When my sister first went to the US and stayed at her friends's place (a middle class couple in their mid 30's) she was shocked to find out that it's a normal thing to use hard plastic dishes. Those kind of plates here in Italy (and Europe in general) are used just by toddler (and not always) or maybe camping

in Europe we use glasses, or bottles, even direct from the can. we would use plastic cups at things like concerts, festivals etc, or kids parties

In Europe plastic cups are only used for concerts, fast food and kid parties. Otherwise its always glass

We do have medical ads in Slovakia, but only for the over-the-counter drugs, mostly nasal sprays, something for pain in the throat, painkillers, something for digestion problems, supplements or vitamins. They are short, they don't mention the side effects and they are more frequent in flu season. But there are no ads for prescription drugs, we don't make decisions about our medications. If we tried to suggest a medication to our doctors, we would probably get an angry "Are you the doctor or me??" 😄

Not many homes in the UK have garbage disposals. We have compost bins which are emptied by our councils every two weeks, they take food scraps and garden waste, like grass. These are taken away and used to make compost, so more environmentally friendly.

We have plastic cups, they're just not red. Most people do use glasses at parties, but for example with kid parties they often do use disposable plastic cups. Festivals also use them.

In the UK we don’t have garbage disposal in our sinks we now just have a small food bin where we just scrape all our plates into and any unwanted food. These are then collected with our recycling each week.

In Germany single-use tableware is banned, including plastic straws. But it is common to use real glasses anyways. In many households you‘ll find the so-called Senfkristall (literally meaning mustard‘s cut-glass): after the glass of mustard is empty we use it as a drinking glass - its cheap, it reduces your glass litter and you have it at home anyways, so if it gets broken it’s no big deal.

I work in retail. Black Friday in the UK usually means old stock that couldn't get sold that year before the new update comes on the market, phones, TVs, Hi Fi etc. It means it can be sold cheaper and at trade prices. People think they're getting a deal but this is the actual price.

Every party I ever been on in Sweden we drank from wineglasses, beer glasses but never plastic cups ...just not a thing here in Sweden at least :P

German Version of Breaking Bad: Mr White you have cancer. Your treatment starts tomorrow and it will be covered by you're health insurance. The End

people in Europe do not have 60 people patries at home...we use restaurants for that where they have glasses.

Yeah, in Europe we don't use plastic cups. At Czech Rep. we use a pint or a glass, depends what you drinking.

The thing that stood out most to me when visiting the USA was the terrible bread. I love bread, but in the USA decent bread was rare.

Part of the reason why you dont have college sports anywhere else is because in most other countries university doesnt work like it does in the usa, you dont live in a place where you take general subjects, when you go to uni you just do your degree and nothing else and usually you just commute, this means you might only spend a few hours a week at your uni and being made to do things like gym or classes for credit would be unheard of.

About garbage disposer. I have seen it only in the movies and thought you were just throwing food into the sink when I was younger, I have tried putting food into the drain and got scolded by my mom. Then I saw a movie when guy’s hand got stuck inside the garbage disposer and somebody switched it on and he lost his hand, I got so scared I was avoiding sinks for a while.

When I visited my aunt in NY the first time, she picked us up at the airport and her first sentence was: "If you unintentionally look at someone funny or bump into them, apologize immediately! They're gonna sue you!" So, yeah, not surprised you have commercials for lawyers 😅

I'm English, and yeap at large parties we still drink out of glass pints, wine glasses and shot glasses we also drink out of the cans and bottles, we generally only get plastic cups out if there are children at the party.

Dental care is free under 18 yo in Finland too and I think getting teeth in straight line as a kid is less harmful than as an adult. It sort of is helped to grow into straight line. Fixing teeth as an adult might make them "loose" or easier to fall. Also whitening teeth too much causes damage to the teeth.

They tried Black Friday in the UK, and there were crowds, so the next year literally no-one turned up, it was so bad they moved it online...

Trader Joes is Aldi, just Aldi süd (south). The Aldi you see as Aldi is Aldi North. Brothers who had a falling out over the sales of tobacco in their stores created south/north.

