I grew up in northern France, and I've never heard about eating raw artichokes being a thing. But I could see how with younger artichokes having tender leaves. Especially if a variety has been selected for this (purple artichoke?).
@@NotEvenFrench I never ate raw 'standard big' artichoke. Always steamed. From Orléans to Bordeaux. So i guess it's really a 'localization' thing. As for baby radis, good ones have a peppery taste, not really different than big black radish. Even though it's hard to find good ones..... :P
To answer your questions/react to some points of the video (which was really nice, thanks for sharing it! ♥ ): - I do eat artichoke that way but it's not totally "raw". I mean, I cook it with steam after having taken out the central part (the kind of flower) and then I eat it that way with olive oil + vinegar + salt & pepper - I come from the South West of France and have always eatten "baby radishes" with salted butter, and to be honest I always thought it was a worldwide practice x) - The "do nothing" thing... omg... I've got many friends who come from anglo-saxon countries and when I spent holidays with them, I have to admit I thought they were a bit "lazy": this is not a negative judgment, I was just like: "you do have lots of time to do things, we are all together, we can enjoy the sunny weather, this is a little bit weird to stay at home doing nothing, in particular if we are away from home in a new region we don't know and we can explore".... and now I better understand the situation x) I always thought this was unique to my friends, but maybe this is a cultural difference(?). That's funny! - #teambathrobe ...I always had bathrobes x) My mother and my brother too. My father was the only one in my family to use only a towel to dry himself - I think the "leave the last piece" is only a politeness demonstration. I mean... I don't know for other french, but I feel a little bit "chocked" if someone take the last piece, in particular without asking others for it because most of the time, we ALL want the last piece. For me (but I recognize this is totally stupid, I never thought about was this means before this video haha) taking it means you are a little bit "egoistic" because you are not able to leave it to others. For me, a good group of people is the one who is able to leave the last piece until someone take the bowl back to the kitchen x) Even if someone asks to eat it, it's a little bit frustrating because you perfectly know that everybody wanted it, and if you ask, it means that you were not able to put the interests of others before yours (wow, I never thought a peanut could mean all these things hahaha) - I remember a few years back, one of the supermarket I used to go tried the "packing service". But it did not last for a very long time. I think this is probably because people do prefer to organize their food/stuff on their own. Well... it would be the case for me (for example: cold things in the same bag, fruits & vegetables in another, etc.). Moreover the cashier already has "lots of work" registering your products and checking things. It would be really weird to wait, standing there and looking at him/her without doing anything the whole time x)
c-buck I eat radishes this way, with salt & not butter, but it's a practice from my childhood in England. I don't know of anyone else who does this. Perhaps my family had a connection with France!
I'm not from the south of France (originally from the Val de Marne), and I still eat the artichokes exactly like you. Same for the radishes, so I guess it's not a regional thing. But I must admit I never saw anybody eat raw artichokes, that must taste horrible... (It's already not that great pre-cooked)
As for the "leave the last piece" thing - if someone is trying to be polite and asks if they can have the last piece, I also can't imagine anyone else at the table replying that they actually want it. That would be super awkward :)
the paradox is that bacon IS a french word adopted by english speakers. It desapeared from the french langage and came back during the XIXth century thru english langage. As an example, in the very famous middle-age story "le roman de renart" the word "bacon" is very frequently used instead of the more modern "jambon" (ham).
Here in Brittany I've never eaten artichoke raw with olive oil, it is usually steamed and we dip it in vinaigrette. Baby radishes with butter as appetizers are indeed a thing, personally not a fan though.
I think also the artichoke was steamed. But In Provence we eat young artichoke raw in salad. And it's common to eat what's left on the leaves raw as well with some vinaigrette.
My perspective on "on fait un tour" is that we spend so much time eating, that we need either something to feel less guilty about it, or some kind of excuse to eat more for dinner after the walk :D
Hello, i'm French but was raised in Spain, Morocco, but mainly in France since i was 5, and my dad was American (so it may change my vision of things). The radishes you're refferring to are eaten all over France, there's no real specific origin for it and they're called "Radis à la croque au sel" which means you "croque" (from the verb "croquer"/bitting) a vegetable with some salt and sometimes some butter, and you can eat other kind of vegetable "à la croque au sel" (tomatoes with salt and no butter, etc). Actually, the butter is there to soften the harshness of the radishes because they can have quite a kick sometimes. For the artichokes, i've never hear of what you described we cook them before we eat them like that. The only artichokes we eat raw are the violet ones when they're very small because they are very tender (the italians do too i think). As for the bathrobes, in my family we all have one but i don't think it's specifically french. Leaving something in the bowl as you described has more to do with politeness than anything else. Anyway, thanks for your videos, they're not always accurate but very entertaining to watch... I like discovering how people from other countries react to our culture :)
Hello, For bathrobes I think this is just a family thing because I don't use it and I don't really know people who does (please excuse my English ahaha) so to me it's not a commun thing ! Good video :)
Hi Rosie! I'm French and everything is so true. The artichaud, the robe ... But I didn't know the rest of the world was not doing those 10 things like us !
"tu fais quoi ce week end ?" is a really common question colleagues ask you every friday and "nothing" isn't an acceptable answer. I'm French and I find this annoying. Even my in-laws are trying to shame us when we do nothing on a week end xD
I’m British & I’m totally with the French of keeping busy whilst on holiday! I always want to make the most of my time away; see the sights, go to galleries & museums, take a riverboat ride, go to a theme park. I’m very much a city breaks person (I HATE sand with a passion 😂). I always think that I could read a book outdoors at home so I want to absorb culture when I go away. Also I’m towels all the way.
FRance is too beautiful to stay three weeks at beaches 🙂 But the beaches are beautiful too... France is the most intresting country for people which are keen for nature AND culture. You can have it every day.
I’m a typical French 😊 living in Alsace from Auvergne - I’ve been married for 35 years and I do not wear a wedding ring - We’ve bathrobes for each of us in the bathroom. We even make bathrobes available with towels for our guests - I can’t stay for hours lying on a sofa doing nothing. After a while I need to go « faire un tour ». By the way, in a workshop about creativity I learnt having a walk stimulates your brain. They labelled it « Intuitive walk ». - Radish is not my cup of tea and I agree with you - Raw artichoke, I never tried.
After living in France for 2 years and now coming back to the U.S., I've had a few reverse cultural shock moments! One being the fact that French people don't do small talk really...when I came back to the states, I was caught off guard a few times at stores and restaurants where the cashiers, servers, or people walking around in the store would start a small conversation about liking my outfit, what the weather is like, a crazy event in the news or anything really! In France, it was always just pertinent to say "bonjour" and "au revoir" in stores, and at restaurants, I feel like my friends and I would always get straight to ordering or asking about menu options. I wonder if anyone has noticed how Americans are infamous for our small, meaningless conversations in public and how French people ain't got time for that. :p Are New Zealanders small-talkers too?
Jenna Kotula I’m French and have lived in London, and am now in Sydney. We don’t do small talk because we mainly say things we actually mean. We don’t talk just to say things that sound nice, but that we don’t earnestly mean. The cashier doesn’t care about how your day is going. She’s just asking this to “be polite” according to the Anglo meaning of politeness. Now I’m used to the Anglo way and feel a little bit sad when I’m in France... but then when I go back to Sydney I’m like “why is she talking to me?” 😂
@@anne-mariev.3295 You are so right! The French people say things to be meaningful, whereas most anglophones are making this small talk to fill up silence. I was really used to just minding my own business in stores in France, and then when I came back to America, I was like "why is everyone bombarding me with questions and comments?!" 😂 So funny. I'm glad I'm not the only one who notices this!
