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#20 is totally wrong. Many Americans WANT to vacation. But many businesses hate employees that take time off.
Exactly!! Businesses don't want their people staying out too long. And not everyone even gets Personal Time Off/vacation days. Plus, the average American workers (labor force) don't make enough money to actually take time from work to actually GO somewhere for leisure trips, and other people aren't paid for the days they take off so even if they do take a day or two here and they, they have to calculate if they can afford to not be paid for those days off. I'm 67y.o. and I have never packed a bag and taken a "vacation trip" anywhere that didn't involve requisite visits to inlaws. I didn't grow up having vacation trips, either.
True that. I have a friend who was negotiating terms of a potential job. They kept throwing money at him, but all he wanted was a minimum of 4 weeks vacation, and they weren't willing to go up from 2 weeks. So stupid.
Nor can many Americans afford to take that much time off. Also, we’re one of like 3 developed nations that doesn’t pay for workers maternity leaves. Kind of interesting for a country that has literally fallen and died on the sword of the pro-life movement.
@@RayWhiting I didn’t have many vacations growing up either. I made sure to break that mold. My children have been to many different places. Even when I thought I couldn’t afford it I actually could.
@@dw.in.michigan most employers who offer vacation have set a standard of 2 weeks vacation and 1 week sick time. Until you hit certain employment year milestones. The. You accrue more
The toilet stall doors and walls being short isn’t really a problem at all. But those 1” gaps between all sides of the door though, those are when you accidentally meet eye to eye with a stranger on the other side and it’s never not awkward.
yes the side gaps are awful
I always push a toilet paper strip over it
@@zilla2724 I have no idea why I’ve never thought of doing this! Thank you haha
Yeah
Oh that one's easy, just smile and ask them how they're doing. They learn not to look at the gaps.
I’m American and have honestly never heard of us having a National return day until this video.
Neither have I
Same
Same.
When I interviewed for a job in England, they apologized for the bad "holiday" policy. I was thinking, 'oh, probably a week after you have been there a year.' I nearly fell out of my chair when he said, "It's three weeks the first year, oh, and you get all the bank holidays off too." That's 30 days right off the bat! I'm from Texas, and Y'all is a great, all-inclusive word. It is mainly used in the southern US.
We work for 10 years at one place for 2 weeks
@@merricat3025 I'm in Oklahoma and they don't offer ANY days off paid. Also, if a woman gets pregnant she loses her job in most cases because, unlike most states, it's a right-to-work state which means they don't even need a reason to fire you!😮💨
Stay out of my 2 foot space.
Y'all is becoming more wide spread. I'm in Minnesota and hear/use it pretty regularly.
Minnesota here too, you betcha! Skol😊
Heres a realistic one for paid vacation: "the large majority of Americans get little to no paid time off, meaning any vacation time also means losing money at work." Americans do not "love working", we have no choice 😅
Every job I have ever had has paid vacation...
I'm American
@@woodstyleah thats very fortunate. I bet you still use your vacation days despite loving to work.
American here. I get 4 weeks paid vacation a year. Plus for every 40 hrs I work I get an additional 1/2 day off,which is a day off every two weeks with pay. Not to shabby for this blue collar guy.
@@richardgranati7188 do you use that time off? I'm just saying the video is silly for saying Americans prefer to not take time off bc the ma-jor-ity don't get any time off. The ones that get time off use it
A clarification: Here in the US, the free refills are only for iced tea, regular old-fashioned brewed coffee, and soda (like pepsi, coke, etc.). We don't have free refills for more expensive drinks like alcohol, milkshakes, or any other fancy drink on the menu.
Hello 👋 Becky
How are you doing today
And when you want to drink water, it's free, has ice, and is probably from the tap. Bottled water is rarely served in restaurants. Those that do serve it bottled are usually fancy restaurants (and it's usually some fancy brand that you pay for, like Pellegrino). Delis and some cafes sell it too, but that's because it's meant to be taken with you.
At the casinos in Las Vegas I think it's a whole other set of rules for drinks. LOL.
And even that is starting to go away
The video specified fountain drinks.
I’ll just add. I’ve had the lock break on a foreign bathroom stall and had a complete panic attack when I was stuck in there for over an hour because no one else came in. At least in the US ones I could have crawled out under or over the door.
I’ve been in European bathrooms without doors. Well, ok. When you gotta go, you just deal with it
I think that’s one of the reasons for the space but people don’t consider that 🤷🏾♀️ I had an employee who had a stroke in the bathroom stall and we could get to her because of the space.
@@tonnigillis266 That’s awful 😢
@@slemdlem unfortunately she died
Gross but true...
I agree with so many comments: most Americans don't eat bull testicles or ride in a rodeo; fried pickles are available many places, but I've only seen them ordered once. The side gap in bathroom doors is very uncomfortable. We really are loud. Month first helps narrow down the time frame for reference. Air conditioning is heaven, as is ice in a drink! Refreshing! 😁
Are there things done in your country you think Americans/foreigners might find unusual? I'd love to hear your family's discussion about that!
Prairie Oysters. Ya I worked on a ranch and it came up, not one of the ranch hands had ever had them.
Being from Texas I've had RMO's. As a chef I've had stranger things. I'll go to Rodeo's and volunteer at Rodeo Austin. Fried Pickles are everywhere. Don't drink soft drinks either. Maybe it's your upbringing and where you live dictates traditions.
i get fried pickles literally everytime i see them on the menu lmao
What are bull testicles? Yikes. Never seen fried pickles and don't know anyone who has ever had them. I don't run the ac all the time. However, businesses tend to freeze everybody with blasting ac. If one person out of 100 likes it cold and complains about it being hot, they blast the rest of us so that we're miserable. We have blankets in the office and sometimes space heaters.
One of the most common phrases I hear from my fellow Americans is "Man I need a vacation". Everyone says it. Really says a lot about how we just are not able to.
At least where I work, they'll cash the vacation days out at the end of the year if they go unused. Many companies won't even do that, so you've got these vacation days that expire or pile up to the point where you'd never be able to use them all.
Why aren't we? I take them all the time.
When I was younger I took a 2 week vacation once a year. I got more time off than that, but work would pile up and it would take weeks to catch up again. As I got older I took all the time off I could. Now I’m retired and loving my time and spending my energy doing things I enjoy.
@@7tatertot Yup. I take a day or two here and there, every few months, as well as on my regular two days off every week.
@@7tatertot You are probably pretty lucky then. Most people with families are living paycheck to paycheck and only get 1 to 4 days off a year. That mostly has to be used for sickness and emergencies. We have no money to go anywhere.
What's crazy is that USA has immense diversity and culture. I'm from south USA and I remember as a child visiting New York and asked for sweet tea and grits, and the server looked at me like I was insane. Each region of the US has so many unique things about it, and if you don't travel throughout the country you may never realize that not everyone knows or says "yall" 😉🤣
Yeah. They leave the sugar out of the tea and put it on the grits. God bless their little hearts...
Or when I ask for a half and half outside of Maryland they think I’m referring to cream 😅 ( a Maryland half and half is half sweet tea and half lemonade)
@@mymy38448 I think a half and half is only known outside of Maryland because of Arnold Palmers by Arizona. But even then, I call it a Palmy (because of my husband) not half and half and I'm from Virginia.
I think it’s both in Michigan, we have half and half cream and half and half tea/lemonade
New York sucks I’ve lived in New York, Long Island for 11 years
If all the people of New Zealand are as pleasant as this family, it must be a truly lovely place!
Kiwis are fantastic folks and their country is beautiful and fun to visit. Go if you can, you won't be disappointed.
“Y’all” is so versatile. I’m from South Texas and y’all is an amazing word. There’s also an “all y’all” just in case your need to address everyone in the room🤣
All y'all as opposed to some of y'all! :)
It's easier to say then you all.
Being from USA I’d say the one thing I was expecting to be on the list but wasn’t is that we don’t use metric system in a standard sense with most things.
I was thinking the exact same thing! I was sure it would be number one y nada.
Thank God.
I think when Carter was President they actually started putting both numbers on the speed limit signs. They didn't last long though.
But you always need that 10 millimeter socket that lives in the land of guitar picks and drum keys. If you know you know.