Fun fact, in Finland many student organizations have their own set of red cups solely for playing beer pong, but the cups are washed after every use and reused as many times as possible. You can buy the red cups nowadays from some speciality stores, but it would be quite expensive (and wasteful) to buy a new set of cups for each student party.

college sports if such a disgusting thing... the players play there hearts out, make no money from it, arent allowed to have marketing deals, nothing.... i remember a basketball player that found out via his friends he was in a sports game ,face, name, statistics,.. and didnt get a cent...while the trainer makes millions...thats bs...

Yes, black friday is due to thanksgiving. Shops get a lot in stock for thanksgiving, and basically just try to get rid of the leftovers afterwards. That's how it started, but of course for shops it has become something they plan for on its own. When retailers tried to introduce that in other countries, people just saw it as a cheap marketing trick - which it was.

Black Friday in Australia, used to be just Friday the 13th. Nothing more. It's rediculous now where they have a black friday sale that goes for a week or so.

In germany the thing about lawyers is the fact that you do not get arrested so easily for every little thing. I saw a lot of arrests in the media that would just result in a officer writing down your personal data here in germany (it is mandatory to possess and carry a valid photo ID called Personalausweis and is issued by the government). A few weeks later you get your penal order in the mail with the fine you have to pay for your misdemeanor, then you can still appeal for six weeks and look for a lawyer to do so properly. This also extends to Bail, in germany you rarely get held in jail for more then a few days. You must be the suspect of a really violent crime to get detained until trial, if you are no danger to the public and there is not much risk of you trying to flee the country you get released often in less then 2 days without paying bail of course. You are a suspect after all, not a convict. At a party we buy bottled beer and drink out of the bottle. Barbarians might also buy canned beer and drink out of cans ;). Adult parties are rarely more then maybe two dozen people and yes we use glasses for liquor or cocktails then, or just bottles. I am pretty confident that i have not seen a german flag in real life for almost a decade now. Last time was around the soccer world cup in 2014 i think.

Hi ! Where I live in south west France, we use plastic reusable cups called « baso » for big parties. Even during some crowded public events like « les fêtes de bayonne » which is packed, bars use those and you will get 1€ if you give the cup back (this way people do give it back or someone else would so that they would get 1€ if they find it in the street, sometimes you will see people carrying a lot of them to have easy money and buy more drinks haha). But in bars or clubs they give you glasses.

Single-use plastic cups are becoming less common in the Czech Republic. We drink from glasses at parties. At festivals and larger events these days we use plastic cups, but these are reusable with much thicker walls and often with some artwork or an event banner stuck on the outside, so it's used as merch.

In Germany, we do have ads for medical drugs on TV but only over the counter stuff. Things that would need to be perscriped by your doctor are not being advertised at all.

The European Union has banned single use plastic items. So it is not possible to buy this kind of olastic cups any more. It is possible to buy hard plastic cups, that can be washed in a dishwasher, when you don't want to use your glas for something like a kids birthday party. But this cups are reusable and not thrown away after one party. In germany mustard is often sold in glases with colourful designs, that are supposed to be used as a drinking glass. As i was a kid most people i know had enough of this mustard glasses for a small or middle range party. It was real glass, but something you got for free and where it was not too terrible, when it broke. But I'm not sure how common they are today.

in uk you would drink out of a glass anywhere not just at a party

I love that the narrator says "Flavoring, preservatives and Ingredients" regarding the canned cheese contents beyond the 51% cheese. Oh "Ingredients" huh? Very descriptive ^^ (yes I realize it must vary between brands and particular flavors of spray cheese but still). Regarding food disposal - Over here in Sweden (at least where I reside) we separate food waste into unbleached paper bags that are then sent to be used in bio-gas production (they let it rot and use the resulting gasses and heat). Where I grew up (I've since moved) it was mainly heat that was then delivered through the county's district heating network. A local factory was also connected to this network and I remember that there were pipes that let us use a gravel football pitch either early or late in the season due to waste heat from the plant also being diverted there. I would assume the remains from the rotting process used in the thermal plant are then further used in other ways, but I can't recall anything beyond much beyond the above. On a less funny note last I heard about two spoonfuls of the water from the river passing the factory complex I mentioned is essentially lethal. Or people said so when I was a teenager at least (20 or so odd years ago). I'd wager many toxins still remain, but there are FAR more rigorous environmental regulations these days.

