That's not alot of syrup 😂

I’ve travel extensively in Europe AND America, and her comments about the vegetables tasting like plastic in the US is just dumb.

That was the right amount of maple syrup. I would use even more

"Mustang, Camaro, Tomato, tomato." Oh, my dear friend. No no nono. You are a Ford Mustang fan, or a Chevy Camaro fan. And ne'er shall the twain meet. And there's no such thing as too much syrup, even if it's corn syrup and not maple syrup.

A "strip mall" isn't a mall full of strippers. It's a long building that is separated into individual storefronts, usually with parking directly in front. It's literally a "strip" of mall (stores). Very common for "car culture."

No, you dont need a card, membership to go to Target or Walmart, but Sams yes

Sometimes in America we want something different for Dinner. So we will make a big breakfast meal for supper. Eggs, Bacon, Sausage, Grits, Hash-browns, Toast with jam and Pancakes.

When properly applied pancakes should need a floatation device....🤪

Strip malls are shopping centers just outdoors

Some advice, when you come and you rent your Mustang get the GT (V8) to get the full experience. Ask for the V8 GT!

Oh boy, you opened a can of worms with the potato patahto when referring to a Camaro and a Mustang. That's worse than talking politics. 😂

Vegetables in November- it depends on where they are coming from. If they are out of season in the US, then they may be coming from Mexico or South America and sometimes the flavor is different. You have to go to a good local farmer’s market in Spring and summer and you will get fantastic veggies!

“That’s a big cup” That’s a small.

When a people order coffee, it’s not uncommon that the waiter pours the first cup of coffee out of a carafe and then leaves the carafe on the table. Note the background in this diner. 4:37

Just to let you know crayons in the US are not toxic. They are just beeswax and some type of food grade dye. The only difference is how thick the wax is. Crayola tends to be thicker to stand up to schoolwork and hard children’s play. Roseart tend to be thinner for art projects and lighter work. The target audience is what you want. Crayola is the standard kids brand of crayons. Roseart is for old kids or adults. America cultivates bees for honey mostly but beeswax and bee pollen are byproducts that we found useful. Beeswax can be melted down for all sorts of things including the lost cast process where a single piece of wax is used to create a mold and you can copy that mold over and over, shaping metal sometimes you need to do a lost casting. Beeswax is useful in thousands of products that you may not be aware of.

The US has always been a car culture. We love cars . And an 8 cylinder Mustang counts as a muscle car.

Im from California, but to say you visited America when all you did was go to LA is kinda goofy. This also goes for the car they chose. A Mustang EcoBoost is not an accurate representation of an American car. Just because it has the Mustang badge doesn't mean it's a muscle car. The true American experience would be to do a road trip across the US, you cant experience America if you just stay in a big city. Things to do could be watching a sports game like baseball or football or going to some racing event like a drag race or NASCAR. Of course, you have to go to a gun range, but #1 dont go to an indoor range, and #2 dont go to a range in either California or New York, that's where everyone goes. If you're in California, visit one of the National Parks or Forests, also try In N Out or the local Mexican food. Theres a lot of things to do in the entirety of the US, i think its just funny when Europeans or other foreigners visit LA and label it as their America trip.

That’s only half as much syrup as I would’ve put on 😬🤩

Strip malls are stores that are in one line with parking in front where you can walk from store to store from the parking lot

Riding in a convertible car in nice weather with the top down is very different, in a good way.

She's not anywhere near Downtown Los Angeles. She out near the beaches. The City of Los Angeles, and Los Angeles County are NOT the same thing. She might be in Los Angeles COUNTY, but not in the CITY.

Breaking news, you can eat anything at anytime of day, or night...I know, shocking.

LA + San Diego are about 23 million people. California is about 39 million - a decently sized country. There is both a lot of wealth and a lot of poverty, it depends on the city and depends even more on the neighborhood. It would be dishonest to say those problems don’t exist; but they’re certainly not the full story. There is plenty to enjoy in California: enormous cities, beautiful nature, mild weather, diverse people, a huge and dynamic economy, delicious food, and tolerant attitudes. Cost of living is high but so are the salaries. There’s a reason more Americans have chosen to live there than anywhere else.

