in the map it says 22%, and that's correct, partly. You see we actually have 4 VAT categories, 22% is just the highest, reserved for luxury items and services(which doesn't mean jewelry, just things you can live without, like alcohol, cars, electronics, and that stuff). Next is 10%, and that's mainly for processed foods, that includes things like yoghurt, flour, alimentary fats. Firewood is in this category aswell. Next there's a 5% tax, that's mainly for spices, public transport, products for child feeding like powder milk, tampons.. Lastly, at 4%, is everything that is deemed necessary for life, so here you have fresh milk, cheese, fruits and vegetables, plus important services like newspapers, housing, medical appliances. So, yeah, you'll pay 22% tax on your new iPhone, but in a grocery shop, unless you go crazy with alcohol, sweets, and processed food, you won't pay more than 5-6% tax on average.
@@clansman3766 That explains your lack of education: if you find me boring, you'll find anyone who tries to explain something boring, hence why you turned out as an ignorant creature that thinks insulting people is funny. I honestly pity you.
The Americans being loud-thing is so true, hahaha! When I walk in Brussels or anywhere else in Europe, and I hear voices stick out above the masses (even before I can hear what is being said), I know that some US citizens are visiting! 🙂Europe was so quite during lockdown, hahaha. (and I am not saying that it's a bad thing)
Love your reaction to VAT. :D It's 20% in the UK and has been for over a decade now. We don't even notice it because it's just there. When we buy something and it says, £3.99 we know that we will pay £3.99 at the till :D
Having lived and worked in the US... and now back in UK, groceries and clothing isn't that much cheaper in US either so cost of living balances out even though vat % is so different
"Starbucks is overrated". You said that and I could not agree more. Here in Australia, Starbucks went broke. People tried it once and never went back because they can't make coffee. Australians know what good coffee tastes like and you don't get it in Starbucks - but you do get it in the many cafes you find in the cities.
It´s very similar in Finland like i think we have 5 Starbucks cafes here and they’re all in the Helsinki metropolitan area. I mainly see people either working in them, younger people hanging out with friends or tourists. I personally pretty much hate Starbucks coffee, it just isn’t as good as i can just make at home for lesser price.
@@ReversedTech That's the difference. Most people, even in different parts of the world don't make the coffee at home the same way and with the same equipment as Starbucks. You have to go to a high end restaurant or the home of someone who does have the same type of machines. I'm sure my favorite brand of coffee would taste entirely different if made in a French Press as opposed to my K-cup type machine. And I'd probably would "hate" it.
i think this is quite similar in England, most people go to costa and Greggs. i would perhaps only go to buy fraps or refreshing drinks(even though i never had any of that from there except trying a sip of iced coffee when my sister got from there)😅
I think the UK doesn't really sell single-use plastic cups because the amount that would end up in landfill would be CRAZY. It's probably the same for most other countries.
With the day month and year thing, I think in the UK like other places are right because we write it small, big and then biggest. So the day is smaller than the month and month smaller than the year. And also because we only have to change the first one when we get to a new day.
@AMC still makes more sense than big, small, biggest like the American date system. Also need to think of it as the most variable figure is prioritised. With the date, the day changes most often, but with time, the second does. If you start with the seconds, then the minutes, then the hours then by the time you say the hour the second has changed. That why it's the opposite way round
@@TheEndOfNowhere Were you actually trying to make an opposing point? What you’ve just said goes in order. You’ve just cemented his point even more you idiot.
Logic depends entirely on what you are doing and why. For example it's a common convention in many areas of IT to label things year, month. day, and for good reason. If you were to use the regular day, month, year convention, sorting logs and files etc would break the ascension of months and years - all the days of different months would be sorted together. Also, while the American system of month, day, year makes no sense to us British or indeed any other numbering system, it makes perfect sense when you listen to an American tell you the date - A Brit might say that today is the 10th of February, but an American would say today is February 10th
@@pixlhound yes as a programmer i also use that format but that is still in order just reversed. either YYYY-MM-DD or DD-MM-YYYY is logical because it is in order but MM-DD-YYYY is out of order
DD/MM/YY format is logical to me since, as JT said it changes the most so it is the first thing you want to check. It also puts the format in time duration order i.e. DD < MM < YY.
When my husband and I went to Iceland a couple years ago, the first thing I needed to do was go to the bathroom after I got off the plane. I looooved how their stall doors were completely closed, no gap or anything, complete privacy! I'm originally from Canada, so we have beautifully coloured bills. When I moved to the States, it took me a loooong time to get used to all the bills being the same colour! I miss my color-coordinated bills!
#18 Deep fried everything... A few years ago, my brother was working in DC, he'd been there a couple of weeks, and was looking forward to flying back to the UK for some "real" food. He said that he was in the hotel restaurant, and he finally saw some vegetables on the menu. He ordered his whatever it was and mashed potatoes, along with some broccoli. The meal arrived, and the waitress put down on the table, and my brother, on seeing no green, just a pile of golden shapes instead of his broccoli, as the waitress where his broccoli was, and what was that on his plate?! He said the waitress looked confused and said, it's what you ordered, sir, your broccoli? And sure enough, the pile of gold on his plate was battered deep-fried broccoli! My brother asked why it was battered and fried? The waitress looked at him like he was an idiot, with the expression of "why wouldn't it be!" When he finally got home, the first meal he had was a roast dinner, complete with oven roasted chicken potatoes, carrots, and parsnips, sage and onion stuffing, with plenty of steamed broccoli and peas. He said it was practically the best meal he'd had! After 3 weeks of nothing but fried junk food!
I can completely relate to your brother. I visit Ohio every year to see my brother who is married to an American girl. They very rarely eat fruit and vegetables at home and the only time I’ve been served vegetables in restaurant there was a side of green beans. It’s really difficult to get a decent portion of fresh vegetables in a lot of US restaurants. By then end of my two week holiday I am craving vegetables so much that I practically OD on them when I get home😊
JT spitting facts about the Day/Month thing. It makes so much more sense to have the day first as it changes everyday. Also a day is shorter than a month and a month is shorter than a year. Though I am from the UK i dont have the USA perspective lol
@@alexday5618 If you did research you would find that the M/D /Y was made in the US by the BRITISH, When they were colonizing the 13 original colonies aka the New England States.
Yes the American toilet thing is utterly weird, and the odd thing is that it is so universal in the States. Nobody anywhere ever seems to have said, 'I know, let's stop watching each other taking a dump.' Wherever you go in America you can be easily observed in public toilets. Why has nobody bucked the trend?
Building codes are why they are all the same, as in, maybe we should make sure there is enough room to drag an unconscious person out so we can do CPR.
From what I know it’s so if there’s a medical reason and the person passes out they can get in and unlock the latch but ya put the gap at the top and climb over haha 😂
I love the smiling part, and you both have charming smiles. I live and work in Germany, and most customers coming into the store I work do not smile or even look grumpy. It feels like I did something wrong, even before talking to them 😅Smiles are such an important thing in my opinion, to make people cheer up.
Hi from Germany :) Love you video, here from a germans perspective: 21. VAT is 19% for all goods except for non-produced (so fresh) foods which are taxed at 7%. 20. You get a mandatory minimum of 24 paid days off work if you work full time (35-40h/week). Most employers will give you more than that. Usually you can't take all of them at once. 19. We know those cups but you can't buy them other than on Amazon. We do have plastic cups in white though. Germans usually try to avoid those nowadays bc plastic is bad 4 the environment 18. We do fry things but you're on a whole different level! :D 17. Pharmacies are not allowed to sell anything else than health related products. Noteworthy: prescription drugs come free or with only small fees attached (usually 5€). 16. No free refills! And if you order water you'll get bottled water you have to pay for, so watch out! 15. You can return everything within a timeframe of 14 days after receiving. Many shops will accept returns after that date as well. You should keep your invoice / receipt though (just to be safe). 14. You should tip a waiter roughly 10-15%. We do tip other services as well, for example parcel delivery (1-2€), cab drivers and so on. 13. Yeah, Starbucks is jucky. But I don't like coffee too much anyways. Both is common in Germany. We have a lot of cafe's to sit down and relax too. 12. Soft drinks, beer and so on are all refridgerated here as well. We don't necessarily serve them on ice though. Restaurants will do so in the summer months. Coke at room temp is disgusting 11. Mostly no hosehold has AC only some bigger malls are air conditioned. Summer months can get hot and humid at times but we usually just sweat away which feels as it sounds... 10. I don't like our monoply money very much but it grips better than dollars. Dollars are very sticky somehow, especially new bank notes... 09. Thumbs up here means exactly the same. 08. You and your date / distance / fluids / sizes / temperatures ... most of them make no real sense to most of the world haha 07. My parents don't know what they are but it's getting adapted by many becoming parents these days 06. Yeah germans will tell you how they actually are right now if you ask them as long as they don't know how it's ment. 05. Wow, germans need their privacy. Some public restrooms even have entire separeted rooms for each toilet, otherwise they're very consealed 04. I'm loud as well haha. And it's fine until 10pm. Germans will shush you if you keep "yelling" after 10pm because from 10pm to 6am its night silence by law and you can't be louder than room volume (roughly 40db) 03. We do have a lot of choice too. Not as much as you but definately enough. Grapes are either raw/fresh fruit, rasins or Wine 02. Most people ride shotgun in cabs. 01. Germans always look grumpy. Most of them will be very nice if you come up to them so don't be frightened by their mean face projection
My birthday is the 13th. I was ID'ed at a bar in the US. The person checking my ID was confused by the DD/MM/YYYY thing and asked "Do you have 13 months in a year over there?' - always wondered how they thought that would work.
Evan Edingers video on the average cost of groceries in the UK v USA would be a great one to watch you both react to, I would love to hear your opinions.
i think they are more referring to the 15 varieties of like one type of cereal not the different kinds of cereal. Usually there is a whole aisle but 5 different kinds of raisin bran and 8 different rice crispies etc.
Going for number 2 in the US as a Brit is horrifying! The gap above below and to the side of the doors makes the door pointless, the seats are so big you could fall in and the water comes so high up i either get soggy ends on my toilet paper when I wipe or I lean forward and sometimes skim my tip -.- I always look forward to a proper bog when I get back to the UK
The reason why not many things are grape flavours is because we have blackcurrants These give a wonderful purple colour and also have more flavour than red grapes. Although banned in the US for a number of years, blackcurrent bushes are now being grown in New York State, though I don't know what US products are using them yet.
