Things Americans Should Not Do in Switzerland

[@cheeseburgerfee8323]

lol as a swiss person ive never hear of anyone choking on fondue

[@Neo-yk8un]

yes same :D in decades ive never seen somebody choking on fondue

[@JaM22113]

As a Swiss person, I can confirm this. Never heard of such a thing.

[@fabr5747]

How is that even possible? Maybe thinking it's so good that he continues to eat tons of it?

[@WIISTERIAAAAAAA]

​@@fabr5747cheese is sticky and people often eat a big piece of bread with it. If you dont chew correctly you can choke

[@onurusta1533]

If you belive in the argument, than you should be careful with everything that is tasty and creamy. Like mac and cheese

[@Isa_barchetta]

😂😂😂 i ate Fondue my hole life and so did my family...never choked once,just DONT LOOSE YOUR BREAD in the Fondue. We will come for you

[@PreciousPotat]

Just like in Asterix&Obelix? 😂

[@danielberger1378]

@@PreciousPotat "the whip, the whip!" 😂

[@PreciousPotat]

@@danielberger1378 😂😂😂

[@e.s.7272]

17:48 The rumor that you are not allowed to flush the toilet at night in Switzerland has a historical basis but is no longer valid today. You can use the toilet flush at night without any worries.

[@foreignreacts]

That’s great to know

[@CoolSpongebobSquarepants]

@@foreignreacts my one neighbour told me a week ago to stop flushing after 22:00 if possible BUT he just got a child so i totally get why lol

[@marcmonnerat4850]

There are _quiet hours_ at night and midday when you should avoid making unnecessary noise (no construction work starts before 6am). There's a difference between flushing a toilet and watching TV at full blast at 3am.

[@JaM22113]

Regarding shoes, it depends on where you are hiking. If you are hiking in the Alps, you should wear sturdy shoes that fit well, provide support and do not slip. The terrain can be very steep, and you will occasionally walk over scree and rocks. Equipping yourself properly for a mountain hike also has to do with respect. The mountain rescue teams sometimes have to risk their own lives to rescue tourists who have had accidents while wearing inappropriate equipment and with crocks on their feet. 🤔☹ Thank you for your great reaction videos and best wishes from Switzerland! 🫕🙋‍♀

[@m97120]

There is clubbing and partying in Switzerland. Some smaller cities may be really quiet at night but you can definitively party from Friday evening until Monday morning in Zurich if you can stay awake that long. And the toilet flushing at night thing is a myth. No one gives a sh*t (pun intended) if you take a dump at 4am and flush.

[@s-c-a-d-e-l-i]

I'm from Geneva, even though Switzerland isn't the temple of party i quite disagree with him. I mean, I spent my week end at rave parties near the lake, in abandoned warehouses, in the country side, etc. The "big" cities also have a lot of alternative culture places, bar, night club and so on. Of course it's not Berlin or Paris, but you can easily find places to party.

[@e.s.7272]

1:24 He's exaggerating. There are no known or documented cases that indicate that anyone has choked to death from eating fondue in Switzerland.

[@nashtags]

Yes but he's an American. So this explain that. 🤣🤡

[@chbonnhoff]

Would be the winner of the darwin award.

[@wackener666Metal]

Please dont go into the Mountain in your crocks just dont.

[@kk.9091]

Yes don't go to the mountains with your crocs, the rescue team will be thankful

[@daizyraizy1667]

"outdoor crocks" I lost it 😂🙏🏼

[@JaM22113]

@@daizyraizy1667 I almost choked on my fondue when he said that. 😉😂🤣

[@Cio_d-borba]

I once went to hike in Crocs. I didn't think someone else would ever get this idea lol.

