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#20 is totally wrong. Many Americans WANT to vacation. But many businesses hate employees that take time off.
Exactly!! Businesses don't want their people staying out too long. And not everyone even gets Personal Time Off/vacation days. Plus, the average American workers (labor force) don't make enough money to actually take time from work to actually GO somewhere for leisure trips, and other people aren't paid for the days they take off so even if they do take a day or two here and they, they have to calculate if they can afford to not be paid for those days off. I'm 67y.o. and I have never packed a bag and taken a "vacation trip" anywhere that didn't involve requisite visits to inlaws. I didn't grow up having vacation trips, either.
True that. I have a friend who was negotiating terms of a potential job. They kept throwing money at him, but all he wanted was a minimum of 4 weeks vacation, and they weren't willing to go up from 2 weeks. So stupid.
Nor can many Americans afford to take that much time off. Also, we’re one of like 3 developed nations that doesn’t pay for workers maternity leaves. Kind of interesting for a country that has literally fallen and died on the sword of the pro-life movement.
@@RayWhiting I didn’t have many vacations growing up either. I made sure to break that mold. My children have been to many different places. Even when I thought I couldn’t afford it I actually could.
@@dw.in.michigan most employers who offer vacation have set a standard of 2 weeks vacation and 1 week sick time. Until you hit certain employment year milestones. The. You accrue more
What's crazy is that USA has immense diversity and culture. I'm from south USA and I remember as a child visiting New York and asked for sweet tea and grits, and the server looked at me like I was insane. Each region of the US has so many unique things about it, and if you don't travel throughout the country you may never realize that not everyone knows or says "yall" 😉🤣
Yeah. They leave the sugar out of the tea and put it on the grits. God bless their little hearts...
Or when I ask for a half and half outside of Maryland they think I’m referring to cream 😅 ( a Maryland half and half is half sweet tea and half lemonade)
@@mymy38448 I think a half and half is only known outside of Maryland because of Arnold Palmers by Arizona. But even then, I call it a Palmy (because of my husband) not half and half and I'm from Virginia.
I think it’s both in Michigan, we have half and half cream and half and half tea/lemonade
New York sucks I’ve lived in New York, Long Island for 11 years
One of the most common phrases I hear from my fellow Americans is "Man I need a vacation". Everyone says it. Really says a lot about how we just are not able to.
At least where I work, they'll cash the vacation days out at the end of the year if they go unused. Many companies won't even do that, so you've got these vacation days that expire or pile up to the point where you'd never be able to use them all.
Why aren't we? I take them all the time.
When I was younger I took a 2 week vacation once a year. I got more time off than that, but work would pile up and it would take weeks to catch up again. As I got older I took all the time off I could. Now I’m retired and loving my time and spending my energy doing things I enjoy.
@@7tatertot Yup. I take a day or two here and there, every few months, as well as on my regular two days off every week.
@@7tatertot You are probably pretty lucky then. Most people with families are living paycheck to paycheck and only get 1 to 4 days off a year. That mostly has to be used for sickness and emergencies. We have no money to go anywhere.
I’m American and have honestly never heard of us having a National return day until this video.
Neither have I
Same
Same.
A clarification: Here in the US, the free refills are only for iced tea, regular old-fashioned brewed coffee, and soda (like pepsi, coke, etc.). We don't have free refills for more expensive drinks like alcohol, milkshakes, or any other fancy drink on the menu.
Hello 👋 Becky
How are you doing today
And when you want to drink water, it's free, has ice, and is probably from the tap. Bottled water is rarely served in restaurants. Those that do serve it bottled are usually fancy restaurants (and it's usually some fancy brand that you pay for, like Pellegrino). Delis and some cafes sell it too, but that's because it's meant to be taken with you.
At the casinos in Las Vegas I think it's a whole other set of rules for drinks. LOL.
And even that is starting to go away
The video specified fountain drinks.
Being from USA I’d say the one thing I was expecting to be on the list but wasn’t is that we don’t use metric system in a standard sense with most things.
I was thinking the exact same thing! I was sure it would be number one y nada.
Thank God.
I think when Carter was President they actually started putting both numbers on the speed limit signs. They didn't last long though.
But you always need that 10 millimeter socket that lives in the land of guitar picks and drum keys. If you know you know.
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The toilet stall doors and walls being short isn’t really a problem at all. But those 1” gaps between all sides of the door though, those are when you accidentally meet eye to eye with a stranger on the other side and it’s never not awkward.
yes the side gaps are awful
I always push a toilet paper strip over it
@@zilla2724 I have no idea why I’ve never thought of doing this! Thank you haha
Yeah
Oh that one's easy, just smile and ask them how they're doing. They learn not to look at the gaps.
When I interviewed for a job in England, they apologized for the bad "holiday" policy. I was thinking, 'oh, probably a week after you have been there a year.' I nearly fell out of my chair when he said, "It's three weeks the first year, oh, and you get all the bank holidays off too." That's 30 days right off the bat! I'm from Texas, and Y'all is a great, all-inclusive word. It is mainly used in the southern US.
We work for 10 years at one place for 2 weeks
@@merricat3025 I'm in Oklahoma and they don't offer ANY days off paid. Also, if a woman gets pregnant she loses her job in most cases because, unlike most states, it's a right-to-work state which means they don't even need a reason to fire you!😮💨
Stay out of my 2 foot space.
Y'all is becoming more wide spread. I'm in Minnesota and hear/use it pretty regularly.
Minnesota here too, you betcha! Skol😊
I am from the Southeastern US. I've always been told to keep the AC running at all times because the energy to maintain the house temp at 65 or 70 when outside is 90 or above is less than turning the whole system off for a few hours, then making it use all of that energy to cool the house those 20 or 30 degrees from scratch.
Exactly! Just like the more food you can keep in your freezer the easier it is on the freezer itself. It can keep cooler for longer without using a ton of power.
Noth alabama 71 or 72, heat or air year round inside the home. Really hot , few times will go to 69 or 70.
I am also in the SE U.S. and this is what I was taught as well. However, if the air is on, it is using energy (hence a higher bill). If you are not home and not using up energy in the house, the house actually stays cooler longer because there is no movement inside. Kinda like when the electricity goes off & you try not to open the freeze or fridge too much to lose the coldess inside. That was what an FPL guy told us. We keep the a/c on 80 when we leave the house, sometimes completely off and when we turn it on, it only takes about 30 mins to cool the house. The a/c is not working harder, just longer for that period to bring the temperature down. Our a/c doesn't know the difference and shuts down once it achieves the designated temperature. You may not want to cone home to a hot house but that is better than having it on all day.
Mind you, this also depends on your insulation & how many windows face east & south. Not every house is built the same.
You’re correct. A multi-stage air conditioning system in a properly insulated home should not be turned off or altered in temp if you are home or plan to be home within a reasonable number of hours. It is less energy-intensive for such a system to maintain a steady temperature than to have to cool the home from a high temperature.
Same here! I never turn it off! Sometimes even in the winter! 😂
Heres a realistic one for paid vacation: "the large majority of Americans get little to no paid time off, meaning any vacation time also means losing money at work." Americans do not "love working", we have no choice 😅
Every job I have ever had has paid vacation...
I'm American
@@woodstyleah thats very fortunate. I bet you still use your vacation days despite loving to work.
American here. I get 4 weeks paid vacation a year. Plus for every 40 hrs I work I get an additional 1/2 day off,which is a day off every two weeks with pay. Not to shabby for this blue collar guy.
@@richardgranati7188 do you use that time off? I'm just saying the video is silly for saying Americans prefer to not take time off bc the ma-jor-ity don't get any time off. The ones that get time off use it
So the funniest interaction I ever had with a “foreigner” was talking with some ladies from Canada. I worked retail in Florida, in an area that had a lot of tourism. I was about to check the ladies out at the register and they asked about the sales tax so they could calculate their total. I could tell by their accent they were likely Canadian, so I answered that it was 2.5% (at the time). It never occurred to me it would be different somewhere else! So I asked, “What’s y’all’s tax?” And they stared at me blankly… then at each other… than at me. And now I’m concerned because I must’ve assumed something incorrectly… but then she says “What’s a ‘y’all’s tax’?”
I said what are you talking about, and she told me what I had asked and then I realized what happened 😂 she was so shocked that we said “y’all” in real life and hadn’t actually heard someone use it before! I was equally shocked but we had a big laugh 😆
Since they were Canadian, you should have tried using English when you asked the question.
Florida doesn't have a state tax but they bang you in other ways. Hospitality tax is one.
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Americans cannot get comfortable with the fact that "you" is both singular and plural. You will rarely hear an American use "you" plural in conversation. It's "y'all" (meaning you all) especially in the south. "Youse", "youse guys", "you guys" or similar made-up words are often heard in other parts of the country.
