American Reacts What's Something Europe Has Changed In Your Mind As An American? | Part 1 | TikTok 

The biggest difference in food between Europe & US is the food additive laws. In Europe nothing can be added to food until it is fully proven that it has absolutely no detrimental effects to health, in US something can be added to food until it is fully proven to have detrimental effects on health.

The last lady...were the friends she asked about the hairbrush black? Because that's pretty much universal. If you ask a black person in Europe, they will tell you where to find black hair products. There are shops everywhere. It's just that white people don't need those, so they don't know where they are. I find it really hard to believe it took her a month. Just google afro hair shop and plenty of addresses pop out. I found some in Belgrade and Minsk. Some people just don't have common sense.

'Murica: "...it's like Disneyland, but without the fun". What a quote!

eggs are meant to be save. The shell protects what is inside against bacteria. When you wash an egg, you wash away the protection.

Scandinavian here; ifan American says that the "food" at McDonalds here in Sweden is good compared to that in The U.S.A, then you must have some really revolting food over there on the other side of the pond!!!!

2:09 "No one's gonna change my viewpoints" is not left, not right, but just stubborn. Always keep an open mind for new information and new insights that might change your opinion.

Denmark: Milk here is in the store in less than 24 hours after coming from the cow. It last 4-5 days in fridge (if un-opened). Lasting weeks would freak me out too lol

That last one was just silly, she was in London, there are loads of shops in London that cater to a black clientele & there were phones & the internet in 2018, she could have found them.

About food: What You call organic food (and pay an extra) is the standard food in Europe, far less chemical additives in food etc

The difference between health care in the USA and Europe is caused by the point of view, in Europe it is a provision for assistance, in the USA it is a revenue model.

About the " more options" for food, i guess it looks like that : Europe : 1.good, 2. decent US : 1. decent, 2.shit, 3.garbage, 4.poison but yay for more options 😄😄

My family lived in Germany for seven years with the military. Most of the foods were shipped in from the USA, but all of our dairy came from Denmark. The difference was night and day and EVERYONE noticed it. The milk was fresher and somehow a bit thicker. Yogurt, cheese, cottage cheese all tasted SO much better. For me, it was the butter that blew me away. It was a flashback to my early childhood. I hadn't tasted BUTTER - real butter flavor like that - in years. When it was time to PCS the wives would lament the loss of good dairy. Something is really wrong with our dairy and I don't know what or how. Also, Coke. I'm talking about the soda pop. I got a small can in Czech and when that flavor hit my tongue, it was a revelation. I stopped the group I was with and demanded everyone buy a can. Same thing as the milk. The memories of the flavor of what Coke used to be waved through the group. EVERYONE stared at their can with wide eyes. THIS was the flavor of Coke a cola. It was hard for all of us to walk away from that and several bought cans to smuggle home.

People don't call 911 for their health, but they do call 911 when the store manager doesn't agree with you. lol

raw milk can be consumed for about 3-4 days, store-bought pasteurised milk for about 10-12 days here in Europe

Your eggs have more bacteria BECAUSE you wash them. You remove the protective barrier that’s is on the shells.

Regarding politics; here in Europe Bernie Sanders would be more or less be center on the political scale

the egg thing... it's a coverup to not have clean farms, so it's a cheap bandaid on a much bigger problem... same reason u have a klorin bath for the chickens, just before they are ready to be packaged... if there's clean areas, for the chickens to walk and lay their eggs, they would not be dirty, and not need to be cleaned, and same for the chickens used for eating...

In Italy, milk is selled in 1 litre bottles or bixes and last 2/3 days. Some years ago, a company tried to sell the same milk you have in USA , but they got fined because they wrote on the package "fresh milk". There is no way you can call fresh a kind of milk that has preservants and can last a week or more in the refrigerator. They had to stop selling that milk because they knew if it was not "fresh" and had preservants, people would not buy it.

