Not even that frozen dough baked in the shop is bread. Fresh bread is only that one fron the bakery, that made last night, baked and if you go early in the morning is still fresh and hot.
In Germany, while often just called Toast, you will also find Toastbrot (toast bread). It's even listed in the Duden (dictionary of the standard high German)
@@Trymon1980 in the Netherlands too, Toost or Geroosterd Brood(toasted bread). although we use bread for all sorts of breads if its not bread shaped we use different namings, Croissant, Bolletjes(Buns)...
When my Dutch buddy married an American girl and moved over here, he couldn't wait to buy himself a classic Muscle Car from the '60s. When he got here, he discovered all the good ones have been restored, and cost more than a new Euro car. He also didn't know tha most Euro brands are marketed as luxury cars over here. "Can't I get one with cloth seats and manual windows?" Sales dude at the Volvo dealer looked at him like he was from Mars. He was originally stoked for the 'cheap fuel", until he discovered how far apart everything is in the US (he's in Oklahoma). Even though it's less per gallon (right around 4ltrs to 1gal), you use twice as much of it. Brings to mind the old joke: "The difference between Americans and Europeans is that an American thinks a hundred years is a long time - and a European thinks 100km is a long way."😉
"The difference between Americans and Europeans is that an American thinks a hundred years is a long time - and a European thinks 100km is a long way." Damn, first time i hear that. Really good saying, thank you sir:)
@@magicofshootingstar It is a saying I heard decades ago for the first time. I am Dutch, as you know a small country. 30 years ago 100km was considered a long trip, nowadays not so much anymore. That is the problem with sayings... they lose their context over time.
I think in many cases it is a czech thing, I live in Poland just 60 miles from Czech border and I never heared of american bed or american cascets. I've heard of side-by-side fridges to be refered to as "american" but rather colloquialy then officially in a store or on the label.
@@GdzieJestNemo Did you googled random funeral homes or "amerykańskie trumny"? I've googled "trumny" and I checked first 3-4 shops, I found a lot of french cascets and spanish cascets and just one "american style"
It would be great if you watched more of theirs videos! But keep in mind, even with videos called with europe in mind, it is more or less Czech Republic only thinks in many cases, some things can be similar to some countries close to us, like Germany or Slovakia, but Europe is big and every vountry is different so something here can be absolutely different than in Spain or England.
I live in Europe (Sweden), and I would love to see a video from you with "European" things in the US :D I bet there's a lot of things there that I've never seen.
@@seanthiar It seems to actually adhere from the place formerley called ( Duchy of ) Silesia which to different times in History used to be a part of Germany and is now more a Polish or East Europe geography. As a German person born and raised to people born and raised in Middle Germany but personally being born and raised in Nothern Germany I've never done this "Christmas prickle trick" either but I've been told since then some Grandparents who came from locations like (former) Silesia actually did it.
Here in Norway we call them "continental beds". "The continent" usually refers to mainland Europe, so weird to see people on the continent call them "American" 🤣
🇳🇱 Dutch (changing to 🇨🇦) here. The fridge thing is indeed true. Since you see them so often in American movies. Ppl instantly know what kind of fridge you talk about when you say American fridge. The cascet/coffin, bed, potato(wedges) etc is not a thing to call American. The car thing is kinda true but only for brands known from America (mostly referred to the old timers since RAM etc is getting more & more common). You got football (voetbal) and American football. The food quality/difference thing im still trying to get used to 😅
A really cool random thing is that Scandinavia has more American vintage cars than America. They're relatively common to see out on the road on a nice sunny day. In fact, the largest American vintage car meetup/show is in Sweden
I was looking for this comment before I commenting myself. Def. true. It's a typical sign of spring that AmCars starts showing up all over. Live in a very ordinary neighborhood in Norway and quite a few of my neighbors have an Old American Classic. Although you do see them every now and then the larger and newer trucks and SUVs like RAMs, Escalades, Excursions and so on are far less common on the other hand.
French guy here, here some things called « american » in France and not in the US (I’ve translated the french names) : - American 8 : card game with a 54 card deck, similar to uno, inspired from crazy eights. - American kitchen : open kitchen integrated in a bigger space like a dining room or living room. - American fridge : same as the video - American filet : belgian version of the steak tartare - American night : day for night movie technique - American fist, or american punch : brass knuckles - American Ramadan : Ramadan fast poorly or badly observed - American sandwich : baguette bread open on the side with minced steaks and fries inside - American star : the (last) first part, or the artist performing just before the main one - American sauce : sauce with tomatoes, olive oil, shallots, onions, garlic, white wine, Cognac, herbs and paprika.
Murican things arent necessarily viewed as better these days by most ppl, the movie was a comedy that took place during the soviet occupation, so then US things - or "western" - were more often seen as better/best
Just keep in mind, Europe is not a single country, and not all of these apply everywhere in Europe. I'm from Austria and a lot of these things are never refered to as "american", like the Box spring Bed is just a Box Spring Bed here...
In the UK, with the exception of brands like Ford who make cars for the European market, you don't generally see big American cars unless there is an event going on because they are too wide generally for a lot of British roads. They also seem very difficult to park since the last American car I saw parked on the street (I think it was an old Chevy of some kind) took up two car parking spaces by itself.
I confirm this. Who wants to learn driving in narrow roads, parking in tight spaces, should do that in UK. Best place to polish the driving skills IMO :) Also to learn polite driving culture.
They are just not practical, even for americans with their giant streets. Not efficient, way too high (risk for pedestrians) and all the cargo space on trucks is wasted 99% of the time.
In Germany it depends on where you life. In my old hometown in the north of the German staate Nordrhein-Westfalen. I barly ever saw big cars and so I belived the cliche that we had "tiny cars" in Germany, especially cause in my old hometown also many people drove Smart or Mini, who are known for being tiny cars and most 4 or 5 seat cars had short trunks so they for sure all looked small. But now I moved to the south of Nordrhein-Westfalen and I constantly see Jeep, Land Rover, Ram, .... and other big cars aswell as more cars who have a larger trunk. No idea if its a thing because I live in a biger city in the area with most people of all Europe now compared to when I was living in a small town, but IDK (Also if thinking of American cars, I constantly see more and more Tesla here)
Here in Czech village, I see these massive Fords trucks pretty often in last years, but few days ago, it was the first time I saw that someone actually had something loaded back there behind cabin, some agricultural tools or something. Classic American cars are very rare and mostly have veteran plate, I think that it's problematical to register them here as a normal car becuase of their weird blinkers and other things.
In Portugal, American cars are quite rare. They exist, but are either classics and those are most of the time safely stored in garages, or someone has the money to import them. In my case I saw a couple of them. I remember sitting in traffic and saw a Dodge Ram coming from the other direction. I was literally looking towards the sky and thinking: “A skyscraper on wheels just drove past me.” Also saw a Mustang GT and some footballers had cars like an Escalade and Dodge Charger. Also saw some pictures of a Dodge Viper (the old one) with Portuguese plates. It’s hard for us Europeans to import these cars because we get hit with so many taxes. By the time we finish an importation, the money we spent could be used to buy a nice spec BMW or Mercedes, so why bother? Also, gas prices are super high here. It’s a real struggle to maintain a car with a V6 engine, let alone a V8. But, some people have money and can afford a nice American car, so good for them. In Iceland you see some American trucks. In UK I saw a Dodge Ram. You need to have some courage to drive that thing on UK roads. If you want you can react to Matt Watson of CarWow where he drives the new RAM TRX from Henessey in the UK. The truck even has Texas plates! He struggles quite a lot to drive that thing around the city ahah.
Portugueezer here as well. Have only ever heard about American cars when my uncle, who lived there, talked about his Oldsmobile. We do have some General Motors cars in the UK (especially Minis) but that's about it.
"Going to the store would be a wonderland to me". When I used to date an American woman, I used to call Walmart "The happiest place on earth" because it was just a fun adventure to go there. She was often shocked at things in our Dutch supermarkets too.
I'm from Switzerland, and here you can occasionally see Dodge Durango SUVs and RAM Trucks, however, they are quite rare. Generally, classic American sports cars or muscle cars are very hard to find, but they do exist.
Just to add to this, living in Geneva , Switzerland means that getting big American trucks like this makes it near impossible to park. Almost every public parking spot can just barely fit a minivan or family car.
In Poland you can occasionally see some American cars, mostly minivans, but also some muscle cars and trucks, because they are considered cool. A friend of mine drives a Durango.
I just parked my car in Bern (Switzerland) in a private indoor parking. Next to me there was a Corvette split window, in the lane behind me a Cadillac 1959 Eldorado convertible and a 1971 Chevelle. All of them were were protected in car covers. So yes, the classic american cars do exist here but you won't find them on public ground no more. What you will see every day are the new muscle cars like the Mustang, Charger or Camaro on the streets and as mentioned the Trucks.
@@michaelindermuehle6954 none of those are actually new model names they all debuted in the mid-late 1960s originally April 1964 Sept 65 and Sept 66 respectively though Charger was discontinued for nearly 30 years from 1978 to 2005 for 2006 Model year the Chevelle was discontinued in 1977 due to poor gas mileage replaced by the Malibu. I have a thing for Muscle cars though technically the Mustang isn't a muscle car its an intermediate pony car similar to a Pontiac Grand Prix/Firebird Trans am etc. before 1970 GM had a rule that intermediate cars couldn't have an engine more than 400 Cubic Ins or 6.5 Liters then when that was lifted you got the LS6 454 and Pontiac Oldsmobile and Buicks 455 engines
In Sweden we have the "side by side" fridge/freezer, Caskets are very rare but are called "american model". The boxspring bed is called "Continental bed". Old american cars (70s or older) are popular but not new cars.
Coming from the UK, older american cars were incredibly rare due to the lack of right-hand-drive models. Since I moved to germany, I see loads of american cars. They really stand out in europe on our smaller roads. It's one thing to have a big truck take up two lanes, but when the saloon (sedan) is two european lanes wide, you can't help but notice it!
They only became more popular lately here. I feel like it's some sort of "Idc about the climate" statement. Because they only started to pop up when global warming became the constant main subject everywhere. And usually those are the biggest Dodge rams. I doesn't make too much sense to drive those here. Before that most American cars were in the Netherlands.
So Fridges are generally, single width in Europe (and often smaller) We tend to buy food freshly more often. We also don't eat so much processed food like pizzas/burgers/chilled packet food so don't need so much storage space. In Britain larger new modern homes , are beginning to have bigger double fridge/freezers. I have a friend from Switzerand and she was positively shocked that British homes have freezers- apparently they prefer not to use them there!
@@redink1665 hi there! Yes I did think it was a bit weird no freezers! Greetings to Switzerland...I love it ! Been to Bern, Lausanne and of course Geneva! Want to see mere one day xx
I'm from Sweden. My husband has a 1961 Cadillac. Old American cars are called "jänkare", which kind of translates to "yanks/yankees". That car culture is quite common in many parts of Sweden and we have shows and meets that are big. My dream car is a 1971 Corvette Stingray, if I can find one which is manual and not automatic... 🤣
What i have learned about about beds/matresses by helping a friend build his camper van: They need air circulating below them. Especially in badly insulated buildings, condensed water can build under them. Thats exaggerated by the sheet metal of a van, but also applies to a standart floor. So putting just a matress is a bad idea for long term use. But I think those matresses you are talking about are special ones. Also, Pro tip for campers: Use an incontinence cover for your matress xD
To answer your question, it's very uncommon to see American trucks or any American car in Europe. People who import them only do it to show off, because they are very impractical given the smaller scale of European roads, parking spots etc. Of course there are some, but you could easily spend a few days here without ever seeing one.
