As an European (from Slovakia), I'm gonna comment on some of the things :-) Eggs outside the fridge are normal, we don't usually put them in the fridge. And 99% of houses are fully fenced :-) we usually have front and the back garden, It's just the way it is. Some people have dogs outside as well, so the fence is great. And cheese is not not a dessert :D
I'm a french speaking belgian and I was really surprised by the book thing. I've checked my own books on my shelves ( I have books both in french and english) and I was surprised to discover that you were totally right ! I have a theory about it : As you stated, when piled up horizontally, the american way makes more sense. However, and I just saw it by looking at my shelves: when put verticaly on shelves, the french way is more logical from a left to right perspective: you just have to tilt tour head a bit to the left and you can see your books in sequence from left to right (not easy to explain, but I'm sure you'll see what I mean :p) But that's just a theory ^^
I agree. It feels natural for me to tilt my head to the left to read the title of my book on the shelve. Or is it the other way around and I tend to lean to the left BECAUSE I’m used to my french books?
Well my thought on this is the same. That is books are not supposed to be stacked but stored vertically on shelves so tilting your head leftwise is logical but as you sais that's only my theory 😉
Hello, In a library (shelves) the books are placed upright. It therefore makes sense for the writing to be positioned so as to easily read the title on the edge. Do you lay the books flat on top of each other in Anglo-Saxon libraries? When looking for a particular title on the shelves of a library, generally you will inspect each shelf in the library starting from the left of the shelf and quickly look to the right if you spot the title you are interested in. We read from left to right. And in general on the shelves of municipal libraries for example, the classification of titles in alphabetical order is also done from left to right. It seems to me to be more natural, more intuitive. It's more ergonomic than the other way around. I think the English hate the French so much that they tried to do everything possible to not do things like them: Adjective placed before the name, driving on the left, slice of books written backwards, use of complicated measurement (while the metric system invented by the French is also much more intuitive and practical than the system of feet and inches used by the Anglo-Saxons), etc. :))) (hey, I'm kidding of course. I'm really sad in fact that English have leave our beautiful Europe ...English are European. They should never forget that.) Friendly,
I noticed this too many years ago. I’m British but speak French fluently (& a few other languages too with various degrees of fluency - Arabic, Vietnamese, Spanish) and have mainly English-language books on my shelves, but have a decent number of French published or translated books too and it is completely true that the spine titles are the other way. As I’m left-handed I’m used to adjusting myself to a mainly right-handed world so tilting my head right or left to read book spine titles is something that I have just accepted as a fact of life when switching between French and English language publications 😉.
The fencing in France is mostly to keep out other people’s pets and wild animals from digging in your vegetable garden and to keep your property safe from temptations...like stealing a plant, a flower, a fruit tree and keeping vehicles from hitting your house. Here, in California, you see a good number of fenced properties, rich and poor. Some people have vicious guard dogs, for good reason(s). Others are immigrants who want to keep that European or Mexican tradition. In my original part of France (Lorraine), cheese is served with the salad, but before the dessert.
When I visited France in November I was so surprised by the "eating outside even though it's freezing" thing! I liked it - Makes the streets feel lively and atmospheric all year round, not just in summer :)
Hello, This is a practice that was already seen before the ban on smoking in places closed and frequented by the public. But we saw a lot more that in the southern regions. Because in the south, there are many closed plots (small places often only pedestrianized in towns or villages where we'll often find several cafes and their terraces) and therefore there's little wind. And just like in winter, in the south the sun heats your skin as soon as it is present (and of course the south is much sunnier all year round than the north), which isn't at all the case in the north (in the north, when it's cold, even if it's very sunny, you don't feel the sun on your skin, even if you're wearing black clothes lol), then one can afford to have a drink on the terrace. I live in Perpignan, I specify. So also sorry for my bad English if there's language error. :))
I'm from Ireland with a french girlfriend and have spent some time south of Paris. Fenced houses are the norm. The french are very security, privacy conscious. Especially in rural areas.( window shutters and dogs) Something that doesn't get mentioned about French Supermarkets is the smell.! Uk/Ire very neutral, France wow.! Fresh bread, charcuterie, seafood and of course cheese. Its a good assault on your nose.🤣💚☘ 🇨🇵💙
I'm french and here are some answers ;) Often terrases during the winter are for people who smokes, even when they are covered (mainly because you are not allowed to smoke in public sapdex such as restaurant, and so on). Usually during the winter if you are a non smoking person or with non smoking, you usually don't go for the terrasse. An I do keep my eggs in the fridge... I'm a failure 😂
You’re not a failure : eggs are stored at ambiant temperature in the shops, but must be stored in the fridge at home (it’s often written on the packaging). C’est un peu compliqué mais il y a des vidéos très complètes qui expliquent tout le truc. Les deux approches US/UE sont valides toutes deux mais prennent des parti pris contraires.
Books in Germany have the titles on the spine in either direction. The tendency for German originals is the French way and for translations it's the English way. But I even have a bookseries where they switched the orientation midway through the series...
Le café gourmand allows also not to choose between many desserts ! In a menu if you can choose between cheese and dessert after the main course, the cheese is not seen as a dessert. As you said in 4 course menu, you have both. And depending on what you enjoy most you can prefer to end the meal with a savoury taste than a sweet one.
In Mesilla (Las Cruces) New Mexico (USA) they are able to eat outside most of the year and have great outdoor eating spaces. And the local restaurant has heaters outside for the winter months because it does get rather cold (it's a desert). Houses are fenced in, almost all backyards, but often the front as well. People with less money have chain-link and everyone else has rockwalls surrounding their properties. I did not see this in places outside of the southwest US.
8:14 C'est parce qu'on considère que pour ne pas alourdir le repas qu'il est possible de choisir fromage OU dessert. Ce n'est pas le fait de considérer que le fromage peut faire partie des desserts, sauf pour le fromage blanc.
All 5 Things we have also in Austria! Its normal! We drink at Cold/rainy) times outside because its forbidden smoking inside a bar,restaurant,cafe(Kaffeehaus)…...!
In the UK we don't store eggs in the fridge in the shop, but do refrigerate when home. You should store below 20 degrees, which our shops are and the most important thing is to avoid temperature fluctuations, so not refridgerating means putting them in a hot car to go home isn't such a big difference, but at home the best place is the fridge to avoid temperature fluctuation. Our hens are vaccinated against salmonella and farmed more sparsely so the eggs are kept clean and so safer than the US, hence we don't treat them the same, but if the eggs got infected from outside by salmonella (such we also believe is more likely when washed like the US eggs), the bacteria can't multiply in the fridge, but can at room temperature, therefore fridge is safer. That said, some people do have 'egg baskets' which they use to store them in outside of the fridge against recommendations.
