Brit Reacts to Things Americans Do That Confuse The Rest Of The World!!

[@benjaminlieb2139]

Jelly, jello, jam, and preserves are different things.

[@JustMe-dc6ks]

And jello is completely different from the others.

[@Advocate005]

As a Chef. Culinary people know the diff.

[@nosliwec]

The difference between jelly, jam and preserves is the amount of fruit used to make them. Jelly has no fruit and is made of just strained fruit juice. Jam is made with mashed fruits and preserves is made of whole fruits chopped in small bits and mixed with sugar.

[@duewhat9815]

@@nosliwec Jelly also has gelatin added to give it that jelloish texture.

[@disseria]

Generally, when you order appetizers, it's for the whole table, so it's not just one person eating the whole thing.

[@SansAziza]

Not with that attitude. You need to focus your chi, and hold the line against those starters. 😂

[@ruthsaunders9507]

@@SansAziza Half the time the appetizers are better than the meal. Sometimes we just a few of them and share.

[@heavin6586]

Shoot, I order an appetizer For my meal half the time. 😂 the regular meals are generally too big and if I'm not going directly home I don't see any sense in just leaving half my food...

[@MrPenguinLife]

In the US we have both Jelly and Jam, as well as Preserves, all 3 are spreads made from fruit. Jelly is generally translucent in color and is made from the strained juices of various types of fruit, Jam is like Jelly but typically with seeds and more fruit pulp included, and Preserves are even thicker and made from complete stewed fruits. So that in the US we may have Blackberry Jelly (with no seeds or pulp in it), Blackberry Jam which includes the seeds, and Blackberry Preserves which he chunkiest of the 3 which is basically stewed down Blackberries with sugar and pectin.

[@ravinhud4979]

When I see brits trying to recreate i lose some of my soul points. I dont care. i actually prefer jam. I guess we need a vid to show brits how to make a pb&J

[@BCZF]

Don't forget the pectin

[@yashar6595]

Its always funny to me the things Brits normally hate about America are literally things we have from our days as a colony of England. The date system was how the British originally did it, the Imperial System for measurement was English, both of them they changed in the 1800s and America no longer a colony just kept using it. It is estimated if America changed to metric it would cost 500 million just to change street signs (miles to kilometers) ALONE, thats why America doesn't change it over, the cost with everything is over 1 trillion US, why spend that on making a change so other countries are happy

[@misslora3896]

When I was in elementary school during the 2nd half of the 70's, there was a nationwide campaign and push to switch to metric. They started making some small changes and began teaching it in schools, but I remember for both kids and adults it was just confuseing for most because we were already so used to using the imperial system. Especially the difference between celsius and farenheit. Metric ultimately is easier and makes much more sense than imperial, but it's too hard to retrain an entire nation and change everything especially since America is so huge.

[@geegs120]

@@misslora3896 I remember this too - American's weren't happy with any changes so they dropped trying to convert.

[@occheermommy]

It is a ridiculous system. It makes us look too stupid to change to the rest of the world. We need to change. Even if it’s a gradual thing. Any new signs will be shown in metric. Evening news will have both F and C. Etc. and take like a year or two to get it finished. It is beyond time. I learned in 6 th grade. I’m 52. It’s beyond due

[@sinfulsympathy]

They still try and teach it in 7th grade. And use it in the medical community. I had to learn it when I worked in a hospital.

[@GBnet2]

@@sinfulsympathy Yeah, the metric system is mostly relegated to the sciences (medicine, engineering, labs ..etc) and military, nowadays.

[@kellynorton8500]

If a service fee is charged at a restaurant, it generally has to do with a very large group dining together. As an example, you and 20 of your closest friends decide to go to an Applebee's, Texas Roadhouse, etc. and want to be seated together with one or two wait persons, the restaurant may add a service fee because of the extra work. The restaurant will make that known before hand.

[@TheBaldr]

That is automatic gratuity fee(ie tip) and not a service fee.

[@TheRagratus]

@@TheBaldr Wrong. If there is an "automatic gratuity fee" there will not be a service fee- BUT if you are charged a service fee then the tip is to be additonally added.

[@Geekabibble]

I've never had a service fee at a restaurant. I have had an automatic tip though, which is usually 18%. Which is sad because I tip 20% and I'm not going to figure out the extra 2% so they get less. I also don't like automatic tipping on the bill, because what if the service is crappy? Why should I pay 18% for bad service? This is very rare though thank goodness. Usually waitstaff are really great!

[@larrybott9597]

To be fair, we use centimeters, millimeters, etc. in the US as well, depending on the profession.

[@silikon2]

It's generally and should be used by NASA and technical fields. There was a Martian probe lost due to mixing units. But for the general public. changing miles to kilometers, ounces to milliliters, etc is arbitrary and silly. That's why the government attempt to convert the US to "metric" was ridiculed and thrown out in the 70s. Is the "metric" system better? Perhaps. I'm not sure 0 degrees being freezing and 100 being boiling even constitutes metric, let alone, literally who cares? A mile has 5280 feet, a kilometer has 1000 meters... and again who cares? In the kitchen, I think a "cup" is an awful lot lot intuitive than 240ml, yes? Few people are programming the lunar lander in their kitchen.

[@sarahbritt1234]

Tipping is the reason that American service is so good in restaurants. There's an incentive to take care of tables. I went to Italy 15 years ago, and we'd be at our table for 30 minutes before a waiter would come to us. And then another hour before the food came (which was delicious, but who wants to sit for almost 2 hours waiting for food?) This lazy service was common for the entire trip, because it doesn't matter if it's good or bad. They still get paid the same. So tipping encourages efficient service

[@barbaramelone1043]

Efficient service also moves people through the meal quicker. As pointed out elsewhere, restaurants here are generally on a super thin margin. They're not going to push you out the door, but if there's a wait list to be seated, they do want to move people through. If the restaurant is slow, it doesn't matter as much, unless it's close to closing time. 🙂

[@garycamara9955]

I would just walk out.

