American Reacts to American Things The World Doesn't Understand
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The more I hear about the US, the happier I am to live in Australia
Like most Aussies before I lived overseas (pre internet) I didn't realise how good life was in Australia, when I came back I appreciated Australia a lot more, we really do live in the lucky country.
I would love to visit Australia one day. 🙂
My mate son and his American wife moved back to Australia 5 years ago..
And his wife still can't understand how her kids and their friends can walk to school together, and there isn't a metal detector or a armed guard at the front gate.. she has also told her parents, that there is no way she will ever take her children back to America..
In her words.. "my children have learnt how to surf, not dodge bullets "
Says a lot about America..
@@Edmlady92 drop in..
The happier I am in UK too 🇬🇧 even though we have our faults - at least we can admit it lol - my youngest son went to Australia for 2 years when he was 22 he was devastated when his visa ran out he loved it so much - he's joined the Navy and hopefully he can make the move back in the future he has to have a trade which is needed though - he's a firefighter and we're not sure if that's on the list of needed jobs of course I'd miss him if he went but there's a big world out there 💙
As a French citizen what shocked me with food is everything, I honestly found it too sweet, greasy, overprocessed, vegetables were tasteless, the service is rushed, sure the servings are huge but that just makes me waste more, I'd rather have half the portions for twice the quality and nutrition.
For comparison in France you'd have fresh produce, just processed enough to combine the different ingredients into a dish, seasoned with just enough to excite your palate and most importantly you have ample time to enjoy it especially in restaurants where you'll easily spend 2 hours eating your 3+ course meal. Oh and employers have to pay their staff a living wage, vacations and parental leave, crazy concept !
"h and employers have to pay their staff a living wage, vacations and parental leave, crazy concept !"
That's the case in "blue states" such as California and New York (stated that voted for Joe Biden, not Trump, and usually vote for the Democratic (center-left) Party). In the state of California, restaurants have to pay their employees at least the local minimum wage. In San Jose ("Silicon Valley") it's 16.20 USD. This is higher than the minimum wage in Paris of 10 USD.
If you want to see an American version of Paris, you want the NEC (NYC, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston), Chicago, or San Francisco. All those cities were big cities before cars were invented. They're compact, little infrastructure for cars.
Also, the obestity rate in pretty much the whole western world is at 20% or more. In France it's 23%. Better than USA but only by about 10%.
@@neutrino78x Ok cool, come back to me when shooting kids is no longer a weekly news cycle 🚮
@@neutrino78x
No one in America below middle class makes a living wage.
In California the cost of living is better than double what it is in Texas for the same levels of everything. And the minimum wage is double. Meaning the poor in Texas aren't any poorer than the poor in California.
The federal reserve has been devaluing the dollar since its creation in 1913. Inflation never stops growing. And wage earnings barely rise.
At best, if two people as a couple both work full-time jobs at 40 hours per week minimum they will fall in just under middle class(60,000-70,000 dollars per year taxed at 20%). They won't be able to take much time off. And virtually all companies in America screw over employees in vacation time, holiday time, sick time, etc.
Because capitalism is just corporate communism with a catchy name. And a full on BS propaganda mythos behind it lying about it being freedom.
In 1950 a man could be the sole breadwinner for his family and afford a house, car, his wife could afford to stay home and manage the homestead and raise the kids.
Today at those same exact or modern equivalent jobs that man would be just above homeless and be one disaster away from his entire world crumbling. He would pay rent in the crappiest parts of town, his wife would have to work full-time too, and the kids are wards of the state.
Oh yeah, and since obamacare, most employers only employ part-time. Meaning both adults will be working more than one job.
Americans are the most overworked and underpaid population in any first world country.
Which bring us to today. People are just choosing not to work. They do side jobs under the table so they don't pay taxes. They live off the government welfare systems.
We're about to collapse. As planned. And when we go down the world should be very afraid. A dying animal is the most dangerous kind. And we have far more deadly fangs than any tiger, bear, or snake.
@@shaunofthedead3000
"No one in America below middle class makes a living wage. "
Define living wage? Minimum wage can't be the median wage, that makes no sense. That would cause economic collapse.
Our minimum wage here in San Jose is $16.20. That's higher than the one in Paris which is only $10/hr. So you're saying Paris doesn't have a living wage either?
"We're about to collapse."
No, our GDP keeps going up. Silicon Valley shows no signs of going away any time soon.
@@neutrino78x The minimum wage is absolutely not 10 USD in France. The entire country has a "SMIC" (minimum hourly wage mandated by law) of 11.06€ ($11.36 according to this morning's conversion rates, which are abysmal because of recent events. Couple months ago it would have amounted to nearly 15$). It's also a false comparison, because it doesn't account, in the raw, for living costs. I'm sure not going on cruises, but I can afford a 3 bedrooms, 100 sq/m appartment with that, including bills, eat, and go on vacation for a couple days every year. I'm also not in crippling debt because of education or a broken leg, so I don't need a surplus of hundreds of $ and crossed fingers to keep my shit and avoid litigation or bankruptcy. Paris isn't even to be discussed in the slightest on this base-case scenario, because local administration mandates a living compensation bonus since that city is so massively expensive. People get on average about 30% more for the same job in that city, to be able to reach equivallent living conditions.
This entire thing also doesn't account for activity boni. Think automatic stimuli cheque we get every month if the employer is unable (not unwilling) to provide a full time.
All in all, you can only compare living conditions, not raw wages. By those standards, you have people in eastern Europe living on a quarter of an american income, and they still get equivallent or better living conditions than ours.
Edit: also of note, you barely pay any taxes on that level of income here, and little to no local taxes.
I'm European, I have visited the US several times and YES, portions are huge compared to what we're used to here, but the problem is that I noticed not everyone took their leftovers home, and if I was staying at a hotel that wasn't really an option for me anyway, so I suspect that this leads to massive food waste which frankly is something the US is known for
Every time I see someone leave food on the table I want to punch them in the face
One time I saw one of my friends leave a plate full of chicken nuggets and fries (13 in total) after eating only 3 and then he threw it away. That second I felt our friendship leaving my body
@@hat5564 that is infuriating indeed
13 CHICKEN!!!
To be honest, big ass portions and leaving leftover food is not just common in the US. When I was younger I visited egypt a lot (over the span of 9 years) and often stayed at all-inclusive 4 or 4.5 star hotels where a lot of different cultures met. There were always beautiful and delicious buffets and after a while I could tell where people came from depending on how much food they brought to their tables and how much they left. I'm not gonna go into detail of who left the most and stuff like that but it was obvious that some families of the same size as mine had food for at least 15 people on their table. As a german family we'd get 5 plates for 5 people, whereas some of the families around us of 5 people had at least 15 plates on their table and it would be mountains of food on each of them. I would have never given it a second thought if they finished all of it but they simply never did.. I know north america is known for consumerism but there are still alot of cultures where you are thought of as wealthy if you leave alot of food on your plate that aren't american! The US gets alot of hate for it cuz people are ignorant but other countries do the same for different reasons and nobody calls them out..
@@user-qm8xe9tl9t I respect your opinion and for sure it's not an American exclusive, but I have been around the world and the biggest portions and waste were there in my experience
US citizen living in Europe now. The size/sugar topic is 100% accurate. I am absolutely shocked each time I go back! And US bread is basically just really bad cake. Can't believe they didn't mention college debt. When I tell people over here how much I paid for school they flat out don't believe me and Google it, then apologize profusely for doubting me lol
yeah, in the UK uni tuitions are capped at 9250 GBP (around 11-1200 USD) per year unless you are an international student. A full degree and masters at Cambridge costs less than one year at a top level American uni like MIT despite being around the same educational value and notoriety. Ontop of that it's easier to get financial support from the gov here when you study.
Thing is, there is still too much sugar in European products. I also find sweets in the UK to be quite a bit sweeter than their German counterparts (like Cadbury vs Milka or Lindt). Czech sweets might be even less sweet but I don't eat sweets there often as there are other delicious things I rather eat instead.
@Kichiro My bad. German and Swiss counterparts. Lindt also produces in Germany and I don't think Cadbury does.
@@moomah5929Cadbury’s milk chocolate in UK is disgusting now. Cadbury’s was bought by an American company some years ago.
It used to be by far my favourite chocolate. Now Aldi is better AND half the price so I’ve switched to that.
School is expensive, and rightfully so. Why should i pay for someone's degree, especially in a situation where most of them are useless?
we dont have prescription drug ads here in Oz that tell us to ask our doctor if that drug we saw on TV is right for us, because *ITS THE DOCTORS JOB* to tell us what drug would be right for us - NOT private drug companies, and NOT for people to view an ad and go "yes thats the right medication for me!". It's supposed to be about HEALTHCARE, not CAPITALISM. America has it back-to-front here, in the saddest and most expensive way possible.
Which would be great if the doctors didn't just give you the pills the companies bribe them to prescribe.
@@brclyn that's not how it works in Australia.
Well, that’s a shame because Australia has shown in the last two years that it’s anyones decision what drug we take BUT our doctors.
I’m talking about the people who had medical professionals advise them against the vaccine, and they were still forced to get it.
Australia is in a dark place and it’s getting dimmer.
As far as I am aware only 2 countries in the world allow TV advertising for prescription drugs and that's New Zealand (have some restrictions)and the USA.
@@olly7630 WOW i didnt realise NZ allowed it
When I lived in the USA after moving from Australia for a few years, I found the bread horrible and sweet. The fact it didn't go mouldy for weeks made me question how much crap was in it.
I'm a retired Scottish baker,my qualified opinion of American bread,it's Iike Scottish teabread, we call that sweet breads,it's full of sugar, disgusting,I made Scottish crusty bread and Americans loved it,one man said it was ages since he tasted real bread.. I rest my case..
I,m british, come from a family of bakers, and live in Germany, the land of hundreds of gorgeous types of bread. I,ve been in the US several times, in different cities and states and didn,t get to eat any bread that actually tasted of anything at all.
