Geography Now - France REACTION

[@gegemgeremie]

I am French and I have never heard of snail disease. neither in my family nor in my friends have ever heard of anyone having had this disease

[@MonnOmsap]

Yeah, I really don't know where he got this information... I borned in France and I am 45 years old, never heard of that, nowhere. Sound just a mistake.

[@Etiennerabati]

Thats the reply i made.. im french too.....

[@skdoremi6666]

I think the disease comment was related to raw meat "tartar" or "carpaccio"

[@claribooo1509]

oui c'est pas à propos des escargot mais de la viande crue (genre viande rouge mal cuite), mais toxoplasma gondii (qui cause la toxoplasmose) est très connu si tu es une femme et que tu attend un enfant (risque énorme chez l'enfant), sinon on en parle pas trop de manière générale.

[@kayd6572]

He didn't talk about Snail disease, he's talking about the "Toxoplasmose" that can be found in meat. And when it's raw or not entirely cooked, the parasite isn't killed on the post and is small enough to survive mastication and digestion. Most of the time it doesn't get serious but sometimes it can eventually move to the brain and change behaviour. Since we do consume a lot of theses products AND have access to medical healtcare it isn't as much as an issue that the show host might suggest.

[@sspegazus3672]

Just as a response to your comment. New Caledonia vote to stay in. On an another note, "races" statistics are not official because its ban to collect informations on "races" in France. Moreover, most of the young French are not religious or serious about religion (they doesn't go to church, etc ...) but yes Frenchs are mainly catholic and the culture is 100% catholic. And for the DOM (from DOM TOM), they"re not attached to France. Its litteraly the same as the mainland, they are France. Good video by the way, it was fun. And sorry for my english.

[@AJVD2123]

The French Academy doesn’t really “ban” words. They publish an “official dictionary” and advise the public to use certain French equivalents. But nobody is pointing a gun at us to force us to write a certain way.

[@FrenchyGraph]

it's mainly so that high school students stop using "blog" etc.. during their exams and then argues that it's a French word because they use it every day.. 😆 that would be my bet!

[@Narjoso]

I listened to one french professor who was laughing about that some english words that france was borrowing was in fact old french words that england had borrowed from the beginning lol

[@AJVD2123]

@@Narjoso France and England, passing territories and words like a bong and claiming they both had it first since the 1300s.

[@Etiennerabati]

We don't work 6.7 hours a day Barby was drunk at this moment.. i work 10 hours a day. The minimum is 35h à week. And yes we sleep 8hours because we go to bed at 10 pm....and we dont have time to have a nap in front of the Eiffel tower ..

[@ValacircaTN]

Meh you would get your phone stoken taking a nap here, maybe your shoes too

[@zefyrisd69]

New Caledonia voted to remain. Twice since that video, in fact, as they had a new opportunity to vote recently. Some part of that video are wrong btw. Like the insect eating part. Snails aren't even insect anyway ^^". "l'heure de l'apéro" has also nothing to do with napping lol. I don't really know anyone napping either outside of old peoples or children. Some stats clearly seems wrong and others have not really any official sources to back them up (or to contest them either). Oh, and for stuff like snails and frogs, usually, it's only a very specific set of regions that eat some regularly, while everywhere else they barely eat any (at best once a year for example during end of year festivities), if at all. That's why you'll see French peoples saying almost no one eat snails, depending of where they live. As for horses, I believe that this is a type of meat that is extremely rare in France to be eaten. Probably the rarest by far among the list of meat type he gave, there are other types of meat French eat regularly that weren't mentioned here that are way, way more frequent than that.

[@kayd6572]

Hi, a slight addendum : Horse meat are still consumed but not mass produced. At a horses death, the corpse is sold to be eaten and consumed right away so it's more an opportunity kind of thing. Sometime your butcher will have some but most of the time he'll tell you to come back later. + It's not a meat that you can cook as easily any others. there is specific ways to eat it. More often, it is consumed as "Tartare" in Summers or Rare with mushroom and garlic during Winter. And because the meat becomes very chewy once you get to medium, you will never actually find sophisticated recipe with it. (Or at least of my knowledge of it.)

[@cherryblossom3046]

As a Brit who loves France, I try to go to France and Spain for several winter months regularly. France has more in common with the UK than Spain. Walking Paris is one of the best experiences I have had, because you see, feel and absorb more. Just love France!❤

[@marcapouli7805]

Snails cooked in hoven with butter garlic and parsley...I could kill for that.

