Well, it's not the water, but the amount they transport in a city. American tourists often are packed like a mule prepared to cross the Mojave Desert expecting the next waterhole is 3 days away.😁
Once I saw a girl drinking wine in the metro (Paris subway) she seems very happy to do so even if I take into account the alcohol effects 😂 US of course thinking that drinking wine in transportation directly from the bottle was a French thing. I thought to explain her that for wine we use glasses and drinking in public at the bottle, I only saw homeless people do so... 🤣😂🤣
Maybe people traveling are on a budget and having 1 large bottle at hand is more affordable. I only carry a large bottle when I am doing a five mile walk and hike at the beach board walk and salt marshes. But, I think I might if I was walking through a city for the day I am not familiar with.
The water bottle thing is because a lot of Americans have made weird posts thinking that Europeans don't drink water, because we have drinkable tap water and don't carry bottles with us everywhere. In fact we sell Norwegian tap water to Americans in the US, the brand Voss, is named after the town it's tapped in, Voss, and it's basically tap water from Voss. :P
Exactly - Here in Hungary and Austria as well. We drink and then move. Buy a small bottle of mineral water or a soda and drink it and then move without a bottle. Yes that what is in video- is typical American thing
I take water in those amounts everywhere I go in my camelback, and I'm from Europe. The amount of money vendors in some tourist destinations want for water is just outrageous. Especially in southern Europe. With the temperatures in the last years, it's just common sense to take enough water and a little snack with you, in case you struggle with heat or low sugar.
@@Kahsimiah It's simple, stop buying from tourist traps... Just go to a local grocery store and you can buy bottled natural mineral water for pennies.
so idk if anyone already said it but the Autogas mentioned at 9:00 is commonly knows also as LPG (liquified petroleum gas) and its an alternate fuel type you can modify into your car
@@jordillach3222 Because they always have to abbreviate all words, regardless of whether the abbreviation still makes sense or not. Love and peace from Hannover, Germany. Klaus
Big bottles are for home use. Small bottles are for walking on the streets. If you are drinking from a huge bottle on the street, it kinda gives us some kind of "dying in the Sahara desert" vibe.
Besides most Europeans prefer to drink tap water instead of bottled water, and if you have an empty plastic bottle, you can fill it with a drinkable tap water at home.
Refilling a big plastic bottle (doesn't have to be a water bottle like Bukton as a 2L fizzy drink botlle could be re-used instead) from a water fountain like the Thames Water ones means less small plastic bottles (especially reusing the ones that had fizzy drinks in them as a water bottle) to carry in one's rucksack.
And don't forget that they only buy "Evian"...as it's what they have imported to USA and it cost an harm and a leg there...not here and since big bottles are cheaper they get the big ones!
@@FelisL.Just saying that you are "European" mean that you aren't! I'm French I'm not "European" which means nothing...you can be from UK or from Russia and everything in between 🙄! "European" is used only by mainstream medias within the EU to maintain an illusion of unity amongst credulous citizens who don't have a clue how this politico-economical mafia works!
McDonalds are low key in Europe because the normal versions make the place look cheap, nobody wants that when it's in a place with historic architecture.
That one in the video is in the middle of Barcelona, plaza Catalunya those are pretty old buildings. You can find some McDonald's similar to the US usually in supermarkets.
McDonalds in particular has a completely different level of quality compared to the US. In the US, McDonalds is seen as cheap, low quality, dirty. Here in the Czech Republic it is clean and the food is good for fast food.
The choice of menu in mainland European McDonald's is way better too. The burgers in France are better than the ones in the UK. We've had breaded king prawns in the Basle branch, pasta and mozzarella in Reims, breaded chicken nuggets (as opposed to battered), couscous salads, and drink flavours we don't see at home in the UK. And American friends say UK McDonald's tastes better than US ones.
I'm European and this drinking and eating while walking is looking really weird. Of course Americans stand out, because Europeans rarely do this. We take our time, sit down in a restaurant or on a bench and eat and drink enjoying the moment. It's healthier for body and soul.
I think it's because Americans are used to everything being so expensive, so they like to bring their own stuff. It's way cheaper to lug around a gallon of water, than visiting a restaurant every time you're thirsty. Not good for our economy, and the water is free (from the tap, and you can drink it everywhere), I don't think Americans are aware of that.
That's nonsense. Irish people eat and walk and talk, and I've travelled all across Europe and seen people doing the exact same thing. Absolutely Everywhere has cafes and cafe culture - and also has people without the time or interest to sit down like so.
I mean, sure it is healthier for you, but who will make profits for the monopolies if you are just sitting around, vibing? Won’t someone think of the poor capital owners for once?!
Honestly though, Americans can be really precious with their excitement. My mom owned a local coffee shop. Very simple, limited selection, out-of-the-way part of the city, so it was mostly locals who visited. Then, American tourists walked in one morning. They were staying in a very small hotel in the area and decided to get breakfast at my mom's shop. They asked for sandwiches, which was something my mom didn't have, but when they pleaded, she hesitantly suggested she could try to make something herself. She used the absolute most basic ingredients she found in the fridge, putting together the simplest sandwich ever, because she was completely blindsided by the request. The Americans were absolutely thrilled and came back three days in a row for more. All for something my mom used to make me and my brother for breakfast when she had no time. My mom was so flabergasted by that she keeps telling that story even now, many years later.
But kind of American to 'demand' sandwiches when someone is obviously not selling them. I mean, she basically had to give them her own lunch. Why didn't they just ask where the closest bakery was, so that they could get their own sandwiches? A European in a situation like that would ask: 'If we come here for a morning coffee, would it be okay if we get something at the bakery or supermarket and eat it here?' A local coffee shop might be okay with that but there's also chances that they're not. They might be willing to provide you with a plate and some cutlery, especially for tourists who seem a little out of place. That really is as far as you can go. But still asking for sandwiches, even after a 'no', is kind of elitist or something. Not everything is for sale. This seems to be more accepted in the US, as there is tipping culture. You can buy just anything with tips. People sell their soul for tips. It's basically bribing culture. Edit: Now that I'm thinking of it, I had an experience like that in the US that could never happen in my European country. I had to get to the airport but had no way to get there. (I don't remember why I didn't just call a taxi) The person I was with dropped me off at a bus center and asked if someone could take me to the airport. The owner said that it was okay as long as I 'took care of the driver'. That means tipping him well. And so that bus driver took a bus and drove me to the airport. Totally outside of any schedule. Of course I tipped him well. But this would be totally unthinkable in my European country. I wouldn't even dare to ask something like that. And I can't imagine anyone would be willing to do that. There also wouldn't be anyone available to do it. Bus drivers do not just sit around waiting for work, they are all on a tight schedule. And then giving that person some cash money, as if he was a beggar... So humiliating and awkward... A European, and especially a Northern European (I think), would do anything to avoid a situation like this, and would defnitely not ask for it.
Its easy to forget just how far South most of the US is compared to most of Europe tbh. Central Europe sits at more or less the same latitude as the US - Canada border. We dont need that much water cuz we live north of the desert.
Kinda true in Poland humidity can go crazy too, even today - it wasn't raining for weeks - humidity is 71% :D But well how much water I drink depends. When I am walking in the city during the Summer heatwave, when it is 35C in shade, I like to drink more water. When I am going for a walk in the countryside, most part of the year - except heatwaves in the Summer- I don't drink at all, I can drink at home, then go for a walk.
Europeans usually don’t carry huge water bottles with them. There is free tap water everywhere and the quality is usually excellent. Therefore most Europeans carry smaller reusable bottles (500 - 750 ml) and fill them up at public restrooms, etc. Sometimes I buy a 500 ml water bottle and fill that up when it’s empty. We also don’t drink as much as many young Americans do. To drink insane amounts of water seems to be a relatively new trend especially among relatively young Americans. You really see them drink and drink and drink.
@@xanperia To be fair 64oz (i didn't find bigger) isn't something big. It's about 1,9L which is not to far from the most common pet bottle size 1,5L in Europe. When I go somewhere outside of city or i don't want to buy new one (i don't like pure tap water (only if there isn't any option)), I need at least pure carbonated water) i always bring 1,5L or 2,25L bottle. The smaller are too small and also they are much expensive then the bigger sizes.
It's not always allowed to rip open a pack of drinks in the grocery store. Check the price labels on the shelf, there should be two of them, one for individual drinks and one for a whole pack.
Can be a problem with barcodes - had a case where people took individual packs from a bulk product and the barcode on the item was the same as the pack so they got charged for 6 instead of 1.
McDonald's is green in Europe for quite some time. About 15 years ago they started some changes in Germany and Austria by adding McCafe counters (coffee, brownies, cupcakes, cookies and so on - matching the prevalence of cafe culture and afternoon coffee and cake tradition in Germany), introducing special breakfast menus in the morning and redesigning the interior and exterior with a lot of focus on wood and comfy seating. Also they had already heavily sourced their ingredients locally but now emphasized freshness, domestic (partly even organic) produce in their advertising. Basically they rebranded from the pickup-heavy fast(/junk)-food chain to a more traditional burger-centric restaurant with focus on quality and sustainabilty. And with that they changed the color to a deep green that since then spread to all over Europe.
Hi. being always thirsty can be a first symptom of diabete. when I saw the sugar rate in American version of products it may be a clue on why Americans drink so much water
The fact that some Americans just straight-up refuse to drink water and instead chug ultra sweet acidic gassy.. things (from same giant bottles) certainly does *not* help with that.
The recommended daily intake of water in the US is 3.7 litres for men, and 2.7 litres for women. In Sweden for example it is 2.5 litres for men, and 2.0 litres for women. And quite a few americans seem to miss that that includes the water you get from food. Ergo you have lots of americans over-hydrating for no reason. If your pee is clear as water, you're drinking too much.
@@jeschinstad People have died from hyponatremia by drinking less than 0.8 liters of water an hour on average, so very much the opposite of "no issue".
@@mrfomo217Maybe if they are crossing a desert or something. Sure US have loads of salt and sugar in everything so they need a bit more water to process it than the rest of the world, but more than 2-2,5 liters per day, including what's in the food you eat is a sign something is wrong with you, I would check my self for diabetes in an instant if I had to drink 0,8 liters an hour or nearly 20 liters per day, that's like what a horse drink per day, not a human.
@@mrfomo217 you either are trolling, or are ignorant. Let's dissect the word "hyponatremia". Hypo = under or less Hyper = over or more Natremia = natrium supply, which is the German name in the periodic table of elements for sodium. So hyponatremia is the state of _undersupplying_ sodium by washing it out with too much water. So please, don't remove all doubt that you are an ignorant fool by making such claims. You need to stay mineralized. Most bottled waters today have a low sodium content due to health restrictions of hypertonic patients suing in the USA.
That's what I thought until meeting the Austrian hospice system in person. The amount of amputees there was disturbing, and diabetes was the number two cause after thrombosis. These unfortunate patients were not obese, and yet they had terminal diabetes. But it was over twenty years ago, perhaps it is better now.
@@jmi5969diabetes isn’t terminal. Yes if left untreated especially type 1 you will die, but it is very treatable hence it is not terminal. It comes with greater risks, and there are diabetes related diseases which might kill you, which is what I think might be what you are referring to, but those are completely different diseases . Very seldom is it diabetes that kills, it can happen, but you can not call diabetes a terminal disease because even when diabetes is what kills, it is not because it can’t be treated and you are doomed to died, it is either because you get ketoacisosis which can develop over hours or because you go into insulin shock which again develops quickly. Edit: I missed that part where you wrote it was 20 years ago. Yes treatment has gotten a lot better but even 20 years ago, it wasn’t a terminal illness as treatment still existed. Sincerely someone whose lived with diabetes for 30 years in a European country and might have been slightly triggered by you called it terminal as so much misinformation and lack of understanding from people exists 😅
That's not the point. There was (still is ?) is a national campaign promoting drinking water constantly to stay hydrated. In France, and I think all across the EU and probably Europe, at least, the health departments/organizations advise 1.5 liter per day. Depending on your environments, activities and build. But the amount the American tourists drink is just insane. I believe that everything in excess is not good. If excess of oxygen can be poisonous, water excessive consumption must have downsides too.
@@Belaziraf It doesn't help that US food contains way more sugar and salt. Both of which require signicantly more water to process in the body. Americans will get thirsty more often just out of habit, It's hard to break that habit. I'm 4 years after changing jobs and the amount I drink still hasn't normalized even tho I don't need that much water anymore.
