What the Dutch are terrible at! SORRY...

After living in the Netherlands for more than two and a half years you tend to learn what the Dutch are really good at...and what they're really bad at. If you're coming to the Netherlands on vacation or if you're moving to the Netherlands from the US, you need to be prepared for this because you will encounter probably all three of these things.

[@DenUitvreter]

Munster cheese if from France, good Dutch cheese is not in the supermarket, aging makes any cheese, and expecting a rich and diverse Dutch cuisine that has developped in isolation is very much like wondering why there are so many foreign food restaurants in the USA and no American cuisine of any significance. Why do American tourists expect a local cuisine with a strong national identity everywhere while they don't have one themselves? So I'm afraid it lacks the insightfulness to be funny.

[@AlexK-yr2th]

Very well said...

[@Sjiesjam]

Cooking from packets and cans is the murican way of cooking, and there's garlic and onionpowder in every recipe. At least when I cook it's from scratch

[@AlexK-yr2th]

@@Sjiesjam That's so typical. Calling using packets and cans cooking it from scratch. You cannot redefine reality! 1. Union and garlic powder is also processed. 2. It is also full of MSG. Please look it up what that does to your body.

[@Sjiesjam]

@@AlexK-yr2th yo doke, where does it say that I am a murican? I’m Dutch and I do cook from SCRATCH, I was commenting that I hate seeing recipes that are just crap

[@AlexK-yr2th]

@@Sjiesjam Crap you only add now. Please look at your previous comment and try to figure out how others perceive it. And please learn to address people. Thank you.

[@StevenQ74]

Are there any American restaurants anywhere that are NOT fastfood, either burgers or fried chicken?

[@JustMe-sh8nd]

Olive garden and Red Lobster are chains with some more then junk

[@GiblixStudio]

I didn't knew americans understood fine dining cuisine with all their fastfood. and covering other types of meals in tons of ketchup for "flavor" like barbaric people.

[@StudioHasenaar]

YES!! and drinking Cocoa Cola with their so called fine dining 🤮@@GiblixStudio

[@viderethevaccinatorfromhol7536]

Applebee's 😂 it flopped so hard in Europe.

[@megamusictuber6017]

There is no such thing as American food. Everything was brought to America by migrants. Even the Donuts originally come from the Netherlands.

[@LonTim2]

Tammy, you are great! Keep doing what you are doing. And a good Dutch meal is a homecooked meal. So, why should I go to a restaurant to buy a meal that I can cook at home. The whole world is opening restaurants in The Netherlands, I enjoy that. But, but, what they don't know is how to make Dutch food. We keep that to ourselves. Like hutspot and klapstuk. Bon appetit.

[@helgavanraam29]

Hete Bliksem. That's Dutch. Amsterdam has a 'Stampot to go' (zuurkool, boerenpot, hutspot ect.) store only in the winter season. It's called 't Cuijpje.

[@hummel3479]

Tammy is super. I called the I.N.D. and you can stay but they are looking into Eric 😂😂

[@blinkachu5275]

"Dutch people are not very good with food" I would disagree. As our food isn't just "Dutch", we are a multicultural society, not only due to how many cultures we have in our country at the moment but also the less good history of the Dutch East India Company. A lot of the foods that are said to be "Indonesian" for instance have roots in the Netherlands. The Dutch don't have a lot of big dishes that is their own known around the world. That I will agree on.

[@irenehabes-quene2839]

Besides the quality of the food of restaurants in the Netherlands, is higher here then in many other countries. As for pancakes, probably every country has their own way of making pancakes but the ones in Holland are not specifically of German origin. Besides going back a few thousand years in history the people that inhabited the low lands and Germany were very close in customs, (back in the Roman times) so our eating habits are not bound to present day borders.

[@harrybruijs2614]

We don't have to be good in food. Everything is fresh and taste like it should, so we don't need sauces to camouflage rotten fish, meat and vegetables.

[@pascaltatipata]

Indonesian" for instance have roots in the Netherlands? Praat je over Conimex ofzo? 🤣

[@AdLockhorst-bf8pz]

​@@harrybruijs2614we do need some almost rotting shrimp to make TRASSI 😊

[@AlexK-yr2th]

@@irenehabes-quene2839 German is a word that only exists int he English language. "Germaanse" tribes consist of Saksen, Friezen and Franken and to be found allover The Netherlands and Germany. And then there were tribes like Kelten, Bataven and even Cananefaten and Tubanten. The English name for Germany is very misleading because it actually doesn't exist, so the conclusion that anything comes from Germany (a name that simply doesn't exist in local languages) is bluntly wrong.

[@TAndTGoDutch]

So great to film and the final product is funny. Tammy’s reaction is hilarious

[@r.a.h7682]

Why is your whole channel about ''Americans don't move to the netherlands'' (which i do agree on), or ''Amsterdam is terrible'' Or American food in the Dutch Lidl? do you live your whole day with negativity?

[@irenehabes-quene2839]

My late husband used to irritate me endlessly on one issue. He would wash his hands like 20 times a day at the kitchen sink. After I’d just wiped dry my kitchen counter and sink, he’d wash his hands, I’d dry it again, and lo and behold half an hour later he’d be washing his hands. …that went on all day. All that washing his hands left his hands very rough and dry. Frequent washing using soap is extremely bad for the skin, it damages the natural skin barrier and makes your skin more susceptible for eczema! He died far too young due to brain cancer so maybe his need to wash his hands was psychological.