In Denmark we normally use plain white plastic cups, but the red plastic cups are popping up in some shops, but they are not cheap and they mostly come in beer pong packs
I think you may get a plastic cup in the UK if your taking your drink outside of a pub, restaurant or at a festival but otherwise its at kids parties. Most of the EU have been drinking alcohol since they was 18 or younger. We've all been trained to hold a glass sooner 🙈
Yes we have plastic glasses in the UK but they're usually clear unless you buy them from a cheap store then you can sometimes buy red, I brought red last year for a BBQ to save on washing 😁
@Harvelle * It's my accent the way I spell things over the Internet, and wow!! Didnt think the amount of shit posted online that my punctuation was noticeable, just be respectful.
I've lived in both Scotland England and visitet many places in Europe like Spain, Czechia, Germany and The Netherlands and in all of these places when you order a drink you get ice in it and it had been refridgerated so i dont know where the room temperature drink thing came from. We dont get as much ice though because it waters down the drink too much.
@@jillosler9353 not true either. Every pint i've ever baught has been ice cold. I think its just certain ales that a supposed to be served at room temp but i dont know anyone who drinks them. Probably older gereration
Usually cellar temperature, but it very much depends on the type of beer that is being drunk. Aroma, taste, colour, all play a part in the temperature beer is served. Dark or strong beers should normally be served at warmer temperatures. Lagers are bottom fermented at cooler temperatures and therefore served cooler. The temperature range for beers is between 38-55 degrees F (3-13C).
Most of the food/drink related stereotypes the US has about the UK came from GIs in WWII, when we had very basic foodstuffs and hand pulled pints were at cellar temperatures. This also applies to the teeth stigma.
We can return items in the UK just the same. As long as you’ve got you’re receipt and labels on clothing (for some shops) you can return it. Shops have the amount of time written on the back in small print. Can’t return obvious items like underwear, make up, things like that. Mind you I’m talking about Scotland, where we even have different money to England. Also we have baby showers here before the birth 😊
Driving! You can pass reds in some situations; The trafic lights are in the other side of the road; The signs are text-explained; The STOP sign is STOP in all world, except America; (...) and so on, and so on.... :)
The one thing that got me was my first time in a diner in New York...Damn waitress kept walking past our table and filling our coffees. I then had to constantly ask her for milk and sugar....Eventually we got her to stop re filling. Then the next suprise was having to tip...we dont do that in the UK. Bill came to 25.50$...She got really annoyed when i gave her what the bill was. Should pay people a decent wage like in the rest of europe.
@@marydavis5234 We give prompt service in the UK and across Europe and no tips are required for this as we pay our waiting staff a decent wage and they can get tips for exceptional service on top.
I get 29 paid leave days + 8 bank holiday days per year (UK). The financial year ends at the end of March, so I'm actually off work today using up my allowance and I've still got another 7 days to take before March 31st (I'm having a week off in March for my birthday week). In two years time, once I've been with the company (NHS) for 10 years, my leave days allocation will go up to 33 + bank holidays.
Not in the US but Australia. Here, 'how are you' and 'how you going' are also replacements for hello. Even though I'm multi-generation Australian, the question always seems foreign and will consistently trip me up as I try to answer truthfully whilst also attempting to remember that 'yeah fine thanks' is what I should say.
U.S portion sizes are insane. I am from the UK and live in Hong Kong and have travelled all over the world for work. The U.S (esp mid west and west coast) serve portion sizes far to large for an individual to eat. Crazy.
Same as what Mary said, vast majority of us Americans do not eat the whole portion of food, we get to go containers from the restaurant to take home what we didnt eat and have it the next day.
@@CherokeeBear thats another thing only really in the usa, here you eat at the restaurant or throw it away at the restaurant. you order what you wanna eat then and then eat it then
East coast America portions are huge as well. I put on 6lbs in a week when visiting my other near the end of 2022. So glad to get back to the UK and have a normal size meal 😂
VAT is 20% in the UK but whilst it is a higher rate, it is applied to less things than US Sales Tax. Theoreticaly it is only applied to luxury items, though it covers a lot things that were origionally seen as luxuries and are now standard everyday items.
@@Thurgosh_OG It's really hard to compare in what is considered "going shopping" in the US since as far as I can tell we have more all-in-one stores. Our typical weekly shopping trip inevitably includes a clothing item or two, pharmaceuticals, health and beauty, something from stationary, hardware, automotive, or sporting goods. Two or three items not from the food section can get mentally "tossed in" with the groceries and affect the impression of food costs.
Sometimes, as in Switzerland or Germany, the VAT depends on the item. Lower tax for essentials (most kind of food, clothes...) and some around 20% for all the other stuff they define you don't need to survive. Actually I thought this way is common within Europe, but apparently not
21. Im from Germany and we have 19% Salestax on most things. But for example food only has 7% 20. In Germany we have a minimum of 20 Holiday days but in most cases its around 30 days for employees 19. in most cases we have see through plastic cups or glasses in the club. And they arent throw-away. 18. there isnt a lot that is fried. We have Currywurst or Döner. 17. Our Pharmacies also sell just medicine 16. I think only KFC has free refill in Germany 15. If you have the receipt you can also return almost everything in Germany. I think its almost easier in Germany than in the USA 14. In Germany we tip maybe 10% rarely more 13. I would say its 50/50. Some sit down and drink there Coffee ans some drink it on the go 12. Drinks are most of the times just refrigerated. In restaurants and clubs they'll have some ice. 11. We dont have AC in most places, and when there is AC its rarely on the whole time because we are very sparsam (thrifty) 10. facts :P 9. we also have thumbs up 8. yeah thats fckin weird in the USA. It makes more sense to sort it after "size" the day is the smallest, than the month, than the year. 7. yeah we also celebrate the Baby when the Baby is here. But some households do Baby showers since the USA has of course influenced middle Europe a lot. 6.How are you? is a question that will be answered in Germany and comes in most cases after the "Hello" 5.Bathroom stalls have maybe a 15cm-20cm gap to the ground. (6-7inches.
I've never understood the logic of a 'baby shower'. In the UK my wife had a friend years ago who was pregnant with twins. She went out and bought everything she could think of in pairs including a twin pram. Tragically one of her babies was still born. Having bought two of everything in advance must have added to her distress. It would have been far worse if she'd been pregnant with only one child and lost it.
Here, we have a slightly different approach to babyshowers, it's usually a late afternoon gathering of friends to toast for the mom to be, and not as focused on the presents but in the "catching on" of friends and family (of course we still bring presents, but more symbolic ones like diapers or baby towels and such) and each person either brings something to share or pays for what they consume, and the mom to be's bill is divided amongst the attendees
I'm English, so we normally like to be quiet and discreet in restaurants...........But we've now moved to Andalusia in southern Spain.........You should hear the locals anywhere in public!! A nice quiet Restaurant sounds like a packed nightclub!
I left England & moved to Florida in 06. I found some of this stuff strange. I moved back to England in November 22, & I find it strange reverting back. I find not tipping weird now. Went out to eat with friends. The check was around £250. I asked my friend what to tip. He just said, give them £5 if you want to, but we don’t really bother. Now I’ve been home for 6 months I have to say, on the whole, I prefer it, apart from the weather. It doesn’t matter where you’re from in the world, home will always be home. Another great video guys. I love your channels.
Here in Portugal it's 22 working days vacation. And it's mandatory that you use 10 of them consecutively (2 full weeks). At Christmas you recive one extra salary and another one in July.
In the UK, or where I live anyway, Starbucks exists but it's not as big as Costa Coffee which is everywhere. From my home to the city center which is about 4 miles I can visualise 7 stores that are just on the route I pass and yup, over rated too. I don't like coffee (love the smell) but my wife loved their fruit coolers. Then I realised they just used carton fruit juice and blended it with ice. I saved a fortune.
I assume they fill the cup with Ice because of the free refills to lessen the amount of liquid they have to give. Most people I know here in the UK ask for their drinks without ice to make sure you're getting your moneys worth of liquid.
With the pharmacy entry, in the UK we have Boots which is a pharmacy that also has other products (snacks, drinks, make-up, beauty products, aftershave / perfume, etc).
In Portugal Mainland, we have VAT of 23% on the majority of stuff. Basics go from 6% for first necessity basics (milk, bread, meat, and vegetables), newspapers and magazines, public transportation, pharmaceuticals, and vacation stays (hotels, vacation houses, etc...), then 13% on prepped meals, wine, movies, theatre and music shows, then 23% for ALL the rest...
I think here in Finland, we have the largest candy aisles in the world. (at least one of the largest) seen several youtube videos where foreigners are in shock when they see how much candy is one place (Aisle) - i'm talking about grocery stores and markets
I’m Scottish so no comment on the deep fried foods 😂 but I do get 30 days paid annual leave days AND 11.5 public holidays which are also paid days off. We also get time back for working over our contracted hours.
Returning items is common in England, I think it's the same in other UK countries. I visited the US a few years ago, and tbh, it was hard to get used to the noise. I will always get in the back of the taxi unless there isn't room. Also, there is always ice in the drinks unless you ask otherwise or the drink is refrigerated. The biggest culprits are take out places. Pubs tend to just add a few cubes so it's not so bad and also free refills seem to have become more popular here too. The room temperature drinks things may be more common elsewhere, I don't know.
On the ice, I can relate. Even as an American, I don't like anything "ice cold". You lose the flavor! Chilled? Okay. Near frozen? Nope. I even let ice cream temper a bit. A good quality ice cream should be had that way. Too frozen and it tastes no better than cheap "ice milk".
23% VAT in Portugal, also about the beverage, they also come with the cup full of ice (if you ask for ice), and when you finish it, that is it, you have to pay for another one ( unless they served you a can)
Loved JT's reaction to questioning his boss giving him 30 days paid vacation, that's just the norm in Europe, Australia and New Zealand has even more luxurious paid vacation schemes, they have something called Long Service Leave (LSL) On top of the mandated 4 weeks vacation per year (accrued if you don't take 4 weeks in a year. Eg one year you just take 2 weeks, the following year you can add the untaken 2 weeks to your 4 weeks and have 6 weeks paid vacation) LSL is 12 weeks paid vacation (extra to your mandated 4 weeks) as a kind of loyalty bonus if you stay with one company or employer for 10 years. Employers cover the vacations of their staff by hiring temporary workers, short term contracts are how young people get experience in the jobs they want, in some cases those short term jobs turn into permanent jobs. (My first fulltime job was a 3 month contract filling in for a person who took LSL)
eh, depends where you are: at our company we can only carry over 5 days... and up until recently we had to take 2 weeks in a block for fraud purposes (because if you are in a financial job, it's easier to tell if the person doing the fraud has to take a break)
Finland 30 days (5 weeks, Saturdays are counted) of paid vacation time is mandatory minimum for all full time employees. Also you get a bonus for returning to work after holiday, 15 days salary and it is also mandatory. You might get this before or in the middle of your holiday. Depends on company, but you will get it. Also all hours over 40h / week is overtime, always voluntary and always with raised overtime payment of 50 up to 200% more.