[@isabelledrevet5913]

Me too 😉

[@josephturner7569]

America has a work ethic. France has a life ethic. That's why the dinner hour is two hours. And includes wine. Vive La France.

[@francinesicard464]

There are a lot of surviving clichés among foreigners.

[@bikesfrench8524]

Tu manges une heure dans le nord de la france la pause et de deux heures dans le sud de la France car les gens plus la sieste dans le sud les heures de travail sont différentes par rapport au métier tu as des gens dans la médecine a plusieurs heures de travail dans la construction c'est pareil pour beaucoup d'heures supplémentaire et aussi agricole

[@tout_en_funes3633]

Correction of a French, horse butchers were closed in 1986, and it is a product that is not in all ordinary supermarkets, so to speak, horse meat has practically not been consumed in France for a long time, except perhaps by one or two old farmers here and there. The idea is that consuming horse meat today is akin to consuming a pet (to a lesser extent rabbit - 30% in 10 years), hence a recent controversy about the Findus brand which had marketed meat which was in fact partly horse, a huge controversy for the brand which suffered a big loss of its turnover because many people no longer took this brand and mainly their meat-based products. "It should be noted that horse meat has already been banned for several years in institutions, schools, hospitals, the army, and that numerous legislative measures aim for a general prohibition. Frog legs are less fashionable among young people and have hardly been sold since the late 90s. You can still find some frozen packets in supermarkets, it looks like poultry in appearance (white/pink muscle), but it's very small... However, snails are still consumed (less by young people obviously), mainly at Christmas by some families. These are farmed snails, and there is hardly any difference in their treatment/cleaning compared to whelks. However, I have never seen them on a family table, at uncles' or friends'... in my life so far. It's not a custom, it's probably still widely consumed, but by a certain category of people; however, you will find them on the menu of some brasseries. As for the mentioned poultry, it is not exclusively manufactured in France. Indeed, it is increasingly rare to find duck breast or foie gras directly from France; they often come from the EU, which also consumes these poultry products. As for cheese, that's true, but I would like to give a nod to the Netherlands, which is also a cheese country, and moreover, tulips, wooden shoes, windmills, bicycles... As for toxoplasmosis, it is not about simultaneous exposure, but about estimated exposure over a lifetime. Moreover, even though it is a benign disease, women are screened, and according to mandatory serological screening of pregnant women in France, the number of infections acquired during pregnancy is estimated at 2700 per year, so the person in the video probably likes to sensationalize because she talks nonsense about this subject, fortunately. The black population is indeed over 2%, French figures are manipulated by politics, you will see for yourself when you come. I have no opinion on the matter, but immigration is massive in France, the Muslim religion is very present, almost everything is halal now (free healthcare in France and various financial aids attract). As for Celtic history, we know it, we and the English, just as Americans must know that they originate from Europe and thus guess... :). Otherwise, the part about forbidden words made me burst out laughing, sorry, but this sentence is absurd, and it's completely the opposite, indeed, we officially integrate many words into the dictionary, whether it's young people's slang or English sometimes. Moreover, there is no other word to talk about the weekend, there is no synonym, everyone says "finally the weekend", "I am on weekend", "it's the weekend", well, there is no other word, my parents already said it at their birth (they are 70 years old) and I don't think there was another word to define these two days that define the weekend since they existed on the calendar... :D Moreover, a blog has always been a blog (as evidenced by Skyblog, the most popular French site in the early 2000s), and you will see "parking" written on all signs in France as well, in short, misinformation here ^^. Also for work, it's not 6 or 7 hours but indeed 7 hours, 35 hours being mandatory for a full week's salary. Retirement is at 64. This is very true for Japan and it has largely been influenced by the world of audiovisual in the 1980s where tons of famous mangas were broadcast on the main channel TF1 (Club Dorothée show) but not only this channel, among the 6 free channels that everyone had. There are also video games and later even TV shows (Takeshi's Castle, Ninja Warrior, Silent Library...). Japan is still very popular among the new generations, there is also a certain enthusiasm starting for South Korea.

[@carlraymond2672]

Correction you can find horse meat in supermarkets but it is not a popular product. And as a non farmer I can tell you that there is stil people eating horse meat. once every couple years it could happened to me to eat horse meat.

