15:05 freezing bread is VERY common. Most people have a loaf of bread in their freezer, take 3-4 slices out in the morning, put some butter and cheese on it and take it with you to work/school. It will defrost over the next few hours and it'll be ready to eat by lunchtime.
I myself don't always do that because sometimes I tend to have the problem of the thawing causes my bag to become a little moist, the cold causes the moisture in the air to condensate and stuff.
In my local recently remodeled AH you always need the receipt. Self checkout is now the default and you have to go through the same gate. There are about 16 self checkout registers and only one regular checkout, and often that is unmanned and you have to wait for an employee if you want to be helped.
9:29 While they are sometimes eaten on sandwiches, they are actually a big part of our borrel culture. They are eaten late in the afternoon on little crackers, alongside some cheese cubes, french cheese crackers and a beer, wine or whiskey.
The glass jars for vegetables are produced in the Netherlands and glass is almost 100% recyclable. The circle is then complete again. We throw the glass jars in the (glasbak) bottle container. The glass then goes back to the glass factory and is made into new pots. And the vegetables taste much better in glass than canned, as they are placed in glass in hot sterilized jars and vacuum-sealed. Then quickly cooled so that the vitamins and minerals that determine the taste are retained. In a can, only the cooked food is put in and immediately closed and vacuumed. But not cooled down, so the vegetables continue to cook for a very long time.
Glass recycling? I can tell it was here (i.e. in the Netherlands..), for at least in the 1980's! Glasbak, or: glass recycling container. Maybe even early on? Before the 1980's? I don't know. I was shocked!! To find that in the UK, on a long stay in the 1990's (remember, more than a decade after), to find that empty glass bottles where simply discarded in the bin, with everytihing else of waste.... No recycling whatsoever..
There's also a tradition of making your own preserves in glass jars in the low countries, here in Belgium as well. People must've preferred the glass bowls because they associated it with quality merchandise.
Statiegeld in The Netherlands started in 1795 on beer vessels. In july 1942 on beer bottles. In the early 50's on milk bottles. Not for saving the environment but because of costs and shortage. October 1991 we started with statiegeld on plastic bottles. Since July 2021 on small plastic bottles. And April 2023 on cans. This all for environmental reasons.
In addition, this has been a forced policy and not because we're more ecofriendly but just more money concious. We want the money back, so are more willing to return.
The spreads are definitely not all egg based. Many have chicken, tuna, meat, cheese, veggies, the list goes on and on. Usually with a mayo binder, herbs and spices. The spreads are used on sandwiches with or without deli meat or cheese, or on crackers/baguette as snacks when entertaining. Everyone has their own favourite ways of eating and combining these spreads.
@@DT-wp4hk The main ingredient is not egg. That is what I meant. They had this impression that the spreads are all made of egg. Not so. The binder is usually mayo but you don't taste the egg. It's not about the egg, it's about the tuna, or chicken, or whatever else. 😊
we usually buy like 4 loafs of bread and then trow 3 of them in the freezer and take them out one by one when we need them, as far as i know it tastes the exact same when bread has been in the freezer for a while
As long as you eat it the same day, but that’s why you take the needed amount of slices out of the freezer. I notice a slight difference and prefer fresh bread. The frozen slices are a good second
We also do that, mostly for a week or so. And we always take out the bread before we go to bed, so it's defrosted the next morning. And than it is still fresh.
@@peterkralt2478 Not everyone can do that. When the kids still lived at home, we had a big freezer and on saturday we went to the market at the end of the day, just in time to buy buy some bread with a hughe discount. And mostly they gave some cake and pie too! Yummie!
When you freeze the bread and then defrost it, it actually tastes almost the same as freshly baked bread. It tastes like a 1000 times better than 1 day old bread from the cupboard.
also when you walk in there are security gates, only if you go to a real cash register with staff then you don't have a security gate when you walk out. The gates you walk through when you go inside ensure that you can't go back outside with products! This falls under security gates, and all stores have them!
Not completely true. You also have security gates after the cashier. On your receipt is the barcode to open the gates. This is common in the smaller supermarkets where the self checkout is in front of the cashier. Then you use the same security gate.
@@edwardwiekens5113 all I know behind cashiers is the readers for anti-theft tags, but you don't need to show anything to it, I only know the ones that read the barcode from self checkout
As a Dutchie I can confirm that our bread after freezing it is is still good after 3 months in the freezer. In the most populair stores you now can buy bread in the morning from the day before for like 25 cents. You have to be early because...it's cheap and we like that!
Freezing actually removes / neutralize some harmful additives put inside the breads of today. Package the amount of slices u need a day….it’s easy and prevents spillage 💪🍀 You can check my story out if you want 👍🙏🏽
As a Dutch person, I can confirm we at home buy bread in bulk. Like 8 loaves of brown bread and 2 other sorts of bread. We order them before hand and they will be put aside at our bakery. It's for convenience. Also, jarred vegetables are good to have as an option. We have a cupboard with a lot of jarred vegetables, but mostly eat maybe one jar or less a week. It's just also sort of in case of an emergency. But at home, we mostly eat fresh. Also, that spread of “egg salad stuff” is amazing. As a student, you get one or two packets and get a French loaf of bread let it be cut in the bread section, and then put it in a bag. And then at school, you can dip your bread into the salad. Or you eat that salad either on a cracker or on a sandwich. The thing with the “statiegeld” has been going on for 20+ years at least, I’m not sure. It's good to recycle and not really a bother to do that. I guess people in Scotland are lazy and don't really care about the environment. Even homeless people collect spare bottles on the street. To bring them back to the supermarket to get money to buy food. 10 bottles eapquels €1, 50, so yeah. Also that way they can eat and keep the streets clean, which is convenient. And the receipt to leave the store is at the self scan section, not at the regular counters.
If you have a good deep freezer (-18C or lower) so fresh bread freezes fast, it will even smell (and taste) like fresh bread every serving until the last slice.
We have had ‘statiegeld’ on bottles and jars as long as I can remember. I’m 45 years old. So, a very long time. Long before plastic bottles were the norm.
The salads can be used for sandwiches, but it's not why we have them so much in the netherlands. I think it is mainly because of our birthday parties. Typically a dutch birthday exists out of all the guests sitting around a table, and the table being full of food like diced cheese, sliced meat, sliced vegatables. But also something called toasjes idk if theres an english word for it. It's like thin sliced crispy bread that you buy pre packaged. We tend to also put a few types of the salads on the table so your guests get yo make a toasje with a salad they like.
The fresh orange juice machine. We've used it a few times and it's good (always better than the pre-packaged juice), but you can get more juice from 1 orange at home with either a hand juicer or a powered one. So most people just do that when they want fresh juice. The machine was also out of order half the time with some problem or other, so they ended up removing it from our local supermarket eventually.
Yes, I pressed orange juice in the supermarket. About €2,- or €3,- a small, or big bottle. Of course it tastes super, because it is fresh withourmt any E-numbers etc. Much better than the smoothies and other juices!!!
Like the orange juice machine, there is also a bread cutter machine that you can use. Mostly used for baguettes on wich we use the spreads. Oh and even if there is no machine for customers you can always ask an employee
When a can gets a bump, we don't like to buy it. The rule of thumb is that the packaging might not be airtight anymore, and the product is not fresh. With glass, this is never question. Also, the cans leave a bit of metallic taste on the food, and in glass, this is absent.
For bread I go to a real bakery and just freeze it. Then defrost when needed. Things like croissants and specialty breads are bought fresh, either on Saturday from the bakery or later in the week, but from the grocery store (I do love my croissants). Of course the supply issue with popular bread types in the grocery stores does sometimes hit me as well when I shop after work.
the security gate is a new addition where if you go to self checkout (which most stores have nowadays if its not the case that all the checkouts are self checkouts) you have to present your receipt to the gate to exit, a lot of stores especially smaller ones still have human checkout where a person checks your items and theres no gate there so if you enter the shop and dont buy anything you can just cut trough the line there, that is however if its not all self checkout where unfortunately you will have to ask a employee to open the gates for you
First, about the gates: What these Americans don't tell is that their clients can use a so called self-scan-device, During shopping, you can scan the barcode on the items you take and you can put them in your shopping bag of box. When you want to pay, you go to a unmanned machine (so not to a registry operated by a person) you pay with your card (Most Dutch use bankcards and no creditcards). When you've payed, your reciet is the prove of paying and that's why you have to use the barcode on your reciet to open the gate. It saves a lot of time. Your groceries are already in your bag to take home and paying is much quicker because there is no employee who has to take every item to scan before you can place it in your bag. At this paying machine there is always a employee who can let you trough if you haven't bought anything. He or she is also there to check your age if you buy alcohol (minimum age in the Netherlands is 18 years old) an the execute random buy the machine chosen samples (steekproeven) once in a while to check if every item is scanned by the customer and payed for. (Usually the computer demands them to check a number of items, like four or at most about ten items). In the Dutch supermarkets there has never been a system of people helping to pack your items in a paper bag or so at the registry.
10. Only when you use the self check out machines. 9. We have that system for ages, and recently also for cans, we always had it for glass bottles. 8. Well yes, there are many uses for potatoes. 7. No comment on that one, I'm a male. 6. Not all grocery stores have that, just some. 5. Well, we're Dutch, and love our haring. 4. I do like a good salad. 3. Glass jars is normal here, we do also have in cans. 2. Just read the signs/label before taking it. 1. Yes, I hate that too.
for situations with a shortage of bread you go to the section where half-baked bread is in bags and can stay for weeks you put it in the oven and in 10 minutes you have fresh bread (just like the store)
You only need a receipt if you used the self-scan checkout, and usually when I haven't bought anything at a supermarket I just walk past the regular checkout line and out of the store. 🤷🏼♀️
products that expire soon get 35% off at AH/Albert Heijn , Bakery if it's past x hrs and needs to be eaten same day, if it normally lasts longer than a week to expire (sealed bags/cans/jars etc.) if it expires within 2 - 3 day you get they get marked down same 35% It's to reduce both waste and loss (it's still a business ) and if it's not sold end of the day it finds it's way to the foodbank... minus the stuff that actually started to go bad
You also have the “too good to go boxes”, one for bread, one for veggies and a mixed one. You pay between 2,95 and 4,95 and it’s filled with a lot of stuff that’s due to expire (or the that-date says so, but can be used after that date). The only thing is that you never know what’s in there. But I find them great! And, at least in big cities, there’s this company called Too Good To Go, where you can buy leftovers from all kind of stores, bars and restaurants for a really fair price.
