Cuban Goes to IKEA For First Time | EATS SWEDISH BALLS? 

French should be pretty easy to learn as a native spanish speaker... they are like 70% the same language. Not sure French would be very useful in the States though.

You have got to go to the Grand Canyon, island boy will loose his mind at the feeling of immense time and the beauty

Suggested going to a Gun Range or store. I'm honestly very curious to see your guys thoughts on firearms given most social countries dont allow the owner ship of private firearms.

How about Bass Pro Shops or Cabella's. Or to think about it, Nebraska Furniture Mart. It was started be a Jewish woman who fled the Soviet Union. Talk about freedom.

How about going to a Chinese-Asian buffet?

That's an excellent idea!

Tim at a Fair destruction derby or playing carnival games would be hilarious.

Deep fried Twinkies!

It seems they live in the same major city I do, which means the state fair is in town right now!

@@richardm3023 the classic funnel cake. my favorite. also, he'd have to try a chocolate-dipped slice of cheesecake. one thing I really like is freeze dried skittles

Haha although it’s funny because I’m an American male and I like furniture shopping. Oh yeah, I’m GAY. Also an architect. But ask me about clothing shopping and I’m as straight as they come hahahaha. Ugh. 😂

Precisely. I empathize with the reaction. The first 15 minutes that you’re in an Ikea for the first time is interesting. The next hour and a half that it takes to get through the rest of the store is excruciating. “Wait, there’s more!? Lord, take me now.”

No he didn't have an American male experience. He had a universal male experience. We in South East Asia too can't figure why a women has to check out 5 different shops before heading back to the first one to get a pair of socks because it was 50 cents cheaper than at the other four.

I love Swedish meatballs if they are covered in brown gravy or barbeque sauce. Otherwise, not so good.

@@DP-zd8fr I am a woman who hates shopping!! Unless it's Christmas and I have lots of money to spend on other people. I love giving gifts to other people.

Sure thing!!!

Yes! I also suggested this.

yes..or swapmeet - a real peoples junk swapmeet.. or a bunch of garage sales

I'll give you a hug baby.

Those Dollar stores trick/fool you. I have spent SOOOO much money in them. It has every LITTLE THING you forgot that you needed!! 😉

I call the Dollar Tree 🌳 the $30 store 😂

I've been requesting this for a while. Hopefully they do it. Would really like to see what he thinks of Dollar Tree.

The Dollar Tree is my Target. I go in to spend $5 and end up walking out with $50 of stuff.

@@beckyf1890 literally every time! Lol 😂 … that’s why I can’t go In unsupervised anymore lol

omg yes!! And planks that move and shift for mattress bed support!!! I had to go get nails and hammer them in place after a week. Oh but now IKEA has fixa toolbox for people to buy if you don't want to use their tiny allen wrench. I got rid of my bed a long time ago, but as a 20 something living on my own I still remember the torture and my hand hurting from putting that bed together. I seriously can't imagine the horror of putting an entire kitchen together.

They have had so many recalls from tables collapsing to dressers tipping over and have killed children. To me the stuff is cheap, flimsy and way over priced for crap that you will be lucky to get 5 years out of or less.

@@oldschool72 They had a sale some years ago and I got me a wardrobe for $22. They even furnished an iron angle to fasten the thing to the wall to prevent tipping. That was the one and only piece of furniture I got from IKEA ever. But it worked and served the purpose. Most of the stuff looks no good to me. Kitchens seem to be good.

agreed. I bought a coffee table at Ikea for about $40 and it lasted me 5 months, before one of the legs just fell off. I fixed it with some wood glue but it didn't last half a day. Should have used one of those meatballs instead.

@@DP-zd8fr I've bought a lot of Ikea furniture. Fits my budget. And I've had good luck with mine, for the most part. Out of 10 items, I've only had trouble with one - a drawer bottom on a chest of drawers bulged down because I put too much weighty stuff into it, and then the drawer wouldn't close all the way. I fixed it with glue, with the help of weights pushing it in the opposite direction, and then I didn't stuff it full beyond its capacity, and it's fine.

Yeah but its not always practical or affordable to buy expensive handmade furniture. Ikeas furniture is pretty good quality wise as well.

Thank you!!!!!!!

He is!!! Has me smiling lol it's coming along very well 😊

I came to say I understood Yoel's English very well. Yoel, you are doing a great job with your English pronunciation.

Good job Yoel!!.