[@foreignreacts]

😭

[@a.s.8254]

I'm a child of a cheese maker and I've NEVER heard of someone choking on Fondue, tho i do recommend to NOT lose ur bread in the fondue cause I've had family members disappear very mysteriously after they lost their bread.😌

[@n-m-r-k872]

On public transport, for example, you can talk to each other at a normal volume. But it is less appreciated if you are loud. At the weekend, however, it can get louder when young people go out or come back from a night out. Regarding the rule of "flushing the toilet at night": Tourists are often surprised by this rule. We Swiss people laugh about it, to be honest. I don't know anyone who has ever thought about it. Most buildings are so well insulated that it doesn't bother anyone and you hardly notice anything. So you can use the toilet at night if you need to. Or are you trying to wet your pants? I think this rule refers to the old days or old buildings where you could still hear everything. 🙂

[@anthonysauter5368]

choking on fondue? nah bro, don't be fooled

[@MircoWilhelm]

You can party, but if you think regular Switzerland is expensive, clubbing will probably put this bill on a whole other level.

[@swiss_jongdaexsoondingie]

True 😂😂

[@osiris1802]

Swiss German is NOT German. It‘s different and there are dozens of (more or less) different varieties of Swiss German. 🤪 Of course people in the „German“ speaking part of Switzerland understand and can speak normal German. But we normally just don’t speak it in the everyday circumstances. We speak our Swiss German dialects and love to drive Germans crazy with it… 😂

[@Vickzq]

It's really more medieval german. While germany lost that over time, except few dialects.

[@Poertina]

no party? what about the Streetparade (Zurich) just to name one

[@JaM22113]

Lol, Streetparade is once a year only. 😂

[@underinet]

@@JaM22113 There is the lake parade in Geneva. Paleo in Nyon, Montreux Jazz Festival and many more.

[@JaM22113]

@@underinet I was just responding to the original comment and that was only about Zurich. Nowhere did I write that there are no other festivals.

[@underinet]

@@JaM22113 Also in Summer in romandie, there is a lot of "giron", which is village party with all young people come from arround villages and cities. Don't really know if in swiss german part they do this too ...

[@JaM22113]

@@underinetYes, that's true. I know French-speaking Switzerland quite well, including the festivals. There are also festivals in German-speaking Switzerland. Lake night festivals on the banks of the larger lakes, for example, or the many smaller festivals in the villages. There are also usually marquees at fairs where people party.👍

[@amedeosartorio1524]

The Italian speaking part of Switzerland Is quite cheap. I make 3800 francs (4200 us dollars) every month and I can live normally. But if you live in Zürich or Genève you must earm more money to live.

[@WIISTERIAAAAAAA]

Yeah salaries are low in ticino. Almost no one makes that for a 100% in zurich its impressive the differences just between cantons

[@LukasJampen]

The party thing is absolutely a thing, maybe more in the bigger cities but at least Zürich and Winterthur (the Cities I live closest to) Have clubs, bars etc. You just need to know where to go.

[@AnoNymous-ie3wc]

I recommend "Why Swiss Money Looks Weird" to react to 😄

[@antimateria-6354]

Anyone who can seriously manage to almost choke on fondue, I find that somehow impressive and would like to see these people eating and drinking or even just how they simply exist.

[@antimateria-6354]

There is no particular reason why this should be any different from any other food. That's why I find it somehow impressive

[@idkusername2795]

happened once with really stingy cheese, when I swallowed a bit of cheese got stuck in my theet (but only because it got stuck on a metal ring I had one a tooth for dental care) and it just striged out while going down making me choke because gag reflex activated.

[@igoh1143]

A typ is to add some Backpulver.

[@antimateria-6354]

@igoh1143 hell no

[@grabz5934]

no risk of choking on a fondue the only risk you take when eating a fondue, a raclette or any other dish, dessert, meat, cold cuts, cheese, chocolate, drink or any Swiss specialty is not being able to do without it which is a bit complicated when you don't live in Switzerland 🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭

[@irisgallati]

Hmm... About the shoes...of course we got a good and affordable medical system in Switzerland, but I would say a broken foot is just as expensive here as it is in the USA. The only difference is, that the cost for us locals is carried in solidarity and therefor max 1000CHF depending on ones individual health insurance configuration, so healthcare is accessible to everyone. But since you will not have access to swiss healthcare financiation as a tourist, I would highly recommend you some good shoes that give you enough length and width in the forefoot and keep your ankles still, and are waterproof and at least somewhat insulated against the cold, because yes, there's snow till summer in high altitudes, and walking through rivers will leave your feet very cold once they've become wet. I think Switzerland's most worn shoes are Lowa Renegade for light hiking/trekking and the La Sportiva Nepal series for the rough stuff. They are suitable for heavy hiking, ice climbing and crampons. There even is a model of them with S3 foot protection toecaps for forest workers. Basically a work safety shoe and a hiking shoe combined. These may be the ones you can rent in certain tourist spots.

