What's Something Europe Has Changed In Your Mind As An American? | Part 3 | TikTok | American Reacts

[@thefridge6558]

That woman saying that Europeans are 'afraid of guns' is dead wrong. We aren't afraid of them, we respect them and understand the danger they pose in the wrong hands so we tightened gun laws accordingly. I can tell you now there are very very very few people who in Europe who are worried about getting shot. I mean... which country has 'Active shooter drills' in schools? If thats not a nation thats in denial of its fear I don't know what is.

[@redskin6146]

We would be afraid of our toddlers getting slaughtered before break time.

[@Jill-mh2wn]

Just after the handgun ban was brought in, I was asked my opinion of it by someone who used guns regularly for sport and who was often called as an expert witness in court cases which involved guns . My answer was that anyone's opinion depended on which end of the gun you were at and I never saw myself on the trigger end.

[@Guillaumelapomme]

I'm born in Marseille and do get to hang there at times. There are shooting every single week but "it's different" because although guns are obviously illegal in France, it's just drug dealers killing other drug dealers and I'm not minimising that (nor the collateral damage such events can incur) but the overall drama scale still remains FAR below what the USA experiences on a daily basis. I'd like if I said I was 100% serene about it when walking in Marseille because "we never know" but I know FOR SURE that I would be -100% serene about walking in the US. Well "walking", figure of speech I guess.

[@101steel4]

Another thing common in Europe, the 24 hour clock. It stops any confusion, as this video demonstrated 😂

[@rree9550]

except that nobody ever says "see you at 16" but "see you at 4"

[@victoriagossani8523]

In France when you make an official appointment it's still used, for instance 13h (1PM), but for informal appointment we've lost this good habit. In television also they use a 24h clock.

[@ciberzombiegaming8207]

@@rree9550 yea, its more with older people here (Lithuania). they still more used to analog 12 hour one

[@101steel4]

@@rree9550 which would be 4am.

[@Cirkelo]

@@rree9550 in denmark we would most def say, see you at 16 on tuesday...

[@vansting]

I think that one of the biggest differences when it comes to Americans losing weight in Europe is that we don’t use corn sugar in everything.

[@heliotropezzz333]

And portion sizes are probably smaller.

[@mariahoulihan9483]

don't even know what that is.. sounds awful.

[@1001digital]

Unfortunately that isn't true. You should check the labels, they dump this stuff in everything, be it jam/jelly or sausage. I have to go over every product I want to buy and check the contents. I refuse to buy anything stretched with corn sugar.

[@dracuella]

​@@1001digitalthat is absolute nonsense and for a good reason: in Europe, we don't have massive swaths of land dedicated to growing maize. We grow sugar beets and loads of them as this has been our go-to sugar source since forever. There are even laws in place to protect the beet suger production, to make sure it is impervious to malign foreign influence. Do SOME things contain corn syrup? Yes, but when it says 'sugar' that's what it is, beet or cane sugar. Not corn syrup

[@1001digital]

@@dracuella I'm from Germany. On many product labels I read "Glucose-Fructose-Sirup" or "Invertzuckersirup" and from what I know this mostly means corn sugar. Normal sugar is just named as "Zucker". The "Deutsche Apotheker Zeitung" for example wrote, that it gets imported from the US. In a time where even dough pieces for buns get imported from China, something we can easily (but not so cheaply) can produce ourselves, I don't doubt this.

[@cherylq709]

You couldn't have a full English breakfast everyday or you'd be the size of your house. A full English breakfast is a treat and should be had on the odd occasion.

[@terranaxiomuk]

It's also great if you're busy. You can skip lunch, or vice versa.

[@dracuella]

​@@terranaxiomukYeah, whenever we go to the UK we have it as a brunch sort of thing when we're going places and will be travelling for a while and need something that'll keep us full.

[@lucylane7397]

It was designed for manual workers who wouldn’t eat lunch working in a steel mill or factory or something

[@BeckyPoleninja]

Gun girl is SO wrong.We aren't scared of guns, we just don't get the obsession

[@ingrudmessenger1193]

Well, both. I'm not scared of guns in Germany because while having guns, we don't have a lot of shootings and don't carry them around all the time. It's definitly something i would worried about if i'd go to the US though.

[@zarakikon6352]

@@ingrudmessenger1193 Well put. As your Dutch neighbors we don't carry guns and I definitely don't wanna see them on anyone except the Police or similar organisations.

[@Muck006]

@@ingrudmessenger1193 Guns arent the problem ... DAMAGED PEOPLE USING THEM is ... and "taking away guns" wont ever fix the problem of damaged people, because you can still do a lot of harm with knives, axes, hammers ... and even cars/"trucks of peace".

[@johnnykotletti4614]

@@Muck006 So you think giving "damaged people" guns is a good idea then ? Maybe is just me but maybe it should be a little bit harder to own a gun if "damaged ppl" are such a problem in your country.

[@keithkearns93]

Americans are scared of guns . They buy guns to protect themselves because they know that so many other people have guns and that scares them .

