I think, we had the sausages (Wiener, Frankfurter) in Germany but it was not typical to put them into such a long soft bread together with ketchup. In Germany, you get a "Brötchen" together with the sausage and probably fries on a plate. The typical hot dog bread isn't a thing in Germany but it's very normal in the Netherlands. The German bread has a much harder, crisp skin and this is not ideal if you want to bite thru the bread and sausage without squeezing everything out. You can get the "Hot Dog Brötchen" in Germany especially for this use. The Bratwurst is a sausage that definitely made it's way from Germany to the US. But this was much long ago. You can see the old tradition for example during Wurstfest in New Braufels. (Especially funny to watch for a German)
Fun fact, roughly between 1800-1900 Germans were the largest migrant group to the USA. They however almost entirely integrated and renounced their culture after two world wars which made public display of German pride and culture 'problematic'... So they've influenced early American culture quite a bit but most of it isn't recognized as such these days.
A hotdog is nice, and around in the Netherlands since the the 70’s (or longer), but the Dutch alternative; broodje rookworst is even better. Especially on a windy winter day.
We didnt have them as soon as the us though. When my dutch grandmother moved to the states americans were super confused that she never heard of hotdogs before. This was around 1967-1968
I don't really agree with your remarks on takeaway. Takeaway is traditional in the Netherlands too, but mostly just at the Chinese restaurants and the cafetarias - which probably not accidentily are usually the cheapest types of restaurants. Also, that they didn't do takeaway at the beginning may have more to do with the Corona rules than not being used to it. The Chinese restaurant that I frequent, has separate take away and eat in parts, but at the beginning of the March lockdown they only had delivery - no takeout, but you could have them deliver it to you "at their doorstep". Later there was some slight change in the Corona rules, and then they had take out again, using the eat in part of the restaurant as waiting room for the take out.
Dutch shops saw those huge crowds in the US stampede into stores so they figured they want some of that business here too. Ignoring Thanksgiving and the huge discounts the US uses to lure people in. Here the discounts are pathetic
Since lots of US brands also sell in the EU and the internet has taken over, once one brand or store does discounts another shop can not be left behind. Especially since “ laagste prijs garantie” has been a thing. So that is why Black Friday has come over here. Thank you internet ..
@@DutchAmericano Also popular in Spain, which surprised me and written in English which I found strange as the Spanish people do not speak much English.....for the most part.
Fun Fact: McDonalds has been active for decades in The Netherlands. I remember somewhere in the 80s/90s, when USAF was located in Soesterberg, the closest McDonalds got a McDrive. That was something totally new overhere. When they opened it caused traffic jams of all the people wanted to order their fast food from their car.
De McDonalds bij Zeist is ook de eerste McDonalds van Nederland. De mcdrive is nog steeds te krap en onoverzichtelijk als ie altijd al was. Hij zit er al langer trouwens. Begin jaren 60 streek de McDonalds al neer voornamelijk om de door jouw genoemde Amerikaanse soldaten een gevoel van thuis te geven
@@MrJimheeren ietsje later. de eerste McDonald in Nederland en Europa werd geopend 1971 in Zaandam. het was de eerste jaren een samenwerking tussen McDonald en Albert Heijn. inmiddels bestaat dit filiaal niet meer
No it's not, it depends on region in the Netherlands and also older media from the 80's and 90's from US. Kids from back then saw it, they wanted it as well and those kids are the parents of now. They let there kids celebrate it now(doesn't apply on everyone)
Those College hoodies remind me so much of the 90s when it seemed like the whole world decided to embrace the height of popularity of basketball in the US...by wearing hoodies, shirts, caps etc. from Chicago Bulls or LA Lakers or whatever. Even though I'm pretty damn sure half the people didn't even really know these teams or the rules of basketball for that matter. It wasn't a popular sport at all back then. I specifically remember wanting to look at games as 12 y/o kid to see what all the fuzz was about, only to discover they were SO hard to find, lol! I thought it was quite ridiculous back then, and I still giggle thinking about it today :)
Haha, didn't know that for sure and there seems to be conflicting information about whether it was the Dutch, an American, or whether it even goes way back! Thanks for sharing =)
Actually the donut comes from the Dutch Olykoek. Like so many things it was brought in New Amsterdam and spread around the US. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doughnut
@@mimimotor Some American food has European orign, in the US it changed overtime. The end product came back to Europe eventualy or just to the Netherlands and a few other European countries, which now have the original product and the Americinized product, in which sometimes it's hard to see it used to be the same product
Valentine' Day and Halloween -- to a limited degree -- are also imported holidays that aren't being celebrated but are used as commercialized themes in stores because it sells.
