European Reacts to 7 Things I Never Knew Existed Until I Came to the US
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It's always funny to me when Italians bash on "American Italian food." Historically, when the first large wave of Italian immigrants got to new york they left because there was no opportunity at home, they were poor and hungry. They got to America, and even the sweatshop workers could afford meat. Italian immigrants on average spent more on meat per month than on their rent. For two reasons, the first was because they could afford to now. The second was there was enough to go around and people weren't starving. So all of the "American Italian food" that gets mocked by "Real Italians" are literally just making fun of the dishes their ancestors would have made (and did) if they weren't poor.
My grandmother had to adjust her recipes when she moved to the US, there was a greater variety of ingredients ... of higher quality. She took advantage of this and produced a superior meal.
Thank you for that comment! Yeah I've seen that argument or italian-born people will mock the Italian food here without even considering the history behind it just like when other Europeans mock us for calling football soccer meanwhile they were the ones that called it soccer first. Before mocking something you should look into the history behind it or at least know your own history first.
@@53kennerIf you are referring to a time when there was extreme poverty, that's one thing but when preparing the food of the "cuisines" of Italy because there isn't only one there are many, it's regional, sorry the US does not have superior ingredients to Italy. Italy still uses their ancient wheat grain unlike the altered, modified flour you get in the US, their locally made cheeses are definitely superior, ricotta in the US tastes like sawdust compared to the freshly made sheep's milk and cow's milk ricotta made daily in Italy. The produce is still cultivated as it should be, naturally and organically, especially in the south where the soil is volcanic and tastes amazing. The local fish and seafood from the Mediterranean that's eaten on the same day not frozen. In Italy they choose not to eat too much meat but when they do it's of very good quality not to mention their local sausage, salami, and prosciutto, mortadella, etc. Italy's are prize winners. Sorry, you lose on the subject of quality of ingredients.
Italian food wouldn’t be what it is without all the “new world” vegetables they got from the Americas. Without them, Italians would still be eating pizza with beets as a topping.
@@FriedPi-mc5yt Beets? hardly. More like olive oil, garlic, herbs, and their local cheeses. And what would the Americas do without the "old world" ingredients like beef, pork, chickens, lamb, onions, garlic, cheese making, wheat, orchard fruits, and the method of frying that was introduced to them? Why don't we just celebrate the historical intercontinental exchange of foods instead of making one sided silly comments.
As others have commented, storm doors are typically sold with screen inserts for the summer and glass ones for the winter. But even those that are only glass have 3 functions: 1. The air space between the doors works like insulation, helping keep excess heat and cold outside. 2. During the day, you can open the main door and let sunlight in through the storm door without lettings bugs in with it. 3. If you live in the north, storms sometimes blow snow into piles (we call them "snowdrifts") against the bottom of your door. Your main door opens inward, so without a storm door that snow will fall inside the house when you open the door. But if you have a storm door, it opens outward and will push the snow away.
Many storm doors have a section that opens like a window, and that section has a screen in it.
Medical ads and ads for lawyers and doctors are just accepted. The ads for drugs began years
It also protects the paint on the door from the weather .
Thanks for explaining this - I couldn't imagine how the weather would actually reach a door in America where most people have front porches. Storm doors would be tremendously useful in Germany where houses lack front porches altogether. When it rains hard here, I get a puddle inside my door.
@@LythaWausW And if you have any room to put an awning or little roof over your front entry, would be helpful.
yeah there's a reason they don't really have bagels in Germany - about 80 years ago they got rid of all the...bagel makers
Funny that...
We all thought it, you said it
I'm going to assume she doesn't know bagels are a Jewish food.
Right, and just a bit of research would have greatly helped her not be so insensitive. 😅
Maybe the German should do some research about why it’s so tough to find bagels in Germany.
Water fountains are usually cold, which we tend to prefer in the US. Tap water isn't chilled or filtered.
Yes! This! It's always really cold and most of the time tastes really good. Nothing better than being thirsty or hot and finding a drinking fountain while out and about.
So, I was born and raised in Pennsylvania. It gets cold. Harsh, snowy winters. A screen door was always in during the summer for the light and ventilation and protection from bugs, like she said. But for the colder months, most people switch the screen door for a storm door. It is to protect your door from the elements, but it also helps to insulate the house, keeping the warmth in. In PA, when snow piles up on your door, and it's 6 feet deep, when you open only one door, you're getting a new swamp in your living room, when you open it, if you don't have a storm door. Then, you switch back in the spring, or summer. Now I live in the south and we only have front doors and back doors, now. But I have lived in homes with outer doors. They were storm doors, because everyone has central air-conditioning in the South. We also get a lot of storms/tornadoes. If your door is going to get messed up, best it's a storm door that you can replace rather than a more expensive front door.
Great explanation and so true!
Just so you know, the "flavored cream cheeses," .. it's not just flavored. It has the stuff in it. Blueberries, strawberries, minced veggies an herbs...
The thing about glass storm doors is you can open your main door and let more light in. It's like adding an extra large window to your room.
As an older man, I've been writing checks all my life, but now I pay almost all my bills online. I really only write checks for my rent, but if I were to buy something important, or lend money to a friend, I'd definitely use a check. It gives you an immediate receipt as proof of payment.
💯 everything she said about technology is available in the USAMERICA.
Landlords want checks for several reasons. Some do not want to spend money on electronic payment equipment. They want a paper trail, because let's face electronics break down and do not leave a trail.
You have not had to use a written check in the USAMERICA since the 80s. If you had a job back then, you had the option of direct pay (checks), or direct deposit, and a debit card.
You also did not have to go to the bank since the 70s (ATM) has been available for a while.
The purpose was to keep workers from crowding banks at 4pm on Fridays.