I always shop in the evenings because it's nice and quiet. The housebrand bread is often still in stock, which is the one I usually get anyways. And yes I always freeze the bread immediatly because I can't eat a whole loaf before it goes off. You can barely even notice if the bread has been froze in my opnion. And the orange juice is soooo good, but yea its just very expensive. About 3 times the price of a regular carton.
15:00 yea it tastes 100% the same defrosted XD just take it out the day before and have it thaw over-night then its fine in the morning. Tastes the same
Most of the loaves in the bakery section are sliced. I do buy a few at a time, a selection sometimes, and put them in the freezer. I then take out a few slices at a time to defrost in a plastic bag in the fridge as needed. The quality of the bread is excellent to start with so this is never a problem. Just don't buy too many at a time. Supermarkets also often have specials on different types of breads.
most stores do also have registers without the gates. the gates are only at the self check out. the "statiegeld" is 25 cents. only on small bottles and cans it is 15 cents
"Statiegeld" has existed for a long time in the Netherlands. I'm 46 years old and when I was little we still had glass bottles for coke etc - with statiegeld. Back then, statiegeld was mostly on glass bottles, including glass jars like pickle jars and vegetable jars. Since then, it's mostly moved on to plastic bottles. Jars don't have statiegeld anymore, but most beer bottles (and beer crates) still do. A full beer crate with 24 bottles is €3,50 statiegeld if I'm not mistaken. Back in the good old guilder days, that was fl 8,60. (Yes, fl was the abbreviation for the Dutch guilder). Oh and the ticket for the exit is only for self checkouts. My usual grocery store has a standard paperless checkout now, by the way. You scan your bonus card while checking out, your ticket is uploaded to your account, and you can use your bonus card to open the exit gate. No more wasted paper. :) And as for freezing bread... Yup, I do that. I live alone, so if I buy a whole bread, it will go stale before I finish it... So I buy my bread in halves, and freeze them. That way, every few days, I can take out a "fresh" half loaf from the freezer and always have relatively fresh bread. I must say that truly fresh bread tastes better than bread that has been frozen, but freshly defrosted bread is better than 2 day old unfrozen bread, so it's a practical trade-off.
K worker at a supermarket here the machinr is used pretty often depending on the store yes it is freshly squeezed but most stores dont clean it properly so thete is mold at spots in the machine but not visibly until u take apart the machine to clean
what they havn't mentioned about the bread, is that some stores have a "last chance" stand in the morning for the bread that didn't sell the day before. Instead of paying 2 euro's for the bread you pay just 0,50 something like that
Precut vegetables are just handy. Same goes for like the mixes. For example if you are making pasta of lasagne. All the vegetables you need mixed in the right ratio, already cut for you and everything. Just throw it in the pan/oven dish, add the sauce and you are done. Its a way to get people to have a home cooked meal after a full day of work when you don't wanna spend ages in the kitchen. Its so efficient.
I use the orange juice machine. Yes it's pretty expensive, but nothing beats freshly squeezed orange juice. There a specific type of bread I like and I certainly am not the only one that likes it. So it's trying to find out at what time you can find it.... Lol Too lazy to go to the grocery store with just two plastic bottles for statiegeld. So like once every two months or three month we got a collection and it's time to bring it all back lol.
i use the orange juice machine i don't care much for processed orange juice at all, but the freshly squeezed juice is one of the most delicious drinks i've ever had
@mertned you asked what Dutch supermarkets do with food of wich the shelf life is almost expired. Most supermarkets use discount stickers (sometimes with texts like, don't let it go to waste) and when there is leftover bread sometimes you see carts at the end of the day where you can find mostly cheap white sandwich bread for like €0,50
The supermarkets with a self checkout also always have a few normal cash registers with an actual person sitting at the register. I am 49 and "statiegeld" for the bottles have been there for as long as I can remember. So at least more than 40 years. If you are looking for tampons with an applicator (inbrenghuls) just look for the brand Tampax it is one of the 2 most common brands. I am Dutch but live in Austria and they have the fresh orange juice machine in some bigger supermarkets here too and yes it tastes way better of course. Most Dutch people probably wouldn't buy their haring at the supermarket. The salads are indeed like sandwich spread and I remember that to be one of the first. I miss them here in Austria to be honest. They have some, but not as good and definitely not as much variety. Glass is always the healthiest option to package food. Cans are lined with plastic and vegetables from a jar taste better than from a can. A disadvantage of glass is the weight, but this is all produced and sold in The Netherlands, so shipping costs are not as big of a factor as for other countries.
About the orange juice, I honestly think most dutch dont trust the stores to clean it properly. It wouldnt be that dirty. But its not clean enough for us.
In my storage it is always clean they clean it at least every end of the day. And when you see a moldy orange in the box than you just take that one out of course. I saw that 1 time in the 500 times I made me fresh orange jus en and just took it out and threw it away in the trash. It's fresh fruit of course and indeed some times fruit can mold but of course you don't put it in the machine then when you are a normal person!!.....And also they are exact the same oranges you can also buy at the same store to eat, no difference!!.... But the fresh taste is soooooooo much better and sweeter than the bitter ready made ones in the shelve !!!! The taste is amazing !!! Also much more vitamines and much healthier !!!!!
They are nasty, I have to clean them 3 days a week and man… some people legit just think they cleaned the machine by just pouring water on the inside🤢 it’s super moldy and the quality of the oranges is extremely bad!
The recycling has been a staple here in the Netherlands for a long time. But recently the laws have gotten more firm on this. Now we also have to recycle cans and not just plastic bottles. Opinions on this are mixed, but it was put into practice because the cans were being littered allover the place in the larger cities i believe. So now pretty much all bottles and cans have this extra fee on them that you get back after returning them to the store.
also you can just buy canned vegetables as well. which has better expiration dates. but i only buy those for the white beans in tomato sauce might be bias but i swear they taste better D: also i think for AH the big store u can buy frozen peas or regular peas. and i recall the still frozen is far cheaper. oh and the bakery thing what u can do a lot is call the store. and make an ''appointment'' of sorts ^^ just be friendly and ask hey i shop each monday and i buy 7 breads. and they will make em ahead of time for you. if you dont collect them they just shelf them.
About the security gates, At a regular cash register there are no security gates, but if you use the "selfscan" option then you use your receipt by scanning a barcode at the security gate to make it open.
I use the orange juice machine! Super delicious orange juice, but a little expensive. Usually get it for special occasions. Also drink it immediately. It does not keep for long.
The bread thing is true, at least for me. This supermarket called "Jumbo" often sells their bread at 50/75 cents. I'm stocking my freezer and typically take out about 10 to 15 slices a day for me, my wife and our son. If you eat it the same day it's fine, when you defrost it to use for a couple days it might go dry.
Every saturday morning I do the bulk shopping for the week at 7 in the nearest appie XL. And then I also get a freshly squeezed orange juice and some nice fresh croissants and breadrolls and stuff for breakfast. When I get home, we eat a fancy saturday morning breakfast with the whole family. Also, at 7:00 on saturday morning, that machine is very very busy. Sometimes there's a line even. These people probably shop a lot later.
the discounting of leftover items happens does happen, but usually it is just a random bundle of items that you get for x amount of money. The value of the products is more than you pay for but not every store does this. You could get bread, chicken and some vegetables in 1 pack and fruit, soup and beef in an other for example
10:15 many people also make the egg salads at home, boil some egs, crush them with a fork, or get the yolks out and crush these separate, season it to ones liking, add the yolks mix it and "presto" you have your own home made egg salad, add mayo to make it creamy btw. but for seasoning..there are no limits, spicy, peppery, curry like, indonesian blnds and or flavours, or plain simple paprika powder, salt and pepper..
I used to clean the orange juice machine at my previous job, and while it was cleaning thoroughly every single day, I would personally not use them because I have seen how quick they get dirty on the inside, and that gets into your drink. Like im sure its fine to consume but it just doesn't look very appealing to me. Also the price is outrageous for the juice which is why I never bought some myself either. But I can tell you that it gets used a lot, its just so quick and convenient that you often don't see people doing it because of how quick it is, it takes only like 10 seconds for a Liter bottle.
A big thing for me is that sometimes the oranges are too sour or not ripe enough. There's no flavour guarantee with these machines. So after a while and a few bad tasting orange batches I stopped using them completely.
Only with the self check out you have to use it to get out. When you pay directly to the cashier you can just walk out. Not an extra security is needed in that case. However there supermarkets with detection ports that go of when you leave the supermarket without paying.
It is a guess of me, but I think that vegetables are sold in glass jars has to with the fact that women (back then always women, sorry) used to preserve vegetables in preserving jars, called weckpotten (glass jars with a glass lid and a rubber ring between them and by heating the jars, the air gets out -vacuum- of the jars and this preserves the vegetables). I am 62 and I remember all women of our family went to my grandmothers during vegetable harvest and were ‘wecking’ vegetables all day. The glass jars are similar as the preserving jars and a remembrance of the good old traditional way of preserving vegetables, so commercially a good selling point of the manufacturer.