We have red cups in Denmark but most uses clear plastic ones but the prices on them are high because there's a plastic tax on them. Most people use the cardboard version now instead because they are cheaper and is easier to dispose of.

I don't eat cheese from a can or the Kraft individually wrapped, sliced grease (American cheese). Never had a garbage disposal either. For food scraps, I use a milk jug with the top cut off (except for the handle) and keep it in the freezer until the truck comes around. There's a reason some things aren't done in other countries. It was never really a good idea in the first place.🙂

Lots of concerts in my region of Germany have custom printed transparent plastic cups. If you don't return those to get a few Euros back, you keep it and put it next to the drinks at your own private party, for your guests to use. Over the years you gather quite a few.

Black Friday has reached Sweden. Actually we have black week. Probably because to few visits the stores. One reason to that is that the stores raises prices before black friday to lower it to the original price so it seems like its cheaper.

In Germany we use glasses or just drink from bottles. Also it is custom to have colorful stickers to attach to your glass so you can recognize it after you put it somewhere. You don't take a new glass after finishing what you drank - if needed, you quickly rinse it before refill. For a big party we actually bought glasses from IKEA. Once the party was finished, we sold them online and almost got full price back. You can find glasses, porcellain and cutlery sold a lot online, because it is kinda rude and frowned upon to hand out plastic.

No food disposal - We recycle hugely in the UK. Including food waste - much of it gets composted. Either u can do your own, or as part of the council recycling/waste collections they’ll collect certain types of food waste to be recycled/composted. I recycle so much that we have one bag of rubbish a week and that’s it. Everything else gets recycled as much as I can/or is allowed (not all things can be recycled but it’s improved hugely)

I think for the red solo cups one of the reasons we don't use them is that things like beer kegs and punch bowls are less common at private parties so people more often drink from the bottles or cans the drinks are sold in. We do still have plastic cups if people want them they're just not as common or iconic.

What the hell is spray cheese? Is it in a can like whipped cream? And garbage disposal…in Australia we have three bins- a garbage bin, a recycling bin for paper and cardboard, etc, and a green waste bin for lawn clippings, food waste, etc. Green waste bins are collected and the waste is converted into compost then used by local councils to fertilise parks and green spaces.

Yea, we can buy clear plastic cups/tumblers for use at parties.

Trader Joes is owned by Aldi North (in Germany you have Aldi North and Aldi south)

19:20 it's specifically the red plastic cups that are seen as "american". However from personal experience we'll grab whatever is available, be it glass/mug/bottle/whatever.

In Europe, the shirt is worn the other way round... those leather patches should be on the elbows.... I think...🤔

At 19:15, (Red Solo Cups) I haven’t been drinking for quite a while now but when I did it was out of Bottles or out of a Glass/Pint, At 20:10 (Free Refills) Their are quite a few places here now that offer Free Refills and I personally know that it has been around for a good few years & as Lynda said at: 20:44, It’s not for Alcohol as far as I’m aware but only for Soft Drinks/Pop etc! Anthony, Birmingham, Uk! 🇬🇧

We never had black friday here in sweden about 10-15 years ago but in recent years its become more of a thing. Nowadays its pretty huge and most shops have Black week instead of black friday. But its nothing like in the US where ive seen from videos people queue up outside etc? Here its just good offers and thats it. There are more people out shopping but no hordes or anything like that. The postage companies usually has problems this time a year tho because people order so much stuff online.

In the Netherlands it is forbidden to give a fake sale price.

19:29 oh yes we do! Glass all party, for us plastic is more of a outdoor bbq or picnic. So yeah, glass! And at the end of the party or the next day some go back to help with cleaning and washing! 😁 We are more "eco-friendly" even though most of us never thought of it! 😂 Nice reaction again, cheers to you! P. S. Other wierd thing are making your own taxes as an employee! In Europe at least, no one cares, employers do it for you and take it 🤷‍♂️ only entrepreneurs or free-lancers do it

You put your garbage in your water, and then pay to remove it from the water, and then truck it to a landfill, seems very inefficient.

