American reacts to European Culture Shocks that Confuse Americans [part 2]
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In Europe we don't consider putting on a like pair of pants/trousers and a shirt, and a jacket, to dress up. It's not being fancy or formal, it's just normal. To us, not going out and about in our gym clothes, swimwear, pyama, is just getting dressed, not dressed up. Walking around in your nightgown in Europe would probably make most people think you've run away from a nursing home or something...
This did use to be the case in the US either, back in the 1980's in NewYork and Washington DC, people mostly dressed like we do in Europe. (Yes, I know I'm old as f-) But the US has seemingly de-evolved.
If I was in a supermarket and I saw a fellow Brit in pyjamas , I would really lose my temper and tell them to pull themselves together. Probably tell them they’re not American so grow up.
The clothes in the US are called a car because people are barely ever outside, same reason they keep shoes inside
@@clementbouvard8457 Ugh. Shoes in doors. Awful. Not to mention uncomfortable. All that dirt from outside, but then again, I don’t suppose they walk on pavements very much.
It's like choosing to be a lesser version of yourself, why would your standards be "eh, who cares, I don't care"? Very ignorant type of thinking imo.
European culture shock: Americans think Kenya is in Europe.
Yeah i went down to the comments for this one 😂😂
I noticed he didn’t query this
He didn't know too 😢
Europeans think that Kanye is in USA.
To be fair a lot of British people summer in Kenya. UN Ambassador Watson likes Kenya I believe as did Queen Elisabeth and Sir Winston Churchill.
basically in sweden..
burger at restaurant = fork and knife.
burger at a fastfood = hands.
100% true both burgers and pizza can be "fine dining" as well!
Same in France :D
@@rbelu1 Not at all surprising France being the KING of "fine dining".
@@hellmalm not in france
my uncle refused to make a hamburger for the American president in his restaurant for example
Same in Poland
We dont have low water pressure. What this American experienced is a water-saving shower head. They are specifically designed to decrease the water flow rate to save water while still being able to clean yourself.
The only time when we have real low pressure is when a pipe has a leak or we have maintenance in a nearby water supply station.
Unless you are in UK and you are unfortunate enough to have a built-in electric shower, which severely decreases the water pressure, as the water needs some extra time to heat up in that small box. I hate those showers, and now refuse to rent any house/flat that has one of them installed, even though I do understand that they help save on gas/heating.
@@Mikas60 Ah yeah if its a flow-through system, but you can improve that by adding a big boiler vat. They are also useful for storing energy from solar panels. You can get like a 500L one and then heat it up during the day with free energy, then you have hot water round the clock and they can also be installed with a heat exchanger to heat your radiators. Saves a lot of money on heating.
Americans when someone doesn't waste tons of resources for literally nothing : 🤯
It depends where you are. As I have said lots of times, Europe is *HUGE* and has 50 countries with different customs.
For example my 1967 building has a lot of problems for the water to reach my 14th floor 35m high, in order not to disturb the neighbour at 1st floor after midnight with pumps noise.
But I have *NEVER* seen the water at such pressure like Hollywood movies, a 1/5th at best during daylight. Almost nothing after midnight.
What would be considered 'rude' in 95% of other countries in the world would be for a server in a restaurant to bring you your bill before you ask for it. They will obviously keep an eye open for 'dine and dash' situations, but they will not actually bring you the bill till you are ready to pay and leave.
@Ryan 11:02 min rude are the americans rushing for the Bill and not waiting till end of dinner, drinking, conversation, relaxing ... In Europe we don't hurry while going to a restaurant. 😊
14:00 what really stands out to me is that this person was in Italy for what I assume were weeks or even months, and they didn't notice that Italian (and other European) cities have existed since long before cars were invented, the buildings and streets are old af, most people walked or rode a horse back then, and *there is no room for large cars in these cities because they weren't built with cars in mind* .
@@Palmieres that goes for British roads too. A lot of our roads are Roman roads.
but they probably have been in some other very old european cities which DO have wide streets.
What they don´t know is that those cities were often subject to MASSIVE urbanization plans specially in the 19th century and early 20th.
Paris would probably be quite unrecognizable to a Parisian from the 17th century
Many American cities were designed and built before the car.
But its OK, they had and still have bulldozers, so flatten the bits that are in the way.
Another big thing is that we don't really need a huge car. Most things can be done just as well with a small car. And if you need space, you can always rent a large one.
Some families also have two cars, a small one and a larger one. Which usually means what americans call a station wagon, but they are pretty much sedans with a straighter roof. And even the compact cars can pull a trailer as long as you stay under 3.5 ton total mass.
With a few exceptions population density is also much higher, so things are much closer together. Which makes all kinds of public transport much more viable.
@@vickytaylor9155 The back roads are all old cart/foot tracks, Romans built wider straight where they could for legions to march along and then wagons to bring what ever back, Highlands of Scotland are all ancient cart and foot tracks. Tiny thin and wind up and down hills, not the most direct routes. They would stop at places along the way.
Dining out is meant to be enjoyable and relaxing, not a competition on who can be in and out the quickest
For some US restaurants it seems to be precisely how they operate (turning tables as quickly as possible).
@@Bramfly Instad of paying the waiter a proper salary...☹
@@Bramflyits how it remains cheap and pays the waiting staff paid with tips. Its a terrible model
Yes. The times were totally exaggerated-if I don't get my food within the 1st hour, I'm leaving 😂
However, I also don't get presented with a bill unless I asked for it or the place *really* is about to close or I got so drunk and/or rude they want me out for everyone's sake.😂
If refills are free, they're incentivized to get you out asap. When every drink is payed for, they're encouraged to get you to stay for another. Simple as that.
Ah yes. Kenya, my favourite European country
Electric kettles are not just for tea!
Thank you I came on to say the same 😊
Every time I hear an American boast about, how under-developed the rest of the world is (because they have no AC) I explain it this way: The northern part of Germany is at a higher lattitude (i.e. more north) than the southern tip of Alaska.
Normaly this settles the argument...
compare sun hjours in america to europe, even the less sunniest parts of the US are more sunny then the sunnierst parts of europe. I dont know why they got so much sunshine but now I understand them usin AC.
@MarcXL81 90% of the US is flat ground, hence the reason why they get tornadoes.
@@gerardflynn7382 they don't have any east to west mountain ranges that keep the hot wet air away from the cold air. We have the alps, all the water rains down in northern Italy.
