As a European the walking thing was my biggest cultural shock. When people say “you can’t walk to that place” in Europe they mean that it’s too far not that you literally can’t walk there of course there will be proper sidewalks, bicycle lanes and other stuff to look at than cars. In the US there’s not even sidewalks in a lot of places.
@LillyPad - There are plenty of places in the USA that have sidewalks. In my small town you could walk anywhere you needed to go. There are also bike paths and miles of forests trails.
I've been to Europe a lot. There are highways there, too. No one walks on them. Also, no one walks between towns in Europe either. I don't know why Euros act so surprised when they come here.
@@ridesharegold6659 Of course you don’t walk on a high way but in the US some resident areas don’t have sidewalks. You could walk between two towns in Europe but it’s not practical to walk for several hours.
@@ridesharegold6659i believe you seriously underestimate the amount of times where people walk between towns and villages. Even school kids do so on their own. people don't use the Autobahn for walking but the sidewalks along either the normal streets and roads or fields
I'm from Sweden. I was walking with my small daughter to a nearby restaurant. (Outside of Orlando). Pretty soon a car stopped and asked if we were okay and if we needed help. Pretty nice of the driver to ask, but no... "we are just walking!" 😂
mindbogelingly ignorent but well meaning, congratulations, you met a real american :) there is another explanation though, cause i have been to orlando restaurants and you definitly should not go there. its possible that the driver was just trying to warn you about that, ....nobody warned us....i still sometimes think about them and shiver.
There is a video where a person staying in a hotel in the US needed a new suitcase. He found there was a shop about 800 metres away, so decided to walk. The walk was such an awful experience, he got a cab back.
I'm from Sweden... My brother and some friends of him visited LA a couple years ago. They took a walk to a nearby food store and got stopped by the police. The police said that he stopped them since they look suspicious since they where walking.
The same thing happened to my Norwegian friend 😂 He was on his way back to the place he stayed at. A 30-40 minutes walk. He was stopped by the police twice!
Long story short, my sister is American and I am English. Anyway, the first time I went to visit her in Rialto, California, one morning I got up and took myself for a walk around the neighborhood. I found the oldest building in the area, a beautiful 1906 church. I walked to a garage and bought some chocolate. I found a railway line that made for interesting photos. I was gone for two hours. When I got back, my sister was so worried because she couldn't understand where I had gone or how I had gotten around without a car. 😂
@katarzynaxx563 That's not unusual to go for a walk without telling anyone, I'm an 18 year old girl (also English) and I live with my dad, if I fancy a walk I won't always tell him cuz he doesn't find it unusual. Like if I walk past him on my way out I'll tell him but otherwise I'll be back when I'm back and he's the same.
@SteffCharlie Thank-you. I think this is the point. In th u.k it's very normal to just go for a walk. It's neither selfish nor stupid. And I'm over 40 yrs old. Definitely don't need anyone's permission. Her reaction to my comment says it all 😅
What I found weird in America; doorKNOBS instead of handles. No way to turn a knob with full hands, handles can be operated with elbows. Small thing, but huge quality of life impact
Me as german in Seattle with a coworker. It was already late evening, when we went for a 30min "walk" (3km) to a nearby sports bar. Police followed us all the way watching what shady business we were doing "walking" after sunset. I see more people walking in the fields at that time of a day in germany than in a american metropolis.
Im from Spain. We have a young teacher assistant from US this year. After some months he was really shocked about how much people go to their jobs/schools by walk...really,really shocked
Well, walking in the US is a bit risky. A friend of mine was almost arrested because his attitude was 'suspicious' to the police officer who stopped him.
@@Doctor011 Yeah.. i was stopped by the police in Los Angeles too, simply for walking... they were nice but their mind was blown when i told them that i dont drive.. they couldnt even grasp the concept of that
@@Doctor011happened to me in Orlando about 10yrs ago. Police was worried about my safety (was walking along Universal blvd, no sidewalks there), too bad I was really rude to them as I was little drunk. Ashamed about it till this day. They were trully nice.
So much for "land of free" (as long as you are in car!!!) 😆 (I have car but I use it only when I have to as I find being lazy (sleeping.. at least partly) in transport waaaay more efficient and then spending 1-2 days a month to do all the "neccessisitities" in "big city" - like screws and.. nails... and... nuts for bolts... you know)
full disclosure i did not recognize the breadsticks as breadsticks i thought they are some sausages who have been horribly wronged. but either way, im with her, this is bullshit
Same with the pancakes. On their own they might be okay-ish, but compared to crêpes, they are BS. Same ingredients but one is a delicacy, the other is just a staple to feed you for the day.
What do you mean walking along a highway? Highways and expressways in Europe DO NOT have walking paths, but they also only exist outside of city limits where it would be completely unreasonable to walk, like 20km min to reach anything. STREETS with commercial activity on the other hand are supposed to have lots of pedestrians, often even with two sidewalks, and you aren't weird for walking there. I think the American "Stroad" strikes again.
I have never done so myself, but checking google maps, there are many highways as far as I can see, where an european might find the walking distance ok. Example: If im going from steindler othopedic to western hills in Iowa, a carride would be 3,1 miles, while walking would be 8,5 miles if I followed the "foothpaths". By the highway i can see no footpaths, but its a wide open green field on both sides and seems pretty low in traffic as well. I would chose to walk the 3,1 miles over the 8,5 any day. 3,1 miles is about 5 km. a 5 km walk usually takes about 45 minutes. Walking 45 minutes each day is good for you,
@@judyjudeuntil some cars crash and burry you under them. Not unimaginable with all these SUVs, pickup trucks, wide stroads with a lof of conflict points, etc.
The point is that they made US to be only livable if you have a car. It is not made for people, it's made for cars. Spent a month in CT close to NYC, and I felt really scared to walk to places, I only met homeless people while I walked 20-30min to places I'd like to visit. He says that in cities is different. It is not. They have sidewalks, but no one uses them.
@@brokkrep you could say that about cars in general though. Some people have gone on sidewalks in cities. Cars also hit each other. That's not a point against walking.
Every AC unit I have seen thus far has been connected to the outside of the house or flat it was attached to. But who knows, maybe I've only seen the exceptions?
It circulates air through filters. When there were air-quality concerns due to Canadian wildfire smoke last year, the recommendation was to stay inside, with the A/C on, and not to exert yourself outside (to avoid inhaling fine particulates deeply into your lungs).
I'm from northern europe and when i was in NJ, i tried to walk to the office from the hotel and it literally just had pedestrials not allowed signs and no sidewalks at some point. It was around 10 minutes walk maybe straight line but it took me 30 minutes because there just wasn't accessibility to walk there so i had to make many detours.
When I was on vacation in America I walked everywhere. I thought Americans must be really fit if they walk such long distances. But through UA-cam I learned that they just use their cars
Where I live there is almost nothing in a walkable distance. The closest grocery store to me is at least an hour walk from my house. That would make grocery shopping take forever and you would have to go all the time because you could only buy what you could carry home for an hour. Who has that kind of time? If you live in a city you can walk more, but it just isn't possible/practical when you live in a more rural area like I do. Plus in Texas where I live it gets up to 110 in the summer. You could literally die of heat stroke if you tried to walk at those temperatures. Most of us live in areas that are designed for driving. Not walking. Other than some parks/pools/elementary schools in my neighborhood, every single business is at least an hour walk away.... Most are more.
@@bunny_0288 Why are American cities designed so that businesses are always in a completely different area, far away from housing? That doesn't make any sense. In Europe, businesses are commonly interspersed among houses so that businesses are always nearby.
@Neme112 If you live in a city here that's how it is, but in rural areas and the suburbs there are zoning laws. Some areas are zoned for residential areas and some for commercial. We also typically have huge grocery stores with giant parking lots. You can't put that in a neighborhood lol. We don't typically go to separate places to get groceries. We go to Walmart or Costco and get everything we need in one place. I do have an Aldi that's on the edge of my neighborhood, but I still drive to it because my neighborhood is 10,000 people and is already out. It's a huge planned community. It's almost 2 miles away. That would be 4 miles of walking just to get what groceries I can carry. Instead I take my car, get all of my groceries for the week, and drive home. Much more efficient. I think a lot of Europeans don't realize how huge and spread our our towns and neighborhoods are. America is massive. I live in Texas. My state is most likely bigger than your entire country.
I was a few weeks in the USA. New England, New York, Boston, Denver and then in the West. It was a great expirience. One day we were walking to get to a restaurant. In the Hotel they said it's around the corner. Of cause, as a German we walked. We walked and walked and walked. We returned to the Hotel and drove to the restaurant. Around the corner has had a whole different meaning than in Germany. 😂😂😂
Yeah cause we will take day trips that are hours and don’t see it as that far. I’ve driven an hour just for a restaurant and it wasn’t seen as a big deal
@@Catherine.Dorian. lol, an hour? you could get groceries and cook something yourself in about the time you get to eat in that restaurant? :p and you didn't need to be anywhere around it, so an other hour return drive? :)
@@JeroenJA It was a Japanese tea house they moved from Japan to the top of this little mountain in the area, so it’s a drive to the area and then up the mountain. I wouldn’t do it for just a Tuesday but for birthdays or big events, place is incredible
@@Catherine.Dorian. over an hour = special day trip , over 3 to 4 hours driving or longer = your stay the nigth, else half of your day would go up to driving.. over 10 hours driving? better split, drive one evening to spend the nigth somewhere in between en continue your trip the next day, as a kids annual holliday my parent drove us a 1000 km away , with a night sleep in the car on a parking lot for a couple of hours for my dad, we as kids just slept a good lot more on the backseat.. but .. with all the extra regulations since then, i am affriad to try that with my kids now.. should someone have unbuckeled their seatbelt, it's easy a 200€ fine now if the police would notive ... in the 90s they barely looked at the back seat for ticketing not wearing seatbelts... it's one of the dozens of reasens parenting is now way moe stressfull then it was for a generation earlier...
@@gs9140I have to say that the worst drivers I ever encountered was in Paris, but otherwise I have found French drivers to be like any other European drivers, that is pretty good. Just my personal experience.
@@gs9140 I'm not sure where I've heard it from myself to be honest. It's just that every now and then in my travels someone will mention french being aggressive drivers and it just stuck with me. I know for sure I've heard it from both a Belgian and a Norwegian.
It always surprises me how little do USAns walk. And when they say they have "walking shoes" as if that was a merit... always crack me up. Like, what does "walking shoes" mean? Do they walk automatically? What are your "regular" shoes for ffs?!