The fact that bread goes mouldy at all should tell you it is crap. When I was growing up in the UK, bread never went mouldy. It went “stale”, that is, gradually dried and carboardy. Then you could use it as croutons, soup dipper, or in any number of recipes. Why does it go mouldy now? Because the process used now is to bung in a ton of sugar - BREAD NEEDS NO SUGAR - and a shit-ton of yeast, so that four or six hours of bread rising and flavour development gets pushed into one hour of developing wet tissue-paper. It is spun into a kind of wet souffle. So the amount of wheat in a modern UK loaf is much less than in the past, and the amount of sugar and water - and salt to cancel the horrid sweetness - is much higher. US bread is nauseating because their sweet baked goods are even more cloyingly over sweetened.
Side-story time! I visited China for a few weeks back in 2015, and I sometimes brought bread and nibbles from the supermarket instead of eating out (in touristy Beijing, it wasn't as cheap as you'd think to get a hot meal). The bread was always about twice as sweet as Australian bread!
@@TheCardiffgirl yep bread in Germany is pretty top notch.. greetings from Munich
That fact that you say casually "You don't get many sick days" is staggering... It is in a company's best interest to let you stay home and recover, that is a scientifically proven fact
I am from Germany and I like the portion sizes we have. For me personally eating out is a special occasion for something like a birthday or meeting old friends/family that you don't see often. So the portions being a size that is enough for one meal without leftovers fits perfectly with that. The most cost effective (and healthy, if done right) way is still to just cook yourself.
I always cook myself nowadays, but I do remember how big the portions in Bavaria were when I went on a camping trip over there. I mean, those portions are much bigger than in most parts of Germany and that was already hard for me. I did used to live near a chinese place where they ususally had buffets on the weekend. I once went there with my group during covid and we didn't have a buffet and ordered specific dishes. That was one of the only times I had to ask someone to pack up my food. The portion was pretty big after all. But I asked nicely and made sure to not waste any of it. In my previous City there was this pizza place were we ordered pretty often called La Piazza. That Pizza was really good and I ate the rest the next day. But yeah, most of the time I never had any leftovers when I ate out. I still prefer to cook myself these days, because then I know exactly what's in the food.
Quality over quantity.
16:17 according to my sister, who visited the US twice, the most shocking thing about the food was how tasteless the vegetables were. She said they look amazing, way bigger and better than in Germany but they taste like water.
Fruits and vegetables grown in hot climates with lots of fertiliser will be bigger but with less flavour than colder climates. In Europe we tend to forget how southerly USA is. New York is the same latitude as Milan apparently. A 'Golden Delicious' apple grown in England will be smaller but tastier than one grown in southern France for instance.
@@michaelcaffery5038 Sorry, I'm not agree. I'm from the SW of Spain and our fruits and vegs are very tasty. The real thing it's inside: American vegs are modificated, even genetically, for growing fast and big, so it has a lot of water inside, and less taste and nutrients.
@@CBOANDALUCIA I have no experience of American fruit and vegetables so I was taking the word of the commentator. You may be right about varieties being grown for size, appearance etc. I am not familiar with fruit and vegetables from your region though I'm sure I must have ate them at some point. Have you ever compared them to those grown in northern Europe?I used to work on a fruit farm in England and it's well known that English apples are superior in taste to those from South France. This is because of the longer, cooler summer days. Golden Delicious were one variety we grew and were much better than the larger French ones from the shops, if smaller. As you say, the flavours are more concentrated. I was taking that principle and applying it to other plant foods. There will be other factors I suppose. From growing wild strawberries and raspberries I know the smaller varieties are tastier. Also from the fruit farm I know the big buyers, supermarkets, prioritise appearance, colour, how well they keep and travel etc over taste so you do have a point there.
GMO 😉
@@michaelcaffery5038 It dependes of variety and kind. In my area apple trees aren't usual, but we have a fruit very similar to the apple, it's calls "peros", looks like a big apple Golden, or are dark red with white spots, but its texture it's sandy and the taste aren't much sweet but tasty. However, almonds and other dry fruit, cherrys, citrus kinds and semi- tropical fruits, grows really well. And of course, Mediterranean fruits, not very famous outside our area (as the "peros").
I'm lucky, my aunt have a (vetegable path?) with a lot of trees, a lemon, two orange, an avocado... And she gaves us a lot of fresh fruit, best lemons I found yet, old kind of lemon not very common today.
Wow, you know somethings wrong when you say that getting a public holiday off, is called being lucky. As a full time employee, in Australia, the thought of not having public holidays off is insane
Or at least working on public holidays is compensated accordingly
@@francismcknight724 No true any more in the hospitality industry. If you eat on public holidays please tip the staff. They ard not being compensated and mostly have been given no choice about working the day.
@@francismcknight724 Well yeah, although that's usually strictly for casuals, who don't get leave entitlements, but get casual loading instead.
@@triarb5790 Hospitality still has minimum requirements for getting a penalty, i.e. time and a half, double time etc. but it's also the employer who should compensate. And if you're a casual worker, you always have the choice.
@@francismcknight724
Yep, a long time ago I used to receive,
triple time working on Christmas Day,
double time on Sundays and public holidays,
time and a half first three hours then double time for the next four hours on Saturdays.
35 hour work week. No lunch break ate on the job.
15% loading if starting work before 7am on week days .
A fuel allowance for driving to work.
If vehicle not working, a taxi to and from work paid by employer.
5 weeks annual leave. Long service leave after 10 years.
Long time retired now.
Regarding the point about American food, I have an experience from my school days.
At my school there were twins who were half German half Asian. For the last school year, one of them went to America for the year.
The two were so visually identical that not even her boyfriend could tell them apart. After the year, I saw them again. Visually, no one would have thought the two were related. The one who was in the USA weighed 18kg more, had a face full of acne and bad skin. In addition, she looked 10 years older and had diabetes.
Only after 2 months did her classmates realize that she was not from the USA. She was the best in English class and the level for math in the final year was like the level in Germany when the kids are about 12 years old. ~ About grade 6.
I am American and I agree about our educational system and our unhealthy foods. Eating healthy is very expensive here and they make unhealthy foods cheaper. A lot of Americans live under the poverty level and can not afford to eat healthy.
I remember my sister go to America for one year for study. When she came home my mother start crying at airport as she came totally fat 😀. However at the moment she started to eat european food even without gym or anything, she rapidly lost weight in 2 months back to original. So I believe food is really different in US and I believe also including lot of types of hormones as its not normal to came back to original weight like this.
You can always recognize documentaries made in the U.S. by the many spots where they start repeating themselves, being the moments where the commercials used to sit.
There was a recent court case in the UK in regards to the bread used by Subway. Subway were taken to court by HMRC and told that they had to pay tax on the bread. According to UK law, the bread has so much sugar in it that it is classed as a cake rather than bread. Subway now has to pay additional tax because of this and have the bad publicity on top. They advertise themselves as a healthy alternative to other fast food and they are selling cakes rather than sandwiches.
Ahh, of course, the sugar! I haven't eaten in Subway in years because I always got sick after doing so. I wonder if the ingredients they use have the same poisons and sugar amounts they have in the US (I'm European).
Wait ! Wait, wait, wait ! So UK is taking food seriously ? 😳
@@pacomegiraudeau1256 I wouldn't go that far, junk food is legal. There is just a different tax system depending on the product you are selling.
@@pacomegiraudeau1256 It's not ideal, but it's better than US.
There's a lot of US products that can't be imported to UK due to food standards.
Most US meat for example.
@@830927mjki But to be honest. We Germans and you guys from the UK are also on the list with the fattest countries. Sure not American or Mexican Level, but we come close after :)
A while back, my Dad spent most of a year in the U.S.A. for specialised military training, and in his first week over there, he bought a loaf of bread. It was just the type he preferred to eat at home in Australia- an inexpensive, grocery store bought white bread. Later, he tried some at his base apartment. He found the taste strange and unappealing, so he set the loaf aside on his counter, and avoided buying any more cheap bread.
Over half a year later, when he was packing to leave, the loaf of bread was still on his counter. Dad had been waiting for it to go off so that he could justify throwing it away, but it looked exactly the same as it had the day he bought it. It wasn't mouldy, or dried out. Though in the months previous various insects had gotten into his fruit bowl or gone after crumbs left on the counter, there was no evidence that any of those insects had even tried to get into that bag of bread.
Dad was dumbfounded, and wondered at the potency of the chemical preservatives in the bread, and the effect exposure to these chemicals might have on the human body.
He threw the bread away, then flew home and told me and my siblings about it over and over. For the rest of his life, that was his favourite anecdote on the evils of excess preservatives.
I'm from Denmark, and visited New York in 2018, and while I wouldn't say I was shocked, it was fascinating to me, just how much larger portions were, especially the sides - that and the free refill concept gave me a new understanding of how much easier it is to get overweight in the US. As a side-note, I suspect that the reason you don't see as many obese people out and about, is because they likely don't come outside daily, like more normal-weight people would, but either shop in bulk once per week, or just get their stuff delivered.
I'm from Poland. I remember visiting US in the summer. Was on a roadtrip with my friends. Visited both west and east coast.The food portions were huge in restaurants. In the beginning I have always took the food out cause I could not finish it. Then, after about 2 months I found myself sometimes eating all of it. I guess my stomach got bigger which really terryfied me. The portion size is a problem I think cause no normal human being needs to eat that much or drink that much soda. Either people get bigger because of it or they can't finish eating it and the food ends up in the trash which is the worst.
I went to Naples, Italy, for work a few months ago. The food was smaller in portion size, ridiculously cheap, and so damn filling! I'm an American eating machine, and even I was satiated after one small serving. I don't know if the food is just fresher, prepared better, or what, but it was staggering to me. Even pasta dishes, which I usually can just gorge on!
A small portion nutritious meal will satisfy the body!
Meals in the USA are often designed to be NOT nutritiuos, to keep you eating and ordering more aka squeezing more money out of you.
There's a reason McDonald's wasn't very succesful in Italy.
Because most of what Americans eat is not even considered food by European standards. Sorry to say...... But most of the stuff Americans feed to their children, we wouldn't even give it to our dogs.
its because certain combinations of protein, fat, sugar and salt trigger our reward system which then in return dampens our feeling of being satiated. Its a base function of survival to have our ape ancestors gorge themselves on fatty, sweet or protein rich food if they can get their hands on it.