...Are New Zealanders small-talkers..?.. not really... although we can be friendly as, the idea of speaking for the sake of filling a void is unusual when silence/leaving the bnirads&thebees to work in peace is valued.
Hi Rosie, For the radishes appetizer, we do it as well in Champagne Region. In my family, we actually perform a vertical incision in the radish, insert a piece of butter in said incision and then press the end of the radish with the butter on the salt. I think this appetizer is quite common in France.
I grew up (in California) eating radishes with butter and salt. Sometimes my mum would slice larger ones and put them on buttered bread. This is still my very favorite snack -- and I'm 45 years old! Of course, in California we ate lots of artichokes, sometimes growing them as well, but always cooked, never raw. My mum always made (and at 79 still makes) all our jam. Perhaps she's secretly French? She DOES love her some Proust! But sadly she can only read the translation.
- I do wear a bathrobe but it's a family thing because among my friends only one of them does. - I was raised not to waste food so in my family when there is only one slice of bread or one peanut left we spend at least 10 minutes asking everyone again and again "are you sure you don't want it?" out of politeness before eating the last one... - I eat baby radishes with butter (almost as much butter as radish), my mother with salted butter and my father with salt...
Small baby purple artichokes are always eaten raw in the west / south west with either olive oil or even only salt. Bigger green artichokes are steamed.
In the U.S., the cashiers do bags the groceries for the customer too (unless you use a self check-out, but then obviously you're the one to bag your stuff).
Great video as usual! :-) Here are my thoughts on some of your points: - I grew up in Marseille and ate raw small artichauts violets, they’re so good. I ate the big ones (similar to your picture) boiled, cold. - I also had a bathrobe when I was a kid. But in my husband’s family, in the north-east, it’s towels all the way. I definitely prefer towels. - I am appalled by the “3-month rule”, there’s the same in the UK and Oz (btw I think you should’ve explained what it means exactly as I’m sure most French people didn’t understand ;-)). This is one of the worst examples of how materialistic and even show-off the Anglo cultures are (in general - I know there are some people who aren’t). This puts so much pressure on the future groom, I find it ridiculous on so many levels. When I think of all the more useful things I could do with that money e.g. a big trip, saving for a house deposit... I really struggle to understand. - When French people take the time and spend the money to go somewhere, it’s to do things they can’t do at home. Reading a book and relaxing can be done at home during the weekend. Visiting a historical village, exploring local landscapes, experiencing the regional cuisine... this is what we go away for. Otherwise we stay at home. It’s seen as a “beauf” thing to travel to somewhere and just chill by the pool.
Living in Paris I picked up the bathrobe habit from my DH and in-laws. I love it! So much easier to dry oneself in a big, cozy terry robe than with even the largest towel. Keeps the chill away and lets you dry the rest of yourself in comfort. Every French house I visited had bathrobes for guests. My FIL was a big fan of the radishes with salt and butter which I had not seen before. He was Parisian but his parents came from Toulouse. Love your channel!
Greetings from Suriname 🙂 here store employees are also packing the groceries for the customers. I think it's so normal that it is strange when other countries don't do that
Hi Rosie, I'm French and I live in Lyon, and I think we do everything you said, except using a "peignoir" instead of a towel, and the artichoke we eat is cooked haha. Oh and I went to Australia recently and I was so surprised that cashiers pack my stuff at the grocery store, it was so cool, it should be everywhere ! :)
In Center of France we eat artichoke like you described but as c-buck mentionned, they are not raw but steamed, and let cool down. So we indeed eat them cold and shaped as and artichoke, but they are cooked. Here we don't have olive oil, so the sauce is usually fresh cream + red wine vinegar + salt + pepper.
I'd love to see a bunch of videos about your impressions of Kiwi culture upon returning after six years away. More New Zealand coverage, please! Mahalo!
I wish you’d do more NZ-oriented content- the French stuff seems less relevant now that you’re not there any more. Maybe your reaction to NZ customs now that you’ve spent years away from there- the contrast to France- and people’s reaction to the changes in you. But I always enjoy your videos, whatever you talk about.
I'm from Normandie and Artichoke are think but they are steamed. Baby radishes are the stars of the Apéro with baby tomatoes (from thos that don't eat biscuits) there are also raw and buttered Endive leaves :) For the bathroom, we do use bathrobes but after or in complement of the towel, to not be naked from the bathroom to the bedroom ^^
Oh my goodness the bathrobes!! I'm American but my boyfriend is French and the bathrobe thing is 100% on point for him and his family...So much so that for Christmas this year, his mom bought be a bathrobe, haha.
I’m from the south east of France (Marseille) and the artichoke and radish thing is completely true ! Although you usually only eat one kind of artichoke raw which I believe is from the south so it’s more common in this part on France than in others where they eat the larger regular artichokes cooked. Growing up we ALWAYS had bathrobes in my family as well aha but we had an additional towel for hair and another for feet to make the drying process easier :) I studied foreign languages and interculturality at university and always find it interesting to see foreigners’ opinion on your own culture. I think I actually learned the most about my own french culture when I moved in Ireland for two semesters and was confronted with new habits ! That’s also when I realised how different cultural habits can be in different parts of France as I met a lot of other French persons over there and we were able to compare to Irish culture but also to regional cultures :) Hope you’re enjoying being in NZ !!
I am from South west France and for my family baby radishes are like candies, we eat them without butter or salt . My friends eat popcorn or crisps during a movie and i am with my radish bowl 😂
Hi Rosie, Brit living in the UK who's a complete and utter francophile here :-). It's so funny how you can discover new things after so long/so many visits: last year I stayed with the family of a French friend, for the fifth time since 2004, and only then did I come across them eating the radishes with butter and salt! I didn't see the appeal myself... In the UK the cashier at the supermarket will often ask you if you 'would like help with your packing', but generally you do it yourself. It would definitely be considered rude not to ask if someone else wants the last [whatever] before taking it, but taking the last thing itself is fine! I mean, to me you dry yourself with a towel *then* put on your robe/dressing gown! Definitely if a girl has just got engaged, her female family and friend will say "So let's see the ring" and admire it. It shocked me when I first aw the condom machines in France, too!
In Greece that last piece of food is called ' the piece of shame' .....and people say they will take the last piece in order to protect you from being embarrassed while saying 'I will take the piece of shame!'
So glad to see you again Rosie! I grew up in the Northeastern part of the US. We always had a garden, and when eating radishes, everyone would put a little pile of salt on the plate to dip them in before eating (no butter - although my grandparents talked about eating sandwiches of sliced radishes and butter during the Great Depression). And, we ate *steamed* artichokes the way you described, only with melted butter for dipping (not olive oil). Crazy world!
I love artichaut pâté but I have never had it steamed and dipped in olive oil and eaten, sounds very good actually! Miamm!!! This sounds like a nice video recipe for me to try out!
@@greenLimeila It is a delicious artichoke purée. Here's a link to a video (it's in French sorry, I couldn't find one in English! But you would get the idea! It's an easy recipe.) ua-cam.com/video/L-gyRwNLEvE/v-deo.html
About calling customer's service not being toll free numbers : we too French people complained about that when they first introduced those paying numbers😉!! For the bank though you shouldn't be paying to get in touch with your banker, they're supposed to give you their direct phone number. Ah least that's the case with my bank (BNP)
Exactement. Jamais j'appelle le numéro payant car en plus c'est une plateforme, donc ils peuvent pas faire grand chose pour aider. Je préfère appeler direct mon/ma conseillèr(e) et au pire laisser un msg. Pas question que je paye,lol!!