[@sistermadrigalmorning233]

Inches, feet, pounds etc is the "imperial" system-- the empire referenced is the British empire. So it's originally a British system. Because the UK is in Europe when the rest of Europe adopted metric (which was invented in France) they were influenced and sorta adopted it, but obviously the imperial system was still deeply rooted. In America, which started as a British colony, not only was the metric system deeply rooted being more geographically isolated they didn't feel the need to adapt when the rest of the world started switching over to metric. And now with America being a world power they really don't feel the pressure lol. That being said we do know liters-- we sell soda in it. And a lot of packaging lists both imperial and metric measurements. We have 5k races. In school we do learn both systems and those who go on to work in science use metric because metric is the international science system. But it's just not *intuitive* for us.

[@tvdan1043]

That's a very important point: it's not intuitive for us. We know how metric works on a very basic level but have to stop and think about it or look up conversions for it to make sense to us because none of us grew up saying it's a very nice 22 degrees outside. (That's 71F, btw.) And if you ever hear an American ask "what's that in Freedom Units?" they're being facetious and making fun of themselves.

[@Aydin-Adam]

@@tvdan1043yeah, I can pretty easily convert distance or weight, but I always have to use Google to convert between Fahrenheit and Celsius.

[@amicooke1790]

Hell, Britain didn't even start dropping Imperial until the late 1990's. Until Series 4 of Gladiators, all the contender and gladiator measurements were imperial.

[@PhoenixSmudge8293]

Lewis, the US got our measuring system from the UK. It's called the imperial system, and it came from imperial Britain. The UK changed most of their measurements to metric, but not all. US never changed to metric.

[@robertcuminale1212]

We tried to back in the 1970s but Americans fought it and it was abandoned. How about that weight measurement called a "stone"?

[@Augrills]

@@robertcuminale1212 I’m a chemist, so I use the metric system all day long. Americans do use the metric system

[@nosliwec]

Sodas use both the imperial (20 oz bottles) and metric (2 liters).

[@arasdeeps1852]

@@robertcuminale1212 I could be wrong, but I think "stones" is even older than the Imperial system. Something left over from ancient times.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

​@@robertcuminale1212 American Imperial is actually American Standard Measurement: eg American 1pint: 16 fluid ounces / Oz (Half pint: 8 ounces /Oz etc) ... British 1 pint: 20 fluid ounces /Oz (Half pint: 10 fluid ounces /Oz etc)... Also: solids measures: (bodyweight* / plus weighing foods: 16 ounces (Oz) to a pound (Lb/lb ) . 14 pounds (Lb) to a stone*. (Weights) 12 inches to a foot. (Height) 3 feet to a yard (short land measure) / 6 feet to a fathom (_Depth_ of fresh / seawater) 1,760 yards to a mile. 93_Million_Miles: 1_AU: 1_Astronomical Unit (the British Imperial Distance between the Earth and the surface of the Sun)... And... 4 inches to a hand (to measure horses & ponies, donkeys etc) ... eg. 15 hands high: 5 feet high (measured at the withers - the highest fixed point at the base of the horse's neck🐴) each hand is counted separately as eg 15hh, 15.1hh, 15.2hh, 15.3hh, 16hh (5_feet +1 inch - 5_feet + 3 inches to 5_feet +4_inches, then 16.1hh, 16.2hh etc.🇺🇸🐴😊🐴❤🐴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🐴😊🐴🇬🇧🐴🖖

[@PriscillaV1964]

Lewis: Maybe a couple of parents show up.for a University game. Me: I have attended my friend's grandkid's Tee-Ball games. Tee-Ball is ages 4-7.

[@Loki_Trickster]

Blame Prohibition. Seriously, America's love of non-pro sports came from needing a social outlet that wasn't the bar. The rise in popularity lines up perfect.

[@blueboy4244]

with 35 or 40 people there cheering - yup

[@PriscillaV1964]

Close, but it's not about the lack of booze. Think "League of Their Own". During. WWII, America and Canada were in a unique position. We were at war. Our young men were away fighting that war, but we were relatively unaffected and life went on, . . . with sporting events that did.not require young men. During Prohibition, professional sports wasn't what it is today. Back then players weren't paid enough to make it a career, Plus, America has a very Booster Club mentality. Cheering someone on and supporting them is our default setting. And, . . .

[@mamalor13]

After my kids were done with sports, we would still go spectate at their friends' games. Once mine were grown and gone and I still look for opportunities to watch youth sports. Bowling, to baseball to football and swim meets. Been ti gymnastics meets and track and field events. Yes, we Americans love sport spectating!

[@Loki_Trickster]

​@@PriscillaV1964 Sorry your wrong, the popularity of college sports initial rise was in the 20s not the 40s, Not saying it didn't didn't happen again during WW2, but college, highschool, little league sports were already highly popular by then more then any other nation. It rose during prohibition for several reasons. A) they needed a replacement social outlet, B) Stock market crash and it was free to go to amateur games. C) Local radio stations started broadcasting local sports.

[@impresarioe6824]

The sizes of food products CAN be bigger. However, if you want a small size bottle of orange juice (or anything), you can definitely get it. I grew up in a household of 7....we are buying the largest size.😂

[@richardmartin9565]

In the old agriculture days, the month was more important than the day in terms of planting and harvesting. Lot of people didn't care if it was the 6th, 7th, or 8th day of the month. It was often useless information.

[@JustMe-dc6ks]

People and goods traveled by horse and ship. The month was a lot more salient for just about anything.

[@F.RichardRobinson]

In the US we have a lot of Holidays and they are sep. from # of vacation days. Not to mention Sick days.

[@ajwinberg]

Jelly is a sweet, clear, semisold spread or preserve made from fruit juice and sugar boiled to a thick consistency. Jam is jam. Children might call jam, jelly, but adults usually know the difference. We even have preserves. 😅

[@yashar6595]

THANK YOU !!!!!!, everytime I hear a Brit say you say Jelly not Jam, I'm like ITS NOT THE SAME THING, lmfao, Jelly does not have fruit bits in it, its just the liquid from the fruit, jam contains the actually fruit parts in it. TOTALLY Different....

[@Nitehawke]

And then there are preserves which are jam with chunks of fruit in it.

[@johnhelwig8745]

and lets not forget fruit butters, apple butter, blueberry butter etc.

[@occheermommy]

@@Nitehawkeusually large pieces or whole fruit.

[@occheermommy]

Also what they call jelly we call Jello which is obviously a brand. It’s a gelatin desert.

