European Reacts to Things That Only Exist in America 

I hate advertisements for prescription meds. If you listen to the side effects, you would never take them anyway.

All waste water is treated in the US. By the time it gets back into nature the water is actually cleaner than what you will find in a river.

For Girl Scout Cookies, you only have 4 months - January through April - to buy them. That makes the huge sales even more impressive. Only sold by girls and young ladies - no advertising - a Girl Scout neighbor usually comes to the door in January asking how many boxes of cookies and what flavors you want. Though rather expensive for a box ($4 - I think), you can't help but order about 5 boxes. Some Thin Mints to go in the fridge or freezer (mint cookies best served COLD), or Samoas (coconut, caramel, on a cookie drizzled with chocolate). The girl returns a few weeks later with your boxes and you pay her. Imagine each house in America buying at least one box each year. It totally funds the Girl Scouts. (BTW, Girl Scouts teach young girls basic skills - from camping/firestarting, to horseback riding, to computer code. Each item they master, they get a patch sewn onto their Girl Scout sash. My mother was a Girl Scout in the 1940s, and I was in the 1970s. It's a great after-school activity that teaches teamwork, important skills, and self-esteem).

Food is biodegradable if it's real food, water isn't wasted when it is routed to a water treatment plant. I assume a lot of communities have them by now.

Fast food restaurants have free refills when you dine inside..including McDonalds

7:55 Betty White was older than (commercially-available) Sliced Bread (1928). She died in late December 2021, three weeks shy of 100.

I don’t have a garbage disposal, I compost my food scraps (the type that can be composted) The people I know that have a garbage disposal don’t use them very much because they get clogged a lot (they must be putting everything down the garbage disposal 🤷‍♀️) I never have shopped Black Fridays because I am a nurse and never had that day off plus I dislike crowds. I used to not like prescription drug commercials but now I think it is a good thing for the public to be aware of medications that they can discuss with their doctors and also be aware of all the side effects. Doctors are great but they are human, people tend to think their Dr knows everything and don’t question them. The ads help give us more control over our own health.

Spray cheese was originally invented by the Swiss for the British market and Canadian James Kraft was the first to patent it

Andre- some history., In 1971 the Us legalized the vote for 18 year olds. The reason? Many 18 year olds were being sent to Vietnam to die, but yet they could not legally vote. This was very unpopular with us baby boomers. There was a lot of turmoil and rioting at this time. So, the government caved in to pressure from the younger generation.

Girl Scout cookies are unique to them and made specifically for them as a fund raising event each year. They are only sold by the girls in the Scouts door to door or at temporary stands outside of stores. Moms and dads will bring order sheets to work for their daughters and pass them around for employees to order. It’s a pretty big deal. The Girls Scouts and Boy Scouts of America have been teaching kids life skills for decades. I was in the Scouts as a young girl and loved going every week!

In case people haven't seen the movie from the spray cheese clip. It's called Earth Girls are Easy, with Jim Carrey, Gina Davis, Jeff Goldblum, and Damon Wayans.

McDonald's does have free refills. Super Size as a size no longer exists now as far as I know.

it got up to 92*F (33.33333C) with 98% humidity so the Heat Index was 102*F (38.88889C) here in South Louisiana... looking at your weather, the airport in Lisbon got up to 73*F (22.77778C) with 87% humidity.