@@alexysq2660 que dieu bénisse mon fils, tu sais il est très pieux, au lieu de se mettre en ménage avec une fille qui de toute façon ne sera jamais assez bien pour etre invité à mon fameux diner aux chandelles il vit en colocation avec son meilleur ami et j'ai pu choisir leurs rideaux, je suis tellement fière de mon Sheridan
Greeting cards can happen in France but indeed it's not very common, even tho you can find them in stores I never get some nor send them for birthdays. In fact we do the opposit : the one thing we must do is the "faire part" thing. When you get married, have a child, or for baptism, it's up to you to create and send a nice "faire part" to all your relatives, in a nice writing and color design, and with cute baby pictures. People often spend a lot of time designing these.
Hey ! We eat artichoke in the north of France too, diping the leaf in "vinaigrette" and the bottom part. But it's always steam cooked I doubt il will be eatable and not to hard otherwise. And about "baby radish" we always eat them that size, with salted butter or without.
About the last remaining piece of appetizer... : - Generaly, if you wave the plate around asking who wants the last piece, people will assume YOU want it and will probably say "no no ! go ahead you can eat it" (there of couse will be exeptions to that, but most of the time this is what happens.) - If you really want the last one, just do it without looking at the plate while you're chatting with someone else. That'll never be a problem :) - The most polite way to do it : Cut the last piece in half and offer one to the person you're chatting with. You can add something like "Pour le finir !' or "On va pas laisser ça !" This will be ok 100% of the time. The other person will most likely accept this way because you're basicaly asking for help :) That's another story for dessert for exemple, if there's only one piece of cake remaining. I wouldn't recommend to take it wihtout asking, that would be considered rude. But I suppose it's the case in most countries anyway.
Some people in my family use bathrobes (my mother and two eldest brothers), but I personally use and have always preferred a plain towel. I got a bathrobe as a present a while ago and I do use it after drying myself to keep warm while I brush my teeth and so on after the shower...
I live in the North of France and we boilt the artichokes before eating them! We also eat raddish with butter and salt but even if they are with nothing they are tasty evenmore when they grown in your garden! :) We also have blakc raddish and they are yummy
1 - oh no please, as a french, do not be pro-active with any sort of greeting cards, it will just make me feel so uncomfortable about feeling forced to do one back (1st and only of my life) and I would be soooo embarrassed about what to do with the one you gave me because honestly, it's not something I want on my shelves but if you realize one day that I threw it away then I look like an asshole, please just don't play the cards game with a french x) 2 - I come from Bretagne, and the artichoke and baby radishes thing is super real also in there, and honestly I think everyone is doing it.
I'm french and I'm a total slob when I'm on holiday, I don't like to plan too much activities, but I must say it depends on the context : if I visit a country or a city for the first time, I try to not stay inside too much and to visit (or go out with friends) as much as I can. But if I have days off work and stay in my home city, I will definitely prefer some me-time instead, or just meet with my friends. And maybe just go to restaurants or the cinema from time to time. During the "normal" weekends I always make sure to stay home with my cats at least one day and do as little as possible haha. Regarding food, I live in the North East and we also eat radishes with butter and salt, but we boil (or steam cook) artichokes before we eat the leafs' bits with "vinaigrette". I also sometimes use a bathrobe after the shower, but definitely not every day. It's only when you have time to super-chill after the shower. And I completely agree about leaving the last piece of food when we share snacks : it a kind of useless politeness, not to look like an "ogre" that eats everything clean. It's really a waste of food... At the restaurant I never leave anything in my plate, for example. Customer service in France used to be only reachable through a charged number, but recently they have been obligated by law to offer a second customer service number that is free of charge, they just don't advertise about these free numbers, you have to look for them. And in most banks you can just directly email your banking adviser instead of calling ;)
In Lorraine, we eat radishes with salt and butter (and bread). It's considered rude to take the last food item, because somebody else might have wanted it, so we don't take it, unless implicitely asked to by the person who has invited (so that it won't have to be thrown away).
Ahh the radishes with salt, yummy. I am currently in Romania and locals do love to eat raw radishes with salt with their spring/summer meals. it's either plain radish with salt either incorporated in summer sallads. They don't eat it with butter though so I will have to try this
Artichoke are steamed! It’s so good, radishes with butter and salt as well. I miss that from France. So correct on every thing I live in the US and the bombardment of greeting cards was a bit too much when I first moved here. Now I’m use to it.
I think new Zealand is the exception for packing groceries, didn't even know it was existing. we use vinegar for artichoke too and they are boiled (south of France)
Hi. I’m in the UK and we generally pack our own bags at the supermarket. The one time my bags were packed the person put tins on top of the eggs! 🤦♀️ so I prefer to pack for myself. Also it’s normal I think to pay for the phone calls to utility companies and bank fees are often monthly if you’ve got an account with extras like I have.
Hi Rosie. In the UK it’s bad manners to take the last item off a plate without first asking if anyone wants it. That is a definite no no. I very interesting video. 🙂
That last thing stuff is just about politeness. Just ask before, and if someone wanted it, he will tell you. Make an arrangement, and eat. Fine. Everybody's happy ^^.
I was always taught offering the last piece of something was a politeness thing. I'm American so I think that was just in my family b/c that is definitely not a thing in many other people's lives in the US 🤷🏾♀️
I'm Filipino and we do the same thing. Eating the last piece of food without offering it first is seen as arrogant and gluttonous. For Americans, it really depends on your individual family.
Ya in my family at the diner table my grandparents often have to say "someone, take the last bite of meat!" Cause no one does it ! And often they have lots of leftovers in the fridge !
I just got back from a Paris for the very 1st time and not the last time. I loved it. Of course there was some culture shock and time change. But i love ur channel. It helped me a lot. Thank you
I'm from South Africa, but the more I watch your videos the more I think maybe I'm French in my soul haha! Whenever I travel I also can't just do nothing or "relax" lol, I always want to make the most of my time by enjoying the local sights and culture, even if it is just a walk around. I would miss the bacon though, nothing beats a good BLT :)
I have hated writing cards since my childhood. I have been so relieved when sms took France in the late 90s and almost eradicated the French cards culture, at that time I was rushing to send all my greetings by the 31st January 😅. Paradoxically and certainly selfishly, I enjoy receiving cards 😂
What really stands out for me in this video is how similar New Zealand culture is to American culture, at least in regard to what you mention here- it’s more or less identical. And all I want to do on vacation is laze around too!!! 😅
As far as I know eating artichokes the way you explained is pretty much done all over France. But the artichokes are not raw. They're steamed. I eat them with a homemade mustard vinaigrette. Also eat radishes the way you explained. I'm from Lyon area and my dad is from the North. He eats artichokes and radishes same way as well.
I'm from Paris and we do eat baby radishes with butter and salt. I remember started eating them when I was little in kindergarten 😊 and I also use a bathrobe but when I wash my hair I have a towel. Usually we use towels when we have to take a quick shower.
I love how so many things you say about NZ are relatable to Brazil and what you say about France and the French is just how it goes in the Netherlands for the most part. Love your videos!
