Hagelslag is real chocolate. Yes, they wash their hair daily with shampoo Lekker means tasty, delicious, beautiful, nice. The through sounds are moistly used in the western parts of the Netherlands. The south and east sounds different with much softer sounds. We don’t wear helmets because we learn to ride a bike from about 4 yo; we’re quite good at it. Without a helmet you are more vulnerable and makes everyone much more careful.
Wearing a helmet on a bike would seriously mess up your perfect hair. Cannot be done. Also, you don't suggest to a cowboy to wear a helmet when riding a horse.
I am orginally from Amsterdam but lived in the German city of Cologne, Wenn I moved into a new flat I called my parents and told them: "Ik woon nu nummer 86-88 in de Eintrachtstraße". My German girlfriend looked at me and said: "I didn't know you could make such sounds."
No hageslag is not chocolate, it contains cacao and milk powder as main ingredients but it's kneaded into a dough and then extruded into long wires that's then cut into small pieces. So the production process is completely different and the texture of hageslag is grainy/powdery unlike chocolate from a bar. (You can see this if you crush a piece of hageslag, it turns into a powder. This does not happen if you try to crush a piece of chocolate from a bar. It's similar to chocolate, but it's not made from it. todio.nl/eten-drinken/hoe-wordt-hagelslag-gemaakt/ willemwever.kro-ncrv.nl/vraag_antwoord/eten-en-drinken/hoe-wordt-hagelslag-gemaakt
Oh dear, you tried the melkhagelslag so that's the milk chocolate, which indeed tastes not so chocolaty. Recognisable by the blue package/lettering/stripes. Better take the pure next time (red lettering/stripes/package), higher chocolate content so much tastier 😋. Also about the bikes. You do realise we learn how to ride them and manoeuvre through traffic at a really young age plus the fact we have specified bike paths almost everywhere in NL. Add to that the fact that by law when an accident occurs automatically the stronger traffic participant is at fault, all motorists are bakeries themselves and a lot of children have traffic (bike) lessons and exam at school when they are 10-12 yo and voilà safe country to ride bikes is born. Doesn't hurt our country is so flat either🤣🤣🤣.
Yeah Hagelslag is just chocolade if you ask me, but please eat this with brown bread instead. Much more healthie a fresh baked brown slice of bread, grass butter and a lot of Hagelslag.. delicious. Enjoy ladies.. greetings from Westland near The Hague. You both are " Lekker " bezig 🤣🤣
I am from Indonesia, a lot of Dutch rubs off on us.. I often eat bread butter + chocolate sprinkles (we call meisjes).. And good food we use to say Lekkeer to..
Hagelslag is no weirder than peanut butter and jelly. I grew up in Canada but I am from Limburg province where the phlegm sound is not used. The first time I heard someone speak northern Dutch I nearly crapped myself. I would also like to point out that my hair is wispy, not thick (beware of generalizations) and I shampoo it pretty much every day.
thanks for your comment John! haha you're right peanut butter and jelly is quite similar. We like the Limburg accent, softer and easier for us to speak. (we definitely generalize a lot for the sake of humour, just making observations of the people here in Amsterdam :) )
People think the Dutch g is strange and weird. Think of it this way, you can pronounce the T, K and S right? The S is a fricative (forcing air through a narrow channel with your tongue) at the location of your teeth, just like the T is a plosive (blockage so that air stops) at the same location. The K is a plosive at your velar (back of your mouth), and the Dutch G is just the equivalent of a S but at the K's position. It may sound 'throaty', but it is not an unusual sound in a language at all. There are some variations such as dialects as well, but that is the gist of it.
I Tried the hageslags once, thinking it was made of chocolate...daaamn...it's basically sugar (yes indeed icecream sprinkles with a hint of chocolate")...i closed the box and never opened it again.
the public toilets that you showed in the video can only be found in Amsterdam, nowhere in the Netherlands do you see public toilets on the street ..... so it is not completely typical Dutch but typical Amsterdam ... I also think it's dirty toilets on the street
Hm, afaik none of those hair examples seem to show greasy hair. If it's fuzzy and frilly it cannot be unwashed greasy hair. Unwashed hair sits flat on the head and has little volume. It's more likely a lot of (young) men use hairproducts like wax and gel
You didn’t see my hair 🤣 I shave it and when bits get in sight or start to irritate me (pr people in my surroundings start complaining that it’s time to get a shave) i shave it off again.
I believe is still the case that The Netherlands imports the most hair gel in the world. So some conformity in hairstyles, especially men's hairstyles, may be correct.
Nice video! You are very "gezellige en slimme meiden" 😊! (You know what these words mean, don't you 🙂?) You both could make friends with everybody very quickly. I wish you a pleasent stay in 🇳🇱 😊!
