6 American Things in the Netherlands (that I didn't expect to see!) | Life in the Netherlands

Living in the Netherlands, I was surprised to find some of these American things here in the Netherlands. In this video, I share 6 things popular in the US that I was surprised to find in the Netherlands.
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[@henkman00]

Hot dogs are European in origin. the Germans exported it to the United States. it integrated within American culture during the 20th century.

[@Ulrich.Bierwisch]

I think, we had the sausages (Wiener, Frankfurter) in Germany but it was not typical to put them into such a long soft bread together with ketchup. In Germany, you get a "Brötchen" together with the sausage and probably fries on a plate. The typical hot dog bread isn't a thing in Germany but it's very normal in the Netherlands. The German bread has a much harder, crisp skin and this is not ideal if you want to bite thru the bread and sausage without squeezing everything out. You can get the "Hot Dog Brötchen" in Germany especially for this use. The Bratwurst is a sausage that definitely made it's way from Germany to the US. But this was much long ago. You can see the old tradition for example during Wurstfest in New Braufels. (Especially funny to watch for a German)

[@annemariedusselaar9862]

I think loempia's are more trending than hotdogs

[@paulbemelmans8684]

Hotdogs are exceedingly popular in Scandinavia - and have been for many years!

[@mormacil]

Fun fact, roughly between 1800-1900 Germans were the largest migrant group to the USA. They however almost entirely integrated and renounced their culture after two world wars which made public display of German pride and culture 'problematic'... So they've influenced early American culture quite a bit but most of it isn't recognized as such these days.

[@tewrhbdf]

@@paulbemelmans8684 correct polster stands are very populair in Denmark and rest of Scandinavië. This is also the origin of the hotdog!

[@Quanahtorri7]

black friday has only been really like this for about 3-5 years now, and not everyone is as enthousiastic about it..

[@DutchAmericano]

Interesting!

[@jjbankert]

@@DutchAmericano I think the timing works well with Sinterklaas, so it makes sense to have a sale

[@aristotlespupil136]

Dutch shops saw those huge crowds in the US stampede into stores so they figured they want some of that business here too. Ignoring Thanksgiving and the huge discounts the US uses to lure people in. Here the discounts are pathetic

[@gzignl]

Since lots of US brands also sell in the EU and the internet has taken over, once one brand or store does discounts another shop can not be left behind. Especially since “ laagste prijs garantie” has been a thing. So that is why Black Friday has come over here. Thank you internet ..

[@bruceadler9709]

@@DutchAmericano Also popular in Spain, which surprised me and written in English which I found strange as the Spanish people do not speak much English.....for the most part.

[@bartvschuylenburg]

A hotdog is nice, and around in the Netherlands since the the 70’s (or longer), but the Dutch alternative; broodje rookworst is even better. Especially on a windy winter day.

[@mfierst7326]

Even before the 70's. Knakworsten! And yes, rookworst is more to my taste.

[@EarthScienceEnjoyer]

We didnt have them as soon as the us though. When my dutch grandmother moved to the states americans were super confused that she never heard of hotdogs before. This was around 1967-1968

[@Marco_Onyxheart]

Add Broodje Unox sauce and you've got something very nice indeed.

[@spinwaus]

People who eat those things look like pigs

[@jwenting]

or worstebroodjes :)

[@cyclingchantal]

Fun Fact: McDonalds has been active for decades in The Netherlands. I remember somewhere in the 80s/90s, when USAF was located in Soesterberg, the closest McDonalds got a McDrive. That was something totally new overhere. When they opened it caused traffic jams of all the people wanted to order their fast food from their car.

[@MrJimheeren]

De McDonalds bij Zeist is ook de eerste McDonalds van Nederland. De mcdrive is nog steeds te krap en onoverzichtelijk als ie altijd al was. Hij zit er al langer trouwens. Begin jaren 60 streek de McDonalds al neer voornamelijk om de door jouw genoemde Amerikaanse soldaten een gevoel van thuis te geven

[@cyclingchantal]

@@MrJimheeren was dat niet de McDonald's in Tiel? De McDrive in Zeist was wel de eerste in Nederland.

[@MrJimheeren]

@@cyclingchantal zou goed kunnen

[@stephanvanlunenburg4930]

1987 mcdonalds huis ter heide (bij zeist/soesterberg)was inderdaat de eerste met een mcdrive in nederland.