Cold water is easy to understand. Just go out West into the hot dry heat...cool or cold water is far more refreshing than ambient temp water.

Los Angeles is a car city. You can't get anywhere without a car. It's just a fact of life. We live in our cars and we're not giving them up. We may have hybrids and electrified cars now, but we're not giving up our cars. We love our cars in LA. Like the like the song by Missing Persons, "no body walks in L.A." 😉

How does the world not know about Coffee creamers? It's literally like one of the two things you need for coffee or tea. Sweetener and Creamer.

I appreciate how much you love the US 🇺🇸 thank you

A regular mall is a huge number of stores together and usually on multiple floors, one above the other. A strip mall is a smaller group of stores on one floor.

Have you ever had waffles or pancakes? The absorb the syrup.

California is awesome. An amazing range of enivornments, from desert to cloud forest to semi-alpine.

Andre, one can never have enough syrup. The problem is that you Europeans don't use enough. Syrup soaks into everything you use it on, so you gotta use a liberal amount.

Things about America you should remember. The pancakes at restaurants are far thicker and bigger in diameter than you make at home. You need more syrup than you think. Full stack is 3 pancakes Half stack is 2 pancakes A half&half is one Buiscuit and an order of hashbrowns covered in sausage gravy. A B&G is 2 Buiscuits and sausage gravy. An "egg mess" is hashbrowns with 2/3 eggs scrambled in with meat and veggies of your choice. The Target near me is a Super Target. Its near Granger, which is rich people area so the store has elite foods in it.

California isn't the East Coast. Cities on the East Coast were over 200 years old when cars were invented. Cars predate most of Los Angeles. There really wasn't very much around that area until the 20th Century. Los Angeles was BUILT for cars.

13:45 Those houses range from ~$4 - 15M. While the location is great, they are super tiny, and restricted on height due to local building codes, so they aren't worth as much as a bigger house that is located more inland. As for safety being that close to the water, the coast line doesn't face a lot of natural disaster risk. California has a ton of fault lines, resulting in a lot of earthquakes. However, these fault lines are mostly on land, and not in the ocean, so there isn't much of a tsunami risk. In fact, we're at more risk of tsunamis from Japan or Alaska than directly off our own coast. Hurricanes are extremely rare since the ocean current along the west coast runs north-to-south, bringing colder water down from Alaska and making it harder for warm-weather storms to form. We did just get hit by one this last year that came up from Mexico, but tbh, LA barely got rain, let alone a full storm surge. So, these houses are relatively safe.

WRT the vegetables tasting "plastic": remember that this was filmed in November, so most of the produce was shipped from far away, most likely South America. It was probably sitting in refrigerated warehouses, shipping containers and trucks for a shockingly long time as well, before it was put on display at the store. So while it technically counts as "fresh" produce, it is actually far from being that.

I lived near the beach in Massachusetts, the water sometimes isn't the issue, but sand storms are the worst, grit in your hair and skin!! You should do a video sometime to show us your country, I'd be wanting to do that.

I lived in Southern California for five years in the late 80’s-90’s. Oceanside and North Hollywood. The best memories I have are driving on a beautiful, sunny day, with ocean views and palm trees along the streets. The weather there is perfect. We could sit in our swimsuits, getting a tan in March.

The layout thing is because it (Los Angeles) is newer. If you go to cities that are very old (by American standards) on the east coast, roads are twistier and there are little quirks everywhere. An ancient path worn by migrating deer and buffalo would in later centuries become toll roads that were paved in split logs, which only with the advent of automobiles would become public paved roads, and those paved roads would twist around historic properties. But the further west you go, the less history there is (as long as you ignore the fact that Native Americans have been there for millennia), and so cities are much more likely to be laid out in a strictly rectilinear fashion.