And our English language is hard to learn. Like the old I love Lucy where Ricky was trying to say many words.. Different spelling and different meanings but sounding all the same loo😀

@Thomas Pickens not all cajun is spicy

Eh, Cuba has a decent cuisine tradition. They don't necessarily always have the ingredients to make what they want on any given day, but they do know how to cook.

Budan is awesome

@Thomas Pickens opps. Thanks

Indian tacos 😋 yummy!!

Communism and socialism are not the same thing. Cuba is communist.

@@keriezy They are exactly the same thing. The only difference is that communism is inserted by force. Socialism is inserted by vote. They both come to the same end. Misery, death, and loss of all liberties and freedom.

@@nonjones2513 Yes. Exactly the same. Something like IKEA could never exist in a state run by social democrats. Places like Sweden for instance. Wait... What?

@@jonashansson2320 The person who started IKEA had to leave Sweden because he was taxed so heavily. If im not mistaken, he also threatened to move IKEA out of Sweden because of taxes. There is a reason why most major companies get their start in the USA.

​@@mydraftable6526 Yes. A rich guy trying to avoid paying taxes. Typical communism, would never happen in a capitalist nation. At least we don't elect those guys to become our leaders. :) But I do agree that we in Sweden, at times at least, have had to high taxes. If you talk major companies per capita I'm far from sure that most are from the USA. If you just talk numbers, yes, probably, since USA is the biggest of the rich countries.

That’s one of our next videos!!! What ethnic food?

It’s why there is only American Privilege. All that other political SJW talk is nonsense. I’m brown 1st generation American from Mexican parents and I’ve always understood this.

@@YoelAndMari Well I live in NYC, so you have Chinese (real Chinese food) in Chinatown (Manhattan or Flushing), you can get classic Jewish food (I personally like Gottlieb's a lot), you have Indian food, Thai Food, Italian, Middle Eastern (not just those Hallal Carts, but in several neighborhoods you have full restaurants), Greek (lots of great Greek places in Astoria), Persian Food (Try Great Neck for that), and every single Latin American and Caribbean country as well. I don't know what Ethnic food to try next, but just go and try them all. I would also love to see Yoel's reaction to a place like Dollar general or Amazing Savings, or other discount stores, as well as Macy's, Large Shopping Malls (if you come to NYC, try American Dream Mall in NJ or Roosevelt Field in Long Island), etc. And I hope so many other Cubans can one day experience what Yoel is experiencing.

I think one our most popular is chinese..even tho it's not real Chinese. Middle eastern? Shwarmas are legit.

@@kristee8402 which is why I said Chinatown in NYC for the real chinese food, especially the one in Flushing, Queens)

Yeah they need to show this to Gens Y, Z and beyond to show them what socialism is all about. Yoel and his fiancee (the woman with him IS his fiancee) came from a socialist dictatorship. The type of dictatorship the Democrats so want here.

Considering what type of culture he grew up in. What we grew up and taking for granted in will be in many ways a paradise to them. Be it furniture, foods, music. And yet there are folks who want to turn the USA into a large Cuba. To turn it into the type of hellhole Yoel and many others escaped from.

@@SuzetteKathyo soy cubano y tienes razón , nunca acepten el comunismo y no se vuelvan como cuba porque van a sufrir mucho

@@Ladisciplina-46577 I told some gal off when she tried to get me to be a part of the Democratic Socialist party about three years ago. She thought I should be in it due to me being a woman.

I mean, let's be real. We're talking about meatballs purchased at a furniture store. That cuisine quality bar is pretty low.

@@jonadabtheunsightly of course lol but sometimes when people are on camera they say everything is delicious to be polite, but it’s nice to see true reactions. I have had said meatballs. The thing that makes them tasty is the long journey to the cafeteria and eating them with someone you care about lol

@@jonadabtheunsightly As a Swede I can tell you that, making my GF pay for lunch is the only reason why I agree to go to IKEA with her, and I allways order a desert too.

and definitely make him dress up and go trick or treating with the kids in the family!

Trick me once, I blame you. Trick me twice, I’ll treat you! Muahahah

Spirit Halloween

Take him to Diseyland better yet Disey World in Florida

Ikea wants to trap customers until the exit. It is like maze.

I, too, have only been once. The one-way maze layout drove me nuts as I'd want to go back and get something, but couldn't since you couldn't go back. No comparisons with other things? Getouttahere.

Finding the exit is the hardest bit

@@timp1390 Good luck if there's a fire!

The idea of putting up such humongous stores is stupid. Nobody has the physical and mental strength to hang around for too long. If they thought the longer you stayed the more you spent, they are wrong. The longer you stayed the more tired you'd get and the quicker you want to leave. IKEA should have had a better IDEA.

