TotalBiscuit Tastes The Netherlands

[@mrlurid]

"TB Tastes Britain" Wonder if he'll be overly critical, or like "See, this is how X is supposed to be. Get it right."

[@blueravenvg]

I think he should have Genna taste Britain

[@mrlurid]

Moxole I think that's going a bit personal.

[@RuneyViolet]

+Lurid Larsson Tbh if he has any cadbury stuff now it all tastes like absolute shite. An American company that brought it has ruined it. They swapped all nice chocolate with cheap shit and thought no one would notice. We did and there sales have massively dropped and they lost money last year. This what happens when you think you can change a recipe everyone likes.

[@233Deadman]

+Basilbits honestly, at the moment I think ASDA own brand chocolate is better than cadbury.

[@rosenrot234]

+Lurid Larsson He'd probably act extra stereotypical British, that'd be funny

[@Thunterise]

HOW DARE YOU SAY THAT THE WILHELMINA MINT IS BETTER. AS A DUTCH KING FAN I *cough* *cough* Sorry. Honestly we don't really give a shit about which mint is better. Not once have I heard a debate on this subject. I didn't even know there was one.

[@ylvakiller]

+Unilythe ssst, he wants a debate in the comment, lets make him happy by making one :)

[@IXISparky]

+Unilythe damn right. why would he like Wilhelmina when its inferior.

[@flatsun2132]

+Unilythe because we all agree King mints are better lol

[@Thunterise]

+Platfoot :O :O How dare you! King is clearly better! Clearly you are too dumb to even decide which peppermint is objectively superior!

[@LokiFM]

+Platfoot No no no no... Every Dutch person knows that mints freaking suck and nobody should eat them since they are devil-spawn. That's why Wilhelmina is better.

[@Stormfox93]

I laughed so hard when you said "Holland, I don't understand why you haven't been invaded yet". And Wilhelmina was the Dutch queen from 1890 to 1948. So not our princess ;-)

[@ylvakiller]

+Stormfox actually only the current queen is called the queen, as soon as she passes the trone she becomes a princess. If you look at the coverage during kings day you might notice they refer to Beatrix as Princess aswell :)

[@Stormfox93]

ylvakiller hence I said: "WAS the Dutch queen". ;-)

[@kevinwilson455]

You get demoted when you die?

[@ylvakiller]

+Stormfox My bad, read to fast :P but you said she is not our princess, but she is.

[@ylvakiller]

+Kevin Wilson Not just when you die, when your son or daughter takes over (which happens in countries other than the UK :P)

[@LowkoTV]

As a Dutch guy this is absolutely hilarious. So good!

[@TheMrEpicshroom]

+LowkoTV i know right!

[@sirjmo]

+LowkoTV agreed

[@kingonmax]

Ja klopt ook hoe ze alles in het duits uitspreken

[@zigisamblak]

+LowkoTV Stroepwaffuls!

[@MsHojat]

+LowkoTV What are your favorite and least favorite Scandinavian foods? Maybe you'd even do a blog episode on food some time? (I don't know how much demand there'd be for it, but I guess on rare occasions it's probably fine)

[@wopsieneter]

Welke gozer bijt er nou in een keer pepermunt en napoleons door?! Daar moet je op sabbellen! En 2 stroopwafels tegelijk! Deze man is echt helemaal van het padje.

[@cullummcconnon5885]

+Wopsie The packets of Stroopwafels I've seen have always been like around 10 in each pack. You normally get packs of 1 or 2 over here in England, and it's always disappointing. Plus, they NEVER taste as good as the ones in the Netherlands. Netherlands RULE!

[@wopsieneter]

Cullum McConnon Kijk, daar word ik nou blij van! Bijna net zo blij als een lekker Mona toetje!

[@mikemoos]

+Wopsie Mona toetjes maken me verdrietig. Waar is de aardbeienyoghurt? :c

[@rjfaber1991]

Op zich was het wel jammer dat het een zoete Napoleon was. Als 'ie in een keer zo'n zuur ding door had gebeten; dat had ik best wel willen zien...

[@wopsieneter]

Derpy Dude tja dat is toch jou verlies, vriendelijke vriend. zeer spijtig maar ieder zijn ding denk ik dan maar.

[@wornwanderer8585]

Same hat, different robe...love it

[@Hugh.Manatee]

+Worn Wanderer I know, it's a Chewbathrobe! =D

[@HateTaxesWASt]

+AdenineMonkey I NEEEEED it

[@CR33P3RK1NG]

+Worn Wanderer i'm sure he doesn't have any other clothes

[@JerehmiaBoaz]

+Worn Wanderer He should taste that hat as a grand finale to the series.

