Americans React: Surprising Differences Between the UK and USA that AREN'T Obvious!

American Couple & Friend React: Surprising Differences Between the UK and USA that AREN'T Obvious! We have another Special Guest for today, our friend Ryann! Ryann helped us start our Show way back in the very first days! She has filmed lots of our Patreon content and has been very supportive! It's nice to have her in front of the camera finally! This episode was a lot of fun! We still get surprised by how many differences we continue to learn between the United Kingdom & The United States! While we knew a couple of these, there were some that were definitely surprising! We hope you enjoy this episode and leave us a comment at the end. It's always fun learning about the different cultural differences between our countries. Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support! *More Links below...
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[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

We have another Special Guest for today, our friend Ryann! Ryann helped us start our Show way back in the very first days! She has filmed lots of our Patreon content and has been very supportive! It's nice to have her in front of the camera finally! This episode was a lot of fun! We still get surprised by how many differences we continue to learn between the United Kingdom & The United States! While we knew a couple of these, there were some that were definitely surprising! We hope you enjoy this episode and leave us a comment at the end. It's always fun learning about the different cultural differences between our countries. Thank you SO much for watching! If you enjoy our content, please consider subscribing to our channel, it is the BEST way to support our channel and it's FREE! Also, please click the Like button. Thank you for your support!

[@collettemchugh9495]

Yeah I wish we did get coupons but sometimes we get adverts through the door to advertise a shop and you might be lucky to get a few coupons lol

[@russellfrancis6294]

You've got some great friends!

[@user-wu7om7li7y]

I'm pretty sure that Kalyn is from Florida not the North East Coast - might expain the differences with your area

[@waynegray2284]

Hi all iam in the UK when I buy my eggs from the supermarket I put mine in the fridge

[@smallsmalls3889]

1000,000 Green shield stamps for a pen😂

[@proskipper1]

For all the Brits of a certain age "Green Shield Stamps" & "Tiger Tokens"

[@jaxcoss5790]

I remember Green Shield stamps. But bloody hell we haven't done those for decades!

[@hot5and77]

Thank you for reminding me that I'm of a "certain age".

[@Nannyladybird]

Buy your Christmas shopping with Green shield stamps great idea 😊

[@Nannyladybird]

Do you have LV vouchers in USA

[@louisemiller3784]

Kensitas cigarette tokens

[@paulknox999]

we have a $ sign on most and the € on many UK keyboards, the $ sign especially is used for many things as well as the US currency, its used in programming and even something as common as Excel uses it to denote an absolute reference.

[@duncancallum]

Only the dollar sign in Aussie.

[@johnc4224]

@@duncancallumthat makes sense since you use dollars down there

[@mondrus72]

Yup, the dollar sign is used in the BASIC programming language when handling string of text. So for B$ you would say "B string" The program below would print Hello World to the screen. 10 LET A$= "Hello World" 20 PRINT a$ So the dollar or string symbol was prominent on the keyboards of the 70's/80's home micro computers which mostly came with versions of BASIC. I am sure there are other non-currency uses of the dollar symbol in various scenarios.

[@TheHume123]

Yep, very useful for excel

[@alangauld6079]

@@mondrus72 The $ is used in a lot of programming languages, often to indicate variables. But the dollar is so common as a currency throughout the world that it is often used even in correspondence. The euro sign is also present but not so convenient since you need to hold down Alt to get it.

[@hot5and77]

The card readers are a lot less common now. Most security is done through the banking app. I always enjoy the American reaction to the egg thing. Not refrigerating eggs is so normal to me that I am always amazed by the amazement (if that makes sense).

[@tonys1636]

Using a banking app great if one has a decent phone signal at home otherwise its online only or the landline phone and the many options and options within options before one gets to actually speak to a person. That reminds me to change the batteries in my card reader. Going to a branch just as bad as a sheer wall of terminals and maybe one or two humans. At least my local one is a regional office so has staff who can make decisions.

[@FlashyVic]

I've never even heard of a card reader.

[@rjb29uk]

Yeah I never had a card reader. I had a little HSBC device that would generate a random code when I put in a code to help me login, but my phone now does that same job.

[@neoaliphant]

@@FlashyVic they are still in use, even now, mostly things like barclays business bank accounts....

[@what_im_eatin_uk]

Debbie is absolutely correct on the card reader. It generates a secure code for you to use to access your information. These are not very common anymore most places now use 2 step verification which sends a secure code to your mobile or email instead

[@jur4x]

2FA tokens are mor3e secure than SMS to phone. In Latvia we used to have multiple 2FA options for banking. code calculators, code cards etc. Now we have only two options: special app, or digital signature. Digital signature is the one where you put your state-issued ID card into a card reader. The last one is also more universal. Allows to login into other services as well.

[@Varksterable]

3-point authentication is more secure. Something you know (account details or user's pin code and pin for the card reader). Something you have (your bank card and card reader). Something generated (the short term pin generated when you put your card and pin into the card reader). My business bank account used this. My current account doesn't need the card reader; instead it just uses bank details, pin number, and a physical device that generates the one-time key when you pin it. I'll resist using a phone app as long as I'm able to. Phones get lost, stolen, hacked or simply break. I'd much rather never hold _any_ bank details on my phone. You never quite know who's 'listening' to it.