In the UK, although the VAT is high, 20%, its not 20% of the whole item thats added on. its only charged on the value added to the product by the company. If a company sells a product for £10, but the materials they bought to make the product cost £4, the 20% VAT would only apply to the remaining £6 as that is the value added by the business. Also there is a lot of things that have a lower VAT rate than this or 0% VAT like food items ect.
Even if you're right... The company bought it (or its constituents) from another company and paid VAT on the item then. So: Company A buys items totalling £10.00 (of which £1.66 is tax) and then sells it for £15.00 before VAT [£5.00 mark up = £1.00 VAT] or £16.00... total VAT £2.66 (but you only ever see the £1.00)
@@EarlJohn61 vat applies to the whole final value, including manufacturing costs, so a 100£ item has 20£ VAT added on to it. It is pretty easy. Every company down the line pays their cut. So say 5 companies make £20 mark up each before it hits the consumer, each on will pay £4 to the tax man.
@@ForeverNeverwhere1 so, this mythical product has £5 worth of raw materials, and the manufacturer sells it for £10 (of which £2 is VAT)... The distribution company buys the product from the manufacturer and onsells it for £15 (£3 VAT)... The local warehouse buys it from the distributor and sells it for £25 (£5 VAT)... The retailer buys it from the warehouse and sells it for £35 (£7 VAT) Total VAT to the Government is: 2+3+5+7=£17 nearly 50% of final price, but no-one pays more than 20%! But wait there's worse: Each level looks at its total cost [including VAT] and adds its markup to that, then adds the required VAT. So 20% of the markup is due to the VAT and 20% *of that* is VAT on VAT. So not only a tax on a tax, but a tax on itself.
The UK has plenty of choice of products, and we do have grape flavoured things too, although not Skittles it seems, my friend got hold of some American Skittles in which the purple ones are grape flavour, in our normal UK Skittles the purple one's are blackcurrant. So that's weird!
Blackcurrant was banned in the US cause of its effect on some plant life that.s why they developed Grape flavour although I think the ban has been lifted.
@@SwordInTheStorm what effect does blackcurrant have on plant life? Blackcurrants come from plants don't they. I need to do some research into this interesting subject.
Yes in the UK we do have disposable cups, before it became more restrictive to use single use plastics it was normally just white or clear plastic, almost never red ones. Nowadays you can still get clear plastic cups, I had a cocktail a couple of months ago in one, but often the ones sold in stores are paper ones now. Our smaller pharmacies are pretty much just medicine, but a larger branch of Boots for example looks pretty similar to a Wallgreens, where you'll have a large makeup section, toys and gifts, travel items, and a section for on-the-go food and drink.
Some of our supermarkets also have pharmacies staffed by qualified pharmacists so you can do your general shopping and then go to the pharmacy counter to get your doctor's prescription dispensed or buy over the counter medications.
At least for the UK (and the handful of other countries around Europe I've been to) the whole "Drinks at room temperature" thing is nonsense. No idea where it comes from. The drinks will have been refrigerated, and most places either serve it with ice or they will ask if you want ice. Even if you choose no ice, its still cold as it's been in the fridge, it's not room temp at all and as you mentioned earlier in the vid about refills a lot of people choose no ice so that they get a full glass rather than a glass that's mostly ice.
,, in the 70s & early 80s alotta bars had a small amount of fridges but with extra products on a shelf,, ice was often a help yrself affair next to the free peanuts & folk wud have only 1or2 cubes bc it waters down yr booze,, right upto the late eighties squash/cordial and sometimes even coke / sprite-style lemonade was on the bar free,, it was warm but it was free,, so like people drank gin&orange(squash) ,,rum& peppermint,, rum&black,, vodka&lime,, scotch&coke ,,etc real alcoholic mixers like lovage, ginger wine, triple sec or vermouth u had to pay for and were still warm just like the brandy you'd bought to drink by the fire to warm u up 🎉🥃🔥🔥🔥
@@harrymarshall I get the spirits not being refrigerated, but beer/soft drinks, that's just odd. Though I can understand if places didn't have many fridges back then why that might have been the case, but that was a long time ago now, so if that's where this comes from, it's a terribly outdated notion that this is how "many countries outside the US" have their drinks, so seems odd to still be saying it as 'fact' in what is a fairly recent video. I didn't know bars were like that back then though, so thanks for the heads up.
1:45 - Each european country doesn't have only one VAT, we all have multiple different taxes that vary according to the type of product. The values shown in the video are the highest tax for each country. Here in Portugal we have 23%, 13% and 6%. Basic necessity products usually have 6% VAT. 6:28 - Next time you ask for one of those drinks, say you don't want any ice and you'll get a full drink. Problem solved! 9:07 - You won't have much to learn because there's really no tipping culture outside of the US. 10:39 - Room temperature or mildly refrigerated? LOL!!! Tell me you're an uneducated US american without telling me you're an uneducated US american.
Where I live, we use the DMY format and sometimes YMD, but I prefer the YMD format as in a calendar, you first look up the year, then the month, and then the date.
Plastic cups were almost banned here in the Uk ... Or you were made to feel as if you were contrabuting to the global plastic problem... So most outlets stopped issuing single use cups and promote using a reusable bottle. Mostly to avoid a fine from government for plastic waist . Like straws and turtles .. also straws were made paper ..not plastic so they break down quicker . Sometimes before you finish your drink 😂
@@LOVEchristHEwasVEGAN have you thought about buying silicone straws 🤔 they're really cheap and you get a brush to wash them out with I have them in my car and keep some in my handbag you can even get thick ones for milkshakes and smoothies
Finally, someone who agrees with me that these takeaway coffees just taste burnt! I don't like them either, however, there was a Starbucks near a hospital I used to work at years ago in London, and I got low-key semi-addicted to their coffee caramel frappuccino. That thing is DELICIOUS!!
Here in Australia Starbucks actually failed and closed up. Their coffee was just plain crap and we love our barista coffee here, although I do believe they are making a bit of a comeback, but not on the west coast where I'm from. Other franchises also tried it here without much success too. Gloria Jeans comes to mind and wasn't good at all.
@Sylvia Greybe I completely agree, all major coffee chains coffee is nasty. If I'm out and about I go to a small independent coffee shop rather than go to Costa or Starbucks etc.
I was in New York over 10 years ago and found the toilet thing disturbing.😳 Thank god I will never experience that again i’m still getting over it🤣This is refreshing I only ever see videos of things American don’t get in Europe.😉
Drop over with a heart attack and they can't drag your limp ass out to do CPR. You'll wish you had those extra inches available. I used to work as an EMT years ago. Yes it does happen.
About the tipping culture in the US: Many servers in restaurants are paid minimum wage or lower, and are told that the rest is paid for in tips. How that's legal, I don't know. But because it is legal, please tip your servers, your tips are the only thing paying their rent.
13:00 our way of putting the date is also different because we say it differently. We don't say September the 15th, we say 15 september! Because indeed, the day is the first thing to change, the month only does 12 times a year ;) Edit: 19:09 "not you" damn... he was so excited to join in...
But you did just kind of explain exactly why we list the month first. It makes perfect sense to me why the rest of the world lists the date in ascending order of unit length. It also makes perfect sense to me why the US would list in ascending order of possible range. World model: day < month < year US model: 12 months < 30ish days < infinite years
I agree with you regarding the ice in drinks. When I worked in the states I used to ask for my drinks without ice. All my american friends used to laugh at me until I measured the drinks out in front of them. I used to get nearly 3 times the amount in my glass to them. Also they can afford to give free refills as a bar owner once told me the soft drinks come to them as syrup in a plastic bag and costs virtually a penny per pull. The bars and such consider them loss leaders.
All soft drinks in pubs and fast food places in the UK are made from syrup and mixed with tap water which is carbonated then chilled on the way to the pump.
@@Neil_Hyman Is your argument that ice doesn't keep drinks cool? Really? Also, everyone in the world makes their soda the exact same way as you describe. It's not unique to the UK.
@@Tijuanabill I think what Neil was telling you is that UK drinks (like a lot of places) already come chilled before any ice is added, so the 'hot soda' you mentioned is not a thing for us in the UK.
@@Thurgosh_OG I find it hilarious that backward Eurotrash think they have something special, because their soda comes out cold, just like it does everywhere in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Went to America for the first time last year and was shocked with the food shopping. I purchased about a dozen items and cost me over $100 it if I purchased the same items in the uk would cost me roughly £45
And those of us who have at least a little bit more than a basic education know that we have tRump's nationalistic farce to thank for that. Overpriced "made in America" and tariffs on imports that just got passed on to the average American.
Sales tax doesn’t just varie from state to state but from different ares in a state. Some cities charge extra sales tax for things like area as or stadiums.
Thanks for the video. It was interesting to watch ☺️ may I add some comments as a person who lives in Europe? 1) in German speaking countries there's no problem with returning bought goods. Here most of things are based on trust. I used to work for Lidl and if customers have lost or threw away their receipts, there's no problem with returning bought goods. 2) it's becoming natural to buy to-go coffees because of the life pace. 3) yes, AC's are not that widespread because they harm our nature (they make an input into the global warning). 4) we do tip, not only at cafes and restaurants (more conventional). At cabs, supermarkets, McDonald's too (not everyone does though). 5) baby showers are becoming popular here too 🙂 6) for me it's natural that the sales tax is already included in the goods' price. We have 10% VAT on food and 20% on beverages. I've lived some time in England too and there a coke costs more if more sugar is added into the beverage. This is their way of fighting against obesity. They want people to stay healthy 🙂
Australia and New Zealand have a well developed coffee culture and Starbucks is just not in the same game when it comes to coffee (and let's not even think about what they do to the good old cup of tea). One question, do you celebrate July the fourth or the fourth of July? Just wondering....
