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As an American I am continually surprised by how different British and American culture is. Today I am very interested to hear from Brits about some of the most surprising things they have seen in America. If you enjoyed the video feel free to leave a comment, like, or subscribe for more!
Even Americans must know that if a loaf of bread lasts for three weeks there is something in it you really do not want to eat.
2 or 3 weeks old German rye bread is absolutely fine to eat. A little bit hard maybe.
Not so long ago, people baked bread only once or twice a month. It was a different kind of bread, though.
Ever seen an American see a block of real cheese? They usually shoot it on sight.
@@petracastro6021once or twice a month? Me nan had to make 2 loaves a day...
@@petracastro6021 Who is talking about German Rye bread? I'm talking about bread on the shelves of a store.
@@michaeljones1445 He's talking about 100+ years ago. Where farmers heated their wood heated stove once a month and baked a lot of bread for the next weeks or where at some weekends the villages public stove was used by all inhabitants to bake their bread.
In the UK, pedestrians always have right of way. Which is how it should be.
Aussie here. The toilets definitely freaked me out and caused me the most brain damage. The first stall I went into looked blocked, as did the second. The third was when I realised that the higher water level was "normal". My nightmare began. Doors that ended barely an inch lower than the seat of the toilet, splash back that almost 100% of the time was perfectly targeted, and my boys almost going for a swim. I couldn't cope with the idea of my hand dipping into the water to wipe, so I ended up squatting on the floor of the cubicle and wiping before dropping the paper into the bowl. It was fucking humiliating.
When McDonalds first came to the UK every transaction ended with "have a nice day," or "enjoy your meal." They were instructed to do this and it sounded totally false. It soon died out.
Back in 1984, we went on holiday to Florida for 2 weeks. It was the first time I had a McDonalds or went through a drive-thru
My dad especially adored everyone saying 'have a nice day', he thought it was so polite and lovely... at first
By the time we left everyone had realised how fake the customer service was and hated it
It’s totally cringe worthy. When I visited the States. As soon as I had cleared passport control, the woman switched from a straight face to a smile and said “Have a nice stay” It’s all I could do not to laugh.Then I knew I had arrived!🤣Dduw Bendithia America/ God Bless America.🤣🏴🌎🇺🇸
When we went to Florida I nearly burst out laughing at passport control, the bloke was hilarious. His face was so serious looking at my passport then back at me. He then asked "Have you been on a farm" wtf 😳 I answered no. Wonder what that was all about
@@ponygirl What the?! Wish I had have been there. Would have replied in Welsh!😂😂🏴
@@ponygirl When was this? Occasionally UK farms have a major outbreak of foot and mouth or mad cow disease so maybe there was actually a reason for this seeming unreasonablenessiality.
Americans being derogatory about British food is a hangover from WWII. The UK was on strict rations & whatever limited food available was either bland at best or terrible at worst. The GI's took that experience back with them & it's a stereotype that's stuck since.
The high water in the toilets made me chuckle. On my first visit to the States I honestly thought they had flooding issues or that the toilets were blocked. It took me several trips to various cubicles to realise that they were all like that.
They also took home a view of Germany that really is just Bavaria, so for most americans Germany = Bavaria.
@@vrenak - My husband was in the British army for 23 years & we were posted to various places in Germany. Loved it there. I had a few conversations with Germans who expressed the same thing as you have.
The crazy thing is UK food is Soooo much better for you than American chemical shite.
@@gabbymcclymont3563 - I agree. UK food is much healthier. A lot of dubious stuff gets thrown into American food.
Well f said. Hate the stereotype. All the US do is take others food, claim it as their own and add more salt to their savoury or sugar to their desserts. You have at least a few decent British dishes still that aren’t awful and dripped in fat or sugar like it’s out of fashion. Obviously not as good as mainland Europe, Indian or Asian food though I will say.
I was infuriated at having my dinner conversation _^insistently^_ interrupted 3 or 4 times to be asked "how is your meal?".