[@ProPlayer013youtube]

Haha most ppl on the train drove that route hundrets of times to get to work and back so i understand

[@yasi1890]

Yeah, we like quiet but inside your own walls you can be as loud as you like - as long as your neighbors don't complain. Just don't force people to listen to your loudness 😊

[@stephaniechbakingtraveler4262]

I tell you is even more expensive than Nordic and Scandinavian countries. I also traveled Norway, Iceland, Sweden, Denmark and last year Finland. For me this countries are more cheaper.

[@jmx16x70]

You can party regularily here in Switzerland. At least in the big Cities. My last and most beautiful one was a Festival on a Castle in the Mountains. Outdoor Parties in Switzerland are amazing!

[@jermynryan2286]

yeeeeesss partyyyy! but only friday and saturday night.... but with full power! sunday is for football or family.

[@MariaLePen]

Only an american would comme up with "choking with fondue"😂😂

[@AiorosSagittarius]

Well, about the being at the phone on trains or such... it may only be partially be because people don't appreciate it. But if you see something every single day, I guess it is not as special anymore as to someone who does not see it every single day. Like, I find the valley I live in quite pretty (Swiss myself, living in the East, in Graubünden). But I don't know if I could survive commute without listening to something or watching something, especially in the mornings. n.n" But I do appreciate how pretty my country is nonetheless. And if I travel to areas outside of where I live, you bet I am looking outside too. Maybe not every single second, but I will. I think plenty are just familiar with the vistas of our nature but still appreciative of it. Also, about Switzerland being expensive. One has to put it into perspective. We do earn more than many other countries, so of course our prices are a bit higher too. That's why people from countries where wages are lower than here, yeah, Switzerland can be rather expensive.

[@nirutivan9811]

Just one thing: Flushing the toilet late at night is usually not a problem. I lived in Switzerland my entire life and have probably flushed the toilet at every possible time throughout the day. You may get complains when you regularly shower late at night (depending on how easy it is to hear in the other apartment) but I never heard about anyone getting complains due to toilet flushing. That‘s just something that circulates through the internet, that is not really a thing.

[@bastiwen]

2:50 on some mountain tops it is always white yes :D However in recent years due to climate change there have been less and less mountain tops that stay white all year round and glaciers are melting FAST. It kinda sucks because I remember even in the early 2000 when I was a kid in Valais you could always see white mountains from down in the valley but now there's some years were all the mountains you can see are brown/grey and you have to go way up in the mountains to see snow in summer. On the topic of crocs, some people here did wear them outside when it was kind of the craze in the mid to late 2000s but now nobody wears them outside, some people wear them as house slippers and a lot of people who work in medical facilities like hospital or cliniques wear them on the job.

[@mysterioanonymous3206]

Haha... Who chokes on Fondue? Americans I guess... But Raclette is a vastly superior dish anyways. Brotha, there's snow in the mountains and lots of it, so it'll start melting maybe in March and take a while until it's gone. It'll stick around until around Mai/June on the higher Mts. So not much hiking and biking until well into Spring. Obv you'll have pretty nice warm spring days but the peaks are still white. As to the views... Most regulars/Swiss see this everyday for years. You get used to it. Although some areas clearly stand out. Where I live (secret) Im still in awe after almost 40y. Never gets old.

[@anarkitty0]

18:20 when out drinking it's no problem to meet people but in switzerland you'll almost never have to talk to anyone unless necessary, with self checkout etc. we tend to be pretty nice but avoid confrontation.

[@juliuscaesar5270]

Switzerland is definitely more expensive than Finnland 🇫🇮. But yea you can travel cheap as well… but it won’t be easy

[@SailorSayuri]

I’m not into the party scene at all but I can tell you that Geneva is party goers friendly! Indeed, it’s not the huge party town! But you’ll find great bars and some discotheques. Also, Geneva has public transportation till almost 3 AM everyday and the first transports are at like, 5 AM. So yeah, you can get around when you party! 😂

[@anarkitty0]

8:32 Helsinki is about a 63 in cost of living index, Stockholm 61, Oslo 74.7, Copenhagen 71, in Switzerland it's between 93-102, the most expensive in the world, I live in Zurich and the 102 is only very slightly over what my estimate would be.