We live in Baltimore, Maryland which is more expensive than say Georgia, but California is at least 5x more than here!! A $200,000.00 house here would cost about $450,000.00 in California....also the land is very small lots. Plus, I love Marylands landscapes. Mountains, cities, rural areas, etc. And we enjoy all 4 seasons with changes of color in the leaves etc. during the autumn and fall, it's absolutely beautiful 😍❤️

That was not too much syrup. It was too much breakfast but they seemed to enjoy it. Why such big cars? 1. Safety They are easier to see in heavy traffic. Small cars get lost from view. They withstand a crash with less damage than small cars. 2. Convenience Since things are so far apart many people try to do all their shopping in one trip. Large cars can hold the children, the groceries, the clothing, the plants for the garden or whatever is needed in this trip. 3. Comfort

Most Americans love to drive! It's freedom. Not dealing with others on public transport

A lot of breakfast places are open 24 hours. It’s because they are near hospitals or places that need to stay open. There are a couple of breakfast places near my local hospital which is crazy when doctors are off shifts. They literally just have time to grab a meal and go home to sleep that’s it. Don’t ask because i just know. Especially when they have the 72 hour on call shifts. Those are crazy. I did food deliveries to the hospital before to both doctors and patients. It was fricking crazy. The entire emergency department would order all at once and the orders filled the entire trunk of the SUV plus the back seat. Although I did get a nice tip out of it.

Random comment to what she said, but I can't help myself...you need to wear sunscreen even when it's cloudy people!!

The neighborhood she was walking through to get to Target ( 17:19 ) was a very average neighborhood in Los Angeles. Many of the homes in established areas like this have citrus trees in their backyards - oranges, lemons, etc. Southern California, including the inland valleys, produces a good proportion of the country’s fruits and vegetables. California oranges are readily found in Publix grocery stores in the Southeast.

Trivia: The 'Mustang' logo is actually of the wild Mustang horses that run in herds across the West.

Car culture extends to most of the US. I was car-less for two years, and I cannot overstate how much more difficult it made my life. We’re so spread out, and public transit varies too much from place to place. 🚗

If that was a stack of 3 or 4 (full stack is 4) pancakes, then that looked to be about the perfect amount of syrup actually lol. Really been enjoying these videos/getting a foreigners perspective on American culture. Keep it up man, much love from Indiana!

Yes Andre' pancakes are a morning thing, they are also a noon thing, a lunch thing, a dinner thing and a late night snack thing. That is NOT too much syrup! If you don't have a small pool left on your plate once the pancake is gone that you can lick up with your tongue, you did not put enough on it in the first place! LOL

I drove an MGB convertible for years ,kept it in the garage during winter and only drove it in the summer here at the beach . It was great .Our house is about 100 meters from the Atlantic Ocean and during the 53 years we have lived here we were flooded once , by hurricane Sandy when our entire island was under water because of the 17 foot high storm surge that hit us and the highest point on the island is maybe 10 feet above sea level

You SHOULD be able to get pancakes at 3 AM or so at the end of a night of carousing. Lots of carbs is great for hangover prevention.

The houses are somewhat higher then the ocean and very rarely does the surf reach those houses. Tsunami would be a different story. I was born and raised in Los Angeles. 1 hour to the mountains, 1 hour to the desert, and 1 hour to the ocean. California is a beautiful state.

Oooooh. You NEED sunscreen if you travel very far in a convertible during sunny weather.

Pancakes are any time of the day! Breakfast for dinner is amazing. Also, a mustang is way more than 5k euros. They start around 30k euros. It's crazy.

I feel so spoiled for living in Los Angeles. Within minutes you can have a world class experience in any sector of life. Entertainment, nature, art, food. The list of good stuff is endless. And let’s not mention how amazingly good the weather is. Everything, except the homeless issues is amazing in Los Angeles.

Answer to do we need a massive....yes, yes we do😅

The houses right on the beach close to 2 million for a single house. All of them owned by celebrities or higher ups in companies. These are actually vacation homes, it’s not everyday use but 3 months of the year in summer.