@Gerry Dilleburch Of course it depends on where you live. Oh and I forgot to mention that many american cars are not even road legal here because of the red turn signals
@Gerry Dilleburch Hungary, unless you get an oldtimer license plate which is for cars that are over 30 years old, (and it's very hard to get, I won't go into details) you have to find a way to make the turn signals orange or the police will most likely stop you. On most American cars simply changing the bulb is not enough, because the lamp itself is still red. That means that you would have to get custom made taillights that have orange parts for the turn signal
14:00 I remember, it was maybe 20 years ago, when I was in high school, every day when I drove back home I saw the same blue mustang. That person must have lived near me as we always took the same route, and to me it was always an event. You don't see a lot of old mustangs in rural France. I remember that my father would say "look at him, his thing must drink petrol faster than they can refuel the pomps"
....naahhh....well....I'm not CZ ....and I find his claims rather annoying by claiming it to be "European" ....since hardly anything of what he claims do apply in many other European countries. There is no pan-European factors to the things he claim ....and that has happened in several videos. He should call his claims Czech and that's it.
@@Dan-fo9dk Just a classic clickbait title European vs American, but in the video he mentions the Czech Republic and "we" as Czechs, he never mentions "we" as Europeans.
Here in France we call the fridge...American fridge...those with water and ice cubes! When it's the old fridge I can't remember the brand but the one in Indiana Jones if I remember correctly where he survived a nuclear test protected by it... Our pain de mie is the same smallest than American "bread"...we don't use so much sandwiche bread more baguettes as it is much better...but the big slices are called American style... Of course all American cars are called American cars not a lot of people have a clue what kind it is...a truck a sedan or a mustang all are American cars... American movies and series are French favourites... European union countries are influenced at different levels by USA...US gov after WWII asked France to buy a few products but they wanted to sell their movies...and we know how medias are influencing people way of thinking!
here in italy you can see a dodge ram sometimes.most are 1500 but because they are massive, quite expensive to buy and maintain 40k euro+ and use a lot of gas they are quite rare. ford rangers or euro pickups are much more popular
@@johnnymartinjohansen yeah 40k is a lot of money in italy for a car the average car is less than 20k a few years back you could get a fiat panda new for 10k but sadly you can't anymore
I am from Czech :D and yeah, I can totally relate :D the "american" bread (toast) is kind of more sweet and "cloudy" than our toast bread, whitch is like dry and tasteless before you put something (mostly some cheese - most likely EIDAM and some ham). On the cars part, for you, there are cars, trucks and Semis, we here in europe use to call those big "trucks" like said in the video, but we refer to them as pickups (tipe of car bodyshape) and we use word "truck" more for your semis aka you know what I am talking about, you made a lot of videos on those :D
Really enjoy your videos, man! You're so down-to-earth, curious to genuinely learn about other cultures and customs, and you don't take yourself too seriously. Keep up the awesome stuff! New sub here!
Don't forget that the Czech Republic used to be behind the iron curtain after WWII and thus under soviet control and shielded from USA influence. This might be why they have more "admiration" for USA than other EU countries. In Belgium the only thing we refer to as American are those huge 2-door fridges.
Not 100% true. We have the "american kitchen". That is a kitchen that is not a separte room, but kind of part of the living room. Typically the one the guy in the video is. We have (in french) the "prepared american". That is a seasoned raw minced steak. There is an "american pool" (billiard). I think that's the one with 6 holes (not sure, I'm no pool player) In movies, there is the "american night". That is when they shoot during the day, but the night is simulated by reducing the light. We have the american fridge, bread, football too. ... and probably others I don't think of right now. But "american"does not mean "better". It's more "bigger" or "more". And if it involves quality, it usually mean "quantity over quality".
Yes, it does. The scene in the video is from a movie (named Cozy Dens) of a fictional families and their lives in communist regime right before the russian occupation of 1968.
There are now a lot of Chinese cars coming into Australia. They are becoming quite popular because they are cheap but most people still see them as poor quality. However about 20 years ago we started to get a lot of cars from Korea which had a cheap and nasty reputation, but now Kia and Hyundai are considered as mainstream good brands
The times are changing. When i was a kid in the 60s, Japanese cars was considered sh*t and something very cheap with bad quality was probably "Made in Hongkong".
Chinese cars are also becoming more popular in Germany, as well as some American cars, especially the Dodge Ram. American cars usually have a bad reputation here as being low quality and unreliable (also cosindered ugly). Yet VWs (and everything related) are getting worse and people notice. VW's reputation is going down hill, yet still people buy them in masses...
The American car scene is definitely alive and well here in Finland. We call them "Jenkkirauta" - Yankee iron. One surefire way to tell summer is around soon is when you suddenly start to see a lot of old big American V8's like Chevy, Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac and the like on the streets. 😄
im from the north of sweden and where i live we got alot of old american cars from the 50-60-70's, since its a long winter here we mostly use them in the summer jun/july/august. and its very common here to get a friend(that stays sober) to drive you and your other friends around and drink/party all night :)
In Finland, youll see old American cars and other pimped out wheels every first Friday of the month during summer, driving around and ending up in big parking lots. Ive seen this even in small towns, its called cruising. They are hella expensive to drive, but there are still some around.
Here in the Netherlands we don’t see many American cars. There is some Ford etc, but American cars don’t have such a good image here. Don’t want to be offensive, but most think they are too big, inefficient in fuel and not that well build. However, these huge trucks áre funny to see in traffic. When a e.g. Hummer is on our highway, it’s just humongous compared to the rest 😂 (The big exception is Tesla btw, you see those all over as electric cars are perfect in our small country, charging infrastructure and government subsidized)
I see American cars at least couple of times a week here in Eastern England but........ these are mainly USAF military police cars. Surprisingly, LHD too!
Yes an you Guys have the biggest American Car meet. The Power Power big meet, in Västeras Linköping or Lidköping I think. The biggest US Car Meeting of the world. Have been there at the 40th Aniversary.
I don't think "American made" is considered high quality in Finland, more of the opposite with cost savings and somewhat shoddy "consumer goods" that are expected to break. The only exceptions I can think of may be clothing and military equipment. Maybe some tech, but that's pretty much all made in China anyway. In the past it was different, as you say, 50 years ago. Old American cars, tools, machines from that era were considered top tier. The image of American quality may have hung around for longer in eastern Europe and nations that were part of the USSR as anything western was superior quality.
Here in Germany it's similar. "Made in Germany/Austria/Switzerland" and "Made in EU" are regarded as the best. "Made in America" is rather rare and only a seal of quality if the product is explicitly an American item that isn't really made anywhere else.
We don't see so many American cars or trucks here in the UK apart from at car shows etc, probably because of our smaller roads so the huge American cars aren't so easy to drive through our traffic. One of mum and dad's neighbours where they used to have an old Edsel that was huge, but it stayed on the driveway for most of the time though. We do have a few old 60's/70's American pickup trucks that are used daily in our local area. The one car that seems to be getting more common in the UK is the new Mustangs, usually Mustang GTs, which always makes me think of Jeff Foxworthy's song 12 Redneck Days of Christmas. The first day of Christmas he gets parts for a Mustang GT.
in the netherlands we have an interesting one "Amerikaanse frietsaus" or "American fries sauce", it's a yellow sauce with green specks in it that you dip your fries into. from what i understand it's a Dutch sauce, but it has a little story to it. american fries sauce is actually only used to describe copies of the sauce. the original one is actually referred to as "McDonald's frietsaus" because it's the default sauce you always get with your fries at McDonald's. ordering fries at McDonald's used to be the only way to get a little packet of the sauce, but at some point companies started copying the sauce and because it was only previously seen at an American "restaurant" they just called it American sauce. and the netherlands is the only country where I've seen McDonald's offer the sauce, which seems odd to us dutch people because to us, it's the iconic McDonald's sauce that only they have.
You guys are just a bit weird; I ordered a Pitta with looksaus in R'dam and she didn't understand me until I said "Knoflooksaus". The next day I went to Mcdonald's, ordered fries with mayo and got Mad sauce instead!
I think the american tag comes on an item when its "bigger than you need/excessive". I live pretty much below the wasteful average line but if I buy something I know will last for a longer time I could chose the american version because over time I can make up for it. American car is huge and drinks 22 liters per 100km when the same european version is smaller and drinks like 12 liters per 100km. American bed is like 220x200 more madrasses than you need and the normal is on legs 180x200cm only.
Here in the UK we very rarely use American cars or vans, so they are rarely seen, although Chrysler and Chevrolet do sell smaller cars here in England. But they are not very popular.
In Germany you see American trucks maybe twice to five times a year. Smaller Land Rover "trucks" are more common, but still rare. Obviously depends on where you live and how often you use the roads. Some people only use public transportation and don't see many cars, because the attention is not on the road. Station wagens are highly popular here. Greetins!
I remember station wagons were also popular here in Australia before the whole SUV/crossover trend EXPLODED. Now I barely see them on the road anymore.
From living in Ireland, I would say the vehicle size difference has to do with the size of the roads. Roads here are very narrow, by comparison to the average road in the states. Makes it challenging to have larger vehicles, also the road tax for vehicles over here are based on engine size, so I truck (like the ram) would have a high road tax on it. It's just not worth it. Unless you're strictly using something like that on a farm, but again my experience suggests that most Irish farms would just use a tractor for most of the things you would typically use a heavy duty truck for.
In Sweden, there is a ridiculous amount of vintage American cars, in the summer they are everywhere, not just at shows, I dont remember if you saw Power Big Meet, but you really should Also I own one too!
I was hoping you'd watch this... As a Czech I was surprised by how many things we actually call American xd For some clarifcation, 14:10 we dont see these huge trucks very often, if so than mostly deep in the countryside, but whenever I see one in like Prague or somewhere, I think to myself "What an idiot, that guy's gonna take up all the space!" So yeah, no xd
Here in a small town 30 km from Prague, I see them pretty often in last years, one of them has local kolotočář and another has some farmer, I am not sure what exact type it is, but it looks like Ford F-150 or 450 or something like that and yes, it looks like a tank on Czech road. 😀
We in the UK call the double door fridges American style fridges but the rest is not true for the UK. We don't refer to any of the other items as American! We have whole aisles of cereal, sometimes both sides of the aisle too. This has been interesting our loaves of bread are the same size as the "American" bread! British sliced bread is sometimes too big for the toaster. Lol however we do also have all the fresh bread available in all supermarkets, there's a whole aisle of packaged sliced bread and also a bakery section of fresh bread. I suppose we're not European really anyway.
@@101steel4 I meant as in culture, of course geographically we are. However the only thing we call American in this video is the fridge, everything else we do not refer to as American. Obviously their padded rugby game too, but every American knows that coz they're the only ones to call it football. Lol We usually have two full sides of a whole aisle of cereal in the UK, the British packaged sliced bread is bigger than what is referred to as American in the video. Etc ...
In Portugal, at the beach, in the summer, you eat 'bolacha americana' ('American biscuit/American cookie'), which is basically just a giant flat wafer. In the UK (and, I am assuming, also Italy), an 'Americano' is basically a more watery espresso served in a bigger cup. Oh yeah, and 'American cheese' is the nasty spray-on stuff (string cheese, I think you call it.)
Here in Belgium we actually have a kind of sandwich spread called "Americain Preparé". It is rinced meat, mostly beef and it is raw ! When i have an American friend coming over he almost demands me to get some at the butchers. I know it is prohibited in the states for it is a raw meat product. So litterly translated it means "Prepared American" (no disrespect intendet)
In the Netherlands it's called filet americain. I spoke to someone who works in food safety and regularly tests products. She told me she had never, not even once, tested a sample of this that had nothing wrong with it. And pregnant women are told to not eat it. But it is just so incredibly yummy!
Classic American cars are very, very rare here in Germany Hamburg. Smaller cars are more common. There are many SUVs, but also rather smaller variants than in the USA. The problem in big European cities is that the streets are often very narrow or you wouldn't find a parking space with such big cars. It would also be difficult to get into many public garages.
