Same in Singapore. If I need them I'll call them. We prefer to be left alone to enjoy the food or to talk to one another in our group in private rather than having the waiters bothering us. And finally, not obligated to tip them. If we find the service excellent we will tip them anyway. It's completely voluntary.
It comes back to the tipping culture. The servers depend on tips so they usually over do it with the attentive service. A lot of Brits (including me) find it annoying and will probably tip less. Ironic.
In Europe we generally don't like pushy waiting staff. We like to be seated , give our order , get our food and to be left alone. If we need anything we ask. Pushy service isn't necessarily good service.
Not just Europe, I think everywhere outside the US. It's the same in Australia. What I want when I go out is to come over 3 times: once to give us menus and take a drink order; once to take our food order; and finally to bring the food. That's it. Then leave me alone, and when we're done, I go up to the counter to pay. When visiting the US is was so annoying being pestered. I know they need tips there, but do they not realise they will get a bigger tip by coming over LESS? Every time they interrupt me, their tip reduces because they're being rude.
Exactly, first time in Canada and it was really bothering and annoying to have them interrupt the conversation so often. I almost wanted to them them "I'll give you a good tip if you bother me less" 😅 Actually we found a great Japanese restaurant which was incredible and were not pushy, incredible food, great service. Later, I checked their reviews just for fun, and where really bad (2 or 3 stars) for "bad service".
@@non9886 while visiting America, I thought it was quite strange when the salesman in the shop, greeted me with," how are you today " As if he knew me. it made me laugh. Later on I realised the staff are extremely pressurised to keep their jobs.
Exactly this. To us, this overt friendliness towards customers, without any context, is suspicious. It's either over-inquisitive, nosey even, or fake - and we despise both. Bear in mind I am in the north of England and strangers definitely talk to each other, and often, and about all sorts of things - but context is all.
So is the demand for service at all time, even in the middle of the night. You can not give service everywhere and at all times without exploiting ordinary working people.
People who work in service aren’t outraged, they expect to work for any tips they receive. This is where it’s different than Europe, people who work in restaurants don’t usually work long term as it is a source of revenue in between jobs but it’s mostly college students (my son worked when he studied for his Masters diploma). This work sector don’t want a higher wage because that means prices in the restaurant will rise and people stop eating out, hence less tips.
@@marinazagrai1623Hah! What nonsense! So, if you told an American service worker they would get: A minimum of 28 days vacation a year. Unlimited paid sick days. A living wage that doesn't need to be supplemented by tips. Free healthcare for them and their family. Paid maternity / paternity leave. A job contract that guaranteed they would need to be fired for a good reason, and given a month's notice at least. Working hours that mean they don't have do shifts 24/7. No social requirement to grin and bear it when you have an obnoxious customer. You are saying that person would turn around and say 'no thanks, I wouldn't want to make the food more expensive!' Hah, wow, try asking that question to a real service person.
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I found it annoying in America, where waiters always bothered me while I was eating, expecting to be tipped high. I much more prefer easy going, relaxed and chilled European an UK environment, where you don't need to tip.
@@michaelfritzell9352 There's also a difference in that people from the USA want and expect that almost constant attention, while in Europe we actually want to be left alone. If we want something, we'll ask. People do generally tip in restaurants in the UK, but not as much. Younger generations tend to pay using their phones though, rather than paying in cash, so tipping is much less likely from them.
@msjannd4 That's the problem , in Europe restaurant staff will receive a national minimum wage and aren't so reliant on tips. Why should customers who are paying for their food have to supplement wages too. The employer is responsible for the wages of their employees.
@@michaelfritzell9352 it shouldn't be incumbent on customers to pay the wages of restaurant staff in the US. The food us already expensive and the tip is adding a 15/20% premium on top. Surely the politicians should be doing more to help legislate for a decent federally mandated minimum wage . Why anyone should anyone be allowed in this day & age be allowed to exploit the labour market at the expense of the people.
Proper, plain bread doesn't have sugar added in _most_ countries, although there are specifically sweet breads in most cultures. Only in the USA, it seems, does everyday general purpose bread have such a lot of sugar added!
To say there is no tipping culture in the UK would be incorrect. We don't tip everywhere you can eat but in a proper restaurant it is very typical for British people to add about 10% in tips unless it was a bad experience and because we are British it takes a lot for us to consider it a bad experience.
The guy would be lost in Germany because all shops and supermarkets are closed on Sundays with the exception of restaurants and petrol stations... and that's a good thing
Why would anyone move from the US to another country and then expect things to be pretty much the same? By the way, Yorkshire Pudding is made with batter and bread definitely isn't.
I don't think he was expecting things to be the same. He was being asked about the differences and what he learned. "Moving to England gives me that better perspective of, that's how I'm seen as an American." Sounds pretty open minded to me.
The 'good' service thing is polar opposites. American service would drive most Brits up the wall. Just leave us alone to enjoy our food with our friends instead of interrupting us all the time. We don't need a new 'friend'. Whereas Americans think it's really bad service not to have someone fawning over you seeing if you are okay every five minutes. PS: Yorkshire pudding isn't bread.
Americans lead such pathetic existences as corporate serfs they HAVE to have someone else to kick and lord it over and the poor bloody wait staff and retail workers are at the bottom of the food chain, forced to lick boots to get tips just to make worthless people feel a tiny bit better in their empty lives.
American 'service' in a restaurant always reminds me of a nursery school mealtime, where the staff are constantly checking on their little charges. At times I felt I should ask them if they wanted to cut my food up and spoon-feed me, so intrusive was their attentiveness.
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one sign sums up US waiter service 'Our servers rely on your tips, tip generously' and the part that is never on the signs: because we don't pay them enough to live on, and expect our customers to make up the difference
teeth, eyelashes, tits , ass and smiles - nothing is genuine or deep. but, if you endure that you can make real friendships there too, even find love. been there did that, so i know its possible. But the superficiality-shield that surrounds about everything is hard to deal with when you come from northern europe where nobody smiles unless its genuine - and where nobody asks me "how are you today" - unless he actually wants to know it.
Yep in the UK our Bar Staff and Servers are all paid, they don't need your tip so they can eat or pay rent.... and they get Free Health Care, Annual Leave, Bank Holidays ....... Yorkshire Pudding is not bread !! It's made from pancake mixture you do make me laugh and is the shape of a cupcake, cooked in the oven. We love the USA, it's like a child of the Uk which has moved out and is all Independent but does silly things that make us laugh.
Does he not realise how low paid workers are exploited in the US? To buy ice cream at 4am, there has to be some poor sod working there, who can be fired on a whim. It may be that the waiting staff in the UK are pissed off with his attitude....
It's the American way mate. Doesn't suit most British but living there I met Brits who quite happily said they would not be moving back to the UK unless they really had to. Horses for courses eh!? That he's been here for four years when he could just as easily move back says something about him, his values and his outlook surely? He's not expounding any of that as the US way is better/superior/desirable he's merely making statements of fact - and let's face it who the f--- wants four o'clock closing on Sunday just because of religious supersitious bs? On balance life is better here than the US (my in laws would move here in a heartbeat if it were possible) but for every one who thinks that there'll be another who thinks Canada/Germany/OZ/US who offers them more than dear old blighty can.
@@wessexdruid7598 So you decided to take it that he was complaining - why might that be I wonder? Maybe he's just making comparisons and discussing them - doesn't make it a complaint it makes it an observation. Duh yourself and that's my observation.
Yorkshire pudding is NOT bread. This overriding attitude that Americans have that their way is the best way and the rest of the world is doing it wrong is very irritating. We have a work life balance that is very important to us. We work to live,not the other way around.
In the U.S., we use bread to mean lots of things that aren't made with yeast. Banana bread is really cake, but we call it bread. Pumpkin bread, zucchini bread, same. We call them quick breads, but they're cake. We have popovers here, which are very similar to Yorkshire pudding.
@@hypsyzygy506 Yep, and their CEOs want to buy up the rest of the world, own it, make a killing off it & pay their workers shit pay for longer hours so they can make even more money the insatiable greedy twats!!
As another American who has been living abroad not for 4 years but instead 26 years all I can say is that he’s only just started mentally processing the differences between home and away. My own move was from New York to China, next level culture shock. I don’t return to the US even for visits if there’s a way I can avoid it. I do spend a fair amount of time traveling and collectively spent a few of my years in the UK, writing this from our flat in London. Once you’ve been abroad long enough that the conditioning has worn off you can see the world differently. I no longer have those “Well in the States we did this or had that” thoughts in every situation I found myself in. Live travel, experience and learn with an open mind.
Brilliant mindset, and thanks for sharing your wonderful informative view of British travel and how your acceptance has been received ❤. All the best with any future journeys 🎉
I hold an American passport, but have lived abroad for 24 years, and I was thinking the exact same thing. This was an exercise in listening to all of the ways that he hasn't yet developed cross-culturally. In my experience, four years is just not enough time for the mental shifts to take place in most people. (And that said, for some, it never takes place, and I don't wish that on him.) For the entire interview, the overwhelming impression was simply how little he has developed cross-culturally and how American he remains. You mention that you no longer have those we-them comparisons. With luck he can someday have more global comparisons in mind. Until the individual realizes that there are many ways to accomplish the same things with equal validity, and that what seems illogical is in fact extremely logical (the parameters are just invisible at the moment), they just haven't developed a deep enough understanding of the culture they inhabit to have an authentic understanding of it. I always say, no one eats disgusting food. If it's considered food in a culture, it's considered food for good reason. If people drop the cultural biases, they'll discover what they're missing. They might just find a new favorite.
I agree with all the replies, but I do think that man is open to adjusting, he's on his way, certainly not as hyper as he admitted to being initially. I have lived abroad, and found that I became more British rather than Australian, as was in my case. I became annoyed with myself constantly comparing, it was a loss cause. Australia is wonderful, I had no complaints, (apart from all the things that can kill you!), I was just homesick😢 Maybe, had I been living in the US previously I would have loved living 'anywhere' else, judging by what they have regarding work/life balance, healthcare, workers rights, etc. The list is endless 🤪 🙋♀️🏴🇬🇧🤗
I don't recognise the UK you are talking about. I live in a small town and there are at least 5 thriving restaurants open until 10 or 11 o'clock in the evenings and there are four gastro pubs serving food most of the day from 12 noon to 9:00. Plus, there are quite a few take away shops. As far a Sunday shopping is concerned, smaller shops and convenience stores are allowed to open on much longer hours so you can get basic stuff. and that is in a small town of less than 12000 population. Yorkshire pudding is NOT bread, there is no yeast involved. It is a batter mix a little similar to British Pancake mix, which is cooked slightly differently. I know that puddings in the US are a very narrowly defined and restricted product, but in the UK we have a wide range of both savoury and sweet puddings. I like Americans, but the overt patriotism is not a good look. We are very patriotic but simply express it differently, we don't have to shout USA, USA, USA while fist pumping at as many possible opportunities. I find that very disturbing.