[@stephanvanlunenburg4930]

@@MrJimheeren ietsje later. de eerste McDonald in Nederland en Europa werd geopend 1971 in Zaandam. het was de eerste jaren een samenwerking tussen McDonald en Albert Heijn. inmiddels bestaat dit filiaal niet meer

[@annayosh]

I don't really agree with your remarks on takeaway. Takeaway is traditional in the Netherlands too, but mostly just at the Chinese restaurants and the cafetarias - which probably not accidentily are usually the cheapest types of restaurants. Also, that they didn't do takeaway at the beginning may have more to do with the Corona rules than not being used to it. The Chinese restaurant that I frequent, has separate take away and eat in parts, but at the beginning of the March lockdown they only had delivery - no takeout, but you could have them deliver it to you "at their doorstep". Later there was some slight change in the Corona rules, and then they had take out again, using the eat in part of the restaurant as waiting room for the take out.

[@davidvdbergen]

halloween is being pushed by the retailers just like black friday..

[@dutchgamer842]

No it's not, it depends on region in the Netherlands and also older media from the 80's and 90's from US. Kids from back then saw it, they wanted it as well and those kids are the parents of now. They let there kids celebrate it now(doesn't apply on everyone)

[@Robin-fp6sx]

We rushed them in so you feel at home a bit. When we finished Dutchiefying you...we kick them out again. :)

[@crazymulgogi]

That's a beautiful plan.

[@fvantpadje]

You know that donuts are a invention of the Dutch 😏

[@DutchAmericano]

Haha, didn't know that for sure and there seems to be conflicting information about whether it was the Dutch, an American, or whether it even goes way back! Thanks for sharing =)

[@mimimotor]

Actually the donut comes from the Dutch Olykoek. Like so many things it was brought in New Amsterdam and spread around the US. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughnut

[@dutchgamer842]

@@mimimotor Some American food has European orign, in the US it changed overtime. The end product came back to Europe eventualy or just to the Netherlands and a few other European countries, which now have the original product and the Americinized product, in which sometimes it's hard to see it used to be the same product

[@suzannezwep5408]

@@DutchAmericano 9

[@33lex55]

A donut is basically an 'oliebol' with a hole in it

[@cynthiamolenaar770]

And we started to Dutchiefy America by introducing the STROOPWAFEL 😝

[@TheNewPatsyBailey]

Those College hoodies remind me so much of the 90s when it seemed like the whole world decided to embrace the height of popularity of basketball in the US...by wearing hoodies, shirts, caps etc. from Chicago Bulls or LA Lakers or whatever. Even though I'm pretty damn sure half the people didn't even really know these teams or the rules of basketball for that matter. It wasn't a popular sport at all back then. I specifically remember wanting to look at games as 12 y/o kid to see what all the fuzz was about, only to discover they were SO hard to find, lol! I thought it was quite ridiculous back then, and I still giggle thinking about it today :)

[@crazymulgogi]

Ava when I was in university, a linguistics professor argued that Dutch people are bilingual already -- not because their English is flawless (which it isn't) but because there is so much exposure to English. And believe it or not, there are already situations in which Dutch students will have to think longer to come up with the Dutch word for a given phenomenon, than to find the English one. And it often happens that they dutchify an English word into bad Dutch. Black Friday is evil but what are you gonna do.. 😑

[@DutchAmericano]

Haha, I can see their point =D

[@fvantpadje]

Still the Dutch speak better English than the American speak Dutch😉

[@crazymulgogi]

@@fvantpadje one of America's many tragedies. :) Maar geef toe dat onze nieuwe aanwinst mevr. Americano goed bezig is met haar Hollands.

[@fvantpadje]

@@crazymulgogi Daar ben ik het helemaal mee eens👍

[@JasperJanssen]

The thing about the American things in hoog Catharijne and the new station is that somehow, they managed to find like five or six super American chains to open their first store in the Netherlands, right here. It seems like it was literally a goal. Including Dunkin’, I believe.

[@PyrusFlameborn]

Pretty sure we have been eating broodje worst (sausage on bread) for longer than the US exists

[@mimimotor]

You must be very old...

[@Wuppie62]

Me too I think sausages on bread are a European (German) thing, like Frankfurter, Hamburgers, Bratwurst and curry wurst. In the Netherlands rookworst, frikadel and knakworst too are long existing snacks..

[@rickvaneijck3016]

Hot dog originates from Germany (not the name of course and also not the ketchup. But the frankfurter sausage on a bread and sauerkraut is.