[@krisschobelock4973]

Trust me - if you don't leave a tip in America - they are NOT going to yell hey you didn't tip or run out the door after you!!! It is NOT required . . but in the US the service is most likely deserving of a tip!! I have never heard of a service fee!! I just retired - but US is moving more to PTO (paid time off) which yes is total days off for sick or vacation or whatever . . BUT it's accumulated the more you work at a company - I have almost 40 days when I retired!! So depending on what type of job you have - that depends on the amount of time off . . .

[@micvirus78]

Most places call it a gratuity, but its still a service fee by nature

[@barcster2003]

It can depend if you are in a sit down resturant with a waiter you are expected to but you aren't necessarily forced but they will defintely be mad with you.

[@jaydorton9376]

gratuity and tip are the exact same thing. If they add gratuity then you don't tip. If they don't add gratuity then you tip. There's no place where I know that you're required to pay gratuity and tip. And tips are optional. If you give terrible service you won't get tipped. If you give excellent service you deserve to get tipped

[@jaydorton9376]

Servers may not like it if you do not tip but only one out of a thousand will actually say or do anything to let you know. Of course I'm from the south where we have hospitality a lot of the big cities in the coasts tend to display less hospitality in some cases

[@BTinSF]

The gratuity or service fee-same thing-is getting more common in large coastal cities. In San Francisco now, they often even add a surcharge for employee health insurance since the city began requiring it. And the state requires parental leave if you have a baby as well as paid leave to care for a sick relative.

[@ajwinberg]

"That's what makes you special." Is code for "We hate the way you do thing." 😅

[@winterprism9227]

For the date, when you schedule something, you look up the month first, before you can get to the day you're looking for. And the year is kind of an after thought in a sense, because you most likely wouldn't be making an appointment for any year other than the one your are in or, possibly, the next year. It's also easier just to know that the 1st number is only going to be 1-12, kind of like an anchored number in it's limitation... and the 2nd number could also be 1-12 but it also could be bigger.. Idk how to explain it quite right but it just flows better. Tipping is automatically assumed in income taxes but not all places pay wages that would cover them. It is super stupid..

[@Toucan11]

Vacation days can depend on years of service at a job. I have 5 weeks plus sick days are separate

[@Augrills]

It’s at the discretion of your employer really. Standard is two weeks.

[@LocdSister]

True. I’m retired now, but I used to have 26 vacation days per year plus 13 sick days in addition to national holidays.

[@necrogenesis1981]

The thing about portion sizes that foreigners don’t understand is that as far as I know we’re one of the only countries with a to-go practice, meaning whatever we can’t finish we can ask for a box to take it home to finish later, most countries don’t allow you to take home food from the restaurant from what I heard, and some countries even consider it insulting.

[@ruthsaunders9507]

Most meals are at least two meals worth and it still tastes great the next day.

[@kenbrown2808]

again, jam and jelly are slightly different products in the US, jam is made with puree, and jelly is made with juice. and I think what you call a jelly, which is a wibbly wobbly dessert, we call Jell-O.

[@amwood]

We use both metric and imperial though metric mainly gets used in engineering, laboratories and machine shops. I'm a wood worker and use tape measures that are marked in both metric and imperial. I also use digital calipers that are metric. Our money can be thought of as metric, 100 pennies is 1 dollar, so is 10 dimes or 20 nickels.

[@lynnw7155]

They have been pushing metric on us since I was a child (60+ years), but we keep successfully beating it back 😆

[@WolfsDE]

We use q combination of both measurements over here. It just depends on the situation. Like with most cars and in some construction or furniture building places, they might use both, depending on what is being built or fixed based on it's size to make the tool the right fit. In kitchens, sometimes the metric system pops up in recipes as well. But, generally, we us MPH instead of KPH, Feet and Yards instead of Meters, stuff like that.

[@vertyisprobablydead]

Gay dude says blah blah blah blah

[@WolfsDE]

@@vertyisprobablydead A Sphincter says what? Aww...the straight guy is threatened by a flag. Look everyone. A snowflake. A piece of cloth triggered him.

[@Acefakeboo]

I am literally obsessed with this dudes channel

[@fannybuster]

He has a great Personality But he won't model the underpants someone sent him

[@vertyisprobablydead]

Which country are you from. Chokers are fucking homosexual.

[@Justiceincorporated.]

@@fannybuster😂😊

[@SilverCyric]

It’s great to connect with our brothers and sisters across the pond. They’re a lot of fun! 😃

[@KathyBlackwell-xk9rg]

Me too I just saw his reaction 2 days ago so I have been binge watching for 2 days now!

[@davidterry6155]

As an American I find that the vacation days is misleading. I get 3 weeks vacation plus 10 holidays that the company gives you. For 25 days off, so that’s 5 weeks (m-f) total

[@smokescreen126tschannel7]

That's kind of what I was thinking we have seventeen paid Holidays through the year and then your first 5 years at the company. You get two weeks off every year. From five years to ten years you get three weeks then after ten years you get a month.

[@thoughtsofamisfit9008]

Most companies don’t give that much up front in the US. I’ve never had more than 10 days vacation in my corporate jobs.

[@charlieschuder9976]

It varies wildly depending on the company. Most fast food places don't give ANY vacation days, and no paid sick leave. However, when I worked in a meat processing facility, some of the longer-term employees had 2 or 3 months of paid vacation a year, along with a month of paid sick leave and 2 months of unpaid leave.

[@lynnw7155]

I'm American but I never had more than 10 paid vacation days plus 2 personal days, 10 holidays, and sick time.

[@aprilnewell5434]

I am American. I work in medical field and we use both

[@ESUSAMEX]

Jelly and jam are two different things and we have both here in America.

[@DoyleRichards-v1l]

That's what confuses Lewis. It's two completely different things in the UK. You have to say "there both the same thing". Lewis can't get his head around the fact that we use two words for what he just calls "Jam". Most of what they call jam in the UK is really "Jelly". The UK can't sell jam in Europe because of that.

[@dougbowers4415]

In the unusual circumstance where there is a service fee, the tip goes down.

