I didn't get that response. You're using energy to make water hot, you're not "cooking" water. There really is a big stigma with the microwave I'm guessing? Also in Europe they had 220/240V outlets, so their electric kettles can actually get water hotter significantly faster than they could in the US with 120V. But the bottom line is tea is kind of a second class citizen to coffee in the US.
agree with mike_b, but also, normally, if you're boiling water, it is to cook food along with the water, so that's one reason why the microwave would be used. Or the range. The reason electric kettle is uncommon is that Europeans use those because they want to drink tea. In the USA, most of us drink coffee instead, and we have a device called a coffee maker that does the heating of the water for the coffee. Hence no reason to have an electric kettle. Many Americans who drink tea use a steam kettle, which is similar to an electric kettle except it has no electronic parts; you put on the range and it "whistles" when the water boils. If for some reason you wanted to boil water and water only, there's no reason not to use the microwave for that. Ideally you want a rotating tray in the microwave, and you have to be careful because the container will also become hot. The other thing you could do is use a pot and put a cover it, and heat it on the electric range. The microwave has the advantage that it will give you a "beep" or "ding" when finished. 🙂
My wife is American of first and second generation European emigrants. Growing up, she was allowed to drink wine and taste beer on holiday occasions despite it being illegal due to her age. When she became of age to drink, it was no longer a big deal and she didn't feel the need to go out and get drunk at parties and drink illegally with her high school friends. We had a similar deal with our kids. They could try wine and beer when we were drinking privately and we told them they could have a beer as long as they drank it with us and didn't go anywhere after. By the time they could drink legally, it was no big deal.
Christina : "again, the microwave and tea" and again the reaction of the others are basically the same 😂 , I remember Lauren , Joshua isn't just class , the man has some good sense of humor
Funny enough here in Spain nobody would react about that. We don't usually have electric kettles (because we usually just have coffee machines). So If you want to make tea is not uncommon to use the microwave.
Good to see you still making videos, Christina! I'm American and I purchased an electric water boiler (kettle) a decade ago. Electric kettles are much faster than kettles put on the stove. ^_^
We from Iberian peninsula are different, in older time people would boil water on a kettle on the stove, now most microwave the water then put the tea bag, but I know the Brits love their electric kettles, sparkling water isn’t popular and most only drink it when they have an upset stomach so nobody has soda streams, we don’t do have the bag of treats thing, Portugal doesn’t have pfang but we have machines that you can put pet bottles but only in a few places first they gave people a few cents now you need to choose a charity to donate too aka almost nobody use it, the tape measure things is outdated for decades maybe you find one in a toolbox somewhere but most use the “roll up ones”, we aren’t rule followers like germans but rule breakers ect
I'm so glad I'm from a walkable city with good public transit. I don't even know how to drive! Sadly, the same cannot be said for most of the country. When I go to those places, I feel just like one of those "Europeans visiting America," and I hate it. I also think we need to get more serious about distracted driving. It's a problem. Car accidents are way too common in the US, and it's only gotten significantly worse in recent years. There were 26% more traffic accidents in 2019 than in 2009.
It's most of the geographical area but remember, it's not most of the people. The census for 2020 says that 80% of us live in urban areas (google "urban areas facts"). 🙂 I'm from the Sna Francisco Bay Area....SF itself is walkable throughout, and down here in Silicon Valley we have a lot of different walkable areas and you get from one to the other on transit, or driving if you insist lol. I'm 46 and I don't know how to drive, because I'm from here. 😃 I doubt the flyover states/inbred trumptard states will ever be dense enough to justify extensive public transit. 🙂
As someone from the United States, I find the German values to be very sensible. Driving and excessive waste is weird, especially for reasonable "Americans." Also, we use miles and gallons for some reason.
How is driving weird?? You said you are from here so you should know that the US is really huge unlike in Europe and unless you live in a major city(like New York City, Chicago, etc), it’s just not walkable to different places. Therefore we have to drive to get to where we need to go. Would it be convenient to have a great transportation system like railways, buses, etc. all over here in the US? Yes. Would it be convenient if things were close to each other in order for people to walk everywhere? Yes. That would be awesome but until then we have to rely on driving. Also the metric system was used at one point but it got too confusing for people so they reverted back to the imperial system for us. Are you even American?? How do you not know these things? Seriously!
@@sarahprince2412 Nope, cars are only a thing because you and other motorists have allowed it. I cycle whenever I can, sometimes upwards of 50 miles. Why? Because it's the right thing to do. I care about this planet. We need thriving trees and healthy oceans, not stupid metal boxes that terrorize usable space. I do ocean cleanups regularly and the runoff from car containments is disgusting. People are lazy, that's it. No excuses to try to minimize car use.
Where I grew up in California, we have plenty of bakeries where you can buy bread made in house. They also have baked bread in the grocery store. The SF Bay Area, where I’m from is known for their sourdough bread 🥖
Most major grocery stores in the US (ie _not_ Walmarts with food) have in-house bakeries just like they have in-house delis. The fancier ones are even getting all "European" with olive bars, charcuteries, etc.
The bread isn't fresh nor is it the kind of traditional bread that's made most commonly in Europe. It's a "bakery" with the same sliced bread on plastic bags you find everywhere else. Plus even the few actual bakeries you have with actual hand-made bread is from European immigrants and bakeries
@@MW_Asura "The bread isn't fresh" Yeah it is. Safeway makes it the same day. "nor is it the kind of traditional bread that's made most commonly in Europe." Well.....we're not Europe. It's not shameful that we don't make bread the same way Europe does when we are not Europe. That is one of the reasons why one travels, to experience different cultures. I'm from the San Francisco Bay Area. You can't shame us for our food. We have hundreds of Michelin style restaurants here, and the excellent food is one of many reasons that we get millions of visitors here every year from all over the world. The wine in Napa and Sonoma, aka "the North Bay" (north shore of the San Francisco Bay) is praised throughout the world, easily on par with that of France. Our whole grain wheat bread is definitely NOT "unhealthy" or "full of chemicals" or anything of that nature. There are bakeries in the USA that make the kind of bread they make in Europe, just, usually not the bakeries that are integrated into the local grocery store. Like r2d2rxr said, here the Bay Area, we have "San Francisco Sourdough" which is definitely world class bread. It's a unique variant created in the Bay Area in the 1850s by French and German immigrants. Well, actually a few different variants, but they are all known as San Francisco Sourdough.
I don't know anyone who has 5 liters of ketchup. Most bottles are 8-16oz? The stores do sell a very limited amount of condiments in the giant sizes, but the only reason to buy one would be for an event with a hundred people or more. Family reunions or something. Its more common for people out in the country to have deep freezers and they may stock up on groceries. But in the cities stocking up for years would seem very strange and unnecessary.
The meterstab would be called a carpenter's folding rule here, very common tool. Also one of the few times a Germanic word is actually short and the American is a whole phrase! 🤣
yeah I scratched my head at that, we have those here, lol. At first I thought it was just a ruler, but when I saw that it folded, I had seen those too. I'm a computer guy but I know what those things are used for. Of course, the retractable metal measuring tape is more common these days. More portable and convenient. 🙂
The newer generation uses measuring tape not laser. It's so expensive and non convenient that I have no idea who is using lasers for simple measurements
An example of something we use good paper plates and plastic utensils for is a golf tournament we have every summer. 4-person team scramble, luck of the draw for which team you end up on. Beer, of course, and then bratwurst and polish sausages, baked beans, sauerkraut, coleslaw, pasta salads, and cookies for dessert. We're eating at the clubhouse, so there no actual plates. My golf game hasn't gotten any better, but I have learned one thing. Chocolate chip cookies are great, but they do not go with beer.
Half a century ago, the Euro-stuff would sound familiar. I remember folding rulers. There are areas of the US where people drink tea often. They have pitchers and now jugs for "iced" tea down south!