I've heard the eggs thing many times by expats, but you're the first one talking about books ; I've just checked my bookshelves 1 minute ago, and you are right !!
French guy here, sorry for bad english. Fences have been all around houses since ever, you can see them around very old houses or on ancient black and white photos. But I think its an european thing, not only french. No one seems to know why we write book's slices this way: in ancient times titles on slices were just horizontally written - but books were thicker back then, not because of more pages but thicker paper I think. At some point we started to write vertically but no one knows why this direction and not the american way. Anyway, its important that all have the same direction otherwise its a hell to seek for a book in a shelf!! About cheese and desert, I think its just easier for a restaurant to do not create a specific section in menu just for one "cheese" line. But actually we dont often end our meals with cheese, most of the time we would have cheese+dessert or just dessert. There are many food that traditionaly are not kept in fridge, suprisingly for some foreigners: vegetables, fruits or even cheese. But traditions tends to disapear and unlike my parents I do keep vegetables, cheese and eggs in my fridge - but not fruits.
Hey Andrea! I loved seeing you on vat19 and at some point i didnt see you in any videos anymore. I hated to find out that you left but seeing you have started a youtube channel with enjoyable content has made me really happy. I'll love to see all of your content so keep doing what your doing and have a nice day!
I don't think anyone in France thinks cheese is desert. When you're offered to replace desert with cheese, it's usually in restaurants targeted towards people with limited time or budget, like those bar-restaurants who mostly serve office workers. Typically, the menu is either starter+main dish or main dish+desert and you have to pay extra for the full course. Since most deserts tend to be sugar-heavy, I guess some people just want to have cheese instead. I don't think replacing desert with cheese is something really cultural, it's just a way to eat light and/or fast.
I realised what this typical concept of “non-fenced property” is when I travelled in UK with friends. This mishap could have happened in the US I guess... We were chitchatting across a residential area when the street started to make a turn. Instead of remaining on the pavement, we instinctively bypassed and walked on the grass to get shorter, when we heard a typical english man saying : “ Do you know actually that you’re on my property gentlemen ?”. So confused then.... 🤭
I'm a French-Thai person who's been living in Belgium, after growing up in France and living in the UK and Germany. I noticed the book spine thing a long time ago, and I found it really annoying because my books are mixed ! :D
Yeah ... we know about this difference of “non-fenced property” with the Anglo-Saxons ... the last dispute we had on this subject lasted a century ... 😂😂😂
Cheese is not a dessert. And even when in menu they make you chose between an actual dessert and cheese it doesn't mean it is one. It's just that some people prefer finishing their meal with cheese than a sugary thing. But what you finish your meal with is not necessary a dessert. You could very well have an appetizer and a main course and finish there. The main course doesn't automatically become a dessert because you stop there. Same goes for cheese. You can stop at cheese if you want to without taking a dessert after. Or you can chose the cheese as part of the m3 course combo and then take a dessert off combo. (I feel like most people don't do that though. Most people would just get their combo and stop there.)
I don't know if this is a cultural thing, but I almost never see books stacked in piles on a bookshelf; they're usually put in the "upright" position, as in a library or bookstore. I still need to separate may english and french books though, to keep finding a book from being a nightmare.
The cheese plate among deserts I've seen in several European countries The fence, often natural around the property in most parts of Europe. But rarely in front of the garage/shelter for the car. Often the dog can run in front and behind the house, if the house is free standing
I had never noticed before but exactly half of my Bulgarian books have their spines the French way and the other half are like English books. But I always stack them vertically so that's probably why I've never paid attention to it. Also houses in Bulgaria definitely have fences all around the yard. I think it does give a certain sense of security. I live in Bordeaux now where they have the typical 'échoppe bordelaise' which doesn't have a front yard at all and you step out of your front door directly on the street. We're considering one day living in one of those but the thought of pedestrians walking right by my windows freaks me out. 😬 In Bulgaria I've always lived on the 5th floor feeling safe.
In France you find eggs outside in the grocery stores but we usually put them in the fridge when we go home ;) I had no idea about the reason behind that difference! :O
I am french and store my eggs in the fridge. I think most of us do it because you should not forget them as they perish so it’s easier when you cook depending on what perish first. You could forget them if you store them with flour or other long conservation groceries. Some say it’s not good as some others smell get through the egg shell but I don’t smell or taste it...
Well I don't store them in the fridge more out if the fridge since that's the way they are stored in supermarket. Also more often then not when you cook, you need your eggs to be at room température so it saves time.
The "café gourmand" is also very Parisian, I think... At least I'm under the impression that it started there, I remember asking for it in other French cities and getting a weird look. It started a bit in some Brussels restaurants but is not common or known at all. I also looooooove café gourmand, because I cannot eat too much sugar and usually having just a few bites is more than enough for me.
I think I have parts of the answer to the full-fencing issue. Firstly, standardized suburbs are less common in France, so you can have a house with a small backyard and a big front yard, or even situated right in the middle of the yard without a clear-cut difference between backyard and front yard. In cities, there are houses without front yards completely. So I think most places will be naturally fenced completely. An other element is linked to the law : unless it's on the side of your property, you can't build a house less than three meters away from the border of your property. That means if you want to fence only the backyard, you would need a three meter weird looking fence on the side of your house. I'm not sure if it explains everything but maybe their are some explanations in here ^^
Hello Andrea, The points you raise in this video are really very interesting. For eggs, the French system is healthier when it comes to food. Americans think that everything should be disinfected, cleaned ... even eggs hahaha, that's to say! The problem is that after to store them you're obliged to use refrigerators unnecessarily to keep them. It consumes electricity for nothing (on the scale of a country like the United States, it's quite simply a huge consumption of disinfectants, possibly water, electricity, etc.). While the eggshell is a natural protection that precisely avoids having to use all that. :)) Friendly,
Thanks for the video. My wife and I live in the St Louis area. How cold are the winters in Paris. Since you are from the same area, just wanted a comparison. Thanks and great job!
For the cafe, if people are still drinking outside even during winter is because it's forbidden to smoke inside but allowed outside... French people just smoke too much :p For the fence I've grown up in southern France and everyone had fence all around the house since forever it's not a new trend but in north-west they sometimes don't have it for what I could see. For the book, I'm currently living in Korea and when it's written in Korean it's neither the French nor the English way, but the letters are under the previous one so we can read it without turning the head. But when it's written with alphabet then it's the same as US/UK.
You have mentioned a few times about after main course, a cheese course, you failed to metion that salad is quite often served after the main course (pour aider la digestion), usually prior to cheese. And don't get me going on the Trou Normand... As far as terraces go, visit Montréal, or Québec city, you would feel right at home, restaurateurs here actually pay the city to construct teerraces onto part of the sidewalk and street during the summer are fairly common in urban settings, where space does not allow expansion of the premisses. Terraces have pretty much always been a feature here (province de Québec), so maybe it is a French thing. The book spine thing is a thing, however, I have a number of scientific/academic as well as religious tomes in my bookselves that run counter to this generalisation, having been printed in both N-America and Europe, so - go figure. I may be incorrectct but, the spine orientation in French may be rooted in its Latin roots!?