I'm a landlord. The reason we want rent payments in checck form and mailed is because the postage mark on the envelope is government proof of the day you paid rent. So in a court case, there is no "he said she said". The post mark proves to the court that you were late on rent. The reason we want a check is so, again there is documentation of the amout you paid. If you try to pay with cash, the tenant can claim they paid the full amount and there is nothing to prove otherwise. It's all about documentation if (or more likely, when) you go to court to have a tenant evicted.
The bagel making in Germany went way down in the 1940s.
Watching your reaction to the young German girl about 7 things she had not seen until she came to the USA, I have a couple comments. 1. You should think of the US as a large country with OPTIONS...pay by check, online, via Zelle, etc, debit/credit card, automatic payments through your bank, money order (purchase at some grocery stores, Walmart, etc) or bank check (purchase at your bank), the last two are more secure for the receiver.
Other options: flavored coffee creamer, multiple flavors of cookies, chips, bread, cereal, etc...because we are a country of immigrants from many countries.
We have big cars/houses and small ones, condos, apartments, mobile homes,etc.
Some choose to live where it's always sunny, some prefer colder climate and a large portion of us like seasonal changes. Many just live where their job is, no matter the weather.
Advantage of a storm door in addition to regular door: a) you can use screen in the frame when you want fresh air and/or sunshine coming in, without the insects or you replace the screen with a Plexiglas or glass panel when it's colder.
You can also lock the storm door so when someone knocks, you may feel safer and less vulnerable by opening the inner door to see who is there before allowing them access.
Just my insights, thanks for "listening". I do enjoy your videos, thank you.
Don't forget, the Post Office is a source for money orders, too.
Heck, we can also get money orders at WalMart.
We don't have just sweet cream cheese, we also have savory cream cheeses like smoked salmon cream cheese, and chives flavored cream cheese, etc. We also have regular of course.
Let's also not start on the butter flavors, because I love honey butter.
Smoked Salmon is my fave.
When she was going on and on about how Germany doesn’t have bagels…. 👀 (Who’s gonna tell her?)
Oh I know! I think people pointed it out in her comments.
Yea... she got about halfway through that part and my brain just went, "oh.. oh no 😅"
@TexasVagabond She is an idiot, she acts like if she personally hasn't seen something it doesn't exist or is impossible.
I thought the same thing. WOW
I was thinking the same thing!
Storm doors can be an added level of security, also. Since they lock, you can answer the door and talk to the visitor while the storm door is still locked. In fact, they make storm doors with security in mind.
I’m American and can confirm flavored cream cheese is amazing.
Just wait til they find out about cream cheese icing on cakes.
@@norsehawk omg yes
I'm American and I don't like cream cheese. But everyone in my family does. Actually I do like plain cream cheese on a bagel now that I think of it.
When you have crazy weather like we have in the US, you will realize the need for a storm door.
often times a storm door is also a screen door, you can switch it so in the warmer months you put in the screens and when its cold you switch to the glass, it adds an extra layer of insulation and also you can open the main door to have a look outside without snow/rain/cold air blowing in to the house. Also Bagels are a jewish food in origin, which is why they are so great in New York bakeries (those bagels in the super market are just crappy bread in the shape of a bagel if you're a NY'er like me) - and they were very common in Germany and eastern europe when there were jews living there.....
started in poland.
You are right about NY bagels. Boston has pretty good bagels too. 😋
I live in NYC, and I have a sacrilegious opinion: Costco pizza is the best! >_>
It's called a Drinking Fountain. In storm doors the glass is on tracks so you can slide the glass up and expose the screen underneath for ventilation. She's been here for 5 years and she's still a little confused about some things.
I think the terms drinking fountain and water fountain are a regional preference. We say water fountain here. Edit: I found a map showing where we say drinking vs water fountain and a very small area says bubbler which I've never heard. Look up Inverse media Slang in Different Regions of the U.S.
@@Hope2BHappy Yeah, weirdos in Wisconsin call it a bubbler.
@@w00tw00t4l00t I’m one of those weirdos
@@DebbieCherek I know your type, coming over the river from Hudson to steal our jerbs. Not evening bringing Spotted Cow to share!
We have a storm door on my home here in NJ and we do not have a screen option. Not all storm doors do and her may not.
Theres an old phrase in the US that goes a little something like this. "If it aint broke, dont fix it". Its one of the reasons we have systems that are obsolete in other countries, like checks, and SMS messaging. Generally speaking, things are not widely adopted in the US until they havr proven themselves to the masses, and the elderly folks running the government. Also, storm doors have a few uses people dont generally talk about. First of all, they protect the doors paint job. Thry are also useful for large gatherings because if you're expecting guests, you can leave your door open and see who's at the door without having to walk to the door and open it or look out a peep hole. Also, when you have a gathering at your house, an open door with a closed storm door is the universal symbol for "let yourself in". Last but not least, storm doors create an air pocket between the main door and the stotm door that provides an extra layer of insulation on exceptionally hot or cold days.
The "water fountain" has various names depending on the region. It's also known as a "drinking fountain", a "bubbler", for example, depending on location in the country.
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Storm doors are glass and aluminum, most house doors are wood. The storm door protects the wooden door from water, snow , ice and wind. Our house doors open inward so the storm door (which opens outward) lets you open your door without the weather coming in.
Likewise, its quite common for the screen on the screen door to be removable, which can then be replaced with glass, so that the screen door will become a storm door.
Our front door in our last house looked like wood. But it was steel. The sherif came to the wrong house and dented it with his nitestick. Funny thing My wife and I have the same first names as a neighbor up the street. They got the wrong house. I wasn't home, they didn't believe my wife. They called reinforcements and surrounded the house. I found out and called the Sherrif (they guy in charge, everyone else is a deputy). I made him apologize to my wife.
There is another problem with online transfers to pay bills in the US. Many companies charge a "convenience fee" for paying online (I have seen it range from $1.95 to $3.95), whereas a check only costs postage and an envelope, maybe $0.70. I still sometimes do it for the convenience, but the fee is deplorable.