Here in Sweden I never been to a party where they used plastic cups, always uses ordinary wine, beer or drink glass. Sometimes at barbecues or outdoor parties we use plastic cups...lots of dishes to do the day after though :D
The “how are you?” As “hello” thing is very common elsewhere. Here in the UK- we would say “you alright?”, “y’alright?”, “alright”, or here in Newcastle “alreet?”- and none require a response- we often say the same thing back. Just like how “howdy” came from “how do you do?”
Enjoyed your video but totally disagree with the amount of food choice we have in UK. In my experience we have much more options and US you tubers who visit and experience our supermarkets all say the same. I love US but feel very unsafe using your public conveniences - no dignity at all! My employer gives 30 days paid holiday plus 10 more paid days covering Easter, Christmas etc. We shut down from Christmas eve right through to 2 January. Everyone is paid and if you're sick you get paid as well. A minimum of 4 weeks paid holiday leave is mandatory with many employers giving more. Treating your staff well is a win-win situation.
I have three types of work days. Ones where I work and I get paid, ones where I don't work, and don't get paid, and ones where I did work, but still didn't get paid. But I make so much, none of that matters to me. If I get sick, I don't work. There is no limit to how many days; I can never work again or work every day. It doesn't matter to my employer because they aren't paying me to not work anyway.
Here in the UK our tax (VAT) is set at 20%. This went up about 5-10 years ago from around 17ish%. As it is already on the price for items in supermarkets we do not think about it or notice it. Also with the fried food, Scotland deep frys everything too. I have been in Edinburgh and had a deep fried mars bar (chocolate bar) and deep fried kebab. (Kebab meat and chips in a tortilla wrap then dipped in batter and fried).
Most basic food eg fresh fruit, vegetables, raw fish, meat, dairy etc are zero VAT, but many processed foods and drinks are subject to VAT. The rules are complex and weird really, apparently you pay VAT on potato based snacks but not on tortilla chips or non potato vegetable crisps also many cakes and biscuits are exempt but VAT is paid on ice cream and chocolate covered biscuits. It’s all included in the price already so you never really know whether you are paying it or not.
Ok, the whole idea that the UK doesn't have loads of options for food like the US is a total lie, just like in the US we have entire isles just of things like biscuits and cereals. It just depends on whether or not its a big shopping centre or a small shop.
15:40 I feel you on that one. I'm from Luxembourg (central Europe) and we sort of have a similar reputation of speaking loudly. And I can't even deny it, I've herad it for myself many times being elsewhere. If there are Luxebourgish people around, you often hear them right away 😅. Even in neigbouring countries. When I studied in Bonn, Germany, my friends asked me SO OFTEN to pipe down a little. But yeah, habits are hard to break...
It's pretty weird to be taking things back to Asda unless faulty/something is wrong. You have no right to return anything to a store unless it is faulty. Of course lots of places do allow it though.
Marks & Spencer have a 28 day returns policy on clothing. There is no general right to return goods unless they are faulty or not as described on the packaging/advertisement.
6:36 The thing is that in an average restaurant, if you ask for coke for example, they'll bring you the glass with the ice and lemon, or whatever they add, and the can/bottle of coke. That way, you get what you pay for, but either way, refill is still a thing in fast food places like mcdonalds,
The hardest thing to believe the holidays only 2 weeks a year 😱 and we are complaining about changing ours from 45 days to 30 days and give us half work day at Fridays 😅😅
I love how Anna’s reaction to the date thing is the same reaction the rest of the world have to the way you guys write the date. It’s so fecking dumb to right the month first 😂
Like no offence to anyone
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Date_and_time_notation_in_the_United_States
@@Jbatley1 Like I mentioned on another comment. Do you look for the day page on a calendar first? Or do you turn to the month first? My calendar has the month you look to first.
@@DDS029 I tend to look at the year first
@@DDS029 but the month doesn't change every day,
I don't agree with the comment about lack of choice in the UK...there is plenty of choice, too much sometimes. We have whole aisles in supermarkets dedicated to cereals, biscuits, etc...and while we tend to have blackcurrant drinks such as Ribena, we have whole aisles dedicated to grape drinks too - it's called WINE!!! 🍇🍷🥂🍾😀
My favourite aisle
I was just coming to comment exactly the same 😂 cookies/biscuits we have endless choices, the same as with breakfast/cereal.. love the wine comment too 😂
blackcurrant is banned in America lol
@@colby_247 Most states lifted the ban by 2003.
When they say lack of choice, they mean there isn’t an aisle purely dedicated to a thousand different types of Oreo 😂🤦♂️
UK notes are all different sizes not for aesthetic reasons but for the blind. It allows them to tell the value based on the size. The new plastic notes have braille on them too. It's also why our coins are so distinctive in shape and size.
12:10 hi! i wanted to add something to this fact. I'm argentinian and we also have very colorful bills. it usually helps elderly people (or even normals adults) recognize their money easier. so that if they're paying someone they don't mix up the 100 for the 20, and are not taken advantage of by some stranger 😊
Same in Europe! And it also helps visually impaired people because aside from different colors, each banknote has a unique size.
I think one of the weirdest things that I as an eurpoean also come in contact with alot (when doing online shopping for example), is the fact that you guys use this weird ass imperial system of units, instead of the metric system like everyone else in the world does, it's just a thing that makes things more complicated than they need to be :D
Americans also measure stuff by all kinds of peculiar things. Something might be the size of two football fields or four washing machines. Is the imperial system so counter-intuitive that measuring by random items is tempting? Whyyyy not then switch to the metric system?
We just use it because we got it from Europe back when it was the norm. Now it's too much trouble to change everything from imperial to metric when it already works.
It is even more confusing in the UK, as a mixture of the imperial system and the metric system is used
Wait untill you see how they tell the exact time (s:h:m:d:y)
I'm in Scotland and still use imperial, metric confuses me 😂
We are trusted to use glasses for drinking in the UK 😂
Come on we have disposable ones too
@@personalcheeses8073 Honestly the only time i see them is at childrens parties. Never seen an adult party in the UK with disposable cups.
@@personalcheeses8073 Yes they exist. But how often do we ever use them at a party? We like to drink out of glass!
Unless it's at a concert, football match, or anywhere outdoors with a big crowd. Then we get the plastic pint glasses. They even fill from the bottom now 🤣🤣
@@SpLiC3 been to many parties in London where they always use disposable cups
In UK we have entire aisles full of biscuits (cookies). The big difference is that we don’t have multiple options to buy basically the same cookie. In UK there is a huge variety of different biscuits that are very diverse in texture, flavour and shapes.
The only exception are the Marylands and the countless knockoffs!
@@pattyx984 I think he was refering to the different sizes of the same products the americans have. A variety of flavours of the same product like maryland cookies is not the same. We usually have 1 or 2 different options for most products, in america there are sometimes 10 + different sizes of the same product
@@WeAreThePeople1690 I agree lol, not heard of marylands tho (I am from UK, but mostly shop in aldi or Asda, rarely but sometimes Iceland) but we do have a good selection, the prices tho.... THEY KEEP CLIMBING like Ughhh, I remember when Tesco gingernut cookies (their own brand) where like 20p a pack, their now like 50p like wtf... Cost of living is so fucked, esp the electric prices!!
@@WeAreThePeople1690 I don't know about that. In the US, at least where I'm at, you can have a selection of the same thing, same size, same number per package, but different brands. Which usually follows the "You get what you pay for." axiom. Then you have the "same thing" at different stores. I drink Gatorade. But Gatorade from Walmart if very different from the regional Meijer stores. The Gatorade is cheaper at Walmart, but it's also two to three months older, and it tastes it. Yucchh!
We needed one thing recently, so we used that as a reason to check out an Aldi store. It had a Walmart feel to it. Cheap things, looked "cheap." Not real appetizing, especially the produce.
Plastic red cups? Poor old planet.
For the VAT, I'll explain the situation regarding Italy (since I was born and lived here all my life):
in the map it says 22%, and that's correct, partly.
You see we actually have 4 VAT categories, 22% is just the highest, reserved for luxury items and services(which doesn't mean jewelry, just things you can live without, like alcohol, cars, electronics, and that stuff).
Next is 10%, and that's mainly for processed foods, that includes things like yoghurt, flour, alimentary fats. Firewood is in this category aswell.
Next there's a 5% tax, that's mainly for spices, public transport, products for child feeding like powder milk, tampons..
Lastly, at 4%, is everything that is deemed necessary for life, so here you have fresh milk, cheese, fruits and vegetables, plus important services like newspapers, housing, medical appliances.
So, yeah, you'll pay 22% tax on your new iPhone, but in a grocery shop, unless you go crazy with alcohol, sweets, and processed food, you won't pay more than 5-6% tax on average.
Yawn yawn yawn
@@clansman3766 sorry, too complicated for you? I can imagine how you find it boring if you can't understand it.
@@Moribax85 I dinnae find it boring, more that I find you boring
@@clansman3766 That explains your lack of education: if you find me boring, you'll find anyone who tries to explain something boring, hence why you turned out as an ignorant creature that thinks insulting people is funny.
I honestly pity you.
Yeah, similar in the UK, it is 20% VAT however some items have reduced rates (10%, 5% or 0%) such as medicine, electricity, gas, heating etc
The Americans being loud-thing is so true, hahaha! When I walk in Brussels or anywhere else in Europe, and I hear voices stick out above the masses (even before I can hear what is being said), I know that some US citizens are visiting! 🙂Europe was so quite during lockdown, hahaha. (and I am not saying that it's a bad thing)
Love your reaction to VAT. :D
It's 20% in the UK and has been for over a decade now. We don't even notice it because it's just there.
When we buy something and it says, £3.99 we know that we will pay £3.99 at the till :D
Having lived and worked in the US... and now back in UK, groceries and clothing isn't that much cheaper in US either so cost of living balances out even though vat % is so different
"Starbucks is overrated". You said that and I could not agree more. Here in Australia, Starbucks went broke. People tried it once and never went back because they can't make coffee. Australians know what good coffee tastes like and you don't get it in Starbucks - but you do get it in the many cafes you find in the cities.
It´s very similar in Finland like i think we have 5 Starbucks cafes here and they’re all in the Helsinki metropolitan area. I mainly see people either working in them, younger people hanging out with friends or tourists. I personally pretty much hate Starbucks coffee, it just isn’t as good as i can just make at home for lesser price.