The thing about the American things in hoog Catharijne and the new station is that somehow, they managed to find like five or six super American chains to open their first store in the Netherlands, right here. It seems like it was literally a goal. Including Dunkin’, I believe.
The hotdog from the Hema is delicious!(with the Unox hotdog sauce also the rookworst from them is to die for) I've always liked them ever since I was young, so no they are not a hipster or trendy thing, it's something people around me, including myself, have enjoyed for as long as I can remember!
Tough market. It took years for Facebook to get a hold, because of a -at that time very popular- Dutch competitor. Amazon is just beginning to complete against Bol and Coolblue. And what's that site again Americans use to buy and sell used items? I don't think it's even available in the Netherlands. Because of Marktplaats.
@@HenriZwols i think it depends on what you sell and who is in your social circle.. I adopted facebook when Hyves was still big because of my international friends.. i have used both ebay and markplaats for different stuff and amazon it the more safe version of some stuff compared to bol.com because their regulations are better because they use it longer.. coolblue has a different business core (more comparable to mediamarkt) so can’t be compared
Ava when I was in university, a linguistics professor argued that Dutch people are bilingual already -- not because their English is flawless (which it isn't) but because there is so much exposure to English. And believe it or not, there are already situations in which Dutch students will have to think longer to come up with the Dutch word for a given phenomenon, than to find the English one. And it often happens that they dutchify an English word into bad Dutch. Black Friday is evil but what are you gonna do.. 😑
Ava, you mentioned it only very briefly, but I would love to see a video on us Dutch speaking English and especially on how we tend to mix American and British English. I don't know if you have experienced this a lot, but I can imagine there might be things we say which strike you as an odd combination of American and British? I learned most of the language by watching the BBC and TV series from the US and when speaking or writing I almost never have a clue if I am using one or the other. Or maybe about things we say which do not mean what we think. I don't know, I guess I mostly would like to see a video about the fun you had with us Dutch speaking English. Anyway, love your channel. The stuff in our country that surprises you or which you find odd, gives me as a Dutch person a new view on the things I always saw as perfectly normal, which is fun to experience. Thank you.
Yes, I'd love to know a bit about that too! I've been taught British English in school, but I am talking and writing a lot of US English now. The one thing that immediately comes up is the word: 'quite.' In British English, it means a bit, and in US English, it means very much. This is quite confusing.
Something I hear some Americans bragging about: coleslaw! Alway ate it at KFC, without any further consideration about it as a very young child. Even I always thought it to be typical American, untill I noticed it sounded a bit Dutch. And indeed, quickly found out it derived from the Dutch "Kool-sla". So besides snacks like donut (men say they were brought over by Dutch settlers but really nobody knows for sure, even after many studies), we brought some healthy food as well! Or at least, an healthy ingrediënt😋
Another reason I can think of for American products/brands to be in the Netharlands is the connection to the dutch caribbean islands (as for example Aruba). Some of the islands are very oriented to the American tourist market. Therefore there are a numerous amounts of American chains there, American products in supermarkets and tv channels. Lots of students from the islands study in the Netherlands and are very exited when chains like Taco Bell open their doors. In Utrecht there is this American store that sells things like frootloops, Aruban students go there to buy products that make them feel a bit at home :)
Take out/home is a pretty normal thing in the Netherlands, except for delivery, that started in the 90's! All my life ('71) we've got, Chinese, Italian, Indonesian, Indian, Shoarma and of course fries and snacks from the Snackbar to take home, but we don't do it as often as in the States, for us it was ones a week!
depends on where in the Netherlands. Grew up nearish a small village, wasn't until the mid 1970s that we got a Chinese restaurant and a snackbar. Took longer to get a supermarket :)
When I was a kid in the 70'th we went to the Netherlands for summer vacations a lot. Hotdogs where already a big thing. One food chain that might get problems coming to Europe will be Wienerschnitzel. Especially German speaking people might be shocked to find that Wienerschnitzel is a hot dog chain.