10:09 a couple of things here... when the draft was enacted for the Vietnam War... the voting age was 21 and the drinking age was 18. but there was an uproar about the draft forcing 18 year old's to die in a war but they couldn't have a say in the political process that was sending them to that war... this was the same argument that got Men the Right to vote in the first place. it was only landowners up until that point (regardless of gender). so when the Draft was first made into law in the 1800s, they had to give Men the Right to vote in the political process that was sending them to wars... this was again used to lower the age to 18 for when the Draft was actually used in the 1970s... different to that was the drinking age... it was 18 throughout most of the history of the U.S.... that is until the organization called MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) protested and used studies that showed that young adults' largest cause of death was drunk driving (also they caused a large amount of deaths because of this). so they convinced Congress to pass a law raising the drinking age to 21, which they stated would significantly cut down on the amount of drunk driving deaths... and while it did reduce it somewhat, it wasn't nearly the amount they were promising, but government is slow to change, so it didn't matter after that.. I remember this well, because I was 18 at the time, so I was 'grandfathered' in and could still buy alcohol at the time legally (although I never really drank much anyways). those that were already 18, 19, or 20 at the time the law passed were allowed to continue buying legally... and while nowadays, you mainly see older people drunk driving, it still happens with teens as well, but usually the underaged ones are the most doing it, (15-17) so it has little impact there... I (and many others) feel that the main problem was that teens weren't taught how to be responsible at home when they drank (because most parents did allow them to drink at all anyways), so when they could sneak it or could legally start, they didn't know how to temper their behavior or to not drive in that condition, because they were never taught. thus they did dangerous behavior while drunk more often... side note: nearly every State allows children (under 21) to drink as long as they are with their parent or legal guardian at the time the do it... example In Texas, any child can drink (and get drunk) as long as their parent or designated adult (approved by the parents) is present. on private property (your home) or even in public or private business (like restaurants)... most people don't know this or do it, but it is allowed by law... I let my 14 year old have a glass of red wine one time out at a restaurant and the waitress about had a conniption and refused to server her. I had to call the manager and they didn't know either and I had to look up the law and show them... the waitress still refused, but the manager took care of it and changed our waitress... this was over a decade ago.

What's often VERY odd about pharmaceutical ads is that I SPECIFICALLY CANNOT DIRECTLY BUY the advertised product. Only a doctor can. Or, then I could IF my doctor first prescribes it to me... And then, yeah I buy it at the pharmacy.

i wonder why you call it american bread when the english are responsible for inventing that kind of bread. idk why they video said its only popular in the usa, its THE bread in the uk, but in the us we really only use it for sandwiches.

Girl Scout cookies are great but overpriced. $5 for a $2 box of cookies. But it is for charity. I think we stay on the Imperial measurement system because we can. How much more American could that be? Great video, André!

Spray cheese, and peanut butter, are the best ways to get kids to eat celery. Spread some down the middle.

Black Friday is really no longer a thing. It started fading years ago with online shopping. Everyone’s got the day off so maybe more traffic than a usual Friday but the old stereotypes are long gone.

I love Girl Scout cookies and hate all commercials but especially pharmaceutical commercials.

This narrator was wrong on a lot. Especially the cheese section. I don't know literally ANYONE who eats spray cheese EVER, except once in their life just to try it. Snd American cheese is NOT American, it was invented in Switzerland and popularized in Canada. It's called "American" because it's from North America,not the USA. Super sizing hasn't been around in at least a decade, typically you can choose medium or large and even small at some places. White bread isn't American, it's English. And it's far from the most popular in America. It's just sandwich bread, not the only bread we eat. MANY countries use imperial units, and we use BOTH metric and imperial in America. Every single day! We are taught both from kindergarten.

American cheese is good. Very processed, once in a while...grilled cheese and tomato soup is awesome 👍

I read recently that the US is officially on the metric system. I use my garbage disposal; I don’t eat white bread or spray cheese. American cheese is what’s on fast food burgers, so I occasionally have that.

the pharmaceutical ads dont matter because those are prescription drugs. When you go to the doctor, he will give you the medications that HE says you need, not what is advertised on the TV. In addition, American doctors are very careful with what medications they give you. They give a patient exactly what they need and not one pill more.

4:32 nearly every fast food place and most sit down restaurants have free refills as long as you are still within the building... even McD's the fast food ones usually have a drink machine in the lobby for customers to use to get their drink in the first place and to use to also get refills... but just don't be like homer and make a nuisance of yourself....

Garbage disposals do not dump into the environment untreated,it goes to the same place as toilet waste and is treated the same way

Since my 20s (I'm 78), every home I've lived in has had a garbage disposal and I don't believe they are worse for the environment. The sewage "solids" where ground up food eventually ends up can be, and often is dried and used as fertilizer just like compost.

