American reacts to things about America that SHOCK Europeans
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As a German, I would have NO idea how else you would buy pickles than in a jar…
same Lithuanian living in Sweden, only jars wtf.
in Romania you get them only in jars. I am confused as well
Yeah, I didn't get that either. Of course pickles are in a jar, WTF?
Up here in Finland it is true that most pickles are sold in glass jars however, where the store is relatively close to the manufacturer, pickles are available in very, very large cans (which is how restaurants buy them). Still, due to the immigrant community, in Toronto I was able to buy the best Russian style brine pickles that I have ever tasted. The kosher delis also served excellent sour brine pickles. It made buying a pastrami sandwich mandatory to enjoy your pickle(s) with. It was really no surprise in the most cosmopolitan city on the planet. I really do miss it.…
@@Mrt-yg9mw Lithuanian in Lithuania plus you can buy pickles in vacuum👌
Most countries in Europe don't have dedicated school buses, kids either walk, ride their bike or use the regular public transport to get to school, because they can
The only"school buses" there are here in Germany are 1) regular buses driving more often for rush hour and 2) schools renting charter buses to drive kids for swimming lessons, field trips or something.
We do here, but they are just normal busses with the word "School" instead of the number being the only difference.
In Romania you find them and usually they have a police officer inside, to protect the kids
@@walkir2662 I am German and this is wrong. I actually went to school by dedicated school busses - in Germany. Those were just regular busses, that would run normal bus routes in between, but they were solely used to transport school kids from many small villages to a school in a larger village in the morning and in the afternoon. And there was no other public transportation route between these locations, besides this school bus. A bunch of them picked up kids in the morning in various villages and got them to their school. And another bunch of busses would then pick kids up at this school in the afternoon and take them back home. The regular public transportation busses run a line serving a number of villages to the next city, but don't connect them otherwise. And this is still happening today as well.
@@HoleyMoleyAlexsame here pretty much, the word "Schulbus" is displayed with a dedicated symbol or just the line number and the destination
"What colour are school buses in your country?" In a lot of places that's just not a thing. You don't really need them when the school is within walking distance, or there's a reliable public transport system in place.
I always cycled to my school or walked
Here in Luxembourg, the school buses are often the same buses that are used for the public transport. The municipality commissions a bus company to provide school transport.
@@anna-ranja4573 I grew up in a small town. My primary school was two towns over. So ccling or walking was not an option. Not even in Europe :)
@@mabus4910 Same here.
In the hours schools begin and end, we have special modified route versions of ordinary buses that do a different lap and stop by schools.
@@mabus4910 Hi from Germany (small town in former "school" days). For me it was different. I could do the way by bike to the next town. Maybe because there are a safe bike lane at the side of the street (Landstrasse). It was only a 7-10 minutes ride I remember.(small town in former "school" days)(small town in former "school" days)
Is all that bread necessary?…..How can you call that bread? That is an insult!
The thing is, those "loaves of bread" are so full of preservatives that it doesn't matter if they don't sell them all in one day. That's why they stock so much of it.
say it louder, that's not bread!
exactly, that's not bread!
in norway this bread is almost exclusively the “budget” option for some who cant afford decent groceries 😅
where... there is no BREAD?? that ist TOAST!! 😱
The food portions in the US are astronomical. And yes that was a lot of food.
Well I think it is because they cant walk to stores everyday and need to get more when they buy something. I have a supermarket like 100-200m away from me, sometimes I go twice a day and buy things
a lot of bad quality low cost food.
@@BlubberBuddhaWalking to a shop twice a day sounds so fascinating...
It is not healthy to eat full moon of cheese 😱
@@lukeace347When I go to work I buy some fresh croissants 🥐 and when I go home I buy the food for the dinner. Once a month I buy all the necessities and get those delivered for free.
The packaging of the ice tea really confused me. In the first second when I saw it I wondered "why do they put liquid laundry detergent in a fridge" 😅😂
8:09 My first thought about that ice-tea was "It looks like engine oil" 😅
I was like "Well, putting car oil in the fridge surely is a culture shock" then I realized it was ice tea😂
I thought it was laundry detergent
Engine oil is probably healthier to consume than that toxic sludge
I was so confused about that picture...like where is the tea???
absolutely :D I tought it's allways sold in carton can but not engine oil bottle
Ryan: "What colour are your school buses?"
Average dutchie: "School buses? Kids walk or fiets to school here dude!"
to fiets ? - whats that ?
🚴
I fietst.
where I went to a school (UK) the kids would walk, bike/fiet, bus or even train to school (there was a nearby single platform train station), tho it was branded company coaches rather than coloured buses. I would get dropped off by my mother on the way to work and then walk back after school, was about a 40 minute walk.
The USA is a crazy place with lots of crazy people, but I do like SOME things they do over there and one is SCHOOL BUSES. Many Europeans have commented that their school buses are simply public buses that have been commissioned as school buses and that's the same here in Australia also (although some private schools have their own buses). But the US has something more "socialist" than even Europe: Free, government-owned school buses! I SO wish that was the case here in Australia!
I find it bizarre that people go to the USA and see the big yellow buses and say "those really exist?!" Of course they exist! Why would they be on TV/movies and not really exist?
"Cash out their checks" - now that is crazy. I haven't seen anyone use a check in Sweden since early 90's.
When my cousin moved from England to the US, he asked if he could pay his rent by standing order/direct debit. They had no idea what he was in about 😂
He had to pay by cheque like everyone else did.
Talk about behind the times haha
@@101steel4 Part of the reason for the continued use of checks is that without a physical or photocopy of a canceled check, a person in the USA has no legal proof that a payment has been made. Thus, a rental agent can evict a person for no-payment even if they have been paying electronically because financial institutions are under no legal obligation to produce and general refuse to provide ANY electronic payment records. So many businesses continue to use checks as legal proof of payment for many activities.
@@gregorybiestek3431Exactly what “being behind the times” mean.
@@Er_Guille More like a nation of the corporations, for the corporations, and by the corporations. UK conservatives seem to desire the 19th century, the USA conservatives run the country like the age of robber barons. By the way, the Republicans just proposed making unions illegal and have pledged to get rid of the few worker rights that were established in 1930s. So, we look back for the future.
@@gregorybiestek3431 you can use your own bank statement as proof it went to their account. You get a transaction confirmation when you do a transfer or direct debit, it will show the amount and the account name & bank it was paid into.
The whole point of the first clip is that USAnians don't walk and your lack of paths for people to *safely* walk means nobody wants to walk, so that reinforces the "car is king" mentality that you shouldn't walk . . . It's self-perpetuating, and a symptom of the lack of consideration for basic organisation.
The U.S. before World War II was very walkable. After WWII, large swathes of cities were bulldozed for car infrastructure and all infrastructure built since then has prioritized cars. I used to live in a nice suburb and my nearest grocery store was 2.2km away, and the only way to get there was by walking along a busy road with no sidewalk.
No, europe wasnt built for cars, while the USA was. Like the guy said in the video, it was a hour and a half walk. Its not that we dont want to walk places, you basically just cant. We dont have stores on the bottom of appartment flats stacked on top of eachother either, we have actual store buildings.
@@BrandonPerry-gw7on It's the same here in Australia - things are often too far away to walk to. It's a little more walking-friendly here, but there are still many situations where you just can't walk. If you're in the city, like in an American city, it's more practical to walk, but not in the suburbs and in rural areas.
