The amount of sugar in American bread is the reason why Ireland's court ruled that Subway bread could not be classified as bread but instead be classified as a confectionery.

10:23 the main reason you wont see tipping like that in the EU is: The employees are actually paid a fair wage and do not rely on the tips, therefor it's a bonus.

I’m a European reacting to an American guy reacting to American things European people don’t understand Life is top

Swede watching this: there are playgrounds, outside gyms, football courts, parks, dog parks and all kinds of things everywhere. We don’t pay some homeowners association, the city pays for that and it is for everyone. Of course we pay for it through our taxes.

Love how he goes "oh it was actually invited in France so blame them", yes in the EARLY 1800s, who the heck told the US to stick with something that stupid for that long xD

It's not that EU people don't want to tip in the US necessarily, it's that it feels really bad that these people have to survive on tips! I've visited a few times and even when service was rubbish we've tipped quite a lot because we don't trust that the servers are actually being paid enough to live on. In Europe I know that these workers are getting roughly 10.50 Euro per hour, so tips are actually just perks for good service not necessary for survival.

Trust me not just Europeans find some Americans things strange, we Aussies find some things strange too

"There was a mass shooting". Dude, there always has been a "mass shooting in the us a couple of days ago.

The waitresses hourly wages are ridiculous. It amounts to slavery. Completely illegal here.

How can a nation that is so proud of its freedom submit to the constraints and rules of a homeowners association? In Germany, there are also rules that tell homeowners how to design their homes. But these rules are set by the state and I have the possibility to complain if it restricts my freedom too much. In the USA, homeowners voluntarily submit to the arbitrary rules of a private association?

It always cracks me up how proud americans are of being american and living in America when in reality they have it the worst of all rich countries! If they opened their eyes for only 5 minutes, they'd see themselves that shame and unhappyness is the appropriate feeling! Guess ignorance IS bliss...

€1,96/hour for that kind of work??? HELL NO!!!! That's almost slavery at that point!

The father of a friend went to the US and when he got to the hotel he was starving. He's a big eater so he ordered a large pizza. According to him it could feed a family of four who hadn't eaten in a week.

3:49 the point is that in europe this kind of things are paid by the government, we have playground for kids, basketball courts, public swimming pools, etc. but we don't have an special fee for those things... everybody has access to this things, not just the rich neighborhoods

I went to Chicago a few weeks ago and the fact about sizes and portions is so true!!! I wanted a small bottle of juice but the store only had gallons! Or a 40 pack of sausages😳 I can tell you all I needed was 5 big pancakes with syrup and nutella in the morning and I wasn't hungry until the next day. Same with the sugar. A milkshake made me feel like I was gonna get diabetes. I normally tend to drink juice on it's own but there I had to always mix it with water. Which brings me to my own point: Chlorine in the water! I'm from Germany and the water often tasted like a swimming pool to me. Yes we do have to pay for water in our restaurants but atleast it's totally natural. About the guns: I saw something the other day that in the whole US roughly about 200 mass shooting already happened in 2022 (in just five months!!) whereas in most European countries it was around 10 to 15 in the last 30 years!! So are we proud that we don't have guns? Yes! Does it make it safer bcs you don't have to protect yourself from other gun owners? Yes!

Never mind commercials on tv. What realy shocked me when I was in the states was how many comercials there were DURING sport matches. Sports like Baseball, Basketball and American Football seems to be designed to put some sport moments in the middle of an hours long serie of commercials. If you compare it with Soccer or Tennis or Snooker Cyclocross or whatever, you'll see company banners during the match and during the break there's usually a commercial block but not to the extend as in the typical American sports.

There is something like an homeowners association here in the Netherlands, but only for apartment buildings and such that have shared things like the roof and the elevator

What make me little mad is that U.S.A always talk about Europe as a country….every nation in Europe has different rules, laws, habits and cultures.