The bread thing we have it even better it the “van gister” from yesterday shelf, it’s fresh bread from the day before its usually 75% off cuz it isn’t “fresh”
glas jars would be mason jars in the US. Glass is always 100% recyclable, and milk and sodas all came in glass ones, even yoghurt, custard and ketchup p.e.
I use the fresh orange jus machine very often !!! And it's definitely a lot better than the ready-made drink cartons or bottles. The taste is sooooooo much better and fresher !!!! It's absolutely a huge taste difference !!!! You can choose fresh oranges from the box yourself and place them at the top of the machine and you put a bottle in de machine and push the button and the rest will take care of itself. Fresh made is 100 times better and also sweeter than the bitter cartons in the shelves.
Yes, we do buy bread in bulk. And putting in the freezer is excellent. I usually make a calculation the night before how many slices I need for the next day. And put those in bag or box. So they are defrosted and fresh. This can be done in the morning but takes more time. You don't want that 😂😂😂. We also have discount bread but there is no guarantee that any are left or that the bread you like is still available.
in regards to the supermarkets, when you check in and pay your own groceries there are usually gates, when you pay at the "old fashioned cash register", usually you don't pass any gates there.
My freezer is stuffed with bread. Or....the early next morning the left-overs are sold very cheap. And...there are a lot of supermarkets with different prices, so....I shop everywhere. Albert Heyn is the most expensive. And there are Asian supermarkets, where special products are sold, but also meat/fish and veggies for reasonable prices and very good quality ('Amazing Oriental').
10: We do have security gates at both the entrance and exit yes. The ones at the entrance open just...whenever a person is in front of them. No actual security check required. I honestly don't even know why we still have these. The ones at the exit though are only for the self check-out. If you use a regular register they're already opened as long as a cashier is manning the station. If you didn't buy anything you can 99% of the time just walk to a cashier station and scoot by the people waiting to pay. It's no issue really, as long as you know this is how it works. :P 9: "Statiegeld" or returning empty plastic/metal bottles/containers. Yup, completely accurate. It's an incentive to stop people from simply tossing their bottles/cans in any random garbage bin. "statiegeld" can be anywhere from 25 cents to 10 cents. About twice a month this feels like I basically get a 1.5~2.5 euro discount on my groceries. I know it's a return of "bail money" I already paid, but it still feels like a discount. There's actually homeless people that collect these bottles/cans from lazy people, and can make 60+ euro a day by simply turning in bottles/cans that other people were too lazy to hand in. And it honestly barely takes any time at all. Just once a month you bring your bag of bottles/cans, take like 2 minutes to hand them all in at the machine, and get the money you spent extra, back. 8: Potatoes. We do very much love our potatoes. In the prepared section you'll have wedges (both peeled and with skin), cubes, slices, fries, and cut in half. And there will also be 2+ options of spiced potatoes. Not to mention having 2~3 different brands for each. And then there's the fresh section as well. Which is divided between "crumbly", "hard", "specifically for frying in a pan", "stamppot" specific, and "sweet." 7: Wait...tampons can have applicators? I'm not a woman so I don't know all the details, but I don't think I've ever heard of tampons with "applicators"... "drug stores" like Kruidvat and Etos do have a better selection though. It's kind of their "specialization." Not just for tampons, but for self-care products overall. (hair care, skin care, make-up, hygiene, etc) 6: Orange juice machine: Imo, don't use it. They use normal oranges for the machine. Which are TERRIBLE for tasty orange juice. Way too sour. Also on the expensive side. Instead, buy a cheap juicer and buy "orange juice oranges" specifically. Squeeze the orange juice at home. SO much better. They're more sweet than sour. 5: I don't think I've ever tried raw herring with raw onion myself. But I do think I would like it. Maybe you could say it's the Dutch version of sushi? :P It's not entirely comparable, but there's not that many countries that have raw fish as one of their staple foods, either. 4: "Salads". We call them "salads" but they're really not. Most of them are more like mayo spreads with a flavor. "Egg salad" is like a mayo with egg added to it. "Chicken curry" salad is a mayo with curry flavor and some chicken bits added. And so on. They're great on crackers or even bread. But they're pretty unhealthy as well, since it's mostly mayo. :P 3: Yea, we do have very little canned or frozen vegetables. Which is weird honestly. Because frozen vegetables are usually more healthy/nutritious than "fresh" vegetables. "Fresh" vegetables have often spent weeks or months in a storage before they're sold in a store. While frozen vegetables are often frozen very quickly after harvesting, preserving more of the nutrients overall. Not sure why this is a thing here. Though it might have to do with freezing stuff destroying cell structure. So the texture of the vegetables changes when you freeze it. Hence we prefer fresh instead. Just a guess though. Also we do sell fresh, canned, and frozen alongside each other. For instance you'll find 2 brands of canned (or glass jarred) carrots, but also 2 brands of fresh carrots and 2 brands of frozen carrots. Ratios might differ per item, but it's not like we ONLY sell certain things in canned/jarred form. 2: I don't see the issue with putting organic and non-organic next to each other. See it this way, you want a cucumber. You walk to the fresh produce isle, look for where the cucumbers are, and pick the one you want. Organic or not? Both options are right there next to each other. One is organic but more expensive, the other is regular but a bit cheaper. Rather than having to walk to a specific "organic" section in another part of the store, having to put a note in your phone or remember what each costs. 1: Yea I don't get this... Why do our in-store bakeries only bake in the morning? You HAVE to be early (lets say, before 2 pm) to get the popular ones. Otherwise you'll run into the problem of the popular ones already been sold out quite often. Why can't they bake in 2 shifts instead? 1 for the morning/early afternoon, and another one for 2 pm+? But I guess it's a case of "this is how we've always done things", even if the traditional method isn't all that great overall... 1.2: We do freeze our bread yes. It degrades the texture a little, true. But instead you can buy enough bread to last you 3~6 months, freeze it, and still have it be just fine when you thaw it in the microwave. Why buy fresh at a highly increased price, when you can instead buy a few loafs that last you months while spending a lot less money?
No there are usually manned checkouts in parrallel to the self-scan systems. Statiegeld has been in NL forever. Only a few of the salads are egg based - lots are chicken, tuna, salmon etc.
Yep ...we freeze our bread ... and then mainly the white buns. That's what i take with me to work. I usually buy for about a week and a half ,and put it in the freezer when i get home. And because the bread is fresh ,and u put in the freezer immediately . it's stil very nice when you defrost it.
If you're late and you've run out of bread, you always have the alternative of buying pre-baked bread. A very tasty alternative. These can be kept in the package for a few weeks. By the way, bread is not baked in the supermarket, these are also pre-baked breads so that the suggestion is made that fresh bread is baked. After all, you smell fresh bread but in fact you are being taken by the nose (Dutch for being fooled).
I always store my bread in the freezer. If you buy fresh bread and freeze it directly after purchase, then it will be just as fresh after you take it our of the freezer. But I often toast my bread if I eat it at home. When I make some sandwiches for lunch at work, then I eat it untoasted. If I buy a really nice bread from the bakery, then I eat some untoasted fresh slices with some good cheese, especially the "kapjes" (the first and last slice) when they are still nice and crispy 😂
The spreads are indeed similar to the ones in Scotland; maybe not in flavours, but in "idea". God, I miss coronation chicken! The one thing that annoys me in Dutch supermarkets is that you cannae get anymore plastic bags to pack your fruit and veg in. Everything is fecking wrapped in plastic, but if you want to just pack a lettuce or some bananas in a plastic bag, you're treated as some sort of oil company pullutant
A lot of tins for food ended up leeching bad stuff into the food. There ARE things still in cans, but those now have a protective layer on the inside that is food safe. But the tins used to be bad, so a LOT went over to glass, and the recycling infrastructure is also available. Called the "glasbak" or glass box. It's a huge metal box that you insert your bottles into and the county comes empty the thing every now and then, to be recycled. It's even color sorted. Clear, green, brown.
I've been baking our own bread for years. It doesn't get any fresher ;-) . The nice thing about this is that you can combine flours yourself to obtain a unique bread. For example, the other day I put all the leftovers of flour together and that was the best bread ever. If only I knew what was in it :p
If the potato thing surprises you we have a abbreviation “AVG” with is “Aardappelen Vlees en Groente” meaning potato meat and vegetables, there is a abbreviation for the most important food groots starting with potatoes
This does make me think about the bread freezing. I mean, we eat most of our foods fresh, except we freeze our breads. This makes me wonder why Supermarkets don't sell frozen breads. You'd expect they could at least move their day-old bread to the frozen isle. Anyhow, they've probably tried that and it was either more expensive or we would just only buy the fresh bread.
I love herring they are one of the best things about living in holland. They,re not pickeld but packed in salt so actually you,re eating it raw. It,s very tasty in rolls with onions + gerkins.😂😂
08:48 Those are not all egg salad. They are salads for on your sandwhich, all different flavours and yes, we eat them all the time. The salads they showed were in order: Club Sandwich salad, tuna salad and vegan chicken - curry salad. My favourite ones are tuna, Crab, spicy chicken, chicken curry and cucumber salad. Cucumber salad is perfect for a sandwich on a warm day. There's also egg salads in all different variations with different spices. My fav egg salad is Surnamese eggsalad.
6:54 yes the ornage juice is better then from the packages in the refridge.. It is fresh, no added sugars or conservations and mno e numbers ( artificial flavours)
I believe the glass or can (either steel or aluminum) are all due to their specific manufacturing supply chains. HAK pioneered the glass method here, and it just stuck. There is an ongoing joke that vegetables behind glass are happier.
Nowadays many supermarkets have self-service checkouts. You need the barcode on your receipt to open the gate when leaving. It's obviously for security reasons as you could otherwise quite easily walk out without paying. That's also why random checks are made at these self-service checkouts. The digital security system selects and sometimes it's your turn 😉 Nothing more to it than that.