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"Don't feel the need to take long vacations" Um... what?? Far more accurate to say that, in addition to most businesses granting only 2 weeks or less vacation time, many people either can't afford to take even that much, or, because of heavy workload or over-scheduling by jerk bosses, simply aren't allowed to take time off. It's not at all that we don't want to. (Except for maybe a few oddballs)
This! It's such a hassle if you do dare to take a sick day, too. They usually want a doctor's note, which costs a fortune, even if you could get in to see your doctor that same day. And they guilt trip you so badly for taking a day off as well. And when it comes time for raises or promotions, you're going to have a much harder time if you've taken your allowed time, because you won't seem as hard a worker as someone who comes to work sick and never takes the vacation time.
Most businesses don't give any sick days so that's what that tiny amount of "vacation" has to be used for.
Everytime I think about taking some time off, something catastrophic happens and ruins it. We were planning a trip for last weekend and the weekend before my wife falls down the stairs and shatters her lower leg. I got time off, but it was spent at the hospital for 3.5 days because they had to do surgery to pin and screw her bones back together. Now she is unable to bear weight on it for another 7 weeks at least. That's how my life works.
I won't accept Jobs with less than 20 days off paid a year without holidays. I like working hard but playing harder is best
@@lisadawn79 some of us don't have that luxury.
I guess I’ve always thought of it as the day doesn’t do much good if you don’t know the month. Like there are twelve different “day 22” but only one March or May, so if I start by saying/writing the month we’ve immediately narrowed our scope to only 30-ish possible days instead of 365 and then we state the day and that communicates even more specifically what is being discussed.
I think I tend to like writing the month first as well because if I’m looking at a list of things I need to do I can just scan the leftmost side to kind of help me determine “ok, these things are in August, this isn’t till December…” etc etc whereas if it was written second I would have to look past the first set of numbers to figure out if there is an appointment two days from now or a month and two days from now
I’m not saying one is more right than the other, it’s just always how I’ve thought about it.
YYYYMMDD surperioity
This, MMDDYYY, because what Hallel wrote.
It’s better imo
Cause if a friend asks “what’s the date?” You answer: February 26th 2023 = 02/26/2023
Exactly!
Its just the way we say things in written form. December 25th is Christmas, although I do say 4th of July for independence day. I work with Oracle DB and in that env we use DD-MON-YYYY (10-JAN-2023).
As a life-long New Englander, I really loved seeing your family watch and react in such a positive way and also reading all the wonderful comments! You’ve brought many people together from all over the world in a way that feels very friendly. Thank you!
Just so you know, the reason tipping is so common in the US is not because it's a nicety. For restaurant servers, employers pay as little as $2.25 and hour. Tipping allows employers to pay workers sub-poverty wages.
Yes, here in Utah 2.25 by law. Tip is considered part of your salary. We moved from CA where salary is minimum wage plus tip. If you don't tip here you just screwed your server.
Waiters and servers do not make minimum wage. When I waited tables, I paid my rent from tips because the pay check was never enough. What's the moral here? Tipping should be completely done away with, and business owners should pay their staff they way they should be paid and they should not have to rely on the kindness of others because not everybody tips. And honestly, I've had service that didn't deserve a tip.
@@chronicstitcher7933 that service that didn't deserve a tip is why paying servers a higher wage worth no tipping is a bad idea. This way servers have to give really good service to get better tips. Between the good service and free refills for drinks, a lot of visitors to the US are impressed with how good the service is. And if you just pay the servers a full wage, many will give the bare minimum service and still get paid.
@@ltgoddess I hope no one applies that logic to your job
@@judysocal8682 of course this is a generalization. I was a hostess and server for several years in my 20s. It's a tough job. But there are too many people getting paid good money and they do the absolute minimum. That's part of the reason we have such a shortage of workers right now. Many food service and retail businesses are looking for good applicants, but finding reliable and dedicated workers is very difficult. I guess they got used to just hanging out at home and don't feel like putting in the work. For some it's a generational thing. Some young people act so entitled and want everything done for them. Unfortunately seeing that lake of work ethic across many industries and wage levels.
Being 56 in the U.S., I've never heard of the " return day" in January. I worked many years in retail and the returns start December 26th and continue thru January.
I haven’t heard of it either.
I haven't heard of this "returns day" either. Stores do have policies that are typically printed in the receipt that lets the purchaser know of their return policy timeframe.
Sometimes family will gift you items with a gift return receipt so that you can pick something else out, instead of the gift that bought you.
I think they’re referring to the day after Christmas return/sales shopping.
December 26 is the big returns day.
53 years old, have lived in 6 states, and have NEVER heard of Return Day 🤣! And there are a few more things on your list that I have NO idea who came up with those. I’m wondering who wrote that list. My daughter goes to school in Scotland and they fry way way more things than we do. For fun I ordered a fried cheeseburger. And it came in a bun 🤣😂🤣😂
Sorry for double commenting lol but just wanted to explain the bathroom stall gap on the bottom- US folks are accustomed to checking for feet under a stall to determine occupancy. Checking visually keeps us from having to interact with the occupant while they manage their business lol
A lot of the items in the list depend on which state one lives in. I had a rough time when I lived in the south because I'm from the north. I literally couldn't understand what people were saying because their accents were so strong and many common expressions were odd. Anyway, I think your family is adorable.
meanwhile as a Kansan getting grouped into what most refer to as the Midwest I have no idea what yall up north are saying I think there needs to be a northern region not just Midwest cause I say yall, ain't, bless your heart but you'll also hear an ope let me squeeze right past ya there bud I understand deep south way better than high north
Louisiana. Y’all I’ve tried. From NY, lived in PA, TX, VA, MD, SC, and some in NM - but Louisiana I’m nearly always baffled by.
Can I (we) relate to this. We moved from PA to MS (in a suburb of Memphis) and I cannot tell you how many times I could NOT understand what someone was saying to me - through a drivethru at Mc'D's, hostess at Olive Garden, a customer service person at Walmart - - I just knod and hope I don't insult them because I CANNOT understand 95% of what they are saying. It's frustrating and funny at the same time. We've been in the south 15 years now - so it is getting much easier as we've adapted but geesh! Oh - and we NEVER said "ya'll" until we moved to the south - however, being a big part of the grammar police - I still try as much as possible to enunciate ' you all ' . However, the country nature of 'ya'll' is truly endearing to the south - so I appreciate it either way.
@@kar1922I started saying yinz as a joke because I live in Pittsburgh and I actually started saying it naturally sometimes
@@kar1922 I know what you mean. I was born and raised in Alto, Michigan (2 hour drive SE of Grand Rapids) and moved to Topeka, Kansas in 90 where I was stuck for nearly 30 years then moved to Denison, Texas in 2017 but left quick as I could and in 2020 moved to a small town in SW, Oklahoma. I like it here but it's so windy I keep getting blown away by the cheap prices!🤣 Seriously, 400 bucks a month for a 2 bedroom house!!🤯 I have a hard time understanding all the Hispanic people that live around me!
As a Texan I have to say that air conditioning is a necessity of life here, especially during the summer months. Also I have never understood why people find putting ice in most drinks to be strange but every nation has their own culture. I will admit that the bathroom stalls being so open doesn't make a lot of sense and I think the closet style stalls are more sensible.
I don't understand the ice snobbery either. Drinks aren't all that refreshing at room temp. It's not weird to make a beverage cold 🤷♀️ in regards to the air conditioning, I think they're referring to places that have it on 24/7 even when it's not hot outside like many stores do and businesses here.
Drink bottles tend to be small and chilled at restaurants so ice doesn't need to be added. This is also why there are no free refills on soft drinks.
@@jenniferh1416 I lived in France for a bit and have traveled a lot. I'm aware of how the drinks are served but I have to agree with the Americans on the ice in beverage thing. What's funny is when you ask for ice for your drink in another country and they bring you one or two cubes 😆 it's charming and amusing to me as an American. Ice in drinks is the only thing we got right over here. Literally the only thing. America is a nightmare.
The stalls are made like that in case of a medical emergency and the door is bolt locked from the other side. Hard to crawl through when you can't fit.
I'm in the PNW and I never use my air conditioning.... My fireplace and stove, that's a different story.
I am from the Southeastern US. I've always been told to keep the AC running at all times because the energy to maintain the house temp at 65 or 70 when outside is 90 or above is less than turning the whole system off for a few hours, then making it use all of that energy to cool the house those 20 or 30 degrees from scratch.
Exactly! Just like the more food you can keep in your freezer the easier it is on the freezer itself. It can keep cooler for longer without using a ton of power.
Noth alabama 71 or 72, heat or air year round inside the home. Really hot , few times will go to 69 or 70.