The food misconception is easy to understand.
During WW2 many American servicemen were stationed here in the UK and so experienced our food. The trouble with that was that what they experienced was not usual British food. It was wartime food and so they gained that misconception about our food being bad.
Those American servicemen returned to the US after the war and then told everyone back home how bad our food was, but failed to mention that at the time the UK was under severe food rationing, a concept most Americans have probably never even heard of.
Winston Churchill himself said "The only thing during the war that truly worried me was the Battle of the Atlantic". Throughout the war Nazi Germany used its submarine fleet to sink as many ships bringing food supplies to the UK as possible. In effect Hitler was trying to starve the UK into surrendering.
It was because of this precarious food situation that food rationing was implemented. (For all the Americans out there that don't know what food rationing is). This is where a person is given a certain mandated allowance of a certain foodstuff to last a certain period of time. An example of this in action during WW2 was that an adult in the UK was allowed one egg per week. That was it. Virtually every food stuff was rationed from eggs, flour, butter, chocolate and so on.
This meant people had to become inventive and creative as to how to provide a meal from what little was available. Every scrap had to be used or the other choice was to potentially starve to death. We couldn't just throw away an animals kidneys because we didn't like the thought of eating them. Likewise we couldn't throw food away because we were full or had burnt it. Leftovers could be used as the next meal. Hence wartime food could be bland or even horrible but it was a necessary evil in a time of desperation.
This food situation also led to campaigns here in the UK such as the "Dig for Victory" campaign where British people allover the country went out and dug over every inch of spare land they could find and turned it into a vegetable plot or vegetable garden or vegetable allotment. Homegrown vegetables were "off ration" so you could eat as many of them as you liked.
It is hard to underestimate how precarious the food situation was and for many years, how close to starvation the UK was. Obviously in times like we live in today, in relatively peaceful times, it is much easier to source ingredients to make typical, modern UK foods and meals such as cocoa to make the lovely Cadbury chocolate that so many Americans are blown away by when they first taste it.
If you ever visit the UK from the US you need to be bold. Forget what anyone back home has told you and just experience it for yourself. You will find that it is a much higher quality of food here today in the UK than in the US.
My uncle Earnest was killed in the 'Battle for the North Atlantic'. He was 19 and a Merchant Seaman; what many Americans may not realise is that Merchant Navy Ships were Unarmed and yet still big targets for U-boats. Sitting ducks. They were escorted by armed ships but still many died because their ship could not defend itself. Brave Men often forgotten. Parks and roundabouts, road verges and parts of the grounds of many Stately Homes were cultivated to grow veg and crops.
@@HeatherMyfanwyTylerGreey I think those Merchant Navy Ships were actually often escorted to safety by US military even before they saw which side was going to win and chose to join our side. The whole thing might have been ended a lot sooner if Henry Ford hadn't built 80% of German military lorries etc but that's another story.
Can absolutely relate to the problem of crossing a road in the states and all the chemicals in their food will leave you feeling unwell
America's "reputation" and the American dream are not things outside America's borders. The country may be rich, but the standard of living is low.
In the UK you can cross the street anywhere you want. There are no ‘Jaywalking’ laws in the UK.
I was in New York last year with a friend and we used to order the childs meal because your portions out there are so big!
As a Brit that’s lived in America for 23 years now sometimes Americans do talk about British being bad but actually most have never tried it, but the amount of sugar in many American foods is disgusting, particularly most breads, no wonder when Europe tested American bread they said they couldn’t sell it as bread, it would be classified as cake in Europe, I hate to Say it but it’s true, there are a few breads that aren’t bad over here but I wish the commercial bakery’s here would stop putting that amount of sugar in bread, it’s not needed and they could help save the lives of some Americans if they did
I can fully relate to the shock (and horror) of the high water level in the toilet basin, as it is significantly lower in the UK. I remember landing at DFW and heading into the stall and thought they must all be blocked. Once I realised, I must admit I got a bit wet in certain areas after doing what I had to do. Also, can I mention WHY is there no privacy? The stalls are not enclosed like they are in most places here, and I felt somewhat exposed that someone could look over (or under) if they wanted to. I could also see people walking past outside through the thinly-veiled gap in the door. It was a major cultural adjustment and it sounds ridiculous to say, but I felt self-conscious even going into or sitting on the toilet.