In the UK we also traditionally have a "cheese board" as a desert option. Oh and eggs do NOT go in fridge, as in France Think it's a pan-European thing :)
I'm from Belgium and I've noticed that most of the things you mentioned are also common here! Not surprising as I live about an hour's drive from France. First, it is the same with drinking outside on the terrace even when it's cold. I am used to seeing tons of people do it but I would never do it outside of spring/summer/early fall. I think it also has something to do with smoking. A little over 10 years ago it became forbidden here in Belgium to smoke inside a café or restaurant and all smokers are now happy to go outside in the freezing cold as long as they get to smoke. I never noticed a difference in the spine of French books (we had to read them in high school like Les Misérables) but I just checked and apparently in Dutch we do it just like you guys in the US! :) The dessert thing is also common here in Belgium. We have 'verwen koffie' or 'verwen thee' (literally translated 'spoil coffee' or 'spoil tea') including 3 to 5 little desserts like chocolate mousse, fruit salad, ice cream, a piece of brownie... But I prefer choosing 1 dessert because the selection of little desserts always contain something I don't like! The cheese option is also available here but I would never do that. I don't get it :p. Eggs are kept outside of the fridge in grocery stores here. But I had read about the difference between the US and europe so it didn't surprise me. The fenced-in houses are not as common here as in France but it really does depend on where you live. Big villas have them but that's it I think! Fun video, Andrea :)
I think the fences are not a new trend because now that I think of it, I know a lot of houses that have that and that aren't new. I think it just became the norm with the development of cities.
When I saw the English book I was like "OMG something's definatelly wrong !" but then I checked my bookshelves and I realized that I never saw there was a difference before. I'm french and I got both english and french books. BTW I love your videos, it's nice to realize the difference between cultures, what you think is strange when for me this is just normal. I hope your doing well in Paris (especially these days...) :)
So funny for book spines! I never noticed it!! Now I will look at my shelves differently. For proprety fence, I think that for most French houses, there is only a frontyard. That's probably why they are fenced all around.
For eggs it is because, as far as I know, in the US they wash them, removing the protective coating as you said. In France it is in fact illegal to wash eggs (because it removes that protective coating) and unwashed eggs don't need to be put in the fridge. Most french people nowadays put them in the fridge after buying them, but you don't have to. Unwashed eggs don't go bad at room temperature before at least 3 weeks...
In England, did you buy any eyren? I've surveyed a house where the front yard, as well as the back yard, was surrounded by a fence, but the driveway was not. It doesn't seem to be common though. (North Carolina)
Pouquoi les terrasses des bars, resto sont ouvert. .. Car il est interdit de fumer dedans. Et des amis fumeurs et non fumeurs peuvent se regrouper dehors Dans mes souvenirs quand il était autorisé de fumer à l'intérieur il y avait moins de monde en terrasse en hivers. Question : quel est la réglementation dans les autres pays ? Autorisé en interieur interdit en extérieur ? Autre
I noticed the book spine thing when I started reading books in English. I have to organise my bookshelves by language because of that. But books in Spanish and other languages are the same as the French books from what I’ve seen. I’ve only ever seen English books with the spine reversed but I might be wrong
Im from the Czech republic and I immediately had to check which way our books are. Luckily I had a book in English so that I didn't need to think which way it was 'supposed to be' and which way it's 'upside down'. The conclusion is that are books are like the ones in France.
I'm not sure why the English speaking world does it different. But the reason why (as far as I know) everybody else in the alphabetic world does it the French way, is the following reason. When one stacks the books upright and walks from right to left in order to read the titles, If one wants to take a book out to see the cover. The cover is facing you.
Wow! Never heard of the first three. In Nicaragua it's also normal to keep eggs non-refrigerated. I thought it was extra weird because it's so so hot there. 😄 it is also the case that everything is fenced/gated in, including the driveway.
In Finland and Sweden titles are in the same direction as in UK. I have 2 German books (in German), one "scientific" with the spine in the French direction and one "touristic" in the other.
Hello~ I've seen a lot of reactions about the spine of books so I'm going to react on something else. 😂 I'm French and I think I can understand why restaurants put the cheese plate with desserts. It's like... You can't put cheese before the main dish, so it cannot be listed in "starters" or "main dishes". And you cannot really put it alone on the menu, that would be weird to get this lonely line out of any category. I think that's why they automatically list it with desserts, even though it obviously is not a dessert and if someone ever order both a cheese plate and a dessert, they will eat the cheese before the dessert. If you go to more "chic" restaurants, they do write it as appetiser/starter/main/cheese/dessert. So they separate cheese from the dessert. But these restaurants generally have a smaller menu than normal restaurants. Do it's easier for them to list it down like this. While it would be weird if you have 10 different dishes in every category and suddenly only one line for "cheese plate". Btw, it's always written as "a cheese plate", and not a list of cheeses with each price next to them. Because in a restaurant you usually get small portions of different cheeses, it would be weird to order one big cheese (like "I would like camember, and you ? - Oh, I'll just get some blue cheese.", that's weird).
I didn't know that about the printing on book spines... that is interesting. As for cheese as dessert, here in the US, the closest you would probably come to this is a Cheesecake. Which is is generally, cream cheese, sugar, some sour cream and a bit of vanilla all beaten together' There's NO four in it, so, I don't know why its called a "cake"... has a graham cracker, or Oreo crust (for example). To me, it's more like a pie. Well done Andrea. #StaySafe #BeWell
C'est marrant pour les bouquins. Je n'avais remarqué ça :-0. Ceci dit, quand les bouquins sont rangés debout, je trouve que c'est plus facile pour moi de se pencher la tête vers la gauche pour le lire le titre que l'inverse. C'est encore un truc de droitier, j'imagine
Oui c'est un truc de droitier. De même, si on tourne en rond, on tourne plus facilement "à gauche", c'est-à-dire dans le sens inverse des aiguilles d'une montre. Même chose si on tourne une cuillère dans un plat. Même chose pour ouvrir un bouchon de bouteille.