Another factor is, that you can have cravings for food when you are deprived of minerals or vitamins. And when you then not eat what your body needs you will stay hungry.
A third factor is eating culture. Mist European meals are ment to be eaten slowly, you taste, you chew, you take your time. And its this time that the signal of fullness from your stomach needs to reach the brain to tell you that you do not need more food. When you gorge down your food this signal reaches your brain when you have allready overeaten.
It's because it's actual food. I mean, sounds like I'm mocking or being mean, but that's the literal reason, it's actual food that's meant to be nutritious and healthy, easy to digest and all, so your body take it well. Fake food, like junk food or processed food is not accepted as food for your body, it's even harder to digest and has no nutritional value. You'll get full eventually, but because of volume rather than content. Also, excessive sugar, fat and many other substances I can't remember ends up working more like a drug in your brain, so your brain will demand as much as you can stuff in your stomach.
From my times in America it almost feels like the commercials get interrupted by the regular programming. I'm almost surprised that some commercials don't have their own commercial break.
I went for vacations to US, I don’t know why, but Italian food (and food in general) made me full with so little, in my country most of the time I finish my food, but there I was almost ashamed to leave so much food, so I forced my self sometimes. And since I didn’t walk in a daily basis (always car to everywhere), I gained like 4-5kg in one month.
Ps:sorry if I have some gramatical errors, English is not my first language.
I've been to the US several times as well as spending time attached to a US military unit during exercises.
The thing that got me and my fellow kiwis living on base was the unhealthy nature of a lot of the food. It took several days before the cooks realized that we don't eat cake for breakfast and stopped serving it to us. Where we would want cereal or oatmeal and maybe bacon and eggs we got pancakes, syrup on everything and coffee. Tea, the soldiers' staple took a few days to organize. Most other meals were heavy in fried food and little in the way if fresh vegetables, potatoes being always fries or mash, both heavy in oil or butter and cheese.
Eating out we always find huge portions that we don't really want and really rushed service. When going out for a meal it is our habit in the main to take our time over a meal and stay on when finished to talk and maybe have a bit more wine. With tipping culture of course it is practice to get customers through quickly to keep the tips coming.
US visitors we have hosted have commented on the increased enjoyment of a meal when not under pressure to leave, not to mention the annoyance of over caring wait staff.
Same in my country, though we are on the exact opposite side of the globe.
While in the US we were looking for real bread, whole wheat brown bread, which is nowhere to be found.
Everything is too salty, too sweet, too processed. Nothing truly fresh.
@@dutchman7623 Hence fat Americans and in the end, needing a health service they can't afford.
@@dutchman7623 Real fresh products are a lot more expensive in the States because of the fructose sugar (which is Gov subsidised) in just about everything else.
It's really amazing when you listen to Americans not finding anything there wrong, and then find all the non-Americans basically being completely opposite. This "to take out time over a meal and stay on when finished" is something I've seen a lot of US expats here in Germany(!) comment on, and also with the same reaction (after a bit of getting used to -german- non-US style ;-)) you mention from US visitors to NZ, how it's nice to eat in peace on not having wait staff interrupt every five minutes.
really? You must have been attached to the Navy because everyone else eats slop, even officers of battalion rank.
That is why the land based military doesn't care if you go off base, even live off base, as long as you are at your post during duty hours.
I have a good story about food sizes. My family moved to the US and lived there for 3 years whilst my dad was working in the US. First week of our stay we lived in a motel waiting for our house to get ready to be moved into. And one time we went out to eat at some roadside pizzeria. Dad was ordering for us (a family of 2 parents 3 small kids), so he ordered 4 pizzas, thinking that the 2 smallest kids would share.
A nice person, next in line, hear that dad was not from the US and proposed that he might want to change his order to maybe only 2 pizzas instead.
Dad did as suggested of course, and we still had pizza enough to take home in a doggy bag. In Sweden 1 pizza is for 1 person... and maybe a third of the size that those pizzas were. :P
There was probably a number (or numbers) denoting size (in inches) that your father didn't notice. American pizza is traditionally sized for sharing. The pizzas you have in Sweden are called personal pizzas here.
@@LynxSouth we call the big ones for "family pizzas". 😉
here in Nordics we do have big pizzas too. I remember going into a local pizzeria in Trollhättan (in Sweden for those who didn't know) and that was huge. It wasn't "Family pizza" it was regular and they did offer Family version too. But this staets to be norm in all Nordics. Finnish pizzerias have always been serving big pizzas.
Sweeden obesity 22% only about 12% less than USA
@@neutrino78x According to Wikipedia (a few years old data) Sweden had 20.6% compared to US 36%. That is not "just a few percent difference. That means US got close to double the rate of really overweight people.
Not surprising with unhealthier foods, larger portions and a country buildt for taking the car everywhere. No easy fix...
Been living in America for a couple of years and food was definitely a big culture shock, I wasn't prepared for the American diet and gained weight like crazy the first couple of months... and the lack of fresh vegetables in regular meals caught me by surprise as well, like a salad or something (no, potato salad is not a real salad)
French baguette : flour + water + yeast + salt (a little bit), and that's all.
That's why it's so good, for itself or with... cheese. 🥰
Mmmmmmm.
Just to put into perspective: this year alone I went on a 5 day ski trip, 2 weekend brakes to the mountains, 1 weekend break to the sea side, one 7 day vacation in Ireland and also I have booked at least 2 more weekend breaks to the sea side and a 7 day vacation to Malta and I still haveat least 15 more free days. I live in Romania ..
It's the food for me. I have a medical condition that means managing my food intake is very important and what I found with the larger size portions in the USA was they had less nutrients and more sugar and chemicals than the smaller serves in Europe. This made it very hard to manage and I really didn't want a bill from a hospital in the USA, travel insurance really doesn't cover pre existing chronic conditions.
It's almost like they are trying to placate and sedate (we all know how our brain responds to various pleasure centres) - their population, increase death amongst 'the poor' by making fast food cheaper than healthy and then denying everyone health care..... and no, I'm not a conspiracy theorist. I just look at facts.
You might need to sell a liver and an arm to pay a US medical bill so better watch out
If I would get billed by an American hospital, I would flee to Honduras for a while XD
What I found was very different in US were two things. One, I could not find any buns or breads that did not have tons of added sugar in them. Second, the consumption of both energy and water was up the roof, such as AC always on, and toilets with 20l+ water tanks. The other differences I knew from TV but these two were new to me.
My sister and I travelled twice to the States, staying both south and north, and during each stay we shared every meal as it was just far too much for one to eat - and I'm considered to be a big eater here in Australia.
I remember being shocked that everything tasted so sweet. The bread, peanut butter and especially milk are the ones that spring to mind.
And when you look at the ingredients you see corn syrup in everything. I'd never even heard of corn syrup before.
The corn syrup in the USA (and Canada) is from GMO corn that has been modified to produce high glucose syrup. It is used as a cheap, universal sweetener, especially for fountain soft drinks (the ones served in restaurants and where you fill your cup from a dispenser. I think it was Chili's restaurant who pledged to go 100% non-GMO then had to add an asterisk disclaiming that soft drink were excluded from the non-GMO policy.
You have to read ingredients labels and buy what you want. If you want regular peanut butter (just peanut and salt) we have it if you want it with sugar and palm oil we have that to. Same with bread the ingredients are on the package. If you want bread with just wheat yeast and salt then buy the bread with only wheat yeast and salt. Read the package look at the ingredients.
Sugar is very addictive on par with something like cocaine , meth , nicotine . So more amount of sugar in your product will make you crave it more and more. In the end you will consume lot more than if sugar content was lover.
@@Mrdinomist Lol. citation required.
@@MrGrumblier Thats why in US companies add more sugar than anywhere else in the world , as other countries have laws that force them to lower amount. Now there is a big question if that amount is more than enough, as sugar obsession is very big in Europe . Sugar can also cause many health problems. Just read the article 😎
I'm from Spain, when I was on vacation in America the food for one person was enough to eat 3 of us, we saw how huge amounts of food were thrown away, we couldn't believe it...
Nothing we ate had flavor, in my country that's third class food.
The famous California fruit was lousy and tasteless, especially the oranges.
A lot of US produce is grown on commercial farms, to be sold to grocery stores, and stay fresh for as long as possible. Buying produce from grocery stores means it'll be beautiful, but often it has poor flavor. Even some things claiming to be grown in California, are shipped from Mexico. The Southwest--including California is under a 10 year, ongoing drought, and farmers are fighting over water rights...which could very well affect the produce--and the oranges.
@@cariwaldick4898 All farms are commercial, all in the world
@@JustMe-sh8nd When I said "commercial," I meant a conglomerate owned the farm, and the farmers were contractors paid to work the farm. Sure, most farms do sell their products to retail outlets, but not on the same scale. There are also homestead farms, where the property owners do the work, and don't sell their products, but instead grow/raise them for their families and communities. It's rarely ALL or NOTHING.
@@cariwaldick4898 Oh you call that a farm also (i am not american and we do not call it farms when you only grow for yourself.. definitions huh haha
Brother, one can't expect food in the USA to be even half way decent compared to the stuff we have in the Mediterranean. I'm also a spaniard myself and I've had authentic cuisine from all over Europe; yankees are getting scammed with their food. Hell, even imported cuisine has been getting leagues better over the last decade or so. The huge influx of migrants we've been getting has made it way easier to find authentic food from elsewhere in big cities such as Barcelona.
lol i just got back from europe and the food is just so different it’s wild it’s crazy to fully eat a meal and not feel absolutely bloated and heavy afterwards 😂
I have been to the US years ago Im from hungary, to tell the truth some of these differences didnt even register at all. What was missing for me maybe because I was in Kansas was the fact that you are dead without a car in the US and not just in rural areas but even in cities. That was shocking to me.
I as an American can say we are waking up to this issue, but basically the entire system on transportation and housing needs to be redone. The US used to be much like Europe in how it planned it cities and transportation, but especially after the WWs someone with a lot of money decided that wasn't ok. There are some places trying to go back, but everything in the US works against a society that isn't car dependent.