I have 2 fridges and one big freezer and it's still not enough. 😀 I live in a small town where it's hard to buy something fresh, you are lucky when local supermarket has at least something, so you have to buy a lot of things to stock when they have it and freeze it
Belgian here; The fridge we call an 'american style' fridge because just because Koreans make them doesn't take away they mainly make them for the american market. Our cereal aisle is a nice middle ground I think with the unhealthy section being about twice the size of the Czech one shown. On the cars: I've only heard "I've bought 'an american'" used as a short hand for american car. And yes of all the american trucks the Ram (1500) is by far the most common one (though still a sporadic sight) and almost always the first modification you will see on one is an LPG conversion because you will make your money back very quickly bc of the difference in fuel prices (about €0.70/ litre compared to €1.70 for petrol) and the slight loss of power doesn't matter when most gutys buy one because it looks and sounds cool (other than landscapers hauling a lawnmower I've never seen one used for work of any kind... we usually use either actual trucks or converted vans with a pick-up style bed (like a ford transit or something similar)
Here in Brasil we have the (non) american glass that are very popular at bars to drink beer, and the french bread that was created here by portuguese bakery owners
In Finland I think American beds are the very high ones, like the first image shows. Very Low base, with a thick separate spring matress and with another thick matress (so 3 layers usually), with overall heavy look. We do have our own spring matress beds but they are usually with higher legs (easier to vacuum under) that have spring matress built in the frame and a thinner foam matress on top (2 layers usually), may be close to same height but does not look as heavy.
When I moved out my first fridge was so small I had my gas cooker on top of it and the kitchen actually had the space and purpose for it, with the gas main right there. Totally normal, a waist high fridge with just the little freezing compartment at the top, enough for three pizzas if lucky.
I live in Zagreb, Croatia. Have been a taxi driver for 3 years almost and I almost NEVER see American cars. There is one however pemanently parked at a private gas station which serves as a nice ad for the owner. Some sort of old chevy I think. But just that one in a large eurpoean city
I see Honest Guide, I press like, please more. American cars are a thing in my area, but kinda rare. (north west Germany) My Mom drives a Crysler Crossfire tho, didn't you owne one too? Did yours also had corrosion around the rear weels and trunk?
When I Googled it, the difference between a coffin and a casket is that a coffin has a one piece lid that is nailed on top to seal it for burial, whereas a casket has a hinged lid that can be either half or fully open to allow for viewing the deceased at a memorial service.
I know America has the expression "Everything's bigger in Texas", but in the rest of the world we say "Everything's bigger in America" Also, where I live on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia, what you'd call trucks (dual-cab utes here) are getting upsettingly more common. Even out here where it gets semi-rural, they seem so excessive. The country roads are tiny, these things take up the whole width.
Yeah I line in the inner northern suburbs. There are way more SUVs in the road than when I was little. I wouldn’t mind a station wagon as a family car. But near no one makes them anymore, I only really found them second hand.
Thinking of that, the car you described as a "truck", funny enough, no mather if you drive a Land Rover, a RAM, a Jeep, etc. are actually called "Geländewagen" in German (Gelände= Terrain, Wagen = Wagon / Car) but many people tend to also call it "Jeep" even if its not a Jeep. I remember when in my neighborhood someone bought a Land Rover and parked on the street in such a way that my mom could barly pass it on the streets, she went like "Shitty damn Jeep!" or something like that and it was not even a Jeep lol
about that car-truck thing. Here in Europe we have normal licence for cars up to 3 500kg (7 700lbs). Everything heavier is truck, because we need "truck driving license". Or another special "bus driving license" for bus drivers. Difference is in number of passengers (for car license it's 8 + driver max).
I can't remember all the food products anymore, but when I go to the store there is one product that always has its American version - peanut butter. It has your flag on it and it's expensive that's why I never buy it ;D The price difference is gigantic. In Poland we don't have high salaries.
The main difference (at least where I’m from; NL) is that the American peanutbutter brands have more additives like sugar, salt, oil etc. So I wouldn’t spend extra cash on getting less quality and nutritional food 😂
Huh, here in Germany, usually if you see peanut butter in the isle at all, it will most likely have some american themed labelling (like the flag colors over it)... Because it is seen as an American thing in general. So there is no "normal" (non-American) version of it at all. In my experience, many people don't like it much either. People here tend to eat Nutella instead.
Out of all the American cars, the most I seen here in my part of the UK are modern Mustangs. Occasionally I would see a classic Chevy, Oldsmobile and the like or the big American trucks such as a Dodge Ram. As mentioned, it's most likely to be at a car show.
In english speaking countries pastries is called "danish". In Denmark, we don't call it danish, we call "Wienerbrød" which translated means "Vienna bread", bread from Vienna. Denmark is known for its pastries :)
In France too, pastries like a croissant are called "viennoiseries" (from the city of Vienna) . The croissant was first invented in Vienna to celebrate their victory on the Turkish Empire.
In germany there is a pastry called americans "Amerikaner". In english it is black and white cookie. As a swede i like them because they resemble what we call Mazariner.
The difference between casket and coffin is simpler than that. Caskets can have the half lid but the primary difference is the hinge. Caskets have hinges, coffins have removable lids-- and lack the half lid.
I'm Czech and I must say I see trucks very rarely and we usually don't like seeing them, or at least the people I know don't. The main problem with them is that they take too much space and aren't usually able to get into tight spaces or turns. For example our McDonald drive-ins are very narrow and it would be almost impossible to not drive over the curb or into a pole. There also isn't much of a car culture, given that we have a pretty advanced public transportation system and it's often more affortable to just take the train or the bus.
I' m Canadian and my husband is French. We bought "American bread" once in France juste to try. It was awful!! Even the birds didn't want it. We told my inlaws THiS was NOT American bread 😂😂
Well the birds are used to fresh baked bread every day.:) I'm from finland and I've been living in spain for few years now, and the bread in the plastic bags (basically this "american bread", toast, whatever) are poison. Here they last for weeks, maybe even months, in finland they go bad very quickly. But when you buy freshly baked baguette or any other bread, it will not last more than a day or two. In finland we eat a lot of rye bread, which is almost forever good without preservatives and has much more fiber etc than white bread and they (like baguettes) are often considered as a delicasy, not actual food.
Well, it isn't American bread. Because what they called bread in the US was even worse :D (of the same kind). Getting an actual loaf of an actual bread was quite the quest.
In France and French-speaking Belgium two things commonly called "American" are: . "American kitchen" (cuisine américaine): an open plan kitchen, opening onto the living room. . "American fridge" (frigo américain): a two-door refrigerator with an ice-maker.
I am from Lower Saxony in Germany. In my area you can see quite a few pickups, but not the huge things like yours. Some oldtimers from the 50s and 60s drive through the area when the weather is nice. Since I used to work for a company that installed car radios and sound systems, I have not only seen but also driven quite a few. It was always a challenge to hide speakers under the full-length seat, or radios and CD players in the glove compartment. The most difficult thing was to route the cables without them being visible, because the cars do not have a covered vehicle floor. The coolest car we ever worked on was a 1947 Oldsmobile. A turning circle like a tank. 🤣 I would argue that the really big classic cars would not fit through any of the tiny streets in our downtown area.
We do get some "American style" products here in Norway, but not all of those mentioned in this video. The American style side by side fridge/freezer combo is only nicknamed American fridge and usually called a side by side. We get American style hot dog buns or burger buns, one of those I get are called Chicago. We have American pan pizza and some shops have Heinz ketchup stocked. Regarding the cars, I feel that I see more American cars in summer and the more rural the area is. It might be a coincidence around my local area, but it's usually the smallest persons that have the biggest American cars. I was waiting for a ferry, saw a Big Dooley twin rear wheels pickup truck and a huge Chevy Van, both drivers wasn't above 1,50 m. In the summer there's quite a lot of American cars used as weekend driving cars, like Corvette, Mustang, Cadillac or the rarer El Dorado or similar large American convertible cars. I've seen a few Blazer, Ram, Crossfire and Viper also. That's what I can think of right now.
In Austria, F150s and Rangers are getting more popular every year. But the heavy duty stuff like the 2500RAM are not, because you are not allowed to drive them with a "normal" car driver's license. You gotta have a truck-license that you would need for large box vans or semi-trucks. It's because of the weight. Above 3500kg / ~7700pounds of "maximum permissible total weight" you have to have this license. Which takes longer to learn, and is way more expensive than the a car license. The 1500RAM is right around that margin.
I watch a lot of international real estate shows, like renovations, and international rent or buy programs! I am no longer surprised by American travellers demands! An American size fridge, in a 400 year old Spanish or English house - open plan huge kitchen, separate laundry, ensuite bathrooms, large closets, no steep stairs, garages, large gardens, views, walk to shops and bars! Really fun and frequently ridiculous, it's "old" Europe! 🤨 We have a real bakery in every suburb, or several! You cannot fit an American truck in original old Sydney streets either! Gridiron is a bit ridiculous, and not football! Specialist European products are always worth the money! American is not exotic or special in Australia! Interesting video! 😄
norwegian here, american cars is pretty commonover here. there is a lot of car clubs for american cars (commonly called amcar here). clubs by brand or model (vans, mustangs etc) but they are also including other brands.. for ex, if a local ford/chevy club holds a event, there is not uncommon to see other amcar brands at that event.
8:13 never heard of that in Germany. We have pre-made potato wedges here and people also make them on their own at home but we just trow on spices of out choice and thats it. I never heard of people buying specific spices for that
I‘m from Germany. You don‘t see a lot of american cars here as they are usually refered to high fuel consumption and way to big dimensions with soft/weak suspensions not made for the narrow and curvy roads here in europe. But I like US made cars big time. Me and my family owned in the last 20 years 10 Jeeps, 2 Chrysler and 1 RAM. I took the Jeeps offroad, joined a Jeep Club, had a lot of fun. But times changed, so today we have 3 Skodas, 2 of them full battery electric Skoda Enyaq.
my own grandfather lied in repose (sorry i am german, the dictonary told me, this would be the accurate expression). an old tradition in germany, that almost got forgotten! i never ever heard the term "american coffin" (or "amerikanischer sarg"). also the potatos aren't called that way here. we say "kartoffelspalten" (am: potato wedges). we have toasts, that is referring to america, but i never heard someone calls it that way. we just say "toast". "white toast, full grain toast" and so on. toast isn't bread after all!
Hey IWrocker since you already know Honest Guide you are pretty much ready for the trip to Prague. The best starting point for Eurotrip. Go for it one day!
In Finnish a car is called auto. But that covers all vehicles with rubber tires. Buses, semis, trucks are all cars in Finnish. They are just different types of cars. You just create a compound word by adding the type before auto to describe it more specificaly. A pickup is avolava-auto, a bus is linja-auto and passenger car is henkilöauto.
In Czech, car is car for personal traveling, truck (náklaďák/kamion) is specifically that huge and long thing. These american massive cars they call trucks are not trucks for us. Maybe we could use name pickup, but nobody really uses it and it doesn't even say it's bigger, it means just that is has that opened back part behind cabin.