Something that only Germans do is switch off all nuclear plants, just happened one month ago in April 😅 Nuclear energy formerly took 30% of the national production of energy and was finally reduced to 0% now, although our plants were regarded as the most safest, with a spherical security container. Although a incident is unprobable, the general damage was huge, so our nation decided to dump the technology. On the other hand renewable energies are introduced since 2000 and take already 50% of the national energy mix. 🌏
@@hnrccaa "On the other hand renewable energies are introduced since 2000 and take already 50% of the national energy mix. " 54% in California (65% zero emission, if you count hydroelectric and nuclear, which I do). When the sun is up we're about 83% zero emission, and about 90% if you count hydroelectric and nuclear (we have one nuclear plant left). We also have the largest energy storage system in the world, which holds 10.3 GWh of energy, and is charged via solar and wind. It gives us another 5-6 hours of solar power after the sun sets. Another 4 GWh is planned to be added this year, and the ultimate goal (for right now) is 54 GWh, although I think we will sail past that in about five years if we keep going at the present rate. During the day in spring and summer, California typically exports over 1 GW of solar power. Today we were exporting 5 GW at one point. 🙂Alas, at night we do have to burn some natural gas and import some power. As more storage is built up, we will need to do less and less of that. 🙂 I served on nuclear powered submarines in the USN, and while I was not a nuclear technician, I was Qualified in Submarines (it's required for all but very difficult to achieve) so I'm a lot more familiar with it than the average person. There's nothing scary about it if you're doing it right. However it is a lot more expensive than solar and wind, which are cheaper than coal at this point. 80% of all new power plants planned in the USA for 2024 are solar or storage. 🙂 The reactor on a submarine is very low power output, about 300 MW, versus a civilian commercial one that will be 2 GW or so. The civilian plants are more expensive because they need that containment dome etc. I agree that the future for civilian power is definitely solar/wind/geothermal, nuclear will be used less and less. Not because of danger, but simply because of economics. Of course we will still need it for the Navy and for space exploration/colonization. 🙂
Christina in major cities we have lots of public transit in the USA. You're from Massachusetts, in Boston you don't need a car day to day, surely. I am from the San Francisco Bay Area and have never been to Boston, but it's a reasonable size city so I assume it has buses, light rail etc., like here we have BART, Caltrain, SMART train, light rail, buses. I actually don't know how to drive, and I'm 46....I can get around on the public transit we have here. 🙂
In Indonesia it's also common to us driving car or riding motor to buy some stuff from nearby convenience store or groceries store cuz you buy a lot so you need to space to bring your stuff and then even we live in tropical country but we rarely to walk bcos so Hot and Humid you can got sunburn..
as a transit user in the pacific northwest i soooo wish we could have that sort of walkable city. sad thing is we are probably only second to the northeast of the country in terms of best transit and walkability. *sad tears*.
I am from America, but I don’t eat in my car so I don’t want to my car to smell like food and crumbs to drop that attract insects and for another thing I want to get out of my car and stretch. It’s good for my circulation. I actually think it’s better for health and many other things if you can walk to café and walk to the grocery store sometimes like it is in most of Europe. I’ve experienced the difference and it’s healthier. It’s good for social reasons too because sometimes when I was walking in Germany, I would meet some of my friends spontaneously that we’re walking somewhere else
Actually, unfortunately, it seems like the majority of Americans do use the drive-through with their cars for food, banks, pharmacies, and more except maybe in cities where more people walk such as New York City and San Francisco.
I have 3 fridges in my house. 1 in the kitchen, 1 in the garage, and 1 in the efficiency i live in that's connected to the main house (new design house)
I always find it funny if people say they need an hour to work often meaning to go from one city to another. When I was around 16 I needed more than an hour to get to school within Berlin.
Carbonated water is sometimes popular in states close to Mexico, such as Texas since I went on visits to Mexico I like to buy in Texas some of the carbonated water from Mexico in bottles it comes from cold springs delicious 😋
The strangest thing that Americans do is start raids in other countries because they found petrol and then when the chaos ensues they appear as superheroes to save foreign people from themselves, it's like the Spider-Man meme pointing at himself lol
Beliefs around microwaves and air conditioners are bizarre in Switzerland and Germany. Some Germans/Swiss/Austrians think AC makes you sick and microwaved food or drink is dangerous. It's pure superstitious nonsense, zero basis in reality. It's like fan death in Korea, something they should be embarrassed about.
@@MarcioHuser She might have meant that it promotes unhealthful eating choices (tv dinners, buttery popcorn in PFAS lined bags, and just not taking the time to slow down and cook a healthful meal). The actual radiation waves, though, are extremely long wavelength-longer than visible light and a billion times larger than the waves of scary nuclear gamma radiation. In that sense, microwave radiation is harmless.
No, I dont think there is any evidence for this, but everyone knows at least one person who thinks that microwaves are unhealthy. Its the german version of "cows can be purple"
*LOOK* I think everyone gets that if we are brought up to be responsible and self-sufficient, we'll lead less stressful lives. The problem with the US is that we get the message: work, work, work Buy, buy, buy Why don't you have enough? Forget the old family values! Right?
as a swiss American, my experiences and observations are really different than those of the people in this video. grocery shopping in America once a month maybe happens in super rural areas but probably nowhere else.. Americans just buy mass amounts of food and end up throwing tons of it away. fridges are so big that you lose track of what you have and it expires/gets moody/etc.a common thing I experienced growing up was for everyone to go to church/their soccer games on Sunday morning and then do a big grocery shop afterwards. and Swiss people seem to LOVE to drink and drive. at least in eastern Switzerland. driving accidents where the person has been drinking seem to take up like 1/3 of the news stories here. Meterstab also exist in the US but I guess if you don't grow up around doing things that need it, you wouldn't know what it is?
All the states I visited, I drank the tapwater. I have not heard of a place in the United States, where you cannot drink the tapwater, maybe there’s some, but I don’t know of any.
It's actually suggested to drink tap water, as it has fluoride. Good for the teeth as health care is expensive. But some times if the city has to work on pipes or there's a contamination issue, the news will issue a boil advisory and state not to drink the water.
She said it because of the flint fiasco and in some states isn’t recommended, also although it also it happens in Europe industry contaminated a lot of water, but I’m not from USA , so someone from their can say it better.
@@santostv. We rank really high in tap water quality, consistently top ~15 in the world. Availability, we do a bit worse than Europe as a whole but we're talking like 97.5% vs 98%. It's actually really annoying to me as an American because I was in Germany like 15 years ago for a long time and *nobody* drank tap water. I did, but people thought I was weird because they drank nothing but bottled mineral water. Now I teach young Germans English and they come here afraid to drink the water because they heard about Flint. I'm like, guys, it's one city that mismanaged their water supply horribly. We're thousands of miles away in the state that has the best water in the country. In the entire time our water has been monitored, we've had like two violations. If we were an independent country we'd have the safest water in the world. But in my experience, there's this weird quirk that people outside the country, and a few of them inside it, *really* like the idea of things being awful here.
@@benf91 Don’t sh0t the messager, I’m from Europe although from the southern part so we are different than them, I instantly knew why see said but i see plenty Americans drink from the tap in videos, like their said they preffer carbonated water so maybe thats the reason for not drinking from the tap, in my if you have a well you buy bottle water, at home depending some drink from the tap other buy bottled minera water but is because of taste not safety a lot of places have hard water so it tastes “bitter”, also my country is mineral water most only drink carbonated water when they have an upset stomach for example.
Yeah I’m an American. But, of Portuguese Descent. And I just want to say that I’ve almost never ate food while driving! Even seeing people eating while driving, it’s stupid!… only times I’ve eaten while driving is if it’s something light like a snack. Or in my case as a Farmer, I let the GPS on the tractor drive for me until I get to the other side of the field! Haha
@@arnodobler1096 Source: your butt, lol, that's not true at all. Europeans and being in denial about their own alcoholism, name a more iconic duo. Okay, besides turning into pretentious self-righteous snobs the minute America comes up.
8:17 We have the most varieties of bread here in Germany. 😅😊 We're in love with bread.😂❤ We also have a thing that we call 'Abendbrot'. We often have it for dinner. 'Abendbrot' means evening bread 😊😅
As far as I know, one of the reasons why people in the US (and Canada) rarely use kettles is because of your power grid. In North America you have 110V, and in Europe we have a 220V system. Microwaves usually top out at ~1000W. A Kettle can draw quite a lot of power, somewhere between 1500 and 3000Watts (power spikes can happen). That's (at 3000W) about 27 Amps, in the US compared to ~14 Amps in Europe. You will not be able to draw 27A from a single outlet...
13:28 That with the sparkling water is not really true. In Switzerland most of the time they ask in the restaurants if you want still water or sparkly water, they also sell allot of different waters when u go grocery shopping, still or sparkly. I personally live in Zürich and there are not allot of people I know that have their own sparkling water device. I know one person that owns it and they’re from Graubünden😂. You can also order sparkling water in fast food restaurants like mcs. I don’t know what kind of restaurants she visits but that not really true.
Very informative video and interesting perspectives. Thank you to the three of you for sharing your thoughts and opinions. As an American who has lived and worked in Europe, I miss many things about Germany. The fresh baked Semmeln. drinking Weissbier or a Radler from a Masskrug while sitting in a Biergarten in Bayern, to enjoying a refreshing Spruedel after a long bike ride (you mentioned carbonated water). I would have loved to have spent more time seeing Switzerland. Looking forward to more of your videos. Vielen Dank!
For recycling aluminum cans, in a lot of states they pay by weight. So, some people will bring an entire trash bag full of crushed cans. They'll put it on a scale and pay you. Or, for curbside collection, they'll subtract the value of the cans from your bill.