Never realized all the spreads were basically egg salad variants... Learn something new every day, I guess. Also, I do freeze my bread but it's not a lot because I rarely eat bread anymore. When I was younger my mom used to (and still does, for her own home) buy a bunch of bread and freeze it. As long as you defrost it the right way the bread is fine for a really long time.
The security thing is only at the shops that have the selfscan option (which is shown in the clip, which they filmed at Jumbo), not at all shops. There's always a 'normal' row with a cashier included (or you pay at the service counter). The bottle deposit is not a Dutch exclusive thing, Germany is even more advanced in this! Before they changed the bottle deposit system last year to include cans, Germans near the border often came to bulk bay can trays at f.e. Kruidvat. The orange juice machines are less common than you think. I've only seen them at bigger AH's or Jumbo's. I think most Dutch people would buy the herring on the market, not the supermarket ones. It's a typical market product. I think the spreads are really a part of our Borrel culture, they're normally not far away from crackers etc. Again, jarred vegetables is not a Dutch exclusive thing, I've seen it a lot in Germany too. Dutch bread can be frozen quite well. And if you go early to an AH the next day, you often find bread of a day prior for a very reduced price (f.e. the AH does that).
When you use the self checkout you need to scan your reciept to get out of the store , you are also subject to random checks to see if you have scanned all the goods you are buying to prevent people not paying for all the products . They also have to check your age when you scan alcohol .
I don't bother buying my bread in time here in the Netherlands since i order my groceries online for home delivery, which is offered by a couple of supermarket brands (like Albert Heijn or Jumbo) here.
Oh! Our Jumbo has a pomegranate machine as well. The orange from the machines is freshly squeezed OJ. So yeah, good. The pomegranate is too expensive compared to the boxed version.
We have the spreads when we have a birthday for instance . You put different 'salades" spreads on the coffee table with toasts or sliced baguettes and every one can just make there own toast and by toast i dont mean toasted bread but bite sized bought toast like melba toast
Taking kids down to the local bakery or supermarket on weekend morning for fresh bread where the owner will lather with peanut butter is a tradition my parents, my kids, and I grew up on.
The thing about the 'statiegeld' is that it 1) reduces garbage on the street, as it also includes cans and 2) it gives extremely poor people an avenue to make some money: just walk around and pick up cans and bottles, and when you have a bag full: turn them in: tadaa.. Cash. I know someone who makes like 20 bucks a day doing this, which adds up in a month to 600 euro. Not bad!
I hate sliced bread from the freezer. Not because of taste, but the texture changes to this dryfreezed state. I only use freezer bread for grilled cheese sandwhiches or toast. or if i'm making croutons or if i'm going soak it in my soup.......or if i'm desperate. So no....generally no freezer bread for me.
we also have a thing thats like "bread from yesterday" with like a whole section with all sorts of bread. the're really good because if you want to save money, you can. plus it doesnt really taste any different
those egg salades are one of a couple of traditional ingredients for a typical dutch bbq. we get sliced baguetss, eiersalade, krabsalade and tonijnsalade most of the time. if you go to a dutch bbq and they dont have that, they are imposters😂😂😂
Nr.10: Leaving the store with a receipt is only necessary if you go through the self-scanning register section. If you go through the "old" cash register aisle, you can go straight through (after paying the person behind the register, of course). This has only been implemented in the last few years, and is there for a fairly recent occurrence. Nr.9: The tax on the (larger, and things like beer) bottles (and cases) has been around for decades now, but since last year, has been expanded to include most small plastic bottles, and cans as well. It was about time. They've been mulling about implementing this for i don't know how many years. (bureaucracy, am i right ?). Nr.8: When it comes to potatoes, look up the painting "De Aardappel Eters"( the potato eaters). It's a very famous painting here in The Netherlands about, you guessed it, Dutch people eating potatoes ! Personally, i like those "aardappel partjes" you saw in the video, or "aardappel schijfjes"(sliced potatoes), baked in a frying pan, with both some liquid, and some garlick butter, and some (smoked) paprika powder, with some "speklapjes" (cut pork belly in like strips, i think you would call it), sliced into smaller strips about a centimeter wide or so. Goes great with some ketchup, barbecue, or paprika sauce (or any other sauce of your liking), and a simple salad (or some apple-sauce). Nothing really to add about nr's 7, 6, or 5. Nr.4: The first items you see in those small square packages, is what we call in The Netherlands "smeerkaas", which is basically a semi liquid cheese spread you can put on your sandwich, or your toast, plus, there are several flavours available. The sandwich egg salad thing, is actually more of a toast salad thing, that can be used on a sandwich as well, but is more commonly used on sliced French baguettes, small snack-toast, or crackers during parties, birthdays, and other important get-togethers. Nr.3: Glass-jarred fruits and vegetables (also known as conservables) are very prevalent here (and in Germany as well), It basically dates back to the recent past, when most people here in The Netherlands used to conserve (and/or dry) their own foods (like fruits and jams, vegetables, meats, even entire meals), to then be stored in a (root-)cellar or basement for the winter, for instance. And because many of the current large supermarkets started out as small local stores, who used to do this, but in ever larger quantities, it eventually created an entire industry around it, and it just kinda stuck since then. These conservables tend to last several years, in some cases, provided you store them in a dark, dry, and cool environment (like basements, or cellars). The Glass jars don't really get reused, however (because of hygiene practices), but they do get recycled. Again, nothing really to add about Nr. 2. Nr.1: When it comes to the bread, yes, you can freeze it, and yes, generally, it's still good quality after de-frosting (preferably, by taking it out and letting it defrost on its own on a plate, or your countertop, and NOT sticking it in the micro-wave oven, where it comes out all mushy, like, YUCK), provided you eat it in the next to near future, and don't let it sit in that freezer for, like, months, or something. Also, here in The Netherlands, certain food items end up getting reduced prices (from 25, to 35, and up to sometimes 50 percent), if they are within a few days of reaching their due date, all-though with items in the bakery/pastry section, they do this only on the due-date itself, as i recently found out myself in a local grocery store.
The gate is only with the selfscan, so they know you payed . The jus is a breakfast item, so if you on the run to school or work and missed your breakfast you grape a jus and croissant in tge supermarket.
These 2 people go most to the supermarket called: "Albert Heijn", in other supermarkets you can't find everything they talk about in their video. Point 10: You have self-service checkouts, where you need a receipt to leave the store, but not every supermarket has that. Point 9: Deposits are often refunded in the Netherlands, as the video also says. Point 8: Potatoes packaged for baking, boiling or frying are very common here. Point 7: In the Netherlands, the american type of drugstore is divided into smaller stores such as a limited drugstore, a pharmacy, or by prescription from the doctor. Point 6: You mostly have orange juice machines in the big Albert Heijn supermarkets, hardly any in other supermarkets. Point 5: Usually these are stalls or food trucks, with the tastiest raw herring. From the supermarket it is less tasty. Point 4: Many people eat these spreads, egg salads and more. Point 3: Cans is more garbage, so more glass jars, because they can be re-used again Point 2: Most organic vegetables are pretty much the same as other vegetables, because there aren't many additives in the vegetables. Point 1: The bread is indeed very fresh, if you freeze it it will stay good for a very long time. Indeed in the afternoon after 16:00 hour in the Albert Heijn there are discounts stickers. (again something that mainly happens in the Albert Heijn).
Yup i buy mine fresh sliced bread once a week and freeze it. Its stays fresh ofcourse it isn't as good as just baked of bread that is still steaming in the bag but that only last for an hour on that level.
Statiegeld translates as deposit money. It is not a tax. It always existed in the Netherlands for glass bottles. Herrings are not a tourist thing. Fisher towns have a lot of competition among each other on quality. Ever since the 17 th century. All these spreads offer a high profit for the shop and the clients love it. Vegetables are in glass because we prefer to see what we buy. Also there was this cute commercial about the little pea that was so disappointed, because it had hoped for a seat at the window. Bakers bake their bread during the night and so you buy your bread fresh in the morning. What's wrong with you ?
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15:05 freezing bread is VERY common. Most people have a loaf of bread in their freezer, take 3-4 slices out in the morning, put some butter and cheese on it and take it with you to work/school. It will defrost over the next few hours and it'll be ready to eat by lunchtime.
I myself don't always do that because sometimes I tend to have the problem of the thawing causes my bag to become a little moist, the cold causes the moisture in the air to condensate and stuff.
You only need a receipt to open the gate if you go through self-checkout
In my local recently remodeled AH you always need the receipt. Self checkout is now the default and you have to go through the same gate. There are about 16 self checkout registers and only one regular checkout, and often that is unmanned and you have to wait for an employee if you want to be helped.
@@aaargh If any shop does that here they lose me as customer, i prefer to pay cash and i also life in the Netherlands.
@@aaargh i think AH is terrible anyways but its dominated in cities like Amsterdam.
I avoid self checkout like the plague. I don't get anything for taking the work off of cashier's.
And those self-checkout counters really expanded massively during the Corona period for obvious reasons.
9:29 While they are sometimes eaten on sandwiches, they are actually a big part of our borrel culture. They are eaten late in the afternoon on little crackers, alongside some cheese cubes, french cheese crackers and a beer, wine or whiskey.
The glass jars for vegetables are produced in the Netherlands and glass is almost 100% recyclable. The circle is then complete again. We throw the glass jars in the (glasbak) bottle container. The glass then goes back to the glass factory and is made into new pots. And the vegetables taste much better in glass than canned, as they are placed in glass in hot sterilized jars and vacuum-sealed. Then quickly cooled so that the vitamins and minerals that determine the taste are retained. In a can, only the cooked food is put in and immediately closed and vacuumed. But not cooled down, so the vegetables continue to cook for a very long time.
Thanks for saving me the effort 😂👌
Glass recycling? I can tell it was here (i.e. in the Netherlands..), for at least in the 1980's! Glasbak, or: glass recycling container. Maybe even early on? Before the 1980's? I don't know.