The classic European fridge combo can be seen on the left and at the back wall in the shop, fridge top and freezer bottom, but each a single door - and no integrated ice cube maker. The freezer has then usually three individual drawers behind that door. I know "American bed" in Germany as an old name for queen size and king size beds, i.e. wider than single with only one mattress for the whole width. This did not necessarily refer to the base style. "American potatoes" seems to be a Czech thing. Never heard of it as a name in Germany, although some manufacturers will put an American flag on the bag of ready cut and seasoned, deep frozen potato wedges. But they are called "Kartoffelspalten", which is litereally translated "potato wedges" into German. Classic American cars are common in Germany. I drove an 87 Camaro IROC-Z myself in the 2000s. There will be meets allover the country and of course you are welcome with an American car of appropriate age to join any brand-open classic car meet. Often these cars were left in Germany by GIs when their deployment ended and made their way into the German second hand car marktet. Also GM and Chrysler (but not really Ford) have sold many cars new through their European dealerships. Chrysler boutht French car maker Simca in the 70es and kept part of their dealer network when they sold Simca to Peugeot 10 years later. GM used their European Opel dealer network. But all this was usually half-hearted, except for Chrysler, who were the only US brand doing a serious attempt into the European market in the 80es and 90es, driven by the Chrysler Voyager (rebadged Plymouth) minivan and had their breakthrough in the car segment in the 90es with Neon, Stratus/Sebring and Vision, using Chrysler as the brand that was established in the 60es and 70es but model names and often the complete car of their Plymouth, Dodge and Eagle brands rebadged. The 80es models unfortunately suffered from quality issues, the 90es models still from that reputation. Nowadays you can buy some US models through regular Ford dealerships, basically the Mustang, Ranger, and scheduled to launch end of this year the new Bronco. Chrysler and Ram are available through the Stellantis group, which I'm afraid is too many brands and will have to extinct some great names in the coming years. But right now you can come along a dealership advertsing "Fiat, Alfa-Romeo, Abarth, Jeep, Chrysler, Dodge, Ram". Models on sale are a wider range, let me see if I get them all: Chrysler 300 and Pacifica, the whole Jeep range, Dodge Challenger, and Ram 1500.
Fridge top, freezer bottom, that's pretty modern combination for us here, typical Czech fridge has it vice versa, you mostly have bigger fridge down and small freezer on top.
Most American bread would be banned in the uk, the same as most American cereals because of the sugar and salt. I have heard subway can’t say their bread is real bread because of the amount of sugar the bread contains.
Many of these American things may be a Czech thing. Here in The Netherlands, we call a boxspring bed just a boxspring bed. There is no Dutch word for it. it is very uncommon to see pre-packed bread like this, bread is just fresh almost everywhere. Dutch bread from a supermarket can usually be stored for 2-3 days, so pre-packaging is not necessary. We call the American fridge an American fridge here too, they are only seen in big free standing houses, those houses are relatively uncommon. We also don't have a difference between trucks and cars. The American semi-truck is called a truck here, we have vans (eurovans in the US), everything else on four wheels is just called a car. Because of heavy taxes based on emissions, those big US trucks are not common here. That Ram 2500 next to the VW Golf in this video will set you back around 100000 (!) euros, including taxes. In some situations, an exempt on taxes is possible, then the truck will be 'only' about 60000. They are way, way too expensive for the average Dutchie, and way too big for any city. Did you know that the minimum width of any one-way road lane in The Netherlands is only 2.75 meters? Try fitting that RAM on those roads.
In both sweden and Germany that is called a frensh door fridge. I have one just like it. Also.. the myth that fridges are smaler is probobly spawed by many people having modular fridges. They are exactly 60cm wide and typically quite high. Around 210. (7 foot). While you would think. Yes, a 60cm fridge is much smaller than a 80-100 that is typically in the US. At least here in sweden. I larger kitchen people usually have 1.5 or 2 units. Simply buy two and put them next to each other. There is multiple reason to do so. Firstly they are typically split. So 2 units give you 4 section. Then you can do 10C, 5C, -10 and -20C. This firstly saves power. But it also get you more options. Butter and cheese and fruite don't need 5C, while milk do. The last reason for it is that you can put cabinet doors on them. And totaly hide them from site. Yes, they are totaly invisible.
To see American cars in Eastern Germany is very rare, besides of regular cars like smaller Chevrolet or so. It is always a reason to turn your head and watch huge pickup trucks or American old timers like Cadillacs from the 50s/60s.
Austria: my father still drove Cadillac in the 60‘s. I grew up in an Eldorado Coupe in the early 70‘s, also in a Camaro, etc. I myself drove a AMC Eagle, a Jeep CJ7 and at least a Buick Park Avenue until 2015.
Average UK fridges are a standards 500mm wide. Same as washers dryers, dishwashers ovens and hobs etc.. so whey are all interchangeable in a standard base unit sized hole. That's not to say we have wider double door fridge freezers, but I've never had or wanted for one.
That was definitely unexpected. Here in Romania we don't refer to any of these things as "American", must be a Czech thing. The only thing that comes to mind which is actually labeled as "American" is an America Coffee. Which is usually a long black coffee. And yeah, we have quite a few American cars on the road here. They're not as common as European or Asian brands, but they're not rare either, Emphasis on cars. Trucks are very few and far between.
In Australia, we dont really call things American, except maybe the people that live there. Our fridges are described by volume in litres or by the style of its doors. Coffins are coffins or caskets. Cereal is pretty big here, it has a full aisle, but our best seller is Weet Bix or muesli and rolled oats in the colder months. Bread here is similar in size to US, but depending on the state, it's mainly multigrain and wholemeal or light rye. Our white bread doesn't have sugar in it, or where it does, its very little. It's also mostly baked in store, but there is also factory bread. Our biggest selling trucks, which we call Ute's, classed as large here Hilux and Ranger. In the US they'd be called mid size. RAM is the biggest of what we call the extra large truck (just large in the Us).
I'm currently based in Hungary, and here the food inflation is about 50%. I actually compared American and Hungarian grocery prices, and I found them to be similar, and in many cases American prices are lower! Crazy right? Electronics are also much more affordable, such as MacBook Pro. I could book a ticket to Atlanta, spend a week there and buy a MacBook Pro, it would cost as much as purchasing it at the Hungarian Apple store.
As an American living in Finland, I'd say it's not that common to see American style cars. However they do tend to make an appearance when the weather here starts to warm up and at some car shows. And as for the big trucks... not very common at all, extremely rare.
We dont really have trucks, because you’d be hauling all that extra snow around in the winter. Vans are popular tho, for the folks who need to move a lot of gear with them. My family was big on cars when gas was still cheaper, my uncle had El Camino for one summer. His last American car was beautiful black Chevy pick up, it was just too thirsty (40 l/100 km, if you were even slightly heavy footed) for even late 90s gas prices and he moved on to European cars. For comparison, husbands current turbo-Opel takes 7 l/ 100 km at its worst. 40 is a lot! We used to have a lot of “yankees” here, but the gas prices made a real number on them. The few remaining are for special occasions only, like for every first Friday of the month (during summer) people will go “cruising”. The sober one drives and in the end the night, they will end up in big parking lots to check out everybodys wheels. Check out your local action, if home sickness gets too much :)
13:46 They are uncommon. In recent years the more sporty ones like Mustangs and Camaros became a little more common among wealthier people. I've also seen a Dodge Challenger last week. Trucks however not so much. They are usually a crappy alternatives of minivans and station wagons for tradesmen so they don't usually choose them (the business owner's son pretending to be a tradesman might). There is maybe one Dodge Ram in my town. Ford Rangers however became popular among anglers and hunters in the past 10 years.
Poland here, as for the cars there's definitely some (old) american car lovers especially among the rock n roll crowd - I had the pleasure of being a part of a photoshoot with a bunch of those . Also quite a few people like the new large suv/jeep/whatever-you-call-that-truck-like-car styles too (yes, I use the metro, how'd you guess 😂). As for the expressions, I haven't heard most of these, so it's either a Czech thing or not too widespread. We definitely do have "american sauce" that I have no idea what it actually is lol
In Italy none of these apply except for American football. Though now I saw that a big store calls the big fridge American, while other stores call it side-by-side.
My roommate has a small dog that likes to sleep on her bed. But the box spring made it so high that the dog risked injury jumping off, so we lost the box spring part. Some places call the wedges “potato logs”. I didn’t know that there were any particular spices though. I like BBQ cheese logs personally, or maybe with jalapenos. I haven’t eaten box cereals for decades. But some of the Asian markets have similarly massive Ramen aisles. Some of the Mercados make me feel like I’m back overseas. Everybody drives a huge monster 4X4 truck here in Las Vegas, to go grocery shopping or to commute to work. They never leave the pavement and usually park with the tailgate hanging out in the street, it’s nuts. I love shows like this.
13:43 i'm in the south east of france and it's extremly rare to see old american cars in the street here. i saw way more supercars and hypercars in the street than old american cars. i remember a car meet in Cannes with some muscle car from the 70's like a Charger Super Bee or a Corvette C3 ZL1. I was really suprise because I’ve never seen those cars before. As you may guess, I haven’t seen them since
any supersized fridge is 'American' to us, especially with a ice cube machine included 😋 Maybe we would call it Korean if we would watch way more Korean movies then American movies, showing that stuff to us. I guess none of the food that's called American you can buy in Europe is the same as in the USA. Europe doesn't allow that much sugar and chemicals. For some reason, some companies think, American labeled stuff sells better here in Europe.
Never call "toast bread" "bread" - I think nowhere in Europe anyone considers this "bread", it's just a fluffy thing to put in a toaster.
Not even that frozen dough baked in the shop is bread. Fresh bread is only that one fron the bakery, that made last night, baked and if you go early in the morning is still fresh and hot.
In Germany, while often just called Toast, you will also find Toastbrot (toast bread). It's even listed in the Duden (dictionary of the standard high German)
@@Trymon1980 in the Netherlands too, Toost or Geroosterd Brood(toasted bread). although we use bread for all sorts of breads if its not bread shaped we use different namings, Croissant, Bolletjes(Buns)...
In the Netherlands we refer to it as toastie bread. (Tosti brood) But its called casino brood.
in finland its called "paahtoleipä" (toasting bread)
When my Dutch buddy married an American girl and moved over here, he couldn't wait to buy himself a classic Muscle Car from the '60s. When he got here, he discovered all the good ones have been restored, and cost more than a new Euro car. He also didn't know tha most Euro brands are marketed as luxury cars over here. "Can't I get one with cloth seats and manual windows?" Sales dude at the Volvo dealer looked at him like he was from Mars. He was originally stoked for the 'cheap fuel", until he discovered how far apart everything is in the US (he's in Oklahoma). Even though it's less per gallon (right around 4ltrs to 1gal), you use twice as much of it. Brings to mind the old joke: "The difference between Americans and Europeans is that an American thinks a hundred years is a long time - and a European thinks 100km is a long way."😉
"The difference between Americans and Europeans is that an American thinks a hundred years is a long time - and a European thinks 100km is a long way." Damn, first time i hear that. Really good saying, thank you sir:)
Yeah that was a good one lol.
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Well that probably is true in the middle parts of Europe but here in northern Europe 100 km isn't very long 😄
@@magicofshootingstar It is a saying I heard decades ago for the first time. I am Dutch, as you know a small country. 30 years ago 100km was considered a long trip, nowadays not so much anymore. That is the problem with sayings... they lose their context over time.
I think in many cases it is a czech thing, I live in Poland just 60 miles from Czech border and I never heared of american bed or american cascets. I've heard of side-by-side fridges to be refered to as "american" but rather colloquialy then officially in a store or on the label.
Same for me (german)
All over the europe
american cascets are a thing in Poland - out of curiosity googled random funeral homes and they often got american cascets listed.
@@GdzieJestNemo Did you googled random funeral homes or "amerykańskie trumny"? I've googled "trumny" and I checked first 3-4 shops, I found a lot of french cascets and spanish cascets and just one "american style"
@@MrGrucha "dom pogrzebowy" and went to random funeral homes websites and check what is their offer in trumny category
It would be great if you watched more of theirs videos! But keep in mind, even with videos called with europe in mind, it is more or less Czech Republic only thinks in many cases, some things can be similar to some countries close to us, like Germany or Slovakia, but Europe is big and every vountry is different so something here can be absolutely different than in Spain or England.
I live in Europe (Sweden), and I would love to see a video from you with "European" things in the US :D I bet there's a lot of things there that I've never seen.
I second this notion! As a German, I expect WILD stuff
You can start with the Christmas pickle......
"swiss cheese" has absolutely nothing to do with swiss cheese. It's just a type of american plastic cheese over there.