Why would I pay 200-300$ extra A MONTH just to maintain community spaces when I already pay taxes that do exactly that?

Why do people outside of Europe always mix up Europe and the European Union? There are many European countries that's not part of the EU but they are still European countries. For example: Great Britain, Norway, Iceland, Ukraine, Switzerland... and I also don't understand why you always talk about Europe or the EU like it is one big country, we have a huge cultural, political and linguistic variety.

The community fee stuff ist already covered by the government in germany. They have to provide playgrounds, streets and all that.

The tax thing is unacceptable. I'm never going to tip unless they actually do a job far above my expectations, and that should be fine. The answer for peoples wages being too low is not for me to pay some of their wage. Would you accept it if your apartment complex' front desk worker was like "please tip me $20, I need to eat, I don't get paid more than $3 an hour". Damn right i wouldn't pay, I'd give a call to the manager and try to fix the situation, not put a band-aid over it

I can make bread without sugar.

In Europe, the staff does not bother when the client eats his food and brings the bill only after the meal, not in the middle of the meal. In Europe, the staff does not ask for a tip and is not on account. The tip is voluntary in Europe. In Europe, food is standardized, so it does not contain harmful substances, and Europe has much stricter standards than the United States. Most foods in the US would not pass in the EU requirements. Most European nations rely heavily on food quality. Many Europeans, even if they have a car, only drive it on weekends when they are out of town. There is no public transport in the USA, many streets have no sidewalks and you can't get anywhere without a car in USA. The US has a good army, but the system of taxes, incomplete prices, no paid holidays sucks in USA. Health care, lifestyle, level and quality is the highest in the EU.

(1:20) EU has a legal limit of 12 minutes of ads per hour (from :00-:00, so you can technically have 24 minutes in a row if it's 12 minutes before and 12 minutes after :00, but then you can't have ads for 48 minutes before and 48 minutes after)

In the uk the local council pay for parks and play grounds and we have voluntary neighbourhood watch committees

I'm English and in 2016 I visited New York City and Boston. My impressions on the above are: - I noticed straightaway the commercials for prescription drugs. Never seen anything like that before in my life. My impression was that medical experts should be deciding on medication not the public who've just seen a well made advert. - Portion sizes was good and bad. I loved the big sandwiches in the US although the bread is too sweet for my taste. I also went once to McDonalds and once to Five Guys and the portions seemed the same as Europe although I didn't have a cold drink which I believe are much bigger. I just a coffee. I went to a diner in NYC and my portion was so big that after eating for about twenty minutes my plate looked more than half full. This is such a weird experience that I felt under pressure to eat more in case the restaurant thought I didn't like it!! It was too much. - The toilet thing is weird especially as in general Americans are more conservative about bodies. Europeans are more likely to be relaxed about walking around changing rooms (locker rooms) naked or using showers together naked but our toilets are more private. - I didn't see any guns or even think about them. I'm glad we don't have them here though. The only other things that I encountered personally that struck me personally was the amount of choice for even just simple things in supermarkets. I guess choice is a good thing but on at least one occasion there was so much choice I got overwhelmed and walked away with nothing. Other thing was being asked for ID when buying alcohol even though I'm in my forties with my kids next to me. In the UK I haven't been asked for ID for twenty years. In Boston once I was refused a bottle of wine at the check out because although I had my passport on me, my brother who was with me did not so we couldn't have it. My brother was 33 at the time.

No wonder many Americans use so much medication. That is not allowed here in Europe cause it is not a business

So the homeowners association fee is basically what taxes do in the EU and the US is just too poorly managed so the people have to do it themselves?

Homeowner association fee... For playgrounds, sportcourts, swimming pools and so on, we pay taxes. What do americans think what taxes are for? To offer a salary to politicians? Cmon man, taxes are meant as a fund from the people for the people, after all we are talking about democracy here.

(14:50) People often does this error, but metric is case sensitive. It's "g" for grams, and "G" for giga.