I am also in the SE U.S. and this is what I was taught as well. However, if the air is on, it is using energy (hence a higher bill). If you are not home and not using up energy in the house, the house actually stays cooler longer because there is no movement inside. Kinda like when the electricity goes off & you try not to open the freeze or fridge too much to lose the coldess inside. That was what an FPL guy told us. We keep the a/c on 80 when we leave the house, sometimes completely off and when we turn it on, it only takes about 30 mins to cool the house. The a/c is not working harder, just longer for that period to bring the temperature down. Our a/c doesn't know the difference and shuts down once it achieves the designated temperature. You may not want to cone home to a hot house but that is better than having it on all day.
Mind you, this also depends on your insulation & how many windows face east & south. Not every house is built the same.
You’re correct. A multi-stage air conditioning system in a properly insulated home should not be turned off or altered in temp if you are home or plan to be home within a reasonable number of hours. It is less energy-intensive for such a system to maintain a steady temperature than to have to cool the home from a high temperature.
Same here! I never turn it off! Sometimes even in the winter! 😂
It may depend on where you live in the US, but I'm 49 and have lived in the US my whole life, and people don't always smile. I've been a cashier or worked retail for over 18 years, and I'd say from 30-50% of the time when I (are co-workers) would greet customers with a smile and friendly attitude customers either ignore us or grumble about something. No one I know uses Red Solo cups, we mostly use Styrofoam so we can write the person's name with a ballpoint pen on them.
Tipping is dumb, but I always tip between 20 and 25% because I know many people don't tip at all and look for reasons not to tip.
Yeah, what is up with the red solo cups? Ok. Sometimes they are blue, white styrofoam or paper cups, whatever. And I wouldn't think of Americans as being too smiley. A lot of people barely acknowledge you when they pass you by.
I loved the Mrs.' reaction to letting vacation pile up. 'What?!'
The high bathroom stall doors have actually come in handy. More than one mother has had to crawl under the stall to get a small child out when they either could5or wouldn't open the door from the inside, lol.
Been there. 😂
@@hopemurphy9093 me too!
What’s worse is when the doors are like the doors in your house bathroom and are full on doors. 🤦♀️ you have to put your foot out to make sure they don’t lock those doors
My mom sent me under when a stranger's daughter accidentally locked herself in and was too young to figure it out so an 8 year old me got volunteered. Lol
I've never figured why our sales tax isn't figured in either....makes no sense.
Oh and the date thing? A lot of our military do day, month, year so some of us, including me, still use that for instead of month, day, year.
As a mother of five in the USA I have to agree about the bathroom stall doors🤣😂😅
For me, the date being MM/DD/YYYY is a logical order. If you are going to look up a date on your calendar, you start with the month then the day, not the other way around.
But first, you make sure you have the calendar for the right year. So YYYY/MM/DD makes more sense.
@@RoadkillX33 either YYYY/MM/DD or DD/MM/YYYY makes sense I honestly don't get why we do it as month day year a side from wording it out like March 23rd, 2022
It's also conversational
Say April first, or first of April?
@@NateOlson I just say April Fools
So funny to watch as an American and I didn’t know half of this was considered different hahaha. Good stuff! Y’all are great
The daughter’s face when the video said “deep-fried everything” gave me so much joy. Nobody acknowledged it when she said it, and she looked so happy when the video mentioned it. Someone needs to get that girl fried pickles STAT though. She has no idea what she’s missing! What adorable kids.
We don't deep fry everything. The only things I can think that I eat fried is fried chicken, fried fish sometimes, maybe pork chops, and fried potatoes or french fries.
7:00 As for the AC being on all the time, you have to remember that American summers, especially in the southern half of the country, are generally MUCH hotter and more humid than their European or New Zealand counterparts. It baffles me how people survived for centuries in North America WITHOUT air conditioning.
Where I am in Louisiana the A/C is a necessity from late March to early November. You will literally melt without it.
I'm in California and it's almost always hot here, except this year, this year is a bit cooler than most.
Yep, I live in NJ and we average temps in the mid-80s F in June-August. Which would be 29-30 C, and humid as heck. We need AC.
I thought about that! It gets so hot here during the summers! I live in NC and it’ll be 90 degrees but the humidity will be 70% making it feel even worse😫
Yep I live in Georgia and it gets blazing hot here!
So the funniest interaction I ever had with a “foreigner” was talking with some ladies from Canada. I worked retail in Florida, in an area that had a lot of tourism. I was about to check the ladies out at the register and they asked about the sales tax so they could calculate their total. I could tell by their accent they were likely Canadian, so I answered that it was 2.5% (at the time). It never occurred to me it would be different somewhere else! So I asked, “What’s y’all’s tax?” And they stared at me blankly… then at each other… than at me. And now I’m concerned because I must’ve assumed something incorrectly… but then she says “What’s a ‘y’all’s tax’?”
I said what are you talking about, and she told me what I had asked and then I realized what happened 😂 she was so shocked that we said “y’all” in real life and hadn’t actually heard someone use it before! I was equally shocked but we had a big laugh 😆
Since they were Canadian, you should have tried using English when you asked the question.
Florida doesn't have a state tax but they bang you in other ways. Hospitality tax is one.
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Americans cannot get comfortable with the fact that "you" is both singular and plural. You will rarely hear an American use "you" plural in conversation. It's "y'all" (meaning you all) especially in the south. "Youse", "youse guys", "you guys" or similar made-up words are often heard in other parts of the country.
This is so weird. 🤣 I have lived in multiple states in the US and some of these are pretty far off. Fried food is more common in the South, but I haven't fried anything before and we eat out maybe once a year and usually don't eat at places with fried foods when we do. Also, our pharmacies are in our Walmart, Costcos, etc. Some tiny towns still have small town pharmacies, but I haven't seen one in like 25 years. And even then, they didn't have food. Some areas are friendly than others, but in most areas I have been it is common to smile and a knowledge most people and adding on a hello how are you for some. I use y'all and am not from the south, but you guys seem to be what I hear most.
Thanks for the fun video! 🤗
Most pharmacies outside grocery stores aren't the "small town pharmacy" like from the '50s. But it's places like Walgreens or CVS, which are exactly the type of place this video is talking about. You can buy anything in those places.
The U.S. has so many different climates that those folks in northern New England, Michigan, etc. may never use air conditioning, while those in the south may use it most of the year. It is true that some folks have issues with using vacation time but we always take a vacation every year, it is important to get away and relax! I don't eat much deep fried anything, definitely no rocky mountain oysters! Never heard of anyone eating those! Some parts of the country are friendlier than others, I live in the Midwest and folks are really friendly here. Had a great friend in high school who was an exchange student from NZ, would love to visit!
The large gap at the bottom of bathroom doors is simply because it's easier to see if it is occupied without having to stand on your heads.
The date is easy, also. When someone asks the date, we verbally say like March 16th. It's written the say way.
I thought we wrote the date month first because it files in an internal monthly order:
01/01 (jan 1)
01/02 (jan 2)
02/01 (feb 1)
02/02 (feb 2)
But if you write day first, the order gets messed up:
01/01 (jan 1)
01/02 (feb 1)
02/01 (jan 2)
02/02 (feb 2)
@@shai-huludmayhispassagecleanse for filing photos in order I use the year first, followed by month, day, hour, minute, second YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
@@JGlaister Oh yeah that’s a good one because it puts them in order and the format makes it obvious whether months or days come first
Public bathrooms used to be used for all sorts of illegal nefarious reasons,by making the doors short makes it hard to get away with anything now.
Another reason is because it's a safety feature. Should somebody have a medical emergency, it is easy for a paramedic to crawl under the door then open it from the inside.
Another thing foreigners worry about is being spied on through the gaps. trust ne, it is a HUGE social taboo to be caught peeping through the gap.
While I can't speak for what happens in the women's room, I can say with certainty that if caught doing it in the men's room, he would be called out as a pervert and if he's lucky be held till law enforcement can come and arrest him for public indecency. if he's unlucky, he could end up severely beaten then turned over to the police.
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned that for the air conditioner one while it's mostly true, there's also the fact that a lot of places in the U.S are simple so hot that without air conditioner, lots of people will straight up die of heat stroke and other such heat related things.
In the Midwest we simply cannot go without air conditioning. Sure, we can go to the pool, but our pets (we have dogs) cannot go with us and leaving them at home in a very hot house would probably kill them (it would ours as they have a ton of thick hair). With the high temps and humidity here, heat stroke can come on pretty quickly.
And ice in our drinks, especially water (for me, anyways) is an absolute must!!