@@PatrickGrimbergen Hotdogs, Bratwurst, Currywurst have to do with sausages but are completely different things. It's just like with beer. I could say beer is a Dutch thing though (Heineken) but I, as a German would never do that, especially not to someone who's name in Grimbergen.
One thing I think is pretty interesting is that I feel like roast turkey has become a pretty popular Christmas dish. We obviously don't celebrate Thanksgiving but I guess we've seen the extravagant dinners in movies so we just slapped it onto Christmas instead. I also think it's kinda funny that pumpkin spice lattes are so popular even though pumpkin pie isn't at all.
American food chains do tend to localise their offerings. McDonald's has a McKroket, for example. They also offer "American" fry sauce, which is not sold in America. It is a fry sauce with herbs like parsley, onion, turmeric, and dill.
In Holland, the base Hot-Dog ingredients are totally regular items, like the white bread buns ("puntjes"), and the "Knakworst" sausage. Hot-dogs got more interesting in the nineties, when IKEA gave us the "Swedish" hot-dog, where the bread is roasted, has a pre-formed hole, in which a mix of mayo & mustard is injected, then the sausage. The HEMA chain then COPIED that !
I would be REALLY surprised if i was walking around. let's say New York City to find a Hema that sells oranje tompoezen. Now THAT would be a shocker ^^ And by the way, speaking of Hema, they sell their own version of a hotdog which is a sausage inside half of a French bread. Hmmm, really nice :)
Me too I think sausages on bread are a European (German) thing, like Frankfurter, Hamburgers, Bratwurst and curry wurst. In the Netherlands rookworst, frikadel and knakworst too are long existing snacks..
I still think of myself as an "Oudere Jongere" (did you know that term yet ?) - but emphasizing "Oudere", I remember we had a "WIMPY" in Groningen, when I was a kid, and "Wendy's" in Antwerp, when I was a teenager ... I LOVED their Chili !! A little later, as an adolescent, I was HUGEly surprised to find a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in ISTANBUL (1991) ...
I’m 57 and I’ve been eating hotdogs since childhood. Every fair or weekly market has a hotdog/hamburger stand. I assume we adopted this food during WW2. The American soldiers brought a lot of new things here.
When I got to Amsterdam, I ran into this chain Bagels & Beans. Bagels also are very much an American thing (native from NY, if I'm not mistaken) so I was surprised to find these places so popular. This was back around 2000 when coffee culture in NL was starting to gain foothold. By now, you ll find them in most every Dutch city.
I'm pretty sure sausages are fairly popular here so hotdogs being a thing here makes sense. But those hoodies for american universities here is weird. Personally I still want one but for the university here in the city.
Hai Ava, for your information, dunkin donut is an American brand, but ( hold on to your hat) The invention of a donut was in Den Haag by the king korn Bread mill, ( the Hus backery) so a donut is a dutch product yust like a stroop wafel, but in those days there was only one kind ,only with powder sucker. All the other kinds are develept in Amerika, so the donut is Amerikan, but the base was Dutch, and dit you now that the brothers Becker in Dutch Deurne travelt to Amerika many years ago and seen with there own (ogen) eys? a hamburger. In our country we had te kroket and that was long from chape so they dit desite that a burger was no good ,so they dit develup a frikandel, so the frikandel is the Dutch sister of the hamburger so avery day there are milions burgers and frikandels sold . Dit you now that the burgers for the benelux (België, Nederland en Luxemburg)from mc Donalds in Germany stands and they make only for the mac a miljoen 1000.000 burgers a day. I hope you liket this info, succes.
