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These Euro SUPERMARKETS Hurt my BRAIN....American Reacts
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- Published on Apr 18, 2026
- Okay… I didn’t expect to fall in love with a supermarket but here we are 😂
As someone who grew up around chefs and lives in the kitchen, this video was basically food heaven. European grocery stores are seriously on another level. The quality of the food, the prices, the FRESH bread cutters, the orange juice press - it’s like stepping into a culinary version of Narnia. It’s not just a place to shop, it’s a whole experience!
Meanwhile in the U.S., we’re out here pushing sad carts full of processed food through fluorescent-lit chaos. The difference is unreal. I would 100% move to Europe just to do my weekly grocery run. If this is normal for you… just know I’m extremely jealous 😅
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Americans: "everybody wants to be an American!"
Rest of the world: "nope"
You're absolutely correct. Americans are completely clueless many "third world" countries have completely surpassed them in quality of life as they chant USA USA like it's a flex. An apartment in America is an eyesore circa 1970. If they only knew how stupid they look.
I don't want to be the biggest idiot on Earth!
I never wanted to be an american until about two years ago. I@m really worried about europe ignoring the never ending influx of illegal muslims and trump is taking islam seriously. He knows it's bad news. Like him or hate him, islam is not compatible with the west. I want to live in america now. Can I have Rosie O'Donnell's old place! 😛
@NekorektniPochybovac-or8bi The only thing USA is nº1!
@xalex7923 Yes, in stupidity and arrogance.
To be honest: we Europeans absolutely LOVE all this US/Europe comparison videos and their creators - we feel sooo much better after watching them! 😂 ❤❤❤
😂😂😂 you mean vastly superior 😂😂😂 and rightly so 😂
da weiß man wieder zu schätzen was man hat
Yeah and when you visit the USA you see how much better and cheaper their food really is (except the bread)
@EnesDéApe-55😂
@EnesDéApe-55😅
If you are impressed by the baked goods in grocery stores, wait til you go to a traditional bakery.
im a distant relative of thomas warburton, warburtons is a major baker in the uk. i cant stand warburtons bread its like foam rubber, has no crust,texture or flavour. .warburtons were at the heart of the chorlywood process
its getting harder every week to find one
They have the full bakeries in most grocery stores in the US too though 😂 ive seen them myself
I lived in the UK. In my very affluent London burrough there was NO greengrocer, no butcher and no bakery. Shocking! Just supermarkets....( I am Dutch).
is not fresh stuff in EU market.. is defrost and baket or just defrost.
Must bé crazy living in the "best country in the world " and having food who is banned in Europe because it's not even food here
At least they have the choice. They can buy "not food" if they want. Our unelected council of karen in the EU are micro managing our lives to a point that it is becoming toxic and infringing on fascism.
What makes you think that American is the best country in the world? Maybe it was 30, 40 years ago, but not anymore. You guys, live in the past.
@rodicairimia3860that exactly why I put it in " " because that's what american "think" like you do
Yanks love pig food.
Thats why they look like one
The irony of banning a kinder egg as it’s a hazard when eating but you can buy. A gun just about anywhere ?? 😂😂😂😂
And what makes our prices even more exciting for American viewers is the fact that the tax is already included. 😉
Try not to make them jealous.
And none of those Americans shopping in Europe actually had local loyalty cards that would probably cut additional10-20% from the final price.
@geertvanschaik7976 I have the whole December paid vacation. Last vacation was the whole Month of June. Telling them that wouldnt make them jealous, they simply wouldnt believe me. ^^
tbf there is an argument that we europeans pay this in advance via (income) taxes.
Here in the Netherlands the prices are expensive for most things.
The chicken are yellow because they were fed corn. Their skin turn naturally yellow because of the carotene pigments from the corn. It cannot get washed off.
Not necessarily the corn. Is the most common colour origin in chicken farms, but they also get that color from bugs, carobs, carrots...
Usually, free range chicken has that colour, and industrial farm chicken fed with procesed food is pink.
Farms that are not all processed food, give an extra of corn on the diet so the colour remains yellow like the free range, even when they qre not.
We also don't wash meat in Europe/UK.
We do not put bleach on chiken !
It's literally just the fat that is under the skin.
@nit11 I had some chicken from a farm that feeds them carrots only. It was pretty much orange meat and it was super good.
The Europeans don't want US food. No eggs no chicken, no beef, because the American producer don't obey the European laws.
Our countries, our law.
we can't even call their bread "bread" but bakery good or something like that😂
@savagequeen3798 cake , their bread is classified cake
same in UK!
@savagequeen3798 Theres too much suger in US bread. Subway bread got so much suger in it, that it can be classed as cake.
I love having less cancer by having very strict food laws
Chicken aren't washed and are generally pink. The yellow colour is corn fed chicken
The US chicken is pale because of envie😂
@helg0815 Better than BEING GREEN OF ENVY
I never wash a chicken... I mean we don't need. Why?
I wish to have toilett paper so "expensive"! I'm from Switzerland... 😔
@S.erwinsdottir Schissi Papier chauf i grundsätzlich nur wänn's Aktion isch :D
In Germany don‘t buy bread in a supermarket, go to a baker. The bread there is on another level, believe me
Everything is. The question is how much is everyone concerned about the specific area of food. I don't care about bread, rolls, buns much, so the market is good enough (comes from the same local bakery as half of the small bakeries around the town, so...)
I go for meat 30 km away from town :)
Some do that for veggies. And so on.
But good luck getting onions elsewhere from peppers. Garlic is a chapter of its own, difficult to find good at all. Meat, eggs, products, flour from the mill... Not to speak of wine, ketchup, and stuff like that. Already traveling to many places for the good stuff.
Same in Italy
That's right. We either make it ourselves, go to local bakeries or farmer's market. 😊
Schon der Geruch von frisch gebackenem Brot haut dich um.
so is the price
I'm an old man from the south of France. You must be aware that in France, and in Europe in general, it is forbidden and illegal to inject hormones to animals to make them gain weight quicker. As for in the US, the farmers inject hormones (oestrogens and progesterone). Scientists say that when the meat goes through the human digestive system, the hormones are destroyed. But personally, I believe that a very small quantity succeeds in crossing to the blood stream. Maybe this is one of the reasons, many American people are over weight. Think about that...