@@seanthiar It seems to actually adhere from the place formerley called ( Duchy of ) Silesia which to different times in History used to be a part of Germany and is now more a Polish or East Europe geography. As a German person born and raised to people born and raised in Middle Germany but personally being born and raised in Nothern Germany I've never done this "Christmas prickle trick" either but I've been told since then some Grandparents who came from locations like (former) Silesia actually did it.
@@AllroundSwizzy Hahah true. I once saw sb make "German pancakes" looking at the recipe they seem to be of "Dutch origins" if even...
In Belgium a 'box spring bed' is called a 'box spring bed'. So it seems that not everywhere in Europe we call them an 'American bed'.
Here in Norway we call them "continental beds". "The continent" usually refers to mainland Europe, so weird to see people on the continent call them "American" 🤣
Yeah, never head someone call it "american bed" in Germany, too. We also call it "Boxspringbett", kind of germanized 😀
In the UK we call such beds "divan beds", the box spring base being the "divan".
Same for Germany
@@VaughanCockell from polish "Dywan" for "carpet" so a carpet bed?
🇳🇱 Dutch (changing to 🇨🇦) here. The fridge thing is indeed true. Since you see them so often in American movies. Ppl instantly know what kind of fridge you talk about when you say American fridge. The cascet/coffin, bed, potato(wedges) etc is not a thing to call American. The car thing is kinda true but only for brands known from America (mostly referred to the old timers since RAM etc is getting more & more common). You got football (voetbal) and American football. The food quality/difference thing im still trying to get used to 😅
A really cool random thing is that Scandinavia has more American vintage cars than America. They're relatively common to see out on the road on a nice sunny day. In fact, the largest American vintage car meetup/show is in Sweden
I was looking for this comment before I commenting myself. Def. true. It's a typical sign of spring that AmCars starts showing up all over. Live in a very ordinary neighborhood in Norway and quite a few of my neighbors have an Old American Classic. Although you do see them every now and then the larger and newer trucks and SUVs like RAMs, Escalades, Excursions and so on are far less common on the other hand.
French guy here, here some things called « american » in France and not in the US (I’ve translated the french names) :
- American 8 : card game with a 54 card deck, similar to uno, inspired from crazy eights.
- American kitchen : open kitchen integrated in a bigger space like a dining room or living room.
- American fridge : same as the video
- American filet : belgian version of the steak tartare
- American night : day for night movie technique
- American fist, or american punch : brass knuckles
- American Ramadan : Ramadan fast poorly or badly observed
- American sandwich : baguette bread open on the side with minced steaks and fries inside
- American star : the (last) first part, or the artist performing just before the main one
- American sauce : sauce with tomatoes, olive oil, shallots, onions, garlic, white wine, Cognac, herbs and paprika.
Purge the scambot
You forgot the American 15 minutes: when it's time for the ladies to invite the boys to dance in a party
Murican things arent necessarily viewed as better these days by most ppl, the movie was a comedy that took place during the soviet occupation, so then US things - or "western" - were more often seen as better/best
Je n'avais jamais entendu parlé du Ramadan américain.
- American anything : a bigger version of the original objest that usually preforms worse
Just keep in mind, Europe is not a single country, and not all of these apply everywhere in Europe. I'm from Austria and a lot of these things are never refered to as "american", like the Box spring Bed is just a Box Spring Bed here...
In the UK, with the exception of brands like Ford who make cars for the European market, you don't generally see big American cars unless there is an event going on because they are too wide generally for a lot of British roads. They also seem very difficult to park since the last American car I saw parked on the street (I think it was an old Chevy of some kind) took up two car parking spaces by itself.
I confirm this. Who wants to learn driving in narrow roads, parking in tight spaces, should do that in UK. Best place to polish the driving skills IMO :) Also to learn polite driving culture.
They are just not practical, even for americans with their giant streets. Not efficient, way too high (risk for pedestrians) and all the cargo space on trucks is wasted 99% of the time.
In Germany it depends on where you life. In my old hometown in the north of the German staate Nordrhein-Westfalen. I barly ever saw big cars and so I belived the cliche that we had "tiny cars" in Germany, especially cause in my old hometown also many people drove Smart or Mini, who are known for being tiny cars and most 4 or 5 seat cars had short trunks so they for sure all looked small. But now I moved to the south of Nordrhein-Westfalen and I constantly see Jeep, Land Rover, Ram, .... and other big cars aswell as more cars who have a larger trunk. No idea if its a thing because I live in a biger city in the area with most people of all Europe now compared to when I was living in a small town, but IDK (Also if thinking of American cars, I constantly see more and more Tesla here)
Here in Czech village, I see these massive Fords trucks pretty often in last years, but few days ago, it was the first time I saw that someone actually had something loaded back there behind cabin, some agricultural tools or something. Classic American cars are very rare and mostly have veteran plate, I think that it's problematical to register them here as a normal car becuase of their weird blinkers and other things.
Ford of Britain is actually a British wholly owned company.
In Portugal, American cars are quite rare. They exist, but are either classics and those are most of the time safely stored in garages, or someone has the money to import them.
In my case I saw a couple of them. I remember sitting in traffic and saw a Dodge Ram coming from the other direction. I was literally looking towards the sky and thinking: “A skyscraper on wheels just drove past me.” Also saw a Mustang GT and some footballers had cars like an Escalade and Dodge Charger. Also saw some pictures of a Dodge Viper (the old one) with Portuguese plates.
It’s hard for us Europeans to import these cars because we get hit with so many taxes. By the time we finish an importation, the money we spent could be used to buy a nice spec BMW or Mercedes, so why bother?
Also, gas prices are super high here. It’s a real struggle to maintain a car with a V6 engine, let alone a V8. But, some people have money and can afford a nice American car, so good for them.
In Iceland you see some American trucks.
In UK I saw a Dodge Ram. You need to have some courage to drive that thing on UK roads.
If you want you can react to Matt Watson of CarWow where he drives the new RAM TRX from Henessey in the UK. The truck even has Texas plates! He struggles quite a lot to drive that thing around the city ahah.
Portugueezer here as well. Have only ever heard about American cars when my uncle, who lived there, talked about his Oldsmobile. We do have some General Motors cars in the UK (especially Minis) but that's about it.
"A skyscraper on wheels" - perfect! :D
"Going to the store would be a wonderland to me". When I used to date an American woman, I used to call Walmart "The happiest place on earth" because it was just a fun adventure to go there. She was often shocked at things in our Dutch supermarkets too.
I'm from Switzerland, and here you can occasionally see Dodge Durango SUVs and RAM Trucks, however, they are quite rare. Generally, classic American sports cars or muscle cars are very hard to find, but they do exist.
It because they are rusty af.
Just to add to this, living in Geneva , Switzerland means that getting big American trucks like this makes it near impossible to park.
Almost every public parking spot can just barely fit a minivan or family car.
In Poland you can occasionally see some American cars, mostly minivans, but also some muscle cars and trucks, because they are considered cool. A friend of mine drives a Durango.
I just parked my car in Bern (Switzerland) in a private indoor parking. Next to me there was a Corvette split window, in the lane behind me a Cadillac 1959 Eldorado convertible and a 1971 Chevelle. All of them were were protected in car covers. So yes, the classic american cars do exist here but you won't find them on public ground no more. What you will see every day are the new muscle cars like the Mustang, Charger or Camaro on the streets and as mentioned the Trucks.
@@michaelindermuehle6954 none of those are actually new model names they all debuted in the mid-late 1960s originally April 1964 Sept 65 and Sept 66 respectively though Charger was discontinued for nearly 30 years from 1978 to 2005 for 2006 Model year the Chevelle was discontinued in 1977 due to poor gas mileage replaced by the Malibu. I have a thing for Muscle cars though technically the Mustang isn't a muscle car its an intermediate pony car similar to a Pontiac Grand Prix/Firebird Trans am etc. before 1970 GM had a rule that intermediate cars couldn't have an engine more than 400 Cubic Ins or 6.5 Liters then when that was lifted you got the LS6 454 and Pontiac Oldsmobile and Buicks 455 engines
In Sweden we have the "side by side" fridge/freezer, Caskets are very rare but are called "american model". The boxspring bed is called "Continental bed". Old american cars (70s or older) are popular but not new cars.
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Coming from the UK, older american cars were incredibly rare due to the lack of right-hand-drive models. Since I moved to germany, I see loads of american cars. They really stand out in europe on our smaller roads. It's one thing to have a big truck take up two lanes, but when the saloon (sedan) is two european lanes wide, you can't help but notice it!
But yet Australia got heaps of right hand drive American cars
They only became more popular lately here. I feel like it's some sort of "Idc about the climate" statement. Because they only started to pop up when global warming became the constant main subject everywhere. And usually those are the biggest Dodge rams. I doesn't make too much sense to drive those here. Before that most American cars were in the Netherlands.
So Fridges are generally, single width in Europe (and often smaller) We tend to buy food freshly more often. We also don't eat so much processed food like pizzas/burgers/chilled packet food so don't need so much storage space. In Britain larger new modern homes , are beginning to have bigger double fridge/freezers. I have a friend from Switzerand and she was positively shocked that British homes have freezers- apparently they prefer not to use them there!
I live in Switzerland and most fridges here have a freezer section. I'm talking about when you rent a place, it's usually there.
@@redink1665 hi there! Yes I did think it was a bit weird no freezers! Greetings to Switzerland...I love it ! Been to Bern, Lausanne and of course Geneva! Want to see mere one day xx
@@craftyclaira Come to Lucerne! It's a beautiful city! :D
I'm from Sweden. My husband has a 1961 Cadillac. Old American cars are called "jänkare", which kind of translates to "yanks/yankees". That car culture is quite common in many parts of Sweden and we have shows and meets that are big. My dream car is a 1971 Corvette Stingray, if I can find one which is manual and not automatic... 🤣
interesting - we here call them Americas (Czecho)Slovakia
edit - he actually said it in a video - I was crawling comment section first
What i have learned about about beds/matresses by helping a friend build his camper van: They need air circulating below them. Especially in badly insulated buildings, condensed water can build under them. Thats exaggerated by the sheet metal of a van, but also applies to a standart floor. So putting just a matress is a bad idea for long term use. But I think those matresses you are talking about are special ones. Also, Pro tip for campers: Use an incontinence cover for your matress xD
To answer your question, it's very uncommon to see American trucks or any American car in Europe. People who import them only do it to show off, because they are very impractical given the smaller scale of European roads, parking spots etc. Of course there are some, but you could easily spend a few days here without ever seeing one.
@Gerry Dilleburch Of course it depends on where you live.
Oh and I forgot to mention that many american cars are not even road legal here because of the red turn signals
@Gerry Dilleburch Hungary, unless you get an oldtimer license plate which is for cars that are over 30 years old, (and it's very hard to get, I won't go into details) you have to find a way to make the turn signals orange or the police will most likely stop you. On most American cars simply changing the bulb is not enough, because the lamp itself is still red. That means that you would have to get custom made taillights that have orange parts for the turn signal
Very, very uncommon here in Italy...especially the older ones
They’re also nowhere near as good off-road as a Land Rover or a Toyota Hi-Lux. And cost as much here as a Range Rover or a Mercedes-Benz.
@@demogaming8895red turn signals?
14:00 I remember, it was maybe 20 years ago, when I was in high school, every day when I drove back home I saw the same blue mustang. That person must have lived near me as we always took the same route, and to me it was always an event. You don't see a lot of old mustangs in rural France.
I remember that my father would say "look at him, his thing must drink petrol faster than they can refuel the pomps"
"look at him, his thing must drink petrol faster than they can refuel the pomps" 😄
@@andreatomassini5521 That's the truth. 😅
Definitely do more reactions to Honest Guide! They are great 😁
....naahhh....well....I'm not CZ ....and I find his claims rather annoying by claiming it to be "European" ....since hardly anything of what he claims do apply in many other European countries. There is no pan-European factors to the things he claim ....and that has happened in several videos.