MC donalds is green because they rebranded some time ago to be more durable when it comes to buissnuess like becoming more eco-friendly or a tad bit healthier
I remember a few years back... OK so more than ten years back... Time pass so quickly... Anyway one MCD was used as a test for the new program and they swapped out the Styrofoam containers for burgers to a paper version. I remember thinking that it was strange. They also had separate bins for paper, liquid and consumables when throwing the trash. Back then this was the first MC Donalds that had anything like that. Today it would feel strange if you got a Styrofoam container at MC Donalds. Stranger still was seeing a MC Donalds pizza place when visiting the UK. It was a test where they tested to see if they could compete with Pizza Hut or their UK competitors for the Pizza market. Didn't eat there, but now it would have been a interesting thing to test. This was the only MCD Pizza place I ever seen and next to no one can remember it. So if you never got to that town where it was you would never have seen it. Trying to remember where it was. My first thought was Newcastle upon Tyne, but I thought it was closer to London. Southend-on-Sea is another potential, but I can't say it looks familiar on the map. Can't remember where we saw it.
The people who do that don't carry water jugs. They carry big gulp cups and drive a mobility scooter. If they are salt like normal people, they would retain water so they wouldn't need to drink every 15 seconds.
Carrying those hudge waterbottles is crazy. The weight only makes me not do that. You don't have to drink those two liter only walking on the street. You also drink at home, sitting by a Cafe, restaurant ect. It's not only water that hydrates. And if you love your water, most Dutch cities have have free water tap points by the road to refill your small bottle. Btw, do you know that too much water can even poison you? Too much can really mess up your electrolyte balances. Oatmeal latte and quinoa bowls are a fashion here among what we call the Amsterdam oatmealmilk Elite. You know those people who like to act fashionable and posh which really doesn't fit that much in the " doe normaal" attitude and are often laughed about. For the girl, ach...she's happy. It's nice she enjoys it that much and to be honest, I like it she is trying to learn some words. Wouldn't mind meetingher, she looks friendly. We as Europeans might have the attitude we look down on Americans and some things we will never understand (.....gunlaws, medicine commercials, loads of sugar ect) but it's not like Europe is all paradise without problems. And many Americans I met where really friendly and open, and it's a hudge very diverse country where there is already a lot to see without traveling abroad, while for me I can cross border in 15 minutes, and my parents generation also hardly travelled outside their country . I little more muttial respect and love would be nice
About the European cap thing, it was a major shift to us as well, as it's a super recent implementation that basically felt like it happened overnight. Last year, and basically forever up until that point, our caps were exactly like every other cap around the world. But then a new mandate required all bottle producers to ensure the cap stays with the bottle to minimize plastic waste risk, and essentially within what I think is a couple of weeks, every single bottle in every store got the new batches with the updated cap designs. Was super weird for a while lol, but now people got used to it -tho tourists probably haven't :D
I think many Americans have an ingrained idea that they need to drink huge quantities of water every day. I've noticed that American TH-camrs can't go five minutes without swigging from some huge container.
Autogas is LPG (Liquified Petroleum Gas). Specifically here in the UK, it’s about half the cost of normal petrol (gas) for vehicles equipped to use it, mostly large 4x4s but most cars can be converted to run on it
The sunday thing mainly depends on the shops, whether you are in a city or in a rural area and the country. Countries like Germany, Austria, Spain, and I think Italy as well, Sunday is a day off where most shops are closed, except in big cities like Berlin, Madrid and so on. There are other countries, for example, like Lithuania were a lot of the shops are open on Sunday. But as said, often the rural areas still close during sundays and only cities and shopping centres have open shops. Restaurants are a whole different thing though.
Or they are open but with reduced hours. For example, if a grocery store normally opens 7am to 9pm of work days, then weekends and holidays it could be for example 9am to 1pm or something
In Ireland Sunday's and Bank Holidays are reduced hours, usually 12-18. I was in UK during the summer and the town I was in, every place closed by 1600 on a Sunday, including supermarkets.
In Italy it depends on the region. In some regions they have opened on Sunday, but closed on Monday. And nit to forget, some shops have a break time between 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm. In Germany, shops have closed every Sunday, besides 4/5 times a year. Then they are allowed to open from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm. Barbers (Friseure) are closed on Monday (it is related to history). And at villages they still do that. Also in some smaller towns, or small shops in Germany, they are also have a breaktime between 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm.
@@Fn-xj8hl In England (not sure about rest of UK) shops have limited hours on a Sunday (6 hours total from 10:00 through 18:00), this is dependant on the indoor floor space of the shop, so normally wont apply to small 'corner' shops or to Petrol (gas) stations. I don't think it applies to Cafés, Restaurants, Pubs etc. The 6 hours generally would be 10:00 through 16:00., applies to some public holidays too.
Portugal is exactly like that. Big cities and shopping malls are always open. In small cities, almost everything is closed on Sunday. Except restaurants and cafés.
Latte is the Italian word for milk. It has nothing to do with coffee. You have to order coffee with much milk which is almost an insult to Italian coffee culture.
12:01 At leats in my country (Portugal), a glass of tap water is free (*) - but the guy did not ask for "a glass of water", he asked for "a water". If you ask for "a water", they will assume you mean "a bottle of water", and that is charged. (*) A glass of water is free, but you're expected to buy other stuff and actually become a customer...
In the Czech republic tap water is supposed to be free, but restaurants resist offering it, mostly claiming they can't serve it etc to make money on selling bottled water.
Haha, we tried asking for tap water explictly in Italy, the waitress was playing dumb for a few minutes (like she couldn't understand us well) and then in the end just brought us a bottle of water. It was on purpose. And I know the same game is played in Croatia, because as a local we can get a pitcher of tap water, guess what they give to foreign tourists when they ask for water.
Yes, I don't want to deny that tourists are sometimes taken advantage of. But as a German, this could happen to me in the same way at an Italian tourist hotspot. The Italians have successfully conquered the whole of Europe with their (undoubtedly very tasty) La Dolce Vita. The usual way I know: 1. order a better (chargeable) drink (wine, Coke, beer etc.) 2. while enjoying the drink, you read the menu and choose the food. 3. from now on you can also get free water without any problems
"Autogas or LPG is liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) used as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles as well as in stationary applications such as generators. It is a mixture of propane and butane." (Wikipedia)
Europeans drink water, too, but the meme is that Americans think they have to drink 3 gallons of water a day to stay hydrated, and they think they're gonna die if they don't take a sip of water every 30 seconds when walking a couple hundred meters.
If you order a glass of tap water in a restaurant in Switzerland, you will be charged a small amount. The restaurant owners justify this by saying that you are taking up a seat at the table, the waiter who brings the water does not work for free and that the glass has to be cleared away and cleaned. The restaurant also has to pay for electricity and water. However, you can drink water or fill up your empty bottle at almost any public fountain here. Water from the tap is usually drinkable everywhere.
I works the other way around, too. When I first visited the US I always struggled with their sliding window frames... 1950s woodwork, always jamming, never going all the way to the top.
The oldest structure to house a McDonald's restaurant is located in Shrewsbury, England , UK. One of the restaurant's exterior walls dates back to the 13th century and served as part of Shrewsbury's medieval town wall.
10:14 became very apparent with cars. US exported cars only had words such a "fan" "Heater" "wiper" etc. where European cars had/have the (standardized) symbols meaning that when exported there was an obvious self explanatory "symbol language" for all the various functions.
@@shades2.183 Yep, 1/2 liter. Or a 3/4 l bottle for longer journeys - there are more squat ones with a wider opening which makes refilling them with tap water more easy.
Never see people walking with a BIG water bottle like that here. If i'm walking in the city and getting thirsty i buy a 33 - 50cl soda and drink that, never running around with a 1,5 liter bottle like in the video. Those bottles you have in the fridge at home.
In the UK the larger bottles are actually far cheaper than the smaller bottles lol lol... and the larger bottles are often in a corner somewhere out of sight not in the fridge.
actually that is bs. When we were traveling in the finland in the summer. We did everything by foot. We were so thirsty when we got to store, bought 1,5l and almost drunk half of it right away. So yeah, it can happen.
I never walk in my hometown hours around, but i have everytime a little bottle water 0,2 with me. In Holidays, sure i also buy a 1,5 l bottle for sightseeing 😂
Many petrol cars in europe are converted to liquefied petroleum gas(LPG). The gas used to be much cheaper than petrol or diesel so it was cheaper to instal a conversion and then pay less for gas. That's what the extra position on the gas station sign was for.
i think the first one with the bottles was because almost everywhere across europe the tap water is perfectly drinkable & free everywhere (unless you buy bottled) so only ever worth a small bottle for something like a long walk. no reason to taake a load home for drinking. i think everyone hates those new attached lids on bottles, i allways cut through them before opening i know in the uk canned drinks like coke and any other multi pack items you can almost allways buy as singles aswell but multi packs are cheaper because of sold as a pack & cant be sold seperately - most are even labeled not to be sold seperately (without barcodes on individual cans) or are printed with a price to prevent shops breaking multi packs to sell seperately at full price
Hey! So, the whole thing with the water bottle is kind of a classic stereotype that Europeans often have about American tourists. It's not that there's anything "wrong" with carrying water, but Americans tend to carry big water bottles everywhere they go, which stands out in Europe where it’s less common. Over there, people usually don’t carry drinks around as much, and they’re more likely to take small sips in cafes, fountains, or public spaces. It’s also about portion sizes and habits: Americans often have larger bottles and might feel they need to stay constantly hydrated, probably because we're used to a hotter climate, AC everywhere, and easy access to water on-the-go in the U.S. So, if someone in Europe is walking around with a big water bottle and even a backup, it kind of screams "tourist" - and usually an American one. It’s a lighthearted stereotype, but one that does stand out.
There's this Internet meme going around these days about how Europeans don't drink water and are dehydrated. Needing to constantly sip water or some liquid can be a symptom of health and/or dietary issues, btw. Can be a generational thing too. This European drinks a lot of water, as I train a lot. But I might chug a liter with breakfast, a liter after a workout etc, without needing to keep a water bottle with me at every minute of the day.
I have developed a habit of drinking 4 to 6 pints of whole milk a day 😂 Although I've always drunk more that normal people, i just get really thirsty all the time and now I'm ill it's made it even worse! 😫
@@NoctisIgnem + milk can satisfy your hunger ,it's 70% water and the remaining 30% are thing you find in food (And it's those 30% that allow it to transform into cheese/butter/yoghurt etc...) and it's low calories too (Atleast ,the last kind of milk I drank ,it was 46 calories for 1 liter , while the average an adult male should take is 2 200 in the case you have a sedentary lifestyle ,46 is just 2,1% of 2 200 ,and 1L can stave off your hunger for 3 or 4 hours)
Let's be honest: If you compare sodium content in almost any types of food between the US and Europe, I understand completely that American bodies need 3-4 gallons of water per day.
10:30 In my childhood I learnt foreign words from street signs: The Italian "tornanti" in the Alps ahead of sharp turns of the road and the French "Rappel", which works as a reminder (of a speed limit or a no-passing zone etc.). The last one was funny for me as a German, because "rappeln" as a verb means "to rattle" and "einen Rappel haben" (to have a...) means to be a bit crazy, to get mad.
It's not the water itself. It's the massive single use, store bought, plastic water bottle. The European way is a reusable bottle with free TAP water in it.
Don't think so. It is more a different water drinking culture and a tourist thing. If you run around Rome or Athens in the heat of a summer day, you will want to bring some water with you and as a not perfectly prepared tourist you will end up with the typical water bottle bought from the next supermarket. It is more of a contrast to the local population than a contrast to other tourists, be them Americans or other Europeans. And having two 1,5 l bottles isn't that much for a long day sightseeing in a large European city. I'd argue that most people would run out of water sooner or later and even refill it. Doing a city tour on foot during hot days makes you quite thirsty and I can understand, that one wants to avoid a few cafès around the tourist hot spots. You can easily end up with paying 10 EUR for a small beer at some places in Rome if you are not careful.
What colour is your Bugatti, bruh? Tap water peasant... (this is said ironically, i can not overstate that enough, but srsly tho, tap water is disgusting in some places... i go to a forest spring and fill m` glass bottles with the good shit, not the toilet water that we get from our taps over here...)