[@vaudevillian7]

I remember coupons being more of a thing as a kid but we went digital a lot sooner, same with card readers - they've largely been phased out for 5 years now. Debbie is right, you don't read your bank details on the reader it links to your account, it's from the early days of online banking. You tend to find with anything with banking or payments the UK is usually about 15-20 years ahead of the US, that's been my experience of spending a lot of time in the US over the las 20 years

[@productjoe4069]

One of the reasons for this is that banking regulations are set state by state in the US. This means a lot of infrastructure isn’t harmonised, and interstate settlement is very clunky. The UK and EU have a unified banking infrastructure enabled by shared regulation so payments can be processed instantly with little settlement risk to the banks.

[@Thomashorsman]

to think the US doesn’t even have bank transfer

[@CherylVogler]

There are several types of bank transfers in the US - ACH, wire, apps such as Venmo and Paypal. Transfers can be between banks, between accounts, and individuals.@@Thomashorsman

[@opaqueentity]

Not all banks use them, most just use an app on the phone but remember that not everyone has a smartphone so theres needs to be some sort of authentication system

[@Paul.J.Mitchell]

We do use the term "nursery" as well as "garden centre", although not very often these days

[@lolsaXx]

And all the nurseries I've ever been to sell only plants, nothing more.

[@jamesward3547]

@lolsaXx I agree the nurseries are usually plant growers and just do plants with minimal "other stuff"

[@grahvis]

@@lolsaXx . Indeed, nurseries may not even sell plants direct to the public.

[@lyndapet1]

I think couponing is childish.Here the reduction is shown in store and available to everyone. We can carry Our loyalty cards on our phones. 15:29

[@missharry5727]

I think a nursery grows the plants it sell, garden centres probably buy quite a lot from nurseries to supplement their own produce.

[@AzimovTube]

The dollar sign is used in some programming and scripting languages, so it has more than just currency uses. Also have the € symbol on my 4 key which you probably don't.

[@shaunmckenzie5509]

I'm Australian, and we use the same keyboard as the US. No pound or euro keys. Just dollar. Tbh, I've never had to do those currency symbols before. But there are ways to type them. On digital keyboards on phones etc, you can just hold down the dollar sign and euro, pound, yen etc will come up I've used a UK keyboard before and it took me a while to get used to it. The symbols not being where you're used to is more trippy than you'd think.

[@AndrewBroadhead-kb7oc]

Yep, the dollar sign ($) is used to indicate string (a text variable) in several programming languages as opposed to an integer, a date or time field etc.

[@wncjan]

Many years ago before the Euro, when I worked for IBM, we couldn't sell computers in Spain unless the keyboard had a pesetsas key.

[@rjb29uk]

On my UK Mac keyboard I also have the option of the cent symbol; option + 4 = ¢. Of course we also have the pence symbol on our keyboards too. It's the letter P in lowercase, p

[@andywilliams7323]

The card reader to log into online banking is basically 2-factor authentication. Using 2 methods (your online login password and the card reader and pin) simultaneously to authenticate your ID and that it's really you logging in. The idea being that even if someone nefarious finds out/hacks your online password, they still can't log in, because they don't have access to your card reader and pin. However, the video is 2 years old. Today the card readers have now largely been replaced by an app on your phone which does the same job, and instead of using a pin, you use your fingerprint.

[@WORCESTERTHATCH]

good description 👍

[@andybaker2456]

Exactly this. My PIN Sentry card reader has been assigned to a drawer for a number of years now as I use my fingerprint to access the app instead. If I recall correctly, I did need to use the card reader to set the app up in the first place, though. I do occasionally get asked if I want to use it for identification purposes when I pay for something online, but I generally select the "text code to phone" option. The wonders of modern technology! 😊

[@I_Evo]

And I think it was only certain banks that actually went down the card reader route. I've banked online for 20+ years with one of the major banks and it was always just an ID number and password and then letters from a memorable word to access your account online.

[@stephenbrown7645]

I agree the card reader is redundant with my account. I use the mobile phone app that uses facial recognition and expressions. When I pay someone new I need to use my face and blink my eyes to add the payee.

[@Steve_W27]

I’ve only I’ve had one account with that card reader thing and it was at least 15 years ago. I ditched the bank (NatWest) and switched to one that doesn’t use them for that very reason. Never seen them since and don’t know anybody else who has one.

[@andreathompson7896]

I have a theory about the popularity of the garden centre. Back when I was younger, and into my early 20s the laws regarding shops opening on Sunday were so strict that no shops were open - not even supermarkets. But what was allowed to open were Garden Centres. This meant that if it was a boring rainy Sunday and you were sick of looking at the walls of your home then going to the garden centre was a place to go! Originally they were just garden stuff and we do use the word nursery for garden centres as well - but a nursery usually will literally sell you plants. A garden centre was more than that.They started putting in cafe's and other things to sell us. This blurred the lines on what was allowed under the Sunday opening laws. In the 1990s there were shops that decided they were going to intentionally break the law by opening on Sunday until eventually the government relented and passed a new law that allowed shops over a certain size to open for 6 hours on a Sunday. These shops are allowed to choose their own opening times as long as it's only for 6 hours, but it is strictly tills on at opening time and tills off at closing time. They are legally not allowed to serve you outside of their 6 hours. If the shop is small enough then they are allowed to open for longer. This arrangement can be frustrating at times for consumers but it must be working well for the larger stores because this has been the law now for 25 years+ and none of them have tried to change it. these days, each Garden centre is different but there are clothes shops, greetings card shop, toiletires ,knick nacks, fancy food brands, crafts, pet supplies, tropical fish centres, sports clothing, furniture,childrens play areas, books. The one near me has a minitaure train ride that you can go on. Oh and yeah... there are a few plants as well. All under one roof. Welcome to the world of mis-named stores... The Garden Centre.