[@tout_en_funes3633]

@@carlraymond2672 Horse meat is no longer consumed; 10% of the population believes they have eaten it at least once, with the majority being elderly individuals. Moreover, Findus experienced a major scandal a few years ago when horse meat was discovered in one of their products. The brand suffered a significant loss in revenue as it was excluded from numerous households. It has been several years since my business stopped producing it and banned this product. Ban on Horse Meat Trade It should be noted that horse meat is already prohibited in communities, schools, hospitals, and the military for several years, and numerous legislative measures are aimed at a general prohibition.

[@tout_en_funes3633]

Horse meat is no longer consumed, 10% of the population believes they have eaten it at least once, with the majority being elderly individuals. Moreover, Finduss experienced a major scandal a few years ago when horse meat was discovered in one of their products. The brand suffered a significant loss in revenue as it was excluded from numerous households. It has been several years since my business stopped producing it and banned this product. Ban on Horse Meat Trade It should be noted that horse meat is already prohibited in communities, schools, hospitals, and the military for several years, and numerous legislative measures are aimed at a general prohibition.

[@tout_en_funes3633]

@@carlraymond2672 Horse meat is no longer consumed, 10% of the population believes they have eaten it at least once, with the majority being elderly individuals. Moreover, Finduss experienced a major scandal a few years ago when horse meat was discovered in one of their products. The brand suffered a significant loss in revenue as it was excluded from numerous households. It has been several years since my business stopped producing it and banned this product. Ban on Horse Meat Trade It should be noted that horse meat is already prohibited in communities, schools, hospitals, and the military for several years, and numerous legislative measures are aimed at a general prohibition.

[@tout_en_funes3633]

Horse meat is no longer consumed 10% of the population believes they have eaten it at least once, with the majority being elderly individuals. Additionally, Findus experienced a major scandal a few years ago when horse meat was discovered in one of its products. The brand suffered significant revenue loss as it was excluded from many households. It has been several years since my company ceased production and removed this product; to say that you can find it everywhere is completely inaccurate. It is worth noting that horse meat has already been prohibited in institutions, schools, hospitals, and the military for several years, and many legislative measures aim for a general ban.

[@veewooshi9882]

We don’t work 6 or 7 hours a day 😂 we work between 8 and 12! Where the hell did he get his info?

[@josephturner7569]

Haha. In France, Le Weekend. In Quebec, Le fin de semaine. In France, Stop (road signs). Quebec (Canada) Arret. Quebecois tv programmes in France are subtitled. That's like, Cheers being subtitled in the UK.😂 .

[@EnzoRossi-g4v]

Québec Cute France mignon Québec Friendly France Amis Québec Oh my good France Mon Dieu Haha 😂

[@francinesicard464]

The Brits likely had the same reaction as yours from 1066 on, when the language of the Royal Court and administration in England adopted the French language, or rather the Oïl language, the language spoken in the Northern half of the Country; the d'Oc language being spoken in the South. 😂😂😂You haven't been to other continental European countries then, or you would have realised that many more English words are integrated into the countries' language than in France.

[@gilleslaplante8755]

@@francinesicard464 Vive le Quebec libre!!!!

[@TonyVallad]

Whenever you come visit, if you have time, I highly recommend visiting the "Mont Saint Michel" which is the amazing "island" you see in the beginning of the video. Probably the most beautiful man-made structure we have here. It's located a few hours by car from Paris.

[@AtreidesIV]

Je conseille toujours le Mont st. Michel et Carcassonne aux touristes qui, heureusement, ne se limitent pas à Paris.

[@FrenchyGraph]

8:47 Note that bottled cheese does not appear in this image. please stop doing this.. Or we will go on strike so that the subject is addressed in the united nation.. 🤣 15:44 we work to live we don't live to work sorry guys! 16:09 This is also true! we don't hate you, you guys just take it personally for some reason! When I say “I hate you” to a British tourist, he replies “me too and have a good day too” because he has read the European courtesy dictionary! He know we don't bite! 🤣

[@laurine____7543]

That man was wrong about multiple things but one thing wasent said before : we dont care about religion here. We can even trash on it all we want. " la laicité" is born here anyways. Ppl wont even really call themself catholics

[@roudkaross]

Fun fact on the Toxoplasma gondii, it's believed that at least a third of all humans on earth have it.

[@Shornaal13]

Two days in France... that's enough to see maybe most of the Louvre museum, if you don't linger too much. ^^

[@Etiennerabati]

Hi guys. First of all you look so friendly. I am french and some of the things in this vidéo is 😁. No we do not work 6 or 7 hours a day...000,1 %eat horse, 1% eat snails, and we try to speak english as all others european countries.