That is coming up very very soon :)

AMEN

Hahaha me too. The silence was me silently laughing. Lol

@@YoelAndMari Thank You For Sharing These VIDEOS With Me I feel bad and sad... when i listen Yoel talk about his / your country and how they have nothing ... I Truly Wish That PRESIDENT Trump Could See Your VIDEOS AND DO SOMTHING FANTASTIC TO HELP YOUR PEOPLE.... BECAUSE YOUR VIDEOS BRING EVERYTHING TO LIGHT ...THEY TELL THE TRUTH....HE NEEDS TO SEE THEM AND ACT ON THIS SITUATION...FOR THE CUBAN PEOPLE THIS OPPRESSION NEEDS TO STOP NOW... I L💕VE MY COUNTRY I WAS BLESSED TO BE BORN HERE..UTAH🇺🇸🦅 AND I WILL TAKE MY LAST BREATH DEFENDING IT....

Right?! Thanks to lingoda. It has helped him so much!!

This is how department stores like JC Penneys, Sears, used to operate.

@@SuzetteKath I agree with you totally

probably got insulted when he said communism doesnt work.

Why would a Swede downvote it? O_o;

You are family!!! Thank you so much James we are all so blessed

You are right James. It’s humbling to watch how amazed Yoel is at somethings the we basically take for granted.

@TheRenaissanceman65 Ahhh. Thanks for the clarification. This is even sadder. 😞

I'm sure it's better if you prepare it at home from scratch

Thank you. Many things we should constantly criticize and change but we are so blessed.

Thank you Luis!

hell ya! shooting range day would be dope lol

I agree! I've had a 22 gauge rifle since I was 10 and love shooting clay disks. :) Shooting skeet would be a lot of fun.

Yes! He will LOVE it! You will too! Great idea! 😍

@@delaineyjohnson8238 isn’t “skeet” a sexual term? Like that Usher song about sweaty balls to the walls and skeet skeet etc? Hah!

@@powder-blue I have no idea since I don't listen to music that corrupts the English language with slang and hood terms. :)

Thank you so much!!!!

THANKS 🇨🇺 ❤ 🇱🇷 HERE

Thank you so much! We got tickets to disney and will be going soon!

If they have it translated in spanish

Thank you!! They also offer classes in multiple language

Wow thank you so much amor. Yes we all have to be so thankful and maybe we can meet up one day!!

IKEA is an experience. They let you in, but they won't let you out. Or at least not easily. I assume this is why the food court came about, so their customers wouldn't starve to death trying to find an exit. If you ever get the chance, definitely go, but make sure you have a few hours and bring a bottle of water. You'll need it. You go in the entrance and up the escalator, and then the 3 mazes to the exit back downstairs. And it's HUGE. Like 2 floors of Sam's Club or Costco huge. Bathrooms are by the food court.

@@newgrl Don't forget the baby/kid minder area by the front door so you can wander & shop for hours without the kids having a meltdown like dad will an hr into it, lol!

Hi!! Yes we do have Patreon. Thank you for asking. Patreon.com/yoelandmari. And regimes like what we have experienced, you and us, is always something that only we can really describe. Not many people around the world can understand fully.

@@YoelAndMari thank you for your response, will absolutely support you, please continue speaking about it, “communism does not work!”

Coming soon!

Haha he was very tired of it at the end

@@YoelAndMari I think that is common for all men going there, even as a Swedish person I relate to Yoels experience. I only go there because I make my GF pay for lunch, and I understand why they dont put the beds or sofas, after the resturant. It would be filled with sleeping men, on beds and sofas. It is too much inventory for just browsing, but ok if you know what you want before going there, and just make a straight line to the exit. Great video, Thank you and to Yoel.

True socialism does not exist because some "mans" greed always defeats it. What the USofA needs is not socialism but a social responsibility for all its peoples.

@@alanjjeff No, it doesn't.

@@KevinFarleyWV Really how do you see that if you propose socialism.

@@alanjjeff I'm not. Don't be that way. We don't need socialism or government nannies and I am under no social obligation for anyone other than my own family. Same for everyone.

@@KevinFarleyWV Social responsibility means insuring that all have the ability to earn money. Ensuring good health means a reduction in state assistance which you pay for. Leaving it to "I'm alright jack" means you pay more than you need too. Not socialism but social responsibility. The problem in the states is you confuse the two words.

Lol!

I know right! so proud of him

Thank you so much! They take me FOREVER to edit in but i think its worth it.

thank you