French books in Quebec are like books in France too. I guess it's an English language vs French language thing? I discovered cafés gourmands in Paris in 2011, what a revelation! :D
About the "café gourmand" I heard it was a way to keep the customers, sorry for the cliché but this how I heard it: often a couple is there, the man looks at the desserts , the woman tells "I won't take any it would be too much" and the man then does the same... BUT with the café gourmand you have the psychological effect of "i'm not eating dessert, just a few bites with my coffee..." , no more guilt and 2 customers paying an expensive course ;) cheese: funny never saw anybody take cheese instead of dessert. eggs: yes we are weird, as someone else commented :we're ok with them not being in a fridge in the store and firt thing we do is put them in the fridge at home ;) I watched hundreds of american tv show and never noticed the non-fenceness... and now I realize it; you're totally right
Most of these things happen in Uk too.Many cafes and pubs have heated sitting areas outside these days,maybe they got the idea from France,I don't know lol. Cheese as an option for a dessert,I have seen many a time here,it was normally what my dad chose and he has been gone a good number of years,I don't think it is seen as a sweet option though,it is a savoury alternative for those who don't have a sweet tooth.Eggs don't go in fridge here either,I think its because they are processed differently from the US,you can put them in there though.Lastly,many gardens here are fully fenced or walled front and back,especially in older properties.In fact,I find it odd that a lot of newer houses don't have fenced off front gardens.
Au sujet des bouquins, à l'origine, en France, le titre était écrit à l'horizontale au dos des livres, donc ni de bas en haut comme c'est devenu la majorité aujourd'hui, ni de haut vers le bas comme c'est la convention aux USA. Les grandes collections des grands éditeurs ont maintenu cette tradition.
It's not exactly because of cheese could be a dessert (it's not for me) that restaurants propose it separated from dessert, I guess it's a matter of price, cheese and dessert could be to expensive for some clients. In addition, lots of clients are not fond of dessert and prefer cheese to finish their meal. Just a supposition, the fence all around the house in France could be due to the insurance ... their message is "to be covered, protect yourself nicely, if not, we don't pay ..." About the "spine of books" in fact English people always do the contrary of France ! Didn't you notice ? ;-D
Loved your video! I think the terrace thing is mostly parisian. I used to live in Lyon before and there were no terraces in winter as far as I remember. Any French here to help us find out?
Ces terrasses d'hiver ont vu le jour avec l'interdiction de fumer à l'interieur. Au vu de leur succès les patrons des etablissements ont pensé à les chauffer pour attirer et garder la clientèle des fumeurs. Il est question d'interdire le chauffage des terrasses à Paris, pour raison écologique...bientôt.
French here, yes that’s the general rule to fence everything. There are some exceptions but very very few. I think it always had been like this. Maybe it’s because the back and front garden is not that a rule, there is a lot of others configuration.
Fences around property in uk and other places are often to do with legal hard evidence of your land's claimed boundaries. It is, from a time when surveying was inaccurate and expensive so fences delineated the bounds and you left them in place, especially when taxes were defined by property size. Also helped prevent loss of land through someone else occupyimg it (without violence nor permission nor secrecy). e.g. If, say, a neighbour parks their car two inches on your side of the unfenced boundaryline for 25 years and you did not notice/take action, they used to end up owning your two inch strip of land through 'adverse possession' (or squatter's rights). "Fences make good neighbours" meant "prevents court cases" about boundaries. The court cases emerged when old owner sells and the in-practice boundary no longer matched the legal boundary. Trespass is a civil wrong (tort) in many european systems and being caught on 'the wrong side of the fence' is the evidence
In China, the spine of book is similar to the English one. Very interesting point here abou the book spine, I"ve never paid so much attention to it before when I read a book
i am from Slovakia and the books printed here are also printed with spines like French books. Which drives me nuts because I think logically they should print them like British books. I have both English and other language books and have to separate them into different shelves because this annoys me so much. Pet peeve, and not really important, but it is what it is.
Je ne m’étais jamais rendu compte du sens de l’écriture sur les dos de livres! C’est la même chose au Québec: les livres publiés en anglais sont dans un sens alors que les livres publiés en français sont dans l’autre! Étrange...
Omg the book spine thing really confused me at first! I've found that the Italian ones are the same as the English ones, but German books seem to be more like French ones, there seems to be no logic 😅
I think the logic is in the way books are usually stored. If they are stored vertically on a shelf, it's easier to read from bottom to top. So my theory is that French books are printed with that in mind.
It is first time to watching your video for me, but I really enjoyed. Thank you very much. By the way, how many languages can you speak? Greetings from Japan🇯🇵
Nos maisons sont très clôturées, mais paradoxalement il est légal de prendre en photo la maison/jardin d'un inconnu, tant qu'on ne prend pas ses habitants.... 🤷
I am impressed you could hold the coffee such a long time without drinking it.
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So true ! 2021 🤲❤️
As an European (from Slovakia), I'm gonna comment on some of the things :-) Eggs outside the fridge are normal, we don't usually put them in the fridge. And 99% of houses are fully fenced :-) we usually have front and the back garden, It's just the way it is. Some people have dogs outside as well, so the fence is great. And cheese is not not a dessert :D
I'm a french speaking belgian and I was really surprised by the book thing. I've checked my own books on my shelves ( I have books both in french and english) and I was surprised to discover that you were totally right !
I have a theory about it : As you stated, when piled up horizontally, the american way makes more sense. However, and I just saw it by looking at my shelves: when put verticaly on shelves, the french way is more logical from a left to right perspective: you just have to tilt tour head a bit to the left and you can see your books in sequence from left to right (not easy to explain, but I'm sure you'll see what I mean :p)
But that's just a theory ^^
I agree. It feels natural for me to tilt my head to the left to read the title of my book on the shelve.
Or is it the other way around and I tend to lean to the left BECAUSE I’m used to my french books?
It's exactly why
Well my thought on this is the same. That is books are not supposed to be stacked but stored vertically on shelves so tilting your head leftwise is logical but as you sais that's only my theory 😉
Hello,
In a library (shelves) the books are placed upright. It therefore makes sense for the writing to be positioned so as to easily read the title on the edge. Do you lay the books flat on top of each other in Anglo-Saxon libraries?
When looking for a particular title on the shelves of a library, generally you will inspect each shelf in the library starting from the left of the shelf and quickly look to the right if you spot the title you are interested in.
We read from left to right. And in general on the shelves of municipal libraries for example, the classification of titles in alphabetical order is also done from left to right. It seems to me to be more natural, more intuitive. It's more ergonomic than the other way around.
I think the English hate the French so much that they tried to do everything possible to not do things like them: Adjective placed before the name, driving on the left, slice of books written backwards, use of complicated measurement (while the metric system invented by the French is also much more intuitive and practical than the system of feet and inches used by the Anglo-Saxons), etc. :))) (hey, I'm kidding of course. I'm really sad in fact that English have leave our beautiful Europe ...English are European. They should never forget that.)
Friendly,
I noticed this too many years ago. I’m British but speak French fluently (& a few other languages too with various degrees of fluency - Arabic, Vietnamese, Spanish) and have mainly English-language books on my shelves, but have a decent number of French published or translated books too and it is completely true that the spine titles are the other way. As I’m left-handed I’m used to adjusting myself to a mainly right-handed world so tilting my head right or left to read book spine titles is something that I have just accepted as a fact of life when switching between French and English language publications 😉.