There's a world of difference between patriotism (which equals healthy) and nationalistic bs (which is anything but healthy) Far too many septics teeter on the abyss of the latter thinking that's how you show patriotism because that's the bs they've had ingrained in them from birth in far too many cases) It's far more satisfying to be able to quietly, logically and fruitfully point out to them they are merely acting like and looking like first class twats when they behave like a colony of chimps trying to attract attention. Decorum at all times please!
@@brendaguerin5423 I don't understand your comment, of course I have food at home, I said nothing that could suggest otherwise, please elucidate (that was my original comment using a different account).
He was giving an example about ice cream at that hour! WOW, this is how prejudice you are towards Americans? Vegas is known for the nightlife and tourists are more apt to stay up and drink and want ice cream.
I served in the British army in Berlin - we shared an operational site and ate in the US mess hall. I recall standing in line one winter's afternoon and on passing the back door of the galley noticing a large cardboard box on the side of which was the name of the manufacturer of the icecream - below the name in red print was the legend: GUARANTEED CONTAINS NO NATURAL INGREDIENTS
In the U.S. the customer is always right. You bet and wow do they charge you for it. Used to be normal for a 15% tip at restaurants, now it’s minimum expected 20% and preferably 30% - totally out of hand, Give me European style any day thanks. As for comparing the greatest city on earth, London, with the tackiest city on earth, Las Vegas, words fail me.😂😂
People forget it’s “the customer is always right in matters of taste”… The US took the first half and changed it to “the customer is always right, no matter what, even if they’re a stuck up cunt”😅
@Max Chernov Your videos are entertaining but if you want to interview people who have moved to the UK from other countries, try to avoid the people who live in and around London. London is now the least representative version of the UK in the UK, with many claiming it is no longer even part of the country.
Aussie here. The US wasnt the only country where a small group of people moved to and have done something extraordinary. At least the Pilgrims went voluntarily. Britain used Australia as a dumping ground for its criminals and ne'er do wells for 80 years. I think we've done pretty well. You can dream big open a business and succeed here too if you want to. From what I know Aussies arent clamouring to move to the US for any of that. In fact I believe Austealian immigration to the US is almost zero. Only for family or marriage. I like him amd he may not realise it but he still comes across as a staunch proud flag waving American where everything outside the US is interesting and educational but everything in the US is bigger better best. Hes still very niaive about his ingrained American-ness that he thinks hes modified. They helped win the war?! So did we! Freedom, liberty, US values, what the US stands for, sets the tone for a lot of different countries. Spare me (eyeroll)!!!! Thats why people get annoyed with Americans.That overt patriotism and nationalism that is so normal to them rubs everyone up the wrong way. Especially us Aussie and I venture to say the British. We're still patriotic. But quietly.
@@kerrydoutch5104 yes you did, my only point was we often get tagged as convicts even 200 yrs later but we share this history with the USA, those were tough times back then, the convicts were given the choice of the death penalty and Australia. sometimes for crimes as small as pick pocketing a handkerchief . we aint so bad
The pilgrims may have went voluntarily but the puritans didn't, we stuck them all on ships with their bibles after the church burnt one too many innocent girls at the stake.
I did a 10 day trip to California & Nevada, spending nearly $1000 for the whole trip. They expect 20% tip. If I pay tip 20% everyday, that's $200 just for tips. I had to eat at Fast Food restaurants to avoid tipping most of the time.
My brother married a very nice American lady. Eventually his wife settled in England and one of the reasons because of the cost of tipping. If he took $3000 for spends, he used to have to put in another $1,000 for tips. It got too expensive, so they stopped visiting the US so often.
When did all this insane tipping start? I was in the US three times in the late 90s/early 2000s, and I don't remember it being that bad......or maybe I was just oblivious to it!
I find it really irritating when waiters constantly come and ask you if your food/drink or whatever is ok. If it wasn’t I’d soon let them know. I love that in the UK we can go out for a meal and still be sitting chatting 3 hours later it’s a sociable occasion not eat and run. And Yorkshire pudding is not bread!
The people that are "clamoring to get into the United States" are largely from nations that are impoverished, or in social and political turmoil. I personally know that many European law firms that deal with nationalization of potential immigrants, are currently being overwhelmed by middle class Americans clamoring to gain European citizenship. Many Americans don't realise that since 2016, the World has had a particular focus on the USA, and the ideals they espouse and promote have been seen to be sadly lacking in reality. We now understand that Washington is in the grasp of corporations, the judiciary are blatantly politically partisan, the police untrustworthy, the education system failing badly, healthcare still stuck in the 19th century, and wealth viewed as far more important than the wellbeing of people - as seen in the absence of workers protection. Amongst modern/westernized nations, the USA is no longer seen as the "shining beacon" that Reagan spoke of - and it's about time US citizens acknowledged that reality, started putting their own house in order, and "got over themselves".
The US has been spiralling downwards since the end of the 1980s. I been visiting it over those years and I'm unlikely to ever go back now, because of how bad the US has gotten.
@@Thurgosh_OG Like you, I've passed through the States a few times in the 1980s, but can't see myself ever returning. Should the USA choose to address their many pressing needs, it will be decades before they catch up with the modern world. If their public education system were to be miraculously transformed this instant (so that the electorate actually understood what they were voting for), it would be 20-30 years before it had a significant effect of the sociopolitical status quo. Bluntly, (IMO) they're screwed for the foreseeable future.
It’s near impossible to get our house in order when, you know, the government is in corporations pockets regardless of party as you stated. The best option we have is to either live with it or leave to a foreign country.
@@jayh3283 Yep, I fear you're right. People seem to resigned to the status quo - so many momentous sociopolitical things have occurred in recent years that I would have thought it might have brought millions onto the streets in protest. But nothing - it's as if they know they're powerless.
What Americans don't realise, about small children being taught to chant rote-learned pledges at a flag every morning at school, is that it looks very "North Korean" to us. It really is creepy and weird.
I imagine going to a foreign country and expecting it to be exactly the same as the USA, ffs (rolls eyes) No wonder Americans aren't popular with this kind of negativity .
Err uh sweetheart I am an American and that's a NO! I don't expect samenes everywhere I go like DUH!! I brush up the culture and places where I am planning to go and tradicional greetings and how I can go about! (rolling eyes) that's pretty a generalized statement of you..
The UK he’s talking about existed about 40yrs ago. Supermarkets in UK close at 5 on Sunday but small shops are allowed to stay open. Restaurants are definitely open on Sundays.
As a Belgian that would annoy me so much if waiters would come every few seconds to ask me how my food is or if I want something. If I want something I'll wave at a waiter. I would probably tell them to please leave me alone and leave me eat in peace. To me that pushiness wouldn't encourage me to leave a big tip. When on a rare occassion I enter a shop and I get a pushy employee that won't leave me alone after they asked "Can I help" and I replied "no, just looking around", I will leave the store. I absolutely hate a hovering sales person in a shop. Even worse is when they start showing you things they think you might like.
Tipping culture is evil. In the US is legal to pay 'tipped staff' $2.13 per hour as they're expected to make up the difference between that and the minimum wage in tips. Theoretically, if they don't get enough, the employer is supposed to make up the difference but in practice, if a member of staff tries to claim that right - they'll be written up or outright fired as not getting enough tips (even if its due to outside factors like a simple lack of customers) will be taken as proof that they are a bad worker. This is why "good customer service" is actually just sheer desperation to survive and results in US customers feeling entitled (and free to commit consequence-free acts of abuse). I feel far more comfortable living in a country where a minimum wage is for everyone (even if its dismal) and people toiling in crappy jobs are not forced to put on some creepy 'pan-am smile' and constantly pressure you.
depends on the state or city. Illinois outside the Chicago metro area is $14 non-tipped, $8.40 tipped, rising to $15/$9 on Jan 1. Chicago rates are $15.80 regular, $23.70 overtime, minus $6.32 for tipped employees (so $9.48 tipped regular, $17.38 overtime). Six western states -- California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Montana and Alaska -- do not allow any reduction of tipped minimum wage; it's the same tipped or not.
24-hour opening would guarantee a lack of customers, perhaps we've found the basis of both cruelty to workers, AND this guys' bizarre complaints that Britain works like a business.
I liked him on balance. We are each a product of the lives we have lived. I moved to Paris when younger and learned a lot about myself and us back home.
@@newbrisAnd being snobby doesn't mean he isn't right. Nor does you calling his response snobbish mean it is, especially when you come across as a snob yourself in your comments.
Most people I’ve met from the USA are not critical about the British. I met a woman from the USA while on a meditation retreat in the Lake District. She gave me some advice. When travelling abroad learn about the culture ,blend in as soon as possible and enjoy the differences.
You know how in Europe family owned places are standard and fucking everywhere, well then USA basically has none of that shit bar big cities, 95% of the places people eat are chains and fast food 'resurants' Americans don't go for Chinese food they go to panda express, they don't go get Mexican food they go to Chipotle or taco bell. I live in north Carolina for a year and didn't go to a single independent restaurant
@@SP02138 65% of the American diet is ultra-processed food. You just need to look at the general public to see how obese the US is as a nation. And they have the gall to criticise other nations food.
@@monza1002000 lol. It is fresh enough for 2am in the morning …. The debate is not about the American diet or freshness of the produce, it is about stores open 24hrs compared to other places in the world.lol
It is the law that there are Sunday trading hours. I had a friend who worked for years in London ,at a very prestigious American company, Merrill Lynch. It was expected that those who aspired to top executive positions should spend some time working in Merrill Lynch offices in the major cities of the world. As she got to know them ,almost without exception she was told that the posting to the UK was the hardest of all ,for themselves and their families . The Reason? When they knew that next posting was Europe ,somewhere in Asia or South America they took some time to study the customs ,laws and differences . But London? Well, it's just the same as the USA ,isn't it?🙄
Greece, the Isle of Man, Iceland etc etc , say hello! They are not even a democracy they are Federal Republic and the system of electors deprives many people in larger cities of their votes.
well yank here and I can tell you america is not a democracy.... as people ponder trump or biden I think to myself how to get out of here.... america is the greatest threat to global security and stability..... the USA is the hub of the global corparate fascist order.... america ruins everything
That's like blaming East Germans for believing their systems were superior to their western alternatives. He deserves time to develop. Four years is really nothing.