[@andrewguthrie2]

Pubs used to open from noon till 2 on Sundays, and then from 7pm until 10:30. Unbelievable!

[@neoaliphant]

That is a very good point, i agree thinking back, im 50 so i remember restrictive sunday shopping. I think agriculture/farm supply places like mole valley, tincknells etc went a similar route, toys, cafes etc for similar reason....

[@Cjbx11]

In the UK we do have places that sell plants referred to as nursery’s. The difference between a nursery and a garden centre is that a nursery’s tend to just grow and sell plants while a garden centre will sell plants but also sell many other items such as clothing, gardening tools, garden furniture and many other items.

[@NK-bj8li]

Travel Insurance also covers Medical bills abroad. If a Brit traveled to the US and ended up in hospital, without travel insurance, they would be paying thousands for the care; rather than the travel insurance covering it.

[@WORCESTERTHATCH]

Absolutely, we had to use ours a few years ago in Orlando for a medical emergency, which saved us thousands & thousands. Traveling without it is pure madness.

[@ruth1231]

Conversely you hear of stories about Americans falling ill in the UK and not being charged for treatment.

[@barty7016]

It also covers getting you home again if you're too sick to fly on a commercial plane.

[@what_im_eatin_uk]

Ah the UK Garden center. They can range massively in size and quality. A good one will have gifts, clothes, a grocery store, a butcher, cafe, pet shop, and sell items for your home such as furniture. For some reason candles are massive in garden centers never been in one that does not have a huge Yankee candle section

[@dammac5377]

centre

[@dave_h_8742]

Hate that type of retail center they are all turning into them and they have less plants and more tat than a proper nursery full of plants and different types of soil.

[@AgentMucha]

Lots of them also have children's play areas - going to a garden centre is practically a day out

[@robertchinnery9806]

In the UK we also use the term 'nursery' as well as 'garden centre'.

[@what_im_eatin_uk]

Couponing in the UK supermarket is just something different. Deals are linked to your store loyalty card/app if you have the relevant app or card you get money off. Asda who use to be owned by Walmart do things a bit different. They almost gamify their app. Setting you goals for certain items. For example buy bread 4 times or spend x amount on bakery they then give you money in your cashpot you can turn into a voucher to spend on anything in store

[@batman51]

We used to use coupons a lot, I don't know when it sort of faded out. Actually it was a real pain as people sorted through their pile of coupons to find which ones related to actual purchases and were still in date etc.

[@Lisa-ik4kk]

The bank card reader was used as a way to sign into your account. You put your card in and used your PIN number which gave you a unique code that you added when signing into your account online. They’ve mostly been phased out now as Barclays has an app where you can do most of your banking

[@user-ev1tl5rf7o]

This lovely lady not only still lives in the UK, she now has dual UK/US citizenship! She's married to a Brit and has lived here for over 10 years. BTW I'm a subscriber to her channel and have been for some time. Great video! 😍😍😍

[@louisemiller3784]

Dobbies Garden Centres, sell crockery, electrical kitchen stuff, baking stuff, clothes books, they have a food section, freshly baked breads, stuff for your pets,birds, garden implements. At Christmas a whole array of Christmas decs. They have a restaurant, and now they are dog friendly, Yuffie loves going to Dobbies and they have a dog friendly section in their cafe. The place is usually stood at the weekends. If you go to the Clyde Valley it’s nursery after nursery, pick your own fruit etc and it has lots of garden centres too. Yes I’m at the age where I can get up on a day off and think, ‘ il go to Dobbies today, have a look and get a coffee, nice bit of lunch’

[@margaretnicol3423]

It does decent coffee too! I like their flat white. 😀

[@frogletx]

We do have both plant nurseries and garden centres. A nursery will just sell plants but a garden centre will sell lots of stuff for the garden, not just plants. My wife used to work in one. You can buy BBQs, garden furniture, sheds, summer houses, fountains, hot-tubs, fish ponds stuff, garden tools, lawn movers, paving, compost, top soil, other plant nutrients, pest control chemicals. Many of them have shop within a shop type franchises .... like butchers, veggie stalls. I remember a clothes franchise by Cotton Traders.

[@Marcus-sz2tg]

We do have a club card system in the UK that gives you money off or coupons for your most bought items. Ryann your first reaction to stuff is fantastic hope to see your face on the channel again .. love you all from snowy Scotland :) xx

[@genm303]

Great video! Just a reference to Holiday Insurance because you will be visiting the UK at some point. Another poster said that treatment is free in the UK...it is at A&E but if you are admitted and have to stay in a hospital they can charge for treatment of non-UK citizens.

[@EmilyCheetham]

Actually you CAN get coupons in uk. Some stores have magazines with coupons in the back (e.g. farm foods, or for pet stores pets at home) . Also some foods sometimes have a coupon on the back of the packaging. Also sometimes you can print off coupons. However in uk it isn’t big and the deals often aren’t very big.