Oh, and a better example of latitude is the easy comparison of weather in Toronto and Monaco. Or that Rome is further north than New York. And Paris north of Seattle. And Florida is south of Cairo.
Wait, a geographic explanation works with Americans?
Or do they just evade the new topic...?
The uk is further north than the whole of the main 49 states we only get mild but wet weather due to the gulf stream
Its considered rude to bother wait staff, because restaurants have less staff than in America, because wages are high for staff. So, instead of having one waiter per every couple customers, a restaurant that is full with 60 people on a friday evening might only have 3 or 4 people responsible for taking orders, bringing drinks and food and taking away empty plates.
It is very busy work, they dont have time to stop specifically for you when they already have a backlog of 5 orders they need to deliver.
So, if you want something, you can try to raise your hand or make eye contact, and then they will get to you when they have time. It may take a couple tries to get their attention.
Its considered rude to start yelling at them and demanding attention. Youre not more important than the other customers, and everyone has to wait for their turn.
As someone who worked as a waiter for 10+ years in UK, I can confirm that restaurants are always severely understaffed. Although 3-4 people for 60 seats is a bit generous from my experience. I've had it as much as me doing 34 seats by myself in a small cafe/restaurant, and I also did 50 seats in a restaurant + 20 seats in the lounge by myself (but had a dedicated bartender) until I had to curse at the manager to get a 2nd person in to help.
@@Mikas60 I guess it depends on the type of place, Ive worked in a bar with 2-3 other people on the same shift and if it was full we didnt have any spare time to chat. But people where im from drink like their lives depend on it, we're the national champions of alcohol abuse in the Netherlands lol
@@Mikas60 yeah, I usually had 25+. I acually felt bad becuse I couldnt give good service a lot of times... but working alone with faulty equipment dosnt help :/
You don't have to be into tea to make good use of an electric kettle.
Americans boil water in their microwave to make tea.
@@TheSuperappelflap they are perverts
It is also a good way to heat up water instead of just doing it on a stove.
Agreed. I use it often, when I make my cappucino.
It's really good for heating up water to cook vegetables in. But not potatoes. Potatoes must always start in cold water. You want bpiling water quickly, use the kettle.
A lot of Italians eat pizza with a knife and a fork, if that's how they do it since they created pizza, then we cannot criticize people who use a knife and fork.
italian style pizzas can also be difficult to eat otherwise.
it can take 3 hands just to hold a slice without the thin bottom collapsing under the weight of the rich toppings.
true. they'd only use their hands for slices of pizza as a takeaway quick bite (although eating in the street is not cool)
I’m really shocked about that. If pizza isn’t finger food, I don’t know what is . I was told to eat pizza with my hands by an Italian in the 1970s. So I was shocked when I found out last year Italians were eating them with a knife and fork.
@phoenix-xu9xj in europe you can get pretty much 4 types of pizza.
american pizza: small and spongy, can be eaten with 2 fingers
frozen pizza: mediun sized, very thin crusty, very rigid bottom, can be eaten with 1 hand.
"restaurant at home" pizza: medium to large sized, covers high-end frozen pizza on the lower end(advertised as restaurant style), homemade pizza(kit), and take-away/delivery, wide crunchy crust with bubbles and somewhat rigid bottom, takes 2 hands to eat.
restaurant pizza: large sized, only served in Italian style restaurants(and maybe traditional Italian households), wide crunchy crust with bubbles, very thin and soft bottom, very rich in ingredients. almost impossible to eat with hands, you're expected to eat these with knife and fork.
@@Marvin_R The last one you mention is pretty widespread in the UK, usually made with sourdough. Even the pizza van who comes to our village once a fortnight, cooks fresh sourdough, pizzas.
If Canada has figured out that electric kettles are useful for more than tea, but Americans still haven't, then well done Canada. More intelligent than their neighbours.
We really are.
That's obvious I would think.
I saw something last week which amused me...
Q)_ Where does stupid reside?
A)_ Between Canada and Mexico.
For what do you use it?
@@mrHello420__ Everything you need hot water for.
I feel like a lot of the water pressure compaints come from tourists not realising that the shower heads (at least in germany, no clue about other countries) are adjustable into different modes kinda. For example if you want a low pressure rain like shower you can twist the nozzle on the head, same with a strong concentrated "jet" setting.
UK here. The only time that asking when the baby is due is considered rude is when the woman isn't actually pregnant! Then it's a problem.
What if you THINK she's pregnant, but she's not, and you ask anyway?
@@SuperHawk0413 That's exactly what I was saying.
@@tripnick555 I was half-joking. As in, there's a third option. You know she's not pregnant but ask anyway.
It's only a problem if she can catch you :D
🤣
In Europe: Restaurant->Fork&Knife for everything, also Burger and Pizza (you eat slower and can enjoy the meal). Only at Fast-Food-Joints it´s ok, to use hands.
I’m British, but I would never go to a restaurant for a pizza. I would probably make one myself . I can’t imagine a restaurant could make that much difference to a pizza and I just couldn’t bring myself to eat one with a knife and fork.
@@phoenix-xu9xj People definitely do it in France at least
@@noefillon1749 I did in the ‘70s but not after I spent a summer teaching English to Italian students. I feel so stupid when I saw them, cut it into slices and eat it.
@@phoenix-xu9xj It depends on the "pizza". If it is a "fast-food" pizza, then it is sliced, expected to be picked instead of eaten inside the restaurant, and ate with your hand. A lot of time, those are not even restaurants, just a facade with barely any table/chairs (like fast-food chain) or just a guy in a traveling van.
If it is a "traditional" pizza (like you taste the "bread"), then it isn't sliced, comes with a plate, has to be eaten in the restaurant, and have to be eaten with fork and knife. It is very likely they have a traditional pizza oven using fire than modern one using electricity.
It is night and days between a fast-food pizza supposed to fill you (which can taste good, but more a guilty pleasure), and a traditional pizza that taste good. The main difference is the dough which you can taste the yeast like a fresh bread.
naaah i would never eat pizza and burger with a fork and knife
that would feel like trying waaaay to hard to be fancy
even if it's an expensive restaurant
1:50 the thing is European houses don't get so hot as quickly as american ones because we have much thicker walls. When i was in the US it really suprised me how quickly it became hot in the house. So no wonder americans use the AC so much,
Ugh, I don't care, the lack of AC in Europe is SICKENING. It's not just the houses but also the public transport (where I spend up to 1½ hours or more on a work day), the office, almost everywhere, except the big supermarket chains. This summer was too much. I'm actually considering to buy one for the first time in my life, it's getting more and more unbearable each year.