As far as walkable, US major cities are the same way. The oldest major cities, that became major cities before the car was invented, such as San Francisco or New York, basically the whole city is walkable throughout. If you're in a major city in the USA you don't really need a car day to day. (although many people choose to use one, and modern cities accommodate both methods, of course.) The ones that became major cities more recently, such as Los Angeles or San Jose, have many different areas that are walkable, and you get from one to the other either in a car or on public transit. 🙂 recycling and environmental consciousness and health consciousness are all big things in the State of California. We do the recycle bottle deposit thing, although most people just put the bottle in the recycle bin; recycling pickup is included with the city service of picking up trash. 🙂
7:59 actually San Francisco has a unique style of sourdough that was created in San Francisco by various French bakers who came over during the Gold Rush. Quintessentially San Francisco, it is known simply as "San Francisco Sourdough". Fairly easy to get in the Bay Area at a grocery store. I'm not sure if there is a Boudin Bakery in Santa Barbara, but if there is, they sell the world class San Francisco Sourdough there. 🙂 And of course wheat bread with whole grains is readily available in grocery stores. 🙂
Because unfortunately Europeans stereotype us instead of understanding that different places have different cultures and it doesn’t make it wrong. Just look at Elena(the girl from Switzerland). She comes across as snobby to me thinking she’s better than Americans. It doesn’t help that Christina(the American) doesn’t really defend our country or schools them properly in why we do what we need to do. She seems to really just try to apologize for our culture instead which is insulting to us. Unfortunately many Europeans act very snobby towards Americans thinking we are uncultured and yet bitch and complain if we have stereotypes about them, refuse to assist them(i.e solve their problems for them), etc. It’s pathetic actually to think that places have to act like they are better than everyone else. Can’t we all just appreciate the differences with each other and not compare each others cultures? Jeesh. And this is coming from someone who is a military brat who was born in the UK and who has traveled to other countries. I have dual citizenship and both birth certificates for the UK and for the US. I’m over the hate for us Americans. There is nothing wrong with our culture and how we do certain things just like how there’s nothing wrong with other cultures in Europe and some of the things they do over there. Who cares? That’s what makes us all unique.
The uk is the usa of Europe, Switzerland is rich af and they have their “north” European upfront way of speaking, the water thing is because of flint everyone in the world heard about it.
A lot of places cannot drink their tap water, including some places in Europe. She said that Switzerland can drink their tap water to point out that Switzerland can drink it. This wasn't an attack against the USA. Quit playing the victim card on everything.
@@andyx6827 Quit saying stuff that is either wholly untrue or grossly exaggerated about our country and maybe we'll think about it. Seriously, Europeans know next to nothing about America but they watch a couple of movies and think they're an expert.
@@andyx6827 Where in Europe? In my country they only advise not drink from some village fountains because they aren’t monitored, also they removed them in my village for whatever dumb reason so now only the public tank has it, still you can safely drink water everywhere.
Europe is slightly bigger than the USA, there’s some people that have 1h commutes in the capital and they live in the neighboring city is more common but is not the norm for most I would say work at max 10-20 min away from work at least in my country, public transportation is also b@d here but the Americans usually are referring to Central Europe.
@@santostv. I lived in a village in germany. I havent enter a train before i was 16 :D We have to do everything by car like americans. Shopping was a 25 minute drive, school was a 40 minute drive by bus every morning. But our citys are more walkable than american ones. And we can walk from villiage to villiage if we want by seperate "streets" for walk/cycle. I walked one of this ways to my best friend often, 30 minutes through the forest (our forests are not dangeours unlike the usa, we have no dangerous animals)
@@xxklesx1 I also live in village but within the city so I guess Americans would consider it the suburbs, i went to school in the city so ~car rides but if i went to kindergarten and primary school in village it would be like 2 min away, here we are car addicts, my city doesn’t have trains for decades, most of the population lives by the coast so if you live in the rest of the country you milage might very, they close a lot of public kindergarten and primary schools because of lack of students, so again it very, shopping we do it by car is because village supermarkets are “overpriced” and lack variety and most work in the cities so you go to supermarkets hypermarkets on your way home but again in metropolis life is a bit different, but from what i see usa people do , walking is more common here besides nyc , people walking with their groceries. Like I said working in a different city isn’t uncommon here either, but I think most usa citizens take longer commutes because they have highway instead of “normal” road but might be a perspective thing idk, but don’t worry we are getting Americanized so even with aging population we wil be forced to live further from the cities if you are a renter, it’s what politicians and businessmen want to increase their real estate portfolio value. Again it varies city from city, region to region and type of job you have in my country but public transportation here s*cks maybe compared to the usa is considered good but for us it doesn’t suit the need of the average citizen.
There are places in the city that are walkable. It just depends on what city your in... Also she's tripping. No one is going to the store once a month. Maybe every two weeks but not once a month
Why do Europeans think that everyone in the USA drinks bottled water and not tap water? The most famous series like Friends or The Big Bang Theory show the whole world that Sheldon and Leonard always drink bottled water and never tap water.
Good catch! What's especially ironic is that Christina is talking to German and Swiss persons. Unlike the English language, they typically put i after e, so if ever there was a World Friends video that should have correctly spelled it with an 'ei', this would have been it. Also, it's a pet peeve of mine that people from the US usually mispronounce "voila" as "walla" instead of giving it the hard 'v' sound like the French do. Well, Germans often pronounce 'v' like 'w' too (and 'w' like 'v')-Joshua does it in this very video for other words-yet when it comes time for Joshua to say "voila", he nails it! ...which is also ironic since he's from Germany.
, when I lived in Germany, I loved the wonderful breads of sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds and more and since I’ve returned to the United States I can’t eat the bread anymore there it’s just not like bread. It’s disgusting. It’s like they took everything out of bread and put vitamins and air in it.
People say buy a bread machine, but oh, I’m a bit lazy for that plus I think the ingredients that you put in the bread machine may still not taste it like the European breads.
Its funny enough in Spain is not weird to microwave a tea if youre in a hurry or not. You can naturally cook it by kettle better or more old fashioned way in a saucepan as our grandparents do..😊😃
15:09 It is of course a prejudice that food heated in a microwave is unhealthy or dangerous. The devices themselves are no more dangerous than other methods of heating food, provided the manufacturer and you yourself follow the applicable safety regulations. Boiling water in a microwave is a waste of energy (not as much as on an electric stove, but still). The most economical are immersion heaters or the modern form of them: kettles. What I don't like about the microwave is that it heats up porcelain, for example, considerably. 16:01 In northern Germany it is called "Zollstock". There are of course plastic ones. The become so popular because they are often used as promotional gift. I remember we had dozens when I was a child.
I wish that was true in the United States that it’s illegal to eat in the car or on a handheld phone for the driver. I’m guessing many people in the United States would be against that, but it sure would make it a lot safer for other people both for the driver and the people they might hit. Actually, one time I was using the crosswalk as a walker and a driver almost almost hit me because they were not paying attention as they were turning right, and I had to jump out of the way
It's always funny to me how people get skeeved out by microwaves. They don't make your food radioactive or zap the nutrients out of it. It's much like an induction cooktop but with microwave radiation instead of infrared radiation. You can safely heat water with either option. 🙃
She's perpetuating the fear, microwaves are completely safe and aren't unhealthy in any way. It's totally ok to use em to defrost your frozen meats, steam veggies, maybe make oatmeal, all drinks etc.
For the second part of the video it was a bit strange to have the Swiss woman included. The first two things (deposit on bottles and cans and the “Schultüte”) are not common at all in Switzerland and it just seems strange to have her there and not present something Swiss people do and instead having to help explain things Germans do.
@@twoworldsof_yerin Ah okay, interesting. Never had and never heard of a “Schultüte” here in Switzerland. At least here in the Zurich area this is totally uncommon. But still I think it’s a bit strange to have an American, a German AND a Swiss in a video and only have the sections with the names “things Germans do” and “things Americans do”.
We have the bread they’re talking about 🤷🏽♀️and we f water gets hot in the microwave, what’s the big deal?? Isn’t getting the water hot necessary for tea or coffee???
it's one of those irrational beliefs people have....another one common in Europe is that air conditioning will make you sick. It might stimulate your sinuses in ways you're not used to if you don't normally use AC, but it's not going to make you sick. Even in parts of the USA that get colder than Europe, we still typically have AC in the house. It might be a portable unit that is only rolled out in summer. Here in California, there is no environmental concern with AC, because when the sun is up in summer, California gets over 80% of our power from the Sun. AC isn't really optional in California because it does tend to be over 30 C in summer, and 40 C or even 45 C is not uncommon in the summer. But in my opinion, even if a typical summer temperature is 23, I would still want the AC, especially in a typical European house that's designed to trap heat. If it's over 22 and your house is designed to trap heat, it will get VERY hot inside. It's one of those things, if a European gets AC, he will wonder how he ever got through summer without it. 🙂
@@neutrino78x The Problem with ACs in Germany is, that electricity is more expensive and the government has no real replacement for those shut down nuclear powerplants. Renewable energy is great but it can't cover the whole electricity consumption of the country yet. To close the gap, some coal powerplants are still running and we buy electricity from other European countries. If electricity were plenty and cheap, there would be more ACs. In public transport vehicles (train and bus), there usually is a good AC installed but they don't switch it on very often or keep it at a very low level.