Oh no, there are studies, American studies from the 80‘s, that have clearly stated that Clenbuterol and the other hormones injected for muscle growth cause cancer if consumer…
Guess the FDA was paid off to ‚forget‘ about it!
especially germany had a hormone scandal. after that really derailed, europe implemented strict rules.
I can ASSURE you that, in the EU, there is a lot of chickens being injected with hormones. The chicken leg where the hormone is injected is packed separately and sold in mostly Eastern Europe (also EU countries). I guess a lot of the so-called bans have also many asterisks.... same way, certain meat products for Western Europe are made from pure white chicken meat, while the same product being exported to Eastern Europe, is made of mechanically separated meat, with no more than 20% of actual meat, the rest being bits and pieces of the carcasses and other, usually unfit for consumption parts of the animal.
@robertheinrich2994 Yes, rules that only apply to a handful of countries.. Come, to Eastern Europe, I will cook you chicken legs, imported from Western Europe, sold in Kaufland. They stink from miles away.
Well put comments....i notice that those that disagree with u simply make random statements with absolutely no evidence....maybe they should work for the BBC😂
When I lived in Germany, one of the family would get up early every morning to go to the bakers to get fresh bread rolls for breakfast. Europeans love their food and appreciate quality over convenience.
Spot on :)
In Poland is the same. I do it every morning 😊 fresh, crunchy rolls are the best
Every 2-3 days bc we are buying Sordough, Scandinavian and other integral breads. Really not understand how anyone could buy bread in nylon bag with all this aditives??
I Love the Burgers made medium from fresh lardy beef in the USA more than the Bread Rolls in Europe. OK, the bread is terrible but allmost all food in the USA is cheaper and tastes better. 5$ for a gallon of chocolate milk. 1$ for 2 Liters Doctor thunder wich tastes almost like Dr. Pepper. 6$ for a whole gilled chicken, in Germany its 7,50€ (like 8$) for a HALF. Tukey for 97Cents a Pound, its 3€ in Europe. Lobster All-you-can-eat for 65$ with 200 additional foods like Clam, Oyster , Prime rib and so on. In Germany a single Lobster is 80€ at a restaurant. No pals, the USA is WAYWAY better at food in every way , except the terrible bread of course, wich is almost the same than in our neighbour contry the Netherlands.
@EnesDéApe-55
With this eating habit it's true ;you never will be happy in Europe 😂😂😂
18:49 This Is not „american aisle”. Lidl has themed weeks and products inspired by different cuisines. There is chinese week, american week, spain week, greek week, polish week etc sp this products are only temporary. You may laugh about pancakes, but normally we eat crepes (and we know how to say crepes correctly), not puffy ones with sirup.
5:20 : It's not free money, it's your money, that you paid when you bought the bottle/can. It's called a "deposit" and yes, it's incentivize people to return them instead of throwing them into the nature.
In Dutch its called 'statiegeld'...
@geertvanschaik7976moet je toch echt eerst betalen
'incentivize' is American for 'encourage' or 'motivate' 🤣 Americans don't speak English any more .....
@pirsensor-p5oblikjes- en flessenhuur zou beter zijn. Wie weet wat statie is?
Its worked here in Sweden but as of late more bottles have been found in nature so its going from 1 Swedish krona to 3.
we don't wash our chickens in the EU. Yellow meat in chicken is a result of feeding them corn.
How should ignorant americans know about this?😎
@aschwpt one could use the internet to gain knowledge. Facts. From outside the bubble. What an adventure!!!
@aschwpt no need to be that way. US people are going out there and seeing how the rest of the world is, and that’s good because they’ve lived in a cult they didn’t choose to be born and raised in for centuries. And a lot of them are smart and know they were given a really bad deal. Let’s be kind, alright? 😊
he obviously meant washing chickens in usa, calm down...
actually there were some cases of false yellow chickn (painted lol)
Nobody in Europe will say the supermarket meat is so great. Always find better meat in a local butchery.
And supermarkets have special lights to make it look better
Indeed. Tho sometimes there are exceptions. At least in my experience but sadly they don’t last.
Umm... Living in Finland, the fresh meat area in many supermarkets is at par with local butchery shops in "kauppahalli", if not occasionally better. And sometimes it's surprisingly small market that has just decided that they want to surpass the local butcher... :D I live in Kouvola and one of the main reasons I go to Valtari's small K-market is that they have absolutely f'ing amazing meats; local, seasonal, not horrible prices... Last month I actually bought "about 5 kg" (it was their week's deal, the actual weight was 5,3 kg) of whatever cuts of local pork the worker thought they had most + "equalized to about 5 kg with ground pork" for fixed total of 25€ => everything at 5€/kg.
Pork chops, pork belly, some leaner cuts... Saddly no pork shoulder which I usually buy to cook with, but hey, 5€/kg for random pork cuts is f'ing cheap... Many of the cuts are usually ~10€/kg at lowest. :D
in southern Europe that's absolutely the case. I think in the UK and Scandinavia the supermarkets have raised their game.
Agreed living in Scotland I get my butcher meat delivered every two weeks, I find it so much better than supermarket meat for price & it supports local farmers & butchers
In France we usually shop once or twice a week because we buy a lot of fresh produce and we don't want them to spoil
Yeah I always go like 2 or 3 times a week to the store ... And then if I have some home supplies to buy I usually do it on Sunday when I check everything that is home supplies that I no longer have or have an amount that would finish in 1 to 2 days, and then there is bread ... This is the thing I buy every single day when I go back home from either work, hanging out or just going out just for it ... As the store is less than 100 meters from my home, and there is no reason to pack up my house full of bread and produce that would go to waste over several days if I do not use it ... And this way I can also check if there is something offered at a lower price for the week in a different store than the one next to me ... Funnily enough I have 4 supermarkets literally less than 300 meters from my home the furdest one being Kaufland, Lidl is approximately 20 meters further than our Local city bran supermarket and then another in - country( I'm not sure if it has any stores outside my country) is like 50 meters down the road from Lidl 😅😅 and also 2 butchershops, 2 bakeries, and a fruits and vegetables market 🤣🤣 and the only reasons those things are so packed next to one another is the Hospital is 400 meters from my home, and on the other site I have the local national park and villa area and people go there in the weekend to relax and spend some time with friends....