The political analysis of the first video is spot on. America talks about Left & Right, but from European viewpoints, America has Right and Far Right. Neither of the two main parties are even remotely left wing, so it is hilarious and terrifying in equal measure as a European to hear Republican rhetoric denouncing anything not them as leftist. Look at worker rights if you need any indication of how unrepresented left wing politics are in the US - and look at how the status quo is defended by the people suffering under it if you need an indication of how pervasive right wing propaganda is. People can be trained to love the taste of the boots they're made to lick.

Yeah, as a leftist from Europe (anarcho-communist), it's mad to me seeing Americans call Biden a socialist. Biden is a centre right capitalist... If he's a socialist, what does that make actual socialists? It's mindboggling.

My wife has had a broken tooth for months, her dentist would not 'fill' it for her for certain reasons and kept putting temporary fillings in it. After the last one fell out, taking most of what was left of the tooth with it, she was in severe pain. She called 111 (NHS help line) last night and had a dentist call her back with an emergancy appointment this morning for later in the day. I took her to the dentist and she had the broken tooth removed. It cost her,........wait for it America............. £25! (if she was on certain benefits this would have been free). We left the surgery and 5 minutes later returned, because her gum was bleeding heavily. The dentist put a stitch in the wound and we left. Nothing extra to pay, catch up with the rest of the civilised world America!

I lived in the US for three years and remember how my American friends were pretty shocked that I used trains and buses to get around 😅I rode the Amtrak from San Diego to New Orleans over night - it's pretty slow but I wasn't in a hurry. I used buses and walked every where I went and met some great people. One American friend told me 'only poor people use buses'. He preferred to sit in traffic jams 😆😆

If you look for instance at the same breakfast cereal in the US and the UK and then look at the ingredients you’ll see the difference . In the UK then maybe two or three ingredients and some flavourings . In the US there will be a list of about 20 ingredients , flavourings , preservatives and chemicals all added to it

Searched for one month for a Hairbrush suited for her Hair .. in London??? This belongs in "The dumbest things americans ever said to me" video section.There are african shops & hair salons in every european city i have been to.I live in the second largest city in Austria and there are 5 .. here .. in walking distance . You wouldn´t catch a black girl with a bad-hair-day even if u tried around here. Dread from Austria sends greetings having fun with your reactions m8.

US eggs vs UK/European eggs: Typically US chickens are packed together tightly to maximise profit/square foot. So the chickens, and their eggs, are spattered with faeces. So the 'farmers' (manufacturers) want to remove the faeces before consumers see the eggs to encourage consumers to keep buying highly profitable eggs (otherwise consumers might seek out eggs produced in more sanitary conditions). Further, needing expensive, capital intensive, egg cleaning system creates an artificial barrier to entry for small producers. The legal requirement for egg washing is an agri-business scam to increase the costs for new competition, and reduce the benefits of less intensive farming of eggs. If there was no need for expensive machinery to wash eggs, the cost to start selling eggs commercially would be much lower. That would enable small business to easily enter the market and compete with large egg producers. Small egg (and chicken) produces could produce a better product by raising chickens in better conditions. So large egg producers (agri-business) is going to lobby politicians, and food standard agencies for regulations which require large capital investments to enter their market. It's a double benefit to large businesses. They can pack the chickens tightly, but hide that from consumers, and create a high-capital-cost-investment (an egg washing factory) as a barrier to competition. Further, if the protective layer (cuticle) is still on the egg, and not chemically washed away, eggs do not need refrigeration for transport and storage during retail. There are large transport companies who have invested in fleets of refrigerated trucks. So those companies are going to lobby for processes which maintain the value of their investment, and reduce the market for transportation operators with unrefrigerated trucks. The UK and European Union have found that fewer people (per capita) become ill, or die, from chickens and eggs which are raised in sanitary conditions, and hence do not need special washing equipment to make them clean enough for human consumption. US egg washing 'factories' enable very large 'agri-businesses' to maximise profit by packing chickens in unsanitary conditions, then washing away the faeces to disguise unsanitary practices. Further, the large capital cost of egg washing 'factories' creates a financial barrier to new businesses trying to enter the egg production market. New egg production businesses (aka competition) are unable to reap any financial benefit from raising their chickens in sanitary conditions. Raising chickens in sanitary conditions should have financial benefits by avoiding the cost of buying and operating an egg washing 'factory', refrigerated transport, and refrigerated storage in the stores/retailers. However, US regulations prevent egg producer raising chickens in sanitary conditions getting those financial benefits because they still have to wash the eggs (capital cost), must use refrigerated trucking, and their retailers must have refrigeration space for eggs while waiting to be bought. US egg regulations are a scam to ensure large agribusinesses can maximise profit by raising chickens in unsanitary conditions, and prevent new egg producers exploiting financial benefits from raising chickens in sanitary conditions. US egg regulation naturally follow from trying to maximise profits for capitalists, and erect barriers to non-capitalists. By that I mean businesses who are willing to start with very little capital, and fund 'organic' growth from its own profits, rather than need to be very wealthy to start, or able to raise very large amounts of capital. NOTE: UK/Europeans can and do put eggs in the refrigerator when we get home. Our unwashed eggs then typically last even longer than washed eggs because the shell is less permeable to evaporation or bacteria. Without refrigeration, unwashed eggs typically last a month without refrigeration anyway. Sorry for the long rambling answer, but I haven't time and energy to be more succinct. Best Wishes for 2024.☮