[@Wamubodo]

I find it a bit strange discussing Dutch cuisine. Is there such a thing as Amercan cuisine? Let's be real. This is not France or Italy. Pizza wasn't invented in NY. Maybe our traditional food isn't that great for a restaurant but in wintertime it brings a feeling of comfort. And a lot of people spice it up. Do we have any Scandinivian restaurants? Belgian? No. Like many countries we've adopted our kitchens. We have our Indonesian en Surinam food which is not common in the rest of the world. Is that part of Dutch cuisine? Show me one example of an original American dish which isn't transported from another country..Still love you.

[@silkewessels8780]

An American saying anything about Dutch cheese is like an American saying anything about French wine, Japanese sushi or Italian tomato sauce

[@w00tz0rzZ]

With regards to wine they just might have a point. But otherwise agreed.

[@Harolddespui]

Maybe the Dutch just don't lie about that hand washing thing and the rest are. Something about the straightforwardness of the Dutch.

[@Dutchbelg3]

Dear Friends... If you think Dutch cuisine is bland because it is not spicy you are overlooking 1 important thing... : Food was made spicy to mask the poor quality of the ingredients. We Dutchies have excellent veggies (we are in the top 10 of vegetable exporters), We have excellent fruit (apple, pear, cherries, strawberries) and the WHOLE world knows our Cheese ( can not be that bad then after all) . By the way did you ever tried out other kinds of cheese besides Gouda cheese? Edam, Leerdammer, Friese Nagelkaas, brandnetelkaas, Beemster kaas, Old Amsterdam, Maaslander, Graskaas, commissiekaas, Leidse kaas, Herve kaas from Limburg, Dutch sheep- or goat cheese ? And then there are hundreds of small scale cheese makers that make blue molded , white molded and red molded cheeses.. And if you are really really needing spicy food: there is sambal cheese too. Another aspect is the use of herbs in dutch cuisine... When an American tastes any food with cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg and cloves and /or anis the only thing they can comment is "It taste like christmas or it taste like pumpkin spice... Not really a versatile taste palette ... 😛 If the comment is "They can not do any thing right" because it is not the American way... hmmmmm 🙄😜

[@tibortarnoczy3394]

Below you'll find a list of various Dutch cheeses, which are not only Gouda type cheeses: Beemster kaas Bergens Blonde Bleu de Wolvega Boer'n Trots De Fryske Frico kaas Hooidammer Kernhem Kollumer kaas Leerdammer Maasdammer Maaslander Milner Old Amsterdam Parrano Reypenaer Ruygentaler Uniekaas Zaanlander

[@eisco]

Bleu de Wolvega, my absolute favorite. Difficult to find, but the best yellow blue cheese there is.

[@StephanSpelde]

I love the Keuringsdienst van Waarde episode about Parrano cheese!

[@Flupke76]

Hooidammer is pretty local I guess, or is it sold throughout the country? Love it though! As well as the Blue de Wolvega. Anyway, for good cheese, stay out of the "supermarkt" and visit a cheese shop or a cheese stand at the market.

[@tibortarnoczy3394]

@@Flupke76 Hooidammer is, like some of the other mentioned cheeses a local cheese. Some of those cheeses are sold on markets, specialized shops or even sent by post. I am not sure if Hooidammer is sent by post.

[@tanjavandermeer3522]

Ever tried to get off the tube during rush hour in the London Underground? Years ago I took my kid brother to London for his first vacation abroad. Going from the train station to our hotel on arrival, we took the metro. At our stop my brother got off, but I could not get through the mass of people surging in, and the doors closed. As we say here, dikke paniek! We had not arranged how to solve this problem, never even thinking this could occur. Thankfully my brother was a logical thinker too: I got off at the next stop, waited, and on the next train he appeared. We doubled back one stop, and went to the hotel. It was a great learning experience: from then on we bulled with the best of them 😂. And that happened in GB, the land of the queues ...So, personally I think it is more of a metropolitan rush hour behaviour than typically Dutch.

[@MaPiVe59]

Alles al ingepakt?

[@lindaraterink6451]

For special cheese go to a cheese shop or the farmers market. In the supermarket it mostly what the customer wants on a day to day basis. 'Dutch like to go for the what we are used too stuff, because it is what we like best.' If the cheese doesn't sell that great, supermarkets will take it out of their stock. Cheese shops we go to if we want something special.

[@lindaraterink6451]

Lines or queues. I don't think your wrong. Usually we see who is in front of us, so we wait until everyone in front of us is done it means it is your turn. Or ask did you order yet? Sometimes it goes wrong and you cut the line on someone. ""Sorry, no big deal. Go ahead." Should be the response. I know, you are not always getting that. This might be different experience depending on where you at. Busy cities may come of a little ruder then more rural towns.

