Every supermarket I've ever been in, and go to on a daily basis, here in Holland sells canned veggies. They even come in tiny tins, perfect for one person. I think these people weren't looking in the right aisle.

We like fresh food that is healthy, simple as that.

Fresh fish doesn't smell.

haha that orange machine is definitely used by the Dutch. literally just today in the supermarket got my fresh squeezed juice from such a machine

What I like about the store I go to ( jumbo) is they have this cooler were they offer food that is on the date that it has to be consumed. It selles for only 50% or less than it origanaly costs. A lot of those things you can just put in the freezer and eat at a later date. It helps against waisting food.

When I am in other countries in Europe, I am always surprised how little variety of fresh veggies they offer. I love that we have lots of different veggies to choose from

It's not (just) egg salad. Although a large amount of them has mayonnaise as an ingredient so I guess there are eggs involved, but it's just cold salads with vegetables and/or meat with some spices and a sauce like mayo.

3:35 in all grocery stores, there is also at least one traditional, manned cash register with a belt and everything. When I don't buy anything I just exit through there, optionally skipping through a line that may have formed in front of the cashier. It's only at the self service registers where you scan the items yourself, that you need a receipt to open the exit gate.

Here in the Netherlands there are always traditional cash registers in every supermarket, you have the choice to opt for a self-scan cash register if you want to.

3 euro cucumber??? It probably came with batteries 😂

Not only herring is sold and eaten raw from the super market in the Netherlands. A lot of the bigger super markets here also have fresh prepared sushi, sashimi and pokebowls to go, including raw fish options to choose from (mostly raw tuna and salmon).

15 cents statiegeld is NOT a tax. The thing I see in The Netherlands more than in other countries is that packaging for fresh food is smaller. Not by much, but still. I think that it is because the Dutch will go way more often to buy their food. They will just buy for today and perhaps the next day. Not even for a whole week. This is because they have way more smaller stores that are easily accessible when they go from work to home on a bike. Most likely they will pass one on their bike. So 5 minutes and you have your fresh food. Many stores will not even have parking for cars.

Sorry to have to explain it again. Fresh Fish Doesn't Stink!!! Also fresh Herring. I can also clean herring myself. (from 12 years old) My brother-in-law has a fish specialty shop in the center of Spakenburg. Where I live 700 yards away. I already do 25 jobs in Prefab concrete. But if I have to, I can still clean a herring. Greetings from Spakenburg, Netherlands. Gerben T and Gabrielle.

Perhaps the channel Soul to Soul Travels is something for you to look at as well? Eric and Tammy also migrated from the US to The Netherlands make their own quirky video's about their experiences. Defo worth a watch :)

If all the bread is gone you probably went just shopping too late in the day

- Those 15 cents are also included in the price. - Yes the fresh orange juice is way better then the pre squeezed! The fresh orange juice my mom bringts from our store is gone in half a day. - The salads are not all egg salads. they all have the same structure like egg salad and sure, there's egg salad, surnamese egg salad, filled egg salad.. etc. All that... but you also got tuna, chicken with mango, chicken with curry, variations on cheese salads, farmers salad, hot-wing salad, crab salad, and many more. The most popular salad brand is johma, if you search it in google I'm sure you'll get to see more salads :)

it is not a tax that is added to the price of drinks but a deposit. As they said, once you return the bottle so it can be recycled, you get your deposit back…

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Fresh squeezed orange juice tastes much sweeter, richer and less acidic than bottled orange juice which is usually made out of concentrated orange pulp that is diluted with water. When you squeeze fresh oranges and save it for half a day it already has become more acidic in taste. Not sure if it really becomes more acidic, but it sure tastes more sour. I can drink lots of freshly made orange juice without problems, but only a small glass of processed orange juice before I get heartburn.

Glass jars have a reason. Tin could make a chemical reactions with fruit or veggies, transforming the taste.

- You can buy the haring because we eat them at home too, just like other normal food. Pleaaaase don't eat them in the train 😅 - The salads are not all egg based. We have salmon, shrimp, chicken etc. They are great and really not that weird haha. - As long as you can see, it'll be very easy to see with veggie is the normal or organic one. It's not like they're trying to be sneaky. 😊

4:00 this is so stupid. With a few exceptions, every supermarket still has the standard cashiers where you don’t have the gates. The gates are usually only for the self scan registers.

