European Reacts to Things That Only Exist in America

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  • @douglascampbell9809
    @douglascampbell9809 3 місяці тому +46

    All waste water is treated in the US. By the time it gets back into nature the water is actually cleaner than what you will find in a river.

    • @logikx1325
      @logikx1325 3 місяці тому +5

      And a lot of communities turn the organic sludge into mulch after sterilizing it.

    • @brianhums5056
      @brianhums5056 3 місяці тому +1

      Keep telling yourself that! Wow!

    • @catherinesearles1194
      @catherinesearles1194 3 місяці тому +4

      @brianhums5056 you're one of those.....Carry on I suppose

    • @Sunset553
      @Sunset553 3 місяці тому

      @@douglascampbell9809 I used to test the treated wastewater at an oil refinery to see if it was safe to release. It’s reassuring when you test it yourself

    • @kleindropper
      @kleindropper 3 місяці тому +2

      ​@@brianhums5056 you mean facts?

  • @revgurley
    @revgurley 3 місяці тому +28

    For Girl Scout Cookies, you only have 4 months - January through April - to buy them. That makes the huge sales even more impressive. Only sold by girls and young ladies - no advertising - a Girl Scout neighbor usually comes to the door in January asking how many boxes of cookies and what flavors you want. Though rather expensive for a box ($4 - I think), you can't help but order about 5 boxes. Some Thin Mints to go in the fridge or freezer (mint cookies best served COLD), or Samoas (coconut, caramel, on a cookie drizzled with chocolate). The girl returns a few weeks later with your boxes and you pay her. Imagine each house in America buying at least one box each year. It totally funds the Girl Scouts. (BTW, Girl Scouts teach young girls basic skills - from camping/firestarting, to horseback riding, to computer code. Each item they master, they get a patch sewn onto their Girl Scout sash. My mother was a Girl Scout in the 1940s, and I was in the 1970s. It's a great after-school activity that teaches teamwork, important skills, and self-esteem).

    • @slgibbs1
      @slgibbs1 3 місяці тому

      If you MUST have them the rest of the year, Dollar general has a few knockoffs. I can't believe the factory sits idle for 6 months or more

  • @GeraldWalls
    @GeraldWalls 3 місяці тому +11

    7:55 Betty White was older than (commercially-available) Sliced Bread (1928). She died in late December 2021, three weeks shy of 100.

  • @richardmartin9565
    @richardmartin9565 3 місяці тому +16

    Food is biodegradable if it's real food, water isn't wasted when it is routed to a water treatment plant. I assume a lot of communities have them by now.

  • @donaldstewart8342
    @donaldstewart8342 3 місяці тому +7

    Garbage disposals do not dump into the environment untreated,it goes to the same place as toilet waste and is treated the same way

  • @tking747
    @tking747 3 місяці тому +73

    I hate advertisements for prescription meds. If you listen to the side effects, you would never take them anyway.

    • @eileenegger1466
      @eileenegger1466 3 місяці тому +5

      There was a time when it was illegal to to advertise prescription meds.

    • @protorhinocerator142
      @protorhinocerator142 3 місяці тому

      @@eileenegger1466 It was also illegal for lawyers to advertise. But then a bunch of lawyers decided to change that.

    • @Timbothruster-fh3cw
      @Timbothruster-fh3cw 3 місяці тому +3

      ​@@eileenegger1466 Wish it still was

    • @eileenegger1466
      @eileenegger1466 3 місяці тому +3

      @@Timbothruster-fh3cw yes,I remember that there was quite the debate on whether to allow it or not.I don’t think doctors appreciate it either,patients coming in basically requesting certain meds that they saw advertised.

    • @richardmartin9565
      @richardmartin9565 3 місяці тому +2

      For me they're in one ear out the other. They don't apply to me.

  • @Trailerparkrock
    @Trailerparkrock 3 місяці тому +26

    Fast food restaurants have free refills when you dine inside..including McDonalds

    • @Brenda-f9y
      @Brenda-f9y 3 місяці тому

      I read recently that McDonald's is getting rid of free refills. They may have already for all I know since I very rarely go there.

    • @protorhinocerator142
      @protorhinocerator142 3 місяці тому +1

      @@Brenda-f9y Nobody eats there anymore.

    • @Brenda-f9y
      @Brenda-f9y 3 місяці тому

      @@protorhinocerator142 we had one literally about a block away from my apartment where I lived a little over a year ago and I hated going there because they couldn't even get a simple drink order right let alone a food order. I went in once and ordered a Coke but was given milk which I'm lactose intolerant so couldn't drink anyways even if I wanted to.

  • @jodeeps2287
    @jodeeps2287 3 місяці тому +10

    I don’t have a garbage disposal, I compost my food scraps (the type that can be composted) The people I know that have a garbage disposal don’t use them very much because they get clogged a lot (they must be putting everything down the garbage disposal 🤷‍♀️) I never have shopped Black Fridays because I am a nurse and never had that day off plus I dislike crowds. I used to not like prescription drug commercials but now I think it is a good thing for the public to be aware of medications that they can discuss with their doctors and also be aware of all the side effects. Doctors are great but they are human, people tend to think their Dr knows everything and don’t question them. The ads help give us more control over our own health.

  • @ellinganderson5434
    @ellinganderson5434 3 місяці тому +18

    Spray cheese was originally invented by the Swiss for the British market and Canadian James Kraft was the first to patent it

  • @slgibbs1
    @slgibbs1 3 місяці тому +10

    Andre- some history., In 1971 the Us legalized the vote for 18 year olds. The reason? Many 18 year olds were being sent to Vietnam to die, but yet they could not legally vote. This was very unpopular with us baby boomers. There was a lot of turmoil and rioting at this time. So, the government caved in to pressure from the younger generation.