[@DavidZinselmeier]

not true,...I have NEVER EVER seen a SERVICE FEE at ANY restaurant....dont be a jerk

[@zacharytyrrell4545]

It’s called a gratuity tip and I’ve seen it in multiple states. Usually only at higher end restaurants. Usually 18-19%.

[@TheBaldr]

@@zacharytyrrell4545 Apparently a service fee goes to the service of the store and not gratuity, I never seen one at a restaurant, just on delivery fees.

[@davidshodeen4037]

Working for same company for 15 years, I'm up to 27 days vacation plus 11 paid holidays.

[@vertyisprobablydead]

Wow good job. You only needed to raise a child until near adulthood to get 11 days of vacation.

[@balizaravatar9988]

Wow I've been with my company 5 years and have 273 hours (34 days) PTO, 20 hours sick and 15 hours comp. Plus 12 holidays.

[@FlyOverZone]

In my house in America, we have indoor shoes and outside/yard shoes.

[@subnoizesoldier2]

I’m a bricklayer we have no vacation days if you want to take a day off you’re not gonna get paid for that day

[@occheermommy]

Are you union? I’m curious my cousin was a bricklayer all his life but he was in the union. Idk if it makes a difference.

[@robm3063]

@@occheermommy Retired IBEW here. No work No pay. Now my local union we have a vacation fund. Think of it as a forced savings account. The theory was/is you are supposed to use those funds for your vacation pay.

[@sierra-nana]

@@robm3063 Wow I did not know that. That really sucks.

[@anneo3754]

Do you work in the winter? That could be considered vacation days off especially if you collect unemployment.

[@occheermommy]

@@robm3063 I always knew it was tough work. I didn’t realize it was still no vacation days tough. That sucks.

[@Bizz4r2m0ke]

As someone who has worked in the kitchen and done some FOH work, kitchen staff usually dont receive tips because they are paid at or above minimum wage. Tipping is essentially paying the wages of the Servers.

[@youaremopped]

There's no "service fee" in the US.

[@Cowgirl4God]

Occasionally, if it’s a large group, some restaurants will assess like a 3-10% fee (especially if it requires more than 1 waitstaff) but, that could just be something in my state 🤷🏼‍♀️. Cheers!

[@youaremopped]

@Cowgirl4God ok that's true. For extra large groups, usually 10 or more they may charge a minimum gratuity aka built in tip

[@necrogenesis1981]

Delivery

[@bradparnell614]

Vacation days depend on the job, the amount of time you've been employed, and what sick day policies you have. It can also be different if you are hourly or salary. It varies widely. Some companies allow you to carry over your sick days year to year but most nowadays do not. Now it's more of a use them or lose them kind of thing and they combine the sick and vacation days into personal time off (PTO days). They try and encourage people to take them now as the data shows it makes people more productive, but again, it just depends on the job. Most places have at least 5 or 6 paid holidays during the year as well. I don't know what state that girl is from but it's not Kansas, Indiana, Kentucky, or North Carolina because she would have mentioned that college basketball is a big deal too. Outside of football it's the other big money maker in the NCAA, especially in March during the tournament. Women's college basketball has been growing in popularity lately too even though there doesn't seem to be much carry over interest to the WNBA. I think the soccer league she was talking about is the MLS. We also have the NWSL for women's soccer. Don't forget, it was you guys that came up with that name first, not the other way around.

[@shaunalea823]

At the end of the yr my husband get paid for any unused hours of PTO.

[@lenagreen3679]

Service fees are not for restaurants. Service fees are for utilities, cable, cell services, etc.

[@monicapdx]

Disagree. Restaurants do have them, I was surprised to find out back in the 80s. Mostly hotel restaurants, expensive places, or for big groups. In which case I don't tip.

[@david-dp5om]

I am 72 years old and worked restaurants my whole life and I have never heard of a service fee for eating at a restaurant. Sometimes the restaurant will add the tip to the bill but it is not a service fee.

[@pollypocket2282]

American here… I was in a store the other day and they actually asked for a tip! There was no service or food… I literally bought a gift for my friend and they rang it up and put it in the bag… It was $150 and they wanted 20%! I was shocked, it is getting ridiculous!

[@timcurry192]

A belated congratulations on 100K!

[@jhood758]

Vacation and sick days vary in where you work and the type of work. I worked for UTHCT, University of Texas, a research center and teaching hospital (residency/medical program for hospital for future doctors). We STARTED OUT with 3 weeks vacation and 1 week of sick days. The longer you worked there your the number of sick days increased. My husband was off 12 weeks at one time, 6 weeks at a time for 2 different surgeries back to back. I and my husband are both retired from there and we both receive a “retirement check” each month. You have to be there at least 10 years to get a retirement check. The longer you’re there, the more you get. So it all depends on where and what you do.

[@raymondw.4484]

Service fees would be used in situations like pizza delivery. The company may charge a service for maybe insurance purposes and the driver doesn’t see any of it. So an additional tip to the driver

[@smilosabercat]

In addition to having a lot of folks in a stadium watching college football, the same is true for Basketball. Also, many of these games, both for football and basketball are nationally televised. Taking this a step further, on local tv channels some (this is rarer) but, some highscool football games can occasionally be seen.

[@flattop223]

In the US we primarily use US weights and measures, but there was a time back in the 70s when we looked at switching to the metric system, so this is another thing that GenX had that most others did not, we learned the metric system. I had said primarily because we have plenty of metric weights measures here in the US tools come in both us and Metric, soda can come by yhe ounce or by the liter, tempatures are almost always dine in Fahrenheit unless it's in the medical system, doctors and hospitals use Celsius. I used to do a lot of traveling so I got pretty good at converting when I would see the temperature was 20°, I was pretty good at doing 1.8 * 20 = 36 + 32 = 68, so 20° C equals 68° F. I would guess that most Americans are decent at conversions between US and metrics but I could be totally wrong on that It may just be my generation, the best generation, generation X.

[@LiveLaughLove33]

Dude we love all sports. We start putting our kids in sports at 4-5 years old. We go to every single one of their games and practices. Tailgate parties are extremely fun. Nearly everyone in the parking lot doing it and you kinda walk around talking to all kinds of people laughing, joking, and drinking beer. When you make it to the US, it is definitely something you want to experience in American culture.