I've been to the States several times. One of the distinct memories I have of all my trips is the flavour of the food. From bread in upstate new York, to Maine lobster to fried chicken in Louisiana . . . it was all tasteless.
Portions were huge - as in HUGE - but almost devoid of flavour.
To go through in detail, on my first trip to the US I ate in a medium restaurant and ordered baked mushrooms as a starter. Up came three very large portobello type funguses packed with cheese, bacon and topped with breadcrumbs. But if you subtract the cheese, salt and pepper flavourings, the mushrooms themselves might as well have been bath sponges. We asked for bread and were provided with three (3) complete medium sized loaves; all sweet and salty but with no 'bread' flavour.
Ditto with the lobsters which I ate in New Jersey (I think). I asked for a plain, grilled lobster; absolutely 'au naturel' because I wanted to taste what this fabled crustacean actually tasted like. Nothing, just nothing. In the UK I can buy frozen shrimps from Vietnam that have enough flavour to charm heaven itself. But Maine lobster? No thanks.
Same again for fried chicken. I was expecting something special, but experienced only crispy coated fried flab.
Sorry USA, but you have confused big portions with big taste and wound up providing huge portions of tasteless pap.
I think that's the reason we see North Americans put so much sauce on everything, to give it some flavour.
i can agree. we got american pizza resturants here in sweden few years ago and the pizza is aight but man is it trash compared to the shit the middle eastern immigrants make. tested dominos and pizza hut and man do they lack toppings and flavor. it had som flavor but it was so basic and had no real kick to it compared to Ahmeds kebab pizza that just spills out of every side and corner with topings like a pizza taco
Agree. And let me tell you, if you compare it to South American food, even European food tastes a bit bland. So imagine the contrast between South American food and North American food.
@@rampage3337 I agree. Pizza Hut is expensive thick slice of bread with some topping. Bareley any restaurantes anywhere. Dominos, I didn't knew they excisted here in Sweden, untill a friend of mine told me there maximum 10 restaurantes here. Ahmeds pizza, everywhere, italian thin, and with tons of all kinds of toppings, cheap prices are the better pizzas here in Sweden.
Americans appear to prefer quantity over quality. They eat to live whereas we Europeans live to eat.
The public bathroom situation was one of the biggest shocks for me when I visited America. One of the bathrooms I went to had such big gaps between the doors that I could see pretty much everything outside the stall and had to get a friend to stand in front of the cracks to feel comfortable going. Here in Norway it is pretty much unheard of to have so thin and flimsy bathroom doors with multiple centimeter gaps. Over here it is very common especially in newer or renovated public bathrooms to have thick floor to ceiling tiled walls with proper doors like the walls and doors you’ll find in private homes. I e always wondered why this is the case for American bathrooms and my only guess would be to cut down the cost of public bathrooms, but I’m not really sure.
Another surprise for me personally was how little Americans know about the world outside the us. When telling people that I’m Norwegian I got a lot of questions on where in the world Norway is which is not something I’ve never experienced in any other country I’ve traveled to. Americans also seem to believe a little too much in stereotypes, a guy I met at a museum I visited asked me and the rest of my group where we were from and when we told him we were from Norway he didn’t believe us because he assumed all Scandinavians have blonde hair and blue eyes which is simply not the case. Almost every American we spoke to were also very surprised at how good we were at speaking English which surprised us. To us it’s completely normal to be good or even fluent at English since we start learning English as soon as we start elementary school and many people even start learning simple English words as early as daycare.
I think it was meant as a safety thing to prevent drug use, but then again people who are so addicted to drugs that they use them in public toilets probably don't care if strangers see them shooting up
Why are people in Norway, Germany, France, Spain, Italy and so on learning English, and why are people in American not learning any other language?
@@mojojim6458 English is considered a world language and is spoken by a lot of people all over the world. Most big social medias and websites are in English. Many businesses also require that their workers can speak some English because it’s a language most people can speak and is the best way to communicate to foreigners. In many countries English is a big part of the school curriculum because of how widespread it is.
Why Americans don’t normally learn other languages in school probably has a lot to do with the fact that there’s no other languages that are necessary for Americans to learn. There aren’t any languages that are necessary for global communication in the same way English is.
@@silh3345 "there’s no other languages that are necessary for Americans to learn". Bingo! Thanks for taking the time to post your explanation.
@@mojojim6458 well if I lived in the US I would love to know some Spanish at least. It is a very useful language in that part of the world and pretty easy to learn.(I studied it for about 2 years when I was about 12-13)
The weirdest and most insidious way to add calories that I noticed when visiting Miami, was that sizing up your meal (bigger fries and drink) in restaurants was often discounted. So either pay more for less, throw the rest away, or drink way too much soda. I swear I stared at the server for a fill minute when she mentioned a campaign where my meal would be 1 dollar less if I took the biggest soda. And then the biggest soda was double the biggest size available in most European countries. It has to be something that Coca Cola Company and PepsiCo pay them to do.
German here. The sizes in restaurants... When one of my brothers visits his partner's family in the USA, he is surprised about the sizes too. In Germany we have smaller portions, so that there is most commonly no need for takeaways. What you should also keep in mind in German restaurants:
- no free refills
- usually no free tab water
About the tipping... in German restaurants when you an at least adequate service you usually round up. For a 28€ check for example you would give 30€ or 25€ instead of 23,30€, something like that.
When I've watched TV in the USA, advertisements make watching a show almost unbearable. I once watched Unbreakable (one of my fsvourite films at that time)in a hotel in Indianapolis in about 2008 and I swear it was on for nearly three hours! In the UK, the run time for a film that length - about 1h50m - would take a tiny bit over two hours to air on commercial TV. No ads on the BBC, of course.
yeah, it would be about 2h15m here is Aus, maybe they would pad it out to 2h30 to fill a slot (they tend to be 30 minute slots), all depends on what was going to be on next, if it was another movie they would probably not worry about the slot so much.
to make it worse, From what I understand of USA TV, they pay quite a bit for it (cable), where as we get less ads for free (unless you get foxtel etc.)
Ten minutes from the film end.... 10-15mins of commercials, making TV unbearable to watch........
Had the same experience with a 2 hour movie taking 3h30 for it to finish, we were so tired and done with it at the end. But the worst was when a show ended and we got commercials... and then they came back to show the credits followed by a 10 second postcredit scene and then back to commercials. That really broke me.
@@myopinion69420 In Oz, theyd just fit it into the timeslot by cutting a chunk out of the show.
to say its not super bad with adds here in europe aswell would be a lie. yes, for me there are the official german and swiss tv stations that dont have to many commercials, but as soon as you go to a private tv producer there is almost 50% adds now. i have digital tv and on some channels i really have to skip 10 minutes for the adds to be over! so i dont watch any live tv at all so i can just skip the adds, but really soon that wont be doable anymore, i will have to pay an extra to still be able to skip the adds.
"The stalls are designed like that to discourage people from being perverts in public restrooms!"
I'm fairly certain it encourages people to be perverts. Nothing's stopping them from looking into a stall being used by a child.
It is annoying, however alot of it has to do with security...People will sometimes hide in stalls until after closing to rob the place, do drugs, etc...
@@robertwaseleski1767 Can you show the statistics to back up this claim? There should be an outright epidemic of this happening in Europe, since we have those dangerous, dangerous stalls.
@@MrMartinSchou I'm not saying it's better...I am just giving you an explaination why they are like that in the U.S. It is a security versus privacy thing...
The stalls aren't designed that way because of that. They are designed that way that you NOT USE the toilet, because if you don't use them they don't have to pay someone to clean it.
@@robertwaseleski1767 And I'm saying it's a bogus issue. It's not a security issue, because the "security" it provides isn't missing in places that has a reasonable design.
The "security" reason is a lie told to you because it's an easier sell than "we want to save as much money as possible".
- about the advertisements, in Europe there’s many state owned channels that don’t run ads. Also they’re usually the highest viewed tv channels.
- about the eating out. 99% of places will never allow you to take food home with you here in Europe.
When an American show is aired here, including commercial breaks, only half of the breaks are actually used for commercials. The other half is just skipped. So they say 'We'll be back after the break', and there is no break and they are right back. That's how you notice how many commercial breaks there are in American shows.
My parents did go to America once for a vacation, they mentioned having to order kid's size meals just to get something that wasn't absolutely huge
Also everyone would stare at them when they decided to go for a walk, which in itself is just wild
Visiting the US for the first time I was absolutely shocked at the portion sizes. The portions were 75% larger than I had ever seen before. I thought it was crazy. But I was even more shocked as the people in the restaurant finished all of their food. Plates and dishes were empty. I couldnt believe it. I had a difficult time eating 30% of the meal.
Even the relative I have in FL - the portion size they put on the plate is staggering -
seriously it would be enough for two days - or enough for one and a dog -
If I had to eat all they put on the plate I would need to lie down for a few hours -
like a snake that swallowed a crocodile.
True, we usually share one main dish between two and it’s still too much.
even in the uk i never finish a meal, but i know im weird there lol.... but the amount of food they happily eat in america is disgusting.
@@allenjohnson7686
One should also consider the amount of food wasted
Q: What do they serve in Puerto Rico Restaurants
A: Whatever they find in the trash at Italian Restaurants
It’s considered disrespectful to not finish your meal, but you can ask for a to go box and just take your meal to go and eat it later like I normally do, so really you get like 2 or 3 meals from one meal, and some places let you get a free refill so you can leave with a drink🤷♂️ you don’t have to eat all the food right then and there
Explained in great detail! Thank you so much!!
I haven't been to the US myself, but my aunt told me that she found the packaging of food is so very different from how it is in Belgium. Mainly in terms of packaging individual slices of cheese or meat or something, that's something that you never see here. Just more packaging in general. Packaging within packaging.