In Belgium "Haring" is a big thing too. I prefer the Haring with onion in a jar that is in vinegar. In Belgium those spreads are very popular too, and it's not just eggsalad as they said... it's tuna salad, chicken salad, ham salad with all kinds of different flavours. It suprises me that they are so weird about those salads without even really trying it. Canned veggies, or even veggies in jars, are not big selections in Belgium. Most people still buy their veggies fresh, precut fresh veggies are gaining in popularity in the last years. Seriously, I would never grab Bio on accident because I check the prices and not just grab the first thing I see.

Strange things in a grocery store in the NL are foreigners, just joking LOL Statiegeld( return your bottles money) is common, even some cans have this statiegeld method. Canned foods are plentiful from fruits to beans to veggies to Soup to Ramen to Pasta's etc. they must look around better LOL Fresh orange juice makers are very common, but free cups of coffee are almost to be found everywhere in NL grocery stores. I love coffee, especially the free kind during my grocery shopping. There are quite often free sampling stands in NL grocery stores too. BTW its called Supermarkt, not a grocery store LOL BTW Supermarkten don't really bake their own bread, it is baked of bread LOL Don't fall for the obvious ruse, they come half-baked or ready-made prepackaged from big factories LOL One can also buy half-baked breads (of all sorts) to bake of at home, still they come from a big factory ;)

I know where they are shopping but most grocery stores have cash registers and self scan registers. So you don't have to wait for personnel to open the gate.

3:34 there are normal checkouts and self checkout. If you don't but anything you just walk to the checkout there are no gates there.

we have fresh orange juice here in South Australia and it always is used here and freshly squeezed in the bottle too ready to go from the machine. we dont have many veg in jars but im learning about this item. we have an organic section in our stores too. when i went to the netherlands and went to the store. it was very similar to those at home.

Orange juice from the refrigerator section has al lot of sugar added to it and freshly made orange juice has not. That is mostly the reason we like to make it fresh instead of getting it from the other section

Here in Croatia there is not a big selection of tinned food and it is quite expensive. In UK I used to buy things like tinned chicken in white sauce, meatballs, burgers in gravy or stewed steak but there is nothing like that here. Tinned peaches or pineapple were much cheaper in UK.

Charlie, if you ever will migrate to the Netherlands.. what part of the Netherlands you would want to live? What city? Or what province?

i used to sell goods in the US, i live in the northern part of Belgium, Basically south of the Netherlands because we speak the same language, sales tax sucks man it changes even in districts its crazy, also we may be paying more for food but af least its not loaded with 1000 grams of sugar… Only the US products have this.. Also the orange juice thing we also have it in every store in Belgium but its not gonna last i think, not a lot of people buy it, its also expensive.. We also eat herring with onions in Antwerp :p we buy it in the grocery store together with “karakollen” yes these are snails. Antwerp is famous for it. So basically what they eat in the Netherlands they eat in Flanders (Northern part of Belgium)

Vegetables in tins seem to be very popular in the USA - more popular than in most European countries, anyway. Lots of US recipes (if you can call them that!) ask for a 'can' of this or that to add to a packet of something else.

You can't eat hearing in a train. Strong smelling foods and drinks aren't allowed in public transport. I even got refused in a bus for drinking a Starbucks coffee. That WHILE the driver actually was drinking his own coffee inside the bus. 😂😂😂

Feels like they don't really go to many different supermarkets or only in some of the biggest shopping districts in the biggest cities. Already the first point they make is only true when a supermarket has no normal checkout counters and only uses selfscan. About the canned veg point. Isn't this because fresh veggies are relatively cheap over here? And I believe in America everything has to be good for a long time. I believe the bread over there is also 'good' for a very long time. The organic point is a bit weird to me too. They are packaged differently. It's like you get the wrong kind of canned veg because they are both in cans. Might just be me being used to it, but some of the points just seemed weird to me haha. Do think there are extreme amounts of egg salad types.

Most Dutch brands (both A and OEM) chose to use jars. But most of the 'foreign' (but perhaps locally produced) brands use cans. I prefer the more neutral effect of glass. But during a blind test I probably can't tell the difference.

You cannot get a plastic bag at the supermarkets yet they shrinkwrap individual sprouts. It makes no sense at all

No Charlie, they don’t have hexagon shaped potatoes…🙄 😁

Fresh orange juice is always better then the ones already bottled because there is something in there to keep it "fresh" longer The same goes for juice in pakking. Fresh pressed orange juice you can bottle that in 3 or 4 different sizes of bottles 300ml , 500ml , 1L and 1.5 L

The fresh orange juice can be really nice, when the oranges are nice and sweet. i buy it a lot of times. The hearring: do not buy that in a grocery store, rather on a market where there will be fresh hearring. Same for cheese, go to the market or a special cheese shop.