[@rickvaneijck3016]

Peanut butter popcorn and Cola is something realy originates from USA and are very popular here

[@dutchgamer842]

@@rickvaneijck3016 I don't like peanut butte popcorn flavor, I like Reeses though or popcorn with cheddar

[@Xardom]

Something I hear some Americans bragging about: coleslaw! Alway ate it at KFC, without any further consideration about it as a very young child. Even I always thought it to be typical American, untill I noticed it sounded a bit Dutch. And indeed, quickly found out it derived from the Dutch "Kool-sla". So besides snacks like donut (men say they were brought over by Dutch settlers but really nobody knows for sure, even after many studies), we brought some healthy food as well! Or at least, an healthy ingrediënt😋

[@cynthias8248]

The hotdog from the Hema is delicious!(with the Unox hotdog sauce also the rookworst from them is to die for) I've always liked them ever since I was young, so no they are not a hipster or trendy thing, it's something people around me, including myself, have enjoyed for as long as I can remember!

[@crazymulgogi]

Those corporations, is that American culture, or is it American marketing and American dollars? Hotdogs aren't trendy, by the way. 😁

[@Paul-iq6pw]

Ava, you mentioned it only very briefly, but I would love to see a video on us Dutch speaking English and especially on how we tend to mix American and British English. I don't know if you have experienced this a lot, but I can imagine there might be things we say which strike you as an odd combination of American and British? I learned most of the language by watching the BBC and TV series from the US and when speaking or writing I almost never have a clue if I am using one or the other. Or maybe about things we say which do not mean what we think. I don't know, I guess I mostly would like to see a video about the fun you had with us Dutch speaking English. Anyway, love your channel. The stuff in our country that surprises you or which you find odd, gives me as a Dutch person a new view on the things I always saw as perfectly normal, which is fun to experience. Thank you.

[@carmenl163]

Yes, I'd love to know a bit about that too! I've been taught British English in school, but I am talking and writing a lot of US English now. The one thing that immediately comes up is the word: 'quite.' In British English, it means a bit, and in US English, it means very much. This is quite confusing.

[@forkless]

Valentine' Day and Halloween -- to a limited degree -- are also imported holidays that aren't being celebrated but are used as commercialized themes in stores because it sells.

[@GTvehicle]

In Holland, the base Hot-Dog ingredients are totally regular items, like the white bread buns ("puntjes"), and the "Knakworst" sausage. Hot-dogs got more interesting in the nineties, when IKEA gave us the "Swedish" hot-dog, where the bread is roasted, has a pre-formed hole, in which a mix of mayo & mustard is injected, then the sausage. The HEMA chain then COPIED that !

[@pietergreveling]

Take out/home is a pretty normal thing in the Netherlands, except for delivery, that started in the 90's! All my life ('71) we've got, Chinese, Italian, Indonesian, Indian, Shoarma and of course fries and snacks from the Snackbar to take home, but we don't do it as often as in the States, for us it was ones a week!

[@jwenting]

depends on where in the Netherlands. Grew up nearish a small village, wasn't until the mid 1970s that we got a Chinese restaurant and a snackbar. Took longer to get a supermarket :)

[@Bandit-Darville]

I would be REALLY surprised if i was walking around. let's say New York City to find a Hema that sells oranje tompoezen. Now THAT would be a shocker ^^ And by the way, speaking of Hema, they sell their own version of a hotdog which is a sausage inside half of a French bread. Hmmm, really nice :)

[@marlousrodriguez3963]

Another reason I can think of for American products/brands to be in the Netharlands is the connection to the dutch caribbean islands (as for example Aruba). Some of the islands are very oriented to the American tourist market. Therefore there are a numerous amounts of American chains there, American products in supermarkets and tv channels. Lots of students from the islands study in the Netherlands and are very exited when chains like Taco Bell open their doors. In Utrecht there is this American store that sells things like frootloops, Aruban students go there to buy products that make them feel a bit at home :)

[@Ulrich.Bierwisch]

When I was a kid in the 70'th we went to the Netherlands for summer vacations a lot. Hotdogs where already a big thing. One food chain that might get problems coming to Europe will be Wienerschnitzel. Especially German speaking people might be shocked to find that Wienerschnitzel is a hot dog chain.

[@PatrickGrimbergen]

They are correct that hotdogs is a southern German/austrian thing though (curry wurst).