Edit: actually the other in - country supermarket is currently being relocated at a new location more centralised to the area of the city it is meant to cover and would be approximately 700 meters from my home or down the road after the hospital building and other hospital related grounds 😂
I learned french in the 80' (in Germany). The teacher, french, told us, that housewifes then went buying bread twice a day, to have fresh one in the evening. Times changed.
College Student and Athlete. One year in the US, didn't change my diet and was getting sick drinking Milk, weird pain, and all sort of issues. Got back home, after two weeks: all issues I had in the US are gone. Something is wrong with your food, guys....and on top: you pay way more for less quality.
US food is not more expensive than EU, it all that cemicals and colorsye that they pay extra for
@Bent-s3n by your logic Organic food should be cheaper, but is the oposite. Based on your theory make that make sense. I spend roughly 50 - 60 $ (while I was in the US the cost was over 300$) a week on groceries, and we talking about vegetables, fruit, etc. Everything that is considered to be healthy. How is that not cheaper when compared to the cost in the US?
@michaeloswal9847 No, it should be identical. The saving on chemicals , will be balanced with the lower harvest per hectare.
@Bent-s3n Yeah, but is not identical so your logic and theory is wrong. In the US, Organic food is expensier than non organic foods, thus US foods are expensier than EU food regardless of "extras".
@michaeloswal9847 Probably You are right, but it is not the production that is more expensive. But as long as the organic production is exclusive, the farmers and the shops will try to get most money from it. Here in Denmark more than 50% of farm production is organic, therefore it is not an exclusive product.
fresh orange juice beeing not better than fake orange juice is a wild thing to say....
It is true for US-Americans - most beverages have HFCS (HighFructoseCornSyrup) in it and all you drink is overly sirupy sweet and often contain additives and food color (in the case of orange juice Yellow 5) and if all that is missing you have the natural a bit sour taste that many US-Americans do not like.
He likes to drink piss orange, that's why he said it's better murican ( rawwwww, raww ) than some from 3 country Europe ;) ( and yes I know Europe is a continent, chill )
TBH depending on where you live, oranges can be more acidic than sweet. In Europe oranges used for juices are VERY sweet
They are use to that chemical flavour! Ugh!
You mean fake orange juice full of sugar and other chemicals? 😂
When you said 20 dollars for toilet paper I genuinely said out loud "wtf Is going on in America"
I don’t know what city he lives in, but I can get 6 xl rolls for $6.73. $20 would be for a pack of 32.
@ECan2336 French lady here. I pay 6,03 € for 24 rolls of toilet paper "Scottex"... Toilet paper is awfully expensive in USA !
@ECan2336 ok france here ,wtf a pack of 32 national brand rolls for 10 euros, even on amazon with next day delivery and even less if you catch a discounted price in a super market
@E@ECan2336 in France 6 rolls is like 2-3 dollars
What do you expect from a country were they charge you 700+ dollar for an Epipen?
In Finland we have had that bottle recycling for money from the Olympic year 1952
As a Portuguese person, I buy groceries for a week at best. More often than not, I go for a quick grocery run on a 3 day basis, just to get fresh produce for dinner... nothing beats cooking with fresh produce...
Every town in Portugal has a local council run market and they are fantastic, you get beautiful fresh caught fish, you get home grown vegetables, cheese, and fruit. The meat here in Portugal is really good, the chickens look small but thats because they arent filled up with water and they taste fantastic. I love the taste of everything here and I will never go back to the UK!
Também eu!
Same in Greece
Depends on planning and number of people. When alone, I can live for 2 weeks between shopping. Would survive for months if necessary. Most veggies survive a week. Potatoes, onions, garlic, eggs are all persistent. Smoked meat holds for 2 weeks without issues.
Bread and the like you can make fresh anytime. Or have prebaked ones like the markets have. And you always have freezers/cans (if you can make them or find someone who does).
Grocery shops are convenient. But imagine you would need to live through winter without crops. And through summer with limited meat. There were ways. Not so long for half of Europe.
@elenoe8 The ways not so long ago meant you would salt meat and smoke ham and saussages. You would eat vegetables in season, and would dry beans and chick peas.
Nowadays, the habbit in Southern Europe, is to buy bread daily, and buy in season produce twice a week, even if you live alone. More often than not, people like to cook good food on a regular basis, and that means getting good fresh produce.
YOU PAY 20$ FOR TOILET PAPER?? You sure that's not gold foil?
Around 5 euro for 12 rolls is quite enough !
Yeah, and it has only two ! layers . 🤪🥺😳
The yellow chicken is fed with corn. But you can also buy the „regular pink“ chicken.
And we do not need to wash our chicken with chlorine in Europe - we take care that they are healthy when they are alive...
@geneviere199 right, European chicken just get in contact with chlorine when the owner takes them to a trip to the public swimming pool!
@geneviere199 Healthy chickens in europe? Are you living in a dreamland?
We don’t have abundance of corn, so not necessarily. Those can be free range chicken.
@Pr0vidence555 Compared to the US some of western Europe are waaaay much better in terms of quality
"Spar" is the most expensive "grocery store" on the whole island of Ireland.
Looks like Dame street too !
You'd never do a shop, nevermind the big shop in Spar!
Actually it's from Austria. They have expanded to neighbor countries but never expected them in Ireland.
10:12 In Ukraine, they don't use the euro, but the hryvnia. The video creator converted the prices to euros.
Yes, and now we turning from "main conversion is USD" to "main conversion is EUR"
And average pay is around 400-600 euros, so this cart is maybe 5-8%
But Europe is talking to get Ukraine being part of the EU in a few years
@Ineke1466dieses korrupte Regime Ukraine,darf nie zur EU gehören.☠️
@Ineke1466
Most since Putin attacked them
They don't leave the heads on the fish in the USA? Is it to hide the eyes, because they are the best way to see how fresh a fish is?
I think it’s because of the fact that most Americans don’t know what real food looks like.
@melocoton7yea, they don’t get food from field and farms, they get it from supermarkets. (And I am not kidding- that was real argument)
@FilipKrieger sure, but how else would you sell a fish? Unless its something like tuna or salmon fillet I really don't see a reason for reminding the heads
@kurkapansI meant that there is disconnect that animals on farms are the ones who end up on table…
Since when is anyone under the illusion than America's worry about fresh produce? 😆
You should add, that all the prices in Europe are with tax.