[@ksy1111]

As a romanian, these talks about fresh produce make me miss summer so much, ahhhhh, just a few more months :'))) nothing hits as well as my grandma's salads with the vegetables she grows in her own garden. And dipping the bread in the salad juice that's left in the bowl 😩 heavenlyyyyyy

[@lesjolissouvenirs7751]

J'adore la cuisine roumaine 😋😋

[@marckleinveld2152]

For example concerning food. When subway wanted to open in the Netherlands they could not name the sub ‘bread’. In their recipe a sub contained so much sugar it is called cake here… Imagine a footlong twinky with all kinds of toppings…

[@Heraldus90]

This didn't happen. I am Dutch just like you (judging by the name), I was around when subway was introduced, this isn't a thing. I would also tell you that this exact story has been doing the rounds on the internet for about a decade and pops up again every once in a while with the country attributed to it being a myth. Originally it was a court ruling in new york, a few years later it started popping up where this supposedly was the case in ireland etc etc etc. In addition to that: don't believe weird shit like this man. The difference between bread and cake has very little to do with the amount of sugar in the product. If anything it's the use of yeast or baking powder that makes the difference between a dough or a batter and subsequently a loaf of bread or a cake. I would also argue that the only thing of note that the only thing that adding high amounts of sugar to bread dough is likely to do is simultaneously pissing off the germans and french in equal measure and that's it.

[@UKcanuck55]

Before I moved to the UK a friend told me I wouldn't like the food. He couldn't have been more wrong. The food was outstanding.

[@ninamoores]

Our bad reputation for food stems from the War years when so much was unavailable and what we had was strictly rationed.

[@mariahoulihan9483]

that came about because of the rationing in WWII.. and somehow people think its still true. it isn't. Also.. it depends on ones definition of good food. some o of the sruff I have seen on American channels look awful to me. Especially those puddings made with jut assembling store bought ingredients. full of sugar and fat and not at all using fresh produce. vile to my mind. No one NEEDS a pudding to live. Growing up we had them at weekends only.. It might be something lovely like foraged blackberries in pies or apple or a lemon meringue pie.. crumbles. all that sort of things. we were not a trifle family.. I still dislike them.

[@walkingwithkate7900]

What do you mean? Isn't that where we got carrot cake from? 😂

[@TheHammy1987]

It's simply not true that we don't have tomatoes or cucumbers (or other veggies) when they're out of season. You can find pretty much every vegetable (and lots of fruit) in a well-stocked supermarket. The ones that aren't in season will probably be a little more expensive, but they are very widely available nonetheless (at least here in Germany, and I every other country I've visited in Europe so far!)

[@mariahoulihan9483]

I thin k that speaker was referring to in farmers markets its seasonal.. of course she will know if she has lived here its as you say, here in the uk too.

[@gray_v]

Just to let you know, here in the UK we don’t eat a full English for breakfast everyday. We’ll have toast, cereal, porridge, fruit, yoghurt, etc. Growing up, a full English was mainly a weekend thing and it still is for me.

[@mariahoulihan9483]

yes..a very much occasional treat.

[@NathanEllisBodi]

Weekends or holidays. . I work six days, so , Sunday, if at all.

[@CMOT101]

Yep. One day a week for me

[@Maraaha55]

The lady going on about acid is reflecting on a practice that came over from south Asia where as a punishment for 'honour crimes' (women leaving boyfriend/husband, refusing to marry etc, being raped) they are subjected to acid attacks and horribly maimed. It's far from common - there was one in the UK this weekend, when a mother and two children seeking asylum were attacked - in fact her attacker was also hit by the acid and and maimed. He is still on the run. These issues are real, but they are not part of our main culture - and many members of the South Asian culture here will also condemn it - BUT it's still pretty intractable, because the traditional communities will protect the attackers. And I have NO IDEA what the other point she was making was! Tits on the news? Possibly Spain, which can be pretty weird. This lady was really pretty unhinged and I suspect she has never actually lived in Europe. We don't actually assume all Americans have guns - but we do know that many Americans lack gun discipline, and the deaths from gun - and CASUAL deaths from guns - in the USA are ridiculously high. Scared of guns? Not in my family's house - we had guns and we used them, but no one died. Sadly this lady did not show the USA in a very enlightened way. No loss to us.

[@L.K.Rydens]

I think she either went on vacation and heard it while there, or even more likely she knows someone in Europe and when she was met with the European reaction of "Yes, that's terrible." she thought the European reaction just meant that it was normal because it wasn't the loud reaction of the US. Talk about getting secondhand embarrassment from that one...

[@spyro257]

here in Denmark, we have a few farmers markets places, but we also have many farmers, that sell directly from their farm, u go there, get to pick what u want your self, and it's like DIRT cheap...

[@ronaldderooij1774]

We have that here in NL too. But the disadvantage is that if you want to do your shopping like that, you need a lot of addresses and a car before you have everything dirt cheap.

[@spyro257]

@@ronaldderooij1774 many do it here, as a family thing, go have a day outside, with the kids, while teaching them about food, at the same time, and if u want more, just go to a farmer, that has more than 1 thing growing... it's still cheaper to get the food there, even if u have to drive... unless ofc, if u just go there, to get, lets say, 100g of strawberries...

[@mariahoulihan9483]

same where I lived in rural/coastal Suffolk in the UK. My small market town is surorunded by around 5/6 excellent farm shops and seasonal stalls outside peoples; houses who sell their excess crops

[@hr35rasmus]

A Brit here, well done, enjoy your life and your family………….cos you never know what’s around the corner……..live life now, you only have one life so you might as well live the happiest life you can, there’s no second chance with real life…….😊

[@Eyrenni]

Since most people seem to only talk about the acid and guns, I'll mention something about the nudity. To us, the nude body is natural. We're born with that. Sex is also pretty natural. There are a lot of things that aren't natural. Those we put taboo on. So, yes, the amount of nudity, sex and more that might be taboo or "18+ only" in the US isn't in a lot of countries over here. It differs a bit from country to country, yes, but in general, I think, we deem it more acceptable than guns and some other things.