The only thing I like from starbuck, is getting the coffee beans, not a coffee they made lmao
@@ReversedTech That's the difference. Most people, even in different parts of the world don't make the coffee at home the same way and with the same equipment as Starbucks. You have to go to a high end restaurant or the home of someone who does have the same type of machines. I'm sure my favorite brand of coffee would taste entirely different if made in a French Press as opposed to my K-cup type machine. And I'd probably would "hate" it.
i think this is quite similar in England, most people go to costa and Greggs. i would perhaps only go to buy fraps or refreshing drinks(even though i never had any of that from there except trying a sip of iced coffee when my sister got from there)😅
The best coffee I've ever had was in Adelaide!! It's a bit far from the UK to go for a coffee!!! Although I would!!! ;)
I think the UK doesn't really sell single-use plastic cups because the amount that would end up in landfill would be CRAZY. It's probably the same for most other countries.
Or because the can or bottle exists so the cup isnt required
You can buy disposable plastic cups at literally any decent size supermarket or homeware store in the UK!
It's just that we don't have Hollywood here
@@mrmessy7334 yep, we get them for events at work. a lot of places sell paper cups too
We are refined enough to be able to use glasses for most party occasions. Children's parties are exceptions.
With the day month and year thing, I think in the UK like other places are right because we write it small, big and then biggest. So the day is smaller than the month and month smaller than the year. And also because we only have to change the first one when we get to a new day.
Hours, minutes, seconds?
@AMC still makes more sense than big, small, biggest like the American date system. Also need to think of it as the most variable figure is prioritised. With the date, the day changes most often, but with time, the second does. If you start with the seconds, then the minutes, then the hours then by the time you say the hour the second has changed. That why it's the opposite way round
@@TheEndOfNowhere Were you actually trying to make an opposing point? What you’ve just said goes in order. You’ve just cemented his point even more you idiot.
Logic depends entirely on what you are doing and why. For example it's a common convention in many areas of IT to label things year, month. day, and for good reason. If you were to use the regular day, month, year convention, sorting logs and files etc would break the ascension of months and years - all the days of different months would be sorted together.
Also, while the American system of month, day, year makes no sense to us British or indeed any other numbering system, it makes perfect sense when you listen to an American tell you the date - A Brit might say that today is the 10th of February, but an American would say today is February 10th
@@pixlhound yes as a programmer i also use that format but that is still in order just reversed. either YYYY-MM-DD or DD-MM-YYYY is logical because it is in order but MM-DD-YYYY is out of order
DD/MM/YY format is logical to me since, as JT said it changes the most so it is the first thing you want to check. It also puts the format in time duration order i.e. DD < MM < YY.
When my husband and I went to Iceland a couple years ago, the first thing I needed to do was go to the bathroom after I got off the plane. I looooved how their stall doors were completely closed, no gap or anything, complete privacy!
I'm originally from Canada, so we have beautifully coloured bills. When I moved to the States, it took me a loooong time to get used to all the bills being the same colour! I miss my color-coordinated bills!
#18 Deep fried everything...
A few years ago, my brother was working in DC, he'd been there a couple of weeks, and was looking forward to flying back to the UK for some "real" food.
He said that he was in the hotel restaurant, and he finally saw some vegetables on the menu. He ordered his whatever it was and mashed potatoes, along with some broccoli.
The meal arrived, and the waitress put down on the table, and my brother, on seeing no green, just a pile of golden shapes instead of his broccoli, as the waitress where his broccoli was, and what was that on his plate?!
He said the waitress looked confused and said, it's what you ordered, sir, your broccoli?
And sure enough, the pile of gold on his plate was battered deep-fried broccoli!
My brother asked why it was battered and fried? The waitress looked at him like he was an idiot, with the expression of "why wouldn't it be!"
When he finally got home, the first meal he had was a roast dinner, complete with oven roasted chicken potatoes, carrots, and parsnips, sage and onion stuffing, with plenty of steamed broccoli and peas. He said it was practically the best meal he'd had! After 3 weeks of nothing but fried junk food!
I can completely relate to your brother. I visit Ohio every year to see my brother who is married to an American girl.
They very rarely eat fruit and vegetables at home and the only time I’ve been served vegetables in restaurant there was a side of green beans. It’s really difficult to get a decent portion of fresh vegetables in a lot of US restaurants.
By then end of my two week holiday I am craving vegetables so much that I practically OD on them when I get home😊
I lived in New jersey for 2 years so I know how he felt.
He probably ordered battered Broccoli instead of the steamed broccoli as some US restaurants have both on their menus.
@@marydavis5234 lol ive never seen battered broccoli on a menu before its almost all the time steamed at least thats how it is in Fl
@@TitanTerrastoya I live in Vermont and some restaurants here have battered Vegetables on their menus, what I mean by battered is deep fried.
JT spitting facts about the Day/Month thing. It makes so much more sense to have the day first as it changes everyday. Also a day is shorter than a month and a month is shorter than a year. Though I am from the UK i dont have the USA perspective lol
The only reason to do it the other way is ordering photos in a computer folder
@Alex Day For ordering files in a computer folder you want year/ month/day. At no point is month/day/year remotely sensible.
@@alexday5618 If you did research you would find that the M/D /Y was made in the US by the BRITISH, When they were colonizing the 13 original colonies aka the New England States.
Left to right, smallest to largest. And for electronically ordering photos, exactly the opposite 👍😊
@@marydavis5234 why would that matter
Yes the American toilet thing is utterly weird, and the odd thing is that it is so universal in the States. Nobody anywhere ever seems to have said, 'I know, let's stop watching each other taking a dump.' Wherever you go in America you can be easily observed in public toilets. Why has nobody bucked the trend?
No one looks at yoo,when you are in public bathrooms and the photo is wrong, the door is not that high up , it does not go pass your ankles.
@@marydavis5234 the bottoms not the issue tho, its the slits
@@marydavis5234 It’s still weird and creepy
Building codes are why they are all the same, as in, maybe we should make sure there is enough room to drag an unconscious person out so we can do CPR.
From what I know it’s so if there’s a medical reason and the person passes out they can get in and unlock the latch but ya put the gap at the top and climb over haha 😂
I love the smiling part, and you both have charming smiles. I live and work in Germany, and most customers coming into the store I work do not smile or even look grumpy. It feels like I did something wrong, even before talking to them 😅Smiles are such an important thing in my opinion, to make people cheer up.
Hi from Germany :) Love you video, here from a germans perspective:
21. VAT is 19% for all goods except for non-produced (so fresh) foods which are taxed at 7%.
20. You get a mandatory minimum of 24 paid days off work if you work full time (35-40h/week). Most employers will give you more than that. Usually you can't take all of them at once.
19. We know those cups but you can't buy them other than on Amazon. We do have plastic cups in white though. Germans usually try to avoid those nowadays bc plastic is bad 4 the environment
18. We do fry things but you're on a whole different level! :D
17. Pharmacies are not allowed to sell anything else than health related products. Noteworthy: prescription drugs come free or with only small fees attached (usually 5€).
16. No free refills! And if you order water you'll get bottled water you have to pay for, so watch out!
15. You can return everything within a timeframe of 14 days after receiving. Many shops will accept returns after that date as well. You should keep your invoice / receipt though (just to be safe).
14. You should tip a waiter roughly 10-15%. We do tip other services as well, for example parcel delivery (1-2€), cab drivers and so on.
13. Yeah, Starbucks is jucky. But I don't like coffee too much anyways. Both is common in Germany. We have a lot of cafe's to sit down and relax too.
12. Soft drinks, beer and so on are all refridgerated here as well. We don't necessarily serve them on ice though. Restaurants will do so in the summer months. Coke at room temp is disgusting
11. Mostly no hosehold has AC only some bigger malls are air conditioned. Summer months can get hot and humid at times but we usually just sweat away which feels as it sounds...
10. I don't like our monoply money very much but it grips better than dollars. Dollars are very sticky somehow, especially new bank notes...
09. Thumbs up here means exactly the same.
08. You and your date / distance / fluids / sizes / temperatures ... most of them make no real sense to most of the world haha
07. My parents don't know what they are but it's getting adapted by many becoming parents these days
06. Yeah germans will tell you how they actually are right now if you ask them as long as they don't know how it's ment.
05. Wow, germans need their privacy. Some public restrooms even have entire separeted rooms for each toilet, otherwise they're very consealed
04. I'm loud as well haha. And it's fine until 10pm. Germans will shush you if you keep "yelling" after 10pm because from 10pm to 6am its night silence by law and you can't be louder than room volume (roughly 40db)
03. We do have a lot of choice too. Not as much as you but definately enough. Grapes are either raw/fresh fruit, rasins or Wine
02. Most people ride shotgun in cabs.
01. Germans always look grumpy. Most of them will be very nice if you come up to them so don't be frightened by their mean face projection
My birthday is the 13th. I was ID'ed at a bar in the US. The person checking my ID was confused by the DD/MM/YYYY thing and asked "Do you have 13 months in a year over there?' - always wondered how they thought that would work.
Yes its called Smarch
Homer J Simpson: “Lousy Smarch weather.”
Could have been a joke. We do have a sense of humor . . . At least most of us do.
@DDS029 Maybe but the confused look and follow-up question didn't convey that.
@@DDS029 maybe but also a lot of dumb people sorry haha
Evan Edingers video on the average cost of groceries in the UK v USA would be a great one to watch you both react to, I would love to hear your opinions.
Link to the video
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Yes, I totally agree. Might give these guys a shock regarding the cost of a weekly grocery shopping trip in both countries.
@@AlSnoopsReid Evans video only compared his hometowns online cost of groceries vs the UK.
We do have heaps of joice in our UK food stores! The narrator states US citizens have around 10 cereals options. I’d say we’ve got closer to 30 😂
30 is probably a low estimate aswell.
And 60+ biscuit varieties too.
There must be 10 different types of cornflakes here in England let alone different cereals.
But unlike us there isnt a whole pallet of each
i think they are more referring to the 15 varieties of like one type of cereal not the different kinds of cereal. Usually there is a whole aisle but 5 different kinds of raisin bran and 8 different rice crispies etc.
Yes we have plastic cups they just aren’t usually red . Most common is see through so you can see the colour of the liquid your drinking .
When I went to America back in 2017 every American that we met was super warm and friendly
the main one that gets me is how you call your sports stuff the world series
@@marydavis5234 🧢
@@marydavis5234 Rubbish!
@@WiFiWombat it is called the world series as players on the teams are from other countries.