[@kenbrown2808]

the one that I expect would confuse many europeans is we do not weigh ingredients when cooking, we measure them using calibrated cups and spoons. and really, it baffles us that people would bother weighing their ingredients, when it is so much easier just to scoop them.

[@occheermommy]

It is so much more accurate to weigh in grams. I have done both and I can tell u weighing is better

[@icanseenowherefromhere8995]

Both are more common than you might think. Outside the US many people will have a recipe that calls for a cup of "this" and 2 cups of "that". They will use the same cup for everything so the ingredients proportionally match. Sometimes it's a specific cup, maybe even to that recipe, other times it's whatever cup or glass is clean & handy. In the US many serious bakers, especially those that are doing it professionally, will weigh the ingredients as its more accurate and once it goes into the oven you can't "fix" it.

[@kenbrown2808]

@@icanseenowherefromhere8995 in the US, the cups and spoons are standardized. professional bakers weigh ingredients, because at the sizes of their batches, weighing is more efficient. when I think of pulling out a scale, and weighing out ingredients, when I can do my most frequent recipes with one measuring cup and one measuring spoon, or two at the most, and have them turn out perfectly consistent - well, I go the simple route. I tried converting a recipe to metric weight, once, and got tired of looking up conversions about halfway in.

[@kenbrown2808]

@@occheermommy molecular biology needs that kind of accuracy. a few very finicky recipes may need that kind of accuracy. the majority of cooking does not.

[@JustMe-dc6ks]

Mostly just baking. And volumetric measurements are good enough for most baking.

[@SFormby]

Peanut butter and jelly/jam sandwiches are widely known in my region (the south) 🤤 as well as saltine crackers with peanut butter. Peanut butter cookies. I could really keep going.

[@legitenoughtoquit]

I’ve never had any vacation days lol I get two days off a week and that’s my vacation 😂

[@dorzak975]

Jelly, Jam, and Preserves are three different things. Jelly is typically jelled from juice - grape jelly for example. Jam has more fruit pieces in it, and Preserves are just ground fruit.

[@brandonaston301]

We do month day year for two reasons 1. We say the month first, then the day like “Jan 1st” 2. The month is the most important part of the date. Like if you just say a day it could be this month, next month or next month. Year is the least important part of the date because it only changes every 365 days.

[@insertname6143]

Depends on what you are doing, Some government forms use YYYMMDD. Some military documents don't even use either format and use Julian dates.

[@TheRagratus]

Jelly is made from the juice of the fruit, Jam is the fruit fully crushed, Preserves are not fully crushed but has large pieces of fruit in it. Jello isn't real food.

[@ESUSAMEX]

Many Americans save their vacation and sick days so that they can retire early. I worked with a guy who retired two years early because he saved all his vacation and sick days. When he retired, he received two full years of his regular pay and then official retired when he turned 65 two years later. The last I heard from him was that he traveled around the world twice--once on a cruise ship and the second time by planes. He and his wife really enjoyed life.

[@bradparnell614]

A lot of companies don't let you do that anymore. That's not something you'll see a lot of now.

[@frazzledhaloz3184]

They have a limit how much vacation can be rolled over a year! Usually 210 hours..of vacation

[@justcurious81]

At my company you can roll over your sick time indefinitely. At retirement they will give you a payout of up to $20,000 for unused sick time. Some people have so much sick time accrued that they can take the payout AND retire early. We do have a limit on how much vacation time you can roll over though. You can only roll over the maximum amount that you earn each year. Currently I earn 20 vacation days a year. If I took no vacation one year, I could roll it over to the next year and have 40 days, but at the end of the year I could only roll over 20 days--even if I still had 30 days in the bank (any additional days would just be lost).

[@sararoszkowski2915]

Only this year can we roll over vacation days... and only 5 of them. Otherwise, if we don't use them, we lose them. They don't get paid out at the end of the years.

[@monicapdx]

Oh geez, we didn't do that back in the 70s-90s either. Use 'em or lose 'em. Either you or your boss would get a reminder from Human Resources that you only had x amount of time to take what you had left before you'd lose it. It was the same with every job I had.

[@beverlyshane8433]

We have grape jelly and grape jam but on PB&J it’s almost always grape jelly. But you can put anything on it that you like. It’s the tartness of the grape jelly with the PB that we like.

[@Lakusus]

It's called the "Imperial System" for a reason - it started in the UK. Okay, technically it started during the "British Empire". Imperial is just another name for empire. We brought it here, to America, during colonization and just kept it. It was made official, in 1824, in Great Britain and it wasn't until 1965 that you switched over to the metric system. This is why you still use MPH instead of KPH, I presume. Although KPH is on our speedometers, here in America, nearly 100% of speed limits are posted in MPH format. To us, the month is more important, rather...it's more of a clarification aspect. Plus, it's shorter to say it our way...two less words. We say today is February 13th where as you would say today is THE 13th OF February. You have to add a "the" and an "of" to say it your way. In any case, we designate the month as being slightly more important, for clarification purposes and flow of concept. If, for whatever reason, we started a sentence like, "On the 13th of..." and then were suddenly interrupted, it leaves the person hanging. However, a more generalized (without being confusingly random) way of starting a sentence, such as, "In February..." then it doesn't matter if we get interrupted because the narrator has clearly defined a month as being the timeframe something occurred. There's only one of each month, in any given year but, there's twelve "13s" in any given year. So, saying it your way, if you get cut off after saying the day, the person you're talking to is left hanging as in, "Okay...the 13th of which month? Tell me! WHICH 13th IS IT???" Where as in our way it's, "Okay, something happened in February. Got it." Keep in mind that this is my own personal view, on the matter. I don't know if it's correct, or not, but it makes sense, so that's what I'm sticking with. :) We have 4 main designations for non-drink items made from fruit, real or fake: JAM - a spread that is easy to wipe onto bread without tearing it; JELLY - similar to jam, but with a thicker, chunkier consistency that tends to be easier to tear bread as you try to spread it; JELL-O - a brand name that is commonly used to refer to a gelatin dessert; and finally PRESERVES - fruit chunks and juice that is cooked (I think pressure cooked but, since I've never made any, I'm going on assumption, here) and poured into mason jars then sealed with a wax-rimmed lid and ring. Preserves last for a really long time and can be used for any number of things from spreads to stand-alone desserts to toppings of other desserts to pie fillings, and on and on. There are at least as many uses for preserves as there are types of them. For my PB&Js, I prefer JAM. I think it tastes better and it definitely spreads easier without having the big tendency to tear the bread as you're trying to spread it on. FYI - peanut butter thoroughly mixed with about the same amount of honey makes a REALLY good, delicious spread for sandwiches or just eating straight from whatever container it's mixed in. Usually I mix mine in a cereal bowl.😋

[@timorr2399]

We use both metric and standard in U.S.A. We have liter and 2 liter bottles of soda's. In the Military we used kilometers a lot. 5k road marches with full gear were a regular staple. I was born in 1967, and we were taught the metric system in grammar school. We adapt to whichever we need. Many modern cars use metric bolts, so most anyone who owns a tool box has both metric and standard tools.