Imo everything should be shut on a Sunday we need a day to just stop do your hobbies and spend time with family be at home. When your dead in your box you will realise this is whats been important in your life.
How old is he? At 50, I am old enough to remember when most things were closed on Sunday in the U.S. I think we should go back to the value of Sunday's being sacred.
It was the same in the UK, with everything being closed on a Sunday, except for the little local shop (normally family run) being open for a few hours for newspapers and a few essentials.
Started watching... the guy needs to update his vocabulary: the 'hospitality' he experienced in the US is just capitalism. Nothing more and nothing less. Nobody dies of hunger from 4pm on Sunday til 7AM on Monday. Fridges and cupboards of almost every house/flat are full of stuff to eat. Some small private businesses will run til late, too, but it usually isn't a kind of food that would keep him healthy.
Across Europe shop staff are paid a proper wage, and also not forced to work long hours. Because of that, there is no incentive to open a shop at a time when there are too few customers to make out viable to open.
Come on, be serious. It wasn't a town with one restaurant that didn't want to serve food on a Saturday night. It was a village, and one in the middle of nowhere by the sound of it. It's also very unusual for a restaurant to just decide not to serve. Maybe they didn't like your attitude.
I hated the cajoling for tips in the U-S. Here in Australia there is a minimum wage where tips are not necesary My wife tripped over in Newcastle and got a blood nose Litterally within two minutes two cops were on hand to help They took us to the Victorian Infirmary NUT Not a gun in sight and not a cent spent God bless the NUT police force, and the National Health .Vegas bored me to tears, but if you went to Brit or Oz holiday destinations you can get 24/7 service. London is not one. Mate -I wouldn't live in the US for quids.The most brainwashed country in the world
Nothing wrong with it. Nobody's going to buy more groceries, underwear or socks per year if the stores are locked solid all day Sunday like it was a few decades ago in Canada.
USA is ungodly. Working on a rest day is a sin. Should follow the Jewish example of the Sabbath. It is all lip service and pastors in helicopters and worshiping the dollar. Total facade. The day UK allowed Sunday trading was the last vestige of civil society.😢
@@Hattonbank Both. There are a great many people who would welcome an extra shift or maybe students/retirees looking for a little supplemental income for some weekend work.
@@MaxChernovIt's just a feeling. I'm hearing between the lines a certain disappointment when he was referring to things aren't open 24/7 (even in London). This bewilderness is okay, for max. one week I guess. After that, one should have noticed the quality of life that comes with it for a huge amount of people and one should see it as a benefit and not so much as a lack of convenience. He sounds like he did not understand this concept. Edit: typo.
@@MaxChernov when you visit another country you have to accept their culture and their way of living. You may discuss the differences but not criticise. If you want the country you visit to be like your own country, you should just not travel at all and stay where you are.
I hate feeling rushed when eating. I like to take my time. I feel this is better. Saying that our customer service is crap, but again I would rather be left alone in peace
All Americans make a big fuss about the importance of customer service within restaurants. So you shouldn't be surprised if he is moaning about customer service in restaurants.
Mahatma Gandhi of India said, " there is more to life than increasing it's speed.'' I never heard any restaurant in London saying pudding instead of dessert. I love English accent. Sorry, but I have to follow the transcript to follow some strong American accent.
if you are a american you have been conditioned to be a slave since a young age.... Yanks got PTSD from the abuse that is so hidden by normalisation. The last thing you would want to do is emulate the states.... we are a very unhappy people ruled by a facist state for we are not a democracy and we are the greatest threat to global security and stability.
In my youth nearly everything was closed on Sunday and before that we had half day closing (afternoon) in weekdays on different days in different towns
Oh the Americans and the pudding issue!! They come to Europe with their American idea of 'pudding' - a sloppy goop usually 'vanilla' or 'chocolate'. Are they really that naïve about food culture outside the US? Savoury puddings are traditional foods served all over Europe (suet puddings, Yorkshire pudding, haggis, blood puddings such as the French Boudin, chireta from Spain etc) They are usually a product boiled/cooked in a casing or cloth bag. In the UK there are many sweet versions of suet puddings made with the addition of flour, sugar, various fruits or syrups. The term 'pudding' has now become synonymous with dessert. I'd ask for pudding if I wanted a hearty dessert (sticky toffee pudding yay!). Stuff like ice cream, sorbets or fruit salad etc would just be a dessert.
I live in Bournemouth, UK and my local supermarket (Tesco) opens at 7am and closes 11pm every day, including Sunday. I could probably get chicken wings at 2am, too. If you want something at 4am, you might have to drive around to find a place. I haven't tried to buying food at 4am in a long time. I think the Subway bars in town centre might be open. I don't know which part of London he was in, but in Kensington, the only problem i had was stores opening too late. They don't open at 7am like my local in Bournemouth. But the McDonald's is 24/7 in Kensington and the stores are open until like 2am. He uses LA as an example of the United States. I'm not surprised everything is 24/7 there. LA doesn't sleep.
That's because your Tesco's is a metro.We have them everywhere else in England and they are great.The same hours that you just described.But a big Tesco store in suburbia adheres today.Sunday labout opening between ten and for or eleven Until 5.
@@grahammoore24 Because of the Sunday Trading Law, which applies to larger stores. Smaller ones are exempt and can set their own hours. But British people are not prepared to slave their guts out for selfish people who demand the right to have families broken so that they can choose how they live.
A relative of mine clicked his fingers for a waiter in Little Italy, New York. The waiter duly served him and, as he served, leaned over and said "Do that again and I'll break your fucking legs" 😊😊😊😊
On the subject of language and our apparently odd words, remember where it originated and its name: 'English'. American English is the 'odd' corruption of it...
The reason servers in the US are always trying to be super attentive, is because they are basically slave labour... If they don't do that then they might not get a tip, and then can't afford to pay their bills on the pitance they are "paid". In the UK and Europe as a whole, when you get excellent service that's because someone is really good at their job and takes pride in doing it well... And in those cases they will likely get a nice tip because of that. Here's the definition of what a tip is: "to give someone who has provided you with a service an extra amount of money to thank them". Nowhere does it say, to top up their unlivable wages.
Agreed, but to be fair, he's only been an expat for four years. His views will change. I don't guarantee they'll improve, but almost no one has a well-developed opinion after only four years. He wants to be there, so he deserves the chance and time to develop a better understanding. He just wasn't a good candidate for the interview.
In the UK we understand that the world does not need to function 24 hours a day, we need time to sleep, have a rest. Allow nature a chance to get a break from our hussle and bustle. To me America is a light that's switched on all the time, unnecessarily draining resources and exhausting everything and everyone around it. "Calm down dear" there's more to life than buying and consuming.
My dad was an accounts at for a multi national company, and he didn’t like Americans. The reason was that after the 2WW the Americans let ‘Germany off any reparations, yet ‘Britain ( sorry not England, as England is only a quarter of British and it is rude to refer to Britain as ‘England) was not let off and only finished paying off its debts to America ( the lend lease ) in 2006. This meant that Germany became rich and we were kept poor. We won the war and lost the peace and we were supposed to be allies.
14:45 "i dont know what i've done to you or my people" - shows naivety and ignorance here. he might personally not have done anything, but that certainly can't be said about USA in general...
some americans need to learn its not that world hates norma americans but they hate the imperial so called rules based order designed by their elites in goverment
Very true- When you have the most hypocritical Dont do as i do Do as i say Double standard foreign policy. You hate the country, not the man.I always say ,and i am 76, that there are good and bad in all countries.but its a shame, that all the good ones in America could congregated in the telaphone box on the corner of the high street
Hi from Australia - I hated my dining experience in the US. Too much hovering and you have to pay for the hovering too. I felt like saying leave me to eat in peace.
Interesting to watch and listen to this. I'm an ex British soldier. Married an American beauty 37 years ago (still handcuffed to her, I've asked immigration to come and get her but they're not interested) She had joined the USAF. On her posting back to the US we had a decision to make. I've lived, worked, went to school in several different countries so making a move to the US was not percieved as any great drama. After four years in the US and the birth of our daughter we had another decision to make. We decided our standard of living was roughly equal UK v US but she noted our standard of life was superior in the UK. It suited us both and thus the move back became a no-brainer. I was happy to have experienced the US but as somebody who does not see happiness (far too fleeting and fragile) as the main goal of life (the boss sees it that way too so no domestric strife there) but contentment being the superior aim, we moved. She has, for long, been a British citizen now (although retaining her US citizenship - only recently deciding she might get rid due to there being only downsides (taxation) and nothing a US passport can give her that a British one doesn't offer). We go as a couple to holiday in the states from time to time (great holiday destination BTW) but we can't wait to get back home at the end of it. She goes alone sometimes just to see her family or they come over here - Incidentally both her siblings would move here in a heartbeat if it were practical to do so. It's also interesting the number of US citizens we meet (even out in our ruraly idyll) who are living and working here/married a Brit and decided to set up home here. We've met a few who regretted it and have either moved back or are in the throes of planning a move back but most have said similar to us - we're just content here. Having the whole of Europe as a playground a couple of times a year is a great bonus too. I served as, "The Brit contingent" with two US units and through that and the four years in CA and FL I have a pretty high regard for the average, "Septic tank" especially when they have learned to drop the nationalistic bs they have been indoctrinated with/by. Note - not saying patriotism that's both understandable and more than acceptable but the nationlist blxnbs is best left for their return to the states and not for consumption here. US government and all that entails - well, less said the better really. Similar could be aimed at our governments here in Europe in the main. I like most of the Yanks I meet. Some of their mannerisms can be misconstrued and they are mainly not aware enough of others to understand which ones and why. Generally, they mean no harm or insult, they just have not been housebroken. They can be evolved into humans with a modicum of training however. Gladdens my old heart for you to talk with one who seems - well........ content with his lot in life. Hope he continues in that vein and remains amongst us for as long as it suits his requirements/predicament/wishes and if and when he returns over the moat he thinks of us pleasantly from time to time.