[@zulawoo]

Pretty funny how basically everyone who speaks english as their first language manages to pronounce not a single Dutch word right, but make it sound German =D. Also, to nag a bit, Holland is just 2 out of 12 provinces of the Netherlands. Also somehow our language is still called Dutch from hundreds of years ago, but if you translate it directly from Dutch, the country is called Netherland, and the language is Netherlands (Netherlandish maybe?) Like England and English.

[@TheAssirra]

+Zulamun Well Dutch also includes Begian. There is no official "flemmish" language after all.

[@Fyrexsama]

+Zulamun I think at some point he even started sounding Swedish. It was very comical to listen to XD

[@HAHA4625]

Thank EU4 for teaching me the history behind the formation of the Netherlands

[@MorpheousXO]

+Zulamun If it's like England to English, should it be Netherland and Netherlish? :D

[@Fyrexsama]

Morpheous XO Nederlandic actually ;)

[@AxeGaijin]

What the flipping fuzz? No licorice? Which idiot put that pack together?! You can't taste the Netherlands without Zoute Drop..... >.< RIOT!!!!

[@VemorrFrantik]

I was pretty sad that the Scandinavia video had a bunch of Finnish sweets but no proper salmiakki. But as I am a Finn I just sulked a bit and continued with my drinking and knife fighting.

[@Terker2]

+AxeGaijin Do you want him to hate your country? Kappa

[@Crowbars357]

You forgot the pillaging

[@n4l9bx]

+AxeGaijin Drop was ook mijn eerste gedacht :( Everyone always makes a disgusted face if they just hear the word licorice and I'm just going 'but you haven't tasted OURS. OURS are the good ones! they're so yummy!' oh well..

[@Bastacat]

+AxeGaijin Licorice is a very,very distinct thing,i am one of the few in the whole world apart from you lot who actually likes it. It's a thing you either love or hate with passion,and from all the people that i know,i am the only one who can eat them.

[@Moscowloja]

The Holland Toast (beschuit) is also recommended to eat when you are sick together with some tea. That way you eat some grain but your stomach won't get upset by anything, because it's so simple and plain.

[@Onyxthegreat91]

TB Germanifying all the Dutch words was both infuriating and hilarious. :P

[@Saragraph]

No, you're not "supposed" to put stroopwafels on a cup of coffee or tea, that's just how foreigners seem to think it is. It is very normal to just eat them straight out of the package. Take it from the Dutchman. Nice to see TB feeling well enough to do this. EDIT: I've never even heard of that Wilhelmina vs. King mints debate. If that ever existed, it was a long while ago. Nowadays, people just eat whatever kind of mint is available. And yeah, cheese flavoured stuff is pretty terrible. I don't understand how Bolletje makes money off of that.

[@ylvakiller]

+Saragraph I agree, though to be fair I usually eat one at the time, not as a stroopwafel sandwich.... :P

[@philipje1]

+Saragraph There is no debate, since Wilhemina-pepermunt is superior

[@rjfaber1991]

Yeah, stroopwafels can be eaten warm or cold, but personally when I eat them warm I always just put them in the microwave for a few seconds; much better than getting crumbs all over your tea...

[@hisios698]

Well stroopwafels are much better when they are warm, but if you are lazy you can eat them cold. And its not really a debate like the blackpete discussion, but there is a rivalry between those companies

[@Ramotttholl]

+Saragraph Bolletje makes money off of it by sending it to poor Foreigners who hope to get some good Dutch snacks... Satan Save us all from Bolletje XD

[@Volthoom]

Man, TB must be really feeling better if he's up to do these again. That's wonderful.

[@haasgaming]

The purpose of the toast ("beschuit") is basically just filler with an excuse to put a ton of chocolate on it ("hagelslag") without feeling really bad about yourself. Really, you're thinking too fancily. EDIT: Well you found out the majesty later on anyway!

[@novasolarius8763]

+ravensshade It IS bread. Well, it's meant to be used as bread anyway.

[@SecondSince]

+HaasGaming Pretty much. I only eat them when i'm sick and have trouble keeping food down. Cup of tea and a 'beschuitje met jam'. :D

[@WhyTrollSoMuch]

+HaasGaming It's still mostly used by parents to celebrate when they have a baby. You put a thin layer of butter on top then either blue or pink sugar covered anise seeds. People usually treat people at work or when they have friends over to come see the newborn baby.

[@tnecniw]

+HaasGaming HAAAA! *hugs*

[@TheAssirra]

+SecondSince It is the perfect food for when you are sick and cannot stomach much food.