Hello from Germany! You don't have to wash or refrigerate eggs, eggs have natural protection for about 28 days. That's how long it takes for a chick to hatch until the inside of an egg is full of bacteria and pathogens protected. It is only susceptible to pathogens if it is washed or cooled! Greetings Nephilim

Yes. The Healthcare!!!! Norway. In Dec -22, Got severe headache, turned out it was subarachnoidal bleeding. Healthcare I got: - Two ambulance rides - One helicopter ambulance ride, with doctor on board. - One night in ICU in local hospital - Two nights in Neuro ICU at larger university hospital - All inclusive for three weeks, in normal neuro wing, or whatever it's called. - All the medicine, every type needed for those three weeks, from the one that stops the bleeding, to opioids. - Parking We paid like $10 in total, for the parking. That's it.

After an extended visit to the USA a friend mine claimed The Matrix was a documentary!

Europe : make food safe at all stages of production so it's safe to eat USA : make food safe at the last possible moment so it passes the minimum standards Eggs are produced in unclean conditions, then washed Chicken is produced in unclean conditions, the chlorine washed Milk is heavily pasteurised so it lasts longer, and is sold in giant bottles

Washing eggs: you are not allowed to sell eggs in the UK unless your hens are regularly tested for salmonella.

2:12 never say "no one's gonna change my viewpoints' accepting new arguments should change your viewpoints

When my husband and I were in America many years ago we went out to a lovely restaurant for dinner. We ordered starters and main meal with the option for dessert. When we were halfway through the starter we realised we were having trouble finishing. So we left half, even though it was delicious, so that we could finish our main meal. Well we could'nt - it was too much!! The waiter was so worried that there was something wrong with the meal and it took all our time to persuade him quite the opposite. There was simply too much food. What we now do when we visit is to have a cocktail as starter, go straight to the main meal and share the pudding. That works better us.

Big props to the lady at 10:10 for saying 'european countries' instead of just europe

Chocolate tastes weird, because the US seems to absolutely HAVE to use UHT milk. It makes the chocolate taste like baby vomit.

For me as a Dutch person, it is the strangest thing that you have to pay for an ambulance. You get an heart attack, accident or something else why you need an ambulance and tin the US they treat the ambulance like a product they rent out or a very expensive taxi ride. It is beyond my comprehension It would be nice to hear it the other way around. From people from Europe that moved to the US.