[@adrianaslund8605]

Lower age of consent in many countries too. And it that doesn't mean that its a predators free for all. It's 15 here and no one is fine with the media or people sexualising people that age. It's just that they are considered to have some level of personal autonomy and integrity in regard to their body.

[@tukicat1399]

Girl who lived in Ireland, 4 am, in the morning, and yes Aussies have a hybrid American European culture, but more European than Yank, and I thin the authenticity with the Chinese food was the thing, not the generic idea of Chinese food we have (even in Oz), The acid comment was not LSD.. real acid in male to female payback bullshit, she was not happy . Real acid in the face.

[@ItsCharlieVest]

thanks

[@darkiee69]

@@ItsCharlieVest And the acid thing is an "imported" problem from certain cultures.

[@bibsp3556]

​@darkiee69 and it's also overblown. Domestic populations commit many heinous domestic assaults that don't get reported in the news papers despite making up the majority of the problem

[@sjbict]

FFS we do not eat a full English or beans every morning /day for breakfast. we have choices of cereals, toast just eggs, what ever you want. BTW those beans are imported here from the USA.

[@gymjunke1]

I agree I have got to 75 y/o, and I never had beans for breakfast. I live in the Uk.

[@mfrost71w]

Baked beans are made in the UK. They were introduced by Heinz UK in 1886, supposedly as a taste of America, but they are entirely a Brtish invention. Nothing like real American baked beans which are often made with molasses and pork

[@sjbict]

@@mfrost71w the raw beans are imported from the US and made into baked beans at the Heinz UK factory it was on one of those programs Greg Wallace did. Inside the factory.

[@Arltratlo]

i got served beans in UK hotels, its kind of disgusting if you are used to German bread, sausages, jam and nutella...lol!

[@lorrefl7072]

@ItsCharlieVest, you mentioned having a huge garden before. Why don't you grow some of your own veggies. It's a little work but it's so cheap and you know that you get quality food. And it's a great activity to do with your son.

[@armelle6936]

there are tomatoes in winter in the supermarket but in local market , there are only seasonal food produce on field . for example, in france , you can buy fresh scallops only 2 months per year, because of the fishing laws

[@seanbarker4610]

As we age, it becomes apparent that time is our most precious resource, and quality time spent with family and friends is the true treasure in life!

[@beldin2987]

Maybe even more relevant than 50 years before when it was released : Pink Floyd - Time (2023 Remaster) kzbin.info/www/bejne/r52QfqaVmtBgoac

[@immune85]

Here in Tampere, Finland, it's common for people to just carpool when queueing for a cab downtown after the bars close. You can just ask strangers if they're going the same way, and you just get in the same cab. This helps you AND others get a cab quicker. Very nice in winter... Anywhere else?

[@dreamystone]

It's very common in Athens Greece too.

[@mavadelo]

8:24 She LITERALLY says "Four in the morning"

[@LalaDepala_00]

Yes but we would never write down 4AM. We write down 04:00

[@ericthompson1060]

The pubs in Ireland legally close around 11:30 pm, you can have the misfortune to be "locked in" which means to pass the time you have to drink some more. That or she goes clubbing after the pub, food after is a must, you need something to blame your stomach issues on the following morning besides the drink. 😂😂

[@jamgart6880]

7:31 I’ve no idea what she meant either. It sounded like Europe was toxic??? But then that confuses me about the video subject 🤔

[@danhodson7187]

Agreed, it sounded like she was trying to be the edgy exception and refute the positivities of Europe over America and make America sound better. She's definitely the major exception. Would question whether she was even in Europe.

[@BootyCrusader]

@@danhodson7187 I have genuinely never heard a person talk about Europersn countries' colonialism in any other way besides in a historical fashion. American patriots are usually the ones screaming their heads off about how they helped and improved every country they invaded...

[@gregclark5084]

I came to Germany thru the Army and married a German girl so I stayed here. The thing that blew my mind that a work week was working 35 hours a week with 30 days paid vacation a year and all holidays are free days. All this with no worries about not earning enough to make ends meet.

[@mariahoulihan9483]

what's a fre day when its at home?

[@gregclark5084]

A day for relaxing or to sleep late and catch up on with friends and family.@@mariahoulihan9483

[@corjp]

When you said around timestamp 4.45 that you enjoy life more with less work........ DUDE YOU GOT THE RIGHT VIBE... we don't live to work we work to live and enjoy our freetime with or without friends or family. I am currently no longer working due to my illness, my wife still works and when I am at home alone,... I enjoy the peace and quiet. after 45years of hustle at our national airport.....

[@SpielkindFR]

As a european I can say with certainty that this notion that there is no good food in the us isn't true. Its just that the expensive stuff you would get at a place like whole foods is the standard here.

[@urbnctrl]

tell that to a young guy growing up in the hood.

[@phoenix-xu9xj]

I disagree. Where are the additives that aren’t allowed in Europe thank goodness, all the sugar and all the fat and all the ultra processed food. I think the American food and diet is appalling. Stanley Tucci who lives in London, ( where he lives now, ) has the best food is found anywhere in the world. He means to buy, but also I don’t think there’s any cuisine you won’t be able to find in London, because it is so multi cultural.

[@mariahoulihan9483]

are you frm the USA? IF so. in what hood? your sin trhe USA. If from the UK why areyou calling large sin etates The Hood? bit faux gangster sounding, lol. @@urbnctrl

[@andishawjfac]

I'm a British Northener and we don't have beans on a full English either, they aren't a requirement. We swap it out for hash browns, mushrooms or white pudding.