I agree with so many comments: most Americans don't eat bull testicles or ride in a rodeo; fried pickles are available many places, but I've only seen them ordered once. The side gap in bathroom doors is very uncomfortable. We really are loud. Month first helps narrow down the time frame for reference. Air conditioning is heaven, as is ice in a drink! Refreshing! 😁
Are there things done in your country you think Americans/foreigners might find unusual? I'd love to hear your family's discussion about that!
Prairie Oysters. Ya I worked on a ranch and it came up, not one of the ranch hands had ever had them.
Being from Texas I've had RMO's. As a chef I've had stranger things. I'll go to Rodeo's and volunteer at Rodeo Austin. Fried Pickles are everywhere. Don't drink soft drinks either. Maybe it's your upbringing and where you live dictates traditions.
i get fried pickles literally everytime i see them on the menu lmao
What are bull testicles? Yikes. Never seen fried pickles and don't know anyone who has ever had them. I don't run the ac all the time. However, businesses tend to freeze everybody with blasting ac. If one person out of 100 likes it cold and complains about it being hot, they blast the rest of us so that we're miserable. We have blankets in the office and sometimes space heaters.
Most of these are accurate except for two:
-Americans say “how are you” as part of a greetings but not in replace of hi or hello. It’s normally in conjunction. While it can be small talk, I think most Americans do care about the answer.
-Americans are workaholics but they don’t necessarily want to be. They have to hustle to make a living. I won’t get into workplace politics here but some people have reasons why they never take sick days either.
That list could’ve probably kept going but I think it covered a lot.
As an American I don’t do the majority of the things in that list lol
I'm an American and I hate, "how are you?". I always answer whether they are interested or not.
I don't know where you're from, but in some places people do absolutely use "How are you?" As a replacement for hi.
I always say, “Hi, How are you?” I don’t expect a response and when people say, “Fine, how are you?” I always respond with, “Great!!” Which 99% of the time I’m horrible 🤣🤣
@@queenofkings7453 try putting a big smile on your face and giving them a cheerful "horrible" when people ask how you are as a greeting. Seriously. Try it. Most folks will read the body language, hear the cheerful tone, and reply with "glad to hear it" as they walk on by.
The old saying: "Americans think that 100 years is a long time. Everyone else thinks 100 miles is a long distance". Non-Americans have NO CLUE as to how BIG this country is.
I had someone talking about how insensitive a politician was and I had to inform them about how his state was further from the other state in question than their country was large
Its quite small isn't it?? JK. I have road tripped all over the US. Love it down there, Friendly joke from your slightly larger neighbor to the north,
@@vivisector9999 Canada is more than slightly larger than USA. It’s ginormous and has the longest coast xD. It’s sad that most place are inhabitable lol
Australia is similar. People from overseas often have no idea how huge it is. The west to east coast is about the same as the USA east to west.
Yeah, many countries are smaller than most states. I had a friend from Germany come to visit me. We drove not even a quarter of the way through PA east to west and he was like did we cross to another state yet Luke constantly. I was like? It's been an hour, we barely crossed 2 counties. 😅
"Don't feel the need to take long vacations" Um... what?? Far more accurate to say that, in addition to most businesses granting only 2 weeks or less vacation time, many people either can't afford to take even that much, or, because of heavy workload or over-scheduling by jerk bosses, simply aren't allowed to take time off. It's not at all that we don't want to. (Except for maybe a few oddballs)
This! It's such a hassle if you do dare to take a sick day, too. They usually want a doctor's note, which costs a fortune, even if you could get in to see your doctor that same day. And they guilt trip you so badly for taking a day off as well. And when it comes time for raises or promotions, you're going to have a much harder time if you've taken your allowed time, because you won't seem as hard a worker as someone who comes to work sick and never takes the vacation time.
Most businesses don't give any sick days so that's what that tiny amount of "vacation" has to be used for.
Everytime I think about taking some time off, something catastrophic happens and ruins it. We were planning a trip for last weekend and the weekend before my wife falls down the stairs and shatters her lower leg. I got time off, but it was spent at the hospital for 3.5 days because they had to do surgery to pin and screw her bones back together. Now she is unable to bear weight on it for another 7 weeks at least. That's how my life works.
I won't accept Jobs with less than 20 days off paid a year without holidays. I like working hard but playing harder is best
@@lisadawn79 some of us don't have that luxury.
I’ll just add. I’ve had the lock break on a foreign bathroom stall and had a complete panic attack when I was stuck in there for over an hour because no one else came in. At least in the US ones I could have crawled out under or over the door.
I’ve been in European bathrooms without doors. Well, ok. When you gotta go, you just deal with it
I think that’s one of the reasons for the space but people don’t consider that 🤷🏾♀️ I had an employee who had a stroke in the bathroom stall and we could get to her because of the space.
@@tonnigillis266 That’s awful 😢
@@slemdlem unfortunately she died
Gross but true...
7:00 As for the AC being on all the time, you have to remember that American summers, especially in the southern half of the country, are generally MUCH hotter and more humid than their European or New Zealand counterparts. It baffles me how people survived for centuries in North America WITHOUT air conditioning.
Where I am in Louisiana the A/C is a necessity from late March to early November. You will literally melt without it.
I'm in California and it's almost always hot here, except this year, this year is a bit cooler than most.
Yep, I live in NJ and we average temps in the mid-80s F in June-August. Which would be 29-30 C, and humid as heck. We need AC.
I thought about that! It gets so hot here during the summers! I live in NC and it’ll be 90 degrees but the humidity will be 70% making it feel even worse😫
Yep I live in Georgia and it gets blazing hot here!
The large gap at the bottom of bathroom doors is simply because it's easier to see if it is occupied without having to stand on your heads.
The date is easy, also. When someone asks the date, we verbally say like March 16th. It's written the say way.
I thought we wrote the date month first because it files in an internal monthly order:
01/01 (jan 1)
01/02 (jan 2)
02/01 (feb 1)
02/02 (feb 2)
But if you write day first, the order gets messed up:
01/01 (jan 1)
01/02 (feb 1)
02/01 (jan 2)
02/02 (feb 2)
@@shai-huludmayhispassagecleanse for filing photos in order I use the year first, followed by month, day, hour, minute, second YYYYMMDDHHMMSS
@@JGlaister Oh yeah that’s a good one because it puts them in order and the format makes it obvious whether months or days come first
Public bathrooms used to be used for all sorts of illegal nefarious reasons,by making the doors short makes it hard to get away with anything now.
Another reason is because it's a safety feature. Should somebody have a medical emergency, it is easy for a paramedic to crawl under the door then open it from the inside.
Another thing foreigners worry about is being spied on through the gaps. trust ne, it is a HUGE social taboo to be caught peeping through the gap.
While I can't speak for what happens in the women's room, I can say with certainty that if caught doing it in the men's room, he would be called out as a pervert and if he's lucky be held till law enforcement can come and arrest him for public indecency. if he's unlucky, he could end up severely beaten then turned over to the police.
For me, the date being MM/DD/YYYY is a logical order. If you are going to look up a date on your calendar, you start with the month then the day, not the other way around.
But first, you make sure you have the calendar for the right year. So YYYY/MM/DD makes more sense.
@@RoadkillX33 either YYYY/MM/DD or DD/MM/YYYY makes sense I honestly don't get why we do it as month day year a side from wording it out like March 23rd, 2022
It's also conversational
Say April first, or first of April?
@@NateOlson I just say April Fools
So funny to watch as an American and I didn’t know half of this was considered different hahaha. Good stuff! Y’all are great
The high bathroom stall doors have actually come in handy. More than one mother has had to crawl under the stall to get a small child out when they either could5or wouldn't open the door from the inside, lol.
Been there. 😂
@@hopemurphy9093 me too!
What’s worse is when the doors are like the doors in your house bathroom and are full on doors. 🤦♀️ you have to put your foot out to make sure they don’t lock those doors
My mom sent me under when a stranger's daughter accidentally locked herself in and was too young to figure it out so an 8 year old me got volunteered. Lol
I've never figured why our sales tax isn't figured in either....makes no sense.
Oh and the date thing? A lot of our military do day, month, year so some of us, including me, still use that for instead of month, day, year.
As a mother of five in the USA I have to agree about the bathroom stall doors🤣😂😅
10 Options for cookies and cereal? Oh my, that is way off! It’s almost embarrassing. A typical grocery store in America has more choices than you can even count in a reasonable time. Imagine a 50 foot aisle with one side of it being nothing but cereal choices. It just goes on and on. Pretty much the same for cookies and crackers. Love your show!