When I visited my aunt in Nokesville, Virginia; back in 1977, I was surprised to find her giving her neighbours lessons in how to make a proper Yorkshire Pudding! (She was born in Middlesborough in the UK. Her husband was a US Marine she met during WW2.)
I went with the other half to Pennsylvania and took 2 tins of quality street, the kids were going mad for them taste so much better without the vomit aftertaste. They came over to Saltburn to see us and found Yorkshire puddings and twiglets odd. Mum even said "people eat these???"🤣🤣
Good customer service is not about smiles and friendly small talk. It's about knowing your stuff. If the average customer knows more about the things you try to sell: that's bad service. If a grumpy waiter can answer my questions about the food, and which wine he would recommend: that's good service.
The whole world walks from A to B except in America! I once searched Google Earth for my friend’s city and zoomed in so I could see the streets and buildings. I went looking for his workplace and was mortified by what I saw! For every building, there were at least three carparks! Not vertical carparks like we have in Australia, where two levels are underground and two or three levels are above ground, without taking up a huge footprint. No! The carparks are flat, on ground level, three to five times the footprint of the building! 😱😱😱
No, trust me, a road trip of England would take a lifetime.
Well, you can cross the country and see some highlights in a few weeks, but you could do that in the US too, in the UK, you can't see everything in one county in a year, most US states you can easily see everything in a year. Things are just spread out more in the US, because there's a lot less to see.
And 2 suiside attemps.
Traffic, my beloved
Just travelling, a few hours to drive form one end of the country to the other. Unless you're waling of course. If you are stopping to see the sights en route, then a year just to see MOST of what is on offer in London
When I went to New York i decided to try out some fast food chains at lunchtimes,to see the difference in portion size. Was shocking the amount for each person. When I was in a subway,I stopped them mid stream and told them it was enough. That it would be a waste of food,that I could not eat that amount. The looks on their faces were priceless!🤣Also,in the hotel,the breakfasts were more like dinner buffets,even had chips/fries. AND they wonder why their obesity rate is so high. 🤦🏻♀️
A mate from college spent one summer staying with friends in Boston. He also noticed how much food got wasted. They had the usual huge fridge and did a weekly food shop. They pretty much just bought every food they liked, so that each day they would have a choice of dishes. They would get home, empty out the fridge of all the stuff from last week and bin it to make room for the new lot.
Why?
I'm not a brit, but one thing that suprised me alot was when I stumble and fell out of a bus in Bronx, NY. I almost expected ppl not to care, but then a gangster-looking guy helped me on my feet and also picked up my waterbottle I lost.
Where do you live? Why isn’t that seen as the norm? Most people do that despite what you see on the internet, where you specifically watch people videos of folk not doing it so they get views….
It’s not special in any means… 😂
@Deano-Dron81 I live in Norway. I actually meant Harlem, sorry. Harlem has earlier had a really bad rep. Even though it's common in NY to know it is much better, the reputation still hangs on in Europe.
Also, we got recommendations to go there by someone who lives in Bronx, but also be careful.
Drivers should be considerate to pedestrians. Jay walking isn’t illegal in the UK. If I’m on a crossing and a car revs it engine impatiently, it makes me walk slower. In the UK and probably other countries, if there is food unused by shops it is sent to food banks for people who need it
That’s crazy that jaywalking isn’t illegal
@@thehapagirl92why? pedestrians were going a lot longer before cars were invented!
There is a European joke:
Which are the 3 shortest books:
1) 1000 years of German humour
2) the secrets of British cuisine
3) Italian heroic saga
4) U.S History
Love it.