The truth is that slow-paced Europe isn't prepared at all for the rapid global warming, despite being the continent that is warming the fastest.
AC wastes a lot of electricity and in every country outside of the US it's bloody expensive.
Here in the UK our electricity is now the most expensive in the world. We go round turning things off, rather than on.
Also we have this incredible hight-tech called "opening your windows" and sometimes "closing your shutters". Crazy, I know. Tech bros are completely mind-blown. And it's working even without electricity, it's so insane !
@@patbrown8117 Yep , in general in Europe petrol and electricity are more expensive than in the US .
It should be since the average American worker gets paid sh!t compared to say an average European worker ,
elites and billionaires are exceptions of course .
@@gregorygant4242You have to remember that Americans are still using imperial measurements.
195 countries in the world and only 2 are still using imperial, the rest of the world uses Metric.
@@gregorygant4242 Average european worker gets twice (2x) the salary of a spaniard worker 😭
Electric kettle is not just for tea either. Actually i never use it for that its just a device that makes all sorta food making faster but in europe it works faster because we have higher voltages.
It's also definitely not for holding Kool Aid.
With how much they talk about students surviving on instant ramen, that is the perfect example for a good use of a kettle.
Not sure about the voltage thing. Sure, they use half the Voltage, but so what? Use a lower resistance heating coil, or use two of them in parallel and you have about the same power output. You can heat water just as quickly with 110V as you can with 230V.
And as for the usefulness of those things: They are mainly good for tea, coffee and cup noodles, I guess. Tea is not that big a deal over there, and specialised coffee makers are pretty common, even here in europe. That really only leaves cup noodles, which probably isn't something everyone eats. They just don't need boiling water all that often, and for when they do: Microwave Ovens are pretty good at heating water.
If you allow me, it's not a matter of voltage but of intensity (ampere).
With 400 000 V and no intensity it wont heat, with 100 000 A it will heat even with a few millivolts
@@GerdLPluu 120V on 30A or 230V on 16A, your choice. You'll get about 3600W with either.
Ryan, are you trolling us? Electric kettles are not primarily used for preparing tea.
Mine is, numerous times a day.
@@iannorton2253 mine as well. But that's because I drink copious amounts of tea
How should he know if 95% of households in the US (which is shocking to me) and he himself never uses them. We have to be fair here.
@@stannumowl Yes, tea is the elixir of life.
Americans typically do not use electric kettles at all, so yes, they would be thought to be primarily for making tea. And Ryan doesn't troll anyone.
Americans that think Europeans are snobbish for their clothing choices have probably never had their mum threaten physical violence if they dared to go out in anything but the appropriate attire.
" you want to go out dressed in this way ? we did not raise a gypsie or a thug-punk-hooligan" ( i am from Ravenna , Italy , i know it )
Oh god yes the guilt laid at your door if you didnt dress properly. Im 54 and mum trys that now still. That sounds sad i know but disabled divorcee
😂😂 and Spanish mothers target especifically the underwear quality and cleaning of the garment. You don't know if somebody has to see it (aka doctor) 😮
We DO eat pizza with knife and fork at restaurants, because they don't cut them. If we get pizza delivered to home they're usually sliced and then we eat with our hands.
Not here (at least around where I live in Sweden) but they would probably cut it if you ask them.
You're probably not Italian because in Italy they never cut it for you because it becomes more soggy in the carton box
Or you just, like, use a knife and fork or pizza wheel or whatever at home to slice the pizza and eat it with your hands. I'm not gonna get all fancy on a cheap frozen pizza from the supermarket ... (Also acceptable in restaurants, btw, to cut a slice off your pizza and then, pick it up and eat it with your hands.)
same here (Germany)
It’s the other way around: They don’t cut pizza at restaurants because you are expected to use a fork and a knife there.
Otherwise you could just cut it into slices at the restaurant and then eat it by hand. But you hopefully don’t. Because you are at a restaurant and know how to behave.
A big difference is also how meals are cooked in restaurants in usa vs europe.
In usa most restaurants people visit are chain organisations that get everything preportioned ready for heating. A bit like what you get at highway restaurants around europe.
Restaurants in europe are mostly independent operating businesses that make everything from scratch in the kitchen. It is prepped in the morning but actually cooked as you order it.
The A/C thing, it's not about being poor or not, although obviously it affects. But if you care about the environment, every kWh saved is less pollution to the atmosphere. And if you have it ON only for a few hours instead the whole day, it saves energy, although with the inverter ones is not as much as with the old ones.
I'm not from a hot climate but I imagine the real thing to know here is what the thermostat is set to.. in that example in Madrid, perhaps the house is naturally cold from being built better to keep the cool in, and with shutters on the windows... In the US maybe not so much. What I thought was striking was Ryan said he has his AC on at 22C, I mean, to me that's hot but if you live in a hot climate I bet you can manage that ok, seems a bit of a luxury to be turning AC on for that... But yeh. Again in the Madrid example I wonder what temperature they consider turning AC on at. Also a thing to consider is electricity tends to be cheaper in the US also... But yeh as you also pointed out our mindset for not being wasteful
In a sense, it is related to poverty. In my country AC is a distinctly unwanted and unnecessary nuisance - yet all businesses and all office buildings have AC on 24/7 "because we got to" despite complaints from patrons and employees. The result? Patrons leave asap or don't walk in at all, and employees suffer never-ending flu through the year. It's a cash loss for everyone involved, yet somehow the "habit" persists. I have AC in the car and AC in my apartment, and had never switched it on in two decades. Another unnecessary yet unavoidable expense.
@@cycaboose Yes, that's true as well, but in summer Madrid is not cold at all 😅. 35ºC is totally normal or even 40ºC days are not uncommon. In my case, I´m from the south of Spain and I personally don't turn the A/C ON until it's 27 or 28ºC inside and I set it normally to 26ºC or 27ºC. In winter, I set the heating at 19ºC or 20ºC (in the south we use the same A/C that has a heat pump, but in other places in Spain they normally have central heating),
@@jmi5969 Well, it's unnecessary for you in your climate. But for example, in Spain, when it's 40ºC outside, you better use it! But I've been living in the UK for a decade and I would have used it probably 10 days in total, maybe...