[@Brera011]

Dutch cheese all the same? At least it's REAL cheese, not that artificial stuff Americans call cheese. Dutch tradional food maybe blend, but it's nutricious and healthty. Can you say the same of "tradional American food" like Hamburgers, chicken nuggets and hot dogs. Not waiting in line? Few months ago I was stepping out of my train at Rotterdam CS, when two middle aged women tried to push me aside to get in first, let's guess, yes they were American and extremely rude, believing their first class train ticket gave them extra privileges. Also you can pick out American tourists at a tour, first at the buffet, standing in groups for a painting not giving others a good view. And last but not least, our public transport and roads (no putholes or cracked concrete ) are far better and you can safely walk out in the evening everywhere. And we don't carry guns!

[@willemdubbeldam9285]

To say as Americans what the Dutch are terrible at.... then you have to have guts 😁. As Dutch we would say "Look who's talking..." 😋

[@rikakemme]

The Dutch fragility is strong in this one.

[@waasar]

Why is that? There are people who handle honest criticism in different ways in every culture. I wouldn't say unwillingness to engage in self-reflection is typically Dutch.

[@lbergen001]

Don't worry, it's all relative. Comparing to the USA, NL is doing fine!

[@jokevangeldrop5876]

Hahaha, right! That's why we adore French, Italian & Indonesian food!

[@rikakemme]

@@waasar Look at the other comments.

[@mattgiant8836]

We are not good at taking criticism either. Stubborn as we are.

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

lol lol lol 👍 Eric

[@sim-one]

🤣🤣🤣

[@AnaryaVhargon]

I guess it depends on the city you live in. In my town at the market for instance, we ask "who's the last one" and then the person who came last to the cart says "me" and then you know behind which person it's your turn. The food?... Well, it all depends on who cooks it for you. :) Glad I'm with the 50% who does wash their hands, with soap, after every toilet visit. Oh, and washing your hands with cold water and soap, is as good as washing your hands with warm water and soap, it's the soap that cleans.

[@jobzwart3449]

The Dutch may not be very good with food, but especially Americans just CAN'T say ANYTHING about food, because the only AMERICAN restaurants in the world serve the same food only packed in different cartons and plastic. Eric: whom you interact with, will infect you. You looked like Travis' ventriloquist dummy. Sad to see. Tammy, wish you luck with friends like Travis and with the dummy.

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

Go to the wild wild east, eat snert , droge worst, herring, eat Dutch bread breakfasts, eat dutch deserts... We even have a song about droge worst, by Skik, in low saxon even. Skik - Dreuge Worst. Look up the song. Go to zeeland eat mossels.... "Blend" ? You mean you missed the extra sugar, salt, hormones, anti-biotics, and paint they mix into their "food" in the USA?

[@roadinstallatie]

Go back to America if it's that bad here. I'm going to wash my hands now. We're about to eat kale with simmered meat. pleasant flight back to that fantastic America.

[@vergierdeweg40]

A very smal country with most people traveling around over the border: I eat Indonesian monday, stamppot Tuesday; a.g.v. Aardappelen Groente en Vlees; Wednesday; Italian Tuesday, Wiener Snitzel Friday, goulash Saturday, Paella Sunday. That is my Dutch week. Next week maybe the same countries but different dishes. National dishes are fine, but it is boring to eat one cuisine every day and, in most countries just a handful of dishes are really outstanding.

[@corrybaggerman7058]

Eric you and Tracy did a whole series of Ductch food etc. Can you ask Trevor what is so remarkable of American food, Is it Mac Donalds KFC chicken. Is is the big portions so more than half of the US citizend are obese? Why does he only go to the supermarked to buy his sliced cheese. . He is so ingnorant. Washing your hands with cold water and soap is allright. His tirade makes you wonder why come to the Netherlands and leave the USA with it s wonderful manufactored cheeses, his chlorine chickens,, to mentioned a few.criticisms. Eric I am a great fan of your channel but thisvideo's looked more twp people who had a little much to drink. Please make your videos with Tammy again

[@winmachielse1233]

Sure, Dutch food isn’t the best, but it still makes us the tallest people on the frikin’ planet. 😂 We aren’t good at lining up, that’s because of our anarchistic nature. We’re just not submissive like other peoples.😆 By the way, have you ever seen Americans lining up on black friday? They trample eachother for a bargain. Having said this, thank God we all differ. Life would be boring if we were all the same. Isn’t it? Good we have Tammy on our side to defend our ways. I love you Tammy. 🥰

[@r.a.h7682]

Pannenkoeken are not from Germany, what are you talking about? lol

[@BERSERKR212]

Ever seen an American who can cook??????? And we hardly go ever to restaurants to eat. We rather make it ourselves.

[@Bimmerman1967]

We Dutch don't understand the commotion.

[@hjge1012]

1. True and it's really annoying. Also, it's not borderline rude, it's very rude; full stop. It's kind of fun to steamroll through there though. Because hey! If they can be rude, so I can. 2. don't agree. I also think the reasoning was kind of flimsy. There not being Dutch restaurants in the Us doesn't really say much. The Netherlands has always been a country heavily driven and influenced by merchants. So obviously most of our food is 'imported'. That's just what Dutch food is. It's food from all over the world with some adjustments to the local palette, plus a few special snacks -- which honestly are some of the best snack you can get anywhere in the world. As for the cheeses: you guys are straight up delusional. I'm curious though, would you make this same argument for the US? Because the US is in a similar boat to the Netherlands when it comes to food. Lots of good food from all over the world, but nothing really all that special that is known as 'American food', beside maybe some snacks. In fact, you could make a very similar argument for Surinamese food. Because that kitchen is also a mix of the African and Indian kitchens. 3. Is that really a thing?