Grenoble here (Although I'm Polish, just living here) :) I love raddish and everyone is eating it, even without any butter. My boyfriend is totally using a bathrobe as a towel, I was so shocked when I discovered it! I do have a bathrobe as well, but I am always using it when I am cold, during the winter in the morning, before the shower, when I am still in pyjamas, but before shower.
About packing in the grocery shop, with the minimum salary it would cost a lot to pay someone just to pack your groceries. I don’t know about New Zeland but in South Africa there is always someone packing for you but they paid very little. In Belgium, there is a shop called Colruyt (and their bio version) where they pack for you while scanning your groceries but it’s mainly because they don’t have a regular cashier (I don’t know if it’s the right word, I mean here caisse. They don’t have a tapis de caisse) you park your « caddie » next to another and they transfer the groceries from one to another so they pack for you in the meantime. And they’re know to pack it well as if they were playing Tetris.
If you go to eastern or southern Europe they will pack your bags although legislation tends to limit this nowadays. For example : Bulgaria, Poland, Spain, Croatia, Italy,...will pack your groceries whereas in France, Belgium, Netherlands this would never happen
@@xandervlassenbroeck5222 been to all these countries though not all of them in the last decade and never experienced my groceries being packed,I guess I don't go to right places.Thanks for your insight
My friend can spend all Sunday afternoon reading,he knows how to chill lol.We have those robes in the UK,very popular Christmas presents,here,we just wear them over our pjs. My French friend has one,but,he never uses it to dry himself lol.We pack our own groceries in UK too,but,the cahier always offers,sometimes,there is a group doing a bag pack for money.They pack your bags and you stick some cash in their tin.
Radishes : small, with a little of the stems left on to hold it and eating the green stems (blood purifier) eaten with butter and bread. The leaves boiled with potatoes and blended in a creamed soup. I am from a generation when everything was used, No waste if edible.
Hi Rosie, I love your videos :-) They are really respectfull of the French Culture. Big thanks for that. So to clarify just a little, the artichokes are steamed to be consummed. We eat them mostly with a vinaigrette or a mayonnaise. We don't eat them raw (as far as I know). When I was little, I used to put butter on a piece of bread, dip the radish in salt, then put it on the buttery bread and finally eat it. As a kid it was probably easier this way for my parents to make me eat them as radishes are sometimes quite "spicy". No bathrobe at my place. I definitely prefer to dry myself with a towel and quickly get dressed
Pour les artichauts et les radis, je viens de l'ouest et on le fait aussi. Pas de peignoir (bathrobe) chez nous mais ça ne le choque pas du tout. Je connais beaucoup de gens qui en ont. C'est vrai que prendre la dernière part est mal vu, à moins de la proposer à tout le monde avant, mais je ne savais pas que ce n'était pas "a thing" dans les autres pays ;)
Love your videos as we are visiting France soon and spending time with some relatives. I noticed the lack of grocery bag packing by employees in Austria and Hungary also. They had a counter after you went through the line to pack your own bags. I love experiencing these cultural differences. So fun.
About not eating the last piece, I've been told that it shows that the host has provided enough food for all the guests. If they finish everything that has been served, maybe some of them are still hungry and the host must bring some more.
I'm from the southeast of France of for the artichoke what I always had is artichoke cooked in a "cocotte minute" that cooled down and then we would tear the leaves and eat the tender tip dipped in oil or vinaigrette but I never had raw artichoke and now I'm curious to try it! Also, I'm #teambathrobe but I use a towel to dry my hair and a small towel for my face ;-) Great video as always!
I live in Occitanie (oh that's awkward to say in English) , so in the South-West and indeed, we often (about 1 or 2 times a week) eat raw artichokes and raddsihes as you said
I am not French but German. And a few things you mentioned were also done or seen in Germany as well. We also have vending machines with condoms and we also have to pick our groceries in our bags ourselves. There is no one who do this for us. The wedding ring is no big theme when someone is married. Not the price, the size of the diamond.
Hello there :) I'im French, and my mom used to cook Artichoke (?) and yes, you eat just that little bit of tender leaf at its base after dipping it in some Vinaigrette. But it was vapor cooked, I never ate a raw Artichoke ! ;) And Radishes are consummed that way all over France, that's a know basic of mom's easy pique-nique receipes. AND you are veeery right, Frenchies have that weird approach of idleness. And I can tell that is a real issue that distorsts our vision of work or studying. From students to teachers, non working peoples to public powers.. Guiltyness is the common denominator to those distortions but as you told, it feels somehow weird even in family or friends time... Cya :) Et des bisous ;p
Artichaux and radis are eaten everywhere in France.
Not Even French yes but only one type ok artichoke : smaller and they are violet
I grew up in northern France, and I've never heard about eating raw artichokes being a thing. But I could see how with younger artichokes having tender leaves. Especially if a variety has been selected for this (purple artichoke?).
@@Piohm Also the "little" radish are normal size for us, and have (supposedly) a finer taste than the bigger ones.
@@NotEvenFrench I never ate raw 'standard big' artichoke. Always steamed. From Orléans to Bordeaux. So i guess it's really a 'localization' thing.
As for baby radis, good ones have a peppery taste, not really different than big black radish. Even though it's hard to find good ones..... :P
@@NotEvenFrench Are you sure it's not a cooked artichoke but eaten cold ?
To answer your questions/react to some points of the video (which was really nice, thanks for sharing it! ♥ ):
- I do eat artichoke that way but it's not totally "raw". I mean, I cook it with steam after having taken out the central part (the kind of flower) and then I eat it that way with olive oil + vinegar + salt & pepper
- I come from the South West of France and have always eatten "baby radishes" with salted butter, and to be honest I always thought it was a worldwide practice x)
- The "do nothing" thing... omg... I've got many friends who come from anglo-saxon countries and when I spent holidays with them, I have to admit I thought they were a bit "lazy": this is not a negative judgment, I was just like: "you do have lots of time to do things, we are all together, we can enjoy the sunny weather, this is a little bit weird to stay at home doing nothing, in particular if we are away from home in a new region we don't know and we can explore".... and now I better understand the situation x) I always thought this was unique to my friends, but maybe this is a cultural difference(?). That's funny!
- #teambathrobe ...I always had bathrobes x) My mother and my brother too. My father was the only one in my family to use only a towel to dry himself
- I think the "leave the last piece" is only a politeness demonstration. I mean... I don't know for other french, but I feel a little bit "chocked" if someone take the last piece, in particular without asking others for it because most of the time, we ALL want the last piece. For me (but I recognize this is totally stupid, I never thought about was this means before this video haha) taking it means you are a little bit "egoistic" because you are not able to leave it to others. For me, a good group of people is the one who is able to leave the last piece until someone take the bowl back to the kitchen x) Even if someone asks to eat it, it's a little bit frustrating because you perfectly know that everybody wanted it, and if you ask, it means that you were not able to put the interests of others before yours (wow, I never thought a peanut could mean all these things hahaha)
- I remember a few years back, one of the supermarket I used to go tried the "packing service". But it did not last for a very long time. I think this is probably because people do prefer to organize their food/stuff on their own. Well... it would be the case for me (for example: cold things in the same bag, fruits & vegetables in another, etc.). Moreover the cashier already has "lots of work" registering your products and checking things. It would be really weird to wait, standing there and looking at him/her without doing anything the whole time x)
c-buck I eat radishes this way, with salt & not butter, but it's a practice from my childhood in England. I don't know of anyone else who does this. Perhaps my family had a connection with France!