Lol yeah I thought the same. 10 options......of Cheerios alone! Lol I tjink Oreos have at least a dozen options all by themselves. Idk where the guy who made the video shops, but it must be at a gas station or mini mart lol.
And then you go to a super WalMart, and the amount of choices increases even more than that! lol
Yeah I thought that too. Way more options lol.
I was thinking the same thing!
Right? I live in Canada, and even in the drugstore you can get at least that many options. It's much higher in grocery stores.
I'm surprised that nobody has mentioned that for the air conditioner one while it's mostly true, there's also the fact that a lot of places in the U.S are simple so hot that without air conditioner, lots of people will straight up die of heat stroke and other such heat related things.
In the Midwest we simply cannot go without air conditioning. Sure, we can go to the pool, but our pets (we have dogs) cannot go with us and leaving them at home in a very hot house would probably kill them (it would ours as they have a ton of thick hair). With the high temps and humidity here, heat stroke can come on pretty quickly.
And ice in our drinks, especially water (for me, anyways) is an absolute must!!
@@Heatherfwlr This is very true I actually have experience with this I live in California so we have pretty modest weather yet it still reaches 100-105 in the summer and one of our cats died because of the heat, we don't have air conditioner and can't afford it so we just have fans, and that's why air conditioner is a must here.
@@Mr.Dotson I’m sorry for your loss. Have you looked into a portable air conditioner? Walmart out here had one that was $239 and it cooled our living room that’s open to the dining room and kitchen. That makes up for half of our house. We put a strong fan in front of the portable unit and it actually got to the point it was too cold and we had to turn it off for a bit. And that’s on 90* weather and hella humidity.
@@Heatherfwlr Since then we have gotten one as a hand me down but it's not that powerful and can only really cool a room down by a few degrees maybe about 10 if we really push it, but we don't have any power in our upstairs so we can't put it up there to begin with so we just keep it down stairs and bring the female cats downstairs during the day, we keep them upstairs at night because we have males and females and although all the males are neutered not all the females are spaded so yeah. I didn't know Walmart sold them though I'ma have to look into that.
@@Mr.Dotson I live in Fresno, California. Our summers are definitely not modest. It's 105+ all summer. It got up to 115 in September. And the heat now starts end of April and lasts until mid-October (it was low in the 90s in early October this year). In the summer, it doesn't cool down at night. California is huge with different climates.
Sorry for double commenting lol but just wanted to explain the bathroom stall gap on the bottom- US folks are accustomed to checking for feet under a stall to determine occupancy. Checking visually keeps us from having to interact with the occupant while they manage their business lol
Wanting to adopt “y’all” just won my heart over. Y’all are great
I went to work at Yellowstone National Park (in Wyoming) making reservations for visiting family groups. I didn’t think anything about it. I was talking to a gentleman on the phone and all of a sudden he says “y’all, where are you from”? Being from the south and having heard it all my life it kind of shocked me. I just thought everybody said y’all, but it is in the southern states where it’s used, in the Northeast they use youse or you guys.
@@kkerr1953 Y'all is the plural form of you. It's sort of all of you.
I’m from the south(New Orleans). We say y’all in almost every sentence lol. Are y’all coming over later, where y’all at, all y’all better get back over here. The last one is why we are called “yat’s”.😂
In Pittsburgh and western PA, it's YINZ 😆
In the north, particularly MN its “You guys”. Sometimes in the old bohemian communities you’ll hear “Yous guys”.
Personally, as an American, I write the date format this way because that’s how we say the date. Today is March 16th 2022 (so 3/16/22). Its uncommon to hear the 16th of March 2022 (or 16/3/22). We don’t care about all that ascending order nonsense. 😂
I agree, and I would also add Months only go to 12, Days go to 31, and Years just keep going. So the numbers are in order from least to greatest that way. Least that's how I see it :P
Exactly. I say my birthday is April, 6th 19blah blah. So that's how I write it 4/6/1988. I would never say my birthday is the 6th of April.
Just think.... 9/11 would be 11/9 ??
We also eliminate the need to say "OF" everytime .... It's March 16.. Not the 16th "OF" March
However, dates in the military are ofter day-month-year
@@gardensnob1 Correct. Like today's date would be 17MAR2022
I recently learned that ranch dressing, which is used heavily in America, is sometimes called "American dressing" in other countries. I love this!
I wonder if other countries call French dressing, French dressing. What do the french think about French dressing.
@@tsbio Good questions! What is French dressing in France? Maybe just "dressing" or something else.
@@kellialexiscronk3515 Haha, French dressing in France is a vinaigrette. French dressing in the US is a totally American thing.
@@lifeaquatic1267 Of course! That's funny. C'est la vie!
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I guess I’ve always thought of it as the day doesn’t do much good if you don’t know the month. Like there are twelve different “day 22” but only one March or May, so if I start by saying/writing the month we’ve immediately narrowed our scope to only 30-ish possible days instead of 365 and then we state the day and that communicates even more specifically what is being discussed.
I think I tend to like writing the month first as well because if I’m looking at a list of things I need to do I can just scan the leftmost side to kind of help me determine “ok, these things are in August, this isn’t till December…” etc etc whereas if it was written second I would have to look past the first set of numbers to figure out if there is an appointment two days from now or a month and two days from now
I’m not saying one is more right than the other, it’s just always how I’ve thought about it.
YYYYMMDD surperioity
This, MMDDYYY, because what Hallel wrote.
It’s better imo
Cause if a friend asks “what’s the date?” You answer: February 26th 2023 = 02/26/2023
Exactly!
Its just the way we say things in written form. December 25th is Christmas, although I do say 4th of July for independence day. I work with Oracle DB and in that env we use DD-MON-YYYY (10-JAN-2023).
One of the funny things I've found when in Europe is that whenever a worker in a restaurant, pub, or hotel hears the American accent, they know our customs of tipping and act accordingly. I was at a VERY busy pub in Scotland and whenever the bartender saw me walking up to the bar, he walked fast down to the end of the bar to meet me while he ignored all of the locals. I also noticed that in restaurants if it looked like I wasn't going to leave a tip, you could tell the waiter/waitress wasn't happy. I came to realize it was because they know we tip based on the level of service we are given and don't tip if we didn't like the service (when in the states), so it seems even though it wasn't their custom to tip, they expected us to tip as they knew it was our culture to do so. And, yes, it is true about us wanting ice in almost every drink and lots of it. When I've asked for ice in other countries, they usually respond by giving me one or two ice cubes.
And a straw so the ice doesn't bump our beautiful, gleaming, white teeth! Wasn't that one silly? But I'm guilty of it I guess
I don't like that tbh. It seems to me that the bartender just wanted money
@@alma_1906 Of course he did. People tend to want money and put extra work in when they think there is a chance they will get paid more. It’s just how humans operate.
Whoa the ice thing is so weird! As a girl from California, man we feel the need for some ice! Only a couple ice cubes would be a shocker :) they’d melt super fast here
Probably the only ones who complain that it's rude is when they realize you're American and didn't tip them very much or at all.
Your family is adorable, and there's at least one little old lady in Texas who loves your videos; so great to see perspectives from another culture. PS 99% of Americans (including Texans) don't eat "Rocky Mountain Oysters." We just use them to play jokes on people who don't know what they are...and if anyone offers to take you "snipe hunting," turn them down. It's a practical joke.
Ironically, snipes is an actual species of bird
Yea, I don't know anyone who eats Rocky Mountain Oysters and have never seen them on a menu on the West Coast, nor in my travels to the East Coast or visiting family elsewhere in the U.S. (Granted I haven't been to the Rocky Mountains yet.) As far as I can tell, it's an extremely niche thing. I'd wager to bet that most Americans think it's weird and gross and quite possibly haven't even heard of them or think it's just a myth. 😅
I have eaten rocky mountain oysters on several occasions. Breaded and deep fat fried. YUMMY!! We used to have a small restaurant in our area and that was one of their specialties. I live in Wyoming close to the Montana border. Cowboy country! Beef country! Rocky mountain oyster country! Lol
@@ennazusmiranda unless you are at a restaurant where the parking lot is full of pickups and you passed 3 feed stores and a tractor dealership to get there, you won't see them on a menu.
Little bull calves are castrated to make little steers at a young age, long before they reach market size. Steers generally produce better meat. They are also more docile. Put a bunch of bulls in a field together and they will act like a bunch of teen-aged boys...fighting among themselves and trying to figure out how to get an opportunity to mount any female within view...this is very hard on fences. Bulls (intact males) often need to be kept in separate stalls for these reasons. It only takes 1 bull to service an entire pasture of heifers/cows. Why deal with the hassle of multiple bulls when you can take care of it with a scalpel, a little rubber ring, and a bucket of iodine? (FWIW, this is also when any branding, tattooing, ear-tagging, inoculations, etc. are taken care of.)