  • @AlystraKriss
    @AlystraKriss 3 місяці тому +14

    Girl Scout cookies are unique to them and made specifically for them as a fund raising event each year. They are only sold by the girls in the Scouts door to door or at temporary stands outside of stores. Moms and dads will bring order sheets to work for their daughters and pass them around for employees to order. It’s a pretty big deal. The Girls Scouts and Boy Scouts of America have been teaching kids life skills for decades. I was in the Scouts as a young girl and loved going every week!

    • @broncobra
      @broncobra 3 місяці тому +2

      Thin Mints! OMG? Good Luck and God Bless, sweetheart! I would empty my wallet to help out the Girl Scouts? (and get me some thin mints) Put them in the freezer, then chow down, lol.
      Win/Win.

    • @broncobra
      @broncobra 3 місяці тому +1

      You are right about the teaching of life skills. I was a boy scout. Went to summer camps and everything? Camped out. Learned a lot. Did you gals have camp outs and stuff?
      I never paid much attention to that kind of stuff. Did you earn merit badges and stuff? Really curious now. Just want to know.

    • @wandapease-gi8yo
      @wandapease-gi8yo 3 місяці тому +2

      When I was with the US Civilian Service in Germany the list of who wanted what cookies, and we bought by the case and the cookies went into freezers all over West Germany!

    • @AlystraKriss
      @AlystraKriss 3 місяці тому +1

      @@broncobra yes we did! We has patches to earn 😃

    • @broncobra
      @broncobra 3 місяці тому

      @@wandapease-gi8yo You absolutely ROCK, sweetie? Take care. My town is predominatly Swedish. Gothenburg Nebraska.Home of the Swedes. Lot's of Germans here as well.
      Would love to come visit? Love ya lot's? I own a Luger? (the gun) Not that it matters, but I love German stuff. lol. It's one of my prized possessions.

  • @ScribbleScrabbless
    @ScribbleScrabbless 3 місяці тому +10

    In case people haven't seen the movie from the spray cheese clip. It's called Earth Girls are Easy, with Jim Carrey, Gina Davis, Jeff Goldblum, and Damon Wayans.

  • @BTinSF
    @BTinSF 3 місяці тому +3

    Since my 20s (I'm 78), every home I've lived in has had a garbage disposal and I don't believe they are worse for the environment. The sewage "solids" where ground up food eventually ends up can be, and often is dried and used as fertilizer just like compost.

  • @russchadwell
    @russchadwell 3 місяці тому +7

    What's often VERY odd about pharmaceutical ads is that I SPECIFICALLY CANNOT DIRECTLY BUY the advertised product. Only a doctor can. Or, then I could IF my doctor first prescribes it to me... And then, yeah I buy it at the pharmacy.

    • @Ltlmscrl
      @Ltlmscrl 3 місяці тому

      Doctors and their staff HATE pharmaceutical ads. Patients come in demanding prescriptions, and they don’t understand that if there’s a commercial for it, it’s unlikely to be covered by insurance because it’s new and doesn’t have a generic version.

  • @mbourque
    @mbourque 3 місяці тому +8

    10:09
    a couple of things here... when the draft was enacted for the Vietnam War... the voting age was 21 and the drinking age was 18. but there was an uproar about the draft forcing 18 year old's to die in a war but they couldn't have a say in the political process that was sending them to that war... this was the same argument that got Men the Right to vote in the first place. it was only landowners up until that point (regardless of gender). so when the Draft was first made into law in the 1800s, they had to give Men the Right to vote in the political process that was sending them to wars... this was again used to lower the age to 18 for when the Draft was actually used in the 1970s...
    different to that was the drinking age... it was 18 throughout most of the history of the U.S.... that is until the organization called MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) protested and used studies that showed that young adults' largest cause of death was drunk driving (also they caused a large amount of deaths because of this). so they convinced Congress to pass a law raising the drinking age to 21, which they stated would significantly cut down on the amount of drunk driving deaths... and while it did reduce it somewhat, it wasn't nearly the amount they were promising, but government is slow to change, so it didn't matter after that.. I remember this well, because I was 18 at the time, so I was 'grandfathered' in and could still buy alcohol at the time legally (although I never really drank much anyways). those that were already 18, 19, or 20 at the time the law passed were allowed to continue buying legally... and while nowadays, you mainly see older people drunk driving, it still happens with teens as well, but usually the underaged ones are the most doing it, (15-17) so it has little impact there... I (and many others) feel that the main problem was that teens weren't taught how to be responsible at home when they drank (because most parents did allow them to drink at all anyways), so when they could sneak it or could legally start, they didn't know how to temper their behavior or to not drive in that condition, because they were never taught. thus they did dangerous behavior while drunk more often...
    side note: nearly every State allows children (under 21) to drink as long as they are with their parent or legal guardian at the time the do it... example In Texas, any child can drink (and get drunk) as long as their parent or designated adult (approved by the parents) is present. on private property (your home) or even in public or private business (like restaurants)... most people don't know this or do it, but it is allowed by law... I let my 14 year old have a glass of red wine one time out at a restaurant and the waitress about had a conniption and refused to server her. I had to call the manager and they didn't know either and I had to look up the law and show them... the waitress still refused, but the manager took care of it and changed our waitress... this was over a decade ago.

  • @boroblueyes
    @boroblueyes 3 місяці тому +7

    I love Girl Scout cookies and hate all commercials but especially pharmaceutical commercials.

  • @mbourque
    @mbourque 3 місяці тому +6

    it got up to 92*F (33.33333C) with 98% humidity so the Heat Index was 102*F (38.88889C) here in South Louisiana... looking at your weather, the airport in Lisbon got up to 73*F (22.77778C) with 87% humidity.

