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[@MarkKoekenbakker]

It is very clear that you have never eaten Dutch fries with mayonnaise. Everyone loves it, especially kids. ;)

[@MartijnHover]

I don't, and never have, and I am as Dutch as they come. :-)

[@danielmaas1827]

Nope. I'm 100% Dutch and do not like fries with mayonaise.

[@MusicIsLegal]

American mayonnaise taste completly different than the European one, American mayonnaise is very salty and nasty.

[@lydmarl.475]

You tell him Mark!!!

[@marcwess3399]

Ik niet hoor gatver

[@eelco_de_haan]

american mayonaise is indeed not okay :) but original handmade belgium or dutch mayonaise is a totally different product. send the man a recipe!

[@letheas6175]

What is this ''Belgium'' thing you are talking about? Don't you mean the southern Netherlands? ^^

[@BboyKeny]

Aside from Zaanse mayonaise I really like Polish mayo

[@SwirlingSoul]

SO true. American mayo is no mayo to us. It's a ....snacksauce. Real mayonaise is creamy, soft, rich, smooth, and tastes just right between sweet, sour and salty. It doesn't stick to your mouth, and it tastes great with fries. Really, for real... nowhwere NEAR american mayo.

[@nickdentoom1173]

@@letheas6175 No, Northern France lol.

[@letheas6175]

@@nickdentoom1173 I, I don't think I've heard of that. Is that some place of fairylands like Bielefeld or Drenthe?

[@AudieHolland]

Sure, Simon Roper representing "A Native British Speaker." I doubt 99% of British don't know the Germanic origins of English like he does.

[@inspectornl]

The way you start an argument with people from the Netherlands or Belgium: hate on mayonaise.

[@Esmee.Travels]

he said mustard is better then mayo i wanna start a riot.

[@TheTrueAltoClef]

Clearly he never tried Dutch or Belgian mayonnaise

[@BramLastname]

Even worse if you bring French Mayonaise into the discussion.

[@888records]

It’s cause he only has tried American mayonaise which is totally different texture and taste

[@witte_raaf]

Old English is a twin to Frisian (Anglo-Frisian) and very close to Dutch, Deutsch & Danish. And I love that Dutch still has the rolling "R" as in Proto-Germanic. Old English shares the "Ch" (k) with Swedish

[@kevartje1295]

"The Dutch use patat and the flemish use friet" You should know she just insulted the lower part of the Netherlands by calling them Flemish, the lower part of the Netherlands (below the rivers) uses friet and the upper part (Above the rivers) uses patat. And can someone PLEASE send him REAL mayonaise. Dutch or Belgian, I don't care, best if you send them both.

[@steadiersteel]

Yea we Brabanders are just different

[@tech4u2022]

Not entirely correct, we EAT friet (below the rivers) ;p

[@qwertyuiopzxcfgh]

And then there's Zeeland, where people use both terms interchangeably because they live in the rivers. People there order a patatje oorlog from the frietboer and don't think twice about it.

[@michelvisser7051]

nah the lower part we from above the rivers call then spare belgiums ;)

[@dymphievannoordtwieringa7391]

En een goede frikandel speciaal erbij☺️

[@annedunne4526]

My son lives in the Netherlands so I decided to learn Dutch. Probably unsurprisingly it's not been too difficult because English too is a Germanic language so there are lots of similar vocabulary. It makes sense that the British man with a background in linguistics should be good at guessing the meanings.

[@mver191]

English is after all partly a Dutch Frisian language. The Frisians came along with both the Anglo-Saxons and the Vikings. The Frisians were the farmers, traders, and craftsmen that came with them and settled the lands. They were the common people. But all the fame went to the warrior elite Anglo-Saxons and Vikings. They were the rulers and conquerors and therefore much more recorded in history.

[@myafelicia]

Who among us want to bet that HCR WILL eat fries with mayonnaise when he visits the Netherlands and Belgium???? xD

[@dymphievannoordtwieringa7391]

🙋🏽‍♀️

[@rudynolis7798]

He will . :)

[@Gmilian]

That 3rd guy was so clever with each sentence.

[@realatomizer]

I like that Dutch and old English are sister languages. There are more forgotten English words that originate from the same source as Dutch. (some still used AFAIK)

[@StrawberryHills]

I'm sure when you've visited the Netherlands, you'll take Dutch mayonnaise back home with you

[@ETools.]

"Mayonnaise is not okay." Anybody want to send him one of those buckets of Zaanse mayo? XD

[@littlewoot]

Mustard on fries? Arrest this man!