[@Ulrich.Bierwisch]

@@PatrickGrimbergen Hotdogs, Bratwurst, Currywurst have to do with sausages but are completely different things. It's just like with beer. I could say beer is a Dutch thing though (Heineken) but I, as a German would never do that, especially not to someone who's name in Grimbergen.

[@Marco_Onyxheart]

American food chains do tend to localise their offerings. McDonald's has a McKroket, for example. They also offer "American" fry sauce, which is not sold in America. It is a fry sauce with herbs like parsley, onion, turmeric, and dill.

[@dijleveld]

Overhere in Belgium hot dogs have been a thing for at least 40 years, particularly at sporting events like football games and cyclocross races.

[@paul.van.santvoord1232]

The Netherlands are a landing zone for the rest of Europe. If they fail here, they abondon Europe as a whole. This is also valid for music.

[@HenriZwols]

Tough market. It took years for Facebook to get a hold, because of a -at that time very popular- Dutch competitor. Amazon is just beginning to complete against Bol and Coolblue. And what's that site again Americans use to buy and sell used items? I don't think it's even available in the Netherlands. Because of Marktplaats.

[@twinkharrylwt226]

@@HenriZwols i think it depends on what you sell and who is in your social circle.. I adopted facebook when Hyves was still big because of my international friends.. i have used both ebay and markplaats for different stuff and amazon it the more safe version of some stuff compared to bol.com because their regulations are better because they use it longer.. coolblue has a different business core (more comparable to mediamarkt) so can’t be compared

[@martianpudding9522]

One thing I think is pretty interesting is that I feel like roast turkey has become a pretty popular Christmas dish. We obviously don't celebrate Thanksgiving but I guess we've seen the extravagant dinners in movies so we just slapped it onto Christmas instead. I also think it's kinda funny that pumpkin spice lattes are so popular even though pumpkin pie isn't at all.

[@GTvehicle]

I still think of myself as an "Oudere Jongere" (did you know that term yet ?) - but emphasizing "Oudere", I remember we had a "WIMPY" in Groningen, when I was a kid, and "Wendy's" in Antwerp, when I was a teenager ... I LOVED their Chili !! A little later, as an adolescent, I was HUGEly surprised to find a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in ISTANBUL (1991) ...

[@Brennbare]

We Dutchies just love parties. We pick up Halloween, we're stealing October fest from ze Zjermans, and so on. 😁

[@MyTubeSVp]

I’m 57 and I’ve been eating hotdogs since childhood. Every fair or weekly market has a hotdog/hamburger stand. I assume we adopted this food during WW2. The American soldiers brought a lot of new things here.

[@reuireuiop0]

When I got to Amsterdam, I ran into this chain Bagels & Beans. Bagels also are very much an American thing (native from NY, if I'm not mistaken) so I was surprised to find these places so popular. This was back around 2000 when coffee culture in NL was starting to gain foothold. By now, you ll find them in most every Dutch city.

[@davidbeckham-doyle9832]

Bagels originate from the Jewish communities of Poland . Not American at all.

[@generaldreagonlps6889]

I'm pretty sure sausages are fairly popular here so hotdogs being a thing here makes sense. But those hoodies for american universities here is weird. Personally I still want one but for the university here in the city.

[@10animallover10]

Yeah, English phrases are happening more and more in Dutch. I myself included. It's because we (my generation) do so much with English that we use it more in real conversation. I watch lots of English tv series/movies, my study was partly English, one of my hobbies is writing and I do that in English and I have friends abroad who speak English, so it just sneaks into my daily life I guess. Indeed with American pop colture. Same with the holidays I guess. I for one liek that Halloween is getting more popular here but not because it is American per se, just because I like the holiday ;) Black friday is decently new here. We start to take that over from the USA.

[@meggyfelder]

Today I saw an oliebollen drive thru, talking about combining dutch and amican things

[@RFGfotografie]

I really love wearing hoodies, they are so comforting :P

[@mfierst7326]

I have been to Friday's once in the States. Years later, I noticed there was a Fridays in Rotterdam, but it was closed and gone before I could take any of my friends there. I wanted to show them the concept of having different cuisine's under one roof, microwaves etc.. It was an anomaly, a mild culture shock, that needed to be shown, instead of going there to have a good meal prepared by cooks. I guess I waited too long (a couple of years, maybe).

[@BasG74]

There used to be a few Applebee's restaurants in the Netherlands as well back in the 90s.