[@LeSarthois]

For the food, just to be clear, it's only in farmer markets that vegetables are seasonnal. You can buy tomatoes and other seasonal products all year round, either fresh or canned. If you wanna get totatoes in winter you just go to the supermarket. If you really want, supermarkets (at least where I live but I'm in the countryside) sells jars so you can make your own canned food if you want to have farmer market's tomatoes in winter. Note, for Asian restaurants, at least in France, there are mostly two kinds : the independant ones, that serves regular meals, those tend to have delicious food because they use good products (not all of them from Asia but they don't all need to be), and you have all you can eat buffets, which all buy their products from one main company (Tang Frères); those tend to have more Europeanized food (cheese wrapped in beef slice isn't an Asian meal) and a more uniform choice. Some have slightly different offers or sometime a hot buffet where you bring cold meat and they cook it. I discussed a bit with the owner of a Vietnamese restaurant and he told me that they chose recipes that appeal to customers so while they serve «authentic» food, it is may not be representative of any typical meal either. And they sometime add options that aren't original but that customers loves, like serving different sauces when the original recipe only require one or none.

[@mariahoulihan9483]

or in farm SHOPS, or on small stalls outside peoples' houses.. I also get m fish freshly caught that day by day fishermen.. usually a two man boat.. not the huge trawlers. I can if I wish get beef and pork locally produced. I live on the suffolk coast and this is also an arable farming area.

[@debthomas2078]

Thats right, no need to work yourself into the ground. No one ever said on their death bed "I wish I worked more".

[@karenchristinewise7833]

A lot of Irish and British people have a small plot of land called an allotment near their house to grow vegetables and fruits. It's a holdover from WWII. My uncle used to grow cabbages, potatoes, onions and carrots in his back garden. Most Irish and British houses have gardens in the front and/or back of the house. A yard to us is either stone or concrete, no soil and grass

[@Tidybitz]

I'd say, as a British person, that a few, not a lot, of people have allotments. I've only ever known a couple of people that have had one. Saying that though, having an allotment is a lot rarer than it used to be.

[@sheilaheald2509]

@@Tidybitz unfortunately, a lot of councils have sold off the allotments for land for developers, which is a crying shame. Ny niece has an allotment and grows all her veg and a lot of her fruit there. It saves them a fortune.

[@tkps]

We're in the outer Melbourne suburbs and my husband has a raised veggie plot boxed off in the middle of our back garden. He grows both summer and winter veg and what we can't eat we give to neighbours and family. Last winter I froze a load of boiled and mashed carrot and swede and cauliflower. One rhubarb plant regrows every time I harvest it so I have plenty of frozen cooked rhubarb too. ATM we're overrun with tomatoes and have plenty of spring onions, lettuce, celery. We get chook eggs from a neighbour. Yet our food is already great quality. Grass fed meat, chickens in barns, no hormones etc. so our eggs and dairy are great too. It seems we're lucky with our food.

[@mariahoulihan9483]

Up until only a few years ago it was common to see front gardens down to veg growing.. definitely a hang over from the war.. and there was usually an older person who lived n the house tending to it. I saw this a lot on the country. That generation is very much dying off. My Mum was 15 when war broke out so would hae been 100 this summer had she lived this long. Theother thing was the keeping of ones own chickens. My parents did it. they married in the early 50s.. garden down to vegetables but out the back. thre was enough room for it and we did have chickens had one time. People were a lot more into it in greater numbers.

[@susanmullen5105]

She definitely means 4 in the morning!! In Edinburgh, bars will stay open until 1am, clubs are often open to 3am...during the Edinburgh Festival in August, a lot of bars are open until 5am. As someone else has said, some bars open at 6am (historically to let night shift workers get a drink before heading home to sleep!)

[@aeonkazza]

You can most def buy cucumbers and tomatoes all year around here in Denmark and pretty sure in Sweden and Norway to but from what I understand it's expensive and you dont buy a whole cucumber in norway but not sure about it but you can def get vegetables all year. around fruits are seasonal

[@RustyDust101]

Hah, those Irish close their pubs at 4 AM... That's nothing. On weekends here in Hamburg some pubs and clubs close at 7 AM. 😂 On that note, Hamburg doesn't have any legal stipulations on when clubs need to close. There's no last call for alcohol.

[@MrLarsgren]

sounds a bit like denmark. when i was younger it was allnighters too. when you left the place the sun was already up and you could hit the next place and keep the booze cruise going for a couple days until you crashed.XD

[@turkoositerapsidi]

Hamburger is the national food of Hamburg, right?

[@Arltratlo]

and Germans can buy beer at 16!

[@charlotteinnocent8752]

Tomatoes and cucumbers are available all year round though. But seasonal fruits and veg are always cheaper and some summer fruit really isn't available in the winter. Also, local farmers provide for the big grocery stores here. So that maybe it was more about where that lady went than all of Europe.

[@chucku00]

What you're explaining with Chinese food can be compared with how US "Swiss" cheese tastes compares to genuine Swiss cheese like Gruyère or Emmental. In English, the word "terroir" only applies to wine local characteristics related to the local elements (climate, soil type...) but its French meaning applies to any local food that is produced in a specific place. There are also EU regulations about the right to name some products only if they come from a precise location, for instance no cheese can be named "feta" if it doesn't come from Greece (protected origin labelling). And your're spot-on about turning a passion into a job : like any other thing in life the dose makes the poison.

[@albin2232]

Most of the Chinese food that people come across is derived from Cantonese food that's been adapted to suit local tastes.