[@lieke3043]

If you meant the sauce Americans claim to be mayonnaise, I 100% agree with you. If we’re talking Dutch/Belgium mayonnaise, I 100% disagree with you.

[@jbird4478]

Mayonnaise is so common in the Netherlands that many people just order a "patatje met", which just means "fries with". When you say that it is implied that you want mayonnaise, because that's what's supposed to go with fries.

[@richarddaniels4836]

you never tried dutch mayo :P you will like it haha

[@arposkraft3616]

can someone send over some zaanse mayonaise to the dude already ;D

[@roddo1955]

Simon Roper is a linguistic genius

[@ikkezegtie]

if i dont have mayonaise by accident, i sometimes am stuck with ketchup for fries. The disappointment is as big as the regret. Without mayonaise .. fries are not the same. I believe americans sometimes eat mayonaise on bread, which is unthinkable for me.

[@Linda-hs1lk]

I like mayo on bread and I'm Dutch. As I kid I (and my brothers too) used to put mayo on matzes, lol

[@BrakZak]

You have to keep in mind that most Americans don't eat a "boterham" like we do, but it's often a complicated sandwich with loads of ingredients an often multiple layers of bread (like a "club sandwich" in a lunchroom is here as well), they don't often eat a simple "boterham" like we do I believe..

[@ikkezegtie]

@@BrakZak i seen them smear mayo on bread pure :)

[@movo721]

Most Americans never tried real mayonnaise, only Hellmans, which doesn’t taste anything like good mayo.

[@mver191]

@@movo721 Hellmans is nasty for fries. It's more like a sandwich mayonnaise and even then it is nasty. Zaanse Mayonnaise is the best!

[@renevw5812]

Im now watching a Danish / Swedish Series (The Bridge) with English Subtitles and since im Dutch translating that all in Dutch. In the beginning that was very difficult, but i im starting to understand the differences in Danish and Swedish and now sometimes i dont need the English translation. By the way: a fantastic serie

[@Bullman85]

Im a swede who knows english and learned some german in school and im amazed how much dutch i understand. It sounds like something the merchants in stockholm would have spoken in the 1600s with some modern english influences.

[@tarquinmidwinter2056]

At school I had to study Chaucer. Some of the language was strange compared with more modern English. Later in life I learned Dutch and saw the connection. It seems that the further back in time you go, the more similar Dutch and English are to one another.

[@denniseijs]

Actually it is, patates frites. Fried potatoes,.gefrituurde aardappelen. And yes, with mayonaise. But our mayonaise taste a bit different then Americain mayonaise. Miracle whip comes closest. And we also use satésaus, or special, which is mayo, tomatoketchup/Curryketchup and blocked onions. Also picca lily sometimes. Something new, joppysaus.

[@antiqueinsider]

So happy you tried this, man! One day you'll get to try it all out for real :) BTW The Dutch 'Fritessaus' (and mayonaise) contains more mustard than US 'mayo', it's sweeter and has less oil! Now I want to hear you try some pronunciation challenges! LOL!

[@franzliszt8957]

Jesus Christ! Simon is a fucking legend! That man knows everything about languages.

[@mrjules1982]

13:00 🤣This recurring theme has me in stitches! Highly's crusade against mayonaise. You're (obviously wrong, but) willing to die on that hill, which might become a bit of an issue when you come visit... Good thing there aren't many hills in the Netherlands 😉

[@Heetheid]

Dutch mayonaise is soooooooo good! We also have 'frietsaus' and that taste a little bit different, more sour like. But mayonaise is a little bit more sweet. You really should try it when you ever visit the Netherlands.

[@kuja053]

I'm going to walk the dog near the supermarket had me in stitches 😂

[@kevartje1295]

Simon always reminds me of Sheldon from the big bang theory. Both smart and they kinda look the same.

[@astraeetje5048]

This was hilarious 😂 you're getting too good at this 👏🏻🤣

[@ronaldderooij1774]

Your standards are pretty low....

[@arposkraft3616]

@22:30 since you all were puzzling... explain me this ... you should be able to get it from cognates... vriend=friend, you all got yhat... but brood=bread... and the polish dude even had bread earlier with friet, and kaas ..ok maybe not from cheese (tho if you know c and k are originally the same sound)... but german; Käse , and then does=doet

[@GuideauxPelagos]

About the Mayo...Dutch mayonaise is not sour, bitter or acid...it is actually more greasy. Dutch people in general are surprised when they eat mayo abroad...cause it tastes so much different than in Holland.

