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Putting a small amount of butter is healthier than majority of sauces americans would put into the sandwich
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Ngl we don’t put just a small amount…
Most sauces are full of sugar. Butter is so much better for you.
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@margwally5849 yup. We talking quality grass fed butter too.
@@margwally5849 Let's not talk about that "ranch" stuff ;)
Butter on a sandwich is a surprise for you? Damn, America is even stranger place than i thought. In Finnish sandwich is literally "butter bread" 😂
Kinda the same in german
Butterbrot!
Omg I just realised one of the words for bread in dutch has butter in it
@@evelieningels9408 Yep, boterham. Butter and ham ;o).
And the swedes call it Smørgås which at least in norwegian would literally mean *Buttergoose..* 🤷♀️😂
Coffee:
The Euro guy wasn't having tea, he was having a small and STRONG coffee (like espresso) while the American girl having a LARGE cup of slightly colored water.
There is nothing wrong with weaker big filtered coffee, just some people are trying to look more noble and cultural, so they drink only tiny espresso, but you don't drink espresso at home or in work, that would be crazy, you normaly have your coffee at your work place even for few hours, going for espresso every 5 minutes would kill you and your wallet too.
@@Pidalin Americans just cannot make decent coffee.
@@Pidalin It's a caffeinated drink, not a coffee
@@Pidalin we have coffee machines at work with good coffee for free. You can choose what you want. And I have a good coffee machine at home. It’s cheap and not expensive. Just a bit if work to keep clean 😝.
@@fionaalgera3391 I actually work just a few steps from my home, so I am having coffee from my automatic coffee machine at home when I have break in work (some Krups for 500 eur), but still, I don't drink some tiny espresso, it can give you up to 180 ml lungo or up to 230 ml americano. I work as CNC programmer/operator, so no, we don't have some kitchen with coffee machine like in some offices, there is only vending machine and it tastes like plastic, it's not drinkable and also, it's too expensive to buy it every day. But there are actually vending machines with pretty good coffee even from the same company, just not here in my work. Czechs are coffee barbarians similarly as Americans, so we use these vending machines a lot.
Actually, the royal family are gossiped about ALOT in British magazines.
For the grocery shopping one it's because in Europe we ( mostly, I know that sadly there's more and more people who don't care anymore) don't even think about going outside wearing pajamas, unlike in USA where it seems something tolerated. Not saying that we dress up elegant for the grocery trip but we always try to look decent, it's more respectful. It's not even a question of make up, expensive clothing or anything like that, but just not looking like we were on the bed two minutes before. Also that wasn't tea... They were comparing coffees, it just means that europeans don't drown their coffee.
im dutch and i live above a supermarket but when i go there i change to jeans and a shirt from my comfy clothes
I even change out of my usual homewear, which is comfy but not pyjamas or the likes, to something a little more classy when going out for chores like shopping. You won't be seeing me in sportswear or lounge wear for that. I always change, and change back after coming home. I live in Germany.
I do wear my sweatpants to walk 100m to the grocery store if im just going to buy some food after working from home all day, but if I go anywhere else I do change at least to some jeans or nice dress pants, unless its summer, then I just wear my bathing shorts everywhere.
Americans walking around everywhere in stained sweatpants with their asscrack hanging out is a bit much even for me.
and it used to be more strict in the past. My grandma has a different outfit for for different daily activities. She has "old outfit" for working in the garden and with the livestock, "slightly old" outfit for works inside the house, "rather new outfit" for going shopping, even if it is just for 1 item in a next door grocery, "visits outfit" for visiting the family which also depends on what the occasion is (a birthday celebration requires a better outfit than casual visit), "business outfit" for running office errands or doctor visits, weekday church outfit, and Sunday church outfit. She even changes her clothes just going to take the trash out if she notices that her current "inside house" outfit is slightly dirty or torn, because what if the neighbours saw her :D
You spread the bread with butter, you don’t use it as a filling. It stops the bread going soggy.
Also it stops the cheese and/or sliced meats from falling of.
And normal.
And when you get butter like we have it in Denmark (Lurpak and others), it just tastes better! 😊 Fresh, cold butter under a slice of proper real cheese - yummy!!!
Well, i prefer my local german butter but i agree: danish butter is quite yummy too!@@Sonderborg75
Lurpak is probably the most popular butter in the UK too. Thank you Denmark :D@@Sonderborg75
The lack of butter on the sandwich is bizarre. In Poland it is so fundamental that we even say that something is as simple as..."Roll with butter". Equivalent of the English "Piece of cake".
I suppose butter is mostly common in northern europe. Here in italy we use it almost only in the cackes. Maybe sometimes you can have a butter & anchovies sandwich, but in the southern europe oil is the most common fat in the cuisine
I live in Poland but I don't put butter in my bread. Too much of a hassle. It is always too hard so it damages the bread instead of spreading on it and I don't think keeping the butter out of fridge is safe. I just eat my sandwiches dry. with cheese, soft cheese, jam or ham.
@@Astrid-88 i trick my butter onto bread by cutting it and just putting pieces on bread like cheese, instead of trying to spread cold hard butter. will melt in mouth and tastes better than dry bread.
@@Astrid-88 keeping the butter outside is safe, until you will not keep it outside for months. You can have also only small amount outside of fridge.
@@tizioincognito5731 I'm from Portugal and while we eat bread w butter all the time, we eat it with olive oil as well. But we don't put any of them in all the sandwiches
Don't forget that US bread isn't btread! It's CAKE
I put butter on cake too, in some cases. Spice cake (krydderkake), wheat buns, scones, waffles are all good with a little butter 😋
@@AudunWangen So do I! Especially Bara Brith
Yes! Most Americans have never eaten actual bread, just fluffy white sweet slices. (Just as they've never tasted actual chocolate.)
@@AudunWangenooo yes butter on a slice of day old fruit cake yummmm 😊
@@AudunWangensorry but on krydder kake is wrong in so many ways😂
Hilsen en nordmann
Learning that Americans don't put butter/spread in their sandwiches and seeing your reaction/confusion that the rest of us do was hilarious. 🤣x
In my country, no one does it like wtf? Butter in a sandwitch ? Why ? You put butter on a toast . I'm from Montenegro
Why is it that US Americans seem to think that their default is the world default even when US Americans are the only ones doing something in a particular way?