Locals also simply don't need water in many cases. They don't walk through the whole city for the lolz. If you are a commuter and it takes you 30min you can take a sip at the start and destination.
Where I live people are not concerned with taking in water beyond what the body itself signals that it needs. This can be quite a contrast with the current trend in the US, where drinking liters and liters of water every day seems to be widely perceived as good for your health and perhaps even necessary. The large bottle size hints at this as half a litre is much more of a to-go size when you're not going out into the wilderness.
Maybe you won't see this, but you should really check out "Porto Av. dos Aliados McDonald's", it's in this old building from the 1930's and it was the site of the iconic Imperial Café until 1995 when it reopened as what is now called "The most beautiful McDonald's in the world". Love from Portugal!
The second video is in Portugal. We have safe public drinking water in almost every public park, expecially in zones where it's common to see people walking/exercising. Also many "cafés" or "pastelarias2 will have tap water for free, just don't abuse it. Many portuguese opted to buy one reusable bottle of water and fill it up with tap water.
Re: water, if you eat a lot of sweet / sugar, not to mention salty food, it will make you more thirsty. Also, if you have vegetables and fruits in your diet, there's water in it, not so much in fries and pasta. AFAIK official recommandation in my country is 3 liters a day but including everything in food, that comes to about 1,5 l of actual drinking water.
Nonsense. I've even been approached by prostitutes while just walking home with a box of fried chucken for sustenance at the end of the night. Why waste time in Taxi queues and then spend £10 on the journey when you can just get a donner kebab or chucken and chips and bravely walk the 3 miles from the city centre home?
im pretty sure this was made by an american ... because as an europen i am thinking "wtf do americans own drinking water now? we guys drink water too you know"
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AutoGas at the gas station is LPG liquefied gas. Many cars in Europe and some countries in Latinamerica can run gasoline and LPG or NLG (liquid gas). It's usually cheaper and eco friendly
@@valentijnrozeveld3773 It depend where the mcdonalds is. In my city if you go to the one that is one a road it's red, while you go to the downtown one, it's green. There is a youtube video out there going about why the change.
@@PhoenixG6 I actually lied, I checked google maps. The closest Mac to me is green and red and the second newer one is just brown. The first one has a pole which is green with the yellow M on it. Edit: I checked, every MacDonald's close to has become either green or restaurant-style. There is no more red MacDonald's. Blew my mind.
The first clip is not about drinking bottled water, we do that in France too. It's about them showing off the Evian brand. Even in France, it's considered an expensive brand for water. We usually go for the cheapest or we refill an empty bottle with tap water!
12:45 it's not a regulation. McDonalds europe changed to green branding in 2009 because their red branding was apparently suggesting too much 'fast & cheap' for the european market.
Autogas is actual gas. There are cars built (usually converted oldtimers) that run on natural gas. Wiki: Autogas or LPG is liquefied petroleum gas used as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles as well as in stationary applications such as generators. It is a mixture of propane and butane. Autogas is widely used as a "green" fuel, as its use reduces CO₂ exhaust emissions by around 15% compared to petrol.
Diesel comes in two grades. Regular and premium. The main difference is that premium is usually passing through a secondary filter before reaching the pump from the underground tank and it may also contain some additives that prevent or even clear up carbon residues in the cylinders. As for petrol, it has 3 grades: normal (95 octanes), premium (98 octanes) and racing (100 octanes). Airconditioning is everywhere in southern Europe in warmer countries like Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Cyprus. Try going through summer with 45 degrees celcius without one 🙂
Here in The Netherlands too. Supermarkets and DIY- stores often are open on Sundays, or at least for a few hours. Other stores not so much, even less so than before Covid. Right now a lot of stores are struggling and they choose to close (again) on Sundays.
turning on red: you cant but there is often times additional light with green arrow and then you can go that direction if it lights up while other directions still have red
Hey Ian! I love your content. But!!!! Just come to Europe, it'd be really cool to see you experience all these things first hand and tell us about your experiences, lots of love from a Basky living in Austria
YES! The thing with these huge water bottles is just ridiculous. In Central European countries, you turn on the watertap and clean water comes out... it's also called drinking water. By the way, the control of drinking water is stricter than the control of bottled mineral water.
If I remember correctly, the tap water goes under the food laws (cold water that is). Those laws are very strict. Water kept in a bottle gets bad pretty quickly, with bad meaning the amount of bacterias in it. When I drink bottled water, I make sure I drink the whole bottle pretty immediately. I NEVER store an opened bottle of water. If I refill the bottle with tap water, I make sure to flush the bottle at least one time.
When you ask for water in restaurants, you'll get the bottled water so if you want tap water then you have to specifically ask for tap water i.e. with ice or in a jug or glass.
@@dominika3762 I see, thanks for the info. In the UK you can and as I said, you have to ask for it. However, you do have to order something off the menu and be a customer as many restaurants are struggling due to high overhead bills.
That depends. In Finland, you often get tap water in a jug (usually with ice) because our tap water is often just better than bottled water. I mostly associate bottled water with fast food restaurants.
tbh normally in europe rather than home ( uk ) we tend to find a water jug just arrives anyway and we think 'ah, this is the way to do it' .... Probably warmer climes though...
Gotta keep in mind that Europe is not one country where we all think and do the same, hell we've started two world wars because of our differencies! The kissing cheeks... it's perhaps common in some of the southern countries and France. I've been to quite a lot of countries here and I can't remember seeing it once. Bottles of water isn't really a big thing at all here in the north since our tap water is top notch. So if you see a person with a water bottle they're 100% a tourist, perhaps not murican, but a tourist nonetheless... Regarding the "closed on sunday", is not a thing in Sweden. Most stores are open, some might have reduced opening hours. Grocery stores are generally open between 8-20 or longer.
@@sidetracked5044 I've just traveled through the netherlands and it was quite a while back so I can't say I know to much about your country. Didn't know you did that, but I suppose it aint super common?
There are stores/ cafes / gas stations /restaurants that sell something to drink on every other street corner in just about every european city center I've seen - only time I see people carrying water like this is on hiking trails...Is it a zoning thing that the US doesn't have small stores, or where does the US fear to die of thirst in the middle of town come from?
In the USA they have places called 'food deserts' which are places (even in cities) that have no grocery stores or restaurants within walking distance. 😬
The girl in Italy at the start: Her "Gracie" is so thick in american accent - but, at least she tried. And second - and more relevant, just look at her clothes. She is more dressed for a day at the beach, sports or a hike, not for visiting the center of town. Especially if you want to visit a (catholic) church women are expected to at least cover their shoulders. No "bikini-like tops" And the "short shorts" would also get the US-ladies a raised eyebrow - a skirt or a bermuda short, ending a little bit over the knee would be the better choice. Italian women even wear skirts that go a little bit over the knee - and, even in the hottest summer days you would see Italians (especially the male ones) wear long trousers and closed shoes. Bermudas are for the beach. No socks required though ... As top for male dressing - a Polo shirt or even a long sleeved shirt is worn (rolled/turned up to T-Shirt length if it is hot). Teenagers could wear T-Shirts - with sleeves ending "middle bizeps".
Have you ever been to Italy? There are a LOT of people wearing t-shirts, men and women and women do wear open shoulder tops. Sure, the short thing is kind of true, whether for men or women, but it's not a rule, just not common. In Italy and southern Europe in general, people usually wear, above all, comfortable and season-appropriated clothes.
@@gonxalo_r I've been to Italy several times, also several times France and Spain. The tip of "don't show to much skin" is one for tourists - if they want to visit churches and locations like the Vatikan. Quite a few Churches and other places of faith hand out scarfs if the shoulders aren't covered. Even some museums expect at least shoulders covered. For a stroll through town in the evening, for gelato, a drink and else Italians aren't that strikt. But still - to my perception, those who wear less or little to nothing often are tourists. Also in restaurants - muscle shirt, spaghetti top for the girls/ladies - tourists. Okay - fast food like the burger chains excluded. Exept at the beach - Speedos, thongs and bikini tops mainly consisting of strings - everywhere ... and not only the teens and twentysomethings. It's where the tourists often wear more cloth/lycra than the Italians - Americans proudly sporting a speedo the with the back only a thong? Not a thing. "He" is (in most cases) Italiano ... even if the belly hangs in parts over the speedo.
(9:00) Auto Gas is in Spain (Repsol) where some people have converted their cars because its cheaper, the problem is that you then have a gas tank in your trunk and not much room for stowage.
The stuck bottlecap is something that was fairly recently introduced, where they are stuck to the bottle. The reasoning is to try to avoid getting those bottle lids out into the ocean. With quite a few recycling setups around europe makes sure that every bottle has some pant/fee on the bottle itself, that then in turn makes people collect these to get the money. And that the bottle cap is then stuck to the bottle will then make sure its collected together with the bottle. But yes its annoying to drink from. The reason McDonalds many times have muted colors are often in response to city planning codes. Both in Rome and Paris in the more fashionable areas of the Pedestrian walkway shoppingstreet, where this will be applied (the “Spanish Stairs” McDonalds in Rome has gold letters and sandstone (as I remember it)).
McDonald's in the Passau city center is not allowd to have marquee lights. They must be discreet to fit the environment and the character of the old city -- a city with many buildings older than Muricans can imagine.
1:30 US-Americans drink an unhealthy amount of water. The suggestion is at least 1.5l/day in Europe - the government suggestion in the USA is 2.7-3.7l/day in the USA. BTW the USA is the only country I know of that had deaths because of water poisoning (hyper hydration) that were normal people. To get to that level you need to drink 3l in one hour. And you can always see these are US-American because it's still water and they use bottles other keep at home in the fridge. European carry maybe a 0.5l bottle for when they get thirsty on the way. Ice between Europe and USA is different - you can eat your ice cream directly from the freezer while in the USofA you have to keep it out of it for a time until you can use a spoon to get some out of the package. Auto Gas is LPG (Liquid Petrol Gas) a mix of propane and butane in a mix of 1/3 to 2/3 but the mix change in winter because butane freezes. Another thing we have at petrol stations is CNG (compressed natural gas) and BioFuel (Diesel and Petrol) that contain biological produced fuel, methanol for petrol and plant based oils for diesel. Right on red is dangerous for pedestrians, that is why it is forbidden in Europe except for when it is allowed with an additional sign. Sun- and public holidays everything is closed except for restaurant, museum, gas station. Even if a gas station sells grocery articles they are not allowed to sell them on a Sunday in Germany
@@Maxicraft. Kidneys can process upto a liter of water per hour. More than that will add up and first upset your electrolyte balance and secondly make your brain swell up, which is un-positive. :)
When it comes to the water bottles, where i live and im guessing it is the same for many countries in Europe we have clean drinkable water running in every house. So there is no need to buy a big water bottle because you can go in to almost any establishment and ask for water if you want to.
You don't even have to. If you have lunch somewhere, you go to the bathroom and fill up your bottle. You put it IN your bag though, because you don't want to look like a free-loader (although your are) and therefore it's more convenient to have a small bottle.
Autogas is also known as LPG: Liquified Petroleum Gas. It's a mixture of Butane and Propane and is used as an alternative and quite cheap fuel for petrol ('Benzin' or 'gas' in Northern America). It's use is sadly on a decline as it is a very very clean fuel polution-wise. There's a small conversion/addition required to the car, but its original fuelsytem remains in situ and is used when first dtarting the engine. After a minute or so, it automaticaly shuts of petrol and switches over to LPG.
When I hiked through Germany, I had water bottles in my backpack. However, I would not drink while walking. I took a rest on a bench (found most anywhere) and made a small pause before I packed up and hiked on. So maybe it is not the fact that they are drinking water as such but that they do it while walking?
No, it was about the size of the bottles in this video ... here in germany you only need a small bottle because you can refill this bottle anywhere at any time (in any public restroom or at a fountain etc.) because we have very clean tap water everywhere. Our tap water is constantly checked. Of course, if you go hiking (in forests etc.) you should have a larger bottle with you as you can't refill your bottle all the time.
@@herrkulor3771 Not true for most of the Mediterranean from my experience. You can drink the tap water in any city in Greece and where I visited in Italy.
I was weirded out about the bottle caps at first, but now i actually like it. Not really for recycling, i mean, sure i did that already. But it is soo convenient to not lose the caps, pour a milk without looking for the cap in the counter. On a walk, sure, i keep one hand free while drinking instead of holding the cap.. i prefer it now.