[@lindahuisman3323]

This was so much fun .you are getting good at this.

[@BigD_McGee]

This was a lot of fun and all of the guys did so well!

[@classesanytime]

As always, nice vid buddy! Well done for a first try out Dutch 👍

[@carolalookermans9372]

once you had dutch mayonaise you will never diss it again!

[@Bandit-Darville]

Who's going to teach HXC the different meanings of the Dutch word for acorn...

[@mariadebake5483]

Be less naughty, you!

[@hollandduck79]

from the Netherlands thanks for the video HXC . nice job with the translations .

[@SwirlingSoul]

Awesome vid, and that was enjoyable to see your reactions too :D

[@karein93]

I love your videos. I am from the Netherlands and enjoy your reaction videos. Keep going, you are doing great.

[@Roastedbread]

I actually wanted to comment about the mayonaise thingy, but apparently people already did. Ugh I'm so Dutch lol

[@Linda-hs1lk]

Love your 'thinking' face, lolol

[@randomguy-oy5pf]

She has got an "harense r", that means that she pronounces the r as "arrrrrrrrr". In haren (near groningen in the netherlands) everyone has got that.

[@DuartJansen]

Patat always goes with mayonaise! But the real Dutch one!

[@scepticx.3287]

mr combustable, from a dutchie, you fantastic man !! i came about your channel some 2 weeks ago andi am hooked, seen many of your video's. your rigthious laid back personallity and sincere intrest in many '0 things looking at things from several different angles, when something is emotional you don't shy away to reveal your watery eyes. the eager to learn other views, really getting bigger eyes when your looking at something, listening to the video and explenation. through my eyes this really makes you open to so many things, cultures, habbits and so on. i loved the video's you did on the dutch music festivals and concerts, you go all in, party on with the energy and cracking me up with your enthousiasm. always hungry for food for thought. keep your channel rocking, i keep watching. with your view on what and how you want to fill your life with you should fit in with the dutch naturally. you got my vote. catch you on the next upload.

[@CrazyBite2007]

Very smart and with some more communication you all understand the words written and spoken.

[@Tommiesz]

Best video so far! Really liked to see your brain melt ;)

[@HighlyCombustibleReacts]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@mathman274]

I always ask, at five guys or so, for a few sides of mayonnaise, my friends always say... "yeah he's dutch" and ... the last one should have been "de kat krabt de krullen van de trap" but I think she tossed an easy one in as the last one.

[@KevinDeGekste2]

someone make this guy eat dutch mayo, a new world will open up for him

[@jackyfriedman1963]

That was fun and interesting. Thanks Highly

[@arposkraft3616]

@7:00 old english is closer to dutch then old english is to modern english, Dutch speakers have little issue with reading old English while modern English can't read old English almost at all

[@AmedeeVanGasse]

Old English is closer to Old Dutch than Old English is to Modern English, but saying that Old English is close to Modern Dutch is maybe a stretch too far!

[@arposkraft3616]

@@AmedeeVanGasse not in my experience old dutch is closer still but i have fairly little issue reading old english to enough extend to get context, same with things like jersey dutch , do note i didnt say dutch is close to old english, just that it is closer then modern english is

[@AmedeeVanGasse]

@@arposkraft3616 in any case, can we agree that Old Dutch is closer to Old English than Modern Dutch to Old English?

[@dutchman7623]

@@arposkraft3616 Depends on your vocabulary, if you read books and especially those of the 19th century, old English becomes very readable. In Dutch there are sometimes five words for the same thing and in daily life we use only one variety.

[@arposkraft3616]

@@dutchman7623 *in my limited and personal experience

[@johannesdippenaar5087]

My hand is in warm water. This is a Afrikaans sentence and not English. But it is also English with the same spelling and meaning . The Afrikaans pronunciation is different. Afrikaans ,English, Netherlands and German are West Germanic languages therefore the similarities. Afrikaans tenses are much easier .

[@rudynolis7798]

Zuid Afrikaans is such a gorgious language . A Battleship is called : a nothing to be afraid of-ship . In dutch : van nikske nie bang schip . :D :D

[@KaasSchaaf666]

jeu, I guessed eight of the eight correctly (it also helps that I'm Dutch )😄

[@moniquelitjens653]

🤣

[@Ingridkoning]

Very well done!!

[@PieterWigboldus]

The dutch girl also sounds she isnt born in the Netherlands, she has an accent.