Since this happens pre-market, you generally wont find them in a grocery store...unless it is the one over by the tractor dealership. Further, calves are generally born in the spring and fall, so Rocky Mountain Oysters are both regional AND seasonal.
(Disclaimer: Nothing here should be construed as an appropriate way to handle your daughter's new boyfriend, although pointedly describing the procedure to the young man may be effective.)
@@ennazusmiranda it's fairly common in the Midwest (cattle country!)
I'm surprised it didn't mention expecting large portion sizes at restaurants and then taking home the leftovers. I feel like that only happens in the US
I've seen this in China.
Everyone takes leftovers home bruh
How many countries have you been in?
I've never noticed this to be a uniquely American thing, I have been to at least 10 different countries.
@@josephnebeker7976 I might have worded my statement wrong, but you cannot base a certain trait to a whole country. There might be many people from many countries who do this. Saying that only one countries does such a common thing is just wrong. Ofc not EVERYONE takes leftover home however. It’s like, in the middle
Yes. Order enough to last 2 more meals baby😂
It may depend on where you live in the US, but I'm 49 and have lived in the US my whole life, and people don't always smile. I've been a cashier or worked retail for over 18 years, and I'd say from 30-50% of the time when I (are co-workers) would greet customers with a smile and friendly attitude customers either ignore us or grumble about something. No one I know uses Red Solo cups, we mostly use Styrofoam so we can write the person's name with a ballpoint pen on them.
Tipping is dumb, but I always tip between 20 and 25% because I know many people don't tip at all and look for reasons not to tip.
Yeah, what is up with the red solo cups? Ok. Sometimes they are blue, white styrofoam or paper cups, whatever. And I wouldn't think of Americans as being too smiley. A lot of people barely acknowledge you when they pass you by.
To add onto number #1, when walking anywhere where you cross paths with someone or meet eyes with them, you usually smile and say “hello”. I think we do this to break any tension and also a smile can put someone in a good mood.
I would say this is mostly true when you’re not in a busy area. There could be an entire other video on things people do in the city vs. in the country.
@@worldview_kyp yes. I grew up in the south and most ppl greeted each other as they passed each other on the street. When I moved to nyc I had to stop that as most do not do that and look at you crazy if you do.
I just nod. I'm a bit of a misanthrope.
I think we write the date like that because we say the date in that order. We tend to say the date like “June 1st” or “November 24th” rather than “the 1st of June.” The only exception ironically is the 4th of July.
Was just going to post this...accurate. No ones says the date as 'the ___ of ____.' It's always spoken as the month then the day first, so that just translates to how we prefer to write it. Our brains just instinctively put the month first and day second.
@Parker Eads It's true we don't speak 1st of June but when we do documents, like court, (divorce, marriage, death, awards) it is written on the 1st day of June, 20xx so and so was present
He mentions it in the intro but the one thing that shocked me when I've traveled overseas was the lack of air conditioning. Here in Texas, without A/C, we would be completely miserable in summer when 100°(37.8°C) isn't unusual. But it hardly exists at all abroad.
Yes its very mild weather here so not much meed for it
I'm from Houston Texas and we have 3 window units. If we didn't have AC I would absolutely die. 😄
Here in Minnesota as well a/c it's gets to 100°F in summer and very humid with our 10,000 + lakes.
Arizona here. AC is a must during the Spring, Summer and Fall!
Same in Florida. Though our A/Cs apparently work differently? We have heat pumps, which I believe work as an A/C and a heater in the same unit, by either pumping heat out of the house, like an A/C, or pumping heat into the house by working in reverse..
The daughter’s face when the video said “deep-fried everything” gave me so much joy. Nobody acknowledged it when she said it, and she looked so happy when the video mentioned it. Someone needs to get that girl fried pickles STAT though. She has no idea what she’s missing! What adorable kids.
We don't deep fry everything. The only things I can think that I eat fried is fried chicken, fried fish sometimes, maybe pork chops, and fried potatoes or french fries.
In the US, the requirement for bathroom stall doors is that a fully-equipped emergency officer (police, fire or EMT) needs to be able to fit under the door in the case of an emergency. This is to ensure that someone experiencing a medical emergency cannot be inaccessible if he/she is unconscious or otherwise unable to move.
Then why are there enclosed porter potties everywhere?
Because they are polymer/plastic and are much easier to bust open then the metal doors of normal stalls.
Crazy how I didn’t know that and I’m a paramedic. Who would’ve thought.
BS.
When someone’s is locked in the toilet an officer can simply cut the lock with a fool they have standard in their cars.
@@bodigames What tool is that? And assuming that each and every police officer has such a tool, what makes you assume the an incapacitated person has long enough to survive for said officer to retrieve such a tool? Personally, I've never heard anything about police cruisers being equipped with reciprocating saws, standard.
I’d include the huge portion sizes at restaurants, at least here in the Midwest. If you don’t have a doggie bag of leftovers for a second meal, then you feel cheated. And iced tea seems to get sweeter the more south you go. But whole sales tax issue is irritating, even for us!
Haha this is funny. I can’t stand “sweetened tea”. ! If the sugar is not boiled into the tea it’s not worth drinking 🤪 a lot of people don’t understand the difference in sweetened tea and sweet tea.. if I can feel granulated sugar as I’m drinking the tea… it’s not sweet tea nor is it worth drinking 😀
The worst thing about the doggie bag necessity is that the protein main course is usually finished, leaving
you with whole loaded baked potato or a massive heap of rice that you
stick in your fridge and never, ever eat.
You dont have to worry about those big portions anymore. They disappeared.
d after the pandemic.
@@paulettebandow5689 oh I have seen them this week. Proteins are smaller portions now.
Portion sizes are too large, agreed. When eating out my husband and I split a meal.
For the kids, We order the most healthy option on the children’s menu at sit down restaurants bc the portions are huge. We substitute steamed veggies or fresh fruit for the fries & Always request a takeout box.
We also never order drinks other than water, unless it is included in the kids’ meal price- and milk is what they order.
# 20 is interesting. As a Doctor, I am given only two week vacation per year. That can increase up to 120 hours. My employer pushes me to take them but I am not allowed to take more than 1 week off at a time because it can cost them more money to find coverage of my schedule. I absolutely hate it because if I want to travel out of the country, I want to go longer than 1 week.
The bathroom stale height, I could never understand, and absolutely hate it. It is even like that in schools. I have been in one place, which was a Japanese restaurant who had the stale doors as full doors.
A doctor who can’t even tell the difference between a “stall” and something “stale” - sure, that makes total sense 🙄
@@ambitiously_ 🤣 Spell check! I hate it because, it changes words and you don't usually notice till too late. I hate it!😅
i went on vacation to aruba once and loved the privacy in the bathrooms i literally was so surprised i took a video about how the stall was in a separate room from the sink since it had a full door
@@ambitiously_ I know the difference. Technology doesn't care. By now, you would know that autocorrect, the worst addition to technology in my opinion, is based on AI intelligence using the user's tendencies. I have never typed the word stall on this phone until that comment. As the result, it was autocorrected to more frequent word with similar spelling. That word being stale.
“Y’all” is so versatile. I’m from South Texas and y’all is an amazing word. There’s also an “all y’all” just in case your need to address everyone in the room🤣
All y'all as opposed to some of y'all! :)
It's easier to say then you all.
50 states, 50 different versions of the English language, 50 cultural differences.
This is why we say there's no such thing as an American accent... there's more than 50 American accents.
There are waaaaay more than 50 different American accents. I live in Louisiana and there can be different accents for each little town within the state, but possibly only locals can pick up on that. Sometimes ppl from New Orleans sound like they are from New York. It’s very strange
@@kerrijacobi which is why I said there's more than 50 accents and that there's no such thing as an "American accent" 👍
@@modostig67 There is a widely generic American accent. Just as many people have a generic accent as they do a unique one.
The American accent is what I’ll call, “Hollywood English”. It’s the accent of Hollywood movies and the accent most of the world thinks is how English sounds. It’s also going to replace most accents as we all start speaking like the actors we watch in the movies, unfortunately.
@@JimmieHiggins I guess... the rest of the world does think we're all Californians. I do keep having to teach people that the strict Cali laws don't apply to the rest of the country. 🤔
Addressing “y’all”: There is a town in northern Kentucky that has a festival to celebrate it, called “Florence, Y’all”. The story behind that starts with the developers of Florence Mall, who painted the water tower on their land with the development name as they were breaking ground. The city leaders informed them that they couldn’t do that before the project was completed, so the wording was changed to “Florence Y’all”. The developers completed their project, but when they went to change the water tower wording, they discovered that the city fathers had quietly changed the sign ordinance for businesses. To this day, the wording on that water tower remains “Florence Y’all”.