@@lanamack1558 Because to Americans, the USA is the world. Ask an American to name any country, they will often name either a US state or, if they're a little more worldly, an entire continent. Africa is not a country. X
Not all europeans use separator for thousands. In Finland we have just lots of numbers in a row and when you hit the decimals you have a comma as a separator.
Similar in Czech. According to the Czech grammar a space should be used, e.g. "1 000,15" (one thousand point fifteen) but we mostly skip the space so it would be simply "1000,15".
Indeed. As a Dutchie I would write €1000,24. Accountants sometimes use the point for year rapports, to make things clearer. But it isn't common to use a point.
I think we do the same in Hungary. I only write the dots if it's a long number and I can't really see it. (Or I just simply write it like this: 2*10⁹ or 2*10⁹+0,3678. It's much easier for me. It's just my special way of doing it. Hungarians hate maths just as much as others.)
Same in Italy. First time I used an ATM there I thought I was going to empty my bank account. Had to ask someone to help me! 😮 In Ireland commas are for thousands in Euros and, decimals are for cents
In Germany we usually don't, it's just optional to read it better if you struggle (that's what I learned atleast)
That wasn't tea dude, he's drinking an espresso. Espresso based beverages are more common in Europe. They require a lot of skill to make as well. The nuances of the final beverage are astronomical compared to your good ol' home drip coffee machine. You can make a beautiful coffee in one of those machines too. It just requires more effort and thought.
Ah, in the end i really like normal brewed coffee. And I need a lot. Everytime I am in Southern Europe I am really sad that I dont get a cup with more then 100ml even if I am ordering americano or filter
Had to take a deep breath after that take. Sometimes I think he wants to create drama on purpose to keep us engaged.
Whatever he drank but usually Europeans don't drink out of buckets. They prefer a nice porcelain cup with a saucer. The whole Grande, Venti, Trenti thing in disposable cups is absurd.
I think it's more about the cup size
@@tilmanarchivar8945one of the reasons i don't use Nespresso. It takes like 6 pods for the first breakfast cup of coffee.
6:32 It's not tea, it's an espresso 😭
came looking for this 🤣asking for a "coffee" in most of europe will be refering to that small porcelain cup
Yea like how did bro not know that. Americans I guess🤦♂️
@@KoiR2Y2Americans what?
true, but half of Europe drinks the other kind of coffee
@@mattybrunolucaszeneresalas9072 Americans are clueless about anything outside of the us… of course not everybody but from what I’ve seen. It’s pretty shocking
In Australia butter is always spread on the bread before adding fillings.
It also protects the bread from wet fillings like tomato.
And shows you are not a barbarian. I can assure you that Aussie rugby fans and all fans are gonna have butter in their sandwiches. Regards from France!
Same in South Africa, butter before sandwich filling.
Same in the U.K.
And without it the filling just falls out, so it glues the sandwich together. I wouldn't want mayo in, say, a cheese sandwich.
In Finland we usually put margarine on bread instead of butter. But amongst 65 year olds up, they tend to prefer butter.
We don't leave shoes outside. I imagine it might be more common in warmer climates but putting cold shoes on is the worst. We have a designed area near the front door inside the house, it's where you leave your shoes. The area near front door also contains a place to hang your jackets on and a piece of furniture for your bags, keys and stuff. It's called "przedpokój"(entry hall). Although it happens we leave the garden shoes outside if they are really dirty and the house has a designed garden so the front door is behind a fence anyway.
@@Astrid-88 we don't either. We couldn't guarantee that guests or ourselves would leave the house only to find their shoes soaked with rain!
11:25 You should try it ! It's Kinder Bueno. It would be interesting to watch if try dishes, snacks and sweets from Europe (they are big brands for snacks like Kinder but it also varies depending on the country).So it would be a series of testing food from different countries in Europe !
The us banned kinder due to the toy in the egg choking kids but I wonder their logic as a total of 10 kids in the world has died of this like out of like 1.5 billion 10
Wait… ARE YOU TELLING ME AMERICANS DON’T PUT BUTTER ON A SANDWICH? That’s it. I’m done. I’ve literally never heard of something so ridiculous in my life. Even my mate who hates butter puts butter on his sandwiches (like every sane person). You’ll be telling me Americans don’t have water or their grass is red. Both make as much sense as not putting butter on bread.
What’s wrong with not putting butter on bread? I don’t put it on there because I don’t like butter, and I like bread
Maybe it's my medicine but I can't comprehend this comment.
Sorry, non-American here, but butter on bread just isn't my cup of tea.
In Italy we don't put butter in sandwiches in fact, if you do it here, it's comparable to an abomination and a crime against the food 😂
Butter on bread is so common in Portugal
The way of drying clothes in Europe is a lot better. If you're purchasing high quality clothes, your drying machine will destroy it.
That’s why I just wear crap quality clothes! There are a few items that we can’t put in the dryer
We have dryers here (sweden) too. I miss having one because hanging duvet covers and sheets to dry sucks and a dryer gets rid of most of the lint, without one I have to vacuum a lot more
I also own one! I'm just saying overall it's better to dry your nice clothes the old fashioned way :) which I do@@annabergman1166
@@annabergman1166 Yes we have dryers in Europe but only lazy people use em because they are bad for the clothes. Only good thing with a dryer is that you get the lint from your socks away without having to shave em. Yes it is better for duvet stuff when you just need some tennis balls and a dryer instead of having to "fluff" it now and then while its drying.
Still its as stpd to use a dryer as AC for cooling. Here the world weather is becoming chaotic and then we have lazy people using more energy...
I have a dryer in 🇩🇰 only using it for smaller items once in a while…..
The date is from the smallest unit (the day) to the largest unit (the year), and you get that.
Ryan: "But it's December 15th, not the 15th of December." Except, of course, for the "4th of July"?😂😂😂
And at least in Danish we do say for instance, what would equate to "23rd December" if translated directly, when talking about any date
And he did not even hear about Hungary, where it is said year - month - day order.
no, it's 15th of December 😆
@@piciponda makes more sense than americans, at least some gradations, even though opposite direction. two thousand and twenty third year's december's first day. or: first day of december of 2023.