There are places to rent glasses, plates etc from. We have done that, or rent a place where it's included when throwing big parties. Plastic cups are no longer allowed to be sold, paper cups is our go to for outdoor events.

At parties we mostly drink out of the (beer) bottles directly. (or small softdrink bottles (0.33-0.5 litres)

In Germany there are also medical ads. But only for non-perscription medicine. Black Friday/Cyber Monday swept over, but it is more an online thing. It's also in stationary stores. But here in Germany large chains did discount campaigns regularly before Black Friday was established here. So it is nothing really new and people don't go crazy because of it.

You mentioned using the red solo cups for a US drinking game called "Beer Pong". Here in the UK playing Beer pong is just seen as a waste of valuable drinking time.

If I had a party with more than 10 people I would invite them to a restaurant and pay for food and beverages instead doing all the work myself. And of course at a restaurant you drink from glasses and mugs. We even try to implement a deposit system for those "coffe to go" paper cups with plastic lids and replace them by thermo mugs, but it seems only a few people are ready for this. Using plastic or paper cups is seen as cheap and having no real food culture. They are used at big sports events or concerts. At christmas markets you will have your Glühwein in a mug, pay 5€ deposit and get 5€ back after returning the mug or having payed 5€ for keeping it.

I've only seen garbage disposals in movies, but have never seen them in real life. Didn't know if people really had those or not. Same with collage sports. Something else that I've thought about, but isn't in this clip is stoves. In American movies, they are often with gas. Is this true? I have never actually seen it in Europe, everyone uses electric. The only time I've seen a gas stove is in a country cottage, which lacked electricity and therefore had it.

Although they are rare, some homes in Canada have sink garbage disposals, although we call them "garborators." I have seen the red Solo cups here, but they are not used often at all. People usually drink out of glasses, except kids will be give plastic cups. And, free refills are pretty common here too, depending on where you are.

we have black friday to, but here it just a night where thr city is open for longer, so we will have music in the streets and a street party more than anything else. but no one really buy stuff, normally the stores close at 5 cause people need to get home to their fams, so its fun that thr city is not dark.

For big parties people often rent glassware from a nearby pub. So yes we usually have enough glassware to cover all guests.

So in Europe or Scandinavia college is free so you do not need sports scholarship.🤗🇧🇻

Having a flag in Germany is only normal when there is currently a football tournament but having it regularly is not only weird but suspicious as the person would be considered to be more then just conservative if not a Nazi.

In the Netherlands 🇳🇱 we don't drink beer from a plastic cup! We drink it out of a glass 🍻🍻

Seriously no other countries have garbage disposal. In many Australian homes, the food scraps go into a compost bin, to produce rich fertile soil for gardening. This also reduces the amount of food going to land fills.

I think beer is drunk from the bottle mostly here in the UK, especially at parties. Seems to me most of that was spot on. I watch NFL coverage and it never ceases to amaze me how much emphasis is placed on college sports.

Hi guys don't know how old this video is, Australia has Lawyer Ads, we had garbage disposals but they banned them years ago, we have the red cups but they are called college cups but generally not as popular as major grocery stores don't sell them, Ive seen them in Cosco Cheers

Any party I was ever at in the UK or Australia... it is either drinking drinks out of the can/bottle OR poured into a glass.

I'm from Norway, and billboards aren't normal here. And definitely no promotion of lawyers either. That's just weird.It's hilarious that you ahve spray cheese, yet Americans find it weird that we have chees in tubes. Here we're all about recyling, so each waste has their own bin, paper, plastic, food, and everything else. Due to American infleunce teeth whitening has become huge here. I my self was hooked at one point, I even quit smoking, and coffe drinking. The irony is that in pre colonial indigenous cultures white teeh was seen as ugly, as only animals had white teeth, and so they stained them with beetle nuts, so red or black. Also growing up in the 90's and 2000's being an Millennial, again due to American infleunce, they imported prom, but only in junior high, I never went, too much Sweet Sixteen, and the Hills I guess, as well as Halloween and now black friday, which originated in colonial America when selling slaves at the market... so many of your tradiitons are rooted in colonialism, genocie, slavry and ra ism, yet most americans are comepltly unaware, and ignorant of thsi fact. You wanna knowwhy public transport isn't a thing_ because they didn't want any POC from the cities, or poor parts, travel ou to the all white and richer suburbs, why you also have gated communities, bad city planning etc.. Just google it. It's crazy! And yes at parties, still beer bottles, and glasses. Never seen anyone drink from a plastic cup, unless juice or water. Again glasses.