Breakfast for dinner is a big part of being American. At restaurants like Dennys you can have pancakes and eggs at 3 in the morning, I can’t even tell you how packed they are with people at that time in places like Miami. It’s very common to go to Dennys after they leave a night club or a party. As teenagers, it was the only place we were allowed to go at 3 am and wanted Hot Chocolate and your friends parents rather you go to a 24 hour place like that instead of keeping them up banging around in the kitchen. Me and my best friend could be found at Dennys in our pajamas, or sitting on the floor of a 24 hour pharmacy in our pajamas reading all the magazines. The night manager never cared as long as we bought something (usually it was lip gloss or candy) before we left. My ex husband was a cop and we would go every day at 2am to a Dennys when he got off his shift because he needed time to decompress from duty because he didn’t want to take the stress home. Lots of eggs over easy and hash browns for me during that marriage. I'm sorry I respond to so many videos, it’s just that you always pop up at the top of my feed and if I’m full of one thing it’s information. Can’t help myself! That was WAY too little syrup btw. Also, a strip mall is a small open mall where you can pull your car up right next to which store you want to go too and they’re filled with a bunch of small businesses. One strip mall could have example Tax Attorney, 3 different restaurants, a Pharmacy, a small electronics store, small clothing boutiques a Starbucks, dry cleaner, realtor. So quick one stop shopping all in one. You have them too ours are just very wide open, with tons of parking and usually a MdDonalds or something in the back of the parking lot.

The kid is the least impressed. No way would I spend time touring a supermarket or department store.

In response to your comment about the houses on the beach, California, especially Southern California get zero, and I mean ZERO major storms. There are not hurricanes, storms, or massive waves to worry about because it's geography makes it calm year round.

NOTE TO EUROPEANS : Everything the the US is exactly the right size for North America !! Americans don't GIVE A DAMN that you think out cars are too big. It's not our fault that your countries that aren't much bigger than postage stamps.

man, i disagree with the salad...ive enjoyed just about every salad ive had throughtout the parts of the US that ive been to...or maybe im just so used to to the US salads LOL

It’s normal for restaurants to serve coffee like that because of the fact that coffee is normally free refills and we love coffee in the morning and on the side of the table there’s normally like creamer, sugar, and condiments. And also you can get more than just pancake syrup. They also have blueberry syrup, apricot syrup, you know stuff like that available too. You can also get sugar-free.

You do not need a card to go to Target. That's Costco or Sam's Club ( affiliated with Walmart)

I have a car just like that, only black She went during non growing season..she got greenhouse veggies

Salad is just green water. Camero, Mustang and Dodge are different car companies like Audi, Mercedes and BMW just for instance.

As some others have said, venture out of the big cities and try elsewhere. The valley of California from Fresno north of Sacramento is one of the biggest vegetable/citrus growers of the US. We feed half of the nation in those areas (we even supply Japan with a lot of rice). November is not the season for looking for good fruits/vegetables. During the growing season, if you venture out of the big cities, you will see local farmers with fruit stands by the side of the road where things are picked fresh. After watching this video, I was in the produce section of Walmart talking to another lady (yes, the small talk). I told her about this video as we were looking at the tomatoes. There are these obviously hot house grown tomatoes that are waxy, pinkish looking that you just know, they don't have a lot of flavor. And they had a Mexico sticker on them. Then right next to them, there were these bright red juicy looking tomatoes on the vine. You could smell the difference. I can't think of one person who doesn't agree that home grown tomatoes are far superior than most you get at Walmat/Target. (maybe not so much at Whole Foods).

You're eating blackberries and strawberries in NOVEMBER for Pete's sake. Almost no kind of vegetable is in season in November. A few fruits, like tree fruits (apples, peaches, pears) may be. So you are eating stuff that was picked unripe in Chile or somewhere and shipped thousands of miles to the US. No, it doesn't taste that great but it is what it is if you want foods out of season. I suggest you try a canteloupe or other melon from the Colorado River Valley or some strawberries from Salinas or oranges from southern CA or Arizona or almost any kind of greens from the Imperial Valley or tomatoes from artisanal farms all over America when they are in season. I've been to Greece. I enjoyed the food there but I didn't find it overwhelmingly better than the best of what's available in the US.

28:00 She is visiting in November. Most of the fruits and vegetables are out of season or imported from Mexico or South America so the flavors are not going to be the best.

The new Mustang is a muscle car. The "coyote" engine is slightly over 500 horsepower.