The best order is yy/mm/dd
So today is 24/01/29
Its easy to understand and easiest for sorting
In France, if you go to any bistrot and ask for a sandwich, the «default» sandwich is named the «Jambon beurre», which is baguette, butter spread on the baguette, and ham between the two buttered pieces of baguette.
If you have ever slept between sheets that were dryed outside in the sun and compare that to sheets dryed in an electric dryer you would sell your dryer ... And apart from the cost for the environment you also demolish your clothes; ever seen what's left in the filter after drying in a dryer?
I'm sorry, Ryan, but everyone in the UK starts making a sandwich with bread AND BUTTER....and then the filling. When my American friends visited, they were appalled by this. 😂🇬🇧
There is even saying "its our bread and butter" wonder what they thought it ment.
@@PetriJarvenpaa oh fuck sakes you got me crying rofl
Same in Norway
I think a lot of people use margarine rather than a block of butter. But could be wrong.
we do it in Australia also
I think they wanted to point out, Americans cutting lots of small pieces abd then put the knife away, while Europeans cut one piece after another abd keep the knife. HOWEVER actually he is holding the fork the right way. It's not a shovel 😂
Yes they use the fork like a shovel. Very unsifisticated
The cutlery thing is the fact that in the UK we hold both the knife & fork in each hand so we can use both of them at the same time, without having to keep picking up & Putting down the knife and switching the fork between hands,
where the American way is more awkward, as you switch the fork from the right hand to the left hand and pick up the knife with your right hand whilst you cut your food, then put your knife back down and switch your fork back from your left hand to your right hand whilst you are eating,
We don’t hold our fork upside down as it wasn’t invented as a shovel to eat your food with, we use a spoon for that, the reason why it has prongs on the fork is to press it down on top of your food to pick it up with the fork,
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It's probably like this all over Europe. Knife on the right, fork on the left.
I think most other people prefer the less complicated way of using cutlery. We do(DE)
Feli from Germany recently explained in a video why this difference exists: th-cam.com/video/l-_mUGRVEA4/w-d-xo.html
If I remember correctly the French are to blame for this awkward American behaviour.
I have seen MANY ppl put food on the flipped side of the fork instead of putting the food on the curved more flat surface. But why make it simple when u can make it more complicated 🤷🤷🤷 i live in europe btw
That's not a UK thing dude. That's the way all western CIVILIZED people eat.
Holding the fork upside down is proper table etiquette when cutting you’re cutting a bite but for mashed potatoes you would turn the fork over.
About the clothing, what they imply is that Americans go to the supermarket super casually clothed (I even saw someone in their pyjamas). In Europe we put on what we think is proper clothing before going outside.
Funnily enough, I will walk my dog in the local forest in slouchy clothes, but as soon as I have to head to the supermarket around the corner I will put on casuals I can at least be seen with in public.
No, we don't just put a scoop of butter on the bread, we use a little bit and we spread it out with a knife 😅
We "work" the butter on the plate before we spread it, to soften it to make it more spreadable.
@@neuralwarp I just buy the type of butter that's already soft and spreadable so I can put it straight on the slice of bread without needing to do that first. It's very practical and convenient, plus it tastes great 😄😁👌
Not just any knife, with a butterknife!
@@FlyingFox86 That's true too, at least some times (speaking for myself). 😅
I do have a butteknife, but I honestly tend to use a regular knife on a day to day basis more than I ever use the butterknife.
But at least I have one.. 🤪😂👍
@@user-B_8it is soft as it is artificial, not a real butter
In the UK and a lot of Europe it is normal and expected that you butter bread first before adding your sandwich fillings. In the UK and Europe butter is quite different from the USA. In the UK & Europe butter is much better quality in general and has a higher butter fat content than is usual in the USA where butter is usually used as a cooking ingredient.
What?? It's merely a baking/cooking thing? Ye gods, how the USA changes food into carcinogenic, unhealthy and fat/sugar loaded products is totally extraordinary!! So no pure butter, but instead lashings of chemicals, sweeteners, fat-full products. And so many think the rest of the world has got it wrong?
Only in the U.S? Or in the U.S and north-America?
"The UK and Europe"? The UK IS in Europe.
. Supongo que se refiere a la UE..
Americans use the format MM/DD/YY except for ... their most important day of the year ... the 4th of July.
And on passports. My American husband just renewed his from the embassy in London, and I noticed the dates of issue and renewal are ddmmyyyy.
6:13 We European see the numbers after the coma still part of the number ! Decimal numbers like "1,75 = 1.75 for you", is one number, so the figures/numbers after the coma goes with the figure/number before it => 1,75 is one number that's why we don't use a point. The point is literally a way to say "okay we finish to "spell" this number". Also we don't get why you write the numbers after the point up, it looks like "x to the (power) n" when they only are decimal numbers 😂
When you were asking about the grocery shopping and outfits... We were taught, that even if you just go with the garbage bins outside, you should look good and be dressed well... so the neighbours can´t gossip about you. :D
This is quite old-school, outdated belief... however... it´s always good to show a good manners and go out nicely and clean dressed... even if you go just to the grocery store. No one wants to smell/feel sweaty, pyjama wearing people... really... it´s gross.
The coffee thing: Both had coffee - just different sizes and different ways of brewing. The American had a filtered brew or an americano, whilst the European had an espresso.
Defo takign a stab at the stereotype that americans make bad coffee, which I personally don't think is true anymore. Sure Starbucks isn't super great coffee, but it gets people interested and craft coffee/beer/whateverdrinkablethingyoucanthinkof is in fashion.
@@crae_s While I agree with you, that's the whole point of this video - to generalise everything in Europe and everything in the US. I'm a Norwegian, and Norway has consistently been among the top two coffee consumers per capita (Finland sometimes take the first spot) - we mostly enjoy our coffee brewed, and just that - black coffee
American coffee is too watery and tastes like bad tee.
@@crae_sYou would have had a very valid point until roughly 25 years ago - but since the mid- to late 1990s, espresso machines have indeed become the norm in many households, not in the least because of clever Nespresso marketing. Even my mum, who’s well into her eighties so she grew up on ‘brewed coffee’, hasn’t owned a traditional coffee maker for at least 20 years now: it’s (n)espresso all the way for her.
Same in UK butter/margarine on bread is standard. I was shocked to see this was not standard in America 😮
I know what you mean, however you can no longer purchase margarine in the UK due to its horrendous ingredient of trans fats. Margarine's ingredients were redeveloped to omit the bad fats & rebranded as "spread". Although we still class the old baking butter substitute "Stork" as margarine?!?!