The fencing in France is mostly to keep out other people’s pets and wild animals from digging in your vegetable garden and to keep your property safe from temptations...like stealing a plant, a flower, a fruit tree and keeping vehicles from hitting your house. Here, in California, you see a good number of fenced properties, rich and poor. Some people have vicious guard dogs, for good reason(s). Others are immigrants who want to keep that European or Mexican tradition. In my original part of France (Lorraine), cheese is served with the salad, but before the dessert.
When I visited France in November I was so surprised by the "eating outside even though it's freezing" thing! I liked it - Makes the streets feel lively and atmospheric all year round, not just in summer :)
Nimbleful that's a Parisian/touristy areas, away we don't have our coffee at the terrace, especially in fall/winter/beginning of spring
It appeared when smoking inside bars and restaurants was forbidden, never saw a heater outside before
Hello,
This is a practice that was already seen before the ban on smoking in places closed and frequented by the public. But we saw a lot more that in the southern regions.
Because in the south, there are many closed plots (small places often only pedestrianized in towns or villages where we'll often find several cafes and their terraces) and therefore there's little wind. And just like in winter, in the south the sun heats your skin as soon as it is present (and of course the south is much sunnier all year round than the north), which isn't at all the case in the north (in the north, when it's cold, even if it's very sunny, you don't feel the sun on your skin, even if you're wearing black clothes lol), then one can afford to have a drink on the terrace. I live in Perpignan, I specify. So also sorry for my bad English if there's language error. :))
I'm from Ireland with a french girlfriend and have spent some time south of Paris. Fenced houses are the norm. The french are very security, privacy conscious. Especially in rural areas.( window shutters and dogs)
Something that doesn't get mentioned about French Supermarkets is the smell.! Uk/Ire very neutral, France wow.! Fresh bread, charcuterie, seafood and of course cheese. Its a good assault on your nose.🤣💚☘ 🇨🇵💙
I'm french and here are some answers ;)
Often terrases during the winter are for people who smokes, even when they are covered (mainly because you are not allowed to smoke in public sapdex such as restaurant, and so on). Usually during the winter if you are a non smoking person or with non smoking, you usually don't go for the terrasse.
An I do keep my eggs in the fridge... I'm a failure 😂
You’re not a failure : eggs are stored at ambiant temperature in the shops, but must be stored in the fridge at home (it’s often written on the packaging).
C’est un peu compliqué mais il y a des vidéos très complètes qui expliquent tout le truc. Les deux approches US/UE sont valides toutes deux mais prennent des parti pris contraires.
I'm a supporting failure, when the eggs enter home, their stocking location is the fridge! Until they get in an omelette or a cake 🍰
Books in Germany have the titles on the spine in either direction. The tendency for German originals is the French way and for translations it's the English way. But I even have a bookseries where they switched the orientation midway through the series...
Le café gourmand allows also not to choose between many desserts !
In a menu if you can choose between cheese and dessert after the main course, the cheese is not seen as a dessert. As you said in 4 course menu, you have both. And depending on what you enjoy most you can prefer to end the meal with a savoury taste than a sweet one.
In Mesilla (Las Cruces) New Mexico (USA) they are able to eat outside most of the year and have great outdoor eating spaces. And the local restaurant has heaters outside for the winter months because it does get rather cold (it's a desert). Houses are fenced in, almost all backyards, but often the front as well. People with less money have chain-link and everyone else has rockwalls surrounding their properties. I did not see this in places outside of the southwest US.
Patio heaters are life in AZ in the winter. Every patio has a brazier.
Heated terraces have been VERY common in the UK for many years. Used by smokers of course but by others as well.
8:14 C'est parce qu'on considère que pour ne pas alourdir le repas qu'il est possible de choisir fromage OU dessert. Ce n'est pas le fait de considérer que le fromage peut faire partie des desserts, sauf pour le fromage blanc.
All 5 Things we have also in Austria! Its normal! We drink at Cold/rainy) times outside because its forbidden smoking inside a bar,restaurant,cafe(Kaffeehaus)…...!
In the UK we don't store eggs in the fridge in the shop, but do refrigerate when home. You should store below 20 degrees, which our shops are and the most important thing is to avoid temperature fluctuations, so not refridgerating means putting them in a hot car to go home isn't such a big difference, but at home the best place is the fridge to avoid temperature fluctuation. Our hens are vaccinated against salmonella and farmed more sparsely so the eggs are kept clean and so safer than the US, hence we don't treat them the same, but if the eggs got infected from outside by salmonella (such we also believe is more likely when washed like the US eggs), the bacteria can't multiply in the fridge, but can at room temperature, therefore fridge is safer. That said, some people do have 'egg baskets' which they use to store them in outside of the fridge against recommendations.
Lived in Paris for four years. You’re still supposed to put the eggs in the fridge once you get home, unless you’re eating them right away.
I've heard the eggs thing many times by expats, but you're the first one talking about books ; I've just checked my bookshelves 1 minute ago, and you are right !!
French guy here, sorry for bad english. Fences have been all around houses since ever, you can see them around very old houses or on ancient black and white photos. But I think its an european thing, not only french.
No one seems to know why we write book's slices this way: in ancient times titles on slices were just horizontally written - but books were thicker back then, not because of more pages but thicker paper I think. At some point we started to write vertically but no one knows why this direction and not the american way. Anyway, its important that all have the same direction otherwise its a hell to seek for a book in a shelf!!
About cheese and desert, I think its just easier for a restaurant to do not create a specific section in menu just for one "cheese" line. But actually we dont often end our meals with cheese, most of the time we would have cheese+dessert or just dessert.
There are many food that traditionaly are not kept in fridge, suprisingly for some foreigners: vegetables, fruits or even cheese. But traditions tends to disapear and unlike my parents I do keep vegetables, cheese and eggs in my fridge - but not fruits.
I've used books from bookshelves in both France and the UK over the years and never noticed!!
I’m from the US...It’s good to see you! I’m really appreciating good content right now! Hope you guys stay safe & healthy!
Hey Andrea! I loved seeing you on vat19 and at some point i didnt see you in any videos anymore. I hated to find out that you left but seeing you have started a youtube channel with enjoyable content has made me really happy. I'll love to see all of your content so keep doing what your doing and have a nice day!
I don't think anyone in France thinks cheese is desert. When you're offered to replace desert with cheese, it's usually in restaurants targeted towards people with limited time or budget, like those bar-restaurants who mostly serve office workers. Typically, the menu is either starter+main dish or main dish+desert and you have to pay extra for the full course. Since most deserts tend to be sugar-heavy, I guess some people just want to have cheese instead. I don't think replacing desert with cheese is something really cultural, it's just a way to eat light and/or fast.