The only time I see fees for paying online is if you use a credit card, and even then only my rent does that. If you use your checking account's routing number (like I do), I've not paid a fee for paying online. I guess I depends on who you're paying?
Credit/debit card processors also charge a small fee for every transaction made. I know of a bakery in my city which has never accepted electronic payments in the 42 years they have been open due to that fact. A charitable organization I belong to has recently purchased the hardware for a card processing option. It's called a Square. The processing fee we will pay the processor is $0.23 on every purchase. Some local businesses are reluctant to add this charge to their goods or services.
plus you can't kite online payments
I used to just give it to them personally, but thst was more than 40 years ago. We have owned our house for a, long time.
hate, hate, hate ads for prescription drugs ... they dominate the tv ads and I think they should be outlawed. And I can't tell you the last time I wrote a check. My 85 yr old mother still uses checks but its just because she is uncomfortable with anything else.
My apartment complex’s management office has yet to move into the 21st century. Their only online presence is through the major third-party apartment finder sites, and they don’t offer online rent payment, so I have to write out a rent check monthly.
Sorry but I like them because it helped find a drug that fit better for me. I get they are annoying but think on the other hand
Sorry for you but the First Amendment allows them to advertise. If you don’t like it the best way to stop it, is to let the broadcaster/network know you don’t like them and rather not have them aired the on their station.
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"The First Amendment protects speech from government interference. In a 1976 case regarding pharmacies wishing to advertise the price of their drugs, the Supreme Court ruled that this protection extends to commercial speech, speech that advertises a product or service. This opened the floodgates for corporate speech-and is why you see ads for drugs today." - Professor David Vladeck of the Georgetown University Law Center
A "storm" door also helps to insulate your house from heat or cold.
In much of the northeast and some Midwest, where they get a lot of snow, they have mud rooms (See Lost in the Pond), which is sort of an insulating room where you usually store your outdoor gear (boots and coats) so you are not tracking in mud or snow. Storm doors are a mini version to shelter from the weather part.
Love your backgrownd andre!!! I have always noticed your comic books, etc.!
She lists cream as "coffee creamer". Cream is... well, cream. From a cow. For coffee there's light cream and half-and-half (cream and milk combined for less fat.). "Creamers" are all NON -dairy products.. NO cream at all. They use vegetable based oils to get a "creamy" texture. There are powdered and liquid creamers in many flavors. Some are reduced fat.
Vegetable oils, except for a few good ones, are lethal.
@@NewEarthBlog Thanks for the input, no one cares what New Earth Blog thinks.
Coffee creamer is awful. I use half and half with chocolate syrup.
Now there are many plant-based creamers. Cannot be called cream because not dairy. They have few ingredients, so not filled with chemicals. A combo of coconut and almond is very tasty. Many of us don't tolerate dairy well.
The advertisements for prescription drugs are the really bad part, it's the fact that drug companies send representatives to the doctor's office and cut deals to give the doctor a cut of the amount of prescriptions they write for a drug company
Yes, and I don't think the advertisements for drugs is meant for us anyways. They are targeting doctors. I know I will never remember the drugs they advertise. So that is another sign about just how much money they are willing to waste just to advertise to less than 1% of the target audience.
Wish they would just advertise in professional journals and direct mail to doctors. These minute long commercials with a cast of 20-30 people singing and dancing. The amount spent on costumes, sets, ( design, construction, lighting, locations) actors, vocal coaches, choreographers, musicians, and the cost of air time, and producers, directors and whole behind the scenes crew seems better spent on research or figuring out how to cut costs.
I'm a doctor. I've never heard of such "deals". What these drug reps do do is offer to take the doctor out to lunch or other very minimal inducements. Also, for some small numbers of prominent doctors, mainly researchers, they offer payment for giving lectures to other doctors promoting certain drugs. Frankly, during my career (before retiring) I always avoided them. I found them more an annoyance than anything else and most other doctors I have known feel the same way. They just take up your time. The one exception is when they offer free samples of their product you can give to patients as "starter" samples (to use pending filling a prescription) or to patients without insurance that covers drugs.
@@kevinerose No, they are meant for you--so you will do as they say and ask your doctor for their product. If you have the condition they are targeting and aren't doing that well on whatever you are currently taking, you will remember the product and may very well ask for it.
@@jimwilcox2964 The courts have said it's free speech. The companies have a First Amendment right to advertise. And obviously it works or they would agree with you it wasn't worth the cost and stop doing it. Feli never heard of such ads because other countries don't have a First Amendment.
28:09 - and wind as well. Just using a nice door doesn't work as well, because the wind, rain, and snow, will beat the hell out of your expensive door, costing you money. The glass doesn't wear like paint or wood stain. A storm door will also improve your insulation.
I rarely use checks. Like, every few years type of rare. My last apt took payments online and my mortgage now is electronic.
27:03 / 31:44 I'm still here. I only use checks when I absolutely must. Some (very few) places add "convenience fees" to credit/debit transactions. Those places don't usually charge to use checks.
On the other hand, those places don't reliably deposit customer's checks promptly. My previous landlord left all of the rent checks hanging for three weeks because the one lady in the office who did the banking was on vacation over the first of the month.
The owner was blase about thousands of dollars sitting in the in box. He'd just claimed that the rent just HAD to go up, or the whole place would fall into ruin
I paid my rent in cash from then on. When they complained about the number of hundred dollar bills that were in the office safe, I told them that it was a greater burden for me to wait for them to do their banking. The solution in either case was for THEM to get THEIR act together.
Cream Cheese on a cinnamon/raisin bagel is a personal favorite for breakfast.