Vi u Americi odavno ne znate koji okus ima voce,povrce,meso,sve vam je umjetno🫣
When you come to Europe, don’t just eat at your hotel or restaurant but do go to the local shops or supermarkets and experience it, you will see the difference with the US
Or some restaurants that are located in more rural areas
Personally I find exploring local foods to be a big part of travelling to other countries.
Trying what the locals eat either by going through their stores, trying the street food
Or the true goldmine, finding that little local restaurant run by an old couple that has been making nothing but local dishes for the last 40 years.
The hotels and restaurants are good, too, and the restaurants in the hotels. Fast food restaurant chains can be avoided. The only fast food chain exception is Lido, which sells ready-to-eat real food.
Better to go to a local market.
19:20 The thing is: What US-Americans REALLY eat, is just NOT ALLOWED for sale in the EU.
Nor Europe in general.
Or the rest of Europe and the world.
Wait for the “food” from Mercosur - we will have the same sh*t USAins have, or maybe worse.
😂
The American government : "Were gonna poison you, you'll pay for it you're gonna like it. Also we're the best in the world in every respect (for some reason)."
One important thing to mention, that in the EU, the tax is included in the price. When you check stuff on the shelves, the price tag matches that you will pay for it.
In UK also
And out of the EU too 😅
@jillosler9353so everywhere then US probely😅
This is generally an accurate statement when comparing prices in the US but when it comes to groceries they are usually exempt from sale tax in most states and in others they have a very low sales tax. Only a few charge the regular rate on groceries. There are a handful of states with no sales tax. In some places a local tax might apply.
@AL5520no tip on service in the EU..
The reason we have to slice our bread is this way you can choose not to slice it… this way the store has only one article to manage.
11:17. If grocery shopping in a different country is "one of the hardest things I've done" , then clearly you've done nothing hard in life.
And you'll find plenty who will answer questions. Including the workers in the place.
Can I add some nuance to this? Imagine you have allergies. Or something else that requires you to actively avoid certain foods. Imagine having to know the names of the foods to avoid... Or that they look different than you are used to.
I have celiac disease and it suuuucks to have to read labels to avoid buying something that contains gluten.
Now imagine that like a family member did, you have to read Cyrillic because of visiting Ukraine....
@Dutch3DMaster yeah I read labels on food because of allergies too and if you think that's even a problem at all you're the most privileged sheltered baby ever
@Dutch3DMasterBelieve me there are much harder things in life than that...😅
The US government recently have approved the use of two different "always" PFAS chemicals in your foods....
Why aren't you US people getting angry about that?
I think they’re quickly getting there. European news don’t really cover it much, but people in the US have been protesting in big numbers for a while. I’ve been following US news and independent journalists from the US for years and I think class consciousness is about to really explode over there, if it hasn’t already.
They don't know their food given them cancer 🦀
One thing I do find funny, is that when you see americans buying in european supermarkets, they often buy stuff that the natives rarely get because they consider it unhealthy. Like doctor pepper, or the starbucks coffee drinks you see sometimes in supermarkets. 14:16
18:13 Where I live, a wine that costs less than €2 is only suitable for cooking.
Yellow chicken is corn fed. We also have non corn fed but none of the chickens are washed the way they are in the states
Yes, no chlorine wash in Europe! Can't imagine eating chlorine residual.
I was just going to say that😅
11:34 In Europe we buy for a much shorter period of time. For me, 2-3 days. Some maybe up to a week, but most people want FRESH food. Therefore also smaller packages / bottles. We want FRESH food without preservation.
I'm from germany and i shop like every saturday, but the bread is eather self made or bought fresh.
10:00 Ukraine isn't in the EU, but obviously in Europe.
when it is not in EU , it doesnot belong to Europa, same with Switserland
@lj7780 So according to you, Europe did not exist before 1993?
I'm glad you left your kids interruption in. That was so sweet and funny
I don’t think any German ever did a supermarket run worth 269 Euros at once, unless they shop for a kid‘s summer camp, a huge party (including lots of booze), or they ONLY shop for brand names and luxury items….
I’m in theNetherlands and go grocery shopping every other day. I live on my own but being a grandmother who picks up her granddaughter after school, feeds her, have her friends over and have her mother over to dinner like twice a week, I do shop for more than just I person. As I never freeze my meat I need to buy it fresh!
Or you are in a really big shop: Like Real, Metro or even Globus (as this woman has been). There is not just food, there are clothes, shoes, appliences, etc.
You have to try very hard to spend €269 in a German supermarket. ;-) As a family of three, I wouldn't know how to do that.
Don't try Switzerland 😂 I spend 400chf once for all big stuff and then buy fresh food each week. It's around 1000chf for 3
I live in Belgium, on my own and spend around €80 - 100 every two weeks or so. I could spend €269 a week if I changed my diet to lobsters, oysters, avocado and mango... 😉
15:30 Cutest interaction ever. First snow is always an amazement.
She was so excited 😊
@europehitsdifferentit was so cute
This video could have waited. Drop everything and go out to share your child's excitement. Work - life balance, that's what Europe is all about.
Absolutely adorable.
Was about to write a similar comment. Seeing him drop down everything and gratify his kid with a smile warmed my heart. Father of 2 young boys myself, love them more than my own life. First time on your channel, love the vibe, will come back. Cheers
In the EU, most countries are adding a sugar tax on all products that have processed sugar added. It's unhealthy, and the less people eat unhealthy, the less money is spent on healthcare! It makes sense, doesn't it?
As a British person in Belgium for any years now I will say that Belgian shopping prices are much more expensive. The quality of food is better though
The way in which they don't let staff sit is indicative of the inhumane lack of rights for workers over there. (Quite apart from it discriminating against the disabled.)
It's not discriminative against the disabled cause no supermarket would make you stand up if u were actually disabled
remember Wall-Mart Germany???
@JSemeão7the number of horror stories I’ve heard would contradict that statement.
@JSemeão7 they would not employ them , ffs .