[@chucku00]

@@albin2232 It has been adapted to make the most profit of it by using the cheapest US ingredients, then adjusted to attract as much customers as possible. This Panda Express method also applies to Chipotle or any "world cuisine" chain.

[@albin2232]

@@chucku00 No doubt.

[@chucku00]

@@albin2232 Gotta make these bucks...

[@albin2232]

I only buy food that is produced in the traditional way by those entitled to use the name. I like to support these crafts people. I respect their skill. If I can't find the real thing, I won't buy an imitation.

[@panchomcsporran2083]

In Edinburgh we have a few pubs that open at 6am, and some that close at 5am, so there is an hour unless you go to a club or casino.

[@jemeritte]

In the Netherlands cafés and clubs close early in the morning..

[@Kiwi-Araga]

I can sympathize with you about losing interest in a hobby after turning it into a job. I used to do graphic design until one year ago while working for a print shop. The problem is that most people want things but they don't know exactly what they want, they expect you to snap your fingers and have any project that will take hours or a day done in minutes bEcAuSe iZ eAzY, and they will not leave you alone when they need anything last minute even though you got many other deadlines to meet. They even got my personal number to annoy me outside work. Some are still trying to reach me and I'm telling them to fuck off.

[@barbaraout5038]

You're so lucky to have found work that makes you happy!

[@Fii38]

Australia is more European than American . We even let them in the Eurovision Song Contest.

[@yedead1]

Heres a lil info from an English person a pub and bar are not the same thing Irish pubs in America are not pubs. Pubs are usually the central communal location of any village/town, being in a pub is like being in a living room, it has a homely atmosphere.

[@adeledoyle667]

In Ireland, The pubs officially close at 11pm on weekdays and 1am at the weekends, but in most local pubs there will be a lock in ....... which means close all the curtains , lock the doors , turn off the music and drink away just , keep the noise down so the guards don't hear 😅

[@fattmatt200]

In the U.K. the full English breakfast is a meal you might eat once a month. It comes from when manual labour was more common so you needed the calories.

[@jillosler9353]

And nobody grazed on snacks all day! It relates to a time when you ate three meals a day ONLY - and back then a fried breakfast would not have included baked beans, hash browns or even mushrooms or tomatoes (those things got added by the likes of Little Chef roadside cafes which started the 'all day breakfast' trend). A normal fried breakfast would have been eggs, bacon and fried bread for the adults (mainly the father) and cereal or porridge for the kids.

[@davidfree007]

Its very common in Ireland for pubs to have lock-ins. Ie at midnight they don't let anyone else jn but the people that are in already can stay till late. 😂

[@spyro257]

not "doing acid" but "throwing acid in peoples face", burning their skin off... in a few specific places, they are a bit wild...

[@pm2069]

but def not "normal".

[@spyro257]

@@pm2069 oh hell no... it's just crazy people...

[@segazora]

It happens in Europe but it’s not a European problem, we just import these problems from the islamic world.

[@Rearda]

@@segazora Not a religion problem, but cultural from nations where women are little more than chattels.

[@667buddy]

Love your videos Charlie. I live in Norway and we have a lot of season food to and it defently taste much better than the things that is grown in a greenhouse and we also have farms that sells organic grown food directly from the farms and it's awesome .

[@louisemiller3784]

We get tomatoes and cucumbers all year round. I was at the farmers market yesterday and yeah oh the seafood and fresh bread

[@AdamMPick]

The local chinese food means they get their produce directly from their part of China, too. It is not just the recipes. Also, China has 56 official ethnicities. That is like 200+ different cultures, with different cuisines. You can find american style chinese restaurants staffed by spaniards, too. But I agree on the real chinese food front. When visiting Berlin once, I had the worst case of a stomach bug, with painfull diarrhea. Went to a propper chinese restaurant, told them I had stomach issues. They brought out the usual duck and rice, but also a mushroom soup, out of like 15 different kinds of mushrooms the cook whipped out just for me. I hate mushrooms, with a passion. But that soup did not have the usual dead flesh smell of mushrooms, so I tried it. It cured my diarrhea instantly. Instead of getting diarrhea from chinese food, it cured my diarrhea. That is how good the chinese food can be.

[@Anonymus-ih7yb]

18:34 growing vegetables in greenhouses outside of their growth season is very resource intensive which would lead to higher prices that are then more likely to push customers back into the grocery store where cheaper imported vegetables are available

[@riccardocoletta2398]

Minute 18:47 - Greenhouses. Yes, they can do it in green houses and they do... But most of us simply don't take that... The taste isn't that good like seasonal products cultivated on open field and out season food also cost a bit more. Strawberries is a summer food and in my house we eat it from june to september and that's it, like peaches and apricots. In autum and early winter we eat grape, while in winter we eat apples, pears and oranges. And we do the same thing with vegetables like we do with fruits Eating seasonal is more healty (eating what there is instead of what you want add variation to your diet during the year), ecomic and ecologic. Also psycologically is good, because you feel more the flow of time, the rhythm of nature

[@blodekont5458]

8:51 Groningen in The Netherlands, pubs are in weekends not closing at all, and the knowing ones know it is 24/7

[@petrakihlstrom8163]

❤Groningen❤

[@nieksalomons]

Yes she's talking about 4 in the morning. Bars usually close doors at 3 in the morning, last round of drinks also at 3.

[@Arltratlo]

we have some opening at 5am...

[@hannesmayer3716]

It's decades ago, but a friend worked in a pub in Berlin/Germany that was open basically 24/7. The main door couldn't be locked. So someone had to be there at every time. And accept the one hour or so they needed to clean the place every day, they would serve customers.