I'm not from the south of France (originally from the Val de Marne), and I still eat the artichokes exactly like you. Same for the radishes, so I guess it's not a regional thing.
But I must admit I never saw anybody eat raw artichokes, that must taste horrible... (It's already not that great pre-cooked)
totalement d'accord!
Artichokes are definitely cooked in water or steam !! But the way to eat it is accurate :)
As for the "leave the last piece" thing - if someone is trying to be polite and asks if they can have the last piece, I also can't imagine anyone else at the table replying that they actually want it. That would be super awkward :)
the paradox is that bacon IS a french word adopted by english speakers. It desapeared from the french langage and came back during the XIXth century thru english langage. As an example, in the very famous middle-age story "le roman de renart" the word "bacon" is very frequently used instead of the more modern "jambon" (ham).
Camembert d'Alembert Ah très intéressant je ne savais pas
bacon and ham are two diffent pieces...
Here in Brittany I've never eaten artichoke raw with olive oil, it is usually steamed and we dip it in vinaigrette.
Baby radishes with butter as appetizers are indeed a thing, personally not a fan though.
Fivizzz Je pense qu’elle s’est trompée et pensait que l’artichaut était cru quand elle a vu des gens le manger.
I think also the artichoke was steamed. But In Provence we eat young artichoke raw in salad. And it's common to eat what's left on the leaves raw as well with some vinaigrette.
From Brittany too, agree with you fivizzz.
In Franche-Comté we also eat steamed artichoke leaves dipped in vinaigrette. I loved it so much as a kid.
I come from Franche-Comté and it's totally normal to eat baby radishes with butter and salt. I really love that !
My perspective on "on fait un tour" is that we spend so much time eating, that we need either something to feel less guilty about it, or some kind of excuse to eat more for dinner after the walk :D
I'm enjoying these kind of videos Merci! It's a nice preparation for me as I will move to France next year.
My mother was from Savoie,. WW2 bride, We lived in America. She would make me radish roses with butter and salt as an after school snack.
Ironically you look more French now you're in NZ. Love the hair and glasses.
Hello, i'm French but was raised in Spain, Morocco, but mainly in France since i was 5, and my dad was American (so it may change my vision of things).
The radishes you're refferring to are eaten all over France, there's no real specific origin for it and they're called "Radis à la croque au sel" which means you "croque" (from the verb "croquer"/bitting) a vegetable with some salt and sometimes some butter, and you can eat other kind of vegetable "à la croque au sel" (tomatoes with salt and no butter, etc). Actually, the butter is there to soften the harshness of the radishes because they can have quite a kick sometimes.
For the artichokes, i've never hear of what you described we cook them before we eat them like that. The only artichokes we eat raw are the violet ones when they're very small because they are very tender (the italians do too i think).
As for the bathrobes, in my family we all have one but i don't think it's specifically french.
Leaving something in the bowl as you described has more to do with politeness than anything else.
Anyway, thanks for your videos, they're not always accurate but very entertaining to watch... I like discovering how people from other countries react to our culture :)
Hello,
For bathrobes I think this is just a family thing because I don't use it and I don't really know people who does (please excuse my English ahaha) so to me it's not a commun thing !
Good video :)
It really depends. I would say it's not very common, but in my family we all have our bathrobes
Yes, it's a family thing. Some people may have bathrobes, but to wear after drying themselves with a towel.
My husband uses a bathrobe too. I don’t... I think it’s like chocolatine and pain au chocolat :p
In my family we do in, so i guess its a 50%/50% thing
Thank you for continuing your videos. Else I would have missed your "salout youytoube" :)
so true....
Yes! P.S. It's spelled "salut"! "Salout," if it existed, would be pronounced differently.
@@LauraMorland Of course but the commentator imitated her pronunciation. That's why he also wrote Youtoube.
Hi Rosie! I'm French and everything is so true. The artichaud, the robe ... But I didn't know the rest of the world was not doing those 10 things like us !
Bah si tu parles fr écrit fr alors ptn 😭
@@Mr_Lord.tcr3 Bah elle s'adresse à la youtubeuse (qui s'exprime en anglais) donc c'est logique
"tu fais quoi ce week end ?" is a really common question colleagues ask you every friday and "nothing" isn't an acceptable answer. I'm French and I find this annoying. Even my in-laws are trying to shame us when we do nothing on a week end xD
I’m British & I’m totally with the French of keeping busy whilst on holiday! I always want to make the most of my time away; see the sights, go to galleries & museums, take a riverboat ride, go to a theme park. I’m very much a city breaks person (I HATE sand with a passion 😂). I always think that I could read a book outdoors at home so I want to absorb culture when I go away. Also I’m towels all the way.
I am French with a British "in law family" and they are always on the go, a lot of French people believe me know how to do nothing!
FRance is too beautiful to stay three weeks at beaches 🙂 But the beaches are beautiful too... France is the most intresting country for people which are keen for nature AND culture. You can have it every day.
In the U.S., in some grocery stores, recently they want you to pack your own groceries. Self checkout is becoming very common too.
I think the grocery store saves money by paying less cashiers.
I’m a typical French 😊 living in Alsace from Auvergne
- I’ve been married for 35 years and I do not wear a wedding ring
- We’ve bathrobes for each of us in the bathroom. We even make bathrobes available with towels for our guests
- I can’t stay for hours lying on a sofa doing nothing. After a while I need to go « faire un tour ». By the way, in a workshop about creativity I learnt having a walk stimulates your brain. They labelled it « Intuitive walk ».
- Radish is not my cup of tea and I agree with you
- Raw artichoke, I never tried.
bon l'alsace a parlé mais bon quand on a le Gewurtzstraminer, on peut tout se permettre
Gonzalo Rojas 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩
We do bathrobes after the shower in Italy as well! My Dutch housband finds it uselss 😁
Radishes Fresh from the garden with salt and butter are something we enjoy in the Midwest region of the US also! I have always eaten them like that!
After living in France for 2 years and now coming back to the U.S., I've had a few reverse cultural shock moments! One being the fact that French people don't do small talk really...when I came back to the states, I was caught off guard a few times at stores and restaurants where the cashiers, servers, or people walking around in the store would start a small conversation about liking my outfit, what the weather is like, a crazy event in the news or anything really! In France, it was always just pertinent to say "bonjour" and "au revoir" in stores, and at restaurants, I feel like my friends and I would always get straight to ordering or asking about menu options. I wonder if anyone has noticed how Americans are infamous for our small, meaningless conversations in public and how French people ain't got time for that. :p Are New Zealanders small-talkers too?
Jenna Kotula I’m French and have lived in London, and am now in Sydney. We don’t do small talk because we mainly say things we actually mean. We don’t talk just to say things that sound nice, but that we don’t earnestly mean. The cashier doesn’t care about how your day is going. She’s just asking this to “be polite” according to the Anglo meaning of politeness. Now I’m used to the Anglo way and feel a little bit sad when I’m in France... but then when I go back to Sydney I’m like “why is she talking to me?” 😂
@@anne-mariev.3295 You are so right! The French people say things to be meaningful, whereas most anglophones are making this small talk to fill up silence. I was really used to just minding my own business in stores in France, and then when I came back to America, I was like "why is everyone bombarding me with questions and comments?!" 😂 So funny. I'm glad I'm not the only one who notices this!
...Are New Zealanders small-talkers..?.. not really... although we can be friendly as, the idea of speaking for the sake of filling a void is unusual when silence/leaving the bnirads&thebees to work in peace is valued.