I love strawberry or blueberry cream cheese on blueberry or mixed berry bagels. One of my favorite kinds of bagels is cinnamon raisin. I always had to choose between peanut butter or regular cream cheese on them, until my grandchildren decided to split up their bagels and share, and discovered a mix of the two toppings is the best. 😀
And with cinnamon sprinkled on top...yummy!
I love that combo too - though I prefer garden veggie cream cheese on my cinnamon raisin bagel -- the contrast just adds an extra layer of YUM!
I haven't used checks in decades. As a Walmart cashier I find that checks are usually only used by the elderly or scammers.
FYI: One new thing I've seen on other channels recently to not have to need deal with customs on shipped gifts is that they're using the Amazon 'wish list'. There you save items you might actually enjoy to receive & others can view your list also. They can select to gift an item that is on your 'wish ' & it ships the same as if you had ordered it yourself. Yes, packages will simply seem to just appear. I hope this helps.
We have regional ads because we have local affiliates of national networks. They get ads paid by local companies. She really jumps to a lot of wrong conclusions and its obvious she still doesn't understand.
I love watching foreigners react to my culture!
A lot of drinking fountains were phased out during the pandemic due to shared germs.
An advantage of screen doors & storm doors is deliveries. When I lived in an apartment complex where my door opened outside, merchandise I ordered would be placed between the doors, so that a thief had to actually open the outer door to steal it. When the complex remodeled the building exteriors, the outer doors went away. So many packages developed legs & walked off (a metaphor for being stolen off my porch) that I had to switch to having deliverines sent to a cousin whose front porch was uphill from the street.
Also, since my windows were very hard to open, I opened the front door & kept the screen door locked. Not only did it allow fresh air & keep the bugs up, but also the stray cats! I once watchef a homeless cat hop through the bottom panel missing a mesh screen. There was a scream from the renter, & the cat came racing out, followed by a towel wrapped woman who'd probably been in the bath.
Bagels weren't part of my diet until my high svhool class started offering bagel sales. The reason that bagels are scarce in Germany is that they're a Jewish bread; & the US got a large influx of Jews fleeing Europe in WWII. Cincinnati is one of the inland cities they settled. A blueberry bagel is made like raisin bread: you mix the fruit in the batter, shape it, then bake it. I don't like cream cheese, so eat mine plain. My favorite bagels are plain bagels & egg bagels (which have a more yellow color because of the egg in the batter.)
... perception of shared germs. It's running water. The fear and fearmongering was strong in those days.
Storm doors are wonderful to open up your home to much light from the outside. It allows you, children, and pets to see what's going on outside.. sometimes there may be a slidable panel to open the top to airflow by being a screen.
I put cream cheese on any bread or cracker.
We Americans don’t usually throw away something that works just because something new comes along. So checks work. For some things, nothing works better.
The storm doors are there to protect your wood door and the paint on it. Also, you can open the wood door to let in light, while leaving the storm (glass) door closed and the bugs, or heat, or cold, or rain out.❤️🐝🤗
Storm doors are made almost entirely of glass. It's so you can open the wooden outside door and be able to look outside and brings in lots of light. They're used in cooler weather while the screen doors are used in warm weather.
Two doors provides a thermal break. If you only have a single door heat will leach through the door outside or the heat will get into your house easier.
Cream cheese on bagels is awsome.iv tried most flavores.
In my area where it's really cold most of the year, a storm door adds an additional level of insulation to help prevent heat loss,, (especially at -40 F), and a seal against winds when the winds are blowing over 50 MPH.
A storm door is valuable in harsh climates.
Storm doors protect the outer surface of the main door, the paint or finish, from being damaged. Places with frequent strong winds and precipitation will tend to have storm doors.
[Edited for clarification] She's is not old enough to realize that there was a time when they didn't SELL bottled water to carry around with you. [there are exceptions] But in GENERAL.
how long ago did who not have water bottles? really curious about this comment
@@Jliske2 - like prior to the 90's. We drank from glasses, water fountains, straight from the tap, the occasional to go cup, the hose.... there were no bottles for water, disposable or like the Stanley cups. That is all fairly new. I didn't even realize for like 10 years I was sharing the same glass of water every night with my cat! Now I have a nice reusable cup with a tight lid!
@@Jliske2I’m in my 50s and when I was growing up water fountains were everywhere and bottled water was rare. There certainly weren’t special-purpose portable water containers unless you want to count thermoses and canteens.
@@Jliske2 The woman in the video he is watching. When I was a kid, we had water fountains. We didn't carry water bottles around at school or out when we were running the streets.. She can't be more than 30....And I'm not making a comment that she is young and it's a fault. When she was a kid, they had it. So of course it seems weird to her. it was not until the 1990's that "bottled" water became ubiquitous. Yes there was bottled water. I'm not saying this is an absolute. There are always exceptions.
I was born in 83. Even in the 90s it wasn't very common for people to buy water unless they were expecting a catastrophe lol
A screen door in the summer converts into a storm door in the winter. Dual purpose.
Yes, you can generally swap the glass for a screen. Some glass has a sliding mechanism with a screen behind it, like double-hung windows but thinner.
@@LiveFreeOrDieDH
We just got new storm doors with the screens built in: door has two equal panes of glass top and bottom, but reach up and pull down the top pane over the bottom, and the screen follows it down from its place hidden in the door’s top frame-really handy beim Lüften…
Checks have your personal information on them, including account number. Storm doors can often be transformed into screen doors for summer and back to storm doors for winter. When it's cold and/or stormy, they offer an additional layer of protection and insulation. There are storm windows, too. You put them up in winter and take them down or change to screens for Summer.
One of the great things about living in America is the opportunity of choice... imagine you love coffee but you can't handle milk coffee creamer is a lifesaver.... there's a lot of allergy free food lactose free food.... and we do grow huge amounts of fruit and vegetables and we have tons of farmer markets
Ummm who's gonna tell her that the water in the water fountain and bottle filling stations IS tap water?? She'd rather use water from the public restroom?? I personally haven't drank from a water fountain since I was a child, but I would do that before getting water from a public restroom. Ewwwww
Some drinking fountains do have water filters. Not all though.