In my country, advertising for lawyers and doctors are absolutely illegal.

Hey, i'm from portugal, 28yrs. And no, i've never seen ur red cups anywhere besides on movies, at big parties we do use plastic/ paper or sometimes metal cups, the thing is that there is no "standard" of cup, size/colour/etc varies everytime. I don't know if this makes any difference but usually below 12-15 people we use glasses instead of cups. Basicly if with friends then we use glasses if it's a public party then we use plastic cups

I have used plastic cups in the Netherlands and UK but those were paper white coloured, never seen the red one on the shelves.

We don't actually need advertising for lawyers, especially since many lawsuits are not even possible or unsuccessful (like the famous example with McDonald's coffee). In addition, the majority of our claims for damages and compensation for pain and suffering are rather modest and only go into the million areas in exceptional cases. Also means that these lucrative cases are not common here. Spray cheese, I mean, you hardly ever have real cheese, so it doesn't matter anymore. Cheese, actually a natural product, makes me wonder what all goes into making it work in a spray can. Black Friday, something that some department stores and discounters have been trying to introduce for years, but so far it has not really caught on. Well, there is actually nothing wrong with the national flag and by the way, many Swiss flags are also hoisted here (although not quite as often as in the USA), a sign that you love your country; only, does the country love you too?

The white and straight teeths are true, I think Americans are really obsessed with them. I am living in country where I can get braces for free, any dentist treatment for free as well, but I never get anything extra like braces, because I could care less about it. I want my teeth to be healthy and that's good enough for me.

We do have commercials for insurance. Which are the best and most funny commercials ever. You should watch some commercials from Achmea (an insurance company in the Netherlands), they are funny as hell

Instead of discussing what a woman is, the US should rather discuss what cheese is! 🤔🤣

Nowdays we got solo cups in sweden, mostly cause it's been so popularized by american movies, never did before, but we usualy only use it for Beerpong, if your at party, none will open a beer and poor it in a cup, the will just drink straight from the bottle or can

you need to look why usa cheese is band in most of the world

Garbage disposal have been around for 50 years in Australia

Yes as someone from the UK we drink from bottles or glasses not plastic cups. It generates a lot of waste so seems wasteful when you could just use something that can get washed the next day or week later lol 😂

19:21 For a party with 60 people you would borrow the beer glasses from a caterer.

Natural teeth are generally not white. Whether in humans or animals. This is simply due to the mineral composition of the tooth enamel. Even small amounts of other minerals (which can also be stored in the tooth enamel) lead to a color deviation. The thickness of the enamel also plays a role, since the actual basic structure of a tooth is the dental bone. And bones are not white, which can sometimes be seen through tooth enamel.

No, Germany has neither ads for lawyer, nor for doctors, as the idea of promoting a necessary issue, like the right for health or the right for your right doesn't makes sense. At the same time, the payment for doctors and lawyers are regulated, so what would be the advantage of one lawyer instead of the other? The only ads lawyers or medics could make, are ads to get new employees or just the information, that they will move to a new address. Also medicine that needs a prescription is not adverted for. Why? Your doctor will know what you need, as you regularely go to your doctor. He also know what is not for you, as you may have an allergy. Of course is dental health a part of the health and if you are insured or you have access to the NHS, needed dental corrections are just health care needs. Parties: if you make a party of 60 people, it depends where you do this. If you go to a certain place, as you booked a little bar in a "Kleingartenverein" or may one family has a big cellar bar, you have glasses their. If you go to the beach you probably will take the drinks in small bottles. If someone wants to have something usually sold in bigger bottles like vine or liquor, you may have glasses for this, or you may also get paper or plastic cups. Sometimes people also have multiple use plastic cups. We try to avoid single use things as good as we can, an while plastic plates, knives and cups where often in use twenty years ago, it becomes very uncommon now. And if you still use these, it is more often from paper or bamboo, than plastic. Just for the environment. You know, this thing outside the US.