[@AstroTorch]

I respect TB's decision to stop engaging with social media. The fact he maintains the output he does post-diagnosis and during treatment is genuinely awe-inspiring. The fact is the human mind hasn't evolved to deal with the amount of feedback / interaction public figure does in modern society. Call me an arselicker if you want but this seems to have gone largely unappreciated. I'm sorry, but the man is incredible.

[@ddew]

No "Duo Penotti"? Amateurs... ;) Duo Penotti is the vastly superior cousin of Nutella (for obvious reasons).A combo of Hazelnut and White Choccolate, it's not really Dutch in origin but it's pretty much the sandwich spread of choice beating out marmalade and peanut-butter.

[@joppetie]

Well that's just not true.

[@ddew]

That's what an obsession with it during my childhood taught me. And their own site backs that statement. ;)

[@tomwijenbergh7218]

+David Weizades (da5id) SUPERIOR TO NUTELLA?! What is wrong with you? It's so obviously not.

[@ddew]

Try it! It will rock your world, trust me. ☺

[@tomwijenbergh7218]

David Weizades I have... to me it tasted rather awful >.

[@LowlandV12US]

A very Dutch custom is to take the round toasts (beschuit) and put a lot of butter and blue or pink glazed anise grains on them for guests attending a baby shower, or other events for newborn babies. They are definitely NOT meant to be eaten on their own. The only case which I can remember seeing people eating them with nothing on them is on a kids gameshow, where kids have to eat one of those toasts raw, and the first kid to manage to whistle afterwards (the dry and sawdusty texture makes it almost impossible) wins.

[@Raiteicuno]

As a British person who has been living in The Netherlands for almost 2 years, this was an interesting video to watch. It is a shame they didn't add more snacks in there. That box lacked content and hearing TB trying to pronounce Dutch words in German was hilarious. Well I am off to the shops now to find some Droste cookies. I've never tried them before. Get well Biscuit man and thanks for the vid Genna.

[@slayah13]

Make him taste Romania

[@GennaBain]

+HOI I'M Slayah WOW MUCH TEMMIE RASTAH DOGE I doubt Universal Yums would ship mititei, and that's really the only Romanian snack worth having... with mustard. :P

[@Tatimirunica]

+Genna Bain not really Genna, there are quite a few other things worth having :) L.E truth be told most of them are perishable so they couldnt show up in the vid.

[@slayah13]

Genna Bain They're also good with mujdei,some kind of garlic sauce

[@slayah13]

Dascalu Constantin Dan More than a few :),It's easy to get fat here

[@Viqteur]

+Genna Bain It's so weird to hear about Romania without sarmale being mentioned.

[@asmcint]

Okay I gotta love his Chewbacca bathrobe.

[@n-azure981]

Ditto

[@MatthewSchellGaming]

I'd pay to see him wear a pikachu robe. (not really, but...it's be funny)

[@asmcint]

Matthew Schell Do they make Pikachu robes? I know there are Pikachu hoodies, but don't know about bathrobes.

[@krymera]

Nothing I can think of can say how much I will miss John "TB" Bain. He made my darker days so much more bearable. As one of his favourite games say: "Ave Imperator"

[@helcol14]

Nice wookie outfit TB.

[@360SubSeven]

+marc of the penguins Yeah but the Bathrobe gets in the way

[@TheOrigamiOctopus]

oh my, TB reading Dutch out loud is amazing... As a native dutch speaker, I could not understand a word!

[@Hugh.Manatee]

It's really called Holland in the same way the US is really called Carolina.... I agree with TB that fake cheese flavoured things are terrible though. And where is the liquorice? Not sure how you can do a taste the Netherlands box without liquorice... that's just weird.

[@RuttorBlacksand]

uhhh, does TB usually bite through and chew sweets/mints instead of sucking them? Also, I don't know anyone that likes advocaat or those kaas dominos and noone eats those 'beschuit' (toasts) without toppings. A Dutch thing to do with those toasts is a challenge where you eat a whole one and without swallowing and try to whistle a song.

[@jbfarley]

do you want to watch him suck a piece of candy for 5 minutes? he's doing you a favor

[@burningisis]

+Blacksand I have to admit, I love advokaat. Then again I love eggnog flavored anything. I pestered a dutch friend of mine to send me those, some of the hopje coffee candies, and stroopwafels. He sent me like 10 pounds of candy, it was amazing

[@InWeCome]

+Blacksand I used to eat the toast when i am sick, because it tastes so bland and is easy on the stomach. And youre right you can suck on the coffee candy and Napoleon for 15 mins, TB is done with them in 5 seconds..