[@schiffelers3944]

I agree with number 1; however IMHO it used to be different, my partner [37] and I [43] also keept talking to each other how this was different in our youth, and how we don't understand how this happend, and it bug's us too. But we might also say the same about how children where raised and behaved.First you let the people out of the train/bus then you enter orderly, same with exiting. Pay attention and get ready if you need to exit before the stop. Don't start once it has stopped, not talking about walking in a moving vehicle perse. Its more "me, me, me" now days and main character syndroms, and I would say this is part of the Veramerikanizering, no offence.

[@margreetanceaux3906]

People pushing to enter your tram that you want to get out, is the most ludicrous and annoying ever. My best moment was, when my colleague and I wanted to step out of the tram, but a man stepped up at the same time: my colleague grabbed him under his arm, and forced him out, backwards 🙂🙃😎

[@PaulaBean]

In Amsterdam the trams have one entry and multiple exit doors. And that is enforced.

[@MichelBaek]

Where is that unsubscribe button 😜? We aren’t well known for our food but we don’t care. We love our erwtensoep, stamppot, stroopwafels and bitterballen. You love Johma salade and Chocomel so don’t be too critical. I don’t know how bad people are at waiting in line in Rotterdam, but in my place people are good at it. And washing hands i do regularly. P.s for a moment i thought Tammy went bald. I hope Travis and Tracey will make videos again soon. I miss them. Next time give them a spanking for going AWOL 😜. ❤❤❤

[@mcoenen8492]

Don't forget the oliebollen 😉

[@FGG850]

Name an American dish Americans cook at home, and don't say steak...

[@Crankshaft_NL]

I have a question, What is a usa restaurant? I mean everything from "french" fries to "hamburg"ers is what usa is known for but from the same logic it is not american. Dont get me wrong i love stampot but to eat it at a restaurant... no way, i can follow you there. But i really can not think of an american restaurant, can you help me?

[@albertlay8927]

Really fun episode and so nice to see Travis again (and Tracey was there too)! 1. We're not good in queuing, but we are good in standing in a mob and maintain order in chaos. That's our thing. Not many nations can do that. 2. If you think it's necessary to add flavor to food, then apparently you don't like the taste of the food itself. You want it to taste like the added flavor. We have lots of restaurants serving Dutch cuisine. They're called cafetaria's, or friettenten. BTW, I remember reading an article, a very long time ago, about a Dutch restaurant in NYC. I doubt if it's still there, but there has been at least one at some point in time somewhere in the world. 3. Actually I've hardly seen anyone not washing his hands, but true, there is only cold water. The statistic is about washing hands with water AND soap, not just washing hands. So one can argue about that statistic. However, the purpose of washing hands is to avoid bacteria and stuff to be passed on to others. If it was really bad here, then there would be a significantly higher number of people being sick from bacterial infections and such. This is not the case. So maybe washing hands with cold water is good enough. If I hadn't already subscribed, I would not have done so, 'cause I'm afraid I would get all kinds of germs on the subscribe button, and other people might want to use that button. Hope to see a new T&T video soon.

[@Budha75]

The Netherlands has fantastic bread, pastries, pies, seasonal snacks, comfort food and of course great dishes from the colonies. Sorry, but especially from an American, that is just a bad take.

[@jeffafa3096]

Dutch food isn't bland. It's actually very rich in flavours if prepared properly, especially things like Snert (split pea soup), stoofpotjes and stamppot. Win for Tammy for making the stamppot for 1 😄

[@r.a.h7682]

The Netherlands has great fried food. Also about the cheese... really show your American side by complying about food in a supermarket instead of a market.

[@dutchmom3963]

Just curious how many beers you two had before filming 😉🤣 Tammy, you don't have to move: something the Dutch ARE good at is having a sense of humor. 😘

[@Roggen45]

True Tammy is welcome, dunno about Eric or Travis anymore tho! 😂😜

[@jokehokke283]

Absolutly right about queuing. Why?? I am plus 60 and learned it back then, its gone. Do not buy cheese in the supermarket!! Go to a real cheesestore. They sell the best cheeses. Dutch food can be very good. The point is in my view the Dutch do not have a gastronomic culture. I do not know a good restaurant where you can eat traditional Dutch food besides pancakes. Come for dinner at my home. I will make you tasty Dutch food. You need not hot water to wash your hands. Thats sientiscely prooved.

[@schiffelers3944]

LOL it sounds like he doesn't understand the complex history of Europe, pannekoeken German. You know the Dutch language is Germanic. I will stick to my reaction with "number two" - What is Dutch food? Before we smash it down? Brood? Kaas? We had Roman food and Celtic/Germanic food with the beginning of "Dutch" / local history and traditions. We been under many different rules and dominant cultures before we had our "own" Dutch Culture.