I remembered my high school teacher telling me how he was in mcdonald's in america and how he heard adult women screaming like someone was attacking them, turns out they were screaming because they had seen a mosquito outside of their window

Oh yes, the food at McDonald's in the USA... I'm German and I was at a McDonald's in Virginia. I just couldn't eat it for the life of me. It was fat and sugar. Nothing more. The burger consisted of a flabby white bun, a meat-like greasy something on it and an extreme amount of mayonnaise on top. And then the fries... If McDonald's in Germany had such quality, it simply couldn't survive.

And McDonalds is in Europa is low quality food

You might want to get your head around politics a lot of benefits in Europe , food standards , transport health come from government intervention ie 'big' government.

Most of the topics here are connected to your political system. It's about the unrestrained capitalism. Note that I write the Unrestrained - my comment is not meant to be political: when you have companies that can grow more powerful than sovereign nations, you hollow out democracy, and they will take the power from the people. Because it all becomes a game about profit. That's why you don't pay any taxes and can't call for an ambulance (I for myself once called an ambulance for a sprained thumb when being drunk at a party). That's why your food tastes funny, why you cheese taste like chemicals and why they cut corners to bath the eggs in some anti-bacteria or god-knows-what, so the costumer has to wash them from chemicals afterwards. That's why you have all these expensive insurances - because that is money that goes back to the companies. In Europe they got taxes to cover that instead - because that is money that goes back to the people and the society.

You should look at ‘Food Wars’ where they do the differences between UK McDonalds & U.S. A hint, UK fries have 3 ingredients, U.S. is a whole long list. Add on they use free range eggs here in UK 🤯

Hi from France ! Had to call our "911" twice... cost me nothing. I actually learned last year that the american 911 is dispatched to private companies, whereas the one here is a public service !

She said "Everything looks like the thing, but isn't the thing." LOL It's funny 'cause it's true.

In addition to the many comments on why eggs need to be washed in the USA (and it seems in Japan) there's an interesting fact. Despite all the chemical processes needed to wash eggs the USA consistently has higher numbers of salmonella infections than Europe. Considering that in many European countries raw eggs are added to food and NOT cooked afterwards (original Carbonara comes to mind as one prime example, Zabaione is another) those numbers are even more astonishing. So yes, Washington couldn't help but issue a law via the FDA that requires the washing of eggs, costing MORE than clean animal husbandry, vaccination of chickens to PREVENT infections instead of feeding them antibiotics to treat an infection after it happened... The list goes on and on. That makes eggs up to three times as expensive in the USA than most European countries with still worse health outcomes. THAT'S the part I don't get. Paying more for getting less is something I simply can't comprehend.🤔

"both sides are equally right and wrong" is EXACTLY the brainwashing that first guy was fkng talking about, mate.

In the UK we treat our animal livestock better. We spend the money inject the chickens against salmonella. No salmonella eggs 👍

it is absolutely heartbreaking to see americans brought to tears in some cases when they find out health care doesnt ever result in financial hardship over in europe

Not calling 911… I live in the Netherlands and was stopped for using my phone while cycling (12 seconds) on my bicycle by 4 cops in a mini van. They came, at speed, from the road and crosses over the curb, bikelane and sidewalk. Blocking me. Jumped out with 3 of them. I was mortified and baffled by this extreme measures. I tried to argue my point. They stayed quite calm, but intimidating in a semi circle around me. One had hand on their holster (yeah police has hand guns here).. just ain’t used to this i was shacking with apprehension.. feeling mistreated (right or wrong. This is what i felt) In the end I took the fine (they could have let it go imho, but alas). The next day i decided to contact the police and request clarification on the way this event occurred. I was recontacted a few hours later and they explained i was stopped by an overzealous group of agents in training. Got an apology and was promised my feedback would be provided back to the training unit. Still have to pay the fine tho 😂

I love US fast food everywhere else except when i went to the states. The food had so much chemicals i remember telling my relative why does this food taste like dust? It also hit me, no wonder they have free "fountain" soda refills. No one really wants it, or like me could take more than a few sips. It was all chemicals! What the hell man. Then you grow fat, get sick and can't see a doctor. 😢 sad sh!t.

yes the food and medicine, beauty products...etc. as an exemple i'm rounding it up but, in the US about 11 chemicals are banned in cosmetics, in europe it's 1600 something... banned because they're considered carcinogen or dangerous for the health (and/or the environnement) for one reason or another. And it's the same with the food. Good healthy fresh food is really accessible here. I personally get my fruits,veggies, eggs, cheese, meat...etc. at a local organic farmers market and it's really not expensive. But you have to cook! in the us the crappiest ready-made food is the cheapest. So it's tempting.