They are to ensure that wildlife don't swallow individual bottle caps when plastic bottles are dumped. If they don't come off then birds, turtles, etc cannot choke on them.
Nah, people just rip them off because it's an obstruction for drinking from the bottle. And especially rip off the connecting plastic thingies - which fall off or get lost better than a bottle cap. Great for environment, commrades in EU council.
@@wowado Lmmaaaooo, relax a little. I consider myself a European. That doesn't mean I don't consider myself the nationallity of where I'm from. If you're born and raised in Europe, you're a European whether you like it or not lmao. You're a European because you're from Europe. It doesn't have anything to do with the European Union, wtf were you thinking? "WTF is even "European"?" Get out of your room, you have your head up your ass at this point. And if you're curious about my nationality you can look it up on my account since I don't try to hide it.
The Reason you won't see as much Parking Lots in Europe as in the US is because instead of horizontal, we build ours vertikal. I think it's called a "Parkade" in the US? saves a lot of Space. Esp. useful at Shoppingcentres with multiple floors. You could just park outside the floor you need to go to.
Autogas is very prevalent in Australia. It is literally the same gas as you would use on a gas stove and runs your car after it is adapted to it. It's usually about half the price of petrol and the only thing that comes out of the exhaust is water vapor. I have run my cars on auto gas for over 3 decades.
Not only water vapour; also carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide and hydrocarbons. But autogas does produce slightly less CO2 than petrol and is quite a lot cleaner, which is good!
Wouldn't this be a biased result though? You would notice the ones that are obviously Americans, but you wouldn't realize you were seeing the Americans who don't stand out as obviously Americans?
@ fair point, am not claiming that identification will be 100% but at same time am pretty sure that % of Americans capable of hiding their Americanism is pretty low 😉 Not also that it’s only a small group that is obnoxiously American, most are just fine people but obviously American. It’s the first group we make harsh jokes about.
@@abbofun9022 Haha, yeah I will see some amount of my fellow Americans when travelling abroad that jump out to me as obviously American, even before hearing them talk. 😁
Just discovered your videos, love your energy, you look like a real nice dude :) I think the fact you can go right on a red light is a great idea that should be everywhere in europe (in france sometimes you have a flashing orange light/arrow that lets you do this but it's pretty rare) Shops closed on Sunday is kinda goofy when you think that people don't work so that's when they have time to shop, however things are changing on that front. Great funny video
In my country not every commerce is closed, but most of them are, except for leisure commerces and cultural places so people can go to the cinema or museum for example.
The stores in Finland don't like customers opening those multipacks but, then again, they then reserve shelf space for the individual cans so you're not forced to buy more than one. Also, e.g. bottles in 24-packs say on them that they're not for individual sale so you might not even be able to buy them if the cash register doesn't have a price for the barcode (which still exists for the deposit). You don't need an iron if you first shake the clothes straight and then hang them to dry in such a way that they don't wrinkle up.
There is only one store chain in Belgium that refuses to sell them seperately, I didn't know and took some from an already opened pack and the cashier rudely chewed me out. I left my full cart right then and there and never went to that store again in 20 years even though it is right accross the street.
I don't know if this true, maybe it used to be years ago. I'm from Finland too. I actually got notified by a store clerk that you can't take single products out of multipacks and this was in England. Never happened to me in Finland.
To any American Tourists visiting the UK 🇬🇧 at this time of year Don't worry thoes Bangs are Fire Works not Gun Fire .It's Bonfire night on the 5th of November. Guy Fawkes Night .So can come from under the Table .
Cool story, don't worry about gunfire, but worry about stabby stabby in UK. You Brits are basically European Americans. Very little to do with mainland Europeans.
@@defender4004 German here, I learnt it at school, was in my English book. So was the Lord's Prayer - it was the 70s and it was under "British culture". Because of course we learnt "the Queen's English" - till today I have difficulties to understand some American regional pronounciations.
about drinks/cans in plastic packaging. If the individual items has an barcode, You can open the big package. If not, you must buy the gros anount 6/8/10/12 packs. And there is normal with MCDonalds red/yellow, but some buildings have standards for colors and size of advertisements.
Those new caps are a pain, a lot of us rip them off too! I’ve never not replaced the cap for recycling it makes sure they stay squashed in the bin for a start, I hate the stupid lids sticking up my nose or in my cheek so now all my bottles now go back with the stupid extra plastic bits shoved inside and the lid replaced!
Yeah, data from one EU country you can use in all EU countries, but you have to be carefull by crossing Swiss borders as they are in Schengen, but not in EU so then your bill for data can be pretty expensive.😜
We dont usually buy packed water. I think we have relativelly clean tap water. So i fill my own bottle at home with tap water. Thats not like we dont drink water.
i think the clip about bottles of water is because in europe you dont need load bottles have water sources everywhere in streets just stop in source and drink it
Also we can buy just one can of coke instead of the whole tray so we don't need to carry a water bottle around 😂, I we are thirsty we just buy a bottle or a can.
Hi, in former GDR there were green arrows which allowed you to turn right on a red. It was taken over after the reunion to some towns and traffic lights but it s not everywhere and you have to stop not only yield otherwise its running a red light with a fine and one point on your driving licence.
Hi, the light switches beside the bed for the main light is mostly at hotels or bnbs or " light " hotels called Pension or in italy it s Garni. There are also lights for every side attached to the bed. At home with a newer bed there might be lights included, but for the main/sealing light you have to do it mostly at the room door.
Maybe us being able to grab one or two items from a pack with drinks also has to do with our pricing system, you see what you pay. Tax already added on??? Also the packing like that is mostly for transport. Going to the store and buying stuff in Europe can be a daily or weekly thing. Be buy less bulk and don't always use the car for our grocery shopping. So I you just need or want one or two and not the whole six or eight pack.... you can take that. If you want a pack, you take a pack. Freedom.
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Well, it's not the water, but the amount they transport in a city. American tourists often are packed like a mule prepared to cross the Mojave Desert expecting the next waterhole is 3 days away.😁
thank you for the laughter!
Well said !
Once I saw a girl drinking wine in the metro (Paris subway) she seems very happy to do so even if I take into account the alcohol effects 😂 US of course thinking that drinking wine in transportation directly from the bottle was a French thing. I thought to explain her that for wine we use glasses and drinking in public at the bottle, I only saw homeless people do so... 🤣😂🤣
It is not only Americans. 🤪
Maybe people traveling are on a budget and having 1 large bottle at hand is more affordable. I only carry a large bottle when I am doing a five mile walk and hike at the beach board walk and salt marshes. But, I think I might if I was walking through a city for the day I am not familiar with.
Im from Europe and i still cant speak European, very difficult language.
That's a good one
Me either😂
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@@sannmarc Damn u good.
You mean Esperanto?
😂
The water bottle thing is because a lot of Americans have made weird posts thinking that Europeans don't drink water, because we have drinkable tap water and don't carry bottles with us everywhere.
In fact we sell Norwegian tap water to Americans in the US, the brand Voss, is named after the town it's tapped in, Voss, and it's basically tap water from Voss. :P
Exactly - Here in Hungary and Austria as well. We drink and then move. Buy a small bottle of mineral water or a soda and drink it and then move without a bottle. Yes that what is in video- is typical American thing
Unless you're walking across a desert you don't need to gulp water every few seconds. Sit down for a drink every couple of hours!
Voss water is acually not from or tapped in the town of Voss, but from a source in Iveland, Agder.
Same here in the UK, the water in rural areas tastes just like spring water, no point in having bottled water really.
@@VoxelLoop yeah go to a pub and ask what water is on tap
1:10 It's the size of the bottles and the way they gulp the water down btw not just drinking water
And them treating evian like it's fancy
I take water in those amounts everywhere I go in my camelback, and I'm from Europe. The amount of money vendors in some tourist destinations want for water is just outrageous. Especially in southern Europe.
With the temperatures in the last years, it's just common sense to take enough water and a little snack with you, in case you struggle with heat or low sugar.
@@Kahsimiah
It's simple, stop buying from tourist traps... Just go to a local grocery store and you can buy bottled natural mineral water for pennies.
also carrying it in their hands instead of putting it in the backpack
Love that nobody sees that the Water isn't sparkling water...
so idk if anyone already said it but the Autogas mentioned at 9:00 is commonly knows also as LPG (liquified petroleum gas) and its an alternate fuel type you can modify into your car
Americans would know it as "propane" (one of the major components in LPG)
@@AlexanderBurgers Yeah, they call gasoline "gas", although it's a liquid, not a gas 😎.
@@jordillach3222 Because they always have to abbreviate all words, regardless of whether the abbreviation still makes sense or not.
Love and peace from Hannover, Germany.
Klaus
Or CNG maybe?
@@jordillach3222and the gas is liquid: ;) since it's store in pressurissd containers. 😊
Big bottles are for home use. Small bottles are for walking on the streets. If you are drinking from a huge bottle on the street, it kinda gives us some kind of "dying in the Sahara desert" vibe.
Besides most Europeans prefer to drink tap water instead of bottled water, and if you have an empty plastic bottle, you can fill it with a drinkable tap water at home.
Refilling a big plastic bottle (doesn't have to be a water bottle like Bukton as a 2L fizzy drink botlle could be re-used instead) from a water fountain like the Thames Water ones means less small plastic bottles (especially reusing the ones that had fizzy drinks in them as a water bottle) to carry in one's rucksack.
When outside all day I use that bottles as well ... And I am european as f.
And don't forget that they only buy "Evian"...as it's what they have imported to USA and it cost an harm and a leg there...not here and since big bottles are cheaper they get the big ones!
@@FelisL.Just saying that you are "European" mean that you aren't! I'm French I'm not "European" which means nothing...you can be from UK or from Russia and everything in between 🙄! "European" is used only by mainstream medias within the EU to maintain an illusion of unity amongst credulous citizens who don't have a clue how this politico-economical mafia works!
If you ask for a "latte" in Italy, you will get milk. The correct term is "cafe latte".
...Grazzy !
You lost an F in the process, but whatever
@@lucan8189 not true, cafe is correct, it also can be kaffee in german speaking countries
@@DonCris123 try again
@@DonCris123you can literally look it up.
@@DonCris123 It's caffè, you're wrong
McDonalds are low key in Europe because the normal versions make the place look cheap, nobody wants that when it's in a place with historic architecture.
Local regulations often dictate the colours shops can be painted, often different from corporate flashy colours logos can be discretely used.
That one in the video is in the middle of Barcelona, plaza Catalunya those are pretty old buildings. You can find some McDonald's similar to the US usually in supermarkets.
@@Odine777 Same here in Old Quebec City.... the McDo is in an old building, not gonna deface it with red yellow and clowns
McDonalds in particular has a completely different level of quality compared to the US. In the US, McDonalds is seen as cheap, low quality, dirty. Here in the Czech Republic it is clean and the food is good for fast food.
The choice of menu in mainland European McDonald's is way better too. The burgers in France are better than the ones in the UK. We've had breaded king prawns in the Basle branch, pasta and mozzarella in Reims, breaded chicken nuggets (as opposed to battered), couscous salads, and drink flavours we don't see at home in the UK. And American friends say UK McDonald's tastes better than US ones.
I don't know about the rest of Europe, but in Italy, there are plenty of free drinking fountains.
that was my first tought too ( I'm from Slovenia)
I'm European and this drinking and eating while walking is looking really weird. Of course Americans stand out, because Europeans rarely do this. We take our time, sit down in a restaurant or on a bench and eat and drink enjoying the moment. It's healthier for body and soul.
And if you're a ginger, it's healthier for the body.
I think it's because Americans are used to everything being so expensive, so they like to bring their own stuff. It's way cheaper to lug around a gallon of water, than visiting a restaurant every time you're thirsty. Not good for our economy, and the water is free (from the tap, and you can drink it everywhere), I don't think Americans are aware of that.
That's nonsense. Irish people eat and walk and talk, and I've travelled all across Europe and seen people doing the exact same thing. Absolutely Everywhere has cafes and cafe culture - and also has people without the time or interest to sit down like so.
I mean, sure it is healthier for you, but who will make profits for the monopolies if you are just sitting around, vibing?
Won’t someone think of the poor capital owners for once?!
In Germany "fast foods" like Döner, Dürum, Currywurst and the like are often eaten while walking. At least in my small city.
Honestly though, Americans can be really precious with their excitement. My mom owned a local coffee shop. Very simple, limited selection, out-of-the-way part of the city, so it was mostly locals who visited. Then, American tourists walked in one morning. They were staying in a very small hotel in the area and decided to get breakfast at my mom's shop.