Hi Ian... As mentioned by a few people below, Australia gets a minimum of 4 weeks paid vacation a year, + 10 days public holiday per year. In addition to that, many jobs also get an additional 13 weeks long service leave every 7 years (to be taken any time over the next 7 years). Certainly allows a whole lot more travel! And as for tipping... crazy!!! Everyone should earn a minimum wage from their employer! Tips then for GREAT service.... Love the content, mate!
Oh 100% - pay people what they’re worth!
NO It's 13 weeks holiday for 15 years service, which has been changed to 8 weeks holiday at 10 years and then 5 weeks holiday after every 5 years completion after that.
Jeez when you read this ( and I agree ) it makes you realise how lucky we are to live in straya. Far dinkin $2.13 per hr and hope for a customer to top up your wages doesn’t seem right🇦🇺
Yeah, in the UK basically all full time workers have a legal minimum paid holiday entitlement of 28 days a year.
When I was in the public service I got 5 weeks paid leave a year , I also purchased an extra 4 weeks per year and took it all at half pay which allowed me 18 weeks leave if I wanted!
When i went to america being an englishman, i remember eating a breakfast from an iHop and the sheer portion size was just crazy in my opinion.
There were also things like milkshakes with an excess of 2000 calories - more calories than the average lunch! that’s simply unheard of in england
Fellow Brits here. My wife and I have been to the states and found that we often didn't need to eat lunch because the breakfasts were so big.
I was in LA on a work trip and had the exact same experience. My boss paid for an IHOP breakfast on the first day and I ordered some 10$ pancakes.
It was 4 actual cake-sized pieces of fluff, topped with like 3 sliced bananas.
Ate like 1.5 of them, felt horrible to waste that much food and we had a good laugh about the outrageous portion sizes afterwards.
The weirdest thing I remember, though, was that the office had drawers full of sweets and the QA section had a whole desk space dedicated to candy and other treats. All free of charge. Just grab some candy or granola bar, get some bagels in the morning, get some pizza or sandwiches ordered for lunch.
Just a whole different experience to my usual "bring a sandwich to work and maybe buy sth hot for lunch" life.
2000 calories is an entire day's ration for a woman and nearly a mans. That one milkshake should be all you eat or drink (other than water) for the entire day.
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@John Milton less xd
Bewten 1800 and 2500 depending of the size.
I have heard the smaller stall doors is to discourage people from using the facilities and therefore cutting down on how often they need to be cleaned.
A very transparent and crass way to offer a service without offering the service.
A lot of my students have been to the US to study for a year and the first thing they mention when they come back to Spain is the size of the food portions, especially the pizzas. I also know several Italian people who have been to New York and they say the Italian food is lousy there and nothing like actual Italian food.
I was incredibly shocked that I could buy a 44 oz (roughly 1.3 L) drink for 99 cents, plus a free refill if you drank it all in or around the store.
I also remember buying specific bread that had no corn syrup added to it for me to be able to eat it, and living off of frozen, microwavable broccoli for a while because my gut refused to adapt to whatever was in the food there. It was a rough 3 months, but all in all I enjoyed it. Beautiful country, just wouldn't ever wanna live there.
Man I'm so glad you decided to expand your mind by learning about other countries. No country is perfect, but if the US would adopt some things that other countries simply do better, it would hugely benefit everyone. Keep doing what you are doing and the more (US) people watch your videos, the better.
Like basic rights for workers and citizens
Also an nonexistent police force
@@jmurray1110 ... and all closed on Sunday 😸
@@jmurray1110 bruh
As a European living in the US, I got rid of my TV because of the frequency of advertisement. Been TV free for the last 20 years.
as a kid in America I never understood why public bathrooms had huge gaps but then the few bathrooms I have found that didn't literally every single time some jackass would lock the door and then squeeze through the top to get out and usually it would be a gap that only a smaller kid can get through so unlocking the door becomes really hard.
We live in Australia and have holidayed in the US and Canada. We found both country's bread and coffee too sweet and servings too big and unhealthy on the whole also. You commented that you take excess food home, but that's not usually possible if you are a tourist and travelling. In Europe and Australia, we would prefer good quality food over quantity or price. A over large helping actually makes me feel ill before I've even started. The US obviously doesn't follow healthy dietary guidelines of portion size where we only need a closed fist size portion of protein (meat etc) per meal and plenty of veg (not smothered in gravy). It's the same with free refills of soft drink. For a start it's unhealthy and unnecessary to keep filling up just because it's free. Starbuck's did not do well in Australia for a reason - it tasted like crap. We know good coffee and we won't pay for bad coffee.
I have watched quite a few youtube review channels of McDonalds around the world and Americans all seem to say, it tastes better and is fresher than in the US.
We have alot of the US still to visit, so as long as we don't get sick there, save up for the tipping, stay clear of random shootings, don't need to get a job there, can share a meal, and don't become diabetic beforehand, we can look forward to a wonderful holiday.
We do not visit MacDonalds or Burger King - I don‘t know if there are even more fast food chains here in Austria - because their food is just crap. Wifey loves their ice and coffee. Can‘t do much wrong with caramel ice or coffee. But the rest of their food offers are just unhealthy, danger to our health and in best case just give us belly aches. We also do not visit the cheap restaurants in our area. Not cheap in cost, cheap in products. Their food is not much better. Our health and our well being is just too important to waste them on such trivia.
you guys out of your Covid gulags yet?
@@jasonrhodes9683 No we guys still eating Borschtsch and old mangy dogs. You still alive after the 5th wave?
@@wolfgangpreier9160 I don't think you guys ate borscht.
Do you all have really wicked talons on your feet so you don't fall off the bottom of the world? (I know Oz isn't any farther south of the equator than the US is north, you might be closer.)
It was your own new services that leaked about sick people then people accused of being put into "voluntary" camps.
@@jasonrhodes9683 Gulags are in Siberia. Australia is made up of deported British prisoners. I guess they get only Aga toads for dinner. And crocodile hide to chew on. And rrrrrrreally nice looking gals as we all know.
We have talons but not to fall off the world. Just to sit on our churches and spew - sometimes even water - on the innocent chruch goers.
And no: Our news service did nothing of that kind. Those in the UK killed their vermin aka veterans and those in long-term nursing care. Ah and their school children. It must be nice to live in a country which wants to kill thy children.
You may mix up Austria and Australia. I mean its understandable. They got their name from us. Terra Australis - the world on the other side from us in Austria...
Whenever I visit the US I just don't watch TV. The commercials make it unbearable.
I'm from Oz and when I visited in 2005, it was shocking. My family and I had to share everything. 2 plates between 4 ppl or less. I also gained 5kg in 13 days and I wasn't eating that much or too differently to at home. I lost over a kilogram on the flight home.
In the UK lmost all workers are legally entitled to 5.6 weeks’ paid holiday a year (known as statutory leave entitlement or annual leave).
This includes:
agency workers
workers with irregular hours
workers on zero-hours contracts
An employer can include bank holidays as part of statutory annual leave.
Most workers who work a 5-day week must receive at least 28 days’ paid annual leave a year. This is the equivalent of 5.6 weeks of holiday.
All the sugar added to food is why things seem bland outside of the US to some Americans. I’ve found in the US way too much stuff is drenched in multiple sauces until I’m not sure what it’s supposed to taste of anymore. The bread thing is absolutely true, we can really taste the sugar in it
The sauce thing is so true, I watch alot of cooking videos from America. so many times they ruin food by pouring 3 different sauces on it till you can't even tell what it is anymore
Also, when we add sugar to things in Europe it's actual sugar and not corn syrup.
I've been to the States on multiple occasions, and to different parts - Ohio, Michigan, Florida and California. My takeaway impression of American food is that most everything is soft and sloppy.
Everything is covered or cooked in sauce - there's no chewing involved in American food.
I came to miss proper vegetables after a week or so over there - they just don't do them, unless they are swimming in creamy sauces.
@@gillianrimmer7733 that’s so true, I’ve been to at least 10 states all across the US and found the same. Still love visiting the place though
I've seen more than one American online saying they moved to Europe then went back to the States and got ill almost immediately because they weren't used to eating food with so many preservatives/sugar/crap in.
The 'cake vs bread' argument is probably based on Denmark, where regulations demand something be defined as 'confectionary' rather than bread or other baked goods if the sugar content exceeds a certain percentage. As so many US based brands include HGCS (or high glucose corn syrup) as a sweetener this quickly pushes most US baked goods into the 'confectionary' category.
Lol, that's a lousy argument. I'm not danish, but Belgian. I ate US bread and it is fuckin cake, not bread at all. I didn't need to know anything about Denmark rules to know this and so do many other people who wouldn't know or wouldn't care what Denmark does. It's a wide spread consensus at least among Europeans who tried it. Most of them would have no idea about what Denmark's rules are. Stupid comment, the cake vs bread argument is based on perceived taste comparison and nothing more.
Yeah, the USA is obsessed with low fat crap. Sadly, the fat that is removed is usually replaced with sugar in order to keep it appetizing.
I just remembered an old joke
There was a Swede visiting the US for the first time. He had been told that everything was large in the US.
He went to the hotel bar and ordered a Whiskey.
It was a 10 liter bucket with a straw.
He asked for a cigarr.
He got a 2 meter long havanna cigarr.
After drinking all the Whiskey he needed to visit the bathroom and asked for directions, but drunk as he was he opened the wrong door and fell into the hotel pool.
In panic he yelled "Don't flush, don't flush!"
Det var en svensk som var över till USA för första gången, det enda han vist var att allt var så stort där.
Det första han gjorde var att
gå till en bar och beställa en whiskey. Bartendern frågade om det skulle vara en normal, extra stor eller amerikansk.
Kaxig som han var tog han en
amerikansk. In kom en tio-liters hink med sugrör.
Efter en stund blev
han röksugen, så han bad om en cigarr. Bartendern frågade igen om det skulle vara en normal, extra stor eller amerikansk.
Nu ännu kaxigare bad han
givetvis om en amerikansk. In kom en tvåmeters havanna på stativ.
Efter en stunds drickande och rökande behövde han gå på muggen. Han frågade eter vägen, varpå
bartendern beskrev följande: Gå rakt fram mot den där dörren. När du kommer innanför tar du första till höger.