That’s why most Brits are fairly chilled and don’t go around murdering each other. We are not forced to work every hour of the day and night just to get by. Most of us have a corner shop that will be open until late but we also plan to get our ice cream at 3.45.
I went to New York, the food was terrible, the people were obnoxious, and it ridiculously expensive, then you have to tip them 20%, Europe is a slower experience, I wouldn’t have it any other way….i hate people constantly asking me how’s your food??? ..
You were way more critical of the US here than the man in the video was of the UK. I'm truly sorry you didn't enjoy New York, though. I've been to Europe many times and it was wonderful.
It amazes me that the people of the US allowed restaurant owners to somehow shame customers into paying their employees wages... directly. I hate it when servers are too attentive. I have often told them that the tip will be bigger if they just leave us alone to eat and converse. OK, I am a Brit...
If you're "not going to let it go", try to grasp this first. Yorkshire pudding is not bread, it's a batter baked in the oven. There are many US vloggers who cite it as something not known in the US but I've never heard any suggest it's like bread. Try and bear in mind that English vocabularly has developed over centuries and is enriched with many local variations of accents and dialects where commonly used words may have additional meanings in some parts of the country. It's probably used more in the vernacular here rather than the heading on the menu of a restaurant. You saying, "I'm not letting this go, it's not a pudding" may come across just as discourteous as a Brit going to SE USA and insisting that "it's not grits, it's not made of grit!" They were right, you do need to relax.
I get that in only 4 years, you're not going to get all the gen on how things are over in UK. There are a few misconceptions about why things are as described in the video. In case anyone visits and thinks it's not expected to tip here, that's not remotely true. 10% minimum - 20%. There are some stingy people over here who look for reasons not to tip, but it's considered superbly ungrateful not to tip. I would agree that service here is often lousy. I tend to choose places where I know the staff iis good. I'll go out of my way to find places, because I hate poor service. I've spent a fair amount of time in USA & I love the service. Some of the comments here are pretty hostile. I have had some really fun interactions with waiting staff. Not ever had a 'toxic' experience. It's been charming and kind. The other thing to note that places being open on Sundays has been a relatively recent thing. A few decades ago, nearly everything was closed on Sundays. And the law was changed in the 90's that stipulates that businesses above a certain size can only be open for a few hours. smaller businesses can open as they choose.
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As a UK citizen living in the USA for over 30 years you have to realize (yes, I now spell it with a 'z') that the USA and UK are completely different cultures. Different States in the US even have differing ways of doing things. It takes a lot of time to acclimatize to a different country or a different State.
My friend had a triumph motor bike. He spoke to someone in usa about his bike and had a free holiday in America with his family. Unbelievable warm welcome and friendship
@@majordelays4909 ooh yeah - probably a few outliers round that neck of the woods 🤣 I live in a village and there's like 3 pubs (2 serve food) and 2 restaurants
So…..turn over of tables quickly is not customer centric at all. I hate being over hasseled by waiting staff in the US. It’s not genuine concern for the customer, it’s to get a bigger tip.
I live in Australia, the MINIMUM wage is $23.23 an hour here. The average waiter/waitress salary in Australia is $52,808 per year or $27.08 per hour. Entry-level positions start at $46,800 per year, while most experienced workers make up to $61,425 per year. People eat out all the time, and if a restaurant cannot afford to pay their workers a living wage they shouldn't be in business. That is the reality of living in a free democratic society. I am 60 and have never paid a tip, why should I, the wait staff are getting a good wage and they are paid to provide good service. The last thing I want is to have the staff ask every 2 minutes if everything is fine, I am there to eat, interact with the people I am eating with and I am not there to make friends with the staff or interact with them except to be seated, ordering my meal and drinks and being served those. The constant interruptions sounds highly intrusive and would needlessly annoy me.
And yet they still have all of the bases around the globe that we leased them, a bit odd that we had to pay them back the "lend" part of the deal but they don't have to return the "lease" part of it.
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In a restaurant in britain we don't like to be bothered by the waiting staff And if we require them, we call them.
Simple
Same in Singapore. If I need them I'll call them. We prefer to be left alone to enjoy the food or to talk to one another in our group in private rather than having the waiters bothering us. And finally, not obligated to tip them. If we find the service excellent we will tip them anyway.
It's completely voluntary.
And good luck finding that Server in the UK, when you need them. Sorry, but British service is benign neglect.
It comes back to the tipping culture. The servers depend on tips so they usually over do it with the attentive service. A lot of Brits (including me) find it annoying and will probably tip less. Ironic.
@@dennisalexanderreilly8624 Where would they be then do tell . . .
In Europe we generally don't like pushy waiting staff. We like to be seated , give our order , get our food and to be left alone. If we need anything we ask. Pushy service isn't necessarily good service.
Not just Europe, I think everywhere outside the US. It's the same in Australia. What I want when I go out is to come over 3 times: once to give us menus and take a drink order; once to take our food order; and finally to bring the food. That's it. Then leave me alone, and when we're done, I go up to the counter to pay. When visiting the US is was so annoying being pestered. I know they need tips there, but do they not realise they will get a bigger tip by coming over LESS? Every time they interrupt me, their tip reduces because they're being rude.
not just restaurants but also shopping...
Exactly, first time in Canada and it was really bothering and annoying to have them interrupt the conversation so often.
I almost wanted to them them "I'll give you a good tip if you bother me less" 😅
Actually we found a great Japanese restaurant which was incredible and were not pushy, incredible food, great service. Later, I checked their reviews just for fun, and where really bad (2 or 3 stars) for "bad service".
@@non9886 while visiting America, I thought it was quite strange when the salesman in the shop, greeted me with," how are you today " As if he knew me. it made me laugh. Later on I realised the staff are extremely pressurised to keep their jobs.
Exactly this. To us, this overt friendliness towards customers, without any context, is suspicious. It's either over-inquisitive, nosey even, or fake - and we despise both. Bear in mind I am in the north of England and strangers definitely talk to each other, and often, and about all sorts of things - but context is all.
Having to grovel for tips rather than being paid properly is an outrage perpetrated on the American worker
So is the demand for service at all time, even in the middle of the night. You can not give service everywhere and at all times without exploiting ordinary working people.
It is a world wide problem. The UK is one of the few places where it is not required (though some still give tips anyway)
People who work in service aren’t outraged, they expect to work for any tips they receive. This is where it’s different than Europe, people who work in restaurants don’t usually work long term as it is a source of revenue in between jobs but it’s mostly college students (my son worked when he studied for his Masters diploma). This work sector don’t want a higher wage because that means prices in the restaurant will rise and people stop eating out, hence less tips.
And what about unpaid internships for people with years of experience. It used to be called slavery.
@@marinazagrai1623Hah! What nonsense!
So, if you told an American service worker they would get:
A minimum of 28 days vacation a year.
Unlimited paid sick days.
A living wage that doesn't need to be supplemented by tips.
Free healthcare for them and their family.
Paid maternity / paternity leave.
A job contract that guaranteed they would need to be fired for a good reason, and given a month's notice at least.
Working hours that mean they don't have do shifts 24/7.
No social requirement to grin and bear it when you have an obnoxious customer.
You are saying that person would turn around and say 'no thanks, I wouldn't want to make the food more expensive!'
Hah, wow, try asking that question to a real service person.
It was not England who fought in WW2, it was the United Kingdom (England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland)
Lived in England for 4 years but doesn't know the nation he lives in.
United Kingdom + British Empire in WW2.
@@Thurgosh_OG Well he is American and geogrphay stereotype is true
UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, plus much of the British Empire (India, Burma, South Africa, Malta, etc.); plus our allies France, Greece, USA, Brazil, China, later Russia, and others.
London wasn't the only place that suffered the Blitz All Docks , Harbours, Ports. Coventry, Factories, all over the country,
I found it annoying in America, where waiters always bothered me while I was eating, expecting to be tipped high. I much more prefer easy going, relaxed and chilled European an UK environment, where you don't need to tip.
That's because in the US, waiters are the only profession not subject to minimum wage laws so they have to get tip to survive
@@michaelfritzell9352 There's also a difference in that people from the USA want and expect that almost constant attention, while in Europe we actually want to be left alone. If we want something, we'll ask. People do generally tip in restaurants in the UK, but not as much. Younger generations tend to pay using their phones though, rather than paying in cash, so tipping is much less likely from them.
U.S. servers only make $3 an hour.
@msjannd4 That's the problem , in Europe restaurant staff will receive a national minimum wage and aren't so reliant on tips. Why should customers who are paying for their food have to supplement wages too. The employer is responsible for the wages of their employees.
@@michaelfritzell9352 it shouldn't be incumbent on customers to pay the wages of restaurant staff in the US. The food us already expensive and the tip is adding a 15/20% premium on top. Surely the politicians should be doing more to help legislate for a decent federally mandated minimum wage . Why anyone should anyone be allowed in this day & age be allowed to exploit the labour market at the expense of the people.
This video does highlight how many Americans talk about Money and food. Knowing the cost of everything and the value of nothing
This!!!
he is from mormon state if understand it, so...
Yorkshiŕe pudding is not bread AT ALL, it doesn't have either sugar or yeast.
It can be a dessert spread with jam.
@Drewtheelder yup, but is not bread or even a bread recipe
@@BeckyPoleninja Agreed.
Proper, plain bread doesn't have sugar added in _most_ countries, although there are specifically sweet breads in most cultures. Only in the USA, it seems, does everyday general purpose bread have such a lot of sugar added!
@@Sine-gl9ly sugar is in plain bread recipes to help the yeast. Also helps with browning and preservation.
The whole tipping thing in The USA is toxic
Saves them paying real wages to the average person, plus no private health cover in those jobs, so they are screwed if ill.
i point blank refuse to tip, EVER, unless there is a VERY good reason for it.
US like servers to beg for tips and wag their tail. Toxic mentality wanting fake smiles and insincerity.😊
To say there is no tipping culture in the UK would be incorrect. We don't tip everywhere you can eat but in a proper restaurant it is very typical for British people to add about 10% in tips unless it was a bad experience and because we are British it takes a lot for us to consider it a bad experience.
@@seniorslaphead8336 APPARENTLY NOT IN THE STATES ACCORDING TO THESE GUYS LOL
You'd have hated the 80's when ALL shops were shut on Sundays.