The radish and butter thing: we have this serve in most school cafeteria
Hi Rosie,
For the radishes appetizer, we do it as well in Champagne Region. In my family, we actually perform a vertical incision in the radish, insert a piece of butter in said incision and then press the end of the radish with the butter on the salt.
I think this appetizer is quite common in France.
"roar" artichokes (04:05) we adore your accent, Ms Rosie, and your videos! 😘
Thank you for your videos as they are always great; I think its your personality that does it.
I grew up (in California) eating radishes with butter and salt. Sometimes my mum would slice larger ones and put them on buttered bread. This is still my very favorite snack -- and I'm 45 years old!
Of course, in California we ate lots of artichokes, sometimes growing them as well, but always cooked, never raw.
My mum always made (and at 79 still makes) all our jam. Perhaps she's secretly French? She DOES love her some Proust! But sadly she can only read the translation.
Almost same age and same mums across the Atlantic 😂
- I do wear a bathrobe but it's a family thing because among my friends only one of them does.
- I was raised not to waste food so in my family when there is only one slice of bread or one peanut left we spend at least 10 minutes asking everyone again and again "are you sure you don't want it?" out of politeness before eating the last one...
- I eat baby radishes with butter (almost as much butter as radish), my mother with salted butter and my father with salt...
Small baby purple artichokes are always eaten raw in the west / south west with either olive oil or even only salt. Bigger green artichokes are steamed.
In the U.S., the cashiers do bags the groceries for the customer too (unless you use a self check-out, but then obviously you're the one to bag your stuff).
Great video as usual! :-) Here are my thoughts on some of your points:
- I grew up in Marseille and ate raw small artichauts violets, they’re so good. I ate the big ones (similar to your picture) boiled, cold.
- I also had a bathrobe when I was a kid. But in my husband’s family, in the north-east, it’s towels all the way. I definitely prefer towels.
- I am appalled by the “3-month rule”, there’s the same in the UK and Oz (btw I think you should’ve explained what it means exactly as I’m sure most French people didn’t understand ;-)). This is one of the worst examples of how materialistic and even show-off the Anglo cultures are (in general - I know there are some people who aren’t). This puts so much pressure on the future groom, I find it ridiculous on so many levels. When I think of all the more useful things I could do with that money e.g. a big trip, saving for a house deposit... I really struggle to understand.
- When French people take the time and spend the money to go somewhere, it’s to do things they can’t do at home. Reading a book and relaxing can be done at home during the weekend. Visiting a historical village, exploring local landscapes, experiencing the regional cuisine... this is what we go away for. Otherwise we stay at home. It’s seen as a “beauf” thing to travel to somewhere and just chill by the pool.
Living in Paris I picked up the bathrobe habit from my DH and in-laws. I love it! So much easier to dry oneself in a big, cozy terry robe than with even the largest towel. Keeps the chill away and lets you dry the rest of yourself in comfort. Every French house I visited had bathrobes for guests. My FIL was a big fan of the radishes with salt and butter which I had not seen before. He was Parisian but his parents came from Toulouse. Love your channel!
Greetings from Suriname 🙂 here store employees are also packing the groceries for the customers. I think it's so normal that it is strange when other countries don't do that
Hi Rosie, I'm French and I live in Lyon, and I think we do everything you said, except using a "peignoir" instead of a towel, and the artichoke we eat is cooked haha. Oh and I went to Australia recently and I was so surprised that cashiers pack my stuff at the grocery store, it was so cool, it should be everywhere ! :)
In Center of France we eat artichoke like you described but as c-buck mentionned, they are not raw but steamed, and let cool down. So we indeed eat them cold and shaped as and artichoke, but they are cooked. Here we don't have olive oil, so the sauce is usually fresh cream + red wine vinegar + salt + pepper.
I'd love to see a bunch of videos about your impressions of Kiwi culture upon returning after six years away. More New Zealand coverage, please! Mahalo!
I wish you’d do more NZ-oriented content- the French stuff seems less relevant now that you’re not there any more. Maybe your reaction to NZ customs now that you’ve spent years away from there- the contrast to France- and people’s reaction to the changes in you. But I always enjoy your videos, whatever you talk about.
I'm from Normandie and Artichoke are think but they are steamed.
Baby radishes are the stars of the Apéro with baby tomatoes (from thos that don't eat biscuits) there are also raw and buttered Endive leaves :)
For the bathroom, we do use bathrobes but after or in complement of the towel, to not be naked from the bathroom to the bedroom ^^
Merci pour toutes tes vidéos !
Thanks for all your videos !😊
Oh my goodness the bathrobes!! I'm American but my boyfriend is French and the bathrobe thing is 100% on point for him and his family...So much so that for Christmas this year, his mom bought be a bathrobe, haha.
That with packing groceries is actually only American and NZ apparently... But you wouldn't see that ANYWHERE in Europe!
In Japan they pack for you most of the time too
Groceries are packed for you in Australia as well.
I specifically won't have people pack for me, bit OCD re this, want things packed a certain way.
In Canada as well
I’m from the south east of France (Marseille) and the artichoke and radish thing is completely true ! Although you usually only eat one kind of artichoke raw which I believe is from the south so it’s more common in this part on France than in others where they eat the larger regular artichokes cooked.
Growing up we ALWAYS had bathrobes in my family as well aha but we had an additional towel for hair and another for feet to make the drying process easier :)
I studied foreign languages and interculturality at university and always find it interesting to see foreigners’ opinion on your own culture. I think I actually learned the most about my own french culture when I moved in Ireland for two semesters and was confronted with new habits ! That’s also when I realised how different cultural habits can be in different parts of France as I met a lot of other French persons over there and we were able to compare to Irish culture but also to regional cultures :)
Hope you’re enjoying being in NZ !!
That lack of greeting cards for holidays, etc., was also something I noticed while living in Spain: it just "didn't happen."
I am from South west France and for my family baby radishes are like candies, we eat them without butter or salt . My friends eat popcorn or crisps during a movie and i am with my radish bowl 😂
In Bulgaria we also do the bathrobe thing and so nice in winter when you’re cold
I'm from Bulgaria living in Spain and here it's also common to use bathrobes : )
I'm my family we always give handmade cards for birthdays, but only in person.
me too
Hi Rosie,
Brit living in the UK who's a complete and utter francophile here :-).
It's so funny how you can discover new things after so long/so many visits: last year I stayed with the family of a French friend, for the fifth time since 2004, and only then did I come across them eating the radishes with butter and salt! I didn't see the appeal myself...
In the UK the cashier at the supermarket will often ask you if you 'would like help with your packing', but generally you do it yourself.
It would definitely be considered rude not to ask if someone else wants the last [whatever] before taking it, but taking the last thing itself is fine!
I mean, to me you dry yourself with a towel *then* put on your robe/dressing gown!
Definitely if a girl has just got engaged, her female family and friend will say "So let's see the ring" and admire it.
It shocked me when I first aw the condom machines in France, too!
In Greece that last piece of food is called ' the piece of shame' .....and people say they will take the last piece in order to protect you from being embarrassed while saying 'I will take the piece of shame!'
So glad to see you again Rosie! I grew up in the Northeastern part of the US. We always had a garden, and when eating radishes, everyone would put a little pile of salt on the plate to dip them in before eating (no butter - although my grandparents talked about eating sandwiches of sliced radishes and butter during the Great Depression). And, we ate *steamed* artichokes the way you described, only with melted butter for dipping (not olive oil). Crazy world!