They asked for sandwiches, which was something my mom didn't have, but when they pleaded, she hesitantly suggested she could try to make something herself. She used the absolute most basic ingredients she found in the fridge, putting together the simplest sandwich ever, because she was completely blindsided by the request. The Americans were absolutely thrilled and came back three days in a row for more. All for something my mom used to make me and my brother for breakfast when she had no time. My mom was so flabergasted by that she keeps telling that story even now, many years later.
What was in the sandwich?
@@ElviraCondomine A bread roll cut in half and in between the halves butter, cheese, ham and a piece of lettuce.
But kind of American to 'demand' sandwiches when someone is obviously not selling them. I mean, she basically had to give them her own lunch. Why didn't they just ask where the closest bakery was, so that they could get their own sandwiches? A European in a situation like that would ask: 'If we come here for a morning coffee, would it be okay if we get something at the bakery or supermarket and eat it here?' A local coffee shop might be okay with that but there's also chances that they're not. They might be willing to provide you with a plate and some cutlery, especially for tourists who seem a little out of place. That really is as far as you can go. But still asking for sandwiches, even after a 'no', is kind of elitist or something. Not everything is for sale. This seems to be more accepted in the US, as there is tipping culture. You can buy just anything with tips. People sell their soul for tips. It's basically bribing culture.
Edit: Now that I'm thinking of it, I had an experience like that in the US that could never happen in my European country. I had to get to the airport but had no way to get there. (I don't remember why I didn't just call a taxi) The person I was with dropped me off at a bus center and asked if someone could take me to the airport. The owner said that it was okay as long as I 'took care of the driver'. That means tipping him well. And so that bus driver took a bus and drove me to the airport. Totally outside of any schedule. Of course I tipped him well. But this would be totally unthinkable in my European country. I wouldn't even dare to ask something like that. And I can't imagine anyone would be willing to do that. There also wouldn't be anyone available to do it. Bus drivers do not just sit around waiting for work, they are all on a tight schedule. And then giving that person some cash money, as if he was a beggar... So humiliating and awkward... A European, and especially a Northern European (I think), would do anything to avoid a situation like this, and would defnitely not ask for it.
@@msmichellewinchester Woah, almost a Jambon beurre, it's an amazing sandwich.
Was probably the bread.
Well, you know, with an average humidity in countries like Germany between 70% - 80% we don't drink, we breathe water.
What about The Netherlands! It's below sea level, so water is everywhere: rivers, canals etc.
Its easy to forget just how far South most of the US is compared to most of Europe tbh. Central Europe sits at more or less the same latitude as the US - Canada border.
We dont need that much water cuz we live north of the desert.
Beer already has water and wine too.
Why do you want water while having beer?
Kinda true in Poland humidity can go crazy too, even today - it wasn't raining for weeks - humidity is 71% :D But well how much water I drink depends. When I am walking in the city during the Summer heatwave, when it is 35C in shade, I like to drink more water. When I am going for a walk in the countryside, most part of the year - except heatwaves in the Summer- I don't drink at all, I can drink at home, then go for a walk.
In Northern Germany, you will sometimes need to breathe through your nose so no fish swim into your mouth.
Europeans usually don’t carry huge water bottles with them. There is free tap water everywhere and the quality is usually excellent. Therefore most Europeans carry smaller reusable bottles (500 - 750 ml) and fill them up at public restrooms, etc. Sometimes I buy a 500 ml water bottle and fill that up when it’s empty.
We also don’t drink as much as many young Americans do. To drink insane amounts of water seems to be a relatively new trend especially among relatively young Americans. You really see them drink and drink and drink.
It should be an Evian water!
@@Caesarianus9
Yeah .. read it backwards :)
Yeah, I bet those ridiculously huge Stanley cups have also something to do with this trend...
@@xanperia To be fair 64oz (i didn't find bigger) isn't something big. It's about 1,9L which is not to far from the most common pet bottle size 1,5L in Europe. When I go somewhere outside of city or i don't want to buy new one (i don't like pure tap water (only if there isn't any option)), I need at least pure carbonated water) i always bring 1,5L or 2,25L bottle. The smaller are too small and also they are much expensive then the bigger sizes.
Everywhere except places where there isn't. Water also is good unless it is bad.
It's not always allowed to rip open a pack of drinks in the grocery store. Check the price labels on the shelf, there should be two of them, one for individual drinks and one for a whole pack.
Yeah and you usually find the individual bottle / can in an other shelf in the store
Maybe in your country! In mine (Portugal) it is allowed.
My lidl in Malta has this big NO! sign over those packs that you aren't allowed to separate, but it's only one or two products it applies to.
Allowed in France.
Can be a problem with barcodes - had a case where people took individual packs from a bulk product and the barcode on the item was the same as the pack so they got charged for 6 instead of 1.
McDonald's is green in Europe for quite some time. About 15 years ago they started some changes in Germany and Austria by adding McCafe counters (coffee, brownies, cupcakes, cookies and so on - matching the prevalence of cafe culture and afternoon coffee and cake tradition in Germany), introducing special breakfast menus in the morning and redesigning the interior and exterior with a lot of focus on wood and comfy seating. Also they had already heavily sourced their ingredients locally but now emphasized freshness, domestic (partly even organic) produce in their advertising. Basically they rebranded from the pickup-heavy fast(/junk)-food chain to a more traditional burger-centric restaurant with focus on quality and sustainabilty. And with that they changed the color to a deep green that since then spread to all over Europe.
Hi. being always thirsty can be a first symptom of diabete. when I saw the sugar rate in American version of products it may be a clue on why Americans drink so much water
The fact that some Americans just straight-up refuse to drink water and instead chug ultra sweet acidic gassy.. things (from same giant bottles) certainly does *not* help with that.
Yes, and up till recently insulin was an astronomical price in the US. Biden managed to get it down to US$35.00 per month.
Even their bread is sweet, its rank if you are Scottish and were brought up on plain bread and salted butter.
The recommended daily intake of water in the US is 3.7 litres for men, and 2.7 litres for women. In Sweden for example it is 2.5 litres for men, and 2.0 litres for women. And quite a few americans seem to miss that that includes the water you get from food. Ergo you have lots of americans over-hydrating for no reason. If your pee is clear as water, you're drinking too much.
You're drinking too much if you drink more than 0.8 liters per hour on average. Other than that, there's no issue.
@@jeschinstad People have died from hyponatremia by drinking less than 0.8 liters of water an hour on average, so very much the opposite of "no issue".
@@mrfomo217 Yes, if you have a kidney disease or something, you are obviously not average.
@@mrfomo217Maybe if they are crossing a desert or something. Sure US have loads of salt and sugar in everything so they need a bit more water to process it than the rest of the world, but more than 2-2,5 liters per day, including what's in the food you eat is a sign something is wrong with you, I would check my self for diabetes in an instant if I had to drink 0,8 liters an hour or nearly 20 liters per day, that's like what a horse drink per day, not a human.
@@mrfomo217 you either are trolling, or are ignorant.
Let's dissect the word "hyponatremia".
Hypo = under or less
Hyper = over or more
Natremia = natrium supply, which is the German name in the periodic table of elements for sodium.
So hyponatremia is the state of _undersupplying_ sodium by washing it out with too much water.
So please, don't remove all doubt that you are an ignorant fool by making such claims.
You need to stay mineralized. Most bottled waters today have a low sodium content due to health restrictions of hypertonic patients suing in the USA.
in EU we are not dehydrated, we just don't have diabetes ...
That's what I thought until meeting the Austrian hospice system in person. The amount of amputees there was disturbing, and diabetes was the number two cause after thrombosis. These unfortunate patients were not obese, and yet they had terminal diabetes. But it was over twenty years ago, perhaps it is better now.
@@jmi5969diabetes isn’t terminal. Yes if left untreated especially type 1 you will die, but it is very treatable hence it is not terminal. It comes with greater risks, and there are diabetes related diseases which might kill you, which is what I think might be what you are referring to, but those are completely different diseases . Very seldom is it diabetes that kills, it can happen, but you can not call diabetes a terminal disease because even when diabetes is what kills, it is not because it can’t be treated and you are doomed to died, it is either because you get ketoacisosis which can develop over hours or because you go into insulin shock which again develops quickly.
Edit: I missed that part where you wrote it was 20 years ago. Yes treatment has gotten a lot better but even 20 years ago, it wasn’t a terminal illness as treatment still existed.
Sincerely someone whose lived with diabetes for 30 years in a European country and might have been slightly triggered by you called it terminal as so much misinformation and lack of understanding from people exists 😅
So wrong this anwer.. We do have diabetes in EU, a lot. But probably not in the scale of the US.
That's not the point. There was (still is ?) is a national campaign promoting drinking water constantly to stay hydrated.
In France, and I think all across the EU and probably Europe, at least, the health departments/organizations advise 1.5 liter per day. Depending on your environments, activities and build. But the amount the American tourists drink is just insane.
I believe that everything in excess is not good. If excess of oxygen can be poisonous, water excessive consumption must have downsides too.
@@Belaziraf It doesn't help that US food contains way more sugar and salt. Both of which require signicantly more water to process in the body. Americans will get thirsty more often just out of habit, It's hard to break that habit. I'm 4 years after changing jobs and the amount I drink still hasn't normalized even tho I don't need that much water anymore.
In most European countries the tap water has amazing quality, so we often just drink that at home or carry refillable bottles.
MC donalds is green because they rebranded some time ago to be more durable when it comes to buissnuess like becoming more eco-friendly or a tad bit healthier
And a little more sophisticated. Less 'cheap'.
I remember a few years back... OK so more than ten years back... Time pass so quickly... Anyway one MCD was used as a test for the new program and they swapped out the Styrofoam containers for burgers to a paper version. I remember thinking that it was strange. They also had separate bins for paper, liquid and consumables when throwing the trash. Back then this was the first MC Donalds that had anything like that. Today it would feel strange if you got a Styrofoam container at MC Donalds.
Stranger still was seeing a MC Donalds pizza place when visiting the UK. It was a test where they tested to see if they could compete with Pizza Hut or their UK competitors for the Pizza market. Didn't eat there, but now it would have been a interesting thing to test. This was the only MCD Pizza place I ever seen and next to no one can remember it. So if you never got to that town where it was you would never have seen it. Trying to remember where it was. My first thought was Newcastle upon Tyne, but I thought it was closer to London. Southend-on-Sea is another potential, but I can't say it looks familiar on the map. Can't remember where we saw it.
@@blahorgaslisk7763 Thanks for sharing it's interesting.
and Newcastle is a nice place have been there a couple of times recently.
that change slowly started around 2008
People from USA consume way more sugar and salt, this means you need more water to process it.
High fructose corn sirup ...
@@Muck006 which is sugar. As was written. Doesn't matter what kind.
The people who do that don't carry water jugs. They carry big gulp cups and drive a mobility scooter. If they are salt like normal people, they would retain water so they wouldn't need to drink every 15 seconds.
You are right. I don’t understand how else can they drink that much like waterholics 😱
Carrying those hudge waterbottles is crazy. The weight only makes me not do that. You don't have to drink those two liter only walking on the street. You also drink at home, sitting by a Cafe, restaurant ect. It's not only water that hydrates. And if you love your water, most Dutch cities have have free water tap points by the road to refill your small bottle. Btw, do you know that too much water can even poison you? Too much can really mess up your electrolyte balances.
Oatmeal latte and quinoa bowls are a fashion here among what we call the Amsterdam oatmealmilk Elite. You know those people who like to act fashionable and posh which really doesn't fit that much in the " doe normaal" attitude and are often laughed about.
For the girl, ach...she's happy. It's nice she enjoys it that much and to be honest, I like it she is trying to learn some words. Wouldn't mind meetingher, she looks friendly.
We as Europeans might have the attitude we look down on Americans and some things we will never understand (.....gunlaws, medicine commercials, loads of sugar ect) but it's not like Europe is all paradise without problems. And many Americans I met where really friendly and open, and it's a hudge very diverse country where there is already a lot to see without traveling abroad, while for me I can cross border in 15 minutes, and my parents generation also hardly travelled outside their country . I little more muttial respect and love would be nice
About the European cap thing, it was a major shift to us as well, as it's a super recent implementation that basically felt like it happened overnight. Last year, and basically forever up until that point, our caps were exactly like every other cap around the world. But then a new mandate required all bottle producers to ensure the cap stays with the bottle to minimize plastic waste risk, and essentially within what I think is a couple of weeks, every single bottle in every store got the new batches with the updated cap designs. Was super weird for a while lol, but now people got used to it -tho tourists probably haven't :D
I for one refuse to get used to it. It's just stupid.