And for long before. And then - go to Scotland.... I remember when my MIL wouldn't dare do laundry on a Sunday - because that's work.
The guy would be lost in Germany because all shops and supermarkets are closed on Sundays with the exception of restaurants and petrol stations... and that's a good thing
We should go back to this.
Don't forget we also used to have halfday closing for one day during the week, that varied from town to town.
Not to mention half-day closing on Saturdays and another day during the week (usually Wednesday).
Why would anyone move from the US to another country and then expect things to be pretty much the same? By the way, Yorkshire Pudding is made with batter and bread definitely isn't.
Just sounded like he was talking about the differences to me
@@newbris Sounded like he was moaning about the differences, not just stating them.
I don't think he was expecting things to be the same. He was being asked about the differences and what he learned. "Moving to England gives me that better perspective of, that's how I'm seen as an American." Sounds pretty open minded to me.
The 'good' service thing is polar opposites. American service would drive most Brits up the wall. Just leave us alone to enjoy our food with our friends instead of interrupting us all the time. We don't need a new 'friend'. Whereas Americans think it's really bad service not to have someone fawning over you seeing if you are okay every five minutes. PS: Yorkshire pudding isn't bread.
Americans lead such pathetic existences as corporate serfs they HAVE to have someone else to kick and lord it over and the poor bloody wait staff and retail workers are at the bottom of the food chain, forced to lick boots to get tips just to make worthless people feel a tiny bit better in their empty lives.
100% I couldn't agree more.
I found it quite harassing!
American 'service' in a restaurant always reminds me of a nursery school mealtime, where the staff are constantly checking on their little charges. At times I felt I should ask them if they wanted to cut my food up and spoon-feed me, so intrusive was their attentiveness.
@@Sine-gl9ly I completely agree with you there.
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My experience of service in The USA is that it’s all fake
one sign sums up US waiter service 'Our servers rely on your tips, tip generously' and the part that is never on the signs: because we don't pay them enough to live on, and expect our customers to make up the difference
Some of the rudest, utterly incompetent service I have experienced has been in the US.
Some is, some isn't.
teeth, eyelashes, tits , ass and smiles - nothing is genuine or deep.
but, if you endure that you can make real friendships there too, even find love.
been there did that, so i know its possible.
But the superficiality-shield that surrounds about everything is hard to deal with when you come from northern europe
where nobody smiles unless its genuine - and where nobody asks me "how are you today" - unless he actually wants to know it.
you got it..... this place sucks and I want out
Yep in the UK our Bar Staff and Servers are all paid, they don't need your tip so they can eat or pay rent.... and they get Free Health Care, Annual Leave, Bank Holidays ....... Yorkshire Pudding is not bread !! It's made from pancake mixture you do make me laugh and is the shape of a cupcake, cooked in the oven. We love the USA, it's like a child of the Uk which has moved out and is all Independent but does silly things that make us laugh.
Calm down, I’m sure he knows all that.
@@newbris Watch the video, he doesn't know that.
And we love the UK in spite of your condescension towards us.
@@amyb1078Australians feel condescension too, not just the Brits. It’s sad really.
Do your doctors and nurses work for free? Then it isn't free health care. Your taxes pay for your government-apportioned medical services.
Does he not realise how low paid workers are exploited in the US? To buy ice cream at 4am, there has to be some poor sod working there, who can be fired on a whim.
It may be that the waiting staff in the UK are pissed off with his attitude....
It's the American way mate. Doesn't suit most British but living there I met Brits who quite happily said they would not be moving back to the UK unless they really had to. Horses for courses eh!?
That he's been here for four years when he could just as easily move back says something about him, his values and his outlook surely?
He's not expounding any of that as the US way is better/superior/desirable he's merely making statements of fact - and let's face it who the f--- wants four o'clock closing on Sunday just because of religious supersitious bs? On balance life is better here than the US (my in laws would move here in a heartbeat if it were possible) but for every one who thinks that there'll be another who thinks Canada/Germany/OZ/US who offers them more than dear old blighty can.
He complains and complains - and then admits that what he's complaining about may not be a bad thing... Duh.
@@wessexdruid7598 So you decided to take it that he was complaining - why might that be I wonder? Maybe he's just making comparisons and discussing them - doesn't make it a complaint it makes it an observation. Duh yourself and that's my observation.
Haven't they got refrigerators in America. I can have ice cream whenever I like 😊
Yeah, who the hell wants to be serving ice cream at 4am.
Yorkshire pudding is NOT bread.
This overriding attitude that Americans have that their way is the best way and the rest of the world is doing it wrong is very irritating.
We have a work life balance that is very important to us.
We work to live,not the other way around.
Americans are just addicted to food, they have nothing else going for them.
And Yorkshire pudding can be a dessert, I've heard stories of family members having yorkshire puddings in custard 🤷♂🤷♂
Yorkshie pudding goes well with Ice-cream
And if he's had a flat one, he's been in a really poor restaurant.
@@TherealHeisenberg75 or jam 😊
Yorkshire pudding is most definitely not a bread!. It's a Batter like you'd make pancakes with Or perhaps coat fish to Deep fry
In the U.S., we use bread to mean lots of things that aren't made with yeast. Banana bread is really cake, but we call it bread. Pumpkin bread, zucchini bread, same. We call them quick breads, but they're cake. We have popovers here, which are very similar to Yorkshire pudding.
I couldn't imagine anything worse than be trapped in a lift with that guy. I think I would go insane.
Hahahahahha - bloody lovely
So,Yorkshire pudding is just flattened bread?…He must have been to really shit restaurants..
Well it does sound like his experience of 'England' is in and around London, so...
@@Thurgosh_OGHe probably didn't meet any English people then.
Wait until he gets served black pudding.
There is something called 'bread and butter pudding', but Yorkshire pudding isn't that.
@@stevetheduck1425 Bread and Butter pudding is a nice custardy desert…well I like it.
Tipping culture is pretty toxic when it comes to companies expecting the customer to tip to help pay salaries and reach minimum wage
Their CEOs certainly don't have to rely on tips.
@@hypsyzygy506 Yep, and their CEOs want to buy up the rest of the world, own it, make a killing off it & pay their workers shit pay for longer hours so they can make even more money the insatiable greedy twats!!
As another American who has been living abroad not for 4 years but instead 26 years all I can say is that he’s only just started mentally processing the differences between home and away. My own move was from New York to China, next level culture shock. I don’t return to the US even for visits if there’s a way I can avoid it. I do spend a fair amount of time traveling and collectively spent a few of my years in the UK, writing this from our flat in London. Once you’ve been abroad long enough that the conditioning has worn off you can see the world differently. I no longer have those “Well in the States we did this or had that” thoughts in every situation I found myself in.
Live travel, experience and learn with an open mind.
Brilliant mindset, and thanks for sharing your wonderful informative view of British travel and how your acceptance has been received ❤.
All the best with any future journeys 🎉
I hold an American passport, but have lived abroad for 24 years, and I was thinking the exact same thing. This was an exercise in listening to all of the ways that he hasn't yet developed cross-culturally.
In my experience, four years is just not enough time for the mental shifts to take place in most people. (And that said, for some, it never takes place, and I don't wish that on him.) For the entire interview, the overwhelming impression was simply how little he has developed cross-culturally and how American he remains. You mention that you no longer have those we-them comparisons. With luck he can someday have more global comparisons in mind. Until the individual realizes that there are many ways to accomplish the same things with equal validity, and that what seems illogical is in fact extremely logical (the parameters are just invisible at the moment), they just haven't developed a deep enough understanding of the culture they inhabit to have an authentic understanding of it.
I always say, no one eats disgusting food. If it's considered food in a culture, it's considered food for good reason. If people drop the cultural biases, they'll discover what they're missing. They might just find a new favorite.
I agree with all the replies, but I do think that man is open to adjusting, he's on his way, certainly not as hyper as he admitted to being initially. I have lived abroad, and found that I became more British rather than Australian, as was in my case. I became annoyed with myself constantly comparing, it was a loss cause. Australia is wonderful, I had no complaints, (apart from all the things that can kill you!), I was just homesick😢 Maybe, had I been living in the US previously I would have loved living 'anywhere' else, judging by what they have regarding work/life balance, healthcare, workers rights, etc. The list is endless 🤪 🙋♀️🏴🇬🇧🤗
Generally, Americans do not travel much, and they certainly do not have open minds.
Has he really been to England , Yorkshire puddings, flat bread, ?.
I don't recognise the UK you are talking about. I live in a small town and there are at least 5 thriving restaurants open until 10 or 11 o'clock in the evenings and there are four gastro pubs serving food most of the day from 12 noon to 9:00. Plus, there are quite a few take away shops. As far a Sunday shopping is concerned, smaller shops and convenience stores are allowed to open on much longer hours so you can get basic stuff. and that is in a small town of less than 12000 population. Yorkshire pudding is NOT bread, there is no yeast involved. It is a batter mix a little similar to British Pancake mix, which is cooked slightly differently. I know that puddings in the US are a very narrowly defined and restricted product, but in the UK we have a wide range of both savoury and sweet puddings.
I like Americans, but the overt patriotism is not a good look. We are very patriotic but simply express it differently, we don't have to shout USA, USA, USA while fist pumping at as many possible opportunities. I find that very disturbing.
There's a world of difference between patriotism (which equals healthy) and nationalistic bs (which is anything but healthy) Far too many septics teeter on the abyss of the latter thinking that's how you show patriotism because that's the bs they've had ingrained in them from birth in far too many cases) It's far more satisfying to be able to quietly, logically and fruitfully point out to them they are merely acting like and looking like first class twats when they behave like a colony of chimps trying to attract attention. Decorum at all times please!
Noblesse oblige is the prerogative of the patricians.
why would you not have food at your home
I also am very disturbed by americans....😂
@@brendaguerin5423 I don't understand your comment, of course I have food at home, I said nothing that could suggest otherwise, please elucidate (that was my original comment using a different account).
Clearly, this man has never worked night shifts serving the general public. It's not great, especially when drunk.
Personally, I 've never gone to work drunk......or perhaps he meant the customers....oh the nuances of the English language.
@@JoanneShipston-cl4zj 🤣😂😅
Only the Americans have ice cream at 5 o'clock in the morning.
There is a saying,' you eat to live not live to eat.'