    • @catherinesearles1194
      @catherinesearles1194 3 місяці тому +1

      @mbourque I'd take 73 right now with humidity it's way better than 95 with 100%.humidity it's like breathing in pea soup

    • @rhondaeverett8284
      @rhondaeverett8284 3 місяці тому

      Las Vegas hits 119 tomorrow, and we want to punch the tourists that say "but its a dry heat".😂 (in actuality i wouldnt trade it for 95 with 90 percent humidity) 😮 today 116

    • @catherinesearles1194
      @catherinesearles1194 3 місяці тому +1

      Granted 119 is scorching...at least it's not 119 and no trying to breathe pea soup instead of O2

    • @rhondaeverett8284
      @rhondaeverett8284 3 місяці тому +1

      @catherine true

    • @anonygent
      @anonygent 2 місяці тому

      Hmmm...

  • @lightninger2206
    @lightninger2206 3 місяці тому +11

    McDonald's does have free refills. Super Size as a size no longer exists now as far as I know.

    • @robynbeach3198
      @robynbeach3198 3 місяці тому +4

      They got rid of it after the movie

    • @notabot3375
      @notabot3375 3 місяці тому

      I think he meant the McDonalds where he lives.

    • @Brenda-f9y
      @Brenda-f9y 3 місяці тому

      I read recently that McDonald's is getting rid of free refills.

  • @NancyCusimano-o8u
    @NancyCusimano-o8u 3 місяці тому +3

    American cheese is good. Very processed, once in a while...grilled cheese and tomato soup is awesome 👍

  • @marklar7551
    @marklar7551 3 місяці тому +1

    Waste disposal from the sink in suburbs isn't an issue for a couple of reasons, but it is not a garbage disposal unit. If you want your pipes to stay clear, toss bulk items into compost or trash because the disposal unit is for more like plate scrapings and crumbs. Water treatment hates fat and oils, but enzymes neet some of that stuff to treat the water effectively.

  • @OkiePeg411
    @OkiePeg411 3 місяці тому +1

    Most "American" food items... American cheese, white bread, etc. were invented during wartime or the depression. We needed bread and cheese (staple food items) to last longer and sold in bulk for cheap. Huge blocks of cheese were actually given away as commodities to the poor. That cheese didn't have to be refrigerated and could feed a large family. White bread was very cheap and didn't spoil as quickly as bakery bread. It fed a lot of starving people.

  • @lavenderoh
    @lavenderoh 3 місяці тому +23

    This narrator was wrong on a lot. Especially the cheese section. I don't know literally ANYONE who eats spray cheese EVER, except once in their life just to try it. Snd American cheese is NOT American, it was invented in Switzerland and popularized in Canada. It's called "American" because it's from North America,not the USA. Super sizing hasn't been around in at least a decade, typically you can choose medium or large and even small at some places.
    White bread isn't American, it's English. And it's far from the most popular in America. It's just sandwich bread, not the only bread we eat.
    MANY countries use imperial units, and we use BOTH metric and imperial in America. Every single day! We are taught both from kindergarten.

    • @fluffyou9276
      @fluffyou9276 3 місяці тому

      But cats and dogs LOVE spray cheese, so ofc I buy it for them. :)

    • @darleneshriver3270
      @darleneshriver3270 3 місяці тому

      Spray cheese and the American cheese are not really cheese! Look at the horrible additives in them!

    • @protorhinocerator142
      @protorhinocerator142 3 місяці тому +3

      Spray cheese used to be more popular in the 70's when it was still a novel idea.
      They had something like it where you get a tube of cheese about the shape of a small sausage and there's a a cap on the side. You squeeze the tube and the cheese oozes out in a cross shape like a PlayDoh pump. It tasted about the same, which is Cheez Whiz level quality. Not that great.

    • @dalemoore8582
      @dalemoore8582 3 місяці тому

      ​@fluffyou9276 please don't feed your dog or cat that crap. Chemicals, preservatives; it's awful animals

  • @Big_Tex
    @Big_Tex 3 місяці тому +21

    Black Friday is really no longer a thing. It started fading years ago with online shopping. Everyone’s got the day off so maybe more traffic than a usual Friday but the old stereotypes are long gone.

    • @eileenegger1466
      @eileenegger1466 3 місяці тому +2

      Black Friday was a thing long before there was internet shopping. That’s when stores would have their best sales of the Christmas season.

    • @protorhinocerator142
      @protorhinocerator142 3 місяці тому

      Black Friday is tied to American Thanksgiving. So it makes sense other countries wouldn't have it.

    • @marydavis5234
      @marydavis5234 3 місяці тому

      @@protorhinocerator142 Canadians thanksgiving is in October

    • @protorhinocerator142
      @protorhinocerator142 3 місяці тому

      @@marydavis5234 Correct. Because the harvest is earlier, since cold weather sets in earlier.
      So Black Friday must seem like some rando day.

    • @stacydepoe974
      @stacydepoe974 3 місяці тому

      Just depends where you live. It's still a thing here in my state

  • @RB-vd3fv
    @RB-vd3fv 3 місяці тому +1

    I love the pharmaceutical ads. Many doctors are pushed to prescribe ertain drugs. The ads give you options to discuss with your doctor. This allows you to determine with your doctor what best meets your needs. Many people wouldnt know their options without the ads.

  • @revgurley
    @revgurley 3 місяці тому +3

    Spray cheese, and peanut butter, are the best ways to get kids to eat celery. Spread some down the middle.