@@bencodykirk exactly, sir. 💯 I wasn't saying it's good or bad, yet Europeans will always have something negative to say about it like " Americans or Aussies are just lazy/ their public transport infrastructure is bad". Like it's cool to walk in -30° weather and turn a 10 minute trip there and back to an hour, or in your case 40-50°c weather haha. Of course I can walk to a few stores but many places aren't jumbled and stacked on top of each other in most parts. It can be sometimes kms or miles before you even reach the end of a street with houses on it, when in Europe all those houses will be in a few buildings you just have to walk by.(Of course not all of europe, but...) And we have more varieties/ choices here, so going to a specific store is a lot different then just going to the nearest store that actually has it. And if you don't live in the city here, a simple 30-40 minute trip into town from the store would be considered a long drive in Europe where they prepare, check their car, all that. I can drive 40 minutes in each direction on the freeway going 113km/h and still basically be in the same city, and most places in Europe just aren't like that, they'd have different accents if you drove that far lol. A lot of my friends live a half hour drive away, but still in the same city. Walking to them would be inconvenient, even riding a bike. I'd imagine Australia is a lot like this, being it's almost as big as the USA. A drive from Melbourne or Brisbane to perth is crazy, just like Chicago to LA or something. I can drive for over 9 hours hours going 113km and still be in Michigan!!!! and it's only the 10th biggest state. One end of the state to the other is almost as long as Paris to berlin. Drive 3-4 hours like that and you can cross basically most European countries in that time.
Europeans love having their amenities within walking/biking distance - Americans do not. If Americans did, there would be a developer who would build such a place in a heartbeat so they could charge an arm & leg. However, Americans love their vehicles far too much to buy such properties. Every attempt to build such a community in the Florida or elsewhere has quickly evolved into a normal American suburb. City centers in the USA with mixed housing, retail, & other amenities are dying according to all reports. Americans vote with their wallets AGAINST dense neighborhoods.
When I lived in Houston, as a Brit, every Saturday I took the 20-minute walk to my local bank, to conduct business. Almost every time I took that walk, I also bought a few food items in the supermarket next door. On walking back to my apartment, almost every Saturday, a car would stop offering me a lift, assuming my car had broken down. Surprisingly, 80% of them were female
drivers, which surprised me! I always said no, pointing out it was only a 15-minute walk to my apartment, and they always looked at me as though I was mad!
😂
Weirdly enough, that reminds me of that scene in ToyStory 2 where the creepy collectionnist goes down his building to his work place across the street, and you see him take his car, just to go across the street.
I always thought that was just a silly joke to depict the collectionnist as a lazy guy, and it's probably it, but now I'm starting to consider that maybe it doesn't cross much people's mind to walk places in america... mabe not to the point of using a car to cross a street, but still. That joke might be based on a real thing that happens sometimes, albeit a bit exaggerated.
i believe you. as a spaniard this happens to me in Miami
Wow that’s crazy.
I had to walk every day to elementary school and it took me 30 minutes + each way. First years I probably took 45 minutes going home. With a backpack with school books on my back😅 sometimes not as heavy if I didn’t need as many books, but it was all up hill going home 😅 at least you learn to appreciate walking. I didn’t really then but now Im so used to it. School is from 6 years old though, not the same as in the US with kindergarten.
When I was in the US I was alone for a day waiting for my friend to arrive. I figured there was a mall nearby so I started walking, and there were almost no one out. I had pavements though I think, so not exactly like the guy walking by the high way 😅.
@@asilnorahc8910"albeit"= I just learned this word from you! Thanks a lot!!!!!
due to the high levels of fructose corn syrup twinkies are actually illegal in many european countries.
But u can get the five litre apple juice in cardboard box with like the small tap, I even saw wine in those lately, good wine too😅
The 10 dollars for the green beans wasn't even the most shocking thing, but the directions on the package to put them in the microwave 😭😭wtf
WDF!!!!!! 😮
Mikrowelle geht GAR NICHT, sollte das heißen!!!!😂
the most schocking for me is learning that they boil water in microwave instead of having a kettle...
@@theender664 That's because they use 110V though, so they can't really have a 2kw electric kettle like we in Europe have.
Stove-top kettles work just fine, and you can also use the coffee maker to heat water. @@theender664
"It's just bread" - Germany officially bans him from ever enering their country.(Good thing this is only American bread, so it doesn't actually count as bread :D )
I think American bread is officially classified as cake in some countries due to the high sugar content!
@@Phiyedoughsounds generous. I had it once and I think it should be classified as building material… feels and tastes like some. Surely it’ll insulate your walls just fine.
@@Phiyedoughnot only the sugar, it just doesn’t resemble bread in structure, taste or anything
Poland agrees
To be fair, our bread aisles are almost as big in Germany, but with the slight difference that they sell ACTUAL BREAD and like so many different varieties 😅 what we saw here was just an insane amount of like 5 types of bread haha
Those "teas" looks like some car oil bottles. Indeed Americans love their sugar, right? :)
Its funny how they sell it in gallons. Here Ice Tea is popular, but max in like 1.5l bottles, not in fucking canisters :D
Yeah, you know, in case you forgot to buy engine oil, just use the tea
Yessss
In both NL and Germany bread variety is much more present, and very relevant, than cereal variety. I mean, who needs cereals when you can have the best fresh bread in the world?
That is cool and all, but i hope you are talking about bread from a bakery, because what they have in kaufland and lidl, that aint bread those are freezed bricks of dough they just throw into a microwave for few seconds, and in like 10 hours it turns back into its original state of undigestable brick. In czechia we usually have just one or two kinds of bread in the local grocery store, that are delivered there every morning from the nearest bakery and we call these breads by the name of the city they bake them in. Compared to those prebaked pieces of garbage in supermarkets, this bread is usually good for like two day (although it best fresh) and it can last for upto a week or so until it starts to dry out. In smaller private bakaries u usually have even more types of bread, from different flour etc.
14:00 "How else do they get to school?" WALK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Probably works well in smaller towns, but in cities like Indianapolis, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, etc. I think a school bus is a better and safer option, especially for a kid in i.e. elementary school, with such heavy traffic.
Just a reminder that under USA law, if a parent let their elementary child walk to & from school alone, they can be arrested and charged with parental abandonment, a misdemeanor criminal offense. Get three such criminal convictions, and Child Protective Services gets to take away the child and the parent can be imprisoned. Think I am making this up? Goggle US Child Abandonment Laws. In the USA a parent, teacher or care giver must at all times watch over a child below the age of 13.
@@gregorybiestek3431
Oh, I believe you all right.
Yet another reason not to emigrate across the pond. Along with all the others. 😳
@gregorybiestek3431 you may be absolutely right, which is in clear contrast to how I grew up, in a town in northern Sweden. During my first years in elementary, my dad usually accompanied me on my way to school, but in 3rd or 4th grade and up, I ways made my way to school on my own, just like the vast majority of the kids in the area. Some walked and some got to school on bikes, and it was nothing strange at all about it.
We walked to Grade School, and after that rode the bus the 6 miles to High School. I didn't mind the walk to school; it was just too far for High School. And yes, we did have sidewalks (pavements). Also, you wouldn't want to walk a great distance in the extreme heat or cold, or through piles of snow.