Great fun: problem with pronunciation is that some sounds that don't exist in English are used in Dutch. My wife is from Scotland and she finds the difference between "muis" and "mus" almost impossible. It's mostly the sounds that we uses to vowels to write it down like: ui, au, ou, eu and also the difference between short and long ones like a and aa, e and ee, u and uu, o and oo. For these sounds we will always know you are not native speakers. Great effort though.
Eh... not a urinal (that’s the bottle...) but a urinoir, or pissoir - which seems a remarkable combination of the French word urinoir and the English piss.
Lekker is common Dutch word for something tasty, a good feeling, or to describe someone sexy. So it is widely useful. But it doesn't always sound good in grammar or style. With a vacation for example. Then it is technically possible to call it lekker. But most Dutch people would use another word then. Like 'fijn'. (nice). Hagelsag really is chocolate yes, literally chocolate sprinkles like you would put in a cake or ice cream. There is acually a law that requires products to have a minimal amound of cocoa to be called chocolate. There is a 'chocolate' bar called Koetjesreep which does not have enough cocoa to be legally called chocolate.
Why did you toasted the bread? The normal / basic version of eating hagelslag is: normal bread (white or dark) butter on and then hagelslag. The next time change the butter with pindakaas! It is eating snicker bread
Shampoo story: if you ask me, they use it everyday, but to shape their ultra dry hair you need tons of gel...haha. So you pay twice to Loreal or whatever...when I was 14 I stopped washing my hair with shampoo...you take a shower everyday so you wash with water. What shampoo does, is extract all the natural grease so your scalp will be stimulated to produce and produce.... When you don't use shampoo, your hair will stay in a normal condition...and it won't smell. We are all fooled every day by this big companies saying you smell and stink. I'm 59 now...friends and girlfriends in my scene do exactly the same. We just don't like to be fooled. Sometimes in winter my hair is so dry , mind you, then I "feed" it once a week with Murray's... Don't let them trick you!!!!!!....deodorant for kids and all that shit. Look at the increase of all these products during the last 30 years...it's poison.
yeah totally this is true. getting used to not using shampoo we heard is a little annoying at first until your body gets used to it, but natural is always better!
@@thescanadians4208 today i discover your channel it is funny keep on telling us the weird, the good anf thr bad about the dutch people as a dutch i love it and i know we are weird 😂🤣😂 ❤, welcome to the netherlands I 👍
@@thescanadians4208 The mice are not really mashed, as the word says, but they are grinded, as i red on the dutch wikipedia. But the taste is O.K. You can find gestampte muisjes close to the hagelslag. And please note the flemish name for chocladehagelslag: muizenstrontjes.
That hair part is literally 1% of all the guys. I have long blond straight hair. Have not been to a Barber in over 10 years. And I know tons of guys who got long hair. So no I can't really stand behind that point. Also urinals are often only in big cities. And not every city got them
I am Dutch and I moved to SE Asia (where I still live) to work 20 years ago and I have to tell you, all these things in your video that used to be completely normal to me, are now just as weird to me as they are to you.
Chocolade hagelslag is actually real chocolate. But you can buy cheaper versions, which are not called chocolade hagelslag, and are not made from chocolade. But that is not the real stuff.
Dutch is agressive?? 😲 That's what they also say about German. 🤔 I speak Flemish, so the Dutch from Belgium. I never saw my mothertongue as being agressive. But Flemish is a bit softer I guess and a little bit less G sound and no spitting needed. 😁
yeah so true, german is definitely more aggressive! Flemish is softer for sure, I think we heard it on the TV show undercover! We do really love the language though, it's been so fun to learn!! Maybe we should try to speak some Flemish next time :D
....or mothers with all the children in a bakfiets, including when it rains...and speaking about weird things and accidents: what about the bikes with the brakes on the pedals? you can just slow down with them, not really brake. If you're hitting something there's no way for you to stop abruptly. I don't know, maybe it's just me i can't use them, i prefer the old "hand"actioned ones
hahah well we know this isn't universally true, but we have asked a few men about it here and they say that they typically don't wash their hair for a week or so. which is actually quite good for the scalp
that was way to much hagelslag for one slice and dont do it on toast that so expat ...... just get 2 slices brown bread and do one with hagelslag and other on top thats a broodje hagelslag
The weirdest thing i saw in this video was the mask on your face in the supermarket lol and every year that past its gonne look weirder and weirder like stupid hahah ;p
Nope, it's a cacao/milk powder dough, that's why it has a different texture then chocolate from a chocolate bar. todio.nl/eten-drinken/hoe-wordt-hagelslag-gemaakt/
@@hugom.nijhof9191 @Hugo M. Nijhof It might be considered chocolate from a legal standpoint, but it is not MADE from chocolate. A chocolate (bar) has been liquified before it's allowed to cool down and solidify which gives it a smooth homogenuous texture. This is completely different then the texture of hagelslag which is more grainy.