[@marcblokpoel]

Hi Ava. Just watched the first part of your video but i already had to comment. Dunkin donuts i don't know about, but the donut itself is a dutch invention. And as for TGI Fridays..... we had a number of them in the '90's , one of them famous in the Jackie Chen movie "Who Am I?" in Rotterdam, so that has been, as far as i know , intergated in the Netherlands for a long time.

[@borretje140]

Eva, did you know that Dunkin Donuts already had a shop in Budapest Hungary in the year 1994? I was there on 1 januari 1995. They were totaly sold out and we went away, but when we leaved the Dunkin the delivery van came and we went back in the restaurant and have a realy good time.

[@mimakake]

AAAAAAh in the next vid you have to let us meet your Cat. ;) Love your vids. ;)

[@2Fast4Mellow]

The last few years the Black Friday deals start half November and the commercials air just a few days after halloween.. It's similar to the kruidnotes sales in The Netherlands that start in September while Sinterklaas arrives 2/3 November.. It takes away the magic.. Chinese (Asia) takeout is something that exists in The Netherlands for a very long time, I think that started in the late 60s..

[@robertdejager1788]

Hai Ava, for your information, dunkin donut is an American brand, but ( hold on to your hat) The invention of a donut was in Den Haag by the king korn Bread mill, ( the Hus backery) so a donut is a dutch product yust like a stroop wafel, but in those days there was only one kind ,only with powder sucker. All the other kinds are develept in Amerika, so the donut is Amerikan, but the base was Dutch, and dit you now that the brothers Becker in Dutch Deurne travelt to Amerika many years ago and seen with there own (ogen) eys? a hamburger. In our country we had te kroket and that was long from chape so they dit desite that a burger was no good ,so they dit develup a frikandel, so the frikandel is the Dutch sister of the hamburger so avery day there are milions burgers and frikandels sold . Dit you now that the burgers for the benelux (België, Nederland en Luxemburg)from mc Donalds in Germany stands and they make only for the mac a miljoen 1000.000 burgers a day. I hope you liket this info, succes.

[@dirkkruisheer]

Interesting, thanks!

[@jeffafa3096]

Dunkin donuts and Fridays are relatively new and not (yet) really mainstream here. I saw the first of these stores pop up only just a few years ago...

[@jeanpierreviergever1417]

The presence of US restaurant chains depends on Dutch entrepreneurs taking out a license from the US chain to operate these restaurants in the Netherlands (or any area they buy a license for). So if a Dutch entrepreneur really likes a US restaurant chain and sees opportunities for the Dutch market he can get a license. The chain may be mediocre in the US. The Netherlands were one of the last countries where Starbucks was introduced in Europe, but as the coffee roast factory for Europe is in Amsterdam they decided to introduce it after all.

[@P0nyl0ve]

I have a university hoodie because they handed them out for free in my introduction. Literally everyone at my university had one of them

[@DutchAmericano]

Great reason, haha!

[@mrc4nl]

Hotdogs carts are not a hipster thing per se. But are more a part of hipster foodcarts in general. There is lots of variety here. Even saw a "hutspot" food cart. We even have food cart festivals in the Netherlands!

[@wingedyera]

The college hoodies... I've personally only ever seen the university of utrecht hoodies and as an alumni there i really wanted one but I never found the shop where they sold them

[@TheDreamtheaterlover]

In the 80’s there was the Hamburger restaurant Wimpy’s in the Netherlands

[@aliveldwijk-cornelissen6160]

Its a long time here I am 75 I new it always.

[@Icouldkillamonkey]

Weekly town square markets will generally have a hotdog or hamburger stand. Generally they'll use long, hard rolls instead of the soft hotdog bun, unless they're doing it as a gimmick or something. I don't think you'll find many permanent hot dog stands since they sell 'em at the frituur.

[@notsoleet]

About the American phrases; we historically watch a LOT of American movies, series etc in the Netherlands, and we have subtitles so we just tend to mimic what we see on tv or at the movies

[@andybaker2456]

Try going to Norway and see how popular hotdogs are there! You can buy them literally everywhere, from convenience stores to railway station concourses. And I have to say, they're a lot nicer than any hotdog I've ever eaten in the US, or here in the UK for that matter, where they're also popular. TGI Fridays is also big here too. I don't think people really go there for the culinary experience, it's just a fun night out with cocktails and greasy meat!

[@davidsleiffer8809]

In Rotterdam we had a Five Guys.In a mall called Alexandrium,but somehow its gone now.