[@foreignreacts]

No way 😮

[@arnodobler1096]

US people really need to be taught to eat? The "land of the free" (cough), is one of the only ones where "Kinder Surprise Eggs" are banned ($2,500 fine per egg). I saw a YT video of Americans trying German candy, the guy in his 40s put the plastic egg in his mouth, seriously! 🤯

[@swiss_jongdaexsoondingie]

😂😂

[@MircoWilhelm]

I mean, I've seen indian tourists on top of Jungfrau Joch walking across the glacier view platforms with flip-flops at -28°C. Absolutely cannot recommend, but it was funny to look at them sliding around the ice. But hiking in the alps does require some proper hiking shoes. You will have to deal with some larger rocks or even climb some of them on a few routes, so Crocs won't do at all.

[@joellehner3304]

We have 4 languages but because one of them is so unpopular like less than 1% of the population so they don't represent one of the 7 in the federal council, there are 4 german speaking about 62 % of the population, 2 french speaking 23% and 8% of the population speaks italian so there is 1 italian speaking person in the council

[@teddyenragedvocalcovers1020]

As a swiss guy living in Basel I can assure You, this video is pretty legit❤(except for some minor details, but I guess in the end it doesn't even matter)

[@Kyr082]

I always take hitchhikers if I can. I hitchhiked home hundreds of times in the middle of the night when I was young. I hitchhiked home from school every day so I didn't have to wait 20 minutes for the bus.

[@crimenbs3588]

You definitely should pick up someone on the road. At least we do that in Switzerland. They are really thankful cuz they don’t have to walk for an hour and they are really friendly.

[@benno66691]

BS!! Fondue does not have any risk to it (only getting addicted)

[@triton_152]

As someone living in switzerland I can confirm that american swiss cheese tastes how I would imagine a rubber yoga mat

[@markmuller7962]

Partying is definitely a thing 😂 especially in Zurich

[@SFV4]

Chocking on fondue? No wonder if you shovel down your throat an entire loaf of bread! No need fondue for that… But wait, it wasn’t written on the fondue instructions… Time for a class action!!!

[@hy3na739]

swiss francs have some of the most beautiful banknotes...

[@SFV4]

14:00: this guy didn’t attend a music festival in Switzerland it seems… he didn’t go to the Street Parade either or the Züri Fest…

[@charity4ever]

Switzerland is only expensive if you have to pay Hotels and Restaurants.... as long you have friends who give you a free guestroom and access to a kitchen ... its very affordable here. And believe me....there are many people in Switzerland who give a guestroom for free.

[@chantalellenberger8940]

One time I hiked up a mountain with Flip-Flops. I had no problems. But it was stupid.

[@zok6064]

Swiss guy here. - I can't imagine choking on fondue. I feel like you'd have to do it on purpose. - our weather is absolute bs. A running gag around here is that you can experience all seasons in one day (especially in fall and early spring) because the morning can start super cold and misty, maybe you'll get a rain shower or even hail a little later, a bright sun and t-shirt worthy temperatures in the afternoon and then some very chilling wind and maybe even some snow in the evening. - swiss german (or schwyzerdütsch) isn't hochdeutsch, that we can agree on. There is no written grammar for swiss german, it's all by ear. The fact that schwyzerdütsch varies a LOT from canton to canton doesn't exactly help. Even if you grasp the language from Bern pretty well, you might have issues understanding the one from Thurgau. That said, as a french-speaking swiss, every swiss german I've ever met could understand and speak high german, and if they see that you're struggling they're usually very accommodating. - I do shake my head disapprovingly at rule-breakers lmao - 12:53 there is no "lake geneva", it's called the Leman! Geneva is barely swiss, it's basically a part of France at this point, it's not their damn lake! I will absolutely die on that hill (or in that lake). - I wouldn't say there is no big party in switzerland. It's pretty easy to find bars and clubs, and big cities organise at least a few festivals every year. - We do enjoy our peace and quiet, but the "don't flush the toilets at night" rule only truly applies to people with bad neighbors, or to those who live in old buildings with no good sound isolation. I'm in my thirties and I've never had an issue flushing at any hour of the night. Stay quiet on the trains tho, that's the important piece of advice. If you're the noisiest person in the wagon, there will definitely be some disapproving head shakes from the people around. You've been warned. - Also, yeaaah, we're not the friendliest. It's considered polite around here to leave people alone unless they clearly signal that they're available. Most people will be polite if you strike up a conversation, and you might find the exception who actually likes to talk to strangers and makes friends quickly, but yeah even between us it's often hard to actually open up so we're not going to spend our energy on tourists who'll disappear the next day and we'll try to exit the interaction as quickly as possible without being too rude. - SWISS CHEESE SUPREMACY!!