[@tina.clafferty]

American football can be 3 to 4 hours long

[@fermisparadox01]

When I was a kid, at recess, we used a soccer ball to play either dodge ball or kick ball. In kick ball, we were playing baseball but you rolled it to the batter and then they kick it. Only added rule was you could throw the ball at a runner and they are out if you hit them.

[@Procrastination-Expert]

PLEASE don’t call grilling - barbecuing! Two totally different things in Texas. You GRILL at a tailgating event! 🙂

[@nosliwec]

Exactly! Grilling is a process to cook over a fire hot and fast. Steaks, hamburgers, hot dogs, etc. are grilled. Barbecuing is a cooking process over a low flame much slower. You would never grill a brisket. Briskets needs 6+ hours to properly cook to a spot that won't be jerky.

[@lauriekurad]

Same here, in Maryland

[@SciFiKwisti]

Here in America jelly and jam are different. Jelly is fruit juice combined with pectin that and sugar that combines and solidifies and we spread over sandwiches and toast and biscuits all sorts of things. Jams have juice and actual pieces of the fruit in them. Such as strawberry jam. You won't find a grape jam you'll find a grape jelly. Now the next thing I know different between us we don't do lemon curd and marmalade you will find but it is not extremely common at least not here in the Midwest where I'm from. And I grew up with a grandmother who made both jellies and jams.

[@ukaly1]

This soccer and football debate needs to be over already! Americans call it soccer to tell the difference from American football which is similar to rugby. You can't have two different sports with the same name. I left England in 1967 and they were not using the metric system then. It changed in the early 70's I believe, along with the change of their money.

[@amicooke1790]

Also, the term "soccer" originated IN ENGLAND.

[@toyairy7612]

as a nurse i got 2 weeks vacation and 2 weeks sick or pto days.(paid time off) vacation was paid time off. plus the holidays and that went up with seniority, but that capped. my husband at the post office had the same with a few more holidays the hospital didn't recognize. he made fun of me about that.

[@ryansmiley5495]

We didn't become number 1 staying home.

[@courtneyraymer6586]

How right you are!!! I think we got that way because of our pioneer ancestors. Settling the land of opportunity required a lot of work. Time off could mean failure for generations. There was a possibility of generating real wealth with hard work and few days off. Many of the early immigrants who came here were workers on land already owned by someone else with no chance to ever own any themselves. In these smaller countries all the land was already taken. Granted, we did take land from Native Americans but in Europe land was taken and retaken over many centuries. America is still relatively new in terms of world history; so we aren’t in the position YET that Europe and parts of Asia are. Personally, I think we may be risking being in that position given the current state of our southern border. That has to be brought under control so that our Constitution and geography can restore our opportunities. We need to keep our work ethic and ditch the “woke” ethic.

[@ryansmiley5495]

I never thought about it but I guess in many countries everything is already built, America just getting started

[@kathleenmenker3853]

In some restaurants where I live, an 18% tip is added to the bill for tables with 8 or more people. Fine with me because I usually tip 20%. Vacation days: It depends on where you work. My husband worked for the US government and got 6 weeks vacation every year. As the end of the year approached, it was “Use it or lose it”. If you had days left over, you lost them. We always used ours up.

[@Toucan11]

I’m 55, I have never paid a service charge at any restaurant in America. I’m not sure what she’s talking about

[@TheBaldr]

I've only seen service fees on deliveries, frankly I hate them, but apparently they are a thing?

[@legitenoughtoquit]

Typically it’s 10-15% and included on the bill for large parties. Not every restaurant does it, but many do.

[@monicapdx]

69, and I've run into it in hotel restaurants, more expensive restaurants, or for large groups. In that case, being a grump from my younger days on, I didn't tip. First time I saw it was the early 80s, when a Marriot hotel was built across the street from our company's office tower. I was reading the bill after eating there the first time, and noticed in the fine print, "15% gratuity included in final amount". I was flabbergasted. I swore I'd never go back, but there was a dearth of restaurants around, so I simply switched to no tipping the times I went there. We rarely went to expensive restaurants, so on those occasions we looked on it as part of our treating ourselves. Reluctantly.

[@edwardrumick2311]

Since Covid this has become a common thing, at least here in PA.

[@heavin6586]

PB and honey sandwiches are my favorite sweet treat, and occasional breakfast 😂 i love how the honey interacts with the sandwich and becomes kind of grainy, especially on wheat bread..

[@dawnscheerhoorn9583]

We tip 15 percent because service personnel are taxed on it, whether the receive it or not! Anything above 15 is because you love your server. FACTS

[@shawnb4938]

What? Nobody is taxed on income they didn't receive. Servers often receive less than minimum wage, and tipping is to compensate for that. Most states even have a minimum wage for food service workers.

[@charlieschuder9976]

Depends; if you tip with your card, it gets reported. If you tip in cash, however, it depends on management: either the manager reports the tips or they don't. I get cash tips (not as much as a server), but I don't report any of that income to the IRS.

[@charlieschuder9976]

@@shawnb4938 Tips are considered earned income, which means employees are expected to report them and pay taxes on them, though most don't.

[@asahearts1]

​​@@shawnb4938I've worked at restaurants since I was 18. I'm 34 now. The IRS assumes you make tips and will take it.

[@asahearts1]

​​@@shawnb4938Nope, they do. I've worked in food service for over 10 years.