[@Korilian13]

Hotdogs are more a tourist thing I think, but there is a hipster "foodtruck" in the Amsterdam Hallen.

[@adiranl486]

first there were "oliebollen" and then there were donuts.....try it: buy both and compare not only the taste but also the texture. also you can google it

[@skollbrod]

The strangest things about dunkin donuts in Utrecht is that two of their stores are within a very short distance. Both at the central station

[@sanderschaap5498]

I really like the way how you pronounce Utrecht

[@albertmagician8613]

Getting things to go, is a very long tradition: Patates frites, chinese food and pizzas. I like a sweatshirt of my alma mater (Utrecht) but they are not easy to come by. I especially like those with a modest embleme : "sol iustitiae illusra nos".

[@underwaterlaser1687]

Broodje Unox is quintessentially Dutch. Also, hotdogs are available at any IKEA or in front of Hornbach.

[@Isabelle-yy2xp]

in the netherlands its like dutch is ur first language but we learn egnlish in school obviously and its a world wide language so we tend to use words from english (britisch or american) and just put them in our conversations or text messages. phrases that are typical english or populair online just sound better in english or it doesnt sound''plat''(flat) as it would in dutch. And ofcourse in america not a lot of people speak dutch so u wouldnt expect people to speak dutch words there, but english is more world wide and in general spoken bij everyone. but dutchies (like me :) starting a conversation in whole english sentences is a bit wierd, unless its like for fun or practice. because my friends and i like the sound of english and my friend can speak with a good britisch accent so we do it for funzies sometimes, hope this helped!

[@cynthiamolenaar770]

Take out from chinese restaurants have been popular since way back here in The Netherlands. Lots of jokes were made about that “sambal bij?”.

[@octopusje]

i quite often use english words mixed in my dutch speech/messages. mostly because there isn't really a word for in dutch OR i just forgot the dutch word for it.

[@somedude5951]

Carnaval is only in the south, below the rivers. If you want to experience Dutch Carnaval, you'll have to go to the provinces North Brabant or Limburg in Februari. Or to Dutch Antilles. For the flower festivals, you'll have to go to the East. There is different folklore in every province, and every province also has their own dialect.

[@JensS94]

Can't remember the brand anymore, but one car brand had a 'black Friday month'. If the Dutch can get a discount, they'll get it. Some stores raise prices before (or the whole year), because there are so many discount moments (Black Friday, Sinterklaas, Christmas..)

[@arnoudduyvesteyn855]

Hot Dogs originate from the Northern European habit to eat bread with sausages. Those migrants brought it to the US. It's most popular in Germany and Danmark, but the Dutch have eaten "Broodje Rookworst" or "Broodje knakworst" for a long time. This makes the Hot Dog not unfamiliar, it's just a variation on a Dutch tradition.

[@truusjenskens8485]

Applebee's we also had but it's gone now..I wished we got an american bbq restaurant with low and slow cooked meat.

[@stephanvanlunenburg4930]

between 1997 and 2000 there were already dunkin donuts in the Netherlands. after that they disappeared and since 2016 they have returned. the intention was to open 25 locations in the Netherlands in 3 years, but that has not yet happened

[@NiinaW]

Those college hoodies are also from dutch universities. I studied in wageningen at the wur and most people I knew had a wageningen university hoodie

[@fickyni2]

But are not sold at like H&M, kinda sad to buy one there to be honest😂

[@NiinaW]

@@fickyni2 true thats weird especially schools that arent here

[@jetzekoole9187]

Hotdogs have been around in the netherlands forever. Basicly a slightly different variation on the german knackwursten

[@reviewerdiogeones5857]

Hotdogs are Danish. They're called polser. About Fridays, yes, I'm surprised too! I'm very familiar with the American chains like Applebee's, Chili's, and my favorite Red Lobster.

[@christiendefares]

Over the last two decades more and more American holidays have been introduced to Dutch consumers by retailers as a bellows to boost sales. The holidays never really took firm cultural hold, but the consumerism associated with them and with American popculture, did. It started with Valentines Day in the late nineties, culminating in the latest craze: BlackWeek 2020 (Black Friday on steroids due to covid19)

[@FerrySwart]

American foodchains. I would like to see my fav foodchain for when i'm in the south east USA: Cracker Barrel! i love that restaurant with the rocking chairs outside. Hotdags have been here since i was born, so for over 50 years. It's acually a German sausage that the USA renamed as 'Hotdog'.