Norwegian here; Whenever I visit the US I cant eat any of your breakfast/lunch foods, I get really ill whenever I try to eat any of your start-the-day-food because of all the "add-in's" that's in them..

5:30 In my experience, here in the Netherlands we don't call the emergency services if it can be avoided. This is not a financial thing, but a way to not put unnecessary pressure on the system, keeping it available for true emergencies.

There are black hair shops though, all over the uk

agree my brother in Italy use train to go to France weekly and bike to Venice and still have plenty time to cook and travel and play sport while supporting his wife and kids in France

6:26 here in Lithuania you can call ambulance for almost anything medical related, and unless you frequently abuse ambulace as a free taxi you wont get any problems , financial or otherwise

Wash and go is, - wash your hair, comb your hair and that's it. You can now go do your thing. New Zealand (Kiwi) girl here. I have family in the Netherlands and I love to visit Europe.

Off course cajun cooking is great. It has its roots OUTSIDE of america.

Small portions can seem large, served on smaller plates. In addition, there is no good restaurant that does not take your health into account. Everything from a totally vegan diet to good (not processed) meat

Healtcare isn't actually free in Europe, you pay it when you pay taxes. US just doesn't use tax dollars to healthcare, if they use even part of the money they put in military, it could lower the costs of healthcare a lot.

NO No the portion sizes in the U.S are MASSIVE. I live in the UK and the portion size here is quite big, it looks big and is enough to fill you up... America how ever gives you enough to fed 2/3 people! I was shocked how much food was on the plate, and the lady was right the quality was not good! Refrigerated milk here lasts 10 ish days TOPS!

I've had a lot of friends and family visit the US and some even live there. Most of them get sick the first few days or even weeks. The mother of my SO was sick the entire month until they got back home. It's worrying how common this story is!?!

In Sweden MacDonalds has a lot of difficulty implementing there because thexswedish have their own fast food company called Max's which are so much better, their bread and meat are real and daily fresh. In Sweden if you got to eat at a fast food joint go to Max's, accept no substitutes.

you might wanna give this a go: what does your tax dollars actually fund, if by not fault of your own you get sick or you lose your job or even if you dont need anything in particular what do your taxes fund because rich or poor the government takes a cut of your salary and adds a value to the stuff you buy and then decide on your own if your getting anything worth your hard earned money. Its not even a question of America vs Europe, americans should look at what they give and what they get and decide if its worthy.

The coffee itself is sickeningly sweet! Just find a good variety: it should taste good and not taste like tobacco ash. Just drink coffee without sugar for a few days - everything will get better and you won’t understand how you can add more sugar to this sweetness!

I'm german, I work around 100 hours a MONTH and I can afford a living by myself in a flat (I rent, which is pretty common in Germany) with fully covered health care and owning a car....taxes paid. And I get my fully paid 30 vacation days a year.

probably, the reason eggs are washed is because the chickens are kept in way dirtier conditions. If the nesting box is clean, the eggs don't get really dirty.