I found the customer service in the US exemplary (apart from airports). From bar to restaurant to paying for shopping, everyone was very kind and professional. As for the toilets, the high water level freaked me out at first, but it's the power that impressed me. The toilet in my hotel room in Las Vegas was so powerful it made my ears pop when I flushed!
The UK and the US toilets have the same amount of water in them but British toilets have wider pipes so water settles lower both have benefits American toilets hold odor below the water but get blocked more often, I'm an almost 50yr old Brit and have only ever seen them get blocked intentionally whereas when i was in the States for a month I saw 5or6 toilets get blocked by normal use
Are you American? You left out the u in odour. Did not suspect or know. Now I do.
Odor and odour are both English terms. Odor is predominantly used in 🇺🇸 American (US) English ( en-US ) while odour is predominantly used in 🇬🇧 British English (used in UK/AU/NZ) ( en-GB ).
If the water's that high in the loo doesn't it splash up on you when you do a number two?🤣😂
Poop and splash back wash at the same time.😂
Have you subjected yourself to their typical diet?
What about those misfortunate people with big bottoms🤣🤣
Doesn't your willy get wet?
Having lived in the US for a number of years, yes it does! 😬
Tyler here in Canada you wouldn't get away with that here. Pedestrians and cyclists have the right away before you under the Highway Traffic Act in Canada. I told off an American with New York Licence Plates who almost hit me. I told him off hey mister your not in the USA anymore your in Canada you have to follow our Traffic laws Pedestrians have the right away before you. Lots of people clapped and then an Hamilton Police Car came and I told the officer what happened and he charged the man with careless driving in a parking lot by Walmart front doors.
It's "right of way", not "right away". You might confuse people saying it like that.
I went on a cruise once in the Med which had 90% of passengers from the US - I sat there at breakfast with just 2 boiled eggs and toast and a gallon of coffee, the Americans had 4 or 5 plates each piled with pancakes with ice cream, 5 kilos of bacon with several; eggs, make me physically sick the amount they ate - impressive !
😂 were Brits and 5yrs ago we went to Vegas as friends were getting married, one day we didn’t have anything planned so decided to go to Old Vegas. We were staying in the Venetian and the concierge asked us if we wanted him to order us a car when we were simply asking directions. When we said we wanted to walk, his eyes nearly popped out of his head and he shrieked that “you wanna walk”? We couldn’t work out why this was so bizarre to him, when we got back many hours later, he was still in duty and he asked how far we go before we hailed a cab, I’m sure he nearly passed out when we said we’d walked there, walked around and then walked back! 😂
Generally Brits do like to walk around rather than drive everywhere, that said, our towns and cities are nowhere near as expansive as in the US so it’s really not that far plus it’s quite often a hassle finding somewhere to park as more and more town centres are being made pedestrianised. Also we’re a nation of dog lovers and will walk miles with our pooches everyday so it’s really not unusual for Brits to stroll around and enjoy the surroundings.
When I'm in American I'm shocked at the amount of waste. Food waste, like already mentioned, but also still lots of single use plastic. Water is wasted, energy as well by using AC when it's not essential. Gas guzzling cars with enormous engines, left ticking over at the lights. Most cars with one person in because there's so little public transport. It seems that other parts of the world are doing their bit to tackle the climate crisis, but lots of Americans don't seem to care.
Been to the USA a few times and the food is not good, too many additives and soooo sweet. It made me feel quite sick. Also the portion sizes are far too big for a normal person.
Try Colorado next time. The food is great and mostly healthy.
It's so funny. Because British cuisine hasn't exactly the best reputation in Europe.
"The secrets of British cuisine" is even part of the joke about the 3 shortest books worldwide.
@@elizabethmair2948 thank you I will
@@petracastro6021The point is the British agree with their food being sub par, some British enjoy it and many admit it and happily enjoying other European cuisine. They aren’t going on about how amazing their food is, whereas you have the US do just that, when your country is basically food from other countries and made salty or way too sugary, probably in an attempt for it to be better for your weird tastebuds. 🤪👍 That’s the difference ffs.