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Hi The Netherlands here! We don not have t buy whole packages because in most places in Europe you have a supermarket on walking distance. Most cities, (all in The Netherlands) in Europa are 15minutes cities. Everything you need, from shop till school till docter is at maximum 15 minutes from your house. So we go to the supermarket daily or every few days!
Nou nu de prijzen zo achterlijk hoog zijn is men weer maandelijks aan het inslaan in Duitsland. 😂
aldi in belgium had to place A4 papers with al packaging you can't open asking not to open them ;-).
it is so normal everywhere that you can open a 6 pack if you only want 1 or 2 bottles.
@Livesoncoffeeandflowers Same here, every month I go to Germany to buy most groceries for the whole month. So much cheaper than the Netherlands. Only fresh day to day items I will buy here in NL.
Of course, even closer then 15' here
@soichirohonda267 me too.
The woman saying she prefers brown eggs over white, pfff, that made me laugh. There's no difference. 😂
Exactly that. The colour, usually, depends on the breed of the chicken. Some of them even lay blue eggs (I've never seen them in the stores, but a friend of mine gave me a couple)!
I think brown eggs are the most common in Europe. I know I have never had a white egg in my life, and just in recent years I have seen that they sell some white ones in a supermarket where I live.
Brown eggs are much more common in the UK but occasionally you will see white eggs in fact the last carton I bought were white
@lellab.8179
Only a certain few breeds of
hens lay blue eggs.
Murkhan breeding of
certain hens
Taste is the same but the shell of the white eggs are a bit thinner.
We had a program in Belgium fact checking which color eggs were the best. Everything about the eggs was the same but the chickens who lay white eggs, produced less waste then chickens who lay brown eggs.
at 05:03 In Europe, chickens are not washed, eggs are not washed, and the chicken's yellow color is because it lives outdoors, eats what it wants freely, and is then fed separately with corn and wheat, which gives the meat its yellow-orange color.
Taking a beverage out of a wrapper is so normal I did not even consider it would not be allowed somewhere else. 😅
Finland here.
Same in Poland.
And Germany
En France aussi ;)
Same in Sweden
And Austria 😊
The elevating shopping trolley is essential for anyone with a disability, for the elderly, for people with injuries, for pregnant women, for those with balance issues, and many more. Such people actually make up a considerable percentage of the population, which Europeans acknowledge and take into consideration.
I'm always baffled how US people don't understand thouse invention. Everytime you get comments "uuh solved problem that never was a problem"... Yes Kyle, it's not a problem YOU have as you are not elderly, pregnant or have some kind of disability that would MAKE this a problem.... It's like they never think or see people that have different struggles.
@kaworob True, unfortunately.
@kaworob yep. a general rule of thumb: if you don't understand why something needed to be made, it wasn't made for you. let it be.
@WhoEustaceit's like all the infomercials with weird gadgets. Like and egg cracker or something. A lot of this looks silly but its actually a great help for people with disabilities or elderly. They just can't say it stright away becuse it may influence sales
OK for the elderly but ‘normal’ people don’t need it. Like older people aren’t normal??
Forget about buying wine for 99 cents, even in Europe.
Yeah, in no way is that wine going to be any good. I mean, it probably tastes somewhat like wine and it has alcohol, but I'd rather not torture my taste buds like that.
In Germany food is cheaper than in France.
Life is too short to drink CHEAP wine! Even good wine is (somewhat) cheaper in France, Spain and Italy (the countries I know best) than back here in Canada.
Yep - never trust 1 euro wine.
Im from Croatia which is grape growing country and cheapest wine that is drinkable is around 4 euro. Anything cheaper and its dodgy, the least.
if you as a person buy 99ct wine you need to be committed lol
19:20 "I love what they think we eat".....
Laughing in Italy (the land where there are thousands of typical dishes, of course all delicious, but where no dishes containing the word "Alfredo" can be found!) 🙂
11:55 Only 269??? These people did not check any discounts and any cheaper price tags. My lord, if i pay attention to what I spend, I can easily go a month with that money. And yes I do go to the store atleast 3-4 days a week just to get the most discount value.
Yeah, like, this is my MONTHY limit of groceries.
They must learn how to check discounts and promotions.
Also, you don't buy stuff for 2 weeks, cause it will go bad. You go 2x a week and buy less.
The yellow colour of the chicken is because they are cornfed freerange
Wine for 0,99 cent
Must be the "street-edition" 😵💫🙈
Who the hell by this crap?
During school time my teacher for experiments in chemistry classes 🤣
If yo really want to feel pain, then 19:29 grocery shopping in Switzerland 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 🇨🇭 thank god Germany is a ten minutes drive…
the yellow chicken is corn fed… no chlorine wash….
The most important thing no one said is that the taxes are already included in the prices.
You won't be surprised at the register like it's the case in the USA.
For wtf are u talk about ???
@Азе-и4у In the USA, all the price you'll see in a grocery store will be "before tax". The tax will only be added at the end when you pay… That would already be annoying but the worst part is that tax depends on the state you're in, sometimes even which city you're doing your purchase in so when you're travelling you can't even compute the final price by yourself beforehand without some reseach!
Every European countries (and most countries in the world) mandates that the price on label be the price you'll end up paying for the goods.
@chaddaifouche536 yeah and after that they can ask for a "tip" extra 😀
wait till they find out that price per kg or liter also needs to be on display to make fair comparrison between the items in different size packages.
@chaddaifouche536I will repeat what I said in a similar comment. In most US states groceries are exempt from sales tax, a few have a very low tax and only a handful take the standard rate on groceries. That does not change the fact that it's still very expensive and lower quality.
1. It's fine to turn a bag upside down, take out an apple, and wrap the bag around it.
But what do you do if you want six apples?
Do you use six bags? It's more efficient to use gloves to pick up different types of fruits and vegetables.
2. To know if a fish is fresh, it's important to look at the brightness of its eyes and the bright red of its gills.
Also, the heads are used to make stock in various dishes, such as paella or fish soup.
3. Chicken is yellow because it's fed corn and roams outdoors, which improves its natural fat content.
The same is true for eggs, whose yolks should be orange, not a sickly yellow.
The meat is so red.
Comes home meat is brown.
They have special lamps to make the meat look like red.
don't forget taxes are already included in the price.