Yes, of all countries, I would have expected Americans to put butter on bread. Even the largest amount. When I see how they eat lobster for example hahaha
I use butter in Australia. Except of having German style open sandwich on rye.Butter particularly unsalted is healthy but spread it thinly.Margarine is black until they put food dye in and is carcinogenic
@@renatewest6366 I f you do it German style, you'll NEED butter!
Me too..Australia here
I have been watching Americans talk about food for years and it never occurred to me that you don't use butter on sandwiches. May I ask what the Hell you use butter for? That is the primary purpose of butter. You need butter to provide a protective layer betwen the bread and the filling.
We put butter on sandwich with cheese and ham. With meat normally is like mayo, mostard, etc. Is expresso not tea 😂
In Poland butter is mainly used to make sandwiches. We can sometimes use it for frying or add it to other foods but sandwiches are the first thing we use butter.
And our sandwiches aren't so double. We use one slice of bread (not toast bread or as we call it "chleb tostowy"), butter and other thing (ham, tomatoes etc).
Yes Ryan, but what you call a sandwich and Europe and America call a sandwich, are totally different. Our sandwiches have buttered bread or a roll and a filling, Americans, however call hot dogs a sandwich, and a large piece of steak in a loaf a sandwich, we don't.
Hotdogs are not a sandwich!!!
US Americans also call the chicken burgers sandwiches 😬😬
Sandwiches were invented by the Earl of Sandwich in Britain and he used sliced bread.
@Jeni10 wonder if he invented Earl Grey Tea too!!! My hubby's favourite ... I drink Lady Grey. (NZ)
@@kvmilos what the heck is a chicken burger
What... is weird about butter on a sandwich? Like, sure, it doesn't go with every sandwich ever, but neither does mayo! Fun fact, in Finnish any type of sandwich is literally called a "butterbread". A club sandwich would be a "club butterbread", or rather, "klubivoileipä".
Also... Mayo is just about exactly the same amount of calories (per weight) as butter, and typically stuffed full of preservatives and stabilizers. And all it really tastes like is "greasy wet", while butter is delicious even eaten by the spoon.
Drying clothes in the dryer is not only "bad for the environment", it's an unnecessary expense, damages your clothes (so you need to replace them sooner) and doesn't give you free air humidifying (yeah, in more humid seasons you'd want to dry them outside).
The clothing for grocery shopping is a bit of a weird one. Yeah, you won't see full on Walmart attire, but it's not like people get gussied up for the store. I think it's just a more clear distinction between homewear and "outside wear".
Yes, cfi Smørrebrød, Smörgås.
Yes, and some say "smørbrød" in Norwegian as well. "Smörgås" in Swedish.
I am Estonian and yes, I agree with you to-ta-lly! We call it "võileib" here. Või-butter and leib-bread, by bread we mean dark bread/black bread, white bread is "sai".
If I try to dry clothes outside in the fall they would still be wet after 3 months, it rains 4 hours a day.
Instead I hang the laundry in the washing room and turn open the radiator in there that is usually closed, it will be dry in 1-2 days.
Both are coffee! But in the small European cup there is more caffeine than in the big American mug! 😄
He wasn't drinking tea, he was drinking coffee from a coffee cup 😅 coffees are small over here 😂
actualy, you can drink alcool whenever your parents give you permition to do so, you need to be 18 to BUY alcool or go in to a bar to drink alcool. (Portugal)
But you are in E.U. 😮
CRAZY
@@suomenpresidentti The EU has nothing to do with the matter. The UK is not in the EU. The licensing laws ban SALES of alcoholic drinks to those under 18. You can GIVE alcoholic drinks to those under 18 in a private place. You don't have to be their parent or guardian either.
@@allenwilliams1306Partly correct, minors can be bought alcohol in restaurants etc IF they are also having a meal to soak up the alcohol. This is at the discretion of those responsible for the site.
@@quinnatoc2770 That 16-rule applies only to licensed premises. There is no lower age limit in places having no licence.
Air drying clothes outside (unless you are in a city lol) is fk amazing😂😂
If the weather is warm and a bit windy you don't need more than an hour for a T-shirt. Of course in winter it would take a bit longer...
@@reinhard8053Or you could just dry it inside, near radiators, fireplace an air conditioner etc.
@@hard.to.define But you still have the moisture inside. That might be OK, if the rooms are too dry anyways.
@@reinhard8053 I live in a cold humid city, on a first floor apartment, on one of the major boulevards. I may have a balcony but I can't put my clothes out to dry for obvious reasons. But on the other hand it's so hellishly humid I had to buy a dehumidifier to make it through the winters, so hanging my clothes inside just makes sense. I have a washer dryer combo but I've used the dryer twice in 5 years.
What?! You don’t put butter on your sandwich?!
I thought that was nonsense
Butter on sandwich is a must in my household
Also, the Imperial system and American system of writting dates can burn in hell
Americans use 'customary' units - not imperial.
@@wessexdruid7598 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_and_US_customary_measurement_systems
@@carmenM63 Why are you telling ME this? Isn't that what I just said?
When Wikipedia changed the language, the information changed, I haven't realized what it meant to be anything else.@@wessexdruid7598
All children in Europe Australia …many many countries put a thin spread of quality butter on their bread..children also are taught to use a knife and fork correctly…..the way you eat is child like to the rest of us…
I'm from Eastern Europe. We even put butter on bread (fresh, not toast) even if we eat a "sandwich" with jam or honey. Omg, especially honey, it makes it taste soooo much richer!
Americans usually don´t drink coffeee but coffee based warm or cold drinks. I mean, the amount of water, milk or syrups going into it!
My coffee machine make different coffee types like Latte Macchiato or Cappuccino and also 'Americano' wich is literally an Espresso with a lot water. 😂
The Americano always sounds to me like tea made with coffee 🤣@@sebastianbloeser4277
The basic french sandwich is called a "jambon-beurre* , litterally *ham & butter*. You just take a fresh baguette, put some butter and a slice of ham inside and voilà. Sometimes, the simplest things are the best.
Like in the Netherlands "boterham" butter/ham.