Yeah, English phrases are happening more and more in Dutch. I myself included. It's because we (my generation) do so much with English that we use it more in real conversation. I watch lots of English tv series/movies, my study was partly English, one of my hobbies is writing and I do that in English and I have friends abroad who speak English, so it just sneaks into my daily life I guess. Indeed with American pop colture. Same with the holidays I guess. I for one liek that Halloween is getting more popular here but not because it is American per se, just because I like the holiday ;) Black friday is decently new here. We start to take that over from the USA.
Eva, did you know that Dunkin Donuts already had a shop in Budapest Hungary in the year 1994? I was there on 1 januari 1995. They were totaly sold out and we went away, but when we leaved the Dunkin the delivery van came and we went back in the restaurant and have a realy good time.
The last few years the Black Friday deals start half November and the commercials air just a few days after halloween.. It's similar to the kruidnotes sales in The Netherlands that start in September while Sinterklaas arrives 2/3 November.. It takes away the magic.. Chinese (Asia) takeout is something that exists in The Netherlands for a very long time, I think that started in the late 60s..
The presence of US restaurant chains depends on Dutch entrepreneurs taking out a license from the US chain to operate these restaurants in the Netherlands (or any area they buy a license for). So if a Dutch entrepreneur really likes a US restaurant chain and sees opportunities for the Dutch market he can get a license. The chain may be mediocre in the US. The Netherlands were one of the last countries where Starbucks was introduced in Europe, but as the coffee roast factory for Europe is in Amsterdam they decided to introduce it after all.
I have been to Friday's once in the States. Years later, I noticed there was a Fridays in Rotterdam, but it was closed and gone before I could take any of my friends there. I wanted to show them the concept of having different cuisine's under one roof, microwaves etc.. It was an anomaly, a mild culture shock, that needed to be shown, instead of going there to have a good meal prepared by cooks. I guess I waited too long (a couple of years, maybe).
in the netherlands its like dutch is ur first language but we learn egnlish in school obviously and its a world wide language so we tend to use words from english (britisch or american) and just put them in our conversations or text messages. phrases that are typical english or populair online just sound better in english or it doesnt sound''plat''(flat) as it would in dutch. And ofcourse in america not a lot of people speak dutch so u wouldnt expect people to speak dutch words there, but english is more world wide and in general spoken bij everyone. but dutchies (like me :) starting a conversation in whole english sentences is a bit wierd, unless its like for fun or practice. because my friends and i like the sound of english and my friend can speak with a good britisch accent so we do it for funzies sometimes, hope this helped!
Hot Dogs are culturally considered American by man, but Hot Dog Culture is as big and as old in Denmark (with a pretty big difference in toppings), so I think Hot Dogs are not as exclusively american as we all seem to think. I don't think Hot Dogs are a trendy thing, they just exist and that's good, cause they are nice, fom tim to time.
Hot Dogs originate from the Northern European habit to eat bread with sausages. Those migrants brought it to the US. It's most popular in Germany and Danmark, but the Dutch have eaten "Broodje Rookworst" or "Broodje knakworst" for a long time. This makes the Hot Dog not unfamiliar, it's just a variation on a Dutch tradition.
I've lived in South America, Europe, and Asia and just wanted to say that both Dunkin Donuts and TGIFridays are literally everywhere. Both have a huge international presence and you can find them in quite a LOT of countries, so it's not surprising that they have locations in the Netherlands which has a relatively big expat community (including Americans) as well as just a lot of American influence overall.
But don't forget that that international presence has only grown the last 10-15 years, because also a lot of people just consider things from America great (which I don't understand...). 10 to 15 years ago, nobody had heard about many of the American brands that are found everywhere by now.
About the American phrases; we historically watch a LOT of American movies, series etc in the Netherlands, and we have subtitles so we just tend to mimic what we see on tv or at the movies
The Black Friday discounts are less extreme here than in the US, are they not? There are only a few very good discounts going to 70% but most remain at 30% or less is my experience.
Try going to Norway and see how popular hotdogs are there! You can buy them literally everywhere, from convenience stores to railway station concourses. And I have to say, they're a lot nicer than any hotdog I've ever eaten in the US, or here in the UK for that matter, where they're also popular. TGI Fridays is also big here too. I don't think people really go there for the culinary experience, it's just a fun night out with cocktails and greasy meat!