[@BlueDove6267]

For peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, we actually put the peanut butter and jelly on the inside of the sandwich bread then butter the outside and put it on the griddle and toast it like a grilled cheese sandwich . It is a grilled peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

[@matthewlofton8465]

Traditionally, most places will ask for tips from small parties--between 1 to 7ish people. Parties with 8-10+ people are instead given a gratuity fee, which is basically a standard tip applied automatically to your bill. However, during the lockdown and afterwards, companies have largely decided to apply gratuity fees to every party regardless of size yet they still offer the "optional" tip arrangement on top of that. Additionally, the tipping culture has started to infiltrate other industries and establishments where you wouldn't be expected to leave one. For example, you can add a tip to your order at Subway.

[@Phaedrus143]

She's not exactly the best representative of the US. So all the times you were a little confused were valid. You've reacted to lots of videos that were more accurate than her.

[@brandieo6165]

When we were in London back in September we had 2 restaurants that added a service charge to the bill.

[@sierra-nana]

The differing date order is very interesting. Here we write November 10, 2023, but when I was in the Navy you had to write the date 10 November 2023 or 10 Nov. 2023. I still use the 10 Nov. 2023 format decades later, and I can tell someone who has been in the Military because many still use this format long after they are out of the service.

[@Tony-y2d]

A bunch of pretty young women, without much life experience, really is not much of a focus group. This type of video is irritating.

[@syfrett5]

9:37 jam is with the bits of fruit inside of the jelly. Jelly is filtered jam

[@mimiv3088]

I REALLY hate these videos. They are so wrong about everything. So frustrating to watch. I love your channel Lewis. But I can't stand these types of videos. 😩

[@TB-tr3cm]

Same. I watched about 30 seconds. People rambling on with a great deal of misinformation. Granted, it might be their personal experiences, but understand that they are so wrong about so many things, especially the American.

[@barcster2003]

You have to remember who's saying what also.

[@butterbeanqueen8148]

An appetizer is a shared item. Usually with the whole table but at least split by two people.

[@jsam-bv6jb]

Jelly, jam, and preserves are all different things

[@karenthompson8038]

Most of the time a service fee is if the food is being delivered. I don’t know a lot of restaurants that charge your service fees if any at all but yeah, if you’re having food delivered, the restaurant is going to charge you a service fee and then you tip on top of that, or if you’re in a hotel and you call downstairs for a room service you might get charged a small service fee but it’s depending on the hotel. We don’t usually get service fees back unless there was a major problem with the order and that’s for delivery! Now the only time you automatically get tipped is if there’s a party of either 6 to 8 people, then the gratuity is automatically added on for 18% (normally) so if anybody tips over that, that means they had good service and the person is very generous!

[@luxleather2616]

Tips is usually actually 10-20%....serving fee is for large groups....we have alot of holidays that pretty much all companies shut down for....we have big portions in the stores cus we buy in bulk & really try to go to the store one to two times a month....I learned both the Metric & Imperial systems in school

[@paulmartin2348]

I was born in 1972 in the state of Oregon in the US. I have never actually taken days off where I did not work for "Vacation" in my life. Of course Holidays like Christmas, New Year, and the 4th of July you take off but I have never taken actual vacation. Also, most people in the US that work in the trades, I am a machinist, use both. I convert feet, inches, miles for example to MM, CM, and KM in my head and can tell you what the conversion.

[@mikelellsaesser1320]

We don't vacation day's like u guys. We go somewhere every weekend. We go camping when we take a vacation or just a longer drive.

[@decentkiller1236]

we say jam too, because its two different things altogether. one is made from the fruit and sugar with some preservatives and the other is made from concentrate and a slue of other things

[@ladiwilliams9739]

My husband works with the Air Force and they use the metric system when manufacturing replacement parts for the planes. It's more precise and exacting. But when he's at home measuring for household measurements it's feet and inches :). Just depends.

[@sararoszkowski2915]

I work retail, at Lowe's (big Home Improvement chain) I will reach my 5th year this year, and with that my vacation days go from 10 days, to 15. I won't receive any more vacation days until my 15th year. We do earn some holiday time off, but that's like.. 3 days or something. The only holidays we don't work are Easter Sunday, Thanksgiving, and Christmas day. We do get paid for these days.

[@SharonFromNB]

In Canada, we kind of have to know both systems of measurement. Temperature outside is in °C but our ovens are in °F. At the grocers, produce is sold by the pound but their scales will weight it in kg. Trades like carpentry will work in feet and inches but when you write your apprenticeship blocks, its all in mm! 😂

[@willcool713]

When I was a kid in school we had a special module in French class about tipping in Europe (pre-EU). It was considered an essential skill, knowing when and how much to tip, in order to even get service. We were told, for instance that you needed to give the concierge at the hotel desk about 10% of what you expected to pay for a hotel room in order for them to acknowledge your existence and book a room for you. If you under tipped, then they would tell you that there were no available rooms, and that was a final judgement -- you would need to go elsewhere, even if you had a reservation. And you needed to be generous with gratuities when you went out to eat or go do anything, or you would be seated by the kitchen and your food may be cold when it arrives and servers and wait staff would roundly ignore you. The main distinction, we were taught, was that in Europe you generally tipped before your service, as a way to say, "Please," while in the US you tipped after a meal, or a delivery, or assistance, in order to say, "Thank you." We were told not to expect service or assistance in any other way, maybe even in shops, depending upon the country. In addition, it was considered impolite to discuss money in Europe, so these basic tipping procedures were never discussed, and would be flatly denied if asked about, and the person you spoke with would become offended. There were several faculty who had traveled in Europe (France especially) who spoke to us, and they even brought in a travel agent to discuss differences, especially tipping culture. I'm guessing this hasn't been true for a very long time.

[@barbaramelone1043]

I was in Europe for a few months in 1989-1990, on a college study trip. We weren't told to tip wait staff at restaurants beforehand, but it was the accepted norm apparently that servers really didn't want to give you your receipt and let you pay for your meal.

[@willcool713]

@@barbaramelone1043 It seems so different from what I hear from Europeans, I wonder if it was a tourist thing or maybe a super-bougie thing. I remember thinking how out of hand it seemed, but now perceptions are switched. Idk.