[@JB-qf5ep]

Edit: Haha, didnt finish the video before commenting so didn't know you already said it 😂 I am fairly sure that the food thing is due to the healthcare systems. When you have a private insurance based system, there are powerful companies (who have the money to lobby the government) who are financially incentivised to get you sick and keep you sick. The healthcare industry, the oil companies and the food companies all have a shared interest where they either benefit from increased sickness of the population, or they make more money using practises that will result in more sickness, so they all lobby the government to loosen regulations and allow normal people to be exploited by these companies, and the government happily governs in accordance with the companies that corrupt them. I'm telling you, if the US had a universal healthcare system, the food, the water, the air would clean up so fast, because the government would become financially incentivised to save as much money as possible in healthcare, so they would need to regulate these industries in order to increase public health. That is why americans abroad will indulge in Europe and still lose weight - because for the most part, our governments need to save money on healthcare, so they do what they can to prevent health problems in the first place.

[@alainmellaerts8926]

An ideal working day should be 8 hours at work, 8 hours free time and 8 h rest. We do have cucumbers and tomatoes and so on in winter. It comes from greenhouses and North Africa but they are not so tasty in winter so many people stick to seasonal because everything just tastes better in season and it’s cheaper. Not English but a full English breakfast seems a brunch thing or a pick me up after a night partying. I never eat pancakes at breakfast, it is more a dessert here. Same for waffles.

[@alainmellaerts8926]

@TheOdsd1977 We in Belgium usually have a 38 hour workweek with a legal limit of 40 hours. The 8-8-8 5/7 was considered a healthy balance but they are talking about how a 4 day workweek might improve productivity. I had only 30’ lunch break so the time actually spend at work is concentrated. In France they take 1h30 lunch break so they spend one more hour not being able to spend as free time.

[@alainmellaerts8926]

@TheOdsd1977 I live part of the year in France. If you work in an office collègues usually go lunch together and discuss work. A British guy working here didn’t join them and couldn’t understand where everything was discussed. It was all decided during lunch and the meetings were just to confirm what was decided. Everywhere in France there is a lunch of about 12-14 € which would cost almost double at night. Blue collar workers do go home often but plenty are not close enough to home and dine out at noon. Anyway I prefer 30’ personally. You finish earlier and do whatever.

[@johnam1234]

I really enjoyed your video and comments plus learning more about the world around me.

[@glennheuts407]

Yes she is talking about 4 am that the pub closes, and she is walking home by herself, possibly drunk asf, feeling safe the whole walk❤❤🎉🎉🎉

[@MichaelYoder1961]

Like your reactions and the ghost boy in the background was a nice touch

[@Pantokrator2003]

keep up the nice reaction content, Charlie!

[@vanesag.9863]

Here in Spain bars close around 23:00 h on weekdays and usually 01:00 to 02:00 h on weekends. But if you want to go partying on weekends discotheques open from midnight to 05:30 h in the morning but everybody goes at 02:00 h when bars close for the night. If you want to take a breakfast before going home in the morning you can stop at a café or a bar. It's not an unusual time frame to go home after going to a pub. When I was younger my usual time to arrive home was 06:30 h. The one talking about Spain: is normal to see 3 generations of the same family at a café talking and drinking coffee. Or a group of grandmums on a bar "merendando" (it's a snack we do between 17:00- 18:00 h) or a group of older men walking and chatting (never gossiping 🤭) on a park. We tend to be social and love to go out. The one talking about the acid attacks: it's NOT a common ocurrence here. We had a pair or three of those attacks and usually is a man that wants to punish her ex-wife or partner but it's a rare thing. Those attacks are punished with jail time and they are considered "gender/family violence".

[@lucazeppegno8256]

What she said about chinese food is exactly the same for italian food. Italian food you eat in US is amercanized italian-american food hich often do not even exists in Italy, and any different region (or even town and city) in Italy has completely different dishes.

[@broetchenahoi6524]

Cool idea to try to check out your local Farmers Markets. Get some info about what's in season when in your area and to minimize cost and ensure you get the freshest and most nutritious food available. I love going to the farmers market in winter too, for the aliveness and colors. It's a wonderful experience!

[@DougBrown-h1n]

Yeah, that thing the girl was talking about American individualism - it really hit me, and I just don't get it. Americans go on and on about patriotism, like they love America, but when it comes to it, they don't actually love the people who live there. For me patriotism is about, sure, what your country stands for - but it's mostly about having affection for, and looking out for your own people. A nation isn't just the land - it's the people who happen to live there. It's a weird and hollow sort of patriotism when you don't actually give a sh** about your fellow compatriots. I think the girl with the bad audio was saying, what Europe is like, is what made America so bad. Can't say I understood her point though, except apparently Europe sucks. Maybe she was just having a bad day. Many pubs in Ireland and the UK "lock in". At the end of legal opening hours, the landlord locks the door with the remaining (regular) customers inside, and we carry on as before. It means that if the cops turn up and knock on the door, the landlord can claim he's not serving customers out of hours (as that would be against the law), and that these folks are simply his personal and private guests! (The reality is, most experienced cops and pub landlords have an unspoken "understanding" that provided things proceed quietly, it's not gonna be a problem).

[@101steel4]

You have to remember ALL Americans originate from somewhere else. You know everyone is irish😂 Every state is like a diffrent country, and they think socialism is communism. Killing each other seems to be a national sport.