Thanks Charlie, nice video.❤ I follow them too

Charlie you hooligan, vandal and barbarian.. How dare you gross out on the raw salty "haring".. The king of fish

there are still old checkouts with a belt and cassiere, if you dont by anything you just leave thruw there.

The Netherlands is the largest food producing country in the world. That's why fresh is cheaper here. And what is left per season. Goes in glass jars or cans. For the rest. Those are our cherries on the cake. Greetings from Spakenburg, Netherlands.

The fact is that there many other stores where you find it a lot different,because they are cheaper.Albert Heijn is the most expensive off the lot.

About The orange juice machine. They use the good part of a blemished or soft orange that wouldn't sell in the fresh fruit section. So instead of throwing it away they make even more money off of it

Love the bottle of Westmalle in the background lol

Fresh fish doesn't smell. You may detect a mild ocean-like smell, but that's it, when a fish is older then it will smell, and when it is going or has gone bad it will definitely smell 'fishy', but not before, not when it's fresh.

This one was funny in a good way 😊 But, not to worrie, some things are a bit blown out of proportion... When you're at the supermarket and you want to exit empty-handed, then there's always someone there to open the gate without making you feel uncomfortable 😉 Selling orange juice in a supermarket has been a common thing for more than a decade, and yes, oranges do grow in Europe, I'm currently living in Spain and the number of oranges that grow here is immensely high. Funny thing is though, the oranges here taste so much better than I've ever tasted in the Netherlands. Very few canned vegetables, sort of true, Bonduelle is the brand that has a reasonable range of canned food, most brands however sell what's possible in glass jars. However, canned and jarred vegetables are actually kinda gross in a way they are kinda mushy and tasteless. Frozen is an okay possiblity when fresh is too expensive. I've had an American friend for dinner once and we made fresh green beans, she actually was flabbergasted how good and crispy they tasted. Regarding to the #1, bread in The Netherlands has actual nutritional value, it feels different and most certainly tastes different than what is sold as bread in the US. They fact that there is not much left at that time, is based on average sales that are normal for that day. That way the store doesn't have to discount that bread for the next day. A good estimation on the product sales can save a store a lot of money. The same van be said about the stock in the bakery.

You can order bread the day before and they will keep it for you

I prefer bottled vegetables compared to canned ones, the canned ones have a strange metal taste..

10:00 Apparently not a lot of people here know much about Haring. What the dutch eat is Not fresh Haring. Its in tones semi fermented fish. We do love our other fresh fish also though, like sole and mackerel

Actually a lot of supermarkets now have a rule to preserve some bread for the evening sales because a lot of people can not shop in the daytime. I was wondering if conserved vegetables in can are better or worse than fresh.. I know a lot of Dutch people prefer fresh and that is why we don't have a lot canned vegetables. If you go to Germany you see a lot more of canned vegetables than in the NL.

I watched the Buncharted video yesterday and I was surprised they did not find any canned vegatables, only the ones in glas jars. Well, we have canned vegatables in Jumbo and Albert Heijn and all other supermarkets. But the pouint is: who buys it? An answer is: when ypu need in a recipe some corn, yoy can find some canned, fresh isn't an option than. Or elderly people sometimes buy canned or in jars vegatables. And very occasionally some peas. Kidney beans.. oke, that's alway canned, not even in glass jars. BTW, I think I eat canned vegatables only once a year at the most.... Buncharted did not look any further.... About the herring... never ever buy that in a supermarket... I've been sick for days eating that once (a few years ago) and I wasn't told where it came from. ughhh... (and yep, don't eat it in a train or other public transport... people will hope you'll get out asap!!) About the bread: yeah, when I see my favourite bread I'll a few and put it in the freezer. Why? Experience of not having the bread at the end of the day (or at 2:00 PM ...).

Oh man, herring.. The only Dutch thing I still crave since I moved.

Statiegeld IS included in the pricing, in most stores IIRC. What I do hope is that they'll follow Sweden (I think) in how to handle this: chuck all the cans in a big drawer at once and let the machine count, just like a counter for moneybills.

I just came back from a roadtrip through the South-West in the U.S. I had a realy good time and loved the nature but....the food was awful. I letteraly had nothing what i liked. Also what i experienced was that everything was very expensive. But doesn t matter because next summer i ll be back and this time in the east part of the U.S.