Andre as far as the drug ads, one should note that most of the drugs advertised on TV require a prescription from a doctor. Your doctor isn't going to give you an antidepressant randomly; you would have to be evaluated by a psychiatrist. 🙂 Same for a blood thinner...if you don't have any blood pressure issues, s/he's not going to prescribe that. 🙂

Most "American" food items... American cheese, white bread, etc. were invented during wartime or the depression. We needed bread and cheese (staple food items) to last longer and sold in bulk for cheap. Huge blocks of cheese were actually given away as commodities to the poor. That cheese didn't have to be refrigerated and could feed a large family. White bread was very cheap and didn't spoil as quickly as bakery bread. It fed a lot of starving people.

We have one. We also have the means to clean our water and most farmers reap the benefits from this.

The house I grew up in, and every apartment and house I’ve lived in has a garbage disposal. Not all communities have a compost program, mine does. We have a large yard waste container for not only lawn clippings and garden waste, that’s where you dispose of almost all food scraps and other items like pizza boxes. They also give you a small covered container for your kitchen that you put a biodegradable liner in and you empty that into the big container outside. However most apartment and condo complexes may not have a yard waste container so then the garbage disposal is the best option. “Composting food waste creates fertilizer to be used in your garden, improves your soil and increases drought resistance. However, not everyone has a yard and some of us don’t have the time or inclination to manage our food scraps by composting. If this is the case, you might consider checking to see if your area has a local business that will provide you with a small compost container and pick it up on a weekly, biweekly, or monthly basis. If that is not convenient or is not an option, the best option for food waste is to put your food scraps down the sink into the disposal. Why? Food scraps placed in the garbage and carried to the landfill decompose and produce methane gas, a greenhouse gas which is far more potent that carbon dioxide. Landfills do have methods to capture these gasses but they are not nearly as efficient as the methods used by wastewater treatment plants. Food scraps that are processed through the disposal travel with the wastewater to the treatment plants where anaerobic digesters capture the methane gas produced during decomposition and convert it to electricity or biofuels.”

FYI: Garbage disposals may not exist in New York City. The Waste Disposal Union was able to get them outlawed in buildings throughout the city. A congresswoman from NYC (AOC) shared a video after she arrived at her residence in Washington DC, not understanding what the garbage disposal was. As far as I know, they are still outlawed throughout New York City.

5:21 McD's was almost exclusively the only place that used 'supersize' options.. and they only were using their 'large' size anyways... they changed their 'small', 'medium' and 'large' to 'medium', 'large', and 'supersize'.... so there was no actual change, just the name... additionally it was estimated that only around 25-30% of people every got the 'supersize' anyways... most just stuck with the medium, which is the default size already....

Supersize isn't theoretically used anymore after backlash from health folks. You can still get large meals however. Cheese in a can is gross to many Americans. Black Friday is no longer a major event since Amazon, but there have been events of people getting assaulted during this event several years back. White bread is amazing. So versatile, make toast and sandwiches. Stores well in freezer. I'm against imperial units but i grew up with it. Converting is a pain in the butt. Metric system makes more sense.

I've never had spray cheese 🧀 or participated in Black Friday, which isn't a holiday. It was legal to drink when I turned 18. Law was changed under pressure due to accidents and deaths. Don't see the point of drug commercials. Your doctor has to prescribe them.