I was shocked!! To find that in the UK, on a long stay in the 1990's (remember, more than a decade after), to find that empty glass bottles where simply discarded in the bin, with everytihing else of waste.... No recycling whatsoever..
There's also a tradition of making your own preserves in glass jars in the low countries, here in Belgium as well. People must've preferred the glass bowls because they associated it with quality merchandise.
Statiegeld in The Netherlands started in 1795 on beer vessels.
In july 1942 on beer bottles.
In the early 50's on milk bottles.
Not for saving the environment but because of costs and shortage.
October 1991 we started with statiegeld on plastic bottles.
Since July 2021 on small plastic bottles.
And April 2023 on cans.
This all for environmental reasons.
In addition, this has been a forced policy and not because we're more ecofriendly but just more money concious. We want the money back, so are more willing to return.
Actually it's because people are lazy, if people separate themselves = less work for centers. Efficiency of time on work hours.Start at the problem.
De SPAR had statiegeld voor frisdrankflessen sinds 1979 :)
Green scam
@@DT-wp4hk reageer dan gewoon niet...
The spreads are definitely not all egg based. Many have chicken, tuna, meat, cheese, veggies, the list goes on and on. Usually with a mayo binder, herbs and spices. The spreads are used on sandwiches with or without deli meat or cheese, or on crackers/baguette as snacks when entertaining.
Everyone has their own favourite ways of eating and combining these spreads.
Surinaamse Ei, always. On anything.
Mayo is egg based, and all of them contain mayo. But in Dutch we'd only refer to it as egg salad if it contains boiled egg, which most of these don't.
@@Nebuloid1YES!!! I fully agree. Surinaamse ei
Mayo as binder. And there is no egg in mayo?😊
@@DT-wp4hk The main ingredient is not egg. That is what I meant. They had this impression that the spreads are all made of egg. Not so. The binder is usually mayo but you don't taste the egg. It's not about the egg, it's about the tuna, or chicken, or whatever else. 😊
we usually buy like 4 loafs of bread and then trow 3 of them in the freezer and take them out one by one when we need them, as far as i know it tastes the exact same when bread has been in the freezer for a while
well freshly baked is better but who has time to get bread everyday lol
As long as you eat it the same day, but that’s why you take the needed amount of slices out of the freezer. I notice a slight difference and prefer fresh bread. The frozen slices are a good second
Never done that, i just buy half a loaf every day and i never have food in storage, i just buy daily what i need for 1 day
We also do that, mostly for a week or so. And we always take out the bread before we go to bed, so it's defrosted the next morning. And than it is still fresh.
@@peterkralt2478 Not everyone can do that. When the kids still lived at home, we had a big freezer and on saturday we went to the market at the end of the day, just in time to buy buy some bread with a hughe discount. And mostly they gave some cake and pie too! Yummie!
When you freeze the bread and then defrost it, it actually tastes almost the same as freshly baked bread. It tastes like a 1000 times better than 1 day old bread from the cupboard.
i always keep atleast 1 bread frozen :D incase im to sick or cant go to the store.
i wouldn't say almost exactly the same, but yeah, close enough. nothing beats freshly baked bread though. :)
I'm really not a fan of frozen bread. It almost always tastes (much) worse.
Nope
the security gate thins is only when you leave and use the self checkout. if you go past a cashier theres no security gate
yea
also when you walk in there are security gates, only if you go to a real cash register with staff then you don't have a security gate when you walk out. The gates you walk through when you go inside ensure that you can't go back outside with products! This falls under security gates, and all stores have them!
Somehow this video didn’t deliver on “weird”
Not completely true. You also have security gates after the cashier. On your receipt is the barcode to open the gates. This is common in the smaller supermarkets where the self checkout is in front of the cashier. Then you use the same security gate.
@@edwardwiekens5113 all I know behind cashiers is the readers for anti-theft tags, but you don't need to show anything to it, I only know the ones that read the barcode from self checkout
As a Dutchie I can confirm that our bread after freezing it is is still good after 3 months in the freezer. In the most populair stores you now can buy bread in the morning from the day before for like 25 cents. You have to be early because...it's cheap and we like that!
Huh, kan dat?
Kkzuur brood vreten😂 every bread in the dutch stores that is not freshly baked has a moldy and sour smell to it. Especially Ah, lidl, aldi
Freezing actually removes / neutralize some harmful additives put inside the breads of today.
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As a Dutch person, I can confirm we at home buy bread in bulk. Like 8 loaves of brown bread and 2 other sorts of bread. We order them before hand and they will be put aside at our bakery. It's for convenience.
Also, jarred vegetables are good to have as an option. We have a cupboard with a lot of jarred vegetables, but mostly eat maybe one jar or less a week. It's just also sort of in case of an emergency. But at home, we mostly eat fresh.
Also, that spread of “egg salad stuff” is amazing. As a student, you get one or two packets and get a French loaf of bread let it be cut in the bread section, and then put it in a bag. And then at school, you can dip your bread into the salad. Or you eat that salad either on a cracker or on a sandwich.
The thing with the “statiegeld” has been going on for 20+ years at least, I’m not sure. It's good to recycle and not really a bother to do that. I guess people in Scotland are lazy and don't really care about the environment. Even homeless people collect spare bottles on the street. To bring them back to the supermarket to get money to buy food. 10 bottles eapquels €1, 50, so yeah. Also that way they can eat and keep the streets clean, which is convenient.
And the receipt to leave the store is at the self scan section, not at the regular counters.
The fresh orange juice is delicious and so much more tasteful than in the coolsection
If you have a good deep freezer (-18C or lower) so fresh bread freezes fast, it will even smell (and taste) like fresh bread every serving until the last slice.
We have had ‘statiegeld’ on bottles and jars as long as I can remember. I’m 45 years old. So, a very long time. Long before plastic bottles were the norm.
Same, I'm 46 and can't remember a time were there was no statiegeld on (beer)bottles. Statiegeld on cans and plastic bottles are relatively new.
Same and I'm 60.
20 years older, just the same
@@Nebuloid1 Yes, let's blame Schotland for the global plastic waste problems 🤣
It started in 1942 on beer bottles.
The salads can be used for sandwiches, but it's not why we have them so much in the netherlands. I think it is mainly because of our birthday parties. Typically a dutch birthday exists out of all the guests sitting around a table, and the table being full of food like diced cheese, sliced meat, sliced vegatables. But also something called toasjes idk if theres an english word for it. It's like thin sliced crispy bread that you buy pre packaged. We tend to also put a few types of the salads on the table so your guests get yo make a toasje with a salad they like.
The fresh orange juice machine. We've used it a few times and it's good (always better than the pre-packaged juice), but you can get more juice from 1 orange at home with either a hand juicer or a powered one. So most people just do that when they want fresh juice. The machine was also out of order half the time with some problem or other, so they ended up removing it from our local supermarket eventually.
Yes, I pressed orange juice in the supermarket. About €2,- or €3,- a small, or big bottle. Of course it tastes super, because it is fresh withourmt any E-numbers etc. Much better than the smoothies and other juices!!!
Like the orange juice machine, there is also a bread cutter machine that you can use. Mostly used for baguettes on wich we use the spreads. Oh and even if there is no machine for customers you can always ask an employee
When a can gets a bump, we don't like to buy it. The rule of thumb is that the packaging might not be airtight anymore, and the product is not fresh. With glass, this is never question. Also, the cans leave a bit of metallic taste on the food, and in glass, this is absent.
For bread I go to a real bakery and just freeze it. Then defrost when needed. Things like croissants and specialty breads are bought fresh, either on Saturday from the bakery or later in the week, but from the grocery store (I do love my croissants). Of course the supply issue with popular bread types in the grocery stores does sometimes hit me as well when I shop after work.
the security gate is a new addition where if you go to self checkout (which most stores have nowadays if its not the case that all the checkouts are self checkouts) you have to present your receipt to the gate to exit, a lot of stores especially smaller ones still have human checkout where a person checks your items and theres no gate there so if you enter the shop and dont buy anything you can just cut trough the line there, that is however if its not all self checkout where unfortunately you will have to ask a employee to open the gates for you
First, about the gates: What these Americans don't tell is that their clients can use a so called self-scan-device, During shopping, you can scan the barcode on the items you take and you can put them in your shopping bag of box. When you want to pay, you go to a unmanned machine (so not to a registry operated by a person) you pay with your card (Most Dutch use bankcards and no creditcards). When you've payed, your reciet is the prove of paying and that's why you have to use the barcode on your reciet to open the gate. It saves a lot of time. Your groceries are already in your bag to take home and paying is much quicker because there is no employee who has to take every item to scan before you can place it in your bag. At this paying machine there is always a employee who can let you trough if you haven't bought anything. He or she is also there to check your age if you buy alcohol (minimum age in the Netherlands is 18 years old) an the execute random buy the machine chosen samples (steekproeven) once in a while to check if every item is scanned by the customer and payed for. (Usually the computer demands them to check a number of items, like four or at most about ten items). In the Dutch supermarkets there has never been a system of people helping to pack your items in a paper bag or so at the registry.