Well, guess I'm in minority that likes new caps. I don't drink from bottles though, so for me it was an easy transition
Los odio ,luego cuesta cerrar correctamente la botella y si la tumbas en la nevera se derrama 🤦🏻♀️
@@KuroiKitsune How can you like something you don't use? Do you like the aesthetics of bottle caps??
@@Fuerwahrhalunke I don't "drink" from them. I pour soda into a glass
The huge water bottles! That’s why they are complaining about „pay to pee“!
Well, you can use the bottle both ways so it will be free😂
Every 10th American is diabetic, so of course they drink like camels.
That's a sign of DIABETES ... "needing to drink LOADS" ...
@@Muck006 or maybe they can't stop flapping those lips.
I think many Americans have an ingrained idea that they need to drink huge quantities of water every day. I've noticed that American TH-camrs can't go five minutes without swigging from some huge container.
Autogas is LPG (Liquified Petroleum Gas). Specifically here in the UK, it’s about half the cost of normal petrol (gas) for vehicles equipped to use it, mostly large 4x4s but most cars can be converted to run on it
The sunday thing mainly depends on the shops, whether you are in a city or in a rural area and the country. Countries like Germany, Austria, Spain, and I think Italy as well, Sunday is a day off where most shops are closed, except in big cities like Berlin, Madrid and so on. There are other countries, for example, like Lithuania were a lot of the shops are open on Sunday.
But as said, often the rural areas still close during sundays and only cities and shopping centres have open shops.
Restaurants are a whole different thing though.
Or they are open but with reduced hours. For example, if a grocery store normally opens 7am to 9pm of work days, then weekends and holidays it could be for example 9am to 1pm or something
In Ireland Sunday's and Bank Holidays are reduced hours, usually 12-18.
I was in UK during the summer and the town I was in, every place closed by 1600 on a Sunday, including supermarkets.
In Italy it depends on the region. In some regions they have opened on Sunday, but closed on Monday. And nit to forget, some shops have a break time between 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm.
In Germany, shops have closed every Sunday, besides 4/5 times a year. Then they are allowed to open from 1:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
Barbers (Friseure) are closed on Monday (it is related to history). And at villages they still do that. Also in some smaller towns, or small shops in Germany, they are also have a breaktime between 1:00 pm and 3:00 pm.
@@Fn-xj8hl In England (not sure about rest of UK) shops have limited hours on a Sunday (6 hours total from 10:00 through 18:00), this is dependant on the indoor floor space of the shop, so normally wont apply to small 'corner' shops or to Petrol (gas) stations. I don't think it applies to Cafés, Restaurants, Pubs etc.
The 6 hours generally would be 10:00 through 16:00., applies to some public holidays too.
Portugal is exactly like that. Big cities and shopping malls are always open. In small cities, almost everything is closed on Sunday. Except restaurants and cafés.
Americans asking for "a latte" in Italy and being surprised at being given a glass of milk.
Latte is the Italian word for milk. It has nothing to do with coffee. You have to order coffee with much milk which is almost an insult to Italian coffee culture.
@@ullija Just order a cappuccino.
hey, you get what you ask...
@@ullija Not an insult at all its a classic breakfast drink called caffelatte
order toro latte,yummy
12:01 At leats in my country (Portugal), a glass of tap water is free (*) - but the guy did not ask for "a glass of water", he asked for "a water". If you ask for "a water", they will assume you mean "a bottle of water", and that is charged.
(*) A glass of water is free, but you're expected to buy other stuff and actually become a customer...
In the Czech republic tap water is supposed to be free, but restaurants resist offering it, mostly claiming they can't serve it etc to make money on selling bottled water.
Haha, we tried asking for tap water explictly in Italy, the waitress was playing dumb for a few minutes (like she couldn't understand us well) and then in the end just brought us a bottle of water. It was on purpose. And I know the same game is played in Croatia, because as a local we can get a pitcher of tap water, guess what they give to foreign tourists when they ask for water.
@@dsego84 Not really. Int italy you wont get tap water almost anywhere even as a local
Yes, I don't want to deny that tourists are sometimes taken advantage of. But as a German, this could happen to me in the same way at an Italian tourist hotspot. The Italians have successfully conquered the whole of Europe with their (undoubtedly very tasty) La Dolce Vita.
The usual way I know:
1. order a better (chargeable) drink (wine, Coke, beer etc.)
2. while enjoying the drink, you read the menu and choose the food.
3. from now on you can also get free water without any problems
some cafes will even charge for plain water, but in Europe there are no shocking tips
"Autogas or LPG is liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) used as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles as well as in stationary applications such as generators. It is a mixture of propane and butane." (Wikipedia)
Basically cooking gas, the same as on your stove, but you can run cars on it, it's cheap and clean, but you need an additional gas tank in your trunk.
oh yeah prius with lpg is mega economy you get 40mpg in city
@@xsatn2082 LPG is also half the price of a regular gas (at least in the Czech republic)
Do you know what kinda funny LPG is actually used for vehicles in the States as well, mainly for commercial purposes.
@@genlus_s Not to be confused with LNG.
Europeans drink water, too, but the meme is that Americans think they have to drink 3 gallons of water a day to stay hydrated, and they think they're gonna die if they don't take a sip of water every 30 seconds when walking a couple hundred meters.
I love your positive attitude, acceptance of others’ opinions and open mindedness👌🏼👏
If you order a glass of tap water in a restaurant in Switzerland, you will be charged a small amount. The restaurant owners justify this by saying that you are taking up a seat at the table, the waiter who brings the water does not work for free and that the glass has to be cleared away and cleaned. The restaurant also has to pay for electricity and water. However, you can drink water or fill up your empty bottle at almost any public fountain here. Water from the tap is usually drinkable everywhere.
An American opening european windows is like a caveman traveling ten thousand years into the future.
No jokes about cavemen! They weren't THAT dumb... 😉🤣
I works the other way around, too. When I first visited the US I always struggled with their sliding window frames... 1950s woodwork, always jamming, never going all the way to the top.
@@jmi5969 European windows definitely exist in the US so I'm not sure what this comment section is about. It just depends on the area
@@redram6080 well this was 30 years ago in New England, and most houses where I lived were fairly old.
@@jmi5969
Or the bottom. They always get stuck half way :(
The oldest structure to house a McDonald's restaurant is located in Shrewsbury, England , UK. One of the restaurant's exterior walls dates back to the 13th century and served as part of Shrewsbury's medieval town wall.
10:14 became very apparent with cars. US exported cars only had words such a "fan" "Heater" "wiper" etc. where European cars had/have the (standardized) symbols meaning that when exported there was an obvious self explanatory "symbol language" for all the various functions.
Autogas is Spanish for LPG "liquid petroleum gas" which is a combo of butane/ propane .
You drink at your destination... Carrying around that much extra weight is crazy. I do have a small bottle with me most times but not more.
Exactly, you would only carry what would fit into your pockets. Half a liter is ok, a liter? No thank you.
1.5l is a small bottle for American 😂
@@shades2.183 Yep, 1/2 liter. Or a 3/4 l bottle for longer journeys - there are more squat ones with a wider opening which makes refilling them with tap water more easy.
This guy at 16:50 should be grateful the stairs have a guardrail. It is not common in the medieval castles.
Never see people walking with a BIG water bottle like that here. If i'm walking in the city and getting thirsty i buy a 33 - 50cl soda and drink that, never running around with a 1,5 liter bottle like in the video. Those bottles you have in the fridge at home.
I use 1.5 - 2 liters bottles to work or hiking long distance
In the UK the larger bottles are actually far cheaper than the smaller bottles lol lol... and the larger bottles are often in a corner somewhere out of sight not in the fridge.
my wife is European and she always carries a big water bottle in her bag or hand, some people need more water than others
actually that is bs. When we were traveling in the finland in the summer. We did everything by foot. We were so thirsty when we got to store, bought 1,5l and almost drunk half of it right away. So yeah, it can happen.
I never walk in my hometown hours around, but i have everytime a little bottle water 0,2 with me. In Holidays, sure i also buy a 1,5 l bottle for sightseeing 😂
Many petrol cars in europe are converted to liquefied petroleum gas(LPG). The gas used to be much cheaper than petrol or diesel so it was cheaper to instal a conversion and then pay less for gas. That's what the extra position on the gas station sign was for.
i think the first one with the bottles was because almost everywhere across europe the tap water is perfectly drinkable & free everywhere (unless you buy bottled) so only ever worth a small bottle for something like a long walk. no reason to taake a load home for drinking.
i think everyone hates those new attached lids on bottles, i allways cut through them before opening
i know in the uk canned drinks like coke and any other multi pack items you can almost allways buy as singles aswell but multi packs are cheaper because of sold as a pack & cant be sold seperately - most are even labeled not to be sold seperately (without barcodes on individual cans) or are printed with a price to prevent shops breaking multi packs to sell seperately at full price
Hey! So, the whole thing with the water bottle is kind of a classic stereotype that Europeans often have about American tourists. It's not that there's anything "wrong" with carrying water, but Americans tend to carry big water bottles everywhere they go, which stands out in Europe where it’s less common. Over there, people usually don’t carry drinks around as much, and they’re more likely to take small sips in cafes, fountains, or public spaces.
It’s also about portion sizes and habits: Americans often have larger bottles and might feel they need to stay constantly hydrated, probably because we're used to a hotter climate, AC everywhere, and easy access to water on-the-go in the U.S. So, if someone in Europe is walking around with a big water bottle and even a backup, it kind of screams "tourist" - and usually an American one. It’s a lighthearted stereotype, but one that does stand out.
There's this Internet meme going around these days about how Europeans don't drink water and are dehydrated.
Needing to constantly sip water or some liquid can be a symptom of health and/or dietary issues, btw. Can be a generational thing too. This European drinks a lot of water, as I train a lot. But I might chug a liter with breakfast, a liter after a workout etc, without needing to keep a water bottle with me at every minute of the day.
its because they have been fed the idiocy of "you MUST drink at least 2L water a day".
@@JoriDiculous No, it's because they eat lots of salty and sugary meals. And for that you do need a lot of water.
I have developed a habit of drinking 4 to 6 pints of whole milk a day 😂
Although I've always drunk more that normal people, i just get really thirsty all the time and now I'm ill it's made it even worse! 😫
@@MostlyPennyCatbut milk is sooo good. I almost never drink water unless I'm sweating, but milk is always good to have
@@NoctisIgnem + milk can satisfy your hunger ,it's 70% water and the remaining 30% are thing you find in food (And it's those 30% that allow it to transform into cheese/butter/yoghurt etc...) and it's low calories too (Atleast ,the last kind of milk I drank ,it was 46 calories for 1 liter , while the average an adult male should take is 2 200 in the case you have a sedentary lifestyle ,46 is just 2,1% of 2 200 ,and 1L can stave off your hunger for 3 or 4 hours)
Let's be honest: If you compare sodium content in almost any types of food between the US and Europe, I understand completely that American bodies need 3-4 gallons of water per day.
3-4 *Gallons* a day is probably close to waterpoisoning. And yes, everything is a poison if you take enough of it (not counting drowning)
@@walkir2662 Oh, I was obviously joking about the amount.
The US is a hotter country than any of the countries in Europe.
@@fryke
'obvious' is right !
10:30 In my childhood I learnt foreign words from street signs: The Italian "tornanti" in the Alps ahead of sharp turns of the road and the French "Rappel", which works as a reminder (of a speed limit or a no-passing zone etc.). The last one was funny for me as a German, because "rappeln" as a verb means "to rattle" and "einen Rappel haben" (to have a...) means to be a bit crazy, to get mad.
8:30 Yes, is Spain and yes, the 2 in the lower place are petrol. Also, auto gas is a mix of propane and Butane. It requires cars with adapted engines.
It's not the water itself. It's the massive single use, store bought, plastic water bottle.
The European way is a reusable bottle with free TAP water in it.