Kind of like a nice introduction to the South, however.
We live in Michigan and we love to visit Kentucky such a beautiful State.
When I was in college, I went to use the bathroom and in the stall at the end, there was a woman who was completely passed out on the floor of her stall. I don't think I would've noticed her if the door was to the floor. She needed medical attention and they were able to get to her under the stall door.
The U.S. has so many different climates that those folks in northern New England, Michigan, etc. may never use air conditioning, while those in the south may use it most of the year. It is true that some folks have issues with using vacation time but we always take a vacation every year, it is important to get away and relax! I don't eat much deep fried anything, definitely no rocky mountain oysters! Never heard of anyone eating those! Some parts of the country are friendlier than others, I live in the Midwest and folks are really friendly here. Had a great friend in high school who was an exchange student from NZ, would love to visit!
It’s good to have the month first because it puts documents in numeric order by month first. If you search for a document from October but the numbers begin with the days, it gets really difficult to look for the date tag
Better to put the year first, then documents are really sorted chronologically. YYYYMMDD is the one true unambiguous date format.
@@rowhsv that is a great point, especially for long-term projects over many years.
Ya know, they are separated so you could just look at the second group...
I like the month first because it tells me more about where in time you are than the day does. March 16th makes me immediately know that we are talking about spring (yes I’m in the States). Whereas 16th of March doesn’t immediately orient me. I just wish we used different date dividers so that when you come across something labeled 08/10/22 you know if it’s from August or October. Like, the States could use periods and everywhere else dashes or something.
@NoYiu not efficient to think?
When I meet visitors from other countries here in the U.S. I explain to them our country is just like Europe, think of our states this way, each state has it's own culture, food, landscape, music, accents, slang, adventures. We are so large and have had centuries of immigrants from all over the world settle here, we are very multicultural. It is amazing.
You are so right, and that's one cool thing about the U.S.
I Disagree
@@dan9809 what do you want to complain about bro
@@hootscooter1075 Many things. Such as, Mega Bathroom Tissue Rolls which are supposedly 4X more than a single roll. Come on! Who is measuring these rolls? Another is Heavy Duty Kitchen Trash Bags. Also, the removal of plastic grocery bags. I thought there was a tree shortage and we were supposed to hug trees. Who are they fooling? Recycling is fraudulent scam. Where I live, I can't even put metal into my recycle bin, unless it's a food can. What recycling place doesn't accept metal shelves cut up to fit into the recycle bin? Mine apparently.
$25/week for them to take 3 kitchen bags of trash and choose what they want to recycle.
We are not all alike we have different Forefathers.
I live in rural West Texas and we do the one finger (no not that one) wave. It's common to wave to other drivers by lifting an index finger when passing incoming traffic.
We/They do the 2 finger salute in New York also. Yes, that finger, on both hands.
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Haha, Texas?! Second in size to my home in Alaska... harhar,Texans hate that fact
It's the one finger farmer salute here in Illinois
I’m from rural west Texas too!
I always knew that as "the country wave".
I love it that you are learning our culture…. Not judging it.
I think the smile, "happy" thing depends on town/city/state. Some places are really rude.
The tax charge at the register is so they can change it whenever state/gov't passes it and business don't have to adjust their prices accordingly. Hope that made sense.
Here in Connecticut or pretty much New England, we don't have the AC on all the time. Some put in on when it's over 85 F, but most put it on around 90 degrees or more. Around my state it gets muggy and sticky. Not comfortable when you don't have cool air in the house. I would say typically between June-Aug with some few odd days here and there. It can get pretty cold, but north it can be brutal.
Another reason businesses may not want to include the sales tax in the listed price is because they want people to think, when they're choosing whether to buy an item, that it's going to cost them a little less than it really will. And once they've carried it all the way to the cash register and hear the real cost, they probably won't want to back out of the purchase.
Some places are "really rude" according to an American standard, anyway.
And, yeah, AC only goes on when it's hot outside, and it gets a lot hotter here for a lot more days than it does in NZ or the UK. Businesses do tend to blast the AC all summer, which can be nice or annoying, depending on what you're doing and how much time you have to spend inside.
@@RoadkillX33 Except that in the US it is so completely standard that we *know* the price will be a little extra, and no one is surprised. It really is, as L Davis said, to standardize prices for national companies so franchises and branches don't have to produce completely new price lists for every town they operate in.
I’m over here laughing my butt off because I’m randomly sitting here eating some fried pickles while watching this video. I love your family love from Mississippi USA
@ColonialBuckeye They have been around since the 90s at least, but they were namely fair food at first. Now you can find them in chicken or southern home cooking restaurants in some places.
I'm 50 years old and from the South and I've never heard of fried pickles.
@@georgee6303 A few restaurants are putting them on the menu as appetizers. Excellent with a ranch dip, try them and you will be pleasantly surprised. Hooters is one, but I've seen it popping up at other places.
A lot of the items in the list depend on which state one lives in. I had a rough time when I lived in the south because I'm from the north. I literally couldn't understand what people were saying because their accents were so strong and many common expressions were odd. Anyway, I think your family is adorable.
meanwhile as a Kansan getting grouped into what most refer to as the Midwest I have no idea what yall up north are saying I think there needs to be a northern region not just Midwest cause I say yall, ain't, bless your heart but you'll also hear an ope let me squeeze right past ya there bud I understand deep south way better than high north
Louisiana. Y’all I’ve tried. From NY, lived in PA, TX, VA, MD, SC, and some in NM - but Louisiana I’m nearly always baffled by.
Can I (we) relate to this. We moved from PA to MS (in a suburb of Memphis) and I cannot tell you how many times I could NOT understand what someone was saying to me - through a drivethru at Mc'D's, hostess at Olive Garden, a customer service person at Walmart - - I just knod and hope I don't insult them because I CANNOT understand 95% of what they are saying. It's frustrating and funny at the same time. We've been in the south 15 years now - so it is getting much easier as we've adapted but geesh! Oh - and we NEVER said "ya'll" until we moved to the south - however, being a big part of the grammar police - I still try as much as possible to enunciate ' you all ' . However, the country nature of 'ya'll' is truly endearing to the south - so I appreciate it either way.
@@kar1922I started saying yinz as a joke because I live in Pittsburgh and I actually started saying it naturally sometimes
@@kar1922 I know what you mean. I was born and raised in Alto, Michigan (2 hour drive SE of Grand Rapids) and moved to Topeka, Kansas in 90 where I was stuck for nearly 30 years then moved to Denison, Texas in 2017 but left quick as I could and in 2020 moved to a small town in SW, Oklahoma. I like it here but it's so windy I keep getting blown away by the cheap prices!🤣 Seriously, 400 bucks a month for a 2 bedroom house!!🤯 I have a hard time understanding all the Hispanic people that live around me!
My grandson, a true "southern" gentleman, told me that when you are talking to less than four people you need to say, "Y'all." When you are talking to four or more the appropriate or proper pronunciation is, "All Y'all."
I like it!👍
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As a native Jorjan, I feel the need to add that "Alls y'all" is the correct way to imply plurality while "All y'alls" is the correct way to imply possession.
@@Drakijy Up here north of Pittsburgh, we just say Yinz. :)
I too am a Southern Gentleman, I will not forget that fact of reasoning. Good day, to “All Y’all.”
In High School I had a Drafting teaching that use to say "Keep smiling, people will thing you're up to something". I smile whenever I see you have a new video out! :)
Recently found this channel and have been binge watching. I'm so excited for when this family finally gets a chance to visit the States. I can't wait to hear about all the things that were different and weird.
same
My nephew is a bull rider on the pro circuit right now. It's terrifying to watch him but he loves it more than you could ever imagine! He started riding goats at 3 years old which was a blast to watch but eventually he worked his way up to the big bulls and the fun part of watching was replaced by nerves and peeking through my fingers. 8 seconds is such a long time! Lol
Dangerous.
I have been waiting for a new one! Thank you so much for everything you all do! Stay happy and healthy! Love from Chicago!
If you guys ever come here, get to Chicago. Great food, the Cubs, great lake --great city.
I know! I am always so impatient (in good way) for you next video!😁
My kids (Ellie, 9 & Jackson, 7) and I absolutely love your channel! Thank you so much for good, clean, family-friendly videos😊 We love watching you eat food from the U.S. and all your reaction videos!