"Walking shoes" are designed with special padding so that your feet don't get sore from walking or standing all day. "Regular" shoes in the US are usually designed for specific purposes. for example, we have heavy-duty work boots for people in construction jobs; swim shoes and galoshes for people who work in water; non-skid shoes for people who work in fast food restaurants and similar places where the floors are slick; dress shoes which are meant to be pretty/fancy but are not normally practical for walking (think high heals, ballet flats, loafers); sandals which allow feet to have fresh air but aren't much better than being barefoot; we have really cheap shoes that exist mainly so that people can have something to keep their feet warm but aren't good for much else, but they're inexpensive; athletic shoes which are versatile but aren't appropriate to wear in professional settings. We have lots of different kinds of shoes. :)
@@davidtateloWas going to say that. Walking shoes here are hillwalking shoes. An in between of normal shoes and hiking shoes you would go up mountains in
There is no such word as USAns. Plenty of Americans walk. I live on a multi-use path where people pass by on foot and bikes all day. Would you wear high heels to walk a mile? That's why some shoes are called walking shoes. Is that hard for you to comprehend?
Part of why we don't walk more is that nothing is close. The closest grocery store to me is a 5-10 minute drive. It would take me like an hour to walk to the store and then an hour home. And then I could only bring home what I could carry 😂. It would take me like 9 hours a week just to grocery shop because I would have to go so often and walk so far. I go on walks in my neighborhood for exercise, but walking to places is not practical/possible when you live in a more rural area. People who live in cities can and do walk more.
Well there's surely a difference. Here in tiny Netherlands walking to the supermarket is a 5 minute affair, but if the supermarkets are 10 km away would you walk there? Lots of rich, lazy people arrive at the supermarket in a car here where I am and it's a small village!
I once tried walking ~half a kilometer to a small convenience store in a suburb during my summer in the US. Cars stopped twice to ask me what happened and if I needed help lol. I was 20 but looked probably 15, which could've played a role. But yeah, never did that again.
walking is very important, it's good for the body and, if you don't use electronic aids, it allows you to have time to think outside your usual patterns. We need to move away from ourselves to see ourselves in the context we really are in. But walking without beautiful scenery doesn't seem to be the same
@raputinorco - All good reasons why a lot of Americans walk everyday. I'm lucky to live next to a national forest with miles of trails but as I'm getting old I walk more in parks and on the sidewalks and multi-use paths all over town.
Most are just nitpicking. They walking video's are disturbing lol. I can't imagine a world where I can't walk. Of course you can't walk on a highway, but those are cars only. You will be simply dead if you walk on there. Here it seems to be a sidewalk? If there is a sidewalk people walk on it in Europe :)
Even in the UK, which our US friends tell is an oppressed Fascist state, you can walk alongside all roads, major & minor, unless it's a motorway (=freeway) or one of very few roads with an actual "no pedestrians" sign. Not wise to walk alongside a busy, fast road w/o a pedestrian pavement
It‘s disturbing as hell. What do you mean a 15min walk to the city is too long and I have to use a car? Like even public transport isn’t big in the U.S(more like nonexistent) but still.
@@daffyduk77but you can still do it. I’ve walked many a busy country lane without any footpath or pavement. Taught as a child growing up in the country, always walk into the flow of traffic then you can see what is coming towards you
@@barrywalker4295 True, But the "idiot on the mobile phone whilst driving" - even at 1 in say 1000 - is undeniably more of an issue. If there's no kerb (s)he's more likely to clip you, to say the least
@@moladiver6817 not an argument.. breaking a window is a lot harder than youd think.. especially if youre under stress or a room filled with smoke... and these windows are not like car windows that shatter into 1000 pieces.. you will have razor sharp pieces sticking out just waiting to slice you open when you climb through them..
I've never seen windows nailed shut in the USA and I'm 76 yrs.old, have lived in six states, multiple houses and traveled in all 50. Get over this ridiculous bigotry against America based on one persons extremely limited experiences.
@@reindeer7752 I don't think people are bigoted against the USA for its windows. There's already a whole list of valid reasons for that. My top 3: 1. The country is extremely car dependent. Everything is spread so thin you need a car for every basic necessity. This is a waste of space, energy and above all time. Time we get to spend on other things. 2. American healthcare turned into a business that's ripping people off depriving many of necessary aid simply because they can't afford it. Call an ambulance because someone is dying and they might survive to then live a lifetime in debt. This is absurd and appalling. 3. The extreme prudishness by western standards is actually screwing with how young people perceive the world. As an example: a mipple gate (misspelled on purpose to get around UA-cam's American filter) would never exist in Europe. It's ridiculous. Women sunbathing topless offends people whereas in Europe we couldn't care less. Anything nude is automatically considered sexual or even porn in the US. For us Europeans the entire body is simply human nature. Grow the you know what up. And that reminds me of a bonus.. Drums..... 4. The extreme sexual divide in America and its disgusting pro life movement stripping women off a part of their human rights. Us Europeans are watching in horror and dismay how such a basic right is being trampled across the pond. A discussion most of us ended many decades ago and practically forgot about is one of the highlights in the media of backward America. But believe me. We all want you guys to fix these problems, badly. Grow the you know what up and do it fast please. 🙏
Europe is a pure paradise with no crime, no homeless, no immigration problems, no corrupt politicians, no racism, no drug addiction, no obesity, blah, blah, blah. Everything about Europe is better. Europeans are so tolerant. What BS!! You act exactly like what the term, "ugly American" used to apply to. You judge all 333 million Americans by the minority. You think you are experts on the USA because you watch a UA-cam video of one person's visit to one place. There is no extreme sexual divide in the USA. You have the wrong decade. There are more women graduating college than men. "Pro-lifers" are not the majority of Americans. tRump got the religious right vote by promising to stack the Supreme Court and that is one promise he kept. Europe has an alarming rise in right wingers now, too, and of all places, you should know better. Fix your own problems and stop obsessing with the USA.
When a person complained about the car park at the gym always being full, a friend suggested she walked since it was quite near. She said that would upset her exercise routine.
Rings true to me: I lived in Binghamton NY briefly many years ago, renting half a house. My wife and I once walked into town just to have a look around. Halfway in, our neighbour from downstairs stopped his car alongside us and told us to hop in. Had our car broken down? He could help. Which garage were we walking to? When we told him we were walking by choice, just exploring, he looked very confused... 😄
French here. I made pancakes once just to see the difference with crêpes (and when I say "once", it's literal; I never tried again). Believe me, when you are used to crêpes, pancakes taste bland and are way too thick and pasty. My parents and I were very underwhelmed to say the least. _____ 7:30 The funny thing is, nobody would do a double take if they saw someone jog along (as long as they are decked in the appropriate sporty outfit with earbuds on; otherwise, they would most certainly be thought as criminals fleeing a crime scene). But someone simply walking?!... God forbid! It's automatically assumed that either their car broke or they are homeless, lol.
That's because they're not crepes and aren't supposed to be. They're a drop scone and actually Scottish (and other north European countries, like here in NL with poffertjes). You probably made them badly. The French seem to believe they own the idea of crepes, but they're a universal thing and the best ones are in Russia, not France...mais les galettes de sarrasin de Bretagne sont exquises.
@@baronmeduseIt's just that Americans call them crêpes but in Europe pancakes simply are always thin. Like in Holland where we roll them up. Way better. American pancakes are way too thick and doughy.
@@bonbahoue Yeah, I just thought about it earlier and while I'd say I'd prefer crêpes, pancakes (to this random German dude) feel more cake-like while crêpes would scratch the itch for something like a sweeter confection. Also, I don't think I'd ever eat just pancakes without any topping or added fruit or anything like that. Just a very different thing, like you said.
What happens to American's who are blind and can't drive..trapped in airless apartments with nailed shut windows living off burgers that would feed a family of 6!😂
There are no nailed shut windows. She doesn't know how to use the mechanism. I have those windows. All you do is crank that lever to roll the casement windows out. They don't lift up. I had several blind friends in college. They walked eveywhere. American traffic stops have loud signals to alert when its safe to cross.
If you are blind it is best to live in a city. They are typically more walkable. I live in a very rural area, so the closest stores/businesses are at least an hour walk from my house. But blind people here can and do use Uber to get around.
American bread is actually classified as cake here in the UK, because of the high sugar content. British bread has around one gram of sugar per slice, go and check yours. I guarantee it's much higher.
@@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia Right. If you put sugar in it, any amount, in france it would be labeled differently. "Sweet bread", "milk bread", "crustless bread", "toast bread" or even "American bread"... But never bread alone. Bread alone is cereal flour, water, yeast and salt. That being said, sugar can mean a lot of things ; if we're talking carbohydrates, bread is basically a concentrated bomb of carbohydrates. But sugar as in saccharose is something else and is certainly not in the traditional recipe for bread/similar base cereal dishes around the world.
'Crêpes' is just Frenchj for their variant of pancakes, but that's basically what pancakes in every country look like (be it a tiny bit thicker than a crêpe). I seriously can't comprehend how Americans can find their abomination of an obese pancake better than an ACTUAL pancake lol. Please do come here and tasta what a pancake should taste like.
Saying that a pancake is a tiny bit thicker than a crepe is like saying that an elephant is a tiny bit bigger than a dog! 😅 I'm French and would have to put quite a few crepes on top of each other to reach the height of a pancake... (FYI it's because of the raising agent used in pancake recipes.)
Those type of pancakes aren't American though. Those are the Scottish way of making pancakes. If you ask for a pancake in Scotland, thats what you'll get. You'd have to specify that you wanted crepes, if you wanted them to be thin like that
I am French and used to live 15 years in Lafayette, IN (since you are there, you may know) and... How boy my first "walk" to the Mall was a trip. And I was like, where is the grocery store... How way across the street, way way way over there. So, aye, walking leads nowhere in the US LOL
I moved to a small city in Pennsylvania in 1983, from England, to marry my pen friend. During my first week, while the family where at work, I walked into the city one day, to see what it was like, later, when the family came home, and I said how I had spent my day, they were all horrified. I was told, walking around town on my own was something I should never do again, that it was far too dangerous. As for the driving in America, I can say with confidence, after 41 years, that American driving is the worst I have ever seen. This goes for all American drivers.
Back in the early 1980s I was staying with a friend who lived on Riverside Drive in NYC (about 103rd St). One Sunday night he took me to a party on campus of Columbia University. Because he had to go to work the next morning he left it before I did. I left about 1.30 am or so. I walked back to his apartment which took about 30 minutes. Next morning when on his way out he asked me how I had gotten back. He made no comment when I told him I had walked (he is Irish) but must have told some of his work colleagues because when I met them a few days later they were "we hear you WALKED back the apartment after the party!!!". They were amazed that nothing untoward had happened to me.
haha, i think it's, what around me is called 'sandwich' bread, that super soft highly processed stuff, like the burger breads of Mcdo and such, at least used to be, have they changed the past euhm, when did i last eat a Mcdo burger.. 12 year ago or so? :D
I don’t know if Canada is the same with not walking, but when we visited Vancouver, we walked from Stanley Park to the Capilano Suspension Bridge. We stopped at a garden centre (possibly. Can’t remember, it was 23 years ago. Some sort of store anyway), asking a young couple if we were going the right way. The look they gave us when they realised we were walking there!