The milk thing is just about being ignorant and not knowing how its produced. There is different gradiants of how you process milk. Raw milk is obviously unprocessed and therefore will go off quickly. Then you have pasteurization (PAST) where the milk is heated to like 80 degrees C to kill off some bacteria and that makes it last a week or two while being refrigerated. And then you have ultra high temperature treatment (UHT) where its boiled at 100+ degree celcius to kill all of the bacteria and it makes it stable to be unrefrigeratedly kept for months but also looses a lot of the nutrients.

as an European who used to live in the States, I have some stuff to add to this list as reverse culture chocks. Since I lived there and also visited so many times it felt like I lived in other parts of the country too, I had to buy groceries. I, just for fun, decided to take one shelf in the soft beverages isle and see what ingredients they had. Out of the 20+ items I checked only 1 had 1 natural ingredient - water. The rest didn't even cointain water as an ingredient. They're beverages! Juices and soft drinks FFS! Also sugar coated sugar cubes in fun colours. But I do agree with the lady about the cheesecake. Nothing beats American Cheesecake. Food quality in Europe is better because we care about what we put in our mouths. which is why so many things are banned in EU and Europe as a whole. Like American Eggs (lack of controlls for salmonella is one of the reasons). FDA lets anything slide if you pay them enough. EU regulates everything. If there's a potential health risk, they will flag it and do thorough research and then ban it. Producers have 12 months to adjust. We do have poptarts here in Europe too, but those are not the same as in the US since the imported stuff sold in stores still need to comply to the strict food regulations. So Stuff like Mountain Dew that contains carcogenic ingredients and Cereals that cointain artificial flavours that have been found to distrupt hormone production and infertility have a clean EU version, made in the same factory as the US versions. But these healthier options won't be sold in the US because, money is worth more than human lives. Europe thinks humans are worth more than money. That's the main difference between USA and EU.

I was born in London but lived in California for 20 years from the age of 2. Returned on holiday after living back in England for about 25 years and was at a buffet meal where I saw some beautiful, big, bright red strawberries; bit into one and...yeuch watery and flavourless.

Let's go for next part !👍 Charlie

genetically modified food is not allowed in the UK; in the US I don't think they even have to tell you if it is genetically modified.

UHT treaded milk - They bacasially boiled the milk at 140º C. To make it last longer. But it changes the flaveor alot!

9:17 😂 Not the milk, but the bread… I lived in the USA 25 years ago. First week bought a loaf of bread. Forgot about it. Left it on the countertop. 3 or 4 weeks later it still wasn’t mouldy and felt and looked fresh. I decided that if I ever want to decompose after death and/or not glow up green during life, I should probably eat different bread. So I went out to find bread that does turn stale. Meanwhile we seem to have moved to longer living bread at home. 😢

"creamer" an artifical chemical product you wont get served anywhere in Europe. People here put actual milk or perhaps actual cream in coffee.

Regular American milk is what we call long life milk in the UK.

Health care in europe isn't for free. In some countries you pay it per taxes and in others per health insurance or a mix of both systems. The difference to the us is that you usually don't have to pay extra for your health treatments. As the health insurances and gouvernments are interested in not paying too much for health treatment the prices a much lower then in the us.

6:48 The reason the US eggs have to be washed in chemicals, is then you don't have to fight salmonella at the farms, and that would be expensive!

We do not refrigerate our eggs in NZ. They can stay room temp for ages

About eggs : in most european countries they are a natural shade of beige/brown ! The ones I get in France are s untouched that they sometimes even have tiny feathers on them...

The larger sizes in the USA is generally true and often commented on by US tourists in Australia, Two examples. Macdonald's drink sizes: USA: small - 473ml; medium - 621ml; large - 887ml Australia: small - 300ml; medium - 500ml; large - 650ml Pizza Hut USA: personal - 6in; small - 10in; medium - 12in; large - 15in Australia: personal - 6in; medium - 9in; large - 11in Another video explaining the eggs: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uUKVN04SjFM.html

Love the channel fella very insightful, Lee 🇬🇧.

If you admire functioning universal healthcare, better food regulation, and overall better social security, and then claim yourself not political... Well then, i should point out you'll never achieve thoes in your own country, because all of them have absolutely got to do with politics! I see another American reactor saying he wants better food quality and smaller government in the same breath, and i just dispair...

There is no BRITISH ACCENT.. Its English..or Scotish or welsh or Irish..