I love artichaut pâté but I have never had it steamed and dipped in olive oil and eaten, sounds very good actually! Miamm!!! This sounds like a nice video recipe for me to try out!
What is artichaud pâté?!
@@greenLimeila It is a delicious artichoke purée. Here's a link to a video (it's in French sorry, I couldn't find one in English! But you would get the idea! It's an easy recipe.) ua-cam.com/video/L-gyRwNLEvE/v-deo.html
About calling customer's service not being toll free numbers : we too French people complained about that when they first introduced those paying numbers😉!! For the bank though you shouldn't be paying to get in touch with your banker, they're supposed to give you their direct phone number. Ah least that's the case with my bank (BNP)
j'ai été chez la bnp, y'a un numéro payant, le gratuit en général tu le reçois par ton conseiller ou tu le retrouve sur le site/appli
Exactement. Jamais j'appelle le numéro payant car en plus c'est une plateforme, donc ils peuvent pas faire grand chose pour aider. Je préfère appeler direct mon/ma conseillèr(e) et au pire laisser un msg. Pas question que je paye,lol!!
@@hyacinthbucket5062 ~Au fait, tu sais qu'y'a vraiment quelqu'un a` UA-cam qui utilise le nom de 'ton fils', *@"Sheridan Bucket"* ({; D ...?!
@@alexysq2660 que dieu bénisse mon fils, tu sais il est très pieux, au lieu de se mettre en ménage avec une fille qui de toute façon ne sera jamais assez bien pour etre invité à mon fameux diner aux chandelles il vit en colocation avec son meilleur ami et j'ai pu choisir leurs rideaux, je suis tellement fière de mon Sheridan
Greeting cards can happen in France but indeed it's not very common, even tho you can find them in stores I never get some nor send them for birthdays. In fact we do the opposit : the one thing we must do is the "faire part" thing. When you get married, have a child, or for baptism, it's up to you to create and send a nice "faire part" to all your relatives, in a nice writing and color design, and with cute baby pictures. People often spend a lot of time designing these.
Hey ! We eat artichoke in the north of France too, diping the leaf in "vinaigrette" and the bottom part. But it's always steam cooked I doubt il will be eatable and not to hard otherwise. And about "baby radish" we always eat them that size, with salted butter or without.
The bathrobe thing is just preferences. My dad and i have bathrobes but my mom and sister prefer towels. So here you go
About the last remaining piece of appetizer... :
- Generaly, if you wave the plate around asking who wants the last piece, people will assume YOU want it and will probably say "no no ! go ahead you can eat it" (there of couse will be exeptions to that, but most of the time this is what happens.)
- If you really want the last one, just do it without looking at the plate while you're chatting with someone else. That'll never be a problem :)
- The most polite way to do it : Cut the last piece in half and offer one to the person you're chatting with. You can add something like "Pour le finir !' or "On va pas laisser ça !"
This will be ok 100% of the time. The other person will most likely accept this way because you're basicaly asking for help :)
That's another story for dessert for exemple, if there's only one piece of cake remaining. I wouldn't recommend to take it wihtout asking, that would be considered rude. But I suppose it's the case in most countries anyway.
Some people in my family use bathrobes (my mother and two eldest brothers), but I personally use and have always preferred a plain towel. I got a bathrobe as a present a while ago and I do use it after drying myself to keep warm while I brush my teeth and so on after the shower...
I live in the North of France and we boilt the artichokes before eating them! We also eat raddish with butter and salt but even if they are with nothing they are tasty evenmore when they grown in your garden! :)
We also have blakc raddish and they are yummy
1 - oh no please, as a french, do not be pro-active with any sort of greeting cards, it will just make me feel so uncomfortable about feeling forced to do one back (1st and only of my life) and I would be soooo embarrassed about what to do with the one you gave me because honestly, it's not something I want on my shelves but if you realize one day that I threw it away then I look like an asshole, please just don't play the cards game with a french x)
2 - I come from Bretagne, and the artichoke and baby radishes thing is super real also in there, and honestly I think everyone is doing it.
I'm french and I'm a total slob when I'm on holiday, I don't like to plan too much activities, but I must say it depends on the context : if I visit a country or a city for the first time, I try to not stay inside too much and to visit (or go out with friends) as much as I can. But if I have days off work and stay in my home city, I will definitely prefer some me-time instead, or just meet with my friends. And maybe just go to restaurants or the cinema from time to time. During the "normal" weekends I always make sure to stay home with my cats at least one day and do as little as possible haha. Regarding food, I live in the North East and we also eat radishes with butter and salt, but we boil (or steam cook) artichokes before we eat the leafs' bits with "vinaigrette". I also sometimes use a bathrobe after the shower, but definitely not every day. It's only when you have time to super-chill after the shower. And I completely agree about leaving the last piece of food when we share snacks : it a kind of useless politeness, not to look like an "ogre" that eats everything clean. It's really a waste of food... At the restaurant I never leave anything in my plate, for example. Customer service in France used to be only reachable through a charged number, but recently they have been obligated by law to offer a second customer service number that is free of charge, they just don't advertise about these free numbers, you have to look for them. And in most banks you can just directly email your banking adviser instead of calling ;)
In Lorraine, we eat radishes with salt and butter (and bread). It's considered rude to take the last food item, because somebody else might have wanted it, so we don't take it, unless implicitely asked to by the person who has invited (so that it won't have to be thrown away).
Ahh the radishes with salt, yummy. I am currently in Romania and locals do love to eat raw radishes with salt with their spring/summer meals. it's either plain radish with salt either incorporated in summer sallads. They don't eat it with butter though so I will have to try this
Artichoke are steamed! It’s so good, radishes with butter and salt as well. I miss that from France. So correct on every thing
I live in the US and the bombardment of greeting cards was a bit too much when I first moved here. Now I’m use to it.
I think new Zealand is the exception for packing groceries, didn't even know it was existing.
we use vinegar for artichoke too and they are boiled (south of France)
Région Centre/Loire Valley, Radis with butter on bread and salt in the plate
While in France I learned that Mayonnaise on French Fries is the norm. And now I can't even think of having ketchup on Fries.
This custom is from Belgium so may be in the north but this is not the norm everywhere in France
Hi. I’m in the UK and we generally pack our own bags at the supermarket. The one time my bags were packed the person put tins on top of the eggs! 🤦♀️ so I prefer to pack for myself.
Also it’s normal I think to pay for the phone calls to utility companies and bank fees are often monthly if you’ve got an account with extras like I have.
Hi Rosie. In the UK it’s bad manners to take the last item off a plate without first asking if anyone wants it. That is a definite no no. I very interesting video. 🙂
5:40 So they did not fall for the De Beers' propaganda. Smart.
We all pack our groceries!!
@@noraoconnor1895 I use the self checkout in grocery store,so I ring up and bag the groceries. Self checkout seems to be popular in the U.S..
That last thing stuff is just about politeness. Just ask before, and if someone wanted it, he will tell you. Make an arrangement, and eat. Fine. Everybody's happy ^^.
I was always taught offering the last piece of something was a politeness thing. I'm American so I think that was just in my family b/c that is definitely not a thing in many other people's lives in the US 🤷🏾♀️
In France you have to ask everybody several times and really insist, it's annoying
I'm Filipino and we do the same thing. Eating the last piece of food without offering it first is seen as arrogant and gluttonous. For Americans, it really depends on your individual family.