He was giving an example about ice cream at that hour! WOW, this is how prejudice you are towards Americans? Vegas is known for the nightlife and tourists are more apt to stay up and drink and want ice cream.
@@marinazagrai1623 correct
I served in the British army in Berlin - we shared an operational site and ate in the US mess hall. I recall standing in line one winter's afternoon and on passing the back door of the galley
noticing a large cardboard box on the side of which was the name of the manufacturer of the icecream - below the name in red print was the legend:
GUARANTEED CONTAINS NO NATURAL INGREDIENTS
And it's not even like Las Vegas is anywhere near the seaside.
In the U.S. the customer is always right. You bet and wow do they charge you for it. Used to be normal for a 15% tip at restaurants, now it’s minimum expected 20% and preferably 30% - totally out of hand, Give me European style any day thanks. As for comparing the greatest city on earth, London, with the tackiest city on earth, Las Vegas, words fail me.😂😂
Annoyed me too.
Good old American arrogance.
People forget it’s “the customer is always right in matters of taste”… The US took the first half and changed it to “the customer is always right, no matter what, even if they’re a stuck up cunt”😅
London is more comparable to New York.
Without the guns.@@First_Principals
Tend to agree - but London is a long way from being the greatest city on Earth (from an Englishman).
@Max Chernov Your videos are entertaining but if you want to interview people who have moved to the UK from other countries, try to avoid the people who live in and around London. London is now the least representative version of the UK in the UK, with many claiming it is no longer even part of the country.
When he talked about WWII, that's when I went from confusion to disgust.
Aussie here. The US wasnt the only country where a small group of people moved to and have done something extraordinary. At least the Pilgrims went voluntarily. Britain used Australia as a dumping ground for its criminals and ne'er do wells for 80 years. I think we've done pretty well. You can dream big open a business and succeed here too if you want to. From what I know Aussies arent clamouring to move to the US for any of that. In fact I believe Austealian immigration to the US is almost zero. Only for family or marriage. I like him amd he may not realise it but he still comes across as a staunch proud flag waving American where everything outside the US is interesting and educational but everything in the US is bigger better best. Hes still very niaive about his ingrained American-ness that he thinks hes modified. They helped win the war?! So did we! Freedom, liberty, US values, what the US stands for, sets the tone for a lot of different countries. Spare me (eyeroll)!!!! Thats why people get annoyed with Americans.That overt patriotism and nationalism that is so normal to them rubs everyone up the wrong way. Especially us Aussie and I venture to say the British. We're still patriotic. But quietly.
America was also used by England to drop off their convicts
@@iancremmins4727 yes it was but because of the Revolutionary War that stopped and we started
@@kerrydoutch5104 yes you did, my only point was we often get tagged as convicts even 200 yrs later but we share this history with the USA, those were tough times back then, the convicts were given the choice of the death penalty and Australia. sometimes for crimes as small as pick pocketing a handkerchief . we aint so bad
The pilgrims may have went voluntarily but the puritans didn't, we stuck them all on ships with their bibles after the church burnt one too many innocent girls at the stake.
and you're all so bloody good looking! How'd that happen eh?
I did a 10 day trip to California & Nevada, spending nearly $1000 for the whole trip. They expect 20% tip. If I pay tip 20% everyday, that's $200 just for tips. I had to eat at Fast Food restaurants to avoid tipping most of the time.
My brother married a very nice American lady. Eventually his wife settled in England and one of the reasons because of the cost of tipping. If he took $3000 for spends, he used to have to put in another $1,000 for tips. It got too expensive, so they stopped visiting the US so often.
I hated arriving at a hotel and running the gauntlet of begging hands before you even got to your room. It really screws up your budget.
When did all this insane tipping start? I was in the US three times in the late 90s/early 2000s, and I don't remember it being that bad......or maybe I was just oblivious to it!
Just dont tip. They cant hold you hotage if you dont. I never do. I wont be shamed into just handing out my hard earned money in 'tips' . . .
Welcome to the American Culture. Every country has their customs if you like them or not.
I find it really irritating when waiters constantly come and ask you if your food/drink or whatever is ok. If it wasn’t I’d soon let them know. I love that in the UK we can go out for a meal and still be sitting chatting 3 hours later it’s a sociable occasion not eat and run. And Yorkshire pudding is not bread!
The people that are "clamoring to get into the United States" are largely from nations that are impoverished, or in social and political turmoil. I personally know that many European law firms that deal with nationalization of potential immigrants, are currently being overwhelmed by middle class Americans clamoring to gain European citizenship.
Many Americans don't realise that since 2016, the World has had a particular focus on the USA, and the ideals they espouse and promote have been seen to be sadly lacking in reality. We now understand that Washington is in the grasp of corporations, the judiciary are blatantly politically partisan, the police untrustworthy, the education system failing badly, healthcare still stuck in the 19th century, and wealth viewed as far more important than the wellbeing of people - as seen in the absence of workers protection.
Amongst modern/westernized nations, the USA is no longer seen as the "shining beacon" that Reagan spoke of - and it's about time US citizens acknowledged that reality, started putting their own house in order, and "got over themselves".
The US has been spiralling downwards since the end of the 1980s. I been visiting it over those years and I'm unlikely to ever go back now, because of how bad the US has gotten.
@@Thurgosh_OG Like you, I've passed through the States a few times in the 1980s, but can't see myself ever returning. Should the USA choose to address their many pressing needs, it will be decades before they catch up with the modern world.
If their public education system were to be miraculously transformed this instant (so that the electorate actually understood what they were voting for), it would be 20-30 years before it had a significant effect of the sociopolitical status quo. Bluntly, (IMO) they're screwed for the foreseeable future.
It’s near impossible to get our house in order when, you know, the government is in corporations pockets regardless of party as you stated. The best option we have is to either live with it or leave to a foreign country.
@@jayh3283 Yep, I fear you're right. People seem to resigned to the status quo - so many momentous sociopolitical things have occurred in recent years that I would have thought it might have brought millions onto the streets in protest. But nothing - it's as if they know they're powerless.
Absolutely! You could not pay me to move back, so glad I got out 6 years ago.
What Americans don't realise, about small children being taught to chant rote-learned pledges at a flag every morning at school, is that it looks very "North Korean" to us. It really is creepy and weird.
I imagine going to a foreign country and expecting it to be exactly the same as the USA, ffs (rolls eyes) No wonder Americans aren't popular with this kind of negativity .
A little over sensitive. Just sounded like he was talking about the differences to me.
Err uh sweetheart I am an American and that's a NO! I don't expect samenes everywhere I go like DUH!! I brush up the culture and places where I am planning to go and tradicional greetings and how I can go about! (rolling eyes) that's pretty a generalized statement of you..
Where did he say he was expecting it to be the same?
@@amyb1078 Listen to what he was saying properly, he was complaining.
The UK he’s talking about existed about 40yrs ago. Supermarkets in UK close at 5 on Sunday but small shops are allowed to stay open. Restaurants are definitely open on Sundays.
As a Belgian that would annoy me so much if waiters would come every few seconds to ask me how my food is or if I want something. If I want something I'll wave at a waiter. I would probably tell them to please leave me alone and leave me eat in peace. To me that pushiness wouldn't encourage me to leave a big tip.
When on a rare occassion I enter a shop and I get a pushy employee that won't leave me alone after they asked "Can I help" and I replied "no, just looking around", I will leave the store. I absolutely hate a hovering sales person in a shop. Even worse is when they start showing you things they think you might like.
You must be my twin. 😅😅 You have described my feelings to a T.
Tipping culture is evil. In the US is legal to pay 'tipped staff' $2.13 per hour as they're expected to make up the difference between that and the minimum wage in tips. Theoretically, if they don't get enough, the employer is supposed to make up the difference but in practice, if a member of staff tries to claim that right - they'll be written up or outright fired as not getting enough tips (even if its due to outside factors like a simple lack of customers) will be taken as proof that they are a bad worker. This is why "good customer service" is actually just sheer desperation to survive and results in US customers feeling entitled (and free to commit consequence-free acts of abuse). I feel far more comfortable living in a country where a minimum wage is for everyone (even if its dismal) and people toiling in crappy jobs are not forced to put on some creepy 'pan-am smile' and constantly pressure you.
LOL, Well, it’s $30 per hour in California now and rising. And restaurant jobs are disappearing. So, there’s that.
depends on the state or city. Illinois outside the Chicago metro area is $14 non-tipped, $8.40 tipped, rising to $15/$9 on Jan 1. Chicago rates are $15.80 regular, $23.70 overtime, minus $6.32 for tipped employees (so $9.48 tipped regular, $17.38 overtime). Six western states -- California, Nevada, Oregon, Washington, Montana and Alaska -- do not allow any reduction of tipped minimum wage; it's the same tipped or not.
The US is way to money minded.
US tipping culture would soon change if CEOs and politicians had to survive on tips.
24-hour opening would guarantee a lack of customers, perhaps we've found the basis of both cruelty to workers, AND this guys' bizarre complaints that Britain works like a business.
This man would do well to remember that “The more you talk, the less you learn.”
I survived this bloke for just over eight minutes, is there a prize?
I liked him on balance. We are each a product of the lives we have lived.
I moved to Paris when younger and learned a lot about myself and us back home.
6 minutes longer than i did ...
7 longer than me- what an arse
5 mins, he's an idiot
As an American, I concur! 4:30 for me, what an insufferable boob.
An old English proverb.
If you don’t like our culture,then don’t come.
Never truer than today.
traveler will travel some will find a home but a coloniser will force his will to make his home
It's neither flat nor bread, and the correct English use of the word pudding has been around longer than his entire country.
Bit of a snobby response.
@@newbris Not snobbery in any way, shape, or form. Simple fact.
@@thedubwhisperer2157 Being a simple fact doesn’t preclude it being snobby.
@@newbrisAnd being snobby doesn't mean he isn't right.
Nor does you calling his response snobbish mean it is, especially when you come across as a snob yourself in your comments.
@@Gambit771 “Being a simple fact”
Most people I’ve met from the USA are not critical about the British. I met a woman from the USA while on a meditation retreat in the Lake District. She gave me some advice. When travelling abroad learn about the culture ,blend in as soon as possible and enjoy the differences.
Americans call a fast food junk place .... a restaurant . Really !!
So, Chipotle and Five Guy’s burgers are junk food? Sir, you overgeneralise.
@@Orson2u Yes they are what as known as junk food. Certainly not healthy
All burgers are junk food.