[@jbfarley]

***** oh, now i feel bad, sort of

[@pellekools6475]

+Blacksand I'm from The Netherlands and i didn't even know those 'kaas dominos' until now XD

[@azentra7560]

Why haven't we been invaded yet? This is exactly why. Invaders wouldn't have anything to eat here :D

[@SuperExodian]

+lulkuthoofd instead they all come through belgium, WHY NETHERLANDS WHY!

[@azentra7560]

Bart De Bock Well, that's not entirely true, but yeah, both the Netherlands and Belgium have tried to remain neutral during both World Wars and Belgium sadly fell both times and the Netherlands fell the second time.... Then again, I think since the Middle Ages we have both Belgium and the Netherlands belonged to the same country/ruler most of the time haha

[@wopsieneter]

Bart De Bock dont worry, Belgian infrastructure is so bad any potential invaders wont get anywhere near the borders.

[@Ramotttholl]

+lulkuthoofd well the Stroopwafels alone could get us invaded... but then after they got it they leave our cities in Rage letting us burn eachother down.. you know how Civalization games go.

[@azentra7560]

Ra Senche Fair enough I guess :P

[@Scapestoat]

Also, I am disappointed that they didn't stick Speculaasjes in there. About as typical as Stroopwafels. Spice biscuit things.

[@Torchedini]

Naja, er zat een speculaasmolen in

[@Scapestoat]

Torchedini Acceptable :3

[@LyricalDJ]

+Torchedini Although it was probably of mediocre quality as it had a windmill on it and came in a single pack. Probably the type of speculaas you'd find in a tourist shop.

[@rijden-nu]

+Naros Yeah there was speculaas in there, @10:35. And indeed, it was probably crappy tourist shit. By the way, why do we serve crappy shit to tourists? That seems stupid.

[@JacobSprenger]

+Naros Is that available all year in the Netherlands? Because, we do have that stuff in Germany (as Spekulatius), but sadly only ever around christmas time, like gingerbread.

[@hevytimes]

I can't even begin to express how happy I am to see these videos again. Not only are they hilarious, but I get to see TB smiling and as he said "feeling better". I hope these keep coming, I really do. My best to you all.

[@Fanofhalo]

The French biscuit is called "Petit écolier" by LU.

[@GennaBain]

+Nicolas Roumier That's the one!!

[@Zhoekov]

+Genna Bain Genna, does TB know that half those sweets like the napoleon, wineball, mints etc are made to be slowly sucked to realy apreciate the flavour? And the box realy didnt represent our country that well in terms of our snacks.

[@AmenTeaspoonHunk]

+Nicolas Roumier In Dutch, they're called "scholiertjes".

[@GwresYnKernow]

+Zhoekov Yeah, even as a fellow Brit the way TB eats mints horrifies me. ¬_¬ I'm hoping it was for brevity, to make the video shorter, rather than spend ages sucking on a sweet on camera.

[@Zhoekov]

I could understand that, but everytime he does that for a similiar sweet, I am thinking: you can just as well not taste for how inacurate the taste that you get that way is

[@ItsTheSebbe]

They didn't put in any Dutch liquorice? Missed opportunity.

[@HaldorZX]

quick point in case no one else mentioned it, Holland and the Netherlands are not the same thing, Holland is a specific region in the Netherlands that composes 2 of the Netherlands provinces.

[@KattoIsGatto]

TB Tastes has to be one of the best series on the internet, right next to Crendor's Fridge Raiders

[@Hale444]

+TheIcyVanilla That's a great title.

[@Huntracony]

Being from the Netherlands, I'm going to translate the things TB tried to read: - "Kaas domino" - Chees dominos - "draag eens een steentje bij" - An expression meaning something along the lines of do your part, help people (but usually in the context of a group, not an induvidual). - "Vernieuwde receptuur" - Renewed recept, new recept. BTW, the only things I recognized and are popular here are: - Hagelslag - the breakfast chocklate flakes - Paprica chips (these are the most common chips around here) - Stroopwafels (the things Genna tried to steal) - windmill cookie (but we just call it speculaas, and it always breaks) - The mints - And a thing you didn't eat, the salty liqurish. I saw you had it on the guide, but I guess TB thought they where mints. Probably good for TB, because I suspect that they're similar to the Finnish liquerish.

[@dragonsissiy]

I'm glad TB is feeling a bit better. I hope he overcomes his illness because I know what it's like to lose someone to that. Thanks for the video. :3

[@TF2PNub]

Ah, I was wondering why these haven't been made in a while. Sorry, I don't really follow Twitter to know these things, but glad to see your husband's feeling better!

[@jeroentoet6189]

What genna mentioned, the street vendor stroopwafels are the best you will ever have. They sell these huge jumbo size stroopwafels that are freshly made and still warm. lovely

[@kyrahollard2705]

So if you wanna know, the netherlands is called that way because in the netherlands we say "nederland". "neder" kind of means "low" and "land" is well.. "land". So it's kind of "lowland", and that's because the biggest part of the netherlands is below the sea level.