[@PrOxGaZz]

Was about to say something similar myself, I mean isn't Tesco voucher or other grocery stores still a thing when you rack up so many points on your store card after each month. Also you'll find people that are on welfare getting vouchers off the local council to support people for low income households.

[@judithmarshall3350]

It used to be bigger.

[@kevvywevvywoo]

we do have plant nurseries too but they usually only sell plants, maybe the odd sack of fertiliser or similar. Garden Centres are more of a destination where you also buy pots, ornaments, garden tools, gardening gloves and boots, some also have great christmas decoration departments when the time comes. Cafes are a great money spinner.

[@colinlegrys9434]

The dollar sign comes in handy when making up mixed type passwords.

[@jamespickersgill8416]

Ryann is a delight. Bring her out more often.

[@Tilion462]

Morning ladies - great stuff as ever! Just wanted to cover a few things that came up in this one: For starters, eggs aren't usually by the bread (a few places might do that), but seeing as bread (in the bigger stores with their own bakery, especially) is right at the back corner away from the entrance so that fresh baking smell can be strategically wafted through the store by the HVAC - more often they're literally in the first 'regular' aisle next to the chilled dairy/milk products. As far as the card reader goes, not all banks do them and the reader is pretty much always just left at home, I don't know anyone who carries one about, but I guess there's always room in a handbag! It does create one-time authentication for access to your account, though of course there are other methods available - it also can be used to authenticate large purchases or setup new payments that would otherwise potentially block your card; there are a number of other uses depending on the bank in question - also with a few exceptions, pretty much all card readers can work for any bank's card so long as it's part of the same overall system (all VISA debit cards, for instance). On holiday insurance, it's pretty much thought of as mandatory for any foreign trip, but many people take it even for holidays within the UK - especially if the holiday's a tad pricey! For instance, I certainly took out insurance the last time I went on a Broads cruising holiday, if only to recoup the cost of the boat hire if anything went awry.

[@Satankat666]

Where are you that eggs are normally anywhere near the chilled section? Most of the shops I've seen I think the eggs are near either bread or home baking sections.

[@skechyassmofo]

I'd say at this point, personal card readers have been replaced by phone apps secured with the phone's fingerprint reader, backed up by PIN now.

[@scrappystocks]

Garden centre or nursery? Both these terms are used in the UK. Garden centres (UK spelling) are generally as described in the video and may sell a range of related, and sometimes non-related, products. Nurseries are more likely to be plant focussed and where the plants are actually grown as well as being sold to the public and possibly also sold to garden centres and stores like the Lowes and Home Depot equivalents. Plant nurseries may also sell other items, such as garden pots and ornaments, and they sometimes develop more of a similarity to what might be called a garden centre. I'm a keen gardener and prefer to buy from nursery growers to get better quality plants at cheaper prices.

[@jamesaston2031]

I love hearing about these little differences. Great video as always guys, Ryann is a great addition too

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

We agree! Thanks

[@nadeansimmons226]

Eggs in NZ are in ordinary aisles too. However, they are not always near the bread section. We don't use coupons either.

[@timtaylor7364]

Apparently the colour of the egg doesn't make a difference to taste. It's based on the type of hen. White feathers - white eggs, dark feathers brown eggs. Nutritionally they are the same. The processing of the eggs does not turn them white either. How they taste could well depend on how the hen is fed or kept though.

[@neilbuckley1613]

Also the age of the eggs. I used to know a guy who kept hens to produce his own free range eggs. He told me a one day old egg from a battery hen will taste better than a week old free range egg.

[@nickyverra2175]

With our garden centres they often contain aquaria and pet shops as well.

[@jamesmccullough1395]

I have only been a subscriber for a week. I am Canadian and I LOVE how you present things. I wish that I could have people like you in my life as friends. Much love from Canada.

[@timtaylor7364]

card reader is same as Debbies key fob, but its more secure as you have to have the card too. It synchronized with the bank and wont work without your specific card.

[@sameebah]

The dollar sign is needed not just for monetary items, but also for a lot of software (anywhere you might want to enter a 'string' in a spreadsheet, for instance). Mind you - the UK/US differences in keyboard are nothing to trying to type Thai on either layout when the keys don't show those characters at all, and pretty much EVERY symbol is in a different place.

[@patrickslade2715]

One good reason for us, in the UK, to have the dollar sign is that it is used in some software products for reasons other than referring to currencies. In Microsoft Excel, for example, it is used extensively as a part of a cell address. It fixes that part of the cell reference. So if, in a formula you refer to cell "A1" and copy that formula down it will adjust it on each new row to A2, A3, A4 etc. If you refer to that cell as A$1 it would not adjust so it would remain as A$1 all the way down. I am sorry, probably very badly explained!

[@Donizen1]

Also, there are quite a few countries that use the dollar as their currency including quite a few Commonwealth members. The Spanish dollar was the first use of the dollar, and even England was using dollars as currency in the early 1800s.

[@neoaliphant]

we have nurseries in UK< they are just plants/seedlings/pots etc The garden centres have cafes, clothes, a bit like department stores but things tend to be quaint, like cafe local crafts, cottage wear, home made jam, cider, gifts, toys, ceramics/china, additional cafes, winemaking/brewing, aquatic/fish stuff, pets, sheds/garden furniture, camping/travel stuff. there are sometimes special buses/busstops at them for old people to have a day out going there, lots of space for wheelchairs/mobility stuff.