You know how in Europe family owned places are standard and fucking everywhere, well then USA basically has none of that shit bar big cities, 95% of the places people eat are chains and fast food 'resurants' Americans don't go for Chinese food they go to panda express, they don't go get Mexican food they go to Chipotle or taco bell. I live in north Carolina for a year and didn't go to a single independent restaurant
A restaurant has tables laid with cutlery, waiters bring the food and clear away. Fast food cafes are not restaurants.
Customers are not always right. About 5% are definitely not.
The Customer is always right, Until they pay.
@@newton18311 No. Customer service outside of the US, used to be that way but learned and changed decades ago.
The quote is always conveniently cut short. The real proper quote is - "The customer is always right...in matters of taste!" That's all!
Small shops can open longer on a Sunday 6 or 7 am to 10pm. Not so much tip based because staff get paid a better wage.
I bet you can't find a grocer selling fresh fruit and vegetables in Vegas at 2am, or probably anytime.
Hahaha
There are 24hr supermarkets/grocery stores in US in major cities. I think LV has a few 24hr supermarkets selling fresh veg fruits meat etc
@@SP02138 65% of the American diet is ultra-processed food. You just need to look at the general public to see how obese the US is as a nation. And they have the gall to criticise other nations food.
@@SP02138But the veg is not fresh
@@monza1002000 lol. It is fresh enough for 2am in the morning …. The debate is not about the American diet or freshness of the produce, it is about stores open 24hrs compared to other places in the world.lol
It is the law that there are Sunday trading hours.
I had a friend who worked for years in London ,at a very prestigious American company, Merrill Lynch.
It was expected that those who aspired to top executive positions should spend some time working in Merrill Lynch offices in the major cities of the world.
As she got to know them ,almost without exception she was told that the posting to the UK was the hardest of all ,for themselves and their families .
The Reason? When they knew that next posting was Europe ,somewhere in Asia or South America they took some time to study the customs ,laws and differences .
But London?
Well, it's just the same as the USA ,isn't it?🙄
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He seems to still carry the idea that America is the first democracy, or that it gave freedom to the world.
this pisses me off no end
Greece, the Isle of Man, Iceland etc etc , say hello!
They are not even a democracy they are Federal Republic and the system of electors deprives many people in larger cities of their votes.
well yank here and I can tell you america is not a democracy.... as people ponder trump or biden I think to myself how to get out of here.... america is the greatest threat to global security and stability..... the USA is the hub of the global corparate fascist order.... america ruins everything
That's like blaming East Germans for believing their systems were superior to their western alternatives. He deserves time to develop. Four years is really nothing.
Why do Americans always refer to the united kingdom as ENGLAND?? The UK consists of Scotland, England, Wales and Northern Ireland!! 😡
Cultural Ignorance.
Thankyou from Wales ! 🏴 🥰 or they think the U.K. is ‘London’ 🙄
Because Americans don’t learn political geography.
@@Orson2u They have no idea!! Their lever of education is dire!
@@astetic_vibezz319 Exactly have they that poor of an education system??
In other European countries, like Francde and Spain, supermarkets don´t open at all on Sundays. It´s called, like... y´know.... a DAY OFF.
Imo everything should be shut on a Sunday we need a day to just stop do your hobbies and spend time with family be at home. When your dead in your box you will realise this is whats been important in your life.
... like in Germany!
An old guy I worked with, used to say 'the graveyards full of indispensable people'. Never truer words.
How old is he? At 50, I am old enough to remember when most things were closed on Sunday in the U.S. I think we should go back to the value of Sunday's being sacred.
It was the same in the UK, with everything being closed on a Sunday, except for the little local shop (normally family run) being open for a few hours for newspapers and a few essentials.
Probably in his 30s
I prefer the Dutch way - open late, very late on Monday’s, after family and friends Sunday.
Started watching... the guy needs to update his vocabulary: the 'hospitality' he experienced in the US is just capitalism. Nothing more and nothing less. Nobody dies of hunger from 4pm on Sunday til 7AM on Monday. Fridges and cupboards of almost every house/flat are full of stuff to eat. Some small private businesses will run til late, too, but it usually isn't a kind of food that would keep him healthy.
The true quote is "The customer is always right in matters of taste". They aren't "right" when telling you how to work.
He was talking about selling luxuries to new rich people. Their money is just as good as anyone else's.
Across Europe shop staff are paid a proper wage, and also not forced to work long hours. Because of that, there is no incentive to open a shop at a time when there are too few customers to make out viable to open.
Come on, be serious. It wasn't a town with one restaurant that didn't want to serve food on a Saturday night. It was a village, and one in the middle of nowhere by the sound of it.
It's also very unusual for a restaurant to just decide not to serve. Maybe they didn't like your attitude.
I hated the cajoling for tips in the U-S. Here in Australia there is a minimum wage where tips are not necesary My wife tripped over in Newcastle and got a blood nose Litterally within two minutes two cops were on hand to help They took us to the Victorian Infirmary NUT Not a gun in sight and not a cent spent God bless the NUT police force, and the National Health .Vegas bored me to tears, but if you went to Brit or Oz holiday destinations you can get 24/7 service. London is not one. Mate -I wouldn't live in the US for quids.The most brainwashed country in the world
That’s just American Culture. If I came to Australia and bought a pack of cigarettes. Should I complain to the world that it costs $50 for a pack?
What's wrong g with shutting early on a sunday
Nothing wrong with it. Nobody's going to buy more groceries, underwear or socks per year if the stores are locked solid all day Sunday like it was a few decades ago in Canada.
It's bloody invonvenient and unnecessary.
USA is ungodly. Working on a rest day is a sin. Should follow the Jewish example of the Sabbath. It is all lip service and pastors in helicopters and worshiping the dollar. Total facade. The day UK allowed Sunday trading was the last vestige of civil society.😢
@@Scaleyback317 For the shopper or the staff?
@@Hattonbank Both. There are a great many people who would welcome an extra shift or maybe students/retirees looking for a little supplemental income for some weekend work.
Sorry, I have a subliminal feeling this guy would better have stayed in the US.
Why?
He’s one of the overseas ones. Imagine those that never leave!
@@MaxChernovIt's just a feeling. I'm hearing between the lines a certain disappointment when he was referring to things aren't open 24/7 (even in London).
This bewilderness is okay, for max. one week I guess. After that, one should have noticed the quality of life that comes with it for a huge amount of people and one should see it as a benefit and not so much as a lack of convenience. He sounds like he did not understand this concept.
Edit: typo.
Yes I agree
@@MaxChernov when you visit another country you have to accept their culture and their way of living. You may discuss the differences but not criticise. If you want the country you visit to be like your own country, you should just not travel at all and stay where you are.
I hate feeling rushed when eating. I like to take my time. I feel this is better. Saying that our customer service is crap, but again I would rather be left alone in peace
yeah, British people don't want o be bothered by staff
@@theotherside8258 we don’t 😊
"American man talks about how restaurants are different outside of USA for 19 minutes"
lol exactly my thoughts
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Thanks, I made it to 4min and after reading your comment, feel justified tapping out 😂
All Americans make a big fuss about the importance of customer service within restaurants. So you shouldn't be surprised if he is moaning about customer service in restaurants.
Slow down. You'll live much longer. Life isn't a race to the finish. Enjoy the journey
I dunno man. If you slow down too much, there's no thrill or excitement. I'd love to visit LA
Bet you have diabetes.
Mahatma Gandhi of India said, " there is more to life than increasing it's speed.''
I never heard any restaurant in London saying pudding instead of dessert.
I love English accent. Sorry, but I have to follow the transcript to follow some strong American accent.
if you are a american you have been conditioned to be a slave since a young age.... Yanks got PTSD from the abuse that is so hidden by normalisation. The last thing you would want to do is emulate the states.... we are a very unhappy people ruled by a facist state for we are not a democracy and we are the greatest threat to global security and stability.
In my youth nearly everything was closed on Sunday and before that we had half day closing (afternoon) in weekdays on different days in different towns
Half day Wednesday. Post office closing after noon caught me out many a time.
Oh the Americans and the pudding issue!! They come to Europe with their American idea of 'pudding' - a sloppy goop usually 'vanilla' or 'chocolate'. Are they really that naïve about food culture outside the US? Savoury puddings are traditional foods served all over Europe (suet puddings, Yorkshire pudding, haggis, blood puddings such as the French Boudin, chireta from Spain etc) They are usually a product boiled/cooked in a casing or cloth bag. In the UK there are many sweet versions of suet puddings made with the addition of flour, sugar, various fruits or syrups. The term 'pudding' has now become synonymous with dessert. I'd ask for pudding if I wanted a hearty dessert (sticky toffee pudding yay!). Stuff like ice cream, sorbets or fruit salad etc would just be a dessert.
The rest of the world is not the same as the USA. Shock horror!
Also, specifically for US Americans - England is not the UK.
I've watched lots of videos where people from the UK come back from the US and talk about things that surprised them. Shock horror!
Us Brit's work to live, we don't live to work.
glad to see you have come to terms with realising the universe doesn't revolve around you.
I live in Bournemouth, UK and my local supermarket (Tesco) opens at 7am and closes 11pm every day, including Sunday. I could probably get chicken wings at 2am, too. If you want something at 4am, you might have to drive around to find a place. I haven't tried to buying food at 4am in a long time. I think the Subway bars in town centre might be open.
I don't know which part of London he was in, but in Kensington, the only problem i had was stores opening too late. They don't open at 7am like my local in Bournemouth. But the McDonald's is 24/7 in Kensington and the stores are open until like 2am.
He uses LA as an example of the United States. I'm not surprised everything is 24/7 there. LA doesn't sleep.
That's because your Tesco's is a metro.We have them everywhere else in England and they are great.The same hours that you just described.But a big Tesco store in suburbia adheres today.Sunday labout opening between ten and for or eleven Until 5.
@@grahammoore24 Because of the Sunday Trading Law, which applies to larger stores. Smaller ones are exempt and can set their own hours.
But British people are not prepared to slave their guts out for selfish people who demand the right to have families broken so that they can choose how they live.
A relative of mine clicked his fingers for a waiter in Little Italy, New York. The waiter duly served him and, as he served, leaned over and said "Do that again and I'll break your fucking legs" 😊😊😊😊
True story 😂😂😂😂😂
On the subject of language and our apparently odd words, remember where it originated and its name: 'English'. American English is the 'odd' corruption of it...