@@Heatherfwlr This is very true I actually have experience with this I live in California so we have pretty modest weather yet it still reaches 100-105 in the summer and one of our cats died because of the heat, we don't have air conditioner and can't afford it so we just have fans, and that's why air conditioner is a must here.
@@Mr.Dotson I’m sorry for your loss. Have you looked into a portable air conditioner? Walmart out here had one that was $239 and it cooled our living room that’s open to the dining room and kitchen. That makes up for half of our house. We put a strong fan in front of the portable unit and it actually got to the point it was too cold and we had to turn it off for a bit. And that’s on 90* weather and hella humidity.
@@Heatherfwlr Since then we have gotten one as a hand me down but it's not that powerful and can only really cool a room down by a few degrees maybe about 10 if we really push it, but we don't have any power in our upstairs so we can't put it up there to begin with so we just keep it down stairs and bring the female cats downstairs during the day, we keep them upstairs at night because we have males and females and although all the males are neutered not all the females are spaded so yeah. I didn't know Walmart sold them though I'ma have to look into that.
@@Mr.Dotson I live in Fresno, California. Our summers are definitely not modest. It's 105+ all summer. It got up to 115 in September. And the heat now starts end of April and lasts until mid-October (it was low in the 90s in early October this year). In the summer, it doesn't cool down at night. California is huge with different climates.
Bathroom stall privacy is a big one. I went into a restaurant not too long ago and the bottom of the door was so high that I bent over and could way too much. A kid could easily see under it at me! The top of the door was low too. If a 5’8 person came in, they could look over. Then somewhere else, the crack between the door was like an inch or more. Now, I try to use it before leaving my house. However, when traveling, I don’t have too much choice.
I love it that you are learning our culture…. Not judging it.
Most of these are accurate except for two:
-Americans say “how are you” as part of a greetings but not in replace of hi or hello. It’s normally in conjunction. While it can be small talk, I think most Americans do care about the answer.
-Americans are workaholics but they don’t necessarily want to be. They have to hustle to make a living. I won’t get into workplace politics here but some people have reasons why they never take sick days either.
That list could’ve probably kept going but I think it covered a lot.
As an American I don’t do the majority of the things in that list lol
I'm an American and I hate, "how are you?". I always answer whether they are interested or not.
I don't know where you're from, but in some places people do absolutely use "How are you?" As a replacement for hi.
I always say, “Hi, How are you?” I don’t expect a response and when people say, “Fine, how are you?” I always respond with, “Great!!” Which 99% of the time I’m horrible 🤣🤣
@@queenofkings7453 try putting a big smile on your face and giving them a cheerful "horrible" when people ask how you are as a greeting. Seriously. Try it. Most folks will read the body language, hear the cheerful tone, and reply with "glad to hear it" as they walk on by.
The old saying: "Americans think that 100 years is a long time. Everyone else thinks 100 miles is a long distance". Non-Americans have NO CLUE as to how BIG this country is.
I had someone talking about how insensitive a politician was and I had to inform them about how his state was further from the other state in question than their country was large
Its quite small isn't it?? JK. I have road tripped all over the US. Love it down there, Friendly joke from your slightly larger neighbor to the north,
@@vivisector9999 Canada is more than slightly larger than USA. It’s ginormous and has the longest coast xD. It’s sad that most place are inhabitable lol
Australia is similar. People from overseas often have no idea how huge it is. The west to east coast is about the same as the USA east to west.
Yeah, many countries are smaller than most states. I had a friend from Germany come to visit me. We drove not even a quarter of the way through PA east to west and he was like did we cross to another state yet Luke constantly. I was like? It's been an hour, we barely crossed 2 counties. 😅
It's not that we don't want to take long vacations. It's that vacation has to be approved and employers rarely approve it, so you risk losing your job by even asking.
It's also exceptionally rare for your employer to let you take your vacation days all at once. They'd rather you use them as extra sick days, or for the odd day off here and there.
I think that happens a bit less in very large companies. I can see that could be a headache in a small company however.
My nephew is a bull rider on the pro circuit right now. It's terrifying to watch him but he loves it more than you could ever imagine! He started riding goats at 3 years old which was a blast to watch but eventually he worked his way up to the big bulls and the fun part of watching was replaced by nerves and peeking through my fingers. 8 seconds is such a long time! Lol
Dangerous.
Personally, as an American, I write the date format this way because that’s how we say the date. Today is March 16th 2022 (so 3/16/22). Its uncommon to hear the 16th of March 2022 (or 16/3/22). We don’t care about all that ascending order nonsense. 😂
I agree, and I would also add Months only go to 12, Days go to 31, and Years just keep going. So the numbers are in order from least to greatest that way. Least that's how I see it :P
Exactly. I say my birthday is April, 6th 19blah blah. So that's how I write it 4/6/1988. I would never say my birthday is the 6th of April.
Just think.... 9/11 would be 11/9 ??
We also eliminate the need to say "OF" everytime .... It's March 16.. Not the 16th "OF" March
However, dates in the military are ofter day-month-year
@@gardensnob1 Correct. Like today's date would be 17MAR2022
Having all that stuff at a pharmacy is actually a good idea, it's a one stop shop when you're sick. Snacks, meds, comfort items all in one place then back home without going anywhere else.
Except that's not the pharmacy. The pharmacy is an area inside the store.
@@3DJapan It's a drugstore with benefits!
A lot of Americans say drugstore and consider the pharmacy a department within the drugstore. Often the operating hours for the drugstore and pharmacy aren’t the same.
@@anndeecosita3586 Yeah, it says "Pharmacy" real big right above the area in most stores.
@@LoriL010 I never heard it put that way before but you're right, lol
#6 Is only partially true. People tend to answer habitually " Fine" but a lot of people actually ask to let you know they are considerate to your feelings. Like a lot of these videos, some of these are stereotypes.
Loved this video!! Tipping is very important to American servers. I work as a server and we don’t make high wages for this job and rely on tips to make up the difference. My pay is $4.45 per hour plus tips. The standard is 20% and can be more if service levels are exceeded. It is really disheartening when people don’t give the standard. We also prefer cash tips, as we are taxed for anything we get in credit card tips.
Thanks for your adorable channel. ❤
"We also prefer cash tips, as we are taxed for anything we get in credit card tips. "
You should be paying taxes on the cash tips too, but I won't tell. :-)
@@michaelwalsh564 HAA!! Oh I pay taxes on everything believe me....ugh!!!
regarding tipping, I have been alive long enough to remember when the standard tip was 10%, then increased to 10-15%, then 15-20%, now it is 20-25%,. And the rule was in restaurants you only tipped in places where food was brought to you, but if it was a self serve type of establishment than tipping was not required. Now it seems tipping in America is expected nearly everywhere. Except in the medical field, because any medical staff caught taking gratuities weather asked for or not risks being sacked if caught.
Tipping seems foreign to us because we believe wages should be paid the fair legal rate by the employer.
@@wcampbell1502 Same! I'm not afraid to still give only 10% (or less) when service isn't up to par. If I feel the server is doing his/her best, and the food meets the expectation, I'll gladly tip higher. It use to also be if service/food was poor, a penny was left as the tip - that told a message. It also used to be that the server got the whole tip & it was on him/her to share with others of the "team"; now most tips are collected and divided according to restaurant's policies.
We had a local restaurant (big name chain) that closed during the Covid era, it reopened but on every page of the new menu in small print was that an additional 3% 'gratuity' was added to help cover the costs (basically) of their losses while they were closed along with expected food cost increases. That along with the suggested 20-25% tip. Menu costs were higher, portions smaller as well. We chose not to return again, and it appeared others may have followed suit and the restaurant closed permanently within six months.
I'm all for doing away with the whole tip/gratuity system in ALL places it's expected and/or automatically charged (check your receipts carefully, you MAY be double-tipping!).
10 Options for cookies and cereal? Oh my, that is way off! It’s almost embarrassing. A typical grocery store in America has more choices than you can even count in a reasonable time. Imagine a 50 foot aisle with one side of it being nothing but cereal choices. It just goes on and on. Pretty much the same for cookies and crackers. Love your show!
Lol yeah I thought the same. 10 options......of Cheerios alone! Lol I tjink Oreos have at least a dozen options all by themselves. Idk where the guy who made the video shops, but it must be at a gas station or mini mart lol.
And then you go to a super WalMart, and the amount of choices increases even more than that! lol
Yeah I thought that too. Way more options lol.
I was thinking the same thing!