@@Headhunter-5000 " the government has no real replacement for those shut down nuclear powerplants. " I'm not sure how this is a reason not to use AC. Nuclear is clean, dude. No CO2 emissions. Doesn't contribute to climate change in ANY way. I served on nuclear powered submarines in the USN, and though I wasn't a nuclear tech, I'm Qualified in Submarines, so I know a lot more about nuclear power than most people do. Trust me, it's perfectly safe. "Renewable energy is great but it can't cover the whole electricity consumption of the country yet." So? Between solar, wind, and nuclear, you're covered. Germany might need to build solar and wind out more, but this isn't a reason not to run AC. " If electricity were plenty and cheap, there would be more ACs." Ok, so, do it. Here in my apartment we pay about 100 USD for electricity each month in summer, and we have a window mounted AC which we need to use a lot because it's California. California is also 90% zero emission when the sun is up. (about 83% solar/wind/geothermal, and then we also have one nuclear power plant, which is about 10% of our power, and we also have 5 GW of hydroelectric.) You can always put a solar panel on your roof if you're concerned about CO2 emissions.
@@Headhunter-5000 Nils, I was just looking it up; it looks like you guys are about 55-60% zero emission, about the same as California. Of course, that's over the course of a year. Earlier today, California was about 96% zero emission. (we have 300 days of sunshine a year....on those days, it's typically 90+ percent zero emission in the daytime and around 50% at night. We store the solar power in the world's largest energy storage system, 10.3 GWh and growing, mostly paid for and owned by the private sector. Another 4 GWh is expected to be added this year by the private sector, and the goal right now is 52 GWh by 2050.) Anyway, Germany's grid is clean enough that there shouldn't be a concern with CO2 as a result of AC. You would mainly run AC during the day, and there's more zero emission power available at that time. I can understand "I personally can't afford $500 for a portable AC" (I'm pretty broke myself, it happens), but what I can't understand is people who can afford but they refuse to for some weird reason. Like with the French, they have an irrational fear of AC (And they're 80% nuclear, no climate concerns there either), in English it's called "current of air", they think a cold breeze will give them the Black Death. Like I said, if a given individual is concerned about CO2 from use of AC, they can always have solar installed on their roof. Surely the German government subsidizes that to some extent? I think the US Federal Government subsidizes it 30% or something like that. In California it pays for itself in about six years. 🙂
Technically eating in the car in most US cities is also illegal, it's just under the general umbrella term of "distracted driving" (cell phones are thrown in there too). It's just not a law that many people get hit with, you get places like In 'n Out even ask you "would you like to eat this in the car" even if you're a solo person in a drive through. Gallon of milk is not strange, because milk is often had with a lot of meals, and is also pasturized too not raw milk where it may be in Europe so it does last longer. And no one has 5 liters of ketchup unless you're selling hot dogs or other food that uses it. Bread... not sure where she grew up, but we have more than white bread here, way more options. Also don't get the aversion to using a microwave to heat water, the fact she said "we see those as dangerous", it's not like there's uranium in them to make heat or anything.
as a swiss person, the swiss girl doesn't understand that paper straws come from california 😂. The one environmental invention from the US is the worst one.
Yep European neighborhoods are engineered way differently than the US. Most Western European countries have mixed zoning aka residential mixed with commercial for all neighborhoods but US has spawl neighborhood engineering where residential is not mixed with commercial. Which I think is so annoying because my small town I have to drive at least 5 miles just to go to a decent grocery store.😅
I don’t know why Europeans get so upset that we heat water in the microwave? It’s all electric whether it’s in a microwave or an electric kettle or on an electric stove top! It’s all the same!!🤦🏻
And it is a generalisation anyway. Not all Europe is the same. Here in Spain we use the microwave often too because we don't have electric kettles (just coffee machines).
Tea has been known for thousands of years and nowdays is accepted all over the world. Preparing and drinking tea (or coffie) is small ritual for inner satisfaction and peace. Can't explain but when someone use microwave to heat water for tea its like you are washing your hands with gloves on.
Thinking they could have a gas stove, not electric. Just putting myself in their shoes. However, a microwave is not comparable to an electric stove top either. The way it heats food up is very different and an electric stove top, although electric, is more natural in comparison.
3:30 wrong, eating drinking and smoking while driving are not forbidden in either Germany or switzerland, had to look it up. Yes other activities like using your cellphones are forbidden but minor things like drinking or eating something are not forbidden.
Really, there is no sparkling water in restaurants in switzerland? Just at home? Thats weird. In Austria sparkling water in Restaurants is quite common, and is also often bought in the 1L Bottle, for example if you order Wine for a table you order a 1 liter bottle of sparkling water in addition to make yourself a 50:50 mixture of wine and water (AT: "Gspritzten", DE: "Weinschorle").
Plastic bags and disposable dishes is less than 1% of all plastic. So I don´t see that Europeans really try to be different in that case, except for being different in judging people, maybe.
not only do people in the americans not have real bread, they also roast us, that our bread is too hard 🤦 it has a hard crust so it doesnt dryout without being in plastic. if its too hard, you are too soft
The American girl does nothing to explain what life is really like in America she just apologizes and agrees with everything the Europeans say. It's like she doesn't even know her own country 🤦♂️
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German guy got that Low key Bond villain vibe 😂😂😂
Glad I'm not the only one that thought he would make a great movie villian.
@@tool4rage434it’s just inborn Germans are natural born villains 😂😂😂 and British too!!
He should have a cat on his lap.
@@lucone2937 precisely haha stroking her
Either someone with a grand evil plan or someone who can a henchman like Stamper from Tomorrow Never Dies
I knew the moment Christina said "microwave" what was coming...😂 , Lauren from UK , you're not alone
I didn't get that response. You're using energy to make water hot, you're not "cooking" water. There really is a big stigma with the microwave I'm guessing? Also in Europe they had 220/240V outlets, so their electric kettles can actually get water hotter significantly faster than they could in the US with 120V. But the bottom line is tea is kind of a second class citizen to coffee in the US.
agree with mike_b, but also, normally, if you're boiling water, it is to cook food along with the water, so that's one reason why the microwave would be used. Or the range.
The reason electric kettle is uncommon is that Europeans use those because they want to drink tea. In the USA, most of us drink coffee instead, and we have a device called a coffee maker that does the heating of the water for the coffee. Hence no reason to have an electric kettle.
Many Americans who drink tea use a steam kettle, which is similar to an electric kettle except it has no electronic parts; you put on the range and it "whistles" when the water boils.
If for some reason you wanted to boil water and water only, there's no reason not to use the microwave for that. Ideally you want a rotating tray in the microwave, and you have to be careful because the container will also become hot. The other thing you could do is use a pot and put a cover it, and heat it on the electric range. The microwave has the advantage that it will give you a "beep" or "ding" when finished. 🙂
My wife is American of first and second generation European emigrants. Growing up, she was allowed to drink wine and taste beer on holiday occasions despite it being illegal due to her age. When she became of age to drink, it was no longer a big deal and she didn't feel the need to go out and get drunk at parties and drink illegally with her high school friends. We had a similar deal with our kids. They could try wine and beer when we were drinking privately and we told them they could have a beer as long as they drank it with us and didn't go anywhere after. By the time they could drink legally, it was no big deal.
It's actually legal in the US for 16 + teens to drink 1 ounce of wine or beer under adult supervision.😊 I am second generation Dutch American 😊
Joshua for president. He cant be real. 😂❤❤ Just be joshua in whatever movie that host a top notch villain! Only thing missing is the cat.
Christina : "again, the microwave and tea" and again the reaction of the others are basically the same 😂 , I remember Lauren , Joshua isn't just class , the man has some good sense of humor
Funny enough here in Spain nobody would react about that. We don't usually have electric kettles (because we usually just have coffee machines). So If you want to make tea is not uncommon to use the microwave.
Good to see you still making videos, Christina!
I'm American and I purchased an electric water boiler (kettle) a decade ago. Electric kettles are much faster than kettles put on the stove. ^_^
We from Iberian peninsula are different, in older time people would boil water on a kettle on the stove, now most microwave the water then put the tea bag, but I know the Brits love their electric kettles, sparkling water isn’t popular and most only drink it when they have an upset stomach so nobody has soda streams, we don’t do have the bag of treats thing, Portugal doesn’t have pfang but we have machines that you can put pet bottles but only in a few places first they gave people a few cents now you need to choose a charity to donate too aka almost nobody use it, the tape measure things is outdated for decades maybe you find one in a toolbox somewhere but most use the “roll up ones”, we aren’t rule followers like germans but rule breakers ect
Does Joshua do audiobooks? He needs to do audiobooks. 😂
We need him to do audiobooks 😂😂😂
he sings on Kraftwerk,he says - uno,due,itch ni,san,its more fun to compute....