Can't remember the brand anymore, but one car brand had a 'black Friday month'. If the Dutch can get a discount, they'll get it. Some stores raise prices before (or the whole year), because there are so many discount moments (Black Friday, Sinterklaas, Christmas..)
between 1997 and 2000 there were already dunkin donuts in the Netherlands. after that they disappeared and since 2016 they have returned. the intention was to open 25 locations in the Netherlands in 3 years, but that has not yet happened
I don't think Halloween will survive. Regarding take out, take out as a way to not have to cook in the Netherlands started with Indonesian/Chinese in the Netherlands, afhaalchinees isn't in the Dutch Van Dale but it should be 😀
Hotdogs carts are not a hipster thing per se. But are more a part of hipster foodcarts in general. There is lots of variety here. Even saw a "hutspot" food cart. We even have food cart festivals in the Netherlands!
You should definitely do a comparison or reacting to US foodchains here. I remember being in Florida and thinking the McD and BK looking really shabby compared to ours. Of course, our culture is greatly influenced by US culture. We've always looked up to it, maybe because they were once our 'saviours'? Hoodies... Either are trademarked, so the college profits by them, or they are not and then anybody an use those college names. And if you feel Dutch people are more fashionable than Americans... that says a lot about Americans. The English/American speaking has to do with our growing up with subtitles instead of dubbed series and movies, but also with management speak. Black Friday, this year was spread out because....(drum roll)... Corona! Take-out was already growing with Thuisbezorgd and UberEats, but Corona has sure made it take off.
Yeah. About donuts: they weren't much a thing in the 90's in the Netherlands, but gradually there were more and more donuts this century in our country. So even though I haven't found a Dunkin' Donuts in the Netherlands yet, I'm not surprised to hear it.
Carnaval is only in the south, below the rivers. If you want to experience Dutch Carnaval, you'll have to go to the provinces North Brabant or Limburg in Februari. Or to Dutch Antilles. For the flower festivals, you'll have to go to the East. There is different folklore in every province, and every province also has their own dialect.
Retailers came up with the name “Black Friday” for the Friday after US Thanksgiving because of how “black” is used on an accounting ledger. Black is used for credit and red is used for debit. Because most people have the Friday after Thanksgiving off work too, it was a big shopping day for Christmas. Retailers went from red to black for the year because of profits earned on that day. Retailers then began using the term to market discounts on that day. 20 years ago, no one outside of retail used that term in the US. Even now, it’s not really used for the day, except with regard to the sales.
Hotdogs are Danish. They're called polser. About Fridays, yes, I'm surprised too! I'm very familiar with the American chains like Applebee's, Chili's, and my favorite Red Lobster.
The college hoodies... I've personally only ever seen the university of utrecht hoodies and as an alumni there i really wanted one but I never found the shop where they sold them
A lot of those companies you mention have only a few or one locations, and they are using NL as a testing ground for the whole EU. But they also have a different niche than they have in the USA, unlike McDonalds. Dunkin donuts and TGI Fridays are doing well right now because of the novelty aspect and as a sort of 'American restaurant.' We don't go there just because, people go to TGI *because* of the obscene amounts of disgusting fatty food and thus the 'typical American dining expereince.' They are not going to supplant the market is all I am saying, they are only popular now because they are a novelty typicallly American experience. And those hotdogs are popular because of Germany, we already were used to eat hotdogs on the styreets like they do in Germany. You are looking at a thing that was already a thing in Germany and got exported to America and The Netherlands.
Honestly though, while take-out is convenient, it’s also much more expensive, less healthy on the whole and uses so much plastic and packaging. All in all it’s really not a good thing to incorporate into a society. But I can imagine it’s nice to see the development in this direction when you’re used to having it and miss having it now.
Wait are university hoodies not used in the Netherlands? I love university hoodies! I even have them for universities I've never been to. Like the university of Rome and even a state-branded "Kansas" hoodie!