We in NZ tend to have more veges in our burgers too. Tomatoes, beetroot, pickles cucumber lettuce and/or spinach.
Unlike a tartine, which is bread and jam with no butter.
Wow, being from Belgium I never heard jambon-beurre, we exclusively use tartine for anything as far as I know. Interesting to know there's a French counterpart to boterham.
Norwegian: smørbrød = butter-bread
Swedish: smörgås = butter-goose
Yeah, the goose part is... well, it's a long story.
But butter is one of the most basic spreads for bread in Scandinavia, as a glue and flavour enhancer.
The comma in 1.000,00 is physically bigger and thus more visible than the dot, so it creates a bigger visual seperation between the decimal digits behind the comma and those before. I think thats the logic there, but I myself still prefer to write it the British(/"American") way
Clothes dryer is straight up bad for good quality clothes. Even if I had one i couldn't dry 90% of my clothes in that.
Seeing as Americans are constantly underdressed and only wear sweat pants or sth, ig you can afford to dry them in a dryer...
The way you hold forks honestly shocked me. I've only seen toddlers eat like that in Europe...
In French we don't use a point mind you. We use a space : 1 000 000,00
It's funny how Americans hate the fact that us Dutch eat our fries with mayonaise while we butter out bread they put that stuff on every sandwich and refuse to put butter on bread.
the pure irony of someone from the UK complaining about the press in any other country
isn’t there a law in Britain that essentially prohibits media to write gossip stories about the royal family?
Butter is like tue first thing you put in a sandwich
And the snack you don't know is "Kindrr Bueno", and it's fucking delicious
Kinder Bueno is the best chocolate bar. D-e-l-i-c-i-o-u-s.
Haha I read this like Pirate saying "Kindrrrr" xD
11:20 that's a Kinder Bueno and they are awesome. Reese's are amazing too in a different way though.
Denmark is famous for the open sandwiches. The Danish word for them is Smørrebrød, meaning Buttered Bread - the rest is optional 😆
Same here in norway. In sweden too.
@@rytterl Of couse. We're siblings; we grew up under the same roof 🥰🥰
In Poland we also only eat open sandwiches, my Dutch boyfriend calls it Polish sandwiches 😆a sandwich with two slices of bread is only made if you want to take it with you 😉
@@A909GA Slovakia and Czechia too. Bread, butter or spread cheese, salami or ham, sliced cheese, and some veggies, and that’s the most common breakfast or dinner. To take away, you just put another slice of breat on top. That’s the most common elevenses for school children. And a specialty trip/hiking version is two slices of bread with a schnitzel in between.
1 - This is Nutella but they had an offer with names on it, usually the most common names, Coca Cola made this also
2 - So sad you never tasted Kinder Bueno it's much better than Reese"s
3 - Yes going to sleep with wet hair is best recipe to get sick
6:40 he didn't have a tea, he had a coffee. A normal-sized coffee.
Utensil. Europeans hold the fork in the left hand, the knife in the right and moves the cut food to the mouth with the fork still in the left hand. Americans cuts the food, puts down the utensils, moves the fork to the right hand and then moves the food to the mouth. Seems americans motorics can't move the fork to the mouth with the left hand...
Exactly, most kids will eat like Americans when they are young though, because it is easier. Otherwise using the fork and knife like you described is just basic eating etiquette here.
Agree! In Europe only small children would eat like Americans. But,- being to New York last year, I noticed in restaurant, that most people used the utensil the European way.@@happysue82
You are almost perfect on your decimal idea, only now consider it as follows: you go from hundreds to thousands and so on, the end of a group and therefore a full stop. Whereas decimals are just a part of a whole, same group as the 1 to 100, and therefore, a coma is correct.
Edit: also kinder bueno is amazing and I would take one over a reeses pbcup any day of the week.
In some European countries you use spaces as a separator, like 1 000,00.
Here according to language rules you should write time like 07:10.56, but would guess due to the internet people tend to use 07:10:56 format.
Regional formats differ per country and Europe doesn't have one unified system. Most are similar though.
the comma explanation,
you could also reason that a comma for teh decimals is correst, as slow stop, to continue what left less then 1 :-).
and the points only followed later when bigger number occurred more often and needed a clear separation?
I think space was used more often before computers, but number field in excel can't handle a space 1 000,00 , so it had to change to 1.000,00 ? :-).
If you use 2 decemals, the difference can be confussing but should be clear enough i think ;-).
supermarkets mostly just use smaller fond for the bit after the comma i think..
@@JeroenJA in excel it depends on regional settings and can handle spaces well if everything is set up correctly.
Butter on a sandwich stops the bread going soggy & the filling falling out.
Peanut butter is too sickly tasting for me - I hate it.
Only Americans neec their peanuts pre-chewed.
Have you tried unsweetened wholenut peanut butter? The smooth sweet version is revolting, but one that simply tastes of roasted peanuts with a little salt is delicious, if you like roasted peanuts. There's a brand called Whole Earth organic crunchy peanut butter in the UK which was a revelation to me.
@@helenwood8482pre chewed 😂😂😂
@@helenwood8482How about crunchy? That’s not pre-chewed
Peanut butter sticks to my mouth...
it's true, it takes a while to dry clothes in the open air, but it's good for the environment.
Butter is one of the most important and basic culinary ingredient, especially in Europe, and if you travel out there, butter on bread (+ a small amount of jam on top) is part of the continental breakfast, along with croissants and etc… and it’s pretty healthy - as long as you throw the "deep fried butter" out the window! If you know anything about butter, you know there are many ways in which butter is not meant to be eaten, and this crap will definitely lower your life span…
So trust us, we know how to use and eat butter 😂👍
In northern europe. In the mediterranean countryes we dont use it so much. 😅
My God, it really isn't difficult! For some reason, Americans spread mayonnaise on the bread when making a sandwich. We spread butter on the bread, not mayo.
Exactly..he spreads butter on toast so why weird on untoasted? 😂 I only use a bit of mayo with tuna to hold it together.
And American mayonnaise cannot even be sold as mayonnaise in Europe, because it hasn’t got the ingredients of mayonnaise.
It depends on the sandwich. I love a piece of bread with just mayo and tomatoes on top.
With the date ...outside the US we don't speak the date like you either...we speak the day, then the month and lastly the year.
We'd say "Thirtieth of September, twenty twenty three".