What a weird country….great reaction man. To be fair this video could have been called things the rest of the world can’t understand about America

Thats crazy how low the minimum wage for restaurant workers can be with expected tips, that minimum wage in certain states for 2.13/hr is like 8,5 times lower than the minimum wage here in Norway, that is why tipping is common, but not something that is seen as a must.

Sounds like the HOA stuff is what our local municipal council controls over here in aus. We pay a fee to them to manage local parks, public facilities, roads etc

Doesn't the municipalities create playgrounds? Like here in the Netherlands every neighbourhood has multiple playgrounds. Like the neoghbourhood i live in with 10k people has over 20 different platgrounds. And pools do exist but you are not forced to pay for it.

6g of sugar is the recommended daily allowance of sugar in total….a whole teaspoon of sugar!!! So unhealthy

My family members who have visited USA loved their visit but the worst thing was the food. Portions were much too large and fresh veg was missing.

Why do Americans refer to Europe as a country? There are many countries in Europe and we're all different.

Absolutely wild that since you uploaded this another mass shooting happened in your state. What will it take for the USA to start taking the gun crime problem seriously?

Wow... playgrounds and public pools are provided by government in Australia, UK and Europe. In Australia there are good or great playgrounds everywhere.

On U.K. Tv on a half hour program you will have one advert break for 3 minutes, and a 1 hour program you will get 3 advert breaks

HOA is stupid. We have playgrounds, parks Basketball etc... Guess who pays for it? The government, because that's one of the jobs they collect taxes for. ffs.

Things I cannot understand, as an European: - ratios of Miles, Feet, Inches - Farenheit - Cups, tbls, etc. crap - 1/16th of blää blää - Trump.. wtf?

Today I was forced to have a vacation day, because of some old relic of a Christian holiday or something. This happens quite often

200-300$ for HOA? That's more each month then what i pay for electricity, phone, tv, internet and parking together, my rent is about 400$ so it's not more then that

In Europe we have kids playgrounds, basketball courts and even pools for free, its all funded by the city and if it needs fixing city pays for it. We pay "city tax" and we get this in return, among other things.

5:15 I live in France and I've never heard of this, those fees don't exist over here.

Also sugar is a huge part of the obesity problem of the us

Even in the sport events are more commercials than the actual sport

Just look up north, food is healthier same products sold in Canada has less salt, sugar etc. For exemple, à can of soup under the same brand, same name etc, you ll see that the receipted are quite different. It is different for one important reason, the Canadian government is paying for healthcare, so it cares for individual health and food regulations. In the USA you can eat what ever and get sick no bodes cares. So if it teases good and if the portion is sheep and extra big, that s fine!

What the hell!? That hourly pay for people doing waitering is ridiculously too low! I worked in a supermarket here in England in 2012 and was paid like (£9.18) $11.34 per hour

03:15 in my country all those things are done and maintained by local government and do not require additional fee from the owners. Maybe it is more efficient for the residents to deal with those types of things themselves as they know thei neighborhood's problems closely, or maybe it is the government who knows better which part of town needs investment the most at the moment and has professional staff members who know how to deal with specific problems. Both seem to have pros and cons.

Why have a homeowners association at all, what happens to people who live in rental property, do they not get a say on the neighbourhood? Fuck that, why not just genuinely give a shit about your community and somebody other than yourselves, like we tend to in Europe?

In Denmark we also have a home owners association in many areas, but it’s only like $100 annually to pay for mowing the grass around our neighborhood and playground maintenance. The rest is covered by the city.

HOA is also a thing common in Europe. At least in Germany and the Netherlands.