The things that surprised me the most were: stalls in toilets you can see through, l was mortified and felt violated! The toilet paper everywhere was 1 ply, thin and it was awful. I took my own everywhere. The tea everywhere l went was weak and watery. Yuk. Took my Yorkshire Teabags. I was surprised no loose tabacco anywhere or filters for rolling your own cigarettes. I cycled miles to find some. I was shocked l couldnt cross the road wherever l wanted. Moving all your cars for street cleaning, posting your letters in your own post box and the whole system in general was weird to me. Plugs in the bathroom, huge flat toilets, red squirels everywhere...... so many things lol. Love your videos.
Oh l forgot how shocked and thrilled l was about fountain drinks. Amazing. I loved refiling my drink, my coffee, my anything. Very happy about that. I was shocked at how attentive the staff were and got a little upset at being hounded and not left to eat. I was shocked at the tipping and the bill maths and vat so confusing. I took a dollar into a dollar store and couldnt buy anything because the cashier said 1.23 or something because vat wasnt added. So confused. Portion sizes were amazing and doggy bag swans. Amazing x
Twelve hours of driving in Europe bring you to so much countries. Here, in Canada or the US, you're still in the same province or state with those same twelve hours.
Here in Sweden that depends on where in the country you are. 12 hours of non-stop driving would bring me to my hometown, still in Sweden. In another direction it could take me through parts of Denmark and Germany to Amsterdam in the Netherlands.
As for purchase time, my guess is that it's about not using cash but just blipping your card, at least in Sweden payments takes one second
Tyler make your food from scratch and you will have a healthier lifestyle.
He will also be bankrupt, prices for groceries even before our global inflation were ridiculously high, you'd have to go shopping in Norway to find prices higher, now I'm not sure even Norway is more expensive.
About customer service, we expect the servers to not interfere unless asked for. They should be available but not in your face. It's annoying for us to have them asking if you want this or that, if we want it we'll ask for it
The shop thing taking a long time. I have experienced this in The Philippines (where my partner is from) which is a fairly Americanised country, especially in the city. I hated going to the supermarket, sometimes I just wanted a few things but would be stuck in a queue for ages, without there being that many people, just like the post mentioned!
when my dad moved to canada from russia he thought the toilets were broken because the had so much water in it!!
UK Road trip in a couple of days ? takes me 3 or 4 hours just to get to half way up england to go to alton towers theme park, without stopping so thats one place one stop in 4 hours, a proper road trip to see everything try a year maybe
It takes me 10 hours to get out of my home state before I cross into another state and I live in one of the smaller US states.
To a Brit, shopping should be Swift and efficient. Americans seem to see it far more as a day out. Then There are the issues they have with needing someone to bag their groceries.
And also US not having much contactless payment or even chip and pin makes paying much slower as well
Like most of the world brits will shop if not every day, close to it, americans tend to shop once a week or once a fortnight. so they can waste 30 min. on a 2 hour trip, if everyone else wasted just 5 min. on 7 trips it's already more than the american weekly shopper.
in US malls you see old folks spending the day there.. and people even jogging - because its not SAFE outdoors in many US cities. its a whole cultural thing in the mega-malls.
A few years ago, i wanted to buy a watch when i was in New York. I went into Macy's watch department but none of the watches on display were priced up. After i asked how much two particular watches were, the sales assistant said "Ok, which one would you like". I guess American law only allows you to ask the price of two items and then you're obligated to buy one of them.
I told him "neither", walked out and landed up buying it in Brent Cross on my return to London.
I remember watching that film with the cheerleaders Bring It On, they said that driving to San Diago was a short trip but that was 2hrs drive. That would be a long journey when the longest drive take 8 hours from north to south on a good traffic day
But once out of the cities there is next to no traffic in America. No snarl ups, traffic speed control systems or smart motorways cutting you down to two lanes for no discernable reason at all!