He should call his claims Czech and that's it.
@@Dan-fo9dk Just a classic clickbait title European vs American, but in the video he mentions the Czech Republic and "we" as Czechs, he never mentions "we" as Europeans.
@@madPav3L ....sorry.... I'm not overly impressed by your attempt to "explain" away reality.
@@Dan-fo9dk European sounds more appealing than Czech, which means more clicks and money
It's not Europe, it's only the czech republic. Here in Germany it's complete different.
None of those things are called american here in Austria either.
Or the UK. Apart from their padded rugby game and the double door fridge.
Here in France we call the fridge...American fridge...those with water and ice cubes! When it's the old fridge I can't remember the brand but the one in Indiana Jones if I remember correctly where he survived a nuclear test protected by it...
Our pain de mie is the same smallest than American "bread"...we don't use so much sandwiche bread more baguettes as it is much better...but the big slices are called American style...
Of course all American cars are called American cars not a lot of people have a clue what kind it is...a truck a sedan or a mustang all are American cars...
American movies and series are French favourites...
European union countries are influenced at different levels by USA...US gov after WWII asked France to buy a few products but they wanted to sell their movies...and we know how medias are influencing people way of thinking!
The fridge might be the only one of those things that are called "american" here in Portugal but I'm not sure.
Some of these apply here in Italy, at least colloquially.
here in italy you can see a dodge ram sometimes.most are 1500 but because they are massive, quite expensive to buy and maintain 40k euro+ and use a lot of gas they are quite rare. ford rangers or euro pickups are much more popular
You mean only 40k to buy one in Italy?? Here in Norway, it's 3x that price. 40k is NOTHING when buying a new car here.
@@johnnymartinjohansen yeah 40k is a lot of money in italy for a car the average car is less than 20k a few years back you could get a fiat panda new for 10k but sadly you can't anymore
@@m4ttyofficialchannel Damn, I wanna move to Italy right now :)
PS - not only because of this, but your food - omg, the food :)
@@johnnymartinjohansen Haha Norwegians famously beat us at being the country that eats the most pizza on average
@@ehmzed I didn't know that. Probably because frozen pizzas is a HUGE deal here in Norway :)
I am from Czech :D and yeah, I can totally relate :D the "american" bread (toast) is kind of more sweet and "cloudy" than our toast bread, whitch is like dry and tasteless before you put something (mostly some cheese - most likely EIDAM and some ham). On the cars part, for you, there are cars, trucks and Semis, we here in europe use to call those big "trucks" like said in the video, but we refer to them as pickups (tipe of car bodyshape) and we use word "truck" more for your semis aka you know what I am talking about, you made a lot of videos on those :D
Really enjoy your videos, man! You're so down-to-earth, curious to genuinely learn about other cultures and customs, and you don't take yourself too seriously. Keep up the awesome stuff! New sub here!
Don't forget that the Czech Republic used to be behind the iron curtain after WWII and thus under soviet control and shielded from USA influence. This might be why they have more "admiration" for USA than other EU countries. In Belgium the only thing we refer to as American are those huge 2-door fridges.
Not 100% true.
We have the "american kitchen". That is a kitchen that is not a separte room, but kind of part of the living room. Typically the one the guy in the video is.
We have (in french) the "prepared american". That is a seasoned raw minced steak.
There is an "american pool" (billiard). I think that's the one with 6 holes (not sure, I'm no pool player)
In movies, there is the "american night". That is when they shoot during the day, but the night is simulated by reducing the light.
We have the american fridge, bread, football too.
... and probably others I don't think of right now.
But "american"does not mean "better". It's more "bigger" or "more". And if it involves quality, it usually mean "quantity over quality".
Answer from Germany: No
... and the XXL _French_ fries.
Yes, it does. The scene in the video is from a movie (named Cozy Dens) of a fictional families and their lives in communist regime right before the russian occupation of 1968.
I´m from Slovakia, and I never heard of american bed for example, but yeah, most of the things in video we call "american" :D
There are now a lot of Chinese cars coming into Australia. They are becoming quite popular because they are cheap but most people still see them as poor quality.
However about 20 years ago we started to get a lot of cars from Korea which had a cheap and nasty reputation, but now Kia and Hyundai are considered as mainstream good brands
Even the Chinese believe nearly everything made in China is poor quality or counterfeit. They aren't wrong.
The times are changing. When i was a kid in the 60s, Japanese cars was considered sh*t and something very cheap with bad quality was probably "Made in Hongkong".
Chinese cars are also becoming more popular in Germany, as well as some American cars, especially the Dodge Ram. American cars usually have a bad reputation here as being low quality and unreliable (also cosindered ugly). Yet VWs (and everything related) are getting worse and people notice. VW's reputation is going down hill, yet still people buy them in masses...
The American car scene is definitely alive and well here in Finland. We call them "Jenkkirauta" - Yankee iron. One surefire way to tell summer is around soon is when you suddenly start to see a lot of old big American V8's like Chevy, Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac and the like on the streets. 😄
Amerikanrauta for me.
im from the north of sweden and where i live we got alot of old american cars from the 50-60-70's, since its a long winter here we mostly use them in the summer jun/july/august. and its very common here to get a friend(that stays sober) to drive you and your other friends around and drink/party all night :)
In Finland, youll see old American cars and other pimped out wheels every first Friday of the month during summer, driving around and ending up in big parking lots. Ive seen this even in small towns, its called cruising. They are hella expensive to drive, but there are still some around.
Here in the Netherlands we don’t see many American cars. There is some Ford etc, but American cars don’t have such a good image here. Don’t want to be offensive, but most think they are too big, inefficient in fuel and not that well build. However, these huge trucks áre funny to see in traffic. When a e.g. Hummer is on our highway, it’s just humongous compared to the rest 😂 (The big exception is Tesla btw, you see those all over as electric cars are perfect in our small country, charging infrastructure and government subsidized)
The Ford Cars for EU are produced in Cologne (Germany), they are totaly different to US Ford Cars
I see American cars at least couple of times a week here in Eastern England but........ these are mainly USAF military police cars. Surprisingly, LHD too!
As soon as the summer arrives here in Sweden i see a lot of old American cars on the road 😊
Yupp, especially older ones just crusing
Yes an you Guys have the biggest American Car meet. The Power Power big meet, in Västeras Linköping or Lidköping I think. The biggest US Car Meeting of the world. Have been there at the 40th Aniversary.
Really rare in Italy...probably because they're big, swallow gas like there's no tomorrow plus I'm pretty sure importing is expensive
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In the UK, certain stores do have end-to-end cereal aisles, but again, Muesli and Granola are in that aisle alongside your Kellogg's and Nestlé stuff.
I don't think "American made" is considered high quality in Finland, more of the opposite with cost savings and somewhat shoddy "consumer goods" that are expected to break.
The only exceptions I can think of may be clothing and military equipment. Maybe some tech, but that's pretty much all made in China anyway.
In the past it was different, as you say, 50 years ago. Old American cars, tools, machines from that era were considered top tier.
The image of American quality may have hung around for longer in eastern Europe and nations that were part of the USSR as anything western was superior quality.
Here in Germany it's similar. "Made in Germany/Austria/Switzerland" and "Made in EU" are regarded as the best. "Made in America" is rather rare and only a seal of quality if the product is explicitly an American item that isn't really made anywhere else.
We don't see so many American cars or trucks here in the UK apart from at car shows etc, probably because of our smaller roads so the huge American cars aren't so easy to drive through our traffic. One of mum and dad's neighbours where they used to have an old Edsel that was huge, but it stayed on the driveway for most of the time though.
We do have a few old 60's/70's American pickup trucks that are used daily in our local area.
The one car that seems to be getting more common in the UK is the new Mustangs, usually Mustang GTs, which always makes me think of Jeff Foxworthy's song 12 Redneck Days of Christmas. The first day of Christmas he gets parts for a Mustang GT.
in the netherlands we have an interesting one "Amerikaanse frietsaus" or "American fries sauce", it's a yellow sauce with green specks in it that you dip your fries into.
from what i understand it's a Dutch sauce, but it has a little story to it.
american fries sauce is actually only used to describe copies of the sauce.
the original one is actually referred to as "McDonald's frietsaus" because it's the default sauce you always get with your fries at McDonald's.
ordering fries at McDonald's used to be the only way to get a little packet of the sauce, but at some point companies started copying the sauce and because it was only previously seen at an American "restaurant" they just called it American sauce.
and the netherlands is the only country where I've seen McDonald's offer the sauce, which seems odd to us dutch people because to us, it's the iconic McDonald's sauce that only they have.
"amerikaanse frietsaus" is known as "mad sauce" in parts of the US. And it did originally come from there.
You guys are just a bit weird; I ordered a Pitta with looksaus in R'dam and she didn't understand me until I said "Knoflooksaus".
The next day I went to Mcdonald's, ordered fries with mayo and got Mad sauce instead!
And every American I know who tried that sauce from McDonald's hated it.
Funny in Germany we consider this to be a Dutch sauce.
I think the american tag comes on an item when its "bigger than you need/excessive". I live pretty much below the wasteful average line but if I buy something I know will last for a longer time I could chose the american version because over time I can make up for it.
American car is huge and drinks 22 liters per 100km when the same european version is smaller and drinks like 12 liters per 100km. American bed is like 220x200 more madrasses than you need and the normal is on legs 180x200cm only.
Here in the UK we very rarely use American cars or vans, so they are rarely seen, although Chrysler and Chevrolet do sell smaller cars here in England. But they are not very popular.
But Ford is one of the biggest car manufacturers in the UK but they were originally American!
@@josiecoote8975 ... Yes but they are Ford Europe, totally different cars from the American market.
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In Germany you see American trucks maybe twice to five times a year. Smaller Land Rover "trucks" are more common, but still rare. Obviously depends on where you live and how often you use the roads. Some people only use public transportation and don't see many cars, because the attention is not on the road. Station wagens are highly popular here.
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I remember station wagons were also popular here in Australia before the whole SUV/crossover trend EXPLODED. Now I barely see them on the road anymore.
From living in Ireland, I would say the vehicle size difference has to do with the size of the roads. Roads here are very narrow, by comparison to the average road in the states. Makes it challenging to have larger vehicles, also the road tax for vehicles over here are based on engine size, so I truck (like the ram) would have a high road tax on it. It's just not worth it. Unless you're strictly using something like that on a farm, but again my experience suggests that most Irish farms would just use a tractor for most of the things you would typically use a heavy duty truck for.
In Sweden, there is a ridiculous amount of vintage American cars, in the summer they are everywhere, not just at shows, I dont remember if you saw Power Big Meet, but you really should
Also I own one too!
There are a lot of American car clubs in Sweden
In the UK potato wedges are called wedges. That's just a packet of spices that are called American wedges.
I was hoping you'd watch this... As a Czech I was surprised by how many things we actually call American xd
For some clarifcation, 14:10 we dont see these huge trucks very often, if so than mostly deep in the countryside, but whenever I see one in like Prague or somewhere, I think to myself "What an idiot, that guy's gonna take up all the space!" So yeah, no xd
My neighbor has a car just like that one, everytime i see him in it i think "what a twat" 😂
Here in a small town 30 km from Prague, I see them pretty often in last years, one of them has local kolotočář and another has some farmer, I am not sure what exact type it is, but it looks like Ford F-150 or 450 or something like that and yes, it looks like a tank on Czech road. 😀
Hi Ian, got to say that was really interesting and enjoyable to watch. Look forward to you doing the US version. 🏴
We in the UK call the double door fridges American style fridges but the rest is not true for the UK.
We don't refer to any of the other items as American!
We have whole aisles of cereal, sometimes both sides of the aisle too. This has been interesting our loaves of bread are the same size as the "American" bread! British sliced bread is sometimes too big for the toaster. Lol however we do also have all the fresh bread available in all supermarkets, there's a whole aisle of packaged sliced bread and also a bakery section of fresh bread.