What I find funny is the US says the month first except for the Independence Day...where you use the ...everywhere else date format of "Fourth of July".
1:05 So when we do our sandwich, some of us use butter on the slices of bread instead of sauce, depending on the ingredients ofc, and also sometimes we do sandwiches with just one slice of bread so he butter helps stick everything together so it doesnt fall apart when you bite into it (also not done in all countries).
3:30 That’s Nutella, we just have a different marketing, sometimes with campaigns where you can put your name on it.
5:05 Usually we have a place to put our shoes inside the house in the hallway or entrance hall, leaving shoes outside its something you would do here only if you have a house instead of apartment and the outside yard is encircled with walls and a gate. Also you could do it if you have an apartment and its a closed building where you trust your neighbours and u can leave a pair of boots outside in the rainy season (and usually the type of buildings with 1-4 apartments per floor)
6:02 your logic makes sense, we just use it the way we do because it has always been this way since Leibniz used comma for the binary system separation, it has evolved into using it to separate integral numbers from the decimal ones whereas using the period to separate integral numbers has become a practice and it was chosen not for it’s symbolic value but rather it was just the smallest symbol that was convenient and readily available in the early ages of printing.
6:50 That’s a coffee Ryan 😌 Also you might want to be careful what tea you drink at night, only herbal ones are caffeine-free. Black, green and even white tea have caffeine in them
8:10 environmental responsibility aside, electricity over here is more expensive, so between pay-to-dry and free-dry.. it’s obvious what we’ll choose
8:40 I think the point was about the dining etiquette, considering most Americans cut their meal and then switch and use just their fork even if its more efficient to use them both, as the knife not only cuts the pieces of the meal, but also is used to place it on the fork and thus make it easier to eat, aside many other reasons ofc.
10:30 Its the cultural stereotype that Americans dont dress up in outdoor clothes when they go shopping and go in things that they wear at home usually, whereas for us to go shopping like any other activity outside our home, we dress in outdoor clothes therefore you will most probably never see people in house slippers or robes or any house wear in the groceries cause thats just inappropriate
11:25 Nope, thats a Kinder Bueno and its not healthy at all, its a waffle with cream and milk chocolate and a ton of sugar, so yeah.. far from healthy (though it tastes sugary good) 😆
12:20 It’s bad for your hair and scalp to go to sleep with your hair wet, as it can lead to increased vulnerability to fungal infections on the scalp and potential damage of the hair itself due to friction with the pillow because hair is more susceptible to damage when wet as it becomes more elastic
18:00 British gossip magazines have a long history of covering the royal family and generating stories about their members, well before Meghan Markle and Prince Harry's relationship so what she said is incorrect. And also the brits do in fact treat the royal family as celebrities themselves.
No, we would much prefer it if the Royal Family were not treated as if they were actors and actresses. If someone is going to write an article about them, let it be at least respectful of their office. 🇬🇧
@@CorinneDunbar-ls3ej From what I have seen, your gossip magazines doesn't seem to care if you prefer that. I assume that's because people actually pay to read it.
@@CorinneDunbar-ls3ej like The Sun and Mirror are being respectfull all the time? So who on earth those paparazzi where selling pictures of Lady Diana or Princess Kate to?
@@HenrikJansson78 Yep, sad but true. 😕
@@CorinneDunbar-ls3ej with all due respect, but all my interactions with uk people have bearded same conclusion, though i must say that you guys like to say that yourself, but treat it like the little brother, only you can bully them and not he others so I understand 😅
Other reasons to airdry your clothes:
It's cheaper and in most cases nullifies the need to iron anything.
I prefer my foldable metal stand over strings though.
kinder Bueno is a lot of things. Healthy is not among them. But it probably was just a stand-in for Ferrero's massive sweets empire (Yes, Nutella is part of it too) anyway.
I thought most houses and apartments simply don't have enough space for a washing machine AND dryer... 🤔
0:47 as an American! I always do this. It doesn’t matter what sandwich I’m making or if I’m having bread by itself butter has to be spread on it. Not dolloped! It’s just like how you would do toast! Let it soak as you put the other! Ham Swiss bacon and lettuce sandwich or a peanut butter and jam sandwich! My mom would put butter on toast before putting the honey
A sandwich in Australia is 2 pieces of bread with stuff in it. We call any cooked meat in a bun, a burger. So we have chicken burgers, fish burgers, beef burgers etc. Our sandwiches are things like Vegemite, ham and cheese, tuna, peanutbutter etc.
In Sweden the word for sandwich is "smörgås" with in direct translation is "butter goose" but just like 'merican hot-dogs it's not perceived literally. But you can see how a sandwich in Sweden is not a sandwich without butter. This also rather strange, because there is a say I think is used in the US that goes something like this: "that's my bread and butter" referring to ones living. So to me it seems like that you ones use to put butter on your bread but stopped for some reason. Can this been because of the big fat scare you ones had, the same one that made your food-industry put sugar in all your food?
I didn't think of the health scare about fats when I made my comment. In England too, many people switched to margarine as a "healthier" option. I think in the early 80s. People have commented to me "oh, you eat butter!" as if it was poison. Turns out, margarine was full of trans-fats and now is generally not for sale. At least I never see it for sale. I'm not sure if it's actually legal.
Regarding the utensils part you missed the point that after cutting a bite we don't put the knife down and the fork stays in the left hand if we use fork and knife.
btw about drying clothes, dryers actually ruin fabric quite badly. Some people I know complained how their t-shirts and other clothes that they wore for ages before using dryers became unwearable after just couple usage of dryer (my guess that the cause is hight temperature that is bad for fabric)
this was such a good video though, so many things i didn't know... putting the knife down constantly and swapping fork hand, no butter on bread, the fact that you didn't even consider the small coffee could be a coffee (i would even without content consider the small one a "coffee cup" and the big one a "tea cup")
7:40 it's so strange to me to have a dryer... I am from Austria (no cangaroo in Austria!), here almost no one has a dryer. We dry our clothes outside by hanging them on a clothes line like the dude in the video did. In the winter you can't do that obviously, you have to dry it inside on special clothes rack. But there is nothing better than a t-shirt that hung in the sun for half an hour, it smells soo good! I used a dryer once on vacation and I hate the feeling of the clothes, they are so soft and feel like already worn and just not-clean, it's disgusting to me 😂
From what Ive seen, only rich people have dryers and air conditioning in their homes.