@@jmi5969 AC in car is actually a decent thing... For like 2 months/year when it is really hot outside and you don't have any option but to park at a sunny place
Kettle isn't just for tea. Quickest way to get boiling water
not in US since they use 110V electrical outlets, so you can't have high power kettles
@@luky19 No, it's still the quickest way to boil water.
UK we have 2-3KW kettles US average 1.2-1.5KW but can have 2KW.
It also depends on the shape, and most importantly how much water is in the kettle.
But it is still faster than most stove tops and even a microwave.
I preheat a little bit of water in a pot when making pasta and the majority of the water I put into my electric Kettle. with 240v it's a lot faster than heating all the water on my gas stove. Then you just pour it all into the preheated pot and you having boiling water in like a fraction of the time.
"Sweatpants are a sign of defeat. You lost control of your life so you bought some sweatpants." Karl Lagerfeld
I agree 💯 % with KL. When I was at my lowest point I wore sweatpants. When I tried climbing out of my doldrums, my way up was to put on makeup, some jewelry and clothes that made me feel good.
I avoid sweatpants despite life being shit. Its a step to far mentally
I never wore sweatpants in my life, but we shouldn't care too much about what some old snobby German guy once said, huh?
@@SatieSatie "Everything I say is a joke. I am a joke myself." Karl Lagerfeld 😇
@@i_am_m3384 Well, exactly. ^^ I do own a very nice bag from KL tho lol.
13:35 "How are you" and "what's up" are both literally questions, though, so of course people from elsewhere are going to take them as questions! If you don't want to actually know how I'm doing, then don't ask. Just say "hi".
Here in Yorkshire, England, people say 'What's up?' when you're looking upset, near to tears, angry or ill. 'How are you?' is said after saying 'Hello'. Some older or rural people say 'How do?' but a really Yorkshire greeting is 'Nah then,' (Now then?) with lad added if you're male or lass if you're female. Another greeting is 'Eh up?'
@@AnneDowson-vp8lg Interesting! Here in Finland we do say "how are you", but it's always a sincere question and the answer is expected to be the person actually telling what's been going on in their life since they last saw you. Depending on who you're talking to this might include some fairly intimate details like anything related to health. You'd never ask if you don't want to know. A polite "hello" or "good morning" is enough.
I've lived in England for a number of years, so I do get the difference and it's just a cultural difference, but it took some time getting used to. Even though I knew it's basically just same as saying "hello", it felt rude at first that people asked and but didn't stay to hear the reply beyond "good".
In Ireland, we eat fast food (Burger, Fries, Pizza, FishNchips) with our hands ... same as US.
BUT ... restaurants and pub food are not gonna throw you a burger sitting very lonely by itself on a plate. There'll be salad at least. Plus it could multi-layer, way taller than a mouth can open 😮
Kettles are pretty much everywhere as far as I know in Europe. I know for a fact that they are common in Belgium, The Netherlands, Britain, Germany, France....
And no, they aren't just used for making tea. There is lots of use for hot water that doesn't involve tea.
Certainly not in Spain. Why would you need hot water for, if you don't drink tea or coffee?
Definitely not everywhere in France. I believe more than only 5% have one but not that many more. I don't have any, and have never had one.
@@BlackHoleSpainYou cook in Spain, do you?
@@BlackHoleSpain So the only reason for hot water you can think of is tea or coffee?
Not our problem that you have limited knowledge and understanding.
1/ Do you think that people in warm countries don't drink tea or coffee?
Congrats you just demonstrated that you are uneducated.
By the by I guess you never heard of the very Spanish café cortado or the Italian speciality cappuccino or the fact that both hot coffee and hot tea are common drinks in the near, middle and far East.
2/ Hot water that for instance is used in the kitchen to prepare certain things such as boiling some water without using the stove just because a recipe needs a liter or less of water?
3/How about when you want to make some instand noodles/ramen?
Oh wait, that's right you don't think that people in hot countries eat or drink anything hot/warm.
*facepalm*
@@noefillon1749 Your anecdotal evidence doesn''t mean you are correct it just shows you don't get around much.
Google "bouilloire électrique france" and try to explain all the French sites offering all kinds of Electric kettles by all kinds of brands in all kinds of shapes and sizes.
In Europe we don’t say Europe, we name our country, because e.g. service is seen differently in every country. In Italy the restaurant experience can be very different from Poland. To go to a restaurant in a tourist hot spot in Spain can be very annoying, because tourists can be very annoying and is very different from visiting a quite rural restaurant in Austria, Bavaria or Switzerland. Expect that sentences beginning with "In Europe..." fit more or less to no country. My experiences in USA are limited, but in Chicago, I had an experience that I felt rushed, but it was a Hotel near the airport and it was packed, because flights had been cancelled. In Hawaii, the restaurant staff convinced me, I was the sweetest person on earth. But it was Hawaii, and everybody was chilled out. 😎
A few years back in Zurich, I was yelled at by an American couple (tourists) in a restaurant because I was eating my burger with fork and knife. They were really upset, it was crazy. I did my best to ignore them but after a while, the staff had to intervene.
Dutchie here, I don't know anyone here in the Neterlands that does not own an electric kettle, but that's the thing: there are so many different countries and cultures in Europe, it's not like the US where you have small differences between states, the differences can be much larger. And pick up truks are not very common in Europe and when you see them they are usualy owned by someone who uses it for it's intended purpouse like a professional gardner or someone who works in construction, it's not used as a family car.
on occasion there's an imported RAM, being used to show off wealth.
@@StevenQ74 Exactly, electric kettles are not usual at all in Spain. Maybe because we like coffee more than tea and we use what we call "cafetera italiana" because makes the coffee tastes much better 🙂
Here in Spain, otherwise, I don't know anyone who onws a kettle, not even a traditional one to put on the stove.
People who likes coffee use to have those italian aluminium Moka Express ones.
@@BlackHoleSpainIn Germany almost everyone has a kettle and we use it for more than just making tea! In my household we do drink a lot of tea and do use the kettle for it, but I also use our kettle for preheating water before I cook, because it’s faster and saves energy compared to heating it on the stove. Also for other things. We use it several times a day, and when a kettle doesn’t work anymore I always notice how lost I am without one 😅
7:53 getting seated asap, treated and immediately shushed out after paying seems to be pretty common in the US.
Here in Germany, me and my colleagues were seated immediately, too but we sat there for three hours, even after paying and only left because they wanted to close up at 10 o'clock. We were the last guests and most of the staff were already having beers several tables over.