Hi Ava. Just watched the first part of your video but i already had to comment. Dunkin donuts i don't know about, but the donut itself is a dutch invention. And as for TGI Fridays..... we had a number of them in the '90's , one of them famous in the Jackie Chen movie "Who Am I?" in Rotterdam, so that has been, as far as i know , intergated in the Netherlands for a long time.
Donuts are very similar to Dutch oliebollen. Also, many Dutch treats are deep fried, e.g. kroketten, bitterballen, frikandellen and all the other snacks. Oliebollen are deep fried too, and the composition of the varieties without raisins are pretty similar - just the shape is different. Hotdogs have been around for decades, to be honest. So has the knakworst we eat, in a normal bun, so it's not a leap from one to the other. College hoodies are mostly people trying to be cool. They haven't been around for that long unless someone had gone to the US and brought one back. 30ish years ago you'd see a Yankees cap at best.
Thanksgiving does exist in the form of giving prayers and giving thanks for the harvest in the protestant church. "Biddag and Dankdag". It plays a more religious part rather than a more openly celebrated national day. In the catholic church they have something similar but is not very common in the netherlands. I think thanksgiving involves a bit more in the usa because it also tells a tale of how usa came to be rather than just giving thanks to the harvest.
Dutch Americano, the whole medication-advert thing: John Oliver from Last Week Tonight actually has a good piece on this, look for a piece called "Marketing to Doctors".
Getting things to go, is a very long tradition: Patates frites, chinese food and pizzas. I like a sweatshirt of my alma mater (Utrecht) but they are not easy to come by. I especially like those with a modest embleme : "sol iustitiae illusra nos".
No you can't call it a hot dog, a knak worst is a lot smaller and tastes different. Besides a hot dog is a bun with a sausage and some sort of sauce, a knakworst is just a sausage
Halloween is a European holiday, not an American holiday. Most of us forgot but it used to be celebrated with beets and not pumpkins. Americans didn't forget and used pumpkins, made some other changes and that version is now back in the EU.
Hi Ava, could you clear up a custom for me ?. Is coffee drinking from a machine in offices a regular habit in the U.S. ? In this country it's either free or for a few cents and "take cover !" if there isn't. Talking about take out and stuff , I've seen scenes in films (alright movies ) where people came into the office having a cup of coffee (the Starbucks kind) so what's the deal here , don't they have it in the office or do those people want their own particular kind ? In a former job I saw people coming in, holding their cups while the office had plenty , free, spaces to get coffee. Which left me wondering .Thanks !
Just about every office in America has free coffee. People just want to be trendy and grab a coffee from Starbucks on their way to work. Plus the "institutional" coffee that's served in most offices is weak and bland so getting it from somewhere outside of the office is definitely a step up
Over the last two decades more and more American holidays have been introduced to Dutch consumers by retailers as a bellows to boost sales. The holidays never really took firm cultural hold, but the consumerism associated with them and with American popculture, did. It started with Valentines Day in the late nineties, culminating in the latest craze: BlackWeek 2020 (Black Friday on steroids due to covid19)
You should check out the movie Demolition Man. There is a scene at a Taco Bell restaurant. But not in the European version. There it's Pizza Hut. If you look closely, you can even see the actors mouth the name "Taco Bell", but you hear them saying "Pizza Hut".
When my hometown was liberated in september 1944 (by American and British army) the people started to use English in their language almost immediately. I have a news paper snippet from october 1944 where the mayor of Nijmegen thanks Grave (don't be scared of the name, we're pretty much alive 😂) for their help in bringing food, milk and other needs to the Nijmegen hospital. He uses the phrase "last not least" and writes "there's the English influence already". See here: www.bommeltje.nl/website/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/DD310B88-7C27-45C5-9D4E-0DC06CCE880E.jpeg And don't forget that we have seen almost any American action and sci-fi movie since then. So most of us don't need explaination when we hear certain US brands. And hotdogs... are you sure that's an American thing? The name maybe, but the idea is pretty European 🌭😋 Have a good Christmas Aeva 🎄👍
The hot dogs as sold the sausage on bun is different from the original European. Don't we have both American version and European and a mash of it anyway
I believe that some dutch people also use american phrases because they are shorter and more to the point and sometimes also to be less confrontational.