Me as a Brit: _Homeowner's association makes sense to be fair..._ Also Me: _$200-300 a month?!?! F--k off!_

When large portions of the US army based in Germany left in the 1990ies the techincal units had to convert 12500 bread baking maschines from 220 to 110 Volts for use in the US because a lot of GIs loved German bread and want it to bake at home. Do not know how many brewing kits had been converted, that information was classified top secret

One thing that shocked me about american comercials is that brands compared themselves with other brands (of couse saying they are better) and they named those brands. That was actually forbiden here in Spain for the longest and althought it isn't nowadays ,as long you do fallow certain considerations, you just don't see that kind of advertising here. I can only remember one example, many years ago, of an orange juice brand that attempted to do this, and they recived a lot of backlash because everybody thought it was very poor taste. And nobody has done it since then. Brands would say things like " We are better than the other brands in the market" and things like that. Without giving names because that's a big no.

Is the commercial about medicine and the disclaimer part really real? Or was it just a comedy thing?

To develope the comunities in EU we pay taxes. Taxes are given to townhals and townhals are taking care about communities. Elementary, my dear Watson. ;)

I just noticed im watching this video using the same headset Sony MDR-ZX110

The minimum wage in the Britain is £9.50

Here in the Netherlands its normal to leave a tip but for sure not 20%

I remember typing 'florida man' and your birthday into Google for a laugh. Mine was 'Naked Florida man prompts airport evacuation after claiming he planted a bomb'

Some media claim 1.60 per hour for the restaurant industry. The customer should not have to tip in order to top up anyone's wage to minimum wage (which seems to be around 7 or 8). The more customers tip, the more they encourage companies not pay their staff properly.

I wonder how much you really know about European countries. To mention two and three things, firstly here in the Netherlands it is also very common that you get a lot of commercials when you watch TV in the normal way. So no streaming services. homeowners association you Do have that here in the Netherlands too.. But this is more common in wealthier neighborhoods. And that third / fourth topic about warnings about possible side effects of medicines in advertising column is a lot in Germany but lately also more often in the Netherlands. if in America the prices of products would be complete including VAT. Then much more people would know in advance how much they would spend on products without having to add a percentage. The same as that at most eateries and bars cafes a standard tip is included and/or expected. So afterwards you always pay more for things like that than what you actually consume. Here in the Netherlands you only pay for what you actually consume. The VAT is included in the price. So what's on the menu and or drink cards in terms of price is also what you really pay. of course based on what and how much you consume. p.s.Additional Commentary. And the last comment. Precisely for the reasons mentioned above, America is hated by enough other countries. Including me unfortunately. Precisely because America can be much better and more beautiful than it is now if you put that backward Practices aside If you in America do the above reasons more like most European countries then it will be much better for your economy and for your citizens. As I said before in another KZfaq clip commenting on America. Of the modern countries in the western world you have a striking number of extremely backward people in your government. Who are ultimately elected and assigned by the American people through voting rights. Otherwise they would not allow many practices or at least much less. And anyway more like most European countries do. Such as the extremely difficult to impossible purchase of firearms for civilians. Or organizing children's beauty contests. Or simply include VAT as standard in the prices of products and/or services for which you pay. Anyway so introducing a standard minimum wage. Without the hospitality industry employees being allocated from tips from customers because they don't get enough minimum hourly wages. Here in the Netherlands there is always a standard minimum wage and on average that is usually enough to get by, also depending on where you get your groceries. And how much Expensive do you want to live in terms of basic rent or want to live. I myself earn around €12 gross per hour. And I only work two and a half days. For the rest I have supplementary benefit from the municipality where I live It's still enough to get by. On Average.. Without having to work more than necessary. Just that I can afford the basic things without wasting money. From exaggerated luxury items and or expensive food. Although I have to say that everything has become extremely expensive over the past 10 years. And not just because of the war in Ukraine or the covid which played a huge part. In terms of health care I won't say anything. Because here in the Netherlands A bunch of idiots here in the government have now allowed it to become more and more unaffordable for most people. At first a lot of things were included in the basic health insurance. Now you either have to have an expensive subscription. Or buy separate parts based on your needs on top of your basic insurance.