I agree on the hair brush… can find it if you google it even in the countryside I live in… because believe it or not we have people coming from Africa leaving around (and in my case it s not northen Africa, but rather below and center). And for food… well there s something called regulation that lot of companies in the US prefer seeing as very much reduced. You have regulations for everything food related, even the packaging (so how it is produced, how you sell it, how you ship and store it, how long you can consume it, how to dispose of it…). It feels like a lot, but it s also regarding environment and health, so no, we don t joke with our food ^^.

I seen one of these comparison videos about health care, before I retired I worked for 50 years after leaving school, NI=National Insurance was dependant on your Gross pay each Wk or Mnt. The vlogger was in Dallas Tx ( not Dallas Scotland) and he spoke to one guy, good job good ins cover broke his collar and even with good ins from his job, he still had to pay $6000.

Milk in UK is literally just milk(pasteurised). God knows what the US add to it to make it last that long.

If food is of good quality and fresh, you will be full from a much smaller portion than with industrial food.

If you work you pay national insurance which is deducted on how much you earn, but it's still a lot less than U.S. medical insurance

We in finland have two main types of milk: UHT(Ultra-high-temperature processing) and regular. Regular stays good for a week or so, and UHT for months. No preservatives needed.

I’m sure if was in London or somewhere like that she would have found the right harebrush

ambulance cost about 800euro, but insurance pays everything. (in netherlands) but not if u calling for nothing. but yea normale shit

Wondering about the milk, so I looked it up. 4 diffences: BST used in the USA (growth hormone), Antibiotics more often used in the USA, but also used in europe more bacteria in the milk in the USA because of a high speed pasteurizing (HTST) method, Amino acid proline type vs histidine this is in the genetic of cows, but still can cause isseus in the stomach. My personal thought is that we are not baby calves. So don't drink too much milk.

Regarding portion size; when me and my siblings where in the US in 2010 we got served starters that had the same size as a european main course.

I have had amazing food in the US, both in top restaurants and small family Mexican places, BUT generally the food is dreadful. Not horrible, only everything is sweet and textureless, and so almost all food in the US seems as if it is designed for an 8 year old's birthday party.

I am 75 years old and healthy as a nut. I have had two back surgeries and one surgery to remove a cancerous kidney. And, yes! I had surgery when I was ten because I was 'cross-eyed'. I have been picked up by the ambulance four times. If I do the math (I don't need math) it has cost me Taxes, and fifteen dollars every day in the hospital. NOTHING more for Surgery, or Ambulance. For me, it is as difficult to understand your system (which is more expensive for the State), as it is for you to understand that We like to be safe.

Eggs have a protective coating, if you wash them it removes it and the eggs don't last as long.. its much better to brush them off, they'll last for 2 months at room temp, 6 months in the fridge..washing lowers storage time.

9:08 That's the difference between fresh milk and UHT milk! Pasteurization is a super quick process whereby the raw milk is heated to 74C for 15 seconds. UHT milk goes through an ultra-pasteurization process, which safely heats the milk to a higher-than-usual temperature of approximately 140C for 2+ seconds before it is packed aseptically.30.01.2023

I agree about the "like Disneyland" comment..american towns literally look like a theme park. All the buildings look like fake ones built for a film set! 😂 The style has no heritage, they call something 50 years old a "historic building" . FFS, my house in England was built in 1620, and it will still be standing in another 400 years.

Eggs when layed have a protective layer on them to deter bacteria. Even if some guano gets on them they are still protected. By washing them you are removing this layer so they have to be kept in the fridge for safety. If they are not washed they can be stored for a few weeks at room temperature. I have even hatched chicks from eggs up to 21 days old and these eggs were not refrigerated. Refrigerated eggs can be hatched too but not as successfully.

January 2023, on holiday in New Zealand. Total cost for repair of fractured femur and replacement of prosthetic hip joint after a fall, including a week in hospital, physio and aftercare: zero. Apparently all tourists in NZ (which is known for some pretty dangerous sporting opportunites) are treated free for injuries resulting from a fall. I’m too old and too chicken to indulge in dangerous sports - I just fell off a bed.