Ya in my family at the diner table my grandparents often have to say "someone, take the last bite of meat!" Cause no one does it ! And often they have lots of leftovers in the fridge !
I just got back from a Paris for the very 1st time and not the last time. I loved it. Of course there was some culture shock and time change. But i love ur channel. It helped me a lot. Thank you
I like to put on a bathrobe during winter because it's so cold when you get out of the shower ! I use towels in summer :)
I'm from South Africa, but the more I watch your videos the more I think maybe I'm French in my soul haha! Whenever I travel I also can't just do nothing or "relax" lol, I always want to make the most of my time by enjoying the local sights and culture, even if it is just a walk around. I would miss the bacon though, nothing beats a good BLT :)
I have hated writing cards since my childhood. I have been so relieved when sms took France in the late 90s and almost eradicated the French cards culture, at that time I was rushing to send all my greetings by the 31st January 😅. Paradoxically and certainly selfishly, I enjoy receiving cards 😂
Looking good Rosie! Great to see you post. :)
My boyfriend from Paris does the radish with salt and butter as well. He loves it.
What really stands out for me in this video is how similar New Zealand culture is to American culture, at least in regard to what you mention here- it’s more or less identical. And all I want to do on vacation is laze around too!!! 😅
As far as I know eating artichokes the way you explained is pretty much done all over France. But the artichokes are not raw. They're steamed. I eat them with a homemade mustard vinaigrette. Also eat radishes the way you explained. I'm from Lyon area and my dad is from the North. He eats artichokes and radishes same way as well.
I'm from Paris and we do eat baby radishes with butter and salt. I remember started eating them when I was little in kindergarten 😊 and I also use a bathrobe but when I wash my hair I have a towel. Usually we use towels when we have to take a quick shower.
We usually eat artichokes steamed with cream and vinegar
And we also eat radishes pretty much everywhere in France as far as I know
Well now it makes sense why that garment is called a bathrobe. lol Thanks!
I love how so many things you say about NZ are relatable to Brazil and what you say about France and the French is just how it goes in the Netherlands for the most part. Love your videos!
Grenoble here (Although I'm Polish, just living here) :)
I love raddish and everyone is eating it, even without any butter.
My boyfriend is totally using a bathrobe as a towel, I was so shocked when I discovered it! I do have a bathrobe as well, but I am always using it when I am cold, during the winter in the morning, before the shower, when I am still in pyjamas, but before shower.
So interesting, especially the engagement ring observations. Proof that it’s all do to the marketing in States and elsewhere.
maybe, but also talking about rings means talking about money. That's rude in France, especially in love.
We pack our own groceries in the UK. I wouldn’t want anyone to do it for me to be honest. Love your channel by the way x
Same, i have a specific way of packing my groceries so i like packing it myself.
Hi, my partner is French and he enjoys both the artichoke and the radish eaten raw. I like it too in Sth West France.
About packing in the grocery shop, with the minimum salary it would cost a lot to pay someone just to pack your groceries.
I don’t know about New Zeland but in South Africa there is always someone packing for you but they paid very little.
In Belgium, there is a shop called Colruyt (and their bio version) where they pack for you while scanning your groceries but it’s mainly because they don’t have a regular cashier (I don’t know if it’s the right word, I mean here caisse. They don’t have a tapis de caisse) you park your « caddie » next to another and they transfer the groceries from one to another so they pack for you in the meantime. And they’re know to pack it well as if they were playing Tetris.
Eating baby radishes the way you describe it is called «à la croque en sel», I've always found the phrase delicious per se.
never had my groceries packed anywhere in Europe , guess parts of the US and NZ are different
If you go to eastern or southern Europe they will pack your bags although legislation tends to limit this nowadays. For example : Bulgaria, Poland, Spain, Croatia, Italy,...will pack your groceries whereas in France, Belgium, Netherlands this would never happen
@@xandervlassenbroeck5222 been to all these countries though not all of them in the last decade and never experienced my groceries being packed,I guess I don't go to right places.Thanks for your insight
My friend can spend all Sunday afternoon reading,he knows how to chill lol.We have those robes in the UK,very popular Christmas presents,here,we just wear them over our pjs. My French friend has one,but,he never uses it to dry himself lol.We pack our own groceries in UK too,but,the cahier always offers,sometimes,there is a group doing a bag pack for money.They pack your bags and you stick some cash in their tin.
Honestly, je n’ai jamais essayé les artichauts crus mais les radis, best starter ever !
Radishes : small, with a little of the stems left on to hold it and eating the green stems (blood purifier) eaten with butter and bread. The leaves boiled with potatoes and blended in a creamed soup. I am from a generation when everything was used, No waste if edible.
Hi Rosie,
I love your videos :-) They are really respectfull of the French Culture. Big thanks for that.
So to clarify just a little, the artichokes are steamed to be consummed. We eat them mostly with a vinaigrette or a mayonnaise. We don't eat them raw (as far as I know).
When I was little, I used to put butter on a piece of bread, dip the radish in salt, then put it on the buttery bread and finally eat it. As a kid it was probably easier this way for my parents to make me eat them as radishes are sometimes quite "spicy".
No bathrobe at my place. I definitely prefer to dry myself with a towel and quickly get dressed
Pour les artichauts et les radis, je viens de l'ouest et on le fait aussi. Pas de peignoir (bathrobe) chez nous mais ça ne le choque pas du tout. Je connais beaucoup de gens qui en ont. C'est vrai que prendre la dernière part est mal vu, à moins de la proposer à tout le monde avant, mais je ne savais pas que ce n'était pas "a thing" dans les autres pays ;)
The not packing groceries I think is à Europe thing ... only in us movies have I seen it
Love your videos as we are visiting France soon and spending time with some relatives. I noticed the lack of grocery bag packing by employees in Austria and Hungary also. They had a counter after you went through the line to pack your own bags. I love experiencing these cultural differences. So fun.
About not eating the last piece, I've been told that it shows that the host has provided enough food for all the guests. If they finish everything that has been served, maybe some of them are still hungry and the host must bring some more.
I'm from the southeast of France of for the artichoke what I always had is artichoke cooked in a "cocotte minute" that cooled down and then we would tear the leaves and eat the tender tip dipped in oil or vinaigrette but I never had raw artichoke and now I'm curious to try it!
Also, I'm #teambathrobe but I use a towel to dry my hair and a small towel for my face ;-)
Great video as always!
It's always so pleasant to see your videos !
I live in Occitanie (oh that's awkward to say in English) , so in the South-West and indeed, we often (about 1 or 2 times a week) eat raw artichokes and raddsihes as you said
I am not French but German. And a few things you mentioned were also done or seen in Germany as well.
We also have vending machines with condoms and we also have to pick our groceries in our bags ourselves.
There is no one who do this for us.
The wedding ring is no big theme when someone is married. Not the price, the size of the diamond.
Hello there :) I'im French, and my mom used to cook Artichoke (?) and yes, you eat just that little bit of tender leaf at its base after dipping it in some Vinaigrette. But it was vapor cooked, I never ate a raw Artichoke ! ;) And Radishes are consummed that way all over France, that's a know basic of mom's easy pique-nique receipes.
AND you are veeery right, Frenchies have that weird approach of idleness. And I can tell that is a real issue that distorsts our vision of work or studying. From students to teachers, non working peoples to public powers.. Guiltyness is the common denominator to those distortions but as you told, it feels somehow weird even in family or friends time...
Cya :) Et des bisous ;p