Some phrases also just have a different meaning from the Dutch version or are cited from pop culture. If I say 'Oh mijn god' it sounds pretty serious, as if something is very wrong. If I say 'Oh my god' it just means I'm reacting xD If I say "Hey loser, let's go shopping", it means something different than "Hé, verliezer, laten we gaan winkelen" xD
Black Friday is a commercial invention and it is ghastly. But it didn't provoke the "Claus 'raus" counter-action which the merchants got, when they began to sell christmas stuff ahead of Sinterklaas. That's why it is now pushed. Also because it is about a week ahead of Sinterklaas, it broadens the sales away from only the children gifts.
Our use of English comes from two things. One is the lessons from a young age in school. The other is all the tv! Lots and lots of movies, which are subtitled in dutch, but the audio is intact, so you pick up the entire language, including all the PLACES in the USA... I mean, I've never been there, never looked at a map even, and I know of Lubbock Texas... Or Paris Kentucky, or Chicago Illinois. And I couldn't name all the states to save my life! But things like this, and the things you mentioned of using English when you say hi or bye, it's just grown into our culture, and the multi-culture we are now, also contributes to that, because even if you're foreign, MOST of us do speak English. Okay, with a stiff accent you can lean on, but it's understandable nonetheless. ;-)) I mean, how do I know there are swamps and gators in Florida? I've not learned that in school you know?! It's all movies and series that depict a LOT of the culture. It's movies and series that taught me about all the different landscapes in the USA too. The Grand Canyon being famous, but I do know that Arizona is desert, and I've seen yellowstone national park in so many ways, without ever having been there. Series like Gold Rush also show a lot of the landscapes. It's awesome HOW much you can see through tv, and also google maps and earth these days. Just awesome! And all of this makes me wonder how much the rest of the world knows about us Dutchies?! ;-) And this is why I love vids like yours :-)
Top two of reasons for saying 'how are you' instead of 'hoe gaat het?': 1: not actually caring for an answer (USA style) 2: dental anesthetics (making the 't'-sound so much more difficult)
first there were "oliebollen" and then there were donuts.....try it: buy both and compare not only the taste but also the texture. also you can google it
Hi Ava. To number four on your list: we see many American-made TV-shows and movies. Most of what we import in that respect, has its origins in American studios. So we're -- in a way -- brainwashed with American English. Also, besides the native English speakers, the Dutch are most noted for our mastery of the English language. From that viewpoint, do you really think it's surprising that a lot of American English rubs off on us? English is almost second nature to us.
American foodchains. I would like to see my fav foodchain for when i'm in the south east USA: Cracker Barrel! i love that restaurant with the rocking chairs outside. Hotdags have been here since i was born, so for over 50 years. It's acually a German sausage that the USA renamed as 'Hotdog'.
The "Thuisbezorgd" brand is owned by "Justeat" And even 3 years ago they did deliveries for a lot of different kinds of restaurants. You could order italian, indian, thai, surinaams (roti!), chinese etc etc.
@@hcjkruse I know, Justeat bought thuisbezorgd a few years ago. (Giving them a monopoly position) I was just stating the current state of things. I'm not really a fan of them anymore since they suddenly more then doubled the percentage the restaurants have to pay them last year. They are basically extorting the restaurants cause most don't have any other alternative to do home delivery.
Black friday in the netherlands: Step 1) Stores up the prices of their products by 30-50% Step 2) Stores offer these items as 'Black friday deals' for 10-30% less. They think their customers are idiots.
i quite often use english words mixed in my dutch speech/messages. mostly because there isn't really a word for in dutch OR i just forgot the dutch word for it.
Carnaval is not so much a southern thing, but a Catholic thing. In the old days Carnaval would mark the start of the season of lent which ends at Easter, but I don't think people still do that. Catholics also have a pretty direct replacement for Halloween, namely the feast of Saint Martin on 11/11. My guess for Halloween growing in popularity is that people do like the idea behind Saint Martin, but don't like the link with Catholicism. It's also commercially more interesting because Saint Martin does not have the dress-up, only the candles.