What I find weird are canned vegetables. I always wondered how they taste ;)

2:24 until this point I had no sync problem in the video, all looked and sounded in sync

i,m from NZ now living in the Philippines , i love sardines in oil which is very hard to find here, but now if u like yr sardines in tomato juice then here is the place for u as u can find nearly a whole row top to bottom of these not all the same brands, and if u like peanut butter then here to also even in biscuits

there are about 25 different types of bread, most glass here in the Netherlands is melted into new glass, plastic is recycled, or handed in at the supermarket pet bottle 0.15 cents, liter bottles 0.25 cents, drink cans 0.15, and only the Albert Hein supermarket has there is an orange press machine in the store, and there are a number of supermarkets that have a coffee corner where you can drink coffee for free

a Dutchman with a fish allergy 😂 love your content

You can go into a store without buying things. If you leave, you make eyecontact with the store-person who stands next to the self-checkout and they will push a button and the little fence opens. You do not actually have to ask or search for an employee. They stand there anyway to oversee and help when someone does not understand the checkout-machine.

Zuurvlees only in limburg available and nowhere else in the netherlands or other countries

3:30 In France, you just walk out the same "gates" you walked through on your way in. Edit: Those are RFID "Anti Theft" "gates". There's no physical barriers.

About the egg salads .. I know when they where introduced (I guess in the 80s ?) they were more intended for on toast when you snack in the evening. Nowadays I see more and more people use it on their bread as lunch or dinner with soup for instance as a sidedish.

The only thing we have canned are small vegetables like beans, corn, soup, and some fruit

15 cent doesnt seem much, but if you are buying a 12 pack of mini bottles. You nearly pay 2 euro extra. Adding this up a couple weeks gives a generous amout of money back. Uselly parents let the children bring them away so they can buy someting they like there.

In the city where I live there are no good bakeries. Luckily for work I have to drive once or twice a week to Utrecht where there are (very) good bakeries. So I just get my bread there.That being said, many bakeries have very to little bread to chose from after 14:00... 😕

We have normal checkout lines too. If you don't buy anything, just walk past the register there. Also, you can just ask them to open it. No big deal

The fresh orange juice is so much better "if" they get good oranges, and while jars are wors in keeping things fresh its sells better(uv light destroys vitamins) the cheap stores still have loads of cans tho

4:33 while our prices are including VAT tax, we actually pay 21% VAT for most goods. *some* goods are put on a special "low rate" list which means that those have a 9% VAT rate. Btw the "Statiegeld" is €0,15 for bottles smaller than 1L and €0,25 for bottles 1L or bigger. We also have €0,10 for beer bottles and €1,50 for beer crates, making for €3,90 in statiegeld on a crate of 24 beers.

audio sync looks good to me

12:43 Canned vegetables may be cheaper, but not as healthy as fresh vegetables

The grocery store thing about getting out without buying anything is not correct, you don't need to ask an employee to get out, you can get out at the normal check out, instead at the self check out. It's never just a self check out store unless it's an AH to go but then you can always get out also.

We put it mistly in jars because of the taste from canned food you get somekind of irontaste and yess we of then reuse the jara for other stuff or for crafting with youre children

4:00 you can always leave through a regular cassier gate where actually a person sits. I naver use self scan, I will not do their job, and as a thanks for that you get red light and they cheack you if you did their work... I refuse.

it's not allowed to eat harini in the train, because foods that smell a lot are forbidden to eat inside the train.

I think the reason glass jars with vegetables are used here has everything to do with weck jars (glass jars with glass lits with a rubber ring between jar and lit) where the vegetables were stored in before the fridge and greenhouse existed. My mother always bought fresh vegetables in the summer and autumn to cook them in weck jars and store them in the cellar for use in the winter, when there weren’t fresh vegetables. So a manufacturer selling cooked vegetables and be successful should stay close to the original.

As far as I know - by tasting a lot of the stuff - the so called salads (spreads) are not all egg-based.

Fresh orange juice tastes very different from bottled one. Thats probably why

Aldi, Lidl, AH, Jumbo....almost everywhere we have (small) canned veggies, of course it's better to get fresh food

Packed haring with onions is not what you are looking for. You should not eat haring with onions at all as a matter of fact. The reason why they add the onions is because the haring might not be fresh and the onions will hide the taste of the "not freshness". So if they ask you: With onions? You might ask: Why, is the fish not fresh? Always ask: Can I have a haring on the tail and freshly prepared? Then they take it out of a bucket and that is supposed to be the freshest haring you can get. Once prepared and put into the cooling on a large pile they go bad pretty fast and start to become smelly. This is because of the fatty acids starting to oxidize. So, take a freshly prepared haring, it does not smell.