[@marcmonnerat4850]

_ Genfersee_ and _Lake Geneva_ . So stop using _lac de Constance_ ( Bodensee) or _lac de Lugano_ ( Ceresio)

[@monsi8161]

17:50 those two are more myths than fact. There can be rules from the landlord about keeping it down after 22:00, but you'd have to have an ass of a neighbour for them to complain about flushing at night. In public, if you shout around or play music on speakers for an extended amount of time, you will be asked to leave or at least keep it down after 22:00. Only if you are an ass about it or still continue, you maybe get a fine.

[@noaportmann8656]

As a swiss i can say there are a lot of cool partys🥳🥳

[@SailorSayuri]

Tipping in Switzerland is not a thing but appreciated if good service and if you have the money. Most of the time, it’s more like a nice gesture. For example, your bill cost 12,80; you can round it up to 13 or 15 CHFs. Some people go to some restaurants ans have like 300 bill and they leave like a 10 CHFs tip. But again, it always depends if circumstances! 😊 Personally, I’m on the poor side so I never tip. The servers never give you a nasty eye or treat you differently! It’s completely normal!

[@melocoton7]

Walter is one of the best travel channels. His info is pretty accurate. Except for the fondue choking 😂 that’s not a thing

[@arnodobler1096]

Zurich has one of the biggest party scenes in Europe. Mark and I are too old for that.

[@kirasensei3854]

if you know french, i recommend watching the videos of david castello lopes called "suisse? - [subject]". he's very funny, and explains random stuff about Switzerland. some i really liked were about why Switzerland is rich and about swiss watches.

[@markmuller7962]

You may want to react to the Johnny Harris video on Swiss Fallout bunkers, highly recommended!

[@markmuller7962]

Yep, it's typical of the very safe places to see people doing things that seems naive or foolish, but you get used to it 😂

[@SailorSayuri]

I don’t know if it’s only in Switzerland, it people that hike here have “mountain shoes” (literal traduction so maybe in English it goes by another name). I’m guessing the man’s talking about these kind of shoes… 😜

[@Etothe2iPi]

A fondue dinner is about as dangerous as a bar of chocolate.

[@SFV4]

17:50: again this toilet non sense… It’s a myth! Like the 10 pm thing! But a lot of Swiss believe it’s true and complain about people who don’t turn the music down after 10 pm.

[@marcsteiner9189]

We have here in switzerland 4 Official Languages ... and then also a lot of dialects ... German, French, Italian and Rumantsch ... and then the Dialects but that is an another Story...

[@skytrotter6144]

The American way to turn things in the extreme in all aspects…the fondue got me cracking and do not forget we are not all foreigners in Switzerland and when you have seeing this hundreds of times why would you spend all the time looking at the window morning and evenings going to and back from work. I mean this American is Hilarious…anyone who wants to know how things are done anywhere ask the locals ! Regarding the crocs well a good paie of walking shoes (real ones) ! 😂😂😂🙄

[@anarkitty0]

14:00 We are very against these things but we do have some crazy parties like street parade and a normal club scene.

[@Kyr082]

There's no such thing as a “Swiss” language. German, French, Italian and Romansh are the national languages. But German is spoken with dialects that are difficult to understand by anyone who speaks real German, and Romansh is a local language that exists only in this region. German: ~62% French: ~23% Italian: ~8% Romansh: ~0.5% Foreign languages: ~23% Many people speak several languages on a daily basis, as is my case with French and German.