I suppose we're not European really anyway.
Lol of course people in the UK are European.
@@101steel4 I meant as in culture, of course geographically we are. However the only thing we call American in this video is the fridge, everything else we do not refer to as American. Obviously their padded rugby game too, but every American knows that coz they're the only ones to call it football. Lol
We usually have two full sides of a whole aisle of cereal in the UK, the British packaged sliced bread is bigger than what is referred to as American in the video. Etc ...
In Portugal, at the beach, in the summer, you eat 'bolacha americana' ('American biscuit/American cookie'), which is basically just a giant flat wafer.
In the UK (and, I am assuming, also Italy), an 'Americano' is basically a more watery espresso served in a bigger cup.
Oh yeah, and 'American cheese' is the nasty spray-on stuff (string cheese, I think you call it.)
Here in Belgium we actually have a kind of sandwich spread called "Americain Preparé". It is rinced meat, mostly beef and it is raw ! When i have an American friend coming over he almost demands me to get some at the butchers. I know it is prohibited in the states for it is a raw meat product. So litterly translated it means "Prepared American" (no disrespect intendet)
Martino! My Spanish friends were terrified when they saw me eat raw minced beef (Gekapt).
In the Netherlands it's called filet americain. I spoke to someone who works in food safety and regularly tests products. She told me she had never, not even once, tested a sample of this that had nothing wrong with it. And pregnant women are told to not eat it. But it is just so incredibly yummy!
Classic American cars are very, very rare here in Germany Hamburg. Smaller cars are more common. There are many SUVs, but also rather smaller variants than in the USA.
The problem in big European cities is that the streets are often very narrow or you wouldn't find a parking space with such big cars. It would also be difficult to get into many public garages.
Cant say much about most European countries, but i have a small 40 litre fridge .. totally sufficient for my flat.
Might be British origin or design. I found them very useful for 1 person in small apartment.
I have 2 fridges and one big freezer and it's still not enough. 😀 I live in a small town where it's hard to buy something fresh, you are lucky when local supermarket has at least something, so you have to buy a lot of things to stock when they have it and freeze it
Belgian here; The fridge we call an 'american style' fridge because just because Koreans make them doesn't take away they mainly make them for the american market.
Our cereal aisle is a nice middle ground I think with the unhealthy section being about twice the size of the Czech one shown.
On the cars: I've only heard "I've bought 'an american'" used as a short hand for american car.
And yes of all the american trucks the Ram (1500) is by far the most common one (though still a sporadic sight) and almost always the first modification you will see on one is an LPG conversion because you will make your money back very quickly bc of the difference in fuel prices (about €0.70/ litre compared to €1.70 for petrol) and the slight loss of power doesn't matter when most gutys buy one because it looks and sounds cool (other than landscapers hauling a lawnmower I've never seen one used for work of any kind... we usually use either actual trucks or converted vans with a pick-up style bed (like a ford transit or something similar)
Here in Brasil we have the (non) american glass that are very popular at bars to drink beer, and the french bread that was created here by portuguese bakery owners
In Finland I think American beds are the very high ones, like the first image shows. Very Low base, with a thick separate spring matress and with another thick matress (so 3 layers usually), with overall heavy look. We do have our own spring matress beds but they are usually with higher legs (easier to vacuum under) that have spring matress built in the frame and a thinner foam matress on top (2 layers usually), may be close to same height but does not look as heavy.
When I moved out my first fridge was so small I had my gas cooker on top of it and the kitchen actually had the space and purpose for it, with the gas main right there. Totally normal, a waist high fridge with just the little freezing compartment at the top, enough for three pizzas if lucky.
that's literally everyone's first apartment 😀
I live in Zagreb, Croatia. Have been a taxi driver for 3 years almost and I almost NEVER see American cars. There is one however pemanently parked at a private gas station which serves as a nice ad for the owner. Some sort of old chevy I think. But just that one in a large eurpoean city
I see Honest Guide, I press like, please more.
American cars are a thing in my area, but kinda rare. (north west Germany)
My Mom drives a Crysler Crossfire tho, didn't you owne one too? Did yours also had corrosion around the rear weels and trunk?
When I Googled it, the difference between a coffin and a casket is that a coffin has a one piece lid that is nailed on top to seal it for burial, whereas a casket has a hinged lid that can be either half or fully open to allow for viewing the deceased at a memorial service.
It's screwed down not nailed!
I know America has the expression "Everything's bigger in Texas", but in the rest of the world we say "Everything's bigger in America"
Also, where I live on the outskirts of Melbourne, Australia, what you'd call trucks (dual-cab utes here) are getting upsettingly more common. Even out here where it gets semi-rural, they seem so excessive. The country roads are tiny, these things take up the whole width.
Yeah I line in the inner northern suburbs. There are way more SUVs in the road than when I was little. I wouldn’t mind a station wagon as a family car. But near no one makes them anymore, I only really found them second hand.
Thinking of that, the car you described as a "truck", funny enough, no mather if you drive a Land Rover, a RAM, a Jeep, etc. are actually called "Geländewagen" in German (Gelände= Terrain, Wagen = Wagon / Car) but many people tend to also call it "Jeep" even if its not a Jeep. I remember when in my neighborhood someone bought a Land Rover and parked on the street in such a way that my mom could barly pass it on the streets, she went like "Shitty damn Jeep!" or something like that and it was not even a Jeep lol
AMERICA is a CONTINENT made up of 35 countries and more than 1000 million inhabitants poor stupid ignorant people are pitiful
about that car-truck thing. Here in Europe we have normal licence for cars up to 3 500kg (7 700lbs). Everything heavier is truck, because we need "truck driving license". Or another special "bus driving license" for bus drivers. Difference is in number of passengers (for car license it's 8 + driver max).
I can't remember all the food products anymore, but when I go to the store there is one product that always has its American version - peanut butter. It has your flag on it and it's expensive that's why I never buy it ;D The price difference is gigantic. In Poland we don't have high salaries.
The main difference (at least where I’m from; NL) is that the American peanutbutter brands have more additives like sugar, salt, oil etc. So I wouldn’t spend extra cash on getting less quality and nutritional food 😂
Huh, here in Germany, usually if you see peanut butter in the isle at all, it will most likely have some american themed labelling (like the flag colors over it)... Because it is seen as an American thing in general. So there is no "normal" (non-American) version of it at all. In my experience, many people don't like it much either. People here tend to eat Nutella instead.
Out of all the American cars, the most I seen here in my part of the UK are modern Mustangs. Occasionally I would see a classic Chevy, Oldsmobile and the like or the big American trucks such as a Dodge Ram. As mentioned, it's most likely to be at a car show.
In english speaking countries pastries is called "danish". In Denmark, we don't call it danish, we call "Wienerbrød" which translated means "Vienna bread", bread from Vienna.
Denmark is known for its pastries :)
Same in Sweden, and by this logic I can only assume it's also true in Norway.
Not true in England.
@@JohanHultin i think you are right... Dane here :)
In France too, pastries like a croissant are called "viennoiseries" (from the city of Vienna) . The croissant was first invented in Vienna to celebrate their victory on the Turkish Empire.
In germany there is a pastry called americans "Amerikaner". In english it is black and white cookie. As a swede i like them because they resemble what we call Mazariner.
The difference between casket and coffin is simpler than that. Caskets can have the half lid but the primary difference is the hinge. Caskets have hinges, coffins have removable lids-- and lack the half lid.
in czech republic it's getting much more common lately :D like 5-15 a day :D
I'm Czech and I must say I see trucks very rarely and we usually don't like seeing them, or at least the people I know don't. The main problem with them is that they take too much space and aren't usually able to get into tight spaces or turns. For example our McDonald drive-ins are very narrow and it would be almost impossible to not drive over the curb or into a pole. There also isn't much of a car culture, given that we have a pretty advanced public transportation system and it's often more affortable to just take the train or the bus.
I' m Canadian and my husband is French. We bought "American bread" once in France juste to try. It was awful!! Even the birds didn't want it. We told my inlaws THiS was NOT American bread 😂😂
Well the birds are used to fresh baked bread every day.:) I'm from finland and I've been living in spain for few years now, and the bread in the plastic bags (basically this "american bread", toast, whatever) are poison. Here they last for weeks, maybe even months, in finland they go bad very quickly. But when you buy freshly baked baguette or any other bread, it will not last more than a day or two. In finland we eat a lot of rye bread, which is almost forever good without preservatives and has much more fiber etc than white bread and they (like baguettes) are often considered as a delicasy, not actual food.
I lived in the USA for work and what they called bread was awful and not eatable. I baked my own bread while I lived there because of that.
Well, it isn't American bread. Because what they called bread in the US was even worse :D (of the same kind).
Getting an actual loaf of an actual bread was quite the quest.
In France, we call this kind of bread "american" because it is not bread... period.
Don't worry, the true American bread in America is not eatable to most Europeans either 😂
In France and French-speaking Belgium two things commonly called "American" are:
. "American kitchen" (cuisine américaine): an open plan kitchen, opening onto the living room.
. "American fridge" (frigo américain): a two-door refrigerator with an ice-maker.
I am from Lower Saxony in Germany. In my area you can see quite a few pickups, but not the huge things like yours.
Some oldtimers from the 50s and 60s drive through the area when the weather is nice. Since I used to work for a company that installed car radios and sound systems, I have not only seen but also driven quite a few.
It was always a challenge to hide speakers under the full-length seat, or radios and CD players in the glove compartment. The most difficult thing was to route the cables without them being visible, because the cars do not have a covered vehicle floor.
The coolest car we ever worked on was a 1947 Oldsmobile.
A turning circle like a tank. 🤣
I would argue that the really big classic cars would not fit through any of the tiny streets in our downtown area.
We do get some "American style" products here in Norway, but not all of those mentioned in this video.
The American style side by side fridge/freezer combo is only nicknamed American fridge and usually called a side by side.
We get American style hot dog buns or burger buns, one of those I get are called Chicago.
We have American pan pizza and some shops have Heinz ketchup stocked.
Regarding the cars, I feel that I see more American cars in summer and the more rural the area is.
It might be a coincidence around my local area, but it's usually the smallest persons that have the biggest American cars.
I was waiting for a ferry, saw a Big Dooley twin rear wheels pickup truck and a huge Chevy Van, both drivers wasn't above 1,50 m.
In the summer there's quite a lot of American cars used as weekend driving cars, like Corvette, Mustang, Cadillac or the rarer El Dorado or similar large American convertible cars.
I've seen a few Blazer, Ram, Crossfire and Viper also.
That's what I can think of right now.
In Austria, F150s and Rangers are getting more popular every year. But the heavy duty stuff like the 2500RAM are not, because you are not allowed to drive them with a "normal" car driver's license. You gotta have a truck-license that you would need for large box vans or semi-trucks. It's because of the weight. Above 3500kg / ~7700pounds of "maximum permissible total weight" you have to have this license. Which takes longer to learn, and is way more expensive than the a car license. The 1500RAM is right around that margin.
I watch a lot of international real estate shows, like renovations, and international rent or buy programs! I am no longer surprised by American travellers demands! An American size fridge, in a 400 year old Spanish or English house - open plan huge kitchen, separate laundry, ensuite bathrooms, large closets, no steep stairs, garages, large gardens, views, walk to shops and bars! Really fun and frequently ridiculous, it's "old" Europe! 🤨 We have a real bakery in every suburb, or several! You cannot fit an American truck in original old Sydney streets either! Gridiron is a bit ridiculous, and not football! Specialist European products are always worth the money! American is not exotic or special in Australia! Interesting video! 😄
norwegian here, american cars is pretty commonover here. there is a lot of car clubs for american cars (commonly called amcar here). clubs by brand or model (vans, mustangs etc) but they are also including other brands.. for ex, if a local ford/chevy club holds a event, there is not uncommon to see other amcar brands at that event.