I have a 500ml metal bottle. Perfect. You don’t need 5litres a day, it’s crazy
Don't think so. It is more a different water drinking culture and a tourist thing. If you run around Rome or Athens in the heat of a summer day, you will want to bring some water with you and as a not perfectly prepared tourist you will end up with the typical water bottle bought from the next supermarket. It is more of a contrast to the local population than a contrast to other tourists, be them Americans or other Europeans. And having two 1,5 l bottles isn't that much for a long day sightseeing in a large European city. I'd argue that most people would run out of water sooner or later and even refill it. Doing a city tour on foot during hot days makes you quite thirsty and I can understand, that one wants to avoid a few cafès around the tourist hot spots. You can easily end up with paying 10 EUR for a small beer at some places in Rome if you are not careful.
@@HT-io1eg 5 litres = DIABETES ...
What colour is your Bugatti, bruh? Tap water peasant...
(this is said ironically, i can not overstate that enough, but srsly tho, tap water is disgusting in some places... i go to a forest spring and fill m` glass bottles with the good shit, not the toilet water that we get from our taps over here...)
Locals also simply don't need water in many cases. They don't walk through the whole city for the lolz. If you are a commuter and it takes you 30min you can take a sip at the start and destination.
Where I live people are not concerned with taking in water beyond what the body itself signals that it needs. This can be quite a contrast with the current trend in the US, where drinking liters and liters of water every day seems to be widely perceived as good for your health and perhaps even necessary. The large bottle size hints at this as half a litre is much more of a to-go size when you're not going out into the wilderness.
They drink gallons, not liters. Maybe that's why they drink so much more. Lol
In fact, too much water is also bad for your kidneys.
15:49 The lights are set low so you can see them from your car without craning your neck. We don’t roll around with massive pickup trucks here.
Maybe you won't see this, but you should really check out "Porto Av. dos Aliados McDonald's", it's in this old building from the 1930's and it was the site of the iconic Imperial Café until 1995 when it reopened as what is now called "The most beautiful McDonald's in the world". Love from Portugal!
The second video is in Portugal. We have safe public drinking water in almost every public park, expecially in zones where it's common to see people walking/exercising. Also many "cafés" or "pastelarias2 will have tap water for free, just don't abuse it. Many portuguese opted to buy one reusable bottle of water and fill it up with tap water.
Re: water, if you eat a lot of sweet / sugar, not to mention salty food, it will make you more thirsty. Also, if you have vegetables and fruits in your diet, there's water in it, not so much in fries and pasta. AFAIK official recommandation in my country is 3 liters a day but including everything in food, that comes to about 1,5 l of actual drinking water.
drinking while walking. eating while walking. When Europeans want to eat or drink, they sit to a pub, café, bar, restaurant and chill for a while.
Nah, if you go downtown in any Dutch city, you'll see plenty of people walking while eating or drinking.
Not with a waffle or chocolate bar in my hand.
Nonsense. I've even been approached by prostitutes while just walking home with a box of fried chucken for sustenance at the end of the night. Why waste time in Taxi queues and then spend £10 on the journey when you can just get a donner kebab or chucken and chips and bravely walk the 3 miles from the city centre home?
maaaybe in southern Europe, in the north, west, east and central Europe I've definitively seen people walk and eat.
@@Drew-Dastardly I think you should spend the tenner you saved on a dictionary!
im pretty sure this was made by an american ... because as an europen i am thinking "wtf do americans own drinking water now? we guys drink water too you know"
AutoGas at the gas station is LPG liquefied gas. Many cars in Europe and some countries in Latinamerica can run gasoline and LPG or NLG (liquid gas). It's usually cheaper and eco friendly
In europe they changed mcdonalds from red to green to make it appear healthier or something
Not where I'm from, still red.
@@valentijnrozeveld3773 It depend where the mcdonalds is. In my city if you go to the one that is one a road it's red, while you go to the downtown one, it's green. There is a youtube video out there going about why the change.
green paint is cheaper
@@PhoenixG6 I actually lied, I checked google maps. The closest Mac to me is green and red and the second newer one is just brown. The first one has a pole which is green with the yellow M on it.
Edit: I checked, every MacDonald's close to has become either green or restaurant-style. There is no more red MacDonald's. Blew my mind.
@@rogernagy13 that's definitely not it lol
The first clip is not about drinking bottled water, we do that in France too. It's about them showing off the Evian brand. Even in France, it's considered an expensive brand for water. We usually go for the cheapest or we refill an empty bottle with tap water!
"Evian" is "Naive" backwards.
8:50 Autogas is LPG (Liquified Petroleum Gas)
Liquified PROPANE Gas, not petroleum. Cheers.
@@lm157either...
Autogas largely consits of butane and propane.
@@lm157 Le GPL est à 40% issu du pétrole !
As for the price per gallon, just multiply by 4 and you’re a little under
@@lm157 Hate to break it to you, but it's petroleum. It's made from oil and consists of butane and propane.
12:45 it's not a regulation. McDonalds europe changed to green branding in 2009 because their red branding was apparently suggesting too much 'fast & cheap' for the european market.
Autogas is actual gas. There are cars built (usually converted oldtimers) that run on natural gas. Wiki: Autogas or LPG is liquefied petroleum gas used as a fuel in internal combustion engines in vehicles as well as in stationary applications such as generators. It is a mixture of propane and butane. Autogas is widely used as a "green" fuel, as its use reduces CO₂ exhaust emissions by around 15% compared to petrol.
_"Autogas is actual gas"_
Yes, Americans call gasoline "gas", although it's a liquid and not a gas.
Diesel comes in two grades. Regular and premium. The main difference is that premium is usually passing through a secondary filter before reaching the pump from the underground tank and it may also contain some additives that prevent or even clear up carbon residues in the cylinders. As for petrol, it has 3 grades: normal (95 octanes), premium (98 octanes) and racing (100 octanes). Airconditioning is everywhere in southern Europe in warmer countries like Greece, Italy, Spain, Portugal and Cyprus. Try going through summer with 45 degrees celcius without one 🙂
In Czech lands if there is a hot day and you are thirsty you just sit to biergarten and have a beer, or two...or three😉
Just like in Germany 👍
or a German Radler!
Nah.. don't get drunk and order some Kofola instead.
@@CZpersi Drunk after 3 beers? ;)
Radler is a kids drink
In Denmark, not everything closes on Sundays. Supermarkets will be open. But clothing stores, electronic stores etc are closed on Sundays.
Here in The Netherlands too. Supermarkets and DIY- stores often are open on Sundays, or at least for a few hours. Other stores not so much, even less so than before Covid. Right now a lot of stores are struggling and they choose to close (again) on Sundays.
turning on red: you cant but there is often times additional light with green arrow and then you can go that direction if it lights up while other directions still have red
Hey Ian! I love your content. But!!!! Just come to Europe, it'd be really cool to see you experience all these things first hand and tell us about your experiences, lots of love from a Basky living in Austria
YES!
The thing with these huge water bottles is just ridiculous.
In Central European countries, you turn on the watertap and clean water comes out... it's also called drinking water.
By the way, the control of drinking water is stricter than the control of bottled mineral water.
If I remember correctly, the tap water goes under the food laws (cold water that is). Those laws are very strict. Water kept in a bottle gets bad pretty quickly, with bad meaning the amount of bacterias in it. When I drink bottled water, I make sure I drink the whole bottle pretty immediately. I NEVER store an opened bottle of water. If I refill the bottle with tap water, I make sure to flush the bottle at least one time.
When you ask for water in restaurants, you'll get the bottled water so if you want tap water then you have to specifically ask for tap water i.e. with ice or in a jug or glass.
In Poland you can't get tap water in a restaurant or cafe
@@dominika3762 I see, thanks for the info. In the UK you can and as I said, you have to ask for it. However, you do have to order something off the menu and be a customer as many restaurants are struggling due to high overhead bills.
That depends. In Finland, you often get tap water in a jug (usually with ice) because our tap water is often just better than bottled water. I mostly associate bottled water with fast food restaurants.
tbh normally in europe rather than home ( uk ) we tend to find a water jug just arrives anyway and we think 'ah, this is the way to do it' ....
Probably warmer climes though...
@@dominika3762 i didn't know that why?
Gotta keep in mind that Europe is not one country where we all think and do the same, hell we've started two world wars because of our differencies!
The kissing cheeks... it's perhaps common in some of the southern countries and France. I've been to quite a lot of countries here and I can't remember seeing it once.
Bottles of water isn't really a big thing at all here in the north since our tap water is top notch. So if you see a person with a water bottle they're 100% a tourist, perhaps not murican, but a tourist nonetheless...
Regarding the "closed on sunday", is not a thing in Sweden. Most stores are open, some might have reduced opening hours. Grocery stores are generally open between 8-20 or longer.
We do it in Croatia, but it's not with everyone, and it depends on the region as well.
The Dutch do three kisses.
@@sidetracked5044 I've just traveled through the netherlands and it was quite a while back so I can't say I know to much about your country. Didn't know you did that, but I suppose it aint super common?
The biggest culture shock for me was that having a light switch by the bed is a culture shock for Americans 🤯
9:00 its LPG. Some cars are converted to run on gas. Liquified petroleum gas.
Almost all McDonalds signs in Europe are green with yellow. Changed a few years ago.
more then 10 years ago. I remember first McD opening in my town in Croatia 13 years ago and already then it was green/yellow combo
@ChR0nos_7734 2019 was yesterday OK? 😅🥹
Yes, no need for them to be red. The golden arches are conspicuous enough.
Besides, it's funny if you (user of Latin alphabet) clumsily decipher some cyrillic writing just to discover that it's the fast food restaurant.
They had sort of a cast iron sign in Hannoversch Münden years ago, but Mackes has moved out of the historic building since then...
There are stores/ cafes / gas stations /restaurants that sell something to drink on every other street corner in just about every european city center I've seen - only time I see people carrying water like this is on hiking trails...Is it a zoning thing that the US doesn't have small stores, or where does the US fear to die of thirst in the middle of town come from?
In the USA they have places called 'food deserts' which are places (even in cities) that have no grocery stores or restaurants within walking distance. 😬
The girl in Italy at the start:
Her "Gracie" is so thick in american accent - but, at least she tried.
And second - and more relevant, just look at her clothes.
She is more dressed for a day at the beach, sports or a hike, not for visiting the center of town.
Especially if you want to visit a (catholic) church women are expected to at least cover their shoulders. No "bikini-like tops"
And the "short shorts" would also get the US-ladies a raised eyebrow - a skirt or a bermuda short, ending a little bit over the knee would be the better choice.
Italian women even wear skirts that go a little bit over the knee - and, even in the hottest summer days you would see Italians (especially the male ones) wear long trousers and closed shoes.
Bermudas are for the beach.
No socks required though ...
As top for male dressing - a Polo shirt or even a long sleeved shirt is worn (rolled/turned up to T-Shirt length if it is hot).
Teenagers could wear T-Shirts - with sleeves ending "middle bizeps".
It's grazie.
Have you ever been to Italy? There are a LOT of people wearing t-shirts, men and women and women do wear open shoulder tops. Sure, the short thing is kind of true, whether for men or women, but it's not a rule, just not common. In Italy and southern Europe in general, people usually wear, above all, comfortable and season-appropriated clothes.
@@gonxalo_r I've been to Italy several times, also several times France and Spain.
The tip of "don't show to much skin" is one for tourists - if they want to visit churches and locations like the Vatikan.
Quite a few Churches and other places of faith hand out scarfs if the shoulders aren't covered.
Even some museums expect at least shoulders covered.
For a stroll through town in the evening, for gelato, a drink and else Italians aren't that strikt. But still - to my perception, those who wear less or little to nothing often are tourists.
Also in restaurants - muscle shirt, spaghetti top for the girls/ladies - tourists.
Okay - fast food like the burger chains excluded.
Exept at the beach - Speedos, thongs and bikini tops mainly consisting of strings - everywhere ... and not only the teens and twentysomethings.
It's where the tourists often wear more cloth/lycra than the Italians - Americans proudly sporting a speedo the with the back only a thong? Not a thing.
"He" is (in most cases) Italiano ... even if the belly hangs in parts over the speedo.
Autogas (LPG) must be confusing for Americans because they call petrol gas, although it’s not gas.
(9:00) Auto Gas is in Spain (Repsol) where some people have converted their cars because its cheaper, the problem is that you then have a gas tank in your trunk and not much room for stowage.