[@FransvandeKamp]

Dutch food is traditionally just simple and nutritious. It is kind of funny that Travis mentions all the foreign kitchens in the US as an example of flavourful food. If you would compare the different kitchens of the "United States of Europe" to the USA than there are just as many great and diverse kitchens. Last year i was in Hawaii and LA and I have not found anything that I could not have found here in the Netherlands. But yes.... the traditional aardappelen, vlees en groente are usually good quality but not anything special. BTW.... Travis you look slimmer and healthier than you did when you just arrived in the Netherlands 😁

[@ppkoning]

You don't need hot water to wash your hands. You need water. And if possible soap. Apart from that, you're 100% spot on! 😁

[@ruudvdwerf]

Nice video guys! I agree on the lining up. It's a nightmare sometimes :-) I try not to get annoyed and look at the funny side of it. The hand washing thing.... Yeah, you're right about that. Even though, Eric, you mentioned not getting hot water in public restrooms. But there is no need for that. I would call the water we wash our hands with warm, not hot. Warm water doesn't kill the germs. Hot water does, but we would burn our skin with that. So cold is just as good, using soap is much more important. As for Dutch food.... You guys (esp. Travis) are linking this to restaurants too much, I think. The lack of Dutch restaurants says nothing about the Dutch cuisine. The cultural thing is that home cooked meals are the best, and when you want something different or a nice night out, you go to a restaurant. So in a way it makes sense that there are hardly any restaurants with typical Dutch food, because that's what people prepare at home. I would never go to a restaurant to have erwtensoup for example. Or stamppot. Or anything that I make at home. Then, Eric talks about the food not having that much flavor. Well.... then you just didn't have to good stuff yet. Or, if you tried to make it yourself, you just didn't know how to add flavors to make it tasteful. Stamppot can be boring until you add the right ingredients, and things like bacon, fried union, good mustard and/or a flavorsome gravy etc etc. Just boil and mash it doesn't do it for me either.

[@christinarodriguez7508]

PS hot water in the bathroom , you do know bacteria die at 73 degrees ? anyting lower or body temperature increase bacterial growth . I want to see both ouf you trevor and eric wash their hands with 70 degrees celcius water . also the dutch are much healthier than dethol americans .

[@eddys.3524]

"...In the USA they are good at lining up.." Well dude, I've seen the Jan6 tapes.. no lining up there..

[@JL-hn6hi]

Popcorn in hand. Waiting to see all the comments from NL.

[@janwielklem]

This is such a nice episode! Tammy made it really funny 😂 I agree on all the issues about the Dutch, except for the cheese! Tip: never buy cheese in a supermarket in the Netherlands.

[@antonlissenberg4649]

We do not need to wash are hands because we dont eat hamburgers .

[@schiffelers3944]

Number two; is a number two aka sh!t. LOL What do you define Dutch food? And to what food do you compare it with? "American" food? In a way I kinda agree with traditional foods (not all) but then understand why and how these traditional foods came to be, history which is more ancient than "American" history. So what kind of food are we talking about? The cliché aardappelen (in different variations) with veggies and meat and jus? We have many different ways we serve an aardappel (De aardappel eters) But the aardappel is not native to Europe. Are we talking about what kind of foods? Indonesian, which has mixed and merged here with the Dutch colonialism? I kinda take offence, so you have a Sweedish restaurant? A Danish? A Norwegian? A Belgium? Luxembourgish.... I think the reason why you see those types of restaurant in the USA that you listed has to do with your history as colonizers and with the way history was, most of the "German" ancestory are talking about the Prussian Empire Germany era, so they could be Dutch in modern context, or Belgian, etc. So I stick with this one stinks.

[@clifffan3]

how do ypu know we dont washing hands after visit the loo, cos you cant see it we have a litl sink in the toiletroom.

[@philkleingeld949]

Queuing is not only a Dutch problem. Ever visited Japan? Talking about pushing and shoving, they are masters at it. I used to be a tour guide for people from the USA. Have you ever seen how they enter a bus? A stampede! Food is a cultural thing, and it depends on what you are used to eating. The enormous obesity in the USA is the proof that their food is junk! Eric, I can recommend quite a lot of very good restaurants. You don't know what you are talking about. We call washrooms toilets and stop generalizing this issue. If the Americans did such a good job at it, how come food poisening in the USA is out of proportion. (Apart from the 40.000 victims of mass shootings!) This episode pissed me off!

[@rientsdijkstra4266]

I ALWAYS wash my hands with soap and water after going to the restroom. And I wash my hands several times a day.

[@spawn101]

Don't try to buy decent cheese at a supermarket. We buy cheese at the supermarket because it's cheap and qualifies just about enough as cheese to pass. We even call the pre-sliced and square blocks "factory cheese" (Fabrieks Kaas) which says enough. If we want decent cheese we go directly to the farmer or more often the cheese monger. As to why there are almost no "Traditional" Dutch restaurants: We don't usually dine out for traditional food, you make that yourself (usually according to a family recipe.) You dine out to try another cuisine. Dining out used to be the "fancy" option and you don't want everyday fare if you are treating yourselves. Also most things we consider "traditional" cuisine are actually things that other cultures brought us (German, French, Indonesian, Chinese, Turkish, Moroccan, etc.) and these got slightly adjusted to suit our tastes. (A lot in the case of Chinese actually) We have been a multi ethnic society for a very long time and that shows. Queuing isn't really out thing in most situations, however here (where I live at least) someone usually asks "who was last before me?" And then they just wait until that person had their turn. Sometimes you take number from a machine and stand around. If we do que up it's in certain situations where it's required like the bottle machine, cash register or inoculations. But I live in a village so maybe it's different in the city? I can attest that we got told to wash our hands after using the toilet every where (home/school/doctors) from at least 50 years ago when I was in kindergarten. Washing hands used to be more of a problem, but after the Covid outbreak and all I actually see many people more mindful of this. Then again I'm in the medical field so professionally we have always washed a lot and use gloves. Still those stupid way too tiny washbasins in older houses with only cold water are not very enticing and they got put in like that everywhere. No one I know will use them, we all walk to where there's warm water, and then some still can't be bothered to walk a few extra steps. Ah, by now you should also know we are indeed very bad at taking criticism, unless it's us complaining about ourselves. ;) Love the videos always fun to see another perspective.