10. Only when you use the self check out machines.
9. We have that system for ages, and recently also for cans, we always had it for glass bottles.
8. Well yes, there are many uses for potatoes.
7. No comment on that one, I'm a male.
6. Not all grocery stores have that, just some.
5. Well, we're Dutch, and love our haring.
4. I do like a good salad.
3. Glass jars is normal here, we do also have in cans.
2. Just read the signs/label before taking it.
1. Yes, I hate that too.
for situations with a shortage of bread
you go to the section where half-baked bread is in bags and can stay for weeks
you put it in the oven and in 10 minutes you have fresh bread (just like the store)
Or you get some Frisian rye bread. It is good with butter and young cheese
We also buy oranges to make orange juice at home, the little sealed potato bags are more expensive compared to a big bag potatoes
You only need a receipt if you used the self-scan checkout, and usually when I haven't bought anything at a supermarket I just walk past the regular checkout line and out of the store. 🤷🏼♀️
products that expire soon get 35% off at AH/Albert Heijn , Bakery if it's past x hrs and needs to be eaten same day, if it normally lasts longer than a week to expire (sealed bags/cans/jars etc.) if it expires within 2 - 3 day you get they get marked down same 35%
It's to reduce both waste and loss (it's still a business ) and if it's not sold end of the day it finds it's way to the foodbank... minus the stuff that actually started to go bad
You also have the “too good to go boxes”, one for bread, one for veggies and a mixed one. You pay between 2,95 and 4,95 and it’s filled with a lot of stuff that’s due to expire (or the that-date says so, but can be used after that date). The only thing is that you never know what’s in there. But I find them great! And, at least in big cities, there’s this company called Too Good To Go, where you can buy leftovers from all kind of stores, bars and restaurants for a really fair price.
I always shop in the evenings because it's nice and quiet. The housebrand bread is often still in stock, which is the one I usually get anyways. And yes I always freeze the bread immediatly because I can't eat a whole loaf before it goes off. You can barely even notice if the bread has been froze in my opnion.
And the orange juice is soooo good, but yea its just very expensive. About 3 times the price of a regular carton.
Freezing food is very common here from lots of bread to left over meals to prep meals for if you don't wanna cooking dinner XD
15:00 yea it tastes 100% the same defrosted XD just take it out the day before and have it thaw over-night then its fine in the morning. Tastes the same
Most of the loaves in the bakery section are sliced. I do buy a few at a time, a selection sometimes, and put them in the freezer. I then take out a few slices at a time to defrost in a plastic bag in the fridge as needed. The quality of the bread is excellent to start with so this is never a problem. Just don't buy too many at a time. Supermarkets also often have specials on different types of breads.
most stores do also have registers without the gates. the gates are only at the self check out.
the "statiegeld" is 25 cents. only on small bottles and cans it is 15 cents
"Statiegeld" has existed for a long time in the Netherlands. I'm 46 years old and when I was little we still had glass bottles for coke etc - with statiegeld. Back then, statiegeld was mostly on glass bottles, including glass jars like pickle jars and vegetable jars. Since then, it's mostly moved on to plastic bottles. Jars don't have statiegeld anymore, but most beer bottles (and beer crates) still do. A full beer crate with 24 bottles is €3,50 statiegeld if I'm not mistaken. Back in the good old guilder days, that was fl 8,60. (Yes, fl was the abbreviation for the Dutch guilder).
Oh and the ticket for the exit is only for self checkouts. My usual grocery store has a standard paperless checkout now, by the way. You scan your bonus card while checking out, your ticket is uploaded to your account, and you can use your bonus card to open the exit gate. No more wasted paper. :)
And as for freezing bread... Yup, I do that. I live alone, so if I buy a whole bread, it will go stale before I finish it... So I buy my bread in halves, and freeze them. That way, every few days, I can take out a "fresh" half loaf from the freezer and always have relatively fresh bread. I must say that truly fresh bread tastes better than bread that has been frozen, but freshly defrosted bread is better than 2 day old unfrozen bread, so it's a practical trade-off.
K worker at a supermarket here the machinr is used pretty often depending on the store yes it is freshly squeezed but most stores dont clean it properly so thete is mold at spots in the machine but not visibly until u take apart the machine to clean
what they havn't mentioned about the bread, is that some stores have a "last chance" stand in the morning for the bread that didn't sell the day before. Instead of paying 2 euro's for the bread you pay just 0,50 something like that
Precut vegetables are just handy. Same goes for like the mixes. For example if you are making pasta of lasagne. All the vegetables you need mixed in the right ratio, already cut for you and everything. Just throw it in the pan/oven dish, add the sauce and you are done. Its a way to get people to have a home cooked meal after a full day of work when you don't wanna spend ages in the kitchen. Its so efficient.
I use the orange juice machine. Yes it's pretty expensive, but nothing beats freshly squeezed orange juice.
There a specific type of bread I like and I certainly am not the only one that likes it. So it's trying to find out at what time you can find it.... Lol
Too lazy to go to the grocery store with just two plastic bottles for statiegeld. So like once every two months or three month we got a collection and it's time to bring it all back lol.
i use the orange juice machine
i don't care much for processed orange juice at all, but the freshly squeezed juice is one of the most delicious drinks i've ever had
@mertned you asked what Dutch supermarkets do with food of wich the shelf life is almost expired. Most supermarkets use discount stickers (sometimes with texts like, don't let it go to waste) and when there is leftover bread sometimes you see carts at the end of the day where you can find mostly cheap white sandwich bread for like €0,50
The supermarkets with a self checkout also always have a few normal cash registers with an actual person sitting at the register.
I am 49 and "statiegeld" for the bottles have been there for as long as I can remember. So at least more than 40 years.
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I am Dutch but live in Austria and they have the fresh orange juice machine in some bigger supermarkets here too and yes it tastes way better of course.
Most Dutch people probably wouldn't buy their haring at the supermarket.
The salads are indeed like sandwich spread and I remember that to be one of the first. I miss them here in Austria to be honest. They have some, but not as good and definitely not as much variety.
Glass is always the healthiest option to package food. Cans are lined with plastic and vegetables from a jar taste better than from a can. A disadvantage of glass is the weight, but this is all produced and sold in The Netherlands, so shipping costs are not as big of a factor as for other countries.
About the orange juice, I honestly think most dutch dont trust the stores to clean it properly. It wouldnt be that dirty. But its not clean enough for us.
True, I never used it again after seeing a moldy orange in there :/
In my storage it is always clean they clean it at least every end of the day. And when you see a moldy orange in the box than you just take that one out of course. I saw that 1 time in the 500 times I made me fresh orange jus en and just took it out and threw it away in the trash. It's fresh fruit of course and indeed some times fruit can mold but of course you don't put it in the machine then when you are a normal person!!.....And also they are exact the same oranges you can also buy at the same store to eat, no difference!!.... But the fresh taste is soooooooo much better and sweeter than the bitter ready made ones in the shelve !!!! The taste is amazing !!! Also much more vitamines and much healthier !!!!!
They are nasty, I have to clean them 3 days a week and man… some people legit just think they cleaned the machine by just pouring water on the inside🤢 it’s super moldy and the quality of the oranges is extremely bad!
2:00 only on the self check outs
And on the bread salades they are great! Try the old cheese pesto it is great!
3:56 The bottles refund money, pffff since halfway the 1980's
I am in my sixties and it has been like that my entire life.
It started in 1942 on beer bottles.
The recycling has been a staple here in the Netherlands for a long time. But recently the laws have gotten more firm on this. Now we also have to recycle cans and not just plastic bottles.
Opinions on this are mixed, but it was put into practice because the cans were being littered allover the place in the larger cities i believe.
So now pretty much all bottles and cans have this extra fee on them that you get back after returning them to the store.
also you can just buy canned vegetables as well. which has better expiration dates. but i only buy those for the white beans in tomato sauce might be bias but i swear they taste better D:
also i think for AH the big store u can buy frozen peas or regular peas. and i recall the still frozen is far cheaper.
oh and the bakery thing what u can do a lot is call the store. and make an ''appointment'' of sorts ^^ just be friendly and ask hey i shop each monday and i buy 7 breads.
and they will make em ahead of time for you. if you dont collect them they just shelf them.
About the security gates, At a regular cash register there are no security gates, but if you use the "selfscan" option then you use your receipt by scanning a barcode at the security gate to make it open.
Yes there are, in almost all new AH stores
I use the orange juice machine! Super delicious orange juice, but a little expensive. Usually get it for special occasions. Also drink it immediately. It does not keep for long.
The bread thing is true, at least for me. This supermarket called "Jumbo" often sells their bread at 50/75 cents. I'm stocking my freezer and typically take out about 10 to 15 slices a day for me, my wife and our son. If you eat it the same day it's fine, when you defrost it to use for a couple days it might go dry.
Every saturday morning I do the bulk shopping for the week at 7 in the nearest appie XL. And then I also get a freshly squeezed orange juice and some nice fresh croissants and breadrolls and stuff for breakfast. When I get home, we eat a fancy saturday morning breakfast with the whole family. Also, at 7:00 on saturday morning, that machine is very very busy. Sometimes there's a line even. These people probably shop a lot later.
the discounting of leftover items happens does happen, but usually it is just a random bundle of items that you get for x amount of money.
The value of the products is more than you pay for but not every store does this.
You could get bread, chicken and some vegetables in 1 pack and fruit, soup and beef in an other for example
10:15 many people also make the egg salads at home, boil some egs, crush them with a fork, or get the yolks out and crush these separate, season it to ones liking, add the yolks mix it and "presto" you have your own home made egg salad, add mayo to make it creamy btw. but for seasoning..there are no limits, spicy, peppery, curry like, indonesian blnds and or flavours, or plain simple paprika powder, salt and pepper..
3:57 yes in our home we have a litteral bag of plastic bottles just so when we have a bunch we bring them and get like 2/3 euros back
I used to clean the orange juice machine at my previous job, and while it was cleaning thoroughly every single day, I would personally not use them because I have seen how quick they get dirty on the inside, and that gets into your drink. Like im sure its fine to consume but it just doesn't look very appealing to me.
Also the price is outrageous for the juice which is why I never bought some myself either. But I can tell you that it gets used a lot, its just so quick and convenient that you often don't see people doing it because of how quick it is, it takes only like 10 seconds for a Liter bottle.
A big thing for me is that sometimes the oranges are too sour or not ripe enough. There's no flavour guarantee with these machines. So after a while and a few bad tasting orange batches I stopped using them completely.