OJ machine gets used, on Sunday morning. You'll also buy a croissantje, baked there or the ones you make yourself at home. With or without cheese inside

Orange juice machine produces higher quality juice because it's fresh. Reason why it's not used that often is because it's rather expensive. Also less healthy than just eating the orange. Maybe some rich lazy people or people always in a hurry will use it.

25 cents for big bottles and 15 cent for small bottles

In the Netherlands, we are transitioning away from plastic. But glass for vegetables is a staple for decades already. I"m not sure exactly why they transitioned from canned to glass, but I do believe it's easier for recycling.

I *love* the orange juice machines, which are indeed also available in many Belgian supermarkets, but the POMEGRANATE ones (that are unfortunately less widespread) are even nicer: nothing beats filling up a large bottle with freshly squeezed healthy and tasty pomegranate juice. ❤

Pre-baked bread is always available.

Plenty canned food... just check out Aldi, or Liddel or normal supermarkets AH is very expensive, I seldom go there..

Hahahaha, We do prefer fresh vegetables, but you can buy canned bean and other vegetables. 90% will cook fresh vegetables for sure. I think we have less variaty in canned food. Flesh vegetables are way cheaper in Holland than in the USA. We are a farmer country. And hey...more vitamines and better taste. The glass is very thick and better for the enviroment. If you do not buy anything there is just an open cassiere path where you can go out. This is honestly ridiculous :D Taxes are always included. Statiegeld is great! Everyone stored plastic bottles (you pay 15 ct) and when you have a lot, you bring them back and get your 30x (or whatever) 15 cts back. We also recycle plastic, paper, green (garden and food) etc in seperate big containers who are empties every week. Yeah, you can make your own Orange jus with fresh oranges and it's not that much more expensive. I love it. Fresh orange jus is bought aa lot, also for our cildren. Vitamine C!! Yes we do have oranges in Europe duh. How do you think they arived in the American continents? :P Haring is extremely healthy hahaha. I don't like it either. Our bread is sold fresh and does not contain the conservation mess the USA has (sorry) Our bread will turn green after 3 or 4 days for sure. But their are always packed sandwiches. Not great, but it's something. Most people in Holland do their WEEKEND groceries. That's when we buy everything that's not fresh, for the whole week. Toiletpaper, soda's, Cheese (can keep that long) jam, pet food, patatoes, rice, pasta, flower herbs, biscuits, tea, coffee etc. But also often bread for the whole week, which we put in the freezer. It's really nice and fresh when it's defrozen again (again, can't leave it for several days) After work we just pick up some veggies, meat for our diner. Veggies you can't put in the freezer UGH. Okay meat you can.

i use the oj machine, and if The oranges are in season, it is easily better than bottle refrigerated oj.

So... there's some things that don't sound completely right. 10: Unless you go to a store that has absolutely no manned cash registers you should still be able to get out of the store without having to bug anyone because you didn't buy something. You can just skip the line of a manned cash register and get out that way. I don't know if they go to unmanned stores or if those are even a thing. 9: The added cost for bottles is 15 cents for small bottles and 25 cents for 1,5 liter bottles. These days there's also statiegeld on tin cans so that they get returned more often as well. I admit to being one of those empty bottle hoarders so that I can turn them in all at once if I'm short on money when needing food. 5: Okay, while not technically wrong... you can buy prepackaged herring with onions at supermarkets yes, and technically you could eat them wherever you want... but I don't see people eating them out and about right from the container, and most definitely not on public transport. Usually we'd take them home, but I can imagine taking them to a park or something, sit down on a bench, and enjoy them as lunch or whatever. Also, they're not as good as the ones from specialized stores, so... only buy them if you really can't help yourself. 3: I don't really know how many vegetables come in cans in the US, but they definitely do also exist in the Netherlands. A lot of veggies that you see in jars will have a canned version as well. Although honestly... if there is a jarred version I'd go for that over the tinned version simply because you can see inside, and you don't need a can opener to get to the goods. 1: Not incorrect, not gonna try and dispute it either... just wanted to say: Yeah! What the heck, stores?! If I want bread after 6pm, let me get friggin' bread after 6pm!

Yes you can get hexagons and a certain stores

I use the fresh Orange machine. It's very good and fresh.

You can also open the gate, with you’re bonuscard

The jar instead of cans is a thing for hygiëne i think

When you did not buy you can walk by the kassa and just say did not buy and walk on

5:09 I think they meant 15 cents for small bottles for a 1 liter bottle of coke it is a 25 cent deposit

The first thing is only at the self scan thing

Actually kinda weird how our grocery stores make this effort to supply daily baked fresh bread and then we just go and throw it in the freezer anyway lol