[@joannewink7101]

Maybe here in the east of the Netherlands we are better at queuing😮 I dont like you guys, i like Tammy.😂❤

[@roykamaaina]

Man, I have no comments on you two. You wouldn't like it.

[@user-wn8cp3qf1x]

I totally agree on the Dutch cuisine not even existing but there are no Swiss or Austrian restarants abroad, or are there?

[@jtb357]

It is fair to give us Dutchies a list of what is not great, 1. The stand in line thing, absolutely true, is shameful. 2. The food not being good, well I am used to it, so probably, I had to look up Pancakes not being Dutch, the are not from Germany, but from China and Nepal, the came to us in the 12th century. I will say, we do make the best Pancakes. The cheese probably true. 3. I am subscribed, so ...... 4. Washing hands, suprised to hear this a lot, I will always wash my hands, we had a sticker on the mirror at school that said: "Na poepen of plassen, handen wassen". I have not seen this myself with my fellow Dutchies. I do forget to wash my hands before diner sometimes but not after the toilet.

[@AxeGaijin]

I do know of a Dutch restaurant! But it's in Wisconsin. And hey, why would I go to a restaurant to eat what I can make at home? 😁

[@Wrecker3D]

Question: do you know the tv programs "All you need is Love" and "Love is in the Air" (both are lovers/family reunion programs on RTL 4) , have you seen it and does the States have a similar program? All you need is Love is usually more holiday season setting while and is more about getting people to the Netherlands, while Love is in the Air is usually more of a summer setting and takes people abroad to meet their loved ones on location (usually Australia, US, Canada) The slogan of the host of Al you need is Love "Niemand mag met kerst alleen zijn" translates to "Nobody should be alone for Christmas" and I agree 😅 Of course, hope you'll have a great Christmas and New Year🎉

[@theonijkerk3012]

Don't talk to me about American processed cheese. Did you know there is Rotterdam cheese, Edam, Maasdammmer, Old Amsterdam, Lutjewinkel 2 jaar gerijpt, Kernhem, Beemster.

[@hummel3479]

pepper cheese ?? They put the peppers in the cheese to mask the bad quality of your cheese. Supermarkets only sell cheeses that most people buy. If you want something special go to a specialised cheese shop.

[@hummel3479]

Yikes, 50 % not washing their hands. I think the Dutch are to honest about this and the rest of Europe was too ashamed to admit it Loved this video. ❤❤ Nice to see that you two say what you think. You are Dutchies already 🤲👐👍👍

[@user-wn8cp3qf1x]

Once while on holliday in France we wanted to get an ice cream but when we saw the spoon in a bowl with dirty ice cream water and a dozen of dead flies in it, we went for a tin of soda instead.

[@Meppeler1971]

it's different per region I think about not in line waiting... I hate that too

[@dennisverhoef1564]

The whole washing your hands thing made me thing about a joke from the movie The Negotiator...... A marine and a navy man are in the bathroom. They are both taking a piss at the urinal. Both men finish at the same time. The man in the navy goes to the sink, and the marine heads to the bathroom exit. The navy man speaks up to the marine and says "you know, in the navy they teach us to wash our hands after taking a piss." The marine stops at the exit, and responds "oh yeah? Well in the marines they teach us to not piss on our hands." Guess we dutchies al are trained like US Marines 🤣🤣🤣. BTW, Good to see Travis and Tracy are still here. Was wondering why they have not made any new content for a long time.

[@MarionBrandsen6204]

Totally agree with the train station thing, I am Dutch but I hate it. And for food ; there is no real food culture here, everything nice we have is from other cultures. But for Tammy: In Breda there is a restaurant which only serves stamppot.

[@marcblokpoel]

And in Dordrecht you'll find "Knollen en Citroenen", all around Dutch cuisine, not limited to various kinds of stamppot.

[@willottevanger7225]

If you want a good flavoured cheese, buy "oude boerenkaas" (old farmers' cheese), but don't buy it at a supermarket because their cheese have no taste. Buy it at a specialised cheese shop or at the market.

[@vinniekay0967]

You guys are shifting the wrong way.. Sorry, but I honestly told you guys this, after a collab episode with your friends, last year. With all due respect to you Eric & Tammy, but this Guy's total persona and presence makes me almost agressive and that's só Not Me.. Whatever todays topic may be, i couldn't even watch this episode. I'll wait for the next one. Greetz, Vinnie..

[@SideWalkAstronomyNetherlands]

You are talking about Amsterdam, not about the Netherlands. As usual..