[@DougBrown-h1n]

@@101steel4I think about 6 million actual N Americans ("First Nations") have managed to survive. As you say, the rest are the children of immigrants - who just like their pioneering forefathers, still seem to behave as if everything and everyone is a threat. I think the obligatory patriotism they practice could be seen as the failing band-aid that just about holds these different nation States together. Children and adults alike are indoctrinated with fervent national patriotism on a daily basis, and without it, I can imagine more secessionist movements, especially from the Southern States. I think the "murder/gun thing" comes from two big mistakes, creating a perfect storm. First, the US Supreme Court (under pressure from the NRA) decided the the 2nd amendment should be taken literally, and not interpreted to account for modern weaponry. And second, without an overarching Federal healthcare system, crazy people aren't identified and treated, but left to walk the streets (fully armed, should they wish). IMO It's one of the many downsides to US style "freedom" - especially when the responsibility which comes with that freedom is put to one side.

[@vallejomach6721]

If everyone around her is bad and toxic...maybe it's her that's the problem.

[@margaretnicol3423]

Do you have any space to grow your own food? Doing that is great for kids too. You don't need a lot of land or a big yard - you can grow a fruit tree in a bucket and herbs in a small pot!

[@LunarisArts]

Learning how food grows and where it comes from is so important for human development.

[@bjrnarestlen1234]

New to your channel. I love my work. I teach immigrants norwegian, and I work in the army. It's a great combo, I get to work extra hours when I am able, so I can take time off, to pursue my hobbies. And I get up in the morning, looking forewards to work with my wonderful, funny students.

[@xjakanton2576]

I deffinitely agree that we europeans value community a lot. Money and career are not as important as feeling happiness and belonging. Of course, I can only say this because I don't have to worry about personal bankruptcy, because (and I repeat) we europeans value community. So if ever something were to happen, I can rely on others to be there for me, like I would be for them.

[@lynjones2461]

I promise we don't eat an English Breakfast every day and it doesn't always come with beans also our beans are way different from American beans I prefer my beans for lunch too if I have them xx love your videos you are so real sweetie xx

[@Locspocs2]

deli sub = a sandwich from a delicatessen shop. Delis and bodegas are the staple of New York City where people get their freshly made sandwiches. (yumyum).

[@henriettahardiment-vu6yv]

I keep hearing that American bread is crap, full of sugar and chemicals. Is this untrue?

[@Locspocs2]

@ partly untrue: it is pretty crap but is not full of sugar. It is full of high fructose corn syrup though. If you look at nearly any foodstuff in America, you will find HFCS in almost everything. Y’all have to subsidize those corn-farmers, right?

[@miamonan9627]

A GOOD quality cooked English breakfast is absolutely delicious. Sausage, bacon, egg, mushrooms, tomato, baked beans, and toast. They’re eaten as a treat, not an everyday experience, because they take time, love, and effort, to cook well.

[@petehill7280]

15:42 No. Throwing vials full of acid in people's faces to burn their skin. It's a crime that's been occurring more and more recently. Here in Britain, for instance, we recently had the case of Abdul Ezedi, an illegal immigrant from Afghanistan who did so to a mother and her two children. Whether or not he should be deported for this crime has stirred up a lot of controversy in the press and our politics.

[@inquisitive6786]

I understand the thing you said about tattooing perfectly. I loved cooking, then in my early 20s became a cook and worked a few seasons in hotels during the summer. Now I hate cooking

[@jacquelinejob2766]

Just came across your channel, and I really enjoyed it so much I am now a subscriber.

[@jillbarnes199]

Just so you know not everyone has beans with breakfast just the sausage bacon eggs mushrooms and toast,we don’t have beans on toast for breakfast lol

[@sjbict]

or eat a cooked breakfast every day

[@jillbarnes199]

@@sjbict only on holiday for some reason lol

[@stephenlee5929]

I'm fairly sure beans became part of English Breakfast in the 70's, I think there was a shortage or price hike on tomatoes. Also was easier for holiday camps (Butlins, etc) then B&Bs did the same, also makes some sense for 'All Day Breakfast'.

[@sjbict]

@@jillbarnes199 your right there lol.

[@jillbarnes199]

@@stephenlee5929 yep I agree,I’m 67 and when I was a child we never had beans for breakfast,it was tomato or mushroom

[@drsiigabb9935]

In Australia i sometimes have a chilli cheese pie with sriracha sauce for breakfast.

[@AromaBlue]

You can find foods that are not seasonal even in food markets. She either lived in a very small city or she's promoting her own views

[@lauram4168]

In Europe pubs, clubs close around 5 ,6am at least in my country Romania, opposed to Canada where I live now and its 2,3 am 😮. I just want to say regarding the farmer market in Canada ,its true they are a little better than the supermarket but still not the same taste as in Europe i feel that it's even the quality off seeds and grains that sometimes even those are treated

[@blodekont5458]

McDonalds in Netherlands has the Kinderfonds (Children's foundaation) where every extra cents are put in a box like the fee, but these are put nationally in a bank account , and they make homes for parents who have children who are terminally ill or need long treatment in hospitals. McDonalds fund cares for the costs of letting the parents be with their child, night, sleep, food etc.. instead of renting an expensive hotelroom

[@drsiigabb9935]

In Australia we have Ronald McDonald House, so that parents can stay close to there extremely sick kids in a hospital. These houses are usually close to Children's hospital

[@dracuella]

The woman talking about Chinese food is very right since a lot of Chinese food in the UK and Ireland is absolutely incredible. Sadly, though, it's not everywhere in Europe we have access to good international cuisine. I live in the second largest city in my country and thus far have found -one- proper Chinese restaurant - the rest are the buffet versions without dim sum and more classic dishes. We also don't have any Korean or Japanese restaurants (no, sushi doesn't count). There are loads in the capital, though, but that's a 4 hour train ride away ;_;

[@silviahannak3213]

It starts with the Farmers..whatever they but in there or which Seeds are good and growable...The Amount of Pestizides. It all starts with the growing !