The reason servers in the US are always trying to be super attentive, is because they are basically slave labour... If they don't do that then they might not get a tip, and then can't afford to pay their bills on the pitance they are "paid". In the UK and Europe as a whole, when you get excellent service that's because someone is really good at their job and takes pride in doing it well... And in those cases they will likely get a nice tip because of that. Here's the definition of what a tip is:
"to give someone who has provided you with a service an extra amount of money to thank them". Nowhere does it say, to top up their unlivable wages.
In my youth, no shops opened on Sunday, and there was no traffic at all. Today, there's no time to rest.
He should have stayed in America, he has no clue about the UK
Hey, Yank here. I’ve studied and lived in the UK, where I met my Dutch girlfriend. You are wrong,
Rude!
@@_bav maybe but it’s true
There's some good and bad parts in every country
Agreed, but to be fair, he's only been an expat for four years. His views will change. I don't guarantee they'll improve, but almost no one has a well-developed opinion after only four years. He wants to be there, so he deserves the chance and time to develop a better understanding. He just wasn't a good candidate for the interview.
In the UK we understand that the world does not need to function 24 hours a day, we need time to sleep, have a rest. Allow nature a chance to get a break from our hussle and bustle. To me America is a light that's switched on all the time, unnecessarily draining resources and exhausting everything and everyone around it. "Calm down dear" there's more to life than buying and consuming.
My dad was an accounts at for a multi national company, and he didn’t like Americans. The reason was that after the 2WW the Americans let ‘Germany off any reparations, yet ‘Britain ( sorry not England, as England is only a quarter of British and it is rude to refer to Britain as ‘England) was not let off and only finished paying off its debts to America ( the lend lease ) in 2006. This meant that Germany became rich and we were kept poor. We won the war and lost the peace and we were supposed to be allies.
Ah Bless ,Uk is different,who would have thought it .👍👍.
I really dislike the service in restaurants in the U.S, leave me alone. The customer is not King. He is definitely exaggerating.
I don't think that i have ever eaten in a UK restaurant or pub where the staff haven't come back and asked if the food is ok.
Discovering 'the pudding problem' is one of the delights of travel and experiencing different cultures.
Do you mean the 'American Pudding Problem'? because every other nation accepts the way this is in the UK.
Lmao, "the pudding problem", you make it sound like a thought experiment.
I'm amazed that Las Vegas is held up as a great place where you can get what you want 24 hours a day. So much is wrong with that on so many levels.
14:45 "i dont know what i've done to you or my people" - shows naivety and ignorance here. he might personally not have done anything, but that certainly can't be said about USA in general...
some americans need to learn its not that world hates norma americans but they hate the imperial so called rules based order designed by their elites in goverment
Especially given that he was part of the US military and all the atrocities they commit around the world.
Very true- When you have the most hypocritical Dont do as i do Do as i say Double standard foreign policy. You hate the country, not the man.I always say ,and i am 76, that there are good and bad in all countries.but its a shame, that all the good ones in America could congregated in the telaphone box on the corner of the high street
Hi from Australia - I hated my dining experience in the US. Too much hovering and you have to pay for the hovering too. I felt like saying leave me to eat in peace.
'...I'm like...'' in every sentence. Bloody tedious. Unwatchable.
Interesting to watch and listen to this. I'm an ex British soldier. Married an American beauty 37 years ago (still handcuffed to her, I've asked immigration to come and get her but they're not interested) She had joined the USAF. On her posting back to the US we had a decision to make.
I've lived, worked, went to school in several different countries so making a move to the US was not percieved as any great drama.
After four years in the US and the birth of our daughter we had another decision to make. We decided our standard of living was roughly equal UK v US but she noted our standard of life was superior in the UK. It suited us both and thus the move back became a no-brainer.
I was happy to have experienced the US but as somebody who does not see happiness (far too fleeting and fragile) as the main goal of life (the boss sees it that way too so no domestric strife there) but contentment being the superior aim, we moved. She has, for long, been a British citizen now (although retaining her US citizenship - only recently deciding she might get rid due to there being only downsides (taxation) and nothing a US passport can give her that a British one doesn't offer). We go as a couple to holiday in the states from time to time (great holiday destination BTW) but we can't wait to get back home at the end of it. She goes alone sometimes just to see her family or they come over here - Incidentally both her siblings would move here in a heartbeat if it were practical to do so.
It's also interesting the number of US citizens we meet (even out in our ruraly idyll) who are living and working here/married a Brit and decided to set up home here. We've met a few who regretted it and have either moved back or are in the throes of planning a move back but most have said similar to us - we're just content here.
Having the whole of Europe as a playground a couple of times a year is a great bonus too.
I served as, "The Brit contingent" with two US units and through that and the four years in CA and FL I have a pretty high regard for the average, "Septic tank" especially when they have learned to drop the nationalistic bs they have been indoctrinated with/by. Note - not saying patriotism that's both understandable and more than acceptable but the nationlist blxnbs is best left for their return to the states and not for consumption here. US government and all that entails - well, less said the better really. Similar could be aimed at our governments here in Europe in the main.
I like most of the Yanks I meet. Some of their mannerisms can be misconstrued and they are mainly not aware enough of others to understand which ones and why. Generally, they mean no harm or insult, they just have not been housebroken. They can be evolved into humans with a modicum of training however.
Gladdens my old heart for you to talk with one who seems - well........ content with his lot in life. Hope he continues in that vein and remains amongst us for as long as it suits his requirements/predicament/wishes and if and when he returns over the moat he thinks of us pleasantly from time to time.
That’s why most Brits are fairly chilled and don’t go around murdering each other. We are not forced to work every hour of the day and night just to get by. Most of us have a corner shop that will be open until late but we also plan to get our ice cream at 3.45.
Not chilled in the comments, though.
Most people who are clamouring to get into the US get their ideas from Hollywood films. The reality is very different.
soooooooooo freakin true.... hollywood is ran by the DOD and the military industrial complex.... a lot of flash no substance
I absolutely would hate waiting staff hovering round me trying to ingratiate themselves, in order to get a tip.
I went to New York, the food was terrible, the people were obnoxious, and it ridiculously expensive, then you have to tip them 20%, Europe is a slower experience, I wouldn’t have it any other way….i hate people constantly asking me how’s your food??? ..
You were way more critical of the US here than the man in the video was of the UK. I'm truly sorry you didn't enjoy New York, though. I've been to Europe many times and it was wonderful.
It amazes me that the people of the US allowed restaurant owners to somehow shame customers into paying their employees wages... directly. I hate it when servers are too attentive. I have often told them that the tip will be bigger if they just leave us alone to eat and converse. OK, I am a Brit...
If you're "not going to let it go", try to grasp this first. Yorkshire pudding is not bread, it's a batter baked in the oven. There are many US vloggers who cite it as something not known in the US but I've never heard any suggest it's like bread.
Try and bear in mind that English vocabularly has developed over centuries and is enriched with many local variations of accents and dialects where commonly used words may have additional meanings in some parts of the country. It's probably used more in the vernacular here rather than the heading on the menu of a restaurant.
You saying, "I'm not letting this go, it's not a pudding" may come across just as discourteous as a Brit going to SE USA and insisting that "it's not grits, it's not made of grit!"
They were right, you do need to relax.
We have something similar in the US called popovers.
I get that in only 4 years, you're not going to get all the gen on how things are over in UK. There are a few misconceptions about why things are as described in the video. In case anyone visits and thinks it's not expected to tip here, that's not remotely true. 10% minimum - 20%. There are some stingy people over here who look for reasons not to tip, but it's considered superbly ungrateful not to tip. I would agree that service here is often lousy. I tend to choose places where I know the staff iis good. I'll go out of my way to find places, because I hate poor service.
I've spent a fair amount of time in USA & I love the service. Some of the comments here are pretty hostile. I have had some really fun interactions with waiting staff. Not ever had a 'toxic' experience. It's been charming and kind.
The other thing to note that places being open on Sundays has been a relatively recent thing. A few decades ago, nearly everything was closed on Sundays. And the law was changed in the 90's that stipulates that businesses above a certain size can only be open for a few hours. smaller businesses can open as they choose.
As a UK citizen living in the USA for over 30 years you have to realize (yes, I now spell it with a 'z') that the USA and UK are completely different cultures. Different States in the US even have differing ways of doing things. It takes a lot of time to acclimatize to a different country or a different State.
Right. I don't think he was being critical in the video. He was talking about culture shock, which happens on both sides.
My friend had a triumph motor bike. He spoke to someone in usa about his bike and had a free holiday in America with his family. Unbelievable warm welcome and friendship
Britain fought the Second World War on principle, the U.S fought because it was attacked
Yorkshire Pudding is not a bread. It is a pudding.
What town is this with only one restaurant? I have never seen a town with just one pub/restaurant
Atherstone in the midlands is a bit of a one horse town in this regard 😂
@@majordelays4909 ooh yeah - probably a few outliers round that neck of the woods 🤣 I live in a village and there's like 3 pubs (2 serve food) and 2 restaurants
An imaginary town to help the America is best story
A few years ago shops would not open at all on a sunday and it should be like that now.
So…..turn over of tables quickly is not customer centric at all. I hate being over hasseled by waiting staff in the US. It’s not genuine concern for the customer, it’s to get a bigger tip.
Being hassled = no tip! 😢
I live in Australia, the MINIMUM wage is $23.23 an hour here. The average waiter/waitress salary in Australia is $52,808 per year or $27.08 per hour. Entry-level positions start at $46,800 per year, while most experienced workers make up to $61,425 per year. People eat out all the time, and if a restaurant cannot afford to pay their workers a living wage they shouldn't be in business. That is the reality of living in a free democratic society. I am 60 and have never paid a tip, why should I, the wait staff are getting a good wage and they are paid to provide good service. The last thing I want is to have the staff ask every 2 minutes if everything is fine, I am there to eat, interact with the people I am eating with and I am not there to make friends with the staff or interact with them except to be seated, ordering my meal and drinks and being served those. The constant interruptions sounds highly intrusive and would needlessly annoy me.
13:52 lol we only just finished paying off the ww2 several years ago that the US made Uk pay 😂
And yet they still have all of the bases around the globe that we leased them, a bit odd that we had to pay them back the "lend" part of the deal but they don't have to return the "lease" part of it.