[@ricokramer7716]

the word DAG (day) could oslo be used when you say BYE. like when a party ends you'd say DAG i,m going home oh and TBH in wich she uses the word *een* she actually pronounced it wrong.... she pronounced it as UN but in some sentences she should have pronounced them as AIN *één*! *een/un* means A or AN *één/ain* means ONE. but hey the language has changed so much over time, i bet no one in The Netherlands even speaks the old ABN (generally civilized dutch) damn i should be a teacher...

[@martinerkelens5807]

I love you man but fries with mustard? How dare you insult us Dutchies like that xD

[@mennovroom5537]

Haha, the ketchup is so funny! You can buy fries with any kind of saus in the Netherlands

[@jamesbriton5545]

We Brits use both, mayonaise and ketchup with our chips/fries. It's awesome!

[@ramrodje]

Order during your visit to the Netherlands a 'patat met', and you will be surprised :)

[@jokami1051]

Lol we drown our fries in mayonaise. 🤣 Ketchup is for kids. 😉

[@Nio744]

Funny thing is that Slim in the Dutch language is used both as the English word for slim like thin but also as smart.

[@hansevers8605]

Do you know, the Dutch and the English people do business for a long time. You can find a lot of history about this at the east sight of England (York, Humber and East Midlands)

[@raoulpechler]

i just love how you have bottles of ketchup and mustard right next to you xD

[@rudynolis7798]

Friet is from the French : friture , which means bake in oil .

[@nelsonkaiowa4347]

I saw the original video some time ago, I watch a lot of that channel.

[@williamwilting]

An acorn translated in Dutch is an 'eikel' (pronounce it as something like 'æy-kol' with a short æ). Yeah, it's a funny false friend.

[@funkieghost]

get good mayonaise instead of extremely nasty sour mayo the mayo must suck in the US after seeing your reaction to the fact we eat fries with mayo. patatje met is just superior.

[@plne4ppl3]

About the mayonaise with the fries. I agree. Mayonaise is way too 'egg' for fries. I rather have 'saté' (peanut sauce) and/or 'frietsaus' with my fries. (Frietsaus is mayonaise, but less fat, less egg, and more Sweet) I also do ketchup on my fries, but only if they're not salty enough. because ketchup is very very salty (over here).

[@TheDondanny1983]

Bruh he broke out the old english tho haha

[@gertvanderstraaten6352]

The British guy is Simon Roper, he is an archeologist I think, but he knows a lot about Old English which is even closer to Dutch and Frisian. Pretty interesting channel.

[@appief1racepuch646]

We got Mayonaise but also Frietsause,they taste a bit different.But we eat are fries with al lot of different sauces

[@ivy456]

I didn't know that friet or patat was such a big thing in the Netherlands. I use both and I'm from Zuid-Holland. I usually call the thinner french fries friet and the thicker fries Patat. No one ever thought I was weird for using both. I'm pretty certain I'm not the only one that uses both but if I were to believe the internet that doesn't happen?

[@JacobBax]

I use them also both, and I also live in Zuid-Holland.

[@TheTrueAltoClef]

That's really interesting, since in Belgium we have a specific variety of fries that's basically very thin, relatively long fries called steppengras

[@alexdoorn234]

I'm from Zuid-Holland too and I also say both patat and friet. Maybe it's a province thing

[@moniquelitjens653]

Here, in Limburg, we always say friet or a frietje (we gaan een frietje eten). But then...we live very close to Belgium , so we are influenced by that language

[@mariadebake5483]

I am from Noord-Brabant and we only say friet.

[@movo721]

Mayonaise! Lol. Especially the Belgian mayo is yummie.

[@eTraxx]

This is the second time I have watched this .. even more fun this time 1) I still say that this made me think of "The Dating Game" for nerds 2) To me .. when I hear Dutch spoken it sounds like an American saying a foreign language .. you hear the same underlying voice in both English and Dutch

[@rudynolis7798]

200 years ago , it took only a few seats for america not speaking Dutch ! ;)

[@LhasaThailand]

As a Dutch person, it's not hard to admit Belgian fries, with the Belgian sour Mayonaisse beats everything fries related in the Netherlands. Belgians perfected fries to the tee.

[@SatumangoTheGreat]

I agree, although I'm torn between the Belgian non-sweet mayonaisse and the Dutch sweetened varieties. They both taste good with fries. But 100% agree on the thick, perfectly prepared Belgian fries. Getting hungry while typing this...