"Mustang-Camaro . . . same car" Oh boy. Ford and GM would sure beg to differ. "The grass is always greener . . ." Not in California in summer. It's very brown. California has really superior strawberries but the season is late Spring: May/June. And LA may be a little too far south to get the best ones which come from the Salinas Valley in central California. The homeless and drug users and other unsightly stuff are mostly confined to certain areas of the downtown parts of cities. This video appears to be in the suburb of Orange County. You aren't likely to see them there. I am in downtown San Francisco bugt I've been away for almost 6 months and I'm very surprised that the city looks a lot cleaner with fewer such people than when I left. But I know where they are: The City seems to have somehow forced nearly all of them into the one neighborhood known as the Tenderloin. Unfortunately, this is adjacent to an area frequented by tourists so a lot of tourists take a wrong turn or walk in the wrong direction and come upon the scenes of degradation. Then they badmouth the whole city.

Every state has issues, but I've lived in CA most of my life and love it here...wouldn't live anywhere else and I'm only a few miles from the beach. I also don't talk bad about any state because they all have their own issues, just the way it is.

I don't like syrup with my pancakes. I like pancakes with my syrup.

That’s not much syrup. There are 4 or 5 pancakes there! Those pancakes will soak up the syrup. A strip mall is a line of stores shoulder to shoulder with no inside common space. No, you don’t need any membership card to shop at Target.❤️🤗🐝

It says 43,000 to 61,000 euros for convertible.

27:07 I know where that is, that's down the street from my Mom's house in Newport Beach, on 17th St. near Santa Ana Ava. lol.

It’s actually quite far enough from houses to waves… look at Manhattan Beach live Web cam… good thing to see beach & pier…

I can confirm our vegetable don't taste like plastic.

I guess she didn't go anywhere to get fresh vegetables and didn't order the right salad.

Any time is a good time for pancakes.

Rich people have those houses as just their beach house. So, they could just leave and go to their big house when the storm is coming.

At that restaurant, it was artificial corn syrup. The 100% pure maple syrup is richer and more flavorful and a bit more expensive, but not too pricey and sometimes is found at other restaurants. I can tell the difference because the 100% pure maple syrup never, ever, ever comes in that big pour bottle. It's always in a labeled container to prove quality.

Some AMERICANS drink black coffee and some add milk or cream in various flavors. Can we agree? Pancakes need a lot of syrup because it is a stack of 5 or more pancakes and they are thick and fluffy and absorb lots of syrup.

I ate breakfast for dinner just tonight, but I didn't make pancakes. I had fried eggs, sausages and toast. It's like a treat to have breakfast for dinner occasionally. A strip mall is a row of businesses all attached to one another in a long strip where each store has its own entrance, as opposed to a traditional mall where the stores all all inside of a single enclosed building and the stores are usually only accessible from within the mall building. It's the warehouse stores where you buy in bulk that you need to have a membership to, like Costco, BJ's, or Sam's Club. Target is like a slightly upscaled version of a Walmart.

Pancakes is a whenever you want pancakes thing. I drink my coffee black, no sugar, no cream. We would love to see some of Portugal, Andre. Target got its start out west. It's more of a thing than Walmart there. No membership needed. I think the huge cars/trucks are strange too. When you get a salad in the states, it's more than likely going to be made with iceberg lettuce. It just does not have any flavor on its own. There are other greens you can make your own, much better tasting, salads with.