[@asaasa7900]

Wait are university hoodies not used in the Netherlands? I love university hoodies! I even have them for universities I've never been to. Like the university of Rome and even a state-branded "Kansas" hoodie!

[@PendelSteven]

Yeah. About donuts: they weren't much a thing in the 90's in the Netherlands, but gradually there were more and more donuts this century in our country. So even though I haven't found a Dunkin' Donuts in the Netherlands yet, I'm not surprised to hear it.

[@janeirwin9663]

Maybe I missed it, but have you talked about most shops having English names, or the "shelf" toilets?

[@roeltichelaar8]

Leuke trui.

[@emiel1976ep]

Well Duncan Donuts isn't that popular out here. They opened several stores, but many closed soon after.

[@Paul_C]

I don't think Halloween will survive. Regarding take out, take out as a way to not have to cook in the Netherlands started with Indonesian/Chinese in the Netherlands, afhaalchinees isn't in the Dutch Van Dale but it should be 😀

[@eefneleman9564]

You should definitely do a comparison or reacting to US foodchains here. I remember being in Florida and thinking the McD and BK looking really shabby compared to ours. Of course, our culture is greatly influenced by US culture. We've always looked up to it, maybe because they were once our 'saviours'? Hoodies... Either are trademarked, so the college profits by them, or they are not and then anybody an use those college names. And if you feel Dutch people are more fashionable than Americans... that says a lot about Americans. The English/American speaking has to do with our growing up with subtitles instead of dubbed series and movies, but also with management speak. Black Friday, this year was spread out because....(drum roll)... Corona! Take-out was already growing with Thuisbezorgd and UberEats, but Corona has sure made it take off.

[@jeroenvanrooijen1086]

On Dutch television many subtitled American series are shown. When you often hear particular short sentences it is difficult not to adopt them.

[@somethingsomethingcleverpu7375]

2:20 I’ve never actually seen a dunkin donuts ad

[@Dutch3DMaster]

Dutch Americano, the whole medication-advert thing: John Oliver from Last Week Tonight actually has a good piece on this, look for a piece called "Marketing to Doctors".

[@wilmascholte7607]

Donuts are very similar to Dutch oliebollen. Also, many Dutch treats are deep fried, e.g. kroketten, bitterballen, frikandellen and all the other snacks. Oliebollen are deep fried too, and the composition of the varieties without raisins are pretty similar - just the shape is different. Hotdogs have been around for decades, to be honest. So has the knakworst we eat, in a normal bun, so it's not a leap from one to the other. College hoodies are mostly people trying to be cool. They haven't been around for that long unless someone had gone to the US and brought one back. 30ish years ago you'd see a Yankees cap at best.

[@jasper7072]

The Black Friday discounts are less extreme here than in the US, are they not? There are only a few very good discounts going to 70% but most remain at 30% or less is my experience.

[@Beun007]

You forgot Five Guys close Utrecht Centraal, next to Manneken Pis!

[@AnythingButOrdinairy]

I feel called out cause Im wearing my community college hoodie right now ahahahahaa

[@zeekade79]

A baby shower (party) is also becoming a popular thing here in the last decade, in NL. I thought that was typical American thing as well? :)

[@martianpudding9522]

Dunkin' Donuts are pretty new here, I think they only started like last year or the year before that and I don't think they are in very many places. Same for tgi fridays I don't think I've ever seen one myself.

[@bruceadler9709]

They were around in the '90's then disappeared only to reappear in the past few years. There was one on the Ferdinand Bol Straat in A'dam

[@chaoticgoodgh0st286]

Also for me a donut has to have a hole in the middle, if it doesn't it's just not a donut to me 😅 but hey whatever floats your boat And my uni here gave me a college hoodie as well but instead of charging money for it, it was free for the first year students. Other years DID however have to pay €10 if they wanted one 😅 It's very cosy and has a cool pun on it

[@womenfrom0202]

Have you ever tried a Danish hotdog, WOW those are great

[@pascalrottier4783]

You should check out the movie Demolition Man. There is a scene at a Taco Bell restaurant. But not in the European version. There it's Pizza Hut. If you look closely, you can even see the actors mouth the name "Taco Bell", but you hear them saying "Pizza Hut".