I’m an English teacher (reading, writing, grammar) for middle and high school students (ages 12-18), and in answer to your “why do they write the date like that?” question, it’s mainly because of the way we speak the date verbally. We would never say “Today is the fifteenth of July, 2022.” Instead, because Americans are constantly in a hurry and/or are lazy with our speech, we say “Today is July 15th.” And therefore, this warrants our dates to say 7-15-22 or July 15, 2022 instead. The only time you would see a date written as “Friday, the fifteenth of July, two-thousand and twenty-two” would be on a formal wedding invitation.
Love, love from my family to yours! Thanks so much for your videos!!
When we write the date, we go from the smallest number to the biggest number. There are only 12 months in a year, 30 days in a month and a seemingly infinite number of years.
We also mimic the way we write out the month too, such as April 7, 2022 (4-7-22 or 04/07/2022) In all truth, I have no clue when this was put into place but I just do it.
It's not that we don't want to take long vacations. It's that vacation has to be approved and employers rarely approve it, so you risk losing your job by even asking.
It's also exceptionally rare for your employer to let you take your vacation days all at once. They'd rather you use them as extra sick days, or for the odd day off here and there.
I think that happens a bit less in very large companies. I can see that could be a headache in a small company however.
I love New Zealand. It is my favorite country. You have very friendly people and your children are very well
behaved! It is quite beautiful!
Not only state to state, there can be a difference city by city, but this is a small variance.I do tipping only if I am seated when receiving a service, being served in a restaurant, haircut, taxis etc.
I find this so cool to see what people on the outside see America and our people as! We are incredibly happy people, but can be very rude if given good reason.
i can agree, we just need a good reason to be mad or rude to you
Such a wholesome channel & a beautiful family!
I agree except I find it revolting.
I feel like even though we have some seemingly strange traditions as Americans, there's really no need to worry that if you come here and don't do things the way we do we will be offended. Maybe that's because we are such an amalgamation of different cultures, we accept it more easily if a newcomer or visitor doesn't do things "the same." I would love to visit New Zealand someday. Have a great day!
Yea, except when it comes to tipping. Expectations vary around the service industry. But, its definitely considered bad form not to tip for seated restaurant service where the wait staff take your order at the table and bring food to where you're seated.
Hopefully we will be tolerant and accepting, but I think that really that is becoming less and less common. We are becoming more and more mean to each other as well as visitors.
Except America is racist, violent and insane. Lol
I’d say the only place people REALLY don’t like when you don’t tip is restaurant servers, delivery drivers and hair dressers.
@@ennazusmiranda In a lot of service jobs, tips are assumed *by the government*, and it plays a factor in taxes on your earnings. If you don't receive a certain amount of tips on your shift, you'll actually lose money due to taxes being placed on something you never actually received. I thought this was monstrously unfair from the moment I heard about it, but it's true. This is why you should always give your server a nominal tip unless the service was downright bad.
# 18 If you want to experience fried food find a state fair. That’s where they usually have the widest variety.
# 6 - Often times people respond to “how are you”.
# 5 Bathroom stalls, often don’t have the gap on the doors and the door opening height is usually below the toilet seat.
When you look at sales tax, it is usually below 10% no matter what state you are in. If you look at VAT tax it is usually over 20%.
No wonder they hide it from the customers!
And, not everything is taxable.
@@sherimccarroll3213 Buy the food at the store and prepare the food at home, no sales tax in Pennsylvania. Buy the food at a restaurant where someone has done all the preparations, you have sales tax. If it set as a drive-through or carry-out restaurant, no tip needed.
I am no expert, but I think the VAT applies or accrues every time an item changes hands or passes from producer to wholesaler, then retailer -- in other words, each step that "adds value" to the ultimate product. So by the end of the chain, it can accrue to be a sizable tax. I actually appreciate the sale tax as a direct state/local tax. It's more simple and traceable.
Yea but because Europeans don’t pay out of pocket for things like healthcare and college tuition, and pay less in cost of living, they still have more money in their pockets than most average Americans. The VAT doesn’t really impact anyone’s cost of living all that much.
I would have no trouble adjusting overseas except for two things. Ice, and air conditioning. But I think someone has to understand--spend one summer in the American South without AC. You'll never do it again.
I grew up in the South before air conditioning became popular for private homes. Kids and sometimes mothers would go the afternoon movies in the Summer, as they had air conditioning. Before WWII, farm houses had three porches. These were on the east, south and west. sides of the houses The bedrooms were normally on the north side of the house and used at night. The three porches kept the sun from the house walls in the daytime. Houses in New england had a porch that was closed with glass and was on the Winter afternoon sun side of the house. This was the sun room. After the war, houses in the South often got a screened on patio on the Summer afternoon shaded side (north side) of the house, while houses in New England got glass enclosed patios on the Winter afternoon sun side (south-east side) of the house. When carports became popular before air conditioning, many were converted to enclosed patios, regardless of which side of the house they were on, because they were easy to convert.
As a southerner, I agree. Hate it when a hurricane hits and knocks out the electricity. These idiots would run their generators all night to keep cool then complain about waiting in the gas line the next day. I have battery-powered fans with a lot of batteries.
I love watching you as you seem like such a happy family. It is so nice that you watch videos and discuss them as a family.
Loved this video!! Tipping is very important to American servers. I work as a server and we don’t make high wages for this job and rely on tips to make up the difference. My pay is $4.45 per hour plus tips. The standard is 20% and can be more if service levels are exceeded. It is really disheartening when people don’t give the standard. We also prefer cash tips, as we are taxed for anything we get in credit card tips.
Thanks for your adorable channel. ❤
"We also prefer cash tips, as we are taxed for anything we get in credit card tips. "
You should be paying taxes on the cash tips too, but I won't tell. :-)
@@michaelwalsh564 HAA!! Oh I pay taxes on everything believe me....ugh!!!
regarding tipping, I have been alive long enough to remember when the standard tip was 10%, then increased to 10-15%, then 15-20%, now it is 20-25%,. And the rule was in restaurants you only tipped in places where food was brought to you, but if it was a self serve type of establishment than tipping was not required. Now it seems tipping in America is expected nearly everywhere. Except in the medical field, because any medical staff caught taking gratuities weather asked for or not risks being sacked if caught.
Tipping seems foreign to us because we believe wages should be paid the fair legal rate by the employer.
@@wcampbell1502 Same! I'm not afraid to still give only 10% (or less) when service isn't up to par. If I feel the server is doing his/her best, and the food meets the expectation, I'll gladly tip higher. It use to also be if service/food was poor, a penny was left as the tip - that told a message. It also used to be that the server got the whole tip & it was on him/her to share with others of the "team"; now most tips are collected and divided according to restaurant's policies.
We had a local restaurant (big name chain) that closed during the Covid era, it reopened but on every page of the new menu in small print was that an additional 3% 'gratuity' was added to help cover the costs (basically) of their losses while they were closed along with expected food cost increases. That along with the suggested 20-25% tip. Menu costs were higher, portions smaller as well. We chose not to return again, and it appeared others may have followed suit and the restaurant closed permanently within six months.
I'm all for doing away with the whole tip/gratuity system in ALL places it's expected and/or automatically charged (check your receipts carefully, you MAY be double-tipping!).
Eating bull balls, deep fried everything, saying ya’ll etc…would be regional for sure 🐂
Yeah, I’ve never done any of those things 😂
Texan here! Never have or would eat a testical 😂 they aren’t commonly served in restaurants here, but things like alligator and frog legs are available at some seafood restaurants. We love diverse food flavors from all over, including nearby Louisiana’s Cajun flavors and Mexico’s spicy flavors. Texas has a large German immigration population so we are always excited to see a German styled restaurant because somehow there aren’t many. Fried pickles and mushrooms are common appetizers in many restaurants here, but fried Oreos, fried ice cream and other such treats are generally only found at annual Fairs/Carnivals.
I did grow up riding horses as my family owns them, but they aren’t our daily commuters, lol. Riding is recreational and a sport.
@@PollyBunch Never had a rocky mountain oyster, but the most outlandish thing I ever ate was something I tried on a caribbean cruise excursion. We were on a trawling boat and one of the trawlers brought up a conch. Pulled it from its shell and offered to slice it fresh from the sea for anyone who wanted to try a slice. No one else spoke up, I was like 'what the hell, he would have said something if there was a risk, right', I said I'd try some, ate it right there. It was good. More than anything, it really cemented the idea in my mind that meat is meat once you get past what kind of animal it came from. Heck, fire-roasted ants or spiders probably taste like shrimp if you think about it.
I'm from down south and I've NEVER eaten the balls of any animal.
The bull thing is colorado only
As someone who has been in the rodeo world for almost 12 years, the bull riding comment at the beginning of the video made me smile😂
Me too. Lol. I raced barrels and straightaways until I was 45. It made me wonder if they even do that in other countries. Just grew up around it so never thought about it.