That's not even a bad walk. I know plenty walk, cycle it, but there's also a lot of public transportation there between those locations. Granted it really depends on the people. I like to say Canada is a weird hybrid. Really weird for Vancouver though. There's people walking about all the time, even at the outskirts.
Years ago we were at a motel whilst touring the states and there was a restaurant across the road, so we all walked across the road and got the most weirdest looks. We also watched a rather overweight family from the same motel, get into their car and drive across too. We crossed the road so much more quicker than it took for them to load and unload at both ends. I cannot believe people will drive for such a short distance😂
@@daffyduk77 It seems to match that asking an American about his/her income is rude because if you EARN little, you ARE not worth much...Sad, to put it mildly...
@@reindeer7752 we dont need screens here, not too much of any insect nor animal wild life so doors and windows just stay open and only mosqitoes will Enter they house maybe a bee (her dog stepped on a bee)
I was in several US states in the 90s and early 2000. All windows could be opened and they all had bug screens which I loved because as much as I like airing my house, bugs aren't my best friends. Bug screens haven't become a thing in Europe until much later. But what Europeans forget: the humidity hits different. There are days where open windows are ok but in many states that will just get everything inside your house damp. Walking... At least in Indianapolis and most Eastern states it was totally fine to walk places, in Florida it was also accetable but due to the heat in summer basically nobody walked during summer. It was different in the fall and spring (although in Florida you also had to make sure you weren't in alligator territory so it was limited by wildlife) Food-wise I'm not sure what happened these past twenty years but back then food was delicious and very varied. Many did choose fast food chains but they also cooked quite often and healthy food too. Also high school wasn't all bad. I learnt a lot in world history. It was just more of an overview of the history of every single country so no in-depth knowledge about anything. In Germany it was a lot of in-depth analysis but mostly just European history, some American history and maybe a short overview of China, Japan, Australia and South Africa.
Bug screens weren’t a thing in Europe in the 90s? Maybe not for all windows, but growing up in the 90s and early 2000s they were maybe even more common than now for backdoors in the Netherlands, and I also remember them in Italy.
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pancakes hahahaha get real i understand if you eat pancakes all your life your measure is what it is (low) but french pastisserie is made in heaven not even close
I absolutely adore those wafer-thin crepes, but a traditional German apple pancake, more robust but soft and light, is not to be sneezed at. They are just two very different things that don't really compare (despite being technically both a type of pancake) and I alternate between recipes at home. The small round 'American' variety (which I'd call Scotch pancakes or griddle cakes) are something different again. I much prefer the other two but these can still taste great and pair well with fresh fruit and a little Greek yoghurt (not just maple syrup).
'American' pancakes are just a version of Scotch pancakes. They're a drop scone. There's nothing wrong with them (so long as they're not smothered in sugar). A completely different thing than a crêpe so no point making the comparison.
We have Five Guys in Germany / Cologne. I was there once and will never return. There are much better burger restaurants for same price but with porcelain plates and glasses and not a wast orgy.
I've never been outside the US, so I don't know what burgers elsewhere taste like. But I agree Five Guys aren't worth the hype. they're ok, but way overpriced.
@@Junebug1357 5 Guys in Germany is the only fast food where you can get free drink refills and unlimited ketchup. Everyone else charges for every ketchup packet: ( 5 Guys is pricey and slow, but free stuff is a novelty in Germany.
American pancakes are made out of (whatever they put in there, I even don't want to know!) prefabricated processed powder... Moms selfmade German "Pfannkuchen" are the best!😂❤
Aahhhh, I finally understand why in the first Rambo movie he gets targeted by the cop right away. It's because he is walking outside the city center...I never realized how much of a red flag that is in the US...
One of the main things I love about London is the buses are always scheduled, and the sidewalks are as big as the highways. And parks!!!! And many small shops!!!! 💘💘
I like American pancakes (fresh and home made), but it is a totally different dish from Swedish thin pancakes. I enjoy them for what they are... and try not to compare them. We would serve thin pancakes with strawberry jam and perhaps whipped cream... and the pancakes are not sweet in themselves. We even have one kind made with crispy bacon/pork bits in the batch. And another thicker oven baked pancake (with crisp fried pork/bacon). We serve it with lingonberry jam.
and you would certainlly wouldn t eat them to often and not as a normal breakfast,but perhaps if you return from a walk and need some quick energy. That´s my point with the american breakfast: ham and eggs and sausage and orange juice-just to many calories to start the day with.
I once ordered pancakes for breakfast in an LA hotel. I must have got a pile 8cm high by 20cm in diameter. It was like eating an entire birthday cake in one go!
I walked to uni in ireland. It was a 10 minute walk with a beautyful path surrounded by old trees left and right. I ran into a fellow student's american parents who were on a visit. They could not fathom that I did not mind walking for 10 minutes. Literally, getting into a car, driving there in traffic, finding a parking lot, walking from parking lot to class would have been so much more of a hassle.
I did like the American pankakes when I tried them. However they put a piece of what I thought was ice cream on top, but it turned out to be white butter!
Okay Ryan this is the second video in 2 days where you said you never had crêpes before, PLEASE make some this weekend. I am almost certain you have all the ingredients at home and your little one will love them too!! Look up any recipe on google, it should contain: egg, flour, sugar, milk MAYBE butter, salt and water but nothing more. (most have rhum, but if you don't put alcohol into food that's fine to leave out) You can eat them salty with cheese and ham or sugary as an afternoon snack with jam, nutella or strawberries (they're in season right now). Some of us also dip them in soup for dinner, but try the "normal" way first.
The "problem" with walking in the USA is the space between buildings. If you take the whole population of the USA and put them to Alaska you nearly have the "space quote" of Germany.
I was working in Bay City MI, for a couple of weeks. On my first night, I was tired so I went to the restaurant accross the street from the hotel, about a 200m walk. I walked there... once I got to the restaurant, I saw people driving from my hotel to the restaurant - they actually picked up their car to drive 200 meters... WTF is wrong with people?
@@inge6280 Sorry, they are right. My American colleagues raved about them. Over there, I tried them in a decent restaurant and supposedly home made ones. All chewy, overly sweet stodge. With and without syrup!
@@101steel4 I prefer Swedish ones :) I guess you often like what you are used too? We usually have the normal ultra thin ones in a pan (like french crepes), but also thick huge ones made in the oven. That thick version sometimes with apples (+cinnamon) and/or pork/bacon inside, and with fresh lingon on the side.
Was on holiday in California and I was walking towards the Lobby exit, when a member of staff asked if I was doing anything exciting that day polite small talk regular chat. I said I saw some shops from my window and was going to walk over to have a look, she looked to shocked then offered to call a taxi or uber for me. I was like it's a 15 minutes (max) walk I'll be okay and left to go to the shops i even confused the person in the shops when I declined a bag and put the items in the tote bag I had with me! 😂 The walk was pleasant while the roads where busy everything else seemed chill the whole time I was walking there and back I didn't see anyone else which did make it kind of weird!
@@TheSuperappelflap no..atleast not in my country. Those are pancakes... let me search it up.... Wow it both translates to pancakes in my language😅. Well to me both are pancakes. I always associated crepes with tortillas😅. It jist sounds to be more simmilar to a tortilla than a pancake🤷♀️.
@@TheSuperappelflap weird way of naming pancakes😕. We just call them pancakes in my language and also call those flufy and thick ones american pancakes😅.
I love some good homemade ones with Milk low fat,wheat flour,eggs and i think it's called Canola oil in fine nice consistency and no need for oil on the pan besides the very little, and sugar after they are done which is for me, i love them but american pancakes always make me feel not good
Pas d'accord ... j'aime pas les pancakes et j'aime les crêpes (vu que c'est de la gastronomie française et pas italienne) je peux te dire l'Italien que ça ne se mange pas du tout en snack ... soit en salé (crêpe bretonne au sarrasin et beurre avec garniture salée) pour le midi (en général) ou le soir et si tu prends des crêpes sucrée (blé) ça se mange en dessert ou en "goûter" (16h). C'est pas un "snack" c'est un vrai repas.
@@secretsdunefeechannel ok, but I didn't write that crépes are Italian cuisine, I said that I am Italian; I could write "I am European"... salt crépes can be a full-fledged lunch but in the video it shows a sweet one and they are much more suitable for an afternoon/evening snack... personally I also prefer crépes but the point was that pancakes are also excellent, it's not true that we consider them junk food in Europe...
There are many car centered places in Europe as well. When I was young I was on vacation in the italian alps (LaVilla/Stern) as backpacker. One night I had to walk on a pitch black street for miles, between two villages. No sidewalks. Wall of rocks on one side and a deep decent on the other side. It was very dangerous and I had no flashlight. Never again without a car.
Thats the norm in Spain too. All villages towns and cities are walkable but if you want to walk to the next village you use the road, theres rural dirtroads but no signals to where they go
We once stayed a mile outside Florence in a beautiful old villa. We walked into the city, but it was pretty sketchy -- parts of the walks were down a narrow road with stone villa walls right up to the edges on both sides and people driving by like ... Italians.
We have a Five Guys in Hamburg. But I wasn't there yet. It's at the Reeperbahn. I've eaten pancakes twice in the USA so far. I didn't like them. The dough became more and more in the mouth and the syrups didn't taste good. I once walked 2 miles from my friend's house to the supermarket in Wichita Kansas. Unfortunately, I often had to walk on the street because there were no footpaths and the fences went all the way to the street. During the 3 km, probably 20 cars honked at me, 8 stopped and asked if my car was broken and if they could help me.
Nah.. American pancakes are too thick. Too much dough. It's like eating a loaf of bread with some topping. It just isn't a good topping to dough ratio.
@@moladiver6817 That is your...opinion...because you're not accustomed to it. When you grow up with certain foods you obviously have a specific taste bias towards them. With that I can then say...I'm at a loss for how people can eat slugs and raw beef.
Walking in the U.S. We've all seen the documentary Rambo 😁. Otherwise, congratulations on the anticipation and the way to start streaming Tik Tok on UA-cam.
Ive seen the first clip with the ranting Frenchman before, and vaguely remember it being a comedy skit - he acts like an obnoxious rich frenchman in different situations.
Theye are something different. We in Poland also have a few types, also from potatoes or dough, but you can’t compare them to these from the USA. The only one you can compare are those made of dough. We have them in Poland, but they are very thin and we put variety of ingredients in them.
My sister-in-law made home pancakes for me and my father. She's from Mexico. Well pancakes aren't BAD, but it's just... a big fluffy and bland circle of pastry soaked in maple syrup. I would be curious to try pancake that would be half the thickness. I think they would really be better if they were only half thick. For the walking, I once traveled with my aunt for her to buy a car. We went by a car sharing service, and as we arrived, the guy asked us if we wanted him to drop us closer. After looking at a map and saw that we were 40 minutes (by foot) away... We declined and had a nice relaxing walk through the city.