Right? I live in Canada, and even in the drugstore you can get at least that many options. It's much higher in grocery stores.
Wanting to adopt “y’all” just won my heart over. Y’all are great
I went to work at Yellowstone National Park (in Wyoming) making reservations for visiting family groups. I didn’t think anything about it. I was talking to a gentleman on the phone and all of a sudden he says “y’all, where are you from”? Being from the south and having heard it all my life it kind of shocked me. I just thought everybody said y’all, but it is in the southern states where it’s used, in the Northeast they use youse or you guys.
@@kkerr1953 Y'all is the plural form of you. It's sort of all of you.
I’m from the south(New Orleans). We say y’all in almost every sentence lol. Are y’all coming over later, where y’all at, all y’all better get back over here. The last one is why we are called “yat’s”.😂
In Pittsburgh and western PA, it's YINZ 😆
In the north, particularly MN its “You guys”. Sometimes in the old bohemian communities you’ll hear “Yous guys”.
I have to agree with you about tipping. I really hate that tipping is expected, especially when you go to a fancy restaurant. It’s already expensive and then we’re expected to pay about a 1/4 of the total price as a tip! Also, I wish our taxes were included in the price. It would be much more convenient.
That’s why I do not eat at fancy places. So much money for so little, nothing special food and then have to leave a tip that could have bought a meal for another diner. And God forbid you add an alcoholic beverage to it. You’ll have to second mortgage your house to pay.
Tipping is outdated and simply a way for places to advertise lower prices while letting their staff hope customers are generous. These owners need to take care of their employees instead of teaching them to beg for money on the job.
It would be nice if sales tax were included, but given that can change down to the county (city?) it means prices would be all over the board in chain places. A $5 burger could be anywhere from $5 to over $5.50 depending on where you are. It would get even worse with new cars. I wouldn't totally be opposed to it as it would highlight high tax areas, but it certainly would be a big change.
# 18 If you want to experience fried food find a state fair. That’s where they usually have the widest variety.
# 6 - Often times people respond to “how are you”.
# 5 Bathroom stalls, often don’t have the gap on the doors and the door opening height is usually below the toilet seat.
I recently learned that ranch dressing, which is used heavily in America, is sometimes called "American dressing" in other countries. I love this!
I wonder if other countries call French dressing, French dressing. What do the french think about French dressing.
@@tsbio Good questions! What is French dressing in France? Maybe just "dressing" or something else.
@@kellialexiscronk3515 Haha, French dressing in France is a vinaigrette. French dressing in the US is a totally American thing.
@@lifeaquatic1267 Of course! That's funny. C'est la vie!
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Every state is so vastly different, especially north to south. I moved from Massachusetts to Florida and it's been 5 years and I'm still having a bit of culture shock. Different ways of speaking, different foods. It's awesome.
Also, I wish the US would write the date like everyone else. lol
Having grown up in a military legacy (4X Marines/Navy/Army), my date writing has always been, for example "01JAN2022". When in school, I'd get beatdown by teachers for it, but I never changed.
@@TanyaQueen182 the US writes the date correctly. 📅
Great comment. I basically said the same thing. I should have read the comments section first. This country is so varied it’s unreal. Want to live in Caribbean style. You can. Want to live the ranching life. You can. Want to live in one of the largest cities on earth. You can. Basically anything you can do in America. Just have some money lol.
Line from movie Sweet Home, Alabama … “you should need a passport to come here”. So true, for some states!
I love this family! The kids are more intelligent and well behaved than most American children! Great job Mom and Dad! Yes, America is a weird place with weird customs. We drive on the parkway and park in the driveway. Some regions the dialect and accent makes it seem like its a foreign language and they're speaking English! Take New England for example. I am used to the Boston accent, but went on a tour once up there, and they translated words so non-new englanders could understand. It was funny trying to listen to them pronounce the letter "R".
I've never heard of a parkway!!
LOL. I once knew a young women and her husband who were from Maine. Her name was Diana and his was Marty. She always said, Mawdy. So I worked up the nerve one day to ask her, "Is his name Marty or Mawdy?" Well, of course she answered Mawdy. So I asked her to spell it. LOL No R's at all.
The sales tax doesn't just vary from state-to-state, it varies from state-to-state, county-to-county, City to City. In the same state you might be chart 5% in one city and 10% in another. The sales tax can also very on the type of purchase. For instance, a special tourist tax might be implemented if you stay in a motel, or do others touristy things.
I'm surprised it didn't mention expecting large portion sizes at restaurants and then taking home the leftovers. I feel like that only happens in the US
I've seen this in China.
Everyone takes leftovers home bruh
How many countries have you been in?
I've never noticed this to be a uniquely American thing, I have been to at least 10 different countries.
@@josephnebeker7976 I might have worded my statement wrong, but you cannot base a certain trait to a whole country. There might be many people from many countries who do this. Saying that only one countries does such a common thing is just wrong. Ofc not EVERYONE takes leftover home however. It’s like, in the middle
Yes. Order enough to last 2 more meals baby😂
Loved your family’s reaction to the video- made me smile. As a resident of Dallas, Texas I will just add that “Y’all” is mostly used by those in the southern states and as for the air conditioning, its typically used from March-October. We have very hot, humid summers with daytime temperature averages of 95-100+ Fahrenheit (35-40.5 Celsius) with high humidity (60+ percent). So it’s not so much that we like to be cold but we use it to stay comfortable.
Dallas may be more consistently cool than Houston in the winter. I was so glad to finally get a thermostat (Nest) that has a heat/cool feature where I can set a temperature range and it will switch from one to the other automatically, as forecasts are unpredictable and you don't really know which one you will need each day down here. Also, just because I was running my AC before bed in December doesn't mean that I won't want the heat to kick on around 2am. It's a blessing, really.
I'm from Dallas but in East Texas and I've got a big fan pointed at my face as I write this.
It's not just to stay comfortable, sure that is a big part of it but at times it's to stay alive. I had a next door neighbor several years ago that died in her house from over heating because she didn't have air conditioning. There was record heat waves at the time but she didn't say anything to anyone. We would have helped her if we had known.... So yah AC can literally be a life saving device just as much as a furnace in the winter can. One guess on the first thing the bank did before they sold the house.... they installed an AC unit.
Same for Amarillo except we don't have the humidity. It does get hot up here. Typically 100-110 in the summer.
I'm not keen for the bad air of AC but if you really have to have it, it makes sense, but it's expensive to run, the air is not so healthy to breath, bad on the planet, and also much more expensive upfront and to operate. I had a evaporative/'swamp' cooler in Boulder CO. but nothing else in Colorado nor in California. But because my bedroom faced West and over the garage with tiles I put in a big ceiling fan which was sufficient.
The first one about how we say y'all made me laugh. Moving from Oklahoma to North Carolina at 12 years old, I was exposed to y'all for the first time. In North Carolina it's more like "hey y'all!" That's right, in the southeastern US they mostly say hey instead of hi or hello. That video is mostly correct about Americans speaking unnecessarily loud. In some areas like where I'm from in Oklahoma, speaking too loud is not so prevalent.
At 9:33, there is a very definite and clear reason for the opening at the bottom of a restroom stall. It's because of the Americans with Disabilities Act (the ADA). There needs to be clearance for a wheelchair user to turn around in the stall. The increased gap at the bottom allows their feet to clear and thus the restroom stalls can be built smaller.
In the US, the requirement for bathroom stall doors is that a fully-equipped emergency officer (police, fire or EMT) needs to be able to fit under the door in the case of an emergency. This is to ensure that someone experiencing a medical emergency cannot be inaccessible if he/she is unconscious or otherwise unable to move.
Then why are there enclosed porter potties everywhere?
Because they are polymer/plastic and are much easier to bust open then the metal doors of normal stalls.
Crazy how I didn’t know that and I’m a paramedic. Who would’ve thought.
BS.
When someone’s is locked in the toilet an officer can simply cut the lock with a fool they have standard in their cars.
@@bodigames What tool is that? And assuming that each and every police officer has such a tool, what makes you assume the an incapacitated person has long enough to survive for said officer to retrieve such a tool? Personally, I've never heard anything about police cruisers being equipped with reciprocating saws, standard.
He mentions it in the intro but the one thing that shocked me when I've traveled overseas was the lack of air conditioning. Here in Texas, without A/C, we would be completely miserable in summer when 100°(37.8°C) isn't unusual. But it hardly exists at all abroad.