The sales tax thing - not only is it different in different states, but even in different counties within the states. The best way to find out is to look it up beforehand, or ask the sales clerk when you walk in, or just mentally add 10% (usually it's not that much, more like 7% or 8%, but of course 10% is easier).
How many times does this have to come up? I'm pretty sure everyone knows this. And really, how many people count out exact change?
#6 Is only partially true. People tend to answer habitually " Fine" but a lot of people actually ask to let you know they are considerate to your feelings. Like a lot of these videos, some of these are stereotypes.
The ice thing has a long weird history of ice being shipped from new England to the south so we didn’t pass out from the heat. Ice houses are where you went to relax and buy a block of ice for your freezer. Now they’re just neighborhood bars lol.
“Ya’ll” puzzled me too. I grew up and lived in the state of New Jersey, U.S.A. until I was 34. DH&I always said “you guys”. We moved us and our 4 children to Kentucky in 1988. The children were ages 10yrs., 6 yr. old twins, and 5.5months. The kids grew up saying ya’ll.
Did you know the plural of “ya’ll” is “all ya’ll”?
Yes. Being from the suburbs of Philly. I grew up wonder why nowhere else said, "Youse Guys". Never realizing it was a Jersey and Philly slang. Love the plural tip!
I've lived in Florida all my life and say ya'll and all ya'll all the time😂
Fellow Jerseyan too and I know some parts of the south actually say "you all" instead of or as well as y'all.
But what do u say now.. you guys or ya’ll?
@@mariedin683 I usually say “you guys” because I grew up saying that.
Hi New Zealand Family. Great video and reaction. I'm American and when I was traveling in the UK and Ireland I couldn't believe how limited their options are in things like pharmaceuticals etc. And that I cant just walk into a store and buy what I need mostly over the counter. I found it very irritating that I had to ask a pharmacist and that they did not have many options. And the big one that many Americans complain about is that other places do not have Nyquil. I couldn't believe it. For me there is no better thing to take when you have a horrendous cold and need to sleep. It basically knocks you out for twelve hours, which gives your body the rest it needs to heal. I didn't know about the red cups. That is funny. I used to wait tables and would cringe when foreigners came in because they usually didn't tip or if they did it was not a good tip. In the U.S. waiters and waitresses wages are heavily taxed since they receive tips and so their paychecks are almost nothing. So they live off of their tips. To me saying the month first and then which day in that month and then the year makes complete sense, LOL. But I know all other places don't agree. One other thing I would add. In the U.S. you can always find stores that are open even on Christmas Day. I was in a state of shock that in the UK and other places, everything closes down on Sundays and also often at 4:00 pm during the regular work!! I was so relieved when I got home and could get what I needed any time. Anyway, cute family and cute & fun video. :)
I think with the date, maybe its because we say, March 2nd or December 25th, and not the 2nd of march or the 25th of December.. apart from the 4th of July. I go back and forth to Italy every year. It takes me a second to remember when I arrive and when I get home. Love the video!
As an American I concur that rocky mountain oysters are freaking weird. A lot of people say they are good but I can't bring myself to ever taste them.
You do have to understand just how big America is too. Lots of people do things that where I live we would consider wierd and vice versa
That's one of the things I love about our country (US) Every region has its own culture.
“Why say two words when you can just say one” Don’t forget it kids!!
Welcome to Pittsburghese... :)
Unless you're a lawyer, in which case never use one word where five will fit. 😉🤣
@@SpearM3064 😂😂
A few years ago a client told me that for the first few years after she immigrated to America she thought Americans were ungrateful. And while we do have a good amount of ungrateful people what she realized is that we Americans are 'just use to' getting what we want. And yes, we are use to having freedoms, debating our way to get things, and just taking things for granted like being able to shop for almost everything in one place like grocery stores and expecting good service. But I would say that most of us understand that we do have it good. We don't stand in lines for bread. We all hate the Dept of Motor Vehicles because of the lines we do have to stand in. After Covid service is now so terrible even at hospitals and we are not use to this which is upsetting a lot of people. I think the hospital is the most shocking to me. We use to have outstanding medical service.
Yes the service at hospitals is getting worse, and the prices they are charging are getting higher. Check your bill sometime. You'll see charges on there from doctors you never spoke to or even glimpsed. It's ridiculous.
Yes, I agree that as a whole, Americans are spoiled. We take for granted that everything we want and need will be at our fingertips. We as a nation don't have a clue how hard it was or is for other countries to have even their basic needs met, clean water, food, shelter, education.
I learned from my time in the military to "Hurry up and wait". Long lines do not phase me.
@@su-rv2uq Americans do have it better, on the whole, than some countries, but there is a large population here who have to fight (and pay) for everything they have ever gotten. A note about hospital service - in these days of Covid, the personnel, especially drs and nurses, are just plain worn out. As to tipping, as much as I hate to tip people for what I see as their job, when tips are automatically added on, the quality of service, in my experience, has diminished because the employee knows they are getting the tip anyway so why go the extra mile. I'll get off the soapbox now.😃😃
Nurses and doctors used to be treated with great respect and now they are often treated as if they work at a fast food place. Add Covid to that and everyone is surprised why healthcare workers choose to retire early or change careers. That’s why hospitals are struggling- just like restaurants- no one wants to work if you can get paid to stay home. It’s sad really
A little late here. Just wanted to add that in addition to the dates being different, it is my understanding that our decimal system is also different. Where we use a period to separate dollars and cents, other places just us a comma. So, we write $1,529.99 with a period, dot, decimal to separate the 9's. Other places would write 1,529,99 with no period, only a comma. We also put the dollar sign before the numbers and the cent sign, ¢ , after if there are no dollars, i.e. 0.27¢ or just 99¢. if there are dollars involved, the cent sign is never used; we never write $1.99¢ only $1.99. I think many other places put their currency sign at the end of the numbers.
I’m 52 female, lived in Southern California my whole life. Never had a fried pickle and never even heard of them until recently. Highly air conditioned room, YES! Definitely ice in my drink. The colder the drink, the better. The gap at the bottom of the door in a public bathroom isn’t what bothers me. It’s the gap on each side of the door. People look in there all the time. Hopefully only to see if it’s occupied but still, not enough privacy. Most of my family doesn’t like grape flavor.
When the Ac thing came up my first response was "well Europe mostly doesn't get hot like we do," lol. Also the buildings where it does get hot are built differently in most other nations; letting more breeze through and made of cooling materials and likely no open floor plan, lol. The long history of other nations architecture shows when it comes to their local climates... ours really really doesn't. lol!
I love fried pickles. Mostly seen at the fair but a few restaurants have them.
Love fried pickles going to try to make my own in air fryer .
"Grape flavor" tastes absolutely NOTHING like grapes.
If you like pickles, I hope you tried fried by now. Because yum.
American here. It gets even more confusing with the time and date system when you hear we use the metric system, military time and day/month/year, if you are in the medical field. So, even though we like to do things differently, we still conform to the rest of the world in regards to our military and medical workers. (EMT-P here)
I do not. The American standard system is in my back pocket. The metric system is where I am a babbling child. There should be a third system. The "Hey! What are you talking about system!" lol
I'm a lab tech and all of our equipment uses military time. Takes a minute to convert that in the head...lol! And all the measurements for reagents are in metric as well. I struggle with the metric system and often wish we just used that system instead of being so used to ours and having to learn a whole new system later in life.
My father used to write my Dr. appt. excuse notes for my teachers in military time. It always confused them. I think my dad was probably just being a bit of a jerk, but there you go. A bit of a contrarian, I guess.
At 9:33, there is a very definite and clear reason for the opening at the bottom of a restroom stall. It's because of the Americans with Disabilities Act (the ADA). There needs to be clearance for a wheelchair user to turn around in the stall. The increased gap at the bottom allows their feet to clear and thus the restroom stalls can be built smaller.
I've seen videos on words Aussie's use and found them fascinating. You may find it interesting to learn some of the terms true "southerner's" from the United States use. Like "Bless your heart", "fixin' to", "cattywampus", "reckon", "y'all", etc.
why do Pennsylvanians say " you ins". in place of You?
I told my son to be careful the other day not to “tump” his bottle over and he looked at me sideways. It’s technically a word but I guess not used by many.
@@frick6946 I think it comes from “you ones”. Just a guess, though!
American here...this is all pretty much true. Explanation on the tips thing: workers who normally get tips get paid FAR lower than minimum wage, so they depend on the tips for a good paycheck, otherwise, they'd be in poverty.
Another little issue I had: There may be a Starbucks on every corner, but in many places in the US there's a Dunkin' Donuts not far from them. Dunkin' was the first "to go" coffee shop. "America Runs on Dunkin'!" :)
Not all Americans say "Y'all". That usually is only said in the southern states areas. Another southern phrase is "over yonder" which simply means "over there" in other states.