I live in Anaheim where Disneyland is and indeed San Diego is 2 hours away without traffic. With traffic it’s 2.5 hours. It’s a long drive. Torrance’s boyfriend was going to Cal State Dominguez Hills which is near Long Beach which is even further from San Diego and would take 3 hours minimum. That is a long drive. Or if you’re talking about when Torrance and Missy go to see the Clovers in LA that’s even further than Cal State Dominguez Hills and would take 3.5 hours.
Yes I have seen Bring It On way too many times and yes I am a native of SoCal
@@thehapagirl92 I haven't watched it in years but remember seeing it on a roadsign. Here you can drive to a different country in 4 hours ha.
Pedestrians are usually walking into shops, because not everything is a drive-thru. At least in aus, poeple on crossings are drivers too. We do have drive-thru bottle shops though.
It's mad to think that hardly anyone walks. That's absolutely bonkers! It's obviously down to scale, but that's a bizarre concept for someone in the UK.😆
I spent 4 months in Tennessee and loved the food. It was great.
As you rightly said. From a Brits perspective, the transport or lack of public transport is obvious. Probably, the biggest difference! Or, maybe not. the price of Petrol/Gas, takes some beating. Love how you have all sizes of clothes on your shelfs. UK, has Small, Medium, Large, extra Large, extra, extra large or gigantic! LOL
I spent 3 months in Miami and I mostly got child portions of food because the adult ones were too big
Miami menus actually have two size options, by your comment you ordered the meal for two people listed on the menu.
Tyler, point on the doll where America/Americans hurt you.
@user-kq5ke5yb6k ,point on the doll where your American feelings have been hurt by what visitors have said about your country.
In the US why are cold drinks always more ice than drink?!
I think the only time really that Brits eat stupidly to the point of bloating, unzipping trousers etc is at Christmas. We just fill that dinner plate up with everything...all the trimmings and just go to town 😂 we can't help it, Christmas Dinner is so damn lush that we forget how much our bodies can take 😂
For a Europén 100km is a long distance; for an American 100 year is a long time.......
also in america is the gap as the top and the bottom of the toilet cubcle, a lot of toilet cubicles in UK don't have any gap at all.
Fun fact about hamburgers they were originally made in a German place called hamburg
I do enjoy the to go box here in America, it’s great because many times I’ve had it as a meal the next day and saves me some money
We don’t say “go box”. We say “get a doggybag”. It took me a second to know what you meant
@@thehapagirl92 not up here in Iowa we don’t it’s always a to go box or a box to go, in fact the only place I’ve heard doggybag was about 40 years ago back in England
The concept that British food is bad came from American GIs during WW2 when the Brits were on rations and it's unfortunately stuck, the British cuisine had a cultural renaissance in the past 25-30 years.
Tyler...you ARE one of the Americans going on about British food!
We can import fresh fruit and veg from Africa and southern or eastern Europe and it will be on supermarket shelves inside of 3 days, a similar distance in the US will take a week so it needs chemical preservation. Our just in time logistics actually work 90% of the time. It's actually far cheaper as well.
There's no such thing as a place you're not supposed to cross the street here.
As a Brit, I've been to the USA many times. The food in the USA, I have to say was very good. But, too much of it. English food is more of a stable diet, very tasty & cooked naturally.
When I first went on holiday fsy to the US I was shocked at how much water you have in your toilets I still don't under stand why. The problem is if you have a motherload (I don't need to explain this) if the toilet is blocked and you flush it's going to overflow.
Never been to America, but the fact that people in movies got their head dipped i toilet water was really weird until I learned that american toilets works a little different than european.
Yes England have homeless ppl but we the N.H.S and health care is free and sometimes homeless go to hospital for free meal and to stay warm
I was always puzzled by American movies that showed people drowning others in toilets. Like where do you find there so much water. And only recently I found out that US toilets do have high level of water in them😅
The amount of water in the toilet is about the same. The width of the flush pipe is much wider in the UK. Disabled toilets in the UK use US toilet bowls.