Ryan, I grew up in Malaysia ... where people eat rice with their hands and burgers with cutlery.
I don't know how many times I've mentioned (or at least shouted at the screen) this on various American reaction channels, but it's 'knife and fork' not 'fork and knife' as the latter sounds like you're saying 'f***ing knife'.
This
This is hilarious. Reminds me that so many accents don't pronounce the R in words: ) Also, did you know the F word isn't that bad outside of America?
seems perfectly logical to me that if wait-staff in the USA aren't paid a decent wage and have to rely on tips to up the pitiful wage their employer pays them, then the more tables they serve during their shift, the better. Whereas in Europe, where wait-staff are paid a decent wage no matter how many/or how few tables they serve during their shift, there is less incentive to turn over as many tables as possible during their shift. Result? Wait-staff have an 'easy' stress-free shift, and customers have a pleasant, relaxing dining experience!
and with european tipping culture, 1 table that enjoyed their time is more likely to tip than 10 rushed tables.
tipping is still done, just not expected.
@@Marvin_R But if 1 table, unrushed, left without pressure, that waiter would still make more tips from the next customers who use that table before closing time.
Yes, we eat burgers with knife and fork here in Sweden. Pizza too. ^^
I was going to say, don't put it on use Europeans, just people in Sweden do things like that, xd
(There is a funny phenomen of "Pizza quality", the more far you are from Rome, the worse quality is Pizza and people have less care about it. In Baltics and Scandinavia Pizza culture is basicaly, put a Mayo and eat it with fork, when in most of Europe it's Ketchup/Garlic souce and hands, obviously Italy itself do it in another way and they dislike all of use for how we eat it, XD
Indeed. Even simple primates use tools. Very little food items are eaten with just our hands. Especially in a restaurant.
Did the American talking about Kenya think think it is in Europe
As an Australian, I always give a smile or acknowledgment when I walk past someone and make Eye contact, I would consider it rude not to.
As a Dutchie from a small village, I always smile, nod or make eye contact. It is normal here and perceived rude when you do not do this.
@@arikesimpelaar7362 Yes, I’ve been over there a couple of times, and I always felt I fitted in easily. I love the Netherlands, would live there in a heartbeat.
3:08 yes we eat pizza with fork and knife because it’s not precut and it has a very thin bottom so you just can’t handle it any other way. Hamburgers - if it’s a facy resturant then I guess we try to be civilized and you fork and knife, especially since the fries is directly on the plate. But usally, no we eat it with hands and mouth and slobber away happily!😊😂🇸🇪
I've never seen somebody eating burgers with fork and knife in my life 😂
Cheers from Milano 🇮🇹
In Germany when at home pizza is often eaten with the hands, we cut it with a scissor or knife before, then eat with hands.
In Italy, pizza is eaten with a knife and fork unless it is the type that is supposed to be folded in half and eaten with the hands.
With knife and fork? Not at home though...
1:40 That's just as stupid. What you're saying is in America we keep the house the same temp the whole time, day or night no difference. it's normal that the temp has a natural flow during 24 hours, at night it is cool, in the afternoon it is warm. So it makes a lot more sense to use it only at night to sleep or when it's 105 F. That way you still have that natural flow, you just take off the extremes. like a warm night or 105F afternoon.
You can set a lower temperature for the night than for the day.
You need more water pressure when the shower head is fixed to the wall. Our home showers are always at the end of a hose so you can bring it close to every part of your body.
The fixed to the wall shower heads are only found in swimming pools and some hotels where I live.
Swede here. Water pressure in the shower differs throughout the country. Many people eat burgers with their hands here. One experience isn't enough to decide what a person, country or continent is like 😊
Jelly+ peanut butter American = Jam + peanut butter everywhere else
Yep, Americans are the only people that call jam a jelly.... Weirdos.
NO jam OR peanutbutter in Sweden!🇸🇪
Idk, I feel disgust even thinking about that and feel myself getting diabetes.
@@giajensen1689 its a thing in South Africa with children, I was never a fan I normally have peanut butter and honey
@@dre7767 I do this, but on my toast in the morning (I'm a Brit).
Low water pressure is also an environmental, water and energy saving measure. Often we use water saving shower heads, because you get clean just fine without wasting tons of water. And even then: shorter showers are also promoted.
12:38 Worth pointing out we don't just use kettles for tea in Europe. We also use it for heating water to cook for example because it's more efficient/faster than using the stove to do that
Keep in mind these are all broad generalizations and may/will vary from village to village, town to town, city to city, region to region etc let alone country to country.
"-I got an itch!" Is now going to be my standard reply to: "- How are you?" lamo! yes, as a European I think I can get away with it!
13:10 In Poland, people that didn't seen eachother for a while start talking with "how you doing" and it's literal, your friend is genualy interested what you were doung when he was abscent and this questions could be hard, but it also always make me happy to answer. If some starnger would say something like "how you doing" I would thougth he is doing some report about Jobs or phisical health.
I'm german and it's pretty much the same thing. You never ask strangers how they're doing, you have to be at least acquainted to do so. Also, negative answers like "I have the worst headache today" or "I couldn't sleep last night, so i'm super tired" are super normal - if you're asking for it, you're gonna get the truth.
@@Schlachtenhase So true. It's like that where I live in Sweden. Don't ask if you don't want to answer. If it was a stranger it might even be a vounter question; Why would you want to know how I am. I don't know you. But I would be angry, specially if I knew the person was from another country. We all have different uppbringings 😇
It depends on the burger and the pizza. I eat both with and without knife/fork. If the burger gets too big i use knife/fork, simply because it is easier. If a pizza has a lot of topping, especially deep pan, I will use knife/fork too.
To be fair, I went to both Denny's in Cali and Gordon Ramsay burger in Las Vegas. Both places people used knife/fork to eat burgers too.
Yep same here
I'm french with posh education and i would eat a burger with fork and knife only in a very very fancy restaurant. Yes there is a difference between US and Europe. Yes it's big. But not as much as some people say. For the pizza, it's different, we eat it with fork and knife when in a restaurant. It's normal.
Btw, the thing about water pressure is bs. This video is bs.
I'm from Eastern Europe (Serbia), and I have had my AC since 2007. It gets very hot in summer here (at least for the last 10-15 years). We also have window screens to keep the mosquitoes and flies away. And yes, we do get ice in our water and sodas. 😄
I'm from Latvia and I've seen peanut butter only two times in my 29 years on this earth. And both times at the same store on the same shelf that I visit maybe once a year.