[@heliotropezzz333]

I can always tell an American (accent aside) when they refer to public transportation. In the UK we just call it public transport.

[@drsiigabb9935]

In Australia it's just called PT. Or the train or the bus.

[@GeleeRoyal_DnB]

You doin a good job !! IMO

[@nordwestbeiwest1899]

Come, my dear American friend learn the Dutch language and become a carpenter in the Netherlands! Yes, in Europe you have to study for 3 years in a company that pays you and in a vocational school! If you pass the exams you will be a trained carpenter who will also be paid better.

[@JenniferRussell-qw2co]

As a Brit, it's much the same here. I love the fact that I can pop over to Amsterdam, or wherever I fancy in your "small but beautifully marked" Netherlands , (other countries are available, as we have to say in these PC days). Great food, transport, healthcare, to name a few things, just about sums up Europe ❤ 🇬🇧🙋‍♀️

[@markalexander71332]

I hope your channel grows. Hallo from Germany 🇩🇪

[@Hakitosama]

I remember when I was a kid (I'm Belgian) and I was watching the American cartoons dreaming of the land of the super heroes, of the freedom and such. .. Today I'm an adult and I realize the true purpose of those cartoons.......And it's not pretty.... For the Chinese food, it's normal. It's the same everywhere for every type of food. You adapt the recipe to the locals. This is why you should try (if you're a foodie) to travel and go taste the food in its original country (you will NEVER taste Belgian fries like in Belgium mate)

[@MrLarsgren]

in 1982 danish state tv had a journalist snort amfetamine on tv then followed him trough the night as he visited nightclubs and such showing the effect and after effect the day after. some countries just do things different

[@PLF...]

As a European, coming to the US, beginning drinking at the house and starting to go out, then the bars close 10 minutes after you get there is absolutely hilarious. Why the fuck would a bar ever close at midnight. We have certain bars that are not even open before 2-3 AM but will go on till noon. And at noon the normal corner bars are open again.

[@walkir2662]

Healthcare came up before you even mentioned it, at 2 minutes talking about crutches ;)

[@MrCakerape]

7:00 How to say nothing and waste everyone's time

[@qwadratix]

Just to clarify. Australia isn't so much 'between Europe and the USA', it's more like 'What America would be like now if the Revolution had never happened'.

[@lucylane7397]

It’s Britain’s Texas

[@madamelebuff]

Thank you.

[@darrellbeets7758]

Its not just her audio, its the nagging aswel😂 In ten sitëeeeeeeeeeehhhhggg

[@gavingiant6900]

The acid/alkaline attacks thing is a certain type of kinda imported demographic that is doing it, and is a once in a blue moon event (in other words not normal). Gun crime is a daily thing in the States, with a mass event every so often (so kinda normal to a degree). I'm guessing she hasn't set foot in Europe, but then has heard some things on the news and made her own assumptions about Europe for some sort of social clout. And yes I can see the kinda irony in what I put in that. Admittedly there was an alkaline attack in England the other day, but look at his background for context in that. I've noticed a fair few Americans can deflect about certain things to make themselves look more superior than others. And in turn doesn't sort the clear problem that America has with gun crime incidents. Don't forget if you point one finger, three are pointing back at yourself.

[@louisemiller3784]

I was watching a thing on the acid attack the other day and in 2020 there were 700 acid attacks in Britain which I would never have imagined.

[@gavingiant6900]

@@louisemiller3784 Certain demographics do it instead of honour killings. But them doing it to people that are not from their own demographic is very low. You could kinda say a form of Sharia law. Admittedly some gangs did/do use that tactic aswell, but not really that common because of certain things.

[@lauraholland347]

My first job was in the finance field in London I worked about 10 hours a day- I earned great money but never spent any of it, because I had no time to shop. I got a mortgage and realised what the job was doing to me-so I took the money and used it to retrain to make costumes, which I had always wanted to do-so it's useful as a means to and end-but it's no way to live long term.

[@MsUUUUUUUUUU]

you find tomatoes all year if your country is not far from the netherlands

[@sirpakuparinen7309]

I need your smile this morning. Thank you 💖🇫🇮

[@petethefungi]

If you've never had baked beans on a breakfast, try watching the American youtubers who have tried! Most agree that it works! Whereas for me having "pancakes" for breakfast is something I would have as a pudding after lunch or dinner! The girl living in Ireland is referring to the pub shutting at 4am!

[@sami2503]

With the food thing, there is corn syrup and sugar in so many things in the US, to facilitate the corn and sugar industries. That shit will make you FAT, so even if you eat quite unhealthily in Europe and have a lot fatty salty food, you won't gain as much weight as all the corn syrupy sugary foods in every item in the US. When I went it was wild to me how sweet the bread was, it was like eating a brioche.

[@monicarodrigues985]

Food: of course we have greenhouses, but the food is tasteless and more expensive.

[@albin2232]

It's always possible to take an FDA approved broad-spectrum food additives supplement. Tartrazine deficiency can be nasty. All the best, Charlie.

[@arturarturos7050]

About the food, in Poland we have very good food. But we used to have much better food 20 years ago than now.