Sagt och gjort, vår glade svensk kommer innanför dörren men upptäcker i sitt berusade tillstånd att där nu finns en massa dörrar som barar snurrar runt. Han går in genom första bästa, och drattar på huvudet ner i en stor basäng. Efter en stund kommer han upp och vrålar:
- Spola inte, spola inte!
I have lived in the USA for several years, and I have visited the US once or twice a year since. What's described as differences is totally accurate.
Yes, we do have commercials on TV in Europe, but nowhere near as much as in the USA, not even on the "commercial" channels. While things vary from country to country, in my country on the "public" channels, you only have commercials *between* programs. On the commercial channels, you will have commercial breaks, but only every 20 or 30 minutes. In other countries, the public channels will not have any commercials at all.
Home owners association? Typically only in shared buildings, were you co-own the shared infrastructure, like the roof or elevators.
Vacation days, yeah, that was really something to get used to. Where I worked in the US, we got 10 days/a year, and that was considered generous. Where I work now in Europe, I have 28 days of paid vacation a year, on top of the 7.2 national holidays (New Year, Christmas (Dec 25 *and* Dec 26), Easter Monday, Pentacost Monday, Ascension Day, the birthday of the monarch, and liberation day (but only once every 5 years, hence the .2)).
And let's not forget sick days. When I get sick, my employer has to pay the first *two years* of sick leave. By law. And that has to be 85% of your wages on average (most employers opt for 100% during the first year, 70% during the second) Only after two years, an employer can terminate a contract, but then, only after it has shown it has tried enough to get the employee back to work. This typically involves a court decision.
First time I was at iHop when I was in USA the first time, we were looking at the menu and I decided on an omelet, so I wanted to get the large one (because I usually do that here), and they were all "are you sure you want the large? maybe you should get the regular one?
So I agreed, and I am glad I did, the regular one was made with 6 whole eggs @.o
That was a regular size for a single person.
Another thing that struck me was the soda sizes in cinemas, where the small size is equal to a large over here, and then you have one where you can get 2 liters of soda, meant for a single person, to be consumed during a single movie. Just ridiculous.
Also you comment that you think it's smart that portion sizes are so big that you can elect to eat only some of it and then bring the rest back home with you. Here is an outrageous opinion: you can get portion sizes that sits what you can eat so there is no waste, and then the following day you can make fresh food that fits the amount you can eat, then you will end up with much less food waste, and you have a much smaller risk of overeating.
the reason the soda sizes are so big is because restraunts go for quantity over quality and so want people in and out really quick and their profit margins are often times based around people buying beverages and fountain drinks even though they cost like a dollar or 2 dollars cost almost nothing to actually produce as it's basically water with syrup added to it and unlike buying say cans from the store a restraunt can just buy a big batch of syrup and make many gallons for way cheaper because it cuts the cost of shipping and handling which is what makes drinks usually cost a lot. For instance the reason bottled water costs so much isn't usually because the corporations are greedy so much as shipping and handling costs and arm and a leg.
So long story short they give bigger drink portions to incentivize buying the drinks because it costs almost nothing for them to make, is easy to produce and makes a lot of profit.
I think there’s quite an important distinction between “can’t understand” and “understand just fine but think it’s a bad idea” 🤷🏼♂️😉
When I was a kid in the seventies, Jackie Gleason was considered as very heavy. Foster Brooks roasted him for it on the Dean Martin show and he was known as the fat cop in Smokey and the Bandit. Today, he would fit right in....
In the UK, ads are placed every 15-20 minutes within a tv programme or film, and on at least 2 channels, no ads at all.
While in the US, ads are placed every 5-10 minutes.
I’m from England and back when I was 14 almost 15, I went over to the states for a 3 week school exchange. The thing that stood out the most in my little 14 yr old brain was the breakfasts I was offered. Either cereal which was so incredibly sweet that I couldn’t eat it. Or I was offered chocolate donuts and various muffins of all flavours. I ended up skipping breakfast each morning because of this. All I wanted was a full English. To those who don’t know what that is, it’s bacon, fried egg, tomato, beans, either fried bread or toast and sausage. Something to fully set you up for the day. I don’t wanna eat a chocolate chip muffin for breakfast! You bet the full English was the first thing I ate as soon as I flew home!
I haven’t been there’s since (not had the opportunity) but as an adult, it’s all about healthcare. You have to pay for having a baby!?!?!? The most natural thing in the animal kingdom and you have to pay for that! That’s shocking to me. Thank goodness for the NHS here in the UK. And thank you to all those who work for the National Health Service too
Oh and lastly.. pronunciation of certain things. The 2 that stand out for me are Buoy and Nutella. It’s pronounced “boy” not “booee” short for buoyancy, not booeeancy!! And it’s NUTella. Not nootella. It’s made with hazelnuts not hazelnoots”
(Don’t sacrifice me for that last part.. that’s just for fun 😂)
Hazelnoot noot 🐧
Fun fact the company changed the US pronounciation of Nutella because peanut butter is so common they couldn’t wrap there heads around a but spread that wasn’t peanut do it didn’t sale until the rebrand
@@jmurray1110 wow really? I had no idea about that. It’s bizarre that this is the only way to get people to understand what it is. Interesting fact tho. Thank you for commenting
What do you mean Nutella is pronounced like NUTella? And what does it have to do with the US?
@@Marina_-_- the US pronounces it Nuutella
For commercials, to give context. In the UK there are laws limiting how often commercials can be shown and a maximum time per hour can be dedicated to commercials. Also commercials have to be timed to not interrupt the flow of the show. Medical advertising targeting the general public is banned, the view being that there is no way anybody without medical training and experience can fully understand the pros and cons of any particular medication over one of the alternatives.
In the UK the programs run by the BBC on their main channels do not have commercials, we have a TV License that we pay yearly that covers BBC programming so it doesn't need ads.
On top of that, the generally accepted use of ads in the UK is four times in an hour. The shows start at the top of the hour, you have about twelve minutes of show, then one ad-break across the quarter-hour, finish the show and have an ad break for the last few minutes before the half-hour. Next show, or the rest of the hour-long show, starts at half-past, you get another ad break at/across the three-quarter-hour mark, finish the show and then the next ad break is the remaining time left after the credits to the top of the hour.
Basically we have approximately the same amount of ads in an hour, but there are typically only four ad-breaks total with multiple ads in every one. Compare that to America where you have as many as 18 ad breaks in an hour that cover just one or two ads each.
Having watched a couple of US shows on actual US TV, I legitimately could not believe that a single show could have so many breaks in it (and so many with a recap of what happened only two minutes ago, as if the attention span was so short for the average person that they needed a stinger 'coming up' and 'previously' every time the show stopped and started).
TIPS. as a customer i am not responsible for the wages of the server. i dont go into an establishment thinking about the poor waiter/server, i go satisfy my needs for food/drink/shopping, if i get bad service they get a bad tip or non at all. or in most cases a good tip. yes i am European.
Regarding the toilet stalls, I remember when I went to America back in 2018 and I had no idea that the public toilets would have so little privacy - I was SHOCKED! LOL! I kept feeling like I was going to be spied on, so my mum and I would tag team Haha!. The other thing that had me really concerned was how much water was in the toilet bowl, I literally had a thought that either I would sit down and my bum would get wet OR I would go to use the TP and my hand would get wet Hahaha! To try and avoid that situation, I ended up lifting myself up a bit in order to use the TP. However, when I did that I had ANOTHER shock... the bloody thing just randomly flushed itself and scared me to death Haha! I LITERALLY screamed, completely unprepared and unaware that anything like that would happen LOL! My mum was worried asking if I was okay and I just had to explain what happened and warned her for if she ever used one in the future. I came to realise, at least in many of the public toilets I went to when over in LA, they self flush if you make any sudden movement that seems like you have gotten up - I was NOT a fan! Hahaha!
you must have been dropping a real groaner to be leaning so far forward for so long that the sensor thought you weren't on the toilet anymore.
@@jasonrhodes9683 Not necessarily some of those things are super sensitive.
@@Glittersword Exactly! I barely got up 🤣🤣🤣 I was just shifting because I was uncomfortable 😂😂😂
Just FYI - The toilet doors being much shorter is for economic reasons... If a public restroom has 5 stalls and your contracted to build many restrooms as a part of the construction - take a stadium that seats 50,000 people which requires 1 bathroom stall per 20 persons.... thats 2,500 stalls all requiring doors... say you save enough material with 4 stall doors to make the 5th.... That's 500 doors less you have to pay for to complete the job! take it easy mate!
@@theFatLadyOutfit Yes that is exactly what this makes so typicall America, money over wellbeing and comfort
I think the tipping difference is because in the US, waiting staff are generally paid a pittance and it is recognised that tips enable them to have a living wage. In Europe, staff are paid more generously , and tips tend to reflect the quality of service rather than an obligation to help the needy.
True, but the law in the USA is that the server must make at least minimum wage. Tipping them lets the owners off the hook as they can count the tips towards what they are paying their employees.
Tipping minimum wage in the U.S.
$2.15 per hour.
@@julesmasseffectmusic While the nationwide Federal minimum wage rate is $7.25 per hour, many state and municipal governments have introduced higher minimum wages that apply to workers within their jurisdiction.
in the US, if a server doesn't make the federal minimum wage the employer makes up the difference. There is also a base wage so they aren't solely dependent on tips. An attentive and charming server can make a lot of money in tips. A server that is good at upselling their tables, appitizers, deserts or alcohol, can make a much higher base wage. A very plain looking waitress at an Olive Garden I worked at as a contractor in 1998, was bragging about buying her dream car, a brand new Trans Am.
@@jasonrhodes9683 In most of the rest of the world they get a liveable base wage and can still bring their earnings up to a decent level through their interactions with customers.
Well, from my wheel chair perspective: I've been in Florida in 2004 and I was terrified by the fact how dangerous it is to cross the street because the ramp was exactly on the corner and not a little bit aside of it as in Europe! From my Dutch perspective it was really frightening!
We have home owners associations ("Ejerforening") here in Denmark - at least in some places. They will usually handle shared areas (parks, lawns, playgrounds, roads) owned by the home owners collectively as well as negotiate deals for maintenance, improvements, TV, internet, etc. that the home owners can opt into.