[@ajkooper]

Thanksgiving does exist in the form of giving prayers and giving thanks for the harvest in the protestant church. "Biddag and Dankdag". It plays a more religious part rather than a more openly celebrated national day. In the catholic church they have something similar but is not very common in the netherlands. I think thanksgiving involves a bit more in the usa because it also tells a tale of how usa came to be rather than just giving thanks to the harvest.

[@GulliNL]

I’ve seen a ‘5 guys’ shop on Hoog Catherijne as well. I’ve seen it in Barcelona (Spain) too but I thought they were purely American

[@dutchgamer842]

There are several Five Guys in the Netherlands

[@tresenie]

Halloween is a European holiday, not an American holiday. Most of us forgot but it used to be celebrated with beets and not pumpkins. Americans didn't forget and used pumpkins, made some other changes and that version is now back in the EU.

[@roybuis7646]

Hotdogs are extremely common in The Netherlands, every grocery store sells them, they've been part of our food culture for like 50 years hahaha

[@skokel]

I believe that some dutch people also use american phrases because they are shorter and more to the point and sometimes also to be less confrontational.

[@Roozyj]

Some phrases also just have a different meaning from the Dutch version or are cited from pop culture. If I say 'Oh mijn god' it sounds pretty serious, as if something is very wrong. If I say 'Oh my god' it just means I'm reacting xD If I say "Hey loser, let's go shopping", it means something different than "Hé, verliezer, laten we gaan winkelen" xD

[@PhoenixNL72-DEGA-]

The "Thuisbezorgd" brand is owned by "Justeat" And even 3 years ago they did deliveries for a lot of different kinds of restaurants. You could order italian, indian, thai, surinaams (roti!), chinese etc etc.

[@hcjkruse]

Actually Thuisbezorgd started as Thuisbezorgd by a university student in Enschede, the English branded corporate structure came later.

[@PhoenixNL72-DEGA-]

@@hcjkruse I know, Justeat bought thuisbezorgd a few years ago. (Giving them a monopoly position) I was just stating the current state of things. I'm not really a fan of them anymore since they suddenly more then doubled the percentage the restaurants have to pay them last year. They are basically extorting the restaurants cause most don't have any other alternative to do home delivery.

[@arjankleene]

@@PhoenixNL72-DEGA- No, Takeaway acquired Just Eat. The resulting organisation Just Eat Takeaway has acquired Grubhub this year.

[@SwirlingSoul]

Our use of English comes from two things. One is the lessons from a young age in school. The other is all the tv! Lots and lots of movies, which are subtitled in dutch, but the audio is intact, so you pick up the entire language, including all the PLACES in the USA... I mean, I've never been there, never looked at a map even, and I know of Lubbock Texas... Or Paris Kentucky, or Chicago Illinois. And I couldn't name all the states to save my life! But things like this, and the things you mentioned of using English when you say hi or bye, it's just grown into our culture, and the multi-culture we are now, also contributes to that, because even if you're foreign, MOST of us do speak English. Okay, with a stiff accent you can lean on, but it's understandable nonetheless. ;-)) I mean, how do I know there are swamps and gators in Florida? I've not learned that in school you know?! It's all movies and series that depict a LOT of the culture. It's movies and series that taught me about all the different landscapes in the USA too. The Grand Canyon being famous, but I do know that Arizona is desert, and I've seen yellowstone national park in so many ways, without ever having been there. Series like Gold Rush also show a lot of the landscapes. It's awesome HOW much you can see through tv, and also google maps and earth these days. Just awesome! And all of this makes me wonder how much the rest of the world knows about us Dutchies?! ;-) And this is why I love vids like yours :-)

[@marianaschlederdelima9866]

I've lived in South America, Europe, and Asia and just wanted to say that both Dunkin Donuts and TGIFridays are literally everywhere. Both have a huge international presence and you can find them in quite a LOT of countries, so it's not surprising that they have locations in the Netherlands which has a relatively big expat community (including Americans) as well as just a lot of American influence overall.

[@weeardguy]

But don't forget that that international presence has only grown the last 10-15 years, because also a lot of people just consider things from America great (which I don't understand...). 10 to 15 years ago, nobody had heard about many of the American brands that are found everywhere by now.

[@chaoticgoodgh0st286]

It must be kind of comforting as well to see some American things being embraced here too, right? Like you'd feel at home here a bit easier, I'd imagine. Sometimes Dutchies forget the Dutch word or phrase for something and in that case English can be a nice replacement. Also some words in English don't exist in Dutch just like 'gezellig' can't be translated directly into English 😅💙