Adverts are the reason I stopped watching tv way back in 2009. I only watch KZfaq and Netflix now but the amount of ads on KZfaq seems to grow all the time making it unbearable to watch. I get around some of it by muting and averting my eyes until the ads finish. They may show the ads but it doesn’t mean I have to pay attention. Some videos are worse than others, showing ads every few minutes but I get around that by, if there’s 3 ads within 10 minutes I stop watching the ad and find something else to watch. Shooting them selves in the foot with that shit. 😂🤣

I never watch TV in my home country, but each time I travel abroad, be it North America or Far East, I can't stop watching the commercials. Forget the shows, forget the silly weatherman and the Kardashians, just let me see the things and services that I will never reach in real life.

Home owners associations remind me of the stepford wives. You will conform…!!!

Service just gets like 2€/hour? Even if they work like 10 hours a day on 7 days a week it's just 560€ a month. I'm from Germany work for like 5/6 hours a day on TWO DAYS a week at a fast food place and get nearly the same wage. (Minijob 450€ per Month). So like nearly the same money with much less work. And with just that I couldn't live here too, but we can get like "non employed money" from the government. - Even if we have this Minijob. It's a bit less money from government with job than without, but with the job money it's more overall. Like government helps to pay for rent and stuff and the money I earn is for me.

here in Denmark we now earn 2,08 days of payed vacation for each month beeing employed.

Of you dont want any sugar ín your bread, try bread made ín Portugal

Homeowner Associations are bullies. Heard really terrible stories about them.

There isn't that much sugar in some (not all) whole wheat bread. The bread I get is 100% whole grain bread and it has 0g of sugar. It's all about reading the label. My Swiss husband gets disgusting white bread here in the US and there's 4g of sugar.

"ammo can be founnd in pharmacies" well... technically a bullet is a universal cure for all ilnesses.

1€ e 96 centesimi al ora non è una paga è elemosina, se non hanno soldi per pagare i camerieri chiudano bottega paghino il giusto. Penso che un qualsiasi lavavetri ai semafori guadagni di più all'ora.

Americans should stop generalizing Europe as a whole, for example in Spain we do have our version of Home Owners' Association, it's called "Comunidad de Vecinos" (comunity of neighbors) if you live in an apartment the community of neighbors is all apartment owners in the same building and if you live in the suburbs in an "urbanización" the community is everyone in the same "urbanización" (suburb area) obviously not everybody lives within a "Comunidad de Vecinos" just like not all US residents live within a Home Owners' Association area.

Is the UK we have the BBC and everybody who wants to watch it has to pay for TV licence for the year but we get no commercials at all , and it is fantastic.

I’m 18 and will be having my first ever job this summer as a cleaning lady at a hotel. My hourly wage is 170kr and the lowest they’re allowed to give me is 145kr which is more than $15/hour i think. The american minimum wage is insane. (Although to be fair everything is a lot more expensive in Norway so you have to consider that. Still nowhere close to fair wages in the us)

but at least its cheaper... i mean, $50+5 or 10% extra but not on the price tag is better then $50+22% VAT on the price-tag includes all fees.. the most outrageous is the by the EU pushed and now the law for digital goods... so, if i buy a pc game online, let say $60+5%-10% in the US.. in Europe its $60+ whatever in the country's used.. for example: the lowest VAT is in Luxembourg (17%), and the highest in Hungary (27%), so the range of VAT in the EU is 17%-27%...

this is a great video, and sums up everything i hate about America.... Thank god i'm not American and don't live there

I'm from Norway and over here, we have HOAs who do have fees for everyone in the association. So it's not too weird for me, but maybe it's not too common in the continental Europe.

If I ever moved to the US, I think I would be interested in getting a gun just to see how easy or difficult the process of getting one is. I have fired guns before (although not owned them), and I have major respect for the laser rule / pointing down range. I would love to be really accurate as a hobby activity, just ordinary pistol range shooting.