American cheese is a processed cheese. It is at least 51% real cheese with sodium citrate added so it can be pasteurized. They often add emulsifiers so it melts smoothly A good chunk of the remainder is usually milk fat and milk or cheese whey and such. It is not all chemicals. That also add salt and coloring and possibly a deacidify agent. It is not as horrible as people make it out to be. Most of these things like cheese spray is likely just based on American cheese but falls below the 51% real cheese. The main thing they are supposed to be used for is with a star slit tip you can add it to crackers to look fancy kind of like what they do with the star tips for frosting cakes. The taste is not bad. Some put it on sandwiches. Processed cheese because of the emulsifiers is great for making smooth melted cheese. If you have ever has queso then you have had it. We also use a LOT of real cheese too. I doubt American cheese comes close to the sales number of other cheese like Colby-jack, pepper0jack, cheddar, or mozzarella. I have maybe bought them 2-3 times in my life and I eat a lot of cheese. Yes I have a garbage disposal, but if you cram a bunch down it you are just going to plug up your plumbing. Like if I hard-boil a bunch of eggs and peal or peel a bunch of potatoes I and going to throw most of it in the garbage and only wash what is left down the garbage disposal. And it does not waste much water as you can turn it one when you are doing the dishes. You only need to run it for a few seconds. And most of the solids in the sewer is treated and used as fertilizer for cattle feed mostly. The liquids are treated with bacteria and for several hours then the bacteria is killed off by chlorine, O2, or UV lights before being released into a river usually. Soda is dirt cheap. Free refills cost maybe 10 cents on a drink you likely paid over $2.50 for. Limiting soda intake is not the government's business. It also limits diet soda too. They actually limit the size of drink in some states (or the used to. I think that was in New York. But if the heat is bad and you are trying to rehydrate before going back to work in the heat these policies are brutal and evil. And don't tell me diet is bad for you. It is 10x better than real sugar (or corn syrup, or any other sweetener). Sugar is just horrible in general and almost everybody eats way too much sugar... not just Americans. And carbs are not great and yes the body processes them into sugars but far slower so it is not as bad. Even fruits are not that healthy. The human diet should be meats and vegies with some carbs and fruits and very little sugar. Sugar is far worse than fat even. Super sizing is a thing, but not as big as it used to be. Black Friday is nothing like it used to be as most get their deals online. White bread is OK, but nothing special. I like Italian style bread or a heavy bread like Oatnut. Girl Scout cookies are OK, but kind of expensive. Voting should be 21. Metric system is VERY over rated and with the advent of computers it has become a mute point. You come to the US then learn the language, customs, and our measurements or don't come. Don't act like it makes us worse than everybody else because that does not seem to be true in any way. I don't know anybody that actually watches cable TV anymore so who cares about commercials on TV. You can not get these prescriptions without you DOCTOR prescribing it. You can ASK your doctor about it, but most understand this is a retail product so it will be EXPENSIVE. I get all generic drugs. Also MOST people are either on their parent's or spouse's insurance, Medicaid, Medicare, or their employer's insurance. Only a small portion have no insurance, 7.7%, and they are typically young adults or children that do not often need medical insurance. Some are just people that likely would be covered by Medicaid but will only apply if they need it as they will go back 3 months from the time you apply and they do not have to re-up every 6-12 months this way. The rest are mostly immigrants that are not eligible for Medicaid. The thing is they just go to the hospitals and don't pay... and there is nothing that most hospitals can do. Same with schools.

I don't eat "American cheese", it's prossesed. There are soo many good real cheese out there in other countries.

We use both the metric and imperial units in USA

Waste disposal from the sink in suburbs isn't an issue for a couple of reasons, but it is not a garbage disposal unit. If you want your pipes to stay clear, toss bulk items into compost or trash because the disposal unit is for more like plate scrapings and crumbs. Water treatment hates fat and oils, but enzymes neet some of that stuff to treat the water effectively.

Thin Mints is the most popular kind of girl scout cookies to the point places like Dairy Queen use them while they are in season....I learned both Metric & Imperial in school plus products have both on the labels....its been over 110°F/43°F here in Arizona for weeks now

I mean, I hate the pharmaceutical commercials, but it's not like you can just go get them without a prescription from your doctor. You have to discuss your situation with your doctor and if they agree it's right for you, then they'll write you a prescription. If they don't think it's good for you, they will tell you that and find a safer alternative.

I love the pharmaceutical ads. Many doctors are pushed to prescribe ertain drugs. The ads give you options to discuss with your doctor. This allows you to determine with your doctor what best meets your needs. Many people wouldnt know their options without the ads.