Going for number 2 in the US as a Brit is horrifying! The gap above below and to the side of the doors makes the door pointless, the seats are so big you could fall in and the water comes so high up i either get soggy ends on my toilet paper when I wipe or I lean forward and sometimes skim my tip -.- I always look forward to a proper bog when I get back to the UK
"skim my tip" -_-
*everyone violently shudders, having PTSD from that scenario*
poseidons kiss
The reason why not many things are grape flavours is because we have blackcurrants These give a wonderful purple colour and also have more flavour than red grapes. Although banned in the US for a number of years, blackcurrent bushes are now being grown in New York State, though I don't know what US products are using them yet.
I've seen jellies, jams, or preserves, whichever one or ones they were, in stores.
If you're gonna waste time toasting marshmallows , you're bound to write the date wrong too😂
In Denmark we normally use plain white plastic cups, but the red plastic cups are popping up in some shops, but they are not cheap and they mostly come in beer pong packs
I think you may get a plastic cup in the UK if your taking your drink outside of a pub, restaurant or at a festival but otherwise its at kids parties.
Most of the EU have been drinking alcohol since they was 18 or younger. We've all been trained to hold a glass sooner 🙈
But never red! Mainly clear from a pub
'Were 18', not 'was 18' You obviously need to go back to school honey 🙄
Yes we have plastic glasses in the UK but they're usually clear unless you buy them from a cheap store then you can sometimes buy red, I brought red last year for a BBQ to save on washing 😁
@Harvelle * It's my accent the way I spell things over the Internet, and wow!!
Didnt think the amount of shit posted online that my punctuation was noticeable, just be respectful.
@@harvelle2432 whwn your argument is so weak you have to try to sit on a high horse over grammar to be validated.. 🥱🤣🤣
The thing about no choice at the supermarket isn't true, but we don't usually have grape flavour here, we have blackcurrant flavour here though.
Yeah I got confused when he said that 🤔
@@mikef55 I'd say the narrator of the vid has never been to the UK. He's just reading from a script.
KA grape used to be my favorite pop
Grape flavour is not a thing outside the U.S.
@William Very often, Americans get it wrong !!...
I've lived in both Scotland England and visitet many places in Europe like Spain, Czechia, Germany and The Netherlands and in all of these places when you order a drink you get ice in it and it had been refridgerated so i dont know where the room temperature drink thing came from. We dont get as much ice though because it waters down the drink too much.
I think it's mostly draught beers that are room temperature.
@@jillosler9353 not true either. Every pint i've ever baught has been ice cold.
I think its just certain ales that a supposed to be served at room temp but i dont know anyone who drinks them. Probably older gereration
Usually cellar temperature, but it very much depends on the type of beer that is being drunk. Aroma, taste, colour, all play a part in the temperature beer is served. Dark or strong beers should normally be served at warmer temperatures. Lagers are bottom fermented at cooler temperatures and therefore served cooler. The temperature range for beers is between 38-55 degrees F (3-13C).
Most of the food/drink related stereotypes the US has about the UK came from GIs in WWII, when we had very basic foodstuffs and hand pulled pints were at cellar temperatures. This also applies to the teeth stigma.
Nobody anywhere puts ice in wine or beer. Or if they do, I've never been there.
We can return items in the UK just the same. As long as you’ve got you’re receipt and labels on clothing (for some shops) you can return it. Shops have the amount of time written on the back in small print. Can’t return obvious items like underwear, make up, things like that. Mind you I’m talking about Scotland, where we even have different money to England. Also we have baby showers here before the birth 😊
Driving!
You can pass reds in some situations;
The trafic lights are in the other side of the road;
The signs are text-explained;
The STOP sign is STOP in all world, except America;
(...) and so on, and so on....
:)
I love coffee but even if I'd been through a desert on a horse with no name I wouldn't be thirsty enough to drink a Starbucks coffee.
The one thing that got me was my first time in a diner in New York...Damn waitress kept walking past our table and filling our coffees. I then had to constantly ask her for milk and sugar....Eventually we got her to stop re filling. Then the next suprise was having to tip...we dont do that in the UK. Bill came to 25.50$...She got really annoyed when i gave her what the bill was. Should pay people a decent wage like in the rest of europe.
I think only US needs to tip, we don't tip in Asia too because most of restaurants are included service charge.
New York is NOT in Europe, TIPS-To Insure Prompt Service.
@@colby_247 a service charge is a tip.
@@marydavis5234 We give prompt service in the UK and across Europe and no tips are required for this as we pay our waiting staff a decent wage and they can get tips for exceptional service on top.
@@marydavis5234 you know, the rest of the world considers the EMPLOYER to be responsible for paying their staff properl, not the cutomer.
I get 29 paid leave days + 8 bank holiday days per year (UK). The financial year ends at the end of March, so I'm actually off work today using up my allowance and I've still got another 7 days to take before March 31st (I'm having a week off in March for my birthday week). In two years time, once I've been with the company (NHS) for 10 years, my leave days allocation will go up to 33 + bank holidays.
Financial year starts April 5/6th, only ever remember this because it’s around my birthday every year
And them strike days 🤗
@@s0n0n35 Not me, I'm not on the clinical side, I'm an IT bod. 😆
Failed to say minimum four weeks and 10 days public holidays paid leave.
On the free refills: You can ask for light or no ice.
Not in the US but Australia. Here, 'how are you' and 'how you going' are also replacements for hello. Even though I'm multi-generation Australian, the question always seems foreign and will consistently trip me up as I try to answer truthfully whilst also attempting to remember that 'yeah fine thanks' is what I should say.
It's the same as "you alright" or in some accents "y'alright" here in the UK
One of the other things that i don't understand in the US is the level of the toilet water, it always looks flooded.
U.S portion sizes are insane. I am from the UK and live in Hong Kong and have travelled all over the world for work. The U.S (esp mid west and west coast) serve portion sizes far to large for an individual to eat. Crazy.
You don't eat the whole big meal at once in the US, you can take it home for Lunch the next day.
Same as what Mary said, vast majority of us Americans do not eat the whole portion of food, we get to go containers from the restaurant to take home what we didnt eat and have it the next day.
@@CherokeeBear thats another thing only really in the usa, here you eat at the restaurant or throw it away at the restaurant. you order what you wanna eat then and then eat it then
East coast America portions are huge as well. I put on 6lbs in a week when visiting my other near the end of 2022. So glad to get back to the UK and have a normal size meal 😂
@@TherealHeisenberg75 You don't have to eat the whole meal at once, take some home for Lunch the next day.
VAT is 20% in the UK but whilst it is a higher rate, it is applied to less things than US Sales Tax. Theoreticaly it is only applied to luxury items, though it covers a lot things that were origionally seen as luxuries and are now standard everyday items.
And despite that our grocery shopping is still cheaper in general than the US.
@@Thurgosh_OG It's really hard to compare in what is considered "going shopping" in the US since as far as I can tell we have more all-in-one stores. Our typical weekly shopping trip inevitably includes a clothing item or two, pharmaceuticals, health and beauty, something from stationary, hardware, automotive, or sporting goods. Two or three items not from the food section can get mentally "tossed in" with the groceries and affect the impression of food costs.
Sometimes, as in Switzerland or Germany, the VAT depends on the item. Lower tax for essentials (most kind of food, clothes...) and some around 20% for all the other stuff they define you don't need to survive. Actually I thought this way is common within Europe, but apparently not
In Denmark VAT is 25% and is added to everything O_O
Aussie here and have always sat the back seat. No cabbie has ever complained, usually have a great old chat 😊
21. Im from Germany and we have 19% Salestax on most things. But for example food only has 7%
20. In Germany we have a minimum of 20 Holiday days but in most cases its around 30 days for employees
19. in most cases we have see through plastic cups or glasses in the club. And they arent throw-away.
18. there isnt a lot that is fried. We have Currywurst or Döner.
17. Our Pharmacies also sell just medicine
16. I think only KFC has free refill in Germany
15. If you have the receipt you can also return almost everything in Germany. I think its almost easier in Germany than in the USA
14. In Germany we tip maybe 10% rarely more
13. I would say its 50/50. Some sit down and drink there Coffee ans some drink it on the go
12. Drinks are most of the times just refrigerated. In restaurants and clubs they'll have some ice.
11. We dont have AC in most places, and when there is AC its rarely on the whole time because we are very sparsam (thrifty)
10. facts :P
9. we also have thumbs up
8. yeah thats fckin weird in the USA. It makes more sense to sort it after "size" the day is the smallest, than the month, than the year.
7. yeah we also celebrate the Baby when the Baby is here. But some households do Baby showers since the USA has of course influenced middle Europe a lot.
6.How are you? is a question that will be answered in Germany and comes in most cases after the "Hello"
5.Bathroom stalls have maybe a 15cm-20cm gap to the ground. (6-7inches.
I've never understood the logic of a 'baby shower'. In the UK my wife had a friend years ago who was pregnant with twins. She went out and bought everything she could think of in pairs including a twin pram. Tragically one of her babies was still born. Having bought two of everything in advance must have added to her distress. It would have been far worse if she'd been pregnant with only one child and lost it.
Here, we have a slightly different approach to babyshowers, it's usually a late afternoon gathering of friends to toast for the mom to be, and not as focused on the presents but in the "catching on" of friends and family (of course we still bring presents, but more symbolic ones like diapers or baby towels and such) and each person either brings something to share or pays for what they consume, and the mom to be's bill is divided amongst the attendees
A cheeky face here in UK means exact opposite here. It means charming and jolly
or menacing
I'm English, so we normally like to be quiet and discreet in restaurants...........But we've now moved to Andalusia in southern Spain.........You should hear the locals anywhere in public!!
A nice quiet Restaurant sounds like a packed nightclub!
I left England & moved to Florida in 06. I found some of this stuff strange. I moved back to England in November 22, & I find it strange reverting back. I find not tipping weird now. Went out to eat with friends. The check was around £250. I asked my friend what to tip. He just said, give them £5 if you want to, but we don’t really bother. Now I’ve been home for 6 months I have to say, on the whole, I prefer it, apart from the weather. It doesn’t matter where you’re from in the world, home will always be home. Another great video guys. I love your channels.
Here in Portugal it's 22 working days vacation. And it's mandatory that you use 10 of them consecutively (2 full weeks). At Christmas you recive one extra salary and another one in July.