The stuck bottlecap is something that was fairly recently introduced, where they are stuck to the bottle. The reasoning is to try to avoid getting those bottle lids out into the ocean. With quite a few recycling setups around europe makes sure that every bottle has some pant/fee on the bottle itself, that then in turn makes people collect these to get the money. And that the bottle cap is then stuck to the bottle will then make sure its collected together with the bottle. But yes its annoying to drink from.
The reason McDonalds many times have muted colors are often in response to city planning codes. Both in Rome and Paris in the more fashionable areas of the Pedestrian walkway shoppingstreet, where this will be applied (the “Spanish Stairs” McDonalds in Rome has gold letters and sandstone (as I remember it)).
McDonald's in the Passau city center is not allowd to have marquee lights. They must be discreet to fit the environment and the character of the old city -- a city with many buildings older than Muricans can imagine.
1:30 US-Americans drink an unhealthy amount of water. The suggestion is at least 1.5l/day in Europe - the government suggestion in the USA is 2.7-3.7l/day in the USA. BTW the USA is the only country I know of that had deaths because of water poisoning (hyper hydration) that were normal people. To get to that level you need to drink 3l in one hour. And you can always see these are US-American because it's still water and they use bottles other keep at home in the fridge. European carry maybe a 0.5l bottle for when they get thirsty on the way.
Ice between Europe and USA is different - you can eat your ice cream directly from the freezer while in the USofA you have to keep it out of it for a time until you can use a spoon to get some out of the package.
Auto Gas is LPG (Liquid Petrol Gas) a mix of propane and butane in a mix of 1/3 to 2/3 but the mix change in winter because butane freezes. Another thing we have at petrol stations is CNG (compressed natural gas) and BioFuel (Diesel and Petrol) that contain biological produced fuel, methanol for petrol and plant based oils for diesel.
Right on red is dangerous for pedestrians, that is why it is forbidden in Europe except for when it is allowed with an additional sign.
Sun- and public holidays everything is closed except for restaurant, museum, gas station. Even if a gas station sells grocery articles they are not allowed to sell them on a Sunday in Germany
That is interesting, I didn't know there were differences in the recommended intake. Perhaps it is needed for the unhealthy US diet.
Well 3l in 1h I do that when I go to the gym and do heavy cardio... when I just go to the gym 2l in 1h maybe at most 3l just normally impossible.
Methane and petrol mix? One is a gas the other is a liquid, they don't mix. Did you mean ethanol and petrol mix?
@@Maxicraft. Kidneys can process upto a liter of water per hour. More than that will add up and first upset your electrolyte balance and secondly make your brain swell up, which is un-positive. :)
Dude that doesnt matter, it is ok to drink 3 Liters of water every day. I am from Europe and i drink around 3 liters of water daily.
When it comes to the water bottles, where i live and im guessing it is the same for many countries in Europe we have clean drinkable water running in every house. So there is no need to buy a big water bottle because you can go in to almost any establishment and ask for water if you want to.
You don't even have to. If you have lunch somewhere, you go to the bathroom and fill up your bottle. You put it IN your bag though, because you don't want to look like a free-loader (although your are) and therefore it's more convenient to have a small bottle.
Autogas is also known as LPG: Liquified Petroleum Gas. It's a mixture of Butane and Propane and is used as an alternative and quite cheap fuel for petrol ('Benzin' or 'gas' in Northern America). It's use is sadly on a decline as it is a very very clean fuel polution-wise. There's a small conversion/addition required to the car, but its original fuelsytem remains in situ and is used when first dtarting the engine. After a minute or so, it automaticaly shuts of petrol and switches over to LPG.
When I hiked through Germany, I had water bottles in my backpack. However, I would not drink while walking. I took a rest on a bench (found most anywhere) and made a small pause before I packed up and hiked on. So maybe it is not the fact that they are drinking water as such but that they do it while walking?
No, it was about the size of the bottles in this video ... here in germany you only need a small bottle because you can refill this bottle anywhere at any time (in any public restroom or at a fountain etc.) because we have very clean tap water everywhere. Our tap water is constantly checked. Of course, if you go hiking (in forests etc.) you should have a larger bottle with you as you can't refill your bottle all the time.
@@Nils.Minimalist OK, thanks for the explanation. When you hike 25 km/day in 27-30° you need large water bottles! 🙂
I've enjoyed watching those comparisons with you so much.
I had a lot of fun with this video.
Hola, desde España 🇪🇦
In europe you drink tap water
Most of europe. I have been to places in Spain and gran canaria where you definitely could not drink the water. I suspect most mediterranean.
Only if you add grosseille, otherwise it's gross.
@@herrkulor3771 Not true for most of the Mediterranean from my experience. You can drink the tap water in any city in Greece and where I visited in Italy.
I was weirded out about the bottle caps at first, but now i actually like it. Not really for recycling, i mean, sure i did that already.
But it is soo convenient to not lose the caps, pour a milk without looking for the cap in the counter. On a walk, sure, i keep one hand free while drinking instead of holding the cap.. i prefer it now.
They are to ensure that wildlife don't swallow individual bottle caps when plastic bottles are dumped. If they don't come off then birds, turtles, etc cannot choke on them.
Nah, people just rip them off because it's an obstruction for drinking from the bottle. And especially rip off the connecting plastic thingies - which fall off or get lost better than a bottle cap. Great for environment, commrades in EU council.
@@wowado European here. No. People actually do keep them on.
@@mich977f WTF is even "European"? I also live in European Union. I'm not European. I'm Czech living in Europe. And I say No to your No.
@@wowado Lmmaaaooo, relax a little.
I consider myself a European. That doesn't mean I don't consider myself the nationallity of where I'm from. If you're born and raised in Europe, you're a European whether you like it or not lmao. You're a European because you're from Europe. It doesn't have anything to do with the European Union, wtf were you thinking? "WTF is even "European"?" Get out of your room, you have your head up your ass at this point. And if you're curious about my nationality you can look it up on my account since I don't try to hide it.
The Reason you won't see as much Parking Lots in Europe as in the US is because instead of horizontal, we build ours vertikal.
I think it's called a "Parkade" in the US? saves a lot of Space. Esp. useful at Shoppingcentres with multiple floors.
You could just park outside the floor you need to go to.
In the Netherlands we just drink tap water... mostly. But there are so many springs in europe. Water is obviously not an issue here.
Autogas is very prevalent in Australia. It is literally the same gas as you would use on a gas stove and runs your car after it is adapted to it. It's usually about half the price of petrol and the only thing that comes out of the exhaust is water vapor. I have run my cars on auto gas for over 3 decades.
Not only water vapour; also carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxide and hydrocarbons. But autogas does produce slightly less CO2 than petrol and is quite a lot cleaner, which is good!
“Are we that obvious?” Oh yes my friend, very obvious indeed
Wouldn't this be a biased result though? You would notice the ones that are obviously Americans, but you wouldn't realize you were seeing the Americans who don't stand out as obviously Americans?
@ fair point, am not claiming that identification will be 100% but at same time am pretty sure that % of Americans capable of hiding their Americanism is pretty low 😉
Not also that it’s only a small group that is obnoxiously American, most are just fine people but obviously American. It’s the first group we make harsh jokes about.
@@abbofun9022 Haha, yeah I will see some amount of my fellow Americans when travelling abroad that jump out to me as obviously American, even before hearing them talk. 😁
3:17 Yeah, it's called ice cream. I'm pretty sure you've got ice cream in the colonies.
Gelato and ice cream are not the same! 🇮🇹
@@sarah_pings_witherby They are. Gelato is the fance name of ice cream. So that MAGA people are willing to pay more for it.
😂😂
@@szabados1980 nooooo! 😄 Gelato is much lower (50%) in fat and much more dense. 🍨🚫🍦
They are not the same!!!! This is from a non Italian
The thing is that in Europe we have public fountains were you can drink for free
Just discovered your videos, love your energy, you look like a real nice dude :)
I think the fact you can go right on a red light is a great idea that should be everywhere in europe (in france sometimes you have a flashing orange light/arrow that lets you do this but it's pretty rare)
Shops closed on Sunday is kinda goofy when you think that people don't work so that's when they have time to shop, however things are changing on that front.
Great funny video
In my country not every commerce is closed, but most of them are, except for leisure commerces and cultural places so people can go to the cinema or museum for example.
The stores in Finland don't like customers opening those multipacks but, then again, they then reserve shelf space for the individual cans so you're not forced to buy more than one. Also, e.g. bottles in 24-packs say on them that they're not for individual sale so you might not even be able to buy them if the cash register doesn't have a price for the barcode (which still exists for the deposit).
You don't need an iron if you first shake the clothes straight and then hang them to dry in such a way that they don't wrinkle up.
There is only one store chain in Belgium that refuses to sell them seperately, I didn't know and took some from an already opened pack and the cashier rudely chewed me out. I left my full cart right then and there and never went to that store again in 20 years even though it is right accross the street.
I don't know if this true, maybe it used to be years ago. I'm from Finland too. I actually got notified by a store clerk that you can't take single products out of multipacks and this was in England. Never happened to me in Finland.
Repsol is a Spanish petrol brand. If you Google you'll find beautiful racing motorcycles with a Repsol livery.
To any American Tourists visiting the UK 🇬🇧 at this time of year Don't worry thoes Bangs are Fire Works not Gun Fire .It's Bonfire night on the 5th of November. Guy Fawkes Night .So can come from under the Table .
“ remember, remember the fifth of November”.
Even I know tha5 one and I’m not British 😉
@@defender4004 from Vendetta, the movie 😉
@@airlag no, I actually learned about the nursery rhyme sometime in the 1980s. The movie was released later than that.
Cool story, don't worry about gunfire, but worry about stabby stabby in UK.
You Brits are basically European Americans. Very little to do with mainland Europeans.
@@defender4004 German here, I learnt it at school, was in my English book. So was the Lord's Prayer - it was the 70s and it was under "British culture". Because of course we learnt "the Queen's English" - till today I have difficulties to understand some American regional pronounciations.
about drinks/cans in plastic packaging. If the individual items has an barcode, You can open the big package.
If not, you must buy the gros anount 6/8/10/12 packs.
And there is normal with MCDonalds red/yellow, but some buildings have standards for colors and size of advertisements.
Those new caps are a pain, a lot of us rip them off too!
I’ve never not replaced the cap for recycling it makes sure they stay squashed in the bin for a start, I hate the stupid lids sticking up my nose or in my cheek so now all my bottles now go back with the stupid extra plastic bits shoved inside and the lid replaced!
Yeah, data from one EU country you can use in all EU countries, but you have to be carefull by crossing Swiss borders as they are in Schengen, but not in EU so then your bill for data can be pretty expensive.😜
Interesting, here is my coverege , free talk, free sms, free mms +80gb data a month, 11Euro.
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We dont usually buy packed water. I think we have relativelly clean tap water. So i fill my own bottle at home with tap water. Thats not like we dont drink water.
I live in Ireland and you can All way spot someone from main land Europe because they are buying 20 Litres of water in Lidl.
i think the clip about bottles of water is because in europe you dont need load bottles have water sources everywhere in streets just stop in source and drink it
Also we can buy just one can of coke instead of the whole tray so we don't need to carry a water bottle around 😂, I we are thirsty we just buy a bottle or a can.
@@eelco1982 Who drinks coke when they're thirsty??? The liquid sugar people call coke will make you more thirsty.
@@RaduRadonysbecause Europe doesn't have the gravy syrup they call soda in America?
@@NoctisIgnem It doesn't matter, it's still sugar. And sugar makes you thirsty.
@RaduRadonys fair enough 😅 fill in you're favorite thirst quenching drink...
Hi, in former GDR there were green arrows which allowed you to turn right on a red. It was taken over after the reunion to some towns and traffic lights but it s not everywhere and you have to stop not only yield otherwise its running a red light with a fine and one point on your driving licence.
Hi, the light switches beside the bed for the main light is mostly at hotels or bnbs or " light " hotels called Pension or in italy it s Garni. There are also lights for every side attached to the bed. At home with a newer bed there might be lights included, but for the main/sealing light you have to do it mostly at the room door.
Maybe us being able to grab one or two items from a pack with drinks also has to do with our pricing system, you see what you pay. Tax already added on???
Also the packing like that is mostly for transport. Going to the store and buying stuff in Europe can be a daily or weekly thing. Be buy less bulk and don't always use the car for our grocery shopping. So I you just need or want one or two and not the whole six or eight pack.... you can take that. If you want a pack, you take a pack. Freedom.
makes sense