I'm so glad I'm from a walkable city with good public transit. I don't even know how to drive! Sadly, the same cannot be said for most of the country. When I go to those places, I feel just like one of those "Europeans visiting America," and I hate it. I also think we need to get more serious about distracted driving. It's a problem. Car accidents are way too common in the US, and it's only gotten significantly worse in recent years. There were 26% more traffic accidents in 2019 than in 2009.
It's most of the geographical area but remember, it's not most of the people. The census for 2020 says that 80% of us live in urban areas (google "urban areas facts"). 🙂
I'm from the Sna Francisco Bay Area....SF itself is walkable throughout, and down here in Silicon Valley we have a lot of different walkable areas and you get from one to the other on transit, or driving if you insist lol. I'm 46 and I don't know how to drive, because I'm from here. 😃
I doubt the flyover states/inbred trumptard states will ever be dense enough to justify extensive public transit. 🙂
i feel like if you live in a populated city its more convienient to walk, it also just depends on the state
As someone from the United States, I find the German values to be very sensible. Driving and excessive waste is weird, especially for reasonable "Americans." Also, we use miles and gallons for some reason.
The United States was supposed to change to the metric system in the 70s, but for some reason they never did.
How is driving weird?? You said you are from here so you should know that the US is really huge unlike in Europe and unless you live in a major city(like New York City, Chicago, etc), it’s just not walkable to different places. Therefore we have to drive to get to where we need to go. Would it be convenient to have a great transportation system like railways, buses, etc. all over here in the US? Yes. Would it be convenient if things were close to each other in order for people to walk everywhere? Yes. That would be awesome but until then we have to rely on driving. Also the metric system was used at one point but it got too confusing for people so they reverted back to the imperial system for us. Are you even American?? How do you not know these things? Seriously!
Your driving lessons and test are easy compared to most of Europe
@@santostv. That’s true. The driving lessons are too easy and I thoroughly agree. They should make it harder in the United States.
@@sarahprince2412 Nope, cars are only a thing because you and other motorists have allowed it. I cycle whenever I can, sometimes upwards of 50 miles. Why? Because it's the right thing to do. I care about this planet. We need thriving trees and healthy oceans, not stupid metal boxes that terrorize usable space. I do ocean cleanups regularly and the runoff from car containments is disgusting. People are lazy, that's it. No excuses to try to minimize car use.
Eating while driving is technically illegal in California but it's not really enforced. Holding your phone while driving is definitely enforced.
I always like seeing Christina, she is lovely and gorgeous.
Where I grew up in California, we have plenty of bakeries where you can buy bread made in house. They also have baked bread in the grocery store. The SF Bay Area, where I’m from is known for their sourdough bread 🥖
Most major grocery stores in the US (ie _not_ Walmarts with food) have in-house bakeries just like they have in-house delis. The fancier ones are even getting all "European" with olive bars, charcuteries, etc.
The bread isn't fresh nor is it the kind of traditional bread that's made most commonly in Europe. It's a "bakery" with the same sliced bread on plastic bags you find everywhere else. Plus even the few actual bakeries you have with actual hand-made bread is from European immigrants and bakeries
Yup "San Francisco Sourdough" it's awesome, I'm from the Bay Area too (South Bay/Silicon Valley/San Jose). 🙂
@@MW_Asura
"The bread isn't fresh"
Yeah it is. Safeway makes it the same day.
"nor is it the kind of traditional bread that's made most commonly in Europe."
Well.....we're not Europe. It's not shameful that we don't make bread the same way Europe does when we are not Europe. That is one of the reasons why one travels, to experience different cultures.
I'm from the San Francisco Bay Area. You can't shame us for our food. We have hundreds of Michelin style restaurants here, and the excellent food is one of many reasons that we get millions of visitors here every year from all over the world. The wine in Napa and Sonoma, aka "the North Bay" (north shore of the San Francisco Bay) is praised throughout the world, easily on par with that of France.
Our whole grain wheat bread is definitely NOT "unhealthy" or "full of chemicals" or anything of that nature.
There are bakeries in the USA that make the kind of bread they make in Europe, just, usually not the bakeries that are integrated into the local grocery store.
Like r2d2rxr said, here the Bay Area, we have "San Francisco Sourdough" which is definitely world class bread. It's a unique variant created in the Bay Area in the 1850s by French and German immigrants. Well, actually a few different variants, but they are all known as San Francisco Sourdough.
also these days i hear people have started making their own sourdough bread from scratch
I don't know anyone who has 5 liters of ketchup. Most bottles are 8-16oz? The stores do sell a very limited amount of condiments in the giant sizes, but the only reason to buy one would be for an event with a hundred people or more. Family reunions or something.
Its more common for people out in the country to have deep freezers and they may stock up on groceries. But in the cities stocking up for years would seem very strange and unnecessary.
I'd say buying some things in bulk is still common to save money, but not for years.
@@Trifler500 Yes Costco - the large sizes are a bit of a novelty in Australia.
The meterstab would be called a carpenter's folding rule here, very common tool. Also one of the few times a Germanic word is actually short and the American is a whole phrase! 🤣
We call it Zollstock in Germany, literally "inch stick", which is funny because we don't even use inches 😂
@@andyx6827 Nice 🤣
yeah I scratched my head at that, we have those here, lol. At first I thought it was just a ruler, but when I saw that it folded, I had seen those too. I'm a computer guy but I know what those things are used for. Of course, the retractable metal measuring tape is more common these days. More portable and convenient. 🙂
Мой внутренний кодекс запрещает мне есть за рулём- я не могу сфокусироваться на еде 😂
The newer generation uses measuring tape not laser. It's so expensive and non convenient that I have no idea who is using lasers for simple measurements
Lasers still cost 80€-100€, I know the swiss are rich but i was surprised when she said that.
Lasers still cost 80€-100€, I know the swiss are rich but i was surprised when she said that.
Elena seems so lovely and well spoken!! Need more videos with her!☺️
Christina is back, why does she keep on disappearing and spontaneously coming back. We love her.
14:56 Two girls finally made Joshua shock😂
An example of something we use good paper plates and plastic utensils for is a golf tournament we have every summer. 4-person team scramble, luck of the draw for which team you end up on. Beer, of course, and then bratwurst and polish sausages, baked beans, sauerkraut, coleslaw, pasta salads, and cookies for dessert. We're eating at the clubhouse, so there no actual plates.
My golf game hasn't gotten any better, but I have learned one thing. Chocolate chip cookies are great, but they do not go with beer.
Half a century ago, the Euro-stuff would sound familiar.
I remember folding rulers.
There are areas of the US where people drink tea often. They have pitchers and now jugs for "iced" tea down south!
honestly I'm falling in love for german guy 😂
Would love to hear if you guys have anything to add to this too!-Christina🇺🇸
Something that only Germans do is switch off all nuclear plants, just happened one month ago in April 😅 Nuclear energy formerly took 30% of the national production of energy and was finally reduced to 0% now, although our plants were regarded as the most safest, with a spherical security container. Although a incident is unprobable, the general damage was huge, so our nation decided to dump the technology.
On the other hand renewable energies are introduced since 2000 and take already 50% of the national energy mix. 🌏
Chris, anyone ever tell you you give off an elven lady vibe? I keep picturing you with pointy ears! 🧝♀
@@hnrccaa
"On the other hand renewable energies are introduced since 2000 and take already 50% of the national energy mix.
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54% in California (65% zero emission, if you count hydroelectric and nuclear, which I do). When the sun is up we're about 83% zero emission, and about 90% if you count hydroelectric and nuclear (we have one nuclear plant left). We also have the largest energy storage system in the world, which holds 10.3 GWh of energy, and is charged via solar and wind. It gives us another 5-6 hours of solar power after the sun sets. Another 4 GWh is planned to be added this year, and the ultimate goal (for right now) is 54 GWh, although I think we will sail past that in about five years if we keep going at the present rate. During the day in spring and summer, California typically exports over 1 GW of solar power. Today we were exporting 5 GW at one point. 🙂Alas, at night we do have to burn some natural gas and import some power. As more storage is built up, we will need to do less and less of that. 🙂
I served on nuclear powered submarines in the USN, and while I was not a nuclear technician, I was Qualified in Submarines (it's required for all but very difficult to achieve) so I'm a lot more familiar with it than the average person. There's nothing scary about it if you're doing it right.
However it is a lot more expensive than solar and wind, which are cheaper than coal at this point. 80% of all new power plants planned in the USA for 2024 are solar or storage. 🙂 The reactor on a submarine is very low power output, about 300 MW, versus a civilian commercial one that will be 2 GW or so. The civilian plants are more expensive because they need that containment dome etc.