[@robert-hh2ft]

the uk vs usa ones are always great so cant wait!!! and another guest!!

[@keithevans9544]

I had a card reader years ago, I log in now to my account with a thumbprint reader on my phone

[@mandypotts9090]

This was interesting with a few unusual differences. It was nice to is Ryann in front of the camera , her shocked expressions about the eggs and travel insurance was funny . A reaction to garden centres is something l would like to see ❤️👍👍

[@user-uu2yq3tc4j]

tis Ange Nice to meet u Ryan love these compare n contrast type of episodes this was a really interesting twist on some that i havent seen before

[@andywilliams7323]

The UK abandoned using coupons a long time ago, as they were too slow and inefficient. They were replaced with a store digital reward card system. People scan their digital reward card (same size as a credit card) or via the app on their phone each time they shop and use the checkout in the store. Each time you shop, loyalty points are added to the card, and the card also automatically applies loyalty discounts to the prices of certain items you regularly buy. You can also cash in some or all of the loyalty points accumulated on the card at any time to reduce the total cost of your shopping that day. For example. I spend £60-70 putting gas in my car roughly every 6 weeks. I wait until the point total on my card reaches equal to £60-70 and then cash those points on one of those 6 weekly gas purchases. So I end up getting that particular £60-70 gas purchase for free. Other people accumulate as many loyalty points as they can over the whole year and then cash all of them in on their big December Christmas shop so that they get all or a huge chunk of their Christmas shop for free.

[@jaxcoss5790]

'Gas'?

[@andywilliams7323]

@@jaxcoss5790Natasha, Debbie and Ryann are Americans, and a good chunk of their audience are also Americans. So I used the American terminology. Most Americans wouldn't immediately understand what the UK terminology "petrol" is/means.

[@nevillemason6791]

I don't understand the system in the USA which encourages the shopper towards a certain brand (but not the store?). The UK 'loyalty card' system encourages the shopper to only use one supermarket company. They also send through the mail coupons as further encouragement as: 'Spend £80 in one visit and get £8 off your bill.' I often receive this sort of offer which is a money off coupon per week for four weeks.

[@JustMe-dc6ks]

Many stores have loyalty cards in the US. There are both store and manufacturer coupons.

[@shaunmckenzie5509]

A rewards card isn't the same

[@inegom1735]

I think others have noted but: The card readers just generated a code for online banking. Some banks had them, some banks had a keyfob you just typed your card pin in to get a code. They were very short lived and have be superceded by banking apps where you can pretty much do all your banking on your phone. Gardening is very important to a lot of british people. We like to lookafter our gardens and they require a good amount of maintenance due to our climate and types of plants. We do have nurseries and as she notes plants and garden stuff are sold at places like B&Q. Garden centres are a bit hard to explain. They tend to be independent stores aimed at the middle class / middle age. They are sort of a department store for outdoor life and gardens. They will sell all your normal gardening stuff, plants, garden furniture and ornaments etc. But also other vaguely associated things like: outdoor clothing, maybe camping gear, things for crafts (drawing, sewing etc), they may have sections for little gifts / trinkets and indoor ornaments, often fish for ponds, and sometimes other animals. They often have big seasonal sections e.g. for christmas. They will always have a cafe / restaurant and commonly big displays based on what they sell which are nice to walk around and get ideas for your own home including garden setups, flowerbeds showing mixes of plants, and ornamental ponds. They are very popular with older people as it is a gentle afternoon out, you can get lunch, see nice displays and maybe buy some things to add to your garden, and older folk here typically love their gardens.

[@rosemarymee]

Garden centres are usually all on the one level so they are good for elderly and or disabled people. They are also a shelter from the rain.. 😊

[@jamielindsay1506]

Nice to meet you Ryann! I'd love to meet more of your family and friends as special guests. This video was fascinating. It still surprises me how much differences there actually is.

[@owenmcghee1666]

Great episode. I'm also following Girl Gone London. The feelgood factor is BRILLTASTIC

[@MikeSmith-ye9ho]

Another thing if you put certain products in the fridge, they will lose their flavour. Eggs being one of them. Tomatoes also are the same. Here’s an experiment for you. Get some vine ripe tomatoes, put one in the fridge and one at room temperature then taste them you will noticed a vast difference in flavour. I only ever put tomatoes in the fridge once they start to go over then they’re only used for cooking. Give it a try

[@sharonmartin4036]

I can 100% agree with this, Mike. I find the same thing with most veg. They seem to lose flavour in the fridge.

[@karenblackadder1183]

Eggs also absorb strong flavours from anything else in the fridge. For baking eggs should only ever be used at room temperature.

[@maggiemay6625]

Loved this episode you ladies are so warm and great to have Ryan too 10/10 for content and as always a big thankyou for your love of my country🇬🇧❤️🇺🇸xxx

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Thanks so much!!