As far as vacation time goes, most Americans would LOVE to have 30 days off, but companies don't allow it. You have to work a full year straight to even qualify for a vacation, and it's usually for only a week. You have to work for the company for 5 years before you are allowed 2 weeks vacation. (15 years for 3 weeks, 20 years for 4 weeks)
Not true, many ppl all over the us say y’all no matter their state of origin.
@@larsonfamilyhouse Not in New England. It's you all.
I’m from Alabama and say “y’all” all the time but I would be REALLL concerned if I ever heard someone say “over yonder”💀💀
I know a lot of southern ppl say “ain’t”(although that ones usually used as a joke or to make our parents mad or cuz were just lazy lmao) and lots of older people say “bless your heart” and younger people will sarcastically say “bless” sometimes after one of our friends is being dramatic ab their life problems
@@kinleyharris6076 yea…. Over yonder is a real backwoods phrase. Not many southerners actually
Say that unless they are around others that say it
I worked in a restaurant once, they fill the cups with ice so there is less soda. You can fill a 32oz cup with a 12oz can of coke if it’s full of ice. Also I have heard our portion sizes at restaurants are much larger than other countries.
You do realize people can and do ask for no ice if they want...?
And some places charge you extra if you ask for no ice.
Portions there are wayyyyyy to much! Every single meal I had there I wasn’t able to finish..
@@CJ-lx8of ice or no ice, you are getting the exact amount of liquid either way. Its just if you want ice theyll put it in a bigger container
The AC is a necessity during the summer months depending on where you live. A simple fan in 100°F + with 100% humidity is asking for heat stroke 🥵
This was fun y'all!! How 'bout a video of things New Zealanders do that would be weird to Americans?🤔Just an idea...!
The expressions on Atlanta's face during this video were super entertaining!!!😮😳😯😬😟
❤ Love you guys!!!!🥰
Fun video! As an American, having ice in my drinks is pretty much a necessity (like afternoon tea for the Brits). Not sure where the notion of eating bull testicles comes from.....I don't know anyone who has. Another thing most states in the US have is daylight savings time which means that in the spring we "spring forward" an hour and in the fall (autumn) we "fall back" an hour. This let's us have more daylight in the evening hours for fun outdoor activities in the summer time. Not everyone is on board with this practice, and sometime in the future we may either go to permanent daylight savings time or bag it altogether.
I loved this video and seeing things we do from others eyes. I have made the mistake in other countries of smiling at people when I pass them by and it turns awkward. In Peru, where my husband is from, he advised me that only girls that like a guy will smile at them if they don’t know them as an invitation. That one was hard to keep from doing! 😂
You guys mentioned something about how odd we do our names when the date thing came up but didn’t expand on it. I’m curious what we do with our names that’s different?
I absolutely love videos like this. I’m always fascinated about what other cultures think is interesting, bizarre, or amazing about the US
Y'all are awesome! Two week vacations are for the wealthy. I'm 47 and have never taken more than 10 days off in a row. Most businesses do not give sick days, you have to use vacation time or PTO. I just picked up my prescription today, and bought a six pack of beer, shaving cream, and shampoo along with it! I thought it was normal. 🤷♀ We write month, day, year because its smallest to largest numerically. 1-12/1-31/infinity!
Yes at the CVS Pharmacy where I'm at I like to pick up my prescriptions as well as notebooks for school, couple liters of soda and hygiene products all at the Pharmacy lmao
@@shyryTsr2k They must pay you well. At our CVS the cost of everything is higher than a giraffes butt.
I don’t think that is correct. i don’t know where you live or work, but where I am two weeks is the norm, not for the rich. And almost every business offers sick pay.
@@G-grandma_Army I think they meant taking two weeks off in a row for a vacation. Which I agree with as usually the people I know might take a week off max and then use the rest of the vacation time periodically like a day here or two days there. And no many places don't offer sick time where I've worked. Of course I work in the restaurant/hospitality industry and I've only had one job that wasn't a manager level job that I would get sick days, PTO, or vacation days. Every other job I've had if I was sick I either toughed it out if it wasn't too bad or I called out and didn't get paid for that day while I stayed home and tried to get better.
@@kennydavis2276 yeah that cvs employee discount comes in handy, the only thing i actually like about working there really
I have to agree with you about tipping. I really hate that tipping is expected, especially when you go to a fancy restaurant. It’s already expensive and then we’re expected to pay about a 1/4 of the total price as a tip! Also, I wish our taxes were included in the price. It would be much more convenient.
That’s why I do not eat at fancy places. So much money for so little, nothing special food and then have to leave a tip that could have bought a meal for another diner. And God forbid you add an alcoholic beverage to it. You’ll have to second mortgage your house to pay.
Tipping is outdated and simply a way for places to advertise lower prices while letting their staff hope customers are generous. These owners need to take care of their employees instead of teaching them to beg for money on the job.
It would be nice if sales tax were included, but given that can change down to the county (city?) it means prices would be all over the board in chain places. A $5 burger could be anywhere from $5 to over $5.50 depending on where you are. It would get even worse with new cars. I wouldn't totally be opposed to it as it would highlight high tax areas, but it certainly would be a big change.
On the order of the numbers in dates, I got used to doing it the British way because of Genealogy. The British were "into" genealogy long before Americans, so to prevent mix-ups those like me that work a lot on our genealogies we just went with dd/mm/yyyy. It's also spread here in the USA to a certain degree. Jim in Centralia WA.
Love y'all! Tipping is a thing here especially in restaurants because the minimum wage here for servers and wait staff is lower than in any other occupation. It's to account for tips as the back up income. No one here actually agrees with being paid less than normal minimum wage, but it's never been changed and varies sometimes from state to state. You can imagine how aggravating it can be when one day you get a large amount of tips, but the next you barely get any. It's a worse balancing act than planning for emergencies in everyday life.
No disrespect, but the negative sentiment is not universal. If you are a server in a nice restaurant or club, you can make a very nice wage with tips. Most Country Clubs add an automatic 15% to food and beverage bills, and with some work, write-ons and cash tips are pretty easy to come by. It feels nice to be able to see a direct result from working harder, rather than making the same wage as those who chose to do just enough to get by. That being said, there are venues and/or customer demographics that can make or break the experience. Like being a server in a venue that caters to teenagers, who don't generally have the resources or EQ to relate to the worker. In an instance like that, I'd prefer to take a different kind of entry-level job.
I'd like to add that the lower wage also gives incentive to provide good service in some restaurants where tipping is decided on how good the service was...probably why it hasn't changed.
@@missbluepants888 I don't eat at restaurants that add a gratuity to the bill. I find them stuck up pretentious snobs who think we, the "lower class" can't think for themselves. And I'm someone who has gone back into restaurants to "use the bathroom" to leave a tip because the people I was with didn't get their drink fast enough so leave a penny. I personally always leave a minimum of 20%. That's a bad waiter gets 20%. If you were good I've left as high as 75%. However if you add a gratuity to my bill that's ALL you are getting. If you only add 10% fine you must feel that's all your staff are worth. Why should I feel any different. If they are going to disrespect their staff by saying they can't be good enough to encourage the customers to want to thank them for good service then why should I encourage the bad service by leaving a higher tip.
Tipping is supposed to make you a better worker. If you want to get paid more than work harder makes perfect sense.
And if customers want to be treated better then they should tip and if they don’t remember them and don’t treat them as well next time
Every state is soooo different from each other and sometimes it can feel like you’re living in a different world. I was born and raised here in California and I went out to Texas for a few months and I can tell you it was a bit of a culture shock. They did things so different out there. They have a beautiful care free philosophy of living, where as us Californians are more high strung, for just one example. Anyway, I fell in love with Texas and I hope to move there someday, but the main point is that every state is SOOOO different.
where did you visit in Texas? I have lived in Haltom City, Watauga, Arlington, Nacogdoches, and Tyler Tx so in the east part.
@@lyricberlin oh wow! Very cool😊 I was in Magnolia Texas in Montgomery county
@@Caligurl1998 I am also from CA (have lived in both NorCal & SoCal), but now live in TX. Personally, I think it's more laid back in CA vs. TX, but people are friendlier in TX. But no state compares to CA when it comes to weather! If you move here, be prepared for hellacious weather!!!
Date: I wondered about this and ended up looking it up. It made sense it had to do with the early printing of newspapers and that putting the month first, they wouldn't have to change the print as often.
Fried pickles may sound awful but they are surprisingly delicious. Cut into discs, battered and fried, the pickle flavor “bite” taste is mellowed out. Dipped in ranch dressing, it’s really good. Surprised me the first time.