[@RemiPut]

No it's Rotterdam , that's the problem 😂🤣

[@iAmFranQ]

Im Dutch and you are spot on. And as you can see in the comment section as well, we have a hard time hearing not critisism per se, but hear things we don’t like or are not good at. We love to hear things we’re good at. Absolulety drown in it. Then the excuses come. Not sure were this comes from. But I think a bit typical North European. Sober but proud.

[@ErickLigtenberg]

Great sense of humor, loved it. Goed gedaan jochie 😂😂😂

[@UnflatteringRat]

Hello soul to soul travels , i wanted too ask you guys someting if you don,t mind , why are T and T don,t upload any more ?

[@SoultoSoulTravels]

Hi Jeff…they are heading back to the states in a week or two and have decided to pause their channel for the time. Thanks for reaching out. Eric

[@jsb7975]

​@@SoultoSoulTravels Knew it at fore-hand. It all has become embarrassing. Please stop gambling with your own integrity.

[@thomaslee5042]

Tammy, when I get there in August I am more than happy to do Kyusho Jitsu on Eric for this video 😂😂

[@w.schigt7788]

Niks geleerd, wel gelachen :)

[@nimaxwerker]

Listen, don't mock the dutch cuisine, that Belgium food admired all over the world originated also from the Netherlands (reference de 80 jarige oorlog)(the dutch Catholics all moved south and the Belgium Calvinist all moved north where the Catholic religion is extravagant, and the Calvinists are sober that will reflect itself in food culture) , we also have 125 restaurants here with Michelin star's, in the US 200 with 300,000,000 inhabitants we are with 18,000,000. Heck over the whole world people only eat dutch carrots because we made them orange. The pizza is from Italy, the Hamburger is from Germany, the hotdog is also from Germany. Congrats with popcorn oh wait the oldest popcorn found is from Peru. There is only Gouda cheese bro as punishment you have to put Limburgse kaas without a container in your fridge. Try visiting a cheese farm in a rural area no touristy place, and try the dutch rauw melkse kaas, from the cow goat and sheep and don't forget to taste dutch kwark there.😉

[@schiffelers3944]

LOL those are not the images we see from the US about lining up; even if that started with Black Friday mayhem.

[@gstar1084]

I always think the food-compaints are a bit weird. There is this myth that we only eat stamppot (wich is mostly a winter dish anyway). It pops up so many times and it is quite misleading. 'Typical Dutch' restaurants have over the past 50 years been influenced by other cultures. Most expats settle in big cities: is it really that difficult to find a decent restaurant? There are 125 restaurants with a Michilin star in the country. If you don't like the general Dutch cuisine in those restaurants, you can find Greek, Italian, Indonesian in almost every part of the country. In the cities you will find restaurants from almost every nationality that settled here in the past 50 years. Don't like Dutch cheese? Why don't you look futher into any Dutch supermarket and seek feta, mozarella, brie, etc. Sure it might not be 'traditionally Dutch', but it is quite often bought by typical Dutch people (they don't just stock them for the occasional tourist). That's what people don't get. If you go to Italy, you will find people that eat typically Italian food almost every day of the week. If you go to the Netherlands you will find people that eat typically Dutch food (potatoes, meat/fish and vegetables/salad) about 4 days a week, and pasta, rice and other products in the other three days (according to the latest statistics I could find). If you think typically Dutch food is bland, than just eat something else. That's what Dutch people do too.

[@Handwithaface]

You don't see Dutch restaurants in the US, but you do see a lot of apple pie and donuts, which are Dutch. As for Dutch restaurants, Moeders in Amsterdam does a pretty good traditionally Dutch meal, but you should just make that at home. If you know how to treat a potato and use the right herbs and spices, very few things beat a homecooked Dutch meal. Of course, most Dutch folks don't know how to treat a potato and don't know how to use herbs and spices.

[@Iamsanni]

And pancakes! Not German at all

[@jokevangeldrop5876]

Toilet-hygiëne: that's right! Many people don't wash their hands after going to a restroom, and that's gross. That's why I stopped shaking hands with men, I can just feel it when they haven't washed their hands...yuk! And reaserch has proven that 8 moments of washing hands spread over the day will keep you from catching the cold-virus. And it really does help!! Bye, Tammy, love you 👍👍

[@flower_power]

You are completely right on the queue for trains, busses etc. Very annoying! Britisch food? I really don't know any English restaurant. American food is only fastfood. That doesn 't count. Hot water to wash your hands: watje!

[@pascaltatipata]

3:47 Yes, it is. I once worked at Schiphol as a security guard at the gates, and the worst flights are those from the Netherlands, total chaos. Every single flight,. It's even worse at busy stalls at the fair, everyone for themselves mentality.

[@nexit3360]

nu weet je waarom wij zo lang zijn! wij moeten omlaag kijken en jullie omhoog

[@eelcodehaan3994]

we don't have a big "supermarket" culture like us. till 30 years ago, we mainly went to speciality shops, butcher for meat, bread at the baker and cheese at the cheese dude. not continuesly washing hands is not that detrimental if you live healthy, helps if you just don't touch gross shit. only wash my hands after toilet, not random in the day. you have to build up a certain resistance. actually a lot of people wash to often . got this from a dermatologist: "unless you’re grimy or sweaty, you may not need to bathe more than a few times a week. Washing removes healthy oil and bacteria from your skin, so bathing too often could cause dry, itchy skin and allow bad bacteria to enter through cracked skin. When you expose your body to normal dirt and bacteria, it actually helps strengthen your immune system."