German here, I buy groceries for 3-4 days. Sometimes I go every other day, when I want to make something specific. There is always a supermarket on the way. Downtown, on my commute home and even in the suburban part of town where I live.
Fresh, good quality food. But nothing beats the regional farmers market on Saturdays, not even German supermarkets.
So do I in nearby France. I have a fine grocery shop in front of my house and I get fresh veggies and fruits every day.
3:58 the eyes of a fish are the best way to determine how fresh it is.
doesn't matter - most of the food in the USA is in plastic. You couldn't see anything.
Actually the gills tell you better how fresh a fish is. They should be red. At least this is what a fishmonger told me at the supermarket the other day ... I'm in Italy.
@kathi7956huh, never heard of that one! gonna be keeping my eye on that!
Fish heads and bones make fish stock and soups
@kathi7956 Yes that's true. The gills tell the truth. But when they cut the head, the gills are gone too.
Italians are EXTREMELY picky about the food that they buy at the grocery stores or at the open markets!!!
Italians are definitely experiencing an economic crisis, so they are buying less of many things, but FOOD is something that they REALLY PAY ATTENTION TO!!
SO NO COLORANTS, NO CHEMICALS, NO HORMONES, NO PESTICIDES, NO ANTIBIOTICS AND NO PRESERVATIVES.....in fact the European Union has strict laws and regulations in place for food quality!!!
Lucky us!
We mostly eat what is fresh and in season. One goes often in the week to the fruit & vegetable market.
Food Is not cheap, but the assortment & quality is excellent. Italians would not settle for less!
0:55 dont be fooled, the meat is fresh, sure, but the lights inside the counter is not neutreal light, it got partially red light to it so the meat looks better!
She said "the most popular grocery store in Paris" but La Grande Epicerie is the most expensive gourmet store in Paris.
Meanwhile, in Paris we feel deprived because we don't have the Grand Frais chain at all -- it is only out in the regions. One way they keep their prices so reasonable is they keep the rental or real estate prices down -- so they stay out of Paris.
it's the same thing in Rome, you can go to Eataly and for 2 days' shopping you will spend €500 but you will buy true excellences that you can only find there, or supermarkets like Esselunga, Conad, Coop which are of good quality at average prices, and finally there are hard discount stores like Lidl, eurospin, Todis with lower quality and cheaper products
Yes, la grande épicerie is very expansive and not popular at all, it's for the richs inhabitants and tourists only, but the products are great quality, which is not the case for all the supermarkets you see in this video. They are good products yes, but not as in la Grande Epicerie and in Grand Frais. But they are much better quality than in the US.
I guess they also sell local products as much as possible, so @no” transport costs.
Living in Paris I order my vegetables and other products to Grand Frais every other week and it is’delivered’to,my appartement.
@Kate-qq3ez billioner parisienne
Your toilet paper is so expensive, because You use up all the wood for building single use disposable houses that get eaten by termites within a decade anyway 🤣
Or bliwn over by a hurricane
Or heavily tariffed by the Orange one.
Brutal!!
@tillylovesholland1161 And the big bad wolf 🐺
Or blown away by tornadoes!
Do not split packages in the UK, in most of Europe yes
26:00 Each bottle has it's individual barcode, and the plastic wrap around them has a different one.
If you buy the entire pack, then the cashier will scan the barcode on the packaging, and you pay for 6/12/24 bottles.
If you bought only one, then they scan the barcode on the bottle itself, and you pay only one bottle.
Plus €0.10 deposit.
Best to check the price tags though. Can't speak for all of Europe, but here in Belgium usually if it's a package that can be opened (most drinks really), it has a price tag for the package as well as a price tag for the individual bottle. There are packages that are not meant to be opened in which case you'll only see the price tag for the package, without one for individual bottles.
I’m a retired expat living in Sicily. I rarely go to supermarkets’ except to buy non food products. All the food that I eat is purchased at local bakeries, butchers and vegetable vendors. The products are local grown and farmed with no antibiotics, chemicals or plastic wrapping.
So your a "immigrant" but immigration ruins countries according to GB news the Tories and MAGA lucky your white so you get to be an "expat" funny that eh 🙄
In other words normal life for many Europeans, including me.
So, you're an immigrant in Italy
You are an immigrant.
@danganbeg7225Yes, but I’m a Swedish citizen.
With regards to the chicken, in the UK and Europe, the chicken processing plants are clean enough for the product to be edible. The US CAN NOT make the same claim, and that's the reason why chicken in the US is washed in chlorine.
4:11 it’s clearly a pack item. You’re not supposed to rip the bag. There are single ones in a different aisle, unless maybe it’s there for it to be ripped open by customers.
19:37 We have some stores that have "American products" year round. some of my American friends asked them why they only had the weird stuff and not the actual mac &cheese etc. etc. only for the kind lady to remind them they all have ingredients that are illegal in the EU
all year round? near embassies? mmm, i know some stores with geo-racks, like an asias or if bigger divided in south east/chinees/indian/japanese perhaps, mexican / mediterinian, but somehow not north american that i renember :).
@JeroenJA the city centres in big cities have them. its like one isle in bigger stores. but yeah, i am talking about the more international cities
When you're young and healty bending over to grab the last bits of your cart is no problem....but for elders? it's game changing. Yes elders people are customers too ! chocking.
Also for pregnant women, disabled persons, or those who have undergone surgery.
We only shop for a week not a month,,,haahaaa
In Cyprus most homes have some sort of citrus trees some even have their own olives !,,
Eggs are free-range, like the chickens, the most popular meat is pork ,,beef is expensive up to 25 Euro,s per kilo
How do they put it in the cart?
I can imagine this being a thing in some areas in Spain. Many European people spend their 'older days' in Spain to enjoy the nice weather (and the friendly people 😉) so that would be a nice service to them.
@danfox5430 Gravity (except for the eggs) 😅
only small detail that may crush your enthusiasm as an American, is that the salaries in EU are much smaller than in the US, so it's not THAT cheaper for us here. The quality of food is undoubtfully higher, and keep in mind that a lot of people have access to domestic homegrown food if you just move a bit outside of the bigger cities. Agriculture in US to us seem entirely industialised, and here a lot of people that have a garden still grow their own food.