8:13 never heard of that in Germany. We have pre-made potato wedges here and people also make them on their own at home but we just trow on spices of out choice and thats it. I never heard of people buying specific spices for that
I‘m from Germany. You don‘t see a lot of american cars here as they are usually refered to high fuel consumption and way to big dimensions with soft/weak suspensions not made for the narrow and curvy roads here in europe. But I like US made cars big time. Me and my family owned in the last 20 years 10 Jeeps, 2 Chrysler and 1 RAM. I took the Jeeps offroad, joined a Jeep Club, had a lot of fun.
But times changed, so today we have 3 Skodas, 2 of them full battery electric Skoda Enyaq.
my own grandfather lied in repose (sorry i am german, the dictonary told me, this would be the accurate expression). an old tradition in germany, that almost got forgotten! i never ever heard the term "american coffin" (or "amerikanischer sarg"). also the potatos aren't called that way here. we say "kartoffelspalten" (am: potato wedges). we have toasts, that is referring to america, but i never heard someone calls it that way. we just say "toast". "white toast, full grain toast" and so on. toast isn't bread after all!
Hey IWrocker since you already know Honest Guide you are pretty much ready for the trip to Prague. The best starting point for Eurotrip. Go for it one day!
In Finnish a car is called auto. But that covers all vehicles with rubber tires. Buses, semis, trucks are all cars in Finnish. They are just different types of cars. You just create a compound word by adding the type before auto to describe it more specificaly. A pickup is avolava-auto, a bus is linja-auto and passenger car is henkilöauto.
In Czech, car is car for personal traveling, truck (náklaďák/kamion) is specifically that huge and long thing. These american massive cars they call trucks are not trucks for us. Maybe we could use name pickup, but nobody really uses it and it doesn't even say it's bigger, it means just that is has that opened back part behind cabin.
The classic European fridge combo can be seen on the left and at the back wall in the shop, fridge top and freezer bottom, but each a single door - and no integrated ice cube maker. The freezer has then usually three individual drawers behind that door.
I know "American bed" in Germany as an old name for queen size and king size beds, i.e. wider than single with only one mattress for the whole width. This did not necessarily refer to the base style.
"American potatoes" seems to be a Czech thing. Never heard of it as a name in Germany, although some manufacturers will put an American flag on the bag of ready cut and seasoned, deep frozen potato wedges. But they are called "Kartoffelspalten", which is litereally translated "potato wedges" into German.
Classic American cars are common in Germany. I drove an 87 Camaro IROC-Z myself in the 2000s. There will be meets allover the country and of course you are welcome with an American car of appropriate age to join any brand-open classic car meet. Often these cars were left in Germany by GIs when their deployment ended and made their way into the German second hand car marktet.
Also GM and Chrysler (but not really Ford) have sold many cars new through their European dealerships. Chrysler boutht French car maker Simca in the 70es and kept part of their dealer network when they sold Simca to Peugeot 10 years later. GM used their European Opel dealer network.
But all this was usually half-hearted, except for Chrysler, who were the only US brand doing a serious attempt into the European market in the 80es and 90es, driven by the Chrysler Voyager (rebadged Plymouth) minivan and had their breakthrough in the car segment in the 90es with Neon, Stratus/Sebring and Vision, using Chrysler as the brand that was established in the 60es and 70es but model names and often the complete car of their Plymouth, Dodge and Eagle brands rebadged. The 80es models unfortunately suffered from quality issues, the 90es models still from that reputation.
Nowadays you can buy some US models through regular Ford dealerships, basically the Mustang, Ranger, and scheduled to launch end of this year the new Bronco. Chrysler and Ram are available through the Stellantis group, which I'm afraid is too many brands and will have to extinct some great names in the coming years. But right now you can come along a dealership advertsing "Fiat, Alfa-Romeo, Abarth, Jeep, Chrysler, Dodge, Ram". Models on sale are a wider range, let me see if I get them all: Chrysler 300 and Pacifica, the whole Jeep range, Dodge Challenger, and Ram 1500.
Fridge top, freezer bottom, that's pretty modern combination for us here, typical Czech fridge has it vice versa, you mostly have bigger fridge down and small freezer on top.
Most American bread would be banned in the uk, the same as most American cereals because of the sugar and salt. I have heard subway can’t say their bread is real bread because of the amount of sugar the bread contains.
Many of these American things may be a Czech thing. Here in The Netherlands, we call a boxspring bed just a boxspring bed. There is no Dutch word for it. it is very uncommon to see pre-packed bread like this, bread is just fresh almost everywhere. Dutch bread from a supermarket can usually be stored for 2-3 days, so pre-packaging is not necessary. We call the American fridge an American fridge here too, they are only seen in big free standing houses, those houses are relatively uncommon.
We also don't have a difference between trucks and cars. The American semi-truck is called a truck here, we have vans (eurovans in the US), everything else on four wheels is just called a car. Because of heavy taxes based on emissions, those big US trucks are not common here. That Ram 2500 next to the VW Golf in this video will set you back around 100000 (!) euros, including taxes. In some situations, an exempt on taxes is possible, then the truck will be 'only' about 60000. They are way, way too expensive for the average Dutchie, and way too big for any city. Did you know that the minimum width of any one-way road lane in The Netherlands is only 2.75 meters? Try fitting that RAM on those roads.
Try driving one onto one of your bridge bicycle lanes! 😁👍
In both sweden and Germany that is called a frensh door fridge. I have one just like it.
Also.. the myth that fridges are smaler is probobly spawed by many people having modular fridges. They are exactly 60cm wide and typically quite high. Around 210. (7 foot). While you would think. Yes, a 60cm fridge is much smaller than a 80-100 that is typically in the US. At least here in sweden. I larger kitchen people usually have 1.5 or 2 units. Simply buy two and put them next to each other.
There is multiple reason to do so. Firstly they are typically split. So 2 units give you 4 section. Then you can do 10C, 5C, -10 and -20C. This firstly saves power. But it also get you more options. Butter and cheese and fruite don't need 5C, while milk do.
The last reason for it is that you can put cabinet doors on them. And totaly hide them from site. Yes, they are totaly invisible.
To see American cars in Eastern Germany is very rare, besides of regular cars like smaller Chevrolet or so. It is always a reason to turn your head and watch huge pickup trucks or American old timers like Cadillacs from the 50s/60s.
Austria: my father still drove Cadillac in the 60‘s. I grew up in an Eldorado Coupe in the early 70‘s, also in a Camaro, etc.
I myself drove a AMC Eagle, a Jeep CJ7 and at least a Buick Park Avenue until 2015.
Average UK fridges are a standards 500mm wide. Same as washers dryers, dishwashers ovens and hobs etc.. so whey are all interchangeable in a standard base unit sized hole.
That's not to say we have wider double door fridge freezers, but I've never had or wanted for one.
That was definitely unexpected. Here in Romania we don't refer to any of these things as "American", must be a Czech thing.
The only thing that comes to mind which is actually labeled as "American" is an America Coffee. Which is usually a long black coffee.
And yeah, we have quite a few American cars on the road here. They're not as common as European or Asian brands, but they're not rare either, Emphasis on cars. Trucks are very few and far between.
In Australia, we dont really call things American, except maybe the people that live there. Our fridges are described by volume in litres or by the style of its doors. Coffins are coffins or caskets. Cereal is pretty big here, it has a full aisle, but our best seller is Weet Bix or muesli and rolled oats in the colder months. Bread here is similar in size to US, but depending on the state, it's mainly multigrain and wholemeal or light rye. Our white bread doesn't have sugar in it, or where it does, its very little. It's also mostly baked in store, but there is also factory bread. Our biggest selling trucks, which we call Ute's, classed as large here Hilux and Ranger. In the US they'd be called mid size. RAM is the biggest of what we call the extra large truck (just large in the Us).
Beds are sold by size description, single, king single, double, queen and king, with the mattress or type also decribed
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I'm currently based in Hungary, and here the food inflation is about 50%. I actually compared American and Hungarian grocery prices, and I found them to be similar, and in many cases American prices are lower! Crazy right? Electronics are also much more affordable, such as MacBook Pro. I could book a ticket to Atlanta, spend a week there and buy a MacBook Pro, it would cost as much as purchasing it at the Hungarian Apple store.
As an American living in Finland, I'd say it's not that common to see American style cars. However they do tend to make an appearance when the weather here starts to warm up and at some car shows. And as for the big trucks... not very common at all, extremely rare.
We dont really have trucks, because you’d be hauling all that extra snow around in the winter. Vans are popular tho, for the folks who need to move a lot of gear with them.
My family was big on cars when gas was still cheaper, my uncle had El Camino for one summer. His last American car was beautiful black Chevy pick up, it was just too thirsty (40 l/100 km, if you were even slightly heavy footed) for even late 90s gas prices and he moved on to European cars. For comparison, husbands current turbo-Opel takes 7 l/ 100 km at its worst. 40 is a lot! We used to have a lot of “yankees” here, but the gas prices made a real number on them.
The few remaining are for special occasions only, like for every first Friday of the month (during summer) people will go “cruising”. The sober one drives and in the end the night, they will end up in big parking lots to check out everybodys wheels. Check out your local action, if home sickness gets too much :)
13:46 They are uncommon. In recent years the more sporty ones like Mustangs and Camaros became a little more common among wealthier people. I've also seen a Dodge Challenger last week. Trucks however not so much. They are usually a crappy alternatives of minivans and station wagons for tradesmen so they don't usually choose them (the business owner's son pretending to be a tradesman might). There is maybe one Dodge Ram in my town. Ford Rangers however became popular among anglers and hunters in the past 10 years.
Poland here, as for the cars there's definitely some (old) american car lovers especially among the rock n roll crowd - I had the pleasure of being a part of a photoshoot with a bunch of those . Also quite a few people like the new large suv/jeep/whatever-you-call-that-truck-like-car styles too (yes, I use the metro, how'd you guess 😂).
As for the expressions, I haven't heard most of these, so it's either a Czech thing or not too widespread. We definitely do have "american sauce" that I have no idea what it actually is lol
In Italy none of these apply except for American football.
Though now I saw that a big store calls the big fridge American, while other stores call it side-by-side.
Here in north-east netherlands, i've seen one insanely clean green (60's) fastback mustang on the road. that car is just a piece of art.
In Sweden old American cars are quite common as hobby cars, big American style pickups are also common, they are even sold here in dealerships.
My roommate has a small dog that likes to sleep on her bed. But the box spring made it so high that the dog risked injury jumping off, so we lost the box spring part.
Some places call the wedges “potato logs”. I didn’t know that there were any particular spices though. I like BBQ cheese logs personally, or maybe with jalapenos.
I haven’t eaten box cereals for decades. But some of the Asian markets have similarly massive Ramen aisles. Some of the Mercados make me feel like I’m back overseas.
Everybody drives a huge monster 4X4 truck here in Las Vegas, to go grocery shopping or to commute to work. They never leave the pavement and usually park with the tailgate hanging out in the street, it’s nuts.
I love shows like this.
i love this chanel, yours and HG too :D Both great content.
And go for it! its great idee make same vid like guys with Eurothings :D
13:43 i'm in the south east of france and it's extremly rare to see old american cars in the street here. i saw way more supercars and hypercars in the street than old american cars.
i remember a car meet in Cannes with some muscle car from the 70's like a Charger Super Bee or a Corvette C3 ZL1. I was really suprise because I’ve never seen those cars before. As you may guess, I haven’t seen them since
In Japan, corn dogs are called "American Dogs" (although they are a little different, with a sweeter batter).
any supersized fridge is 'American' to us, especially with a ice cube machine included 😋
Maybe we would call it Korean if we would watch way more Korean movies then American movies, showing that stuff to us.
I guess none of the food that's called American you can buy in Europe is the same as in the USA. Europe doesn't allow that much sugar and chemicals. For some reason, some companies think, American labeled stuff sells better here in Europe.