[@barbaramelone1043]

@willcool713 This happened more than once, but one time was in a Pizza Hut in Munich with a German native. Maybe generally only tourists came in there? We ended up figuring out our bill ourselves and stacking it up in coins on the table, because the server refused to come by our table.

[@seegee1012]

I’m a nurse working at an ER as well. We only work 3 days out of the week and get a day of paid time off every 4 weeks so you get slightly over a month of paid time off

[@johnl5316]

I worked as a psychologist at a public institution in California for years and I got 6 weeks of vacation plus 2 weeks of holidays and 5 days of paid professional leave

[@stormycat0905]

The average number of American vacation days is 15 per year. But our sick days are often separated from our vacation days so if you're out sick you don't lose vacation. Also, we get a lot of holidays. 11 Federal (plus or minus a couple days for travel which are sometimes included as a custom) and however many State holidays which will depend on the State.

[@timcaldwell5241]

Food at American sporting events is usually quite good…it’s just CRAZY expensive!!! Lol, even drinks in clubs…a common practice in America is meeting at a friends house for “drinks” before going to a club…a common term is “pre-gaming”, so as to limit the number of expensive drinks required for the desired “effect”.

[@wittsullivan8130]

If you are an hourly employee, the first year you don't get vacation time. Some places will give you "sick days" and personal time that builds up year after year. The second year you usually get a week of vacation pay. A lot of people like to use their vacation pay during the year a day or two at a time, some take the whole paid week off. If you are salary, you have to work a minimum of 50-60 hours a week, but you get a week vacation the first year and more the longer you stay with the company. My boss was hourly, but she had been with the company she built up to 3 or 4 weeks of vacation time a year. She took two weeks off, came back for a week and then took another week off. Some hospitals have their nurses and doctors work 12 hour shifts for a week, take a week off, then work the night shift for 12 hour shifts, off a week. Some doctors work two weeks, off two weeks, on two weeks, being on call after their shift is over in case something happens to their patients when they're off. A lot of those doctors work for clinics or hospitals in other areas during their off time at their main job. One of my friends got two weeks of vacation per year, but he was saving up for a BMW M3, so he cashed in his vacation pay at the end of the year, not taking a vacation, just working. Plus, he did jobs on the side to make more money on his own. He got the M3 paying most of it with cash. Then saved up for a Harley Davidson doing the same thing, paying case with no financing on it. He finally went on a vacation with his wife. Every time he bought a new car, he would cash in his vacation pay and add it to his savings. Yeah, he was working all the time, but driving to work in Nice cars that were paid in full.

[@cherylcorbett5829]

As for the way dates are written, it makes more sense to have the larger measurement first because when things are listed in order by date, if you have things from multiple months then it will get mixed up if it’s written with the day first. Like if you write the day first you get 13/1/24, 13/2/24, 14/1/24, 14/2/24. But with the month first, it keeps the dates in the same month together in chronological order. 1/13/24, 1/14/24, 2/13/24, 2/14/24

[@JY-vr8ok]

As an American from the west coast I understand all these dialects it’s just long or short or both at the same time! That’s it!! When traveling you learn to adapt it comes naturally!! So you can get buy!! And so they can understand you as well!!!

[@Terrell070]

Yeah, what you call Jelly we call Jell-O, which is a brand name. For College Football you only get 6 home games per season in D1-FBS. Canada says soccer as well. Football in both the U.S. and Canada is Gridiron Football. The U.S. and Canada each have their own versions. They're similar but have some rule differences. We learn both U.S. Customary and Metric. We do have some things that are in metric units, but mostly it's Customary. Products are usually labeled in both, with Customary taking prominence, though there are exceptions like 2 liter bottles. Someone might say 4th of July for Independence Day.

[@Adam1984_]

The big thing about why tipping is customary in the states is because servers/wait staff are actually paid below minimum wage because they're expected to make up the difference (and hopefully more) in tips. As you can imagine, that varies wildly. Sometimes you can make way under what a minimum wage employee would get within a pay period, sometimes it's more if you have generous tippers.

[@TheRagratus]

A service fee is usually added on for groups of 8 people or more.

[@diamondstud322]

My biggest shock in transitioning from being a student (where we get summer off and a holiday break in December and another break in spring 1-2 weeks) to starting my working life was when I found out I’d get 5 days (per year!) of paid vacation 😮. If I stayed with the company, I’d get more paid time off each year, but I think 10 days was the max I would get. This was in the early 90’s, and it has gotten better since then, but still less than most other countries.

[@carroniadudley9808]

We use all 3 date systems. Depends on what format a company chooses and so forth. We don’t just use month, date, and year

[@_Mjorindahl_]

In the US, jelly is fruit juiced with an added gelatinizing agent. Jam/preserves has crushed fruit within. Marmalade has sliced fruit, usually citrus... But generally, we call it all jelly most of the time.

[@Ellis4900]

As an American construction worker, when you start a new job you have to work a full year to get 5 days vacation and 2 sick days (7 days total vacation) and after 3 or 5 years you’ll get 10 vacation days and 4 sick days. After 10 years it varies between 3 or 4 weeks vacation/sick days.

[@Grumpy_Rabbit]

In the US, it's now common that an employee can use vacation days sick days, and sick days as vacation day--but only AFTER those days have been "vested" (such days are earned month to month.)

[@sagittarius420cheefie]

We do have jam in America. Jelly and jame are two different things. One is actually like a jelly.

[@lauriloo38c]

Every job I had we got 2 weeks vacation at first so we would use them strategically with holidays to make the vacation longer. BUT it was discouraged to take too many days at once because your job would be vacant too long.

[@VisceralMonkey]

Peanut butter on apple slices is so yummy. So is a peanut butter sandwich dipped in chili. Yummmmmmm

[@Tina-ku1ti]

I really like when Lewis shares what they do and don't do in the UK too. 👏👏

[@StoneE4]

The only time I've ever seen a service fee in a restaurant is when there is a large party. If you have more than say 15 (that's not a set number - it will depend on the restaurant) individuals to a party that restaurant may automatically tack on a service fee/charge. I don't know how other people do it, but if I'm paying a service fee my tip will be very small or I won't tip at all depending on how much the service fee is. The only other thing I've seen is some restaurants will tack on a service/internet fee for ordering online but that's pretty rare.