Traveling to another place with train and bus in Europe is for around 5-6 hours is often more preferable than with airplanes. The train/bus stations are often at the heart of the city and the seats are more comfortable than in planes. So there is not much time being saved by flying and it is less comfortable. So train and bus is better
I just searched on Google Maps the distance from the very North of Michigan and Chicago, it's around 400 miles by car. In Italy the distance from Milan to Naples by car is around 480 miles, but there are 80+ trains per day that connect Milan to Naples, you can travel from Milan to Naples in 4.5 hours spending 30/40 euros.
Yes, a 2 hour flight becomes a 4 hour journey anyway due to the security checks etc.
Exactly, I'd rather take a 5 hour train ride than a 1 hour plan ride. You have to be at the airport 1 hour in advance, takes a while for your suitcase to turn up, go through customs... and then you're left with getting to the actual city... 1 hour becomes 4-5 hours, but it's more stressful than just sitting on a train with your book.
@@atropatene3596 That's nice, but in 90% of the USA there is NO train or even a bus available, and for those areas that do have a train or bus connection, the trains and buses are not very fast at all. If you want to get anywhere from point A to point B you need a car or a plane and then a car.
@@gregorybiestek3431 I wasn't talking about the US I was agreeing with the point made about Europe.
There's no bread in the second video. Only toast.
Unfortunately, that's usually all they have. Also, there really isn't a quality difference between loose bread and packaged, sliced bread.
@@adriannaconnor6471 you can bake real bread with flour (preferably rye), water, sourdough, maybe yeast, salt, a pinch of sugar and optional some other spices or some seeds.
Even tea isn't there... :-)
@@jakubjandourek2822 true. My Grandmother was Frisian. She taught me a lot about tea.
I guess Europeans are shocked by the vast variety of flavored everything is because we tend to cook ourselves most of the time and therefore buy plain produce and add the flavors we want instead of all the premixed, predesigned, prespiced (and usually chemical laden) stuff that you then only add some water to and pop in the microwave….
Flavoured in English 😉
It's also for a big part to do with that every store in the USA offers choice upon choice upon choice while in Europe if the selection isn't to our liking we go to a different store that offers other brands or different choices.
Or to put it differently, in the US it's all about massive choices because they don't want to risk you going to some other place and not spend your money with them.
I remember stepping in a gasstation (little rundown one at the side of a rural road) and it offered over 2 dozen kinds of coffee. Not different beans or so , no different flavoured coffees. *facepalm*
Or you step into a Walmart and see lots and lots of breads... and they are all pretty much junk food and not what we Europeans would call something nutrional to make an actual sandwich of.
I don’t get it supermarkets in Britain are huge and have thousands of different products
@@101steel4 as I teach English at university (and frankly am in the middle of correcting German English essays as we speak), I am quite aware, however, I personally use American English and, since I am responding to an American post, I use American English…
@@lucylane7397 Sure, as do they across other countries BUT they pale in comparison to the amount of choices in the USA. E.G.: in the USA there are close to 5.000 different breakfast cereals available across the different chains.
Let that sink in, 5 thousand breakfast cereals. WTF!
"It's not even that much food. It does look good though. Is that much, it doesn't look like that much food."
*stares at a portion that can probably sustain an family of 2 adults and 2 kids. Starts to understand why the US might have quite a lot of obesity*
I also thought it looked fine, and I'm a small Swede xD
@@vicdark8807 Looked like a lot to my eye. Prolly 3 or 4 times as much than I could eat in one sitting.
Portions are really huge in the U.S., but few people try to eat the whole thing in one sitting. It's most common to eat half or one-third of the meal and save the rest for lunch for the next day or two.
It wasn’t enough for 4. but way much for one by the looks of it.
We always take home "doggie bags", and have also split and shared a meal @@adriannaconnor6471
Distances in the US are huge because Americans built it that way and build their malls in the middle of nowhere. As if they don't want people to go there.
They want people to go there, but by only using one possible way, car. So much for freedom in the "lAnD Of THe fREe"
My husband went to work in the US for 3 weeks. When he returned he talked about how no one walks in the US. People thought him and hos swedish co-workers were insane when they suggested walking. Why is that? Why do people not walk?
I don't think Europeans quite comprehend the state of American infrastructure until they try walking somewhere in suburbia. New York, Chicago, Washington D.C., and San Francisco don't count, as they're the cities that have the best public transportation in the country. Where I used to live in Michigan, my closest grocery store was 2.2km away, and the only way to get there was to walk on the side of a very busy road with no sidewalk. There weren't any street lights along half the distance, and if it snowed, you would have had to walk in the middle of the road, as the snow plows piled up the snow where you would normally walk. If you want to learn more about why the majority of places in the U.S. and Canada are unwalkable, I would recommend the UA-cam channel, Not Just Bikes.
I was walking from my hotel to a nearby shopping mall in Florida when a police car stopped as it was going past and the officer asked me if I was OK. He sounded genuinely concerned, as if I was perhaps an escaped lunatic!
@@adriannaconnor6471Ah, the good old 'Land of the Free'... as long as you have a car!
It's simply not safe in most cases, except in some city centres. Imagine having to cross 6 lane roads where each lane 1.5 times as wide as you are used to, with no zebra crossings or lights, and only a dirt path right next to the road to walk on.
The problem is that they don’t really have walkways structures. They don’t see them as necessary so they don’t build like a walkway so that you can walk easily everywhere if you want to.
12:25 I don't know where the Eastern European woman is from, but apparently she never left her homeland other than to go to the USA. Come on, in her country they don't have the free Metro newspaper, they don't have to pump gas themselves, and they don't have to pay to go to a museum? In Europe this is common
Man, i do live in small town in Poland and raely drive. I have 5 shops (2 big ones) in distance of 5 to 10 minutes drive two bakeries and some other shops. Moreover, at least 2 paczkomats (a kind like automatic pack delivery points) in half of that distance. Unless you are for big shopping there is no need to drive. And, finniest thing is - i do live in some kind of suburbs. In main city it would be even closer.
To go to bigger city i have a buss stop 5 minutes from my house. Buses are about 20 minutes in day and once an hour in the night. It is 20-30 minutes ride to Gdańsk. Not much need for car too.
I live in a city, but somewhat more on the outskirts than the center. I have a need for a car about 3 times a year, mainly when visiting somebody in another city. Literally everything is easily accessible within half an hour of walking or public transport.
So the whole pushing the tea into the Boston river.
Was all because you guys wanted ice cold tea!
😳😂😂😂😉
This comment deserves more credit! They were just cooling their tea 🤣
Schoolbusses? We don't have them. We have bicycles.
There are no bike paths or lanes in most communities that connect residential areas with schools. Even those that do, can only be used by older children. You may not understand, but in the USA a child under the age of 13 walking more than 300 meters or riding public transit alone without adult supervision, could in many states be cause for a police investigation into parental neglect. Thus, the USA uses school buses or parent’s cars to transport all young children to within a short distance from their home or school.
@@gregorybiestek3431 I understand why it's different in the US. Here (Netherlands) there only school busses (more like vans really) for kids with spcial needs. Schools are usually pretty close to home to go by bicycle here. Often young kids get dropped off at school by parents. When they are older and go to a specific trade school that's a bit further, we have great public transportation.