[@sdad742]

PLEASE do a video about the swiss franc currency design!!!!

[@jermynryan2286]

Its ok to be loud....but if somebody complains... volume down a bit!

[@realrumpelpilzli]

as a swiss i for sure i pick up strangers. never had a problem

[@charlyfrizmuller]

5:33 in swizerlan we would have hiking shooes from 240 to 500 swiss francs

[@AnoNymous-ie3wc]

Welcome to Basel.. *showing Lucerne* 😅

[@m97120]

There's a good video on the design of Swiss currency: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpW6Z2aihZKsf5o

[@jermynryan2286]

the shrek donkey bridge was a good one

[@charlyfrizmuller]

2:52 jea its snow and ice and its so high thet ther is snow all jear thru

[@avenger1908]

2:17 nooooooo, it's not. Last time i ate it and also almost chocked to death. Just be careful with food like this, even tho it's good af love from switzerland!

[@antimateria-6354]

How have you managed to survive until now? how do you do that?

[@avenger1908]

@@antimateria-6354 eating in small bites. but it gets harder with every bite😭. But if it does happen, stay calm, rush to the toilet or get a tissue or sth like that, and get it out.

[@antimateria-6354]

@ just chew your food brother like any other food 🤣🤣

[@anarkitty0]

4:45 hell nah🤣

[@petrachevalier3301]

Cut the bread into smaller pieces before dipping it in the fondue to avoid chocking... no American size bites LOL....

[@Kyr082]

Most people on a train ride it every day. They've looked out the window thousands of times. They're not tourrists. 😉

[@mstadtmann]

Ever heard about Streetparade in Zurich?

[@SwissGunCollector]

For us swiss people it is just normal scenary so we don't realy care to much to look at it

[@charlyfrizmuller]

one more not to do if you come in the sumer do not eat raclett or fondue its a unwritten law to only eat raclett and fondue in the winnter its an isult to the swiss to eat it in suumer so pleas just kome back in winter

[@swiss_jongdaexsoondingie]

The fondue story is WWIILLDDDD 🤣🤣You couldn't do that even if you wanted to...

[@foreignreacts]

lol 😂

[@lwlx]

everything loud doesn't go in Switzerland? we only have Europe's biggest techno festival, and that's just one event

[@lwlx]

you should look up streetparade zurich

[@kaipeter4409]

Heyo! 👋 ❤

[@rkw2917]

Hehe he's pulling your chain

[@charlyfrizmuller]

3:15 its mostly pe3apol thromswizerland that hav alredy seen it mor than 100 times so they care less

[@996cars]

Please watch the johnny harris video about weapons in america and switzerland

[@charlyfrizmuller]

8:37 JEES swizerland is the most expensiv contry in the world

[@grasgruen84]

come on... that bridge reminds you of shrek, you show your age :P in my age group (40 years old) that bridge reminds "us" of indiana jones if anything ;)

[@mielezh5165]

wtf never somenone choked on fondue

[@charity4ever]

Mate, i am living in Switzerland. Just pm me. I can give you a guestroom almost for free. i folllow you since you started in the US... ... then u moved finnland..... lol.... i had a wife from finnland when i was 21. ....i am 47 now and i spend much time in Thailand..... i am a original swiss. ... we like to travel away from the "paradise" here...lol

[@CIAUSCOLOMAN]

This channel is so lame........you watching a video and most of the time speaking about Finland......

[@woodchuck94og]

There's nothing in Intelaken just tourists

[@fuchurZero]

I climbed an old tower with very slippery, steep stairs. At the top I met an American tourist wearing flip-flops. When I told her that this wasnt a very safe choice if shoes she answered: Well, I am a Californian girl 😮 yeah, anyone else wouldnt be that stupid

[@LumiLupo]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpW6Z2aihZKsf5osi=Jy-YG4OknyqzDeQy A video about Swiss money:)

[@fuchurZero]

It is (swiss) german, french, italian and romansch. 4/4/2? What the heck are you talking about?

[@fuchurZero]

Dont. Go. To. Interlaken. Period. It is the most boring and overrated place in Switzerland. There are only tourists