I agree that the future for civilian power is definitely solar/wind/geothermal, nuclear will be used less and less. Not because of danger, but simply because of economics. Of course we will still need it for the Navy and for space exploration/colonization. 🙂
Christina in major cities we have lots of public transit in the USA. You're from Massachusetts, in Boston you don't need a car day to day, surely. I am from the San Francisco Bay Area and have never been to Boston, but it's a reasonable size city so I assume it has buses, light rail etc., like here we have BART, Caltrain, SMART train, light rail, buses. I actually don't know how to drive, and I'm 46....I can get around on the public transit we have here. 🙂
The meterstab is old school 🏫 here in the USA 🇺🇸. I haven't seen one of them in years!
In Indonesia it's also common to us driving car or riding motor to buy some stuff from nearby convenience store or groceries store cuz you buy a lot so you need to space to bring your stuff and then even we live in tropical country but we rarely to walk bcos so Hot and Humid you can got sunburn..
We had those foldable measuring sticks in the US many decades ago, but they fell out of use after the measuring tape came.
Ein sehr schönes Video 😂👍🏻
as a transit user in the pacific northwest i soooo wish we could have that sort of walkable city. sad thing is we are probably only second to the northeast of the country in terms of best transit and walkability. *sad tears*.
I am from America, but I don’t eat in my car so I don’t want to my car to smell like food and crumbs to drop that attract insects and for another thing I want to get out of my car and stretch. It’s good for my circulation.
I actually think it’s better for health and many other things if you can walk to café and walk to the grocery store sometimes like it is in most of Europe. I’ve experienced the difference and it’s healthier.
It’s good for social reasons too because sometimes when I was walking in Germany, I would meet some of my friends spontaneously that we’re walking somewhere else
Actually, unfortunately, it seems like the majority of Americans do use the drive-through with their cars for food, banks, pharmacies, and more except maybe in cities where more people walk such as New York City and San Francisco.
Joshua is the New Sonny Crocket from Miami Vice...a handsome man a Tuff Cop....with a 80s synthwave theme...
I have 3 fridges in my house. 1 in the kitchen, 1 in the garage, and 1 in the efficiency i live in that's connected to the main house (new design house)
I always find it funny if people say they need an hour to work often meaning to go from one city to another. When I was around 16 I needed more than an hour to get to school within Berlin.
Carbonated water is sometimes popular in states close to Mexico, such as Texas since I went on visits to Mexico I like to buy in Texas some of the carbonated water from Mexico in bottles it comes from cold springs delicious 😋
Elena look like Kat Dennings and Joshua on the other hand,dude could be in a Bond film either as the main villain or a high ranking henchman.
I Canada the legal drinking age is 19 except for Quebec, Alberta and Manitoba. It's 18. I started before.
The strangest thing that Americans do is start raids in other countries because they found petrol and then when the chaos ensues they appear as superheroes to save foreign people from themselves, it's like the Spider-Man meme pointing at himself lol
Yeah and Europe has NOTHING to do with any of that 🙄
15:13 I don't know where she took the info that Miocrowave is 'unhealthy'. I never ever heard about any study stating that, yet 🤔
same here. It might be a bias some people have?
@@brainy191 maybe?
Beliefs around microwaves and air conditioners are bizarre in Switzerland and Germany. Some Germans/Swiss/Austrians think AC makes you sick and microwaved food or drink is dangerous. It's pure superstitious nonsense, zero basis in reality. It's like fan death in Korea, something they should be embarrassed about.
@@MarcioHuser She might have meant that it promotes unhealthful eating choices (tv dinners, buttery popcorn in PFAS lined bags, and just not taking the time to slow down and cook a healthful meal). The actual radiation waves, though, are extremely long wavelength-longer than visible light and a billion times larger than the waves of scary nuclear gamma radiation. In that sense, microwave radiation is harmless.
No, I dont think there is any evidence for this, but everyone knows at least one person who thinks that microwaves are unhealthy. Its the german version of "cows can be purple"
*LOOK*
I think everyone gets that if we are brought up to be responsible and self-sufficient, we'll lead less stressful lives.
The problem with the US is that we get the message: work, work, work
Buy, buy, buy
Why don't you have enough?
Forget the old family values!
Right?
Europe is also pushed into that direction. I feel like younger people these days are more materialistic
Many people don't realize that plastic straws are essential for disabled people in most cases.
as a swiss American, my experiences and observations are really different than those of the people in this video. grocery shopping in America once a month maybe happens in super rural areas but probably nowhere else.. Americans just buy mass amounts of food and end up throwing tons of it away. fridges are so big that you lose track of what you have and it expires/gets moody/etc.a common thing I experienced growing up was for everyone to go to church/their soccer games on Sunday morning and then do a big grocery shop afterwards. and Swiss people seem to LOVE to drink and drive. at least in eastern Switzerland. driving accidents where the person has been drinking seem to take up like 1/3 of the news stories here. Meterstab also exist in the US but I guess if you don't grow up around doing things that need it, you wouldn't know what it is?
People cannot drink tap water in the US??? 😮
I only drank tap water when I went there. And I'm still alive.
All the states I visited, I drank the tapwater. I have not heard of a place in the United States, where you cannot drink the tapwater, maybe there’s some, but I don’t know of any.
It's actually suggested to drink tap water, as it has fluoride. Good for the teeth as health care is expensive. But some times if the city has to work on pipes or there's a contamination issue, the news will issue a boil advisory and state not to drink the water.
She said it because of the flint fiasco and in some states isn’t recommended, also although it also it happens in Europe industry contaminated a lot of water, but I’m not from USA , so someone from their can say it better.
@@santostv. We rank really high in tap water quality, consistently top ~15 in the world. Availability, we do a bit worse than Europe as a whole but we're talking like 97.5% vs 98%. It's actually really annoying to me as an American because I was in Germany like 15 years ago for a long time and *nobody* drank tap water. I did, but people thought I was weird because they drank nothing but bottled mineral water. Now I teach young Germans English and they come here afraid to drink the water because they heard about Flint. I'm like, guys, it's one city that mismanaged their water supply horribly. We're thousands of miles away in the state that has the best water in the country. In the entire time our water has been monitored, we've had like two violations. If we were an independent country we'd have the safest water in the world.
But in my experience, there's this weird quirk that people outside the country, and a few of them inside it, *really* like the idea of things being awful here.
@@benf91 Don’t sh0t the messager, I’m from Europe although from the southern part so we are different than them, I instantly knew why see said but i see plenty Americans drink from the tap in videos, like their said they preffer carbonated water so maybe thats the reason for not drinking from the tap, in my if you have a well you buy bottle water, at home depending some drink from the tap other buy bottled minera water but is because of taste not safety a lot of places have hard water so it tastes “bitter”, also my country is mineral water most only drink carbonated water when they have an upset stomach for example.
Yeah I’m an American. But, of Portuguese Descent. And I just want to say that I’ve almost never ate food while driving! Even seeing people eating while driving, it’s stupid!… only times I’ve eaten while driving is if it’s something light like a snack. Or in my case as a Farmer, I let the GPS on the tractor drive for me until I get to the other side of the field! Haha
A better title would have been "18 minutes of clichéd European snobbery".
Canada is also big and it takes a long time to get from one place to another.
She really had to be careful not promoting drinking alcohol to get to used DWI 😂
In DE it is legal to drink wine and beer from 16, and spirits from 18. DE has a smaller alcoholism problem than the USA.
@@arnodobler1096 Source: your butt, lol, that's not true at all. Europeans and being in denial about their own alcoholism, name a more iconic duo. Okay, besides turning into pretentious self-righteous snobs the minute America comes up.
8:17 We have the most varieties of bread here in Germany. 😅😊 We're in love with bread.😂❤ We also have a thing that we call 'Abendbrot'. We often have it for dinner. 'Abendbrot' means evening bread 😊😅
As far as I know, one of the reasons why people in the US (and Canada) rarely use kettles is because of your power grid. In North America you have 110V, and in Europe we have a 220V system. Microwaves usually top out at ~1000W. A Kettle can draw quite a lot of power, somewhere between 1500 and 3000Watts (power spikes can happen). That's (at 3000W) about 27 Amps, in the US compared to ~14 Amps in Europe. You will not be able to draw 27A from a single outlet...
As an American, We don’t want to be wasteful or a burden on the environment but there just aren’t many options to do otherwise 😢
13:28 That with the sparkling water is not really true. In Switzerland most of the time they ask in the restaurants if you want still water or sparkly water, they also sell allot of different waters when u go grocery shopping, still or sparkly. I personally live in Zürich and there are not allot of people I know that have their own sparkling water device. I know one person that owns it and they’re from Graubünden😂.
You can also order sparkling water in fast food restaurants like mcs.
I don’t know what kind of restaurants she visits but that not really true.
any sauce with an expiration date, that expiration date is only until you open it, after opening, it only lasts a couple of weeks... so...