Only with the self check out you have to use it to get out.
When you pay directly to the cashier you can just walk out. Not an extra security is needed in that case.
However there supermarkets with detection ports that go of when you leave the supermarket without paying.
It is a guess of me, but I think that vegetables are sold in glass jars has to with the fact that women (back then always women, sorry) used to preserve vegetables in preserving jars, called weckpotten (glass jars with a glass lid and a rubber ring between them and by heating the jars, the air gets out -vacuum- of the jars and this preserves the vegetables). I am 62 and I remember all women of our family went to my grandmothers during vegetable harvest and were ‘wecking’ vegetables all day. The glass jars are similar as the preserving jars and a remembrance of the good old traditional way of preserving vegetables, so commercially a good selling point of the manufacturer.
Aardappel partjes are potato wedges. The seasoned baby potatoes (krieltjes) are awesome. I should get them more often though.
The bread thing we have it even better it the “van gister” from yesterday shelf, it’s fresh bread from the day before its usually 75% off cuz it isn’t “fresh”
the vegtables in the cans you only have to warm them up. so they are already peeled and cleaned etc.
glas jars would be mason jars in the US. Glass is always 100% recyclable, and milk and sodas all came in glass ones, even yoghurt, custard and ketchup p.e.
I use the fresh orange jus machine very often !!! And it's definitely a lot better than the ready-made drink cartons or bottles. The taste is sooooooo much better and fresher !!!! It's absolutely a huge taste difference !!!! You can choose fresh oranges from the box yourself and place them at the top of the machine and you put a bottle in de machine and push the button and the rest will take care of itself. Fresh made is 100 times better and also sweeter than the bitter cartons in the shelves.
Yes, we do buy bread in bulk. And putting in the freezer is excellent. I usually make a calculation the night before how many slices I need for the next day. And put those in bag or box. So they are defrosted and fresh. This can be done in the morning but takes more time. You don't want that 😂😂😂. We also have discount bread but there is no guarantee that any are left or that the bread you like is still available.
in regards to the supermarkets, when you check in and pay your own groceries there are usually gates, when you pay at the "old fashioned cash register", usually you don't pass any gates there.
In most new AH stores you do pass the same gates that requires a reciept
Thanks for adding my home country!
My freezer is stuffed with bread. Or....the early next morning the left-overs are sold very cheap. And...there are a lot of supermarkets with different prices, so....I shop everywhere. Albert Heyn is the most expensive. And there are Asian supermarkets, where special products are sold, but also meat/fish and veggies for reasonable prices and very good quality ('Amazing Oriental').
10: We do have security gates at both the entrance and exit yes. The ones at the entrance open just...whenever a person is in front of them. No actual security check required. I honestly don't even know why we still have these. The ones at the exit though are only for the self check-out. If you use a regular register they're already opened as long as a cashier is manning the station. If you didn't buy anything you can 99% of the time just walk to a cashier station and scoot by the people waiting to pay. It's no issue really, as long as you know this is how it works. :P
9: "Statiegeld" or returning empty plastic/metal bottles/containers. Yup, completely accurate. It's an incentive to stop people from simply tossing their bottles/cans in any random garbage bin. "statiegeld" can be anywhere from 25 cents to 10 cents. About twice a month this feels like I basically get a 1.5~2.5 euro discount on my groceries. I know it's a return of "bail money" I already paid, but it still feels like a discount. There's actually homeless people that collect these bottles/cans from lazy people, and can make 60+ euro a day by simply turning in bottles/cans that other people were too lazy to hand in. And it honestly barely takes any time at all. Just once a month you bring your bag of bottles/cans, take like 2 minutes to hand them all in at the machine, and get the money you spent extra, back.
8: Potatoes. We do very much love our potatoes. In the prepared section you'll have wedges (both peeled and with skin), cubes, slices, fries, and cut in half. And there will also be 2+ options of spiced potatoes. Not to mention having 2~3 different brands for each. And then there's the fresh section as well. Which is divided between "crumbly", "hard", "specifically for frying in a pan", "stamppot" specific, and "sweet."
7: Wait...tampons can have applicators? I'm not a woman so I don't know all the details, but I don't think I've ever heard of tampons with "applicators"... "drug stores" like Kruidvat and Etos do have a better selection though. It's kind of their "specialization." Not just for tampons, but for self-care products overall. (hair care, skin care, make-up, hygiene, etc)
6: Orange juice machine: Imo, don't use it. They use normal oranges for the machine. Which are TERRIBLE for tasty orange juice. Way too sour. Also on the expensive side. Instead, buy a cheap juicer and buy "orange juice oranges" specifically. Squeeze the orange juice at home. SO much better. They're more sweet than sour.
5: I don't think I've ever tried raw herring with raw onion myself. But I do think I would like it. Maybe you could say it's the Dutch version of sushi? :P It's not entirely comparable, but there's not that many countries that have raw fish as one of their staple foods, either.
4: "Salads". We call them "salads" but they're really not. Most of them are more like mayo spreads with a flavor. "Egg salad" is like a mayo with egg added to it. "Chicken curry" salad is a mayo with curry flavor and some chicken bits added. And so on. They're great on crackers or even bread. But they're pretty unhealthy as well, since it's mostly mayo. :P
3: Yea, we do have very little canned or frozen vegetables. Which is weird honestly. Because frozen vegetables are usually more healthy/nutritious than "fresh" vegetables. "Fresh" vegetables have often spent weeks or months in a storage before they're sold in a store. While frozen vegetables are often frozen very quickly after harvesting, preserving more of the nutrients overall. Not sure why this is a thing here. Though it might have to do with freezing stuff destroying cell structure. So the texture of the vegetables changes when you freeze it. Hence we prefer fresh instead. Just a guess though. Also we do sell fresh, canned, and frozen alongside each other. For instance you'll find 2 brands of canned (or glass jarred) carrots, but also 2 brands of fresh carrots and 2 brands of frozen carrots. Ratios might differ per item, but it's not like we ONLY sell certain things in canned/jarred form.
2: I don't see the issue with putting organic and non-organic next to each other. See it this way, you want a cucumber. You walk to the fresh produce isle, look for where the cucumbers are, and pick the one you want. Organic or not? Both options are right there next to each other. One is organic but more expensive, the other is regular but a bit cheaper. Rather than having to walk to a specific "organic" section in another part of the store, having to put a note in your phone or remember what each costs.
1: Yea I don't get this... Why do our in-store bakeries only bake in the morning? You HAVE to be early (lets say, before 2 pm) to get the popular ones. Otherwise you'll run into the problem of the popular ones already been sold out quite often. Why can't they bake in 2 shifts instead? 1 for the morning/early afternoon, and another one for 2 pm+? But I guess it's a case of "this is how we've always done things", even if the traditional method isn't all that great overall...
1.2: We do freeze our bread yes. It degrades the texture a little, true. But instead you can buy enough bread to last you 3~6 months, freeze it, and still have it be just fine when you thaw it in the microwave. Why buy fresh at a highly increased price, when you can instead buy a few loafs that last you months while spending a lot less money?
No there are usually manned checkouts in parrallel to the self-scan systems. Statiegeld has been in NL forever. Only a few of the salads are egg based - lots are chicken, tuna, salmon etc.
Yep ...we freeze our bread ... and then mainly the white buns.
That's what i take with me to work.
I usually buy for about a week and a half ,and put it in the freezer when i get home.
And because the bread is fresh ,and u put in the freezer immediately . it's stil very nice when you defrost it.
If you're late and you've run out of bread, you always have the alternative of buying pre-baked bread. A very tasty alternative. These can be kept in the package for a few weeks. By the way, bread is not baked in the supermarket, these are also pre-baked breads so that the suggestion is made that fresh bread is baked. After all, you smell fresh bread but in fact you are being taken by the nose (Dutch for being fooled).
I always store my bread in the freezer. If you buy fresh bread and freeze it directly after purchase, then it will be just as fresh after you take it our of the freezer. But I often toast my bread if I eat it at home. When I make some sandwiches for lunch at work, then I eat it untoasted. If I buy a really nice bread from the bakery, then I eat some untoasted fresh slices with some good cheese, especially the "kapjes" (the first and last slice) when they are still nice and crispy 😂
The spreads are indeed similar to the ones in Scotland; maybe not in flavours, but in "idea". God, I miss coronation chicken! The one thing that annoys me in Dutch supermarkets is that you cannae get anymore plastic bags to pack your fruit and veg in. Everything is fecking wrapped in plastic, but if you want to just pack a lettuce or some bananas in a plastic bag, you're treated as some sort of oil company pullutant
A lot of tins for food ended up leeching bad stuff into the food. There ARE things still in cans, but those now have a protective layer on the inside that is food safe. But the tins used to be bad, so a LOT went over to glass, and the recycling infrastructure is also available. Called the "glasbak" or glass box. It's a huge metal box that you insert your bottles into and the county comes empty the thing every now and then, to be recycled. It's even color sorted. Clear, green, brown.
I've been baking our own bread for years. It doesn't get any fresher ;-) . The nice thing about this is that you can combine flours yourself to obtain a unique bread. For example, the other day I put all the leftovers of flour together and that was the best bread ever. If only I knew what was in it :p
If the potato thing surprises you we have a abbreviation “AVG” with is “Aardappelen Vlees en Groente” meaning potato meat and vegetables, there is a abbreviation for the most important food groots starting with potatoes
This does make me think about the bread freezing. I mean, we eat most of our foods fresh, except we freeze our breads. This makes me wonder why Supermarkets don't sell frozen breads. You'd expect they could at least move their day-old bread to the frozen isle. Anyhow, they've probably tried that and it was either more expensive or we would just only buy the fresh bread.
