Family Gameplay 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Townieville #11 🔷 Sims 2

[@MolhoBarbecue]

I'm Brazilian, I use an electric kettle to make coffee and tea lol (although I only drink 1 or 2 cups per day max) . It's not really a common item here, like the US, we're coffee people, but it's becoming more present, it's really practical!

[@doctorezio]

Tea situation for me, in Russia, is the same. :D I have electric kettle and a stove one for some situations where light gone off or that smth broke, but not use it in normal days, too dangerous to forget it. Making tea or coffee is an evening or morning routine for me.

[@E-ga-0]

18:29 - I’m actually surprised the emergency room technician is a level 1 career. The personel for the emergency room are specifically trained for these situations - it’s actually comparable to becoming a nurse! It’s a separate university education path, at least in Poland, and it’s 6 semesters to get a bachelor’s degree and an additional practice period of half a year. The same goes for nurses, also 6 semesters and a practice period. Though these are just for the bachelor’s degree, so it limits the amount of work you’re actually qualified to do. You need a master’s to do more. Not to mention, being an emergency room technician is a far more psychologically exhausting job. Most people brought to the emergency room are quite literally on the brink of death, so you’re constantly worried you’ll loose a patient pretty much. As a med school student, i admire those who choose this field greatly. I know I’m too unstable to do it.

[@E-ga-0]

If i were to choose a level 1 medical career, i would make it a walk-in clinic personel or something. Like a nurse that draws blood for testing in a very calm, stable environment. Because in a hospital it’s a bit more chaotic with the amount of people you’re dealing with sometimes at once (gotta love understaffed hospitals!) so it’s more responsibility. Or maybe make it literally a training period - doctors are paid during theirs after all (terribly but it’s still something).

[@mardalfossen]

I’m american and drink tea so I have a kettle. I always download the kettle too. Earl grey is my go to as well. It’s definitely less common in coffee drinking countries to have a kettle.

[@sockpuppetqueen]

Ohhh we watched the same Technology Connections video, didn't we? Love that guy. Yeah people in the US have preferred coffee to tea for a looooong time. And the places that do drink a lot of tea, it's rarely fresh brewed hot tea- like in the southeast, they drink a lot of sweet iced tea, which you make in big batches and may not even boil water for (sun tea just uses room temperature water, but steeps for several hours). I actually love tea, and I do use an electric kettle, and I agree it's really not that slow. Especially if you're only boiling the amount you need, for the single cup of tea you're making.

[@saralaerevu8735]

In Sweden we drink both coffee and tea but it's more common to drink coffee. We have both electric kettles and coffee machines. I don't drink coffee but even I have the capsule thing in case I have guests or my dad comes for fika (shorter break for coffee and some light snack) as he works nearby

[@Marticore]

We have a coffee machine but we quit caffeine, so technically we don't need it now, unless we get decaf grains... For now we drink rye coffee instead 😅

[@Mothasuperior1]

My Oma is Dutch and we drink tea allll day :) or coffee. Like it’s the first thing we do when getting home is turning the kettle on. ❤ ☕️

[@Jhud69]

I never bought the "electrical sockets" excuse for the kettle because fun fact, Japan uses the exact same sockets AND power (110v vs european 220v) and yet they drink a lot of tea and have world famous electric kettles. Though their kettles also often have an option for the water to stay hot for some time so that probably makes up for them slower. And honestly, being in Japan I never really noticed the water to boil that much longer. I think it's really mostly the not drinking tea often thing. I know some people in the US have a Keurig which is like a capsule coffee machine that also has an option to just give you boiled water.

[@モノクローム美奈子]

Just a note: Japanese standard is actually 100V, so slightly lower than the power in the US

[@rockbellmakeup]

What you have with tea, here in Argentina we have with mate 🧉. So yeah, the electric kettle was the first thing I bought for my place when I moved out from my parents'. I wish the Sims had at least a decorative mate set. A functional one would be awesome but I guess it would be a nightmare to animate.

[@mathisirondil]

In the US we use the same outlets for the majority of our appliances so I don't think it's the power issue. We really don't drink that much tea. Someone drinking tea over coffee, while not considered odd, is not the norm. I have a traditional kettle that I just keep on the stove, but I know that in my house an electric kettle would just get in the way on the counter or in the cupboards.

[@puissantcroissant3926]

about the tea comment, i'm British-Indian so definitely a lot of tea being brewed here!! we make a lot of use of the kettle for english tea, but for indian chai we just use the saucepan instead. everyone's house i've been to has a kettle haha also loving this series btw, always a highlight to see it in my feed :D

[@chuugomes]

I'm from Brazil and we are very coffee oriented. People drink tea but coffee is a national preference (even in hot weather), so people often have electric coffee machines... I used to brew coffee manually using a stove kettle and a filter for the powder. For tea, if it's not infused I heat the water on the microwave in like 3 minutes or use the conventional kettle too!

[@clarusratio283]

It's funny because minha professora from Brazil was shocked when she saw huge cups of coffee we usually drink 😂

[@PandoraFoxxBurlesque]

Tea-wise: I'm British but can't remember the last time I had a cup of tea... Always been an instant coffee person 😅