I know someone, from iceland, that visited USA and in. N.C or where it was, and he took a morning walk. and he actually got stop by a man in a car, that actually asked what he was doing :) oo my..
The pancake thing was rather silly, they may both be called pancakes, but they are two different things. The latter ones are also called drop scones, Queen Elizabeth once gave President Eisenhower her recipe, he liked them so much.
4:19 we have breadsticks but they are not like that at all, they are thin and crispy not that soft like bread and, in Italian they would be called “grissini” and trust me 100 times better mainly for the crunchy aspect
The USA has crunchy bread sticks in addition to the type shown. We also have crostini and tostini which may be small squares instead of sticks. They are very crunchy but then melt away in your mouth. You can get them fresh from a bakery or fresh packages delivered daily to a grocery store. YT videos of one example, usually the worst they can find,especially if its fast food vs grocery store or bakery, tell you nothing about a country as huge and varied as the USA.
@@reindeer7752 ahhh I see. Tostini is such a cute name by the way, in Italy they are still called crostini even when they are in a small cube shape but I like the American option more
My aunt is from Mexico and shes always trying to make me go with her walk around the neighborhood in our hot weather. Nobody walks anywhere here because its 100 degrees in the summer.
Oh ffs, the windows in the video were casement windows. They have a crank to open (clearly show in the video) and a lever that needs to be unlocked before you crank them open. She ran into a type of window she was unfamiliar with and made ignorant assumptions and then doubtless returned home to inform everybody that in the US, the windows don't open.
The confusion about the window is probably cause we have different types of windows, or might be that she’s on the first floor. I can only speak for myself as a Northern European, but I can’t remember ever seeing a lock on a window that isn’t on the ground floor. … Or on any normal window, come to think of it, apart from old fashioned “slide”-windows in England. On ours the “latch”, I guess, is built into the handle so we don’t have to actively lock them, just close them, and they can’t be opened from the outside. Perhaps that’s why she didn’t consider it.
Do ACs in the USA exchange Air with the Outside by default? Most ACs I see in germany simply cool the room air in the external radiator without exchanging air.
(continuing...) (2) Going on a walk in the US. I was going to the supermarket somewhere in Orlando, Florida, 'cause my friend that I was with was not feeling well, so I went alone (he was the American). It was already dark outside he was like "be careful of alligators"...while funny enough, on my way there I kept seeing signs of "beware of bears". I also has my dog with me....since I'm going all the way to the supermarket, it being quite a bit far from the residential area we were living in (this far distance to a store is already very weird to me, yet I like walking a lot, so big distances don't really bother me.....especially while walking my dog), I said, why not also take my dog for a walk. So here I was, with his leash in one hand, and a flashlight in the other, because there was no fucking light on the street except for the cars that were passing by. I had a shitty narrow sidewalk, with some really dark trees / bushes / forest on a side (with the "beware bears" sign here and there and still keeping an eye out for alligators). I just love walking, but that country doesn't really seem to be made for that experience. It was definitely a fun adventure, yet not a pleasant one that I would like to repeat.
4:40 No, Ryan, I absolutely love American pancakes! I even prefer them to the original crêpe bretonne or Breton galette I ate in France. They're all excellent, though.
Those crepes, is literally the pancakes I grew up with. And it may just be a matter of me being used to one thing, but I do not like the thick american pancakes. Also, my own biggest culture shock when I visited the US, was the lack of sauce/gravy. I asked for some when ordering a steak at a restaurant in Arizona. He didn't know, what is was talking about. He proposed that I could have some ketchup or barbecue sauce. He must have found it weird. So I just had to eat this huge steak (I didn't know what ounces were) without any sauce. I would have killed for some.
@tobiasagdrupdrager5583 - That's because Europeans don't have good steak and have to cover it up with gravy. Only poorer steaks in the USA would be masked with gravy.
@@reindeer7752 You may not have had good gravy then. We have gravy for everthing with meat here in Denmark. Even a well cooked good quality steak without gravy is just plain. All restaurants here will have gravy to your steak. And I do not believe it is only like this in my country.
@@tobiasagdrupdrager5583 America is known for good gravy. We have many types of gravy. We only put it on poorer cuts of meat. I don't think you have had a steak of the quality in the USA.
@@reindeer7752 In which regions/states do they have it. And what kinds? I in no way meant that your food was bad or anything, you have a lot of side dishes to your food. I am just used to gravy, to my meat and had a hard time going without it.
My Ohian host was really worried - she lives 3 km (that be two miles) from the city. Told her: I sat down all day, I need to walk home now. No room for pedestrians, no light. Odd.
If you say you “don’t like” food/dish X it’s probably because you’ve only tried a poorly made version of it. I had excellent American pancakes for breakfast at a hotel and they were the highlight of the whole trip, but the handful of other times I’ve tried them outside America they haven’t been great.
Friend of mine spent a year in Reno about 20 years ago. He literally said that people stared at them for walking to the store like they were bums. Said nobody walked anywhere outside the city centre.
Me and 2 friends visited the US in 99. We lived in the San Francisco suburb of Burlingame and decided to walk to the Walmart nearby. It was maybe a 2 km walk and three cars stopped and asked if we broke down, were lost or needed help.
@@reindeer7752 it was very nice. And I actually found Americans very helpful. Asking if we needed directions when we were looking at a map for example. It is just funny how a person walking per default is assumed lost or in trouble - because it is unusual
We have five guys in some cities in Germany now and probably other European countries as well. There´s just no comparison to other fast food chains. Freshly cut fries and non-frozen beef alone make that very clear.
I travel around Europe with my sailboat, if I have on-land business I have with me a 125cc scooter 🛵. One could use one of those in NY, very handy, can go eveywhere, even in most elevators.
First time i visited the US i was in San Jose and experienced the sidewalk thing there.... wanted to walk to a nearby restaurant from the hotel and after 100m the path (sidewalk) just... stopped and there was just grass, but i could see the place i wanted to get too, so i walked over the grass and got shouted at. Weird as hell. Also, i was in New York last year, and the French guy was right... the drivers there are *terrible*. And.... your windows and doorknobs are just fucked up.....
As a European the walking thing was my biggest cultural shock. When people say “you can’t walk to that place” in Europe they mean that it’s too far not that you literally can’t walk there of course there will be proper sidewalks, bicycle lanes and other stuff to look at than cars. In the US there’s not even sidewalks in a lot of places.
@LillyPad - There are plenty of places in the USA that have sidewalks. In my small town you could walk anywhere you needed to go. There are also bike paths and miles of forests trails.
@@reindeer7752 right and evidently she isn't talking about small towns 👀 so that comment was random.
I've been to Europe a lot. There are highways there, too. No one walks on them. Also, no one walks between towns in Europe either. I don't know why Euros act so surprised when they come here.
@@ridesharegold6659 Of course you don’t walk on a high way but in the US some resident areas don’t have sidewalks. You could walk between two towns in Europe but it’s not practical to walk for several hours.
@@ridesharegold6659i believe you seriously underestimate the amount of times where people walk between towns and villages. Even school kids do so on their own. people don't use the Autobahn for walking but the sidewalks along either the normal streets and roads or fields
I'm from Sweden. I was walking with my small daughter to a nearby restaurant. (Outside of Orlando). Pretty soon a car stopped and asked if we were okay and if we needed help.
Pretty nice of the driver to ask, but no... "we are just walking!" 😂
mindbogelingly ignorent but well meaning, congratulations, you met a real american :) there is another explanation though, cause i have been to orlando restaurants and you definitly should not go there. its possible that the driver was just trying to warn you about that, ....nobody warned us....i still sometimes think about them and shiver.
German "Pfannkuchen " are great,but yes pancakes can't compare to crepes.that's why they have to be drowned in syrup.
As a german that would be weird too. If we have the time and the weather is at least ok, alot of us walk.
It’s okey I’m Swedish! 😂
There is a video where a person staying in a hotel in the US needed a new suitcase. He found there was a shop about 800 metres away, so decided to walk.
The walk was such an awful experience, he got a cab back.
I'm from Sweden... My brother and some friends of him visited LA a couple years ago. They took a walk to a nearby food store and got stopped by the police.
The police said that he stopped them since they look suspicious since they where walking.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
i hope you are joking :D
@@matejduriska2820 Nop I'm not joking..
The same thing happened to my Norwegian friend 😂 He was on his way back to the place he stayed at. A 30-40 minutes walk. He was stopped by the police twice!
What???
Long story short, my sister is American and I am English. Anyway, the first time I went to visit her in Rialto, California, one morning I got up and took myself for a walk around the neighborhood. I found the oldest building in the area, a beautiful 1906 church. I walked to a garage and bought some chocolate. I found a railway line that made for interesting photos. I was gone for two hours. When I got back, my sister was so worried because she couldn't understand where I had gone or how I had gotten around without a car. 😂
You left a house for hours without saying anything to anyone. So stupid and selfish
@katarzynaxx563 OK, she wasn't that worried, more confused. It's fine. Chill out 😎👌
@katarzynaxx563 That's not unusual to go for a walk without telling anyone, I'm an 18 year old girl (also English) and I live with my dad, if I fancy a walk I won't always tell him cuz he doesn't find it unusual. Like if I walk past him on my way out I'll tell him but otherwise I'll be back when I'm back and he's the same.
@SteffCharlie Thank-you. I think this is the point. In th u.k it's very normal to just go for a walk. It's neither selfish nor stupid. And I'm over 40 yrs old. Definitely don't need anyone's permission. Her reaction to my comment says it all 😅
Bro they're two adults, I dont think it was that big of an issue you simpleton lol
People who say you should put on the AC for fresh air should go to prison
pov: I'm southern European and can't handle how hot it is during Summer so that's exactly what I do
@@generated.name.by.human. I'm in Egypt, and I open the window for fresh air, during summer I don't like the AC.
@@Amghannam but the air is hot or non-existent a lot of times I can't deal w hot weather hashdh
@@generated.name.by.human. Yeah true, today was 38C in Cairo, didn't open the AC, even though I have one.
@@Amghannam wow i couldn't
What I found weird in America; doorKNOBS instead of handles. No way to turn a knob with full hands, handles can be operated with elbows. Small thing, but huge quality of life impact
And what if you have some medical problem and can't use your fingers (or don't have them) ?
My cat can open doors with handles, no way to keep it out of rooms without extra measures, like locking or baricading, small things
@@pivanov3321My brother solved that problem by installing all the handles vertically pointing down.
I changed all the internal handles in my house in Europe for knobs to stop the toddlers from being able to open them
@@lanabmc3519 i did this for the kitchen. Works like a charm.
Me as german in Seattle with a coworker. It was already late evening, when we went for a 30min "walk" (3km) to a nearby sports bar. Police followed us all the way watching what shady business we were doing "walking" after sunset. I see more people walking in the fields at that time of a day in germany than in a american metropolis.
two people in the US have an argument and someone says "walk it off" so they go to a car and drive
Lmao okay I laughed that is a good one
Also US American: taking car to the Gym to excercise.. i have no words...