  • @toddabbott781
    @toddabbott781 3 місяці тому +1

    American cheese is a processed cheese. It is at least 51% real cheese with sodium citrate added so it can be pasteurized. They often add emulsifiers so it melts smoothly A good chunk of the remainder is usually milk fat and milk or cheese whey and such. It is not all chemicals. That also add salt and coloring and possibly a deacidify agent. It is not as horrible as people make it out to be. Most of these things like cheese spray is likely just based on American cheese but falls below the 51% real cheese. The main thing they are supposed to be used for is with a star slit tip you can add it to crackers to look fancy kind of like what they do with the star tips for frosting cakes. The taste is not bad. Some put it on sandwiches. Processed cheese because of the emulsifiers is great for making smooth melted cheese. If you have ever has queso then you have had it. We also use a LOT of real cheese too. I doubt American cheese comes close to the sales number of other cheese like Colby-jack, pepper0jack, cheddar, or mozzarella. I have maybe bought them 2-3 times in my life and I eat a lot of cheese.
    Yes I have a garbage disposal, but if you cram a bunch down it you are just going to plug up your plumbing. Like if I hard-boil a bunch of eggs and peal or peel a bunch of potatoes I and going to throw most of it in the garbage and only wash what is left down the garbage disposal. And it does not waste much water as you can turn it one when you are doing the dishes. You only need to run it for a few seconds. And most of the solids in the sewer is treated and used as fertilizer for cattle feed mostly. The liquids are treated with bacteria and for several hours then the bacteria is killed off by chlorine, O2, or UV lights before being released into a river usually.
    Soda is dirt cheap. Free refills cost maybe 10 cents on a drink you likely paid over $2.50 for. Limiting soda intake is not the government's business. It also limits diet soda too. They actually limit the size of drink in some states (or the used to. I think that was in New York. But if the heat is bad and you are trying to rehydrate before going back to work in the heat these policies are brutal and evil. And don't tell me diet is bad for you. It is 10x better than real sugar (or corn syrup, or any other sweetener). Sugar is just horrible in general and almost everybody eats way too much sugar... not just Americans. And carbs are not great and yes the body processes them into sugars but far slower so it is not as bad. Even fruits are not that healthy. The human diet should be meats and vegies with some carbs and fruits and very little sugar. Sugar is far worse than fat even.
    Super sizing is a thing, but not as big as it used to be.
    Black Friday is nothing like it used to be as most get their deals online.
    White bread is OK, but nothing special. I like Italian style bread or a heavy bread like Oatnut.
    Girl Scout cookies are OK, but kind of expensive.
    Voting should be 21.
    Metric system is VERY over rated and with the advent of computers it has become a mute point. You come to the US then learn the language, customs, and our measurements or don't come. Don't act like it makes us worse than everybody else because that does not seem to be true in any way.
    I don't know anybody that actually watches cable TV anymore so who cares about commercials on TV. You can not get these prescriptions without you DOCTOR prescribing it. You can ASK your doctor about it, but most understand this is a retail product so it will be EXPENSIVE. I get all generic drugs. Also MOST people are either on their parent's or spouse's insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, or their employer's insurance. Only a small portion have no insurance, 7.7%, and they are typically young adults or children that do not often need medical insurance. Some are just people that likely would be covered by Medicaid but will only apply if they need it as they will go back 3 months from the time you apply and they do not have to re-up every 6-12 months this way. The rest are mostly immigrants that are not eligible for Medicaid. The thing is they just go to the hospitals and don't pay... and there is nothing that most hospitals can do. Same with schools.

  • @janfitzgerald3615
    @janfitzgerald3615 3 місяці тому +1

    The house I grew up in, and every apartment and house I’ve lived in has a garbage disposal. Not all communities have a compost program, mine does. We have a large yard waste container for not only lawn clippings and garden waste, that’s where you dispose of almost all food scraps and other items like pizza boxes. They also give you a small covered container for your kitchen that you put a biodegradable liner in and you empty that into the big container outside. However most apartment and condo complexes may not have a yard waste container so then the garbage disposal is the best option.
    “Composting food waste creates fertilizer to be used in your garden, improves your soil and increases drought resistance. However, not everyone has a yard and some of us don’t have the time or inclination to manage our food scraps by composting. If this is the case, you might consider checking to see if your area has a local business that will provide you with a small compost container and pick it up on a weekly, biweekly, or monthly basis. If that is not convenient or is not an option, the best option for food waste is to put your food scraps down the sink into the disposal. Why? Food scraps placed in the garbage and carried to the landfill decompose and produce methane gas, a greenhouse gas which is far more potent that carbon dioxide. Landfills do have methods to capture these gasses but they are not nearly as efficient as the methods used by wastewater treatment plants. Food scraps that are processed through the disposal travel with the wastewater to the treatment plants where anaerobic digesters capture the methane gas produced during decomposition and convert it to electricity or biofuels.”

  • @Dfourteens
    @Dfourteens 3 місяці тому +5

    Girl Scout cookies are great but overpriced. $5 for a $2 box of cookies. But it is for charity. I think we stay on the Imperial measurement system because we can. How much more American could that be?
    Great video, André!

  • @sandygrunwaldt1780
    @sandygrunwaldt1780 3 місяці тому +2

    We have one. We also have the means to clean our water and most farmers reap the benefits from this.

  • @mbourque
    @mbourque 3 місяці тому +3

    4:32
    nearly every fast food place and most sit down restaurants have free refills as long as you are still within the building... even McD's the fast food ones usually have a drink machine in the lobby for customers to use to get their drink in the first place and to use to also get refills... but just don't be like homer and make a nuisance of yourself....

  • @bharre
    @bharre 3 місяці тому +2

    FYI: Garbage disposals may not exist in New York City. The Waste Disposal Union was able to get them outlawed in buildings throughout the city. A congresswoman from NYC (AOC) shared a video after she arrived at her residence in Washington DC, not understanding what the garbage disposal was. As far as I know, they are still outlawed throughout New York City.

    • @Andrew-qu7lq
      @Andrew-qu7lq 3 місяці тому +1

      I was wondering where that 50% number could have possibly been. Every home and apartment I've ever seen had a garbage disposal.

  • @KimberlyCaldwell-xb2if
    @KimberlyCaldwell-xb2if 3 місяці тому +1

    The super-sized size for McDonald's was removed over 15 years ago shortly after 'super-size me' a documentary in 2004

  • @luxleather2616
    @luxleather2616 3 місяці тому +3

    Thin Mints is the most popular kind of girl scout cookies to the point places like Dairy Queen use them while they are in season....I learned both Metric & Imperial in school plus products have both on the labels....its been over 110°F/43°F here in Arizona for weeks now

    • @protorhinocerator142
      @protorhinocerator142 3 місяці тому

      The other day in WalMart I noticed they had a Great Value brand cookie that looked a whole lot like the Girl Scout Samoa cookies.
      I bought a pack and they were the same exact thing only more of them for a much lower price. Yum.
      They're called caramel coconut and fudge cookies. I'm not sure if you can buy them online internationally, but it's worth a shot. They're really good.