Anything put in a sink disposal is organic matter. Food scraps... no paper, metal, bones. It is NOT bad for the environment!! The waste water is sent to a waste water treatment plant , and the methane is captured for energy. Otherwise, all that food waste would be put into the landfill... which really isn't good for the environment. I have an older home, and I live on a ½ acre. Therefore, I don't have a sink disposal. My food waste is put into an area at the back of my property for composting. People in town or in apartments may not have that option.

I'm not against the medical care commercials. My dad had been taking a certain medication and wasn't feeling well. We saw a commercial advertising that drugs side effects. He went to the doctor, and because of that , he was taken off and switched to a medication that was better for him. So, I think it brings awareness to the drug a doctor may give.

People cannot be "fooled into buying" anything by drug commercials because the ones people find most objectionable are all for prescription drugs. You can't buy them without a prescription from a doctor. Many doctors (I am one) hate them because they result in people who've seen a commercial hounding the doctor for a particular drug they may not need or may not even be good for them. Sometimes, though, the response of a good doctor might be, "Yeah, OK, we could try that." People should, however, be aware that the advertised drugs are almost exclusively branded products that cost much more than similar generics and even if you have good insurance, your copayment for them might be much higher or they might not even be available with your insurance (right now the GLP-1 weight loss drugs that are advertised everywhere are an example of that).

I have actually never lived in a house WITHOUT a garbage disposal. We don't consider them bad for the environment because our waste management systems are very good and the waste is cleared before the water is released back into the environment. 🤠

Most of the time, people tune out commercials or skip over them completely. And yes, the pharmaceutical commercials are annoying, but at least you hear what the side effects are, and if you find them not worth the risk you can refuse that medication if your doctor wants to prescribe it.

I have one and love it. You don't have a BBQ, you have a grill. You could have free refills because it cost very little to give away. Everybody buys girl scout cookies. Check out how many cookies they sell. It's not tricky, you have to have a prescription from your Doctor. If it's a shady business them stop or don't take any medicine.

when you go to mcdonalds.. That is american cheese

The super-sized size for McDonald's was removed over 15 years ago shortly after 'super-size me' a documentary in 2004

The worst thing in America is the Drug Commercials. They should be outlawed

7:04 black friday was getting stupid for awhile there... the first bad one was the year that 'tickle me elmo' came out.. there were actual fistfights over that stupid toy... then it started being fights over electronics in the following years... stores would only stock about a dozen of an item and advertise it in their 'black friday' sales ad to get people to show up, but when they QUICKLY sold out, people would get very upset and fights would happen, usually over the last couple that hadn't been sold yet... but once the pandemic happened, there were no more 'black fridays' so everyone turned to online shopping for those days and after the pandemic, those crazy scenes didn't happen anymore....

I was born in the early 1970s. When I was in school everyone was taught both systems. And because of it I can do many conversions in my head still to this day. Just one of the reasons I'm glad I grew up when I did - they actually taught useful things. I don't think they teach metric at all in school anymore. I don't have a garbage disposal and most people I know don't either. I've lived in multiple states and multiple areas within those states and only 2 places had garbage disposals and I never used them. I suspect that they are more popular in certain regions and types of houses than others - however maybe I just never happened to move those areas where they are common.

garbage disposal - better for environment - it drains to the sewer waste plant and makes water and compost. But - I put 50% of my garbage in the trash - but the little that is left is so nice to flip the switch

Andre your channel is growing so fast I love your videos❤

I have a waste disposal in my apartment but I only use it for small scraps. I live in Maryland

I’m a 76 year old American and never have bought or eaten spray cheese and have rarely eaten fast food. I grew up in the Midwest with lots of farms and ate healthy food! I still tend to buy produce at farmers markets. I do LOVE pizza though. Everything in moderation. There are a lot of Americans who go for healthy foods.

I love Girl Scout cookies. I buy a bunch of boxes for myself and family every year lol. Thin mints are my favorite, and I believe it’s one of their best sellers. 😀

I have had a garbage disposal in every place i live. It's not really that bad for the environment. Of course, you could save all of it and create a compost for an outdoor garden, but you dont have to. The waste products go to our water treatment plants and are filtered out as they clean our water for re-use.