@@black4pienus Unfortunately, that sort of system is illegal in the USA. Under USA law, if a parent let their elementary child take a bicycle or ride a public bus alone, they can be arrested and charged with parental abandonment, a misdemeanor criminal offense. Get three such criminal convictions, and Child Protective Services gets to take away the child and the parent can be imprisoned. Think I am making this up? Goggle US Child Abandonment Laws. In the USA a parent, teacher or care giver must at all times watch over a child below the age of 13.
@@gregorybiestek3431 And they wonder why kids go nuts?
@@gregorybiestek3431That is so confusing to me. Is it so unsafe for kids in America? Where I am from, kids walk alone or with a small group of friends to elementary school from the age of 6 and I have never ever heard of something happening there, so these laws are wild to me...
But thank you for explaining!
thats not bread thats plastic disguise as bread
sugar coated plastic
I am pretty sure in Ireland, they banned subway from calling their "bread," bread due to it containing too much sugar to be legally considered as bread... I think most American bread would face similar issues, having to be sold as confectionery instead of as bread. Personally don't get the point of bread being that sweet, if you want something sweet get a muffin or pastry, if you want to make a sandwich, the sugar overpowered the taste of what you make it with.
The bread in the U.S. is horrible. The "artisanal" bread that you buy in specialty bakeries in the U.S. is the same quality as what you would get at the bakery at Lidl in Europe, though they would have more varieties of bread at an American bakery.
Us bread is classed as cake here 😂
When he said thats "just bread" my german brain went into shutdown a little. That was like toast. Thats not bread.
Wait wait wait. You have key copying station at Walmart? Wtf... In my country you need to show proof of ownership of whatever is that key for or no one will make you copy. It's to prevent theft when people steal key, copy it then secretly return it to owner. Especially if it's something like house or car key.
same in germany.. and you have to show ID
yep, same in finland
In spain that's only true for security keys and car keys. Regular keys can be copied by whoever.
Im from Germany and searched for a comment like this, because it’s the same here and I was really shocked that you can copy a key so easily in Amerika.
Italy here and I've never had to show id for a copy of the place I was staying in the camping I was working
Hi, I am from Estonia. We also have pickles in jars. It's like that in most of the places. I don't get it. I think this person was looking for something to whine about on purpose
I was thinking the same, whining on purpose..
Of course pickles are sold in jars, we have the same insane amount of different bread, chips, snacks, drinks..and banks in stores.
Greetings from Finland.
From the UK, I agree. It made no sense to me either.
Poland here - we love our pickles in jars. We have a variety of them & those Show in his vis with Blue Krakus label are actually from Poland
Swiss here. The only pickles I know that don’t come in jar are the pre-cut ones in humongous cans for gastronomy. Which definitely can’t be found in average supermarkets.
I think they meant, why so many pickles in jars? The person just captioned it weirdly.
Not gonna lie, I was shocked when I saw the first school bus in the US too. I thought that was just a hollywood plot device.
To answer your question about school buses. There are no school buses in East EU. Only normal buses. And the kids go to school by themselves, unaccompanied by their parents or any guide.
Mostly the same in the UK, children either walk to school alone or with a parent depending on age, ride a bicycle, take public transport, or their parents drive them, only in very rural areas are there school buses but they are regular buses labelled school instead of a number at certain times of the day that are regular buses during school hours
no school busses in Europe, it seems like a tv trope to us
Where I live in France there are special busses for kids that live in villages so it's like their school busses
In rural Spain we have coaches that pick up children from diferents villages and transport them to the school located at the big city. We mark the coaches with a special removable sign on the rear but there are normal rented ones. They don't have any kind of colour or design to mark they are school buses.
It doesn't exist in hungary but saw sometimes in Germany
sure there are some busses that take students to school, but i mean it isn't really a thing, as a common institution.
Cluj, Romania has them. And they are free
Pickles in Europe does not mean only cucumbers. There are many types of pickles.
Except for small villages, almost every town/city in Europe has a very good public transport system, so taking an Uber or a taxi isn't really necessary and more expensive than taking a bus or tram.
Most of the "bread" you can find in US grocery stores, is being sold as "Toast", "Sandwich toast" or "Toast bread" here in Germany, because its only purpose is to put it in a toaster and put some kind of spread on it or make a sandwich with it. You can't compare it with the actual bread selection we have here, everything from the look, the texture, the taste etc., is completely different.
I don't get why the guy is so confused when it comes to the pickles, though. Every brand of pickles I've seen over here is being sold in jars, just like in the US.
Isn't the key copying machine an easy opportunity for people to copy someone else's keys and break into his house or something?
The prices in US grocery stores are really ridiculous. I can totally see why a lot of Americans prefer eating at fast food places or having takeout for dinner, especially if you have a whole family to feed.
What you Europeans do not understand is that in the USA ALL transit systems require local approval & taxes. With spread-out development, the entire transit line has fewer possible passengers within walking distance that a single stop in Europe. Therefore, it is extremely costly for the few passengers, so low-tax politicians regularly target these transit options as wasting money & local people vote against transit to save a little money. Typical comment - "why should I pay for something only some poor drug addict is going to use?" No local money - no transit at all or very little.
@@gregorybiestek3431 I will never understand that reasoning honestly. Same with healthcare. Just sounds like people are incredibly selfish and ignorant.
@@justapanpirate That is because the USA was built on the philosophy of rugged individualism. That has instilled a go-it-alone, the hell-with-my-neighbors culture and a majority of Americans are happy to go about their business having as little to do with their neighbors as possible. It is simply social Darwinism combined with the belief in rugged individualism by most of the populace.
The yellow school buses just seem like such a movie/cartoon thing. Also I never needed a bus for school. My primary school was a 4 minute walk from my house, and my secondary school was an 8 or 9 minute walk. I started waking myself up, getting ready, and walking to school, all without waking up my parents, when I was like 7.
Just a reminder that under USA law, if a parent let their elementary child walk or take a public bus alone, they can be arrested and charged with parental abandonment, a misdemeanor criminal offense. Get three such criminal convictions, and Child Protective Services gets to take away the child and the parent can be imprisoned. Think I am making this up? Goggle US Child Abandonment Laws. In the USA a parent, teacher or care giver must at all times watch over a child below the age of 13.
@@gregorybiestek3431 Wow...that explains a lot.
We dont have school busses. Public transport just works as it is :D
The whole point of the first video was that there was no über available, so he had to walk where as in the UK Ubers are available almost instantly
What is a uber please?
@@nox8730 Basically a taxi.
@@Evija3000Oh. Ok. Then why not ask an actual taxi? The word Uber reminds me of a pretty nasty scam i heard about in the USA, where a company that could never survive anywhere else manages to make money by scaming people into working almost for free by using the utter lack of workers rights there. I mean, if it is tied to this, then i don't quite understand why anyone would support the scamer?
@@nox8730 Probably not everyone knows about that type of stuff. But most importantly it's cheep and convenient and that's what most people care about...
@@Evija3000This world is a sad, rotten mess. Maybe it is time to end it.
You don't put gravy on "biscuits". You put this thick lumpy white sauce on it. Gravy is a thin liquid. Usually Brown. Put on meat. American gravy is a travesty
Looks like something a cat honked up! 🤢
Looks like cheap canned ragout
We have brown gravy in the U.S., but we put sausage gravy on biscuits. Whatever people say, American biscuits aren't savory scones. You have no equivalent in Europe. Biscuits and gravy are amazing! Unfortunately, I'm lactose intolerant, and I can't digest beef, so I can only handle a single bite of the dish.