You cant say that in General: A normal monthly Salary in Moldavia is 250$ in Switzerland its 7500$
EU: In 2024, the average annual full-time adjusted salary for employees in the EU was €39 800, reflecting a 5.2% increase from €37 800 in 2023. - source Eurostat
USA: The average salary in the U.S. is $66,622, according to the latest data from the Social Security Administration. - source ssa.gov (Social Security website)
In USD terms: 1E = 1.15$
EU: 45 770 USD
USA: 66 620 USD
Let say 45% larger salaries in the USA. When you say "much" ppl would think like half or even less. And take in mind that alot EU countries considers gross salary without mandatory 15% towards healthcare contribution.
So basically - you need to deduct, say half of you medical insurance cost from that average in USA.
@EnesDéApe-55 Food prices in Switzerland are insane high. So the Salary melts away with the living costs. Many Swiss People cross the German Border for shopping or Vacation because the relative cheap prices in Germany.
@pietstreet8311 Yes, a Bakery Breakfast with Sandwiches, coffe and cake for 2 People was 42€ (39 CHF) in Swizerland, in Germany its 18€ and Moldavia its 130Lei (6,66€ /6,20CHF) with additional yoghurt drink on top.
@EnesDéApe-55 Neither Switzerland, nor Moldavia are in EU. Within EU its much less volatile and you can move to work wherever you like freely.
Also - Salary in Washington DC is double of that one in Mississippi... so you cant say USA has it flat either.
The reason that the Amercan food is worse and more expensive is that europe has better regulations and America tolerate extreem high profits for producers .
These comments show Americans can't handle the truth about their food in America. It still amazes me how much American ingredients are BANNED in Europe.
It's jealousy.... jealousy everywhere in 'Murica! And yes, some USdefaultism as well. =D
We know the truth lol
I'm a sailor and i was in USA. I went to buy some stuff in supermarket and i changed my mind immediately😅! What is wrong with you guys? The prices are from another planet! For sure not for the planet earth! Also i hate that you don't include the tax on the price! Why the hell i must calculate every time the cost for any product?
Harrods is one of the most famous and largest department stores in the World.
I'm from Sweden and we have something I didn't see in the movies from the rest of Europe. Some stores have their own cultivation of salads and herbs in the store without soil and pesticides.
16:21 Have *you* ever seen fresh garlic before? Most garlic sold in supermarkets is, in fact, dried. If you get a bulb of garlic and the outer layer is thin and paperlike, sort of like thin parchment, then it's dried and not fresh.
Learned that when I was almost 70 years old 🫣
The best one is the one in your garden
Yes, europeans have smaller fridges. But if you live in a single family house, 80% of people I know have a second "old" fridge in the absement. And a big freezer. It's a bit more energy efficient to have a fridge in a cooler cellar where its also less opened and if you have a garden you store your harvest in there. Or ferments. And "gardening" drinks.
Also there's mostly a supermarket nearby. I go to the supermarket daily.
Old fridges use so many electricity, it is cheaper to walk 3 times a week to the supermarket. My parents also had a second fridge in the garage, on my advice they put a meter between the fridge and the socket. You’ll be surprised how expensive an old fridge is, especially if they have a freezer section. They immediately stopped using the old fridge. An old fridge (5-20years old) uses between 2 to 4 times more electricity than a new fridge. It could easily use 300kWh per year more electricity. I pay €0.29/kWh without tax, tax is €0.11/kWh, so that’s €90 without tax and €120 with tax a year. You need a lot of sales offers to compensate. My parents only use the old fridge for Christmas and big birthday parties. The rest of the year it is not used.
In the garage some people
have a chest freezer in the
UK. Not in France though
- no way. Germany - some
people do. Finland maybe
some people. Northern
Europeans like a lot of not
chav English people prefer
Fresh food fresh vegetables
& aren't keen on convenience
Foods. It's not even
every other person in UK
though.
Europe is a very large
Continent full of many
Countries & Cultures.
In Spain hardly anybody
has an extra freezer
Portugal? No.
(Where exactly in "Europe"
are u talking about?🤣)
I had to laugh as the Spar, in Ireland, is a corner store, so more expensive than a regular store 😅
In the netherlands too !
Yep, Spar is basically shopping at the gas/petrol station shop! This one was in central Dublin so no petrol pumps and a bit fancier than the normal Spar!
Pretty much all larger towns in Spain have regular sized Spar supermarkets
Dont you all have the different types of Spar? Here in Austria there is the "Spar Gourmet" which is the expensive on with very special things, then Spar Express which is at petrol stations and train stations, the normal Spar which has almost only regional products, Eurospar, which has Regional and Products mostly from Europe and then there is the biggest one called "Interspar" which has international products as well.
That lady was even shopping at the Gay Spar in George St. It's more expensive than most Spars 😂
When my supermarket got the fresh orange juice machine, I immediately started bitching about it, because sometimes the peels fell in the container the juice ran through, and it would make everything bitter.
The machine was then replaced by one with a rack on it.
Now it's perfect 😂
Swedish here. Apparently I need to brush up on my school German and move there. The prices are like 33% of the Swedish prices! This is why people have to be specifik which country they mean in Europe. The differences are gigantic in some stuff.
I think you should repeat middle school math instead. The German prices are not a third of Sweden's prices except for Sossecoop.
Your Swedish prices are lower than Finnish or Norwegian, we literally hop over to your side for groceries bc it's cheaper😂
Factor in the cost of transport when going to-and-fro between Sweden and Germany every other day.
The video of the visit at Aldi Germany seems to be older. The red price tags were special offers of the week and not regular prices. The prices for any kind of groceries went through the roof since the last 3 years.
I am German. The prices shown are extremely low. Either the video is quite old and/or the prices are extremely low. It's definitely not current; I was surprised too.
You need to make your own shopping and cooking video when you go to Europe
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@europehitsdifferent you say'd it would be cheaper to fly germany and shop there and fly back.... you know in Belgium a tv-show did the same and did shop in Romania and even that was cheaper than shop local in Belgium 😀😀
The pack of soda has a EAN lotcode that is unified across all of europe, and a separate EAN lotcode on every separate product.
It's sort of consumer law to being a memberstate in the EU to further trade and ease frictions on different produce.