Im from Spain. We have a young teacher assistant from US this year. After some months he was really shocked about how much people go to their jobs/schools by walk...really,really shocked
Well, walking in the US is a bit risky. A friend of mine was almost arrested because his attitude was 'suspicious' to the police officer who stopped him.
The Police stopped him, because he was just walking? That's crazy.
The land of the free 😂😂
@@Doctor011 Yeah..
i was stopped by the police in Los Angeles too, simply for walking...
they were nice but their mind was blown when i told them that i dont drive..
they couldnt even grasp the concept of that
@@Doctor011happened to me in Orlando about 10yrs ago. Police was worried about my safety (was walking along Universal blvd, no sidewalks there), too bad I was really rude to them as I was little drunk. Ashamed about it till this day. They were trully nice.
So much for "land of free" (as long as you are in car!!!) 😆 (I have car but I use it only when I have to as I find being lazy (sleeping.. at least partly) in transport waaaay more efficient and then spending 1-2 days a month to do all the "neccessisitities" in "big city" - like screws and.. nails... and... nuts for bolts... you know)
full disclosure i did not recognize the breadsticks as breadsticks i thought they are some sausages who have been horribly wronged. but either way, im with her, this is bullshit
I swear I thought the same xD
Thought it must have been about hot dogs.
There is a chain restaurant that calls those bread sticks. I've never understood why. We have real breadsticks in the USA.
I also though they were weird looking sausages, then I thought they were some kind of pastries
@@reindeer7752 how can you have real breadsticks while you do not have real bread there (joking) ?
Same with the pancakes.
On their own they might be okay-ish, but compared to crêpes, they are BS. Same ingredients but one is a delicacy, the other is just a staple to feed you for the day.
What do you mean walking along a highway? Highways and expressways in Europe DO NOT have walking paths, but they also only exist outside of city limits where it would be completely unreasonable to walk, like 20km min to reach anything. STREETS with commercial activity on the other hand are supposed to have lots of pedestrians, often even with two sidewalks, and you aren't weird for walking there.
I think the American "Stroad" strikes again.
I have never done so myself, but checking google maps, there are many highways as far as I can see, where an european might find the walking distance ok. Example: If im going from steindler othopedic to western hills in Iowa, a carride would be 3,1 miles, while walking would be 8,5 miles if I followed the "foothpaths". By the highway i can see no footpaths, but its a wide open green field on both sides and seems pretty low in traffic as well. I would chose to walk the 3,1 miles over the 8,5 any day. 3,1 miles is about 5 km. a 5 km walk usually takes about 45 minutes. Walking 45 minutes each day is good for you,
@@judyjudeuntil some cars crash and burry you under them. Not unimaginable with all these SUVs, pickup trucks, wide stroads with a lof of conflict points, etc.
The point is that they made US to be only livable if you have a car. It is not made for people, it's made for cars. Spent a month in CT close to NYC, and I felt really scared to walk to places, I only met homeless people while I walked 20-30min to places I'd like to visit. He says that in cities is different. It is not. They have sidewalks, but no one uses them.
@@brokkrep you could say that about cars in general though. Some people have gone on sidewalks in cities. Cars also hit each other. That's not a point against walking.
@@hellequinm Were the homeless aggressive because I see no reason why that should be be scared to walk because they exist.
AC doesn’t give you fresh air at all. It just cools the air that is in the house.
Every AC unit I have seen thus far has been connected to the outside of the house or flat it was attached to.
But who knows, maybe I've only seen the exceptions?
@@MellonVegan Yes they have an inverter on the outside, but no air is flowing from the outside to the inside, only the refrigerant (gas)
@@MellonVegan Intelligenzflüchtling ...
It circulates air through filters. When there were air-quality concerns due to Canadian wildfire smoke last year, the recommendation was to stay inside, with the A/C on, and not to exert yourself outside (to avoid inhaling fine particulates deeply into your lungs).
@@markweaver1012 sure, but that doesn't lower your CO2 concentration, for example. Or, worse, CO.
I'm from northern europe and when i was in NJ, i tried to walk to the office from the hotel and it literally just had pedestrials not allowed signs and no sidewalks at some point. It was around 10 minutes walk maybe straight line but it took me 30 minutes because there just wasn't accessibility to walk there so i had to make many detours.
When I was on vacation in America I walked everywhere. I thought Americans must be really fit if they walk such long distances.
But through UA-cam I learned that they just use their cars
Technically there are A FEW places where lots of people walk. Mostly cars.
Where I live there is almost nothing in a walkable distance. The closest grocery store to me is at least an hour walk from my house. That would make grocery shopping take forever and you would have to go all the time because you could only buy what you could carry home for an hour. Who has that kind of time?
If you live in a city you can walk more, but it just isn't possible/practical when you live in a more rural area like I do.
Plus in Texas where I live it gets up to 110 in the summer. You could literally die of heat stroke if you tried to walk at those temperatures. Most of us live in areas that are designed for driving. Not walking. Other than some parks/pools/elementary schools in my neighborhood, every single business is at least an hour walk away.... Most are more.
One of the reasons for being overweight is this: not walking at all.
@@bunny_0288 Why are American cities designed so that businesses are always in a completely different area, far away from housing? That doesn't make any sense. In Europe, businesses are commonly interspersed among houses so that businesses are always nearby.
@Neme112 If you live in a city here that's how it is, but in rural areas and the suburbs there are zoning laws. Some areas are zoned for residential areas and some for commercial. We also typically have huge grocery stores with giant parking lots. You can't put that in a neighborhood lol.
We don't typically go to separate places to get groceries. We go to Walmart or Costco and get everything we need in one place.
I do have an Aldi that's on the edge of my neighborhood, but I still drive to it because my neighborhood is 10,000 people and is already out. It's a huge planned community. It's almost 2 miles away. That would be 4 miles of walking just to get what groceries I can carry. Instead I take my car, get all of my groceries for the week, and drive home. Much more efficient.
I think a lot of Europeans don't realize how huge and spread our our towns and neighborhoods are. America is massive. I live in Texas. My state is most likely bigger than your entire country.
I was a few weeks in the USA. New England, New York, Boston, Denver and then in the West. It was a great expirience. One day we were walking to get to a restaurant. In the Hotel they said it's around the corner. Of cause, as a German we walked. We walked and walked and walked. We returned to the Hotel and drove to the restaurant. Around the corner has had a whole different meaning than in Germany. 😂😂😂
Yeah cause we will take day trips that are hours and don’t see it as that far. I’ve driven an hour just for a restaurant and it wasn’t seen as a big deal
@@Catherine.Dorian.is this the Liberty they were talking about so much?
@@Catherine.Dorian. lol, an hour? you could get groceries and cook something yourself in about the time you get to eat in that restaurant? :p
and you didn't need to be anywhere around it, so an other hour return drive? :)
@@JeroenJA It was a Japanese tea house they moved from Japan to the top of this little mountain in the area, so it’s a drive to the area and then up the mountain. I wouldn’t do it for just a Tuesday but for birthdays or big events, place is incredible
@@Catherine.Dorian. over an hour = special day trip ,
over 3 to 4 hours driving or longer = your stay the nigth, else half of your day would go up to driving..
over 10 hours driving? better split, drive one evening to spend the nigth somewhere in between en continue your trip the next day,
as a kids annual holliday my parent drove us a 1000 km away , with a night sleep in the car on a parking lot for a couple of hours for my dad, we as kids just slept a good lot more on the backseat..
but .. with all the extra regulations since then, i am affriad to try that with my kids now.. should someone have unbuckeled their seatbelt, it's easy a 200€ fine now if the police would notive ...
in the 90s they barely looked at the back seat for ticketing not wearing seatbelts...
it's one of the dozens of reasens parenting is now way moe stressfull then it was for a generation earlier...
Christ even the French, famous for terrible driving, are complaining about American drivers lol.
@@gs9140 It's just a stereotype. A joke. Not to be taken seriously.
Like saying Americans are all fat or British have bad teeth. That kind of thing.
@@gs9140
What is "stereotype exit" ? And "ot" ? Please...
@@gs9140I have to say that the worst drivers I ever encountered was in Paris, but otherwise I have found French drivers to be like any other European drivers, that is pretty good. Just my personal experience.
@@gs9140 I'm not sure where I've heard it from myself to be honest. It's just that every now and then in my travels someone will mention french being aggressive drivers and it just stuck with me.
I know for sure I've heard it from both a Belgian and a Norwegian.
French drivers negotiate the pèriphèrique …… they must be amazing drivers!!
It always surprises me how little do USAns walk. And when they say they have "walking shoes" as if that was a merit... always crack me up. Like, what does "walking shoes" mean? Do they walk automatically? What are your "regular" shoes for ffs?!
"Walking shoes" are designed with special padding so that your feet don't get sore from walking or standing all day. "Regular" shoes in the US are usually designed for specific purposes. for example, we have heavy-duty work boots for people in construction jobs; swim shoes and galoshes for people who work in water; non-skid shoes for people who work in fast food restaurants and similar places where the floors are slick; dress shoes which are meant to be pretty/fancy but are not normally practical for walking (think high heals, ballet flats, loafers); sandals which allow feet to have fresh air but aren't much better than being barefoot; we have really cheap shoes that exist mainly so that people can have something to keep their feet warm but aren't good for much else, but they're inexpensive; athletic shoes which are versatile but aren't appropriate to wear in professional settings. We have lots of different kinds of shoes. :)
@@Junebug1357 That would be maybe "hiking" shoes, or even just sneakers. Thinking that just "walking" is an special activity is funny.
@@davidtateloWas going to say that. Walking shoes here are hillwalking shoes. An in between of normal shoes and hiking shoes you would go up mountains in
There is no such word as USAns.
Plenty of Americans walk. I live on a multi-use path where people pass by on foot and bikes all day.
Would you wear high heels to walk a mile? That's why some shoes are called walking shoes. Is that hard for you to comprehend?
Part of why we don't walk more is that nothing is close. The closest grocery store to me is a 5-10 minute drive. It would take me like an hour to walk to the store and then an hour home. And then I could only bring home what I could carry 😂. It would take me like 9 hours a week just to grocery shop because I would have to go so often and walk so far.
I go on walks in my neighborhood for exercise, but walking to places is not practical/possible when you live in a more rural area. People who live in cities can and do walk more.
We don't have RANCH.....whatever it is !!
Big tip to all Americans.....you have 2 legs....USE THEM FOR WALKING !!
Americans use their 2 legs only for stepping on the gas pedal, and eventually on the brake pedal.
Well there's surely a difference. Here in tiny Netherlands walking to the supermarket is a 5 minute affair, but if the supermarkets are 10 km away would you walk there? Lots of rich, lazy people arrive at the supermarket in a car here where I am and it's a small village!