[@Blackleafdragon]

You are supposed to put Strawberry + sugar on those toasts TB ;)

[@yellowcattim]

Nederlandse doos, zonder drop.... Wie stelt die dozen samen!? Dutch box, without the licorice? who the hell is in charge of putting these boxes together?

[@Tclans]

Dutch guy here, i really loved John's reactions. Past summer i got to visit GB for the first time and it was great, and i mostly had the same reactions to food over there. 'Normal' is a relative as to driving on the right- or left side of the road. The first item he tries isn't tasteful in and of itself but it is a great carrier for a variety of toppings both sweet and savory. For instance butter to 'glue' on some chocolate sprinkles. As you might know we Dutch love us some toppings on bread for breakfast and lunch.

[@Kmortisk]

Glad to see TB back tasting stuff! And using his talents for the videos they are truly meant for!

[@WeltLocos]

As said before a pretty poor collection of Dutch treats! Where is/are the Speculaas, Bossche bollen, Bitterballen/kroketten, Hollandse Drop, Jodenkoeken, Hollandse Nieuwe (haring), Roze koeken en frikandellen? I'm disappoint!

[@MrDrury27]

Reading about it on their website, they shuffle the contents of the boxes periodically. Seems they got the bad batch.

[@WeltLocos]

+Wopsie Hoe kon ik die vergeten?! Ze heten tegenwoordig 'zoenen' btw... want racistisch!

[@wopsieneter]

WeltLocos als stereotype, blonde, lange Hollander ben ik zeer gekwetst door deze censurering.

[@rivalo5]

+WeltLocos I don't think a pot of zure haring would go well with shipping, or be appreciated anywhere outside of the Netherlands. I also see some problems with shipping of the Bossche Bollen or frozen kroketten.

[@wopsieneter]

did hitler really die die horen eigenlijk "Ariër zoenen" te heten nu ik er zo over nadenk... of is dat ook al kwetsend...?

[@TheCrazyTV62]

Omg stop biting on the hard candy ;o

[@Izithel]

+NekoGaming Yeah! You're supposed to suck on them and enjoy them for a minute, not chew them and swallow in less than a second. Then again, that would extend the video to much probably...

[@jahrfuhlnehm]

+jbfarley One workaround is have him sucking on it then speed up the video with Yakety Sax playing or something. Nothing wackier than a man sucking on a hard candy at doubled speed!

[@jbfarley]

+jonjonmcjonjon that would have been an incredible waste of time, ironic considering the video

[@Dry456]

My uncle passed away 4 days ago due to cancer and seeing tb now and a bit thinner than before its making me a bit sad. best wishes tb keep yourself as healthy as you can man.

[@novasolarius8763]

It's a shame they didn't include lemon Napoleons. I'd love to see TB's face when he eats one of those.

[@TheCrosshare]

Finland is still winning and they still got their ace up their sleeve since they didn't have apteekkari salmiakki.

[@bretert]

We have Salmiak lollipops but i hate them.

[@benrogencamp258]

does Netherlands food have an FOV slider?

[@pizzamannetje79]

The holland toast is actually called beschuit as in biscuit. Which actually means cooked twice. Which made bread last for months so it could be taken on long sailing trips. TotalBeschuit ftw ;-)

[@jahrfuhlnehm]

Not related to the video but in light of his most recent Soundcloud I just want to give my well-wishes to you and TB, his health and general well-being. It's sad knowing what he's going through but I'm glad to see he's still up to doing vids like these and look forward to more vids from you both in the near and far future to come. 'gratz as well on the weight loss update you recently posted and I'll be rooting from the sidelines on TB kicking his illness in the ass as he did before even if this one is tougher than the last one. Go you all on your endeavors for 2016 and beyond! That is all.

[@pandorawolf8239]

Some of the worst treats you could have gotten. We have so much better stuff here :D Also Nederland hype!

[@rael5327]

cant remember, but have either you or TB tried durian?

[@GennaBain]

+joe wilde I have when I was in Singapore. I think it's great. Sure it smells bad, but the flavor is nice imo.

[@rael5327]

would you ever try some fresh durian with TB on your channel?

[@rael5327]

love seeing you two trying new foods

[@GennaBain]

+joe wilde I'd like to, but I haven't found any place near us that imports it. :(

[@rael5327]

no worries, as long as yall are having fun and healthy

[@jirobow]

Just wanna say that i love your content and work, TB. I know you probably won't read this, but your story and life are quite inspiring. Your son is probably proud of both of you. I hope he plays at 60fps and knows what FOV is. Have a nice day, guys. Spread the love.