Well let's put it this way.
We got Subway few years ago where I live.
Price was decent, subs were tasty... And then our nation started to investimagate those sandwiches... That are made with same recipe as they are done in USA.
Aand 8% value added tax (food product) changed to 24% value added tax (Sugary treat) as it didn't qualify as bread.
So to give some perspective on the frequency of commercials,
Here they often don't cut out the pre and post commercial transitions,
So you'll just have a fade to black that's instantly followed by a "welcome back!"
It's really funny to me cuz it happens at least twice per episode for most shows,
Which is kinda odd considering there's usually still two or three commercial breaks left.
And people here usually think that's pushing the limits.
Where's "here"?
@@erickpalacios8904 Europe,
I could specify further,
But I'm pretty sure this happens in multiple countries.
On average, there are 10 minutes of commercials for every 30 minutes of program airtime so a 30 minute show would have roughly 20 minutes of program and 10 minutes of commercials. For hour long programs, there is closer to 25 minutes of commercials with around 5 minutes of them - anywhere from 6 to 8 consecutive advertisements in a row - just prior to the show's climax. I've noticed scenes cut from UK shows aired in Canada and the US in order to accommodate the extra commercials as well as odd interruptions in scenes where they networks had to force a commercial break.
No other country runs as many TV ads as the US. In the UK a one hour show would typically have three 5 minute ad breaks, at approximately 15 minute intervals. The US frequently squeezes an ad break directly after the opening credits and again before the end credits.
When 24 was screened over here it didn't work quite as well due to the massive time difference with all the ad breaks removed, so in the States it ran in real time for an hour but here each episode was only 40 minutes long and the real time aspect was essentially redundant.
in Australia our ads come on every 5 to 10 mins depending on the length of the show, with hour long shows they are generally every 10 mins while half hour shows are more every 5 mins, i hate ads so that's why i just dont watch regular TV anymore.
Norwegian here.
I had heard that US commercial breaks were long, but when I saw the 60 minutes interview series unedited with that watch ticking along and the total runtime of an episode was sub 45 minutes I understood how much commercial there was.
Watching live Nascar on TV here is funny because we can have the live commentary (without the studio panel) and a local commentator explaining what happens within the commercial times in the US including our commercials.
We even get live footage from the track during US commercials for the European viewers...
I probably won't go to the US because of the gun policies, it's jarring to see people openly carrying guns.
When I see guns here; it's on a gun range, the infrequent training of the local guard unit or occasionally during hunting season.
Even openly carrying a knife in public is prohibited unless you can prove you're in a trade that needs it for work or have a carry permit.
Like my neighbor has a carry permit on his knife as he has fishing as an hobby and doesn't work in a profession that needs a knife.
I also think it would be really difficult for my father to find foods there, as he's diabetic.
Sorry Ian, me and my family won't be visiting the US.
Take care and stay safe!
If you even need a knife permit, that's .... just ubelivable. Why so many people blame the tools, but not the people using them? Do you know how many people are killed every year in car crashes? Why not to ban cars to?
@@BgStalker
When there's no need for carrying a weapon in public, why not have a carry permit system?
Even with a permit, there are rules for size, edges and other parameters of the knife.
A while ago a person in a big jacket carrying a rifle carry case through a city park triggered a full alert police response until they found the person carrying an airsoft rifle in it's case from an event.
Psychological evaluation and local alerts about people can only reach so far.
In my opinion; any gun goes past being something fitting a tool description as soon as it can fire more than one round per trigger pull.
The most dangerous live guns in private ownership here is the bolt action Mauser or the retired from Army use AG-5.
To qualify for keeping your Army issued AG-5, you have to be currently in or retired from the national guard or other military branches.
A gun is a tool for killing, full stop.
What practical use in everyday life is an full automatic gun of any kind?
If you have little to no fear for mad persons with guns appearing every day, you don't need a gun or a knife with many edges and/or excessively large for any practical use.
A car has many uses and your license for driving a car can be revoked for medical, psychological and legal reasons.
Do you know that the highest reason for death in ths age group 0-19 years old in the USA is now?
It used to be car accidents but now it's gun related violence.
We had a mad man running around killing 5 people and injured several others.
He had no access to any guns, so he used a amateur bow and arrow to scare and injure people in a shopping centre but used a knife to kill his 5 victims in a neighboring residential street.
If that madman had access to full automatic guns, the tally would have been a lot worse.
So our rules for guns and weapons are reducing the availability for perpetrators to be equipped with the worst case equipment.
It was a national news headline here when the Police announced that all Police officers would carry their guns on our National Day for that day only.
Guns aren't the problem. Gun ban comes from whiny, low IQ Hippies, while ignoring the real problems in the US. The high rate of violence is only the symptom, not the sickness.
In my country we have plenty of gun owners and per year less than 50 people get shot, around 70% of them are hunting accidents.
@@kholdanstaalstorm6881 As an American, I think being able to get whatever you want because you want it is a nice thing. At least when it comes to knives. As far as guns go though, you can't get automatic weapons without getting a serous permit/background check. I also find that owning a semi-auto weapon to be better for being in the wilderness/hunting, though a bolt action is great. I think most Americans have trouble trusting the government to do it's job without trying to overstep its boundaries.
@@joma13344
I see the convenience for those who wants these weapons but I don't see the need for it.
The only 2 uses for a knife around a foot in length are for cutting insulation or clearing branches of trees.
Both of those examples are allowed in private ownership but not allowed to be carried in public.
Because you don't need to carry either in public except to and from where you're working.
For hunting, a semi automatic is a convenience and a full automatic is unnecessary.
A background check won't turn up much at 18-19 unless you've already been in crimes, perhaps in a CPS case or someone having reported a credible complaint against you.
How much easier would it be for law enforcement to get illegal weapons out of the streets if few or none of the law-abiding citizens carry guns?
What's the expectation of a law-abiding gun carrying citizen to accomplish with their civilian hand weapons?
In my mind it wouldn't be like a shootout at the OK Corral with about equal equipment for both sides if State or Federal levels wants to capture that individual.
Likewise if you get to a point where the Military is called in.
It won't be Rambo in the woods in my opinion.
went to Florida on holiday from the Uk, and the food was absolutely huge. in my whole life i have never seen food that big. i assumed it was just Florida but my friend who lived in texas said it was the same.
I found the people huge also
In Denmark, we have a 5 min add block between programs (on the semi-national channel). On the private channels, there a about 2 add blocks during the show.
When i was married to an American living in Indiana, it was always a fascinating experience to partake in the eating out culture and listening to the stories of servers, I would always ask to get a better understanding of situations and it did help putting tipping into perspective. As for portion sizes, in most restaurants they are identical to here (I am in Denmark, Scandinavia) A few places only had bigger then average size portions of food, however i will comment on that the food are cheaper overall for the same amounts we would get at home. As for the sweet foods, YES! I am in a culture where we have a lot of more bitter styled candies and food, and to taste the US counter parts sometimes had me totally dislike foods id normally love back home. But that said, its not impossible to find balanced food within the US big chain grocerie stores like Wallmart and Target. My time within the US was some of the best ive experienced, the kindness of strangers are huge (at least where i managed to travel too) Always left establishments with a smile feeling good. Despite the internal political and disagreements, and strong opinions amongst some parties i witnessed, they still walked away head held high in unity, admirable to witness. I would 100% recommend anyone that is thinking about a visit, just do diligence and make sure you get to experience the stay with a family outside of the tourist sectors and high crime neighborhoods. Despite what the media say´s (Remember the news agencies chase the bad as it get more views and therefor we see more bad then good) the USA is a beautiful place and 100% worth a visit.
With the commercials there is one channel here in Australia where the only time commercials come on are between shows
That's only because it's government funded
Good Idea 👍
When I visited Australia from England, I was shocked at how many commercial breaks there were. It made following a drama difficult.
I’m Asian-Canadian, I remember the first time I went to New York City with my family we went to Cheesecake Factory. Let me tell you…the moment the side Caesar salad came, our jaws dropped. I remember my mom saying, “this can feed 2 people and we won’t be able to eat anything else!” Then came the main course…🤦🏻♀️ I think we ended up packing most of the food away and gave them to the homeless people. Gradually I got used to the portion size as I grew older since the Canadians aren’t too far behind. I’m 5’8” and size 6, which isn’t particularly small for an Asian, I would be considered fat in Asia. But my friends in Canada would call me thin, I mean maybe compare Canadian portion to the food we had at home on an Asian dinner table isn’t really a fair fight. I know it’s different standard all together, but really, even compare to Canadian portion size I’d still say America’s wins by the mile. Now I live in Germany and I’d have to say I’m most comfortable with the portion size here. For us a large pizza would be about 28cm, I suppose that’s like a small in US. 😅
So you're Canadian then. Don't start sub-dividing yourselves like the yanks do. Here in the UK we don't call people British-Asians or British-Indians etc. If you were born here you are British. It doesn't take anything away from your origins but the stupid US way of badging it's people is part of the reason they have so many race related issues.
A 9 inch pizza is a large? The span of my hand is over 7.
@@jasonrhodes9683 28 cm is 11 inches, not 9.
@@mouse9727 By God you are right! I guess the world will spin on for one more day.
@@jasonrhodes9683 yes, it will. But you’ll be just a little smarter now. You’re welcome
To avoid TV Commercials (in any country) just use a Digital Video Recorder (with a "Hard Disk") and "record" and "watch" the program concerned with (say) 15 minutes "delay".
Then, when a "commercial" occurs, just skip over it.
Most "commercial breaks" come in defend intervals, (30 seconds, 60 seconds and 180 seconds are "usual" - in my country.)
My preferred recorder can "skip" forward either 60 seconds or 180 seconds "at the touch of either of two buttons" and can "skip back" 30 seconds at the touch of another button.
Hence, any "commercial break" can be almost completely avoided with the touch of a few buttons in about 3 seconds.
The sugar content is a huge difference. I visit my Daughter in Virginia and I find it difficult to stomach so many products, just because of the added sugar
4 weeks a year paid leave is pretty common in Australia along with 10 days sick pay, but you need a medical certificate.