There is no one type of American. “gravy”
Actually Americans think British gravy is a travesty. Even though it is not a food I prefer, I at least know that most other Americans love them. Your excuse for gravy is more like au jus. Try checking any one of dozens of YT videos of Brits trying REAL biscuits with REAL gravy. They ALL say that once they have tried it, it is the best thing they ever tasted. You have never learned to do anything the right way, despite having colonized every spice area on the planet.
The Dutch supermarkets also have a lot of bread, but at the end of the day almost everything is sold. The leftover bread is then thrown away and fresh bread appears on the shelves the next day. In the US, the breads are left on the shelf for a week because they have a longer shelf life. American supermarkets also sell frozen bread from the freezer.
After 5 or so only the unpopular bread is left usually..
And all of the bread in the U.S. is horrible when compared to European bread. This is coming from an American living in the Czech Republic.
Except in my local supermarket! Cause every day at closing, a few volunteers take the leftover bread and vegetables, then go to the refugee crisis centre that was built in city hall's backyard (municipality really did a fuck the nimbys, we'll put it in our own backyard then). Then we all make croutons and soup!
@@atropatene3596 It should be standard to donate or at the very least sell it way cheaper because of a short expiration date or something. A local small supermarket near me sells all their freshly baked goods at a lower price at the end of the day. It’s bizarre that it’s seen are just trash but the second someone mentions dumpster divers it’s suddenly someone’s property even though it’s literally been thrown out when it could’ve gone to people who actually need it.
as Europeans, we don't realize how big the United States is, like for me who lives in the very south of France next to the French Riviera I am 3h30 by car from Spain, 4 hours from Switzerland and Italy, 6-7 hours from Croatia, in 30 minutes I am at the sea and 2h30 I can ski in the mountains (btw 3 hours by train and I am in Paris and 2 hours by flight I am in London) the first time I went to the US I was shocked at the length of the journey between NY and Washington D.C even though across the country it's right next door 🤯
We forget that the USA is 1/3 of the continent of America.
Raised in Sweden... how else would you pickle cucumbers if not in a jar?? I even saw some Polish pickles when he googled it (Krakus), which are as good as pickles get.
Fell in love with chips in the US when my wife and I visited our local Krogers in Fishers, IN, and I saw dill pickle flavored chips... soo good! 🤤
This was our first visit in America, so we took our time to try all kinds of American treats, and twinkies were really good, especially accompanied by a cup of black coffee
Can't wait to go back to the US, we absolutely loved it, and we would love to stay there for at least a couple of years to try what it's like living there. ❤️🇺🇲
you are thinking of 28 Days Later (I believe). Zombieland is a movie starring Woody Harrelson who is constantly on the hunt for any leftover Twinkies after the zombie apocalypse. VERY funny film!
pumping your own gas is normal, they only have someone tank it for you in southern europe like italy
Yeah, you pump your gas in Europe too so I didn't understand that point
We certainly "pump" our own petrol on Oz!
I'm from Italy and we pump our own gas xD
@@riccardomosena4162 i was there on vacation with my family using a rental and when we went to tank there was somebody to do it for you, i guess different regions in italy have different culture or is it your own choice idk
@@greatteacheronizuka different regions? Sometimes different towns 🤣
It's so revealing when you say: 'It's so addictive!'. That's exactly their point. That's why they put the chemicals in the food in the US.
The 'Clearly Apple Juice' comment I think refers to that fact that you call it Cider. Our Cider always has alcohol in it. So they are saying... It's not cider, it's apple juice.
Sorry but in the USA there are three (3) legal definitions for apple beverages. The first is apple juice which is the made by the maceration and pressing of an apple and then filtering it to remove any particles. The second is apple cider which is the unfiltered AND unfermented pressed of an apple to create a juice that contains particles this must be pasteurized & refrigerated. The third is hard cider which the pressing of a apple and then allowing the juice to ferment to create an alcoholic beverage. Just because the UK does things differently does not mean your way is the only right way.
@@gregorybiestek3431 You have to admit calling plain apple juice AND an alcoholic version both "cider "is a difficult to defend.
@@LemonChick Not really, because in the USA "cider" is usually something parents feel good about taking their children out for a day trip to the countryside to get cider & donuts. Apple juice is something totally different. We have a whole family-oriented industry that employs thousands in most northern states. What YOU have would be yet another adult-only part of your booze culture that the USA does everything in its power to restrict.
re: rural Northern Michigan part. Pretty much everywhere else in the world apart from the US, transport systems actually connect and you can go anywhere. I also found this very strange in the US, that you can't just hop on a bus or a train to get somewhere else. Nothing is connected. To people from outside the US this does come as a surprise.
Most grocery strores in Finland sell pickles from a big barrel. You pick your chosen pickle with tongs and put it in a plastic bag (one bag if you're an amateur, two if you don't want pikcle juice all over your other groceries). Those pickles are bigger and better than the ones in jars. But buying pickles in a jar is not that weird. We have them in all forms possible, sliced, diced, smaller whole pickles, different flavours, and mostly in jars.
Thank you. Never seen them in a barrel though.
I can identify with the walking thing. On my first trip to the US (from NZ) my travelling companion and I had some time on our hands so we thought we'd leave the hotel and go for a walk and have a coffee somewhere. After about fifteen minutes it became clear that apart from the odd car the streets were absolutely empty., to the extent that we were joking about maybe there's a nuclear attack underway and no one told us and everyone is in bomb shelters.
Eventually a police car cruised by, slowed down and came back to us. We were asked what we were doing, walking long the street, we replied that we were looking for somewhere to get a coffee. Once they heard our accents they became more friendly and advised us to back to our hotel and get a cab because "no one walks" in (city's name) and it is not safe to do so.
Advice taken and first culture shock noted.
20:10 its about 90€ to take the train from Paris to Kiev (around 200€ to fly there but not possible for obvious reason). It would take around 35h + intermediate stops
The wallmart part was weird. In my local german supermarket, there is significantly more bread and a significantly bigger isle with cold sauces and more and more kinds of pickles (in glass jars), and there is an ATM - and there are a couple of smaller shops and food stores and post services etc. attached. There is literally NOTHING shocking about those images. The only thing that stands out, that the big piles of stuff from the same brands in big boxes look boring.
I wonder, where the guy who compiled that was from. Who does not have to pump their own gas? Who does not have to pay for museums? Does not sound like a typical European to me.
The bread in your German supermarket will at least be real bread though
@@jackwalker4874 Sure. Though types and qualities vary a lot. My favorite local supermarket has an in house bakery, others get fresh bread delivered, but a lot of the stuff that is sold in german supermarkets is shelf stable, but less tasty ware. You will get to see bread - shelves which look quite similar to the american one in the video.
Yes, there are still a few fuel stations with attended service here in Croatia but the vast majority are self service. The difference in USA seems to be that you pay in advance. I suppose you have to guess how much you can get in the tank.
@@PhiyedoughInteresting. When I was a child, there wer still some fuel stations with attended services ("Tankwart") around here in Germany and I have not seen that ever since. In rural Scandinavia, you typically do not even have a shop attached to a gas station any more, it is card payment only there.
The claim in the video, that Europeans are shocked because there is not attended service in the US is weird non the less. I wonder, if that was generated by AI.