UK also have half the toilet bowl filled with water??
@@Gazer75Nope. A piddling puddle right down the bottom, if I may say so.
It seemed strange in American film and series, that dogs were drinking out of the bowl, it was like, that's crazy made up, but of course the water level is much higher
The HORID aftertaste f VOMIT in chocolate. 🤮 Mr Hershey needs some better taste testers.
The way you have to pay for your food before you get it. How do you know whats on the menu and what it looks like BEFORE you get it??
NYC locals are so rude, I had to find the key to a changing room to try on some jeans, and was told to get it from menswear department. Got there they walked back to the lady how HAD the key and got it from her. Im disabled and struggle to walk so I was less than impressed when SHE had the key all the time and just needed to shout "menswear some guy wants to try these jeans" save me walking across the the shop 3 times.
I've been 3 times and foods made me sick every time don't get me wrong it's was cheap but the quality has definitely been sacrificed to quantity
I stayed in San Fransisco for a week and the food tasted ok. I didn't read the ingredients though.
green for pedestrian means red light for cars, so...
We are smaller than Britain is (Ireland) and you wouldn't manage a road trip around the entire country in a couple of days, not unless all you want to do is drive and see nothing unless it's out of a car window..
To give people an idea of the size of the U.S. - You can fit Great Britain AND Eire into just Texas, FIVE TIMES over!
I'm now trying to remember my last trip to the US and the food. I seem to recall it was OK. Tasted all right. Big portions. But not special or different. Not dissimilar to what we'd get at home tbh. But we were eating in hotels and restaurants, we had no exposure to what the average American thinks is normal.
What mostly gets me is why Americans are so obsessed with beans on toast and think it's the national dish or something. It's snack food for kids, students and those on low incomes, it's really not an actual meal we all look forward to eating.
We call taking food home is a doggy bag 😂
On here or an article mentioned an American came out of a UK supermarket crying because the store held all the fruit and veg in plastic 😂
What supermarket was that. I ask because your supermarkets are not only virtually the same as ours (Ireland), many ARE the same and so are the products. Only occasionally do you have things wrapped in ''plastic'' and that's often because they bruise easily - strawberries etc, are in large portions such as 10kg of carrots, or are delicacies such as asparagus spears.
@@musicandbooklover-p2o It's pretty much the same all over in UK Ireland but I think they were generalising, referring to items such as what you mention. I suspect the exact same thing can be found in the US as it'll largely depend on store and perhaps even state given laws can vary. Although plastic being less common as a whole in the US or even within supermarkets, I would be doubtful about. Perhaps I'll try to find a walkaround on here of walmart or similar. Maybe they forgot to mention they were a highly passionate member of the green party
@@MrVidification Being serious, you have probably got a genuine point there though, it does sound as though they are in the more fanatical camp.
All that wasted food and there are people in the world with nothing to eat, including your own homeless!
Does it really take that long for them to scan your bits and bobs in the states. Thats new.
Also no take away waste in the uk because the meals are smaller
Pedestrian have the right of way
I'm not sure where that person went but as a brit in America I have always found the American food awesome! There is a wide variety in stores. A lot more fresh fruit and vegetables than in the UK. American steaks are the best!
Lucky you. I have a friend from the US living near me in Ireland, every time she returns home (or did, no family left so doesn't go back now) she would be feeling ill within a couple of days, and that was eating organic produce only and no meat - she's vegetarian. Even after she returned back to Ireland it would take up to 6 weeks before she was back to how she before she left, and that was with very careful shopping to avoid as much processed food as possible (largely because she is diabetic and US food is a killer - literally - for many diabetics). So their fresh fruit and vegetables are so contaminated with sprays and stuff they literally made her ill every time she returned for a visit.
The toilet water thing is so true. I would say the water is between 40-50% of the toilet.
I loved the food in the US and the service was better.