Black Friday madness sadly pretty much went away after Covid-19.

Pharmaceutical advertisements are meant to give a person information to start a conversation with their doctor. An individual can't purchase these drugs without a prescription from their doctor so these people aren't in danger of starting a medication that isn't right for them.

I scrape the bulk of the garbage off the dishes into the trash & only rinse the last scraps/crumbs & residue.

It is easy enough to order a garbage disposal online. It can connect to your existing plumbing. The only thing you will need is way to plug it in and a switch to activate that outlet, because the device itself does not have a power cut off. Only the outlet.

The drinking age is based on when you can drive, which is at 16-16.5. The reason for this is that the alcohol intake was causing immense car fatalities. Making the drinking age of 21 has helped with this problem significantly. No other country had a ratio of car to population, so this is a huge deal here. Just about everything is based on the car, and not walking or using public transportation. On the advertising of prescription meds, I do not know of anyone who complains about this. And what it does is that it makes it easier for the doctor when he suggests to use one of these advertised drugs. I do not think that the statistic given about advertising costs versus research of that drug is pretty much BS, at least for a certain time after the drug is released. Over a long period of time, the development cost remains the same, and does not increase, but advertising costs continue, so that statement is very misleading.

Black Friday is insane here. I hated having to work that day. One of the stores that used to work at had to pay double time to get anybody to work the morning shift. Still it was hard to get enough coverage.

Black Friday can be positively dangerous. Sometimes fights break out over popular sales items.

4:44 as far as the free refills and portion sizes....if you work out, you're burning those extra calories and won't gain weight. With the educated, knowledgeable and health conscious population of California, our obesity rate state wide is only 27%, which is lower than Australia. And if you look at specific areas, such as "Silicon Valley" where I live (Santa Clara County), it's much lower. It's 18% here in Silicon Valley, which is roughly the same as France. We don't need to make refills illegal, nor should "supersizing" be illegal, because individuals can work out to lose any extra calories. 🙂 Obesity is probably a good problem to have, because it means your people are prosperous and can afford a lot of food, but if people are working out, it shouldn't be too common. 🙂

I just saw today that a state governmental agency required a dairy to throw into the trash (while they watched) thousands of dollars of raw milk items (milk, cheese, butter) that hadn't been pasteurized. You are allowed to sell those products, but only as pet food, not for human consumption. But this state, in my opinion, overreached and cost a very small business to probably go out of business due to loss of product. It's weird what things are okay in the US, but not in the EU, and vice-versa.

I live in the country and I just throw my food scraps in the woods. I have deer, rabbits, squirrels, possums, raccoons and a fox and some armadillo that stop by my yard for food and water. My hubby wants to kill all the armadillos because they tear up our yard and they are not native to Georgia. Also at night I can sit outside and listen to four separate coyote packs around my house. They won't hurt you, but they do sound kinda scary. If they get to howling back and forth they can get loud. BTW, we found a tiny pink puppy in the woods. Thus puppy followed us and he was almost dead from mange. So I took him to the Vet and got him some medication. When I took him back to get his shots his solid black coat had grown in and the Vet informed me that we had a pure blooded Coyote. He was the best. He was quite and didn't smell. He stayed inside and he had a beautiful silver female Coyote showed up and they bred. He wouldn't go with her to live in the wild. He enjoyed our wood fireplace in the winter and our air conditioner in the summer. We laughed that he was a true deadbeat dad!

🧀American cheese is just Cheddar Cheese with an emulsifier added and they just keep adding water till it gets soft.. around 44 percent water, think soft Cheddar cheese. That's all it is! And most Americans don't even know that lol