  • @QB405
    @QB405 3 місяці тому +1

    Most of the time, people tune out commercials or skip over them completely. And yes, the pharmaceutical commercials are annoying, but at least you hear what the side effects are, and if you find them not worth the risk you can refuse that medication if your doctor wants to prescribe it.

  • @mbourque
    @mbourque 3 місяці тому +1

    7:04
    black friday was getting stupid for awhile there... the first bad one was the year that 'tickle me elmo' came out.. there were actual fistfights over that stupid toy... then it started being fights over electronics in the following years... stores would only stock about a dozen of an item and advertise it in their 'black friday' sales ad to get people to show up, but when they QUICKLY sold out, people would get very upset and fights would happen, usually over the last couple that hadn't been sold yet... but once the pandemic happened, there were no more 'black fridays' so everyone turned to online shopping for those days and after the pandemic, those crazy scenes didn't happen anymore....

  • @BTinSF
    @BTinSF 3 місяці тому +1

    People cannot be "fooled into buying" anything by drug commercials because the ones people find most objectionable are all for prescription drugs. You can't buy them without a prescription from a doctor. Many doctors (I am one) hate them because they result in people who've seen a commercial hounding the doctor for a particular drug they may not need or may not even be good for them. Sometimes, though, the response of a good doctor might be, "Yeah, OK, we could try that." People should, however, be aware that the advertised drugs are almost exclusively branded products that cost much more than similar generics and even if you have good insurance, your copayment for them might be much higher or they might not even be available with your insurance (right now the GLP-1 weight loss drugs that are advertised everywhere are an example of that).

  • @dwhite849
    @dwhite849 3 місяці тому +1

    garbage disposal - better for environment - it drains to the sewer waste plant and makes water and compost. But - I put 50% of my garbage in the trash - but the little that is left is so nice to flip the switch

  • @radiodare
    @radiodare 3 місяці тому +3

    Supersize isn't theoretically used anymore after backlash from health folks. You can still get large meals however.
    Cheese in a can is gross to many Americans.
    Black Friday is no longer a major event since Amazon, but there have been events of people getting assaulted during this event several years back.
    White bread is amazing. So versatile, make toast and sandwiches. Stores well in freezer.
    I'm against imperial units but i grew up with it. Converting is a pain in the butt. Metric system makes more sense.

    • @rhondaeverett8284
      @rhondaeverett8284 3 місяці тому +1

      Many places have begun charging for refills.

    • @radiodare
      @radiodare 2 місяці тому +1

      @@rhondaeverett8284 and after all the recent price increases as well. Glad I'm doing more delivery grocery!

  • @neutrino78x
    @neutrino78x 3 місяці тому +2

    Andre as far as the drug ads, one should note that most of the drugs advertised on TV require a prescription from a doctor. Your doctor isn't going to give you an antidepressant randomly; you would have to be evaluated by a psychiatrist. 🙂 Same for a blood thinner...if you don't have any blood pressure issues, s/he's not going to prescribe that. 🙂

  • @jamiekingsolver922
    @jamiekingsolver922 3 місяці тому +1

    I'm not against the medical care commercials. My dad had been taking a certain medication and wasn't feeling well. We saw a commercial advertising that drugs side effects. He went to the doctor, and because of that , he was taken off and switched to a medication that was better for him. So, I think it brings awareness to the drug a doctor may give.

  • @42Ccastro
    @42Ccastro 3 місяці тому +2

    I have a waste disposal in my apartment but I only use it for small scraps. I live in Maryland

  • @OkiePeg411
    @OkiePeg411 3 місяці тому +1

    Anything put in a sink disposal is organic matter. Food scraps... no paper, metal, bones. It is NOT bad for the environment!! The waste water is sent to a waste water treatment plant , and the methane is captured for energy.
    Otherwise, all that food waste would be put into the landfill... which really isn't good for the environment.
    I have an older home, and I live on a ½ acre. Therefore, I don't have a sink disposal. My food waste is put into an area at the back of my property for composting. People in town or in apartments may not have that option.

  • @andyv2209
    @andyv2209 3 місяці тому +10

    i wonder why you call it american bread when the english are responsible for inventing that kind of bread. idk why they video said its only popular in the usa, its THE bread in the uk, but in the us we really only use it for sandwiches.

    • @ScribbleScrabbless
      @ScribbleScrabbless 3 місяці тому

      The difference between English and American bread is the added sugar in the United States. Some people from the UK find our bread overly sweet.

    • @ScribbleScrabbless
      @ScribbleScrabbless 3 місяці тому

      I agree with you btw 😊

    • @andyv2209
      @andyv2209 3 місяці тому +1

      @@ScribbleScrabbless some of it is, because it keeps it more shelf stable, but its only a couple teaspoons more, well, depending on where you are. i think in the south they add a bit more than where i am in the northeast. fast food bread tho, yeah thats all significantly sweeter than normal.

    • @protorhinocerator142
      @protorhinocerator142 3 місяці тому +3

      My aunt lived next to a small bakery and would sometimes go inside and talk to the owner. I got to see all the baking machines and the thing with 30 blades that slices up the bread before it goes in the bag. Of course it smelled wonderful in there.

  • @Sunset553
    @Sunset553 3 місяці тому +7

    I read recently that the US is officially on the metric system.
    I use my garbage disposal; I don’t eat white bread or spray cheese. American cheese is what’s on fast food burgers, so I occasionally have that.