Probably the same jar too
In Netherlands we eat a lot of peanut butter. In fact Im pretty sure we are the ones who brought it to America. But to put it on bread together with jam is disgusting. There are only 2 correct ways to use peanut butter.
You put it on bread, without butter, because it already contains enough oil, and then you eat it with a glass of milk on the side.
Or, you can make peanut sauce by putting the peanut butter and milk in a pan together with some chili peppers and soy sauce, and heating it until boiling temperature while stirring. Its great with bbq or asian food. Very simple to make. Cheap too.
We eat a lot of peanuts/p.butter in Norway. I love it on toast, with ham or jelly.
Are you in some smaller city or bigger one ? In Poland even in ~10 000 city you can found it most bigger shops.
@@Jebu911 Both times it was just one jar on an empty shelf so not at all impossible that it was the same one
18:00 It means that in Europe, you also wear more formal clothes at home. I own a pair of sweatpants, but that's exclusively for excercising.
I hope your jeans are stretch jeans.
@@LythaWausW Most of them are, as you don't get no-stretch jeans anymore, but I don't like them very much.
Uk female here. I would never wear my crocs anywhere except in the garden or when camping, but that would only be to go to the loo during the night.
About eating burgers and pizza with your hand: it depends on where you're eating. At restaurants (where I assume this took place as they talked about the chef, and you generally don't have those at a McDonalds), you generally always eat with a knife and fork, even burgers and pizza.
Your reply to the point about AC was funny and very american. I personally never owned any AC in my home (Germany). When it is hot, open the windows at night and keep them shut and lower the blinds during the day, then the high heat capacity of the stone walls will keep the home cool most of the time, if not, just deal with it. Some people I know do own an AC - a mobile unit which can be swiched on, when the high temperatures are considered to be an emergency.
A friend of mine just installed one fixed wall unit of AC - but in order to use it as an air-air heat pump with the long therm idea to replace his oil powered central heating. We talked about his plans to also install solar cells with some storage. And in that context he concidered to also use the AC for cooling IF and WHEN the storage ist already full AND if it gets particularly hot.
The idea to just set the AC on a thermostat and let it do its thing all summer is a very uncommon thought here.
I was born in Germany, but in 2002, I moved to Las Vegas. Here you NEED A/C during summer, even in the night, because then it's still 42°C at midnight. 52°C during the day. There is no way to get cool air by opening a window. I miss the German brick houses... so much cooler
@@thomasduerk583 Germans don't understand how hot America can get. Like, deadly hot.
I have to say, as a European (Czech) I always try to eat my burger with hands, it's just the way is should be, right? Well, in some of our restaurants, they make the burger so stupidly high you literally can't even lift it off the plate without the burger disintegrating... I hate it, absolutely hate it. But you just have to use the cuttlery.
Also, it's pretty rare to stay in a restaurant for more then 2 hours (except going to pub or celebrating something in like private lounge). Usually, you seat yourself (if there's free space), wait 1 to 10 minutes (depends on if the restaurant is full, if you wait 5 minutes in an empty restaurant it's just bad service) for a waitress to order your drink, then you start choosing your food and you order it when she comes back with your drinks (or you ask for one more minute to decide). So that's about 15 minutes of the visit. Then you wait 10 to 40 minutes for your food, eat it in 30 minutes, maybe get some coffee or another beer or dessert and then you leave. So it's really no more then 2 hours, that's maybe like in Italy of France or Spain, those guys are lazy af.
13:32 In Sweden you are acculy wanting to know how the other person is. Otherwise we use Hej (hi) like you word hay, that’s how we pronaunce it! 🇸🇪
Same in Poland, but instead of Hej it's often Cześć. Or "Dzień dobry" if you need to speak in official way
If you approach an elderly person in the street in Germany with the German equivalent of „how are you?“, bring some time because the person may tell you about his/her illness record 😂
That last part about personal space... Being from Finland, we had difficult times during the pandemic because they told us to be 2 meters apart from each other... That was way closer than we normally were without the virus. They basically told us to get closer to each other with those limits.
And if you go to a bus in Finland and every other seat is taken, the bus is considered full. In which case you can either stand on the isle or choose your unlucky victim and sit next to them and not say a word because you are sorry for invading their personal space AND making it harder for them to get off because now you are on their way.
That varies from country to country, the further north you go in Europe, the bigger the personal space is.
WOW I need to go to Finland. That's amazing about Covid rules. My next vacation destination.
Pizza in a restaurant: Always with fork and knife!
Pizza at home: Mainly with hands.
In Italy people pay road tax according to the volume of their engines, that's why there are a lot of compact cars
Not just Italy
My family doesn't have AC in our home, as is usual in the Netherlands.
There are maybe 2 months a year where it would save us a bit of a hassle, but it's far from a necessity.
We make use of sunscreens and close the windows in the morning to keep out the heat and open them at night to let in fresh cool air.
Just that is enough to keep the temperature down 5/10 degrees celsius.
In Poland, if you ask someone "what's up? ", they will literally tell you what was happening in their life yesterday for example, if you would respond with another "what's up?" It would be considered rude and that persone would think that you are mocking them.
in 2018 during a the world cup, there was a new Burger joint here that was officially "fully american". they advertised that you could reserve a table for a game, watch and enjoy some american food.
well I went to try, I reserved a table for me and a friend, and it started out great, nice wings, a good burger. but then at half time, they litterally told us to leave because they had a reservation for the second half... I was like wtf I just wanted to order a second round of wings, but they said the tables are max 1 hour and after that you need to leave... I mean wtf. I was under the impression that if I go to watch a game, that I would have the table for the entire game....
The Burgers were 25 bucks too....yeah I never went back there.
In my town in Germany there is a really popular Asian restaurant that has strict rules. You can only make reservations for 5pm or 7pm and they close at 9. So you only get two hours max. That's fine I don't need more but I'm not watching a game like you were. Geez.
European Restaurants generally make money from the drinks they sell, not from the actual food or tips. So they want you to stay as long as possible so that you order multiple rounds of drinks. (Remember, even water isn't free, but quite expensive)
Country? Tap water is free i Spain and restaurants DO make a profit from the food. Not from tips, which are for the waiters only.