Plus a heap of paid public holidays.
The trade-off..... employers expect more when you are already sometimes working long hours.
I’m happy much of Europe has infinite sick days.
Paid public holidays is only for people on a yearly salary though, everyone else just loses a days pay
@@syllycatface All permanent employees are paid for public holidays although permanent part time are only paid if the holiday falls on a day they would normally work. Casual workers are not paid for holidays (nor do they receive annual leave or sick pay), instead they are paid a (mandated)20-30% higher wage to compensate.
@@syllycatface Which country are you talking about?
@@johnwhear9600 Australia 👀 I never got paid for public holidays until I was salaried and just got the same amount every week
Two things:
1. My mom when she first moved to the states, her main complaint was how bad the food is here in general. Which I agree, food is terrible here.
2. When my dad moved to the states he was shocked that his co-worker just had a shotgun in his car. He freaked out so much that he called the cops. 😂
My parents are from Japan and they both say in 1996 America was different, friendly people but a bit racist. Now they say people are bitter, always mad, rude, but a bit less racist. But that changed when covid hit. Where we live, bum-fn middle of nowhere in Cali, people would look at us weird, some even had the audacity to tell me “go back to CHYNA” like what?
01:40 in usa it's normal to get 6+ ads in a 40 minute show.
here in the rest of the world. that's ONE or maybe two ad breaks.
when we watch american shows. even with the ads cut out. it's STILL annoying that it get's a scene switch or the "logo" so many times in a show where you guys would have had an ad.
At least in the uk, you can normally expect an ad break every 15 minutes. However some channels will have it every half hour if they show longer programs or movies. Some don't even have an ad break.
When I traveled to the U. S., I didn't think that the portions in restaurants were much bigger than at home. What shocked me was the bigger size of packages in the supermarket in non food articles. As a tourist you need smaller sizes. Those were much more expensive than the bigger sizes and I didn't want to be wasteful.
You gotta remember that they're using the medical definition of obese, not "they're huge". Its generally having a BMI of 30 or above. So the % quoted doesn't surprise me, and sadly AUS isn't far behind (and yes I'm in that category).
Yep, I have said the same thing many times when speaking to people but most cant understand that even the average person can be overweight. "Average is average, right?", is their reasoning. Luckily, if one cares about it, ones own weight can be easily controlled, so the fact that a lot of people are overweight or even obese doesnt really need to affect me.
did you know the BMI was based off Insurance in the 1920;s american insurance industry, and that a lot of these very fit athletes are classesd as obese, the whole BMI system is Flawed and based of Insurance rates in the 1920s depression in america
When NHL games stop to show ads on TV feed.. Live audience just waits ..
only been in Manhattan, and the biggest impressions i had was
1. The big sky scrapers here building sizes are more like 2-5 floors and if we have high buildings average is around 10 floors its rare to find something higher then 25
2. Huge sized fire and ambulance trucks
3. Airco's blasting at 18c while having the windows and doors open. walking on the street and noticed freezing air from some shops that had their windows open
4. super hot metro but then nice chilled carts just big spikes in temperature in general i would say
5. Garbage piles on the street, apprently its normal to just drop the garbage on the street for it to be collected?
6. Huge lines at the air port and strict registration policy aperently they want to scan and make pictures of you only country i experienced that
7. Over the top politeness
8. Large amount of veterans or homeless asking for handouts
9. the structure of the streets its just horizontal lines even the bus and metro's where quite rigid in their lines maybe only in Manhattan?
10. the big shifts of change of mood and culture in the area's it almost felt i was walking into a different city/culture at some points
Simply... I had to go to texas to open a new warehouse, while there I noticed that alot of the food was either deep fried, covered in sugar, or just way to much of it! 😂, also the because the US use corn syrup it makes everything taste funny!! Compared to here in Oz we use mostly cane sugar
The problem with corn syrup is that your body doesn't know if it had enough calories, because HFCS is mainly fructose and not normal sugar.
Part of the obesity problem is that your government subsidise corn production. The excess corn is processed into syrup and added as a sweetener to just about everything to get rid of it.
We basically grow the world's corn so it makes sense that we use it over other products
@@michaelm1670 He's too far gone.
As far as I'm aware, in a lot if not all EU countries there is a limit on the amount of commercial space by time slot or program by law.
Also, at least where I live, programs from public television channels (i.e. state sponsored*) can only have ads between shows if at all.
* like news / religion / politics but also entertainment
** medicine & smoking goods can't have ads in general. On or off tv.
*** been years since I watched tv here, so my experience might be a little outdated
I'm pretty sure you're right, In the EU, Tobacco ads (like on the cars in F1 races for exemple) are illegal back from the 90', same for medical treatments .
We have tobacco ads in Germany but it’s only allowed in out of home ads (outdoor ads like big posters) and i believe it’s also allowed as ads in Cinemas before movies (70% sure on this one), usually you only see outdoor posters though
australia is pretty standard with amount of commercials id say. your typical tv show runs for ~43 minutes, this is extended to 60 minutes with ads. i feel thats fairly normal. one thing i do not understand though is foxtel. i understand ads on free to air tv, youre not paying to watch so they need the ads to fund it. but foxtel you pay to watch, yet they throw in just as many ads. its double dipping.
In Germany the max. amount of ads is 20% of the whole program per day, but max. 12 min per hour. And companies under public law aren't allowed to have ads after 22:00 / 10pm. No ads are allowed for transmitted church services, news and children programs. Any ads must be clearly recognizable, that is why you often see special advertisement separators like a short clip in the before the ads "and now comes the ads" and "that were the ads" afterwards.
And btw - a German person/company who earns money with a YT-channel has to follow the same rules. They need to pay a high one time fee for a TV-license and need to follow the rules about ads. That is why many German channels have a marker in their videos "Werbung" oder "Werbevideo" like th-cam.com/users/der8auer I think it's stupid and stops internet development in Germany, because a TV-License for a YT-channel can cost up to 10000€, that you have to invest before you start, but that is only my opinion
yes, in the UK a TV station must have a max of 7% advertising across all its hours of broadcast in a day. This means that you might see a (max of) 12% advertising in really peak hours, versus virtually no ads at all between 3 and 4 in the morning. Over the 24 hours, advertisements cannot exceed 7% of total airtime.
Greetings from Poland! I've been to the US twice, the first time alone on the Work&Travel program, then a couple years later for 3 weeks of traveling with wife and friends. The cities are nice to experience, not sure if too great to live in. The food unfortunately is much worse than in Europe, both in relatively cheap restaurants (I don't really know expensive ones at all) and in supermarkets. I was shocked that a tomato bought in the US didn't have any smell and tasted almost like water. In Europe vegatables are much better. The same with bread, in markets you can get only the foil-wrapped rectangular thing which in Europe is used only for making toasts. It's hard in the US to find real freshly-baked bread which is crunchy on the outside and soft on the inside which is standard in Europe. What I loved the most about the US are the national parks in the south-west. Traveled across most of them twice and loved every bit of them. Also the amazing huge wild areas which you can't find in Europe are awesome. Plus easy access by car everywhere outside of the biggest cities is a big plus for a petrolhead. ;) We're definitely coming back when our child gets a big older, so that he can remember at least something from such not-so-cheap trip. :) Have a great day! :)
Gosh I have watched quite a few of your videos and I have just realised that I haven't subscribed well I have now. 😊👍.
The food portions was what got me
I'm a pretty big guy (198cm/125kg or 6'6"/275lb), and by Aussie standards, I can put food away to a fair degree ... but after just a few in the States, I was just ordering off the starter menu and calling it a meal.
Somewhat ironic that I probably lost a bit of weight while I was there for a few weeks ... between limited budget, the portion sizes I was eating and all the walking I did while sight-seeing etc
...and yes, I did the tipping thing out of consideration for the servers (which is mostly only done here out of appreciation for great food and/or great service - or maybe even just to round up the bill).
I used to travel to Houston TX for work from the UK. The amount of overweight people I saw blew my mind, as did drive through ATM's, not seeing anybody walking anywhere and food portions in restaurants and diners. I learnt pretty quickly that starters were the right size for me for a main. Adverts on TV drove me mad as well, made most shows / movies unwatchable.
Yes, I think you only recognize how obese people are when you visited other countries. I also had to recognize that the sizes differ. A XL in Europe is not a XL in the US. I wear XL (EU) and I have Tee's I bought in the US that are size M and are bigger than my European XL. But when I was in Japan it was reverse. 3-4XL in Japan was a European XL.
You should visit Seattle you’ll see a lot of fatties specially women.
The supermarkets maintain a FLEET of mobility carts for people who's ankles can't support their own weight. And when they drive around on them nobody looks twice. It's like something from a circus but they act like it's normal!
So it's ok to fat shame if its Americans. I'm not denying the obesity. But like, what if I said I went to the UK and saw a lot of people with yellow teeth from not brushing.
@@jessesleight9631 I'm not trying to fat shame anyone, just stating fact's. It's hardly surprising so many Americans end up being overweight. Food portion sizes and the use of sugar in so many food products are a ticking time bomb. Mellow Yellow.
What shocked me when visiting the US was the sizes of soft drinks and sodas that were available at fast food restaurants and places like 7-eleven, like the Big Gulp. The whole habbit that so many Americans seem to have, of keeping a LARGE sugary soda in their car at all times to sip from occasionally. Like, some of those cups are over 1 liter, that's insanely large compared to what you'll find in Europe. We don't even have a large culture of fountain dispender sodas.
Commercials: It appears that there are more commercials on than over here. Every time an American show airs here there is always a calling for a commercial block which isn't coming, we always skip one like we have half the ads.
Homeowners Associations: it's very common in at least the Netherlands in apartment buildings where people buy their apartment and not rent. The association is called a VVE here which translates to the same. It is responsible for the upkeep of the shared spaces, elevator maintenance etc etc. You don't often see them in ordinary neighbourhoods with single family housing as all the upkeep for things like streets and utilities are part of the municipality or network owner. The monthly fee is vastly different.