[@XavierTheNeonTiger]

Glad you're feeling well enough to do these again. The perfect celebration is punishing John with confusing snacks

[@Left4Coragem]

TB avaluate a country worth by their snacks XD.

[@Kevb0ardGames]

+Left4Coragem how else would you? xD totally legit xD

[@Ramotttholl]

+Left4Coragem poor asortment box of sendt snacks that is no less. i mean i lived in the Netherlands all my life and i have never ate/want to eat halve that crap.. but the other halve i love tho XD

[@talideon]

I'm surprised there was no Speculoos.

[@zodiak123]

+Karma we stole it fair and square

[@FDDMT]

+Cíat Ó Gáibhtheacháin Cause it's gross! Het rijmt dus het is waar

[@Frank01985]

+Cíat Ó Gáibhtheacháin The windmill cookie is speculaas (Dutch spelling).

[@FDDMT]

Yeah, but speculoos is not the same as speculaas

[@enlightendbel]

+Cíat Ó Gáibhtheacháin there looks to be some speculoos at 10:55ish

[@rudyhero1995]

FINALLY IT"S BACK It just means the low lands (being largely around sea level (parts slightly above or below sea level) and where is the liquorice, hard butterandy, aliquorice root

[@Huntracony]

Another dutch thing is mayonaise with french fries. It's so standard that you can ask in a restaurant for a "patat met" which litterally translates to "French fries with" and you'll get mayonaise with it. It's not the same mayonaise though, our mayonaise is sweet. Not sour.

[@drizzlingrose]

why is he chowing on the mints!? they are ment to be eaten like hardcandy :O

[@jbfarley]

because he's smart and knows it would be a horrible video if you had to sit there and watch him suck on a mint for 5 minutes

[@drizzlingrose]

jbfarley they could edit in post, but i guess it would notbe non-content then:o

[@jbfarley]

Sarah Vittrup that would have been way more time than it's worth

[@drizzlingrose]

jbfarley i guess so, im just say he wasted the mints :c

[@MrShadowRaiden]

+Sarah Vittrup the idea is to taste it and most likely wanted to make sure he wasnt missing anything in the centre like sometimes there is in hardcandies. of course he wont be eating the stuff exactly how its meant to be.

[@OliTiv]

Epic bathrobe

[@DraftyCrevice]

I love how he goes like "Yeah, I can definitely taste some wine in there" after tasting the "Wineball" at 11:53, while wineballs thank their name to the deep-red colour they are produced in, not the actual flavour or any of the ingredients themselves. KINDA PRETENTIOUS.

[@Schatten.mensch]

yay, i am very happy, that these are back. It is always interesting to see what the guys who make these boxes pick and the comments and reactions from both of you are really entertaining

[@RashbaNor]

That is one fuckin' amazing bathrobe!

[@halfwing3306]

Genna would sooner kiss a wookie. :D

[@Flemishdk]

the Napoleon candy was actually being produced in Belgium(also discovered there) until 2003. So idk if it counts as food from the Netherlands or not since originally it wasn't :P

[@MostorAstrakan]

There's a party game where everybody eats a slice of "beschuit", and the first one to whistle wins. For added fun, try to eat a whole roll of beschuit without drinking anything. They're not really meant as a replacement for bread, but they keep good pretty much indefinitely. They're nice with strawberries on them. And they're the traditional food eaten with aniseed sprinkles ("muisjes") on the arrival of a new-born child. We now have King Willem Alexander, son of Beatrix, daughter of Juliana, daughter of Wilhelmina, of whom the Mints speak.

[@flatsun2132]

lol half the stuff TB is chewing on is suppose to be sucked on also King mints are better

[@jbfarley]

the video would be 3 times as long if he sucked on everything

[@ordinary-gamer]

+jbfarley ;)

[@jbfarley]

+raziel1178 thanks for that image. i need to go scrub my eyes out with bleach

[@Shinobi_sac]

16:53 is that TB resorting to his natural accent I hear there?

[@Tyrog]

TB trying to talk Dutch with a German accent. Priceless :D

[@SuperHns]

RIP John, greetings from a Dutch guy living in Mexico City!

[@UltraRambo]

what stats does that robe possess?

[@Fyrexsama]

+MrDukke45 +10 to snark

[@InfinteIdeas]

+FyrexNL It also scales up with 60+fps

[@Zack0]

this is funny to me as im from Holland.

[@Hugh.Manatee]

+Viktor Vikeyev Booh Holland! Brabant rules! Alaaf!