American white bread isn't bread, its a cake. It doesn't even look like bread, it doesn't taste like it either. It looks more like sponge cake.

US is just so bad to live in. Never in my life I would live there more than a two week vacation.

yeah, american bread is actually disgustingly sweet. to the point that when i tried to make a hamburger with actual american bread bun, i wanted to throw up because of that combo of sweet bread and salty meat.

As someone who lives in Germany, the country with the most and best types of bread in the world, I would never in my life call this white bread "bread" and thus insult "real" bread. This white bread at least in Europe (and Germany) is nothing more than limp cardboard with no taste and absolutely useless, as a sandwich it`s often soggy and toasted it`s often hard like plywood, the advertising calls it "crunchy and crispy" and supposedly it's delicious, no, it's not. German bread is the only thing I miss when I`m abroad. One thing I find both remarkable and strange at the same time: in the original video it`s mentioned that Americans have a big problem with being overweight and with too much sugar in everything they eat or drink... and yes, "Dar The Traveler" proves that right too.. .and most of the time he`s stuffing stuff unknown to me into himself... call that inconsistent... or is that the way it is in American genetics that they don't notice it anymore? No criticism, just a simple observation. On the one hand, Americans are often overweight and therefore look unflattering, on the other hand, America is a country with a rather exaggerated body cult and an almost unhealthy obsession with fitness training or even body building and the almost exaggerated need to do almost nothing but sport in the free time. Apparently there seems to be nothing else between these two phenomena, i.e. no so-called "healthy mediocrity" or people who are neither overweight nor sporty, i.e. just completely "normal". At least that's the impression the press and the media give, especially in Germany, I can only describe it that way because I live only there. I once saw Americans on vacation sitting at the table next to me every morning at breakfast in the hotel. Every morning all guests could choose what they wanted for breakfast from the buffet and there was a large selection of fresh and delicious things to eat and drink. None of this interested the Americans, because the only thing they always "ate" for breakfast were some colored powder from cans mixed with water and some colored pills. Sorry, but when I experienced that, I personally wasn't surprised anymore about anything that affects Americans.

"Florida man, high on flakka, has sex with tree, calls himself Thor" - 2015

What I cant understand (as an European): That u say America to your country - u take the name of a double continent for your own country. It's like having the United of States of Europe from EU countries - but thats simply not all Europe. U r ignoring the other countries of North America and whole South America.

Some of this is hilariously bad like , I get people want a gun to protect their home against thieves. But semi-automatic weapons? like bruh do thieves break into your house mad max style in packs of 12 on top of a landcruiser or what. Thats completely overkill and pointless

Un Europe even if you legally buy a gun it won't help you since you go to jail if you shoot an armed intruder in your home for example.

For $9.99 you can get KZfaq Premium and there are no commercials..

I thought the dutch taxsystem was complicated..

Lmao... sit at 2 tables side by side... But pay as 2 seperate tables boom no gratuity. If a restaurant here says their is a gratuity charge (they must ab a US business) id walk out and take the party elsewhere. Americans need to stop tipping to force the governent to change the law and make businesses pay their staff a fair wage and not a slave wage.

Yea ngl I've got a swimming pool for kids and a park with a playground just around the corner as well here and I don't have a home owners association or anything. It's just the government doing their job with the money you pay them already :') They walk around the Hague like they own the damn place already so they better go fix it themselves. I guess in America you could argue they're actually too poor to do so because of the relatively low taxes compared to here, but then why do they arm their cops with fucking night vision goggles lmfao this isn't call of duty bro :')

The English woman who ate a fridge doid???

Bro are you the cousin of Usher or Akon? Cuz your voice is like theirs.

can you please react to X Factor winning live performance of James Arthur (Impossible)? it has been a hit in Europe but never really got to oversea ...

Alternative name: “why you should not visit the USA”

pro tip - try to speak more cleraly, less sloppy