You gotta try Kinder Bueno!! It's glorious and definitely not "healthy" lol.
And also, Americans don't put butter in their sandwiches?? 🛸👽
Kinder Bueno is amazing. I like the Kinder Hippo just as much.
@@metallboy25 Oh, you're right! Hippo is the bomb. But Maxi King is where it's at. A transformative experience lol. Kinder Schokolade know their stuff.
Regarding sandwiches, a bit of high quality butter, for instance, from Azores, elevates the sandwich to Michelin standards. I go even one step further, I use extra virgin olive oil instead of butter pretty much all the time. Smoked salmon, arugula, cream cheese, roasted bell peppers, olives and olive oil... *drooling*
A sandwich isn't a sandwich without butter
Butter or margarine (fake butter) is the most common thing Aussies use as a base for a sandwich, the butter is spread on the bread first then you add your filling
I feel like Belgium always falls right in the middle for these. Half of the stuff I agree with you and for the rest I'm with the Europeans. I'm being biased here but I feel like we're kinda the best of both worlds. 😂
- Butter on every sandwich, wtf? She looks like she lives by it too. Nahh, that's a pass. 🗽
- Nutella vs. peanut butter? Obviously Nutella! 🥨 (We're Belgium, we love chocolate okay)
- Shoes in the house? That's just dirty. 🥨
- Espresso is for losers, big cup, please. 🗽
- Decimals: The comma is big and clear while the dots are small and insignificant, which makes sense. 🥨
- We use both driers and air drying. It differs a lot from one family to another... 🗽
- Utensils: Wtf, some people hold their forks upside down? 🗽
- Dates, you said it. 🥨
- Clothing: you wouldn't go out in your pajamas. 🥨
- Preferred choco bar: Well, we didn't even have Reeses until less than three years ago. Bueno is expensive though. 🥨
- Trash-talking anybody, yes the magazines do that here as well. 🗽
it smell so much better when it's been hanging outside.
8:16 In Germany we hold the fork upside down to stab stuff like a steak and we flip it when we want to scoop stuff, but we never switch it to the other hand.
ham with spread of butter is a popular sandwich in France. in fairness, quality and taste of butter is superb in France.
Im from Portugal, we put butter on sandwich. Its good.
6:36 Ryan, that's coffe, not tea...
it's usual drinking coffe like that, is more pure.
12:10 also in europe you don't sleep or leave house with wet hair, it's a thing that our granparents and parents keep telling "you'll get sick" and something like that
There is an whole section in the supermarket that has butter meant especially for your sandwich. Like 30-40 different ones. Most of them stay soft in the refrigerator. This butter we never use for cooking… for cooking we use a different butter.
UK here, what in gods name are you talking about??
I usually use either Olive Oil or Rapeseed Oil for cooking, occasionally butter if I'm frying eggs ... but that is the same butter I use for toast/sandwiches.
You mean that evil stuff called margarine?
@@dib000Portugal here we also only have butter😂. Salt or no salt the rest isn't "manteiga".
@@dib000I wouldn’t use Stork on a sandwich for instance 🤷🏻♀️
He wasn’t drinking tea it was an espresso . In Europe we don’t drink massive mugs of coffee
Espresso
espresso is a coffee-brewing method, right?
@Gsoda35 Kind of... it is an Italian (Milan) kind of coffee where the roast of the beans, amount of water, pressure of the water, grind of the beans, ... .
So "Yes", like coffee it is made with water and coffee... but everything else is different. 😜
@@Gsoda35 I’m saying we don’t drink stupidly large amounts of bad tasting coffee like the Americans do
We don't?
Spreading some butter on each slice of bread when making a sandwich is normal. It helps stop fillings like tomato making the bread go soggy and if the bread is a bit old it makes it less dry.
13:24 it’s actually legal to drink from the age of 4 on private property in England
It's an espresso!!! He's Italian 6:35
You didn't get it: in Europe, we have real strong coffee in a small cup; in the USA, you have a gallon of faintly tinted hot water ...
Take a look at this, for example: "GETTING COFFEE AT A CAFÉ IN FRANCE... EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW!" - Oui In France
16:00 - The English royal family can also be seen in many magazines in Germany, as well as the Dutch, Swedish, Spanish, etc. Royal families. There is probably a class of readers internationally who like to read something like that.
There are a lot of gossip magazines in the UK that write about the royals. There is always someone taking them to court also n
There's no such thing as "The English Royal Family". They are the British Royal Family or the Royal Family of the UK. There's not been an 'english' royal family for over 300 years.
@@Er_Guille Yeah. That one was weird. I seem to remember a car crash a bunch of years ago, don't think that one was due to respectful gossip magazines..
G'day Mate! I can't believe that you do NOT put butter on the bread for a sandwich...It enhances the flavours of the fillings... Here in OZ I only ever use my dryer when it is too bloody wet outside. Otherwise it is usually too damned hot to put the dryer on inside the house... Cheers!
Fun Fact about the MM-DD-YY thing in America, it's mostly because ships used to take months to get from Europe to America, so they typically wrote the month first for easier lookup
that's really interesting!
Dutchie here, butter on bread is just so tasteful, with all the different meat, cheese and spread toppings, I couldn’t go without it. If you have good quality . I never eat bread without butter, I even spread it under my peanut butter. Our word for a sandwich is “boterham” which literally translates to “ buttered slice of bread”
I’m used to taking off my shoes on entering the house, I have a special bench near the front door where you can take your shoes off and put on indoor shoes or slippers
A comma is used to separate things, like in sentences (like right here), so the whole world uses the comma in numbers to separate the whole entities from the decimals. Over here in Europe we mostly use a space to make a big number understandable at first sight: 1 000 000. Why does the US does it the other way round? Yes, a period starts something new, how unlogical is that within a number? And don’t even start about imperial measures 😱
About the laundry; almost every household in Europe has a dryer
The UK gossip newspapers and magazines are the worst in the world I would say. Yeah, there’s gossip magazines over here (the Netherlands) too, but nothing compared to the UK
I just want to side with you, I love these reaction video’s you’re making and I (most of the time, not always though) agree with you. Cheers and hugs from the Netherlands and keep up the good work!
taking shoes off is not a very standard thing in the netherlands right? i don't have much of a social life but everywhere i've ever been that i can think off you keep the shoes on in the house, only one house where i was supposed to take my shoes off.
i personally think it's disgusting to walk on socks in other peoples sock sweat and when you have to go to the toilet potentially in splashes of urine.