Yes its very mild weather here so not much meed for it
I'm from Houston Texas and we have 3 window units. If we didn't have AC I would absolutely die. 😄
Here in Minnesota as well a/c it's gets to 100°F in summer and very humid with our 10,000 + lakes.
Arizona here. AC is a must during the Spring, Summer and Fall!
Same in Florida. Though our A/Cs apparently work differently? We have heat pumps, which I believe work as an A/C and a heater in the same unit, by either pumping heat out of the house, like an A/C, or pumping heat into the house by working in reverse..
Not only state to state, there can be a difference city by city, but this is a small variance.I do tipping only if I am seated when receiving a service, being served in a restaurant, haircut, taxis etc.
Date: I wondered about this and ended up looking it up. It made sense it had to do with the early printing of newspapers and that putting the month first, they wouldn't have to change the print as often.
Actually a lot of Americans really do want to take more vacations. It's just that the companies or organizations we work for place limits on when & how we take vacations 🙄. It's the worst trying to finger out how many how hours you have accrued😨. Even if you put in for a vacation request in a timely manner, there's no guarantee it'll be approved 😔
When I worked for the cable company. I had plenty of vacation days, I just could never take them off because there was no one to replace me without shutting the whole division down.
@@TheBaldr So the company claimed🤨. But I guarantee if they had fired you a qualified replacement would've magically appeared immediately. One thing about American companies is that they're cheap. If they're able to cut cost or not pay at all, they will do so. Employees are usually the ones they enjoy being cheap with.
Theres an entire portion of the year (the end of year holidays nov-jan) when we can't use any pto at all.
Where I worked they didn't mind if you took a day off, but try to plan a vacation, never happen. You could never tell them that. Very jealous and would deliberately tell you they can't fill it, or try to call you in on day 3 of your vacation. So you never answer the phone. I had to lie and come up with a sob story to get a few days off. And other employees would hate you, because they got double the work load while you were gone.
All of you.... this may be hard to take, but its true: you ought to have made at least one attorney friend in your life. This is the antidote to "unions" even. If every American was friends with an attorney and just called them for advice when they really needed it, companies would be forced to hold themselves to higher standards.
This is an undeniable fact. Nearly every attorney will give an hour for free consultation. Every legal trouble I've ever had took one phone call to an attorney's office and far less than an hour to figure out how to handle the situation on my own. Serious things even. One of the best questions I;ve asked was, "I'm not an attorney so I don't even know what to ask you, but if you were in my situation what would you advise?"
Also, you should always be looking for new employment. I think its Dr Jordan Peterson who had advice about how to properly leverage that, but I don't recall ecactly. For instance, you eouldn't just tell your boss, "oh yeah? Well so-and-so offered me a job so (insert demand).." but you can carry yourself with more confidence and negotiate from a position of strength.
I think we write the date like that because we say the date in that order. We tend to say the date like “June 1st” or “November 24th” rather than “the 1st of June.” The only exception ironically is the 4th of July.
Was just going to post this...accurate. No ones says the date as 'the ___ of ____.' It's always spoken as the month then the day first, so that just translates to how we prefer to write it. Our brains just instinctively put the month first and day second.
@Parker Eads It's true we don't speak 1st of June but when we do documents, like court, (divorce, marriage, death, awards) it is written on the 1st day of June, 20xx so and so was present
I love watching this family from New Zealand. Hearing and seeing their reactions to many different videos of Ameicanisms is interesting and fun. We Americans don’t tend to spend a lot of time thinking about what we do and why we do what we do, so it’s fun hearing their reaction.
I loved this video and seeing things we do from others eyes. I have made the mistake in other countries of smiling at people when I pass them by and it turns awkward. In Peru, where my husband is from, he advised me that only girls that like a guy will smile at them if they don’t know them as an invitation. That one was hard to keep from doing! 😂
You guys mentioned something about how odd we do our names when the date thing came up but didn’t expand on it. I’m curious what we do with our names that’s different?
The MM/DD/YYYY in the US actually came from Britain who used to do it that way for a big part of maybe 300 years. They later converted the the Continental DD/MM/YYYY but the US did not. It's just like the word "soccer". We got that from the Brits too. A computer scientist will tell you that YYYYMMDD makes more sense because it can be sorted numerically in chronological order so some American cybernerds adopt that format.
Glad you mentioned the computer way of using YYYYMMDD, it makes it so much easier to store & retrieve files. I just wish I could convince my co-workers to adopt it, sigh.
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The month and day order also reflects how we say our dates. We would say October 27th, not the 27th of October as one might in the UK.
Maybe it's because I'm a computer software developer, but I normally use YYYYMMDD, often without any slashes, because it's more logical. It also makes it easy to add the time, if that's relevant: YYYYMMDD.HHMMSS. And I always use 24-hour times rather than am/pm.
But I usually revert to the usual U.S. way of doing things when communicating with other people, since I know they may misunderstand me if I don't.
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YYYY-MM-DD is an ISO standard. I write dates that way all the time, and get rather flustered when I'm presented with forms that require a MM-DD-YY(YY) format. I'm an American, and our system makes no sense at all.
Remember that those 2 weeks are usually called 'paid time off' and must be used for sick days too, not just vacation!
Depends on where you work. My husband never had to use vacation days for sick days and started with 3 weeks vacation and went up to 5 before retiring. My sister gets no paid vacation yet but finally will this year. Depends on what kind of job and education you have.
Very true. If you get sick and had to use your paid days off, there is no vacation. Many industries don't even give you paid days off. You just don't get paid if you are sick.
@@sherryd3299 sounds like your company needs a union. I've never worked a job where I didn't have paid vacation, paid sick leave, and at least 2 personal days, and I worked as a telemarketer for 8 years.
The AC is a necessity during the summer months depending on where you live. A simple fan in 100°F + with 100% humidity is asking for heat stroke 🥵
The gap in bathroom stalls has a reason. It's there for children. It's a safety precaution for children that use the stall, lock the door and lock themselves in the stall then go into a panic trying to get out. It happens enough that the gap is there so that the parent of the child can coach them on crawling under to get free if needed. You can clean yourself from the dirty floor later.
50 states, 50 different versions of the English language, 50 cultural differences.
This is why we say there's no such thing as an American accent... there's more than 50 American accents.
There are waaaaay more than 50 different American accents. I live in Louisiana and there can be different accents for each little town within the state, but possibly only locals can pick up on that. Sometimes ppl from New Orleans sound like they are from New York. It’s very strange
@@kerrijacobi which is why I said there's more than 50 accents and that there's no such thing as an "American accent" 👍
@@modostig67 There is a widely generic American accent. Just as many people have a generic accent as they do a unique one.
The American accent is what I’ll call, “Hollywood English”. It’s the accent of Hollywood movies and the accent most of the world thinks is how English sounds. It’s also going to replace most accents as we all start speaking like the actors we watch in the movies, unfortunately.
@@JimmieHiggins I guess... the rest of the world does think we're all Californians. I do keep having to teach people that the strict Cali laws don't apply to the rest of the country. 🤔
Your family is adorable, and there's at least one little old lady in Texas who loves your videos; so great to see perspectives from another culture. PS 99% of Americans (including Texans) don't eat "Rocky Mountain Oysters." We just use them to play jokes on people who don't know what they are...and if anyone offers to take you "snipe hunting," turn them down. It's a practical joke.
Ironically, snipes is an actual species of bird
Yea, I don't know anyone who eats Rocky Mountain Oysters and have never seen them on a menu on the West Coast, nor in my travels to the East Coast or visiting family elsewhere in the U.S. (Granted I haven't been to the Rocky Mountains yet.) As far as I can tell, it's an extremely niche thing. I'd wager to bet that most Americans think it's weird and gross and quite possibly haven't even heard of them or think it's just a myth. 😅
I have eaten rocky mountain oysters on several occasions. Breaded and deep fat fried. YUMMY!! We used to have a small restaurant in our area and that was one of their specialties. I live in Wyoming close to the Montana border. Cowboy country! Beef country! Rocky mountain oyster country! Lol
@@ennazusmiranda unless you are at a restaurant where the parking lot is full of pickups and you passed 3 feed stores and a tractor dealership to get there, you won't see them on a menu.