@@rtyria More don't than do. And filters need to be changed. I've never seen anyone changing the filter in drinking fountain.
The law on prescription drug ads is that if you mention the benefits of the drug, you also have to list all of the potential side effects. So sometimes you get ads where it just shows people out doing stuff but doesn’t actually tell you what the drug is meant to treat. Then it says “ask your Doctor if Cyzzkrus is right for you”
I've never really thought about it before, but it does encourage people to talk to their doctors about options.
9:21 She is acting like we don't have states that are bigger than her country.
There are a few in terms of area, but none in terms of population.
We have counties bigger than her country.
@@garycamara9955 What nonsense are you talking about? Which county is the size of Montana? Has 84 million residents and the 3rd largest economy in the world? I'm waiting
@@arnodobler1096You're losing another war by fighting too many people. 😆
@@thorstrebla980 It was the same in WW1 and WW2! Too much. So?🤷♂
So much nonsense in the comments here.🙈
Checks aren’t commonly used in the US normally. But you can run into older men and women who prefer them. And if they’re in charge of your rent, then yeah. You have to pay according to what they say. I did also have this experience when renting an apartment in a building mostly filled with older people. They like and are more familiar with checks and can get set in their ways.
I always use checks to pay servicemen who come to my home to repair things such as appliances, furnaces or ACs, washing machines or dryers; you get the point. This way I always have a receipt of payment as well as the amount I was charged. It's just plain sensible.
According to Wikipedia: A bagel is a bread roll originating in the Jewish communities of Poland. Bagels in America are many times associated with Jewish cuisine such as a very common breakfast meal: bagels & loks, which is a bagel topped with cream cheese, smoked or brined salmon, red onions, capers, and optional fresh dill. Online, I found many bagel shops in Berlin, Germany. Maybe the lack of bagels in one's life is more a function of WHERE you live and what communities you live near?
a bagel is bread that is first boiled, then baked. They are really good with cream cheese, smoked salmon etc.
You need to add red onion and capers to that bagel for the best experience.
I don't know the smoked salmon sound so good but the few times I've tried it I just can't seem to mentally allow myself to eat it. I'm going to have to try that again.
The storm doors don't add to the structural integrity of the door. It protects the door from surface damage from exposure to the weather.
Storm doors also allow the front door to be open without letting in cool or hot air. We can see outside, let the light in, and lock the door as well. Storm doors help mute noise, protect the front door and entry way from the elements. Many storm doors have the option to remove the glass and pop in the screens according to seasons. Also, there's a pneumatic spring gadget that attaches to the door and the door frame which closes it automatically. It has an adjustment that allows us to keep the door open with a simple adjustment when needed, like when bringing in groceries or packages.
Most storm doors convert to screen doors in summer and back to glass in winter. The were very effective in winter to create a dead air space in winter to stop cold air drafts. Windows also had storm windows in winter for the same reason. They are not common anymore since the creation of double pane windows which have a dead air space built in, eliminating the need for storm windows. Screen doors are still popular in the north where air conditioning is not common and people open their doors and windows during the summer.
I'm in California and all of my landlords have requested to be paid by check and our county taxes are paid by check. Also I work for a painting company and 95% of our payments are by check and mailed to us, by the customer's choice. They have the option of paying via our online portal, but they choose to pay by check instead. I handle checks every day. However, it is true that you will not see people writing out checks at the supermarket like you did 20 years ago.
I had a very sketchy landlord years ago who insisted on being paid in cash.
I write checks every single time a company or govt (hello property taxes) wants to charge consumers what is supposed to be the MERCHANT fee for using a credit card. They rename it a "convenience fee" when they are the ones being "convenienced" by not having to manually process checks. I refuse to pay the 3-4% Merchant fee for them, so I have a checkbook and I use it! When I'm in stores, dentist, etc. and they want to pass THEIR fee on to the customer, I pay cash or write a check.
I worked in corporate banking for years and getting companies, letting individuals to pay electronically was a challenge. I think it was about 2006 (ish) before the number of electronic payments in the US exceeded the number of checks (in the US its "check", not "cheque".
Totally agree with you on landlords, but when I rented my last apartment in 2003, I asked if I could pay via transfer. I told it was likely I would be traveling and this ensures you get paid timely. Reluctantly he gave me his bank acct info and I got it set up. I was in that unit 12 years, at about the 8 year marked, he contacted on something, but also mentioned that direct deposit (payment) thing is great. I don't have to do anything and the money is in my account! 😂🙄 So it's possible (yes, it was in CA!)
I actually pay some small local companies in either check or cash. Some give discounts, since credit card fees do add up. It's funny because right now I use more checks/cash then maybe 4-5 years ago.
I can't remember the last time I wrote a check.
storm doors are about preservation. keeping your door dry goes a long way to preserving it, no matter what the quality of the door is.
I love this guy
Ty ❤️
Agree! Andre just makes me happy and improves my day. Thanks Andre!!!!
He doesn't always do that. It can be annoying, though.
same!
I love his reactions and he seems so nice. The Snickers comment was priceless
With regional ads, the national networks have regional affiliate stations that actually broadcast the networks content and most of the regional ad buys happen at those affiliates. They can interrupt the programming from say Fox and show their own ads etc. For example, Cincinnati and others in the area get all their Fox shows from WXIX out of Newport Kentucky. It's also how national networks handle local news and weather.
Fun video. The screen doors ARE to let in fresh air while keeping bugs out but the glass doors that she calls "Storm Doors" are NOT to protect the main door from ice and snow... They are to let in some SUN on nice days while keeping the temperature inside the house at a comfortable level.