@NurseEmilie 0 seconds ago I have a dispose-all in my sink. Couldn't do without it. It does not damage the environment. It's just food and apple and orange peelings, etc. I don't buy spray cheese. It's not as good as regular cheese. It's not put on hamburgers. Sliced cheese is used for them. I only drink no-sugar drinks White bread doesn't taste sweet. I only buy whole-wheat bread. Girl Scout cookies are fabulous-tasting. One of my daughters was a girl scout and they sell cookies once a year, door to door or outside Walmart, etc. I spent my time driving around delivering cookies with her. Americans prefer the imperial kind of math. You say you have to figure it out, well, we do too !! I buy something on Amazon and if it uses cm, etc. I too have to get on the computer to see how it compares with out math. I'm tired of people criticising America for using what we are use to. I could criticise you for me having to find out the equivalent. NO, pharmaceutical commercials don't make people buy them - you have to have a doctor decide what med you need and he gives you the prescription. Also doctors can check "may use a cheaper version of the drug. My doctor does that. At Walmart I get 30 pills for $4, or 3 months for $10. I've learned not to read the possible side effects of a drug or it will scare you to death. But if one person out of 100 have a strange side effect, they still have to include it in the drug's listing.

I'm in America in Massachusetts and I actually don't currently have a garbage disposal, but almost every other place that I've lived in has had one. It's not really a big deal to not have one but they can certainly be convenient. I feel like spray cheese is always showing up on lists like this but it's honestly not that popular in America. The most common reason that I see people talk about it is usually because someone is reacting to a video like this one! It's not the kind of thing that normally see I at peoples' homes, though I don't always look in cabinets. Girl Scout cookies are popular! I think they're usually only sold in March and April and you usually have to know a Girl Scout or know where they might set up a stand. I often see them outside Walmart in March and April selling cookies, but I also have a Girl Scout next-door that I can buy cookies from. There are roughly around five dollars a box and they have all different types. I think you would like them a lot! As for the drug commercials, they almost always require a prescription so people aren't really in danger of getting their hands on ones that they shouldn't be taking. They are usually intended to attract people to them so that they go talk to their doctor about them and convince their doctor to prescribe them. I pretty much don't pay attention to them unless I see an issue that I'm suffering from.

Way back in the 1980's government tried to switch U.S. over to the metric system & started having it taught in grade school. Parents and other adults across the country bulked at it and within a few years, it was given up and we went back to our original system. Adults didn't know the metric system & absolutely did not want to have to learn it; it was a pretty big issue at the time. Some of our signage still shows metric as well as miles but most don't anymore.

Yeah, we treat all of our waste water. All the trash gets filtered out completely and the water can then be reused. It doesn't waste any more water than the average European sink. People just assume things without looking into how they actually work.

Ohhh Black Friday used to be much worse than it is now. In recent years, stores have spaced out their sales to mitigate the madness. However, 20 years ago stores would see stampedes and fights over high-demand products. It was commercialism at its worst, as people could be trampled or even shot.

50% seems way low for the number of households with garbage disposals. I've only lived in one house that didn't have one, and that's out of 15 or so. Edit: I see some people below saying 50% is too high, so maybe this is a regional thing. I live in Arizona and disposals are in nearly every apartment and house.

thanks for the vid brother

for black friday people normally dont fight. I think that usually mostly happens in cities. But I never been to a place where anyone fought. people usually create lines for products and are respectful/polite. Now days a lot of stores have their black Friday for 3 days ...Friday Saturday and Sunday. which helps spread out people.

Free refills. Mcdonald's does have free refills. No one's Force in you to refill. It's your choice. Spray cheese. I love it. I buy a bag of bugles. And make little ice cream cones. William s

I sent four boxes of Girl Scout cookies to Recky and Carol, who live in Sweden a few months ago. They did an unboxing and reacted on their channel on RU-vid. They loved everything except Thin Mints, which they should have frozen first, and that was my fault.

The very first Black Friday that I worked, 2 women fought over a skateboard, and one woman had to get stitches. This was in a small town in central Indiana in 1999. 🙄

I have no problem with ads for prescription medications. A doctor has to prescribe them anyway so it's not like somebody is going to walk in and help themselves. The doctor has to say okay, but the company needs to let us know the product exists in order to stay in business. We also realize that it's a company trying to hack their product to the public. And so, as with any such advertised product, we weigh the benefits to see whether or not it's something we want for us.