The toilet water thing is horrific. So unhygienic.
I have often wondered, while watching any US film set in a high school, why the water was up to the rim so the poor "nerd" was drowned in it; Thought it was just something done for the films, didn't think it could be real!
I suppose Americans need more flush because they're about 5 times the weight of a Brit. So the larger deposit in the toilet needs more pushing power.
I suppose that if one were to superimpose a map of the continental United States over Europe, Los Angeles would be where London is whilst New York would be somewhere in eastern Afghanistan.
The US is smaller than Europe - not by much but still smaller - so all their claims about size and taking days to travel anywhere go out of the window when you remember that.
@@musicandbooklover-p2o I agree. Continental Europe is slightly larger than that of the United States. I remember crossing the whole of France ( from the very north to the very south ) by train. It is in such times of travel when a person might realize how large even modestly sized countries are. France { North - south } seems endless when travelling by land.
Pls do more European football videos
The bestmeal i had in the USA was a Chinese in San Antonio. Say no more!!
Hamburgers are german not American.
Clue's in the name!
Ich bin _ein_ Berliner
meant JFK was saying
I am a doughnut.
Without "ein" it is correct.
Ein Berliner = doughnut type,
Berliner = Berliner.
Therefore and thus
Hamburger comes from and is from Hamburg.
And Pizza are Italian.
And Apple Pie, European in general, UK definitely have really old (as in pre Columbus) recipes.
@@stephenlee5929 Those of which used in the US today are therefore just as much american as english in fairness to all.
You cd say that they're as american/english* as Apple pie.
*delete depending on location
Queefhuffer69? What a screen name!
I was in the US in 2006 and as a vegetarian it was really difficult to get healthy food. It seemed to be all burgers and steak. I would end up just eating chips and salad.
Much better now here in Southern California
Customer Service is in its infancy in UK😂. You can see them contorting their faces and reaching for the axe as you tentatively try not to pee yourself. They shout. ‘Whaaaat do u want’ you leave. So bit if a cheek to say US customer service is dodgy.
Customer service in America is hit and miss, somewhere like Walmart because there wage is so low if you get good customer service there it’s a miracle but places where there paid more for example target the customer service is far better
Taps
😂😂try trying it that would help lmao
Hello from England! Loads comment why don’t you read comments? 🤣
It is because he has 3 channels and he's only bothered about the algorithm and the income generated from each channel. He doesn't answer any comments maybe he can't handle constructive criticism either. He's just your average willfully ignorant American who has zero social awareness of his surroundings as he never leaves his bubble.
Possibly cos most of it is rude trolling from @user-kq5ke5yb6k
@@markharvey1630 awe really!
there now social safety net ,like in EUROPE
We have store that sell american goods that we have seen advertised on Shows and Movies. American chocolate is vile, hate twinkies and Oreos aren't nice.
I thought the toilets in America were great 😊
4:21 GTA in a nutshell:
He says if he sees a pedestrian crossing at a crossing he would have to concentrate on what he was doing. Shouldn't he be concentrating on his driving all the time. He's not the sharpest tool in the box is he
hi Matthew Shadows! :D
Having never visited America. I would love to call into a random small town diner like we see in the movies. Burger with fries and fresh filter coffee with infinite refills. Would I be disappointed?
Depends, I've been multiple times, these places you speak of can at times be hard to find, chain "restaurants" really dominate the landscape. But you can and will find some on a longer road trip, most are pretty good. My best advice would be see where the truckers stop, they're on the road a lot, and often find good cheap places. Perhaps ask around when refueling or when checking in at your motel/hotel.
Most restaurants in the US, free refills are for soda only, you have to pay for every cup of coffee and tea.
@@marydavis5234 But the lady in the diner with a jug of coffee topping people up? Is that not a thing? Or do they total it up, add tax and then a mandatory tip?
@@lucifermorningstar4606 they top off , but you don’t get charge unless you drink the whole cup of coffee and tips are not mandatory in the US