We've had flavored coffees for a few decades now
In the "70's we had 'international flavored coffees"
Water fountains are disappearing because no one cleans them. The tap water may be OK but the taps and sinks in bathrooms and the plumbing may be questionable. The reason checks are still a thing is because the credit card company (debit cards are backed by credit cards) charge the business between 2 - 4% of the amount of the charge. I use checks to pay bills and property taxes.
I've seen people intentionally mess with them. My school had a kid that got caught peeing in the water fountain just because he thought it would be funny
I don't know anyone who doesn't absolutely hate those drug ads. Yes, it really is that bad. They're all over the airwaves, they're long, and they go on and on with the possible side effects. It wasn't always like this! When I was growing up, prescription drug ads were illegal.
I stopped to use one of the blood pressure machines at Walmart last week. I had to sit through a drug commercial before the machine took my pressure.
@@maureenshoevlin8968🤦🏼♀️
So they aren't functionally any different from any other annoying ad then? In fact, they are often better than other ads because they usually don't have a massive volume jump and are usually just a person talking.
What she doesn't focus on is that even if it's an ad to the public, they can only be obtained with a prescription from your doctor. You can't walk into a store and buy it without the prescription.
My favorite cream cheese is honey pecan flavor. I eat it on cinnamon swirl bagels. We don’t use many checks these days. Yes, Cincinnati is in Ohio, and I would consider it Midwest.
The midwest is the land between the Apalations and the Rocky Mountains.
A couple of explanations for items.
For checks, there are a couple of reasons people still use them. First, real estate is pretty slow to adapt. It's one of the only industries here that still uses faxes regularly. And often, landlords may still be looking after buildings that they have owned for decades and just haven't updated to more modern options. But there are valid reasons to prefer checks as well. Checks automatically provide proof of payment to the tenant and generate a traceable paper trail if there is ever a question about if something was paid in the future. They are also cheap and universal. Yes, there are lots of electronic payment options. But they almost all come with some service fee. And some of those fees can be significant, especially for small payments. And both parties have to use the same service. So if you need to receive electronic payments, you have to either accept and track payments from multiple sources or require your customers to sign up and use your preferred service.
Storm and screen doors as well as storm windows, because yes, it is or at least was, common in the US to have a set of windows over your windows. The video was somewhat close in saying that the reason for this was to protect the primary door. But really they were/are and added layer of weatherproofing from a day and age when doors and windows often allowed a LOT of drafts through and around them. A storm door or storm window was an additional door or window installed to the exterior and served to block direct wind or rain from hitting the main window. Thus heavy winds could not force air directly through leaks in and around the door or window. (Think of them much the same as a breakwater along the sea shore. It doesn't block the waves entirely. But it blunts most of the force of the wave so that what actually hits the shore is much weaker and more manageable.) Keep in mind that America has much more serve weather than most of Europe. And it no just in the form of tornadoes. All that being said, as the quality of windows and doors have improved, storm doors and storm windows have become unnecessary and are often not used anymore at all.
"Coffee that tastes like Snickers? No Shhance.." 🤣
I believe he was asking about coffee that tastes like "sneakers." :)
@@bobprivate8575me too. I was like coffee that tastes likes sneakers….ewww then I realized he meant snickers
Checks. The county of my residence in the US charges 2.5% to citizens who make electronic payments, so we pay with checks
I pay online free with the checking account and routing number.
A storm door usually allows more light to come into the house. We can leave the "main" door (which is usually solid wood or metal) open and keep the "glass" door closed. Also, many storm doors can be made into "screen" doors in the summer and then the glass gets put back in during the winter for extra insulation. We also have a sliding screen for sliding glass doors. Wow - I must say I am really surprised that Europeans don't have these. They just seem so logical to me. BTW - I just used cream cheese to make a cherry cheese pie.
I like having a glass outer door because it lets in a lot of light when I'm home and it's sunny, but maybe a little too cool or too hot for a screen door. The main door has no window so it's more secure, but it's also dark inside. My door came with both glass and a screen insert, so it can be changed at will if I want fresh air.
A screen door is simply that, a door frame with a wire or plastic screen in it to give the effect of an open door for air flow but it keeps the bugs out. A storm door is either glass or plexiglass panels in an aluminum or steel frame ( really fancy expensive ones have rreally high end wooden frames ) that serve to 1) add an insulated extra layer over your door during extreme weather, 2) let you leave your regular door open on a cool or hot day while being see through giving and open feeling and keeping in the heat or Air Conditioning, and 3) one or more of the glass/plexiglass planels can slide up or down leaving an open section with a screen door section allowing air flow and stopping bugs like an old fashioned screen door.
Most screen doors are also storm doors. In the summer, you open the glass, exposing the screen, allowing the air to flow. In the winter, you close the glass, giving extra weather and heat protection.
Get better doors? Our doors are fine, and expensive. When they are exposed to rain, wind and snow they may need repainting or even replacement over time. Weather conditions can be brutal in the US, as you well know. "Storm" doors are an extra barrier to keep out the cold AND the heat. I live in Florida. We often have weeks of incredibly hot weather. I have storm doors on both entrances as added insulation from the heat.
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I don't like those Ad's at all, there are a lot of things I could say about them the least worrying is her reason why they are not good things. There is big money in Big Pharma, these guys even send reps to the doctors and try to make sales to the doctors to put their patience on their meds over others or even if not needed in some cases seriously. There was a problem with doctors getting cuts at one point which they say is illegal now however what's not illegal is for the Pharma company to pay for Doctors to visit and island paradise for a weekend and have a "meeting about why the Doctors should prescribe their drugs ect." So there is alot of corruption even though you get a dirty look when bringing this up because a lot of the public are not brave enough to consider the realistic chances the illusion they have created for themselves about the health industry may just be that illusions which keep them feeling safer.
The storm door ( all glass ) is meant to increase insulation in addition to giving the option of allowing sunlight in with a closed opening.