[@BoringReviews]

Thanks for the kind words and for the corrections.

[@manoul71]

1% eat snails ?! lol ! it's one of our national dish dude , maybe u don't like it but don't say bs.

[@Etiennerabati]

@@manoul71 it is on the paper...May you are in the 0.001%. 😊

[@manoul71]

@@Etiennerabati most french people eat snails , that's a fact . period.

[@yannickdubois9315]

Yes oui traï, oui traï...

[@josephturner7569]

Missed one fact. Bread must be available daily in all Communes* everyday except Christmas day. By law. Which is why my local Aldi had to build an instore bakery. *Parish/smallest local authority.

[@AlbandAquino]

Since most of our produce don't have garbage preservatives, we need to go get groceries a little more often. A fresh baguette or "tradition" is just delicious. It's funny, at least to me who married an American woman, to see other Americans react to "France". Kudos from Bordeaux ! P.S.: Yes, we do value our work / life balance. Take it the way you want, but that's not making French people less productive than any other. Quite often when we're going on our lunch break, it's a 1h30 break. Part because we enjoy having some time off work, but also part it's team building. And YES, sleep is paramount. You can't do good/efficient work if you're chronically exhausted.

[@MaîtreIpman]

Toxoplasma gondii come from cats so I didn't understand why he talked about it

[@KRASJEL]

jacques brel is BELGIAN

[@MrTomtomtest]

Besides that disease no one heard of here and those wrong work hours (8h), we aren't really best friends with Germany either. Even if we are friends there is still a rivalry between France and Germany and our respective influence zones within the EU. France is really closer to countries like Spain & Italy, on numerous aspects from language to love of food.

[@MrBlakemortimer]

Jacques Brel, is not french, from Belgium...

[@mfcq4987]

Cheese is part of the traditional French meal: it comes after the main course (meat or fish, with vegetables) and before dessert (in fact, it is often "cheese or dessert"). Obviously, this "traditional meal" is not systematic, especially for young people who tend to eat in a more unstructured way, but as soon as they become parents, there is this thing very anchored in France which is education in taste and teach children to taste food that is not easily palatable to them (children especially like sweet things). Cheese is one of those foods that children do not necessarily appreciate spontaneously (the taste and smell of cheese are often strong), but that they learn to love through their parents' education. And once you get a taste for cheese, you can't live without it... There is another reason for the taste we may have for cheese depending on the region of the world. Naturally, the human race no longer digests milk (lactose) as adults. But long ago, a genetic mutation in northern European populations allowed adults in that region to digest lactose. So it depends on your genetic heritage: the more your genetic heritage is from northern Europe, the more you can digest (and therefore like) milk as an adult. If you're from more southern Europe, you can only digest (and enjoy) milk if it's fermented (in the form of cheese or yogurt). If you're from Africa or East Asia, chances are you don't enjoy milk and dairy products as an adult. Personally, I like cheese but I can't drink milk, I find it sickening. When I see adults in Northern Europe (including North America) drinking milk straight from the bottle, I always wonder how they manage to do it, but I can't.

[@manu987nc7]

After three referendum we still french

[@jorismilleret]

Interesting. I didn't know all of that on my own country.

[@Etiennerabati]

The 6 7 hours of work a day 21:58 is wrong. I work from 8h30 am to 7pm. For the 8.80 hours sleeping...may be we go to bed before you....and we dont amhave a nap after lunch

[@josephturner7569]

Jaques Brel was Belgian.

[@IAmFat1968]

It's actually JaCques

[@a.s.944]

I say France and Russia buck in centuery so close friends 😉 !

[@ke3p3r62]

15:35 that reaction is priceless XD

[@hervepiffeteau9979]

C'est une caricature grossière

[@CityOfParis93]

merci

[@miedgha9403]

! Jack Brel est belge il chante en français.

[@Nicolas-tx1jl]

How can you come with that figure of 85% are french?? Which study gave you that information?? I’m Very curious as ethnic statistics are completely forbiden here. Even jail statistics are not to give you ethnological studies. Why spreading fake information that unlegitimate all your work

[@france-animaux]

Vidéo is old, today 2023 =~25% Muslims and its realy problème !