You should check out just what walking in the US entails. In a great many places, there is virtually no infrastructure created to benefit pedestrians.
What is this "walking" you speak of?
If you are in the UK, oh yes we do have ranch.
I once tried walking ~half a kilometer to a small convenience store in a suburb during my summer in the US. Cars stopped twice to ask me what happened and if I needed help lol. I was 20 but looked probably 15, which could've played a role. But yeah, never did that again.
Here in NL nobody would stop even an 8 year old walking or on a bike, just because everyone’s used to children being quite independent.
walking is very important, it's good for the body and, if you don't use electronic aids, it allows you to have time to think outside your usual patterns. We need to move away from ourselves to see ourselves in the context we really are in. But walking without beautiful scenery doesn't seem to be the same
@raputinorco - All good reasons why a lot of Americans walk everyday. I'm lucky to live next to a national forest with miles of trails but as I'm getting old I walk more in parks and on the sidewalks and multi-use paths all over town.
Deal, beautiful scenery matters, but people MUST walk. Meds taste is often bad, but if we need them...
Most are just nitpicking. They walking video's are disturbing lol. I can't imagine a world where I can't walk. Of course you can't walk on a highway, but those are cars only. You will be simply dead if you walk on there. Here it seems to be a sidewalk? If there is a sidewalk people walk on it in Europe :)
Even in the UK, which our US friends tell is an oppressed Fascist state, you can walk alongside all roads, major & minor, unless it's a motorway (=freeway) or one of very few roads with an actual "no pedestrians" sign. Not wise to walk alongside a busy, fast road w/o a pedestrian pavement
It‘s disturbing as hell. What do you mean a 15min walk to the city is too long and I have to use a car? Like even public transport isn’t big in the U.S(more like nonexistent) but still.
@@daffyduk77but you can still do it. I’ve walked many a busy country lane without any footpath or pavement. Taught as a child growing up in the country, always walk into the flow of traffic then you can see what is coming towards you
@@barrywalker4295 True, But the "idiot on the mobile phone whilst driving" - even at 1 in say 1000 - is undeniably more of an issue. If there's no kerb (s)he's more likely to clip you, to say the least
The "land of the free", where you get pulled over by the cops for simply walking :)
Screwing the windows shut is a god damn death trap in case of fire..
I'm pretty sure that single layer of glass breaks easily.
@@moladiver6817 not an argument.. breaking a window is a lot harder than youd think.. especially if youre under stress or a room filled with smoke... and these windows are not like car windows that shatter into 1000 pieces.. you will have razor sharp pieces sticking out just waiting to slice you open when you climb through them..
I've never seen windows nailed shut in the USA and I'm 76 yrs.old, have lived in six states, multiple houses and traveled in all 50. Get over this ridiculous bigotry against America based on one persons extremely limited experiences.
@@reindeer7752 I don't think people are bigoted against the USA for its windows. There's already a whole list of valid reasons for that. My top 3:
1. The country is extremely car dependent. Everything is spread so thin you need a car for every basic necessity. This is a waste of space, energy and above all time. Time we get to spend on other things.
2. American healthcare turned into a business that's ripping people off depriving many of necessary aid simply because they can't afford it. Call an ambulance because someone is dying and they might survive to then live a lifetime in debt. This is absurd and appalling.
3. The extreme prudishness by western standards is actually screwing with how young people perceive the world. As an example: a mipple gate (misspelled on purpose to get around UA-cam's American filter) would never exist in Europe. It's ridiculous. Women sunbathing topless offends people whereas in Europe we couldn't care less. Anything nude is automatically considered sexual or even porn in the US. For us Europeans the entire body is simply human nature. Grow the you know what up.
And that reminds me of a bonus.. Drums.....
4. The extreme sexual divide in America and its disgusting pro life movement stripping women off a part of their human rights. Us Europeans are watching in horror and dismay how such a basic right is being trampled across the pond. A discussion most of us ended many decades ago and practically forgot about is one of the highlights in the media of backward America.
But believe me. We all want you guys to fix these problems, badly. Grow the you know what up and do it fast please. 🙏
Europe is a pure paradise with no crime, no homeless, no immigration problems, no corrupt politicians, no racism, no drug addiction, no obesity, blah, blah, blah. Everything about Europe is better. Europeans are so tolerant. What BS!! You act exactly like what the term, "ugly American" used to apply to. You judge all 333 million Americans by the minority. You think you are experts on the USA because you watch a UA-cam video of one person's visit to one place.
There is no extreme sexual divide in the USA. You have the wrong decade. There are more women graduating college than men. "Pro-lifers" are not the majority of Americans. tRump got the religious right vote by promising to stack the Supreme Court and that is one promise he kept.
Europe has an alarming rise in right wingers now, too, and of all places, you should know better. Fix your own problems and stop obsessing with the USA.
using the car to go to a paid indoor place to walk without moving on a rolling carpet is very US American
When a person complained about the car park at the gym always being full, a friend suggested she walked since it was quite near.
She said that would upset her exercise routine.
And then complain cos there are no parking spots close to the entrance
Rings true to me: I lived in Binghamton NY briefly many years ago, renting half a house. My wife and I once walked into town just to have a look around. Halfway in, our neighbour from downstairs stopped his car alongside us and told us to hop in. Had our car broken down? He could help. Which garage were we walking to? When we told him we were walking by choice, just exploring, he looked very confused... 😄
French here. I made pancakes once just to see the difference with crêpes (and when I say "once", it's literal; I never tried again). Believe me, when you are used to crêpes, pancakes taste bland and are way too thick and pasty. My parents and I were very underwhelmed to say the least.
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7:30 The funny thing is, nobody would do a double take if they saw someone jog along (as long as they are decked in the appropriate sporty outfit with earbuds on; otherwise, they would most certainly be thought as criminals fleeing a crime scene).
But someone simply walking?!... God forbid! It's automatically assumed that either their car broke or they are homeless, lol.
Il ne faut pas comparer des crêpes sucrées et des pancakes. Les 2 sont très bons et ne se mangent pas de la même manière.
That's because they're not crepes and aren't supposed to be. They're a drop scone and actually Scottish (and other north European countries, like here in NL with poffertjes). You probably made them badly. The French seem to believe they own the idea of crepes, but they're a universal thing and the best ones are in Russia, not France...mais les galettes de sarrasin de Bretagne sont exquises.
@@baronmeduseIt's just that Americans call them crêpes but in Europe pancakes simply are always thin. Like in Holland where we roll them up. Way better. American pancakes are way too thick and doughy.
@@bonbahoue Yeah, I just thought about it earlier and while I'd say I'd prefer crêpes, pancakes (to this random German dude) feel more cake-like while crêpes would scratch the itch for something like a sweeter confection. Also, I don't think I'd ever eat just pancakes without any topping or added fruit or anything like that. Just a very different thing, like you said.
That's why you drench them in maple syrup.
What happens to American's who are blind and can't drive..trapped in airless apartments with nailed shut windows living off burgers that would feed a family of 6!😂
There are no nailed shut windows. She doesn't know how to use the mechanism. I have those windows. All you do is crank that lever to roll the casement windows out. They don't lift up. I had several blind friends in college. They walked eveywhere. American traffic stops have loud signals to alert when its safe to cross.
If you are blind it is best to live in a city. They are typically more walkable. I live in a very rural area, so the closest stores/businesses are at least an hour walk from my house.
But blind people here can and do use Uber to get around.
French here, actually when we go for a walk it can last like one hour, may it be in a city or in country side
I'm in the USA. I used to hike in the mountains for about an hour 5 days a week. When I had someone to go with me, we went for two or three hours.
We have real bread.
Yup
American bread is actually classified as cake here in the UK, because of the high sugar content.
British bread has around one gram of sugar per slice, go and check yours. I guarantee it's much higher.
@@jacobreisser8034 I'm French and we don't put sugar in our bread AT ALL. The ingredients are water, flour, yeast, salt and... that's it.
@@MissTwoSetEncyclopedia Right. If you put sugar in it, any amount, in france it would be labeled differently. "Sweet bread", "milk bread", "crustless bread", "toast bread" or even "American bread"... But never bread alone. Bread alone is cereal flour, water, yeast and salt. That being said, sugar can mean a lot of things ; if we're talking carbohydrates, bread is basically a concentrated bomb of carbohydrates. But sugar as in saccharose is something else and is certainly not in the traditional recipe for bread/similar base cereal dishes around the world.
'Crêpes' is just Frenchj for their variant of pancakes, but that's basically what pancakes in every country look like (be it a tiny bit thicker than a crêpe). I seriously can't comprehend how Americans can find their abomination of an obese pancake better than an ACTUAL pancake lol. Please do come here and tasta what a pancake should taste like.
I live in Canada and my guests complain that my pancakes aren't thick enough...
Saying that a pancake is a tiny bit thicker than a crepe is like saying that an elephant is a tiny bit bigger than a dog! 😅 I'm French and would have to put quite a few crepes on top of each other to reach the height of a pancake...
(FYI it's because of the raising agent used in pancake recipes.)
Those type of pancakes aren't American though. Those are the Scottish way of making pancakes. If you ask for a pancake in Scotland, thats what you'll get. You'd have to specify that you wanted crepes, if you wanted them to be thin like that
It's called a variety of tastes. You see, humans are allowed to have different ways of liking their food. Wild concept, I know.
I am French and used to live 15 years in Lafayette, IN (since you are there, you may know) and... How boy my first "walk" to the Mall was a trip. And I was like, where is the grocery store... How way across the street, way way way over there. So, aye, walking leads nowhere in the US LOL
I moved to a small city in Pennsylvania in 1983, from England, to marry my pen friend. During my first week, while the family where at work, I walked into the city one day, to see what it was like, later, when the family came home, and I said how I had spent my day, they were all horrified. I was told, walking around town on my own was something I should never do again, that it was far too dangerous. As for the driving in America, I can say with confidence, after 41 years, that American driving is the worst I have ever seen. This goes for all American drivers.
Back in the early 1980s I was staying with a friend who lived on Riverside Drive in NYC (about 103rd St). One Sunday night he took me to a party on campus of Columbia University. Because he had to go to work the next morning he left it before I did. I left about 1.30 am or so. I walked back to his apartment which took about 30 minutes. Next morning when on his way out he asked me how I had gotten back. He made no comment when I told him I had walked (he is Irish) but must have told some of his work colleagues because when I met them a few days later they were "we hear you WALKED back the apartment after the party!!!". They were amazed that nothing untoward had happened to me.
😂 you never tried to drive in Russia!!!😂😂😂
@@johnkilcullenwhy would he leave you at a party if he though you shouldn’t walk????
@@dalemoore8582he probably assumed I would get a taxi.
Why was it dangerous? What reasons did they give for that?