    • @catherinesearles1194
      @catherinesearles1194 3 місяці тому

      @Sunset553 American cheese is sold in deli's and sliced per order. Those cheese slices that are wrapped are cheese food but melts nicely in grilled cheese, eggs or a burger. It's not used in fast food establishments

    • @Sunset553
      @Sunset553 3 місяці тому +1

      @@catherinesearles1194 what’s on the burgers? 🍔

    • @Sunset553
      @Sunset553 3 місяці тому

      @@catherinesearles1194 this is very surprising. I can’t digest cheese and now I wonder if I ever had any American cheese in my life.

    • @catherinesearles1194
      @catherinesearles1194 3 місяці тому

      ​@Sunset553 its actual american cheese sliced a little thicker than deli, its not singles, like kraft singles, you can taste the difference.

    • @catherinesearles1194
      @catherinesearles1194 3 місяці тому

      @sunset553 if your main source of American cheese was individually wrapped slices than no you haven't.

  • @tabithastoll247
    @tabithastoll247 3 місяці тому +2

    I mean, I hate the pharmaceutical commercials, but it's not like you can just go get them without a prescription from your doctor. You have to discuss your situation with your doctor and if they agree it's right for you, then they'll write you a prescription. If they don't think it's good for you, they will tell you that and find a safer alternative.

  • @smokymthiker
    @smokymthiker 3 місяці тому +2

    I've never had spray cheese 🧀 or participated in Black Friday, which isn't a holiday. It was legal to drink when I turned 18. Law was changed under pressure due to accidents and deaths. Don't see the point of drug commercials. Your doctor has to prescribe them.

  • @JulesfromHouston
    @JulesfromHouston 3 місяці тому +1

    I have actually never lived in a house WITHOUT a garbage disposal. We don't consider them bad for the environment because our waste management systems are very good and the waste is cleared before the water is released back into the environment. 🤠

  • @introvertedrat
    @introvertedrat 3 місяці тому +1

    Andre your channel is growing so fast I love your videos❤

  • @alynegranado8411
    @alynegranado8411 2 місяці тому

    I have had a garbage disposal in every place i live. It's not really that bad for the environment. Of course, you could save all of it and create a compost for an outdoor garden, but you dont have to. The waste products go to our water treatment plants and are filtered out as they clean our water for re-use.

  • @elliottgatehouse6568
    @elliottgatehouse6568 3 місяці тому +1

    I have one and love it. You don't have a BBQ, you have a grill. You could have free refills because it cost very little to
    give away. Everybody buys girl scout cookies. Check out how many cookies they sell. It's not tricky, you have to have a prescription from your Doctor. If it's a shady business them stop or don't take any medicine.

  • @sshimmy2258
    @sshimmy2258 3 місяці тому +4

    We use both the metric and imperial units in USA

  • @gabytheonedd2695
    @gabytheonedd2695 3 місяці тому +1

    I was born in the early 1970s. When I was in school everyone was taught both systems. And because of it I can do many conversions in my head still to this day. Just one of the reasons I'm glad I grew up when I did - they actually taught useful things. I don't think they teach metric at all in school anymore.
    I don't have a garbage disposal and most people I know don't either. I've lived in multiple states and multiple areas within those states and only 2 places had garbage disposals and I never used them. I suspect that they are more popular in certain regions and types of houses than others - however maybe I just never happened to move those areas where they are common.

  • @SirTrollerDerby
    @SirTrollerDerby 2 місяці тому

    Black Friday can be positively dangerous. Sometimes fights break out over popular sales items.

  • @jesselenz5452
    @jesselenz5452 2 місяці тому

    It is easy enough to order a garbage disposal online. It can connect to your existing plumbing. The only thing you will need is way to plug it in and a switch to activate that outlet, because the device itself does not have a power cut off. Only the outlet.

  • @Diegokid
    @Diegokid 3 місяці тому

    Black Friday is insane here. I hated having to work that day. One of the stores that used to work at had to pay double time to get anybody to work the morning shift. Still it was hard to get enough coverage.

  • @cbicnone2228
    @cbicnone2228 3 місяці тому +2

    I don't eat "American cheese", it's prossesed. There are soo many good real cheese out there in other countries.

  • @whitepearlreaper
    @whitepearlreaper 2 місяці тому +1

    Black Friday rushes like that aren't nearly as common these days, since all deals are either crap now, or just online.

  • @kmlameattempt
    @kmlameattempt 3 місяці тому +5

    I'm in America in Massachusetts and I actually don't currently have a garbage disposal, but almost every other place that I've lived in has had one. It's not really a big deal to not have one but they can certainly be convenient.
    I feel like spray cheese is always showing up on lists like this but it's honestly not that popular in America. The most common reason that I see people talk about it is usually because someone is reacting to a video like this one! It's not the kind of thing that normally see I at peoples' homes, though I don't always look in cabinets.
    Girl Scout cookies are popular! I think they're usually only sold in March and April and you usually have to know a Girl Scout or know where they might set up a stand. I often see them outside Walmart in March and April selling cookies, but I also have a Girl Scout next-door that I can buy cookies from. There are roughly around five dollars a box and they have all different types. I think you would like them a lot!
    As for the drug commercials, they almost always require a prescription so people aren't really in danger of getting their hands on ones that they shouldn't be taking. They are usually intended to attract people to them so that they go talk to their doctor about them and convince their doctor to prescribe them. I pretty much don't pay attention to them unless I see an issue that I'm suffering from.

    • @ScribbleScrabbless
      @ScribbleScrabbless 3 місяці тому

      @@kmlameattempt when I moved out of my parents house they were not as common, but in the last 20 years most of the apartments/houses I've lived in had a garbage disposal. But only two have had air conditioning.