[@didierpetit7566]

La France, c'est juste 120ans de tour du bled à vélo, 6000ans d'histoire moderne, 400.000 ans de délires Néanderthaliens , 40.000ans de créations sapiens sapiens...et c'est pas finie

[@Uryendel]

His french is from google trad, it's absolutely not correct

[@mariecaillaud8693]

In France we est cheese at each meal: at lunch we have à salad, then the main course (usually à méat with veggies or potato or Rice or passta on the side)then we est cheese with baguette and then à dessert(fruit or yogourt or pie....). It's even the typical meal at school for children. At dîner, we eat lighter. For exemple in the countryside we usually eat à soup, then cheese and salad then à dessert. Envoyé your time in France. 2 dans Israël rallye not enough even to see à part of Paris. KZbin should eat at à café ont day: they usually propose simple meal but well done. And go in the café far from principal street, and far from touristic spot, because they are called tourist trap for à reason 😂😂😂 😘💕

[@randomfrenchdude9898]

Jacques Brel is not french. He is belgian.

[@LOLOVAL-os3pq]

calm down , I am French but I hate snails, and in almost 60 years, I have only seen members of my family eat them once, I do not eat them, neither my wife nor my daughter, nor my parents, nor my brother, nor my sister, etc......... frog legs, it's not bad, it looks like poultry meat, but it's full small bones, it's difficult to eat them because of the bones! I prefer to eat chicken baked in the oven with potatoes, beef bourguignon, a savory meal with lentils, garnished sauerkraut, filet mignon with rice, than to eat snails!! a little reminder, only French gastronomy is classified as a world heritage site in its entirety!! a word of advice, be careful of restaurants for tourists in France, there are loads of books, and websites that will give you the right addresses, and in Paris, be careful of pickpockets, they are often groups of underage girls from the countries from the east like for example Romania! we call them davidovich fokina, also watch out for fake taxis, they abound !!! don't get stuck on snails, besides, there are other countries in the world where we eat snails!! I hate that! and there are a thousand other things to eat in France than these filthy snails!

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[@anthonybaleur9296]

there is a lot of misinformation, it's cool, but needed more research edit : i lied, THERE IS A LOT OF BS

[@Jay_D_Ashe]

He speaks French very weirdly. Not only the accent, but the grammar is broken.

[@dany29112]

not at all ^^

[@TheFaruk2]

😂

[@FawziaTung]

Er… actually he mispronounced a lot of words…

[@gerbentvandeveen]

I just get! Kicked out by yt! Because my response is too close to the truth? It has? I think, to do with the 80 years war. Between Spain and the Netherlands. And then they became so self-contained. It really is a beautiful country! But? those people? WHAT A K......... PEOPLE!!!

[@Thunderworks]

Don't cry

[@Pakal77]

Try to visit another places in France than Paris, and you'll be amazed by the differences of behaviors 😉 NL = Lovely people in general, specially at Eindhoven ❤

[@josephturner7569]

As for the radio, that's bollocks. I love French chansons. But, they only play bloody English so I don't bother listening.

[@TonyVallad]

Actually that fact was right. There are laws to make sure French culture doesn't get lost to globalization and radios do have to follow them. Which I totally understand but still get annoyed by since I like Anglo-Saxon culture. Some stations even broadcast French songs exclusively!

[@brigetoun]

faux

[@gerbentvandeveen]

We've been there so many times. The "tour de france". And Disney, in 4 days. And all that from Paris. The beginning of my 3 weeks holiday (paid). France is a beautiful country. Too bad the French live there! (What a ................ people!) Sorry, you couldn't have the Netherlands! Greetings from Spakenburg, the Netherlands.

[@pierre-frederickgalland5810]

If you don't like french people, please stay home. 😜

[@Etiennerabati]

F................

[@Sayitlikitiz101]

Dutch cities can be quite nice but there is no nature left in the whole country, it is also too bad that there are sounds permeating the country that can give you ear cancer, dangerous and debilitating constant noise: the Dutch language! 😁😁 It's hands down the ugliest, most disturbing language in the world! Nice bikes though! TBH, I found the French to be rather nice, just not in Paris where the sheer number of demanding tourists can make anybody antisocial.

[@francinesicard464]

I have been in Holland and found some parts of the country wonderful, I love Amsterdam but I didn't find Dutch people particularly friendly. 😂😂😂

[@Misterjingle]

Isn't it xenophobic ? Most of the french are nice. Like, what my grandmother did to you ?

Barby speaks French, Korean [South Korean], some German. And of course his mother tongue English.

[@roclimbing]

Welcome to France 🍾