[@roddo1955]

YES! Belgian Mayo is the best. A bit tangy, Love it.

[@astreaminghuskyt2759]

I am Dutch, but I don't like Mayonaise that much either. Instead of Mayonaise I eat fries with Tomato ketchup, (like u mentioned) Curry or an alternative sauce that is very similar to Mayonaise, but sweeter called Fritessaus.

[@crankysayian9544]

Im am an Afrikaans apeaker which is derived from dutch so most of the language is similar but like "patat" is sweet potatoe for me so that was a bit confusing

[@indigenouslife1841]

The word friet comes from the French frites and patat comes from the Spanish word patatas. the words come from the times of the French and Spanish occupations in the Netherlands.

[@snackbek030]

Dutch mayonaise is the best... its not sour but sweet... i'm sure u like it... u have to try when u are in the netherlands..

[@mister.k4978]

Oh my... i am Dutch and i love fries with mayonnaise, its the most combined sauce with fries in The Netherlands.

[@ShimaKaede]

honestly, fries with mayonasie is like the most common thing here in the netherlands when talking about fries

[@mark101178]

you should try, fries, mayonaise, satay (peanut) sauce and onion. and they call that a patatje Oorlog = fries War

[@Treinbouwer]

14:30 "Ik eet patat met mayonaise" in southern dialects indeed means "I eat potatoes with mayonaise." Het is friet mensen.😝

[@Treinbouwer]

Oke, I was joking, but she misses out a lot on dialectal differences also some that do matter. She sounds like she has grown up in the west where dialects are not as strong (since Hollands is the dominant form of Dutch.), so it is quite logical that she does not realise the importance and you need to deside what you are teaching, so you are not realy teaching all kinds of odd non standerd differences. I believe she is doing her best, but sometimes it just feels a bit shortsighted.😅

[@AudieHolland]

What nobody in the comments section go correct: *We do not take mayonnaise with our fries.* Originally, like the Belgians still do, we did take mayonnaise. But mayonnaise is rather oily and doesn't really taste well on fries. So we invented 'fries sauce' which is based on mayonnaise but has more starch in it (I think...), making it appear and taste less oily, giving it more substance and I wouldn't eat my fries without it. Unfortunately, nowadays many fries are sold with 'light fries sauce' and as anyone with taste buds knows, *light* never was any good in food. Never has been, never will be.

[@aartjevandijk1711]

You defenetely have to try Dutch mayonaise!

[@themachine6478]

Me feeling proud as dutchman😂

[@koesen1984]

hey did you now that the heinz ketchup is a dutch recipe.

[@petermaardananders6803]

Old English is closely related to Dutch but even closer related to the Frysian language all are related to old Germannic languages. Dutch i"m told is very heard to lear, even most natives cant write flawless Dutch. The grammer rules arent easy at all and 'preference spelling' rules changed lots of words it does'nt make it easier. BUT we Dutchies are quite well in making practing spoken Dutch difficult because 'the road of least resistance' is the easiest we speak English quite often because it wastes less time. Fun namechange because the Dutch word was impossible to pronounce is Brooklynn, it was meant to be Breukelen. So cute when non Dutch try to say Dutch words, while Dutch still has many many dialects that wont syplify matters either LOL

[@Rein_]

why do you have all those sauces next to you? 13:50

[@miriamhappe1066]

historic germanic and gealic(i mean old english and old scottish with this word) languages always had been similar and perhaps even the same when you go further back in time, but i can be wrong about it.

[@znotch87]

Didn't we see this reaction already couple of weeks ago?

[@JOSWAY787]

Simon studied old english. So this is almost too easy to him, since Old English is literally almost the same as Old Dutch and Modern Dutch.

[@fleischmannetje]

Great! Beat that Babylon:-)

[@savado]

7:12 These are all very cunning linguists 🤣

[@anjaknuth7415]

i are so funny , wen you see wath the hek is a boom, love it.

[@jesbotjuhhh]

HAHAHA What is wrong with fries with mayonaise? We eat it all the time lmao

[@themadsamplist]

What the hell's a boom?! 😀

[@YuRaLL]

dutch mayonaise is not as sour as the french original one. so it's actually pretty awesome with fries. Ketchup for me is too sweet.

[@jurgenvoogt1638]

Simon is the only linguïst there 🤣

[@clifffan3]

Yes Paul participate with them

[@kelw5787]

Ketchup with fries is disgusting, can confirm mayonaise is the way to go