[@Zack0]

AdenineMonkey just no. the Netherlands is a dumping grounds of horrible humans X.x nothing good can be found here

[@tominatorxx]

+Viktor Vikeyev I'm from Belgium. The funny thing is that they put "Croky" (which is Belgian) in the box. :D

[@bobbas7]

+tominatorxx I noticed that, slight mistake.

[@tominatorxx]

bobbas7 Oh well can happen. :)

[@JoshSweetvale]

My homeland is up! We're well known for calvinist blandness... Then again, so was Quaker's 'til they did Cornflakes.... Hope this'll be at least half as fun as the asian and south-american ones!!!

[@Icedteaable]

Ya Windmill cookies, I love those things. Mostly because I always got them when I visited my Grandma, and now they always take me back to those times when I have them. Also we have King Mints here in Canada.

[@Snarfindorf]

Why is he not smoking some kush?

[@rjfaber1991]

Well, apart from the obvious reasons, it's because we don't actually consume a lot of it. The very point of legalisation was to take the soft drugs trade out of the criminal circuit and reduce the number of addicts, and statistics show it's really worked...

[@Snarfindorf]

Robert Faber Was a joke, sir.

[@rjfaber1991]

***** I know...

[@simmojosh71]

+Robert Faber just saying ur answer suggested the opposite :p

[@jbal6956]

+Robert Faber Legalisation is a great thing, but how does it reduce the number of addicts? Cannabis isn't at all addictive, is it?

[@vindex57]

Rust in vreden TotaalKoekje

[@R-e-Joyce]

"Most of the is very bland" As a Dutchman I can't say I disagree.

[@MCtootsie]

I'm addicted to these videos. I have no clue why but I like seeing them... If this isn't normal, send help

[@Mr.Tahkos]

Hey man you're looking good, hang in there :)

[@dinckelman]

Make him taste Russia. These guys have some ridiculous stuff

[@FuckingGolems]

+DinckelMan Like what? oO

[@pawprint6677]

What's your favorites?

[@LastZepp1]

+Flamerule13th for the most part its true, our snacks are kinda boring comparetively

[@dinckelman]

Flamerule13th oh, trust me, there's a ton of candy no sane american will eat haha

[@AngelspitDarkness]

Russia doesn't have their own proper snacks, as far as I know. Only shitty stuff that get manufactured here and tastes like crap, poor quality and such. Nothing out of the ordinary anyway, just candy. Boring. Or you can get a box full of borsch (which is a Ukranian thing btw, originaly) lol.

[@bbruinenberg]

As someone from the Netherlands, I'm going to try to describe every piece of food in this video and how you normally eat it. The first thing we call beschuit. It's a very light and tasteless...thing. You're generally speaking supposed to eat it with butter and something else on top of it. Most people put something solid like cheese or eggs on it. It's basically like eating a sandwich but instead of the taste of bread you use something tasteless that makes the taste what you put on top of it less noticeable. The second food is just chocolate caramel like everyone can clearly see. We like out chocolate caramel here. Although I personally dislike caramel somewhat because of how sticky it is. As you can see from the third food, we also like out layered biscuits. It seems TB got unlucky. Most biscuits here are chocolate layered biscuits, not cheese layered. I personally don't mind cheese layered ones but chocolate layered is much better. The fourth food is something we have in many types and tastes. It's called hagelslag. Most people don't use it because it's a mess but they can taste pretty good. They are available in what are basically coloured sticks of sugar and pretty much every type of chocolate you can imagine (including small thick pieces of chocolate). There are probably some types I'm forgetting. Fifth food is just a mint. We like mint. There is nothing more to say about it. Sixth food is another mint. Seriously? They couldn't at least pick 1 of the many candies with mint taste we have? The seventh food is just a generic brand of crunchy chips. Just stick with lays, they taste better in my opinion. In fact, even corn based chips like Doritos taste better in my opinion. Ah yes, stroopwafels as the eight food. Surprisingly few people actually eat them. They are nice as a quick and taste snack but most people here prefer the softer baked goods. Ninth food, chocolate covered biscuits. We like them. We like them a lot. They are pretty much our national food we eat them that much. The tenth food is by the sound of it chocolate with coffee taste. The bane of any child and even many adults. It's something you just have to try to be able to judge it. The eleventh food looks like speculaas. I can't really describe what it is. You just need to taste it to know what it is. Fun fact: they are associated with a holiday we celebrate called Sinterklaas. It's a holiday we celebrate on the 5th of December. It's basically Santa Claus from Spain. We also celebrate Christmas btw so we basically celebrate it twice (December is a very expensive month here). The twelfth food is just a sugar filled candy. They taste very sweet but don't have much more to them. Pretty much 1 of the most bland candies you can think off. 13th food is just a generic piece of soft chewing candy. You probably tasted it before. Imagine the most bland piece of soft chewing candy you can imagine and add a taste to it. Very boring but it taste pretty nice if you want something to chew on. Note for the mints: you're supposed to suck on them, not chew on them. They taste the same on the outside as they do on the inside so there is no point on chewing on them. It was nice to see what other people think of our food and foods are actually special to our country. It is a bit sad though that only cold foods can be included in a package like this. We have a lot more foods. Foods like the gehaktbal (A ball of meat), the frikandel (a deep-fried stick of generic meat), the kroket (soft almost liquid meat on the inside with a crusty outside, again deep-fried) and a lot of other types of meats. Yeah, we like out meat, especially deep-fried meat.