[@Thomashorsman]

Another difference with our keyboards is that the Enter/Return key is always an Upside-Down L shape which takes up the space of 2 or 3 keys so very easy to hit, whereas yours I believe is just a rectangle

[@raymondhardy8468]

In Australia we have home depot centres. That have massive garden/ nursery sections. They all have cafes and kids playgrounds. The store is called Bunnings

[@geordiegirl164]

I love visiting Bunnings when I’m in Aus 💕

[@anitawhite2669]

I'm a Brit living in the UK and needed to replace my broken keyboard. I went online and bought one, but didn't realise until I started using it that I had accidently bought a USA one. So frustrating, but I remembered where the @ key was on my old keyboard along with the £ key, so I didn't bother sending it back to the online store. As for 'Eggs'. We now seem to have lots of white shell eggs being sold in our supermarkets. Maybe it's just me, but they don't seem right, so I stick to the brown shelled ones. Loving your videos.

[@armosamarosso]

Yeah what is with that? I used to have to keep checking the box until I found brown ones, but my local Tesco started to just have the white ones...kind of got used to it now. I still put them in the fridge when I get home though, always have done...

[@goodshipkaraboudjan]

I'd love to see a video on the plant centres. I'm not a huge plant person by my partner is so I get to hang out in the occasional one. Most large ones in Australia have a cafe and a couple of Water Dragons (big lizards) out on insect patrol. Ryann was awesome, hope the stunt bruises heal quickly.

[@billieleerice7072]

Brilliant episode. I would love to see a vid comparing our garden centres to your nursery's

[@gillfox9899]

We have nurseries which are places where you can buy plants that may be grown by the nursery or bought in. These are different to garden centres which buy in plants generally and also sell lots of different other things. There are also several chains of stores that have garden centres attached to them and most of our supermarkets also sell some plants and garden related items

[@Jinty92]

I have had a card reader for my bank account for over 10 years. It is for safety but we don't have to use it. We also have the option to be sent a code to our mobile phone which I prefer as it's less cumbersome.

[@shaunmckenzie5509]

I'm Australian. Never seen one of those "calculator" things here either. It's all sms.

[@fluffybadger9832]

Yes it's useful if you can't receive texts for whatever reason, like lack of signal where I am!

[@chrissmith8773]

The dollar sign is important in Excel and other programs, not just currency.

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Gonna need a UK keyboard!! ⌨️

[@ducatobeing]

In the UK, coupons are pretty well a thing of the past. I can remember in the 60s & 70s that they were very popular, but have largely fallen out of use. I have a travel insurance policy for my wife and I, that renew annually. It also covers us for UK breaks. I don't use a card reader. Happily some on line banking sends you access codes in other ways. We also have plant nurseries. They don't sell the range of goods that a garden centre would, just plants, and or the supplies directly connected to their growth or care.

[@andrewoleary9704]

We did have “nurseries “… they did kind of die out in late70’s early 80’s. Garden centres have definitely now taken over

[@rozhunter7645]

Hi ladies I loved that videos d learnt a bit too though I will watch it again later. Richard sends his apologies but he had to look after his mum this morning. Love ya both ❤️❤️

[@liukin95]

Yes in the UK we have all these symbols on our keyboards: £ = Pound $ = Dollar € = Euro ¢ = Cent ¥ = Yen Obviously when it comes to € and $ a lot of countries use these as their currencies so it makes sense.

[@nevillemason6791]

I've a relatively new UK keyboard (Asus) and it doesn't have a key for either Cent or Yen. Some laptops are designed with business use in mind rather than home use so incorporate these extra features.

[@liukin95]

@@nevillemason6791 I have a MacBook pro and this is how I get them: ¥ = alt + Y ¢ = alt + 4

[@lucylewis9437]

Another amazing video by you 2 amazing ladies. Love this video. Was lovely to see Ryann on the video too she was a natural.

[@AM-dz2sh]

My keyboards have dollar, pound and euro on there.. :) Some garden centres have a full on restaurant - (High end, with food being used from the adjacent fields!) LOVE them!!!!

[@carlhancox-no4lj]

Morning lovely ladies x 3 lol , this should be fun , Hi to Ryann , be interesting to see if any new ones crop up , maybe the Tipping culture in both Countries , ie Restaurants , fast food deliveries etc , historically we shy away from it , although we are catching up, whereas it appears to be almost compulsory in the USA , if im not mistaken , thanks again for your efforts xxx

[@what_im_eatin_uk]

Debbie if you are going to say "how's your trip" you need to follow it up with "see you next fall"

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

😆

[@rhondafoy8009]

We have the other magic roundabout in Hemel Hempstead, Herts, UK

[@ericevans4040]

The dollar sign is mainly used in writing code in cnc , commands are prefixed with the $ sign, so is required whatever keyboard or local currency.

[@markborder906]

Garden Centres are like supermarkets, in many the plants are the least important part. Many are part of a chain. Nurseries (plant, not children’s) are the specialist shops. Most are single person or family owned and specialise in certain types of plants, sometimes restricted to just one family, for example, until recently there was a specialist Cyclamen nursery a few miles from me.

[@sarahocallaghan8935]

I’m from the UK and I put eggs in the fridge. We have a garden centre that also has an ice rink at xmas and has an amazing xmas shop

[@nickyverra2175]

We can also talk about nurseries relating to plants but a nursery tends to be more of either an independent small scale private business where you pick up baby plants or something that has tunnels for cultivating plants frost free. A garden centre tends to be much more commercialised and often part of a chain.