Very informative video and interesting perspectives. Thank you to the three of you for sharing your thoughts and opinions. As an American who has lived and worked in Europe, I miss many things about Germany. The fresh baked Semmeln. drinking Weissbier or a Radler from a Masskrug while sitting in a Biergarten in Bayern, to enjoying a refreshing Spruedel after a long bike ride (you mentioned carbonated water). I would have loved to have spent more time seeing Switzerland. Looking forward to more of your videos. Vielen Dank!
16:05 The good old zollstock. :)
As an Indian, we are mixed!!
In Austria you can drive with 17
For recycling aluminum cans, in a lot of states they pay by weight. So, some people will bring an entire trash bag full of crushed cans. They'll put it on a scale and pay you.
Or, for curbside collection, they'll subtract the value of the cans from your bill.
German guy has a cool voice.
Hey Landsmann 🇩🇪, schon mal drangedacht Synchronsprecher zu werden?
"I've never heard of this thing that I'm currently doing" lol
As far as walkable, US major cities are the same way. The oldest major cities, that became major cities before the car was invented, such as San Francisco or New York, basically the whole city is walkable throughout. If you're in a major city in the USA you don't really need a car day to day. (although many people choose to use one, and modern cities accommodate both methods, of course.)
The ones that became major cities more recently, such as Los Angeles or San Jose, have many different areas that are walkable, and you get from one to the other either in a car or on public transit. 🙂
recycling and environmental consciousness and health consciousness are all big things in the State of California. We do the recycle bottle deposit thing, although most people just put the bottle in the recycle bin; recycling pickup is included with the city service of picking up trash. 🙂
7:59 actually San Francisco has a unique style of sourdough that was created in San Francisco by various French bakers who came over during the Gold Rush. Quintessentially San Francisco, it is known simply as "San Francisco Sourdough". Fairly easy to get in the Bay Area at a grocery store. I'm not sure if there is a Boudin Bakery in Santa Barbara, but if there is, they sell the world class San Francisco Sourdough there. 🙂 And of course wheat bread with whole grains is readily available in grocery stores. 🙂
Why do people think we can't drink our tap water lmao. Can drink from the hose on a hot summer day playing outside!
Because unfortunately Europeans stereotype us instead of understanding that different places have different cultures and it doesn’t make it wrong. Just look at Elena(the girl from Switzerland). She comes across as snobby to me thinking she’s better than Americans. It doesn’t help that Christina(the American) doesn’t really defend our country or schools them properly in why we do what we need to do. She seems to really just try to apologize for our culture instead which is insulting to us. Unfortunately many Europeans act very snobby towards Americans thinking we are uncultured and yet bitch and complain if we have stereotypes about them, refuse to assist them(i.e solve their problems for them), etc. It’s pathetic actually to think that places have to act like they are better than everyone else. Can’t we all just appreciate the differences with each other and not compare each others cultures? Jeesh. And this is coming from someone who is a military brat who was born in the UK and who has traveled to other countries. I have dual citizenship and both birth certificates for the UK and for the US. I’m over the hate for us Americans. There is nothing wrong with our culture and how we do certain things just like how there’s nothing wrong with other cultures in Europe and some of the things they do over there. Who cares? That’s what makes us all unique.
The uk is the usa of Europe, Switzerland is rich af and they have their “north” European upfront way of speaking, the water thing is because of flint everyone in the world heard about it.
A lot of places cannot drink their tap water, including some places in Europe. She said that Switzerland can drink their tap water to point out that Switzerland can drink it. This wasn't an attack against the USA. Quit playing the victim card on everything.
@@andyx6827 Quit saying stuff that is either wholly untrue or grossly exaggerated about our country and maybe we'll think about it. Seriously, Europeans know next to nothing about America but they watch a couple of movies and think they're an expert.
@@andyx6827 Where in Europe? In my country they only advise not drink from some village fountains because they aren’t monitored, also they removed them in my village for whatever dumb reason so now only the public tank has it, still you can safely drink water everywhere.
Ketchup AT A BUYING CLUB!
The Alps are walkable if you’re hiking 🏔🗻⛰🏕
We have states larger than some countries in Europe. I have to drive 15 miles (~24Km) just to get to the highway that leads to anywhere I need to go.
Europe is slightly bigger than the USA, there’s some people that have 1h commutes in the capital and they live in the neighboring city is more common but is not the norm for most I would say work at max 10-20 min away from work at least in my country, public transportation is also b@d here but the Americans usually are referring to Central Europe.
@@santostv. I lived in a village in germany. I havent enter a train before i was 16 :D We have to do everything by car like americans. Shopping was a 25 minute drive, school was a 40 minute drive by bus every morning. But our citys are more walkable than american ones. And we can walk from villiage to villiage if we want by seperate "streets" for walk/cycle. I walked one of this ways to my best friend often, 30 minutes through the forest (our forests are not dangeours unlike the usa, we have no dangerous animals)
@@xxklesx1 I also live in village but within the city so I guess Americans would consider it the suburbs, i went to school in the city so ~car rides but if i went to kindergarten and primary school in village it would be like 2 min away, here we are car addicts, my city doesn’t have trains for decades, most of the population lives by the coast so if you live in the rest of the country you milage might very, they close a lot of public kindergarten and primary schools because of lack of students, so again it very, shopping we do it by car is because village supermarkets are “overpriced” and lack variety and most work in the cities so you go to supermarkets hypermarkets on your way home but again in metropolis life is a bit different, but from what i see usa people do , walking is more common here besides nyc , people walking with their groceries.
Like I said working in a different city isn’t uncommon here either, but I think most usa citizens take longer commutes because they have highway instead of “normal” road but might be a perspective thing idk, but don’t worry we are getting Americanized so even with aging population we wil be forced to live further from the cities if you are a renter, it’s what politicians and businessmen want to increase their real estate portfolio value.
Again it varies city from city, region to region and type of job you have in my country but public transportation here s*cks maybe compared to the usa is considered good but for us it doesn’t suit the need of the average citizen.
I’m an American who loves Sparking water I just buy it packs at the grocery store. Fancy restaurants will have it too.
It’s funny how the microwave tea water bothers not only the Brits but is something we as European across the board find irritating. 😂
There are places in the city that are walkable. It just depends on what city your in... Also she's tripping. No one is going to the store once a month. Maybe every two weeks but not once a month
coment #32 yeahhh, hugs from colombia
I so wish walkable cities or areas were more common here in the US.
I have never seen a 5 liter soda lmfao 2 only. gallon water and milk!
Why do Europeans think that everyone in the USA drinks bottled water and not tap water? The most famous series like Friends or The Big Bang Theory show the whole world that Sheldon and Leonard always drink bottled water and never tap water.
What's weird is the spelling "wierd" in the video's thumbnail, description, and hashtag. 😂
Good catch! What's especially ironic is that Christina is talking to German and Swiss persons. Unlike the English language, they typically put i after e, so if ever there was a World Friends video that should have correctly spelled it with an 'ei', this would have been it.
Also, it's a pet peeve of mine that people from the US usually mispronounce "voila" as "walla" instead of giving it the hard 'v' sound like the French do. Well, Germans often pronounce 'v' like 'w' too (and 'w' like 'v')-Joshua does it in this very video for other words-yet when it comes time for Joshua to say "voila", he nails it! ...which is also ironic since he's from Germany.
, when I lived in Germany, I loved the wonderful breads of sunflower seeds and pumpkin seeds and more and since I’ve returned to the United States I can’t eat the bread anymore there it’s just not like bread. It’s disgusting. It’s like they took everything out of bread and put vitamins and air in it.
People say buy a bread machine, but oh, I’m a bit lazy for that plus I think the ingredients that you put in the bread machine may still not taste it like the European breads.
Its funny enough in Spain is not weird to microwave a tea if youre in a hurry or not.
You can naturally cook it by kettle better or more old fashioned way in a saucepan as our grandparents do..😊😃
15:09 It is of course a prejudice that food heated in a microwave is unhealthy or dangerous.
The devices themselves are no more dangerous than other methods of heating food, provided the manufacturer and you yourself follow the applicable safety regulations.
Boiling water in a microwave is a waste of energy (not as much as on an electric stove, but still). The most economical are immersion heaters or the modern form of them: kettles.
What I don't like about the microwave is that it heats up porcelain, for example, considerably.
16:01 In northern Germany it is called "Zollstock". There are of course plastic ones. The become so popular because they are often used as promotional gift. I remember we had dozens when I was a child.
I wish that was true in the United States that it’s illegal to eat in the car or on a handheld phone for the driver. I’m guessing many people in the United States would be against that, but it sure would make it a lot safer for other people both for the driver and the people they might hit.
Actually, one time I was using the crosswalk as a walker and a driver almost almost hit me because they were not paying attention as they were turning right, and I had to jump out of the way
It is illegal in every state I've lived lol. And I think just every state. Where do you live that being on the phone while driving is legal?
Joshua Remidnds me an 80s Piano Player...
which one?
@@masaru340 Sonny Crocket from Miami Vice
In Spain you cannot neither buy or drink alcoholic drinks before 18 in any context.