If by any chance you buy a orange soda in Sweden and find the same brand in Spain; the chances are almost guaranteed they have the same scan code.
Because of the extensive EAN coding it's perfectly fine to 'rip' open a pack of anything that contains multiples. Even frozen pizzas.
There’s a reason why in the EU we have an import ban on American meat. It’s just too bad and filled with chemicals, no thanks
I'm from Belgium and my 'diet' mainly exists of soups and pasta during the winter. It's all fresh and it hardly breaks the bank.
But, mind you... even here, people are complaining about the high prices. What a surprise, huh.
In more rural areas, most people certainly don't buy meat and bread rolls at the supermarket. They go to the backery and the butcher. It's a little more expensive there, but usually also much fresher. **GER**
Well... Not always true. My mum lives in a little village in rural France. There is no butcher, no baker anymore, no grocer. You need a car to go to the supermarket in a bigger town. My mum pays a taxi to go to the supermarket once a month. She is 89 and cannot drive anymore.
Loved my 3 years in Stuttgart and Munich.
The bakeries were particularly amazing with a huge choice of breads and cakes etc.
When I went america the first time,the food was generally expensive and additives galore.
Bread was ridiculously expensive.
We live in a rural area in Bavaria, having moved here from Munich. Funny enough, although having only close to 9.000 inhabitants - consisting of a main "town" and a handful of villages - we have 5 supermarkets, 3 butchers and 3 bakeries. BUT ... no chance of walking if you live in one of the villages. So I usually shop twice a week at the supermarket (for anything we need in fruit and vegetables - our farmers market is only Friday mornings when I'm at work - and anything that keeps) and the butcher, because I like knowing where the meat comes - they have the information where each type of meat comes from on the counter- plus the quality is great ... and, something I would not have believed before moving there: High quality meat like fillet was up to three times higher in price in Munich. You pay much less in rural areas. Even after more than a decade of living here I'm still sometimes baffled by the prices and have to stop myself from saying "That's cheap" ... also, if you shop for more than 40 Euros they'll throw in a couple of sausages for free. 😊
I live in a small village in rural Northern Ireland.... the village butcher is also a farmer, the beef and lamb is from his farm, and the pork is from a farm 3 miles away. His eggs come from a local farmer. A lot of our vegetables are grown locally too, and sold in a local farm shop. I live on the coast and can buy fresh caught fish and seafood locally too. I know I'm very lucky and appreciate our local producers. I only supermarket shop every few weeks. I've got to say French supermarkets are terrific.
Those recycling machines for the plastic bottles and getting money in return is quite common in Europe.
Minute 4:54 - Yes, it's the chicken wash that is also the reason your chicken is banned from nearly every European country
A yellow coloured skin on Chicken is on Corn fed, barn housed chicken only, free range birds are normal coloured as can forage as well as be fed in the barns during the night on a mixed diet.
It's not the chicken wash that has US chicken banned, it's the lower standards in the US that require that the chickens be washed (EU chickens are cleaner, less shit contamination due to clean processing factories!). Also protectionist policies to keep EU farmers in business and food security. Personally I'm happy to pay more for better local food!
And the yellow color is from feeding the chickens lots of sweet corn.
@mcarpenter2917chlor *hust
Poland here, to note on the Russian video: tons of different types of salads and other ready-made fresh stuff is absolutely normal in all the Slavic countries I think because we truly enjoy our fresh sour salads. In a typical Polish supermarket, there are sections where you can get stuff by weight so you don't have to buy more or less than you want: one “butcher's” section to get all kinds of meat, sausages, cold cuts etc, and one with fresh salads, different kinds of not ready-made (not frozen, mind you! just mostly cooked so it doesn't overcook when you heat it up) “traditional” meals like pierogi, other different kinds of dumplings, maybe some fried, breaded or not fish, cutlets etc. Cheese section might be attached to one of those or be between them. Absolutely normal and if it doesn't exist within the supermarket itself, it will exist as a separate speciality shop of a specific company, like a butcher's. The salads are typically from one specific company called Grześkowiak, as that one used to be the most popular for AGES, at least in the western part of the country.
VAT included in Europe. What you see is what you pay
Two things.
Yes... in Europe we can buy one single item drink from a four or six pack, not because it is cheaper or smth like that but it is just how they come in the shelves in stores, only if you take a drink from a refrigerated drinks isle you might find individuals bottles if not then you will always find them in packs and we usually don't need the whole 6 pack unless if you are having a party.
Two... about the yellow chicken, don't fall for the deception, just because The Chicken is yellow doesn't mean that it was raised with natural food, the chicken itself could have been fed food that had artificially introduced Carotenes that gives the meat it's yellow color or the orange yolk. Instead, you should find labels that attest that the chicken was farmed raised and on pastures. Luckily for us, in the European Union we have very strict regulations and you won't be able to find "faux meat" in stores otherwise they inflict heavy fines on the producer.
The yellow colour of the chickens in the supermarkets in Europe has nothing to do with the wash (chemical washing with desinfectants is banned in Europe), it is because the chickens were predominantly fed with corn (or other foods rich in carotenoids, like marigold). The colour can also be influenced by the breed & age of the chickens or whether they were outside a lot.
In Belgium you can take one drink (or tin, carton...) out of a pack if you only need one, unless it is mentioned in the shop that it is not allowed. Why buy more when you only need one...
In many European countries, consumer laws prevent stores from forcing you to buy products only in bulk. So it’s usually legal to buy just a single can from a multipack. Bulk offers can exist, but they can’t be mandatory
You have dedicated multi-packs, but those are clearly marked as multi-packs and it says on a ticket that its a price of a multi-pack and has separate bar-code. And its usually marked down a little.
OFC - you can always just break up the multipack and get singles out of it, but its discouraged because you have single products already there, probably just next to the multi-pack. And I think that it screws staff on inventory days because their "in" for the multi pack is - one multi pack, and not 4 singles. While "out" is four singles and 0 multipacks.
The first snowfall of the year was always amazing when I was a kid, as well! (Norway) So charming to see your child coming to show you a snowball! 😄
Tip for keeping bread longer fresh and soft if you cut yourself. Start in the middle of the loaf and alternate cutting on both halves. then shove them back together and wrap them a bit tightly. this exposes less cut sides of bread to the air and keeps it longer soft.