[@andrewpinks4925]

We do have nurseries as well as garden centres. Nurseries tend more to be smaller and are the actual plant (seedling) growers and may sell direct to the public and supply garden centres. Garden centres developed from the desire to ‘go out’ and browse garden products and their stock gradually expanded.

[@keithweelands5822]

Ryan is sweet and a darling, she needs to jump in more often

[@Toadhall22]

The £ sign is an L and stands for the Latin word librum.

[@TheNatashaDebbieShow]

Thanks! Didn't know that

[@michaelisles4756]

Loved today,s video finding out the differances, we go to the Garden Centre alot we buy plants & toys & tropical fish there,s a clothing line too and alway,s have lunch there,Big hello to Ryann ❤❤

[@kevinlemon6537]

There is no difference between brown or white eggs .

[@alpey8487]

Re travel insurance it’s probably becaused you are used to getting screwed with medical costs whereas most other countries have some form of socialised health care. Getting £50 travel insurance to cover your medical bills in America is worth it. Card reader is only really needed if you are making payments to new payees. It stops someone getting into mobile banking and sending money to themselves. Not all banks have it but a few years ago pretty much all of them did

[@EmilyCheetham]

I’m a brit who has been lucky enough to to have visited MANY countries outside uk. The ones I am remember: France, Spain, Portugal, Tunisia, Egypt, Greece, Lanzarote, America (Florida) , Australia, Croatia, Gibraltar, the canary isles are just the ones I can remember. Some countries Iv visited multiple times to diff areas of the country.

[@hackedaardvark2555]

One of the reasons we have a $ sign in programming languages the $ is used for different functions not just money. For example Excel uses the sign to lock cell references in calculations. These are built in and can't be changed so we have to use it.

[@mikaelhultberg9543]

Hi ladies! Mike from Sweden here. Swedish keyboards also have both the $ and £ keys. As well as keys for three letters that English doesn't have: Å, Ä and Ö. These are NOT a:s and o:s with umlauts, but their own letters, making the Swedish alphabet longer than the English with 29 letters instead of 26. Sweden also have the eggs in room temp. This is standard in Europe. As for the colour of eggs, if eggs are brown it doesn't mean that they are directly from the farms and the white are not. It means that they were layed by brown chickens and white eggs are layed by white chickens. Sweden doesn't have the couponing culture either. Thailand is alo a favourite holiday destination for Swedes. It doesn't have to do with a person's social and/or financial situation. It is warm there. Sweden and the UK are generally cold countries. Sweden also uses the calculator lookind device for online banking, but it is on the decline because nowadays most Swedes usa an app called Bank-ID which is directly connected to your bank account. We also use it for approving payments when shopping online as well as to identify ouselves on websites, eliminating the need to create log-in names and passwords for each site. This means that you don't need the card reader or card at all, you just use your phone. In Sweden we drive on the right side and we also have loads of roundabouts because like in the UK, we don't have the grid system that the US has. We have both nurseries and garden centers here. Gardening is a more of a hobby here, like in the US. In the UK it is a lifestyle.

[@user-yk1cf8qb7q]

I am in a very rural farming area and my local garden centre has a café, shops such as a bookshop and clothes, an aquarium selling tropical and marine fish and home aquarium equipment as well as plants (including trees), and garden hardware including sculptures slabs, cement etc. almost every town of any size has an equivalent garden centre, some larger some smaller but generally selling the same sort of stuff.

[@eyenot9327]

The card reader is also used if you buy something at a high price online. The card reader has a 'Respond' button on there too and gives you a code to confirm it is you purchasing the item.

[@CRINOTH]

A couple of years ago, one of my mum's friends held her 70th birthday party in one of the larger garden centres here in the UK. She booked a private dining room there and about 30 of us attended. The meal was from the garden centre's carvery cafeteria restaurant (obviously we all queued to select our food and then carried it back to our tables ourselves, as such places don't have wait staff). The main part of the restaurant, which our private room was next to, was really busy too as it's a popular place to go for lunch (especially on a Sunday as this day was). :)

[@terencewilliams789]

That's an old post. We have telephone banking now. Your bank app allows you to log into your account on you're phone. You can also pay for goods with your phone via scanning . Apple pay etc. On the egg thing , laying hens in the UK /EU are inoculated against salmonella. That why they don't need to be refrigerated. X

[@shezzawymark8963]

We have nurseries with cafes but we can also buy plants at the hardware store where on weekends they have a sausage sizzle. Most times we look at the plants but really come for the sausage

[@avidpix]

On the topic of UK keyboards, which obviously has the pound £ symbol, but, in addition to the Dollar sign, $, we also have the Euro € and Japanese Yen ¥ symbols, all as standard. Which cheekily suggests, the UK appreciates there is a world outside our shores 😬😂

[@petertyson4022]

Britain has plant nursery. For looking after baby flowers and such grow . You can buy garden stuff as well there as well.

[@daffodil800]

We used to have that coupon culture when I was a kid, apart from clipping coupons out of magazines and newspapers we used to have green shield stamps which you'd collect and then use to buy stuff

[@terryloveuk]

We have nurseries too but they are where plants (and sometimes things like tomatoes, cucumbers etc.) are grown as well as garden shrubs and flowers. They may also have garden centres at them where you can buy plants for your garden that they have grown and are ready to plant out. Of course we also have nurseries for kids (childcare where they help kids to grow). It simply a difference is the words used for these places rather than one or other country having and not having these things.