Little bull calves are castrated to make little steers at a young age, long before they reach market size. Steers generally produce better meat. They are also more docile. Put a bunch of bulls in a field together and they will act like a bunch of teen-aged boys...fighting among themselves and trying to figure out how to get an opportunity to mount any female within view...this is very hard on fences. Bulls (intact males) often need to be kept in separate stalls for these reasons. It only takes 1 bull to service an entire pasture of heifers/cows. Why deal with the hassle of multiple bulls when you can take care of it with a scalpel, a little rubber ring, and a bucket of iodine? (FWIW, this is also when any branding, tattooing, ear-tagging, inoculations, etc. are taken care of.)
Since this happens pre-market, you generally wont find them in a grocery store...unless it is the one over by the tractor dealership. Further, calves are generally born in the spring and fall, so Rocky Mountain Oysters are both regional AND seasonal.
(Disclaimer: Nothing here should be construed as an appropriate way to handle your daughter's new boyfriend, although pointedly describing the procedure to the young man may be effective.)
@@ennazusmiranda it's fairly common in the Midwest (cattle country!)
A little late here. Just wanted to add that in addition to the dates being different, it is my understanding that our decimal system is also different. Where we use a period to separate dollars and cents, other places just us a comma. So, we write $1,529.99 with a period, dot, decimal to separate the 9's. Other places would write 1,529,99 with no period, only a comma. We also put the dollar sign before the numbers and the cent sign, ¢ , after if there are no dollars, i.e. 0.27¢ or just 99¢. if there are dollars involved, the cent sign is never used; we never write $1.99¢ only $1.99. I think many other places put their currency sign at the end of the numbers.
Get ready for #13, there is a warehouse grocery store near me that has two double sided aisles solely dedicated to frozen pizzas.
One of the funny things I've found when in Europe is that whenever a worker in a restaurant, pub, or hotel hears the American accent, they know our customs of tipping and act accordingly. I was at a VERY busy pub in Scotland and whenever the bartender saw me walking up to the bar, he walked fast down to the end of the bar to meet me while he ignored all of the locals. I also noticed that in restaurants if it looked like I wasn't going to leave a tip, you could tell the waiter/waitress wasn't happy. I came to realize it was because they know we tip based on the level of service we are given and don't tip if we didn't like the service (when in the states), so it seems even though it wasn't their custom to tip, they expected us to tip as they knew it was our culture to do so. And, yes, it is true about us wanting ice in almost every drink and lots of it. When I've asked for ice in other countries, they usually respond by giving me one or two ice cubes.
And a straw so the ice doesn't bump our beautiful, gleaming, white teeth! Wasn't that one silly? But I'm guilty of it I guess
I don't like that tbh. It seems to me that the bartender just wanted money
@@alma_1906 Of course he did. People tend to want money and put extra work in when they think there is a chance they will get paid more. It’s just how humans operate.
Whoa the ice thing is so weird! As a girl from California, man we feel the need for some ice! Only a couple ice cubes would be a shocker :) they’d melt super fast here
Probably the only ones who complain that it's rude is when they realize you're American and didn't tip them very much or at all.
To add onto number #1, when walking anywhere where you cross paths with someone or meet eyes with them, you usually smile and say “hello”. I think we do this to break any tension and also a smile can put someone in a good mood.
I would say this is mostly true when you’re not in a busy area. There could be an entire other video on things people do in the city vs. in the country.
@@worldview_kyp yes. I grew up in the south and most ppl greeted each other as they passed each other on the street. When I moved to nyc I had to stop that as most do not do that and look at you crazy if you do.
I just nod. I'm a bit of a misanthrope.
You and your lovely family will have to visit the US multiple times. Here's why - 1) to visit all the state capitals and Washington DC 2) to visit all the historical sites 3) to visit all of the national parks 4) to drive the entire Route 66 from Chicago IL to Santa Monica CA 5) to travel the Blue Ridge Parkway (preferably in Autumn) from Rockfish Gap VA to Cherokee NC - It would make for a great camping trip. With all of us NZeaders out here in the US, we could all accommodate you as you travel around the country. I know I would if you did the Route 66 trip through Oklahoma!
I believe why we chose to use month day year is for multiple reasons. One is how we say things. We usually say "January 1st" instead of "first of January". Second is we go by what's important information first to us. The year is not usually as important since it doesn't change very often. The month is more important and the day is just a detail of being more precise. For example what is more useful if you're planning on something in a business if you can only get one of the three date times? The project needs to get done in 3 months. The project needs to get done on the 3rd not given the month. The projects need to get done this year.(most future dates are either the same year or next year- unless it's obvious like when you complete loan)
Back in the early '80's - I was a single mom and worked as a waitress. I was the head waitress and my hourly wage was $2.75 per hour plus tips. That was very high back then- as the hourly wages in a lot of places are still the same amount today. Tips help keep the meal costs down and you tip on a % of the bill (at least 15-20%) IF your service was good. I listened to a video of Brits saying that they were so surprised on how attentive the wait staff in the USA were at the places they would eat ..... that is because they want good tips. So you will find in the US, MOST times that the people working on a tip system will be more friendly and helpful. Frankly, I made more money than if I had worked in an office job. ($50-$100 per day in tips alone back then) Thanks for sharing! :-)
I was scrolling through to see if any waitresses we're going to explain why Americans tip their food servers. Most waitresses aren't making minimum wage, therefore, tipping becomes mandatory for them to live. ...and a lot of people in the general public need to remember that when they're being rude, demanding and/or don't tip.
Yea that was in the 80s. Tipping isn’t an option now, it’s obligatory. There’s a legal loophole that allows restaurants to pay their servers less than minimum wage, and that amount rn is roughly the same amount you were paid in the 80s. Needless to say with inflation, that’s not enough even to pay rent. Tips now are what offset the cost of living for many servers. They wouldn’t be able to pay for rent, utilities, and other basic bills if customers didn’t tip.
Waitress salaries are the result of sexism.
Um, $100 a day ($400-500 a week) was barely enough to live on then; and even less so now. So I wouldn't list that as a good thing.
@@kennethcook9406Maybe you should work on your maths. $500 a week in the early 80's would be the equivalent of $70,000 -$89,500 today (depending on which year you pick). That's a decent salary by anyone's standards, and to earn that waiting on tables was pretty incredible.
In Canada we also have the large gap at the bottom. It is a safety feature in case a little one gets locked inside......they can crawl out underneath the door. Also, if there is a medical emergency someone can crawl in, unlock the door and let the paramedics have access.
Also for little kids that can't open a sticky latch.
Also so you can tell which stalls are occupied.
Plus if they tap their foot the right way gay dudes can score according to Boston legal.
If there are doors at all.
Easier to mop up the floor.
I think with the date, maybe its because we say, March 2nd or December 25th, and not the 2nd of march or the 25th of December.. apart from the 4th of July. I go back and forth to Italy every year. It takes me a second to remember when I arrive and when I get home. Love the video!
I lived there for many years and had zero days for the first year and five days after that year. People are very stressed which leads to them not being as productive as they could be. Downtime is needed to recharge. The French comparison comment was interesting. About a decade or so ago, Toyota came out and stated that their French factories were more productive than the ones in the States.
I’d include the huge portion sizes at restaurants, at least here in the Midwest. If you don’t have a doggie bag of leftovers for a second meal, then you feel cheated. And iced tea seems to get sweeter the more south you go. But whole sales tax issue is irritating, even for us!
Haha this is funny. I can’t stand “sweetened tea”. ! If the sugar is not boiled into the tea it’s not worth drinking 🤪 a lot of people don’t understand the difference in sweetened tea and sweet tea.. if I can feel granulated sugar as I’m drinking the tea… it’s not sweet tea nor is it worth drinking 😀
The worst thing about the doggie bag necessity is that the protein main course is usually finished, leaving
you with whole loaded baked potato or a massive heap of rice that you
stick in your fridge and never, ever eat.
You dont have to worry about those big portions anymore. They disappeared.
d after the pandemic.
@@paulettebandow5689 oh I have seen them this week. Proteins are smaller portions now.
Portion sizes are too large, agreed. When eating out my husband and I split a meal.
For the kids, We order the most healthy option on the children’s menu at sit down restaurants bc the portions are huge. We substitute steamed veggies or fresh fruit for the fries & Always request a takeout box.
We also never order drinks other than water, unless it is included in the kids’ meal price- and milk is what they order.
When I was in college, I went to use the bathroom and in the stall at the end, there was a woman who was completely passed out on the floor of her stall. I don't think I would've noticed her if the door was to the floor. She needed medical attention and they were able to get to her under the stall door.