Adenoid Hynkel some people considers yogurt is a dessert 😉
@@joannets3835 do you think yogurt is a cheese ?
no it's an eating"rule"(-ish) fromage ou dessert? they're both not light it's just a preference if you want to stay healthy.
Totalement faux, c'était d'usage bien avant nos préoccupations diététiques actuelles.
I realised what this typical concept of “non-fenced property” is when I travelled in UK with friends. This mishap could have happened in the US I guess...
We were chitchatting across a residential area when the street started to make a turn. Instead of remaining on the pavement, we instinctively bypassed and walked on the grass to get shorter, when we heard a typical english man saying : “ Do you know actually that you’re on my property gentlemen ?”. So confused then.... 🤭
Haha oops 😅
We are clearly marking the circumference of our yard... Lots of problems across centuries 🙄
I'm a French-Thai person who's been living in Belgium, after growing up in France and living in the UK and Germany. I noticed the book spine thing a long time ago, and I found it really annoying because my books are mixed ! :D
Yeah ... we know about this difference of “non-fenced property” with the Anglo-Saxons ... the last dispute we had on this subject lasted a century ... 😂😂😂
in England, we had the enclosures act.OK if you can read,
Cheese is not a dessert. And even when in menu they make you chose between an actual dessert and cheese it doesn't mean it is one. It's just that some people prefer finishing their meal with cheese than a sugary thing. But what you finish your meal with is not necessary a dessert. You could very well have an appetizer and a main course and finish there. The main course doesn't automatically become a dessert because you stop there. Same goes for cheese. You can stop at cheese if you want to without taking a dessert after. Or you can chose the cheese as part of the m3 course combo and then take a dessert off combo. (I feel like most people don't do that though. Most people would just get their combo and stop there.)
Oh my gosh yes! Spines of books !!!!!! I know !! My bookshelf is a nightmare!
Cheese is not a dessert. But in some restaurants, mainly in the lunch menu, your can have cheese OR dessert. Just choose.
I don't know if this is a cultural thing, but I almost never see books stacked in piles on a bookshelf; they're usually put in the "upright" position, as in a library or bookstore. I still need to separate may english and french books though, to keep finding a book from being a nightmare.
The cheese plate among deserts I've seen in several European countries
The fence, often natural around the property in most parts of Europe. But rarely in front of the garage/shelter for the car. Often the dog can run in front and behind the house, if the house is free standing
I had never noticed before but exactly half of my Bulgarian books have their spines the French way and the other half are like English books. But I always stack them vertically so that's probably why I've never paid attention to it. Also houses in Bulgaria definitely have fences all around the yard. I think it does give a certain sense of security. I live in Bordeaux now where they have the typical 'échoppe bordelaise' which doesn't have a front yard at all and you step out of your front door directly on the street. We're considering one day living in one of those but the thought of pedestrians walking right by my windows freaks me out. 😬 In Bulgaria I've always lived on the 5th floor feeling safe.
In Greece they refrigerate their eggs as well
In France you find eggs outside in the grocery stores but we usually put them in the fridge when we go home ;) I had no idea about the reason behind that difference! :O
I put eggs in the fridge when they are cooked
I store my eggs off the fridge as in every supermarket though
The book thing is too true for me to joke about- I was so confused when I bought a French book and put it in my book shelf and it caught me off guard
I am french and store my eggs in the fridge. I think most of us do it because you should not forget them as they perish so it’s easier when you cook depending on what perish first. You could forget them if you store them with flour or other long conservation groceries. Some say it’s not good as some others smell get through the egg shell but I don’t smell or taste it...
Well I don't store them in the fridge more out if the fridge since that's the way they are stored in supermarket. Also more often then not when you cook, you need your eggs to be at room température so it saves time.
in England, we have cheese and crackers sometimes instead of dessert at the end of a meal
Poland title book's the French way, but I only noticed it now, when you mentioned.
Cheese and biscuit to finish quite normal in the uk as well
The "café gourmand" is also very Parisian, I think... At least I'm under the impression that it started there, I remember asking for it in other French cities and getting a weird look. It started a bit in some Brussels restaurants but is not common or known at all. I also looooooove café gourmand, because I cannot eat too much sugar and usually having just a few bites is more than enough for me.
Uk eggs are not in a fridge and our gardens have fences
Please post more videos in French! :) listening to you and reading subtitles is helping me learn so much faster Mx
Where I grew up in Sydney, Australia front yard fencing and gates were the norm. Some newer subdivisions in Australia don't have front fences.
I think I have parts of the answer to the full-fencing issue. Firstly, standardized suburbs are less common in France, so you can have a house with a small backyard and a big front yard, or even situated right in the middle of the yard without a clear-cut difference between backyard and front yard. In cities, there are houses without front yards completely. So I think most places will be naturally fenced completely.
An other element is linked to the law : unless it's on the side of your property, you can't build a house less than three meters away from the border of your property. That means if you want to fence only the backyard, you would need a three meter weird looking fence on the side of your house. I'm not sure if it explains everything but maybe their are some explanations in here ^^
German living in Slovakia here, both ways of book labeling on the side exist. I was really suprised when I looked it up after your video.
Hello Andrea,
The points you raise in this video are really very interesting.
For eggs, the French system is healthier when it comes to food. Americans think that everything should be disinfected, cleaned ... even eggs hahaha, that's to say! The problem is that after to store them you're obliged to use refrigerators unnecessarily to keep them. It consumes electricity for nothing (on the scale of a country like the United States, it's quite simply a huge consumption of disinfectants, possibly water, electricity, etc.). While the eggshell is a natural protection that precisely avoids having to use all that. :))
Friendly,
Thanks for the video. My wife and I live in the St Louis area. How cold are the winters in Paris. Since you are from the same area, just wanted a comparison. Thanks and great job!
For the cafe, if people are still drinking outside even during winter is because it's forbidden to smoke inside but allowed outside... French people just smoke too much :p
For the fence I've grown up in southern France and everyone had fence all around the house since forever it's not a new trend but in north-west they sometimes don't have it for what I could see.
For the book, I'm currently living in Korea and when it's written in Korean it's neither the French nor the English way, but the letters are under the previous one so we can read it without turning the head. But when it's written with alphabet then it's the same as US/UK.
I paused the video and went on my bookshelf. brazilian portuguese books are in (wait for it) BOTH WAYS!!!
ok so it seems like we don't have a pattern
Czech books are labeled the same way as French books.
You have mentioned a few times about after main course, a cheese course, you failed to metion that salad is quite often
served after the main course (pour aider la digestion), usually prior to cheese. And don't get me going on the Trou Normand...