Oops, I thought those breadsticks were sausages 🙂
haha, i think it's, what around me is called 'sandwich' bread, that super soft highly processed stuff, like the burger breads of Mcdo and such, at least used to be, have they changed the past euhm, when did i last eat a Mcdo burger.. 12 year ago or so? :D
Just very ugly bread. 😅
I don’t know if Canada is the same with not walking, but when we visited Vancouver, we walked from Stanley Park to the Capilano Suspension Bridge. We stopped at a garden centre (possibly. Can’t remember, it was 23 years ago. Some sort of store anyway), asking a young couple if we were going the right way. The look they gave us when they realised we were walking there!
That's not even a bad walk. I know plenty walk, cycle it, but there's also a lot of public transportation there between those locations. Granted it really depends on the people. I like to say Canada is a weird hybrid. Really weird for Vancouver though. There's people walking about all the time, even at the outskirts.
Years ago we were at a motel whilst touring the states and there was a restaurant across the road, so we all walked across the road and got the most weirdest looks. We also watched a rather overweight family from the same motel, get into their car and drive across too. We crossed the road so much more quicker than it took for them to load and unload at both ends. I cannot believe people will drive for such a short distance😂
The sheer stigma of being seen walking to a restaurant ... does it mean ... no ! ... you perhaps don't have a car ! The underclass !
@@daffyduk77 It seems to match that asking an American about his/her income is rude because if you EARN little, you ARE not worth much...Sad, to put it mildly...
The windows thing - I totally get it. I'm sitting behind my computer with my window wide open with a breeze coming in 😅
Im sitting outside in my garden 😂
@BASvist - I do that all spring and autumn in the USA. The difference is, we have screens on the windows and Europe hasn't caught on to that.
@@reindeer7752 we dont need screens here, not too much of any insect nor animal wild life so doors and windows just stay open and only mosqitoes will Enter they house maybe a bee (her dog stepped on a bee)
@@reindeer7752 I live in Europe and I have screens on all my windows (thermopan windows).
I was in several US states in the 90s and early 2000. All windows could be opened and they all had bug screens which I loved because as much as I like airing my house, bugs aren't my best friends. Bug screens haven't become a thing in Europe until much later. But what Europeans forget: the humidity hits different. There are days where open windows are ok but in many states that will just get everything inside your house damp.
Walking... At least in Indianapolis and most Eastern states it was totally fine to walk places, in Florida it was also accetable but due to the heat in summer basically nobody walked during summer. It was different in the fall and spring (although in Florida you also had to make sure you weren't in alligator territory so it was limited by wildlife)
Food-wise I'm not sure what happened these past twenty years but back then food was delicious and very varied. Many did choose fast food chains but they also cooked quite often and healthy food too. Also high school wasn't all bad. I learnt a lot in world history. It was just more of an overview of the history of every single country so no in-depth knowledge about anything. In Germany it was a lot of in-depth analysis but mostly just European history, some American history and maybe a short overview of China, Japan, Australia and South Africa.
Bug screens weren’t a thing in Europe in the 90s? Maybe not for all windows, but growing up in the 90s and early 2000s they were maybe even more common than now for backdoors in the Netherlands, and I also remember them in Italy.
pancakes hahahaha get real i understand if you eat pancakes all your life your measure is what it is (low) but french pastisserie is made in heaven not even close
Agreed. And I don't think pancakes, American style, are any healthier either.
I absolutely adore those wafer-thin crepes, but a traditional German apple pancake, more robust but soft and light, is not to be sneezed at. They are just two very different things that don't really compare (despite being technically both a type of pancake) and I alternate between recipes at home.
The small round 'American' variety (which I'd call Scotch pancakes or griddle cakes) are something different again. I much prefer the other two but these can still taste great and pair well with fresh fruit and a little Greek yoghurt (not just maple syrup).
'American' pancakes are just a version of Scotch pancakes. They're a drop scone. There's nothing wrong with them (so long as they're not smothered in sugar). A completely different thing than a crêpe so no point making the comparison.
I think "too much sugar" is the problem with this tower of pancakes drowned in syrup.
@@flitsertheo No doubt.
I don't. 😊
We have Five Guys in Germany / Cologne. I was there once and will never return. There are much better burger restaurants for same price but with porcelain plates and glasses and not a wast orgy.
I've never been outside the US, so I don't know what burgers elsewhere taste like. But I agree Five Guys aren't worth the hype. they're ok, but way overpriced.
@@Junebug1357 5 Guys in Germany is the only fast food where you can get free drink refills and unlimited ketchup. Everyone else charges for every ketchup packet: ( 5 Guys is pricey and slow, but free stuff is a novelty in Germany.
American pancakes are made out of (whatever they put in there, I even don't want to know!) prefabricated processed powder...
Moms selfmade German "Pfannkuchen" are the best!😂❤
Aahhhh, I finally understand why in the first Rambo movie he gets targeted by the cop right away. It's because he is walking outside the city center...I never realized how much of a red flag that is in the US...
One of the main things I love about London is the buses are always scheduled, and the sidewalks are as big as the highways. And parks!!!! And many small shops!!!! 💘💘
I like American pancakes (fresh and home made), but it is a totally different dish from Swedish thin pancakes. I enjoy them for what they are... and try not to compare them. We would serve thin pancakes with strawberry jam and perhaps whipped cream... and the pancakes are not sweet in themselves. We even have one kind made with crispy bacon/pork bits in the batch. And another thicker oven baked pancake (with crisp fried pork/bacon). We serve it with lingonberry jam.
and you would certainlly wouldn t eat them to often and not as a normal breakfast,but perhaps if you return from a walk and need some quick energy. That´s my point with the american breakfast: ham and eggs and sausage and orange juice-just to many calories to start the day with.
I once ordered pancakes for breakfast in an LA hotel. I must have got a pile 8cm high by 20cm in diameter. It was like eating an entire birthday cake in one go!
I walked to uni in ireland. It was a 10 minute walk with a beautyful path surrounded by old trees left and right. I ran into a fellow student's american parents who were on a visit. They could not fathom that I did not mind walking for 10 minutes. Literally, getting into a car, driving there in traffic, finding a parking lot, walking from parking lot to class would have been so much more of a hassle.
I did like the American pankakes when I tried them. However they put a piece of what I thought was ice cream on top, but it turned out to be white butter!
My danish niece was looked at weird for bying ingredience to make food from the ground while walking to the supermarked in connecticut
Okay Ryan this is the second video in 2 days where you said you never had crêpes before, PLEASE make some this weekend. I am almost certain you have all the ingredients at home and your little one will love them too!!
Look up any recipe on google, it should contain: egg, flour, sugar, milk MAYBE butter, salt and water but nothing more. (most have rhum, but if you don't put alcohol into food that's fine to leave out)
You can eat them salty with cheese and ham or sugary as an afternoon snack with jam, nutella or strawberries (they're in season right now).
Some of us also dip them in soup for dinner, but try the "normal" way first.
The "problem" with walking in the USA is the space between buildings. If you take the whole population of the USA and put them to Alaska you nearly have the "space quote" of Germany.
I was working in Bay City MI, for a couple of weeks. On my first night, I was tired so I went to the restaurant accross the street from the hotel, about a 200m walk. I walked there... once I got to the restaurant, I saw people driving from my hotel to the restaurant - they actually picked up their car to drive 200 meters... WTF is wrong with people?
US pancakes are too chewy!
Not if you get them fresh in a restaurant
@@inge6280 Sorry, they are right. My American colleagues raved about them. Over there, I tried them in a decent restaurant and supposedly home made ones. All chewy, overly sweet stodge. With and without syrup!
Scotch pancakes are just too thick.
I prefer English ones.
@@101steel4 I prefer Swedish ones :) I guess you often like what you are used too?
We usually have the normal ultra thin ones in a pan (like french crepes), but also thick huge ones made in the oven.
That thick version sometimes with apples (+cinnamon) and/or pork/bacon inside, and with fresh lingon on the side.
Was on holiday in California and I was walking towards the Lobby exit, when a member of staff asked if I was doing anything exciting that day polite small talk regular chat. I said I saw some shops from my window and was going to walk over to have a look, she looked to shocked then offered to call a taxi or uber for me. I was like it's a 15 minutes (max) walk I'll be okay and left to go to the shops i even confused the person in the shops when I declined a bag and put the items in the tote bag I had with me! 😂 The walk was pleasant while the roads where busy everything else seemed chill the whole time I was walking there and back I didn't see anyone else which did make it kind of weird!
In Ann Arbor, we had to DRIVE about 15 minutes to a park to go for a walk.
Practically no sidewalks anywhere.
Here in Sweden I think the most sold dip sauce for chips is ranch. It comes as a powder that you mix with crème fraiche to get a sauce.
More commonly though would be mixed with sour cream (gräddfil) imo 😉
@@fljansson True, that's what I ment, but I myself often buy the low fat chili crème fraiche as dip, that's why i confused them.
He's talking about messenger bikes, not cyclists!
You did not just call pancakes fucking CRAPES !?!? DUDE those were europian pancakes😭😭😭😭
No those are crêpes
@@TheSuperappelflap no..atleast not in my country. Those are pancakes... let me search it up....
Wow it both translates to pancakes in my language😅. Well to me both are pancakes.
I always associated crepes with tortillas😅. It jist sounds to be more simmilar to a tortilla than a pancake🤷♀️.
@@flucydeer a crepe is just a really thin pancake
@@TheSuperappelflap weird way of naming pancakes😕. We just call them pancakes in my language and also call those flufy and thick ones american pancakes😅.
@@TheSuperappelflap Yeah for me it also would just be a pancake
Usually if I’m struck in traffic and I see a pedestrian pass by, I’m not checking them out, I’m cursing in my head they’re going faster than I am lol
American pancakes are pure vile stodge with optional extra sugar!
How they eat them for breakfast I've no idea!
I love some good homemade ones with Milk low fat,wheat flour,eggs and i think it's called Canola oil in fine nice consistency and no need for oil on the pan besides the very little, and sugar after they are done which is for me, i love them but american pancakes always make me feel not good
@@mehallica666cause they can't get english bacon and black pudding
People dont usually walk at busy highways in Europe as well.
idk but you are actualy so underated i watch you everyday
My friend visited recently Vegas. She was taking a walk everywhere (or tried). Came back home with weltschmerz
Pancakes are delicious... i'm Italian and i love them, perfect for breakfast... Crépes are something else intended for another moment, for a snack...
Pas d'accord ... j'aime pas les pancakes et j'aime les crêpes (vu que c'est de la gastronomie française et pas italienne) je peux te dire l'Italien que ça ne se mange pas du tout en snack ... soit en salé (crêpe bretonne au sarrasin et beurre avec garniture salée) pour le midi (en général) ou le soir et si tu prends des crêpes sucrée (blé) ça se mange en dessert ou en "goûter" (16h). C'est pas un "snack" c'est un vrai repas.
@@secretsdunefeechannel ok, but I didn't write that crépes are Italian cuisine, I said that I am Italian; I could write "I am European"... salt crépes can be a full-fledged lunch but in the video it shows a sweet one and they are much more suitable for an afternoon/evening snack... personally I also prefer crépes but the point was that pancakes are also excellent, it's not true that we consider them junk food in Europe...