I have always found it easier to be nice than mean! Public restrooms here vary greatly, I've seen full stalls and bathrooms that only have a single stool(Bars🤢, outside gas stations🤮) so the main door locks. Walmart, and other stores of this type, have short stalls I can almost look over and huge gaps all round the door!😳
I love your video! It's great! Thank you so much for sharing it with us. I have lived in multiple states and cultures can be different in different regions. For me, I try not to eat any fried foods, I get 28 days of vacation a year and I think 10 holidays and I love to travel! But I do love cold drinks, hahaha. Also, when I was a kid the "How are you" confused me too and the gap in bathroom doors bugs me. And we are loud and I do smile...a ton. What a great family you are!
Please know that very few folks in US eat "Rocky Mountain Oysters. So gross! I love your family! Enjoy your videos so much!
I would NEVER. 🤢🤢
@@jboi4life83 Agreed- I would not eat them.
@@janetjacobsen5850 I don't even eat regular oysters. 😂
@@jboi4life83 Neither do I
It applies to colorado only xd
The red solo cup has measuring markers built into them so you can mix perfect adult drinks.
Yep, first line is a shot, second is a glass of wine and the top line is one serving of beer
@@TURK_182 Like we ever paid attention, lol.
@@fridaylong2812 true
not many people actually know that... !!! but yes, they do. !!!
the red solo cup was designed by a guy named Sandy Dvore, who was a friend of mine in the '90s. (google red solo cup and Sandy Dvore and you'll find the story.) he also designed (and did the art) for the opening sequence of the TV shows The Waltons, the Partridge Family, the Young and the Restless, worked with Frank Sinatra, David Bowie. Sammy Davis Jr. was instrumental to his career getting a start. and on and on. he passed away Nov. 2020.
I live in the inland Pacific Northwest. We don’t have AC, we have trees for shade, use fans at night, and sleep in the basement bedrooms on the really hot days. We have four distinct seasons.
On the order of the numbers in dates, I got used to doing it the British way because of Genealogy. The British were "into" genealogy long before Americans, so to prevent mix-ups those like me that work a lot on our genealogies we just went with dd/mm/yyyy. It's also spread here in the USA to a certain degree. Jim in Centralia WA.
When I meet visitors from other countries here in the U.S. I explain to them our country is just like Europe, think of our states this way, each state has it's own culture, food, landscape, music, accents, slang, adventures. We are so large and have had centuries of immigrants from all over the world settle here, we are very multicultural. It is amazing.
You are so right, and that's one cool thing about the U.S.
I Disagree
@@dan9809 what do you want to complain about bro
@@hootscooter1075 Many things. Such as, Mega Bathroom Tissue Rolls which are supposedly 4X more than a single roll. Come on! Who is measuring these rolls? Another is Heavy Duty Kitchen Trash Bags. Also, the removal of plastic grocery bags. I thought there was a tree shortage and we were supposed to hug trees. Who are they fooling? Recycling is fraudulent scam. Where I live, I can't even put metal into my recycle bin, unless it's a food can. What recycling place doesn't accept metal shelves cut up to fit into the recycle bin? Mine apparently.
$25/week for them to take 3 kitchen bags of trash and choose what they want to recycle.
We are not all alike we have different Forefathers.
Unfortunately, the "y'all" is an exclusively southern US contraction. To further confuse the unitiated, you will often hear this to address a group of people: "All y'all" For midwest, east & west coasts, you'll be addressed as "you guys" --no matter your gender. With the occasional "you folk, or you folks" to be heard.
Then to further confuse things, the standard greeting of "how're you?" gets replaced by "how do?" in some regions.
🤔Grew up in Pennsylvania and have driven cross country(trucking). Y'all is pretty common place across the country. Expectaully in Pennsylvania. Where it's used by both country and city folks.🤷♂️
in Pittsburgh we say yinz...
Also, generally, y'all is singular, all y'all is plural.
Where I live in Michigan, we say y’all rather then you guys, move to another place in Michigan and you’ll hear you guys, it’s weird I know
@@delvine13 not in the north; we say ‘you guys’.
American here...this is all pretty much true. Explanation on the tips thing: workers who normally get tips get paid FAR lower than minimum wage, so they depend on the tips for a good paycheck, otherwise, they'd be in poverty.
Another little issue I had: There may be a Starbucks on every corner, but in many places in the US there's a Dunkin' Donuts not far from them. Dunkin' was the first "to go" coffee shop. "America Runs on Dunkin'!" :)
the red Solo cups were mainly made famous because of backyard & high school parties where we intended to have beer by the KEGS !!!! we called them keg cups,
My grandson, a true "southern" gentleman, told me that when you are talking to less than four people you need to say, "Y'all." When you are talking to four or more the appropriate or proper pronunciation is, "All Y'all."
I like it!👍
😁😆👍
As a native Jorjan, I feel the need to add that "Alls y'all" is the correct way to imply plurality while "All y'alls" is the correct way to imply possession.
@@Drakijy Up here north of Pittsburgh, we just say Yinz. :)
I too am a Southern Gentleman, I will not forget that fact of reasoning. Good day, to “All Y’all.”
It’s good to have the month first because it puts documents in numeric order by month first. If you search for a document from October but the numbers begin with the days, it gets really difficult to look for the date tag
Better to put the year first, then documents are really sorted chronologically. YYYYMMDD is the one true unambiguous date format.
@@rowhsv that is a great point, especially for long-term projects over many years.
Ya know, they are separated so you could just look at the second group...
I like the month first because it tells me more about where in time you are than the day does. March 16th makes me immediately know that we are talking about spring (yes I’m in the States). Whereas 16th of March doesn’t immediately orient me. I just wish we used different date dividers so that when you come across something labeled 08/10/22 you know if it’s from August or October. Like, the States could use periods and everywhere else dashes or something.
@NoYiu not efficient to think?
What a cute video! The AC is so accurate especially living in a state where it gets over 100 degrees all summer
Toilet stalls are higher due to safety. It is because the majority of falls happen in the bathroom, statistically speaking. This way emergency services can crawl under and unlock the door.
The whole reason we have to tip or tip “so much” is actually a pretty negative one. Tipping is essential in the US because that’s basically how waiters and waitresses make money. Their base pay is only a few dollars an hour (if at all) and not actually minimum wage half the time, and most of their income relies on tips. So not tipping is essentially a big slap to the face to the server and means that everything about your experience was horrible including them. 20% tips are polite and help give the server a living wage.
I’d say 25% or even 30% is more appropriate in expensive cities like NYC, San Francisco, and Austin. It is especially important to tip waitstaff because as a rule they do not have health insurance or sick leave, and medical costs here are obscene
Also, a restaurant does not have to pay sales tax on tips. If restaurants had to pay the sales tax on tips which is the equivalent of good pay for the help and higher menu prices you would see a difference.
@@birdnird Yet places like Tennessee minimum wage for servers is $2.25
So not true. There is at least a Federal minimum wage. Sometimes state min wage is sometimes more. Tips are just that. A thank you for a job well done and is extra.
@@taffykins2745 Nope. Look it up.
1. Different rules for the service industry.
2. Remains of Slavery.
# 20 is interesting. As a Doctor, I am given only two week vacation per year. That can increase up to 120 hours. My employer pushes me to take them but I am not allowed to take more than 1 week off at a time because it can cost them more money to find coverage of my schedule. I absolutely hate it because if I want to travel out of the country, I want to go longer than 1 week.
The bathroom stale height, I could never understand, and absolutely hate it. It is even like that in schools. I have been in one place, which was a Japanese restaurant who had the stale doors as full doors.
A doctor who can’t even tell the difference between a “stall” and something “stale” - sure, that makes total sense 🙄
@@ambitiously_ 🤣 Spell check! I hate it because, it changes words and you don't usually notice till too late. I hate it!😅
i went on vacation to aruba once and loved the privacy in the bathrooms i literally was so surprised i took a video about how the stall was in a separate room from the sink since it had a full door
@@ambitiously_ I know the difference. Technology doesn't care. By now, you would know that autocorrect, the worst addition to technology in my opinion, is based on AI intelligence using the user's tendencies. I have never typed the word stall on this phone until that comment. As the result, it was autocorrected to more frequent word with similar spelling. That word being stale.
For the larger gap on the bottom of the bathroom stall doors, I always figured that maybe it was to leave enough room for someone to crawl out just in case the door got stuck or something.
We celebrate the baby before it is born so that we can "shower" the new parents with gifts and baby necessities. We call it a baby shower. We also play fun games during these like trying to put a diaper on a baby doll blindfolded or making adults chug juice through the smallest diameter baby bottle nipple.