As far as terraces go, visit Montréal, or Québec city, you would feel right at home, restaurateurs here actually pay the city to construct
teerraces onto part of the sidewalk and street during the summer are fairly common in urban settings, where space does not allow expansion of the premisses.
Terraces have pretty much always been a feature here (province de Québec), so maybe it is a French thing.
The book spine thing is a thing, however, I have a number of scientific/academic as well as religious tomes in my bookselves that run counter to this generalisation,
having been printed in both N-America and Europe, so - go figure.
I may be incorrectct but, the spine orientation in French may be rooted in its Latin roots!?
In the UK we also traditionally have a "cheese board" as a desert option. Oh and eggs do NOT go in fridge, as in France Think it's a pan-European thing :)
Allegedly, American eggs undergo a more thorough cleaning and lose the protective coating that allows them to survive outside a fridge.
I'm from Belgium and I've noticed that most of the things you mentioned are also common here! Not surprising as I live about an hour's drive from France.
First, it is the same with drinking outside on the terrace even when it's cold. I am used to seeing tons of people do it but I would never do it outside of spring/summer/early fall. I think it also has something to do with smoking. A little over 10 years ago it became forbidden here in Belgium to smoke inside a café or restaurant and all smokers are now happy to go outside in the freezing cold as long as they get to smoke.
I never noticed a difference in the spine of French books (we had to read them in high school like Les Misérables) but I just checked and apparently in Dutch we do it just like you guys in the US! :)
The dessert thing is also common here in Belgium. We have 'verwen koffie' or 'verwen thee' (literally translated 'spoil coffee' or 'spoil tea') including 3 to 5 little desserts like chocolate mousse, fruit salad, ice cream, a piece of brownie... But I prefer choosing 1 dessert because the selection of little desserts always contain something I don't like!
The cheese option is also available here but I would never do that. I don't get it :p.
Eggs are kept outside of the fridge in grocery stores here. But I had read about the difference between the US and europe so it didn't surprise me.
The fenced-in houses are not as common here as in France but it really does depend on where you live. Big villas have them but that's it I think!
Fun video, Andrea :)
I think the fences are not a new trend because now that I think of it, I know a lot of houses that have that and that aren't new. I think it just became the norm with the development of cities.
Cheese is useful just after the main course when you haven't finished the wine and it would clash with the pud!!
I prefer English spines because I when I stack my French books I can't have their covers facing up
When I saw the English book I was like "OMG something's definatelly wrong !" but then I checked my bookshelves and I realized that I never saw there was a difference before. I'm french and I got both english and french books. BTW I love your videos, it's nice to realize the difference between cultures, what you think is strange when for me this is just normal. I hope your doing well in Paris (especially these days...) :)
So funny for book spines! I never noticed it!! Now I will look at my shelves differently.
For proprety fence, I think that for most French houses, there is only a frontyard. That's probably why they are fenced all around.
so I checked my russian and german books and hey both are like the french one when the cover has to be face down to read the spine/back of the title.
For eggs it is because, as far as I know, in the US they wash them, removing the protective coating as you said. In France it is in fact illegal to wash eggs (because it removes that protective coating) and unwashed eggs don't need to be put in the fridge. Most french people nowadays put them in the fridge after buying them, but you don't have to. Unwashed eggs don't go bad at room temperature before at least 3 weeks...
Laure Bircher let's play safe -> fridge
Enclosing fences is very common for a long time in france in my opinion.
Samuel Devulder you should see the jurisprudence about this it's 🤯🤯🤯
In England, did you buy any eyren?
I've surveyed a house where the front yard, as well as the back yard, was surrounded by a fence, but the driveway was not. It doesn't seem to be common though. (North Carolina)
Pouquoi les terrasses des bars, resto sont ouvert. .. Car il est interdit de fumer dedans.
Et des amis fumeurs et non fumeurs peuvent se regrouper dehors
Dans mes souvenirs quand il était autorisé de fumer à l'intérieur il y avait moins de monde en terrasse en hivers.
Question : quel est la réglementation dans les autres pays ? Autorisé en interieur interdit en extérieur ? Autre
I noticed the book spine thing when I started reading books in English. I have to organise my bookshelves by language because of that. But books in Spanish and other languages are the same as the French books from what I’ve seen. I’ve only ever seen English books with the spine reversed but I might be wrong
Im from the Czech republic and I immediately had to check which way our books are. Luckily I had a book in English so that I didn't need to think which way it was 'supposed to be' and which way it's 'upside down'. The conclusion is that are books are like the ones in France.
Interesting! Maybe it's much more common than I realized 😁
I'm not sure why the English speaking world does it different. But the reason why (as far as I know) everybody else in the alphabetic world does it the French way, is the following reason. When one stacks the books upright and walks from right to left in order to read the titles, If one wants to take a book out to see the cover. The cover is facing you.
Slovenia here. I have some books in Slovenian that have titles on the spine in the "french" way and some in opposite way. Never noticed it before. :O
Wow! Never heard of the first three. In Nicaragua it's also normal to keep eggs non-refrigerated. I thought it was extra weird because it's so so hot there. 😄 it is also the case that everything is fenced/gated in, including the driveway.
Here in Denmark books are like the English with the spine thing.
In Finland and Sweden titles are in the same direction as in UK. I have 2 German books (in German), one "scientific" with the spine in the French direction and one "touristic" in the other.
Hello~
I've seen a lot of reactions about the spine of books so I'm going to react on something else. 😂
I'm French and I think I can understand why restaurants put the cheese plate with desserts.
It's like... You can't put cheese before the main dish, so it cannot be listed in "starters" or "main dishes". And you cannot really put it alone on the menu, that would be weird to get this lonely line out of any category.
I think that's why they automatically list it with desserts, even though it obviously is not a dessert and if someone ever order both a cheese plate and a dessert, they will eat the cheese before the dessert.
If you go to more "chic" restaurants, they do write it as appetiser/starter/main/cheese/dessert. So they separate cheese from the dessert.
But these restaurants generally have a smaller menu than normal restaurants. Do it's easier for them to list it down like this. While it would be weird if you have 10 different dishes in every category and suddenly only one line for "cheese plate".
Btw, it's always written as "a cheese plate", and not a list of cheeses with each price next to them. Because in a restaurant you usually get small portions of different cheeses, it would be weird to order one big cheese (like "I would like camember, and you ? - Oh, I'll just get some blue cheese.", that's weird).
I didn't know that about the printing on book spines... that is interesting. As for cheese as dessert, here in the US, the closest you would probably come to this is a Cheesecake. Which is is generally, cream cheese, sugar, some sour cream and a bit of vanilla all beaten together' There's NO four in it, so, I don't know why its called a "cake"... has a graham cracker, or Oreo crust (for example). To me, it's more like a pie. Well done Andrea. #StaySafe #BeWell
To me it seems like people want to stay outside and freeze because they love smoking so much!!