Flavored cream cheese is pretty amazing. Slap some on a bagel.
I would find it very interesting to watch you react to some of the "Adam Ruins Everything" or "Jubilee" videos that have cultural themes, like people with disabilities or the history of suburbs (or really whatever interests you :D ). Thank you for making your content, you are a bright spot in the internet that brings sunshine to many!
My favorite flavored coffee creamer is Caramel Macchiato. When I travel to Europe I usually take some powdered vanilla creamer. I think I found some flavored coffee creamers in Norway last year.
Storm doors are a buffer against wind and precipitation, and provide an insulating air gap between them and the door. Mine is older, so I have to switch out glass for screen in the summer, but many come with glass that slides up or down to let air in through the screen.
Andre, the flavored Philadelphia cream cheese is good, but if you go to a bagel shop or deli in America you can find store made cream cheese with more flavors than you can even imagine. I live near a place that makes an amazing cinnamon apple walnut cream cheese from scratch. You can eat it with a spoon right from the container if you’re craving sweets.
there's ice cream snickers i love them
At first I thought he said sneakers. 👟 😆😂🤣
On the second listen I heard Snickers. 🍫
His accent through me. 🙃
screen/storm door also allows you to interact with someone at your door and maintain a physical barrier to entry.
27:36 ours screen door is a little different. It is all metal and we call it the security door. When its nice outside we can leave the main door open and not worry about bugs or people coming in.
You can also leave the front door open and use the storm door to let light in, or animals to look out. People have that set up to "welcome" friends/family. Even if that door is locked- it is a "Welcome" to my house
Yea, someone in Miami doesn't need to see a Hawaiin car dealership ad. lol edited in: I haven't had a checkbook in 25 years.
The first time I was out of Texas, I was shocked that advertisements weren’t specifically targeted at Tennessee like they are for Texas.
@@TexasVagabondhuh? I live in Tennessee and we definitely have local commercials lol. Every state does.
I just moved from Iowa, near a very large Amish population who you would see in the stores. Even the Amish had debit cards, but those senior Iowans, jeez Louise, they love their checkbooks. It would make me nuts in line at the grocery.
I have a checkbook. It's in my junk drawer lol. I'm keeping it in case of emergency. Not sure what that emergency could be, but 🤷🏽♀️ lol. I haven't actually written a check in years. Decades maybe.
@@you_can_call_me_TI think this might be about things like cars and McDonalds. We have Texas-specific commercials. You need a Texas-sized garage for your Texas-sized Ford with a cup holder big enough for your Texas-sized Starbucks. If you’re stuck settling for an Oregon-sized Tesla you’ve probably got Texas-sized feelings about it and need a Texas-friendly therapist from Better Help.
In the 60's and 70's it was a ritual every spring to change the storm windows and storm doors to screen windows and screen doors, and then in fall to change them back for winter. The front door didn't have a screen/storm door (which was used only for company) but the side door did. The door stayed the same and the glass was switched out with the screen, but all the windows were completely separate from the screens and they were lined up in the garage to be switched every spring and fall. Each window had two heavy hooks above that the windows had brackets to fit into, and then a hook and eye on the inside on the bottom to hook it closed (the house was built in 1928). In the middle of the 70's we got aluminum-framed storm windows that also had screens and they were permanently attached, and they were operated up and down the same as the sash windows. That's what is still common now, with some variations. The glass storm windows and doors helped tremendously in the winter protecting from drafts and keeping the cold out, and protecting the inner windows from the weather.
As far as storm doors, Ohio is a lot colder in the winter than Portugal. Additional insulation matters.
The glass doors is actually nice for a few reasons.
#1 extra layer of security so you can lock it and in order for someone to try and pick your lock or even kick your door in. They will have to bust the glass door or atleast break the lock which would be difficult and loud.
#2 maybe you like having the door open to look outside or let sunlight in. Well you can do that with the air conditioning running and wont be letting bugs in or cold air out. As well as keeping it locked so no weridos just walk in.
Why i prefer glass vs screen
#1 just like i said before as far as safety a screen door is weak. I mean you can cut it or just push it through with your hand.
#2 just like number one the screens arent strong enough to keep animals in or animals out. Our cat loves stretching on our glass door and if it was screen he would shred it. A dog could easily jump through a screen too.
#3 they are more maintenance to them because if the screen rips etc you gotta replace it. Vs glass "should last forever" and just wipes clean.
#4 most screen doors have springs and are crazy loud even if you oil them. Its hard to explain but its annoying.
The one good side to a screen door tho is if you dont want to run A/C or dont have one. You can keep the bugs out and get some air inside.
*im not sure if they still have them but i remember when i was a kid we had both but on one door so it was a fully glass door with top and bottom pieces of glass, but the bottom you could open and let air in or out and it had a screen. Basically funtions like every other window in America but on a glass/screen door. Im actually gonna look it up now and see if i can buy one.😂
As for doors, having a "storm door" that opens out and the primary door opens in. With wind driven rain, it is not usual that you can completely seal the inner door from a bit of water intrusion. The outer door will almost completely eliminate the water intrusion, even in strong wind. Also, many primary doors are made of wood and are somewhat decorative and excessive water can compromise the finish. However, I think heavily wind driven water is the main value.
You can't get the medication without a prescription from a doctor. You can't just go to a pharmacy and purchase.
not all advertised drugs are prescription.
@@victorhopper6774 Which ones aren't?
alot of alergy meds are over the counter and those ads are everywhere @w00tw00t4l00t
@@w00tw00t4l00t asprin and about 50 others
ummm no. Checks have your account number AND bank routing number at the bottom. The ONLY time I used checks was to pay rent before I purchased my home. It was cheaper to use a check as the apartment building charged 5% for using a credit card (because the credit card companies charge the vendor). Other than that, people use their ATM or credit cards. Or do money transfers with an app of choice like Apple Pay.