In the UK, or where I live anyway, Starbucks exists but it's not as big as Costa Coffee which is everywhere. From my home to the city center which is about 4 miles I can visualise 7 stores that are just on the route I pass and yup, over rated too. I don't like coffee (love the smell) but my wife loved their fruit coolers. Then I realised they just used carton fruit juice and blended it with ice. I saved a fortune.
I have two on my street, both less than a 5 minute walk from one another.. we just know that one is good & the other is crap lol
Costa and Nero. Coffee #1 is decent too but the Lounge is no good.
I assume they fill the cup with Ice because of the free refills to lessen the amount of liquid they have to give. Most people I know here in the UK ask for their drinks without ice to make sure you're getting your moneys worth of liquid.
Or if you're like me, you get ice & eat the ice after you finish your drink like a psyco
@@mikef55 Teenage me would do that, but these days I feel like my teeth would break before the ice lol
Vat is indeed 20% in the UK on goods and services but most food, travel and kids clothes are exempt.
Lots of food is subject to VAT, not all
@@scottirvine121 true. Food consumed on premises. Sugary food and alcohol is vatable.
@@scottirvine121 Very little "food of a kind used for human consumption" outside of catered food is subject to VAT.
With the pharmacy entry, in the UK we have Boots which is a pharmacy that also has other products (snacks, drinks, make-up, beauty products, aftershave / perfume, etc).
In Portugal Mainland, we have VAT of 23% on the majority of stuff. Basics go from 6% for first necessity basics (milk, bread, meat, and vegetables), newspapers and magazines, public transportation, pharmaceuticals, and vacation stays (hotels, vacation houses, etc...), then 13% on prepped meals, wine, movies, theatre and music shows, then 23% for ALL the rest...
I think here in Finland, we have the largest candy aisles in the world. (at least one of the largest)
seen several youtube videos where foreigners are in shock when they see how much candy is one place (Aisle)
- i'm talking about grocery stores and markets
Yes, this comes up in videos by US Americans quite often as across Europe, we have huge choices for sweets (candy), cereals and biscuits (cookies).
Or ice cream!
I’m Scottish so no comment on the deep fried foods 😂 but I do get 30 days paid annual leave days AND 11.5 public holidays which are also paid days off. We also get time back for working over our contracted hours.
Returning items is common in England, I think it's the same in other UK countries. I visited the US a few years ago, and tbh, it was hard to get used to the noise. I will always get in the back of the taxi unless there isn't room. Also, there is always ice in the drinks unless you ask otherwise or the drink is refrigerated. The biggest culprits are take out places. Pubs tend to just add a few cubes so it's not so bad and also free refills seem to have become more popular here too. The room temperature drinks things may be more common elsewhere, I don't know.
On the ice, I can relate. Even as an American, I don't like anything "ice cold". You lose the flavor! Chilled? Okay. Near frozen? Nope. I even let ice cream temper a bit. A good quality ice cream should be had that way. Too frozen and it tastes no better than cheap "ice milk".
Germany, too. In fact most places in Europe.
This is actually the first time I hear someone claim this as an american thing.
23% VAT in Portugal, also about the beverage, they also come with the cup full of ice (if you ask for ice), and when you finish it, that is it, you have to pay for another one ( unless they served you a can)
Loved JT's reaction to questioning his boss giving him 30 days paid vacation, that's just the norm in Europe, Australia and New Zealand has even more luxurious paid vacation schemes, they have something called Long Service Leave (LSL) On top of the mandated 4 weeks vacation per year (accrued if you don't take 4 weeks in a year. Eg one year you just take 2 weeks, the following year you can add the untaken 2 weeks to your 4 weeks and have 6 weeks paid vacation) LSL is 12 weeks paid vacation (extra to your mandated 4 weeks) as a kind of loyalty bonus if you stay with one company or employer for 10 years. Employers cover the vacations of their staff by hiring temporary workers, short term contracts are how young people get experience in the jobs they want, in some cases those short term jobs turn into permanent jobs. (My first fulltime job was a 3 month contract filling in for a person who took LSL)
eh, depends where you are: at our company we can only carry over 5 days... and up until recently we had to take 2 weeks in a block for fraud purposes (because if you are in a financial job, it's easier to tell if the person doing the fraud has to take a break)
Finland 30 days (5 weeks, Saturdays are counted) of paid vacation time is mandatory minimum for all full time employees. Also you get a bonus for returning to work after holiday, 15 days salary and it is also mandatory. You might get this before or in the middle of your holiday. Depends on company, but you will get it. Also all hours over 40h / week is overtime, always voluntary and always with raised overtime payment of 50 up to 200% more.
norm in msot europe is minimum of 20 by law, not 30
In the UK, although the VAT is high, 20%, its not 20% of the whole item thats added on. its only charged on the value added to the product by the company. If a company sells a product for £10, but the materials they bought to make the product cost £4, the 20% VAT would only apply to the remaining £6 as that is the value added by the business. Also there is a lot of things that have a lower VAT rate than this or 0% VAT like food items ect.
100% wrong sadly, it is an added tax based on the value, as in what you paid as a final consumer. Not a tax on the added value.
Even if you're right... The company bought it (or its constituents) from another company and paid VAT on the item then. So: Company A buys items totalling £10.00 (of which £1.66 is tax) and then sells it for £15.00 before VAT [£5.00 mark up = £1.00 VAT] or £16.00... total VAT £2.66 (but you only ever see the £1.00)
@@EarlJohn61 vat applies to the whole final value, including manufacturing costs, so a 100£ item has 20£ VAT added on to it. It is pretty easy.
Every company down the line pays their cut. So say 5 companies make £20 mark up each before it hits the consumer, each on will pay £4 to the tax man.
@@ForeverNeverwhere1 so, this mythical product has £5 worth of raw materials, and the manufacturer sells it for £10 (of which £2 is VAT)...
The distribution company buys the product from the manufacturer and onsells it for £15 (£3 VAT)...
The local warehouse buys it from the distributor and sells it for £25 (£5 VAT)...
The retailer buys it from the warehouse and sells it for £35 (£7 VAT)
Total VAT to the Government is: 2+3+5+7=£17 nearly 50% of final price, but no-one pays more than 20%!
But wait there's worse:
Each level looks at its total cost [including VAT] and adds its markup to that, then adds the required VAT. So 20% of the markup is due to the VAT and 20% *of that* is VAT on VAT. So not only a tax on a tax, but a tax on itself.
@@ForeverNeverwhere1 Correct.
The UK has plenty of choice of products, and we do have grape flavoured things too, although not Skittles it seems, my friend got hold of some American Skittles in which the purple ones are grape flavour, in our normal UK Skittles the purple one's are blackcurrant. So that's weird!
Blackcurrant was banned in the US cause of its effect on some plant life that.s why they developed Grape flavour although I think the ban has been lifted.
@@SwordInTheStorm huh, that's strange I never knew that was the reason, I thought it was just the company being weird...
@@SwordInTheStorm what effect does blackcurrant have on plant life? Blackcurrants come from plants don't they. I need to do some research into this interesting subject.
@@COL-1 Blackcurrant was a host to a fungus that was deadly to white pine th-cam.com/video/FNNI_4tk9fs/w-d-xo.html
Yes in the UK we do have disposable cups, before it became more restrictive to use single use plastics it was normally just white or clear plastic, almost never red ones. Nowadays you can still get clear plastic cups, I had a cocktail a couple of months ago in one, but often the ones sold in stores are paper ones now.
Our smaller pharmacies are pretty much just medicine, but a larger branch of Boots for example looks pretty similar to a Wallgreens, where you'll have a large makeup section, toys and gifts, travel items, and a section for on-the-go food and drink.
Some of our supermarkets also have pharmacies staffed by qualified pharmacists so you can do your general shopping and then go to the pharmacy counter to get your doctor's prescription dispensed or buy over the counter medications.
Writing the month first in the date is like writing minutes:hours:seconds for the time
At least for the UK (and the handful of other countries around Europe I've been to) the whole "Drinks at room temperature" thing is nonsense. No idea where it comes from. The drinks will have been refrigerated, and most places either serve it with ice or they will ask if you want ice. Even if you choose no ice, its still cold as it's been in the fridge, it's not room temp at all and as you mentioned earlier in the vid about refills a lot of people choose no ice so that they get a full glass rather than a glass that's mostly ice.
,, in the 70s & early 80s alotta bars had a small amount of fridges but with extra products on a shelf,, ice was often a help yrself affair next to the free peanuts & folk wud have only 1or2 cubes bc it waters down yr booze,, right upto the late eighties squash/cordial and sometimes even coke / sprite-style lemonade was on the bar free,, it was warm but it was free,, so like people drank gin&orange(squash) ,,rum& peppermint,, rum&black,, vodka&lime,, scotch&coke ,,etc real alcoholic mixers like lovage, ginger wine, triple sec or vermouth u had to pay for and were still warm just like the brandy you'd bought to drink by the fire to warm u up 🎉🥃🔥🔥🔥
@@harrymarshall I get the spirits not being refrigerated, but beer/soft drinks, that's just odd. Though I can understand if places didn't have many fridges back then why that might have been the case, but that was a long time ago now, so if that's where this comes from, it's a terribly outdated notion that this is how "many countries outside the US" have their drinks, so seems odd to still be saying it as 'fact' in what is a fairly recent video. I didn't know bars were like that back then though, so thanks for the heads up.
1:45 - Each european country doesn't have only one VAT, we all have multiple different taxes that vary according to the type of product. The values shown in the video are the highest tax for each country. Here in Portugal we have 23%, 13% and 6%. Basic necessity products usually have 6% VAT.
6:28 - Next time you ask for one of those drinks, say you don't want any ice and you'll get a full drink. Problem solved!
9:07 - You won't have much to learn because there's really no tipping culture outside of the US.
10:39 - Room temperature or mildly refrigerated? LOL!!! Tell me you're an uneducated US american without telling me you're an uneducated US american.
Some things are vat-free, some are 5%, some 15%, some 20%, depending on the kind of item.
4:00 In Europe we buy them, but they’re simple white plastic cup… sometimes transparent for fancy plastic champagne cup.
Where I live, we use the DMY format and sometimes YMD, but I prefer the YMD format as in a calendar, you first look up the year, then the month, and then the date.