14:30 Sort of. Dental care is free in the UK for under 18s but that’s s not because insurance covers it, health insurance doesn’t exist in the UK, it is just free

The answer to your "party" question the answer is mainly yes - people drink from glasses. If they get really short then we use cups, mugs, anything at all.

We correct teeth if its neccesary only also in Europe 🤗🇧🇻

19:22 Yes, always glas. Nobody uses Cups. Everything tastes ugly from it and its just more plastic garbage.

Here in Melbourne Australia, we do have some commercials for law firms, but not individual lawyers, and some ads that say "ask your doctor if this medication is suitable for you "..

From the UK, been living in California for a year now and the pharmaceutical adverts are ridiculous here.

The video is not totally accurate. I live in Australia 1. We have medical and lawyer ads. "We will fight to get you the most compensation!" lol 2. Kitchen garbage disposals aka Insinkarators are available though not common 3. Black Friday and Cyber Monday exists and relatively big events. And his explanation for black name origin is wrong. It's because some stores only become profitable for the year after the volume of sales on black friday. Hence going from red to black.

Trader Joes is a German company (in other lands knows as LIDL) Lidl and Aldi are big competitors in Germany.

plastic cups are only used on major occasions in Norway, if at all. concert etc. It's not good to use a lot of plastic. Only becomes microplastic that enters the food chain, and eventually ends up in animals and then in us. Greetings from Norway. 😀

As a contrast to garbage disposal, check Not Just Bikes on No Garbage Day !

Regarding the free refills, that's just for soda drinks which are basically water + sugar, so it's extremely cheap to offer for free. But these free refills may actually be one of the causes for the obesity rates in the US. Some countries like France have banned by law the free refills and the obesity rate was reduced after the ban. So there's something to think about...

At parties we drink from glasses,bottles,drink cans....we do have white or clear equivalent of solo (ussually made of paper these days,if white)🎩

Household waste food is generally put into bags and collected.

Dentists in the UK usually come under the NHS, like doctors.

Number 1 is untrue. Some medical adds are 100% on both Dutch and German tv channels. In case of Germany, you get a screen at the end, which is an explicit warning to check with your family doctor, the harmful side effects etc. In The Netherlands it is only minor over the counter meds, like ibuproven, cough syrops, etc nothing that can be addictive or very harmful. But none the less those adds definitely do exist, as I see them regularly. The Dutch have great cheese as well. Where does one think Gouda comes from ?? But spray cheese ??? How much of it is cheese, versus chemicals ?? Nope, we don't use garbage disposals in the EU as we recycle loads. Here in NL the basic recycling is paper/plastics (disposable versus refundable)/green (from garden to orange peels)/glass (deposable [by colour] versus refundable)/clothes/small electronics/large electronics [when buying say a washing machine, the company you buy it from needs to take the old one back]/small chemicals/batteries/light bulbs/ and a few more. So why the x does one need a garbage disposal unit ??? Whenever I am at a party or giving a party, it is glass never plastic or paper cups !!! Sorry Linda, but no way would I go for solo cups or the like. Linda, you know where you are. Ever seen any Fleccas Talks videos about Gen-Z ?? Stating things like Mount Rushmore being in Japan, or not knowing that in Idaho people speak English ??? I guess those people do need a reminder of where they are.

Wish you all happy hollydays. Much ❤️ from Italy and Belgium. 🇮🇹🇧🇪

I'm a New Zealander, we have "garbage disposal"

In Australia, we are phasing out as much plastic as possible!

Yes, everyone drinks out of glass, no matter how big or small the gathering is.

Here in the netherlands, i have only once seen a party were plastic cups were used and that was an american themed party, but aside from that it is nearly always glass ,sometimes wood or ceramics. This is for a few reasons: 1. Cheaper and more conveniant to just have glasses etc that are resusable after just some cleaning. Most of the glasses will be used in daily life anyway. 2. Its more environmentally friendly, only some use this argument. 3. Being able to buy so many plastic cups is not as easy as just buying glasses. Not all conveniance stores sell plastic cups.