[@andyleighton3616]

On keyboards - we (in the UK) have an extra key (and it isn't the pound key - that is above 3). When it comes to keyboards we have the ISO layout and not the ANSI layout. The biggest give-away is the Enter/Return key. In the ISO layout it is a big upside-down L - and this means backslash moves to a new key in the bottom left (next to the left shift - which is smaller for ISO keyboards). The right Alt key on ISO keyboard is labelled Alt-Gr which allows you to access special symbols like the Euro sign which is the third symbol on the 4 (4, $ and €) and some accented letters. Of course none of that applies if you are an Apple user who do not follow either standard (but there are also differences between the UK and US). The computers are of course the same and you can easily buy and attach US style keyboards in the UK if you wish. If you do get hold of a UK based ISO keyboard you could easily attach it to a computer in the US (and set the keyboard in your OS) but I guess the problem would be getting ISO keyboards (although Canada is about split between ANSI and ISO, and Mexico mainly ISO I think, so maybe not).

[@delboy1727]

I have never used a card reader to access my bank account, but my wife used to use a more sophisticated gadget than that. Basically when she logged in to her account online, it would send a query code. She would then enter that query code into her gadget, and the gadget would supply a response code. A bit like using a password I guess, except the password was never the same, and even she didn't know what it was until the gadget told her. We also have nurseries (not for children) in the UK, which are different to the garden centres.

[@MrHws5mp]

Hi Ryann! Nice to have you aboard: you did great! On couponing: it used to be a lot more common in the UK than it is now. Certainly nobody will look at you oddly if you take a coupon to the till (unless it goes wrong and holds the queue up). Nowadays discounts are more often run electronically through store discount cards and the like. Sainsburys give you coupons at the till after you've checked out, the selection being their computers' best guess at what you'll need next week. On banking: the only place I've encountered that card reader is with Barclays Bank, and in general I found their security WAY more of a pain in the a*** than anybody else's: trying to send the window clearer £20 felt like trying to launch a nuclear missile! Neither my Lloyds Bank nor my Metro Bank accounts use them. On garden centres: a lot of the non-gardening stuff they sell is seasonal, so Christmas stuff in the winter, barbeque and camping stuff in the summer, etc... They also sell speciality foods and homewares. One local centre has rentable units within it's grounds that you can use for any business (my last local model shop is there!) Two local garden centres have ride-on model train setups, run by enthusiasts, to entertain the kids, so there's almost an amusement park element too.

[@EmilyCheetham]

Eggs in uk are NOT always in the bread isle. They are in some but in other uk grocery stores they are near the milk (on the opposite side). Just ask a staff member.

[@DaveEllwood]

17:00The card reader was used as a form of multi-factor authentication for online banking. They're not used so much now as mobile banking apps handle it, particularly through the use of biometrics on mobile phones.

[@louiseglasgow]

As someone from a family with a lot of immigrants/ex-pats living round the world, there is an unavoidable phenomenon which also affects Girl Gone London. When you move to a different place most of the differences are cultural, but over time there are more and more things you remember from your home country that have changed there since you left. You picked up on a few and I saw a few more. So if something changes at the same/similar time in both countries you experience it as a cultural difference, when it's actually a modernisation/changing times difference.

[@BenzolaUK]

I've watched you guys since around the Queen's passing. You are lovely people, clear to see. With the world burning, is nice to see there are still decent folk with morals dotted around the globe...

[@simhedgesrex7097]

The Queen would never do anything as wishy washy as "passing". She died.

[@EmilyCheetham]

We do have plant nurseries in UK too that only sell plants. Yes some garnet centres in UK have cafe’s but not all. Some gardens centres are ones that sell organic foods & snacks/candy/books/gifts/hand made items/clothing/pet supplies or even some might sell fish & possibly cage pets. Some also have fairground rides or mini zoos. Some have playgrounds. It all depends on the size.

[@PaulMGleeson]

I have been watching Girl Gone London for a few years. After a lull, she has recently restarted posting videos. These are very interesting as she is covering really obscure differences. For example, recently, she posted a 20+ minute video on the differences between American and UK front doors!

[@benjy5142]

Not sure how common this is but 2 of my nearby garden centers have mini trains that you can go for a ride usually just round the edge of the property

[@malcolmh4811]

The issue with the coupon from sources other than the store, is the costs involved with processing and storing and recovering the value of the discount from the supplier. This is also why some stores do not accept high street generic vouchers/gift cards.

[@raymondberry9482]

I agree with her about garden centres. We have whole days out in garden centres 😅

[@denniswilliams160]

Bank provided card readers are a two factor security feature occasionally used in addition to user ID and password but are rarely implemented these days as most banks in the UK now send a code to your phone.

[@IanDarley]

Some 'garden centres' are called nurseries here, they generally only sell plants rather than all the other stuff. The card reader is generally only needed when you are carrying out a high-value transaction and it is just another layer of strong security. You will be using your phone or PC to make the transaction and it will stop and ask for you to use your 'chip and pin' card in your card reader and follow the instructions. It happened to me last year when I was paying for a car at a dealership.

[@helenwood8482]

We do have coupons, but they are usually in newspapers and magazines or online.