Plastic cups were almost banned here in the Uk ... Or you were made to feel as if you were contrabuting to the global plastic problem... So most outlets stopped issuing single use cups and promote using a reusable bottle. Mostly to avoid a fine from government for plastic waist . Like straws and turtles .. also straws were made paper ..not plastic so they break down quicker . Sometimes before you finish your drink 😂
I bring my own plastic straw i cant stand paper ones. Theyre worse than primark paper bags that get destroyed as soon as you walk out
yep paper straws, they break down so quick they go soft and soggy before you've even finished your drink.
@@LOVEchristHEwasVEGAN have you thought about buying silicone straws 🤔 they're really cheap and you get a brush to wash them out with I have them in my car and keep some in my handbag you can even get thick ones for milkshakes and smoothies
@B V buy yourself a telescopic metal straw. You'll thank me.
Aren't polystyrene one's banned?
Finally, someone who agrees with me that these takeaway coffees just taste burnt! I don't like them either, however, there was a Starbucks near a hospital I used to work at years ago in London, and I got low-key semi-addicted to their coffee caramel frappuccino. That thing is DELICIOUS!!
It depends who makes your coffee, some staff are trained better than others and have more experience, so are less likely to burn your coffee
Here in Australia Starbucks actually failed and closed up. Their coffee was just plain crap and we love our barista coffee here, although I do believe they are making a bit of a comeback, but not on the west coast where I'm from. Other franchises also tried it here without much success too. Gloria Jeans comes to mind and wasn't good at all.
@Sylvia Greybe I completely agree, all major coffee chains coffee is nasty.
If I'm out and about I go to a small independent coffee shop rather than go to Costa or Starbucks etc.
I like coffee (and tea) but never really got into paying a ridiculous amount for a single drink, so I don't use any of those coffee shops.
I was in New York over 10 years ago and found the toilet thing disturbing.😳 Thank god I will never experience that again i’m still getting over it🤣This is refreshing I only ever see videos of things American don’t get in Europe.😉
Drop over with a heart attack and they can't drag your limp ass out to do CPR. You'll wish you had those extra inches available. I used to work as an EMT years ago. Yes it does happen.
About the tipping culture in the US: Many servers in restaurants are paid minimum wage or lower, and are told that the rest is paid for in tips. How that's legal, I don't know. But because it is legal, please tip your servers, your tips are the only thing paying their rent.
I really enjoyed your videos and comments plus learning more about the world
13:00 our way of putting the date is also different because we say it differently. We don't say September the 15th, we say 15 september! Because indeed, the day is the first thing to change, the month only does 12 times a year ;)
Edit: 19:09 "not you" damn... he was so excited to join in...
To me it just makes no sense the month comes first. And the rest of the world outside the us agrees 😂
But you did just kind of explain exactly why we list the month first. It makes perfect sense to me why the rest of the world lists the date in ascending order of unit length. It also makes perfect sense to me why the US would list in ascending order of possible range.
World model: day < month < year
US model: 12 months < 30ish days < infinite years
I agree with you regarding the ice in drinks. When I worked in the states I used to ask for my drinks without ice. All my american friends used to laugh at me until I measured the drinks out in front of them. I used to get nearly 3 times the amount in my glass to them. Also they can afford to give free refills as a bar owner once told me the soft drinks come to them as syrup in a plastic bag and costs virtually a penny per pull. The bars and such consider them loss leaders.
Given the free refills, you gained zero additional soda. All you gained was hot soda, instead of cold soda.
All soft drinks in pubs and fast food places in the UK are made from syrup and mixed with tap water which is carbonated then chilled on the way to the pump.
@@Neil_Hyman Is your argument that ice doesn't keep drinks cool? Really? Also, everyone in the world makes their soda the exact same way as you describe. It's not unique to the UK.
@@Tijuanabill I think what Neil was telling you is that UK drinks (like a lot of places) already come chilled before any ice is added, so the 'hot soda' you mentioned is not a thing for us in the UK.
@@Thurgosh_OG I find it hilarious that backward Eurotrash think they have something special, because their soda comes out cold, just like it does everywhere in the Milky Way Galaxy.
Went to America for the first time last year and was shocked with the food shopping. I purchased about a dozen items and cost me over $100 it if I purchased the same items in the uk would cost me roughly £45
And those of us who have at least a little bit more than a basic education know that we have tRump's nationalistic farce to thank for that. Overpriced "made in America" and tariffs on imports that just got passed on to the average American.
What items?
Sales tax doesn’t just varie from state to state but from different ares in a state. Some cities charge extra sales tax for things like area as or stadiums.
And at restaurants all drinks are refrigerated. And you can get ice if you want. It’s just not always automatically included
I think Anna & JT should do a drunk stream/video!
,, they can't,, 😂they are minors
@harrymarshall which is ridiculous, they own a home and could be married with kids but they can't drink!?!
Thanks for the video. It was interesting to watch ☺️ may I add some comments as a person who lives in Europe?
1) in German speaking countries there's no problem with returning bought goods. Here most of things are based on trust. I used to work for Lidl and if customers have lost or threw away their receipts, there's no problem with returning bought goods.
2) it's becoming natural to buy to-go coffees because of the life pace.
3) yes, AC's are not that widespread because they harm our nature (they make an input into the global warning).
4) we do tip, not only at cafes and restaurants (more conventional). At cabs, supermarkets, McDonald's too (not everyone does though).
5) baby showers are becoming popular here too 🙂
6) for me it's natural that the sales tax is already included in the goods' price. We have 10% VAT on food and 20% on beverages. I've lived some time in England too and there a coke costs more if more sugar is added into the beverage. This is their way of fighting against obesity. They want people to stay healthy 🙂
Australia and New Zealand have a well developed coffee culture and Starbucks is just not in the same game when it comes to coffee (and let's not even think about what they do to the good old cup of tea).
One question, do you celebrate July the fourth or the fourth of July? Just wondering....
Fourth of July for the holiday, when asked what the days is, We will say July 4th.
@@marydavis5234 Why?
Tea!? At Starbucks!? Just how low are they willing to go?
Here in Sweden I never been to a party where they used plastic cups, always uses ordinary wine, beer or drink glass. Sometimes at barbecues or outdoor parties we use plastic cups...lots of dishes to do the day after though :D
The “how are you?” As “hello” thing is very common elsewhere.
Here in the UK- we would say “you alright?”, “y’alright?”, “alright”, or here in Newcastle “alreet?”- and none require a response- we often say the same thing back.
Just like how “howdy” came from “how do you do?”
Enjoyed your video but totally disagree with the amount of food choice we have in UK. In my experience we have much more options and US you tubers who visit and experience our supermarkets all say the same. I love US but feel very unsafe using your public conveniences - no dignity at all! My employer gives 30 days paid holiday plus 10 more paid days covering Easter, Christmas etc. We shut down from Christmas eve right through to 2 January. Everyone is paid and if you're sick you get paid as well. A minimum of 4 weeks paid holiday leave is mandatory with many employers giving more. Treating your staff well is a win-win situation.
I have three types of work days. Ones where I work and I get paid, ones where I don't work, and don't get paid, and ones where I did work, but still didn't get paid. But I make so much, none of that matters to me. If I get sick, I don't work. There is no limit to how many days; I can never work again or work every day. It doesn't matter to my employer because they aren't paying me to not work anyway.
Here in the UK our tax (VAT) is set at 20%. This went up about 5-10 years ago from around 17ish%. As it is already on the price for items in supermarkets we do not think about it or notice it.
Also with the fried food, Scotland deep frys everything too. I have been in Edinburgh and had a deep fried mars bar (chocolate bar) and deep fried kebab. (Kebab meat and chips in a tortilla wrap then dipped in batter and fried).
Worst attempt at spelling Edinburgh ive every seen. Well done.
@@19McCloy91 haha bloody auto correct. Iv sorted it
Not all things in UK have VAT at 20% many things have zero VAT.
Most basic food eg fresh fruit, vegetables, raw fish, meat, dairy etc are zero VAT, but many processed foods and drinks are subject to VAT. The rules are complex and weird really, apparently you pay VAT on potato based snacks but not on tortilla chips or non potato vegetable crisps also many cakes and biscuits are exempt but VAT is paid on ice cream and chocolate covered biscuits. It’s all included in the price already so you never really know whether you are paying it or not.
Ok, the whole idea that the UK doesn't have loads of options for food like the US is a total lie, just like in the US we have entire isles just of things like biscuits and cereals. It just depends on whether or not its a big shopping centre or a small shop.
Also in the UK, we sit in the front in a taxi, and most of the time, have a very nice conversation with the driver x
We do have disposable cups here in the UK, but most times, if you go to someone’s house to drink, you get a glass.
love the look of disgust on Anna's face at us drinking soda at room tempreture 😂
Which isn't true anyway.
The more you chill down something, the less it tastes, so if you like a chilled drink, you should logically love it at room temperature.
@@ianfinney7820 I mean to be fair i much prefer mine at room temperature so some of us do
@@ncfcgee fair enough. The very small minority. It just doesn't hit the spot warm.
15:40 I feel you on that one. I'm from Luxembourg (central Europe) and we sort of have a similar reputation of speaking loudly. And I can't even deny it, I've herad it for myself many times being elsewhere. If there are Luxebourgish people around, you often hear them right away 😅. Even in neigbouring countries. When I studied in Bonn, Germany, my friends asked me SO OFTEN to pipe down a little. But yeah, habits are hard to break...
Returns isn't weird here in the UK, you do need a receipt but it's not unusual
It's pretty weird to be taking things back to Asda unless faulty/something is wrong. You have no right to return anything to a store unless it is faulty.
Of course lots of places do allow it though.
Marks & Spencer have a 28 day returns policy on clothing. There is no general right to return goods unless they are faulty or not as described on the packaging/advertisement.
11:10 In France airconditioners are believed to cause colds if it differs too much from the outside temperature
I'm from Norway. I have 5 weeks vacation in the summer , 1 week in easter, and 2 weeks for Christmas. All paid 😊
3:40 we do have red solo cups, at least in france you can buy them anywhere. And yes we have normal plastic cups everywhere
6:36 The thing is that in an average restaurant, if you ask for coke for example, they'll bring you the glass with the ice and lemon, or whatever they add, and the can/bottle of coke. That way, you get what you pay for, but either way, refill is still a thing in fast food places like mcdonalds,
The hardest thing to believe the holidays only 2 weeks a year 😱 and we are complaining about changing ours from 45 days to 30 days and give us half work day at Fridays 😅😅
here in england shops do sell red party cups, but it's just not used as we have way more varieties.
America: we deep fry everything.
Scotland: would you like a deep fried macaroni cheese pie roll?