[@rivalo5]

It was basically a typical, bland and cheap Dutch box: shitty and cheap cookies/biscuits that go well with tea or coffee and some mints. One piece of bland shit together with watery coffee pretty much sums up our Dutch culture. Universal Yums did a great job of spotting that.

[@NormalJinx]

i'm Flemish, him hearing reading the ingredients has made my weekend.

[@Arthera0]

the Netherlands is translated from Nederland. Neder means lower. Basically It refers to the country being for the most part lower than the sea level.

[@databeestje]

The Netherlands says hi! Accurate oberservations! The toast is just there to keep the sugary stuff from falling off, like jam or strawberry with sugar :) It's purely a vessel to get the good bits to your mouth. Syrup waffels are the bomb

[@johnathandoe6892]

Totalbiscuit truly was a unique youtuber, in that he could tell the difference between German and Dutch.

[@jellevandenberge2494]

The "cookie" on 10:50 is called speculaas. We also put this on our sandwiches, but it can also be eaten as a cookie.

[@DuderSkanks]

I love those windmill cookies! They have them at one of the local stores nearby where they're called speculoos, and the best way to have them is with the cookie butter spread of it between two of them as a little sandwich of spiced cookie flavor.

[@kingsboy4eva]

cmon guys dont disappoint totalbiscuit lets have an arguMINT

[@LostEzekiel]

The French biscuits TB is talking about at the end of the video is called "Petit écolier" (brand LU).

[@2TCi]

It's not often I actually burst out laughing within 1s of the video. Best robe ever.

[@joost00719]

That dude is CRUSHING that Napoleon! i expected him to freak out lol.

[@JudgeHortler]

We have that toast stuff in Germany too. We call it Zwieback ("Twice-baked"). It is really really easy to digest and thus the best hang-over and flu food there is. I always eat it with broth when I'm sick.

[@ohnoesknowsnonose]

We have top tier dairy products, but you can't really ship those.

[@heephstan]

Did you know, there's actually a challenge in the netherlands, where you eat a full "dutch toast - beschuit" and then try to actually whistle? So, munch down the toast, first one to be able to wistle a certain tune "wins".

[@thebastmaster]

16:05 In germany we have exactly these cookies. The biggest company that sells them here is "Leibniz" and they're called "Butterkekse" (lit. butter cookies).

[@MestHoop]

Just for reference: the double O in stoopwafels is pronounced more like strope (so, stropewaffels). Same with my nick: Not Hoop like a basketball hoop, but Mest Hope! As for the contents of the box: Like most other Dutchies said, it was pretty mediocre. We like cheese, hence the Kaas Dominos, but I don't know anyone who actually eats those. Also that toast thing: No one calls that toast. Toast here is just the same as toast everywhere. That is called Beschuit (one of the reasons why it has the form of a biscuit). Also no one eats them dry. They are a receptacle for eating toppings, that's it.

[@homeycdawg]

That wookie robe is goddamn brilliant.

[@EggleMacon]

Miss this gentleman

[@lukek1998]

I really love these videos for some reason. I'm glad John is feeling up to making them again. :)

[@UCvow2TUIH0d2Ax2vik9ILzg]

Wish you guys all the best! At this point, watching your pet-related videos with my animal-loving mother is sort of a mini-family tradition. She doesn't even likes games (other than a couple of casual Capcom games) yet she asks about how John is doing from time to time and is always to happy that he's doing better. I find that really sweet, maybe that'll cheer you (and maybe even him) up a bit. Have a nice day~

[@kalashnikov1343]

dekodesu

[@UCvow2TUIH0d2Ax2vik9ILzg]

Benjamin Bre Bad Shinobu.

[@gielomir3]

The first food he tasted was beschuit (have fun trying to pronounce that) and it was mainly food to have on ships when the VOC (Verenigde Oost Indische Compagnie (united east indian union)) and were mainly eaten with salted meat. But they are good with jam too :)