I have lived most of my life growing up and living in the area just Southwest of downtown Los Angeles called the South Bay. This includes all the Beach Cities from LAX to El Segundo to El Prado to Manhattan Beach to Hermosa Beach to Redondo Beach to Torrance Beach that butts up against the Palos Verdes Peninsula. As for wealthy living there is no doubt that all those Beach Cities are incredibly expensive. I had the opportunity to live in Lunada Bay on the Peninsula and found out that the Palos Verdes Peninsula to Rolling Hills Estates is the most expensive place in California to purchase a home and live there. I always felt as though if you didn’t drive a very expensive car the PV Police would arrest you for vagrancy. I sold my old house and bought me a nice Mercedes convertible and rented a Guest House on an estate a stones throw from the cliffs of Luanda Bay. Most beautiful place. Most beautiful sunsets. Most expensive place ever. And it’s mostly residential as there are no large stores at all. So I guess the moral of the story is to live in Southern California these days is horrendously expensive to do anything. I’m old, retired, re-married and living about fifteen miles from the house I grew up in - Lomita. But this is the land of opportunity. I retired from a very large metropolitan Infrastructure agency at a managerial position and I married well. There surely are a lot of problems out there and I certainly don’t have all the answers but we have to something more than what we do now. We need to stop focusing on every kid going on to higher Education, which is great because we need the scientists and engineers and etc. but we also need higher skills level training. Give kids an opportunity to work in fields like maintenance mechanics. Jet engine mechanics. Or Woodworking, machine shop lathes to mills and CNC controlled machining. 3d Printing, etc, etc, etc. not every kid should have to go to an expensive college to have a good, safe, rewarding and amazing career. With manufacturing jobs coming back to the U.S. and already having a healthy service industry this will be good to go back to having everyday things made in America again. I’ll add one quick note. The whole South Bay Area gets an afternoon into evening wind off the ocean that keeps our air just a bit fresher than inland. This helps during the Santa Ana winds which bring hot dry desert winds that make LA miserable in the summer. Usually the Santa Ana’s don’t last long, usually a week or two. Hope that helps a little concerning the area they were in. And yes a Mustang could be a muscle car depending on what’s under the hood. And, Ford owners and Chevy owners would quite disagree about the potatoe/patatoe analogy. We like our cars.

European pancakes are often thin, in the US they’re thick and fluffy and the serving is either three or six and the pancakes absorb the syrup so you need to put a lot on. Cameros and Mustangs are both sporty “muscle cars” but most people prefer one or the other and aren’t considered interchangeable and people are usually devoted to one or the other. They are definitely not the same car, one is made by Chevrolet the other by Ford. Even if you don’t have many children, your children might be on a sports team, or some other activity where you are also driving other children so it’s convenient to have a larger vehicle. Considering a large amount of our fruits and vegetables are grown in California, if what she ate tasted “plastic” it was either out of season so imported from Mexico or Chile, or it wasn’t really market fresh, the restaurants often order produce from a food service provider. The houses are farther back from the ocean that even in a big storm waves aren’t probably going to reach the houses. It could be different of the east coast because of hurricanes. You only need a membership card at Costco or Sam’s Club.

I wont play the usual Chevy Ford Debate but a Mustang is a basic common car these days they are nothing special they do have fast ones but 70% of them are basic cars. Love the reactions

To be fair, Orange County is suburban. Los Angeles proper is diverse and quirky and way more interesting.

As far as vegetables or salads it may be because she's there in November.😂

Strip malls are small sections of property that have many different types of stores all in one area from things like jewelry stores, clothing stores, restaurants, shoe store etc. Very common in the US.

We have everything welcome guys

Groceries in Target is relatively new.

A 2024 Mustang convertible starts at about $39,000. That's not a super expensive car, but it's not cheap, either. A hardtop (non convertible) starts at about $31,000.

One of my favorite dinner time meals is breakfast. Eggs, hash browns, bacon, toast with butter and jelly, pancakes YUMMY!!!

Born and raised in California having Pancakes for dinner happened about once a month !! It was always so fun and I still love breakfast for dinner every now and then. Also!! The only she did wrong with the syrup was not having it heated first . Lots of syrup is mandatory for the ultimate Pancake experience. Always Maple! BTW.. I drove my convertible Mercedes home from work today on a Beautiful Sunny California Day in Napa California 😉

More syrup is needed even for a half stack. She didn't pour nearly enough syrup required. 3-4 times what she poured is about right.

Lol.. I put a small amount of jam or preserves on each pancake.. and a small amount of syrup.. I think she used way too much as well.. but lol to each their own.You have mall. Then there is strip malls..Strip malls You don't have the indoor space with stores on both sides.. you walk around inside.. The strip mall is a lot of connecting store. There isn't a indoors walking space.. You walk around outside. Each store has their own private entrance from the outside.

Part of California is beautiful, the long tedious boring horrible drive down I-5 through the Central valley is one of the worst tortures one could subject themselves to, by all means take the coast unless you're in one hell of a hurry!

The mother was talking about how much easier when removing her child from the car when there was no roof.

Those houses are $5-10 million, on the Newport Beach boardwalk. Even in King tides, the water will not hit those houses....though maybe someday.