And additionally to the bread section they add a real bakery to almost every german supermarket at the entrance. But they sell real bread and therefore you need this variety. Not eatable sponges 😂
In Portugal is prohibited to walk on a highway. We have pickles in a jar to, why not? 🤦♀️
We also pump our own gas
It's the same in Finland, for all of those. A thing about walking on highways probably is that outside the U.S. there's almost always a walkway close to the highway, going to the same direction. So there's really no need to ever even try to walk on highway.
In Hungary some of our fuel/gas stations have a downsized mini-markt. It is being called DeSpar and it is based on Spar stores and their prices are similar.
Churches don't look like normal buildings here in Ireland. They're usually gothic buildings, very medieval looking. If I seen a regular building, I would never believe it's a church.
As a Czech I have absolutely no idea how else would you buy pickles ... maybe that person is used to buying them in plastic bags like some unnamed country sells milk? :D
Ryan: “What colour are school buses in your country.” Huh? What school buses? In Australia, most kids walk to school, unless it’s raining and then they get a ride with a parent or a friend’s parent, or just take the regular bus. Aussie kids get bus passes to ride free.
I’m Norwegian, and of course we buy pickles in a jar!
And butter popcorn is so yum yum😍
Jag håller helt med dig! Ärligt talat föredrar jag chips framför popcorn, men smörpopcorn är så gott! 👌
2:43 his point was that he CANT get an uber and is forced to walk along the damn highway
We dont have school buses in Dublin Ireland - we walk to school. Although now parents drive their kids to school or they take public buses
I live in Bray, and my primary school was 4 or 5 minutes walk from my front door. My secondary school was 8 or 9 minutes, on the same road. I started walking to school by myself when I was about 7, without even bothering to wake up my parents 😂
@@ShizuruNakatsu In the USA VERY few schools are within even a 20 minute walk. In the USA all children up to the age of 13 must be monitored or supervised by a teacher, parent, or other guardian at all times. Walking 20-30 minutes to & from school would likely mean the child being picked up by police and the parent required to appear at the police station to answer for their neglect. Failure to do so would be sufficient for an investigation and repeated such activity could be used to terminate parental rights, take the child away by Protective Services, and have possible criminal charges for abuse or neglect filed against the parent. It has been like this since 1990.
@@gregorybiestek3431 From reading many other comments, I'm seeing that most people in Europe start walking to school by themselves at 5, often after only being brought by their parents for the first year, or sometimes just for their first day. Now I'm trying to go back through my memories and now that I think of it, the last time I remember being collected from school was when I was 6. I know because it was 1999, around my mother's 40th birthday.
But yeah, by the age of 12, I was already going to the city (Dublin) by myself. That's 12 miles away from here, and took about 45 minutes by train. By 15, I was going to different counties, organising my own trips, including overnight accommodation.
@@ShizuruNakatsu Which in the USA would be enough for you to be picked up by the police, your mother arrested, and it would very likely you would be put into a state-run institution or foster care. If you repeated that activity while in foster care you would likely be classified as a delinquent and put in a youth prison camp.
@@gregorybiestek3431 I was perfectly safe, and more than capable of taking care of myself and making my own decisions. I was completely independent well before that age.
Also, I wouldn't let them touch me. I don't believe in that kind of authoritarianism. I'm very big on freedom of expression, individualism, and having the right to be myself and do my own thing... You know, freedom. It's ironic that the US is so against freedom. I wouldn't let police or government figures or anyone else impede on mine.
Bagged cereals are good for refilling those plastic kitchen dispensers some people use.
Some people outside the US might have assumed that the yellow schoolbus thing that we've seen on American movies and TV shows is just a some kind of meme or trope, not something that actually exists.
Canada has those school busses too! I lived on a farm and so really needed for all the rural kids to get into town. We also have them in cities, both our countries (your northern States) it is not so easy to send your kid to walk in -30 degrees, frost bite and losing appendages is not fun!
The Walmart section made no sense for a start off all pickles in the UK come in jars, also I live in medium sized town in England and my local Asda and Tesco has an opticians, key cutting, barbers, pharmacy, home wear, clothes, beureu de change, our crisps and choc section if anything has more choice, our bread isle is as big, mostly freshley baked though, admitadly our selection of ranch and pop tarts isn't good but that's because there not popular in england
Pickles are called gherkins in the UK. Pickle is a kind of chutney. But both pickle and gherkins are sold in jars
I often wonder about that, does it mean they don't have pickled onions, pickled cabbage, pickled beetroot etc in USA?
@@Phiyedough For what exactly dou you need pickled onions? I've never heard of that. Also isn't pickled cabbage just Sauerkraut?
Yes, there are a number of pickled items such as pickled onions.@@Phiyedough
@@Retroxyl In UK red cabbage is pickled, it tastes quite different to sauerkraut.
Did you see the similarity between gherkin and the german word for it Gurken? Always fascinating to me 😉
5:10 I'm from Poland, and we have a lot of pickles in a jars so I do not understand this "shock".... Maybe Brits dont like pickles, I dont know.
We do here in our house
We have pickles in the UK Branston for a start
As a Brit, I can tell you all the pickle items I buy, do come in jars, so I'm confused about his confusion too! Just so you know I also know lots of other Brit's that also like pickles, that do come in jars.
I think most/many of us do like pickles, though we probably eat them less frequently - usually with cheese, salads or burgers. We even pickle eggs.
In the UK: pickled gherkins, dill pickles, sweet pickles, pickled cornichons, pickled peppers, piccalilli, pickled onions, pickled walnuts, pickled eggs, pickled cauliflower, pickled garlic, pickled cabbage, pickled beetroot, pickled raddish, pickled chutney, pickled capers, mango pickle.
Kids walk to school 😂
Just a reminder that under USA law, if a parent let their elementary child walk or take a public bus alone, they can be arrested and charged with parental abandonment, a misdemeanor criminal offense. Get three such criminal convictions, and Child Protective Services gets to take away the child and the parent can be imprisoned. Think I am making this up? Goggle US Child Abandonment Laws. In the USA a parent, teacher or care giver must at all times watch over a child below the age of 13.
@@gregorybiestek3431 That's insane. Is the US really THAT dangerous? I and everyone else the same age were walking to school without an adult from the age of 5. Mum walked with us for the first week so we learned the route and then it was up to us.
@@gregorybiestek3431 Wow,! In norway we leave infants in their walkers outside the cafe while they sleep. We let them walk to school alone from the age of 7. And they play outside for hours without adult supervision. Thats freedom
@@omlg4svector Then don't ever visit the USA and try to do the same thing. You would be arrested within moments and the local media would have a field day holding you up as an example of horrible, evil Europeans who constantly endanger their kids.
Last year, I was in the US for the first time and saw a school bus. I was like "WOW! First time I see such a bus in real life" 😅 I knew it only from movies and I freaked out about seeing one in real life 😂😂😂
The school buses in my country are precisely the colour that affordable healthcare is in yours lol.
In NL, probably a lot of other European countries also, owning a dog (or a cat) is taxed. How much depends on your municipality. All dogs and cats must be chipped so that the owner is easily found.
You see no stray dogs or cats here, none.
How the hell 1,5 mile walk takes 1,5h? I didn't know you can even walk 1mph.
Most people can crawl faster than 1mph. Literally.