Hey Ryan. Try a piece of bread with a thin layer of butter (preferably real butter) and see what you think. Delish before anything else is added.
There was more of a celebrity attitude to the royal family in the 1980s, but now people are basically split into those who are loyal supporters of the royals, and those who are uninterested or completely against the monarchy.
Dutchy here:
-Why do you have "4th of July" when you write 7/4/23?
-Drinking age used to be 16 year when i was younger (at least NL/BE/DE)
DRINKING age in Denmark is... there is none... BUYING age for beer and wine is 16, and higher % alcohol is 18, but still no DRINKING age
@@spyro257 Damn that's something else, nice
@@stonedmountainunicorn9532 we believe it's the parents job, to teach mid/late teens how to drink responsibly, BEFORE they get behind a wheel, and drive at 18... many friends parents will know each other, so who ever is holding the party, their parents will call the other parents of the kids who come, asking if they REALLY got told yes, when asking if they could go... takes 2 people to make a baby, but it takes a small village, to raise that baby...
7:50 "I wouldn't give up my dryer."
You can even see them having a dryer in the clip. The dryer just doesn't eliminate every bit of moisture, so it still can cause mold in your house. Plus it just smells a lot lot better if you air dry your clothes.
He didnt drink tea, he was drinking proper coffee
I rarely see Ryan so confused!
The German word for sandwich is literally Butterbrot (Butterbread). For some reason, the Russians have adopted the German word as well.
I am German and the words "Butterbrot" and "sandwich" for me lead to different mental images.
At Butterbrot I think of a slice of bread with pure butter, maybe one slice of Mortadella or something similar.
A sandwich for me is two slices of bread or toast with much different stuff between it. Cheese, salat, cucumber, tomatoes, thuna...
When I grew up, the more common thing was "Belegtes" or "belegtes Brötchen", wich means bread rolls/buns cut in half and than slices of cheese or sausage and any other toppings on it (or in it, iff put together like a burger).
"Belegtes" would maybe literally translate to "layered one"
You don't put butter on your sandwich wtf :D It is so common here in Europe I couldn't name any regular person in Europe who didn't tried it (except allergic people), you don't put between you spread butter on top of your bread (like nutella and etc) and later put stuff you want cheese, sausauge or any other stuff on top of it
The comma in numbers is not for all countries. I know it is true for Germany, but in Switzerland for example, we use 1'000.00 and yes, we find the other writing with the comma very confusing and it actually quite often leads to errors when using computer forms.
We don’t use periods at all. Comma to separate decimal numbers only. In my country it would just be 1000,00.
In Germany the dot is only used sometimes for better visuality (e.g. in advertising). But in school you learn the numbers without a dot, but with small spaces instead.
100
1 000
10 000
1 000 000
With decimal parts, it would be
10 000,10
But thats also just a visual aide.
In digital sheets, formulars ect, numbers only are required. The only sign there is the comma that separates the decimals and is therefore logically needed.
Just my personal preferences for the fun (not talking for all Germans):
- Sandwich: Yes, 'something' has to be on it. It may be butter OR mayonnaise/remoulade OR cream cheese OR ketchup/mustard. But 'nothing' is no option.
- Shoes in the house: At a younger age, I didn't care. I felt a little uncomfortable taking off my shoes and walk on socks, especially when later at the day. But today we have cats and we ask guests to take off street shoes, but since my wife is from Poland, we have a cabinet with "guest slippers" in different sizes for everyone.
- Decimals: It's just normal to us to use it this way. The comma "separates" numbers from another, the dot/period just gives you a faster understanding of larger numbers. But: I'm a flightsimmer and know the "."-Decimals from radio frequencies. There, I'm used to and could not imagine to choose commas there.
- Coffee/tea: I prefer coffee, especially in the morning. But the older I grow, the more tea I like to drink during the day. In my youth, tea was a sign of being sick or ill. But we didn't have all the fancy tastes back then.
- Dryer: We don't have one. Never had. But honestly it's not unnormal in germany to have a clothes dryer. But we have a large roofed balcony and save the money ...for our A/C (we do have one finally since this summer)😆
- Utensils: Yes, I keep both knife & fork in my hands when eating and yes, I turn the fork depending on what I want to do with it. I learned it that way and it's a normal habit. I was told as a child, using just the fork and keeping the free hand under the table is inpolite and a "Don't". And when eating soup with a spoon, my left hand is kept on the table, not under it.
- Dates: Same as decimals, just used to 'our' DD-MM-YY. Especially with the lower numbers, I really get irritated with the American writing, e.g. 6/7/23 - Every time just a guess if it's the 6th of July or the 7th of June...
- Grocery Shopping: I'm not going shopping anywhere with my "house clothes". There are meant to be just for feeling cozy at home. They often look old an worn (T-Shirts I don't wear on the streets, but still don't want to litter) and even the house slippers (see above) HAVE to stay in the house, else they make no sense anymore.
- Candy: Just a matter of taste. I'm not into choclate bars that much, but I love chips (yep, the German "Paprika" taste most of all) and "English winegums" (yes, indeed. Not 'Haribo' all the time)
- Dry/wet hair: No way my wife would go to bed with wet hair! Me neither, but I am bald in between...
- Money: OK, the Dollar is iconic. It's THE symbol of money all over the world. So I think, you still got a point there.
- Drinking age: My drinking age ended with 37. I'm 48 now and don't drink any alcohol anymore - but not voluntarily, tbh. I got sick and became an addict (I'm dry now since then). So on the one hand, I would say that alcohol is dangerous. But especially Americans do allow other dangerous things at younger age. Sometimes I think, only your judgement is deferred. Nudity and alcohol are the baddest things on earth, but let the kids drive home from the shooting range...
- The Royals: The level here seems to be a little bit more respectful. But concerning love & marriage it's a "living pulp novel". As far as I see it, the British Royals are the "Top of the Pops" in German tabloids/yellow press. Denmark, Norway, Sweden, the Netherlands and Spain are also found - but the UK has the most prominent charakters.