The Super Size Me guy passed away this year

Ok, I see "spray cheese" on all European vs NA videos - but it really is NOT that common. Yeah, you can buy it in the store, but it's a snack you give to kids occasionally. It's not something that normal adults eat themselves regularly.

I cannot stomach American cheese and spray cheese. You can’t throw everything in the garbage disposal. My mother in law would call hers jaws because she would throw a lot down it. Even potato peels. I tried that once and only once because my sink got clogged and when I turned it on it was like a volcano. It went everywhere. Finally she had to replace jaws and the new one wasn’t anything like jaws. The pharmaceutical ads are so annoying. I feel like they have more air time than the show you are watching. It should be illegal. I don’t even know anyone who actually goes to their doctor and asks to be prescribed it. When it comes on I either change the channel or busy myself with something else.

Ok, I'm curious, what do most countries outside the US do with their garbage and what happens to it. We compost many things, but some things can't or shouldn't be composed. We have a garbage disposal that I have never heavily used. Not everything can or should be put down it and water is used to flush it out to the cities treatment plant. Our city processes all of the waste water from the town, separating/filtering/aerating and discharging the water and waste separately. It isn't cheap. We pay for the city water plus an equal amount for our sewer service. Most of the advertised pharmaceuticals have to have a prescription to purchase them. Things like aspirin, acetaminophen, antacids, decongestants, antihistamines, and laxatives for the most part are available without a prescription.

for pharma commercials, you can't be tricked to go buy the drugs - you have to have a prescription from a doctor to get them. now, whether or not your doctor is ethical and actually consults with you or actually dealing with the pharma company to push their drugs is a whole another story...

miles and lbs are easy for quick conversion - KM is .6 miles and there are 2.2 lbs in a KG - for easy rough conversion

Understand the heat, we're dealing with 105F (or 40.55C), yeah, we're trying to see what temperature the human body will melt at. Also watching the latest hurricane in the ocean. Love & Blessings to you and yours!

I live in Kansas. I have a garbage disposer and love it. While Black Friday is a fading tradition, at its height there were people killed in BF rushes into the store. I'm an American scientist so, fortunately, I'm also fluent in metrics.

The countrywide drinking age in the U.S. is 21 as of 1984, however, when during the 1970's in where I live New Jersey it was 21 but in New York state it was 19. As a result Staten Island, NY and other border communities would get a lot of extra business on weekends from college age kids at their bars and liquor stores.

I hate my garbage disposal. I try not to use it

Presently, refills are still available in most fast food restaurants.

Actually the origins of spray cheese are Swiss for the UK market for Welsh rarebit. It wasn't for the American palette. Then, a Canadian brought it to the US!!!

Garbage Disposals. Been around forever. There's 2 episodes. Of the Andy Griffith show. Where they talk about garbage. Disposals. 1960s. William s

The drinking age is because of vehicle accidents committed by younger inexperienced drivers. The US has more drivers than any other country which increases the possibility of automobile accidents.

I actually don't mind pharmacy commercials, they actually are good since they're educating the masses on new meds, risks & what they treat. Most ppl have no idea what they are talking or why, Doctor prescribes it & they blindly take it.

I grew up on white bread, until I joined the navy. We had fresh baked bread every day. I went home and had one sandwich with white bread. It was not good. Drinking age: Back in the 1970's, there were a lot of automobile accidents cause by teenage drunk drivers, killing people they hit. Mothers Against Drunk Drivers (MADD) was formed, they got the drinking age raised to 21in 1980?

Metric is undeniably the better system. But Americans don’t like change and it doesn’t matter what is better. We just want to know how hot it’s going to be and how far the drive is. Most of us have no idea what to wear on a 25 degree Celsius day or how long it takes to drive 100km. When I was in grade school in the 1970’s I was told that we would have switched by now. But no generation seems to want to be the one to go thru the learning curve.

Imagine how dumb a politician would have to be to ban "super size" anything... when people would just buy another. If anything "super size" is good for those that only wanted a little bit more but since a dumb politician made a dumb decision and not wanting the food they paid for to go to waste... ended up eating or drinking more. 😆 The logic...