Why does she not put the mug down
I live in (the dutchspeaking part of) Belgium. Often we do things the french way but most of my books are 'american style'.
Cool video I'm a big fan
C'est marrant pour les bouquins. Je n'avais remarqué ça :-0. Ceci dit, quand les bouquins sont rangés debout, je trouve que c'est plus facile pour moi de se pencher la tête vers la gauche pour le lire le titre que l'inverse.
C'est encore un truc de droitier, j'imagine
Oui c'est un truc de droitier. De même, si on tourne en rond, on tourne plus facilement "à gauche", c'est-à-dire dans le sens inverse des aiguilles d'une montre. Même chose si on tourne une cuillère dans un plat. Même chose pour ouvrir un bouchon de bouteille.
French books in Quebec are like books in France too. I guess it's an English language vs French language thing? I discovered cafés gourmands in Paris in 2011, what a revelation! :D
About the "café gourmand" I heard it was a way to keep the customers, sorry for the cliché but this how I heard it: often a couple is there, the man looks at the desserts , the woman tells "I won't take any it would be too much" and the man then does the same... BUT with the café gourmand you have the psychological effect of "i'm not eating dessert, just a few bites with my coffee..." , no more guilt and 2 customers paying an expensive course ;)
cheese: funny never saw anybody take cheese instead of dessert.
eggs: yes we are weird, as someone else commented :we're ok with them not being in a fridge in the store and firt thing we do is put them in the fridge at home ;)
I watched hundreds of american tv show and never noticed the non-fenceness... and now I realize it; you're totally right
Most of these things happen in Uk too.Many cafes and pubs have heated sitting areas outside these days,maybe they got the idea from France,I don't know lol. Cheese as an option for a dessert,I have seen many a time here,it was normally what my dad chose and he has been gone a good number of years,I don't think it is seen as a sweet option though,it is a savoury alternative for those who don't have a sweet tooth.Eggs don't go in fridge here either,I think its because they are processed differently from the US,you can put them in there though.Lastly,many gardens here are fully fenced or walled front and back,especially in older properties.In fact,I find it odd that a lot of newer houses don't have fenced off front gardens.
I didn't realize cheese could be dessert in the UK too! Very interesting 😁
@@AndreaHeckler Oh yeah,not everywhere,but,I have seen it in a few places.
I'm not sure about it, but I feel like people might be staying on the terraces because they want to smoke. And it's often forbbiden to smoke inside
Au sujet des bouquins, à l'origine, en France, le titre était écrit à l'horizontale au dos des livres, donc ni de bas en haut comme c'est devenu la majorité aujourd'hui, ni de haut vers le bas comme c'est la convention aux USA. Les grandes collections des grands éditeurs ont maintenu cette tradition.
It's not exactly because of cheese could be a dessert (it's not for me) that restaurants propose it separated from dessert, I guess it's a matter of price, cheese and dessert could be to expensive for some clients. In addition, lots of clients are not fond of dessert and prefer cheese to finish their meal.
Just a supposition, the fence all around the house in France could be due to the insurance ... their message is "to be covered, protect yourself nicely, if not, we don't pay ..."
About the "spine of books" in fact English people always do the contrary of France ! Didn't you notice ? ;-D
The fence issue is due to the so called " Napoleon Code " wich implied mandatory fences in the beginning of the 19th century. As far as I know...
Loved your video! I think the terrace thing is mostly parisian. I used to live in Lyon before and there were no terraces in winter as far as I remember. Any French here to help us find out?
Une Vie Frallemande it's a Parisian/touristy thingy not the rest of France
Ces terrasses d'hiver ont vu le jour avec l'interdiction de fumer à l'interieur. Au vu de leur succès les patrons des etablissements ont pensé à les chauffer pour attirer et garder la clientèle des fumeurs. Il est question d'interdire le chauffage des terrasses à Paris, pour raison écologique...bientôt.
French here, yes that’s the general rule to fence everything. There are some exceptions but very very few. I think it always had been like this. Maybe it’s because the back and front garden is not that a rule, there is a lot of others configuration.
Fences around property in uk and other places are often to do with legal hard evidence of your land's claimed boundaries. It is, from a time when surveying was inaccurate and expensive so fences delineated the bounds and you left them in place, especially when taxes were defined by property size. Also helped prevent loss of land through someone else occupyimg it (without violence nor permission nor secrecy). e.g. If, say, a neighbour parks their car two inches on your side of the unfenced boundaryline for 25 years and you did not notice/take action, they used to end up owning your two inch strip of land through 'adverse possession' (or squatter's rights). "Fences make good neighbours" meant "prevents court cases" about boundaries. The court cases emerged when old owner sells and the in-practice boundary no longer matched the legal boundary. Trespass is a civil wrong (tort) in many european systems and being caught on 'the wrong side of the fence' is the evidence
In China, the spine of book is similar to the English one. Very interesting point here abou the book spine, I"ve never paid so much attention to it before when I read a book
i am from Slovakia and the books printed here are also printed with spines like French books. Which drives me nuts because I think logically they should print them like British books. I have both English and other language books and have to separate them into different shelves because this annoys me so much. Pet peeve, and not really important, but it is what it is.
In Russia the book spines are like in France. :)
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Russian book spines are the same as french :)) so weird!
Je ne m’étais jamais rendu compte du sens de l’écriture sur les dos de livres! C’est la même chose au Québec: les livres publiés en anglais sont dans un sens alors que les livres publiés en français sont dans l’autre! Étrange...
I've been staying home for 3.5 weeks now I think? This is the most caught up on UA-cam I've been since 2013
Fencing in Australia is usually the whole block of land! It gives your pets so much more space to play
Unopened milk stored at room temp is really weird too
Why It's not opened?
iwilitu because it's usually sold in flexible plastic bag or tetra pack which need to stay refrigerated
French milk is pasteurised. As long it’s not opened, there’s no risk. Same as a can of thuna fish or corned beef.
I got a book from Russia the other day and its spine is the same way as the French!
Omg the book spine thing really confused me at first! I've found that the Italian ones are the same as the English ones, but German books seem to be more like French ones, there seems to be no logic 😅
I think the logic is in the way books are usually stored. If they are stored vertically on a shelf, it's easier to read from bottom to top. So my theory is that French books are printed with that in mind.
I'm from Sweden and the books here are the "english" way.
In China, we can put the spine from up to down because you can write Chinese vertically LOL
It is first time to watching your video for me, but I really enjoyed. Thank you very much.
By the way, how many languages can you speak?
Greetings from Japan🇯🇵
books are usually stored vertically on shelves, so....
Nos maisons sont très clôturées, mais paradoxalement il est légal de prendre en photo la maison/jardin d'un inconnu, tant qu'on ne prend pas ses habitants.... 🤷