If the microwave is clean, boiled water is exactly the same as when you make it with a kettle, only that it boils water faster.
It's always funny to me how people get skeeved out by microwaves. They don't make your food radioactive or zap the nutrients out of it. It's much like an induction cooktop but with microwave radiation instead of infrared radiation. You can safely heat water with either option. 🙃
She's perpetuating the fear, microwaves are completely safe and aren't unhealthy in any way. It's totally ok to use em to defrost your frozen meats, steam veggies, maybe make oatmeal, all drinks etc.
2:38 the photo shows the crossing Goethestrasse / Rothofstrasse in Frankfurt, a typical German pedestrian zone (Fußgängerzone)
For the second part of the video it was a bit strange to have the Swiss woman included. The first two things (deposit on bottles and cans and the “Schultüte”) are not common at all in Switzerland and it just seems strange to have her there and not present something Swiss people do and instead having to help explain things Germans do.
Hii :)
We do have a" schultüte "in Switzerland where i grew up :) so with many things i can relate too 🎉
@@twoworldsof_yerin Ah okay, interesting. Never had and never heard of a “Schultüte” here in Switzerland. At least here in the Zurich area this is totally uncommon.
But still I think it’s a bit strange to have an American, a German AND a Swiss in a video and only have the sections with the names “things Germans do” and “things Americans do”.
We have the bread they’re talking about 🤷🏽♀️and we f water gets hot in the microwave, what’s the big deal?? Isn’t getting the water hot necessary for tea or coffee???
A microwave is common in Germany. It's not dangerous or unhealthy.
I agree, it's non-ionising radiation. They are found in most households in Australia, but so are kettles and increasingly coffee machines.
it's one of those irrational beliefs people have....another one common in Europe is that air conditioning will make you sick. It might stimulate your sinuses in ways you're not used to if you don't normally use AC, but it's not going to make you sick.
Even in parts of the USA that get colder than Europe, we still typically have AC in the house. It might be a portable unit that is only rolled out in summer. Here in California, there is no environmental concern with AC, because when the sun is up in summer, California gets over 80% of our power from the Sun.
AC isn't really optional in California because it does tend to be over 30 C in summer, and 40 C or even 45 C is not uncommon in the summer. But in my opinion, even if a typical summer temperature is 23, I would still want the AC, especially in a typical European house that's designed to trap heat. If it's over 22 and your house is designed to trap heat, it will get VERY hot inside.
It's one of those things, if a European gets AC, he will wonder how he ever got through summer without it. 🙂
@@neutrino78x The Problem with ACs in Germany is, that electricity is more expensive and the government has no real replacement for those shut down nuclear powerplants. Renewable energy is great but it can't cover the whole electricity consumption of the country yet. To close the gap, some coal powerplants are still running and we buy electricity from other European countries. If electricity were plenty and cheap, there would be more ACs.
In public transport vehicles (train and bus), there usually is a good AC installed but they don't switch it on very often or keep it at a very low level.
@@Headhunter-5000
" the government has no real replacement for those shut down nuclear powerplants. "
I'm not sure how this is a reason not to use AC.
Nuclear is clean, dude. No CO2 emissions. Doesn't contribute to climate change in ANY way.
I served on nuclear powered submarines in the USN, and though I wasn't a nuclear tech, I'm Qualified in Submarines, so I know a lot more about nuclear power than most people do.
Trust me, it's perfectly safe.
"Renewable energy is great but it can't cover the whole electricity consumption of the country yet."
So? Between solar, wind, and nuclear, you're covered. Germany might need to build solar and wind out more, but this isn't a reason not to run AC.
" If electricity were plenty and cheap, there would be more ACs."
Ok, so, do it. Here in my apartment we pay about 100 USD for electricity each month in summer, and we have a window mounted AC which we need to use a lot because it's California.
California is also 90% zero emission when the sun is up. (about 83% solar/wind/geothermal, and then we also have one nuclear power plant, which is about 10% of our power, and we also have 5 GW of hydroelectric.)
You can always put a solar panel on your roof if you're concerned about CO2 emissions.
@@Headhunter-5000
Nils, I was just looking it up; it looks like you guys are about 55-60% zero emission, about the same as California. Of course, that's over the course of a year. Earlier today, California was about 96% zero emission. (we have 300 days of sunshine a year....on those days, it's typically 90+ percent zero emission in the daytime and around 50% at night. We store the solar power in the world's largest energy storage system, 10.3 GWh and growing, mostly paid for and owned by the private sector. Another 4 GWh is expected to be added this year by the private sector, and the goal right now is 52 GWh by 2050.)
Anyway, Germany's grid is clean enough that there shouldn't be a concern with CO2 as a result of AC. You would mainly run AC during the day, and there's more zero emission power available at that time.
I can understand "I personally can't afford $500 for a portable AC" (I'm pretty broke myself, it happens), but what I can't understand is people who can afford but they refuse to for some weird reason. Like with the French, they have an irrational fear of AC (And they're 80% nuclear, no climate concerns there either), in English it's called "current of air", they think a cold breeze will give them the Black Death.
Like I said, if a given individual is concerned about CO2 from use of AC, they can always have solar installed on their roof. Surely the German government subsidizes that to some extent? I think the US Federal Government subsidizes it 30% or something like that. In California it pays for itself in about six years. 🙂
German guy seems like a character from a romantic comedy where the American girl travels to Europe and fall in love
😂❤
Technically eating in the car in most US cities is also illegal, it's just under the general umbrella term of "distracted driving" (cell phones are thrown in there too). It's just not a law that many people get hit with, you get places like In 'n Out even ask you "would you like to eat this in the car" even if you're a solo person in a drive through.
Gallon of milk is not strange, because milk is often had with a lot of meals, and is also pasturized too not raw milk where it may be in Europe so it does last longer. And no one has 5 liters of ketchup unless you're selling hot dogs or other food that uses it.
Bread... not sure where she grew up, but we have more than white bread here, way more options.
Also don't get the aversion to using a microwave to heat water, the fact she said "we see those as dangerous", it's not like there's uranium in them to make heat or anything.
as a swiss person, the swiss girl doesn't understand that paper straws come from california 😂. The one environmental invention from the US is the worst one.
Yep European neighborhoods are engineered way differently than the US. Most Western European countries have mixed zoning aka residential mixed with commercial for all neighborhoods but US has spawl neighborhood engineering where residential is not mixed with commercial. Which I think is so annoying because my small town I have to drive at least 5 miles just to go to a decent grocery store.😅
One of my friends is American and I saw her putting a cup of water in the microwave to make tea... I almost fainted 😂
Diese deutsche Schlaftablette..
I don’t know why Europeans get so upset that we heat water in the microwave? It’s all electric whether it’s in a microwave or an electric kettle or on an electric stove top! It’s all the same!!🤦🏻
And it is a generalisation anyway. Not all Europe is the same. Here in Spain we use the microwave often too because we don't have electric kettles (just coffee machines).
Tea has been known for thousands of years and nowdays is accepted all over the world. Preparing and drinking tea (or coffie) is small ritual for inner satisfaction and peace. Can't explain but when someone use microwave to heat water for tea its like you are washing your hands with gloves on.
@@Mrpeacemaker2 It’s all electricity no matter which way the water is heated. Sorry not sorry.
Thinking they could have a gas stove, not electric. Just putting myself in their shoes. However, a microwave is not comparable to an electric stove top either. The way it heats food up is very different and an electric stove top, although electric, is more natural in comparison.
I don’t think the tea taste the same in a microwave, I’ve tried all three ways microwave, tea, kettle, and electric tea kettle
3:30 wrong, eating drinking and smoking while driving are not forbidden in either Germany or switzerland, had to look it up. Yes other activities like using your cellphones are forbidden but minor things like drinking or eating something are not forbidden.
Look at that distinguished gentleman
21 is a bit extreme from Canadian perspective. Either 18 or 19 here too.
Really, there is no sparkling water in restaurants in switzerland? Just at home? Thats weird. In Austria sparkling water in Restaurants is quite common, and is also often bought in the 1L Bottle, for example if you order Wine for a table you order a 1 liter bottle of sparkling water in addition to make yourself a 50:50 mixture of wine and water (AT: "Gspritzten", DE: "Weinschorle").
That was just wrong. I don’t know a single restaurant that does not offer sparkling water.
Plastic bags and disposable dishes is less than 1% of all plastic. So I don´t see that Europeans really try to be different in that case, except for being different in judging people, maybe.
W8 what's that middle one* doin there Unwanted girl just need Christina & Joshua
not only do people in the americans not have real bread, they also roast us, that our bread is too hard 🤦 it has a hard crust so it doesnt dryout without being in plastic. if its too hard, you are too soft
Lol not me watching this while eating in my car
She goes food shopping once a month? Wtf
The American girl does nothing to explain what life is really like in America she just apologizes and agrees with everything the Europeans say. It's like she doesn't even know her own country 🤦♂️
classic murica tourists 😂