  • @BigBirdBigDaddy
    @BigBirdBigDaddy 3 місяці тому +1

    I love Girl Scout cookies. I buy a bunch of boxes for myself and family every year lol. Thin mints are my favorite, and I believe it’s one of their best sellers. 😀

  • @samical8982
    @samical8982 3 місяці тому

    miles and lbs are easy for quick conversion - KM is .6 miles and there are 2.2 lbs in a KG - for easy rough conversion

  • @gallifreyanrefugee7982
    @gallifreyanrefugee7982 2 місяці тому

    for black friday people normally dont fight. I think that usually mostly happens in cities. But I never been to a place where anyone fought. people usually create lines for products and are respectful/polite. Now days a lot of stores have their black Friday for 3 days ...Friday Saturday and Sunday. which helps spread out people.

  • @homevideos1749
    @homevideos1749 3 місяці тому +8

    50% seems way low for the number of households with garbage disposals. I've only lived in one house that didn't have one, and that's out of 15 or so.
    Edit: I see some people below saying 50% is too high, so maybe this is a regional thing. I live in Arizona and disposals are in nearly every apartment and house.

    • @Brenda-f9y
      @Brenda-f9y 3 місяці тому +3

      I'm also in Arizona, Tempe, and as far as I can remember I've only lived in 1 or 2 places that didn't have one. 50% seems low to me as well.

    • @edithdufoe853
      @edithdufoe853 3 місяці тому

      It must be regional because I have lived several places and I only recall living in one place which had a disposal.

    • @Brenda-f9y
      @Brenda-f9y 3 місяці тому +1

      @@edithdufoe853 I lived in Missouri until I was 4 years old then moved to Kansas and now in Arizona and even have family in Iowa and Nebraska. Every place I have lived or gone to visit family has had one except for 1 or 2 apartments I have lived in years ago here in Arizona. The 1 or 2 places I lived in that didn't have them are quite literally the only places I have ever heard of here in the US that didn't have them either.

  • @casswatchesthings
    @casswatchesthings 3 місяці тому

    Ohhh Black Friday used to be much worse than it is now. In recent years, stores have spaced out their sales to mitigate the madness. However, 20 years ago stores would see stampedes and fights over high-demand products. It was commercialism at its worst, as people could be trampled or even shot.

  • @cathybrookeburt2616
    @cathybrookeburt2616 2 місяці тому

    I scrape the bulk of the garbage off the dishes into the trash & only rinse the last scraps/crumbs & residue.

  • @Protocol-X
    @Protocol-X 3 місяці тому +1

    Try looking for Havarti cheese. It is very similar to American cheese.

  • @attrezzopox
    @attrezzopox 2 місяці тому

    Super size used to be a big deal. Not so much anymore. There was a documentary about how unhealthy it was so it has basically been eliminated.

  • @mrchips4489
    @mrchips4489 2 місяці тому

    Way back in the 1980's government tried to switch U.S. over to the metric system & started having it taught in grade school. Parents and other adults across the country bulked at it and within a few years, it was given up and we went back to our original system. Adults didn't know the metric system & absolutely did not want to have to learn it; it was a pretty big issue at the time. Some of our signage still shows metric as well as miles but most don't anymore.

  • @j.w.greenbaum7809
    @j.w.greenbaum7809 2 місяці тому

    I’m a 76 year old American and never have bought or eaten spray cheese and have rarely eaten fast food. I grew up in the Midwest with lots of farms and ate healthy food! I still tend to buy produce at farmers markets. I do LOVE pizza though. Everything in moderation. There are a lot of Americans who go for healthy foods.

  • @debbyplank2189
    @debbyplank2189 3 місяці тому

    Understand the heat, we're dealing with 105F (or 40.55C), yeah, we're trying to see what temperature the human body will melt at. Also watching the latest hurricane in the ocean. Love & Blessings to you and yours!

  • @larryjernigan2947
    @larryjernigan2947 3 місяці тому

    Presently, refills are still available in most fast food restaurants.

  • @chrisvibz4753
    @chrisvibz4753 3 місяці тому +1

    thanks for the vid brother

  • @williamshepherd1531
    @williamshepherd1531 3 місяці тому +1

    Garbage Disposals. Been around forever. There's 2 episodes. Of the Andy Griffith show. Where they talk about garbage. Disposals. 1960s. William s

  • @DangerSuitPrime
    @DangerSuitPrime Місяць тому

    Drinking age used to be 18. It was raised to cut down on driving fatalities.

  • @4theloveoflife
    @4theloveoflife 3 місяці тому +2

    when you go to mcdonalds.. That is american cheese

  • @mbourque
    @mbourque 3 місяці тому +2

    5:21
    McD's was almost exclusively the only place that used 'supersize' options.. and they only were using their 'large' size anyways... they changed their 'small', 'medium' and 'large' to 'medium', 'large', and 'supersize'.... so there was no actual change, just the name... additionally it was estimated that only around 25-30% of people every got the 'supersize' anyways... most just stuck with the medium, which is the default size already....

  • @duanejones4404
    @duanejones4404 3 місяці тому

    I sent four boxes of Girl Scout cookies to Recky and Carol, who live in Sweden a few months ago. They did an unboxing and reacted on their channel on UA-cam. They loved everything except Thin Mints, which they should have frozen first, and that was my fault.

  • @sergioandrade8735
    @sergioandrade8735 3 місяці тому

    The countrywide drinking age in the U.S. is 21 as of 1984, however, when during the 1970's in where I live New Jersey it was 21 but in New York state it was 19. As a result Staten Island, NY and other border communities would get a lot of extra business on weekends from college age kids at their bars and liquor stores.

  • @davidmorgan9834
    @davidmorgan9834 3 місяці тому

    Don't worry about sweating it was 36.11 degrees Celsius here yesterday.

  • @cherihabegger9856
    @cherihabegger9856 3 місяці тому

    The very first Black Friday that I worked, 2 women fought over a skateboard, and one woman had to get stitches. This was in a small town in central Indiana in 1999. 🙄

  • @jimmywonger
    @jimmywonger 2 місяці тому

    Butternut bread my whole life.. American cheese is only good on burgers and ramen noodles.. My woman loves those thin mint girl scout cookies.