Pancakes are also eaten here in Italy, they are delicious.
There are many car centered places in Europe as well. When I was young I was on vacation in the italian alps (LaVilla/Stern) as backpacker. One night I had to walk on a pitch black street for miles, between two villages. No sidewalks. Wall of rocks on one side and a deep decent on the other side. It was very dangerous and I had no flashlight. Never again without a car.
Thats the norm in Spain too. All villages towns and cities are walkable but if you want to walk to the next village you use the road, theres rural dirtroads but no signals to where they go
We once stayed a mile outside Florence in a beautiful old villa. We walked into the city, but it was pretty sketchy -- parts of the walks were down a narrow road with stone villa walls right up to the edges on both sides and people driving by like ... Italians.
6:28 hey that's my hometown! Ironically he's surrounded by places that make you a proper burger and he's shoving mcdonalds down his throat 😂
Ironic indeed!best wishes from Germany!❤
Americans just want their GMO burgers man
Went with the brand he knows, little realising that European food standards mean it’s nothing like the brand he knows. 🤷🏻♂️
Broodje Mario is right there! D:
Crepes AND pancakes are both absolutely delicious in their own right.
We have a Five Guys in Hamburg. But I wasn't there yet. It's at the Reeperbahn.
I've eaten pancakes twice in the USA so far. I didn't like them. The dough became more and more in the mouth and the syrups didn't taste good.
I once walked 2 miles from my friend's house to the supermarket in Wichita Kansas. Unfortunately, I often had to walk on the street because there were no footpaths and the fences went all the way to the street. During the 3 km, probably 20 cars honked at me, 8 stopped and asked if my car was broken and if they could help me.
American pancakes scratch a different itch than crepes. Both rock in their own ways.
Nah.. American pancakes are too thick. Too much dough. It's like eating a loaf of bread with some topping. It just isn't a good topping to dough ratio.
Scotch pancakes are too thick. English pancakes (crepes if you're French) are much nicer.
@@moladiver6817 That is your...opinion...because you're not accustomed to it. When you grow up with certain foods you obviously have a specific taste bias towards them. With that I can then say...I'm at a loss for how people can eat slugs and raw beef.
If you dont live within a 15 minute walk to a park you dont live in a good area
You could be living on the beach or almost in a national or state forest.
Walking in the U.S. We've all seen the documentary Rambo 😁. Otherwise, congratulations on the anticipation and the way to start streaming Tik Tok on UA-cam.
Ive seen the first clip with the ranting Frenchman before, and vaguely remember it being a comedy skit - he acts like an obnoxious rich frenchman in different situations.
I'm Czech and we make like 10 types of pancakes in my family including raw potato, cooked potato, yeast dough etc in all shapes and sizes.
Theye are something different. We in Poland also have a few types, also from potatoes or dough, but you can’t compare them to these from the USA. The only one you can compare are those made of dough. We have them in Poland, but they are very thin and we put variety of ingredients in them.
My sister-in-law made home pancakes for me and my father. She's from Mexico.
Well pancakes aren't BAD, but it's just... a big fluffy and bland circle of pastry soaked in maple syrup.
I would be curious to try pancake that would be half the thickness. I think they would really be better if they were only half thick.
For the walking, I once traveled with my aunt for her to buy a car. We went by a car sharing service, and as we arrived, the guy asked us if we wanted him to drop us closer.
After looking at a map and saw that we were 40 minutes (by foot) away... We declined and had a nice relaxing walk through the city.
You can make pancakes to suit your tastes; most people who enjoy cooking have their own recipe. Mine uses buttermilk and are not as thick.
4:10 breadsticks, ie grissini are Italian 😉
I know someone, from iceland, that visited USA and in. N.C or where it was, and he took a morning walk. and he actually got stop by a man in a car, that actually asked what he was doing :) oo my..
The pancake thing was rather silly, they may both be called pancakes, but they are two different things. The latter ones are also called drop scones, Queen Elizabeth once gave President Eisenhower her recipe, he liked them so much.
4:19 we have breadsticks but they are not like that at all, they are thin and crispy not that soft like bread and, in Italian they would be called “grissini” and trust me 100 times better mainly for the crunchy aspect
The USA has crunchy bread sticks in addition to the type shown. We also have crostini and tostini which may be small squares instead of sticks. They are very crunchy but then melt away in your mouth. You can get them fresh from a bakery or fresh packages delivered daily to a grocery store. YT videos of one example, usually the worst they can find,especially if its fast food vs grocery store or bakery, tell you nothing about a country as huge and varied as the USA.
@@reindeer7752 ahhh I see. Tostini is such a cute name by the way, in Italy they are still called crostini even when they are in a small cube shape but I like the American option more
My aunt is from Mexico and shes always trying to make me go with her walk around the neighborhood in
our hot weather. Nobody walks anywhere here because its 100 degrees in the summer.
Surely its against health and safety to nail down windows :/
Oh ffs, the windows in the video were casement windows. They have a crank to open (clearly show in the video) and a lever that needs to be unlocked before you crank them open. She ran into a type of window she was unfamiliar with and made ignorant assumptions and then doubtless returned home to inform everybody that in the US, the windows don't open.
I'm from the Netherlands and I love American Pancakes they are the best!!
French bread from a good bakery or patisserie in France is pure magic! If you haven't tried yet. Night and day difference.
The confusion about the window is probably cause we have different types of windows, or might be that she’s on the first floor. I can only speak for myself as a Northern European, but I can’t remember ever seeing a lock on a window that isn’t on the ground floor. … Or on any normal window, come to think of it, apart from old fashioned “slide”-windows in England. On ours the “latch”, I guess, is built into the handle so we don’t have to actively lock them, just close them, and they can’t be opened from the outside. Perhaps that’s why she didn’t consider it.
In Bulgaria we mainly eat thin pancakes - aka what you call crepes. We call them 'pancakes'. Yours are called 'US pancakes'. :D
Do ACs in the USA exchange Air with the Outside by default? Most ACs I see in germany simply cool the room air in the external radiator without exchanging air.
It looks like a French accent indeed😂
How does an accent look?
@@lanamack1558like this: ` ^ ′ 😛
@@lanamack1558Like French
@@lanamack1558 How would you phrase it then?
@@RuiLeTubo considering an accent is part of speech I'm more inclined to say " it sounds like..." 😀
The guy asking for 'ranch sauce' is in Utrecht down the back of the old post office, which is now the central library.
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(2) Going on a walk in the US. I was going to the supermarket somewhere in Orlando, Florida, 'cause my friend that I was with was not feeling well, so I went alone (he was the American). It was already dark outside he was like "be careful of alligators"...while funny enough, on my way there I kept seeing signs of "beware of bears". I also has my dog with me....since I'm going all the way to the supermarket, it being quite a bit far from the residential area we were living in (this far distance to a store is already very weird to me, yet I like walking a lot, so big distances don't really bother me.....especially while walking my dog), I said, why not also take my dog for a walk. So here I was, with his leash in one hand, and a flashlight in the other, because there was no fucking light on the street except for the cars that were passing by. I had a shitty narrow sidewalk, with some really dark trees / bushes / forest on a side (with the "beware bears" sign here and there and still keeping an eye out for alligators).
I just love walking, but that country doesn't really seem to be made for that experience. It was definitely a fun adventure, yet not a pleasant one that I would like to repeat.
4:40 No, Ryan, I absolutely love American pancakes! I even prefer them to the original crêpe bretonne or Breton galette I ate in France. They're all excellent, though.
Imagine, someone from France especially Paris complain about the NYC traffic infrastructure. 🤣
US pancakes are too doughy & too sweet.
Really thick and full of sugar.
The average American 😂😂
Those crepes, is literally the pancakes I grew up with. And it may just be a matter of me being used to one thing, but I do not like the thick american pancakes.
Also, my own biggest culture shock when I visited the US, was the lack of sauce/gravy. I asked for some when ordering a steak at a restaurant in Arizona. He didn't know, what is was talking about. He proposed that I could have some ketchup or barbecue sauce. He must have found it weird. So I just had to eat this huge steak (I didn't know what ounces were) without any sauce. I would have killed for some.
@tobiasagdrupdrager5583 - That's because Europeans don't have good steak and have to cover it up with gravy. Only poorer steaks in the USA would be masked with gravy.
@@reindeer7752 You may not have had good gravy then. We have gravy for everthing with meat here in Denmark. Even a well cooked good quality steak without gravy is just plain. All restaurants here will have gravy to your steak. And I do not believe it is only like this in my country.
@@tobiasagdrupdrager5583 America is known for good gravy. We have many types of gravy. We only put it on poorer cuts of meat. I don't think you have had a steak of the quality in the USA.
@@reindeer7752 In which regions/states do they have it. And what kinds? I in no way meant that your food was bad or anything, you have a lot of side dishes to your food. I am just used to gravy, to my meat and had a hard time going without it.
My Ohian host was really worried - she lives 3 km (that be two miles) from the city. Told her: I sat down all day, I need to walk home now. No room for pedestrians, no light. Odd.
If you say you “don’t like” food/dish X it’s probably because you’ve only tried a poorly made version of it. I had excellent American pancakes for breakfast at a hotel and they were the highlight of the whole trip, but the handful of other times I’ve tried them outside America they haven’t been great.
Friend of mine spent a year in Reno about 20 years ago. He literally said that people stared at them for walking to the store like they were bums. Said nobody walked anywhere outside the city centre.
Me and 2 friends visited the US in 99. We lived in the San Francisco suburb of Burlingame and decided to walk to the Walmart nearby. It was maybe a 2 km walk and three cars stopped and asked if we broke down, were lost or needed help.
@ClintDawg -Wasn't that incredibly nice of them? How many Europeans are that helpful and friendly to strangers?
@@reindeer7752 it was very nice. And I actually found Americans very helpful. Asking if we needed directions when we were looking at a map for example. It is just funny how a person walking per default is assumed lost or in trouble - because it is unusual
In the North. We call it pancakes. you call it crapes
We have five guys in some cities in Germany now and probably other European countries as well. There´s just no comparison to other fast food chains. Freshly cut fries and non-frozen beef alone make that very clear.
I travel around Europe with my sailboat, if I have on-land business I have with me a 125cc scooter 🛵. One could use one of those in NY, very handy, can go eveywhere, even in most elevators.
First time i visited the US i was in San Jose and experienced the sidewalk thing there.... wanted to walk to a nearby restaurant from the hotel and after 100m the path (sidewalk) just... stopped and there was just grass, but i could see the place i wanted to get too, so i walked over the grass and got shouted at. Weird as hell.
Also, i was in New York last year, and the French guy was right... the drivers there are *terrible*.
And.... your windows and doorknobs are just fucked up.....
You've seen every window and door knob in every home in the USA?