@@Xiroi87 Situation I describe I know mostly from Germany, Austria, Netherlands, etc
Ok. My mum wouldn’t leave the house without full make up on.
Things became a tad more relaxed after Covid re wearing comfies as people literally lived in them as we were all indoors. But that clothing generally still stays for indoors - I have indoor stuff, and outdoor clothes and I get changed before I go out, & when I get home.
I’ve seen videos of people in Walmart wearing erm, well next to nothing. Or clothing 5 sizes too small/utterly inappropriate 😮.
But if you’re running out to grab a kid’s medicine or just some bread and milk… nope, we still change for that lol
An American is fortunate enough to spend time in Italy, and he's using it to count and record the number of pickups on the roads.
I lived in the UK in the eighties and was inteoduced to peanutbutter and jam or peanutbutter and banana. They’ve been my total faves ever since. Tomato sandwich is so scrummy!
We don’t use AC as much overhere in Denmark because the summer is so damn short! Why bother😂
And it’s to fu..in’ expencive!
Our dads do push the stroller more than they used to. I guess it’s partly due to the great paternaty leave we have overhere. They actually get to experience time together with their child while it’s still an infant😊
Here in France if you go to Mcdo you have no choice, you eat your burger with your fingers since they don't provide cutlery, on the other hand not being particularly suicidal, I avoid eating in this kind of "restaurant". On the other hand eating a pizza with your hands seems to me to be an obvious lack of hygiene (even if you washed your hands before eating, which should be the norm). In a big city, no people are not going to say hello or smile when they pass each other, on the other hand in the villages it is a basic politeness, even if they are strangers. As for baby shovers, it is something totally unknown, perhaps a background of old superstition, like how it could bring bad luck to the woman and the child?
You need to react to ‘This is Sergio Ramos - The Gladiator’ its a famous Football/Soccer player that is really good in defending
The waiting staff in europe is more like "Chill out, we are payed by the hours, not how many ppl we serve". Specially annoying when you go for drinking evening and they let you wait with empty glass for more than 10 minutes. "Slow service" can absolutely be "bad service", depends on situation and place.
I remember when McD opened in Austria in the 80's, people were so confused how to eat this stuff without cutlery. On the other hand we eat bread and rolls filled with whatever you can imagine and don't use cutlery. Maybe it was the fact, that is was not cold food. And yes, we eat pizza with cutlery, but not at home and I use to cut the pizza with a knife in pieces and then I eat it with my fingers. Most places serve pizza uncutted with the exception of street food restaurants. I bet that real Italians don't eat pizza without cutlery and who are we to break with Italian rules when it comes down to pizza and spaghetti eating.
11:00 Here in France, the restaurant usually asks you what drink you want, brings it to your table, leave you time to pick your entrée (appetizer) and main course (what you call entree in the US apparently). They'll take your order, leave you some more time while the appetizer is prepared, bring it to you, leave you time to eat it as leasurely as you wish, then take your empty plates, before leaving you some more time while the main course are getting ready. Once you're done with the main course, they'll come back to ask if you want a dessert as they are taking the plates, leave you some time to decide, then get back to get your order, before bringing it to the kitchen. After a bit more time, they'll be back with it, and ask if you will want a coffee (if they didn't already ask you while taking your orders for dessert).
They try to bring the food for the whole table at once (or in a few trips) so that everyone is eating at the same time, and they'll most likely apologize if there's an order that's taking longer than the rest. As the various elements of the meal are more spaced out, there is less of a rush. But in some places, they will be much more rushed to serve you as they get lots of clients and so on, mostly during tourist season or at lunch for places with lower prices (since their clients are workers)
I think the (a) problem Europeans have with US restaurant service is receiving the check (bill) with or immediately after the food, which feels, from a European perspective as an indication that this transaction should finish soon.
Why would indoor temperature rise above 72F, at all?
The maximum indoor temperature recorded in my summer country house (no AC!) is 23C, or 73F. That's on a nice warm day when daytime temperature hovered around 40C (100-105F) in the shade. And, conversely, winter indoor temperature (no heating!) stays at around +7C at floor level even when it's -30C outdoors. All this in a cheapest possible build (30cm thick Swedish slab, 60cm aerated concrete walls, no fancy insulation membranes).
Well, depends on how your house is built. My place has a massive window facing south, so in winter if the sun is shining, I dont need to turn on the heating and its 20 degrees inside. But in summer if its 40 degrees and the sun is shining, it gets very hot. I dont have AC though, I just go enjoy the AC at work and then sleep on the floor in the living room at night where its slightly cooler than upstairs.
@@TheSuperappelflap For more northern climate having a bit wider "overedge" of roof (also helps with snow "slideoff") usually limits this issue - low winter Sun (it can be as low as ~10 degrees above horizon where I live) still gets in room while higher summer sun (peak is ~55 degrees in sky) is blocked by roof.
@@elmurcis1 Yeah my house doesnt have that, its a flat roof without any overhang, but I can put a tarp up in the backyard to limit the sunshine in the summers, so that helps.
@@TheSuperappelflap "If the sun is shining"... lucky. We, on average, have exactly one sunny day in January, and it's only 3-4 hours long at best.
@@jmi5969 sure, if you live in the polar circle in canada or scandinavia you wont get any sun in winter. I live at around 52 degrees north, and the days are only 8 hours long in the heart of winter, but we do still get some clear days with some sunshine, and then having some big windows and good insulation really helps with heating.
6:07 Not the same thing. *Due* date - 9 months = day of conception
*Birth* date - 9 months ≠ day of conception, necessarily: you could've been born early or late.
I used to live in Palmers Green in North London, and we had a power shower. We lived in a first floor flat, (to Americans this would be the 2nd floor), and we had an electric pump on the shower. The shower head also had several different settings, so you could alter the stream. There was one where the water came out in three strong jets. Not enough to "Rip your skin off", but enough so that you could feel it.
3:20 of course we eat pizza with knife and fork. Do you think we are barbarians?
Funny that you said 'saying how are you is aking to saying what's up' , because when I hear someone say 'What's up' I immediately want to explain how my day's been
When we were children and went shopping with our mum we always seemed to end up having a milk shake in a coffee shop. We assumed this was part of the process till we realised that in fact it meant that my mother was desperate for a cigarette but had been brought up to consider it unspeakably vulgar to smoke while walking around.
Why do most Americans assume an electric kettle is only used for tea, I've heard that so many times. I don't know whether to laugh or pity them lol.