1,5 miles... that's about 2,4 km... Yeah... that would take you about an hour of leisurly walk. When I go with my dogs on a swift walk, I can do like 4 km in an hour.
@@Tuclix most adults can walk comfortably at 4.5/5 km/h. A 2.4 km walk would be little more than half an hour.
Google maps probably said it was 1,5 miles away, but due to the car-centric nature of American infrastructure, it probably took him 1,5 hours to go that distance, because he couldn't walk the shortest route, and he probably had to climb over various barriers.
He's slow. Most people walk at lease 4 mph.
That bloke going to Walmart was not first and foremost a Brit he was an oddball for sure. The bread aisle was pretty relatable, we have banks in some of our supermarkets and every pickle I've ever bought was in a jar. I'm a bog-standard Brit.
I think it was a failed attempt at a joke. I'm guessing that what was being implied was that they thought that anyone buying pickles at all must be insane (in a jar or otherwise). i.e. the thought that anyone would want to buy them in such bulk quantities was bizarre to them, for some reason. Though, to be fair...I know a LOT of people whom, the first thing they do with a McD, is to open it and fish out the pickles and throw them away. They're not the most popular thing ever...I think that was what they were trying to get at, but kind of failed.
I think, normally an Uber comes to pick you up where you ARE, not somewhere else. Plus, he HAS to walk down the highway? A colleague went to America for work, they put her up in a hotel and she said there were no sidewalks (Texas?) because everyone drove everywhere. They would literally drive twice the distance to the corner store, rather than walk so there were just no sidewalks.
If you live in the netherlands... yess that much bread is necessary😂 and by the end of the day all the bread is gone😅
Who still uses checks for payment? The last time I heard about that concept was like 20 years ago when I was a kid.
Part of the reason for the continued use of checks is that without a physical or photocopy of a canceled check, a person in the USA has no legal proof that a payment has been made. Thus, a rental agent can evict a person for no-payment even if they have been paying electronically because financial institutions are under no legal obligation to produce and generally refuse to provide ANY electronic payment records. So many businesses continue to use checks as legal proof of payment for many activities.
@@gregorybiestek3431 I receive an email about every single movement on my bank account whenever I pay by card or pay online. For free of course. I can look up every movement on my bank account in the bank app or internet banking and print out a PDF with confirmation about a certain payment. It has been working like this ever since I established the bank account over 10 years ago at 18. Like... paying in cash (especially for rent) is fishy, but online / card payments are traceable af... anytime, anywhere.
@@gregorybiestek3431Which exactly means being “behind the times”
@@Er_Guille The USA legal system as reflected by our Supreme Court tends to view modern technology as ok for business, but not something that they permit inside the courtroom. The courts also take a dim view of a person's rights without old-fashioned paper proof. Many things that are accepted in Europe, are simply not binding on corporations who get to make rules that favor them not people.
Still use cheques here in Australia, but not very common and they're being phased out.
The hitchhiking and walking thing brought back memories.
My family visited the States back in '99, and we had a one night stay in Chicago before flying to LA. I remember spending much of that evening walking and trying to get something to eat (not too overpriced, I guess), only to find either places where you needed to be 21 to enter or drive-throughs. I don't remember doing that, but my parents claim I said "I'm a European!" after that experience.
As for the hitchhiking... we ran out of fuel inside Yosemite on July 4th because the gas station dad wanted to use no longer existed. He then hitchhiked to one that still did and back with some gas.
And yes, the amount of flag was insane.
We spent the whole summer break travelling and only visited half a dozen states at best, but the one thing that drove the point home me about distances was a family we visited thinking nothing of driving 2 hours per direction to go for 2 hours of rafting. At most.^
Pickels is sometimes sold in a huge barrell where u take as much as u need. Full cucumbers
*pickles*
well, we used to sell pickles in barrels at the turn of the 19th to 20th century. I have not seen a pickle barrel EVER in my 56 years in Germany. Possibly, they have pickle barrels to sell individual cucumbers at very special delicatessen or at the KaDeWe, the most expensive store in Berlin, but in general, since the regular mom and pop stores are gone, pickle barrels are gone in Germany…
@@Attirbful sometimes you still find pickles sold from barrels on weekly farmers market in germany
@@aidekhia81 sure, but that is rather the exception than the rule, don‘t you think?
@@Attirbful My local Edeka is selling pickles in their fruit and vegetable section in Germany. And many other places too. This is propably a big city thing, where you don't find such offers.
to me the key copy machine seems weird as a Dutch person, i used to work as a locksmith and my main thought is how easy it would be for criminals to copy a key simply at a walmart... here you have to go to a locksmith shop, and ALOT of keys have certificates so they can't be copied without the little card(given to the owner of the keys ofcourse)
we just bike/walk to school and if you live in the county you just take the public buss
I live in Wales, school buses are usually coaches run by the local bus company. Some routes take paying customers as well as school children.
Zombieland is most definitely set in the US.
The 'Shit cereals' is because they are all sugary and unhealthy.
There are free newspapers in parts of the UK but as, said mostly full of adverts.
99% or more of UK petrol pumps are self service. I've seen 2 in the past 30 years that had an attendant to pump for you and they were very small rural places.
US Americans also have no idea about scale outside of the US. The number of US tourists in London, who think they can take a bus or train for 20 minutes and be in the Highlands of Scotland or Lands End in Cornwall is bad but the US tourists who think, they can just 'pop' out for a couple of hours to Scandinavia or places on the Mediterranean!
The US Students, British friends, show how bad UK education has become when they don't know how big the US is for travelling around.
17:00 I don't understand this one. I don't know which Eastern European country the author comes from, but I myself have been to only about two museums that were free or had a voluntary entrance fee. However, if they ever introduce it in our country, I will be delighted.
That packaging of ice tea looks like motor oil (for some reason in a fridge) to me.
In Australian supermarkets there wil be one section with packaged sliced bread of many varieties, plus wraps, brioche, croissants etc and another section with rolls and unsliced loaves (sourdough, ciabatta, baguettes, etc) which are freshly baked in store.
We get to school with parents when we’re young, then from about 11 or 12 by public transport. Transport is provided by the school only in rural areas with a large catchment and bad public transport.
We don’t have school-busses, schools are close by. We walk or take the bike. 🇳🇱
In the USA VERY few schools are within even a 20 minute walk. In the USA all children up to the age of 13 must be monitored or supervised by a teacher, parent, or other guardian at all times. Walking 20-30 minutes to & from school would likely mean the child being picked up by police and the parent required to appear at the police station to answer for their neglect. Failure to do so would be sufficient for an investigation and repeated such activity could be used to terminate parental rights, take the child away by Protective Services, and have possible criminal charges for abuse or neglect filed against the parent. It has been like this since 1990.
@@gregorybiestek3431 Interesting. Being monitored at all times till 13 yo seems crazy to me. With my busy single mom I couldn't have gone to half the extra curricular activities that I was doing if my mom had to accompany me everywhere. Although maybe in the US all the activities are in the same place, I wouldn't know.
Here it's till 7 years old. Except for nights, then kids under 16 can't be outside without adults. But starting from 7 years old kids can go to school or other places during the day by themselves. I personally started walking to school and back, which was about a 15 minute walk at 8, but for longer trips like music classes in a different part of the city my mom would accompany me for a couple more years, not till 13 though.