I thought the same thing. I hope someone in her comments informed her that her checks have the account and routing numbers on them.
When you're talking about 3 plus feet of snow if that's stacked up against a wood door it will damage it. also most doors open to the inside so if you open your door after a snow storm the snow outside would fall in. So your storm door opens out side so when you open the door it pushes the snow away from the house.
The storm door also has the window slide up and lock in place to give access to the screen built in the door for the summer time for ventilation and to keep bugs out. At least all the ones I've seen do.
Actually, there are 6 time zones in the U.S. - Eastern, Central -1, Mountain -2, Pacific -3, Alaska -4 , Hawaii -6 hours from eastern time zones
You forgot US Territories. Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 is on Atlantic Standard time and Guam 🇬🇺 is on Chamorro Standard time. A difference of 16 hours. 😮
Blueberry cream cheese is incredible
Agree and on a strawberry or blueberry bagel
"bagels are sacred, especially in NY."
30 seconds later: "bagel is just another type of bread."
Yeah... She's not allowed to complain about American bread anymore 😆
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And those doors usually have screens and plastic windows. The screens are obvious, leave the main door open and have a good breeze. She mentioned glass windows, which would be a bad idea. Storms can throw around sticks and other debris, the the storm door can help prevent damage to your standard door, which could potentially even have breakable glass windows.
15 - Part of the reason for the continued use of checks is that without a physical or photocopy of a canceled check, a person in the USA has no legal proof that a payment has been made. Thus, a rental agent can evict a person for non-payment even if they have been paying electronically because financial institutions are under no legal obligation to produce and generally refuse to provide ANY electronic payment records. So many businesses continue to use checks as legal proof of payment for many activities. Also, Cream cheese is a soft very spreadable dairy product that can have savory or sweet additives like fruit preserves included. So Yes in Michigan I HAVE had blueberry bagels with blueberry cream cheese on a few occasions. However, I prefer herb & garlic cream cheese on an onion bagel or some good European rye toast. My local European bakery is 1km from my home.
Screen doors are great for the summer months for ventilation and storm doors are great for sera’s where it snows. You can open the front door and see how deep the snow is without it coming in if it is wind driven against the door. Door are better than they use to be so they aren’t for protection as much as they use to be.
Item #1: They have to say "Ask your doctor about…" because you can't buy them without a prescription. And that's exactly why Ads for prescription medicine should not be allowed here, either. All it does is encourage untrained people to go nag their trained doctors - and it encourages doctors to get kickbacks from the pharmaceutical companies, who also bought off the politicians so they could air those ads.
I don't like arbitrary government overreach attempting to controlling my life.
I totally agree, I work in health care. the last thing any doctor wants to hear is how you know better because you saw an ad.
Doctors are already inundated with drug salesman, some offering sweet perks btw... that and the television ads should be illegal.
and why prescriptions cost so much.
It's not the doctors getting kickbacks but the hospitals and insurance companies. The doctors can only do what these two organizations allow them to.
Don't kid yourself most doctors have to look up on a computer what medicine to prescribe you. As if they know them all - some times you can be more informed than them. They just choose the one at the top of their list or what is most popular. Blindly accepting a doctors recommendation is foolish.
Filling up water bottles from the public bathroom sink??? Ew. 😳
yea, im never drinking water in Germany unless i break the seal on a bottle myself.
Don't be such a wuss. A bit of e. coli just adds a lil tang lol
Don't be a baby. A bit of e. coli just adds a lil tang lol
@@you_can_call_me_T EXACTLY!
@@greeneyedlady5580 I was being sarcastic lol. I think it's disgusting.
Gotta love it when someone has only ever visited/ lived briefly in one small part of one of fifty states, but thinks she knows everything about how the whole country is.
She shows how young and ignorant she is.
What part of the lower 48 isn't like what she said?
@@Justin_Montana everywhere 😐
@@AlystraKriss I think the cream cheese & creamer are things that are around the whole states
@@Michael-kf7gm are you stalking me? This is not normal behavior. Please seek mental help.
Storm doors also provide an air barrier between the outside world and your door. That extra air barrier is warmer or colder than the outside air depending on the season and that helps you lose less energy through the door. After all, your front door is not as well insulated as your walls.
Nice video! Lots of people like to have a brightly painted/decorated front door, so a storm door will help protect it from the elements. There are also storm windows, though they're less common than they used to be when the glass was single pane - it helped keep the heat in/cold out during the winter. Newer windows are double or triple pane, making storm windows unnecessary. I don't know how anyone can survive without screens, though. The bugs can be brutal.
The pharmaceutical companies have paid off the government to allow these commercials to raise sales. They have also given a kickback to the doctors to prescribe more of the medication even if it isn't needed. The advertisements should be banned.
Some adults are able to research a drug and knows whether or not they need a certain drug. Consumers aren't stupid. And if you have a doctor who has sense, he's not going to prescribed a
drug for you that you don't need.
NOT a payoff as much as a 1st Amendment issue. It's gone to court-frequently
It's precisely why our medical stuff is so expensive. Corrupt government in bed with pharmaceutical companies and doctors or medical facilities
I am a medical professional and hate pharmaceutical advertising so much
Patients come in an order prescriptions as if they’re ordering at a coffee shop or fast food.
These advertisements are always for new, copywriting meds. There are not generic equivalents because they’re newer-than meds that have had copyright expired, hence generics available.
These ads are for the most-expensive drugs, which will cost the patient, even with drug insurance, more.
Other insurance plans do lot allow payment for these new, brand name meds unless there is a reason the older, generic meds are first tried.
There is zero benefit to anyone, except the pharmaceutical companies, to these advertisements.
They’re bad for the patients, very- bad for physicians/ licensed providers.
It is always beneficial for patients to be educated about their diseases, syndromes, conditions, and their prescriptions, but getting medical information from television advertisements is just a bad idea.