Because they don't use them for anything really.
In Spain we don't use kettles, let alone electric appliances given its price (~14 cents/kWh) and our misery salaries. Many people spend 75+% of their income just to pay rent.
@sharonmartin4036 but they think they're ONLY used to make tea, which is obviously stupid lol.
@BlackHoleSpain so do you mostly use gas appliances instead, you've got to use something to cook.
I am from Sweden and I never eat burger with fork and knife . I have never seen somebody who does that . We also share the one year parenting time between the mother and the father
An electrik kettle is useful for hot water in general, much quicker than a stove, at least with 230V
In Germany never seen anybody trying to eat a burger with fork and knive. A pizza only if you were at a high class restaurant. But some pizza shops don't precut your pizza (and they get bad rep because of this but don't care). Then you would obviously either use a pizza roller or a knive+fork combo to cut it before eating it with your hands.
A pretty standard UK greeting, kind of equivalent to 'How are you' is 'Alright?', and the answer is 'Yeah, you alright?' .
Australian is similar , "how are you going ?" or "g'day " in passing.
It may suprise u, but we 4real eat Pizza with knife and fork. Expecially in Restaurants. Its a sign of bad manners or low IQ if u eat it with hands. At home, u can eat like u want, but in society there are rules. A burger u eat with hands, but wrepp in paper. U dont eat it with bare hands. Its not hygenic.
Its pretty interesting, if someone i dont know would ask "how are u?". Wtf. Y u care, i dont know u. But same time, its so much distance in the elevator? While the most s. assaults/ra"e scandals are also in US. How does it fit together?
An electric kettle is used for many more reasons than just boiling water for tea. Any reason for needing boiling water - switching the kettle on is the quickest way to get your boiling water. Making any hot drink, filling a hot water bottle, filling a bucket for floor mopping, filling a saucepan to cook vegetables, boil eggs. The list goes on.
That family had been living in Australia for over a decade and still hadn't seen how Aussies eat fish and chips. Earlier in that day, those Austrian parents had been praising me for being such a lady. He knew what he was talking about, having lived in a mansion in Vienna as a child. He's from an old Austrian family. My grandmother immigrated from Finland as a child, along with her family. Everyone who knew her said that she was such a lovely lady. She led by example in my family. For example, my mum has been praised with similar words. That's why they were shocked when a group of us had fish and chips that evening. They couldn't believe their eyes when I started eating it with my hands. Their eldest son, who was a little boy when they immigrated, said that he wanted to try it. But his parents wouldn't let him. They asked one of my fellow Aussies if what was doing really was normal in Australia, and he said it was. Their son probably has eaten fish and chips with his hands since marrying his Aussie wife. One last comment.
In my place nobody would be crazy enough to eat fries along with fish.
@BlackHoleSpain no idea where you live in Spain, but chips (fries is US English) are often served with fried fish, even if many will choose salad instead. Check next time fried fish is offered in a menú del día.
There are different styles of eating
* Bento style (lunch box)- everyone brings their own lunchbox with a simple homemade sandwich. Usually eat with your hands, no tip (but sometimes you kiss the cook).
* Mäcces style (McDonalds)- Fast food. Whether you leave your trash on the table or bring it to the trash can varies by country. Usually eat with your hands, no tip.
* Mensa style (university cafeteria)- You pick up a tray and line up at the counter. You get your food on a normal reusable plate, which you return to a cart or a conveyor belt near the kitchen. Eat with your hands if it's pizza, no tip.
* Fine dining - Sit down, a server takes your order, brings the food to your table, cleans up after you leave. Fork and knife even for pizza/burger, customary 10% tip if the service 'meets expectations' (more for exceptional service or if you made a mess; less or none if the service was bad or you're a butthole)
Dude if you are at a restaurant yeah, you eat your pizza with fork and knife wtf
"why would they be annoyed". They're paid the same no matter how many customers they get so you don't need to be rushing for maximum tips. I can get not enjoying the customer constantly bugging you lol
Always will remember while on our round the world backpacking trip (all two years of it) my gf and I spent few weeks apple picking in South Island New Zealand - very Euro crowd, Dutch, Belgians, Brits, Italians, Danish and even a French guy (days of Rainbow Warrior for those old enough!) when a bearded middle aged guys in a check shirt walked in one evening. He stomped into the centre of room and very loudly announced, "Howdy all, I'm Dick!" Five seconds of stunned silence then everybody just fell about laughing, shouting "knobhead" and "we can tell!" echoing about the place. He did look rather upset! Nice guy - he did recover.
I’m 70 years old and i have never seen someone eating a burger with a fork and knife here in Belgium...
Americans do not consider the effect on the planet of running A/C all the time.Also walking in off the street and eating with your hands is gross.Maybe Americans should stay in USA and then their sensibilities won’t be disturbed by different habits.
Why would you eat a burger with your hands? Then they get all dirty.
I live in Finland and here burgers are wrapped in paper. So I hold the burger _through the paper_ , not directly the burger with my fingers. (It's not just about the burger not messing my fingers but also my fingers not messing the burger, because there isn't always a chance to wash the hands before eating.) But I don't know how it's done where you live 🤷.
Napkins are often provided for that.
@@jiggyprawn yes but napkins don't work optimale. Because it doesn't clean it totally. That needs to be done with water.
And why cure something what you can prevent?
@@TRW98 I couple mine with hand gel (which I always have in my bag), so no grease is left. I prefer to use a knife and fork, though. Edit: some fast food places I've ordered home delivery for provide those plastic wrapped wet wipes, which some people carry around for such an occasion.
Restaurant visits longer than an hour if it's not a huge family gathering? Unheard of in Austria. We order drinks, when we get them (mostly beer ofc) they ask for the meal. Sometimes it's a soup first but mostly just a main dish. In general (either after your soup or before having your main) you get around 10mis spare time, mostly for a quick cigarette - to enjoy your beer with - and then the meal arrives. Maybe 20-30mins eating time? Sometimes you get a dessert or coffee afterwards - also about 15mins time from ordering to finishing.
So for a drink and meal you're out in around 45mins, with a soup (we don't really have appetizers) and dessert 1.5hrs at max.
And sometimes the guests even get annoyed when the waiter doesn't come in a timely manner. Often times people just go up to the bar/counter to ask for the bill bc they are impatient.
I guess many of these "rants" come from Americans who have been to Spain or France bc hey, Europe = France and Spain with a bit of UK tossed in :P