@@Evija3000 The need for a parent, teacher or care giver to at all times watch over a child below the age of 13 has led to some unique USA practices. Everything a child below the age of 13 does is planned, scheduled and structured. For instance, play time has “play dates” where several parents who know each other organize a period of time & a place where the children are brought to spend “quality time” in activities with other children. Another is the organized “pay to play” sports activities for children where they again have a set period of time to be taught & play a specific sport. Yet a third is the organized community volunteer activities that can look good on a university application ten years in the future. These and many others are supported by “helicopter parents”, “minivan moms”, and “sports dads” Google the terms to get a detailed explanation of them.
I am European, most of the pictures in the slideshow from Wallmart are bit ridiculous...
But... Who TF was the one taking them and from what wierd place does he come from?
Pickles in a Jar - Sure, in what else would you want them. Not knowing buttery popcorn? What?
Great video, nice selection 👍❤️👏 Thanks
Here in Norway parents drive the children the first years of schools, and then they either walk or ride the bicecycle to school. People are living near schools and kindergardens here in Norway.
What is a school bus?
We have no school busses, it's not a thing, you just go on bike
or taxi from rural areas
The yellow bus thing, we only see them in movies and the design is unique. As a city boy I mostly walk to my school when I was attending, and in rural places they just use regular buses painted yellow.
Oh dear. I'm afraid that | have had to stop watching this (I'm about two thirds of the way through). Ryan seems to be a really nice young guy and indeed I subscribe to his podcast and have done for ages. I suppose that what I like about him is his naivety - I don't think he has a bad bone in his body. But Jaysus, as we say in Ireland, the stuff on the shelves here that he likes so much is NOT FOOD! Not even remotely. God knows that we in Europe eat a lot of rubbish food I'm ashamed to say, but not on this level of appallingness.
My dear Ryan, I hope you are seated because I am going to reveal to you the scoop of the year:
Dogs being mammals like us, they reproduce in the same way.
the daddy dog will get a small seed and give it to the mother and....
No after that it's too many revelations at once.😱
😂
@@taniakrause9253It's nice that someone has the same slightly offbeat sense of humor. 😉
Too much info! 😵 😮😮
I live in Belgium and we buy pickles in jars, traditional oreos only came here about a year ago, we don't have goldfish crackers, the idea of sweet iced tea is thought weird and sweet popcorn is the favored here (you almost can't find salted). The variety available in America really is amazing.
Glass jars, huge tincans or sigle ones that you can take in bag like other veggies. These three ways you can buy pickles in Finland. Most common is glass jar so that is perfectly normal. We have at least that amount of jars or even more options available here in bigger markets.
We also have like three times more of bread, but the selections of different brands and varieties of the bread is huge. I think that amount just different rye breads and then white/wheet breads, oat breads, flat breads, hard cracker type of breads... But here the bread is almost sacred, fresh and so delisious.
Cerials we don´t have such large varieties as in the US. But at least when i were kid the biggest package of corn flakes (not Kellogs tho) were 2,2lbs (1 kg) and were in plastic bag. Everything else were in carton boxes. Then there were even 4,4lbs (2kg) size in German grosery store chain for sale.
Our "ranch" is different by color. I think that in our "ranch" there is tomato in the sauce so it is kind of pink. We just have propably three different white sallad sauce. Those are Cesar, Garlic and Blue cheese flavors. My personal favourite is tomato & chili. It is so good... Also we have much of varieties other sallad dressings Thousand island, French style, Italian style, Chipotle, and propably dosen more.
And yeas for the chips too. That ain´t so much either 😅😂. You should see the candy isle in Finland and Sweden. Those are insane. Same thing with sodas. In Finland we haw also insane amounts of beers. There usualy are two isles of beers, ciders, long drinks and other sweet mixes, but everything are maximum 5,5% strong.
If you want stronger than that you have to go liquer store. There is usualy one isle of vodka, whiskey, brandy, cognac, rum, gin (all the harder stuff 35%-40%), then one isle of liquers, drink mixes, shotsthat, daquiries that are 11-21%. Two to three isles of wines 8-21% and about one isle of 4-9% of beers, ciders, long drinks and other sweet mixes.
Actually we have two differen´t Hyper Markets that have what i mentioned. I haven´t seen as huge Markets in any other European Countries. Swedish Ica Maxi is propably closest for size that i have seen. Our hyper markets are also open 24/7 unlike other European countries. Our laws got more flexible about 2019 and it is great. Every shop can now keep open how ever they want and can. That is just the best thing ever. I used to drive taxi at night time so it was so relax to go in big market about 5-6 am and there isn´t much of customers becouse 95% of the people are still sleeping 😁.
So you are basicly stuck where you live and can't go anywhere easilly? I'm 2,5 from paris, 3 hours from london, 4 hours from berlin or munich with high speed train. Or like 2.5 hours flying from barcalona and 3.5 hours from rome. And 2 hours from amsterdam by car or train.
I would be so depressed in the usa..
It's not like there's nothing to see in the U.S.! It would take a lifetime just to see what's here. Plus Canada, Mexico and the Carribean islands aren't that far, maybe a few hours depending on the location. If I drive West from St. Louis, it takes about 4 hours to get to Kansas City, which is on the opposite end of the state. If I head East, I would go through Illinois and then be in Indianapolis, Indiana in 4 hours. It must be nice to be so close to a lot of other countries!
No wonder their kids start driving at 16 if a car is the only way to get literally anywhere.
What is the hype with Barcelona, I don't get it. It smells like shit all over, it is not a particularly beautiful city and if you like Spain or reggaeton parties you could as well got to Madrid, which is actually is beautiful city.
@@CherylVogler in my experience american cities are all pretty much the same. Lots of wide roads, big cars and retail chains with huge parking lots.
If you seen one you seen most of them. Very little cultural variation especially.
The nature is amazing all over that's for sure and definatly worth exploring.
It is nice to visit different countries, culture and history so easilly quickly and especially cheaply. Been traveling all over europe for 25 years and could never live without it just packing up for the weekend and spend a few days in some little itallian village or skiing in the alps.
@@rogerk6180 As a teen I sang in a very good choir and we went to competitions in other European countries where we also visited museums and interesting locations. It was great seeing multiple countries so young in spite of growing up in a poor family. If I had been in the USA at best I could have gone to nearby states.
Oreos are a disgusting chemical tasting horror story, and why would we buy Twinkies (even Hostess Twinkies made in the UK), when you can buy British Chocolate & Cream Choux Buns that taste like proper food?
When a brit tells you your food is bad, you know you have problems (joking of course).
I've tried Oreos once, it tastes like pure fat and nothing else, and certainly not chocolate
I was really freaked out by the colour of the chocolate in Oreos - doesn’t look like chocolate at all!
To me Oreos kinda taste like nothing. Was very disappointed when I first tasted them.
I find the key copy machine kind of interesting. In Germany for many types of keys you need to show an official permission by your landlord or a certificate that you are the rightful owner in order to make a copy of the key.
You can copy most keys in Germany too. But keys for your apartment (or other places, such as work for example) might be branded as part of a "key lock system" and therefore carry a number, so that copy services can tell, that they're not supposed to copy them for you without permission of the registered owner of that number.
@@dnocturn84 that is right. However, most of the time you might want to make a copy of the key to your apartment.
Where I grew up in the UK most students either took the public buses or walked to school, our school did have double decker school buses that were blue but not many people I knew used them
There are no healthy foods in america