  • @scottc13201420
    @scottc13201420 3 місяці тому

    🧀American cheese is just Cheddar Cheese with an emulsifier added and they just keep adding water till it gets soft.. around 44 percent water, think soft Cheddar cheese. That's all it is! And most Americans don't even know that lol

  • @Mrs.Parker-mt9lz
    @Mrs.Parker-mt9lz 2 місяці тому

    Pharmaceutical advertisements are meant to give a person information to start a conversation with their doctor. An individual can't purchase these drugs without a prescription from their doctor so these people aren't in danger of starting a medication that isn't right for them.

  • @OkiePeg411
    @OkiePeg411 3 місяці тому

    Actually the origins of spray cheese are Swiss for the UK market for Welsh rarebit. It wasn't for the American palette. Then, a Canadian brought it to the US!!!

  • @theresabeck1029
    @theresabeck1029 3 місяці тому

    If you want to try American cheese, get it fresh sliced from the deli, not prepackaged. Two totally different tastes.

  • @missdebrami6862
    @missdebrami6862 3 місяці тому

    I don’t have a garbage disposal but I have chickens and a compost pile. Very efficient

  • @hollycook5046
    @hollycook5046 3 місяці тому +1

    The Super Size Me guy passed away this year

  • @41dfcpea90
    @41dfcpea90 2 місяці тому

    I personally don’t do the Black Friday thing, we are usually duck hunting so that’s a lot better than doing Black Friday.

  • @Trifler500
    @Trifler500 3 місяці тому

    Yup. Everyone I know has a garbage disposal. It's installed by the contractor that built the house.

  • @vincentlavallee2779
    @vincentlavallee2779 2 місяці тому

    The drinking age is based on when you can drive, which is at 16-16.5. The reason for this is that the alcohol intake was causing immense car fatalities. Making the drinking age of 21 has helped with this problem significantly. No other country had a ratio of car to population, so this is a huge deal here. Just about everything is based on the car, and not walking or using public transportation. On the advertising of prescription meds, I do not know of anyone who complains about this. And what it does is that it makes it easier for the doctor when he suggests to use one of these advertised drugs. I do not think that the statistic given about advertising costs versus research of that drug is pretty much BS, at least for a certain time after the drug is released. Over a long period of time, the development cost remains the same, and does not increase, but advertising costs continue, so that statement is very misleading.

  • @lnwolf41
    @lnwolf41 2 місяці тому

    I grew up on white bread, until I joined the navy. We had fresh baked bread every day. I went home and had one sandwich with white bread. It was not good. Drinking age: Back in the 1970's, there were a lot of automobile accidents cause by teenage drunk drivers, killing people they hit. Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD) was formed, they got the drinking age raised to 21in 1980?

  • @georgedykes5533
    @georgedykes5533 3 місяці тому

    The drinking age is because of vehicle accidents committed by younger inexperienced drivers. The US has more drivers than any other country which increases the possibility of automobile accidents.

  • @MistyMorningMangoes
    @MistyMorningMangoes 3 місяці тому

    Mmmmm thin mint, Tagalongs and Samoas are the best Girl Scout cookies! So good!

  • @AnnaDenner
    @AnnaDenner 3 місяці тому

    Any McDonald’s I ever went to never had a supersize it was always small, medium or large

  • @revgurley
    @revgurley 3 місяці тому

    I just saw today that a state governmental agency required a dairy to throw into the trash (while they watched) thousands of dollars of raw milk items (milk, cheese, butter) that hadn't been pasteurized. You are allowed to sell those products, but only as pet food, not for human consumption. But this state, in my opinion, overreached and cost a very small business to probably go out of business due to loss of product. It's weird what things are okay in the US, but not in the EU, and vice-versa.

  • @Rob8729
    @Rob8729 3 місяці тому +2

    Black Friday madness sadly pretty much went away after Covid-19.

    • @dingus6317
      @dingus6317 3 місяці тому

      Oh no people aren’t trampling one another to death over slightly and artificially lowered prices !

    • @Rob8729
      @Rob8729 3 місяці тому

      @@anastasia10017 Happily.

  • @karenedwards6713
    @karenedwards6713 3 місяці тому

    I live in the country and I just throw my food scraps in the woods. I have deer, rabbits, squirrels, possums, raccoons and a fox and some armadillo that stop by my yard for food and water. My hubby wants to kill all the armadillos because they tear up our yard and they are not native to Georgia. Also at night I can sit outside and listen to four separate coyote packs around my house. They won't hurt you, but they do sound kinda scary. If they get to howling back and forth they can get loud. BTW, we found a tiny pink puppy in the woods. Thus puppy followed us and he was almost dead from mange. So I took him to the Vet and got him some medication. When I took him back to get his shots his solid black coat had grown in and the Vet informed me that we had a pure blooded Coyote. He was the best. He was quite and didn't smell. He stayed inside and he had a beautiful silver female Coyote showed up and they bred. He wouldn't go with her to live in the wild. He enjoyed our wood fireplace in the winter and our air conditioner in the summer. We laughed that he was a true deadbeat dad!

  • @hardtackbeans9790
    @hardtackbeans9790 3 місяці тому

    I don't particularly care for American cheese. But there are somethings you make better with it. Garbage disposals have the same environment impact as just throwing it in the garbage. Some Girl Scout cookies are very good.

  • @captcephalopod2988
    @captcephalopod2988 2 місяці тому

    A lot of Large sizes in Europe are roughly the size of American Medium sizes. So our large is bigger than your large. So super sizes being bigger than that is a lot of food

  • @attrezzopox
    @attrezzopox 2 місяці тому

    Girl Scouts cookies are fucking addictive.
    People get a little crazy over them.

  • @sslerlin
    @sslerlin 3 місяці тому +1

    I love my garbage disposal..american cheese isnt my favorite but once in a while ill have it...spray cheese id never eat
    I cant think of one place ive been that doesnt have refills
    Black friday can become crazy