Statiegeld isn'tbalways €0,15 like they say in the video. That's just for cans and small bottles (
I love herring they are one of the best things about living in holland. They,re not pickeld but packed in salt so actually you,re eating it raw. It,s very tasty in rolls with onions + gerkins.😂😂
Potatoes, meat and veggies used to be the staple diet of most Dutch people. It is changing, but it is still pretty normal.
08:48 Those are not all egg salad. They are salads for on your sandwhich, all different flavours and yes, we eat them all the time. The salads they showed were in order: Club Sandwich salad, tuna salad and vegan chicken - curry salad. My favourite ones are tuna, Crab, spicy chicken, chicken curry and cucumber salad. Cucumber salad is perfect for a sandwich on a warm day.
There's also egg salads in all different variations with different spices. My fav egg salad is Surnamese eggsalad.
6:54 yes the ornage juice is better then from the packages in the refridge.. It is fresh, no added sugars or conservations and mno e numbers ( artificial flavours)
I believe the glass or can (either steel or aluminum) are all due to their specific manufacturing supply chains. HAK pioneered the glass method here, and it just stuck.
There is an ongoing joke that vegetables behind glass are happier.
Nowadays many supermarkets have self-service checkouts. You need the barcode on your receipt to open the gate when leaving. It's obviously for security reasons as you could otherwise quite easily walk out without paying. That's also why random checks are made at these self-service checkouts. The digital security system selects and sometimes it's your turn 😉 Nothing more to it than that.
Never realized all the spreads were basically egg salad variants... Learn something new every day, I guess.
Also, I do freeze my bread but it's not a lot because I rarely eat bread anymore. When I was younger my mom used to (and still does, for her own home) buy a bunch of bread and freeze it. As long as you defrost it the right way the bread is fine for a really long time.
The security thing is only at the shops that have the selfscan option (which is shown in the clip, which they filmed at Jumbo), not at all shops. There's always a 'normal' row with a cashier included (or you pay at the service counter).
The bottle deposit is not a Dutch exclusive thing, Germany is even more advanced in this! Before they changed the bottle deposit system last year to include cans, Germans near the border often came to bulk bay can trays at f.e. Kruidvat.
The orange juice machines are less common than you think. I've only seen them at bigger AH's or Jumbo's.
I think most Dutch people would buy the herring on the market, not the supermarket ones. It's a typical market product.
I think the spreads are really a part of our Borrel culture, they're normally not far away from crackers etc.
Again, jarred vegetables is not a Dutch exclusive thing, I've seen it a lot in Germany too.
Dutch bread can be frozen quite well. And if you go early to an AH the next day, you often find bread of a day prior for a very reduced price (f.e. the AH does that).
Fresh orange juice, yummie, you can actually choose the size of the bottle you want .
When you use the self checkout you need to scan your reciept to get out of the store , you are also subject to random checks to see if you have scanned all the goods you are buying to prevent people not paying for all the products . They also have to check your age when you scan alcohol .
I don't bother buying my bread in time here in the Netherlands since i order my groceries online for home delivery, which is offered by a couple of supermarket brands (like Albert Heijn or Jumbo) here.
Vegetables in a jar are just for a easy quick meal, you only have to warm it up cuz it is already cooked
Oh! Our Jumbo has a pomegranate machine as well. The orange from the machines is freshly squeezed OJ. So yeah, good. The pomegranate is too expensive compared to the boxed version.
We have the spreads when we have a birthday for instance . You put different 'salades" spreads on the coffee table with toasts or sliced baguettes and every one can just make there own toast and by toast i dont mean toasted bread but bite sized bought toast like melba toast
Taking kids down to the local bakery or supermarket on weekend morning for fresh bread where the owner will lather with peanut butter is a tradition my parents, my kids, and I grew up on.
The thing about the 'statiegeld' is that it 1) reduces garbage on the street, as it also includes cans and 2) it gives extremely poor people an avenue to make some money: just walk around and pick up cans and bottles, and when you have a bag full: turn them in: tadaa.. Cash. I know someone who makes like 20 bucks a day doing this, which adds up in a month to 600 euro. Not bad!
I hate sliced bread from the freezer. Not because of taste, but the texture changes to this dryfreezed state. I only use freezer bread for grilled cheese sandwhiches or toast. or if i'm making croutons or if i'm going soak it in my soup.......or if i'm desperate.
So no....generally no freezer bread for me.
we also have a thing thats like "bread from yesterday" with like a whole section with all sorts of bread. the're really good because if you want to save money, you can. plus it doesnt really taste any different
those egg salades are one of a couple of traditional ingredients for a typical dutch bbq. we get sliced baguetss, eiersalade, krabsalade and tonijnsalade most of the time. if you go to a dutch bbq and they dont have that, they are imposters😂😂😂
Did they really miss the drop (En: liquorish candy) section? Or did they mention it? Drop is life!!!
Yes, bread in the freezer is normal!
And here in Belgium, we even have vending machines for bread!
Nr.10: Leaving the store with a receipt is only necessary if you go through the self-scanning register section. If you go through the "old" cash register aisle, you can go straight through (after paying the person behind the register, of course). This has only been implemented in the last few years, and is there for a fairly recent occurrence. Nr.9: The tax on the (larger, and things like beer) bottles (and cases) has been around for decades now, but since last year, has been expanded to include most small plastic bottles, and cans as well. It was about time. They've been mulling about implementing this for i don't know how many years. (bureaucracy, am i right ?). Nr.8: When it comes to potatoes, look up the painting "De Aardappel Eters"( the potato eaters). It's a very famous painting here in The Netherlands about, you guessed it, Dutch people eating potatoes ! Personally, i like those "aardappel partjes" you saw in the video, or "aardappel schijfjes"(sliced potatoes), baked in a frying pan, with both some liquid, and some garlick butter, and some (smoked) paprika powder, with some "speklapjes" (cut pork belly in like strips, i think you would call it), sliced into smaller strips about a centimeter wide or so. Goes great with some ketchup, barbecue, or paprika sauce (or any other sauce of your liking), and a simple salad (or some apple-sauce). Nothing really to add about nr's 7, 6, or 5. Nr.4: The first items you see in those small square packages, is what we call in The Netherlands "smeerkaas", which is basically a semi liquid cheese spread you can put on your sandwich, or your toast, plus, there are several flavours available. The sandwich egg salad thing, is actually more of a toast salad thing, that can be used on a sandwich as well, but is more commonly used on sliced French baguettes, small snack-toast, or crackers during parties, birthdays, and other important get-togethers. Nr.3: Glass-jarred fruits and vegetables (also known as conservables) are very prevalent here (and in Germany as well), It basically dates back to the recent past, when most people here in The Netherlands used to conserve (and/or dry) their own foods (like fruits and jams, vegetables, meats, even entire meals), to then be stored in a (root-)cellar or basement for the winter, for instance. And because many of the current large supermarkets started out as small local stores, who used to do this, but in ever larger quantities, it eventually created an entire industry around it, and it just kinda stuck since then. These conservables tend to last several years, in some cases, provided you store them in a dark, dry, and cool environment (like basements, or cellars). The Glass jars don't really get reused, however (because of hygiene practices), but they do get recycled. Again, nothing really to add about Nr. 2. Nr.1: When it comes to the bread, yes, you can freeze it, and yes, generally, it's still good quality after de-frosting (preferably, by taking it out and letting it defrost on its own on a plate, or your countertop, and NOT sticking it in the micro-wave oven, where it comes out all mushy, like, YUCK), provided you eat it in the next to near future, and don't let it sit in that freezer for, like, months, or something. Also, here in The Netherlands, certain food items end up getting reduced prices (from 25, to 35, and up to sometimes 50 percent), if they are within a few days of reaching their due date, all-though with items in the bakery/pastry section, they do this only on the due-date itself, as i recently found out myself in a local grocery store.
The gate is only with the selfscan, so they know you payed . The jus is a breakfast item, so if you on the run to school or work and missed your breakfast you grape a jus and croissant in tge supermarket.
These 2 people go most to the supermarket called: "Albert Heijn",
in other supermarkets you can't find everything they talk about in their video.
Point 10: You have self-service checkouts, where you need a receipt to leave the store, but not every supermarket has that.
Point 9: Deposits are often refunded in the Netherlands, as the video also says.
Point 8: Potatoes packaged for baking, boiling or frying are very common here.
Point 7: In the Netherlands, the american type of drugstore is divided into smaller stores such as a limited drugstore, a pharmacy, or by prescription from the doctor.
Point 6: You mostly have orange juice machines in the big Albert Heijn supermarkets, hardly any in other supermarkets.
Point 5: Usually these are stalls or food trucks, with the tastiest raw herring. From the supermarket it is less tasty.
Point 4: Many people eat these spreads, egg salads and more.
Point 3: Cans is more garbage, so more glass jars, because they can be re-used again
Point 2: Most organic vegetables are pretty much the same as other vegetables, because there aren't many additives in the vegetables.
Point 1: The bread is indeed very fresh, if you freeze it it will stay good for a very long time.
Indeed in the afternoon after 16:00 hour in the Albert Heijn there are discounts stickers. (again something that mainly happens in the Albert Heijn).
@@ridicageproductions My local Hoogvliet supermarket has an orange juice machine and the Jumbo has one as well.
Yup i buy mine fresh sliced bread once a week and freeze it. Its stays fresh ofcourse it isn't as good as just baked of bread that is still steaming in the bag but that only last for an hour on that level.
Statiegeld translates as deposit money. It is not a tax. It always existed in the Netherlands for glass bottles.
Herrings are not a tourist thing. Fisher towns have a lot of competition among each other on quality. Ever since the 17 th century.
All these spreads offer a high profit for the shop and the clients love it.
Vegetables are in glass because we prefer to see what we buy. Also there was this cute commercial about the little pea that was so disappointed, because it had hoped for a seat at the window.
Bakers bake their bread during the night and so you buy your bread fresh in the morning. What's wrong with you ?