[@user-wn8cp3qf1x]

i think that not that far from now, T&T will be heading back to the USA.

[@wortelsorbet]

In the past some people had to buy a ticket on the bus (with cash) while others had a buss pass. Sometimes you were outside in the cold/rain for at least 5 minutes because someone was counting coins, while you only had to wave the bus pass. That's about the one situation where I typically got rude and sneaked past the coin paying person. Otherwise I just let people get in first (airports, shops, trains, buses) and then get in myself.

[@andrevdende8244]

Het Eethuisje Delfshaven. They are Dutch food restaurant

[@peterschoemaker9]

Okay, so what is authentic food from the United States??

[@viderethevaccinatorfromhol7536]

Not washing the hands 😮 I always wash my hands. All the time. I don't know where this is coming from. Gross 🤢. Food, Dutch food. My husband has Indonesian roots, so even our typical Dutch food is spiced up. But I agree that the most commonly used spices are plain salt & pepper. Not us. One entire kitchen cabinet is literally filled with spices coming from all over the world. (Bitterballen is not real food. , it's a snack). The Dutch cuisine......? Let me know whenever you find it. It's a mix of all different cultures, I guess. It's still the most nutritious food in the world. "The Netherlands is No. 1 in the world for having the most plentiful, nutritious, healthy and affordable diet, beating France and Switzerland into second place". How about the USA? 😂 Lining up: euhh rude Yep. We don't do that. Why? I have no idea. Maybe it has something to do with time. It's useless time. No chit-chat talking kind of behavior? Why should we cue? To be the last person that leaves the train 🤷 I'm not a cheesehead myself, but it's definitely not true. You will find the best cheese at small local farmers/ cheese makers. But it is expensive and therefore not available in the normal grocery store. It wasn't too bad, to be honest. Tammy can stay 😂❤.

[@borchen0]

About the apparent lack of queueing skills; it is correct that Dutch people in general do not stand in a mathematically perfectly calculated straight line, but we do keep track of each other who's next in 'line'...well that's what I do.

[@IliaKemp]

Bitterballen ain't food, it's a SNACK! (thank you Tammy) There aren't many Dutch restaurants, Dutch people cook their own food Eric, you should try it sometime! Tammy say something, those two are terrible together! Men talk! WHAT? Realy? 'Don't wash their hands? That's BS! I NEVER go to someone else bathroom or toilet only MY OWN! And people who visit my house are the same, they also go to the toilet in their own house. So, your turn Eric 🚨

[@MyTubeSVp]

Hi Eric, I hope your couch is very comfortable. Guess you’ll be sleeping on it for a while.

[@janeising3585]

First one: True! Second: Not true. Third: I did. Fourth: I do not know. One things for sure, when I meet Travis, handshaking: no way!😂

[@carmenk.3629]

For Dutch food you could try the Librije, it has 3 Michelin stars and it's Dutch cuisine.

[@phoebs69]

Most men don't wash their hands. Doesn't matter from which country they are. The only people I've seen wash their hands after going to toilet are Turkish and Moroccan people. I'm dutch and I wash my hands after going to the toilet and learned my son to do the same.

[@joseduijf-arets1422]

I believe washing hands after using the toillet or after doing other things like gardening, shopping, eating (before and after dinner or so) is very personal. Most people I know wash there hands often enough but isn't that everywere in the world, people do and people don't.😂😂😂😂even in the USA. I myself wash my hands often because I think hygene is very important and so does my family. When I go to a washroom in a restaurant or big Mall, I see almost everyone washing there hands afterwards when coming out of the toillet. Warm water in a toilletroom is not so normal here, only in a bathroom it is. In some restaurants they have hot water tabs in the toilletrooms. I used sometimes warm water there but mostly cold water. Dutch have some real Dutch food like stamppot or zuurvlees in Limburg. Every province has his own food specials or special bakery foods.

[@schiffelers3944]

Limburgse vlaai but is that food, or our way of eating cake? Limburgse kaas would be a thing I would not recommend to all, but it is fun trying it at least once. If you get passed the smell. The only time I enjoyed it was when is had a cold and could not smell a thing, which also influences taste. My parents liked it. You can smell it being in the house as soon as you enter.

[@joseduijf-arets1422]

My father loved this cheese. (stinkkaas) we called it. I tried it myself also. Not so bad at all, except for the smell. @@schiffelers3944

[@tuneskramer69]

Go to WK snert koken in Groningen in February to try some dutch Cuisine

[@Teslacoil333]

I personally was my hands many times during a day, the cold water thing at a WC is not really a issue for many Dutch folks.. and yes we are rude at the bus stop or at the train exit.

[@lordkristenthomasgentry7614]

i love Dutch food i grew up eating it and i make it too. try Moeders restaurant in Amsterdam. its great Dutch food

[@RemiPut]

I'm in the USA for 21 years now and I remember when I lived in Holland a real good restaurant in Volendam , "D' Ouwe Helling" . Great food and good service , you have to try that.

[@gedovanderzee1224]

If you google: Dit zijn de restaurants die de Nederlandse keuken heruitvinden You will find some Dutch restaurants with Dutch cuisines that embrace Dutch food and bring it to the next level

[@chewynettles7911]

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